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INDEX TO E»«„ 4 ™ os yot m
FliOM JULY « TO DECEMBER 28, i 878 .
Feontismcce. .
“Love’s Young Dream,” Printed
in Colours, Aug. 17.
EXTBA SlTrPLEMEXTS.
Afghan War, The: Attack on Ali
Musjid—The First Shot (about
ten n.m., Nov. 21), Dee. 28
Austrian Campiign in Bosnia, The :
General Szapary’s Retrograde
March to Doboj, Sept. 7
Bath Abbey Church, Oct. 26
“ Bloodhounds on the Trail,” Nov.
23
Bush-Fighting with Kaffirs, July 6 I
Duke of Connaught (The) and his
Bride, July 13
“Eddystone Lighthouse,” Oct. 13
Ely Cathedral, Aug. 31
Fire in Japan, A, Nov. 16
“Girl Reading,” July 20
“ Going to Bed," Oct. 5
Great Disaster on the Thames: Col-
lision between the Princess
Alice and the Bywcll Castle,
near Woolwich, Sept. 14 I
Norwich Cathedral, Nov. 30
Paris Exhibition, The: General j
View of the Trocadero, Sept, j
•Afghan War (conli.,u:ci)~ ,
Mecan Meor: Bengal Liehfc -n . C
Infantry (The 2nd Queen’s ®“ th A bbey Church, Oct. 26
Own). Encamped at, GCO ■ Batou | n (Jbe Fort of), Surrendered
Camp Orderlies at, 625 _ Turkey to Russia. 200
Cuisine at, The, 600 Beaconsfield (Reception of Lord) at
Mosltan, Camp of the 69tli Regi- Charing-cross Station on his
mrnt at: Rendezvous of the w , ( Itc ‘ llm froi n Berlin, £0
Quetta Field Force, 501 Becaton Gas-works of the Chartered
Neville’s Picket, Muttra Tlmna • ' Gaslight and Coke Company,
A Deserter from the Enemy's t> „ C ' hlr fe' in S Ketoits at the, 412
Camp. 52S 116118 (New Peal of) for St. Paul’s
Punjaub Regiment (A) on tho Cathcdral -
March, 633 Blessing the, 440
Quetta (Approach to the Fortress Te “?!' 1 De i? (Th °)’ Presented by the
of), on the Afghan Frontier t, „ y Corporation, 196
392 '• i Berlin Congress, Th
Princess Alice (Her Royal Highnem),
Grand Duchess of Heese-
Darmstadt, Died Dec. 14, *
Dec. 21
Shipping Guns at Woolwich, Dec. 7
“ Sunday Morning,” Nov. 0
"Sutherland Coast, On the : Height
of the Season,” Sept. 21
“TellMo!” Dec. 14
“Visit to the Dentist, A,” Oct. 12
"Wandering Minstrel, The,” Nov. 2
“Young Druidess, A, ” July 27
Abtercame Colliery, Monmouthshire,
where the Explosion took
place, 277
S ketches at, 281
Afj han War, The—
l freedis . (Meeting of) in the
Khyber Pass, 310-341
1 li Musjid (The Fort of) in the
Khyber Pass, 309
Attack on—The First Shot (about
ten a.m., Nov. 21), Dec. 28
From the Heights above Bala
Checna, in the Khyber Pass,
436-437
On the Road to, 604-605
Sketch Plan of the Attack on, 619
mia, Hissar (The) and City of i
I Cabul, from tho Upper Part of
I the Citadel, 328
Jfodcen Teak, and Village of
I Madzai, Khoorum VaUey, 383 I
*1 dan Pass (Entrance to the) from
J Dadur, 337
British Mission (Camp of the) to
Cabul, at Jumrood, near tho 1
Khyber Pass, 429 i
Hi itish Officers at Peshawur, 333
ft bul, the Capital of Shere Ali’s
Dominions, 321, 328
Bala Hissar, The, 328
Bazaar at, Gate of the, 433
Bridge at, 423
Nabob Shop at, 357
C mdahnr, The City of, 392
0 immander-in-Chief (The) Sir F.
Haines, Leaving Umballa for
Front, 665
0 huzni, Fortress and Citadel of, 89
G( tide Corps (A Party of the)
Reconnoitring, 697
H iojak Pass (Entrance to the),
from Persian, on the Road to
Candahar, 409
Kt oord Cabul Pass, The, 477
Kh oorum VaUey, from the Pun¬
jaub Salt Range, 545
1 lodeen Peak, and ViUage of
Madzai, 388
a > ber Pa8 «: Ali Musjid, 309, 1
436-437 ’
B ritish Advance Camp to the, at
Hum Singh Ka Bourj, 431
481-485 ’
E itrance to the, and Fort oi
Jamrood, 316
In the, 317
0 itlook House near the, 813
Tu at f-T°werinthe,364
Jclh dabad, Valley of, 361
an Meer, Camp at Arrival of
fCommissariat Stores for the
I Quetta Column, 533
^uixgrcss, xne—
Beaconsfield (Lord) Walking to a
1 Meeting of the Congress, 37
Gortschakoff (Arrival of Prince)
at RadziwiU Palace: on tho
Staircase, 4
RadziwiU Palace, Garden Front
of the, 29
Luncheon-Room at-Scene in
the: A Glass of Congress
cherry, 4
Staircase of, 29
Visit of rrince Bismarck to Lord
Beaconsfield at the Kaiserhof
Hotel, 83
Bc-stwood Lodge, near Nottingham,
_ _ tho Se at of the Duke of St.
at), on the Khoorum River, 1 BIa Albans - 21
676 I B1 «ckpool Aquarium and Winter
— - 1 Gardens, 65
Lord Mayor of London (The)
Opening the Winter Gardens,
Roberts (General) Leaving Kohat
for the Front, 609
“ s °j°»on’a Throne,” the highest
Mountain of the Suleiman
Range on the Afghan Frontier
of the Punjaub, 480
3rd Goorkhas (The) leaving Ba¬
reilly, 501
Gunners Cheering them at
Meerut, 601
On the March through the Terai,
608-509
Quarter Guard of, 505
Sketches on their Line of March '
tiroi- 604
, 1878, Thull (Camp of General Roberts '
I Canada (Dcpartuic of the New
| Governor-General of), the
Marqn’a of Lome and
Prinrors Louise from Livcr-
pool for Canadn, 493, 400
I Durham Terrace, Quebec, 512
1 Carlton Club Banquet (The) at the
| Riding School, Knightsbridge,
m honour of Lords Beacons-
field and Salisbury, ioi
Cattle (Prize) at the Sraitliflcld Club
Show, Agiicultural HaU,
Islington, 685
Chappell and Co.’s Premises, New
Bond-street, 157
Charades (Pictorial) for Christmas
1 ZohAk (CasUeof) First March from
Bamian, on the Irfik Road tc
Cabul, 425
Africa, Sketches in—
Burning Shells for Lime, 513
Manganja Vfllago on the Bhird,
233
Morumbala Marsh, 385
Quilliinane, Weighing CaUco ot
the Custom House, 4S0
Alice, Funeral of Piincess (Grand
Duchess of Hessc-Darmstadt),
613, 616-617
Algerine Story-TeUer, A, 636
Arms of—
Blomcfleld, The Rev. Sir T. E W.,
Chelmsford, Lord, 351
Clay, Sir O., 47
Colthurst, Sir G., 331
Dyer, Sir T. 8., 450
Dynevor, Lord, 167
Dysart, The Earl of, 308
East, Sir J. B., 522
Ennis, 8ir J., 167
Griffith, Sir R. J., 303
Hesse, The Grand Duchess
(Princess Alice), 591
Hill, 8ir G., 402
Lauderdale, The Eail of, 239
Mainwaring, Sir Stapleton, 142
Northesk, The Earl of, 570
O’Donnell, 8ir R. A., 474
Orde, Sir J., 618
Suttie, Sir G. G., 450
Suttie, Sir J. Grant, 471
Sutton, Sir R., 351 *
Williams, Sir F , 203
Art-
Bloodhounds on the Trail, Nov. 23
Chatelains, Le3, 365
Eddystone Lighthouse, Oct. 19
Folk-Lore, 105
j Girl Reading, July 20
! Going to Bed, Oct. 6
New Suit for Christmas, A, 531
Reading Rabelais, 81
Sunday Morning, Nov. 9
Sutherland Coast, On the : Height
of the Season, Sept. 21
“Tell Me!” Dec. 14
Under the Old Flag, 584
Visit to the Dentist, A. Oct. 12
Wandering Minstrel, The, Nov. 2
Woman of Constantinople, A, 389
Young Druidess, A, July 27
Art-Museum (The Midland Coun¬
ties), Nottingham Castle:
Sketches on the Opening of
the by the Prince of Wales,
17, 20, 36, 37
Assyrian Discoveries by Mr. Rassam:
Bronze Sculptures of Oates,
and Alabaster Chest with
Tablets, in the Temple of
Balawat, near Nineveh, 464
Plan of Mr. Rassam’s Excavations
in the Mound at Balawat,
465
Autograph Telegraph, The, 692
of
Sketches in the Procession, 68
Boatman on the Indus, A, 397
Bosnia, The Austrian Occupation
of—
Austrian Military Bridge at Doboj,
360, 401
B^crves Passing by Vranduk,
Troops Crossing the Bosna at
Maglai, 361
Austrians Making Free with the
Haystacks, 301
Bringing in Insurgent Prisoners,
293
Brod, Austrians Crossing the River
Save at, 168-189
Castle of Doboj, on the Bosna
River, 360
Entry of the Austrian Troops into
Bosnia: Crossing tho River
Save at Brod, 188-169
General Szapary’s Retrograde
March to Doboj, Sept. 7
Map to Illustrate the Occupation
of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
I 210
Serajevo, Bombardment of, 261
1 Capture of:.the 46th Infantry
Storming the Saluting or
YeUow Battery, 265
I General Philippovich’s Head¬
quarters at, 301
Zepce, Attack on the In-
| surgents’ Post at, 233
General Philippovich Question¬
ing the Insurgent Officers
taken Prisoners at, 233
Boulogne New Harbour, The Pro¬
posed, 268
French Ministers of State Laying
the Foundation-stone of, 284 ,
Brighton Season, The: New Pro¬
menade and Music Pavilion at
the Aquarium, 328
Bristol, Sketches at, 60, 61, 76
British Archneological Society at
Wisbech: Sketches of Places
in the Neighbourhood—
Cambridge 6t. Sepulchre’s Church,
180
Castle Acre, 180
Castle Rising, 180
Leverington Church, 180
Lynn Greyfriars Church, 180
St. Nicholas Church, Porch of,
180
Peterborough Cloisters Gate, 180 I
Stamford St. Leonard's Priory,
180
St. Mary’s Church, 180
Thomey Abbey, 180
Wisbech St. Peter’s, 180
British Antiquities found in Barrow
at Aldboume, Wilts, 421
British Association (The) at Dublin:
Places about Dublin and tho
Neighbourhood, 161
Cheltenham New Winter Garden
and Skating-Rink, 449
Chinese Proclamation, A, 4G1
Churches (Ruined) of Asia Minor—
Ephesus, Church of St. John, 641
Philadelphia, Ancient Christian
Church, 541
“Cissy, tho Little Peacemaker,”
Hlustration to Percy Fitz¬
gerald's Tale, 680 I
City of Glasgow Bank Failure: The
Prisoners at the Central Police ^
Court, Glasgow, 406 I
Cleopatra’s Needle on the Thames '
Embankment, 286
Raising it, 132
Colliery Explosion (Tho Great) at '
Abercarne, 277, 291
Colosseum Music-hall, Liverpool, '
Illustrations of the Fatal
Panic and Crush at the, 373
Connaught (The Duko of) Dis¬
tributing tho Queen’s Prizes
for Drawing at Guildhall, 376
Crete, The Insurrection in: Fort
Paleocastro—Turkish Forces
Advancing against the Insur¬
gents, 69
Skirmishing in the Mountains, 81
Suda Bay, 100
Cyprus, The British Occupation of_
British Fleet at (The), Saluting on
tho Duko of Edinburgh’s
Birthday, 185
British Kaimakan (The) Hear- I
ing an Assault Case at Hcpta-
Khumi, 368
Cape Kormakiti, 125
Camp of Clieflik Tosha, 145
Carob Harvest, The: Gathering
the Locust Beans, 312
Conveying Baggage, 115
Cozzafani, Ruins of the Monastery
Cythraa, with Mount Peute-
dactjlon, 3G8
Edinburgh (The Duke of) Saluted
by the British Fleet at Lamaca,
on his Birthday, 185
Famagusta, tho Ancient Venetian
Port of Cyprus, 49
Harbour of, 312
South-West Gate of, the Old
Venetian Seaport, 292
West Front of tho Cathedral of,
Cyprus [continued) _
Disembarking Horses in the
Roadstead at, 119
English Tombs in Cloisters of
Greek Church of St. Lazarus,
r 1v d ! n , g ' place (General View of
153 ^ r ° m 152-
Piers and LandiDg-placo, 148
Serving Out Rations to the
Troops at, 200
Waterside Caftf at the Marina,
Levkoeia or Nicosia, the Capital of
Cyprus, 86
Mountain of the Holy Cross I
(Stavro Vouni), View from
near Larnaca, 69
Mount Olympus, The Chain of, 101
Summit of, 432 I
Nicosia, or Levkosia, the Capital
of Cyprus, 85
Barracks, BafTo Gate, 145
East Gate, 229
R«t Lord of the Admiralty and
Secretary of State for War
Leaving, 521
Greek Priests Blessing the British
Flag, 276
Head-Quarters Camp, Sir Garnet
Wolseley g, 229
Hoisting the British Flag, 121 I
Minotaur Gate, 145
Monastery Camp, Head- Quarters
of Sir Garnet Wolseley and
Trench Ministers of State Laying
the Foundation-stone of th.
New Harbour Works at
Boulogne, 2S4
Floods at Norwich on Nov. 17 517
In Rome, 621
Tuner 1 of Trinces Alice (Grand
Duchess of Hesse-Darm-
Btndt), 613, 616-617
O
Glasgow Bank Failure: Tho Pri¬
soners at the Central Police
Court, Glasgow, 405
Glouccster-gatc, New Bridge at
| Regent’s Park, The Duke of
Cambridge Opening the. 132
Granville (Earl) Laying tL Foui-
Uon-stone of the New Wing
of University College, Gowcr-
sticct, 63
_ H
Herzegovina, The Austrian Occu¬
pation of—
Grahovo, Street 8ccnc in, 201
Map to Illustrate the Occupation
of Herzegovina and Bosnia,
— 3, 417
Prisoners from tho Gaol at,
Escorted toKyrcnia by British
and Turkish Troops, 289
St. Sophia, 228
Sir Garnet Wolseley Holding a
Reception in the Konak, at the
Turkish Festival of Bairam,
Walls of, at the Entrance from
Larnaka, 220
Paphos, The Site of Ancient, 417
1 ootographera on Mount Olympus,
St. Hilarion (The Chateau of),
from the Village of Tembros,
North Coast, 292
Sepulchre, Ancient, 377
***■ of, used as a Church,
South-East Coast of Cyprus, 73 j
Swome, Triumphal Entry of Cap- 1
tain into Levconico, 844
Tricomo, 362
Michael’s House, 352
Reception of a Deputation at,
352
West Coast of Cyprus, 73
Goatherd Watering his Flock on
the Plains of Paphos, 466
Grave of Sergeant M’Gaw, V.C
145
“Hundred and One Houses”
(The), between Levkosia and
Cerinia, 62
Island of Cyprus (The), Chiu'
Towns and Neighbouring
Coasts, 69
Kaimakan (The British) Hearing
an Assault Case at Hepta-
Khumi, 368
Kantara, Castle of, 345
Cloisters of Monastery at, 352 I
View from the Monastery of, 345
Khumi Keber, with Carpas Moun- '
tains, 401
Kyrenia, 133
North Coast View of the Moun- ,
tain Chain of, from St.Hilarion, '
Dalmatia, 'Die Austrian Province
of: Street Scene in Ragusa
193
Dogs (Prize) at the Alexandra
Palace Show, 693
Dublin, Places in and about-
Dublin, from the Liffcy, 161
Jerpoint Abbey, Kilkenny, 161
Phoenix Park, 101
Powerscourt Waterfall, 161
Rock of Cashel, 1C1
St. Dulongh’s Church, 161
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 101
Statue of Grattan, College Green
161
Duke of Connaught (The) and his
Bride, July 13
BkSrfT f?"’ 592 Neighbourhood, 161
Sketches and Autographrc Writing I Bust of the late M. Balfe, the Com.
sent by Telegraph, 689 | poser, 613
157
Landing-place on the West Coast,
near BafTo, 296-297
Larnaca, the Modem Port of
Cyprus, 62
Ancient Tomb Excavated near,
825
Aqueduct at, 200
Bazaar at, 200
British Fleet at, Saluting the
Duke of Edinburgh on his
Birthday, 185
Engle Owl (The Oriental) in the
Zoological Society’s Gardens,
Regent’s Purk, 381
Electric Light Apparatus-
Dynamo-Electrical Machine of
Gramme, 413
M. Jablochkoff’g, 408
Ely Cathedral, Aug. 81
Ephesus (The Site of), Asia Minor,
Falkland Memorial (The) at New¬
bury, 2S6
Fire in Japan, A, Nov. 16
Fleet at Spithead (Review of the) by
the Queen, 176-177
Freedom of the City of London
(Presentation of the) to Lords
Beaconsfield and Salisbury,
I
Lidia (Map of the Countries between
t a- B r tu,h) 4113 Bu **ian Asia, 329
^T 1 ^’ 0rder of 166
Night Watchman, 488
Troops at Malta: Cambridge (The
Duke of) Leaving the Go¬
vernor’s Palace, 28
Games of Native Indian Soldiers:
A Match at Single-stick, 29
Military Sports of Native Indian
Troops, 28
Presentation of Native Indian
Officers to the Duke of Cam¬
bridge at the Governor’s
Palace, 32
Reriew of, by HR.H, the Duke
of Cambridge, 8-0
Sketches in Camp of the, 5
J
Jan Mayen Island, in the Arctic Sea
400 1
Japan, Sketches in—
° f a Japancse Statesman,
Muster of Policemen, 470
Jester, the Winner of the Cesare-
witch, 369
K
Kaffirs, Bush-Fighting with, July 6
Unloading a Lighter at Port Eliza¬
beth, South Africa, 4S0
Kafifir War in South Africa, Remi¬
niscences of the—
Feeding Kaffir Women and Chil-
dren, 800
Governor Sir Bartle Frere leaving
the Frontier, 196
Kaffir Chief (Bringing a) Prisoner
16U° William’s Town,
Officers and Soldiers purchasing
Trinkets of Female Kaffir
Prisoners at Fort Fordyce, 172
Kincsem, Winner of the Goodwood
Cup, 124
L
London, Ontario, The Western
University, 489
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Break¬
fast given by the Mayor of
Cork to the, 237
H.M.8. Revenge at Queenstown
finng a Royal Salute for the
Lord Mayor's Procession (The)
Crossing London Bridge, 469
M
Marquis of Lome and Princess
Louuo in Canada—
Halifax to Montreal, Sketches on
the Journey from, G08
Marquis of Lome (The) being
Sworn in os Governor-General
of Canada, 660
Ottawa (Government House), Do¬
minion of Canada, the Resi¬
dence of Princess Louise and
the Marquis of Lome, 628
Princess Louise and the Marquis
of Lome Landing at Halifax*
Nova Scotia, 666-667
J80H1 .a
INDEX TO ENGRAVINGS IN VOL. LXXU1.
Marquis of Lome and Princess
Louise in Canada (conlimifdy-
Presenting a Bouquet to Princess
Louise on Landing at Halifax, 1
Nova Scotia, 653 I
Maskelyne and Cooke’s Automata at
the Egyptian Hall, 389 I
Microphone, Apparatus used in the
Discovery of the, 109
Midland Counties Art-Museum,
Nottingham Castle, 17
East Front, The, 17 I
Wales (The Prince of) Declaring
the Museum Open, 25
Monuments—
Hook (The late Dr.), Dean of
Chichester, in the Leeds Parish
Church, 204
Lyttelton (The late Lord), in Wor¬
cester Cathedral, 884
Platt (Thelate Mr. John), M.P.,at
Oldham, 377
Mooltan (Fort of), in the Punjaub,
364 ,
Morecambe Winter Garden and
Aquarium, 489
Morumbala Marsh, East Africa, 385
Mount Vesuvius (Condition of the
Crater of), 853, Sept. 28
Nottingham Castle in the Sixteenth
Century, 20
Nottingham, The Boyal Visit to, 17,
20,21, 25
Norwich Cathedral, Nov. 80 1
P
Paris Exhibition, The—
Algerine Cork-Cutter, 165 '
Pavilion (The), Trocadfro Park,
140 j
Ann um, Persian, Siamese, Monaco,
and San Marino Sections,
Avenue of Nations, 212
Art-Gallery (Entrance to the),
Champ de Mars, 12
Austrian Section (Facade of the), 1
Avenue of Nations, 212
Belgian Flower-Girl, 165
Brinsmead and Sons’ Pianofortes,
181
I Paris Exhibition {continued)—•
Mnin Building (Front View of
the). Champ de Mars, 56 57
Monaco Pavilion (The), Trocaddro
Park, 213
Morocco (Tent of the Emperor
of), Trocaddro Park, 117
Official Distribution of Prizes by
the President of the French
Bepublic, 416
Persian Pavilion (The), Trocaddro
Park, 92
Portuguese Section (Facade of the,,
Avenue of Nations, 164
Pottery (Artistic) of Messrs.
Doulton and Co., Lambeth,
Cabinet by Messrs. Jackson and
Graham, London (Grand
Prix), 473 |
Chimney Fittings in Recess and
and Part of Dining-room, by
Messrs. Howard and Sons, of
London, 449
Chinese Writer, A, 137
Christ Blessing Little Children—
Woven Tapestry, by Messrs.
Tapling and Co., 118
Dutch Building, Avenue of
Nations: Model of the Hague
Townhall, 116
Egyptian, Swedish, and Tunisian
Pavilions, Trocaddro Park, 197
English Houses in the Avenue of
Nations, 45
Emperor of Morocco’s Tent, Tro¬
caddro Paik, 117
Ingram Rotary Machine (The),
for Printing Illustrated News¬
papers, 253
Key to the General View of the
Trocaddro Park and Palace, 307
Krantz (Portrait of M.), Commis- j
sioner of the Exhibition, 113
Machinery Hall in the Exhibition
Palace, Champ de Mars: the
British Section, 305
Prince of Wales’s Pavilion of the
Indian Collection in the Grand
Vestibule of the Exhibition
Palace, 41
Russian Pavilion (The), Avenue of
Nations, 103
South Australian Court, The,
Steam-Hammer (Model of the
Great) at the Creusot Iron¬
works, 220
Swedish Clock-Tower, Trocaddro
Park, 220
Swiss Section, Entrance to the, 44
Tazza, a Pompeian Lady at her
Toilet. By Messrs. Elkington
and Co., 141
Trocaddro, The: General View of,
Sept. 28
Tunisian Pavilion, The, 117
Parliament, Meeting of: Lord
Ravensworth Moving the
Address in the House of Lords,
519
Pennhome, Sherwood, Notts, for
Ladies of Reduced Fortunes,
13
Phonograph, Apparatus of the, 109
Pig Fair, An Irish, 620
Porcupine (Hairy Prehensile-tailed)
in the Zoological Society’!
Gardens, Regent’s Park, 173
Portraits—
Alice, The late Princess, Grand
Duchess of Hesse, 673, Dec. 21.
Back (The late Admiral Sir
George). R.N.,F.R.S., 4
Bevan (Mr.), Sheriff of London,
Portrait* ( continued )-
Griffith, The late Sir Richard, 386
Grinstead (The late Captain), Com¬
mander of the Princess Alice
Saloon-Steamer, 282
Holl (Mr. Frank), New Associate
of the Boyal Academy, 63
Harkness, The late Professor, 400
Hellmnth (The Right Rev. Dr.),
Bishop of Huron, 489
Keogh (Thelate Mr. Justice),Irish
Judge, 352
Krantz (M.), Commissioner-
General Paris Exhibition, 113
Lewes (The late Mr.), an accom¬
plished Man of Letters, 565
McBean (The late Major-General).
V.C., 4
Mackenzie (The late Bishop),
Suffragan of Nottingham,
Transvaal, South Africa, The War
Fort Weber, View on the noad to,
637
Rock, near Fort Oliphant, 545
Sekokuni (Left Attack on) at Fott
Oliphant, 637
Biddulph, The late 8ir T., 400 |
Browne (Lieutenant-General Sir (
8.), Commanding the Forces
in the Khyber Pass, 652
Buccleuch (The Duke of), Chair¬
man of the Carlton Club. Ban¬
quet to the Earl of Beacons-
field, 101 |
Burt (Mr.), Sheriff of London, 441
Chelmsford, The late Lord, 360 |
Connaught (The Duke of) and his
Bride, July 13
Crofts (Mr. Ernest), New Associate
of the Royal Academy, 63
Cullen (The late Paul), Roman
Catholic Archbishop of Dublin,
421
Davenport (Mr. H.), Amateur
Champion Swimmer, 137
Dupanloup (The late M.), Bishop
of Orleans, 385
Garnier-PagOs, The late M. Louis,
456
Gerster, Madame Etelka, 157
Gholam Hussein Khan (Nnwub',
C.S.I., British Envoy to the
Ameer of Cabul, S81
Maria Victoria Feodore Leopoldine
(The late Princess), Daughter
of Princess Alice, 673 |
Mathews (The late Charles),
Comedian, 4
Penn (The late Mr. John), of
Greenwich, Marine Engineer,
325
Phelps (The late Mr. Samuel), the
Celebrated Actor, 465
Philippovich (General Baiun),
Commander of the Austrian
Army in Bosnia, 148
Potter (Mr. Lewis), Director of
the City of Glasgow Bank,
405 |
ltae (Private), 11th Sterling Rifle
Volunteers, Winner of the
Queen's Prize at Wimbledon,
Rigg (TheRev. Dr.), President of
the Wesleyan Conference, 125
Roberts (Major-General F. 8.),
V.C., C.B-, Commanding the
Forces io the Khoorum Pass,
661
Salmond (Mr.), Director of the
City of Glasgow Bank, 405
Shere Ali, Ameer of Cabul, 313
Spottiswoode (Mr. W.), F.R.8.,
President of the British Asso- .
ciation, 221
Stronach (Mr. R. S.), Manager
of the City of Glasgow Bank,
405 I
Thompson, The late Mr. George,
877
Ward (The late Mr. W. G.), Mayor
of Nottingham, 21
Whalley (The late Mr. G. H.), |
M.P., 377
Whetham (The Right Hon. Sir
C.), the New Lord Mayor of
London, 441
Whyte-Melville (The late Major),
Poet Laureate of the Hunting-
Field, 609
Wigan (The late Mr. Alfred),
Comedian, 565
Zukertort (Herr), the Champion
Chessplayer, 236
Poultry Market (The Metropolitan)
on Saturday Night, 677
Princess Alice, Funeral of—
Prince of Wales (The) and Prince
Leopold Placing Wreaths on
the Coffin in the Family
Mausoleum at Rodenhohe,613
I Procession (The) Passing through
the Ernest Ludwig Platz,
I Darmstadt, 616-617
Princess Alice 8aloon-St*amer(Thc Sc ^ ptl ^' k The, Presented to
Great Disaster to the) on the Deer^B . f M
AftSSTTf the Princess Ali. The, 393
on Shore below Woolwich, 260 Retaliation, 65
Bringing the Dead on Shore at Sea of Aral (Scene near u
Woolwich, 241 I JLnment (The), at Turkey (Map of the Territorial
Burial of the Unknown Dead at 8hake ” ?? lU^ 00 ' Changes in), according to the
the Woolwich Cemetery, East > Treaty of Berlin, 89
Tynemouth New A'luwira,. 821
Cootie, near Woolttieh, Sept, j Unieer.it, College, Oower-rtreet,
AUce Saloon Steam-Boat, 245 | Earl GnmviUe Laying the
Cormorant, H.M.8., 321 Boundabon-stone of the New
Eastminster (The Iron Clipper- Wmg, 63
Ship), Capsized in the London
Docks 205 ^
Eurydice (’Raising H.M.8.), off the Vesuvius, Present Condition of the
Isle of Wight, 93 Crater ° r ’ 353
Hecla (H.M 8.), Merchant-
Steamer, Purchased and Fitted "
for the Royal Navy, 319 Wales (The Prince and Pnnces.) at
Liffey (H.M.8.) Rescuing the Nottingham- ^
Crew of the Burning Barque Children Singing^ God Bless lh«
Anita, 217
Moel Eilian (The Barque) after the
Odflision off Dover, 529
Northampton, H.M.8., 424
/Princess Alice Saloon-Steamer,
Run Down on the Thames by
the Bywell Castle Screw-Steam
Collier, 245
Coroner’s Jury (The) Visiting the j
Wreck, 269 I
Crowd outside the Company’s
Office at Woolwich, 244 I
Identifying the Clothes of the ,
Dead at Woolwich Dockyard,
260
Inquest (The) at Woolwich Town-
hall, 277
North Woolwich Pier Courtyard r i
Reading out the Names of
those 8aved, 252
Offices of the London Steam-
Boat Company, Bennet’s-hill,
City: Inquiring for Loet j
Relatives on the Night of the
Di-aster, 214
Operations at the Scene of the
Disaster, 2*4
nan Showing the Locality of the
Collision, 252 j
Recovering Bodies from the
Wreck, 218-249
Relies of the Dead Exposed for
Identification at Woolwich '
Dockyard, 268
Removing Bodies from the Wreck
of the Fore-Part of the Vessel, j
252 |
Saloon of the Princess Alice, 268
Scene in Woolwich Dockyard, 257
Temporary Mortuary, Roffs
Steam-BoatWharf, Woolwich,
Prince of Wales,” in th«
Market-place, 39
His Royal Highness Declaring the
Exhibition Open at the Mid¬
land School of Art, Notting¬
ham Castle, 25
Prince and Princess (The) Entei-
. [ ffig Nottingham Castle, 37
Lori Liriit of Mud, «< «. M*J'. Ctact, Soutk-
o, 7 ampton, 173
Sarmatian (The Steam-Ship), Wales (The Prince of) in a Torpedo
which conveyed the Marquis . Boa ;i 2 P 5 l .
of Lome and Princess Louise Walking-Match
Townhall, Woolwich (The), where
the Inquest wits held, 252
Princess Louise in Canada, 528, 553,
656-557
(Finish of the
Great) on Nov. 2 at the Agri¬
cultural Hall, Islington, 415
Walnut-Tree House,” Illustration
to Mrs. Riddell’s Ghost Stay,
601
to Canada, 415
Shaftesbury (The New Training-
Ship), Stationed at Grays,
Essex, 508
Beiki, ,The Japanese Gun-Boat, WJ1 _ .. _ ...... ,
.k. , Waterloo Bridge, The Abolition ol
Thunderer, The Conning Tower the ToU on: Declaring the
on Board H.M.8., 457 Bridge Free,353
Tmlnuw-BriB.Jt.OiM HymouO,
of Wales to the, 156
Regatta, 128
Turkish Man-of-War, On Board a:
Preparing to Ram—Firing by
Electricity, 224-225
Silver-bark Ash, from “ Our
Village,” Illustrated, 669
Special Services (Meeting of the
United Committee for) at the
Duke of Devonshire’s Villa,
| Chiswick, 93
Statues—
Ashworth (The late Mr. G. L.),
Mayor of Rochdale, 204 I ««“““**• «"r»
Captain Cook, for New South Pcss is Boors, Printed in Colouli
Woles, 133 ] Christmas Day in the Morning, I
Chalmers (The Rev. Dr.), at Edin- Dancing was Dancing in tip*
R | burgh, 204 I Days, 8
Royal Agricultural Society and the Straw-Plait and Bonnet-Making at Evil Omen, An, 6
Prince of Wales at Bristol- i Luton. Sketches of. 614 Fairies’ Favourite
Queen (The) Investing the Earl of
Beaconsfleld with the Order of
the Garter at Osborne, 97
Placing Flowers on the Coffin of
the late King of Hanover at
St. George’s Chapel, Windsor
Castle, 13
Reviewing the Fleet at Spithead,
• 176-177
Quicksands (Passage of) in the
Desert of Central Asia, 497
Zoological Society’s Gardens, 3c
| gent’s Park, Recent Addition
to—
Eaglo Owl, The Oriental, 384
| Porcupine, Hairy - Prehensile-
Tailed, 173
1 Saki, Bearded, 173
CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 1
Prince of Wales at Bristol— I Luton, Sketches of, 614
Avon (The), from Clifton Downs, Plait-Hall at Luton, 515
Bristol Channel in the Dis- Sunday Afternoon in the G&rden of
*- ' the Sans Souci, Potsdam, 77
Fairies’ Favourite, The, 28
Finishing Touch, The, 25
Follow the Drum, 16
Lucky Dog 1 9
Mistletoe Bough, The, 20
My Lady’s Carriage Stops the > jJLy,
tanoe, 61
Bits of Old Bristol, 60,76 ,
Clifton Suspension Bridge, from T
St. Vincent’s Rocks, 61 Tantallon Castle, from” Caledonia” I
Russian Army, Return of the: Dlustrated, 668 Noble Ancestor, Our, 4
Triumphal Entry of Cossacks Tapestry (Exhibition of) at Windsor, Pictorial Charades, 33
into St. Petersburg, 376 669 Quiverfull’s (Mr.) Christmas Bo i,l>
I Tomb of Alyattes, or Bin Tepe, Thankfully Received, 17
8 | Sardis, 469 , Vicar’s Daughter, The, 24
Saki (Bearded), in the Zoological Torpedo-Boat, The Prince of Wales I Where the Deed was Done, 21
Prffont’s Park. 173 in a. mi Yonnir Faces and Old Faahions li
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LONDON: SATURDAY, JULY G, 1878.
Within the last fortnight the death and burial of Queen
Mercedes of Spain, just upon the completion of the
eighteenth year of her age, and married only five months
ago to King Alfonso, have cast their shadow over a part
of the Continent not of late years very intimately con¬
nected Yvith the European system. The lesson they
impress upon the mind is as saddening as it is suggestive.
"W hat bright hopes have been prematurely and suddenly
nipped in the bud! What gentle and innocent joys have
been extinguished! What high purposes may have been
thus broken off! A more striking illustration of the
uncertainty of life, even when surrounded by all
the advantages which a Royal position can give it
it Yvould be difficult to find. The Saturday Review
has happily compared it Yvith the death of the
Princess Charlotte of England in the earlier part of the
present century. There are not many, perhaps, now
living who can recall the profound sensation into which
this nation was startled by that event. To it, however, !
unquestionably, was owing the subsequent acceptance by
Prince Leopold, her husband, of the Belgian Throne, and
the consequent consolidation of that little kingdom by
wise and liberal government up to the present moment
mat may be the political effect of the death of Queen
Mercedes upon the coming annals of Spain it is, of course
impossible to foresee. The young King may, or may not’
derive personal advantage from the crucial affliction
through which he has been called to pass. It may stamp
upon his heart with increasing authority those principles
of Constitutional rule which are suppose to receive the
adhesion of all the Orleans family and which vague rumour
informs us were highly appreciated by the Queen herself. Or
it may after a while loosen that sense of obligation which
the King might be supposed to feel for the fuller develop¬
ment of the political liberties of his peojile. Under auv
circumstances, it may be expected to modify very con¬
siderably, Yvhcthcr for good or for evil, the political
inclinations of the youthful Monarch. Meanwhile, he
claims and has the sympathy of the civilised world in the
great loss he has sustained.
Passing from the South-West, over the Pyrenees, we
exchange for a Royal Funeral a National Fete. Repub¬
lican Fiance has given herself a holiday. The splendidly
successful Exhibition at Paris suggested, no doubt, the
celebration of the establishment of Republican Insti*
tutions on Sunday last. Our neighbour is unrivalled i„
the art of putting into a visible form tlie joyous moods ol
her light-hearted children. She deserved success in het
late attempt to do so, and she has achieved it. It needed
not an Empire, a Throne, or even a Territorial Aristocracy
to invest with dignity or to inspire with enthusiasm such
a national expression of the satisfaction of the people a:
might befit the political victory which they have won, no'
by arms, but by moderation, endurance, and persisten:
good sense. France, in fact, has astonished the world b]
the character she has displayed in her late career. Unde
the pressure of enormous difficulties, by sheer force o
well-regulated self-Yvill, she has recovered the mora
position she lost by the war Yvith Germany, has evei
bettered it among the States of Europe, and gives trust,
worthy pledges that her career henceforth, instead o
stirring and keeping alive the anxious apprehensions o
neighbouring Powers, will strengthen indefinitely th
interests of peace. It was, in reality, this chang
of temper which the National Fete of Sunda
last Yvorthily illustrated. It dreYV to one centi
all ranks and classes of the people, -with the ver
minor exception of the reactionary party; and th
programme carried out, while it exceeded in splendor
everything of the kind which had preceded it undor Royt
or Imperial auspices, gave to the world a convincin
demonstration of the fact that the French people hat
settled for themselves the form of government undi
which they are content to live, and that a modem:
Republic such as already exists is that Yvhich (to use tl
prescient words of M. Tliiers) “provokes the fewq
enemies.”
The Berlin Congress is advancing rapidly towards
successful close. It has not merely sanctioned but auth
ritatively devolved upon Austria the indefinite occupatu
and internal administra tion of Herzegovina and Bosni
The Turks oppose a passive resistance to this deternilu
tion, but will probably in the end acquiesce. At ai
rate it Yvill be earned into effect, not at quite
early a period, perhaps, as was first anticipated, but wi
a predominant authority against which no protest of t
Porte will become effectual. Servia and Romnania ha
been made independent of the Sublime Porte, and, unit
we are misinformed, will receive such rectifications of tin
respective frontiers as will, if not satisfy their aspiratioi
command their assent. The Bessarabian difficulty 1
been virtually disposed of. Antivari has been coufcri
upon Montenegro as a port, besides some extension
territory. The navigation of the mouths of the Danil
will bo free, as it now is. The War Indemnity claimed
Russia has been discussed, but not fully determin
Greece yet remains to be dealt with ; and wo reg
to be compelled to add that, from her point
rdew, her prospects are not flattering. She will prubn
gain but little, if any, addition to her territory, thouj
perhaps, the administrative rule under which the Gift
of the Ottoman Empire will be placed may secure th
against the intolerable oppression to which they have bi
heretofore exposed. Then comes the Asiatic phase of
Eastern Question—the government of Armenia, the tl
disposal of the Port of Batourn, and the delimitation
the Territories which Russia has wrested from
domi nion of Turkey. There need bo no fear, howe
that a tolerable compromise upon these questions will
found impracticable. The Congress has advanced so
that it will do doubt be carried to the end
the mo ral impetus Yvhich it has acquired since
commencement of its sittings. One feature of its po
(we may justly describe it as a prominent one) is its ins
once in all cases, and to its fullest extent, of the righl
conscience. There Yvill probably remain no portion of
former Ottoman Empire in which the political equalit;
its inhabitants, irrespectively of creed, will not be an
secured.
We bad intended in this cursory survey of the staf
Europe to glance at what is going on at home, but 1
outrun our space. The long and deeply-interestin g de
in the House of Commons upon what Yve may call
Cattle Plague Bill offers many topics for consideration
comment. It is not a party measure, for advocacy o
opposition to, it by no means coincide Yvith party
of demarc ation. But it is a measure which all admit
touch very closely the material interests of the pe<
Hie principle of the Bill has received the sanction
very large majority, but it has yet to be seen wlietb
may not, in Committee, be so far modified as to neutr
the main objection of its opponents. Other rueasuri
Legislation are making but slow progress in Parlian
It is impossible yet to say to what extent the list of
presented by Ministers will pass during the present Ses
But, in any case, we fear the Session will not pro\
have been a fruitful one—a deficiency we shall be at
more ready to condone in the now almost certain ca
the signature of a Treaty of Peace by the Powers n
sen ted at Berlin.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, July 6, 1878. 4
THE LATE CHARLES MATHEWS.
A brief memoir of this highly popular and accomplished
comedian, who died at Manchester on the 24th ult., was given
among our Obituary notices last week. He was m the seventy-
fifth year of his age, and had been nearly forty years one of
the chief favourites of the playgoing world. Not only in
London, and in all our provincial towns, as well as in those of
America, India, and the Australian colonies, wherever English
audiences were to be gathered in a theatre, but also in Pans,
THE LATE MR. CHARLES J. MATHEWS.
where he performed equally well in the French language,
Charles James Mathews never failed to please. The funeral,
at Kensal Green Cemetery last Saturday morning, was attended
by many ladies and gentlemen of distinction belonging to the
stage, or to dramatic literature and criticism. Seven mourning
carriages, with a dozen private carriages, followed the hearse
from the late residence of Charles Mathews to Kensal Green,
where he is interred near the grave of his first wife, Madame
Vestris.
Our portrait of Charles Mathews is from a photograph by
Mr. Charles Watkins.
THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL W. M C BEAN, V.C.
The funeral of this distinguished Army veteran, whose death,
at the Herbert Royal Military Hospital, Shooter’s-hill, was
recorded in our last, took place at Edinburgh; but the
removal of his coffin to the railway station at Woolwich on
Tuesday week was attended by an imposing military pro¬
cession. There were a dozen batteries of Royal Artillery and
Royal Horse Artillery, and the third battalion of the Rifle
Brigade, with two regimental bands. Among the mourners
were a large number of officers of the 93rd Highlanders and
other regiments, friends of the deceased, headed by Lieutenant-
General Sir C. L. D’Aguilar, Commandant of the Woolwich
Garrison, with his staff. The coffin, with the hat and sword
worn by the deceased Major-General, was borne upon a gun-
carriage from the Herbert Hospital to the railway station.
We have given a short account of the late General McBean’s
career, which was remarkable for his having risen from the
ranks—indeed, from the position of a drummer-boy in the
93rd to that of a general officer.
The portrait now engraved is a good likeness, and charac¬
teristic of this fine old soldier.
ADMIRAL SIR G. BACK.
Admiral Sir George Back, D.C.L., F.R.S., died on the
ult at Gloucester-place, Portman-square, in his eighty-se
year. He entered the Navy on board the Arethusa in
and was taken prisoner and sent to France, where he rem;
five years. He afterwards accompanied Sir John Frankli
two different Arctic voyages, in 1818 and 1827 ; and in
was appointed to conduct an expedition fitted out fo:
purpose of instituting a search for Sir John Ross, who ha<
THE LATE ADMIRAL SIR GEORGE BACK, R.N., F.R
England in 1829 on a voyage to the Polar Seas. In the c
of this expedition he discovered the Great Fish or
River. He also commanded her Majesty’s ship Ten
another Arctic voyage undertaken in 1836-7 ; and from
period, with the exception of a temporary appointmei
examine Holyhead Harbour, he has remained on half
Admiral Back had received numerous medals and testim<
from various scientific bodies, including the Geogra;
Societies of London and Paris, of the former of which h
a Vice-President. He was knighted in 1838, attained flag
in 1857, and that of Admiral in 1867. The portrait we g
from a photograph by Barraud and Jerrard.
SCENE IN THE LUNCHEON-ROOM AT
vrom a sketch by ora bpectal artist.
THE RADZIAVILL PALACE, BERLIN.
A GLASS OP CONGRESS SHERRY:
9KETCHEB IN CAMP OF
THE INDIAN TROOPS AT MALTA.
the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
JULY 6, 1873
THE ROYAL VISIT TO NOTTINGHAM.
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train as far as the Daybrook station, on the line
between Grantham and Nottingham. They were met there
hv the Duke of St. Albans and the Duke and Duchess of Man¬
chester- the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, .the Mwquis of Harbngton,
T nrrl Colville of Culross, General Sir Dighton Probyn, and Mr.
SS5SS55 «S from London by the same train as guests
The fhike of St. Albans. The road near the station was
decorated with evergreens and wreaths of flowers suspended
Sm Venetian masts, and with a triumphal arch of evergreens.
The children of several parish schools, to the number of 1600,
sane “God Save the Queen” and “God Bless the Prince of
Wales ’’An escort of the South Notts Yeomanry accom¬
panied the Duke’s carriages along the road to ® est !?. 0 ?J Lo f d ^-
Their Koval Highnesses were entertamed by the Duke of St.
Albans and by his mother, the Dowager Duchess who is also | to remain
Viscountess Falkland, having married Lord Falkland in 18o9,
JeH^s after the decease of the late Duke. The pr^ent
Duke William Aubrey De Vere Beauclerk, is the tenth m
succession. He was bom in April, 1840, and has been twice
married; first, to a daughter of the late General the Hon
Charles Grey ; secondly, to a daughter of Mr. Bernal Osborne.
The visit of the Prince and Princess to the town of Notting¬
ham on Tuesday, and the ceremony of opening the Museum,
passed off with great success. The Mayor, Aldermen, and
Town Council, with various officials who were to take part in
the procession, assembled at the School of Art, in Waverley-
street, and proceeded in carriages to the top of Mansfield-road
to await the arrival of the Royal party from Bestwood. At
this point a triumphal arch, bearing the words “Welcome to
Nottingham” on each side, had been erected. The band of
the Robin Hoods Volunteer Regiment was stationed near, and
the South Notts Yeomanry, the North Notts Yeomanry, the
17th Lancers, and the 106th Foot were drawn up on both sides
of the road. At twenty minutes past twelve o’clock the cheer¬
ing of the crowd announced the approach of the Royal party.
As the carriages drew up, escorted by a squadron of the North
Notts Yeomanry, the band played the National Anthem, and
the troops presented arms. The Prince and Princess, accom¬
panied by the Duke of St. Albans and General Sir D.
Probyn, were seated in an open carriage. In the other
carriages were the Marquis of Harrington, Lord E.
Clinton, the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, and the Duchess of Man-
Chester; Lady E. Clinton, the Dowager Duchess of St.
Albans, the Duke of Manchester, and Count Zarajowski.;
Mr Bernal Osborne, Lord Colville, the Hon. H. Strutt,
Colonel Clarke, Major the Hon. H. Wood, Lord Newark, Mr.
Christopher Sykes, M.P., and Mr. Cockerell. The Prince and
Princess repeatedly bowed in acknowledgment of the cheers
with which they were greeted. A procession was formed,
which included the mounted police, some squadrons of
Lancers, the North Notts Yeomanry, carriages containing
representatives of friendly societies, members of the Cor¬
poration, borough officials and magistrates, the architect
of the Castle restoration (Mr. T. C. Hine), the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Nottingham and his chaplain, the
members of Parliament for the county and surrounding
towns and for the borough, the Mayors of the adjacent towns,
the Bishop of Lincoln, the Lord Lieutenant of the county
(Lord Belper), and the Mayor (Alderman Oldknow), the
Sheriff (Mr. A. Jacoby), and the Deputy Mayor. Then came
the Prince and Princess of Wales and suite, followed by a
squadron of North Notts Yeomanry and a squadron of the
17tli Lancers and mounted police.
The procession went down Mansfleld-road—a wide and
handsome thoroughfare planted with trees—towards the
Market-place. The decorations of the houses were very effec¬
tive. Over the street were festoons and arches of evergreens,
while Venetian masts were in close array. On each side the
street was crowded with spectators, who cheered heartily as
the Royal carriage passed. At several places on the route
Lands of music were stationed, and played the National
Anthem, while the troops presented arms. At the Market¬
place the scene was quite imposing. This market-place is one
of the most spacious in the kingdom, covering an area of
nearly six acres, and its appearance is rendered quaint and
picturesque by the projecting fronts of the upper storeys of
the houses which surround it. These were hung with scarlet
-cloth and festoons of flowers, and trophies of flags were
fixed between the tipper windows. The square was sur¬
rounded by Venetian masts, and from these were sus¬
pended strings of small banners. Every window and the tops
of the houses were thronged with spectators; in the Market¬
place there was an immense crowd. At the east side of the
square, in front of the Exchange, were the bands of the
Grenadier Guards; on the north or Long-row side, drawn up
in a space inclosed by strong barricades, were the Sunday-
school children of the town, to the number, it is estimated, of
17,0GU. They were under the direction of Mr. J. S. Kirk,
secretary of the Sunday-School Union, and Mr. J. H. Haywood,
secretary of the Church of England Institute. As the Royal
carriage came into sight the children sang the National
Anthem: and when it arrived opposite the inclosed space the
children sang “God Bless the Prince of Wales.” Thesingingwas
couducted by Mr. F.M. Ward, a local professor of music. At its
conclusion one of the scholars was conducted to the Royal
carriage by the Town Clerk, and presented the Princess with
a bouquet. The procession left the Market-place by Chapel
Bar, across which street hung festoons of artificial flowers. It
ascended the Derby-road, where the residents had done their
best to adorn the houses. In front of the Roman Catholic
•Cathedral was an extensive platform draped with blue and
scarlet cloth, trimmed with lace, and at the top of the road
was the triumphal arch of the Nottingham Rowing Club. It
was surmounted by an eight-oared boat, in which were seated
members of the club in their boating costume, while other
members stood on each bide of the road and cheered lustily.
As the Royal carriage passed under the arch, the men in the
boat saluted by raismg their oars. The procession quickened
its pace, and passed round the North-road into the park, and
.so the Royal visitors advanced to the door of the Museum.
Gn entering, luncheon was partaken of, after which the
Prince was conducted by the Mayor to the door of the Museum,
■where he was presented with a golden key. The door soon turned
on its hinges, and his Royal Highness declared the Midland
Counties Art-Museum to be open. The Prince and party then
inspected the,different apartments, and his Royal Highness
expressed himself highly delighted with the picture-galleries
and the collection of lace. The ceremony over, the Prince
proceeded to a tent erected on a plateau in front of the Castle,
where the municipal address was presented to him. The
Iiince iipliid, coniinending the loan of Nottingham for
tills institution, j. tr Benediction, the procession
special prayer and, proceeding to Bestwood Lodge,
in Nottingham on Wednesday evening,. and everything was
done to show due appreciation of the Royal visit. ^ L8sr *
Defrics and (Son, of London, were employed for the decora-
“Festus,” who is a native of Nottingham was also written at
the request of the Mayor and Corporation, and has been
widely distributed. Altogether, the visit has been all that
could be desired. We shad give some Illustrations next week.
The Midland Counties Art-Museum and Loan Exhibition
of the Fine Arts occupies the stately mansion of the Dukes of
Newcastle, called Nottingham Castle, which had bemi al owed
to remain in a ruined condition since 1831, ]» u *
lately been restored by the Town Council of Nottingham
The suite of rooms which is on a level with the western
entrance, and which is flanked by two slightly projecting
wings, is devoted to the display of such rarities as the bouth
Kensington Museum has made familiar to us. Antique laces
both needle, point, and pillow-including a fine educational
series belonging to Mr. Andrew MacCallum, the eminent
painter; Japanese lacquer-work, lent by Mr. li. lhene bpiers,
the famous collection of Japanese ceramic art, of the finest
period, belonging to Major Walter; the Japanese Cloisonne
belonging to Mr. James Lord Bowes, the silver plate, the gold
and silver jewellery, the Wedgwood, Turner, and Adams ware,
the miniatures, the ancient textile fabrics and ecclesiastical
embroideries, the wares of Doulton and Minton, and the
porcelain of Mrs. II. T. Hope, not to mention many rare
objects from the Indian Museum and from, the collections
of private individuals, are all set forth in appropriate order.
Much praise is due to Mr. Wallis, the curator, and Mr. Briscoe,
the Corporation librarian and compiler of the catalogue, and to
Mr. Al»u Cole, of South Kensington, and his assistants for the
energy they have displayed in arranging this Exhibition.
One of the grand staircases is devoted to the portraits of the
heroes and heroines of the Commonwealth, including both
Royalists and Parliamentarians, and the other to the portraits
of local celebrities and paintings, mainly of a modern kind.
Up stairs is one of the finest collections of English water
colours ever brought together, including Hunt, Cox, De Wint,
Turner, and all those who have conferred distinction on water¬
colour practice. Oue room is devoted to such a collection of
the works of Henry Dawson as places that gentleman in the
very front rank of English landscape art. Another room con¬
tains the works of the late M. Niemann, and a third is hung
with the lovely landscapes of M. Clarence Wliaite. The great
gallery, one of the best proportioned and best Lighted in the
whole country, is hung on one side with works of the
old musters, and on the other by those of living men.
Among the former are masterpieces of Vandyck, Teniers,
Hogarth, Andrea del barto, Cuyp, Claude, Berghem, Rubens,
Titian, Murillo, bir Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough, and many
others. The latter include such men as Israels, Faed,
Leighton, E. M. Ward, Ansdell, Erskine Nicol, Andrew
MacCallum, Cooper, Linnell, J. M. Pott, Long, and Burgess ;
and they are represented not by indifferent examples, but in
many cases by chefs-d’tBiivre. Besides native artists, there is
also to be seen on the walls a goodly sprinkling of foreign
work. Altogether, the Midland Counties Art-Museum is oue
of the largest provincial successes that has occurred for years
past. _
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
According to all accounts, the national fete in Paris on
Sunday was very successful. The decorations and illuminations
were general throughout the city, and on a scale of great
splendour. The weather was cloudy, but no rain fell. One
of the incidents of the day was the unveiling of Ciesinger’s
statue of the Republic in the Champ de Mars. All the
Ministers except M. Dufaure, who was indisposed, were
present, and speeches were made by M. Tcisserenc de Bort and
M. de Marcere. At the conclusion of the ceremony the mili¬
tary band played the “ Marseillaise,” and was enthusiastically
applauded. T welve hundred and sixty-nine Communists, who
had earned indulgence by “contrition, submission, and dili¬
gence,” have been allowed remission or commutation of
punishment in honour of the fete. Nor were the poor for¬
gotten. They had 20,000f. of the 100,000f. voted to M.
Dufaure for receptions, 20,000f. of the 500,000f. voted for the
fete, and grants from the local relief funds. Ciesinger’s
statue of the Republic represents France as seated, with the
physiognomy of a Roman matron, and with a head-dress a com¬
promise between a helmet and a Phrygian cap. The right i
hand holds a sword, while the left rests on a tablet on which I
is inscribed, “ Republique Fran<;aise. Constitution. 25
Fevrier, 1875.” There were illuminations and rejoicings in a
large number of provincial towns, and oven in Corsica, in
sympathy with the Paris celebration.
The bhah left Paris on Tuesday for Vienna. Marshal
MacMahon conducted him from the Grand Hotel to the
station. On bunday night the Marshal and Madame MacMahon
accompanied the bflali to the top of the Are de Trioinphe to
witness the fireworks and illuminations.
The Archduke Albert of Austria arrived in Paris on Monday
evening, and was received at the railway station by Marshal
MacMahon. His Imperial Highness has gone to Trouville.
The French Academy on Thursday week appointed M.
Victor Hugo director and M. Victorien bardou chancellor for
the ensuing three months.
The Geographical bociety of France held a special sitting
yesterday week for the distribution of prizes—Admiral la
Roneiere le Noury in the chair. The gold medal of the society
was presented to Mr. btanley in recognition of his journey
across Equatorial Africa. Mr. btanley narrated the; incidents
of his journey, and was loudly cheered. Other prizes and
medals were afterwards distributed.
M. Mouchez, captain in the army, succeeds M. Leverrier as
Director ot the Paris Observatory, but with purely adminis¬
trative functions, the scientific functions being intrusted to
M. Tisserand, a young astronomer of great promise, hitherto
at the Toulouse Observatory.
The Comte de Chambord has sent lOOOf. to the Joan of Arc
Memorial Fund.
M. Lion bay received last Tuesday a deputation of British
working men connected with the sugar interests that are
injimd by the French bounty system. The Minister expressed
Luntefi as opposed to a tq stein of bounties, but pointed out
that the drawbacks on raw sugar allowed by the French
Government were not of this character. With regard ti the
refined sugar, they were preparing a new scheme, which he
hoped would be satisfactory.
Disturbances in Marseilles on Monday night, arising out. of
a proposal to remove the statue of Bishop Belzunce trorn its
present site, resulted in the arrest of 126 persons.
ITALY.
The final estimates of the revenue for 1878, together with
the financial questions relating thereto, were discussed on
Wednesday in the Chamber of Deputies. bignor Seismit
Doda, the Minister of Finance, made a long speech wherein lie
demonstrated the accuracy of his anticipations and enumerated
the savings effected by the Ministry of the Left now in power.
He then entered into an historical review of Italian finance,
and alluded to the new bills announced in the financial state¬
ment. After refuting the objections of the Opposition, he con-
eluded by expressing a hope that the Chamber would accori a
vote of full confidence in the financial policy of the Ministry.
The Chamber then passed an order of the day of bignor
Tajani approving the Minister’s financial scheme by 204 votes
against 60. ,
Differences of opinion respecting the Ministerial measure for
the reduction of the grist tax have led bignor bella to resign
his position as leader of the Opposition, bignor Minghetti is
spoken of his probable successor.
STAIN.
A low mass was celebrated yesterday week in the hall where
the remains of the late Queen were lying in state, all the great
dignitaries being present. The body of the Queen was after¬
wards conveyed in state to the railway station, to be taken to
the palace of the Escurial. The state funeral will take place
at Madrid on the 10th inst., in the Church of ban Francisco.
The remains of the Queen are ultimately to lie in a church
which will be erected for that purpose at great cost. The
room in which she died is, by order of the King, to remain
undisturbed. A grateful feeling has been excited in Madrid
by the kindly telegrams and messages from Queen Victoria.
The session of the Cortes, which was interrupted on account
of the Queen’s death, will be resumed next Monday.
From Havanuali we bear that a Royal decree has been
promulgated extending the organic municipal and provincial
laws of bpain to Cuba.
HOLLAND.
The Minister of the Marine has been temporarily intrusted
with the direction of the War Office, the Minister of War,
M. de Roo van Anderwerelt, being unwell.
The Dutch are again in trouble with the Acheenese, aud
have sent reinforcements from Java to cope with them.
BELGIUM.
The 22nd proximo will be the twenty-fifth anniversary of
the marriage of the King and Queen, and a series of fetes is to
be given in Brussels, where also a collection has been set on
foot, to prestnt a memorial to their Majesties.
The Military Budget for 1879 amounts to 41,395,500f., for
45,093 men aud 8949 horses.
A great Liberal demonstration, to celebrate the success of
the party in the recent elections, was held in Brussels oil
bunday. All the provincial and principal towns in Belgium
were represented by deputations; the streets were decorated with
flags and thronged with people. In the evening there was a
monster banquet of 6000 persons, at which the Ministers aud
all the notabilities of the Liberal party were to be present.
GERMANY.
A bulletin, u sued on Thursday morning at Berlin, announces
that all the Emperor’s wounds have now healed, and that a
gradual increase in his Majesty’s strength is perceptible.
General and Mrs. Grant have been lionised at Berlin. They
were present yesterday week at a large dinner party given at
Potsdam by the Crown Prince and Crown Princessof Germauy.
Next day General and Mrs. Grant dined with Prince
Bismarck. On Monday a review was held in honour of the
ex- President; and on Tuesday he started for Hamburg, wheuee
he purposes making a tour in bweden and Norway. General
Grant lias received from the Empress an autograph letter
expressing the Emperor’s regret that his Majesty has notbeeu
able to receive him during his stay in Berlin.
borne particulars of the Berlin Congress will be found in
another column.
The Municipal Council of Berlin has voted 60,000 marks
for a painting by Herr von Werner of a picture commemorative
of the Congress.
An entertainment was given in the Berlin Zoological
Gardens on Monday by the editors of the Berlin papers to the
loreign journalists at present in Berlin.
'Hie Berlin Official Ornette publishes an Imperial decree
orduinmg that, until further notice, all strangers arriving in
Berlin, and, further, all persons wishing to take up their resi¬
de nee in the capital, must be provided with passports or papers
of legitimation.
r Ihe English Ambassador at Berlin has forwarded to the
Emperor a petition from Mr. Bishop, who does not appeal
against his sentence, but simply asks that liis imprisonment
may be in a tortress where books are allowed and no degrading
dress is worn.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
The Imperial sanction was given on Thursday week to all
the laws respecting the Austro-Hungarian compromise. At
the same time the Reichsrath was prorogued. The Lower
House of the Hungarian Diet was engaged in discussing
petitions relative to Eastern Affairs. In reply to some obser¬
vations of Herr Helfy, the Minister-President, Herr Tisza
said:—“ It can never be to the interest of Hungary to have
blav btates on our southern border joining hands with each
other and casting a chain about our feet.”
The bession of the Hungarian Diet was closed on Sun lay
by the Emperor Francis Joseph. His Majesty, in the Speeeu
from the 1 krone, began by observing that the general political
situation had everywhere weighed heavily upon public credit,
aud that the necessarily considerable time required to bring
the compromise negotiations to an issue in the Houses of
Parliament had rendered it impossible to accomplish all that
might have been desired. Nevertheless much had been done
towards the regulations of the national finance, as weU as foi
administrative and judicial reform. His Majesty then pro¬
ceeded to review the measures passed by Parliament during tht
bession now closing, and stated that the new Austro-Hun¬
garian compromise laws would promote the interests of both
portions ot the Monarchy and the welfare of the whole people.
Ample compensation for the concessions mutually made woute
be gained by both parties in the strength accruing from ttu
fresh manifestation of the reciprocity of views aud interests ol
both portions of the Empire. On the subject of forcigi
relations, the speech says:—“ The present state of our foreigt
relations allows us to hope that we shall succeed in assuring
not only the interests of the Monarchy, but also the blessing
of peace. The Emperor is happy to acknowledge that the clue
merit in this respect is due to tile patriotic support received bj
the Government from Parliament. Whatever the future waj
biiiig, we may confidently trust that the interests of til'
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TA BY H.R.H. THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.
10
THE tt.t.TTSTKATEP LONDON NEWS_
JULY 6, 1878
PARLIAMENT.
LORDS.
The Lord Chancellor’s measure for conveying a million from
the Irish Church Fund to a Board to be formed for the
encouragement of Intermediate Education in Ireland has been
cordially greeted on both sides the ^e. No exception wai
L the bill naasing through Committee and bemg reported,
to, the bill passing through Committee
amid cheers, in less than half an hour.
Reverting to the Globe Memorandum of the agreement
between the Marquis of Salisbury and Count Schouvaloff, Earl
Granville on Monday, said in his most mellifluous tones, that
duringthe three times in the course of twenty years he had been
at the Foreign Office the confidence placed mthestaff hadnever
once been abused, but then the noble Earl was not aware that
in that period any confidential communication could have
got into the hands of a person employed in the office by the
hour as a copying clerk.” Could the noble Duke £ ive
assurance that steps would be taken to render it impossible
for anyone in the position of the person charged with
the “ abstraction of the Memorandum to gam access to such
documents. The Duke of Richmond, as the matter was under
police investigation, deemed it inadvisable to enter into the
question at present. Lord Selbome hoped it was incorrect
that, as reported, ;there was no rule at the
against the employment of persons connected with the Fress.
But the noble Duke could not enlighten his Lordship on the
point. Both the Duke of Richmond and Lord Cranbrook (alter
exchanging a whisper) preserved silence at the close of Lord
Hammond’s laboured lament that things are not as they were
at the Foreign Office in his time, and his Lordship a sermonising
exhortation to the Government to be more careful in futu-e in
the selection of copying clerks for responsible departments
Thereafter, the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration
Bill, and the Conway Bridge Bill (to compound a debt of
£40,000 by immediate payment of £10,000), were read a second
time; and a few other measures were advanced a stage, liie
Public Works Loras (Ireland) Act (1874) Amendment Bill was
on Tuesday read the third time.
The Royal assent, bv Commission, was given on Thursday
to several public and private bills, including the Public Health
(Water) Act (1878) aud the Public Works Loans (Ireland)
Bills. The Lord Chancellor, replying to Earl Granville,
explained that the observations he made on Tuesday with
reference to the condition of girls to compete for studentships
and prizes under the Intermediate Education (Ireland) Bui
were directed, not so much to the legal construction of the
measure, as to what were the intentions of the Government.
The Dental Practitioners Bill passed through Committee.
The Prisons Authorities Act (1874) Amendment Bill and the
Bill of Sales Bill were read the third time and passed. Earl
Delawarr having moved for a return of hospitals or other
places registered for experiments upon liviug animals, Earl
Beauchamp stated that the Government had already furnished
to the House of Commons all the information they had in
their possession, under the Vivisection Act. There would be
some difficulty, he said, in publishing the reports of inspectors,
as they were confidential documents. Lord Truro expressed a
doubt as to whether the horrors of vivisection were kept
within the narrowest possible limits. The motion was ulti¬
mately withdrawn.
COMMONS.
When the House sat last in the melting heat of tho past week,
hon. members showed commendable fidelity to dry duty by
devoting the afternoon of yesterday week to arid discussions
on the Highways Bill, clause 8 of which was reached and
amended in Committee. But the powerful counter-attraction,
may be, of an illuminated fete at the Botanic Gardens cut
short the evening sitting and enabled hon. members to dis¬
perse at nine.
The very fair show of white hats on Monday at question¬
time became small by degrees and miserably less when Mr.
Rodwell resumed the debate on the Cattle Plague Bill. Some¬
thing had been expected to come of the questions regarding
the system which permitted a mere copying clerk, paid at the
rate of tenpence an hour, to become familiar with the contents
of an important State Paper. But the prosaic answers of Mr.
Bourke threw a damper on this curiosity, and it was not long
ere the benches were thinned, as aforesaid, by a continuance
of the cattle theme. Bucolic members enlarged on this subject
with a relish smacking of the enjoyment exhibited by agri¬
cultural visitors to the Christmas Cattle Show. Even Sir Wil¬
liam Harcourt joined in the bovine strain. The issue was that
Mr. Forster’s amendment was rejected and the Government
bill for slaughtering foreign cattle at the port of landing
in order to stamp out disease was read the second time by 319 to
162 votes, Ministerialists cheering at their majority of 157. A
few other measures were advanced a stage ere the House
adjourned.
Scotland and Ireland shared the sitting of Tuesday.
Glasgow, through Mr. Anderson, asked that that lively
measure, the Scotch Roads and Bridges Bill, should be
referred to a Select Committee in order that an alleged
grievance against clause 88 might be considered. But the
Lord Advocate and Mr. Cross begged that the measure might
be allowed to proceed ; and Mr. Anderson’s amendment was
negatived by 123 to 81 votes. In Committee various amend¬
ments were fruitlessly proposed. Mr. Downing next took
up the running with his motion, declaring it to be unj ust and
impolitic to continue the deportation of Irish paupers from
England rad Scotland to Ireland. Mr. Sclater-Booth averred
that the Government were anxious to do all in their power to
mitigate the evils complained of; and, in the end, Mr. Downing
contented himself with accepting Mr. Vemcr’s amendment
(which was agreed to), viz.:—“ That the law requires con¬
sideration with a view to amendment.”
Habitual drunkenness is so fruitful a source of crime and
misery in this country that there was a general feeling of satis¬
faction on Wednesday that Dr. Cameron’s bill for providing
voluntary institutions or hospitals for the cure of inebriates
should be read a second time without cavil.. The sitting closed
with a brief debate on Mr. French’s measure for doing away
with the jobbers who bought land in Ireland to squeeze the
uttermost farthing out of their tenants. This Landed Estates
Court Leases Bill, however, proposed to give undue power to
the tenant, said the Attorney-General for Ireland; and Mr.
French was defeated by 179 to 78 votes.
'I he Government were subjected to a large number of
inquirie s on Thursday, but few of them were worth recording.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer informed Mr. Childers, his
querist, that there would be no object in making a financial
statement with respect to the effect of the additional expendi¬
ture upon the finances of the year until he was in a position
to state the amount of the supplementary Estimates. This
could hardly be ascertained satisfactorily until the conclusion
of tLe negotiations now proceeding at Berlin. But, as they
had advanced so far, he was led to hope that they
might be brought to a close within ten days or a fort¬
night. The accounts would then be made up, and he hoped
soon after that he would be able to make a state-
naner was undergoing a legal inquiry, it would not b P P
or test to the individual affected by it to enter mtoexplana-
by the Marqui, of Ha^gton Chau-
“iZSTM, ; tho Indosure BUI and the
v whirli some Drogress
hatTbeen^madef the Government were anxious to expedite
as opportunity occurred. He hoped that the Education Votes
aud the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Bill would be finished that
evening. The Valuation Bill would be taken at the morning
sitting to-morrow, and the Contagious Diseases (Animals) BiU
on Monday. As Thursday, the 11th mst., was promised for
the Irish Sunday Closing Bill, it would be impossible to take
the Intermediate Education (Ireland) Bill before Monday week.
He did not like to make promises winch he could not be certain
of redeeming, and was not, therefore, in a position to say any¬
thing with respect to other measures. The Epping forest
Bill was read the third time, after au unsuccessful
effort of Mr. Fawcett, seconded by Sir C. Dilke, to re¬
commit the bill in order to the amendment of clause 30,
providing for the representation of the Metropolitan
Board of Works on the Committee of Management,
such amendment having been negatived by 209 against 49. On
the motion that the House go into Committee of Supply on the
Education Estimates, Sir John Lubbock moved a resolution in
favour of modifying the code of education by adding ele¬
mentary natural science to the subjects mentioned in article 19,
contending that such an addition would pave the way to a
more complete system. After considerable discussion the
motion was negatived by 68 to 37. The House did not get
into Committee until an advanced hour of the night.
York, who spoke of the satisfaction with which he re¬
garded an assembly under that hospitable roof of so many
Bishops, all of whom were of English speech and had English
blood in their veins, and who were therefore united by the
deepest ties. The work upon which they were all engaged
was the truest progress of the human race in the knowledge of
God, and in love and peace one towards another. They were
engaged in the same conflict against the powers opposed to
religion, and were drawn together in their anxiety to see the
human race elevated by a knowledge of God. His Grace,
referring to the Synod, said there was no great mystery about
the nieetiugs, although they were not open to the public;
they had met for mutual counsel.
THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Jagg, F. C., Curate, to be Rector of Luddenham.
Powell, Thomas; Curate of Great Dunmow.
Shore, Thomas Teignmouth ; Honorary Cbaplaia to her Majesty.
"Watson, Frederick; Rector of Starston, Norfolk.— Guardian.
Owing to the meetings of the Lambeth Conference, the
library will be closed to readers during July.
The services in the Temple church will be continued up to
Sunday, Aug. 4, after which date the. church will be closed
until Get. 6.
The anniversary meetings of the Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel were held lust week, and were remarkable for
the large number of Colonial Bishops who have given au
account of missionary work in their dioceses.
The parish church of St. Laurence, Essex, which has been
rebuilt at a cost of £1700, of which the Rector, the Rev. J. \V.
Malls, has contributed nearly a third, was reconsecrated by the
Bishop of St. Albans on Wednesday week.
The Bishop of Lichfield has bec ome a vice-president of the
Poor Clergy Relief Corporation, the annual sermon of which
will be preached on Sunday morning (to-morrow) by the
Bishop of Manchester at St. Helen’s, Biahopsgate, when the
Lord Mayor and Sheriffs will, as usual, attend iu state.
The Vicar-General’s Office, with authority from the Primate
for granting marriage licenses for London and the whole Pro¬
vince of Canterbury, has moved, after fifty years, from Bell-
yard to the first floor of 5, Dean’s-conrt, Doctors’-commons
(immediately opposite the Deanery House iof St. Paul's).
The prize of ten guineas, offered by the Chester Diocesan
Open Church Association, for the best tract or tracts on the
need, object, and results of a missiou, has been awarded to
the Rev. J. II. Townsend, M.A., Tunbridge Wells, and the
Rev. J. P. Rouutree, Beswick, Manchester. Eighty-eight
MSS. were sent iu for competition to the adjudicators.
During the present month, and probably for the two
ensuing months, the pulpit in St. Paul’s Cathedral will be
occupied on Sundays by the American and Colonial Bishops at
present on a visit to this country. To-morrow the Bishop of
Albany will preach in the morning, the Bishop of Pennsylvania
in the afternoon, and the Bishop of Ohio in the evening.
On Monday the Bishop of St. Albans, acting for the Bishop
of Rochester, consecrated a handsome chancel which has been
erected for the district of St. Michael and All Angels, North
Woolwich, the temporary iron church being still used as the
nave ; and, in order to save expense, the site of the proposed
new nave was consecrated at the same time.
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London
strongly recommend the effort now being made by the Rev. J.
Aberigh-Mackay, Chaplain of the Marbeuf in Paris, to collect
money for the rebuilding of his dilapidated church. The
circular, containing their letters, says:—” For thousands of the
English-speaking population there is no church accommodation
whatever.” There is a scattered multitude of ” British me¬
chanics, coachmen, cabmen, grooms, butlers, valets, couriers,
guides, and their families, few of whom ever enter a church.
It is proposed to build a church with 1500 sittings, of which
1000 shall be for ever free.” The Chaplain is now in London.
Address, 15, Harrington-square, N.W.
The arguments iu the Mackonoehie case in the Queen’s
Bench were concluded yesterday week. Mr. Charles, on
behalf of Mr. Mackonoehie, argued that the only legal course
opeu to Lord Penzance was to take those proceedings which
w ould have led to the defendant being imprisoned, inasmuch
as the defendant could recover his liberty at any moment upon
promising obedience aud paying the costs ; and this statutory
provision could not operate against a suspension for a specified
period. The Lord Chief Justice observed that clearly a man
could not be allowed to remain a minister of the Church aud ,
receive its emoluments while ho set its laws at defiance. At the
close of the arguments the Court reserved its judgment. |
The Lambeth Conference of Bishops, better known as the
Pan-Anglican Synod, opened on Tuesday with a service in the
chapel of Lambeth Palace and a sermon by the Archbishop of
\ one. Their Lordships then proceeded to the library for the
business of the Conference, which was arranged to begin with
a discussion on “ Tho best mode of maintaining union among
the various Churches of the Anglican communion.” The
subjects discussed on Wednesday were Voluntary Boards
ot Arbitration for Churches to which such au Arran o-e-
ment. may be Applicable, and the Relations of Missionary
Bishops to the Missionaries Acting in the .Same Country.—
Ln the evening the Lord Mayor entertained the prelates
new engaged in the sittings of the Lambeth Conference
together with a number of the dignitaries of the Church’
at a banquet at the Mansion House. About eighty Bishops
accepted the invitation. Owing to recent domestic bereave-
ment the Primate could not attend, and the principal toast
of the evening was responded to ' by the Archbishop of
A charter of incorporation has been granted for Burslem.
A band of more than 600 Mormons, 500 of them, however,
being Scandinavians, left the Mersey for Utah last Saturday.
Sir H. Drummond Wolff, M.P., presided last Saturday
evening at a public dinner held at Boscombe, Bournemouth,
to celebrate the opening of the new assembly rooms.
Her Majesty’s steel corvette Champion was launched on
Monday afternoon from the yard of the builders, Messrs.
Elder and Co., Govau, near Glasgow.
The net profits of a bazaar and gala recently held at
Liverpool in aid of the Stanley Hospital, under the presidency
of Lord Derby, amounted to £4244 18s. 7d.
Hanlon, of Toronto, the American rowing champion, has
won the International four-mile sculling race at Brookville,
Ontario, by ten lengths.
The troopB at Aldersliott camp marched to the Long
Valley about seven o’clock on Tuesday, and went through a
sham fight under the direction of General Sir Thomas Steele,
K.C.B., commanding the division.
At Barrow-in-Furness on Monday a new steam-ferry was
opened by the Furness Railway Company connecting the main¬
land with Walney Island, in lieu of certain highways which
have been destroyed by dredging operations.
Tuesday's Gazette announces that the Queen has ordered
that the sisters of the present Earl of Leitrim shall have, hold,
and enjoy the same title, place, and precedence as if their late
father,' Francis Nathaniel Clements, had survived his elder
brother, William Sydney, late Earl of Leitrim.
Lord James Butler, known as the Protestant Evangelical
champion in the Irish Church Synod, has formally separated
himself from the Church of Ireland, on the ground of his dis¬
satisfaction with the results of the revision of the Prayer-book,
and especially with the words of the ordinal.
At the Crystal Palace, on Tuesday afternoon, the eleventh
dog show iu connection witli the Kennel Club, was opened.
The show was a large one, over 1000 dogs being entered. The
day was devotid to judging and awarding the prizos. The
show remained open until Friday evening.
The annual show of roses by the Oxford Rose Society was
held, by kind pel-mission of the President aud Fellows of
Trinity College, in the beautiful garden of the latter on Thurs¬
day atternoon, when there was ojie of the finest exhibitions of
the “ Queen of Flowers” ever held outside London.
The whole of the ironclad fleet, which has been at Portland
for the past fortnight, with the exception of the turret-ships,
has left for Bantry Bay. The ships are expected to return in
about three weeks.—Lord John Hay’s squadron, comprising
the Minotaur, Black Prince, aud Monarch, has left Suda Bay
with sealed orders.
At a meeting of the Court of Common Council on Thurs¬
day afternoon it. was resolved, upon the motion of the*Lord
Mayor, to contribute £525 towards the Mansion House Fund
for the promotion of the holding of a great agricultural exhi¬
bition in London next year under the auspices of the RoyaL
Agricultural Society of England.
At the meeting of the England Rose Show, held at the
Shire Hall, Hereford, on Wednesday, the first prize of £20,
for seventy-two varieties of single trusses, was won by Messrs.
Paul and Son, Cheshunt. The fifty-guinea challenge cup, the
gif t of Messrs. Cranston and Co., for amateurs, was takeu by
Mr. G. B. Baker, Heavitree, Devon.
Civil-List Pensions have been granted to Dr. Prescott
Joule, the inventor of the principle of the mechanical equiva¬
lent of heat, of £200 per annum; to Mr. Nash, water-colour
artist, and the Rev. Mr. Graves, Irish antiquarian and archae¬
ologist, of £100 per annum each ; and to Miss Chisholm,
daughter of Mrs. ChiBholm, “ the emigrant’s friend,” of £50
per annum.
An Alexandria telegram says that the Khedive, complying
with the request of the Committee of Inquiry into Egyptian
Revenue, has furnished a list of the estates belonging to his
Highness and his family. The total amounts to about
910,000 acres. The settlement of the Daira affairs is now; it
is stated, almost completed. The monthly statement of the
Egyptian public debt shows that £165,000 has been encashed
for the service of the unified debt, £515,000 on account of
short loans, and £55,000 for the privileged debt.
The annual grand lodge of Berks and Bucks Masons was
held on Wednesday at the Carlton Club Rooms, Windsor, under
the presidency of Kir Daniel Gooch, Bart., M.P., who installed
the \ en. Archdeacon of Buckingham as Deputy Provincial
Grand Master.—On the same day a grand festival of the Masons
belonging to the lodges in Kent was held at Canterbury.
Khortly alter noon about 600 of the bretliren assembled and
held a lodge in the chapter-house of the cathedral. Lord
Holmesdale, M.P., Provincial Grand Master, appointed his
officers for the year; after which -the brethren entered the
cathedral. There a special service was performed, a special
anthem, composed for the occasion by Dr. Longhurst, being
&un £ by the choir. In the afternoon there was a banquet in
the Kt. Margaret’s Music-Hall, at which between 400 and 500
members of the craft sat down. Lord Holmesdale presided.
The fifty-first anniversary festival of the Printers’ Pension
Corporation was held last week at the Freemasons’ Tavern,
under the presidency of the Earl of Rosebery, when about 160
gentlemen sat down to dinner. The report stated that the
income of the past year had been £2504, whilst the expenditure
had been £2343. The institution supports 124 pensioners,
pi ondes accommodation for tweuty-four inmates iu the alms¬
houses at \Y ood Green, and is maintaining nine orphan childreu.
t-ixty candidates still await election, many of whom are above
sevaity years of age. The chairman, in proposing the toast
ot the evening, said the institution for which he pleaded wa 3
to help distressed printers—a class to whom we owed so
nn . ’ an ”„ au y°ne who had ever derived consolation or
enjoyment from literature could not deny their claims. The
other toasts included “The Press,” responded to by Mr. G. A.
k.ala, and 1 lie Printers of London.” During the* evening
subscriptions to the value of nearly £700 (inolu.di.ug £5Q from
the chairman) were announced. °
JULY 6, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
11
MUSIC.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.
Meyerbeer’s grand opera “ Le Prophcte ’’—the revival of which
after an interval of nine years was recorded by us last week—
was repeated on the Thursday. The performances of Madame
Scalcbi as Tides and Signor Gayarre as John of Leyden were
^gain characterised by high vocal and dramatic merit; the
lady having improved her representation by some abatement
•of the occasional excessive demonstrativeness previously
•observable.
Yesterday (Friday) week Mdlle. Cepeda repeated, with
• enhanced effect, her performance as Valentina in “Les
Huguenots.” The next event of importance will be the pro¬
duction of Flotow’s new opera “Alma” on Tuesday next.
The intermediate announcements consisted of repetitions of
• operas cast as before.
The last Floral Hall concert but one of the season took
place (n Wednesday afternoon, the programme having again
. comprised performances by most of the principal artists of
the Jluyal Italian Opei a.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
The tbiid appearance of Madame Pappenheim occurred on
.Saturday, when that lady sustained the character of Leonora
in “ Fidelio ” for the first time in this country. We have
already spoken of the high merits, vocal and dramatic, of the
artist, as manifested in her two previous performances, as
Valentina in “Les Huguenots;” and these were again dis¬
played on the occasion now referred to, although the singer
seemed to he somewhat under the influence of illness. She,
nevertheless, made a very favourable impression in the arduous
scena including the “ Invocation to Hope; ” in the duet with
Eocco, the gaoler, while assisting him to dig the grave for her
husband, t)ie doomed Florestano ; in the magnificent quartet,
with that character, ltocco, and Don Pizzaro, in which the
latter is foiled by Leonora in his attempt to stab Florestano;
and in the ecstatic duet between the liberated husband and the
heroic wife. The cast of the opera otherwise was nearly
identical with that of its performances under Mr. Mapleson’s
management at Drury-Lane Theatfe. Mdlle. Bauermeister
was again Marcellina; Signor Bettini, Florestano; Herr
Behrens, Eocco; and Signor Galassi, Don Pizarro; Signor
Franceechi having filled the part of II Ministro.
The overtuie in E major was played before the opera, and
that in C (No. 3 of the four written for the work) was given
alter the first, and was enthusiastically encored.
On Tuesday “ Faust ” was given, with the first appearance
this season of Mdlle. Helene Crosmond as Margherua. The
lady performed the character in the English version of the
opera, during Mr. Mapleson’s winter seuson at Her Majesty’s
Thcatte, this year. Again Mdlle. Crosmond was well received;
the ccst otherwise having included Madame Trebelli as Siebel,
Madame Lablache as Martha, Signor Campanini as Faust,
Signor del Puente as Mephistopheles, and Signor Galassi as
Valentino.
This (Saturday) evening Balfe’s posthumous opera, “II
Talismano,” is to be produced, for the first time at Her
Majesty’s Theatre. _
The twenty-seventh season of the New Philharmonic con¬
certs came to a close on Saturday afternoon with the fifth
performance of the series. Two pieces were introduced for
the first time, the more important one having been a new
overture composed by the lady formerly known as Miss Alice
Maiy Smith—now Mrs. Meadows White. The work is the
prelude to music composed to the lyric verses of Longfellow’s
“Pandora.” The overture contains passages in anticipation
of the music which follows, and is a highly effective and sug¬
gestive piece of orchestral writing, with good contrasts aud
climaxes in the instrumentation. It pleased greatly, and was
much applauded. The other novelty was a sacred soug,
“Espoir en Dieu,” composed (to lines by Victor Hugo) by
Baron B6dog d’Orczy, late Intendant of the Imperial Opera,
Pesth. It is written for a soprano voice, with obbligati accom¬
paniments for harp, horn, and harmonium, which were well
played, respectively, by Messrs. Cheshire, Mann, and Trew.
The rather gloomy vocal portion was expressively rendered by
Mdlle. Paprini, who contributed other solos ; Miss Eleue
Webster having given, with much effect, Donizetti’s aria “ O
mio Fernando.” The orchestral pieces were the overtures to
“ Fidelio ” and “ Tannhauser,” and Beethoven’s symphony in
C minor; and the instrumental selection was completed by
Schumann’s pianoforte concerto in A minor and Vieuxtemps’s
for violin, in the same key-—both finely played, the former by
Mr. Alfred Jaell, the latter by Herr Wieniawski. Mr. Gauz
and Dr. Wylde divided the duties of conductor.
On Wednesday evening the Philharmonic Society brought
its sixty-sixth season to a termination with the eighth concert
-of the year. The programme included Mozart’s overture to
“ Die Zauberflote,” Mendelssohn’s concert overture entitled
“ The Isles of Fingal,” that by Weber written in commemora¬
tion of the fiftieth year of the reign of the King (Augustus IV.)
of Saxony, and Beethoven’s “ Pastoral Symphony,” all which
were very effectively rendered by the fine band of the society.
Mr. Churles Halle gave an artistic performance of Beethoven’s
fourth pianoforte concerto (in G); as did Mdlle. Castellan
of the andante and finale from De Beriot’s seventh con¬
certo for violin. Mdlle. Schou (principal soprano of the
Copenhagen Opera) made her first appearance here, with great
and deserved success. Her brilliant execution aud excep¬
tional high range of voice were displayed with special effect in
the bravura air (“ Gli angui d’inferno ’’), from “ Die Zauber-
flote.” Prolonged applause and two recalls of the singer
followed her performance. Other vocal solos were contributed
by Mr. Burton McGuckin with much effect. Mr. Cusius con¬
ducted with his well-known skill , this having been the hun¬
dredth concert at which he has presided during the twelve
. years that he has held the office.
The third special concert of the season at the Alexandra
Palace took place last Saturday afternoon, and was entitled a
“Beethoven Festival,” the first part of the programme having
been selected from the works of that composer. The concert
opened with the overture to “Leonora” and closed with the
symphony in C minor, having also included the Turkish
march from the music to “ The Ruins of Athens,” the march
and chorus “ Twine ye garlands;” the song “ Know’st thou
the lanu - ” by Mr. Tburley Beale; the lied Englished as
“Creation’s Hymn,” finely rendered by Madame Patey; the
cantata “ Calm sea,” for chorus and orchestra; “Adelaida,”
sung by Mr. Sims Reeves; and the scena “Ah! perfido,”
declaimed by Madame Lemmens-Sherrington. The second
S art of the concert was miscellaneous. Mr. F. Archer con-
ucted with care and ability. A Mendelssohn concert is to be
given on July 27.
The second grand opera concert at the Royal Albert Hall
took place last Saturday afternoon, and the programme again
■consisted of more or less familiar pieces, executed by most of
tile principal artists of her Majesty's Theatre.
hlr. John Thomas, the eminent harpist, gave a harp concert
■ »t fci. Ji.nies’e Hall on Monday afternoon, when performances
on the instrument named, solo and concerted, formed promi¬
nent features in the programme.
■Mr. Alfred Jaell was again the pianist at this week’s
matinee of the Musical Union on Tuesday, Signor Papini
having been the leading violinist and M. Lasserre the violon¬
cellist. The programme comprised Rubinstein’s grand trio, in
B fiat, op. 52 ; Beethoven’s quartet, No. 1, in F, op. 18; Men¬
delssohn’s sonata in B fiat, for piano and violoncello ; aud the
canzouetta from his quartet in E fiat (op. 12); and pianoforte
solos.
Haviug already drawn special attention to Madame
Trebelli’b concert cf last week, mid the benevolent purpose
for which it was given, it will not be necessary to dwell at
length on the performances, which, excellent as they were,
were more or less familiar. The concert took place, as already
said, at St. James’s Hall, on the afternoon of Thursday week,
and included the fine performances of Madame Trebelli aud
other eminent vocalists, besides brilliant instrumental solos
contributed by M. Jacquinot (violin), Madame Arabella
Goddard and Miss Mehlig (pianoforte); in addition to which
Mr. Henry Irving gave a reading from “ Richard III.”
It is to be hoped that these generous services may have
materially contributed to the object in view—the supplying
additional funds for the establishment of suburban outposts in
connection with that excellent institution, the Hospital for
Diseases of the Throat and Chest, Golden-square.
We have more than once had occasion to speak in high
terms of commendation of the brilliant playing of Mr. George
Magrath, a young pianist from America, who has studied at
the Stuttgardt Conservatoire. His skill and accomplishments
were specially manifested at his matinee, which took place at
St. George’s Hall yesterday (Friday) week, when the first part
of the concert included his performances in Mendelssohn's
trio in C minor and Beethoven’s “Sonata Appassionata” for
pianoforte solo. In each of these Mr. Magrath displayed
thorough command of the keyboard and of all the varied
shades of tone. His touch is firm and vigorous, yet elastic—
these different qualities having been specially evidenced in the
grandeur and impulse of the first and last movements of the
sonata, and the grace and delicacy of the intervening andante.
Mr. Magrath’s shill was also successfully shown in detached
pieces by Chopin, Rubinstein, und Liszt. The violinist aud
the violoncellist in the trio were Signor Papini and M. Lasserre,
each of whom also contributed some excellent solo playing;
vocal pieces haviug been effectively rendered by Mdlle. Thekla
Friedlander, Miss Palmer, and Signor Broccolini. M. Marlois
and Mr. T. Drew were the accompanyists.
The concerts of the week have included those of the clever
vocalists, Mdlles. Ida aud Elena Corani, on Monday; of Signor
Ferri on Tuesday; Signor Fantoni on Wednesday; Mdlle.
Gabrielle Vaillant, the skilled violinist, on Thursday; and of
Signor Branca on Friday—all afternoon performances.
A concert is to take place on Monday—organised by Madame
Etelka Gerster—in aid of a fund for the wives and families of
shipwrecked sailors of the Grosser Kurfiirst. The perform¬
ances are to be given at the German Embassy.
NATIONAL SPORTS.
After all the excitement of Ascot, there has been a decided
lull in the racing world, and the meetings that have taken
place during the last few days may be dismissed very shortly.
Hampton was as popular as ever with holiday-makers, and
Julius Ctesar secured the two chief events; aud, by beating
Queen of Cyprus very easily in “ the Cup,” showed himself
well able to stay two miles. The disappointing Turtle Dove
at last rewarded her persistent backers by carrying off the
Claremont Stakes, and Thomfield proved too good for Cairn¬
gorm in another juvenile event. Odiham Races require uo
comment; but we cannot pass over the Bibury Club day with¬
out noting the success of Scapegrace, a well-named son of
Wild Oats, all of whose produce seem able to race. The
Carlisle Meeting attracted a very large assemblage, and the
sport was fairly good. Mrs. Pond (G st. 8 lb.) was made a very
hot favourite for the Cumberland Plate, and, though she
overpowered her jockey aud ran wide at all the turns, aud also
stumbled in the last few strides, she managed to win by a
bead lroni Constantine (7 st.), with Jagellon (6st. 81b.) a fair
third.
The annual sale of her Majesty’s yearlings took place at
Hampton Court on Saturday last, when the very satisfactory
average of 302 gs. for seventeen was obtained. It must be
admitted that this result was entirely due to the late lamented
St. Albans, as his two colts made uo less than 3150 gs., against
1095 gs. obtained for the remaining fifteen lots. The crack of
of the sale was naturally an own brother to Springfield, by
St. Albans—Viridis ; and, after a good fight between Lord
Rosebery and Messrs. T. E. Walker, Gretton, andJardine, he
was knocked down to the last-mentioned gentleman for 2200 gs.
Mr. Gretton, always a spirited buyer at yearling sales, gave
950 gs. for a St. Albans—Pamunkey colt.
The second meeting of the Coaching Club took place in
Hyde Park on Monday, when twenty-four vehicles were
brought together. The Prince of Wales and the Duke aud
Duchess of Teck were amongst those who were present at the
gathering.
Cricket has undoubtedly been the leading “ national sport ”
of the present week, and we must give the pride of place to
the match between Oxford and Cambridge, as attracting the
most general public attention. The Cambridge team have
done so wonderfully well this season that their admirers would
not hear of the possibility of their defeat; and though, at the
end of the first innings, there appeared a chance of a fairly
close finish, yet the Dark Blue Eleven collapsed in the,most
extraordinary manner at their second attempt, and were
beaten by no less than 238 runs. A. G. Steel more than ful¬
filled tlie high expectations that had been formed of him,
taking no less than thirteen wickets, at an expense of only <3
runs. und batting in fine style. At the same time, it must be
admitted that the dead state of the ground was all m his
favour, while it told against A. H. Evans the Oxford fast
bowler who, however, only secured one wicket less than did
bis opponent, though, naturally, at a far greater cost. We
append the full score:—
CAMBRIDGE.
4 c Wickham, b Knight
5 c Kemp, b Evans ...
63 c Hirst, b Evans ...
AVUitleui. b Evans .b E vltu , B ,
Mr D. Q. bteei, b Evans ..
Mr. L. K. Jaivis, b Evans
Mr. A. G. Steel, not out ... - .
Mr F. W. Kingston, c Evans, b Knight
Hon. Ivo Bligh, e Wickham, b Knight 14 not out
Mr. A. T. Lucas, c Evans, b Knight ...
- a. Lyttelton, c Ktwp, b Evans ...
E. Lyttelton (captain), b Evans...
1 1, Kvans .
Mr i\ H. Morion, b Heath
Mr. A. F. J. Fold, b Heath
B 6,1 b 6.
.. . b Knight .
0 b Evans .
.. 44 b Evans .
c Kemp, b Knight ..
10 b Evan3
0 c Savory, b Evans .
12 B 1,1b 2, wl .
OXFORD.
Mr. A. J. Webbe (captain), c E. Lyt¬
telton, b A. O. Steel .11
Mr. It. R. Webbe, c Morton, b A. G.
Steel.2«
Mr. A. H. Heath, b A. G. Steel.
Mr. A. D. <
Mr. E. T. Hirst, c Lucas, b A. G. Steel.
Mr. A. H. Evans, st A. Lyttelton, b A.
G. Steel .
Mr. C. W. M. Kcrnp, b A. G. Steel ...
Mr. R. L. Kniglit, b Lucas .
Mr. A. F. Widtha>.i, b A. G. Steel ...
Mr. J. H Savoiy, b A. G. Steel.
Mr. G. S. Marriott, c E. Lyttelton, b
.. 35
c anil b A. G. Steel.
b A. G. Steel.
e Whitfeld, b A. G. Steel ..
c A. Lyttelton, b Steel
b Morton .
0 lbv.b Morton
2 notout.
3 b Morton .
1 c Bligh, b A. G. Steel
19 c Kingston, b Morton
Total . 12? Total.32
Umpires: West anil Wheeler.
Turuiug next to the Australians, we note that a match agaiust
eighteen of Hunslet and District has been drawn, greatly iti
their favour. For Hunslet, Hall (79) batted splendidly, and
on the other side C. Banmrman (52) and Messrs. D. W.
Gregory (31), T. W. Garrett (27 and 45), W. L. Murdock (49),
aud F. E. Allan (not out, 38), did most of the scoring.
Yorkshire has, however, turned the tables on the almost
invincible colonials, and won the return match by nine wickets,
the scoring on both sides being small. A very large assem¬
blage witnessed the match between North and South at
Nottingham last week, which was played for the benefit of the
famous Notts veteran George Parr. South wou by ten wickets;
Midwinter (45), who is batting in fine form this season, making
the top score for his side, but doing nothing with the ball
beyond disposing of Mr. Hornby on each occasion. The fol¬
lowing score, which is one of the largest ever compiled by an
eleven, deserves insertion :—
EDINBURGH.
Mr. L. M. Balfour (Grange), c Russell,b Atkinson. 70
Mr. J. Craig (Dalkeith), c Anderson, b Fellowes . 0
Mr. J. Speed (Grange), c Miller, b Walker .75
Mr. J.M. Cotterill (Grunge), c Cross, b Fellowes .271
Mr. T. W. Lang (Grunge), c Evans, b Russell . 47
Mr. T. R. Fleming (Grunge), c Wilson, b Atkinson. 11
Mr. W. E. M'Lugan (Academicals), b Atkinson . 19
Mr. W. Roland (Dalkeith), c Wilson, b Atkinson . 72
Mr. A. L.Wood (Royal High School), st Cross, b Fellowes ... 44
Jtr. W. F. Webster (Brunswick), c Evans, b Fellowes ... 27
Mr. R. Macnair (Academicals), not out .35
Byes, 11,1-b, 9, w, 1 .21
Total .092
It was made in a match against Glasgow, and it will be noted
that only one man failed to get into double figures, aud only
oue was bowled. Mr. J. M. Cotterill is the famous Sussex
player, the loss of whose services has beeu sadly felt by his
county. Indeed, the victory which Sussex has obtained over
Kent this week is tlie first that the once formidable team has
been able to gain during the present season. We are very
pleased to note that the subject of paid amateurs is at last
being waimly taken up by most of the sporting papers. This
is an abuse which is not to be met with in any other branch of
sport, aud we hope that this is the last season that the pro¬
fessionals will be required to contest against pseudo “ gentle¬
men,” who cannot claim superiority to them in any respect.
lb ere was an immense attendance at the grounds of the
Gun Club, Shepherd’s-bush, on Friday week, to witness the
pigeon shooting-match between Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell
und Captain Bogardus, “ the champion wing shot of America.”
The conditions were, to shoot at one hundred pigeons each,
thirty yards’rise, for £300 a side. Never has there been a
closer and more exciting match, as the two kept together
until just at the finish, when the American, who had a little
better luck than his opponent, got in front, and wou by two
birds, killing seventy against Mr. Pennell's sixty-eight.
Sunshine and International flavour to the rowing made the
opening day of Henley Regatta exceptionally attractive. The
American tours acquitted themselves well on Thursday, making
amends lor the defeat of the U.S. Triton, G. W. Lee, by
Edwardes-Moes in the first heat of tlie Diamond Sculls. In
the first beat lor the Stewards’ Challenge Cup the American
Sho-wae-cac-Mettes four beat their countrymen of the
Columbia College Boat Club by three lengths, the same
distance separating the Dublin University four from
the Columbia crew. The London four (F. L. Playford,
stroke) proved victorious over the Kingston crew by
three lengths, Jesus College, Cambridge, being third,
in the second heat for the same prize. J esus College, Cam¬
bridge, beat the London eight in the first heat for the Grand
Challenge Cup; the second heat falling to the Thames
Eight, who vanquished Kingston by two lengths. L. G-
Cholmeley, Kingston, won the second heat for the Diamond
Sculls by a length from T. W. Barker, First Trinity,
Chillingworth, Ino R.C., being third. The first heat
for the Visitors’ Cup fell to Hertford College, Oxford, the Lady
Margaret and First Trinity fours of Cambridge being respec¬
tively second aud third. The Oxonians were victorious over
the Thames pair in the first heat for the Silver Goblets; aud
the first heat lor the Ladies’ Challenge Plate fell to the
Etonians, who worsted Cheltenham by lour lengths.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
The northern vestibule of the Fine-Arts Gallery, situated iu
the Champ de Murs buildings at the meeting-point of the
French and the Foreign Sections of the International Exhi¬
bition, is the subject of our present Illustration. Its facade
is composed of three vast arches, upheld by great square
pillars, and formiug a triple portico, which has a grand
aspect; while the architectural lines are agreeably softened by
the mild yellowish-white tint of the structure iu general.
There is a spacious forecourt, beyond which is the entrance
to the Fine-Arts Gallery, betokened over the doorway by the
model of a Greek temple, with a hemicycle of a colonnade
extended in rear of it, and to right aud left; all of grey
material, but suffused with a delicate rosy tinge. The side
entrances, leading respectively to the French and to the
foreign Sections, are decorated with coloured landscape
designs, upon a surface of porcelain or earthenware tiles,
below which axe represented, by colossal female figures, the
Arts of Sculpture, Architecture, Painting, Engraving, Pottery,
and Metallurgy, each with her proper tools.
The Paris Exhibition may be reached by tramway, railway,
and the Seine. At the stations of all five trunk lines of rail¬
way, tickets are granted for the Exhibition, the passengers
being iorwardedto theirdestination by thccircular railway with¬
out any additional expense. There are five lines of tramways
which lead to the Exhibitionfirst, the tramway starting
lrom the Rue du Helder, via the Boulevard Haussmann to the
Trocadero ; second, the tramway leading from Mont Parnasse
railway station to the Barriere de l'Etoile; third, the tramway
running lrom the Bastille to the Mont d’Alma; fourth, the
tramway from the Louvre to St. Cloud; and, fifth, the tram¬
way lrom La Villette to the Trocadero. The omnibus routes
are as follows:—The Porte St. Martin to Grenelle, the Bastille
to Grenelle, and the Eastern Railway Omnibus to the Troca
dero. On the Seine, the Bateaux Mouelie und Hiroudell
i which belong to one company.
PARIS EXHIBITION : ENTRANCE TO THE FINE-ART GALLERY, CHAMP DE MARS.
THE QUEEN PLACING FLOWERS ON THE COFFIN OF THE LATE KING OF HANOVER AT ST. GEORGE’S CHAPEL, WINDSOR CASTLE.
placed wreaths of flowers on the pall. It was brought out,
for the funeral ceremony, on the Monday morning, to
the western end of the nave, and was thence carried in
solemn procession up the choir to the entrance of the Royal
vault, immediately in front of the altar; here it was lowered
into the vault at the conclusion of the burial service. The
Queen and Princesses finally took a last look at the coffin in
the vault, where it lies beside those of King George III. and
Queen Charlotte, George IV., William IV., and Queen
Adelaide.
FUNERAL OF THE KING OF HANOVER.
The funeral of the late King George of Hanover and Duke of
Cumberland, first cousin to her Majesty Queen Victoria, and
a Knight of the Garter, took place on Monday week in St.
George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle ; the coffin having been con¬
veyed thither from Paris, where he died. The Queen, with
Princess Beatrice and the Marchioness of Ely, attended the
religious service in the choir of the chapel, occupying the
Royal pew at the north-east comer, while the Princess of Wales,
the Duchess of Teck,
Princess Louise, Princess
Christian of Schleswig-
Holstein, and Princesses
Frederica and Marie of [-
Hanover, daughters of
PENNHOME, SHERWOOD, NOTTINGHAM.
The buildings named “ Pennhome,” lately erected at Sher¬
wood, adjoining the town of Nottingham, comprise six sepa¬
rate dwellings. They are intended as residences for ladies of
reduced circumstances who are nevertheless not wholly indi-
g ent. They have been erected at the sole cost of Maria
hristian, the wife of Mr. Sidney Cartwright, J.P., of The
Leasowes, Staffordshire. This lady is a native of Nottingham ;
and the first stone was laid by her on June 28, 1877. The
property has been handed
over to Nottingham
trustees, who are nomi¬
nated by Mrs. Cart-
-< wright, and who arc to
be subject to the Charity
Commissioners. The six
the late King of Hanover,
were in'the stalls of the
choir. The chief mourner
was the Duke of Cumber¬
land, K.G., son of the
deceased King, accom¬
panied by the Prince of
Wales and by Prince
Leopold, with the Duke
of Teck, Prince Christian
of Schleswig - Holstein,
Prince Edward of Saxe-
Weimar, the Prince of
Heiningen, Prince Albert
of Solms - Braunfels,
Count Gleichen, and the
Marquis of Lome. The
French Prince Imperial
was also present, and
several of the foreign
Ambassadors and English
nobility, with the Marquis
of Hertford, Lord Cham¬
berlain, the Vice-Cham¬
berlain, Lord Barrington,
aod the officials of the
Royal household, the late
King of Hanover’s staff,
Harter King - at - Arms
and other members of
the Heralds’ College,
■the Dean of Windsor
read the funeral service,
the coffin had lain, since
Commissioners,
homes will be !
with light and firing,
and the rates will bo
paid, the requisite endow¬
ment for these purposes
having been made by the
donor. The buildings
have been erected from
plans by Mr. James W.
Woodsend, architect, of
Nottingham. Their ex¬
ternal appearance is at
once simple and cha¬
racteristic. The project¬
ing wings and porches,
together with the over¬
hanging eaves, give an
agreeable effect of light
and shade, relieved by
bands of moulded bricks
and string-courses of blue
brick. The door and
window heads are of Cox-
beach stone, as well us
the two tablets in the
centre of the front; the
one bearing the name of
the founder and the other
the name of the buildings
and date of erection. The
ground floor of each house
is composed of porch wilh
oak seat, sitting-room,
10 ft. G in. by 11 ft. ;
kitchen, 9ft. by 8ft. Gin.;
larder, scullery, and cr al-
place. These apartmenls
are fitted up in a con¬
venient manner, with
cupboards and shelves.
The larders are ventilated
PENNHOME, SHERWOOD, NOTTINGHAM, FOR LADIES OF REDUCED FORTUNE.
14
the ii^steate^londo^JEWS
JULY 6, 1878
by a special ^ ^
approached by.a "eU-^htedSloss of space. Gas and
bedrooms are m the “S 1 . ’ tbe u8ua l conveniences are
water are laid on to each house, “^thcs-line 0 f galvanised
•wire. ""— „
and substantial manner
Nottingham.
Hall and you shall see not ^y^^g^H^H-^he Princess
£Pompadour’s and Mane> ^ette K
of Wales's, and Princess Ahce or ^ _ demure and usefu l
Sr B “eSl.4 for.? cou^of g”
ECHOES OF THE WEEK.
•• My dc«r Sir.-Genisk’sSlivtdsMy-
we should be surprised at the death or a ^ Qur late ce le-
two years, but because the f Tfthe thoughts of Death from
tatik friebd « dro™, “boswell, E»J , to Jr.
any association with lnm. century ago (Feb. 2, 1779).
SaJmel Johnson, close * ^^yerSs, and Bosweds
humourist m thebroader imc p ti^ fftr grea ter advantage in
not a buffoon, aithougiihe g lega fft, the most polished,
farce thanm coinedj , t agreea ble of peni-
the most sparklmg, the most alert, tn epigram; and an
fitters. On the stage he impound of a Uttle wit, a
epigram is, 1 take it, “J d ° f ingenious smartness,
little humour, and a great deal oi nigem
Every notable artist has two sides andComic Muse;
Garrickwoocd ^W grj-rl-
but Johnson, who, wh^ smeere J ^ bent on
ingly disparaging Little Ba y, above t he tragedian,
exalting the comedian d to me to possess the
Charles Mathews alw ^’ s . ^ P ^ the genius of him whose
comic and mimetic portion of B „ M thau 0 ne
death “eclipsed the “‘^tinf Garrick will
obiervation made by we i£ “Garrick was so
be found to suit Mathews wislied to unbosom
diffused: there ^ S b U ad “ numerable friends but no particular
himself. . • ; more materials to make friendship in
• , Ho * - a8 ood
gold. bitbeat °u* to very thin
leaf There again is Charles Mathews to a 1.
^F-^ffiaSS-SSSS
SddtoKi S that costume could only have been surpassed
by the Chevalier d’Eon.
f i,Tbr^ e ^^
exquisitely decorated ^^w^an^artist happily extant
by the Hon. Hugh • &nd j cwe lled handles of
among us; f “l! 0 isesheU g and mother-of-pearl, and wit
ivory, ebony, tortoisesneu, en-skin, swan-skin, and.
“mounts” of silk, sat , water-colour paintings of
marabout feathem, decorated^th^t^,, m<1 Brussels lace
rare merit, or 4 W1 ^f^Rnmakers’ Company in organising this
But the object of rtist j c 0U c. They wish to forward
exhibition is not mere J, tion . t0 give stability, as a British
the cause of technical ed ’ baa mainly been carried on
industry, to a craft £***“““w * ' artiste to devote
by foreigners, md to encour^e £ {ftn ^ ounta Which would
tbemselvesto iJieembeU^ment^ t - govemessing, at
you sooner do, f M ^ounds a year, or sit at home, in your
lrom twenty or ^ p aad earu Horn three to five pounds a
^ by patotmg
mounts? .
SlrWflfndU^r^™ ' ol a
expected; for ^.me yean, to come. For
trundled out of the ll Berkeley fruitlessly bring on his
how many Sessions did M^S days the Permissive BiU,
Ballot motion? be “ quoited down
httV ffig got “VdwmS Xv^d,” but will stay there
stairs ® t f e i“rds, to become eventually the law of
K« 8 W Ton? vie,,t « eelui qui sail attendre. Meanwhile,
the land, -tout 1.. i;v P Patience on a monument,
ss&rJf'dJiKtt- ^s,£i£rjs
”’To\he atov/quiiMcjitioE^^p^su^ tbe*
IITJ T « ” naner on “English Admirals” contains some
R. C. s. S P“P , d 80me rather sophistical ones
just observations on the men, ^ expre8sed with
on the stray Thoughts on Scenery " has
much charm J fhnunh few will sympathise with the
many.jnet ^TuSh park/ The leading idea
writer s deprematio e b vrau iiy of Fashion” is that
of a clever essay rescue d from the sway of caprice,.
same basis of recognised fitness and propriety
a nd put upon tne s Q sed to effect this object by a
as ,he ancient Greek so,time, aid
reaction m the dir undoubtedly just remark that a
° bj ^ °dres“wL worn b^ai BritUh ladii Jurtog the four sea-
similar ^“77“ occupation, and cannot therefore be unsuited
tunes of Roman occupauo and Poat . 0 ffices ” gives an
to our climate. merely of the postal system, but of
the empire -
part of ye™°“ the Academy itself sometimes almost
Arca 5 U - f “ tffJiew - but the reader is hardly likely to
recedes from the , , delighted as he is sure to be with
inquire too cunoue y » Bterary and social tendencies of
t, y b ssUht«nth m-jrhXrsfs.tas
zs&ss.
aunt of the authoress character in its most favourable
N °TLe’most remarkable contributions to the
Vrriew arc a sedulously impartial essay by Mr. John Aloriey,
k
the Permissive Bill at last.
THE MAGAZINES.
=SsS.#“rSfi-«
“Legend of Jubal” it certainly is not, but it seems, oil tne
n+VioT v.anH atiuaIIv evident that the authoress has aimed at
no higher standard.^ expression than she must be admitted to
have atSned and that the metrical form lias merely been
adopted for tie purpose of bestowing additional precision and
emphasis on thoughts grave and weighty, indeed, but not more
essentially poetical than we are accustomed to encounter in
her urose works. Tried by this standard, the piece maj be
allowed to count as a literary success, which
««sw s* ot on,«.
„ . , ,’u s_>n oowiwihnipa ft wonderful colon
(a little too lifelike, perhaps) of the Earl of B ea cons field, ^ and
Mr James McNeill Whistler enhances the graphic attractivc-
^s of the numberby a weird etching purporting to represent
“St James’s-street in the Season.” I was notluther tuaware
that tlie maiorityof the houses in the fashionable thoroughfare
S2 iiamTdK hundred feet high ; that the west side o the
street is destitute of any foot pavement; that the avenge^Bo w-
ance of legs to a hansom-cab horse is one and a halt,
and that hansom cabmen have, as a rule, two heads or
none at all; but the etching is, nevertheless, fuU of sl ^crb
qualities, it is not very like bt James s-street H “ S
serve for Pennsylvania- avenue, Washington, or tor the LaUe
de ilcalk at Madrid-for the Corso Vittorio Emmanuele at
Milan, or the Balschoi Morskaia at bt. 1 etersburg.
is wonderfully full of light and air, and especially of move¬
ment Mr. J. M. Whistler gives us “ all he can as an etcher,
and we must be content to “ dream the rest.
The colossal statue in bronze of Captain Cook, by Mr
Thomas Woolner, R.A., has found a temporary pedestal m the
open space between the United Service and Athemenra Gli bs
ii Waterloo - place. It is a very noble effigy °f the woild-
renowned circumnavigator, clad m Ins habit as he lived, the
uniform of a Commander in the Royal Navy. The ultimate
home of this grand work of art will be Sydney, New South
Wales, by the public spirit of whose citizens the monument
•was commissioned some years ago. But should there not be a
•peimanent memorial to James Cook in the metropolis of
Britain, and close to the club-houses of that United Service of
which he was so renowned a member ? Does not the circum¬
navigator likewise deserve a statue in his native town,
Whitby, in Yorkshire ?
It would not be, I apprehend, a matter of great difficulty
or of overwhelming expense to obtain a replica or rcplvchc ui
bronze of Mr. Woolner’s statue of the Discoverer-the English
Columbus. The sculptor need not be at the pains to prepare
another model, since the original moulds could be used alter
repairing the slight injuries which they may have suffered m
the operation of the first casting. At any rate, the subject is
worth mooting. The Senior and the Junior United Service
Clubs, the Army and Navy, the Junior Army and Navy, and
the Naval and Military Clubs must have between them some
six thousand members. Throw iu the Athenaeum, the Travel¬
lers, the Reform, the Carlton, and the Junior Carlton, and a
very moderate “whip round” would suffice to secure a
duplicate of the Woolner Captain Cook for Waterloo-place.
And. would not the great missionary societies, and the British
and Foreign Bible Society, and the Society for the Propa¬
gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts be willing to contribute ?
An exceptionally graceful, delicate, and tasteful display
was opened by the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress at
Drupers’ Hall, Throgmorton-street, on Tuesday last, in the
shape of a competitive exhibition ’ of ancient and modern,
native and foreign, fans, promoted by the Worshipful Company
of Faumakers, a guild incorporated in the reign of Queen Anne.
Haste, then, yc Spirits! To your charge repair;
The fluttering fan to Zephyretta’s care.
Eo sings Pope, in the “ Rape of the Lock.” Hasten to Draper’!
that of one of the symposia wim •* j
been made familiar, save that the sentiments expressed
being placed in the mouths of a party of Undergraduates
are more interesting in themselves than on account of
the interlocutors. Hamlet, a wealthy young man, with
the expansiveness, sensibility, and irresolution of his
prototype, meets his acquaintacces at his ultimate Horatio o
breakfast-table, and listens to their contradictory views on the
problems of life. Laertes is inspired with a somewhat pug¬
nacious and aggressive “ enthusiasm of humanity,” a Quixotic
delusion in the eyes of the sturdy pessimist llosenkrauz, and
^heer folly in those of the aesthetic sensualist Osrie, for whom
George Eliot displays a contempt at variance with her usual
serene impartiality. Her own views seem shadowed forth in
the circumspect but still assured faith of Guildenstern in a
Right and an Ideal independent of all external conditions—a
faith which on one occasion finds expression in a passage of
lofty eloquence. A Catholic clergyman with his single “ open
sesame” serves as a foil to the discursive speculation of the
young men. At length Hamlet has a vision whose purport is
not imparted, but which is implied to have been affirmative
and encouraging ; and, generally speaking, we seem left with
the acceptable conclusion that George Eliot’s prodigious
powers are not likely to be enlisted on the side of pessimism
or negation of any sort. In point of composition the piece is
hardly satisfactory: the style is at once negligent and
laboured, and the versification devoid of the natural sweetness
and ingenious artifice which equally characterised “The
Legend of JXibal.” The thoughts, however, have all the
massiveness and profundity of George Eliot at, her best,
relieved by some very felicitous strokes of epigram. The
only other contribution of much importance also relates
to poetry—Professor Shairp’s reply to Mr. Arnold’s demand
upon the age that it should leave off production and
take to criticism. Professor Shairp shows incontestably
by an appeal to history that creation and criticism have in
general been contemporaneous and compatible in English
literature; that it has gone on bearing poems and criticisms
together, as the orange-tree its fruits and blossoms. He also
dexterously enlists Mr. Arnold agaiust himself, by a quotation
from his Essay on Goethe. Sir. J. C. Morison takes up M.
Taine’s indictment against the French Revolution, and en¬
deavours to show that its excesses cannot be accounted for by
the opposition it encountered, but that it was animated from
the first by a spirit of pillage and ruthless vindictiveness. It
seems to us that any similar movement in any country must
have quickly degenerated iuto license when the force at the
command Ot the authorities WO® nhsmrilv small. There, nre
difficteltoquestion^of The Lancasliire strike disables him from
reachiugany more positive conclusion than that aU PJ rcie ^°°-
cemed would do well to become wiser and better. Air. Amoia
has somehow persuaded himself that it wouid be qmte ta r
tax Protestants for the support of an exclusiiety Catholic
University, although noCatholic is taxed for the &upportoan
exrlusivelY-Protestant one; or that, at any rate, the revenues
of C the' disendowed Church of Ireland might properly be
handed over to another sect. It is difficult to BU PP a "
Sous; his object most probably is to show the uitro- beral
members who tor party reasons have abetted the Hah Cat mil
episcopacy in this modest demand that they cannot consistently
urge the disestablishment of the English Church ; and here at
K his logic is impregnable. Mr Goldwm ^ith Plead’ the
cause of indignation meetings, but omits to remark t
term only applies to spontaneous manifestations ot^
feeling, and not to gatherings organised by party man.
Mr. Grant Duff concludes his interesting study of L‘»m o
Castolar ; and Mr. Saintsbury contributes a critique on U uve
Feuillet, iu whom he scarcely seems sufficiently interested t
produce a good article.
The Nineteenth Century is below the average, but> contain*
one very thoughtful paper oil “ The Place of Conscience in
Evolution,” by the Rev. T. W. Fowle. The developmeut of
the feeling of right from the animal emotions of anger,:let ,
pleasure, and the instinct of self-preservation, ®PP®“* JJ
Mr. Fowle easy to trace. “ Tlie difficulty lies not m m•
moral but in his mental growth.’ Mr. Howell s hist rioa
sketch of the International brmgs into evidence the diJtoreace
of sentiment which has always prevailed between lts Ea l
and its foreign members. The former aim mer
motion of class interests, the hitter at a complete remodelling
of society. From any point of view the importance of the
association would seem to have been enormously exag.^acm.
Dr. Adler vindicates Jewish patriotism against Mr. Gokiw n
Smith ; Sir D. Wcdderburn enforces the right of our uma
feudatories to considerate and liberal treatment; and -
Thoms advances some reasons for thinking that the t -
ascribed to Peter the Great may not be an absolute inventioi.
riUC'U tO XCtCA HiC UU-US -
Blackwood presents us with two phenomena-a prettyGit tie
comedy entitled “ Apples,” and a story by a German write
so thoroughly English in style that its foreign origin would
ncverTav! been sSspccted. Gordon Baldwin ” by KnMpb
Lindau, i» really a very promising story: the .
admirably kept up, and the selfish character of Forbes is
depicted with great power and truth to nature. lheiw
Muses ” is a remarkably fine piece of earnest satire, revea a
true poetical power. There are two other eminently reacLaDl ^
contributions—the sketch of “ Our Kentish Village, and the
humorous exposition of Dr. Mackay’s views on the derivation
of thieves’ Latin from Gaelic.
The two American magazines are, as usual, full of jaHety
In the Atlantic Monthly attention will be chiefly attracted t
Mr. H. James’s new story, “ The European; ” in ScrtOtier u) >
beautifully illustrated article on “ The Structure of u ^ rorcl-
Temple Bar, with other good matter, offers a careful and pene
trating criticism of the works of Messrs. Burne Jones <
Albert Moore, by Mr. Frederick Wedmore. The Uaiversi
Magazine has a portrait and memoir of another ermnen
painter, Mr. Poynter; with a good account of iheopm
Gautier, and the stirring chapters of Mrs. Collins s in an
World.” Good Words, London Society, The Month, and ltnstey
Magazine fairly maintain their usual level. The Contempoiar
ltcvicw, the Gentleman's Magazine, and Belgravia have reaelie
us too late for notices this week.
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Children;” and Professor Blackiebecomes quitedithyrambic
tlie beauties of Italy in May.
Readers of the Cornhill will turn before all tilings to Mr.
James’s contribution, to see what he has made of his charming
heroine, “ Daisy Miller,” and will find with regret that he has
been able to find no better use for her than to put her to death.
The disappointment thus created is the best proof of the spirit
and elegance of the portrait. Notwithstanding the unsatis¬
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ktjlkaijerster .. 'V,, " c i," l!'
MstlraPortaKIjiGuerraAppena). Sung by Mdme.balla +s.
'' R,J « Seng (Candido Fiore). Snug by Signor Campanini 4s.
Derr and Stewabt, 147, Oxford
1. Table Sives, ; S|wons, 24s. to 663.
.
g* gSiS’ssSs.wSr®- ^tof%_
?: Electro L'ar'Vnmde'and ltock Oil. Colza Oil. &C.
8 . Lamps— P'd'VJh y nj i £ ,, uronze, :«s. to £6.
9. Fendenv-Bnght, 4'>s-1 0 a*, Travelling, Ac.
I?' i^trads-ilrass^iiHl Irou.-^ ^KmhiGs.
TbEDSTEADS,
y -DEDDING,
-oED-ROOM FURNITURE,
^ SENT FREE BY POST.
a ttf)N 195, 197 > 198 ’
CHIOTS^ThUN^TStoM^ French
PATTERNS FREE.
,AKKU und
IE
[Sis Igg I
dresses. < la ni";- v V.!
OTfiSrtSstfassafisr r- &
GRENADINES. -(V.loiire.I Greiia W'i-{*' j
^ i. ‘
ivfppyT HOUSE, 238, 240, and 242,
.R E{ ?iEGENT-STRECT.-J;B ft^ewholeof ouri7™«5
JULY we sliall be i'reparoi toVireuuOKU PRICES.
tom. we shall on tl e .acasum or , ,, of , )U r pit
rake strenuous exertions to clear on
lock as possibly M0> (iud 2Bi Regent- street. W.
H enry glave’s
yards ut 4s. 8,1., late 5s.9d., dhiO J“*'
uici,&ouS Gros Grain Silks, ut 2s. 1
gILK mid MATERIAL COSTUMES.
pHILDREN’S COSTUMES and JACKETS.
jyj-ANTLES, MILLINERY, and LINGERIE.
JJOSIERY, GLOVES, and PARASOLS.
D EBENHAM and FREEBODY,
W1GMORE-STREET, WELBECK-STREET. W
mss± l »..£ 1 -S-S
'Amongst tlresc attention is directed to some “ Simciol Parcels."
0 4 «) f EiSiroIdered Cortumcs, of Egyptian Cotton Cloth, at
AudaL't U ,>f^Mkiahing'costumes and White Lawn Dresses.
rC ; , ,';, r ho'ralklie 1 'mrtn,e,,tAsome '
&f“wen!k^own make aik'W. Ss.’tkl.,
w !S!&“?Sy , SSSiior 8011 and For ‘
“’^“"curtaTnff'u^, Damasks, Ac., have been much
materials are marked very cheap, and must bo
"iSlstt to each Department of Uie House is rcsp-clfnlly
^Carriage standing, ample and convenient, ate.ch of the M-
1 ° 1 W , il V.r. U, ft!!‘!;t S i.-, Vcre-strcet(Mourning Department),Oxf ml-
strfit (Central)’. Meririetta-street, 19, Marylebone-laue Co
(Carpets *““> 1 ^'^lL «n,l SNELGBOYE. _
17a. M; *
Richer *iu«lltl«8. J. 10J-. ‘
eu SaSiis. at 11W.
SK "4d n ;’roV,;t,‘r;.r.'is. «n.
Blue bilk Kepps e, • j. „ d . U8Utt i price.
Cl* btol* Mri7«S oieLunw. various
A^.r/Sll^riuTkind. of Remnants an
1 (hh) i»,iir Hau«ln*nno lJra^ in^-^' J
"scarfs', and Fancy Ar
Patterns. (iitalogncH. i
-rti 585 .( 816 . and 537. N«
iirgo variety o
idea.
ml nil Inf.;nn
QOSTUMES. hl Costum09> is, 6d.tr,
Av The New Silk Cariimeie, and other Costames.
BAKKR°aud > CB li)l"S.PJS. Uegent-strcct, _
/-\TTFEN ANNE LINENS, OATCAKE.
v^y y pi>tten^f^e.--BURGESS. Dress Factor.ta.Oxford-^^'reet.
nATTRCORINE ' for WASHING DRESSES.
(•fleet* *>i » vuruij '
UURGEbS, 05, Oxford-*!
TTOTY BAZIL.— PIESSE and LUBLN.
TT« . most rare perfume, distilled rromtho HOLY
•AX This Is » most r L . 0cymum sanctum), bo rcni.iri,-
BAZIL FW>Wtn of UINDL ( lt„ttle». 2s. «d.. 5s„ ..od
able for its 'H'V ' i I.V^r. torv Of Flowers, 2, New Bonrl-strret.
Wh fand by the'r AgenuTlI all parts of the civilised world.
’OR ARMS and CREST, send Name and
<'"mi«T to T. MURING, Inns of Court
HighHolhern. W.O. Plain Sketch. 3*. «d.: CeiourerLTb. 6d.
ll b Die**, aLcl Diplomat. XUuttrated Price-Diet pott-free.
MESSRS. JAY
ojailis to inspect
‘^.‘'EGASrcOSTUMES
Parisian Mantles. Artistic 31 ! l *J-y^x.V-*D m e^1 m ..list* in F»
‘:7d rrq!re-a-6 Uie^r^ fashions ‘"e
The following extr«t fnim at^merlran » »!f“ inS
(U ;^^
more moderate prireii^th^ ^ 1 th( . attr-ntloil
I ,, E r0K»08r.* S £fe?.' S ' :WA, ‘“
4 s. 6d.. 10s. <hR. and 21*. each._
OLDEN H A I R.—R 0 B A R E’S
G AUREOLINE P^rf^-tVM^^ri*^ 0 ^
6, Great 37’Boulevard do Stranbourp, Parlf:
U> "*' ChHrt ° ta ' BrU ** r ‘‘
D OFS YOUR HAIR TURN GREY?
SUT 6 ^rtVltltlNG'S PATENT MAGNETIC BRUSHES
MroSgh-rt. WGM and 90, Clty-n!«l; mid of aU Perfumer..
TTTttstbatED LONDON NEW8_
/CHARLES
\J THEENOA
D’ALBERT’S NOVELTIES.
NEW MUSIC.
rnHE ROYAL EDITION OF OPERAS, piNAFORE;
1 M wi?h ItolUn end English Word*, inning coopl«t« Y o> _
Handbook* tor the Th*»tre. .<1.
***** : • "Sfe *Tj.
H ::!!ESiWrr ::(j A ,™‘i8S'S3iHv«. ttl> , owt .
.. ..2« Martha.. .3 g . . _ ^rforrard with enormous success *t the Of*re
:: :;!is=SU = =|! ■^£g 5 fefeB 3 a asasr^.,_
i Si I «£■"*? Hi S THE gOBCEREB.
»«*•’! i; ttSSfirtfT&SSSSHwfcTSSSJWSBtt
ih) .. 2 • TroYator* •• •• •• • -___
,/jnt edge*. u. •***• Q ARMEN.
«»ch volume, paper; l... cloth, glltedgea. KeW C ° m ^ff 0KUE8 UlIiT. 1Sj _ |
tOYAL SONG-BOOKS, gog**^ 1 andfoennan word* .. . ■ ^ ^ •• '**' |
:1N'840SONGS. u*vanera (Love tha Vagrant). Bong by Mada 4g
DISTANT SHOBB WALTZ. On Sullivan'S Song .. i
SWEETHEARTS LANCERS^ Flayed at her Ma-
lesty's State Hall an May ...
CLEOPATRA llALOl' .. •• •• - » .
THE LOVE-LETTER POLKA.
K&: K Si!!* ’’ :: ’
OLD FAVOUBITE8.
TRIAL BY JURY LANCERS ...
?saH}§K%*S? UJ! .. " " -
Don Pnaqual* .. ••
Eli*ir d'Amore •• ••
Faust .. .« •• ••
Favorite .
Ftdello.. ... ••
Flglia del Regglmento ..
Flauto Maglco
3 « Lucrezia Borgia
a 6 Martha.,
a 6 MaaanicUo ..
3 ?
FrcUrhuti (Italian. Ger¬
man. and English) ..
Gulllanme Tell .. ••
CHAPPELL’S MUSICAL MAGAZINE.
v So in, POPULAR MARCHES lor the PIANOFORTE.
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mS* IS the •Poecaaiaiul Oratorio" ..
Kfe :: ::
KS-aa**r :: :: gs£
T)IRDS OF PASSAGE. New Song. By
-L> HENRY BM^^Bnng by M^ FrWl*Ddcr »t^Uio
SIGNOR PINBUTI'B NEW 80NG8.
JJTJ8CJHINKA ; or, The Star of the North.
U K u,,MaM E ^"«i«V 5 U *.««-■
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7 ITTLE BRUNO. 2 b. net.
1 1 Chappell and Co.,00, New Bond-ftmt*
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V> ALEXANDRE ORGANS for HOME USE.
I SPECIAL NOTICE.—On MONDAY and
^ iri'vsntY JULY 15 and 10, Mossrs. OET7.MANN and CO.
in nitTR for HALE an Immense Stack of LENO, MUSLIN.
TaCE Cimi-URE and SWISS CURTAINS. In new and elegant
I
I ^anDRniti^'-oET/.MANN and CO.. Comtdeta Him*
FurnUhere. 67to 79, HAMPSTEAD-BOAD. near 'Tottenham-
court-road._
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3 e Puritan!
, J ‘ MSDlabi.
asasWs«B»=
m h E ROYAL SON w-duujvo.
X RUBINSTEIN'8 SI SONGS.
RUBINSTEIN'S 13 VOCAL DUETS.
HffSlOVEVS 76 SONGS.
MKNDELSSOHN B 60 SONGS
the SONGS OF ENGLANDflOO Songs).
She BONOS or SCOTLAND (lso songs).
THE SONGS OF IRELAND (108 8ongs).
tmayssS^ga Efar*
IVTUSIC FOR THE SEASIDE. Popular
M Numbers of BOOSEY8' MUSICAL CABINET. Is. each.
S 2S»n >.«».
an. 11KAHMS' PIANO ALBUM.
*£• LAtWTHE^TwALT?ALBUM (Asets).
SJ; WALDTEUFEL'S WALTZ ALBUM (18 set*),
m! bantley^?new^xh > tr/gi^^ong-book.
163. A. «■ «ATTY'8 13 BALLADS
JpURNISH THROUGHOUT.
gUBSTANTLAL ARTISTIC FURNITURE.
QETZMANN & CO.,
AMPSTEAD-ROAD,
J^EAR TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD.
T7URNISH THROUGHOUT.—OETZMANN
a hone* t hroughout. ____
rpHE IMMENSE RANGE of PREMISES
I formerly the EAGLE BREWERY haring been REBUILT
saafia
T^ra to Co“U Corner. In delivery of Good, by thelt
own large PANTECHNICON VANB. and niln^tn gij tjgMjr
3. LONGFELLOW
H. BANTLEY'8 A>
Boosxr
ID BALFE'S NEW ROSG-BOOK.
■8 AND FOLt'S 22 STANDARD SONGS.
296, Regent-street; and all Mualcaelkrs an
/CHARLES HALLE’S PRACTICAL
PIANOFORTE SCHOOL.
Tre .. M ini H non— mroagnoq*. _
oSSSiiuSriiierjtoShan . ;; ;; {I; rpHE IMMENSE RANGE of PREMISES
8 s^fe«^i-rw-S
Just published, competent persons. Descriptive Catalogue, the beat Furnishing
T A MALAGUENA, VALSE ESPAGNOLA. GuXeitant, post-free.-OETZMANN and CO. __
T A VAGUE. NE V ^OLIVER METRA.
^ Performed at the SUtolJ.l.^BuclGngham Palace. ^ ^^^tTo^rpay^Coney 0 ^ ^ __
OEASIDE LODGINGS.-EXTRA BED to
MgTXLgn and Oo.. 87. Great Marlboroagh-strwt. London, W._ by 2 fL 6 in. wide, with a wool matins*.
REAT SALE of MUSIC at One Twelfth ^S^SMefsSt ^i^uy b^kod! ‘harm, a poitaMe> w *| ye .
G^e maT^ce -M^ DUFF and STEWAHT H7 ADo. *£*£*"£
iSESS»fe«
gEASIDE ]
Ijr Ofthe marked price.-Meaars. DUFF and 8TEW A RT. H7, Al». to suit
bU RPLUS^ToBKrf^CKLt L^sntf'INST RL*/l^( T A
^ELLER’S FOURTH SONATA. ^ ^
Foa*rTB^BaoiTiitas^2^^Rjje*^ri^n^^**®J^ | ^^^* > ‘^ on ’ p. J. 8MITH AND SONS’__
--- TRON-STRUTTED PIANOS.
rPH|E SWALLOWS’ FAREWELL. X “ The beat and most substantial instrumentyoroduesd.” «
X Illustrated. Walt*. Founded on a melody byC.Plnsutl. 6. CONDUIT-STREET. REGENT-STREET. W.
JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS' GOLD- I QAB.PET U E PAUT1IENT.^^ nt < l u ^ r 2j
J MEDAL PIANOS have been awarded Flmt^CjMa MedaDof .^/^t u{»n receiving Mae and deaortp-
-- "^lu"J«i La^e-.lse , HeartlIrug..«e.M. e«J.; super ditto.
lid.-. Axmlnster SC IM l£ : M Agminutcr ditto.l^.ud..
T.E SWALLOWS’ FAREWELL.
Illustrated. Waltr. Foondrf ot a melmly byC. Plnsutl.
TRON-STRUTTED HAMU
rriUAJ. “Tile best and most substantial Instrumentiprmlueed.” « J_ -1— -——-:-—“
•, Pinsuti. y conduit-street, hegent-strekt, w. /"IRETONNES. — OETZMANN and CO.
.1 - ■ CBKTONNKS _ Ad 1ibib®dio mortinwit of ill the cholcnt
«"*• PIANO, £35 (Civil Service cash price), de^in ^fas^ ^^mauriai.
X Trichord Drawing-Room Model, repetition actlon^giwnd, oml'e^of tlm (lno*t Gol*lln Tai*«try. Prices varying
Waltz. rich, full tone. In very handsome Italian walnut-wood with ^' gj, m , ojd., u.uaUv sold at la. «d.: Super ditto.
rr tnnr elaborately enrvid and fretwork front, and cabriole tons* leg*. jgf^usual price. 2a. per yard. Patterns sent Into the country
usual prioeffls. Stout 'nixirclidb. at Ud. per jut .• Fatent
P. J. 8MITH AND SON 8' I H^D^UuUhC^n^. “rd wide. *d. peryurd: Uri^ *“ih«
R 0 N-8 T RUT TED_PI A NOS. | M^ t ;. f ronT'is.—O KT ZMAN^and^'O. ^
PRETONNES. — OETZMANN and CO.
PHAPPELL and CO.’S ALEXANDRE
V/ ORGAN. Type H. oonUlninictluIcUnA flute.
prindpH], yox human*, fwnb«. •ob-boM.
ami automatic swell. Price SO prulneim.
i: Kobkbt Cocks and Oo., New Bnrllngton-etrcct.
QUEEN OF HEARTS.
onarta 1 onthsT^ree-YMrs'Syrtem 0 * ^ I
Illustrated. Composed for the Pianoforte by CLAUDE
PHAPPELL and CO.’S ALEXANDRE
Vj ORGAN. Type A, eonUlning dulclana.
Full?!ItTitraled^Uri. free by poet.
_ A London: Robkbt Cocks *nd Co.. Aew Durllngton-stroet.
', RE T7 AN FARE DES DRAGONS. Galop for
iSSS' J: the Pianoforte. By CLAUDE DAVENPORT. 3s.;po*t-
lU $ tree et p . MUhw> , bo,»t Coca, and Co.
“ ** TAAS ALPENHORN. Melody by PROCH.
The usual price charged for this Instrument 1s 60 guineas.
Drawings of this brautlful Plano »cnt post-free on application.
THOMAS OETZMANN and CO.,27. Baker-st., Portman-square.
■OROADWOOD and COLLARD COTTAGE
fromStd. Some at ls.0»d-. u.uallr^ld at l.9d.. SujmrdiM^
by itating k*n^ t requDcy—^ETZMANyand *^”* 0 0,8
PLEOPATRA TOILET SERVICE.
i V7 Messrs. OETZMANN and OO. have Just received a lMfS
D PIANOFORTES, fullest compass of Seven Oriavea. Two t*.ed'.Uwlg^’mamifsctured cxcfMively for OETZMANN and OJ.
beuutlful instruments, of rich and full t->ne. In the chol««t ^ A variety of other pattern* can be had on U. snu
Italian walnut-wood, ii^ly new. To be HOLD at unusually “w special desten. the Cleopatra Shape, in any odour,
low prices. Mav be seen at OETZMANN’S.77. Baker-street. Including tSe^laahionable deep blue, at prices from 8s. 6d. per
--set. Descriptive po#l-free.
rpWENTY-POUND SCHOOL-ROOM _oetzmann and oo.-
X PIANO (Cooperative, nrlre for cash).Seven 1VOSTAL ORDER DEPARTMENT.
BSSf^SS KSktf^i * PoETZMANN mtd rent per ^.whether Urge
Vy Messrs. OETZMANN and CO. have Just received
consignment of the Oriental pattern-a
toied design manufactured exclusively for OLlZMANN and cu.
This and a variety of other pattern* can be tiad on U. enu
C^'i new stmcial design, the Uleopetra Shape. In any colour
Including tie fashionable deep blue, at prices from 8*. bd. per
-*■ Dmalvu y oo._
FuU Illustrated List tree by post ._ _ u Transcribed for the Pianoforte by BRIN LEY RICHARDS.
riHAPPELL *d CO.'S SPECIALITIES
In ORGAN HARMONIUMS. Burllngton-etreet; and of all MuslcieUers. _
^iHAPPVT.T. nnri f!Q »fi NEW ORGAN WHEN SUMMER DIES. New Song.
lj HARMONIUMS.-FiveocUves,twomdaU, TT By Hiss LINDSAY. In 0 and D. Just published.
suitable for cottage or school. Price J ga. Post-free for»stamps.
_—-London: Robsbt Coces and Co.. New Burllngton-etreet.
C happeu. »d ca'sooTmo model, „ ee the eoses cease t0 bloom
per quarier on the ^Three-Years'System. XLi New Song. By ODOARDO BABRI. Many are of oplnloi
X PIANO (Co-operative
sound, and substantial. A
IUu ^ruoMAS > oirrzMANifsu
d for li.r.1 practice. Pecked fr
i« and jRist-fre*. _
d CO.. 27. Baker-Street, W.
ndsay. in o and d. jnrt pnuisbai. -pgojjy an d GOLD KANOS, 25 guineaa, IZTl ttSi •^ T ™S ll ^ lr ^ l %w^^^^ il, by U, :
r P Coex* and Co.. New Burllngton-etreet. _th 34 gnlneas. and 44 gulneas.-Tbeee charalng and elegant flm P *F™'furu!er p»f5c ulars pliwae see page367
ROSES CEASE TO BLOOmT
ODOARDO BARRI. Many are of oplidon So^S^Tb^new IUnsulted cTuloime gretls andjx^toS! /QETZMANN and CO., COMPLETE
1 has written. P^-frre for 18*tamp^ t THOMAS OETZMANN and CO.. 27. Baker-street. W. yj H0l;sE FURNISHERS. 67. 69. 71.73. 77 and 79. Hemp-
per quarter on the Three-Yean* System.
piTTAPPli’.T.T. and CO.'S NEW ORGAN
\J MODEL by ALBXANDBE. two rows of
keys, flvestops and sub-baM, Venetian swell,
two knee pedals. 28 guineas, or £2 16s. per
quarter on Thre e-Years' System. _
pHAPP P.T.T. nnri CO.'S EXHIBITION
\J CHURCH MODEL, fifteen stops. « rows of
vibrators, Venetian swell. 3d guineas, or
tS IDs. per quarter for Three Years.
-J New 8ong. By ODOARDO BABRI. Many are of opinion
Is tho beet Song be has written. Post-free for 18 stamps.
London: Robiet Cocas and Co., New Burlington-street.
E DENT and CO., 61, Strand; and 1
S St and 34 (within). Royal Exchange. London J^n.
Manufacturers of Watches. Chronometers, Ac., to her Majesty. Ten4jl j
Makers of the great Westminster clock (Big Ben) and of Uie
Standard clock (the primary standard timekeeper of tl
Kingdom) of tho Royal Observatory. Greenwich.
Catalogues on application.
PHAPPELL and 00.' 8 SPECIAL CHURCH 0 R £ T1 ^ n
KJ MODEL, 18 stops, five ^ws o( ribrators, ^
Three*Years' System.
FuU Illustrated UiU free bv port.
40, New Bend-street. W.
SPECIALITIES In PIANOFORTES.
rvROIDE GOLD WATCHES, 21s., 25s.,
80s.: free by registered post 6d. extra. Facsimile of costly
gold watches: exact time-keepers. Catalogue* |*iKr«.
, * C. C. ROWE, 88, Brompton-road. London, 8.W.
WEDDING and BIRTHDAY PRESENTS
T» at HENRY RODRIGUES' «, Piccadilly. London.
THOMAS OETZMA NN end CO..27, Baker-street, W.
K INAHAN’S ll whisky.
THE CREAM OF OLD IRISH W1II8KIE8.
Pure. mild, mellow, delldous. and most wholesome. Uni¬
versally recommended by the medical profession Dr Hasjall
says:—“The whisky Is soft,mellow,and pure, well-matured.and
of very excellent quality."—23, Great Titchfiold-streot. W.
P RANGE CHAMPAGNE is a light,
V/ pleasant drink, made simply from Oranges. It Is effer¬
vescent. but entirely free from spirit, and perfectly whole*,me.
Price 7s. per Dogen. Quarts; 4s.. Pints. Bottles 2s.and Cares Is.
per Doren until returned. Made only by CHA8. CODD and CO.,
79, Oopenhagen-etreet, London. N.
stead-road (three
and Gower-street
| consistent with
ilnutes' walk from Tottenham-court-road
tlon. JlctropoUUnlUllway). lowest prices
.ranteed quality. Cluse at Seven. and on
..lock. Descriptive Catalogue post-free.
Bets for the Boudoir and Writing Table. 21s. to £10.
Envelope Case* .. 10s. to £41 DresMng Cage* ..Ms.to£40
Inkstands .. Us. to £41 Jewel Csaea .. ..21s. to £4
PHAPPELL and CO.'S STUDENT’S •• ^ to“" ^to «
V PIANOFORTE. Cempsss. live Octaves. "clmdlesMcks, Candelabra. Flower Yases, Jardinieres, and a
14 gs. or 11 109, per quarter on the Three- i„ rg « ,„d choice Assortment ef English, Viennese, and Parisian
_ Years System. _ Useful and Elegant Novelties, from 4a. to £4.
C KAPP ELL p ,Si® -nODEIGCES- DRESSING-BAGS for
2 n. per quarter on th® Three-Year*' JLV Travelling, with «nver. illver-rllt. and plated fitting*,
of Purchase. from £:i 3a. to £LO : Soufflot Ba*i. Wai*t liag*. Ca.rrlnro Bags, and
-DODRIGCES- DRESSING-BAGS for
2 gs. per quarter on the Three-Years' System Av Travelling, with silver, silver-gilt, and plated fittings,
o!Purchase. from £33a. to £60: Boufflet Bugs, Waist Bags, CArrlng,-Bags, and
-—- Bags of all kinds, at very moderate prices.—«. Plccadillv.
pHAPPELLandCO.’S YACHT PIANINOS, --
\J 30 g, . or £3 per quarter on Three-Years* JJORTRAIT ALBUMS at RODRIGUES’,
_ ffyetom ol 1 urchase. _ JL with Patent Leather Guards. «s. ed. to £4. Easel Albums.
pHAPPELL and CO.’S BOUDOIR 8C Aibums Of every description made\o order.—42. Piccadilly.
\J PIANINO, 34 g*.. or £3 10*. per quarter on___
_ ** >e Three-Veara' System of Purchase. _ 0N0GRAM8. RODRIGUES’ Novelties
rtHAPPELL and CO.’S MODEL "X In Monogram* Crests, and Address*. Btoel Die. en-
_ the Three-Year* System of Purchese. Md Feshlonable Note Paper* kept in stock.-4S. Piccadilly.
CHAPPELL Moi ^ i0 ^CO.^S ENGLISH y I8ITINQ CARD8 a t H. RODRIGUES’.
Three-Years'System of Purchase. V A Card-Plate elegantly engraved and 100 superfine Card*
pHAPPELL and CO.’S COLONIAL
\J MODEL, 43 gs., or £4 10i. per quarter on the
Three-Years System of Pnrchaae.
L and CO.’S FOREIGN
MODEL. 40 gs., or £5 per quarter on the
Three-Years' System of Purchase.
A Card-l'late elegantly engraved and 100 superfine Cards
ted for 4s. 6d. Book-Plates designed and engraved In modern
medieval style*, at Rodrigue*'.42, Piccadilly. London. W.
J>ALL PROGRAMMES at RODRIGUES’
1 XT AH the New Patterns of the Season, arranged, printed, and
stamped in the latest fashion. Bills of Fare, Guest Cards, and
Invitations In every variety.—42. Piccadilly.
£4 X? Its pure flavour, delicate aroma, and Invigorating
£2 qualities have established Its position a* a first-clasa dietetic
£4 article.
1 ‘ - ,
TORY’S CARACAS COCOA.
_ X? “The Caracas Cocoa of such choice quality.”—Food.
Water, and Air (Dr. Hosaall). __ ,
Or “ A most delicious and valuable article. —Standard.
Mi JURY’S EXTRACT OF COCOA,
_ X? "than which, U properly prepared, there is no nicer or
more wholesome preparation of Cocoa."-Food, Water, and Air.
i ^M^TITternational medal
“* awarded to J. 8. FRY and BON. _
— rjt A YLOR BROTHERS’
e“ TV/TARAVILLA cocoa,
?0» iu DELICIOUS AND INVIGORATINO.
few _
_ ATARAVILLA COCOA.
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JULY 6, 1878
ART IN PARIS.
THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION—ITALY.
(From our Correspondent.)
When the great art-revival reached its culminating point in
Italy, and Rome and Florence were the twin art-capitals of
the world, the genius of the people found expression m
painting rather than in sculpture; and, in spite of the mighty
things achieved by the chisel of Michael Angelo, it is by her
pictorial rather than by her plastic triumphs that the Italy of
the sixteenth century challenges universal admiration. Since
then three centuries have elapsed, and, from causes which we
have no space here to explain, this order of things is reversed.
Not that Italy is as supreme now over other nations in sculp¬
ture as she was then in painting; but simply that the two
arts, so far as she is concerned, and without any reference to
other nations or the position they hold, have changed places,
and that the tools of the sculptor seem to come more sympa¬
thetically to her hand than those of the painter.
Our readers will be quite prepared to hear, then, that in
leaving the British Section and entering the Italian, we were
by no means impressed with the pictorial side of the exhibition.
The general tone of colour struck our eyes as lighter, brighter,
and more gaudy than that we had just left; and a certain air
almost of flippancy seemed to characterise the whole. Not that
earnestness is altogether absent from Italian canvases as that it
is so exceptional. In the several landscape works of Chevalier
Vertunni, for example, we have no occasion to complain on
this score; and if there is a little heaviness in his impasto, some¬
times, it is the heaviness of a master. Marchesi, again, is an
artist with a serious aim. His “ Interior of a Sacristy ” is full
of subdued and harmonious colour; and the same may be said
of Fontana, whose “JEsope” and “Mater amabilis” are
painted broadly and effectively. Chevalier Giuliano is another
artist capable of conveying real pleasures. His little procession
of young girls singing joyously as they walk by a sea wall
at the “ Setting of the Sun ” is one of the most satisfactory
pictures in the section. The facial action of singing is most
charmingly conveyed. C. Detti’s “Duel” is very spirited,
but too suggestive of Fortuny to be altogether satisfactory.
The Spaniard’s influence, indeed, is felt largely throughout
the section. In a less pronounced degree, perhaps, Marchetti
and Jacovaeci owe some of their sparkle and inspiration
to him.
Apart from this Fortuny fashion, it may be said that, as
regards tone and colour, the Italians fall into one of two
styles—either into the black, positive, effective manner of De
Nittis, who is admirably represented here by a long and telling
series of London views, slightly Frenchified, including West¬
minster, Trafalgar-square, the Bank of England, and “ Canon
Bridge,” as it is called in the catalogue ; or into the bright,
light key of such men as Michetti and Joris, each of whom
has a couple of capital pictures in the gallery. V. Volpe gives
a fine example of genre painting in his priest leaning back in
his chair. Nor is the French Corot without his Italian imi¬
tators ; and, indeed, the French school generally makes itself
felt in Italy, as in every other land. Gandi, the water-
colourist, is an exception to this, and reminds one more of the
English William Hunt than of anyone else. J. S. Rotta is
another water-colourist whose figures are strong and well
individualised.
Whatever of the old debt owing by Franco and Europe to
Italy has in these latter days been paid back to her in the
way of painting, there are two arts in which no other nation
can do much other than stimulate her, and these are sculpture
and engraving. In the latter, with the exception of a short
period about a century ago, when her attention was excited
for a time by the marvellous beauty and purity of line pro¬
duced by the graver of the Scottish Strange, Italy, from the
days of Marc Antonio Raimondi to the present, has never been
without a supremely competent school of engravers. Its
honours are still maintained by such men as the Chevalier Di
Bartolo, who is accomplished alike with the etching needle and
the graver.
Italy’s works in sculpture, whether in the field of the
realistic or the ideal, is much more varied, higher in aim, and
more positive in achievement. When the examples in sculp¬
ture almost equal those in painting—in the former the number
of works is a hundred and eighty-two, in the latter a hundred
and ninety-three—we can scarcely expect the level to be
equally lofty throughout. There are, accordingly, many pieces
of sculpture which are merely pretty, and such as one could
easily imagine would be raved about by the wandering wife of
a rich English parvenu affecting the airs of a virtuoso. They
are what English artists would contemptuously term “ pot
boilers;” but we must not forget that the Italians have a
double incentive to the manufacture of these cleverly sculptured
wares- first, the pot-boiling urgency ; and, secondly, the
importunity of rich, ignorant foreigners, both English and
American, sojourning in Rome and other Italian art-centres,
who will have sculptured souvenirs in their own tawdry taste
from the studios they have been pleased to visit and affect.
Apart, however, from the baneful influences we have
named, the sculptured art of Italy stands on a high level.
We were particularly struck with the modelling of an old
woman sitting back bowed in her chair, with that limpness of
look and earthward consent of the whole body which extreme
old age gives to people. It was a very small work, and, from
having no number ou it, we regret we are unable to give the
artist’s name. The same unconscious abandonment and pros¬
tration come out forcibly and painfully in the two Chinamen
who lie, opium-drugged, upon a rude bench, whose author also
we me unable to name. There are many examples of this
realistic treatment. H. Ximines, of Florence, quite startles
one with his two ragged and rather repulsive-looking gamins
fighting m the most ferocious manner. Another realistic bit
of raggedness stands at a comer in the cross gallery and
represents an urchin smoking a cigar with ineffable ’ non¬
chalance ; while a third composition is that of two London
newspaper boys holding out with intense eagerness to
the supposed passer-by, the one a Standard and the
other a Daily News. So terrific is their haste to do
business, that one of the boys does not give himself time
to take the copper he has obtained for the last paper
from between his gleaming teeth. The artist in this case so
far as we can make out, is J. Focardi, of London. But of’all
the realistic work in the Italian collection, that which wfil
commend itself most to the English visitor-whetherfrom7ts
masterly modelling, its finished and perfect carving o? from
the nature of the subject treated-is that which represented
great Jenner vaccinating his own son, by the Somplfshed
Professor Montevercle, of Rome. The nude nhilri K ™P U8tied
the doctor's knee, and, with depressed shouldere
trated attention, he stoops over it to prick with the Inn n +°+v*
little arm The intend expression oTtL fSe th l n/Jt ^
S£!?S?S& frl °!>/ =
ne plus ultra of realistic sculpture 7 Alone a ®, the
of the Royal Academy of England—thdn^ 1 !, t 1 “ ember8
the other a painter-and a gentleman who if*®" ? nd
a decoratist, we stood before this Si eminent as
the objection of the first named to tKrk-nrt on '
of any lack of artistic power on the part of the ^und^aked '
the score that an English doctor would not lay the child naked
across°hL knee, as in the statue, and that the whole; actionling
anti-English—and convincing him, we hope, that the English
or anti-English character of the action had nothrng to do
with the merit of the idea as expressed objectively by the
chisel of the Italian Monteverde, we all came to the conclusion
that it ought to be bought by the English College of Surgeons
and placed in their hall. , ,
Among ideal subjects with an histone reference we And the
central place of honour occupied by J. J. Papuu s Cleopatra
reclining on a couch. The work is full of technical excellence
carried to the extent of bravura ; and to our eye the face of
“ the Serpent of Old Nile ” is too pronounced in the Paphianism
of its expression. The “ Cleopatra” of E. Braga, on the other
hand, errs in this, that the figure, which is standing, has none
of that litheness which we know belongs to female humanity
of the Oriental type. It is more European than Egyptian,
but is none the less beautifully modelled on that account, t or
ethnological correctness of form and face we were particularly
struck with J. Ginotti’s negress tugging indignantly at the
manacles which bind her. The tendency to ostentatiousness
and defiant emphasis to which we have already referred, and
for whose paternity we must go back to the facile Bernini,
comes strikingly out in Borghi’s otherwise noble bronze
statue of “ Oliver Cromwell,” whom we Bee in long boots,
filling augustly the chair in which he sits. With such
portentous moustachios as we have here, the Great Protector
need only have shown himself to rout completely all his
Philistine foes. We prefer the marble figure of the late Pope
smiling in his chair, with outspread hands, as in welcome. If
our catalogue directs us rightly, it is the work of Chevalier
Pagliacetti. In the shape of portrait-busts, that of Mazzini,
by L. Gaugeri, of Rome, is one of the finest in the whole
Italian section. Nor must we omit mention of Costa’s “Victor
Emmanuel,” Zucchi’s “King Humbert,” or the portraits by
Castellani and Gemito. Salvini’s “Giotto” as a boy, Maraini’s
“Sappho,” Calvi’s “Othello,” Barcaglia’s “Waking of
Aurora” and his Cupid on the shoulders of Venus, the
“ Clytemnestra ” of Avellini, the “ Savonarola ” of Biggi, and
the “ Spartacus” of Lucchetti, and the others which we have
named are only a few of the many noble works in sculpture
which Italy has to show the stranger. The visitor, moreover,
must remember that they are not all to be found in the rooms
immediately devoted to the fine arts ; on the contrary, some of
the best will be found scattered in various parts of the Italian
section. On the whole, Italy makes a brave show, and fresh
art-vitality seems to have come to her with her renewed
political life. _
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.
To the old question “What is poetry?” there remains, I
believe, but one answer which has not yet been given ; but
this answer is, as it happens, the right one. Cannot any poet—
that is, any really living human being—guess it? “ What is
■ poetry?” Everything. Surely this answer is true enough,
comprehensive enough—even, rightly understood, exclusive
enough; for there are many nothings in the world. Every¬
thing that is, that has a real existence, that is not a mere
lifeless sham, is poetry ; and every true description of every
such reality is poetry in the literal sense—the poetry of words.
Yet the converse of this proposition cannot be said to be
1 true; for there are many things which have no substantial
existence—half-formed thoughts, indefinable states of mind,
dim, unconscious perceptions—which are yet of the very essence
of poetry. These are the offspring of the first sweet summer
breezes (accompanied by so strange yearnings), or of the occult
influences of the night—in which are bom all mysteries,
chimeras, and non-existent things generally. Some of these
come with sleep, but many when sleep will not come; and
poetry, even with those who are thought unpoetical, is hardly
ever absent altogether from a sleepless night.
Most people know some, at all events, of Heller’s Nuits
Blanches—" Sleepless Nights” —fantastic studies for the
piano, which even a moderate player can make interesting.
These express almost every variety of feeling which the
inability to go to sleep brings to us—in one it is as if myriads
of little demons were pricking and pinching us; in another
there is a sort of steady beating, as if some one in the next room
were slowly playing a devil’s tattoo on the ground ; in another
a heaving and throbbing, like that of distant steam-engines at
work ; in another a yearning cry, which shows that sleep is far
away and not to be hoped for ; while in another is a lulling
murmur, deceitfully promising an ever-approaching sleep—
which never comes.
It is torture—a long, wearying, changeful yet monotonous
torture-the endurance of a night without sleep, even when
one is not kept awake by actual pain: when one is, it is
. If one could only know at the beginning that sleep
would not come, it might be wiser to give it up at once and
“K? read “f = or even dress and go out fora moonlight
T i° f 1 ? 08e 9t ™ n F e - solitary walks, when the world is
so beautiful and oneself so weary, when one would like to weep
p irn 11110 8l !Iu whe v ther ^ is tom joy or sorrow. Of such
Shlnw ? lthou ? h preluded by a dream-troubled sleep,
bhelley wrote his magical ‘ ‘ Lanes to an Indian Air F
I arise from dreams of Thee
In the first sweet sleep of night
When the winds are breathing low
And the stars are shining bright:
I arise from dreams of thee,
And a spirit in my feet
Has led me—who knows how ?
To thy chamber-window, Sweet!
And, thoughthe very likely suffered for it in a headache next
da ^ e Ft W “ 8 n £ ht “ ot to ^ to allure again the
Vee^ 0 efl8 i° f / leep ~ Wh ?’ lj £ e other goddesses, ethereal or earthlv
awf i loof ?. or( r “yiy the more she is wooed. The innumer¬
able plans of inducing sleep to visit us when we are nvertiVo/i
or not tired enough, .re of very little worth : it she will S’
turned. All the mos^beA?!^^ 0 - 11 !?I 8 mind nafcuraJ1 7
country move at hi. cdl befor.ton'
A flock of sheep, that leisurely pass by,
One after one-
coming, we can imagine, through the opened gate of a
meadow into a green lane, and wandering down it: les bribU
passent et se ressemblent ! There is no sight more touching in
its peaceful beauty; as there are no sweeter sounds than
-the sound of rain, and bees
Murmuring ; the fall of rivers, winds and seas—
though one is not quite sure, among these last, which are
sounds and which sights. Next the poet calls up visions of
great expanses, boundless and tranquil—
Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky.
Who can fail to love the mind which instinctively took
refuge from all troubles in thoughts, or inward pictures, of
such loveliness and purity ? Yet even these cannot give him
rest: he lies sleepless through the night, and must hear the
small birds’ melodies
-first uttered from my orchard trees,
And the first cuckoo’s melancholy cry.
Words which bring to our minds those of another poet who has
“ uttered nothing base; ” who, when he tells us, in one of his
curiously vivid lines, how as the night passes away
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square,
remembers, in like wise,
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.
And in “ Locksley Hall,” also, Tennyson has reminded us of
one of the miseries of lying awake—the constant and pitiless
beating of “ the rain upon the roof.” It has its poetry, there
can be little doubt, this weary, dreary penance of sleeplessness,
like most penances and most miseries. Perhaps one may say
that this poetical possibility iB (little as we could acknowledge
it at the time) the redeeming element in many tortures. The
agony really unbearable is that which is vulgar, hideous, for
which one would not ask sympathy, which moves onlookers
only to a coarse, hard ridicule.
Not that all sleepless nights are torture. There is in along
night-journey a fresh and almost wild delight which day’s
healthier pleasures scarcely equal: we modems can imagine
how glorious must have been a moonlit journey on the box of
the York coach—or, grander still, a horseback expedition in
those remote times “ when knights were bold ”—we can call
up some vision of these delights when we think of our own
rushing, rapid journeys in the “ night mail north.” The start,
with the station’s great arching roof overhead, open at
one end to the sombre sky; the contrast of the cries of
port ere and the laughing of travellers with the silence
that one can feel around, even in busy London ; the long or
hurried farewell, as the train slowly moves off—passes and
leaves the platform, grunts and puffs, then seems to pant like
an eager horse as it feels the open pathway under it, and
settles to its splendid pace of close upon sixty miles an hour.
“ The moon looks out, the fields msh by,” as some poet mu!>t
have said somewhere ; there is an immense feeling of loneli¬
ness as we hurry through unknown places—all weird and
unearthly in the dark or the moonlight—as we stream along
under our flying banner of fire. It is an hour or two after
midnight when we leap from the train, and hurry into the
warm, bright room for a hasty, hot, confused, delightful
breakfast. Children scald their mouths with steaming coffee,
Scotchmen rush in battalions upon the cold roast beef; hardly
anyone is quite awake ; everyone is laughing except those who
are very cross, and they make the others laugh the more.
Then, into the train again—only twenty minutes are allowed,
and nobody wants to be left behind : foolish those who did,
for all who are awake behold a series of the grandest pictures—
the broad plains of the Black Country, with every now and
then a gaping pit from which the furnace flames roar and surge
like (as the country people roughly say) “hell’s mouth itself.”
And then, after the night, there comes-
But we must not make the thousandth attempt to describe
a sunrise, lest it should turn out no better than the ether
nine hundred and ninety-nine. Only let it be said, and
remembered, that there is the sunrise to end every sleepless
night: the most exquisite beauty to compensate for what is
often the most dreary torture. Here, as so often elsewhere,
our greatest pains are bound up (sometimes indisseverably)
with our highest pleasures.
LIFE-BOAT SERVICES.
At a meeting of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution on
the 4th inst., held at its house, John-street, Adelphi, pay¬
ments amounting to £1850 were made on some of the 2C8
life-boat stations, including rewards to the crews of life¬
boats and shore-boats for recent services. Amongst the
contributions lately received were £600 from Miss Barlow,
of Leicester, to defray the cost of a life-boat to be
named the John Clay Barlow, after her late brother;
and £4 12s., contents of contribution-box at St. James's
Schools, Burnley. The late Mrs. Sykes, of Grasmere, had
left the institution a legacy of £600; the late W. Trowell,
Esq., of Fletton, Huntingdon, £100 ; and the late Miss F. A.
Burrell, of Durham, £ 100 . The institution’s instructions for
the restoration of the apparently drowned continue to be
extensively circulated on the coast and elsewhere. The com¬
mittee expressed their deep regret at the death of Admiral Sir
W. II. Hall, K.C.B., who had been one of their members for
many years. Reports were read from the institution’s four
inspectors of life-boats on their recent visits to twenty-two
life-boat stations.
Earl Granville, as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, on
Saturday last turned the first turf of a direct railway between
Deal and Dover. The ceremony was followed by a luncheon.
A supplement to the London Ornette was'.published last
Saturday containing the announcement that “ her Majesty, by
and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to prolong
till Dec. 31, 1878, the time for the registration of trade-marks
used in the textile industries.”
A meeting of citizens was held in the 'Mansion House,
Dublin, yesterday week—the Lord Mayor presiding-to take
steps for the relief of the sufferers by the China famine. Sir
Thomas Wade, British Minister to China, said there are five
distressed provinces, covering an area more than three times
the size of the United Kingdom. The population is 120
millions, fifteen millions of whom are starving. A large sum
of money was subscribed.
The receipts on account of revenue during the quarter
which ended on Sunday were £18,817,695, against £ 18 , 866,868
m the corresponding quarter of last year. The receipts for
the year ended Sunday were £79,714,126, against £79,084,492
m the year ending June 30, 1877. The increases during the
past quarter compared with the corresponding period of the
preceding year, have been in customs, land tax, and house
duty, post office, interest on advances, and in the miscel¬
laneous items; while there has been decreases in the excise,
stamps, and property and income tax. Upon the year there
has been a net increase of £629,634.
JULY 6, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
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rhirinsitv rather than any stronger or worthier sentiment, is
the influence under which we take up The History of England:
related for the rising generation by the late M Guizot, and
translated in good style, for the most part, by Moy Thomas
(Sampson Low and Co.), a work of which two large, hand¬
some profusely and nobly illustrated volumes are now before
the public. For it is quite certain that an English reader,
desirous of studying a full, true, and particular account of the
historical events which have combined to make his country
what it now is, from the day “ when Britain first at Heaven’s
command arose from out the azure main,” would not turn for
information to the pages either of the late illustrious M. Guizot
or of any other foreign authority. Not that M. Guizot’s
account is at all less full, true, and particular than it should
have been for the instruction of his grandchildren, but that he
could not be expected to feel that deep interest which identity
of nationality inspires. On the other hand, such accounts as
his not only arouse curiosity, though that may be the chief
feeling with which they are approached; they also achieve
the useful purpose of enabling us to see ourselves as others see
us This “History of England” is not only uniform, as
regards externals, with the same author’s “ History of France,”
already brought out by the same enterprising publishers, but
it corresponds thereto in other respects. It contains in a col¬
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his lips, expanded, and edited, with affectionate and reve¬
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and intended for the benefit principally of the young. The
plan however, is slightly different; for, as the tales were
related to a French audience and published originally for
the edification of French readers, the narrator “ felt that in
this case the knowledge which would enable the reader
to supply any hiatus is less extended; he was, in con¬
sequence, careful to preserve the regular and chrono¬
logical sequence of events.” Nor will the English reader
have any reason to complain of this method. It may,
perhaps, entail some little sacrifice of dramatic effect and pic¬
turesque arrangement; but, on the other hand, it is less bewil¬
dering and less likely to load the memory with pictures in
which the cart precedes the horse. The first volume may be
said to commence with the Roman invasion under Julius
Cawar, and it ends with the death of Henry VII. The second
begins with the reign of Henry VIII., and ends with the
death of Charles II. The latter is, of course, the volume in
which we expect to find M. Guizot at his best, for it
contains a portion of our history, that portion in which
Cromwell is the prominent figure, whereon the late illus¬
trious historian and statesman is an acknowledged authority.
The student would probably go to Mr. Freeman for all that
concerns the Norman invasion ; to Mr. Froude for what relates
to the House of Tudor; and to Mr. Gardiner for the personal
government of Charles I. But for readers—especially young
readers—who are not exactly students M. Guizot has bequeathed
a history which will give them, in pleasant and readable style,
a sufficiently comprehensive array of facts and a sufficiently
trustworthy estimate of incidents and of characters. More¬
over, the histories of France and England are at certain epochs
so intermingled one with the other that he who speaks with
authority, as M. Guizot certainly spoke, about the French
cannot fail to command respectful attention when he discourses
of the English; for the two are, in fact, one for the purposes
of general information and instruction. As regards the illus¬
trations, they will probably be considered to fail occasionally
in respect of accuracy of costume and other points : they are
numerous and spirited, most of them are fine, many of them
are truly noble, some of them are melodramatic, and a few of
them
It is not likely that there will be much difference of opinion
among persons who are qualified to speak from personal
experience or from trustworthy testimony, to say nothing of
the internal evidence afforded, about Walks i« Algiers , by
L. G. Seguin (Daldy, Isbister, and Co.), a book which seems
worthy of being regarded as a model of what such works
should be. “Algiers and its surroundings” are the theme of
the volume; and it appears to be allowed by general consent
of all who have had an opportunity of examining the pages
that whatever we are told therein can be Bafely depended upon,
whilst the excellent style in which it is told must be admitted
by every reader, travelled or untravelled. A very tempting
description is given of Mustapha Superieur, which, as “ every¬
body ” knows, is “ the most attractive and aristocratic suburb
of Algiers,” the suburb where “the English colony has its
head-quarters.” And be it known to anybody who does not
already know it that the English colony, as is not unusual
with colonies of that nationality, is bidding fair to make
a peaceful conquest of the whole place. The suburb takes
its name from Mustapha, the “ last Dey but three,”
who once upon a time dwelt there in a beautiful
palace which is “now used as the summer residence of the
Governor-General.” The time for living in this lovely suburb
is from October to June. To the walks which may be taken
therefrom in any direction there is no end, and their attractive¬
ness is equally without limit. Turn which way you will, you
can “ scarcely fail to discover some new charm of landscape,
some picturesque nook;” you may wander up and down
wooded slopes, always taking a fresh route, with scarcely any
fear of going wrong, if you have a taste for flowery lanes, if
you have an eye for colour, if you have an car that rejoices in
the song of thrush and nightingale. There is a great dial to
be said for the climate of Algiers as superior to that of Nice
and other places of resort for invalids and idlers: but to be
content with Algiers you must be a lover of nature, and must
not hanker after the mundane pleasures to be found in the
neighbourhood of Monaco or even of Pau. You may, if you
travel first class, and pay £10 9s. 6d. for your fare through from
Loudon to Algiers, reach Marseilles in sixteen hours and a
quarter from Paris, and Algiers from Marseilles in thirty-six
hours; but of course, for enjoyment, it would be advisable to
go more gently, and break the journey at Lyons, if nowhere
eLse. There is a want, it appears, of really good hotels in
Algiers; but as to them and as to everything else that
especially concerns the traveller or the invalid in search of a
healthy place of abode abundant information is supplied in the
volume under consideration, a volume which both for those
who contemplate a visit to Algiers and for those who do not is
much to be commended as a delightful collection of useful and
agreeable notes, memoranda, and descriptions. Illustrations,
moreover, there are, to the number of about a score, including
plans of Algiers and of the environs ; and let it be added in a
spirit of grateful appreciation that there is an index. One
remark must be made in conclusion: the author, who is pro¬
bably indulging iu a small joke, writes of “ le genie militaire ”
as though it meant “ military genius," whereas it of course means
what we should call “the engineers;” and, moreover, it
mealis “the engineers of the army ” as opposed to “ le genie
maritime” or “engineers of the navy.” The matter seems to
be worthy of observation, because so many good writers, who
might reasonably be supposed to know better, are apparently
ignorant of what is one of the commonest expressions in the
French language.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
THE WIMBLEDON RIFLE MEETING.
The camp will be open to-day (Saturday), and the shooting
will begin at nine o’clock next Monday. The winner of the
Silver Medal will be known on Thursday, the 11th, and the
names of the sixty who are entitled to shoot in the second stage
will be announced. The St. George’s contest (second only in
interest to the Queen’s) is in the programme for Friday, the
12th, and the Lords and Commons Match will take place on
Saturday, the 13th, in the afternoon. The Queen’s Prize,
second stage, will be shot for on Tuesday, the 16th, and there
will also be on that day the first stage of the Army and Navy
Prizes and the Public Schools Veterans’ Match. On Wed¬
nesday, the 17th, the University teams will compete for the
Chancellor’s Cup. The match between the regular Army
and the Volunteers for the Donegal Cup, and the contest
amongst the regulars for General Eyre's prize, is also fixed for
the 17th. Thursday, the 18th, will be a busy day, the prin¬
cipal events being the Elcho Shield, the Public Schools
Match, the Volunteer Cadets’ Match, and the Kolapore Cup.
The last shooting day is Friday, the 19th, when the principal
attractions will be the Loyd-Lindsay Prize for mounted men
and a similar contest for volunteers on foot. The prizes will
be distributed on Saturday, July 20, and there will be the
usual athletic sports and games later in the day. The space
for the regimental camps is allotted, and will be occupied by
the London Rifle Brigade, the 3rd London, the Victorias, the
South Middlesex, the St. George’s, the London Scottish, the
19th, 29th, and 37th Middlesex, the Civil Service, the Queen’s
(Westminster), and the 1st Surrey. The council have approved
a white cap cover to be worn by competitors; but the use of the
approved pattern is not compulsory, and any regimental cap
covers authorised by commanding officers may be worn.
The London Scottish, as usual, took possession of their
camp at Wimbledon last Saturday for a week’s drill prior to
the national shooting gathering; an example that this year has
been followed by the Queen’s (Westminster), a strong body of
whom went under canvas.
The metropolitan volunteers had a heavy day’s work last
Saturday, as ten regiments were inspected officially, while
three took up residence under canvas at Wimbledon, and
others participated in minor field-days and marches, bringing
up the total force under arms to something considerably over
7000 men. First in point of time, as it probably was in
importance, was that of the London Rifle Brigade in Hyde
Park, by Colonel Burnaby, the commanding officer of the
Grenadier Guards. The corps, in ten good companies, in
addition to two companies of cadets, were under the command
of Lieutenant-Colonel Hayter, M.P., whose field officers were
Lieutenant-Colonel Haywood, Major Hope, and Captain
Ewens. The regiment was put through a long series of move¬
ments, extending over nearly a couple of hours, and including
the “attack formation,” on the principle practised by the
Guards on their Wimbledon field-day, a fortnight since, the
movements concluding with an advance in line and general
salute. In his address at the close of the drill Colonel
Burnaby expressed himself well satisfied with what he
had seen of the regiment this year, as this was the
fourth occasion on which he had had the pleasure of meeting
them. The 20th Middlesex were inspected upon the Horse
Guards parade by Lieutenant-General Stephenson, the com¬
manding officer of the Home District. The corps was under
the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Gore-Browne, and showed
a strength of 627 of all ranks on parade. At the close of the
drill, which included a novelty in the shape of the bayonet
exercise, excellently performed to the word of command of the
Sergeant-Major, General Stephenson made a short congratu¬
latory address. The 3rd Middlesex Artillery, who showed a
field state of 810 on parade, under Lieutenant-Colonel Lord
Truro, underwent a satisfactory inspection at Wellington
Barracks by Colonel Waller, R.A., the Inspecting Officer of
Auxiliary Artillery for the Home District. The 4th Middlesex,
Lord Truro’s other regiment, of whom nearly 450 answered to
their names, passed through a similar ordeal in Hyde Park,
where the test was applied by Colonel Fremantle, of the Cold¬
stream Guards —The St. George’s, to the number of 476,
paraded at Wellington Barracks, under Lieutenant-Colonel
the Hon. C. H. Lindsay, and marched thence to the grounds
of Lambeth Palace, where they were inspected by Colonel
Fitzroy, of the Coldstream Guards. The 1st Middlesex
Engineers were also inspected by Colonel Gordon, R E., the
battalion and company drill being executed in Battersea
Park, and the engineering work at the head-quarters of the
corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Ransome was in command.—The
26th Middlesex (Customs and Docks), who mustered nearly
800 of all ranks, went by special train from Waterloo to
Bushey Park, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel
Kennard, M.P., and were inspected by Colonel Wynne, of the
Grenadier Guards.—The Civil Service Rifles, a large detach¬
ment of whom have been under canvas for a week at Sandown
Park, were inspected there, the remainder of the corps going
by train to Esher ; while at Carshalton the 1st Surrey Adminis¬
trative Battalion, comprising nearly 800 men of the Brixton,
Wimbledon, Carshalton, Epsom, and Shaftesbury Park Corps,
went through the same ordeal under Colonel Sprot, command¬
ing the fiftieth sub-district.—The Tower Hamlets Rifle Brigade,
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Mapleson, were
inspected in Regent’s Park.-The 2nd London, under Lieu¬
tenant-Colonel Vickers, went to Blackheath for a field-day;
and the 10th Surrey took the train to Horsham, returning to
London on Monday by march route. The East London
Engineers proceeded to Roehampton for a mimic field-day at
the residence of Colonel Crowle.
On Sunday the 1st London Engineers and the 37th Mid¬
dlesex attended Divine service—the first named at St. Giles s,
Cripplegate, where the sermon was preached by the Chaplain,
the Rev. P. P. Gilbert; the latter at St. Giles-in-the-Fields,
the Rev. Canon Nisbet, Chaplain of the corps, officiating.
The annual fete of the 1st Cambridge Rifle Volunteers was
held last week in the handsome grounds of Sidney Sussex Col¬
lege, granted for the occasion by the Master and Fellows. All
sorts and kinds of amusement had been provided; and the
band of the 11th Hussars played a selection of music. Edu¬
cated dogs, feats of swordsmanship, a double telephone, the
ascent of grotesque balloons, and a grand illumination of the
grounds were amongst the attractions ; and the whole wound
up with a display of fireworks.
The bronze medal of the National Rifle Association for
Staffordshire has been won by Mr. Buxton, 8th (Burton) Corps.
The Suffolk Agricultural Show took place last week at
Ipswich The Duke of Hamilton, Lord Rendlesham, the
Marquis of Exeter, and the Marquis of Bristol were among
the prize-takers.
The Domestic Economy Congress at Manchester came to a
conclusion yesterday week. During the day papers were read
and discussions held on the ventilation of dwellings, cookery,
needlework, clothing, food, and other subjects.
PARIS AT THE CAFE.
{From a Correspondent.
All along the line of the grand boulevards (from the
Madeleine right away to the Chateau d’Eau), and all along
the Boulevard St. Michel—in the quarter thronged with
visitors and the quarter thronged with students—these are the
two great lines of cafes. Of course, every street in Paris is
dotted with them here and there, but in these it is no matter
of dots ; from the Pont St. Michel to the Luxembourg Garden
alone, I have counted—I think it was fifty!
For a man with a spare hour, or two or three, on his hands,
there is no place like a Parisian cafe ; above all, a cafe in the
Latin quarter—where, despite the greater show of the Italiens
and their kin, there is far more variety, more interest,
more life. On a sunny day in July one may sit—say before
some cafe on the eastern side of the Boulevard St. Michel
(not too far above or below the Cluny Museum)—and
watch the constant stream of students, of every nation
and of every colour, white, yellow, brown, and black; of
soldiers in all sorts of uniforms—some very fierce little men,
and some very mild, but all very little; of grisettes , or
rather of the new generation which has risen up and taken
their place, as the big, brutal Hanover rat has dispossessed
his quiet little black predecessor. Bonnes pass, with chatter¬
ing children, on their way to the gardens of the Luxembourg,
where the band plays, and the marionettes act their funny
drama twenty times a day ; and priests go by, sour and close-
shaven or ruddy and countrified, demure all of them, with
downcast eyes, yet noticing everything—even to the bonnes.
Little boys come to you as you sit and beg you to buy boxes
of lights; little girls put flowers on the table before you and
then run away—not that they mean the flowers as gratis offer¬
ings : you may be sure of their return. Occasionally j'ou see
a beggar, though these are rare in Paris; but if you throwaway
the smallest bit of your cigar there are little boys to pick it
up—in the city are seven hundred boys, I am told, engaged in
this one occupation.
If, however, you prefer the Italiens or the Capucines for
your coffee, or your “ grog,” or your ice (you can get delicious
ices at these first-rate restaurants for a franc and a half, which
is undeniably a first-rate price), you have only to take an empty
chair—not always an easy thing to find in front of a shaded
cafe on a hot afternoon—andyou mayseehalf the lazypeopleof
Europe pass and repass, in carriages, open cabs, and omnibuses,
on horseback and on foot; or if, again, you wish to sojourn
for a while in the famous “ Elysian fields,” you may think
yourself—in the evening, especially—on the outskirts of some
gigantic fair. Paris is, indeed, the pleasure-ground of Europe;
it is not a very noble metier, but the French like it, and do
their work extremely well—amusing themselves while they
amuse others.
In every other quarter of the town there is something, and
something fresh, to be seen—except, indeed, in those long,
white, dreary boulevards which intervene between the busy city
and its charming environs. But in the city there are, here, all
all the strangers shopping,paying high for their broken French,
and grumbling; here, the busy, merry, sharp-tempered
Frenchwomen haggling over halfpence; here, the speculators,
the agents de change, the agioteurs, who make such hellish
hubbub at the Bourse; here the quiet, round-shouldered work¬
men, smoking as they go to or from their work; everywhere
soldiers, priests, sisters of charity, and young girls in the
white dress of the premiire commutiion.
But it need hardly be said that it is not merely for the soli¬
tary idler that the cafe is a resource and a pleasure. What we
in London have lost a century or more—the old coffee-house,
where comrades met to make merry, to discuss politics, trade,
literature, even to do business—this still exists and flourishes
in Paris, with such differences as the difference of time and
nation naturally make. From the young “ bloods ” of Queen
Anne’s day to the actual gommeux, from the sober old English
citizens to the modem examples of French respectability, is a
step, no doubt, yet it is almost a question whether it is a
greater step than that from a nineteenth century Englishman
to his French contemporary—among the young men, at all
events; so distinct a type has the rough athletic Briton of to¬
day become. , , .
Still, what was an everyday luxury, if not an absolute
necessity, to the Englishmen who lived with Dryden or with
Addison, has become absolutely necessary—is as the very
breath of life—to every Frenchman. The French cannot live
without talking—they confess it readily—and this accounts
for many of their institutions, as, for example, their gregarious
student life, with its hotels filled with lads of twenty; in
London medical or legal students generally live alone, very
seldom “chum” with more than one friend. As for cafes,
a Frenchman has applied to them his eternal quotation- S'ils
«’existaient pas, il faudrait les inventer.
And look at their advantages for the innumerable men,
young or old, of all classes who have no fixed evening occu¬
pation. In England, in London even, for the bachelor multi¬
tudes who can hardly be expected to spend their evenings nt
home, there is no refuge but the club; and a club has the dis¬
advantage of being a fixture—a party of friends in Paris can
carry their club with them, establishing it at the nearest cafe.
Besides, the English club is considerably more expensive than
a Parisian cafe of the usual kind.
For it is really a very cheap amusement, your cafe—that is
say, it may be made very cheap; and the Frenchman has not
the Englishman’s passion for making cheap things dear by
paying more than is necessary for them. No Parisian thinks
it at all mean to spend an hour or so at a caf6, reading all the
available newspapers or playing at dominoes, taking nothing
but his cup of coffee at 35 or 40 centimes (though I must
confess that he generally adds to it a petit verre), and giving
the waiter only two sous; and the way in which cafes increase
and multiply show that it is not mean—that the proprietors
can well afford to give him this accommodation at this price.
So they are cheap enough, those merry parties of comrades
who drink little and talk much, which are held night after
night at every cate on each side of the Seine : those informal
clubs that can change, break up, move their quarters, or
double their numbers, at a moment’s notice. At them almost
every Parisian acquires a dash, a liveliness, a readiness in talk,
rare among Londoners ; it is odd to notice how a man who in
Paris has seemed rather quiet and insignificant, in Loudon
leads the conversation or takes, at all events, a prominent
part in it. As talkers, the French are certainly unnvulled;
and it is to a great extent their cafes which have given them
this supremacy. , . , , , , . , , ,
Of some of these cates, which have become historical, or
which are at the present day the most popular and interesting,
I hope in ensuing articles to give some brief account.
It has been decided by the Trinity Board to build the new
1 Eddystone Lighthouse themselves, and not under contract.
There were three tenders, that of Mr. Pethick, of Plymouth,
the lowest, being £105,000, while the estimate of the Board s
) engineer was £90,000.
tiie illustrated
LONDON NEWS, July 6, 1878.—20
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VISIT
TO NOTTINGHAM.
THE MIDLAND COUNTIES ART-MUSEUM, NOTTINGHAM CASTLE : WEST FRONT.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, July 6 , 1878.— 21
THE ROYAL VISIT TO NOTTINGHAM.
BEBTWOOD LODGE, NEAR NOTTINGHAM, THE BEAT OF THE DUKE OF 8T. ALDAN8, VISITED BY THE PRINCE AND PRINCE8S OF WALES.
NOTTINGHAM CASTLE.
The opening this week of the new Midland Counties Art-
Museum at Nottingham, by the Prince and Princess of Woles,
is an event of more than local interest. But the site upon
which this institution has been erected claims particular notice
for the sake of its historical and antiquarian associations and
the renown of Nottingham Castle. We have to thank an
accomplished Nottingham architect and archirologist, Mr. T. C.
Hine, F.8.A., for the materials by which we are enabled to
describe and illustrate this subject. Mr. Hine compiled and
printed, last year, for limited circulation, a volume containing
’ a series of brief historical notes, arranged in chrono¬
logical order, with the dates set forth in the margin
of its pages, concerning remarkable events in the
annals both of the Castle and of the town. These
extend from the Norman Conquest down to the pur¬
chase of the Castle by the Town Council, in 1875,
for an Art-Museum. The book is illustrated by many
photographic reproductions of old prints and drawings,
facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, maps, and plans,
which bring the former aspects of Nottingham plainly
before the reader’s eye. Une of these, being the view
of “Nottingham Castle in the Sixteenth Century,”
was drawn by Mr. Hine from his accurate and matured
studies of the plnu and construction of that grand
baronial edifice, which was superseded, two hundred
years ago, by the ducal mansion that was notoriously
roinedby an incendiary fire in 1831. We are per¬
mitted by Mr. Hine to copy this view of the ancient
Castle in our Engraving ; and we may also consult his
antiquarian commentary, together with a neatly
written “Historical Sketch" by Mr. J. Henry Brown,
for the information here desirable to recall to mind.
It need scarcely be observed that Nottingham Custle
has frequently been mentioned as the scene of
important events in the history of England.
The name of Nottingham is Saxon, and refers,
like that of Sneinton, the eastern suburb, to the
“ Snottenga,” or caves, which from time immemorial
have existed in the rock, of New Bed Sandstone
formation, on which the town and Castle stuud. It is
probable that some of these coves, perhaps originally
hollowed out by subterranean streams of water, were
the dwellings of a primitive race of mankind long
before the Itonrau conquest of Britain. But Mr.
Hine's opinion seems to be well founded, that the
rock-face in Nottingham Park, in the grounds of
Mr. J. Leavers, west of the Castle, perforated with
five tiers of small niches, liko pigeon-holes or
“columbaria,” accompanied by a sort of furnace,
having a chimney, at one side, exhibits the remains of
a ltoman “ sepulchrum commune." A very similar
example, found at Rome, was represented in one of
our Illustrations some years ago, and others have bei n
described as existing in Nuples and Sicily. The bodies
of the dead were burned in the “ bustum " or furnace ;
and the ashes, put into glass or porcelain jam, were
preserved in the niches of the “ columbaria.” This
has nothing to do with the many larger excavations
in different parts of the Nottingham rock, vulgarly
THE LATE MAYOR OF NOTTINGHAM.
A sad personal calamity had taken place just before the open¬
ing of Nottingham Castle by the Prince and Princess of Wales
as an Art-Museum for the Midland Counties. This misfortune
was the death of Mr. W. 6. Ward, the Mayor, to whose public
spirit and indefatigable exertions the success of the scheme has
been chiefly owing. On the evening of Thursday, the 13th ult.,
while riding with his eldest son near his house, he had an
apoplectic seizure, and, falling from his horse, sustained a
fracture of the skull, from which he died in the course of
the following day. Mr. Ward, who was born at Nottingham in
the year 1825, waB connected, under the late Mr. George
Moore, with the business of Messrs. Groucock, Moore,
and Copestake. At the age of twenty he was ap¬
pointed to the management of important departments,
and shortly afterwards was placed at the head of the
Nottingham house of that firm. At the age of thirty
he began business as a lace manufacturer on his own
account, and soon obtained a leading position in the
town. The firm of Word and Cope, in their factory
at New Basford, now have a hundred first-class
machines employed in the manufacture of lace cur¬
tains, theirs being the largest establishment in the
trade. Mr. Word had been an active and useful
member of the Town Council since 1869, and an
Alderman since 1874. It was chiefly through his in¬
fluence that the Borough Extension Act was carried,
by which Nottingham now ranks as the thirteenth
town in the United Kingdom in population, and fifth
in extent of area; so that from the mayoralty of
Mr. Ward the town may be said to make a fresh start
in prosperity and municipal dignity. He has also
done much good public service as a member of the
School Board and of the Chamber of Commerce, and
in promoting a system of arbitration for disputed
questions between employers and employed. The
Nottingham School of Art, over the managing
committee of which he presided, bos been more
especially indebted to Mr. Ward’s energy and ability
m directing its affairs. The marked success achieved
by the students of the Nottingham School of Art
induced the Department of Science and Art to make,
in the early part of 1872, overtures to the Town
council with a view to the establishment of n per¬
cent museum. A letter from Sir Henry Cole, then
w the South Kensington Museum, to Mr. Ward, in
hat year already Mayor of Nottingham, was laid
Jefore the Council in February, 1872, when it was
uianimously resolved to accept the offer of the
-ducation Department; a committee was appointed,
md an annual grant of money voted. Within a
ew months an exhibition of pictures and other
penmens of art-work—lent by the authorities at
kmth Kensington—was opened in the Exchange
woma, Nottingham, and was attended with such
lopulanty as to determine the Council to provide a
in table site for a permanent institution, and the
, e W . M ttt once suggested as the most eligible,
■pplication was at once made to the trustees of the
u * e °* Newcastle, Mr. Gladstone and Lord de
Tabley, who granted a lease of the Castle and grounds for a
term of 500 years—the Council to use and maintain the same
os a public Museum and Exhibition. Clauses to that effect
having been inserted in the next Improvement Act carried
through the Legislature, it was resolved to devote a minimum
sum of £20,000 towards the restoration of the Castle and its
adaptation to the purpose This was the origin of the new
“ Midland Counties Art-Museum,” which was opened last
Wednesday, and of which we give a separate description. The
late Mayor of Nottingham will be remembered by his fellow-
townsmen especially in connection with this final and crowning
success of his useful public life.
THE LATE MR. W. G. WARD, MAYOR OF NOTTINGHAM.
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THE tt.t.USTHATED LONDON NEWS
JULY 6, 1878
called “Druids’ Dens” or “Papists’ Holes which were
certainly used as dwellings, and were very likely, at some
time or other, cut out for that purpose though now mostly
reduced to be cellars or storehouses The
been a stronghold of the early British inhabitants but we
are not told of any Roman fortifications there. The Castle
Rock, rising about 130 ft., with a precipitous south side
overhangs the Lene rivulet, and overlooks the meadows where
that stream flows into the river Trent, with a fine new, south¬
west, over Clifton Grove and Wollaton Hall, eastward to Belvoir,
and with the entire town of Nottingham close by at the other
hand. In the Castle Rock itself there is a singular hidden
cleft, the nether part of which may have been formed by the
action of water, but which has been made into a covert passage,
with a spiral staircase at the top, from the lower level to the
Castle platform, as well as to the Keep ; with loopholes, or
openings for light, cut in the face of the cliff, and with stock-
< , _* 1 .. . nviotiiur rtlnse t.he nassasre
ades and gates, apparently once existing, to close the
at discretion. This is “ Mortimer’s Hole,” which readers of
English history will remember, and there are several other
cavernous passages, varying in depth and length, beneath the
foundations of the Castle.
About the earliest historical incident recorded of Notting¬
ham is the defeat of King Alfred, in 868, in an attempt to take
it from the Danes, who held it till 922. They were again m
possession of it, under Sweyn and Canute, in the eleventh cen¬
tury, and Earl Tostig refused to give it up to Harold in the
year of the Norman Conquest. William the Conqueror gave it
to his natural son, William Peverel, who built a regular
Norman castle here. The town was then divided by a wall,
running north and south, into two separate boroughs, the
English and the French or Norman town The monastery or
priory, called that of Lenton, was founded by William Peverel,
who died in 1113. This place suffered much from violence
and rapine in the wars of Stephen, but its injuries were
repaired by Henry II., who held a Parliament at Nottingham.
It was bestowed by Richard I. upon his brother John, who
conspired against him, and usurped the kingdom, while
Richard was detained abroad on his return from the Crusades.
Richard had to besiege Nottingham Castle, and to take it by
storm, after whic h he held a Parliament there, and passed
judgment against John, and other rebels But Cceur de Lion
soon relented, and even gave the Castle again to his unworthv
brother. John lived here as King twenty years later, and
here cruelly put to death, by hanging, a number of little
Welsh boys, children of the princes and chieftains of Wales,
■whom he had received as hostages for their parents’
loyalty. King Henry III. occasionally visited Nottingham,
and so did the first two Edwards. It is well known that
Queen Isabella, afler the murder of her husband at Berkeley,
lived in Nottingham Castle with her paramour Mortimer; and
here it was, in 1330, that Mortimer was arrested and carried
off to judgment and execution. The party who came to seize
him, by order of the young Edward III., gained access
through “ Mortimer’s Hole.” King Edward III was much
at Nottingham in the early part of his long reign, while
engaged in the Scottish wars. It has been said that his Royal
Scottish captive. King David, taken at the battle of Neville’s
Cross, was imprisoned in a dungeon of Nottingham Castle,
and that he carved a representation of Christ’s sufferings on
the dungeon wall. This story, however, is discredited by Mr.
Hine, who does not think it likely that David was confined
elsewhere than in the Royal Palace or Tower of London. The
dungeon or cell, with the sculptured figures, has been looked
for in vain ; it may probably have been the retreat of some
religious recluse. In 141* Owen Glendower was imprisoned
at Nottingham Castle.
During the Wars of the Roses, this place being a great
stronghold of the House of York, Nottingham witnessed many
transactions of considerable note. Edward IV. here collected
his troops and proclaimed himself King in 1461, and he did
so again in 1471, after landing on the coast near Hull, when
he returned from his short exile in Flanders to avenge
his detlironement by Warwick. Under Edward IV. and
Richard III., whose Court was repeatedly held here, the
Castle was greatly enlarged, strengthened, and adorned,
becoming then such as it appears in our Illustration, from
Mr. Hine’s drawing, which is based on Leland's description
and Smithson’s plan of 1617. It was one of the most
magnificent buildings of the Plantagenet castellated style.
The space previously occupied by the ancient Norman
fortress, which is nearly that where the modern edifice—
namely, the Duke of Newcastle’s mansion, converted into the
Art-Museum - now stands, was partly comprised within the
Inner Ward of the Castle as it existed in the sixteenth century,
upon the southern projection of the Rock, shown to the left
hand in the view presented by our Engraving. The Inner
Ballium, a second area, like the Inner Ward, entirely sur¬
rounded with buildings, and having at its rear the great tower
built by Edward IV and completed by Richard III., which
the last-mentioned King used to call his “ Castle of Care,” is
shown by this view farther in the background. The semi¬
circular plot of ground, inclosed by the rampart and moat,
sweeping round to include the lower part of the hill, which
appears to the right hand in our Eugraving, is the Outer
Ballium. This view is supposed to be taken from the
south-east, being in truth a bird’s-eye view from a
point over the Trent meadews; the town of Nottingham,
such as it was in the reign of the Tudors, would lie to
the right hand, beyond the margin of our Engraving.
The Keep Tower of the Inner Ward surmounted the
State apartments, including the Great Hall and the Queen’s
Chapel, belonging to the Castle as it was in the time of
Edward III. and under the Lancastrian Kings. Edward IV.
built a more commodious and splendid set of Royal apart¬
ments in the Inner Ballium; and these are to be distinguished
by the gable-roofed front, extending along the north side of
that inclosure, beneath the grand composite tower, of Per¬
pendicular architecture, with a ling on the top of it. The
bridge over the moat, from the Outer Ballium to the Inner,
with the portcullis, barbican, gate-house, and tower above, and
guard-house adjacent, will also be perceived in our view. At
the farther side of the Inner Ballium is the Garrison Chapel,
with the house of the Chaplain. Altogether, we may say that
Mr. Hine has succeeded in giving us a very clear idea of the
plan and appearance of Nottingham Castle as it was left by
the last of the Plantagenets, and as it remained, with
little substantial alteration, under the Tudor Sovereigns.
Richard III. here marshalled his army for the decisive battle
in August, 1485, and departed for Leicester immediatelv
afterwards, to encounter a fatal defeat and death on Bosworth
field.
An epoch of still greater historical importance, the out¬
break of the Civil Wars, in August, 1642, is connected with a
memorable scene at Nottingham Castle. That ill-advised
monarch, Charles I., when his quarrel with both Houses of
Parliament had grown desperate, here set up his army
standard, having issued his proclamation at York some thirty
days before to “suppress the rebels,” amongst whom were
TTi^-deu nr.,1 Prnmwpll. Tlie “standard” could not easily
be got to stand; for the wind blew u storm all day, and the
stony ground allowed nofixmg of the tal flagstaff. The King
ot the^omrt,^and' with 32* Wred SrSmeJ
worse when they stuck up the flag on ^Bich^dU l \ f Charles
and the wind blew it down again. What a Falkland
had taken warning by this, and had Bent Hyde and h aliuana
to n?gotM” g s o y f peace! But no, the civil war r w»to
heirin at Edgehill and go on to Naseby; and poor Ring
Charles I., inFebruary, 1647, when he had been dehveredby
the Scots to the English, was brought a pnjoner through
Nottingham town, with two more years of captivity before h m
and death ™ the icaffold at last. The had been Md
for the Parliament, under the Governorship of Colonel
Hutchinson^who^ vnfe has told us much of those troublous
days; there was some fighting with the Newark Royahsts but
no regular siege. The Governor, however, at the end of that
war, persuaded Parliament to disband the garrison and dis¬
mantle the Castle, at which Cromwel was displeased; but
there was an end of the fine old Royal and baronial fortified
palace, the subject of our Illustration. .
Next arose upon this renowned site the aristocratic mansion
m the Grecian style of architecture, erected betweeu 1674 and
1679, by William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle. His
Grace had purchased the site of Nottingham Castle from the
Duke of Buckingham, and had cleared away the remnants of
the ancient building. The edifice which he constructed here,
with its horizontal facade, its Corinthian columns, pediments
over the windows, and scroll-shaped architraves in the upper
storey, and with an equestrian statue of the first Duke above
the central doorway, was totally unlike our idea of a castle,
but was a handsome ducal residence The wife of this Duke
was the celebrated Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, whose
literary and biographical fame, like that of Mistress Lucy
Hutchinson, is inseparably wedded to her husband’s part m
the history of his times. The monument of the Duke and
Duchess, with an epitaph recording her virtues, may be Been
in Westminster Abbey.
“The New Castle of Nottingham,” as the Duke of New¬
castle’s house was naturally called, soon became once more a
place to claim the English historian’s notice: for it was the
abode of Princess Anne, with Lady Churchill and other
partisans of the Revolution, in November, 1688, when the
Prmce of Orange came over to relieve James II. of the
government of this Protestant nation. According to Macaulay,
in those days Nottingham was “the head-quarters of the
northern insurrection.” the Town Council having promptly
joined the Earl of Devonshire and other Whig peers in
opposition to King James. It is stated by Mr. Hine that the
apartments occupied here by Queen Anne, some time before
her accession to the throne, with the furniture and tapestry,
were to be seen within the recollection of persons now living.
The second Duke of Newcastle’s daughter, Lady Margaret
Cavendish, married John Holies, Earl of Clare, to whom, upon
the failure of male heirs to her father, she conveyed the ducal
title of Newcastle. Another branch of the Cavendish family,
acquiring by marriage the great Hardwick estates in Derby¬
shire, had been honoured with that of Dukes of Devonshire.
But in 1768, on the death of Thomas Holies, Duke of Newcastle,
without heirs male, his niece’s husband, Henry Clinton, ninth
Earl of Lincoln, obtained the vacant Dukedom. He assumed
the surname of Pelham, and his descendants, in five gene¬
rations, have been Dukes of Newcastle and owners of Notting¬
ham Castle, but their ordinary residence has been at Clumber,
in the same county.
The first Pelham who was Duke of Newcastle, Thomas
Pelham, held the office of Secretary of State more than thirty
years; and, in the historical memoirs of the eighteenth century
he makes a conspicuous figure, though not a glorious one.
He was fussy and officious, awkward in his personal demeanour,
and singularly indiscreet, though some of the ridiculous stories
told of him may not be strictly true. One of the best is that
of his sitting with the Duke of Argyll (see “ The Heart of Mid
Lothian ”) to examine a Scotch witness upon the affair of the
Porteous Riots at Edinburgh. “ You say that the gun was
loaded,” his Grace thus addressed the witness; “ what sort of
shot was the gun loaded with ? ” “Ou ah,’’ the Scotchman
answered, “ it michtbe jist the soort they sliute Duke* an' Fools
wi’, ye'll ken that richt weel.” Dukes and fools, and ammunition
to shoot them ! His Grace of Newcastle was thrown into a violent
fit of alarm and fury. He would have instantly committed
that witness to the Tower, or, at least, to Newgate, and had
him pressed to death for the extraction of his guilty secret, no
less than a plot to slay the ducal members of the King’s Privy
Council. But the good Duke of Argyll, one of the wisest and
most patriotic of Scotchmen, assured his terrified colleague
that “dukes and fools” were only “ducks and fowls,” and
that the contemplated slaughter was a harmless kind of sport.
The grandson of that not very sagacious Minister of State
was the fourth Duke of Newcastle, the famous Tory Duke who
ordered his tenants to vote for the candidate of his nomination,
and, when complained of in Parliament, asked with surprise,
“ My Lords, may I not do as I like with my own ? ” But in
October, 1831, when the House of Lords threw out the Reform
Bill, there were terrible riots at Nottingham. A bluck flag,
inscribed “ The Bill and No Lords,” was paraded through
the streets. The Castle was attacked by a savage rabble, who
easily got in, drove out the servants, destroyed the furniture,
and set fire to the noble edifice. It was completely ruined
and though compensation, to the amount of £21,000, was paid
bythe hundred or county, his Grace would never repair the
building, which has been left in ruins till lately purchased for
an Art-Museum.
The iast Duke of Newcastle, another Henry Pelham
Clinton, who died in 1864, was an excellent man in public
and private life, the early and intimate friend of Mr.
Gladstone, and a statesman of considerable ability. He held
the office °f Chief Secretary for Ireland, when he was
Lari of Lincoln, and that of Secretary of State for the
Colonies and for the War Department, at different periods
between 1852 and 1864. His son, the present Duke,
has fallen into pecuniary embarrassments, and his estates
have been placed under the management of trustees,
who are Mr. Gladstone and Lord de Tabley. The family of
Warwickshire or Oxfordshire, were ennobled by
King Edward III ; and it is very curious to remark what was
Will?™ "S’ 'n 30 ' f °^ which the Barony was conferred. Si?
TW?ra d f? 0to ?2l’ S hl6f Ju8tice of Chester, Constable of
?;- an u Wf ^ de “ of the Cinque Ports, was one of the
t ^i tt '“f ham Ca8tle who clambered up through “ Mor-
Sr”?’ to •“*»* the pestilent traitor, the minion of an
Q l l r e ®. n ’ “d to vindicate the honour of this realm of
vntfn? coi neidence has escaped the obser-
WMf B 1 Mr ‘ H 1T’ a " d P erha P 8 of the other local historians;
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DuS 1 Ma£n Ct ff? 1 tE 0rk of re P airi ng and adapting the former
the . 1 P" r P° l fie of ^ Art-Museum, at the
SK IT! C ° Unci1 ' has been performed in a very com-
rjffh ti, s . a t ,8factor y manner, under Mr. Hine’s direction
wSr hC aS8,8ta “ ce and advice of Sir Henry Cole, Mr. G H
Wallis, and other persons of great official experience at the
South Kensington Museum. It is considered that the new
Nottingham and Midland Counties Museum will comprise the
best galleries of art in any provincial town or city of the
United Kingdom. We present two exterior views, one of the
east front, the side towards the town and railway station, on
which side there is a lofty esplanade, with trees and sloping
green banks; the other view of the west front, overhanging
the Lene rivulet, with a precipitous cliff towards the Park,
and with some of the caverns above mentioned, partly over¬
grown with bushes. The west front of the building has a
receding centre, with a semicircular portico of Grecian
columns at each end of which is a porch, leading to the stair¬
case of the right or left wing, respectively, and to the dif¬
ferent apartments on the ground floor. The largest of these
rooms is 54 ft. long and 26 ft. wide ; the smallest is 25 ft.
in length, and they include refreshment-rooms, dining-room,
kitchen, and other accommodation. The staircases, which are
of stone, afford much space for the exhibition of pictures and
statuary. The upper storey consists of two large galleries, one
of which is 146 ft. long by 26 ft. wide, and four other rooms,
altogether forming a most convenient suite of apartments for
a properly arranged Museum of Art. The colouring of the
walls, with regard to the due effect of paintings, has been care¬
fully’taken into consideration: the lighting, warming, and
ventilation of the rooms have had equal attention. Our View
of the interior of the Museum may here be referred to. The
curator and director appointed is Mr. G. H. Wallis, late of the
South Kensington Museutn, and Mr. Holbrook is the secretary.
An account of the Loan Exhibition, and other present contents
of the Museum, with the proceedings on Wednesday at its
opening by their Royal Highnesses, will be found in another
page of this week’s Number of our Journal.
THE INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM, WANSTEAD.
The Prince and Princess of Wales yesterday week attended
the fifty-first anniversary of the Infant Orphan Asylum at
Wanstead. Headed by the Prince and PrincesH, the whole
company went over the building. While visiting the nursery
their Royal Highnesses inspected the beds and play-room, and
presented a number of small prizes, including dolls, balls,
pictures, and books, to the occupants, the youngest of whom
was only two years and a half old. One of the children in the
institution, a Danish girl, eight years of age, recited an
address which had been prepared for her, and presented a
bouquet to the Princess. After the ceremony there was a
luncheon, at which the Prince of Wales presided, the Princess
sitting on his left. His Royal Highness having proposed “ The
Health of the Queen,” the Duke of Manchester gave “The
Prince and Princess of Wales,” which was received with great
cheering.
The Prince of Wales said,—Ladies and Gentlemen, on the
part of the Princess, as well as on my own part, I beg to
return our warmest thanks to the noble Duke for the manner
in which he proposed the toast, and to the company for the
manner in which they received it. It has afforded the Princess
and myself the greatest possible pleasure and gratification to
be here on the fifty-first anniversary of this most excellent and
commendable institution. What I have seen, and what you
have seen, will do more than anything I can say to prove how
excellent this institution is, and how worthy it is of support in
every possible way. The manner in which the children
sang, the discipline under which they are evidently kept,
and their clean and healthy appearance are matter of sin¬
cere congratulation to all who take an interest in the
welfare, or who trouble themselves in connection with
the management, of this institution (Cheers). I may say
that there was one little girl who perfectly astonished us
(Cheers). The remarkable elocution which she possesses would
be well worthy of many a distinguished member of Parliament
(Laughter). It is particularly interesting to the Princess and
myself to be here on the forty-first anniversary of the Queen’s
coronation (Cheers). The first stone of the building in which
we are now assembled was laid by my lamented father a few
months before I was bom, and I hold in my hand the mallet
used on that occasion, which has been sent to me by Sir Charles
Reed, the Chairman of the London School Board, whoso
father, Dr. Andrew Reed, was one of the promoters of this
institution, and always took the deepest interest iu its welfure.
It is seventeen years ago this day since the Prince Consort
visited this institution, and it is twelve years since I and the
Princess were here last. I have little more to 6ay in commend¬
ing to your support an institution which has existed for half
a century, which maintains 600 children, and which I believe
has educated and sent forth 3000 children up to the
present time (Cheers). To maintain an institution like this
requires, as you may well suppose, a considerable amount of
money—I believe I am not incorrect in saying that it needs
about £1800 a year. It is supported almost entirely by volun¬
tary contributions; and I feel sure that those who are present
on this occasion will tell their friends how pleased they huve
been, and how worthy the institution is of support. I now
give you, most heartily, “Prosperity to the Infant Orphan
Asylum” (Great cheering).
Their Royal Highnesses soon afterwards left for town, and
the chair was taken by the Bishop of St. Albans.
The band of the 3rd Essex Artillery Volunteers played a
selection of music in the grounds during the afternoon, and it
was not until evening that the majority of the company left
the pleasant surroundings of the asylum for the metropolis.
The subscriptions announced amounted to about £1500,
including the annual subscriptions of ten guineas from the
Queen and one hundred guineas from the Prince of Wales.
The Right Rev. Robert Gregg, Bishop of Ossory, has been
elected Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross by the Synod of the
diocese, in succession to his late father.
The evening fete of the Royal Botanic Society was held on
June 27 in the society’s gardens in Regent’s Park. The pre¬
sident of the society, the Duke of Teck, and the Duchess of
Teek arrived soon after half-past ten, bringing with them a
party of guests from Kensington Palace, who were received by
Lord Rendlesham, Sir Walter Stirling, Professor Bentley, Mr.
J. Heywood, F.R.S., Mr. Vivian, and other members of
council, and Mr. W. Sowerby, the secretary of the society.
They made the circuit of the grounds, which were inclosed
with covered arcades, along each side of which were placed
rows of little coloured oil lamps. Lights were also disposed in
the beds, on the sloping banks, and among arbours of green
leaves. The large marquee was filled with an exhibition of
floral decorations for the table and the ball-room, and the
rhododendron tent was lighted by Dr. Siemens’s electric
light. The lake was lighted with a pleasing choice of colours,
and the broad walk was festooned with opal and ruby globes
of ground glass illuminated by gas. From a high tower among
the trees near the principal entrance coloured tires were burned
on the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Teck. During the
few hours the f£te lasted three militarv bands performed, being
the bands of the Coldstream Guards, the Scots Guards, and the
2nd Life Guards, which played alternately.
JULY 6, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
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OBITUARY.
MR. SEGRAVE OF CABRA.
O’Neill Segrave, Esq., of Cabra, in the county of Dublin, who
died on the 25th ult. at Kiltymon, his seat in the county of 1
Wicklow, aged fifty-nine, was the representative of one of the
oldest families in Ireland (his ancestor, Richard Segrave, was
Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer there in 1404), and pos¬
sessed an extensive estate in that country. He was a magis¬
trate and Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of Dublin, and
served as High Sheriff of the county of Wicklow in 1870.
Early in life he was Lieutenant in the 7th Dragoon Guards.
He married, May 23, 1848, Matilda, third daughter and co¬
heir of John Hyacinth Talbot, Esq., of Talbot Hall, in the
county of Wexford, M.P., but leaves no issue. His brother
and heir, Captain Henry Segrave (whose eldest daughter,
Frances Emma, was married in 1876 to the present Sir John
Talbot Power, Bart., of Edermine), succeeds to the estates.
MASTER MURPHY.
Jeremiah John Murphy, Esq., Q.C., Bencher of King’s Inns,
and ex-Master in Chancery in Ireland, died recently. This
able and learned lawyer, after a brilliant career at the
University of Dublin, where he gained its highest honours,
was called to the Irish Bar in 1828, became a Queen’s Counsel,
and filled for many years the high judicial office of Master in
Chancery. He belonged to the influential family of Murphy,
of Cork, one of which, a cousin of Master Murphy’s, N. D.
Murphy, now represents that city in Parliament. Master
Murphy married Maria, only child of Michael Balfe, ^Esq., of
South Park, in the county of Roscommon, by Sally, his first
wife, daughter of John Dolphin, Esq., of Turoe, in the county
of Galway, and leaves issue. One of his sons is Prior of
Downside.
The deaths have also been announced of—
William Todd Naylor, Esq., of Liverpool, and Hartford
Grange, Northwich, on the 25th ult., aged sixty-three.
Mrs. Ferrier, eldest daughter of Professor Wilson, and the
wife of Prosessor Ferrier, on the the 30th ult., aged sixty-five.
Mrs. Clara L. Balfour, well known as a writer and lecturer
on temperance and other subjects, on the 2nd inst., at her
residence in Croydon, in her seventieth year.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Clay, Bart., late of the
19th Foot. He was bom in 1831, and succeeded his brother
in the title in 1876.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles T. Otway Mayne, of H.M-
Bengal Staff Corps, youngest son of the late Charles Otway
Mayne, of The Manor House, Great Stanmore, on the 24th
ult., at Akola, West Berar, aged forty-three.
The Rev. Edward Bridges Knight, late Rector of Chawton,
Alton, Hants, second son of the Rev. William Knight, of
Steventon Rectory, in the same county, on the 23rd ult., at
Purbrook, Dorking, aged forty-eight.
The Rev. Marshal Spink, B.D., Perpetual Curate of St.
Nicholas, Saltash, on the 29th ult. He had lived at Saltash
about twenty years, and for many years had been an Alderman
of the Corporation, and was Mayor three successive years.
Mr. Robert Master, Commissioner of the Turkish Compas¬
sionate Fund, at Constantinople, on Saturday last, of typhus
fever. His remains were interred at Scutari on Sunday, the
English Ambassador being represented by his two secretaries.
Major-General John Cameron, R.E., C.B., Director-
General of Ordnance Survey, on the 1st inst., at Southampton,
after a short illness. Ho entered the Army in 1834, and
attained the rank of Major-General in 1868. General Cameron
was a Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Engineers.
General Harry Thomson, late of the 6th Bengal Light
Cavalry, aged ninety-eight. This veteran officer, the senior
in the Indian service, served under Lord Lake seventy-five
years ago. He entered the Army in 1800, and attained the
rank of General in 1861.
Robert Vaughan Williams, Esq., of Bodlonfa, Flintshire,
M.A., J.P., late Judge of County Courts, Chester and North
Wales, on the 21st ult., at Denbigh Lodge, Lower Norwood,
aged fifty-six. He was the youngest son of the late William
Williams, Esq., of Peniarthucha, in the county of Merioneth.
Michael Linning Melville, Esq., of Hartfield Grove, Sussex,
and of Lincoln’s Inn, barrister-at-law, late H.M. Judge at
Sierra Leone in the Courts of Mixed Commissions, on the 22nd
ult., aged seventy-three, having survived his wife only six
months. Mr. Melville was son of the late Robert Melville,
Esq., M.A., M.D., by Barbara, his wife, daughter of Benjamin
Crosthwaite, Esq., of Greystone, Cumberland.
Henry Buckworth Powell-Montgomery, Esq., J.P. and D.L.,
of Wilverley Park, Lyndhurst, late Captain Grenadier Guards,
on the 24th ult., at Wilverley, aged fifty-eight He was eldest
son of Henry Weyland Powell, Esq., of Foxlease Park, Hamp¬
shire, and assumed the additional surname of Montgomery in
1871. He married, 1869, Loretta Emmeline, only daughter of
Colonel Northey, and widow of Sir William Dixon, Bart.
The Rev. Langhome Burton Burton, M.A., of Somersby,
Rector of Bag, Enderby, and Somersby, on the 25th ult., at
his Rectory. He was the eldest son of the late William Burton
Raynor-Burton, Esq., of Somersby, who assumed the latter
surname on inheriting the estates of his great-uncle, Robert
Burton, Esq., of Lincoln, and of Enderby Hall. He married,
in 1837, Charlotte, daughter of the Rev. John Hale, Rector of
Holton, and leaves a daughter, Lucy Katharine, wife of
B. Rothes Langton, Esq., of Langton, and four sons.
Genius works with any tools and on any materials. It is
stated that at the second Annual Industrial Exhibition, opened
in Hove on Tuesday, was a case of beautifully carved little
nicknacs, which had been made by a street scavenger out of
the tooth-picks he had found in the streets.
The Christian Evidence Society have issued the list of
prizes and certificates awurded at their eighth annual examina¬
tion in Christian evidences. In the advanced grade—in the
“ General Evidences of Christianity,” the first prize was taken
by John P. Dallen, of London ; the second by Florence Jewell,
of Emsworth ; the third by Edward B. Lawson, of Leeds. In
“ Miracles,” the first prize was taken by C. F. Cooper, of
Liverpool; the second by Bessie L. Inwood, of St. Albans.
In the elementary grade examination—in Whately's “ Christian
"Evidences” and Bateman’s “ Why do you Believe the Bible?”
the first prize was taken by Georgina S. Pelling, of Belfast;
the second by William Hunter, of Belfast; the third by A. M.
Cowell, of London; the fourth by Susanna E. Young, of
London; for the fifth prize the following Were equal—Jessie
Cassels, of London; John P. Lovley, Maggie Stinson, and
Federata Williamson, all of Belfast. Upwards of seventy
first and second class certificates were also awarded in the two
grades. Copies of the list and of the scheme of study and
examination may be obtained at the office of the society,
2, Duke-street, Adelphi, W.C. The society are desirous to
extend this most important and useful department of their
work by promoting the study of evidences in high schools and
among Sunday-school teachers and others.
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PROBLEM No. 1794.
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THE PARIS INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT.
The following pair of brilliant games were played in the fourth round of
this tourney between Mr. H. E. Bird, of London, and the German master,
Herr Andersen, of Breslau .—(Giuoco Piano.)
white (Herr A.) black (Mr. B.) white (Herr A.) black (Mr. B.)
1. P to K 4th PtoK-ith 16. KttoK4th Kt to ft Kt 5th
“ 17. Kt to B 6th (ch) P takes Kt
18. ft to Kt 3rd (ch) B to Kt 5th
Kt to B 8rd The only reply. If lie had moved the
P takes P K to li so, then follows—18. Kt takes
Kt 5th (ch) P (ch); and 19. R to Ksth (ch). Ac. Whit
2. Kt to K B 3rd Kt to ft B 3rd
3. B to B 4th B to B 4th
4. P to ft B 3rd Kt to B 3rd
6. P to ft 4th
6. P takes P
7. B to Q 2nd
8. ft Kt takes B
9. P takes P
10. ft to Kt 3rd
1.. Castles (K R)
12 K R to K sq
B takes B (ch)
P to ft 4th
K Kt takes P
ft Kt to K 2nd
Castles
P to ft B 3rd
13. Kt to K 6th _
14. B takes Kt Kt takes B
15. ft to ft 3rd
Exchanging Queens would probably
__ and would_
safer, though unquestionably more dull.
“ " is of play up- 1 ‘‘'‘
u which White
c-'
with Kt.
19. ft takes B (ch) K to R sq
20. ft R to ft Kt sq ft to B 6th
21. ft to B 5th Kt to ft 4tl
22. Kt to ft 7th K R to K s
£ R to ft B sq ft takes P
24. R takes Kt P R to K 3rd
25. P to K R 3rd R to K Kt sq
26. KttoB5th R to K 4th
27. ft to ft 3rd
An oversight that Affords Blsck a
opportunity for a striking termination.
27. R tks Kt P (ch),
and White resigned; for should he now take the R with K, then follows
28. Kt to B 5th (ch), winning the ft ; and if he play 27. K to R sq, White
continues with 28. ft takes KBP, &c.
white (Mr. B.) black (Herr A.)
1. PtoK4th P to ft B 4th
2. Kt to K B3rd PtoK3rd
3. Kt to ft B 3rd Kt to ft B 3rd
4. B to ft Kt 5th Kt to ft 5th
6. Kt takes Kt
6. Kt to K 2nd
7. Kt to Kt 3rd
8. ft to K2nd
e Players .—(Sicilian Defence.')
P takes Kt brilliant style; indeed, his play in the
Kt to B 3rd two games before us is marked by all the
- - 'vigour and inpuuitjrtl " '
>nd player loses time, and.
becomes practically lost
9. P to ft Kt 3rd
10. B to ft 3rd
11. B to Kt 2nd
12 Castles (K R)
13. P to K B 4th
14. Kt to R 5th
15. R to K B 3rd
16. Kt to Kt 3rd
17. P to B 6th
18. P takes Kt P
doped.
P to ft R 3rd
P to ft 3>d
P to K 4th
Castles
R to K sq
Kt to Kt 5th
P to K Kt 3rd
B to ft R 2nd
P to ft 4th
R P takes P
white (Mr. B.). black (Herr A.)
19. ft R to K B sq P takes P
20. ft takes P B to K 3rd
21. R takes KBP
capital stroke, and quite In Mr. Bird's
t might b
re little of tl
keen perception of positli . _
.. play of that great master is usual 1;
distinguished.
21. B takes R
22. R takes B fttoKKt4th
If, 22. K takes R, White wins easily by
23. y takes 1‘ <ch).
13. ft takes ft Kt P ft to R 5th
24. P to K R 3rd Kt to B 3rd
25. R to Kt 7th (ch) K to R sq
26. R takes Kt P R to K Kt sq
27. It takes Kt
After this Block has no resonros.
P to K 5th
ft takes P, and Black resigned.
CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
The management of the Paris Congress and the competitors are alike to be
congratulated upon the punctuality with whioh the several rounds in the
tourney have been commenced and brought to a conclusion. Since our last
'—lie. in which we published the score of the players down to the cona¬
tion of the third round, two more rounds, the fourth and fifth, have
in contested. The result of the fourth was that Bird won two games of
Andersen, Hlackburne won one and drew one with Englisch, Clurc won one
an i lost one with Mackenzie, Rosenthal won two of Uifford, Zukertort won
one and drew one with Mason, and Winawei won two of Pitzchel. In the
fifth round Andersen won oue and lost one with Mason, Bird won one and
lost one with Clerc, Blaekbume won one and lost one with Mackenzie,
Englisch wen one and lost one with Winawer, Rosenthal won two games of
Pitzchel, onl Zukertort won two of Gifford. In perusing the following
score, which shows the result of the play down to Wednesday last, the day
u]>on which this part of the present Issue was sent to press, our readers will
hear in mind that each competitor hus to play two games with all the others,
and that drawn games count half a point to each side
Won. Drawn. Lout. Score.
Winawer
Hlackburne .
Rosenthal
Zukertort
Andersen
Clerc ...
Englisch
Bird .
Mackenzie ..
Mason
Gifford
Pitschel
‘4
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated May 15,1878) of Sir Frederick Leopold Arthur,
Bart., late of Queen’s-gate, Hyde Park, who died ou the 1st
ult., was proved on the 19th ult. by William Mackinnon,
Francis Lloyd, and Llewelyn Malcolm Wynne, the executors,
the persbnal estate being sworn under £70,000. The testator
gives to his executors £100 each; to his wife, furniture and
household effects and pecuniary legacies amounting together
to £750.; to his brother, John Raynor Arthur, £2000; to his
younger sons, £8000 each, and to his daughters, £4000 each,
in addition to their portions charged on his real estate. The
residue of his personalty is directed to be laid out in the pur¬
chase of real estate, which is to be settled to the use of his
eldest son for life, with remainder to his first and other sons in
tail male.
The will (dated March 19, 1878) with a codicil (dated
May 21, 1878) of Mr. William Chapman Ilewitson, late of
Oatlands Park, Surrey, who died on March 28 last, was proved
on the 11th ult. by John Hancock, Samuel Stevens, and
Henley Grose Smith, the executors, the personal estate being
sworn under £70,000. The testator bequeaths £10,000 to the
Infirmary of Newcastle - on - Tyne, Northumberland, and
Durham; £5000 to the Orphan House, Ashley Down, near
Bristol, established by George Muller; £3000 each to the
London City Mission, Bridewell-place, and the Natural
History Society cf Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-
on-Tyne; £2000 each to the Wesleyan Missionary Society, the
Refuges for Homeless and Destitute Children, the Arethusa
and Chichester Ships, and the Surrey County Hospital,
Guildford ; £1000 each to the Metropolitan Convalescent
Institution, Walton-on-Thames, the Charing-Cross Hospital,
and the London Missionary Society; £500 to the Horley
House Institute for Training Missionaries, Bow; and £200
to the Society for the Suppression of Vice. His entire
collection of butterflies, with the cabinet and store-boxes, the
testator leaves to the British Museum, on certain conditions,
one of which is that it is to be called “the Hewitson Col¬
lection ; ” 250 catalogues of it are to be printed by his executors
at the cost of his estate, and distributed among museums and
lepidopterists, as they may see fit. To the Natural History
Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-on-
Tyne he leaves all his natural history books, except Gould’s
Birds. There are numerous legacies to “ the following worthy
persons, some of them brother naturalists, with my love,” and
to others. All his real estate is directed to be sold, and the
residue of his property is given to the said John Hancock.
The will (dated May 12, 1878) of Sir William Grey,
K.C.S.I., late of Marldon, Devon, who died on May 15 last,
was proved on the 20th ult. by Edward Harbord Lushingtou
and William Francis Hungerford Grey, the son, the acting
executors, the personal estate being sworn under £60,000.
The testator leaves to his wife, Dame Georgina Chicheley
Grey, his household furniture and effects, £400, and a life
annuity of £900; and there are some other bequests. The
residue of his property is directed to be divided between his
two sons, William Francis Hungerford Grey and Leopold
James Henry Grey, and all the children by his present wile.
The will (dated May 18, 1869) with three codicils (dated
Dec. 23, 1871; March 3, 1874; and Aug. 6, 1875) of Mrs.
Diana Caroline Brown, late of No. 72, Marina, St. Leonard’s,
who died on May 11 last, was proved on the 25th ult. by
her husband, Henry Alexander Brown, and Arthur Henry
Clerke Brown, the executors, the personal estate bwing sworn
under £50,000. The testatrix bequeaths £100 each to the Church
Pastoral Aid Society, the Soldiers’ Friend and Army Scripture
Readers Society, and the Friend of the Clergy Corporation for
the Widows and Orphans of Clergymen ; and £50 each to the
Scripture Readers’ Society, the Church Missionary Society, the
London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews,
and the Royal Naval Scripture Readers’ Society. There are a
large number of bequests to relatives and others, the principal
legatees being testatrix’s nieces, Mrs. Lora Lubbock, Miss
Caroline Neville, and Miss Augusta Neville.
The will (dated Dec. 20,1873) with two codicils (dated Feb.
13, 1875, and April 16, 1878) of Mr. Ramsay Robinson Clarke,
late of No. 42, Jermyn-street, and of No. 9, Argyle-place,
Regent-street, who died on April 20 last, was proved ou the
5th ult. by Frederick George Berkeley, the nephew, and
Frederick Mowbray Berkeley Calcott, the acting executors,
the personal estate being sworn under £30,000. The testator,
after making some bequests, bequeaths the residue of his
property to his sisters Lucy Clarke and Susan Berkeley, and
the children of his deceased sister Catherine Bryan.
The will and codicil (both dated July 31, 1872) of Mr.
Daniel Birt, late of No. 10, Blessington-road, Lee, Kent,
Barrister-at-Law, who died on May 16 last, were proved on
the 6th ult. by Mrs. Amelia Birt, the widow, the sole executrix,
the personal estate being sworn under £30,000 The testator
bequeaths to his wife £200 and his furniture; and there arc a
few other legacies. The residue of his estate is left upon trust
for his wife for life, or until she marries again, and then tor
all his children.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
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Modem Frenchmen. By P. G. Humerton. Five Biographies. (Seeley,
Jackson, and Co.)
Henning’s Cyclopaedia of Freemasonry. (Geo. Kenning, 198, Fleet-street.)
A Handy Dictionary of Commercial Information, By Edward T. Blakeley.
(Siinpkin, Marshall, and Co.)
The Art of Grafting an 1 Budding. By C. Baltet. Illustrated. (Macmillan.)
Sea Songs. Bv W. C. Bennett. (Chapman and Hall.)
The History of the Robins. By Mrs. Trimmer. Hlustrated by Harrison
Weir. (Griffith and Farran.)
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Griffin and Co.. Portsmouth.)
The System of the World : Winds, Currents, Tides, &c. By Wm Leighton
.Tor an. F R.G.8. Second Edition. (Hardwick and Bogue.)
An Essay on Consumption, its Nature and Treatment, &c. By Godwin W.
Timms, M D. Second Edition. (Buillu'i e an Co.)
Elements of International Law. By Henry Win aton, I.T. D English
Edition With Notes and Appendix of Matures snd Tieaties to 'lie
Present Time, by A. C Boyd, LI.. B (Stevens and Sons, Chancery-lam- )
From Bondage to Freedom. A Tale of the Rise of Mohammedanism.
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Hardy Flowers. By W. Robinson, F L.S. Third and die p- dition. 'Mac.
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Stones of England. Westminster Abbey. By Wmsett Boulding. (Bemrose.)
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tin the Oth inst., at 7, Endslcigh-fstreet,
Griffiths t mith, of a son.
daughter.
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MARRIAGES.
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to Matilda Catherine, only
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SUNDAY, July 14.
I 8t. James’s, noon, Rev.Canon Harvey.
Whitehall, 11 a.m., the Bishop of
1 Gibraltar, Dr. C. W. Sandford;
3 p.m., Rev.W. F. Erskrne KuoUys.
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the Bishop of Colombo.
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i Chaplain in Ordinary- to the Queen;
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Rev. G. W. Bourke, Rector ol
,, Couisdon, Croydon.
' Temple Church, 11 a.m., probably
Rev. Dr. Vaughan, the Master;
3 p.m., Rev. A. Ainger. the Reader.
St James’s, Westminster, afternoon,
the Bishop of Derry (Sanderson
, the Judicious Preacher).
■ National Rifle Association, Wim-
bledon, Divine service, 11 a.m.
Pom th Sunday after Trinity.
Souring Lessons : 1 Sam. xii.; Acts
xviii. to 24. Evening Lessons ■
1 8am. xiii. or Ruth i.; Matt. vi. 19
Semonshtt many churches on behalf
of the Society for the Propagation
of t>e G of pel by Bishops attending
the Lambeth Conference.
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p m., the Bishop of Western New
■Westminster Abbey, 10 am. the
Bithop of Louisiana (Dr. Wilmer);
j m, Rev. Dr. Potter (of New
Yoik); 7 p m., Bishop of I
sylvunia (Dr. Stevens).
MONDAY, July 15. .
6t Swithin. Bishop of Winchester. | Society , for T
Royal Agricultural Society, Bristol
R ose eytinge,
from Charles DickenB
OLVMI’IC THEATRE.
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, OLIVER TWIBT. ’
, as NANCY SIKES,
EVERY EVENING at Blght.-
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CTTHMAN REED’S ENTERTAINMENT.
-w. CBnrnand : the PARIS EXHIBITION^*
„. EVkllt
Saturday at
Langhftin-
/^tROSVENOR GALLERY. SUMMER
G Open Silly from Nine a.m. until Six p.m. Ad
exhibition.
Admission. H.
ceded to her by the Sultan and sanctioned by the Congress.
The Ottoman Empire on the other side of the Bosphorus,
in fact is guaranteed to the Porte by her Majesty’s
Government, and the cession of Cyprus is nominally
assented to as a means to the end.
We have no materials for judging how this convention
will he regarded by the British Public. The arrangement
has been made and may he described as a fait accompli.
TNST1TUTE OF T Ae 4 mmoYtm^io rtl^oSS’
-L T h* iPu^k. Admission, is.
- without any previous
consultation either with Parliament,
Open from Nine till D
SiSStt.'S. So. B ond—trat. W. W.IOt... .. .
, i A1 r WALTON— EXHIBITION of ISLE OF
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CRYSTAL PALACE
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PICTURE - GALLERY.
r the Season with a NEW COLLECTION
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Knowledge, special meeting,2 p.m.
St. Paul’s Cathedral, 8 p.m.. Free
and Open Church Association,
anniversary service, the Bishop of
Albany. . . _
Redruth Horticultural and Poultry
Show (two day!
Athletic Meeting, Market
borough.
Hur-
E °Iwt A £ay), "showyard,
parade of horses, noon.
National Biflc Association, 9 a.m.,
Albert: 200, 600, and 900 yards;
Royal Masonic Institution for Bovs,
general court, Freemasons Hall,
2 p.m. •
TUESDAY, July 16.
National Rifle Association, t) a m., | Humane Society, committee, 4 p.m.
sessur*£i
Asvlmii for Fatherless Fenehureh-streetstation. 12 30p.m.
E Cbildnn, ^m“l meeting and Yachting : Royal Alfred Yacht Club
British °Horological institute, anni- Races: Uverpool July Meeting, and
vcitary, 8 p.m. I Winchester.
WEDNESDAY, July 17.
THE ILLUSTRATED
PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION.
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L’EXPOSITION UNrVERSELLE DE 1878 ILLUSTREE,
in continuation of the Illustrated Journal issued in 1867 under the
authority of the Imperial Commission, is issued every Tuesday,
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Natimal Rifle Association, 9 a.m. :
Donegall Cup, Chancellors Plate,
Cabdrivcra’ Benevolent Association,
annual meeting, at the Grafton
Ball (Maiquia Townsbend —
chair).
THURSDAY, July 18.
National Rifle Association, 9 a m.,; ltoyid Toxophilite Society, third
for the Gallipoli Hospital.
Burton-on-Trent Regatta.
St. Neots Agricidtural and Poultry
Show. , „ ..
Oundle Poultry, Flower, and Fran.
Show.
CasUe Donington Poultry, Pigeon,
and Rabbit Show; also Athletic
Sports.
[ Spalding Horse Show (two days;.
T1TLEPAGE AND INDEX.
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issuing the Titlepage and Index apart from our ordinary
publication, especially in the case of the numerous sub¬
scribers to the Illustrated London News living abroad,
we beg to inform our readers that the Titlepage and Index
to Engravings of the Seventy-Second Volume (from
Januaiy to June, 1878), just completed, will be given
with next week’s issue.
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LONDON: SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1878.
Echo Shield, Ashburton Shield,
and 6pencer Cup (Public Schools), i
Aimy and Navy, second stage, Ac. I
Bedfordshire Agricultural Society
fchow, Luton. , _
Nottingham Agricultural Society,
Poultry and Pigeon Show.
target.
Regattas: Metropolitan Amateurs;
Alexandra Yactit Club ; Royal St.
George Yacht Club (two days).
Havre Annual Regatta (live days).
Races : Southampton; Kempton
Park (threedays).
FRIDAY, July 19.
Duke of Cambridge's, Loyd-Lind-
- . gay (Mounted Prizes), Ac.
Society Tor Propagat ion of the Gospel,
Grand--
Btielitz, born, 1822.
National Rifle Association, 9 a
SATURDAY, July 20.
National Rifle Association, distri- Clecklienton Cattle, Horse, Poultry,
HSt^ciety, promenade, | Y^g^^of WMes^and
Cobden' Club dinner, Ship Hotel, | mersmith Sailing Club.
Greenwich.
Regatta, Kingston-on-Thames.
Athletic Sports: Whitworth,Halifax,
| St. Helen’s.
THE WEATHER.
RESULTS OP METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT THE
KEW OBSERVATORY OF THE BOYAL SOCIETY.
Lat. 51° 28’ 6" N.; Long. 0 3 18' 47" W.; Height above Sea, 34 feet.
*!ri
General
Direction.
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i fi-
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62-31 51-9
70'6 47-4
70 1154 ‘2
74 0157-9
71-7 55-5
68 5 66-7
71-11 51-•
The following are the readings of the meteorological instruments for the
above dnyB, in order, at ten o’clock a.m. :—
Barometer (in inches) corrected .. 129-S99 1 30-124 I 30;OM I 29*973 I 29-974 I 30-053 I 30T5S
Tenmeniture of Air .. •• >• I 159*1° I 62 2 3 | t»l 4° 1 67 l a [ WS 1 64 6° I 6, 4®
Temperature of Evaporation .. .. j 52-7° | 5E9 3 j 5*-7° j M-V> j 59-7^ | 67 0^ j
Sunday. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday.) Thursday. Friday. Saturday.
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PICCADILLY.
PHE MOORE and BURGESS MINSTRELS,
_L FORTY ARTISTS OF KNOWN EMINENCE.
THE FRF.SENT YEAR IS THE THIRTEENTH OF THE MOORE AND BURGESS
UNINTERRUPTED SEASON AT THE ST. JAMES’S HALL, LONDON,
an event without a parallel in the history of the World's Amusement.
FautenilB. 6s.; Sofa Stalls. 3s. ; Area, Raised and Cushioned Seats, 2s.; llnlcony.ls.
Doors open for all Day Performances at 2.30, for the Evening Performances at 7.0.
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of the Hall. PlaceB can be secured, without extra charge, at Austin’s Tickefc-offiee.
fct. James’s Hal), daily, from nine a.m.
We take for granted that with the close of the present
week the Congress at Berlin will have finished its labours
and have signed a European Treaty for the present—and,
perhaps, for the final—settlement of the “ Eastern
Question.” The result of its deliberations has been stig¬
matised by some as “ a patched up peace,” not likely to
he maintained unbroken for five years, or for ten, at most.
Such a prediction is tinged with party passion. Six weeks
ago war was in like manner declared to he inevitable.
The forecast, however, has been belied by the event, and
it is something to have removed the probability of the
awful calamity from the immediate preseut to the proxi¬
mate future. But is there any solid reason for anticipating
this comparative failure of the work of the Congress. We
confess we see none. No doubt, there will be some remain¬
ing swell after the stormhaspassed harmlessly by. Compro¬
mises have been effected which leave none of thePowers much
room for triumph—Turkey, perhaps, least of all; but, on
the whole, there seems a fair prospect that the new
arrangements agreed upon will settle down into something
like substantial tranquillity, and that the world may resume
its industrial and commercial occupations with some con¬
fidence that they will not he suddenly disturbed by an
outbreak of hostilities. We take leave, therefore, to rejoice
in what has been done, not only as an instant good, hut
as containing within itself the germs of future benefit;
and, so far as relates to the Eastern Question in its modem
phases, we hope we have heard the last of it.
The interest, however, of the British people in the
success of the Berlin Congress is, for the time being,
eclipsed by the excitement caused by the official com¬
munication to it of the Anglo-Turldsh defensive alliance,
and of the cession of Cyprus. The Convention which
embodies and records these momentous issues is dated
June 4. It was kept a profound secret until a few
days since. There had been, it is true, rumours,
originating in more than one quarter, indicating with
more or less definite significance the conclusion now
home out by the facts of the case. There can he
no question of the gravity of those facts, looked at
from whatever point of view. England is pledged by
the document already designated to protect by military
force the Asiatic Frontiers of the Sultan’s posses¬
sions against any future aggression by Russia, and to
prevent all future extension of the limits assigned to
Russia by the Congress. With a view to this Turkey cedes
to England the occupation and administration of tho
Island of Cyjirus so long as Russia retains the territory
or with the’constituencies. It has been like tho fall of a
thunderbolt from a clear sky. It is, perhaps, the most
unqualified exercise of prerogative which has been ventured
upon during the present century. It sets aside without cere¬
mony the traditional usage of the Foreign Office. Techni¬
cally, it is constitutionally correct, as it would be techni¬
cally' correct for her Majesty, upon tho advice of her
Ministers, to veto any measure which has passed both
Houses of Parliament. The right of the Crown to conclude
treaties with Foreign Powers is indisputable. But the usual
practice has been, informally at least, to take into con¬
sideration the ascertained wishes of the country in the
exercise of that right in all matters of high importance.
In this instance the nation stands pledged to a policy the
hearings of which may prove to he incalculably momentous
both in regard to its duties and to its interests, without
so much as knowing beforehand what has been done in
its name. The mode in which the transaction has been
effected will, perhaps, he more seriously regarded than
the end which has been thus achieved. It is an innovation,
and a bold one, upon constitutional custom. It will
inevitably challenge energetic discussion; and, although
it may he looked upon as morally certain that it will
receive the sanction of the present Parliament, it is not at
all impossible that it will initiate changes tending rather
to the restriction than to the expansion of tho action of
the Crown in respect of the control of our foreign policy.
Apart from the manner in which the constitutional
right of the Sovereign has been employed, the substance
of the Convention may he variously criticised. There is,
no doubt, something to he said in its favour. The very
definiteness of the object at which it aims will tend to
promote—and, perhaps, peacefully promote—its success¬
ful operation. It brings us face to face with Russia on
so sharp ft line of separation that it will probably
induce caution on both sides, and, by inducing caution,
will discourage intrigue. The effect of it will he,
we trust, largely beneficial to the subjects of the Porte„
whether Mohammedan or Christian, in Syria, Asia
Minor, and Mesopotamia; for it is evident that we
cannot protect the Turkish Power against external
foes without internal interference with such maladminis¬
tration of Turkish authority as all experience has proved
to he most provocative of aggression. The history of
India will probably he repeated in the Asiatic possessions
of the Sultan. England will stand between that Potentate
and his Asiatic subjects, and will feel herself responsible
for such reforms as will ensure moderately good govern¬
ment. It may be that she will prevail upon the Turkish
Sovereign to call in the aid of tried and skilled adminis¬
trators from India, and to sustain them in their action
for the benefit of the inhabitants. It may he so, we
repeat ; hut what a tremendous accession to our
national responsibilities does the possibility involve!
The military aspect of the subject is of minor im¬
portance as compared with its political hearing. AU this
has to he maturely considered. We have had put upon
us an undertaking which, even if it should confer certain
advantage upon Western Asiatic races, may seriously
pre judice the interests of our people at home. We refrain
from pronouncing any hasty judgment on the thing done,
nor do we urge the duty of refusing national responsibility
where results greatly conducive to humanity may be
anticipated. But, on the other hand, we may rationally
pause before assenting to a career which wiU unquestion¬
ably multiply the political obligations of the country and
will expose it to dangers which cannot bo contemplated
without lively apprehension.
Neither the defensive alliance with Turkey nor the
cession of Cyprus to England will affect in any way the
business of the Congress, nor is it likely to put in peri
the Berlin Treaty. It lies outside the range of the affairs
which that diplomatic assembly was summoned to discuss
and adjust. It will he differently viewed, of course, by
different European Powers. It offers no affront to either
of them. It can hardly be said to touch their amour
propre. It seems a pity, therefore, that it should have
come upon them as a cotip dt theatre. But its real purport
affects England only, and it is here at home that final
judgment of it will have to he pronounced.
A down train was leaving Chester ou Monday evening, aud
had reached the junction of the Birkenhead and Holyheaa
lines, when the last two carriages left the rails, and about tliir y
persons were injured, one of whom has since died.
The Duke of Cambridge, accompanied by several members
of the Horse Guards staff, visited Aldershott on Monday, an
witnessed a sham fight by about 16,000 of all arms. 1 lie forc .
were divided into two armies, the northern being cotniu nw
by General Wardlaw and the southern by General Anclerso -
r llic general idea was that Lieutenant-General Warulaw
division was supposed to represent the advanced guard or
northern army moving from Wokingham through Inraley,
the direction of the Fox Hills, and Major-General Anderso
■ division was considered as representing the advanced gaan
1 u southern army murching from the direction of Godalmmg.
JULY 13, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
27
THE COURT.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, came to London
on Saturday last, and visited the Duchess of Cambridge, at
St. James’s Palace, where her Majesty met the Grand Duke of
Mccklenburg-Strelitz, the Duke of Cambridge, and the Duchess
of Teck. The Queen travelled by a special train on the Great
Western Railway to and from Paddington, and returned to
Windsor shortly before eight p.m. Mr. and Lady Florence
Chaplin and the Lord Chancellor dined with her Majesty.
The Queen, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold attended
Divine service on Sunday in the private chapel of the castle.
The Rev. Capel Cure, Rector of St. George’s, Hanover-squore,
officiated. The Grand Duke of Mccklenburg-Strelitz visited
her Majesty on Monday, and remained to luncheon.
Mr. Theodore Martin arrived at the castle, and dined with the
QueeD. Princess Christian dined with her Majesty on Tuesday.
Princess Beatrice came to London and went to the Royal
Italian Opera, Covent Garden. The Duke of Connaught
accompanied her Royal Highness to the Opera, after which
she returned to Windsor. Miss Violet Lindsay arrived at the
castle. Count Gleichen visited the Queen on Wednesday, and
remained to luncheon. The Judge Advocate-General had an
audience of her Majesty. The Queen has taken her usual out-
of-door exercise.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
The Prince of Wales visited the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Grand Duke of Mccklenburg-Strelitz at St. James’s Palace
yesterday week. The Duke of Connaught visited the Prince
and Princess at Marlborough House, and remained to'hmcheon.
The Grand Duke of Mccklenburg-Strelitz likewise visited their
Royal Highnesses. The Grand Duke and the Duke also
lunched with the Prince and Princess on Saturday last.
Colonel C. S. Gzouski (of Canada), President of the Dominion
of Canada Rifle Association, was presented at Marlborough
House on Monday to the Prince by Sir John Rose. Tne
Princess, with her daughters, has driven out daily.
The Prince and Princess will have a garden party at Marl -
borough House this (Saturday) afternoon, to “ meet her
Majesty the Queen.”
The Prince has appointed Captain Henry Frederick
Stephenson, C.B., Royal Navy, to be Equerry in Waiting to
hiB Royal Highness, vice Major John Cecil Russell, resigned,
and Major John Cecil Russell to be extra Equerry to his Royal
Highness. The Hon. Mrs. A. Hardinge has succeeded the
Hon. Mrs. Stonor as Lady in Waiting to the Princess.
The Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess (Princess Alice)
of Hesse and Princess Ella arrived at Buckingham Palace yes¬
terday week from Flushing. They were received on landing
at Queenborough by Colonel du Platt, Equerry to the Queen,
who attended them (travelling on the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway) to London. Shortly before noon their Royal
Highnesses left Buckingham Palace and proceeded by the
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway to Eastbourne.
The Prince and Frincess of Wales visited their Royal High¬
nesses at Buckingham Palace and accompanied them to the
Victoria station.
Princess Christian presided on Wednesday at the twenty-
eighth annual meeting of the Prince Consort’s Windsor
Association and distributed the prizes, numbering nearly 200.
Princess Louise of Lome and the Marquis of Lome paid a
visit last week to Prince Waldemar and Princesses Vietoire,
Sophie, and Margaret of Germany, who are staying at the
Cavendish Hotel, Eastbourne.
The Duke of Connaught has appointed Captain Maurice
Fitzgerald, of the Rifle Brigade, now extra Equerry, to be
Equerry to his Royal Highness; also Lieutenant-Colonel
Arthur Frederick Pickard, V.C., of the Royal Artillery, to bo
extra Equerry ; and Captain Alfred Mordaunt Egerton, of the
Royal Horse Guards, to be Equerry to his Royal Highness, in
the room of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Frederick Pickard, V.C.,
of the Royal Artillery, appointed extra Equerry.
Prince Waldemar with Princesses Vietoire, Sophie, and
Margaret of Prussia, visited the Brighton Royal Aquarium
o n Monday.
The Grand Duke of Mccklenburg-Strelitz dined with Lord
and Lady Egerton of Tatton on Monday at their residence
in St. Jnmes’s-square.
The Duke and Duchess of Teck have dined with the Earl
and Countess of llchester and with Lady Molesworth.
The Archbishop of Dublin aind the Hon. hits. Chenevix
Trench have arrived in Arlington-strcet, Piccadilly.
His Excellency the Brazilian Minister and the Baroness de
Tenedo have left London for the Continent. During the
Minister’s absence the Chevalier de Souza Correa will act as
C'harge-d’Affaires.
The Duke of Devonshire held his second reception on Wed¬
nesday at Devonshire House.
FASHIONABLE MARRLVOE8.
The marriage of the Earl of Lonsdale and Lady Gladys
Herbert, youngest daughter of Lady Herbert of Lea and
sister of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, was
solemnised on Saturday at St. Paul’s Church, Wilton-place.
The Earl of Lonsdale arrived with the Right Hon. James
Lowther, M.P., his best man. The bride, who came with her
mother, was received by her brother, the Hon. Sidney Herbert,
M.P., who gave her away, in the absence of the Earl of
Pembroke, through indisposition. The bridesmaids were Lady
Sybil Lowther and Lady Verona Lowther, sisters of the bride¬
groom, Lady Augusta Rous, and Miss A’Court. The bride
wore a pearl-white satin duchesse princesse dress with a long
train and ruffles of Brussels point lace. The skirt was
trimmed with Brussels point flounces, arranged with fringes
of orange-blossoms. Her hair was worn a la Greque, with a
diadem of diamonds and pearls, and wreath of orange- j
blossoms, over which flowed a long Brussels lace veil, fastened
to the hair by diamond stars. Her other jewels were a pearl
and diamond necklace, and bracelets en suite. The bridesmaids
were dressed in the style of Louis Quinze, with waistcoats of
white silk over a jupe of white muslin and lace, the whole
being trimmed with gold braid. They wore caps of soft red
silk with gold aigrettes, and each wore a diamond arrow
brooch, with the initials “ G. L. ” in rubies and diamonds,
surmounted by a coronet tipped with pearls, the gift of the
bridegroom. The service was performed by the Ven. Arch¬
deacon Buchanan, assisted by the Hon. and Rev. Robert
Liddell, the Vicar of St. Paul’s. The wedding party after¬
wards went to Herbert House, Chcsham-place, where Lady
Herbert of Lea gave a breakfast ; and shortly before one
o clock the Earl of Lonsdale and his bride proceeded to
Huston, on their way tc Lowther Castle, Penrith, where they
pass the honeymoon. The Countess’s travelling dress was of
ouve silk and Indian cashmere, with trimmings of shaded
gold and fringe, and mantle and bonnet en suite, the latter
nemg ornamented with poppies and shaded gold. The wedding
p.i Bents wire unusually numerous. Prince Leopold presented
tountess with a lace fan mounted in mother-of-pearl,
ana i° n !, e s $fts to his bride were of enormous value,
a valuable presents were sent by the tenantry and house¬
holds upon the Fcvcral estates of both families and from the
inhabitants of Whitehaven.
„ r .Th e marriage of Mr. Walter Hume Long, of Rood Ashton,
Wilts, with the Lady Dorothy Boyle, fourth daughter of
the Earl and Countess of Cork and Orrery, is fixed to take
place on Thursday, Aug. 1, at St. George’s Church, Hanover-
square; that of le Comte de Lasteyrie and Miss Goodlake is
fixed for Saturday, July 20; and that of Miss Whatman to
Captain Arthur G. Dugdule, Royal Artillery, on Thursday,
July 2o, at Boxley church, Kent.
Marriages are arranged between Earl Beauchamp and Lady
Emily Pierrepont, daughter of Earl and Countess Minvers;
between the Hon. Richard Maitland Dawson, third sou of the
Earl of Dartrey, and Mies Long, daughter of Colon;! Long:
also between the Hon. Anthony Lucius Dawson, youngest sou
of the Earl of Dartrey, and the Hon. Mary Frances de Ros,
only child of Lord de Ros ; between the Hon. Wilbraham
Tollemache, M.P., eldest son of Lord ToUemache of Helmiug-
ham, and Miss Mary Stuart Hamilton, youngest daughter of
Lord and Lady Claud Hamilton; and between Mr. Gerald
Spencer, R.H.A., eldest son of Colonel the Hon. Robert
Spencer, and Miss Meyrick, eldest daughter of Sir George
Meyrick, Bart., of Hinton Admiral, Hants.
THE ROYAL VISIT TO NOTTINGHAM.
The opening, on Wednesday week, of the new Midland
Counties Art-Museum, in the restored buildings of Nottingham
Castle, and the festive reception of the Prince and Princess of
Wales in that ancient town, with their stay of two or three
days at Bestwood Hall, the seat of the Duke of St. Albans,
were described in our last publication. Wo gave Illustrations
of the exterior and interior of the Museum, and one of the old
Castle, as it existed in the sixteenth century, the edifice more
recently called by that name being the stately mansion of the
Dukes of Newcastle, in the Greco-Italian style of architecture,
which has been left in ruins since the incendiary fire of the
Reform Bill riots in 1831. Several Illustrations are now pre¬
sented of the procession that escorted their Royal Highnesses
through the town and up to the Castle on Wednesday week,
and of the ceremony at the formal opening of the Museum
and the Loan Exhibition of works of art prepared for this
occasion.
The scene in the well-known picturesque and old-fashioned
Market-place, where a vast multitude of Sunday school
children were assembled to greet the Royal Visitors with the
singing of “ God Bless the Prince of Wales,” was full of ani¬
mation. The whole place was decorated upon a systematic and
uniform plau. The houses were adorned with festoous of
artificial flowers, backed with white lace on a crimson ground,
extended below the first-floor windows, and above the con¬
tinuous row of pillars; a different series of festoons, like¬
wise on a crimson ground, was placed over the windows;
there was a trophy, composed of six sin ill fligs,
between each two windows of the upper storeys, with
the flags of all nations at the windows ; and larger
banners, on flagstaffs, were displayed at the summit of the
buildings. One house was entirely covered with bright blue
decorations. Along the side pavement were erected poles of
ornamental appearance, surmounted by scarlet, blue, or yellow
standards, and bearing also trophies of small different-
coloured flags, similar to those in the upper front of the
houses, with a line of miniature flags stretched all the way
between the poles. The Market-place contained, altogether,
more than a thousand flags, and a thousand yards of crimson
baize, with five hundred yards of lace, were used in its house
decorations. In front of Long Row, at the hour of the Royal
procession through the town, were gathered about 17,000
children, marshalled in tolerable order by the teachers aid
superintendents of the Sunday schools. They sang now and
then, to beguile the time of waiting, either the National
Anthem, or the Old Hundredth, or one of Mooly and
Sankey’s hymns. The procession arrived at the Market-place
about half-past twelve o’clock. It was preceded by an escort
of the Lancers and the Notts Yeomanry Cavalry. The fore¬
most two carriages were those containing the officials of the
Friendly Societies, the Oddfellows, the Foresters, the Albion, and
others, attired in their regalia. Next came the Municipal Cor¬
poration, the Aldermen and Town Councillors and borough
officers ; the borough magistrates and the county magistrates;
the Dissenting ministers, with the Roman Catholic Bishop and
priests : the county and borough members of Parliament; the
Mayors of Leicester, Lincoln, Retford, and Grantham, in their
robes of office; the Bishop of Lincoln, in his robes, with a
Canon bearing the pastoral staff; the High Sheriffs for the
county and borough ; Lord Belper, Lord Lieutenant of the
county; the Mayor of Nottingham, Mr. Oldknow, with the
Deputy-Mayor and Town Clerk; and, lastly, the Prince and
Princess of Wales, in a carriage-and-four, with outriders and
a cavalry escort, followed by other carriages of the Royal
party. The procession halted a few minutes while one of the
little girls, assisted by the Town Clerk, presented a bouquet
of flowers to the Prince and Princess. Miss Laycock, daughter
of the High Sheriff, also gave a bouquet. The band played
“God Save the Queen,” the children sang two or three
verses, first, of “ God Bless the Prince of Wales,” then of the
National Anthem, with which their Royal Highnesses were
greatly pleased, as well as with the cheering of the immense
multitude in the fine old Market-place.
Having spoken of the decorations there, we may also notice
the triumphal arches in Derby-road and Mansfield-road, which
are shown in the upper compartments of our front-page
Engraving. The one in Mansfield-road consisted of a central
arch and two side arches, of the Moorish form, brilliant with
blue, crimson, and gold, divided by two square towers, each
surmounted with four corner flagstaffs and one taller central
flagstaff, bearing crowns and banners; the sides of the towers
were open, filled with beautiful plants and flowers, under a
blue and white canopy, and decorated with lace, arranged |
in geometrical patterns within a gilt border. The side :
arches were draped and adorned with various devices ; over
the central arch was an escutcheon with the Prince’s feathers, I
and a trophy of flags. This arch in Mansfield-road w;w erected
from the design of Mr. Dutton Walker, architect, of Notting¬
ham, and was decorated by Messrs. Piggott Brothers, of
London, under the superintendence of Mr. \V. Smith, of the
Corporation Estates’ Office. The triumphal arch in Derby
Road, at the corner of the Post Office, was erected by the ^
members of the Nottingham Rowing Club. This likewise con¬
sisted of a central and two side arches, which displayed a com¬
bination of evergreens and lace on a crimson ground ; it was j
surmounted by oue of the eight-oared outrigger racing-boats i
of the Club, with light masts at the bow and stern, supporting
a cord and many little flags; the side arches were adorned |
with shields upon crossed oars, bearing the Royal Arm; and (
the initials “N.R.C.” It should have been mentioned that
the decorations of the Market-place were supplied by Messrs. |
Wcmersley and Co., of Middlesborough-on-Tees, Yorkshire. |
We omitted 1 ist week to state that Messrs. John E Iging’ n |
and Co., of Long-lane, West Smithficld, London, were cm- j
ployed by the Corporation of Nottingham for the decorations
of the Exchange, the Castle and grounds, and the Royal
Pavilion; and it was the same firm, not Messrs. Defries, that
contracted for the street illuminations at night.
The entrance to the grounds of Nottingham Castle, from
Park-drive and Lenton-rond, is shown in our Artist’s sketch
of the arrival of the Prince and Princess there; it was prettily
adorned with bannerets and pennons, and the 85th Regiment,
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Brownrigg, were
drawn up along the road as a guard of honour. We have
given an account of the proceedings at the Castle, and will now
merely refer to our Illustration of the scene at the principal
entrance, under the colonnade of the we3t front, where the key
of the newly-completed building, henceforth to belong to the
Midland School of Art, was handed to the Prince of Wales;
and his Royal Highness, at the request of the Mayor of
Nottingham, openod the door, and then, turning to the com¬
pany outside, declared the Museum open, invitiug them all to
i ome in. The Mayor and Town Clerk are represented st mdhg
on the stops just behind the Prince of Wales. For the more
ample description of all these proceedings, and for a complete
history of the Art-Museum, with a critical notice of the exhi¬
bition of pictures, w T e refer to the Nottingham Daily Guardian
of Thursday, the 4th inst.
THE INDIAN TROOPS AT MALTA.
We present several additional Illustrations, from Sketches by
Lieutenant Allan Gilmore, 61st Regiment, of the Indi in native
soldiery, both infantry and cavalry, just now stat.oned at
Malta. The Field Marshal Commandiug-in-Chief, his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who lately travelled from
England to Malta and bock for the sole purpose of inspecting
these Indian troops, held a levee at the Governor’s Palace on
the 19th ult., at which the native Indian regimental officers
were formally presented to him by their respective Colonels;
and it is this scene which forms the subject of one of our
Illustrations. His Royal Highness, wearing his Field Marshal's
uniform, with the blue, red, and white sash of the Order of St.
Michael and St. George, and several stars and crosses on his
breast, will at once b# recognised. General Sir A. Borton,
K.C.B , the new Governor of Malta, stands at his left hand,
with two aides-de-camp behind him, wearing red tunics and
blue trousers. Facing the Duke of Cambridge are General
Sir James Talbot Airey, commanding the infantry brigade at
Malta, and two Admirals in naval uniform. The native officers
of the Bengal Cavalry are in the net of passing before the
Commander-in-Chief, and saluting him, at the same time pre¬
senting the hilts of their swords for him to touch. They are
clad each in a dark blue tunic, with red cuffs, white breeches
and top-boots, a red cummerbund or sash, with gold filigree
tassels, and a blue turban with gold stripes. The native officers
who stand next are those of the 13th Bengal Native Infantry,
who wear red tunics with blue facings down the centre, and
gold border and buttons, blue turbans with red t isseh and gold
fringe, and blue-black knickcrbocker trousers. The 25th
Madras Native Infantry, in red tunics and green facings and
white stocks, and the 2nd or Prince of Wales’s Goorkhas, in
Rifle uniform, appear in the background.
The exhibition of a variety of Indian military sports and
games, both in the camp and on the ground of the Marsa,
before the Duke of Cambridge and the Governor, was viewed
with interest by a pretty large assemblage of spectators. In
one of our Illustrations, a native officer of “ Hodson’s
Horse,” galloping at full speed with lance carried low, is
about to transfix a tent-peg stuck in the ground before him,
and to bear it off in triumph The Duke of Cambridge and
Sir Arthur Borton are seated in front of the marquee or large
tent, with several of their staff standing behind them; and the
general company, both ladies and gentlemen, are sitting or
lounging about to the right and the left hand. The upper
corner of the page 6hows a sort of medley of four different
kinds of athletic exercises going on at once for the entertain¬
ment of his Royal Highness. Two of the figure*, again
represented in a separate Engraving, on the opposite page,
are those of a Goorklia and a Sikh, who are engaging in a
bout at single-stick. Each man has a siick, which is paddei,
so as not to hurt too much, in his right hand, and a very small
round shield, carried on his left hand, but no protection for
the head, chest, or arms. There were two Sikhs opposed to
oue Goorkha, and the Sikhs were by far the finer looking
men. The performance of the man behind, with a pair of
Indian clubs, is one familiar enough to every amateur of
gymnastic or athletic exercises in our own country. The
figures of tumbling swordsmen require some explanation. A
man is blindfolded, and seated on lus haunches on the ground,
in the Oriental fashion; a fig is then placed between his
heels, which are set close together. A sword is now put
into his hand, and he takes a leap into the air, of course
tossing up the fig with his heels in making the spring from the
ground. He whirls round in the air, making almost a circle,
and tries to hit and cut the fig, without ever seeing it, before
it falls. In the last figure, at the left corner, a man with a pair
of long , pliant, elastic swords, one in each hand, is seen roll¬
ing his body over aud over on the ground. The swords going
round and round with him, above and below him, it was won¬
derful to see how he avoided cutting himself. Another feat
was to use the pair of swords in a series of whirling movements,
like those done with a pair of Indian clubs, but frequently
passing the sword-blades, with great rapidity, between the
anus and the naked body, and yet not inflicting a wound.
The main guard at the grand entrance the Governor’s
Palace during the stay of his Royal Highness was increased so
as to consist of one Captain, oue subaltern officer with regi¬
mental colour, two sergeants, one corporal, and thirty privates.
The colour, under double sentries, was placed iu a stand
beneath the portico of the main guard, opposite the Palace.
The open space between the main guard and the Palace is for
the guard mounting parade at the appointed hour, but is a
common lounge for the Maltese townsfolk. In our Illustration
of this subject, the Duke of Cambridge and the Governor
nppear coming out cf the Palace, with six Laucers riding before
them. The guard, composed of a detachment of the 42ud
Highlanders, with their colour, is drawn up in open order, the
officers in front suluting, the men at the “ Present! ” and the
bugler sounding the “ general salute.”
1 he Manchester Chicago Relief Fund Committee have in
hand an unappropriated balance of £2053. At a meeting held on
Monday it was resolved that this amount, less £ LOO which is
to go to the Hay dock Explosion Relief Committee, should be
divided amongst the medical charities of Manchester, on the
same principle as the Hospital Sunday Fund is divided.
The Bristol Post says that Mr. and Mrs. George Muller
lauded at Liverpool on Sunday, on their return from the
United States, and came on to Bristol the next diy. They
\uie present at the usual Monday evening service at Bethesda
Chapel, whin Mr. Muller said that he had travelled more than
]<),(.U0 miles since he was last in Bristol, and had preached
jjJd) times, in more than 200 churches, and had written invita¬
tions to 108 places in America, beside those to which he went.
Both he and Mrs. Muller are in excellent health.
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NATIVE INDIAN 80LDIER8’ GAMES IN CAMP AT MALTA: A MATCH AT SINGLE-STICK.
THE STAIRCASE, RAD/I WILL PALACE, BERLIN.
GARDEN FRONT OF THE RADZIWILL PALACE, BERLIN.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jolt 13, 1878.—29
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THE
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JULY 13, 1878
foreign and colonial news.
FRANCE.
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Cabanel Gerome, FianQaifl, and Bouguereau. The inter
national’chess tournament is now progressing at the Palais de
P Industrie. Some particulars will be found in our Chess
column The English concerts at the Exhibition are fixed for
the 17th 18th, and 20th inst. As will be seen in our Music
column, the Prince of Wales has greatly interested himself to
ensure a worthy representation of^Enghsh music.
Alberty de Cadenet, chief mechanician at the Grand Hotel,
Paris, has 7 been condemned to a month ai imprisonment and
200^ fine as being partly responsible for the accident to the
lift by which three persons lost their lives in lebruaijr last,
the evidence showed that fissures had gradually J or m(^ m the
cMt-iron comice attaching the hydraulic piston to the framo-
W ° Martin fthe ’fumiture broker in the Rue St. Lazare, Pans,
who inveigled a collector of the bociete Generale into his
shop on the pretence of getting change for a lOOOf. bank-note,
and then murdered him, was tried on Monday. He received a
good character as a husband and father, and the jury gave him
the benefit of extenuating circumstances. He was sentenced
to hard labour for life. BPAIN
The King and Royal family left Malrid on the 4th inst.
for the EBCurial, where the funeral service for the late Queen
Mercedes is to be held. The ceremonies, which will be carried
out at the expense of the State on a most magnificent scale,
have been postponed from the 10th to the 17th inst. Great
preparations are being made for the ceremonial, anl the
musical Society of Madrid has engaged to perform the Requiem
Mass on the occasion.
The Government has conferred on General Martinez
Campos the Golden Fleece worn by the late King of Hanover,
and has appointed General Jovellar Captain-General of Cuba.
ITALY.
The Court mourning for King Victor Emmanuel cuded on
the 10tli inst., on the morning of which day the new ironclad
Dandolo uas luunched at Sptzia. The King aud Queen, with
the Ministers, arrived at eight o’clock, the senators and mem¬
bers of the Chambir cf Deputies at nine. Some 5J.OOO
spectatorshadastembled. The city was magnificently decorated,
and the ships in the port were gaily dressed out. Queen
Margherita christened the ship, which, however, did not glide
quite eft her stays, and had to be pulled into the water by two
poweriul vessels. The Dandolo is one of the largest vessels in
the Italian navy ; it is armour-plated, with two turrets, armed
with four guns of 100 tons; engines constructed by Penn, of
Greenwich, 7500-horse power; tonnage, 10,569 ; money value,
13,930,COO lire. The Duilio, launched from the dockyard of
Castelltmare on May 8,1876, is the exact counterpart of the
Dandolo. Other sixteen ironclads complete the first category
of the men-of-war of the Italian fleet, including the Italia
and Lepanto Btill in construction, the Palestro, Principe,
Amadeo, Roma, Venezia, Maria Pia, Conte Verde, Oastelfi-
daido, Ancona, S. Martino, Ailondatore, Terribile, Formida-
bile, Varese, and Messina.
The Chamber of Deputies was prorogued on Monday until
November. Duke Colonna da Cesaro, one of the most dis¬
tinguished of the yoimger members of the Chamber, died at
Leghorn on the same day of heart disease. He was for some
time Attache to the Italian Embassy at London, and in 1862
left that service to take part in the expedition to Aspromonte.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
Prince Auersperg, the President of the Council of Ministers,
tendered the resignation of the members of the Austrian
Cabinet to the Emperor Francis Joseph yesterday week. His
Majesty has addressed an autograph letter to Prince Auersperg
intrusting him with the direction of the Ministry of the
Interior, but reserving his decision in regard to the resignation of
the Ministry. His Majesty has, however, acceded to the request
of the Minister of the Interior, Baron de Lasser, to be allowed
to resign on account of bad health, and has conferred upon
him the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen, creating
him at the same time a life member of the Upper House of the
Reichsrath.
The President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Austrian
Reichsrath, Dr. Rechbauer, has been appointed Privy Coun¬
cillor of his Majesty.
The Shah of Persia arrived at Vienna on the 5th inst. His
Majesty, who was received at the railway station by the
Emperor FranciB Joseph, proceeded to the Hofburg, the Impe¬
rial residence. State banquets have been given in honour of
the Shah.
The commencement of the occupation of Bosnia and the
Herzegovina has been postponed until August.
BERYIA.
In opening the Skuptschina on Sunday Prince Milan, in his
epeech from the throne, stated the motives for entering upon a
second campaign against Turkey, and thanked the national
militia for, their services in the field. His Highness dwelt upon
the article of the Treaty of San Stefano relative to the inde¬
pendence of Servia and the extension of her territory, and
expected that the Congress would sanction Servian inde¬
pendence and increase Servian territory by those districts in
which Servians for centuries past have demanded union with
Servia. The Frince also hoped from the justice and goodwill
of the Great Powers an amelioration in the condition of the
Servian countries not united with Servia. Servia, independent
amTenlarged, would, he said, acquire fresh strength for the
development of all the national forces. The Prince concluded
by recommending the Skuptschina to confine itself to the most
pressing matters, such as the Budget, the laws enacted during
the war. the discussion
the Sf“ mS to h b“u"lS'Pre.idcnt and M. Vault.
Vice-President of the s ^P^ chl “ a ’ oclama tion in which he
Prince Milan has “ d expresses a belief
announces the independence thanks the Congress
that it will bo rewgimod “Vpitatioaa, aad
*»•» fot
further financial sacrifices.
AME RICA. .
bration ot the battle of vvy b^ ^ ^ aud 8ald that
Md*™ the commander, the
■“Tdto^eacouate wilh the Indiana U wportjdta
American Bw- sonfh^i
Captain Sherry hS^oig thTkdfed.
rgSS Oh Monday tat^^gd
ludtonfl 6 at U Butlcr^Sreeto° ?ieTdia“ wore strongly posted
“T; ridge, but, niter a stubborn contest, were
to another pofriion in the rear, which the troop,
stoimcd and captured; the Indians retreating, were
five miles abandoning their horses, provisions, and camp
materials ’ The loss on the side of the United States troops is
said to have been trifling. General Howard has opened com¬
munications with General Wheaton on the Columbia River.
CANADA.
By the latest telegrams we learn that disturbances were
feartu at Montreal at the Orange celebrations on the 12th inst.
The Major has issued a proclamation stating that no crowds
would be allowed to assemble, and that measures would be
taken to preserve the peace and arrest all disturbers, lhc
Orange leuders have taken legal opinion as to the legality of this
proclamation, and have therefore given notice that the pro¬
cession would take place. The Government, at the request of
four magistrates on Montreal, has ordered 2000 men to encamp
in Dominion-square on the 11th inst., under Major-General
Smyth, who was to be Bwom Peace Commissioner. The Mayor
of Montreal has gone to Ottawa to endeavour to prevent the
troops from being called out, and, if the measure should be
persisted in, to have them placed under his own direction. He
has stated that, if the magistrates should have tho direction
of the troops, he should retire from all active participation in
the efforts to preserve order. Six regiments and two battalions
of artillery Mere on Thursday stationed in different parts of
4l0 Jbbrbearauce on the occasion of the Orange celebration was
unanimously counselled by the Protestant and Oatholie minis¬
ters of Montreal in their sermons on Sunday lost. The Catholic
lishop of Montreal has issued a pastoral letter urging all
Catholics to keep the peace, to support the authorities, and to
abstain Horn alcoholic liquors on the 12th inst. A meeting of
10,COO liish and French Canadians was held at Montreal on
Monday night, at which resolutions were unanimously passed
iqhaloing the Major.
THE CAFE C0L0NIE8.
News La 3 been received from the Cape by way of Madeira
to June 18. Edmund Sandiili, the Gaika chief, is still nego¬
tiating with the Colonial Government respecting terms of
peace. The sub-chief Namba surrendered unconditionally on
June 11. A Times telegram saysWith the death of the
Chiel Sandiili, iSejolo, aud Ante, and the surrender of Dhimba,
the Kaftir rebellion is at an end. General Thesiger will come
to Cape Town next week, and then proceed to Natal. The
1 rincipal defensive measures proposed by the Ministry have
passed the Assembly. The Budget speech proposes fresh
taxation to the amount of about £200,000.
AUSTRALIA.
The Victoria Parliament was opened on the 9th inst. by Sir
George Bowen, the Governor, who, in his speech on the occa¬
sion, announced the introduction of bills for a new loon for
public works und for the purchase of the Hobson’s Bay Rail¬
way. His Excellency also announced that an International
Exhibition will be held at Melbourne in 1880. Another
telegram from Melbourne states that the Mayor and Secretary
for Public W orks have placed Carlton Gardens in the possession
of the Commissioners lor the purposes of the Exhibition, and
tenders for the building, in accordance with the accepted
design, will be called for immediately. All parties are
unanimous in the desire to make the exhibition a success.
A telegram from Brisbane dated the 6th inst. says that the
Queensland revenue for the last financial year has slightly
exceeded the Ministerial estimate. The colonisation of New
Guinea is attracting increased attention, and a rush to the
gold districts there is expected. The Governor of the Fiji
Islands being absent, it is expected that the High Com¬
missioner’s jurisdiction in New Guinea will devolve on the
Governor of Queensland.
NEW ZEALAND.
A telegram from Wellington, New Zealand, dated the
6th inst., says “Sir George Grey has had a most satisfactory
interview with the Maori chief Rewi at Waitara. Rewi gives
his entire adherence to the Government. Another meeting is
arranged for September with Rewi and the native king jointly
to arrange for the completion of the Government system of
railroads through the North Island. It is believed that no
difficulties will arise in making necessary arrangements, and
that the natives will probably give land for purchase.
The Newfoundland Legislature has been dissolved.
Hodel, who made an attempt on the life of the Emperor »f
Geimany, was tried on Wednesday and sentenced to death.
PnnceBS Salm-Salm, the well-known authoress, died at
Wurzburg, on the 9th inst.
A Bon of the Khedive is, by special permission of the
Queen, about to enter the Royal Military Academy as a cadet.
The Dowager Queen Caroline Amalia of Denmark com¬
pleted her eighty-second year on the 5th inst. Her Majesty
is the oldest living member of the Royal families in Europe.
It is announced in a telegram from Batavia that large rein¬
forcements of Dutch troops are being sent to Atcliin, where it
is rumoured that a serious outbreak has occurred.
The Oeklands, Captain W Lawrence, chartered by Sir
Arthur Bligh, K.O.M.G., Agent-General for South Australia
leit Plymouth on the 5th inst. for Port Adelaide with 384
emigrants, among whom were eighty-five single female
domestic servants.
national sports.
Stoekbridge proper was as enjoyable a meeting as ever in many
respects, though the epidemic, which has run through so
many of the chief stables, caused the racing to be rather below
the usual standard. Backers received a terrible blow in the
Stoekbridge Cup, in which they laid odds of 9 to 2 on Lollypop,
and then had the mortification of seeing Ecossais hold him
quite safe at every part of the journey, and finally beat
him in a canter by three lengths. We remember that in
1874 it was confidently predicted that Ecossaia’s fore legs
would never carry him to the end of that season; aad
yet at seven years of age, he is as sound as possible, and
capable of carry ing all sorts of weights, and of winning races
in the best company. Truly, “never prophesy unless you
know” is a wise maxim. Scapegrace earned fresh laurels in
tLe Mottisfont Stakes by defeating Strathern cleverly, though
only in receipt of 21b., and the son of Wild Oats must be oue
of the best youngsters that have run this season. On the
Friday the rich Hurstbourne Stakes produced a rather poor
field, and was won by Caxtonian, a son of Sterling and
Countess Agnes. T. Cannon, the popular jockey, had a vory
successful two days, as he carried off four races with his own
hors os, and rode the same number of winners.
The July Meeting—the most pleasant of any held at New¬
market—commenced on Tuesday, and was honoured by the
presence of the Prince of Wales, who was the guest of Count
± estetic. The first race of importance was the July Stakes, for
which the Adventurer—Lady Morgan colt, nbw named
Ruperra, who was amiss when he won his first engagement at
Asoot, had been specially reserved. Gunnersbury and
Leghorn also emerged from temporary retirement. The
remaining five competitors were all “ dark,” the best-looking
of them being Rayon d’Or, a son of Flageolet and Araucaria,
and therefore half-brother to Chamanc. He is, however,
still very backward, and will do much better later in the
season. Gunnersbury made the running at such a pace that
he had Ruperra in difficulties before they had gone more than
half way; but Fordham, who had no spurs, rode him with
immense determination; and the colt, struggling on with mar¬
vellous gamenets, caught Gunnersbury, who was then swerving
about lrom dislress, and won by a length. Ruperra is not yet
nearly so fit as he can be made ; and his viotory in the Derby
m xt season, with Fordham on his back, would be one of the
most popular that has ever been accomplished. Trappist
(9st. 71b.), the favourite for the Cheveley Stakes, was hope¬
lessly out of it after he had gone a quarter of a mile, aud ohe
unccitaiu Chevron (8 st.) won as he liked. The Exeter Stake*
on Wednesday was not far enough for Lansdown, who
was only third to a filly of the Duke of St. Alban’s,
called High and Mity. She is a daughter of Parmesan,
and Noblesse; so her name, though by no moans elegant, is
singularly apt. Some remarkably speedy horses ran for the
July Cup, including Lollypop, Julius Caesar, liodwiug,
Troppist, and Ecossais. The weights were too much against
Loiu Falmouth's fill y to give her a chance of success, and
Triappist carried 10 st. 1 lb., including the full penalty of
12 lb. He and Ecossais had all the best of the start, aad
nothing but Lollypop ever got near them, Trappiat eventually
beating Ecossais by a clever half length, while Lollypop was
about the same distance from the second. The meeting of
Jannette and Thurio, over the Bunbury Mile, was watched
with intense interest, and the result has made the former as
good a favourite as lnsulaire lor the Legor. Certainly Thurio
was attempting to concede 8 lb.; but the filly appeared to
lmve more than that amount of weight in hand as she passed
the post.
We regret to note that the sale of the Middle Park Year¬
lings, which took place last [Saturday, was by no mean* a
suceets, the fifty-four realising a total of 11,585 gs. onljr, oraa
average of about 214 gs., which shows a marked falling off
from last season. Only two lots reached four figures, a splendid
son of Rosicrucian and Anderida, for whom Lord Rosebery
gave 1110 gs., and the Macaroni—Lady Sophia colt (1200 gs.).
'there were no less than thirteen young Kosicruciaus, and wo
cun imagine how the average they made—383 gs.—would havo
been increased if the unfortunate Beauclerc had been in a
condition to win the Derby. At the time of writing the sales
of blood stock at Newmarket seem very poorly supported ; but
we tliall be better able to allude to them next weex.
Both cricket-matches between the Gentlemen and Players
resulted in favour of the former, and it must have been
specially galling to the professionals to lose the first of them.
They were only beaten by fifty-six runs, and of the 278
obtained by their opponents, no less than 148 were made by
Mcstrs. W. G. and G. F. Grace, who, it is notorious, have no
claim to appear among the amateurs. The bowling ot' Mr.
A. G. Steel was as successful as usual, and proved fatal to
nine wickets. At Lord’s the scoring was far heavier, and
the Players were defeated by 206 runs. Selby (88 and 61)
batted magnificently, as did Emmett (57 and 47) ; but, with
the exceptions of Midwinter (16 and 24) and Pooley (35 and
15), no one else did much. Long scores were very plentiful
on the other side, W. G. Grace (90), A. P. Lucas (18 and 91), th*
Hon. A. Lyttelton (53), the Hon. E. Lyttelton (44and66), A.VV.
Ridley (58), aud A. G. Steel (41) doing most of the rua-
getting, and nothing finer than the batting of Lucas, Graoe,
the Hon. E. Lyttelton, and the two professionals we have
already mentioned, has been seen this season. Last week the
Australians defeated an Eighteen of Stockport by 149 runs,
the feature of the match bemg the fine batting of Messrs. T.
Horan (14 and 70) and G. H. Bailey (34 and 35). This weak
they met a very strong team representing the Orleans Club
and Ground. A. Bannerman (not out, 71) and Mr. T. Horan
(64) batted in rare form; but, on the other side, Messrs. T. K.
R. Fryer (61), C. J. Thornton (40), and I. D. Walker (not out,
60) scored very fast, and the match was drawn much in favour
of the Orleans Club. This was, we believe, the first match
played at the Orleans Club, and one can only regret that such
a perfect ground is not a little larger.
For once Henley Regatta escaped without rain, and the
meeting was a brilliant success in every way, the attendance
being enormous, and the racing closer and more exciting than
wo ever previously remember to have seen it. The Thames
R.C., favoured by the station, beat the Cambridge eight for
the final of the Grand Challenge Cup; and, for about the
eighth year in succession, the Loudon R.C. took the Steward*
Cup for fours. The Diamond Sculls was at the mercy of
Edwardes-Moss, after his fluky defeat of G. W. Lee, the
American sculler, on the previous day ; and the Silver Goblets
were an equally good thing for him aud Ellison. One of the
most generally popular victories of the day was that of tho
Columbia College crew in the Visitors’ Challenge Cap, as every
one would have been sorry to see the plucky Americans fail to
take a prize, especially after the unlucky mistake which
deprived Lee of a well-earned triumph.
Rear-Admiral Commerell, a Constantinople despatch says,
while in one of the boats of his flag-ship near Gallipoli, wai
caught in a sudden storm. Three of the boat’s crew were
drowned, and the Admiral himself narrowly escaped.
JULY 13, 1878
TPE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
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THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Brandram, T. F., Lecturer of the Theological College, Chichester, to be
Priest, Vicar, and Snccentor of Chichester Cathedral.
Mackey. D. J.; Canon and Precentor of St. Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth.
Sheppard, Henry Drought; Rector of St. Peter’s, Wallingford, Berks.
Tanner. J ; Rector of Chipping Ongar, Ch. Ch.
Vernon, Canon; Hector of Etton, Yorkshire.— Guardian.
Forty Bishops preached in the churches of the metropolis
on Sunday, thirty-one being foreign or colonial.
Bishop Mnclagan -was enthroned in Lichfield Cathedral on
Thursday.
A purse of 100 guineas has been presented to the Rev. J. H.
Johnson by his parishioners on his leaving Glen Innes, in the
diocese of Grafton and Armidale, for England.
The new archdeaconry of Bodmin has been conferred by
the Bishop of Truro on the Rev. Reginald Hobhouse, Rector of
St. Ive’s, Cornwall, and proctor for the clergy in convocation.
The Bishop of London on Tuesday consecrated the Church
of St. Mary Magdalen, Paddington, which has been opened by
license for ten years, and which is one of the most complete
ecclesiastical buildings in London. His Lordship was attended
by Mr. J. B. Lee, his registrar and secretary, and preached.
On Thursday the Festival of the Choirs of the Deaneries of
Burnham and Maidenhead was held at Windsor. There was a
procession of clergy and surpliced choirs, with banners, to St.
John’s Church, where Archdeacon Potts preached the sermon.
Afterwards the clergy, choirs, and visitors dined in Windsor
Home Park, under the marquee used for the Prince Consort’s
Association.
The Bishop of Winchester has reopened the church of
Twyford, Hants, called “the gem of Hampshire villages.”
The church has been rebuilt from designs by Sir. Waterhouse,
at a cost of £9000, of which Sir T. Fairbairn (to the memory
of whose children one of the windows is filled with stained
glass) lias contributed a large portion. In pulling down the
old nave evidences of work auterior to the transitional style of
the Church of St. Cross, at Winchester, were found.
At St. Nicholas parish church, Newbury, a flower sermon
was preached on Sunday by the Rector, the Rev. E. Irnber
Gardiner. After the sermon some hundreds of bouquets of
beautiful flowers were carried by the children to the chancel,
and deposited in large baskets arranged within the com¬
munion rails. A collection was made in behalf of the
Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond-street, and in the evening
the flowers were dispatched by the Great Western Railway to
that and similar institutions in the metropolis.
The Bishop of St. Albans on Tuesday consecrated a new
■church, dedicated to Holy Trinity, at Leytonstone, where there
is a growing poor population. The church is of Early Gothic
architecture, and will contaiu 800 persons. All the seats are
free. The church has been built by Mr. James Brown, of
Finsbury-pavement, at a cost of about £6500, this being
exclusive of gifts by neighbouring residents and others of a
handsome font, lectern, &c. An anonymous donor has given
a site for a parsonage and Sunday schools.
Dr. Tyrrell, Bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales, has
announced that he has by his will given £250,000 to the various
funds in the diocese. The following shows the amounts
required and the various funds which are to be endowed :—
the Bishop’s income of £1200 a year, £30,000; the stipends of
dignitaries—one Archdeacon, £5000; three Canons and Rural
Deans, £6000—£11,000; clergy stipends, £100,000; super¬
annuated clergy, £10,000; fund—sick clergy, £5000; new
clergy, £25,000; the training of future clergy, £25,000 ; the
religious education of the young, £44,000.
The New Testament Company mot on Tuesday in the
Jerusalem Chamber, for their eighty-second session, and sat
each day this week until Friday inclusive. The Bishop of
Gloucester and Bristol presided. The other members present
were the Archbishop of Dublin, the Deans of Lincoln, Lich¬
field, and Rochester, Archdeacons Lee and Palmer, the Master
of the Temple, Professors Lightfoot, Kennedy, D. Brown,
Milligan, and Newth, Dr. Scrivener, Dr. Vance Smith, Mr.
Humphry, and the secretary, Mr. Troutbeck. They proceeded
with the second revision of the Epistle to the Ephesians.
On the 29th ult. the Bishop of Winchester consecrated a
chapel-of-ease and burying ground for that part of the parish
of Stour Provost which is known as Stour-row. The building,
which was erected about ten years ago, mainly through the
exertions of the late Rector, the Rev. R. Barrett, cost about
£1200, the chief contributors being the Marchioness of West¬
minster, King’s College, Mr. A. Morrison, and Mr. Barrett
himself. It will accommodate about 150 worshippers.—The
Right Rev. Prelate has also reopened the parish church of
Buriton, which has undergone a thorough restoration, the
■tower being the only portion of the structure that did not
require renovation. By means of a subscription, a new chancel
window has been inserted in memory of Mary, the wife of
J. M. Sumner, Rector of Buriton, by the parishioners. In the
'Southern aisle there is a memorial window of the late Mr. John
Bonham-Carter.
The Fan-Anglican Synod resumed its sittings at the palace
on the 4th inst.—the Archbishop of Canterbury presiding.
The subject discussed at the morning sitting was “ The posi¬
tion of Anglican Chaplains and Chaplaincies on the Con¬
tinent of Europe and Elsewhere,” the speakers being the
Bishops of London, Gibraltar, Long Island, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Carlisle; Bishop Claughton, the Archbishop of
■Canterbury, the Bishop of Oxford, and the Bishop of Antigua.
In the afternoon the subject considered was, “Modem Forms
of Infidelity, and the Best Means of Dealing with Them”—
the speakers being the Bishops of Ohio, Killaloe, Peterborough,
Lincoln, Oxford, Gloucester and Bristol, Winchester, Mon¬
treal, Llandaff, the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of
Bombay, Saskatchewan, Bloemfontein, and the president.
Both subjects were referred to a committee.—On the 5th the
Synod discussed the condition, progress, and needs of the
various Churches of the Auglican communion, and, having
appointed a committee further to consider the subject,
adjourned to the 22nd inst.
the universities and public schools.
OXFORD.
The Rev. Richard Greswcll, B.D., late Fellow and Tutor of
" wester, has been elected an honorary Fellow in that society.
Mr.Markby, M.A.,of Merton College, late onoof the Judges
Supreme Court of Calcutta, lias been elected to the lately
established readership of Indian Law.
Mr. E. W. Rees, of Repton School, has been elected to a
mathematical scholarship at University College.
Ibe vacant demyships at Magdalen College have been
awarded as follow .—Classical: Henry Havelock, Wellington
College, and John Edward Morris, Repton School. M ithe-
oaticul: William Hartley Carnegie, Trinity College, Dublin.
Natural Science : John Shaw Willes Cliitty and Goorire Lindsay
lumbull, Clifton College.
The following gentlemen have been elected to the vacant
open scholarships, &c., at Worcester, out of forty-three can¬
didates Mr. Nicholson, scholar non ascriptus, and Mr.
Hadow, from Malvern College, to the Clarke Scholarships; Mr.
Leask, of Merton, to the Cookes Scholarship, open pro hue vice;
Mr. Murdock, of the University of Aberdeen, to an open
scholarship. Messrs. Balfour, of Marlborough College; Drew,
of Clifton College; Clement Price, of Worcester College;
Dwyer, of Christ’s Hospital; and Hamilton, scholar non
ascriptus, have been elected to exhibitions.
The degree of LL.D., honoris causa, has been conferred on
Mr. Cliffe Leslie by the University of Dublin.—The Senior
Science Scholarship in Trinity College, Dublin, has been
awarded to Swift Johnston, of the High School, Dublin.—The
Board of Trinity College, on written apologies from the two
students, Fisher and Cowen, suspended from their degrees,
have removed the suspensions which had been imposed as
penalties for the late riot in the college.
The Earl of Morley on the 28th ult. distributed the prizes
to the studeuts of University College for the closing session in
the faculties of art and law and science. A report of the pro¬
gress of the institution was read by the Dean (Professor
Morley), after which the noble chairman addressed the assem¬
blage, expressing his particular satisfaction with the increased
educational facilities now afforded by the college to women for
making themselves fitter to fill their position as home-trainers
and as members of society. The pressure upon our space
prevents us from giving the long prize list. Some names
figure several times among prize-winners; foremost of the
pluralists being Mr. D. S. MacColl, Mr. E. P. Jacobson, and
Mr. L. H. Edmunds, all of London.
Earl Granville, as Chancellor of the University of Loudon
oh Tuesday laid the first stone of some new buildings which
are to form an addition to University College. The cost is
estimated to be between £85,000 and £100,000. Mr. Goschen,
M.P., treasurer of the college, read an address, giving an his¬
torical narrative of its origin and progress, together with a
description of the nature of the work which it had so long
carried on. The ceremony of laying the stone was followed by
a luncheon, at which Earl Granville, Earl Fortescue, Mr. Lowe,
Lord Belper, Professor Henry Morley, Lord Kimberley, the
Dean of Westminster, Professor nuxley, and air. Lyon Playfair
were among the speakers.
Mr. Gladstone gave an address on “Ilomer” to the
member's of the Eton College Literary Society last Saturday
evening.—The result of the examination for the Physical
Science prizes at Eton is as follows:—Geology and Physical
Geography—Herriee, K.S., 1; Pemberton, 2; Chambers,
Bayley, Beaumont, Wood, and Wheeler. Chemistry, Elec¬
tricity, and Magnetism—Kingston, K.S., 1; Griffith, Thurton,
Harrington. The examiners recommended that the prizes
should be divided between Herries and Pemberton.
The 4th inst. being Speech-Day at Harrow, a large
number of visitors assembled at the school. Dr. Butler, the
Head Master, presided, and distributed the prizes to the
successful candidates in the late examinations.
The 2Gth ult. was Speech-day at Rugby School, and was
celebrated with all due honours, including the distribution of
prizes to the boys and the performance of sundry passages
from the classical and the modem drama. The Bishop of
Worcester, chairman of the governing body, presided.
The following have been elected to entrance scholarships
at Rossall School:—Seniors—H. K. Bather, R. Proude, and
A. J. Jameson, Rossall School; A. L. Napier, Rev. A. S.
Grenfell’s, Parkgate, Cheshire ; H. M. E. Price, Rossall School.
Juniors—A. H. Davis and A. D. Steel, Rossall School; C.
Gibson, Rev. A. G. Humfrey’s, Thorpe Mandeville Rectory,
Banbury; J. H. Acheson, Rev. J. C. C. Pipon’s, Arnold
House, Chester; F. W. H. Jones, Christ College, Brecon; R.
Davies, Rev. A. G. Humfrey’s, Thorpe Mandeville Rectory,
Banbury; H. G. Smith and T. H. Vines, Rossall School; J.
Armitoge, Huddersfield College.
The following have been elected to foundation scholarships
at Sherborne:—Turner, Partridge, House ma., Harper mi.,
Shore, Rev. W. B. Davis, The College, Torquay. To Old Shir-
bumian scholarships—Lovett, Ellis mi., and Holme. To an
extra scholarship for one year—Lys ma. The successful can¬
didates, with one exception, are already members of the school.
General Sir Richard Wilbraliam, K.C.B., distributed the
prizes and certificates of merit to the successful students in
the general literature and applied sciences departments of
King’s College on the 26th ult.
The 25th ult. was speech-day at Forest School, Waltham¬
stow. J. K. F. Cleave received the King’s College prize. Four
boys gained certificates under the Oxford and Cambridge
board. Several University distinctions appear in the list of
honours. There are 130 boys in the school.—On the following
Friday the Prince and Princess of Wales halted for a short
time on the school bounds, and, by permission of the Prince,
the head master presented a short address to their Royal
Highnesses. The Prince replied, and begged a day’s holiday.
At Clifton College the annual Guthrie commemoration
was held on the 29th ult., when the sermon was preached by
the Rev. J. C. Bell, Master of Marlborough College. It was
announced during the day that subscriptions amounting to
nearly £6000 had been promised towards the fund being raised
for the enlargement of the chapel, the completion of the
quadrangle, and the addition of a racquet-court, as a memorial
of Clifton College having been incorporated by Royal charter.
The estimated expense of the additional buildings is £9000.
The session at the Baptist College, Regent’s Park, closing
on the 25th ult., a soiree was held in the evening, when the
chair was taken by Sir Charles Reed. The feature of the evening
was an address by the Rev. Charles Stanford, D.D., of
Camberwell, on “ Doddridge, Pastor and Tutor.”
The 110th anniversary festival of Cheshunt College was
celebrated on the 27tb ult.
Blundell’s School, Tivertqn, held its annual festival on
the 28th and 29th ult. At the service on Friday at St. Peter’s
Church the Archdeacon of Exeter, an old Head Master, preached
the sermon. The speeches on St. Peter’s Day included scenes
from Sheridan’s “Critic,” MolRre’s “Avare,” and Ansto-
phnne’s “Equites.” The prizes were distributed by the Earl
of Devon. The list of distinctions gained by the school since
June last year includes throe open scholarships at Cambridge,
and an exhibition and a first class in the final classical school
at Oxford.
Viscountess Falmouth presided ou the 2nd iust. at the
tribution of prizes to the pupils attending the Burlington
idle-Class School for Girls, in Old Burlington-street.
The Manchester Guardian understands that the sons of the
e Sir E. Armitage propose to found four scholarships to his
mory in connection with the Manchester Grammar School.
The great Crosby School for the Merchant Taylors’ Com¬
pany, situated near Liverpool, erected at a cost of £12,000,
was opened on the 27th ult. The building will supersede an
old one founded in 1620, under the will of John Harrison, a
citizen of London, whose father was a native of Crosby.
The Rev. Sidney Bolton Kincaid, M.A., has been elected to
the Yice-Principalsliip of the Carmarthen Training College.
The annual distribution of prizes in connection with the
North London Collegiate School took place last Saturday at
St. James’s Hall, the Lord Mayor presiding. The Rev. Charles
Williams, head master and principal, read the annual report,
which stated that the school was as full as it could conveniently
be, the number of pupils being 500. The Vicar’s prizes for
good conduct were distributed by Canon Speuce. The prin¬
cipal prizes were won by the following, to whom they wero
presented by the Lord MayorCamden Silver Medal for
Mathematics, D. H. Bent; Camden Essay, D. H. Bent; Dart¬
mouth Greek Prize, G. P. Ferguson; Southampton Latin
Prize, D. H. Bent; Llanovcr History Prize, A. E. Restarick;
Members for Marylebone Medal for Modern Languages, F. A.
Hunt; Churchwardens’ Prize, English verse, A. E. Restarick;
Old Boys’ Prizes, given to two boys meriting special reward,
E. A. Claremont, A. M. Humphries. Some selections from the
ancient and modem classics were then given by the pupils, the
recital of which elicited frequent applause.
Mr. Joseph Makinson, barrister, Manchester, has been
appointed stipendiary justice of Salford.
Cambo House, the residence of Sir Thomas Erskine, Bart.,
was destroyed by fire early on Monday morning.
A telegram from Alexandria announces that the Nile is
rising well in both Upper and Lower Egypt. The Committee
of Inquiry into Egyptian Revenues has prepared a plan to
extinguish all liabilities by 1888.
Mr. Arthur Wilson, of the South-Eastern Circuit, has been
appointed a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature,
Calcutta, in place of Mr. Justice Markby, who has resigned
the office after a long term of service.
While the servants in a wild-beast show were cleaning a
leopard’s cage, in Stockwell-street, Glasgow, on Wednesday,
the animal forced its way out aud bounded into the street,
causing the greatest alarm. The leopard was forced into a
corner, and its keeper, lassooing it round the neck with a stout
rope, succeeded in taking it back to its cage.
A testimonial, consisting of a purse of £320, a gold watch,
and an illuminated record of the circumstance, signed by 254
subscribers (including the Duke of Richmond and Gordon and
the Mayor of Brighton), has been presented to Mr. J. G.
Coekburu, who has lately retired from the management of the
Brighton branch of the London and County Bank.
Another of the St. John ambulance classes was opened on
Monday in the barrucks of the Hon. Artillery Company. The
attendance was large. Captain Jay introduced the lecturer,
Mr. F.dmund Owen, of St. Mary’s Hospital, who taught the
St. John class in the Albany-street Barracks. After the lecture
the director of the Ambulauce Department of the order, Major
F. Duncan, R.A., explained the nature of the movement.
The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, in their
report recently issued, state that it is recommended to organise
and dispatch a special expedition, with the objectof examining,
by meanB of excavation where necessary, the shores of the Sea
of Galilee, and the determination by this method of the sites
of Capernaum, Chorazin, Bethsaida, and the other plaoes on
these shores associated with the New Testament history.
The marriage of Prince Eugene of Leuchtenberg with
Mdllc. Scobeleff will be celebrated at St. Petersburg ou the
14th inst. and the marriage of Prince Henry of the Netherlands
with the Princess Mary of Prussia at Potsdam on the 27th of
next month. A sum of 60,000 guilders has been collected in
Holland in small subscriptions. It is to be presented to
Prince Henry of the Netherlands on the occasion of bis Royal
Highness’s marriage.
A breach-of-promise case came before the Irish Queen’s
Bench Division last week, in which Miss Fitzgerald was
plaintiff and Mr. Stamer-Gubbins was defendant. Damages
were laid at £25,000. Judgment was allowed to go by default,
and the defendant submitted to pay £2500 to the plaintiff as
well as the costs of her suit; the defendant stating, through
his counsel, that he attached no blame whatever to the
plaintiff, the only cause for breaking the contract being the
state of bis own health, which had become impaired.
On Wednesday the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs of London
and Middlesex left London by special train from Euston Sta¬
tion on a state visit to Blackpool, in Lancashire, on the
invitation of the Mayor (Dr. Cocker) and the Corporation of
that town. They were occompaniod by the Lady Mayoress
and the wives of the Sheriffs, and by a large suite. On Thurs¬
day the Lord Mayor opened the uew winter gardens aud
pavilion, erected at an expense of over £100,000, and was
entertained at luncheon by the Mayor. A concert, fireworks,
and a torchlight procession were among the day’s events. On
Friday and Saturday there were other festivities, and on Sun¬
day the civic party will attend church in state. They return
to London on Monday. The Mayors of the other corporate
towns of the kingdom were also invited.
The annual f6te of the Village Home for Orphan, Neg¬
lected, and Destitute Girls was held on Wednesday in the
grounds of the home, Barking Side, Essex, and was attended
by a numerous company. The home is in connection with
Dr. Barnardo’s institutions of the East-End Juvenile Missions,
aud at present provides for the maintenance of 282 girls ; but
it is hoped that when the original scheme is completed there
will be accommodation for 600. Each of the detached cottages
contains from fifteen to twenty inmates, who have a matron
over them, called “mother” by all the members of her adopted
family. TTie Earl of Aberdeen presided. The Lord Chancellor
was unable to attend, but Lady Cairns was preseut, together
with the Duchess Dowager of Manchester, the King of Bonny,
and a large number of ladies and gentlemen. Eleven new
aottages were declared to be open, and the foundation stones
cf three others were laid.
Some details have reached the Times concerning a large
collection in entomology made by Henry Edwards, of Sau
Francisco, during the last twenty-five years. Professor
Davidson, president of the Academy of Sciences, states that
this collection of insects is one of the largest ever made in the
United States, and by far the most complete ever made on the
Pacific coast. It consists of about 60,000 species, comprising
more than 200,000 specimens. These include not only all the
orders on the Pacific coast, but nearly or quite all in the
United States, with a large representation of orders from all
parts of the world. The collection is said to be really one of
the most complete known in any couutry. It is valued at
12 OOOdols., or rather that is about the sum expended in
I freights, cabinets, and the purchase of rare specimens. Tha
I labour of twenty-five years is not estimated.
DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE IN THE GOVERNOR'S PALACE, MALTA.
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JULY 13, 1878
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PARLIAMENT.
LORDS.
The Daily Telegraph of Monday gave the Leaders of the
A ^ rJrjtinn abundant food for questioning the Ministry. It
lia(F announced that a conditional treaty had been entered
nto between England and the Porte for a British Protectorate
of^Turkcy C in Asiaand of the Island of Cyprus. Many pro¬
minent of the Lower House, not wholly satisfied with
♦T MiSrial statement made by the Homo Secretary,
gathered round the throne to hear what version of the affair
Should be divulged in the Upper Chamber ; and among those
o«sembled at the foot of the gilded chair of State were two or
three Cabinet Ministers, possibly interested to learn how
the intelligence would be received by noble Lords.
They had b first to hear what would have been a
dry 7 deliverance had it not been for the clear and
distinct articulation of the Lord Chancellor, who informed
Lord Selbome in sonorous language that the Government biU
for the codification of the criminal law would not be proceeded
with this Session, but that during the winter Sir James
Stephen’s luminous measure would be fully weighed and con-
sidered by a Koval Commission composed of Lord Justice
Blackburn, Mr. Justice Lush, and Sir Janies Stephen himself,
♦he author and draughtsman of the bill. It was then that Earl
the author and draughtsman of the bill.
Granville rose and preferred his question as to the authenticity
of the statement in a “ London daily paper.’’ Characteristically
explicit was the reply of the Duke of Richmond
I may say that, in viow of tho retention bj Russia of ^thc Asiatic
gHKSiwS Z a^in^eutenant-goloael of his old
ES? STvFrTL
many with the Order of the Black Eagle, and in 180
received the Imperial Order of the Osmanh from Sultan
Abdul Aziz. HisRoyal Highness, like his two elder brokers,
hasvieited the British colonies, and is personally well known __ _
inCanuda, and likewise in Ireland, iheyoung laay wno , ^ engagement, tho Sultan furthwcouaonta
he is about to wed, Princess Louise Margaret Akxaudra to ^tlagn the island of Cyprus. to bo occupied and administered by England.
Victoria Agnes of Prussia, is younger by ten years than her- * * -- -
affianced husband. She is the third daughter of Prince
Frederic Charles Nicholas, who is tho eldest son of
Prince Frederick Charles Alexander, brother to the
Emperor-King William I. of Prussia aud Germany.
Her father, who is fifty years of age, is a distin¬
guished Field Marshal of the Prussian army, and won
ihigh military reputation both in the wars of 1866, against
Austria, and in that of 1870 and 1871, against Trance. Her
mother is Princees Mary, daughter of the late Duke of
Anhalt ; the young Princess Louise Margaret was born at
Potsdam on July 25, 1860, so that she will, at her wedding, be
lust eighteen. Let us all hope that the bride and bridegroom
will live nt leaBt half a century happily together, which n as
much as the ordinary course of nature allows us to expect for
the most fortunate mortals of any rank in the world. May
they see their Golden Wedding, and its gold be still bright
and pure !__
THE CONGRESS AT BERLIN.
It is expected that, by the time this Number of our Jouruil
finds its way to readers throughout the United lviugdom, the
Congress of Plenipotentiaries of the Great Powers of Europe
will have completed its task, and the representatives of Great
Britain, or at least the Prime Minister, Lord Beaconsfield,
will be enabled to return to Eugland, it is hoped, early next
week. The assignment of the limited territory attached to
the seaport town of Batoum, upon its cession by Turkey to
Russia, has been the last question of difficulty with which
the Conferences of the past week has been occupied,
since it became evident on Monday, from the known Con¬
vention between Great Britain and Turkey, for a British
defensive protectorate of the Sultan's Asiatic dominions, with
the delivery of Cyprus to the British Government, that there
would be no substantial opposition made to the Russian
acquisition of Batoum. These most important transactions,
which throw into the shade all other political events and
rumours of the week, are commented upon in our leading
article.
The principal Illustration of the Congress given iu this
Number, from a sketch by our Special Artist at Berlin, is the
interior of the private room at the Kaiserhof Hotel occupied
by Lord Bt acousfield ; and we have introduced into this
Engraving the familiar figures of his Lordship and Prince
Bismarck, the Imperial Chancellor of Germany, who has
repeatedly visited our Premier and held long conversations
with him in that apartment. The figure represented as stand¬
ing and writing at the desk behind is that of Mr. Montagu
Cony, private secretory to Lord Beaconsfield, who may or may
not be instructed to take notes of the weighty utterances of the
two powerful statesmen—of course with the consent of Prince
Bismarck, if it be done at all, of which we are by no means
aware.
We regret to learn that within the last day or two from the
time of our present writing the Earl of Beaconsfield has been
suffering from gout and some throat malady, which prevented
his attending the Conference on Wednesday. He had seemed
before in pretty good health, os he appears in our Artist’s
Sketch of a street scene, where his Lordship appears, with Mr.
Montagu Corry, walking from the Kaiserhof Hotel to the
Radziwill Palace. The following extract from a letter of the
Times' Berlin Correspondent on Tuesday will serve for a com¬
mentary on the incident shown in our Artist's Sketch
“When Lord Beaconsfield first came to Berlin the acting
chief of the police waited upon the British Premier to caution
him against walking in the streets. There might be assassins
abroad, the officer argued, with evident anxiety, intent upon
killing the leading man of the high and mighty assembly that
had met at Berlin. Lord Beaconsfield, in reply, expressed a
doubt that Berlin assassins were sufficiently cosmopolitan to
extend their operations to foreign Ministers sojourning in this
capital. However, being ignorant of the state of the place, the
repeated warning of the anxious officer eventually took effect
upon the possible victim. For a week, therefore, the noble
Lord used to drive out in a closed carriage, which he only left,
nt a distance from the town, to take his ‘ constitutional ’ in
C ts beyond the reach of Socialists and Anarchists. But his
spirit rebelled against these secret promenades. Having
always deemed death preferable to eternal imprisonment, the
Earl, after a week’s abstinence, determined to slight the warn¬
ings of the police, and freely showed himself iu hotel, street,
and park. He had no reason to regret his independent course.
Unless inconvenienced by obtrusive attention on the part of
the metropolitan public, his walks were as agreeable as they were
safe. Fame has its attendant penalties, and stares arc punish¬
ments inflicted by admirers. Lord Beaconsfield has counted
among the most interesting sights of the capital during the
last month.”
Two minor Illustrations, those of the garden front and the
staircase of the Radziwill Palace, in which the sittings of the
Congress are held, are presented this week, as contemporary
history .will scarcely record any proceedings of greater moment
than those of this august diplomatic assembly at Berlin.
leiruunw ui w,. _ conditional convention
entered into between her Majesty and the Sultan, to ^
•» if Batoum, Ardahan, Kara, or any of thorn, shall be retained by
Rtiwia. and if attempt shall be made at any future tune by Kuma to take
I ,,t-M km on of any further portion of the AsmUc^temtones ofthe SulUm as
fixed by the 6 ~ * " " 1 3 “ *“ “ "
in defending
twef lowers) into the government of the Christian and other subject* of the
Porte in those territories; and, in order to enable England to make noees-
saiy provisions *
If the^Sovernment”of /lu*n«U shonhTaTany tiuio surrender to toe"Porto
the tciritory it has acquired in Asia by tho rocont war, the stipulations in
the Convention will cease to operate, aud the island will bo evacuated.
Tindf r this Convention (tho condition under wliicb it is founded having now
arise n a firman has been toned by tho Porte authorising the transfur of
Cypi u - to England, and possession of the riland will be at onoe taken and
t] lt . (in einnient administered on behalf of 1 or Majesty. I have to add that
bur Msjedy has been pleased to appoint Sir Garnet Wolaeley to administer
the government of the island. I will lay the papers on the table to-night.
An exodus of hon. members followed this declaration, which
revealed nothing more than Mr. Gross had stated a quarter of
an hour before to the Commons; and noble Lords themselves
separated, after a fruitless conversation as to the erection of
shelters for equestrians in Rotten-row, aud after advancing a
few measures a stage.
On Tuesday the Anglo-Turkish Convention was returned
to by Lord Granville, who could not learn from the Duke of
Richmond whether the treaty had been communicated, either
formally or informally, to the other Powers. The bill to
enable innkeepers to sell the left property of persons indebted
to them was read the second time, on the motion of Lord
Henniker; and various other measures were advanced a stage.
In reply to Loid Granville, on Thursday, the Duke of
Richmond said he had no information as to the time the
principal Plenipotentiaries would arrive in Loudon, nor did he
know when they would leave Berlin. There was, however,
eveiy reason to believe that the Congress would terminate its
labours in the coarse of a few days. The papers iu connection
with them would be presented immediately after the close of
the Congress. The Foreign J urisdiction Bill was read the second
time, and the Statute Law Revision Bill was read the third
time and passed. In reply to a question from Lord
Shaftesbury respecting the slavery now existing in the
island, the Duke of Richmoud stated that Sir Garnet
Wolseley would leave to-morrow for Cyprus, and on his
arrival it would be his duty to make a full investigation of the
institutions and every thing else connected with the island. On
receiving an authentic report from him, the Government would
be in a position to stato the course they intended to take.
COMMONS.
Mr. Ridley was virtually declared the elect of South North¬
umberland yesterday week, the Speaker announcing that the
petition of Mr. Grey had been withdrawn. On the other hand,
Mr. Wilson (who had been returned by an exceedingly large
Liberal majority as number for Middlesborough) was cheered
by the Opposition on his taking the oaths and his seat. The
afternoon was devoted to a dry discussion in Committee of the
Highways Bill, clause 20 of which was reached when progress
was reported. A debate on Ritualism, initiated by Mr. E.
Jenkins, monopolised the evening sitting. The hon.
member for Dundee, in that complaisant and pseudo-
philosophic tone to which the House has grown accus¬
tomed, advanced many arguments in support of his
prayer for a Royal Commission to inquire into the
“ Ritualistic” practices of certain members of the Church of
England. Mr. Green seoonded the motion; and the speakers
generally, including the Chancellor of tho Exchequer, deplored
the conduct of those who had brought about the state of
things complained of in the Church. Sir Stafford Northcote
urged, however, that the law was strong enough to suppress
abuses of the kind alluded to; and the right hon. Baronet
succeeded in persuading Mr. Jenkins to withdraw his motion.
Mr. Fawcett was one of the first to open fire on Monday, the
hon. member for Hackney not abating one jot of the stentorian
quality of his voice in giving notice of a motion for altering
the Government of India Act for the due protection of the
pockets of the Indian people, whom the Crown would
burden with the expenses of an army liable to serve
in any part of her Majesty’s Empire. Several questions of
more or lees public interest were put and replied to ; Mr.
Roberts took the oaths and his seat for Flint; and it then
became the duty of the Home Secretary to act temporarily as
the Leader of the House in place of Sir Stafford Northcote,
obliged to remain at home in consequence of an aocident,
wLieh drew expressions of regret from both sides the House.
Answering a question from the Marquis of Hurtington as to
the rumoured Protectorate of Turkey in Asia and the transfer
of Cyprus, Mr. Cross replied to the same effect as the
Duke of Richmond; but what may be termed the mac¬
adamised delivery of the Home Secretary seemed to
giatc on hon. members, and a peal of derisivo laughter
lrom the Oppotitiou benches greeted the reference of the
light hon. gentleman to the reforms which the Porte would
be called upon to effect. As a counter-demonstration, there
was a faint, half-hearted buret of applause from the Con-
Fervatives at the mention of the approaching occupation
of Cyprus. With regard to a second inquiry os to whether
the treaty had been communicated to the Congress, Mr
trots requested the Marquis of Hartington to repeat the
question the following day ; and the Home Secretary, in the
most offhand and abrupt manner, referred Mr. Gladstone
to the papers for a clear understanding of the Con¬
vention. Yet another evening was dovoted to the cattle
plague; and it was shown that the Government had at last
resolved to abate the stringency of the Ministerial measure.
Mr. Torrens moved in an able speech on the motion for going
into Committee on the bill—
That, bavins regard to the greatly enhanced price of animal food, this
House i» not prepared to adopt any measure which may tend further U
diminish the supply of cattle from abroad.
Whereupon Sir H. Selwin-Ibbetson made tho conciliatory
announcement that while slaughter would be the rule of the
measure, it might be well to give the Privy Council power to
admit cattle shown to be free from disease from Spain, Portu¬
gal, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Mr. Forster was obliged
to tbe Government for the concessions made, and suggested
that the home regulations as to the conveyance of cattle
should be altered in a similarly rational manner. The bovine
chorus was joined in freely; and ultimately, when Sir William
Hareourt, Mr. Cross, and the Marquis of Hartington had
delivered themselves of their opinions on the matter, Mr.
Torrens withdrew hia motion. In face of an adverse
motion by Mr. Dillwyn, Mr. Cross got the Bishoprics Bill
read the second time by 188 to 60 votes ; and the House sat
till morning, not separating until the Lords’ amendments to
the Poor Law Act Amendment Bill had been agreed to.
On Tuesday a little more intelligence was communicated
respecting tbe Anglo-TurkL-li Treaty. Replying to Mr.
Forster, Mr. Bourke said—
The English ratification was sent to Constantinople by special messenger
seme time ago, and Sir A. Layard reported on the Hth that everything wm
settled ; ana Mr. BariDg, who was to take the firman to Cyprus, had left
Constantinople. We have not yet received any official report of the
convention having been formally communicated to the other Powers.
The Scottish Roads and Bridges Bill was read the third time,
after Mr. Anderson had uttered a final plaint as to the
injustice which the measure threatened to inflict on Glasgow.
In Committee on the Highways Bill some progress was made,
clause 31 being agreed to ere the House .branched off into
other business. The evening sitting was occupied with the
consideration of Mr. Errington’s motion, supported by a
speech of great length, for a Commission of Inquiry into tho
working of the Irish Land Act of 1870, which the hon. member
argued had not operated sufficiently to check capricious
evictions. The Irish members generally, Mr. Butt included,
coincided with the viewp of Mr. Errington. Drily remarking
that the authors of the Irish Laud Act were not present to
defend it, Mr. Lowther had no veneration for that Act, but yet
felt bound to object to the motion, which was negatived by
134 to 07 votes.
“ Proputty, proputty, proputty,” was the toothsome theme
which exercised the minds and voices of hon. members on
Wednesday. Mr. Potter's Real Estate‘Intestacy Bill came
on for second reudiug ; but the upholders of primogeniture
were in force, and the measure was rejected by 193 votes to 157.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer reappeared in his place
on Thursday and was greeted with loud aud general cheering.
In reply to Major Nolan, Colonel Stanley stated that the
number of troops which would be employed in the occupation
of Cyprus was about 10,000, consisting of the Indian con¬
tingent now at Malta and three English battalions. Mr. A.
Egcrton informed Sir A. Gordon that a large chart showing
the harbours and coants of Cyprus would be immediately
placed in the library; and in reply to Sir J. Goldsmid, who
naively inquired whether there were any harbours at all on the
island, stated that there was certainly one, and three good
anchorages, from which troops could be landed at all times.
In answer to an inquiry from Sir G. Campbell, Colonel Stanley
said that the committee to investigate the cost of the Indian
troops employed in Europe would be nominated next week.
He did not expect the inquiry to be a very prolonged one.
Mr. Cross, replying to a question put by Mr. Forster, in the
absence of the Marquis of Hartington, stated that the
papirs relating to the Congress were being prepared, and
there would be no unnecessary delay in presenting them
to Parliament. Maps, too, on a largo scale, showing
what the Congress had done, would be deposited in the
library of each House. In answer to a question from Sir
H. D. Wolff, Mr. Bourke stated that the Foreign Office
had received reports of the ill-treatment of the Mohammedans
in the Rhodope Mountains, and they agreed vory much with
the accounts published in the public journals. Replying to
Mr. Baxter, Mr. Bourke stated that the Porte had expressed
its readiness to enter into a convention with this country for
the suppression of the slave trade. A draught one had boen
prepared, and was sent to Constantinople on June 9. It was
the intention of her Majesty’s Government to follow the same
policy in respect to this subject as they had pursued in respect
to Zanzibar, Egypt, and the Red Sea. The Chancellor of tho
Exchequer informed Sir H. James that it was proposed to
refer the Criminal Code (Indictable Offences) Bill to a
Commission, consisting of Lord Blackburn, Mr. Justice
Lush, and Sir Fitz-James Stephen, to revise the bill
and report upon it before the next Session of Parliament.
The Sunday Closing (Ireland) Bill, the first order of the day,
then formed the subject of discussion and contention between
the two opposing parties during the remainder of the sitting,
each seeming determined to fight the battle to the last, and
by the strength of their physical powers to tire the other
down. Although the actual question was the consideration of
the bill as amended, the principle of the measure was discussed
ab initio, and in speeches of wearisome length and verbosity.
Relays of members were organised on both sides, to relieve
each other after midnight, and there is every likolihood that
the morning’s sun will witness the continuance of this
unseemly struggle. _
The conference of the British Temperance League was held
the early part oF this week in York. Resolutions wore passed
in favour of the closing of public-houses on Sunday, and for
an alteration of the present state of things attending the sale
of intoxicating liquors at railway stations. The conference will
next year be held at Huddersfield.
A match, between representatives of the Hon. Artillery
Company and the Berkshire Rifle Volunteers, both commanded
by Colonel Loyd-Lindsay, V.C., M.P., has been shot off on
Crookham-comznon, the weapon used being the Martini rifle.
For Berkshire the total was 1192 and for the Hon. Artillery
Company 1135.
Monsei gneur Dupanloup’s proposal to illustrate Joan of
Arc’s career by ten painted windows in the Orleans Cathedral,
and to restore the old expiatory monument, has been already
mentioned. He has now issued a stirring appeal for sub¬
scriptions, in which he says:—“ To us Joan of Arc is a warrior,
a victim, and likewise a saint; but, as it appertains to the
Church alone to adjudge her this grand title of Saint, twelve
of my venerated colleagues and I a few years ago addressed
the request to the Holy See. We then opened at Orleans the
preliminary investigation required by the canon laws ; the
Court of Rome has now that investigation in its hands, and
we await with confidence ita decision.” A jury will choose
the best plan, and the cost is estimated at 150,000f. All,
■ moreover, who subscribe or collect lOOf. will have their names
I inmibed in gold letters on marble tablets in the cathedral.
JULY 13, 1878
MUSIC.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.
•“ Alma, L’TncnntQtrice,” an Italian version of Flotow’s new
•opera, L Encmnteresse,” was produced on Tuesday The
work was brought out at the Paris Italian Opera in April last
the book of the original French version having been written bv
M. do Sarnte-Georges, the Italian version bein'” by SI de
Lauzieres. It was in this latter form that the opern was si von
m Pans and was performed here on Tuesday-the character of
tiie heroine having m both cases, been represented by Mdlle
* ThC Pl0t 15 01118 summarised 111 the book of the
— HE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
the ho,-
AJa.., a charming Ba/aX. one ^ th
beanty and gentle nature awake in the bard a noble , Her
tarn /cels a deep admiration—which ripens into lovo—f^thelu® w
verses she has frequently sung to the enraptured pwple Carao^ns
awed hy some officers, his old friends aud admired, iiTprWtodwifW?'
®oney whereby he may purchase his ransom and return £TrSten k
discovers that Alma is to be sold as a slave by her master TfnhK -r en he
themaidhedispohos of his ransom sum in purchasing her himself TTn* I ^ :1CUe
ong. r the means to depart, be, with the help of JoBi'whoTouM
In order to esc ape from his coquettish wife, Zingaretta, su^ds in avni r
Ui« watdUul eye of the guards, and escapes with AimaTud^Jos/to T
Becloded now m Jote’a mn. his hop,* l ie iTthe mteful Aim?'
who by hi r smgirg could earn a sum sufficient to nrocuiThis ’
During a incht of carnival, however, a crowd of ml^lr. rJ^ 1 ^'
ln "> among them a stranger, who, reoognising in Alma
who had shuck his fane)-, and for whom he had wught evoAwWe^f.M
now possess her, when, Camoe ns drawing a dagger in her H
f minis, in which the stranger is woundSt. Atthcmom^t/e^ 8 ?^' 0
officer, entering the place, rerwils in tho wounded Htr*.rumr f>vA e ^ anc ^ 0 A aa
Sebastian, who is indulging his love of adventure br wfmll!* 0 P 0Q
Amid the confusion, Cumins makes
near the harbour, a hatch of convicts in chains rf-m by to Wnin-nsri^s’
Alma, who is present, discovering among them WM’sTviou^S^
before the King, imploring mercy. Don Sebastian, astonLshed ^s^h
, *? 0V « y hBr dt r P '' u ’ would know whois thiTprisoner On
hesrmg Mm Alma the name of Oninoens, he immediate!v renai™ thn^U, U
-Portugal^' lmcoverin ® bimself, does homage to the grea/poft,The |l^“?
Tlie opera has no overture, not even that poor substitute
occasionally supplied under the title of “ Prelude,” a few
detached chords lor the orchestra being all that precedes the
rising of the curtain on a square in Goa. Some spirited music
Cn, ' 0llM!l '- 1 of S rou P s of Portuguese officers,
after which Alma enters and sings an elaborate scena in which
are some effective contrasts. This was rendered by MdUe
Albam with an alternation of brilliant execution and refined
•expression that produced a marked effect. Tho duet which
M Panoid a ? t nU 7 • SUU fV b0f h b 7 the lad 7 just named aad
M. Capoul, the representative of Camoens. The delicate
mezzo- voce passages for Alma were charmingly given A lively
duet for Zingaretta and Jose was well rendered by‘Aid d 7
“g Slgnor Caxacciolo, the lady being especially sue!
cessful in the representation of the arch and coquettish wife
innkeeper. A pleasing duet for Alma and Camoeus
and a well-written tno for the same characters and Jo=6
• complete the music of the first act.
Act ii. takes place in Jose’s inn at Lisbon. Here Camoens
recites his verses to the sympathetic admiration of Alma the
?«S2 iatl0 il Of th ® the Passage “ O patria diletta,”
and the enthusiasm of the latter as expressed in the phrase
0 suo 1 nntio sei caro al mio cor ” having been very effective
“ ™ e . d ^“?, Estl S tl 1 ve 80n &.“ 11 Tento soffia” (with chorus
of safiors), Mdlle. Belocca gamed a special success, haring
^. e fF: A common-place solo for Don Sebastian
f f « ma (P robabl T an interpolation), was rendered
effective by Signor Cotogm’s forcible delivery of it. After
tola f ollows the trio of the Cigarette—one of the most suc-
oeesful pieces m the performance of the opera at Paris There
£ “ ucb character in this movement, in which
teaches Don Sebastian and Jos6 the then novel
delights of tobacco. The trio derived much effect iu Satur-
MHiu P n i 0rmanC a fr0E1 th ? vi vacious acting and singing 0 f
Mdlle. Belocca. Some bacchanalian music follows, and a solo
m which Den Sebastian narrates the story of his love. This
was another specimen of good declamation by Signor Coto-mi.
Ihe remaining important piece in the second act is an effective
“ whub are some dramatic passages expressive of the
contention of the Poet and the King, and the intercessio i of
Ac ‘ m - hf 8 ^ 0 in . a 8< l uare in Lisbon, and opens with one of
the principal pieces m the opera, a scena for Alma, containin'”
aome very effective vocal writing, both in the brilliant and
mte n e Hn re A- V V et7le !‘ Xt ? execution by Mdlle. Albani was a
S5rphteK 1Sp ay °- f . fimshed art > baying included some
aumurable bravura singing and some phrases of exquisite grace
cfo T 8 .P° rtion ’ “° ca »zoiA dei primi
?“} V called forth an enthusiastic demonstration of applause,
»Mch had k ‘?> repeated. The balletmi’e
Vtoe./ U Th ? ’ we . b fiow, an interpolation bjr Signor
«nT!toir , , 8 0cene , “eluded some very effective grouping
KteS WB by MdUe - ZuC0hi and MdUea - H^andK
™l tbird “ d fou riii acts were thrown into one, muclUof
m 6 t r£ m r C '° the °P era having been omitted. The
ttgSZMir? r T ainin ff be spoken of are-a solo
M SZl i 6 -° la augueta me ta,”—well declaimed by
dUCt ±0r 111111 aDd ^ ex P re33iTe
ancf U S Ci Mrfu ha8 a iTf ad - y been 8aid im P 1 J' that tbe Perform-
Hdlle BeSpn'M 1 ^ 7“ °J hi ^ h excellence, and that
renres'enteS’ £ ap °\ ll) and Si ^ or Cotogni were worthy
•8Cfni ? i° f ^ e , eharacters assigned them. As Jose,
Kubli hBvr CC i? 10 ac « d . aud 8ang witb much spirit, the part of
SaS :h “S ee ? efficiently filled by Signor Manfredi; other
rasts subordmately associated with the cast having been
Signori Bagner Scdara, FiHe, and Ferrario. g
here bv Mr de f p J 1 otow ’ s .Previous work “L’Ombra” (produced
Theatre in' tJ 0 P Icsoii > “, au English version, at Her Majesty’s
HriLy Ia8 - ) ’ Alma ” contains some agreeable
!ki » occasional instances of dramatic effect and
thatwork tW tl?nS m H' 0 C0Ecerted mU8ic : l“t, aUo like
power for’nn h scarcely sufficient originality or sustained
Cce wTr a ° f J Ucb and pretensions. The per-
TftoXedon thJ c f onduct .<£ b 7 Signor Vianese. “ Alma’’ is
•'Ab 7 M j ( rr^"nd5 l an h er‘““ 16S “ d P ‘ CtUreS<IUe
cast as ?S?? n rt 0£ ] aSfc 7 ee . k were ^ repetitions of operas
(Satu^aJwSr, 0410 ^- ‘ Alma ” is to be repeated this
v/' e ? m ^g > and °n Thursday Kossini’s “Semiramide.”
In the opera no “SeSd exce Pti°n?dly great,
considerate workmanshin f req uent evidences of
and finales, P J ? the concerted pieces
obtained, as— amom? othnJ 114 - ?°° d dramat ic climaxes are
i 3 bsss?
trS ^ffie writing fSTh g ^ ^° Dg aud effect ive con-
by that suavity of 8 tvle and 'snlfT^ j^tingnished
•he 1 L e op^ 0, rdtSXS O d , , S T°? t,and ( a «Knisht of
portion o/th^Vi 8 7 er * f, h ,n Canzone d Evelina,” Edith’s
. encore for the romanza, “ La gnSrlapK ”
Signor Campanmi s performance as the Knight of the Leonard
over!™ sct 5r , . th “ h 1 P“t reprfsentations of^the
aSd san?the wedI ,, m tbe sev eral important situation!
“Flower & 1 ?5 d «^n th jRf ,d ^ antabile at 7 le. The charming
b g .( Candido fiore”) was encored, and Sir
"eeTth^
Gawf was agam finely represented by Signor
uaiassi—ns m repetitions of the opera in 1875. This gentle-
nraver a “ g Alte e s ?na ’ -ft* d ’ amor .” and the succeeding
Prayer- Sl gnor,” with great effect; and his perform¬
ance altogether was one of high merit. An imnortent
eature of the cast was the Nectabanus of Signor Del Puente
riave'bv^n^- 11 ? 417 th w e ^atic aspect of the maliS
slave by whom Sir Kenneth is tempted to desert his watch of
the standard on St. George’s Mount. The sjene between the
Steno?Dd PnSte 1 v. 0n ’ Wa8 i findy rendercd on both sides,
feignor Del Puente having also given, with great effect the
chanfi s^nr mter yi. ew with Edith in thf corridor of the
tho^Lr^ Eranceschi was an efficient representative of
prdude was supplied by tlie ready baud of Sir
^^f+i, C08ta ‘ Subsequently the overture was discovered
among the papers of the deceased composer, and was played
of Mr Wd?mi 84 { he A1 , exa f dra p alace, under the direction
Hlb ' X “ Saturday’s performance of the opera
this brilliant and well-scored piece was given, as intended,
and formed a highly effective introduction to the stage music.
n . ®^° raX 811(1 concert^i piece 0 were generally well rendered,
as were the orchestral accompaniments. The scenery and
u°Twp n f. 8 nre 111 excellent taste; and there is little doubt that
Il lalismano will find many successful repetitions. Sir
Saturday’s performance with that care
and skill for which he is bo renowned.
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THEATRES
A^Iy e8da7 8 DeW drama in fi vo acts, by Mr. Cyril Searle an
ox x • e a^c told, a considerable reputation in tbe United
in^ighEr^olesE 8 ™dh° a^L^y IL^^to^’n^Cleopatra 0060 ^^
SSSS;
r
sentiment of honour, which, however recognisable bv thieve*
characters were cJefidfy' totinmdsh^d 1 by ^ompeten^pS 0
wer ner p -^fvextheless, it cannot be affirme/that the audience
were altogether pleased with tho performance. n# ®
TO ,-n T “i C 011 f^ UenCe . 0f Mr ‘ Sot bem’s ill-health, the Haymarket
will close this evening for awhile, during which the Scatter
will vi s,t America where it is sffid he wifi perform for Se
ssas tz.'zszsrsi
f 8ea80 p at jbe Gaiety has been brought to a close and
the theatre will undergo a process of decoration until Aug^
ramnently successful. ’ U 3 Ha l,
llose. The princapal part will bo k. ir„ ft “ i^wara
Carmen » was given for the fifth time on Monday, “ La
Irayiata was repeated on Tuesday, aud “ Fidelio” on Wed-
needay. Le Nozzedi Figaro ” was announced for the first
m on Thursday, “ II Talismauo ” for tho fnl W.
“““‘y* iiuiwe ai rigaro was announced for the firs
time this season on Thursday, “ II Talismauo ” for the follow
“•OT ht ’. a ? dtlu 5 ( Satl “ da 7) evening the season is to closi
with the suth performance of “ Carmen ’’—some supplementa
nights, at reduced prices, being advertised to begin on Monday
(Saturdavlovonterf. 0410 ^ 1 ' “ Alma ” 18 to be repeated thi
was tn till .“u g , and on Thursday Rossini’s “Semiramide”
5 S£ M ■ d "? 8 AdelIna Patti •• the
Balfe’p HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE.
°n Saturdav^fo ^ 8 tv? 61 ? ^ Tali ? mano ” was performed
Work was eornp ^ 1 ^ 1 ! 6 ^rst time in this theatre. The
Arthur Matthi.E° SedaU Englbib bbretto written by Mr.
“cidints from Wt7 h °’ need 8car cely be said, took his
Yras supplied h v ^ 4 8 W ^ 1 ‘jP 10Wn romance. The Italian text
PPUcd by Signor Zaffira, and the recitatives, in lieu of
That accomplished violinist, Mdlle. Castellan, gave her
concert on Monday afternoon at No. 1 , Lancaster-gate by
permission of Airs. Owen Lewis. An interesting programme
included skilful performances b 7 the concert giver.
The eighth matinee of the Musical Union took place on
lueeday, when Madame Montigny-liemaury reappeared as
pianist, as did Signor Papini as violinist aud M. Lasserre as
violoncellist.
A most effective performance of Verdi’s “Manzoni”
Requiem took place at St. James’s Hall on Wednesday eve 3
ing, conducted by Air. Bamby, as on previous occasions, at
tho Royal Albert Hall. We spoke in detail of the merits of
this work when first given in this country in 1875, at the
building just named, under the direction of the composer.
On Wednesday the solo singers were the Misses Robertson
Miss Do Fonblanque, Mr. C. Wade, and the Hon. S. g!
Littelton. Previous to the Requiem, a miscellaneous selection
was given. There was a full orchestra and a chorus including
the choir of St. Anne’s, Soho, the performances having been
given in aid of the establishment of a workiug men’s club in
that parish.
A very interesting concert was given by Mr. Malcolm
Lawson at the Royal Academy of Music (Tenderden-strcet)
on Wednesday evening, when Purcell’s “Dido and yEneas,”
and portions of Gluck’s “ Alceste,” were performed, with baud
and chorus; the latter having consisted of members of the
Gluck Society. The chief interest centred in the first-named
work, the earliest stage production of England’s greatest
musician, it having been composed in 1675, when Purcell was
only nineteen. Wednesday’s performance was a very efficient
one. The principal soloists were Misses A. Brookes and
F. Kelly, Mrs. Hollick, Mr. B. Lane, Mr. T. Marzials, Mr. D.
Ferris, and Mr. Williams. Mr. Lawson conducted.
The last Floral Hall concert of the season takes place this
(Saturday) afternoon, when also the third and concluding
opera concert at the Royal Albert Hn.ll will be giveu.
— . “r-*- as rans, by Mr Edward
““Tv P^ will be played by Mr. Harrv Procter
of the Theatre Royal, Scarborough • and Mr TTn-uV. *■ fn_ *
Miss Lizzie Coote, ^d’otoers ^uIppoS ^
,,e»"L« S « 0»
FINE ARTS.
the^rnld^f?^ h “ to the Princess a picture of
the Golden Horn, painted by her late son. V
Sir Coutta- Lindsay has consented to open the Grosvenor
Jabery on three Sunday aftemo ns between the hows of two
, , On Sunday, July 14, Ihe gallory will be opened free
to the subscribers and members of the Sunday Society and on
Juiy jl and Aug. 3 to the public by tickets wffich wdl be
issued by the Sunday Society: ’ wm bo
Two remarkable etchings have been issued by Messrs
Heighten and Dunthome, of 320, High Holbora The^Ta
pietuxe^ hy Mr. Frank Holl entitled “Hush 7 and
Hushed,” exhibited in the Dudley GaUery lust year Tha
etchings are by M. Victor Lhuillier, and are powerful renro
ductiona of Mr. Doll’s striking ’and pathetfc picSS
lher 1 8 work 18 drst r ate, and entitles him to S
foremost rank among modem etchers.
Tin® f tt , endan 1 ce at tbe Glasgow Fine-Art Loan Exhibition
bank £3«kD W t£> 7“ 4 >’ f 000 ! a 1111 the amount at credit in
banic AJOOO. Ihe committee have decided to keen if nn«n
August, to enable English and other tourffts, when Sit
through Glasgow to the Highlands, an opportunity of seeinf
a ^? a . urea , of Gl^gow. This financial success m^t bS
gratifying to the promoter, Mr. Allan Collins, whs is a
8E ^ 1 ?^ ^be Lord Provost of Glasgow, and a partner of tho
publishing firm of Messrs. Collins, Som, and Co. P
A memorial bust of Michael W Balte ti,» __
Mr C Thom t0 OT p er R 0 L tbe Balfe Memorial Cominitteo.Ty
fteiw 7 s ? E arr ? ’ waa unve iled in the National
Gallery, Leinster Lawn, Dublin, on Saturday last. Sir Bernard
Burke, Ulster King-at-Arms, presided.
Mr. Brock has been chosen to be the sculptor of the
Kiddeminsterf 11 E ° wlaild Hm which is to boated £
tt; ? be council of the Somersetshire Archaeological aud Natural
History Society, who have thoir head-quarters at the Castle
launton, have arranged an exhibition in aid of the castle
purchase fund. Nearly 2000 line engravings, etchings meazo-
nmteW ? quat ' Dts have been lent by collectors in tlfe distriot
and they have been so arranged in the large hall of tho castle
as to afford an idea of the progress which has been made the
gia\ er s art from the fifteenth century to the present time.
A movement has been set on foot for a museum of decorative
art m 1 ans, aud Sir R. Wallace has subscribed £10,000 to it.
The Belgian General Exhibition of Fine Arts for 1878 will
begin on Aug 20, and end on Oct. 15. It is open to Um
productions ct living artists, Belgian or foreigu ^
Hobday numbers of London Society, Belgravia, and All the
Tear Bound Lave been issued. The two former are illustrated
and all three contain tales and sketches by popular authors ’
f r r bol d “g the forty-sixth auuual meet¬
ing of the British Medical Association at Bath on Tuesday
Aug 6 , and three following days, are completed, aud the
meeting premises to be a great success from tlie large number
of valuable papers entered for discussion.
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ROYAL VI8IT TO NOTTINGHAM : THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES ENTERING NOTTINGHAM CASTLE.
LORD BBACON8FIELD WALKING TO A MEETING OF THE CONGRESS AT BERLIN.
FBOM A SKBTCH BY OUH BPICtAL ABTI8T.
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THE TT.T.PBTBATBD LONDON NEV8__
JULY 13, 1878
THE WIMBLEDON MEETING.
ZtgxsszrxEX** .*• a*
Kt a Slitary band discourses brisk
“■StjSST™. held on Sunday in tt. Sout h Mid dl^e.
camp at a quarter past ten a.m., the sermon being
tSltev E Ker Gray; in the 1st Surrey camp at eleven am-,
Sc semon behig poached by the Rev. Dr. Maclear Head
Master of King’s College; and in the Victorias camp at ten a.m.,
Se s^oSig preached by the Rev. Hr. Taylor of Wanda-
worth. The preacher in camp next Sunday m°nnng will be
the Rev. T. Teignmouth Shore, M.A., Honorary Chaplain to
“•aSS. began on Monday under favourable circum¬
stances. The light and wind were everything that could be
desired, and the sooring was excellent, nine of the competitors
making 35—the highest possible score—with seven oon-
secutife bull’s-eyes. The only competition brought to aclose
on Monday was that of the “Alfred,” for Smderaat^OO
yards, open to all comers. The aggregate value of the prnes
connected with this competition is f^O.diVKled “imty-
three prizes. Lieutenant Ward, of the 2nd Flint Rifles,
made the highest possible score (35), winning £30; and
£10 each fell to Corporal Howell, 9th Somerset, and
Surgeon Parnell, 14th Worcestershire, who both scored 34.
Among the winners of £5 prizes in the Alfred competition were
Mackenzie, of the 10th Forfar; M’Auslan, of the 6th Dumbar¬
ton ; and Young, of the 1st Herts, all of whom have distin-
guiihed themselves at previous Wimbledon meetings. Sergeant
Weyman, of New Brunswick, stood lowest of those who had
scored 32 points, and consequently took £2 only; and amongst
those who won similar rams with a point less were the Queen s
prizemen of 1871 and 1875, Mr. Humphrey, of Cambridge Uni¬
versity, and Major Pearse, of the 18th Devon. Not in the
Alfred only was the “ highest possible ” made on Monday.
In the Windmill this ultimate total was attained by
Lieutenant MTntyre, 7th Dumbarton, after it had been
approached within one point by Corporal Parlby, 3rd Notts,
whose score of 34 in seven shots would a few years
ago have established his fame as a marksman all England
over. The Armourer’s Company Prize also brought forward a
champion, in the person of Lieutenant-Colonel RadclifEe, 39th
Middlesex, whose score cannot be excelled. But the Glen
Albyn, formerly the 200-yards’ stage of the Windmill, was
positively prolific in top scores. First, Private Messenger,
9th Leicester, reached the maximum figures ; and after gun¬
fire two more such triumphs were recorded iu the same com¬
petition. Sergeant-Instructor Gilder, 18th Middlesex, and
Major Young, 39th Middlesex, were the second and third
scores, each of 35 points. Several good scores were lost by
the prevalent carelessness of firing at the wrong target. One
such case was a particularly hard one. After having scored
an inner and five bulls on the right target, and so having made
29, with one shot to go, the unlucky marksman put that final
Bhot on the next target to his own, making a bull’s-eye; but,
instead of thereby profiting so far as to score only one short of
the “ highest possible,” having the mortification to be fined
10s. for his blunder.
On Tuesday shooting began in the first stage of the Queen’s
Prize, for which unprecedentedly high scores were bound to be
made, the Martini-Henry being adopted instead of the Snider
at the short ranges. There has been an unprecedented
increase in the number of the competitors for the Queen’s
Prize and for the St. George’s Vase this year. The number
entered for the Queen’s is 2498, being 216 more than last
year. The entries for the St. George’s are 2283, being
413 more than Inst year. The amount of the money
prizes connected with the latter competition has also
been considerably increased, the total value last year being
£541, divided into 100 prizes, whereas this year it
amounts to £695, divided into 125 prizes. The result of the
shooting for the second range of the Queen’s Prize at 500
yards fully bore out the expectations that were formed of the
Martini-Henry rifle, the aggregate scores at 200 and 500 yards
far surpassing those of former years, when the competition
was shot with the Snider. Last year the highest aggregate
score at the two ranges was 60, there being ten of that
number, three fifty-nines, and 17 fifty-eights. This year the
highest aggregate score at the two ranges is sixty-eight, and
that is followed by two sixty-sevens, four sixty-sixes, four
sixty-fives, 11 sixty-fours, 28 sixty-threes, and 38 sixty-twos,
there being considerably more than a hundred scores exceeding
the highest obtained last year. The list of scores of Tuesday’s
shooting at 200 yards contained four thirty-fives, 14 thirty-
fours, 42 thirty-threes, 71 thirty-twos, and 137 thirty-ones.
The tie between Sergeant Fletcher, of the 2nd Stirling,
and Corporal Bond, of the 1st Bucks, who each made 35, the
highest possible score, for the Daily Telegraph Cup on
Tuesday, was shot off at gun-fire on Wednesday morning at
the 200-yards Carton range. At first both competitors were
very nervous, each of them scoring first an outer and then
“ a magpie.” On the third trial, however, Sergeant Fletcher
scored an inner, and thus won the cup, the first prize, Corporal
Bend only making another magpie, and having to be satisfied
with the second prize of £10 in money. Various competitions
were begun on Wednesday. The Whiteley Prize, seven shots
at 900 yards, for any rifles, a new prize during the present
year, commenced, and Dr. Burnett, Ulster R.A., made 33;
Lieutenant Coates, 6th Lincoln, and Mr. Doyle, of the Irish
Rifle Association, 30 each. For the Secretary of State for
War’s Frizes, also seven shots at 900 yards with any kind of
breechloader, Mr. Dunlop, London Scottish, made 32. Sir
Henry Halford’s Ne Plus Ultra, any rifle, seven shots at 1000
yards, was also begun; and for the Henry Prizes, seven shots
with any military breechloaders at 1000 yards, Mr. King, of
the Inns of Court, and Mr. Wyatt, of Ellesmere, made 307
The chief interest of the proceedings on Thursday seemed
to be centred in the shooting for the Queen’s Prize at 600
-yards. Up to the hour of our going to press with the early
edition the following excellent scores had been made for it: —
Corporal Mollineux, Manchester, Sergeant Lamont, Edinburgh
Low, Queen’s (Westminster), 95 points each, 105 bein°- the
highest possible score; Private Grant, Manchester, 94 ;°Ser-
g(nnt Woolley, Chester, Private Kydd, Forfar, Sergeant Kirk
Beverley, 93 each; Sergeant Finch, 19th Middlesex, 92 • Cor-
poral BlacHock, 14th Durham, aud Private Fra.cr, Queen',,
Edinburgh, 91 each._
VOLUNTEER INSPECTIONS.
muster, and also t gue t Middlesex, who mustered
Barracks, under the com-
tt C 36th Middlesex, numbering 878 of aB -nks^ The re f i-
„ ment, -jr
usual at by a stretcher company and - ^"TT' { Pflnn Ives and
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon lves, anti
the inspecting officer was Colonel Hall, of the Coldstream*.
The regiment drilled exceedingly well, themarch-past at the
JKipS period The Loadon
Mr. William Hardy has been appointed Deputy-Keeper of
the Records, in the place of hii brother, Sir Thomas Duff us
Hardy, deceased.
Lord Granville presided yesterday week at the annual
meeting of the National Training School for Cookery. From
the report it appears that the institution is now self-support¬
ing. xhc committee consider that a fund should, if possible,
be accumulated to pay for extensions as required, and at some
future day to Btart the school in a better building free from
debt. The Earl of Shaftesbury strongly insisted that fish
ought to enter more largely than it did into the food of the
nation. The great majority of the labouring classes, however,
did not at present know how to cook it so as to make it
;6t i!wE wnB inspected in Hyde Park, was accompanied pa i a t. a ble; but if the people would only see to this, und
’afreteher company and a company of recruits. 11 was fcrenk down the monopoly of the fishmongers, the working
(28th Middlesex) were also inspected in Hyde Park, on the
ground facing the Knightsbndge Sanaita, fgg 1
Fremantle. The total number on parade was 833 of aB ranks,
and the command was in the hands of Lieutenant-Colonel
Ward whose only field officers were Major Purcell and
Captain Daubeny, the Adjutant. The Marquis of Donegall,
the senior officer of the regiment, was at the salutmg-base,
but not in uniform. A great deal of drill was gone through
but, like the 39th, it was not possible to work the whole of the
regiment at one time.—The 7th Surrey turned out 436 of all
ranks out of 610 for inspection by Colonel Spott, of the King¬
ston sub-district, in the grounds of Lambeth Palace. Ihe
corps was under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Camp¬
bell.—The Second Middlesex Administrative Battalion, com¬
prising, the Hampstead, Hornsey, Highgate, Barnet Totten¬
ham, and Enfield corps, was inspected at the Pnory, Hornsey,
by Colonel Logan, of the fiftieth sub-district. The regiment
mustered 612 on parade, and was under the command of Lieu¬
tenant-Colonel Warner.—The 9th Essex Rifles were inspected
at West Ham Park by Colonel Rose, of the forty-fourth sub-
district, and mustered 462 of all ranks, under the command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Silver.—Several other regiments were out
the same evening—the 3rd London keeping the ground for the
London Irish, the 20th Middlesex for the 36th, and the 5th
Essex for the 9th. _
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
The West London Hospital for the Paralysed, which is
situated in Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square, was opened on
Tuesday.
The library committee of the Corporation dined together at
the Albion Tavern yesterday week; Mr. J. Voce Moore, the
chairman of the committee, presided.
Mr. Locke has intimated that he will not offer himself for
re-election for Southwark, which constituency he has repre¬
sented for the last twenty-one years.
Sir Michael Hicks- Beach received at the Colonial Office on
Wednesday a deputation bearing a memorial, signed by many
of the ratepayers and voters of the Transvaal, against the
annexation of that country to the British Crown. Sir Michael
said that he would give the subject complete consideration.
An offer has been made by the trustees and principal of
the Artisans’ Institute, St. Martin’s-lane, to the London
Trades Council, by which the whole of the property and pre¬
mises of that institution would be vested in the hands of the
London Trades Council, on condition that they continued to
work it as an educational institution.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer met with a slight acci¬
dent on Saturday morning. In walking from one of the
rooms of his official residence in Downing-street into the
garden in the rear Sir Stafford Nortlicote struck his head
against the sash of the window, which had not been com¬
pletely opened, and inflicted a slight wound upon his forehead.
Professor James Stuart, of Trinity College, Cambridge,
whose exertions in establishing the University extension scheme
are well known, last Wednesday visited the Crystal Palace on
behalf of the Cambridge Syndicate, and gave an address ill
the lower lecture-room of the Ladies’ Division of the Crystal
Palace Company’s School of Art, Science, and Literature.
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows that
the total number of paupers at the cud of the first week in
July was 77,177, of whom 38.094 were in workhouses, and 39,083
received outdoor relief. Compared with the corresponding
weeks in 1877, 1876, and 1875,these figures show a decrease of
392, 351, and 6295 respectively. The number of vagrants
relieved on the last day of the week was 427, of whom 234
were men, 152 women, and 41 children under sixteen.
The annual meeting of the Cobden Club was held last
Saturday at the rooms of the Century Club, Pall-mall—Mr.
T. B. Potter, M.P., iu the chair. In moving the adoption of
the report, the chairman said that at the present moment the
prospects of free trade and Cobdenic principles were by no
means cheerful, and some thought the members of the club
ought to lie on their oars and not take any decided steps. His
idea, however, was that, they should redouble their efforts,
with a view to hold the position they had gained.
Last month the officers of the Fishmongers’ Company de¬
stroyed ninety-three tons of fish at Billingsgate Market as unfit
for human food. Nearly the whole of it had come to London
by land. It included 120 bream, 34 brill, 34 cod, 1211 crabs
1000 crayfish, 300 dabs, 1024 haddocks, 4 halibut, 46 900
herrings, 989 lobsters, 1860 mackerel, 357 plaice, 1 salmon,
162 soles, 80 tliornbacks, 5 trout, 71 turbot, 1500 whiting,
and, in addition, 1507 bushels of periwinkles and 158 bushels
of whelks, 1304 gallons of shrimps, und 665 lb. of eels.
By the permission of the Duke of Westminster, there was
a sale of art-needlework at Grosvenor House on Monday
Tuesday, and Wednesday. The show is composed of
embroideries worked within recent years by the ladies
employed at the Royal School of Art-Needlework, at South
Kensington, and represents the surplus stock which has been
allowed to accumulate there. The articles were principally
wall aud bed hangings, coverlids, screens, and portieres
many of them being equally meritorious in beauty of design
and skilful execution. °
x- Mt mCCtin - of „ the finance committee of the Agricultural
Exhibition at the Mansion House, on Monday, the followin'*
additional donations were announced as having been contri°
t \ e fund for Promoting a great agricultural
exhibition in London next year t-Tlie Corporation of London
Po* Company, £52 10s.; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., £o2 10s, the Bakers Company, £52 10s.; Lord Portmin,
: H essrs - C ’ 1 ^’ Mdls > » lld Co., £50 ; Mr. Charles Magniac
£2o, Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., £21 • Mr Edward
£2-” ng Th £2 f : ¥ essrs ’ Biekfords, £26 5s.; and Mr. J. Unit ?
£2o. The fund now amounts to over £5000. A considerably
increased sum is needed to assure the success of the exhibition
man might have upon his table some of the finest food the
seas could produce.
There were 2520 births and 1511 deaths registered in London
last week. Allowing for increase of population, the births
exceeded by 228 and the deaths by 96 the averago numbers in
the corresponding week of the last ten years. The fatal cases
of whooping-cough, which had been 108 and 97 in the two
previous weeks, rose again to 108 last week, and exceeded the
corrected weekly average by 65 : the disease showed general
fatality throughout the metropolis, especially in the east group
of districts. The deaths referred to diarrhcBa, which had been
23 and 72 in the two previous weeks, rose to 145 last week:
they exceeded the corrected weekly average by 11, and included
109 of infants under one year of age, and 29 of children aged
between one und five years. The deaths of 8 infants and of 3
adults were also referred to choleraic diarrhoea. The deaths
from smallpox, which had been 19 and 38 in the two preceding
weeks, declined again to 19 last week. There were 31 deaths
from measles, 19 from scarlet fever, 11 from diphtheria, and IT
lrom different forms of fever. In Greater London 3038 births
and 1756 deaths were registered, equal to annual rates of 356
and 20-6 per 1000 of the population. The mean temperature
of the air was GOT deg., and 1’2 deg. below the average in the
corresponding week of the sixty years 1814-73. The mean
showed an excess on Sunday, Friday, and Saturday, whereas,
it was below the average on each of the other days of the week.
The duration of registered sunshine in the week was 21 - 6
hours, the sun being above the horizon during 115T hours.
FLOWER SHOWS.
The annual meeting of the Prince Consort’s Association was
held in Windsor Home Park on Wednesday. There was a.
flower show, to which the Queen and the principal residents of
Windsor contributed, and an exhibition of cottage handicraft.
Princess Christian presented the prizes.
.The last of the summer exhibitions of the Royal Botanic
Society was held on Wednesday at their gardens in Regent’s
Purk. In spite of the heavy clouds that hung about during
the momiDg, very fine weather favoured the show in the after¬
noon, and the attendance was in consequence very large. The
exhibition of flowers was principally remarkable for a mag¬
nificent display of cut roses, one of the best collections of the
kind that has been brought together this season. Among the
most successful of the competitors in this line were Messrs. Paul
nnd Son, of Cheshunt, who took the first prize for a magnificent
basket of dark crimson (Alfred Colomb) roses, and another first
for some magnificent white roses ; Messrs. Cranston aud Co.,
Hereford; Messrs. Paul and Son, Waltham-cross; Mr. W.
Rumsey, of Waltham, who exhibited a basket of splendid
roses of all colours; Mr. John Keynes, of Salisbury; and
Messrs. Cutbush and Son, Highgate. As the production of a
perfectly black rose is the hitherto unattained ambition of all
florists, it may be as well to note that the nearest approach to
this was shown in a very fine flower standing in one of the
cases belonging to Messrs. Cranston and Co. Besides roses
there were some fine specimens of carnations and picotees, in
which class Mr. Turner, of Slough, took a first, aud Mr. J.
Douglas, gardener to Mr. F. Whitbourne, of Loxford Hall,
Ilford, a second prize. The latter also took a prize for some
specimens of stove and hothouse plants. Iu the classes for
hardy herbaceous flowers, E. Morse, of Epsom, was first. A
somewhat novel feature of the show were some groups of wild
Cowers “from a definite area of five miles radius around any
parish church.’’ There was also an exhibition of fruit, in
which grapes, peaches, melons, and pineapples played the
principal parts. One of the best specimens was a fine
melon exhibited by Mr. T. Bailey, which took the first prize in
its class for weight and shape. During the afternoon the
bands of the 1st and 2nd Life Guards played selections of
music, the first being under the direction of Mr. Waterson,and
the second under the leadership of Mr. Winterbottom.
The second annual rose show, under the presidency of
Lady Rouse-Boughton, was held on the 4th inst., in the
Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, when a splendid assortment was
exhibited to a numerous and fashionable company. Mr. Cran¬
stone (Hereford) took the first prize, and Mr. Fittingham
(Nottingham) the second, in the class for nurserymen, open to all
England; and Mr. T. Jowett took the first prize for amateurs.
The 22nd annual show of the Highgate Horticultural
Society was held on the 4th inst. in the beautiful grounds of
Baroness Burdett-Coutte, Holly Lodge, Highgate. The weather
being of the best, the attendance was not only fashionable, but
also so numerous that before the gates closed, at nine o’clock,
the spacious grounds were positively crowded, for the
greater part by ladies. The show was held in the lower lawn,
under two marquees, one of which was devoted to the exhibits
of amateurs, and the second and smaller to those of cottagers
in the neighbourhood. The chief prizes—which in money
value ranged from £10 to 5s.—were awarded to Mr. Brooks,
Caen Wood Towers, Hampstead-lanc; Mrs. Lermette,Finchley;
Alderman Sir Sydney Waterlow, Fairseat House; and Mr.
Cummings, Homscy-lane, Highgate. During the day the
band of the S Division of Police, under the direction of Mr.
Henton, and that of the 3rd Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, con¬
ducted by Mr. W. Harris, played.
The suburban Flower Shows round London have been held,
in several instances, with good success this year. That of
Christ Church parish, East Greenwich, took place on Tuesday
and Wednesday, and last week there was the Lee and Black-
lieath Show.
Lord Aberdare on Wednesday opened the Royal Horticul¬
tural Show at Preston. His Lordship, speaking at a luncheon
held on the grounl, challenged any cottage population to dis¬
play greater natural taste for horticulture than the English
poor people. The show is pronounced to be one of the best ever
seen in the provinces.
The number of persons who sailed from the Mersey for
foreign ports in the half-year just ended was 32 , 177 —an
increase on the figures for the first half of 1877 of 5622.
The Japanese Minister for Home Affairs was assassinated
on May 14 by six Samouroi, who afterwards surrendered them¬
selves at the Imperial Palace.
I
JULY 13, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
the royal agricultural
SOCIETY’S SHOW.
The Roval Agricultural Show has been held
this week on Duxdham-down, Bristol. It
compares favourably with the average of Royal
shows, both in respect of stock and of imple¬
ments and machinery—exceeding several recent
exhibitions in the number of stock and in the
«reu devoted to articles used in husbandry.
Three hundred and fifty horses were entered
for competition, 443 cattle, 397 sheep, and 164
pice ■ or a total of 1354 head of live stock.
Eleven thousand seven hundred and thirty-
live feet space were allotted to ordinary imple¬
ments, 2347 ft, to machinery in motion, and
and 964 ft. to seeds and models.
The entire show was opened Weduesday morn¬
ing in threatening weather, but large numbers
of people, nevertheless, soon began to pour
into the yard. Lord Ellesmere takes the first
and third prizes for agricultural horses foaled
in 1876. The Duke of Hamilton has the first
prize for a thoroughbred. Mr. Tennant, of
Selby, Yorkshire, gets the first prize for a short¬
horn bull, aged; and the first for a young
shorthorn bull goes also to Yorkshire, to Mr.
Willes, of Bedale. Mr. Taylor, of Ledbury,
takes the highest prize for an aged Hereford
bull, and Mr. Price, of Pembridge, for a
yearling bull. Mr. Walter Farthing, of Stowey
Court, near Bridgwater, takes most of the first
prizes for Devons, Lord Falmouth being second
in several classes. In aged bulls his Lordship
is first. .
Most elaborate preparations have been made
by the Bristol people to give the Princeof Wales
a suitable reception on Friday.
We shall give next week some Illustrations
of the city of Bristol.
The Freemasons of England have, since the
visit of the Prince of Wales to India, pre¬
sented to the National Life-Boat Institution
two splendid life-boats, as a thanksgiving for
the safe return of their Grand blaster. The
first is stationed on the Devonshire coast; and
the other was launched on Wednesday in the
presence of Lord Skelmersdale, Deputy Grand
Master of the craft, and an immense assem¬
blage, at Clacton-on-Sea. Lord Skelmersdale,
Deputy Grand Master, took a leading part in
the ceremony.
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400 pieces Striped Llama Poplins, all pure Woof 7id. per yard.
The entire Stock of French Percales, Cambrics, Brilliants, and
Moss Cretonnes, all new Patterns, will he sold at Gd. per yard.
100 boxes Fust Black Velvet Velveteens, formerly 3s. (id., at 2s. 3d.
per yard.
Patterns post-free.
Made Costumes. In all the New Fabrics and Latest Style of
Fashion, 29s. (»l. to £6 6s.. Including—
210 Costumes in Angola Moss Cloth, formerly 3 guineas, at 33s.;
ISO Trimmed and Braided Cashmere Morning Robes,
formerly 42s.. at 21s.;
130 Purls Model Costumes, formerly G to 10 guineas, at 31 to
PETER ROBINSUN, D 6 x'FORD-STREET.
"13AKER and CRISP’S
-L» Cheapest and Best BLACK SILKS, from 2s. lid. yard.
Cheapest and Best BLAC K SATINS, from as. Gd.
Cheapest aud Best COLOURED SILKS. SATINS.
DAMASSE SILKS, and JAPANESE SILKS from,
is.liid.
Patterns free.
"I >AKER and CRISP’S
DRESS and COSTUME FABRICS of every description,
from 8s. fid. Full Dress.
New White ECRU PINK SKY GALATEA. andUOOO
other WASHING FABRICS, from Gd.
"OAKER and CRISP’S
JJ BLACK GRENADINES, Extraordinary, 6]d. yard.
BLACK FABRIC'S of all kinds, from fid. yini:
Patterns free.—198, KegenGstreet.
^NNUAL SUMMER SALE.
MANTLES AT GREAT REDUCTIONS.
Diagonal Cloth and Figured Cashmere Jackets, from 21s.
A variety of Coloured Cloth Jackets and Mautles, from 21s.
Indian Cashmere Jackets, from 31 b. fid.
Embroidered Cashmere Polonaises (unmade), 31s. Sd.
Alpaca Dust Clonks, from 9s. lbl.
Waterproof Mantles, from 17a. fid.
Cashmere Circulars, lined Squirrel Fur, from 21s.
Everington and Graham's Stock of Indian, Chinese,
French, and British Shawls at half jirloe.
lido Striped Summer Shawls, ut 2s. lid.
Cashmere Shawlcttea, embroidered, from 6s. lid.
PETER ROBINSON, 103 to 108. OXFORD-STREET, LONDON.
(CASHMERES.
1000 pieces Double-width French and Indian Cashmere,
1*. 6d. to 2M. lid. yard. Patterns free.
BAKER and CRISP, 108, Itegent-strcet, London.
/COSTUMES.—Seaside, Lawn Tennis, and.
VJ Travelling Costumes. Engravings free. In Holland.
GalaUa, Oatcake, Navy Serge, Sunbeam CostuiniM. Ills. 6d. to 33s.
Bonny Fishwife Costume, 29e. fid. to 46*. Langtry Costume,
27 b. 6<1. to uOe. \Shite CoBtumee, trimmed anv colour bows*.
16«. Gd. to 23*. Gd.—BAKER aud ClilSP'S, 198. Rrigont-stroet.
0 TICE.—JAMES SHOOLBRED and
U 1 OOMPY. beg to ANNOUNCE thoy wUl hold their usual
.'LOCK-TAKING SAJ.L on WEDNESDAY, tho 17th just., and
1HLRKDAY, the 18th intt.—-Tottenham IIoubo, Totteniiom-
court-road. J uly 12, 1878.
TTENRY GLAVE’S
J-L GREAT SUMMER SALE OF CHEAP GOODS.
LADIES' COSTUMES.
Readv-made Washing Costumes for Seaside, Promenade, and
Fetes.
All marked very cheap. Cannot be made to measure.
200 Princess Wrappers, Gs. lid.;. These are made In
usual price, 7s. lid. ( French Cambric, very
200 Prioress Wrappers, Gs. lid.: ( pretty Colours and
usual price, 9s. lid. 1 Patterns.
100 Seaside Holland Costumes, Skirt amljuckct Bodice,
trimmed various Colours, 7s. lid.
100 Holland Costumes, I'ijied, fast colours, 9s. lid.; hand¬
somely Embroidered, 18s. 9d. und 21s. tkl.
Cambric Costumes in Navy Brown and Black, 12s. 9d.,
14s. siii., and lfis. 9d., remarkably cbeap.
60 Servants' Print Costumes, Princess Skirt and Jacket
Bodies, 7s. lid.
GaiuM a Costumes, various styles, 12s. 9tl., 14s. 9d., 10s. 9d.
White Uuinbrie Costumes, slightly soiled,8s. lid., 10s.9d.,
bis. Md.. lfis. 9d., and 21s. fid., much under price.
JOo Black anil Coloured Stuff Costumes, var ious patterns,
all greatly reduced in price, lfis. ad., 16s. Ud., 2ls. fid..
2.\s. (kl., 29s. fid., anil 2) guineas.
334.333,336, and 537, New Oxford-street, London.
GHIRTS.—The New Patterns of French
►v-J Printed Cambric Shirtings and the matted Oxfords for
making FORD'S IMPROVED EUREKA SHIRT ready ™ In¬
spection, or sent free by post for 2 stamps.—U, Poultry, E.O.
OHIRTS.—FORD’S EUREKA. —“The
most perfect fitting mode."—Observer. Gentlemen desirous
of purchasing shirts ol the best quality should try Ford‘»
Eureka. 306., 40s., ids. half-dozen. Illustrations Mlf-
mensure post-free.—41 Poultry. London.
T AJDIES ABOUT TO TRAVEL should
±J mee tho " OSBORNE" DRESS-CASE, very light and hand¬
some, with colla)isible bonnet compartment. Prloo 108. fid.
UARRUN, Manufacturer,2fil. High Holborn (live doors west
from Inns of Coart Hotel ) . Illustrated List free.
n OLDEN H A I R.—R OBARE’8
VA AUREOLINE produces the beautiful Gillen Colour so
much admired. W arranted perfectly harmleaa. Price 5s. 6d. and
10b. (id., of all Perfumers, wholesale. HO VENDEN and SONS
6, Great Marlborough-street, W. ; anil 93 and 95, City-road, E.O.
London ; Plnaud and Meyer,S7, Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris :
81. Graben, Vienna; 44, Ruedes Longs Chariots, Brussels.
TTENRY - GLAVE.
11 GREAT SUMMER SALE OF CHEAP GOODS.
Costumes made to measure.
Trocadem Costume*, Ceiclmmire do l’lnde, with garni¬
ture of satin. £2 1S«. tkl. ; with Paletot, 3 gs.
Beaumarchais Costume, Cachemire de 1'luile. 39s. 6d. ;
with garniture of Silk, £2 18s. fid. ; with Paletot,
LuMurjoluinc Costume, the new Moss Cloth, £2 2s. fid. ;
with Paletot, £3 9s. fid.
Zazel Costume, French Fabrique, 35s. fid. ; with Paletot,
Duchess Costume, Lustre Funtuiaie, 81s. fid. ; with
1‘uletot, 37s. Gd.
Arcadian Costume, Washing Attaleas Fabrique, 23s. Gd. ;
with Paletot, -29s. (kl.
Matinee Costume, in Percale Nouveout*. 29s. fid. ; with
Paletot. 33s. fid.
Corneville Costume, Galatea Ilayee, 18s. 9d. ; with
Paletot, 23s. fid.
Photographs. Sketches for the Season, Patterns, and
Instructions for Selt-Measurernent, post-free.
634, 535,336,337, New Oxford-street^ and 1,2,3, 4,6, Bainbridge-
TVOES YOUR HAIR TURN GREY ?
JLA Then use HERRING'S PATENT MA( ; NETIC BRUSHES
and COMBS. Brashes, 10s. and 13s. each. Combs, 2s. fid., 5s., 7s. 6d.,
10s., 15s., and 20s. each. Pamphlets upon application.—3. Ureal
Marlbo rough-st. W. ; 93 and So, City-road ; and of all Perfumers.
MUDA VERITAS. — GREY HAIR
restored by this valuable specific to its original shade, after
which It grows the natural colour, not grey. Used asa dressing,
it causes growth and arrests falling. The most harmless and
effectual restorer extant. One trial will convince it has no equal.
Price 10s. 6d., of all Chemists and Hairdressers. Testimonials
post-free. — K. HOYENDEN and SONS, London.
TTOLY BAZIL. — PIESSE and LUBIN.
4J- This Is a most rare perfume, dlstillod from tho HOLY
BAZIL FLOWER of HINDU (Ocymum sanctum), so remark¬
able lor its unique fragrance. Sold In Bottles. 2s. fid., 3e„ and
10s.fid. each, at the Laboratory of Flowers, 2, Now Bond-street,
W. ; and by their Agents in all parts of the civilised world.
"CURST GRAND SALE of the NEW FIRM
JL of CHARLES CASK and CO. (Limited).
/UHARLES GASK and CO. (Limited).
V/ FIRST GREAT SEASON'S SALE under the management
ol the new firm, at greatly REDUCED PRICES.
SILKS) ^ j lR . n |)n(1 j- Bncy Damussle silks, Is. lid., 2s. 4d. to
(is. 9d. iier vard.
200 Pieces ol Ecru Washing Silks. 11s. Gd. per piece.
^ The whole of the Paris Model Costumes, of silken fabrics,
cashmere*. Ac., at less than half price.
Silk aud Naterlal Costumes. 2 to 4 gumma.
Washing Costumes. 8s. lid. to 37s. (id. each.
Fite and Ball Costumes, from 16s. fid. each.
DRESS FABRICS. .„ , ,
An immense variety of New Materials and \\ ashrng Fabrics,
by tire yard, all at greatly reduced price*.
French Cashmeres, ail Shades, Is. sd. per yard, double
HOUSEHOLD LINENS. CURTAINS, QUILTS, Ac.
MANTLES uml SHAWLS.
About 30 Paris Model Mantles, 3J guineas each ; regular
price, 7 tolOguineas.
Silk Talmas, Fur-Lined Mantles. 29s. Gd. to 6 guineas each.
piESSE and LUBIN’S
A PISTACHIO-NUT SKIN and COMPLEXION POWDER
imparts a natural whiteness und youthful delicacy to the skin,
attainable by no other means ; also represses tho unpleasantnese
of too copious perspiration.—2, New Bond-street, London, W.
Muy be had of all fashionable I'erfnrners and Druggists through¬
out the Earth, with the same facility as a book. In boxes,
2s. fid., 4s. 6d., 10s. fid., and 21s. each.
rrOURISTS and TRAVELLERS.—Ladies
A visiting the seaside, exposed to the sun and dost, wiU
find III) WLAN DS' KaLYOOR cooling and rotreahiug
to the face and skin. It eradicates freckle*, tan,
sunburn, stings of insects. 4s. fid. ROWLANDS'
MACASSAR OIL, on invigorator aud lieautifier of
the hair. ROWLANDS’ ODONTO bestows on the
teeth a pearl-like whiteness. 2s. fid. Sold by Chemists.
Ask for Rowlands’ Articles.
TV/TYSTAXSTIMULO rapidly promote
I’A GROWTH of WHISKERS, Moustacho*. and Eyebrows,
also Hair on Bald Heads, fid stamns.-UN WIN and ALBERT,
Perfumers to tlie Royal Family, 17, Regent-street.
T ADIES’ THIN HAIR.—New registered
Ai Invisible foundation for covering ladies' thin partings
and bald places, the hair appearing to grow on tut
head.—UNWIN and ALBERT, 17. Regent-street.
SPECIAL PURCHASE. — A Manufacturer's
iO STOCK ol very handsome FRENCH CASHMERE
MANTLES, at. 21s. : usual price from 3 to r, guineas each.
OUTFITTING—CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT, Ac.
MOURNING DEPARTMENT. .
Paris Model Costumes and Mantles. Skirts, and all piece
goods, by the yard—very greatly reduced In price.
About 300 Grenadine and other Costumes, all at 21s. each.
of the Summer Bonnets. Flowers, Plumes,
Hats, Head-Dresses, Ac., will Ire sold at really nominal
prices, to ensure immediate sale.
Patterns of all goods free.
TNSTANTANEOUS HAIR - WAVER.
A Imparts to Ladies' Hair the fashionable undulating wave.
4s. each, forwarded for stamps.—UNWIN and ALBERT, 17,
Regent-street; and6, Belgrave-mansions, Pimlico.
/CHARLES GASK and CO. (Limited),
KJ 58,59,00,01,62, 03, Oxlord-street ; 1,2,3,1,5, Wells-street,
London.
JOHN GOSNELL and CO.’S VIOLET
tl and MILLEFLEUR POWDER, forthe Toiletand Nursery.
Universally admired for its purity and fragrance. Sold by all
Chemists and Perfumers. Wholesale, 93, Upper Thames-street.
OWAN and EDGAR’S SUMMER
kj CLEARANCE SALE of SURPLUS GOODS, this and
every day during tlie month. This Sale of Cheap Goods will
comprise an unusually large assortment of SILKS, MANTLES.
CoetumeK, Travelling, anil Seaside Dresses, Sealskins, Fur-lined
Cloaks, Waihing Fabrics, Millinery. Isue Capes ami Fichus,
Juvcuile CV^tuniW, l-Rdies* mul (.’liihlrrn'.s Oututtin^ und Fancy
Hosiery, inrluding some splendid varieties, duplicates of which
are now in the l'aris Exhibition.—Piccadilly aud Regent-street.
AT ALU ABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR.
Y If your hail- is turning grey, or white, or falling off, use
“ The Mexican Hair Hcnewer,' T for it will positively restore in
every case Grey or White Hair to its original colour, without
leaving the disagreeable smell of most ••Restorers." It raakea
tlie hair charmingly beautiful, as well as promoting the growth
of the hair on balil spots where tlie glands are .not decayed. Ask
any Chemist for the “ Mexican Hulr Uenewer,” price 3s. fid.
Prepared by HENRY C. GALLUP, 493, Oxford-street, Loudon.
OWAN and EDGAR will also offer the
O ei the STUCK in TRADE of Mr. G. M. DENT, GLOVER
and HOSIER Gate of 15, Holborn-visdurt). purrloi-e-i at a very
large discount, consisting of superior Gloves, Hosiery, und Out¬
fitting.
J^LORILINE. For the Teeth aud Breath.
A Is the best Liquid Dentifrice in tlie World ; It thoroughly
cleanses partially-decayed teeth from all parasites or living
•'ammalculie," leaving them pearly white, imparting a delight¬
C WAN and EDGAR will also offer the
k5 KIOCK Of the celebrated l'aris Firm, Messrs. JOURDAN
and AUBREY, wniprisiiig the lian.lw.mmt
hn B mlH’me r Silk" Drevsei, froiu^ £15 to UVI.^vjlMa: offereil ^ ut
hahiieome'gtskls'at'nomiiial^pidces.—i^i'raiil'Ry and ^tegeiit-st." 0
ful fragrance to the breath. Price 2s. iki. per Bottle. The
Fragrant Fluriline removes instantly all odourstu'islug from a
foul stomach or tobacco smoke, being partly composed ot honey,
soda, and extracts of sweet herbs aud plants. It is perfectly
haiuiless, and delicious as sherry. Prepurod by HENRY 0.
GALLUP. 493, Oxlord-street, London. Rote lied everywhere.
JJBEIDENBACH’S ABRONIA.—The New
A) Scent for 1878. Dollrntc.refreshing, andilurable.2s. (kl. to
4 os. per Bottle. Brcideubach's MAUASSAR1NE, invaluable tor
preserving the Growth ol the Hair, Is.. 2s. fid., 3s. per Buttle.
Of all Chemists, and the Makers, 157b, New Bond-street, Vi.
QWAN and EDGAR will show n STOCK
O i f (he Cheapest SILKS ever offreevl.—Piccadilly, uml
Kegent-ttreet
1
JULY 13, 1878
tt.t.ttsthATED LONDON NEWS
'S COCOA.
NEW MUSIC.
NEW MUSIC.
T “5 JK£ ^ZSZJZJSS!*
Handbooks for the ThoaUe. ^ d.
B»llo in Moocher* .. •• * « ! S5SJS5? rltallan'.’ Ger- _ .
T 'HE “ Naval and Military Gazette ” says:—
••The nutritive qualities ol coco* oyer either those
of tee or coffee ere now ao generally acknowledged that
the »te*dy increase ehowo by official statistics In it* con-
sumption during recent year* cease, to te a matter of surprise.
One of the first firms to popularise this now indispensable
adjunct to our breakfast table was Messrs. Epps and Co whose
name since 1>CW. has been ao continuously before the public, and
whose Homoeopathic Cocoa is as familiar in our homes as the
proverbial • household words.’ Those whose business it has bren
t. watch at Messrs. Epps's works the elaborate and complex
processes, and to not* the eat* and latmnr bestowed before the
crude cocoa bean is considered ready for consumption, cannot
but admit that the popularity Messrs. Epps s productions hays
secured la fully deserved. The vastnesa of tlieae works may be
fSJhfed When it Urtated that four million, ofpounds of ore-
pared cocoa alone are prepared there yearly *0 repuutio.i
■rained, now many years since,for Mr. James Lppy .preparation
laoth for its purity and its value as a dietetic, has been more than
maintained. A constant Increasing demand fully testifies tc
SMVM&to SLWSShSWi S?*h
public to secure so gratifying a result.
new MUSIC.
H.M.8.
piNAFORE;
eugjj^AanB*
,iSv
ARTHU^fiUL JVAN
ormed with #*iormou* fticce*J w
»ndon. Fort-Cr*®» W •tj»n | na.
jo., Great Marlborougb-«trcet f Lonao
STEW DiSJI MVBIO.
riHAELES D’AIiBERT’S NOVELTTES.
V THE ENGAGED waltz .. .• " •• od. net
{SBHiffliff
" tasty’* State ltallen May 22. ” Js.ihl.net
CT.EORtTWAGAJ.OP .. .. •• •• Js.0d.net
THE FAnIaBE POLKA •• ” li & net
SWEETHEART* WALTZ. On Arthur Sullivan’* ^ M n#t
PA^L p CT r vnl&rviEWAT>z:: :: :: £:S3:SSt
PAUL ET VIBG1N1E 9UADBILLE .. .. • • “ n , t
PAUL ET VIBGINIE GALOP .. •• ••
OLD FAVOURITES. 9. od net
TBIAL BV JTTBV LANCERS ..£' 5j! not
TRIAL BT JURY QUADRILLE .. 5; OJ
TRIAL BY JURY WALTZ .1 S. Od.net
-ATompicVSd^ M. D‘Albert’s P^uiar Donee Music
wniberento^pRcatlon.^ ^ K(W B ond-street.
CHAPPELL’S MUSICAL MAGAZINE.
No. 118, POPULAR MARCHES for the PIANOFORTE,
nnHTXNTS. _ 0 oono d.
MarcheBomelne.. .. . , p-i .ih.m
March In the '^Occasional Oratorio” .. Hand d.
:: r. "
The Wellington March.Handel.
Dead March in "Saul •• ” Handel.
March In "Judas Maccabeus
<" S« the Conquering Hero come*. >
March In •• Die . sSSk
March in “ Alcsst* .
&.,S.New Bondat.
1JIRDS OF PASSAGE. New Song. By
It HENRY SMART. sm.g by M^w^nder^jd the
SIGNOR PINSUTI'8 NEW SONGS.
TYUSCHINKA ; or, The Star of the North.
THE aoT-nfiS’yB^BW^m^Worit^r “aria X. Hayes.
* OT
' FAVOURITE SONGS BY J. L. MOLLOY.
ri-iHE LITTLE TIN SOLDIER. 2s. net.
^ r :‘n n dCu
Lucia dl Lainmer
Lucrerl* Rorgia
Martha.. ..
Masaniello ..
M.'m'nUin Sylph
lioizede Figaro
Now belt
Comique Til
rpHE gORCERER.
mic Opera In Two Acts, writtenj
IRTHUB SULLIVAN. Perforn
Iqne Theatre, London. _Fpst-fr«
Flghadei Reggimento ..2 8
FlautoMagico • ® ,
Flying Dutchman (Eng-
ilsh Italian. A German; 3 «
Freiidmt»*°< Italian,' Ger-
man. m»d Eiigliah) •• J J
Guillaume T«* 11 .. JJ 0
Al^inciuth.gm^.l*
Price 2s. ed. each volume.
T he royal
RUBINSTEIN'S » SON!
RIRINMCIS
BBSSKSBU
SCHUMANN S ;J«ONGS
-v * ltv ... ., LODOOn.
Oo., Great Marlborough-«treet, lax
QARMEN.
“ A 11 the Year Round
A "Having now disposed
Stroll to the Eu.ton-roiul. liard by
cocoa manufactory, where may be
on a stupendous scale, giving a Jui
article*, not as luxnrirs. but as act
jera In Four Acta. Written by Mellhac and Haltvy.
“ Combed by GEORGES BIZET-
U> Vocal Score. French word* .Erl'® >£;
bsllan and German words .. -• ••
ra (Love the Vagrant). Sung by MdUo.
JNIE HAUK •• • " ” *• ««.
ir's Song. Sung by 81g. Del Puenta .. •• » .
Quadrille. By Arban ^. • J 4
fantasia. By Ley bach. u
Polka. By Deransart » ..
B^Kua* Oitar.; hay^rket.
SySdoS^T. Great Marlboreugh-etreet, Londcm. W .
JSON and HAMLIN, AMERICAN
ORGANS. _
‘ Court Journal ” says:—
I climate so varying and trylug as onr o’
and uniform health, onr daily diet ca
id attentively studied. Advandug sdeni
have within the lost few years been Ins!
-ral most valuable additions to our a
t dietetic food*. Foremost among iht
« p wliidi, although known here Mveral_c
ly came into geueral use within the last
drat to iwnufarire this now lndifliensah
vas Mr. James Epps, whose 'Prepare
i lust repute fur Its excellent and nutritli
nxlnalty ou homueupaUiic principles. '
»lent form, and easy of digestion, it I
ecdily became impular. until now Mcssi
our millions of pounds of their cocoa a y
ry lx the largest of it* kind In thU connfa
SACRED SONGS. ANCltor AND MODERN (100 Bongs).
A/rUSIC FOR THE SEASIDE. Populi
1V1 Numbers Of B008EYS" MU8ICAL CABINET. ls.e«
,U. BOOSTS' MARCH ALBUM lWM»rcb«).
JOB RUBINSTEIN'S FIRST PIANO ALBUM (l 1 pl«0*8>«
JO». BRAHMS' PIANO ALBUM.
LAMOTHEtTwaLT* ALBCM^sets).
901. WA LUTED PEL’S WALT/ ALBUM ilgseta).
fro! hANTLEV^NEW^XH’YJt/Giff'^NG-BOOK.
loNGFeTIoW AND^ALFE'S NEW SOTJG-BOOK.
ii: BANTLEY'S AND F0L1S 22 BTANDARDHONOS.
Boosxr and Co.. 2M. Regent-street; and all Mualcsellers o
Bookseller*.
fASON and HAMLIN’S A
ALEXANDREHMUdONlUMS.
BOBU'S 1-lANoFOUTES
GERMAN PIANOFOH'IES.
ENGLISH I'I.ANOFORTES,
r sale, hire, or on the three-years' system o
iso. by which the Instrument becomes the
er at the end of three years.
Mason and Hamlin Organs, from . - « •
Alexandre Harmoniums, from .. •• J?
Alexandre Organs, from .. •• ..
Kurd's and other Pianofortes, from .. 2 2
Catalogues post-free and gratis.
-— —.a «, Great Marlborougli-str
Household Guide ” says
I now give an account of the process adopted by
>pi and Co., manufacturers of dietetic article*.
Uia Kuston-roed. lxuidon.”
J^PPS’S COCOA.
T ‘HE “ Morning Advertiser” says:—
•• In the middle of the seventeenth centunr an Mjnmmee-
ment appeared In one of the few journal* of that period.
»" o- that' out of IHsliopsgate-strect, at a Frenchman s
, an excellent West India drink, called chocolate,
at reasonable rate*.' This la the first record we have
a traduction of coco* into England. For a time it
1 as a fashlouable drink, and then, like ali fashtan*.
Nearly two centuries after, in HCH. the duties, which
almost prohihiUve, were greatly reduced, and one of
to take advantage of re-establishing the jmpularity.of
is Messrs. James Epps and Co., tlie Homan, pathlc
.. LVider Hie name of 'Prepared Cocoa' they Introdured
i and convenient preparation, which required no bo ¬
ws* palatable and highly nutrition#. It met a public
redily became popular, and yearby year has increased in
tilt the consumption now exceeds four millions of
pounds yearly.”
METZLER and 00.
& CO.’S PIANOFORTE-ROOMS.
GRAND and UPRIGHT PIANOFORTES,
til Uia great maker*, both English and Foreign,
for SALE or HIRE. ...
he largest discount obtainable In London,
a. from £20. Short Grands, from £40.
i Address.230. REGENT-STREET. __
and CO.’S Short Iron Grand
RTES, (10,70. 80. anil M guineas each, subject to
t for cash, or on the Three-Years System. fr»ra
a nnerai aiauuu. .or —... o. J the Tilree-Yearl' System, from
£8 Iub. [«r quarter. Special InstrumenU for India. Illustrated
P tota A^rty~29fi. Regent-street (adjoining the Polytechnic).
r'tEO. WOODS and CO.’S AMERICAN
IJT ORGANS.
BOOSEY and CO.. 2i»5. Regent-street.
Sole Agent* for the United Kingdom.
Pipe, Reed, and Pedal Organs, fmm £1. hr £200.
Illustrated Price-LUta |>..»t-free. _
00SEY and CO.’S BRASS
INSTRUMENTS FOR AMATEURS.
£1! VALVE CORNETS.
THK l DI^TiN r SUN lATURE’CTHtMrr-A-PISTONS, 9 gs.
?i! V/S B D« D Aii%‘s\%TRNS AND BAND IN-
THE R Disf nJ^IONTilLY’BRASS BAND JOURNAL. 10s. fid.
Fnurtrated'Price-LIsfs upon application to BOOSEY and CO..
Manufacturers of Military Band Instrument* of every descrip¬
tion. 29*. Regent-street. London. Manufactory, Stanhope-place.
Christian World” says
SALE of MUSIC at One Twelfth
arked price.—Ucun. DUFF ifld STEWART, 147»
are now Sellingtheir large SURPLUS STOCK of
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. Twelve Shillings
Shilling; or post-free, 14 stamp*. No Catalogue*.
>- -- Saturday. July 27.
rjREAT
Yjr of them
Oxford-street,
VOCAL and
worth for One
N.B.—This Sale ■
mystery of it* manu
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m last half reutury leaves ua much to be «
riking instance of the general good resulting
; heavy ini|>u*t* upon oui food supply l* affol
ellous Increase iu the Consumption of coco*
hleh is-rud an almost prohibitive duty wi«
Pust-fr
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ng the visit to Hie manufactory. I thought a brief
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EXTRA SUPPLEMENT TO THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jolt 13, 1S78
SUPPLEMENT TO THE ILLUSTBATEI) LONDON NEWS, July 13, 1S73.—41
PARI8 EXHIBITION: PAVILION OF THE PRINCE OF WALES’S INDIAN COLLECTION IN THE GRAND VESTIBULE OF THE EXHIBITION PALACE.
THE tt.t ITSTTC ATED LOKDOK NEWS
JULY 13, 1878
42
ECHOES OF THE WEEK.
M . Urbain Dubois may bold bis hand. Some weeks ago I
ventured to hint, in this place that the eminent chef *<> the
German Emperor, and author of ‘ Cosmopolitan Cookery,
might astonish Europe ere the Congress broke up with a pi at
son metier- say, a “Surprise a la Beaconsfield. The
Premier Earl (I mean the Earl who is Premier) has chosen to
cook the dish himself, and to present it, with a complacent
smile to admiring Europe. The “ Surprise it la Beaconsfidd,
otherwise the Treaty by which Great Bntam undertakes to
protect Asiatic Turkey, if necessary by force “
Turkey consents on her part to the occupation of the island of
Cyprus by British troops, will infinitely astonish all those who
Snot know at least a fortnight ago of what materials the
dish was to be composed. Each daily newspaper is at present
complacently asserting that it knew all about the Anglo-
Turkish treaty ever so long ago, but that nobody else did.
Meanwhile, the people who have (fortunately for them¬
selves) no politics, but to whom grammatical purity is every¬
thing, and especially the precisians who have been so
desperately hard on poor dear Mr. Edmund Yates (I, too, bad a
fling at him) for his trifling slip about premures amours ,,may find
some occupation in dissecting the remarkably cunous diction of
the text of the Treaty. It is the oddest French that I have
read for a long time. Just mark that which follows necessary
reforms,” “ Ayant trait a la bonne administration. Note
likewise, “Sa Majesty Imperiale le Sultan consent, en outre,
designer Pile de Chypre, pour etre occxipee et admmistree
par elk." Far up and away in the contest England is indicated,
as the Power which is to occupy Cyprus ; but the final eUe
might refer grammatically to his Imperial Majesty the Sultan
(majesty is feminine) or the island of Cyprus itself. In the
annex mark particularly the passage about the Mahometan
tribunal which “connaitra exclusivement des affaires reli-
gieuses et non pas d'autres." “Connaitra” should surely
be “ prendre connaissance.” “ Ecoles Musulmans should
bo “ Ecolcs Musulmanes.” “Parle canal” should be “par
la voie,” at least so I thought until, puzzled by this strange
language, I turned to a scarlet-bound volume which I brought
from Constantinople, and which contains the text, in French
and Turkish, of the Capitulations or Conventions concluded
between the European Powers and the Sublime Porte from the
reign of Francis I. of France down to the year 1838. And
there I found the expressions which had puzzled me, “ ayant
trait,” “par le .canal,” and so forth. The mystery was
explained. The French of the new Treaty is Dragoman’s
French: French of Pera, not that of Paris.
Ah ! but it stirs the heart to read those old Capitulations
and listen, in the preambles of the treaties, to the rehearsal of
the style and titles of the Padishah a Grand Turk then, in
good sooth. What do you think of this, as a beginning ? “ I,
the Emperor and Sultan Mahmoud, Son of the Sultan Moustafa,
Always Victorious.distributer of crowns to
the Cfhosroes who sit upon thrones .... the shadow of
Heaven upon earth, Sovereign of the three great cities of Con¬
stantinople, Adrianople, and Broussa, also of Damascus,
‘ odoriferous of Paradise ’ . . . . Lord of Tripoli, Syria,
and Egypt, ‘ that rarity of centuries ’ (‘ rarity of centuries ’ is
good), master of Arabia, Africa, Barca, and Aleppo . . .
of Bagdad, of Erzeroum ‘the delicious,’ of Kars, Van, and
Caramania ... of the Morea, of Candia, Chios, Cyprus,
and Rhodes ... of Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis . . .
of the White Sea and the Black Sea ... of Turcomania,
Kurdistan, and Circassia ... ‘of the noble tribes of
Tartars, and all the hordes belonging to them ’ ... of
Albania, Moldavia, Wallachia, and the fortress of Belgrade.”
This is but a brief abstract of a list of dignities filling a whole
luarto printed page, and which, in the Arabic-Persian charac-
•. er, looks very imposing indeed. Take physic, pomp; and,
i \ humility remember the nursery rhyme about one Humpty
L umpty that sate on a wall.
I have an idea that all sorts and conditions of people must
derive benefit, immediate or remote, from the British occu¬
pation of Cyprus. We are bound to civilise the beautiful
island, if only in compensation for the mischief done there by
Richard Ccbut de Lion, who (hear it not, Sir John Lubbock)
is accused of having, in revenge for the misconduct of King
Isaac (of the silver fetters), knocked most of the ancient Greek
and Byzantine monuments “into a cocked hat.” We may
expect to see a Grand Trunk Railway of Cyprus advertised
shortly. Think of a station at Paphos (actually Baffo), with
excursions to the Temple of Venus Anadyomene. I should
like to be a postal and telegraphic clerk at Paphos. What
work £ should have on St. Valentine’s Day !
We shall all have “ Cyprus on the brain ” for some time to
come, so that I need no authority for reminding historical
students of the fact that at Limoussa, in Cyprus, Berengaria
of Navarre, the learned, beautiful, and good daughter of
Sancho the Wise, was married with great state and pomp to
Richard the Lion-Heart. The ladies wiR be interested to
learn that on the auspicious occasion the King of England
wore a tunic of rose-coloured satin and a mantle of striped
silver-tissue, brocaded with silver half-moons. “ He had
yellow curls and a bright complexion,” Bays Vinisauf, the
chronicler, “ and looked like Mars himself.” The bride wore
her hair parted « la Vierge, with a transparent veil pendent on
each side like a Spanish mantilla, and a double diadem of gold
and jewels. Berengaria was crowned Queen Consort of Cyprus
(Isaac having so misbehaved himself by wrecking Richard’s
ships) as well as of England; so that in occupying Cyprus in
1878 the Majesty of England has only got its own again.
Mem: It was at Cyprus, according to gentle Miss Agnes
Strickland, that Richard, protesting against the proceedings of
King Isaac, uttered in his wrath the only words in the English
language that he was ever known to speak. “ Ha! de Debil! ”
quoth Cccur-de-Lion, “he speke like one foie Breton.” Please
to remember, likewise, that the bones of Richard’s Lord
Chancellor and the Great Seal of England itself, lost in a
storm, are lying perdue somewhere in Cypriot waters.
It is a far cry from Limoussa to Her Majesty's Theatre in
the Haynmrket; yet, through an odd little coincidence, the
transition of ideas from the Mediterranean to Mr. Maples on’s
theatre is easy. Just as the newspaper compositors were
setting up the type of the Anglo-Turlash Convention, there
was being revived with great splendour and with much success
at Her Majesty’s the late Michael William Balfe’s opera of
“ II Talismauo,” the part of Edith Plantagenet, prima donna
assoluta, being sustained by that accomplished and fascinating
young cantatrice Madame Etelka Gerster, while the role of
Queen Berengaria fell to Mdlle. Mi nnie Hauk.
I am glad, first, that Madame Gerster should have surpassed
herself in the character of Edith, because she is one of "the
finest end most brightly promising artists of the day • and I
am right glad that the revival of “ II Talismauo” should have
been a triumph because I hold that, as a nation, we have not
jet hidf paid the debt of gratitude which we owe to the
. Hoifp rm, e m ost natural, the most tuneful, the
S.7»pa«,etiiof EnglKh coders
memorial of the .
Lawes in Westminster Abbey.
of the Britsih
The “installation,” as the French say,--
Museum is to be thoroughly reorganised. The Trirnsfer of
Collections Bill has been read a second rime m the Commons,
and will pass the Lords and receive the Royal assent, jt is to
be hoped?before the Feast of St. Grouse. The stuffed birds,
beasts 5 and fishes, the beetles and cockchafers, and the
geological specimens are to go to South Kensington; and the
premises in (Great Russell-street are to be exclusively devoted
to their legitimate purpose—that of a Library and a Museum
of Sculpture and Antiquities generally.
Students of zoology, palaeontology, geology, entomology,
botany, and cognate sciences may regret the banishment from
Bloomsbury of some thousands of glass cases fuU of dry-as-
dust specimens; but the general holiday-making, sight-seeing
public will exult, I should say, at the change. Have you ever
watched the expression of intense, hopeless weariness in the
countenances of a party of country cousins wandering through
the Scientific Departments of the British Museum f Ever so
many years ago, when I was young, there was a lady with
whom I “ kept company.” We used to quarrel, and then we
used to make it up; but the reconciliation on my part (man is
a vindictive animal) was only partial. I used to bide my time,
and at the first convenient opportunity take the adored one of
my heart, on a public day, to the British Museum. I kept her
strictly to the Scientific Departments. At the expiration of
about twenty minutes sue would begin to yawn. Before half
an hour was over she manifested unmistakable symptoms of
beginning to weep. After that, seeing that she had suffered
enough, we would flee the baleful shades of Bloomsbury. I
allowed her to recruit her exhausted strength at the nearest
pastrycook’s, and we made it up—till the next time.
Mem: The Museum of Patents at South Kensington is not
a bad ground for experimentalising in the Art of Ingeniously
Tormenting. Or riy the Museum of Economic Geology in
Jermyn-street. Or, as an infallible recipe, take your victim
to a lecture (in a darkened amphitheatre) on a drop of water
magnified ever so many thousand times. “ Adams’s Orrery ”
at the old Adelphi used to be a bore nearly as fearful as the
foregoing.
A gentleman writes to the Times to complain that recently,
travelling by rail between Tarragona and Barcelona, the train
was stopped by brigands, who robbed him of his watch and
chain, money, &c., worth in all £150, and persouaRy maltreated
him into the bargain—taking even his rafiway ticket and
leaving him penniless, and with his clothes half tom off his
back. An analogous mishap—but with a difference—befeR
me on the rafiway between Barcelona and Zaragoza in
February, 1875. Our train was stopped by a gang of armed
marauders, who caRed themselves Carfists, but who were in
reality brigands. I was the only Engfishman in the train, and
my Spanish feRow-traveRers werp mercilessly fleeced; but the
brigands left me alone. I took off my hat to the Chief Robber,
made him a low bow, and addressed him in a neat speech about
Queen Victoria, and the happiness enjoyed by the loyal
subjects of her Majesty. He stared at me, laughed, bowed,
and let me go scot free. Perhaps he took me for a Carlist or a
brigand retired from business. At any rate, he forbore to pick
my pocket, G. A. S.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
Our Illustrations for this week represent, first, the “Indian
Pavilion,” erected for the coRcction of gifts from the Princes
and Chiefs of India to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
which is situated at the entrance to the British Indian Section
of the Exhibition, in the grand vestibule or north-end transept
of the Palace in the Champ de Mars; secondly, part of the
scries of five different house-fronts, exempfifying distinctive
stages in the progress of English domestic architecture, which
are situated in the Central Avenue or Street of Nations,
extending the length of the Champ de Mars buildings. We
have, upon a former occasion, described both these structures,
of which Hlustrations are now given; and we need not,
therefore, go over the same details respecting their
architectural design and character, or the place which they
hold in the arrangement of the Exhibition. The architect
and official agent for the British Indian section is Mr. C.
Purdon Clarke. We would take this opportunity again to
commend, though many of our readers have already become
familiar, at South Kensington and at Westminster, with the
conteuts of the British Indian Section, the very interesting
and instructive Handbook, written by Dr. G. C. M. Birdwood,
C.S.I., for the Indian Committee of the Royal Commission.
Itgivesa compendious, concise, andminutely accurate historical
accountof Indian manufactures, husbandry, and commerce,from
the remotest known antiquity to the present time, with much
botanical, geological, and other information concerning the
material resources of her Majesty’s Asiatic dominions. We
never met with a catalogue so well worth keeping and studying
for years after the Exhibition. The successive English
detached houses, each with its narrow strip of side garden
along the Central Avenue, where it is entered from the Grand
Vestibule next to the British Indian Section, have been
enumerated in the order in which they are passed from that
entrivnce—namely, the Queen Anne style town house, designed
by Mr Norman Shaw ; secondly, the Prince of Wales’s Exhi-
bdl ° n occupied by his Royal Highness as President
of the Royal Commission, which was designed by Mr. Gilbert
Redgrave, in the Jacobean style, and is distinguished bv the
flag; thirdly, the facade of red brick, with Mr. Doulton’s
terra-cotta ornamentation, and with deep pointed arches
designed by Messrs. Tarring and Wilkinson; fourthly,,the
old-fashioned and picturesque timber-frame house, of pitch-
pme, filled m with plaster, designed by Mr. Gilbert Redgrave,
and allotted to the Canadian section; fifthly and lastly,
the old English country house of Wilfiam III.’s time,
the framework of which is Rkewise of timber. It will
be observed that the houses stand in the reverse order
in our present Illustration, being on the left hand side
of the spectator who is supposed to be going in the oppo¬
site direction to that contemplated in the former occasion?the
SSE™ Aveilu ,?’ ™? ni ?P. from north to POU tli, and the British
Section as well as theBntish Indian, being placed on the west
norta/wli'i £ Ve “ Ue ' P 10 remaiuin P Illustration is that of the
portal which gives entrance to the Swiss Section, and which is
Fvhlhff agreat +u ay -a arther on towaTds the south end of the
Mffite r^Th ° f o the ' de Mars next the Ecole
o T ^° ® elgiai ! Seetlon > indeed, lies next beyond it
viiii? thkPrp °tV h i e -K-r' Kr Side of it; thc di8ta nces to be
" nlked m this Great Exliibitiou are very considerable.
PARIS AT THE CAFE—NO. II.
{From a Correspondent.)
Let us attempt some slight description of the cafes as they
appear to the outward eye. The one word “ mirrors ” sums
up all that need be said of the impression they make when
one steps across their thresholds; unless, indeed, “ windows”
be more often the accurate word—for very many cafes seem to
be made as nearly as possible entirely of outer waRs, and
these walls all window. For the interiors in other respects,
they do not differ greatly from their copies in London, except
that they are, perhaps, cleaner and lighter and brighter in
colour; one might even, perhaps, say more gaudy, for this is
a fault from which the undoubted good taste of the French
does not always save them. There are, indeed, many pic¬
turesque and queer Uttle cafes to be found by the explorer of
Paris,—most of which ought to be marked dangerous, in large
letters; but the larger and more famous ones differ, as far as
their interiors are concerned, more in their clientele than in
appearance from such places as Gatti’s, in London.
The exterior, however, is a thing which we have not in
England, and, until we get a new efimate, never can have.
On a summer’s evening, clear and dry—Paris Beems to be
quite innocent of dew—the number of fittle round tables in
front of the cafes of every quarter sets calculation at
defiance. Every age and every class would seem to spend its
evenings in the open air, sipping, staring, chatting—no, talking
hard—and at some places flirting in a sufficiently marked
way; at others—whether in consequence of a formal rule or
of a lex non scripta— one sees only men. It is a very pleasant
thing, and a thing we entirely want in London, to have
one’8 evening coffee and conversation sweetened by the fresh
air, made a repast for poets by the framework of beauty in
which it is placed. Sitting on a cool starlight night at a
cafe, perhaps at the corner of two intersecting boulevards,
one looks down the long fines of fight twinkling away into
the distance, broken now and then by intervening trees;
one hears the tinkling befis and sees the red and green
lamps of the tramcars slowly approaching and going away
in the dark; the sky is of a sombre blue, and it is only
quite near one that the brilliant cafes and the many lamps
lighten the scene—but the colours just here are bright and
distinct, the blue blouses of the workmen, the dresses of their
wives, often in broad stripes (of rose and grey, perhaps), the
fight garments of girls walking with that coquettish, affected
step so thoroughly Parisian, the tight black silk dresses of
maidens apparently more demure, the blue coats and red
trousers of the sergents-de-ville , the white linen suit and straw
hat of many a good bourgeois, the white aprons of curly-haired
waiters, the white horses of omnibuses glimmering near and
far, and, brightest of aR, the filuminated “kiosk” over the
way, where you may buy all newspapers, from the respectable
Temps to the latest reveRings of vulgarity under some untrans¬
latable name. One can hardly sit here without thinking of
that Byron-and-absinthe poet, that most musical of French
singers, Alfred de Musset: what hours upon hours he
must have passed thus, watching these sights, musing, rhym¬
ing, sighing—and smoking! We know the poems born of
these evening reveries—some of them bitterly merry, fuR of
mockery and scorn; others intensely sad and tender, memories
of happier times and wasted years.
O puissance du temps! O ISg&res armies !
Voua emportez nos pleurs, nos cris et nos regrets,
Mais la piti£ vous prend, et sur nos fleurs fandes
Yous ne marchez jamais.
Parisian cafe life is not without its poetry, its melancholy, and
its tragedy ; but these are hardly on the surface, and this is,
perhaps, hardly the place to go deeper down to look for them.
It is with the surface that we are just now concerned; and
the number of Parisian cafes is so vast that the Engfishman
making only a short visit to Paris can hardly gain even the
most superficial knowledge of them without some sort of guide
to direct him to those which are most interesting, whether
from the memories of their past or from their present popu¬
larity. Unfortunately, such a guide is difficult to find—such
a guide in printed form, I mean ; I know of no English book
whatever upon the subject, and in French there are few which
would interest any but those who really do not need them
Parisians weR up in the minor history of their city during the
last twenty years.*
Such a want cannot be really supplied in an article of a few
pages, but some notes and reminiscences of half a dozen or a
dozen of typical cafes—as Tortoni’s, the Regence, the Soufflet,
the Americain, the Varietes—may not be uninteresting to those
who either have been there, or “ stfil would go.” Which to
choose for mention oi description one hardly knows ; but per¬
haps the best principle of selection wiR be to take, as far as
possible, those which are the most unlike each other.
The father of aR the cafes, the famous Procope of the
Rue de l’Ancienne Comedie, is almost a desert nowadays: the
whole street and its neighbours have been drained of their fife
by the Boulevard St. Michel, which now, although perhaps
less favourably situated than the older and smafier streets—
being, one would have thought, a fittle too far to the east—
yet dominates the entire quarter. But nothing can deprive
the Cafe de Procope of its heritage of great names: Voltaire,
Rousseau, Diderot, Mirabeau, De Musset, George Sand,
Gambetta—these names ore only the most famous among the
hundreds treasured in its annals. “ Voltaire’s table” is one
of the relics of the place, though one does not know whether
he ever sat by it; and on the panelling of the room is his
portrait—not a very striking likeness. The story of his going
disguised to a cafe, after a “ first night,” to hear what was
the general opinion of his new piece, is weR enough known,
and very characteristic of the man—of his pettiness, his eager
vanity, and his genuine desire to know the truth. The
“Procope” was in its time the favourite resort of Piron—
then a wit of the first order, one of the leaders of a brilliant
band, now, strangely enough, hardly remembered except by
the epitaph he composed for himself—
And here, in later days, were often seen the most poetical of
French writers of prose and of verse, George Sand and A fired
de Musset, the former in man’s dress, with her powerful,
dark, handsome face, and long black hair, the latter with a
face rather effeminate, with hair flowing back, weak chin, and
keen but yet dreamy eyes. Stifi more recently there came
here—as to many other cafes—a young and eager Southerner,
who talked admirably and read everything, and of whom all
Europe has since heard: Leon Gambetta.
But the Cafe Procope is very empty now. Only a few steady
old gentlemen read the newspapers there, and an enthusiastic
young student from the country sometimes visits the house ot
many memories once—but not twice. If we want to exchange
the past for the future we must go along past the School of
Medicine, eastward to the cafes which those who are to be the
shining fights of hospitals and law courts crowd every night.
• Such 1)00118 are the Cafis et Cabaretsoi Delvan (a little out of datenow,
and chiefly valuable for the etchings with which it is illustrated , "I'"
collection of newspaper sketches published last year by Afaxime ltude, irom
which I shall quote some anecdotes.
JULY 13, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
NEW BOOKS.
Characteristically cynical is the tone which pervades The
Zu^ans of To-Day , by the author of “ The Member for Paris,”
&c. (Smith, Elder, and. Co.); but the cynicism, as is usual with
the author, is of the neat and pungent sort which reminds one
of a La Rochefoucauld or of aTalleyrand, not of the coarse and
revolting kind which recalls the manner of some vulgar derna-
gogue. The book, moreover, is veiy seasonable, for Russia and
the Russians have not yet ceased to be objects of interest and
study among us ; and the author, whether he really be entitled
from his personal knowledge to lay down the law or not, has
quite the air of a man who is perfectly familiar with the sub-
ject on which he has undertaken to enlighten his countrymen
It is worthy of notice, in any case, that he mentions, in his
introductory sketch of Russian history, the will of Peter the
Great as if there were no doubt whatever about the authen-
ticity of the famous document so called, and he expressly
states that it “ has become, so to say, the charter of Russian
Imperialism. In the same introductory sketch he makes the
following somewhat curious remark touching the Czar Nicholas:
It is suspected that he committed suicide. Anyhow, he died
broken-hearted The expression has an odd sound; but it pro¬
bably meansthat, asno man, if we are to believe round assertions,
ever died of a broken heart, there are good grounds for believ¬
ing that the Czar’s death was self-inflicted, as it followed so
scon after the events which may well have broken his proud
i ?°^ Ter that may be, our more immediate business is
mth the Russians of to-day.” First of all we have a sketch
of a Russian noble, impoverished through the emancipation of
th® serfs>; and we learn that, if in the late war between Russia
and Turkey he and his lady-wife contributed freely from their
scanty remnant of treasure for the service of their country it
was because he looked to the conquest of Turkey as certain
J ec ™ . hun ,? luarat ™ berth, and has.for some months
pictured hunself as installed in Bulgaria and initiating that
misused province into the mysteries of the government system
under which be has himself thriven.” Next, we have a sketch
of “an emancipated village ” a sketch which emphasises the
saying about the quantity of humanity that there is in human
nature for it appears that the emancipated Russian serf
resembles the emancipated West Indian slave in knowing “ of
nothing on earth so good as idleness,” and in displaying a
disposition to as often as not lie down and snore away the
whole afternoon,” under the belief that, when emancipation
was decreed and there was nobody any longer to “thrash”
*“,*** bidustiy,” forthwith “his working days were
over. There is this, however, in favour of the emancipated
Russian serf, that he would work for a fair wage, if it were
offered him; but even he “ has a shrewd sort of notion that
if lie bettered his lot overmuch by labour he would draw upon
himself the attentive eye of the taxgatherer.” After this we
are treated to a picture of “ a Mir, or peasant association,”
organised upon a cheerful system which “ has simply caused
the peasant to exchange the domination of his old master for
the more grinding tyranny of many masters.” Then wc
proceed to a consideration of “ the temperance question,” a
question which is a serious, a difficult, and a complicated one
even m this country, where, however, nobody would dare
to affirm that “very summary measures ” have ever been
taken towards forcing the people to contribute to the
revenue by their intemperance,” much as a Chancellor of the
Exchequer might find himself at a loss to make both ends
meet if teetotalism should become universal. And so we
proceed from topic to topic, from sketch to sketch, bio¬
graphical as well as social, political, military, or other until
we have taken a bird’s-eye view of the Russians in general and
a closer survey of some Russians in particular. Among the
latter are included the Czar himself, Prince Gortschakoff, and
Count Schouvaloff. Altogether, a pleasanter book to read
with its mixture of gossip, smart sayings, anecdotes, and serious
information, it would not be easy to name, at any rate among
recent publications. There is nothing said about any previous
uppearance of the separate articles which collectively make up
the interesting volume, but some of them certainly have a
faradiar look and contain familiar turns of expression, so that,
n the style also be taken into account, no great mistake pro-
bably would be perpetrated by anybody who should maintain
that they have all of them already been a source of delight to the
readers of some well-served newspaper. In reading them
however, one is disposed to take many of the sweeping state¬
ments with a mental proviso of “ exceptis excipiendis.” The
writer, it should be mentioned, exhibits decidedly anti-Russian
tendencies, and alludes to Mr. Gladstone as “ a man soured at
having lost his popularity and burning to revenge himself by
hampering hie successor in office. 9 ’
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le , ftit , for *5® Prussian; how that he was a slender, blue-
ss d sn,
which timTh* extnmoidhLir^power^of^coinb^tion'^iid
mark’in 18fiS^M he ‘distinction in the war with Den¬
mark ui 1864, how that he “ came out” in the war between
temmwi An8t ^ m 18 v 6 ’ and how that - after the Franco-
such are the modem facilities for rolling the
mibW U ^l, arae \ he became a thin e miraculous, a prodigious
whose magnitude makes dwarfs of Hannibal,
by what he call, the
:nd U ,^r idCT Capa .u le ° f dealin S out unmerited blame
a mented praise with equal want of discrimination. The
Si Lord of' nlft’ 8 . e , emfl to cling to the old-fashioned belief in
?? 8 ^'t h ° ugh ’ Perhaps, with a modification similar
utorf about Pn>vide,1 “ betog °" the
A great military reputation would be sufficient to float a
heavier and a less opportune volume than Field Marshal
Count Moltke's Letters from Russia, translated by Robina Napier
(L. Kegan Paul and Co.); a volume, moreover, which exter¬
nally provokes a desire for intimate acquaintance, and, by its
internal type and concomitants, sustains the reader’s frame
ot mind whilst the acquaintance is a-making. It cannot be
concealed, however, that the letters were written a long while
ago—m the year 1856, in fact, when the now illustrious writer
°t them was a comparative nonentity, though he at that date
was of sufficient importance to visit Russia in attendance upon
the then Crown Prince of Prussia on the occasion of the
present Czar’s coronation. The letters were written to the
illustrious writer’s wife, who, it may be as well to remark, was
an Englishwoman, since her nationality accounts for many
allusions and illustrations which one might otherwise be sur¬
prised to find where they are. The letters contain nothing at
, remarkable ; they are scarcely more or less than what might
lave been expected of a well-educated man with an eye
or observation and with a capacity of describing in
without becoming tedious, whatever the favourable
p sition he occupied gave him an excellent opportunity
ex ? m 1 1 , nui o, as a witness and a partaker. It is not
probable that, had not he been destined to afford
pecial correspondents occupation for their industrious,
gr pme, and brilliant pens, he might himself have shone in
t profes810n a special correspondent, whether of the mili-
nf r> an / °^ er stamp. Some of his ‘ ‘ reflections on the life
.• t e f - 13slai \ people, both public and private,” are very
jinro o= m g ’ and are bebeve< * to be in many respects as applicable
thf. J“ e J were .when they were written, “notwithstanding
lnh.^ Cat refo ™ 8 i 1 ut r °duced by the Emperor. ’ ’ Touching the
thp Nicholas, Count von Moltke says nothing about
nectinn^fwv^ 8U * c * de which has been mentioned in con-
Sdly “ oSff K d Potentate’s _death. The Count says
lrili«T& r ,® nef at the issue of the war was the disease which
bcjiH .J?P? ror Nicolas. This antique character could not
the mnef mu8 t die.” Many readers will consider that
diiffpy,. nitemstmg part of the volume is the short “intro-
strafaSi* herein a brief ske tch is given of the great
RemVwr/i’• bow that he “was baptised Helmuth Karl
I’ ,, uemg the third among the seven sons of a
born ‘ nt jpcneral in the Danish army; liow that he was
to the fJp^r-i 00 *’ 26, 1800; h °w that he went
the n-mvcV, et '. d '°°l at Copenhagen; how that lie entered
ish service, and. seeing the small prospect it offered,
BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS.
. Th® Duke of Connaught presided at the anniversary
1™"°^ Masonic Institution for Boys, which was held on
bSed abont n 7 n |i tbe Alexandra Palace. The company num-
* 1 , t T^ 30, mcludi ng many persons holding high office
a *°*f ^eemasons. His Royal Highness, proposing the
P ™®' pal toa8t, i Prosperity to the J 4titution,” made an
e f 1 + u U ltf L bebalf ' Mr. linckes, the secretary,
announced that the subscriptions rec ved from the various
bv amounted to £10,100, of which £4734 was contributed
London and metropolitan district. There were yel
twenty lists to come in. J
t . 0 ^. Samael L °wry presided last Saturday afternoon ovei
Qntp b u^u n of pm:es at the Warehousemen and Clerks’
Schools, which are situated at Russell-hill, Caterham Junction.
t are . m * he 8 chools 108 boys and sixty-three girls, and a
extension of the building will cost about £10,000. In
addition to the examination the children sang an excellent
programme of music.
The receipts of Madame Trebelli’s concert recently given at
St. James s Had on behalf of the Hospital for Disease! of the
Ilrnoat und Chest amounted to £550, including special con¬
tributions from Madame Adelina Patti, Mr. Santley, Mr
Henry Irving, Signor Foli, and Signor Nicolini.
The concert announced by Madame Etelka Gerster in aid
of the widows and orphans of the sailors drowned in the
Grosser Kurfiirst given on Monday afternoon at the Ger¬
man Embassy proved a great success. The programme,
consisting chiefly of vocal pieces, was varied and interest¬
ing. Mr. D. Bandmann has received a note from the
German Ambassador acknowledging the receipt of a cheque
for one hundred pounds as the result of the benefit which Mr.
Bandmann arranged at Willis’s Rooms. “Pray accept my
thanks, says Count Munster, “ for this, as well as for the
great trouble and labour you must have bestowed upon your
noble and praiseworthy undertaking. I consider the result an
excellent one ; £100 is, in Germany, a splendid outcome.’ 9
. The Countess of Zetland opened last Saturday a new build¬
up. to be used as workshops and stores, at the Home for Little
Boys, near Famingham; and the corner-stone of a new cottage
home, the gift of a lady, was laid by Mrs. F. J. Homimau.
Subsequently about 200 ladies and gentlemen sat down to
luncheon uuder a large marquee erected in the grounds, Mr.
W. H. Willans prosiding. Later in the day a meeting was
held in the chapel, under the presidency of Sir Edmund Hay
Currie, and the boys were examined under the direction of the
Rev. H. C. Wilson. There was a distribution of prizes ; and
after tea, served in the cottage homes, the boys engaged in
athletic sports in the cricket field.
A paper on the “ Extension of Provident Dispensaries ” was
read on Monday by Sir Charles Trevelyan at a meeting of the
Charity Organisation Society, advocating the application of
the joint-stock or mutual assurance principle, as furnishing
the only means whereby the medical profession can be placed
in effective relation to the body of the people, working-class
families being in general unable to pay even the lowest scale
of professional fees. The Duke of Northumberland and Lord
F. .Cavendish, M.P., who presided, spoke in support of the
object of the meeting. A resolution was carried empowering
the committee of the society to take an early opportunity of
conferring with the leading representatives of the working
classes, and especially with the sick and benefit clubs, for the
purpose of arriving at some practical issue.
The half-yearly meeting of the subscribers of the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, Old Kent-read and Margate, was held on
Monday at the Cannon-street Hotel—Mr. Charles Few, trea¬
surer, presiding—when ten boys and fifteen girls, out of a list
of fifty-nine candidates, were elected. During the past year
fifty-four children were admitted into the asylum, and fifty-
one were discharged upon completing their term. In 1877
there were thirty-eight children apprenticed, and the total
number apprenticed during the last sixty-six years was 1590,
at a cost to the charity of £15,195. The two asylums will
accommodate 300 children.
The annual meeting of the Indigent Blind Visiting Society,
27, Red-lion-square, was held on the 5th inst. at Hyde Park-
gardens (the residence of Mrs. Scaramanga), under the pre¬
sidency of Lord Ebury. The meeting, which was well attended,
was addressed by the Rev. Dr. Fraser, the Rev. E. H. Hobbins,
Dr. Armitage, Mr. Carter, Mr. Mead (one of the blind Scripture-
readers), and Mr. W. Colmer, the secretary. From the report
read and the various speeches made it appeared that the
society was doing a very large and important work among the
blind poor of London, of whom 713* are under home visitation,
and between 200 and 300 are receiving regular instruction in
day classes held in different parts of London.—Lord Shaftes¬
bury presided last Saturday at the annual festival of the Royal
Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind at the
college in Westow-street, Upper Norwood. The proceedings
began with an inspection of the college, which was followed by
readings given by the pupils, and by a concert, in which the
pupils also took the principal part. The meeting was addressed
by Lord Shaftesbury, the Duke of Westminster, Sir Rutherford
Alcock, Lord Richard Grosvenor, and others. Dr. Armitage
said the cost of each pupil was £60 a year, but that 70 or 80
per cent of the inmates of the institution learned to maintain
themselves, chiefly as pianoforte-tuners.
A recital of “The Merchant of Venice” was given by Mr.
Brandram on Monday at 20, Arlington-street (by permission
of the Marchioness of Salisbury), ou behalf of the funds of the
Adult Orphan Institution. Princess Christian, who is pre¬
sident of the ladies’ committee, was present. The Adult
Orphan Institution (which is in Regent’s Park) receives and
educates the orphan daughters of officers of the Army and
Navy and of clergymen, and is much in need of increased
funds, especially of annual subscriptions.
The first of several projected homes for girls employed in
the factories of the metropolis was opened on Tuesday at
88, St. John’s-streot, -West Smitlifield. Based as they will bo
upon the principles applied to the highly successful Homes for
Working Boys, the institution of these needed refuges from
insufficient, and sometimes squalid, accommodation is a step
upon which those whose comfort is contemplated may well con¬
gratulate themselves. The aim of the committee, which includes
many well-known philanthropic ladies and gentlemen, is, in a
few works, to provide homes that shall be as bright, and happy
and homelike as possible. The scale of weekly payments for
board mid lodging will vary according to the wages earned by
the girls. The highest terms, as at present suggested, are
breakfast, dinner, and tea for 4s. 6d. a week, and lodging for
3s. The establishment opened on Tuesday contains twelve
rooms, and can accommodate forty girls. At a breakfast
by which the inauguration was marked, Mr. Samuel Morley’
M.P., presided, there being nearly one hundred supporters of
the movement present, including the Right Hon. James
Stansfeld, M.P., the Hon. T. H. Pelham, Alderman Sir Robert
Carden, Dr. Donald Fraser, Dr. Gladstone, Mr. G. Hanbury
Mr. Denny, Mr. John Shrimpton (hon. sec.), and the Hon. A*
F. Kinnaird (treasurer), who stated that the subscriptions he
had received amounted to £788. £500 had been expended on
repairs. Several speeches were made advocating the extension
of the plan, and explaining the great need for institutions such
as that whose opening was being celebrated. Towards the
conclusion of the proceedings Mr. fforley offered to subscribe
£300 (half the required amount) tc yards the establishment of
a second home. To make up the remaining sum, Mr. Denny
said he would contribute £100, Sir R. Carden, Mr. Hanbury
Dr. Gladstone, and Mr. R. C. Morgan each promising £50. ’
The half-yearly general court of the Royal Humane Society
was held on Tuesday at the offices, Trafalgar-square, Mr \V
Hawes, the treasurer, presiding. The minutes of the several
committee meetings having been read and confirmed Mr
Young, the secretary, read the report, which stated that since
December last the number of cases brought under the notice
of the society of persons having been in danger of drowning
was sixty-three. Many were successfully treated and restored
but five were beyond recovery. During the Bame time five
persons had been prevented from committing suicide. The
number of cases which had occurred in Hyde Park during the
half year had been twenty-five, and twenty-one were restored
two were beyond recovery, and two were dead when discovered!
One person had been prevented from committing suicide. On
the motion of the chairman the report was adopted. It was then
resolved unanimously to award the silver medallion of the
society to Navigating Sub-Lieutenant A. E. Saul and II. Eade
ordinary seaman, of her Majesty’s ship Vestal, for the follow¬
ing act of gallantly:—On Feb. 3 last the pinnace of the
Vestal, in charge of Mr. Saul, and with a crew of thirteen all
told, foundered off Cape Tanyon, on the north-west coast of
Madagascar, and sank suddenly in deep water. A heavy sea
was running and the ebb-tide setting off shore, the
nearest point to which was about four miles off. Most
of the boat’s gear, masts, &c., sank with her, but a few
small spars and empty barricoes floated. Mr. Saul at
first supported himself on one of these, but hearing cries
and observing a man named Suter in a distressed con¬
dition, gave up his barricoe and swam for the shore without
any support. Henry Eade was supporting himself on the sun-
awiung, but, observing a man named Richard Rowsell was
sin k i ng , ^ave it up to him, and he also struck out for the
shore. Suter and Rowsell were, unfortunately among those
who were lost; but this does not detract from the gallant
and self-sacrificing acts of Mr. Saul and Eade, as at that time
there seemed little hope of reaching the shore at all. Owin ’
to the direction of the sea, they could not make tor
the nearest point of land, and eventually reached a point
from six to seven miles from the scene of the disaster
after being in the water seven hours. Of the crew of
thirteen, eight only reached the shore. The silver medallion
was also awarded to George R. White for trying to save his
brother, Harry C. White, who was capsized from a canoe in
the Mississippi ; and also to Sub-Lieutenant F. H. Boyer of
her Majesty’s ship Modeste, for trying to save W. C. Gibson,
who was washed overboard in Hime Sina Roads, Japan, on ,!
dark and tempestuous night last winter. The silver clasp w..s
awarded to Lieutenant Lewis E. Wintz (the recipient havi . «
in 1867 received the silver medal) for jumping overboard to 11 e
rescue of John J. Maker, who fell from aloft off Tenedos on
Dec. 19 last.
The summer fete at the Village Home for Orphan, N> ■■-
lected, and Destitute Girls, Barkingside, Ilford, Essex w.is
held on Wednesday.
Cardinal Manning has given directions that next Sund iy
the collection for the Hospital Sunday Fund shall take phi u
in all the churches of the Roman Catholic diocese of West¬
minster. Dr. Danell, Bishop of Southwark, has also miulo
arrangements under which the hospital collection shall also bo
taken in the churches of his extensive diocese, which includes
the Isle of Wight.
A grand morning concert is to be given next Wednesd ,y
at Stafford House in aid of the funds of the Gallipoli Hospital
An anonymous donor has presented £2316 in Midland
Railway Preference Stock to the Leeds General Infirmary.
Mr. Thomas Russel Pickthom has been promoted to the
rank of Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets in .. r
Majesty’s Fleet, with seniority of 3rd inst.
A good-service pension of £300 a year, vacant by the death
of Admiral the Hon. Sir Frederick W. Grey, has been awarded
to Admiral Sir George Elliot.
The Duke of Cambridge was examined on Tuesday betoro
the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to
inquire into the Mutiny and Marine Mutiny Acts, and object d
in the strongest manner to the idea of a “ penal battalion . ”
but he recommended that, in order to punish deserters, they
should be put for general service in different battalions. Tm ir
punishment would then be that they could not desert.
Two elections of members of Parliament took place at the
close of last week. Mr. Roberts (Liberal) was on the 5th iu^t.
returned for the Flint Boroughs by a majority of 125 vokw
over Mr. Pennant (Conservative). The numbers wer. —
Roberts, 16.36; Pennant, 1511. At Middlesborough, on the Ich
inst., Mr. Isaac Wilson (Liberal) polled a large majority . n .-r
Mr. Sadler, his Conservative opponent, the numbers b -i • -
Wilson 5307, and Sadler 2415. A special meetiii'’ of ij,<j
Middlesborough Town Council was held on the 5th°inst. :■>
elect a Mayor for the remainder of the year. Mr. Sadler, w iio
retired, to contest the Parliamentary representation,’ ■ u
nominated, with Alderman Buhner, and the latter was oh’. ,, J.
It was agreed that the thanks of the Council be eugrosscu mi
vellum and presented to Mr. Sadler for his services. °
TIIE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, July 13, 1878.— 45
PARIS EXHIBITION : THE ENGLISH HOUSES IN THE AVENUE OF NATIONS.
46
THE ttt.ttstiiA.TED LONDON NEWS_
JULY 13, 1878
CLASSICS FOR ENGLISH READERS.
A decided hit appear. w?th ttc marl
of “ Ancient Classics for English Be. Acrs ana w .
in the former, the successive publications do Dot f 7
into hands for which they were not '“JfjJAjJ 1 \y
it will be no matter for surprise if Thucydides, by the ttev-
Lucas Collins, M.A. (Wflliam Blackwood and Sons), should be
^ gcaemlij- and more higblr appreciated by r«to <to
whom the Greek work is tolerably familiar fhan by readers
who arc entirely innocent of the Greek tongue. And t
editor himself was not altogether of a different opinion may
S su^d from at least one significant fact: he considers it
worth while to notice a particular chapter which has caused
some discussion as to whether, such is its style ^d BU ch aje
eom e of the expressions to be found there, it can have beenwntten
by Thucydides, a question of little or no consequence as regards
the history and obviously beyond the comprehensionof the mere
English reader. The editor, indeed, has produced an excelhnt
commentary, with a biographical sketch imd other addrtuma,
likely to be extremely interesting to the schoiar and extremcly
useful to the student, but not so evidently adapted for the
requirements of the persons for whom the admirable senes
was nominally projected. No.doubthis task was a prodigious y
difficult one; and probably he has succeeded as well as any-
body could hope to succeed. At the same tame it is possible
that his method of mingling Thucydidean extracts and
references to the various chapters of the Greek history with
his own ninning commentary may cause the reader more | some
bewilderment than enlightenment as to the historian s matter
and manner ; and that the better course would have been to
set forth briefly the salient points of each book of the history
in succession, and then, in order to give a good idea of the
style adopted by the Greek historian in his narrative and in
his celebrated speeches, to exhibit a translation in full of
certain memorable descriptions and certain famous harangues.
The effect of the plan adopted is Bomewhat putchy, piecemeal,
disjointed ; here a little bit of the author, there a large Blice
of the editor and commentator, and anon a morsel of the
critic. One is reminded rather of an elongated review
in a magazine, a review divided into chapters, than of
a reproduction, such as one might have expected, on
a very reduced scale, of course, and in English, of
a Greek author’s work and style. But it may be said
that, however reduced the scale, the limits of space prohibited
this sort of undertaking; and the objection is unanswerable.
Iu any case, as has been already admitted, we are the gainers
of an excellent commentary; and, there being no dearth of
translations of Thucydides, English readers, with the afore¬
said commentary at their service, and with the histories of
Thirlwall and Grote to boot, may, if they feel so disposed,
learn as much about the Peloponnesian War, and about the
manner and the phraseology in which it was written by the
son of Olorus, as if they had Greek at their fingers’ ends.
The last chapter of the little volume contains some remarks
concerning the reticence of Thucydides in respect of topics
which did not fall within what he professed to be his pro¬
vince; concerning the stern fixity of purpose with which he
confined himself to the Peloponnesian War and its immediate
accessories. About the social and domestic life of Athens, about
being sworn under £30,000. The testator bequeaths to his
executors £100 each ; to his wife the sum of £250 to be dis¬
tributed by her amoug the servants who have been three years
in his service; to his wife all his furniture, household effects,
horses and carriages absolutely, and ull liiB real estate and the
residue of his personalty for life ; on her death his real estate
is to go to his brother, John William Hill; certainfunds under
his marriage settlement are to be made up to £16,000, and after
his wile’s death one half is to go to his brother Francis Charles
aud his children, and the other half to his brother Arthur and
his children. The residue of his personalty at his wife’s death
is to be divided between his said brothers and their children as
she Bhall appoint.
The will (dated Sept. 2, 1875) with a codicil (dated Oct. 25,
1877) of Mr. Dale Knapping, lute of South Shoebury, Essex,
who died on May 26 IuhI, at Paris, was proved ou the 21st ult.
by Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Knapping, the widow and sole
executrix, the personal estate being sworn under £25,000.
The will (dated July 16, 1877) of the Rev. Craufurd Tait,
MA„ of Lambeth Palace, who died on May 29 last, was proved
on the 17th ult. by the Rev. Randall T. Davidson, M.A., the
acting executor, the personal estate being Bwom under £4000.
The testator leaves to his three sisters, Lucy, Edith, and Agnes
Tait, sums representing £600 Consols, to be equally divided
between them ; to his old friend John Uassard, £19 19s., as a
B light remembrance; to Elizabeth Florence Bickersteth, only
b"etween his two eons, George Gilbert i daughter of Robert Bishop of Ripon. a policy of insurance on
Cent Stock is dmaea Dtrwcen , cr ^ hifl for £2 000, for her own absolute use and benefit; to
William and FTWicis AlbertKono^ o£ her Mary Ann Peach, formerly long in the Archbishop s service,
late^o^rt^his^mightCT Ij^y^ictoria Villiera, £1500 imd £19 19s.; *> James Kerdey. Ion?: his ^ ’
mementoes of her mother; the portrait of his brother
the name ofPetJarch. But if, wwe — ^ ^ of hi9
consists 80 “ uc be au ty of his sonnets evaporates in a
language thatthechieflw » *7 n wh the disagreeable
S,7tvTSuJX him at an Inmtabla diaadvantage
should have been avoided to the utmost.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
feiStfjisa sic gs
the^Duke of Bedford (his nephew), and the SoD. George
Francis Stewart Elliot, the executors, the personal estate being
swJm under £80,000. The testator leaves to his wife, the
Right Hon. Frances Anna Maria, Countess Russell, all er
and ornaments of the person, an open carnage with a pair of
carriage horses and harness, all wines and household stores, an
SSdTato legacy of £1000, the rei .ts of two houses m Belgrave-
aJSre and Chesham-place, the r mts and arrears of rent of his
Tritth estates owing at the time of his decease, and the two
papers; i. .koto hK.ethe me for life
of his furniture, plate, pictures, and household effects at
JembrokeTSS’. V ’sum of £12,887 9s. 4d. India Four per
rr™* c*™i, To HividAd between his two sons, George Gilbert
the art, the science, aud the literature of the times he says not a
word. Anditistaken for granted that the omission was deliberate
and intentional. But when we consider that he confessedly left
his history unfinished; and when we remember that his first book
is a sort of prologue to his history proper, it is not a very wild
stretch of imagination to suppose that he may have contem¬
plated a sort of epilogue also, in which he would have made
ample amends for what is now regarded as a singular defect.
In conclusion, it should be noted as curious that our learned
editor should write of Minerva, Jupiter, Neptune, and so on,
when he is breathing, as it were, the very air of Athens, and
using, as it were, the very words which would have been used
by Thucydides. There is such a thing as carrying purism in
these matters to an absurd extent; but, on the other hand,
there are occasions when carelessness in these matters is
inexcusable.
Regarded as a review and commentary, nothing could very |
well be more satisfactory than Petrarch, by Henry Reeve
(William Blackwood and Sons), a volume belonging to the
Beries of “Foreign Classics for English Readers.” Whether by
such a performance, however admirable and perfect, the
fundamental purpose of the series be fulfilled or not is
another matter. The idea, if memory may be trusted,
at the outset of these delightful little publications was
something of this sort: there are thousands of really well
educated, as well as of intelligent and knowledge-loving but
almost uneducated persons who are familiar with the names,
reputations, and works, in a vague wuy, of both ancient and
foreign classical writers, but who, being unacquainted with
the language in which those authors wrote, cannot go straight
to the native wells and draw draughts of delight for them¬
selves ; and it is therefore desirable, for their sakes, to publish
in a handy form little volumes in which the ancient and
foreign classics shall be made to express themselves in English,
preserving, however, as far as possible, their own style, and,
as far ns the limits of space permit, their totality and their
continuity. It is evident that, if this view were to be carried
out, the proportion of editor to author, as regards the letter-
press, would be about the same as that of Falstaff’s bread to
his sack; but, as in point of fact the proportion is in many
instances found to be exactly the other way, we must conclude
either that the view supposed was really never held or that it
was soon discovered to be impracticable. However that may be,
it is certain that the little volume now under consideration is
rather an essay, and a most learned, sympathetic, instructive,
agreeable essay, upon Petrarch, than a presentment of the poet
himself in the literary form in which he captivated his gene¬
ration. If, as we are told, “ the fame of Francis Petrarch, which
assigns to him the second place among the classics of Italy,
and ranks him amongst the greatest poets of the world, rests
mainly on the composition of about four thousand lines of
Italian verse, addressed to a beautiful and virtuous lady of
Provence,” then, as one would imagine, the “English reader ”
would like to have as much as possible of those four thousand
lines in style and diction approaching as nearly as may be to
the original, in order to ferret out the secret of their charm.
In the little volume under consideration, if one were to count
the pages, there would probably be found more containing
selections from Petrarch’s Latin prose than from his Italian
poetry. Theresult* i '
X George V^illiam Russell, by Harter, he gives to the
Duke of Bedford for life and then to his son the Marquis of
Tavistock • and all his political papers to the Hon. H. I?. S.
EUk?to disuse of as hfmay thln£ fit The Earl’s hoiise-
hold servants in his service at the time of his decease are left
one year’s wages in addition to any that may be due to them.
The residue of his property, real and personal, is given upon
trust for his wife for life, and then for all his children except
his son Viscount Amberley (since deceased). The Irish estates,
in which the deceased Peer had only a life interest do not pass
under his will, but go to his grandson, the present Earl Russell.
The testator declares that all provisions made by his will are
in addition to and not in substitution of any interest which the
legatees may take under either of his marriage settlements.
The will (dated Aug. 16, 1875) of Mr. Jacob Yallowley
Powell, late of Netherwood Manor Park, Streatham, and of
Lime-street, merchant, who died on May 12 last, was proved
on the 26th ult. by Miss Ruth PoweU, the sister, and George
Holt Powell, the surviving executors ; the personal estate
being sworn under £160,000. The testator bequeaths to the
Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage
and Control, £5000; to the London Missionary Society, the
Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, the Homo Missionary
Society, the Orphan Working School, the Asylum for Father¬
less Children, Reedham, the Baptist Home Missionary Society,
the Alexandra Orphanage for Infants, Homscy-rise, the
London Hospital, St. George’s Hospital, and to the Royal
Free Hospital, £1000 each, all free of legacy duty; to Ebenezer
Pritchard, deacon of the Baptist church, Upper Norwood,
£500, to be distributed by him as he may see fit among the
societies and poor of the said church ; to the Rev. Mr. Tipple,
the minister of the Baid church, £500; and to five of his
children, £100 each; upon trust for his nieces, Mary Ruth
Oseler and Charlotte Elizabeth Oseler, £20,000 between them;
but if either of them shall many a minister of the Estab¬
lished Church, or a person holding any office or commission
in her Majesty’s Army, her interest in such bequest is to lapse
and to go among the aforesaid eleven charitable societies or
hospitals; and there are some other legacies. The residue of
his property he leaves to his said sister Ruth. The testator
directs that he shall be buried in unconsecrated ground, and
that his funeral shall be very plain.
The will (dated Dec. 6,1875) with a codicil (dated May 26,
1876) of Mr. Henry Brown, J.P., formerly of Bradford, and
late of Rawdon, in the parish of Guiseley, Yorkshire, who died
at Brighton on March 25 last, was proved at the district
registry, Wakefield, on the 14th ult. by Thomas Parkinson
Muff, Henry Muff, and George AspinaU, the executors, the
personal estate being sworn under £70,000. The testator
bequeaths 106 shares (£10 per share originally paid) in John
CTossley, Sons, and Co. (limited) to the trustees of the Crossley
Orphanage Home and School; £5000 each to the Airedale
Independent College, Bradford, to the Bradford Girls’
Grammar School, and to the Yorkshire College of Science,
Leeds; £2000 to Milton Mount College for the Education of
Daughters of Congregational Ministers; £1000 each to the
Bradford Tradesmen’s Benevolent Institution, the Bradford
Tradesmen’s Home, the Bradford Mechanics’ Institute, and to
the Bradford Spinsters’ Endowment Fund ; £500 each to the
Bradford Infirmity, the London Missionary Society, the
British aud Foreign Bible Society, the Royal Albert Asylum
for Idiots and Imbeciles, Lancaster, the British and Foreign
School Society, and to the English Congregational Chapel
Building Society ; £250 each to the Religious Tract Society,
the West Riding Congregational Union and Home Missionary
Society, the Bradford Town Mission, the Bradford Eye and
Ear Infirmary, and to the Bradford Fever Hospital; £100 each
to the Bradford Association for Improving the Social Con¬
dition’ of the Blind, the Bradford Ragged Schools, Rebecca-
street, Bradford, the Broomfield Ragged and Industrial School,
Wakeflold-road, Bradford, the Bradford Orphan Home for
Industrial Training for Girls, Manningham-rond, Bradford,
the Bradford Nurses’ Institution, and to the Ilkley Hospital,
all free of legacy duty. The will directs that the sums
bequeathed for the benefit of the Airedale Independent
College, the Bradford Girls’ Grammar School, the York¬
shire College of 8cience, and the Milton Mount College
are for the purpose of founding and maintaining scllolar-
ships in connection with these several institutions. To
each of his executors he gives £100; to his cousins, Samuel
Broodbent Ingham, James Broadbent Ingham, and Mary
Aspinall special legacies of £2000 each, in addition to other
interests under the will; to each of his cousins, the sons and
daughters of his uncles and aunts on both sides of his family,
£100 : aud legacies to relatives of his wife and others ; to his
£19 19s.'; to Mrs. Pile, long his mother’s personal servant,
£19 19s.;' the testator then devises and bequeaths all the rest
and residue of his real and personal estate unto his father,
Archibald Campbell, Archbishop of Canterbury, for his own
absolute use and benefit ; and the two executors are directed
to apply a sum of £10 each in the purchase of some slight
remembrance as a token of his high regard for them.
The will (dated Aug. 10, 1871) of Mr. William Birks
Rhodes, late of Pomona-place, Staines-road, Hounslow, was
wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, all his household furniture and
effects absolutely, and for life or widowhood the income of the
entire residue of his property, real and personal; in the event
^ H_ of her marriage again an annuity of £200 is settled upon her,
. , is that, although an inquirer could scarcely 1 independently of her husband. On the death or second marriage
go to any other equally good source for information, within a * Ir3 - Brown the freehold property in the occupation of
reasonable compass, about Petrarch’s life, about his dream of 5Ic8 * rs - Brown, Muff, and Company is to go to Mr. T. P. Muff;
1 _ _* atld tilt' r<»mfUTlHpr nf Vlia iu __
Laura* about what ho owed to the family of Colomm, about
his influence upon English poetry, about his travels, about the
laurel-wreath decreed to him, about his connection with
Rienzi and disturbances in Italy, and about his singularly
appropriate death at Arqua, the volume affords but scanty
means of judging what there was in those four thousand lines
of Italian verse to testify of so gifted a being as presents
and the remainder of his estate is divided in various propor¬
tions among his own and his wife’s relations.
The will (dated Aug. 7, 1874) with a codicil (dated .Tan. 24,
1876) of Mr. Charles Edward Hill, late of llawley llill House,
Yatcley, Southampton, who died on the 7th ult., was proved
on the 24th ult. by Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Hill, the widow, and
Robert Julius Mumm, the acting executors, the personal estate
proved on the 3rd inst. by George Symons and George Green
Symons, the executors. The testator, after leaving a few
small legacies, gives and bequeaths all the rest, residue, and
remainder of his personal estate and effects to his executors
upon trust, after payment of his debts, funeral and testa¬
mentary expenses, to pay and divide the same between the
Royal Free Hospital, Gray’s Inn-road, and the Life-Boat
Institution in equal shares.
The Dundee correspondent of the Globe states that, by the
will of Miss Robertson, of Elgin, the sum of £30,W0 is
bequeathed to religious and charitable purposes. Mr. Spur¬
geon’s College and Orphanage each receive £1000; schemes of
the Free Church of Scotland, £7000; the London Missionary
Society, London City Mission, and Baptist Missionary Society,
each £2000 ; the National Bible Society, £3000; besides other
bequests. The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon is one of the trustees.
THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS.
In view of the importance attached to the new acquisition of
Great Britain in the Mediterranean, we give a sketch of the
Island of Cyprus from “ Murray’s Handbook for Travellers.
Cyprus is the most eastern island of the Mediterranean, and
lies off the coast of Syria. It is 145 miles in length, extreme
breadth fifty-five miles, and its minimum breadth twenty-
seven miles, having an area of 4500 square miles—about the
size of Jamaica, or nearly a third less than Yorkshire, and has
now a population of 200,000. It has hitherto been but little
visited by travellers, owing to the erroneous statements regard¬
ing it. There is, however, no reason why travellers should
not visit this island with as great impunity as any other part
of the Levant. The climate varies in different parts; the
northern region is the most hilly and wooded, and the
least fertile; aud the heat in that district is tempered by
the winds from the Karamanian Mountains, which
preserve the frozen snow in the highest spots during the
greater part of the year. The cold is very severe in winter.
In the plains iu the southern distric ts of Cyprus the heat of the
sun is excessive, but is moderated by the sea breezes. The
richest as well as the most agreeable parts of the island are in
the vicinity of Cerinea and. Paphos (Baffo). Laraaka, the
chief seaport of the island, is about a quarter of a mile distant
from the sea; the Consuls and most of the European in¬
habitants reside at a suburb on the seashore, called by the
Italians the Marina, which is the chief depot of the commerce
of the whole island. Although Lamaka is situated in what is
regarded as the worst part of Cyprus, the country around
being urid, this port, it is stated, has been selected solely
owing to the safe anchorage of its roads. About an hours
ride from Lamaka, situated on the borders of the large Salt
Lake, on the road to Citti, is a mosque in which the I™* 8
suppose to be interred the body of the wet-nurse of their
Prophet. Nikosia, the capital of Cyprus, was besieged
by the Turks under Mustapha in 1570, the siege lasting
forty-five days, when it was taken by storm ; between the
gates of Famagusta and Baffo, situate in a pretty garden, is a
small mosque in which is interred the Baiructar, or standard-
bearer, who first planted the Turkish flag on the walls, r rom
the summit of the minaret of this mosque the best view, it is
stated, is to be had, the mulberry and palm trees being inter¬
spersed with minarets and ancient Cliristian churches, now
converted into mosques.
The principal products of the island are wheat, barley,
cotton, silk, madder-roots, olive oil, wine, carobs, hemp,
pitch, wool, tobacco, salt, fine timber, and fruit; there is an
average yield of 1,246,000 gallons of wine and 198,000 cwt of
salt. These are stated to form four fifths of the entire
exportation, which is at present principally to Marseilles,
Leghorn, Trieste, and the coast of Syria. Nearly the entire
imports consist of British goods brought from Bey rout, Con¬
stantinople. Smyrna, and the Mediterranean ports. Efforts
were mode in 1866 to increase the growth of cotton.
From Limasoi there is a considerable trade in tho shipment
ofwinesand rnki, made in the vicinity, to Egypt and the
islands of the Archipelago ; large quantities of carobs, which
grow in the neighbouring forests, are shipped to Russia ana
Italy. To the sportsman Cyprus offers a wide aud untrodden
field. Its hills and valleys are described as swarming with
hares, partridges, fraucolins, bustards, and quails ; in the
winter, woodcocks, snipe, and wild duck are found in great
abundance ; mufflons, or wild sheep, and wild boars are to he
had at Cape St. Epiphauius, the district around which, called
the forest of Acama, is uninhabited.
The antiquities of the island belong to three distant epochs
Grecian, Roman, and Christian. The period of the Byzantine
1 Dukes lasted nine centuries ; and among many fine churches
erected at that period is still to be seen the superb one of
Macheru. There is a conjecture, for which no ground is
assigned, that the monuments of that period were P r ,
| part destroyed during the time that the island was held by
I Richard I. of England.
JULY 13, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
OBITUARY OF EMINENT PERSONS.
SIR GEORGE CLAY, HART.
Sir George Hay, third Baronet, died on the 30th nit. in
t / Cavendish-square. He was born Au<r. 14 1831
$> £ the second son of Sir William Clay, of Fulweli
Hodge, M P. for the Tower Hamlets, and at
lu tUne of the Board of Control,
I T I who . was seated a Baronet in 1841. Sir George
was formerly Major in the 19th Foot, and hud
retired from the Army with the rank of Lieu¬
tenant-Colonel With the 19th Regiment he
served during the Crimean campaign, and was
, , .. Present at the battles of the Alma and Inker-
man and at the siege of Sebastopol, for which he had a medal
vnth three clasps, as well as the Turkish medal. In October
18 <6, he succeeded to the baronetcy, at the decease of his
elder brother, Sir William Dickason Clay. He married first
March 8, 1862, Caroline Elizabeth, only daughter o7 S John
Palmer Bruce Chichester, Bart., and by her (who died in 18731
had two daughters. He married, secondly, Oct. 5, 1876 Marv
Caroline, daughter of Sir John and the Hon. Lady Walrond
of Bradfield. ’
The deaths have also been announced of—
The Rev. Edward Francis Chamberlayne, on the 23rd ult., at
Aston Magna Vicarage, Moreton-in-Marsh, aged seventy-one
James Trevenen, Esq., of Helston, J.P. for Cornwall on
the 27th ult., at Ford Park, Plymouth, aged eighty-six yeArs.
Mr. James Aikin, associated throughout a long life with
the commerce, politics, and local government of Livernool
aged eighty-six. r 1
Thomas Hicks, Esq., J.P., of Derreenatra Manor, in the
county of Cork, and Lpton Grove, Torquay, on the 19th ult
at the first-named place, aged seventy-three years.
Henry William May, of Woodville, Honor Oak, Forest-hill
and 3, Old-square, Lincoln’s Inn, barrister-at-law only sur¬
viving child of the late Rev. George May, and grandson of the
late Sir Henry Martin, Bart., on the 30th ult., at Alum Bar
Freshwater, Isle of Wight, aged thirty-four years. ’
Philip Haubtuy, Esq., banker, of 60, Lombard-street,
J.P., on the 4th inst., at The Woodlands, Redhill, aged
seventy-six years. He was sixth son of Osgood Hanbmry
Esq., of Halfield Grange, Essex, by Susannah Willett his wife
daughter of John Barclay, Esq., of London.
Pn-bevdary Sinclair, of Chichester Cathedral, a son of the
late Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, the founder of the Board
of Agriculture, on the 8th inst., in the seventy-fourth year of
his age. He was formerly Rector of St. George’s, Leeds and
more recently Rector of Pulborough, in Sussex. ’
The Rev. Samuel Martin, on the 5th inst., aged sixty-one.
Mr. Martin was one of the best known Congregationalist
ministers in London, and held the post of minister at West¬
minster chapel for over thirty years. He has been in delicate
health for some time.
Colonel Henry King, Commanding 13th Regiment Bengal
Native Infantry, of the Indian Expeditionary Force, fourth
and last surviving son of the late Thomas King, Esq of
Baltinglass, in the county of Kildare, Captain 20th Regiment,
on the 1st inst., at Malta, aged fifty-two years.
The Rev. George Wray, M.A., Canon of York and Rural
Dean, Rector of Leven, near Beverley, on the 26th ult., at his
Rectory, aged ninety-seven years. He was second son of the
Rev. Henry Wray, and descended from Richard Wray, brother
of Lord Chief Justice Sir Christopher Wray.
James Moilliet, Esq., J.P., late of Cheyney Court, Here¬
fordshire, and Abberley Hall, in the county of Worcester, on
the 1st inst., at 172, Earl’s-court-road, South Kensington, aged
seventy-two years; the descendant of a family of foreign
extraction long settled at Geneva. Mr. Moilliet served the
office of High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1861.
Frederick Goodwin Doughty, Esq., of Woodbridgc, in the
county of Suffolk, on the 1st inst., at his residence, Cumberland
House, aged seventy-eight, second son of the Rev. George I
Clarke Doughty, of Thebcrton Hall, Suffolk. He married, 1
in 1833, Beatrice, daughter and coheiress of Rear-Admiral
Sir Charles Cuningham, of Oak Lawn, and leaves Frederick
Proby, Commander R.N., and other issue.
Francis Edmund Joseph MaeDonnell, Esq., son of the late
Sir Francis MaeDonnell, of Dunfierth, on the 14th ult., at
Bath, aged fifty-five years. He was a magistrate for the
counties of Meath and Kildare, and servod as High Sheriff of
the latter in 1866. He married, first, 1859, Helen, only child
of Henry McNamara, Esq.; and, secondly, 1865, Georgina,
daughter of James Gemon, Esq., of Athcame Castle.
We announced last week the death, in his ninety-ninth
year, of General Henry Thomson, late of the Bengal Cavalry.
He was not only the oldest officer of the. Indian Army, but
the sole survivor of Lord Lake’s gallant army, which on
Nov. 1, 1803, won the hard-fought (though now nearly
forgotten) battle of Leswaree. In this action the 8th Hussars
and the 27th and 29th Dragoons, and also the 76th Foot,
greatly distinguished themselves.
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PROBLEM No. 1796.
By J. A. W. Hunter.
THE PARIS INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT.
A Game played in tlie fifth round of the contest between Messrs Enolisch
and Wixawer.— (Vienna Opening.)
white (Herr E.) black (M. W.) white (Hen “
1. PtoK4th P to K 4 th 31. R to B 2nd
2. Kt to Q
3. Kt to K a 3rd
4. Kt takes P
6. K takes B
6 . P to Q 4th
This apptujra to la
Kt to Q B 3rd
B to B 4th
B takes P (ch)
82. B
R 2nd
Kt takes Kt I of the position'.’
Kt to Kt 3rd I 32.
- better than 6. Q to 33. Kt to Q 6th
^svstss&s'tssi:
ition.
7. B to Q B 4th P to Q 3rd
8 R to B sq BtoKSrd
9. B to K 2nd K Kt to K 2nd
10. K to Kt sq P to Q 4th
“ " Kt takes P
Kt to Kt 3rd
Qto B sq
White does not accept the challenge to
d ftl T ’ lu ‘ d } ho result JiutJHos his judgment
Castles
P to K B 3rd
Pto Q B 3rd
. P takes P
12. Kt to K 4th
13. B to K Kt 6th
14 Kt to B 5th
15. B to Q 3rd
16. B to Q 2nd
17. QtoKsq _
18. P to Q Kt 3rd Q to Kt 6th
Tins preserves the Pawn for the moment,
but even that poor boon is acquired at the
cost ofthe Queen’s power being circum-
19. QtoB2nd QRtoKtsq
20 Q R to K sq K R to K Bq
21. B to B 5th Q to R 6th
22 P to Kt 3rd QtoR4th
23. R takes R (ch) It takes R
24. P to K Kt 4th Q to R 6th
25. Kt takes P Kt to R 6th
26 U to Kt 3rd
Apparently the best way to secure tho
pawn. Obviously, 26. Kt to Q 6th is met by
26. Kt takes U.
Q takes Q
Kt takes ~
P to Kt 4th
B to Kt 5th
P to R 5th
P takes P
37. R to Kt 2nd R to K 5th
38. K to B 3rd R to K sq
89. R to R 2nd R to K R so
40. P to B 4th *
A well timed move that shots out the
adverse Kt from the game.
27. P takes Q
28. P takes Kt
29. P to B 3rd
80. R to K B 4th
o K 6th
PtoKll 4th
R to K 7th
41. B to Kt 4th
42. K to Kt 4th
43. K takes P
44. K to Kt 4th
45. K to B 4th
46. R to R 6th
47. R to Q B 5th
48. R takes P
49. K to K 3rd
60. P to Q 5th
61. R to B 7th
52. B to Q 6th
63. P to Kt 4th
54. K to Q 3rd
Tho^en d^ame is^i
throughout.
65. K to Q 4th
56. K to B 5th
67. K to Kt 5th
58. R to B 6th
59. B to Kt 8th
60. B takes P
61. B to B 5th
62. R to K B 6th, and wins.
R to Kt 4th (ch)
R takes P
R to Kt 4th (ch)
R to Kt 2nd
Kt to Kt 3rd
R to Kt 7th
R to B 7th (ch)
R takes P
Kt to Q 2nd
K to K sq
R to Q Kt 7th
Kt to Kt 3rd
R to Kt 6th (ch)
R to K R 6th
R to Q B 6th
K to Q sq
K to Q 2nd
P to B 4th
Kt to B sq
” ‘ ” R6th
The annual gathering of the miners of the county of nmiq tntpt t rri'vru
Durham was held in the city of Durham last Saturday. There DtB ^ TELI f G ?^ E ’ . .
were long processions of miners’ lodges through the city to the Thursday and Friday,' the 4th X and 'otTlnsh, i^d ““ffired'as follows :-
racecourse, Where between 30,000 and 40,000 people were Andersen r. Gifford each won a game ; Bird v. Blaokburne each won
assembled. There were several platforms, and among the Clerc v. Mason each won a game; Zukertort beat Pitschell two
fes 1 'Jr ^■£ ,C SS“ Po ,T er ’ ss .£SSS
sir. Alexander Macdonald, M.P., and Mr. Thomas Hurt, M.P. notable for the extraordinary length of the first game between Herr
Resolutions were passed regretting the commercial stagnation '■ Englisch and M. Rosenthal, which extended over 140 moves. In the seventh
which has existed durill£r the mist, twelve months nririn rr round Winawer won one and drew one with Andersen ; Bird beat Pitschell
UDon the finvan! in P , -I® m ? ntllS an . a llr £ n S both games; Blackbume v. Zukcrtort each won a game; Mackenzie beat
upon the Government the great necessity of more rigorously Gifford two games: Rosenthal v. Clerc each won a game ; and Mason drew
einorcmg the present law for the government of mines. | both his games with Englisch.
Thn Inimnnt™ tj.v v i • • • j. r It is announced that the committee of the congTess have increased the
o+oi ill inspectors Of Irish Fisheries, in their report for 18l7, number of prizes from four to six, and added to their relative value the
state that the number of craft of all descriptions engaged in sum of 30oof.
fashing for sale in Ireland was last year 5382, and the crews The following table shows the score on the completion of the seventh
19 615 men nnrl 77 u mu ■ i ,, , round, when each competitor had played fourteen gamos, the draws being
m ® n ®“ d There is a decrease, apparently, of reckoned at half a point to each side *
o83 vessels and 3300 in the crews ; but the inspectors think
the numbers were over-estimated in previous years. The con-
uuct of the fishermen has been satisfactory. At nine places in
; , tlle sa ^ e of herring, mackerel, and cod from Ireland
m 18/7 brought £538,255. At Ilowth, near Dublin, there
were employed in the herring fishery 243 Cornish boats, 226
Manx, and 232 Irish. The Kinsale fishery realised
120,398. As much as £50 a man was earned in the season by
me crews. The average value of the boats employed was
eaci ; . ,he pilchard shoals were not as numerous on the
utnern Irish coast as in other years, A small company has
Ki-'kk Sta ^ s ^ e ^ carry on the fishery at Baltimore, near
fn i ' rRei V- inspectors say that the lo ins have been
riy applied; the amount available for 1877 was £6507.
unng the three years since the passing of the Act £14.474 has
oeen advanced for Joans. The inspectors say that the salmon
ni ‘ s . ar ° P ro S ress '"g most favourably, and “ have now
pir £ l ‘ commercial proportions, - ’ though there
n♦ ,? a fluctuation in the produce from year to yeur,
notwithstanding the greatest legislative care.
Winawer
Blackbume
Zukcrtort
Rosenthal
Clerc ...
Andersen
Mackenzie
Bird ...
Englisch
Mason
Gifford
Pitschell
71
71
THE ANG-LO-TURKISH TREATY.
The text of the “ conditional treaty ’’ between England and
Iirrkey and of the correspondence relating to it, has been laid
before Parliament. The principal paper is a despatch from
Lord Salisbury to Sir A. H. Luyard. dated May 30, 1878, in
which his Lordship proposes a defensive alliance with Turkey
against any father encroachment by Russia upon Turkish
territory in Asia, and proposes an assignment of Hie island of
Cyprus to England, the territory to continue a part of the
Ottoman Empire, and the excess of revenue over expenditure
ta.be repaid to the treasury of the Sultan. On June 5 Sir A.
Layard sent to the Marquis of Salisbury the Convention
described in both Houses of Parliament on Monday night. It
u dated June 4, and is comprised in two short articles. To
this Convention there is an Annex, dated July 1, containing
some details of the arrangement respecting the occupation of
Cyprus and stipulating that if Russia restores to Turkey Kars
anti her other Armenian conquests, Cyprus will be evacuated
by England and the Convention of June 4 will be at an end.
The Articles and Annex run thus:—
Article I.
If Batoum, Ardahan, Kora, or any of them, shall be retained by Russia,
and if any attempt shall be made at any future time by Russia to take
possession of any further territories of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan in
Asia, as fixed by the definitive Treaty of Peace, England engages to join his
Imperial Majesty the Sultan in defending them by force of arms.
In return, his Imperial Majesty the Sultan promises to England to
introduce necessary reforms, to be agreed upon later between the two
Powers, into the Government and for the protection of the Christian and
other subjects of the Porte in these territories ; and in order to enable
England to make necessary provision for executing her engagement, his
Imperial Majesty the Sultan further consents to assign the Island of Cypruf
to be occupied and administered by England.
Article H.
The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof
shall be exchanged, within the space of one month, or sooner if possible.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the
same, and have affixed thereto tho seal of their arms.
Done at Constantinople the 4th day of June, 1878. A. H. Layard.
Safvet.
Annex to the Convention.
The Right Hon. Sir A. H. Layard, G.C.B., and his Highness Safvet
Pasha, now the Grand Vizier of his Majesty the Sultan, have agreed to the
following Annex to the Convention signed by them as Plenipotentiaries of
their respective Governments on June 4, 1878:
It is understood between the two high contracting parties that England
agrees to the following conditions relating to her occupation and adminis¬
tration of tho Island of Cyprus:
I. That a Mussulman religious tribunal (Mehk6m6i Shdri) shall con¬
tinue to exist in the island, which shall take exclusive cognisance of religious
matters, and of no others, concerning the Mussulman population of the
island.
II. That a Mussulman resident in the island shall be named by the
Board of Pious Foundations in Turkey (Evkraf) to superintend, in con¬
junction with a delegate to be appointed by the British authorities, the
administration of the property, funds, and lands belonging to mosques,
oemeterics, Mussulman schools, and other religious establishments existing
in Cyprus.
_ DL That England will pay to the Porte whatever is the present ex cent
of revenue over expenditure in the island ; this excess to be calculated upon
and determined by the average of the last five years, stated to be 22,936
purses, to be duly verified hereafter, and to the exclusion of the produce of
State and Crown lands let or sold during that period.
IV. That the Sublime Porte may freely sell and lease lands and other
property in Cyprus belonging to the Ottoman Crown and State (Arazii
Miriy3 vfi Emlaki Houmayoun), the produce of which does not form part of
the revenue of the island referred to in Article m.
V. That the English Government, through their competent authorities,
may purchase compulsorily, at a fair price, land required for public im¬
provements, or for other public purposes, and land which is not cultivated.
VI. That if Russia restores to Turkey Kars and the other conquests
made by her in Armenia during the last war, the Island of Cyprus will be
evacuated by England, and the Convention of June 4, 1878, will be at
an end.
Done at Constantinople, the 1st day of July, 1878. A. H. Layard.
Safvet.
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T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
I 1 MEAT.
FINEST MEAT-FLAVOUIUNG STOCK FOR SOUPS,
MADE DISHES, AND SAUCES.
T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
Li MEAT..
Orders, however large, can he completed at very short notice
by Dressmakers of the greatest proficiency.
(either French, German, or English).
Observe the Address—
PETER ROBINSON'8,
COURT AND GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE.
236 to 262, Regent-street, London.
One of the most important House* of its kind in England.
T 'HE ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE
at PETER ROBINSON'S.
COURT and GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE,
266, 288, 200, .62, Regent-Street.
All goods have been greatly reduced for one month's sale only.
Great bargain* will be sold in the following departments: -
COSTUMES In BLACK BILK.
Reduced from 20 guineas to 10 guineas.
Reduced from 18 guineas to 7) guineas.
COSTUMES In BLACK MATERIAL.
Reduced from 7 guIncas to 3) guineas.
Reduced from 3f guineas to 33s. sd.
T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
I 2 MEAT.
CAUTION.—Genuine only with the facsimile of Baron
Liebig's Signature In Blue Ink across label.
T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
±J _ MEAT. _
AMERICAN CENTENNIAL
PRIZE MEDAL.
TORY’S CARACAS COCOA.
X It* pure flavour, delicate aroma, and Invigorating
quatitle* have established Its position as a first-class dietetic
article.
TORY’S CARACAS COCOA.
X "The Caracas Cocoa of such choice quality."—Food,
Water, and Air (Dr. Hassall).
" A meet delicious and valuable article. —Standard.
TORY’S EXTRACT OF COCOA,
X “than which. If properly prepared, there Is no nicer or
more wholesome preparation of Coco*."—Food, Water, and Air.
Edited by Dr. linssnU.
T E1J T H INTERNATIONAL MEDAL
awarded to J. S. FRY and SON.
pHOCOLAT MENIER, in 41b. and 41b.
V Packets.
Washing Costumes reduced to 10s. fid. end 15s. Cd
MANTLES and JACKETS,
Purchased in Paris as Models,
Reduced indiscriminately to Half Prieo.
REAL ALASKA SEAL JACKETS, new shapes,
33 indies long, reduced from 12 to » guineas;
3fi indies long, reduced from 15to 11 guineas;
40 inches long reduced from 18 to 13f guinea*.
CASHMERE CIRCULARS, lined Real Russian Squirrel,
Reduced from 2 guineas to 2a. fid.
Other* reduced to 3 guineas, 3* guinea*, and op to
7 guineas.
BLACK SILKS.
Reduced from 6*. to Ss. fid. per yard.
Reduced from 7s. ud. to 6a. fid.
MIL1NERY. Collars, Sunshades. Fichus, and all Fancy Goods,
ell much reduced, tor the One Month's Bale.
PETER ROBINSON'S, 250, 258,200.268. Regent-street.
XIHOCOLAT MENIER.—AwardedTwenty-
V Three
T OBB’8 PATENT DRIED MILK F00D8
rj, OTrti'mry use. The Patent Milk
rood. Oatmeal, Arrowroot, torn I lour. Rice. Cocoa, and Clinco-
Wj*' OT * r 8° Pf r ““J l"' 1 ?,Dried Milk. Lancet.-'' Con- ,
TIm. l"ei£h.* le,U IOOd * Bold by all Chemists, Ac., la |
■^OTICE.—In
,—In reference to the
AXAKAVILLA cocoa.
-tvX "It may justly be called the perfection
of III! pan-ll I \l|- Ml.”
llntlsh Mcdlai) Journal*
AX ARA VILLA COCOA.—The ‘ ‘ Globe ” says,
-t*X " < TAYLOR 11 BOTHERS *
M ARAYILLA COCOA has achieved a thorough success,
and sumrsedes every other cocoa In the market. Entire
solubility, a delicate aroma, and a rare concentration of
the purest elements of nutrition, distinguish the Slara-
vllltt Cocoa above all other*. For invalids, dyspeptics, and
consumers of Cocoa in general, we could nut recommend
a more agreeable or valimlile beverage."
8oloProprM.iM.TAYl.un llKUTIlKItS, London.
S CHWEITZER’S COCOATINA.
Anti-Dyspcptla Cocoa or Chocolate Powder.
Guaranteed Pure Soluble Cocoa, with excess of Pat extracted.
Four time* the strength of Cocoas Thickened yet Weakened with
Arrowroot. Starch, Ac.
The faculty pronounce It the most nutritious, perfectly digest¬
ive Beverugo for "BREAKFAST. LUNCHEON, or SUITER.”
Keeps In all Climates. Requires no Cooking. A teaspoonful to
Breakfast Cup, costing less thnn a halfpenny. Samples gratis.
Ln AIr- riwhE Xinr at Is. fid., 3s., Ac., by Chemists and Grocers.
H. SCHWEITZER and CO.. 10. Adam-streat. London. W.C.
FOB BLAKO-MANOE . PUD DINGS. CUSTARDS,
CHILDREN'S AND INVALIDS' DIET,
AND ALL THE C BE8 O F ARROWROOT,
JJR0WN and pOLSON’S
Q0RN pLOUR
HAS A WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION,
AND 18 DISTINGUISHED FOR
_ UNIFORMLY SUP ERIOR QUALITY.
HP HE ESSEX FLOUR and GRAIN
■m. COMPANY. Llverpool-road, London. N., snpply the best
oi.ly;-Wh tea, fofl>«try. 10s. per tu.hcl; Xurehoida.
for Bread, Bs. fdu Wheat Meal, for Brown Bread, Vs. vd.;
Coarse Scotch Oatmeal Ss. 2d. per 14 lb.; fine. 3s. 4d.: American
Hominy. 4s ; Barley, Indian (bra. and Burley Mcaf.6s.Vd. per
busliei, or 2i, fid. per aack; Buck-whcat.fi*. per bushel, or lilt, per
•sek: Osta. 4s. per bushel; Crushed Oats. 3*. rd. per bushel.
13s. 6<1. per sack; Middlings. 2». 4il. per bushel: Ground rollard.
'« M-i'co*. 7*. 6d.: Tick Keans, to.; Split ha*, 3a. per peck
Meat Biscuit*, 20* per cwt. Lentil KlourT for Invalids! In tin*,
1 'J*' : * nd ! lb '- 8s- All other klods of Grain and Seed.
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J All tho latest Novelties In Costume Cash¬
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Patterns trie. _ _
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J U LY we dial I be prepared to offer the whole of our large and
well-aaaortnl STOCK at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
At the Close of Oie London Season we contemplate maklmf
ADDITIONS and ALTERATIONS to our PREMISES; and.
•* accumulation* of *lu«t. Ac., inubt nooeMarlljr an»c tnerj-
ftom, we ahall ou tho oocaaion of the present Summer bale
make strenuous exertions to clear off as much of our present
Stock as possible. ^ ^ Utcept , tfwt . w ,
»pHE LOUIS VELVETEEN.
PERMANENT ORIENTAL
BLUE-BLACK.
" NOS A8PERA JUVANT."
These VELVETEENS, dyed In the new shs
BLACK by a siiecial process, arc gunraiitced t
colour and brilliancy, and cannot be distlngulslio
"FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE."
pLARKE’S WORLD-FAMED BLOOD
/“l.. MIXTURE Is warranted to cleanse the Blood from all
rTR z*?ii!!2. m .J fhatev T. r “2.” nr ‘* l, ig. For Scrofula. Senrvy.
Skin and Blood Diseuies its cff<-cts nre inarrellnos. In Dottles.
2». fid. each.and In Cose* containing six timet the quantity lit.
♦ n h fc2! a i'A ;htn1 J fU ' ’ k ' nt te any address for 30 or 132 lUmpI, of
the Proprietor. F. J. CLARKE. Chemist. Lincoln. 1
TXOLLOWAY’8 PILLS and OINTMENT.
itac7 P nrl,y t 5*u. b,0 ? d ' *" disorders of the
re C # K k I . y *' 1a d h""® 1 *- Th * Ointment Is onrlvaUed
in the cure of bad legi. old wounds, gout, and rheumatism*
T AXORA MEDICATED FRUIT
weeliSiSded.^ L * 1I0r ® Loxenge* can Co safely
efficacious, ."nd'&'made®'
ta^ , V^itow b a 7 ,:fcr , ‘ t44oJ Drore, ‘ u; wlo1 -
Bo cartful to see the VELVETEENS bear this Trado Mark.
May be hod at all Drapers' and Wholesale Houses.
Agents for Wholesale only: iripr
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62, U lost lord-street, Glasgow.
"VIEW FRENCH LAWNS, for Ladies’
Ay Summer Murning Dresses, sjd. per yard. Cambrics,
Shirtings, Galatea*. Satteen*. and all the new materials, propor¬
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Patterns fi ee.-JOHN HOOPER. 52. Oxford-atreet, W.
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The only Jeweller In England whose Stock consists of one
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SUNDAY. Jolt 21,
fifth Sunday after Trinity.
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T. L. PapiRon.
hovered upon the horizon have disappeared. Appre¬
hensions of bloodshed have subsided Exeitedpassions
always tending to actual hostilities have cooled down.
Patriotism, or what is generally esteemed as such, is no
longer in antagonism with the dictates of humanity.
Looking back to the state of international relations a
JTnth or six weeks ago, it is difficult to overestimate the
immense advance which has been achieved, or thetemtde-
ness of the calamity which the age has escaped. We are
grateful to those (whoever they may be) by whom the
Clouds which darkened our national prospects have been
rolled away. Tho advantage thus secured is such that
ISLE OF | every individual of whatever rank or party or class may
6 T?p“th hononr” is what ted BeaensflcW tell.
US has been achieved in our behalf at Berlin We hope
so We have no in clination, we trust, to look with indrf-
»;- - | ference upon the character, political or moral, of England s
CERMAN BEED^ENTEETAINMENT. dealings with other nations. The gmty 0^ ^ 6 P°“ on
Mft-SS fS : s i*au«1^ kx )I m IT 1 nx, ^ U Eighi( I held by this country in the ;
( htalogue, i».
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Bowing: London Rowing Club,
Tewkesbury Regatta.
WEDNESDAY, July 24.
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MONDAY, July 22.
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(Banquet to the Australian Cricketers,
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Malton Agricultural Society s Show.
I Worcestershire Agricultural Society
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Grand National Archery Matches,
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XUnuriunc ,,
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THURSDAY, July
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I Show, Louth (threeRays).
Shropsliire, &c„ Agricultural Society
i show, Ludlow (three days).
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fit. James tho Elder, Apostle and
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anniversary, Willis’s Rooms, 3 .
Royal Toxophilite Society, extra
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Athletic Meetings, Twickenham;
Joint-Stock Banks, Stamford-
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Direction of Wind .. .._
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LONDON: SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1878.
The return of Earl Beaconsfield and the Marquis of
Salisbury, her Britannic Majesty’s Plenipotentiaries to the
Congress at Berlin, on Tuesday last, was welcomed with
some approach to regal pomp. From the moment of
their landing at Dover to that of their being safely lodged
in Downing-street, the marks of attention and appro¬
bation displayed towards them by people of all classes
mierht well have satisfied the most ambitious expectations
of statesmen. No doubt, to a considerable extent, the
triumph was rather of a Paity than of a National charac¬
ter, but it was certainly one of which Lord Beaconsfield
may be proud, eclipsing in its splendour the homage
paid to any subject of her Majesty for many years past.
Whatitforeshadows-if, indeed, it may he regarded as
foreshadowing any serious result—this is not the proper
time to examine. We see no sufficient reason for anti¬
cipating the evils which are invariably mixed with
the good secured for us by political success. It wa,s in
the good, real or imaginary, that the crowds of English¬
men who congratulated Lord Beaconsfield on Tuesday last
found their chief impulse and justification. The British
Plenipotentiaries brought hack with them from the
Congress a Treaty signed by the Representatives of each
of the European Powers therein assembled. That Treaty
records the changes sanctioned by tho Congress in the ter¬
ritorial distribution and administrative Government of
that part of the Ottoman Empire more or less affected by
i the late Russian war. It may he looked upon as a vciy
[ o'ooo I significant modification of the preliminary Treaty of San
0-ouo I Stefano forced upon Turkey by the conquests of the Czar.
I o-ooo | We shall not compare the European with the preliminary
Turco-Russian Treaty with a view to determine the
amount of benefit the world may be expected to derive
from the substitution of the one for the other, although
the latest despatch of the Marquis of Salisbury, explana¬
tory of British policy in relation to the two, might seem
to invite dispassionate comment. The subject will pre¬
sently receive ample Parliamentary discussion, and for this
we are content to wait.
There are few amongst us, however, who will not
; appreciate the fact that such changes have been effected
| by peaceful negotiation, not by War. For the present,
the main causes of offence between nation and nation in
relation to the Eastern Question have been taken away.
I The uncertainties of the future which precluded, or, at
I any rate, greatly limited, industrial and commercial enter¬
prise, not here only, hut over the entire Continent, have
been happily removed. The threatening clouds which
aspiration—in common, wc believe, with that of amajonty
of our fellow-country men is that Englan 6 ore '
most in every really good word and wor , a s e may
steadily keep in the van of human progress, holding aloft
to other nations the torch of political and social justice,
wisdom, and generosity, and so teaching them by example
how to live. We have no ohjection to cleverness so long as
! it is confined within the boundaries of honesty aiid national
integrity. We do not shun responsibility, so long
“ S task imposed upon us is one which aims and
reasonably aims, at the elevation of our Race. We need
not care-much less supremely-to remam evermore within
merely technical hounds. Precedents have them value, nor
are they to be rudely or causelessly set aside. But it has to
he borne in mind that the world is a living world, neces¬
sarily full of movement, and needing to he guided by those
ro y canU some B acn«ce in its beta* B ».■»-
sidomtions of this kind that England wdl havoto judge
what has been accomplished by its present Govcrnmentm
the settlement of the Eastern Question. Her interests,
such as they are, we agree, ought to be suhordmate to her
honour- and her honour ought to ho idcntiaed with
motives which embrace within their ran ge the true progress
of the human family. , _ . , „
It is not to he concealed that the Treaty of Berlin,
viewed in connection with the Anglo-Tm-lash Convention
TZe 4, exhibits a tendency on the part of the Great
Powers to increase their political influence and even their
territorial possessions, if not at the expense of Minor
States, yet with something which wears the appcarance o
a cynical disregard of their not unreasonable expectations.
Russia, Austria, and England have V vo^ Lhj-the'weak;
ness of Turkey. They have given, it is true, inde
pendence to Servin, Montenegro, and Rumania,
perhaps, in tho ease of the two former a coveted
accession of land and subjects. After thus bdpmg them¬
selves they have set the Turk once more upon his legs and
have 8 exacted from him ^arantce.
for tho future. Possibly, it was all that tlic y c °
do as things now stand; and in doing thus much they
have displayed some regard to the modern principle o
nationalities. Tho tree they have planted however. can
only he judged of by its fruits. Parchment secunties are
hut little worth against natural forces. No ^ one. we s p
pose, really expects Ottoman rule, whether in Europe or
Asia, to differ essentially from what it has long been. No
amount of external pressure can get nd of htirt *^hiA
have become inveterate, nor revive faculties which hav
been suffered to run into decay. The administration of
the Sultan’s remaining dominions may perhaps he success¬
fully carried on by strangers in his name for
to come at least. But the wise purpose of ** ***
represented at Berlin will he to lie in wait, not for obtain
ing each its proportionate share of the forces which arc fall¬
ing asunder, hut to foster aliving and indigenous organism
which shall eventually and by inherent growth push them
aside. We should he expressing premature judgmuii
the case were we to say that the signatary Powers had no
such design in view, and it may be that, because rm -
mental only, such design has not been vividly expressed.
But of this we may he well assured that whatever is
merely formal, especially if unjust, which is embodied m tne
Berlin settlement of the Eastern Question will —b
have hereafter to give place to that which is equitable and
real. There is hope, however, that what is done hence¬
forth will be done peacefully; that the danger of a
European War is not likely to recur; and that the qu
tion which has for fifty years past been the dread of states-
is at length taken out of the category of things which
° , J. Ai.„ without oro-
men is at lengtn Taiten uuu ui raa ^- -
cau hardly he touched, even for the better, without pro¬
voking international appeals to the sword.
Mr. Bouch. C.E., Edinburgh, has received instructions to
prepare working drawings for the proposed bridge across the
Forth at Que. usferry. The span height will be 135ft. (msteaa
of 150 ft., as at first- suggested) provided the Go . v ^ " fc ' .
eent. The bridge will be on the suspension principle, havmg
two lattice girder spans, each about 1100 The
will be supported midway on the island of Inch^a- -
I promoters have obtained power from Parliament to guarantee
f ____ Sfir, non
JULY 20, 1878
the illustrated
the COURT.
On Thursday the 11th inst. the Royal rlinno* ,
Princess Christian, Princess Beatrice the Duke X r- lnclud ed
the Duchess of Roxburghe, the Ho n H ar r £ P, t;0Una H ght >
Elphinstone, Colonel the Hon. H. ByngXid Ca»toi£ P Af L ° rd
Fitzgerald (Equerry to the Duke of Connauehtl P TL ^ Iau ” ce
^r t s t r m Gu " d ’ pl “ jed iuihe
uSS^&Bsrjsrssi sssrc*
(Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland! arriv^ n? 088 ?
the Hon. H. Byng.Equenyin W«Sting me? 1 tSi
nesses at the railway station in Windsor and attaSdS^i? h *
to the castle. The Queen, accompanied’hT\> , att «nded them
attended by the ladies and gentlemen in taiti^g^Scmved the
Grand Duke and Grand Duchess at the entrance of+>, d ,e
The Maharajah of Johore and Tunkoo Othmun arriv^f
castle. They were introduced to her Maiestv’s ™p ^ afc , the
audience by the Right Hon. Sir M. Hicks-Beach P Th C r- at
Duke of Hesse went to London, and wSoresei;. J
baU at Buckingham Palace. present at the state
The Grand Duke of Hesse returned tn ~
Saturday last, and ill the afternoon hiTRoyal Hi'hi!?.? 1 ' ?a
the Grand DocW left for
Firs i
fein ’OSSfS »« “• oS
Windsor in the evening L ° Udon > and ^turned to
The Queen and Princess Beatrice attend P d
^T? 0 i?^ Vate cbap<d of castle. The Rev Alfred Rarrv°
D.D., Principal of King’s College Loudon nnd r Barry J
Worcester, officiated. Princess Christian visited her Majesty
SedTS^Z^' C0l °“ d th0 E * b ‘ H- F.S^
Princess Louise of Lome and the Marquis of Lome arrived
Prince and Princess \ ^ a ?, ai sIlrssFs^
Beatrice, the Marquis of Lome, ’the Duchess of knrw'f 8
Colonel the Hon. C. Lindsay, and Colonel G. A. Maude The
played after b “
^Xr^
Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and Princesses
Ella, Irene, Alix, and Marie of Hesse visited the (jnpm !i
remained to luncheon. Her iSiStv^d PrineeS l? + a “ d
^sttedJIr.ChMies Turner’s Nursery Gardens at Slough . & Tta
Lord President of the Council and the Duchess of Richmond
and Gordon, Sir Charles L. Wyke, Envoy Extraordhmn and
Minister Plenipotentiary at Copenhagen on dYvTri y «
WM.« .hd theHouAfre. Wellesley dhled with tjie (£
on wS"' ° f &J “ bur F 1,,d “ audience of her®Ifnjeety
w.tod 6 ,2S TC ront Mir mbe ™ °' 41,0 *** hM
Her Majesty has contributed £100 to the fund in aid of the
sufferers by the Haydock Colliery explosion
vJ; 0rd u N f 0rt °^ haS been t0 Madrid as her Majesty’s Special
Envoy Extraordinary to attend the funeral services tor the
SthfeVoflS. to C ° nVey h6r Maje8ty ' 8 cond olenccs
Messrs. Howell and James have submitted for her Maiestv’s
a 8cle . ctl ? n of Prize works from their third annual
exhibition of pamtmgs on china by lady amateurs.
Lady Waterpark and the Hon. Amy Lambart have suc¬
ceeded the Duchess of Roxburghe and the Hon. Harriett
Phipps as Lady and Maid of Honour in Waiting. Major C
E. Phipps has succeeded Colonel the Hon. C Lindsav as
8TATE BALL
LONDON NEWS
The^rm^Uie^nd^and^Tf 15 ^ 110 ^ 8 ° F HESSE -
Buckingham Palace on Kut,? Bu . cbe88 of Hesse arrived at
Prince Ernest and Princessesvlctori^ 1 vu™ T Windsor Castle.
Mary of Hesse arrived *f° m > tUa - I«?ne, Alix, and
nesses, with th e 7r^dSXX The * High-
afternoon at a garden partvat mSu? ’ « pre8ent “ the
with the Duke SndfDucW of S? gh ^use, and dined
and Grand DuchessVentto , r The Grand Duke
present at a reriew of ^ £ 0nday ’ and were
accompanied by Prince Ernest JnR *{ be £ Ro ^ al Highnesses,
were present a/agXden^Sy T Hesse ’
noon ; they dined with thepL! H1 T nd House m the after-
Marlborough Itousea^ and Princess of Wales at
Italian Opera, *S the
panied by Ihince Ernest 'fi,f p • nd Duche ss, aceom-
the Queen on Tuesd,^ ^3*5? P 5 nce “« of Hesse, visited
Duchess visited the ISuchT? rfrS Duke and Grand
Palace, and dined with the Prifn.™^ 6 at St ’ Jam es’s
Marlborough House The GwmJnn H P P?, ces8 of Wales at
Hesse visited th? Prince J D , uke Duchess of
Hereditary Grand Duke S the SSf 8 ° n ^effiiesday. The
to Marlborough House The CrmJd rf^f 8 ° f * Ie8Se also went
of Westminster at the the Dean
Louiae and the
WaMe^S," 1 ,^ 0Wh «»»4
dinner at Strawberry HUL “ ^ th their preseuce at
W<SMa^ey e Mi 0, “ OUght W “‘ *° °” Mt «
Duchess y was present and SSbutS the^ 6 The
festival in commemoration of thn tb0 at the sumr ner
Mary Village Homes on t2 IHh ^ ° f the Princ888
Addlestonef Surrey. ^ llta mat - at the institution at
Affairs, taS ^
51
E ‘ rl “ dc “"“-
DlAIL DAluLi.
By command of the Queen a State Ball was given yesterday
week at Buckingham Palace. The Prince and Princess of
Wales arrived at thepalace from Marlborough House attended
gCL* SU Th/r d bya detachment of the 1st L^e
m ' u Th c. G ^ and Duke of Hesse, the Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg.Strehtz, Prince and Princess Christa? of
Schleswig-Holstein, the Duke of Connaught, the Duke S
AT?7 e dg nAmh d th f 7 UCheS8 ° f TeCk Were P resent at the baU.
me&ent TW- ° f f ° reign persous of distinction were also
£d ^ng commenced upon the entrance of the Prince
the sSSn S ’ WltL th0 ° th0r Iioyal Personages, into
P ” nce88 of Wales wore a dress of rich black silk
cSfe 1 to B r U8Se 8 “a studded with Jet and single diamonds ;
oSenS-^" e8p0 V d ' Head-dress—a tiara of diamonds.
i?i7 ( mmOI i C « Orders-Victoria and Albert, the
wn of India, and the Danish family order.
t.t,™ ce ? 8 Christian wore a dress of white satin and black
dress-’aTiam^dr Bnis ^ el8 la , c f Und whita tiger lilies. Head
E brooch and m0nd8 a ? d bu , tterf ly- Ornaments-a neck-
“ .d/iu'”! 1 ^ °‘ opal9 and diamonds. Orders-
nndGoth^r d Al^rt, the Crown of India, the Saxe-Coburg
Portugese. rU88Ian f0rC,ire of the Wounded, and thf
rpi„ p . THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES
purpo-Tof vLitin U l e8 M We ?? t ^ Bristo1 yesterday week for the
Hislioval th f lt °/ a } A P ricu 'tnral Society’s Show.
Kin^scotel imd 8 M, eSS u ? cbed with the president (Colonel
London in thp t le nicmb ^ 8 of the council, and returned to
Prince and Prin D ^\r T ^u Duke of Connaught visited the
and %7*l M ™ lb Z™ 8 K noll3e « a t«rday last,
garden party d a t Marlbimimh V*™ Roy ^ Hi ^ hneS8CS & ave a
Queen, at Jhieh all X S R H T lSe 111 the at .ternoon to the
very W e mS.1.7 # Koyid Parsonages in town and a
The band of th« i g fwf1- S ° ns , ot diBt inction were present.
Consort? SU) tmder MXM f 0 Rifl0 Brigade (Prince
Bohemian hind ^d 01 Mr. Muller, and the Hungarian-
the International P™£ Austro-Hungiirian Section of
and Princess aemmXni^dulntaon, performed. The Prince
went to Aldershotf oX? Pnnct r Houia of Battenburg,
was held under th* M ° nday ^ witness the review which
«tsele, and afterlXd comraand of General Sir Thomas
Louise nf in af terward B retiu-ned to London. Princes
House, and r?ma?n 1 ed fid to t h Cir ? 0yal H j ghnesses at Marlborough
were luncheon. The Prince and Princess
were present hwim' J io luncheon - The Prince and Princes
Holland at Holland Hon?° n a V l .g ard o» party given by Lady
the Royal Italian Onlr„n’ ^ the evenin g they went to
nesses were pre enX Covent -Carden. Their Royal High-
Chapel, of Lord marriage on Tuesday, at Whitehall
eldest daughterof the Hon ’ Cecilia Harbord,
The Prince left
M the l iat r eQ d ec?of t Spai r n Pre8ented tLe ?rince at the funeral
from thePrinceas of Imr^v^w- v“ receive(1 an intimation
Pany the Prince on the ^ yal . Hlgbn 1 e8B 8 intention to accom-
®t°ne of the new lds ^ing the memorial-
August next. cb Mary, Southampton, in
—-™»uiwowuana.
s?ssgH:lstli
Tyrolese singers, under the direction o7lLf Solan? Ig ^***
. fashionable MARRIAOES.
Christian of sjehi g °’ Pr mp e Leopold, Prince and Princess
V f
b K r -d the H ° n ' Rupert Carington, officiated as beTman"
The bnde was accompanied and 6 given away by her fatoer'
Her dress was of white silk, trimmed with erdpe and oW
wm h fS£S a to ttS®? laC n Vei1 ’ j X reac hingtoth P shoulders,
was Listened to the hair by a diamond bird. Her iewels
were a necklace of pearls, a diamond and pearl bracelet the
present of the Princess of Wales, and diamond bracelets’and
pendant, the bridegroom’s gifts.’ hXS sisters were “e
b "df m ajd?-namely, the Hon. Alice Marian ESeth
Judith, Winifred, Eleanor, and Bridget Harbord. Their
^fafoh 8 X rC ° f i W X e spotted muslin, and muslin hats to
match, trimmed with sprigs of lilies of the valley. Twelve
non-commu'smned officers and men of Lord Carington’s reS
£>!?’ h ?, R ° yal Horse Gaard 3, in full uniform, were stationed
between the pews on each side of the chupel. The ceremonv
toTlFv P med T 7 t he , ReV - P>ancis J - Hollmid, assisted by
, tbe Canon Luckock and the Rev. W. Erskine Knollvs y
I he Pnnce of Wales and the Duke of Cumbridge attested the
register. The wedding party left the chapel for Lord Suffield’s
residence in Upper Grosvenor-street, where a party of relatives
and friends assembled. At five o’clock Lord and Lady
Carington left by the Great Northern Railway for Peter-
Th»°i f h ’ ° n t lClr ' Va , y ! 1 0 B "leythorpu, to pass the honeymoon.
The Queen presented the bride with an Indian shawl, and she
family CC1Ved glf fr ° m m08t of the members of the Royal
The marriage between Mr. George Newton and Lady Alice
Cochrame will take place on the 27th inst., at St. Peter’s
A^«n?nn? a T° n i' 8q M^ 0 ' j o h f Between Viscount
Novembe? Lady Mddred Coke is arranged to take place in
Marriages are arranged between the Hon. Richard Strutt,
second son of the late Lord Rayleigh, and the Hon. Augusta
Neville, only child of Lord and Lady Braybrooke ; between
Sir Lambton Lorarne, Bart., Captain Royal Navy, and Miss
Frederica Broke; between Mr. Fowke, eldest son of Sir
Frederick Fowlie, Bart., of Lowesby Hall, Leicester, and
Miss Eva Conant, daughter of Mr. Couant, of Lyndon Hall
Rutland; and between Major Dugdale, of the Rifle Brigade,’
and Edith, second daughter of Mr. and Lady Charlotte
Montgomery.
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
P n rk r 'on a MS Uel . Kinn , 8 ’ Principal of the College, Highbury New
M‘L«iX M S p a ffi U oXlow ga 5. ering at „ thc house of Mr.
Stansfelrl mt Helen fay lor, Mr. Courtney, M.P., and Mr
Stansfeld, M.P., were also amongst the speakers
Education Denartmenfti^ qae , nce ° f a communication from the
■—is
a decrease 187 °-’ these show
Wednesday whs Apposition Day at St. Paul’s School—Air
A handsome cup, valued at two hundred guineas (executed
by Messrs. Pegler Brothers, of Norwich) has been presented by
the Mayor, the Sheriff, and the citizens of Norwich, and the
residents of Norfolk, to Colonel Massy and the officers of the
5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, “ In appreciation of the exemplary
conduct of the regiment during its stay among them, and in
grateful remembrance of the many benefits conferred by it
upon the city and its institutions.”
The acoustic properties of the Royal Albert Hall were put
w an important teBt on Wednesday evening, when Mr. S.
Brandram, the well-known reader, gave a dramatic recital
accompanied by music, to a large audience. The programme
afforded him opportunities for the display of his skid in the
interpretation of all varieties of sentiment and passion
comprising selections from “As You Like It,” “Henry V ”’
“Julius Caesar,” together with Mr. Tennyson’s ballad of the
fleet, “The Revenge,” and Lord Macaulay’s “Lay of
Horatius.” The recital had the additional advantage of
musical illustration, the members of the London Vocal Union
singing several part-songs with taste and spirit, and Miss
Anna Williams winning much applause for her excellent ren¬
dering of “Who is Silvia?” “Hark! hark! the Lark,” and
“Where the bee sucks.” Mr. Sydney Naylor was organist
and conductor. The acoustic properties of the hall sustained
satisfactorily the severe test to which they were put, eveiy
word, whether sung or spoken, being heard distinctly.
organised by the committee of the Band of Hum Union mul
sstHAsrss. sft.*!his £■
Oaul wliw^' >'1 »hich Admiral Sir William King Hidl
"“SkpSk cl Morl0) '’ M - r -’ “ d Ml A -
is Cieopatra’s Needle has reached what will most likclv be its
to^rna' *t’ -^^l^X^'^d^ h^h^dd^^o^lotlM^Timber^Xas
the i a edStol^nd C wh 4 w is uow 8Cvera l inches above
paasttlJ - a ’ ld when elevated to about thirty feet above it
bmug£? 0 “ i “ t b? * he Ce “ to ’ riU b »
At a meeting of the Court of Common Council on Thursday
inlTuSl? Mh Um £ UBly ’ “ That 1116 fTeed om of the City^
in a suitable gold box, be presented to the Earl of Beaconsfield
£v a e tofo.? 2f h , igh respect which thecitizens of London
severanX mH ?" 80 ma ^ J ears ba8 with patience, pe?
for the welfiie n e 5 ercise d bla 8»»t abilities and talLts
be i . of hls country, and in testimony of this
Court s appreciation of the genius and power with which he
tajjapwmW nation at theVent BerS Con!
gress, the peaceful results of which this Court earnestly trusts
™ C resoS e th° r t TH y T S t0 COme ” At flKS&Stt
teSed oXl orKlf? r ccdom of the City should be also con-
d # F- ■ Salisbury in testimony of the Court’s apprecia-
u f blS i aajment services and important work undertaken
and brought to a successful issue at the recent Confess
was a large gathering of London Board School
chil^en at the Crj-stal Palace last Saturday, when 4000 bibles
and testaments-presented by Mr. Francis Peek and tlm
Rehgious Iract Society-were distributed to children for pro¬
ficiency in scriptural subjects. About 3000 children took part
in a concert on the Handel Orchestra, and nearly 30 P 000
l fhTwTIX m the , l alace ' Sir Charles Reed, in the course of
nfXTwnX 88 ? ^ ttld , that l88 .°°0 children daily heard a portion
[ of the Word of God read to them. Not one child in 40U0 had
been withdrawn from the board schools on account of thfc
rehgious instruction given, with the exception of the children
XT T “ mplahlt had retiched the board from
i who had objected to the instruction .-A public
T Cd y , est ^ day week in connection with thoopen-
mgof schools in the Caledonian-road, Islington—Sir Charles
thecirtl^Af^W T ? Tiding is in the main road, close to
a b f n i Catt i Market and will accommodate 1150 children. The
S? to £11 Olfi 6 8 rf an M° UI ? to uud that of the build-
*° -MLOiO.—On Monday schools were opened in Hen-
netta-street.. Oxford-street—the chair being taken by Sir
Charles Reed. The area of the site comprises 13,340 square-
feet, at a total cost of £16,702; while that of the buildim-
amounts to £8491, making a total of £25,193. The buildinc
wdl accommodate 181 boys, 188 girls, and 204 infants. g
rJS ^ ere 2394 births and 1589 deaths registered in
London last week Allowing lor increase of population, the
births exceeded by 65, and the deaths by 93, the average
numbers in the corresponding week of the last ten years
Ihere were 85 deaths from whooping-cough, which, although
showmg a marked decline from the numbers in recent weeks
exceeded the corrected average by 38. The deaths referred to
diarrhmu, which had been 23,72, and 145 in the three preceding
weeks, further rose to 249, and exceeded the corrected weekly
average by 53 ; they included 195 of infants under one yew
ot age, and 39 of children aged between one and five years
Ihe deaths of 4 infants und of 3 adults were referred to choleraic
diarrhoea or simple cholera. The deaths from smallpox, which
had been 38 and 19 in the two previous weeks, further declined
to 11 last week, which were 13 below the corrected averacu
in the corresponding week of the last ten years. There wire
16 deaths from measles, 20 from scarlet fever, 8 from
diphtheria, and 19 from different forms of fever. In Greater
London 2927 births and 1871 deaths were registered In
the Outer Ring smallpox caused 4 deaths in West Ham Strat¬
ford, and Leyton; and in the same sub-districts 6 ’deaths
resulted from whooping-cough, 6 from diarrhoea, 3 from
measles, 1 from diphtheria, and 1 from fever. The mean tom
perature of the air was 6P9dtg., being 0 3 deg. below the
average of the corresponding week of the sixty years 1814-73
The mean showed a small excess on Sunday, Monday an.i
Tuesday, but was below the average on the three followin'*
days. The duration of registered sunshine was 33 3 hours
the sun being above the horizon during 113 8 hours. ’
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS, July 20, 1S78. —.*2
ylEWS
I N
CYPRUS
LARNACA, THE MODERN PORT OP CYPRU8.
1'llOM A DKAVING II* U. llAHi'Ell.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, July 20, 1878.— 53
MR. ERNEST CROFTS, A.R.A. MR. FRANK BOLL, A.R.A.
NEW ASSOCIATES OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
Mr. Frank Holl, a son of the eminent engraver, was bom
in July, 1845. He was educated at University College, London.
In 1861 he entered the schools of the Royal Academy, and
gained, next year, the medal for drawing from the Antique ;
in 1863, the gold medal for Historical Painting, and that for
Life Drawing. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1864; and next, “The Ordeal,” in 1866; but in 1868
gained the Travelling Studentship with a picture entitled
“The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away,” which
was exhibited in 1869. His other works exhibited in sub¬
sequent years were “The Village Funeral,” 1872; “A
Seat in a Railway Station,” 1873; “Deserted,” 1874; “Her
First-bom,” 1876; “Going Home,” 1877; and “Newgate
Gaol,” in the present year’s exhibition. He has also exhibited,
at the rooms of Mr. Wallis and of Mr. Tooth, the pictures
entitled “Want—her poverty but not her will consents;”
“Doubtful Hope;” and “Gone—The Emigrants’ Departure.”
Mr. Ernest Crofts was bom at Leeds on Sept. 15, 1847. He
is son of Mr. John Crofts, J.P., of Adel, near Leeds, and
grandson of the late Rev. W. Crofts, B.D., Vicar of
North Grimston, near Malton; he is also nephew to
the late Rev. William Carr, B.D., of Bolton Abbey, in the
county of York. He was educated at Rugby School, and,
after remaining there several years, went to Berlin, where he
had more leisure to develop his artistic tastes. He then
removed to London, and studied here some years as a pupil
under the late Mr. A. B. Clay. He afterwards went to Diissel-
dorf, and there became a pupil of Herr Hiinten, the well-
known military painter to the Emperor of Germany. Mr.
Ernest Crofts now resides at Diisseldorf.
EARL GRANVILLE LAYING THE FOUNDATION-STONE OF THE
NEW WING, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GOWER-STREET.
1LLUSTKATED LONDON NEWS_
JULY 20, 1878
Among Mr. Croft’s pictj^es^from^p^de in
in London, are the Rowing . ^ - cture to attract the
the German-French War, the n P confirmed the
attention of the few. The ^ofts the country had
opinion of connoisseurs thatm • , , order and they
acquired a battle-painter of the very ( hghest orde^, aa^ ^
pointed to his stirring picture o£ mtSconsulting a map
exhibited Napoleon seated, outindearottag““^e^oUow-
“ On the Morning of the Battle of Waterio . d
Fradelle, of Regent-street.
The music was directed by
the occasion was
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.
This institution for the higher education ofyoungtnen^ated
in Gower-strect, near Euston-square,« one of the two U»Uege
in London (King’s College, •^ff’SSSSS offSg tftiie
being the other), whxchw^the JLpany
^”mblSbe^o<md, 0 » Vvtmt * College to -jtaegthe
works of the kind. Additions have been made to the original
structure from time to time, one of the most recent being
south wine which sprang out of the Slade bequest for the
encouragement of the teaching of art. But the necessity for
furtherlinlargement has long been evident to those acquainted
with the practical working of the College, ^henew ertons^
will architecturally be in unison with the original idea, witn
such modifications and deviations as may be necessary to meet
modem reqSrements. It is intended first to continue the
north wing to the boundary of the street, and ultimately to
prolong the southern or Slade wing to the same ]hmit. About
£100,000 will be needed to complete these important additions.
The architect is Professor Hayter Lewis.
The ceremony of laying the first stone was performed in a
small inclosed space covered with crimson cloth, and protected
from the sun by an awning at the north-east comer ofthe
buBding. Earl Granville having taken up his place in front
of the stone, Mr. Goschen, M.P., read, on behalf of the
counril, a statement detaffing the history of the college from
its foundation, and the additions made from time to time up to
the present day. The result had, it was said, been highly satis¬
factory in every respect; but, to meet the requirements of the
age, it became necessary to increase the budding accom¬
modation. To complete the buddings on the original design
and provide for extension the councd had no budding fund
and no endowment to fad back upon. They had never
received any subsidy or gift, whether in land or money, from the
State, while numerous splendid gifts had been made by pnvate
persons. Funds amounting in the whole to about £200,000
had been given to the codege for special purposes, about one
half being held in tmst for the hospital, and by far the
greater part of the remainder for the endowment of scholar¬
ships and prizes, and of a very few of the professorships. The
prospect of an increase, with larger buddings, in the cost of
management, and other claims, must prevent the councd from
charging their limited income with the interest and sinking-
fund of a heavy budding debt. The councd were, therefore,
determined to appeal to the munificence of those interested in
the promotion of the cause of education. A copy of this
report was deposited in a bottle, together with a plan of the
extension, a London University Calendar, and a copy of two
London dady papers; after which Earl Granvdle laid the
stone in the usual manner. His Lordship made some pleasant
remarks, and proposed three cheers for the past and present
prosperity of the codege, in hopes that it might be maintained
and increased in th<* future. The cheers were given with great
cordiality, and this terminated the ceremony. A luncheon was
afterwards served in a large tent erected for the occasion in
front of the codege, Earl Granvdle presiding; about 400
persons were present. The chief speakers at the table were
Lord Belper, President of University Codege Councd; Mr. R.
Lowe, M.P.; Lord Kimberley, Dean Stanley, and Professor
Huxley. The Councd has lately decided to admit female
students to classes in ad the subjects of the Faculties of Arts,
Law, and Science, as the degrees of London University are
now thrown open to women.
Dutch, and Swiss performers.
M CressonnoiB, and the president on
successfully passed her second examination at the Sojbmine.
This entitles Miss Had to the University diploma of Bachelor
° f A^far^vd/banquet was given at the Continental Hotel on
Sunday (M. De Lesseps in the chair) to Lieutenant B |ard, who
is about to start for a scientific trip round the world with a
party of younTmen, French, Russian, German Belgian, and
Swiss. Mr. Stanley was among the company. 1 he Junon leaves
Marsedles bound for Gibraltar Buenos Ayres, Cape Horn,
San Francisco, Japan, China, and India, returning by Suez.
A serious strike has broken out in the coal-mming distnct
of Anzin, and it is feared that 5000 men will soon be onstnke.
There have been some conflicts between the men on strike and
the soldiers, and several arrests have been made.
Official advices have beei} received in Paris confirming tne
report of a native rising and the massacre of eighty-nine
pereons in New Caledonia. The Governor telegraphs, how¬
ever, that he is now master of the situation.
SPAIN.
King Alfonso gave audience on Tuesday to the special
Envoys from foreign Courts who went to Madrid to represent
their respective Sovereigns at the funeral obsequies of the late
Queen Mercedes. The funeral of the Queen took place on
Wednesday in the Church of San Francisco. The nave, which
was occupied by a vast crowd, numbering about 4000 persons,
was lighted by 400 lustres and 1000 candles. Among those
present were the Presidents of the two Chambers of the Cortes,
the grand dignitaries of State, and the Ambassadors of
foreign countries. The Archbishop of Toledo, assisted by nine
Bishops, celebrated the Requiem Mass, which was chanted by
a choir of fifty professional singers. The funeral oration was
delivered by the Bishop of Salamanca. The service lasted
three hours. _
PORTUGAL.
The President of the Council of Ministers has returned from
his journey through the northern provinces. He was every¬
where received with popular enthusiasm.
BELGIUM.
The King, after spending the week at Ostend, returned to
Laeken last Saturday evening.
A Royal decree, dated the 15th inst., has been published
summoning an extraordinary session of the Belgian Senate or,H
Chamber of Deputies to meet on the 23rd inst.
HOLLAND.
Favourable news has been received by the Government
from Acheen, to the effect that the bands of marauding
Acheenese had evacuated the countiy they had invaded
previously to the arrival of the Dutch reinforcements.
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
The first grand English concert was given on Wednesday
in the Trocadero at Paris. The Prince of Wales, Marshal
Macmahon, and the Duchess of Magenta were present. The
concert, which was imder the direction of Mr. Arthur
Sullivan and Mr. Henry Leslie, terminated with the “ Salvum
fac Reginam,” followed by the English National Anthem.
All the company present remained standing during the
performance of this last piece, and turned towards the Prince
of Wales.
An action brought by Prince Louis Napoleon against the
Siecle newspaper for defamation of his father was tried in
Paris on Wednesday. The libel consisted in the assertion that
the late Emperor had fraudulently increased his revenues by
selling State lands and woods. A verdict was given against
the Sitclc, with 2000f. fine.
The mixed jury of the fine-art section of the International
Exhilition have made their selection of twelve painters who
are to receive medals of honour. The list comprises five
Frenchmen—MM. Bouguereau, Cabanal, Framjais, Gerihne,
and Meissonnier; two Englishmen—Messrs. Ilerkomer and
Millais; two Austrians—Herr Makart and Metejko; one
Hungarian—Herr Munkaczy; one Spaniard—Senor Pradilla;
and one Russian—M. Siemiradski.
M. Pemette, the Republican senator for Macon, is dead.
Two elections were held in France last Sunday—at Guin-
champ, in the Cotes du Nord, and at Rochelle. In the former
the Prince de Lucinge, the unseated Bonapartist, allowed his
Republican opponent to walk over the course. In the latter
M. Fournier, also an unseated Bonapartist, was defeated by
M. Barbedette, Republican. This brings up the strength of
the Left in the Chamber to 380.
The centenary of Rousseau and the anniversary of the fall
of the Bastille were celebrated in Paris on Sunday by a meeting
at Myers’s Circus. M. Louis Blanc was the principal speaker.
There was an immense crowd assembled last Sunday after¬
noon in the gardens of the Tuileries to hear a monster concert
by singing associations. About 700 of the latter were inscribed,
the performers numbering 22,000, and comprising Belgian,
GERMANY.
The physicians of the Emperor William have announced
that no further bulletins will be issued, as his Majesty is
gradually, though slowly, recovering.
Prince Bismarck having left Berlin for Kissingen, Count
Stolberg, the Vice-President of the Prussian Cabinet, has been
appointed to take charge of the various functions of the
Chancellor during his absence from the capital.
In recognition of his Minister’s successful efforts to Becure
a pacific issue to the Congress, the German Emperor has pre¬
sented hiB lifesize portrait to Prince Bismarck. The portrait
is a famous work of art by Herr Winterhalter. ,
The Crown Prince had a conference with Prince Bismarck
on Monday afternoon.
The Berlin Congress held its twentieth and final sitting last
Saturday, when the new treaty was signed by all the Pleni¬
potentiaries. It consists of sixty-four clauses. After the
formal business of the Congress was finished, Prince Bismarck
gave a closing address, in which he said that the Congress had
deserved well of Europe, and history would do justice to their
intentions and their work. The result, he added, could not
be diminished by any criticism of which party spirit might
inspire the publication. Count Andrassy then thanked Prince
Bismarck in the name of the Congress for the services he had
rendered in bringing its great work to a satisfactory issue, and
also expressed the gratitude of the Plenipotentiaries for the
kindness and hospitality shown by the German Emperor and
the Imperial family. To this Prince Bismarck made a brief
reply, and the Congress was at an end. In the evening a
banquet was given in the White Hall of the Royal Palace, at
which all the Plenipotentiaries were present except Lord
Beaconsfleld and Prince Gortschakoff. The company num¬
bered 170. There was only one toast, which was proposed by
the Crown Prince, who drank in his father's name to the health
of the Sovereigns and Governments who had that day signed
the Treaty of Berlin. “ The understanding,” he said, “which
has just been established will be a new pledge of peace and
public weal. The assistance of Germany is secured beforehand
in all tending to assure and preserve these great blessings.”
Before the banquet the Plenipotentiaries were received by the
Empress, and took leave of the Crown Prince and Princess.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
Herr Tisza, the President of the Hungarian Ministry, gave
an address on Monday to his constituents at Debreczin, in
which he defended the foreign policy of the Government, and
said its object had been to ensure that the whole of Europe
should determine the destinies of the East. No one, he said,
could dispute the great moral triumph achieved, by means of
which Russia had been compelled at the bidding of Europe to
renounce a considerable portion of the conditions of peace she
had exacted from Turkey by the Treaty of San Stefano. The
occupation of Bosnia and the Herzegovina, M. Tisza said, had
become necessary in order to counteract the continuous growth
of Panslavism, by which Hungary, before all, was menaced.
ROUMANIA.
The Parliament was closed on Wednesday with a message
from the Prince, who says that his country has been called
upon to make sacrifices in order that the Berlin Congress might
preserve the peace of Europe. As soon as the effect of those
portions of the treaty which concern Roumania are known
another session will be convoked.
M. Bratiano, the Premier, has met with an accident.
While driving, his carriage was upset, and he was seriously
mBUred ’ AMERICA.
President Hayes has removed Messrs. Arthur and Connell,
respectively the collector and naval officer at New York, from
their posts, and has appointed Messrs. Merrett and Burt as
their successors. .
General Miles has, according to a Washington telegram of
Tuesday’s date, driven the hostile Indians into the mountains.
Seven hundred troops are now concentrated at Wallula, a
eufficient force, it is believed, to subdue the Indians.
Extraordinary heat prevails in the Western States: 150
cases of sunstroke occurred on Monday at St. Louis, fifty of
which proved fatal. A telegram from New York on Thursday
states teat the extraordinary heat continues, the thermometer
ranging from 95 to 103 deg. Fahrenheit. Numerous deaths from
sunstroke are reported from the principal cities. There were
nine fatal cases at Chicago on Wednesday, and 135 have
occurred at St. Louis within tee week.
CANADA.
Lord Dufferin has accepted an extension of his appoint¬
ment as Governor-General of Canada, the privilege being
granted in deference to tee wishes of tee people of the
An Orange demonstration was threatened at Montreal for
“ the glorious 12th of July,” and there was much preliminary
alarm and some squabbling as to jurisdiction between
municipal and military officials. The Mayor, by proclamation,
forbade an intended procession of Orangemen, and, to carry
out his order, police, special constables, and troops were posted.
A steamer coming horn Quebec with a number of armed
roughs was searched. In the end the Mayor made himself
master of the situation, without bloodshed or any serious out¬
break. He arrested several Orangemen for the purpose of
testing tee legality of the Orange organisation, while he pro¬
tected their hall. The police partially cleared the streets. The
Orangemen gave in. On Friday the crowd attacked some men
of the Sherbrooke and Richmond militia as they were leaving
Montreal for home. The soldiers fired fifty shots without
orders, and the mob took to flight after two persons had been
wounded. General Smyth, the commander of the troops, has
ordered tee men who fired to be arrested The Orangemen on
Tuesday took no steps to carry out ther alleged intention of
dedicating the monument to Hackett
Mr. Chandler, a member of the Legislative Council, has
been appointed Governor of New Brunswick. The new
Government is now completed.
PERU.
The Don brings advices from Panama to June 21.
The Panama Star and Herald says that a new Peruvian
Ministry has been formed, as follows:—Minister of the Interior,
Dr. Loayza ; Minister of Justice, Dr. Pazos; Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Dr. Trigozen; Minister of War and Marine, General
Lacotera; Minister of Finance, Sefior Carmaga. No reason is
given for the resignation of the former Ministry.
THE CAPE COLONIES.
Tuesday night’s Gazette contains a despatch from
Lieutenant-General Thesiger, commanding the troops in
South Africa, respecting the war with the Kaffirs. The
despatch says that the war may now be considered at an end.
“Elements of disturbance will no doubt exist for sometime
to come,” it adds, “but these can be more efficiently met by
police patrols than by the action of military bodies.”
The troubles in the Transvaal, however, show no signs of
decreasing. Lieutenant-General Thesiger proposes to proceed
to Cape Town for a short time previous to proceeding to Natal
and the Transvaal, where he believes his presence to be neces¬
sary. Captain Carrington has been appointed to the com¬
mand of the volunteers in the Transvaal. Severe fighting
occurred on June 22 at Largebeck, on the northern border, in
which the rebels were defeated, with a loss of thirty-four
killed. The KamaB tribe was disarmed, and the two sons of
the late chief Seyolo were wounded. The tribe has been
dispersed.
The bill for laying a telegraph cable to the Cape by way of
Aden, Zanzibar, and Natal has passed its second reading in
the Cape Parliament.
Mr. Miller made his financial statement on June 18,
announcing a deficit of £175,000 during the past year. The
deficit for the coming year is estimated at £205,000, and will
be met by new taxes. The expenditure on account of the war
up to June 30 is estimated at £750,000, to meet which the
Government has introduced a bill authorising the issue of a
new loan to the amount of £1,000,000.
Sir William Jervois, G.C.M.G., has left England for
Adelaide, to assume the governorship of South Australia.
Great fires, supposed to be due to incendiaries, are raging
throughout a large district of Thessaly. The harvest, which
had been gathered in, is completely destroyed.
The recent report of the death of the Emperor of Morocco
is now authoritatively contradicted. His Majesty has been
dangerously ill, but he has recovered.
Sir Garnet Wolseley arrived at Malta on Wednesday, on
his way to Cyprus, accompanied by Sir Adrian Dingle, who
is to assist him in the administration.
A Daily News' telegram from Rome announces the death of
Signor Aleardo Aleardi, a senator of the Italian kingdom, and
one of the most distinguished of contemporary Italian poets.
The small Swiss town of Leuk was almost destroyed by fire
on Tuesday, the church and many houses being burned down.
Leuk is a Bernese commune, with 2500 inhabitants, situated
some 3400 feet above the sea level.
It was stated in our last issue that Princess Salm Salm, the
well-known authoress, had died at Wurzburg. The Cologne
Gazette, in which the statement originated, now announces that
the death has befallen, not the lady mentioned, but Princess
Salm, aged seventy-three.
A Bluebook of 424 pages has been issued containing the
official correspondence respecting the Halifax Fisheries Com¬
mission. The despatches range in date from Aug. 27, 1875, to
May 30,1878. They are followed by the protocols of the Com¬
mission. An appendix, which occupies the greater part of the
volume, gives the case of the British Government, the answer
on the part of the United States Government, the brief of that
Government, the replies to it, and the speeches of counsel,
including the final arguments.
The Pope held a Consistory on Monday, at which his
Holiness nominated a number of Bishops. Mgr. Daniel
M‘Carthy was appointed Bishop of Kerry, and Mgr. Racine
Bishop of Chicontima, in Canada. His Holiness read a secret
allocution to the Cardinals respecting the relations of the Holy
See with various Powers, and, indicating the line of conduct
he intended to pursue, asked them whether it met with their
approval. Several priests are, it is stated, shortly to be sent
by the Vatican to Bosnia and the Herzegovina, in order to
establish Catholic parishes and dioceses in the provinces.
JULY 20, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
55
THE WIMBLEDON MEETING.
Fine weather, good shooting, and freehanded hospitality
delightfully dispensed have mode this year’s Wimbledon Meeting
remarkably successful and enjoyable to marksmen and visitors
alike. Begun under favourable auspices onMonday,the Sthinst.,
the Wimbledon Fortnight will, it is to be hoped, be brought
to as pleasant a close this (Saturday) afternoon by the dis¬
tribution of the prizes, a ceremony the interest of which will
be enhanced by reason of the Duke of Connaught presiding on
the occasion.
It will be as well at the outset to complete the record of
the competition for the Queen’s Prize, shot for this July with
the Martini-Henry at every stage. The tie between Sergeant
Lamont, 1st Edinburgh, Private Lowe, Queen’s (Westminster)
and Corporal Mullineaux, 40th Lancashire, who had each made
an aggregate score of 95 out of a possible 105 at the three
ranges of 200, 500, and 600 yards in the first stage
of the Queen’s Prize, was shot off yesterday week at
the 600 yards’ carton targets, each competitor being allowed
three shots, and each adopting the back position in firing.
Lamont fired first, but failed to hit the target. Mullineaux
shot next, and made an outer, scoring two. Lowe let off his
rifle almost on the instant he had settled himself in position,
and a loud cheer was given as the dummy target slowly rose
bearing the red disc marking an inner, counting four. When
the real target came up again the patch on it marking the
exact position of the shot showed that the bullet had almost
indented the edge of the bull’s-eye. Lamont made another
miss, his bullet striking the ground directly in line with the
bull’s - eye; Mullineaux followed with a second outer,
making his score four; and another cheer followed when the
dummy target showed that Lowe’s second shot was a bull’s-
eye, making his score nine. Lamont and Mullineaux then
made an outer each, giving the victory to Lowe, who had a
shot to spare. Instead of accepting his score as it stood, how¬
ever, Lowe fired his third shot, and made another inner,
thus winning the tie by seven points. On rising he
was again loudly cheered. Mr. Lowe could not maintain
his pre-eminence, however, on Tuesday, when the second and
final stage of the Queen’s came to be shot for. The first Sixty
in the early stage shot now with the Government Martini-
Henry at 800, 900, and 1000 yards, seven shots at each range,
the prize being £250 in money, the gift of her Majesty the
Queen, the winner taking also the gold medal and gold badge
of the National Rifle Association. The firing at the 800 yards
was finished at a quarter to eleven, when five of the com¬
petitors—Sergeant Lamont, Queen’s Edinburgh, who had
tied for the Silver Medal, Sergeant Elkington, 3rd Essex,
Sergeant Burroughs, 1st Warwick, Private M‘Vittie, 7th
Dumfries, and Private Rae, 11th Stirling—had each made 30.
The shooting at 900 yards was finished by half-past
twelve, when Sergeant Elkington led with 58, being
closely followed by Sergeant Simpson, who, making 30
at this range, scored a total at the two ranges of 57;
Lieutenant-Colonel Wolrond, 1st Devon, who made 55;
Sergeant Walker, who made 53; and Private Rae, who made
the same score. The third, and last, range of 1000 was shot
at half-past five o’clock in the afternoon, when the light and
wind were most unfavourable for shooting at long ranges, the
targets being almost invisible in the glare of the sun and the
haze. As time went on the excitement increased, especially
when it became known that Private Rae had made 78, and
that Sergeant Walker had made 76, with a shot to spare. The
last shot of Sergeant Walker was watched with almost breath¬
less anxiety; and when no notice was taken of it at the
firing-point, and it became evident that he had made a miss,
a rush was at once made at Rae, who tried in vain to
escape from the rough but kindly-meant intentions of
his brother Scotchmen, and he was hoisted on to the shoulders
of several of the London Scottish and borne off in triumph
to the space fenced off in front of the society’s offices.
His rifle having been tested and found correct, and his score
verified, Private Rae was formally declared the winner of her
Majesty the Queen’s Prize for the year 1878, and the gold
badge of the Association was pinned upon his arm by Lady
Whamcliffe, who congratulated him in a few graceful words.
In response to the call of Lord Whamcliffe, three loud cheers
were given for the winner of the prize. Lord Whamcliffe,
addressing the assembled volunteers, said that a very general
desire had been expressed on their part that the Martini-
Henry rifles which had been lent to them, and with which they
had contested the Queen’s Prize, should not be taken back by
the War Office ; and he was happy to say that the Head of the
War Department had yielded to their desire on condition that
the guns should be returned when called in by the Govern¬
ment. Three cheers were then given for Colonel Stanley.
Private Rae, having again been mounted on the shoulders of
his comrades, was carried round the camp, preceded by the
band of the Victorias playing, “ See, the Conquering
Hero Comes.” Rae’s score of 78 is four points above any
made in previous years; and his success was hailed with all the
more delight as he was once before within a point of winning
the Gold Medal, having tied with Atkinson, of Durham, four
years ago. The following are the best scores made at the 800,
900, and 1000 yards in the last stage of the Queen’s ■—
QUEEN'S. Second Stage. £250, N.R.A. Gold Medal and Badge.
., . _ , (DO Wl 1000
Name and Bank. Yard*. Yards. Yards.
Private Rae, 11th Stirling . ... 30 ... 23 ... 25 ...
Lieutenant-Colonel Walrond, 1st Devon ... 28 ... 27 ... 22 ...
Sergeant Walker, 16th Lanark . 29 ... 24 ... 23 ...
Private M‘Vittie, 7th Dumfries . 30 ... 20 ... 23 ...
Sergeant Simpson, 1st Edinburgh . 27 ... 30 ... 14 ...
Lieutenant Brown, 3rd Lanark . 24 ... 27 ... 19 ...
Sergeant Elkington, 1st Essex. 30 ... 28 ... 10 ...
Private Dyke, 22nd Middlesex. 26 ... 20 ... 21 ...
Sergeant Kirk, 1st East York. 28 ... 22 ... 17 ...
Private Malcolm, 1st Forfar . 28 ... 16 ... 22 ...
Colour-Sergeant Haywood, 5thLancashire... 28 ... 19 ... 18 ...
Sergeant Palmer, 1st Warwick . 26 ... 23 ... 16 ...
Private Frankland, 40th Lancashire. 23 ... 21 ... 20 ...
Sergeant Lamont, 1st Edinburgh . 30 ... 19 ... 14 ...
Private Grant, 40th Lancashire . 22 .. 24 ... 17 ...
Sergeant Tunstall, 49th Lancashire. 27 ... 15 ... 19 ...
Lieutenant Holloway, 2nd Gloucester ... 23 ... 26 ... 10 ...
Private Walker, 1st Lanark .24 ... 18 ... 17 ...
Private Falconer, 2nd Elgin .23 ... 19 ... 16 ...
Corporal Darling, 31st Lanark. 23 ... 24 ... 8 ...
Corporal Stewart, 3rd Lanark.22 ... 19 ... 13 ...
Mr. Harris, 16th Stafford . 26 ... 22 ... 6 ...
Sergeant Scriven, 1st Middlesex . 20 ... 25 ... 8 ...
Sergeant Woolley, 6th Cheshire . 20 ... 17 ... 15 ...
Private M'Lean, 1st Edinburgh . 20 ... 21 ... 11 ...
Colour-Sergeant Station, 31st Lancashire ... 24 ... 22 ... 6 ...
Private Dunlop, London Scottish . 11 ... 16 ... 25 ...
Private Kydd, 5th Forfarshire. 22 ... 6 ... 23 ...
Corporal Mullineaux, 40th Lancashire ... 19 ... 24 ... 7 ...
Lieutenant Mellish, 1st Oxford . 17 ... 17 ... 16 ...
Private M'Laren, 1st Lanark.28 ... 17 ... 6 ...
To hark back to the shooting of yesterday week, an im¬
portant competition—that of the St. George’s Challenge Vase
and Jewels—was fixed for decision that day, but could uot be
finished till Saturday. For the St. George's Challenge Vase,
jewels, and money, Corporal Williams, U.A.C.; Corporal
'J umham, 1st Bucks; Sergeant Peat, third A. B. Surrey;
Sergeant Foulks, 1st Warwick; and. Private Gratwicke, 1st
Devou, had each made 34 points, and had to face the target
again to decide who should take the principal prize. They
met on Saturday at the Carton firing-points after luncheon
gun-fire, a great crowd gathering to witness their struggle.
Wilhams, as having made the best 34, was the first to fire, but
lie did not succeed in getting on the target. Tumham fol¬
lowed with an outer, Peat with a “ magpie,” Gratwicke with
the same, and Foulkes with an inner. In the next round
Williams scored a bull’s-eye; Tumham, Peat, and Foulkes
all inners ; und Gratwicke a bull. Then Williams
aiid Tumham made magpies, Peat a carton, and Grat-
wick an inner, while Foulkes missed his last shot. Peat
and Gratwicke thus tied for the hundred-pound prize, with
twelve points each, and had to shoot off again. Peat was, in
any case, sure of his £20 as third man, if he did not win ; but
with Gratwicke it was either the value of a hundred pounds or
ten only, for failure would throw him down to fifth place
according to the order of merit. Peat fired first, and made an
outer; the Devonshire man followed with a bull’s-eye, which
proclaimed him winner of the St. George’s Vase, Dragon Cup,
gold jewel, and £30. The Prince of Wales’s Prize of £100 was
won by Corporal Larway, Bristol Engineers, after a tie with
Corporal Hyslop, 1st Lanark, both having scored 85 points in
the competition. The English team won the National Trophy,
beating Ireland by 70 points; and the Devonshire team carried
off the China Cup with a total of 264, against Edinburgh’s 256
and Berkshire’s 256. The 1st Berks won the Belgian Cup with
a score of 168; the second,third, and fourth prizes being taken
by Derbyshire, the 26th Middlesex, and 3rd Lanark.
The Albert was an interesting competition on Monday.
The first stage was divided into three ranges- 200, 600, and
900 yards, seven shots at each range, giving a highest pos¬
sible aggregate of 105. It was thought that Mr. John Rigby,
of Dublin, who finished one of the first with the very credit¬
able score of 100, would prove the winner of the first prize ;
but two competitors who finished soon after, Major Scriven
and Mr. S. Young, headed him by one, making 101 points.
This, of course, disposed of the Irish champion, and placed
Scriven first, his range scores having been 32, 35, and 34,
against Mr. Y'oung’s 35, 33, and 33. But there was yet another
surprise in store. Almost the last competitor to finish was
the Gold Medallist, Mr. Humphry (Cambridge University),
who, finishing up at 900 with another of his frequent
highest possibles, made yet another 101, and as it was an
ascending series, being made up of of 32 at 200, 34 at 600, and
35 at 900, his was the best score of the three. The order of
the winners, therefore, was Humphry first prize, Scriven
second, and Young third. For the CurtiB and Harvey’s 1000-
yards series, any rifle, Private Humphry (who has been shooting
wonderfully well with the Remington at the present meeting,
took the first prize with only one short of the highest possible,
two thirty-threes and three thirty-twos, all made with the
Metford, carrying off the other prizes. A number of minor
competitions ended onMonday. Among them were the Whiteley,
a 900-yards prize, with any rifle. In this competition four men
made the highest possible of 35, and English and American
rifles divided the honours between them, Fenton and Sir
Henry Halford using a Rigby and a Metford, while Gilder
and Humphry pinned their faith, with good reason, us the
result showed, on the Sharp and the Remington, the two
former being muzzle-loaders, and the two latter, of course,
breechloaders. In the “Henry” 1000-yards competition 30
points was the highest number attained by Private Wyatt, of
Ellesmere, and Major Burt, of Warwick, the Metford rifle
carrying off the honours of the competition; Gilder, with his
Sharp, only appearing tolerably low down in the list as the
representative of American rifles. The Secretary of State for
War’s Prize for any military breechloader, seven shots at 900,
resulted in Lieutenant Piggott, of the London Rifle Brigade,
taking the first prize with 33, made with a Farquharson-
Metford. For the Armourers’ Any-Rifle Prize, £21, at 800
yards, Mr. Evans, Inns of Court, Lieutenant-Colonel liadcliffe,
39th Middlesex, and Private Humphry, Cambridge Uni¬
versity, tied with 35 points each. The tie was shot off in the
afternoon, Evans making bull, inner, bull; Radcliffe the same
score in the same order ; and Humphrey 4, 5, 5, thus tying.
In the second attempt to solve the difficulty Evans made three
bulls, Radcliffe two bulls and an inner, and Humphrey a
magpie. The latter then retired, and the prize, of course, fell
to Mr. Evans.
The first stage of the Army and Navy Prizes, seven shots
at 200 and 500 yards with the Martini-Henry, was won on
Tuesday by Private Falconer, 1st Scots Guards, with a score
of 65, £5 each being won by Sergeant Hoey (with 65), 1st Bat¬
talion Rifle Brigade; Sergeant Blinco (64), Royal Marine Light
Infantry; Hood, R.N. (61); and Private Gregson (60), 41st
Foot. Another interesting competition was decided the same
day:—
PUBLIC SCHOOLS VETERANS’ MATCH.
Five competitors. Ten shots each, at 600 yards.
Points.
Challenge Shield and Five Tankards ... Cheltenham ... 187
Remainder in order of merit:—
Points. I Points.
Rugby .186 Charterhouse.170
Marlborough . 180 Winchester.166
Eton.180 Harrow . 148
Clifton .173 | Derby.136
The Lords’ and Commons’ match took place on Wednesday
in melting weather, and drew a large and fashionable com¬
pany. Our legislators shot at 200 and 500 yards, the com¬
petitors being allowed ten shots at each range, “ any ”
rifle being used. The prize consists of two magnificent
challenge vases, which were given in 1875 by the Maharajah
of Vizianagram on the condition that they Bliould be held for
the year by the Lord Chancellor when the Lords won and by
the Speaker when the Commons were victorious. Last year
the prize was won by the Lords by 29 points ; and it will be
seen that the Lords were victorious by 8 points:—
Lords.
iWO.Yards. 500 Yards. Total.
Lord Bury . 45 ... 41 ... 86
Earl Ferrers. 39 ... 44 ... 83
Earl Spencer. 47 ... 44 ... 91
Lord Cloncurry . 46 ... 49 ... 95
Earl Waldegrave . 43 ... 45 ... 83
Major Peploe.
Hon. R. Plunkett ...
Colonel Loyd-Lindsay
Hou. F. Monekton ...
A. P. Viviau.
The next competition in point of interest on Wednesday
was that between representative teams of the Army and the
Volunteers for the Doncgall Cup—a silver group, valued at
£1000, formerly called the “ Irish Trophy,” given by the
Marquis of Donegall, to be held for the year by the winning
team. Attached to the competition ore prizes to the value of
£36, given by the association. The contest resulted in a
victory for the Volunteers by 15 points, the Army scoring 987,
the Volunteers 1002. At the top of the Volunteer list were
Sergeant Pullman, the Queen’s Prize winner of 1876, and
Private Rae, who had ouly the day before won the right to
place G. M. after his name. The Oxford and Cambridge match
for the Chancellor’s Plate, a large tankard, value £100, the
joint gift of the Chancellors of the two Universities, was shot
for by representative teams of eight from the University Corps
of Oxford and Cambridge with the Snider rifle, at 200, 500,
and 600 yards. On Wednesday Cambridge added another
victory to ■ her list, and signalised the year by intro¬
ducing a gentleman, Mr. Daldy, who achieved the feat
of putting on a score of 93, out of a possible 105,
with the Snider, beating by one point the highest scoro
made in the Donegall Cup, at the same ranges, with the
Martini - Henry. The totals were Oxford, 572 ; Cambridge,
621. The second stage of the Albert was shot the first thing
in the morning. . It was confined to the winners of prizes in
the first stage. Fifteen shots were fired, and, after a good fight
among the leading competitors, Major S. Young, of the 39th
Middlesex, carried off the prize (£100) with 68 points out of a
possible 1 5. For the Snider Wimbledon Cup, ten rounds at
600 yards, three competitors tied with 42 out of the possible
50. They were Major Pearse, 8th Devon; Private Wade, 1st
Lancashire ; and Private Pearson, 1st Inverness. The tie was
shot off after luncheon at the 500 yards carton targets, the
result being that Wade won on the tie, his three shots being a
carton bull, a bull, and a magpie, or 13; Major Pearse, an
outer, bull, and outer, or 9; and Private Pearson, magpie,
bull, and outer, or 10 points. For the Any Rifle Wimbledon
Cup (1000 yards), Mr. Turner, of the South London Rifle
Club, made 34 out of 35 for Miss Gregory.
The Army and Navy Challenge National Rifle Association
Cup, second stage, was won on Thursday morning by J. Hood,
A.B., of her Majesty’s ship Excellent. He made 30 points at
800 yards. The winner gets a prize of £10 with the cup. Tho
winner of last year was from the same ship. The competition for
the Kolapore Cup was also finished, the mother country
winning with a score of 622 points. The Canadians made
611. The first range of the Elcho Shield Match was got
through, and the scores up to that point were as follow:—
Ireland, 540 ; England, 534; and Scotland, 532. Humphry,
Cambridge University, made in this match at the first range
the splendid score of 73 out of a possible 75. Some other com¬
petitions in the teams closed up with scores of 70, 71, and 72.
In the 900 yards range of the Elcho Shield match Ireland had
the lead by 20 points, England and Scotland being equal.
Ireland made at. the two first ranges 1075, and England
and Scotland 1055 points each. In the Public Schools Match,
Eton won with a score of 403 points ; Charterhouse beiug
second, with 394; Winchester third, with 390. The Duko
of Cambridge visited the camp and inspected the colonial
team. These were the latest events at the time of going to
press with our early edition.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
The main building, or Palace of the Exhibition, in the Champ
de Mars, is represented in our two-page Engraving. This
grand facade, raised above a prolonged terrace, with several
approaches by steps, protected by curving balustrades, presents
a central arched nave, of superior dimensions, with transepts
extending far to the right and left, each terminated by a
domed tower of four arched sides, which is supported by angle-
buttresses. This is the general form of the edifice, while its
aspect is further relieved by the series of perpendicular external
beams, surmounted with decorative coronets and flags, rising
at certain intervals along the front elevation. The lines of tho
central structure are boldly defined, its great arch being
deeply recessed and crossed by a transverse balcony abovo
the numerous small doorways, with side openings which
give a view of the staircases inside, and with hugo
scroll-shaped buttresses upholding the balcony; while tho
upper part of the arch is ornamented with escutcheons, and
with the initials of the “ R6publique Framjaise,” supported by
winged seraphs, at the summit of all. In the grounds on this
side of the Exhibition Palace, along the broad gravelled paths
which cannot easily be overcrowded, there is ample space for a
promenade in the fresh air; or a brief repose of body and
mind can be enjoyed in the comfortable seats, covered with
basket-work to form a portable alcove or summer-house,
which are placed for the accommodation of weary visitors to
the Exhibition. Seats of this kind might well be introduced
on the esplanade, or the sands, or beach of any English sea¬
side place of much resort, like Brighton or Hastings, instead
of the open benches generally provided; and we have no
doubt that a small fee would gladly be paid for the uso of
such accommodation.
Mr. Goschen, M.P., has issued an address to the electors
of the city of London, in which he states that, in consequenco
of the difference between himself and other members of tho
Liberal party on the question of the county franchise, it is
not his intention to offer himself to the City for re-election to
the next Parliament.
A fire broke out on Tuesday night at the Prince’s Theatre,
Bradford, and in a short time the building was totally
destroyed. The theatre was built about two years ago by a
limited company, at a cost of £26,000, and has since been in
the lesseeship of Mr. W. Morgan, The Star Music Hall, built
underneath the theatre, is not much damaged.
It has been determined to form a high-grade school in
Barrow-in-Furness ; and, with the view of assisting the scheme,
the Duke of Devonshire has given £1000. It is proposed,
pending the erection of a permanent building, to begin the
school in temporary premises forthwith, and the Duke of
Devonshire has offered £50 a year towards its maintenance.
The school will be imder the South Kensington Department;
The foundation-stone of the new buildings which are in
course of erection in St. Swithin’s-lane for the City Carlton
Club was laid on Wednesday by Mr. Alderman Fowler. At a
dinner which subsequently took place in honour of the event
the Duke of Richmond and Gordon responded to the toast of
“ Her Majesty’s Ministers,” and in the course of his speech
referred to various measures of importance which the present
Government had passed since coming into office, and to tho
eminent services rendered by the Prime Minister in the recent
settlement of the Eastern difficulties.
The Hunts Agricultural Show took place on Wednesday at
St. Neots. The number of entries for various classes of horned
stock, horses, sheep, pigs, and poultry, was good,; and tho
prizes, which included several cups and valuable pieces of
plate, amounted to £700. The Twenty-Guinea Cup, for cart¬
horses, was awarded to Mr. R. H. Griffin, Peterborough; tho
£25 prize, for hunters, was given to Mr. G. S. Hull, of Ely,
Combs. Mr. Goodliff, of Huntingdon, secured seven cups for
horses of ail classes. The Twenty-Guinea Cup, for cows, was
taken bv Mr. W. H. Armstrong, of Brampton, Hunts. The
Twenty-Guinea Cup, for the best bull, was awarded to the
Marquis of Exeter for Telemachus VI. Mr. Street, Somc-rsham,
Hunts, was a lurge prize-taker for sheep. The Prize Cup for
pigs and several minor prizes for swine were taken by Mr.
Sanders Spencer, of Holywell, Hunts. Captain C. S. Newton
presided at the luncheon.
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JULY 20, 1878
parliament,
lords.
Comparable to the want “J^^^k^aT'th^diffldence
the first night In the Upper
shown with regard to ^“damenxary Earl of Beacons-
House prior to the sitting set apart ^th PeacC . Theie
field’s formal speech on the Bert* «SSay week on Vm-
were desultory, yea-nay dl8 f"®® 10 ,..Loading Guns, and on the
astiBSiSiJf » h “
StSTwom"“LSdonfnu that g-J—
SSS make a Utahto*a ^ Ml
answer to another noble Lord q q{ Cyprus, the Lord
Gazette's reference to the unht^thine iV ^ uuthorit y
President of the Council quote ,.^ te Various measures
in favour of the salubrity of Lordships, by a majority
were then advanced a stage; but their ltnt he Poor
of fourteen, disagreed with tJ
were then advanced ast^ebutthtir bo ttothe Poor
of fourteen, disagreed with theC stained their previous
Law Act Amendment L ord Shaftesbury’s
opinion against the pauPf^^P _ i i n lin endeavour
__„ainst the pauperising “ w “ , ~ f i‘ in un endeavour
measure. Lord Henniker wasn on the Tramways
to persuade the House to go into there was a dis-
Liills. At the instigation of Lord M « e»ejL u iu thc Indian
suasion as to the position of ’ . tlic Duke of
Army, in the course of whichi Lord^ ftanbrooK ^ ^
Cambridge, and Lord Napier of Jl g^J No gJ brook con¬
sent condition of the state of the Indian Army
hSUTIh^House generally that the
Eurydice had been raised.
Sunshine streaming through the stained-glass
a soft and mellow light on the tailli^t dmm
together on Thursday afternoon to greet the w^-gr
on his first appearance in England as the successful P
tentiory. There have been huge and notable gatherings
the Upper Chamber during the present Se»l.n ^ hnt it w
admitted that the illustrious cwsregMon o!
the most remarkable that has been seen
Lords lor many yearn. The oeeasion m.Ultaml and the
audience «as worthy the occaaion. Whilstthe
exceptionally full of peers, members of the Lower Ho
absolutely thronged the space in front of the Throne,
more than filled the small galleries devoted to them. The
sombre effect of so many black garments was admirably
relieved by the light, neutral tints of the summer dresses worn
by the ladies, who regarded the scene below them fro
’vantage coigns near the canopy of the Throne, and_ from the
Peeresses’ Galleries. In the balcony usually occupied by the
Princess of Wales were her Royal Highness and the Grand Duke
and Duchess of Hesse (Princess Alice), who were joined later by
Princess Mary of Cambridge and the Duke of Tcck. It
'“I. fe7min»to. after 8vc ere the Eri of Be.con.8dd
entered. Lord Truro had made a diversion by raising his
rugged voice anent vivisection, and I/>rd RjOMboy hiad
elicited some mirth by carrying ^^chto creahS by
netitions of huge dimensions. The laughter created Dy
S Sent hi scarcely .ubrided when too
auietlv glided to his seat, unobserved at first, but greeted Dy
aSscendo of “Hear, hears!” when his familiar figure was
eSS The noble Earl (who looks in far bettor health
thmfhedid on Ids arrival in London) had no sooner taken his
seat than the Marquis of Salisbury joined his colleagues
<m the Ministerial bench, and was likewise cordially wel¬
comed The Prime Minister sat between the Duke of Rich¬
mond and Lord Cranbrook, with Lord Granville opposite
him, as usual. Lord Derby sat with his head bent dwn,
below the gangway, on the Ministerial side ; the Earl of Car-
S^on o^ngL accustomed seat behind the ex-Foreipi
Secretary. As for thc address of Lord Beaconsfield, the deli¬
cate state of his health detracted of necessity somewhat from
the 6 effectiveness of its delivery. The historical part of it, the
vhrtuMparaphrase of Lord SMisbury’s despatch °nfeBerhn
Treaty, was dry and tame to a degree—so much so that when,
quitting Europe for Asia, thc noble Earl beg^n to speculate
on thc possible result of a war with Russia to prevent her
acquisition of Kars, ladies calmly fanned themselves, and
were not to be roused from their mammatencss by the glib
mention of thc word “ war ” even. More attention was paid to the
wan orator (driven now and again to wipe the moisture from his
brow, so intolerably hot was the temperature) when he came to
refer to the Anglo-Turkish Convention. Phe noble Earl was
in-, vely emphatic when he said the Government had thought
ii. time to say to Russia with regard to her advance in Asiatic
Turkev “ Thus far, and no farther.” There was an evident
desire to calm any fears the French Government may have
expressed when the Prime Minister dwelt upon the fact that
the active interest England was about to take in Turkey in
Asia would be for the ultimate benefit of England and
France and all Europe, for, when tranquillity and order should
be assured in those Eastern provinces, European enterprise
would find abundant scope in those fair parts of the earth.
On this part of his theme the noble Eurl indulged in less
tlowcrv imagery than had been anticipated. His peroration
... . ' 1 UK. 1,1 ftt.lfifilt.iOil of the '
fiowery imagery than liaci dccii anticipate. yyy"---
was a boldly delivered justification of the transfer of Cyprus
to Kugland for the safe-guanUng of thc waterway to India,
and for the protection of our interests in the East, lbe
Premier’s speech lasted an hour and thirty-five minutes.
SPEECH OF LORD BEACONSFIELD.
Lord Beaconsfield said,—In laying upon the table the
protocols of the Congress of Berlin, I hope to lay belore 1 nr-
liamcnt and the country generally some remarks upon the
policy which has been supported by her Majesty’s repre¬
sentatives at Berlin. Your Lordships are aware that the
Treaty of Son Stefano was looked upon with much distrust
and alarm by the Government, that they believed that it was
calculated to bring about a state of affairs dangerous to European
independence, and dangerous to the interests of the British
Empire. The embodiment of the Treaty is before your Lord-
ships and the country as detailed in the circular of my noble
friend Lord Salisbury; and our present condition is that we
should show that in the changes and modifications that have
been made in the Treaty of San Stefano by the Congress at
Berlin that menace to the independence of Europe has been
removed, and the threatened injuries to British interests averted
(Ministerial cheers). The Congress have made great changes
in the Treaty of San Stefano, and have restored a great por¬
tion of the territory that would have formed this great Bul¬
garian State. They have restored to the Sultan upwards of
30,000 geographical square miles and 2,000,000 of population,
the territory and the populationbeing the richest and wealthiest,
the most ingenious, Sig^to* deckle
It. was said that it was “bold ^ 1^ Bft j kan8| md that that
upon thc new lmc lor i urkey . fc jg not {or anyone to
liue was by no means adequu . ^ any position is
say that, so far “ 1 aud patriotism, and devotion
impregnable. It s thecomr g ^ rCiJly impregnable
°f a peopte ^XtS ltoum&ia-wUeh, if properly de-
(Hear, hear). Eastern nu however powerful, from
fended, would theBalkans- bad
attacking Lbnstentin^pte by ta ^ (Hear, hear),
been allotted to 1 arraucement it became the duty of
But in consequence of that a K , bcst axra ngement
^xt^was
eminently Mohammedmi, wuy’to the advantage of the
tof toe ” »»e uupeft-
it was a P° r ^ v J ituplf was concerned, it had not
1 W$S3S&£$=£
far tSe m“s k t harfour-the
S»1B»1
BulcarS S that there would be two parties intriguing; to
established in it a Government somewhat differentfrom the
contiguous provinces, where Hie authority of t ^ bultau unght
be athnitted. He was not of the general opinion that it was
wise to interfere with the military Government of the Forte,
but there were historical facts as well as political principles ,
S tho Jh rt might not be advisable to bm t the authority
of the Sultan in a military point of view, yet Uiwe woukl n
, „ ^-..ip,., statesmen who did not take into consideration botn
SUSSJ o/ whS he had spoken. The province of Eastern
tumeba had been the scene of many
human nature looked with deep regret; and t w'is thcreiore
advisable, in making this arrangement in Eastern ^Europe, to
take steDs to prevent any such excesses in future. Io do this,
ffijSSWEsoMin a direct political and military ride
in the province, would have been, in the opinion of the
Congress a very grievous error. They had therefore decided
that g the Sultan should have the power of defending th^ barofflf
of the Balkans with all his forces The bultan had G e powtr
of defending his frontier by land and sea. ith respect to
the internal government of the province, the Congress had
thought thattoe time had arrived when they should cujetwour
to carry into effect some of those important propositions in¬
tended for the better administration of the States of the
Sultan which were discussed at the Conference at
tinople. Generally speaking, there were three great points to
be observed in any attempt to improve the admimstrat on of
the Turkish dominions. First of all, it was important that the
office of governor should be for a specific period, ns it was, ior
instance, in India; that it should not be for a.lew period, say,
than five years, and the beneficial effects of that system m
the dominions of the Sultan would, he thought, be oi incal¬
culable benefit. That had been done in Eastern Roumelia.
Secondly, they had thought it desirable that there should bt in¬
stituted public assemblies in which the popular element should
be adequately represented, and the business of
to levy the local finance of the province; and, thirdly, they
had thought it equally important that order should be main¬
tained in this province cither by a gendarmerie of adequate
force or by a local militia, in both cases thc officers holding
their commissions from the Sultan. But the whole adminis¬
tration of Eastern Roumelia had been referred to an inferior
Commission, who would make their recommendations to the
Sultan, who would issue firmans to curry them into effect.
In all arrangements that had been made to meet the
subject races, these Commissioners were to report tne
result to the Chief Commission, and then, after a finnan
from the Sultan, those changes would take effect. In
the course of three months from the ratification of the
Treaty of Berlin these arrangements would probably be
made. It would be a hard matter to re-establish the Sultan
as a ruler and substantial authority in some of his distant pro¬
vinces, and this would especially be the case with Bosnia. No
language could adequately convey the state ot those pro-
vinces—the political intrigue, thc constant revolutions, the
total absence of public spirit, the hatreds, the emmities of
the rival religions, the absence, above all, of any superior
controlling power of acknowledged supremacy. All this
formed one of those sad truths which none who had inves¬
tigated the subject could refraiu from acknowledging.
Turkey had no, or very little, uuthority over this state of
things, and at this moment she was in no state to accept
the responsible situation of overseer, llis own opinion was
that nothing short of an army of 50,000 men aud the best
troops of Turkey could for a moment produce anything
like order in that part. Austria was deeply interested in
the arrangements, for she had upwards of 150,000 refugees
from Bosnia, therefore it was natural that Austria should
occupy and retain until she hud laid the foundation of
tranquillity. This proposition was made by my noble friend
Lord Salisbury, and 1 earnestly supported it. There have been
loud cries against the position we took in reference to the
partition of Turkey. We endeavoured to prevent that par¬
tition, and the Government have at all times resisted such a
course on the ground that any such attempt would lead to a
long struggle, and that Europe and Asia would be so involved
in trouble that great danger would follow. The professors of
the theory had taken us up to a high mountain and showed us
all the countries of the earth, and said, All this shall be yours
if you will agree to such a proposition. But we have declined
to follow such a course. And what is the result '( Russia and
the other Rowers have come to the unanimous conclusion that
the best arrangement for securing the tranquillity and order of
the world is to retain the Sultan as apart of the politicalsystcmof
Europe. Undoubtedly there had been division of territory ; but
that wasnot partition. Other countries, after great st ruggles,had
lost territory, but they had never considered it to be a question
of partition. With regard to Greece, the Congress had men
of considerable ability with regard to this question. But the
Greek representatives evidently did not recognise what was the
object of the labour of the Congress. They set forth what
I may be called their “ great idea.” That idea, it may probably
nopirto G^ce Ver ^rhoptS C tlmR
there was a proposition made to give Greece a large
Srt he^o D e"“ hL done much lor that country, tlroace
a future before it, and that cannot be s.ud of every
country He would therefore say to Greece, as he would to
an individual who had a future before him,
i-I. tv lmt. t.hfm is the nosition of Turkey P No longer
” a S Smn s he position Of Turkey ? No longer
HS and Roumania as part of Turkey and ^
Bosnia, as being part of Turkey, there is stilla dominion of
GO 000 geographical square miles, with a population of 6,000,000
for Turkey^ concentrated around Constantinople. So that
Turkev in Europe once more exists. In these arrange¬
ment/her Majesty’s Plenipotentiaries have taken a great
part- and if J any expedition had taken P la ceit had
shown what were the resources and the detennuiation of this
country; and had you entered into a war for which you we e
prepared, and are iiow prepared, probably in a month s time
you P wouldhave exhausted the whole expenditure youhave
now made. It was useless to go to war for the purpose of
restoring Kars or Batoum to Turkey, and therefore the
Government took a course which they believed would get nd
of all those struggles which took place from time to time
between Turkey and Russia. Then, looking at the position of
Turkev in Asia and our interests in the East, her Majesty s
Government made a Convention with Turkey to produce tean-
quillity «d order. We have enormous interests which we
must care for; and, seeing that the progress of Russia
wan producing anarchy in Turkey, it behoved us to take
positive step?. We shrink from the rcsponsibility of
handing over to our successors an impoverished country,
and we therefore have made thc best aromgemente pasri^.
In my opinion there is room enough for both Russia ana
England in Asia, but what territory we have there we must
secure (Hear, hear). We hope by prudeuce we shall, in the
steps we have taken, bring about a state of affairs us udj’au-
tageous for Europe as ourselves; and m the policy weibaje
pursued we cannot believe that the act we have recommended
Eh one that will lead to trouble and warfare. Wehavetaken
the step of occupying Cyprus in the interests of our Emmre in
India, and in all our uctions we have endeavoured to show »
patriotic front, and adhered to thc strict principles of truth,
liberty, and justice. The right hon. gentleman then resumed
his seat amid loud applause.
COMMONS.
The appearance of the Cattle Plague Bill in the Lower House
has been rather a (godsend, discussion of the measure having
greatly relieved thc tedium of the duU regune ^which eneae<l
on the departure of the Prime Munster and Lord Salisbury for
Berlin. The House was not visited by this epidemic yesterday
week debate being confined then to the Highways Bill, which
was read the third time; to the measure providing for the
retirement of Admiralty and War-Office Clerks, on which much
eloquence was wasted; and to a revival of the Irish Home
Rulers’ grievance against the Government at the sudden death
of the Fenian Sergeant M’Carthy shortly after liis release^from
prison last spring, respecting which event Mr. O Connor 1 ower
dropped into poetry:—
Far dearer the grave or the prison
Illumined by patriot’s name,
Than the trophies of all who have risen
On Liberty’s ruins to fame.
On Monday the “Massacre of the Innocents” was fore¬
shadowed by the Chaucellor of the Exchequer, who claimed
Tuesdays and Wednesdays for Government business ; and the
Irish Intermediate Education Bill was read the second tune
on the motion of Mr. Lowther, nfter a series of eloquent
speeches from Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Butt, and other hon. members.
On Tuesday the Chancellor of the Exchequer referred Lord
Robert Montagu to the Anglo-Turkish Treaty itself for the
elucidation of the points he wished to be informed upon.
Then was begun a straggling debate on the vexed Con¬
tagious Diseases Bill, which was only brought to an
issue, after much vexation of spirit, on Wednesday, oir
Henry Janies moved a resolution to the effect that no
Order in Council should be valid if it contravened any
treaty contracted with a foreign Government. This was
opposed by the Government, aud discussion waxed long
and loud. The cattle plague, in effect, seemed to have
possessed hon. members, and with such effect that, on Wed¬
nesday, even the mild Sir Staffoid Northcote showed his teeth
and spoke with some temper of the tactics of the Opposition.
Thereupon Sir Charles Dilke moved the adjournment of the
House, and such a storm was raised about the head of the
Ministry that the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Ctobs
had to bow their heads, and were fain to accept the compromise
suggested by Mr. Pell, Sir Stafford Northcote announcing that
the Government would ‘ 1 omit from the schedule any distinction
between one country and another.” Thus was the concession
Mr. Forster stoutly insisted upon virtually granted.
There was little of interest in the House on Thursday, the
Upper Chamber having for the time absorbed nearly all the
public attention. In reply to a question from Mr. Otway in
reference to the £40,000,000 indemnity demanded from Turkey
under the treaty of San Stefano, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer referred the hon. member to thc Protocols when
they were distributed, where he would find a despatch
ftom Lord Salisbury on the subject. That despatch
set forth the decimation of the English and Russian
Plenipotentiaries, the result of which was that Turkey was
not internationally bound and could not be compelled to
pay any portion of the indemnity until the claims .of all the
creditors of Turkey previous to the war were paid in full.
Lord R. Montague inquired whether there was any truth in
the telegram of the Times with respect to the seizure of a
British boat’s crew off Gallipoli by the Russians, and the firing
upon another. Mr. W. H. Smith said it appeared that there
was some foundation for the rumour,but the details were wholljr
inaccurate. A telegram had just been received from Admiral
Commerell to the effeetthatasteam-bont had been sent in search
of two officers of the Swift sure who were missing, and its crew
had been detained by the Russians; but they had since
returned on board. Admiral Hornby was inquiring into the
matter, and would report upon it. The report of the resolu¬
tion authorising the payment of salaries, allowances, and
compensations under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act
out of moneys to be provided by Parliament was ugrecd to.
The bill itself was the subject of consideration by the House
iu Committee during the rest of the sitting.
The opening of the Ripponden branch of the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway for goods and mineral traffic took place
on Monday.
JULY 20, 1878
ECHOES OF THE WEEK.
"Carle, now the King’s come.” Thus sang Sir Walter Scott
eruhmgly, m KM^ when his Majesty King George the
Fourth arrived m Edinburgh. “ Carle! ” now the Earl of
Beaconsiield is come—not precisely a King, but still a verv
mighty personage, for he brings Peace in his train For the
nonce we are spared those Horrors of War of which the
Lorrainer, Jacques Callot and the Spaniard, Francisco Goya
have left us such appallingly graphic pictures. These said
Horrors I find rhapsodical y described in a poem written by
Dr. \oung author of the “Night Thoughts,” in 1753, and
communicated to Mr. Samuel Richardson, author of “ Clarissa
Harlowe. I positively must quote a couple of stanzas of
this sublime production, which is entitled “The Sailor’s Song
to the South : Occasioned by the Rumours of a War ” :_ °
Britannia nods, the labouring earth
Discloses a tremendous birth •
Ri smoking rivers runs her molten ore;
Thence, monsters of enormous size
And hideous aspect threat’ning rise
Flame from the deck; from trembiing bastions roar.
But Britannia is to be appeased by timely submission
She glftdly sheathes her courage keen,
And spares her nit’rous magazine’
Her cannon slumber tiU the proud aspire
To lawless plunder ; then they blaze,
They thunder from tremendous seas,
Touch'd by their injured master's soul of fire.
I never was, to the slightest extent, a judge of poetry • and I
have never even been able to make out whether “ Form Form
Riflemen form ’’beathtog of beauty or so much “buncombe.”
\Vill anybody tell me whether Dr. Young’s verses quoted
above should be considered majestic or bombastic? But I
like “Nit’rous Magazine.” It would be an admirable title
*ir a “ Jingo” journal.
With the sanction of the Lord Mayor a splendid bas-
relief in marble, by the late John Bell, representing the return
to England after the Waterloo campaign of the Duke S
Wellington and his heroic companions in arms, has been
ptoced m one of the corridors of Guildhall. This is not the
first time that a display of statuary has taken place in the
grand old Gothic chamber. Lord Mayors nowadays are usually
Conservative; but in the year 1814, when the allied Sovereigns
visited England, London possessed a Chief Magistrate who
was a strong Radical, and whose name was Matthew Wood
His Lordship caused to be placed in niches in Guildhali
marble busts of Napoleon, Fox, Sheridan, Franklin Wash¬
ington, and Oliver Cromwell.
Mem: It is not pleasant to read that John Bell’s bas-
relief has been placed m a wooden frame painted in “imitation”
of Sienna marble. While they were about it, the City
Maecenases might have gone to the expense of a real marble
frame.
JTHE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
Still harping on my daughter.” My daughter, for the
nonce, is Cyprus, and I have been hunting her up with much
assiduity all the week. I find traces of the fair insulary in
Chambers’s “Domestic Annals of Scotland,” wherein it is
mentioned (vol. iii., p. 581) that in the year 1736, an Eastern
hierarch, designated as Archbishop of Nicosia, in Cyprus
came to Edinburgh, bearing letters of recommendation from
high personages in London, and seeking to raise subscriptions
‘ for the relief of his countrymen suffering under the Turks.”
I hope that the Lord Provost and Bailies behaved liberally
to the Cypiist archiepiscopos.
As for the beloved Burton of the “ Anatomy of Melan¬
choly,” he includes Cypms in his general lament over the
Eastern Question as it existed in his day: “Tell me, poli¬
ticians,” writes Robert the Wise, “ why is the fruitful
Palestina, noble Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, so much decayed and
(mere carcases now) fallen from what they were P The ground
is the same; but the government is altered. The people are
grown slothful; their good husbandry, policy, and industry
are decayed . . . where are now those 4000 cities of
those 100 cities of Crete ? Alexander built
seventy cities in a short space of time. Our Sultans and Turks
detnolish twice as many and leave all desolate. A sapient
Robert; yet it is hard that we should have had to wait two
hundred and fifty years before it occurred to a sagacious
English Prime Minister to protect the Turks against them¬
selves. There is no need to banish the Osmanlis “bag and
baggage.” We have only to go to them with our bags and
baggage, and we shall eventually discover that “Some¬
body’s Luggage ” in Asia Minor is ours, and nobody else’s.
One more Cyprist mem: An erudite and obliging cor¬
respondent directs myattention to the Decameron of Boccaccio
(eighth day,tenth novel), in which mention is made of a textile
fabric of great softness and fineness, woven in the island of
Cyprus, and thence exported to Italy for fashionable ladies’
wear. This stuff was called “ Bucherame Cipriano .” Is our
English word “buckram” indirectly derived from the Italian
, Bucherame”? Directty it comes from the French
bougran.” In Luigi and Fortunato’s Italian Dictionary,
Padua, 1827, “Bucherame” is defined as a kind of canvas,
and the Greek and Latin equivalents for it are, respectively,
bassos. In Blanche’s Greek-French Lexicon, Paris,
1824, “bassos” is described as “a veil of very fine linen;”
while, in the Oxford Scapula of 1820 the word is qualified as
meaning a kind of muslin from the Indies. But the learned
Littre takes no account of buss,is nr bassos The latest nf
fiftyttousand^pounds by the transaction. The reaction must
position rW Cli ^ Ua8 ,.°{ ^araed draughtmanship, noble com-
SousS^/T? nbU . ti0 ^° f Ught aud sh ade, and har-
woSd U soot 0 “-T 8t eve “ tuaU y be recognised once more. I
t^entv nnn^l a P tK k V P i? H ? phael Meu gs or a Carl Vanloo for
of a “ sJlodLe rT by becoming the possessor
which in IMS 41118 year 8 Academy, a masterpiece
Christie’s. ay n ° fc * e4cb 80 muc h as a five-pound note at
decorator^ of Venice, painter and
art' x^MtedtS.^OhoSe
2h^ h ° “ 1848 w ' nt 10 PeWon to
all art , ist b e married ? I say that he should. We
had^sn^ed’ 'tb hea M a r fU i told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he
1116 a P ua hle and accomplished Ann Dolman, the
“ Oh tn Pre8S10Uable Pamter of Leicester Fields remarked,
Thorn no e ? y ° U “® nimed for an artist.” Sir Joshua and Sir
Lawrence were the only Presidents of the Royal
maS^Ti h ^ WereinC °^ rigible bachelors. Raffaele died un-
th^Tnnn^ 4lurt Y- se v «i; but, had he lived, he would have wedded
less rthtww" 60 / ? ard “ fll Bibbiena. Somehow,neverthe-
thl’rniiioiT 8Clll P tors grant Flaxman as an exception to
the rule) should, in the mterests of art, be celibate. And I
of\iv ” g to a BCul P tor wh0 18 “the happy father
H 1 40 compromise matters by opining that lady
artists had best remain single, I am met by the reminder that
nn1nL ren0 7? e l " tist8 have not taken seriously to
painting until after they have been led to the altar. In any
fit 8 ®’ d ^ atl ® m on 4be subject is dangerous ; and Sir Joshua’s
due * b “ h “™ e beo -
,, u [°J 4he expediency of matrimony in the case of authors,
1 Hold that novelists and journalists should always be married
men, but that poets should invariably be single. The True
£ thVtonre b ° TV® of Unliappy : the more miserable he
sweetly he will smg; but there is no reason why
he should make others wretched. J
, The. centenary of the death of Jeah Jacques Rousseau was
celebrated last Sunday by a monster meeting at the Chateau
d B au ’ j” 1 ?- p he fourteenth of Jidy was not by any means
the hundredth anmversary of the decease of the philanthropist
of whom it was written—I quote from memory—
’Tis a pity a man of such exquisite feeling
Should send all his brats to the Foundling, my dear.
59
• m rroven^al
bocaram,” and in Italian " Duel
etymological alternatives in “bouc,” “boc,” “boc-a-ran,”
from the supposition that the fabric was originally woven from
goat s ham; °r in the Italian “ bucherare,” to transpierce
^wtuch Luigi and Fortunato derive from perforare, thus
qualifying bougran or buckram as a fabric of which the warp
and woof formed very widely “decussated reticulations.”
liras it became necessary to gum or glue it (as Bailey says) in
raer to stiffen it. But was buckram originally of cotton or
nen, and when was the manufacture introduced into Cyprus ?
Those are the moot points
S I never (nowadays) read a notice of a sale at Christie’s of
ictures by the Old Masters, without amazement. The other
“ xi at . e famous auction-room in King-street, St. James’s, a
A ° f tb ® Virgin,” by Rubens, went for ninety guineas,
niorii .I** 1 ? a /° V T alrond paid 1450 guineas for this same
shill,« e ‘ As f ° r tbe 4act that no more than four pounds four
fc r * d by a “ Portrait of the Artist’s Daughter
Bid u 4 4a ? 4 8 P ea ks for itself, and needs no comment,
examolp 5 U «. en t, ls > presumably, a genuine and splendid
done 8l u \ eeT PallP What has the great Antwerper
th'lS he sh , 0U T ld smk «o low in the market ? If I had five
I had setti P a Un +wi" 0ldd lay °ut every penny of the sum (after
not W1 * h 4h e milkman) in the purchase of Old Masters,
twenfVW rst £ ate but 8econ( i rat e ones, convinced as I am that
twenty years hence my heirs, executors, or assigns would realise
But the fourteenth happening to be the anniversary of the
capture of the Bastille in 1789, and of the Festival of the
Federation m the Champs de Mars in 1790, the Parisian
Radicals thought that they might as well bring in Jean Jacques
as a bonne bouche. Selections from Rousseau’s opera of “ Le
Devin du \ lllage ” were performed; and M. Louis Blanc made
a most eloquent speech. The gifted orator could not say much
personally in favour of the Citizen of Geneva, so he adroitly
turned the sub j ectincrderto prefer a terrible indictment against
the institutions and morals of the eighteenth century. It was
the o.d story over again of the solicitor who, in the middle
of a.trial, sent a slip of paper to the barrister whom he had
retained with this inscription, “No case. Abuse the plaintiff’s
attorney. The eighteenth century was to M. Louis Blanc
the plaintiff's attorney.
Mem: What has become of the keys of the Bastille? They
were sent by the French Republic as a present to George
Washington; and they used to lie on the hall table of the
illustrious American patriot’s house at Mount Vernon. In
what American Museum are those keys at present?
I hope that some means will be devised for paying the
stipends of the luckless pensioners of the disestablished Royal
Dramatic College. It can scarcely be said to be disendowed,
since it never had any endowment worth speaking of; and
that fact from the very first militated against its chances of
permanent prosperity. The Royal Dramatic College was sub¬
stantially an assemblage of almshouses ; and almshouses can¬
not live without an inalienable sustentation fund. A lame
attempt was lately made at the Auction Mart to sell the
building and grounds, “ by direction of the Trustees, under an
order of the Chancery Commissioners.” The tentative sale
seems to have been after the nature of a Dutch auction : the
gentleman in the rostrum pleasantly asking whether anybody
would bid £15,000, and so by gentle degrees sliding down to
£5000, or, in fact, anything. But nobody would bid anything
and the property was withdrawn. Perhaps the Woking
Necropolis Company may be induced to take that which was
their own land back again, and convert the defunct College
into a series of catacombs.
by Captain Machell for £1500 after he had beaten Trannist
gotback some of his purchase money in the Newcastle Stokes ’
and Lord Falmouth, having once broken the ice, took the
btetchworth Stokes with Whirlwind, who, however, onfy won
The Liverpool July Meeting has turned out scarcely so sue
cessful as might have been anticipated, when the liberality 0 f
the promoters rathe way of added money is taken iX con¬
sideration; but the ‘going” was so desperately hard that
m^y ownera were afraid to risk their horses upon it. On
.Tuesday ChUde Harold won the rich St. George’s Stakes beat
rag Matador and Lady Lumley. The former was by no’mel
fit, and ran very wide at the last turn ; and a mile and three
quarters proved far beyond Lady Lumley’s compass. CartorSn
a Stockbndge winner, placed the Mersey Stakes toS
Anglesey’s credit; and Hesper (9 st. 4 lb.), who must be
made of cast iron to stand such incessant work, had little
difficulty in beating Lyceum (8 st. 2 lb.) for the Windermere
Plate. In spite ot the munificent addition of £1000 the
0n Wednesday only tempted seven to the post
and, with the exception of Advance (9 st.), none of these were
SnaU (8st ->’ Wb0 just beat Petrarch
for this prize last season, was not much fancied, but he took
them along at such a pace that the top weight w M done with
a long way from home, and the issue was fought out between
Strathmore (7 st. 2 lb.) and Constantine (6 st. 10 lb) the
£Tin Wm ri gbya head; whUe Advance) who came t-S
from the distance, was a fair third. The pleasant lfitle
Winchester fixture calls for no remark; and at the time of
fb^commcnt. Pening the Kemptol1 course tnoTripl
The sales of blood stock at Newmarket last week were
terribly dull, and many lots were almost given away Mr
Chaplin, as usual, did pretty well with Ms seven an
brother to Charon, by Hermit-Barchettina, making 1250
and a colt by Doncaster—Chanionesse, 1100 gs. Mr Navtor
being the purchaser in each instance. The colt bv Volf
crucian-The Duchess (1500 gs.), who is a half brother to
Maximilian, helped Mr. Waring’a average • and flip
Sterlings from the Yardley Stud also soldiery weufa coRbf
that sue from Seagull making 1600 gs. Messrs TatteraSl
?? n0 ^ th . at a eyare hietructed to dispose MthewhoMof
the Middle Park Stud, without reserve, in September next
Cricketers have had a very busy time of it during the last
few days ; and, as the ground has been very liard^ the bat
has proved far too much for the ball, and We scores havl
been the order of the day. The opening o/the Etoi and
Harrow match proved rather slowf but last Saturday the
assemblage at Lord s was as large and fasMonable as eve/ and
the vmtory of Harrow by 20 runs was receivedlS gSrt
enthusiasm. Several on each side batted extremely well ?bM
the fielding especially that of the Eton boys, was veU tor
from what it should have been. We append the full score .-
harrow.
H. F. de Poravicmi, b C. Studd . 1 b 8mith A
SS?” :::» *
|:fe|i??sa'.«a bC : 8 “ d ‘S ;8£gy*S8i :::,!
::: :::S
::: » 8 ssj-s*fw!
B6 ’ lbl ’ w4 .. b i7, i i) i ::: x |
Total ...
119
ETON.
vj. J. Studd, c Rowe, b Ramsay. 2
8. Cuttley, e Lawson, b Spencer ... ... 32
C. T. Studd, c Moncrciffe, b Henery . 20
Hon. M. B. Hawke, c Spencer, b Henery. .. 32
L. K. Douglas, b Luwoon. 1
C. M. Smith, c Rowe, b Lawson is
A. C. Cattley, b Spencer . 1
P. del’arnvicini, notout . u
C. Polhill-Turner, c Lawson, b Henery . . 0
R. A. Byass, b Ramsay .( 0
R. Durant, b Ramsay... n
B6.ib8.wi .. ;;;«
Total
0 Rowe, b Henery
1 b w, b Spencer ...
c Heale, b Moncreiffe
c J arris, b Lawson
c Moncreiffe, b Henery
b Henery .
c Stirling, b Lawson
b Henery .
c Rowe, b Ramsay
b Ramsay.
notout
B 6,1b 2
924
P.S.—John Howard visited Cyprus on his way to Con¬
stantinople, on that last and glorious pilgrimage of humanity
which ended at Kherson. The last King de jure of Cyprus
was a M. de Lusignan, a member of Napoleon I.’s Legislative
Body, who died in Paris in 1814. He was a lineal descendant
of Guy de Lusignan. The Piedmontese Sovereigns assumed
for centuries the titles of “ Kings of Cyprus and Jerusalem,”
until Victor Emmanuel II. exchanged the phantom dignity
for the more substantial style of King of Italy. G. A. S.
NATIONAL SPORTS.
There can be no question but that for some weeks past a
remarkable apathy has characterised all matters connected
with racing. No doubt the stirring events that have taken
place in Europe, and the probability that this country would
shortly be involved in a gigantic war, have had a great deal
to do with it; and then the noble army of backers have, with
one or two notable exceptions, been defeated at all points by
the ring, and will scarcely recruit their shattered forces, and
be in a condition for a fresh campaign, before Goodwood. It
is not, therefore, surprising that the pleasant July meeting at
Newmarket was a little tame, though the weather was fairly
fine and the attendance large. Lord Falmouth, generally so
strong with his two-year-olds, has done little or nothing
this season; but in the Chesterfield Stakes he introduced
us to one of the old sort in a beautiful filly named
Leap Year. She is by Kingcraft—Wheatear, and is, there¬
fore, almost a full sister to Skylark, who is by King Tom, the
sire of Kingcraft, from Wheatear. After the capital per¬
formance of Gunnersbury in the July Stakes, he naturally
started a hot favourite; but it is probable that his exertions on
the Tuesday took all the steel out of Mm, for he never seemed
fairly able to go the pace, and Leap Year won as she liked
from Ishmael. On the Friday, Chevron, who was purchased
Total .••• - 117 Total 208
Umpires: West and Wheeler. /0B
Lancashire has beaten Yorkshire in a stogie innings with 26
runs to spare, an unexpected result, wMch was matoly brought
aboutby the deeMy bowling of Mr. A. G. Steel, who tookno
less than fourteen wickets, and the fille batting Q ’ f Mr
(/8) and Barlow (60). Notts has defeated Surrey by ten wickets 7
the scoring on each side being most insignificant) and Morlev
taking twelve Surrey wickets for only 70 runs. In the match
radto«£ t Su88eX ’ ***: f Penn achieved the extra-
ordma ?T , feat of taking six wickets for only three runs •
to d bi« h ^ 1 C0Unty ’ ^ which Lord Harris (76) batted
m his old style, won in one innings with 36 runs to
spare. Yorkshire made short work of Surrey, thanks to the
heavy scoring of Ulyett (67), Greenwood (61) and Aimitoge
(71); and there was some veiy fast run-getting in the contest
between Middlesex and Notts, which was drawn Mr W H
Hadow (140 and 44) Oscroft (37 and 77), and Selby (62) being
the largest contributors for their respectivesides. The splendid
batting of C. Bannermann (133) enabled the Australians to
beat Leicestershire by eight wickets, to spite of the stubborn
resistance of Wheeler (60 and 65) and Sankey (70).
The result of lost week’s archeiy meeting at the Crystal
Palace is that among the ladies Mrs. Piers Legli was ntoccJ
first with 598, Mrs. Homiblow second with 560 flier reo/score
being 659, from which 15 per cent was deducted as a penalty
for previous successes), while Mrs. Marshall was third with
559 (her rail score reaching the Mgh number of 699 but
suffenng a diminution of 20 per cent, according to the’laws
of the game). Among the gentlemen, Mr. Palairet was able to
sustain a loss of 25 per cent and yet to remain first Mr
Wafrond ernne next with 693 and Mr. Chapman next with
684. In the handicaps expressly so called Mrs. Ainsworth and
Mr. Porter were first. Mr Butt, the honoraiy secretary who
this year succeeded to the duties from which Mr Georee
Chenery retired to 1877, announced that a similar meeting will
be held next year at the Crystal Palace. e
The Royal North Yacht Club Regatta was concluded last
Saturday at Greenock. The two principal prizes, £100 each
wore won by Jullanar and Cythere. The Nore Yacht Club
also sailed a match on Saturday, Florence and Mil dred win¬
ning respectively the first and second prizes.
Miss Beckwith on Wednesday afternoon swam from West¬
minster Bridge to Richmond and back to Mortlake-a distance
of twenty miles.
A letter was read on Wednesday at the Paisley Presbytery
of the Established Church of Scotland, from the Iiev Dr
Gillan, suggesting that the Reverend Court should appoint a
day of thanksgiving for the peace secured at Berlin by Lord
Beaconsiield, and for the escape this country had had from the
horrors of war. The Presbytery decided that the thanks¬
giving should take place to all its churches on Sunday, July 28.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, July 20, 1878 — 60
THE ROYAL AGRICUL T URAL SOCIETY AND PRINCE OF WALES AT BRISTOL.
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THE RO'VAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY AND PRINCE OF WALES AT BRISTOL.
THE AVON, FROM CLIFTON DOWNS, BRISTOL CHANNEL IN THE DISTANCE.
BRISTOL AND CLIFTON.
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Views also of that romantic scenery °B the
Swtog thfRiv« Aron^whiA
suburban neighbourhood, will P , .
justice, with pen and peDoO, to <Uw»«““£
and interesting features, and to the local a* 8 ®
eiations of history, that belong to
▼incial cities and towns of England and Sco
^nciai ciues « Bristol was made
RJJS TaTJeslt IUustrations in our
Number for Oct. 25, 1873, upon the occasion
of a Musical Festival held at C°Uton Hai 1
raise funds in aid of the medical charitma- We
then gave views of the inner port, with its
shipping alongside the quays, the Cathedral
ffiSK tetorud), the rcm»m» ol St.
teteA &» ««£» «*
SsSm®
SSeristic style of his “ Leaves from a Sketch-
Book,” will be appreciated by all true ioversof
antiquity and by all who have an eyeforthe
unstudied b^ often charmhigrffwtodt^uamt
T HE 1LLUSTBATED
fine arts. J
MB ALFRED 8CHOECK’S LANDSCAPES. n
There are now on at the^gaUery ot ^ t]
Einil Diinki, Buckingham 1 alact roao^
landscapes by the art-merit
which .leserve-nofaa"presented,
and the nature of t 3 about three feet
The largest picture, J^^^JtSun ” a few j
-
eca .treked teUnianf by two •
These are dominated in the^foregro ^ ftn
desolate peaks, on the
eagle, emphasising by its presence „ ^
loneliness of the scene. ‘Cape Mabon,
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I ^riei^ 8 S^ t ^nd blackened. Two
Erown bears watch a couple of moose as they
“ufie on the nramtem. ol Horww .mme-
diately after the first fall of sno .
towards wliicli the reindeer wander *■
frozen, aud reflects brightly tlie^pe^of
the sun-kissed mountains. There are sevom ,
pictures in the gallery besides those ■we haro
named, but we have said enough to mdicaro
the wide extent of Air. Schoeck u travels mid
the ready character of his pencil. Hi» manner
2f pSingi^hd and manly and by no means
unworthy of his master, the late M. Diday, of
Geneva, who also had the j
ing Calame, the most esteemed of all the bwiss
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I all the kino.. l;y K*t, la. Id. MRB nN. 23 to 33. BUlr-rtrcct,
SSSES J weathered and S
worn by the lapse of many years. In the Gal
cable-fronted, half-timbered houses of Kmg- afte
J££ Mm vTeport-street, and Pithay.with theu tfil
over-hanging upper floors, their onel windows per.
filled wit? square mullions, and “J
by pent-house lids, thoroughly breaking up tto bet
toes of horizontal extension, we see the ordi- say
nary character of Elizabethan town or street ope
architecture, retaining some trace of Tudor _
Gothic or Perpendicular traditions, which d 3
thus seem to have proved as congenial to Dc
the modest uses of common popular and pel
tome“S?Se as to those of stately tM, g
astical and palatial magnificence. We gave str
a view in Wine-street, with the kouse m
which Southey was born, and one ofSteep- St.
street, among the Illustrations of Bristol before be
published. The old city was formerlycalled th(
Bristow or Brigstow, which means the Place thi
of the Bridge,” as we find a “ Bristow-street Mi
in Edinburgh, and in other towns. It Btands ca
at the confluence of the Frome with the Avon, pe
eight miles from the sea ; and the new port of t h
Avonmouth, with its capacious docks recently p l
described in this Journal, bids fair to take its cu
full share of maritime commerce. The trade , be
with the West Indies, and the manufacture of | su
sugar as well ns its importation, have long in
contributed to the prosperity of Bristol, which ci
has nevertheless lagged f ar behind Liverpool ana tli
Glasgow in the race of mercantile enterprise ei
during the past half century. In the more ti
troublous and adventurous periods of our t<
national history, this sturdy and active old la
city of the West has borne a conspicuous p
part; in the wars between Stephen and w
Matilda, the Barons’ war against Henry HI.,
the dethronement of Edward II. and that of g
Richard II., and the Civil Wars of Charles I. h
with the Parliament, when Bristol was stonned I t
by Prince Rupert, and was recaptured by r
Fairfax two years afterwards. The Cathedral, I a
with the Bishop's sec, was founded by 1
Henry VIII. upon the dissolution of bt. \
Augustine’s Abbey. 1
The pleasant, salubrious, ondrather fashion- t
able suburb of Clifton, with the adjacent 1 ]
Clifton Downs, Durdham Downs, and St. ]
Vincent’s Rocks, and with the once famous ,
medicinal spa called “The Hot Wells, ’ •
situated beueath those heights on the bauks
of the Avon, has long been a favourite place
of residcuce for quiet and leisurely people.
The river here separates Gloucestershire
from Somersetshire, flowing through a
graud gorge, 250 feet deep and 600 feet
wide, between precipitous limestone cliffs,
on the one side, and the lovely hanging I
woods of Leigh Court and Nightingale Valley
ou the other. It is spanned by the noble
chain (-uspension-bridge, which was completed,
some fifteen years ago, with the materials of
the tluugerford Suspension Bridge removed
from London. This work is chiefly remarkable
for the immense amount of masonry in the
supporting piers, especially that on the Somer¬
setshire side. A distant view of lire Bristol
Channel or “ Severn Sea,” with the opposite
coast of Wales, is obtained from the heights
near f'Htt>.n.
\Vc diall give another page of “ Bits of Old
Bristol” next week.
From Valpaiaiso we have particulars of a
hurricane there, by which some lives were
lost, and great damage done to the shipping
In port and to property on Bhore.
Sir Coutts Lindsay opened the Grosvenor n,
Gallery from two to three o’clock on Sunday
afternoon, and again in the evening from six Jo
till eight. Five hundred and bixty-three q
neraons passed the turnstiles To-morrow t
and on Aug. 4 the gallery wiil be opened _
between six and eight p.m. Sir C . ou f t ^.^ 1 ? 1< *'
say asks us to state that it is his intention to 1
open tl. Gro.ra.or GnUnrr tee after three J
o’clock on the afternoons of the three batur- „
days-July 20, 27, and Aug. 3. Tickets can
be obtained on Fridays by application, either £
personally or by letter, contouring addressed
envelope, to the Secretary, 132, New Bond- ti
street. , .. ,
The sub-committee for the completion of t
St Paul’s have presented a report which has
been adopted by the executive committee on ,
the decoration of the dome. They recommend
that a contract should be entered into with ,
Mr. Leighton, R.A., for the preparation of a 1
cartoon for one of the large circles, at an ex¬
pense of £600, with the understanding that 11 ,
the work is proceeded with he is to be em- '
ployed, if he wishes it, for the other seven great
circles on similar terms ; that a contract should
be made with Mr. Poynter for all the figure-
subjects on two of the ribs, and all the others
in the intermediate space, at a price not to
exceed £1550, with a like understanding as to
the remainder; that Mr. Stannus should be
employed to prepare a full-sized cartoon of
two of the ribs of the dome and all thearchi-
' tectural features between them. It is ealeu-
L lated it will require at least one year to com-
> plete these works, for which £3500 to £4000 |
l will be required. I
1 A marble relievo called “ Peace, “id the |
E Soldiers’ Return,” executed by Mr. J. Bell,
• I has been bought by the London Corpora- j
1 ' tion, and placed in the Guildhall. The relievo
7 represents the return of Wellington and his
, j army after the peace following the Battle of |
7 Waterloo. The figure of the Duke on horse- I
I back is in the centre of the composition; on |
his right is represented Victory breaking the
■ I sword of the enemy, and on the other side
it I Peace is sheathing hers. Above ore figures of
t. I plenty and Fame, and 011 both sides the
18 returning Guards are breaking from the ranks
” to clasp wife and child, while groups in front
C8 show the people welcoming the Duke and his
’® victorious soldiers. The new relievo has been
e - bung in the lobby through which the various
re city offices are approached. It is framed in
a wood painted to resemble Sienna marble.
The following contributions have been made
Es > by some of the City guilds to the fund now
being collected by the Society of Arts for the
ey _° nrHftivn ronorters to the
^CHERRY RIFE! By HELEN MATHERS. The
reu tS!!& &&..*»». K- .
TkICKERS and SON’S NEW 7s. 6d.
^'dODD’S BEAUTJES
AMB'B TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE. Beau-
tlfuL)^lJriute<l.*itli 12 IlliutnitioiK, from 111*CelebratedBoydeU
U "cmrrTTPV , H LIFE OF NELSON. With 19 Ulus-
treu?™wiuil. ltaD.^Ol UreUattle* and faalmllo ol hi.
W FORSTER’8 LIFE OF GOLDSMITH, with Portrait
.ndV^ lVWcuUutter SUr.tleld. Jladtee. U*ch. Doyle, and I
“MOTLEY’S (JOHN LOTHROP) RISE OF THE
ffiS^fiESlfcSfc irriirtS? torlud’ta cloth, prlco
7, pRE^rO'rPH ttl (W 1 ™ H i HISTORY OF THE
0OKvSmt&>!E klCb. A
the Aithorte laU’-t IM'redton* “‘Wted «S
d^terlbte tn^rwaftoS In doth llln^dUrg. 7a. 6d.; In
fu wnrrE’s natural history and antiqui-
TltS OK SELBOUNE. The Stmelnnl Edition by Bcnncftt.
Oinmiiahly revised * with A.blltlonni N"te« by Jomra Edmund
‘‘itu^iKt^l'VEs'ilrd CAMEBON.23 to 33. Btelr-rtteet.
Edinburgh. __ —
^AUTION Ptojutart-^ “StfSjl
J'BARDS’ PLANOS.—COTTAGES, from
Su L'ufncw.
OBLluUES, from *6 guinea*.
G BANOS, Iroin 125 guinea*.
ffxaa AlaWsr 83 Jw ami Bssa
^aasraws
gi ANew i ciU™Htiie^VSJii'JlleganMjr Bound Ibn.kt in all depart-
•““‘l^d^U^^'aml^.TSESm W.O.
FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
The Beat of all IteUwuj Co mpanion *. Sixpence each.
T>EMROSE’S PANORAMIC RAILWAY
l ! bl "h .'ry bloBrapIre! and lienee b dated In plain language and
! f ° UUWU 1 ^^^fflouth Ck-at.
Lmd’liand Sonth-WeaUm. OrentWreter...
AiTUSICAL-BOX DEPOTS, 56, Cheapside,
M. and M. Ludgnte-hlll. London .-Nicole'* celebnrted Murical
boxe*. playingbwt tecularciMl *»«•> C» x * n^tnWue
^ryto^TLESAM'CLLLOCH.-abore.
rrvfTF BEST ENGLISH WATCHES.
tlonof Purcha*er»to their l aicai cuutldenUy recom-
ssuss'issiSaSsJfflr- “
Dith? je«Tll«l In four bole., and cr.pi-ed -. •• " | “ g
D ‘**° , *^TwwS!Se*^n Hunting Ca*«*!' 0 lw. Sd.extra.
Patent °o
SiSS: Zm ^'JtrenT^.Td jewelled In loir holm M 1 * .
Gold Watch**.—Steo for Gentlemen.
Patent Lerer Watehe*. jewelled. *ec«>iid«. and capl •> 0
G*tto, Jewelled In *lx hole*, and gold balance .. .. >»«
Gold Watehe* In UunUng Ca«*. ***£**%: r^ttf.
^‘^T^Tn ana iTcornhlU^dou.
E DENT and CO., 61, Strand; and
Kingdom) of the «
oeing couecLcu vj — ---- ---
purpose of seuding artisan reporters to the
Pans Exhibition-.—The Clotliworkera’ Com¬
pany, £100; the Drapers’ Company, 50 guineas; i
the Mercers’ Company, 50 guiucaa; the Fish-
mongera’ Company, 25 guineas; the Cord-
wainers’ Company, 25 guineas; the Salters’
Company, 10 guiucas; the Carpenters’ Com¬
pany, 10 guineas.
Mr. J. P. Knight, the general manager of
the London and Brighton Railway, has intro¬
duced an admirable innovation on that toe, by
wav of experiment, which, it is to be hoped,
i will be quickly followed by other railway com¬
panies With a view of affording increased
comfort to passengers travelling during the hot
I weather, he lias ordered a supply of fresh cold
I drinking-water, at a penny per glass, to bo
I supplied to passengers at Lewes, Horsham, and
-DOTTERY-PAINTING: a Handbook to
1 the Practice. By JOHN' C. 1.-S|‘A UKE8 ' of . f 1
1 .urnboth School of Aft. Ac. Skcwnd trlltlon.
London: Lkoiikiitikb, IUbub, und Co.. Ufgent-itnwt, W.
(Agent* In Englxml lor Lacroix * Cemmic Colour*).
In the press, pi Ice H. 6*1. ; post-free, lx «d.,
rHITE WOOD and its Ornamentation.
TV lk-lng Practical Instruction* In the Art* of Fern Print¬
ing, 1 E,lgwaru-niud. London.
Mr JAUEZ HOGG'S WORKS, Coloured Plates. 2*. (Id. each,
mHE CURE OF CATARACT AND
X OTHER EYE AFFEC1TONS.
IMPAIRMENT OR LOSS OF VISION FROM
SPINAL CONCUSSION OB SHOCK. __
bl A A *PARASITIC OU GERM THEORY OF
D \fy E JAUEZ HOGG. ConsnlMng Surgeon to Uro Boyal Weat-
*Lond'?n: 'hau.lii:ui. and t'o..2u. King WUllum-rtrcet, Strand.
J ust publisbeil, poet-free, 2 rtarops.
TVYSPEPSIA AND THE SEVERER
If I'OHMS OF INDIGESTION. A Miiall Pamplilrt on those
i distressing complaint*, and the complete cure*. By lilCHABD
KING, E*q., SUlt-Surgeon, B.N.,23. Warwick-etreet, Bughy.
nit). BENNETT’S WATCHES.
SSSIa ^- 1 - 4
N ETT, 66 and «t, Oheapstde.
WALKER’S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES
W are »upereeding all other*. Prlrc .M l -d.l.--l>'mdon, lw2,
cvuoTde gold watches, 21 > . “‘ u ;
V/ 3Ut.; free by reglatered post (id e t xt . r * „ ‘ “
gold watches; exact time-keeper*. Catalogui* l "°b i r ' t •
* C. C. BOWE.», Brompton-road. London, B. re.
/CAUTION.—BOND’S CRYSTAL PALACE
l_> GOLD MEDAL MARKING INK.-S*m , e ( ttecmJ» t *^n|i
MS by r thi* Laughter of tin-late jJhn jikn.<L"-Work*.
7fl, 8outlig*tc-ro«il, Lomluu. No lusting required.
TOHN GOSNELL and CO.’S VIOLET
J and M1LLEFI.EI U POWDER. “^id'hvafi
''rOUIilSTS and TRAVELLERS—Ladies
X visiting the seaside,' exposed to sun and <lm>t. will And
HOWLANDS KALYLKJlt c.ling and refrea ling U< the
faeGaml skin. It ennllcates rrecklc*. tan 1 V ,, .f,T
<>f insert-, 4*. «d. HOWLANDS' ilAGAW-Al. OIL. iH*
invieorntor and tieautifler of tile hair l.oW LANDS
O DON TO beatows on the teeth a pearl-llke wbltelio*.
2a. ixl. Sold by Chemist*. Ask for Howlands .
-jyjARK ^WAIN’S
PATENT SCRAP-BOOK!
In th* ute of thi* book »imply moisten the gum and apply the
scrap. The immediate result will oonflrm the testimony of many
toth THK ONLY “CONVENIENT SCRAP-BOOK MADE.
Csprclnlly mluoted to all literary jpeffcnitft, rt they can preserve all
those Itenui oflnterert In the daily and Wi-ekiv papera> without
trouble or annoyance. A great help to all Author*. Editor*,aud
! ^TTie’p'lcb.rtat Scrap-Uook preserve* all tlie Picture* from the
" llluiUatml Nows' or •• Grajdiic," und become* a great source
of AtnoJlUiieot to the llomeliold.
Fur fcnle by uKl lUMik^llcia and Statlunert.
Published by Srsnx, Wood max. aud Co.,
Great St. Thomas AposUe, London, B.a
vr ALU ABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR.
V if vn.ir hair te turning grey, or white, or falling off, us*
of the hair on Irald ajmts where the gland* »n n ‘ «h<«T
•^^^I^^^^O^rdl^Lindon.
T7L0RILINE. For the Teeth aud Breath.
r la the best Liquid Dentifrice In the Worid. ttttomgb^
Fragianl*KloriHnr^emlOVea^VrwtanGy >oi odk*ure.rising from a
foufstomach or tobacco smoke, ^ ln n i oDT^ltte mrfrSij
, GALLUP, *33, oxford-itreet, London. lit tailed everywhere.
JULY 20, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
R oyal polytechnic institution
AT AIX-LA CHAPELLK.
Beginning of Lectures, October 1.
Prospectuses, Plan of Lectures, and Conditions of Admission
maybohad on application to tho Director.
Q.REAT WESTER
WESTERN RAILWAY.
NEW WESTERN ROUTE TO THE CONTINENT,
rid Weymouth and Cherbourg,
will be OPENED on THURSDAY, AUQ. 1.
Fixed Daily Service by Fast Trains and Steamers.
Tho service has been organised by arrangements between the
Great Western Railway and the Western of Franco Railway, and
will afford a convenient, attractive, and economical new route to
Normandy, the West and South of France. Paris, and Spain.
The passage between Weymouth and Cherbourg will ocenpy
about six hours, and the voyages in both directions will bo made
b ^Tho J Steamers from Weymouth to Cherbourg will start dally
(Sundays excepted) at 2.43 p.m. in connection with a through
„f steamers from the South of Ireland, and Express
ion, Bristol, Plymouth. Birmingham, and all
in tho Great Western Rollwav, reaching Chcr-
t new Special Fast Train to Paris, arriving in
Trains from London,
bourg in time for
time for the earl;-
Switzerland, Germany,
___ x Special__
time for tho early morning Trains to the
Bwltierland, Germany, and Italy, and also h- .
vii Mezidon, Lo Mans, and Tours, with the Paris
Railway.
- Bti
Trains from Paris and other parts of the Continent
before mentioned, reaching Weymouth in time for Express
Trains to the above-menuo"- 4 ■ — «“ «—* " r - *—
— - of France,
also having a connection,
n. »v- o.-r. —Qrloans
0 Great Western
rorvlce to and from all principal towns on the Great Western
Railway, and Paris, and Stations on the Western of France Rail¬
way, and also the principal towna on the Continent.
81ngle Tickets aro available for Seven Days, and Return Tickets
for One Month.
Passengers may break their Journey at Weymouth, Cherbourg,
Caen, Paris, or Le Mans.
Particulars of Fores. Rates, and other information, can be
obtained at tho Stations, and also at the Company’s Receiving
Paddington Terminus.
J. Gbiebson, General Manager.
P ARIS EXHIBITION, SWITZERLAND,
and the RHINE.—Cheap Circular Tours via Harwich.
The Boat Express leaves the Great- Eastern Company’s IJvor-
pool-street Station at eight p.m. for Rotterdam every weekday, and
for Antwerp on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Friduys. The mag¬
nificent New Steamers. Princess of Walos and Claud Hamilton,
now perform the Antwerp Service. Interpreters In uniform
accompany passengors to Cologne, arriving there the day ufter
leaving London. No cattle are now carried. Through booking
of passengers’ luggage and merchandise to tho principal Conti¬
nental towns at the lowest fares. West-End Office, 2M, Picca-
dllly-clrcus. For information apply to tho Continental Office,
Llverpool-stroet Station, London, E.G.
PARIS EXHIBITION.
*THE CALAIS-DOUVRES, certified by the
I- Board of Trade, and specially appointed by the French
Government for the conveyance of tho Day Mails la-tween
Calais and Dover, IS NOW RUNNING DAII.V, except Sundav
and Monday. Reserved and Numbered Seats in the Grand
Saloon to bo secured at tho Booking Office, LONDON. CHAT¬
HAM, and DOVER RAILWAY, Victoria Station ONLY.
PARIS EXHIBITION.
rpHE CHATHAM & DOVER COMPANY’S
A Splendid new Twin Steamship CALAIS-DOUVRES, now
running in connection with the Mail Express Trains, leaving
VICTORIA 7.<0 a.m.. HOLBOBN VIADUCT 7.35 a.m., and
LUDOATE-HILL 7.38 a.in.
PARIS EXHIBITION.
/CALAIS -DOUVRES.—Magnificent Upper
Deck Accommodation, with luxurious Arm-Chairs.
Bplendld Saloon above Deck. Handsome Ladies' Cabins, with
Stewardess. Lavatories and every convenience. Private Cabins
for Parties and Families. Apply for information. Reserved
Cabins, *c„ at LONDON, CHATHAM, and DOVER RAIL¬
WAY, Victoria Station, Pimlico, S.W.
’M’EW OSTEND. — The most beautiful and
I’ most frequented Seaside Place on the Continent: summer
residence of their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians.
TheSEASON OPENED on JUNE 1. Regatta and Great Ocean
Yacht Races. Pigeon-Shooting throughout the season. All the
Building Land in New Ostend, divided into lots, Is now ready
for sale. Eligible Freehold Sites. Easy terms of payment. F.ir
Prospectuses, Plans, Ac.,apply to the owner, M. DELBOUJLLE.
Ostend House, Ostend.
T)AELWAY PASSENGERS’ ASSURANCE
At COMPANY,
__ for providing against
ACCIDENT BY RAILWAY OR STEAM-BOAT
-- ’ ’ARIS otul lmck.
PS £11100 if Killed, or £6 per
Apply at the Booking-Offices of tU ...
Head Office, 64, Cornhill, London.
Wilmam J. Vian, Secretary.
n Railways, or at the
RUSSELL,
n Lynn’s Old Waterloo Hotel,
FUBVEYOR TO ROY AL'FvAN D THE NOBILITY
and to the late
. BANQUET AND BALL
In Itun.iiir of the Visit of the
LORD MAYOR AND SHERIFFS OF LONDON
on the occasion of the Opening f the
__BLACKPOOL WINTER GARDENS.
M, BOLD-STREET, aud 9, PARKER S t'REET, LIVERPOOL.
ARDER EVERYTHING YOU REQUIRE
^THROUGH COCKBUBN’S UNITED SERVICE AGENCY
SOCIETY. 41, Haymarket. London, S.W.. and 6uve from 6 to SO
per cent and much time and trouble by so doing.
DISEASES OF THE SKIN,
l.w.c. Established 1864.
V, ctori.,-street, S. W.
TTOMCEOPATHIO HOSPITAL (SELECT)
&Uhnt£Lf^2j IE8 V B 2 1 ^ on Ho “ 8 ®- lfl2 i Olapham-road, Surrey.
froiJ, 1 A Prlv , 8t ® Hiimc, where Patients suffering
rrom serious diseases, and requiring special supervision, can
n^in„ the , b 2|. t , M « U 1 C “ 1 8rul Surgical Treatment without In-
feJL' Ji 1 . ct I in , th elr own homes. Treatise of successfuI cases
GiniiK^aH twelve stainps. Physician, DAVID JONES, M.D.
““ ***
nORPULENCE.-YATE HOLLAND’S
abiorh^Sm AT1 ? ( ! POWDERS (or Pills) speedily and safely
■gmwpMiion* fat and reduce corpulency, however long
**• *?• 4s - «**-. »'«> Os. per Box.-MARTIN and
_ s, ParadiBe-road. London. S.W.; or through any Chemist
TTOLLOWAY’S PILLS and OINTMENT.
lWer Stem l’" r,f ’ r W J® blood, correct all disorders of the
ntherereof\ii'u2 8 ’ , !'i d bow, ’! s ’ Tlie Ointment is unrivalled
in tne cure of bad legs, old wound*, gout, and rheumatism.
JJINNEFORD’S MAGNESIA.
Tlie best remedy for acidity of
tlie Stomach, Heartburn, Head-
T\r>Tvrr.^.„_ ache. Gout, and Indigestion.
T)INNEFORD’S MAGNESIA.
The safest ar
[ AXORA MEDICATED FRUIT
•BssasHi®”™
wcomme^ded'."' Laxora LoEen *“ >*'
efficacious. Jnd'n IcHy nnidi®' L “° n ‘ Lo2en * e8
•&!*>] siithw.i r rk.fet r “ i,,t, “ d Drn ^ sts: Whole -
J^LAIR’S GOUT PILLS,
S' U , r n'7 t .g, n ,-t': 1 ? PfP'tAy for Gout and Rheumatism R.
Dm- ... i , " . I - restraint, of db-t rennli. i„ r »i
VarL Sold b. ^fnih’Vrr'"''' ’>"■‘Hsci-. atimlng v
'"hi by aU Chemists at la. 1*6. and 2s. Oil. por Bok.
63
TV/TAPLE and CO., the largest and most
worid °°A Hou^ t of F ^- N1SH W (? i ESTABLISHMENT in the
M A ?LE and CO. supply every requisite
JOINING-ROOM FURNITURE.
^ CO.—DINING-ROOM
A large assortment of docks; Bronzes, and oth“r OroSmenuT
JJINING-ROOM FURNITURE. — Forty
Dlnlnir.T^b?!'!,n 1 r< > q ,e i ?»> AtHiquo Sideboards, with
room Sul?^. In ' , "i tch ' i'drty complete Dinlng-
DhiTnv *° “'L oct from - 14 pineas. Good strong
~ve^rM;;! r 24s n 6d n . uaio,tanT or ^
MAPLE and CO.—DRAWING - ROOM
clX r«,!i n ea“y
woll^s block android :**00°13rure'-cbalr>,
a very extensive SU-ck of Clocks, Bronzes, and Funcv Oroil
menta; 600 Chimney-Glasses, from 2 to 80 guineas; Console-
Tables, as well as Girandoles, from 1 to 20 guineas.
^yjAPLE and CO., Importers.
rpURKEY CARPETS,
JNDIAN CARPETS,
pERSIAN CARPETS.
AVER 2000 DAGHESTAN and
80WRNACK CARPETS, Also fiOO Turkey Carpets, of
^ , »ality and ut marvellously low prices. Just received
from Constnntinnnlp Tl-esc t«« m>«I s have been bought by Agents
esjieciftlly dlspHtefunl by Messrs MAPLE and CO. for ca«h t are
> rar,ty : * k,me very handsome old prat er rugs, which
lm\e wv*n tnudHover a hundred years. The j»rice^ are wonder-
fe w " ln one third »>f that usually asked for these
curiosities.—143,146,147. Tottenham-court-road, London.
MAPLE and CO. — SILK DAMASKS.
■fV*r. The largest and most varied assortment of Satin, Silks.
C iteBnes, Silk Reps all In stock. To purchasers this is a great
object, as not only do they get the silks at a lower price than If
they were made, but they ore not kept waiting.
MAPLE and CO.—CURTAINS, for Dining
V*- and Drawing Rooms. The largest and most varied stock
of Curtain Materials in Loudon. Good Wool Reps,double width,
2s. 6d. per yard. Stripe Reps, in all colours, all wool, anti
double width, from 3s. 3d. per yard.
MAPLE and CO—CRETONNE CHINTZ.
The French Cldntz. which requires no lining when used
or loose covers. Tim wiilth is 'J2 inches, and the prices vary
from 6id. ncr vard to Jto. lid. per yard. The largest asaortment
In England. Kltems sent.
POSTAL ORDER DEPARTMENT.
A Messrs. MAPLE and CO. beg resjiectfnlly to state that this
Department is now so organised that they are fully prepared to
execute and supply any Article that can possibly be required In
Furnishing at the same price. If not less, tlmu any other house
In Englund. Patterns sent and quotations given free of charge.
A f APLE and CO—BED-ROOM SUITES
i'A In EARLY ENGLISH, carried out to design by the best
arf bts of the day. Some new and most elegant suites, designed
by gentlemen especially engaged by Messrs. Maple. These suites,
which are a specialty with tills linn, should la? seen. Machinery,
Ac., has bn-n erected so as to produce this class of furniture at
the lowest possible cost.
146, 14«, 147, 148, 149, Tottonham-court-road. London.
TTEAL and SON’S ILLUSTRATED
l-L CATALOGUE of
JJEDSTEADS,
JJEDDING,
JjED-ROOM FURNITURE,
8ENT FREE BY POST.
TTEAL and SON, 195, 196, 197, 198,
AT TOTTENHAM-COURT ROAD. LONDON, W.
/^.ASELIERS, in Crystal, Glass, Ormoulu,
xX or Bronze. Jlcdiicvnl Fittings, Ac. A large assortment
always on view. Every article marked with plain figures.
D. HULETT and CO.. Manufacturers, 55 and 56. High Holbom.
PREAKFAST IN BED—CARTER’S
1 ) PATENT REVOLVING BED-TABLE, adjustable to any
height or Inclination, f"r reading or writing. Price from £2 6s.
Drawings free.—J. CARTER, 6a, New Carendish-stroct, Great
Portland-streot, W.
TEWEL ROBBERIES.-CHUBB’S SAFES
O for JEWELS give the greatest security from the attacks of
burglars, and are also Fire-Resisting. All sizes, with various
fittings. Chubb’s latches and Detector Locks. Price-List sent
free.—CHUBB and SON, 128. Queen Victoria-street, 6t.Paul’s,
E.O.; and 68, St. Jamea's-street, S.W.
TEWEL ROBBERIES PREVENTED—J.
TANN’S RELIANCE SAFES have never failed to resist
the attempts of tlie most determined burglars. Fire-Resisting
Safes, £5 6s. Lists free.—11. Newgate-street. E.O.
TCE SAFES or REFRIGERATORS Fitted
A with Water Tanka, Filters, and every modem improvement.
Tbe New Double-Wall Ice-Water Pitchers, Ice Butter-Dishes,
Champagne Fnippc Pails, Soltzogones, Freezing Powders, Ac.
Listsfree.-WENUAM LAKE ICE COMPANY, 125, Strand.
fdSTERN FILTERS.—The last
\J Improvement-.—L1PSOOMHE and CO.’S PATENT SELF-
CLEANING CHARCOAL CISTERN FILTER Is an Immense
Improvement, gives no trouble to servants, three times more
efficient and seven times more durable than any other cistern
filter. More than 11.000 In use. Slay bo rented In London.
44, Queen Victoria-street; and 69, Oxford-street. Removing
from Temple Bar.
p ARDEN SEATS and GARDEN TOOLS.
YX D EAN E and CO.’S Illustrated Catalogue for 1878, post-free.
1. Lawn Mowers, from6In., 25s.: 48ln.,£32.
2. Garden Rollers. 16 in.. 34s.; IS in.. 10s.; 20 In., 60*.
3. Garden Engines, Syringes, and Water Barrows.
4. Garden Barrows, W.mxI, 22 s . Gd.; Iron, from 26a.
6. Garden Seats, from 17s. to £5 5s.; Tables, from 10*.
6. Wire Netting. Arches, and Flower Stands.
7. Ornamental Vases, Iron, and TerraCotta.
8. Gardeners’ Tools—Spades. Scythes. Shears. Ac.
9. Hot-Water Apparatus for Greenhouses, Pits. Ac.
10. Iron Hurdles. Gates. Continuous Fencing. Ac.
Deane and Co., 46, King Wllliam-st., London Bridge.—A.D. 1700,
ELECTRICITY 18 LIFE.
PULVERM ACHE R’S “GALVANISM,
AT NATURE’S CHIEF RESTORER OF EXHAUSTED
VITAL ENERGY.”
In this Pamphlet the most reliable proofs are given of the
vast and wonderful curative powers of Pulverraacher's
Patent Galvanic Chain-Bands Belts, Ac.. In Rheumatic,
Nervous, and Functional Disorders. Bent post-free for
three stamps, on application to
J. L. PUI.VKRMACIIEIt's GALVANIC ESTABLISHMENT,
194, REGENT-STREET, LONDON, W.; AND39, RUE ST.
MARC, PARIS.
JXETER ROBINSON, OXFORD-STREET.
GREAT SALE OF FRENCH SILKS
AND ANNUAL SUMMER SALE.
PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH
UATT'S WATER-PAD TRUSSES are the
m i»t eif 1-01.11 ''lire.— \;q ■ *o.l F. Pratt. Surgical Mechanician
to St. Bartholomew's Hospital 420 Oxford-street London.
T 0 1
gILKS AT GREAT REDUCTIONS,
2OJW0 mttres of rich 8tripe andChwl Silks, at Is. lljd. per yard;
400 pieces of rich Coloured Gros Grain Slits, every uew shade,
1000 pieces of Black SM^f^sj^ypureneas. In four prices-
viz., 3s. 3Jd., 3s. 6d., Ss. lid., and 4a. 6d. per yard.
BROCADED SILKS,
of extreme richness, usual prices 8s. Gd. to 21s., will be sold at
4s. 6d. to 6s. 6d. per yard.
Damossts of the newest designs, usual prioo 8s. 6d., at
wilh 0 Pt® 0 ® 8 .°* 811k Pongees?in lengths of 20 yards, with Rich
Embroidered Scarves for trimming (now so much worn in Paris),
600 pieces Rich Silk Embroidered Cashmere, at 3s. 9d. per yard;
, usual prioo. 6s. 6d.
1600 pieces of Pongee Washing Silks. 20 yards for 16a. 9d.
.. _ . . Patterns post-free,
oo oiro2 n !!f <1 Sllk Coetnmea at, 58s. Gd., reduced from 84 guineas.
98 Silk Costumes In Black and all Colours. 44 guineas, very cheap.
PETER ROBINSON. OXFORD-STREET.
J^NNUAL SUMMER SALE.
DRESSES AT GREAT REDUCTIONS.
MW pieces Summer Cashmere Merlnoea, new Colours,
250 pieces Twilled AngoUMoM^tge.^u'Wool, In useful Shades
, of Grey. Drat). Brown, Steed. Ac., at lOd. per yard.
400 pieces Striped Llama Pool ins. all pure Wool, 7Jd. per yard.
The entire Stock of French Pe.cales, Cambrics, Brilliants, and
Moss Cretonnes. aU new Patterns, will bo sold at Gd. per yard,
boxes Fast Black Velvet Velveteens, formerly 3s. 6d„ at
2s. 3d. per yard.
„ . _ Pattern* post-free.
Made Costumes, In all the New Fabrics and Latest Style of
Fashion, 29s. Gd. to £6 6s., including—
210 Costumes In Angola Moss Cloth, formerly 3 guineas, at 35s.;
180 Trimmed and Braided Cashmere Morning Robes,
„ , formerly 42s., at 21s.;
150 Paris Model Costumes, formerly 6 to 10 guineas, at
Si to 5 guineas.
PETER ROBINSON, OXFORD-STREET.
j^NNUAL SUMMER SALE.
MANTLES AT GREAT REDUCTIONS.
Diagonal Cloth and Figured Cashmere Jackets, from 21s.
A variety of C'loured Cloth Jackets and Mantles, from 21s.
Indian Cashmere Jackets, from 31s. Gd.
Embroidered Casluncre Polonaises (unmade), 31s. 6d.
Alpaca Dust Cloaks, from 9s. lid.
YVaterproof Mantles, from 17s. Gd.
Cashmere Circulars, lined Squirrel Fur, from 21s.
Everlngton and Graham’s Stock of Indian, Chinese,
French, and British Shawls at half price.
1U10 Stri|K"l Summer Shawls, at 2s. lid.
__...Cashmere Sliawlettcs. embroidered, from 6s. lid.
PETER ROBINSON. 103 to 108, OXFORD-STREET, LONDON.
'TRAVELLING and SEASIDE DRESSES.
A Witney Serges and line Cashmeres,
in Now Shades,
Rich Granite Cloths, Damask Lawns, New Angolas,
Specialities in Moss Cloths. Fancy Caslmires, Ac.,
from 12s. Gd to 3ls. Gd. tbe Dress. Patterns free from
PETER ROBINSON. OXFOHD-STHEET. LONDON, W.
J? 2 0,0 00 WORTH of NEW SILKS-
Pattern-Books, elegantly mounted, contain¬
ing 5TX1 varieties, from 2s. 24d. to 10s. Gd.-
post-free.
D. NICHOLSON and CO., 60 to 63, St.
Paul’s-churcliyard, Loudon.
4?7000 WORTH of NEW DRESSES.
c?W All tho lutcst Novelties In Costumo Cash-
mores. Muscovite Cloths, Bonrettcs. and
other Fashionable Fabrics for Ladies’ Dresses.
Patterns free.
1). NICHOLSON and CO.. 60 to 63, St.
Panl’s-churehyurd, London.
^00 NEW COSTUMES in CASHMERE
t-e and SII.K and all Fashionable Materials,
2gr. to 4 gs.; in nil Silks, from 3gs. to 10gs.
Illustrations free.
1). NICHOLSON and CO., 50 to 63, St.
Paul's-church)aril, London.
TAY’S PERIODICAL SALE OF SURPLUS
W STOCK.
QILK DEPARTMENT. — JAUBERT’S
O BLACK SILKS, from 3s. ikl. per yard; Bonnet’s Black
Silks, from 4s. lid. per yard; Black Batins, mado from the
purest Italian Silk (all Silk), from 6s. 3d. per yard. Patterns
CILK COSTUME DEPARTMENT.
O LIGHT SUMMER SILK COSTUMES, 31 gs. each:
Frince-s Robes, 61 gs. each; Black Satin Costumes (all Silk),
7} gs. each.
MANTLE DEPARTMENT.
DA GRENADINE and LACE JACKETS, 15s. 6d. each;
Ca-hmere Shinties, one guinea each; Cloth Jackets, 1} guinea
each: Fnr-liiicd Jackets. ->) gs. each; Sealskin Jackets. 41 gs.
each. French models will lie sold at lialf their cost.
T)ALL and EVENING DRESS ROOM.
1 1 Designs of tlie most recent date, at prices that will be
remarkable among the now numerous sales. Ft'to Dresses from
21s. each. All light Evening Dresses, Lavender Satins, Black
and Gold Satins, und Silvered Nets, at extremely low prices.
nREY DEPARTMENT.—CAMBRIC
vX DRESSES, from 14s. fid. each; Fancy Costumes, trimmed
sllk and sutin, reduced to 3} gs., 4gs.. 4Jgs., and 6gs. each.
French Patterns ut "lie quarter their nsual prices. Material
Dresses, from 2 gs. to 5,-K. Gd. each. Winter Dresses, the residue
of last season’s stock, to be sold at nominal prices. French
Materials, all wool, from Is. per yard.
IVTILLINERY.—All Summer Bonnets,
DA Hats, and Caps are greatly reduced In price.
JAYS’
THE LONDON GENERAL MOCRNING WAREHOUSE,
Regent-street, W.
pH ARLES GASK and CO. (Limited).
V> sale CONTINUED for a short time longer, at FURTHER
REDUCED PRICES.
Indian Washing Silks, 11s. 8d. Full Piece.
Richest quality Brocaded Japanese Silks, reduced to Is. 4d.
COSTUMES.
Tlie whole of the Immense Stock of Silk and Silken
Costumes, Paris-made Costumes, Dinner Dresses. Ac.,
Beautifully Embroidered Washing Costumes, ut 21s.:
French Cambric and Percale Costumes, at 15s. !)d.
BALL AND FETE DRESSES. . , ,
All the Fete and Ball Dresses extremely cheap. One
Hundred will be sold at 10s. Ikl. each.
MANTLE-.
Silk and Caslimere Mantles, Ficlius, Travelling Ulsters,
15e. 9d., Ac. Squirrel-Lined Cashmere Travelling Cloaks,
29s. 6d. each.
BEAL PALETOTS.
A large purchase of these fashionable Garments, SB Incites
long, at id guineas each; smaller sizes in proportion.
DRESS MATERIALS.
New French Beiges. 9Jd. peryanl.
Silk Mixtures. Is. Id.; French Cushmeres, double width.
Moss andlinowflake Gauzes and Grenadines, reduced
to Bid.
MOURNING DEPARTMENT.
Ujiwiirds of 90 tDvimdln
Black Grenadines anipGuiiM*', «Jd. |ier yard; and all Black,
price much reduced in proportion.
MILLINERY. OUTFITTING.
Tlie whole of the Summer Bonnets, Hats, Flowers,
Featilers, Children's Dresses and Jackets, Ac., will be sold
at nominal prices, to ensure them immediate sale.
Patterns of all Goods free.
e and other Costumes of light
pIIVRLES GASK aud CO. (Limited),
V J r,«. M i*J». <51 . W •«. < iwt : 1 . 2. 3, 4,5, Wcllz-Btiett,
Londou. Carnage cutxoiice 6, WcUb-otrcet.
H
TTENRY GLAVE’S
J-L GREAT SUMMER SALE OF CHEAP GOODB.
LADIES’ COSTUMES.
Ready-made Washing Costumes for Seaside, Promenade, and
Fites.
All marked very cheap. Cannot be made to measure.
200 Princess Wrappers, 6*. lid.; \ These aro made In
usual price, 7s. lid. I French Cambric, very
200 Princess Wrappers, 6s. lid.; I pretty Colours and
usual price, 9s. lid. ) Patterns.
100 Seosido Holland Costumes, Skirt and Jacket Bodice,
trimmed various Colours, 7s. lid.
100 Holland Costumes. Piped, fast colours, 0s. lid.; hand¬
somely Embroidered, 18s. fld. and 21s. Gd.
Cambric Costumes in Navy Brown and Black, 12s. Ikl.,
14s. 9d„ and llis. 9d., remarkably cheap.
60 Servants’ Print Costumes, Princess Skirt and Jacket
Bodies, 7a. lid.
Galatea Costumes, various styles, 12s. 9d., 14s. 9d.. 16s. I'd.
and 21s. Gd.
White Cambric Costumes, slightly soiled, 8s. lid., 10s. 0d.,
12s. 9d„ 16s. ikl.. and 21s. Gd., much under price.
600 Black and Coloured Stuff Costumes, various patterns,
all greatly reduced in price, 16s. 9d., 18s. 9d.. 21s. 6d.,
Ms. Gd.. 29s. Gd.. anil 2} guineas.
634.635.036, and 537. New Oxford-street, London,
ENRY GLAVE.
GREAT 8U51MER SALE OF CHEAP GOODS.
Costumes made to measure.
Trocadiro Costumes, Cacheniire de l’lnde, with garni¬
ture of Satin, £2 16s. Gd.; with Paletot, 3 gs.
Beaumarchais Costume. Cucliemire de l’lnde, 80s. cd.;
with garniture of Silk. £2 18s. 6d.; with Paletot,
£3 6s. lid.
La Marjolalne Costume, the now Moss Cloth, £22s. Id.;
with Paletot, £2 Us. Gd.
Zarol Costume, French Fabrique, 35s. 8d.; with Paletot,
Duchess Costume, Lustre Fantaisle, 31s. 6d.; with
Paletot, 37s. Gd.
Areudiun Costume, Washing Attaleas Fabriqne, 26s. 6d.;
with Paletot, 29s. Gd.
Matinee Costume, In Percale NouvcautO, 20s. Gd.; with
Paletot, 83s. 6d.
Corneville Costume, Golatoa Bayte, 16s. 9d.: with
Paletot, 23s. Gd.
Photographs, sketches for the Season, Patterns, and
__Instructions for Self-Measurement, post-free.
634,635,636, 637, New Oxford-street; aud 1,2,3,4,6, Baiubridgo-
street, London.
B aker and o r i s p’s.
orr., .PATTERNS ttnd engravings free.
RICHEST BLACK SILKS aud SATINS,from Is. lljd, to
__ 4s. lid. yard.
COLOURED GROS JAPANESE and DAMASSE
BILKS and SATINS,
Is. llid. to
INDIAN FRENOH BLACK and COLOURED CASHMERES,
from Is. Gd.
IMPERIAL BEIGES, FOULE^SAXONY TWILL 8EBGEB,
and KlOothers,
BLACK GRENADINE3, COLOURED GRENADINES.
WASHING GRENADINES,
WHITE, ECRU, RED.’SKY?“piNK, BUFF, DRAB,
and 100
WASHING FABRICS,
SUNBEAM, BONNY FISHWIFE, LANGTRY. I
COSTUMES,
29s. Gd. to 95s.
1000 LADIES' NEW ULSTERS,
JULY we rliall be prepared to offer the whole of out
well-assorted STUCK ut GREATLY REDUCED FBI_
At the Close ox the London Season we contemplate making
ADDITIONS and ALTERATIONS to our PREMISES; and,
as accumulations of dust, Ac., must necessarily arise there¬
from. we shall on the occasion of the present Summer Sale
make strenuous exertions to clear off as much of our present
Stock as possible.
238, 240, and 242, Regent-street, W.
CHIRTS.—The New Patterns of French
^ Printed Cambric Shirtings and the matted Oxfords for
making FORD’S IMl’BOVED EUREKA SHIRT ready for In¬
spection, or sent free by post for 2 stamps.—41, Poultry, E.O.
S hirts.—ford’s eureka.—“T he
most perfect fitting made.’’—Observer. Gentlemen deslronB
of purchasing shirts of the beat quality should try Ford’s
Eureka. 30a., 40s., 45s. half-dozen. Illustrations and self-
measure post-free.—41, Poultry, London.
T ADIES ABOUT TO TRAVEL should
Aj see tlie’’OSBORNE" DRESS-CASE, very light and hand¬
some, with collapsible bonnet compurtment. Price 10s. Gd.
11ARRON, Manufacturer,201, High llolborn (five doors west
from Inns of Court Hotel). Illustrated List free.
UAU DE CHYPRE.—PIESSE andLUBIN.
A-J This is an ancient perfume from Cyprus. During tlie
national career of Egypt. Persia, Greece, and Rome, the Island
of Cyprus was the resort of tlie elite, learned, aud refined. It
was at the time of tho Crusades, when Ricliurd I. of England
assumed tlie title of King of Cyprus, that the famed Euu de
Chypre was introduced into Enreqie. the composition of which
is yet preserved in the archives of the Laboratory of Piesse and
Lubin. Those who are curious in ancient perfumes can be
gratified at 2, New Bond-street, London.
I JREIDENBAGH’S ABRONIA.—The New
A J Scent for 1878. Delicate, refreshing, und durable, 2s. Gd. to
40s. per Bottle. Uroidcnbach's MACAStSARINE, Invaluable fox
preserving the Growth of tlie Hair, Is., 2s. lid., 6s. per Bottle.
Of all Chemists, aud the Makers. 167 b, New Bond-street, W.
TT AIR DESTROYER.—248, High Holbom,
AA London.-ALKX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes Super¬
fluous Hair from tlie Face without Injury,3s.Gd. Sentlree for54
stamps, Alex. Ross's Skin Tightener or Tonic,Ss.fid.; or stamps.
G olden h a i r—rob are’s
AUREOL1NE produces the beautiful Golden Colour so
much admired. Warranted perfectly harmless. Price5s.6d. and
10s. Gd., >d all Perfumers. Wholesale, UUVENDEN and SOX8,
6, Great Slurlborougli-street, W.; and 93 and 95, City-romL E.G,
TVOES YOUR HAIR TURN GREY?
AA Then use HERRING'S PATENT SIAGNETIC BRUSHES
and COMBS. Brushes. 10s. and 15s. each. Combs, 2a. Gd., 6s.,7s. Gd.,
■*- *— ’ —-*- Pamphlets upon application.—5, Great
nd 95. City-road; and of all Perfumers.
Marlborougb-st. W.; 93 and 95
Y ITREMANIE SUPERSEDING
DIAPHANIE.—An easy and Inexpensive Method of Deco¬
rating Windows in Churches, Public Buildings, and Private
Dwellings, by which may lie produced the Rich Colouring und
Beautiful Designs of Beal Stained Glass. Handbook of Designs
and Instructions, Is. Id. Particulars post-free. Sole Inventors,
J. Baunauo and Som, 339, Oxford-Btreet, London, W.
TTOLY BAZIL—PIESSE and LUBIN.
Al Tills is a most rare perfume, distilled from the HOLY
BAZIL FLOWER of HINDU (Ocymum sanctum), so remark¬
able for its unique fragrance. Sold in Bottles, 2a. Gd., 6s.. and
10s. Gd. each, at the Laboratory of Flowers, 2, New Bond-street,
W.; and by thetr Ageuta In all parts of the civilised world.
"PIESSE and LUBIN’S
-t PISTACHIO-NUT SKIN and COMPLEXION POWDER
Imparts a natural whiteness and youthful delicacy to the skin,
attainable by no other means ; also represses the unpleasantness
of too copious perspiration.— 2. New Bond-street, London, W.
Slay lie bad ot all fii.hloimble Perfumers and Druggists through¬
out the Eiuth witli tlie same facility as a book. In boxes,
2s. 6d., 4s. Gd.. 10s. 6d., ana 21s. each.
THOMPSON AND CAPPER’S
D ENTIFRICE WATER arrests decay in the
Teeth and sweetens the Breath.—55. Hold-street, Liverpool
aud at 39. I leniisgiite. Muio'hc.-tor.—Sold In Is. 6d., 2s. 6d., 4s. Gd.,
and 8s. Gd. Bottles, by all Chemists.
F JGS, Fleas, Moths, Beetles, and all other
Inserts are de.-trov.-l by KEATING’S INSECT DESTROY-
ING POWDER, wlilrli is quite harmless to domestic animals.
In exterminating beetles tlie sneoessof this powder Is extra¬
ordinary. It Is perfectly clean In application. Sold In This, Is.
and 2s. Gd. each, by aU Chemists.
NEW MUSIC.
SJEW J1S£® MBS xo.
riHAKLES D’ALBERT'S NOVELTTES.
PAUL frVIRGINIE SALOP •• •• " ” fc.0d.net
SfsTANTSHOBBWALTZ. OnSnUlvin'. Bon^.. fc-Od. net
rl *^ £ 85: St
pol-ka :: " :: EtaS
TllF FANFARE POLKA • ■ _ •• •• 2s. Od. net
fc \V EETHEART8*WALTzi^On* Arthur Sullivan’s ^ ^ ^
P0P ' ,Ur 8008 OLD FAVOURITES. a*. Od. net
TRIAL IVY JURY LANCERS .. 2b. Od. net
?1 ^lSy j J uhyw c altz ille . :: " SI:Set
T S‘»- Af M.D’Albert’sPopa.at DanceMusic
will be ^g/P.P^nd Co.. TO New Bond-street.
March In " JujlM »accnoeu» • ># Hand<
March In the‘^boca.jonal Oratorio” .. Himd(
Wft=BSa-v- " .. gj2*
The Wellington March.. •• Hand,
Dead March in Sanl . ,^-j •• __ Handi
March In l g^» he conquering Hero
March In •* Dio Zauberflbto.Gluck
Match in *■ Alcesto . Mowu
bionob pinsutfs new songs.
. Chas. d'Albert.
. Handel.
. Handel.
BIONOB PINSUTI’B NEW eOtiUo.
TkUSCHINKA ; or, The Star of the North. |
»or
BONGS ArrgB han b 8 y ^debsen-b poems.
rr»HE LITTLE TIN SOLDIER. 2 b. net.
TH E ILLUSTRATED lOKDONjW !^
ZT ot „ rpHE BEST
NEW MUSIC. X
^ x>rtv at fdttion of operas, t^loor COVERINGS
S*wLar“M" UFAtTDRED or 1MP0ETm
S?S md S0NS '
SSSShw*:: :: ”»• «*“.**?* v. :*.»• eloor decorators,
Don Joan .. «■ " j s Maaanlello .. ”36 *
EUsir Jrlmoro .. •• | ® Mountain Sylph .. •• ® ® /*9 LUDGATE-HILL .
Favorite .3 6 NoSedo Figaro .. ”*6 ^ __ .nor
:: 2 6 iniritaM .. ;; ;; j , -ESTABLISHED 1834,
*ffiJs£??S«Ssr* 1 ^sS:: :: ::|j exclusively for the SALE of
:: h : tttra ::2G rnOOR COVERINGS.
Price fc. «d. each volume, paper; 4... cloth. ^ lt ® d ® cs ' „ 1
rp HE ROYAL SONG-BOOKS. 0BTA INED at the
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS at
f l™ FAEIS ' “ d D ” 53
5S§B5888?SSMPo««S5®* 1851, 1862, 1855, 1867, 1865, 1853,
THE BONOS O^SXion of National Bong*. 1
8A»r«^« (1°° Bong.). -pBJZE MEDALS.
f^OBOUSSONGS (79 ngj ' Du*fc
CHO ICE Doobey and Co. ■ 295. R°egent.Arcct ae J - ^ GALLERIES
H/TTTSTC FOR THE SEASIDE. Popular 1
M l9 -“ ch - TN 1851 at LONDON,
M ^dtth ; , ^ 6 TrovatoTO " " "
man. and Englisn; \
“■wagaaaigag*^
^r^rr^so^ToTKs.
MENDELSSOHN’S 60 BONGS.
map SONGS OF ENGLAND (100 Songs).
Jhk SONGS OF SCOTLAND (190 Songs).
?HE BONOS OF IRELAND (108 Songs).
5»SSSSri_
JULY 20, 1878
jvpps’S cocoa._
rpHE “ Naval and Military Gazette *’“7^“
X "The nutritive ^J 11 ^ 68 ^ f n0 ^ acknowledged that
to watch at Messrs. EppaeWOTKS JM e^ bcgtowcd before the
process^, and to note tbe uu^a^l consumiitlon. cannot
Jmagtocd when ft ts'stated ^^j* L j^g™*y^riV 0 * l lSe a ^eputa&mi
mii h ntaln l id. PU A instant Inerting U
kCPt WUh the
public to secure so gratifying a result.
articles, not as luxuries, but as actual food .
rriHE “Court Journal” says:
I •• In a ^ar^taj^nd try^ M om owrb fc
our table was Mr. "7 and nutadtiouscharacter.
rpwO LITTLE LIVES. 2s.net.
rpHE LITTLE MATCH GIRL. 2 s. net. J3
rp H E STORY OF THE NIGHTINGALE, g
^ M ~ P<it CH*rPELL and Co., SO. New Bond-street. _ UI
/CHAPPELL and CO.’S SPECIALITIES.
( AI FKANnllE ORGAN8 for HOME USE. UI
^ nSmberof thMe°organ-llkelnrtri»tamt|whl BC
be sold at great mluctions for cash, or
on the Three-Yea rs* System. __
nnAPPELL and CO.’S ALEXANDRE -|
C OBOAN.Type H.contalnlngdnlclana flute. J
QHAPPELL and CO.’S ^XATOEE S
SK«r‘™£:"oSS;.°ita- t S .
Poll^ll'ustrat^Listfree by post. _ r
/CHAPPELL and CO.’S SPECIALITIES \
rc l D OBOAN HABMONIUMS. __
nHAPPELL and CO.’S NEW ORGAN r
\j HABMONIUMS.—Five octaves, two pedals,
suitablo for co ttage or school. Price 7 g«. ]
/'YfTAPPF.LL and CO.’S GOTHIC MODEL~ :
/CHAPPELL and CO.’S NEW ORGAN
1/ MODEL by ALEXANDBE. two row. of
keys, five stops and Bub-basa, \ ene y < J I } r ft a w ^;
two knee petals. 28 gntaettw £2 16 b. per
quarter on Three- Years System. __
nHAPPELL and CO.’S EXHIBITION
Kj CHUBCH MODEL, fifteen stops. 4| rows of
vibrators. Venetian swell, aA guinea*, or
S3 10s. perqnarter f or Three Years. _
nHAPPELL and CO.’S SPECIAL CHURCH
MODEL. 18 stops, live towb of vibrators,
Ac., 80 guineas; or S3 per quarter on the
Three-Years’ System.
Full Illustrated Lists freo l«y post.
B0, New Bond-street, W._
nHAPPELL and CO.’S
Vj SPECIA LITIES In P1ANOFOBTE8.
nHAPPELL and CO.’S STUDENT’S
V J PI AN OFOBTE. Compass, five Octaves,
18 gs.. or £1 10s. per quarter on the Three-
Year s' System. __
nHAPPELL and CO.’S SCHOOL
\J PIANINOS, Canadian Walnut. or
2gs. jkt quarter on the Threc-lears System
of Purchase._
nHAPPELL and CO.’S YACHT PIANINOS,
Vy 30 gs., or S3 per quarter on Three-Years’
Synem of Purchase._
nHAPPELL and CO.’S BOUDOIR
PIANINO. 88 gs., or 13 10s. per quarter on
the Three-Ycara’ System of Purchase.
M U N^sirfJooa^iirosicAL cabinet. n.ea ch . j N 1851 at LONDON,
piece*). X
TN 1862 at LONDON,
BSSIfflrtk,,. A at PAEIS
s E@fisa A «f«w.ooK. p«® •* PAEIS ’
agaS S ?$ «&■ TN 1867 at PAMS,
Jn 1878 at PAMS,
--—___ _ —, n mr>TTnmnua TTTTPti nnVF.HED
“nassell’s Household Guide” says:
1 i ,, W( . wi u now give an account of tho proccss adoptcd by
^ ^ (5,?;manufacturers of dietetic articles,
uoos*y anu Dookuciiera. X
TTOOSEYS’ shilling instructors: tmk coveeed with
"'"SFiSS^r POCOA-NIJT FIBRE MATTINO,
^^^^^^^°Eli8T^^BOOK , ^FOB'^THE'^iCHHN (Including -ja/r A UDFACTURED by
DB 16 VpAfe iVe HA X N r i)Y'-BOOK OF CHOBAL SINGING ]\X
DB ( cAffi^8^ e BAMMAB P OFWo. New Edition. rpRELOAR and SONS,
OBTE TUTOB. b, MOUNT. 1
goothThouggdO md Co., 298. Reg ent-street. _ g9, LUDGATE-H1DD.
TTAMn,TON-s5oDSmSTRIjmONS T REX.OAR SONS
nouularity. Post-free _f°r 2il starnps.^^w Burltngton-street. TT AT AHATTRALTY.
-gPPS’S COCOA. _
rpHE “ Morning Advertiser ” says:—
liad 6 l>cenal^^t%rohlbitive^v,^re^rcatl^r«Hiced^and^ne of
the first to take advantage thS riomoiopathlc
as:
fn^snTww iSatable anS h?gh R y nutritlous.^t met a put’Uc
y t«iS P p^' ^oV^^our Son. of
pounds yearly.”__
T he “ Christian World” says:—
-If I am to take cocoa.’ said I. ’I
SfSSSffitS’/sr.ii BfjSaS
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SUPPLEMENT TO THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS,
THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON OPENING THE BLACKPOOL WINTER GARDENS, LANCASHIRE.
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THE t t.T.TTSTBATED lonpo£_ne ws
JULY 20, 18TR
THE BLACKPOOL WINTER GARDENS. ““
IMs healthful and S
to»t,much &«^V t .d?Ma 7 oS.fand Sherifla.of Op
visited by there all last week, staying “ I
London and Middlesex. they. Mayor of Blackpool, Dr. Pai
at the Imperial Hotel ae gu^ th^ Mdignitaries. Me
Cocker, with many otiM May festivity, the Lord n i£
On the Thursday, ™^X^° ar J e ns, adjoining the Aqua-
Mayor opened the ne W; v V) f wbich we have given some
rium and the Promenade Pier, the Promenade Pier and the Tli
the occasion of their betng »
°^ e Tho" Blackpool Winter ££ *
the beach, and are eaBll y^“ 88 ^ kg JJe pnncipal entrance, lt
A dome, of fine proportions, marks The large su
where a gold-and-bronze JjJJJjjg 8ome fine speci- Jh
Floral Hall has JeeaaijMBcrMg , the sta tuary in the th
mens of costly flowermg plan * specimens of V.
flower-beds is a statue of Ibcha^IL^, M ^ owell> and di
“tST'SSVbn.ty^ «oyat |
Sly, with Sf of° d c P ul°"of Itac MM, b
.tthe north end and» ^“jSS^cense has been »
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three massive chandeliers, ®®ch ftnd affords accom- ^
spacious gaUery surrounds tte b ft Mr. Dugam, the v
modation foralargenumberofspecdators^^Mr & q£ r(
artist connected with the gardens, ^^^ p ret)reaent fng the ?
s2s.*swrs ^rsSsriShed'S^gtT s
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S&£K- 2 ft^SS 3 a
and'themffe 23%- thewKlen^h of the drive from the
n0r ^ecCTemonyof^Tening the Winter Gardens occupied only
a few minutes y The P Mayor of Blackpool and his visitors
together with a large number of invited gucste, assembled m
SfpaShCand the Lord Mayor was formfjy mtooduc^to
the company. His Lordship, who was greeted with hearty
cheers, expressed his pleasure at being ^^^^d ^e Wtoter
nool on so auspicious an occasion, and declared the Winter
Gardens open. P Cheers were then given for the Lord Major
and Lady Mayoress, and the ceremony ended.
In the evening a dinner was given m the!KfrllliS S
bv a concert under the direction of Mr. Alfred Cellier. At
dusk there were a pyrotechnic display 0,1 *he two piers and a
mimic sea fight between two steamers anchored m frontof the
shore The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress watched the dis-
S^fromtiie Aquarimn, on the beach. At nigh . there> was a
grotesque torchlight procession. Everything passed off in a
Mtisfa^tory manner. P One page of our Illustrations represents
in a medley of sketches, the most striking groups and figures
in the masquerade procession at night ; the Blackpool life-boat
converted kite a triumphal car for Neptune; Britannia wavrng
the British Union Jack; a Ghost and a Fire King, for whom
wo cannot be answerable; and the hostile armie s of the Czar
and tho Sultan; with our Prime Minister, portoayed m a
transparency, high over all, and with the Mayor of Blackpool
and the Lord Mayor of London, supporting him to the nght
and left. We also give a view of the buildings of the Aquarium
and Winter Gardens Pavilion.
costumes were, a. before, on . hSS” ^
was repeated on Monday. ^ on iy time this season ,
was given on Tuesday for performance as J.
with a repetition of Mdl ■ „ announced for Wednesday ,
Ophelia. “to “o benefit. «tMatono ‘
“La Sonnambula for Thiirsaay t Frid ay (for the benefit of
Patti); a combmed entertainme t (Saturda y) the closing J
Mdlle. Albani); and Aiaa
night of the season.
There^tose^fofSU-on gg? ,
the title-character, andthe an Campanim by whom i
Jos6 to Signor Bnncio, to h^ ^ fore 0wiug to the very ,
it had been so admnab^ eusto MdUe Alwina Yallcna i
sudden illness of that e jldlle. Bauermeister doubled
the representative of Michaela. Mercedes, as pre-
thatpart (witosomeomisrions) ursday « L e None
viously played by her. +hp P first time this season with a
di Figaro” was given g'^e fs' jm ^ Cr03m ond
« L» Son-
Mdlle. Manmon, who has again oe performances of
The subsequent proceed ngs have ^important feature in
many classical and popular °P er ‘ t 0 f Mr. Mapleson’s
the proceedings has been the o£ the late
promise in the production ri ts an d success of which
Georges Bizet’s “Carmen, on the menrn an wa8 tho |
we commented three weeks which was brought
revival of Balfe s opera I , , £ performances were given
out by Mr-Mapleson lnlS^.whenJiis^pertorm^ ^ ^
in Dniry-Lane Pheatre The rk i a a3 recently
Majesty’sTheatreLost*™ c ’ otnpose d for it by
noticed, it was *L c h had remained long undis-
Balfe, the manuscript of whicu n u Bias’’-pro-
and the libretto) not
.ion made by her tot Trebelli ha.
ssb&c^--*—* s
1 ^Std^rSSSSS'weU.mpportedby^e
f Katti Lanner, Mdlles. Marie Muller and Carolina ^Adelaide
1 Monti, and Mdlles. Cavalazzi and Bartoletti—the last two
PARIS AT THE CAFE.-NO. III.
v 0 t in nassine from the historic but deserted Procope
hssss ^
-IlSla.s.s s
christened thisi the Revu JJu* gQ respec tablc, and, alas!
SSSS-vift r.
^^'t^eirt'cmintay^herej^to^ro^m or^the^rcnmd^loor. It
wi onlof the -^placeii oi
MUSIC. 1
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. .
The specialty here last week was the revival of Rossinis
“ Semiramide,” which had not been heard at this theatre since
1875 The performance now referred to included the specialty
of Madame Adelina Patti’s first appearance in England in the
title-character. The great prima donna sang the music witn
superb quality of voice and transcendent powers of execution.
In the bravura air, “ Bel raggio,” the singer produced a great
sensation by her brilliant and fluent vocalisation and the grace
and charm of her style. The elaborate embroideries and
ornamentations were rendered with an ease and certainty
that formed a rare display of vocal art. In the duet
with Arsace, “Serbami ognor,” and in the more im¬
portant one with the same character, “Ebene a te ferisci,
the same admirable merits were apparent, several declamatory
passages in the more serious situations having been rendered
by Madame Patti with much dramatic intensity. The part of
Arsace was filled by Madame Scalchi, who was its repre¬
sentative in the performances of the opera here three years
ago. During this interval the executive powers of the singer
have become largely enhanced, and her success on Thursday
week was very great. The charm of her voice and her
executive facility were finely manifested in Arsace* s arias ‘ Ah.
quel giomo,” and “In si barbara,” and in the duet with
Assur, “Bella imago,” and those with Arsace already specified.
The beautiful andante, “Giomo d’orrore” (belonging to the
duet, “Ebene a te ferisci”), produced such an effect that it
had to be repeated. The music of Assur, as florid and elaborate
as that of the two characters just named, was finely sung by
M. Maurel, who created a special effect by his admirable
declamation in the scena in the last act expressive of the
mingled rage and fear of the guilty Assur. As in 1875, Die
characters of Idreno and Oroe were well filled respectively by
Signori Pavani and Capponi. The overture, finely played,
wa» encored, and repeated from the allegro. The scenery and
aPP l“Egmany past seasons of Mr. Mapleson’s manage¬
ment the office of musical director and conductor has been
stage arrangements have been generally good, and the band
Diablc” w“ repeated; for Wednesday “ II Trovatore_’’ was
announced, with Madame Pappenheim “Beonma for the first
H ra „ ««Carmen ” was to be repeated on Ihursaay, n xaus
mano ” on Friday, and “ Fidelio ” this (Saturday) evemng-
the extra performances coming to a close with the end of next
WC Mr. Mapleson’s benefit takes place to-day (Saturday at
the Crvstal Palace the programme including an attractive
SncSrt “the^tomo„B P conducted by Sir M. Co.ta ; and a
nerformaucc of “ Don Giovanni ” in the evening, directed by
1 SignorLi Calsi. The principal singers of Her Majesty s Theatre
| are announced to appear.
The Misses Jadwiga and Wanda Bulewski gave a concert
at Willis’s Rooms on Tuesday afternoon, under ^e patronage
of Prince Christian and other distinguished personages. The
brilliant violin-playing of Mdlle. Jadwiga, and the clever
pffotoiteof Mdlle. Wanda were prominent
features in a varied programme. . n , ,
The musical scholarship in the ladies division of the Crystal
Palace School of Art, Science, and Literature was awarded
last Saturday to Miss H. Blagden, of Sydenham.
THEATRES.
A benefit was given at the Queen’s last Saturday on behalf of
Mrs. Beaumont, lately lady-housckccper of Drury-Lanc and
the Adclphi, and now a sufferer from a n ^ d “ t - A ^
niece selected for the occasion was the comedy, by Mr. A. W.
Dubourg, of “New Men and Old Acres” The characters
were supported by amateurs, and, it must be conceded by the
most fastidious, were very ably represented. Nearly the whole
of the pit was converted into stalls, which were fully and
fashionably occupied. The mounting and accessories by which
the performance was assisted were perfectly satisfactory.
The only novelty of the week is the benefit given to Mr. S.
Emery yesterday and to-day, afternoon and evening, in the
shape of Farewell Performances, prior to his departure for
Australia, at the Globe. The pieces represented are Mr. Tom
Tavlor’s play of “Plot and Passion,” with Mr. Emery m the
part of Fouche, and the adaptation from “ Dombey and Son
called “ Heart’s Delight,” in which Miss Helen Barry supports
her original character of Edith Dombey, and Mr. Emery
himself that of Captain Cuttle.
The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, with the Sheriffs of
London and Middlesex, returned to the Mansion House on
Monday after their visit to Blackpool.—Lord Beaconsfield has
accepted an invitation to the Ministerial banquet at the
Mansion House on Saturday, Aug. 3.
iLLtUlBlUU ilUUOC VIA uoiuiuuj,
In order to improve the connection between the Victoria
station of the Metropolitan District Railway and the London
Chatham, and Dover Railway station opposite, a subway has
been completed, by which passengers can pass from one to the
other, escaping the inconvenience of the ordinary traffic.
was one of ^he regular pia^s^ poverty-stricken days of his
Ins comrades m the later d P gQme J q{ his Bucce680rs m
life; and many years hit hcr—notably Alphonse Daudet,
literature followed him luther nora y even on
If 08e . “ “J SlnS But hTand Carolus Duran the
&£hsz -
the lighter literature of Fr mm—“ Racine ” has given
now all U changed e»en to the need no“w to
place to a title hght as smoke> k bl it ^ 8m all, white,
a few rather sleepy men , . n ^ ardly beautiful attendant
EB^a ^S 3 r»s
mmmtmu
i
a ssssKiSg-jgffcajfia sss
St were bought and sold. , 1 fr eB h
B - Still, the atmosphere of the place, m a wnm ,
rt at tlKTprocopJa^^the^MioMey^hnw^dulfParis can be pj
at girSS.%5 “ filled zg-fcSi
ve thoroughly serieux, is yet by no means wantmg in life, rt
a have not all the exuberance of youth. __ j +o
by This is the historic Cafe de la Regence, a na^me sac
of Philidor, but it is close by, and i® to'the^ne St.
- Kt
vcr , verv heart of Paris, within a stone’s throw of the Louvre, the
mt iSiS-al'anTihe house of Molitre'. The “ l
1 the beginning of Diderot’s Ncveu de Rameau still applies •
Lstld qu'on voit le, coup, le, plus ^rprenaneetquon
, f r"o fr rry^n h to« b ^
£ ,° f f onnCTsite, has witnessed, evening after evening, the eoup, of
SJ Rosenthal and his rivals. Here too gi^t men who wer^a
T 4V C all events, devoted amateurs of chess,
' and thought: one of tho tables still bears the name of Bon
^ parte, who “pushedthe wood”-to use the old Fr^ch term
with fiery energy in his younger days; and Degusset, who
110 i ^eerns to have stamped his impress on half the cafes ot I an ,
h °^h was really famous among the players of his toe-hehas^eft
hldl a problem which is still well known, that of The iwo
r. S. Kn chess begins at six o’clock; beforethat the c^e is not ve^y
■ the rauch use d-though there are generaUy some English visitors,
^ for I who sit outside, looking at the busy crowds of the Ru^BL
Tom I Honors 5 for this spot is the very centre of the EnghMiman
i the Paris—as, indeed, it is not so far from being enotjym
5on” middle of the town; I suppose ithe midmost pomt of all
ports parfg mus t be somewhere in the Quai d ® iSS?there
oicry the island. l\Iuch later than the hour
come to the R6gence certain hahtuu whom iiknost every ^
notices: their faces are famdiar, even if one ^ f d ° e8 ^rs from
moment recall their names. These are some of Hie artore^
ff 3 °f 1 the neighbouring Theatre Francjais—it ma y A b ®. ^Musset’s
«o on that the well-known comedian Provost wasoneofDe Mi ^
d has favourite opponents at chess. Maubant, the . .
t the f as hioned tragedian, is a grmtpiayer-Iil 0 notsay a prt
ct0 ,„
t0 thC 1 (e-p. to
“ Turtuffe ”), stands looking over the heads of most of his
comrades. Thiron, a --- . f. Ul nis
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
67
... ,, .’ » stout and eminently respectable actor
with an odd prominent chin, and Garraud, who is always coni
sidered safe in the parts technically known as “ second old
men ” are also pretty constant visitors. Finally, with the
mention of M. Henn de Bonder, whose “Fille de Roland ”
produced two or three years ago, was a pleasant and scholarly
noem if not in any sense of the word a great tragcdy-letus
leave the cate of chess for the cafes of society. % y C u
ART IN PARIS.
TIIE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION.—AUSTRIA AND
HUNGARY.
(From our Correspondent.)
The duality of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is expressed in
art as well as in politics; and it is curious to observe how
nearly the artists of one countiy balance those of the othen
The Austrians, however, have m one respect gained a march on
their brethren of Hungary, inasmuch as the former have fur¬
nished visitors with a carefully prepared “ special catalogue?’
whereas the latter appear to be contented with such inadequate
notice as is taken of them in the “Official Catalogue” a
publication necessarily abounding in aH manner of blunders
So far as extent of canvas, academic suavity of composition
and brffiiancyof colour go, the German Hans Makart, the most
distinguished^of allthe pupils of Piloty, whose headless bodies
of Counts Egmont and Horn many of our readers will
remember at the second London International Exhibition
is assuredly among the Austrians facile princeps. His grand
picture—some thirty feet by eighteen—representing “The
Entry of Charles the Fifth into Antwerp ” is fust be¬
coming popular by means of photographs, and it is
cei ™y “J e most riant canvas he has yet covered. The
youthful Charles, preceded by crossbowmen and cuirassed
warriors, who march to the right of the spectator, approaches
on a magnificent war-horse, while five somi-nude maidens of
surpassing grace and beauty strew the way with flowers, and
otherwise make his entry joyous. Ladies and children fill up
the left of the picture and crowd the balconies throughout •
while beyond the waving banners and the mediaeval sky-line
of the city gleams a bright sky almost Southern in its blueness.
Ibis (southern character pervades not only the air and atmo¬
sphere, but enters largely into the forms and faces of the
diaphonously-robed women ; and, so far as such a remark is
applicable to a composition whose lines sweep on so har¬
moniously and whose masses are so grandly balanced, jars
somewhat on our preconceived notions of the homeliness of
Antwerp and her citizens. It is said, indeed, that Hans Makart
had the most beautiful women of Vienna to sit to him for
these radiant nymphs; and if so, this would fully account
for the types being so divergent from thut known to
belong to Antwerp beauties. It is impossible to stroll
into the great square of that city without being struck with
the similarity between the women one sees to-day and those
Rubens painted two hundred and fifty years ago. The
children and the nurses and the ladies nre generous in their
proportions, almost to redundancy, and look as if they had just
stepped out of the canvases of the great master. Makart, on
the other hand, eschews such amplitude of development, and
affects rather a litheness which is almost classic in its grace.
He is a perfect master of surface and texture of every kind,
from silk to steel; and in this respect is only to be rivalled by
a Hungarian artist, to whom we shall come presently. When
weight of pigment is required he hesitates not to apply it; and
when lightness and thinness of brushwork serve his purpose
he can be as slight and subtle in his touch as anyone. Makart,
in short, is a decorative artist of the highest order, looking at
life with the joyousness of a Venetian rather than with the
thoughtfulness of a Florentine. The same suavity attends his
pencil when he applies it to female portraiture, ns may be seen
in the likenesses of two charming ladies hanging in the same
room.
Hons Makart is a German and a professor of his art at
Vienna; his only rival in the Austrian section, so far as colour
and composition are concerned, is Jan Matejko, a Pole, and
professor at Cracow. In sobriety and general historic
vraisemblance, his “ Union concluded at Lublin in 15G9
between Lithuania and Poland is, perhaps, superior to the
“ Entry of Charles V. into Antwerp.” Matejko’s dramatic
instinct is as active as that of Makart, only he does not think
it necessary that it should express itself with so much sensuous
beauty. We are, therefore, predisposed to regard him
more trustworthy historian.
The large historic work which we have named introduces
the spectator to a stately apartment with raised benches on
each side crowded with ladies and citizens of rank. The cen¬
tral personage in the picture, attired in a black velvet furred
robe, holds aloft an ivory crucifix, and an aged citizen, with a
roll of parchment, kneels and swears on an illuminated gospel,
wliile a venerable cardinal on the left lifts up his hands in
blessing. The scene is remarkably impressive, and it carries
belie! m its nctuality from the quiet reserve of force with which
the artist sets it forth.
Portraiture is very ably represented by Heinrich de Angeli,
whose Duke of Argyll hangs in this year’s Grosvenor Gallery,
and who had in last year’s Royal Academy a remarkably honest
and carefully-modelled likeness of the Crown Princess of
Prussia, our own Princess Royal. But this De Angeli, or Von
Angeli as he is sometimes called, although educated in Vienna,
was bom in Hungary, and might be fairly enough claimed by
that country. Among the dozen portraits by which he is re-
presented, those which will most interest English visitors are
•bora Sydney, the Deans of Westminster and Windsor, and,
above all, Lord Beaconsfield. The portrait in which he is
larger and freer in handling is probably that of Madame
ochwabc, of Berlin—a comely dark lady in black lace, whom
WC viriv. 11 ?-faced against a stamped leather background.
Wilhelm Koller, of Brussels, figures in the Austrian Court
because he was bom in Vienna. Although not a pupil of
beys, there are not lacking symptoms of the Baron’s influence,
my Roller is smoother and works to a higher finish than
beys thought necessary. His principal work here represents
f ne Emperor Charles V. at the house of Anthony Fugger, the
amous weaver and merchant of Augsburg, and whose family
ecame ennobled, and intermarried with some of the most
P "' cel y bouses in Europe. Gabriel Max, of Munich, with
T.. . 8e portrait of our Saviour we are all familiar, was, like
a pupd °* Pboty. His only picture here is a very
°P e of a martyr maiden surrounded by lions and
l n om „ an arcna > an< l looking up to heaven as she takes
K-a®™5 u ,°! aart b- A very spirited composition is that of
bchrodl s, representing the violent carrying off or
i.ij of a man » whom we see being placed on a white horse
S, * an ^\ while tbeprisoner’swomcu-folk, old and young,
tlieliiiicf P rote8 t, and the baby in the basket lies tumbled on
ESS 1 wwberothe fugitives have been overtaken. An oldgrey-
litter ,;~ on tenegrin warrior being carried wounded on
utter down a mountain
CermaiTbornTlS"’ f™ 8 { ?° m ' th ° Pencil of Jaroslav
Tftnu.-i* born at Prague, but a pupil of Gallait’s, of Brussels
Karl Larger sends a “ Railway Stetion,” width remS one
of what our own Mr. Frith has achieved ST T
arrangement here is a little different. For exSe the
ThSsmnS 6 left f ° re ^° und an <l the crowd all to the right.
Here is quite as much characterisation here as in Mr Frith’s
5ft by3ft dCddedIy m ° re <Wt. rize M £ a&
Thf nor ™ imal painting is neglected in Austria.
Alois fen represented by the Fish Shop of
h* rw„r n vS2 e °1 the Professors at Vienna; and the other
the force and de -fI ho 5?V who almoat equals Troyon in
mill™, ^ with which he represents animal life* His
sa&rsrsr* ^-mcW «dJisi
“ ’T 1 ? 6 “ « “ to rural
i, 1111,1 hens 8trut about the place, and every-
w- a PP e ? rance actual life. His blue-blouSd
a nfnnd q “ etm ? hls team of horses at the approach of
BbiS 13 ^ nolher e° od example. ChevalierJulius de
Blaas is another ardent student of animal life, as is shown by
Klfr S rv am ^ en l 1 ?> pi ul a i erd of cattle followed by the hounds
“ “y* ? arl Irobst, Emil Schindler, Eduard Kurzbauer,
Viennese art ^rfd vVi U r^ 3 h °nourably associated with
Viennese art, and which lack of space compels us only to name,
shield on which is represented the Combat of the Lapith©
° ne0f the finest pieces of repousse-work we
remember to have seen. The artist is Josef Tautenhayn.
9 iniHn C i U ^ g CI }eroviug8, photographs, water colours, die-
ofRppthnvi SC i?^Ipture-tmmng the last being a colossal statue
wnrkfS I? ’ A 7 ? aspar Zumbusch, of the highest mcrit-the
works m the Austrian art-section number 330, and fill four
saloons, whereas those of Hungary fill only one. Nevertheless,
Jiunganan art is as pronounced and individual as that of
ber Austrian sister, and whatever special excellence is shown
by the one can fairly be matched by the other. For
w2? le ’i B ° 1 n , eziir 1 Gyula’s Baptism of a black-haired,
brawny-shouldered warrior, in rich ruby mantle, at a
white marble font, bya venerable Bishop, whose blue
robe stands stiff with gold embroidery, is perhaps richer in
colour mid more absolute in the representation of texture
than anything in the whole exposition, whether by Makart or
anyone else. We could scarcely imagine the witchery of
brushwork and colour carried further. Then, facing the
entrance, is the work of another great master who is more
individual still. We allude to M. Munkicsy and his noble
picture of Milton dictating “ Paradise Lost” to his daughters.
The black, low-toned, yet strangely forcible manner of the
artist is peculiarly fitted to such a subject; and wo think he
has realised m a triumphant manner what he set himself to do.
ihe poet sits on the left, attired in black, with white cuffs and
collar, lus right hand sensitively touching his breast button,
his left on the chair, and his head inclined thoughtfully. One
girl sews at his side, another stands behind the table and
regards her father tenderly, while the immediate amanuensis of
the hour leans reverently forward to catch his words. There
is a large dark cabinet behind the girl who is standing, which
contrasts forcibly with the light falling on the poet through
the casement to his right. This is perhaps the most
important picture M. Munkucsy has yet painted as regards
strength of representation and unity of effect. The
same artist has set forth another group with equal intensity,
though the dramatis personas are of quite a different type. We
see a number of Hungarian peasant conscripts, each with a
rosette of the national colours on his breast—red, white, and
green—seated round a table drinking hilariously, or sitting
pensively, just as the mood seizes them. In the foreground
one lad sits with his sweetheart, hand in hand, looking de-
j ccted enough; but the great proportion of the group is mirthful
even to boistcrousncss. Adolf Pichter sends a grand mono¬
chromatic design of the Patriarch Jacob on his deathbed,
which is well worth the consideration of art-lovers. It is
hung too high, and may escape the visitor unless looked for. F.
Paczka represents humorous genre. One picture shows an
old man bracing up his drum, another an old gentleman
examining through his specs the broken string of his violin.
Both are roughly yet learnedly painted.
L. Ebner is another artist who delights in the delineation
of character. His two ragamuffins of the true Hungarian type
is excellent. G. Meszoly sends a picture with a lot of canoe¬
shaped boats, whose peasant-looking owners are variously
employed under the trees which border a sedgy lake. The
manner of painting is dry but effective. Keletig uses a juicier
pencil, and shows a sleeping swineherd under a mighty oak in
118 a I the overgrown garden of a deserted palace. Pigs prowl about
ground which one can see by its classic remains of figures and
fountains was once sacred to Love and the Graces, and render
by their swinish familiarity the scene before the spectator still
more sad and desolate.
The Hungarian section contains examples also of engraving
and sculpture, and of designs and models in architecture ; but
all on a more limited scale than that of Austria. Being without
a catalogue, moreover, or anyone to instruct the stranger, the
section runs great risk of being slighted. So far, however, as
Hungary has cared to exhibit her art-power, she has shown
herself as capable of achievement as any of her sister States.
Charles Marvin, described as a writer in the Foreign Office,
was on Tuesday further examined at the Bow-street Police
Court on the charge of having committed a breach of trust in
appropriating and stealing a secret document purporting to be
a communication between the Governments of Great Britain
and Russia. Mr. Vaughan decided that that there was no
evidence of any larceny having been committed, and the
defendant was discharged.
A successful attempt has at last been made to raise the
Eurydicc, which capsized and sank four months ago off Dim-
nose, Isle of Wight. After numerous operations, she was on
Tuesday shifted out of a hole about eleven feet and a half deep,
and moved eastward more than 150 ft. The moving of the
vessel is to be continued daily.
The annual flower 6liow of the children in the schools o
the five in-wards of St. George’s, Hanover-square, was held
yesterday week in the gardens of Grosvenor House. The
flowers sent by 750 children were set out in a tent, and prizes
varying in amount from Is. 6d. to 7s. 6d. were given to 112
of the little horticulturists. In the absence from town of the
Duchess of Westminster, the prizes were presented by the
Marchioness of Ormonde. A lively interest was shown in the
success of the fete by the visitors, among whom were the Hon.
Victoria Grosvenor (the treasurer of the society), Lady Foley,
the Countess dc Jaruac, Lady Emily Cavendish, Lord Ebury,
Lord Foley, Lord Edward Cavendish, the clergy of the district,
and the honorary secretaries, the Hon. Fitz-Alan Foley and
Mr. Percy lv. Knox. After the distribution short addresses,
suitable to the occasion, were given by the Duke of West¬
minster, the American Bishop of Albany, the Rev. E. Capel
Cure, Rector of St. George’s, Hanover-square, and Lord
V/lmn-A Povnn/lieli TTno Lour) nf fhn Onppn’o WpstminHtpr
THE TREATY OF BERLIN.
The Berlin Congress held its twentieth and final sitting on
Saturday last, when the new Treaty was signed by all the
Plenipotentiaries.
The official copy of the Berlin Treaty was presented on
Tuesday night to both Houses of Parliament. It is prefaced
by a long despatch fromLord Salisbury, who remarks that the
general effect of the alterations which have been made in tha
Treaty of San Stefano has been to restore, with due security
for good government,'.a very large territory to the Sultan, while
they tend powerfully to secure from external assault the
stability and independence of his empire. He denies that the
views set out in his despatch of April 1 have been abandoned
m the subsequent action of her Majesty’s Government, and
to obviate the continuance of this misconception the noblo
Marquis enters into considerable detail respecting the deci¬
sion* of the Congress. All the objections he then made have
been removed, he says, by the Treaty of Berlin, and ihe
Congress has applied an adequate remedy to all the dangers
which were threatened. He concludes by observing that it is
probably the last opportunity for Turkey, and whether use
will be made of it depends upon the sincerity with which
Turkish statesmen will address themselves to the duties of
good government and the task of reform.
The Treaty consists of sixty-four clauses. We give the
articles relating to the changes made in Asiatic Turkey as
they more particularly affect British interests:—
Article 58. The Sublime Porte cedes to the Russian Empire in A<ri« the
temtones of Ardahan, Kars, and Batoum, together with the latter port, as
weu as all the territories comprised between the ancient Russo-Turkish
mmher and the following line 1 The new frontier commencing on tha
Black Sea, in conformity with the line determined by the Treaty of San
Stefano as far as a point to the north-west of Khorda, and to the south of
Art win, continues in a straight lino us far as the River Tchoruk, crosses this
nver and passes to the east of Aschmichen, going in a straight line to the
south to join the Russian frontier indicated in theTreaty of Ban Stefano at
a point to the south of Nariman, leaving the town of Olti to Russia. Prom
the point indicated near Nariman the frontier turns to the east, passes bv
Tebrcnek, which remains to Russia, and continues as far as the Penneic
Tsehai. It follows the nver as far as Bardouz, then turns towards the south,
leaving Bardouz and Jonikioy to Russia. From a point to the west of the
village of Karaougan the frontier is directed on Medjingert, continues in a
straight line towards the summit of the mountain Kassodagh, and follows
the line of the watershed between the affluents of the Araxes on the north
Russia 6 0i 016 Mourad 8u on 1110 80uth > M far as the ancient frontier of
. Article 69. His Maj'esty the Emperor of Russia declares that it is his
intention to erect Batoum into a free port, essentially commercial.
Article 60. The valley of Alaechkerd and the town of Bayasid,’ ceded to
& Al S cle 19 ? f tee Treaty of Ban Stefano, are restored to Turkey.
The Sublime Porto cedes to Persia the town and territory of Khotour, such
as it has been determined by the mixed Anglo-Russian Commission for the
delimitation of the frontiers of Turkey and of Persia.
Articled. The Sublime Porte undertakes to carryout, without further
delay, the ameliorations and reforms demanded by local requirements in
the provinces inhabited by the Armenians, and to guarantee their security
against the Circassians and Kurds. It will periodically make known the
catioii 6n to “ ia cffect to the Powers, who will superintend their appli-
Article 62. The Sublime Porte having expressed the wish to maintain
the principle of religious liberty, and give it the widest scope, the contract¬
ing parties take note of this spontaneous declaration. In no part of the
Ottoman Empire shall difference of religion be alleged against on individual
M “^ground for exclusion or incapacity as regards the discharge of civil and
political rights, admission to the public service, functions, and honours or
tho exercise of tho different professions and industries. All persons shall
pe admitted, without distinction of religion, to give evidence before the
tribunals. Liberty and the outward exercise of all forms of worehip are
assured to all, and no hindrance shall be offered either to the hierarchical
organisations of the various communions or to their relations with their
spiritual chiefs. Ecclesiastics, pilgrims, and monks of all nation¬
alities travelling in Turkey in Europe, or in Turkey in Asia,
enjoy the same rights, advantages, and privileges. The right of official pro¬
tection by the diplomatic and consular agents of the Powers in Turkey is
recognised, both as regards the above-mentioned persons and their reli¬
gious, charitable, and other establishments in the Holy Places and else¬
where. The rights possessed by Franco are expressly reserved: and it is
well understood that no alterations shall be made in tho status quo in tho
Holy Places. The monks of Monnt Athos, of whatever country they may
he natives, shall he maintained in their former possessions and advantages,
and shall enjoy, without any exception, complete equality of rights ana
prerogatives.
Article 63. The Treaty of Paris of March 30,1856, as well as the Treaty of
London of March 13, 1871, are maintained in all such of their provisions as
5 not abrogated or modified by tho preceding stipulations.
Article 6-J. The present Treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications
exchanged at Berlin within three weeks, or earlier if possible. In faith
whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it and affixed to it the
Beal of their arms.
RETURN OF THE ENGLISH PLENIPOTENTIARIES.
The.Earl of Beaconsfield and the Marquis of Salisbury were
received most enthusiastically on their return to England from
Berlin on Tuesday.
At Dover the occasion was generally regarded as a holiday,
and the ships and buildings were decked with flags. The
vessel by which the Plenipotentiaries travelled arrived at the
Dover Pier at about half-past two, and the Prime Minister,
before landing, was presented with an address of congratula¬
tion by the Mayor and Corporation. In acknowledging it the
noble Earl said that the countiy was as much indebted to
Lord Salisbury as to himself for any satisfactory results which
had been attained at the Congress. Other addresses were pre¬
sented by local Constitutional societies. The route from the
pier to the railway station was strewn with flowers by a
number of little girls.
At Charing-cross station, which was reached shortly before
five o’clock, their Lordships were enthusiastically received by
a distinguished company, including leading members of both
Houses of Parliament. The enthusiasm was maintained by
the immense body of spectators who lined the route to
Downing-street, and on arriving there both Lord Beaconsfield
and the Earl of Salisbury had to briefly address the mass of
people assembled before they would disperse. The former
said a peace had been secured with honour, and it was a peace
which he hoped would satisfy their Sovereign and gratify the
country. Lord Salisbury said he gathered from that great
assemblage that the people would always support a Govern¬
ment which supported the honour of England. Both speeches
were greeted with tremendous cheering.
fcneS °°J 11 a moui }tein pass, while maidens and mothers i Edward Cavendish. The band of the Queen’s Westminster
ei and pray for him as he is borne tenderly along, is- also ' Rifles played during the afternoon.
Captain Morley has been selected as chairman of the
Middlesex magistrates, in succession to Lord Salisbury.
The name of Mr. William Hardy, Deputy-Keeper of the
Records, has been added to the Commission appointed to make
inquiry as to historical documents of public interest.
At the annual meeting of the Union Bank of Australia on
Monday, the chairman said there was every prospect of a
bountiful harvest in the colony. The price of wool in
Australia had improved, and, as that was the staple article,
they had every reason to hope that the prosperity of the
colony was assured.
A young girl employed at service at a house in Great
Coram-street was on Monday charged at the Bow-street Police
Court with setting fire to the contents of her bed-room in
three places. The fire was discovered by n policeman, who
aroused the inmates of the house, and the accused was found
covered with a quilt in a room next to that in which part of
her clothes were burning. Her mistress said that the girl
seemed half asleep, and could give no explanation of what had
happened; she had no reason to think the accused had any
ill-feeling towards her, or intended to do wrong. The case
was remanded.
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THE ISLAND OP CYPRUS, THE CHIEF TOWNS, AND THE NEIGHBOURING COASTS.
JULY 20, 1878
KSK the'Turkish Cominand^Clurf,ther«or dock ^
to drive tlicm into the ^Vn^Briscoe with fifteen hundred
morning on toe 23rd ult. Bas’hi-Bnzouks (Moham-
Turkish soldiers and two nimclrea hours’ fighting,
J&ttTolunteer.), Owe"*
succeeded in drmug back th ^^L n ta numbered about
and occupying two JggejjJmsu Nedj p Pasha,
three thousand. On the ncitmonuu^, hundred Bashi-
with eighteen after a whole day’s fighting,
fighting the insurgents numbered about ro having
i&abitents of Vamos, a ™ tfedjib Tasha,
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island became subject to 1 .ex* £ death it fell with
mitted to Alexander the Great, upon w ^ ^ L It con-
Egypt, to / ie t ^ a ^emk8 6?metimen united with Egypt and
taken prisoner by the Cilician p Kinc sent a sum
Cyprus^for money to pay ransom^ JJSg. ]iberty by
which was too little.
the church.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS-
Adam., W-CoSuict.
Asliburnham, the Rom luui L^ington Pnom.
Frftow,.. b™tC eoju LittleWiMNorfolk.
Grace. ^^^^o’fK^um-Ash^tt.
Grant, Charles. Vg* , Ho&Mtta ,.JSSFSaSk
THE ISLE OF CYPRUS.
Th.adi.M7 of th. Ido ol
Queen ol Great Bntnm Nwkplac the port of
Lord rfSSSSJdrtmSSfSKS£S» cpitoif' «>.
Larnaca, then arnvea R taff to the Governor’s residence,
island, and proceeded^th hu stafl^ uo fflcialflandnot a bl ea
fnfnbout twenty miles in length with a breadth of from two to
five miles, terminating in Cape St. Amdreas (the ancient Einare-
0 fp which lie two small islets called Kleidcs, or the
Keys of Cyprus.” This part of the island, which is rugged,
nous and rocky, takes a north-eastern direction, and
STSSgft?CShto *»**’£* z£ srss
c ai 1p A maims Mountains on tJio coast of byna.
Jm. e distance from Cape St. Andreas to Cape Khanzir is about |
seventy-five miles; but the nearest part of the Syrian coast, in
!f,?3Xbnnrhn Q d of Latalrieh, is only about sixty miles ;
more. J^beckiVi "of 8t. Mathisa's, 1
Richard Cceur caused a revolt. Richard re- ^
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crowned T„ m « assisted by the Mamelukes of j am ea Benville; Rector ol
in consequence of wmcnineouyx c b g &ud JeruBulcm . The
mtol brother ^ ^ q( nardffic ke laid the chief stone of a new district
of a Venetian merchant, , . 8. pntliarino Comaro, on . . . ,, p p en . near Littlcport, on luesday.
S7«» | C ^; i ^.nh.t.,»h.tJCorferf*. «U1 bended in
wSd aid Catharine was soon after delivered of a son of ^^“f^beth Palace on Monday next.
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the wWe P^ in f D f a ^ c ^rt Do C tor’s Commons, opposite
first floor ol No^, Dean a co^, t iaint h e same
the rest of her days m princely styie»»« - “ £ ‘ for oue
The Venetians virtually kept^ ETlIll to 1511. Then
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defended^ th. Jft— SSSSt I TheCO
first revision of the minor pr y ^ ^ cnd of the secoud
TaS °The wimpanv, since their first meeting on June 30
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Stavro-Vuno and Santo-Croce, are, according to some, more
than 10,000 ft. above the sea. On Mount Santa-Croce, eighteen
„r. T fb nf T.nmiiea. is a church said to have been founded
than 10 000 ft. above the sea. un mount oauwi-v,^,
miles north of Larnaca, is a church said to have beenfounded
by Helena, the mother of Constantine ^ another summit five
niUes from Cerinia, or Ghirneh, near the n01 ^ ,co“t, h as a
monastery and an old castle upon it, from which there is a
splendid view. The northern elope of these mountams is bold
and rugged; the soutnem side is still more so, pr^enting a
deeply Serrated outline with thickly wooded steeps, diversified
by precipitous masses of limestone and deep picturesque
valleys. The most extensive plain, called Messarea, is m the
south-east part of the island, and is watered by tne river
Pedias, which is nearly dry in summer, like allthe other
rivers of the island. Another level tract watered by the
Tretus, lies to the south of Messarea, near the ancient city of
^The soil of Cyprus is naturally fertile; formerly, under the
Venetians, it maintained a population of nearlyonemillion,
but the number of inhabitants In 1850 was only 140,000, about
100,000 of whom are Greeks and 30,000 rurks, and the
remainder Christians and Muronitea. From neglect and defec¬
tive administration the inhabitants are in poor circumstances.
Many districts of the island being uninhabited are of course
uncultivated wastes, or clothed with heath, thyme, and other
aromatic plants. Cotton of the finest quality, excellent wine,
aud all kinds of fruit are produced; but agriculture is in a
most backward state. The average annual yield of corn is
about 112,000 quarters. Besides the productions just named,
madder, opium, colocynth, oranges, lemons, pomegranates,
hemp, and tobacco are grown. The carob-tree (Ceratoma
Siliqua) abounds in some districts; its succulent pods are
_n„ri s;k-rin while the nuln. which Is called
D.S J °l hey”a t ,'e \uo beeu . second Ume through the
Building, and Repairing of Churches aim ^ November)
meeting lor toe p^nttoMion (to.be „ !
a Si s^Soun^ b^ioSns. Levkosia was the residence
ofthe kings of Cyprus of the Lusiguan dynasty, and was then
much lSr thaJ?at present ; but the Venetians destroyed
3 \rAvy. tA Btrenothen the remainder. It is now
V?** ^Sg^rthTre^S: It is now
many of the fine old mansions are crumbling todu-ay
Parrots cotton prints, and morocco leather are the clncf
• JnHtrial nroducts : there is some trade in raw cotton and
wine The Greek Archbishop of LevkoBia ifl Metropolitan of
the whole island. Famagosta, on the cast coast, a few miles
south of old Salamis, not far from the site of the ancient
TamasauB, formerly famous for copper-mmcs, 13 a t “™ °““
ntromrlv fortified by the Venetians, but now much depopulated
uud^decayed. The 7 Venetian palace and most of the churches
are Sins, and the fortifications arc now iusignittc-ut
Si or Larnaka, near the site of old Citium, near the
smlthSast, and twenty-four miles south from Levkosw. is a
thriving place, being the residence of the European Consuls
and factors, aud the seat of the chief trade The port of
Unmc. U nt BJlne. ^ '”3^ ,
Siliqua) abounds in some districts ; its succulent pods are | Lamaca u at Salines, about a mile mm “
exported to Egypt and Syria, while the pulp, which is called Greek Bishop resides at Larnaca, and there are aUoi some
St P John's BrcaJ and resembles manna, is used as an article ^ Catholic churches in the town. Ihe houses are built chiefly
e , , rfx.k- „’—j-..- o.^ ^li^.nii Tkifr-li wool, cheese. 1 of clav and only one story high above Hie ground floor, oil
account of the earthquake* to which the island is subject.
The interior of the houses, however, is comfortable, the apart-
_with white marble, and almost every house
St John’s Bread, and resembles manna, is usea as an arueie
of food. Other products are oUve-oil, pitch, wool, cheese,
raisins, and silk. The Venetians formed plantations of sugar-
cane, but these have now been abandoned. On the mountains
are forests of fine timber.
i forests of fine timber. ... , .,
In ancient times Cyprus was famouB for its valuablo copper
mines, as well as for gold, silver, and precious stones, including
the diamond, emerald, jaspeT, opal, and agate. Copper,
tvsbestos, talc, rock-crystal, and various other minerals are
known to exist, but no mines are worked. Salt is made on the
seashore to the extent of about 10,000 tons annually.
The climate is cold in winter, owing to the winds that blow
from the mountains of Asia Minor and Syria. In the plains
the heat of summer is excessive, but this is moderated by the
■a breezes; rain is very rare in summer , and, as irrigation's
ISiflllSssl
ass.
IBSHBIH
sSr»%S£s«rfs
ably short of that sum.
The interior of the houses, However, is com.oruiuie, u.e -
meuts are paved with white marble, and almost every house
hft8 We meseSt a Map of Cyprus, with accompanying smaller
maps to show the environs of several of its chief towns—
namely, Famagouataor Famagosta, Limasol, Larnaka (Larnaca),
and Cerinia (this name is also written Kyrenia); and with a
map showing the vicinity of the neighbouring coasts of byria
and Asia Minor. The port of Ayos, in the Bay of Scanderoon,
is by far the best anywhere on those coasts, and is recom¬
mended, in preference to Scanderoon or Alexandretta, for the
nf til* F. 11 nh rates Valiev Railway. This liue
the heat of summer is excessive, out mis is muuenneu u, ^ , me ndcd, m preierence to .V* -
tea breezes; rain is very rare in summer, and, as irrigation is parting-point of the Euphrates Valley Railway. Inis hue
neglected, there is of course then very little verdure, borne | would pas9 through Aleppo. TTie distance to the head of the
districts are unhealthy from want of drainage, and consequent ™—i-n.M i- »K«„t *i»>it. hnndred nnles. through a fiat
malaria. ,, x, „ . .
Cyprus appears to have been colonised by the Phoenicians
at an early period ; and the island, or a portion of it, seems to
I-,**.,, <n>Mont tn ti,*m cwn down to the time of Solomon.
at an early period ; and the island, or a portion oi it, seems to
have been subject to them even down to the time of Solomon.
Their chief town, Citium, is supposed to have been the
“Chittim” mentioned in the Bible. Phoenician inscriptions
have been found in the foundations of a fort, which delended
a large basin or harbour, now nearly filled up. Some Greek
colonies afterwards settled on the coasts. The island was
would pass through Aleppo. The distance to tne ueiui oi me
Persian Gulf is about eight hundred miles, through a fiat
alluvial plaiu.
Our Views of Cyprus in this week’s Number include those
Famagosta and of Larnaca, the ancient monastery of Cozza-
fani, and the singular rocks, called “ the Hundred and One
Houses,” at the verge of the northern highlands above Cerinia.
a large basin or harbour, now nearly tilled up. some ureex Nine of toe prisoners charged with ^“8JStah!
colonies afterwards settled on the coasts. 'Die island was burning of Colonel Jackson s house during the_rwent nots m
divided into several petty kingdoms, which were sometimes Lancashire were found guilty, and yesterday week the Lord
at war with, and sometimes allied with, the neighbour- Chief Justice passed sentences varying from seven to ten years
ing powers oi Greece and Asia Min or. Amasis, King 1 penal servitude. Two of them received minor sentences.
THE UNIVERSITIES AND FUBLIC SCHOOLS.
OXFORD. , , .. A
The classical moderators on Tuesday afternoon issued toe
University; O. F.:Hamilton, Corpus; b. j, j oriel; A. H - . a °J rl /|’
)SSf-'?iA£S&^SS-: j- *«•
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Uruatt, New ; A a Fararf. Unii Jl
dalen; J. A. Hobson, ^ W^ones, Jesus; J- D. Kite,
Worcester; J. H. Johnson, 8t. John b; H. K. jouw, ti T )(ilfi
Worcester; J. H. Johnson, 8t. John’s; H. K. M. Jon«,
kS m. Lame, E*«t«: - Leats, Hwtfotd,
p. J. F. Lush, Christ Church ; A. A. MacdomulL ; r. t'owley.
Keble; H. F. H
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Worcester; - Balliol; A W i *• H. Vofrht^ I
Whitlock, Chriat Churdi; W H wl,™ n ,7| Bnuienow. A L.
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Wadham; J. k! 8 ‘ W “ aon * *• W. \r*$£
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K. O. Carpenter, Exeter* W Pohat wZi}m v?“5 * * A. J. Bolton, Balliol •
CW^bSiUoI; wffe CrSttwTli **?&£:
E.T. F. Duffen, Lincoln: (Wu- j r ! m £ Corona;
Harria, Chriat Church; k Hewt & rw ?* eter : H. P
Hicka, Worcester; E. T. HirsTt! Hahiol^^ V°tt 1U r ckj,> Eeb l«: »■ P. B.
Trinity; C. O. Hunt. Corpus- a» V^JL P °#’.'• W - How.
^ le >— Meatetta, University; J, C.‘ MiSjell
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LONDON.
The following is a list of Candida tea who passed the lot*
exammatton for matriculation in the honours o? dirision -
(exhTbition^f£30 ^^'s^mn^'ortwo^esu^ ^ 7 ' B *“•»
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WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
I The will of General the Hon. Sir Edward Oust K C IT
deceaaed late of Leasowe Castle, Chester, who’ diod^on
2nd in8t - by the Rev. John
omea Moss, of East Lydford, Somerton, Somerset. The per-
ThC tert "tor bequeathed a
*mS?T toh - ^?- fe \ ft P° bc y for £100 ° to 1»LS daughter
Victoria Mary Louisa \orke; and a policy for £1000 to hi«
Firen^P f Vict ? ria Frauccs ; and £2000 Russian
of thUffSn* 8 i° hu , 8 ?- n ’ Le ‘*°M Cast. He gave his pictures
% .<*«£«wW tWSs^tssj:
fhS Of Z H- dftl8 ' 0 &C l and a ^rSr Slto? Si
of T , tb ® Bc ^ iai18 . to his daughter
Margaret Amy Frances Egcrton; hia square silver tea
rJ amSl f°r ° f ° U8t ^ New ton engwved upon™
connection of the families of Cust and
bir Isaac Newton), to the Rev. J. J. Moss. He nave certain
^rith a n e “I?.® 1 ® 8 mentioned in a list accompanyin^ LKl proved
M ht’iSoS 1 a^ 8 Wlf ®, for 1 H?’, aud thcn his son Lipoid,
“ fiTl Among tlie articles enumerated are a diamond
snuit-box, the gift of kint? Leonohl of . __u_«•
Sourrios or Pboblsh No. 1793.
warns.
1. Kt to B 8th
a. R to B 4th (eh)
9. R Mates.
BLACK.
K to Kt 6th
K moves.
PROBLEM No. 1796.
ByJ. O. H. Tatlok.
BLACK.
The speech-day and annual gathering at Malvern College
took place on the 10th inst. A large assemblage of friends
met to hear the speeches and to see the prizes g?ven away by
the Bishop of Worcester, visitor of the school. The head
muster, the Rev. A. Faber, opened the proceedings by recount¬
ing the history of the school during the past year, and by
SS 3 Stod?eS^? on 1116 marked 8UCCeB8 which had
Wednesday, the 10th inst., was speech-day at Hiehnate
^d°Flr. 1116 e^hibriions of the year were awarded to Fktcher
and Elcum; the gold medal to Fletcher; the “Dartmouth”
prizes, presented by the Earl of Dartmouth, toChriatie, Parry,
and Colman (1); the" Dyne” prizes to Piper and Elcum for
Divinity, and to Thorp (1) and Elcum for History; the
Baroness Burdett-Coutts s prize to Pollock. The list of Uni-
yermty and other honours obtained since last speech-day
induded open scholarship at Brascnose College, Oxford
Speech-day was held in the great hall of Christ’s Hospital
<ra Wednesday, when there were orations, &c., by the Senior
Grecian, a selection of vocal and instrumental music, and a
distribution of prizes by the Lord Mayor.
OBITUARY OF EMINENT PERSONS.
LADY WENTWORTH.
The Right Hon. Fanny, Baroness Wentworth, died at Nor-
wood on the 13th mat. Her Ladyship was the daughter of |
the late Rev. George Henot, of Fellow Hills, in the county of
Berwick, Vicar of St. Anne’s, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and was I
married, Aug. 22, 1869, to Ralph Gordon, Lord Wentworth,
who succeeded his brother in that Barony Sept. 1, 1862, and is
also by courtesy \ iscount Ockham, as the only surviving son I
and heir-apparent of the present Earl of Lovelace. Lady
Wentworth had an only child, Ada Mary, bom in 1871. 7
ADMIRAL BIR W. J. H. JOHNSTONE.
Admiral Sir William James Hope Johnstone, K.C.B., died on
the 11th inst. at Albany-street, Edinburgh, in his eightieth
f®®-. He was the second son of the late Vice-Admiral Sir
William Hope Johnstone, G.C.B., by Lady Anne Hope i
Johnstone, his wife, eldest daughter of James, third Earl of
Hopetoun. His mother inherited the large family estates of
Annandale, and his elder brother’s son, the present John
James Hope Johnstone, Esq., of Annandale and RaeliiUs,
M.I. for Dumfriesshire, is hereditary Keeper of Lochmaben
Falace, and claimant of the earldom of Annandale. Sir
^lUmm, whoso death we record, entered the Royal Navy in
1811, and attained the rank of Admiral in 1863, and that of
Rear-Admiral of tho United Kingdom in 1870, in which year
he was placed on the retired list. From 1854 to 1857 he was
i o°<ST a \ o^o' in * on 1116 South American station, and from
I860 to 18^ at fifoeemess. He married, in 1826, Ellen, eldest
daughter of SirT. Kirkpatrick, Bart., and had three daughters.
The deaths have also been announced of—
The Ven. C. A. St. John Mildmay, Archdeacon of Essex
and Rector of Chelmsford, at Homburg, on the 13th inst. He
was a son of the third Sir Henry Paulett Mildmay.
Miss Amy Martha Roberts, second daughter of the late Sir
Waite Roberts, Bart., of Britficldstown, Robert’s Cove, in the
- Corlc ’ a,ld Courtlands, in the county of Devon, on
the 13th inst., aged seventy-five.
riJ.^ y «£u rkcr A , wido . w of Admiral Sir Charles Christopher
an ^ lost Baronet, of Basaingboumc, Essex, who
cuedin l869 ; and daughter of J. Pnllmcr, Esq., on the 11th
tet., at 3, Kensington Park-road, aged eighty-three.
T u mfirt ,’ , w , idow o£ the Bight Rev. J. II. Monk, D.D.,
0 ., “ Blflh0 P °* Gloucester and Bristol, on the 12th inst., at
^’Baton-square. The M.P. for Gloucester, Mr. Charles James
Monk, is only son of Mrs. Monk, and the Hon. Mrs. Mostyn,
lie of Lord Vaux's eldest son, is second daughter.
(or d 1 H ? n !7 Sykcs Ste P h ens, K.H., formerly of the 86th
Sem!-nnf R0 /^ Coant y Down ) Regiment, and subsequently
^ the Queen, at 13, Wilton.place, on the
simi ‘ 8t > ln .hia eighty-third year. He obtained his co mmis -
SeSeStol ^7 ° n JUne 14, 1815> aDd attained the rankof
tra^laL^n^T 11 ® Winkwort h. at Monnetier, in Savoy, the
tallwl <> I r ke P° e ™ 8 comprised in the well-known volume
of Amoiic/w kf. nna m ca i and the writer of the biographies
of the 1111(1 of Pastor FBedner, the founder
j[i S8 WuikwnH^ i°^ P^testant Deaconesses at Kaiserwerth
WH1TB.
White to play, and mate in two moves.
THE PARIS TOURNAMENT.
The following is the first Game between Mesara. Blackdom* and Akdemes.
(oictlton Defence.)
white (Mr. B.)
1. P to K 4th
2. Kt to Q B 3nl
3. P to K Kt 3rd
4. B to Kt 2nd
T»
n.l '|
BLACK (Mr. A.)
Ptoa B4th
P to K 3rd
Kt to Q B 3rd
This lituiaf ploj, AlthooKh frvqnentlj
doi.lM by gnel foyers, slmn«t Alw.r.
ran 1U la shnttlug out the K B from the
on Xr uY n £*&■ B ) bi -*ce (Mr. A.)
2S. B to K B eq u to Kt2nd
SriSRa. si*'®*-"
29. B to R 6th
P takes Kt
Ktto K B 3rd
P to U R aid
P takes P
«to B 2nd
B to 6 knd
6. K Kt to K 2nd
6. P to Q 4th
7. Kt takes P
8. Castles
9. B to K 3rd
10. Q to K 2nd * «.,ru
11. (1 It to U w] }> O tnd
12. Kt to Q Kt 3rd Kt*. K 4th
18. P to KB 4th Kt to U II 6 th
1«. II to B aq --
15. P to K B 5th
1C. Pto K Kt 4th
17. T to 1C Kt 51 h
18. P takes Kt
19. 1* takes P
20. Q to K I) 3rd
21. K to It so
22. It to K Kt wi
23. II to 4 2nd
21. B to K 3rd
25. B to Q B aq
Pto It 4th
P to « Kt 4th
P to Kt 6th
P takes Kt
11 takes P
B to tl Kt 4th
KKtoQaq
Kt to Q Kt 3rd
14 R to B *q
B U Q B arcl
Kt to B 6th
P to Q R 4th
bee.
> oftli® arjrmie faun,
y the nrl-
Ite't game
30. B to K Kt 5th
31. R takes B
32. P to B 6th
33. K R to Kt aq
KtoRsq
B takes B
Pto Kt7th
P to Kt 3rd
P to Kt 8th
(Quccna)
34. B to Q 3rd
White appear* to burn nrrrlnfikol the
B takes P (ch)
P to Q 4th
P tak-« B
R to K Kt *q
Pto K6(dis.ch)
PtoK 7 (dw.ch)
“ ‘TB6th,
34.
I 35. Q to K R 3rd
86. B takes B
37. K R to B aq
38. (4 to R 6th
39. (4 to Kt 6th
40. K to Kt a
! 40. K to Kt aq
41. R to B 2nd
and White resigned.
CHES8 INTELLIGENCE.
Since our last Iamie the eighth and ninth rounds of the Paris Inter¬
national Tournament have been brought to a conclusion, Willi the following
naulteIn tire eighth round, Andersson won both games of Blackburn?.
Bird won two of Gifford, Winawer won one and drew one with Clere. Mason
won one and drew one with Pitschell, Mackenzie v. Enghsch each won a
game, and Zukertort beat Rosenthal two games. The ninth round was
played on the 15th and 16th inst., and Andersen beat aero two games, Bird
v. EmglMch each won one game, Blackburne won one and drew one with
Rosenthal, Mackemie bent Mason two games, Gifford won one and drew
one with PitschcU, and Zukertort and Winawer each won a game of the
The following is the full score down to the 17th inat., the drawn games
counting half a point
Won. Drawn. Lest. Score.
Winawer ... 12 . 8 .8.184
Zukertort ... 11 . 4 ... 8.18
Anderssen ... 11 . 1 ... ... a.Hj
Blackburne ... 10. 3 .ft.Ijf
3 .6 ... ...
Mackenzie .
Bird ... ... 10 ...
Rosenthal
acre ...
Englisch
Mason
Giffard
Pitschell
lal *... 8 4 !!! 6 10
.. ... 8 ... ... 1 ... ... 9 ... ... kA
h ... 6 ... ... 7 ... ... 6 ... ... 84
4 ... ... 6 ... ... 9 ... ... 64
... 3 . 1 .14. 3 J
Miss Wink™ i 1 ^testant Deaconessea at Kaiserwerth.
a bookSifwn.Sk* ^ ntributcd to th o Sunday Library Series
eutj tled The Christian Singers of Germany.”
mihtev n insi. rt t hUr Royal Engineers, one of the three
HosSl nrife tor ? ° f ^, my 8choola . on the 13th inst., atNctlcy
teurued’him r 8ho rt illness. Colonel Leahy, who had recently
Engkieera ?n liua m ® llbraJta r on sick leave, entered the Royal
including tho i1 8 ;/f Dd f erv , ed throughout the Crimean War,
■Sebastonol 11 ^ie battles of Alma and Inkerman and siege of i
ostopol. Of recent years Colonel Leahy had served in the I
»• o* at 108
Cnsss dt Electbic Tkt.kob* pii. —Wc haro rec.ivcd the following note
from Captain K.-nnody, an 1 have only to add to it that our information
upon the object referred to was derived from a contemporary report of the
Unit game played by electric telegraph, that appeared in our Issue of
April 12, 1846. The report, which wua accompanied by an Engraving, states
that the game was played between Messrs. Staunton and Kennedy, in
Portsmouth, and Mr. George Walker, “ the celebrated player, and another
gentleman at Vauxhall ” :
(To tka Editor of the lUuotrated London .Vries.)
Sir,—Perhaps yon will kindly allow me to rectify an inaccuracy in the
otherwise correct notice, printed in your Issue of the 29th ult , of the first
chess game played by electric telegraph. It was conducted by the late Mr.
htaunton and myself, not against Mr. O. Walker and another, but against
Messrs. Buckle, Peri gal, G. Walker, and TuckcU, consulting with Captain
Evans. The game, with ample notes by Mr. Staunton, will be found in the
Cheosplaytro' Chronicle, First Series, vi. 160.
Yours faithfully, Huoh A. Kexkedy.
Aifo a House, Beading.
m<u 4 „i -cl ’ r J. impress ot Austria; another eold
8Ht of the King of nanover; an enamel miniature
tw oa-f?Tv, U ’ ^r e P 4 of her ; tho Queen’s Jomite!
Sd i ; ^ numcr0Ufl letters from “ crowned
S/i ^ n te r8 .- He cave to the Royal Cambridge Asylum
workI‘TnnnU B ^ih h C0 PJright interest in his
TIa 11 Aimalsofthc Wars” and “Lives of the Warriors,”
and tdl other Ins literary works. He devised his real estate
Se afte^er^Sa ^ P crsoualt y to hi » wife for
nte, after her decease as she should nppoint, mid in default of
Fr£n 1 ^ I ^ 1 , n | Ilent to L j 3 , 80U ’ L, '°l )old Cast, absolutely. Sir
° Ue t^ three British Knights Commanders
of the Royal Hanovenan Guelphic Order. This order has no*t
been oonferred by the British Crown since tho death of
of HiaMveT ’ WllCn 1116 Bntu>b Sovereign ceased to be monarch
..J 11 ®? 111 (dated March 25, 1874) of Mr. Octavius Wigram,
tee of No. 2i, liryanston-square, who died on May 20 last,
was proved onthe 5th inst. by William Knox Wigram, Francii
«^f UC t e if Wlgram ’ th® Ji ®v. Spencer Robert Wigram, the
£100 non ei 'Th Ut ? r !l the personal estate being sworn under
foolvX 0 ' ThC testator leaves to his daughter, Clara Maria,
, t; 000 : memorial legacies to several friends, one year’s wages
to the servants who have been six years in his service at the
time of his decease, and mourning to all his servants. The
remainder of his property is to bo divided between his sons.
nf 25 e i 1 ?ii d ^f d i A, ¥*. 15 ’ 1868) of Mr ' 0coT B Q Addison, late
of No. 15, Cumberlond-terrace, Regent’s Park, who died on
Mot 4 last, has been proved by Mrs. Mary Addison, the widow
and sole executnx, to whom lio gives, devises, and bequeaths
all the real and personal estate over which he had any disposing
power. The personal estate is sworn under £90,006.
i« 7 ^ he ^ f U (datcd ?«. 187 «) with a codidl (dated April 2,
1878) of Mr. Alexander Mitchell, formerly of Wcstcliffe-road
Bu-kdale, Southport, Lancashire, but late of Manchester, and
of No. 14, Carlton-lnll, St. John’s-wood, cotton spinner and
manufactuxer, who died on AprU 13 last, was proved on the
William Mitchell, tlio brother, and Willing
Mitchell, the son, the acting executors, the personal estate
bemg sworn under £60,000. The testator bequeaths to his
2^r er WlUm m and his nephew, John McClellan Mitchell
£2000 each ; to his sisters, Miss Margaret Mitchell and Mrs!
Elizabeth Joques, £105 each; to his said brother and sister
'V dham and Margaret, and for the life of the survivor of them
an annuity of £200; and to his said sister Mrs. Jaqucs and her
dm'pte Ann, and to the survivor of them, nn annuity of
f l2 °- Tb® re8ldu ® hi8 property he gives to his throe sons,
John, William, and Alexander.
The will (dated Feb. 19, 1863) of Mr. John Taylor,
formerly of Rajmohol, Bengal, indigo-planter and zemindar,
but Into of boutliend, Essex, who died on May 22 Inst w:is
proved on the 2nd inst. by Joshua Shepherd Taylor, tho
brother, and Douald Horne Macfarlanc, the acting executors
the personal estate being sworn under £50,000. The testator
bequeaths to his sisters, Mrs. Margaret Cormack, Mrs. Ann
Coghill, Mrs. Williamina Gow, Mrs. Charlotte Shepherd
Macdonald, and Miss Christina Taylor, and to his brother
George Taylor, 15,000 rupees each ; to his nephew John
Taylor Cormack, to las niece and god-daughter Margaret
r errier Cormack, and to his niece Johan Macdonald, 5000
rupees each ; and to each of his executors who shall act, 5000
rupees each. The residue of his estate he leaves to his brother
Joshua Shepherd Taylor.
.The will of the late Mr. Charles James Mathews, the
eminent comedian, has just been proved by his widow, Mrs.
Elizabeth Mathews, the sole executrix, to whom lie leaves ali
his property. The personal estate is sworn under £20,000,
A meeting of the leading inhabitants of Middlesborouph
was held on Tuesday, when it was decided to erect a statue in
the Albert Park, Middlesborough, to the memory of the late
Mr. Bolckow, M.P., the founder of Middlesborough. A com¬
mittee was formed to carry out the object. A subscription of
£100 was received from Mr. J.W. Pease, M.P.
The annual Provincial Grand Lodge of Surrey Freemasons
was held on Tuesday at the Public Hall, Dorking, under the
presidency of General Brownrigg, C.B., Provincial Grand
Master, who was supported by representatives from all the
lodges in the province. After the new officers for the year had
keen appointed the Grand Lodge voted five guineas to the
Dorking National Schools, ten guineas to the Idiots’ Asylum
at Earlswood, and ten guineas to each of the three Masonic
charitable institutions. A service was afterwards held at the
parish church, and a collection amounting to £7 lls. was made
on behalf of the Dorking National Schools. Before separating
for the day the brethren partook of a banquet.
The Liverpool Orangemen deferred their celebration of the
Twelfth of July tiU Monday. It was held in a field belonging
to Lord Salisbury, a few miles from Liverpool. The Eastern
policy of the Government was approved and Ritualism con¬
demned. There were no disturbances.—'The members of the
Liverpool Peace Society, at a meeting held last Saturday,
passed a resolution which, whilst it expressed satisfaction at
the pacific solution of political difficulties which the Congress
by this time afforded, deprecated in the strongest terms the
assumption by tho Government of territorial and other
responsibilities which were sure to involve enlarged arma¬
ments and continued germs of international dissension, that
might hereafter plunge this country into war.—In connection
with the annual picnic of the Salford Conservative Association,
which took place on Saturday at Tatton Park, the seat of Lord
Egerton, a public meeting was held, at which a resolution was
passed thanking Lord Beaconsficld and the Government for
their successful treatment of the Eastern Question. The
speakers included Mr. Charley, M.P., and Col. Walker, M.P
JULY 20, 1878
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ELUS-s'rCTHIN*WATEHS- yor Gout. Ll-hl* Water. and
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-\TRS. S. A. ALLEN’S
M W ORLD’S HAIR RESTORER.
tpatt TO RESTORE
GLOSS. AND BEAUTT. LU g X UE. AND
K^Sc-s
NATUBAL CACStS. DW.YOR youthful
is QUICKLY RESTDULD TO W WILL
ojlour. gi^s^and beauty. inui:c1s a
geawHs
M1M ^Exr^Lr:;r^
important notice.
Mr,. 8. A ALLEN U ^erj
poratlons for tho Hair. 1(lll m nC vrr required *t on «
condition of the Human H.D. J'oUi ore ^ ^ ab< , Tl> „ d
time. For details a* to each.P I deten nin* which of
Mow Uil, l»r«grupti. Remit" «“
Uic two they require.
-mrnTTRNING ORDERS SENT AT ONCE
M°i5S?lEfcS OF LETTER OR
* -rssffHS®
country no ma»« « * t h--* '
ssbsbs^
-Xlis8jgggg2&* ga ~
.BWVS&’S’SKS.
One of the
256 tuWi, WBcnv.vivv,,-
• r ;.eB‘"K!^“^ v-*^
T.trrt lW-room min*** »•»
p^sfflsSSM^s^
artistic furnishkg^tzmann
.A. endOO. are Introdurlng* variety of ff* jt f..r
Indian Dedgn. In llop. and'M«»«. to mcet the n*imn | ,. 11 .,.„ rnt ,
^'nlr. of*'nw| 1, IVr»^an'ai'rMnd*.*;.) 0 !,”™|h>a?*"ehf A vl.lt of
Sg^rtttdtSS!^>grEMASN and
CRETONNES. — OETZ.M
CRETONNES.—Aniinuienjeaae"
deign. In U.1. faf*jj*“W«mat«f»}. |u
oi«t rl “?rle X «d the JJ^Jt^cjLnerwd. usually ’«•{'.
ffaf&eaat 1 * ,,<
Ttorniman^tea
-H- commanded a large it Is the be
BjsjPBS-JSawa.*^_
article. --
M lts -
[. S. A. ALLEN’S
OETZMANN and CO
wtmrnt Of Blithe dmlrert
,„o;y variety of rtylejjnd
run* Tapertn**. »" ,I,L
Tepoitry* Trie?*
pHINA and GLASS DEPA 1 I ^ n M l i^i'.
v^^TBSES&JS&s
superior o,«c - £ "»«"» * *■ *=
n... k>. ndtf
V7 Alexandra raw _
^^^Kscr
-nnSTAL ORDER BEPARTMENT.
L*s?ssssS
rgYLO-J£ALSAMUM,
For the Growth “ViZid ^U.ly v^’ubie.
RTMPLE TONIC AND DRESSING
OF INESTIMABLE VALUB t TO BOT“ BEXE8.
Illtho'se who havenoobe* -^g;SS
MATURE 1.USS OF THB BMMO™* *
^SSiESI
SSSK»» ;
POMADE SHOULD BE USED WITH IT.
Catrrios! !-Tbe Genuine only In Bluish Grey Wrappers.
Bold by ell Chemlit*. l'erfumer.. ,nd Peeler, In Toilet Article,.
"CRY’S CARACAS COCOA.
r "The Caracas Coco, of .uch choice queUty. -Food.
W ^^^^SdMMMe ertl cl »■"—Standard.
y«^^^.v , atoV“ DtL 1
QHOCOLAT MENIER, in Jib. and *lb.
BREAKFAST
PHOCOLAT MEN IK It.—Awarded T wenty-
V Tb ” e PRIZE MEDALS.
Consumption aimnally
exceed* 17.OUO.w01U.
TMTRNISH throughout.-oetzmann
ESS&aaiOTJSBSSRKSS
itetlon. Metropolitan Rail-
IB^-Kir'SaA'S'EUES
X ^r^OOMFLMTE HOUSE FURNISHERS, ....-.^.
aajKjjg^^S^aa^jg!;
It* Keren? a
poe t-free. _
TYESCRITTIVE CATALOGUE, post-free.
QETZMANN ft CO.,
ig - AMPSTEAD-ROAD.
FII16T-CLAB8 TASTE
SUPERIOR TASTE^^^ pRICEg#
lUBIt B - A R 0 E ’ 8
i&nQBStBSP**
ORNAMENTAL GOODS.
Large Aw-irtment.
“BMMSSsartS’-
Krtabllahed l 7 * 1 -
QHOCOLAT MENIER
Bold Everywhere.
Paris,
London,
Hr* York.
0OLDEN STAR
rpAYLOR BROTHERS’
AT ARAVILLA CUCOrV
^ ^ofwep
dly Iw railed the perfection
'ITrltUU McRcal Journal
AT ARA VILLA ^OCOA.—Thc‘^Globe ^’aayB^
■wsKas2o5i!i?i£r 'ssszsa. •ps
con.umer, of Cocoa In genera), we could not recomroenu
8tdePr^prM«ihTAYiA)R*BWJ l T , HEB8, Ixmdon.
AY-LEAF WATER.
Triple distilled from the fresh leave* of tho
Ray Tree (Myrde Aeri»).
For the TOILET, NURSERY, and BATH.
A few drop. on “ ^ryMwidaH^the^'^hL
the face end hand. »i^l '« 1 ^ mmrnd?d to aj.ply
T^umarlylnulo beth give a delightful
alter .having. t n ., llnrlt „|,| P dean.lng propertie.. I «r-
ticuhu'ly adapted to the Utl.lngof InfanU and young children
tlcuinriy au i ^ ^ h11 wllo Kn der from Ueadarbe
mental labour or fatigue Buy only the genuine Gol.U-n
n.« r^af Water, eold In three .itee Toilet Rottles. 2- ■
to by Chemist* end Perfumer*, or on receipt of .tamp*
^ •thl WhoWe Depot. I" and 116. Southampton-,*..
rivjiE ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE
COSTUM^.nFANCY SILKS^^ 4
COWUM^ ln^BENAD^NE. M ^ ^ ^
Reduced from 3} guineas to JU». 6d.
COSTUMES for EVENING and UYNNEIt IJBESB.
Ksja!s'sss.‘di!ra-. ..a..
MANTLES end JACKETS,
EBUSiSSeJW
■“WrSSifc.
s ssssssssasawiMw“
CASHMERE CIRCULARS IlnoIlleelRuMlen Squirrel,
^he£‘£jocod^ n n^. S* KU'“*“. * nd np » J
RLACK BILKS^ f]fom 6i.to3.-6^^yert.
Reduced Iroin 7*.Ud. to He. M.
I BLACK B R A S t 02..64.L 1 3*. *..
OUcrve tho address—
PETER BOItlXSON'S. 256.178,3B0.3«. Begent-rtruet.
ATOTICE.—In reference to the
IN above rulvert Getnenta.
It l« linia.rtaoi that letter,
ahould be clearly addressed to
to 282. REGENT-STREET.
OWAN and EDGAR’S SUMMER
S cYeabanxe kale
• , |<iklu r iV<Sj3^^^JJJJr J^} B (a'iij3ROThfoS!ISiigm*dFmj'7
rpHE ESSEX FLOUR and GRAIN
talSipuni .^P^WEinack-vwh^t.^^t
w^sedi ; T MlddRngs.' 2*. 4d. per hushrf i, (iroa “ dP ' r ,| '‘^'
W^*{L^UrW*SS.-4St
tobe made In favour of O . Young. __
QAVORY ft MOORE, 143, New Bond-street,
, PTepero _
ATOTICE —SILVER and ELECTRO- rpRE BEST FOOD for INFANTS.
JN PLATE.—BLKINGTON and CO.. Manufarturlng J[ BuppUed to tlie Royal Femlllee
X ' a.VJ:~nilh.uri I’ateuteee of IheKIyctmliate. | * Of England and Ruasle.. _^
PLATE.-ELKINGTON and CO., Mannfann
Sllvenniiths and Patentee* of * ,,c I
Bevlaed lllurtratnl Patteru-Book of New lv.itiis
In Table Plate of all kinds, and new qualities in j
Suim *T^Mmoil«| r rutoinMb? l£*er“l. , ‘great
variety always In stock; and Committer, prnvblrd
•with &»lgn. 1M "^; "Loudon 0,1 *
M—Elklngton and Co.. 22. t-rtreet. Louaon .
or *2. Moorgate-strtet, City.
i and Russia. .
_,l chemist*, Ac., everywhere.
ri^HE BEST FOOD for INFANTS.
1 The most dlgertlble ; oonUln. tho
W1|tiHl Amount of Nouruhmcnt,
In the molt convenient form.
PAeSSrS- new'DINNER and TABLE | T HE BEST FOOD tor^INFANTS:
U 01 J 1 S 8 SFJtVICES are original In de.lgn,^ectlre In i g W ret and Whoh wme in It-elf.
' -..ir-wr™. from Beetroot Sugar.
««nt for SihonorMSre delivery. Table GIm. Arvices from
U 6$. U. the Set for twelve perwm. complete.
DINNER SERVICES.
Ooloured Lithographs post-free,
in Don) Bias. I In Blue *n<l White.
w2ST-- '.:*!»:|iS™: H" IS
Discount 18 per cent.
In Enamelled Patterns. I In their nm-inalled Crown
Tbe^Tbotmendmid # § # L Roby .. ^ .. „ «ID
The Japanese Bamboo 6 6 0|InPI^2. 2 S o
The Humming-Bird .. 7 7 0 In Black.S 8 0
TheBtvna .. “jj^ontlspercent.
TABLE GLASS SERVICES.
Plain light stem gUs* U 6 • I Ught■SwedgUsiu. 8 18 8
Blclilv cut kIam ..5 6 01 Richly Wfr»Tfd (Utt 6 18 6
Discount lfl pet cent. 4 . .
IUnitmted Ql&M OitAlogue, whlcd mart be returned, wmt
post-free on application.
Gardner*’ Lamp. Ginas, and China Manufacture is.*53 end 48*-
C? AVORY and MOORE,
O H3. NEW BOND-STREET. LONDON ; and
Sold by Chemi sts, Ac., everywhere. _
” THE PERFECT FOOD^Nl^ADDKD BULK OR BUOAR
T OBB’S PATENT DRIED MILK FOODS
Tins, Is. each.
TkR DE JONGH’S
i) (KNIGHT OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR.
KNIGHT OF TUB ORDER OF LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM)
LIGHT-BROWN COD. LIVER OIL.
the purest.
the most palatable.
THE MOST DIGESTIBLE.
THE MOST EFFICACIOUS.
0R. DE JONGU’S
I IGHT-BUOWN COD-LIVER O 1 ^-
I j Druyv A by twenty-live year.’ rmrilcal experience tobe
J P 7 THE bNLY UH>-L 1V k.U Ul l.
which pnrduce* the full curativeeflccteln ______
mwsmiPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST,
^truoAT AFFECTIONS, OENERAL DEBIL.1TY.
WASTING DISEASES OF CHILDREN, RICKEl’S,
AND Ali SCROFULOUS DISORDERS.
8ELECT MEDICAL OPINIONS.
BIB G. DUNCAN GIBB, Burt., M.D.,
Physician to tho Wetotoittr Hcwp'tal
“ ^Fho value of Dr. DE JONGH S
L LIGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL as a thera-
mnllcinv • bnt In addition. I have found
DR. SINCLAIR COGHILL,
Physician Royal NaUonal Hospital for Consumption. Ventnor.
“ T have convinced myself that in Tuber-
I culnr and the various forms of Strumous Dlsnoje.
A Dr r>KJONGH'B UOUT-BROWNCOlMAVLlt
^ercSdTwwT^wltt r w'hjcl| 1< i C am acqualuteil.
It was t*>iM*clftlly noted in * Urgo numlM*r of cuw**
that Dr. DE JONGU'SOII. wo, not only t derated,
but taken readily, and with marked benefit.
fitting._____
QWAN and EDGAR will «Jw «
CWAN
IJ of 111
and EDGAR will show a STOCK
Cheapest BILKS ever offered.-Piccadilly and
"DOYAL DEVONSHIRE SE® gE8,
R -^sss«r v
for B0Y8' HAK1)' VV^Al^Tt ll extra milled, price.
M In. wide. 3s. Sd.wrysjd.
Books of Pattern* sent |»st-f reo by
SPEARMAN and SPE ARMAN ,
- B§S®P?T==
"lArEDDING TROUSSEAUX,
YY 120, ISO. end 1100.
"DABY linen.
X> LAYETTE8,
__;B, £A 110. and £20.
Mr*. ADDLEY B(}uBNg?3L CTccadlUy.
Q WAN BILL CORSET (Registered)
bill l.'Xtt^ifemvel^wIu^^j^ keeplD8 U,e ,or “
37, Piccadilly; end 76. Rm> St. iAiare. Peris.
DR.
"J^IDGE’S
FOOD
Uvea Health. Strriigth, I
Comfort, and Quiet Nights j
to Mothers, Nursee, I
Infanta, and Invalids.
Sold by ell
lUto and Grocer,.
G lenfield s T A R 0 h,
ha, lor many year, been exclusively u*ed In tho Royal |
"Thu^best JBUerch 1 ever| Thc (jacen's Lanndres*. I
••Admittedly ferend away tho i .. The world.”
"Xr' 0 ' 1 DomMt,c
ATORTLOCK’S CHINA.—GREAT SALE. I
lYl the annual clearance kale
HAS NOW COMMENCED.
Unexample<l redaction* In everv departnient.
THE OLD PD'ITERY GALLEB1I&.
209.203, and 2>H, Oxtord-stn-el; and :u». Jl. end *1, Orchard-
street. l’ortmnn-Minure. London. W.
LENNOX BROWNE, Esq., F.R.C.8.E.,
Senior Surgeon Central London Throat and Ear Hospital.
' rithe action of Dr. de Jongh’s Light-Brown
X Cod-Ltver Oil ha* proved. In my owii experience.
iiAZtlcuUrly vnluaule*. nut imiy in Ujum* ilini-fi^ a
lorwhlch It vw originally employeil. but also in
many case* ot wenknrae of tlie binging and bl» ak-
Inc voice, dependent on broncliiai or
Knd Irritation, mid In all furtna of btruinoua
Enlargement of Glnndft.and Ulschftrgt# from the
Eat.*’
fJEW FiffiNCH UAraS^Jw DgS'
X V Summer Morning DreMei. ^ijb 1 ,, a t«TiAU, pn>ix*r-
Min p* ^ rd -
Batura.fi^-JOIlN HUUPEK.W. Oxford-stnet. W._
D
DR. PROKSEU JAMES, t
liecturer on JhiUria Mcdlca. London Hospital.
at. ““ "
0 W E L L, JAMES, and CO.’S
QUEEN ANNE CLOCKS,
g 7 f 9 , REGENT-STREET, PALL-MALL.
pARlS EXHIBITION, CLASS 20.
JOSEPH GILLOTT’S
O STEEL PENS.
Bold by Ml Stationers throughout the World.
J RIGHT’S COAL-TAR SOAP
V r vmiOVIS DET ERGENS”!.
I >\ RX i”b“po CARBosw7>ETEnoarB-->.
I al^lr'^nd n-fnrfiGiK'TcVlLKT'olVAi’ Gi tho'^Hih ^By^ili^daJly
nae tmdosn from infecthm* dilates in "ecured; thnornnplexjun
improved; plmplw. hlotchei. and roughncM removed; and tho
•kin iiimtie clrar, imiooth, *n*l lu»trou». „
••In our hands It hM proved mod effective In aklndlsc«ftc«. —
^‘lUiSeonlT true antiseptic •ottp”—British Medical Journal.
In tablet*, bd. ami Is. each. «f all CliemUU.
W. V. WRIGHT and CO., Soutliwark-ntreet, London.
rpAMAR INDIEN—Owing to the marked
L success ot thi* frult-loxmge—»o sgreeable to take and nnl-
wrsally inscribed by the Faculty for Coiirtllwtloii. dr.-Base
Imitation* are Ivlne lot»t«l on the public. I he genuine pre-
I Deration* t<rar the title -Tamar lndlrn. Ihhe i* '*!. lor Box.
• E.GRILLON. Wool Exchange. E.C. i eud all CliemLte.
Iircr on Jlatoria Mcdlca. liOlluon uospnai.
DE JONGH’S LIGHT-BROWN
COD-LIVER OIL contains the whole of the
active Ingrrdicnu of tho remedy, and I* easily
digested. Hence It* value, not only In Dlsciucsof
tho Hiroat and Lungs, but In a great number at
caws to which tho l’rvfesslon U extending it*
DR. DE JONGH’S LIGHT-BROWN CDD-UVER OIL
Is sold only in capsuled l»iri.ai*i. llall-l int*. 2». <al. ; 1 lnt».
4*. yd.; Quart*, as. ; by ull resja-'CtubUj chemist, and Druggist*
throughout tho world.
ANSAR. HARFORD?and < Cu!?77 ! .*bTRAND. LONDON.
•• FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE.”
! pLARKE’S WORLD-FAMED BLOOD
I V MIXTURE Is warranted to elcan«. the Blood to -n all
Impurities, from whatever can,* arising. For Scrofula. Scurvy,
| Skin and Blood ~-**- -*“*.."""* “•>«'*-
T)ACK and RUIN will ov erWke the
lv Teeth If they are notdrammddM ljy^ ybe° ^pqlv
tssSstihssi^g^SShs^ss
ItlCUARDS.G t.RusseU-»t.-bnlldlng,.Gt. Bumcii »>-. _
"^JR. STREETER,
18.NEW BOND-STREET. W.
GOLDSMITH AND JEWELLER.
The only Jeweller In
-'Kaajs'gs^i' M^.
•' >»si7sismaag®u*i.«»..
THE "TALISMAN ‘ MRACELEY
(Patented), a Novelty for the Seawm. from LV
Kkfn and Blond Disease* It* effect* are marvellous.
2*. «d. each, and In Ca*e* cntolning *ix time* the nnantlty. 11s.
each, ot all ChemLte. Sent G, any addrv** lor »or 132stamp*,of
•roprietor. F.J. CLARKE. Chemist, Lincoln.
Los pox: Printed and.Published
Jvn -v. 1«B.
I
the Illustbated^londo^ews
JULY 27, 1878
^=^===========^^73 „. m I expense sec hare to meet in compensation for the peace in
, _Ea.,—- i |SllfslM^sr^r
gasS«S£=rit
GALLERY.-LAST WEEK BET TWO. I T^" a 2 irmoratthe calling out of the Army KeBervc,
closes Ai:o. 3._Soa o Indian Contingent from our
of and the tnmi^rtJ* 1 f -^J* to say nothing of the
Eastern _ depend^y to Malta t J S ^
USfii .art., St >»** I
fe of the Hon- Johi
marriages.
On the 22nu u»‘-. _
IU oa t «r«.. U. nil. •< «» n». W. Plaakstt. at • *»•
the Afternoons
3 . 3 . <v* < ?';L 1 :«l«rridIv. 0 St'iM.
n“li^lpi3.Uin|»l «ld.e-ed
Monmouthshire. -—
On the 16th inst. at the Ken
n MnrColl M A., Joseph Miller. ..
2^Jh£ of ffiela’te James Lodke,
Pa^ n tjaimdcW, l D^D.?V.K.S.^Dwn of Peterhorough^agcd^i^}^^^
.3, «u a* «-• * 1 “ 8 - a
- —WATER COLOURS.
SSSSIrr
M «vS g ^ 2 v 8 t“'
wXKtSgSK 10$** V
JSSlStTr * 1
f *** the SfiSS w
7 pm. Re* Canon Farrar (for Bt.
ifirgurrtf. restorationfund).
Bt. James’s, noon, probably, Eev.
Ht John Blunt. , _
Bt Peter’s, Eaton-square, 4.30 p.m.
the Bishop of Bombay.
4 pin, the Bishop of Iowa, l)r.
w 3 Perry; 7 pm.. Bey.J-
Grover, HeaS Master of Coventry
Grammar School. v , *
SS^wtSS&'SSZS;
'‘pJv ^ H North (Andrewes, the
Catholic rreacher).
g=ST5T5SJS!
SS.K^
sftr'isf'S^sS
Market It wo days).
THURSDAY, Aco. 1.
IW W. A«-« a< “»,”aS , „ C StT5i£ a,, ^ W
House of Hai
THE ILLUSTRATED
PARIS UN IVERSAL EXHIBI TION.
An English Edition of
I/EXP0SITI0N UNIVEBSELLE DE 1878 I1MSTBEE
PRICE THREEPENCE.
I PUBLISHED AT TUB OFFICE OF
THE ILLDSTBATED LONDON NEWS.
108, STRAND, LONDON.
Ml Country OrJ.r. u i. ...pytioJ MronyA I*. Aon^n
NOW RE ADY.
....- , VOL. LXsn. (JAS.J TO J™E ». isn)
“ d Pl8<, “ 1 rpHE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.
Glamorganshire Agricultural 8ociety, I jjj eRaat jy Bound in Cloth, Gilt Edges .“ 16*. Cd.
Hwan-sea itwo days). _ I Or in PaDer Covers ... . 2« cd.
tioyai Northampton, BhoW, Dumines, ax - »-
“ea.Lurd Al«>me Compton; I>r^ y^ti^Regattas: GreatYarmouth,
Bidetit of the meeting) ***®^P^ Weymouth, Ram&fraUs Harbour,
at the Townhall, tc.; table d UU, Do? Show, Alexandra
6 p.m.; sectional meetings, 8 p m. Dublin Jour days)
Goodwood Races (four days). I iujacc ’
WEDNESDAY, July 81. . ,
u^i a*-*** j-“si B ys k ‘ ^ '"““/i.
Northampton^ ^jxcumons l^ k g toc]t , Poultry, and Pigeon
I inmorgauMi
Swansea (two days). _
Gainsborough Show: Horses, Dogs,
i Poultry, and Horticulture itwo
Oonmci Agricultural Society Show
Rowing^ Bedford Regatta.
X Elegantly Bound in Cloth, Gilt Edge*
Or in Paper Covers ... .
Cases for binding the above ... .
PorUolw'sfor KilgSix Months' Numbers ...
Office: 198, Strand.
_se ol Hanover, iij
Royal Archieological
Northampton.
_OZKCIV 9 LVBW aa*— — -
• --“ i mutch on the Thames.
" !-«»«. *rS.'*SSSSoSttaS
ssss ssvra #«jfe!I I y 2 ss, w 2 ss nzzrs* >
Southport Agricultural Society Show (two days).
r “ p
'"ley /excursion to Orpington, High
Elms, Wickham, &c , 10.15 e —
THE TT T.UST RATED LONDON NEiVS.
LONDON: 8ATUSDAY, JULY 27, 1878.
E n nvulo a very large and appreciable addition to the
^ ,!l n f tho , car. It will probably ba foavd to
hn'./cost us ns much in mere money as did the Irish
f “ ‘ , vear8 a co. Incidental ndvontaB™ may come
!rrit a”U q ncstion»bly, they did ont of that; but we
shall probably bare to reckon the nation out of pocket
this year of several millions of money wh,eh but for the
— *PP- A t VtfSgZ 5? rtme^i
deprclaio/and' in the derangement - business eonse.nent
unon political uncertainty very much more than it will
have to contribute directly to her M a ] e 8 ty 8 Exchequer
Happily, that uncertainty is now at an end. Capitahsts
arc already beginning to look out for promising enter¬
prise! The information that reaches us from manu-
two or three years p-. “
I pectsmther aid than discourage these industrial and coi -
I niercial pre-intimations. There has been a superabundant
W harvest, and, should the present metoorologicrd con-
ditions be somewhat further prolonged, there may be also
I
l
restrictions which for a long time past have limited
srrs£is , “i sjsmKi b ?
ea^u'er f han Vsud. not a few of the measures introduced
will have to be sacrificed before the Hmwes • ^
not sure do not inv^iahly result
this year was modest enough, but ,s not
rellisod There are some bills sufficiently advanced to
SSTi.SSthat they will reach —~S*
others which should they perish, os most likely t J^ ^
in a “ massacre of the innoeenU,’’ wdl haray oxeito
; public disappointment. Curiously cnoug , ^_^ ^
’KAJIeA*SS~\-»aZ ' dchherotkin upon the political position in ^ieb^cstmoA -Ire. the dif-
SSSuaasw ijssrswa*-
BATURDAY, Auo. 8.
tering, Roth well, Ac.; tabled hot«,
715pm.; sectional meetings.
Oldham Agiiculturol Society 8ho ...
Great Horton Agricultural bhow.
Horticultural Bociety, promenade,
B inquet to her Majesty’s Ministers
at the Mansion Hoiiae^
3m. many ways. It ho, cost not a Uttle in the
, I extraordinary strain put upon the principles, or, at any
ingj Thames Valley Bailing rato , the customary interpretation of the pnnciples, o e
^1- Brit.h^tu^n. It^not - ^ent^or ». re
Club, -
Mcnd.TiluMl^a. B®s'“ t '*.
ax ;is“d.r».j. out
Annual Champion Meeting,
Cryltal'r'aiftce United Kingdom Cat
| and Dog Bhow (three days).
THE WEATHER.
RE3ULTS 0? METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT THE
HEW OBSERVATOUV OF TH* BOYAL SOCIETY.
. ...__ . VT . .t.,.. Rare 5U feet.
daily «*A»» OY 1 1
Ij
1
j Dew Point, j
11 ll|
fl7 80 257
18 30 2821
». 19 80 198
13< 20 30 061™ • ,
*» 21 29 972 70 3 1
22 29 955 83-6
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The following ere the readings of the meteorological Instruments for the
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Saturday.
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I seems to be cordially accepted by all J
second has provoked serious opposition iand the W
draught of it has had to be greatly modified. R^ona
doubts may be entertained in regard to the F^cip ) g
at the basis of both measures ; but they are doubtswbu.K
in the present state of public opinion, are not bke y
influence to any large extent Parliamentary de^o^
Wo have referred to the Bills simply for the
illustrating the prevailing lack of legislative p g
front of the pressing possibilities of war. ^ he a 8
of time, interest, and action duo to the obtru P
nencoof affairs in the East must be reckoned amo g ^
costs we have to pay for the achievement of a dura^
settlement of international differences and, perhaj ,
least to be regretted of the fines thereby linpos I
On the whole, perhaps, wo come out ° f ^Qtt^an
which old-fashioned and traditional caro for the Ott
Empire had raised about us with somewhat les^ bs*^
might have been expected. But it would be g wQuld
to suppose that the country has lost nothing,
be a great error to suppose that the full
exacted from it has yet been paid We are
however, who arc disposed to make thebost dMJact
are in themselves immediately disagreeable , ationa l
that, in many cases, some of the choicest o c - ne ls
blessings have eventually reached us thr 0 " g ^ he Jl 1(?r by
which would not have been willingly chose ,
| our forefathers or by ourselves. In most li tonc^
! instances, it is tree that •• every olond ha. rei ri*e j ^
I but it is not less true that we cannot have the bng
without its concomitant shadows.
S T JAMES’8 HALL, PICCADILLY.
rv'UE MOORE aud BOROES8 MINSTRELS.
A PdOteaia it*. • BM* 8toll». M .: Area, B»l»ed and Ctukloncd 8™t«. *».; H»lcooj,
la. Kotos*. No chxrje tor 1‘rograuuius. Ladles c*n isUut thslr boaneto to »U inuts
British Constitution, n «*** — — --
anticipate next week’s debate in the House of Commons.
The facts, however, on which discussion must be founded
have, for the most part, been made known How far toe
steps which have been successively taken by the G°i ern- ,
mentto arrive at present conclusions was prescribed by
a-“necessity which knows no law” we may lcaie I
to be determined by Parliament-not simply by a
numerical division on Lord Hartington’s amendment,
hut in the main by the impression which will be left upon
the mind of the country by the arguments brought forward
during the debate. But one thing is clear, whether
justifiable or unjustifiablc-that the country has passed,
during the last few months, through a process which has
wrenched it from the position in regard to foreign policy
which it had calmly looked upon as incontestable. If it
1 should be found that the power of committing tho nation
to engagements of unlimited scope abroad really belongs
to toe Crown, and may be duly exercised without toe
1 0 066 slightest reference to Parliament or to the pcoplo; if, in
short, the Foreign Policy of this country is in the hands
exclusively of the Prime Minister, and may bo secretly
carried into effect, whatever may be the responsibilities it
entails, it is quite certain that—albeit there may bo no
novelty in tho constitutional theory thus brought to the
surface—there is unquestionably an alteration of customary
practice which places us in a different position from that
which we supposed ourselves to occupy. This is one of
tho costs at which wo have obtained the maintenance of
| peace. We have discovered that we are not, as we sup¬
posed ourselves to have been, masters of our own fate
r . are Tl _ 1 _TL.-l.v.c if v.
, peiuxi. „„ — —__ . , The Sandringham Estate Cottege HorH^tuMj e ®^f^
I posed ourselves to have been, masters of our own fate in Show was held ^ WetoesLUy.^ ^ rrinccss of
I so far as our Foreign Policy is concerned. Perhaps
inevitable that it should be so. Perhaps it will be difficult, thrown open public iu^ectiomand th «".°^^ cre enlivened
if not impracticable, to formulate an easy escape from the I n of mreat amusement. The proceedings
JULY 27, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
75
THE COURT.
The Queen before leaving Windsor entertained at dinner
Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, the
Right Hon. Sir Augustus Paget and Lady Paget, the Hon. S.
Ponsonby-Fane, and General the Right Hon. Sir T. M.
Biddulph
Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, left yester¬
day week for the Isle of Wight. The Queen travelled by
special train to Portsmouth, and crossed thence in the Royal
yacht Alberta—Captain Thomson in command—to Osborne.
Prince Leopold remained at Windsor Castle, being confined to
the house with a sprained knee.
The Earl of Beaconsfield arrived at Osborne, and had an
audience of her Majesty. The Queen’s dinner party included
Princess Beatrice, Lady Waterpark, the Hon. Horatia Stop-
ford, the Hon. Amy Lambart, the Earl of Beaconsfield, Lieu¬
tenant-General Ponsonby, and Mr. Montagu Corry.
Her Majesty and Princess Beatrice attended Divine service
on Sunday, performed at Osborne by the Rev. George Prothero.
The Queen, who was accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
invested the Earl of Beaconsfield with the Order of the Garter
at Osborne on Monday, with the usual ceremonial. Captain
Baron Seckendorff, of the German Navy, Governor to Prince
Henry of Prussia, and Captain Haig, Royal Engineers, Equerry
to the Duke of Edinburgh, arrived at Osborne. Her Majesty's
dinner party included Lady Waterpark, General the Right
Hon. Sir Thomas and the Hon. Lady Biddulph, the Earl of
Beaconsfield, Baron Seckendorff, and Mr. Montagu Corry.
The Earl of Beaconsfield, Mr. Corry, Baron Seckendorff, and
Captain Haig left the next morning.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice have walked or driven
out daily.
Her Majesty has conferred the Garter vacant by the death
of Earl Russell upon the Marquis of Salisbury.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP WALES.
The Prince of Wales returned to Marlborough House on
Monday. His Royal Highness left Paris by a special train on
Sunday night at eleven o'clock, and, travelling via Boulogne
and Folkestone, reached London at ten minutes past seven on
Monday momiug, the entire journey being completed in the
unprecedentedly short time of eight hours and ten minutes.
Mr. John Shaw, the manager and secretary of the South-
Eastern Railway Company, received the Prince on arrival at
Boulogn \ and the passage was made to Folkestone by the
company's special steamer Victoria, under the command of
Captain Dane. Sir Edward Watkiu, M.P., chairman of the
company, was present on the arrival of his Royal High¬
ness at Charing-cross station. The Prince, accompanied
by the Princess, visited the London Hospital, in the
Whitechupel-road, in the afternoon, and inspected the
wards. His Royal Highness paid a visit to the Duchess
of Cambridge at St. James’s Palace. The Prince and
Princes went to Her Majesty’s Theatre in the evening.
Their Royal Highnesses, accompanied by Prince Louis of
Buttenburg, left London on Tuesday for the Royal yacht
Osborne, at Dartmouth, in order to be present at the dis¬
tribution of prizes on board her Majesty’s ship Britannia.
They travelled from Paddington by the 1.45 train to Bristol,
and thence proceeded by special train to Dartmouth, where
they arrived at five o'clock. They were met upon their arrival
by the Duke of Connaught, Admiral Sir T. Symouds Captain
Fairfax, Lord Ramsay, Sir Samuel Baker, and the officers
of the Prussian frigate Niobe, now at Dartmouth harbour.
The visitors were rowed on board the Britannia by a
crew of cadets, Prince George rowing a bow oar, and
Prince Albert Victor steering. After partaking of tea on
board, their Royal Highnesses landed on the Dartmouth side
aud drove through the town, after which they returned to
the Royal yacht and entertained a party at dinner. The
town was decorated, and in the evening there was a grand
illumination. On Wednesday the Prince and Princess received
an address on board the Royal yacht Osborne from the Mayor
and Corporation of Dartmouth, and the Princess afterwards
distributed the prizes to the successful cadets on board the
training-ship Britannia. A large company assembled to witness
the ceremony, among them being the Duke of Connaught and
Prince Louis of Buttenburg. Neither of the young Princes was
a prize-winner. The Prince afterwards addressed the cadets.
Their Royal Highnesses, accompanied by their sons, sub¬
sequently left for London.
The Prince has fixed Aug. 12 for laying the dedication-
stone of the parish church of St. Mary, Southampton.
THE GRAND DUKE AND GRAND DUCHESS OF HESSE.
Tne Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Hesse, accompanied
by Princess Victoria, visited the Princess of Wales at Marl¬
borough House on Thursday week, and were afterwards
present in the House of Lords. The Hereditary Grand Duke
and the Princesses of Hesse visited the Tower of London.
Prmc ss Louise of Lome and the Marquis of Lome visited
their Royal Highnesses at Buckingham Palace. The next day
the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess visited Sir Richard
Wallace, M.P., at Hertford House. Their Royal Bignesses,
with the Hereditary Grand Duke and the Princesses of Hesse,
lunched with the Duke and Duchess of Teck at Kensington
Palace. The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess dined with the
Princess of Wales at Marlborough House. The Hereditary
Grand Duke and the Princesses visited the East and West
India Docks in the morning, and were received by the chair¬
man and secretary of the company. On Saturday last the
Grand Duke and Grand Duchess, accompanied by the
Hereditary Grand Duke aud Princesses of Hesse, left Buck¬
ingham Palace for Eastbourne. The Princess of Wales visited
their Royal Highnesses previous to their departure.
Prince and Princess Christian arrived at Lockinge House,
near Wantage, on a visit to Colonel Loyd-Lindsay, M.P., and
the Hon. Mrs. Loyd-Lindsay, yesterday week; and on Satur¬
day their Royal Highnesses drove to West Ilsley, and attended
Divine service in the parish church, which has been restored;
after which the Princess laid a dedication stone in the buttress
of the chancel, attended a concert given in the schoolroom,
and planted two yew-trees in the churchyard. An address
was presented to their Royal Highnesses, and the Princess
re eived a bouquet from one of the school children. The
village was gaily decorated. The Royal visitors returned to
Lockinge in the evening, where they remained until Monday.
The Duke and Duchess of Teck dined with General and
Mrs. Mark Wood on Tuesday in Audley-square.
His Excellency Count Beust left the Austrian Embassy,
Belgrave-square, on Tuesday, for Vienna.
His Excellency the Marquis d'Harcourt and the Marchionees
u Harcourt have left the Freuch Embassy for Cliveden.
His Excellency the Persian Minister has left town for Paris.
The Duke and Duchess of Somerset have left town for
Bulstrode Park, Bucks.
The Duchess of Roxburghehas arrived at Broxmouth Park-
. ^*}e Duke and Duchess of Bedford and the Ladies Russell
nave left London for Endsleigh Cottage, Tavistock.
The Duchess of Marlborough, with Lady Georgiann and
Lady Sarah Spencer Churchill, have left London for the
Viceregal Lodge, Dublin.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne have left
Lansdowne House, Berkeley-square, for Bowood.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Bute have left Brown’s
Hotel for Arundel Castle, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess
of Norfolk.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Huntly have left Upper
Grosvenor-street for Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire.
The Marquis of Northampton has left town for Scotland.
FASHIONABLE MARRIAGES.
Lord Claud J. Hamilton, M.P., second son of the Duke of
Abercom, K.G., was married to Miss Carolina Chandos Pole,
second surviving daughter of Lady Anna Chandos Pole and
the late Mr. Edward Sacheverell Chandos Pole, of Radburne
Hall, Derby, on Saturday last, at St. Mary Abbotts, the parish
church of Kensington. The bride came with her mother, and
was received by her brother, Mr. Reginald W. Chandos Pole
(Grenadier Guards), who gave her away, and her bridesmaids—
namely, Miss Chandos Pole, sister of the bride; Lady Victoria
Edgcumbe, Lady Katherine Lambton, Lady Beatrice Anson,
Lady Evelyn Fitzmaurice, and Lady Frances Spencer-
Churcliill, nieces of the bridegroom. The bride’s dress was
of white satin, trimmed with Brussels point and wreathed with
myrtle and orange-blossoms; a wreath of orange-blossoms,
and Brussels lace veil. The jewels worn were a peurl necklace
and diamond pendant, the gift of the Duke and Duchess
Abercom, and diamond earrings, the bridegroom’s gift. The
bridesmaids’ costumes were of white cashmere trimmed with
white satin; and beefeater hats of white satin, trimmed with
Mechlin lace. Each wore a crystal locket, engraved with the
Hamilton badge and surrounded with forget-me-nots in pearls
and turquoise. The bouquets were of white and red clove car¬
nations and myrtle Mr. Montague Corry was best man. The
marriage ceremony was performed by the Right Rev. Lord
Bishop of Derry and ltaphoe, assisted by the Rev. Lord
Wriothesley Russell, the Rev. Edward Poole, Vicar of Boulton,
Derby, and the Rev. George Wingate. The Duke of Cam¬
bridge and the Duke and Duchess of Teck were present. The
breakfast, to nearly four hundred guests, was given by Elizabeth
Countess of Harrington, at Harrington House, Kensington
Palace-gardens. The bride and bridegroom left for Luton
Hoo, Mrs. Gerard Leigh’s seat in Bedfordshire, to
spend the honeymoon. Among the bridal presents
were—from the Prince of Wales a French clock and candle¬
sticks en suite ; from the Duke and Duchess of Teck a silver-
mounted crystal claret-jug. Lord Claud received from friends
in the Houses of Lords and Commons a large silver bowl on
ebouy stand, two column candelabra, two cups with covers,
and two oval sugar-basins and covers, the principal piece of
plate bearing the following inscription :—“ Presented to Lord
Claud J. Hamilton, M.P., on the occasion of his marriage to
Miss Carolina Chandos Pole, by many of his friends in both
Houses of Parliament.” llis Lordship also received, from the
directors of the Great Eastern Railway, a silver-gilt dessert
service, consisting of three compotiers and two flat dishes,
embossed and chased with fruit and flowers, the centre-piece
engraved with the following inscription :—** Presented by the
directors of the Great Eastern Railway Company to Lord
Claud John Hamilton, M.P., their deputy chairman, on his
marriage, July 20, 1878.”
Lord Ralph Drury Kerr, second surviving son of the late
and brother of the present Marquis of Lothian, was married
to the Lady Anne Fitzalan Howard, fifth daughter of the late
and sister of the present Duke cf Norfolk, on Wednesday at
the Catholic church, Arundel The bride was attended by the
following bridesmaids—viz., Lady Margaret Fitzalan Howard,
her 6ister; Ladies Cecil and Margaret Kerr, nieces of the
bridegroom ; the Hon. Alice Fitzalan Howard, cousin of the
bride; Miss Hope, Miss Josephine Hope, and Miss Theresa
Hope, nieces of the bride; and Miss Gaisford, niece of the
bridegroom. Captain Horace Gaisford (Grenadier Guards)
acted as Lord Ralph’s best man. The nuptial rite was per¬
formed by the Hon. and Rev. Monsignor Talbot, uncle of the
bridegroom. The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk gave the
wedding breakfast at Arundel Castle, at which the relatives
and friends of both families assembled. Lord Ralph Kerr and
his bride left the castle for Belton House, near Grantham, the
seat of Earl Brownlow, for the honeymoon.
Marriages are arranged between Lord Cochrane, 2nd Life
Guards, eldest son of the Earl of Dundonald, and Miss Barn-
ford Hesketh, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Bamford Hesketh, of
Gwrych Castle, North Wales; and between Sir Francis Win-
nington, Bart., and Miss Spencer Churchill,eldest daughter of
Lord aud Lady Alfred Spencer Churchill.
BITS OF OLD BRISTOL.
We give a second page of Mr. S. Read’s characteristic sketches
of the architectural antiquities of the brave old Western city,
lately visited by the Prince of Wales at the meeting of the
Royal Agricultural Society there, which was made the occasion
of several Illustrations in our last. The Gothic gateway
beneath the tower and spire of St. John’s Church, which stands
upon the old town wall, is part of a singular combination of
buildings, but not without grace aud dignity. The two stoi e
figures in the canopied niches on each side of this gateway are
not effigies of saints or apostles, but of the fabled Roman-
British heroes, Brennus and Belinus, the reputed founders
of Bristol. The ancient Norman gateway of St. Augustine s
Abbey, at the corner of College Green to the west of the
Cathedral, with its Perpendicular Gothic superstructure, is
in good preservation, as it appeared in the sketch we have
engraved. St. Stephen’s Church, built in the reign of King
Henry VI. by the munificence of John Shipward, merchant
and Mayor of Bristol, has a noble tbwer, 133 ft. high, with a
porch of very original design and effective decoration; its
architectural beauties are only second to those of St. Mary
Rcdcliffe. The chantry here was founded by a clothier or
woollen manufacturer, Edward Blanket, who gave his name
to that familiar article of bedding which we find indispensable
to our nightly comfort. The old-fashioned house-ironts in
King-street, as well as in Mary port-street and other quarters
of the city, were noticed by us last week.
Lord Leigh, the Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, on
Wednesday opened thefirst model coffee-house for Leamington.
Speaking of the evils of intemperance, he said, as a thirty
years’ visitor of Warwick Gaol, he believed that the prison
would be closed were it not for that vice.
Ve have described, as the subject of more than one Illus-
on the buildings, erected in the central avenue of the
s Exhibition, which exemplify different periods and styles
luglish domestic architecture. The one representing a
itry mansion of the time of William III., which was cen¬
sus in our latest IBustrntion of that department, was
med by Mr. T. E. Collcutt, architect, of Bloomsbury-
’re, and was built and decorated by Messrs. Collinson and
ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.
At a meeting of this society, held at the offices, Trafalgar-
square, on Wednesday, a large number of cases of gallantry
in saving life were brought under the notice of the committee.
On the recommendation of the Lords of the Admiralty, the
case of Thomas Hawkes, of her Majesty’s ship Sapphire, was
considered. About three p.m. on March 23 last, the Sapphire
at the time going six and a half knots in a heavy cross sen,
Michael Begley, A.B., while getting in the wreck of the flying
boom, fell overboard. Hawkes witnessed the occurrence, and,
losing no time, jumped overboard to the rescue of the drowning
man, who had no idea of swimming. He succeeded in reach¬
ing him, and supported him for six minutes until the life¬
boat, which had in the meantime been launched, reached them.
Begley was so far gone when Hawkes reached him that,
although two life-buoys were within a few feet, he was unable
to avail himself of them, and it required all the strength his
rescuer possessed to support him in the water. It was mentioned
that the above was the sixth occasion in which Hawkes, who
is a sailmaker of the Sapphire, had been instrumental in saving
life, he having received the bronze medallion of the society for
a similar act of gallantry in 1874. The case was referred to
the general court for the bestowal of the silver medal.
The bronze medaUion was voted to Mr. M. Robinson,
boatswain’s mate of her Majesty’s ship Shah, for jumping
from the topgallant forecastle, a height of 40 ft., and attempt¬
ing to rescue H. A. Broughton, who fell overboard iu six
fathoms of water at Panama on May 11, the gallantry of the
act being much euhanced by the known presence of sharks ;
to T. Grunnah, for leaping from the quay wall at Swansea, a
height of 15 ft., and diving to the rescue of D. Buckley, who
attempted suicide in 20 ft. of water, on the 17th ult. ; and to
W. Rose, bombardier of the Royal Artillery, and D. Clarke,
gunner of the same regiment, for swimmiug to the assistance
J. Hogg, a corporal of the 2nd battalion 5th Fusiliers, who
sank while bathing at Gravesend on the 22nd ult., a strong ebb
tide running at the time.
In addition to the above, handsome testimonials inscribed
on vellum and on parchment, recording the services rendered
and the acknowledgments of the society, were voted to seven¬
teen persons, and several pecuniary rewards of various amounts
were given.
ASTRONOMICAL OCCURRENCES IN AUGUST.
(From the “Illustrated London Almanack.")
The fourth and last Eclipse of the year is one of the Moon, and
the only Eclipse visible from Europe during the year; it takes
place on Aug. 12 and 13. The Eclipse begins at 43 minutes
after lOh. p.m. on the 12th ; the Moon on this evening rises at
7h. 18m. p.m. The middle of the Eclipse is at 8 miuutes after
midnight. The Eclipse ends at 34 minutes after lh. in tho
morning of the 13th. At the time of the greatest phase about
three filths of the diameter of the Moon is obscured. At the
time of beginning of the Eclipse the Moon is in the zenith of
a place whose longitude is 19$ deg. east of Greenwich, and
latitude 14J deg. S. At the middle of the Eclipse the Moon is
in the zenith of a place whose longitude is a little more than
1 deg. west of Greenwich, and in latitude 14$ deg. 8. At tho
end of the Eclipse the Moon occupies the zenith of a place
whose longitude is 22 deg. west of Greenwich, and latitude
14 deg. 8.
The Moon is near Jupiter during the evening hours of the
11th, near Saturn during the evening hours of the 16th and
morning hours of the I7th; she is near Venus during the
morning hours of the 26th, near Mars on the 28th, the day of
New Moon, and near Mercury on the 29th. Her phases or
times of change are—
First Quarter on the 6th at 19 minutee after lh. in the afternoon.
Full Moon „ 13th „ ltt „ 0 „ morning.
Lurft Quarter „ 21st „ 8 „ 4 „ morning.
New Jdoon „ 28th „ 0 „ 6 „ morning.
She is nearest the Earth on the morning of the 1st, and again
on the morning of the 29th ; and most distant from it on the
morning of the 17th.
Mercury is an evening star, setting on the 4th at 8h. 32m.
p.m., or 51 minutes after sunset; which interval gradually
decreases to 31 minutes by the 19th (the planet setting at
7h. 44m. p m ), and to 7 minutes by the 29th (the planet
setting at 7h. 0m. p.m.). On the last day the Sun and planet set
together, and from this day till Oct. 16 Mercury sets in day¬
light. He is in his descending node on the 2nd (the third time
this year), at his greatest distance from the Sun on the 13th,
at his greatest eastern elongation (27 deg. 23 min.) on the surne
day, stationary among the stars on the 27th, and near the Moon
on the 29th.
Venus is a morning star, rising on the 1st at lh. 43m. a.m.,
on the 19th at 2h. 17m. a.m., and on the 29th at 2h. 45m. a.m.;
being respectively 2h. 42m., 2h. 35ro., and 2h. 23m., before
sunnse on these days. She is due south on the 1st at 9h. 52m.
a.m., on the 11th at lOh. 4m. a.m., on the 21st at lOh. 16m.
a.m., and on the last day at lOh. 27m. a.m. She is in her
ascending node on the 17th, and near the Moon on the 26th.
Mars is an evening star, setting on the 9th at 8h. 7m. p.m.,
on the 19th at 7h.39m. p.m., and on the 29th at7h. 11m. p.m.;
being respectively 35 minutes, 26 minutes, and 18 minutes
after sunset on these evenings. He is due south on the 1st at
lh. 10m. p.m., on the loth at Oh. 49m. p.m., and on the
last day at Oh. 24m. p.m. He is near the Moon on the 28th.
Jupiter sets on the 1st at 3h. 49m. a.m., on the 10th at
3h. 8m. a.m., on the 20th at 2h. 23m a.m., and on the last day
at lh. 34m. a.m. He is due south on the 1st at 1 lh. 33m. p m.,
on the Uth at lOh. 49m. a.m., on the 21st at lOh. 5m. p.m.,
and on the last day at 9h. 22m. p.m. He is near the Moon on
the 11th. .
Saturn rises at 9h. 6m. p.m., or lh. 32m. after sunset, on
the 8th; at 8h. 26ra. p.m., or lh. 11m. after sunset, on the
18th; and at 7h. 46m. p.m., or 51 minutes after sunset, on the
28th.’ He is due south on the 1st at 3h. 35m. a.m., on the 11th
at 2h. 55m. a.m., on the 21st at 2h. 13m. a.m., and on the last
day at lh. 32m. a.m. He is near the Moon on the 16th.
It is announced that the Home Secretary, after consultation
with the Lord Chancellor, has sent an unfavourable answer to
the deputation of Members of Parliament and others who
recently waited upon him to urge an increase in the remunera¬
tion of county court Judges in consequence of additional work
thrown upon them.
Mrs Gladstone and Lady Frederick Cavendish gave a
garden party on the 18th inst. in the pleasant grounds of the
Rree Convalescent Home at Woodford, near Epping Forest,
desiring much to express their gratitude to those neighbours
who so kindly visit the home, and cheer the patients by reading
aloud and music. About four o’clock visitors began to arrive
from the neighbourhood, and were received on the lawn in
front of the house by Mrs. Gladstone and Lady Frederick
Cavendish. Tea and fruit and other refreshments were laid
out in the shade, and an agreeable entertainment was provided
in the shape of hand-bell ringing by the “Holdiast iemperance
Campanologists.”
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JULY 27, 1878
cavq <sniJCI ON SUNDAY.
Potsdam is the Verailles. or the
fose; fs^x
cockneys of the Prussian ile8 from the great
Court/ Here, at a distance ^^venteen which
metropolitan city, w the da £® Ued Frederic k the Great, as
residence cf Fredenck n.. l ‘ lumeB D f his biography. The
we may read m C" 1 ? 1 ® “ on the banka of the Havel and
gardens and P le “ ur ®tXnhbeSs and lawns, with fountains
its canal, adorned with shr in tbe Italian style, afford
vases and statuary ot fi Agreeable promenade. An
to Sunday afternoon igt°» “ reC ognised in the gentle-
English family M unmistokablyt^ h er father,
manandtwol^es,withthehttieprUt B ldfigb m the
who are seen in Iffustrataon watc^g ^ midd i e . aged
clear water of the basin, to the ng erta i nly to the German
couple to the lef t hand belong th officer in the foreground
townsfolk or upon them whffe he receives
has no scruple in turning w ho simply worships
the devout homageof aP^ y ^ the present phase of
his uniform. Anstocratic soldn is prized far beyond
social opinion throughout Nort y neatest professional
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS. print
FRANCE. . rcnit
Marshal MacMahon, the^a^forTrou'rilSwffe’re^ieywere 6 imil
daughter left Paris on ^duraayf . . ■ Be f ore leaving
received, by the Archduke tbe p r i nce of Wales. On q
Paris the Pre^dent^mff Ma £ Mahon in Council signed and weel
Tuesday mornmg MarahW Waddington has made a full the ]
ratified the Treaty of Berhn. M. w aacui ^ communicat ions
report upon the Congress to me Cabmet^rus ^ beea of a
(a Reuter’s telegram says) ® impressions which have pre- 1
Saturday ^ t - d Mr Leslie, and expressed to them
«Mch they »?be tot occasion of Lord Bal
composers, Besides x.ne prcoc „ , the Prince had his
the Exhi-
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STtatte to SyTmgh^e exertion., the ExhUnt,on at
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on behalf of the English Orphanage, 35, Rue BmeiLU.^hJch th.
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demand for stfch ; some have been claimed byrejatio^ and h
friends in England, and others adopted. Thirty-two now ai
Remain in the Orphanage, whffe five others are awaiting admis- ei
5S The PrinTof ^ales sent Miss Leigh £20 towards the w
C ° ni M e de^Iarcfere| : the C Minister of the Interior has met with w
a brilii int reception from his constituents in Maubeuge and si
U “SEESSS i S*$S on Sunday, at Largentihre , deparf- o
ment of Ardfcche, and at Valenciennes department of the t<
Nord, resulting in a double triumph for the Republicans.
Tw . decrees, dated July 19, grant pardons, commutations, b
or redu tions of sentences to fifty-nine persons who were con- t
demne l in connection with the events of the Commune. s
The Government has lost no time in punishing the nng- o
leaders of the strike at Anzin. Twenty of them have been a
Bentenced to various terms of imprisonment. The Republican t
committee of Denain has issued an address to the mmere i
recommending them to be calm and prudent. A telegram .
fro n Valenciennes states that there are about 9000 men on i
strike in that district. At St. Etienne 700 men engaged in the .
d-reworks have Btruck for an increase of wages, and m Bor- ]
deaux 450 journeymen bakers have Btruck for the same reason. <
Measures have been taken by the authorities to ensure, if 1
necessary, the regular supply of bread to the public.
The international chess tournament ended on Wednesday
last in a tie between Herren Winawer and Zukertort for the
first and second prizes, with a score of 16J ; Mr. Blackburne
takes the third prize with a score of 14J; Messrs. Mackenzie
and Bird, having each scored 13, tie for the fourth and fifth
prizes, and the sixth prize has fallen to Herr Anderssen. The
ties are to be played off, the winners of the first two games to
be declared the victors. .
An international competition of mowing-machines, exhi¬
bited at the Exhibition, took place on Tuesday at Mormant, m
the Seine et Oise. The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce
was present. There were forty-five exhibitors, of which
sixteen were French, thirteen English, eleven Americans two
Canadians, two Russians, and one Swiss. The three machines
that came out first were the American machine of Mr.
M‘Cor mack, and the English machines of Messrs. Osborne and
Walter Wood. . ,
The Academy of Sciences has presented as candidates for
the Chair of Medicine vacant by the death of Claude Bernard,
M. Brown Seguard, twenty-five votes, and M. Dareste de la
Chavanne, twenty-two votes.
The electi >n of a President of the Order of Advocates was
h ild ou Wednesday. M. Nicolet, of the Court of Paris was
the successful candidate.
The large captive balloon placed in the courtyard of the
Tuileries, between the ruins of the palace and the portico of
the Carrousel, has been inflated, and has taken 80,000 cubic
feet of hydrogen. The balloon is 120 ft. high, and is fixed at
a distance of 180 ft. from the ground. Trial ascensions of this
monster balloon attracted the attention of Parisians on Sunday
and Monday. At five o’clock on Monday evening the captive
balloon made an ascent with some representatives of the press
in the car; and afterwards ascended a second time with the
committee appointed to examine the capacities of the balloon.
All the apparatus was found to work well.
The Christian Evidence Society have made arrangements
for a series of lectures in English and French at the Salle
Evangeline, TrocadGro, PariB. They will be given during
as
on Aug. 13. SPAIN. .
The Envoys-Exteaordin^ofSm 18th « M
ffiSandhadkn^iudience of tb ^Kuig’ °Lord Pols
Asturias, and the Duke and Duche^otJ the H on. ^
SaTk^wS^dSirp^^p^^ued by .Royal decree. 0 f 1
SSSS SSSi was
issaidtoprevad in theagncifft ^di down the wafi
- °“ b ‘-
* PORTUGAL. . ,
„ nf the entry of the Liberal army into
The anniversary of the entry ^ celebrated M a general rev
Lisbon under the Duke.of edn eSay. The streets and squares Bn
holiday in 9 dairg a “ d there were numerous bands of
were decorated with ok p i ace before the King and Lo:
Endar the presidency ‘.'St
ing of about 2500 persons Berlin Congress of the ba
iution condemning and ^
principle of BtSltxist Italian countries subject u
St3S ?S££S"ugS a„d sexera other towaa
aitoto meeting, are to be
, A nuorrtV^T after a debate which lasted for five II
„eeS, e hST^b?M r ^t.30™t^*»ffl «»
the law upon primary education in Holland.
BELGIUM. , u
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3 pendence, in 1880. GEB MANY.
S After .even week.'^nanement^to to loom. s the Emperor 0
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b SSrSffKts ,sl ■
ed et ° The^iSe of Cumberland has formally notified the death of
ea fnfutr thp late King of Hanover, to the German Pnnces
!nt and Free Towns. In the same document he announces that
he will he states, bear the title of Duke of Cumberland and Prince
of Bninswick-Luneburg. By doing so, however he does not
ith wish to be understood to be abdicating his claims to the
"d * U °Stm,^w“Xkppe«ed in the German official gazette
rt- of Monday evening rescinding from that date the prohibition
tbe 40 e ^SS“exMbSot all kinds o£ paper and paste-
ms board was opened at Berlin last Saturday. The exhibition,
on- the first of the kind ever attempted, seems to be a complete
success, and promises to promote effectually the manufacture
ng- of the important articles to which it is devoted. Five hundred
een and thirty-one firms, including most of the fading houses in
tin Germany; Austria. England France Be tom,^Holtand Den-
iers mark. Sweden, Russia, Italy, Switzerland, and the United
ram States have contributed towards the exhibition. Besides eve^
i on variety of writing and printing paper, there are specml depart-
the ments for paper-hangings, paper blinds, and paper for buildiug
lor- purposes, the general applicability of the article being
son. demonstrated by a paper house erected in the courtyard, with
3 , if tables, chairs, chandeliers, and stoves of the same material.
The greater part of the space is set apart for machinery
sday employed in the production of paper. The exhibition will be
the open till Sept. 1.
lime AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
mzie Considerable trouble, even an armed resistance, in Bosnia
fifth and Herzegovina is anticipated by the Austrian authorities.
The Arrangements have therefore been made for the advance of
ea strong reinforcements to the frontier and to the neighbouring
, . garrison towns. __
ixhi- e BERYIA.
Ipdirin- his valuable sendees to the State during Ins tenure of
Iffflee DMticularly in the construction ot the extensive network
rsilCvs and in effecting the equilibrium of the Budget m
°Ue ™ vxifting debcit, tbu. enablmg tbe
country to bear the heavy cost of the late war.
AMERICA.
a Tfpnter’s telegram, dated New York, July 22, says:—
.«^ Bemiett, the ^oprietor of the New York Herald , proposes
to send the yacht Dauntless ou a voyage of discovery to the
Po?« Seat via Spitzbergen, in addition to the Pandora, winch
r „ txi reach the Pole by another route.”
WlU 'The American papers announce the death, on the 7th inst.,
r -tit n/mre Swett Appleton, of the firm of Messrs. D.
f^on and Co publLhers, of New York. Mr. Appleton
Appleton and ^P^ His fune ral on the 10th met.
IZ Sttded by representatives of most of the principal pub-
lishin b firms in New York.
UttUVJLA..
The Skuptschina on the 18th inst. unanimously voted the
Budget for 1878 as introduced by the Government, with the
exception of a few unimportant amendments. I he Budget of
the Minister of War is raised to 15,718,340 piastres on account
of the increase in the staff of the officers in the standing army
and the organisation of the militia to be stationed in the
annexed territory. On Saturday the Skuptschina unanimously
passed the bill with regard to the pensions and monetary
assistance for invalids and the families of soldiers who fell in
the late war. , , ,,
On Tuesday the bills which have been passed by the
Skuptschina received the signature of Prince Milan.
M. Ristics, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, addressing
the members of the house on Wednesday, declared that Servia
should be well satisfied with the result of the Berlin Congress.
She had acquired more than her neighbours, and it was
impossible to obtain further concessions from the Great Powers I
without risking everything.
The Assembly was closed on Thursday.
RUSSIA.
An Imperial ukase has been promulgated accepting the
resignation of M. de Reutem, the Minister of Finance, ou
account of ill-health, and appointing Controller-General
Greig as his successor. M. Szolski is appointed to the post of
Controller-General, and ifl replaced in the post of Director of
the Imperial Chancellery by M. Peretz, Secretary of State.
The Emperor has sent an autograph letter to M. de Reutem
' conferring upon him the order of St. Andrew and acknow-
CANADA.
The Earl of Dufferin has ordered that the Canadian inland
re June laws not inconsistent with special legislation regarding
if nnlnmbia shall be declared in force in that colony.
“‘ SeStmente wtohh a .o been made to the effect that
Lo£ dSS2 consented to “
Governor-General of Canada are incorrect.
The Legislature of Quebec has been prorogued.
THE CAPE COLONIES.
We have news from Cape Town to July 2 An amnesty
has been proclaimed and a free pardon offered to the Kaffirs
has aecn pr , Th late Sandilli’s sons and coun-
General Thesiger is in Cape Town,
cUlors have been capture thanks to him, Com-
and Parhament h^ e p ^ d ^ force8) for
thei^services in filing the rebellion on the frontier General
ThesigeTwas to proceed to the Transvaal in a fortnight.
Advices received at New York from St. Thomas, vifi
Hannah! report a rising in Hayti, which was repressed.
The death is announced from Bombay of Sir Cowasjee
Jehangeer Readymoney, justice of the peace for Bombay.
Intelligence from Cassabianca to the 12th inst. confirms
the news of the Sultan of Morocco’s recovery.
Sir Arthur Borton, the new Governor of Malta, was sworn
in last Saturday, with the customary honours.
The Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law
of Nations will open its sixth annual conference at Frankfort-
on-the-Maine on Aug. 20.
dir William Norcott, Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of
Torlv fired the first shot on Monday morning at the opening
of the’National Rifle Association’s annual competition, which
extended over four days, on Gorey-common.
The Postmaster-General has notified that the steam-ship
, “b ( oXt
■ rnd willmm-ltttfrs, newspapers, ic., if addres,cd p c r baronuc
‘ “frlynSK;Ld posted to London on or before July 31.
J SS embarking mail, at Queenstorn. resumed her voyage.
l A treasure baa been discovered in the ancient ducal «
; fiSff&SST N *toKf b »o'
:e gold The present owner, in examining a plan of t e u g»
: mmmmfiim
Ge^any at fhe time of the French invasion of Italy.
The Foochow Herald hears that thehigh
i
re Hnsnital for Women, under the direction of Miss 1 rusk, M. •»
ed v ^nn do i s for the general hospital, under the control of
- Osgood. d0 The f s°e r iS^ e 5onations P are from the private pu.es
n * rif the Viceroy, Tartar General, Acting Governor, and other
ed officials of rank, who take an interest in foreign hospital work.
£ Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, correspondingmember
ng national Literary Society, m a tto Kcfom Ll^,
I ESEpHSEs
Br y of the representatives of 1 0 «ighPowers mP ^
be frame a uniform copynght convention to emorace wide
in o lnformitv with the resolution in favour ox
copyright, which was carried at the recent Congress-
• proposed that the Copyright Convention shaR in ^ cases,
. nm distinct and separate from Treaties of Commerce.
of A Parliamentary return relating to the P^hase of tae
ing Suez Canal shares contains the accounts presented d
ment in pursuance of the Act, “ showing the sums recei^
from the Khedive of Egypt, the ch “| e , f ^th&te of the
the interest on the money raised in respect , ot , tb ® Jading.”
the above shares, and the amount of principal pvnenses was
;tof The total amount paid for the sba ^ 8 Qonsohdated
.unt £4,076,622 8s. 5d. The amount issued o^^^So.OOO
nny Fund for the payment of interest and pnnapal - 31>
the of Exchequer Bonds have been— in the jear 31 1878>
the remaining unredeemed on Dec. 1, 1877, is
The Copenhagen correspondent of the Pall Mall <7aee^
IBm .e writing on the 19th inst., saysThis mornmg Queen » P
- rvia of Sweden arrived here, coming from Germ^y shortay ^
re98 ‘ eleven o’clock, and was received by the Crown rnn
wa8 Crown Princess. The Queen was looking under
,wers and it is evident that her long 80 J 0U ™j\ 1 ^ elde 0 1 , t b g eneficial
the care of Professor Friedrich, had tb ® “° 98 “ Sme to
effect. Her Majesty only remamed here the a
have the train shunted on to another taw. P^fgSophe,
the to Elsinore, and only stopping at the ^f^^ ^msdorff
e, on where the Queen of Denmark had armed from ^ &
neral Castle to greet the illustrious Cavelier. ^® OTd “ t g one at
list of telegram just received, the Queen arnvedat P m
or of Elsmore, 'and embarked at once for Bwedni undg
State, the fortress of Cronborg^Hcr Majesty P roceeds ^. day a ud
utem where she will join the King, who arrives there to aay,
mow- where their Majesties will spend the summer.
JULY 27, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
79
roLi ricAL.
ITer Majesty has conferred the Order of the Garter upon the
Eurl of Beaconsfield and the Marquis of Salisbury. The
following is a complete list of the Knights of the Garter: —
The Duke of Abercorn, the Emperor of Austria, the Earl of
Beaconsfield, the Duke of Beaufort, Leopold II., King of the
Belgians, the Emperor of Brazil, the Duke of Brunswick, the
Duke of Buccleuch, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of
Cleveland, the Duke of Connaught, Earl Cowley, Earl Cowper,
the King of Denmark, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of
Edinburgh, Earl Fitz-William, the Emperor of Germany, the
Crown Prince of Germany, Earl Granville, the King of Greece,
Earl Grey, the Earl of Harrowby, the Grand Duke of Hesse,
Prince Christian of Holstein, the King of Italy, the Earl of
Leicester, Prince Leopold, the Duke of Marlborough, the
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the Shah of Persia, the
King of Portugal, Prince William of Prussia, the Duke of
Richmond and Gordon, the Marquis of Ripon, the Emperor of
Russia, the Duke of Rutland, the Marquis of Salisbury, the
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the Duke of Saxe-Meiniugen,
the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Duke of Somerset, Earl Spencer,
Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, the Duke of Sutherland,
the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Wellington, and the Duke
of Westminster.
The Duke of Buccleuch will preside at a banquet to be
given to the Prime Minister and the Marquis of Salisbury
to-day (Saturday) at the Duke of Wellington’s Riding School
by supporters of the Government in the Lords and Commons.
The Earl of Beaconsfield and the Marquis of Salisbury are
to receive the freedom of the City at the Guildhall just before
they and the other members of the Ministry proceed to the
Mansion House to dine with the Lord Mayor next Saturday.
Between 800 and 900 persons were at the first anniversary
celebration in connection with the Southwark Liberal Asso¬
ciation, held last Saturday afternoon in the Drill-Hall, Neck-
inger-road, Bermondsey, under the presidency of Mr. S. B.
Bevingtou. Mr. Gladstone attended, and spoke at considerable
length on the subject of Liberal organisation and in con¬
demnation of the home and foreign policy of the Government.
He said it was quite time that the people should be consulted
as to the mode in which they were being governed, things
being now done by the Government in the dark such as not
the most despotic Government in Europe would dare to do.
The Anglo-Turkish Convention he characterised as an insane
covenant, and its ratification as an act of duplicity of which
every Englishman should be ashamed. Turning to the subject
of expenditure, the right hon. gentleman showed that, begin¬
ning with a balance in hand of over five millions, in four years
the present Government had increased the ordinary expendi¬
ture by seven millions and a quarter. He. hoped they would
be induced to state fully what the country would have to pay
for their late performances; and the people would have to say
whether the credit of the Government was worth sustaining at
the price.
Mr. Forster presided last Saturday at the annual dinner of
the Cobden Club, held this year at the Ship Hotel, Greenwich,
and, in proposing the principal toast, considered what Cobden
would have felt in regard to the present position of England.
His principal topic was the Convention with Turkey. The
Government, he said, had made England a Continental Power,
and it must not be supposed that protecting Turkey in Asia
was the same thing as having a dominion in India. To make
us have a frontier along the whole of the Asiatic territory of
Turkey was, in his opinion, the most unwise and reckless act
that any Govovernment had ever committed. The Queen hnd
been forced by the Ministry to guarantee the worst pos.-ible
Government that existed. In the House of Commons the
Opposition were about to make what protest they could. They
would not succeed; but, whatever was the majority against
them, they would have done their duty. Mr. Rylands and Mr.
Fawcett also spoke.
Lord Cranbrook was entertained at dinner on Wednesday
evening in the little Kentish town from which he derives his
title, and which is near his residence at Hemsted Park.
Gentlemen of all shades of opinion united to congratulate
the noble lord on his elevation to the Upper House. Mr.
Beresford Hope, who presided, gave a sketch of the official
career of the guest of the evening. Lord Cranbrook, in
responding, dwelt upon his pleasant associations with the
people of the county since he came to live among them, and
expressed his satisfaction that in England politicians respected
each other, whatever views they entertained.
Lord Granville took the chair at the annual meeting of
members of the City Liberal Club, held at the club-house,
Walbrook, on Thursday. At the conclusion of the annual
meeting there was a special general meeting, in order to make
certain alterations in the rules.
Mr. Bright, while expressing his full appreciation of the
great honour which the Liberals of Birmingham proposed to
pay him by publicly celebrating the twenty-first anniversary
of his political connection with the town, writes to say that he
is too much disturbed by recent and still pressing sorrow to
enable him to join in any public ceremony in which he was
expected to take a prominent part. In accordance with his
wish, the celebration will not therefore take place during the
coming recess.
The members of the Reform Club are about to place a
portrait of the late Earl Russell in a conspicuous position in
their house in Pall-mall. The cost is to be defrayed by a
subscription among the members.
Major-General Charles J. Foster, C.B .will fill ti e vacancy
in the Indian Council caused by the appointment of Sir Garnet
Wolseley as Administrator of Cyprus.
Mr. Edward Wingfield has been appointed Assi-timt
Under-Secretary in the Colonial Office, in the place of Mr. W.
K. Malcolm.
At a meeting of the Leicester Conservatives on Monday
night a resolution, moved by Colonel Burnaby, wus unani¬
mously passed expressing continued and ent ire confidence in
the Government, and the greatest satisfaction at the wi.-e und
statesman-like way in which the British Plenipotentiaries had
upheld the best interests of the nation, and for securing such
modification in the Treaty of San Stefano as would promote
the lasting peace of Europe. Similar resolutions have bi en
passed at Birkenhead, Buckingham, and other places. The
Dundee Town Council yesterday week, by 16 votes to 7,
resolved to forward an address of congratulation to Lord
Beaconsfield on the conclusion of the Treaty of Berlin. A
resolution was passed yesterday week by the political com¬
mittee of the Manchester Reform Club, stating that in the
opinion of the committee the action of Ministers at Berlin and
in taking over Cyprus did not serve the interests of Great
Britain or of Europe; that they have lowered the dignity of
the nation, set constitutional law at defiance, and deserved the
censure of the country. They therefore called upon Liberal
members to resist to the utmost the grant of supplies to carry
out the policy of the Administration. An address to Lord
beaconsfield, signed by nearly 3000 inhabitants of Stonehouse
and Devonport, was on Wednesday forwarded to the Premier,
to express the satisfaction of the signatories at the mainte¬
nance of peace.
Bir H. Ferguson Davie has announced his intention to
resign the representation of the Haddington Burghs. Lord
W. Hay has offered himself for the seat in the Liberal interest,
and it is stated that he will receive the undivided support of
the party. The nomination of candidates has been fixed for
Tuesday next. In the event of a contest the poll will take
place on Saturday, Aug. 3.
Lord Rcndlesham, M.P. for East Suffolk, has, in accordance
with medical advice, given up his Parliamentary duties for the
remainder of the Session, and has gone to Homburg.
The Liberals of Warrington, on Wednesday night, at a
meeting especially called for the purpose, selected Mr. J. G.
McMinnies as the future Liberal candidate for the borough.
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
Mr. Justice Hawkins and Mr. Justice Manisty will be the
two J udges acting during the long vacation, which will begin
on Aug. 10 and end on Oct. 24.
The Metropolitan Board of Works has adopted the report
of a committee recommending that the necessary steps should
be taken with a view to legislation for providing a remedy for
floodings from rainfall.
Colonel Frank Bolton, the official examiner of the water
supplied to the metropolis, reports that the condition of the
'i homes and the Lea was generally clear throughout June.
The Thames was in a state ot flood during the first few days.
The foundation-stone of the extension of the existing
premises of the National Provincial Bank of Englund, in
BLh opsgate - street, was laid on Tuesday by the Marquis of
Ailesbury, one of the directors.
A lecture on Life, Health, and Disease was given on Wed¬
nesday evening in the smaller theatre of the Royal Polytechnic
Institution by Mr. J. H. Pepper— Dr. B. Richardson presiding.
The lecturer travelled over the whole ground of sanitation.
A meeting, largely attended, to protest against the foreign
sugar bounties, was held on Wednesday evening at the
Assembly Hall, Mile-end-road—under the presidency of Mr.
C. T. Ritchie, M.P., who argued in favour of the imposition of
a countervailing duty. Resolutions to this effect were adopted.
The ninth annual competition of the Society for the Pro¬
motion and Encouragement of Gardening in the City was held
on Tuesday in the grounds of Finsbury-circus, the Lady
Mayoress, in the absence of Princess Beatrice, distributing the
prizes.
Mr. John B. Gough, the temperance lecturer, was welcomed
on Tuesday at a garden party given by the National Tem¬
perance Leugue in the College Gardens, Westminster Abbey.
A meeting was held at which speeches were made, and Mr.
and Mrs. Gough and several of their friends were afterwards
conducted over Westminster Abbey by the Dean.
The Duke of Cambridge, as Ranger of Regent’s Park,
has undertaken to perform the ceremony of opening the new
Gloucester-gate Bridge and approaches, which have been
carried out by the Vestry of St. Pancras, from designs by
Mr. W. Booth Scott, C.E., their chief surveyor. His Royal
Highness hus fixed Saturday next, Aug. 3, for the ceremony.
Sir Rutherford Alcock has presented fifty volumes to the
Free Library in Betlmal-green (supported entirely by voluntary
contributions), in response to the committee’s appeal for 10,000
required to render the library efficient. The Eurl of Derby,
the Marquis of Lome, Mr. W. H. Gladstone, M.P., Professor
Fawcett, M.P., and others have also forwarded donations.
Mr. Mundella, M.P., one of the vice-presidents of the
British and Foreign School Society, took the chair last Satur¬
day evening at a meeting held in the Kindergarten College,
Stockwell-road. He pointed out the great importance of this
description of training, and rejoiced that the society was
making efforts to extend the system in this country.
The Hackney guardians on Wednesday took into con¬
sideration the necessity for an enlargement of their union
infirmary accommodation, and decided, by twelve to six, to
purchase an adjucent plot of ground, known as the Castle
House estate, at Homerton, the intention being to build upon
the land an extensive infirmary for acute cases.
A meeting of the Mansion House committee formed to aid
in the preparations for holding the show of the Royal Agri¬
cultural Society in the metropolis next year took place on
Monday, when it was stated that of the £20,000 required as a
guarantee fund £6300 had been received. It was determined
to allot £3000 as a*first instalment, to be given in prizes for
foreign stock and produce.
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows that
the total number of paupers at the end of the third week in
July was 76,570, of whom 38,068 were in workhouses, and
38,502 received outdoor relief. Compared with the correspond¬
ing weeks in 1877, 1876, and 1875, these figures show a
decrease of 363, 347, and 6700 respectively. The number of
vagrants relieved on the last day ot the week was 607, of whom
373 were men, 187 women, and 47 children under sixteen.
At Wednesday’s meeting of the School Board for London
Sir Charles Reed, who presided, presented scholarships to
three boys and two girls who had been successful out of about
250 candidates. Ihe hulf-j early account of receipts and
expenditure was presented. At the end of a long discussion,
it was resolved to open to the public on Saturday afternoons
and summer evenings three of the playgrounds attached to
the Board schools.
The annual report of the council of the Nightingale Fund
ate8 that twenty-nine probationer-nurses who had completed
eir training at St. Thomas’s Hospital received their uppoint-
mts last year, eight resigned, and seven were discharged us
lsuituble for the work, leaving thirty-two probationers in
fidence at the commencement of the present year. Ihe
rail training school at Highgate Infirmary has been closed,
ie arrangements proposed for its future conduct not being
.ennd sufficient.
'llie following gentlemen, having undergone the necessary
animations for the diploma, were admitted members of the
jyul College of Surgeons at a meeting ot the Court of
summers oil Tuesday :-Messrs. Henry Handfcrd, Henry
>v Clarke, Bernard James Guillemard, Craig Dixon, George
erbert Rowe, Gerald Edward Coleman, Walter Henry
leetham, Warwick Long Childs, Hector Leak, Miles Mil-
mme Williams, Arthur Albert Mouritz Robert Jones,
llred Swann, George Jordan Lloyd, Ernest W illiam alter,
rthur Jackson, Sumuel James Rennie, Pershouse William
jslie Langley, and Charles Henry Keep.
At the meeting of the shareholders of the London and
righton Railway on Wednesday, at which Mr. S. Luing, M.I.,
e.-idt-d, the report was adopted. Mr. W. b. Allen, M.P.,
oved a resolution requesting the directors to discontinue
;cursion-traius on Sunday and to decline to supply special
Sunday trains to the National Sunday League. Mr. Laing
said that the company were only meeting a public dematio ;
and as to Sunday labour, the traffic by trains did not cause »o
much work as travelling by steam-boats, omnibuses, and
private conveyances. Out of the 9000 proprietors of the com¬
pany only 1125 have sent in proxies in favour of the resolution
moved by Mr. Allen. The resolution wus rejected by a lurge
majority.
There were 2364 births and 1787 deaths registered in London
last week. Allowing lor increase of population, the births
exceeded by 6, and the deaths 123, the average numbers in
the corresponding week of the last ten years. Whooping-
cough continues to be severely epidemic, and caused 106 of
the deaths registered last week, against 108 and 85 in the two
preceding weeks, exceeding the corrected weekly average by
60. The high mortality of the week is due to diarrlucu, from
which there were 339 deaths. The deaths from smallpox,
which had been 38, 19, and 11 in the three previous weeks,
rose again to 19 last week. There were 13 deaths from measles,
21 from scarlet fever, 8 from diphtheria, and 19 from different
forms of fever. In the Greater London 2853 birthB and 2064
deaths were registered. The mean temperature of the air
was 66'8 deg., and was 4 2 deg. above the average in the corre¬
sponding week of the sixty years 1814-73. The duration of
registered sunshine in the week was 56 - 4 hours, the sun being
above the horizon during 112 2 hours.
LORD BEACONSFIELD’S RETURN.
The arrival of the Earl of Beaconsfield in London on Tuesday
week, when he reached England from Berlin after the ter¬
mination of the Congress upon the Eastern Question, was
greeted with a popular ovation. The l’rime Minister, with
the Marquis of Salisbury, Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, and Lady Salisbury, landed at Dover from the double-
hulled steam-boat Calais- Douvres, at twenty minutes before
three in the afternoon, received an address from the Dover
Mayor and Corporation, and one from the Dover Constitutional
Association, and proceeded to London by special train. Sir
Edward Wutkin, M.P., Chairman of the South-Eastern Rail¬
way Company, and Mr. Shaw, the Superintendent, were with
the train. The Churing-cross Terminus was magnificently
decorated for this occasion. The flags of all the Great Euro¬
pean Powers, with the Union Jack in the centre rising highest,
were arranged by Mr. Edgington over the entrance archway,
both inside and outside of the station. The arrival platform,
and the opposite platform on which seats were ranged for the
company of privileged spectators, were adorned with about
ten thousand plants of various kinds, supplied by Mr. John
Wills, florist, of South Kensington. Palms and ferns were
placed at the base, with geraniums, fuchsias, calceolarias, and
other bright flowers; beds of green lycopods, with taller plunts
rising from their midst, and a prolusion of roses trained up
the lamp-posts and pillars, or festooned across, which had a
beautiful effect. The special train from Dover come in about
ten or twelve minutes before five. Its arrival was awaited by
the Lord Mayor nnd Sheriffs of Loudon, wearing their robes
and badges of office, and by a large assembly of ladies and
gentlemen of rank, including several of the Cabinet
Ministers, the Dukes of Northumberland, Sutherland,
Abercorn, und Beaufort, many peers and members of
Parliament, with their wives and daughters. Lord Henry
Lenuox acted as marshal of the reception ; and tLe
Marchioness of Abergavenny, with Lady Northcote, wife of ti e
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Northcote, M.P.,
personally took care of Lord Beaconsfield as soon us he ln d
received the ofliciul greeting from the Lord Mayor. The Pirn e
Minister was dressed in a white overcoat, and seemed not moie
fatigued than most men of his age would be after u long
journey on a hot summer day. He was kept 6ome time sliakiug
hands with his numerous frieuds. Among those who first
approached him were Lady Burdett-Coutts and the aged Sir
Moses Montefiore, who blessed him for the provision made by
the late Congress to ensure better treatment of the Jews in
Servia and Roumnnia. There was a good deal of cheering,
waving of hats and handkerchiefs and fans, as his Lordship,
with the Marquis of Salisbury, Lady Abergavenny, and Lady
Northcote, entered the carriage which was to convey them to
Dowuing-street. This was Lady Abergavenny’s own carriage,
and it was followed by others, a brougham conveying Mr.
Montagu Corry and Mr. P. Currie, private secretaries,
having charge of the Treaty just concluded, and two carriages
with Lady Salisbury and her family. There was an immense
throng of people outside the Charing-cross station, in West
Strand, Trafalgar-square, and Whitehall; and the windows,
balconies, and house-tops were occupied by hundreds cf
spectators. The Premier and the Foreign Secretary were
enthusiastically cheered as they passed round to Whitehall.
At the fronts of the Admiralty, the Horse Guards, the Home
Office, and the Colonial and India Offices, in Whitehall, and
the Foreign Office in Downing-street, many of the gentlemen
employed in those Government departments turned out in
honour of the First Minister. The buildings in Downing-
street were draped with crimson cloth, and bouquets of flowers
were showered from the windows above. Lord Salisbury
alighted at the door of the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s
official residence, while Lord Beaconsfield entered his own,
that of the First Lord of the Treasury, at the top of the street,
in which stood many Conservative members of Parliament.
A bouquet of flowers sent by the Queen was received by
Lord Beaconsfield on alighting from the carriage. Having
entered the house and gone up stairs, he presently appeared at
a window, and thanked his friends for this reception. He
obseivid that Lord Salisbury and he had brought home peace,
but peace, he hoped, with honour, which would satisfy their
Sovereign, and be for the welfare of their country. Nearly the
same words had been used by his Lordship in his reply to the
Mayor of Dover two hours before. On Thursday week, as
reported in our last, he addressed the House of Lords. On
Monday he waited upon her Majesty at Windsor Castle, and
was then and there invested with the Garter, particulars of
which are set forth in our Court news of this week. Such
honours have been conferred upon Lord Beaconsfield, to reward
his labours in the settlement ot the Eastern Question.
Some experiments with guns of different calibre were
carried out at Shoeburyness ou Wednesday, in presence of the
Secretary for War and a number of officers connected with
the Artillery and Engiueers. In the course of the morniDg
the 80-ton gun was fired at an elevation of 10deg.,uud the
graze of the first shell was exactly four miles und a half, the
ricochet carrying the shot probably two miles further.
Mr. Walter Grey Weston, while walking through Wepre
Park Hawarden, on the 19th inst., wus attacked by a bull.
Mr. Grey, a one-armed gentleman, possessing gnat strength,
dodged the animal, but eventually was tossed: As he fell the
bull rushed at him, but he seized it by the nose-ring. To this
he firmly clung for two hours, during which time the bull
endeavoured to gore him. He was then found in a pitiable
c mdition, covered with blood, and frighfully lacerated
tELD AT C HA KING-CROSS STATION ON HIS RETURN FROM BERLIN.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, July 27, 1878.— 81
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JULY 27, 1878
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82. .. =... ‘,^nT I StiJu Iht Majesty at the funerals of the King of Italy
============== === ^^~^ tuXTJ •»>- L Tr andthe Queen of Spain, adding that, instead of going there,
PARLIAMENT. - u»"t ti.JImiri.md‘^^^mVn^teation^those 1 provinces have , re immersed in their own pleasures. Mr. Gladstone
lA , . Government >u respect of tb*no sufficient mctt “® it was well known that her Majesty had not sufficient
LU1 ! i ed in rather too lively a j.npo-cdheavy r ^^^ 1 , t ;Thefrfulfl)ment ; andthnt £ffErio£ private means to make the requisite provision forthe members
The recriminatory scene which by the tt J responsibilities meurrsd witho pnva^ ^ 8hould pport the Government m the pro-
fashion the tull-dress debate on the hung like a pall knowledge of Parliament. . Qnnosition benches, was posal they were about to moke, as one in btnet conformity with
Prime Minister may almost be sai LordbhipB . No apology Dr Kenea i y> amid laughttr fro J\* he Government on Monday f he precedents of the present reign, b^ond which it was
ov-r the subsequent sittings of the L discussion of ^ flrjjt t0 come to the rescue of the ® satisfaction with the impossible, from the different'circumstances that
is therefore needed for returning Wftire „f princesses and , , w itli notice of a moti n expressing But it was there could be precedents. The obj ect of the arrangement
ThSay week. The illustrious ^ e . ul ™fwh<m the Earl of h “° r Majesty’s Plenipotentiaries at Berhm B« o{ ^ her £ a jesty was to get rid of the system which
pS£ gradually became less and R*« prolonge d £ 5 ,r U. Plunket to ■moonce the axnenam "J^tSnSd to previous reigns, when the Crown accumulated
Beaconsfield had, in clarion ton » h | t „ ourB ig an Bm- which it j a believed the Government app • . deEts which were from time to time made the subject of
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for the disinclination or inability of Lord Bidisbury to gii e Station of a pet ition by Mr. Cowendemanding the arrest be one 0 f the greatest di fficulty. _
Lord Granville any fresh information ns to ... L d impeachment of Lord Beaconsfield. Ihe hou. member -
the second reading of the Scottish Roads andisndgea 1J j“ d P^ it em anated from a number of gentlemen associated The Y\ Bg Officer’s Greenwich 11 os pit nl pen eion of £ J50 a
spite of the Earl of Rosebery s wdl-mewit effort to rch r l t to ther iu Manchester, Bolton, Stockport, Macclesfield, Mad- vacant by the death of Admiral bir W llliam Hall, K.C.B.,
a P Select Committee. Monday was devoted to the g»« n g * uldhiun> au d London. The petitioners reviewed the bcen ivtJ J to Admiral Jehu L. Stokes.
Royal Assent by Commission to a large number d eveuts thut have taken place in the La»t of Liirope during the t • , j^t week of the Blackpool Winter
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Beaconsfield (wearing his blushing honours with chimictcTW^ ^ o{ the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the to B {, pp i y travellers on their system with iced water gratis^
coolness) brought up a Message from her Mjyq House go into Committee to consider the Queens Messuge pas8l ugers by the Midland line have merely to ,ooms
their Lordships to concur in making ft further provw on for toe tQ the approaching marriage of the Duke of Con- f or iced wate r at any of the company sown rcireslunent-rooms,
Duke of Connaught on theoccasion of his marriage with Pri Sif q Di ^ e moV ed as an amendment-That the con- and a glagH Q f the cool, refreslung beverage is supplied.
Louise of Prussia. Vmousm^^e were ^v^^a^t^^^a aide « alion of the Message be deferred untU the production of comm ittee of the Liverpool Art-Club propose to open
Lord Fortescue s nio . tl ^ 0 ^^a n kedLo B rd Truro for calling certain documents having relation to former grants te.Royal Exhibition of the works of Josiah Wedgwood during the
was agreed to. Lord Henuiker thanked L r0 '° f ° princes. The hou. Baronet argued that no application lor p 0 ma ke this exhibition a useful representation
attention to the impwper stowage of ^nlgrton increased annuity had ever been made m these cases except "^.^ ( »od’8 productions, it has been thought advisable, so
powder on board the ^ipPereornm the lhames. qJ with a ^tinct view of providing for the succession to the Jt ” jJj,, to eihibit the specimens in the order in
then brought on the. £ ,u T 5 f t • , J lua reve „ue Throne, aud on each occasion a distmet declaration was made fb „ are described bv Wedgwood himself, in the various
Oamperdown. who how rnuch ™ th ’ at wa « the case. The only precedent that had been ^ich they are A committee, consisiine of Messrs
England would have to pay Turkey for to * the mude waa tbat of 1873, when a further allowance was made to BrnSStTA. H. Brodrick, Charles T. Salty, and
GrunviUe and.Lord cotdd not be pre- the Duke of Edinburgh ou his marriage; and this precedent ^ y badfo 7 d Walker, has been appointed to carry out this
value of the island , but Lorcl racons e Secrecy he added, was not binding on those who, like himself, had A • dl feel nj UC h obliged if those who are
vailed upon to emergefrom his c\oaV ^ y £ opp08ed that grant. He fur tiler submitted that, even if there had po y s8ea8 ors of old Wedgwood ware would give
was absolutely ntcessmy m uic acqumme , been Drecedenta in former reigns, they would not be applicable, collectors or p Hn n of the works they possess, and
boldly declared; and at a proper tinie, _ t ^i d be readY because, by the passing ol the Private Estates BiU in the absence themsoi g wdline to exhibit. Communications
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closed with a conversationon f< 2SS?i25Abl!!£i«u that of the Duke of Edinburgh. With regard to the question of of the troops stationed at Poitemouth.-Hw BojbI Hi^hncs ,
course of which Lord Salisbury . Q prov } K , on8 . precedent, he denied that the argument in the Duke of Edin- with Lord Napier of Mngdala and other distinguis ^ ^
^ been ratified, for ubout an hour and a burgh’s case rested entirely on precedent. On the contrary, urrived at Aldershott on Wednesday, m 01 ^ e , reserV es
, 1 P W t i ) !I?r o fwEh time they agreed to an Address, in that and the present instance the argument rested rather on review of the troops previous to ihe ■ chining of
is as,
Majesty of the P PP I bave contracted with the Parliament to carry on the battalions of volunteers, doing duty there for a ,
wishes. _ .._. ._ _ A _ rs.rii _. in ♦!«<> rnnlcs were 31 (» of tile nrsutisso
wisncs. ('OMMONS. Government of the country, and the charges on the Civil
. „ . , 1 '. .• ronrrVH List were of a very different character to those of the pres* nt Army Reserve, and 1917 Militia ueserye. -»iici “ ~r
The Marquis of Hartmgton s rcsoiiition w generally regarded u bhould b J rtimmbt . rcd th ut her Majesty was in receipt pm* the men were divided for a sham fight. The troops,
as the one remaining obstacle to that exo^i*.of hon of £i 50 ,000 less than George IV. received for precisely the had bcen drenched by heavy rain intheearlypart oitheduy
from town which heralds the Mrfthebewj B^hord- ^ piipose8> wbi!e the various arrangements since mode returned to quarters about two o’clock.-Ihe 3rd Middles^
li b»P P lx ‘P a J e d the House tor the mainlv devoted to with the Crowu relative to various hereditary revenues had Militia was disembodied last Saturday. Its str*ngtn
of the sitting yratordaj wiek, w Govenfmeut Cattle been more to the advantage of the nation than to the Crown, shott cousbteel of twenty-five officers and 682 nu n.
the lmprovcment in Conimittoe motion to be lt would be with no definite reference to the succession that a Middlesex Militia, consisting of thirty t ffi* era and •
1Hague Bill. J^p^EncEu^o^the E^heoueri on proposal would be made to-day; but, because the Duke of begins its animal training at Aldershott this He
submitted (as rja^g y nnorition — ^ Connaught stood ou the same looting as his brother the Duke regiment is encamped ou Rushmoor-hill.—An oft
Monday next y PP ‘ of Edinburgh, because he had secured a hold on the affections , has been issued from the War Office that the aer , ot. t
That while Uiia Hou*e has learoed wift of the people, aud because he was about to contract a marriage j Army and Militia Reserves will not be required at
Treity of^Berhn 1 without^ fuitlier woou^e to arms, and rejoices in the which was not only popular in the country, but which would | inst. Orders have been received at Devonport Dot y ^
George 111. In former times the Crown might be said men, about 3000 horses, and guns, ine uir*^ -
to have contracted with the Parliament to carry on the battalions of volunteers, doing duty tbfflre for a >
Government of the country, and the charges on the Civil pnsent. The reserves in the ranks were 31 loot ,
List were of a very different character to those of the pres* nt Army Reserve, and 1917 Militia Reserve. Alter .
which have unmn in ae juuh, oi r.uxopc wj
Trevty of Berlin without further nooutve to arms, and rejoices in the
, xtension nf ihe liberty and self-ROVcn nient of some of the population* of
European Turkey, this House regrets that it has not been found practicable
to deal in a more satisfactory manner with the claims of the kingdom of
Uieece andthe Greek subjects of the Forte; that by the assumption of an
granted to mm. i^ora it. Montagu supported tue moi
go into Committee. Mr. Anderson took the contrary
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by 1100 men. The reserves in Dublin,
garrisons, were disbanded on Wednesday.
y in many other
JULY 27, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
ECHOES OF THE WEEK.
I read in the daily papers of Tuesday
, Pl ? nce of Wu , les - accompanied by Colonel Clarke and Mr Knowlw.
eft Paris by a special team at eleven o’clock on Sunday nightT^nd tmvl?’
hr g vift Boulogne and Folkestone, reached Loudon at 7 10 yesterday morn
' T n f-entire Journey being completed in eight hours and tin minutesMr’
John Shaw, manager and secretary of the South-Eastern Railway Comnanv
received the Prince on his arrival at Boulogne; and the passage was miideto
Folk stone by the company’s special steamer Victoria. Sir Edward Watkin
M.P , chairman of the company, was present on the arrival of his RoyS
Highness at Charing-cross. The I>riuce and Princess of Wales attended the
performance at Her Majesty’s Theutre yesterday evening. u 1216
The extract would not have been complete without the
mention of our Prince having been able to go to the Opera on
Monday night; and you will observe that H.R.H. had had
besides, an entire day at hiB disposal after the train landed him at
Cbanng-cross. Let me see. Referring to a certain mental
diary of mine, I find that at eight o’clock on a Sunday mom-
mg in the month of July, 1838,1 left some Stairs, near London
Bridge, in the steam-boat Harlequin, bound for Boulogne. We
were fain to tuke the sea route, as one of our company was an
invalid, and all the inside places in the Royal Mail to Dover
were booked for a week to come, and the funds of the family
of which the present writer was one did not “run” to a
postchaise.
We entered the port of Boulogne shortly before midnight.
Put up at the Hotel de Something or another. Slept tant bien
que mat. Fleas. At nine on Monday morning we left Bou¬
logne in the interieur of one of the diligences of MM Lafitte
Caillard. Six horses. Rope harness. Postillion with a pig¬
tail and jack boots, each of which was big enough to contain one
of the Forty Thieves. Beggars swarming along the dusty road
all the way to Montreuil. They had a special song, those
mendicants, set to a whining tune, which haunts me to this
day:—
Chari to!
8’ilvous plait,
Petit morceau de pain anglais.
Chnrito!
S'il vous plait,
Donnez petit bou Anglais.
Lunched at Montreuil, that ugly fortified town, if I remember
aright. Dined at five p.m. at Abbeville. Table-d’hote dinner
a very humorous performance. Five francs a head. We had
scarcely finished the soup and bouilli before the conducteur
appeared at the door yelling “Allans, Messieurs et Mesdames !
En voiture ! en voiture ! ” Ten minutes’ grace, purchased by a
general contribution for the conductor’s pourboire. Jolted and
“ wobbled ” about all night. At foot of a heavy hill compelled
to alight and walk for three quarters of a mile by moonlight.
Cafe au lait, black bread and no butter at four in the morning
at Beauvais, I think. At ten o’clock, St. Denis. At twelve,
noon, on Tuesday (just iu time to hear the cannon in the Darden
of the Palais Royal fired by means of a burning-glass), arrival
in the yard of the Messageries of MM. Lafitte Caillard, hard
by the Place des Victoires. That is how we used to go to Paris
forty years ago.
If contemporary caricatures are any index to the state of
public opinion, the French are still very sore with respect to
the occupation of Cyprus by this country. The Charivari has
been full of spiteful cartoons bearing on the ethics of our latest
Mediterranean acquisition. A little urchin tells his mother
that a fierce dog ran at him in the street, but that a passing
Englishman protected him. “ Yraiment ,” observes his fond
pa, “ How much did the Englishman make you pay for protecting
him ? ” A gentleman, hemmed in by a crowd, discovers that
he has lost his watch. “ On vient de me Chyprer ma montre,” he
cries. “ Chiper,” in Parisian argot, means to filch. Again, the
ingenious artist “ Cham ” depicts Britannia as an elderly
female in spectacles, and with very prominent front teeth, sus¬
taining the principal part in the opera of “La Reine de
Chypre.” But Cyprus herself, symbolised by the Paphian
Venus, sits in the front row of the stalls and whistles dis¬
paragingly into a key. Never mind. We have got Cyprus.
Eeati possidentis.
Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury are now K.G.s. If old
Roger de Hovenden the Chronicler be right, it must have been
in Cyprus that one of the earliest Chapters of the Garter was
held, full a hundred and fifty years before the supposed insti¬
tution of the Order by Edward III. Hear Roger : “On the
arrival of Queen Berengaria in Sicily, King Richard, in honour
of his betrothment, established a fraternity of twenty-four
knights, who pledged themselves to the King to scale the walls
of Acre, and that they might be known at the storming of that
city the King appointed them to wear each a blue band of leather on
the left leg. They were known as the Knights of the Blue
Thong, aud they were placed under the invocation of St.
George, the tutelary saint of Aquitaine.” What becomes
after this of the pretty legend of the Countess of Salisbury and
her misadventure at the Court ball ?
.The London Season may now be considered as moribund.
It is dying hard; but with a few more gasps and struggles
its feverish existence will come to a close. Do you feel
inclined to moralise on the mauy wickednesses of the
“Season” now departing—over its manifold naughtinesses,
its more or hss heinous and revolting scandals ? I do not feel
inclined to moralise about anything just now (it is too hot); still
I cannot help thinking that mauy rigid moralists who have
most vehemently denounced the growing turpitude of the age
would do well to study the following shrewd little passage iu the
Vicountess Combermere’s “ Our Peculiarities,” a collection of
essays, which I have just been reading with equal pleasure
and edification. “ Although a very aged actor, Hypocrisy
never excelled in genteel comedy so successfully and con¬
stantly as at present, while outward semblances are so
necessary to keep us up to the regulation standard of Society.”
ihis was written in 1863; but does the “aged actor” show
any signs of falling off in genteel comedy in 1878 ? I met Mr.
Mawworm at a garden party last Tuesday, and I hear from the
highest authority that Mr. Tartuffe (disguised with a flaxen
wig and a false nose) has attended no less than six repre¬
sentations of the “ Pink Dominos ” at the Criterion Theatre.
,, _T^® accomplished grande dame de par le monde whose
Peculiarities” I have just quoted has been enthroned in the
stalls of the Theatre Royal Society tht se ever so many years.
How many performances of the “aged actor” in that very
geuteelest of comedies, Hypocrisy, must not her ladyship have
witnessed. Ah! if the relict of the heroic Field Marshal Viscount
Lorn berm ere would only, after exhausting her survey of “ Our
eeulianties,” favour us with a few of her own Reminiscences,
w ^ L0 r ermere must have been on familiar terms with the
T >i t and ab if 8 “otley rout—Church, Army, Physic,
aw 7~ £rom the first decade of the present century. She
must have seen everybody aud known everybody worth
nowing in England and on the Continent Bince the daj s of
e Kegivncy ; and her “ Reminiscences” would be as interest-
+ a ? * autobiography of Mary Granville Mrs. Delany.
v F 11 ?^ won drou8 old gentlewoman, so intelligently
edited by Lady Llanover, is to me the English Saint Simon.
fanfilv “Lid ZZfT 1 darCSay that 1 am wron (? i iu fact, my
ramiiy and friends are never tired of telling me tl.kt T
generally am wrong; but I caunot help thinking that the
St. Paul’s Cathedral Deeoratiou CommitL S penetrate a
Saborated^roTect ^ 1116 ad ? wedto can 7 out thei?recently
H project for spending between forty and fifty
Paul’s wRh P r^ S hnmg tbe interior o£ th e dome of St
is £ tlTe first n ? Sttl 7 eD f er ° f m ° 8aic work - The experiment
pluce > f a* too vast to be undertaken by English
would k ™ eli > wl *° bave little experience as mosaicists; audit
d be scandalous to have to pay some £25 000 to a
cto'Sr, Florenttoefirm to do that which we are ’unable to
a ourselves. Even m the case of au English house taking the
workmen ^7 be , c ° m P elled to engage troops of foreign
be saM amiiit ft 6 n ftP lace . while there is not one word to
be said against the selection of two such admirable artists as
Mi. J. E. Millais, R.A., and Mr. E. J. Povntcr R A to
cartoons for the proposed decoration, 1 hold it to
hartnf h lo 1, 'A UdlC10US that , they sh °uld be handicapped by
havmg to adhere more or less rigorously to a design for the
embellishment of the dome prepared by a very tainted but
very over-rated artist, the late Mr. Alfred Stevens whose
ba°sSic“ e fails f ti h fi]l DUke °L WelHn 8 ton hl the metropolitan
it dole / 1 fiU me wlth ecstatic admiration: sinning, as
jssm; r" ° f view a6 “ i “ t w ietie ‘
Mess^rS VlaC f'l fiQd that the 8ub J' ects for illustration by
Messrs Miliani and Poynter are to be drawn from the Book of
Revelation. I never, advisedly, allude to theological matters
CO l UDm , : , bufc 1 think that 1 6h oll find a good many
nen d t e |fnLnl°A Wll i ^ when 1 8a Y that the two enri-
TtJi™ J 1 4 cadcimcl 'ms had better leave the Apocalyp.-e alone.
l 18 f°° awfu ly mysterious to warrant any attempt
to popularise it pictonally ; and, besides, when Messrs. Millais
and loynter have exercised their imaginative faculties and
graphic powers to the utmost, of what avail will be the
utlay of genius and skill when the immense altitude of the
dome must render three fourths of the designs invisible ? AU
that will be seen from the pavement wiU be a blurred haze of
gold and staring colour. If the Decoration Committee desire
to know how the dome of a cathedral may be most fitly embel¬
lished with mosaic, let them go to Constantinople and study
Sophia ^ Cherubim on tbe great cupola of the Mosque of St.
Mem: From the dome of St. Sophia there is a constant
pattering down of fragments of disintegrating mosaic; and
the lurkish custodians of the mosque are always ready to seU
a handful of parti-coloured tesseree to an inquisitive Frank for
half a medjidie or so. I used to keep on a table at home a
bonbonnure fuU of these relics of the art of mosaic as practised
in the reign of the Emperor Justinian; but a female member
of my household being afflicted with a cough, mistook the
pretty little semi-transparent cubes tor jujubes; and it was only
at the nick of time that I prevented her from swallowing the
five-thousandth part of one of the quiU feathers of au arch¬
angel s wing in mosaic thirteen hundred years old. But
looking at the dampness of our climate, the mosaic in St!
Paul’s might begin to patter down piecemeal very shortly after
it had been put up.
History has ruthlessly and righteously stigmatised the
conduct of the Sparrow in killing and slaying Cock Robin. The
deed was done with a bow and arrow ; and the atrocious crime
was seen by the Fly, with his little Eye. Anxious as I am
by timely confession of guilt to avoid the opprobrium of pos¬
terity, 1 hereby proclaim my frank repentance for having
inadvertently killed (with a “ J ” pen) a very eminent English
sculptor. I spoke of him, in connection with the noble
relievo from his chisel iu Guildhall, as “ the late John Bell.”
I rejoice to say that Mr. John Bell, like the Thane of Cawdor,
lives, a prosperous gentleman. Que vive mil ailos. G. A. S.
83
largest number of runs that they have made to a Liu
innings during their visit. They, however fared Wi^i,f« g -
match against Cambridge UnivLsity, being 7eatenstogie
innings with 72 runs to spare. We append the full score •—
CAMBRIDGE.
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bB ° yle .211 Total ... 285
n v AUSTRALIANS.
C. Bannerman, b Morton. 12 run nnf
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£ ::: ::: :.: 2 !
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NATIONAL SPORTS.
Great diversity of opinion appears to exist with respect to the
new racecourse at Kempton Park, which was formally opened
last week. Our own impression is a decidedly favourable one,
though we are scarcely prepared to go as far as one enthu¬
siastic supporter of the venture, and pronounce it “thebest
course iu England.” Still, it is undoubtedly a very good one,
rather flat and dead galloping, after the style of York and
Doncaster, but one oyer which no owner need be afraid to run
the most valuable animal in his stable. Hypercritical people
objected that the “straight” mile did not fulfil Euclid’s
definition, and “ lie evenly between its two extreme points; ”
but the curve looks far sharper than it really is, and the
jockeys stated that they could come round it without
the least inconvenience. Of course, everything was not
quite in such order os it will be by the next meeting;
and then, when a few more trees which at present obstruct
tue view of the racing have been cut down, people must be
hard indeed to please who are not thoroughly satisfied with
Kempton Park. A capital field of fifteen ran for the Inaugu¬
ration Plate, one silver cup being given to the trutoer and
another to the rider of the winner, in commemoration of the
first race on the new course. These fell to Ii. Porter and
Fordham, the latter displaying all his old skill on the uncer¬
tain Duukenny. The chief race of the day was the Kempton
Park Two-Year-Old Stakes, and nothing in the field, which
included fuir youngsters like Shoestring and Turtle Dove,
could even extend Sword Knot, who, it will be remembered,
ran very fast to the New Stakes, at Ascot. Her stable com¬
panion, Salamis, took the Queen Elizabeth Stakes on the
following day, and repeated her victory in the Royal Stakes
on Saturday. The “ Cup ” was rather spoilt by the very
light weight allotted to Rylstone (7 st. 7 lb.), and, though she
only defeated Ivy (6st. 121b.) by half a length, it was quite
clear that Fordham had plenty to hand, and none of the
remaining half-dozen persevered to the finish.
A capital little meeting was brought off at Huntingdon on
Tuesday and Wednesday. The opposition of Julius Ciesar and
Lollypop to the Port holme Cup created great interest, and,
though a mile is beyond the latter's usual course, aud he hud
to concede 5 lb., he made a very fair fight of it. The Duke of
Hamilton was compensated lor his defeat by the dual victory
of Greenback; and, on the following day, Julius Ctesar (9 st.),
who is iu rare form just now, carried home the top weight to
gallant style in the Huntingdonshire Stakes. Le Promeneur,
a very useful selling plater, scored twice; nor must we forget
to mention that Archer won four out of the five races to which
he rode.
The heavy rain, which is falling as we write, will probably
| give bowlers another turn; but batsmen have certainly taken
| full advantage of the lively ground, and we have no space to
chronicle half the long scores that have been amassed. Last
week Middlesex beat Yorkshire by 90 runs, the batting of the
Hon. E. Lyttelton (72), Messrs. A. J. Webbe (51), H R. Webbe
(37 and 51), T. S. Pearson (84), and E. H. Salmon (49) proving
very effective. The best scores on the other side were made by
Total _.in
L rnpires—Price and Clayton -
Mr „“”o°k &d,7^kT S'au^r. 1 f
90 runs. On Tuesday eveutog the members of to^Aurtralillu
team were entertained at a banquet at Willis’s
Duke of Manchester being in t£ chai? SWy tX’aten
Sussex by an innings and 47 runs thants tr. i ? eat ®n
has gamed a most decisive victory over Yorkshire hv ™
innings und 64 runs; Daft (39) Oscroft 7
(60) wer. tire chief scorer, firthe fomeE.anino one SS
on the other side. Messrs. C. M. Cun iffe toot o a
47), C. A. Absolom (70), and F. Penn (59) materialU hLi n
Kent to beat Derbyshire by 125 runs and h! h f ped
wickets, Mycroft taking twelve for the latfer^ounty® 0
The race for the Wingfield Sculls tbe amateur
ship of the Thames, took place on Monday evening over'the
recognised course from Putney to Moxtlake Only g Ane man
*■ rs
he eventually won as he liked, in 24 min 13 PtovtorH
was not in the best of condition ; but there is little dnnh/tw
he is the finest amateur sculler of th£ or“ny^ that
1 he Channel-match of the Prince of Wales’s Yacht Cl.ih
was sailed last Saturday from Graves endtoSLseato
harbour. Eight vessels started, and there wS 32
contest. Mr. Dowdall’s Mildred won the first prize eaMly by
tune lurch taking the second, and Fleur-de-Lis the third ° 7
1 1 \ he 4 u aM n al regatta of the Royal Welsh Yacht Club of
which the Prince of Wales is president, took place at Car-
norvon on Tuesday. The Roberta, of Carmarthen won t“®
cup lor 30-tonners. The Elame, af Liverpool took the
wM?Lrt2 ta i , h Ze A a ^ d the Naval v ^aiiteer Artillery match
t ”!f d * by tbe Carnarvon crew, Liverpool being third
and Southport fourth. Ihere were mauy minor races. ’
A successful meeting of the Royal Cornwall Yacht n„h
Regatta was held at Falmouth on Tuesd^ Cthe S-class
yawl-match Neptune saved her time on Jullanar, and Milly
was distanced. I he cutter-match was fought out between
Formosa and Vol-au-Y r ent. Formosa led nearly all the way
ami won well after a very fine race. Norman won the 40 ton
aud Myosotis took second prize ; Coralie being third, and
Glance fourth. Vanessa beat Maia in the 20-ton class •
5 tonLlusT 8 * 1 krat ^ tbe 10-ton class, and Freda first in the
A return match at a hundred pigeons, between Captain
Bogardus and Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell, resulted in exactly
the mime way os did the former one—the American, who killed
fnL e n L' 0ne ’ wmmilg by birds - lie was not, however, so
fortunate in his match with Mr. Wallace, as, after they had
Lnd Xil w l n g seveut 3 '-nme each, the stakes were doubled,
and Mr. \\ allace won, with seventy-one against sixty-two.
™ Q T K h ^ ^ is8 M 8ippi and Dominion Line steamer Dominion
hr, ,r h i ed ^ f he K M f r 1 y on Wcdncs day from Quebec, having ou
^jL 32 - 4 h, ad ot oaHl e and niueteen hordes, all of which
arrived m prime order. I he steamer Memphis, of the same
company, has also arrived at Liverpool from Canada, bitotumr
306 live cattle and 182 sheep. ’ mgmg
Q ^/ rbe aun ual exhibition of the Worcestershire Agricultural
Society opei ed at Bromsgrove on T uesday, and was one of the
best ever held under the auspices of the society. The entries
grently exceeded those of last tear, there being 137 entries of
horses, 98 in the cuttle classes, 83 iu the sheep, aud 54 iu the
pig classes. Neurly £900 was awarded iu prizes lor cattle
Ac., besides premiums to the flower-show department. The
Marquis of Exeter obtained the leading prize to shorthorns for
his celebrated five-year-old bull “ Telemachus; ” and Mr
Hams, of fetoney-lane, Bromsgrove; Mr. Ackers, of Prtok-
nash 1 ark, Gloucestershire ; and Mr. T. M. Hopkins, of Wick
near Worcester, were also among the most successful in the
shorthorn classes Mr. Taylor, of Showle Court, Ledbury
won the pnze-bull premium to Hereford cattle. The annual
dinner was held on Wednesday. Lord Lyttelton presided,
and the Earl of Coventry, Sir E. Lechmere, M P, and
Mr. Winn Knight took part in the proceedings.
On Wednesday afternoon London was visited by a thunder¬
storm and a heavy fall of rain, which had been threatening the
greater portion of the day. There were storms the same day
m other places, some being attended with fatal results 1»
Nuneaton and other parts of Warwickshire there was a
storm, accompanied by lightning and a heavy full of rain
A tern he thunderstorm broke over the Potteries, causing toiurv
to life and property. At Whitmore, near Hanley, two women
went under a tree for shelter from the heavy rain, when a flash
of lightning split the tree into splinters, aud killed one of tha
women, greatly injuring the other. Several persons have been
injured in the surrouuding districts. At Bristol the tall
chimuey of a factory and the cross of a church were knocked
down by the lightning, but uo personal damage was done
I’he storm extended to Ireland, where several fatal accidents
occurred. At Belmont, near Tuarn, a girl, aged eighteen, and
a man named Ryan were killed by tlie lightning; and at
Kilcornan a lad, aged sixteen, named Kennedy, was killed
His brother, a year younger, was struck down by the same
fiuah, and remains dangerously ill.—There have been thunder¬
storms during the week at Southampton, Taunton, and other
places, doing considerable damage.
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Rae, of the 11th
Stirling Rifle Volun¬
teers, who made an
aggregate score of
78 points, of which
25 were made at the
thou? and yards’ long
range. His nearest
competitors were
Lieutenant - Colonel
Walrond, who made
22 at the long range,
and 77 altogether ;
and Serg. Walker,
with 23 at the thou¬
sand yards, and a
total of 76 points.
Mr. Rae, upon the
declaration of his
victory, was carried
by his comrades
on their shoulders
to the London Scot¬
tish camp, preceded
by the band of the
Victoria Rifles play¬
ing “ See, the
Conquering Hero
Comes,” and es¬
corted by a detach¬
ment of mounted
and foot police. He
was very heartily
welcomed by all.
Peter Rae was until
this year a Sergeant
in the 31st Lanark
Rifles, but a few
months since, on
removing his busi¬
ness as a builder to
Kilsyth, he became
a private in the 11th
Stirling, to which
regiment he now
belongs.,^ Mr. Rae
has long been known
as one of the best
Scottish marksmen,
and, in addition to
the tie for the
Queen’s Prize in
1874, has gained
many honours at
Wimbledon and
elsewhere, his latest
exploits being win¬
ning the President’s
Prize and the Iron-
brokers’ Cup at the
meeting of the West
of Scotland Rifle
Association this year
at Cowglen.
“ READING
rabe l a is.”
The subject which is
here treated by Mr.
Sidney Holland, a
young artist of much
talent aud promise,
whose picture has
doubtless been no¬
ticed by many vi¬
sitors at the Royal
Academy Exhibition
now about to be
closed, is highly sug¬
gestive. A contem¬
porary reader is en-
foying the solitary
perusal of those
famous drolleries
picture of a past evil
condition of human
affairs and opinions
may be vividly
brought to the view
of thoughtful stu¬
dents. And we can „ x . .
thus also readily suppose that many of their serious
contemporaries would be likely to seek, in the
audacious flights of grotesque fancy, by which those
men of genius held up to derision the vices and
follies, the impostures and bigotries, of their times,
something more useful than mere entertainment. It
may at least be claimed for Rabelais, as well as for
the two English authors named with him, though his
practice of speaking of the foulest things by the
vilest names far outruns every competitor in that
species of literary ruffianism, that he does not make
immorality appear seductive, as some of the politest
and daintiest writers of a later period have done.
Nastiness is better than the nicest and sweetest
confection of a delicate but deadly poison; but
the shrewd-looking elderly gentleman, sitting in
his library, as Mr. Sydney Holland has cleverly
depicted him, is perfectly competent to appreciate
the merits of his favourite author. This figure is
exceedingly characteristic—that of a Frenchman
of birth and breeding and intellectual culture,
with the habits of his class and nation in the
sixteenth century, which are familiar to us from the
essays of Montaigne. The accessories of costume
and furniture also have been correctly studied ; and
the picture, as a whole, might almost serve for an
illustration of bygone domestic life in a chateau of
the provinces, where the Seigneur prefers a quiet
hour with his books to the fatiguing pursuit of game
in the neighbouring forest.
hibition. This nude
figure of a mount ain
§|§§§|§§|11| shepherd, who has
climbed the height
of the craggy pn*i-
pice to the eagle s
nest, pursuing his
lost lamb, which that
fierce bird of prey
had lately snatched
from the bleating
flock of ewes and
their offspring is a
truly noble conception. His approach has dnvm
off the eagle from the r «cky pinnule wh«e the
slain lamb is left bedrabbledt with i£ own
blood, a piteous sight for the faithful 8 ‘ ;pl5 ^
to behold. The eagle s nest feathered
left for a moment unprotected by the f ti^^
biped accustomed there to pe l°™th e avSng
duty. This being perceived by the aveng g
swain from the fields below, he threatens
one of the eagle’s callow brood, and now
to accomplish a just act of “ retaliation by carry
ing off the shrieking young
life-long captivity m some artificial cag,w
it will be gazed at with wonder by the village wn
shaU have heard of this adventurous «p^^ The
eagle is supposed meanwhile to be hovermg o e
head in a most angry mood, but not danngto swoop
down upon its foe, to rescue itsJhwttu* « ™
recover its stolen repast; for the BbepW has a 10 g
staff wielded by a strong arm,, with.winch he is P
pared to strike the rapacious bird if it gouia ^
for a moment within his reach. This y
compared, not disadvantageous^, vnth that°_
another work of sculpture-namely, Bell s ^ag
Slaver” in which the man was represents
having just shot an arrow to kill the wmged p
of the upper air while soaring in his pnde oi p
READING RABELAIS.” BY SIDNEY HOLLAND.
IN THE EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
At the Cardiff Townhall on the 19th ms
Mayor presented a valuable gold chronomete -
to Captain George Williams, at t h e req
Board of Trade, “ for the cool and intrepid co
shown by him on May 9 last, when he cornn
the ship Confidence, of Bristol, which was des
by a tidal wave off the coast of Peru. The
from the Board of Trade also stated that the
on the recommendation of Sir Charles Ad
had conferred the Albert medal of the^secor
on three seamen who at great nskjmd
THE CHAMPION RIFLEMAN.
The great event at the annual meeting of the
National Rifle Association on Wimbledom-common,
which was concluded last week, was the competition,
at three different ranges, for the Queen’s Prize of
£250 and the Gold Medal and Badge of the Asso¬
ciation, with all the honours of Champion Shot for
England, to be worn during the next twelvemonth.
We ann ounced, in our last publication, that the
winner of the Queen’s Prize for this year was Private
PRIVATE RAE, OF THE IItii STIRLING RIFLE VOLUNTEERS,
W1NNEU OF THE QUEEN’8 I'lUZE AT WIMBLEDON.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, July 27, 1878.—85
®Ite (Extra
« GIRL READING." BY C. E.
PERUGINI.
For the delineation of feminine grace and
modesty M. Perugini has earned for himself a
reputation as wide as it is merited. His pencil
is at once facile and true, and it never fails to
convey that sense of preciousness which is so
valuable an element m the limning of ladies
gently bom. His colouring is correspondingly
suave and harmonious, as he does not strive to
force his pigment too palpably on the eye. In
the case before us, the colour is laid on so
lightly and daintily that the canvas is allowed
to show through and help thereby the texture
of the dress. His is essentially a sympathetic
brush, and he must address himself to his sitter
con amore or not at all. The “ Girl Reading,”
to whom we present our readers, is the first
important figure which catches and rivets the
attention of the visitors in Gallery II. of the
Royal Academy. Attired in a loose white dress
with a simple frill round her neck, we see her
seated on a marble bench engrossed in the
illuminated volume which lies in her lap. It
is bound in blue velvet, and is probably a
mediaeval romance of valour and true love;
and, as if in sympathy with the triumph of the
lovers, she holds in her right hand a sprig of
white orange-blossom. The back of this hand
touches her finely-moulded chin, and the elbow
rests in the palm of her left hand. Her well
set head is adorned with short auburn hair,
which contrasts pleasantly with the green
foliage in which the ripe golden fruit nestles
behind her, and in which the white blossoms
sparkle starlike. Her eyebrows are slightly
raised, indicative of attention ; and the soft
fall of her eyelids betokens consent. Her mouth
is at once delicate and mobile, and ready at a
moment to droop into sorrow or break into a
ripple of delight. In short, the “ Reading
Girl” is a realisation of maidenly sweetness
and modesty, and the sentiment she inspires
in the beholder is as pure as she herself is lovely.
THE ISLE OF CYPRUS.
The new British Administrator, Lieutenant-
General Sir Garnet Wolseley, arrived at the
port of Larnaca on Monday morning in the
transport-ship Himalaya, with his staff and a
portion of the troops under his command.
The British Naval squadron, consisting of the
Minotaur, the Black Prince, the Salamis, the
Monarch, and the Invincible, saluted his
Excellency on entering the harbour. The
troops arriving from Malta are mostly
encamped beside the aqueduct, near Larnaca,
but one battalion is sent to each of the other
chief towns—Famagusta, on the east coast,
Eydenia and Limasol, and Nicosia or Levkosia,
which is the capital of the island. We have
already dispatched a Special Artist to furnish
this Journal with Illustrations of the com¬
mencement of British rule in Cyprus. The
Engravings published in this and last week’s
Numbers present views of the capital, Nicosia ;
the Holy Cross Mountain, or Stavro Vouni,
eastward of Larnaca; and the seacoasts at
opposite extremities of the island. We gave
some account of the geography and history
of Cyprus in our last publication. More
recent and precise information as to Cyprus is
not readily obtainable. But for the inquiry
instituted a few years ago as to the facilities
offered to agricultural and industrial emi¬
gration carried on in countries where England
has a consular service, and for the .occasional
reports of those Consuls upon the local com¬
merce with Great Britain, there would not
have been available for the general public at
this day any recent sources of information
about the island which has become on a. sudden
so interesting to England. In German there
has been published, indeed, a more complete
description of Cyprus, .and .of the antiquities
of the island the American Consul, General
RETALIATION.” BY C. B. BIRCH. IN THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION.
Cesnola, has given a comprehensive account.
But modem Cyprus has not yet found
its English historian. Meanwhile, enough
is on official record to furnish an intel¬
ligent comprehension of the country and its
capabilities for European colonisation and
European capital. The only opening which
Cyprus offers to European colonists (we here
quote Mr. Consul Lang) is as farmers. ‘ ‘ Perfect
security to life and property is an advantage
possessed to a greater degree in this island
than in any other part of Turkey,” he says.
“ The land is all for sale, and at most moderate
rates. The climate is not unhealthy, but
demands—as every other place in the world
does—simplicity in diet and temperance in
habits. Under these conditions, capital in¬
vested would certainly find a handsome return
in agricultural enterprise in Cyprus.” The
purchasing power of money in the island may
be easily compared with that in England, when
we say that in the necessaries of life £15 in
Cyprus is as good as £25 in England ; but that
in the luxuries of life £15 in Cyprus is not so
good as £10 in England.
As regards the temptations Cyprus offers
to European capital, a glance at commercial
returns will show the very varied nature of the
goods in which it deals. Among its exports
are raw cotton, wool, salt, dyes, silk, oil seeds,
wine, locust beans (Russia imports them to the
value of £42,000 per annum), hides, dried
fruit, wheat and barley; while its imports
include, as the larger items, cotton, woollen,
and leather goods, tobacco, sugar, coffee, salt
fish, rice, butter, hardware, iron, spirits, soap,
and glass. The unequal nature of the climate
is a drawback ; one year will be remarkable for
a torrent of rain forty days together, and the
next memorable for drought. This is a fact
against the farmer; but for such extremes of the
seasons Nature has herself provided a set-off in
endowing the island with such differences of
temperature and such variety of soil that in no
year—even though it be marked by local floods
or partial droughts—does the average produc¬
tion of the whole island suffer. Thus when, in
1871, the cotton crop—owing to the drought,
fell off some 60 per cent in the field as com¬
pared with 1870, the harvest from the carob-
tree (the “locust bean”) yielded a larger
revenue than in the year before. In this, how¬
ever, all authorities agree, that the soil of
Cyprus is still an unworked mine, and that,
as Consul Lang says, “ capital invested
would certainly find a handsome return in
agricultural enterprise.” Among the other
sources of local revenue, the salt-fields de¬
serve a passing notice. Thirty years ago
those of Larnaca were leased for £400, but
in 1871 they produced a clear revenue of
£20,000. Nor does this last amount represent
the profit which might be realised from this
property, for the supply of salt—we give the
words of local authority—is “ unlimited, - ’ and,
in spite of the unfortunate fiscal policy of the
Turkish Government, the trade continues to
increase. In the hope of obtaining an imme¬
diate increase of revenue, the Pasha of Cyprus
raised the market rates of salt, but, failing in
his, object, lowered them again. The mis¬
chief, however, had been done; and, in spite
of the cost of sea-carriage, Syria is now
largely supplied with salt from Barbary.
Yet but one word is wanting to double the
Cyprus revenue from salt; for, by lowering the
price a couple of paras per oke, not only would
the home consumption rise to former pro¬
portions, but the Barbary traders, who at
present make only bare profit, would have to
abandon the Syrian market. Still, the main
prosperity of Cyprus depends upon its land ;
it is pleasant, therefore, to gather from the
official reports promises of future progress.
In the first place, we learn that when, in 1869,
a year of favourable seasons succeeded one of
unfavourable, the Government tithes from the
land leaped up 28 per cent. And in the next
we note that the value of the crops has, as
compared with ten years ago, largely increased
bulk for bulk, owing solely to the improvement
in the quality of the produce.
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The old church of Osbaldwick, two mi ®®- - York alter prize
on the 18th tost, reopened by the Archbishop of Yoik, alter ^
undergoing complete restoration. . . m.a.
A beautiful Munich window, consisting of two * . Mas!
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which £1000 has still to be raised. J. 1,
Pinh Wkitehall-gardeus, at which addresses were ^
the organisation bad in view. wer
A meeting was held on the 18th at the rooms of the Lor
»ryjawJKi , 'f fi* ‘ ud
Selwyn. The Earl of Powis presided and among the speakos ^
were y Lord Carnarvon, the Archbishop of Cau^ury^the • n ,
Bishop of Lichfield, Mr. Bercsford Hope, M.P., Mr. ltaikeB, M. P-, of ,
and the Bishop of Albany. sat
At the monthly board meeting of the Society for the Pro- c la
pagati^ ortSe Gospel on Friday-Bishop Claughton in the ^
chair—a vote of thanks to the American Bishops for their lo i
advocacy of the society’s cause was, on the motiou of the Lev. Ale
Brvuier Belcher, seconded by Mr. Boodle, unanimously adopt* d. jit
T?e iu»fness included the Wing of £2000 for erecting a M.
steam-mill on the society’s estate in Barbados. Je;
The Church of the Holy Trinity, Clee, on the south of the U1
Humber, near Great Grimsby, was reopened last Saturday.
This church, as is recorded in a contemporary inscription on re ,
one of the Norman piers near the south door, was consecrated Q
by St. Hugh. Bishop of Lincoln, a.d. 1192. It has now bet n n,
restored (by Mr. James Fowler) at the sole charge of Mr. A. W. Ui
Thorold Grant Thorold, of Weelsby House. Sc
In the Court of Arches last Tuesday on an appeal as to the U
removal by Mr. Fry, the late churchwarden of St. James s ve
Hat hum. of a chancel screen, side screen, and stops to the
communion table put in the church by Mr. Tooth, the Dean of th
Arches granted a taculty for the removal of all the articles m
question except the chancel screen, which will remain provided CJ
that the gates are removed and the panels painted without J
representations ou them. ^
The Bishops attending the Lambeth Conference reassembled j t
on Monday and began the consideration of the reports of the ^
committee that have been sitting since the adjournment An
address, signed by a number of Members of Parliament and
other leading Churchmen, was presented, congratulating the ..
Bishops on their gathering and expressing the hope that their *
deliberations would tend to union among the various branches u
of the Anglican Communion. “
The Rev. Garnons Williams has presented another chalice j
and paten to Llandaff Cathedral, in memory of his father, .
Dean Williams. They are by Mossrs. Lias and Son, St. Brides- ,
street, Ludgate-circus. and, like those presented last year, are ,
in the style of the Italian Renaissance. Both vessels are ,
richly chased with vine-work, and relieved by raised medallions ]
cont lining symbols of the Passion and the arms of the
cathedral.
A meeting of the Corporation of the SonB of the Clergy
was held lost Saturday. It was stated that since the com¬
mencement of this year the governors have granted £7333 in
donations of various amounts to about 650 poor clergymen
and clergy widows, aged single daughters and children, and
forty-five widows and daughters have been elected to vacant
pensions of £20 per annum, and the pensions of twenty-four
other widows and daughters have been raised from £20 to £30
per annum. The total number of ladies on the list of
pensioners is 712.
Last Saturday the Bishop of Rochester consecrated the
chancel and part of the nave of the permanent Church of St.
Augustine, Lynton-road, Bermondsey. When completed, this
church is expected to be one of the finest in South London.
The architects are Henry Jarvis and Son. The principal con¬
tributors towards the building fund have been Mr. Richard
Foster, who gave £2500; Mr. Philip Cazcnove, who laid the
first stone and gave £500; Mr. J. R. West, Mr. J. A. Shaw
Stewart, the Incorporated Church Building Society, the South
London Fund, ana the Trustees of Marshall’s Charity.
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THE UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
OXFORD.
The examiners in the Final Classical School (T. Fowler,
Lincoln; T. H. Grose, Queen’s; T. Case, Corpus; F. T.
Richards, Trinity; and J. H. Stewart, Christ Church) have
issued the following Class-list:—
THE tt. T.TTSTRATED londo^ews
Tnhn’a • A D. Gooley, Balliol; F. ^ on
** S&itsttsssfe^® 3 ?ia 5 -, AS -
Trinity ; A. InkersUy. Uraaenwe, JJUWJ W. Pratt, Uueeu .;
^^l^ra^idgs; wkkh*.
Stuttit. Hertford OoUege, u. i_. n K
S-gSW. E. W. Badger, ***** j. W. ■fg&B ®/X U P.
Bourdillon, Queen’s; G. F. a°G. Hutchins. Keble; G. F.
b?..ns, Christ Church ^.Unr^NRw College ; E. O. O’Donoghue, Exeter;
Jones, Lincoln; J. E. M..ulson,Ne wtoii^g ^ j H B bpu .„ U-
K O. Rucker, Itmsenose , H. b ;f > ^ Christ Church.
bition at Queen s. Scholarship have elected
. &. nineteenth
Eldon Scholar. _
JULY 27, 1878
The result of the recent examination for the Tomlme prizes e3
“liters^priz^H. Wefley Dod^ml;
Wwd r K ,S ‘ S ‘ABsUUnt-M^tera’ j unior prize—K- Wood, K.S, J
L ' The e foUowing have been elected to schol^ps at Wi^ ‘
!
Benson A. N. St. John-Mildmay. t
At a meeting of the council of the Oxford Military College, (
Lome, General Lord Mark Kerr, Sir L. Lechmerc, Bart., M. 1.,
aud General Maitland, C.B. rw„wi
The “ breaking up ” of Magdalen College School, Oxford,
took nlacc on the 17th inst. The President of the college was
in the chair, and a large number oi resident aud other mends
of the school were present. The reports were of an enuueutly
satisfactory character. The list of honours nicluded iwo hrst
classes in Moderations and several second classes and other
distinctions. The most important prizes were odjudged as
tollows:—The Sheppard Prize lor Classics and the l resident^
Medal for Composition, Tylee; the 1 residents Medal for
Mathematics, l'latt; the President’* P ri f e lor T ^ l ^ U \1^’
Maxwell; Mathematics, under hltecn, lollitt. Divinity lrize,
Jephson; Head Master s Exhibition, \ lucent (Scholar of
University College).
Durham Grammar School celebrated itsannualspeech - duy
1 recently, when Canon Tristram, on behalf of the Dean and
I Chapter, presented the prizes. During the post year the
1 following honours have been gained J. Adamson, bum _ and
■ Baker Exhibitiouer, St. John’s College, Cambridge, bixth
Senior Optime ; W. B. White, Sizarship at Pnnity College,
e Cambridge; J. Harward, “ i’roxjme to Scholarship at Um-
verity College, Ox.ord; W. C. Bradley, Scholar ot Queen s
e College, Oxford, second class, Moderations, \ rox ™ e
f the second tune to the Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, Hartwell
Q Exhibition lrom Durhura School; 1. ihistle, Scholar of Lorpua
d Christi College, second class in “Litt. Human.; 1 • R-
t l'rotter, New College, Uxtord, third class ui Litt. Human. ,
J K. Trotter, Gold Medal of the Royal Artillery institution
J for Essay Prize, 1878; W. Greenweil, M.A., University Col-
d lege Durham, author of “British Barrows,” tellow ot tic
ie Royal Society ; G. H. Wilkinson, M.A., Canon of Truro.
2 A meeting of the members of the Yorkshire College of
, e Science was held ou Monday at Leeds. l)r. Heaton presided,
ir A general view of the position of the college may be best given
by stating that £56,000 has now been promised in donations,
and that the endowments from the Akroyd Foundation, the
Clothworkers’ Company, and the bequest of the late Mr.
ce Henry Brown would, if capitalised, represent a further sum
:r ’ of about £20,000. On the question of the proposed new
8 ' University the committee reported that the college had held
re friendly communications with the authorit ies of Owens College,
^ but could not at present make them the subject of a public
? 8 report. Mr. Baines stated that the number of students this
he year was 355, as compared with 288 last year.
The Marquis of Hartington, in distributing, at Eastbourne
on Wednesday, the prizes and certificates gained in that dis¬
trict in Connection with the Cambridge University local
examinations, expressed great satialacnon at the growing
interest manifested by the two national Universities iu the
promotion of secondary education throughout the country.
Lord Houghton on Wednesday presided, in one of the large
rooms of Cannon-street Hotel, at the distribution of prizes
aw arded to pupils in the different departments of the Luy of
Loudon College for Ladies, near h msbury-square. JLhe
oSon was one of special interest, as it marked the farst
stoue of progress under the management of Miss Mary Murton,
who aSeded last year to the post of Lady Principal, and who
was complimented in graceful terms by the noble president
I as having while a student at London University, diligently
fitted herself for the art of teaching by becoming a proficient
in the art of learning. Two scholarships, of the value respect¬
ively of 50 guineas and 35 guineas, were included in the pnze-
liKt and wore bestowed, the first on Miss Catherine Lmily
Hemmed Ind the sec’ond on Mi- Nelly Blakeley, bo&
young ladies having repeatedly mounte-d the steps of the plot-
*v,rm tn receive Drize atter prize in several branches ot siuay.
The names of the many recipients were reported by Professor
Henry Morley. Other speakers were the Kev. 1 hilip Magnus,
examiner • Professor Cassal, who gave the chief trench prize ,
aS Mr Brinley Richards, who gave an account of the progress
which had been made by the musical students, his statements
beini amply verified by the young ladies in the course of a
concert, which brought the proceedings to a close.
The annual commemoration of St. Ohive’s Grammar School,
Southwark was celebrated ou Wednesday. The prizes were
distributed’ by the Bishop of Rochester, visitor of the school.
The Warden Mr. L. Shutcr, congratulated the friendB of the
w 9 on toe%pularity of the’schoSl, as evinced by its increasing
numbers—there being nearly 800 boys-and on the vanity and
thoroughness of the teaching, as shown by the highly satis-
faetory^reports of the examiners and the numerous successee
the school had attained during the past year at the Uujw-
^iries and the Oxford Local Examinations, where the highest
possiWe honours were obtained. The Head Master, the Rev
A Johnson, read the report of the examiners awarding the
exhibitions at the Universities and a large number otsclioar^
•Jii D s tenable in the school for the ensuuig year. The. Bishop
ol Rochester addressed the boys on their duties and prospects,
and the proceedings were closed with recitations to Euglish,
i German, Freuch, Latin, and Greek.
[ The permanent buildings of St. Bernard’s College, Gold-
worth Woking, were opened on Widnesday. They comprise
’ a °spacious chapel, dSitog-haU, doimitories, ecbooLroo^
masters’ and mistresses’ houses, &c. 1 he school is intended
> tor little boys preparing for public school life, a^ especiaUy
3 for the public school in London in connection with the bouth-
3 wark Theological College.
t Last Saturday the prize distribution of Bruce Castlc School,
t Tottenham, took place, when a large party MaemUed m the
a big school to see the prizes given away by the Lord Mayor,
a The Rev. W. H. Bond, Second Master of St. Bees’ Sch ° 0 l»
t an d late Scholar of Clare College, Cambridge, has been elected
i, Head Master of the Barrow School, Borden, Kent.
3 i The First Lord of the Admiralty has consented to distribute
>f the prizes at the Royal Naval School, New Cross, on Aug. 6.
lBsuea ine iouowing uiass-ust:—
ClassI. A. J. Ashton, Balliol; J. C. Brown, Keble; A. Cattley, New
College; G. Cave, St.John's; B. C CoeteUoe, Balliol; L. K. Famell,
Exeter; J. 8. Furley, Christ Church; W. E. Gnbbeit, Lincoln; A. E.
Heigh, Corpus Christi; II. B. Huiison, Queen’s; K. F. Horton, New
College; R. 8 de Courcy Lilian, Merton; A. F. M. Lockhart, Hertfonl
College; R L. Ottley, Pembroke; I) O. Ritchie and W. Heott, Balliol; W.
E. Smith, New College, and Oscar O'Flahertie Wilde,Mngilnlcn
t;’a« It A. A Haumann. Balliol: W 8 Brook, Oriel; C E Brown,
Lin olu: T N. Carter, Queen’s; M S, Crawford, Exeter; F. T Dalton,
Corpus Christi; L. Dyer, Balliol; J. U. J. Ellison, Meits.n ; W. L. Gilea
The report of the Queen’s College, Galway, for the session
1876-7, states that the number of students attending lectures
during the past session was the largest since the opening of
the College, and that "the system of united education has been
really carried out in the College,” the number of students
continuing to represent “in just proportion those classes of
the several persuasions who seek for cuuegiate education.” The
president says“ It is gratifying to be able to add that since
the opening of the College not a single circumstance has
occurred to interrupt the harmony which has subsisted umong
the students of the several denominations.”
A large number of the dignitaries of the Church of Ireland,
headed by the Archbishop oi Dublin and the Bishops of Meath,
Killaloe, Derry, and Limerick, have addressed a memorial to
Lord Beaconsfield in favour of including girls in the awards
proposed by the Government bill ou Irish Intermediate Edu¬
cation. The memorialists propose that separate examinations
at local centres, to be settled by the Commissioners under the
Act, should be held.
Mr. Moncure D. Conway writes to state that he is authorised
by a lady to offer £1000 towards the formation of a fund to
provide some means of collegiate education for women at
Oxford, subject to the condition that an equal sum be sub¬
scribed within the next few mouths. A committee of influential
persons has been formed at Oxford, who have suggested a
scheme which they believe feasible, and who are able and
willing to work for its success. Messrs. Roberts, Lubbock, and
Co., Lombard-street, have consented to receive subscriptions.
Mr. Goschen, M.P., on the 18th inst. presided ovci tl.e
, annual distribution of prizes at the Middle-Class Schools in
the City-road. He congratulated the school on the siicco s
[ which it had achieved, and commended the principles upon
which the system of education was based. *1 lie prizes wire
delivered by Mrs. Goschen. Among the most distinguished of
’ the r-cipients were M. A. Cooper, \V. Hiuuar, J. E. Forty, and
I C. Meunwell. to whom scholarshtos had been awarded.
The following scholarships, tenable for one year each,
have been awarded by the Masters of the
of the Middle Temple—viz.: International and Constitutional
L aw _One first-class scholarship of one hundred guineas to
Mr. John Scully, of King’s luns, Vubhn ; and one second-
class scholarship of thirty guineas to Mr. Arth “
Inepen of the University of London. Common and Criminal
Law—One first-class scholarship of one hundred guiueaa^to
Mr Nobushige Iriye, of the University, Tokio Japan ; and a
second-class scholarship of thirty guineas to Mr Herbert
Louis P. Elies, of Balliol College, OxiokI. Real « nd
Property—One first-class scholarship of one hundred gu m as
to Mr. Joseph Gatey, of the University of London ^uuy
One second-class scholarship of thirty guineas to Mr. George
Godfrey Gray, of the University of London, LL a.
At the examination by the Incorporated Law Socicty of
candidates for admission on the roll of solicitors ot tne
Supreme Court the examination committee rewmxnMided
the following gentlemen, under the age of A ^
being entitled to honorary distinction: - Arnold Miur
Wilson, John Thomas Anderson, Harry Pltwa, Chartea A.
M. Lightbound, William Romsden, Arthur Newman, Robert
u„nrv CaruenttT Henry Earnest Ward, Cecil Ldward King
The couucil of the eociel j
accordingly awarded the following prizes of books:-lo Mr ;
Wilson, the prize of the Honourable Society of Clifford J In.
to Mr. Anderson, the prize of the Honourable Society of New
Inn ; to Mr. Plews, Mr. Lightbound, Mr. Kamsden, Mr. New
man Mr. Caroent e ;, Mr. Ward, Mr. Kingstord, «nd M^udd,
prizes of the Incorporated Law Society. lh « e ““ b e “ o(
also certified that the following candidates.underthe age
twenty-six, whose names are placed in alphabetical _i
passed examinations which entitle them U>
Henry Bulcock, Frederick Arthur Evans
Fenton, Archibald H. J. Fletcher, John
Hugh Roger Hartley, James Thomas Heppeil, Wxlham Arthur
; J ellicorsef Francis John Trewhitt, and Win.
I jun. The council have accordingly awarded then'cemtottj
1 of merit. The examination committee have further eerily
1 that the answers ol the following candidates Were . if
factory, aud would have entitled them to commendation U
. they had not been above the age of twenty-six :- p cnjamm
. Thomas Bartrum, M.A., B.C.L., Charles John Buckmaster^
> William Handley Kay, Samuel Richard Meredith, B. A., ana
3 George TiUiug (would have becu entitled to certificAtcb^o^
merit). The number of candidates examined m this term
s 324; of these 262 passed and sixty-two were postponea.
A tank of 2000 gallons of creosote, which was on
from Birmingham to South Wales, burst at Hereford on the
mh inJTand ran into the River Wye, killing a great quantity
of salmon, trout, and other fish.
The bark Scottish Admiral sailed from Gravesend on the
19th inst. with the following number of emigrants for fins
bane:—Forty-seven married men, forty-six t ’
123 single men, fifty single women, sixty-two chUdrenbetw
the ages of twelve and one, and fifteen infants. The g
General for New South Wales has been informed by telegram
i,t the arrival in Sydney of the ship Eari DMhousie. which
sailed from Plymouth with emigrants in April last. I n
been some expeditious telegruphing to and lrom *
The Agent-General lor South Australia sent a telegram
Adelaide, South Australia, at three p.m., last Mondaj from
Broad-street, E.C., und a reply to same was received by mm,
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L G R A \
for AUGUST.
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice. By Wilki.
Collins. Illustrated by Arthur Hopkins.
The Moon's Myriad Smnll Craters. By Richard A. Proctor.
A Change of Views. By Jnnn-s l*nvn.
Bento By Thomas Adolphus Trollope.
A Portrait of S3. By A. Lang.
The Falstaffof 06sian. By SPindish O'Gradv.
_ r 2 3nE ill USTRATED
I A pENNY ALMANACK FOR 1879,
I riV , 'w i 5 R Twenty-four Engravings from the Illustbated
iy Wilkie ,V'o "">• I'-'i '-lad,. 1 1 .*-1 ‘P-opa'r.t. (i.-ti id, Farming.
tTv,. 1 n I , \ m c SuMect i ibles of St impl;
1 °"!f "V 1 tofuc^tdaui’'Frilled Night-Dresses.2s. Gjd.; or FRAMES for “Christ Leaving
Bojhsdlgdaof Ladies' Underclothing, in Bundies, 4s 1 M
WfcS 13,43, BusseR-street, Covent-giuden.—Eaiabfishedia ye<tf^ b ' * 3 '
W H f 1 TEW 00D ARTICLES,
pnwed shapes, m Scarlet, W lutc. arid Grey, Cs. lM.; in comanie Han^^^n.® 1 n FE s B ? . PR 1KTING. and Decal-
y I Bustrated Price-Lists, post-free. Handkerchief Boxes; I'ajler Knives,'pans, Ac.'' 0 ' " nlUiDK ' ““d
— ' ’ S9 °' nnJ ^ KCW W.O. WM. London.
S?a-S..^SSS: B E S > , E ™ A ™’?. ABEOmA.-n,'; Ne»
KLDULED PRICES. Scent for 1878. Delicate, refreshing, and durable 2s firf to
__
Fashionable •• Swanblll" Be-lt Corsets for Prin
tumes. in Black, Scarlet, and Grcv,4s. lid •
proved shapes. In Scarlet, White, mid Grey, Cs.
The Going Out of Alessandro Pozzone. By liichard Dowling.
Two Moods. By Edgar Fawcett. 8
The Return of the NaUvo. By Thomas Hardy. Illustrated by
Arthur ilopkins.
Chatto and Windub, Piccadilly, W.
iMHiS- IIS*u4S" ,?! '3 . (2 EEA T ADVANTAGES OFFERED to O'>u n &em e i,u ro . nd tg Ma\e H rs a !W;-^w 6< k,hg. t ^
i!^don. d, J “• WiUiu “ 18 ' Wu-wick-lone. Patemoster-row, THE PUBLIC. ^_ __
-The Immense Stock of rich Silks and Satins cheaper than OLDEN HAI R.—R OBAEE'8
AT ARK nnWAIN’S Indian^ W'asidw^snL^ ca r-.„, AUREOLINE produces toe beautiful Golden Colon, «
jyjARK 'JpWAIN’S
PATENT SCRAP-BOOK !
scrap th Tl 1 e1m I ^l *l 00lt "*5? pl ^ 1 m °^a en thc f Um “ nd a Pr'
, Kic! V i t quulity Brocaded japane
V-a AUREOL1NE produces the beautiful Golden tolom ac
much admired. Warranted uerfectly harniless id LJS
fi M “Vi£ erfU, ? e ?- Wholeide UOVENDEN and SoSft?
fl, Great aUrlborough-street. W. • anti 93 and 95, City-road JEO*
A NEW 6WISS HEALTH RETREAT. *rrVn TUimlS ♦ * ,, ff p v« mo, *i en the f um ««d apply the
Now ready, with a Map, price 2s. Gd.. I to tff© flict tl™?/? 1 ! 10 retfUlt WlU conflnn the testimony of many
TTAV0S - PLATZ ; A NEW ALPINE , only convenient scrap-rook made.
Presort for sick and sound in summer and j gg 25 W 3 S?S$EZS&
WINTER. thoseitema of interest In the dally end wi ckly pi,,.,Vitimut
, By ONE WHO KNOWS IT WELL. trouble or annoyance. A great help to all Authors, Editors, and
We have read it with much satisfaction, have gained from it vTC'?' , ,
much useful information, and can recommend It to aH who - I ie , to i' 1 ?. 1 Scrap-Book prcservesnll tlie Pic'.nrcs from tlie
diLwa! :? ^Thc n Lancet ,UuilC tn -' atme “ t ot V^ounrj and other ofA^u™meat to ^ “ grcrt bOUrce
" Though Davos owes its reputation to thc cure of pulmonary pflkf.SSLl b 7 al i Book “ I i cn ' and Stationers,
diseaa's, near!)-all chronic cases of debility, whether nervous hr st hy Sro)TK, \Vo(,i>MAN. and Co..
resulting from tho weakening effects of fevers, are known to do Grcat 8t * Apostlo. London. E.0.
well there."—Fortnightly Review. *---
London : Euwabd Staxfqbd. 83. Chrrtng-crnsa. JOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS’ G0LD-
VITREM ANIE SUPERSEDING Honoum-At
IHAPHANIE.—An easy and Inexpensive Method of Deco- l'arit, iSTO; Paris 1874; rbiladelphia, ISTti; S. Africa, 1877, Ac’,
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Dwellings, by which may be produced the Ricli Colonring and-
miin!;^ AJUSICAL-BOX DEPOTS, 56, Cheapside,
J. Baukabd und Son, 339, Oxford-street, London, W. and22, Ludgate-hill,London.—Nicole’s celebrated Musical
‘ -— - Boxes, playing bei»t secular and sacred music. Trices, £4 to £120.
Price 6d.: post-free 7 id SnuflDoxes, from 18 s. to 60 s. Largest stock in London. Catalogue
FAMILY HERALD foV AUGUST, ! wtl<M>dpo,t - flm Apply to wIlES a MCULLOCH , as above
A Fart42 -'' ’ 17ALL IN THE PRICE OF SILVER.—The
FAMILY nERALD FOR AUGU8T (PART 423 ) CONTAINS F GOLDSMITH’8 ALLIANCE, Limited, re-mectlully an-
TH 0)MPLETE Nl^VELETTE^ENTiTLIH) 1 A 8 ’ L r0 ““*
A n QUEEN amongst women Slate* ‘goldsmttIts’ aTt
A Bythe^uthorof “ Dora Thorne." “ A Gilded 8in. M “The MLATE. GOLDSMITHS ALLIANCE,
tost of Her Love, " From Gloom to Sunlight,” Ac. Limited, Manufacturing Silversmiths,
rOSTll M i X H J uuilaucBu DUK8, rcaucea 10 is. 4d. l v *; oa i an remimers. Wholesale, UOVENDEN mid sons
T G turncs p ^ ,n ? m ^ ns ® Stock of Silk and Silken London; mau^d’M^'.OT.Ao^ev^de
a&aiSMn £•: n>Graben ’ vleona: “•
BALL A r Nl) h l^ETF r DUF d si" 0 * 10 CoBtomc “' at 1Ss ' <Jd ' ’ ----
All the Fete and Bail Dresses extremely cheap. One JJOES YOUR HAIR TURN GREY ?
.„JI' ,Iu lred will be sold at 10s. cd. each. Thai in HEKKINO'S patent Minvv-Mr
lANTLEr. 1 * 9 ** 1 WiH 1X5 “ ld Ut 108 ' 64 Cach '
6EAL PALETOTS.
A large purchase of these fashionable Garments, 56 Inches -wttttv a xr-r-'T>Tm*r.
dress m vpEill ai s caa: ,!mallt^,1104lni,roportJon ' [\JUDA VERITAS.—GREY HAIR
B NewVrench Bctes old pervard bythisvam.blospecillcto It.original.hade.after
Silk Mixtures, 1 ». li?| VS3. cishmercs, double width. It^^ g growtoand^“5lsU Mil"? JSthZt2T' l '‘ , k
I^.ffffl'Ute Gauzes and Grenadines, reduced
INI NG DEPARTMENT. post-free-B. HOVEN DEN and SON S.Loiidonl' T “ Ulnonlal,
^{exttire ut '* 0 (i .{ x ' ,m ^} ne and other Costumes of light * .
lack Gicnadiues ond\;auzca,6jd. per yard; and all Black, "CJ"AIR DESTROYER.—248, High Holbom.
SU5Sd5i^v?!S?J5S!7..S?4iIfiISr
at nomiual prices, to ensure tlicni immediate sale.-
Patterns of all Goods free. T>AD TEETIT PnTKDNr rPTJT? TTrvrvw
VJUSICAL-BOX DEPOTS, 56, Cheapside, MlLLli'EltY ll OUTFITTlNfJ irOP ^ rt * 0n ' ' ’ ’ ^°, nd ,?, n “^ L f. X - R0S «'S UEPILATORY’remov^n^r’-
and22. Ludgato-hlll,London.—Nicole’s celebrated Musical The wholn nT F tho 1 s«m»«or n f „ . _ 1°°®* Hjirfromthe !• aco without injury,3s. Gd. Sent free for 54
ss?«sdSsa - ^^^i^»sj5s s ^^ ?wg-33aakJ»uRaa * **•"
afasgja—-- T>AD TEETH POISON THE FOOD and
F A ^ds?i£i^aSSS < i.Ltod L X^f“i| Tlie pH ARLES GASK and CO. (Limited) tm,r h^“™ ^th^zoDONT u.ev\^n i^ml whi"'^ Znfc
™»“ » considerable REDUCTION in tbe'PB^ES o/thelr ^ 68 to C3, Oxford-street; 1 to 8, Wells-street. Loudon. ’ fi^wrtatotl'm blttto UjwMHvely ddfSftful 00 tl,at i5 ° zulJ0Nr
SILVER SPOONS and FORKS, consequent n,K»n the present CABniAOE EHTnsNCE, 'the FRAGRANT SOi^LbDONTisputui) to large Bottle, fltrea
fall in tho value of sterling sUver. For revised scale, see below. 6 > Wells-street. witli patent sprinklers for applying the lie > i kl to^ h et, tl i", h
PLATE. — GOLDSMITHS’ ALLIANCE, CARTES GASK »«ri m-
A Limited, Manufacturing Silversmiths, I uAK LliO CjAoK Blld CO., (Limited). L au ^\! ftge ^; 6d. One bottle wiil i<Lt six months S» ld
11 and 12. Comhill. London. ^ Ladies’ Travelling Cloaks and Ulsters. 21s. rurh mihHa nf Jh« principal Chemists and Perfumers: and hv iriwv Vt
PURE LITERATURE. riddiJ p..rh
The •• Illustrated London News," in reference to pure lltera- ounce. Ms
joy t * n> ° f
_ 13 Dessert ditt
LEADING ARTICLES AND ESSAYS. 12 Dessert ditt
»»liss
Of an Instructive or thoughtful Varactor." V J I SMt dltto e
SILVER SPOONS and FORKS, coneequcnt U|>on the present
foil in tho value of sterling silver. For revised scale, see below.
P LATE. — GOLDSMITHS’ ALLIANCE,
Limited, Manufacturing Silversmiths,
11 and 12, Comhill. London.
The best wrought SILVER SPOONS and FORKS.
Fiddle Pattern, 7s. 4d. per ounce; Queen's Pattern, 7s. 8d. per
ounce. Many other patterns, plain or highly ornamented.
I 112 Table Forks
I 12 Dessert ditto
2 Gravy Spoons
NOVELS AND TALES.
quT^^a'weli'wri^terras^toe best'circu/atlng^Ubrarystorles!''
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS '
snd Rct1c w” W« : -"Thc editor is toe confidant !
’pendents rarm‘!f £I« ry . -?t at,on ot lir< ’' T1, ° Answers to Corre-
mbSlrf ffMt each^if U U.era." ' aadaWe - bi3tory h* 1 ”® j
Price fid., at all Newsvendors (post-free, 7|d.),
J^AMILY HERALD for AUGUST, !
__ Part 423.
4 Salt ditto, gilt bowls 1 2 0 4 Salt ditto, gilt bowls 2 4
1 Pair Fish Carvers 6 10 0 1 Pair Fish Carvers 6 is
12 Tea Spoons 10 3 18 4 12 Tea Spoons 14 6H
1 Pair Sugar Tongs 0 18 0 1 Pair Sugar ToDgs 1 {
Set of Flddlo Pattern £89 3 8 Set of Queen's Pattern £79 14
A rninphlet, illustrated with 300 Engravings, containing tl
prices of articles required in furnishing, gratis and post-free <
JJEAL and SON’S
SOMMIER
£lastique
PORTATIF
IS THE BEST SPRING MATTRES8 YET INVENTED.
CHARLES GASK and CO. (Limited).
D NICHOLSON and CO. send post-free
• Patterns of
J^EW silks,
jjress fabrics,
jyjANTLES, and COSTUMES.
JJ J^ICHOLSON and QOMPANY,
*60 to 83, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD/LONDON.
QHIRTS.—The New Patterns of French
U Printed Cambric Shirtings and the matted Oxlurdf for
making FORD'S IMFROVED EUREKA SHIRT readv fo, to
spection, or sent free by post for 2 stamps.-ll. Poultry! E.C.
S HIRTS.—FORD’S EUREKA. — “The I
most perfect fitting made."—Observer. Gmtlemen deeirnm
tfO’S JRUIT g ALT.
S?Mt E to^U2?i7e I ui , f rat,n ' and IuTaluab,e '
Balt P1C Iilre^ d r£?w^ ya ^V. n c l ‘??, , “ of Eno '» Fruit
^Tpt.'aml on^toa^Conthimt.^G-r idmcat^ev^y^cnin^
Sold by all Cliemists, 2s. 9d.und4s. 00 . '
JNDIGESTION.
BvDr mnn --- 1 PORTATIF most perfect fitting made."—Observer. Gmtlemen deslrons
jorDi B M l BB oWlI 8 ’« iSSEg* | 18 TUE BEST SPRIKQ MATTEESS YET EVENTED. '
J^RUPTIONS ; their Rational Treatment, TTEAL and SON, Bedstead, Bedding, and m ™ p ? ,t ' tree - 4l - 1Joultr3r ' lx>Ddon J_i
bated snorifi!? °TaJ!!S ftbu! ]5 ar »« n l c . % mercury, and other re- Bed-Room Furuituro Manufacturers, a FiTT^Q A BHTTT TH TP A \n?T u
— ^“■ ».»-».■«. ToiTEsHAM-counr-BOAD. lossos. v. i“'d d
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,, tr N1J TUMOURS, A Successful _ _ -- HARIIO.V, Mam.factnrcr^l, High Holb..m iflve doors w. t
M.D.. fenio'r Su^m 8 t ar toe "RATHS.— DEANE’S London-mnde Baths. from ton, ol Court Hotel), Illustrated Lit free. _I
w. hi—J. and A. Choeciiiu., New BurllmRon-'sW. rnC ° Illustrated and Priced Catalogue gatis.sud post-free. mOOTH-ACHF
1 Illustrated and Priced Catalogue p ntis nud post-free.
I 'HE HO AIn? nP A rnTTT Ml ' X- Cheap Gas Bath, without taps, atmospheric burner, £fl 10s.
MUAIGEOPATHIC DOMESTIC 4 - rinnging Bath S -K..nmn. (Jiveiith, niid oblong.
„ PHYSICIAN. ByDrs PUITFnnd fpps 6. Bhower Baths—pillar, hip. and recumbent. 6*$., 75s., 90s.
:„a ,, rs ~ tl " ! hose-the Face. Lins and fawL^wiwh ~ «■ Sponging B.-itbs, all sizes, various p.Ulems, IDs. fid., 17s., 20s.
ti-e Urinare to! fclWwh'\' r ^ 30... 38*.
H^roffliigSri^ldS^ l>- ond 4.1, Kin g Wlllla m-st., Um do n Bridge. A.D .17QQ.
ta*.uSSSL»ra5si.“ ,,a rvery man his own printer.
a»z. Eere S a an, ^ The People's Printing Pre«*. for Authors. Amateurs, to.
-.. 4 . X Dread need le-st.; and 170. Piccadilly «, rm v Rn d Navv. Ac. Pros.a-rtnses forwardrel on ai plication to
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H. ,£-®£ PATHIC family T)ARIS SYSTEM of WATERING.
tor a hundred d ’ ?L BICf /A RI ? EPPS. M.D. Presc. lbcs J For Watering laiwns and Gardens.
from Inns oi Court Hotel). ’ Illustrated List free.
J^OOTH-ACHE.
JNSTANT CURE. |
FORMS A STOPPING.
SAVES THE TOOTH.
J. Ilounsell, Esq., Surgeon, Bridport. writes:—'• I
consider BUNTER'S NERVINE a specific for
It Is conclusively ascertained that LACTO-
PEPTINE will bring about toe Digestion ol Food
In a manner perfectly identical to tout obtained
under the influence of toe natural gastric juice.
"A glance at the Formula of LACTOPEPTINE
would convinco even toe moat sceptical of the
valuable results that must ensue through its
administration. Composed of ptyalin, pepsine,
pancreatine, hydrochloric and lactic acids, it is a
combination of all the digestive agents: con¬
sequently, can never be administered without
giving thc utmost satisfaction: for if there is a
deficiency In the system of all or any of these
agents, LACTOPEPTINE will supply It. and
thus assist in digesting the food, enabling
the organs that produce these principles of diges¬
tion to rest and recuperate their relaxed energies."
—From " Practical Medicine and Surgery," J uly
1877. LACTOPEPTINE being presented to
saccharated form, is most agreeable to the taste,
and can bo administered oven to the younges*
child. Tho price of the LACTOPEPTINE is
4s. fid. per one oz. bottle. (An ounce bottle con¬
tains forty-eight ten-grain doses.) If any dif¬
ficulty is experienced in obtaining LACTc’pEP-
TINE from your Chemist, communicate direct,
sendingP.O.O. for4s. fid. Address—CARNRICK,
KIDDER, und CO., Gt.RusseIl-st., corner of Char,
lot to-»t., London, W.C. Pamphlet to any address!
CATARRH—HAY
’b^n. r i.ondon. , ^.a t,03to Tm LOCOCIv’S PULMONIC WAFERS, I -----—
of WATERING. ' J)INNEFORD’S MAGNESIA
and Gardens. safely. or plea-ant ly.” Price Is. I jd. ^ toi St^mch”^
SONS. Fire-Engine Makers.- «he Gou?^d tod
' w t - T>UGS, Fleas, Moths, Beetles, and al] other 1 ruMWPPaPTi'<! inakwi
of XV A T'Ti'PTTOYl J-> Insects are destroyed by KEATING'S INSECT DEb'i r.OV- I jlNNLrOKD O MAGNESIA.
OI VV A1 Vjr. , ING POWDER, which is ouito harmless to domestic cnm.iils A- 7 The safest mid
f* and Squares. In exterminating beetles tae success of tbb powder is extra Aperient tor delicub
remedy for acidity of
btomach, Heartburn, Uead-
‘ . and Indigestion.
Jam ti Ep.-i’and pT r'? by Apply to MERRYW ICATHElt and SONS, k ire-Engine Makers i ordinary. It Is perfectly clean in application, bold in Tier, li
audCo.,170, Piccadilly;and 43 , Threadneedle-«tre*t. 63 Long-acre W.C. rnd 2 s.8d.each Yy aU Chemist*.
Aperient tor delicate ccnsld
IooIks. Cliildren, and 1:.:,.
CF ALL CHEMISTS.
JULY 27, 1878
NEW MUSIC.
E W DA N 0 E MUSIC.
/CHARLES D’ALBERT’S NOVELTIES.
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THRONGAGEDWALTZ. 'PlayedatherMajeaty’* ^ M n#t
DI8TANTSHORE WALT*/ On Su'.llvan's Song .. 2* ; £}; JjJ
SWEETHEARTS LANCERS . " j, od. net
CLEOPATRA GALOP •• •• " J. 2t.lM.net
THE LOVE-LETTER POLKA .. •• ** gd. net
THE FANFARE POLKA .. y •• •• " £ Od. net
MOLLY DARLING 9PXP B1 n ** * Rt ,iYi T «n'8
SWKETHEART8 WALTZ. On Arthur Sullivan a ^ ^ nrt
nV-a[C,U Lirt ofil.DAlbert-a Popular'Danc. Uu.Io
wlllb. ^ntnn^P'lc.tR.n^ M Nfw pond-,tract.
SIGNOR PINSUTIS NEW SONGS.
T 5 USCHINKA ; or, The Star of the North.
SOLDI I^^Tb ^’RO^l^EU* l *W^rd* 2 by tl Maris X ,UyM '
TLA&iB6«3aa^
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rpwO LITTLE LIVES. H net.
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COSTUMES In GRENADINE.
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COSTUMES In ULACK MATERIAL.
Reduced f rom 7 guinea, to £ al “, e **'
Reduced from 3| guinea, to Wa. 6d.
COSTUMES for EVENING and DINNER DRE88.
ISl 1 'SlSS'.m'S l S3iaWi13; uae.
Reduced indiacriminatety to Hall Price.
BEAL ALASKA SEAL JACKETS, new ahapea.
SI inchea long, reduood from l'i to h guineM..
36 Inchea long, reduced from “ tolsfrSSeei.
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MODEL by ALEXANDRE., two row. of
V key« flve«h.|.* and *«t>-ha«,\ radian well,
two knee pedals. W gulneii*, or £3 l«a. per
quarter on Three-^Year.' Syatem.
riHAPPELL and CO.’S EXHIBITION
^ s"srs,w oi
£3 10a. pe’rquarter for Three Yeara.
Myt
L'Hyadnthe. 4».
Clemonthi. 3a.
T?i'y voice la tfcar. 4».
Faraway. 4a. Half price In atampa. . , A
lamdon: Bob«»t Coc«« and Co- Now Bnrllngton-atreet.
4 RTISTIC FURNISHING.—OETZMANN
S C of K ^f^^
hl&mrilclt^ -OETZMANN mid CO.
n RETONNES. — OETZMANN and CO.
C CBEWNSa^^-j^^ft^
exact copies * ta i,^.t^r i*d7«rvSd. usually W>fd al
fj«a ditto atW. usual prfee. 2a. 1-cr yard. Pattern,
nelit into Ate cimntry by ataflDg kina requirwl._ .
w
HEN SDMMEE DIES. New Song.
Hr Mis. LINDSAY. InC and in D. Publiahed Gila
!, London? r Ro5. , E.T ^STJIdCd.. New Rnrllngton-atreet.
/'tU ARLES HALLE’S PRACTICAL
v> PIANOFORTE SCHOOL.
v Section I.—No I. Pianoforte Tutor.
Forsyth UanrnKiu. LonAun and Maucheater.
riHAPPELL and CO.’S SPECIAL CHURCH
MODEL. 13 atopa. Bvo row. of vibrator.,
Ac . 50 guineas! or U per quarter on the
Three-Years' Syatem.
Full Illustrated List, frre liV poat.
50, New Bond-street. W.
pHAPPELL and CO.’S
SPECIALITIES In P1A?
PI AN OFOBTE8.
PHAPPELL and CO.’S STUDENT’S
ly PIANOFORTE. Coropaaa. «vo Octavea.
— n , (i id. per quarter on the Thrte-
PHAPPELL and CO.’S SCHOOL
\J PIANINOS. Canadian Walnut. TOga.. or
2ga. I»r quarter on the Tliree-Y ear. Syatem
of Purclia—
TT ELLER’S FOURTH SONATA.
l>OOSEY & CO.’S PIANOFORTE-ROOMS.
15 ' GRAND and UPRIGHT PIANOFORTES
by all the grewt^nakera.^dh^KiiTlidi and loroign,
tuhjert to the largest discount obtainable Ini
riHINA and GLASS DEPARTMENT.
I ) si.r.n.lra Pattern Toilet Services (ewer. tiasin.Ac.. wra-
T V,e ,e pit™. ' 7, lid.; bandaome ditto, w. ml -. IHchly-Cut
fromSa.W.eaeii; **""•*•
OOSTAL ORDER DEPARTMENT.
i OETZMANN anti UU -Order.aent jwr p-*t.
siri'sicsdis.vussfi bJ'JTiSsms
Beh'ctiou 1 Tliia department I* personally supervise- 1 -
memher of the flnn‘ For Mrthcr Particular, plena* see
- - - -* —at-freo on appllc»n-n
T>OOSEY and CO.’S Short Iron Grand
15 PIANOFORTES, fin. 70, W. and M guinea, each-ant.Ject to
Ll'l^^ier qna^rl'^'isKlann'strui'ninUfu' ln?ia?^IUutit rated
^foeff gid, Regent-itreet (adjoining the Polytechnic).
BURNISH THROUGHOUT.-OETZMANN
I* and CO., COMPLETE HOUSE FUUNISn KKH. «.•». 71.
•m —* wss.i T'» Kitmu^teul-riiuil Mlirrt* minutra nulklnwu
i^^rt'n'ad Xl?h,wer.rtnat SUtion. McJMpnUUB IU11-
wnvi. priotf c*uwbtcnt wltli punrant^l <
„t Sfvrn, sod on fisturdHyi at lour. lK«^riiitlvo Catalogue
_
J^ESCRIFTIVE CATALOGUE, post-free.
QETZMANN & CO.,
JJAMPSTEAD-ROAD.
CASHMERE CIRCULARS, lined Real RaMlan 8qttlml.
Rtducv*from2guln^t«2|a»-hd. and »P to
Otliem reduced to 3 fulness, 3* fninsss. sna w
ICeduccd from o*. v> ■*. wa. j«
Reduced from 7».ttd. to 6s. wl.
M1UJN ^ l mu^ n ^du^ n ^he »n‘S?.‘^‘ nC7 000d, ■
Obacrve the address—
PETER ROBINSON'S, IX. 358.200,2S2. Rcgent-atraat.
VTOTICE.—In reference to the
A^l above odvertisrmeuta.
It Is imiKirtant that letter#
should b« clearly addressed to
256 to 282. REGENT-STREET.
Cl WAN and EDGAR’S SUMMER
O CLEARANCE SALE SURPLUS GOODS, ^h. and
r^rf^an unSfnX'U«e’^TlmrlS VSll.K™! M^TLES^
Costumes. Travelling^au«f Seaside Uix-,*s. Saslskini. 1 ur-hn«l
Juv^llepvrtu^^^LsScs'anl/vhlKrtm^OutitGnf^and
b.t.'on!-Piccadilly anS Hegent-.bevt.
pHAPPELLandCO.’S YACHT PIANINOS,
»pr*., or £3 p«r quarter on Three-Yesra
Byatero of Vnrchsts.
pHAPPELL and CO.’S BOUDOIR
V TIANINO. 35 g».. or £3 10s. per quarter on
the Threa-Years' Sy atem of Purchase. _
PHAPPELL and CO.’S MODEL
\J PIANETTE. SO ga.. or £810a. per quarter on
the Three-Years' System of Purchase.
pHAPPELL and CO.’S ENGLISH
X_/ MODEL. 40 g*„ or £4 per quarter, on the
Three-Years' System of Purchase.
pHAPPELL and CO.’S COLONIAL
\J MODEL. 46 ga.. or £4 tfts. per quarter on tho
Three-Year*’ System of Purchase.
SECONDHAND PIANOS.—BOOSEY and
CO. have a largo Stock of Instruments by all the great
linkers which they offer, according to their custom on the dose
of (he season, at greatly reduced prices, the maj-ultyof these
Pianos have twen hired for one season only, and are as good as
new.—235. Rcgent-rtreet (adjoining tlie Polytechnic)._
G E0
). WOODS and CO.’S AMERICAN
ORGANS. _
BOOSEY and CO., 2»S. Regent-street.
Sole Agent* for the United Kingdom.
Pipe, ltecd. and Pedal Organs, from £17 to £200.
Illustrated Price-Lists post-free.
Cl WAN and EDGAR will also offer the
O cntlte STUCK in TRADE of Mr. G. M. DENT. uLOX ER
and HOSlFU (late of 16. Ilulboru-viuduct). purdnuad at a vrry
Surge discount, const.ting of superior Gloves. Huawiy, audOut-
lUtlng. _
S WAN and EDGAR will also offer the
STOCK of the celebrated l'»ri* Firm. J ,^ L
and AUBREY, er.mprla.ug the hai.d*m.e.tf;a«U o» tha wr-on.
Mantle*, from El to £lu. will U- olhred ** '■*"■“ „«r“r!d at
• toWBOhST’ A splendid
handsome g.aal. at nominal price -1'ic.a.Uli) and Regent at.
Cl WAN and EDGAR will show a STOCK
O Of the Cheapest BILKS ever olTered.-Plceadllly and
Regent-street.
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IN in SILVER and in ELECTROPLATE.
EI.KiNGTON and CO., as the rcult ..f inil*.rtant
Impniv.-minta in tin- ala>ve maim fact urca.areablo
oOi-r (heir g.mmi.t. «l qualities at Mirii prices
aa. while full) ...al..iaini..g tlicir acknowledged
aunerh-ritv. place them within the reach of all
classes. Revised Illustrated 1‘ri-c-Lists free by
noIrtT.n application. Purchaser, of Sliver Sponn*
and Fork-obt.tin themlvuutageolany fluctuation*
ftiMrm PIfflF*' 1 22, Regent-street. London;
or *2. Moorgnte-rtrect. City.
B OOSEY and CO.’S BRASS
INSTRUMENTS FOR AMATEURS.
l\W. idGHT VALVE CORNETS.
T He’d! If I N^HN IAT U Uf!'C?)HNE r?Ad»ISTO N f
THE D18TIN BALt.AD HORN in C.9 K*
THE IIISTIN DRAG AND POST HORNS AND
STItrv KVI’S at all nrices.
1 ST lit" M KNT8 at*ali"pi
THE IHST1N MONTll
k;
BAND IN-
BAND JOURNAL,
riHAPPELL and CO.’S FOREIGN
' < MODEL. 60 g«., or £8 per quarter on the
Three-Years' System of Purchase.
riHAPPELL and CO.’S ENGLISH
V-/ OBLIQUE. 66 g*.. or £5 to*, per quarter on
the Three-Yeara' System of Purchase.
pHAPPELL and CO.’S OBLIQUE
V GRAND. TOg*.. or £7 per quarter on the
Three-Yeara' System of Purchase.
{Tlnrtr.vted Price-Lists upon application to BOOSEY and C
Mannfi.ct.uen. of Military Hand Instrument* of every descr
thm. 2.I5. lu-gent-atnet. London. JUnutactory. Stanhope-pU
Hyde Park.
ATORTLOCK’S CHINA—GREAT SALE.
LU THE ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE
HAS NOW COMMENCED. ^
Uneikinplrtl mlnctii'im In cvm ilmrnwat.
THF.OLD IX1TTERY GALLERIES,
202 203. and 201. Oxford-atrect; and ;».3l, end .B, Orchard-
street, Portman-aquare, London. \S.
( 'i ASELIERS, in Crystal, Glass, Ormoulu,
J or Bronte. Medlrval Fitting*. Ac. A large assortment
always on view. Every article marked with plain flgiirea.
D. HULETT and CO.. Manufacturer*. 65 and 6H. High ilolbom.
B REAKFAST IN BED.—CARTER’S
PATENT REVOLVING BED-TABLE, adjustable to any
height or inclination. f--r rending or writing. 1 rice from £2 8s.
Drawings free.-J. CARTER, 8a. New Caveudlah-atreet. Great
Portland-atroet. YV.
PHE LOUIS VELVETEEN.
■- PERMANENT ORIENTAL
BLUE-BLACK.
Trade Mark:
GRIFFIN'S HEAD SUPPORTED BY WINGS.
•• NOS ASPEUA JUVANT." A
These VELVETEENS, dyed In the new shade of BLUB-
Ut.AL'K by a ai-ecisl process, are giiaruiiGvd to rsUIn theit
colour and brilliancy, and cannot be distinguished from L YONS
SILK VELVET at lour or live time* the price. Special maaea
for CHILDREN.^ WEAR. __
May be bad at all Drapers* and Wholwaie nouwm.
CAUTION.—The public la inforaad OOT^
sequence of Inferior dye* and make* ( f fart, tba OLD d f"‘“
makes which, owing to their inferiority Hi dyeing. Ac^wdU nos
atand the teat of wear) being »oUlI for the.LOUIS VELVrTEK^
earh piece will now be STAMPED ON THE BALK EVEBi
T T^E REGISTERED TRADE-MARK-GRIFFIN'S HEAD
8UP1MJRTED BY WINGS. MOTTO-" NOS ASPEUA
J TheLot'IS VELVETEEN PER MAN ENTORIENTAL BLUE
M^k CK We\oUlS U VELVETEEN la NUT dearer than Inferior
WM. fife.
j. u. Glasgow.
T)IAN0, £35 (Civil Service cash price).
JL Trichord Drawing-Room Model, repetition action, grand,
rich, foil tone. In very handsome Italian walnut-wimdceae, with
elaborately carved and fretwork front, and cabriole truss leg*.
The nv.inl price chargml for tills Instrument la 60 piinea*.
Drawings of tlii* hca.iUfu! Piano sent imst-freo on applh-atlon.
THOMAS OETZMANN and CO.. 27. Baker-st.. Portman-aquare.
TJROADWOOD and COLLAIID COTTAGE
15 PIANOFORTES, fullest comnaw of Seven.Ortave*. Two
beautiful Instruments, of riel, and full t-me In the choicest
Italian walnut-wood, nearly new. T" lw SOLD at unuaually
•aw price*. Mav he «en at OETZMAX.VS.7f. Baker-street.
/CHAPPELL and CO.’S IRON-FRAMED
VZ OBLIQUE. «0g*., or £# per quarter on the
llirce-Year*' System of Purchase.
pHAPPELL and CO.’S MIGNON IRON
GRAND. HOC*., or £8 per quarter on the
Thrce-Yeari' System of Pnrcliase.
pHAPPELL and CO.’S BOUDOIR IRON
Vy lln gt.. or^ £11 per quarter on the Three-
NKW* RONIMVTREET. V
1>IAN0F0RTF.S for HIRE or for SALE,
X from 'fig* upwards.—JOHN BHUAHWoOD and SONS,
SB. Grent Pnltem-v-etreet. G'dden-square. W. Slauufactory, 48.
Horseferry-rvaid. Westminster.
I ATEST TEST of CHUBBS’ SAFES.
XJ 33. Compton-Street. Goswell-read, London. July 8,1878.
Dear Sira.—We hove the satisfaction to Inform you that all our
Jeedi. book*, cheque*, and pope » deposited in the t wo sa fes,
miulf* Iit vou for UN boidp tinvo fijro, WFre ontbely suvcn Irt>rn tii®
cwUmlUuiaSre lest night, In spite of the I .dense heat arising
from destruction of so large a stock of oil. tallow, railway, and
other greaaes stored In the above portion of our premises—Vie
-re, dear Sire, youra faithfully^
(Signed) Bawl. Smith and Co.
Mesara. Chubb and Bon, Patent Safe Warehouse,
Queen Victoria-street. London. E.C.
P. J. SMITH AND SONS'
[RON-STRUTTED PIANOS.
T wenty-pound school-room
PIANO (Go-operative price forcaah). Seven octave*, strong,
sound, and suhsUnt ial. Adapted for hard practice. Packed free.
Illustrated ll - k of Design* gratisand post-free.
THOMAS OETZMANN and CO.. 27. Baker-atreet. W._
E BONY aud GOLD PIANOS, 25 guineas,
I « guinea*, and 46 guineas.— 1 Dies* charming and elegant
Piano- with ormolu embellishment*, repetition action, and
every ri-cc.it Improvement, may now lie obtained at the above
low prices for cosh, or on the rliree-Years' System, at 1 guinea
Derm .nth. The new Illustrated Catalogue grail* and post-free.
^ THOMAS OETZMANN and L'O.,27. Baker-s treet, W.
“ Y\,rE can lioncstly declare that
IT MACN1VEN and CAMERON'S PEN8 are the
beet.' '—Shrewsbury Journal.
•* They come as a boon and a blessing to men,
The Pickwick, the Owl. and the Waverley Pen."
1 400 NEWSPAPERS recommend them.
See the "Graphic." Feb. 20. JUST OUT-THE COM¬
MERCIAL PFN for Fin« Writing, fid. and I*, ver Box. Sold
ierjrwherc.7d. and Is.^ld. by post. Specimen
^Patentera—M aL'NIVEN and CAMERON “
C ISTERN F I LT E RS. —The last
Improvement.—LIPSCOMllE and CO.'S PATENT SELF-
CLEAN ISO CHARCOAL CISTERN FILTER laan Immense
Improvement, give* no trouble to servants, three time* more
f Hi, tent and aeven times mnre durable than any other cistern
filter. More than 11.(W0 In use. May be rented in London.
44, Queen VIrtorla-street: and 89. Oxford »trwt. Removing
from Tempi* Bar.
T5 0UND SHOULDERS aud STOOPING
XV HABITS Cured by Dr.CHANDLER'S (MIEST-EXPAND-
iv ( . mt a<F for \mjUi texea. it nasifct* (rowth* *i*d produce* •
haudffomc figure. Ju*- Ud. each.—4i. Ucroert-it, IiluairationiMia
i,’AU DE CHYPRE.—PI ESSE and LU BIN.
X_J This Is an ancient perfume from Uypru*. During the
“f^r'n^U^i ‘Tthe MWntrj
wJr^ rt’e .Tmo of the Crumdes. when Ricl.ard LoMingland
LuWnf Tboa* wbo nn5 curious In ancient perfumM c*a be
gratified *t i. New Dond-btrcet, London^
II°S
i’ BAZIL.—PIESSE and LUBIN.
perfume, dlatllled from the HOLY
>C tOcymum sanctum), a* r*m» r **
23 to 33. BUlr-itreet.
nPHE ESSEX FLOUR and GRAIN
1 COMPANY. Liverpool-road, Ixindon, N.. anpidy the l«t
good* only:—Whites, for Pastry. Ids. per bushel; Household*,
for Bread. 4d.; Wlie«t Jli-al, for Brown ltmid. e» “d. -
Coarse Scotch Oatmeal, 3».2d.jHT 14lb.: fine.3s. id.: Am. il./in
Hominy. 4*.; Barley. Indian Corn, and Harley Meal..1*.Hd. pi>
bushel,or21*.fid. per sack: Huck-wheat.ls.per bushel,nr Its*-. |wr
sack; Oat*. 4s per bushel; Crushed Oat*. 3s. fid. p«w tuirhel.
13s. fid. per sack; Stlddlins*. 2s. 4d. per bushel: Oronnd Pollan!
Is. 8d.: [Vos, 7s. fill.; Tlek Beans. H*.; Split Peas. 3s per peck.
Meat Biscuits, 2M. per cwt. lentil Flour, for Invalid* In tins.
I III. slr.e, 1*.; and 7 lb.. 6s. All other kind* of Grain and Seed.
Special prices for larger quantities. P.O. Ordera and cheque#
to be made In favour of G. Young.
THE PERFECT FOOD. NO ADDED MILK OB SUGAR
REQUIRED.
T OBB’8 PATENT DRIED MILK FOODS
1 J for Infants. Invalids, and ordinary use. The Patent Milk
Pood, Oatmeal. Arrowreot. Own Flour, Rice. Cocoa, and Choco¬
late. contain over SO per cent pure Dried Slllk. Lancet.—" Con-
J.1. This Is a most rare periume. uisiim
BAZIL FLOWER of HINDU 'S“an"d
W. ; and by their Agenti in all |»rU of the civilised sen*.
IMESSE auil LU BIN’S
xLV l- li V.i Of a\l f idih.lisldc Perfumers and DrugglaUthiough.
olrtthe^ £i.tli wiih thi same facility *a a boot In boxea
2s. fid.. 4s. fid., lo*. fid., and 21s each.
rroUUISTS and TRAVELLERS. Ladies
1 uisitl... n.m Af.ikaii.lr <*XIM»8Cd t4> fUll Wild Will find
2S. ad. Sold by Chemists. Ask for
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SUPPLEMENT TO THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, July 27. 1878 — 89
MOUNTAIN OF THE HOLY CR08S (STAVRO VOUNl), CYPRU8 : VIEW FROM NEAR LARNACA.
THE TERRITORIAL CHANGES Russia ia also showu, including the seaport of Batoum, and limited domain, with a very small bit of the Adriatic scacoast,
the fortresses of Kars and Ardahan. The Dobrudscha, or strip being the town and port of Antivari. The ncwly-constituted
Our Map of the territorial changes, made by the Treaty of of land inclosed between the bend of the Lower Danube, the semi-independent State of Bulgaria, between the Danube and
Berlin, in European Turkey and the adjacent provinces or Black Sea, and a line drawn from Silistria to Mangalia, the Balkans, possessing an area of 23,000 square miles, and
States, puts before the reader’s eye the relative situation of south of Trajan’s Wall, has been given to Roumania, as is including Sofia, to the west, and Vania, to the cast, with all the
every piece of country taken from its late Sovereign and trans- here indicated by the sign “ Ro.” The accession of new ter- battle-fields of the late campaign, is distinctly represented in
ferred to another Government. The portions marked “ R,” ritory to Servia, marked by the letter “ S,” will be found this Map. To the south of it lies a considerable province,
being those ceded to Russia, consist in the European map of south of its former boundary on the side towards Bulgaria; henceforth to be styled East Eoumelin, inhabited by a mixed
those districts of Bessarabia, which lie north of the Kilin out- and the important fortified city of Nish, with the border Bulgarian and Turkish population, which has suffered fnr more
let of the Lower Danube and cast of the Pruth ; but, in the towns of Pirot and Vranja, has passed under Servian rule, than any other country from the late horrid massacres and other
small map of a corner of Armenia, which occupies a separate The little highland principality of Montenegro is enlarged by effects of misrule or inhuman strife between hostile races and
compartment of our Engraving, the Asiatic territory ceded to the addition, marked “M, of a strip around three sides of its religions. This province is now to be placed under a reformed
TERRITORIAL CHANCES
\^k\°
TiANSYLVANIA \l \
according to the ill
TREATY OF BERLIN. ijj"
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THE t t.T.TTSTBATED LONP_Og_KEV 8
JULY 27, 1878
administration, with We^a^but^ope that
Bcribed by the European Congress. J . d Molmrn-
the lot of all its ami that they will be
medan, will be renderedtolerable outraging each
compelled to refrain from destroy! g nerzcg ovina, the
other. The condition of ®° B ^ r Xh Empiref was quite
most westerly proyinces of the Tu™ 8 lt p and massacres
as bad, or even worse ^Uy impoverished by
of 1876, inasmuch as they w»e PT f rom foreign com-
a vicious fiscal system, and t fl „i ance in our Map,
merce. They arc uow as shovm at a^g Empire,
to be occupied and administoreU y thc Sulta n under
The total amount of ^^S^^emil^with an aggregate
the Treaty of Berlin is <1,500 square “ larger deduction
population of tlireemilhons „ ' ' ail Turkey, corresponding
1'rmnUisEnipireinRoumehaorEuroptanA 1 ^^ c y r0 p 0SC d by the
with the ancient Thrace “d M^edoma, thc pr0 .
Treaty of San Stcfano. This wou d to the shores of
jected new Bulgarian galonica and the peninsula
the JEgean, only sparmgtheport al s0 much ol
an excellent coloured map ofthis 3 ’manent memorial of
readers will like to preserve as a XfiJTthe East,
the late grand transaction m the affairs of tne
andTremclli; Signori FanceUi, Dd3geo*J|
M. Thierry—with °<? as * 0 ° d ° ®p ic h, in association with that
Majesty’s Theatre, the band oi wmm , ^ « Masamello
JS the Crystal Palace played L the o inc i ude d Madame
and “Zampa.” The cast ot Md ii e Valleria as Elvira,
HelineCrosmondas Do^a^i^dll^ puentc M Don
Madame Tr J^ T JjJJ„Leporello.
Giovanni, and M. lhurrj as i (Saturday) afternoon
Special concerts are t0 The festival
at the Alexandra 1 ^^^cJnege^m be held at the former
in aid of the Tonic Sol-Fa ^nege wm^^ by r .
place, the programme ^ ^1 building a Mendelssohn
Fitt^SXgiv“. ie^ tot part of the concert oomsistiug
Of compositions by that compo^r. <( and pyg .
The performance of Suppc s °per this
maiion ”^auil a coocrt arc a^emoed to
gg® a^S’ofthe'Londoi Aoadom, of Murtc.
MUSIC.
EOYAL ITALIAN OI’ERA.
The season of tlfiB estaWEhment^ closg on uoticed ,
repetition of Verdis MadameScalchi asAmneris,
including Madame Patti as Aid > (>aziam as Amonasro.
Signor Nicolini as Radamcs, and Sign^ Gca/aam a of
The final week has compnsed the bmefit ™ J > M
Madame Patti (who ngM gK^been heard for
Amina m La Sonnambula, w cn na Alban i f who
sa:. s . fcw
Sg nnSSn,mter of case* of
bv the ungenial weather of the period, the chief instance
Vireinie^” i^whi^^e charming perfomance^f^dlle- havhig
SSSSSJSf- taJoS eJcnt,
and afforded fresh manifestation of the: enhanced declamato^
powers of Madame Scalchi and Signor Gayurre respcctivcly m
the characters of Fides and John of Leyden. A_secona
absolute novelty was the production on July 9, of ITotow s
latest onera “Alma, l’lncantatnce,” ongmally brought out
at ?aSte thf^reecding spring. This afforded a-fee*
triumph for Mdlle. Albani in the title-character, winch she
had Dreviously filled in the Paris representation of the work.
A marked success was obtained by Mdlle. Belocca in her excel-
lent performance as Zingaretta ; M. Capoul as Camoensliavm 0
been^an important accession in the cast. Semiramide
revived on July 11, after three years’ interval-gaveoccasion
for Madame Patti’s appearance as the Assyrian Queen for the
first time in England. Of her transcendently fine singing of
the eaceptionally florid and difficult music, as also oi tne
,tfccti^ performances of Madame Scalchi as Arsace, and
M. Maurel os Aesur, wc spoke last week.
Besides the artiste incidentally named above, other well-
known singers have reappeared, including Mesdnmes Saar and
Corsi, Mdlles. Smeroschi, Ghiotti, Cottmo, Avigliaua, De
Synncrbcrg, Signori Bolis, Carpi, Pavoni, Piazza, Sabater,
Rosario, Rossi, Manfredi, Cotogni, Bagagiolo, Ciampi, Cap-
poni, Ordinas, Caracciolo, Scolara, and Itaguer.
Several new appearances have been madp, with various
degrees of suocess, including those of Mdllcs. Cepeda, BerteUi,
Mantilla, Sarda, and De Riti, Signor Carbone, and M. Jamet.
The orchestra—with Mr. Carrodus as leading violinist—and
tho chorus have been on ftie same extensive scale as in pre¬
ceding seasons. Mr. J. Pittman has well fulfilled the duties
of organist, besides having acted as adapter of the English
text of the new operas ; other ofiices having also been well
filled as before, including those of the leader of the ballet, Mr.
Betjemann ; chorus-master, Signor C. Corsi; ballet-master,
M. llanscn; and stage manager, Signor Tagliafico. lhe
scenic artists, Messrs. Dayeo and Cancy, have maintained their
high reputation, and the splendour of the stage effects has
been as-great as heretofore. The ballet department has again
included the skilful dancing of Mdlle. Girod and the Mdlles.
Reuters, besides that of Mdlle. Zucchi, a new appearance.
Signori Vianesi and Bevignani have, in alternation, displayed
the Bame ability in conducting the performances as during
post seasons.
Covent Garden Theatre will reopen on Aug. 3 for a series
of Promenade Concerts, as before, under the direction of
Messrs. Gatti. The arrangements include the engagement of
a fine orchestra of about eighty performers, of many of the
principal English vocalists, and of Mdlle. Marie Krebs, Miss
Josephine Lawrence, and Madame D’Rcmnry as solo pianists ;
M. Paul Viardot as solo violinist, and Mr. H. Reynolds as solo
cornet. Dr. Arthur Sullivan is to be the conductor, and Mr.
A. Burnett the leading violinist.
HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE.
We have already given a summary of the regular season of
this establishment, which closed on Saturday week. The series
of farewell performances, which began on the following
Monday with “ II Flauto Magico,” will terminate this (Satur¬
day) evening with “ Lucia di Lammermoor,” for the benefit
of Madame Gerstcr, a repetition of “Carmen” having been
announced for the previous evening for the benefit of Mdlle.
Minnie Ilauk. The other operas given during the interval
have been repetitions of works mostly cast as recently noticed.
Of the concluding performances we must speak next week.
Mr. Mapleson’s benefit took place at the Crystal Palace on
Saturday, when the programme included an afternoon concert
and an evening performance in the theatre of “ Don Giovanni.”
The concert consisted of familiar materials, and was conducted
by Sir Michael Costa, the vocalists having been Madame Etelka
Gerstcr, Mdlles. Minnie Hauk, Pappenheim, Alwina Valleria,
alekt and discovery expedition.
Expert, alone art
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very tew word., conclusively, in the opinion of many
i.'
that the solution may in good time be P^ ed ^Jbatmen
some new invention connected with locomotion, and that men
will be found to have vexed themselves fruitlessly about the
Question of routes. It needs a machine which will transpoit
men and provisions and whatever else is necessary, in a reason¬
able time, over 360 miles, on more or less impracticable ice.
It was on May 29, 1875, that the expedition started from
Portsmo“ Mf uot with the “favouring gales” of the poet
still with an inspiriting telegram from th ® til
July 4 they crossed thc Arctic Circle, and from that time until
Sept 3 they “ experienced perpetual day. On Oct. 4, 18iG,
rccrossed the Arctic Circle, after _ fifteen months
, . . ttl a cxDedition was unattainablo. It was agreed on
all handi that the North Pole is not to be reached by the route
which was adopted, not even with a hghter equipment and
•fum-thr fortune in thc important matter of health.
Wlt Tn tho meantime the winter had been passed, and how that
wearisome period was whiled away is thc theme of many pages,
S “ the most agreeable and not the least interesting,
although they are of course among the least important, of the
two volumes. Of snow-houses, of ventilation of Arctic
clothing of astronomical observations, of auroral phenomena ;
nfthewav in which Guy Fawkes is treated by Arctic explorers,
o performances atthe “ Royal ArcticTheatre,” and the manner
in wS Lieutenant Aldrich did with lus piano supply the
Sale of a whole band of musicians ; of parasalcine, three mock
moons at once, prismatic colours and natural fireworks, of a
“Sdics’ mile ” marked out and so christened on the frozen
Arct c snow, of a splendid Christmas Day at a “ temperature of
mSs 34 deg ” and of other accompaniments of an Arctic
1 ^uter tlic author discourses in a style that nvets the
^tention, enlists the sympathies, gratifies the curiosity and
in the case of the young and adventurous, is calculated to
“ft? rSpCiat not voluminous appmnJlx will be found a
Croat deal of scientific information, based upon notes taken or
the desirable index; that the two volumes are got up, op
^ , tvrm and hindincr. after a fashion which
S£ 3 re‘S.^rSo Pe Sr l&r ^ ^
gallant efforts only half-rewarded, great sufferings nobly
borne, long trials patiently met, monotonous existence cheer¬
fully accepted, various dangers courageously encountered and
overcome, a terrible disaster to crown the whole. Phat dis¬
aster, it will be remembered, was a dire, unexpected, inex¬
plicable visitation of scurvy— a disaster which is iully described
in the volumes under consideration, with the addition of written
opinions whence thc reader may be able to form an inde¬
pendent judgment as to the controversy not yet at rest about
the probable causes of the disheartening outbreak. lhe
expedition, as everybody knows, consisted of two vessels, the
“Discovery” and the “Alert”—the former under the com¬
mand'of Captain Stephenson, and the latter under the
command of Captain Nares, who had both ships under
his general orders. Both ships crossed Smith Sound on July 2J,
1875, and on the 31st their struggles with the obstructive
ice may be said to have fairly commenced. On Aug. Jo a
suitable harbour was discovered, northward of Lady 1< ranklm
Sound; and there the Discovery was left in winter quarters
from that day until about Aug. 20, 1876. Meantime, that the
honours of the expedition might be shared as fairly as possible
between thc two ships, a sledge crew, under an oiheer Irom
the Discovery, was taken on in the Alert, which on Sept. 1
reached the spot at which she was destined, but by no means
intended, to pass the winter, under the protection of her very
enemy the ice, and threatened, for eleven dreary months,
with a catastrophe, should she experience “ a gale blowing
towards the shore.” Henceforth, until the expedition pre¬
pared to return, the tale is, so far as the main purpose of the
gallant explorers was concerned, a tissue of disappointments
and misfortunes ; and the only way properly to appreciate it
is to take the map and follow the courses of the several
sledge parties during the autumn of 1875 and the spring of
1876. To summarise the story here, with such omissions
as limits of space would necessitate, might bewilder
rather than enlighten the reader, who would find himself in
latitudes too high for his attainment and among Capes and
Points of which he had never so much as heard the names.
Suffice it to remark that the exertions of Commander Markham,
Lieutenant Aldrich, and other gallant officers and men were
attended, during the autumn, with some very serieus con¬
sequences in the way of frost-bite, to say nothing of dogs in
fits and other unpleasant occurrences, but that the results of
the sledge-journeys were, on the whole, satisfactory and
encouraging. They are thus summed up by Sir George
Nares:—“The advance of a large depot of provisions in the
| following spring; an invaluable additional experience in Arctic
travelling; and further, by our greater good fortune in finding
continuous land over or near which to travel, we succeeded in
I wresting from Sir Edward Parry and his companions their
1 gallantly achieved distinction of having advanced thc British
Sag to the highest northern latitude.”
When, however, they set to work in that spring, for which
they had so carefully and energetically prepared, the hopes
aroused were doomed to disappointment. General Frost-Bite
was reinforced by General Scurvy, and both made war upon
the dauntless sailors who had invaded the land of ice : already,
during the autumn the frost-bitten had been obliged to submit
to amputation; and now thc scurvy-stricken were to bo
disabled, and in some cases to die. Moreover, when anxiety
touching the safety of the several sledge-parties, whether
commanded by Markham, or Aldrich, or another, was relieved,
| the relief was to be purchased at the cost of knowing that tho
regards the paper, type, and binding, after a fashion which is
simnlv excellent; and that the narrative is most conveniently
arraimed so as to give, as it were, a monthly report of the
wlioltTproceedings, readers will surely understand, that, whether
in point of^hitrinsic interest and value or of extnnsic form and
features, the work is one which has an exceptional claim to
their notice and regard.
Another book upon this subject is The Great Frozen Sea .
A Fersonal Narrative of thc Voyage of the Alert, by Captain
Albert Hastings Markham, R.N. (Daldy, Isbister, and Co.).
nrofessional ability, have been generally acknowledged. In
conducting, as he did, the memorable sledge journey over the
northward tract of perpetual icc-fields and icc-hills, which may
perhaps be regarded as a continent of ice, andm thus advancmg
farther towards the North Pole than any other party has ever
done Captain Markham lias earned a conspicuous rank among
Arctic explorers. This volume tells the story m a very mterest-
iim manner, aud will probably find acceptance with a larger
Srcleof readers than tlic officially authentic and complete
account of the whole expedition prepared by Captain ^ George
Nares. All the details of sledge travelling, haltmg and en-
camping provisioning, cooking, clothing, and the carrying
we?gS iSc minutely described. The volume is furnish^
with maps and illustrations which help the understanding of
lt s 8 “ b ^ gome {oliQ) pu blislied by Mr. Marcus Ward, of
Chandos-strect, and entitled Shores of the Iolar Sea, contains
sixteen fine chromo-lithographs and many engravmgs, from
drawings by Dr. Edward L. Moss, one of the medical
officcrs S of this expedition on board her Majesty sehip/d .
Dr. Moss lias written a very entertaining and ^dfiaent
commentary, narrative and descriptive, to ‘mcompany these
striking views of Arctic scenery and pictures of the TanoM
positions of the ships, the sledges, and the crews or detached
parties of men, which form a vivid representation of aU the
outward aspects most worthy to berememberedm their
rience of that wonderful region. This volume won d mAe an
appropriate gift for Christmas, when even th snuld Eughsh
whiter is apt to remind us of what we have heard and read
concerning the Arctic world, and there may be some adchtional
relish of home comforts at the snug fireside in contemplating
such adventures or scenes of so wild and stern a nature as w
see here depicted.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
The subject of our Illustration this week is the interior of the
brilliant saloon of prismatic glass—the ceiling and walls bemg
entirely covered with decorations in that matenal-whicli has
been constructed for the Shah of Persia, in the Pavilion erected
for his Majesty’s accommodation, on the Passy side ot tne
Trocodero Park. The exterior of the building w not remark¬
able, except for the green colour of its walls and the heraldic
Golden Lion, armed with a scymetar, wlncli adonis its front,
but tho vestibule, which occupies all the ground floor,
pillars aud sides ornamented with porcelain of Oriental design,
and a fountain and vases filled with flowers give it a very
pleasing aspect. The saloon above, which is shown in our
Engraving, is carpeted and furnished with luxunous divans
and tables covered with the finest gold-embroidered cloth, or
thc textile fabrics of Cashmere, than which nothing can be
more sumptuous and splendid. A peculiar decorativo eftect
is produced by the use of glass, whether cut into innumerable
diamond facets, as in the ceiling, to refract the rays of light,
or worked in a varioty of geometrical patterns, on the walls,
with a sort of damask, bright and black surfaces relieved
against each other. This style of ornament is likely to De
imitated by some of the cafes and restaurants of 1 ans.
The joint committee of her Majesty’s Commissioners and
of the Society of Arte for Promoting Visits of Selected Artisan
Reporters to the Paris Exhibition have completed the arrange¬
ments under which artisans will be sent to Paris. Eacn
artisan is expected to devote from eight to fourteen days
the visit. He will be paid £8, out of which he must pay au
charges connected with his trip. Free admission to tne
Exhibition will be granted. Arrangements have been maae
with the South-Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Rail¬
way Companies, for the purchase of a return ticket t° 1 ans an
back, available for fourteen days, at the price of 20s. lodgings
have been provided at a reduced scale, and arrangements na
been made for obtaining meals also at reduced charges. Besides
the artisans selected by the joint committee, artisans may
sent at the expense of their employers or local committees.
Such artisans will be supplied with thc necessary cards an
certificates to enable them to take advantage of arrangements
and facilities afforded by the joint committee. Employers
local committees subscribing to the fund may select or sen
out artisans in number to tlic extent of one for each £10 suD-
scribed, or subscribers to the fund may nominate for con¬
sideration and selection by the joint committee such artisans
as they may think suitable to represent the special trade or
trades of the district or party subscribing. Subscriptions are
sought from local committees, individual firms, or employers
to enable the joint committee to carry out the undertaking on
a complete and successful scale.
THE ILLUSTBATED LONDON
IN A WOOD WITH THE WOODBINE.
It is a sultry summer's day, and I am endeavouring to “ tako
it coolly,” with a leisurely stroll along the wide pathway— or
“ Hiding,” ns we term it-of a wood. The wood is so largo
aud the Hiding is so long and straight, that ut ils farthest end
The woodbine’s tassels float in air" UR ’ The funeral procession winds grimly round a great rock which
And as I think of the honeysuckle brin-hw™ looms U P against the snowstorm, and, as it passes, an old
with its flowers and fragrance, I rLall the tinfe 1 now P Cnsn 1 nt ,ind “ ho ? wilh lar ^° ptarmigans shmg from his back:,
eifdit years ago, when I put down my 1 u 1 Wcd uud 7\ covcrcxL . The King, booted and gloved u
I can only catch the very narrowest peep of the blue sky, at the a to , bo Published by subscription, by a young pattern m tho b ,Y‘-’ h J 8 lund
extremity of the avenue of trow. The path of this Riding has dra 7 er .f or muslin-work, in Glasgow. The volume was Lsued 3* 1 T Th Jf offlocrs ’ 1U . durk blao U1
grassed over since I saw tho horses of tho scarlet ?oatS “ ^ pnl - 1853 - Printed by David ™ yeUow linings and wearing leggings or long
Huntsman and Whips trampling it into mud, under tho bare ^ utlous tiUepago, “Poems, by Alexander Smith ■ ” an^in B “f hurdcn shoulder high, and with a tenderness and a
boughs of the wintry trees ; and now, on this hot day to stroll J ho numerous-some critics said, too numerous—simile of f° lcm f ni ^ wbldl 6° at once to the hoart of the beholder. The
down this green avenue, is to pace the aisle of ’ a grand frofih thought and fancy the hero of “A Life-Drama” was Pj?°«s«ion is lost m the distant windings of
cathedral of Nature, where the -niUnr* nr»ri mnnirvi _ made to say, ‘ the stormy pass , tho path is beset with dancer, yet we fool
in life, lies extended on the bier, his bare head resting on a soft
white pillow. The oflloers, all in durk blue uniforms with dun
yellow linings, and wearing leggings or long boots, bear thoir
cathedral of Nature, where the pillars and groined arches are mf
supplied by the tree-trunks and interlacing boughs, and
where the elaborate traceries are worked out in the rich
foliage and diversified creepers. The sun-glow irradiates the rt
t LT* “ <a l e through which my passion n
Like honrysuckle through u hedge of June.
was the stormy pass ; tho path is beset with danger, yet we fool
that these war-worn veterans will never leave their sacred
clrnrge till they have laid it in its appointed Swedish grave.
» This picturo atones for whatever lack of nationality is discover -
trees and makes a lattice work of shineTndT U i radiatea tbe diedTlftnn ° aa true beautiful; and, although tho author able in works of lesser note, and will recall to the mind of the
path | there ia everywhere a glimmer at light among S «« «>= WSSf’ ll ££££3 to “Xlicrtto w™'™. 0 * S™” 1 “ ^ 011CC plny “ 1
masses of deep green; and the tall spreading brackcn-ferns ran eed-literaily thrust fame upon 1,to • ' But 3„? of 1 “ ” ■ .
n t u C under ;P rowtb > but also fringe the sides ^es in connection with the woodbine we may remember
of the Riding with a gracefulness that is peculiarly their own. *bnt when Hero, in Shakspeare’s “ Much Ado About Notoing*”
Pelade Beatrice to hide in the bow^in they are iWrior to thdi Swciish
pronounce this to be the greeu-wood-the good green wood, Leonuto’s garden, she describes it as 111
the merry green-wood, “ Where the mavis and merle are .
singing.” And they are singing, now! The bold thrush, not mavhoneysuowS^’dby^ sun,
whispering soft nothings to his plainly-dressed wife, but forbid Ule s,m to enter—like favourites
shouting at the top of his voice, “ Sweet bird ' sweet bird ' ” « • pn ?! ld Prince*, that advanoe tlu-ix piide
with a delightful iteration of rapturous joy. Here we see 'to » . truInat 11,6 poww that bred tt -
perfection A ? 10s ‘ appropriate plant is the woodbine for a “ bower,” even
The pride of Summer, the green prime, 11 11 wcre ‘be bower of Eve herself, in Eden, where everythin e
The many, many loaves all twinkling; With . J b
B ’ With what to sight or smell was sweet;
as was said (in his “ Hero and Leander ”) by Thomas Hood, and, we may remember that, on the e
who, in many of Ins poems, especially in his “ Plea of the Queen told her mother that
Midsummer Fairies, ’’has drawn beautiful and truthful pictures n#1 , “7
of sylvan scenes. F 1110 honeysuckle round the porch has w
But, talking of /The Norwegians have no historic work of importance suf-
mny remember fieient to warrant its being accepted as a pendant to the one
bout Nothing,” wc have just described; and yet it can scarcely be said that
e of May Day, the May
P. N. Arbo’s Norwegian legend of the “ Asgaardreid,” whom
we sec on their black steeds dashing impetuously through the
air above the moonlit mountains, accompanied by ravens and
owls, is a fine imaginative work of art of which any country
might be proud. Then in A. Askevold we have an artist who
knows well how to combine figures with landscape and give a
realistic character to both. “ Evening at the Chalet,” show¬
ing two milkmaids chatting with a young huntsman seated on
a log of wood, and the cattle, to the amusement of a crowd of
boys and peasants, being ferried over a lake en route for
their mountain pasturage, are both of them pleasing
exemplifications of our remark. Another landscapist
of high character is W. Gegerfclt. His girl and
child gathering sticks by a rushy, pollard-reflecting lake, on
But although there is m tins woodland landscape such a corroct an observer of Nature to represent the child gathering sticks by a rushy, pollard-reflecting lake, on
preponderance of green, yet other colours are not lacking to Y° odb ae ® bl °« 80in on the last day of April; but by that which a man plies a boatf and which is bounded in the distance
vary the hue, if it were possible for the spectator to see any- tlie forward 6T een leaves of the plant make a goodly by a rising ground which is made important by its windmill,
thing monotonous in the eye-refreshing tint. Foxgloves, • is splendid in composition and noble every way. N. B.
unfortunately, do not grow here ; consequently, I miss their to thh d ° TOtlus G^een pathway of the wood has brought Moller’s “ View of the Sea,” as it dashes over'Wrecks whidh
clusters of tall spires hung with fairy-folk bells. But, by the ™ to th ? ha nd-gate that opens on to a field of heather-like, environ a fisher village has a fine grey quality in it which will
sides of the small brooks and ditches that traverse the wood, ma ny-coloured clover; and I find that I have come to the end delight all true colourists. For this tone H. Gudo substitutes
I note the reddish purples on tho straight stems of tho ™ lk * he “ Ridh ?S-” By-the-way, “Walks in a yellowish green; and in his “Scotch Landscape” he is
loose-strife; and there are golden buttercups, and pi ik ‘« a,u S s would be no bad theme, were it not for tho feur that rather mechanical in his wave drawing; otherwise, the ruined
campions, and dark bnony, and tho browner nut-bush ;s, ; lie le . uUc / ex P ect to peruse an account of a pedestrian castle on the hill, the distant mountains, ?nd the cloud forms
and the pale blossoms of the blackberry, and the delict,te , ur “ the Ridings of Yorkshire. Well, it is time for me po are all excellent. II. Dahl shows a nice sense of humour in
yellows and reds of the many flowering grasses, and the large | * ea ™. tke wo ?. d < eo l will gather Borne of its woodbine, and, the way in which lie has depicted for us tho astonishment of
bunches of white bloom ou the wayfaring tree, and tho lovely acla ng up these delicately-tinted and deliciously-perfumed the young peasant who was ready to pitch a load of new-mown
blush of the common dog rose, and the white privet blossom Uower ® Wlta ““e smaller sprays of the bracken fern, I shall hay into what he thought the waiting-boat, but which now,
with its delicate perfume, and the broad dusty-white discs of ca rry home a bouquet that is not only good to the sight, but to the yielding oar of the laughing young boatman and his
the elder, somewhat strong in its scent, were it not counter- | P leasa nt to the smell—according to the good old English word, sweetheart, moves quietly away from the stepping-stone on
acted and ovemowererl hv tho deliVinna norfnmn *hr> a veritable nosegay. M Ci:TIITlKItT Ttann. whlVh t.lio crnnrl.nnfnnvl hmrmlin cfrmrlo cfill nroir>V»fwiflt
acted and overpowered by the delicious perfume of the
honeysuckle. Delicious, indeed ! it has truly been said, that
No blossom wild ART TN PARTS
Bo rich a soent displays; ___ AUA AJ>I
Bo far, so full, the passing air THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION.—SCANDINAVIA.
The sweetness of its breath may bear. (From our Correspondent .)
Sr 8 ?? 6 r d fro i m , trc i e J . to tr f, e > in som ? P la ceB, as I In the present article we propose glancing at a few of the mo:
of twenty feet from the ground, it hangs its characteristic pictures belonging to those countries which :
which the good-natured bumpkin stands, still weighted with
his load of hay. The green translucency under the boat is
excellent, but the distant lake is conventional.
L. Muntile, who is a host in himself and has two pictures
in the present Exhibition, finds in the delineation of winter
scenery a by no moans unworthy rival in F. Smith-Hald. This
painter’s work represents travellers on a snow-covered quay
ooming from a steamer. His atmosphere is clearer and his
chains of blossoms from bough to bough, their prevailing tint an art-sense at least, may be termed the ^lin^StatoJ "Three touch crL<) P er th an M. Munthc’s ; and from his preferring
Being a pale cream, with variations of brighter yellows aud of such we include under the general name of Scandinavia bri G ht froet Y weather to the snowy slush in which his rival
crimsons. rm.* . m I ° .. . _ ■ rlolIfrVi if {□ nrvSfA -rvnociVil r> lin rnnv xrnf VinPAmn flirt niAva
tbe « c papers has already been reached. ’
And fragrant chaplet; recompensing well Beginning with Sweden and Norway, we find, as a general
The Strength it borrows with the grace it lends. rule, that the artists of these countries devote themselves to
Hero, on either side of this woodland walk, I see thousands of sea-pieces and landscapes, and that with no ordinary amount
This glance must necessarily be cursery, as the limit allotted to dcll S bte l4; 13 I 1111 * 5 possible he may yet become the more
these papers has already been reached. popular man of the two. J. Sclnve’s row of pollards by a
Beginning with Sweden and Norway, we find, as a general “T” stTcam ® ho * 8 the i^ence of Munthe. M. Muller is
rule, that the artists of these countries devote themselves to ft home m a pine forest. His brushwork may be rough, but
Hero, on either side of this woodland walk, I see thousands of sea-pieces and landscapes, aud that with no ordinary amount ^ 8 ?
these gay festoons thickly covered with their fragrant chaplets of success. A. Wahlberg, of Sweden, for example, has several P P ' nt ,,°? b G b f Among genre subjects, V. S. Lcrche 8 Hefec-
Surely this delicious plant-beloved by the artistsand sculptors flue landscapes, two especiolly-one with a moonlight effect on m 1 .
of Greece—wa. aeverseen to greater lustiriauce than in^thi. «. »cMide vlUege with .hippiog; »„d anothe/ showing „ %S'“^5'^
wood, unvisited as it is at this season of the year, and only « rm ] ar cffect the open sea and on some craft by a jetty in C™; 0 N ^f ble thelmidscnntlofF BoLen
patronised in the time of sport, when lioueysuckles ore not in the foreground, with a lighthouse in the distance. In the J et t^rsen and O. Ru sten , the landscapes of 1. Borgcn,
bloom. Now they are wasting their sweetness so far as pictures in which foliage is introduced, Wahlberg shows much M ; Gnraelund S Jacobsen and I. Ihaulow; and the
appreciative noses are concerned • and though of the lightness and delicacy of Corot/with greater solidity of two ^-subjects by 0. M. Ross, representing a handsome
^ J, ’ ’ S workmanship and liveliness of colour Another excellent in ml young lady viohmst before aud after her debut, arc certainly,
The woodbine’, honeyed perfumes breathe, scapist is Os^rTorna His HaymaMughTamarshyrnLownear iu knowledge and execution above the ordinary level. The
no Rimmel or Tiesse or Lubm is here, to transfer those per- a wooded village is very charming; but the style as well as the auibitious picture in the Norwegian gallery is unques-
fumes by his magical art, where they can give pleasure to scene is French, and the nationality of a poster's works can Tbe Rx P uls / ou v , Adam and Eve from Paradise, ’
o hers than myself. Among the guests who, on the authority ne ver be asserted if he persists in going fer inspiration to by , H ‘ ^ erdahl: and ’ had tbc bee f f°rtimnto ^ his
of Mrs. Lydia U. Sigourney, attended Lady Flora’s tea-party other lands. B. Nordenberg wields a more patriotic pencil, “ ale ““s xt h “ VG b f U the m ° 8 ^ Bu . cc “ sful -. fl Bub
1 remember that there were representatives of the Honeysuckle and shows us a young man brought home on a sledge with £ dam 18 ° f a Ridding countenance and of insigmflcmt
tamJ y- what appears to his Smous family, who crowd roimdhim, a
The sweet Misses Woodbine, from country and town, mortal hurt. It is but sorry consolation to them that the bear nwf' twl’ be /b^’ber^
With their brother-in-law, the wild Trumpet, came down. whose claws had wrought these terrible wounds is being borne “5^”“ ;
Sv fraS r! m in OVelj arcallthe members of the Woodbine in dead1 suspended from a pole resting on the brawny P en P to ^. She droops her head aud buries her hanKd face
nnem y Af ^/^peare's contemporary, in his shoulders of two peasmite. The story is altogether very ^ the abundance J her dishevelled hair, and thus we behold
poem of The Three Chaplets,” says, effectively told, and has about it a charactomstic smack of the the di8inherited pair wending their way into the gathering
e same poem he had also said,
effectively told, and has about it a characteristic smack of the tb/ r L mW fhrfr wav in to ihl
north. N. Forsberg is another Swedish artist whose technical wSe m Jb^w^
__ „ e _i__ f . storm. In .the sculpture department we were much struck
qualities an of an undeniable order and his professional with the fln c i a8sic fecHng C. D. Magelssen has thrown into
tumbling boys, whose agile contortions are being watched by ^ helmeted figure of “ M61eagre,” whose sword rests on tho
a rich Jew-lookmg showman, with the object of striking a head of the mi | hty boar of Caledon. The figure is nobly and
ST.rifMsr*? “ n “" cd ' ^ modelIod ^ ““ ae la4i ” 8
.. . “ time one coma possioiy wisn, oniy one regrets mac suen
us properly distinguishing between the woodbine and the admirable talent is wasted on subjects not germane to the m
giantme, which is the wild sweetbriar. And this is worth artist’s native land. Count G. Von Rosen's lover buying for + b Wft ii s d ; :
USE’.-HhJtStad EeWinf 1 ” ’^ iS 8 f we f cthcart + a bancbof rose f in a crowded flower market in ^avian sisters. "aBloch is the leading historical painter,
° , , ‘ne twistea Eglantine, and it is also doubtful to front of a Gothic facade is a bright, joyous picture, without , ■ « p AT ,Hvitv nf PbriofiRn TT nf T’lPiinmrV ’’ fm-niRbes «
“ re , fer , a 08 “ tlie P astoral Eglantine,” in his bein g so slavishly French as some of ite neiplibours. Hugo £ h “ which i^Temder ami s5m-
Ode to a Nightmgak.” Shokspeare, as ever, is perfectly galmson, for example, in his two Picardy pictures- Pttbefte and tbe ScJnal mSn^n^tef is C F
eglauttoe te 52^1^f 8pe ? ially in - th f one sh °T in £ a yoang - pcasant ^ ^rensen’, who is represented by three important pic-
_*vnere, tor example, m Gymbelme, Arviragus lcamug on her hoe, as with her creel she rests on a x_ k T ti ui.™ n o r*
To Denmark we can give but small Bpace, as there is little ou
the walls to differentiate her work from that of her two Scau-
witli her creel pbe rest:
Eeffu^ lSk^herVetos thG bank and lo o ks towards the distent vilkge-Ulustrates y^vgaard, and J.’ V. Sonne’ are all’membersTTh^Danish
her face, the azured harebell, like her veins , this. He does not altogether throw off his individuality, any Ac(ld % my ^ [ md ^ weU represented; but there is scarcely suf-
Tholenf fir b No; nor more than do the others : only, like them, lie submitsi himself f lc i on t individnality in any one of them to call for any special
hkc her face; the ozured harebell, like her veins ;
No; nor
Tho leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander,
Out-sweeten’d not thy breath!
And that famous bank, known to Oberon, where slept Titania,
was
Quite ovcr-canopied with lush woodbine,
"With SAeet musk-roses, and with eglantine.
too entirely to Parisian example and practice. One of the finest | men ti OT1- The lateV. Mars fraud, director of the Academy,
mples of this French influence will be found
,, • , _ x ... „ , . , . has bis genius illustrated by four works of a highly respectable
Hagborg s Breton fisher-woman, with a flaxcn-liaircd child m character, and this respectability—o word unknown in the
her arms, standing barefooted at the end of a jetty, b’oking esthetic vocabulary—runs through the whole of Danish art.
anxiously over tlie tn u >!ed sea. The figures are life-size, atul \y e |)U)st not at tbe Bame t j me oni it to mention that, in the
that of tlie woman, m her scant attire, as she fronts unheed- wor kg 0 f 8Ucb sculptors as the two Bissens, C. 0. Peters, A. V
ingly the storm, is striking in no ordinary degree Jules f^auby, C. Smith, T. Stein, and L. Hnssclriis, we were repeatedly
her arms, standing barefooted at the end of a jetty, looking
anxiously over tlie tn u'dcd sea. Tlie figures are life-size, and
that of tlie woman, in her scant attire, as she fronts unheed-
Here the two plants arc mentioned as combining their ingly the storm, is striking in no ordinary degree. Jules g^y q s m it,h 1
iragrance. In another passage, in the same fairy play, he Breton himself, we should imagine, would be proud to have ; y Cm inded that we
gives the two names of the honeysuckle. The enamoured painted this “ Souvenir de Bretagne.” II. P. Birger is French of Thorvaldsen
utania says:— bl another way. His proclivities lead him to depict the
Bleep thou, and 1 will wind thee in my arms! maimers and customs of “ Society ” and of fashionable life;
Oentl' 8 t d °t h the woodbiae > th€ Bffeet honeysuckle, and q Larsson again gives to his classic mythology a touch
T( . . “ y cn wu . modem French cynicism, and much more than a touch of
ip , ‘he most luxuriant of our climbing plants, and well mo dem French art. His “ Amor-Mercurius,” whom we see
Denmark’s total art-contributions number one hundred,
Sweden’s a hundred and two, and Norway’s sixty-eight.
, . most luxuriant of our climbing plants, and well mo dem French art. His “Amor-Mercurius,” whom we see Anew wet dock at Ayr, having an area of six acres, was
_ servea itfl pojmlar name woodbine, from the way in which ita ^th a purse in one hand and a bow in the other, alighting opened on the 18th inst. by Mr. William Baii;d, of Elie. The
ne trails from branch to branch of the trees and climbs up uudraped, with golden wings, before a golden curtain, is a works were begun in 1874, and the memorial stone was laid in
in h t,®! 1 lithe flexibility. When Tennyson’s Olivia, vcr y dc ]ightful conceit, and embodies all that the Academy 1876 by Sir James Fergussou, Bart.
. 1 ? irth ’ 6trov , e to «P an . the thick . wa } st . of . tbe »can teach him either in form or colour. _Mr. Larsson does here , fr v Mfinzies . secre tarv of the Highland and Acri-
TalkiiirtVwi - w S P UU ine chick waist oi tue teach him eitlier in torm or colour. Mr. Larsson cioes nere , f v N ArflT17 ; ra 6ecre tarv of the Highland and Airri-
St be toe SrvSnThSwt 6 that n he with J’ dlow what Gainsborough did with blue and wlmt Mr. cul JJ al F s 0 ^ety has been presorted with achcque for £1225
Yet seemed the pressure thrice as sweet
As woodbine’s fragile hold.
^utswSh’artists are not nil swallowed up by French 1 ^TSeldhUpS?^.'
ethods and French themes. There is one at least among , he haB nis P° : U10U -
embers of the society of liis labours during the twelve yen
Unlike the ritualistic American poplars that bow to the east, • them who remembers that his country has a history, and that
the woodbine follows toe course of the sun from east to west, i is Baron G. 0. Cederstrom, brother, we presume, to Baron T.
and puts out its welcome clusters of green leaves earlier than I Cederstrom, who has a couple of clever genre pictures on the
most of our hedge-row plants. By-the-way tho cottagers use same wall as that which is adorned by the noble work which
the juices of these green leaves as a potent remedy against the represents the officers of Charles XII. of Sweden bearing the
strng of a bee. Charlotte Smith told us how— dead body of their warrior King across the Norwegian frontier.
The Coroner's inquiry into the cause of the death of tho
miners killed by the Ilaydock Colliery explosion was con-
I eluded yesterday
when the jury returned a verdict
tlmt the accident was caused by uu outburst of gas, <
the officers of Charles XII. of Sweden bearing the roof, but that there was no evidence to show by whom the ga-
of their warrior King across toe Norwegian frontier. ! was ignited.
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PARIS EXHIBITION: THE PERSIAN PAVILION IN THE TROCABERO PARK
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, JrLY 27, 1878 .—93
MEETING OF THE UNITED COMMITTEE FOR SPECIAL SERVICES, AT THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE'S VILLA, CHISWICK.
A CHISWICK GARDEN MEETING.
The novelty of a garden meeting for the business of a religious
home missionary association has been chosen for the subject of
one of our Illustrations. The religious services held through¬
out London for the benefit of such people of the working
classes as are not accustomed to resort to churches and chapels
are directed by an influential “ United Committee ” of ministers
and members of different communions. On Tuesday week a
large number of ladies and gentlemen assembled, by permis¬
sion of the Duke of Devonshire, at Chiswick House, to hear an
account from the United Committee of the work done during
the year. The Earl of Shaftesbury presided at the meeting,
which was held in the beautiful grounds of Chiswick House.
Amongst the company were Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P., Mr.
Haldane, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, the Revs. S. Hebditch,
Dr. Fleming, Nevison Loraine, J. Cohen, and Newman Hall.
Alter a short opening service, Mr. Lloyd Harris made a
statement, in wmch he said that the services commenced
about nineteen years ago, had proved very successful, but had
lately suffered for want of adequate public interest and
support. The object of that great assemblage was to create
new interest for so useful a work. There were between forty
and fifty mission rooms and halls in different parts of the
metropolis. Mr. Morley, M.P., dwelt upon the growing
indifference of the people to public worship, as showing the
necessity f< r continuing an agency of that land. He contended
that it would be well if Belgravia knew more of what was
going on in Bethnal-green, and if the upper classes generally
endeavoured to bring influence to bear upon the minds of the
people in the poorest parts of London. He testified, from
personal knowledge, to the great value of the services carried
on, and strongly desired to see the work extended. Addresses
of a similar character were delivered by the Rev. J. Cohen,
who was fifteen years Rector of Whitechapel; the Rev. N.
Loraine, the Rev. N. Sherbrook, and others. 'The Earl of
Shaftesbury addressed the meeting. He made an earnest
appeal on behalf of the work and the improvement of the
lower classes of society. Votes of thanks to his Grace the
Duke of Devonshire for his kindness in placing his grounds
at the disposal of the committee, and to Lora Shaftesbury
for presiding, terminated the proceedings.
RAISING U.M.S. EURYDICE IN THE CHANNEL, OFF THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
THE tt.t.TTSTRATEU london__news
JULY 27, 1878
RAISING OP HALS. EURYDICE.
After '-fas h,3! „
the Eutydicc, which capsized a March 24, the public nl
off Duuuosc on the af^ruoo^ of farther J
bepan todoubt thepr'babihty t u|h Dock yard, who b
operations. The authorities as i Attendant and Mr. *
r c - c£8£r b r !:
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Basss-x^;
Jf t Mnttauonca of favourable weather, the chief o<h“J« «a ™
tife tide being about flood, the work of letting water ballast
ft the cnjft, which had been pinned down in order to sub¬
merge thrn the registered depth, was commenced . 92* tow
of water were pumped into the Pearl, until, ^h a depth m
her hold of 10ft., she was sunk 5 ft. bin. , Tb®
made to hold 600tons, with an internal depth of 9ft.
and external 5 ft.; while the Wave and the Swan were
immersed 3 ft. 6 in. by meaus of 190 tons of water in
each. By the time this was finished there was
less tha/ an hour to spare before it was dead lo -
water, and, everything being made secure by half-past fiveal
was waiting for an indication of the turn of thetide. men it
had fairly turned, the steam flre-engmes on board the Pearl
and the Rinaldo were set vigorously to work, and with the aid
of the double hose were pumping the water very fairly, so that ,
a steam-tug was sent alongside each of these two vessels, each
with double hose to assist. This had been going on *°™b°”J 1
half an hour, when a tug was sent in between the Wave and
the Swan in order to pump them. The wreck lay in 60 ft. of
water, and having by this time accumulated so ““ ch A d {*J;
wcicht to lift her at once to the surface would have been
simply impracticable. The scheme of rescue was to raise her
10 ft. by means of a 10-ft. tide, plus whatever could be gained
by the creation of buoyancy and bringing to bear additional
lifting power. Therefore, supposing her to be lifted 10 ft. by
the tide and 5 ft. by the buoyancy created by pumping the
water out of the vessels, and so lifting her with them, there
would be a lift of 15 ft.-only 3J ft. more than the depth of
the hole in which she was imbedded. It was agreed that the
only practicable method would be by n senes of lifts, biking
advantage of every tide ; and by repeating the experiment it
advantage oi every uue, tmu uj ,-v
was thus hoped that in eight or nine days she would be brought j
into water sufficiently shallow to permit of her being towed t
into Portsmouth Harbour. , c
Before the lifting operations fairly commenced the divers j
made another inspection with the special object of ascertaining B
whether the Popoff air- bag was in its place and secure. 1 laving j
reported favourably, the pumping operations were watched c
with great interest, more especially ns the wreck’s mast came f
up at first, simultaneously with the lighters, and ultimately <
began to gain on them considerably. By eight o’clock the ,
green seaweed on the wreck’s mast had gradually become more 1
conspicuous, and showed evident signs of her increasing buoy- ,
ancy, and by half past nine the water had been pumped from
all the lighters, and the Eurydice shook her most occasionally.
It was then determined to let well alone for the time, and wait ,
for an improvement in the tide, seeing that the rising water
was lifting the sunken craft so steadily and so well. The
Thunderer was at hand waiting for her opportunity. Unfor¬
tunately she swept across the tide, and lost her cables and I
gear. This necessitated some delay, inasmuch as it took up I
valuable time in creeping for the hawsers. One was speedily |
recovered, but it required the work of a diver to find the other.
The second, however, was to have been dispensed with, and a
rope hawser substituted; but as the Thunderer was about
steaming towards the scene of operations her capstan fell over¬
board, carrying the line.
Meanwhile experiments had been going on to test the
buoyancy of the wreck. The hawsers facing Culver Cliff were
drawn up taut, and those at the stern were slackened. This
operation was continued some time, under difficulties, it being
almost impossible to draw in the bow ropes in consequence of
what appeared to be the immovability of the wreck. But
suddenly the capstans on all the vessels worked cosily, the
wreck was seen to move, and the tare cheered lustily. The
Thunderer having now become useless for all practical pur¬
poses for the day, the experiment with the hawsers was con¬
tinued until it was deemed advisable to send down divers to
report the state of affairs. They reappenred with the report
that the Eurydice had been shifted out of the hole and moved
from 150 to ISO feet, and that she rested on a solid foundation.
Admiral Fanshawe, C.B., Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth,
and Lord Elphinstone, representing the Lords of the Admiralty,
with a number of naval officers, were spectators of the
operation, upon the success of which Lord Elpliiustoue con¬
gratulated all concerned.
The moving of the vessel has been continued daily, when
the tide was favourable; she was brought 900 ft. nearer to the
ihore on the second day ; and she lay, at the end of hist week,
in a depth of 49 ft of water at low tide; the v< rtieal depth of
her own hull, from gunwale to keel, being 30 ft. The most
critical part of the operation, however, remained to be per¬
formed, if the weather and the state of the sea permitted, at
^^"wiMBLEDON meeting.
presentation of prizes. n_ ti
In the Ha*-’ l
K? ”«£ NaUonjJ KM o Wj**»
the second Saturday, the pm S P flnd th UC( . es8 anly
time. From the ^pSing of the character ?ha
restricted nature of any °P^ utl " bo ™ V er in the estimation li
of a sham fight, it Finally sunipuMic. until, In th*
both of the volunteers and * military athletic sports, d °
sS^awsS* £
S2sS.«sg=i'SfSS S
Connaught. His 1^ oy nimto^ftout of the grand stand at about ]°. 6
had been prepared for him in frout of tne^gra M b liui
half-past-six o’clock in the afternoon, bung ^Jg veA with so
the Earl and Countess of Wharncliffe. 11 „ , West- °f
T^h“tor T tbe"ffS;»d «>
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"n«hT<5 ill 5,. in fto Whitclny couipctiUou, aud nuother ^
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1 Scompanied by several sailors, came up to receive the Army
t ftnd \jjvy Challenge Cup, and £10 money prize. Ilia Eoyid
1 Hichnw in presenting this very handsome prize, expressed
•f ? i8 pSure at seeing that the Navy had been so well repre- J
- sented at Wimbledon, and congratulated the recipient upon r
n his well - deserved success. The “ Mappin Brothers ' Chri- ■
* leuge Cup and Goblets for the hirgeHt score made by
d snmids of infantry volunteers over the Loyd-Lindsay .
d Suree on Friday 7 wcre received by the representative
y team of the 1st Administrative Battalion, Surrey, and the
ie Belgian Challenge Cup and £30 for the best volley firing by
re thore of the 1st Berks The Chiua Challenge Cup and «35m
of money was carried off by the 1st Devon. The Volunteer Cadet
ie Corns 7 Match Trophy was presented to the representatives of
‘R Charterhouse. His Royal Highness complimented the boys
d w ho had won it on the good beginning they hod■ "‘“df :
l,t Eton boys, who had won the Ashburton Challenge Shieldm
cd the public Schools Match, were loudly cheered when they
came up dressed in their grey and light blue uniform; iand his
!re Royal Highness, in presenting the shield, expressed the plco-
“S sure he felt that Eton was keeping up its reputation for slioot-
up * n „ The Spencer Cup, wou in the second Btage of the same
cd I competition, was presented to Private Montgomery, of Glen-
116 almond. The Chancellor’s Challenge Plate, contended for by
■}y the Oxford and Cambridge Universities..was received by the
he representatives of Cambridge, and the Rajali of lvolapore s Cup
}re by the home team. In presenting to the Canadian team the pri7.es,
>y- to the value of £80, which they have won during the meeting, his
um Royal Highness expressed the great pleasure lie felt at meeting
l 7- the representatives of the Cunadian Dominion upon that
ait occasion, and stated that lie had been especially desired by the
Prince of Wales to say that he much regretted haying been
[he prevented from carrjing out his intention of visiting their
or ! camp during the meeting, and from personally congratulating
md them upon their success. Private Gratwickc, of the 1st Devon,
UP ! received the St. George’s Challenge Vase, the Dragon Cup,
My I the „ old jewel, and the sum of £30. The representative* of
1 , er - Ireland, who have again succeeded in carrying off the Elcho
d a Shield, were warmly received on coming up to take the
,out trophy won by their extraordinary skill with the rifle. Earl
?cr * Waldegrave attended to receive the Vizianagram Challenge
, Cup, which was won by the Lords in the “ Lords and Commons
the match this year, his Royal Highness complimenting the former
rel ! e on tlicir victory. Corporal Larway, of the Bristol Engineers,
Phis received the sum of £100 given by the Prince of Wules, nnd the
™>g National Rifle Association’s Prince’s Badge. Private Lowe, of
( L of the Quecu’s, Westminster, was loudly applauded when lie
But came to receive the National Rifle Association silver medal and
the Bilvcr badge and £60 for making the highest score afttr shoot-
top off a tio in the first stage of the Queen’s. The great event
P ur * of the day was the presentation of the Queen’s Prize of £250
eon- 8 . 1 . „ '_l.i . G .,1 + 1,0 Vntiniifll Iliflft Akso-
the riso of yesterday’s tide.
The State apartments in Windsor Castle are open for public
Inspection on the usual weekdays during the absence of the
Queen at Osborne.
The grand jury of the county of Donegal have found true
bills against three of the persons arrested for the murder of the
Earl of Leitrim and his clerk and driver. But the trial has
been postponed to the next assizes.
of the day was the presentation ot the yneeii s j nze oi x.iov
aud the "gold medal and badge of the National Rifle Asso-
ciation to Private liae, of the 11th Stirling. When lie came '
to the dais to receive the prize a ringing cheer was given, the
band of the Victorias playing “See, the conquering hero
comes ” Ilis Royal Highness, in handing the puree containing
the prize to the fortunate recipient, congratulated him on his
admirable shooting, and expressed a hope that when he
rcturued to Scotland he would remember with pride the suc¬
cess he had obtained at the Wimbledon Meeting of 1878. This |
bringing the proceedings to a termination, his Royal Highness
re-entered his carriage and drove off, being loudly cliccrcd os
he left the ground. . I
The athletic sports, which had been suspended while the
ceremony of the distribution was going forward, were then
resumed, and were not concluded till about eight o’clock, when
Iaidv Wharncliffe presented the handsome trophies to the
winners. The programme was of a most voluminous cha¬
racter, and contained forty-six events, which were earned out
in an excellent manner by a committee acting under the super¬
intendence of Mr. William Waddell, of the London Athletic
Club. Some of the contests were exceedingly keen, especially
the tent-pegging and lemon-slicing, in which great proficiency
was shown by the competitors.
The concert at Stafford House last week produced £300 for
the hospitals at Gallipoli and the lines of Biuair.
PARIS AT THE CAFE.-NO. IV
Having in our last paper £^^eiiVTlittlc farther, to
district, grandest of which- the
a sSSil
mid Easbecn forvery raany 3 „_ 1UJ our English slang would
“ dandies ^*«il c d IliU Here wo arc still shown Talley-
successively have called «-• . fc j uke , UO st things,
rand’s “ little blue room the E ^ moro tban once .
changed colour ’ f J tiioifgh very long ago,
“ Hither came at noon fine gentleman, the Comte
liim iiTthncs past, from the^pen °* M-^ude ^ whom 1[owe
so many pleasant «rtcen“ ft 8 ’ whi ^”e -*)Me man, still
ofTortom’e. fcomWs horn a ^wWtc frock . coat , liB ht
hi, boot. «\e futare '•Sa.iour oi
oil ngnm. cr have rccmblod tl»ie: jet ill
im Lone " e fequetor, of Tortoni', there w«8 to be bccd
the Count vouBwm^t onc „ c o s tw«rd
: SSa©a.-SS?SS
:
“ ’SgblSS 1 *&seto.at the Veridti,. the. »»diMed
= ^ deceit black ot French middle-class life. u sou may
j %E2it
S ^&jEZ*JS£lSSi ''w 1 “X! h d n ;
iy has taken its place; Musette, Lisctte, have no siiccessors, or
^ WO Tnothcr n Se?te?oT the vlSaS? BaudeSe, bigivenus
■ y other Pictures of Parisiau life; but the gems are hardiy
in thing, do not like to omit the gutter. Only, why do tuey
I? ^S5S^lSS!K Monselet, these also are names
hW that the Varies brings to mind; and still another, even more
familhir to Sglkh ear"s, is Roelicfort-wl.ose Lantcr,,* was^once
0t talked about a very great deal more than it deserved. II
Z Sin regularly at Ss table at the back of the room when only a
by few peoiile had heard of the struggling playwrig ’ , j i
t ? y was true to his old haunt when the Chunvari hadi ^tended tus
w fame a Uttle. Then came the Lanlertie and notoriety,
'only exile could make him unfaithful to the V orietes.
It must not be supposed that, because aifts hithCTto
■ mentioned have been chiefly those frequented by men aDoui
mentioned ^ btuden 5 these cl^es monopo-
b Rt yj „_,’ or cven VCIT greatly preponderate at—the 1 arisian cates.
thC A?claL^I and Sl ages, L I have said, live this non-domestic
Heir Ufa-among bachelors it is almost universal, and among
r married men very common. If onc finds less to say about.the
“I 8 llurg.Z. cafes, it is because there are in them
Sp leS variety, less picturMqucness, fewer
f than those which haunt the places which are to some exicu
* ot a Zt of thrnSature of the time. Still, a word about them is
1 tllo due to the wise who wish to study the actual life of the respect-
able, middle-aged, middle-class * renchmen of to-day.
Earl T win take two examples, besides the steady-going hterary
SF cotta Voltaire and Wirey already mention^ V**
rmcr distinctively bourgtom than these arc two eaf6s. VVtenl i»
Boulevard Montmartre, the other near the Great
r H 8 * Terminus of Paris, on the Boulevard Moutparnossc TlH
•c of former, though surrounded by theatres and byn°> 3 y^taurauts
. is n thoroughly quiet, aud pleasant house, and loeloscs a prc y
„ little garden, in which one can sit aud smoke or drink one s
S coffeef It k called the Cafe de Mulhouse and is one of the
went chief resorts in Paris of players of that old -tashioned, mildly
£>-,0 exciting game, dominoes: is perhaps looked optoby^
Csso- 1 with a veneration like that of chessp ayersjor the b^ncc.o
j draught-players for the Manoury. Billuml.yind bt/.ique m
♦ be odd combination—ore also popular at the Cafe d
hero but the domino is undisputed king. avenue—
iE For the southern cafe of respectability-the Cafe Lavenue
his I can hardly recommend an English visitor to make a pU
I ! o primage to the Boulevard Montparnasse cspcctoU}_tosee it,
“sue- but if. when lie has gone to VersaiQes by the railway ot tnt
S rave IhoUe, he wUl vary his return journey, and pass througn
hncss 1 some exquisite scenery, remembering that hu ticket« ua
,‘ i C ^ I also for the Hive Oauche (or “ Surrey side ’ of tho nver). or 1L
Cd “ during his stay in Paris, he spends sixpcncc-halfpenTiy m
[ c the making the complete tour of the town by r, dl , the
exceedingly well worth l.is while to do-he can descend at uie
when Gare Montparnasse, spend half an hour nt the ^afe
o tlm and resume his journey. Of course, he will sec nothing but a
i cha- acf of respectable people eating, chatting, or G r owmg ^
-d out ovcr their cigars ; but national differences ought ,
Spere such a sight^interesting to any student of human nature-
thletic indeed, who cannot amuse himself now and thwbywB
ecially his own countrymen at their meals, « let alone foreigners^
cicncy °“ e lit(lc t,,iu g which one always remarksi at such » P
y the exceeding and petty selfishness of the French , and is
quality which, in spite of oil tlicir good pomta. g.ycs one a
certain contempt for them. Enough of Parisian re p .
300 for at its cafes. Wc will take a turn next week to the breezi
I atmosphere of Parisiun art.
JULY 27, 1878
TEE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
CHESS.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
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P«nm.«j. No. ITItt..
« a careful ex.mln.Uon of the defence, it Bhiri dta££tal
wnim.
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every eaeo on the following
dlspnanl should .how.
8onmo* or Froblkm No. 1794.
black.
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PROBLEM No. 1797.
By H. E. Kidsob.
BLACK.
OBITUARY.
SIR GEORGE BIDDLECOMBE, RN
Captain Sir George liiddlccombe, R.N., C.B., died recently nfc
the ugc of seventy Sir George entoed the Nȣta 7m
having previously been in the mcrcmtUe service and token
part as second officer of an East India transport in the
Burmese war of 1825-6. After entering the Navv ho wrved
ns second master at the siege of Oporto, in 1832-3 and as wi.it „ -
“ th . c Sj-rian campaign of 1810. Ho survcVed mid lefe^. 1
made a chart of the Bay of Acre, previous to the bombard- A K.iiiZh lt wff t * lnn> — |n ti
ment of the city, and was present at its capture. lie wns ® a wVudmh""
« “the Sc „£££
2 GSsa&e&aiGa&s.*** *«
assistant-master attendant nt Keyham Dockynnl in 1*55
master-attendant_of Woolwich Dockyard in 1861, and retired
as Captain m 1867. He wns the author of works on “ Naval
Tactics, Steam Meet Tactics,” and ninny other books on
Bachelor b i^ C 18‘73 IC W “ appohlted tt CB ’ in 18G7 >and a Knight
THE DEAN OF PETERBOROUGH.
The Very Rev. Augustus Page Saunders, D.D., who died on
the 21st inst. at Peterborough, after having been for a long
Vj?o ? ut ° f ^ th » was appointed Dean of Peterborough in
18o3 by Mr. Gladstone, whoso tutor he had been at Oxford
where he took a double first class at Christ Chnrch The
deceased was best known as Head Master of the Charterhouse •
but, unlike many schoolmaster Deans, he was by no means an
inactive dignitary When he went to Peterborough there was
httle life in the cathedral, and to him are mainly due the suc-
cessfid choral festivals in the cathedral and the Sunday even¬
ing services in the nave, as well os the throwing open of the
building to the public. He was much interested in the
‘ Quiet Day in the cathedral on Thursday, the 18th inst
when Professor Westcott addressed a large number of clergy-
who spent the day in devotion. He was a strong Liberal and
was offered by Mr. Gladstone the deanery of Winchester in
1874, which he declined.
DR. OLDHAM.
Dr. Thomas Oldham, who was at the head of the Geological
Survey of India from its origination in 1850 till 1876, died nt
Rugby on the 17th inst. He was born in Dublin in May, 1816 •
was educated at Trinity College, Dublin; became in 1839 chief
geological assistant to Major-General Portlock, then at the
head of the survey of Ireland; and after being for a while
curator and assistant secretary of the Geological Society of
Dublin, held for a year the professorship of engineering; and
in 1845 succeeded the late Professor John Phillips os Professor
of Geology. He was then appointed Local Director of the
Geological Survey of Ireland; and in 1850 he was appointed to
orgnnisc the geological survey of India. While in India ho
became a member of the Itoyul Asiatic Society of Bengal, and
was four times president. He was elected a Fellow of the Koval
Society in 1848, and received the Royal medal of the society
MR. PEGOE-BURNELL.
Edward Valentine Pegge-Bumell, Esq., of Winkburu Hall
Notts, and Beauchieff Abbey, in the county of Derby, M.A., a
country gentleman of ancient lineage and extensive estates
died at Winkburn Hall, on the 15th inst., aged seventy-three!
He was the son of Broughton Benjamin Pegge-Bumell, Esq.
J.P. and D.L., of Beauchieff Abbey, and represented in the
male line the old Yorkshire family of Steade: the names of
Peggc and Burnell were assumed in consequence of the
inheritance of property in Derbyshire and Notts. Mr. Peggc-
Burnell, whose death we record, was a J.P. for Derbyshire
and a magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for Nott«*, of which
county he was High Sheriff in I860. He married, in 1833,
Harriet, second daughter of Hugh Parker, Esq., of Wood!
thorpe, Yorkshire, and had, with other issue, an eldest son
Edward StreUey Pegge-Bumell, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel
Coldstream Guards, now of Winkburn Hall.
95
THE PARIS TOURNEY.
The following is the first On mo in the fifth round between Mr .1 n Bi aci
buhsk, of 1-ondon, and Mr. MscKBNZiR.of New York — (Sen/eA Gambit.)
(Mr. M ) wniTK (^Mr. R.) black (Mr. M.)
white (Mr. B.)
1. P to k 4th
2. Kt to KB3rd
3. P to Q Ith
4. Kt takes P
6. B to K 3rd
0. P to ft B 3rd
7. B to ft B 4th
The ui
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated May 18,1878) of Mr. George Ashwell, late of
St. Albans, Herts, who dkd on May 18 last, was proved on the
2nd inst. by Charles Drngc, M.D., and Frederick Searle
the * xccutore , tl>c personal estate being sworn under
itrntion «i taking part in tiw £60,000. The testator makes up the income of his wife to
Kto»Su. ,,, fftahLK?.*?; i - ’, 00 nn , n ! un - There « re bequests in favour of liis sons,
. 1 . x to u tuh. u t.k« hi iC, Edward and Stephen, and his daughter Mm. Helen Edwards;
^ t Z l w ^f K,n Xl h Li'T n - , , 80mc k ’e aciea servants. The residue of his property he
Mr. Mmkimrne 4i<i not p'*y. | leaves upon trust for his daughter Mrs. Ann Gibson, for 'life,
and then for all her children.
107 ? e ,^ (dated Nov. 11,1876) with a codicil (dated April 16,
1877) of the Rev. Henry Jcnkyns, D.D., one of tho Canons of
the cathedral church of Durham, who died on April 2 last, at
Botley Hill, Bishops Waltham, Southampton, was proved on
tho 4th inst. by Sir Arthur Uobhousc, K.C.S.I., Henry
Jcnkyns, the son, and William Phelps, the executors; the
personal estate being sworn under £45,000. Tho testator
t ives legacies to his executor, Mr. Phelps, and to his immarri<-d
aughters, aud makes up the portions of liis three younger
sons, Richard, John, and Arthur, to £12,000 each. All liis
real estate and the residue of his personalty he leaves to his
eldest son, Henry.
The will (dated Feb. 20, 1878, with a codicil bearing the
same date, and another dated April 6 following) of Lieutenant-
Colonel Thomas Francis Hobday, late of No. 2, Talbot-square*
Paddington, who died on the 3rd ult., was proved on the
1 st inst. by Mrs. Louisa Elizabeth Hobday, the widow, William
Henry Buttanshaw, the nephew, Richard .Salisbury Simp.-.::;,
aud George Newbolt, the executors, the personal estate being
under £35,000. The testator bequeaths to hii wile
£•>00, also £50 to be distributed by her amongst charities, of
which £10 is to go to St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington; to
bis executors, £50 each ; to liis sister, Miss Henrietta Nott
Hobday, an annuity of £100; to his three sous. Thomas
Francis, J»mes_ Ramsay, and Edmund Arthur Ponsonby,
annuities of £150 each ; and the residue of his property upon
trust for his wife for life or until she shall many again, and
on the happening of either event then for his said sous.
pic will (dated May 11, 1870) with two codicils (the first
without date, but the last dated April 15, 1872) of the Rev.
Charles Campbell, late of Wcasenhom, who died on May 20
last, was proved on the 15th inst. by the Rev. Straton Charles
Campbell, the son, and George Thomas Jenkins, the executors,
the personal estate being sworn under £35,000. With tho
exception of some memorial gifts to his two sons-in-law and
to a friend, the only legatees under tho will are testator’s
children.
The will (dated Oct. 2, 1869) with two codicils (dated
Aug. 19, 1871, and Oct. 10,1874) of Mr. Frederick Faulkner,
late of Bath, banker, who died on May 2 last, has been proved
at the Bristol District Registry by John Whittington and
.Thomas Frederic Inman, the executors, the personal estate
being sworn under £25,000.
The will (dated May 22, 1875) of Sir Henry Conyngham
Montgomery, Bart., formerly of Buraham-grove, Berks, but
late of No. 5, Manchestcr-tquare, who died on the 24th ult.,
was proved on the 17th inst. by Dame Leonora Montgomery,
the widow, and Admiral Sir Alexander Leslie Montgomery and
Alfred Montgomery, the brothers, the executors, the personal
estate being sworn under £14,000.
The Qlatgow Herald is informed that the late Mr. Samuel
King haa left the residue of his estate, which will amount to
£20,000, to the Merchants’ House.
P to K 4 til
Kt to ft 11 3rd
P t ilk os p
B to B 4th
ft to B 3rd
K Kt to K 2nd
P to ft 3rd
....--- l«, 7. Kt t<> K 4th;
hut the move In flip text, which liU-rnlr*
|J[jj !i^t hc<|llltc«»EiK« 1 ,to»uj
8. P to KB 4th B to ft Kt 3rd
9 Castles ft to Kt 3rd
10. Kt to ft 2nd P to B 3rd
11. R to B 3rd
wiirr Tti w ,"° mPtonsih.
of the cxch
- P to Hard
Kt to K B 3rd ft to Q 3rd
2 fi. Kt to K 5th P to K R 4th
27. PtoRSIh B toU 2nd
28 R to ft n sq R lo It 2nd
29. P to ft Kt 4th P to ft B 3rd
Since winning the ex.-hnneo Mr. Mac.
k«-nrlc hAA rirrrloivxt hia pintr with the
« ir With defCAfln* one After Another the
devices of hla Ingenious ed-
30. P, to K 3rd
31. RtoKBsq
* ' White intend* to brine tlicQ n round
ilnynl the H toy
K to Kt sq
d, he shunld here |dii)rd th
11 .
12. P takes Kt
13. B to K 2nd
14. K to Kt 3rd
15. Kt takes P
16. Kt to Kt 5th
17. B to B 2nd
18. P tabes Kt
19. ft to » 2nd .
20. B to Kt 6th (cb) K to B «/,
21. R to K sq ft to II 3rd
22. ft to B 3rd II to K B 4th
23. Pt©R4th P to ft It 3rd
Kt takes Kt
P to B Ith
P takes P
Q to II 2nd
Kt to H 4th
ft to K 2nd
Kt takes U
P to ft 41 h
Pto Kt3id
SI R to K B sq
32. B to ft B sq B to K 5th
31. 1* to Kt Mh R P takes P
31. R to ft sq
If he lisd now pUted the Tt to ft 3rd ai
JJ f he inmmscd. lllA. k - * rni.ser li
1“ (chi .»
X,. ft to Kt 2nd
»: P to It 6lh
37. P takes P
nd White rmlgn....___ ....
now lake !• w ith I*, then follows J7. „
lit. And. If Anything cl«c. Ulnrk olAra
SJ. y to ft 3rd. winning null). 1 ***
P to Kt 5th
rto (1 5th
R P takes P
P to Kt 4tb,
, slmii Id he
The deaths have also been announced of—
Major J. St. John Munro, H.B.M. Consul at Montevideo,
on the 18th nit. ’
,e.,?l aj0 /' Gcn n ernl W> S> Row - lat « Bengal Staff Corps, on the
I6th inst., at Brighton, aged fifty-four.
William Foster White, Esq., J.P. and D.L. for Middlesex
mid formerly treasurer of St. Bartholomew’s und Christ’s
Hospitals, ou tho 20th inst.
Colonel John Leonard Miller, formerly on the staff, son of
i. ij !, to Ma j° r • 7amea Miller, who for more than forty years
held the post of Fort Major of Jersey, on the 1st inst.
Lieutenmt-Colonel Hungerford Dccdes Jackson, It.A., ou
the 9th ult., at Srinugui, Cashmir, aged fsrty-five. Colonel
Jackson had a medal and clasp for Delhi, and a medal with
clasp for the Bhootan campaign.
Mrs. Julia Cecilia Stretton, the well-known authoress of
the charming novels “ Margaret and her Bridesmaids,” “ The
Valley of a Hundred Fires,” and other works, aged sixty-five.
She was a constant contributor to many of our periodicals.
Mr. William Wyko Smith, the solicitor to the Metropolitan 1 *‘"’7 *•»*? ro, ! ,, ,l b, L‘Tr. n Bi«cktoi)^”,ndAvii^ .*„d
21°sl inst W from n u t,n i r r ideUCU ’ \f T 5 a “P to n Court,Outlie “HSt
nt.!w hett ^ t ^ sctwe ', Mr - femith Vas a solicitor , to-day (Wine*!•*?-). Tlic lliml nwtilt of tlio pl«y in the der. if im.n.1*
unaer the old Commission, and was reappointed under the wil1 P^bubly tie found in another juirt of thi* imic; a ml
new regime in 1861. meanwhile wo continue our namitive of the struggle trom the
The Hew W *i. . _ 1 P° int , l ° which it wu» biouifht Inst week. The tenth round
r L 1 . radcn * the successor to Dr. Biuncy at the W«* pUyed on the lwh and unh inst, when Zukcriwt won one
eigh-llouse Chapel, Fish-strcet-hill. Mr. Braden, who was J. 1 ?' 1 9 onc wlt !' And ‘» Mackcnrio v. Binl. enrh m,ml one p,mr:
c r°, to Lo,, ^ n , ' om " u , d - sssrf
uers tia, and soon made for himself a fair position among the Ho-enthnl in both games. The eleventh rmmd, as wc have aln ndy «inte<l
ikonconionnist ministers of the metropolis. hw» not been brought ion conclusion so fur «» two of the puin. ure eon-
L'a - i tt. ... — ei-mcd; but tlic completed M-orcw are—Hownthnl iron one mil dn-w one
nh Andeissen. Bird-won two gmnes of Mason, knjflis. h won twuof (iilford.
nd ZukerU.rt won two of (Sere. The tiist mime Is tw.x n lltuckbunie mid
Winnwcr wn* druwii. and that between Stackeiuic nud IM.whrll was won by
.-.. louiitiug
The hundred and thirty-fifth Wesleyan Conference was
opened at Bradford on Tuesday, when the Rev. Dr. Rigg,
Principal of the Westminster Normal Institution, was elected
President, and the Rev. Marmodukc Osborn, secretary.
OTESS INTELLIGENCE.
We had hoped to announce (hi* week the rln*c of the Paris international
tourney, tlie Hnal round of which wna, atcorlmg to generHl expectation to
have been completed on Tueedny hwt. A* wc go to praw. however. ’
have received advicaa from Paris mronning iia that, in comieniienre of I
BOOKS BECEIVED.
Sacred Vows. By E. Werner. 3 vols. (Remington and Co.)
Stories of Geiman History. By C. M. Yonge. (Marcus Ward and Co )
FeuiUemorte, and other Poems. By Percy Gordon. (Unmuim and Co 1
The Soldier’s Pocket Guide to Shooting. By IV. G. Underhill (Clow.-* )
Outlines of Swedenborg's Theology. By Theophilus Parsons. LL D
(J. Spiers. 36. Blouiusbury-strcet.J
Guy Moancring ; or, The Astrologer. By 8ir Walter Scott. With Illus¬
tration*. (Marcus Ward and Co )
The Younger Brother. A Comedy. By R. Crawley. (Hard wicke and Bogue )
The Witness of Art: or. The legend of Beuuty. By Wyke Bavliss. Stiond
Kditi n. (Hanlwieke and Bogue.)
English Men of Lcttois : Sir Walter Scott. By Richard H. Hutton. (Mac¬
millan and Co.)
Baals and Blossoms: Poetry and History of Flowers, &c. By F. E. Ilulnie
(Maieus Ward and Co.)
Wynyard of High Wynyard. A Novel of the Present Day. By Charles
Durant. 2 vol*. (Clmpman and Hall J
Enify History of tlic Colony of Vietoi hi. By F. P. LabiUiere, Barrister-at-
law. 2 vols. (SampBuu Low und C.’o )
Princes and Pi inecsses. By U. and E. Malden. (C Kegan Taul and Co )
The Sonntta of Michael Angelo Buonarotti and Tormniiso CumiMinelhi.
Tntnslnied intorhmust Kmrlishbr.T A Syinonds (Smith, Elder, and Co.)
By Mariuna Monteixo. (R.
n,. ♦^ W , a ^ IIamU l 0n Hoskins, Esq., of Iloddesdon, Herts, J.P.,
on the 13th nut, by being gored by a bull. He wns in his
lioJh- 1 y ^ r ’ and was the d(,cr aon of U>c late Thomas
« of Topsham, Devon, Commander It.N., by
a u cldc8t ““lighter of William Leishuinu, Esq., of
Alnwick, Northumberland.
Carruthers, Esq., of Donnont, Dumfries-
ai . ld P L -. and Convener of the County, on the Kith
waa tbi! Park - 8trect . Grosvenor-square, aged fifty-four. Ho
♦ i y of the ,ate WiUiam J. Camithcrs, Esq , of
n’ by r^! lcn .’ hw daughter of the late Donald
of . 1 Caatlc I^aclihin, und was formerly in the Scots
fanni v Jn *,“* of normoI,t is * branch of the old and loyal
family of Carruthers of Holiuaine. |
Zukertort
Winawcr
Blackburne
Bird ...
Mackenzie
Audersecn
Euglisch
L>wt.
110
110
130
• n ; "— wuu » oecn built at n co
■i nomas Jessop, was opened on Monday.
tho^iTf n Roa -\ one of t}, c 42nd Highlanders, who passed
Of Waterlfj e, i*. n8 1 uli V r camp aign, and took part in the Battle
dglri-fo^^ at DuUd0 ° lu3t “t the age of
Tiik Cut
mitu-e of the Couinies CIicks Association it has been determined that
the “ Mephiato ITize” of £3, given l,y Mr. Oumpel, shall be whlcd to
the lir>t prize of the general httudiciip, o|ieu to all player*, at mu enliiiiiee
fee of live shillings; and, in order lo meet the conieuh nee of Loudon
players who may have business engagements during the day, play in the
handicap shad be urning>-d to take iduee in the evening, Iu-ginning at |
■even. Kntrances can be made to J. I. Miuchin, Eeq., lioooiuiy Lindonsei-re-
Urj, to Saturday, July 27, at Palace Chambers, 20, King-«Uevt, St James'*, i
Translated iuto rhymed English by J_
Gathered Gems from Spanish Authors.
AVushboume, Piitci-mx-ter-row.)
Minnie Travers. By Anna Lisle. (Grooinbridgc and Sons.)
On Trek in the Tmnsvaul; or. Over Berg and Veldt in South Africa. By
Unmet A. Roche. (Sampson Low.)
The Monograph Gospel; or, the Four Gospels in One Continuous Narrative
in the Words of Scripture. By G. Washington Moon. (Hutchards.)
The Shareholders’ and Directors’ Legal Companion. By F. B. Palmer.
(Stevens and Son.)
Hermann Agha: An Eastern Narrative. By W. Gifford Palgravc. Third
Edition. (C. Kegan Paul and Co.)
A Companion to Killamey. By Mr. and Mrs. 8. C. Hall. With Hlus-
tration* and Map. (Marcus Ward.)
Saintly Worker*. Five Lenten Sermons. By Professor Furrar, D.D., Canon
of Westminster. (Macmdlan and Co )
Dcvos-I’lntz: A New Alpine Resort for Sick and Sound in Summer aud
Winter. By Onc Who Knows It Well. (Stanford. J
S-ieii ly of Enginei is. Transactions for 1877. (E. und F. N. Spoil.)
Alhih-.Vkliiir. God is Great. An Arab Ix-gend of the Siege of (ijanada.
From Ihe Spnniah. By Mnriauu Mnntoiro. (R. Wash bourne.)
Studies in Spectrum Analysis. By J. Norman Luckycr. Suxmd Edition.
(C. Kigali Paul and Co.)
MumchI .Sketches; Abroad and At Home. By Professor Ella. Third
Edition. (W. Reeves, Fleet-street.)
The Students' Manual of Artistic Anatomy. With 25 Plates. By William
J. Muekliy. (BiiilliOn-. Tindall, and Co.)
Being a Buy By Charles lb Warner. Illustrated. (Triibner and Co.)
tor.iy Moments, l'ocius lly“lpidoru.” (Hodder and Stoughton.)
Toe Evening und the Morning; or, *’ Let There be Light." A Narrative.
(James Spiers, ;kj, Bloomsbury-stmt j
Uolhind and Her Heroes to tlie Year 1585. Being an adaptation of Jlotley’*
•• Wise of the Dutch Republic." By M. Albert. (C. Kegan Paul anil Co.)
Roy’s Wife. A Novel. By G. Whytc-Mclville. 2voU. (Chapman and Hall.)
Free Trade and Protection. By Professor Fawcett, M.P. (Macmillan.)
The Earl’s Cedars. A Romance. By Rosa Mackenzie Kettle. Author's
edition. (J. Weir. 283. Regent-street.)
Sunshine Jenny, nud oilier Stories. By Mrs.G.S Reany. (KcgnnF.nil and Co.)
Old Point Lace, and llow lo Copy and Imitate It. By Daisy Wuteihouse
II inkins, lllustratnl. (( buito and Windus.)
Oaddings with a Pr.mitive People: Sketches of Alpine Life and Customs.
By W. A. lladlie Urohman. 2 vols. (Remington tnd Co )
A Mis* in Her Ti ens. A Tide for Girls. From the Gmnan by Rlioda E.
Colbome. (J. W. Kolekmnnn, 2, lainghain-plare, W.)
A Hanilbook for Public Meetings. By G. F. Chambers, Burrister-ut-Luw.
(Sievin' »nd Sons.)
Spring and Autumn. By Phn-lie Allen. (Mozley and Smith.)
Irene Floss and other Poem*. By Uuniette Smith. (Wuine and Co.)
’Ihe Parks und Gardens of Pari* By W. Robinson, F.L.S. Revised edition.
Illustrated. (Macmillan and Co.)
JULY 27, 1878
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r V rv extensive Stock of Clock*. »r«n*“j olMM; Console- ,
!rX : . •nwoll' raTuIrandole** from 1 to 20 guinea._
jyjAPLE and CO., Importers.
rpURKEY CARPETS,
p-DlAN CARPETS,
PERSIAN CARPETS.
I 2000 DAGHESTAN and
I_ r apt F CO — SILK DAMASKS.
M
1 r APLE and CO.—CURTAINS, for Dining
1 jVI and Drawing Room*.?{£dnl!ble whUh.
l double width, from a*. 3 d. per ynrd._
K 5hE CBBAM orOLD IRISH
IT A p ure Spanish SHERRY
cq&SBfimM
pjsB#8S^*-^
FLLIS’S RUTHIN WATERS.
fTlIS SPOBE AERATED BUTHIN WATERS. j
ILLll«BtT1ll»*ATEM-»^..F">“. 6 " l, '''' L ' l ’“‘ • |
jsrssfsszz-' oo... nd* *-. ...
“BLafKiW-- _„__
"T^TrOBINSOS, OXFORD-STREET.
1 GREAT SALE OF FRENCH SILKS
AND ANNUAL SUMMER S ALE.
BLACK ' ASD
CILKS AT GREAT REDUCTIONS,
O stri »"d Che"! Silks, »t 1*. 11 Id. peryard;
BROCADED SILKS,
Of extreme riehneM^n^^e. “
of tho «r?.t pr '“ ^
i 000 Piece. Rich Silk * *•*■*"’"*’
mo p‘«« jssrai mS * ^^ nkI '
SR Colon red
I ANNUAL SUMMER SALE
_VJ w.TRRS.-SoM everywhere- A'bolc-elc. _t\- ____
6 < B.EU1» end Son. Ruthin.' Every leoc , . p
nESSR«SSH8^«^
.mwrICAN CENTENNIAL
aMKBI prizemeuau
j«s«r-SsahWSM^*
a rticle. _
TORY’S CARACAS COCOA.
£ ••The Ckruene Oocrav of euch clioloi
J; “The Cereca* Oocon
AT APLE and CO—CRETONNE CHINTZ.
MjM a ^i-7S&»SSia
FRY’S EXTRACT OS^ COCOA, „ >f
w “ ur ' “ ,,,, A,r -
«k ,,,u _ |
ritAYLOR BROTHERS’
■jyjARAVILLA COOOA.^ ^ the perfwt( on
01 prep> gHt Uh Medici Joumnl.
M ARAVILLACOCOA.— Thc'Ullobe^saysJ
MARAVILI.A COCOAAm ‘S
-VTEW OSTEND.—The most
SLrtwaa»WSf^a
wlabillty.» ueiicnwp
the pureet element*
r: i I a«S^tBS 2 E£^i»'-
^tS&SSR 1 '
^"nSrS^S^ce^ShcnP & to ril I«t. ol & o —
'r^tculere. raldrto. the Continent.! Deportment. Liver- (j^
fool-«uwt SUtion, Lo ndon, B.C. ___apt**
T>RITISH rad AMERICAN WHOLESALE g£
Lfiffi. 2 . FSJ&.WS.SSV. Wf 88 B
ftOSBE, Prag.(Bohemle)._
r\RDER EVERYTHING YOU KEOJIRE
U THROUGH COCKBURN-S UNITED s R R V«Sro^?s'to C M
SOCIETY «. Heymarkft. 1/radon S.W.. and »ve from 5 to M
?«r cent and much time and trouble by »o doing- T(ie *
AirEDDING and BIRTHDAY PRESENTS The
W at HENRY RODRIGUES' 42• The
, 0 veio^i^' 1 *^to« 7$3£&r ■ »«• ™
JSSUZStT .. at tots Jewel O«o •• f5
wXmC^** " lto to«I D«" r \?;™ y **j'; n ,| n D®*' ^„<|“ I Bl«t
^ n dTioVce C A^rrtm™t Vtooneto. and Parl.i.n n
.jsJlul and Elegant Noveltlee. from fie. to 15. __ j
nODRIOUES’ DRESSING-BAGS for ^
IV TrnvdUne with .liver, .ilvcr-gilt, and plnt.-d IHUuk*.
from ttto. to fao; Souffiet ll«g». WaUt Hag.. , V* rrl %,^ S! '’ “ nd T]
Bag* of all kind*, at very moderate price.—42. Piccadilly. JU
'PORTRAIT ALBUMS at RODRIGUES’,
JL with Patent Leather OnanUJe. fid. to £S. Ea»l Album*. p,
Bcmp Alboroi, PrecentAtion and RrfflmenUI
Alboms of every deacrlptlon made to order.—42.1 iccadilly. tJ
A 10 N 0 GRAMS.—RODRIGUES’ Novelties I
ill In Monogram*. Crerta. and Mdmue*. JM »*•*■- —
araved a* gem*. Note Paper and Envelope* Illuminated In -»
fldd. allveT. and colour*. CujEnred rtamping. I*. P" l“b All the I
New and ra*hlonable Note Taper, ke pt in *t.)ck.-<2, Piccadilly . V
AHSITING CARDS at H. RODRIGUES’. _
V A Card-Plate elegantly engraved and ICO *nperflne Ca*d. f
printed for 4*. fid. MCnPWgnw mil B> 1 ' " ■ '•ueitCard*. ^
and lnvltottone, In every Turiety.—12, Piccadilly. s(
T70R ARMS and CREST, send Name and ™
r Connty to T. MORING. Inn. of Conrt Heraldic-Office*.
44 High Hoiborn, W.C. Plain Sketch. S*. sd,: Colouretl. •«. id. 7
bill, Dice, and Diplomas, lllurtrated i'lice-Llrta i>o*t-lrcc.
__ U
X»10. BENNETT’S WATCHES. «
K\“dVu^«:c!wa^^ A
_ :
AXTALKER’S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES *
TT areanperwdlng all other*. Prl*e Medal*—I**ndon,lW2,
Parti, 1*7. Silver Wateh«i.«rom£4 4*.: Gold, from IMfi* : .j rl«»-
Lteta aeAt free.—6*. Corn hill; 220, Regent-street; and 76, strand.
rkROIDE GOLD WATCHES, 21 a., 25s.,
Vy an - free by rrglstend post fid. extra. Facsimile of co.tly
gold watches; exact tin»-kee|iera. OiUlo-ncs noet-fiee.
C. C. ROWE. 68. Brumpton-road. London.8.W.
ELECTRICITY IS LIFE.
TJULYERMACHER’S “GALVANISM,
X NATURES CHIEF RESTORER OF EXHAUSTED
V1TA In Udfl'ainpiilit the most reliable proof* are given of the
vast and wonderful cnrutlvo |e-w. t» of Pulvennacher a
Patent Galvanic Clmln-lland*. Ilelt*. Ac.. In Rheumatic,
Nervon*. and Functional Disorder*. Sent post-free for
J. I,, vc'uvE^tMCUKti'i' (;A*I?VANIC ESTABLISHMENT,
1*4, REGENT-STREET, LONDON. W.; AND39, RUE ST.
MARC. PARIS.
rpo PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH
X RUPTURE.-PRATT'S WATER-PAD TRUSSES are the
meet effectual Cura.—Apply to J. F. Pratt. Surgical Mechanician
toft. Bartholomew'. Hospital,420, Oxford-street. London. I
-nOSTAL ORDER DEPARTMENT.
ss ^^s^ftk'anaKjaS!SS
UiEogUnS- P.tto^^t Sdquotatlon*glvraifre.ofchar^.
TV TAPLE^ and CO.-BED-ROOM SUITES
e^^L^SiS^SSSi^
the Tottenham-oourt -road. London.
GARDNERS’ NEW DINNER and TABLE
GI.ASa SEUVICn^ nHlri.nM
£3 S*. 6d. the Set for twelve person, complete.
DINNER SEBV1CE8.
L ""T'"" ..
TheLensdowne ' ^ S Tile todlan*”*.. II*}*#
TheUurel .. - »»» • j K iSSSST II - » « #
Discount IS per cent. _
In Enamelled Pattern.. I In their "neonaUed Crown
T %£?ff*n AW * » 6 0 In Rub, .. W ..*• -« « 0
II
The 84 vie* .. " ptLxnint 18 per cent.
TABLE GLASS SERVICES.
; K'^g-r “ wU . 5 S|i«y^ife US .*
, Richly cut glas. Dleeonnt 16 pero-i,t. „, rn ^„ nt
1
Gardner.', I*>mp, Glas*. and Cl. ina Manufacturer*..J3 and 4M.
r West Stran d, Charing-cmaa. _
i -jj 0 W E L L, JAMES, and CO.’S
QUEEN ANNE CLOCKS,
'• j 7 , 9 , REGENT-STREET, PALL-MALL.
- pARIS EXHIBITION, CLASS 20.
i I TOSEPH GILLOTT ’8
y. 0 STEEL PENS.
QHOCOLAT MENIER, in 4 lb. and ^lb.
BREAKFAST
end SUPPER-
pHOCOLAT MENIER.—AwardedTwenty-
TUrt ® PRIZE MEDALS.
PRIZE MEDALS.
Consumption annually
exceed* 17.000,OOOltw.
STEEL PENS.
Bold by *11 Stationer, thronghont the World._
QHOCOLAT MENIER. Taris, !
Bold Everywhere._ i
CCHWEITZE H’S COCOATINA 7
o Antt-l)vn* ldic Cocoa or Chocolate l'owder.
Cia.ranUvd I'urt id'ublr Cocoa, will, exocj. of ^'^r.ctod^
Four time* the *trengtli of Cocoa* injcaeiu-u y
Breakfast Cup, costing eM tlmn ab^'f nfemi.ta and Grocery
VAA^-itnrt. London. W.C.
T1EBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
^FINEST 8 ° Cr8 _
T IEBIG COMPANY^ EXTRACT OF
CAUTION.—Genuine only with 1r *“ ln l’ 1 , ,?i2. , i Baron
Liebig'. Signature In Blue Ink ncro*. label.
T IEBIG 'COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
Xj MEAT : _
■ SUMMER DELICACY.
gROWN and pOLSON’S
0ORN pLOUR
1. the most agreeable
and most whole*-me accmniraniment lor
STEWED F RUIT OF ALL KINDS. _
L E N H E L D s”t ARCH
lias for many yeara been exclusively used In the Royal
oThe^best JRareh I ererj The Queen's L«undre«.
"Admittedly far and away; the I .. The World."
I. -pK.W&'SSlSa-, -Wffl)*
■Urchlng mo Alins. I Msgmne._
rmFSSES AT GREAT REDUCTIONS.
I DR ^l^er i c!ihm <S e r Mer.noe,. new Odonrs.
1 ko piece. TwIlledAnf^MomS" M-'perp- 8 ^*
| T lie enti re Stock of I r«nch Perea ^ w)(d nt «d. per yard
I ■jar£sss-^isw^*5»
-•es^SSags^Kcns- 1 '
•••
PETER BOB1N80N . OXFORD-STREET. _
v^sgESfiTiasssL
P^FeR'ROBINSON; O XFOBD-8TBEET. LONDON. W.
' pNGLISH AND J>0REIGN (DOUBTS.
^ EOERTON BURNETTS_
WELLINGTON SERGE8,
l
,* and execute* Orders dally IRO tbeir permanent dye.
1 Seitlier rain nor suit water can tn.cl u.e.r^w pArrEB i(.
il Prices from Is. 2|d- to tlio ilneat * J, p , ( Xti> y Brl»tol or London
1 ^^&SS& i SBwaBBah
- 6 “‘ Tr “‘"gGES?ON F “BDRNETT,
^ BERGE WARE1H)U8E8,
WELLIN GTON, bOMERBBT.
- TAY’S PERIODICAL SALE OF SURPLUS
j m J STOCK._
iiy OILK DEPARTMENT. — J AUM R r8
*• b BLACK 61LK8.lfrm.. lU : ^cTsJm?*: SStn^ta
- peryml. __
/CAUTION.—BOND’S CRYSTAL PALACE
ly OOLD MEDAL MARKING INK.—Soma OiemliU and
TOHN GOSNELL and CO.’S VIOLET
♦J .„d MILLEFLEUR POWDER, to ,the Tollet and har»cry
W RIGHT ’8 COAL-TAR SOAP
w. V. 1 WBIGll ! r and CO., Sontiiwark-strect. London.
-DEARS’ TRANSPARENT SOAP. For the
X Toilet, the Nursery, and for Shoving. Reflncd.free
from oxceM of elk«U end from artificial colouring,
delicately and wholesomely perrumed. (til hoop In
It. purest form, and hence the most healthful in
on; Its great durability make. It also the most
economical- For Ladiee. qdldren. or anyone with
wills' ^AiiiaRassiWiSBa
VY CASTLlis.' ' -Vide " Tlie V trglntane.
“ THREE
Bold only In PackeU and CIgaratU., pro- CASTLES.”
tccto d by ^»^» H % T yit^Uri,tol and London.
AXORA MEDICATED FRUIT
LOZENGES for CONSTIPATION. SLUGGISHNESS
OF THE CTOMACH. BILE. HEADACHE.
The " Lancet:"-'' It i* a great improvement on the
nreiuirntlona In common UK for the seme puri*o»e
P "‘Medical I*rees" “ Lexora Loxengea can 1 h» safely
rTOmmended ( .” )bo n,e, Ph.D.:-"Laxora Loiengesor*
Swasa-B#- »*«««#; wh ° ,# -
aale, 83. Bouthwark-*trret.
pLAIR’S GOUT PILLS,
q ILK COSTUME DEPARTMENT^
6 ‘" >i:
7| g». each._—-
ivrANTLE DEPARTME NT.
M jss^ssss^ usasaa.'sii -n
beal .kln Jacket*. g>- each. _
1>LACK DEPARTMENT.-Grcnadines, Is-
15 per yard; All-Wool Fabric*. Is. per yard; serge Co.tu
2g». each, with m aterial for bodice- _
DALL and EVENING DRESS ROOJL
J5 F^te Drreere from 2ls. -ch. AH light Evening Drawee,
at extremely low price*. ___
G ~R EYD E P ART ME N T. — CAMBRIC
DRESSES. Iron. li*. ad.cacl.; Fancy OwtmnM.trl ^
. i? _! _
M ‘ ILLINERY.—All Summer Bonnets,
1 llata, anil Cup* are s-UT reduced in price.
THE LONDON GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE
Ui*gcot-«rw, w •
AAfEDDING TROUSSEAUX,
” India,foiSti
Sir*. ADDLEY BOURNE. 3 7. Piccadilly. __
I 1)ABY LINEN.
ol Xj LAYETTES.jtfcdlOjknd £20.
Mr*. ADDLEY*110 iTr NE? 37. Piccadilly. __
Je C WAN BILL CORSETtRe^t^d)^
- 5, l^'^tee tor^luongThc rtgora and kcp.ng the Iona
8 ® nd ‘‘mV*! Aoui
37,Piccadilly; and:
tli iVat-office order.
{ BOURNE.
line St. Laxare. TarH.
Th* Great English Remedy for Goat and Rhernnnttmn. Bare,
2K. .3» effeAual. No r*4tralnt nf dlet rc.,o ml ; uring their
mie and are certain to prevent the dlscm* attacking any vital
part. 8old by all CbemlaU at l a. l>d. aod ft 3d. per Bog.
TTOLLOWAY’S PILLS and OINTMENT.
XI The Till, purify the blood, correct all dleorder* of the
liver, stomach, kbfney.; and bowels. The 0 ‘'j t ?f''Jj*^ T * Ued
economical. For Ladie*. Clilldren. or anyone with In tho cure ol bad leg*, old wound*, goat, and _|- The on |y jeweller in tjo»l *^.a cr.T.-»carata.
ass ssa (V * a &'vsssES &-'blgop ..
^S BSS^bjua fes-SSHs
t ” ndop ‘ _ft6d. each, and In Ca^» containing Six time* Oie quantltJ.U*. 1|B "TALISMAN BBACELfci
-1 Z ” each of all Cncmitta. Sent to any addreas for 3P or U2 stamps, of (ratcutcd) a Novelty for the Seaeon, from
rpHE SKIN.—To give to it that Smoothness, S* proprietor, f.j. clarke, Chemi.t.*Jncoin. <r * "_ _
iSSslISSSSsi CSSKSS
VALUABLE DlSCOVEUY for th* HAIR.
■£S
Wvfng the dimgiwnblo smell of my*t ",“^„ttog Uie xrowtb
Vl EN RY q G^ALLU 1^ l^.oTford-rtteet. li nden
FLORILINE. For the TerfJ[£jJS;
X 1. the l- *t Liquid ^,HS l 1 C * f ^ h i' ^imilt« ur , V.Im*
fill fragrance to u, e hmilh. I riee^J- arldng from *
Kjdn.'Vnd extracts ol ewert herb. ,an,, V ^ £ „ t*** ^
OAI^LUP.43d|OxfoVd-.trrot.^Lon^on- Betel.edeverywhero _
-^j-R. STREETER^
18. NEW BOND-STREET. W.
GOLDSMITH AND JEWELLER,
*R Cheinl»t*.ln TnbleU.'fid. andll*.—THE ALBION SANATOR
SOAP CO.. 832, Oxford-etreet. London. Refuse all enbaUtute*.
AIM Hi
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KBGISTBRED AT THB GENERAL
TRANSMISSION ABROAD.
-VOL. LXXIII,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 , 1878 .
WITH
TWO SUPPLEMENTS
j SIXPENCE.
’ By Post. 6Ad.
Ky
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THE ILLPSTBAT ED == L0ND0N^_^ = ^ ^ ^ -- thc^rpneas of party
, B,°2& >pW‘ “ f Xl^ce “eto°sketch, oven in Wert
rk : t r“!::
l^Cwmadenp. Aa to the substance o tto
“■ %£L with what
AUG. 3, 1878
BIRTHS. North Devon, the wife ot ^SOSJt^V^ A ^
On the 24th ult., ftt the jwruh church ofDa ^et,® l^,, youngest ffimUal on. including Catalogne, n. -- _ — _ ALLERY
and the Hon. Lady Smythe. _ vreen-Glas, in the omratyoj -- igrx7 _..„^, IT TirnTAV
SiSft£3S»<SS? , ” in lhe „„ f * g
•*•*- AU “ A “' ”T rOKPOBATK
"Rprlin Treaty, tfiere seems to ^ — e>--~
opinion. On the whole, it roughly corresponds wrth wha
moderate politicians of all parties really dosured. Of
“ ute as we have intimated more than once, it compre¬
ss’ some details which this or that seaman
On the 26th ult., at the parish
Walter Wyndhum Burrell, Dart., M r., Eaton-snuare, John Roche
On the 27th idt., at St daughter of
DaSt. Esq. eldest bobioLS ir (ggf* theFleet.
the late Sir Henry Codnngton, K. . ^ KenainRtoll) by the Roy-
On the 25th ult., at St. bt ® p ^. e “ ® f Be^khampstead, Herts, assisted by the
G A Kirby, of North Church, Great Bcrktiam|>se ^ Gmham> lately com-
V!' j p Waldo, Vicar of the parish, Colonel flfth daughter of the
«. ™ nSu—
T "Sfe^^ HT ' „»
the mnch-heloved wife of the Rc\ J • ■ Utopia-road, Old Charlton,-“ ., ,, PTD , T rn
On the 31st ult., at his rMidMcc^Nj^ector-General of Army T|^£ ILLUSTRATED
II§5IS»^3SF u ssS€^ paris universal exhibition.
' An English EdWon “<
• ' •'.• t.’EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE 1878 I1LUSTREE,
ST
---- . Ho bis speciul sympathies and proclivit^
U7ZpoLATIONofLIVli®?SoLATJTUMN EXHIBITION -condmgjo taj Bu Hone can deny, we think
/NORPORAliu or pictures- r . tT fry „n monuay, i 111U8E ° ^ , .i„ widened the area of political
$s*msmiamm &! 2s2£&&iv£is
PIIE MOORE and ; m
PnBtcutl*. 0.:: Sofa Stall*. SSmX tl.clr bonnets In all
J movdA’b Wednesdays, baturdaxb a* „,vc'pnvT <. Porte, and among muse m w “*-**“ r
the MOORE and B 13 ROES^ MINSTRELS Hu something approaching to one half, h >»<V I,<I> -.
I' tag this result it wus inevitable that a mam mrtrumen
?;fcon^“ t ^“^the
T HE MOORE and ^BUBGEBB J ^g^Eicr had insisted upon all that he thought
TWO PERFORMANCES L^I/thero would have been no peace. Each, therefore
ST JAMES’S HALL, PICCADILLY, ^ tQ bc in some degree by his knowledge of
‘ the sFcoNit IS thTevknTso. at BiuHT.’ ; whftt wou ld be insisted upon by others, and to give up in
ENTIRELY NEW PROGRAMME, bat was conceded to him in others. It
op--
_ _*^7, .. - , iuMvcmlonts details from those who look at them simply
ThTiLLUSTRATED '
>ARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION, j
■ ---- ment, and, perhaps, one much more worthy of approval,
An EngUsh Edition of ; tban t }j a t which has been under discussion m the Houses
L’EXPOSmON UNIVERSELLE DE 1878 ULUSTREE, j ^““piLtnTht!
a continuation of the Blustmted WJ-«£ «*» ^“t e nt! tot, been done, and, so far as the
published AT the office of j ^ oms ^ anxiet ies of the statesmen who represented it
THE IL 1 E L T ^ D horoK. 0N NEWS ' a ‘ ‘unfortunately, preceding circumstances have been such
SUNDAY, Aro. ■*.
Seventh Sunday after Triiuty. ^i^hop'of sTs p.m^the
Morning. Lessons: 1 C ^^ x1 ' { Lisliop of Iowa; 7 p.m., Rev. V. S.
sV..^ ami Hev , aem „ t
wtrtiuirsUT Abbe,. 1°“.™- RuTw*her M*ili«ty^ tt«vernmeut
White, Chap am of the Savo> , | 7 , J n> ^ v . T . Bedford
3 p.m., Rev. Canon Farrar. ; *, on “ b IjL1) ^ Canon of Ontario
op.«s.,«w..~--—- R D , Jones/ LL.D., Canon of Ontario
'a£*K«..w I ^rSa-owd-i wimw
tagu Butler.
MONDAY, Auu. 6. , „ , _ .
. „ . ,,, „ nl International Gun and Polo Club,
Moon s tirst quartei, 1.1J P- • , annU(l i champion meeting
in continuation of the luustraieu oou.m.. --
authority of the Imperial Commission, is issued every Tuesday,
huce threepence.
PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE OF
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.
198, 6TRAND, LONDON.
The Duke 01 Junnourgu .
Royal Atfhieologieal Institute,
S9;fir s ® SwSW'wy
ȣ"?Sr'r.t
TMStefSS^Spsai.. ^hp 2*!&*Trs?£L
-SSSSS-“- hfipfes's^s-
Brighton Races. U ° K bhow -
WEDNESDAY, Acu. 7.
Agricultural Bociety, noon. , ^ I
e^V: m ri V o T fffi Ml Country Order, to be applied through the on on yen^ as^F ^ ^ It h had to be taken
^^heeological Institute, --=^TreadY. into consideration in conjunction
Northampton : service in the Round „ 1H7Sl | Convention. The natural and necessa y . f
* urch - VOL. LXX1I. (JAN. 6 TO JUNE 29. between the two instruments has been the mam point ot
tcrnational Gun and Polo club, ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, j dispute in the House of Commons, and throws mto
Moon-aruntEquanes, ssw*. annual champion meeting, THh fifiinml in Cloth Gilt Edges .5£L ' rluhipiv the opinion of the country. On the 0116 hand,
Royal °ArcLological Hi^itutc ^^K^gathSersey and Irwell. OrTT'aper Covers ... ’.- ^ 6d‘. I it is contended that the Convention is the proper C0U1-
teSSi^SsS iJ&'S&S'" NC "“ k ' 8t ' ::: ... 2; « ; l ^ ontheother bund,if is declared
ifeSiStsa* r j“^r,ELsi:r.;r..r.r.:r“
.HiS?* 3 - — ^STo..-v,» .«m “ I i a ^ S -S»ti5
10 ' 4 ' TUESDAY, Aro. 6 . With the Number of the Illustrated ADOh i j « c secret, not only from the Eiu-opean Power<
forA ^.I7 wm l* «» Ext™ Supplement, • or might oot Object to it for mternutioual
cultural Society’s Gardens, South Printed in Colours, i __ -u„4 Jen from Parliament, who will have to find
COLOURED ENGRAVING GRATIS.
a Picture Printed in Colours,
ENTITLED
“LOVKS young DREAM,”
FROM A PAINTING BY T. K. PELHAM.
198, Strand, W.C.
: a profound secret, not only irom me wuvp-*
! who might or might not object to it for mternataond
1 reasons, hut also from Parliament, who will have to find
i the means of carrying it into execution. Doubtful as is
1 the policy which it involves, it is even more dangerous as
; a precedent. t has opened one of the gravest and most
! delicate constitutional questions which the country can be
i invited to determine. It may (though we should hope
i ... ,, ■ •..—r...cainrr wot to sav disastrous,
jgjlgJM*..*, |"KE5?.“-- , v l^iyiI^rycmi;^g,Tot t 0 ,»yd to rtrou : ,
...o—T ««*-. THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. | rcsults . It Has constituted, as might have been expect^
ySSTriwoSSl - 1 lhe great theme of the debate. Nothmg can be done u
tomologicalSociety, < p.m. ” 7 0XDOX: SATURDAY. AUGUST 3, 1878. I rd u n ow. It is a/«t< accompli, and all that can
Tiinity Law sittings end
Yachting: Bidmouth Keg
, Broad lhgaUtt.
....J | RoyalTijxopuuitcSOtueiy, ox wigev.
Regiitta.Oulton Chetshnnt and Waltham Agricultural
Show.
Quebrtt Mieio»eopical Club,
Alnwick Agrieulluiwl Show.
St. Lawnuco.
Probable tall of meteors.
Botanic Society, anniversary. 1 p
en ’ 5 l0fellU '’ LONDON: SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1878. regard to it now-. It is a fait accompli, and all that can e
| RoyalToxophttiteSociety, #x. target. . , . . , olreadv bc-comc history, said of it too closely resembles Mercutio s esenp ion
■■ - I oheshunt and Waltham Agricultural a formal discussion ot what has alreaaj d ° •>’ -I .. 't?k Tint ho decn £fs a well, nor so wide as a ohureu
T"; however rich it may he in lessons for the future, can w ound- T£ ^ 0f cour9 e it is not
Rowing: Paris International Regatta never be very lively. «ptrospection « aine ^ pi .; I ; e ; ided that it will necessarily lead to ruin. It will not
Lewes Races. not very well adapted m itself to stu tue ieumga. « p , ... , ..nimtihitional nractico the
». Ac. Z p ^d with the debate of the week. The cation, ’ even tally «t»bM■ « »J - 0 t ?, ^ hard ly
| Horticultural s™iHr, i«»* b ( 1 „ Honso o[ Commons related ohiclly to tlungs ; principle which it tbeoiUica j ’ c h«l-
oifi^cas. Sit huvebccn done and Uist cannot he altoied Only ; he a matter of Lay he
- I indirectly and remotely could the most telling of arpi- lenged in the Here of ^mmonB ^d solemnly
me,its. or lhe most coininanling eloquence, shape for : p»tty Caleb-CO experiments in
FRIDAY, Aim. 9.
ub, 8 p.m. I Rowing : Palis International Regatta
,w. I Lewes Races.
SATURDAY, Avo. It).
1 Horticultural Society, promenade,
4 p.m. I
Curlew Rowing Club.
THE WEATHER.
RESULTS OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT THE
KEW OBSEBVATOBY OF TUB BOYAL SOCIETY.
Lat. 61 28' 6" N.; Long. O’ 18 1 47” W.; Height above 8ea, 34 leet.
meuts, or the most commanding eloquence, shape foi
future use the facts which were brought under con
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future use the laots w-men were uiuuguv marwavaw —- *
sidoration We aro uot at all surprised, therefore, at the 1 that direction. wo ek'f
"hcaloL of the Debate, notwithstanding the j Wo look not to any — 0 tpto o,
extraordinary ability which it here and there called forth, j discussion in the Commons. It c " nstlt wiU ^qairi
The interest which it would have otherwise excited was j political history the graver lcss ^ ° n j aad consc ience
past. The situationubout which it occupied itself was fixed j some time to filter mto the publ e constitU encie
and unchangeable. Judgment on it may be characterised , What willbc its proximate influence upo wiUexercis
as foregone. It was, therefore, devoid of that animation j we shall not attempt even to guess. ^ futul ,
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tlllliilSlii 1 ijli "tH" ; i| IjiiT;S z J ^gi. at ^Cc f ^7^
; r« l rate £’».$%. realms on many political points on which they have been of unprecedented length a
^TLe foHovringlire timTwdin^^rThc^iicicoroi^ instruments for the ; comparatively ignorant It will illustrate to their minds to a tin Ae hltory Of England,
above day« v in order, at ten o’ciook n.m ., recoiidito principles of llic Constitutiou utidei which they been indelibly stainpe P fonm<y aDoeftf”
* )co "* cl t 1 :: W live, and in the maintenance of which they have grave Somehow or other,however, the mostthreate g PI ^
tporatiun.. j o*y | “ ip j « 4 ° | «*7 j j ^ | dutics to perform. It will, in some respects, neutralise, ances are often dispersed by the progress o au(i
' ' ' and thereby destroy, political illusions which are but too us hope this may he the case in the presen in V^
OF HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE t to capt ivate their imagination, but which, when that what has been done, though partially ouje
FOB THH WEEK ENDING Awc.^ r m- allowed to liavo full force, tend to mischief. Its very both in substance and in manner, may be so *
Tne^. W^pday. Tborhilay^ FrMoy. Satunb^ ^ ^ ^ 8obriety Q f by fhc body politic «S to lose SOniC of lt8 delete
I* » "bl# S u S|w'“ lOfclu Mi h - m |w ™ political temper, and, perhaps wc maybe permitted to properties.
as foregone. It was, therefore, devoid of that animation
and sparkle which are more commonly infused into dis¬
cussion as to what is to be done. But it was not the le3S
1^5 jo ioj cussion as to wlmt is to be done. Jiiit it was not me less
H 2 I o ooo 1 useful for all that, nor will it be in the end less practical
127 o ooo m jfcj ro$ ults. It will serve to educate tho people of these
M ; , _lfxf_V _4._
lenged m the House ot commons, imu u— -
pretty safely concluded that the challenge thus solemnly
made will operate us a bar to any further experiments m
! that direction. .
i W'o look not to any immediate results of the week
j discussion in the Commons. It constitutes a c ap .
j political history the graver lessons of which will req
| some time to filter into tho public mind and oonaown ■
j What willbc its proximate influence upon the constituencies
j we shall not attempt even to guess. ’That it wiU
! an important bearing upon their judgment ui the futu ^
| can hardly be doubted. Othenvise, rogi-et mi 0 h
i felt that, whilst so great a press of public busmess^
i urging its claim to consideration at the close o a >
| ofYiBrecedented length, a week
& -.Mib lu\* 16
TIMES OF HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE
FOB TUB WEEK ENDING AUGUST 10
AUG. 3, 1878
THE COURT. ,
2 c iM
^ss^&ssr 1 the Right Hon - Sir T ’ hom
HerMajesty and Princess Beatrice attended Divine service on
Suuday performed at Osborne by the Dean of WestmlnXr
. Qaeen ^sted the Marquis of Salisbury with the (frder
of the Garter on Tuesday; Princess Beatrice was present dnrin? i
the ceremony; afterwhich the Marquis of SaUsbu^SsedhS 5
Previous to the investiture Lord Arthur Russell delivered ud !
invested General Sir John Lintoru Arabhi fiimmonl tiS ^
ribbon and badge of the Military Division oHhTwi!?Pi the '
and delivered to him the stmT?f M?XiStv in S? 8 '
The following Knights Commanders knighted ^nd j
invested by her Majesty with the Second ClS of the
order'-Lmutenant-Genera 1 Sir Arnold Burrows Kemhall '
(Military) and Lord Tenterden, C.B. (Civil) After th!
investiture, Mr. Edward Hertslet C P Wi. r -i - e ,
.irsssr aft? gsrssj
m Guatemala, were introduced to audiences of her Maiestv
Subsequently the Queen, with Princess Beatrice was present
the T?nv°fw ime ? f cricket-match played at Osborne between
aiLW, Household and officers of the Royal Yacht. Prince '
^ andPruice George, and Princesses Louise, Victoria
'nfe Dpi TO at 0s J borue on a visit to the Queen!
he Dean of Westminster and Miss Victoria Baillie left
to n^ Q 7^“rrT^ by Pri ." ce “ »«»««>, <Wwm
Bo,S dem^T ' nndCow “’ ““■> l'“ ™lk«l daily in the
Her Majesty will review the “special service’* fleet nt
armoured ships before its dispersion at Portsmouth on Au°1?
The Dreadnought will be included in the fleet.
Ihe Queen has appointed Prince Frederic Charles Nicolas
°! JAvA Arn® an Honorary Member of the Military Division
Bath 0 *S$ At aSS A? r ^ nigh ^ 8 Grand Cross of the Order of "the
Bath, and Mr. Montagu Corry and Mr. Philip Currie to he
°t f *£* 01,11 Givi8ion of the Order of the Bath!
of £ Ladies Of ff a PP°“ ted Lady Southampton to be one I
oi her Laches of the Bedchamber in Ordinary, in the room of :
he Countess of Caledon, resigned; and the CounTess Sf I
Caledon to be an Extra Lady of the Bedchamber to her i
Majesty. Lord Frederick Kerr has succeeded Major Phipps 1
as Groom in Waitifig to the Queen. ^ |
Pnnce Leopold’s knee continues to improve.
— HE IL LUSTRATED LON DON NEWS
theS^^^SSt 7 kft tOWn ° n Satarda ^
99
m i, • THE ? RrNCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
The Innce and Princess of Wales, accompanied by Prince
Louis of Battenberg, dined with Lord Carlingford and Countess
Frances Waldegrave at Strawberry Hill on Thursday wee?
ihe Grand 1 Duke^ud^h 1 eiven there aft «wards!
AwAIt Duke and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mcck-
horounh Hnmf AA V th th e Prince and Princess at Marl¬
borough House yesterday week. The Prince and Princess
accompanied by Princes Albert Victor and George, the Lffikc
f Connaught, and Pnnce Louis of Battenberg, "went to Her
Majesty s theatre. The Prince, accompanied by the Duke of
Connaught and Prince Louis of Battenbcrg, was present on
Saturday last at the marriage of Captaffi ^thur Paget
Scots Guards, with Miss Stevens. The Grand Duke of Husse '
and the Duke of Connaught visited the Prince and Princess
at Marlborough House. Their Royal Highnesses with
wemTto £oJ»SaC r SUd Gc ? rgcand the X>ukf of Connaught, !
Pffinffir^* m? tr n Comique ® the eveulQ g *0 see “H.M.S. \
Phe Prmce Presided on Monday at Marlborough i
Exhibirion of ? 8 e n“^M f hC pJ Ia ^ ty ’ 8 Commissioners for the
Duke «# 1 'v Cbnstlan wa s present. The Grand !
rw+• f Hecklenburg-Strelit* and Prince and Princess '
md rem n S Cd t lh f“K°J a l Highnesses at Marlborough House,
romlnn n tn d « luilch eon. The Prince and Princess loft 1
the afternoon on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of
Richmond an d Gordon at Goodwood House for the race week!
mctureof 1 tC« a p d P i n £ CC8 ?, liave inspected Mr. M’Lacldan’s
at
of Hartrfm ? y h? eS t ieiied v. screen > , thc work of Mr - Sidney Gibbs, 1
boudoir. * h b ' een honoure d with a place in the Princess’s ,
ShrX,d”XbSd^Wen,. h “ “ Brf S">vc-.q>toc to
Cnnfnm a wu FAAHI0N ABLE MARRIAGES.
Iaeutenant-General LordAL^d mdS&i £ ldea * A * 1 of
, daughter of the late Mr P and Mlfl s Mary Stevens,
i tTree™^
Battenberg were'present SST 3
her brothe®, worera S of whS^VA giveQ aw ay by
d’Alen(,on, and, over a wreatlTo?L!? m ’^f immed Wltb P oint
the wreath beingattachedher^Lain hv'fi a , 1<lCe Veil *
gift of the bridegroom The five dlftm °nd stars, the
necklace, the giff of her brether^ W ° F - were a diamond
and diamond bracelet a hermornage ; a sapphire
P T aSCt - e ,ph °^ wore
lace, SHSa
The diamond arrow’ brooclms the^fl a A° 1 aq “® t , of red r 03 es. i
silver coffee-pot and stand aurt l H^ cousist e d of a !
btodet«S“ 1 ,^ d a^t^ Leop ' >Mea 7 ea 8 e, i* i ‘ t
; j
Sft*“ uk • I'btoboroiigh hats, with light blue tothe^
! £u‘£miTc‘E l x? f' r ?T° d by tfc ss
l iT’ Canon of Westminster, assisted bv the Itev
bit^ man°° P Thfbrid f Mr ‘ ^ KeStoJ Z
Bethuiie Bart of Kilconquhar, took place on the 25th ulA
1 A Hnightsbndge. The bridesmaids were Miss
j
r d ' -the bride was given away by her brother tho ■
hrnfW L Af ay n • Go P tain Zhilin Trotter, *J3rd jSilanders
b ™ tllcr the bridegroom, was test man The sfrrice wS
performed by the Hon. and Rev. R. Liddell. The weddbi^
SSElSyP® b7thC ^ ^ - “*3^ i
_ The marriage of Waiter H. Long, Esq, of Rood Ashton I
V llts, and Park-lane, Hyde Park, and Lady Honora Janet '
Boyle, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Cork and Orrery 1
TheSd^ 0 " Th ™*»y*t St. George’s, Hanover-srpS; j
The bnde, who was given away by the Earl, was dressed in '
tmnrned with lace. The breakfast was g?ren at |
Lord Cork s residence in C?rosvenor-i*quftre
Colonel n = C (° f n Mr /v PrCde A k W ‘ Maude * ingest son of I
Golonel Maude, C.B., Crown Equerry, and Miss Kelk onlv
daughter of Sir John Kelk, Bart., will take place in October.
Ho„,c of to ‘he
B i£S B r rc -
l rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance?! hi. S0 P hlst,( ? 1
S L7s, cfmmandnn ffitffiabt SCSf ^
toasts of a political character wAA spoke m reply. Other
accepted. cnaracter were afterwards proposed and
CRETE AND CYPRUS
I
Of Mount Olympus,^! this iriand T Vie I of the chain
‘Sxsrif"^to®
Olympus, though that name appSrs^o^av?? 88 M °, Unfc
, b r»f t rSM; ‘the^n 1 ?" oss
and attains an elevation of 0590^i^renZ 1 * 0 ^ 08 ’
and southern coasts. The main ram»« 1 tke nor theru
is evidently the one desimated by Sriabo^s ES Which
from being freouented nc a D laee of nil™- U well known
P’^image. We have
View Of Stfivrn Vniim'
LORD BEACONSFIELDS HONOURS.
Ut*V 1C , 9 raud Hoke of Hesse, attended by Major von Herft
left London on Saturday last for Darmstadt ’
St SJSTSw 7 ° r ?r d I )uk , c of Mecklenburg-StreUte left
‘ ainLS 8 1 <dnce 011 Monday for the Continent?
WdC 8<M of V SS a ’ ,SOP ^ e ’ , aDd ^ Iargaret - aud Prince
C’avtidLh ’ iA,a G T“ ,v. J ’ who have becu spying at the
Homburg! Ht> Eastbounie » for two months, have left for
Pr£ C S!Ad md f S Uche88 of Teek have been on a visit to I
Motccmb Hon? °r> 8 ? ce '^ t '“ iar aild Couufc e38 Domberg at ;
ffloicomb House, Goodwood, during the race week.
MmieAml Ce ni? 0 C \r tllC Ger “ a “ Auibas s* r wlor and Countesses
Hmse-t?mc? 8 for Jf ?• haVC A ft TT the Eniba5s ^’ L’arlton
AmhaFsndor?’, J aud Hanover. During the
Charge - cT Affaires* 001 ° Bar ° n V ° U deU Brincken will act ns j
1 I«S. ^“ tteri “ d »•« to# Stafford
amlma hav<! wt<STOtad :
hJlSSTorK^fc” ““ Lad y Gcorgiana Hwnilton j
|'^ sto *to* ter h « arri ’ red nt Kuitrobln [
■wB^fcSiasr of Leeii ' ii “ ra icjt j
ChMstorth*' 0t r> " 0M,lb ' c ton left Devonshire Uou»e to j
■.hlo T n™ S ytef'Stote for Foreign Affairs mid the Mar- I
their luLJo^fntr 7 ? ad H dhnier P art y on Wednesday at
had a reception? Arlin e to n-street, after which the Marchioness j
for BogimrA 018 aUd Martbioilcss of Waterford have left town
Adelaide^Tariour hav? i 1 ? + a f 1 ch j ones ? of Headfort and Lady
’“^S5SSr" 6nto -'“ ,!
rWiP ° rcca, “ re
SA? nt pagC Lng ra ving, drawn from precise information
thr Ohpm? ^'Witness of the scene, represents her Majesty j
the Queen at Osborne House, on Monday week, in the act of
knighting the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beacons- 1
field, previous to investing him with tho Ribbon aud George
and presenting him with the Garter, which was heldSAa
cushion by Sir Albert Woods, Garte’r King He
Majesty was accompanied by Princess Beatrice, and was I
nttended by Lady Waterpark, General Ponsonby, and Colonel '
rv. TO ^? U \f B y D C (Equerry m Waiting), as well as by Sir John
Rfi W i 8 w r X he Hoasehold, who introduced Lord
Btaconsfield to the Queen s presence. Mr. Montagu Corrv ;
p !^± 0rd r 8h,B8 private secretary, was iu attendance on the !
1 innc Minister. On Tuesday last, as reported in a Ur
5®“* “7 s , of tills week, the Marquis of Salisbury was
invested by her Majesty in a similar manner with the Garter i
lately worn by Earl Russell. As usual in these cases, an
Order m Council has been published in the official Gazelle, :
declanng that the Order of the Garter is conferred upon Lords ■
Beaeonsfield and Salisbury as fully and completely as if all the '
presmbed formalities and ceremonies had boeu performed
The grand banquet in honour of both their Lordaliips to
celebrate then- return from Berlin and their successful dis- 1
charge of the task of British Plenipotentiaries at the European '
Congress, was prepared under the management of the Cadtou :
L Jab ; It took place on .Saturday last hi the Duke of ’
V cllmgton s Riding School, at Kniglitsbridge, which had
been decorated for the occasion with garlands and |
banners, and with mottoes of Conservative policy the I
most conspicuous being “ Peace with Honour.” The chair was i
occupied by the Duke of Buccleuch, who sat with Lord !
Beaeonsfield on his light hand, and, next him, Sir Stafford 1
Northcote, the Dnke of Northumberland, Mr. Cross (Home I
Secretary) the Duke of Abercorn, Lord Cranbrook, and Lord i
San don. Ihe chairman had Lord Salisbury on his left baud I
beyond whom sat in order the Lord Chancellor, Colonel Stanley '
(Secretary for War), the Duke of Beaufort,Mr. W. U. Smith (First !
Lord of the Admiralty), and other members of the Adminis- 1
tration or of the Conservative party. The company numbered f
altogether more than five hundred, most of whom were mem¬
bers of one or the other House of Parliament. The health of
I.ord Beaeonsfield was proposed immediately after the loyal !
toasts, and was drunk with loud and prolonged cheering the l
whole company standing up, as shown in our Illustration, while i
‘ Ru]c Britannia” was played by the Grenadier Guards’ band I
Lord Beaeonsfield, who wore the blue ribbon of the Garter I
“uiuy iwc
wmmrn
. Jj H» multit™ er Sr e e„™rThLTto h r.“, hoed
Irthcp that Sit Garnet Wogcley wia“u dvil Sd ™n7‘
FUNERAL OF a JAPANESE STATESMAN.
The late Japanese Minister of the Interior Okubo Toshim.vw*
eenj^ to
of the movement in 1868, by which the usurped rule of the
Tycoon or Shiogoon was taken away, anj the Mikado’s
Imperial Government was restored. The -reat refer™ Afra!
Inst, few years have been effected cliieflv b^thV
it? kub n°; t en ei l her
him He lately showed remarkable decision and cnernv in
p " G |" g do 1 w “ * he l?rmidable rebellion in Satsuma, IdS nJtire
province^ led by Ins former colleague, General Saisro ’J’hp
assassination was penetrated by six armed men from that
nithd^^rSn^Tol^
SAisiS:
Palace. It was escorted by a large body of infautrv P Tb
pneris o the Sbintoo rehgion, attired ffiloweS votes
S branches of a plant with bright flowers!
bodv of f j A 1Cr ’ or rather shrine, containing th-
bodj of the deceased statesman. It was a sort of ark beintr
A’ mitatc < b8 9ha Po of a Shintoo temple^vith two
side gates and an arched roof, all made of white wood and
resting on poles, borne oil the shoulders of thirty men of the
pnesthood. A number of priests followed, careyffig 8n Sl
fianners, red and white alternately. They entered a ba!Xo
and straw temporary building, in the cemetery, which was the
oi?h°i 5 r ?f he A 1 ™ 1 ri tes -The shrine or Sffluwas pTaSd
on the platform at one end, with tables before it to receivethe
r!nfT 88 : Ali ^T 011 and a ° worh >g branches were arranged
on one side, and the banners on the other. Among the con-
grega lonwcrePnnccs, Ministcrsof State, foreign AmbassadSS
and other persons of rank. The ceremonial was that prescribed
by an ancient native code of religious observances. P Three of
the pnests offso-cdI different kinds of food upon trays before the
shrme, with chanted prayers and anthems, or rather incanta¬
tions, accompanied with prostrations and other gestures or
postures. Meanwhile there was the doleful music of th?
sho, a small hand-organ with bellows blown by the mouth
the flute, and the muffled drum. Branches of the “sakaki
orencred tree, were presented by the priests, the relatives of
Okubo, and the persons of rank in the assembly. They made
a farewell sign of reverence and affection, bowing and
clapping their hands; aud then took their leave, whmi the
body was carried to its tomb.
The annual exhibition of horses, cattle, sheep. &c under
the auspices of the Leicestershire Agricultural Society, was
opened at Leicester on Wednesday. The prizeB amount to £1000
funeral of a Japanese statesman.
THE tt.t.ttrtRATEP LONDON NEWS_
AUG. 3, 1878
E --= ~~~ , 7^ Tb - nnl.mtoian Parliament was opened on Monda
-7 • Trades’ Exhibition, proceeding thence to ex 1 *™" Lieutenant-Governor strongly protested against the
Hanover, to visit the Trades last, me» railway to Vancouver's Is and, and
___-—======■-- , . .. Exhibition, proceeoiug — . . The Lieutenant-Governor strongly
THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH. ^ §Srg. OV J nt iec t i ou8 on Tuesday are stated to have.pwaod •^^^^h^ehJd'Sive^ which'^OMdeSesteps
The Duke of Buccleuch, w J^ i 7" e 2jJSmTi“meolthfmo»t off Si**" io be °.™'pSSiom instituted in consequence of the Orange
feS«.«|SsHr=;.4
Dalkeith,' Viscount Nlth .’ r • Jn°Dornock and Scott of didatts have been be necessary between the rcst oration of peace in the colony of
T»n„fflas of Kinmount, Middlebie, D' n l Scotland; and sixth district a second ball . , w lio obtained 20,139 11CW8 f r0 m the Transvaal reports an engagement with
Wbitcbester and Edddc,^® ^Sfhe peerage of Eng- Social favour • 16 ,’ 7 - 7 Scoeni’s Kaffirs at Magnet Height., where, fivcof the voffiu-
Eail of Doncaster and Baron ljm^ c , P hoheld neat ^ votes, and the 1 rogr^sist.ii ballota will be required in teer forcC] un dcr Captain < ^ rke ,weirel^l©dand eight
land. The great Border clan of the f tbeir co uutry s i votes were recorded, oc | dcd . aud Colonel Lauyon reports from Kimberley that a
all Tcviotdale and Ettnck in the feudhesofitsdisputod £C verul constituencies. t co lumn of ninety men, under Mr. Ford, advancin from
iihtGry, defending the middlcmuPwestern amp iy cele- . AUCTRIA-nLNGARY _ commn ^ ^ di ^ ctiono f Kurumon engaged the natives and
frentier against incessant Enghshat i well as in authentic ’ TW Kmncror has ratified the Treaty of Be • JLiodiFed them, but with serious loss on our side. Sub-
cuiuiuu yi “ _ic u„ n ,mnn niffwimwl flio natives and
frontier against incessant Engluhattacto, Mve authentic ' The Emperor has ratified the Treaty of Berlin. dislodged them, but with serious loss on our side. Sub-
Sated in^arrative. 0 f ‘‘The J C “S-rinarr to the SSnt Pate’rson, Sergeant «“ D ^‘
records of the past .to Walter hi ^ ot her delightfu H<IfCg Jk, the ft9 friendfl and Troopers CampbeU “* *
Lay of the Last ““f^he “ibiects of which belong to that , opu i at ion stating that the Austrian i ^ The pro . mDIA .
stories in prose and ^ th adventur0) was one of a P G re6t , 0 rc peace mid p^ted, none oppressed. Calcutta correspondent of the Timet, telegraphing ot
If
stories m “T ones of warlike adventure, was o - - > to restore peace i*-.- ^ protected, none oppress^. Calcutta correspondent of the Time,, telegraphing on
IBWIiMH
sa-A?!
the seventeenth J Da ikeitli; tlicf Dukedom of , fhe tclegr g>hic communication was cui^Manifested at Brod. A telegram from Adelaide of Tuesday’s date says that the
a f C f» n nf«th CC is M P for Mid-Lothian. The Duke possesses See VIA. P A numerously attended meeting has been held at Sydney
laiace, neur Dumfnesslure ; and in England urtai uouuc. together to consider the changes in the fEief Justice of New South Wales, and seconded by the
“ “* was assess s
M.«; ■jjJSSa.T to *■*-*- Onat in the th.
K S be ma de for elevating Serna into a kingdom. _ longues upon the successful termination of their labours m
-nmiT vpws Concentrating movements of the Semau troops are reported o /^ he publiclaw of Europe, and in securing the bless-
foreign andcolonial • WatWSSf-W
jsa«stt a^jgsajpa s _ tt the
“L^th.C^BeHin.onSnndn,.. at M«Irid thb 7«r
I 6;M.-nEuV.rit i. .t.W, gw. ordOT. ?
XItsst. as
Scandinavian concert at the Trocaue » “ . .. . Constant p , a 1 si ana have ocxiupied the principal
the Principality. TURKEY.
The Sultan signed the Treaty of Berlin on Sunday.
O.m.ura.1,., it to.t«tod, 8>«orte.1 ?‘A 0 ad 1 n e
Socotra, at the entrance of the Gulf of Aden, has beea
rccccupied by the Indian Government.
During the first series of bull fights at Madrid this year
ninety bulls and 143 horses were killed.
Reports circulated in some foreign papers that differences
?*i»t among th. rn.mbo.of tta Oon»m««oMdwmrr mto
on Saw".?. The ^ briUilult ' TOC ce«d. nil ptobabdity ot a ooniliot with the Kneaian, Report, circulated m some foreign papers toat ooiereae„
.nd Swing di^^“aSTJ P ^« P M ^U.”' 0 R?ve h n e ue m . C ” b r^, TueXy ? , daU
many hundred ^^^“J^prtitionof choim^i connection S^^that the Imperial ’Guard shall embark for Russia and from Alexandria, to be devoid of truth.
• ^l^pTyH^Tnh-ersal Exhibition at the Trocadero last tbe ot her troops begin retiring as soon as Varna is surrendered. The committoe for the erection of a monument to Spinoata
Leslie's choir gained the first prize {prix it is announced from Constantinople that the Russian Com- Hague has awarded the first prize to the sculptor
86-0., -d a^ld m«lal m ii oner, obj^ to m Hexamer, S Pans, tuid the second prize to the sculptor
.ivA Dr. TTnSvprsal Exhibition at the Trocaaero last the otber troopB bcgui retiring as soonus . aiu» The committoe for ttie erection oi a uiyuu^«*v w
wlt ^^ e ^Pf-J^Leslie’a choir gained the first prize (pru: it is announced from Constantinople that the Russian Com- Hague has awarded the first prize to the sculptor
and . £>ld medal, roi ^ “objeet. to the continuance of mqujry into the f ™ *? P,ri», and the second prise to the sculptor
wque), a handsome vMc^m ^ ^ ^ who consisted of L Lodope insurrection, and he has withdrawn from it. He has TUbhaU8 ’ of Dviaseldorf.
b7 ««v nfThe most distinguished French composers and artists, ku bi3 P drag0 man to represent tom<m ha3 Thc horae Ceylon> who won the Grand Prix dc Pari, for
most distinguished French composers and artists, Kll UUJ ulBBUU «... --r-z: - b „. The horse Lev ion, wno won uie virauvi m* -v —
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gold “^^J^^Uncreadng Die cost. The total number 1 f n f OTma tion has been received at Athens that the National Letters have been received in Holland from y ardo 7 apa 8 ^JJ
to be doubled with ^ ^corded to the exhibitors » i(mb i y j n Crete has sent a note to thc British Consul at that CVC ryone on board the W diem ^“eadez, the stffiooner
? f ‘ r 77^.?qToo Th7r wid comprise 2600 gold medals, 6100 ^nea soliciting the mediation of England to obtain autonomy tbe Dutc ^ Arctic expedition, was in excellent health, aud that
l.Lodope insurrection, ouu --.
i u b u dracomau to represent lum on the commission.
AtelSto thc P r»m« says thc British Embassy has
leceind efflehd .rmon. of 1^nnltoned ,by
ently died at iaroea, in ms sixiceutu
goiu “ eu “‘» "JL“r*’;T7cr^s’ineThe cost. The total number “'' f^ormat ion has been received at Athens that tae « anonai Lctt crs have been received in Holland from ▼ “*5 ^porUng
to be doubled with ^ ^.^ded to the exhibitors Assembly in Crete has sent a note to thc British Consul at tbat CVC ryone on board the W diem Barendez, t
9 filedS 500 ThS wdlcomprise 2600 gold medals, 6100 Cun e a soUciting the mediation of England to obtain autonomy {be Dut X Arctic expeditionwasm excellent health, aud that
d ibronze and 10,500 honourable mentions. The f lhe ib i aud i n conformity with the desires of the population. bit lierto the vessel had behaved admirably,
sdver, 10,000 brouzc.aiia 10,000 tor ine is , Cretans are stated to be resolved to _ _ T „ 1 M1 Cantaiu Waestaff, chartered
Cunea soliciting the mediauon 01 rmgjuuu ““7“.”-'
for the island, in conformity with the desires of the population.
Failing to obtain this, the Cretans are stated to be resolved to
total number of exhibitors is 53,005. Failing to obtain this, the Cretans are ati
It iS stated by the Paris Temp, that the Bank of France, t01l(in ° e tbc ix resistance to Turkish rule.
+0 the recent forgeries, has resolved to issue a new The despatch of troops to "Solo amt—•— ---- Plymouth for Sydney on tne zouiun. wan ■*«*
description of note, which it believes cannot be imitated. Government lias appealed to 1 mice Kamardc, aa )MMtoI l.lj nt . G en eral has been informed by tolegramofths
A minument of Paul Louis Coumer, the William Gobbett the tongress, to make representations to Turkey on the subject. g d of the ahip Samuel PlimsoU, which saded
of France, was imveiled on Sunday at Vcretz, a few miles rom RUSSIA. . from Plymouth with emigrants in May last.
*s=*t2? p T““icirSeSrS, 0 S.*S!KSS! Thep«.?««
itinue their resistance 10 a ursosu 1 ukc. . bv the Agent-General for New Soutn waies, saueu u*
The despatch of troops to Volo wntmues. The Hellenic y ae^Age^ ey on the 25tll ult . w ith 462 emigrants
ivernment has appealod to Prmoe Bumaxck, air 1.7 Aeent-General has been informed by telegram of t
tne uuicii Aitut , , .—r;-
hitherto the vessel had behaved admirably.
The ship La Hogue, 1331 tons, Captain Wagstaff, oharterod
bv the Agent-General for New South Wales, Bailed from
lMymouth for Sydney on the 25th ult. with 462 emigrants.
• *». SSXXSi WJ? J Ituseiau valuee on « MSSS A L Si Ute^.b. brought to todoo
«u the Mean a of Transport of Merchandise was brought to a ™o» on , more r „ U d basis, and, U an improvement Friday next, Ann. 2 ““ e “ c u °fJSlbTbroSgbt ti Londoi
doee last Satnrday. A ^dution wa. p^m rad m fyo^ot “TtSned to this resped, to praceed t hen to tdre m eraurrafor cvenn^. MaR. by to^^di UrSdS ? fh. following
rates of 6 postage will be cbargenbleh—Lcttms, 2id^er hdf
establishing an arrangement uy ,-
different countries should be promoted and facilitated.
M. Louis Lausscdat, the deputy for Allier, died on Sunday,
at toe age of sixty-nine. He was a member of thc Union
srss =■=rr^So.7^ ^ssstf**'ss
The l)a\ly JSew* correepunuLun un .. ..—
General Todlebcn has sent to Admiral Homby the following
explanation of the Dardanelles incidentTwo English
J- r _xi. „ lurvrirxH ii sitnl, wLieh it had been
RfpubUcame, over wmeu grnup explanation of tne immanence wuoit.- i.p
The chess-match between Zukertort, of Berbn^and E°“don, frcm the landed at a spot wlnch it had been
and Winawer, of Russia, to decide the tie V ie pag l-eed the Russians ouly should occupy. The Russians were
and Winawer, ot Russia, to uemue tuc -—, .
the first and second prizes in the chess tournament in I aris,
terminated on Wednesday evening in favour of the tormer.
ITALY.
The King and Queen arrived at Milan on Tuesday after¬
noon, accompanied by the Prince of Naples aadtheDukcof
Aosta, and attended by Signor Cairoli, Count Oorti, andbiguon
Bruzzo and Baccarini. ^ “SSSfi
officers lrcm tne ueci xanueu ub u op«b wmvu .. ——
aereed the Russians ouly should occupy. The Russians were
distributed along the coast in pickets of five men each, lhe --
I officers apprehended by the picket were conveyed twelve Thc foUowing ibt was issued on Wednesday of all pensions
miles into the interior to the commanding officer, who treated cran t c d during the year ended June 20, 1878, and charged
them with great politeness, and recognised the mistake. A ^ ciyil Lis t : _
ounce; post-caras, iju. euuu, utw W ..,
ixcecding 4 oz.); books and patterns, 2 oz., Id.; 2 oz. to 4o
2d. ; every additional 2 oz., Id.; registration fee, 2d.
CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.
them with great politeness, and recognised the mistje. A ® ^ civil List
boat which was subsequently sent from the fleet to look after
the officers, was fired into by a picket, probably in consequence Mr O^ 6 Macdoi
4i,x. int» i-nrotation of the Greek dragoman belonging R ,. mB
72 Tnd attended by Signor Cairoli, Count Corti, and Siguon the officers, was tired into Dy a picxey, prooumy iu
Rrn^o^ndBaccariui 3 'Sir Majesties had an enthusiastic G f the stupid interpretation of the Greek dragoman belongin
The tows were closed, the houses decorated with to the beat. General Todleben frankly admits the facts, an
E“ d flow.ra wmo .howered oi tb. Itoy.1 oarriag. » it drap ragrat for th. aafortuaat. blaudormg.”
drove through the streets. On arriving at the palace the King AMERICA.
a _°_of halmnv in reSDOttSC to tll8 m... D^nKIwkan rinnwniinn t.h<» sit.tiniTfl nf wine
Mr. George Macdonald, £100, in consideration of his contributions t*
^^Mrs 1 Isabella Bhilleto, £150, in recoKBiti.m of the learning
mcnU of her late husbiud, the IUv Iuchard dhiUeto. of Cambridge, the
eak M^ t BiinietA8nn Womum, £100, in recognition of the services of her
latfht.b«nd, MX. Ralph Nicholas Womum, keeper and secretary of the
National OtilleiT. author of vuriouu works of art. ,
Mrs Marnaiet Emmeline Menzien, £.V), in recognition of th
rend ”cd to X’t roan brb*r lute hu.bnJ.Mr.
siii vi yor of Windsor Faik, ebpecially with reference to the separate system
of drainage,’' and othtr sanitaiy nuprovements. ,. nrv ieM of
hlnrv Maria, Lady Creasy, £100, in recognition of thc literary services
drove through the streets, uu arriving »b ^ -r ,r°
and Queen appeared at the balcony in response to the
acclamations of the people. . ^,_
Cardinal Franchi, the Pontifical Secretary of State, died on
Thursday morning. , ...
The “unredeemed Italy” agitation is subsiding.
SWITZERLAND.
The Maine Republican convention, tne sittings ot wuieii
have been attended by Senator Blaine, has voted resolutions
advocating the resumption of specie payments and the pay¬
ment of the debt in accordance with the national obligations.
The resolutions are silent respecting President Hayes.
rr»,„ TOxiiiwit.lnhin rvirTf>Kr\mulpnf. nf the Time, states that
e resolutions are silent respecting President Hayes. MwSS Cr^iy'
The Philadelphia.correspondent of the Time, states that lltr M a i L Eiizu Luiikuhauk, widow oi
i„w..,i Vmwili’q eftvnlrv. with a force of friendly Umatillas. ..iii,.,. ,.i h^r luiRl.niui’o tulcnta.
presses uwp icg.bv -----O' v Mifl Harriet Agnea Womum, £100. in recognition ot tne servu-^ - >■»
AMERICA. latehuabiind, Mr. Ralph Nieboias Womum, keeper and secretary of the
The Maine Republican Convention, the sittings of which of the service-
.a been attended bv Senator Blaine, has voted resolutions ^ra Ma^ant ^m_i ne enz , VVilliam Alenzica, deputy
SWITZERLAND. The Philadelphia.correspondent of the Timet states that
On Monday the Federal Assembly met for the discussion Colonel Forsyth’s cavalry, with a force of friendly UmattUm,
rhieflv of the Question of granting a Government subsidy to struck the hostile Indian camp near the east fork of Birch
.! . J .v __«* finfbftrd Rnilwav. Creek a few nights ago, and killed seventeen warriors, cap¬
turing twenty women and children, with sixty-five head of
Th« 1 NmitilhiH had nreviouslv killed the chief. Esrau.
drainage.” aud otlnr sanitary ituprovcmenta. , . nf
Marv' Maria, Lady Creasy, £!«>, in recognition of thc literary services
clueliy oi tne quesxiou oi B i»ubxxx S » -
aid in the completion of the St. Gothard Railway
i „ 4VV I turing twenty women and children, with sixty-nve neaa ot
oERAIANY. 8tock The Umatillas had previously killed the chief, Egan,
The Emperor William received at Babelsberg on Sunday and thirteen warrior8) and captured 250 cattle,
all the members of the State Ministry at audience Yellow fever is stated to be increasing at New Orleans.
** Cr M n. 5SSnTttuikahaiik,"widow ol George CnnkHhank, ^
reergnitii’U of her huaband’a tulcnU, und in consideration of her straiten* 1
eirmrmit wes.^ gn)ilh £100i £ n recognition of the g^lant, lon J' f'l 4
meritorious serviccaof hex late husband .Colonel Thomas Laurence »mith,
C B . brother of General Sir Harry bmith, G.C.B. -vices
Mi's Uatrict Monica Chisholm, £50,
render id Ly her mother, Mrs. Caroline Chisholm, Ibe Emigi
^Mr. Joseph Nash (painter in water colours). £100, in consideration of his
^'^Bc^Jamcs Graves
all the members of toe State Ministry at present in Berlin,
and delivered a long address to them, and also gave audience
to the President OI the Supreme Evangelical Council, lhe ,r n 1 . , ■'*tv.T’rcv’ James Graves (Incumbent of Inisnag, in the c? uni y
Emperor accompanied by the Grand Duchess aud Princess The Marquis of Lome, K.T., M.P., has accepted the ken ^ )( ^ux».in consideration of the services he has rendered toarchwo ogy
Victoria of Baden, has gone to Tcplitz, in Bohemia. post of Governor-General of the Dominion. His Lordship and aut i,,u»rian rtsearch. rccoimition of his eminent
V t * lf , t * er ba8 bc en addressed by the Crown Prince of is the eldest son of the Duke of Argyll, and was born at Dr. Jamw.Pws^ Jo^^-M., m a p pUcatioa
Geimany to thc Queen thanking her Majesty in the name of Stafford House in 1845. He was elected in the Liberal lnter^t “ mechanical equivalent of heat.”
the Emperor William for the assistance rendered and the for Argylethire in 1868, and. from that tune until 1874 acted T oiul, £ 1200 . _
sxmDatoY displayed by the English authorities and people on as private secretary to his father, who then held the office of --
the occaiion of the sinking of the Grosser Kurfiirst. The Secretary of State for India. He married Princess Louise, the f Cambrid ha8 ^gd a general order, by the
Crown Prince adds that as he hims elf had thc opportunity of fourth daughter of the Queen, m 1871, and upon that occasion The Duice k , Maiesty’s approbation of
StoessS iCJliatcly after the catastrophe, the noble was invested with the Order of the Thistle Lord I*rne is the gwtt
SSSaf’wItl. which the arat help wra raadered to the authotof .eraral paeUeal worka, tt. l.to.1 of which u a^»e» Sh “h’hthcy have peri»rmrftheR
I thirteen warriors, ana capuirea zoo came.
Yellow fever is stated to be increasing at New Orleans.
CANADA.
The Marquis of Lome, K.T., M.P., has accepted the
ot. nf Governor-General of the Dominion. His LordshiD
Geimany to the uueen inanomg uci x.x w.c
the Emperor William for the assistance rendered and the
sympathy displayed by the English authorities and people on
the occasion of the sinking of the Grosser Kurfurst. The
« TV *_-JJ- to.i «« Ka Kiwvenlf lx a/1 flip nnnGpflinif.V nf
emulation'with which the first help was rendered to the author of several poetical works, the latest of which is a new theyTiave performed their
wrecked men on Engli.h sod, ill. satisfaction has been all thc metrical jnsran ot the.Fnlrns. The Oanadimi papers ciprons “d“pr«Iing thehopethat employcro o[ l*honrwU
ureater in expreaeing these eeritimente^ .. _ I SSSSSSS^»J±iFT£^d‘iSTJSS
drawing Canada nearer to the mother country. employment.
reater in expressing luese utuiumeuut. uiwi wumi wm. 1 . 1 ™uu«ue».
The Crown Prince has ratified toe Berlin Treaty. of Princess Louise in the Dominion. They reg
llis Imperial Highness started ou Monday morning to I drawing Canada nearer to the mother country,
AUG. 3, 1878
ECHOES OF THE WEEK.
Between Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Lord Granville seems
° b '*ta. ?f it. Decidedly the echSEteZ
need to be abroad m polities. “ The charge is,” said his Lord-
ship in an admirable speech in the Peers on Monday, “ that we
have dealt exclusive y with innuendo. What is an innuendo P
1 our Lordships will perhaps, be surprised to hear that the
word , not T , m . of five English dictionaries which I have
consulted. But I have an idea, as all your Lordships have of
^ . inni l e “ < ? 0 -:’ Lord Granville was not
fortunate m the choiceof his lexicons. Had he looked in
Bailey s Universal Etymological Dictionary,” edited by
from' r‘ D -’ 1772 > he would have found innuendo derived
from the Latin mntio, to beckon or nod with the head, and
defined as an oblique hint, and a word frequently used iu
writs, declarations, and pleadings to declare a person or thins?
tliatwas m eutmned before, but obscurely, and left doubtful!
Worcester s Edition of Webster’s Dictionary (Routledge
18 1 5) innuendo is setdown as an indirect allusion, an ohlinm
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON HEWS
U B J is ... 6 10tne derivation is that given
defimt ’?. n that of Welter and Worcester 5 In
Bogets Thesaurus —a wonderfully copious and dis¬
criminative repertory of phraseology—the equivalents of
. mnutmdo are hint, suggestion, wrinkle, wink, glance leer
nod, fi hrug, gesture, whisper, und implication 5 In ’ slang
rather 1 ^ not, by any means the “ straight tip.” It if
+ i • He /' as g 01 »g to peach; but / gave him
the office and he kept his potato-trap shut.”
i : Pl j rt m 1 bas “iuuuent ” in the sense of significant;
but innuendo cannot claim to be a very classical word
f 110 be n er * ai u h T.u y for ita use thau Sir Roger
L Estrange, who speaks of a libellous innuendo against all
the great men ” Dryden and Swift seem to have usfd it now
and then, but it is, m strict fact, a law term, not a literary one ■
ra. d n- lts . stru .'Gy Jcgal meaning is given by the judicious
Philhps in his “ hew World of Words,” London, 1696, with¬
out any reference to an insinuation, an implication, or a hint
Innuendo clearly came into our language through the Inns of
Ju tbe thirteenth edition (Carey’s) of Morell’s Ains¬
worth s Latin Dictionary “an innuendo” is defined as “ inter-
pretatxo ex ipsa orations conficta .” See also Dr. Cowel’s Law
Dictionary, article “ mnuendo.”
t tbe report of a speech made not long since by Sir
h^d'fnrthf'm!!^ 1 “ P f UbHc me J: ting at Newport, South Wales,
^ pro f a new railway line from the
Rhondda Valley to Newport, this portentous passage •—“ You
^S U ?c W1 !S.r 8r0 r of Cardiff.” I confess that I
never heard of Cardiff as a place remarkable for its suspiria de
profunda,; but it appears that Cardiff has been groaniug these
many years past for more dock accommodation, and the want
of a fair waterway ; while her sister port, Newport, has been
as piteously sighing because no available means existed for
getting the enormous output of coal from the Rhondda VaUey to
her new and magnificent Alexandra Docks. But aU these groans
and sighs will be abrogated, it is to be hoped, by the Parlia-
mentary sanction which lias just been given to the construction
of the Pontypridd, Caerphilly, and Newport Railway—a line
only five miles long—which will bring Newport as close to tho
great coal-districts as Cardiff, and make her prosperous and
great Mr. Parkinson quoted Dr. Johnson when, as executor to
Mr. lhrale, he was sellmg the brewery at Bankside to the firm
afterwards to be known as Barclay and Perkins. “ We are
not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the poten¬
tiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.” An
audacious but a remarkably verified prophecy. So, teste Mr.
Parkinson, the five-miles line of railway will develop into
gigantic issues which will lift Newport into “ immense import¬
ance, and make its name famous as a shipping place throughout
"the world. I hope so, with all my heart 1
• .? he ” omennl prices were realised by some of the rare books
m the library of the late M. Firmin-Didot, recently sold at the
Hotel Drouot, Paris. An edition of the works of “ Maitre
Iherre Pathelm,” circa 1500, brought 5100f. ; a copy of a
fmgle play by Moliere, “ L’ Amour Medecin ” (the original
edition of 1666), was knocked down at 1430f.; and another
play of the same illustrious author, “ Les Plaisirs de l’Isle
Lncinmtee, with Colbert’s arms on the cover, fetched 4500f.
ilie first Aldme edition of Petrarch commanded 8000f. This
was sold in 1861 for 3350f.; but the gros lot of the Firmiu
Didot ranries was the “Theatre de P. Corneille,” Rouen,
Jb64-6, which was adjudicated for no less than 14,400f. These
^figures set me pondering. It strikes me that bibliophiles collect
for two puiyoses (I know that I do)-first, to satisfy a genuine
Jove of books ; and next, in the hope that their libraries wiU
fetch a good round sum after they are dead. Books, prints, and
cimos generally are pretty nearly all that a working man
•of letters can expect to leave behind him ; but I am rapidly
arriving at the conviction that the quest after rare and precious
English books m England is becoming a hopeless one. The
mencans (who have little else to do when they come hither)
wander about the book-stalls, and, lynx-eyed, keen-scented,
ana Jong-pursed as they are, snap up nearly everything that is
old and curious of a printed nature. Public libraries; more-
q!"’ BT u ?. lpl 7 lu & not only in our colonies and the United
states, but in British provincial towns : and when a rare book
gets into a public library it may be considered as lost to the
? j e collector. But there are yet trouvailles to be found on
stfd]s in the way of foreign literature. Keep your
f en ’ I W0ldd counsel you, on the “sixpenny” and even
F ha i, V?t? Dy bo *-” K eep them very wide open for any old
r rench, Italian, and Spanish plays, nouvelles, and chap-books,
itn an ultimate view of a consignment to the Hotel Drouot.
w^ f “ : T From a “ eix Penny box” at a stall “over the
" f ! ' rescued not long ago a copy of Tasso’s
liberate,” Venice, 1585, which from a certain
ZTEft r mblazoned on the covers 1 huve the strongest
mason to believe once belonged to Queen Elizabeth.
d’ A “» d’Aumale’s * Les Zouaves et les Chasseurs
uninquc said to me, many years ago, Mr. Thackeray. “It
Sv rriv41? h °+ ntlC h F e b00k> ” he addad - Tt lately been
’ uv ge t0 - read a thoroughly “ Xeuophontic little book,”
Basil To.tc Pn v ate circulation only,” from the pen of Colonel
ofthc J Sff U ’Y n h °^ r I ed under Sir William De Lancey, Chief
in thcbl^i^/^/Y aterl0 ° Campaign, and who, as an officer
the caut,^fi St /xT C °T s ’ waa Rationed at St. Helena during
observan^little wY*w«, n ' C ° lonel Jackson’s modest, manly,
eightv venr^nf W °^ ^ tbe g^nt veteran must be close on
givesam^rt * 8 $ e) hn8 to me a double va lue. It not only
cannjlT iH 13 ^ tand pict urcsque resume of the Waterloo
Mr. Forsvth’^w Y 1 ^ ^^table facts and arguments
valiant Jccnrn^u ^v2i Cal T1 . ndlcatl ° n of the character of that
ill-used’ tflcpf H. bsb cfi’ u Pnght, and shamefully maligned and
8cd mcer > Lieutenant-General Sir Hudson Lowe
I sysa* t n
™ ;x
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missing piecel must be fouu a 8 ,°. 1 ? oroils oatlf that the
yy#«asaSsas
clerical^'error fhrouV^f“ ay have marked thc obvious
Cienuu error through which in a paragraph in last week’«
LTockej Doyle, who was continually and intentionallv
offending people iu order that he might graoetuUr?nol?S
lure ".} T “ 0t * »SSt; ffiSS
ssure my leaders that no mance prepense promoted the
commission of my blunder about one of the P SSg2ished
-hf , are to pr . epare the cartoons for the mosaiework
L h tb« JU if beCU W Y tlug a lcadill S article “ iu another place
ibnt Dwf/rT SU ^ J f, ct ’ anc ! the naine of Leighton must in
p ft a YF i U - VC , faUci ‘ ? ul1 a doze11 times from my pen
fa fsc ^riiere 11 ^ 1 eiT01 i lm9 ha direct and generally Simple
doubt such a cause, I have not the slightest
doubt for the appearance in Sir Archibald Alison’s “ History
of Eiuope as a mourner at a public funeral in West-
TwF A Ar )C -*i ° f i° ne <<Sir Pere 8 line Pickle.” Possibly Sir
wheif k^ C 8 ^t a m? U n, WaS meaut; aud the compositor’s thoughts
when he set up the name were running, perchance on the
that 1 hi*? w b T mUy h 5 Ve F artak cn at dinner. It happen^
“ T C v f0 Tv , 1 A Pcmied that ^cky paragraph in the
Echoes I had had occasion to turn up Cruden’s Concordance
and my eyes had lighted upon the words “Mount Hor
Why were they so attracted by the words? Because’I
have sometimes seen “ Hor ” spelt “ Hur.” Straightway
by E0 “ e unconscious process of association, my thoughts
mint have reverted to Mr. Millais’s grand picture of “ Mascs,
Y “ nd Eleazar on Mount Hur,” exhibited at the Academy
?f° ; andthen - collaterally, it must have occurred
*n at 1 th6 -T ery . be . 8t way m w bich to decorate St. Paul’s
S®”f. bc by oil pmntlngs of Scriptural subjects by the first
English masters of the day. Thus, for the moment, Mr. Mil lais
was master of the situation iu my mind; and I blunderingly
bought his name into my paragraph instead of that of Mr
103
I may (with permission) be enabled to recur to Colonel
Earl Cowper has pressed on the attention of the Earl of
Beacousfield the expediency of establishing at the Imperial
expense a museum of plaster casts from the antique, with a
view to furthenng the study of “Ancient Art” among the
British youth; and to the same intent the masters of the
pnncqml public schools in the metropolis have memorialised
the Treasury. The Prime Minister promises to consider the
matter during the recess, and holds out hopes that something
may be done next Sess ion. “ What! Hamlet-Hamlet the
Dane .—that s much ! ” Such was Garrick’s stereotyped
reply (while shaving) to youthful postulants for dramatic
fame, and who almost invariably wanted to play Hamlet as a
d'fait. The study of “ancient art” through a Museum of
Lasts . That’s much ! I may say, par aphrasing Hamlet. To
the studious British youth I would add—first read very
attentively all that has been written on the subject of
ancient art” by Montfaucon, Winckelman, Flaxman
Payne Knight, Cumberland, Charles Blane, Dr . Wilhelm
Lubke, the Herren Guhl aud Koner, and Mr. Anthony Rich.
After that, I shall be happy to lend the S. B. Y. (if he will
promise to return it) a fear ful folio of four hundred pages
“De Pictura Vetenun,” by Franciscus Junius, printed at
Rotterdam, in the seventeenth century. It is in the Latin
tongue, and is dedicated to Johannes a Julsinga, Lord of
Tackenborg, Gaimewolde, Ten Buur, and Tessinge. In this
tremendous tome the studious one will learn some deeply
edifying things about Dexiphanes and Emoplates, the archi¬
tects; Demoplun, the goldsmith ; Doryclidas, Menestratus
Theocles, the sculptors, “and many more.” F. Junius’s
catalogue raisotwe of ancient artists alone fills one hundred and
fifty pages in double columns.
I advocate very strongly the establishment of a National
Museum of Casts ; first, because the priceless antique sculpture
at the British Museum is, for lack of space, very badly
arranged ; and, next, because at the Crystal Palace the
attention of the visitor is diverted from the exquisite examples
of statuary at Sydenham by a number of jarringly-hetero-
geneous objects. But the head masters of our public schools
will, if they are wise, desist from the attempt to instil into
their pupils that which can only be the merest smattering of a
knowledge of Ancient Art:—a study which, properly pursued,
should be the purpose of a lifetime. Schoolmasters have, I
take it, two great things to do before they think of .cramming
their scholars with matter too grave for their young brains to
carry. First let them have all their boys taught practical
geometry and drawing, instruction in which has just been made
obligatory in all French schools above the primary grade.
Next, let all English public schoolboys be forthwith taught
to sneak and write colloouiallv a certain conious and snimrmiH
d°/our daughter any harm. It is as easy to learn as Italian
and would be much more useful—to young ladies. At leas”*
my experience leads me to believe that it Ts not mneratfvelr
necessary that a young lady should be able to^ uSderstanJ
Italian in order to sing an Italian song ; and the ‘^books ol
wrfl W «TtL t the 0pera * Housea ar< ? planted in the English as
ell as the Tuscan tongue. And such English, too ' No no
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THE VOLUNTEERS.
and Private Guthrie. Other smaller prizes were faiVen
Se R^f„“ , ; 11 i n S < V,'T > ’ A (Captoiu II. Robert.',^ companr ■
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was a long aud exhaustive one, and the umpire. Lieutenant
Stafford.Grenacher Guards, awarded the victory to the former.
tio/JftSfhm^fSf o , 1 d<U ? , “ undcr went their aunualinspec-
5(Sh sub dkJrift f ^? l01ld Logan - commanding the 49th and
Aitlin , Th ® regiment mustered in good strength
th A filp! Ls!wi Ck9 ’ and marcl l ed m ei gfit companies of thirty-
Regent’s l£k whcr m H aU ° f Lieutenant-Colonel Brown, to
itegent s 1 ark, where they were drawn up in line to receive
f S Fr Cting a£h< ; er - After the usual inspection of the ranks
Colonel Logan took post at the saluting-base, and the regiment
marched past m a very steady manner, considering the strength
of the companies, m column and quarter-column in quick timp
and in close column at the “ double.” MaiorLe^iffi ‘S
tW ° captmns dril] mg the battalion. Colonel Brown
COrp ? through a short series of ordinary battalion
c ° n , cludm f Wlt h some drill in the new attack
nlS wi Colone l Logan expressed himself exceedingly
0f thc “d 85
a Y n F, 0ffi 1 c F j nspe ction of the Tower Hamlets
p iv U Vi rs hj Golonel Gordon, the Commanding Royal Engineer
of the Home District, took place on Saturday. The first Dor
n° 8 iv f F e 7 0rk W£U ? “ Vk I 0ria Park ’ whero the corps padded
}FfaT good companies under Lieutenant-Colonel Comyn, the
Rtran^ m f e fno r *1 eUt i bemg 378 of a11 ranks » out of an enrolled
strength of 400, the absentees all having leave of absence The
naratnS? 0 + ? Cer ® a closc ins P ec tion of the ranks pre!
par fi 0 ^ t0 tb ? marc h- past 1U the customary three formations.
Major Evans then put the corps through the manual and firing
’ + tbla hemg foUowed by a short series of battalion
movements, under the commanding officer, at the close of
which a march was made to the head-quarters in Victoria
Park-square. Here each company was told off to the roar tf
YWpT - WhlCl \^ hadbet ' n , latol y engaged. Colonel Gordon
minutely mspected each work, and asked a number of ques-
ti™ 8 +i f Tariolls men who had been engaged in their construe-
tb p e answeis, as a rule, bemg given promptly. At the
close of the inspection the gallant Colonel made a short
address, m which Be said he was glad to be able to speak to
Zw™ of praise, as there was a great improvement
from last year and a rectification of the faults of which he had
tlien complained.
The three provisional battalions of volunteers that did duty
for eight days at the camp of exercise at Aldershott returned
to their respective head-quarters last Saturday, their places
be * g t ak £ nby °* her three provisional battalions, and the
1st Berks Rifles, who sent the splendid number of 620 men
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Loyd-Liudsay
- Ea f , Sat ^f day tbe Eton College rifle volunteers were
inspected. The corps, consisting of four companies, a total of
about 250, marched to the Playing Fields, taking ground
opposite the wall. Colonel G. E. Baynes, commanding the
forty-second sub-^tnet, was the inspecting officer; and
after his duties had been performed, Be complimented the
commandant upon the bearing of the regiment.
. , The .. Engineer Volunteers who were at the camp of
instruction at Chatham during the past fortnight wero
last featurday morning inspected by Major-Gtmeral B
JSewdcgate, the commandant of the garrison, and the volun¬
teers afterwards left for their homes. Although the men were
subject to the Mutiny Act, only one man had to be punished
with anything like severity. Their conduct on the whole was
remarkably good.
. . L° rd Cad j D ? ford aud Frances Countess Waldegrave dis¬
tributed at Chelmsford on Wednesday the prizes won at the
annual shooting competition of the Essex Rifle A= a r.einf.-e-.
JNexi, let an migiisn punne scfioolboys be forthwith taught
to speak and write colloquially a certain copious and sonorous
language called Romaic, or Modem Greek, and to pronounce
it as the Greeks of Greece and Turkey pronounce it, and not
according to the canons of the Dutchman Erasmus and the
Englishman Sir John Cheke, deceased. For further particu¬
lars apply to Dr. Schliemann and to Professor Blackie.
P.S.—Madam, if the great scheme for the political and social
regeneration of Asia Minor comes to anything, hundreds upon
hundreds of intelligent young men will be wanted to fill vice-
consular and commercially residential appointments in the East.
But to fill these appointments they must be able to speak
Modem Greek fluently. Madam, if you will insist that your
bright young 6on, now growing up, shall have a Modem Greek
instead of an Ancient Greek tutor, you will be materially
aiding his prospects in life. Nor would instruction in Romaic
“ uu » L'unesoay tne prizes won at the
shooting competition of the Essex Rifle Association
rue nssex Challenge Shield, value £100, presented by Major
Coope, M.P., was earned off by the 3rd Essex Battalion tHford)
the ten men representing that battalion scoring 1036 in the
three competitions appointed, against 1002 by the 1st battalion
(Chelmsford) and 8(9 by the 5th battalion (Plaistow). Ser-
geant Elknigton, who stood so well for the Queen’s Prize at
Wimbledon, maintained his reputation, taking, among other
honours, the chief ladies’ prize, and the medal and £5 in the
grand aggregate with 117 points. The medal carries with it
the nglit to compete for the Prince of Wales’s Prize at Wim¬
bledon next year. Captain Copland, of the 4th Essex, took the
Association Cup, and Sergeant Clarke, 9th Essex, the first
prize in the president’s series. The Countess offered a new
annual prize of 10 guineas.
The meeting of the Jersey National Rifle Association endod
on the 25th ult., after a four-days’ competition, held on Gorer-
common. The Grand Challenge Match, between the Rifle
Clubs of Jersey and Guernsey, was won by the latter, who
scored 242 against Jersey’s 240. The teams were formed of
eight a side, aud ten shots each were fired at 500 and 200 yards
Lady Norcott, wife of the Lieutenant-Governor,
distributed the prizes.
The Southampton Comoration has resolved to present an
address of welcome to the Prince and Princess of Wales on their
visit to the town on the 12th inst. for the purpose of laying the
foundation-stone of the Wilberforce memorial church.
Captain Twyford, who has had considerable experience in
the management of prisons and convict settlements, and who
served in the Crimean War and during the Indian Mutiny has
been appointed to the governorship of York Castle.
The First Lord of the Admiralty has conferred the good-
service pension of £100 a year, vacant by the death of Inspector-
General John Rees, M.D., C.B., upon Inspector-General James
L. Donnet, M.D.; and her Majesty has conferred on Lieutenant-
General Raines, C.B., a pension of £100 for “ distinguished
and meritorious service extending over a period of thirty-six
years.”
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« FOLK-LORE” the statement an unqu^ihed a J d that the noble it W as something of a disappointment to find
* . {ts ovra tale most cm- The Earl of Bcaconstield l una ^ a certain a debater (troublcd *&h a cold) hesitating in his
aasst'«- B,0 ’ mgt,,c ameni -
fhmilh «he were about to draff a magic cucie ou ^ the policy W as described in a x am n ot betraying gcritaJta rwfawtoof a* S^her Majesty that this House h» learnt
SS ehe®ere aW to draw a magic circle <»i «•^t ^icy was dc^ribedL in « d^atcn betraying
spell. All this kind of imaginative iw / learned Government of her MuWinterests were in »« «“ under the blessing of Providence, avail to pre-
department of ‘‘folk-tore,'or vulgar faWe, wn ^ and b<?tween Turkey policy was the non-altera- SAeS toSSSK the condition of large populations m the E«t.
scholars of national literature have mdusmous y We d r . The pm ic,pal point of that policy ^ ^ under . r££’ £ m thc interest of this Empire.”
edited for thc critical instruction Entertaining children tion in the possession of Cons P > If Co nstantinoplc were Mr p bni k e t did but repeat for the most part the arguments used
by no means commend the P™ctice ® feel quite 6 sure that stood what was the policj of th idred eu daugered. by the Prime Minister and the l oreign Secretary m another
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t> a H T T \MFNT 1 recollect rightly, were JJ 0 * . , binet but thc act which we rharles Dilkc, on thc other hand, displayed his usual ability
PARLIAML.N1. the nSble Earl M**<*^™ It was our policy SfrSSs^hi debate, and made good the omissions of Lord
LORDS. carried out was a natural ac' J tb e possible capture of Hartingtou in a telling speech in favour of the resolutions,
T,«fi<v 1 d has cause for complaining that thc Leader to defend British interests ion- time, and therefore listened to with attention on both sides of the House. The ball
n ^rd Beaconsficld haj c»use 101 ■ w f u not unsheathe Const antinople, and ^d been for a long the time ^V e ^t rolling by Mr. B. Cochrane, Mr. E. Ashley, Mr. R.
of the ^^fJrdJhip cawSt say that Earl Granville does had been sanctioned by the 1 effect, the noble M r. t F. Duff, Mr. Bourke, who might take a lesson
Ws ' “WSS® S^huSo in its^cabbard enough. Yesterday week came that we felt it our ■duty to <ion?^it into ^ ^ ^ and Blunke^m^ ^ Mf u Vivian> who vigorously protested
notnUle his prime Minister again about Batoiun, Earl said it was inconsistent . quite in accordance ocninst Parliament being treated as a mere register ofilee.
Lord wm at the rnm the eifcct that it was a he itted the Cabinet. 1 hat I th^, is quue n6 To rd Sand“n resumed thc debate on Tuesday in a speech
nnd read a + . 1 ^" f ~X b ° a Xur Which “ bears out the shite- ^ thc statement which I made the other night. frnn , fd to Sist a saint-like nimbus round the head of each of
Tery el fleModi rejoi ned the Earl of TUc subje ct then dropped. Kpoteutiaries who signed the Treaty of
^ en ° fi ,ia«ButnotthatofthenobleLord,”qmcklyretorted COMMONS. v Berlin The noble Lord (whose first speech of mark
Beaconsficld. ’JJfEwmuior matters haling been disposed likelihood be the last great debate of the Ber • ■JgJ re be ha3 entered the Cabinet) recapitu-
Earl Granville. ^ f , nv „ mm ent was brought ou tlie Wliat may m all i lftl ,. mfim bers as we write. „„ «i«reritv as if they were his own the
not rattle hh^ blade mg ^^^un about Batoum, ^ ^ it was
very safe though smaU harbour^^vv the Earl o£ wll ! rhc subjett then dropped.
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very safe Jy^^pher,” rejoined the Earl of Thc subject then dropped.
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d to in Mr. Alderman M‘Arthur s resolution. uob le Lord at Aylesbury about * w0 y 0ar3
e Marauis of Hartington, greeted with the customary from desiring to abndge the liberty of 0 P°°°h.
rJ^^lSr,hi,h«S!" fS»m the Opposition benches ^ ffistone averted that 6 ‘‘if you forbid rnmber
relieved himself of his white hat and, approached the q{ <hia j lou£e to denounce when they see °ause> the
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Search td five dictionaries to find !) Lord ‘imnviUe pornted out todicaUd^^mg ^ m , cni into . ^ r «p 0na ibilit*o. hacked_tc.pieces. Sigmficant aUumon was^th ^ ^
chorus of “ Hear, hear, hear: irom tue uppwiuvu Mr Gladstone assertea mat ;u yuu
as he relieved himself of his white hat and approached the thia House to denounce when J i e ? n£r 8e ! he ° ft ^ 0 e un fry
table, on Monday moved- vi policy of any Government a» dishonouring^ th^ ooung^
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o A .. —r,n u f„rips in the wav of peace for many
feints, because they Old OUC iouow me J - --- Vetoed eigsgements enterrf into by her Majesty’s Uovern-
field when he wns in a minority. So far from dealing, howe ver, mat me ae better administration of those provinces have imposed
in hanuendo, as alleged (a word which thc noble Earl had. vainly “^‘JJSSSbStSmate, whilst no auflicient means have been
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hacked to pieces.” Signincant auusmu
Andth. 1 t suchMgigeiDiiiu law U«m amw »«», «»*«■»«»- fnct that an article of the Berlin Treaty makes all tne lower*
incurred, without the previous knowledge of 1 arbament. responsible for the good government of Armenia ; and thore
With characteristic gravity and solidity did the Leader of the ^ d some minute criticism of the arrangements foi: the
Eimai lf of his task. In the main, he argued, ^ l of Koatern KoumeUa. Her Majesty’s
Eorlnicaconstield was not slow to reply. He Burmised that the the views expressed on liia side the House, 'masmuen as sell- thtmS clves the champions of freedom when * h ® c “f^- 0 p omrr e 3e ’
^ilt oi the noble Earl’soriticisms wits to disturb thc digestion government was to a great extent given to jacra lately Bu]gari a, Montenegro, and Bessarabia came before ^Lo^res ,
of J Satmday’s tbmi^ He briskly proceeded to justify thc Object to Turkey. But he could fg^uct of & ’ 8cntence being interpolated in V toisc o'^ Lord Beacon
® h „ E n d ma de to Mr. Gladstone’s allegation that the the Government towards Greece ; and he thou„ht the result fi jd» s CO urage in insisting upon the emancipation of the
Zrfo T&kSh Tmity was "an insane” Cofvcntion. Did of that policy would be that in future Greece wmfld do as yoico of | n g land ’ 8 representative wasJ-hat of
‘‘‘Siat Bpeaker” on several occasions make the most Servia and Montenegro had done, zn& ^^^"toShcsecret Metternich rather than that of Mr Canning or Lord
allusions to him f At Oxford, said the noble Earl, her occupied Umtoncs by force. Referring to the secret ^ Lord 1{u8aell Xbe secret agreement between Lora
P, he described me as a dangerous and even a devilish man." agreement signed by the Marquis of Salisbury aud (Jo _ Salisbury and Count Sehouvaloff did not escape censure.
His Lordthip therefore, thought he was entitled to use thc Sehouvaloff, and to the Anglo -1 urkish Convention, the nob Mr Gludstone reserved his strongest denunciation
Expressions h'e did on the occasion referred to. If it is thought, Marquis said these private transactions had been arrangedna 0 . Tur kiah Convention, drawing apowerfol pictureof th
Wev« concluded his Lordship, "we have entered into un spir it directly opposed to that which the Governmentdedued ^ of tbis 8tep in the dark and ^P^sJ
‘insane Convention’ . . . I think it is their duty to ought to animate international arrangements. In the spring ^lat neither the Duke of Wellington nor S
a«k the opinion of this House of Parliament on that subject.” it was loudly proclaimed that the ireaty of Ro bert Peel, Lord Aberdeen, nor ^/, ame3 . Grall “P’ Lord
The conversation, lessening in acerbity, was continued wa8 objectionable because it was secretly. “ e S°L at ^- Lansdowue, Ix»rd l’almerston, Lord Clarendon, nor L
bv Lord Napier and Ettrick, thc Marquis of Rlpon, the Mar- How could thc secret Convention with the Sultan, RuS8e ii “would for one moment have looked on such a sch
The conversation, lessening m acerouy, was wuwuacu was oojecnouauic "r* ~-b—
bv Lord Napier and Ettrick, thc Marquis of Ripon, the Mar- How could thc secret Convention with the tun,
puisof Salisbury (who maintained that "the people of this then.be regarded as consistent with our obligations towards
country will never allow Russian influence to be supreme, in Europe ? The occupation of Cyprus, too, was objected to, as
the valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris,” and that, therefore, it had not been accomplished m an internationally le^al
4Eo Anoin-TiiTkish Convention had been rendered a matter of manner, and as no adequate reason had been given lor_ita
was objectionable because it was • Lansdowue, Lord Palmerston, Eora ciareuuim,
How could thc secret Convention with the Sultan, R egell “ WO iUd for one moment have looked on such a scheme
then.be regarded as consistent with our obligations towards ^ ^ scooted in the dark by the members of her
Europe ? The occupation of Cyprus, too, was objected to, as Wa iesty’s Ministry.” Of those who followed Mr. Gtegtoae
it had not been accomplished m an internationally le^al (whose remarkable discourse held the attention of the ^^i r «
manner, and as no adequate reason had been given for its j hours and a half) thc most noticeabie were
_teoniirwr with t.Ef non-iieecssitv of eiuminteeing i" 1 , _ ,,_ xi„ and Mr. Cross.
the valleys of thc Euphrates ana itgm, ana mat, uiereiore, lt mm not oeen uccompusueu. m ^ -(whose remarkable discourse neia me au,euuiu.x -
the Aneio-Turkish Convention had been rendered a matter of manner, uud as no adequate rcuson had been given for its ^ ftbout twQ hour8 an d R half) thc most notmeabie w»
necessity), Lords Cardwell, Cranbrook, Aberdare, and Ham- acquisition. Deuling with thc non-necessity of guaranteeing JJr Oljbornc M orga n, Mr. Stansfeld, and Mr. Crow-
mond. A few measures were then advanced a stage ; and the to protect Turkey m Asia from iurther Russian attack, the The B ch o£ the Home Secretary was undoubtedly
Earl of Beaeonsfield assured Earl Cowper that every effort Marquis of Hartington certainly seemed somewhat burdened ^ ab i 0 defence of the Government. Jus tlf y m S “
would be made to establish an historical gallery of casts from by the lesson he hud set himself; but ho war ned up when he Dar t taken by the English representatives at the Congress,
the antique. , came to any saUent point. Thus Liberal cheers followed his ^ Croga / uid , hi the absence of any other reason-
“ Your money or your life!" is still demanded by armed remark that the British Navy would be found, in case of need, . solution of the Constantinople difficulty, it was resol
men on Blackheath, according to Lord Truro, who on Tuesday in the Persian Gulf to resist any Russian approach to India. maintain the sovereign power of the Sultan there, an
cast reflections ou the metropolitan police system, which was A g ain , he met with encouragement from his supporters when lit rctain fQr him a con8i derable though diminished dominion m
stoutly defended, however, by Earl Beuuchamp. I lie Marnnge deprecated the use by the Prime Minister oi the Scriptural E As for Bessarabia, our Plenipotentiaries did object
Preliminaries (Scotland) Bill, the Corrib (Galway) River Bill, words, ” Thus far shult thou go,but no further. 1 he result to it . l but tbe countrv would be with them in not gouig to
the Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Bill, and the Fresh- 0 f this Convention would be that, if a war should break out I > eyent thc * re troceasion. The cause of Greece was
water Fish Protection Bill were read the third time and passed. between Eugland and Russia, it would give Russia an reim0l ^ lv advocated by the Marquis of Salisbury. Justi-
On 'lhurtday there was a little brush between the Premier incalculable advantage, inasmuch as our actual base of j .. tbe Anglo-Russian Agreement would be founa
and the late Colonial Secretary, which at one time wore a very operations would be at least a thousand miles away, whereas . . .. led tQ a peace ful issue of the Con-
threatening appearance. The following summary of the cir- her resources would be close at hand. If such a Convention What was there unreasonable in the Anglo- Iurkistt
tunibtance will no doubt be read with interest. The Earl of W as not rightly described as “ insane,” he would like to know ft n , PV p nt : on ? Without it the various tribes in Armenia wouia
Carnarvon drew attention to a passage in the speech of the what name should be given to it. Lord Beaeonsfield s retort . towards Russia With it, Turkey, guaranteed by
Trime Minister on Monday night, when he said:—‘‘As long as ou Mr. Gladstone for the iise of thia term ” insane he fe. , d protection from Russian attack, would reform her
those two noblemen remained in the Cabinet we adhered to thought was not uu-Parliamentary ; but, said the noble Minor Mr Cross further stated explicitly
the policy which they had accepted, and on which we under- Marquis, with marked impressivenosa— A Government had taken steps to secure goo®
stood they were to act; but when the time came they shrank „ hcn thc noble Lord thought it worthy of himself to go on to describe my CO vemment for these provinces, so that English andEuropean
from the responsibility ol carrying it into effect. those ton. friend w* a •* .sophistical rhetorician (laughter from the Minis- B .. . . l t flnw int A t E ose fair parts of the earth. As ror
wolds, he said, were calculated to give a very false impression. Urial benches) inebriated by the exuberance ofTua own verbosity, and ^ a P lta ^ “’8 llt ^ “4°. , matt ^ r t h e Home Secretary re-
It true tA^y were somewhat U«A.-oA 1. B5U^JRS3LB^ , t!^ SWftB HtSStSJ hSSSS>£«W «M—--J
Earl meant that, after agreeing to particular measures of an a glorify himself”—when the noble l^orl went on to d«»eribe my right d d ratified before Parliament knew one single word
policy, when the moment of difficulty und danger arrived he bon. friend in that wsy. I think he was rather insulting to the Sovereign to c , a >- an ^ 1 , v - moved the adjournment of the
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tradiction. Is ever once wane a memoer oi tne ^aoiuct naa ctinmience at one uxne ^ciieern rrom
he advocated tr consented to any particular policy, and then friend 110 ^^ 1 , 8 ^ (^e^ddeni
shiikcd the tesponsibility of that act. Such a course *«““*• ^«d Opposition cheem)
would be unworthy, cowardly, dishonest, and untrue, brth Mr. Gladstone bore himself \
in act and word. If, therefore, that waa what the martyr whilst the peculiar la
which my right hon. friend has led, and to the people of this country, whose ,
confidence at one time (cheers from the Ministerial benches) my right hon 0 foie Memorandum. OU Wednesday
friend possessed, and the confidence of a large portion of whom he still The Duke of Connaught 8 Dowry Bill W for it
poAMwaa (Ixiud Opposition cheers) . read the third time after a lively debate, 1^1 ^to lo vot g bttr t f
Mr. Gladstone bore himself with the resignation of a @liristian in the face of the objections urged by Mr. P^mso , • ^
martyr whilst the pectiliar language of Lord Beaeonsfield was Mr. Macdonald, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Mr. K. Je »
AUG. 3, 1878
Charles Dilkc. Sir H. Selwin-Ibbetsou had at length the
satisfaction of seeing the Cattle Plague Bill passed through
tktol • iJL ' dcb * i ““
. We liave now arrived at Aug. 1, nevertheless there is no
sign of a proximate close of the Session, which has been
already unusually protracted. There yet remains an amount
of business t> be disposed of which would involve a p>ri£i
of at least five or six weeks to get through unless there
was a more wholesale ‘ massacre of the innocents ” than has
been perpetrated m previous Sessions. The statement
made by the Government leader of the House on H
8 p m r idea * ° f r the state of Public affaire
in the British Parliament. In reply to Mr: Briggs the
Chancellor of the Exchequer said that he could not
at present fix a day for the India Budget. Owing to the inter-
xupticn which had taken place iu the public business this
wet k, it would be necessary to proceed at once with the re¬
maining votes m Siippxy. He proposed to take the Education
Estimates on Monday, in order to avoid having to annlv for
another vote on account, and the Supplementary Army Esti-
niates on Iuesday. In answer to a question from Mr. Childers
Sir H. belwin- Ibbetson said that there would be some further
Supplementary Civil Service and Revenue Estimates, but
they would not exceed £80,000. Mr. Meldon being dis¬
satisfied with a reply of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
to the effect that he could not at present fix a day for the
thml reading cf the lush Sunday Closing Bill, gave notice
tbat > on he ^i 011 for Z° in 8 intj Committee of Supply on
Monday, be would move that the House refuse to proceed with
Supply until the bill in question was disposed of The
-debate on the motion of Lord llartingtons resolution was
resumed by Sir. Lowe who said they had heard a good dial
ns to the position ot Turkey which had been denied by Lord
Benconsheld, but the fact remained that the dominion of
Turkey which had been disposed of by the treaty had been
divided amongst seven different Powers. He denied that the
Government had succeeded in erecting a complete autonomy
for the provinces south of the Balkans ; and, with regard to
Greece, he grieved as an Englishman to say that that country
had lost what she might otherwise have gained had
she not listened to the advice of England. Turning to
the question of secret treaties, the right lion, gentleman
pointed out that England had gone into the Congress with two
secret treuties in her pocket-one with Russia and the other
-with Turkey; and, from what had transpired that morn¬
ing, it looked as if there were a third secret treaty iu
existence. With regard to the question of Batoum and
the despatch to Lord Odo Russell on that subject he
r« marked that it seemed as if there were au attempt to'find out
how many falsehoods could be put together. Here the ri»ht
hon. gcntJeman was interrupted by an appeal to order from
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who gravely objected to the
mseef the word “falsehoods” as applied to the Government
The Speaker having interposed, Mr. Lowe withdrew the expres¬
sion, remarking that Russia had obtained Batoum. In regard
to Cyprus, he proceeded to argue that the acquisition of that
island was useless and burdensome to us, as we shall be obliged
to maintain therein an armed force, to be ready for any
emergency. He condemned the policy of the Government in
regard to Asia Minor, and insisted that it had a right to con¬
sult the House of Commons before it entered into those
engagements with the Porte and with Russia, which involved
this country iu the most serious obligations. For the first
time in English history, he said, an enormous scheme of
innovating policy, utterly new and utterly uncalled for, hid
been carried out by her Majesty’s Government. Lord John
Manners replied to Mr. Lowe. The debate was continued to a
late hour.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON HEWS
NATIONAL SPORTS.
henaions, and the course was in ?e?y fd/oX^ Wh’f * PP %'
was the Sewards- Cun for wU- S “T*! intereat on Tuesday
grumbled 8Ur P ri8ed that backe
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WILL OF THE LATE MR. BOLCKOW, M.I*.
The will (dated Oct. 18, 1872) of Sir. H.W. F. Bolckow, M.P.,
•of Marion Hall, Yorkshire, and 33, Prince’s-gate, was proved
m the district registry at York on July 27, by Mr. Isaac
Wilson, M.P., Mr. Isaac Lowthian Bell, M.P., Mr. Thomas
George Robinson, and Mr. 0. F. H. Bolckow (nephew of the
deceased), the personal effects being sworn under £800,000.
The testator confirms the settlement made upon his marriage
Jind gives to his wife a legacy of £1000. He also bequeaths to
Ins wife for her life his dwelling-house, 33, Princes-gate, and
Rs contents; whilst his Marion estate and other estates in
lorkshire are devised to the use of his nephew, Mr. C. F. H.
Bolckow, and his heirs in strict settlement. The library, pictures,
china, and plate are annexed to Marton Hall as heirlooms, sub¬
ject to the enjoyment of such as are at Prince’s-gate by Mrs.
Bolckow during her life. An annuity of £1000 is bequeathed
to Mrs. Bolckow, and also an annuity to testator’s brother,
Frederick Bolckow. The residuary real and personal estate is
bequeathed to his trustees in trust to pay charitable and other
legacies, amongst which are legacies of £1000 each to his
coon^ 018 ’ t° the North Riding Infirmary; legacies of
*2000 each to certain schools in Middlesborough and Marton,
£1000 to the Newcastle Infirmary, £500 to the Durham County
Infirmary, £200 each to the Deaf and Dumb Institution at
Newcastle, the Yorkshire Blind School, the Castle Howard
Reformatory, the Coatham Convalescent Home, and
the Cottage Hospital at North Ormesby. £5000 is
bequeathed for charitable purposes in Meckleuburg-
’'Cbwerin. The will ako contains bequests to servants
aacl others; and gives £30,000 to testator’s nephew Max
iJolckow, £5000 to his nephew Castell Hopkins, £5000 to other
children of his late sister Mrs. Hopkins, £10,000 to his sister
hire. Martens and her children, £5000 to his sister Mrs. Ecker-
mann and her children; £10,000 to his sister Mrs. Kofahl and
her children, £2000 to his sister Miss Bolckow, £2000 to his
niece Mrs. Dummer, and £2000 to his niece Miss Kofahl,
besides annuities to his brothers-in-law and others. To his
nephew C. F. Bolckow the testator gives a legacy of £50,000,
„ 0 a lurt her legacy of £50,000 payable out of his residuary
? 1 ® : and tbe residue of his real and personal estate is
t®™,™ be invested in the purchase of freehold ostates to
he added to and held with his Marton estate.
lt . P ,I9 ie T°wn Council of Blackburn have sanctioned the pay-
£3358 ^ m connection with the late riots amounting to
fir ? t tarf of a new wet dock at Greenock was cut on
♦?’ b J p rovost Lyle. It will be called the James Watt
0CJ£ > the estimated cost being about £400,000.
iff^+ r ti, Ca ^r n!7f ? r ^x presided on Monday over a county gather-
thf mi? Colche8ter . to initiate an effort to raise
E^eXJ"£5000 for improvements and alterations in the
niifed At tl Colchester Hospital. The sum received and pro-
mued at the close of the meeting was £1976.
“ bolding its annual
British Ai-Jr^tbMnpton ; and the thirty-fifth congress of the
becSnwi^?, 10 ?^ 1 . Asfi0cia tion will he held at Wisbeach,
ArchffiolnLi * 9tb mat- The annual meeting of the Kent
Archeological Society was held at Bromley on Wednesday.
o' J- Could anytlung be more unreasonable \ The Richmond
r‘-»^°- year - old eveat3 of the season. I? was
by S?Year wh ev ? r P°P ular magpie co i our8 would be carried
terfi • f had mcu F ed a 6 lb - Penalty for her Ches-
“dmk ” Whlelnf 8 ° WheU ^ beCame kaown that ‘he
'yheel of Fortune was superior to her stable com¬
panion at level weights, the race was regarded as a foregone
In^hlTn'i T hC I® 81 }. 11 proved thatno Sstake had been made
m the trial, for Archer was in front all the way with the
fayounte, and won very cleverly by two lengths from Peter
ha3been namedCadogau.
VYlieel of fortune is by Adventurer from Queen Bertha and
“Jberefore a half sister to Queen’s Messenger, Paladin ’ and
other good winners; she is a smart, racing-like filly, thou-h
oJt thiTSn 80 ^ aud - l00kiu S a8 others that have been seen
tll J3}® P»wing-Roam Stakes on Wednesday disposed of
the slight Leger pretensions of Queen of Pearls ; andas Inval
hi^TW* ? ttlC troubl . e “ beating the wretched Priscillian!
his Doncaster prospects were not improved. Though the
0ue J ime promised to rank among th°e chief
W « ° f 1a nd was worth nearly £2000, it was
S fTf \° accide , nt tmd various other causes, reduced
nnLr i A between the two French horses, Insulaire and
^ brat aimost any odds were laid upon the
fonner, but when it oozed out that he had been taking a
S«n^i nied J e8t f ° r BOIU j llttle tmie P ast > the ring fielded
thoui! 5 ’rLT' 6 rcw ^ ded b 7 see ' n g Clocher win cleverly,
ft 0U S b 80 bttle was thought of Insulaire’s defeat that
b® . dld not recede even a point in the St. Leger
v C0U v t - , La 8™nge was more fortunate in flie
Wf k* J take !’ ^, hlch feU to Rayon d’Or, a magnificent
haif brother to Chamant, by Flageolet-Araucaria “and, as
® tlU J er y fflr from fit > be ought to do great things in the
run “ e ” wa8 a very fair complement for the
Goodwood Stakes, and the respective partisans of Norwich
£w 3 b ° and Hampton (9 st.) seemed almost equaUy con-
bbentof success, though the former was actually first favourite
^b^the flag feU. A fair start was effected at the first attempt,
and Shillelagh (6 st. 11 lb.) soon took the lead, and brought
them along at a capital pace. Though temporarily deprived
of the command by Roubigant (5st. 71b.), ShUlelagh soon
resumed it, and looked very much like winning until he was
simultaneously challenged at the distance by Hampton, Strath¬
more (7st. 6 at.), and Norwich. He was then in trouble aud
swerved right on to Norwich, almost knocking him off his legs
Had a less talented jockey been on the favourite this mishap
would have probably prored fatal to his chance, but Fordbam
steadied him as coolly as possible, and, bringing him up with a
rare rush on the outside, beat Hampton cleverly by a length
the latter being only a neck in advance of Strathmore, 'fhua
the first three finished in exact accordance with the betting
and, with the exception of Shillelagh, who was a very good
fourth, nothing else got within hail of them. Mr. Crawfurd is
having a capital year of it, the City and Suburbau and Derby
being bis chief previous successes ; and such a fine supporter
of the turf well deserves a turu of luck. Cadogan again ran
badly in the Findon Stakes; and the ready success of Lord
Clive over Clementine wound up a rather poor day’s sport.
We can merely record, without comment, the racing on
Thursday, which was as follows .—For the Twenty-sixth
Beutinck Biennial Memorial Stakes, Rylstoue walked over
For the Twenty-seventh Bcntinck Memorial, Eau de Vie beat
Priscillian. For the Chichester Stakes nine ran: Lollypop 1 •
Faisan, 2 ; Strathavon, 3. For the Goodwood Cup three ran •’
Ivincsem, 1; Pugeant,. 2; Lady Golightly, 3. For the Selling
Stakes five ran : Blonde, 1; Princess Catherine, 2 ; Ryegrass, 3.
For the Visitors’ Plate four ran: Caerau, 1; Singleton, 2;
Ambergris, 3. For the Molecombe Stakes nine ran: Honey
Bee colt, 1 ; Radiancy, 2 ; Friar Rush, 3. For the Last Ben-
tinck Memorial three ran : a dead-heat between Muley Edris
and Jessie Agues ; Eagle, 3 ; Muley Edris and Jessie Agnes
divided the stakes. For the Singleton Stakes five ran: Trap-
pist, 1; Dalham, 2 ; Lollypop, 3.
Cricket is carried on in all parts of the country with un¬
abated vigour. A Twenty-Two of Crowe and district, and an
Eighteen of Keighley and district have both fallen easy victims
to the indefatigable Australians, the bowling of Boyle appear¬
ing to mow down the local men almost as fast as they could
come in. Thanks to the fine batting of Mr. L. A. Shuter (47
and 43) and Humphrey (not out, 41 and 47), Surrey made a
capital fight with Yorkshire, and was only beaten by 75 runs.
Lancashire v. Gloucestersliire attracted an immense crowd of
spectators, and ended in a draw. Messrs. F. Hornby (100) and
W. 8. Patterson (50) did most of the scoring for the northern
county, for which Mr. A. G. Steel bowled as well as ever;
and Mr. W. G. Grace (not out, 58) headed the Gloucestersliire
total. The match between Kent and Surrey was remarkable
for the splendid batting of Mr. F. Penn, who put together 160,
the highest score yet made this season, thanks to which his
county won by ten wickets. The meeting of Yorkshire and
Gloucestershire for the benefit of T. Emmett proved a great
HaR C (45) 1 aud C Mr W W °/ oach side 0nl 7
Sara & z? 1 ”? *%.***' to ok
™ t d8 runs ~Yorkshire won by no less than 244
runs In tig animal contest between Rugby and Marlborough
cleverest hiSsni Si ™ de - 8 by somo of tb e hardest and
SSSSrhJK/, ■- T . sccn m a Public-school match, aud
enabled Rugby to wm in one mnuigs, with 24 runs to spire.
Yesterday week the annual meeting of the Grand w,n nn „i
Arehciy Society was concluded on thf Tonbridge Wells lom
mon. The winners for the first, second, thirdffourth fifth*
\r and i 8 1T e ? r th 67098 8Cores have been as follows —Ladies •
a- P sa ;
, took , tbe ladjes Pnze; and Mr. Piers Le-h seventeen
The ladies transferable silver Braces and Badge were taken bv
toMr“fiS2i while the Champiou Gold MeSal iSSSSS
A walking-match at the Agricultural Hall for the Twentv-
r u°V r8 ? bnw P 1011 Belt > presented by Mr. R Lewis ha»
SS3 »' H W»,. Elfiott, BlS‘ bS?/
; ” th «' race—^which wiU take place, we belie™
in October—promises to be of unusual interest. ’
enough, the result of the swimming race for tha
^s exSv t 0 hTr 8 PriZ ?’ T hich t00k place ou Monday lMt!
was extmtly the same as last year, II. Davenport G Fearn
The coS R g 4 b r g p a f m r . e8 P£? tivel y fiN t, second, and fourth!
five hfv ?^ Westminster, a distance of about
llT lfim in h lf i ^® 8 ’ S. nd Daven P°rt reached the goal in
lh. 16m. 10 sec., beating Feara by nearly a minute while he
was a long way in front of E. Danels. •’ be
At the Hereford Regatta the West of England Challenge
\ ase, value one hundred guineas, with a presentation priJefS
Bath 7 l'h ne | S /°IS” oars ’ waa won b 7 t wo boats’ length by
^ ho defeated crews from Hereford, Shrewsbur? and
Tewkesbury. The Wye Challenge Vase, value fifty guineas
g0ld medals > for f °ur oars, was^arried
off by the Evesham representative. ca
reittJInW^ 16 Dorse , t Yacht Club beId their annual
event brought together .
T , JJ 10 ma f° b for Doggett’s Coat and Badge was rowed on
usuT d I 7 wtT« n i fr ° m London Bridge to Chelsea, and, as
usual, attracted a large concourse of spectators The mm
S' Wopl>ln S' b J- lenXfromlSrt
Ca“KL'eiXThH 0t thMel? “ rt, ° f ““ e
Fost aimounce8 the death of Mr. Henry
clSm’ 3 contrib utor to the sporti^
“HmkTw a v’’ th Ur mLu P - pe J? ander the uame of
narKaway. Mr. Marshall was in his fifty-fifth year.
THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.
There was a total eclipse of the sun on Monday. It wag
Som Fftst^ V ^h m - ltS total P ha8 o only along a track extending
i ^ bCna acr 088 Behrmg’s Straits, athwart Alaska,
British Golimibia, and the Western States of America. The
only convenient region for observing the eclipse was in the
ne,ghbourhood of Denver City, Colorado. To this spot many
of the leading astronomers of America betook themselvea,
fomI^gEd Ean7ard ' L ° Ckyer ’ Penroae - and others went
cZnsS 8 ”* ^ Den I er Cty re P°rt that the astronomer,
succeeded in taking most satisfactory observations, drawings
and photoCTaphs along the line of totality. The corona
unusually bright, extending 70,000 miles from the sun in aTl
directions. The chromosphere appeared to be about 2000 (?)
miles m depth. Two protuberances only were seen, very
faintly visible on the western side of the moon. There was an
entire absence of the pinkish red flame observed on some pre-
vious occasions, and the spectroscope revealed no extra red or
vmlet imes. At the moment of totality the Frauenhofer Rues
and both the H lmes were reversed. Very bright line,
near large B, and bright lines “F” and 1474, Kirchoff
were observed. The temperature fell from 18 deg. to 33 deg
in different localities duriug the eclipse. No intermercurial
planet was observed. The weather wus perfect.
Professor Norman Lockyer reports that the solar pro¬
tuberances were fainter and fewer, but that the corona was ten
tunes brighter, than in the eclipse of 1871, thus indicating a
variation with the maximum and minimum sun spot periods.
A Supplementary Estimate amounting to £1,845,000 has
been issued to meet additional expenditure for Army servioea
consequent upon the war in Turkey and the outbreak at the
Cape of Good Hope.
The Duke of Devonshire presided at Miss Emily Faithfull's
lecture on Modem Extravagance, given on Thursday week
; .i h f i, Pavili0 “’ After Paying expenses, Miss
r aithfull presented the Devonshire Hospital with £20.
The eighteenth branch of the Leeds Central Public Library
was opened on Monday. It was stated that in the reference
department of the Central Library 271,000 volumes had been
consulted, 2,535,000 issues of books had been made, and the
reading room had been visited by 2,751,578 visitors since it
was opened.
The Wesleyan Conference at Bradford received on Tuesday
influential deputations from the Primitive Methodist Con¬
ference and the Bradford Nonconformist ministers. Addresses
were read by the Rev. Dr. Antliff and the Rev. Dr. Campbell
and speeches were made by the Rev. T. Smith, cx-President
of the Primitive Methodist Conference; and Professor Fair-
baim, of Airedale Independent College. The deputation was
replied to by the Rev. Dr. Pope and the Rev. Samuel Coley.
The number of members in the Wesleyan Connexion was
reported as 380,876. After an oral examination by Dr. Osborn,
sixty young ministers were received into full connection. On
Wednesday Dr. Haydon, Chancellor of Syracuse University,
United States, in bidding farewell to the Conference, advocated
an oecumenical conference of representatives of all Methodist
bodies throughout the world. A committee was appointed to
consider the subject aud report to the next Conference. The
Rev. Dr. Gervase Smith gave an address on his recent official
visit to Australia, New Zealand, and the Fiji Islands.—The
annual Conference of the Methodist Free Church was begun
on Wednesday, at Manchester. The Rev. W. Boydon, o£
Burnley, was elected president.
THE I’ARIS EXHIBITION: RUSSIAN MODEL OP THE PALACE IN WHICH PETER THE GREAT WAS BORN, NEAR MOSCOW.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS,
APPARATUS USED IN THE DISCOVERY OF THE MICROPHONE.
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iT-nxiT<2 AUG- 3, 1878
TTT ttqtTIATED T"”""* NEWS
THE I I ' 1 R jLliirL_ == ======== - v.t.Tnnpni.TTAN NEWS.
-T»c Grocer,' Compauy hare given £100 «o the Charity
with a cordial vote °f thanks t i. e »* Gloria in Excdsis, the Organisation Society.
The Bishops then sang ^f^^ediction, nrnl the as«e®Jly ^ Edward Repps Jodrcll has sent £100 to the
iw-hbithoo pronounced the benca . ^ thuj Con- lhc Kcv , BeueVO i e nt Association, Soho-squarc.
©he tfJtrn fnseltment.
„ a vOimODRUIDESS." Si^ced.-A * St "wSTt**. teas offered for «lc at the Mart,
“A YOUNU Divui Carl Haag, Who has ference was held on ^^ y who have b taken part in thedis Sabers ^eUs incage ^ rj[ , Galaworthyj on Tuesday.
The eminent painter in ^ ftte i r ‘ C u °i^ue female figure, may not 0 f the 01 £ ue lrly aU were present, ancl a^^erm^^ j when the property was withdrawn.
5FS= 1 "S'SS= ; ‘"' i “-
sESssgSSgagB WMgJxg&Mz ssasssfiasas
vefbeaewi'inoi^atrttqtn'rian e?H^i°'^®' iMcetinc! v-BMi’ti^suBjwt’fOT wm mbnonMy pnaw-ugera’tijFti'® ^°”’i rrnflr*?lflilwn\'?^wns opened last
1 The Rev Sir Edward Repps Jodrcll has sent £100 to the
funds of the Cabdrivers’ Benevolent Associat ion, Soho-square.
n, Wells Theatre was offered for sale at the Mart,
Sadlers ^ elis xneaurc GaLsworthv. on Tuesday.
ffiog to rrSSv^ge^ °i “S ZsSZi
well -known sacred rite of cutting some . - |
plant. —
the church.
B „, ,, %SSttiXJ 22 £ 52 EL~>-
K »olA«oro< 2 .
Moutou, of Riwtenstull.
Sod. Torquay.
Ruck-Kicne. Benjamin; Bjetorofof D^nbiib' Arehileaeon of St. A**p|».
‘ v? ^ of Newent> 01 ^ sto ^ ro -
1 TK 1 VFR 8 ITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
S l!SSS^SfSrSiS £?W Warden of New Mnd_ 8 ^_P^g-rrhenhhc-J-gh
and nas cost. muw.
vi Edward Sutton chief clerk in the office of the Local
Government
ftj, a principal clerkli that department h^been appointed
She chief clerkship, in the room of Mr. button.
A iinnl mooting of tteoxoonttveicmoittMof jtheC«ton
| of Vice-Chancellor, having been oh-jw Wardcu of Ne w w£w_8ir Charles Reed presiding-when the secretary,
of houses who come next in ofte r C d to and accepted by j , Ir ' ffodeon, announced that the clear balance resulting
College, is understood ta>haveibe »J™* Mr Sidncy Graves to £H16 8s. 2d., which was directed to be handed
the ^ero^ Ba^oU Proto r J Balliol college, has been ; 0Yt , r to the Printers’ Pension Corporation.
I Hamdton, HA, f — a Eallowshio in Hertford College. twenty-fifth year of Mr. Spurgeons
• ir_ a . u T.S to oresent him with £5000 as a testi-
Tbe Bishop of Rochester has left Sdsdon Park on a short
'*%*£*« %Z reopened .he chumh of Brmnptim, U m^oUUn pnugetimn ,ho». ^
^^“f^X^Fe^n^eopeningof ££'M^d
Last week the Bishop 01 ^ on the occasion from , nromised to give £5000 towards thc W '“ ei ved outdoor relief. Compared with the correspond-
!™ * to g .he tncnty.fifth year of ^p.^.
A graduation ! ministry, R 18 ^Swdhis’de sire that the whole
Edinbuigh Lni^i^, tool^lw m tlie vice-ChanceUor, P 8 lmS be devoted to the purposes of lm con-
I burt on Zas conferred,on.tho fol- “3ta?Sd especially to the providing a permanent injta-
Transvaal, was presemeu ug « ---- - 01 jav,uwi» — Thc W ^st Scholarship, 01 tne
fonndntion-stonc of a non ti,e» .he pudency of ^ the M.h^ 2SS S5Z» ^ Oochrjmo,
W11UIU ----
Thc litigation arisiug out of the grant by Parliament of
£5000 to dnndCodttane in respect of thodistingntihodsernw.
t ‘f7£tepmli..C o. Mr. He.myMor.ey. ^ ^ ^55*S 5 ST* W 53=*
A. Eton College the following hove heenederjod^to^ tile hi. brottcr.l.»d no ehdm,to'‘iotte
b^gimrd: da
On Monday thc Bttl of Djmnley hdd Uawid,'Evan.* Morchant' Bootiiby, Croome, nud Halcombe.
^‘^Amhhtihop of Canterbury on Wpdvmdoy oon^emtod SSaSrnn. 3 ,
the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Adducombe, originally M _ Drummond and R. A. Kaye.
decided that the grant was speciuc w —. --- —
therefore his brothers had no claim to any porLon of it .b
that one tenth thereof must, under the Earl s will, go to the
Sfonwr of Mr. Eorp, who «»i,ted him in callmg pnhhc
attention to his claims.
UM.himh'&nnei M aI *ehnnt, iloo.hby, Croome, and Halcombe. j of tllc M of governor of
The WeUesley (leaving) Scholarship at thcVlome for Incurable Children was held ycsterdiiyweekat
.— ; «s*s 5sssr.«
wjsssA zsa. H to »,^oTss»: s&hoUr ' 80,1 of i '&
Mr. Boickow. M.P., waa a lnrgo contnbutor, and .1 wh,U. the the. J ^ w „ h .day at Bradfield College: , removed or diaehargoj gi ^d«en mm ^ ^OM^
rnffWaSl been
eleven are still in the home. The
dedicated to AU f'ainis, at iuiuhAira^-B-, - ----- - t the Rcv> R . Taylor, Vicar oi mon* treatment aunug f ««. «*ill in the home. The
The corner-stone of St. Matthias’ Quecn EhLSeill’s Grammar School, Cranbrook. the of P thc estimated amount
street, the first of the «es to be budtby the bheffidd Quee ^ ^ ^ «ie ■— S^^Tortly be forthcoming The
The corner-stone of bt. Matthias 4Lfli,0<l , Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar bchool, GranDrooK. ; ^‘ e t the balance of the estimated amount
Churcb ildenstoif Society! w^laid on Tuesday afternoon by ! Lortl Napicr 0 f Magdala distributed tlie prizes on Friday, , rc f iuirc d_ v i z ., £3000-may shortly be ^J^^haUhe
Mrs Tliom«ou wife of the Archbishop of York. The church, j u j y 20 , to the successful students in the Cooper s-hill College, 1 rt , port wa8 adopted. Ihe chairman the r. resident of
whidiwSlaccoinmodate about 720 worshippers, is to be erected aud gave them S0IUC interesting inf ormationimd advice bearing , ])uko of Connaught has conseiited . £ fiinds.
It a colt of little less than £5000. The land upon which it u l f theij future careers as engineers in India. On the wme j thc iug titution, and had forwarded ten guinea.
sj-sssasuw- 1 " - ' sesratsaxmSiSS I uswafuss. - s-^;
3»vasrr«iW“.W5 SI® 21 ® £^xad«was£35
octnTe of services. Amongst the preachers were Canon Carter and at Roysec s School, . gu . . ; whooniii"-cough continues fatally epidemic, and ca
«nd the Rev. F. J. Ponsonbv. The district comprises tlie A i nr ge and distinguished company attended the prize- ti ie P dcutlis registered last week, which exceeded the 00
“Shaftesbury Park Estate,” and contains about 10,000 j daY proceedings on Monday at Marlborough College. ^ vrn <,^1 weekly average by 56; the disease showed
inhabitants. The patronage is vested in Keble College. 1 he
cost of the port ion of the church which has been built has been
more than £7000, and a further sum of £9000 will be required
to complete the design without thc tower.
Two instances of anonymous munificence are worthy of
“ Shaftesbury Park Estate,” and contains snout day proceedings on monuuy at ai*fiu^u* u ‘ lxcted weekly average by &*>: uie aiseasc — - r-
inbabitants. The patronage is vested in Keble College. Ihe po ^dfy list of distinctions won by past scholars m the ^ Kentish Town, IsUngton, Lambeth, and. <^mbe
cost of the portion of the church which has been built nas been Universities was announced. Among the spceml o ^ well. The deaths referred to diarrhu>a and. simple c .
more than £7000, and a further sum of £9000 will be required th day was tlie opening of au organ which has been erocted 1 hi h ^ th flve prC ocding weeks had rapidly *m;teased
£ complete U,e design without thc tower. in the chapel, to winch thc scholars, port.and?3 to ^ furtherW last week to-437, 0 ^ winch ;^ ^
HS-HSS'SS'SS SgJ £&vtsr.*Xi
the other half to the Chelmsford Dispensary. Naval Female School.
^ 1 . « rn — 1 i.vvrl nf nrt'/fa at tnc
one and five years. Tueacauis irom smuu^A,
11 and 19 in the two preceding wecks. dctdu^a^un l
week. Six fatal cases of sunstroke were registcK-d d^ig
week. There were 21 deaths from measles, 27 bom scaru*
fever, 7 from diphtheria, ftnd21 fw n‘differimtfo^ fev
In thc Greater London 2933 births aiid «4o death# were
Se «« ; £ ctrSwiog weekof
rr ktonitinii which has eiiuiiled an oiiuay oi acu utui;, w wnnv«, -—• * - .— r ; me uuiwuh —
The^work has been accomplished chiefly through the exertions ! Lyeons pretdidccl, and j?Jntllu ! Amo»«et the communications read at yesterday
of Dr Dennett, the Curate-in-charge. The upper part of the t. on naught, llic name of Corporal Alfred Mant ill received j Am ge Metronoln u Board of Works was a letter
norcli which has been rebuilt, is adorned, with a niche con- in muncrous cases honourable mention, and nearly half the , s - cburlesReed und others on behalf of the Sunday
turning a statue oi thc patrou saint, executed by Mr. Harry { prizes fell to hun. On the same day w.is made the annual , qfnSn requesting thc board to appropriate a siteon
•-* wMa&n .0 .BO r;k novv tioi„ g MM. , >«***%
The Court of Common Council of London lavs made a grant of . lor ,.i x t y additional students, took place in the afternoon, and J board schools for three southern iuscr.c« between
100 guineas, and the Merchant Taylors’ Company of^20 guineas | W as followed by the annual distribution of prizes, which were opened last week. The furs*, division of Lambeth,
to the St. Andrew’s Waterside Church Mission. The society j pregcntcd by Mrs. Desborough. Thc award of medals and ; Brixton-road and Clupham I ark, m tnc cut . mec ting,
has been extending greatly of late, and, in addition to the work 1 eertific-iitcs, as well as of the free scholarships in the ladies’ » was opened on lhtirsday, 111 the pre ,. K n ;, man of the
it carries on in the waterside parishes of the Ibaines aud at 1 (liviBioll o{ t he Crystal Palace Company’s School of Art, ; by the Rev. John Rodgers, M.A., tnc v new board
Liverpool, line now many stations abroad, where the belt Science, and Literature was completed on Wednesday. board. On Iriday Sir Charles (j-reonwich. The new
welfare of the sailors on board ship and in hospital are carol , „ , ...... . ., . . r ,. , r .„_I school at Kandall-plaee, Roan-street, oreenwio any 0 f
laverpooi, nne now many siuuous uunaai, yynyi* ..... Science, and literature was completed on \Y ednesaay.
welfare of the sailors on board ship and in hospital are carol ...... ....... „ . r .,,i, u ; 1 . r-^n
for. Girts of books and numbers of the IUmtrntcd Union Lord Northbrook distributee thepnr.es at Dulwich College
line*, whether consecutive or not, are greatly valued in the this (Saturday) forenoon.
mission work, for lending libraries, Ac., and will be gladly "
acknowledged if sent to the depot, 36 City Chambers, Fen- <phe estate of Mr. Rhodes, of Hounslow, who was described
church-street station, E C., with the address of the donor. ng having carried on thc “business of a miser,” is the subject
i by the Rev. John Rodgers,
, board. On Iriday Sir Charles Reed p _ The new
! school at Randall-plaee, Roan-street, Greenwich.
schools will accommodate boys,
1 whom will be transferred from tcmporaryscuooi
The. Lambeth (.’onfercnce held yesterday week its ninth
nnd last sitting. After prayers in the chapel of the palace,
thc consideration of the report of the committee on “ the con¬
dition, progress, and needs of the various churches of the
Anglican Communion” woe resumed, und after the tru.us-
====== Beicaford-street, Walworth, on me , 11 :v‘ rf .rcmony at a
The estate of Mr. Rhodes, of Hounslow, who was described j Rodgers, tlie vice-chairman, perfomea. nd u _ A charge
as having carried on the “business or a miser,” is the subject | new school erected there for nearly aunerior children
n.fe eh- h„ik nf hi>< nm- i nmiiust a schoolmaster of haviug admitted supcriu
of the donor. as having carried on the “business or a miser,” is the subject ! new school erected there for nearly aunerior children
y week its ninth of an inquiry- in Chancery. He has left the bulk of liis pro- against a schoolmaster °f Haying amn R children, was
wl of the palace, perty, which is estimated at £65,000, to two charities; and the from efficient schools, to thedetnm 1 . School Board,
-tee on “ tlie con- relatives who are excluded allege that, as some of thc property discussed at the weekly meeting ot in report from a
churches of tlie consist* of debentures, it comes under thc Mortmain Act. The discussion arose on the presentati nerccd to.
after the trims- Vice-Chancellor Malins directed an investigation to be made. Committee exonerating the master, me po
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1>LGS, Fleas, MotliB, Beetles, and all other
-IF Inserts are destroyed by KEATING’S INSECT DESTROY¬
ING POWDER, which is unite harmless to doilstic auiraoi
In exterminating beetles the success of this powder is extra¬
ordinary. it Is rwrfoctly clean In application. Koidiu Tins. is.
nnd 2s. fid. each by all Chemists.
DREIDENBACH’S ABRONIA.—The New
TT *^t?V/P r p«?Hcut#*.rofr^fthlng, onddnrablc 2s »5<1
*0*. pfr ButtJc. BrcidonlHU'l/tf MAC AMARINE lTiY^ln\hl«*frS
fjOLDE N H A 1 R.—R 0 B A R E ’ S-
I'V. id. ofall l’crfumcni. Whob*,,h tiovi^i)KN
5. Givnt AlarlU-r.-ireh-trct. \V. : an .| 03 and W, City-rood KG
IjOiiil. II: Pm amt and Mever. :g. .. do Stim«l*mr' Paris !
.»], iJmUn, > icuuo; 44, hue lies liuuga Churiot4, ItriiHH-f-c; '
TAOES YOUR HAIR TURN GREY r 1
^d' COMBS.' Brtlehc»“ XJX7!- ' B - Rl - SUKS
CK IN ERUPTIONS, RING^VORM, &c
I F For u Now »nd Successful Bunedy, without injury to skin.
^ t mVr b J ,ctUr t« Mr. H. ftfesTEL, 2,’. TavGtoc!£
AUG. 3, 1878
NEW MUSIC.
V' E W DA N_0 E MUSIC.
pHARLES D’ALBERT’S NOVELTIES.
pXoiAtVVIKG miE a sUAUBlLLE " ;; •• g; net
THE L ENOAGEd'waLTZ U FUy'ed at iier Majesty''* ^ M net
DISTANTBHOREWALTzV OnSollvan's Song ..
BWEETHEAKTS LANCERS . .. *s. Od. net
CLEOPATRA GALOP .. . 2a. od. not
THE LOVE-LETTER POLKA. u gd. net
THE FANFARE POLKA .. y •• ja.od.net
BWEETHEART8 WALTZ, cm Arthur Sullivan's ^ M n#t
List Of M. D'Albert's Popular Dance Mu.ic
will be «a°t on ap pllcaNon.^ ^ Ngw Pond . rt reet.
SIGNOR PINSUTI'S new SONGS.
TYUSCHINKA ; or, The Star of the North.
» 0T ** net
new music.
T S^Wffi^ioirSlSorKB.
A RUBINSTEIN'S 60SONGS.
RUBINSTEIN'S 18 VOCAL DUETS.
bONOB.
m j.' i 1 11 N S t>< 1 >■'
icW»S'8 76S0NGK Volkslieder). _
THE SONGS OF GERMANY non ^ EngU ^ Word*.
THT sn\GS OF ENGLAND (100 &>ngs).
TUB SONGS OF Wcii’lKrtion of National Songs.
uasastsssB^a^^r
capped SONGS. ANCIENT AWIJ m'-
,0X03 P0EM8 - .
rpHE LITTLE TIN SOLDIER. 2s. net.
mwO LITTLE LIVES. 2s.net.
rpHE LITTLE MATCH GIRL. 2 s. net.
mjjs STORY OF THE NIGHTINGALE.
^ **• ““‘cHArpiu. and Co.. 80. New Bond-street.
-.wttotc F oR THE SEASIDE. Popular
B Era sii o isr
.SMB
****• 00. . *. Bond-street.
s ,c a“«S5^
^aaSSS-'-"
Cottages from 20 guineas.
Grands from 60 guineas.
60, New Bond-street.
CJECONDHAND PIANOFORTES at
O 80, New Bond-street, Tm _.
maybe hired, with option ofpurcbaac. or on the Three-Yea
System,” at greatly reduced prices._
SECONDHAND PIANOFORTES now on
» bhoa'dwoSd! 18,oUowi I 8 ^'erard^; -
®ARD. j bOSENKBANZ.
l (3HAPPELL and CO., 60, New Bond-street.
OECONDHAND HARMONIUMS, for
D CHURChTsCHOOL. or DRAWING-ROOM
Upwards of a hundred varieties now on View.
v From 3 guineas to 100
At CHAPPELL and CO- S, 80,
nHAPPELL and CO.’S SPECIALITIES
\J in ORGAN HARMONIUMS.
PHAPPELL and CO.’S NEW ORGAN
C HARMONIUMS.—Fire octaves, two pedaU,
,uitable for cottage or school. Price 7 g».
-rr TIMATTAN’S LL WHISKY.
K 1 THE CREAM OF OLD IRISH Unl-
^y^~ , l^nrnrfn k nallt^”L^Qv »» tT l^ hfleld ' ,tre ^L ^-
TvrANGE CHAMPAGNE is a light,
0 R plea«mt drink m.ule^m ? l|r ^om Oranges. It iseflf
vescont, but entirely ireow^ P pints. Bottles 2s. and CoacsIs.
ISSKJSS.'Sfr k&V.U 3, CU AS. COD- ..3 CO..
S'. Copenl mgen-street, London, N. __
’S RUTHIN WATERS.
TDOOSEYS’ SHILLING INSTRUCTORS.
j) New Additions to the Series.
BafSStete—
BOOSEYS’ SHILLING 1 PIANOFORTE TUTOR, by MOUNT.
(,00th Though ind ^ m Begent-atreet.
J^LLIS’g
ELLIS'S PURE AERATED RUTHIN WATERS.
ELLIS'S RUTHIN WATERS -Crystal Sprlngs. Absol J
Parc.”—See analyses, sent free on application.
ELLIS'S RUTHIN WATERS M Potass. Seltzer, Lemonade
and also Water without Alkali. Water and
TTORNIMAN’S TEA for Forty Years lias
imported. sJld only In Packets.
JjVPPS’S COCOA. _
1 T HE “Naval and Military Gazette ”say s
X -The nutritive « n * 11 “ ea acknowledged that
the^steady “crease ^^^“beI'matUr of*surprise.
r orc u, d e
whose Homeopathic Cocrja is »£ f amwhose bu«lMS* it l»w tarn
£?'KB1S«
rpAYLOR BROTHERS’
•OOBERT COCKS and , C P‘’ S B ^S^h
T ATEST SONGS issued by ROBERT
Boft^Star of the West, ^“ “snnjomeSailor Boy. Stephen
The Lif^Boat. H.F. Limpus.
Awake. Stephen Adams, ft®.
Bo far away. J. Roeckcl. 3s.
Unforgotten Days. J. RoeckeL
I Awake and Dream. J. Blu-
KS, B „i p sr^
When^Suminer Dies (in C and
D). Mies Lindsay. 4s. each.
Ere the Roses Cease ♦" nlnom -
O. Barn -
loXTor Zt price in gstogestomp..
London: 8,New BurUngton-strect.
M
_ J A ^V^.x ? D°g?^T,K 0 .
jyJARAVILLA <?0“iw, b .cuwth.p^ t l«
■jyr ARA VILLA COCO A.—The'^Globe^saye]
MARAVILLA COCOA has ‘“ffi
and suiiersedes every other cocoa roncentration of
BoTeTro^riTtore*TAYLOR BROTHERS. London.
mwmwm
K5£*tKSat5» ® .,a a.
public to secure so gratifying a result.
1 the Year Round ” says
Having now disposed of fancy^chocolate. •«* “■
tides, not as luxuries, but as actual food.
rpHE “ Court Journal ” says
S°»S" 5 k£rgSm!.? ^
manufactory is the largest of its kind in this country.
“ /Cassell’s Household Guide” says :
V We will now give an account of the
Messrs. James Epps and Co., manufacturere of dietetic articles,
at their works in the Euston-road. London.
TORY’S CARACAS COCOA.
article.__
-~ * " vCAS COCC/S-*-.
J_ .. Ttl0 Laracas Cocoa of such choice quality .''-Food.
Water, and Air (Dr. Hassall).
: - T?PPS’S COCOA.
rpHE LATEST WALTZES. Beautifully
Ws N w^o E M
PORT, i
London: Rodzbt Cocks ai
street. Order everywhere. _
/CHAPPELL and CO.’S GOTHIC MODEL,
\j dark oak. ten stops, Ac. 22 guineas, or £2 2s.
per quarter on the Three-Years System.
CHAPPELL and CO.’S NEW ORGAN
1/ MODEL by ALEXANDRE, two rows of
^ keys, five stops and sub-bass, Venetian swell,
two knee pedals. 28 guineas, or £2 16*. per
quarter on Three-Years’ System.
/CHAPPELL and CO.’S EXHIBITION
\J CHURCH MODEL, fifteen stop*. rows of
vibrators. Venetian swell. 38 guineas, or
£3 ioa. per quarter for Three Years.
/-'1HAPPELL and CO.’S SPECIAL CHURCH
\/ JIO DEL, 18 stops, five rows of vibrators,
^ A-c., 60 guineas ■ or £5 per quarter on th(
Three-Years' System.
FuU Illustrated Lists free by post.
80, New Bond-street, W._
/CHARLES HALLE’S PRACTICAL
V> PIANOFORTE SCHOOL.
Bectlon I.-No. 1. Pianoforte Tutor
Forsyth Brothers. London and Manchester.
I jiRY’S CARACAS COCOA.
’ “The Caracas Cocoa of such choicf
W ‘*a m“t delicious^Aluable a rtlcle.''-SUndard.
TORY’S EXTRACT OF COCOA,
£. a
“!!BiT»T E P. a AT ID iu ■■■“
A awarded to J. 6. FRY and SON.
CJAVORY and MOORE, 143, New Bond-
O street, prepare_
rj^HE
rjVHE
TT ELLER’S FOURTH SONATA.
Forsyth Brothers. 272*. Regent-circus,
and Cross-street, South King-street, Manchester.
-D00SEY & CO.’S PIANOFORTE-ROOMS.
Jtj GRAND and UPRIGHT PIANOFORTES.
by all the great nmkws^both End'llsli and Foreign,
subject to the largest discount obtainable in Ixmdon.
BEST FOOD for INFANTS.
A thoroughly cooked food, always ready, efiecta
To Mothers and Nurses, by i'
~BEST FOOD for INFANTS.
Contains all the elemenU
Necessary for the Growth,
Health, and Vigour of the Child.
CAVORY and MOORE, 143, NEW BOND-
O STREET. LONDON;and
Bold by Chemists, Ac., everywhere. _
U D E JO N G H’ S
(KNIGHT OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR.
KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM)
j^IGHT - BROWN COD - LIVER OIL.
THE PUREST.
THE MOST PALATABLE.
THE MOST DIGESTIBLE.
THE MOST EFFICACIOUS.
riHAPPELIi and CO.’S
VJ 8PEC1
i ana o
SPECIALITIES In P1ANOFOBTEB.
riHAPPELL and CO.’S STUDENT’S
Vv PIANOFORTE. Compass, five Octoves,
18 gs.. or £1 10*. per quarter on the Three-
Years' System.
CHAPPELL and CO.’S SCHOOL
Ij PIANINOS. Canadian Walnut. 20gs.. o
2 gs. per quarter on the Three-Years Systei
of Purchase.
T>OOSEY and CO.’S Short Iron Grand
I) PIANOFORTES, fin, 70, 80. and *8 guineas each, subject to
a liberal discount for cash, or on the Threc-Yi-nrs Bystom from
£810*. per quarter. Special InstrumenU for India. Illustrated
P toleAddiSS!'29S, Regent-street (adjoining the Polytechnic).
rpHE “ Morning Advertiser ” says:—
J. "In the middle of the seventeenth century anannounoa-
1,.,-nt appeared in one of the tew journals of that period
to the eilect that • out of BIsl.opsgate-«treet. at a lre^hra^a
' w^^sjsasua?
BUbhidctl. Nearly two centuriea after, inl«32, thedutlM, wmen
Sr
fng , ond 0 wM < paJatedde e anS r h?g{dy l *nutritiou l s. re ?t rairt
wai’it speedllybrosme popular, and year by year has increased in
deinomfuil theoonsumption now exceed* four million* of
pounds yearly.”
rpHE “ Christian World” says
I • If I am to take cocoa,' said I, ‘ I must know what
It IS made of; I must examine the process; I m«“t ^e tato
the mystery of iu manufacture; 1 moat see and Judge for
myself* what are the ingredient* of which It^lscompo sed^ Witt
this view I made my way to the manufactory of James Kpp*
and Co., In the Euston-road.’ ’’
Tohn Bull ” says
(j -In no brandies of industry are recent sdenUflc iKid
p._nnw sell over four millions of pounds annually. * ho
entire Wto^°A^S«>a*U»'aoiiulde fonnf an^c^ibfnSng wlud. are
tohnlcilly known as •nreh-for^njr; and • heat^ng^roj
Sietotfc '/o^S^ dTM«ani U Epps ciai m ^rthdrjireparri wcoM,
and such analysis and—most valuable of all-experience na*
' proved It to be.”
D r.
DE JONGH’S
rpHE “ Church Review ” says
I •• Although we cannot yet boast of a free breaiaast-tobW,
still the active legisluliou in furtherance ^‘thinkViH *fw ^
tho last half century leaves ua much ^.V 0 removal
striking instance of the generalg^i^ultingfr^ theremorel
of heavy imposts upon oui food supply is sflorded by toe mu
velluus increase in the consumption Ad rocoa since 1833 up^
which period an almost prohibitive duty was eued. in m*
the total amount consumed in this country was less man
«mu n varHv. At the Dresent time c
/CHAPPELL and CO.’S YACHT PIANINOS,
30 gs., or £3 per quarter on Three-Years'
System of Purchase.__
. WOODS and CO.’S AMERICAN
ORGANS.
BOOSEY and CO., 205. Regent-street,
Bole Agents for tho United Kingdom.
Pipe, Reed, and Pedal Organs, from £17 to £200.
Illustrated Price-Lists post-free.
nHAPPELL and CO.’S BOUDOIR
VJ PIANINO, 38 gs., or £3 10s. per quarter on
the Three-Years' System of Purchase.
r<HAPPELL and CO.’S MODEL
Vj PIANETTE, 38 gs.. or £310s. per quarter on
tho Three-Years’ System of Purchase.
nHAPPELL and CO.’S ENGLISH
VJ MODEL, 40 gs.. or £4 per quarter, on the
Three-Years' System of^Purchase.
riHAPPELL and CO.’S COLONIAL
VJ MODEL. 48 gs., or £4 lOsjier quarter on tho
Three-Years' System of Purchase.
QHAPPELL
and CO.’S FOREIGN
ODEL, 60 gs., or £8 per Quarter on tho
hroe-Ycars' System of Purchase.
■piANO, £35 (Civil Service cash price).
I Trichord Drawing-Room Model, repetition action, grand,
rich, full tone, in very handsome Italian walnut-wood case, with
elaborately carved and fretwork front, and cabriole truss.legs.
The usual price charged for this Instrument is 80 guineas.
Drawings of this beautiful Piano sent post-free on application.
THOMA8 OETZMANN and CO., 27, Baker-st.. Portman-square.
I irtUT THROWN COD-LIVER OIL, the toui anuiuut consumed In tills country was less to*i‘ in
^S^i.’SSSK'SUa aag««wJSrewa." _
■fflagss&asffJBaaffias w&a cocoa.
SffflWSMSSSShB?*"'
TJROADWOOD and COLLARD COTTAGE
X) PIANOFORTES, fullest compass of Seven Octaves. Two
beautiful Instruments, of ricli and full tone in the choicest
Italian walnut-wood, nearly new. To'bo SO Id) at unnsually
low prices. Mav be seen at OETZMANN S, 27. Baker-street.
riHAPPELL and CO.’S ENGLISH
VJ OBLIQUE, 58 gs., or £8 10s. per quorteron
tho Three-Years' System of Purchase.
TWENTY-POUND SCHOOL-ROOM
1 PIANO (Co-operative price for cash). Seven octaves.strong,
sound, and substantial. Adapted for liurd practice. Packed free.
Illustrated Book of Designs gratis and post-free.
THOMAS OETZMANN and CO.,27. Bakcr-stTeet, W.
T7B0NY and GOLD PIANOS, 25 guineas,
X-i 36 guineas, ami 46 guineas.—These charming and elegant
Planow, with ormolu embellishment*, repetition action, and
every recent improvement, may now bo obtained at the at
low prices for cash, or on the Three-Year*’ System, at 1 gui
per month. The new Illustrated Catalogue gratis and post-1
THOMAS OETZMANN and CO., 27, Baker-street, W.
pHAPPELL and CO.’S OBLIQUE
VJ GRAND, 70gs., or £7 per quarter on the
Three-Years'System of Purchase.
/CHAPPELL and CO.’S IRON-FRAMED
VJ OBLIQUE, 90gs., or £9 per quarter
Three-Years' System of Purchase.
riHAPPELL and CO.’S MIGNON IRON
VJ GRAND, 80 gs., or £8 per quarter on the
Throe-Years' System of Purchase.
pHAPPELL and CO.’S BOUDOIR IRON
VJ 110 gs., or £11 per quarter on the Three-
Years' System of Purchase.
NEW BOND-STREET. W.
TOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS’ GOLD-
w MEDAL PIANOS have been awarded First-Class Medals of
Honour:—At London, 1862; Paris, 1887; Netherlands, 1869;
Paris, 1970; Pari*. 1874; Philadelphia. 1878: 8. Africa, 1877. Ac.
Illustrated Lists tree.—18. Wigmore-street, London.
TjiRARDS’ PIANOS.—Messrs. ERARD, of
r A ig Great Marlborougli-street. London,and 13,Ruedu Mall,
Paris, Makers to her Majesty and the l’rince and Princess of
Wales. CAUTION tho public that pianofortes are being sold
beartngtlie name of •' Erard " which are notof their manufneture
v.,. infomotinn as to anthenticltv nimlv at 19, Great Marl-
(ained from 60 guineas.
T7RARDS’ PIANOS—COTTAGES, from
J2i 60 guineas.
OBLIQUES, from 88 guineas,
ORANDS. from 125 guineas.
SELECT MEDICAL OPINIONS.
SIR Q. DUNCAN GIBB, Bart., M.D.,
Physician to the Westminster Hospital.
“ rphe value of Dr. DE JONGH’S
X LIGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL as a Uicra-
peutic agent in a number of diseases, chiefly of an
exliaustive diaracter, lias been admitted by tlie
world of medicine; but, in addition, I have found
it a remedy of great power in tlio treatment of
many Affections of tlio Tlirout ami Liryux,
especially in Consumption of the latter, where it
will sustain life when everything else fail*.
DB. SINCLAIR COGHHX,
Physician Royal National Hospital for Consumption. Ventnor.
“ x have convinced myself that in Tuber-
X cular and the various forms of 6trumous niscaso,
l)rIl)EJONGH'S LIGHT-BIIOWN COO-LIVER
OIL liossesses greater therapeutic emcacy tlian any
other Cod-Liver Oil with which 1 am acquainted.
It was especially noted in a large number of cases
In which tho patients protested they had never
been able to retain or digest other Cod-Liver Oil,
that Ur. DE JONGH'S OIL was not only tolerated,
but taken readily, and with marked benefit.”
LENNOX BROWNE, Esq., F.R.C.S.E.,
Benlor Surgeon Central London Throat and Ear Hospital.
“ riihe action of Dr. deJongh’s Light-Brown
I Cod-Liver Oil has proved, In my own experience,
particularly valuable, not only in those diseases
for which it was originally employed, but also in
many cases of weakness of the Singing and S]«-nk-
Ing voice, dependent on Bronchial or I.nryn-
geal Irritation, and in oil forms of Strumous
Enlargement of Glands, and Discharges from the
Ear."
DR. PROSSER JAMES.
Lecturer on Materia Medica, London Hospital.
TAR. DE JONGH’S LIGHT-BROWN
COD-LIVER OIL contains the whole of the
actlvo Ingredients of the remedy, and is easily
digested. Hence its value, not only In Diseases of
the Throat and Lungs, but in a great number of
cases to which the Profession is extending its
DR. DE JONGH’S LIGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL
is sold ONI.Y in capsuled iMrxniAi. Half-Pints, 2s. 6d.; Pints,
P. J. SMITH AND SONS'
RON-STRUTTED PIANOS.
" The best and most substantial instrument produced."
9, CONDUIT-STREET. REGENT-STREET. W.
INCH’S LIGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL
In capsuled Imtebial Half-Pints, 2s. 6d.; Pints.
4s. Ml.; Quarts, 9s.; by all respectable Chemists and Druggists
throughout the world.
sols oowsioirxKS,
ANSAR, HARFORD, and CO., 77. STRAND, LONDON.
T'HE “ Civilian” says :— ,
X “In the seventeenth century, before either tea or coffee had
found their way into the English markets. . (t
favourite beverage with the luxurious classes at a J5*5?"% e a
then fetched an almost fabulous price per pound. 1o^ay. wueu
modern science and entei-prise have placed it within the reacn
of every class, cocoa is not only st‘fl regarded as a paiataoie
and refreshing drink, but is irtned for to nutrill
creditetl vvitiiintroducing cocifa fn^ti p^t to^'nl. MrV^
Ep?s PreparSl on touSd dietotlc principles Epps » Hommo-
putliic cocoa contains all the niitntlve prop, rtiot of t |, le
product In such a form that they MlKSuYatoui*?-
and. therefore, much more easy of digestion. 1 lie natii.areu,^
- 1 iance of fat present in raw co(x>a is. ti y nc .
fif^mnd'Set^^Iesara^^ppils woiJt- aro uow^perliaps. the
largest in the country, the cocou produced there amounting w
many million pounds a year.”
“T and and Water” says:— -
rrrmg “ Mining World ” says:—
X •• Tlie preparation of pure and nutritiousartlcles of diet
Is. in point of philanthropy, noble work. 1 ho wear «na war
upon brain and muscle in tlili age is growmore
intense, so that without some compensating nlluenee U,cena
must be hopeless collapse in Individuals and
sstrffss^&asXJrs
oil* rappl^!# table. ^ of
most agreeable Hnd wholesome article of diet, ine
of modern science at his extensive clfis^s witt^hi
once tlio dear-bought luxury of tlie ''/l' 1 '.' “% 8 .'e lalwurer t
reach of all: and there rany now be found on the l »^ HI { r o l
T?PPS’S COCOA.
Jj Each Packet or Tin is labelled
JAMES EPPS and CO.^HOMCEOPATHIC CHEMISTS,
E DENT and CO., 61, Strand; and
• 34 and 35 (within), Royal Exchange, London.
Manufacturers of Watches, Chronometers, Ac., to her Majesty.
Makers of the great Westminster clock (Big Ben) and of the
Standard clock (the primary standard timekeeper of the United
Kingdom) of the Royal Observatory. Greenwich.
XTOLLOWAY’S PILLS and OINTMENT.
-tL The Pills purify the blood, correct all disorders of tlie
liver, stomach,kidneys, and bowels. Tlie Ointmentis unrivalled
In the cure of bad legs, old wounds, gout, and rheumatism.
pORPULENCE.—YATE HOLLAND’S
V. ’ EMACEBATING POWDERS (or Pills) speedily and safely
absorb superiluous fat and reduce corpulency, liourever long
X>ARIS DEPOT.
XT A. DELAFOS8E. FAUBOURG ST. UONORE, 84.
TVTEW YORK DEPOT.
ll SMITH and VANDERBE:
and VANDERBEEK, PABK-PLACH.
Lon non; Printed and Published at tlio Office
th« Paris). »r St.. Clement Danes. In the Corn
SUPPLEMENT TO THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Aug. 3, 1878 —113
t n E
PARIS
EXHIBITION.
The head of the French Government Commission
for the management of the Exhibition is M. Krantz,
whose portrait here greets the eyes of our readers.
He is an eminent civil engineer, who was trained in
the Ecole Polytechnique, and the Ecole des Ponts
et Chaussces, about forty years ago. As chief
engineer of the Grand Central Railway of France,
he gained a high scientific and professional reputa¬
tion. He was employed to design and superintend
the construction of the Exhibition Palace of 1867,
in accordance with a plan for the classification and
division of its contents, which was generally approved.
Since 1868 M. Krantz has been much occupied with
projected improvements of the navigation of the
Seine, by means of locks, which should enable largo
vessels to reach Paris from the Sea. During the
German siege of Paris, in the winter of 1870 and the
first months of 1871. he rendered good service to his
country by directing part of the works of fortification
round the capital, especially at St. Denis; and,
further, by contriving and applying a method of con¬
verting the useless railway locomotive-engines into
steam-engines for the working of corn-mills, and for
other useful purposes. He was elected in that year,
by more than 100,000 voters, to sit in the National
Assembly. He has now a seat in the Senate, con¬
ferred upon him by the votes of his former colleagues
in the popular branch of the Legislature.
We give Illustrations this week of the Russian and
Dutch buildings in the Central Avenue of the Exhi¬
bition Palace in the Champ de Mars, called the Street
or Avenue of Nations from the various examples
of foreign domestic architecture which are erected
along one side. The Russian edifice, which has a very
picturesque and interesting appearance, is an
imitation, in miniature, of the rural palace of
Kolomna, near Moscow, the actual birthplace of
Peter the Great. This model of the palace is 130 ft.
long, and is constructed of pinewood ; the lower
part of the front wall, indeed, consists simply of
the trunks of pine-trees, stripped of their bark, laid
one above another, and kept m their place by mor¬
ticing with flanges and grooves, and by wooden pegs,
without a single nail. The central portion of the
building, which contains the wide open porch,
M. KRANTZ, COMMISSIONER-GENERAL, PARIS EXHIBITION.
giving entrance to the Russian section of
the Exhibition, presents a short transverse gal¬
lery above the porch, and a second storey or
attic storey, above which rises the Bteep and lofty
roof, in the French style of Louis XIII.’s reign; the
main roof is relieved by those of the two side towers,
which are pointed and surmounted by fantastic
pinnacles of carved and painted wood. The heraldic
insignia of Russia are displayed, with accompanying
flags, and the name of Russia below on the escutcheon
in the centre of the summit of this facade. All the
windows are small and square, and are set in frames
or borders of wood, painted of several bright colours.
In the original building at Moscow, at least when it
was constructed, above two centuries ago, there
would be no glass panes to the windows, but
talc or semi-transparent mica. The staircase of
this house is outside, in the recess between the
central block and that shown to the right hand
of our Engraving, where the private chapel and
the guest-rooms of the palace were situated; this
staircase is roofed over, and is furnished with
massive balustrades decorated with much carving.
The nearer wing of the whole range of building
shown to the left hand represents that portion
which was destined, in the palace of Kolomna, to
accommodate the Imperial family. Its design, as
will be seen, differs somewhat from the other wing
of the edifice. The windows of the upper storey,
belonging to the apartments inhabited by the august
owners, are ornamented with triangular pediments,
richly carved and painted, which project over the
windows. Such was the “ isba ” or old-fashioned
Russian mansion of Prince Alexis Michaelovitch and
his wife Princess Natalia, the parents of the Czar
Peter, who was bom there in 1672, and whoso
famous visit to England, with his shipbuilding
apprenticeship in Deptford Dockyard, is so familiar
to most of us, among the historical anecdotes we
learnt in our youth.
The front building of the Dutch section ot the
Exhibition, standing likewise in the “Avenue of
Nations,” is a miniature copy of the Townhall at
the Hague, an edifice of the Renaissance period
and style, dating 1581. The building is of bride,
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relieved J® supporting a
way is adorned with two Greua^ g arch composed
pediment: above each of the Window princ i pa l storey is
of brick and stone placed nlternately. ^ orna-
separatod from the attic storey wit li balustrades
mentation of the Tuscan style, middle a central
to toe right and left, but sustaming n toe mm ftnd
upper front, with four nllegoncal statues oljnuc ahicld
S a large J-dow *g«Er ™ Holland . The
of sculptured rising from the summit
belfry tower, with its open cupola " hole building,
platform, gives an air of digti y j nations of North
e The pavilions belonging to those and ftfflnit y of
Africa, who must, fromregarded with much interest
race to the people of Algfaw, b oj^g!^ ^ attent ion in the
by the French P u ^ C ’^ Til, lfi tSSon8 of the tent erected for
TrocadSro Park. We 8» T « “jSathiSerroneously reported
the Emperor of Morocco,^hosedea ase feut who may
in all the newspapers two or th doeB ** Qt recover health
possibly survive the Exhibition ,11 n The lion's hide
ui time for a j°urney this s ^n raust be the property of
exposed for sale at the price of HW , The interior of
someone of his iSg retreat, with the
the Tunisian pavilion seems an j coffee-cups,
cushioned divan, loose f e J n d refreshment,
Sd»" o“is aeen P awaithig the player s
•“Long *.*£- iSSSfS£ MS-
section of tins E ^ bl £ on d ® ateat A^ninster carpet fabric,
of woven tanestay, m the patom^ ^ and Co., of
manufactured by Messrs. d ^ 0 f which we give an
Gresham-street, London, a tt chri8t Blessing Little
Illustrations copied from the jm* , p and would be
Children,” painted by the(late Mr. ■ * the bfiar d-room of
suitable for the altar-piece 0 institution The whole is
an Orphan School, or any atentii the cost of
woven by machinery in .^ [j^’jobable that this material
come ^
the phonograph and ~MICROPHONE
mi h« v °< "rS WSSli £
railways and 8tea ^' b a t ’ ical i^bridging oceans, succeeded
tant provinces and Poetically ^ aging ^ Puck i 8 boftS t
the electric telegraph, whic . . and uow we have that
B
claims attention. the pH0N0GRAP H.
The effect is startling enough when, from some hillside
S£S2fffiSsSS?a3§
cribbed, caomea, enforced silence and
SfUSSSHsir.?
Ssax&ssgss
. U o>.u OT -.« k .^^%^rixss«
ing the velocity of .gabion repro duction of the voice
slower motion Causing tha cylinder to revolve at
can only be effected by which it possessed when it
precisely the same rate seeking to emit. Ihis
originally received the “"“^tTby "«M7 S clock*ork.
precision of movement is eff,^enttou of Mr. Thomas Elvcy
The phonograph isthe mvenn Pftrk , New Jersey,
Edison, a wcU-lmo^ electriciati, of M account has been
United States. Of its ongm thetouowmg ^ telephone8
given. As Mr. Ld 18 ®^ nricked his finger, and the idea of
a vibrating him one Wednesday afternoon,
reproducing sound occu ^®d to ^ that evening and
He set to work, continuing at the t,^ ^ Friday and
night, all Thursday andThwad^ h g eBUC ceeded in repro-
Friday night and /at^ay rao^g^ bed, and slept from
during sounds clearly. H f Rowing Monday morning.
Saturday morning in ^!Ji also of thf automatic telegraph,
‘of " word8a
and of the quadruples sy^em ^fapffiations of the phono-
Some of thenumeroi^ po^bie applic lettera ma y be
graph may readilybe sundered by half the
dispensed with. Friends a other bv word of mouth,
globe, may communicate with each ^ k into a phono-
?’o effect this, a!l ^at is nece^ « ^k into ^
gmph, then to remove the met^c recora^ odejJ . and>
pack it in a box and send it by it wi Ji deliver its
feeing there rotati on a sundM to tones of the original
message of^^Vcban^ng. giving, in a popular scien-
Which animated them when
the action of the voice The*ronsequence is^ feU it? be
plate gives out the ^toations ^ch PJ or 8pe e C h. The narrow
s >
SXywo«rb?fSuler 5 il.«B I*-*"^-*** tb ' y had
riS W m.ftoth« 'icure, the end of oeedle ou the other rid.
*’ fSS ttaoS the flemi-transpereut ekin ; thi. .how.
^Ser'.S', =
which is this arrangement elasticity is secured
connecting the two. 7 . wh i cb i 9 inserted in k. An
„ oteu to cylinder
ood^hly .bowing the sound indentation..
the microphone.
W e m ^.bype^™«^^;«rp^t h S
made to the world a noble g q{ his or iginal apparatus.
The 'foUo^ring'introductory remark, are bo^owed from
w»v. F -’ a „ w f ial i have^galleries 0 where phonotype
writes as follows. We si b and books now are.
sheets will be smgers wiU there be kept
The utterances of gr^t Bpo ken languages
for a thousand years. In twee gan * .K all the pecu-
will be preserved from century Aa wc gd now
liarities of pronunciation, ’ f halls to heSthese
to see the stereopticon, w^^Jollgoto^ h P u 0 l> “ a 1 ^ B p IodaC ed as
treasures of speech and song bro B sung by the truly
loud os. .tk*^b »“.-StHSTtSo Jhonotypo
hLbritn.pok.nof. CorUtnly, withmodo^ of ft ,
^f^p^d^Styned^^.ob^.m
be put into the hand-organs ot the 8tree ^- a ^ “J evcry
-jj- w.CUo*4rilS
familiar. Nothing: w iU b ie ^ { N iagara the discords of the
the waves on the beach, the roar oir< mg , Qf the raU .
streets, the noises of; ammalB, fcumult of a
need be asked to play the dance-music.
■euiiBPs, luiu mivio| o
SntUto novelties Of "all kinds, may be seen and heard m full
i. t His recent invention, the phonograph, which first un
ZSnJthe then speaks or sings it off any number
Sector's will. Witnessing its performances,
on. “r p t to hdic the .torie. of genii bottled up for »ng
to be freed at last, of frozen tunes, released by^warnith. iloocl
: „ the air with melody, and other romances of a like kind, as
veritable prophecies of the good time coming, couched in this
VSSZS&, uon..u»- to bid. th.ii true meanmg from the
Uninitiated and possibly to save the narrators heads. Be that
as it may, this is certain- persons have only to speak or 8U *B
the mouthpiece of the simple-looking instrument figuredi on
nairc 109 and they may have the pleasure of hearing their own
Kt voic^ reprodneid many times. It is true the voice is
somewhat mufiled and diminished when returned from the
nhonouraph • but its intonations, inilections. pauses, and
?uaU?r^ renderod with fidelity. The muffled sound in
which the message is repeated arises no doubt in part, if not
wholly from the fact of its being spoken into the mouthpiece,
for wJich there does not appear to be any ab ® obl< £ "v^than
and as regards the return-voice being somewhat weaker than
that in which the message was first given, lt should beborne
in mind that this is but the baby-talk of an invention fitdl in
its infancy. When more matured, its voice will, of course,
become stronger, and it may, perchance, be aided by the
microphone, so that whispers breathed into its «r.shall be
thundered back. At all events, the phonograph talks, sings,
shouts, laughs, whistles, and coughs quite naturally. In the
words of Mr. Edison, its inventor— 14 This tongueless, tooth¬
less instrument, without larynx or pharynx, mimics your
tones, speaks with your voice, utters your words; and een-
turies after you have crumbled into dust, may repeat every idle
thought, every fond fancy, every vain word that you choose to
whisper against the thin iron diaphragm.
The phonograph is as simple in construction as it appears
in our Engraving, consisting of a cylinder mounted on a hori¬
zontal axle, and capable of rotation by a handle, or prefer¬
ably, as uniformity of speed is essential, by clockwork. The
cylinder is not only capable of rotation, but has also a gentle
lateral movement, which is effected by a screw cut on part of
the shaft, and working in a nut. A screw-thread is likewise cut
on the cylinder, and the cylinder itself is coated with tinfoil.
This tinfoil is gently pressed by a metal pin, or style, which
is attached to a thin disc of iron furnished with a funnel-
shaped mouthpiece of vulcanite. When words are spoken
into the mouthpiece, the vibrations of the air are com¬
municated to the metal diaphragm, and the pin which it
carries is thus thrown into agitation. As the cylinder slowly
travels along, it is constantly pressed by this point; and if
the pressure continued uniform, a furrow, everywhere of
_1 j _imcMl ft-roimd the barrel. But when
ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE PHONOGRAPH.
Fig. 1. The form adopted by Mr. Cylinder
whose circumference, b , is scored by a spiral thread. Itound
Ss part is placed, when the machine is in use a
JSJ35SJS „"n h .4rt b M"r^Ling
SXwSmu threiwU to the inch with *°« “ 1
handle, to m.ko the cylinder revolve; /, hc *7
at its outer end to the circumference of the plate- HaB y
ftSMsJ? s si
SddSofVoth 1
with the iron plate, diaphragm, and point,^m the cyhnda ,
can be regulated by the lever, h, which moves on a pm, *.
Greater exactness may also be secured by a screw at the jnne
base of the upright mouth-piece support (not seen in
engravmg). Inatrument de6 igned and constructed by Ifc.
■nl, B The difference between this and Mx. JJ
Engineering:- f <he we U-known Hughes type-
ibe emment inventor oi ' riiscovery that certain
ffssaa-si
^rto p Th4“h"r,i
homogeneous substanc^ t fie ^ q{ hilo80ph ic inquiry,
marvellous It openB up a n h VB icist a detector of sounds
and places m the hands of the physic«L altogether
and ol otto “?fr4to wS KSS mtoW of co»..ruct-
unsuspected. It gives to n t len#eg und
But the most extraordinary p apparatus employed—
covery is ^he extreme simplicity of the^apparat^ ^ ^ ^
a few trench nads, a few 8 ^ ^ ftnd a fcw pieces of
containing powders, a little sca^g^^ congtruc t a trails-
^g°tolcph y o^SSp% to —ithto- th. hritoUM
instrument of Prpfessor BeU^ tion suffice to show
u,.°^ 4 ? 4 Xoi un. lotto r^LS?S£lo"th'
Action of Sonorous Wavw mV^yg that the problem
Current,” and then ?“ ^ta-to totooduL into an
dulatory current of electricity fr exact representation
wav., length, height, rind tormriwll be ao fKl- thi.
Of sonorous waves. In the nucropnoue ducting matter
by the discovery that, when an electne Q ° tiUngs,
is 7 in a divided state, 118 . ”\ tb ®Jl™p f f a^kss than that
Stroll. The difference between tms aim ;r
its having some exceedingly simple controlled clockwork
mechanism, actuated by a descending weight, which is
attached, upon Huygen’s maintaining principle, to an endless
chain passing over a pulley, fixed upon the principal tuns of
the instrument, so that it is possible to wind up th ® wel ^
while the cylinder is rotating without affecting lt88 P e ®J- [ h ®
cylinder of fig. 2 is scored along its entire length wrthspmd
threads, of which twenty-one go to the inch a. The controUing
fans or govenior, consisting of two circular discs of onm, it.the
upper ends of the levers, b b. When the machineisulwutto
be started, the weight, d, is drawn up by «m«l
handle, <r, whereby the pressure of a smaU cork-lined
brake or block is taken off the - spmdie of the
governor. The discs then fly out, under the influence
of the centrifugal force, e, a spiral spring, which can be
moved up and down the levers, b b. By placing the apnngon
the upper part of the levers, near the fans, they are drawn
closer together. This reduces the circle of their path, and
gives the mechanism a diminished resistance to rotation, so
allowing the cylinder a greater travelling speed when necessary
m-ri tlw. tinfoil on the cvlinder has been spoken to sufficiently,
nrwTkinnllv nnnn the cvlinder. and the metal surface is there-
the voice agitates the iron plate, rnc pin is wisvu w pi™
unequally upon the cylinder, and the metal surface is there¬
fore indented to an unequal extent in different parts of the
line While the tiufoil readily yields to pressure, and thus
offers but little opposition to indentation, its lack of elasticity
prevents it from springing back, and hence the impressions
onee made are permanently retained. To reproduce the sounds
which have thus been impressed upon the metal, the cylinder
has to be brought back to its original position. U is then
rotated beneath the pin, which is jerked up and down as the
elevations and depressions pass beneath it. These movements
of the pin are faithfully followed by the metal diaphragm,
Hier nas oeeu spoken w ,
and is either filled up or at any intermediate space along its
length, the mouth-piece, with its diaphragms and point, is
moved back from the cylinder. In this instrument the mouth¬
piece is mounted on a heavy base, which fits rather tightly
into a groove fastened to the maiu board. This done, the
handle, e,is turned in a reverse direction till thecylmder is moved
back on its axis to the place it started from; the mouth-piece
is advanced toward the cylinder until the point rests, without
absolute pressure in the first indentation previously made on
the tinfoil. Motion is now given as before. The depressions
again pass under the point, and in so doing they cause it and
,1... ... malm nvi-r iirMlill the DTCcisc VlbrutlOUH
is in a aiviueu <*■” ---
and is put under a alight ■^than would allow it
which would produce cohesion, and more lua
of themselves so arrange their f °™> " volutioll , as to
wire—h8^ib^‘attentivdy wi ^ ^^Scn^tofoSffi
change that might occur when ^ Gradually, till
transverse vibrations by being pluck effect whatever
the wire broke, the strain was varied bat “^f^e broke.
was remarked except at the ntomen moment
The effect was but momentary, but “ a " bl ; at [‘, It W as
of breaking a peculiar 4 rush or sound wtUi * ie fv~ t wire8
soon found that it was not at all wjajJJT*® JOi t
endwise together to reproduce sound but ^ &
dimtorTprov^ded^nc or ‘Sutact
ductor were separated and on )y br j f g thC en d s of the wire
slight but constant pressure. Thus, if the ends
terminate in two common nails | ftl w wore electrically
rated from each other by a 8 ! g) lt 8 P^® e ;^ C ould
connected by laying a similar nail between them round
be reproduced. The effect wos improved by budding up
nails log-hut fashion, into a square configuration, wm'B „
to twenty”nails. A ’pie- of toL
Professor Hughes further statesAlthough I uw
of pressure and modes of contact, a 1 ®'*; r ’ i P ce g ’ 0 f strain,
in a glass tube sealed up while under tiiei^nfl nilac
so as to maintain the pressure constant, a {- e.^ the
and invariable results, but the results made
materials used. All metals, however ®jnld be mad {
to produce identical results, P~™ d ^ “ tM
the metal was small enough, and that tne
used does not oxidise by contact with arc very
through the mass. Thus platinum mid * ^ u<(wl gooU
excellent and unvarying in their r-«lta, wluls l tbe
becomes of such high resistance, throagll ^ ld f bright round
surface, as to be of little or no use. A ^ br ^ ut the
shot is peculiarly sensitive to sound whilst clean.
*0* «5« iK-com. with v
Carbon, again, from its surface bring«ntirely iro u>
tion, is excellent; but the best results I have betfi‘ ® ded
obtain at present have been from mercury »» * *jA y as
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115
the willow charcoal used by artists for sketching, heating it
gradually to a white heat, and then suddenly plunging it in
mercury. The vacua in the pores caused by the sudden cool¬
ing become filled with innumerable minute globules of mer¬
cury, thus, as it were, holding the mercury in a fine state of
division. It will be seen that in these experiments the
diaphragm has been altogether discarded, with the effect
depending upon the changes produced by molecular action,
aud that tho variations in the strengths of the currents flowing
are produced simply aud solely by the direct effect of the
sonorous vibrations.
“ I have found that any sound, however feeble, produces
vibrations which can be taken up by the matter interposed in
the electrical circuit. Sounds absolutely inaudible to the
human ear effect the resistance of the conductors described
above. In practice, the effect is so sensitive that a slight
touch on the board, by the finger-nail, on wliich the trans¬
mitter is placed, or a mere touch with the soft partof a feather,
would be distinctly heard at the receiving-station. The move¬
ment of the softest camel-hair brush on any part of the board
is distinctly audible. If held in the hand, several feet from a
piano, the whole chords—the highest as well as the lowest—
can be distinctly heard at a distance. If one person sings a
song, the distant station, provided with a similar transmitter,
can sing and speak at the same time ; and the sounds will be
received loud enough for the person singing to follow the
second speech or song sent from the distant end.
“Acting on these facts, I have also devised an instrument
suitable for magnifying weak sounds, which I call a. microphone.
The best form and materials for this instrument, however,
have not yet been fully experimented on. Still, in its present
shape, it is capable of detecting very faint Bounds made in its
presence. If a pin, for instance, be laid upon or taken off a
table, a distinct sound is emitted; or if a fly be confined under
a table-glass we can hear the fly walking, with a peculiar
tramp of its own. The beating of a pulse, the tick of a watch,
the tramp of a fly, can thus be heard at least a hundred miles
distant from the source of sound.”
ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MICROPHONE.
Our Illustrations on another page show some of the
apparatus used by Professor Hughes in the discovery of the
microphone.
1. He began his investigations by constructing a “rough-
and-ready ” Bell telephone. It has a round bar magnet, four
inches long, a. Round its inner end is the coil, which is con¬
tained in a circular hole in the deal board, three inches square,
b. Against this is the enlarged end of half a large wooden
reel, c ; through this runs the magnet fixed by screw, d. The
wires, /, from coil come through sides of board, and sealing-
wax, g, secures them. Between the board b and board A is the
plate of ferrotype iron, which is embedded at its edge between
borders of cardboard.
2. His battery is three small tumblers, each containing a
coil of copper at the bottom ; on this is placed some sulphate
of copper; the glass is filled with clay, well moistened with
water; on this is floating a bent plate of zinc, a a a. Sealing-
wax is used here and in all Professor Hughes’s apparatus for
the adhesive. The whole is usually contained in an ordinary
cigar-box.
3 . Shows the experiment with three French nails, a, in
circuit, with the battery in the cigar-box, b, and telephone, c
(the actual length of wire was much greater than here shown).
These nails, when spoken to, produced the grosser vibrations
only of the voice, its timbre was wanting. But a little “ white
bronze” added to the nails at points of contact improved the
distinctness and character of articulate speech. This is the
first transmitter telephone of Professor Hughes.
4. A glass tube, a, nearly filled with “ white bronze ” (a
mixture of fine zinc and tin), or sometimes with four cylindrical
blocks of metallised willow charcoal. The ends of tube are
stopped by plugs of metalised carbon, b. The tube, &c. (not
the box), were placed in circuit with the battery and a “ rough-
and-ready” galvanometer; and, on grasping the tube with
both hands, then pulling the ends of it in contrary ways, the
needle showed a deflection in one direction ; but when the two
ends of the tube were pushed towards each other the needle
deflected in another direction Afterwards this tube and con¬
tents were placed over a child’s money-box of thin pine with
one end knocked out, as in the Illustration. The wires, e, were
then connected, as in fig. 3. This formed a resonating-
chamber as well as a transmitter telephone—BeU’s being the
receiver, or phonoscope. Speech aud song delivered at the
open end of box were received und pronounced by the phono¬
scope with surprising volume.
5. Deal board, 12 in. by 18 in., having on it two micro¬
phones, a a. Two pieces of ordinary bundle firewood shaped
to 2 in. high. The flat sides have holes drilled for receiving
pieces of gas carbon, b b ; each of these has a little pit for
retaining an inch length of gas carbon, pointed at both ends,
e c. d. Wires to battery, e. Wires to bell telephone. This
form of microphone is more suitable for aerial sounds and
speaking at a distance. Professor Hughes has a modification
of this arrangement in which the base-board is smaller, and
in place of the upright, «, the carbons are fixed to a perpen¬
dicular sound-board.
6. Deal board 4 in. long. a. Bar of gas carbon balanced
by pivot on thin bent strip of brass, b. Oblong block of
metallised charcoal attached to irregular-shaped slip of deal,
c, which adheres to base-board, d. Spots of wax for attaching
lucifer-box fly-prison, e. Wire to battery. /. Wire to tele¬
phone. .
7. Improved transmitter telephone. As before, it is a
child’s money-box, with one end out.
8. Its other end. .
9. Microphone from the inside of box (fig. 7), nearly full
scale of original. Its base-board is fastened, upside down, to
top of box by screw a, fig. 7. The microphone is covered over
by two thirds circumference of short length of bamboo, one
FINE ART.
The Royal Academy Exhibition will remain open on Bank
Holiday (Aug. 5), and will not close till 10.30 p.m. on that day.
Mr. Raggi has at his Btudio, Devonshire-street, a fine bust
of the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster.
The Holmesdale Fine-Art Club held its annual sketching-
day on Saturday last. Penshurst Park was the site selected,
where, by the permission of Lord de L’Isle, a large number of
well-known artists and amateurs found ample material for their
pencils in the varied scenery of that charming spot.
A memorial has been presented to the Council of the Royal
Academy by the Sunday Society asking that the exhibition
of the Academy may be opened on one or two Sunday after¬
noons during the present season, and offering to provide an
efficient staff of care-takers on such occasions to relieve the
regular attendants. In reply the Council state that the con¬
stitution and laws of the Royal Academy do not allow of the
exhibition being opened on Sundays.
Mr. T. N. MacLean has finished in marble his beautiful
female figure of “ lone ” seated on a square classic stool gazing
on a pictured tablet of a Grecian feast she holds in her hand.
The innocence and sweetness of the face, the simple arrange¬
ment of the drapery, and the natural pose of the whole figure,
all betoken a coming sculptor. The work, with others lately
designed, is on view at the artist’s studio, 21, Devonshire-
street, Portland-place.
We have read Mr. Alfred Dawson’s 1 ‘ English Landscape Art
in the Year 1878” (Deighton and Dunthome), a brochure which
has reached its third year. Mr. Dawson glances at the various
London exhibitions of oil pictures and water-colour drawings
with a quiet, critical eye, is not afraid at the same time to
speak out, and what he says is invariably to the point, whether
his words are addressed to the artist or to the general art-
loving public. We have much pleasure in recommending a
perusal of his spirited little pamphlet to both.
A bronze statue to the memory of the late Rev. Dr.
Chalmers, the eminent leader of the Free Church of Scotland,
was unveiled in Edinburgh last Saturday in the presence of a
large assemblage. The execution of the statue was intrusted
to Sir John Steel, R.S.A., who has produced an excellent work
of art and an admirable likeness. The statue, which is twelve
feet in height, represents the Reverend Doctor in the dress of
a Moderator of the General Assembly, with an open Bible in
his hand, as if giving an exposition. The pedestal is of Peter¬
head granite, and about fifteen feet high. The site is at the
intersection of Castle-street and George-street.
A memorial has been presented to the Earl of Beaconsfield
by a number of gentlemen professionally interested in the pro¬
motion of higher education in London and its vicinity repre¬
senting their strong conviction of the importance of giviDg
increased prominence to the study of ancient art as a branch
of classical training. They say:—“As we believe that a
museum of casts from the antique would be of very great service
for this purpose, especially if provision were made for the
delivery of lectures upon the history of Greek sculpture, to be
illustrated from the casts and from the collections in the
British Museum, we earnestly hope that your Lordship may
see fit to give your assent to some such scheme'as that which,
we understand, has been submitted to you by Mr. Walter Perry
and others for the formation of a museum of this nature.”
We have great pleasure in calling the attention of our
readers to the colossal statue by Miss Hosmer, of Rome, of the
famous Pompeian sentinel who, seventeen centuries ago, kept
his post at the gate of the city until he was buried with it in
the ashes of Vesuvius. The figure is about eight feet high,
and represents a Roman soldier in the prime of life, stalwart
and muscular, leaning with both hands upon his spear. His
figure is erect, but his head droops ; and in looking at his face
one sees that his eyelids are closed, and that his lineaments
are fast assuming the eternal fixity of death. The subject has
been frequently painted, and, considering how readily it lends
itself to sculpture, we are surprised it has never been modelled
before. Besides the wonderful success with wliich Miss
Hosmer has carried out her noble idea of the sentinel, and on
account of which we heartily congratulate her, she is to be
felicitated on another score-viz., on the happy innovation—
to modem practice, at least—of modelling the whole in wax.
The figure is first roughly blocked in in plaster of Paris, and
then comes a coating of .wax from an eighth of an inch to an
inch in thickness; and on this coating all the modelling is
done, thereby obviating the necessity of afterwards casting
in plaster. Miss Hosmer completed the figure in Rome last
winter, and it is now on show at the Guardi Gallery,
Haymarket.
The first Dorset Industrial Exhibition was opened at Wey¬
mouth on Thursday week by the Earl of Eldon, in the presence
of a large number of persons from all parts of the county,
including the Mayors of Dorchester, Bridport, and Weymouth.
Mr Lundie, the Mayor of Weymouth, presented his Lord-
ship with an address. Lord Eldon, in his reply, spoke
of the great advantages of exhibitions similar to that in
which they were assembled, and then declared the building
duly opened. Mr. G. Eliot, one of the vice-presidents, Mr.
Albert Banks, Mr. Herbert Evans, the Vicar of St. James’s,
Shaftesbury, aud other gentlemen, addressed the meeting.
The Earl, accompanied by the committee and the hon. secre¬
tary Mr W. Mordaunt Thiselton, then inspected the most
interesting objects in the different buildings, and expressed
himself highly delighted with the exhibition. The work from
the art needlework school at South Kensington, was greatly
admired. His Lordship bought an elegantly-designed screen
in crewel-work from this school. On Thursday, Inday, and
Saturday the exhibition was visited by 1600 persons. The
Rev II C G. Moule, M.A., Dorchester, wrote an ode for the
open in" The prizes awarded exceed £265. In connection
third of the circle having been cutoff and ends added, so that i exhibition Mr. Edwards, M.P. for Weymouth, offered
in shape it is like a miniature old-fashioned tin candle-box: special nrizes for the best essays on “ The Industries of
a flat lid is formed by the base-board, which is fastened at the
notch to bamboo by threads round both. . b. Rod of soft iron.
Attached to one end of its under surface is a piece of pine
charcoal, resting on c. c. Metallised pine charcoal block con¬
nected with another of the same material, d , by paper hinge.
t. Spring coil to keep down b. g, fig. 7, end of bamboo case.
Sealing-wax is the adhesive.
10. Probe for detecting by the ear the existence of bullets
or other foreign bodies in the human frame, a. Steel rod.
b. Microphone, c. Wooden handle.
A summary account of the German excavations at Olympia
says that the number of marble objects found during the last
three winters is 904 ; of bronzes, 3734 ; of terra-cottas, 904;
of inscriptions 429 ; and of coins, 1270. All the more important
ruins have been photographed, aud the third volume of the
official account is about to appear. Ail exhibition of all the
casts taken will short ly be opened at Berlin.—Dr. Sculiemann is
at Constantinople, and, according to the Times' correspondent
thprp . ..TW.,.rI if ).p cm
four special prizes for the best essays . „
Dorset,” and the first prize was won by Mr. V . H. Bradley, a
reporter on the Dorset County Chronicle.
Time alone was wanted to stamp with European recognition
the remarkable art-organ, L'Art, Revue Hebdomad,,ire Iltustree
It is now in the fourth year of its existence, aud the thirteenth
volume lies before us. Whatever can be tried to make an art-
iounial acceptable to a cultured mind has been accomplished
here and with a hand no less lavish than wise. The plates
and’wood-blocks ure as varied and abundant as ever ; and
what is so difficult with us-especially in the finer qualities of
work-viz., their priuting-is simply a marvel of itsi kind.
There is more urt exhibited in some of the initial letters to
the chapters than will be found sometimes in a whole volume
of ordinary illustrations. Among the more important etched
portraits, we would point to those by C. Waltuer after Rubens-
hey are simply superb; aud among figure-subjects to the
“ Apparition ” of Geaujean, after the magnificent creation of
Gustave Moreau. Of architectural and decorative designs there
are many ; and the wonders of the Paris Universal Exposition
there, intends resuming his excavations in the Troad if he can are many , unu rpT ~ moreover keeps his
obtain from the Porte fifty soldiers as a guard against robbers, areby no means left unrecorded. Ihe editor, moreover, Keeps ms
readers well abreast of whatever is going on in the art-world,
whether in the sale-room or the Salon, and competent writers
set forth, from time to time, what has been achieved by the
masters who have passed away. Nor does the editor despise
the literary aid of this country ; on the contrary, the critical
acumen of Mr. Frederick Wedmore finds ample room for
exercise in treating of the life and labours of John Constable ;
Professor Sidney Colvin, of Cambridge, makes short excur¬
sions into the byways of historic art to bring under notice
certain fifteenth and sixteenth century engravers; the ready
pen of J. Cornyns Carr finds scope and verge enough in set¬
ting forth the merits of the old masters as exhibited lately in
the Grosvenor Gallery; and the dramatic sympathies of Walter
Herries Pollock seek expression in a flowing and critically
appreciative article on the “English Stage." Mr. Hermann
Vezin, Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft, Mr. Hare, and Mr. Arthur
Cecil have all their merits judicially apportioned to them.
All these articles ore fully illustrated, and are but a sample of
the many good things to be found in this sumptuous tome.
CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.
The following are the names, given in the order of merit, of
the gentlemen selected in 1876, who, after two years’ training
in this country, have passed the final examination , also the
Presidency, or division of Presidency, to which assigned:—
Edward Lawrence, Bombay; Charles Peter Cospersz, Bengal Lower
Provinces; Duncan James Macpherson, Bengal Lower Provinces; Edward
Norman Baker, Bengal Lower Provinces; Hugh FitzJohn Tyrrol llaguire,
Bengal Lower Provinces; William Henry Lockington Impcy, North-west
Provinces, Punjauh and Oude; Arthur Herocrt Collins, Bengal Lower
Provinces; Lucas White King, North-West Provinces, Puniaub and Oude:
Arthur Meredith, North-West Provinces, Punjaub and Oude; James Clark
Beaton, Madras; Edward Woodtleld Collin, Bengal Lower Provinces; Alex¬
ander Murison Wake Shakespear, North-West Provinces, Punjaub and
Oude; George Robert Irwin, North-West Provinces, Punjaub and Oude;
William Wilson Drew, North-West Provinces, Punjaub and Oude; James
Adair Crawford, Bombay; George Mawdsley Williams, Madras; Herbert
Bradley, Madras; Percy Gray, North-West Provinces, Punjaub and Oude:
Charles Lindsledt Modellier Kales, North-West Provinces, Punjaub ana
Oude; William Ncthersole, North-West Provinces, Punjaub aud Oude;
Edward Louis Cappel, North-West Provinces, Punjaub and Oude; William
Thomas Hall, Bengal Lower Provinces; Henry Sankey, Bengal Lower Pro¬
vinces ; Henry Alexander Sim, Madras; Charles Herbert Mounsey, Madras;
Evelyn Gray, Bombay; Henry Shirecliffe Otter, Madras; John Nathaniel
Atkinson, Madras; Alexander Porteous, Bengal Lower Provinces; Arthur
Dingwall, Bengal Lower Provinces.
LIFE-BOAT SERVICES.
At a meeting of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution on
Thursday, at its house, John-street, Adelphi, rewards and
other payments, amounting altogether to £3021, were made on
some of the 268 life-boat establishments of the institution.
Various rewards were also granted to the crews of shore boats
for saving life from wrecks on our coasts. The Broadstairs
life-boat went out to the Goodwin Sands early on Tuesday
morning in reply to signal-guns fired from the Gull lightship,
while a strong wind was blowing from the north and a heavy
sea was running, and found the schooner Star of the West, of
Bridgewater, ashore there. Fortunately, she was enabled to
extricate the vessel from her perilous position and take her
safely into Ramsgate Harbour, although in performing the
service the life-boat herself was severely damaged.
The Ramsgate harbour steamer and life-boat also
performed good service on the same day by saving
the brigantine Donna Maria, of Swansea, and her crew
of six men, that vessel having stranded on the same dangerous
sands. The receipt of various contributions and legacies was
announced at the meeting. The inauguration of the Clackton-
on-Sea new life-boat station took place on the 10th ult., in
the presence of a large number of spectators, and was very
successful in every respect. This boat is named the Albert
Edward, it being one of the two boats presented to the institu¬
tion by the Freemasons as u thank-offering for the safe return
of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales from India. Reports were read
from the institution’s four inspectors of life-boats on their
recent visits to some of its life-boat stations.
The fifteenth annual meeting of the Cambridge and Isle of
Ely Agricultural Society was held last week at Cambridge.
The entries were large in all the classes, and some fine animals
were exhibited. £800 was given in prizes.—The exhibition of
the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society for this year was held at
Louth, and extended over three days. The town was decorated
along the whole route to the show-ground, which was situated
on the outskirts of the town.
The Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, in their
annual report, state that the Church Temporalities Com¬
missioners in 1874 vested in that board fourteen churches,
ecclesiastical buildings, and other structures for future pre¬
servation and maintenance ; and, in order to meet the cost of
placing these ruins, as far as possible, in a state of security
against further dilapidation, and to supply a fund for their
subsequent preservation, these Commissioners transferred to
the credit of the board £22,554. During the past year, after
careful inquiry, they made choice of 105 additional structures,
which, out of a multitude of cases, appeared to be the most
deserving of being preserved as monuments of national or
historic value and importance, and vested them in the board
for future maintenance. They also transferred to the credit
of the board £27,446, making in all £50,000 to be applied in
repairing and maintaining the 119 churches, ecclesiastical
buildings, aud other ancient structures selected for preserva¬
tion. Up to the present, the works have been completed at
the Rock of Cashel, Seven Churches Glendalough, Ardmore,
Ardfert, Monasterboise, Devenish Island, St. Columb’s House
(Kells), and Donaghmore. The works are in progress at
Movilla, Ardtoke, St. John’s Point, Loughin’s Island, Maghera,
Kilmacduagh, aud Howth Abbey.
The bill “ to enable her Majesty to provide for the establish¬
ment of his Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught and of
Strathearn and her Royal Highness Princess Louise Margaret
Alexandra Victoria Agnes of Prussia, and to settle an annuity
on her Royal Highness,’’ was printed on Monday. Clause 1
empowers her Majesty to grant by letters patent an additional
annuity of £10,000 for life to the Duke, or to such persons as
her Majesty may think fit to name, on trust for his Royal
Highness, and subject to such conditions as her Majesty may
direct; such annuity to commence from the date of the mar¬
riage his Royal Highness, to be free from all taxes, assess¬
ments, aud charges, and to be paid quarterly, on the 5th day
of January, the .‘>ih day of April, the 5th day of July, and the
10th day of October. There is a proviso “ that in the event of
Lis said Royal Highness succeeding to any sovereignty or
principality abroad, it shall he lawful for her Majesty or her
successors, with the consent ol Par.iauieut, to revoke or reduce
the said annuity by warrant under the sign manual.” Clause 3
provides for an annuity of £6000 to Princess Louise in the
event of her surviving her husbaud. Clause 4 provides that
“the annuities granted in pursuance of the Act shall, if her
Majesty think fit so to direct, be personal and inalienable pro-
, visions, and the same shall be charged on and payable out of
I the Consolidated Fund.”
the illustrated
LONDON NEWS, Aug. 3, 1878.—116
DUTCH BUILDING IN THE AVENUE OP NATIONS : MODEL OP THE HAGUE TOWNUALL.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Aoo. 3, 1878.—117
TENT OF THE EMPEROR OF MOROCCO, TROCADERO PARK.
AUG. 3, 1878
118 _
MUSIC.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. ^ oQ
The fortnight’s extra performances at reduced p
Saturday. , , .< Le Nozze di Figaro ”
Hauk, whose performance m doling night was appro-
SSJST’ST on previous
Goatherd, as in former wP^***™ lessee. Mr. Mapleson,
Anthem, «d tribute s ott Wg™» ? h e house finally cloaed-to
r^enfor U o n peratic perf ormances in O ctober.
DISTRIBUTION OF WOT AT THE £J»J™ TheX*}
Swi 33? «&lS5»2S3SS? , fcS
th« London A “?H«L“rft.^Slgor the day named.
i„ the afternoon, the latter in vne b Mdlle . A lbaui. At
The prizes were distnbuted in a£h ^ ere a8 followThe
the Royal Academy of M«« the aw ^a ^ parepa _ Rosa *old
Lucas silver meditito Vx. gtenida i e Bennett prize (ten
medal, Miss E.Om . R . . cond prize (five guineas),
guineas), Mia* Je f.J’nvn Thomas gold medal, Miss Leonora
Mbs T) Shapley; Uewelljn inomi f twenty a ud
Rratuun; the Christine ^ an d F . Orridge; the
ten guineas) Mw9 “ of ten guineas), Mr . P.
Ileathcote ^Jl Prize (the fourth of five violins
Kuunders; and the Kclsaninz i ^ Mr F Arno ld. In
bequeathed by Mr. C. Recall i U thirteC n bronze
the Ladies’ department six lv r comnJl?ndation8 , were
The |
and the grand ballet . ot i tislied with “ 1 he link
Albery. The C ?£Z nowbeen repeated more than 430 nights.
Dominoes,’ which has now J^ be fair i y estunated from
What is called the popular tas , ^
this catalogue of the surviv s llld poetical dramas were
Earlier in the soiusoiitwoso ca^ ^ favourab le circum-
presented, under, as dturned^ from the i nd i 8 position
stances- that at the Inn • at the Lyceum being an in-
of an eminent actress, and h titute for an original corn-
complete and objec adva uce the cause which it seemed
position, not calculated to . half-hearted efforts can the
Wended to support. Jot®? restom l. To mend
once palmy stateofthe ^JJ ic ^g 0 S n Association has been
what is amiss, " e find a seventh number of which
started, and a journal P~:\f ^one of the proposed
lies before us. A ^tended, and wo find
means of accomplishing the^ob] 1 professors, clergy-
among its promotew the q{ diatin ction on
men, eminent actors, nuth ' p . , ‘ the Duke of Meunngen,
aud off the stage including Mr. Ph«lp8, tne H . R.
the Rev. the Lari of M^^tributed is one by the I
Haweis. Among t 1 hc P' i ’ « A D n “ The Symptoms
Rev. C. H. Halford Hawkins, M. jj. , ur Drama in Eng-
and Causes of the Decll " a tl beginning of the decline
laud.” This gentleman dates the beginning ^ ^ d ,
of the drama many years back th 7^^ ftnd a pit
fathers, while, as he states, the y fellows, who “were
flUedwith active, thought, by applause or the
not afraid of showing wh ^ th ™ gn t 5 e payers and the
reverse, either worth somet g,^^ of th ? ng , B passed away
maneuvers knew full well. »j a system of mere
with E great actors who ^ppor nQ J w good act ors,
commercial management fo U ■ in twenty places of
but they are scattered, the writer tells us, m ^
apprehension.^The.fauUl^t ^ to 8 tate-the merely
1 ... h» merely com-
~»s»“ ^ss»
The apartments and passage were crowded.
TOS ?rhigh^mm^^n.7were batin’Ty^mereiy com
s?S ssats» fr- 4 : «S3i.*S
*»«» awarded. Th«L m°K enS? the Sir John Goss to Mr. E.
Parcpa-Rosa to Mibb M Aeiiz , DaVt . np0 rt, the Professors
Ford, the Lady Goldsmid to Miss B^Davenp' . Balfe to
to Mr. W. Sutton and M*a'£ 1 w^Sewell. and the
Mr. P. Stranders. * he ^ rofps8or G . A . Macfarren
Thalberg to Miss A. co« commeute d on the present
made a taef address, i " adein oJ MufiC) the pupils now
prosperity of the H J ^any as there were ten years
'JS2£rJ£*EZi 4
KSSrA’SJtoctod by Mr. w. Macfamu, p,.a»-dcal
the cUstribution. theLondon Academy of Music included
1 he proceedings performance of an English
a miscellaneous <»*“«* v ^p ere tta ‘ ‘ Die Scliilne Galathe,” m
veri-iou of Supp4 » pret y jM j n8 titution displayed great
both of which seveml Btudenf s ot tn ^ we ll sustained by
efficiency. Leo (Ganymede), Mr.
Miss Llenc Ml ebstcr (L t ^ tp v<r malion). Signor Gustav
Kundall(NIidas),ttiidMr. .Th m ^ ^ g MarU)is pTe8 ided at the
Garcia SS harmonium.^ Between the
pianoforte, and Mr. L. • woro d istrihuted, free
Lwrt and tbc.oparrtto ‘he pn».> *' Lr J I1 “, W a»d and
acholanhipa bavmp e<n Pcarwl |l (violinlat), Mi»ea Carreroa
Greenop (pianistes), Ma.t ( b v ^ Gold me dals wire
and Tamar and Mr. E. Fntb (»~am^) Mi „ wadan ;
piven —for Birry-Velp, Hathrill
Anstie, h Aminis, v • , G Harris. Mrs. Marsden,
Russell, M. Pavy GoldBWorihy, U^ams, c .
Fulle^Fi^™e^pyer^^^ ^I^^^adWckf^E^'Thomaal 1< E , .
# c£ke, M. Letts; A Martim; and for harmony .to
Mr E Bromell; violoncello, Mr. U. u.
l^hur^ullivai^as^ conductor. Of the general arrangements
we have already spoken._
THEATKEb.
»SSSs5 |
M *ht he appears for the last time of the regular seaaon in the
night he' PP • is termed in advertisements, “ hmaucier,
sa
hhakspearc s B Bateman will on Monday reappear as
S2^«; apSlSSTK has created and in which she
G alwavs welcome. The Princess’s has fallen hack ou melo-
!?mV.ndh«..found. SS&
‘•Nancy'’ Sikes,” as represented by Miss Rose
v N Sncy the week continued to excite dW-usnon as to the
has dunng the week: conum w bu t will cease to
S^f«,^^S3rSr!N«u£hM, entered inu, «» en-
^ mi .nt with Mdlle Beatrice, who will appear on Monday in
^ITieWornTmofthePeoplm” MrGilbert’scomedyof ” Engaged '
still gives Mr. Honey an opportunity of f a P. P ou" Wttercst oT”
Cheviot Hfll, and, with the drama of Our Bitterest roe,
pro^uffieieutly attractive . The new play of ,
maintains its place at the Pnnce of VV ales s Ourlioy*.
ssrsEr-j®B; {«£&£
L. "SSS- - “■"s±d th ^ h «.X t4^
impossible. M . ltho “ t tv^ Boardr nor enlist the strongest pens
I ZtTXf.% i«7TSdat tt £. » ?.yin B qunury I
I ,trance it -
Saiffl^HSi taSd tt.t Mr. Uollingttbead bee a,
those at the Gaiety are not remunerative, and that wr. noi
Un^head is a wise man in his generation not to attempt
the The journalists’ contention, on the contrary is that
manager* are below the public taste. Even the management
of the Lvceum is quoted as an instance, for even there a fre-
nnpiit recurrence to vulgar melodramas, and a too palpable
endeavour to lower the calibre of th *’ mIubS
of the leading performer, vitiates the experiment. Managers
o!,2“ to endeavour to lend, not to follow, the pubbe tote If
they cultivate the taste of the audience for the greater part of
12^n on inferior products, and finding them ^ all not
profitable, they cannot expect that their audiences will turn
round at once to Shakspeare and the Jj ^ a y 8
quarters we find that “ there is a growing taste for good plays,
strong actors, aud powerful effects. Neve^d^s. we are
afraid that managers are not alone to JJi®
all, lies somehow or somewhere in thewant of mtellectuai
cultivation on the part of the public. It must be left for th
full education of the masses to secure the final .victory
The intention of the Dramatic Reform Assocmtion is doub
less, good, and their statements in spirit, if not m letter. gene
rullv correct; but we suspect that the circulation of their
journal will avail but little to mend matters. If they have the
means, let them erect and subsidise a theatre devoted to the
highest class compositions exclusively, acted by a select
company, and honestly conducted on principle. Let the
committee of management be open to recdvefromauth^
in general their best and spontaneous work, the result
I of the labour of months, and subject to every kind of revision
1 before it is placed on the boards; let it be felt that such work
will be carefully read and thoroughly appreciated and in no
very long time the beneficial consequences of such manage-
iSt will appear. But time, long or short, will be required
lor the gradual cultivation of public taste; and that means
that an adequate capital will be requisite. At the time of
writing we hear that a nobleman has recently taken a theatre
hitherto unsuccessful for twenty-one years. This looks like
business. But he will do little if he intrusts it to a mere
actors’ management, sure to conduct the speculation on sordid
principles. Nor will he succeed better himself if he has the
preiudiced notions of ordinary theatrical cliques. One instance
i 8 [riven in the pages bet ore us of a certain capitalist and
manager who “roundly vowed some years ago never to produce
a play which was either divided into five acts, or founded on
an historical subject, or written in blank verse. 1 lie public
won t have it, this worthy vowed.” l'robably this is a fact.
And what is the result? The theatre in question is vet m
the market, not having been able to create tor its.-11 a cha¬
racter, because of the absurd prejudices ot the owner of the i
property. Produce the best pieces you can obtain, aud act them I
mnmiiir vAii r»nn HAnirp * t.hp rrnblic will in due
PARIS AT THE CAFE. NO. V.
Completely to very f the «xne
let ^ proceed . b»k —chiefly, or
,he ,'wZ r ’lrtM. Straight down front the railway atation
greatly, by artists. . tr g there runs nver-
latdy ”«‘"™' d ’ dc the R ^SS, and in thi. .tend. Lang’.
fame, being, mdeeri, even nw tbe e ^ oul( , vard ^ t . Michel,
house, and the ^ Fleurus-just by the
“SL among tho» artiat-catta
charaoteristica during the la8 ‘ h ‘ W gA e ^ le by accC
well what was its appearance the first time I q
dent-strolled in on a summer evening of 18(6. It was an oa
l ull-and-half sort of place ; its only attempt at music was a
rJiLitttfor” oVSfga which’weK Sty dear, P gg
from a respectful distance at your little table, or take your scar
to-in thTe^tter case, “ consuming” in proportion as you are
near the stage or far from it: spending two francs, one franc,
-T«£SS3?rt-3b. F-ch n.n.io-h.U-itU
S. ’SS’lSSfS
ssss s
of g tbem; but the genuine cafe of Frenchmen is much m
iUt oftbdf‘there is a principal type which I have not yet men-
U„,^-ih.onS?4L.J f .o. thel-Mto Ho* TH" -
\ ioned-the once famous cates oi uxe i »»» d j
used to be at the north end of the eastern gallery
Of fashion has flowed northward and westward to the
boulevai ds, and the Palais Royal is not what it m
As I have said, many of these last-named cafes are usea
principally by foreigner; and it is remarkable how in 1 ans
ulmosf every nationality has its “ house of call, where it con
obtain all its home delicacies, aud hear its o^i jangu g
spoken by the attendants and by nearly all f ^ h ® dented
out going into a detailed description of the
specially to Englishmen, Germans, Russians, or ^P ai ^ d ®’ !.
Se teke as a Specimen one odd little house thronged ever
Zntl ^ oUs, mingled with . iew T»rk»-.»* ^
familiarly called the “ cute turc, ’ though its owner
christened it the Cafe d’Apollon. )ff
It is in the Rue Monsieur le Pnnce, not a dozen doors ,
that wonderful Boulevard St. Michel- concerning which,^ d
tEL particular little cafe, may 1 quote some dgpftaMj«*
home from Paris by an English student? Th« g,
he speaks of is, of course, that universally called Lata
Here in this quarter you may meet
A dozen nations in a street. , ,
Roumanians, English, Greeks, and Russians,
Italians, Mexicans by dozens,
Haytians, Turks—and other vermin—
And every now and then a German.
Near here’s a caff where you may
(Five sous is all you have to nay)
Have coffee made the Turkish way—
Hot water poured on it a minute,
And then no milk nor sugar in it:
I did not lind it nice to swallow.
(The caff bears for sign Apollo,
And there the customers all speak
Not French, nor English, hut—pure Gree
The barmaid doesn’t understand cm.
, Yet smiles—politely, but at random.)
____I The proprietor of the place u, however, & r ^ d *®
, _ B ..cd on tlie occasion a poem by Francis and there was last jeax ; a Greek girl whoul t he two
l Beimoch, entitled “ Together,” and added to the promise she | pretty face, and exquisitely graceful fi b ur
maintaimT'if* place at*the Prince of VVaWs. 1‘ Our, Boys,’ ! rt . Produce the best pieces you can ootain. auo act in CUi
wilh ‘ A Whirligig” and “ A Fearful tog.’ distinguish the ^ ^ ^ manner von can secure; the public will in due
Vaudeville by a prolonged succe ss without example. At i »e respond and recompense the enterprising capitalist.
Opera Coinique the audience are entertained with imutical r -
cmnic opera aud tunciful operetta, 5 I Miss Glyn’s last reading from Sliakspeare, at her own resi-
Messra. W. 8. Gilbert and the latter byM«m. J-Albery an ^. u mi Tuesday. It was from “ Measure for
Alfred Cellier- namely, H.M.b.Pinafore and Pf Pleasure,” which was throughout udmirably dehvered. Miss
Knight.” The Court ia worthilyby W ^Ulsj ^ ’ d deHvmd ou t £ occ^ion a poem by Lancia
“ Olivia.” aud the Folly with Lestdochca a . L ^ . Rennocli, entitled “ Together,” and added to the promise she
V
AUG. 3, 1878
waitresses spoke of as la patronne. She was new to Paris and
866 ^“ e *w lt8 bust1 '; and garish merriment.
And the little room—there is only one. the further enH
it slightly raised with a table whte gUta SSddff 2
company—the httle room was reaUy very merrv of an eve.Vin*
filU udth keen, dark, soapless face's, aKg “SS
which jabbered strange tongues. On a table in the middle of
thc^ lower part of the room were piled all sorts of Eastern
dishes and delicacies, all cheap enough, and all, as
ventured to taste them, very sweet and not very nice lint
the coffee, m spite of the opinion above quotedis delicious
though some Eng ishmcn might find it a taste to be acquSd
only after one or two trials : it is strong, pure, and 2 mJ
A Wa f "““ttingveijr picturesque about the narrow
dingy, Oriental place; there is much that is picturesque iboufc
most of the representative Parisian cafes. Remembering the
pleasant, easy hours spent at so many of them-namfrl or
omitted m these brief papers—one cannot but wish that Tendon
had some similar places, where spare evenings could be passed
mernly, cheaply, and not always unprofitably. Therc P are a
lasiaff. ar 8 eood - * *rl ta
OBITUARY.
. , 0 . ADMIRAL sir h. r. yelverton.
“Ss firs*
Joseph Henry, Esq of Straffan, in the iurdy of Kildaro°by
w e .r y n Kllzabet , h FitzGerald, his wife, danghS of
William Robert, second Duke of Leinster K p’/ms/ir
»'Buke), and
m 1349, having married, in 1845, Barbara, Baroness Grey di
Ruthyn (in her own right), widow of George Augustus
Mar’ui, of ifiofeg. gT.SSff&'EjS
ifS’Jigii? C T maUd ,? f the Mediterranean squadron from
}«?n £ ’““Hoontly of the Channel squadron, and fro,”
station 1 ^Mgff5Sfr m - CU ? 0n the Mediterranean
xSSihf H . 1874 . 4 ®. 1 ?! 7 be wafl Senior Naval Lord of the
tha?S(j y c B 5 e decoratio » of K.C.B. in 1869, and
2? G C J?- i“j 875 ’ and “ttamed the rank of Admiral the
same year. He had one only child, the Hon. Barbara Yelverton
mSd ^Dtjco th ! er, T°l thC Bttr ° ny of Gr ^ de Kut^ni
married, Sept. 2 d, 18<2, to John, present Lord Churstou. 3
The deaths have also been announced of_
Henry Blochmann, Esq., M.A., Principal of the Madrassah
College, on the 13th ult., at Calcutta, aged forty l h
great Devonshire family of Prideaux. tn
CanJbrid^n' 1 X 97 r ° bl !f ’ who / rfldua ted at St. John’s College,
Cambridge, m 1827, and was for twenty-two years one of the
Welftm^nT” 8 of ' Ve 8 t minster, on the 26th ult., in the Cloistere,
Westminster. He was Pnest in Ordinary to the Queen.
The Rev Charles Vansittart, formerly Rector of Shottes-
brooke, Berks, on the 14th ult., at Geneva, aged fifty-eight
He was seventh son of Arthur Vansittart, Esq., of Shottes-
Aucktaj * C "° U " e ' h “ WiI °' d “ UBhtCt 01 "™*“.
Colonel John Semen, J.P. and D.L., of Moulsey Surrey
tbe Foot, on the 19th ult., at Dc’vonport-
S^dpan? y ^L Park ’ Hg t d sc ve T n . t J r - Ho was »on of the late Mr.
was the third son of William Middleton, Esq.' o ^Lough-
da »g h t«r of John AUeync. E*q,
of Derby, and served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1857.
Colonel George SackvQle Cotter, C.B., Royal (late Madras)
Hie c 7 ’l° n JU ”r e 25, 1,1 h A* 8even,ieth He was son of
the Rev. James Laurence Cotter, LE D.. Vicar of Buttevant
RocSstin e ? h de(1 Jamea Cotter, tH first BaroSTof
teS to lidtoto&l. 00 *- Hc "“‘"O “•
nJL aj 0 r A G !? eral Joh ? Sherbrooke Gell, late Commandant
in “uStariXtb 0n 16 i 6th u,t ; nt Dowuderry, Cornwall,
’ f v„ R J " e ? phth ^’ ear ; He served as Quartermaster-General
cLm*nS n n my K r °“i - 1868 to 1871 ’ nud s «bsequently
18?2 imHl^Anrn ^877 y u dl8tnct *? Brigadier-General from
r' ™ T A P nl - E 7 7 - He entered the Bombay army as an
M’h 18 ?f' n,Kl Herved luider Brigadier Pennycuick
m tne South Mahratta campaign of 1,3-14-5.
at Adniira 1 Philip Augustus Helpman, on the 23rd ult.,
Navv1i e juW V 189 1 ? ire ’ m ?!" 8eVenGeth year. He entered the
in the West “T* ' n “ veral engagements with pirates
VwVlf Indies, and as mate of the Fair Rosamond, on the
attackhiT t in W Ih rC he obta “ ed pf* promotion to lieutenant for
18 nnnnHu * 111 of 18 shi P. H plaVf-r armed with two
18-po unde rs As Lieutenant of the Columbine he served in the
a^ th7 r ° 1841 i ****** the operations against Canton
Sth?h!“K. ,,f J Am0yand Chinghic, and he also served
A b W de ,n tlu> "Macks upon Chusan, Woosung.
of Captains'and }!$%}*£!" pt " moUd to the reserved list
e-aptams, and in 18io he became a retired Rear-Admiral.
NomiT‘^17 P ° yntt ' r Crane - R N > °n Mie 20th ult.. at
as miH.!h;?, Ped nmet /* tw °. He entered the service in 1798,
captore ^1799° nf d t 5f in w,lkh ho snw Hie
Meditiwrnn«-« ’ ° J tbree French in gates by a part of the
off Ushant in 1 8(in^ ’ Und t r L ? rd Kcith , and was wrecked
regained hi« ISw A ft< ,' r n s , hort imprisonment in France he
Sir ifimi * liberty, and took part in the victory gained by
Out i?GihrXri- TU th , e Franco - Spanish squadron in the
Nelson ’ 1801 ' He accompanied Lord
duriim t Pnrsnitof the combined fleets to the West Indies
Ster C / 1805 - 1,1 in command o7 a
Lmay wln r^e w Ly T °f wcath, ’ r into Frederikstml. in
Commander h,"? de ^ ametl 11 P naoner for «ome months,
manat r Crane did not sen-e afloat after 1818.
Assodatfo^ 0 Ti IkiU8 ^.“’ P resifk ' nt of Hie British Medical
26thult in’hts (; rcctiheys. Manchester, outlie
at the St iS, r £- fonrth I'™- Dr ‘ W ilki«Hon was educated I
three yearsoafl! r™T ,u,d iUt, ‘ r •pending two or I
and blmZ Bd'nknrgh in 183*.
the chief hosnit»l«nfn i. modH iiie. Sue years later he visited
returning toEiiHand^iTlHm^ri “jV' lc> I 1 * re8den * ft,,d Vienna, I
stsSw&vsijs |
_ nE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
119
CHESS.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
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Is t4> Ur cancelled. * v ® oar »tl4>ntlon. e unU> that the «t
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PROBLEM No. 1798.
By 8. AV. Camirlry.
THE PARIS TOURNAMENT.
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CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
• Pah,h Toubwaksst.—a week han now elapsed since the la«t runnil
m thw tourney was concluded, and the event l,a» yet^ to 1 ,
of the chief prizes. As announced in another pai t of our last issue
JOSES' M d /, ‘ R 7, k f Ued f “ r V ,e ttnt tvn Pri*«. Mr. Black huriie “rarlri
the MvTl 'hlr 0 . 11 .-" o'“ Mackenzie tied for the fourth su.l flfth. a^d
the Pixth fi ll to Ilerr ^Vxider 880 i]. rhe cromniittee of the ronirr*^ ilinH-to 1
iT Hhould bP J )la ^ off ; the ^ of the fftn t Suki
dm
tkertort has, so far, been protliictive of two
VT r ," ,tp f Associat'd*.-•D ie annual mcetinit of this society
“!!V I ?L 1 "ii , V- K,, ! l? s f ,' oll( -8e, when thirteen corn net i tors,
challenge
Tiik l 01
comjMlMucr manvoir the h-r provindB^pl^ew.Tiue^^the^fiSi™^
nip tourney, and six players of t),e second class entered for the minor prize?
'n?,?n l 'r" 1 *'»»“;«** up 10 Wednesday la st was «« follows
riiorold, 6 ; Fisher. 2d; fiarbier, 24; Ensor. 2; Coker. 2; Martin, 1; ltunken.
1; and Messrs. Eun.slmw Mmc.fn, Wayf. and Colonel Minchin a half
' , M'-wrs Jeiikin and Bnuvls. il have not jet scored. The entries for
the hiiridicap tourney have not yet been completed, but it is understood that
these include Messrs. Maodonnell, Thoiwld, and Wayte.
It is tirranged tlmt the British Association will visit the
Earl of Itosse at Parsonstown on Tuesday, Aug. 20.
Hngley Hall estate, near the Rugeley Trent Valley Rail-
^yjtotion, has been bought by the Marquis of Anglesea for
A special appeal is made on behalf of the Shipwrecked
Milnm rs Society, which relieved 11,876 persons last year, and
which lias to call upon its funded capital to meet u deficiency
in income.
At a general meeting of the magistrates of Middlesex
recently held. Captain Morley was elected chairman of the
court, in succession to the Marquis of Salisbury, who resigned
the office through the procure oi’ official duties.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
SunnS 1 Al ! P J* 2, 1876 ) with a codicil (dated Nov. 5,
York /L 1 J T Ph ? tr T t ’ la,e of L1 °y d ’ 8 . a » d of No. 42
r , kr i k ' Um ' t ; e ' Regent s Park, who died on the 2nd ult. w»w
SosiM? Burk 1 ® T 5,th n U ' b ^ Joarph Fdw^rd Street, the n. phew,
Zi. !t L, h' rh ' UUd ha,,lu f 1 8mith - the executors, the
bisn cit .s f y k. b “V g 8W ;? m under A‘200,00U. The testator
. i i l , H z? 1 to tbe Soclet y lor Promoting Christian
ClerevTv?!' tht ‘. Uer ^ Orphan Corporation, the Sons of the
Gosnld ii, tlOU i’» U ! e 8oc,f f y for th e Propagation of the
Gospe m Foreign Parts, the National Society lor Promoting
Church 1 D, Tn 0 ‘ th ° V°V r J 11 ! ho Principles of the Established
the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlurge-
amlHcpairing of Churches and Chapels, too
bouety for Promoting the Employment of Additional
iw ace8 ’ imd the biN,1 °P ot Loudon’s
£100 • ’tn°th? S '“f ch defence Association, Parliament-street,
h U n tor ,°. f &t - Marylebone and the Rector of
reftf th^^r M fTl e ^° ne ’ £50eftch - tobe distributed in the
relief of the poor of their respective parishes or districts -all
free of legacy duty. To his sistor Mrs. Evans the tes-
!pi n > nnr» aVC l ♦“ J® nn “ i ^J r of ^600 for life, and on her death
H^ eaCh ^. Cr ‘ h ^e children, Edward Muirhead, William
Herbert, and Elizabeth Alice; to his sister Mr*. Duthoit an
annuity of £600 for life, and on her death £3000 to each of
5 tv ? daughters ; anti there are many other bequests. All
SftSr 1 .^ r 10 - 1 *! 6 °u d, and fcbe P roceeds > with the residue
tL ifriP f.! 181 ?’ 10 PS mve8t <*R ““d to accumulate during
the life of his brother W illiuni Fauntleroy Street, or twentr-
tinn ye f U ih’ and , ou thc dcnth of his brother, or the expira-
wholc if tie 8a ' d , ^T’, Which evt ‘ r «hall first happen P the
whoic of the residue of his property, with the accumulations
!mri ' U d U ?? n t , r,lat for lus Dl> Phcw Joseph Edward Street
until to a T,f aroline *>phi* Street, in equal moifas; bS
per aunun^each C °* nC they are to receive £300
tollStoS 11 ( r d x^ d ^V 2 ’ 1878 ) with a codicil (dated Feb. 19
JroftHfll °P J!ri? K Cath T ne 1) ‘‘H nte8 ey Foxton, late of Age-
croft Hull, 1 endlebury, l^incashire, who died on March 31
Rnh rP the Manchester district registry by
M Hu1, Bd ^ u * d , Heath ’ aud Thomas Heath, the execu¬
tors, tjie persona 1 estate being sworn under £140,000. The
h.HrrlT 1 b ?? Uettth A £lb0 ° eacl1 to the Manchester Royal
Infirmary, Btrnies Convalescent Institution, Cheadle, Chester
the ltoya 1 Na irn,al Life-Boat Institution, and the Cornbrook
,?„P. ‘ Manchester, generally known as Birch’s Orpban-
gn,«v f xT ‘ . *‘ St - Mary ’ 8 Hospital and Dispensary,
to a? Manchester, and the Ragged and Certified Indus-
trial School, Ardwick-green, Manchester; £5000 to Owens
College, to found two scholarships, one to be called “ The
Medwf7^^M Scholarshlp ” aud the other “ The Dauntesey
Med cal Schohirslnp; £6000 to found a medical dispensary at
SeSSsF' £G Ti to fouud a di *t ^
Blackpool, all tree of legacy duty. There are numerous
legacies to relatives, friends, and servants, and the residue of
the personalty is to be divided between her next of kin other
;' 1U1 ‘ ^. Kc . v - Pennyinau Hull-Brown, according to
8t *)t“te for the distribution of intestates’ effects. The
8 p U p 8 a l Jl°n real C8tate ' audor which settlement the
said Ro. R. P. Hull-Brown gets the first life interest.
31 Vs 7 ^ Wi v (dat f? l870 ^ with fo,ur codicUs (dute<l Oct.
31 1873, Nov 11 1874, Dec. 28, 1876, and Oct. 13, 1877) of
Mr. John Brooke, late of Kensworth House, near Dunstable
Trib^’wor d,t ‘n on . JlUK ‘ 11 last > was proved on the 6th ult. by
° ba William Brooke, the son, the sole exeemtor, the person id
estate being sworn under £50,000. The testator bequeaths to
his grandsons Harry and Frederick William, £5000 each ■ to
Im grantldanghter Mary, £2500; upon trust for his son, .lohn
j !““’ [? r h , fe - then for his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jemima
thZ 1 ¥ 00ke J , for , e J , and on thc d( ‘ at h Of the survivor of
{ ™ r b 8 granddaughter, £7500; and some other
ion All i ? r r' duC , , 0f his persrunity he leaves to liis said
son. All lus freehold, copyhold, and leasehold estates the
testator gives to his said sou, Mr. J. W. Brooke, until his grand¬
son J j?hi K r I d 1 attiUU8 t r cuty ' ,ive ’ and tl,eu * *uch gmnd-
& ; 1,OWCV ?; to , t,,e P uv,lleIlt of ^00 per annum lor
life to Mrs. Jemima Charlotte Brooke on the death of her hus-
baud and £200 per annum for life to his granddaughter Ada
Charlotte on the death of her father. 8
IlmSTnTv (C l Ut0d - *°7; 24 ’ 187(J ) of Rev. George Gore.
Rector ot Newton saint Loc, .Somersetshire, who died on May
Cni ;h wa * pro !:f d 0,, . the l8t ult - by Francis William George
Gore, the son, the sole executor, the pereona] estate being
sworn under £45,000. Subject to a few Jegac.es, the testator
leaves all his real mid personal estate to histoid sou.
The will (dated Feb. 22,1878) with two codicils (one bearing
even ditto with the will, and the other Feb. 26 following) of Sir
Courtenay Honywood, Bart., late of Evington, Kent, who
died on April 1 1 last at No. 19, Suckville-street, Piccadilly
the J ? th ult -by Robert A lured DeaneSg
executor, tbe personal estate being sworn under £12 000 B
rbw he T,r?. 1 (d ? ted . Feb - 44 ’. 1878 ) of Sir William Snagg, late
Chief Justice oi British Guiana, who died on April 17 hist at
18th g uB n h!r n A? e T* °r l °, ny ’ Z™ P roved “ L «» do « on the
18th ult. by Alexander Forbes Tweedie, the acting executor
the personal estate in England being sworn under i luOO. The
testator bequeaths flO each to the British aud Foreign Bible
t)? fv tla h ? c t lct / ^? r Fron^ting Christian Knowledge, the
Dem“^y ^ jlf e-Boat Institution, and the Coolie Alissiou,
187 j; ho f v !j 11 , (dat t d April 25 v? 878 ^ with a codiciI ( da, «d June 13.
1878) of Robert Lawrence, Esq., of Amwell Lodge, Nvdenham-
hill, who died on June 30, were proved on the 23rd ult. by four
ot thcjxeeutors and trustees—namely, his widow and his sons
Edward .Spencer, .Samuel, and John (power being reserved of
making the like grant to Thomas William Pelham, another of
the sons, as the other executor), the personal estate being
8 !?°™ ande ^ 1-20,000. The testator betpieaths to his widow
all hu furniture, plate, horses, and carriages, together with
an immediate legacy of £500. He devises his real and copv-
hold and personal estate to his trustees upon trust to provide
annuities to hu sons, the said executors, and Joseph and
Cuthbert Dawes, during the life of his widow, and to p.iv the
remaining income of his estate to his widow tor lite • and
after her death, and subject to an annuity to his eldest
son, Robert Henry, he bequeaths all his property for the
benefit of liis remaining' sons equally.
| Tho Forth WiU* Herald says that Major Prower has sold his
mansion and grounds at Purton for about £11,000 to Itaiuh
| Brooke, it being his intention to reside near Loudon.
By on Order in Council, dated June 29. it is directed that
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present, provided it does not, together with any other pension
or pmoo.,. w|„Wi a man tnav have from public funds, cause
the combined pensions to exceed 2s. tki. a day.
AUG. 3, 1878
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annrarunre and utienuallcd In prloo. l)ii»i»cr Services
2 Tthel;.* for twelve |wr*. n». complete, with 13 per cent dis¬
count tor cast, on or before delivery. Table Glass Service* from
£3 A*, dd. the Bet for twelve persons complete.
DINNER BERVICES.
Coloured Lithograph* post-free.
In Deep Bluo. I In Blue and White. .
The 1 jumlowne ..£33 01 The Luialowno .. £3 3 C
Tin. 1 jiiircl •• 313 61 The Indiana .. •• 4 4 0
The lsfcunu .. .. »« | T)|e IU|||(h ..SBC
Discount IS per cent.
In Enamelled Patterns. I In their nncqnalled Crown
etHMThoManAand # # 0 ln Bnby .. w ^’ ,
e.l»|ianew< Humloo « 6 01 In Pink.a a !
e Humming-Bird .. 7 7 0 In Black.« « «
e Sevres .. .. 7 7 0 1
Discount IS per cent.
T)OSTAL ORDER DEPARTMENT.
SSSfflsupnly any Article Mmte SSSt ta.HS
ATAPLE and CO.-BED-ROOM SUITES
StItanS was to produce thU class of furaltura at
tho lowest jHisstoleiCost.^^ Totten j, (UnHnn rt.ma 4 l. London.
MILLINERY, Collate. Snndiades. O0 “ 1, '
all much reduced, for tho One Mouth s Bale.
Observe Urn addresa-
PETER BOBINSON'B. 338. a». W. 3«. Regent-street.
vrOTICE.—In reference to the
JA above advertisement*.
it la lnii»ort*nt that letter*
should be clearly addreaaed to
256 to 2C2, BBGENT-BTBEET.
^YLO-J^ALSAMUM,
Far the Growth and Preservation of the Hair.
A cooling transparent liquid, entirely vegetable,
without Bailment.
A SIMPLE TONIC AND DRESSING
A. OF INESTIMABLE VALUE TO WTH 6EXE81.
THE FAVOURITE WITH THE YOUNO AND
ALL THOSE WHO HAVE NO GREY UA1R. PBE
MATURE LOBS OF THE HAIR. SO COMMON
?N TUiL DAYS. MAY RE ENTIRELY PRE-
veNTED BY T1IE USE OF ZYLO-UAliJAlfUM.
IS Relief Tthousahds of cabeh
H AS 11E ENAFFO UD ED WHERE THE HAIR
HAS BEEN COMING OUT IN HAMDFOIA IT
J’ilOMOTES A UEALTHY AND VIGOROUS
growth hah* dressed with zylo-ual-
8AMUM isTTwAYB CLEAN. FRER raOlt
DANDRUFF. AND WITH THAT BEAUTIFUL
GLOSS ONLY SEEN IN HEALTHY HAIR. IT
U DELIGHTFULLY FRAGRANT. NO OIL OB
POMADE BHOULD BE USED WITH IT.
Damon 1 l-Tho Genuine only ln Blulah Grey Wrappers.
Sold by aU Chemists. Perfumer*, and Dealer* ln Toilet Articles.
ATORTLOCK’S CHINA.—GREAT SALE.
M THE ANNUAL gL^C^BAL.
, w,
va an.andaw. Oatord-strccf. and 30.31. and .71. Ordrard-
street, Portman.wiuare, London. W.
Tlifi JaiMtneae liiiroboo
The Humming-Bird ..
* ‘Discount --
TABLE GLASS SERVICED.
Plain light stem gta&s £3 S «1 Light engraved glass..
Richly cut glass ..S3 01 Rlclily engraved glaaa
Discount 18 per a—*
Illnstruted Gtaas Catal-gne. w.
POYAL DEVONSHIRE SERGES,
1\i woven from pure Wool, for LADIES* DRESSES,
in Navy or Dark Indigo Blue. Black, Dark Browns. Prune,
* and other solid colours.
price la. lld..a*. 6d..M. lid. Iwr yard.
Per CHILDREN a lower^uolitjMsmado. very strong,
For BOY 8’ HARD WEAlfit is extra mlUed, prlo*.
34 In. wide, 3a. 6d. per yard.
Books of Pattern* sent post-free by
SPEARMAN and SPEARMAN,
The ROYAL DEVONBU I^?Ji EKOE* if tie*only true Yechtlng
Sea Water cannot Injure It.
--■gisi g—
QOLDEN STAR
B ay
.leaf water.
Triple distilled from the fresh leavoe of the
Bay Tree (Myreia Aerie).
For the TOILET, NURSERY, and BATH.
A few drops on a sponge or towel ^"t^f’skta
the face and hand* bathed with It, l* very beneflclal to the taU.
removing all roughnem. Moat highly recommended to ap£y
after .having. A mall quantity ln tho hath » d < eU * b . t '" 1
aroma, and It ha* most remarkablo cleansing properties^ Par¬
ticularly adapted to the bathing of InlanU and young chlhtonn
Most grateful to invalid* and all who suffer from headache
from mental labour or fatigue Buy only the genntae Golden
Star Bay-Leaf Water, sold ln three staee
8s 8s by Chemists end Perfumers, or on reedpt of stamp*
from tho Wholesale Depot. 114 and 11*. Southampton-row.
nilUBBS’ PATENT SAFES— Chub’bs
l ; ( .., h Deed Paper and Writing Boxes, all flttal with the
Drfccto?ta£k».' Comnleta lUurtratedPriw-Llds
himI iMiHt-frec to unv part of tho world.—Chubb ana Son. ^
to the unhand ll Ink of England. 1W. Qnron Victorla-rtrrot.
St. Paul’s; and l», St. James’s-strwt. Pall-mall. London.
T ATEST TEST of CHUBBS’ SAFES.
fii.asaBsssaaBS^ftgg^^
d«Hl,.br»k«. cheques, and P«ta''» the two*..Tta.
nnule liy you for u» somo time ago. were entirely »,> • «l In>m in*
calamitous nie last night, in spUeof tlw '"tonm h™t aristag
fmm dootmetiou ot oo large a stock of oil, tallow, rallwa), nrul
other greiwesstored in toeabovo portion of our premlww.-We
are. dear Sir*, your* faithfully. gAsa> 8mitu wia <*.
Mnuirt. Chubb and Son, Patent Bofo Warohouac,
128, Queen YlctUllft KlNt* lx»ndon, E.C.
QWAN and EDGAR arc now showing a
O Large Stock of SEASIDE and TRAVELUNG GARMENTS,
Waterproof and Dui»t Coata.
1 Piccadilly and Uegcnt-strcot._
JAY’S PERIODICAL SALE.
h mu id be returned, tent
pu»t-frc« on application.
Gardners’, lamp, (liars, and CbinaManufttcturcr*.tS3and454,
West Strand. Chari ng-aros*._
N O T ICE.—SILVER and ELECTRO-
PLATE.—KLKINGTON and CO.. Manufacturing
Silversmiths and Patentees •* the Electro-Plate.
Revised Illustrated Pattern-lUeik of New Designs
III Table Plate of all kind*, and new qualities in
TEWEL ROBBERIES PREVENTED—J.
TANN’S RELIANCE SAFES have never tolled to resist
“—attempt* of the most determined burglar*. Fire-Resisting
es.£3&. List* free.—11. Ncwgate-street. E.O.
rjrLK DEPARTMENT. — JAUBERT’S
BLACK SILKS. 3s. S)d. per yard; Bonnet* Black 8llki,
4s. lid. per yard ; Black Satins, 3s. 3d. per yard. _
q ILK COSTUME DEPARTMENT.
O UGHT SUMMER BILK COSTUMES. H g*. each;
cos Robe*. g*. each; Black Satin Costume* lull Silk),
aTn TLE DEPARTMENT.
GRENADINE and LACK JACKETS. V*. earirt t^l|-
Mantics, 1) g*. eacli; Fur-1 in«l Jackets. Ji g*. each. Scal-
rpODRISTS and TRAVELLERS.-Ladies
T S&SSgSI
Invigorotor and bcantlflcr of the hair ROWLANDS
OlHiNTO lawtows on the teeth a prerl-like whit
7*. Dd. Bold by Chemist*. Ask for Row laud* .
riHOCOLAT MENIER, in Jib. and Jib.
^ Packets.
pIIOCOIAT MENIER— Awarded Twenty ■
V>» Three pnlzE MEDALS.
QUOCOLAT MENIER.
Bold Everywhere.
Consumption annum,,
oxccmIs 17.000,OUOlb*.
Paris,
London,
New York.
M
mere Mantles, Hg*. each;
skin Jacket*, 6j g*. cadi.
TJLACK DEPARTMENT.—Grenadines, Is..
Xj |«r yard; All-Wool Fabrics, Is. per yard; Sorgo Costnmca,
THOMPSON AND CAPPER’S
TAENTIFIUCE WATER arrests decay in the
U Teethandswectcnstlic Brrathc-M.Bold-rtrwt. Uvupoo^
and at 3a. Deanrgate, Mauclu -tor-Sold In 1*. Sd..**. «d„ 4*.
and 8s. 6 d. Bottles, hr «H tUxantaf. ___
H AIR DESTROYER.—248, High Holborn,
London.—A LEX. ROSS’S DEl’ILATOHY
n'HE SKIN.—To giro to it that Smoothncffl,
(LRS*«rtii^Rf»^s£S
T>ALL and EVENING DRESS ROOM.
jL> Deigns of tho mo*t recent date. All light Evening
Dresaca, at extremely low prices._
in REY DEPARTMENT. —CAMBRIC
\JT DRESSES, 14*.8d.each; Fancy Costumes, silk and sntin,
3|B».. igsTfig*-. and bgi. each. Freuch Matartals, all wool,
from Is. per yard.
C l ASELIERS, in Crystal, Gloss, Ormoulu,
J or Bronze. Medieval Fitting*. Ac. A large assortment
always mi view. Every article marked with plain figures.
U. Ill)LETT and CO.. Manufacturer*, M anil W. High Holborn,
JJOWELL, JAMES, and CO.’S |
QUEEN ANNE CLOCKS,
K 7, y, REGENT-STREET, PALL-MALL. I
O,
pARIS EXHIBITION, CLASS 20.
i?10. BENNETT’S WATCHES.
In return fur a £10 Note, fov and safe per post, one of
BKSNETT’S LADY’S GOLD WATCHES, perfect for tin...
levntty. and worktiuinslilp. with keylet* action, alr-tlght. dalop_
tight, and dostdight—«iS, Clwniwiile. Lvndon. Gold Chain* at
manufacturer*’ price*. P.O.O. to John Bennett.
BENNETT. 63 and 84. Chcapsldo.
WALKER’S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES |
*v are tnpersnting all others. Priw Sledals—London. *
Paris. 18t7. Silver Watche*. from£44*.; Gold, from £•; iir. I t.
Lists sent fren.—<8. Girnhlll; 2». Regent-street; and78.SUNMl. I
fAROIDE GOLD WATCHES, 21s., 25 b., I
vy SO*.; frce by registered post 6d. extra. Farslmllo of costly
gold watche*; exact time-keepers. Catalogues lost-free.
C. C. ROW E. 88. Brompton-road. London. S.W.
17 N O’S J7 It U I T g A L T.
HOT WKATH ER.—Invtgoretlng and Invaluable
ImiNirtantto all Travellers. ...
Uo « Frnll
■lea, India,
atiaLclory
traveller*.
■t. I am "never wllhout It.-Yours falUifnlly, An
vilHAN. F.11.G.S.. M.It.A.S.. Ac., Executive
icer P.W.I)., Government of India. Juno ’AJ.Itfig.
Sold by all ChemlBts, 7s. M. and 4s. 6d.
•• Plcaae rend me half a dozen bottlee of Eno’* Fruit
Salt I have tried Eno’* Fruit Salt in America. India,
Egviit. and on th» Continent, for almost every mm-
pfaiiit (fever Included), with the most satisfactory
results. I can st rongly recommend It to all travellers.
In fact. I am never without It.—Your* falUifnlly, All
Kkulimimc* Fll.GR.. M.R.A.S., Ac.. Executive
Engineer
S
T YINNEFORD’S MAGNESIA.
IJ The beat remeily tor acidity of
*■.. Heartburn. Head-
-\TILLINERY.—Summer Bonnets, Hats,
1YJL and Caps are gn-ari^ redneed In price.
THE LONDON OENERAl'mOCRNINO WAREHOUSE.
Ibegvnt-streete W.
pEARS’
T ADIES ABOUT TO TRAVEL should
Jlj see the” OSBORNE" DRESS-CASE, veiylight andhand-
Home with oallapaible bonnet compartment. Priw 10*. Ul*
1IARUON, Manulucturer.781, High Holborn (live doors west
from Inns of Oourt Hotel). Illustrated List free.
VALUABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR.
V If your hair is turning grey, or white, or falling off. ure
“The Mexican Hair ltem-wer, tor it will Iwsitively restore in
every cmw Grey or White Hair to Its uriginal colour, without
leaving the di.-ogreoablu sjnell of most " Reatorcrs." It makes
the hair charmingly beautiful, a* well as promoting the growth
of the hair on bald *iaita where Uie glands are not decayed. Ask
»ny Chemist for the " Mexicali Hair iteiiewer. price Ss. «kl.
Prepared by HENRY 0. GALLUP, lu3.Oxford-street, Loudon.
me murnecn, Bemn,
oclto. Gout, and I ndlgestion
T YINNEFORD’S magnesia
1 / The . eafest ( j
Ladh* 1
The safest and most gentle
Aperient f« *r dollcate conitltutlooi.
T?LORHINE. For tho Teeth and Breath.
J. Is the beat Liquid Dentifrice In the World; It thoroughly
cleanse* partially-decayed teeth from all parasites or living
■’aulmalciilai," leaving them pearly while. “.part ng a deligliL
fill fragrance to Uie breath. Price Js (id. |wr Bottle, lhe
Fragrant Florillue removcn instantly all odour*arising from a
foul stomach or tobacco smoke. baUsBJfsHJrtiljrjcvizxpposjA “f jmnejr.
byll^NRY^
W RIGHT’S COAL-TAR SOAP
("8APO CARBON IS DtU'ERGENS ")■
Antiseptic. ^^t.l)talnj«tanti
improved; pimples, blotches, and roughness removal. ana we
gS&Mf'p “lid'“m^effoctlvo in sklndlre-re.”-
T1 .‘rtCtheonlv trucantlscptlcsoap.’’—British Medical Journal.
M 1* in talleta'S au”l 1*. o*ch. «* ““ Chemists.
W. V. WRIGHT and CO., Soutiiwark-itxvrt, London.
J> TRANSPARENT SOAP.
gCntaneon.
Jlcdlclne,"
By tho Editor, Mr.
T7 RASMUS WILSON, F.R.S.,
Jjj ■ • A* the most ref resiling: and
Agreeable t»lm for tliu Skin.
Pure, Fragrant, and Durable.
a HEALTHY SKIN and GOOD
R edness, roughness, ^
JiM’TB^SpfflTWlJ.
Q HAVING, TOILET, and NURSERY.
O PEAKS’ TRANSPARENT SOAP.
Always U8«l by the Royal Family.
gold by all CliembU. —
li. Price !ta. lid. \tor lb»ttlp. Tli
Hue nmun« instantly all odourwarUlug lmu»
ioui hu» rumen uf t«bacou nnoke. being inurtly compoHcjd of hones
w>ta. and extracts of sweet herbs and plants It Vjrtec
harmless, and delicious as sherry. Prepared by HENRY
liALLUi^. 4*4. Oxford-fltreet. London. RatelUtd every where
JOSEPH QILLOTT’8
.reparations m common use n>r i
“Medical Press" Laxora L
recommended." _ _
c. R. 0. Tichbornc. Ph.D.:—"Laxora Lozengesai
efficacious, and nicely made."
Sold. Is. Ifd., by all Cliomlst* sr J w-1.*.. m„i,
sale, 82, South wark street.
STEEL PENS. I
Sold by all Stationers throughout the World. ‘
^LAIR’S GOUT PILLS,
The Groat EnglDh Remedy for Goat and Rhenmatlsm. Bnre,
safe, and effectual. No restraint of diet required during their
use. and nro certain to prevent tho disease attacking any vital
Dart. Bold by ell Chemists at Is. Ud. and 9a Sd. ner Box.
E au DE CHYPRE.—PIESSE and LUBIN.
Thl* l» an ancient i*rfun»o from 0)i»run. During the
national can«r c^f Egypt, rermiu. Unx.cc, and Koine, tho ldand
or CynniBwaa tin) report of tho ^lite. Uuirncil. and n-Hrml. It
wna at Uie time of tho CruHodoa, wlien Ricltaitl I. of EukIatmI |
as mi imil tho title of King of Cypru*. that tho famed Eau da |
Chyprowaa introduced into Eurupo, tho conua^ltion of which
U yet preferred in the archive* of the Emigratory of PicMe and |
LubinT Thoae who are curious iu ancient perfume* cai
gratified at 2, New Bond-itrect, London.
JOHN GOSNELL and CO.’S VIOLET
♦J and J1II.LF.FLRUR POWDER, forthe Tolletand Nuraery.
Universally admired for Itajpurity and fragranae. Bold by all
Chemists and Perfumen. Wholesale. 83. Upper Thamea-rtreet
jyjR. STREETER,
18. NEW BOND-STREET, W.
GOLDSMITH AND JEWELLER.
The only Jeweller In England wl.oso Htock conslrts of on*
uniform standi.nl qmd ty—viz., ixcarats.
LONUON-MADL .1 EWELf-EUY^n
of Exquisite Design and Workmanship.
THE "TALISMAN’'BRACELET
(Patontod), a Novelty for the Season, from £3.
Lojsdo* : Printed and Published at the
the rarish of St. Clement Danra ln Ure Oonn t^of-M^ ^^^
by 0*0*0* C. l.aioHTOK, 198, Strand, afore**)" —
Auouar 3. USB.
iMMn
iSfiUjs?
ilSTEHED AT THE GENERAL FOST-OFFICE FOR TRANSMISSION ABROAD.
WITH
SUPPLEMENT
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1878.
-VOL. LXXIII,
:B illtjstrated^londo^news
AUG. 10, 1878
s:s;sS a:t ‘-“
Butler, of a daughter. CARRIAGES. Rey .
SesrterCollege, to Busan, only daughte t ^ afterwards at the
On the 3rd inst., liNtheferethe BntL ^ Bosworth Hall, Leiees-
^^yS^of Sar House, Bailieborough, Irehend.
On the 5th inst.cS^chi 11 -
infant daughter of London, of acute pMumonia.the
"• for flfty yettMV,cttl ot * air
^K 5 S 2 £l te.Glou^^.HydeParlc.VivadaneMam,
^JSfSrSJf* CM-»— Cadogan-pliwetViMOunt (M*
~ d
CALENDAE foe the week ending AUG. 11.
SUNDAY, Aug. 11. Rev .
BgMhBu»«a(t,,TmW n „, x I W j5T“oikk,! V
Lessons : ™2f"SAl" 1 * UW i 8 0.. J r33.78ib-DSi of thiCtapol.
atiiS mSU mx '•»• wSSfiin, ®»-
ssajiSsS;*Jrt&-
THE ILLUSTRATED
paris universal_exhibition
that portion of the Turkish Empire. It is not tohe hostJy
taken for granted that the cession of Cyprus to En 0 land
may not prove to be valuable, but there are some appear¬
ances wlbeh actual possession has brought out into rehef
Xb forewarn the country that what t bas ^uired-
LXXXXJ , ^»°SnUr^^4-in^eI^an^m^not^tmnout
•EXPOSITION TJNIVNESmE DB 1878 IILOSTBBB, to be all that her^T^hetu^iu/that
Continuation of the proof has to bo
“TTtSeCen 1 ^ 1 ^^, is issued e v er y Tii^y,
authority of the Imp xH REEPENCB.
PC BLISHEd1^ OFFICE of
the ILLHSTBATED LONDON NEWS.
1 198 , STRAND, LONDON.
,, rw^ 0 ^, » ». -P»* »-» Z XXXl
COLOURED SUPPLEMENT GRATIS.
proCf ha" tobe’ sought, and should be found, of its actual
wortli There is this consolation about the arrangement
that whatever may he its adaptation or non-adaptation,
to British wants, it can hardly fail to bo an almost un¬
qualified blessing to the inhabitants of Cyprus *““•
This is not, perhaps, the most suitable time that could
he chosen for dLussing the responsibilities imposed upon
the country by tbe Convention of Constantinople. Par-
iTt bL accepted what Ministers have engaged to-
I attempt There is an end of the matter, so far as argu-
I attempt. -rv _ a Loa nnw to make the best
rjjriimxjAa * i Aa.-_._t There is an enu. ui - — >
_ , attempt, tuc has now to make the best
s-rae-‘“**“|5sssstw.
-XOVKS YOUNG- dh^-
i 9 «w^r^=_!
i
thu Btfhop of Ontario; TP' 1 "-’ 1 ^ Savi.y, 11.30 a.m!, theBishop of Long
K. Eyton, Curate of Bt. lauis, Is u n d, Dr. Littlejohn ; 7 pm., the |
I “l?aSSd»al1fflO<*.A I Biuiiop of Nebraska, l>r. Clarlwon.
.„ u .,b.eiu. M0NEAY V A th°rtS 2 ' 8f»>»' Wmton - super-
a Picture Printed in Colours,
ENTITLED )t
“LOVE’S YOUNG- DREAM,
FROM A PAINTING BY T. K. PELHAM.
198, Strand, W.C._ -
^l-SsSI^S theIllustrated lqndon^e ws.
iOjfDOir: SATURDAY, AUGUST 10. 1878-
“Breaking up and going away \
!»». — is«v~—. ffSAiatw--
.. in’accordancc with tbo feelings insured1 by-thew “ near M be can calonlate tbe whole of the
TUESDAY, Aug. 13.
I Athletic Sports : Fareham.
ExhibitionUgham^ces
-Wlnthy Annutd[Agricultural, Poul- Y ^ d |^^ g i^g,
try, and Dog Show. 1
Yachting : Royal Victoria Rogatt
Ryde (.five days).
York Rowing Regatta (two days).
D01! ' “ d U t ST'li e a«rmaWma«.r. ‘j ? u h been ratified. The Plenipotentiar.es who year withm 3 superseded by temporary cou-
IWU7 “ OT ' FRIDAY, Aue. , . ,, and signed it have received their respectrve f ™ Z t thi s hasl be seen. There
Britisb A.-cUboa. Dabh^ | {Jf---A™-. 1 - ^ „ f honour , or „f that silence triod.■«£-**■ that the floating debt we are now
I Races': Redear and Windsor
" FRIDAY, Auo. .6, , . ,, “ ared and signed it have received their respective “P lc “ thi8 has t0 be seen. There
' ^.t’sas-v 1 r^r, ^wterng ^ ;"u h is fl rd s omt b r e n P r x
nub Awociation Dabbo' 1 Ut-, Wait Ismdon Ro.ms Club. adopt the words of tlio attendant spmt m Oomns, i ow ” t “ B h it will be os reluctantly discharged
•StiSSS.” __ - mv task is smoothly done, I can fly or I can run. "^“t.STave been inst now. YVe must not go away
ULTB aa C J S3E32%'itfESSSS .." T “ l0r fUtXy YeXyU'Xal Xn toXso whoa
««•»., ^Hl to! promis0 . There is the oecnpauon or — mllnffleXivitie, o P f the oount ? are
j | J_ instance, by Austria of the Heraegovma and Bosma, for the mdu “ , h th „ are now ; but also, let it be
l|| M I III 1! Is la *"7' |li»Si u^ay..toaiutod
3: |IS
iasiSliii m H i
XitTtlp'US'fYefluaJ justice to all.Jhey made matter of ver y serious oomplmnt .
“lirgeXt from high THE COURT
Tio„ t o”w!nd vapor f :: ::l NNK.I >R. Un. I I -•• i -• in Constantinople — the advance of Austro- ^ Uu eeu, accompanied by ?r^ces8 j Beatrice^ M
- _ A. mnw WAT*. AT LOTOON UIDttS Hnngari.m Troops, and serious bloodshed (£<*y noting , « Vi*«d tyjt „„ ^ EuIyd i„e groaudedis
the weather.
RESULTS OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS at THE
^ KEW OllSEBVATORY OF TUB ROYAL SOCIETY.
Lat. 61 29 6- N.; Tauut. (T IB» 47" W.; Height above Sea, 8* teet_
l =S =g gS 6"
I <o Si
u 30 319 69-9 45-6 ‘61 7 VS M
1. !'()‘190 59"- 51'2 '76 b 70 8 51 9
2129-687 61'4 48 9 '06 8 70'3|54'9
3 29 674 68 9 55'5 '89 9 04'6 54 7
4 29’7 22 oi l 55'3 '81 — 69 5 66 9
6 29 812 Gfi'2 60'8 '73 8 78'3 57'3
C.129 672 65'7 60'2 '831 6 76 6157 1
f f TME H OF HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE
FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUG UST 17. _
Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thnreday.i Frid ay. B at'
THE COURT.
The Uueen, accompanied by 8 =“‘^“5^uX
Albert Victor and George ot in
Hungarian Troops, and serious bloodshed (to say nothing j Albert victor and George of YfthGEMvdice grounded in
S gS politmd'perplexity) bas been the result. Of , ~&£*”££$*TTttZ
course, the object of Austria will not bo frustrated by LenpnA arrived .1 1 Osborne on £* ff
. “ - ’ n "" n Windsor Castle. Princes Albert Victoryand ^JgJ ^ aud
cesses Louise, Victor a and Maud ?f Wal^t OsDo
course, tnc oujccl ui Auom»-,
these partial insurrections. But they indicate a state
of feeling among the Turks far from favourable to cesses 1 Louise^ VJtoria ^
'a speedy establishment or a long continuance of , ^^^pJrtemouth. Admiral Fanshawe, Cum-
Europeun peace. The relations, moreover, of the 1 urkish ^ }mder . in . C hief at Portsmouth, dined ^ththe gjee •
— _a a_ n__ .,w. irnrv for* -fivkiii and the -Moion+x' onfl Priiiff'SH Beatrice atteudul iJi _
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1) •• rSyiNOTHK “wi ““ I So far as this country is concerned, affairs are not without
L to force into ettcct me recommeuaubioua oi wiu •r; r Q * , . _ . . v
vith regard to that question. Still, there is Lord John Manners had an audience of her ^ ^ ent .
n to hope that the passing period of perplexity Mouda y, aud afterwards left Osborne. 1 wim> ^ P
but short duration, aud that the settlements out in the Alberto aud steamed ro^dtkeL q 7^ bir tbday of
,n by the Plenipotentiaries at Berlin will in the ^^.^J^tohwgh. The day
i few mouths be earned mto effect. j boncm rs at Portsmouth and Windsor. The 1 n ^ ReV
s this country is concerned, affairs are not without | with her children, visited the Queen at uso-_ of hcr
l)°S?Sy|ojHE kntkuinu I go far M this country is concerned, affairs are not without I with her dnldren, vjsitedttc other
tiSNwi” *c!:itt ti.« DOKE gallery.M, New Bond-street, w. Doi’y. io t,>... u . | a certa in shade of evil omen. Cypnis, for instance, seem, J + , a ynoht Victoria aud Albert, dined with her Maje^y^
T7L1JAH W ALTON.—EXHIBITION of ISLE OF ' not unlikely to turn out-we will not say an expensive J Th( f Qucen and Princess Beatrice h ^ e ,^ n Ro U va i Yacht
Xi wight anri other watebhcoloub S"x d . acquisition, but one not in all respects worth the expense. C owes and Newport, and have witnessed the y
GALI - hRY - ,W - ” _ 1 w! take io note of merely transient embarrassments Osborne,
bi wight ami other watercolour 5u. i acquisition, but one not in all respects worth the expense. C owes and Newport, and have witnessed the oy
35a£agaJSS?g roM 8tL '- l '“ V ' ,l - ^ 7 e note of menily tra„,iont c„barra»mcut, SquadrOB^ga^^ e „Ks ’gL a week at Onhorue,
CRYSTAL PALACE PICTURE - GALLERY. Avhich a little administrative skill will no doubt efface haspWdseveral timfs before her Majesty, and hM given *
a immsi^ouEiGNKuHL^Hlx^Frp^^app^taMr.a. Bu t it is tolerably clear that the climate of the island ^ of i esson9 on the harmonium to Princess B^tnce.^ ^
w.wAM.cryrtaiFaiace. ___—__ ig any thing but salubrious; that it is destitute of con- _ The inspection , th ®_ _ et „ul, f vn!,, Uu m. There will be
venient ports, which can only be formed at great expense,
v.I A IA _V-.-l v.n'fl, vorrjvri fr> A oiiif.in
QT. JAMES’S HALL, PICCADILLY
1^ AT T THE YFA11 round every night at eight. _
MOSDAYA WEDNESDAYS. SATURDAYS AT THREE AND EIGHT.
has played several times belore ner “ , •
series of lessons on the hamomumtoPrmcessBeatrice ^
The inspection of the Fleet at bpithead by g wiR ber
Tuesday next *fll td|*' ^ry limited number of
MONDAYS. WEDNESDAYS, BATUKUAkb Al ium> aiUl tliat ItS geOgrapmcai pusitiuii WAD11 ivgaiu oia ixoa-wv
ri^lIE MOORE and BURGESS MINSTRELS. Turkey is not such as will greatly aid the policy of her
je Na r(^ ul Ni»cLargc?urrrl'sraiunicB. Laiiici! cau retain tiicir Umuets iu aii ikirts Majesty’s Government in assuming a Protectorate over
ol the Hall.
venient ports, which can only be formed at great expense, l°ver/United number of
and that its geographical position with regard to Asiatic can be set apart for the conveyance ofofflcial visi •
Turkey is not such as will greatly aid the policy of her Colonel Du Plat has succeeded Colonel the non.
linvarmnont in *hssiimm£? a Protectorate over as Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty.
AUG. 10, 1878
. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP WALES
The Pnnce and Princess of Wales retnmprl ra *
week from Goodwood Homo. The Dike of rj° yesterday
their Royal H.ghae.ees at Marlb,m^ h °HoSf'SP? ^
and remained to luncheon. The Duke of Twk turd , ay
visited them. Later in the day the ]££» a „^ ndge
town to join the Royal yacht Osbor ne £ nd Pnncess left
which they with their family °» >«
Prince has taken part in the Iloyal Yacht q„»®i C °n' Tlle
sailing in his yacht Hildegarde 7 1 His Bovni^^ Regatta,
dined at Cowes" Castle with the meSheS t?* 1 ^ ha9
On .Monday the Royal yacht Osborne „ , t . h( i squadron.
Ray, having on board the Prince and Sundn 'vn
Victor and George, and the tWe Prf 18 ’ Pn ^ es Albort
Osborne’s boats was lowered, and the Shice^th (£ ° f ?®
Hugo L. Pearson and other officers were ^ t 1 x 0mmander
dyce. His Royal Highness clamberedTm t^ W ^ H 4 !? 6 Eur y-
and remained some tune in convorsaOon P Wi !L d ® °i the wrecb
connection with the recent SSI tUe i>^ th the , offlcers - In
the London Hospital, their Roval Hi^h!?™®® f nd Princess to ]
» dcDiit.oii ot
Fnnd ” now being raised. K 8 t0 tho Maintenance
Princess Louise of Lome and the Mamnia t
““ e ■“ K “ to e“
Tuesday evening. HfcRoytdVTirfmeBa h* 18 9 0urt Theatre on
riUing, for hi, portrait at hi, .tudio in Stratforf.pte
yc,terday D weeklmTSTo thoTuke Hm «
mond during the Goodwood race week. d Duche8s of Rich- i
St. James’s PalnceforHomburg Cklenblirg " Strelitz has left i
on W?ay^ UChe88 ° f T ®® k ™ 4 *> Opera Comique
Claridge^ 1 iSelforEfy^S^ThetS^ ^ left
LevesonGower hU^vedi^Dnnrob^^tle^ 7 Alexandra
Countras^rosvenor have^arrived at^atonYTaU « - d
Snturchiy^last fo ^Eusto^Hall^SuffoUr! 6 ^ on
.^ILLUSTRATED Lrnsmnv
NEWS
I THE OCCUPATION OF CYPRUS.
fa-onred nt w P ith e by^Tffice^o? the^M^dif/ 0 haV ®
squadron, shows the 8wne?tNicoLfL?l 1 ^H t ? rrane ^ 11 naval
S£3?& ^Ss"?
h£d“ that^the
right hand raised to the peak of hh™? Wh ° Stands with his
saluting the Union-Jack whth n ?^ 8 ^ p ’ ln the act of
engaged in hoisting with th^J^f*** 111 H - enr R Rawson is
officer. A guard eonsiS 5 Jf^® 6 of another "aval
Marine Artillery, and Rova/ Marin 7 " 1 y V ® i? 1 ® 1 ! ° f the Royal
H.M.S. Minotaur, wasall tfetSS Iufantr y
this important occasion • hut tu tUal vi' 8 ] 1 * orce Present upon
and Turks, Iho S ’the Adm^f^^ 1 ^ P8 °P le ’ bofch Greeks
their own language byMr Wnitlr ^ cl " afcl0n - repeated in
Legation at t'onstantiuonle Z^Z ? f the British
more especially grS/ ti, e T* wth hearty cheers,
vociferous applause Thfs is n J^tv®- ° f Victoria ” with
and poverty-stricken island, w! neglect ? d
123
The Duke of Abercorn has left town for Easthnn m «
rX I'J^hhmberhmdh™ 1« Gm,re„„,. pl « 0 £or
Monday, for Cowe^'lsle'of Wight!* 6 House ’ Cam pden-hiJI, on
ftoIttftoSeJl Afl “ 18 “ Ti,ei in to ™ Oh Saturday laat
3 left her residence, Wilton
The Duchess of Newcastle ha
crescent, for Deepdene, Dorking
Tn "ridg.“ W?J!. Elean0t ° f ^ ort humberland ha. left tow,, for
t he»”^ K 0 “rh 4 “- ^
for“v e Se“Kfw3S ti °“ eM 01 ASU * aI * lett *owo
forpr^^KrofwSff^ 18 ^™
H “ T S Maty
to join the ffiLcSfS’ifiAlSlJ* Sat ’ mk T
Cranborne and^ttm L^j^ocR^as^ef^r’^t by Vi8C0,mt
Chalet Cecil, Dieppe^ ’ h leffc Arlington-street for
°~Z#fZZZ£%$. H »"“.
a-e Ladle. Kennedy have
Earl and Countess Sydney have left England for Paris
temie a e fo“va£“Stl? DeS 18 ^ Irft Carlto “ H °“«-
D8 ’ bj "“’ 8 l8,t *""> for Pari,
Datoen^r™ MS*|ow»hir EMebCr)r h 0 ’ 8 “ K “»dilly for
from Denmark and I^ 88 r< ' tlLrnetl to thc Damsh Legation
fashionable marriages.
The marriage of Sir Lewis Pelly, K.C B iff ST OT . ;1 Ar .
I^wd^^LA.^wS^elebr^ted fn°tf ai j d * btoRev. John
license, in Westminster Ahh«^ d ua. tbe . 1 st mst., by special
MSgict d IwSiy Efc U °”o I^nmond, ‘E J
Miss Louisa S ST Somerset, Miss Buchanan,
and Miss Amabel %5 I8 t Armstrong, Mias Hudson,
were of white cashmere ^and J hi re> \ T h . eir c °8tumes
bonnets trimmed Sh „l? + - U ® b ^®¥« white chi P '
and each wore a minlnf!!, WU j 8atl , u and forget-mc-nots
bridegroom. Tim WTev^th P D locke *; r the ffift of the
formed the marrinfrp f5J, Kev ’ the Dean ot W estmiuster per-
marriage in the e jeni«lb.m 7 r'U Af u® r th ®, ^strafion °f the |
adjourned to Sir T?n+u e ? Chamber, the w'edding party
CriarSuecn-streS w/ 0 ^ ^ ^ Alcock ’ 8 residei ^ e * I
^r Lewis^nd ‘ aft ® r which I
Eormandy, on their wedding tow. ® U r0Ut ® for 1
FoiScue m i?i?5e a Kc a iV 1 ?r i8 an J? ouuced °f Sir Francis
'■hire, to LndyTWar ° f Bosworth HaU, Leicester-
Marchioness of Hcadfort th ® dau gbter of the late
Dalton. She wa7m n ^ rt ,’- by ,o ke - r first husband, Mr. E. T.
1876. ed m h° Lord Lisgar, who died in
Go'S, andTn^Eoswf™ Ca T>^n Arkwright, Coldstream
Court, ^tekeplaceatNonnan
youngest soifof 8 iheTateMrhD^ 6 !! rvi ht M ' t*" C^ 011 * 011 ’
fife, and Miss HuiJ pIwi M ;^- Crichton, of Rankcilour,
Bart., of Breamore7Hants. St daughter <* Sir Edward Hulse’,
of 1450 acres, have^been^bmio^+^^xr^rt Gie oo^gnoua estate
«0,000. Mr. Cool h l i 8h b / Mr ‘ °- E - c °ope, M.P., for
“ lb8 “"” 8 "“Stbourhoo? SX tw^ i r arge U S Pr0I>Crt7
mciiMiigh cZmSo™ % 1*SW «
bare now Reived S?m on/snerial Q ueen. We
whose first letter dem-rihir,?. 6 ^^ 4 rtlst and Correspondent,
London to Cypnm annears1n t 18 hi J0Urn fJ and V °^ e ^
Journal, sketches of the intere««^ 8 W ®® k S ^ umber of our
place at the landing of the British af^T^ 8 + mt bave takeQ
ships in the habourof Larn^««^ nd ? ndlf i a , t roops, with the
towns, the country, and the peoffie ^Th 118 IUl . l 1 8 1 tration8 of the
and published in Lure Number?- in S^pT‘ 1 l’ be engraved
sent two more views of the ™ the P 8an tlme > we pre-
Kormakiti, the ancient t ~° n !i. bemg that of c ^P e
Cyprus, opposite the mainland of° Cnici^in 11 ^- 10 ^- Sh ° re ° f
?be er no a rtKLt?Se SSty Ses
The distance across the sea to^he^mV,^ * f - Gap ^ Kor makiti.
S]eri e om 0 G> a ^ s the ThZlttu ^1° ^VareTsuMly
from Tarsus, ^ f "
EN ROUTE FOR CYPRUS
(Fr0m our S P ccial Artitt and Correspondent.)
A brief interview at 108 Sf-m-n/i Cyprus, July 25, 1878.
and the Havre packet +u , , uva y t0 Southampton
HS£#»S§|Sffi
at the neigh«?“ffiS^.d“»*S£° 'Z^
SSpB-'-SsiHS
s#Si=»■»;&
falls, is deserving of a better approach Hum that Z thl
narrow boulevard which confronts it Bvfa? thJ
feature of MarseiUes, however “ £ Pri j^ ® 31
capital in the world might be proud, whUsTlt’ iteiSiLi 87
he grounds of the Chafeau Bofelly.by tS setid^
are laid out in that charming fashion which French landscaDe
feJnrdeT ^ 1 ® °”? P™ duce in what otherwise would be
™ri ed as a j?°P elcs8] y ugly domain of waste land now a
e^e ii 3011 u PaT f 1Se J°I the Mtt rseiUais. But, enough ’ everv-
i thn, w has travelled south knows Marseilles more or le^
tb W?w El if bsb .f 1 Ver f ta 3 rherelon S if ‘bey can help it. ’!
We leave Marseilles basin m one of Messrs. Fraissinet’s
Malta thp C l &amt Mar ^I. 0f tlle few Passengers bound for
! ^ Ita the ia^ger proportion are for Cyprus. There are Eurfish
i officers recalled from leave of absence but a day or two after
?iftrii e n a nu bad u be ^, g ? U l ed - These are, naturffily°grumbRng
a little at their hard fate, but, at the same time, anient to entef
upon a new sphere of action. There are Greek SeSreteS
from Manchester and Liverpool; while a Maltese Marauis
about to be disestablished, and a telegraph clerk, make up the
company in the first-class saloon. A few of thos?ubiquitous
'P, mmer ^ altrave R er s of polyglot discourse aud uncertain
nationality are the occupants of the second-class berths.
rB-flP 8 ' r!f J 50114 18a 6lo , w one > but il; is not the slightest use I
chafing at delay. The foreigners play dominoes, while the I
c” g r. 8b °i Ver the , ^P of Cyprus, the future plans of '
^ «“y a^oS''i d ‘ h8re8J>ective m “ its ” *«*•*■ 1 j
p-S^SSS. a. EEb? js
is, we are not stowed too closely. With British officers as
compagnom de voyage, there is always some pleasant society •
and in the present instance we are fortunate. The senior of
the company is a Colonel, who is a great linguist; there is a
^P^- a musica 1 performer of no mean ability; and there is
asmart Adjutant—all of a crack regiment of light infantry
and good specimens of our Army men.
During the whole of the next afternoon we are in sight of
the Corsican Mountains; and as the moon rises we pass the
btrait of Bomfazio. On emerging from this strait, and alter-
mg our course more to the south, we are happily enabled to
set sail and in consequence are set free from the cinders and
smuts from the funnel which had before assailed us. Not till
early the following morning do we pass Maritimo, the small
Italian convict island at the extreme west of Sicily; and at
SgpS*S»2~SH:
SsSSlPSSSrSSS:
if wcreacfVdSl'ifby iSjht^ThmfanSS,"tab d'* 7
corner on the poop, and go to sleep. P P ’ P k 4 4h ° coole8fc
enter the Grand^Hariiou^^ut^where^ the fleet o? ^ ark 88 wo
They have aU sailed this afternoon The lW ^r^ '
ss r M“r« 8 f s^ 8 1 88 " x sws
moment “pratique” is obtained we are off^the% 6 ’ and K h ®
pilfslSisil
ten p.m. thc Tamar, with the gaUant 71st Hi<?h W ? and a4
board, steams majestically away 6 There is •*“
but Dunsford’s Hotel affords plenty of aLmmodSn n - l4 :
amrtionomflXi^A 0 ^
SASl'SSZ w
7t C Ww d v 1SCem ^ distant outline of our new dependeSv
it had taken us a fortnight from the Strand to pimm
I
Himalaya 8ta ^’ »™ hi, head-quartern Tn bSd"^
' = —S. P. o.
A JAp ANESE GUN-BOAT.
Ihc Sefiri, which should rather be called a corvette than a o-m,
Mikado and the^Tycoon! AU^ oCrtof ??.'^ 80 ' 1 «“
likely to play a conspicuous part in the Far East of Asia.
kincsem.
issttfg'M
SsaSSi'SE-SwisP
SSHi
Isfiiislll
?n°rcto 0 ri 0 v ehly80U i Ild ’ aild Lord Ebesmere naturaJy dkT’not
care to nek a second race with him at Goodwood • VcrfieuU J
hero of the unprecedented triple victory at Asmi I el™ ’ ,
handicaps, and wonderfully fit and well this P ®f;° rmer m
aoubtless have made a fearful example of the othef two The
l f0 “ y™* 8 old, and is a daughter of CaSnSm lud
V- ater Nymph. She is a dark chestnut, standing upwards of
sixteen hands high. Her best point is her r-reat EmT w
she has a beautiful head and grand shouldera Like Achieve¬
ment, whom she resembles m many respects, her back ribs are
fanlMn m ’ h f- V1Dg t aid that ’ we have not much more
S™vf d i' Eeractlon w ben fully extended is splendid L
she moves close to the ground, with a long, sweeping strhb!
that looks like staying for ever. The Goolwood CupwS her
thirty-seventh successive metory, and defeat is uninown to
her so we should be veiy sorry to say that she is not cambS
of defeating anything that we could put against her^ Her
next appearance will be in France. But we trust tW Art
Blascovitz her enterprising owner, will give us another peep’
at the darling —which, we believe, is the translation of
Kincsem—in the Doncaster Cup. ^ uuou 01
CAPE KORMAKITI, CYPRUS.
THE illestrate^londo^new^
AUG. 10, 1878
THE lAi^uo^^!^^r^ === ==========-' bbuvia. , .. M
SSSHSSrls^sSSHS sgss&ss?
S£. lie had three So Rev. Samuel ttorage of timber, amd which lfc J £ hurch of England con- JdTroj ^ ^ ^ o£ operation.
iff.*»■«««*«
minister; his mother: was« for preachers' sons at King J-
educatcd in the W esley^J minister in the year 1845. He
wood, and became ® Wes eyau minn, ^ . q the larg e 3 t
*0 «£gg«
A "green *«*; J? W %®SSX* to aVimm.ry m tb.taperWOwj.
Wesleyan Normal Institution by great Intel- ? r oops from Thessaly due totheimm was T l,c Russian ^ JgJ “betweei Western Siberia and
still occupies. Dr. Rigg * preaching lture d minds than French, and Russian . would be considered m the f or organising wh __ eat commercial station to be founded
lectuul power, though better suited to cawmn ha9 lat ely ^snied that Hellenic interests would China by means of ai great 0 f Semipalatinsk.
to the multitude. He is a very ab e theol«>gu #ddfeg|es in CoURrC8fi deliberations. n tbat the Government in the south-eastern part of the pro
^ssshskse*
the limes,” and Relations oi , ' We believe that . an d ceneral councillors have wuica « p .mfpica
Methodim with t b? J h ^ iaia StLur were the first men to The eleehoua ^ J the Government. the usual monthly return of the Secretary of
Hr. Rigg ^ J S al and , at the same time, con- resulted favourably for the 8U P1 According totoe VS?o/thc United States was do-
move in the direction of Uherai “uu, 1870 hid name BELGIUM. , , , >r the Treasury, the Public lHbt or u;e u Treasury
«&'| ^ * by the tW °‘ Jj-i-S for the island
JffSS-i* ^ ! bMded “ ele - ^ councilor, ■». *■** •« '
Methodism with ^ Jhur^ f ^ ur were the first men to The elections ° f P portcr/of the Government. monthly return of the Secretary of
Hr. Rigg and the Rev. AV Ulmn^ at the 8ame time, con- resulted favourably for the 8U P1 According to ^VJJJ rftbc United States was do-
HigfisIttsSs ssts!®’**
•#** “ nl » ugaiu.t
and Co., of Bradford._ 10 votes. . ^ Rte^nnre to the 7th inst., by way of ^ will secure the return of a Democrat
===Z=ZT^7. r V BUTS „ »"? L e ^fh ft r^resh outbreak has occurred in Acheen Stnate . on the Pittsburg, Cinoin-
foreign and colonial news.
FRANCE.
At the request ^2-2*1
ba« addressed an limtat to * the 10fch iaa t
Monetary Congress to benem in ^ ^ M ^ Blowlte>
By a decree of the Pres * . been advanced to the
^.t^-sarts ss
1 HOLLAND. . ... elected tl
, ,, _ 1InlKP 0 f the States General lias passed the bill j u dkates
«* 5 j£SS. 2 ?l- w- ■—* by 2b jsu
10 vr “
froops^e passing through Singapore from Java.
GERMANY. ... .
The Emperor WUliam’a health is improving steadily at
T '& Marshal
Mingo Juo.'tiou, OU°. ■Joii car.: »Sd
cars, au hotel car and perns’ in the emigrant and
S3“S?0ard dearly twedty idjored, iddadidg a
tew id the alctpidg-cora.
The arbitrators hare .etUed the western add aorthern
s."dt«A* r sass^Stto. Te aaa*..a3^ n ,„«««>.«*«*»«» d
3 g£§R©Kssass
^SS^iSrSrS^ SSffiSS@hHi?s »5
to the railway carriage. On ommng go ^ J IaahfjU her
aySS^.-^Sl^be^ to Let again, at least at the
Escurial.” Minister of Public Works, left Paris on
ZiSffkf^rrJx^s s
B °P?Se1 w^re awarded by the French Academy on the 1st inst.
Sclau? £Sin La^tnfiuHemotAgrcgeo'f Letters,
ilicnaut, i^ioenu _> ,. ,.. h Monty on prize tor
A^iiSca ot German Fiaauee Mi.l.ter. codvea.d ^
2Mrj^ ^wXffrCdday id the
Gii-ndHucidiiduceat lieidolberg {fom Sfc _
annum on every C bi“““‘ l ^"^b c ^);^ e j hat the Orangeiusu
the Orange organisation.
THE CAFE COLONIES.
_ . _ nf thp (.idef Sandilli’s brother has conhrmed
The surrender of the cuiet &antu Kafllrswero
natmg ihc puDiie ukuuc, «• i The surrender of the cluer oanuiui a .. v u «ir«w,*i
“" ,l ^ tom st I SSSSfe-
K ' 1 X7 b J ISr C el X JSSSSi. dtfSSJ! ha, S^onmat with a alight lira.
KtSJ« crypt o, the Oaatie Chapel -
^l"Sg te official «ou.;m *^"=£«“3n
the subject Dt ‘ m e " l "e> ... « e < Auteuil; and tlic Liberals, 106 against lib; Socialists, z against.
gfglSSSilSrtoS «E mdst metal to manaera
ssSy^^'S?'^?
ii™e«Ao.c lor “ Montcalm ct le Canada P rantau; and M.
EZtSL&ZSL t M1 Alaluau ioyaiiata, 4 agaidat 5.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
Th.Empe ro rRm.mJo«phJ^ariredat Tephte Urt .V^
KS' to “ Moutotoet la Canada Wadt-aV and M JJ» “g^ onayZii' to tit a Emperor ol Germany, and
Henry GteviUe, for “ Dosio.” The Guizot tneunia prize ot w f’ h much enthusiasm. His Majesty expressed
•diMiiif tr> M \’ian for a “ Histoire de Montesquieu. lhe ... . .i u , loyal erecting given bun and tor tue tact
Archon-HcBpirouses prize, of the annual value ot 4j000f.,was £ • the recc ption accorded to the Emperor William on
d£K, 250 P Uf. to li. Charles Marty-Lavcaux, and 15U0f. to gown ^
' - The Crown
“• £feKSt ?%**. de. Beanx Arte awarded the ^SSTm^SI ^°womed me und ? JMg;«
By tl-e ]mentation o, SSfuTJ
bee^ boaght^by b th^8tate' b to ^oro^
The parties of the Left, both of the benatc aud the Chamber g P h 1 riuce Uoheulohe, Count Andrassy, 1 rmoe d , tliU1 t nt iccommeuds the building of report was
ofDcpuK have addressed circulars to those who are entitled ^tan *, w«U it r rmce Metteruich, and Count tipal offices, at an estimated cost ot A14.00D. iherep
tl too at 'the approaching doctiod of yoau,r, . ja«^ mr- Ked». u „. Uu luewlay a Court diauer waa uaopUd by ha vote, to eight.
culars, which are drawn up almost in identical terms, insist . ». hcr Lonuur at .Schoubrumi. 1)r> 1}c u Fletcher, having rt tired from liis posiwon
upon the importance of iheee elections, tt P?“ r«ult of give^^ ^ ^ Hungarian Legislature were held on to the Biin.inghitui Gcue^ ^pitol, atter a^r^
which depends the luture of the Republic. they request the . lhe rt turus of eighty constituencies show that the I * al) v thiiiy years, his triends determined to d
Councils-General to select the most suitable candidates, Libernf paity have obtained h tty-six scuts, the United Uppo- a t J ttimo jdAl. Yesterday week a largepie^ ofp ^
doing so to put aside their personal preferences. , BitioU t> P L q V tq the Extreme Lett seven, and the Nationalists t , 0 e w uU t candelabra were presented to Dr. FIet ♦ ^
Prom the 16th to the Ziind ot this mouth “niutera whilc lhrtt . md ependeut members have been elected. In b ollJuh fe b 8ir Daniel Macnee, F.R.S.A., is also to P 1 ^
Congress ot Commerce aud Industry wiU be heid iu ^ t u n three electoral districts voted tor candidates ot 1 11 oi the institution with winch he waa i>
Troeadtro. Une of the quesUons to be diacusaed is the iJtorec^ ttll d the Minister-President, Herr iiszu.wua
establishment of an international commercial regime to be iteir Ernst simonyi. The latest returns concerning tennuud. , ccnuiue eisteddfod of tlie
instituted by conventions between the Governments. tSUaS^SS!! that, although the Miuister-Prt-side.it I ^ Vlmt ■ wh«‘ “airwat to u d-e
appreciation of the condiment.
SS-SteSi tadlShtod a.Vuo«mg JJ-J-
r.i d one, and six infants, making n.to uuder the care of
By li e i reteutation of a report from the *®® t
K—
cipul offices, ut un estimated cost ot idl.lWU. in F
aaopted by ttn votes to eight. , • a
1-rom tile tom xo me ^“‘““.,7 T . i.Plrl in the two. while three independent memoi rs ua.c- -- 01 tiuit, by Sir Hamel Mucnee, r ,ix.o.«.., - ---- - * {
Congress ot Commerce aud Industry^ will be ^held n a. t uH tll , cu pectoral districts voted lor candidates ot 1 11 \^J dmtoom oI tlie institution with winch he was i>
Troeadtro. Unc of the quesUons to be discussed is the wtpiec^ U nd the Minister-President, tlerr iisza.wos V”
establishment of an international commercial regime to be ^L alt J bv D cir Lrn 0 t .‘umonyi. The latest returns concerning tdiluted. , ccnuiue eisteddfod of tlie
instituted by conventions between the Governments. elections show that, although the Minister-President hat was desig 6^^ afc Lhinrwat to a close
The short line which connects the ancient township of defeated, the Liberal or Government party will Kjmiy brought its three day Larliameutary bar, a
Moutrenil-sur-Mcr with Hesdin and St. Pol has been opened Jiszu h« b^n deleuteu, uru8 , mvo come to W 0 f 1G3 on batwduy r * ‘^bun- 2“welah traus-
By it a direct route is now made available from the port of ol these the successful candidates are :-10i lmeal descendant ot Dr. W bam BuRsbary, m ^ ^ ReV
Boulogne to Anas and Bethune, which he in the midfct of the i Members of the United Opposition, seventeen later ot tlie-Bible,.who.was bora^ near LI w ^ q-ue chief
foal iLtotool tbal-.a.dcCffito aad u> cloae proxiauty to tot, four N.tionMUta, aud Ivc botogmg ta ao VI 01. D..
lb °A °UAo O^Thfl'Kis cabmen which began ou Moaday has P 0 ^'- ^ br b u^“" c “ p 7tion o7 Bmiim and the Hcmegoviaa KetL.nhi.ag Vicarage^ a^^tobcto'wiSeymiMiaia 1 " 1
the coal-miaera ot the Nord has broken out FSr3«»*S:«
afresh. inhabitante having property, the Timts report says, received bt * ir8 ^Montgomeryshire, Mr. Davies,
The King and Uaeea etotoy' .MUA^
t Wednesday. Great preparations had 0 f Mostar the Bosnian chiefs who had occupied the ltcv. Hr. Rees was instoUed cmei o^u ol -x-^ Morgan
option, and they were welcomed with much enthusiasm. ffred a strong resistance. “The fight began on Eisteddfod at Menai Bridge, on Wed *k/’ interest which
'.he l*ope ha, yielded to the caraeat pr.y to ol O ^.ml d. dtfto " .‘“S^eatiaaed until the evening 8 The Llovd, M.P., the p«^en. .apto upon ^
Luca to be excused from accepting the on«»U9 duties ot ° J had cavalr ,r soldiers kiUed and 150 infantry Wales was now inamfestuig m high-cliws ’ and Scot-
fotate Secretary on the ground of has been kiUed aud wounded. In consequence of their position, the ing that whilst liberal giants were rntulc th Welsh
Archbishop Jacobmi, the Nuncio at Vienna, has been ^ Bosnians was comparaUvely smaU. A score of the land, the Government chiefly b/
summoned to Rome. f . d t the Vatican insurgents, however, fell into the hands of the Austrians, and University, winch was established and PP { i ad y
For toe post of CaptamoftoeSwiss Guard J thejaticau, lt ta add ed that toe battle continued on Monday the working classes ^ales^ Mr. CnbiUs pi^^^^^^
vacant by toe reslgimtton of B^n Alfredde Mostar, and the losses on both sides were considerable, amateurs rcsidentinWales, v, “^“ I1 n b J jonSwinniug the
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AUG. 10, 1878
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
The Orleans Club coach has ceased runninrr fnr „
1 and the horsts wm be sold b y Messrs. TattersSl next MoSy
. The fourth exhibition by the British Bee-Keeners’ 4 ,™
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stk s »h J 1 ', 6 Kpott ' j®
• <“'“<■“> - *.—3 5 P T£i P “ d aS». ;rr P w od °
The Metropolitan Board of Works hr,™ _„ 0 ,o ,
KEStfSS? ■— »X'“e?\£
, A f n eet J? e in , 8l -PP?rt of the movement for providing a
h M ™“x? u Of female habitual drunkaS was
held at the Mansion House yesterday week_Dr n™ aS
M.B., presided The committed which^ had been^ppoSeTa^
L , s; t , s'a. Kported that * 8 “ itou » ‘■sw&s
MeSV^W °T- d libr ^ . of the South London Working
management will be under the control of a loca commiS
among whom are Sir Charles Dilke Sir T o t! ' °°«imittee,
M. P., Professor Fawcett, M.P^d Mr.
nf Anr, the fn"” 1 T meetin g °f the council of the Royal School
Royal scholarship^°of^25^ to Mr°R LancMte^th" fV the
Forbes medal and prize of books, to Mr. P^F. FraiSS
the M? la , Becbc m ^ dal and prize of books, to Mr. F G Mills •’
.JMESMfcsyac-
sentence, has assigned his interest f but the wife’s 1 next-of kin
Sir Charles Reed having been detained in Paris at a meeting
l e j‘T +h thC Exbibltion > who are nowr busy consider in”
the awards, the weekly meeting of the School Board fnZ
Rodmm tl* Wedn ? sday was presided over by the Rev J
Rodgers, the vice-chairman. The Crystal Palace Scholarihin
was presented to Frederick William Stebbing of the Cante?
buiy-road, Old Kcnt-road, board school A LrtiBcato of
bt n the°H tlle £ baft . esbliry industrial school-ship, duly stoned
foVtieir^si ULoS’J™ ^ Tbe board ad j°“^ d
_^£g__ILLTJSTEATED LONDON NEWS
pcreons^Tlfe'mmiber of^'nersrn ^ tbere Wore abo,1 t 30,000
Society’s Gardens 27 aoq. o w ’ tbo Zoological
14,058; the BritWx^Swi^’ m " toa Museum,
STXo Kwri ^ Sir
cultaS shirty“afsoulS “ 10 ““^’'“°™°' ^rV^'ho!?"
nll Any on Bank Ho idlv TO ™ % WCr0 ‘’P 6 " *» the
THE CHURCH.
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? “* r-« V acation, and
^s^XrtsSi sr^'sgr-
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton presided on Wednesday after
noon over the reopening of the Whitechapel Public Baths and
^ a|,bboaf ea> which were erected some years ago in Goulston
square Goulston-street, High-street, by a prifate committee'
They have now been extended and repaired under the powers
contained in the Baths and Wash -houses Acts. The “SEES
rdrjroSe fi St? d dr fo r een — d -^- w^vffiss
while tW« nr & t i and forty-seven second-class men’s baths
»™Lsr to ss.at f ““ tab3 - ^ “ u —-w
The Sc defy of Apothecaries have awarded their nrizes for
Fmto Ca rf tU f C k! 8 a8foll ,° W8: —The gold medal to T. I!.^Franklin
bo“ks to W f Hospital and the silver medal and
^ ° k8 *° ” ■ E P cr f 011 Starlmg, of Guy’s Hospital. They have
noto ™^i+ d ,? n f s for yoiin & women as followsThe
gold medal to Alice Graham, of 155, Hungerford-road, Nff
? a< L tb 'y nlvcr “odial to Mary Isabella Webb, of West Hiii
a Drize htohnJw’ Tb nl hird in ordor of raer it received
Sobers of ™n bs fr ° m ., Ml3s Twming, of Twickenham. The
KwkdgeaTaUty ^ ^ Sh ° Wed cousiderable
mJK n5?!iS T IC .:fi°V n connection with the Working-
“ nd InBt itute Union took place on Monday SH
?aSnSf!\° f 1 Caradi8h House, Clapham-common,'
at the g £nf n i the f b ^ dS0ine ? rounds attached to his residence
work to ^ * 1!!! ° 1 ° f tbe c :°mmittec. A considerable number of
toem^U^ nf’ t a i CC ° mpai ^ ed . by their wives and children, availed
fulTpow- f tbc opportunity thus afforded for a day’s health-
i “musement The programme, which was
TT^wJ it ^ . t, l e immediate s iperiutendeuce of Mr
3 athleti^nlff tb f° I “ def!lti ? able chairman, included a number
bandof t tV,p W t t3 b / members of the different clubs. The
, Huggerston Club was in attendance, and played
popular selections during the day. In the evening the nrizes
tlmathtotie 81 2 fbooks »' voub y the successful competitors to
ne atuietic sports, were distributed b 3 'Mr. Bicknell!
religio^in wL^ 0t *H e ? n and Mrs ‘ A ? a r-Ellis as to the
TicichnnrPlW AT h i eir chlJd T en t ludl be educated came before
Jtoar El^ hii M Mins on Monday. Before the marriage Mr.
beliomlrp ?i P !° mi n d that any children bom to them should
•ftSSS^SS I lke their r tber = but ’ hi8 convictions as
tiow desires ”ng become stronger since his marriage, he
twelve ears tbrea dau S btara > tb c eldest of whom is
Protestants Th > wf-’ n rn° tbe ‘ country to be brought up as
•civilised L ^ me - Chancellor said it was the law of every
sutmiMo th? to. ^ 5d ^° f Cbr i stianit y that the wife should
tad been pleaded toto hpp and i tha P rb "Duptial promise which
he binding The rw de f ded °. VPr ancl over again not to
in the briuntorT,,^ C » 'i 0 .V 1 , d not interfere with the father
ordered that K £ 1)18 cl,lldr f n > and Vice-Chancellor Malins
^horto c&ton ^ bG tdkeU toa Romaa Catholic
Lubbock’s^Aet'toVl that D6Ver 8i , nCe thc of Sir J o bn
last Many of ^ many people make holiday as on Monday
poliswere Jot f so h p^u^° f rt ' SOrt m . and around the metro-
cxeursionists tn t>.p r0Wd ^? as , on previous occasions, but the
town, including thosp^h ® f^ ? tbe f P laces at a distance from
to have nevrr^hp 8 Wb ° left London on Saturday, are said
Railway hooked from i?T re “ ume 5° u . s - The Great Western
between SatUrdfv tS Rond on station8 to its country stations
Persons; the M °“ day aftemoo “ 28 > 000
have ainounfpfl +« ^^5 °° station are estimated to
convertd 62 000 r.^ 011 * ^°> 00 °i tb o Great Eastern Railway
railwsVlines aScn^lT fr °m Won; and the southern
-ww- vuuiuu iu ihugiana.
Bifihon^f^rv the parish church was reopened by the
Bishop of Chichester on Sunday, July 28 after a mmnl.t!
restoration, under the direction of Mr. Street R A mplete
Ch£Sh thp Bishop of London consecrated the
Church of St. Jude, Kensal-green, erected almost entirelv at
the cost of the late Mr. Benjamin Shaw, to supply the
spiritual wants of a growing neighbourhood. PP y
Uon^to^t 015 fi f m R ° Cbe . Ster haa °P encd a new Convalescent
bnmlo? Limjisfieto, in place of a smaller building originally
founded by a lady who, herself a lifelong invalid desired to
provide country air for women an d children to London
Mnv!! 8t f TV lie Archbishop of Canterbury issued to the
clergy of! bis diocese a recommendation that those who have
t d he ri f>ierto a Tu m0 l ltb? praycd for P eace should now-through
the General Thanksgiving—return thanks to God that their
prayers have been thus far answered.
„ 2nd tost, the Bishop of Manchester consecrated the
GennS^i 1 °{ ? nde> , Whnlle y Range, a building in the
BrtoT« 1 Tf .y e ’ fr T dc , 8,frns of Messrs. Pennington and
Bngden. It has cost £6167, and will accommodate 594
persons. The Rev. K. L. Jones is the first Vicar.
A complimentary dinner has been given to the Bishop of
Barbadoes and the Windward Islands, by a number of his
than fi S f at &t> Jamea 3 Hall Restauran t. There were more
than fifty present, consisting mam ly of the Bishop’s old pupils
at the Kmg s School, Canterbury. The chair was taken by the
Principal of St. Edmund’s Hall, Oxford. y
t ^- S1 7 ing ser J ice for P aa ce was held in Holy
Trinity Church, Windsor, on Sunday. After an appropriate
sermon by the Rev. Arthur Robins, a “ Te Deum,” pSaySdby
2L? m - bn ? d °A tbe R ,° yal Horse Guards (Blue), was Lng with
great effect. At the close of the service the band played the
National Anthem. J
xt B i sb ?? , of J? ape Towu has received anonymously a
ST-nn 1 ^, al “ & er ^ me i t Hebenture bond of the value
of £o00, payable in 1889, but bearing interest at 5 per cent till
ss s:; d ASc^s„ d : e wceb ino ° f » »• ^ «*
., A meeting to support of the missionary work carried on to
the diocese of Maritzburg, Natal, was held on Tuesday even¬
ing at the Cannon-street Hotel, under the presidency of Mr
A. J. Beresford-Hope, M.P. The Bishop of Maritzburg gave
on account of the efforts which had been made to extend
Christianity in Natal; and resolutions advocating un extension
of the work were adopted.
An address of congratulation, accompanied with a hand¬
some clock, was presented to Mr. and Mrs. H. Watts on
Wednesday, in commemoration of their golden wedding
Mr. Watts has been for thirty years connected with the Vicar-’
General’s Office m Doctors’-commons, and has for the same
period been an attendant 011 the Upper House of Convocation
The address was signed by the Bishops of London, Winchester
and Exeter, Dr. Robertson, Dr. Townsend, the Rev. F s’
May, and Messrs. Thomas and Arthur Ryder.
THE UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
At Oxford Mr. Sidney Graves Hamilton, B.A., Scholar of
Balliol, Mr. Arthur Elam Haigh, Scholar of Corpus, and Mr
Alexander Francis Maxwell Lockhart, Scholar of Hertford
have been elected Fellows of Hertford College. Messrs.’
Frederick William Fox and George Longridge, commoners'
have been nominated to Hulmeian Exhibitions at Brasenose
The following have been elected from Winchester School to
close scholarships at New College:—Messrs. Oman, Pearson
Parr, Fort (classical), and Price and Sharpe (mathematical). ’
At Winchester the prizes have been awarded as follow:—
The Queen’s Gold Medals—Latin Verse, J. A. Fort; English
Essay, C. W. C. Oman. The Queen’s Silver Medals—Latin
Speech, O. M. R. Thackwell; English Speech, the Hon. W. W.
Palmer. "Wardens and Fellows’ Prizes—Greek Iambics, J. A.
Fort. The usual midsummer concert was given on Wednesday.
Yesterday week Eton closed for the vacation, wliich lasts
till Sept. 18. The members of the College Rifle Corps, pro¬
ceeding to the camp at Stony Stratford, breakfasted at eight
o’clock to the college hall on Friday morning, parading later
on at the New Schools, whence, under the command of Major
Warre, the battalion marched to the Great We item station at
Slough, and proceeded by special train to Wolverton. The
corps remain about a week under canvas at Stony Stratford.
Professor Fuller has resigned the Chair of Mathematics at
Aberdeen University, which he held for twenty-seven years.
the presence of a distinguished companj? t- ’ m
0,. aSaa “cSftHBi. %f5JB ffiSSU
lEssasi* itwas *• ^ *■“» *"£
of the honours and distinctions obtained by the boys at the
Universities during the past two years. Gold aid sUve?
^ c a a bad also been awarded by the Royal Geographical
ment of 1°'™’ ^ my °f Art3 ’ the Government 0 DepS-
Ar i' and certifica tas obtained from the
Oxford and Cambridge Examination Board: and all the bovs
to nroceTt 1 ^; ^ tb f coU ^ e aftpr lastexamtoaS
OnKSolbrid^” “ ° b ““ d ° pe " 8c B°lnrdliips at
July 30 was prize-day at Clifton CoUege. A goodlv list of
iv-ssfisu s-wcrt
recently appointed Bishop of Pretoria preached A new ah e
JEJSSftfA H h D 0 ) SSL- “ *
on the 31st nit., m the presence of a large gathering of Sends’.
nrfrSLV* “ 8t \ wna Prize-day at Stonyhurst College, and
additional interest was given to the proceedings by the larim?
of the^ foundation-stone of a new building. The Bishon ^ff
Halford performed the ceremony, and spoke on the necessity
^ a e °? d secular and religious education. The Bishop of
Newport was also present and several Catholic noblemen
together with a large body of the influential Catholic gentry. ’
at Dove1cXge ek ^ Bhh ° P ° f D ° Ver distributed tba P^e.
The annual distribution of prizes at the Godolphin School
SToto Ebl^’. * PlaCC ° nthC 1St in3t -’ Under tha Presidency'
, . A * Dunheved College, Launceston, the prizes were dis¬
tributed on the 30th ult. In the ladies’ class there was a close
rivalry between Blanche Hewett and Mary S. Hutton. “
.. TJj e sev etoJi Vliitworth Scholarship, gained by students of
the Oldham School of Science and Art, las been awarded to
Joseph E. Needham, who is sLxth on thc list of the successful
candidates, and second to the highest number of marks for
science subjects m the theoretical section. In the competition
between the 18 /5 scholars for the Whitworth Scholarship prizes
Franklm Garside has, for the third time, kept his place and
Fr^r the fourth prize, value £40 ; of the 1877 P schola?f
iim‘r,°v d baS o be ^ 3t - P rize . £100, to addition to the
£100 per annum. F. Garside is placed third to the final com-
Sn‘g” itacto£, mts ck3K * ““«<)'»>•
thl 10 w n v+ llS tfX f £ n ° dldate 8 successful to the competition for
the Whitworth Scholarships, 1878Thomas Mather 2L
SfS cr; &oves, 20 , mechanical engineer
^ ’ y ilba ™ H - Tozer, 21, engine-fitter, Exeter; Zachary
IhinWi, ’ oi 1 ’ mecbamcal engineer, Manchester: Thomai
Duckworth, 21, marine engineer, Liverpool; Joseph E
Needham, 21, pattern-maker, Oldham. 1
Mr. Cross has appointed the following gentlemen to be
Commissioners under the Endowed Schools (Scotland) Bill-—
Lord Moncneff, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Mr. Ramsay, M.P.,
Sir J. Watson, Mr. Tait, Dr. Donaldson, Mr. J. A. Campbell.
TRAINING-BRIGS’ RACE AT PLYMOUTH.
A * Plym °} lth Regatta, which was held on Friday, the
2bth ult., there was a sailing-race between five of her Majesty's
fKSl*? at port8 for tbe Gaining of siamen
for the Royal Navy. These were the Seaflower, a vessel of
M it"’ ^ th right gnus, which is tender to
B ° scawt ' a “t Rutland ; the Sealark, 311 tons, em¬
ployed as tender to H M S. Ganges at Falmouth; the Liberty,
SS’aS" t0 ILM b ; I mplacable at Devonport; the
Squirrel, of the same size, tender at the same port to II M S
489 ton3 ’ ca rrying ten guns!
lender to H.M.S. St. Vmcent at Portsmouth. “They were
moored inside the Breakwater to .the order named, the Sea-
flower lying to the westward. The wind was about uorth-
west and v/mnble at eleven o’clock to the morning, when the
brigs started, the Sealark getting off first and leading in fine
style, followed by the Squirrel, Liberty, Marten, aud Sea-
flower through the eastern channel. The course was through
the eastern channel of the Breakwater to the Mewstone, thence
? Ren fe/ 0mt a’ and 5 ack tbrou e b the western channel to
Jenny Cliff and roimd a mark off the Melampus Buoy a
distance of about sixteen miles. There were two prizes, a piece
of plate value twenty-five guineas und a silver cup value five
guineas, presented by the Mayor of Plymouth. Rounding
the eastern end of the Breakwater, the Liberty took the lead
slightly, but the Marten, Sealark, and Squirrel were holding
weff on to her, and the Seaflower was considerably astern 0
They then got into line about a cable’s-length distant in the
above order, the Seaflower lumbering along and gradually
creeping up. The wind was free, and at this point the Marten
came out and promised to make good running; but after
passing the buoy, when they hauled up on the starboard tack
the Liberty gained a decided advantage, and only the Squirrel
competed with her at all closely towards the end of the race
The Seaflower and Sealark gave up the contest at the end of
the first round, when the wind had fallen light. The race was
won by the Liberty, subject to a protest made by the Com¬
manders of the Squirrel and Marten, who alleged that the
Liberty had quitted her anchorage before the starting-gun was
fired. Our Illustration is from a Sketch by Mr. W. Gibbons
of Plymouth. ’
Lord Norton has accepted the presidency of the Social
Science Congress, to be held at Cheltenham to October next
THE TRAINING-BRIGS RACE AT THE PLYMOUTH REGATTA.
THE tt.t.ttST RATED LONDOILJ^WS
lords BEACONSFIEI.D AND SALISBURY
at guildhall.
•The Prime MinWer mjd ’
A flairs went into the City o honorary pi ft of the civic a n
p
Salisbury. Lady ^ Philip NVodehouse Currie, the
cam in? Lord Robert Cecd, Whitehall to Guild- }?P
LordSulisbury’* Paul’s-churcliyard, thjt
hall, along the Strand,, Fleet * L . h aftern00n when <*«■
S
*v3b sri& t ss
jsra.«« -EfeSute &
*«^^£’" ( , s o cro“ jr LoS Si;
BSlIMil
bells we:e Bet ringing. . A . ne c ^VTnildhall the front court- »» M
formed an elegant pavil on, ^ t with mirrors tur.
*“- IS: £
s
°^r 01 Vsi.. t ihmrv where the Lord Mayor received the illus- red
trioua vHtorsof th? Corporation, is a beautiful modern Gothic res
q 'he sceSe here, ns well as in the entrance pavilion or
m ;1
SSSHS-SSfls n
of palms and ferns in every room, staircase, and corridor.
?fhe Gieat Hall was prepared for the ceremou al by t r -cting
. d if u e utder a canopy decorated with arabesques, for the Se
trSinal personages concerned; and there were ten tiers o bj
JStouJ members of the Common Council, and at each end of th
the hall tweutv tiers of seats for other spectators, to the number
altogether cf'nearly two thousaud. Banners of the City i c.i
■Compnnii s were ranged above the doors, and the sunlight , aE
tlmXh the stained glass windows, falling on the marble S r
statmfrv, bnd a brautiiul effect. The band of the Coldstrearii | ^
Gunid-,' wus in the Music Gallery. The two Ministers of State, l
conducted bv the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs and some other q ,
Aldermen and Common Councilmcn, took their seats on the b ;
dois. The Court of the Common Council was opened in due bl
foini the I/ird Mayor presiding; and the Town Clerk read j,
the resolutions of the 18th inst., that the freedom of the City, ol
in a cold box. should be presented to each of their Lordships, nl
for their conduct at the Congress of Berlin. The necessary j]
foi mal documents were produced, certificates of their admission rt
in 1874 to Ihe Merchant Taylor’ Company, and a voucher from o;
the “ Compurgators” that both were honest men, who would
pay scot imd bear lot, and not defraud the City or the Queen.
Each of their Lordships then made his solemn declaration of
■aliegimee, loyalty, and fidelity; after which the Cl j
Cli run Ik rlain addressed first Lord Bcacousfield, and secondly A
Loi d Salisbury, in set terms of special commendation, referring »
to their late political achievements. The lnme Minister C
briefly replied, and was followed by the Secretary for Foreign
Affairs. They inscribed their names m the roll of City free- *
nun, and the proceedings were ordered to be entered in the
journals of the Court. Our Illustration shows Lord Beacons- v
field rending the prescribed declaration from a paper held m
lus ^™ d £ ord 1Iayor and Lady Mayoress entertained the two |
Ministers, with a numerous and distinguished company, in- *
■eluding the other members of the Cabinet, in the Egyptian
Hall of the Mansion Home. Lord Beaconsfield there made *
Another speech, claiming for himself and his Government the
credit of having secured for Europe a general peace which he
believed would be enduring, because every one of the Powers, <
including Russia, was benefited, and not one was humniated,
by the airangements now concluded. Lord Salisbury, m the
*ame strain, declared his persuasion that we had done with the
Eastern Question, and that a period of peace and prosperity
bad been opened, and that all rancorous controversy should
now cease. The Loid Chancellor, Sir Stafford North cote,
Colonel Stanley, and the Right Hou.W. H. Smith were among
ihe Ministers who spoke at this banquet.
The gold caskets iu which the freedom of the City was pre¬
sented were designed and manufactured by Messrs. Stephen
Smith and Son, of Covcnt-garden.
Mr. AldeTman George Hurst, J.l’., has been unanimously
elected Mayor of Bedford, in the place of Mr. Taylor, deceased.
The steel corvette Cleopatra. 2377 tons, was launched on
ihe 1st inst. from the yard of Messrs. John Elder and Co.
Mrs. John Elder, widow of the late eminent Clyde shipbuilder,
named the vessel.
Bishop Rigg, who has been appointed to the diocese of
Dunk eld by the decree re-establishing a Pupal hierarchy in
Scotland, was on Monday installed in his charge. The cere¬
mony took place in St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Chapel,
Dundee, in presence of a large number of clergy' and laity. |
An address was presented to the Bishop, along with a set of
vestments and a service of altar plate valued at £100.
A remarkable gathering took place on Wednesday in the
quiet Somersetshire village of Wedmore, a number of learned
nun having assembled to celebrate the thousandth anniversary
of the signing, by Alfred the Great, of the peace of Wedmore.
Papixs were read and speeches made by Mr. E. A. Freeman,
the historian, Professor Earle, Bishop Clifford, and others,
contending for the probability that Alfred lived at Wedmore
and signed there the peace that terminated hostilities between
him and his enemies. There was a special service in the parish
church in the morning, the Bishop of Bath aud Wells preach¬
ing the sermon. At midday there was a meeting for the read¬
ing of papers, in the afternoon a luncheon, and in the evening
a public tea meeting.
parliament.
LORDS.
tlie Prime Minister has to * ly from extreme
a rule that the House is Buffer ng nM «uy ^ idea
physical lassitude, but ^^{^p^scribes the magic
savouring not cf grouse or y 8*Extraordinary Session,
remedy of prorogation. But this is carlior thftn usual, |
Having called Parliament togetherm : nds now a sk our I
the Government, by way o .» • wont. Not (
Legislators to sit further into August thar ^ ^ ^ flnd
that Ministers themselves orntorv long drawn out
change. On Monday the ^"^f'^Jd Bcaconsfield. Lord ;
of the Earl of Northbrook sentLord d dase |
Reuesdale, and the Lord Cha"cell i of the Chair- |
which made the chubby than ever. Earl
closure wliicl. mi S l.t be checked b >'“ ',|, lm bered,
KrfSbJA'bVw. s »•» arts:
insisting that tbc p.-t.tioM ho “ t0 be
mzmmm
““ t hi.
Kitnier ot Mapdiiln. in expressing h.« npiulon on the m ,
trusted thnt the foriniition of rail-ny. in Indioi would »td be
Mironrueed and that the Indian Army would not b further
reduced 6 The Irish Tenant Right Bill then came up for second
"“nTbSTc^hr^^nt Bin » read th.
thrid ttoe nnd pL°.cd o?Tuesdnj; . fe» other n.eaanrj» TOT.
advanced a stage; and the Earl of Camperdown initiated a
seasonable conversation, which will presumably have consider¬
able influence in inducing employers to reinstate where pos-
sible tbemra who were called away to join the Reserves but
who liav" lately been dismissed. Lord Napier of Magdala
Tord Bury, the Duke of Cambridge, LoiJ Cardwi pH Lord
Wuvenev!the Duke of Buccleuch, and Lord Monk all added
their voices in support of Lord Camperdown s kindly mJ.on
The Rnvnl assent was given on Thursday to the Duke of
ConncuelH s Establishment BUI and to many other bills.
Several ^measures having been advanced a stage, the " hole
business of the evening was disposed of in little more than
thirty minutes. COJOIONS .
Government had a larger maionty than they could have »
anticirnted. Ere the House divided, in the small hours of
Saturday morning last,, however, the current of debate on the «
Marquis 7 of Harrington’s resolutions had to be contmued 1ay
Lrrd* Elclio, Mr. W. E. Forster, and Mr. Courtney, and,
quickly eluding the small fry, was lashed into so much fury
bv Mrf Roebuck (who appears to be a kind of Minister unat- ti
tached), Sir William Harcourt, Mr. Butt, and Sir Wilfrid q
I, awson, that it was accepted as a relief when the ChanceUor °
of the Exchequer rose and threw oil on the troubled waters in
an ml mirabl y - reasoned speech, which 1 J r - 1 S “ 11 * v “;. a 2j | . t, J® 0
Marquis of llartington, who spoke last of all, had not time to
reply to. Cheering loud and long-continued greeted the result
of the division. „ , „ I
Voted Bpainhtfhp Mnrquw of Hartington’s Itesolutions ... 3-W
Voted for the Kuwlutions . *
Majority.. 143 t
As a matter of form, Mr. Blanket’s amendment wus then put j
and agreed to. Among the Liberals who supported the ,
Government on this occasion were Mr. Butt and sixteen other
Irish members, Mr. Joseph Cowcn, Mr. Roebuck, Sir N. ,
Rothschild, Mr. Samuda, Mr. Teaman, Mr. Lambert, and Mr.
W H Foster; whilst the Marquis of Harrington a following (
was further lessened by the abstention of several Liberals from ■
V °*The House became thin by degrees and beautifully less on
Monday. Its capacity for enjoyment had not altogether gone,
however. Laughter was raised, though it was difficult to sec
wherefore, by Mr. J. Holms’s notice of a motion next Session
for the shortening of Parliaments. Laughter was also pro¬
voked by a slip on the part of Mr. Cross, who, in giving a
matter-of-fact explanation of the arrest aud retention in
custody of a Mr. Harman for stealing his own opera-glass,
barked out in his habitual positive voice the strange statement
that the same gentleman had been taken into custody last
vear. When Mr. Gorat showed the right lion, gentleman he
was in error in supposing it wus the same person, Mr.
Cross naively exclaimed, “Oh, another gentleman, was it.
Whereupon the House laughed afresh. The state to which
lion, members lmvc been brought by the prolongation of the
Session may thus be imagined. Not that all the questions
were of a parochial nature. We presume we must admit some
few were of an Imperial character. Colonel Stanley, lor
example, favoured Mr. Hayter with a little preliminary Cyprus
Bud net when lie foreshadowed that £10,000 would be taken
for tlie staff, £25,000 for works, and £40,000 for stores.
' Laconic, as ever, Mr. Bourkc vouchsafed the answer to Mr.
. C. B. Denison that Government had an eye on General Kauff-
i man, the Russian Commander reported to be at the head of a .
militaiv expedition south of the Oxus threatening Balkh, in
' Afghan territory. Then Sir Stafford Northcote forcasted the |
* course of business so far as to say that the Supplementary
Estimates would be considered this week, and the report on
1 the Irish Intermediate Education Bill next Monday; that the
1 Bishoprics Bill would be persevered with; but that the
Criminal Code and Medical Acts Bills would be dropped.
l * Opposition cheers welcomed Lord William Hay on his taking
r ; the oaths and his seat for the Haddington Burghs ; and a new
writ for Boston was issued, in consequence of the resignation
of Mr. Malcolm. The House having resolved itself into
ie a laud of jurv, various hon. members displayed con-
si siderablc forensic ability in discussing the execution of
•y a 'native of Tanna on board H.M.S. Beagle on Sept. 2i
e. 18*77. Mr. Gorst was counsel for the unfortunate indi-
a vidual strung up at the yard-arm of the Beagle; and the
a, gist of his argument was that her Majesty’s Navy ought not
re to be transformed into a pack of Beagles, if the expression
;n may be allowed. The Attorney-General was leading counsel
sh for tbe officers of the Beagle, but found a shrewd and smart
h- critic in Sir Charles Dilke, who has much improved as a ready
d- debater this Session, albeit his ironic manner still smacks
ug rather too much of the style of the heavy villain of the yic.
Sir Henry James, the Solicitor-General, and Six William
Harcouit ,ere 0. “«Wo°h ttF?.
ftmlhTrcSable explanation olf thc pfrt of the Government
builtn s reu i .. . qq, e depreciation of silver in
SXw S T2* « whSr si George Campbell wared
India was a re8lllt that Mr. Cave returned a
reassuring'answer to the lion, member for Kirkcaldy. Evi-
nf commendable industry in the mastery of a
dcm X f «mires was fhown by Ix>rd George Hamilton in
number of® gur Session the Education Estimates,
^“araSint1h£ y“r to S,149,000, being £178,000 more
Sl lS ySti Mr? f Forster and Mr. Gladstone warned
rim noble Lord against the increasing expenses, the right hon.
nu mber for Bradford maintaining that 15s. a head was as high
j B » ihc \ w e LVctSed^ TOtes°of 9 £307,4l4°for the
1 Nuriomil’GalfeW, and £1500 for the National Portrait Gallery.
I BSSSSty Estimates were on 1 tateodnjjd
1 bv Sir StidVord Northcote, who occupied iittle time in dw-
y.i c f rim large figures it fell to his lot to deal with. The
V, ^ Excheaner said that he had expected when
f h forward his lUidget of £83,230,000that that revenue
i ™5 h«e S aU the BUpplvmentMy oxpenac-v iucurred
ovvhic ,o L ptotiom I. th- Emit. But tlm exp.ud.ti.ro
hTTlroved l.re5 than he unlieipated. Ia add.uon to the
£748 000 for the tram-port of the Indian troops to Malta, he
if48, w Kixnoo This sum would be absorbed iu
fpinion that this abnormal expenditure ^ war.
To moke pood the deficiency he proposed to ^^ “chequer
Tlonds to the amount of £2,000,0CK); and before March next it
ndobt be necessary to renew the £2,750,000 of Exchequer
Bonds which would then fall due. ThU' P^ 1418 to-day
in morrow wliat lie thought should be done to (lay
did l ot satisfy Mr. Childers, who went through the
multiplication-table to show that the Chancellor of the
Fx< luqvier was establishing a dangerouB precedent. Mr.
. Gladstone, in a brief and effective speech, indorsed the protest
of Mr Childers Sir Stafford Northcote, in reply, justified
■ S.^5fcS 5 tto Govcrumeut: aud. after . .. me thjnJi^u-
S tion ncreed to. But a storm was brewing m the last stage
of the discussion. Major O’Gonnan was seen to be m a stato
1 of toiment. Align' t xclamatious came from the hon. and
l callant member. Hia excitement grew aud grew until it cul¬
minated in a scries of persistent interruptions of Colonel
f Stanley whilst the Secretary for War was engaged in explain-
. ing toMajorNolan the present position of the
: Tpb h sr,.;'rsd'
it^tre^seSlo^tS’iB* s^n^thehom'S/gSant
down uDon himself a severe punishment. He was actually
J “ named ” by the Speaker. Any oriBnary being would t
i y might have been imagined, have sunk through the flo °*
f* humiliation. But the Major is not by any means an ordmary
y bwuo- He was in a mood not to be affected either by being
- named’’ or by beiug asked “ to withdraw “ on the motion
i of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. At lengtJ he H ”^ e ^ ^
,! deliberation, bowed to the Speaker and Icfttheltousosnu
e considering what should be done with so high nnd mi hty an
c offender Before the adlournment, however, £3,18o,UUU was
u voted to Colonel Stanley lor transport and other services.
lt The Major being duly penitent on ^ ednesday mormng,
hon. and gallant member was, at the request of Mr 0 Sullivan
invited to re-enter the House. 'Ihe Sergeant-at-Arms duly
escorted Major O’Gorman in; aud the gallant Major smoothed
the ruffled teelings of everyone, os the Speaker, ^ ^aff
ut Ncr thcote, and the Marquis of Harrington acknowledged. Ihe
tie upology gravely read by Major O’Gorman, was as follows
* l\Mr^peaker,-^r:Il>rgl«iivotoBubmitinj , »elf^t^you^iad^tliw honour-
‘Mr^DUwyn ^en fruitlessly endeavoured to get a C^mnuttw
on tlie Civil Service Estimates appointed .Mr. Hayt aim/
sought to reduce the Cyprus vote by £2o,000, but the Marq
of Harrington succeeded iu inducing Colonel Staideyto bc less
reticent writh regard to the island ; and various Civil Service
' 0t TlicreVa^bttle worth recording in the proceedings of the
House on Thursday. ’The appointment “S
Lome to the Governorship of Canada necessitated ttu- nww«“
for a new writ for the election of a representative of A 4,7
shiie in his stead. Mr. Cross brought up a report of the
mittee appointed to consider the question of the Tepresentat o i
oftbc county of Clare, Sir Bryan O’Loghlin, who had^ been
elected us one of the members for that
quently accepted the office of Attorney-General m Victory
The repo it stated that, in the opinion of t*ei Committee, tuo
scat ought not to be declared vacant until the h™■ “
had had an opportunity of appearing before it, and “J*
Committee ought to be reappointed next Session for that purpose
On the motion, then, of Mr. Cross it was agreed upon_tha au
oddress be presented to the Crown praying that the roimrt o»
communicated by the Colonial Secretary to Sir B. O L’Khlin.
In reply to Mr. Gregory, Mr. Talbot said that a circutarJ
been tent by the Board of Trade to the radwaycmnpam^
with respect to the adoption of continuous ^otboatos- Mr
Cross informed Sir E. Wilmott that he hoped to be able to
frame a bill for the appointment of a Public Proseeutoar^t
considered next Session. Iu reply to questions frem M ^
Anderson and Mr. WhitweU, Lord J. Maimers iwd^thathe
question of a syllable or letter scale of chargo for telegrams
had been carefully considered, but serious practical diffloulries
prevented its adoption. The International Postal Congress was
held in Paris in May and June last, and the Telegraphic Co a
gross would be held in London in the course of next year Witn
• respect to assimilating the rates from the Continent to .
and the provinces he was in communication with the fore go
! Governments, and he hoped that the result would be
factory, although he could not give a poarive assurance;
Several motions relating chiefly to Naval matters were
5 cussed throughout the night, occasioning thepostpono'ne
t a late hour of the Committee of Supply, and thus disconcerting
i the arrangements of the Government, who are unable
1 up the Session until the last vote is taken.
s Tuesday’s Gazette contains the official announcement of the
appointment of Dr. John Sibbald to bs one of the paid Com-
a. I missiouers in Lunacy for Scotland.
Al’G. 10, 1878
ECHOES FROM ABROAD.
Hotel Bieu 8ecret, Boulevard Cache-Cache.
Paris, A.ug. 7 .
* 0 ; my pood friends in the Straits of Malacca; no mv
amiable correspondents from the Bight of Benin, the Dese’rt of
t°£v ;, ate * I,iphr01nHg< ?- : ??- dear l^ies who have just
published threc-vo ume novels which you wish me to review
(I am not a reviewer) or volumes of poems (I have no poetry
in my *oul), or ballads and waltzes ([ can neither sing nor
play); no my excellent inends who demand cures for warts
the etymology of the word - cockroach,” the address of a new
laundry (I have done, for ever with the washerwoman), pre¬
sen aliens to the Blmcoat School, situations as shorthand-
writing secretaries bundles of foreign postage-stamps (with a
few autographs of Shakspeare, the Earl of Beaconsfiehl and
Mr. Henry Irving thrown in) for a fancy fair; -you will not
for m me weeks be in a position to be, epistalarily speakin*
dow u on me 1 have quitted the laud which gave me birth
and have withdrawn myself to the Continent. Nobody save
the 1 ieuch police, who know everything) is aware of mv
precne address m Bans. The Hotel Bien Secret is a subtor
luge : the Boulevard Cache-Cache is a blind. Many storevs
high m a remote quarter of Lutetia, I lie perdu keauin*
my sell studiously aloof from my compatriots? who. iu 8 US
Grand H5tel . ^ Louvre, and
the Lille et Albion 1 don t want to meet in the Rue da
Rivoh or m the Boulevard de Capucins, the estimable, but too
friendly, folk whom I met last week in Pall-mall or the Strand
AVhc “ * 6 ° to the Exhibition I shad put on a pair of green
spectacles and a false nose—a nose of a pale hue. S
Do you blame me? Do you grudge me my retirement >
A , ,", r T .ktTVT" m ih t Coaference at Constantinople, in
-April, 1877, I have never been further from London than
TV 11 th u ? Ur r of fifteea raon ths I have had just
sev, n entirely free Saturdays for rest and quiet. And now—
joy , 0 y .'—the post will not come in, for me ; I shall not read
iTi ,l‘wp d v rT 0rS m ° ne hand and a paste-brush iu the
English newspapers. The French journals (delight¬
ful thought!) can all be skimmed in half an hour while you
arc Mpping your ‘mazagran ” or your “ Bavarosse an choeo-
lat m front ot the Cate des lenebres. I aoi not afraid of
.sitting outeide the Cafe des Tenebres, because it is milen uwiy
from iho English quarter, aud is frequented in duly by Freu *ti
•commercial travellers. They will take me for an English b Io¬
nian. l'leasant incognito! °
1 1 ope that the servants at home will not fight over the
api < Mionment of their board wages. I think that the green-
f u 1 ‘ rl,n8 bt '«» settled with; and as for the milkman, ho must
be patient until September. On one point my mind is quite
uei" f< Vi 1 1 V aVe b(x ; n J siu ce the elopement of “ Ginger,” a
little old red tom-cat that I much prized) quite catlesi and
<]oghss, and 1 know that I have left no four-footed frieuh
b< hind mo to be neglected or, worse, utterly starved. I don’t
11,11 k 1 ever saw a wofuller sight than one which I came
acrtfs throe days before I left town in Grosveuor-square
•On the doorstep of a lordly mansion iu that patrician
locality-a grand house, with the shutters from attic to base-
anent. securely closed—there sat, looking infinitely disconsolate,
u large, sleek tabby, with gooseberry eyes. The cat evidently
belonged to the house; the family had as evidently left town
for the autumnal recess; and I want to know what is to
became of that tabby with the gooseberry eyes. How many
•days w ill pass before the poor creature is reduced to a skeleton
rmd cm of inanition on a dunghill, to be skinned, perchance,
b$-me lur-hunting harridan '(
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON HEWS
within°”Mto”‘?^' V °lf Ue ”. We * sa y tbat a singer
131
wriS^nfr 8 , . eentk ’ mau Cached to the Paris Figaro who
comes youwTlfindtLfn^w 6 ! there , of - , Wheu the winter
is all very wll. w U perfect cu T e bas been effected. This
frotfoLT 1 sara°!
Cantiin&re (660 gs.) and a colt by Hermit—Post Haste (640 ea 1
were at the head of the poll; but both these youngsteS oufht
loo 11 tet' “ d most ot " ,8 othe “ * erc
M* in : It is computed that in Paris six thousand do'** hav 1
be. ii bunged or poisoned this week through the merciful resolve
cl i ueir owners not to subject the animals to the torture of the
•strap-muzzle, the use of which has just been prescribed by an
-ordinance of the Prefect of Police. If plenty of water were
provided m the streets for dogs there would be no need at all
lor muzzles, not even in the modified form of the wire “straw¬
berry pottle,” or the “ shovel,” which last protrudes from
beneath the animal’s lower jaw, and both of which permit him
-to open his mouth freely, while they prevent him from biting.
There is something, after all, in being candid, even if the
candour amount, maiuly to a confession of roguery. What do
jou think of the following morsel of cool impudence from a
Parisian paper:—
AVIS AUX CAPITALISTES.
Jouecr acc: a Monaco pe. $ des beuef. 250 au Fig.
T 1 iib is intended to read, I suppose, “ Un joueur accom-
pogtinotf unc personne a Monaco sous la condition de recevoir
un t, rr * dee benefices gagnes. S'adresser 250 au bureau du
■tigaio. A gambler wishes to accompany a person to
Monaco on condition of receiving one third of his win¬
dings ! But what are you to do with your gambler if, after
baying been foolish enough to take him to Monaco, or, rather,
Monte Carlo, and to supply him with money to play with, you
•discover that there are no winnings, but rather the reverse 'l
Are you entitled to beat or kick your gambler to the extent.
«ay, of two thirds of your losses ?
The rare event has occurred of the elevation of a young lady
totlie rank of u Kniglit of the Legion of Honour. The last
Jaoy so favoured was, I believe, Mademoiselle Rosa Bonheur
Uie famous painter, to whose breast the Cross of the Legion
was pinned by the august hands of the Empress Eugenie lier-
t.xV duna £ the absence in Algeria of Napoleon 11L in 1864.
M,husband said the Empress to the delighted artist, “ has
■appointed me Regent; and this is the first act of my Regency.”
fctiera! bisters of Charity earned by their courage and devo-
Tion the military medal during the war of 1870; but the
higher distinction of the Legion has now been conferred on
{ “ ,f“ 10 !? elle D ° du ’ telegraphic operator at the station of
ontreuil-sous-Bois. This heroic maiden intercepted a tele-
prarn dispatched from the Prussian head-quarters to the
lienern 1 or an outlying division, and thus prevented the de-
balfa d «zen French regiments. She was taken
d.nmln c y ! th !L °fTV 3 ’ tri ed by court-martial, aud con-
to de “th } but the capitulation of Paris aud the aiga-
has M 5* preliminaries of peace saved her life. Very richly
its i le ,PT°T du earned tho Cross of Legion, with
its proud legend, “ Honneur et Patrie.”
L’rc'ck prcss has not yet arrived at such a degree of
t0 a J vare that the Earl of Beaconsfleld’s title is
«. Bwnnsfi C M M f T t ie 8 U SS estioils of spelling) pronounced
AthenJTfl Ifii. J n a receut number of the “ Ephemeris ” of
1 huiflpniS? <i theLrenuer mentioned as “0 Komes Beekomphild,"
it wi gthenmg the e where it should be short, and shortening
be evpn mn sbo uld be long. Lord Salisbury’s name seems to
imwJ r “S® puzzllu ? to editor of the “ Epliemeris.” The
The pro 'J ep’Poteotiary is caUed “O Markisios Soalsburu.”
i snH 1 „ U “* of course > Pronounced as the Latins pronounce
to the firs/* P n° 1 ^ Uace ., e c ’ . but Romaic has no sound answering
of the SStfrfi able T Bahsbury ” which we (again in defiance
c suggestions of spelling) pronounce “ Saulsbury.” Aud
Formerly the litter*wns ^®^ 1 * 8 tute of semi-fermentatiou.
?u b r a c"f ’ Ie i*he® “”1 ;"“f “"X'daS ™" P W?of
master only exacts fourteen shillings a day from his driver *
of thrSy° Ver ’ hC aU °" 8 thCm t0 cha “ge horses in the middle
Alarming reports have beeu in circulation during the last
health of Victor Hugo. The fact is
deni t 1C , lllu f “ 0U8 P^t and novelist has been workiug a great
deal too hard these three months past. The labours aS
naSnJi e T?t ebrat p n ° f the y° ltaire Centenary and the Inter?
!Si L teaty Congress have fairly worn him out; and on
occaslons la ttly he has shown signs of mental
excitement, causing much auxiety to his family. It was
tin 01 /?!, 14 b ° St that ’ dur “S tbe iutense summer heats, tho a^ed
seventy-six) should not be exposed, night after
uipht, to the worry ot “receiving” the company who from
8 0f - tl ] e J orl d, have flocked to his salon; so Victor
Hugo has wisely determined to take change of air, and is now
p t bl ® beautllul and healthful residence, Hauteville House,
Guernsey. _ G. A. S.
NATIONAL SPORTS.
We cannot say that the programme on the Goodwood Cup day
I ?a?es a s V et r dfw n U< i 0n d ^ ^ ere wore 110 less than thirteen
races set down for decision; but we never saw a card more
S/Vi ° f matches aud walks-over, and, us was anticipated,
n e , CVenta P roduccd exactly seventeen starters, and
one was off by consent. Lollypop (9 st. 1 lb.) fairly ran away
p he Chic ; hester ^ ta kes, at which his backers
lu t ?^ Var om Cup -’ “ the fi , rst da y- l00k «f more melancholy
}“ ™-. Th f. withdrawal of Vemeuil, Lord Clive, and
Hampton fiom the Goodwood Cup deprived us of what had
pro , m 1 lf '. c , (i .^ 0 be ? ne of the most interesting events of the season,
wiir-oi- be ^? u eht out between Pageant, Kincsem, and
Lady Golightly. The old horse never looked better in his life,
while Lord Falmouth’s filly appeared as muscular again as she
was at Ascot, andKmcsem’s condition reflected great credit upon
Hesp, her trainer. Strangely enough, the last named was the
worst favourite of the three, and 5 to 4 was freely accepted
about Pageant before the fall of the flag. He showed
the way at a mere canter for about a mile, when
the pace improved considerably, and he held a lead of
fully half a dozen lengths. Lady Golightly, who was last
throughout, was hopelessly beaten before turning into the
straight, shortly after which Kincsem, who was ridden in rather
eccentric fashion, headed Pageant aud won very easily by a
couple of lengths. Captain Machell was anxious to purchase
«r^ r J le ra . ce » bu L naturally, did not feel disposed to give
Alt),000, the price asked, and nothing has yet come of a pro¬
posal of Lord Falmouth’s to match Silvio against her. The
Singleton Stakes undoubtedly produced the best race of the
day, as the opposition of such flyers as Lollypop, Dalham,
I rappist, and Placida, over the new mile, created the greatest
excitement. The distance was further than Trappist cares to
travel, but, jumping off with the lead, he made play at Such a
pace that nothing could ever catch him. He ran again on the
following day, but could not give 13 lb. to Ecossais ; and the
success of Midlothian (7 st. 10 lb.) in the Chesterfield Cup
showed that the Duke of Hamilton made little mistake in his
Steward's Cup tactics. Mr. Cartwright had a well-deserved
turn of luck with Eau de Vie and Oaerau, uud the former, who
was a good deal fancied for the Oaks, disposed of Priscillian
and Clementine in such style that she will find a few backers
for the St. Leger.
The second Half of the Sussex fortnight commenced at
Brighton on Tuesday, when the sport was fully up to the
average. Only six came out for the Stakes, of whom Shillelagh
( 6 st. 7 lb.) was made favourite ; but he performed just as he
did at Goodwood, looking all over a winner until called upon
for a final effort, aud then declining to make the least struggle,
which left the finish to Don Carlos (6 Bfc. 7 1 b.) and Garbroch
(7 st. 1 lb.), the former winning cleverly. The antagonism of
Rayon d’Or aud White Poppy in the Corporation Stakes pro¬
duced some very heavy wagering ; but the Goodwood winner
completely failed to give 101b. to Mr. Gee’s smart filly, who is
a daughter of Winslow and Formosa. On Wednesday
Kaleidoscope began well for Lord Rosebery, his new owner,
by securing the Ovingdenn Plate ; and Ventnor, the champion
of selling platers, took his sixth race in succession, and was
bought in for 600 gs. A field of six ran for the Cup, and
Julius C.Tsar was nearly as good a favourite as Pageant,
although he had knocked himself about when at exercise on
the previous day, and, moreover, has never performed well
over this course. A long way from home Pageant had matters
all bis own way, and finally won with such ridiculous ease that
Kincsem’s performance of last week looks better than ever.
We regret to say that the remarkable depression in the
prices of blood stock which has prevailed during the last few
weeks still continues, for on Saturday last thirty - five
youngsters bred by Mr. Carew-Gibson at Sandgate were
sacrificed at an average of 169 gs., which shows a sad falling
off of 120gs. from last year’s average. A colt by Adventurer—
wn.?i ra ^ n i m * atche ? have be , en ratllcr Sequent in the cricketing
orld of late, owing partly to the recent heavy downfalls of
rain and pnrtly to the absurdly late hour at which it is
customary to begin play. Notts v. GloucestersiE tenm“
ni 6 ) d m m i *v 8 V U8atl8factor y manner. Mr. W. G. Grace
rJv H Smith SP! 8C ^ forttie present season, and the
7rf,Y‘ kmith (56) also did well; while, for Notts, Oscroft
(o3), Flowers (5 1 ), and Barnes (not out, 56) all scored
jreely lhanks mainly to the fine bowling of Mycroft who
took eleven wickets, Derbyshire has beaten Yorkshire by seren
runs: no one did much with the bat. Surrey has defeated
Whithp/J mil 6 WlC ?£ te ’ “J 8 P ite o£ the excellent play of Mr. H
SoVout 44? didmo l 0 °f th a r 8ide ’ JUPP (98) aud J ' Sumter
(not. out, 44) did most of the run-getting, the professional'*
The^antertmrv ° bth , at , he haa P 1 ^ for some little time,
iwt r / r l Week ’ whlch U P t0 the time of writing has
been as brdimut as ever, commenced with Eleven of England
v. thirteen ot Kent. The Eleven lacked the invaluableXt-
attve°L Mr ' ttx\' Ste , e ?’ audcould hardly be called a represent
atave one still we did not expect to see Kent win bv nine
wickets; Hearne (83) and Lord Harris (93) played irtgraud
m le ' Mitlwil iter (44), and Mr. A. W Ridlev
(41 and 44) did most for England. y
Captain Bogardus and Mr. Aubrey Coventry shot their
f ° r am ° n Yu™d.jtat. W„
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It will be seen that the contest was a wonderfully even one
neither ever leading by more than two birds; andfat last the
American champion secured the heavy stake by a single bird
W e understand that a return match is likely to be arranged '
r,^n e i Clu j e rime for wild fowl is varied in the county of
Cumberland so as to be from March 1 to Aug. 1 ; and in the
liberty of Pevensey from Feb. 15 to Aug. 1 inlacli y<Sr
Mr„tt? reat A mtetiDg .° f bic ? clist8 P^ce at Coventry on
Mondaj. A procession, consisting of several hundred bicycle
nders lrcm vanous parts of the Midlands, was formed at mid-
S\ nU fu PI0Ceeded . tbrou 6 b the city. The streets through
which the procession passed were lined with spectators
Bicycle and athletic contests followed.—At Molyneux Grounds’
Wolverhampton, on the same day, the usual bicycle contesbi
were held, and £80 were distributed in prizes. There were
nearly ten thousand spectators.—A meet of bicyclists took
place at Canterbury on Monday. Nearly every club in Kent
was represented, and there were many visitors from distant
<w\v, At “ oona P r °cession was formed near the Kent and
rt“eS o"7hJ c‘v! ’ “ "* ”“ dc thr °“ eh the
The annual meeting of the members of the Royal Yacht
bquadron was held on Monday afternoon at the Castle Cowes
lor the purpose of electing new members and transacting other
business. The Earl of Wilton, commodore, presided- the
vice-chair being taken by the Marquis of Londonderry, vice¬
commodore. lhc Prince of Wales, attended by Lord Suffield
was amongst the early arrivals. The following new membew
were elected Lord Middleton, the Lady Elsie; Mr. F Ellis
the Free Lance; the Earl of lianfurly, the Walrus yawl, and
the Marquis of Stafford, the Menai yawl. Commander Darwin
R. 1 S., and Commander Bambridge, R.N., were elected honorary
members. Mr. Ashbury, Mr. Sheddon, Colonel Sterling, and
Lord Bury were appointed as the Sailing Committee. In tha
evening a house dinner was given at the Squadron Castle to
the lnnce of Wales, who was accompanied by Lord Suffield
and attended by Captain Stevenson, Equerry iu Waiting. The
Eorl of W ilton commodore, presided, and the vice-commodore
the Marquis of Londonderry, occupied the vice-chair The’
company numbered about twenty. The regatta began on
Tiiesday with the race for her Majesty’s Cup. The yacht*
entered were the Hildegarde, Enchantress, Shark, Gwynfa
Ayacnnora, Nixia, Iris, Aline, Vol-au-Vent, Egeria, and For-
“° sa - Tbe I £j nce of Wales was on board his yacht, the
Hildegarde. The Enchantress came in first, but the Formosa
wins the prize by time allowance. The race on Wednesday
was b Y of not less than 30 tons, for the Squadron Prize
of £ 100 . Ilie Consande came in first, but the Jullanar, the
third in order of arrival, won by time allowance. In the
evening there was a grand display of fireworks by Mr. J. Pain.
Muny thousands of persons came from various parts of the
island to see them. The Prince and Princess of Wales and
their two 6 ons came to the castle between nine and ten o’clock
The race on Thursday was for a cup, value £100, given by the
inhabitants of Cowes, for cutters of not less than 200 tons
belonging to any Royal yacht club. The following wero tha
5 lea : ~-^, TT0 ^’ 1 15 tons > Mr. T. Chamberlayne; Myosotis.
40 tons, Mr. H. D. McMaster; Neva, 65 tons, Sir. F. Cox •
Vol-au-Vent, 104 tons, Colonel Slarkham; Formosa, 103 tons’
Sir. F. S. Stanley : a time race. The Town Cup, after a fine
race, was won by the Vol-au-Vent, beating the Formosa by
1 nun. 32 secs. On Friday a prize of £100 was to be sailed for
by schooner yachts of any Royal Yacht Club, and the Town
Regatta was to take place.
In consequence of the naval review at Spithead having
been fixed (or Tuesday, Aug. 13, the yacht races of the Royal
Victoria Yucht Club (Ryde), advertised for that day, have
been postponed.
Captain Webb made an attempt, yesterday week, to swim
in the 'lhomes for thirty-six consecutive hours, between
Woolwich and Gravesend, going with aud turning with tho
tide. He swum from Woolwich as far as the Chichester
training-ship, aud then returned to Woolwich, where, on
account of the strong wind and rough water, he went on
shore, having been in the river upwards of nine hours and
swuui twenty-two miles.
Sir J. Goldsmid, the senior member for Rochester, has pro¬
mised 500 guineas towards the expenses of a free library for
the city, providing the citizens will adopt the Free Libraries
Act, which they have hitherto been unwilling to do.
The truining-ship Shaftesbury, off Grays, haa been certified
as an industrial school for the reception of not more than 359
boys. The new premises at Dartford of the St. Vincent’s
Industrial School for Roman Catholic boys has been certified
as an industrial school for the reception of 200 iu-boys.
Mr. N. Eckersley, High Sheriff of Lancashire, opened the
first public park in the borough of Wigan on Monday. The
greater portion of the land was given to the town by
Mr. Eckersley, who bought it from the Rector and patron for
£2000, and the grounds have been laid out by the Corporation,
from designs by Mr. Maclean, of Derby. The park is nearly
thirty acres in extent, and ia centrally situated. A luncheon
was afterwards given in the Free Grammar School, and in tha
evening the park was illuminated.
OXDOX
THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE OPENING THE NEW BBIDGE AT GLOUCESTER-GATE, REGENTS-PARK.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Aug. 10, 1878.—133
STATUE OP CAPTAIN COOK.
It was on April 28, 1770, that the coast of New South
Wales was discovered by Lieutenant James Cook, of
the Royal Navy, commanding the Endeavour, a small
vessel equipped to convey Sir Joseph Banks and
Dr. Solander on a voyage of scientific observation
concerning astronomy and natural history in the
southern hemisphere. The ship entered a haven,
which they called Botany Bay, six miles south of
Port Jackson, now the magnificent harbour of the
city and commercial port of Sydney. The north and
west coasts of the vast island of New Holland, which
is nearly as large as the Continent of Europe without
its peninsulas, had been visited by the Portuguese and
the Dutch in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
but the eastern shore, to which Cook gave the name of
New South Wales, and of which he took possession
for King George III., had never been seen before.
Captain Cook revisited New South Wales a few years
afterwards, and made further discoveries, which
induced the British Government to send out an
expedition to colonise that distant land. It was only
a penal settlement for convicts from England that
was then designed to be established. A fleet of
transport-vessels and store-ships, with 200 Royal
Marines and 750 convicts, of whom 200 were women,
arrived there in January, 1778. But that was the
beginning of a colony which has grown up and
branched out into the noble group of British
Australian Provinces, New South Wales, Victoria,
South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, and West
Australia, already the home of two millions of our
countrymen, whose rapid advance in prosperity and
social improvement must be regarded with unmixed
satisfaction. The mother colony, as New South
Wales is sometimes called, was for a time outstripped
in wealth and population by the province of Victoria,
but is now again taking the lead, and seems
likely to keep it, having a greater variety of minerals,
abundant coal and iron, and superior facilities of
manufacturing and maritime enterprise. The
capital city, Sydney, has above 170,000 inhabitants,
with many fine public buildings; while its natural
advantages of situation are not surpassed by
any city in the world. During thirty years pasc
its citizens have entertained the wish to have a
statue of Captain Cook. At length, as the public
subscriptions reached a considerable sum, the first
step was taken in deciding upon the place for it and
commencing the work. The site chosen was on the
high ground where the Museum stands, enabling the
monument to be seen from afar, as ships of all
nations enter the harbour of Sydney. Here a grey
granite pedestal has been erected of the handsomest
kind, 21 ft. high, suitable for such a colossal figure.
A model was made, we believe, by the late Mr.
Nicholl, of Sydney; but, partly in consequence of
his death and partly from the money subscribed
privately having been expended upon the pedestal,
the work remained in abeyance until late years,
when the Colonial Government took it up with the
determination of completing it. Sir Alfred Stephen,
as chairman of the committee charged with the work,
took an active part, with Mr. Parkes and other gen¬
tlemen, in forwarding the undertaking. Dr. Woolley,
the late distinguished Principal of the College of
Sydney, who unhappily perished in the wreck of
the London when returning from his visit to
England, should also not be forgotten. It was
chiefly through his influence that the commission
was intrusted to Mr. Woolner, R.A. The statue is
now to be seen in Waterloo-place, on the south side
of Pall-mall, between the United Service Club and
the Athenaeum Club, and a little way behind the
Guards’ Crimean Monument, looking up towards
Regent-street. Its temporary pedestal here is about
10 ft. or 11 ft. high ; and we can readily believe that
this colossal statue, though a most impressive figure,
will be much more imposing on the higher pedestal
prepared for it. “ The attitude is striking and
vigorous,” it has been remarked, “with the right
hand raised high in the air in a moment of immense
delight at having caught sight of land after watch¬
ing through the early dawn of morning, strong in
his belief that land was there, the telescope being
held in the left as no longer necessary. The fine
head is most expressive and characteristic of the
keen observer and dauntless discoverer, in the
massive brow with deep furrows at the temple and
strongly-moulded nose and chin. There is no
stronger point in the statue than this preservation
of likeness on such a colossal scale; and so just are
the proportions of the figure in the body and the
limbs that it looks the hero without being a giant.
The dress, which is in the well-known naval uniform
of the day, with the open-breasted broad-tailed
coat, the long flap waistcoat, and the knee-
breeches, with shoes, is remarkable for good
work, falling to the figure naturally, and not
ungracefully, the gold lace being to some extent
represented by a lighter-coloured bronze. But all
these points of detail are quite unobtrusive, and
subservient completely to the noble air of brave self-
confidence expressed in the intellectual counte¬
nance, the broad and vigorous frame, and the general
action of the figure.” The statue, we believe, was
first modelled in the nude, and to full scale, and
afterwards draped with the clothes. This method,
which has not been generally followed, recommends
itself as the only one that can be successful in
representing a living figure. The statue is true to
the style of bronze, and possesses the intensity and
seriousness of monumental work in a degree rarely
observable in modem sculpture. The casting of the
statue, which was rather an arduous task, was
executed by Mr. Cox, of the Thames Ditton Works.
CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE.
The Egyptian obelisk called by this name, which
Mr. John Dixon, civil engineer, has brought from
Alexandria to be erected in London, at the cost of a
munificent individual benefactor of the public, Mr.
Erasmus Wilson, the eminent surgeon, is now visible
to all passers-by on the Thames Embankment, and
will soon be reared aloft upon its pedestal, at the
riverside steps opposite Adelphi-terrace. It still
rests in a horizontal position, but stripped of the
iron-plate casing that formed the vessel in which its
adventurous voyage was performed, upon a solid
timber framework over the granite base, 16 It.
square and 6 ft. high, but rising only 4 ft. above the
level of the Embankment, supporting the pedestal
and the two plinths at the sides. The operations of
lifting the obelisk to the required height, then de¬
pressing one end so as to render it perpendicular,
and finally planting its lower end upon the pedestal,
will soon commence, and are expected to require
several weeks before all is complete. The plan for
raising may be here described. The column will be
fitted with a powerful iron jacket as near the centre
of gravity as is wanted; and this jacket has two
massive iron trunnions, just like the trunnions of a
great gun. These trunnions will rest on two
wrought iron girders of great strength; and the
whole will then resemble a monster cannon on a slide
without wheels. Each of the four main uprights of the
staging consists of sixsticksof timber, each 1 ft. square.
The iron jacket, consisting of plates and girders, is
being fixed round the central portion of the obelisk.
The wrought-iron “ strap ” which will pass under
the butt end of the obelisk from two opposite sides
of this jacket (in order to prevent the monolith from
slipping out) is of J-in. metal and 24 in. broad.
One end of the column being raised by hydraulic
presses a sufficient height—say a foot—it will be
kept so raised by a powerful balk of timber slid
under it. The other end will then be s imilar ly
treated, and thus, slowly but surely, it will ascend
foot by foot, shored up with timber at every stage,
laid in a way which will best insure the stability
of the whole structure. The jacket, it is thought,
will clip the stone sufficiently tight to hold it
when in a vertical position; but during the few
minutes it will be suspended vertically before
being lowered to its base, it will stand in the iron
strap as if in a stirrup, and the more its weight
presses on the strap the tighter it will muke the
jacket grip. The column, as we have explained,
will be hoisted horizontally, but when it has reached
the required height the supports under the base will
be removed, and, the base being slightly in excess of
the rest (2£ tons), the whole stone will slowly revolve
STATUE OF CAPTAIN COOK FOE NEW SOUTH WALES, on the trunnions till it hangs direct over its appointed
BY T. WOOLNER, R.A.
KYREN1A, CYPRUS
THE TT.LTJSTRATEP^LOjig^^l^L
ATJO. 10, 1878
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200 tons, and the pedestal L and a half to the square i —roantic and musical; andtheautb BU bi e ct, such a eccentric versifiers poor Beatrice de Die
weight, making a pressure of one ton an when erected, ro “Xg a scientific treatise upon to ^ ^ ^ ft cold uud inconstant sbo wrote in con-
foot oil the foundations. The pex . ht ma in timbers of I™ might have disappointed the ep lers will be -was concerned .but 1 thy [f we were not distinctly
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gate entrance to Kegenr s leading to the Zoological rebuke and a warm^s ^ able to miister a language c02 of whom 393 were men, 1 <3 women, auu oo u>
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being unsightly, was S the tot stone of this one just a faiily compaTe thc htcral vereio th n th J e ir familiarity event was celebrated b, b q ^ ^ Brl8tol Channel. The
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noticeable facts which undeniably bear uponthe subjoetbut fhe Farl of E1 i e smere In 8 h c G Pt her e was^agod‘lp 7
do not leave us much wiser than before. It:has been i at aU the I/Clpe6ter alld Lincoln classes The Wens^yu Q ‘ f
Sd orfhe Wdgc“SicTth^c n ha U i^no 0 f theWo^s Smtottee! noticcato fatowhk
Sr G *F? Baker,’ Tead a statement explaining the object and do not leave ns m«c
rT»^itv of the new bridge. The Duke then walked across it times, andl is stdl, 1
ami^loud°checr8^ and, ^returning by way of thc I i e ^. dr ^ a ^'?^* to * t0
■foraw+nin to the dais declared the bridge open to tlie public. 1 man. So much dep
AfS the ceremony the Duke took luncheon with the members family, his persona
S’SflSra their guest, at thc Zoological Society’s
Gardens._. tx/k.i-tv h rnmmcn in
task to define the social position of a literary man, qua j the winners at the Royal. Ihe norses juufc,~ . g *u c
man. So much depends upon his success in his profession, to ildd thoroughbred and roadster stnllion^an p f
family, his personal bearing, that a general rule can never a ^ the classes were well reprinted, ^chiei
On Wednesday the wreck of thc Eurydice was again lifted
and was removed to Die less exposed St. Helen’s Roads. of birth - And he states that ‘‘by tar tne largest pn^Y"^ I ” TT _ ited Kingdom Exhibition of Cats and baaies
A fire broke out on Wednesday in thc proof butts at thc of t h e troubadours knoiro to us— fifty-seven mnum cr g which on thc last occasion was held ut th , 0 pX‘* "
- »** •* ^ "». d “ toy f• . s?j-sajs s S^^«vr«d **•£?£
The Liverpool Town Council have agreed to reinstate in d . *h c aiuse for adopting the profession of a | The show was a full} rcpresentati * . . ^ 8pe cimens of
their original rank and pay those members of the local police „ Indee<i fro m the days of Demodocus, to whom i entries enumerated in the catalogii pn ^„ icand foreign,
J?2.'&L* 0thc ,e " ice °" 8 SS2~-2SSS%-fi^!S^=SS^ 1
huutera; «ud all the cImsm were_jreu o for
comprise all individual «-«»es. . . prize8 were awarded—for r ona^» ™ *“* v unt iug marcs
poetry a common ground was, at w,c S u«id”^f m cn c^jgj^aaass^
of all etomet ou^tejm^aud uhcra I nuraeroua, »«t’T*"" '
of all classes met on equal terms, mm nuni erou8, most lending maxers ucu.^ -
success was little, if at all, furthered by aMidcntAl ad^ntages connca cho8e Leed8 for the next year s show,
of birth.” And he states that by far the largest proportion , rn ited Kingdom Exhibition of Cats andLadies
r - -hu^nnru inrnwn to us—fiftv-seven m number—belong | Thc annual Lnited ivingac held, at the West-
force who had to leave the service on being called out for dut> goub I d c / mentftry( aud deferentnd, nearly every known the conditions of
in the Reserves. who sitIt the same table with kings and princes, and who had and of their Monday and Tuesday;
The Newbury Horticultural Society held its annual show of ft dal her ald “ told off ” to attend upon him because the the schedule of it3 contents, thc exhi-
flowers, fruit, and vegetables on Monday. In each depart- Mu P e had grudgc d him eyesight, to the. days of Grub-street and, from the variety &nd ex(XUO leading feature of
mint there was a fine display; and among the exhibitors were d t 6e cms to have taken, reasonably enough, the same hition i be cliies for dogs Mr. Lewis took
.. ,,_• -x T._ 11 iv,a, -PofI nf namtirvon. Sir Richard . G_-_nt OT ,.rf men and literature; the the holiday attractions, inueuiww"^ s „nmed
vocation is one of those ‘‘not mcmai," as duo | ™ principalpmefor^oo^M vailed at
,, S ctuw »,.u ff^u, B..V. ax- - - men t B have it, which a 1“ gentleman” may, if Mmcrya be not “Sortey,” aged three ^“Tfer^SodieB or Maltese breeds.
The following is a list of candidates for commissions as too unwilling, adopt, but the mere adoption of ^ has no | £1000; wh s^ ^ ^ardwl all three of the pnzes-
rF£'SSSf 0 ^Sf;Ss ESESiSft SSSS^Ssss'
It II Polh’ird F. M. Geoghegan, F. A. Trevau, J. A. Vascy, annihilate social inequalities. ‘‘ toli w mo r lttore “ “ of spaniels. Lo g >, f t wt?it/-uine first prizes, won
J.* O. B^ WilUams, 8. Keays, and H. G. Daniel. nlea which may sometimes sound absmd, though a terntona ^ «moun«d^ ^^Tof thSkion the chief awards
At the Wesleyan Conference at Bradford on Wednesday, welTstoop^to pick \ip the pencil of a Rubens, were obtained, in the short-haired d^ea, h^J^^by the
the Rev. John Rattenbury made a statement of the result of tv.? troubadour perhaps, is beBt described as a privileged” “Puck,” a four-year-old blue and ®^\ er J’,, witb two
liis ifforts to raise a special sum of £100,000 to augment the for whom^ there were no hard and fast rules, who, on Mieses Greenwood and Butterworth s tortoises ch f y > H
scanty annual allowances of superannuated ministers and SKT<troubadour, and, on’the kittens; and for iong-hmxed cato^by the|BW;Jj£OTth
ministers’widows. His appeals hod met with the most liberal no disabilities. A very striking and stirring picture is “ Puff,” nine months old, and Miss _ 8 0 f wSens feP
response, the first donation of £5000 from the late Mr. James ^er “o (^bmtms^^A very baron> ^ ‘‘ gentle” five kittens. The cup offered for the best litter of kittens
^^tett^^^^ree'eived°funnest ttooi^of th^Conf«ence! I troubadour, Bertran de Born, who was so intimately con- to a Persian cat belonging to Miss Lucie Glenn.
who were social bearing whatever ; it neitner elevates uor »
nations:— it simply does not preclude, or perhaps it may be said rather
lonnell, E. to qualify conditionally: it may, but it does not necessarily,
A. Vascy, annihilate social inequalities. “ Anch’ io sono pittore is a
nipft wbGb msv sometimes sound absurd, though a territorial
annihilate social inequalities. “ Ancb’ io sono pittore is « oi spanicis, iouuk r firat prizea , won
plea which may sometimes sound absurd, though a territorial and announced “ .{J® ?th?exhJiition the chief awards
Ling might well feel honoured by the friendship of a Michel the cup. In the felme section of the exh^ t Brauder’s
a „avoir, tYxici,+. waII stoon to nick up the pencil of a Rubens, were obtained, in the short-haired, classes, ? . the
£1000 ; whilst in tlie next enu», the pr izes.
Lady Giffard’s exhibits were awarded aPthree otriie
For Yorkshire or any other long-haired t l^”’ f ^'cimens
headed the prize list; and, amongst some very go P der
of spaniel.. Young )*\“I^SLKrS
and M,no,meed oa tie winner of, twcotT-nino tort_P[H“; Mds
AUG. 10, 1878
POLITICAL.
Last Saturday the Earl of Benconsfield and
the Marquis of Salisbury, the Plenipotentiaries
representing the United Kingdom at the Con¬
gress of Berlin, were presented with the
freedom of the City at Guildhall, and were
afterwards entertained by the Lord Mayor at
a banquet at the Mansion House.
At the Foreign Office, on Tuesday, the Earl
of Beaconsfield and the Marquis of Salisbury
received addresses from Conservative asso¬
ciations in all parts of the country expressing
satisfaction at the result of the Berlin Con¬
gress, admiration of the policy of her Majesty’s
Government, and thanks for the services of
the British Plenipotentiaries. About nine
hundred gentlemen formed the deputation
many of them being members of Parliament’
and their Lordships shook hands with eacli
member of the deputation. This ceremony
and handing iii the addresses occupied nearly
an hour. In his reply, the Earl of Beacous-
held said that since liis return to England lie
had felt that he had been over-re warded br
the generous sympathy of Englishmen. He
briefly touched upon the results of the Con¬
gress, remarking that he Imped he and Lord
.Salisbury had brought back not merely an
honourable peace, but also the settlement of
a great many disquietiug subjects which had
lor years caused anxiety to the civilised world
His Lordship then dwelt upon the necessity
for party organisation, showing that it was a
great error to suppose that opinion when
organised lost something of its genuineness
and force. Lord Salisbury said that amidst
the constant calumny to which they had had
to submit the Plenipotentiaries f. lt sure the
time would come when they would obtain an
equilable and intelligent recognition from the
country they had served.
The three Lancashire members of the
Cabinet—Mr. Cross, Lord Sandon, and the
Hon. F. Stanley—have accepted invitacious to
a civic banquet, to be given by the M tyor of
Liverpool on the 21st iust.
At a gathering of the Salford Liberal As¬
sociation in Chatsworth Park, the seat of the
puke of Devonshire, a resolution was passed
last. Saturday expressing the gratitude of the
meeting to Mr. Gladstone for his able efforts
to rescue the country from the loss of con¬
stitutional freedom at home and the degrada¬
tion of the national character abroad, and also
tendering to Mr. Gladstone its sympathy in
his endurance of the attacks of slanderers
culminating in those of Lord Beaconsfield. ’
Amongst the Conservative demonstrations
on Monday was the meeting of the London
and Westminster Working-Men’s Constitu¬
tional Association in Englefield Park, near
Beading. Mr. J. Talbot, M.P., was amon-st
those present, and thanked the assembly for
their expression of confidence in the Govern¬
ment.—Sir Lawrence Palk, M.P., and Mr. A.
&li.]s, M.P., were the principal speakers at an
outdoor gathering of Conservative working
nun in the neighbourhood of Exeter.—Mr
Hiinbury, M.P., and Sir H. Wolff, M P
attended a Conservative fete held at Bourne¬
mouth on Monday.
The Earl of Redesdale, Chairman of Com¬
mittees of the House of Lords, gave his
customary sessional dinner at the Trafalgar
Greenwich, on Wednesday evening. ° ’
Sir Henry Drummond Wolf, K.C.M.G
M.P., has been appointed British member of
the European Commission for the organisation
of Eastern Roumelia under the 18th Article
of the Treaty of Berlin. He will not be
required to vacate his seat in Parliament in
consequence of this appointment.
• | L 'o-Admiral G. P. Hornby, Commander-
in-Chief of the Mediterranean squadron, has
been appointed Knight Commander of the
Order of the Bath.
the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
J. Grant Suttie (Conservative), 651 ’ ’
Marquis^! Can id*, the
for Argyleshire n. ’ ^as resigned his scat
! occult 8 Lo^T ’ 1 ^ 11 h . G has bcea all °«red to
canvassing the county for some ’days ■ uid 1
}p ™ Mil? o? Mr^MaKl^o? '
SUEZ'S? Mr °Malcolm !
Boston e ' 8 reM S llin * his seat for I
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vai 1 iHw W in°th l % U,J, “ ,! to supply !
_ j‘ hepreseutttiou, was tue only
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evening the supporters of Mr. Garfit held a I
meeting m the Corn Exchange. There were
about a thousand persons present, aud a ™
?cr 0 f Mr ad r Pt h 1“^ UPJJ ,rt the no “daa-
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Lubbock with reierence to his resolution to
S-I’T e representation of the City, that,
fed tlmthe 11 h re m n ed Federation, lie cannot
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i l h f v i ews with horr or the inhuman con-
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those who are entering into the full benefit of
the conquests in Turkey. He says it almost
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b P ^!! mpli “ cntflry dinner was given on Wed-
llie d LUirHH lneat 'Richmond to Sir E. Hertslet,
the Fnt, a " an n« d Ivee P erof S^te Papers at
couf, ° re , lgn 0ffi , ce » t° celebrate the honour
CoigSatK-l/r^ 11 i? n b x! 3 return from the
the at ,-? e rhd» Where he was a member of
rue British diplomatic suite.
chairmanship of the Earl of
AssodS;^a meeting was held of the Literary
■association of Fnends of Poland on Wed-
u Hibberd, Deputy-Commissioner in
Lunacy has been appointed Commissioner iu
Lunacy for Scotland, in room of the late Sir
James Coxe.
sho ^ at , Dumfries of tho Highland
and Agricultural Society has proved to be the
most successful the society lias held out of
Ldinburgh or Glasgow. The receipts for the
our days amounted to £3304.—The Dublin
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prize by Mr. James Robertson’s Kerry bull
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of Clonmell and De Yesci, Mr. M’Clintock
Bun bury, Mr. R. Chaloner, Viscount Powers-
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popular manner than they are in the cartoons
of Punch Upwards of one hundred of these
plates illustrating the life of the Earl of
Beaconsfield, K.G., have just been issued by
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welcome leaves, and by refreshing his memory
with the cartoons, which portray Lord
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young manhood to the present time, and
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his most illustrious contemporaries, including
the late Sir Robert Peel, Lord John Rusself
Lord Aberdeen, Mr. Cobden, Lord Palmerston’
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Aooust 10.1878.
SUPPLEMENT TO THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Aug. 10, 1878 —137
THE
AMATEUR CHAMPION SWIMMER.
The aw immin g season is at its height. Captain
Webb and Professor Beckwith’s little duck of a
daughter, using the term in its aquatic sense, have
demonstrated afresh that it is.easy for man and
woman alike to keep afloat in the water for a goodly
number of hours. Fair naiads are now to be seen
swimming with the ease of mermaids at the favourite
seaside resorts. Swimming, in fine, is found in
August to be the one seasonable elixir of life which
revives at once the jaded energies of worn-out ladies
of fashion and over-worked legislators.
One of the fleetest swimmers in the kingdom is
Mr. Horace Davenport, the yoong gentleman whose
S irtrait. we have engraved, from a photograph by
r. W. E. Debenham. Mr. Davenport is twenty -
eight years of age, has a lissom, muscular frame,
scales eleven stone four, and has been Amateur
Champion Swimmer of England for the past four
years. He first proved his capacity as a fast
swimmer at Professor Beckwith’s swimming enter¬
tainments in the Lambeth Baths, where it is the
custom for good London swimmers to graduate, as
it were, in the keen races that periodically take
place under the superintendence of the veteran ex-
Champion of England. Mr. Davenport has a most
effective style of swimming. He swims on his right
side, throwing his left arm out of the water at each
stroke in front of his head, and then strongly sweep¬
ing it back under water: whilst his leg-stroke is
remarkably clean and effective, the nether limbs
being brought together as closely as a pair of scissors.
This last-named point—one of supreme importance
to all who would acquire a perfect stroke—is by no
means rigorously observed by the majority of London
swimmers who take part in swimming contests. It
is commonly thought to be only requisite to dash,
helter-skelter, through the water, no matter in what
form or style, so long as a great rate of speed is
obtained for the time being. But the unwisdom of not
becoming master of a good as well as a quick stroke
does not infrequently receive a practical illustration.
There was a noteworthy instance of this in what
was called the “ Lords and Commons’ Race.” On
July 29 lost twenty-three amateur swimmers plunged
into the ebb tide below Putney Bridge for a swim
to Westminster Bridge, the prizes being offered by
Mr. J. G. Elliott, the secretary of the London
Swimming Club. Two swimmers soon led the van, and
had an exciting race between themselves, after the first
mile had been swum. One was Davenport, the other a
buoyant young Putney swimmer, George Feam. Both swam
iu the same style—i.e., with the left over-hand stroke.
Feam hud a slight advantage for some distance, and
might have maintained his advantage if his legs had been
brought together at the end of each stroke. Lacking the
skill and machine-like regularity of action characterising
Davenport’s excellent style, the younger swimmer had to yield
the pride of place ere Wandsworth Bridge was reached. Mr.
Davenport, on the other hand, was enabled to keep up to the
last his even and powerful stroke, and swam in an easy winner
over sixty yards ahead of Feam, the victor having swum the
five miles and a half in 1 hour 16 min. 10 sec., according to the
timing of Mr. W. H. Leverell, of BelVs Life.
Mr. Davenport, swimming then with the same strong, even,
side-stroke, firat won the Captaincy of the Ilex Swimming
Club in 1873, and has ever since maintained his supremacy in
MR. H. DAVENPORT, AMATEUR CHAMPION SWIMMER.
the swimming club devoted to London rowing men. In 1874
he won the mile race which made him Amateur Champion of
England, and he has retained the title to this day, his last
year’s race for the trophy resulting in his swimming the fastest
mile in still water on record, his time being 29 min. 25 sec.,
and the scene of the contest being the lake adjoining the
Welsh Harp, at Hendon. It was also last Bummer that he
was victor in the “ Lords and Commons’ Race,” the course
being the same as Monday week, and, curiously enough, the
second man being the same each year. The Quarter-of-a-
Mile Amateur Championship was added to his laurels last
autumn at the Lambeth Baths, where he was credited with
accomplishing the distance in 7 min. 4 sec. In club races Mr.
Davenport is unapproachable, except when a handicap gives
an inferior swimmer an opportunity of gaining the goal before
him. The half-mile race for the London Athletic Club’s
Challenge Cup was won by him last year, after a fine race
with Mr. C. L. O’Malley; but at the swimming meeting of
the London Athletic Club, in Hendon lake, on Saturday, it
was left to Mr. Davenport to swim over for the prize.
Finally, the Amateur Champion will this (Saturday)
afternoon take part in another mile race for the
Amateur Championship in the rather inconvenient
lake of the Crystal Palace.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
The Chinese pavilion in the TrocadSro Park is in¬
habited by several persons of that nation, whose
peculiar costume, and their method of performing
the ordinary business of domestic life, have attracted
some notice from European visitors. The gentleman,
for instance, ‘‘sans peur et sans reproche,” who is
seen here occupied in writing a letter, has too much
polite self-possession and “ savoir-faire ” to be either
distracted or annoyed by the French ladies curiously
peeping at him. Yet he must be secretly conscious
of the perfect comme il faut correctness of his attire,
with his clean-shaved face and head, mandarin cap,
long pigtail elegantly plaited, silken trousers, and
robe of fine cloth, as he sits plying a reed-pencil
dipped in the saucer of Indian ink, and inscribes his
paper, from right to left hand, with such syllabic
characters as are shown in the comer of our .En¬
graving.
The building shown in our next Illustration is the
Algerine pavilion, or rather palace, in the south-east
quarter of the Trocadero Park, where it forms the
central edifice of the little North African Moslem
town of shops, taverns, kiosks, and coffee-houses,
belonging to people from Algiers, Tunis, and Mo¬
rocco. This structure is of considerable size, a quad¬
rangle 130 ft. by 165 ft., with a tower at each of its
four comers. Three of its sides present only blank
white walls between the comer towers. The front,
which looks towards the Seine, has at one end, to¬
wards the east, a higher tower, with a minaret above,
rising to nearly 100 ft., which is copied, on a smaller
scale, from that of El Musurah, near Tlemcen, built
in the fourteenth century by Abou Yakoub, Sultan
of Morocco. The Moorish doorway, with its complex
decorations, is copied from that of the Mosque of
Sidi-Bou-Medina, at Tlemcen. It is supported on
each side by an elegant little lodge: these two lodges
are surmounted with low domes, and have double
windows in front. The interior, which is lighted
from the roof chiefly by domed skylights, contains
the objects of art and manufacture and natural pro¬
ducts exhibited by the Algerine citizens or subjects
of the French Republic, laid out in a series of arcades and
galleries, which are ornamented with coloured porcelain. A
ceutral rotunda is reserved for the saloon assigned to the
President of the Govemmeut, Marshal MacMahon, which is
furnished in the Oriental fashion, with divans and low stools,
and every convenience for resting and smoking at leisure.
The beautiful specimen of artistic metal-work shown in our
last Illustration is one of those contributed to the British
section of the Exhibition by Messrs. Elkington and Co., of
Regent-street. It is the work of their special artist,
M. Morel-Ladeuil, who also designed the Helicon vase and
the Milton shield. The present work, on which he
has been engaged two years, is a large tazza of repousse
silver, with a border of iron, richly damascened and
incrusted with gold. The figures, brought out in such high
relief as to have the appearance of being under-cut, represent
a Roman lady of rank at Pompeii seated in a stately apart¬
ment of her lord’s mansion, and attended by three female
slaves or handmaidens, who are engagedfcin^her toilette. It is
THE PARIS EXHIBITION : A CHINESE WRITER.
138
THE
tt t ttstu A.TED LONDON HEWS
AUG. 10, 1878
. -abject quite—U. S^fSC* '
i8 treated with a learned tkg thatrem^ ^ ^
Tademas pictures. Messw. tuungro ^t, which is,
Faria Exhibition another work, by tn coun trynien. The
perhaps, more likely ^ Uteres gize ^ the “ Hilton,” and
“ Bunyan ” shield is the sum or me dallions of
consists, like the latter, of P bape 0 f the plates
beaten silver mounted in iron , the^sna^ * The
ia different from that , of .^ 0 *f ol i bft t between Christian and
central plate ■ybtt. JuW Urt i- »hf»
ApoUyon ; and the time selectea^ 7^ &ecured to him
Christian is dehvwmgbw fin b ^’ fftCe8 of both the com-
the victory °. ver ., h ’ 8 . ^ff^ecree ^vigorous and expressive ;
batants are in the highest deg g« atte n d ant fiends and
and the accessories ot theBceneth t dn t. At the
aft
arar’JiVa. a* »*j*js ra
!£Haxrssr£ja?2
the upper medallions «P”J«j“ Company of Seraphim and
s^^fcsgssh
the subject. The han„ner ; »ork tntang * “ ‘ „
Apollyon and in the sword of Christian.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
. .. Vaster and Whitsuntide, the Bank Holiday was taken
SruSn°oIle Hon.lrtilkry ctmp'^ of Loudon, otleu-
^'seTeraTrf' the metropolitan regiments,. in <°
SSSSSSSSSfi?#^
battol^n°im(k^ t Ca^taln^RawTin^,^who 0 ha d C cmne I1 d o 3 iiTi from
London by S in the afternoon. AU ranks were in fuU
marching order, and in their smart uniforms att ^ te f n ““^
Xntion The camp was pitched, guards mounted, and the
Mother dutiesof camp life carried out On Sunday the
regiment attended Divine service; and Monday was spent m
drill and other exercises. The camp is piU.-hcd near Corsica
Lodge and the head-quarters of the regiment established at
Seatord Bay Hotel. Drill has been continued during this
week, and artillery practice carried on at sea
and the regiment returns to London to-day (baturday).
The four battalions of volunteers that have been doing du y
for eight days at Aldershott returned to their homes lastbatur-
dav The brigade was inspected on h nday by General Pakeu-
ham, who, at the conclusion of the drill, expressed his extreme
gratification with their appearance and discipline.
The fifth jewel competition of the South London Rifle Cl
was held last week at Nunhead. The following were the
winnersGold jewel, Sergeant Beeton, L.R.B. ; adver jewel.
Sergeant Eraser, L.R.B.; bronze jewel, 1 nvate Serle, 23rd
SUI The annual competition for prizes by the members of the
London Rifle Brigade began last Saturday at Rainham, and
continues through the present week.
At the Suffolk County Rifle Association Meeting on the 2nd
inst., at Beccles, the President’s Cup, Champion Badge and
N R A Medal, entitling the holder to compete for thePnnce of
Wales’s Prize at Wimbledon next yew, awarded for the aggre¬
gate scores at all ranges, was won by Private Tilney, of the
14th Suffolk (Beccles).
The prize meeting of the National Artillery Association
began on Monday at Shoeburyness. The Second Division sets
to work on Monday, the 12th. The distribution of prizes to
that division takes place on the 16th, and brings the meeting
to a close for the year.
The report of the Scotch Fishery Board for the year 1877
has been published. It appears from it that the total quantity
of herring cured at the Scotch stations was 847, 1 18 barrels,
while 561,985 barrels were exported. These figures exhibit a
large increase over those for 1876. which was a very unfavour¬
able year for the fishermen, and they also show an increase
over average years. The number of fishing-boats stationed on
the Scotch coast last year was 14,623 ; the number of men and
boys employed, 45,890; and the value of the boats and
material, £1,178,000.
The Dublin correspondent of the rail Mall Gautte writes .
The Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests for
Ireland, in their report, recently published, mention the com¬
pletion of a Convalescent Hospital near Dublin, erected at a
cost of £26,000, the gift by will of Mr. Michael Bernard
Mullins, of that city. They have resettled the scheme for the
distribution of Mr. Thomas Charlton’s bequest, who left estates
in the counties of Meath and Longford to provide marriage
portions for the sons and daughters of day labourers in those
counties—119 claimants are to have for the year £802 divided
among them. The Commissioners say that “ instances have
occurred which indicate the advisability of larger powers being
given for remoulding bequests of ancient dates, so as to better
adapt them to modem requirements.” They hold a small fund
for the purchase of spinning-wheels near Lurgan: ‘‘the
testator meant to encourage domestic industry, but he would
not wish to do so in a manner now wholly disused hi the place
for which lie designed it.” The Commissioners have standing
In their names iu the Bank of Ireland £243,000, besides £2476
in rents and annuities.
THE MAGAZINES.
The Comhill is strong Mr -
of which arc important contnbutio b h Kc viewers is
Leslie Stephen’s paper oni thehirst ^ tt > a light dis-
most agreeable r«^? e au ^ e ® painfully resolute effort to
cursive treatment i 118 ^* which one commonly observes
pluck the heart out of a clntrated upon a single author.
when the critic’s attent ?‘™ Kellia l and just; if the cause of
Mr. Stephen’s observations are ge Ed ^ burg h is not fully
the extraordinary £ ba Wytapra&cable. Lessing
explained, the undertaking m proba^ y {oUo wing Mias
is the subject of a 7^P^J^iepartment of the subject, but
Zimmern in the biograph P Germau . 8 principal works
characterising all the ? ... • m Mr. Pal graved brilliant
with just and discriminating Philippine Islands,
pen is well employed in a sketch oi religion
which he pronounces amicable manageable inha-
cxactly suitable to .the “““ 0 f the exceUcnt
bitants. “ The Origin of Frrnts is Mioine ^ ^ periodical
readings in popular perspicuity not only
is celebrated, pointing out with ei^e P f de-
how richness jn flavour nat^T^vantag^ thus
veloped in the fruit itself ^Cr fruTt STcontributed to the
acquired, but how in mankind. “ Orpheus
development of * he a ^ bl “ c fi™d analysis of the elements
and Eurydice is a - a «sfartion in a work of art founded
ful, the other ve^ cunous. ^e^seiiu on^ ^ ^
of Cyprus, by the late Bn an d evidently endowed with
gentleman of great ^P 6 ”^ ’ itv Mr Lang goes steadily
value ot oui new “ ZdeSm and caution in
habitant- but a,uMd^ peat raodgdl ^
pressing the iideas of W^tera „ th of a 8e nes of
curiosity is “The Child m the . as it would
imaginary p«jrtents bvW. H^Pater-an^ 8tyle into
“Subadours” and Mr. Blades s account of the Plantin
Museum at Antwerp are excellent literary papers.
The leading paper in Blaekuood is a sketch of 5™?®
Bismarck by tm anonymous countryman, very graphically
German pen. ” Half-Way to ArcaSy ” » more c ejer than
nlomtimr r “John Caldigate is a hash of Mr.Trollope s oia
fiterary^materials, compounded, however, with no less cunning
than of old.
Apart from an acute criticunn of Mr MMlock .
the strength of Fraser lies in its picture of P haa “ JSJ
life. ” The Races of Asiatic Turkey is chiefly staristacal, but
“ Peasants and Proprietors in Tuscany’ “ »
of the moral as well the economical good effects of the mezsr us
or half-profit system of land tenure; and A ™°"£ n tbe
Htirmpsp” deoicts with equal vividness the national amuse¬
ments of this interesting peopleand the mode of^travel along
their great water-highways. “ Africa and the Afncnns drav^s
attention to the facts, oftenoverlooked that-the^scendimts
of slaves cannot be expected to be the 0 ° r !. y
people, and that African civilisation must grow up at home.
writimr of Greece at the Congress, also holds a brief; and it is
oTatisfaction to turn to M. de Laveleye’s impartia account of
the recent defeat of the Conservative party in Belgium. His
the recent a fford to do lustice to his adver-
case is so stro g _ auite clear that, however distasteful
‘‘Hr'.r f-- to tolerant people with a
religious j_j nn n0 other issues are at present
m^ftkal^Belgium The country must be governed by the
orTesthood^r otherwise ; there is at present absolutely no
pnestnooa or on. the non-political papers
5?l!3551^Pl^antof his tour in Icelan^nd
Mr Hartshorne’s specimens of Buddhist popular tradition.
Manv rale. ot worl§-«lde fame have their couutorport-b-ra.
as for example, the Judgment of bolomon.
The article of most general interest in the Contemporary
Review is Mr R. 8. Poole’s excellent account of Cyprus, chiefly
derive from the British Consular reports and consequently
S r^rely ^chmological than might have been expected from
the writer’s eminence in that department of research Pro¬
fessor Max Muller contributes a genial memoir of Julius
i n ent Orientalist at Pans. Lunar volcanoes,
Mohl, the cre ed8, and Scotchmen,
Knand eSesiaiHcul!fo™ the -ubjects of other paper..
Mr Henry James’s “ Europeans,” the piice de resistance
t *vTJ' ItinJL Monthly is full of refined humour, but suffers
hr Xu S iu Swieuta. AU the content, are good, and
forlorn condition of th^Amcncan-tag ^nt ^ ^ ^ ^
the fuUert de-crlption of the South Afncrn dramond-fleld.
that we have as yet encountered.
remote Bar is chiefly remarkable for a severe and rather
•ii 25*1\eview of Miss Martineau’s autobiography, and
XSSS° n unL"“ Si French
withno features of special interest. The promises with which
witu no (Cassell Petter, and Galprn) set out, both
letterpress, are Wng most satis¬
factorily fulfilled. . .
Wp have received Light, Geographical Magazine, Lippin-
cott’s Magazine, St. Nicholas, Churchman s Shilling Magazine,
Children’s Dress, Englishwoman’s
R,mdnr at Home Sunday Magazine, Leisure Hour, Chn.ti»n
Igef G^°OaVd«ner-. y Chro5iclc. and Gardener'- Magazine.
The Nineteenth Century begins with an iindictment of some
phases of English policy in lnlia, by Miss Florence^tmple.
It is distinguished by the vehemence and occasional inco¬
herence of Miss Nightingale’s writings, but is nevertheless so
thoroughly in harmony with the testimony of^ other ^nesses
of lareer local experience as to challenge grave attention,
sum and substance is that, with the best intentions, we aro
committing serious mistakes from inattention to native pecu¬
liarities and too pedantic a bondage to 1 tb l lett . er + ° b<> t ^ b ^!;
Mr. E. I. Wilson reads an equally severe lecture to the Liberal
Opposition, drawing a parallel more close than gratifying
between the mistakS which excluded it from power during anH
so long after the Peninsular War and some recent passages of
its history. We regret, however, to find him accusing English¬
men of treason on no better authority than Napoleon s.
Another important subject of controversy is , ftb }y treated by
Mrs. Fawcett, who, in opposition to Mrs. On s theory of the
ultimate tendency of female education to bring about the
extinction of the human species, denies that culture tends in
any degree to impair the affections and frustrate their ordinary
consequermea. Mrs. Fawcett’s remarks appear conclusive as
far m they go, but many material points in her opponents
case are left unnoticed. Mr. Mallock's “ Familiar Colloquy
on Recent Art” may also be classed among controvemal
papers, though its exact drift is not quite apparent. It would
seem on the whole to be to recommend Catholicism as a
panacea for the infirmities and aberrations of pictonaland other
art; but most observers will have to borrow Mr. MaUocks eyes
to perceive the surprising things which his interlocutors drover
in the Grosvenor GaUery. Mr. Newton concludes his learned
and interesting illustrations of Greek religion from the
inscriptions ; Mr. Keary contributes some suggestive thoughts
on the probable cause of religious development among
primitive races; Lord Stratford de Redcliffe records his
recollections of the diplomatic transactions which accom¬
panied the birth of the modem Hellenic kingdom ; Mr.
Rowsell sums up his administrative experience of Malta by
strongly recommending the substitution of Maltese for Italian
as the official language ; and Mr. Grant Duff reviews Nassau
Senior’s conversations. It is to be hoped that he has ground
for his light estimate of the danger of Holland from German
aggression.
The Fortnightly has too many political articles indicating a
parti pris. Fairness of course is not expected from the clever
writer of “The Political Adventures of Lord Beaconsfleld ;
but it is amazing to find a serious politician like Mr. Laing
beginning a paper on the Turkish Convention with the asser¬
tion that “the convention of the 4th of June is the most
startling surprise ever recorded in history.” We must suppose
that Mr. I-aing only reads the journals of his own way of
thinking, or he would huve had warning enough. Mr. Lcfcvre,
THE QUARTERLIES.
c_U j nerhans heavy, are the contents of the July Quarterly
iu “ The M *
sr
and Ministerial experiences. The great V“ t ‘®J tldes on
SSS&ttJ&Ji “tL r«plu ol. Turkey."
Sr a a m r^,tA5
who have reached half his age. There is also a good historical
account of Lambeth Palace, worthy of attentive Perusal.
of England,” 4 ‘ Home Reunion, ana l-utu. -fV, “ lpnV(i t
Parker” are dissertations of such a kind wb ich we
cS readers. The biographical memoir of Bwhop ^yn.
on the contrary, has much interest for the sake oi! an rimu ^ b
man, even without the respect due to the cloth Apmio
sophical article ” On Evolution ” seems to dum, sjnous
thoughtful attention. The comparison between Dante
Goethe ” does not appear to us »
would have been enough to say of those two greatjpo “
the one was a man of the thirteenth century, the_ other
cicnteenth: the one, an austere and somewhat P
moralist; the other, an intellectual voluptuary, buU b
the daylight; both of them consummate egotiata^and^tuer ^
vastly inferior to Homer and bhiikspciire. rhere ^PP^
also, concerning missionary prospects ^in Ms n ^ t h Palace
have not looked at; and some remarks on the Lambetn ^
Library and on Cathedral restorations, which e
interesting to scholars and persons of taste.
Transatlantic and Australian periodical Ijtcratnr J c [
hand across the wide ocean and claims a word of rewgm^^
The North American Review for July and August con
or five political articles concerning the P 168 ^ stab b f ff
in the Union, one bearing the portentous title
Universal Suffrage;” but Mr. WendeU Phl^*. other
Outlook,” announces his resolve to . de jjj. b >s t“er An
Republican institutions os firmly and ^“^Xsatire, pn>-
“ Evolutionist,” with a gentle touch ?, f V b v no means
poses to advertise for a “ New Religion, « ? Tbe
satisfied with that of the Comtist P^°P he ”‘ Rabl i
position of the Jews in America is 6iBCWBae&*7 * gir
Gottheil. Our distinguished military cornmamler^ ^
Garnet Wolseley, contributes a serviceable account ^
Indian Native Army. We next take U P
Review for April last. It has an article upon rtrn .
that is to say, the late dispute and deadiock m th( 8 g^ fct ers
ment of Victoria between Sir George iLnt of
and the House of Assembly. Mr. D. ilac* 11 ^^. . reac i by
the Australian Aborigines is a sad one, but should e Tl *
1 all who feel an interest in that perishing race of men.
other papers mostly deal with such topics as have Mwidj
1 sufficiently examined by competent writers in Europe.
AUG. 10, 1878
the illustrated
LONDON NEWS
DOG-DAYS AND DOG-DAISIES.
fin?eM^fZ 0r Jrl° s U ^nl UqUe ^ oi } ot ' ho ^ lowers by the deft
T SSi? 0 ^! 11 that attractive branch of the
liTr?’ 11 wildings of nature bravely hold tlieir own with
have been* taken' fr0 ^ th ®, conBervator }’, and might
flowers Rut * w tbe . umtlftte( ^> f° r genuine hot-house
than Se dgA£! ”" » —■«"
MUSIC.
rpu„ , C( ^TPT GARDEN promenade concerts.
8D h ^di°v fol 0pera 8eason baa, as usual, been
Messrs 7 ! ^ Q V- *?« l enes ? f attracti ve concerts with which
musical Gatt ? . havc f °r several seasons filled up the
The theafr^UnT K W , hlCh v° CCUr8 in L ° nd ° n at tl ™ V*™d.
rooma eirnit A as i i C / 0re ’ been conver ted into a vast craicert-
wTtl?;he^ i P ? m L C0 ! enn ^ the whole area, on a level
house h 'rtek he ° rche8tra being erected in the centre of the
„° a ® e / , The decorations are in the same style of elegance and
an - d the mU8ical arrangements are fully
about f an £ Pr evi °us occasion. A splendid band of
g » 7 r» f OUr beat instrumentalists has been assembled
are ron^n'i; leadin 8 violini8t ; and the performances
are conducted, with his well-known skilled experience, by Mr.
pjfw Sulhvan , 'w. h ° is occasionally relieved by Mr. Alfred
thinly ^ efficient substitute. Prominent specialties of
. , J he opening n lg ht were the admirable renderings of the over¬
flow, we know that every dog has its day—or, as Hamlet ut ? er ° n u an , d “ Guillaume Tell” and the prelude to
phrased it, “And dog will have his day”—but it seems strange | niecesh*vfuo. ftrlwlS? 1 ’ ”_ amon S the other orchestral
It is eight o’clock, p.m. ; and, therefore, it must be that time
of this sweltering dog-day that is known as “ the cool of the
evening.” But, as the thermometer is, even now, at 78 in
the shade—which is two degrees above summer heat—the
epithet “cool” is only relative, and may be taken as an
euphemistic figure of speech that the heat is tolerable. Six
or eight hours ago it was intolerable, for the thermometer
then registered 92 in the shade and 145 in the sun—a heat
that was almost “ in-Calcuttable” after the preceding days
of coolness. Great was the engendering of caloric; melting
were the moments; sudorific were the cuticles; and the
wearers of orthodox dark suits of clothes and chimney-pot
hats felt that the tyranny of fashion had reached a pitch that
was unendurable. Even the languid swell —made more
languid aud limp by the exhausting effects of the weather—
would have furtively concealed a cabbage-leaf in the crown
of his white hat, were it not that he feared a disagreeable
contretemps when he next raised that hat in salutation. Pith
hats and puggarees put in an appearance, and coats of the
lightest hue and material were donned by the wise. Thirsty -
looking dogs with lolling tongues were looked upon with sus¬
picion, and given a wide berth when met; and, even when
muzzled, in obedience to law, were objects of compassionate
solicitude. Everyone felt—even if they had not realised it
before—that they were passing through the season of the
Hog-days.
139
that his day should be assigned to the hottest period of the
Summer. It is, in fact, a libel on the canine race, and a gra¬
tuitous keeping up of an unwarrantable superstition. It
ought to be consigned to the limbo of vulgar errors. In the
scene in the Palace Yard, in Shakspeare’s “ King Henry the
Eighth,” where the people are crowding to see the christening
of the Princess Elizabeth, one of the rabble is described as being
such a sweltering fire-drake that “ he should be a brazier by
his face, for twenty of the dog-days now reign in’s nose! ”
This was half their number; for, as the dog-days begin on
July 3 and end on Aug. 11, they comprise, with inclusive
reckoning, a space of forty days. Yet the rising and setting
of Canicula, the Dog-star, in coincidence with the sun—which
by Egyptians, Greeks, and Homans was believed to regulate
the term of the dog-days, and from its supposed influence for
he it gave to them their familiar name—is now so much altered
that the true Canicular days would not begin till late in
AugHst. Therefore, neither the Dog-star nor the dog has any
connection with the dog-days, except in name and folk-lore ;
and we are not called upon, as were the ancient Romans, to
sacrifice a little brown cur to Canicula in order to mitigate the
burning influence of that star. Horace, as we may remember,
invited his friend Tyndaris to his Sabine villa, where in the
shade of the cool valley they could avoid the fierce heat of the
Dog-star and drink their cups of harmless Lesbian wine. And,
in lauding the cooling streams of the Bandusian fountain, he
said that they were not affected even by the burning Dog-star.
I think of Horace, and Tyndaris, and the Bandusian foun¬
tain. after a classical lassitude fashion, as I lounge by the
woodsidc, at eight o’clock, in the so-called “ cool of the even¬
ing” of this most canicular of all the forty dog-days. Have
they been ‘‘ forty ” frizzling “ like one,” I wonder ! I am dis¬
posed-dogmatically, perhaps—to arrive at this conclusion;
for it has been a day suggestive of sun-stroke. Out in the
open fields the noonday tropical heat fiercely smote the swel¬
tering haymakers,and compelled them to cease from work and
to take a temporary rest under the nearest tree,
With coolest shades, till noontide’s rage is spent,
as wrote the Rev. Phineaa Fletcher, nearly two hundred and
fifty years ago. But now, though it is certainly “ ot,” aud
“otter than yesterday,” as Mr. Perkyn Myddlewick says,yet
the temperature is sensibly cooler, especially here by the side
of the wood, with its dense umbrage and refreshing greenery.
It is so green all around—the woods, the fields, and the com—
that we can at once perceive the appropriateness of the poet
Spenser in attiring his “ jolly Summer ”
In a thin silken cassock, coloured green,
That was inclined all to be more light.
It is to hoped, however, that a certain number of the clergy
will not take a hint from this and adopt a cassock of this hue
and style, as a suitable vestment for the dog-days ; though it
must be confessed that it would be both useful and ornamental,
and that its wearer would, in more senses than one, be as cool as
a cucumber.
It is pleasant to lie here on this dog-day evening in the
shade of the wood, on the sweet green grass, close to the old
disused limestone quarry, with its picturesque undulations
thickly covered with profuse vegetation and gay wild-flowers.
Here, for example, at my very elbow, is Rose Campion. What
a pretty name for a village heroine! though, on second
thoughts, there would be some confusion in the title, or else a
pantomimic change to the opposite sex ; for Rose Campion is
generally known as Ragged Robin. But this variety of the
garden lychnis possesses more popular names than the generality
of wild-flowers—meadow campion, meadow pink, wild cam¬
pion, march gilliflower, cuckoo flower, crow flower, gardener’s
eye, and also the gardener’s delight. Ragged Robin, too, is
also known under the alias of Wild William; and, when
travelling abroad, he adopts the title of Knight’s Cross in
Italy and Maltese Cross in France. Many other wild-flowers
are about me; but here is the dog-rose, the loveliest flower of
all for the brightening of these dog-days. It is the same
bnar-rose that ‘‘fell in streamers green” in the Trossachs;
but it is now garlanded with banks of bloom, like to those by
the fair Ophelia floated, as so wondrously depicted in
Millais’s picture. How lovely are the pure tints—the pale
pink fading into a delicate flesh-colour, ‘‘like the hue on I
Beauty’s cheek.” There the blossoms hang in hundreds,
And the wild rose’s arching spray
Flaunts to the breeze above your way.
Here and there, on the twining 6tems are the ruddy massy
bunches called “ cankers,” even in Shakspeare’s day; so that
his “ canker-flower ” is the dog-rose, whether the pink or the
wtute variety, known as the Yorkist rose. A little later in
the season, when the dog-days are over, and their heat has
exerted the ripening influence, we shall see the rich scarlet
hips, which may be made into a conserve, or “ cakes of roses ”
such as were in the apothecary’s shop when Romeo paid his
Here, too, in great abundance and luxuriance, are the dog-
haisies.the fittest flowers of aU—inname, at any rate—with which
to grace and gladden the dog-days. Otherwise are they known
ox-eyed daisies, or as moon-daisies. Their large yellow
entral discs, circled with rays of pure white, make a bright
a ™ong the rich variety of grasses, out-topping many, and
nfi ] u .8 reat clumps on the edges and coigns of vantage
the oldlimestone quarry. Being in London the other day,
M» a 'w CO ™ ng to cu stom, paying a visit to Covent-garden
nip,! to look at the beautiful fruit and flowers, I was
biimii ’ r T®* 1 n ?*. surprised, to see there many hundreds of
unaies of dog-daisies, some for sale, and others being intro-
pieces haying been an effective arrangement, by Mr. G. Jacobi,
of subjects from Mr. Sullivan’s comic opera, “ The Sorcerer,”
m which, as m the march from Gounod’s “La Reine de
° aba > . the effects were powerfully reinforced by the co¬
operation of the band of the Coldstream Guards
At Saturday’s concert Mdlle. Alma Verdini made her first
appearance in England, with great aud deserved success. Her
first arm, Ah ! fora’ ti lui ” (from “ La Traviata”) displayed
a soprano voice of fresh and agreeable quality, and capable
both of sympathetic expression and briUiant execution. The
impression produced was so strong that the singer was twice
recalled after her performance. In her other aria, Venzano’s
valse-ana, “ Ah! che assorta,” Mdlle. Verdini was equally suc¬
cessful. Other effective vocal performances were contributed
by Miss Anna Williams, Mr. E. Lloyd (who was encored in
each of his three songs), and Mr. Maybrick. Miss Josephine
Lawrence played Mendelssohn’s pianoforte concerto in G
minor with much brilliancy and power; and Mr. H. Reynolds’s
skill on the comet was displayed in a transcription of
Schubert’s “Serenade.”
On Monday Beethoven’s first symphony (in C) was per-
formed, being an instalment of eight of the nine symphonies
given in regular order. Mdlle. Verdini reappeared with a
repetition of the success obtained by her on Saturday. Vocal
pieces were also rendered with great effect by Mesdames Rose
Hersee and Antoinette Sterling, and Mr. Frederici. Wednes¬
day was a classical night, and included the engagement of
Madame Patey and Mr. Barton McGuckin, aud for yesterday
(Friday) a ballad night was announced.
The arrangements being completed for the restoration of
the Triennial Musical .Festivals at Worcester, the issue of the
tickets began on Aug. 1. The festival will take place in the
week commencing Sept. 9. The oratorios will be sung in the
cathedral as before, but will be preceded by a short service of
prayer, prescribed by the Bishop of the diocese. There wiU
be two grand church services—at the opening and at the
close of the festival. These are to be free to the public. At
the opening service Handel’s “ Dettingen Te Deum ” wiU be
performed, and the Bishop of Worcester will preach a
sermon. At the closing service a new “Magnificat” and
“ Nunc dimittis,” by the Rev. Sir F. A. G. Ouseley, and a new
anthem by Dr. Stainer (all speciaUy written for this festival),
will be given. The order of the oratorios will be as follows :—
Tuesday evening, part of Haydn’s “Creation,” Mozart’s
Requiem, and Mendelssohn’s “ Hymn of Praise;” Wednes¬
day morning, Mendelssohn’s “Elijah;” Thursday morning,
“Hezekiah,” a new oratorio by Dr. Armes, Mendelssohn’s
hymn, “ Hear my prayer,” nnd’Spohr’s “Last Judgment;”
Friday morning, Handel’s “Messiah.” Two secular concerts
will be given at the College Hall on Wednesday nnd Thursday
evenings. The Corporations of Hereford and Gloucester wiU
join the Worcester Corporation at the opening service.
THEATRES.
Certain houses may be said to have reopened on Saturday,
and on Mondny more than one competed for literary criticism.
A new piece has been produced at the Park Theatre, called
“ A Treaty of Peace.” The reference of this occasional drama
(in three acts) to the Convention in 1856 is unmistakable, and
the plot of it supplies several groups of characters, who are
roused to action by the previous declaration of war. Among
them are, of course, the inevitable newspaper correspondent
aud the Russian spy. The dialogue is not without merit, and
the acting throughout iB more than respectable.
Another new piece dates from the Aquarium, a four-act
drama by Mr. Such Granville, entitled “That’s Why She
Loved Him.” The answer is, “ Because he was true.” The
reply is, perhaps, a longer time in coming thnn might have
been expected; but then the author had to prove the fact by
a course of action which implies an interval of time. Mr.
Granville is not a strong man, and there are many things
in this action which might have been better exhibited; never¬
theless, the audience, on the whole, expressed their satis¬
faction. The principal actor in the imbroglio is an old
eccentric Frenchman named Zach, represented by Mr.
Granville himself, who enters, disguised, the house of an
English Baronet who had eloped with his wife, aud contrives
to exercise a malicious influence on his conduct. In pursuing
his revenge he brings, unconsciously, his own daughter into
trouble and almost to dishonour. But in the last act he is
enabled to make reparation—a circumstance probably that
reconciled the audience to the subject, which, altogether, was
not of the morf agreeable kind.
On the 1st iust. a suggestive event took place at the
Queen’s. Mr. Hayes, who has laboured with so much spirit in
behalf of the St. James’s Theatre, made his appeal to the
public by a remarkable performance of the three following
operas—“The Little Duke” of MM. Meilhac, Halevy, and
Lecocq; Dibdin’s “ Waterman,” with Sims Reeves in the part of
the nautical hero, Tom Tug ; and “ The Rose of Auvergne.”
Such success attended the representation as sufficiently shows
the public esteem entertained for this gentleman’s courageous
efforts to restore an important theatre to a state of efficiency.
A similar episode has to be recorded in favour of the
management of the Royalty by Miss Fowler, whose season
was brought to a close on Saturday week. On the Tuesday
following the stage was furnished for a ball to the friends of
the lady who has realised for us the person of Nell Gwynne on
the London boards. A large party of professionals did honour
to the occasion.
On Monday Mdlle. Beatrice began her long-announced
engagement at the Olympic, together with her most efficient
company, which has achieved so high a reputation in the pro¬
vinces. Mdlle. Beatrice is the proprietress of a considerable
number of Parisian pieces, which have experienced extra¬
ordinary prosperity in nearly all our country theatres. The
one selected for Monday is entitled “ The Woman of the
I eople, translated by Mr. Benjamin Webster, junior, from
thePYench of MM. Denney and Mallian. It is produced here
with the music originally written by M. Pilati for the piece as
first produced at the Porte St. Martin, aud the mise-en-sc&ne
employed at that theatre is adopted at the present. This is a
great advantage ; otherwise, the drama, good as it is, labours
under the misfortune of having been appropriated by Mr
Boucicault, who used up the first three acts in “Janet Pride ”
Ihe incident, therefore, of the babe being confided to the
Infant Hospital, and afterwards abducted therefrom by one
bignor Appiani (Mr. James Carter-Edwards), was familiar
enough. Ihe next two acts are interesting in themselves, as
showing the difficulties of the mother’s position, who is accused
of madness, but who ultimately proves her sanity, and recovers
the possession of her child. Mdlle. Beatrice, as the distressed
mother, noted with her usual power, andwa 3 admirably well sup¬
ported by her very exceUent company. The construction of the
piece w faulty, inasmuch as in more than one instance it is
arbitrary and artificial, and the general tone of the style is
ultra-declamatory, rendering the dialogue in parts excessively
verbose. But there are numerous points which are weU made ■
and the speeches, some of them rather long, were so skilfuUy
delivered that they told admirably, notwithstanding their
occasional intricacy. The production and exhibition of the
Baby in the last act, was received with shouts of applause
from the gallery and other parts of the house. The curtain
fell to unanimous applause; nor can we doubt that a ereat
success was achieved.
At the Lyceum Miss Bateman appeared, according to
announcement, in the role of Mary Warner. The drama is so
well known that no special description is needed. The great
scenes lost none of their force in the acting, and the heroine
won, as usual, the sympathies of an excited audience. Miss
Bateman, in the maturity of her powers, is able to exhibit her
indisputable genius in every phase of its manifestation. Such
an aerfess is sure to achieve a new triumph with every fresh
appearance. She should, however, do justice to herself bv
appearing in a new part. J
The Gaiety reopened on Monday in a state of redecora-
tion which will reward inspection, and caused some surprise
by its completeness and beauty. The repainting, reguilding
and ornamentation generally have been carried out by Mr.
~~?l ard “ell, under the direction and personal superintendence
of Mr. C. J. Phipps, members of the Institute of Architects
A new drop-scene, painted by Messrs. Gordon and Harford, is
not the least of the present attractions. An experiment in
electric Ulumination was made in front of the theatre, ultimately
intended for the inside also, which will prcbablv be imitated
elsewhere. The performances consisted of “The Grass¬
hopper ’ and “Little Doctor Faust,” and were weU received.
MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.
“Mazurka,” “ Barcarole,” and “ Capriccio,” are three piano¬
forte pieces (op. 34) by Ignaz Briill, who will be remembered
by his opera, “The Golden Cross” (produced here by Mr.
Carl Rosa), and also by his skill as a pianist manifested at the
Monday Popular Concerts and the Crystal Palace. The pieces
now referred to are very characteristic in style, with a per¬
vading vein of pleasing melody, and some brilliant passage
writing. They wiU be found serviceable for teaching purposes
The publishers are Messrs. Chapped and Co., from whom, also
we have a pleasing song, “Without thee” (“Ohne dich ”),
by the same composer; a duet, “The Birthday of the
Flowers; ” and a song, “ Birds of Passage; ’ ’ two very flowing
and melodious pieces, both by Henry Smart, who knows so
weU how to write effectively for voices without overtaxing
moderate powers. Other attractive vocal compositions issued
by Messrs. Chappell are:—“Two little lives,” No. 6 of
“ Songs from Hans Andersen,” by J. L. Molloy, who has weU
caught the expressive simplicity of the poet; and “ This bonny
lass o’ mine ” and “ O’er the dancing sea,” two songs by J. L.
Roeckel, in each of which there is much character.
Some pianoforte music lately issued by Messrs. ChappeU
so claims notice. “ Six Bagatelles,” by Edmund Rogers,
are pieces written in an easy and simple style, calculated to
interest juvenile students. Each has a distinctive title—No. 1,
“Cloudlets;” No. 2, “Twilight Dreams;” No. 3, “Slow
March ; ” No. 4, “ Cymbeline ; ” No. 5, “ L’Invitation pour la
Valse ; ” and, No. 6, “ Autumn Winds.” “ Romanesque”
and “ Cradle-Song,” both by Cotsford Dick, are weU con¬
trasted in the antique formalism of the one and the gentle
simplicity of the other. “ Golden Dreams” is an effective nnd
brilliant “Valse de Salon,” by R. F. Harvey; and “Three
Aquarelles,” by G. I. Van Eyken, are pleasing bagateUes,
respectively entitled “Humoresque,” “Melody,” and “Im¬
promptu.” “Rosalind, Romance,” by J. F.Barnett, is a
very graceful elaboration of a pleasing cantabile theme, which
is embellished with a variety of surrounding passages,
a la Thalberg. The piece is a good study for crossing the
hands.
A goodly collection of bright dance music also comes from
Messrs. Chappell, all by that well-known provider of such
pieces, M. Charles D’Albert. His quadriUes “Sweethearts’
Lancers,’’ on new and old popular airs; his “ Engaged ” and
“Distant Shore” waltzes, “Cleopatra” and “Love-Letter
Galop,” and “Love-Letter Polka,” will be found spirited
accompaniments to the several dances indicated.
Bal Masque, Sept Airs de Ballet par S. Jadassohn, Op. 26
(Enoch and Sons). This is a series of charming pianoforte
pieces in various dance rhythms, each impressed with a distinct
character, and all full of grace and melodic beauty, reminding
us much, although without plagiarism, of the poetical music of
Chopin.
“ Biblioteca del Pianista ” (Ricordi). The new number of
this cheap series comprises the six first books of Mendelssohn’s
“Lieder ohne Worte,” which are here presented at the price
of eighteenpence. The work is clearly engraved and well
printed, and is edited by M. Ed wart, who has supplied some
judicious fingering.
“Our Lads in Blue” (Duff and Stewart) is a patriotic
song, dedicated to the First Lord of the Admiralty. The
words, by Byron Webber, are written in eloquent advocacy of
the importance of maintaining British supremacy at sea, and
the policy of training the juvenile ragged class as sailors. The
music, by Hamilton Clarke, is well adapted to the purpose of
the text, being bold and vigorous in rhythm, and in the true
style of the nautical ballad.
Mr. W. H. Brittain, file and steel manufacturer, of
Sheffield, was on Tuesday elected Master Cutler. The Cutlers’
Feast is fixed for Sept. 5.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Aim. 10, 1878.— HI
I'AKIS EXHIBITION : TAZZA, BY MESSRS. ELKINGTON AND CO. : A POMPEIAN LADY AT HER TOILETTE.
ART IN PARIS.
THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION.—EIGHTH ARTICLE.
(From our Correspondent.)
The art-outcome of the remaining nationalities, os displayed
on Hie walls of the Paris Exhibition, must be touched on
as lightly and briefly as possible, seeing that this is our
concluding article. Germany, Belgium, Holland, and in
these latter days Spain, occupy nearly as prominent a place
in the (esthetic eye as Prance herself; but the English public
has been kept fairly well informed of the art-doings of these
countries by means of the various Continental exhibitions
annually held hi London. It is otherwise with the out-
lying States, and that for the obvious reason that, whatever
may have been their quondam achievements, barrenness has
for the time being overtaken them.
Portugal, for example, docs little more than rise to the
level of a provincial art-school in England or France; and
yet at the close of tho fifteenth and during the first, half of the
sixteenth centuries it was in many fields of activity one of the
moat enterprising countries in Europe. Seventeen pictures in
all, with a couple of chalk drawings and seven pieces of
sculpturo displayed in tho apartment shured by the Greeks, are
all that the Portuguese have to show of art. and these have not
even the honour of a place in the Official Catalogue. Among
them are three well-painted portraits, a rough and rather heavy
landscape showing a girl knee-deep in a river washing, with a
wood beyond; and another, two children pulling wild flowers
m a green meadow. In genre subjects, there is a girl standing
scratching her head in sad puzzlement nt having let fall and
broken her pitcher. Another picture shows a very spirited
dancing-scene; and a third, which is on a large scale, intio-
duces the visitor to a lady teaching scripture to an old woman
in whose lap lies a distaff. The most ambitious picture in
the meagre collection is that which shows an Inman and a
monk contemplating the dead body of a dark-haired lady
ying m a desert. We have no means whatever of giving the
names of any of the artists.
occ . u P ies principal portion of this room,
kind Ut pictures, mainly of the simple, domestic
Wlt ^ P rett 7 landscapes and portraits, and
P ted for the most part in a smooth, conscientious way.
Pericles Pantazis—who, by-the-way, paints sands and sea in
the manner of Whistler and Moore—is the chief contributor.
Rnlli shows a good Oriental interior with a female figure, and
N. Lytras five Eastern boys playing and singing, with drum
and whistle, before a door in which a pleased mother and baby
are seen. The sculptures are equal in number to the pictures,
and of these D. Kossos is the author of more than half. They
are chiefly portraits, and among them are those of Otho I.
and his Queen Amelia, George I., the Marquis dc Saint-
Hilaire, and Lord Byron. With the exception of G. Vroutos,
who Bends, among others, ideal busts of Achilles, Paris,
Aurora, and Night, there is little in this section to remiud
one that Greece possesses tho most beautiful mythology and
the noblest history in the world.
Switzerland, which contributes in paintings, enamels, and
stained-glass designs about a hundred and fifty works, does
very little in sculpture. L. Wethli, of Zurich, sends four
portrait busts, ana F. Landry contributes a case of bronze
medallions which are well worth examination. Miss F.
Olivary has several very clever portraits in enamel, and C.
Welirii reproduces on glass various favourite subjects after
Kaulboch, Guido Reni, Raphael, and other masters. Among
the landscapes will be found several attractive pictures, not
the least important of which arc a couple by A. Stcugelin, one
representing Ruysdael’s road in the neighbourhood of Leyden
and the other some cowb feeding on the bank of a lazy, tree-
bordered river, with trees also in the distance. E. Stuckelberg
sends a picture suffused with the glow of evening, while
a girl is having her fortune told by a stile on the side
of a hill. Two, however, of the most popular and highly
esteemed Swiss landscapists are absent—viz., M. Diday,
of Geneva, and his famous pupil, Calame. A. Hchoeck,
another pupil of note, scarcely makes up for their absence by
his solitary contribution of a setting sun on the island-studded
coast of Norway; and although A. Baudit, also a pupil of
Diday’s, has sent three landscapes, they are all French in sub¬
ject, and such as are to be found in the department of Landes,
within easy reach of his home in Bordeaux. F. Zimmermann,
a pupil of Calame's, shows a greater love of country, and finds
quite material enough in the High Alps for the exercise of his
pencil; and L. Jacottet is to be congratulated on the same
score. He sends a charming view of the wnterfall of Reichen- 1
bach and one of the Chateau of Chillon. P. Roller is repre¬
sented by a splendid group of cattle in the High Alps, with a
storm lowering in the distance. Lugardon, another urtist who
finds work enough for his pencil at home, shows this very con¬
clusively by his view of a lake and snowy Alps in the canton
of Berne. A splendidly-painted sea-beach, with level dunes
and scant herbage, and cottages in mid-distauce, all under a
fine evening effect, is perhaps the best of the three pictures
contributed by A. Potter. Deserving of praise, also, are the
landscapes of A. Baudit, J. F. Farjon, and G. Loppe, the
famous glacier painter. Of subject-pictures there are
several deserving notice, F. Burnond's “ Village Oven,” show¬
ing a lusty housewife, in white apron, bearing away a great
basketful of bread, while the littlo ones have their arms full,
too, of tho great loaves, being one of the most pleasingly
realistic works in the section. The details, also, are all well
considered. The village merry-making of E. Castres, which
we see going on under the trees, is also capitally treated.
E. andJ. Girardet, G.Bosshardt, 8. Durand, F. Zuber-Buhler
(“ Birth of Venus ”), and L. P. Robert (zephyrs of the evening
fronting through a glade), ore all meu who do honour to their
country. We could scarcely imagine so large a display of
Swiss urt os we have here without the representation of
some one or other of those grand victories which have made
Switzerland famous, and on looking round we are not dis¬
appointed. The Battle of Scmpach, with the heroic Switzer
grasping the epenrs of the foe and guiding them to his own
heart, that ho might make an opening for his countrymen and
thus turn the stubborn fortunes of the day, is depicted by C.
Grob with great spirit and much archaeological knowledge,
albeit there is a touch of German dryness in liis method which
we don’t altogether like. From another point of view, how¬
ever, this may be regarded as more appropriate to the subject
than if the painter had used a juicier and more generous brush.
Altogether, Switzerland takes a decidedly forward place among
the smaller States.
Russia, although geographically and politically one of the
Great Powers, must, nevertheless, artistically be clussed with
the smaller States. Some six or eight years ago she closed the
art-schools at Warsaw, and told the students, if they wished to
study art, they must come to St. Petersburg. Students,
whether Polish or Russian, did not find at St. Petersburg what
the illtjsteatedlondo^news
AVG. 10, 1878
the
ha ” tote ' pcn - —
duced works of the very hig „ k may weU take f striking situations and of dr ’ but, numerous as
ski’s “ Living Torches ° f /^ ns a / ftkart and the other sue incidcn te. The characters arc ™“ e ™™ 9 ’ 8 and in a manner
its place alongside those of Haims ^ ^ grand brav ura type. they they arc hand ^ a Thi r indidcluaUty. The tale that V]
cessful coverers of larg bonlc COU ch in front of wb i c h sufficiently preserv , BCen es to which the _ ci^nra
advancement. We might take some exception to the
nnXS behaviour and consequent embarrassment of Mrs.
. U..* r^sneets the story is good and wholesome,
duced works oi ine ' “‘V » ft work that may weU iaae f st rikingsituations auu ^ numerous; but, numerous as nI)1T Ti * dv
ski’s “Living Torches ° f nf N H^ns Makart and the other sue- incidcn ts. The chmacters arc numerous^ ^ }q ft OBITUARY
its place alongside those ° the gnmd bravura type. they arG( they arc hand !® d ThHr individuality. The tale that VISCOUNT CHELSEA.
ceseful coverers oflarg negro-borne couch in front of whicb 8U ffi c iently P r< T*L t and the Beenes to which the Edward George Henry, Viscount Chelsea, who died on
The bloated tyrant ftnd contemplates quietly is told is far from a pleasant“j l not generally, of a dark Albert Edvvard Ucorg ^ heir . appare nt of George
his palace, surrounded by hi in combustible rea der is introduced are frequeny, * bicb is afforded by the 2nd mst , Under-Secretary for War, by Lady
several Christian Jarianded poles, where fire an d painful kind; but there w the rc et n Henry, Earl CMqga , ^ ^th daughter of WiUiam. second
materials and hoisted P°i^ h whichthey are bound J he fluting of good spun* across theatre an^ ^ one - 8 Beatrix Jane h.s wife founn a g nnd U .R.H. the
is applied to the inflammablestuff ^Uving torches of Nero/’ leam8 of bright, poetic fancy. Thetttw, oo^ autbor . B E arl of Craven He was bom^u ^ ^ h ^ tUm Iii3 next
emphasise the sorry speettude 8ub i e ct of a more pleasing jts social scheming and dishonesty, vn ^ ue8 \ iscount Chelsea.
the tortures of the early martyra. a fair hidy of covered or not with a veneer of respectobdi ^ illustrat % n8 8IR 8TAP LETON MAINWARING, BART.
nature is that in which the sa e^art; - y being assisted d the i r victims cheek by jowl, by the c - Thomas Mainwaring, of Over Peover Cheshire,
the tortures ot tne ear.y mm^-- - ^ & fair ^y 0J CQVered or not with a veneer oi illustrations SIR STAPLETON MAINWAiu™,
nature is that m which the sa drapery, being assisted. d their victims cheek by jowl, by the c; r qtanleton Thomas Mainwaring, of Over Peover, Cheshire
stately presence, attired i n P ttl ^* l0W " ag P ni flcent barge, and “ huma n anvil incessantly beaten " P °ivedwithin Sir Stapleton in ^on the-4th inst., at the age of forty-
down the steps of a of 7f e at beauty is being buman hammer, with its spectacle of: wheel m ^ atld >*_ one. The eldest son of the late Sir
a third is that in which ajomag gi ^ magna te. These wheel that t h e good cannot extncate itse of the Harry Mainwaring of 1 eover Hall, by
unrobed by two men mprosenceof * rtant *£ the Russian ^ ito cruelly hard treatment °f^he unfortuna q{ con . his marriage with Emma eldestdaughter
three pictures are by fartbe no training which is the author’s mam there are *_ of the lute Mr. Thomas William Tatton,
Konindji s square of cottog 0 o Tw0 ta ll poplars J, der consideration. The author leta it be known ^ ^ -A Mr. Michael Kinnean, of Athenry, in
a river, all under -a f Excellent, also, is the haytield, hag dramatised his story as a 8ta «® j} ay ’ which would, of the county of Galway ; but was left a
ss.7£3SfflV-*-^ssEi-sS - *S5J5- s. R *.0^
°n w»ucfc lfc wtj. 18 bJ • Q LoppS o{ Geneva, who has ^ a considerable extent, from rem ^ mb t j a " C ® lo t° briefly! as Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Griwey, K.^H, o 3
acknowledged with pnae oy u. „ b V j heroine are concerned, the plot is. Dneuy, UoU8e Monkstown, in the county of Dublin, died, m Lonaon
made ice^orma His special stu^r: F a n y ^ the old King and follows^—A^Lincolnshire squire, a hard W a 3 ^t man^f Hog, born Oct. 1, 1818, he son of James
fliainwium B , ^ * -> - .. ■
died on the 4th inst., at the age of forty-
one. The eldest son of the late Sir
Harry Mainwaring of Peover Hall, by
his marriage with Emma, eldestdaughter
of the lute Mr. Thomas William Tatton,
of Withenshaw, in the County Palatine
of Cheshire, he was boro in January,
1837 and succeeded to the title on his
father’s death, in 1875. He was a
magistrate for Cheshire. He married,
in 1867, Elizabeth, third daughter of
Mr. Michael Kinnean, of Athenry, in
the county of Galway; but was left a
1 widower in 1871. The baronetcy passes
to his next brother, Mr. Philip latton
Mainwaring, who now becomes fourth
Baronet. He was boro m 1838, and
mend, also, the works of ^ ’ Q 1Ia kovski, most his niece is as good as engaged to marry, the ^ b °l^ ^vice^of the Honourable East India Company, and was for
the P Ru^ian 8 8Cctfon Kramskoi, on the other hand, m his thp g niece , who loves him dearly, ud^whom h tid “ of dig . India had received a medal and tw ^ la ®P® ii pd r rauk of
!,tn!oof nymphs on “a Night in May” rejoices in incline d to love, and launches "P™ m tb ® oi affable made a K.C.B. in 1877 and recently obtained tberal £^
sfsyi tgrrw
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she emild point. Including sculpture, painting, engraving piece of poetical justice: an excellent man, with the beatof Armagh, he went to Rome to finish his
and architecture, the Spanish section numbers about two motives, poisons a villain, whom he rhTrffiSTd st f uSe e s d i l n°Xe CoUege of’the Propaganda. *£"*£**
she ha"fcS? a Ste? of European importance to whom ‘murder is nothing of the vulgar sort; it is merely a ^ was^a very theclabsic * schools
she emild point, including sculpture, painting, engraving, piece of po etictt l justice: an excellent man, with the bestof ^P^PJ^^o^^magh, he went to Rome to finish his
and architecture, the Spanish section numbers about two ^ ctivc8> p oi80n s a villain, whom he 7 a8 P^' fi C J 1 bt ed b} j® a duel °J ud i e8 in the College of the Propaganda. His collegiate
hundred works. By far the largest and most imposing canvas stance8 over which he had no control from fi S b ^' ng '"liroble course was of considerable brilliancy, and he eventually gained
fs that which represents Doha Juana da Locas with her or ahooting in a quarre either t he cowSdlv the dSction of Doctor of Theology. Ordained to the
attendants, standing oil a hillside, by the coffin of .her hus- cour8e8 be wou i d personally have preferred to t y . thood he ret umed to Ireland, became associated with the
band, while the priest rends the service. The wind blows gecrecy 0 f Fabian Pasha s artful aid. .... missionary College of All Hallows, Drumcondra, and was
back the flames of the candles, and the scene “ alt ^. tb f A high degree of that properly dramatic talent which is lectpd L Cardinal Cullen to act as his prirote secretary,
striking. Another impressive picture is that by Ramirez exert ^J conceiving lifelike individual characten. m grouping a ® ld eo contimied until 1871, when he succeeded Dr. McCabe
representing an old man, in P re8e ?®® *^J^Le^Tthe them and playing them off against each other, and in managing ^ BishQ q{ Ardagh . Dr . Conroy was a ripe and accomplished
spectators, revealmg something to them by vmHng on the inci d ents^that are combined to work out a plot, has been | hol P and ^ a pre late was universally esteemed and
floor. The name is not given m the catalogue, and 8 |7®! al employed in Dangerjield (three volumes, 1 mslcy Brothers), by ted> His literary abilities were of no mean order, and,
* lu ' P™!?" 1 Mt U B .“ d ‘C” Pri^'T 1 ; . B e Z to conjunction with Dr. Moran, BifhoP »( O.aORT.hc n.
floor, l ue name io uol ..i w.v --n .----- - emDloved ill Dangerjield itnree volumes, muuvjr resDected. His literary abilities were oi no iu™«
the principal contributors are not even Mr P u. Baden Pritchard. The author hud before written two P on ;unction with Dr Moran, Bishop of Ossory, he was the
for example, lias nearly thirty P'ctnres in the pleasant little books of tourist description, “Tramps in the J f ^ « Iriah Ecclesiastical Record.
bition, varying in size from a few inches square to canvases p „ . „ Bcftutv iSt)0 ta of the Continent; ’ but this is his uulul ° UP _ voon/ ,_
three or four feet long, is altogether ignored in the catalogue, 'j appc ^rance as a^ovelist. He takes here the line of serious MR. SMYTH. OF GAYBROOK^ ^^
and yet this man was the lender of the great art-revival which d PP. comedy> if we ma y call it so, in a story of everyday Robert Smyth, Esq., ofGay brook, in of that county
has once more brought Spam to the HonL Escosura is re pre- which is treated, generally, with an agreeable light- mc ath, J.P., one of the chief landed propnetorsof )
seated by only one picture, that of Philip the Second at borne ^ n ^ ^ mo ° al is9Ue J 8 o{ which are forcioly whose death is just announceil. was for m f crl y aad
Hampton Court; but several men of note are not represented . d tboug h without a word of preaching. The Army, and served as High Sheriff of Westmeath lnE .
at all With the exception of the men we have mentioned, P o{ > tbe g lot beftra 8ome resemblance to that of f or the county of Antrim in 18a2. He was boro J |y » '
the others call for no special remark. , Mr Tom Taylors popular comedy, “Still Waters Run the secoud son of Ralph Smyth, Esq., of Gaybrook.bj
Concerning Germany, Belgium, and Holland we will not • „ ^ ^ ^ vertb g lp88 qu i te of original invention : while Maria, his second wile, daughter ot Bobert Stoples,
pretend to speak. All these are amply represented, and the Brooks or Mortimer Collins may be recalled to and succeeded to the family estates at the death of hi‘ ab ^ ’
English public arc familiar with the various masters and their “ tb ^Xmind by the skilful free-hand drawing of the less in 1827. He married, May 20,1830 “nKf
methods. It had, it must at the same time be confessed been rcaa^r ^ ^ d by the grnceful liveliness of feeling and youngest daughter of Nathaniel Alexander, D.D., Bishop
our intention to review the art-products of these countries a 1 C8siou P The action is divided between the inuocent Meath, and leaves three sons and three daughters. 1 ^
some length, seeing how closely affiliated m many tb ,_ B<diemian society of a few artists, actors, and others Connected 0 f Smyth of Gaybrook, as well as that of Bmythe of
practice is to that of England; but these articles ha^already hc Conius Theatre in the Strand, with a club of their villa, descends from William Smyth, Bishop of EBm
fTT^t. n lpntrth. and we must be satisfied with thus wun mcvoiu. . ti.p. a-j.Lv. At^rv sister of Sir John Povey, Lora
run to too great a length, and we must be ««™fleawitn inus itron8 and acqua i n t ance in Covent Garden ; and the seaside Ar dagh, who married Mary, sister of Sir John lovey,
leaving our readers on ground familiar and well known. f mercantile marine captain’s family » car the port of Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland.
Of France, which has been th ® Southpool, with a few aristocratic and fashionable out- MR. COWAN. _ Am¬
bition, it seems siders in town and country. Captain Whjte-Dangerfie d, h ^ late one of tho Senators of the College of Justice
but our general impression of } h e appearauce sfle maKcs^in uie ^ chopcn _ we think not ww ly-tor the in E diubur K h as Lord Cowan, died at Elm Bank, near that
competition, and of the place she holds among the , titlp of tbe ptor y ( { 8 a mere accomplished scoundrel. , fc on tb | 1st inst. Called to the Scottish Bar, lie was
their most masterly exponents in JJmwj Acrossiwhole ^ mortola He i8 finally defeatrd and dis- “ do P" b g Ben ch a few vrara sSice and at the period of his
XV^teniContinwit,^* b ®^fj^^eo^eflnement^mid ^ ^ ° f - e ^- ni “ e -
that France is par excellence the home of refinement and taste, ^ affectionate> #ingl '. hearted young fellow, with a -
and Pans the Art-School ot the wor.a. charming girlish wife, and with her intimate friend, Bertha | The deaths have also been announced of—
= Marigold, a high-spirited young lady from Westeombe Lodge, | George Gott Nelson, Esq., Captain and Brevet Major, Royal
The Right Hon. W. H. Smith has bought an estate known the aforesaid maritime residence of Captain and Mrs. Hardy. . {lftte Beu gal) Artillery, on June 28, at Ferozepore.
as Keddington Leys, in the parishes of Keddington, Bar- The humble position of Tom Heatherly, at the outset of his j Sutcliffe Esq., Director-General of Public
nardiston, and Hnndon, Suffolk. The estate comprises 246 London life-namely. that of a stage carpenter who occa- , In8truction for Bengal on the 29th ult , aged fifty-one.
acres, together with the mansion of Kelton Hall. The purchase sionully does a pb of scene-painting, and whose talent as an Instruction tnr ngai on b J
money amounted to £11,600. Mr. Smith is now a considerable artist conies out in that way, gives a d. eper interest to the , General W UUam Knox Babington late li.
landowner in Suffolk. affairs of his modest little household, and to his steps of social 1 ment Madras Native Infantry, on the 31st ult.
AUG. 10, 1878
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143
The Rev. Alfred Tatham, M.A., Minor Canon of the Col¬
legiate Church of Southwell, on the 1st inst., aged sixty-five.
Canon Knight, on the 6th inst., in his eighty-ninth year.
He had been fifty-nine years Rector of St. Michael’s, Bristol.
The Rev. John Tournay Parsons, Vicar of Much Dew-
church, near Hereford, on the 23rd ult., at his Vicarage, aged
fifty-two.
The Rev. Canon Gribble, F.R.A.S., Chaplnin to H.M.
Embassy, Constantinople, and Canon of Gibraltar, on the
25th ult., off Malta, on his return home, aged seventy-one.
Joseph Trigge Scliomberg, Esq., Q.C., Bencher of Lincoln’s
Inn, and Recorder of Aldborough, Suffolk, on the 28th ult., at
Seend, Wilts, aged seventy-two.
Captain Richard Henry Hare, G.C.C., late 13tli Light
Infantry, on June 22, at Elmina, Gold Coast, Africa. He was
only son of the Hon. Henry Hare, youngest brother of William
second Earl of Listowel, K.P., father of the present Earl.
Sergeant Samuel M’Gaw, V.C., of the Black Watch, who
won the Victoria Cross for his gallantry in leading a portion
of the 42nd through the bush at the Battle of Amoaful, Jan. 31,
1874, liwt week at Lamaca, Cyprus.
The Hon. Edward Miles David Browne, Captain R.N.,
brother of the present Lord Kilmaine, and second son of John
Cavendish, late Lord Kilmaine, by his second wife, Mary,
daughter of the late Hon. Charles Ewan Law, M.P., Recorder
of London (and granddaughter of Lord Chief Justice Lord
Ellenborough), on the 27th ult.
Sackville Deane Hamilton, Esq., on the 30th ult., at Glen¬
view, Freshford, near Bath. He was son of the Rev. Sackville
Robert Hamilton, Rector of Mallow, by Jane, his wife, daughter
of Edward Deane Freeman, Esq., of Castle Cor, and grand¬
son of the Right Hon. Sackville Hamilton, Chief Secretary for
Ireland, a scion of the noble house of Boyne.
James Edward Thomas Parratt, Esq., Inspector General
of Army Hospitals, on the 31st ult., at Victoria-road, Old
Charlton, Kent, aged seventy-one. He served for nearly thirty
years with the Royal Artillery, including the campaign in
China, 1841-2, and subsequently as Principal Medical Officer
at Woolwich.
Captain John de Courcy Dashwood, R.N., aged seventy-
six. He entered the Royal Navy in 1814, and served as a
midshipman duriug the American war of 1815, taking part in
the expedition to New Orleans. As Lieutenant of the Windsor
Castle, commanded by his father, the late Vice-Admiral Sir
Charles Dashwood, he was stationed off Lisbon during the
rebellion in 1824, when King John VI. took refuge on board
the Windsor Castle, and subsequently conferred decorations
on the officers of the ship, in commemoration of the occasion,
Lieutenant Dashwood receiving the order of the Tower and
Sword. He was promoted a retired Commander in 1864.
By the last Australian mail news is brought of the death
of one of the leading journalists of South Australia—Mr. John
Howard Clark, theeditorand oneof the proprietors of th e Register
and other newspapers of Adelaide. By his persistent course of
keeping his journals free from bigotry and party prejudice, a
fault to which there is always too much inclination in small
communities, Mr. Clark materially aided in raising newspapers
in the colony to a rank of which our best English journals
might be proud. He was also one of the founders of the
Adelaide Philosophical Society and South Australian Institute,
in both of which he took especial interest to the last. A public
meeting was held Hfter his decease, at which it was determined
to raise a memorial to him, which is in all probability to take
the Bhape of a scholarship at the Adelaide University.
The gold medal of the Royal Agricultural Society was
awarded on Tuesday, at Bristol, to Mr. M’Cormack, for his
self sheaf-binding reaper, which the judges considered fulfilled
all the conditions required by the society.
The sixteenth report of the Royal Commissioners of the
Patriotic Fund, which was issued on the 1st inst., shows that the
total amount of contributions to Dec. 31, 1876, was £1,460,861,
which, together with the interest received, has enabled the
sum of £1,472,259 to be expended in relief, leaving a capital
of £400,640, and an annual income of £33,935. The number
of children in boarding institutions at the end of 1876 was
761—365 boys and 396 girls—inclusive of those in the Royal
Victoria Patriotic Asylum for Girls. The “Captain” Relief
Fund amounted to £31,415, and at the end of the year 107
widows and 152 orphans were receiving aid from this fund.
The forty-sixth annual congress of the British Medical
Association was begun at Bath on Tuesday. The sermon at
the Abbey, in the morning, was preached by the Bishop of
the diocese, Lord A. Hervey. In the afternoon meetings of
the council and of the committee of sections were held ; and
in the evening the general meeting took place in the Assembly
Rcom, where the museum of the association had been arranged.
Mr. W. Dallas Husband, of York, the treasurer of the asso¬
ciation, presided, in consequence of the death of the president
of last year. Dr. Eason Wilkinson, of Manchester. Dr. R. W.
Falconer, who has served the office of Mayor of Bath, was
unanimously elected president for the year ensuiDg. In his
opening address he dwelt upon the great progress the asso¬
ciation has made of late years. It now numbers 7700
members in the United Kingdom, with a colonial branch in
Jamaica. The influence of the association was seen in the
attention paid by the Government at different times to the
views it expressed upon sanitary medical subjects. The asso¬
ciation had also promoted the public good by encouraging
original research. A vote of condolence was passed with the
family of the late president. Mr. Fowke, the president, read
the report, which was adopted.
The Portsmouth Royal Sailors’ Home has been opened
twenty-six years. It has enjoyed the patronageof the Queen,
after a minute inspection by the lamented Prince Consort, and
has been favoured with the approval of successive Boards of
Admiralty and distinguished officers of every rank in her
Majesty’s service. Nor has it been wanting in public con¬
fidence. A large institution has been built and furnished
with every requirement for the time, not only for the temporal,
but for the moral and religious benefit of the seamen. And it
has had abundant success. It has supplied seamen with
417,881 meals and 349,286 beds. The beds during the month
of May, 1878, were nearly 3000; 13.188 shipwrecked seamen
have been lodged and relieved; and about £400,000 of seamen's
money has been deposited with the superintendents for safe
custody, the greater part of which was thereby rescued from
plunder and much of it enjoyed by the families of the seamen.
The directors desire to enlarge the home, in order to
inorease its usefulness, and a property which meets all the
requirements is now offered. The cost of the purchase of the
property and of a smaller house to give access to the home,
and of the required improvements, and fittings, and furniture,
is calculated at £2500. For this sum the directors appeal to
the public. Contributions will be received by the treasurers,
Messrs. Grant, Gillman, and Long, Portsmouth; Messrs. Glyn
and Co., London; and the superintendent, J. L. Thorne, Esq.,
R.A., at the Home.
CHESS.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
All communication* relating to this department of the roper should he addreued to the
Eh tor. aiul hare the teord •• Chest written on the envelope.
to comply w * 11 f " rwari1 » diagram cf the position, wr shall be glad
R H B (Greenock).—The privilege of cafituririe n I>»wn en pattanl belongs to the Pawn
only; therefore the Bishop cannot do so In the solution of Problem No. 179*.
.1 F i Leeds!.—We pointed ont the player's mistake In » note to the move. How can
we account for his having committed such a blunder?
H KiiEWAnu.—You can use a postal card In forwarding solutions of problems: hut yon
must be careful to comply with th« rules laid down liy the Post-Office authorities.
W N (Straliane).—Only correct solutions are acknowledged.
Uviinsuiu. (Harrow).—Solutions should reach ns not later than the Friday to be
acknowledges! In our Issue of the followim week.
J B (Parish—No. 171*7 cannot be solved by 1. Q to Q Kt sq.
Connuirr Sou-riox* or Phoiim m No. 1796 received from Ooplaplno, C E Jlarr.W Lecson.
1 io Page. Prctextat, NormaD Itnmbelow. and E P Vulliamy,
Correct Solutions or Puoblew No. 17!»! received from Emile Frau. Neworth. J WS
(Dawlish). Sabornoff (Athens), C B Carlon. P lo Page, 8 U Barrett. Polichineile, J
Hunter, and L H Roberts.
Counrcr Son-T'ONS or Problem No. 1797 received from W S B. J de Honsteyn. G H V,
E II HV East Harden. Ryecroft. Uereward, W I.cc*on. Dabbshlll. Chessophilc.
Barrows Edges. Norman Ituinbclow. E P Vnlllamy. A Wood. J W W, C O Ellison,
B Phelan. Ur F St. C B Carlon. P le Page. J Hunter. E I. O. Henbury, I. Sharswood.
H Powell. Triton. E Worriry. P Hampton. It Schofield, I. 8 1). 8 Threlfall. R Robson.
Harrovian, Simplex. T rirccnbank, J Won tone, R (iray. It T King, E Eamondo, J F
Spiers. Tippet. R Ingmoll,Leonora and lawn, j l.yndford, I) l/esllo. Lammaa, White
Star. S R of Leeds. Joseph B. A R (7. Black Knight. T Edgar. Americnine, W F Pettit.
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Kish*. F W 8. H Brewster. Llr, L of Truro. J1 Meredith. C 8 Coxe. Walter. M Rees,
M Whiteley Only Jones. C Elmore, J 8 W. A Ellmaker, W Cowell, C Darrugh, T W
Hope, and B Champneys.
Solution o
Fkoblkx No. 1796.
WRITS. BLACK.
I 2. Mates accordingly.
PROBLEM No. 1799.
By C. A. Oii.bebo (Now York).
BLACK.
White to play, and mate in three moves.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated Oct. 3,1875) of the Most Hon. Eliza Harriett,
Marchioness of Northampton, late of Castle Ashby, North¬
ampton, who died on Dec. 4 last at Florence, was proved on
the 3rd nit. by Lord Alwyne Frederic Compton, the son, the
personal estate being sworn under £2000. The testatrix
appoints all the property she has power to dispose of uuder
her marriage settlement to her three children, Alwyne Frederic,
Douglas Cecil James, and Mubel Violet Isabel.
The will (dated Sept. 17, 1866) with a codicil (dated Jan. 23,
1872) of Mr. Auguste Stephen Ralli, late of Marseilles, who
died on April 18 last, was proved in London on the 20th ult.
by Stephen Augustus Ralli, the son, the personal estate in
England being sworn under £80,000. The testator having by
the law of France the power of disposing of the usufruct of
one moiety of his property and one fourth absolutely, he leaves
the said usufruct to his wife, Madame Suzanne Ralli, and he
also gives her specially all his furniture, plate, pictures, linen,
china, and jewellery. There are Borne other special legacies to
relatives and to servants, bequests of 5000f. each to the Chios
Lyceum, the Athens Lyceum, and the homes for the poor.
Marseilles ; and legacies to the Greek Church at Marseilles and
several of its officers. The residue he leaves to his three
children, Etienne, Julie, and Mane, and their children.
The will (dated Feb. 4,1878) with a codicil (dated the 19th
of the same month) of Miss Emily Susan Drummond, lnte of
No. 47, Seymour-8treet, who died on June 9 last, was proved
on the 9th ult. by Earl Percy and George James Drummond,
the executors, the personal estate being sworn under £50,000.
The testatrix, after leaving a large number of legacies, as well
pecuniary as specific, leaves the residue of her property upon
trust for her two sisters, Julia Frances and Marion; on the
death of the survivor of them some further legacies are to be
paid, including £1000 to the Vicar and churchwardens of the
parish of West Hyde, Herts, upon tmst to apply the dividends
in the winter season, at their discretion, among the deserving
poor of the said parish. A life interest is theu given in the
remainder to her nieces, Lady Boyd and Emily Compton, in
succession; and the ultimate residue is to go to her nephew,
Mortimer Percy George Douglas Drummond.
The will (dated June 28, 1870) of Mr. John Gordon, late of
Cluny, Aberdeen, and of No. 39, Park-lane, who died on
March 31 last, was proved on the 22nd ult. by Mrs. Emily
Eliza Steele Gordon, the widow, the sole executrix, the
personal estate being sworn under £25,000. The testator leaves
all his real and personal estate in England to his wife.
The will (dated April 2, 1878) of Mr. Benjamin Johnson,
late of No. 1, Springfield, Upper Clapton, who died on June 23
last, was proved on the 16th ult. by John Lamy Ellerm,
George Johnson, the nephew, and William Brown, the
executors, the personal estate being sworn under £20,000.
The testator bequeaths to the Licensed Victuallers’ Asylum,
Old Kent-road, £100; and to the Hospital for Consumption,
Victoria Park, Bethnal-green, £500.
The will (dated Feb. 13, 1873) of Mr. Evan Jones, formerly
Marshal of the High Court of Admiralty, but late of Croydon,
who died on May 19 last, was proved on the 12th ult. by Alfred
Carpenter, M.D., and George Anson Whealler, the executors,
the personal estate being sworn under £9000. After giving a
legacy to the three children of his late son, Spencer Evan
Jones, he gives the rest of his property between his two
daughters.
THE PARIS TOURNAMENT.
The following interesting Game was played in the eighth round betweenMr.
Mackenzie, of New York, and Herr Englisch, of Vienna .—{Huy Lope*.)
white (Mr. M.) black (Herr E.) , white (Mr. M.) black (HerrE.)
1. P to K 4th P to K 4th 15. fttoftSrd P to Kt 3rd
2. Kt to K B 3rd Kt to ft B 3rd 16. Kt to Q B 3rd P to ft Kt 4tl
3. B to Kt 6th 17. P to Q Kt 3rd Kt to Kt 3rd
It I* worth noting that till* opening was 18. B to R 6th K R to K sq
adopted by the first playets in a lnrye J 19. Cl R to K sq B to Kt 2nd
ijority of the g
3.
4. B to R 4th
6. P to « 4th
6. Castles
7 . T to K 5th
8. P to ft B 3rd
9. P takes P 1
It will la* admitted, wi
ha* now a wor*c pojitl
played the B to this *'1
10. B
i play
P to Q R 3rd
Kt to B 3rd
P takes P
B to B 4th
Kt to ft 4th
Castles
B to K 2nd
ok. that Black
Jan if he hail
*, 20. R takes R (ch) Q takes R
Kt 3rd Kt to Kt 3rd
ft 5th Kt to R 4th
12. P to ft 6th
A move in our Jndfrmeiit. although
we otarrvo thnt Mr. l’otVr. ill Mi« We*f-
minttrr Vaperf, douT *
21. R to K sq
22. Kt to K 4th
23. a takes B
24. P to K R 4th
25. B to Kt 6t.h
26. B to B 4th
27. R to a sq
28. B to K 3rd
29. P to K R 5th
30. P takes P
31. B to Kt 5th
~ B 6th
ft to Q sq
B takes Kt
Kt to ft B 3rd
B to K Kt 2nd
ftto Kt sq
K B to B sq
ft to K sq
ft to ft SO
Kt to ft B sq
R P takes P
ft to Kt 3rd
ft to B 4th
Quet’n from the rank on whli
then follows the fine stroke,
P takes P 133. ft takes R
B to B 3rd I 31. ft takes ft Kt takes P
Kt (from Kt3rd) 35. B takes K Kt P Kt to K 2nd
to B 5th I 36. B takes Kt, and wins.
CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
The tie in the Paris tournament between Herr Zukertort and M. Winawer
was played off, and, as announced in our last Issue, resulted m the first two
games being drawn. The next two games, however, were won by Herr
Zukertort, who thus secured the first prize—two works of art presented by
the French Government and lOOOf in coin; the second pnr.e, consisting of
one work of art and 600f. in coin falling to M. Winawer. The order in which
the prizes have been gained is therefore as follows First, Herr Zukertort,
of Berlin ; second, M. Winawer, of Warsaw; third, Mr. Blackburne, of
London ; fourth, Mr Mackenzie, of New York ; fifth, Mr. Bird, of London;
and sixth, Herr Anderssen, of Breslau.
We observe that the current number of the Westminster P,inert contains
fifty-five of the games played in the Paris tourney, including all those occur¬
ring between the prize-winners, and the deciding game in the tie-match
between Messrs Zukertort and Winawer. This is a feat unparalleled mthe
history of chess monthlies; and the energy and enterprise required to
accomplish it deserve public recognition.
The annual tournaments of the Counties Chess Association were brought
to a conclusion on the 3rd inst. The challenge cup that is the symbol of
provincial championship was won by Mr. E.Thorold.who jilayed throughor
i capital form, and ianted off tht -
of eleven out of a possible twelve. Tl' e
second prize with a score of
.. with the--
, C. E. hauken gained the
BoouAiu u.sees ...... ..- —_ven and a half, and Messrs. Jcnkin and
Ensor tied and divided the third and fourth prizes. For the second class
tourney there were very few entries, but these included a youth of
thirteen, Master Jacksos, of Dewsbury. The following is a Game that
occurred between the boy chcssplayt r and Mr. Dakbellb.
white (Mr. D.)
1. P to K 4th
2 Kt to K B 3rd
3. B to B 4th
4. Pto ft B 3rd
6. P to K R 3rd
6. P to ft 3rd
7. B to K Kt 5th
H. B to R 4th
9. B takes B
* (Master J.)
P to K 4th
Kt to ft B 3rd
B to B 4th
P to ft 3rd
Kt to K B 3rd
Castles
P to K R 3rd
B to K 3rd
P takes B
white (Mr. D.) black (Master J.)
10. ft to Kt 3rd
It. ftto ftsq
12. Q Kt to ft 2nd
13. P to ft Kt 4th
14. Pto ft R 4th
15 Pto KtSih
16. B takes Kt
17. Kt takes K P
18. Kt takes R
ft to ft 2nd
R to B 2nd
Kt to K R 4th
H to Kt 3rd
P to ft R 4th
Kt to K 2nd
ft takes B
ft to R 5th
ft takes K B P.
Mate.
The first prize in this class was won by Mr. J. de Soyres and the second by
Master Jackson. The handicap tourney is still in progress, but we have
cen informed that the struggle for the first place now Ues between Mr.
\ S Ensor and the anonymous player v
louts of the "automaton,” Mephisto.
Wo understand that the friends of Captain Mackenzie, the champion of
America, are desirous of recognising his victories over thewinneis ot tho
o chief prizes in the recent Paris tourney by backing him ii
sitter of those gentlemen, or against any player of note who did
not enter the lists on the occasion referred to. Meanwhile, Captain
Mackenzie is to be entertuined by the City Chess Club at a banquet which
is dxed for tbo 9th inst.
The British Association meets this year at Dublin, the
session beginning next Wednesday, Aug. 14, the president¬
elect being Dr. W. Spottiswoode.
The high court meeting of the Ancient Order of Foresters
commenced its business last Monday at Newcastle-on-Tync.
The report of the investigation committee showed that the
number of financial members was 521,416, and that the court
and district funds amounted to £2,497,000, the increase for
the year being nearly 12,000 members and £152,000.—At the
eleventh annual meeting of the legislative council of the
British United Order of Oddfellows, which began at Leeds on
Monday, the Grand Master stated that during the year 1281
members had been admitted, that the income had increased
£3000, and that the payments amounted to nearly £9000.
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A the
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poot-strcct Station. London. E.C.
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lYX In EARLY ENGLISH, carried out to design by the beat
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QILK COSTUME DEPARTMENT.
g^B.’vrunbns «u a aa
T4 gs.coch.___
M ANTLE DEPARTMENT-
»auMaaft. , ai.tt-
" in Jaeketa, 04 gs. each.
E
iNO’S FRUIT SALT.
IMPORTANT TO ALL
rmi iTnrr.T.MS
T>LACK DEPARTMENT.— Grenadines, Is.
B per yard; All-Wool Fabrics, la per yard; Serge Costumes,
Jgs. each.
E N P £.tto2 I «iJ»^msi I1 sy“?£ l ci)i“ ifiB
all England.”
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Banker* to the New Zealand Government.
AuthorisedCspiULW^. Eabhu£Capita!.£7«M»0.
DIRECTORS.
J. LOGAN CAMPBELL E*q..Pr«eld«Bfc
I Hmi.'J a^wraimson. M.L.C.
LONDON BOARD.
The Right Hon. Btr Joints Per-1 Pnkoner lArkwmthy, Eaq.
A.J.Muud^^ k W. oj J_A ac kland.
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES.
In Auitralla—Melbourne, 8ydney. end NewcusUe.
In Ne/wSUiablnd—Auckland. BleDhelm, Christchurch, Dunedin.
l nvercargHl?Naple*Ncl*)ii. New Plymouth, l , lct<in. MfelUnrtoii.
and at cighty-two othertownsand nbicc* throughouttlieOo ony.
The Bunk grunt* Draft* on aU tlielr Brunches nnd Agency •,
an'l trimsartaevcry description of lumking buslne*. c.mnect.H
with NiTw*Z eulamL Austruliu, nnd FIJI on tho mo*t favourable
te Tbe London Office RECEIVES DEPOSITS of £80 and upwards
for lixed |»riods of two to five years. Uwring Interwt ut 8 |u-r
cent per unnnm. Tho rote for shorter periods can be aacertalned
onapullcatlon. F. Laiikwokthy, Manuring Director.
No.X Qneion Vlctorla-ftre>et, Manvion Uou««. E.C*
r 1 ARDNERS’ NEW DINNER and TABLE
U GLASS SERV1CKS are original In
SSSSSSaS^guasset
a 6*. 8d. the Set for twelve person* complete.
DINNER SERVICES.
Coloured Lithographs post-free.
ThaLanido^e Bln *’. « » 01 The Unsiewno” - ** J ®
The Laurel .. .. » » • | ?ft U» !*. ” 5 * 0
Discount 18 per cent.
In Enamelled Patterns. I In tlielr unequalled Crown
‘ rh T« lWU r ,W ? d » 8 01 In Rub, .. T ..U « 0
The Japanese Bamboo 8 « « I }" • S 0
The Humming-Bird .. 7 7 0 In Black. 0 0
ThoSSvree .. 1,,^ ^
TABLE GLASS BEBVICE8.
Rid"y^cut ghuu 1 ^ 8 8 13 S
IUnstretod ^
po«t-frec on application.
Gardner*'. Lamp. Glare, end Chin*Manufacturer.,«3 and 4M.
West Btrana, Charing-cross.
■DALL and EVENING DRESS BOOM.
JD dXi. of the most recent date. AU light Evening
Lire usee, at extremely low prices^
rVREY DEPARTMENT. — CAMBRIC
k... *
from 1*. per yerd.
AYILLINERY.—Summer Bonnets, Hats,
lTi and Caps are greatly reduced In price.
THE LONDON GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE.
BefenWtrttl, w.
S2UM ?&2St It wlilbe Very oervlocable to me.
E NO’S FRUIT SALT.
A Gentleman ftateai # FHU1T HALT haj
followed by severe t2l«b The day Is
arte.1 like a charm when aU other treatmrm^rmi sl ffyen
not far dlstaiit When the neglMt ins t ^ ^mjdered
tenth edition, pet-
T ATEST TEST of CHUBBS’ SAFES.
jai-SSt ssss&sts: £sSSJS JSi'asss
Sitlnibi lout night, in sr.lteof tlie Intense lient arising
frmu'ib'stnictlon of soVrge a stock of oil. Ullow. reRway. nnd
other grvuses *tor«t In the *l«\o portion of our prelim**.-we
are. dear Bir*. your. Ilthfully, Bami . 8mitu „ d Co.
Messrs. Cliubb and Son. Patent Safe Warehouse.
128. Queen Victoria-street, London, E.C.
vr ALU ABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR.
^r«aa!f«^»sKS!!W5
feS5S?SS45S!S®sfr‘<
Durham. March, 1*78._ _ _-
T 7 L 0 RILINE. For the Teeth and Breath.
X? Is the best Liquid Dentifrice In the World; It thoroughly
o 10. BENNETT’S WATCHES.
TVi In return for a £10 Note, free and safe per •>»• of
fiWNETrs LADY'S GOLD WATCHES pert,
beauty and workmanship, with keyless action, air¬
tight, and dust-tight.—-G5, Cheapslde
-»—eurers' price- " “ n *“
BENNETT. 68 and 84. Cheaptldo.
TJOMCEOPATHIG HOSPITAL (SELECT) xxrALKER’S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES
n for LADIES. Bolton House. 192. Clapham-road. Surrey YV are superseding all others. Prlir Sl.-dals-Lmdon mT,
Established 1887. A Private Home, where Patient*i suffering p Bri * 18«7. Silver Watches.from£4♦*.: Gold, from Mbs-Prlcw-
frem serious diseases, and requiring sneclal su|*rvIrion, can uSiWfree.-«8.Ournhlll; 220. Regent-street; end76.Strand.
obUIn the beet Medical and Surgical Treatment without to- lux* sens -
curring anxietv In tlielr own homes rreatlse ..f saccessf al coses
forwarded for twelve stamps. Physician, DAVID JON KB^M.D.
Lonsultatlon* dally. Eleven to One (Tnreday and Friday
excepted), at 18. Welbeck-etreet. Loudon.__
TOHN GOSNELL and CO.’S VIOLET
J and MILLEFLECB POWDER. fo . r *'’• T. 0 , 1 ^ "iT2i
B REIDENBACH’S ABRONIA.—The New
Scent for 1878. Delicate, refreshing, end durable. 2*. ud. to
to*, pe^lottle. BreMenbach * ^CAMAHINE
P 'w^ D |?hemlrtT > ^d , tbl Makers. b87s. NeW lkmd-strret. W.
■^JR. STREETER,
jnVENTY-FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
Whereas a WARRANT w as granted at tho Carlsnihe (Grand
Duchr of ltadpn) rolled Oniri f.»r tin* •pjinshenaion of
Firstly—KRNiiT AUGUST ZIMMER, a native of IN8TER-
BURG. In East Prussia, aged twenty-three, slender, mlddle-
siml, black hair, leurdlcss, swinging walk, speaking French.
English. Orman (Uie latUr In tlie East Prnsslan dlnlcet), pro-
Ubly wearing a blne-strimsl cloth suit, black necktie; and of
Secondly-ALOIS KEUNER, a nntlvo of Rhelnbau«n.
Bruclisal District. Grand Duchy of Bnden. aged twenty-three,
tall, slender, deep fair hair, well built, little fair moustache,
speaking German only (In tlie Grand Duchy of Baden dialect)
"^oMwvl ng?-IH.Y 2lflastf BIT) L IcN from the Safe of the
1 Division. 1 Baden Field Artillery Regiment. Nn. It, the sum of |
41 mark (of which 1300murk in German llnnk-Notes and the
re mainder In German Gold Colo) and abscondingtha tame day.
J, Tii“ibove Reward will tie paid to anv person riving
Information as wilt lead to the apprehension and extnulitlc
tho German Authorities of the saM Ernst August Zimmer
Alois Keener All »nt.horltirs. officials. *
18. NEW BOND-8TREET. W.
GOLDSMITH AND JEWELLER.
The only Jeweller In England whose Stock consists of
uniform standard quallty-vlx 18 carets.
LONDON-MADE JEWELLERY
of Exquisite Design and Workmanship.
“^diamond’ornaments , ,
In irreat varietv at I,rices relal i*e to their Intrinsic value.
wbuuimo
THE "TALISMAN” BRACELET
(Patented), a Novelty for tho Sca»on, from £A*
pEARS’
i’ TRANSPARENT SOAP.—Pure,
Fragrant and Durable. Established HOyears. The
■•Journal of Cutaneous Medicine, edited by Mr.
Erasmus Wllvon. says:-” l'carsls a mime engraven
on the memory ot the oldest iiiliabltaiit. iwid
Pears' Transparent boap is an article of the
nlcoatond most careful manufacture, anil the roost
agreeable and refreshing balm to the skin. Sold
by all Chemists; and by Pears, 91, Great Russell-
street, London.
E 1
^NO’S FRUIT SALT.
S JfttUlJ. OAU1. _
a lloslna t^ttage Vcntnor Isle of Wight, Jan »
Mr. Eno.-llear Sir.-The ellects lui my rare are nism. s-
lam constitutionally bilious, andurn now fifty ^ > f |J rk .
.. My mother and ymingwt *>^« r ?A T "pSSdto eoSer
.. <biliousness seems hcredlUrj i. andII fourt i,
Yours sincerely, Eux* PriLino._____
E N ,°i
JO’S FRUIT SALT. . to
A X-ST
llttlo food 1 could take £< »c"dly
-- « ot ct» “ ““
ilng A The U
have Mcrtfrnbe/tatoreloW;
been a great earthly blessing.
without it. m readiur** for any
emergency.
E N .?ow
STIMULANTS.—The present systemA'3 ..fi„£.nces uIcidedic
sKMaj “n.®” m » 4Ss:i7“ fssssas
END'S FRU1T8ALT Is
weakness of the liver: 1
I ADIES ABOUT TO TRAVEL should
J see the "OSBORNE" DRESS-CASEvenr light andhand-
soine, with collapsible bonnet compartment. Price HW. hd.
11ARHON. Manufacturer.2>d. Hieh Holborn (Uv# doors west
•—in inn* of Court Hotel). Illustrated List free.
authorities, officials. Ac., knowing tlielr
are rrqiiciited to effectuate tlielr apprehension and
nte with tbs
rtMANDo nnl. Badisches FxLn-A»riu.r»ix-
Rkoimemts, No. 14, Carlaruhe, Grand Duchy
of Ration, Qennany.
Oarlsrnhe, July 27. DT8."
■RRTTIRH nnd AMERICAN WHOLESALE
1> BUEKDIUn of FOWLS. PIGEONS, and RABBITS
U1.WM- -.-Ii.l ,\.I.I..-.«I„1 Price-LisL to U. B.. 8686. at RUDOLF
liOSSK. Plug (Ibdnmla).
JOSEPH GILLOTT'8
^ 8TEEL PENS.
Sold by all Stationer* thronghout the World
AXORA MEDICATED FRUIT
J LOZENGES for CONSTIPATION. SLUUG1SI1NE88
OF TIIE STOMACH, BILE. HEAUACIIK.
The " Lancet: ”—" It is * great Improvement on the
preparatiun* In common us* for the same purpose
"Medical Pres*"Uxora Loxenges enu be safely
reo)inmcrided^ i|^r ne ^ ph.D.:—"laxora Loxenges are
•feVi^.b^l^CheJSiuand DrugglsU; Whole¬
sale. 82. South wark-street.
J^LAIR’S GOUT PILLS,
rm,. nr«wt English Remedy for Gout and Rbenmatlsm. Bore,
•afe, and effectual. No restraint of diet required during
ni and are certain to prevent the disease attacking any vital
oik. Bold by all Chemlita at la. 1W- and 2a. ftd. per Box.
“s FRUIT SALT Upecullarly “>P^*" T JfX£!ration « hen
a^ ^NO'9 A Fe'u1t SALT; therefore no fondly
J GUTH’S CORK HOLLOW PEN-
1j. HOLDERS. Patenlevl for F.ngtand. IVance, Germany,
and Auatria. stipulate* a correct holding of the pen. and guards
against every crump of the hand. It Is the beat which lion been
Invented, and Is noun mended by tliem.wt celebrated nnthonties
on writing. High commission allowed to agents whomayapply.
Fries perdoxen, 8 reichsmark aop.. cash.
Manufactured inly by CARL LINDEM‘““ “
APERIENT FRUIT LOZENGES,
J\_ prepared from the Bark of the Rhamnus Frengnl*.
A medicine which he* been described on high authority a*
"The only real aperient we have;" aU others usually chuaeit
under that name h.-lng drastic la their operation and often
Injurious In their after effect. Thra. Lore.igra are extreme y
palatable, and children take them readily as a sweetmeat. Mild
and uniform In their opcretion."-Lana-t. The Loxenge " Is on
rxrellent and exceedingly mild form of laxative, especially suit-
sae&sf^sssasssg
age. and maybe oontlnuedfor any 1 P j, nw . insny •} ,
^ar^mi^ e en P t^. U ,^= ^ THE NUB»EUY
1T1S BEYOND PRAISE. _ _
/CAUTION —Examine each Bottle mid
by a£l _
’ 4 nm£
ajmro %
MB
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-VOL. LXXIII.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1878.
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SKETCHES OF THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OF CYPRUS.
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AUG. 17, 1878’
BIKTH t Count™ of Cotunbam, ol «
the illustrated
On (he 7th mat., at Tandridge Court,
“"o'uS. Sri to- - Th,G™», u-rmfhm, U.C
“d-litSC; .t Mot. ft* ft——. lb. Sou. H* >»»•*
fl “o7tbi uu. to, ..*»»*. am » «<
a “St.1^!«'B0tb«y. K» BraMwidt, tbe wife Thomas Blend,
alto***—. S.W.,tb.«ife of Clo-elS*
Francis Feting, of a son. MARRIAGES .
Chaplain ol the Savoy and « Mills,eldest daughter
Rear-Admiiml the H “;J% e nCT^ota F. T. Cramptoa, Rector of
Hiffi *«»" “
Count CWtTfll, CbataberlMn to the Uu ^°^ v A ' Westj M.A., to Hilda,
^^bS^of'tfiSfbt’j^^ C.B.. H.a.hO. cw.
*Si!r£5E,
“ crk ‘- deaths.
On the tttt but., .t S™ SjtabWb ®r StapUton Ttoto bDun«~»B,
^0 E £ult..^^..t» i JXo^S^ 3 -.fSa
”“ a i:‘UT»t.,ot dr„»y, Itob., .if. of B.H. Ht.Uoy, of s»,
Fulham-road, S.W., aged 63 years.
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this kind is both ted^ 0ug an d tardy, and there has boeri
enough of it this Session to satisfy the most covetous
capacity of finar^fcj members. But, after all, an immense
amount of tb^g seems to have been lost in a mistaken
effort to drive on half a dozen measures abreast
instead 0 f m single file. And hence, towards the close)
of fr.e allotted legislative period, many bills which
R r Ci almost been nurtured into maturity had to be
thrown over for want of opportunity to complete them.
Clearly this is injudicious management, and we can only
account for it by a suspicion that tbe competition of
departments to push forward their respective measures
threw embarrassment in tbe way of tho loader of the
House. In Parliament it is quite a mistake to put by
unfinished measures, however advanced the stage they
may have, reached, for the sake of giving others a fair
chance ; and very’ much of the tact requisite for a success¬
ful dispatch of business is needed to determine which bills
shall have precedence, when they shall be insisted upon,
and in what order and at what risks they shall be sub¬
mitted for debate. Nothing wastes so much time as well-
intentioned muddle, and nothing is more discouraging to
l those members who conscientiously seek to satisfy their
1 sense of responsibility than that confusion of arrangement
= ! which prevents them from knowing precisely where they.
SVT.” I . , , _i..
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Five Shillings for each insertion.
CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST 24.
SUNDAY, Auo. 18.
Ninth Sunday after Trinity
Emperor of Austria, born, 1830.
Morning Lessons : 1 Kings x. to 26,
Rom. xv. 8. Evening Lessons . 1
Kings xi. to 16 or xi. 26; Matt.
8 t^^I’aur s' 1 Cathedral, 10.30
Bishop Anderson; 3.15 p.n
Rishop of Pittsbuxgh; 7 P "
, the
St. James’s, noon, Rev. Francis
Garden, Sub-Dean of the Chapels
Royal. . _
"Whitehall, 11 a m. and 3 p.m., Rev.
W. Hulton.
Savoy, 11.30 a.m., the Bishop of
Pittsburg, Pr. Kerfoot; 7 p.m.,
Rev. T. Teignmouth Shore, In¬
cumbent of Berkeley Chapel, May-
fair. , _ .,.
British Association at Dublin:
Special Services tit the Cathedrals,
the Chapel Royal, and other
churches.
uisnop ui • r —l Rev.
C. G. Williamson, Curate of AU
Souls’, Marylebone.
Westminster Abbey, 10 a.
of Barbadoes, and 3 p.
Farrar, D.D.
MONDAY, Aug. 19.
British Association, Dublin : Break-
Zoological Society’s
British Archaeological Association : i
Congress at Wisbech (till the /7th),
Adorns by the President, the Earl
of Hardwieke, at the Council
Chamber, 2 p.m.; dinner in the
Public Hall, 7 p.m.
Yachting : Hammersmith Hading
Club; Royal Albert Yacht Club
Regatta, Southsea (3 days) ; Car-
lingford Lough Regatta (3 days).
TUESDAY, Aug. 20.
Blackcock shooting begins. I British A^ociation, Dublin, meeting
Horticultural Society, fruit and floral
of Sections,
11 a.m.; General Committee to
Elect Officers, &c., 3 p.m.; Dis¬
course by Professor JamesDew.tr
on Dissociation in Modern Ideas of
Chemical Action, 8.30 p.m.
Rowing : Berwick, Queenstown,
Brighton Regattas.
of sections, 11 a.m.; soiree by the
Royal Irish Academy, at the Man¬
sion House, 8 p.m.
British Archaeological Association at
Wisbech: Excursion to Ely Cathe¬
dral, &c., starting 9.27 a.m.
committees, 11 a.m.; scientific,
1 p.m.; general meeting, 3 p.m.
Hun ane Society, committee, 4 p.m.
Yachting; Royal Channel Islands
Yacht Club Regatta, Guernsey.
WEDNESDAY, Auo. 21.
Moon’s last quarter, 4.8 a.m. _ I British Association, Dublin,
British Archtcological Association
at Wisbech : Excursion to W al-
solun, Walton, Walpole, &c.;
paper read by Sir Lewis Jarvis, at
OT JAMES’S HALL, PICCADILLY.
rpHE MOORE and B VJ^S^hion^ Sf
,f N K Ui ^^^ f fof&^^ U '^lle S can retain their bonnets in all parts
of the Hall. ___
THE ILLUSTKATED LONDON NEWS.
eluding general meeting, 2.20 p.m-
Durham i County Society’s Snow,
South Shields (twodays).
Yachting: Lowestoft Marine Regatta
(two days).
Rowing; London Rowing Club (two
days).
Sliddleton Towers, frc., 8 a.m. .
evening meeting, at the Council
Chamber, 8.30 p.m.
THURSDAY, Auo. 22.
Brit it h Association, Dublin. I French Association for the Advance-
Bn isb" Archaologicul Association ment of Science: Opening meeting
at Wisbech: Visit to King’s at Piuis, M. Fremy, president.
Evnn and Sandrmgham, 9.301 Pewstone Agricultural, Horticul-
a m • evening meeting at the I tural, and Floral Society Show.
Council Chamber, 8.30 p.m. 1 Oxford Races.
FRIDAY, Auo. 23.
British Arch ecological Association at I land, Spalding, &o., 9.10 a m.
■yVislech: Vuitto Thomey, Crow- 1 Gluekett Microscopical Club, 8 p.m.
SATURDAY, Auo. 24.
LONDON: SATURDAY, AVGUST 17, 1878.
The Parliamentary Session of 1878 may now take its place
in History along with its predecessors. It has been pro¬
tracted beyond modem precedent. It has been laborious,
yet comparatively unproductive of legislation. It will be
fudged of in coming times by other rules than those which
have been customary-not by the number, the importance,
or tho fitness of the laws which it has passed, but by the
modified influences upon the relation of the Crown to
Parliament which, in reference to Imperial Policy, it has
decidedly sanctioned. There is no sufficient reason for
affirming that it has not accurately represented tho opimon,
or, perhaps, we may say the mood, of the country at large.
How far that mood is likely to be transient, or how tar
permanent, it would he presumption to say. The Session,
however, has been one of surprises, bom of necessity it
is contended, and we do not mean to cliallengo the
assertion. The arduous and responsible task imposed
upon her Majesty’s Ministers by the delicate and even
dangerous condition of European affairs was shrouded in
secrecy. What they had to do had to be done, for the
most part, we are told, in the dark. Confidently to
uphold them was deemed to he the pressing duty of
patriotism. The Session, consequently, will be hereafter
criticised chiefly in accordance with the success or the
failure which may follow upon the policy of the Govern-
st. Bartholomew, the apostle and
British^Arch icological Association at
Wit-beck: Visit to Peterborough
and Castor.
Holme Valley Hunt Horse Show
Huddersfield.
Yachting: Torbay Royal Regatta
(three days).
Athletic Sports: Stamford-bridge.
! are and what they have to do.
History, however, as we have intimated, will assign its:
character to the Parliamentary Session of 1878, not on
of ISLE OF 1 account 0 f the laws which it has placed upon the statute-
Mt'cflv Alulae and but chiefly on acc0 unt of the Foreign policy it has-
' approved. The debates upon that policy have not been
very many, nor, perhaps, can it be said, with the exception
of the last, have they exhibited either originality of view
1 or brilliancy of expression. How could they ? The
materials were wanting. Most of the information avail¬
able was “ hearsay ” only. The actual situation was-
usually shifted so unexpectedly and rapidly that
whilst one condition of affairs was being discussed by
Parliament another might have been entered upon and
concluded by the Government. Even that which was
known usually pointed to a future which was unknown,
but which would give to it all its significance. There never
seemed to be a staple platform for earnest debate until
after the conclusion of the Berlin Congress. It would be
unreasonable to expect clear guidance from even the most
perspicacious statesman whilst everything was thus shift¬
ing from week to week. It is not certain, however, that
the constituencies objected to this somewhat perplexing
mode of procedure. It will be seen at the next General
Election, but not before then, to what extent they have
adopted the new phase of Foreign policy which tends
to develop the Empire into proportions that may speedily
overshadow the Kingdom. We need not venture upon
any prediction with regard to this. We confess ourselves
unqualified to pronounce any definite opinion upon it. It
may be that we are just entering upon a new and a much
larger sphere of enterprise, responsibility, and obligation ;
it may he that large sacrifices will be called for by events-
which in their course will prove to bo irresistible; and it
may be that the stored-up powers and enormous wealth
of this country can best be utilised by concentrated
Imperial authority. That, however, is a question not yet
to he taken for granted. There are dangers along that path,
which cannot he avoided, and there may be at the end of it
disastrous results which none would approach with their eyes-
open. At all events, tho present mood of England seems
to be to occupy a higher and more influential position in-
regard to nations of the East, and that mood has been,
rather vividly expressed by the House of Commons.
THE WEATHER.
RESULTS OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT THE
KKW OBSERVATORY OF TUB ROYAL SOCIETY.
Lat. 61° 28’ 6" N.; Long. 0° 18’ 47" W.; Height above Sea, 31 feet.
29-822
3 061
3002;
29 641
19’. 99
Hl-561
29-622
n
6 73-1
6 74 4
6 76 0 5V4
9 71-2 61-2
Direction.
if!!.
Ill
W8W. 8. BSE.
Barometer (in Inches) .corrected
Temperat ure ol Air
Temperature ol Evaporation'..
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ment in their management of the Eastern Question, and
upon the constitutional principles which in the pursuit of
this policy their conduct has evolved. They are now, we
need hardly say, in a triumphant position. The propriety,
as well as wisdom, of what they have done has been
steadily upheld by a majority of unprecedeutcd strength.
So far, therefore, as they are concerned, tho close of the
Session can hardly fail to have exceeded their most
sanguine hopes. A stronger Government (for the time
being) has never, perhaps, existed since the time of Pitt.
One almost wonders, considering the readiness with
which both Lords and Commons assented to the move¬
ments of the Cabinet as they successively became known,
and to the claims upon the Legislature which such move¬
ments enforced, that so little was done during the long
Session in affairs of a domestic nature. We have, how¬
ever, to hear in mind that where the chief interest of the
nation is absorbed by one train of ideas, speculations, and
hopes, it is almost impossible to throw into the treatment
of other questions such an amount of energy as may suffice
to dispose of them. It may be that, under the circum¬
stances of the case, the leadership of the House of Commons
was wanting in that virility required to enforce attention
to unattractive business. Or it may be that such a Session
as that just passed demanded a clearer conception of the
lines of action to he taken in order to compress within a
limited space as much progress as possible. Bo the reason for
it, however, what it may, the work done hardly corresponds
with the labour which it cost. To be sure, there have
been two sets of financial arrangements to go through,
and, although the items of those arrangements were not
always scrupulously discussed, more time than usual was
necessarily given to votes of “ supply ” and of “ ways and
Whether for weal or woe, the majority of its members-
have pronounced judgment—not irrevocable, it is true,
but deliberate and unmistakable. Public opinion is liable-
to change, and public opinion will, we may be confident,
conform in the main to ascertained facts. But one thing
appears to us to be incontestable. The Session of 1878-
will have that place awarded to it in History which will
he determined for it by the eventual success, or the failure,
of the arrangements on the Eastern Question to which it
has so unequivocally pledged its credit.
Lieutenant-General Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, C-B.,.
has been appointed to succeed General Sir John Garvock,
K.C.B., inthe command of the Southern District at Portsmo .1 th ^
The King of Siam is about to be invested with the Grand
Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George ; and the
insignia has been dispatched from Englaud, with directions to
Sir William Robinson, Governor of the Straits Settlements, to-
visit Bangkok and make the investiture.
The Gazette announces the appointment of Mr. George
Hugh Wyndham, C.B., now Secretary to her Majesty’s Lega¬
tion at Athens, to be Secretary to her Majesty’s Legation at
Madrid ; of Mr. Augustus Henry Mounsey, now Secretary to
her Majesty’s Legation at Yeddo, to be Secretary to her
Majesty’s Legation at Athens; of Mr. John Gordon Kcimely
to be Secretary to her Majesty’s Legation at Yeddo; and or
Mr. Dudley Edward Saurin, now a Second Secretary in her
Majesty’s Diplomatic Service, to be Secretary to her Majesty s
Legation at Lisbon.
Tuesday’s Gazette contains the official announcement of the
appointment of Sir Henry Drummond Wolff to be her
Majesty’s Commissioner on the European Commission for the
organisation of Eastern Roumelia, under the 18 th article or
the Treaty of Berlin. Hie Earl of Donoughmore has been
appointed Assistant British Commissioner for the organisation
of Eastern Roumelia. Sir H. Drummond Wolff, M.P., has
been appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of_ St.
-„ 0 - - - art-* - -- I Michael^and St. George! Captain A. B. Haig, R.E., has been
means.” Even in ordinary times legislative business of | appointed a Companion of the same order.
AUG. 17, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
147
THE COURT.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice drove through Newport and
Cowes yesterday week. The Princess of Wales, with Princes
Albert Victor and George, and Princesses Louise, Victoria,
and Maud of Wales, visited her Majesty at Osborne, and
remained to luncheon. Prince Leopold went out in the
Alberta.
Viscount Barrington, Vice-Chamberlain, arrived at Osborne
©n Saturday last, and presented an address to her Majesty
from the House of Commons. The Rev. J. and Lady Florence
Blunt also arrived. The Queen’s dinner party included
Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold, Lady Abcrcromby, the
Rev. J. and Lady Florence Blunt, General the Right Hon. Sir
Thomas and the Hon. Lady Biddulph, and Viscount Barrington.
Her Majesty, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold
attended Divine service on Sunday, performed at Osborne by
the Rev. J. St. John Blunt.
The Queen’s dinner party on Monday included Princess
Beatrice, Prince Leopold, Lady Abereromby, the Earl and
Countess of Wilton, Lord and Lady Colville of Culross, Reur-
Admiral the Hon. F. Foley, and Lieutenant-General Ponsonby.
Her Majesty reviewed the Fleet assembled at Spithead on
Tuesday. The Queen, accompanied by the Prince and Princess
of Wales, Princess Beatrice, the Duke of Connaught, Princes
Albert Victor and George, and Princesses Louise, Victoria, and
Maud of Wales, embarked on board the Royal yacht Victoria
and Albert, Captain Thomson, in Osborne Bay ; Prince
Leopold embarked on board her Majesty’s yacht Alberta. The
Right Hon. W. H. Smith, M.P., First Lord, of the Admiralty;
Admiral Wellesley, C.B., First Naval Lord of the Admiralty ;
the Hon. A. F. Egerton, M.P., Secretary to the Admiralty;
with Captain W. Codrington, Private Secretary to the First
Lord? went on board the Royal yacht after her Majesty had
embarked. Admiral of the Fleet the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel,
First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen,
and Captain Hardinge, C.B., Naval Aide-de-Camp to
her Majesty, were in attendance on board the Royal
yacht, together with the ladies and gentlemen in
waiting upon the Queen and the members of the
Royal family. The Royal yacht proceeded towards the Fleet,
followed by the Alberta, Elfin, Osborne, and Enchantress,
and the ships, which were dressed in flags with yards manned,
saluted her Majesty as she approached Spithead. The Queen
reached the Fleet soon after four o’clock, and passed slowly
through to the eastward, the crew of each ship cheering her
Majesty. After passing through the Fleet the Royal yacht
turned and again 6teamecl slowly through between the ships,
which were anchored in two lines, and the Fleet again saluted.
Upon the return of the Victoria and Albert to Osborne Bay
the Prince and Princess of Wales, with their family, left and
embarked on board the Osborne, after which the Royal yacht
steamed down the Solent towards Yarmouth. Her Majesty
landed at Osborne at half-past seven o’clock. We intend to
give some illustrations of the Naval Review next week, when
we shall enter more into detail.
The Queen held a Council on Wednesday, at which were
present the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, Prince Leopold,
the Lord Chancellor, and the Duke of Northumberland. Mr.
John A. Roebuck, M.P., was introduced and sworn in a
member of the Trivy Council. The Duke of Richmond and
Gordon, the Lord Chancellor, and the Right Hon. J. A.
Roebuck had audiences of her Majesty. Mr. Bunch, Minister
to Venezuela, kissed hands ou his appointment. Sir H. Drum¬
mond Wolff was introduced to an audience and kissed hands
on his appointment as her Majesty’s Commissioner on the
European Commission for organising Eastern Roumelia ; and
Mr. James Oldknow (Mayor of Nottingham) was knighted.
Her Majesty, with Princess Beatrice, has take her usual daily
out- of-door exercise; and the Princess has visited the Prince and
Princess of Wales on board the Osborne.
Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, General the Right Hon.
Fir Thomas and Lady Biddulph, and Captain D’Arcy, II.M.S.
Euryalus (guard-ship at Cowes), have dined with the Queen.
The Hon. Caroline Cavendish has succeeded the Hon. Amy
Lambart as Maid of Honour in Waiting. Lieutenant-General
Ponsonby has arrived, and Lord Frederick Kerr has left
Osborne; and Major-General Gardiner has succeeded Colonel
Du Plat as Equerry in Waiting to the Queen.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
The Prince and Princess, who have been passing the last
fortnight on board the Royal yacht Osborne, off Cowes,
visited Southampton on Monday, accompanied by their sous
Princes Albert Victor and George, for the purpose of laying
the dedication-stone of the parish church of St. Mary, South¬
ampton, which the late Bishop of Winchester projected, his
son, Canon Wilberforce, being the Rector. Their Royal High¬
nesses were received upon landing by the Mayor and Cor¬
poration, and were presented with an address, to which the
Prince replied, expressing the pleasure it gave him to assist in
raising a memorial, as this church was intended to bo, to his
lamented and valued friend the Bishop of Winchester. Upon
arriving at the church the Royal visitors were received by the
Bishop of W inchester, who assisted in the ceremonial. The
Prince having laid the dedication-stone, various ladies and
children passed before the Princess and laid purses on the stone
The town was en fete, and the Hampshire Yeomanry Cavalry
formed an escort to the Royal cortege on the route. The
Prince and Princess were entertained at tea by Canon and
Mrs. Wilberforce, after which they returned in the Prince’s
yacht to Cowes.
The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, with their children,
have arrived at Coburg.
The Duke of Connaught went to the Folly Theatre on
Monday evening. His Royal Highness will be present at the
marriage of Prince Henry of the Netherlands with Princess
Mary, eldest daughter of Prince Frederic Charles of Prussia
at Potsdam, on the 24th inst.
The Duke of Cambridge arrived at Homburg on Saturday.
The Duke and Duchess of Teck left town on Saturday last
for Cologne.
FASHIONABLE MARRIAGES.
The marriage of Mr. F. Weddon, of New York, to Mrs. Lillies
Jennie Mills (widow of the late Sir. Mills, of Brooklyn, and
daughter of the Bishop of Long Island, New York) was
solemnised at the Chapel Royal, Savoy, on Tuesday. The
service was choral. The Bishop of Nebraska, N.S., officiated,
assisted by the Rev. H. White, Chaplain to her Majesty. The
bride was given away by her father, Bishop Littlejohn.
Marriages are arranged between Sir Francis Stapleton,
Bart., of Guy’s Court, Oxfordshire, and Miss May Gladstone,
youngest daughter of the late Mr. Adam Steuart Gladstone ;
and between Mr. William Wedderburn, of her Majesty’s
Indian Civil Service, younger son of the late Sir John Wedder¬
burn, Bart., and Mary Blanche, only daughter of Mr. H. W-
Hoskyns, of North Perrott Manor, Somerset.
Mr. John Arthur Roebuck, M.P., has been sworn a member
®f her Majesty’s most Honourable Privy Council.
NATIONAL SPORTS.
Our readers will learn with deep regret that the veteran
sportsman Mr. George Payne had a paralytic attack on Satur¬
day last, and is lying at his house in London in a very critical
state. The Prince of Wales, Prince Christian, and many of
the leading members of the aristocracy have been unremitting
in their sympathetic inquiries. At the time of writing there is
no change in Mr. Payne’s condition.
When the third day of Brighton Races was under the
management of the club, the racing was seldom of a very
interesting character; but this year, for the first time, it was
in the same hands as on the Tuesday and Wednesday, and a
great improvement was visible. Kinetou, who has long been
expected to do a good thing, gave Thunderstone a very hollow
beating in the Stewards’ Cup; indeed, the result would hardly
have been altered had they met at level weights instead of the
big chestnut attempting to concede 12 lb. A still greater
surprise was in store in the Rous Stakes, in which the French
colt Fuisan, beautifully ridden by Fordham, cut down Dalham
and Placida at weight for age. Dalham has always shown a
marked dislike to this course, and the Oaks winner is not the
mare she was last season: still Faisan’s performance was a very
meritorious one. A capital meeting was brought to a close
with the Brighton Two-Year-Old Stakes, in which Alice
Lorraine continued her winning career.
The next day a move was made to Lewes, where a fair, but
not very important, programme was run through on the Friday
The Astlcy Stakes, one of the most valuable races of the seasou
for two-year-olds, brought out exactly a dozen competitors, of
whom Radiancy and Ismael were made favourites, and backers
were pretty right in their estimate, as the pair made a dead-
heat for second place, finishing only a neck behind Marshal
Scott, a son of Ethus and Persuasion, who ran in the colours
of Mr. Ellam, his breeder. Muley Edris was also a good deal
fancied, but could not concede the required weight to the
leaders. Saturday’s card was a great improvement on that of
the previous day, and ended the Sussex fortnight with great
fclat. Once more Trappist and Ecossois were pitted against
each other, Preciosa also joining issue with them, in the
County Cup. Trappist had to give 8 lb. to his old opponent,
and, contrary to his usual tactics when riding Captain
Prime’s horse, Archer waited on Eeossais until ap¬
proaching the distance, and then, leaving him without
an effort, won by four lengths. Julius Caesar (8 st. 12 lb.) and
Ryletone (8st. 21b.) were in equal favour for the Lewes
Handicap, in which the former lay off for the greater part of
the journey, and could never get on terms with Lord
Hartington’s filly, who repeated her victory of last year with
ease, The Reeve (7 st. 1 lb.) being the only one that made any¬
thing of a fight with her. In the Priory Stakes Rayon d’Or
conclusively turned the tables on White Poppy, but he failed
to give 16 lb. to the filly by Victorious—Modena ; and with
this unhappy termination “ plungers ” took leave of the Sussex
racecourses, which, pleasant enough in other respects, have
certainly not helped them to retrieve their fallen fortunes.
A pleasant little fixture at Egham was wiped off the list of
races to come on Tuesday and Wednesday; but when we have
noted that St. Augustine seems to have recovered his form, and
won the King John Stakes from a solitary opponent in some¬
thing like his old style, we have written all that is needful.
The heavy rain that has recently fallen in different parts of
the country has wrought a great change in cricketing affairs,
long scores are at a premium, and the ball is at last having its
full share of success. The Australians, for whom Gregory
(70) and Boyle (58) bat ted splendidly, have beaten an Eighteen
of the Stanley Club, Liverpool, in a single innings with 71
runs in hand, Spofforth and Garrett taking wicket after
wicket in rare style. The Colonists could not have lost their
match against Eighteen of Dudley, in which Boyle got rid of
twelve men for 19 runs, had the weather been fine enough to
play it out. Yorkshire v. Lancashire, in which the main feature
was the fine batting of Ulyett (not out, 91), also ended iu a
draw, as did Surrey v. Middlesex, in which Messrs. J. Shuter
(98), W. W. Read (SO), and W. Lindsay (40), scored so freely
for the former county, that it was hard to be deprived of an
almost certain victory. There was no very heavy scoring in
the contest between Gloucestershire and Notts, Mr. W. O.
Moberley (52) heading the poll; but Mr. W. G. Grace’s
bowling was irresistible—he took eleven wickets for only
64 runs—and his county won by 109. In the match between
Yorkshire and Sussex, the latter made a very melancholy
show, being got rid off for 35 in the first, and 24 in the second
innings; Emmett took ten wickets for 20 runs, and Bates,
nine for 34. The only noteworthy performance with the bat
was that of Hall (not out, 31 and 51), who seems likely to do
good service for Yorkshire ; Sussex was eventually beaten by
226 runs.
The weather was, on the whole, unfavourable on the
Twelfth. The reports from the grouse moors seem, however,
on the whole, satisfactory.
Deer-stalking in Braemar has begun, and the first stag of
the season has fallen in Mar Forest. It was a splendid animal,
and was killed by the Hon. G. Skene Duff.
At the annual meeting on Monday of the Royal Victoria
Yacht Club, at the Club-house, Ryde (Sir R. Sutton, Bart.,
Vice-Commodore, in the chair), a letter was read from the
Marquis of Exeter, resigning his office as Commodore of the
club. This communication was received with regret by the
whole body of the club, and a resolution was unanimously
passed expressing a hope that his Lordship would reconsider
his determination.—The regatta of the club was begun on
Wednesday at Ryde with a race for the Town Cup, which was
won by the Ada yacht, belonging to Mr. II. F. Barclay. This
was a match for yachts of auy rig belonging to a Royal 1 acht
Club; prize, the Ryde Town Cup, value £100. Starters:—
Corisande, 153 tons, J. Richardson; Ada, 147, H. F. Barclay;
Florinda, 138, W. Jessop; Miranda, 135, G. C. Lampson;
Jullanar, 127, A. D. M'Leay; Vol-au-Vent, 101, Colonel
Markham. Course, from off Ryde, round a mark-boat off
Cowes, thence round a mark-boat near the Spit l’ort,
round the Nab Lightship, and back to Ryde, twice rouud.
There was a strong westerly breeze blowing all day, and
the race was, in consequence, a quickly sailed one. At ten
o’clock the yachts started, all with single-reefed mainsails
aud housed topmasts. Florinda crossed the line first, but
Vol-au-Vcnt and Ada were weU up to windward of her,
Jullanar being last. To the first mark-boat, on Old Castle
Point, it was a close haul, and Ada, taking the lead, was first
round, Vol-au-Vent being second. To the flag-boat off Spit¬
head it was a run, small spinnakers being set at lower mast¬
heads. No change took place until after passing this mark,
when Corisande got ahead of Vol-au-Vent, fouling her in
doing so. At the Nab all had to gybe, and whilst Vol-au- \ ent
did so three men got overboard, but were all washed on board
aeain. To the Noman it was a reach, and then a tack had to
be made to weather the flag-boat off Ryde, Ada still leading,
with Jullanar, which had passed Florinda and Vol-au-Vent,
third boat. On the second round no change took place,
Vol-au-Vent, which had been passed by the yawls, giving up,
and a very quickly sailed race finished thus; Ada, 3h. 10m. 12s.,
Corisande, 3h. 13m. 12s.; Jullanar, 3h. 14m. 45s.; Florinda,
3b. 19m. 8s.; Miranda, 3h. 25m. 10s. Ada thus won from
Jullanar by nearly a minute after allowing time for tonnage.—
On Thursday the Corinne won the first prize for schooners, the
Miranda taking the second; the Corinne winning by oily
23 sec. For the Vice-Commodore’s Prize, the Florinda takes
the first and the Jullanar the second prize.
At the Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta yesterday week the
race was for a prize of £100, for schooners of not less than
thirty tons. The Corinne came in first, but the Mirauda.won
by time allowance. Among the yacht3 racing was the
Hildegarde, with the Prince of Wales on board.
The Cowes Regatta also took place yesterday week. For
the £10 Cup Maggie, Mosquito, and Dolly Varden started,
Maggie being the winner. Several rowing matches followed,
besides various other aquatic amusements during the afternoon.
The Princess of Wales and the Royal children honoured the
festivities with their presence on the steam-launch of the
Alberta, and were enthusiastically received both ashore and
afloat. The Prince of Wales sailed on board his own yacht.
The Royal Southampton Yacht Club sailed two matches
yesterday week, the result of which was that the Vol-au-Vent
carried off an £80 prize, and the Neptune a £50 one. Saturday
was the concluding day of this club. There were four
matches—two for yawls and two for cutters. In the race for
yawls under 30 tons only the Lizzie, 20 tons, R. Piffard,
entered, so she was allowed to sail over the course and take
the first prize, value £20. Two yachts contended for the £30
and £10 offered by the club for yawls under 41 tons—namely,
Ellida, 41, J. D. Stainton, and Vega, 41, Captain N. D.
Garrett. The course was twice round the Brambles, an l
Lepe Buoy; and, after a capital race in a nice topsail
breeze, they finished as under:—Vega (winner of £30),
7h. 27 min. 30 sec.; Ellida (winner of £10), 7h. 29 min. 5 sec.
There was also a race for ten-tonners: firstprize (presented by T.
Chamberlyne, Esq.), £10; second, £5. This brought out all
the cracks—viz., Florence, Preciosa, Merle, Chip, Volga,
Lily, and Mildred. The finish between Preciosa and Florence
was most exciting, the latter only winniug by a few seconds.
The race terminated as under:—Florence, winner of £10,
3h. 14 min. 20 sec.; Preciosa, winner of £5, 3h. 14 min. 55 sec.;
Merle, 3h. 19 min. 40 sec.; Chip, 3h. 21 min. 15 sec. ; Volga,
3h. 22 min. 20 sec.; Lily, 3li. 32 min. 5 sec.; Mildred,
3h. 35 min. 55 sec. Florence flew nineteen racing flags when
she brought up in the afternoon,
On Wednesday the Reading Regatta passed off success¬
fully, prizes to the value of £132 being offered for competition.
On Saturday lost the swimming championship of England
at one mile was decided in the lake at the Crystal Palace,
where a distance of 220 yards had to be traversed eight times.
As was the case in the recent long race in the Thames, the
contest really lay between H. Davenport, who has been
champion ever since 1874, and G. Feam, and, after a mag¬
nificent struggle all the way, the holder won by seven yards,
in 31 min. 15 sec., the fastest time yet made in still water, and
in’swimming'costume.
The banquet to John Higgins, champion sculler of England,
was brought off last week with great success at the Alexandra
Palace. Mr. Charles Bush was in the chair; and during the
evening the project of a testimonial to Mr. John Ireland was
mooted and warmly received by the company. For upwards
of twenty years Mr. Ireland has acted as umpire at almost
every important sculling-match, and has gained the complete
confidence and respect of Northerners and Southerners alike.
THE AUSTRIAN ARMY IN BOSNIA.
The Portrait of General Baron Philippovich, Commander-in-
Chief of the Austrian army of occupat ion in Bosnia and Herze¬
govina, appears in this Number of our Journal. It will be
followed by Illustrations of the “military promenade,”
already threatening to be a serious campaign, m which the
Imperial forces are now engaged in those provinces, so recently
taken, by an arrangement of the Berlin Congress, from the
government of the Sultan. Our Special Artist, Mr. J. Bell,
who went through the first part of the campaign in Armenia
last year, and was afterwards in Bulgaria with one of the
Turkish armies there, has joined the Austrian head-quarters
on the frontier of Bosnia; he has begun to furnish a series of
Sketches, the first of which we shall prepare for our next
publication. It was on the 1st inst. that the 18th Division of
the Austrian army, from Dalmatia, under command of Field-
Marshal Jovanovich, entered the territory of Herzegovina, and
on the 5th it took possession of Mostar, the capital of that
province; the advanced guard had met with some brief
resistance on the day before at Citluk, from a band of Mussul¬
man insurgents. The 13th Army Corps, under Baron Philip¬
povich, had already crossed the Save at Brod, there entering
into Bosnia, and was at Derbent on the 30th ult., when the
Turkish officials and chief inhabitants of the place declared
their submission to the authority of the Austrian Empire.
But, on arriving at Maglai, in the valley of the river Bosna,
though offers of submission were readily made, an ambush was
laid for the Austrian troops in a narrow defile between that
town and Ziepce; they were assailed with a volley of musketry,
andl seventy were killed, mostly belonging to an advanced
squadron of Ilussars. The conflict lasted half an hour, and
the enemy were driven off, but General Philippovich did not
think fit to pursue them into the defile. His head-quarters
ore now at Zenica, where the main column of his forces
arrived on Sunday last. On the previous day the Seventh
Division occupied Travnik unopposed, where the two forces
effected a junction. They have completely routed the enemy
at Vranduk this week. The Twentieth Division last week had
sharp conflicts to sustain at Tuzla, the insurgents in consider¬
able numbers attacking them with guns. Though this part of the
Austrian forces were successfully fighting their way forward,
their commander, General Szapory, seeing their exhausted state
and the difficulties attending the transport of supplies, and the
hosts of insurgents opposed to him, thought good to retreat to
Gracanica, which he reached on Monday. 1 he late Turkish
Governor, Hafiz Pasha, having gone from Serajevo to Busova,
addressed a request to the Austrian Commander-m-Chief for a.
conference and safe conduct. The latter having been granted
him, the interview may have already been held, borne Turkish
troops to the number of 6000, which were stationed at Metro-
vich under the command of All Pasha, are reported to have
embarked in ships of the Austrian Navy and the Lloyd s Com-
nanv for an Albanian port. , ..
y Public opinion at Vienna now demands au increase of the
Austrian military forces, in order that they may master as soon
as possible the insurrection in Bosnia. The Archduke John
Salvator has entered Banjaluka, the inhabitants having pre¬
viously resolved to submit to the Austrian occupation. It u
stated that there will presently be seven army divisions, with
a total strength of 130,000 men, employed in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. -
There was a partial eclipse of the moon on Monday night,
and it was visible until near the close.
THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OF CYPRUS : LANDING-PLACE AND PIERS AT LARNACA, FROM THE HOUSE OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Auo. 17, 1878.—149
THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OP CTPBDS: DISEMBARKING HORSES IN THE ROADSTEAD AT LARNACA.
AUG. 17, 1878
foreign and colonial news
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bn. been elected
nresident of the International Monetary Conference, the first
meeting of which was held on Saturday in one of the salons of
th< A proposeefprcjcc? of convention was read and ^opted at
the second meeting of the Franco-American Conference for
the gettiug up of a commercial treaty between 1 ranee and the
l U The judgment of tho Tribunal of Commerce which in the
suit of M Dreyfus condemned the Governor of the Cr6dit
CSrTotoWbute the dlridend of 111. voted nt the ■no«mg
of shareholders, has been amended by a decision of the Court
of Appeal on the ground of the incompcteucy of the Tribunal
of Commerce. M. Dreyfus is ordered to pay the costs.
The Btrikc of the Paris cabdrivera is at an end.
Further commutations or reductions of sentences passed on
Communist prisoners, to the number of twenty-five, are
officially, announced. ITALy
Cardinal Nina, who is sixty-six years of age, and was only
made a member of the Sacred College last year has been
appointed Pontifical State Secretary. He has addressed a
circular to the Papal nuncios abroad announcing that he will
follow the policy of his predecessor, Carchnal Franchi, and
recommending the nuncios to act with prudence, in order not
to create unnecessary embarrassments for the Holy See.
According to a Berlin telegram, Cardinal Nina has addressed a
letter to Prince Bismarck expressing a wish to continue the
negotiations opened by liis predecessor.
GERMANY.
By command of the Emperor the Federal Couucil assembled
in Berlin on Wednesday. A bill for preventing the spread of
Socialism has been submitted to the Council by the 1 russiau
Government. There are twenty-four clauses, and penalties
are specified for every infraction of the law.
An Imperial decree was published on Monday convoking
the German Parliament for Sept. 9.
The second ballots in Breslau have resulted in the return
in the eastern district of Herr Reiuders (Socialist), and in the
western district of Herr liuergcrs, who obtained 10,215 votes
against 8818 recorded in favour of the Socialist candidate.
DENMARK.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Thvra, left Copen¬
hagen on Tuesday for England, on a visit to the Prince and
Piincess of Wales. _ _ ,
Prince Louis Napoleon arrived at Copenhagen on Sunday.
Reports have been current—but they are denied—that the
Prince is to be married to Princess Thyra. A telegram from
Copenhagen says that the French Minister there has asked
the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs what is the meaning of
the reports so persistently current of the intended marriage of
Prince Napoleon with Princess Thyra, and the French Minister
was assured that the story is absolutely without foundation.
RUSSIA.
The Emperor Alexander has named Prince Orloff to repre
present him nt the silver wedding of their Belgian Majesties.
The expedition in Central Asia would appear to aim at the
occupation of the six minor khanates between the southern
course of the Amu Darya and Hindoo Koosh—viz., Kara Zin,
Shugual, Parvus, Sarikol, and Vakhan. Of these khanates,
the first three ~~ * ’ * ‘ rr ’
Uarvas, fcariKoi, auu. v u&uuu. ui huuumw,
_hree are independent; Sarikol belongs to Kashgar ;
while the Vakhan Emir is a feudatory of the Kb.hu of
Afghanistan.
Prince Gortechakoff left St. Petersburg last Saturday for
Wildbnd. During the Chancellor’s absence the administration
of the Department of Foreign Affairs wiU be intrusted to Privy
Councillor dc Giers.
The Berlin Tost hears from St. Petersburg that the Russian
■Government have decreed the dissolution of the Slavonic
Charitable Committee at Moscow, which has for some time
past been the head-quarters of the Panslavouic movement, and
has been actively disseminating revolutionary doctrines. The
Government have also ordered M. Aksakoff, the agitator, to be
expelled from Moscow.
Riots, attended with loss of life, are reported from Odessa
and also from the Caucasus. In Odessa the people, exasperated
by the sentence passed by a court-martial on several Nihilists,
stormed the court and fired upon tho soldiers guarding it,
fourteen of whom were killed.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
M. Tisza, the President of the Hungarian Ministry, who
had previously been returned for Sepsi-Gyoergy, was enthusi¬
astically elected on Monday as member for Schemnitz. He
lias also been chosen for Fiume.
The elections in Hungary are now virtually at an end. Out
of 394 seats 232 have been obtained by the Liberal or Govern¬
ment party, seventy by the United Opposition, sixty-six by the
been
ua neuseg'''”" —. ,,
So»e partial of tho
struggle are given in another column.
8ERYIA.
: «SS;S|-SSiS
. \jv hand by a regiment of infantry.
Wednesday^ being the birthday of the young Prince of
Pcr^a a parade wJheld, and there was a special service at
thf cathedral. The town was decorated with flags, and
universal illuminations took place in the evening. ,
umiersni num i o{ indcpcnd ence, which
arc to beton on'toc 22ud tart..-ill lart three days. Dopu-
totinnR from all the towns and communities wall be present,
on^ho rhtory reS-ill bo attended by etymon from
each of the 180 battalions constituting the Servian army,
militia, and reserves, aud also a detachment from each of the
fifty batteries of artillery.
TURKEY.
Safvet Pasha has received the Grand Cross of the Star of
Int Sir A. H. Layard visited General Todlebeu last Saturday
flt Forty thousand men, including the Russian TmpenalGuard,
will it is stated, begin embarking for Russia to-day (Saturday),
and on their departure the remainder of the army will retire
Son the hnes P of Eastern Roumelia, where 50,000 men w.U
remain. Adrianople will be evacuated in six weeks.! he
Russians (a Constantinople telegram says) will shortly occupy
Batoum and evacuate Erzeroum and Bayazid simultaneously
with the withdrawal of the British Fleet. The Emperor of
Russia has sent a telegram to the Sultan begging him to order
the evacuation of Batoum, and this message, in conjunction
with the advice tendered by Count von Radolinski, the German
Charge d’Affaires, has led the Porte to decide upon taking that
step. It is stated, however, that Sir A. U. Layard has been
informed by the British Consul at Trebizond that the Lazis
persist in declaring that they consider themselves under the
protection of England, and that, on the advance of the
Russians, they will hoist the English flag. Private intelligence
received at Constantinople from Batoum also represents the
state of affairs there to be very critical, and fighting between
the Russians and the population Is reported to have already
taken place. A Daily News' telegram says that the inhabitants
of the Batoum district arc resolved to resist the Russiau occu¬
pation to the last, but would be willing to hand over the port
to any other European Power.
The Pera correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that
the attention of the Turkish Ministers is being given to several
demands for Imperial concessions in favour of various schemes
of improvement; that for the construction of a railway from
Scutari to Bagdad through the Valley of the Euphrates being
the most important. A firman has been granted to a co mpany,
composed principally of Englishmen, for the construction of a
line of railway from Jaffa to Jerusalem.
The Porte is stated to have resolved on making large con¬
cessions to Crete of a nature to bring about the pacification of
the island; but has decided to refuse the demands of Greece,
on the ground that they are unjustifiable.
At the meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Tuesday
it was decided, in order to avoid further depreciation of the
Cairn6s, to raise the import duties on salt, tobacco, and spirits
to the extent permitted by the treaties of commerce.
GREECE.
The session of the Greek Chamber was opened on Monday.
There was no Speech from the Throne, and the transaction of
public business will, it is stated, probably be deferred for a
few weeks.
EGYPT.
It is stated in a telegram from Alexandria that Nubar
rasha, who has embarked from Brindisi for Egypt, is the
bearer of important reforms for that country which have
received the sanction of the English and French Governments.
The telegram adds:—“ The formal mortgage of all the Daira
estates to the holders of the Daira debte, hitherto delayed by
various obstacles, and chiefly by the unsettled claims of the
non-converting creditors, has at last been duly executed, and
all claims but one arc now settled.
It is officially announced that the committee of inquiry into
Egyptian revenue has suspended its labours until Oct. 28.
AMERICA.
General Butler has made a speech at Massachusetts, declar¬
ing that he has left the Republican party because it has
deserted the labouring man for the capitalist.
The Columbia crew arrived at New York last Saturday, and
bad a mcFt enthusiastic reception. They speak very favour¬
ably of tlie courtesy ond fairness which they met with in
Eugland.
General Howard considers the Indian war as now prac¬
tically ended.
While more stringent orders have been sent to General Ord
to protect the Rio Grande frontier and pursue parties making
raids on American territory, he bos been advised to avoid
coming into collision with the Mexican troops.
A despatch from New York states that the professional
single sculliug-race was rowed on Monday. Hanlon won by
six lengths; Ross was second, and Hoisted third.
A tornado burst over a part of Wallingford, Connecticut,
on Friday evening, the 9th inst., demolishing the church,
scboolhouse, and forty dwellings, killing twenty-one persons
and injuring fifty. Four of the latter were taken from the
ruins in a dying state, and six others are not expected to
recover. The whirlwind was accompanied by floods of rain
aud terrific thunder and lightning.
CANADA.
The elections to the Dominion Parliament will be held on
Sept. 19.
The appointment of the Marquis of Lome as Governor-
General has given great satisfaction in the Dominion. The
Canadian and American papers received contain numerous
congratulatory references to the appointment.
The Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island has passed
a bill imposing a tax of 40 dols. upon every Chinaman in the
province.
Disturbances took place nt Ottawa on Monday night after
an Orange procession. The telegram states that the Union
men scoured the streets and insulted the Orangemen, who
attacked them with pistols, and at midnight marched through
the principal throughfarcs firing in all directions. The priests’
houses were attacked, and an hotel destroyed. The rioters
were ultimately dimersed bv the uolice. many of them beimr
Trouble continues to be experienced with the
riotem A teSam from Ottawa on Wednesday states that
thrce thouJmd^’niou men had occupied Sussex-street, and
they 5 paradeilthe lower part of the city all the previous night
threatening to bum the Orangemen s houses. The Mayor
ordered out the Foot Guards and succeeded in preventing any
serious violence. Energetic measures have been taken against
a renewal of the disorder.
THE cape colonies.
News from Cape Town to July 24 has been received by way
, , ■ a * Times telegram says:—Zulu affairs are still
ominous ond war preparations are being made on the Cape
frontier’ The Kuffirs ore not surrendering as much as was
fleeted after the amnesty, owing to the Government not
ixpectea an p rcm j er 8a ys it will be necessary
to kSTupacolonial force for some time, but has intimated to
nUhc°Circuit Courts were found guilty and sentenced to death.
On the northern border hostilities still continue Inspector
Nesbitt F.A.M.P., reports the capture of 113 armed rebels and
n large number of cattle near the Hart River Gnqualand West.
The natives under Gasibonc’s eons attacked the place of Mr.
Francis Thompson, of Barkly, who was carried off as apnsouer
mid brutally murdered, and his son mortally wounded
A SverogTle has occurred in Tabic Bay, by which four
vessels were driven ashore and totally wrecked. The captain
and three men of one of the vessels were drowned.
INDIA.
The news received on Monday from the Times' cor-
refnondent at Calcutta was not of a very satisfactory cha¬
racter Heavy rain has caused extensive floods in various
districts especially in Rur.gpore, Bograh, Patna, and Coosh
Bihar From Upper Scinde it is announced that the Kashinor
and Begair Bund had breached at the seventh mile, and the
Seindc Canul had also breached near its mouth, submerging a
large district and destroying the crops. Near Lakhi one
zemindar had 14,000 beegahs of cultivation destroyed-. ^
Terrible distress is prevalent in Cashmere. The Maharajah
is taking energetic measures to alleviate the sufferings of the
people by purchasing large quantities of grain for distribution,
and offering bounties for its importation. I amine accounts
in British India continue, on the whole, satisfactory, aud
f SSsT-n- the present » per
cent loan into a new transfer loan, the notes of which will
consist of two forms: the first similar to those of the recent
41 per cent loans; the second, which will only be offered to
holders of old 51 per cent paper, will consist of notes on every
hundred 1 rupees, on whiefi Merest willl be repaid in rupee,
sufficient from time to time to produce 7s. sterling in Loudon
nt the rate of exchange fixed for the time being betwoen the
India Office and the Treasury. _
Necessity demanding strenuous economy, tho Government
has been induced to appoint a committee to report upon the
best mode of rerising certain secretarial aud other Government
establishments, “ in promotion of the general cause of economy
Seville W*
will proceed to Cabul, probably in September. The Indian
Government has received information from Cabul announcing
that a Russian mission, consisting of three officers amved
there on July 22, and were received by the Ameer of Afghan¬
istan at a diibar, when the chief of the mission delivered to
the Ameer a letter from the Emperor of Russia and the
Governor of the Russian province of Samarcund ddivcr^ one
frem the Governor-General of Turkestan. On Aug. 1 a grand
review was held in honour of the Russians. ,
It is announced that Lieutenant-General W arrc, C.U., ha
been appointed to succeed Sir C. Stavelcy as commander-
in-chief bf the Bombay forces. Major General R. O. Bright
is to succeed Lieutenant-General A. llardinge in a Bengal
divisional command. AUSTRALIA..
By a telegram from Melbourne, dated Aug. 3, we learn
that the debate on the second reading of the Ministerial bill for a
modification of the Constitution of Victoria, curtailing the
powers of the Legislative Council, was going on in the Legis¬
lative Assembly, and that the interest in the discussion
increased nightly. The Government majority in favour of the
second reading was expected to be unusually large.
NEW ZEALAND.
A telegram from Wellington, dated Aug. 9, statesJ;hat Mr.
Ballunces, the Colonial Treasurer, has made lus financial state¬
ment in the Legislative Assembly. The revenue for the past
year, which was estimated at £3,150,000, including £890 O0J
territorial revenue, actually yielded £3,900,000, includin 0
£1 500,000 territorial revenue. The total year s receipts,
including the balance at the beginning of the year and the
revenue collected for local bodies and other items, are
£4 445,000, being an increase onrevenue items over the previous
year of £1,080,000. The railway receipts are £510,000, yielding a
profit of £145,000. The surplus revenue for tho year over
expenditure is £120,000. The Government propose to place
£100,000 irern the surplus to the credit ^ pabliow°f“
account. The indebtedness of the colony is £20,000,000, the
amount available for appropriation for public works is
£2,250,000. The estimated total expenditure for the current
year is £4,190.0(0, and the estimated revenue £4,280,OIK),
including £710,000 from railways. The exports for 1811
reached £0,300,000, against £5,600,000 in the previous year.
Concerning the tariff, it is proposed to make the pmmipal
ad valorem duties specific, to abolish duties yielding £20,030,
and to reduce the duties oil tea, sugar, and Australian wines
to the extent of £97,000. It is proposed further to.establish a
land tax estimated to yield £100,000, a tax on joint-stock
companies producing £10,000, and a tax on coloma. beer to
yield £30,000; customs duties are remitted to the extent oi
£117,000. The new taxes imposed are estimated to amount ta
£141,000. The telegram reports that the Budget has been
favourably received. ,
Instructions have been forwarded to Sir Julius Vogel, the
agent-general of the colony in London, to dispatch TJJJ
emigrants this year, chiefly to the Canterbury district.
The annual fete of the Swiss Alpine Club will be held this
year at Interlaken, beginning on Sept. 1.
A telegram dated Sydney, the 8th inst., says that the French
troops have promptly avenged the massacre by natives of white
settlers iu New Caledonia.
Tbe Shah of Persia reached Teheran on the 9th inst., and,
on receiving his Ministers and high functionaries, expressed
his satisfaction at the friendly reception everywhere accorded
him on his tour.
The Hesperus, 1777 tons, Captain T. R. Harry, chartered by
Sir Arthur Blyth.lv.C.M.G., A gent-General for South Australia,
kit Plymouth on the 9th inst. for Port Adelaide with o33 eon-
AUG. 17, 1878
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THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS
Buckley, J R„ Senior Curate of Neath; Vicar of Llandaff
’ Ca^er, John ; Perpetual Curate of Whitchurch '
Chmtie, James J.; Vicar of Pontefract and Surrogate
£?*£jLi?Tn fre ^ t : nck ! CoMte of East and Weft Cranmore.
SEg® r«p.tua Curat, of St. Thomas's, To*.
L Cur ? t * of <*“«» Cantelo-cura-Aslington.
Hessey, Francis; Rural Dean of Kensington.'
?n 0 ™\vra‘Vv,? frP T Ual Sf***!® " f St. James’s, Sutton-in-Holderness
Jones, Kenneth L.; Incumbent of St. Bride’s, Stretford, Man cuts ter
Kempe Edward Wood; one of her Majesty’s Priests in Ordina y
kittle. George; Curate-m-Charge of Castle Eden CoUierv ? '
p^endary of Gates, Chichester Cathedral.
Macfailane, W. A. C„ Vicarof Cnftms, Salop; Rector of Elmswell Suffolk
Mackintosh, W llliam Teesdale; Curate of Bath Abbey ’ S tfolk ’
May. Edmund Alexander ; Curateof Weston-in-Gordano
Meac&lf, William ; Rector of Leven.
Melliss, James King ; Vicar of I.lanarth, Monmouthshire.
Myew. T^, Vicar of Westgate; Rector of Turnstead.
Pollock, \\ llliam James ; Curate of St. Paul’s. Newnorfc ATonmm.fR^i^
Rhyddcrch, William ; Cerate of Ystmdyf^^fSo^n” 3hlrG '
Robinson, Richard Hayes ; Curate of St. Michael’s, Bath
Seaman, J B. ; Curate-in-Charge of Writtle, Chelmsford
Style, Frederic; Vicar of Leigh, near Reigate.
Sutlry, Edward Charley; Curate of Tarlington
^ion;ns, D., Vicar of Capel Curig; Rector of Llangadwabidr.
Wilkmaon, C. E.; Curate m Sole Charge of Bickenhill, Birmingham.
[Die notice of the appointment of the Rev. T. W. Bray, of St. Paul’s
•£notVacant.] premature - The Uvi ug
av Tl 1 . 6 Arcbbisho P of Canterbury, accompanied by Mrs. and
the Misses Tait, left town on Monday for the Continent.
The Kev. Dr. Perowne, Canon of Llandaff, lias been
appointed Dean of Peterborough, in the room of Dr. Saunders.
The Bishop of Winchester has consecrated a new chancel
for the church of Long Cross.
As arranged by the Foreign Office, Dr. Sandford, Bishop of
Gibraltar, has the superintendence of any congregations
churches, and clergy of the Church of England iu Cyprus. ’
The Bishop of Llandaff on Tuesday opened a new iron
church, dedicated to St. Stephen, at Cardiff. The preacher
was Dr. Perowne.
The Bishop of London last Saturday afternoon, in the
chapel of Fulham Palace, admitted several gentlemen of dif¬
ferent ranks of life to the office of lay readers.
The Bishop of Long Island held a confirmation on Saturday
afternoon in the Chapel Royal, Savoy, where the marriage of
liis daughter took place last Tuesday.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed the Bishop of
Chichester curator of Lambeth Palace Library, in succession
to the late Bishop of Lich field.
The Vicar of St. John’s, Taunton, the Rev. F. J. Smith, has
proposed to build a church in Rowbarton district as a memorial
of the attainment of peace by the Berlin Congress, and promises
£3000 if £2000 he subscribed by the end of the year.
Disturbances were renewed last Sunday at the Church of
St. James’s, Hatcham. Protest was made by the parishioners,
warden, and other gentlemen belonging to the parish against
the use of incense.
There have just been erected in the parish church of
Bicester three handsome Munich stained-glass windows,
executed by Messrs. Mayer—two iu memory of the late Sir
Henry Page Turner, Bart., of Battlesden Park ; and the other
in memory of the late Mr. Samuel Burrows.
The Rev. Dr. Maclear, Head Master of the King’s College
School, has been appointed by the trustees under the will of
the Hon. Robert Boyle, on the recommendation of the Bishop
of London, to preach the Boyle Lectures, in succession to the
Rev. Canon Barry.
The Bishop of Lincoln, in answer to a memorial from a
number of clergyman in his diocese, has expressed an opinion
that a clergyman of the Church of England in his diocese
would find it impossible to perform the religious service at a
marriage between a Christian and a Jew or Jewess.
The Bishop of Truro has consecrated a new church at
Mount Hawke, built under exceptional difficulties, where his
Lordship said that we must not separate ourselves from the
true and useful ritual of God’s Church, but must beware of
making it everything.
The Bishop of Oxford has consecrated a cemetery at Middle
Claydon, Bucks, the ground for which was given by Sir Harry
Vemey; the Bishop of Norwich has consecrated a cemetery
at Soham; and the Bishop of St. Albans an addition to the
churchyard of Dovercourt, where he took occasion to condemn
strongly the practice of cremation.
A number of gentlemen interested in the proposed restora¬
tion of the roof of the nave of St. Alban’s met in that city last
Saturday, the Bishop presiding. After considerable discussion
a resolution was adopted to the effect that a new roof should
be built, and an amendment intimating that the old roof could
he rendered perfectly serviceable found few supporters.
The Cheltenham Examiner says:—The Rev. J. E. Walker,
son of the late Rector of Cheltenham, has offered to the council
the amount of the presentation made to Dr. Walker by his
parishioners—about £2500—for the founding of a memorial
charity, unsectarian and non-political in its character, in
memory of his father.
The annual meeting of the Poor Clergy Relief Corporation
was held on Tuesday at the offices of the corporation, South-
ampton-strect, Strand—the Rev. Canon Farrar, D.D., presiding.
Dr. Pigott, D.C.L., read the report, which announced a large
increase in the funds during the past financial year. The
grouts during the year to the poorer clergy, their widows, and
oiphans, amounted to £6565, in sums ranging from £5 to £25.
The Bishop and Dean of Muritzburg have left for South.
Africa. The Bishop has appointed Canon Butler, of Wautage,
Ins commissary ; and at a meeting last week of the friends of
ti e Maritzburg Mission, Lord Forbes, Mr. Beresford-Hope,
M.P., Mr. J. G. Talbot, M.P., and others spoke to resolutions
in favour of raising a sustentation fund of £10,000, and further
sums for training and supporting missionaries.
1 esterday week the Earl of Lichfield unveiled a memorial
bust of Izaak Walton, recently placed in St. Mary’s Church,
Stafford, by public subscription. The author of the “Corn-
pleat Angler” was born in Stafford, in 1593, and during the
whole of his life showed great partiality for his native town. It
is chiefly upon Walton’s literary productions that his fame
outside Stafford depends, but in that town his name will long
be remembered and cherished for the bountiful charities and
benefactions which he left to the poor of Stafford, and which
xiie oust was executed
at the present day. The bust \
by Mr. R. Bell. The Dean of Lichfield preached.
u ad afll f med authority of the Court^of Arches to
Justlce > m a lon g and elaborate judgmeut main-
formalities incident to a plenary sffithad bln observed
whereas the procedure in the case of Mr. Mackonochic had
been of a summary character. n ° caie naa
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.
S^y-eighth annual Congress of the British Association
for the Advancement of Science was opened at Dublin on
bTthe Veaing f by the deliver r of tbe presidential address
Wp Is 4 enneert-room of the Exhibition building. The
a . a ? d spacious hall was crowded by members of the
Association and their friends, including more than the
average attendance of ladies. The eloquent address of Mr.
W. Spottiswoode, the President for this year, was listened to
with marked attention. He was introduced by Professor AIRn
lhompson, the President of last year. •
, J;! 0 President began his address by a reference to the
former meetings of the Association, both at Dublin and else¬
where, and to some administrative matters. Dealing with the
question of endowment of research and the grants made for
that purpose by the Association, he observed that it was not
difficult to offer strong arguments in favour of permauent
nationid scientific institutions, or to picture to the mind an
ideal future when Science and Art should walk hand in hand
together, led by a willing Minister into the green pastures of
the endowment of research. But while allowing this to be not
an impossible future, we must still admit that there arc other
and less promising possibilities, which, under existing circum¬
stances, cannot be altogether left out of our calculations He
was therefore, on the whole, inclined to think that, while not
losing sight of larger schemes, the wisest policy, for the
present at all events, and pending the experiment of the
Government fund, will be to confine our efforts to a careful
selection of definite persons to carry out definite pieces of
work, leaving to them the honour (or the onus, if they so
think it) of justifying from time to time a continuation of the
confidence which the Government or other supportin'* body
may have once placed in them. °
Mr. Spottiswoode then came to the special matter of his
address. On this he remarked that the branch of science
which he represents is one whose lines of advance, viewed from
a mathematician’s own point of view, offer so few points of
contact with the ordinary experiences of life or modes of
thought, that any account of its actual progress which he
might have attempted must have failed in the first requisite
of an address—namely, that of being intelligible. Now, if
this esoteric view had been the only aspect of the subject
which he could present to his hearers, he might well have
given up the attempt in despair. But the appearance of
isolation, so conspicuous in mathematics, appertains in a
greater or less degree to all other sciences, and perhaps also
to all pursuits in life. In its highest flight each soars to a
distance from its fellows. Each is pursued alone for its own
sake, and without reference to its connection with, or its
application to, any other subject. The pioneer and the
advanced guard are of necessity separated from the main body,
and in this respect mathematics does not materially differ
from its neighbours.
Therefore, it might not be altogether unprofitable to
dwell for a short time upon the other side of the question,
and to inquire whether there be not points of contact in
method or in subject-matter between mathematics and the
outer world which have been frequently overlooked; whether
its lines do not in some cases run parallel to those of other
occupations and purposes of life ; and, lastly, whether we may
not hope for some change in the attitude too often assumed
towards it by the representatives of other branches of know¬
ledge and of mental activity.
Mr. Spottiswoode then pointed out the historical importance
of mathemati cs in connection with the arts, and alluded to recent
inventions dealing with mathematical problems or involving
them. He spoke of objections which had been made to modern
mathematical methods. It is objected, he said, that, abandon¬
ing the more cautious methods of ancient mathematicians, we
have admitted into our formulie quantities which, by our own
showing, and even in our own nomenclature, are imaginary or
impossible; nay, more, that out of them we have formed a
variety of new algebras to which there is no counterpart what¬
ever in ri ality, but from which we claim to arrive at possible
and certain results. He, however, defended this and similar
proceedings on the part of mathematicians, partly by parallels
from lite raturc and art and partly by pointing out the valuable
results obtained and the facilities afforded by such descriptions
and methods.
After a lengthened review of the relations of mathematics
to other arts and sciences, and deprecating the rigid aversion
which both literature and art are too often inclined to maintain
towards science, Mr. Spottiswoode thus proceeded:—Conter¬
minous with space and coeval with time is the kingdom of
mathematics; within this range her kingdom is supreme;
otherwise than according to her order nothing can exist; in
contradiction to her order nothing takes place. On her
mysterious scroll is to be found written, for those who
can read it, that which has been, that which is, and that
which is to come. Everything material which is the
subject of knowledge has number, order, or position; aud
these are her first outlines for a sketch of the universe.
If our more feeble hands cannot follow out the details,
still her part has been drawn with an unerring pen, and
her work cannot be gainsaid. So wide is the range of mathe¬
matical science, so indefinitely may it extend beyond our actual
powers of manipulation, that at some moments we are inclined
to fall down with even more than reverence before her majestic
presence. But so strictly limited are her promises aud powers,
upon so much that we might wish to know does she offer no
information whatever, that at other moments we are fain to
call her results but a vain tiling, and to reject them as a stone
when we had asked for bread. If one aspect of the subject
encourages our hopes, so does the other teud to chasten our
desires; and he is, perhaps, the wisest, aud in the long run
the happiest among his fellows, who has learnt not only this
science, but also the larger lesson which it indirectly teaches —
namely, to temper our aspirations to that which is possible, to
moderate our desires to that which is attainable, to restrict our
hopes to that of which the accomplishment, if not immediately
practicable, is at least distinctly within the range of concep-
151
, That . wbich “ at present beyond our ken may, at soma
period and in some manner as yet unknown to us, fall within
° l £. e ^ as Pj bu . t oaf science teaches us, while ever yeirning
SwESf?® f< £ * L i gh , t *. , more % bt .” t0 concentrate our
teEn" XV h t &t °/?' lnch our powers are capable, and con¬
tented]} to lea\ c for future experience the solution of problems
to winch we can at present say neither yea nor nay.
It is within the region thus indicated that knowledge in
the true sense of the word is to be sought. Other modes of
influence there are m society and iu individual life, other
forms of energy beside that of intellect. There is the potential
°i f s y“P a J h y> th e actual energy of work ; there are the
vic^sfiudes of hfe, the diversity of circumstance, health, and
disease, and ;ill the perplexing issues, whether for good or for
evil, of impulse aud of passion. But although the book of
life cannot at present be read by the light of science alone,
nor the wayfarers be satisfied by the few leaves of knowledge
now m our bauds ; yet it would be difficult to overstate the
almost miraculous increase which may be produced by a
liberal distribution of what we already have, and by a re¬
striction of our cravings within the limits of possibility. In
proportion as method is better than impulse, deliberate pur¬
pose than erratic action, the clear glow cf sunshine than
irregular reflection, and definite utterances than an un¬
certain sound—in proportion as knowledge is better
than surmise, proof than opinion—in that proportion will
the mathematician value a discrimination between the
certain and uncertain, and a just estimate of the issues
winch depend upon one motive power or the other. While
on the one hand he accords to his neighbours full liberty to
regard the unknown in whatever way they are led by the
noblest powers that they possess, so, on the other, he claims an
equal nglit to draw a clear line of demarcation betweeu that
which is a matter of knowledge aud that which is, at ull events
something else, and to treat the one category as fairly claimin'*
our assent, the other as open to further evidence. And yet
when he sees around him those whose aspirations are so fair
whose impulses so strong, whose receptive faculties so sensitive!
as to give objective reality to what is often but a reflex from
themselves or a projected image of their own experience, he
will be willing to admit that there are influences which he
cannot as yet either fathom or measure, but whose operation
he must recognise among the facts of our existence.
At the conclusion of the President’s address, the Lord Mayor
moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Spottiswoode. On behalf of the
citizens of Dublin, he welcomed the Association and paid a
high tribute to the President. The vote of thanks was seconded
by the Provost of Trinity College, and was carried by
acclamation.
The head-quarters of the Association are in Trinity College,
where there is ample accommodation for the sections, aud for
committee, refreshment, and other rooms required for the
British Association. The Royal Irish Academy, the Royal
Dublin Society, the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and
other learned bodies connected with the city, are heartily co¬
operating to make the meeting successful aud agreeable, and
the city will uot be wanting in hospitality to visitors. Tue
issue of tickets amounted to 2263, including 1137 associates,
up to Wednesday afternoon.
The Sections met on Thursday at eleven o’clock in different
apartments of Trinity College; they are classified as follows
Section A.—Mathematical and Physical Science, the Rev. Pro¬
fessor Salmon, D.D., F.R.S., nominated as President of this
Section, but absent from illness. Section B.—Chemical
Science, Professor Maxwell Simpson, M.D., F.R.S. Section C.—
Geology, John Evans, D.C.L., F.R.S. Section D.—Biology,
Professor W. H. Flower, F.R.S. This section includes a
department of zoology and botany, presided over by Professor
Flower; one for anthropology, presided over by Professor
Huxley ; and one of anatomy and physiology, presided over
by Dr. Robert M’Donnell, F.R.S. Section E.—Geography,
Professor Wyville Thomson, LL.D. Section F.—Economic
Science and Statistics, Professor J. K. Ingram, LL.D.
Section G.—Mechanical Science, Mr. Edward Easton, C.E.
The evening arrangements are, for Thursday, a con¬
versazione at the Royal Dublin Society ; on the follow¬
ing evening, a lecture by Mr. G. J. Romanes, F.L.S.,
on Animal Intelligence; on Monday evening, a lecture
by Professor Dewar, F.R.S., on Dissociation iu Modern
Ideas of Chemical Action; on Tuesday evening, a con¬
versazione held by the Royal Irish Academy, on which
occasion the Round Room of the Mansion House will bo added
to the accommodation at the disposal of the Academy, by
permission of the Lord Mayor and Corporation. These are
not the only hospitable arrangements in the programme. On
Monday members will be entertained at breakfast iu the
Zoological Gardens by the Royal Zoological Society; in the
afternoon at a dinner by the College of Physicians, and iu the
evening at a conversazione by the College of Surgeons. Their
Graces the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough will also hold a
reception in the Viceregal Lodge, aud entertain a number of
distinguished visitors at dinner." Ample provision has been
made for the enjoyment of scenic and scientific excursions, as
described in another page of this Journal; and the Com-
mander-in-Chief has arranged for a grand field-day at the
Curragh, which may be taken in connection with a visit to
the ancient Cathedral of Kildare, which is nearly restored.
Nor will the religious wants of the visitors be neglected.
Special services will be held in Christ Church Cathedral and
St. Patrick’s, and seats reserved for them; the Bishop of Derry
presiding in the former and the Archdeacon of Meath in the
latter Cathedral. _
The sittings of the Foresters’ High Court at Newcastle-on-
Tync were concluded yesterday week.
At Chamounix a monument to Jacques Balmat, the man
who first ascended Mont Blanc, was unveiled on Sunday.
A Tillies' correspondent states that Prince Bismarck caused
himself to be weighed a few days ago at Kissingen, when the
balance marked 243 lb. 100 grammes. In 1874 the Prince, who
is getting very stout, weighed 401b. less.
The War Office has approved a scheme submitted to it for
the complete reorganisation of the Ordnance Department.
The department will in future consist, like the Commissariat,
of two branches—administrative and executive; the appoint¬
ments in the latter being reserved exclusively for meritorious
non-commissioned officers, who will be drawn largely from
the Royal Artillery.
The British Pharmaceutical Conference met on Tuesday
in Dublin, under the presidency of Mr. Schacht, of Clifton.
Among those present were Dr. Tichboume, president of the
Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, and representatives from
America, and from English towns. Mr. Ward, F.C.S., bore
an invitation to the conference to meet in Sheffield next year.
In his address Mr. Schacht said he felt sure that the Dublin
meeting would promote scientific pharmacy and the culti¬
vation of mutual respect and cordiality among thoso who
practise it. Ho dwelt on the exactitude and care, and th*J
dexterity and neatness, essential to a model pharmacist.
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^ NEWS, Au<*. I7 f 1878.— 1B3
AUG. 17, 1878
154
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
PARLIAMENT.
LORDS.
The knell of tlie Session was tolled by the departure of Lord
Beaconsfield for Hughenden on Monday, and the coming
“break-up” was festively hailed by the members of the
Government who attended the Fish Dinner on Wednesday,
when the Ministerial banquet, however, was deprived of its
greatest zest by the absence of the Prime Minister from l e
annuale whytebaite dinner of Ilyr Majestye’s Ministers,
as it was phrased in the quaintly-framed menu of le
Shippe, at Greenwiche.” Summarily have the last cere¬
monial rites of the Session been performed. 1 esterdav
week the saving amendments of the Commons in the Con¬
tagious Diseases of Animals Bill were approved, amid a
chorus of self-gratulutorv remarks from Earls Fortescue,
Spencer, and the Duke of Richmond. The bringing of the
Eurydice nearer shore was then the subject of an explanatory |
speech from Lord Elphinstone in a reply to Lord Sidmouth;
and there was also casual allusion to the munificent disposal of
ratepayers’ moneys by the London School Board, which, not
satisfied by'erecting an abundance of red-brick schools all over
town, is paying Government some £17,000 for a school-ship for
the Thames. .
The Lord Chancellor, whose appetite for business seems to
grow on what it feeds on, on Monday brought in a bill to con¬
solidate and amend the law relating to municipal Corporations
in England ; and his Lordship explained that his object was
to give the country an opportunity of considering the measure
during the recess. With accustomed' gracefulness, Lord Bury
explained to Lord Truro how he came to refer with some
severity to the conduct of Captain Coopc, Adjutant of a Hamp¬
shire Volunteer Corps, and qualified his animadversions. The
widespread dissatisfaction existing among the Metropolitan
police at the smallness of their pay and the number of hours
they have to remain on duty served as a text for Lord Truro,
who elicited from the Duke of Richmond that the Government
would give their best attention to the present organisation of
the force, to the question of superannuation, lodging, and to
the assaults on the police. His Grace also reminded the noble
Lord that a Committee had been appointed to inquire into the
whole subject.
On Tuesday the Duke of Richmond, the Lord Chancellor,
and the Duke of Northumberland acted as Royal Commis¬
sioners, and signified that the Royal Assent had been given to
various bills. Among other measures advanced a stage was the
bill for closing public-houses in Ireland on Sundays. This w r as
read the second time, on the motion of Lord O’Hagan, who
received the support of the Duke of Richmond and the Bishop
of London.
For the further expedition of business a few of their Lord-
ships met on Wednesday—the Earl of Redesdale presiding—
and the Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill was read the
first time, and the Irish Sunday Closing Bill passed through
Committee, among other meusures.
The Lord Chancellor (his digestion undisturbed, pre¬
sumably, by “ ye omelette of crabbe inne ye style as servyd
to ye Guardes of ye Blue Seale” of “ye annuale whytebaite
dinner ”) took his seat on the woolsack an hour and a quarter
earlier than usual on Thursday, in order to pass the Appro¬
priation Bill through its remaining stages and to push forward
the Irish Sunday Closing Bill, with a few other measures.
Heedless as to whether he might be deemed a veteran lagging
superfluously on the stage, Lord Strathnairn rose to advocate
the keeping of an authoritative public record of the services of
cfficirs; but Lord Bury had the noble nod gallant Lord on
the hip by pointing to the fact that his Lordship’s own bril¬
liant services were well known to a grateful country.
COMMONS.
From the point of view of prompt dispatch of business, the
Government may not improbably be of opinion that nothing
has become hon. members so much as their rapidity in ending
the work of the Session. There was a stout fight in Committee
-on the Bishoprics Bill yesterday week ; but the new Bishops,
whoever they may be, will possibly not be dissatisfied that the
minimum salary of £3500 a year will not be reduced to £1500,
as proposed by Sir George Campbell; nor that the con¬
ventional privileges of the new bishoprics will be curtailed
in the slightest. The measure was, in fact, passed through
Committee without amendment, after repeated divisions.
Without dwelling on each of the multifarious matters that
next came before the House, we may briefly state that the
Irish Sunday Closing Bill was read the third time, amid
cheers, nt a special sitting on Saturday; that on Monday
the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill was read the second
time, and the Irish Intermediate Education Bill the third
time, after some debate and one or two divisions. Mr.
Lowther expressing regret that the state of Mr. Butt’s health
would not allow him to serve as one of the Commissioners, and
adding that the Commissioners would be Lord Chancellor Ball,
the Earl of Belmore, Professor Molloy, The O’Connor Don,
Lord Chief Baron Pnlles, and Professors Porter and Salmon.
'lhe naval review by her Majesty at Spithead on Tuesday
prevented many hon. members from hearing the clearly-
delivtrcd speech in which Mr. E. Stanhope introduced the
Indian Budget. Bearing in mind the large deficit occasioned
by the famine, Mr. Stanhope’s statement was remarkably
hopeful. Had it not been for this deplorable visitation, he
argued, there would have been a surplus of a million. The
expenditure for the ensuing year was estimated at £61,039 000
the revenue at £G3,195,000. The chief new taxes would be a
land tax and a new impost on trade licenses; and the salt tax
would be increased in some districts and reduced in others.
This increase of taxation in India was earnestly deplored by
Mr. Ft.wccit in moving the following amendment
t U *e Bouse regarded with apprehension the present position of
Indian finance, and, in view of the power claimed by the Crown to employ
any niml cr of Indian troops in all parts of her Majesty’s dominions
except the l lilted Kingdom, was of opinion that there was no sufficient
ten rity against the military expenditure being unduly increased.
The slack attendance of Conservative members, Mr. Fawcett
pointedly said, showed the genuineness of their assumed
interest in Indian affairs. The hon. member trenchautly
nt tack id the Government for bringing the Indian troops to
Malta ; and warmly protested against the extravagant adminis¬
tration of the finanees of our Indian Empire. Mr Dilhvyn
seconded the amendment; and among those who joined in
the debate were Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Muntz, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Mr. Jacob Bright, aud Sir George Campb II.
in the end, Mr. Fawcett’s amendment was negatived by 59
to 20 vetes; and, in Committee, the Indian Budget was agreed
Ip- ,r, er ® tllsU( -d a short debate on the reported Russian and
English advances on Afghanistan. Sir Charles Dilke initiated
it, apropos of an English General and a body of cavalry havin '
be. n tint to Cabul, and the rumour that the Russians were
advmnng soulh of the Oxus. Mr. Bourke had received no
ml cm alien of the reported march of the Russians. The
Lnd.i-Stint ary for Foreign Affairs stated, however, that a
Rets in Minister hod reached Cabul; and added that it was
rtue on English mission to Cabul from India was projected
Biidtli mtnests m Afghanistan being great. Sir William
IJtrccuit was of opinion that the Government were troubling
themselves unnecessarily as to Russian advances in Asia. Not
so the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who insisted that it was
the duty of the Government to closely watch what was going
on in that part of the world. As to the dispute between
Turkey and Greece (to which the hon. Baronet had also
alluded), Sir Stafford Northcote declared it to be the wish ol
the Government that the arrangements come to at the Berlin
Congress should be carried into effect. . ,
On Wednesday, preparatory to discussing ye flounders
curyously cooked, and salmonne servyd inne lyke mannere,
and the other succulent dishes of the Greenwich Banquet,
Ministers had a busy afternoon of it. Colonel Stanley was
able to assure Mr. Monk that reassuring reports as to the
health of the troops at Cyprus had come from Sir Garnet
Wolseley. Several other questions were answered. lhe
Expiring Laws Continuance Bill was read the third time. But
the greater part of the sitting was occupied with a sympathetic
debate on the assassination of Mr. C. C. Ogle, whilst acting
as a Special Correspondent of the Turns during the late rising
in Thessaly. In an earnest speech, Mr. H. Sainuelson referred
to the sad event, and moved—
That, in the opinion of this House, Mr. Consul-General Fawcett s report
upon Mr C. C. Ogle’s death is inconclusive, and that a fresh Commission of
Inquiry ought to be instituted, composed of Englishmen only, who should
lie specially empowered to assure the witnesses of the protection of her
Majesty’s Government.
Rather late in the day, Mr. Bourke awoke to a sense of the
necessity of giving expression to some feeling at the painful
death which Mr. Ogle met with and at the barbarous muti¬
lations to which his body had been subjected. Mr. Sainuelson
was duly complimented by Mr. Bourke for the ability of
his address; but the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs
said that the Government could not assent to a fresh
Committee of Inquiry unless it could be clearly shown
that the evidence brought before Mr. Fawcett was untrue.
Further pressure on the Government having been put by Mr.
Forster in a few rugged sentences, the Chaucellor of the
Exchequer joined in the expression of regret at the death of
Mr. Ogle, and, whilst defending Mr. Fawcett’s conduct
of the inquiry, promised that the matter should be
reconsidered, and hoped that the hon. member would
therefore withdraw’ his motion. This Mr. Samuelson
agreed to do, on the understanding that the Government
would as soon as possible institute a fresh inquirj’. A fruitless
conversation followed on the retrocession of Bessarabia to
Russia, Sir George Campbell, Mr. E. Jenkins, and Mr. M.
Lloyd commenting on the action of Russia, and likewise on
the appointment of “ so strong a Turkish partisan ” as Sir H.
Dmmmond Wolff as a member of the Commission for
administrating Eastern Roumelia. The Appropriation Bill
was thereafter read the third time and passed; and the
Bishoprics Bill w’as read the third time by 02 to 20 votes, Mr. E.
Jenkins calling for the division.
Thursday being the eve of the close of this protracted
Session, hon. members did not attend in large numbers. The
East still claimed foremost attention. Of the Session it may,
indeed, be said that e’en in its ashes lived its wonted fires.
Mr. E. Jenkins was constant to the last to his task of interro¬
gating Ministers; and from Mr. Bourke he learnt that the
Forte had collected the taxes at Cyprus up to the time of
England’s taking possession of the island, but that there
was no reason to believe that they had also collected for
a year in advance. Colonel Stanley, answering Sir Charles Dilke,
somewhat modified his previous statement as to the salubrity
of Cyprus, and acknowledged that there had been three deaths
since the troops had landed. The Chancellor of the Ex¬
chequer then explained to Mr. Fawcett and Sir Henry
Havelock that the British mission to Afghanistan was not
invited by the Ameer, but originated with the Government.
The red-tapiness of Mr. Bourke was then illustrated afresh.
Questioned by Mr. Hayter, he said that negotiations were
going on for the surrender of Batoum; but added that Sir
Austen Layard had telegraphed that the Consul at Trebizond
had received a petition from the Lazes declaring that if the
Russians attacked them they would unfurl the British flag, and
that they considered themselves under British protection. Sir
William Harcourt and Mr. Forster both thought that the
publication of such a statement, without any Ministerial
comment, might lead to its being supposed that the Govern¬
ment had undertaken the protection of the Lazes; but Mr.
Bourke replied that her Majesty’s Government would hold the
Scales of Justice fairly as between the Russians and the Lazes.
He would not say whether an answer had been sent to Sir Austen
Layard. With regard to Crete, the right hon. gentleman read
the article of the Berlin Treaty in reference thereto for the
enlightenment of Mr. Monk. Mr. Bourke having made a
further explanation as to the European Commission, a new
writ for Newcastle-under-Lyme was moved, owing to the
resignation by Sir E. Buckley of his seat. A few measures
were then advanced a stage. In a brief speech regarding the
raising of H.M.S. Eurydice, Lord Charles Beresford delivered
himself of the opinion that it would have been better to have
blown up the ship—a course which Mr. W. H. Smith pro¬
tested, amid cheers, he could not have taken upon himself to
recommend, seeing the destruction of the bodies of sailors that
would have ensued.
T1 e Duke of Connaught has consented to become a patron
of the Railway Officers’ and Servants’ Association, aud has
forwarded twenty guineas to its funds.
The Duke and Duchess Max, parents of the Empress of
Austria, will celebrate their golden wedding at Tefernsee on
Sept. 9. The Austrian and Saxon Royal families will be present.
At a special meeting of the Manchester City Council on
Wednesday it was decided by a vote of forty-two to two to
further promote the scheme for bringing watpr to supply
Manchester and the district from Thi rlmere lake.
An aquarium was opened in Edinburgh on Wednesday, in
presence of a large number of spectators. It is situated at the
west end of Waverley Market, Prince’s-street, aud contains a
seal-house, twelve large tanks, and several smaller ones.
It is reported that the Marquis of Bute has given £5000
towords a fund for the erection of a Roman Catholic cathedral
in Dundee, to commemorate the re-establishment of the
bishopric of Dunkeld, which ceased about 292 years ago.
Admiral A. P. Ryder distributed the prizes on Thursday to
the cadets on board the Worcester training-ship off Green-
hithe. The gold medal presented by her Majesty to the lad who,
in the opinion of his messmates, was likely to make the finest
sailor, was a worded to Sir. .SpraiUe Braden, an American, and
Miss Oliver, the daughter of Admiral Oliver, piuned it on
his breast. Mr. Lapthorne took the first prize for proficiency
in navigation, and also in the use of the sextant; Mr. Baker
for proficiency in the use of the sextant; Mr. Styles for
seamanship; Mr. Errington the silver medal for general good
conduct; Mr. Gilmore the prize for swimming; Mr Darby for
French ; Mr. Braden for knowledge of steam ; Mr. Whitley for
meteorology ; Mr. Mason for magnetism; Mr. Watkins for
drawing ; Mr. Askin for gunnery ; Mr. Whitley for general
good conduct; and Mr. Way mouth for signals.
SHt* $ugglmfnf.
“LOVE’S YOUNG DREAM’’
This title is borrowed from Tom Moore’s song, the preceding
line of which recalls)to memory a droll picture we saw long ago,
either in Tom Hood’s Comic Annual or in George Cruikshank’s
Omnibus or Pocket Book. Outside a grocer’s shop stood an
empty hogshead, the inside of which, beyond doubt, would be
sticky with the moist remnant of West Indian molasses
Several boys, “ as free as nature first made man, ere wild in
streets the noble savage ran,” hung in a cluster, like enormous
flies, busy and buzzing, round the verge of this enticing
vessel. More than one of them had dived in headlong, and
showed only a dirty pair of heels projecting above its
margin. All fingers and thumbs, aud every tongue and
pair of lips in the company, were actively employed
with a delightful frankness and a hearty sense of opportunity,
in scooping up aud scraping up, licking and sucking, alto¬
gether devouring, consuming, and absorbing the luscious
saccharine syrup. Meanwhile the lyric poet of the tender
passion, Anacreon Moore, was involuntarily bidden to give
utterance to their silent ecstasy, which was expressed by this
apt quotation, “Oh, there’s nothing half so sweet in life!”
And we certainly believed in those days, which were the days
of Hood and Cruikshank at their best, that the assertion was
far more justifiable when applied to a tub of treacle than to
any of your sentimental romance in the way of “ Love’s Young
Dream.” For Byron and Moore, and the minor geniuses of
amatory inspiration, had not yet begun to affect our
juvenile fancy, being still on the childish side of that
period which is denoted by “ the teens.” Now, Mr.
Pelham’s picture, reproduced by the colour-printing
process for this week’s Extra Supplement, has a dif¬
ferent tale to tell; one of that sort which, says another
S et, “ must be told by the inoouligbt alone.” But it seems
e a bit of moonshine, after all, having arrived where we now
are, to pretend that such a black-eyed and black-haired young
gipsy, with a guitar, sitting on a sandstone rock in an attitude
ol rapt meditation, could really produce any appreciable effect
on the heart of a middle-aged citizen with unpaid bills in his
pocket. He Isas the consciousness of being hardened by many
years’ wear of life ou the farther side of his teens ; he can safely
dely this pretty creature, with all her musical airs aud graces
of Southern or Oriental languisliment to quicken the regulated
{ >ace of his temperate and sober pulse. Though she dream an
iour longer, and then awaken the strains of a Sappho to sing
the spirit of her dream, she will get but a sixpence for her
tuneful pains, unless she betake herself to a youthful customer,
not too youthful, but one who is addicted to the melting mood,
and still credulous of its satisfactory result in cases like the
present. To be sure, if the girl were English, her reply would
at once be ready, “Nobody axed you, Sir, she said!” and
with that we should part friends. As for this female minstrel
from the land of the cypress and myrtle, we just now ventured
to put her case to Alderman Blocksmitli, and what was his
answer? “She may go to Cyprus—or she may go to Hong-
Kong for me ! ” We appeal to the gentle reader.
MUSIC.
Were it not for the.Covent-Garden Promenade Concerts there
would be an almost total vacuum in London music. These
performances axe being carried on with great spirit, the pro¬
grammes offering a constant succession of new’ features. Lost
Saturday’s concert included the first appearance here of
Madume Montigny-Remaury, whose admirable pianoforte-
playing has before been commented on in reference to her per¬
formances at the matinees of Mr. John Ella’s “ Musical Union.”
On Saturday the lady was heard in Mendelssohn’s Capriccio
in B minor (with orchestral accompaniments) r and in an
unaccompanied “Gavotte” by’ Silas, and “Tarentella”
by Wehli, in the execution of each of which her special merits
of style and mechanism were very successfully displayed.
Mdlle. Alma Verdini continues to be an attraction here, other
vocalists who appeared at the concert now referred to having
been Miss Anna Williams and Mr. Maybrick. On the pre¬
vious evening the first ballad concert of the season was given,
and on Monday the scheme of the performance—in regular
order—of all Beethoven’s symphonies, except the ninth aud
last, was continued by giving No. 2, in D major. Mr. Arthur
Sullivan continues to exercise the office of conductor with
efficient skill, and is ably assisted by Mr. Alfred Cellier. On
Wednesday’ the second classical night was given, another
ballad night having been announced for yesterday (Friday)
evening. Mr. Santley and Mr. Charles Halle are to appear
early in September.
A meeting was recently held at Marlborough House, under
the presidency of the Prince of Wales, with the view of
advancing the science and art of music and of founding a
Royal and National College of Music. At present the Royal
Academy of Music and the National Training School for
Music have no connection. It is proposed, with the assent of
the managers of both these institutions, to consider the best
mithods of bringing them into connection, so that they may
co-operate in promoting higher education in the art of music
and form the basis of a new college on a more extended and
permanent footing than any existing institution. An executive
committee, under the presidency of Prince Christian, has been
appointed, aud will confer with representatives of both these
institutions. It is hoped that the present scholarships given
by public bodies throughout the country will be continued to
the new college, and that the great city and municipal cor¬
porations, as well n3 individuals interested in music, will aid
in founding new scholarships. In the autumn the Prince of
Wales proposes to invite to a conference representatives of the
corporations interested in founding the new college.
The Duke of Westminster, Lord Penrhyn, Sir. Goschen,
M.P.,Mr. Morliy, M.P., aud several members of Welsh cin-
8 fluencies were present yesterday week at the first ann versary
of the opening of the Clio Industrial Training-Ship, which is
moored off the Mcnai Straits, off Bangor. There are 210
boys on board. The Duchess of Westminster presented
the prizes to those boys who had been deemed deserving.
The seventy-first conference of the New Jerusalem Church
(Swedenborgians) has been held this week at Salford. The
actual work of the gathering began on Tuesday, wheu nine¬
teen ministers and sixty-seven representatives signed the con¬
ference roll. The Rev. William Boyce, of London, was elected,
president; the Rev. R. Sterry, of Hey wood, vice-president;
and the Rev. Eli Whitehead, of Hudderfield, secretary. Tho
Revs. Chauncey Giles, W. Benade, and C. Dunham were
received as delegates from the United States. Reports showed
that sixty-three societies, possessing 4842 members, are- con¬
nected with the denomination. It was decided that the con¬
ference shall be held next year at Kensingson, the ltev. Dr.
Buyley to be president. On Wednesday evening then,’ WA4 »
soiiee in the Towuhall, which was well attended.
AUG. 17, 1878
ECHOES OF THE WEEK.
--THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
I have quitted {with sincere regret) the Hotel l5 ‘ .
<he Boulevard Cache-Cache ™‘TiSS^S?
confided the secret of my hiding-place to one m- tJ f • , 7
England. They have LparteWe titogs to^othe^^and
people have begun to find me out. Yesterday there arrived^
.young British genUeman from the Midland Couuti^ wUh a
letter of mtroduchon. ‘‘Neverbeen in Paris’’before ‘‘ Well
ln?own courtesy to strangers 99 iC VainoVJr* • *® ,
bearing on the progress of electro-metallurgy in France could be
systematicallyacquired l Beshrew the young gentleman from
the Midland Counties ! I am afraid ton thot tmT U i m
maid at home has been tampered with, or’ his yielded YoThe
passionate instances of an infuriated publisher; for the post is
beginning to brmg me proofs of magazine articles *< Ple Je
•correct at once and return to Messrs. Tvpo and Roller Black
Boy-court, Fleet-street, E.C.” I dare ‘say ! They may post
proofs ; but, short of sending relays of printers’ derite L P 6
the Channel, they cannot Lee LeVrevte tte abhorred
prmted matter. I have put my foot down. The crushed I!!
be fl mn! rll fr;x.l EVer ?Y 0d T ? S °A\ ° f to ™‘ Grouse-shoottegh£
bcgiui. Hayhng Island is full of pleasure-seekers. Mv Prime
Munster, my Editor, my tailor, my dearest friend and mr
intimate foe are all holiday-making; and nobody shall get any
work out of me until September (the “ Echoes ” Always
-excepted: they are recreation, not labour) if I can help it
My name, for the nonce, is Nothing-to-Do, and I will do it
Meanwhfle, to make things quite snug and safe. I have moved"
Enquu-e for me at the Luxor Obelisk in the Place de la Con-
tmrn'p at um\ e Buttes Montmartre, “ to be left
tdl called for. I live There”—as the Mulligan told Mr
"re tSSS bar 8 m ‘ StW " d ’ ^ afta
meath th , e PSP" 1 " President of the Depart-
rnent of the Seine, has evidently not forgotten his hospitable
receifiion at GuildhaU during the mayoralty of Mr. Ahfermin
Offered l It +if th »t shortly after the magnificent banquet
offered by the City of Loudon to the representatives of British
and foreign municipalities Lord Mayor Stone went in state to
SrJ,™ dul y induced to aU the lions of the French
capital, but the ostensible purpose of the municipal visit was
to be present at the opening of the new Grand Opera. In this
present year of grace M. Ferdinand Duval and the Paris
Municipa 1 Council have resolved that the occurrence of the
Exhibition shall be further signalised by a series of fetes to be
Corporations of the great cities of France
E 'f ro P° an ca Pitals. Nor, it strikes me, should
America be left out, since, unless I am mistaken, the Mayors
tt ^ Montrcal > and of more than one city of the i
SmUdiln mi. WCrC prCSent A tbc memorable symposium at
Guildhall. The programme of the Paris rejoicings comprises
a grand banquet and a ball at the Luxembourg. Lord Mayors
nnd Lord Irovosts, Sindaci, Gonfalonieri, and Alcaldes will it
i?J3 ) 5 e S; he P rc .- s e ufc m preat profusion; but I have not
heard whether it is intended to forward a card of invitation to i
the Burgomaster of Berlin. • ,
rfSST“iwithtkep^doubl.vanity
before the painting wiv, mm & led w,th the crowd gathered
abominably cruel that tbo bntUe -hit—a screw one—is so
Sapf of SoM^r. • the a ?L maI “ ■>>•*> bridl°:S by
Mexico hCre ar ° n0 more docile horses than those of
burden “X g ’ n „ Le . C0nV01 de David >” and its touching
sj sbhaj
fflw htt 5 l A S t] i e Bei ? u o£ Te rror, and of having
SfnY whnXe 1011 °! - the last ‘ponies of aristocratic
fS ri vit; thc> most intimate and the most devoted
Robespierre. The Bourbons held David
Swelled and A A the second Restoration he was
RW+ili , P . ar l s ’ and dlod m exile at Brussels in 1825
Shortly before his death, however, it began to be felt that the
na?STanS a w? lneUt ° f , ?. m “ strious a Frenchman from hi
exaRerl fnJ a SCaud ? 1 to tbe French Government, soon
exaRed functionary of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts was diY-
ferocious but humorous Red Republican Barom’ “ Send ! *£ -
were of ^a bvely crmison hue; and the bill of fare comprised
potage jUx wine “saumon,sauce verte," “noixdcvcau financiers “
legumes peaches, salad, and dessert. But surely'there must
have been sojne mistake m the menu. It should have bum
composed of gunpowder soup, bauf enrage a la Pet role,' tripes de
Suisse a la diabfc, cerveau de victims frit, black pudding red
cabbage, pickled beetroot, curried carrots, and red mullet’ the
whole washed down b> copious potations of red hermitage and
Red Heart Rum. The Government, it appears, has taken
umbrage at some of the to^ts given at this banquet of s.an-
speakem t retros R cct > aud a'tends to prosecute some of the
• “ memory serves me corree^y there wiU be held early
m September next at Northampton a ffrand concert and famy
bazaar in aid of the funds of the institution of the Sisters of
■Nazareth House, Hammersmith, who have established in
.Northampton a branch of this most admirable and beneficent
tYLi' • Ih !, w ?r k w hich these good Christian ladies do in
London is not half so well known u it deserv.es to be. They
“ ld permanently succour, deserted in/ants, helpless
hnn^Y S i d -f eaSe 1 a ? d P ftral J tlc °l d people—liopeles. ! incurables,
Strays of ever y hind- They go abou't begging
JnAJ°° T , ° d00r £or f00d £or their infirm chants, anS
sometimes they are kindly and generously treated ft he fish
salesmen down at Billingsgate arc very good to them! and
f°l“5 timeS doo , r j are Cammed in their faces 6 They live tlie ’n-
selyes, on mouldy crusts and cheeseparings, the refuse of t\'«
mnl ?c b ‘?\ charitable .? o!i ?•*>» WTb w
S W ? exaggerating, hie you to Nazareth House
ts. W ., nng the bell, and see things for yourself T nm
anxious to do all that I can for this good work—the success of
Mike? C °nn C d ni if (Catholi ™’ Protc8t ants, Jews and Turks!
alike), and if anyone reading this has any drawings
autographs, needlework, or fancy bazaar wares m generul°t<»
E,,"* ”«»>» W be ?cui to the care of E S";
Edmunds, Billmg-road, Northampton. Re-
member, the bazaar is held at the beginning of September.
- G. A. S.
THE WRECK OF H.M.S. EURYDICE.
Mr. Henry Irving, like other hard-working servants of the
public, may be under the impression that he has amply earned
and has a right to the enjoyment of a holiday; but the good
people of Birmingham think otherwise, aud, finding that the
accomplished actor was in the Midlands, they laid hands upon
hun and made him lay the first stone of a new Library,
scientific and Educational Institute, which is to be erected for
the intellectual benefit of Harbome and Edgbaston those
important suburbs of Birmingham. Still Mr. Irving had liis
reward for being compelled to work in the middle of August,
hrom labour the friends of the Institute adjourned to refresh¬
ment—the president at the luncheon being, I am glad to se«
my old friend Mr. Sam Timmins, J.P., one of the ripest
tehakspearean scholars aud one of the most appreciative lovers
•of old books in England. Mr. Irving made a sensible and
•eloquent speech, and his friends presented him with an illu-
mmatecl address and the elegant silver trowel with which he
had laid the stone ; so that everybody was satisfied.
Henry Irving is essentially a master of gesture, by-play,
and (if the diplomatists will permit me to use the word)
mnuendo; and I fancy that were he to come to Paris the
larisiana, slender as is their average stock of English, would
understand his Hamlet perfectly well, and appreciate it enthu¬
siastically. They understood Edmund Kean ; but Macready—
who in Hamlet was rhetorical and nothing more—puzzled them
hopelessly. I fancy that Mr. Irving would be as popular in
1 aris as Salvini was in London. The English tragedian would
have (as the Italian one had) all the ladies on liis side, to begin
with ; and that is more than three parts of the battle. It was
not by arms alone that Theseus subdued the Amazons. He
was a good-looking Greek, with a touch of melancholy in his
Dantone voice ; and Hyppolita and the Amazons “ caved in ”
at once, as the “ ’coon” did to Colonel Crockett.
There was a passage in the Birmingham speech which
struck me as equally sensible and felicitous. Quoth
: —" With people who maintained that there was
something radically vicious in the whole principle, theory, and
practice of the stage, they (the actors) must live as comfortably
as they could.” There is a great deal of true philosophy in
this brief observation. I do not think that there is anybody
who could persuade me that the dramatic art is a sinful one,
•or that it is wicked to go to a theatre; but, on the other hand,
l know that I might argue until my hair grew through my
nat and my toe-nails grew through my boots, before I suc-
ceeded m convincing Mr. Prynne, Counsellor, of Lincoln’s Inn,
and author of “ Histriomastix,” that a playhouse is not a sink
oi iniquity, and that actors and actresses are not the most
aepraved of humanity. This being the case, let us all live
aa comfortably ” together as we can. Good old Queen
Charlotte^delighted to have Mrs. Siddons to tea, and the
flu 110 ™ Burdctt - Coutts never misses a first night’s performance
oi Mr. Henry Irving; but, on the other hand, the Archbishop
i Pans refused to give Christian burial to the remains of
mademoiselle Raucourt; our “Junius” {Slat nominis umbra)
eesed David Garrick as “ Vagabond ! ” and, at the present 1
tnl’ n „ e * e “ plai T M - Loui a Veuillot, in the Univcrs, continues
, J Moliere a polisson and Corneille a voyou. If people 1
would only try to live comfortably with each other ? i
br>aYi Uredly “ n °thing new under the sun. Every- <
Fnoi; i f WS tbe 6tory o£ tbe contemptuous criticism of the 1
“ T 1 h n- ra ?. r 011 George Morlaud’s fifmous picture of the ’
Pl ° s ‘ '.He paint pigs!” said the bucolic Ruskin, |
’em l e - e tbr< r e Pi& a a ’ foedin’ together without one of
nnhHovl*?! blB Root m the trough?” I read in a recently
file P,l d , bl .°g ra pRy of Uavid, the great historical painter of i
minim™, l i 1C ie u nd the First Empire, an anecdote precisely r
Pictun. nf 1° tbe ,'' P'g ’.’ oue - Uavid had publicly exhibited a f
of large dimensions, one of the principal personages in (
" . Tbc B °«rf>ons were not alone in their horror of David.
Si* + ^ lldt ? t ’ “ ost hemgnant, and most charitable of man-
Paris Iiff f r 1 thY r p U3 8 CU ]P. tc,r : Johu Flaxtnau, when he visited
“SviYmS.?! Pe ac e ofAnuens, obstinately refused to meet
+knf m ’ £be Sans-Culotte.” He could not, he said, “press
f -stained hand.” His compeer in sculpturesque
tan0V f’ manifested no such political pre-
Snvrr,L h to Pondou iu th e train of the Allied
Prince Reprm- ,SOm << aSk ? d him what he thought of the
ifi"* 1 dl , d not ' answered the great Venetian,
A°p bltb ^r. to 8e ? the Prince Regent. I came to see ‘ il
nobxl uomo, Giovanni Flaxman, before he died.”
R on I ln 0 i n £ ha f le ru A1 ! 8t0 ^- C 1 0llius (tbe br °tRer of Wilkie, the
^ i - f Cbar . le8 Uickens, and a most promising artist
and graphic essayist) had a horror amounting almost to
melano p hobi a of evening dress. The “ claw-hammer ” or
stce 1 - pe n coat, as the Americans phrase the garb which
gentlemen and waiters are constrained to wear at dinner-time
was to eharles Collins as a red rag is to a bull, or a portrait
of St. Ignatius Loyola to Mr. Whalley, or as the scent of a
rose was to Henry III. of France. According to the Berlin
Morse,, Courncr, a similar aversion to the black tail coat and
white choker is shared by Signor Cairoli, the Prime
Minister of the Kingdom of Italy. Some years since, on his
marriage with an Italian Countess, justifiably proud of her
twenty-three quarters of nobility, M. Cairoli appeared at the
Hymeneal altar (it is the Continental custom to be married in
evening dress) in a long brown frock coat and a black silk
neckcloth On his appointment to the presidency of the
Council of Ministers he made it a condition that he should be
allowed to appear “ eu redingote ” in the Royal presence ; and
only a few days since the inflexible Premier made his appear¬
ance m a dark frock coat and a coffee-coloured cravat at the
Royal dinner-table at Milan.
Such sumptuary trifles may be worth recording at the
time. Only a few days since a little newspaper controversy
sprung up as to the costume worn by Lord Castlereagh at the
Gf’ngress of "Vienna. It seems that the hackneyed anecdote
of the effect produced by the unadorned simplicity of the
British Plenipotentiary's “plain blue frock” amoiif his
embroidered, be-starred, and be-ribboued colleagues is a
myth ; and that Lord Castlereagh wore, as Talleyrand
Mettcrmch, Pozzo di Borgo, and the others did, the garb of
his rank and the insignia of his orders. I hope that the
chroniclers of the next century will not forget the great Sir
Robert Peel’s buff waistcoat, the silver buckle which unfixed
at the back, the Hero of Waterloo’s white cravat, the eyeglass
and shirt-collar of Colonel Sibthorp, Sir Francis Burdett’s
white hat and top-boots, the “ curly-brimmed ” hat of
Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, the shepherd’s-plaid trousers of
Henry Lord Brougham, the embroidered waistcoats of
Benjamin Disraeli, and the lavender kid gloves of the Earl of
Bcaconsfield, K.G.
I am reminded (by a French, not an English paper) that
among the ladies who have been created Knights of the Order
of the Legion of Honour must be recorded Lady Pigot,
“femme de Sir Robert Pigot, grand proprietaire dans le
Cambridgeshire,” who received the cross as a recognition of
the heroic devotion exhibited by her Ladyship in the service
of the French ambulances during the war of 1870-1. Is this
so ? I hope it is.
The wedding trousseau of the Princess Marie, daughter of
Prince Frederic Charles, has, according to custom, been
publicly exhibited at Berlin. What dear old Mrs. Delany calls
in her Autobiography “ the marriage clothes” seem to be, in
the case of the Prussian Princess, of the most superb
description. What do you think, ladies, of a dress of cloth of
silver (German manufacture), a Court mantle of the same
precious metal, with a train six yards long, and a veil of point
d'Alenqon, powdered with roses and myrtles in silver? The
wedding crown has been woven by the Princess Louise, sister
of the bride. The pocket-handkerchief and the fan are in
point de gaze; and the gloves (a present from the bridegroom)
were specially embroidered in Luxembourg, the future resi¬
dence of the Royal couple. Enough of the Gazette dcs Modes ;
but only fancy a gown with a tail six yards long ! Let me see.
What was the length of Alexander the Great’s last Court suit
(dust-colour, powdered with ashes) ? About six feet, I guess.
The anniversary of the horrible massacre of the brave and
faithful Swiss Guards of Louis XVI. at the palace of the
Tuileries on the tenth of August, 1792, was celebrated on
Saturday last by a Radical bauquet at the Salle Gagny, Rue
de la Gaite—de la Gaite!—Paris. The cards of invitation
lS The operations in Saudown Bay, Isle of Wight unon th«
* I* 3 un£ortuuute ship, which was lately raised from
1. lave P SnYtnn^ ^ , 8a nk and brought into shallower water,
i- !, e betu Mopped since Monday morning in consequence of
d tbe preparations for the Naval Review at Spithead It is now
t ascertained that her bottom, on the starboard side, is staved
8 kr i a r Pl,m f Pmg Cu ! 1 do nothing to get the water out of
e f r ‘ khe lies at present off St. Helen’s Point, in 14 ft. deDth
of water at low tide, with her stem buried 3 ft. in a reddish
1 c a ^ t ° tto 1 m . : and, as she heels over towards the sea the
6 SE r it Th^Rn'^ v UCh , sbattered b F £h e waves beitiifg
., The Royal Family have visited the wreck of the
l SrwI smceit was placed within easy reach of her Majesty’s
m thC it of Wi Sht. On Friday, the 2nd inst., at
hu|i- p ast six in the evening, the Queen, accompanied by
3 Princess Beatrice, Pnnce Albert Victor of Wales, and Prince
t George of M ales, and attended by an equerry, arrived at
, Sundown Beach from Osborne House and viewed the wreck
r mak ' 1 ^ se '' e nd inquiries of the coastguard officer as to ths
t condition of the ship and the means which are being adopted
1 YaverlnnY The poyai party then drove back through
; VnvnT Y , , a n d u Brad “g- /g™. on Monday week, the
i al yacht Osborne steamed into Sandown Bay and brought
o? \Vni r the > Euiydice. On board were the Prince aud Princess
° £ .^ ale8 > Pmiee Albert \ ictor and Prince George, in the
uniform of naval cadets, and the three little Princesses, with
ladies and gentlemen m attendance. One of the Osborne’s
boats was lowered, and the Prince of Wales, in naval uniform,
the Captain commanding the Osborne, aud other officers and
gentlemen, were rowed to the Eurydice. The officers iu charge
of her at the time were Staff Captain Dathan, Staff Cap tarn
Batt, Commander Moss, and Lieutenant Wonham. His Roval
Highness clambered up the side of the wreck, and remained
some time in conversation with these officers, taking much
mterest m their description of what had been accomplished
?? d . o£ £ hei r P>n for future operations. The Captain of her
Majesty s ship Valorous, which has been attending on the
other ships in Sandown Bay, was also on the wreck during the
Prince s visit. The Royal yacht then steamed out of the bay
on her retiirn to Osborne House. As soon as the Eurydice is
again lifted from her recumbent position she will be towed
within Bembndge Ledge, or, should the tide and the purchases
act as well as could be desired, it is intended to tow her into
harbour at once and moor her in Porchester Creek.
The forty-fifth annual exhibition of the Whitby Agri¬
cultural Society was held on Tuesday, and proved to be the
most successful the society has ever held. About £500 was
offered m prizes for the various classes of horses. The agri¬
cultural and hunting varieties were the best.
A burglary was perpetrated at the residence of Mr. B. Levy
v ictoria Park, Leicester, early on Sunday morning, in th«
absence of the family at the seaside. The house was com¬
pletely ransacked, and large quantities of jewellery aud plate
were stolen.—Jewellery and plate to the value of about £509
were also stolen on Saturday morning by a well-planned aud
determined robbery at the shop of Mr. Bishop, jeweller ia
Duke-street, Brighton. ’
Mr. Henry Irving laid the foundation-stone of the Harborn#
and Edgbaston Institute on Monday afternoon, and was after¬
wards entertained at luncheon in the Masonic Hall, Birming¬
ham, when he gave an address upon education and the drama.
Speaking in defence of the drama, he said that what sensible
nu n had to do was not to make futile attempts to destroy an
institution which was bound up with some of the best instincts
of human nature, but to strive to remove its abuses aud to
elevate its tone.
The Middlesborough Town Council have presented
Lieutenant-Colonel Saddler with a silver cradle. The gallant
Colonel, after having been elected Mayor in November last,
vacated the chair in order to contest a seat in the repre¬
sentation of the borough in Parliament in the Conservative
interest. During his term of office his wife presented him
with a son, and the Council determined to give him the cradle.
The present Mayor made the presentation on Tuesday, together
with an illuminated address of thanks for Colonel Sadler’s
services during his term of office.
The anniversary of the relief of Derry in 1688 was cele¬
brated on Monday in the city of Londonderry by an outdoor
Orange demonstration, including a procession with banners
and music.—At a late hour on Sunday night a disturbance
arose between some Roman Catholics and Protestants travel¬
ling in a railway train from Newry, and one of the party, a
Protestant named Gough, was shot dead. The train was
detained by the police on its arrival at Portadown, and the
passengers were searched, two, who had revolvers, being
arrested.
MADAME ETELKA GERSTER.
NORTH COAST VIEW, FROM ST. HILARION, ON THE MOUNTAIN CHAIN OF KYRENIA, CYPRUS.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Aug. 17, 1878.—157
Wo are enabled to present, with the accompanying portrait, a three years—1873 to 1876. In the mean time rumours of her written, in French. Her next triumph was at Berlin, where
short, biographical sketch of Madame Etelka Gerster’s career, wonderful voice had got abroad, and offers were made her it may be justly said she turned everybody’s head and
This lady was bom on June 16,1857, at Kaschau, in Hungary, from several German towns. Etelka, however, declined created a furore such as had hitherto never been known
At a very early age she evinced musical abilities of no ordinary these, as she was determined to commence her career in the German capital, and her benefit night seemed the
kind. Her clear and silver-toned voice drew the attention of in the Italian school, and in January, 1876, she made her climax of her manyj,well-eamed triumphs. The demand
everybody acquainted with her family. By the advice of the debut at Venice, under the management of Signor Gardini, in for places was so great that tho administration of the
Director of the Conservatoire at Vienna, who chanced to hear the character of Gilda in Verdi’s “ Rigoletto,” and with theatre was compelled to ask the public to apply by writing,
her sing at the head of one of the Catholic processions in her wonderful success. Almost at once followed the parts of and it is said that more than 21,000 applications were refused,
native town, she was placed under the tuition of the far-famed Ophelia, Lucia, Amina in “ La Sonnambula,” and Marguerite, She then made a short sojourn at Buda-Pesth, where she
Madame Marchesi, with whom she studied most diligently for which last character she at first sang, as it was originally appeared in the operas of “ La Sonnambula” and “ Hamlet.”
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Kingdom) of the Royal Obrervato^GranwTcgf ° ^
_Catalogues on application.
QR0IDE GOLD WATCHES, 21s., 25a
0. C. HOWE, 88, Brompton-road, London, 8.W.
ssaswsstsas?^
J?10. BENNETT’S WATCHES.
-*-Note, free an ’
_ __ --GOLD WATC
auty, and workruanahlp, with keviesa
“ 1 lust-tight.—60, Che-—m- T
r«' prices. P.O.O. „
BENNETT. 65 and 64, Cheaps'id'e'.'
WALKER’S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES
FaYM^^,re^ , a n t ? 1 , a ( , i:; tb ^4 4^ i ; 7 f i ?,!d' , ^u„ I ^';rp , S
Lists sent free. 68, Comhill; 220, Regent-stree t ;^6°Strant
GILLOTT’S
STEEL PENS.
Sold by all Stationers throughout the World.
M APLK an ^ Import era.
•J’UltKEY CARPETS,
JNDIAN CARPETS,
pERSIAN CARPETS.
OVER 2000 DAGHESTAN and
s ,»«i
of grejit rarity,
have l«et‘n nuule over a hun
fully low-in fart one th
cunotitiee.—145, 146,147 Tc
mnder-
t these
ATAPLE and CO.
J.T.L Tbe largest and m
Catellnes, Bilk Ft. ps.all in
object, as not only do tlie
tin y were made, but they
K DAMASKS.
-t varied assortment of Satin, Silks
•balk. To pnrcliasere this is a great
get the silks at a lower price than if
TyiAPLE and CO.—CURTAINS, for Dinino
double width, from
^NKUAL SUMMER SALE.
DRESSES AT GREAT REDUCTIONS.
i00 pieces Summer Cashmere Merinocs, new Colours,
250 pieces Twilled Angolu^Moea fiige.^Ul Wool, in useful Shades
Grey Drub. Brown, Steel, Ac., at lcid. per vard.
T» 4 ,f,o*i r, f a, tl T' <1 ,M."™' 1 1'ol'lins.uil pure Wool. 7^ njryard.
XT. M G" bt.ek "f t reueli Percales. Cambrics, Brilliants and
Moss Cretonnes, all new Pat terns, will lie sold at .it ner yard
.300boxes bast Black Velvet Velveteens, formerly3s**1 y at ’
^2^1. per yard. ' “
Jlode Costume*, in aHjUi/lJewFabrit ami Latest Style of
210 Costume* In^AugJda "jllwi Oioth^formeriy^raineas at iv
' fo*merly IHa^at lls™ ' '
Piiria Mutle] L<*f>tunu*s, f*»niu*rly 0 to lOguiu&is at
PETER ROBIN SON*'OXFORD-STREET.
And utt'i
Tills ym
If vo? •
Tlii
are luxuriant linir,
id rich, und rare
~e it soft and bright.
SPECIAL SALE OF
T>LACK GRENADINE COSTUMES.
A ProducerV Sf.>ck of several Imndiod
from life. tid. tx. I rninne *
PETER T K h 5S££
ATAPLE and CO.—CRETONNE CHINTZ
forto^^rere nC ThJ, 11 “whith^'^c^ a? w ^'" “* J
T HE W ORLD has been endowed with
w lth "" c " r the greateat blessings in tlie manufacture of
Macniyen and Oameron s excellent iiens/'-Rendlng Uei.iM.
tes:iS ,ini ' ,i bw,u ' ^
■Inst out. the HINDOO .
i: MACXIVKN and CAMERON 2!
rgh (established 1770), Penmakers
■Standard.
ENS, No*. 1,2.3.
. “ ‘ 33, Blair-street,
■ her Majesty's
T ADDES A B0 UT TO TRAVEL should
Sar “'2
1J0STAL ORDER DEPARTMENT.
T^oi.rtm^7'i MAl l ' E and (: °- h SK respectfully to sUte tliat this
~cpart nun, t n ? w 60 organised tlmt they ar«* fully r»r**iMirod to
'‘jpply any Article that can ^wibly fewSSS S
Furnirfhine at tfio .ame price, if not hvw. tlmn any other honaa
In England. Patteraa tent and quotation! given free of charge.
'TRAVELLING and SEASIDE DRESSES.
-*- Witney Serges and line Cashmeres,
R !f h S’?.". 14 * P ,0 J. h ”' LamfskLawns, New Angola*.
. S]<rliilUiea in Moss (.Mntlia, Fa ney pnsl mi rev, Ac.,
J^AKER and CRISP’S COSTUMES.
Engravings and Patterns
198, Regent-street.
3AKER and CRISP’S BLACK FABRICS.
Every description,
from 6.1. yard.
_I atterns free.—198, Regent-street
1 >AKER aud CRISP’S EARLY AUTUMN
SERGES and FABRICS,
SERGE
—198. ltcgent-strcet.
the’low^Kis" blei “ P ™ IUCe thU Cl “* of fnruiture ai
145. 146, 147. 148, 149, Tottcnliam-court-road, London.
B
AKER aud
CRISP’S BLACK,
COLOURED, and DAMASSE
Si LKS, from Is. lljd. yard.
A ^ AC , T -—^HAIR COLOUR WASH.—By
lieftonesita'i'rfgin«]?r‘i" 8 W “ h ' twelve honr, it
torstampx-igg^ Hent
Gr E N HAIR.—ROB A RE’S
^I. . 3 mu£? L L X ?_. 1 L , P d .’ ,0, 'fi the beautiful Golden Colo
Lonil' n “ud aSd M re ?' »" J <«*'•<! City-read, E.V.
DtP YOUR HAIR TURN GREY P
Miirlborough-st?." W -in i.m al! Vul*. ,ri.—.j. Great
id 95, City-road; and of al
T^wiS^L HAIR DESTROYER.—This
linir. Onhe hirmb'L r ^w'V e ‘ ly C T^ 4 P rt ‘ m ” VM *"/»Tflnons
19 P"rteti6-rij!”D, l !do^ , w! or Chemikt* 1 ’ ParHcuf*r» r 'l^"ta e " n ’
A STP K ; FAILING REMEDY for BiUous
dinejs, DUzinres ' r*. 8 ' ln <»Restion. Wind, Spasms, Gid-
KO-rirs BILIOUS and 1 A V rn I i‘\". t P , ‘.' G’l.istivemis. &c.-Dr.
- 1 g tllllDe are in a square green packet. *
L AX lo ° zf RA , MEDICAT RH FRUIT
1-ecommen.led " Laxor “ Lozenges can be safely
effl«eiou C s, Lozenges are
__ siSth'wik-lSret UiBt ' and Drn KK lBtB ; Whole-
XoothTacS; 1 -—
JNSTANT CURE.
FORMS A STOPPING.
j Bonn „ o SA VES THE TOOTH.
found inrtanten^n^ and ^Sanentrere f™™ h “ V6
(GARDNERS’ NEW DINNER and TABLE
»™«n^ SS SERVICES are original in design, effective In
tl,1l“ a ,d lQ I ,rif ?- Hlnner Servlcea from
*?*!"*' ^’ tor twehepers ; .n,. conijdete, with 16 per centdls-
« to. tTo SeTtor tw^elre^Ierfons complete^** 11 ^ trom
DINNER SERVICES.
Coloured Lithographs post-free.
Tbe I aula ^1“^* „ . I In Bine and White.
Th«i*net,... .. £3 3 0 | The Lansdowna ..£3 3 0
.. 3 13 6 | The Indiana .. ..440
| Tlie Danish .. ..660
Discount 16 per cent.
In their unequalled Crown
Ware.
to g«*>y.£5 6 0
In Pink.5 5 0
In Black.6 6 0
1 >AKER and CRISP’S NEW ULSTERS,
10 a. «d., 1 . 5 f. ud*.
„ 25s, (il.
I attorns fr«Ilegp.nt-afcr^t.
f .-»l pTCrln^
ooiiplant nm»
AUfimXICAN 11 AIK RENEWEP^
l*ho hair it strengthens aurl nreaenres.
Ana thijN a dmihle pur]K>N 4 ‘ serves;
It Uuutifle.-^-imi)rv.vttB it, Uh>,
And gives it a must cJiaimJug hue,
Ami thus in eac h essential way,
If a single thread of hair
Of a greyish tint is there,
2 his •• Item-we r "will restore
All it- cult.iir as before.
And time it h tliat vast rem»wn
*^**jy, daily m»w Its virtues cmwn—
THE MEXICAN HAIR HEN EWER.
No matter whether faded grey.
Or falling like the leaves nwa\,
It will renew the human hair.
And make it like Itself appear:
It will revive it, beautify.
And even’ ardent wish supply—
THE MEXICAN ILV1R HEN EWER.
B
Slew
rail} I
dj til 8
L
rs. JAY
L K S,
The Laurel
PATTERNS FREE.
A C K S
ufactiired by Jlessrs. Bonnet,...
Kg to inform their Putronsand tbe Public gene-
“re now filling tliese well-known pure ught-
mluctiou from 33 to 40 per cent off prices that
previously to the depression in the Lyons Silk
i nt prii
i. lid.; for
Two (A)
The Japanese Bamboo
The Humming-Bird ..
.,7 7
Discount
115 per cent.
TABLE GLASS SERVICES,
n glass £3 6 61 Light, engraved glass.. IS 13 6
' ^Richly engraved gloss 6 19 8
wlilch must he returned, sent
Disconi
Illustrated Glass Catalof.
post-free on applli .
j I^amp, Gloss, and China Manufactnrcrs,453 and 451 •
SILVER TEA and COFFEE SERVICES.
KJ GOLDSMITHS- ALLIANCE (Limited), Manufacturing
As the pr. M-nt low prices arc not at nil"likely to coatfnne.
m d ah Mlk: war lunch Ix-ttcr if nut used fresh from the loom,
Motftrs. day btivngly advln? tlieirCustiimem U* take advantage of
I Ida occom. n. to make purcliasoa of tiiat always fasshiouablo and
UK ful article—a good Jiluck .Silk.
Lou net's Black Satin?, all pure Silk, 22 inches wide, from
5S ' 3 JA I Ys y “ rd '
THE LONDON GENERAL 51(5 CRN IN G WAREHOUSE.
_Regent-street, W.
.ermiiths.il and 12. Oomliill, London
— ir Extensive STOCK, which comprises a great ■
Newest and most Elegant Designs. The followi
uring
iSy'of th
admired :-
Tlie Portland Pattern. I The Indian Pattern.
Beautifully Engraved. Rielily Chased.
Svcr Teapot. .. ..£14 2 0 | Silver Teapot .. ..£14 100
Silver Sugar Basin .. 8 2 0 | Silver Sugar Basin .. 7 14 0
o — ” 5 16 0 Silver Cr-am Ewer .. 5 50
16 18 0 I Silver Coffeepot.. .. 17 12 0
Sllve
£44 II
i Plato, Including Keith* 45 Tea-
- —ile and Pn....
Trays. IVaitei-s, Inkstands, l’rize Cups, Epergno
Stands, Drawings and Estimates of which will be forwnnlod ou
T1EXRY GLAVE’S
AA CHEAT SUMMER SALE of CHEAP GOODS still con¬
tinues. with large daily additions of useful things at marvellous
t very thing legibly marked in plain llgures, and sold for
ai>h only.
Pattern h, ga
534. Kk\ KM, »
Aud rank hojuftlyand so high
A * HIE MEXICAN HAIR RENEWER.
Wliat gives tlie hair on impulse great
And brings it from each known‘retnut?
>> by. (»allup‘8 Famed Henower stands.
And uniyerKil praise commands:
M hilst all acknowledge with delight
Q 1 i At JUVJiV 11 ? Tnukr ‘* »o bright
As 1 HE MEXICAN HAIR RENEWER.
All other pnparations nuule
It siuks into ublivir>n's shade;
It lias the prube of thousand* gained.
Celebrity likewise ubtnined;
And. what is of Importance more.
It w ill the Human Hair Restore.
THE MEXICAN HAIR RENEWER.
Tlie natural colonr, by its use.
Like magic does its power produce;
q -’ul of compounds rare,
Selected with e.-per
\ud thus it b
Wb
liigh.
list one and all mm n,,w r <jy
n THE MEXICAN HAIR REN
'JUIE
prelercuce o
tilicates am
Being com]*
all tbe most
MEXICAN HAIR RENEWER
lied for itself the highest reputation, and a decided
v. within
the very best
to tlie linir, aim ci
the liair-giands ur
gone no stimulus
tlie glands are onb
;x
espoctabh-i
•lien—it may^bt
ford-street, Lon lon.
H enry glad’s
SILK AND VELVET DEPARTMENT,
isiack Silks, Mjcoial prices for this month.
Black Silk*. »t Is.64d., Is. lib).. 2s. «4d„ and 2s. Hid. yard.
Black Silks, Lyons Gres Grains, by Messrs. GourJ, Croizut, and
L ie., special price*, 3s. 1 IJd. a yanl.
Jiliie-Black Yen eteens. Is. ujd. a yard, 25 in. wide.
7UV yards Rich Coloured Velveteens, 5u different shades. 27 in.
wide, Is. P 1 - 1 —.. ... . ’
"Siyardf
AI ORTLOCK’S CHINA.—GREAT SALE.
Ai THE ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE
M'lI.L TERMINATE AUG. 31.
Further reducilous In every department,
to effect a clearance.
202. 203, and 204, Oxford-street; und 30,31, and 32, Orchard-
street. Portman-sqnare, London, W.
uieinistry for restoring tho natural colour
,- oiiew hair to grow on bald spots, unless
■ decayial ; tor if tlie glands are deemed ami
:uu restore them; liut if. as is often tlie case,
torpid, TIIE MEXICAN HAIR RENEWER
Rcad tho foU^ing ^T^fmonlffi :- W t ' r °'' tU ° f hair WU1 ,uU '’ w ‘
From Messrs. Wm. llayes and Co., Chemists, No. 12.Grafton-
lending THE M KXICAN 11A1R
RENEW]-: Utoalli
tricil it tli
s. loid. n yard; f
" lxmis ^Velvet
-, ) differen
mer price, 3s. 114.1.
n. These Velveteens
iK'.J!
shade of blue- _
retain their colon
Irom Lyons bilk Velvets ut four nr live times tile prio
bperinl Parcels of 27 in. bilk Costume Velvets, Us. lid. t
'-price,.
ginirantosl to
—wished
TCE SAFES or REFRIGERATORS Fitted
-L with Water Tanks, Filters, ami every modern improvement.
The New Double-Wall Ice-Water Pitchers, Ice Butter-Dishes.
Champagne Frappe Pails, beltzogcnes. Freezing Powders. 4c.
Lists free.—WENHAM LAKE ICE C03IPANY, 125, Strand.
k Satins,
k Satins,
ured Katins,
1 , Is. Old., Is. CJd., Is. njd., 2s. lijd., and 2s. 11W.
i. 3s. I Ad., 3s. lijd-. 4s. lid., and 6s. lid. a yard.
Lius, in luo sliudes. 2s. 6j>l. and 3s. tod.
Toothache. Very KovprA n
found and permanent relief”
»f all Chemists, at ls, ljd. p er Packet.
LAIR’S GOUT PELLS,
"re’a'lfd ^toaL R No ^Jltrain?'of d?"^ Rho . um « t 1 i ™' Sn to.
pHUBBS’ FIRE and THIEF RESISTING
V7 SAFES, steel-plated, and with their Patent Diagonal Bolts,
are the most secure. Chubbs’ Patent Latches an.l Locks for all
purposes. Cash and Deed Boxes. Price-Lists sent free.
CHUBB and SON, 128, Queen Victoria-street, 6t. Paul's,E.C.;
and 68, St. Jaraes's-street, S.W.
P EARS’ TRANSPARENT SOAP. For the
Toilet, the Nursery and for Shaving. Refined, free
from excess of alkali and from artificial colouring,
delicately and wholesomely perfumed, It is Soap in
its purest form, und henco tire racist healthful in
use; its great durability makes it also tho most
economical. For Ladies, Children, or anvone with
delicate and sensitive skin it is invaluable, as it may
lie safely used where no other Soap is admissible.
It has stood tlie test of eighty years' trial, received
six prize medals, und Gie valued recommendations
of many eminent medical practitioners. Sold by
all Chemists, and by Pears, 91, Great Russell-streot,
Highly and extensively recommended for the toilet
enses of cutaneous disease by Mr. Jos. Startin, M.B.C.'
to St. John's Hospiti' 1 *— -- -* **-- *•
James Startin, M.D., ____.
Anderson, 51.D., F.F.P.B., of Woodside-crescent, G1
tlie other leading ^members _of the profession. "
sTinriou's in- -
WRIGHT and CO. .London.
for Diseases of the Ski’n, the’luto”Mr.
of Savile-row, Mr. McCall
...'in°& ¥ ’
D NICHOLSON and CO. send post-free
• Patterns of
JJEW SILKS,
J2BESS FABRICS,
jyjANTLES, and COSTUMES.
J^ICHOLSON aud QOilPANY,
D
i0 to 53, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD. LONDON.
WEDDING TROUSSEAUX,
T T £20, £60, and £ 100 .
X)ABY LINEN.
-U LAYETTES, £6. £10. and £20.
_5Ir*. ADDLEY' 1 BtlpRNE^'37, Piccadilly.
QWANBILL CORSET (Registered),
UA especially for ladies inclined to embonpoint. Tlie Swan-
bill is most effective in reducing the figure and keeping tho form
flat. Price 14s. 6d.; with Jean d'Arc Belt, 21s.
Send size of waist, with Post-office order.
O HIR T S.—FORD’S EUREKA. — “ The
X-? most perfect fitting made."—Observer. Gentlemen desirous
Eureka. »e '40s.'." 46*. half-dozen. 11 *'l5u
measure post-free.—41, Poultry, London.
wonderful effect in restoring and strengtliening th
MEXICAN HAIR KENEWElt may fiTprecSrcJ ofTi.'v li'r.rt-
c ass Perfumer, (liemist-. or Dealer in Toilet Articles throughout
the kingdom, at3s. iM. per Kittle.
WHAT WILL RESTORE THE HAIR?
What will restore tlie human hair.
(nd mu]
As w
lit lo
■i it w
- so sadly to the view ?
The very best restorer is
In all essential points—why. this—
THE MEXICAN llAllt RENEWER.
How beautiful tlie hair it makes.
And admiration, too, awakes:
It gives luxuriance, richness, grace.
And other points we proudly trace;
Whnt strengthens it, but never harms?
What adds to beauty's dowry—charms ?
THE MEXICAN HAIR liENEWER.
For either sex it will impart
Abundant liuir by matchless art;
It baldness should, with stealthy power.
Why* wliatwili Uiat annoyance spare.
And Clown the head with glossy hair?
THE 5IEXICAN HAIR RENEWER.
Thousands of proofs from every side
All guarantee its use with pride;
It never fails to please the mass
Ot every rank and every class.
Tho very best restorer is.
In all essential points—why, this—
THE MEXICAN HAIR RENEWER.
r^HE MEXICAN
grew ; also thin oi
HAIR RENEWER.
ulition of the sculp
-quires for new hair
depend much upon tlie vital
The constitution of t he person and the condition of ...
have much to do with the length ot time it requires for m
to grew ; also thin or thick hair will depend much.. “
force remaining in the hair-glnlids. New hairs hi _ .
start around the margin of tile bald spits near tho permanent
hair, and extending upwards until tlie spits are covered m we or
less thickly with fine short hair. Excessive brushing should bo
guarded against as soon as tlie small hairs mukc their app ur-
ance; but tlie scalp may be sponged with rain water to advan¬
tage occasionally. The sculp may bo pressed and moi '
the bone by tlio flnge
and softens the spit
On ai'ldvin^ tbe lu '' ’
where‘the Vmi r bn
and tho new grow
youth. It may K'
quickens the circulation
have remained long bald,
enlivons the scalp, and in cases
few applications will arrest it,
tb« luxuriance and colour of
est hair-dressing known for
restoring grey or faded hair to its original coloi
it, producing the colour within the substance
parting a peculiar vitality to the roots, proven]
failing, keeping the head cool, clean, and free inun uanuruu,
causing new hairs to grow, unless the huir-glands are entirely
decayed. The 5IEXIUAN HAIR RENEWER makes tlie imir
soft, glossy, and lnxnriant. Sold by Chemists and Perfumers,
at Ss. 6d.; or sent to any address free on receipt of 4s. in stamps.
HENRY C. GALLUP Proprietor 493, Oxford-street, London.
160
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
AUG. 17, 1878
N
new music.
EW DaTJe MESIO.
pEAKLES D’ALBERT'S NOVELTY.
" = H ftStS
KgfcE ?iBlljj| jSfiSiiA *~ :: ::tft:SS
TUe’e.VU AG ED WALTZ. played at her Majesty's M . nrt
DI8TANTt?HORE WALTZ. On Sullivan’. Bong.. J-JJ-g
BWEETHEAHT8 LANORBS .. •• M- net
CLEOPATRA IIAWP •• ** ” .. 2s.0d.net
••
^H D E«®Z DW 0^ii Bern™-. M
N T-A Met. List of M. D'Albert’s IN^*r Dene Murto
*m hi■entonenrH^on^ ^ y , w Bond-street.
new music.
T ^"“vaT^sS'^boTkb.
_L RUBINSTEIN’BM SONGS.
sbvs;
TUB BrtNOB OF ENGLAND (100 Songs).
THE 80NGB OF SCOTL^D (190 SOO¬
THE SONGS OF WVLKND ^ '
sws®ss»s&-'
riYPRUS —Officers and others proceeding I
srs^x 1
SIGNOR PINSUTI’S NEW SONGS.
J’YUSCHINKA ; or, The Star ot the North.
»iss t ®iiir’ ro “
rjyjjE LITTLE TIN SOLDIER- 2s. net.
rpWO LITTLE LIVES. 2s. net.
ryHE LITTLE MATCH GIRL. 2s. net.
mHS STORY OF THE NIGHTINGALE.
^ *• ‘Vmu end Co.,80. New Bood-street._
K E "iSwsr-
Smlee. I>r1 0 ^f r - r ^ tt n n d Co.. 80. New Bond-street.
fy M ifum' PIAMO ALBUM.
g
SWSBffifess®
163. A. 8. OATTIS1J BALLADS. SONG-BOOK.
“ d
TJOOSEYS’ SHILLING INSTRUCTORS
] ) New Additions to the Series.
SWtoa-
CHORAL BINGING
OR ( CALUX^> K ^MM AROFM® New Edition
! , H N .°LS8G M ra-ORTB TUTOR, by MOUNT.
(100th Tho SZSiV ) snd Go.. ®5 Regents*.
oiTONDHAND pianofortes.
Hire, to ‘’•'" n « 0 7?M U X^"*’
Cottages from *> guiness.
0n Sfe ro Bo W n«._
SECONDHAND PIANOFORTES at
mar be hired, with op"onor^hs5?or’on the " Three-Years’
at Neatly rodneed prices. _
SECONDHAND PIANOFORTES now <
O BoOADW&d" ,0U0Wl, i‘ erol ERARD t " , i : "
WLLARD. noSKNKKANE.
CTIAPFELL and CO- OO.New Bond-street.
SECONDHAND HARMONIUMS,
piTTAPPELL and CO.’S SPECIALITIES
in ORGAN HARMONIUMS._
-pURNISH THROUGHOUT.
SUBSTANTIAL ARTISTIC FURNITURE.
QETZMANN & CO.,
JJAMPSTEAD-ROAD,
J^EAR TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD.
mHE CAUSE OF ENGLAND’S
iaR ENGLAND. Composed by
* London: Robsut Cocas and Lo.
JVEAR
XJ L. DU
rpHE SEA IS ENGLAND’S GLORY.
1 a mo«t effective transcription for the Plano, by Y
I KMOJNR of a fiend melody, almoat national in Its charactfr
forM stomps.—London: Ronssr Cocas and Co.
Uo%
SffiSSS&vss
house throughout.
rpHE IMMENSE RANGE of FEEMISES
,| d ADDlKr'^^f sHOW^WilSJt It not'oneof thelargwt
Famishing
whs
JAPPS’S COCOA. _
rpHE “ Naval and Military Gazette ” says;—
A -The nutritive quail tie. of cocoa over elthm tboae
of tea or coffee are now so generally acknowlodged that
the iteedr Id creese shown by official ftattftics in its con-
whose Homoeopathic Cocoa is as familiar ln .
processes and to note the care and labour bestowed before the
crudoOTCoa bean is considered ready for consumption.cannot
but admit that the popularity Messrs. Epps's productions bare
secured is fully deterred. The vastnes* of there works n
Imagined when It Is stated that four millions of pound
pared cocoa alone are prepared there yearly. The™
rained now many years since.for Mr. James Epps sprei
Rth f-m tU purity and its value as a dietetic..has been mure wiau
maintained A constant Increasing demand fully toatifles to
this—which must be as gratifying to Messrs. Epps as It Is
certainly flattering to the good faith they ha»e kept with the
public to secure so gratifying a reault.
A 11 the Year Round” says :—
/V '* HaTiDR now dUpoeed of fancy chocolate, Mt ot
on a stupendous scale, giving a Just ideaot, the value of there
artidre, not as luxuries, but at actual food.
rpHE “ Court Journal ” says:—
adding several most vslusble additions to our
short list of dietetic f-oda. FbrcJiiost among there should bo
ranged cocoa, which, although known here several centurtea pre¬
viously, only came Into general use within the last forty years.
One of the flrst to popularise ‘
Cl EASIDE LODGINGS.— EXTRA BH) to
sepommodato Vidtore.-A^stron^ I RON
VXrESTWARD HO! FOR FNGLAND.
V V a bright and joyful Bong of homeward-bound jailors
Omipoeed byu DO A U I)(J 11A HR I. 1'ort-free feUSflUg^
London: Rosssr Cocas and Co.. New Burllngton-street.
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Mined such lust repute for iU excellent and “
manufactory Is the largest of 1U kind in this country.
“/Cassell’s Household Guide” says :—
at their workfl In uie Euaton-road. London.
jgPPS’S COCOA.
rpHE “ Morning Advertiser ” says
* <• In the middle of the reyenteantb ceotare announce-
appeared in one of the few Journals of Uiat period,
I cflect that • out of Bisliopegate-etreet, at a Irenchman a
I, an excellent Wert India drink, called chocolate,
to hn Lid at reasonable rates.’ This Is the first record we hare
Uie Sitroduction ofcocoa in.u England., m a Ume it
flourished as a fashionable drink, and then, i«T*w 1»
subsided. Nearly two centuries after, In 1832. the duties, which
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rpHE “ Christian World” says:—
-L ’"If I am to take cocoa.’ said I, ’1 must know what
; is made of; 1 must examine the prooess; I miut dive tote
-*—r of Its manufacture; 1 must see and Judge for
; are the ingredient* of which it Is composed. Witt
uus view X made my way to the manufactory of James Epp»
snd On., in the Kurton-road.’ ’’
Tohn Bull ” says
u .. In no branches of industry are recent scientific snd
chemical dlrtoveries more generally applied than in "P°“
which our food supply is so largely dependent.
tlie lAft ceneretiuu hive in many cuac* become the daily wcm
sarieaof the present. A forcible liluitration of GiU U t-i befuund
In Uie enormous increase in the consumption of cocoa yesr^by
year—in exact proportion to the increased faallue» lorJIM m*nj»
tacture! An Idea of the vast extent of *J*U industry msefba
gaiuc-il from the fact that one firm alone—that of Messrs. Epps
and Co —now sell over four millions of pounds annually. The
^Uonuno path I c Cocoa’ of Meesrs. Epps has. during Romany
years it ha* been before the public, gained great ami justreputo,
Se
tert'es^s^cl^rly ^n'lnvaluabl'irwldftion 1 '^! ‘
Sietotic foirtT Buch Messrs. Eppsdaimtor their
and such analysis and—most valuable of all—experience has
proved It to be.”
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-gPPS’S COCOA.
rpHE “Civilian” says:— , . .
credited with intnducing cocoa *» •*» Hom»o-
Enns. Prepared on sound dietetic principles, r.pps s nuuiioj--
piAlccoSi contains all the nutritive p^rti»»I^®““’®
product in such a form that they are rendered
and. therefore, much mure easy of digestion. 1 Utnat ui»i» PJf
sbundance »I fat present in raw cwx* Is, morrov^. nOT^“V
counteracted, but made to serve one of the most esswiUaireno
linns of sound diet Messrs. K PI* ,» T, m^^«res—""A
largest in the country, the cocoa produced there amoununa
many million pounds a year.’
“ T and and Water ” says
Li -Throngh the kln^ess of Messrs. ®RP^i r ^ d nU T I ^td
^o^uMthe'oac^besa passes t?rougli°ere^t
of Intorcat to the readers of Land and Vi ater.
rpHE “Mining World” says:—
S«S&SJESgffi 3 SS
SlKrt y i« Sd \t •"J^S l ^VvT d done d g^t k pubR d c
servfoe'^n'thls'respect. M'’r Wj am«Epj^ to ^"‘"t'h^W
once,th. deurhouBljt.luxury of u «,'^ e ^'' i :L re i’.
table M«oa in ^rtt^Tnd'more nutritious form than the RoyM
T7PPS’S COCOA.
-%AMES EPPS^d^l^'PAffi CHEMISTS.
’PARIS DEPOT. „
X A. DELAFOBBE. FAUBOURG ST. HONOBE, fit.
XTEW YORK DEPOT.
SMITH and YANDERBKI
VANDERBEEK, PABK-PLAOB.
JEWEL ROBBERIES PREVENTED.—J.
U TANN'B RELIANCE SAFES have never failed to resist
the attempts of the most determined burglars. Ft re-Resisting
Loapoa: Printed and Publtihed at the Offloe. 19*. Strand. U»
*- "--‘-'I of Bt. Clement Dates, In the Oounte of MJddh-acX,
a C. LxioHToa. 1M, Strand, aforesald.-Bxrosiux,
SUPPLEMENT TO THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Auo. 17, 1878.—161
TUB BRITISH ASSOCIATION AT DUBLIN: PLACES ABOUT DUBLIN AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.
LONDON NEWS
AUG. 17, 1878 .
162
ILLUSTRATIONS OF DUBLIN.
We present, in a page of En ^^^ S ^en V ^n S D^blin| J and of
views of public ^ d “ch of members of the British
places in the country within j^sh capital. The
Association during t h ®^ 3 T^ev^th the stately Custom
port of Dublin in the nw J 1 ® ^ visitors. It is
House on the quay, will 8U fP™® t h? r e and the Liffey
true that only small vessels^ can enter tb ®£ the clyde as an
will not bear comparison mth the Th embankmen t of this
inlet of mantime trade. But the wau Glasgow or
river is a really great vrork, of which ^
London might have been P ’ Government offices, is a
which accommodates some other C House It was built
finer budding than om: Somerset Hou^e Iri8h
between 1781 and 1™1, “«* ^fi® that is now
ParUament sitting m the b eautif to H me Rulers
the Bank of Ireland, which Repealers a aMeinbl
would like to reclaim f°r a national legu ^ deluded
but by which the rea. m^re more tban they were
country would be uowiae consuJte y what Ireland
before the Union. Less talk ^ “^^otland asked for no
wants, and it is perhaps cbl ® ? . North Britain has made
Parliament that the P ros penty Jaco bite folly was put
such marvellous jrogj-' hS Sto W«
down. Lookmg once “°£®, ® nnlns<uil B tatue of Hope, with an
B ee its tomimojntoibjn while Neptune and
anchor which is a sign o nT1 d navigation, stand
Mercury, the pateon gods of the pillared portico, as
beside Plenty ^ I nd ustry, rnn rietv at Belfast and Cork or
they might do, with n Wj 1 ?? t hJm, say we, in every Irish
Maport^tovni'i^ublin hM^^parious^docks^for^alMge tmmunt
the eloquent and by Foley) ; and the grand
WrnMmggi
&
north bank of the IMer alme DuMtaojltli
Memorial obelisk near its south-east gate. The \ iceregm
Lodge, inhabited by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, is in
loveliest demesnes in the United Kingdom, has zecerod the
Queen and the Prince and Princess of Wales as guests of its
noble owner. The waterfall, of which we give an Illustration,
is but one of its natural beauties, not to be here described , thrown
open to the enjoyment of members of the British Association of
Science. On the road to Malahide, six miles from thecity,
along the north shore of Dublin Bay is the cunous oldChurch
of St. Doulough, with an adjacent holy well, probably of the
thirteenth century, an interesting example of ancient church
building. The famous rock of Cashel, which is a hundred miles
away in the county of Tipperary, presents a fw grander and
more renowned display of ecclesiastical architecture - A Cathe¬
dral an Abbey, and a Castle, with a primitive chapel and round
tower, stood here within a small inclosure, where their remains
are still to be seen, overlooking the green meadows of the
Suir. Cashel was a place of much note in the history
of Ireland before the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when
so much havoc was wrought in that country by merciless wars
Jerpoint Abbey, near Kilkenny, is the subject of pother of oux
Illustrations. During the Congress of the British Association
many excursions have been planned for the days on which the
sections will not sit or be only partially occupied. These have
been arranged with a view to suit the inclinations mid tastes
of different persons. On Saturday no fewer than nine
excursions will be made to Malahide Bray, Howth Maynooth,
Lucan, Glencree, and other places of note. On Thursday, the
22nd, there will be another choice of nine excursions to Glen-
dalough and other parts of the county of Wicklow, the Boyne
and Blackwater, Cashel, Lord Rosse’s telescope at Parsons-
town, the Curragh Camp, and Kilkenny Castle.
Mr Stanley Boulter and Captain Maude have started a
coach to run daily for the season between Margate and Canter¬
bury, by way of Westgate and Birchington.
The British Medical Association, which held its sitting at
Bath last week, after hearing an earnest plea from Mrs. Garratt
Anderson for the admission of women practitioners to the
association, on the 8th inst., passed a new by-law declaring
that no female shall be eligible for election. The annual
meeting was concluded on the 9th. Professor Maclagan, of
Edinburgh University, gave an address on Forensic Medicine.
The Mayor of Bath gave a garden party, and the Bristol
practitioners entertained the members at a soiree in Colston
Hall. The association will meet next year at Cork, and Dr.
O’Connor is the president-elect.
Mr. Bouch, C.E., has been presented with the freedom of
Dundee in recognition of the successful completion of his
labours qb engineer of the Tay Bridge. The presentation was
made yesterday week by the Provost of the burgh. Mr.
Bouch, in his reply, said he believed he was the first engineer
that had received the freedom of a city. Referring to the
bridge which it is proposed to construct across the Firth of
Forth, on the plans of which he is now engaged, Mr. Bouch
said it was matter of regret that the Tay Bridge had been made
for a single line; but with the experience gained it had been
decided to make the bridge across the Forth carry a double line.
A navvy, named Girvin, has been committed for trial, at
Peel, Isle of Man, on the charges of haring assaulted Mrs.
Hill, the wife of the Bishop of Sodor and Man, and threatened
to stab his Lordship. The Bishop and his wife were driving
towards Bishop’s Court last week in an open carriage, when
Girvin threw a large stone at Mrs. Hill. It struck her on the
head, inflicting a severe scalp wound. The Bishop got out to
secure the man, who jumped over a fence and ran away. The
Bishop followed; and Girvin, finding himself outstripped,
said he had a knife in his pocket, and would “ let him have
it.” He then ran away again, but was secured at Peel by two
policemen. Mrs. Hill, though suffering a good deal from
lright and excitement, was not seriously injured.
THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OF CYPRUS.
(From oar Sp'cMArti,t and Corn.pondeut.)
Lamaca, Cyprus, July 28.
In my letter overlandfrom&ivre to MoreeSS,
and journey cvaiarinet line of Bteam-boats to Malta,
SSs P Inlr«r®<l H.M.Sl.Monarcl,. Infeeeeondtoe
wS brought the lst Bombay s L gS a “ ou board °f
"fi*
! S £^ e M S d sS?“and hS SS
Lamaca- No 6, Malda, with another battalion of the same
JSs-M 1 £kti, Madras Native In¬
fantry, and No. 15, Marina, with part of that regiment, both for
Kyrenia; No. 16, Suez, is now gone to Beyrout f°r horses,
No 23 Bengal, is here with the 13th Bengal Native Infimtry,
for Baffo; and No. 27, Trinacria, witii commiss^iat fftores
for Lamaca. The Canara has returned to Malta for troops
and H.M.S. Simoom is daily expected. In * be
line, nearest the shore, are the seven hired sarimg trans
norts, viz.:—No. 2, the Hospodar; No. 3, Ciydesdale,
No 11, Seaforth ; No. 19, Citadel; No. 20, Aros Bay , No. 22,
Kilkerran; and No. 24, Brambletye. Inside of these is a small
steamer belonging to the Eastern Telegraph Company, which,
with one or two small trading vessels, Turlnshi and Greek
makes up the shipping in the bay. My sketch, with this
enumeration of the vessels here collected, will show that
altogether, the British force presents an imposing appearance
in these waters.
The landing of the troops here and unlading of the stores by
the bluejackets under the Naval officers were, as I have said,
carried out with dispatch and energy. I am sorry to add
that I cannot bestow such unqualified praise on the depart¬
mental business of the Army Commissariat. The commissariat
stores were apparently pitchforked into the various transports
at Malta without the slightest method or arrangement, and
without tally; so that the commissariat officers, on their arrival
here do not seem to have known what stores were on board
any ’particular vessel; and the consequences are just what
mig air Gamefwolseley and staff leaves the Himalaya to-day
P lan<i?onTucXy. TheTroop°5 have beeni detailed^proceed
to different places, and some to stay at Larnaca. That very
useful and workman-like body of men, the Bombay Sappers
and Miners, are performing good service at Larnaca Colonel
Pwndprffftst is already doing wonders, and the useful will
speedily replace the picturesque in this Oriental iocality. Tins
invasion of the modem British anticrusaders in aid of the Turk
• v _4 V.a fnofiirpahnt.n of tx
Vhe town of Lamaca, or rather the commercial portion of
it, called the Marina, stretches along the water s edge, and
presents the usual Oriental features of a Levantine seaport,
except that it is more sleepy and quiet than most of
those towns. The arrival of the expedition ajone gives
life to the place; and already one end of the town is
assuming a business-like look; but the present hurry and
bustle is all European ; the phlegmatic Turks are a8 impa® 81 ^®
and unconcerned as if it was no business of theirs. 1 he vessels
of the expedition, arranged as I have mentioned, are lying
between a mile and a mile and a half from the low isandy shore
on which the town is built. On one side of the town the
coast stretches southward to Point Dades, a dismal dried-up
salt-marsh covered with prickly pear (Opuntia vulgaris) and
with a few sparsely scattered date-trees. In the other direction,
the land trends to the north and east, for some miles away, to
Capes Pila and Grego, backed by long, low, flat-topped
terraced limestone hills. The mosques of the town are insig¬
nificant, and, except for the presence of half a dozen minarets,
one would almost suppose the population of Lamaca to be
Christian, as the Greek churches are more conspicuous with their
bell turrets. Behind the town the land extends in a barren
plain away into the interior. About five miles away on the
plain to the south-west are the camps of the European
regiments, at a place called Chevlik Pasha. Beyond rises a
mountain of above two thousand feet elevation, on which is
a small white structure, probably a chapel, as the mountain
is named Oros Stavro, or Mountain of the Cross; and in the
distance beyond rise the mountain ranges of Adelphi and
Troodos, 6000 ft. high. _.,
The Channel Squadron has not been idle since its arrival
in preparing for the occupation of this place by the troops.
The Duke of Edinburgh and a large number of sailors have
formed a naval camp at the landing-place north of the town,
and have erected five piers and landing-stages. His Royal
Highness is still occupying the old quarantine lazaretto build¬
ing, close by ; while his sailors are in bell-tents and under
sail-cloth awnings around his head-quarters, which are marked
by his flagstaff and signal, a portable semaphore for telegraph¬
ing seaward. His Royal Highness deserves the greatest credit
for the way in which all the arrangements for the dis¬
embarkation have been carried out by him. Civilians can
have little or no idea of all the forethought and care required
to land a force of ten thousand men on a sandy beach, where
the facilities have hitherto only existed negatively. The
Royal Prince, ever active and zealous, burnt as brown as
a gipsy with exposure, but looking as hard as nails,
personally superintends the landing and clearing of the
boats and vessels, as they arrive at the beach. I here are
no working parties of soldiers here. All the regiments on
their arrival march straight to their camping-grounds; and
all the unloading is done by the blue-jackets, who seem to
enjoy the business amazingly. From four a.m. till dark
incessant work of various kinds is proceeding ; in all directions
Un-Vit-oya nnri nntivp craft., horse-boats towed by steam -
invasion of the modem British anticrusaders in aid oi tne lum
will cause rapid changesin the features both of town andcountry.
The supply of animals for transport service is almost, if not
quite, equal to the demand. Camels, mules -donkeys, and
small horses seem plentiful, although naturally the price has
risen 70 per cent. Beef is more than double what R was m
value before the occupation. We have snow-ice, at about 3d.
per pound, from the Lebanon Mountains, via Beyrout, packed
to wooden cases, with chopped straw as a
heat. Meantime, the narrow streets and shaded bazaars are
crowded with our Indian soldiery, and the red tunics bn|hten
up the dark pokey shops in every direction. The cafes are
booths, as usual, on rickety wooden platforms ^ejjbng °7® r
the water, similar to those at Smyrna, one of which was dis¬
astrously precipitated some years since with great loss of life.
These cafes are crowded by riff-raff adventurers from the
Piraeus, Syra, Zante, and Anatolia. We recognise the faces of
rascals we have often seen in Pera and btamboul, while
Port Said and Alexandria also contribute their quota of scoun-
drelism to this new field of depredations on Lngiish pockets.
The price asked fora small garret, with a wretched b ^d or
pallet, and without another single piece of furniture, is sui
shillings a night. An interpreter asked us ten shil mgs a day,
with his keep; and other things are m proportion. The
bullock-waggons (arabas) are rough but useful machines of
transport, and the cattle yoked to them seem m good case and
well treated. The donkeys are particularly handsome and
sleek, though not of large size; they are highly pnzed, and
exported to Egypt for breeding purposes, lheir price, con¬
sequently, sounds exorbitant; but, like everything else, will
SOO 0 nSaturday e evening the minarets were illuminated, which,
with the lights in the town and the innumerable lights of the
shipping, with their reflections m the glassy sea, rivalled only
by thosi of the brilliant starlit sky above, formed a striking
scene. The strains of music from the bands on board the
men-of-war and of the regiments on the transports funded
so like England, that, were it not for the heat, we might
have imagined ourselves at anchor in Plymouth kound.
The Himalaya is ordered to return to Malta, and will leave
this evening. There is now, it appears, some uncertainty
about the stations to be occupied by the different
here, as some of the orders have been countermanded, owing
to the backward commissariat arrangements It should be
understood that there are mariues and bluejackets at Kyrenia
a port on the north coast, which is favourably ^P^en of by
the sailor officers who have been there and 1 T
west, as well as at Nicosia, at Limasol, and at iamagosta
This will be, of course, only a temporary measure, and the
detachments of marines and seamen will be relieved at an
early date. The three English regular battalions are now and
will be stationed at the camp at Chevlik Pa fl ha - th ® u ^
vesterdav (July 27) a company of the 42nd was ordered to be
L readiness to proceed to Limasol, where the Slat.Pun]"bees
were also to be quartered. A battery of the 2nd Brigade of
Royal Artillery, and a battery of the 1st Bngade. are to
remain at Larnaca, but the latter has not yet arrived from
Malta. The destination of the native Indian troops now seems
to be uncertain.
incessant work of various mas is proceeuing ; m au uiretuum
are lighters and native craft, horse-boats towed by steam-
launches, and pinnaces continually going and returning. A
very short time suffices to unload them, and the busy scene at
the landing-place can hardly be imagined. The Monarch has
started a canteen marquee close by, which is a decidedly good
arrangement. A constant throng of camels, mules, donkeys,
Indian tats and native cavalry horses, ordnance and commis¬
sariat stores, Ghoorkas and Punjaubees, Greeks and Mussul¬
mans, all combine to give a bewildering and constantly-
changing kaleidoscopic effect of colour and form. Under the
blaze of the noonday sun, during the Cyprus dog-days, with
all the glare, dust, and heat, the fatigue endured by our sailors
and their Captain, the Duke, is no slight work. Already a
case or two of sunstroke has been reported, and more are
we fear, yet to be expected. Hitherto the health of the force
has been excellent; but, of course, there has not yet been
time to judge of the effect of the heat and exposure on the
European troops. It is possible that malarious fever may be
apprehended should the soil be disturbed, as was the case at
Hong-Kong at Kowloon. On our first occupying Kowloon the
troops were quite healthy so long as they were in tents and
in wooden huts, but when permanent barracks were built the
unfortunate 77th Regiment, who first occupied the new build¬
ings, were almost decimated by a severe epidemic remittent
I fever, and were obliged ultimately to be removed to the Cape.
Our Illustrations published this week include three views
of the landing-place and piers at Larnaca and the scene of
disembarking troop-horses, from the sketches taken y
Special Artist, whose letter, above priuted, sufficiently described
their subject. We have received also Sketches of the fi&et
lying at anchor in the harbour or roadstead, and of the British
military encampment at Chevlik Pasha, which may appear in
our next. The miscellaneous sketches presented m our front¬
page Engraving are partly supplied by two officers, Lieu¬
tenant G. H. Lane, of the 101st Regiment, and Lieutenant
W. J. Eastman, of the Royal Marine Artillery, to whom we have
been indebted for similar help before. One shows the Baffo
Gate of Nicosia, henceforth to be called the Minotaur Gate
which was first taken possession of by a detachment of Royal
Marines from H.M.S. Minotaur, when Admiral WJohn Hay
entered that town, on the 12th ult. The Turkish barracks
now occupied by part of the British force are represented in
the sketch beside that which has been mentioned. The British
flag hoisted here is constantly guarded by a sentry. aml is
saluted both morning and evening. One of tbes ® ® k ® tc J 1 5®
is that of the grave of Sergeant M Gaw, a veteran of the
42nd Highlanders, who obtained the Victoria Cross for valour
in the Ashantee War, and who died here of sunstroke.
At the Phcenix Park, Dublin, on Saturday last, the Duchess
of Marlborough, in the presence of a large number of spec¬
tators, presented the second battalion of the 21st Royal Sco
Fusiliers with new colours. Her Grace expressed pleasure in
presenting colours to a regiment whoso predecessors
served under the first Duke of Marlborough.
Britford Fair, which is one of the largest in E °g la ° d ’,
at which there are generally from 80,000 to 100,000 sheep
penned, was held at Britford, near Salisbury, on Monday.
The number on offer was quite up to the usual average,
condition and quality generally being very good mm os
classes on account of the abundant and excellent keep everj -
where to be found. There was a large attendance of agr -
culturists and dealers.
At Aldershott camp the troops under the command of Sir
Thomas Steele had a grand sham fight on Monday. They wer
divided into northern and southern forces, under the comm
of Major-General Anderson and Major-General Peyton respec¬
tively. General Peyton’8 troops represented a force marenmg
from Guildford on Hartford Bridge. General Anderson s
command represented a hostile force advancing from BagM
and Frimley. The field operations were begun about V.av,
and extended over a large tract of country. Eventually x
fight was brought to a conclusion in the vicinity of the u a
_i a. i, on —i_*__ tn rm art era.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
FINE ART
_ NAT * 0NAL COMPETITION. professora] aided^siiitable Sistanta and a^ufflcien^f^ff 114 ™ fln< h, hia b^nt child employed as witness
The exhibition of the works entered for this competition is central institution thus constituted would undSteke Si 1 !! Then foUoW8 his appearance as a galley-slave,
open to the public, in the Exhibition Galleries on the west Oration of regular students the deliver2SSS "t hl8 ln ^™T’ many years after, with his daughter, to
side of Exhibition-rood, South Kensington. The subjects lectures elating to applied science and art the hMdto^f I?? m ^ ldentlty 18 sealed ; finally, hie detection of tho
the competition are:-Figure drawing and modelling, paintinc ev !? mg classes in comfection therewith the disciLioi^^^ ^ a T^ ere 1 ^ an actl0n which Mt - Neville illustrated with
m oil and water colours, and design especially as IppHed to P°^t discoveries in trade, and, generally! thTpromotton™f S V V ° W nu I he wh °L e P layifl now adequately •
manufactures. The prizes awarded are gold medalf 8 SvS the application of science and art to industry P ° f m Cha “ boran > ha9 been succeeded by
medals, bronze medals, prizes of books, and the Princess of ..^be, scheme further contemplates the provision of P-rhi mL p* d J ‘ G ^ orge ’ Y ho thoroughly realises the part.
Wales s scholarships, which are awarded to the two female bitions for meritorious students, tenable at P the central insti’ t p 6 a I dldt Adrienne - is both pathetic and
students who take the highest prizes of the year in the national *“ twn » assisting technical classes already established aiding greet'd, and Mrs. Bandmann, as Valentine, acts with great
competition. Besides these distinctions, which we dwarfed “ ada at the seat of special force m the scene with her supposed father. In this partftoo,
by the Science and Art Department, several valuable money ° f technic al education, and providing prizes premiums and nnd ^f tb 1 , ha< ? r ? ade ^ elaborate study of Lazare,
prizes are given annually in connection with the national apprentice fees. * g pnZes ’ P remiumfi , and and succeeds in it admirably. The rest of the cast fulfils the
prizes are given annually in connection with the national a PP£ ntice fees. 8 * ’ P reuuums > ana
C0 Xht"n™& d ... . .* .300 members, i. to
promise of its earlier performance, and renders the general
Both in numbers and in general features the present year’s ° f L^erymen of London, and to include “pSsentoti™ Slw p comple . te a manner 118 possible. The new drama
e interest and attention of
01 «•* sswusr hold on ffie totere “ —° f
selection by competent judges from the whole number of 8 “ ieratlon . have recommended that, whilst the Corporation T^hose real name was Mann, was chiefly known as taking the
works contributed by the kingdom. The names of Edinburgh sb ^ uld not commit itself to an approval of the details of the le o' d . m tbe Robertsonian drama at the Prince of
and Dubhn, and of three London schools, appear in connection °f, of tbe amount and method of expenditure it was pY aleS a Subsequently he became lessee of the Globe, which
with the gold medals, while in the list of silver medals, besides desirable that it should express its approval of the general f 6 cond l lcted three seasons. He was likewise associated
the Scotch and Irish capitals and several metropolitan districts ° U M 1D ,f and objects involved in it, and should identify itself v w 8 ? s ‘ . Jame8 and Thome as a lessee of the
are found Nottingham, Hanley, Birmingham, Dundee Man- ?T tb the Livery Companies in endeavouring to give effect to VaudeviJle - He left England for New York about five years ago.
Tw’e !? 00 - 11 ’ Roth f, rham < Leicester, and Sheffield. ’ ±, be added that the scheme is very Iwgely and -
Ar The ftfllowmg are the awards of the nine gold medals:— munificently supported, up to the present, by many of the
?he^nSnne eU Dn; a of figure from leaduig Llvery Committees, and bids fair to be carried out! MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS,
of a head from life ; JohS’M.’iSS, 1 ^Nottingham^desi^to?! u . SCIENCE AND ART TEACHING. Messrs. Robert Cocks and Co. have recently published two
lace curtain; George F. Catchpolc, wfstmtoster ^de The twentry-fifth report of the Science and Art Department of h W^ 0 8 Ww 7 ^ d TS° Ban i “ Ere the ro6e8 cea8e to
piace designs for glass vases ; George Daniels Citv^and ° f Council on Education, issued on Wednesday, bk ?:„ Wa8t J ard :Hp for England.” The melody of
Spital fields, design for a loving cup ; Elizabeth GmJf P the followin 6 summary of the year’s operations 7 ? ld h ,f ^thm a moderate compass of
Stamp, Nottingham, designs for a church • Annie v“™» n t agaiMt 57 988 kiws 5 ^ 8cience 8chools classes in 1877,J baBad style, the other being a serious setting of words of a
Sheffield, designs for lace handkereffief border In sho Wan f cr ^ character. V Hearts of Oak,” by Brinley Richards, is
Engla : sass^t^S&rSsSS tephe ° GW8 “"'‘
Under the head Honorary Awwds,” there are three more ?nJ£,? e ST 1 S" Sc^ ool « at ^K^sin^on^ G ^ rg - &r °I e . ( Ma cmillan and Co.), has been issued, and
announces the death of Mr. H. J. Montague at
br °Und?r 5* ^ °1 b °°J 124 S &
Under the head Honorary Awards,” there are three more u ‘° 5T Sne P ce Schools at South Kensington The
"°‘ “ tuaU y- t0 students in attendTb/aW^'
gold medals given nommaUy, not actually, to students in atCd^bvaC^^ ^P^inent in Dublin were comprises articles from “Bolero” to “Concert-Pitch,” in¬
terning as national scholars at South Kensington with a riew StZSSasrtud^ta oXti thewfore ’ ?- U f- Ve ' We have before attention to the value of this
of their ultimately adopting the calling of professional pectura with ihe Science and Art Department in y i877 STrei 367 11 ^ho’JS 1 ^ , an dlctl onary as being the first of the kind published in this
designers for manufactures. The names and subjects of these m^tha^iqi >mpared f With 1116 number in the previous year, of 8i,i9ib or coun ^ combining, as it does, technical, critical, and bio-
three gold medallists are-Daniel Bloor, the figure modelled 1T . K . graphical information, suppUed by a large number of con-
from thehfe; George Morton, chalk drawing torn the nude £».'«>ntwtSt ' tbe editor, whose literary accomplishments
figure; R. H. A. Willis, drawing of an interior of a church ® 0 ,^ n the n ^r of readers in 1877 has toen 71,333. The museims and ?“d• mus ical knowledge are well known. The next part, to
from measurement. collect lonaunder the superintendence of the Department in London. Dublin to appear on Oct. 1, will comprise subiects from “Concert-
dictionary as being the first of the kind published in this
country—combining, as it does, technical, critical, and bio¬
graphical information, supplied by a large number of con-
om measurement. UUB ’ ° f * “
eleven silver and forty-one bronze medals. ’
THE ART-UNION OF LONDON EXHIBITION OF PRIZES.
numberofvisitorsat the Lnca! Art and Industrial Exhibition''to which
ntt Jec V i were contnbuttd from the South Kensington Museum, show an
“ ’Die Classic Companion,” Vol. 1 (Augener and Co.), a
beautiful volume, contains forty-six pieces of pianoforte music,
most of them originally written for the instrument, some few
Bv invitation of the nr«.i,w ■ -A T j®^7, attended the different institutions and exhibitions in <x>^ncction wito v- * ™ em ongmalJy written for the instrument, some few
the Art Union ofT dent > ^c-president, and council of ^eDepiirtment haa been upwards of 4,26i,63i». This total, comp^ed ^ith bem g transcnptions, all edited by Mr. Ernst Pauer. The
tne Art- Union of London, a number of persons were admitted tha $£ f „ the pre , v ' 0U8 presents a decrease of 315,738. movements are all either easy or of very moderate difficulty
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the Institute of Painters inWater Cotoura ^he Geneml Fvhf’ importance, on account of their being dated with the £ e , ar1 / COmple , tes f tbe , fifth volume. According ^o the estab-
bition of Water Colours, the Crystal Palace Picture ftafww’ « Ual Byate “ ®. f both tbe Seleucidae and the Arsacian eras, thus d P^nciple of the work, the pieces are all original, and
the Society of Lady ArtiLtTa^ dxing indisputable authority the starting points of both com .P« 8ed expressly for it. Dr. Ferdinand Hiller contributes
and the pictures clfosen certainlydo grcS credit to^thehJto ? eSe ,° f , t , he 8e T en obtained, there are three that “d and ante 1 1 the first being a canon in the
of the selectors. Rather a larg e 7 proimrtion—^ont^nne fm^b t be 0 d ouble calculation of dates—the earliest being ^ th > the other a canon m the third, both very ingeniously
of the whole-are from the Royal I! M °^ h , Sebat ( n ) 18tb day in the 154th year-which equals u p Ught , Theolhercontents of the number are an effective
second prize, wonrDrMXeSsf'feS the 218 th year of Arsaka-King of Kings.’’ There are also in v P ^ 0r f le b 7 Gustove Merkel, the finale of Mr. Charlton
Savage Resting under the Piazza of Covcnt r2>’n •> Rlc . h f d the senes two m the 155th or 219th year of Arsaka—and four F { Sp , er K s clever 80 nata (the preceding portions of which have
by W. Holyoale Covent-Garden, pamted which bear only the date of the yeari reckoned from the revolt n ? ady been natlce d). 8 tuneful “ AnSante ” by H. Cardini
Amongst the works of art exhibits ,- 0 „ „ , r of the Seleucidae. The revolt of the Seleucidre took place in p- a smoothly written “Andante Pastorale” by A. E.
engraving, by Mr. J. H. Robinso^itf^Vandyke’s^pktur^of afto^m + !? blet8 T ^ that ei ^y* fo “ years Blsbop ’ and a “^odious Andante ” by W. Greenwood.
Anne, wife of the Earl of Bedford, raised to the title of Duke a ° ^ B ' C ‘ 2 ? 8, tbe revol J ; of Axsaces took place, and Drawmg-room senes of characteristic pieces for the
in the reign of Charles II., and another of the celebrated Lord .^P 00 * 1 commenced. The lesser date, therefore, Pianoforte ” (Messrs. Weekes and Co.) is a collection of short
William Russell, who died on the scaffold The orffiil was S? ^ a glVe T r S th «?^ B C - % whlch faUs in tbe movcm ? nts ( w L lth distmctive titles), some of which are in the
m the gallery of Lord Egmont at Petworth aid there the ° f ^ abaBU , 8 , \ L or Mithndates II., the sixth of the expressive, others in the brilliant, style-all being pleasingly
report of the council says, a room was fitted un fir’ Mr Arsace8 - .These tablets, wjth the exception of one dated in the written, and within moderate means of execution. Of a similar
Robinson, who towards the latter part of his life devoted manv Pec ^ rus > wh ich is m the museum at Zurich, are the kind are “ Jugend-scenen, four progressive characteristic
?s^. thePKno ” w—* .-e,.™
We T tol d’ 'lli 136 distributed next year. * ^ " “ 0re ’ ^rie^feweJSfil^fcontoLrin^na ^ ^ The Canticl c 8 and Psalter, Festival and Ferial, pointed and
Tuning from the pictures to the business side of the exhi- b? Semitic* ada pted by James B. Gray, B.D., Oxford (W. R. Bowden),
bition, it appears from the report of the council that, though relord was T dc - f ° f ^ be found of value where the Gregorian tunes are used
depre 881 ^ of trade led to the anticipation of a col me?chaJto of Babylon h conservatlve Senutlc m the Church service, the musical phrases being given at
Biderable decline m the amount of subscriptions for the year rri , 7 ' tbe bead of the prayers and psalms in which they are to be
just closed, still they were able to report a total of £13 643 . , rhe committee of St. Stephen’s Club have been presented n sed i the application of each note to the text being clearly
i 1S about £19 °0 less than in the year 1877. Of this’sum ^ ltb the od painting, by Mr. Jones Barker, of Lieutenant- indicated throughout. Explanations of the system adopted
4M12 have been distributed in prizes, and £727 set apart for General Fenwick Williams quitting Kars. The well-known are given at the commencement of the work. The same pub-
special works. picture is a gift from Mr. Raye Knowles, of Park-place (a lishers have issued “ The Proper Psalms for certain days, with
In reference to the presentation work for the coming year member of the club), and is placed in the dining-room. notes and a short explanation of the Gloria Patri,” “The
th! T C 'l Say that, finding there is a steady demand among A statue of the late Right Hon. Sir Alexander MacdonneU Magdalen Psalter, containing the Psalms, Canticles, and
timp hnQ Cnt>erS f f ° r b °? k8 ° f mu8trati °ns, they think that the was unveiled on Tuesday in front of the National Education P? m * ed f » chantonaand “ The Book of
aeeord,w 0mef ° r ^T g \ WOrk of tlm t kind, and they have Office, Dublin, in presence of a large company, which included [Ancient.and Modern) sorted by N. P. G.
tr»Hn}-, gl /T ar ™“ gcd f° r tbe production of a volunc of illus- the Duke of Leinster, Judge Lonffield, and[ the president of Brooke - AU these will be found serviceable.
8 OI Lord Byron s poem of “ Lara,” by Mr. C. B. Birch. the Belfast Queen’s College. The statue was executed by Mr. “ Galop de Concert,” “ Invitation a la Polka,” and " Polonia
TECHNICAL EDUCATION. Farrell, at a cost of £1200. Mazurka,” by M. Bergson ; and “ Les Belles de la Cour,” by
have^f" 61 ^ 1 Purpos ® s Committoe of the Corporation of London „ ITie City Press states that the court of the Clothworkers’ effective pianoforte^ieces^n^he^ance 6 style.’ bnght and
have reported to the Court of Commou Council upon the Com pany have voted a special donation of £2000 in aid of a ,, n 1 „ 7
scheme of the Committee of Livery Companies for the best building fund for the Bradford (Yorkshire) Weaving and Messrs. Cramer and Co. have recently issued several
mode of applying the funds which the Corporation and the H 88 '^ School, in connection with which they lately gave two “Stable vocal compositions, “ When the Crimson Sun was
committees might be disposed to contribute towards the scholarships of £25 per annum to enable students to complete How, song by Louisa Gray; “ Red Jacket,” a soldier’s song
extension and improvement of technical education The their industrial education at the Textile Industries Department , abl ? Cam pana; and \ esper Bells,” song by Ed.
object sought to be attained by the proposals of the guilds is of the Yorkshire College, Leeds. Reyloff, have each a pleasing melody suitable to most classes
the improvement of the technical knowledge nf l„ a „ j • _ of voice and devoid of executive difficulty. “ Queen Mab”
in the manufactures of this^ouidry'^amf the £3“ ~ Walt f th e pianoforte, by Herbert Baines, is a series of
P»ed to be pursued is such ua w “S a knowEto 7 S THEATRES. • >Pnebtlj dauce movemeub in tbe form implied by the title.
Elre ml 0 ^ !Hc I ri fa 0iple8 ou ”’“ ch “7 P«rticulS man„! It would appear that the new Adelphi drama of " Proof " baa Th “ " P “ bl “ hcd bj MeS ™- Cramer '
tliorphv tr,^Kw. depend ’ Ihe persons intended to be benefited at length surmounted its final difficulty. The character of the — —
ami i,.;,,,:- a ciu g apprentices, workmen, managers, foremen, hero, Pierre Lorance, should be one of considerable importance. a* „ +i.e. 'r._n_;i i.„u . , , .
by Fabio Campana; and “Vesper Bells,” song by Ed.
Reyloff, have each a pleasing melody suitable to most classes
of voice and devoid of executive difficulty. “ Queen Mab”
Waite for the pianoforte, by Herbert Baines, is a series of
sprightly dance movements in the form implied by the title.
This also is published by Messrs. Cramer.
and principals. 8 app ce8 ’ workmen > managers, foremen, hero Pierre Lorance, should be one of considerable importance, At a mce tiug of the Town C
Thp iZ„u v,,, i. iv . , , seeing that its full development has taxed the capacity of three the Toai, 1 nil Kirkwall i
establishment wbl ^b tbls ^ 8 be accomplished are the leading performers. Mr. Bandmann and his successor, Mr. with the ir. edoin of the burirh
witv, , , 0 ^ , oc i? Ij ad e schools and a central institution, Charles Kelly, have been superseded by Mr. Henry Neville. g
llwif niiT + dfv. ^P 0r ; u , nce ’ At a meeting of the Town Council held yesterday week in
with o A 6 8chools and a central institution, Charles Kelly, have been superseded by Mr. Henry Neville, , 01 0
admitted „ Dle Bt , professors. To the former are to be who, while Mdlle. Beatrice holds the stage of the Olympic, The business of the Wesleyan Conference at Bradford was
in the n Per T D8 * °’ havin g received elementary instruction has undertaken to support the part. Mr. Neville has concluded yesterday week. In the course of the morning’s
aDD]ic,itinn C + 8 8c , ience and art, desire to be taught their brought his best work to the task, and has distanced his proceedings, Mr. Allen, of Sleaford, died suddenly, the cause
knowledcr f particular trades by teachers having a competent predecessors by many degrees. In his hands the role of death being apoplexy. This is the second death which has
the srienUfi • , actual practice of those trades, as well as of has a beginning, a middle, and an end. He has first tuk cn place in this year’s meeting of the Congress.
The latter tost prijlc *P les be applied to them, to show the hardy soldiers strong affection for his wife The Irish Court of Appeal has reversed the decision of
struction no r.Pr.rl hi - de61gned *9 8»e more advanced in- and child, notwithstanding the occas oual prevalence of his Judge Ormsby in the Harenc estate case, and set aside the sale
examination tnha™ 0 received who is not shown upon jealousy—that evil root out of which his troubles grow into of the estate to Messrs. Lombard and Murphy, who were
and art to enahto ton^ 5 mried 18 Ba:ffi cient Imowledge of science fatal significance. This situation gives place to the wondir bidding for some of the tenants under the Bright clauses,
given whiph is 1 ^ t0 PJ 0 ! 1 b 7 the instruction there to be with which he learns the murder of his wife, and that he him- accepting instf ad the proposal of Mr. Hussey to purchase the
> it is proposed should embrace applied physics, self is suspected of the crime: his emotion iises, indeed, to estate in bulk for £80,500.
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XUSTKATEI) LONDON NEWS
THE PARIS EXHIBITION. d ° llot require particular comment ;
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display of its manufactures and works of art, is maxkea 07 a -
onDER 0F THE INDIi
a reduced copy of the entrance porch of the ancie “ t
ChSch of Belem, near Lisbon, which presents * h*Mj
characteristic mixture of several historic styles, JjS ? 1 h£ad
Gothic to the Renaissance, with the groined vault overbeao,
the pointed arches upheld by twisted pillars,
niches with profuse sculptured decorations, and the Project g
buttresses surmounted by arrowy pinnacles, resemtong^jo ™ 1
the minarets of a Moorish mosque. Between the two dw'way ,
on the summit of an elegant column, is the 8tatue of l ' h g
Henry of Burgundy, founder of the old Portuguese monarchy,
whilethe side niches are occupied, not by the figures of Samts»
M in the Monastery of Belem, but those of iUustrious
Portuguese citizens: Vasco de Gama, disco verer of the Cape of
Good Hope route to India; Albuquerque, the conqueror of an
Indian dominion; Camoens, the poet of the Loeiad. ^d Pinto
de Ribeiro leader of the revolution in 1640, when Portugal
tSlta subjection to Spain. BackdI these . .MM
is placed on the top of a twisted column, which is a form of
rare occurrence in the ecclesiastical architecture of Northern
Europe, but there is a well known example m Roslyn Chapel,
near Edinburgh. The Portuguese bection of the Pans Exhi
bition contains a great variety of works of flue art.and manu- |
facturing industry, as well as natural products, which deserve
the attentive inspection of visitors, and which P"?™ 1 *®I
the renewed and continued progress of that kingdom and
nation in all that belongs to material welfare.
We have repeatedly spoken of the Algennes, and other
Mussulman populations of North Africa, in their temper ir/
habitations in the Trocadero Park to which the Pans uns
have naturally been led to devote a large share of attention.
The person engaged in cork-cutting, by the aid of a kind of
lathe, in which the revolving motion, however, is supplied Dy
the action of his thumb and forefinger upon a rod spinning
round with the piece of cork, while the cut ting edge is stationary
in the fixed part of the apparatus, seems to be a master of his
peculiar craft; and his skilful performance is curiously
watched by the bearded Greek Papa, and the clerical novice
in his company, who beguile their sacred studies with a visit
to the World’s Fair. A very different figure is that of the
fair-haired Flemish maiden, with store of bouquets of gaudy
flowers to sell, who quietly sits waiting for her customers, and
employs her vacant hours with the knitting-needles, or
crochet, or some light feminine work of that description. She
looks like a good and simple-hearted girl, whose thoughts are
probably of her distant home, and who will return thither, in
safety and innocence, when the Exposition de Paris has been
Cl ° Most persons who take an interest in English art-manu-
—-. . fl(Turea g 9 10 , and 11, THE VOLUNTEERS.
for wall dcoiratiom The & bto No.’ 9,’ which is a contest which hod been in progress since Saturday
do not require particular fc displaying white orna- A r 1 iu Rainham, Essex, for prizes presented by
pedestal for ^J^?f 1 Tff'wreotlis < onablue taf brawn ground, has S5H5er of Mogdala, G.C.B., &.C.S.I., the Wor-
THE INDIAN EMPIRE.
General Ixird Napier of Magdala, G.U.B., d.us i, tne vvor-
sldpful Companies of Merchant Taylors, Saddlers, Drapers,
Mercers Fishmongers, Grocers, &c., was concluded on lues-
duv upwards of 200 of the best shots of the 3rd City of
London Rifles being the competitors. Appended are toe
resultsof the principal competitions Battalion prizes: The
first prize, the Worshipful Company of Grocers; challenge cup,
value > £ 10 , a money prize of £ 10 , and the rcgimentM badge,
I waa won by Private Sharpe. General Lord Napier of Magdala’s
dmlleuge cup was contested by three members from each com¬
pany • G (Captain Beaton’s) company being firet, and Ser-
P L’ riuVvev and Wust and Private Bnggs each receiving £2
Sd £eThe London Hid? Brigade rapid firing
and volley competition showed some remarkable proficiency
with the Snider. In the former contest the competitors fired
at 200 yards at a skirmishing target, two minutes being the
time allowed, “ any position, rifles to be fairly loaded on the
worfT'Commenc/ffing;’ shot, nitertt.word. ‘Centring'
Jill disqualify.” For the first prize, 12 guineas, presented by
Mcssrs^Silver and Co., Odour-^rgeant^letcher made up an
aggregate total of 72 points, consisting of 17 bull s-eyes and
2 Outers. The last contest of the meeting was for the gold
medal of the brigade and 15 guineas, open only to the twenty
highest scorers to the aggregates, silver medal winners and
wtoners of first prizes. Private Runtz was the winner.
The competition by the members of the London Rifle
Brigade for the valuable series of prizes annually placed at
their disposal by the City companies and inends of the regi¬
ment wa? brought to a close on Fndav week at the Rainham
range, by the contest between the highest scorers in the pnn-
cind “aggregate” series shot on the previous Saturday and
Monday and the wtoners of first prizes to other senes during
the week for the gold medal of the bngade and a prize of
SVdS.After I dote coded, Private Bunte oiO
<k>mpany, was declared the winner, beating Private Hood, of
G Company, by one mark. By the rales of the bngade no one
is allowed to take more than one prize, with the exception of
the grand aggregate series, and therefore there is some shifting
take? place in the order of merit; but the following is the correct
list of the actual prize-takers: Martim-Henry Competition,
at 800, 900, and 1000 yards-idO iOs. Pnvate Rothon,
£5 5s., Sergeant Kitchingman; £4 4s. each, Corporal A. N.
Adams and Private G. Cress Aggregate Senes at 200, 500,
and GOO Yards—£21, Colour-Sergeant Fletcher; £10 10s. each,
Corporal Hall, Private M’Dougall, Sergeant Taytoil. Private
Hood, Corporal Mardell, Private Hamerton, Private H Smith,
and Private Siegert; £7 7s., Pnvate Jenkmson ; £5 5s. each,
Private Cocks, Private Nash, Private W. S. Smith, and Pnvate
Shepherd; £4, Private W. Cross;
Sergeant Beeton: £3, Private Surgey; ^. Private Hayton.
Broad-street Ward Skirmishing Prize-£21, Private Saw ,
£1 10s. Sergeant Matthams. Ironmonger Company a
Skirmishing Prize-£10 10s„ Private Desmond; £1 15s.,
Corporal Haines. Cripplegate Ward Senes, at 200, 500,
j and^ 600 Yards—Challenge Irophy and £10 10s., Private
factures ue acquainted with the decorated stoneware, and the We . ^ m U8 tration of the ornamental badge which is to andOOO Yard Fra 8 G J. 158m Private Robinson
painted and glazed faience, produced by Messrs. Henry and be worn by gentlemen who are members of this new Order Private Green Rauge Prizes, 200 yards—Haberdashers’
James Doulton, at the Lambeth Pottery, with the aid ofa The decoratiou to be worn by ladies upon whom her Majesty and Chall c c U p and £5 5s., Private Falconar; £4 4s.,
staff of artists, young men and young women, trained by has enuferred that privilege was represented in an Illustration Company C ali g P Quartermaater _ Sergeim t Stuckey.
Mr. Sparkes, the Director of the Lambeth School of Art. A b lished by us on April 13. The gentlemen wear a gold Bm rardaftS Colonel's Cup)-£10 10s., Private Merritt;
collection of some examples of these novel kinds of menu- budgc in form 0 { a r 0 B e, enamelled red, charged with INDIA 500 ya ( Wyatt (Gold Medal) ; £4 4s., Private Jenkinson
facturo, shown to the Pans Exhibition, hasbeen much admired . R Rold lettt>r8 ( a letter on each leaf), having in the centre, £5 5s.» Cornell 600 yards (Goers’ Company Challenge
in the British Section, where it is accompanied by the terra- wit £ in a circ i e enamelled purple, on which is inscribed in gold and Sergeant Cora ^ ouuy ■ ^ £4 48 ., Sergeant Green
cotta ware, including statuary and other sculpture, the orna- letter8 .. victoria Empress,” a portrait of herlmpenal Majesty, Cup aadOtoje e ^ „ sily B. „ Firing Prizes, at
mental tiles, and a variety of plain, strong articles of utility, b v the ImDerial Crown to gold. This badge is worn and Sergeant Uni • —v • s-. Private Merry:
Mr. SpaTkes, the Director of the Lambith School of Art. A pu bii sb ed by us on Apri
collection of some examples of these novel kinds of menu- b adge in form of a rose, e
facturo, shown to the Paris Exhibition, hasbeen much admired in w lcttera ( a letter c
in the British Section, where it is accompanied by the terra- wit bi n a c i rc i e enamelled
cotta ware, including statuary and other sculpture, the orna- j ettera .. victoria Empress,
mental tiles, and a variety of plain, strong articles of utility, enaigned by the Imperial
ImA- with INDIIA ZB ),u C MS
gold letters (a letter on each leaf), having m the centre, £5 5s., ^ arda Compui
hin a circle enamelled purple, on which is mscribed in gold K gs )_Sergeant M'Alpin ; £4 4s., Sei
ters” Victoria Empress,” a portrait of herlmpenal Majesty, Cup a_£5 5) g sQver ” Rapid-Firi
letters “ Victoria Empress,” a portrait of her Imperial Majesty,
mental tiles, and a variety of plain, strong articles or utility, 1 enaigned by the Imperial Crown to gold. This badge is worn anu ^T'Private Hancock ; £5 5s., Private Merry;
also contributed by Messrs. Doulton. It may be as well here dtmt from an imperial purple ribbon attached by a gold 200 yards £12 12s P Volley-Firing Contest
briefly to describe the processes, an account of which, by brooch at the top. The badge is manufactured by Messrs. of ten men from each company)—
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SdVal ?.^' 7 TtaSSahTtSSf ^ ~ — S .icXfirU.rgeant Fletehcr; « each, M.ate Hoed
stoneware, differing from earthenware in the greater density EISTEDDFOD AT MENAI-BRIDGE. and Corporal Hall.
and closeness of its texture, containing more fliut, and Ag ann0U nced to our preceding issue, a Welsh Eisteddfod was The annual official inspection of the 1st London Engineer
being highly vitrified, semi-translucent when made thin, hdd last week at Menai-bridge. It was begun on Tuesday, Volunteers took place last Saturday evening m Regent si tux,
brittle, and proof against the action of acids. It is, unlike the 6tb m 8 t under the presidency of Mr. R. Davies, M P.; when, notwithstanding the unfavourable weather, the e was
eurtlienware, tired and glazed to one operation; after being Mr Go 3 c b en , M.P., and Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P., being an excellent muster of the corps, under the command or ueu-
wrought into the intended form and pattern, with the prcacut The chairman, to his opening address, strongly tenant-Colonel Drew, whose field officers ^ were Captain
decorative treatment done by hand, it is exposed to the fierce {, rotc8ted aKa inst opinions expressed by a section of English Harrison (Acting Major), and Captain and Adjutant 1 aracr,
white heat of a furnace during several days ; and salt is then £ ritica that the Eisteddfod was an exhibition of Wtlsh r e. The field state showed that 12 officers, 22 sergeants,
cast in, which is decomposed by the heat, allowing the soda of pre j ud j ce and vanity, and claimed that it was the means of 37 band and buglers, and 326 rank and file, or a total ol uji 01
the salt to combine with a portion of the silex in the clay, and di8 ^ ovcrin g and developing talent and of raising the moral and a n rau ks, out of an enrolled strength of 523, were P res «™;
to form an indestructibly hard transparent glazing. The ^ OT - n1 tone of thc pe 0 pie. An address touchiug upon the The inspecting officer was Colonel Gordon, the Commanding
ornamentation, which has been applied immediately after the and ob jects of the meeting was also given by Captain Ro ya i Engineer of the Home District, who was accompanieu
article leaves thc potter’s wheel, may be done either by incrust- V erney chairman of the Anglesey Quarter Sessions. During by Captain Wood, R.E. At the close of the anil toiona
ing its surface with raised decorative lines and patterns, or by ., nrof ,„ edinff9 . wb i cb were of a most enthusiastic character, Gordon expressed himself pleased with what he had seen, Dora
article leaves the potter’s wheel, maybe done either by incrust- V eraey chairman of the Anglesey Quarter Sessions. During by Captain Wood, R.E. At the close of the.drill Colonel
ing its surface with raised decorative lines and patterns, or by the D 1 ^ ceed i nR8 which were of a most enthusiastic character, Gordon expressed himself pleased with what he had seen, Dora
indenting them upon the surface, or engraving it with incised bon 0 ur 8 were taken by Mr. R. Hughes for a Welsh in the field and at the head-quarters of thc regiment, where ne
lines, in the “ sgraffito ” manner, or by painting it with various ^ Q the part Aug i e8ey played during the Civil War; by had in 8 p CC ted the engineering works executed by thc corps,
colours. The Doulton stoneware is said to be ‘ an English Mib8 8 . 0wen Jones, of Bangor, and Miss Lctitia Jones, At the Shropshire County Rifle Meeting held last week the
revival, upon perfectly independent principles, of the famous Holyhead) for pi an oforte-playiug ; Mr. Rupert Stanley At the ^hropsn J edal o£ the National Rifle Asso-
gris de Flandre* of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Hu ghes, Liverpool, for singing; and Mr. Owen, Bettws-y- j.iation were won by Colour-Sergeant Owen, of the 6 th Corps,
centuries. 1 here is also produced by Messrs. Doulton a kind Qoed, for drawing. Other minor honours were awarded to ciation w y , 1 wai „ .1 ewhurv-
of porcelain, called the Lambeth faience, which is a species of M Lewis Llangefni, and Mr. Jones, Bangor. Madame Edith The first division of the VoUmtecr ?
n vivid Maiolira. and in which the ware, in its biscuit or _left, the camn vesterdav week. Colonel Ravenlull, R.A.,
Mr. Lewis, Llangefni, and Mr. Jones, Bangor. Madame Edith
revived Majolica, and in which the ware, in its biscuit or W ynne and Mr. May brick were the chief vocalists,
unglazed state, having^extreme fineness of texture and smooth- Eisteddfod was continued 011 the 8 th ii
ness left the camp yesterday week, Colonel Ravenlifll.R.A^,
the Camp Commandant, issuing an order in which he expressed
uugiazeu Buue, uuvuig Biireuie uueiiraoui K:Aua C iuiu 0 ui Wl ,u- The Eisteddfod was continued on the nth mst., air. me uamp comiuimumH,, ™uui 6 --- -
ness of surface, is painted with any design, as freely as any M u L! oyd M P being president. The attendance, great satisfaction both with the officers and the men. a
painting can be done on a panel or canvas. Mr. Snarkea has owin b un / avo urable weather, was small. The chairman, to second division, consisting at elghty -thrw detwama^ras,
devoted particular attention to this application of art; and ^ opening address, touched upon the interest in Wales that marched into camp last Saturday for their eight days oral-
anreo nf >1 r>nni1u VinvA flip arm nnun rtf' ViicrViPfit. y ® . \ . , . v \ j___ 1 _an... nnwa An All RnrifLlV W118 AttenClea. Dy UUIOIICI
some of his pupils have earned the applause of the highest £ QW £^^(1 i n high-class education, and complained
authorities by the originality, grace, and vigour of their that while lib eral grants were made to Ireland and Scotland,
work, both in modelling and engraving figures and m pointing the Government refused any aid towards the Welsh University,
on the clay Among these are Mr. George Tinworth, the which waa established and supported chiefly by the working began on Monday. At a parade last Tuesday Lieutenant-
designer of the “ Football-Scrimmage, and of the roekwork [ claases of Wales. Mr. Cubitt’s piano for lady amateurs to | Colonel Ravenhill, R.A., the Commandant of ^the^ camp, com^
fountain, adorned with «
s and groups of Scripture history Wales
classes of Wales. Mr. Cubitt’s piano for lady amateurs to cuioua noiwuuu, T.rrr— —~ v~. .
Woles was won by Miss Ella Richards, Bangor, Mr. Elias mented on the lax state of discipline winch he has foun
Davies and Mr. Owen Jones winning the harp prizes. prevail amongst the volunteers on duty there.
Mr. Lewis Morris presided over the Eisteddfod on the The Irish Eight who won the Elcho Shield at Wimbledon
9th. The audience included Mr. Goschen, Sir George Camp- year formally handed over the shield to the custody of the
bell, Mr. Morley, Mr. Henry Richard, Mr. Morgan Lloyd, and Corporation of Dublin on Monday. The Irish Eight earned
other Welsh members. In his opening address the president the shield on their shoulders, and, having deposited it on a
advocated the establishment of a Welsh social science congress, ^le to the centre of the council-chamber, they stood while
and that the Eisteddfod should link itself more closely with the Maior Leech expressed their pride at once more, for the fourth
tn imnmna lha wlnogHnnnl BVaUin nf W«1 a» The .. * • ■_f_i 1.1.... J , ..nflu.inn VinviTMT WOH tile
the interest in wales mat marenea mw camp w r^lnni-l
education, and complained The church parade on Sunday was attended b 7 .
le to Ireland and Scotland, Hastings and the whole of the regular gumsom Afterwards
ards the Welsh University, Colonel Hastings inspected the camp. 1 he work of the week
ted chiefly by the working began on Monday. At a parade last Tuesday Lieute
bearing reference to water ; Miss Hannah Barlow, whose Davie8 and Mr 0w J en Jone8 winning the harp prizes,
admirable lifelike figures of wild animals have become widely Mr Morria presided over the Eisteddfod on the
Popular; Mr. Frank Butler, a deaf and dumb artist; and 9ft The audience included Mr. Goschen, Sir George Catnp-
Lambeth fa
tile-picture
Exhibition.
We .give a few IUustrations of the Doulton Btone^waro ende avour to improve the educational system of Wales. The Jfme
id Minted fniancA. tn« artir.lPR hp.im? distimniiahed bv , . . ** . i_r xt_ __n_:____if.
and the second in succession, having won the
Sib?re I tothe fl EnSvtol! 6 w ^N? l^'Ston^M? chair P rize ’ the ^ reat honoar o£ the gathering, was won by Mr. ^ISnotion JfbSng the champion shots of the three countries,
numbere to the Engraving, as followNo. 1, a Doulton-ware Anhrpv for a Welsh noem. other literarv honours betoir 6 *
numbers to the Engraving, as follow :-No. 1, a Doulton-ware Milto ^ Au ^ rey f or a Welsh p
vase, 4 ft. high, with incised figures of a Bon and four taken by the Rev. E. Jones. ^
lionesses and three young lions, drawn by Miss Hannah Tim closed i
Milton Aubrey for a Welsh poem, other literary honours being
token by the Rev. E. Jones.
The Eisteddfod closed its four days’ session yesterday
lionesses and three young lions, drawn by Miss Hannah The Eisteddfod‘closed’ its four days’ session yesterday The Director-General of the Medical Department of the
Barlow, and with painted, ornament by Miss F. E. Barlow, wee k._the Bishop of Bangor presiding. Mr. Goschen, who Navy, Sir Alexander Armstrong, K.C.B., made an official
the ground is a buff, of lighter shade in the upper port of the b as attended daily, was to have spoken, but was too hoarse ; inspection of the Naval Hospital at Plymouth, to charge of
vase, while the coloured ornamentation is chiefly Wue. No. 2 , Morley and Mr. Henry Richard, both of whom Bpoke Inspector-General Henry J. Domville, C.B., on the 9 th inst.,
mantftd^v*VfJ 6 Frmi^^iRnl highly of the gathering, 'iking his’place. The com^cti- an ?of the other naval''establishments at that port on the
mented by Mr. Frank Butler ; the ground is very dark brown, tiotos were rather meagre. The Denbighshire Yeomanry following day.
plaques S Sifi SenceTthe^argesL' No 3, is4 ft" J^ne? bSiJs ’’ Last Saturday afternoon the new buildings attached to the
diametpr. pxnppdiniy in si7n even that 'p.xhihitnd hv YhJ honours fell to Mr. Thomas Jones, Bangor. Mr. Edwards and , ~ Surffe ons. Stephen’s-green, Dublin, were
itanical accuracy. The two smaller plaques are very pretty: _
No. 4 is by Miss L. Watt aud No. 5 by Miss F. Lewis. No. 6 -
is on example of applied or incrasted ornamentation; it has I Thc Skinners’ Company have made another gr
some resemblance to Chelsea ware. No. 7 is a specimen of tile I guineas to aid of the Printers’ Pension Corporation.
-abry band were unopposed in their class ; and literary Saturday afternoon the new buildings attached to the
exceeding to size even that exhibited by the I u ^° U ” l !° IV' J T 8 ’ BaD8 ° r ’ < Ed^rds and College of Surgeons, Stephen’s-green, Dublin were
Japanese Government to 1871; the bird is very lifelik?, and ^ ened tbe L° rd of Ireland ‘. Jhe 1 builduiga
the plants, the rose, the yellow flag-flower, the bullrush, cow- ^ mainiy ot a library and ft museu “’ wl f th
parsnip, orchids, and wild chicory are represented with •SiS!L?SS * attached ; and the new block forms a continuation of the angle
r ■ ' ■ — " - 1 Miss Manan Williams, and Mr. Maybnck being principals. at York street. The Viceregal party, the Lord Mayor and
- Lady Mayoress, and the visitors generally were conducted
Thc Skinners’ Company have made another grant of ten through the museum, and most of the objects of interest were
iueas to aid of the Printers’ Pension Corporation. pointed out to them.
Miss Marian Williams, and Mr. Maybrick being principals.
AUG. 17, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
167
OBITUARY.
LORD DYNEVOR.
The Right Honourable Francis William Rice, fifth Baron
Dynevor, of
Dynevor, in
the county of
Caermarthen,
Vicar of Fair-
ford, Glouces¬
tershire, died
on the 3rd
inst., at 53,
Brook - street.
His Lordship
was bom May
10, 1804, the
second son of
the Hon. and
Very Rev.
Edward Rice,
D.D., Dean of
Gloucester, by
Charlotte, his wife, second daughter of the late General
Lascelles, and succeeded to the peerage at the death of his
cousin, George Rice, fourth Lord Dynevor, Oct. 7, 1869. He
was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated
in 1827 ; and held the vicarage of Fairford since 1828. Lord
Dynevor married, first, 1830, Harriet Ives, daughter of Daniel
Raymond Barker, Esq., and by her leaves a daughter, the Hon.
Mrs. Joyce, and a son and successor, the Hon. Arthur de
Cardonnel Rice, now Lord Dynevor. The late peer married,
secondly, 1856, Eliza Amelia, eldest daughter of the late Rev.
H. Carnegie Knox, Rector of Lechlade, and by her leaves one
son and three daughters. William, first Earl Talbot, having
no surviving male issue, was created Baron Dynevor in 1780,
with limitation to his only daughter, Lady Cecil, the wife of
George Rice, Esq., of Newton, M.P. for Carmarthenshire, and
the barony devolved, at the Earl’s death, in 1782, on this lady,
who was grandmother of the nobleman whose death we record.
SIR JOHN ENNIS. BART.
Sir John Ennis, Bart., of Ballinahown Court, in the county of
Westmeath, J.P. and D.L., who died on the
8 th inst. at his residence, 9, Merrion-square,
Dublin, was the only son of Andrew Ennis, of
Roebuck, Dublin, who realised a large fortune
in commercial pursuits and purchased a con¬
siderable landed property in Westmeath. Sir
John was educated at Stony hurst, and was for¬
merly Governor of the Bank of Ireland and
Chairman of th e Midland Great Westem Railway.
He contested the county of Westmeath unsuc-
' cessfully in 1852, but was returned for Athlone
in 1857 and 1859, and served as High Sheriff for
the county of Westmeath in 1837, and for the
county of Dublin in 1849. He was created a Baronet in 1866.
Sir John married, in 1834, Anna Maria, eldest daughter of
David Henry, Esq., of Dublin, and sister of the late Sir Thomas
Henry, Chief Magistrate, London, and leaves an only son, now
Sir John James Ennis, second Baronet, High Sheriff for the
county of Westmeath in 1866, late M.P. for Athlone, born in
1842 ; arid three daughters—viz., Mary, wife of O’Donoghue
of the Glens, M.P. ; Margaret Alicia Josephine, wife of
Edmund Waterton, Esq., of Walton Hall, Yorkshire; and
Elizabeth Antonia, wife of Joseph Edward Power, Esq., of
Snow Hill, in the county of Waterford.
LADY PALLING AND BULWER.
The Right Hon. Georgiana Charlotte Mary, Baroness Dalling
and Bulwer, whose death at Woodville Hall, Ewell, near
Dover, is announced, was only daughter of Henry, first
Lord Cowley, by Georgiana, his wife, daughter of James, first
Marquis of Salisbury, and was consequently niece of Arthur,
the great Duke of Wellington. She was married, Dec. 9,
1848, to the Right Hon. Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, G.C.B., the
distinguished diplomatist, brother of the first Lord Lytton,
but had no issue. Her Ladyship became a widow May 3,1872.
THE REY. G. GILFILLAN.
The Rev. George Gilfillan, Pastor of St. George’s United
Presbyterian Church, Dundee, died on Tuesday morning at
the house of Mr. Valentine, banker, Brechin, after only half
an hour’s illness. Mr. Gilfillan left Dundee for Brechin the
previous night, and was to have officiated at the marriage of a
niece on Tuesday. He was in his usual health on Sunday, and
preached on the subject of sudden death. Mr. Gilfillan, who
was in his sixty-fifth year, was the author of a large number
of works, among the best known of which was his “ Gallery of
Literary Portraits.” He frequently lectured in England and
Scotland on literary subjects, and was at one time a large
contributor to periodical literature.
The deaths have also been announced of—
Charles Lechmere, Esq., late Deputy Keeper of the State
Papers, on the 5th inst., at Deal, Kent, aged seventy-eight.
The Rev. John Cooper, one of the first missionaries to India
from Scotland. He went out in 1822, and returned in 1834.
Mr. Cooper was eighty-one years of age.
Captain Alexander Rodney Bligh Carter, R.N., son of the
late Admiral Charles Carter, of Gosport, and grandson of the
late Admiral Sir Richard Rodney Bligh, of Southampton, on
the 3rd inst., at Shirley, Southampton.
Captain the Hon. J. S. Roe, R.N., F.R G.S., J.P., on
May 28, at Perth, Western Australia, aged eighty-one. He
was youngett son of the late Rev. James Roe, Rector of New¬
bury, Berks, and Incumbent of Dorchester, Oxon, and was
Surveyor-General of the colony about forty years.
Samuel Chadwick, Esq., on the 4th inst., aged seventy-
two. He was for many years the head of a department in the
Probate Office, and was the author of a valuable work entitled
"The Probate Court Manual.” He retired in 1871. He
married Emma, daughter of the late Mr. George Daniel, the
eminent Shakspearean collector, and author of “ Merrie
England in the Olden Time,” and other well-known works.
Dr. George Conroy, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh, at
the age of forty-six. He was a native of Armagh, and was
educated at the Propaganda College in Rome. On his return
to Ireland he joined the staff of the Missionary College of All
Hallows, near Dublin, where he taught divinity for several
years. When Archbishop Cullen was made a Cardinal in 1866
he appointed Dr. Conroy to be his secretary; and four years
later he was appointed Bishop of Ardagh.
Lieutenant-Colonel William George Ward, of the Madras
Staff Corps, at Hastings, on the 10th inst., at the age of forty-
eight. He received his first commission in 1851, served with
the Madras Rifles during the suppression of the mutiny in
Bengal from September, 1857, to November, 1859, and received
. the Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India. He was after¬
wards appointed Assistant-General Superintendent for the
suppression of Thuggee and Dacoity at Hyderabad.
CHESS.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
All communlealUmt relating lo this department of the Paper tlumld be addreited lo Ike
Editor, and hart the word " Chess ,x i criUtn on the envelope.
LO (Blackwater).—Your notation of 1796 in correct; but it camo to hand too lute,
* e regret, for acknowledgment in the unual place.
N R (Fieckenham).—It wan acknowledged lent week.
Mablaka (Bruges).—Look at No. 1798 again. Your proponed solution will not answer
K h F (Abbey-road).—Tlie problem shall be published shortly. The game shall appear
when the tourneys are disposed of.
W W (Regent's Park).—We are greatly obliged for the trouble you have taken.
E T (Bath).—The game is very acceptable, and itshall appear next week.
Dabbshlia -U you will examine No. 1794 with the published solution you will find
that the Juveniles are wide of the mark this timo.
r 3'.T To recelT0 » n 3 r “Mention, such communications as yours must be accompanied
„ b y name and address of the writer.
V-ar 1 y^sttenUorj 1 ^*) •—The K* IU0 In the American correspondence tourney shall have
iBRAiyM —In the game published in our issue of the 3rd Inst, the JCith move of Black
should bo B takes Kt. instead of 1* takes B. We are greatly indebted to F Wilkinson
of Lincoln, C Darragh of Brighton, and East Harden for pointing out the error.
Cobbxct Solutions or Pboblbm No. 1796 received from Lulu and P 8 Shenele.
‘ > ® tt * 0T ?S L , c 7 , °, !,a ov Pboblxw No. 1797 received from Lulu, Franklin Institute,
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Solution or Pboblkm No. 1797.
WHITE. BLACK.
1. B to Q R 8th Any move
2. U or either Kt mates accordingly.
Notk.— This problem cannot be solved by any other line of play than that
given above. The reply to 1. ft to K 6th u 1. P to Q 6th; 1 ft to B 6th is
met by 1. B to ft Kt sq ; 1. K to B so is met by 1. Kt takes B, and the
answer to 1. ft to ft Kt 2nd, 1. ft to ft Kt sq, or 1. ft to Kt 4th is, in each
case, 1. B to ft B 2nd. The foregoing analysis will answer the proposed
solutions of a large number of correspondents.
PROBLEM No. 1800.
By D. M. Timbas (Alexandria).
BLACK.
White to play, and mate in three moves.
THE COUNTIES CHESS ASSOCIATION.
The following highly interesting Game was played in the first-class tourney
of the above society between Mr. J. J exkin, of Glasgow, and Professor
Waytb, of London .—[Huy Lopez.)
whitk (Mr. J.) black (Prof.W.) I WH1TK (Mr. J.) black (Prof.W.)
1. PtoK4th P to K 4th
2. Kt to K B 3rd Kt to ft B 3rd
3. B to Kt 6th P to ft R 3rd
4. B to R 4th Kt to B 3rd
6. P to ft 3rd B to B 4th
The i
domain^
6. Kt to B 3rd
The usual continuation in reply to
Hack's last move is 6. P to Q B 3rd.
Pto ftKt4th
P to ft 3rd
P to K R 3rd
Kt to K 2nd
Castles
Kt to Kt 3rd
LtJuBfit
7. B to Kt 3rd
8. P to K II 3rd
9. Kt to K 2nd
10. Kt to Kt 3rd
11. Castles
12. B to K 3rd
We should have preferred 12. P to Q B
3rd. White duubtleasly thought that the
Pawn at K 3rd would be. usefu
iting the hostile Kt being posted
B takes B
P to B 4th
P to Kt 5th
B to K 3rd
P takes P
ft to Kt 3rd
P to Kt 6th
P to ft R 4th
Kt to ft 2nd
P to R 5th
R to R 2nd
P to B 3rd
ft to B 2nd
Kt to B 4th
K to R 2nd
Kt takes ft P
12 .
13. P takes B
14. P to B 4th
15. P to R 3rd
16. P takes P
17. B to B 2nd
18. ft to ft 2nd
19. Btoftsq
20 . Kt to R 2nd
21. Kto Rsq
22 . Rto R3rd
23. Kt to Kt 4th
24. Kt to B 5th
25. ft to K 2nd
26. Kt to B 2nd
27. ft to R 6th
Very
If .XL Kt takes Q P, then follows 31. Q
Q 1th Ac.
ft to B 3rd
31. ft to ft 2nd B to B 5th
32. B to B 3rd Pto«4th
33. P to K 4th ft to Kt 4th
34. B to K 2nd P takes P
35. Kt takes P (at R to ft Bq
K 4th)
36. ft to K 3rd B takes Kt
37. ft takes R B takes B
38. R to K sq
If.'*. Kt takes P (cli). Black plays his
King__
attack in Uiat directi.
R «'l. and tiler
no further
R to ft 2nd
B to B 5th
ft to B 3rd
oft 4th
39. ft to B 2nd
40. Kt to B 3rd
41. ft R takes P
42. R to K 3rd
43. R to K 4th
Hr. Jenkin has not played up to his
usual force in this tourney. In a note to
tills move Professor Wayte points nut that
White should lieie have played 43. Kttakes
Kt, to which Block's best reply apiieurs to
be 43. B takes Kt. after which the game is
' aid Black play 43. Q takes It,
lien follows-
44. Q to B 5th (ch) K to R so
If 44. P to Kt 3rd. White takes off the
look with Queen, nnd clucks with Kt. Ac.
45. Kt takes P. with a strong attack.
J. B to ft 6th
44. Kt takes Kt B takes R
45. Kt to B 3rd B to B 7th
1 46 R to K Kt 4th Rto ft 6 th
The winning move, threatening K takes
R P (ch). as well as 11 takes Kt.
47. ft to B 5th (ch) K to R sq
lv conceived In the three I 48. ft to R 5th R takes Kt
the resulting position Black ' 49. K to R 2nd ft to ft 2nd
secures a full equivalent for this sacrifice. To prcvent Q to K B 7t)i; bnt 49. B to Q
28 Kt takes Kt ft takes P 8th. or 49. R to Q 6th, would also win.
29 ft to K 2nd ft takes P 50. R to ft Kt 4th R to B sq,
30. Kt to Kt 3rd I and White resigned.
CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
The handicap tourney of the Counties Chess Association resulted in the
mechanical chessplayer, “ Mephisto,” winning the first prize, the second
honours, whatever they may be worth in the circumstances, falling to Mr.
Sydney Fnsnr. We do n-1 care to interest ourselves in the gossip of the
public chess-rooms, but we may say that everyone knows indeed no one
denies, that the movements of “Mephisto” are directed by a concealed
player, whose name, quality, and force are unknown to the general public.
The admission of such a competitor to the lists of a handicap tournament
intended for amateur chessplayers exclusively must be regarded as a mistake
on the part of the committee of the association ; but, as the blunder is not
likely to be repeated, we need not pursue the subject further.
On Friday last, the 9th instant, the American and the English chess¬
players who have been engaged in the Paris tourmfinent were entertained
at the City of London Chess Club, Moulflet’s Hotel, Newgate-street The
vnests of the occasion were Messrs. Mackenzie and Mason, of New Yoik,
and Messrs. Bird and Blackhurne, of London; and there was a large
assemblage of the leading cheasplayers of the metropolis to grace their
reception. After the banquet the health of the playeis was proposed by
the president, Mr. Clarke, and received enthusiastically by the members.
Other toasts followed, and the meeting did not break up until a late hour.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated Jan. 3, 1878) of Mr. Edmund Pepya, late of
No. 20, Portland-place, who died on June 13 last, was proved
on the 17th ult. by Mrs. Louisa Jane Pepys, the widow, and
Edmund Pepys, the son, the executors, the personal estate
being sworn under £350,000. The testator leaves to his wife
absolutely £2100 New Three per Cent Stock, and all the cash
in the house, and to the credit of his private account at the
Bank of England, and for life his residence in Portland-place,
with the furniture and effects, and the income of £60,000
Consols; to his sons John Alfred and Henry some specific
gifts of freehold property and £30,000 Reduced Stock each ;
to his son Arthur £40,000 Reduced Stock; upon trust for his
daughters, Caroline and Sarah Emma, £15,000 Government
Stock each; and there are a few other bequests. The residue
of all his property the testator gives to his son Edmund.
The will (dated June 3, 1878) of Mr. Eleazer Moses Merton,
late of No. 7, Norfolk-crescent, Hyde Park, who died on the
11th ult., was proved on the 31st ult. by Mrs. Matilda Maria
Moses Merton, the widow, Henry Samson, and Charles Lindo,
the executors, the personal estate being sworn under £160,000.
The testator bequeaths to his executors £200 each, free of
legacy duty; to his wife, £2500, and all his furniture, plate,
jewellery, pictures, household effects, horses and carriages, in
addition to the provision already secured to her by settlement;
£150 to be distributed among the Jewish poor; to his sou
Alfred Moses Merton, £25,000; to his daughter Jeannette,
£20,000; to his daughters Emily, Frances, and Rebecca,
£14,000 each ; and one or two other legacies. The remainder
of his property is to be divided between his said five children.
The will (dated June 10, 1876) with a codicil (dated
April 27, 1878) of Mr. Henry Percy Hamer, formerly of
Demerara, British Guiana, but late of No. 12, Dover-street,
Piccadilly, who died on June 16 last, was proved on the 16th
ult. by the Rev. Thomas Brand, the nephew, and George
Augustus Beaurain, the acting executors, the personal estate
being sworn under £30,000. The testator bequeaths to Dr.
Thomas Cahill, John Cahill, and his executor, Mr. Beaurain,
£500 each; to the Rev. Thomas Brand his plate, jewellery,
pictures, and papers, and £200; to Mrs. Emma Melham £500
New Three per Cent Stock, and £50 per annum for life; to
the Guiana Diocesan Church Society, Georgetown, Demerara,
the Church of England Sunday School Institute, 34, Bridge-
street, Blackfriars, and the Sunday School Union, Old Bailey,
£1000 each ; and the rest of his property to the Rev. Thomas
Brand, Andre Charles Racine Brand, John Brand, Arthur
Brand, Miss Maria Brand, Mrs. Matilda Harrison, Mrs. Mary
Fanny Pagan, and Henry Percy Guy.
The will (dated June 6, 1871) with two codicils (dated
June 13, 1874, and Feb. 27, 1877) of General Henry Sykes
Stephens, late of No. 13, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, who
died on the 6th ult., was proved on the 27th ult. by Augustus
Henry Stephens, the son, the acting executor, the personal
estate being sworn under £16,000. Subject to bequests to
his three other children, the testator gives all his real and per¬
sonal estate to his said son, Augustus Henry Stephens.
The will (dated July 24, 1876) of Admiral Sir William
Hutcheon Hall, K.C.B., late of No 48, Phillimore-gardens,
Kensington, who died on June 25 last, was proved on the 27th
ult. by the Hon. Dame Hilare Caroline Hall, the widow, the
acting executrix, the personal estate being sworn under £6000.
The will (dated Jan. 23, 1874) of Lord Montagu William
Graham, late of Wherstead Park, Ipswich, who died on June 21
last, at No. 15, Wilton-street, Belgrave-square, was proved on
the 26th ult., under a nominal sum, by Lady Harriet Anne
Graham, the widow, and the Hon. Robert Charles Herbert,
the executors. With the exception of a few specific legacies,
the testator leaves all his real and personal estate to his wife.
The Duchess of Leeds has again been elected a member of
the school board of Stapleford, Cambridgeshire. Her Grace
was first elected a year ago, when the board was formed, and
she has been very regular in attendance.
A recreation-ground was opened at Nechells,near Birming¬
ham, last Saturday. The ground, which is about ten acres in
extent, has been presented by the gas committee of the
Birmingham Town Council for the benefit of the public of the
locality. Mr. Chamberlain, M.P., was one of the speakers.
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B "p£i™AfhMf . dozen bettto* of ENO'S FRUIT BALT.
th.Votried ENO'S FRUIT SALT In America, India Egvpt-
Ind on the Continent for almo.t everv c«>mpl*mtfevcrincudrd
with the most eatUfactonr result*, f
Engiiiecr. P.W.D.. Government of fndU. Juno 2fl, 1878.
For the Growth and Preservation of tbetolr-
A cooling traii*parcnt liquid, entirely vegetable,
without eedlmeat*
rtmpt.E TONIO AND DRESSING
OF INESTIMABLE VALUE TO BOTH SEXES.
TUE FAVOURITB WITH THE YOUNG AND
ALL THOSE WHO HAVE NO GREY HAIR. PRE¬
MATURE LOSS OF THE HAIR, BO COMMON
IN THESE DAYS, MAY BE ENTIRELY PRE¬
VENTED BY THE USE OF ZYLO-UALSAMUM.
PROMPT RELIEF IN THOUSANDS OF CASES
HAS BEEN AFFORDED WHERE THE HAIR
HAS BEEN COMING OUT IN HANDFULS. IT
PROMOTES A HEALTHY AND VIGOROUS
GROW TH HAIR DRESSED WITH ZYLO-UAL.
BAMLM IS ALWAYS CLEAN. FREE FROM
DANDRUFF, AND WITH THAT BEAUTIFUL
GLOSS ONLY SEEN IN HEALTHY HAIR. IT
IS DELIGHTFULLY FRAGRANT. NO OIL OB
POMADE SHOULD BR USED WITH IT.
Ostmox 11—The Genuine only In bluish Grey Wrapper*.
NATURAL WAY OF RESTORING
/X AND PRESERVING HEALTH.
■ jr yvQ-a FRUIT SALT (prepared from «>uiid ripe fruit).
Without «uch a simple precaution the Jeopardy of life U im¬
mensely lncreaiod._____
R e f re sITi n g, cooling',
,FRCrTSU;T T ^m:,reVe?re VA .nd n
Edible 1 ‘is’* gjvin™*spe^^^riJe^ ,, |n*“te^T^ , f* I, ^ l “^ t ’ , '^?L
OTani^f* ^brte^re
effi.it* to relieve sulT.-rmg humsnity. Long may you Uve to be a
blearing to the world I „ IU mt ph D v]w of „
St. Thomas’* Vicarage. Annfleld Plain, Llntx-groen,
Cq. Durhmn, March, 1878.
mr of Collerlj.
CAVORY and MOORE, 143, New Bond-
O street prepare
IJIRE
BEST FOOD for INFANTS.
/CAUTION —Rgnmin n each Bottle and Bee
V> the Capsule l* marked "ENO’S FRUIT SALT.” with¬
out It you have been imposed on by a worthlraslinlteUon. SOLD
BY ALL CHEMISTS. Price 2s. 9d.and 4*. *1.
Fruit Salt Worka* Matcham, 8.E.
BEST FOOD for INFANTS.
Superior to Condensed Milk and Swi» Food*.
More closely resemble* Healthy Mothsr s Milk
than any other kind of Food._
gWAN and EDGAR
A RE NOW SHOWING a large STOCK
XX of SEASIDE and TRAVELLING GARMENTS, Ulster*,
Waterproofs, and Dust Cloak*.—Piccadilly and Bcgcnt-rtrcet.
T) OYAL DEVONSHIRE SERGES,
I\. woven from pure Wool, for LADIE6' DRESSES,
in Navy or Dark Indigo Blue, Black. Dark Browns, Prune,
and other solid colours,
price Is. lid., 2s. <id.,2». lid. per yard.
For CHILDREN a lower quality is inode, very strong,
at 1*. <l)d. per yard.
For BOYS' HARD WEAR it is extra milled, price,
M In. wide. 3a. Cd. per yard.
Book* of Pattern* sent post-free by
SPEARMAN and SPEARMAN,
Devonshire Serge Factors. Plymouth.
The ROYAL DEVONSHIRE SERGE is too only true Yachting
Serge.
OAVORY and MOORE,
D 143, NEW BOND-STREET. LONDON ; and
Bold by Chem hts. Ac., everywhere. _
CORPULENCE—YATE HOLLAND’S
V_' EMACERATING POWDERS (or Pill*) speedily and eafely
absorb superfluous fat and reduce corpulency, however Ion*
standing.' Price2s.9d.. 4*. 6d., and 11s. per Box.—MARTIN and
CoZa. Paradise-road. London. 8.W.; or through any Chemist.
rr AMAR INDIEN.—Owing to the marked
X success of this frult-lorenge—so ag reeable to take and unl-
verxally prescribed by toe Faculty for Constipation, Ac.-Base
Imitations are being foistrel on the pubUc. The genuine pre¬
parations hear the title "Tamar Indien. Price 2».6d. per Box.
E.OB1LLON. Wool Exchange. E.C.: and all Chemists.
D r DE JONGH’8
(KNIGHT OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR.
KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM)
J^IGHT - BROWN COD - LIVER OIL.
THE PUREST.
THE MOST PALATABLE.
THE MOST DIGESTIBLE.
THE MOST EFFICACIOUS.
QOLDEN STAR
AY -LEAF WATER.
Triple distilled from the fresh leave* of the
Bay Tree (Myrcla Acris).
For the TOILET, NURSERY, and BATH.
A few drop* on e sponge or towel moistened with water, and
the face and hands bathed with It, Is very bencllclal to toe skin,
removing all roughneas. Most highly recommended to spply
after shaving. A small quantity in toe hath gives a delightful
aroma, and it ha* most remarkable cleansing properties. Par¬
ticularly adapted to too bathing of infante and young children.
Most grateful to Invalid* and all who suffer from headache
from mental laboar or fatigue Buy only the genuine Golden
Star Day-Leaf Water, told In threa fixes Toilet Dottlcf, 2m. cd.,
S* e*., by Chemists and Perfumers, or on receipt of stump*
from too Wholesale l*p6t. Hi and US, Southampton-row,
London.
VALUABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR.
V If vour hair la turning grey, or whlta* or falling off, on
*’ The Mexican Hair H-newer. tor it will positively rratoretn
every care Grey or W hite Hair to IU original colour, witooet
fre"ng toe duigreeable smell of most " fiestorera." :it make*
the h*Tr charmingly beautiful, a* well as promottngto(
of toe hair on bald spot* where the glands ore not derayrf. Ask
any Chemist for the '• Mexican HalrReneww. priceja. M.
Prepared by HENRY O. GALLUP. 493, Oxfor d-street. London .
F I JRILINE. For the Teeth and Breath.
soda, and extracts of sweet herbs andplauto It is psrteewi
harmless, and delicious a* eherrv. Prepared, by HENRY G.
GALLCI 1 .423, Oxford-street, London. Retailed everywhere.
D R.
DE JONGH’S
re. wa«v«auot Injure it.
Any length is Cut by the Factor*,__ ^
who errange to pay toe carriage of all Parcels abovaTwoPounds
In value to ana as far as London.
FOB ALL SEASONS AND ALL CLIMATES.
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE
gNGLISH AND J^OREIGN QOURTS.
EGERTON BURNETT'S
WELLINGTON SERGES,
AND VARIOUS OTHER APPROVED WOOLLEN FABRICS.
EGERTON BURN HIT has repeatedly had the honour of
supplying "there admirable Serge*" t« the ROYAL FAMILY,
an l executes Orders dally FROM ALL PARTS.
Neither rain nor salt water can affi-ct their permanent dye.
Price* from Is. 2)d. to the Mnest at Is. ikl. per yam. PATTERN-
B'JOKSrent frt*e by post and carriage pula to Bristol or I-omh'U
on parcels over £2. GOODS PACKED FOR EXPORTATION.
A Sixaial Strong Make for BOYS’ and GENTLEMEN'S
SUITS. M Inches, from 3s. «d. per ya.rf.
J^GERTON ^URNETT,
SERGE WAREIIOUSE9,
"FOB THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE.”
riLARKE’S WORLD-FAMED BLOOD
Vy MIXTURE Is warranted to cleanse the Blood from all
Imparities, from whatever cause arising. For Scrofula, Scurry.
8km and Blood Disease* it* effects ore marvellous. In Bottles,
2*. lid. each, and in Case* containing six times the quantity, lit,
each, of all Chemist*. Sent to any oddrre* tor 30 or 132Stamps,of
toe P roprietor. F. J. CLARKE, Chemist, Lincoln. _
TTOLLOWAY’S FILLS and OINTMENT.
XX The Pills purify toe blood, oorrect all disorder* of the
liver, stomach, kidneys, and bowels. The Ointment Is unrivalled
In the cure of bad legs, old wound!, gout, and rheumatlasn.
TklNNEFORD’S MAGNESIA.
I / The best remedy for acidl
the Stomach, Heartburn. ]
ache. Gout, and Indigestion.
TkINNEFORD’8 MAGNESIA.
The safest and most gentle
Aperient for delicate constitution*,
Ladies. Children, and Infant*.
OF ALL CHEMISTS.
1>0UND SUOULDEHS and STOOPING
J V HABITS Cared by Dr. CHANDLER'S CHEST-EXPAND¬
ING BRACK tor tx-th rexe*. It assist* growth, and prodm-rs a
biu-lM'ine ligure. los.od.each.—«i. ik-rners-st. IUustratlonsrent.
ELECTRICITY IS LIKE.
TJULVERM A CHER’S “GALVANISM,
X NATURE'S CHIEF RESTORER OF EXHAUSTED
VITA), ENERGY."
If, thi* Pamphlet the most reliable proofs are given of the
vast and wonderful curative power* of Pulvenuin-hcr's
Patent Galvanic Cluiin-lljuid*. Belt*. Ac,, in Rheumatic.
Nervous, and Kum-th-iial Disorder*. Sent poct-lree lor
APERIENT FRUIT LOZENGES,
A prepared from the Bark of the Kliamnus Frangul*
A medicine which ha* been described on high authority n*
•• TTic only real aperient we have;" all other* usually ela-red
tinder that name bring drastic In their operation and often
injurious In their after effort. There Lozenges are extremely
palatable, and children take them readily a* ns weetmeat. " Mild
and uniform in their operation."—Lancet. Tho layzenge - i* an
excellent and exceedingly mild form of laxative, especially suit¬
able for children and delleite yie-mlo."-Birmingham Medical
Review. Prepared only by II. C. BAILDON and BON, Pharma¬
ceutical Chemists. 73. Prlncev-ftreet. Edinburgh. Sold in Hoxe*,
at 2». and 3* Hd.. I>y nil Chemists.
London Agentn-W. Edw »rdsand8on.l57, Queen Victoria-street.
three HtamiM. on applicatiau to
J. L. PUI.VEUM ACHE IPS GALVANIC ESTABLISHMENT,
let. REGENT-STKKEr. LONDON, W.; AND 39. RUE ST.
M ARC. PARIS. __
I 'O PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH
. RUJTUBE.—PRATT’S WATER-PAD TRUSSES are the
most effectual Cure.—Apply to J. F. Pratt, Surgical Mechanician
to BE Bartholomew's Hospital, 420, Oxford-street, London.
TX OOPING-COUGH— ROCHE’S HERBAL
XX EMBROCATION.—The celebrated Effectual Cure with¬
out Internal mediclue. Sole Wholesale Agent*. EDWARDS and
BON. 157, Queen Victoria-street (late of 38, Old Change),
London. So.d retail by moat Chemist*. Price 4*. per Bottle.
T IGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL,
Xri proved by twenty-five years' medical experience to be
THE ONLY COD-LIVER OIL
which produces the full curative effect* in
CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST,
THROAT AFFECTIONS. GENERAL DEBILITY.
WASTING DISEASES OF CHILDREN, RICKETS,
AND ALL SCROFULOUS DISORDERS.
SELECT MEDICAL OPINIONS.
SIR G. DUNCAN GIBB, Bart., M.D.,
Physician to the Westminster Hospital.
“ rphe value of Dr. DE JONGH’S
X LIGHT-BROWN COD-LIVICR OIL as a thera¬
peutic agent in a number of direare*. chiefly of an
exhaustive character, ha* been admitted by tlie
world of medicine; hut. iu addition. 1 have fonnd
it a remedy of great power in tho treatment oi
nianv Affections of Ihe Throat and Larynx,
csia-cially in C«m»umption of tlio latter, where It
will sustain life when everything else fails.
DR. SINCLAIR COG HILL,
Physician Royal National Hospital tor Connumptlon, Ventaor.
“ j have convinced myself that in Tuber-
X rnbir and the ' a: >- *1 fOI RM Of Mrntii- 1
Dr. DEJONGIl'S LIGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER
OIL pmressra greater therapeutic efficacy than any
other COd-Liver Oil with which 1 am acquainted.
It woe e-peelnlly noted in a lurge numla-r of com;*
It, which the patients protested they had never
been able to retain or digest other Ood-Uver Oil,
that Dr. DE JONG IPS OIL wo not only tolerated,
but taken readily, and with marked benefit."
LENNOX BROWNE, Esq., F.R.C.S.E.,
Senior Burgeon Central Loudon Tlireat and Ear Hospital.
“ H'he action of Dr. dc Jongli’s Light-Brown
I c-.l-UvexOn has proved. In mj own -
particularly Valuable not only in those diw-nse*
for which ft was originally employed, but also in
many case* of weakness of the hinging and h|*-uk-
Ing Voice, dependent on Bronchial or Laryn¬
geal Irritation, and in all form* of Strumous
Enlargement of Glands, and Discharges from the
Ear."
DR. PROSSER JAMES.
Lecturer on Materia Mcdica, London Hospital.
“TXR- DE JONGU’S LIGHT-BROWN
COD-LIVER GIL contains tho whole of tho
active ingredient* of the remedy, and Is easily
digested, Hence its value, not only in Diseases of
the Throat and Lung*, hut iu a great number of
case* to which the Profession Is extending it*
DR. DE JONQITB UGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL
is sold OHLY in capsuled Imi hilial Half-Pint*, 2*. fid.; Pinto,
4*. 2d.; Quarts, 9s.; by aU respectable Chemist* and DruggLt*
throughout the worhL
JOHN G0SNELL and CO.’S VIOLET
U and MILLEFLEUR POWDER, for th*TeO<fad,N «ygi
Ureldenboch t MACAbSAKINK. mvsrumn.
Growth of toe Hair, ls..2».6d..5s.perBotUe.
* , and the Makers, 157», New Bond-street, w.
t?AU DE CHYPRE.—PIESSE and LUBIN.
Li ThU is en ancient perfume from ClTra*. During the
^me.i tb tho ti Ut’]e°of l King" 1 3 mMM&STof^hl*
Chypre was introduced into Europe, too compoaltlon ot wnmu
is yet preserved in U.e archives of the to
Lubin. Those who are curious in ancient perfume* can lie
gratified et 2, N ew Bond-street, London. ___.
T»HE SKIN.—To give to it that Smoothness,
X Sweetness, end Lurtrou. Eleganro lndlraUve of rcrt^
j2 HfSS ^S?^'or“I
DOWLANDS’ KALYD0R cools and
it refreshes tho face and hands of all
dust; .radicates ten, sunburn, Ac., and produce# #
beautiful complexion. 4s. 6d. per bottle.
ROWLANDS’ 0D0NT0 whitens the
It teeto and prevents decay. hJt^atocri
OIL prevent* tiro hair lolling o« dmlng hot weather.
Ask any Chemiat for Rowlands Artlclo*.
THOMPSON AND CAPPKR'B
TVENTIFRICE WATER arrests decay in the
\J Teeth and sweetens the Bold-rtre^.
and nt 39, Dean.gnte. Manchrater.-Bold In 1*. Sd-. 2*. 6a.. *■ «»*•.
and gs. 6<i. Bottles, by oil Chemists.
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TEE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.
LONDON: SATURDAY , AUGUST 24, 1878.
It is an agreeable change to pass from the operations ami
triumphs of Diplomacy and War to those of Science. The
meeting of the British Association at Dublin bas diverted
public attention from the former to the latter topics of identified
thought. We are thankful for this diversion. It is matter | moreover,
for congratulation that we can once again enter upon a
sphere of discusssion every part of which presents
questions fraught with the elevation rather than the
destruction of human kind. This has been the third
meeting of the Association at Dublin, and a most
successful one it appears to have been. Ireland wel¬
comed her guests with that fervour of hospitality
for which she is pre-eminently distinguished. So far
as thoughtful consideration could go towards making
the arrangements for the visit conducive to genial
enjoyment as well as instruction, nothing could
have been better—for in these annual efflorescences of the
British Association the social element has perhaps as large
a share as the scientific. Excursions to objects of
attraction in the neighbourhood, conversaziones, banquets,
complimentary interchanges of esteem between different
public bodies, and sundry flattering recognitions by those
who occupy high posts of authority, tend to throw a halo
of grace over proceedings which but for them would
possess comparatively little attraction for the general
public. The weather in the Sister Isle has not so largely
contributed to the success of the occasion as it might have
done; but, with this drawback, the Scientific Session of
1878 in Dublin will advantageously compare with any
that have preceded it.
A prominently distinctive feature of these meetings of
the Association is the Inaugural Address of the new Pre¬
sident. Mr. William Spottiswoode was in the chair this
year, and discharged the duties of that high and honour¬
able office. His Address, much as it differed from many of
those which had preceded it, was characterised by most of
the qualities which have made them memorable. Mr.
Spottiswoode represents the Department of Mathematics,
and it is extremely interesting to observe the felicity with
The following are the readings of the meteorologic al instruments for the
above days, in order, at^ ten o’clock '
and knowledge appears to have been sustained quite up to-
tbe normal level, if not to have surpassed it. Of course,
it would be impracticable to give our readers anything
like a descriptive account of the Papers read in each de¬
partment. The mere titles of them would fill the whole
space at our disposal. Even the daily papers arp neces¬
sarily restricted to a very meagre outline of the readings,
offered to the members of the Association. £ We may
observe, however, that the topics touched upon, although
not usually new in kind or character, are many of them,
fresh in detail. The most amusing, and by no means the-
least instructive, of these communications was that of Sir
John Lubbock on the varieties, life, and habits of Ants;
nor can the Address of Professor Huxley on Anthropology-
fail of securing attention or of exciting studious reflection.
Mr. Easton's Address, dealing with the question of River-
Conservancy, opened up a question of vast practical im¬
portance, and served to impress upon one a conviction,
that the country reaps, or at any rate will reap in due¬
time, a rich harvest from the speculations, theories, solid
data, and inferences communicated from year to year to-
the Treasury of the British Association.
Two or three thoughts have been borne in upon our
minds by such records of the Society’s Transactions as.
have fallen within our reach. It may be noted, we think,
that there is a general tendency among the members of'
the Association to over-much haste in their conclusions.
It is quite natural that it should be so. We do not know
that it is to be deplored, but surely it should be vigi¬
lantly guarded against. There is a great difference
between plausible speculation and science. The first is
useful enough in its place ; but is there not some
danger in our day lest it should be mistaken for and.
“ with the last? Wo have been struck,
with the “ light heart ” with which our-
philosophers project schemes which, how beneficial,
soever they might prove to the population of these
isles when carried into effect, would demand in the
process large pecuniar}' sacrifices. Taxation is even now¬
becoming extremely onerous to large classes of the people.
What it might become if even only the rational enter¬
prises broached at the British Association wore to be
carried out it is somewhat alarming to imagine. And yet,
after all, it is impossible to deny that much of our
annually accruing wealth as a nation might bo invested
far more usefully in such improvements than it has been,
hitherto. Much of what now is spent upon self-indulgence
or is wasted upon warlike tastes would be more wisely-
contributed, under the direction of science, to such an
amelioration of the lot of our general population as could
in no -wise generate or encourage a spirit of pauperism..
We need only point to one instance in illustration of thu
remark. Take the Conservancy of Rivers; in other words,
the regulated supply of pure water to all the inhabitants
of the realm. The efficient control of the streams which
nature has given us, the prevention of floods, the utilisa¬
tion of mechanical and fertilising forces in water, the
culture of fish and their distribution—who can say what
boons might not be bestowed upon the entire population,
by undertakings of this order, costly though they unques¬
tionably would be ? But we must desist. The time will
come, we hope, when public efforts for the good of all will
absorb a much larger proportion of the growing wealth of
the nation than has hitherto been the case, and when
such an employment of the surplus capital of the nation
■will be appreciated at its proper value by even the least
enlightened of the people.
o-ooo | which he put into an intelligible shape the relation of pure
mathematics to all the other branches of science. Every
Barometer (in inches) corrected
Temperature of Air
Temperature of Evaporation ..
Direction of Wind
| 60-7° I
.59130-010
wsr 3 6S-i°
r* i r:
TIMES OF HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE
FOB THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST SI.
Sunday. I
h m I b m
Monday. | Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. ‘Saturday.
— 10 2710 sail IB 11
> 20 I 2 42 3 2 I 3 2
h m h m I h m
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XJ "CH1UST LEAVING THE ntjETORIUM,” Mid "CHRIST ENTERING
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subject, be contended, whether in its usual acceptation,
scientific or otherwise, may have a mathematical aspect;
soon, in fact, as it becomes a matter of strict
measurement or of numerical statement, so soon does
it enter on a mathematical phase. The diversified illus¬
trations of this general statement occupy the principal
portion of the Presidential Address, and it is no slight
feat to have accomplished, that a theme so remote from
ordinary study and from common processes of thought
was made to convey to a mixed audience a lengthened
train of ideas not only intelligible but capable of arresting
and enchaining pleased attention. This special topic was
introduced by a lucid account of the purposes and func¬
tions of the British Association, in which Mr. Spottiswoode
has occupied an official position for several years. They
who desire to ascertain what the Society is, what it aims
at, what it is doing, what kind of organisation it has de¬
veloped, and what arc its methods of work, will do well to
read with care the first portion of the President’s Address.
We have seen no such full and, at the same time, luminous
description of the nature and functions of the Association.
As he himself remarks, “We are general in our compre¬
hensiveness ; we are special in our sectional arrangement;
and, in this respect, we offer not only a counterpart, but,
to some extent, a counterpoise, to a general tendency to
subdivision in science. Further, while maintaining in their
integrity all the elements of a strictly scientific body, we
also include in our character of a microcosm an under or
more social aspect, a certain freedom of treatment, and
interaction of our various branches, which is scarcely
possible among separate and independent societies.”
The interest of the various sections of scientific research
THE COURT.
The Queen received the Admirals and Captains assembled at
Spithead at Osborne previous to the dispersion of the Fleet-
Admiral Fanshawe, C.B., Conunander-in-Chief at Portsmouth,
presented Admiral Sir A. Cooper Key, K.C.B., to her Majesty;
after which Sir A. Cooper Key presented Rear-Admiral lloys
and the Captains of seventeen of her Majesty’s ships to the
Queen. The officers were afterwards entertained at luncheon.
Her Majesty’s dinner party on Thursday week included
Princess Beatrice, the Duke of Connaught, Prince Leopold,
Lady Abercromby, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, the Dean ox
Christchurch and Mrs. Liddell, Admiral Sir A. Cooper Key,
and Major-General Gardiner.
The Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess of Hesse, with,
the Hereditary Grand Duke and Princesses Alice and Mane
of Hesse, arrived at Osborne yesterday week. The Duke ot
Connaught met their Royal Highnesses at Portsmouth on
board her Majesty’s yacht Alberta, Captain Thomson, and.
accompanied them to Osborne. Major-General Gardiner
received their Royal Highnesses on landing at Trinity Fier,
East Cowes, and the Queen, with the Royal family and the
ladies and gentlemen in waiting, received the Grand Duka
and Grand Duchess in the entrance-hall. General the Kignc
Hon. Sir Thomas and the Hon. Lady Biddulph dined with
h01 ThDuke of Connaught left Osborne on Saturday last, on
board her Majesty’s yacht Victoria and Albert, for Heligoland
and Hamburg, en route for Potsdam. , .
The Queen and the members of the Royal family attended
Divine service on Sunday, performed at Osborne by the Rev.
Canon Prothero. The King and Queen of Denmark, wito
Princess Tliyra, accompanied by the Prince and Princess or
Wales, visited her Majesty and remained to luncheon. Lheir
Majesties were attended by Mdlle. D’Oxholm, Captain
Hedemann, and Captain Hoskjar, who had the honour or
being presented to the Queen. . TT
The Queen, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of liesse.
Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold, und the Hereditary Grau
Duke of Hesse witnessed a series of torpedo experiments m
Osborne Bay on Monday. Admiral Fanshawe, C.B., Lorn-
mander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, and Admiral Sir A. Doop
Key, K.C.B., lately in command of the fleet assembled at Spit-
head, were in attendance on her Majesty, and Coinman* ^
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Arthur Wilson, of her Majesty’s ship Vernon, torpedo school-
ship at Portsmouth, was present to explain and conduct the
various operations connected with the experiments. The
Queen, with the Grand Duchess of Hesse and Princess Beatrice,
drove to West Cowes and visited the King and Queen of Den¬
mark. The Earl of Beaconsfleld, K.G., accompanied by Mr.
Montagu Corry, C.B., arrived at Osborne. The Premier had
an audience of her Majesty. Princesses Victoria Ella and
Irene of Hesse took leave of the Queen. The Marchioness
Dowagtr of Ely arrived at, and the Hon. Horatia Stopford
left, Osborne. Her Majesty’s dinner party included the Grand
Duke and Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess Beatrice, Prince
Leopold, Lady Abercromby, the Marchioness Dowager of Ely,
the Earl of Beaconsfleld, and Mr. Montagu Corry.
The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Hesse, with the
Hereditary Grand Duke and Princesses Alice and Marie of
Hesse, took leave of the Queen on Tuesday, and left in her
Majesty’s yacht Alberta, Staff Commander Balhston, for
Portsmouth, on their return to Eastbourne. Princess Beatrice
and Prince Leopold accompanied the Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess in the Alberta to Portsmouth. Her Majesty’s dinner
party included Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold, Lady Aber¬
cromby, the Marchioness Dowager of Ely, the Hon. Caroline
Cavendish, the Earl of Beaconsfleld, Sir Howard Elphinstone,
Mr. Montagu Corry, C.B., and Lieutenant-General Pousonby.
The Earl of Beaconsfleld and Mr. Montagu Corry left
Osborne on Wednesday. Sir Howard Elpliinstonc also left for
Potsdam to join the Duke of Connaught.
The Queen and the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Hesse, with Princess Beatrice and Prince Leopold and the
other members of the Koyal family, have driven to ltyde and
Cowes and to Carisbrooke Castle, and other parts of the island.
Lady Abercromby has succeeded the Marchioness Dowager
of Ely as Lady in Wuiting to the Queen.
ARRIVAL OF THE KING AND QUEEN OF DENMARK.
The King and Queen of Denmark and Princess Thyra arrived
at Dover yesterday week from Copenhagen, having crossed
from Calais in the special steamer, Maid of Kent, Captain
Dane. Their Majesties were met upon landing by the Prince
of Wales and by the Danish Minister and Sir Charles Wyke,
British Minister at Copenhagen, and the principal naval and
military officials of the district, and a guard of honour of the
58th Regiment, with the band, was drawn up on the pier. The
Royal travellers lunched at the Lord Warden Hotel, and after¬
wards travelled by a special train, which was under the charge
of Mr. John Shaw, general manager of the company,to London.
Mr. Shaw was presented to the King by the Prince. Baroness
de Biilow met the King and Queen at Charing-cross, whence
the Royal travellers drove to Marlborough House. The
King and Queen and their daughter, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales, left Marlborough House the next morning for
Cowes. At Portsmouth they were met by the Princess of
Wales and her children on board the Royal yacht Osborne, in
which they crossed to Cowes, their arrival being signalised
with due honours at Spitliead by the fleet and in Cowes Roads
by the guard-ship Boadicea. The Royal party entered the
Osborne’s steam-pinnace and proceeded to l’rinces-green,
where they landed for the purpose of going to Lisburn
House, which had been taken for the use of their Majesties
during their stay in England. On Sunday the King and
Queen and Princess Thyra attended Divine service on board
the Prince of Wales’s yacht Osborne, the Danish Royal
standard being hoisted with the union jack during their stay
on board. Subsequently their Majesties, with the Prince and
Princess of Wales and their children, steamed in the pinnace
to East Cowes, where they landed and drove to Osborne, to
visit her Majesty.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
The Prince of Wales gave an entertainment on board the
Royal yacht Osborne in Cowes Roads on Monday evening, at
winch the Royal Handbell Ringers performed. The company
included the King and Queen of Denmark and the Princess
Thyra, with their suite, Mdlle. d’Oxholm, Captain Hedcmann,
and Captain Hoskjar ; the Prince and Princess of Wales and
suite, Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales, the
Princess Victoria of Hesse, Lord and Lady Charles Beresford,
Lord and Lady Mandeville, with guests from yachts in the
roads. By desire of the Prince, the whole of the crew of the
Osborne, numbering 120, were present. The Princess, with her
children, has paid frequent visits to the King and Queen of
Denmark at Lisburn House.
The Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess of Hesse have
returned to Eastbourne from visiting the Queen at Osborne.
Prince and Princess Christian and the Duke of Connaught
visited their Royal Highnesses at Eastbourne last week. On
Tuesday the Grand Duchess opened the bazaar at the Pavilion
in Devonshire Park, in aid of All Saints’ Church.
The Duke of Connaught arrived at Heligoland on Monday
from England on board the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert.
The whole ieland was en fete. A Royal salute was fired from
the guns of the batter}', and the school children were drawn
up in line, bearing bouquets of flowers. The Prince proceeded
to the residence of the Governor, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir
Henry Fitz-Berkeley Maxse, and there received an address
presented him by a deputation from the inhabitants, to which
he replied. After visiting the chief objects of interest, the
Duke entertained the Governor and the principal inhabitants
at dinner on board his yacht; after which he went to the
theatre. The island was illuminated. His Royal Highness
resumed his voyage at two o’clock on Tuesday morning for
Hamburg, and arrived at Potsdam on Wednesday.
The Duke of Cambridge has arrived at Kissiugen.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk have arrived at Loudoun
Castle, Ayrshire, to visit Mr. Abney Hastings.
The Duke and Duchess of Abcrcom and Lady Georgiana
Hamilton have returned from Eastbourne.
The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland have arrived from
Vichy.
The Duke und Duchess of Richmond and Gordon and the
Ladies Gordon Lennox have arrived at Gordon Castle.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have left town
for Kielder Castle, Northumberland.
The Duke of Leeds has arrived at Gogmagog Hills, Cam¬
bridge.
The Duchess (Dowager) of St. Albans has left Bestwood
Lodge for the North.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter have arrived at
Oban in the Marquis’s yacht.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailcsbury have left St.
George’s-place for Jervaulx Abbey, Bedale, Yorkshire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort and Lady
Adelaide Taylour have left the Viceregal Lodge, Dublin, for
The Lodge, Virginia, in the county of Cavan, from visiting the
Lord Lieutenant and the Duchess of Marlborough.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ormonde and Lord
Arthur Grosvenor have arrived at Kilkenny Castle from stay¬
ing with the Duke and Duchess of Westminster at Eaton Hall,
Cheshire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Bute have arrived at
Harrogate.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock have left
Chesham-place to join the Duke and Duchess of Bedford at
Endsleigh, Tavistock.
The Marquis of Salisbury has left Arlington-street to join
the Marchioness at the Chalet Cecil, near Dieppe.
The Marchioness of Londonderry has left town for Paris.
The Marquis is staying at Cowes on board his yacht.
Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has left town on a visit to
the Countess of Chesterfield at Bretby Hall, Burton-on-Trent.
The Marchioness (Dowager) of Lansdowne and Lady Emily
Fitzmaurice have left Loudon for Meikleour House, Perth.
The Queen has granted to Augustus Edward Hobart, Earl
of Buckinghamshire, her Royal license and authority that he
and his issue may henceforth take and use the surname of
Hampden in addition to and after that of Hobart.
FASHIONABLE MARRIAGES.
The marriage of Miss Alice Van de Weyer, daughter of
Madame Van de Weyer and the late M. Sylvain Van de Weyer,
with Mr. Charles Brand, Coldstream Guards, eon of the Right
Hon. Henry Brand, Speaker of the House of Commons, and
Mrs. Brand, took place on Thursday week at Bragwood church.
Owing to the indisposition of Madame Van de Weyer, only
the immediate relatives of the bride and bridegroom were
present at the ceremony. The bride’s presents were very
numerous, and included a Cashmere shawl from the Queen
and gifts from members of the Royal family. The bride and
bridegroom left New Lodge for Kingstone Lisle, Wantage.
The marriage between Mr. Herbert Bonsor, youngest son
of the late Mr. Joseph Bonsor, of Belgrave-square, and Miss
Moon, eldest daughter of the Rev. Sir E. Graham Moon, Bart.,
will take place on Sept. 4 ; and the marriage between Major
Dugdale, of the Rifle Brigade, and Miss Edith Montgomery,
second daughter of Mr. and Lady Charlotte Montgomery, is
appointed to take place at St. George’s Church, Hanover-
square, on Sept. 5.
Marriages ure arranged between Captain Strachan Bridges,
R.A., and Lady Grace Stopford, fourth daughter of the Earl
of Courtown; between Captain Henry M. Hozier and the
Lady Blanche Ogilvy, eldest daughter of the Earl and
Countess of Airlie; and between Colonel Oliphant, of the
Guards, and the Hon. Mary Gerard, eldest daughter of Lord
and Ludy Gerard.
THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Bathurst, W. A., to be Incumbent of Holy Trinity, Eastbourne.
Bentley, Seymour; Vicar of Bothamsall, Notts.
Burleiph, W.; Incumbent of St. Matthew’s, Littleport.
Cheadle John H., Minor Canon of Bristol; Minor Canon of 'Westminster.
Garford, John; Rector of Holy Trinity, Rusholme.
Gilbert, William; Vicar of Hogstborpe. Lincolnshire.
Johnson, Edwin; General Preacher in the diocese of Lincoln.
Knipe, T. W.; Vicar of St. Peter’s, Dorchester.
Knox, Lindsey Neville; Vicar of Swinstead, Lincolnshire.
Meekin, R. W.; Vicar of Langley.
Perry, G.; Chaplain to St. Saviour’s Hospital, Upper Holloway.
Sheppard, Edgur; Minor Canon of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor.
Wordsworth, J.; Vicar of Ennerdale Bridge; Rector of Gosforth.— Guardian.
A new throne for the Bishop has been erected in the choir
of Salisbury Cathedral.
On the 15th inst. the Bishop of St. Albans consecrated the
new Church of St. Paul, Clacton-cn-Sea, a new watering-
place on the Essex coast.
Mr. Thwaites, M.P., lord of the manor of Mellor, intends
to present a public clock and a peal of bells to Mellor church.
The bells will be rung by aid of the machinery attached to the
clockwork.
Yesterday week the Bishop of Exeter reopened the church
of St. Bridget, Bridgerule, a parish situated on both sides of
the river Tamar. A feature in the case is that all the work
has been effected by mechanics living in the parish.
A handsome marble tablet, surmounted by a large-size
medallion profile of the late Miss Mary Carpenter, has been
fixed in the transept of Bristol Cathedral. The memorial
bears an inscription recording Miss Carpenter’s philanthropic
labours in England and India.
On the afternoon of Sunday last a demonstration, originating
exclusively with the working classes in the parish of Illing¬
worth, Yorkshire, was made on behalf of the Halifax Infirmary,
and they went in large numbers to their church. The Rev.
William Gillmor, Vicar, preached. Notwithstanding the de¬
pression of trade in the parish, the collection amounted to £25.
At a meeting of the committee of the Additional Home
Bishoprics Endowment Fund, (held on Wednesday, under
the presidency of Mr. Bereeford-Hope, M.P., it was announced
that local committees are being formed in each of the dis¬
tricts dealt with by the Bishoprics Act, and that about £140,000,
in addition to contributions from existing sees, has been already
promised towards the endowment of the new bishoprics.
A valuable old clock, said to have been presented to Coin-
brook, Bucks, by the first Duke of Marlborough, the hero of
Blenheim, having undergone reconstruction and improvement
by and from the designs of Mr. John J. Hall, was inaugurated
on Friday, the 16th inst., at 9 special choral evening service at
the parish church, the Rev. R. C. F. Griffith, M.A., Vicar,
officiating. After an address by the Vicar, the clock was
started by Miss Meadows, daughter of the churchwarden.
The work of renovating the Church of St. Mary-lc-Bow>
Cheapside, is being actively carried out. The repairs,
exclusive of those to the organ and stained-glass windows, will
cost £5000. The committee have in hand £3000, of which
sum £2000 were paid by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the
money being the proceeds of the sale of the site of All Hallows
Church, Bread-street, the remainder being defrayed by a con¬
tribution from the Church of St. John the Evangelist.
Holy Trinity Church, Lano End, Bucks, was consecrated
on the 1st inst. by the Bishop of Oxford. It has been built at
the cost of £3000, raised by voluntary subscription and a
grant from the Oxford Diocesan Society. It is in the Early
Decorated Style, from the plans of Mr. J. Oldrid Scott, and it
consists of nave, chancel, aisle, and small tower containing a
peal of six bells (the gift of Mr. H. W. Cripps, Q.C.). The
interior, through the gifts of many friends, is suitably fur¬
nished, and in the chancel are neat oak stalls for the choir.
A mural monument, richly carved in statuary marble (the
work of Mr. Forsyth, of Baker-street), has been placed in
Exeter Cathedral in memory of the late Sirs. Boyd. The
Bishop of Exeter and Miss Temple, in conjunction with other
friends of the deceased lady, have been instrumental in its
erection, as an expression of their regard for a cherished
friend —Mr. Forsyth has also completed a monument to the
late Lord Lyttelton, to be erected in Worcester Cathedral. The
architectural portion of the memorial was designed by the lati
Sir Gilbert Scott. The cost of the whole work, amounting t j
£1500, will be defrayed by public subscription.
One of the peal of twelve bells which Messrs. Taylor, of
Loughborough, are casting for St. Paul’s has reached tho
cathedral. When complete the peal will weigh eleven tons.
The largest of the beRs, which will weigh 3 tons 3 cwt, has
been given by the Corporation ; the next, weighing 45 cwt, by
the Grocers’ Company; No. 10, weighing 33 cwt, by the
Clothworkers’; No. 9, by the Fishmongers’; No. 8, by the
Taylors’ ; No. 7, by the Salters’: the four next, by the
Turners’ Company and Lady Bnrdett-Coutts; and the two
smallest bells by the Drapers' Compauy. With a view to tho
reception of the bells, Sir Christopher Wren left a large open¬
ing in the centre of the stone-concave roof at the base of the
tower. The peal will be hung in the northern tower, and not
in that which contains the clock.
LONDON AND SUBURBAN CHURCHES.
The following particulars respecting the churches of London
and its suburbs (within a radius of twelve miles) are compiled
from the thirteenth annual edition of Mackeson’s “ Guide to
the Churches of London and its Suburbs,” published under
the sanction of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops
of London, Winchester, Rochester, and St. Albans. Tho
“Guide” contains information os to 864 churches, but for
statistical purposes the number is reduced to 854. There is a
weekly celebration of the holy communion in 390, nearly one
half; daily holy communion in forty-two, one church in
every twenty'; early communion in 458, more than one half;
choral celebration in 120, nearly one seventh; evening holy
communion in 216, more than one fourth. There is service on
saints’ days in 415 churches, nearly one half; daily service in
243, more than one fourth ; while in 138 cases, nearly one
sixth, there is no week-day service. The service is fully choral
in 261 churches, nearly one third, and partly choral in
240, or two sevenths, thus giving 501 churches out
of 854 where the psalms are chanted. There is a
surpliced choir in 355, more than two fifths; the choir is
paid or partly paid in 220, more than one fourth, and voluntary
m 386, more than two fifths. Gregorian tones are used wholly
or partly in 115, nearly one seventh. The seats are free and
open in 252, more than one fourth; and there is a weekly
offertory in 405, more than one half. The surplice is worn iu
preaching in 463, more than one half. The eucharistic vest¬
ments are adopted in thirty-five, or one church in every
twenty-four; incense is used in fourteen, and altar-lights are
used in fifty-eight, one ninth ; while in forty-one other
churches there are candles on the altar, but they are not
lighted. The eastward position is adopted by the celebrant at
the holy communion in 179 churches, nearly one fifth; 123,
nearly one seventh, are open daily for private prayer; floral
decorations are introduced at 238, more than one fourth ; the
least of dedication is observed at 149, nearly one sixth ; the
shortened form of daily service sanctioned by the Act of
Uniformity Amendment Act is used at eighty-eight, nearly
one tenth; the Sunday services are separated at forty-nine;
the old lectionary is still used exclusively at twelve churches,
and the old and new optionally at six.
POLITICAL.
The Conservatives of Bath held a picnic at Summer Hill Park
on Monday evening. Mr. Reginald Hardy, nephew of Lord
Cranbrook, was introduced as the new Conservative candidate,
and gave an address, in which he defended the foreign policy
of the Government. Mr. R. N. Fowler, M.P., and Major
Allen, M.P., also spoke, defending the policy of the
Government.
A great Liberal gathering was held on the same day in the
Mechanics’ Hall, Nottingham, under the presidency of Aider-
man Howitt. There were present Mr. Waddy, M.P., Mr.
Earp, M.P., Mr. Joseph Arch, and the leading Liberals of the
town. Mr. Earp said that in towns like Nottingham, where
there were two sections of Liberals, the best wuy to secure
success at the next election was to elect two distinct candi¬
dates, one belonging to each section.
A picnic was held on Tuesday by the Southampton Con¬
servative Association at Branksea Island, Poole Harbour,
where they were welcomed by the owner of the island, the
Right Hon. G. A. C. Cavendish Bentinck, M.P., who, in answer
to a vote of thanks, rapidly reviewed the political situation,
and, in conclusion, said he was a Conservative, but was in
favour of true liberty.
Mr. Cross, Colonel Stanley, and Lord Sandon—the three mem¬
bers of the Cabinet who represent Lancashire constituencies—
were entertained at Liverpool on Wednesday by Mr. Forwood,
the Mayor of the borough. Colonel Stanley, in responding for
the Army, spoke in terms of eulogy of the readiness with which
the country and its dependencies had responded to the appeal
for service if their services should be required, and added that
the military force of the country was in the highest state of
efficiency. Mr. Cross, in acknowledging the toast of “Her
Majesty’s Ministers,” vindicated the policy of the Government
in regard to the Eastern Question, and affirmed that not only
had the honour of the country been maintained, but that there
was every reason to believe that our position and strength
were now appreciated, and that the peace which had been
secured would be permanent. He regretted the expenditure
which the foreign policy of the Government had entailed,
justified the distribution of the payment over a series of years,
and promised, now that peace was concluded, that every
economy compatible -with efficiency should be observed. Lord
Sandon spoke in a similar strain.
Mr- John Pender has been addressing his constituents at
Wick, Kirkwall, and elsewhere during the past week. The
hon. member has not, it seems, been silent in Parliament
because he had nothing to say on the Eastern Question, lie
dilated at great length on the absorbing topic, evinced a
practical knowledge of the vexed subject, and, albeit strongly
opposed to the secrecy observed by the Government iu
negotiating the Anglo-Turkish Convention, philosophically
thought it would be advisable to make the best we could of
the bargain, bo as to make it eventually remunerative.
The first Town Council election at Burslem, one of the
towns of the Staffordshire Potteries which has recently received
a charter of incorporation, has resulted in the return of eleven
Liberals out of eighteen seats. Mr. Woodall, one of the
selected candidates for Stoke, and Mr. Boulton, chairman of
the Liberal Association, headed the poll in their wards.
The number of public Acts passed in the late Session, com¬
mencing on Jan. 17 and ending on Aug. 16, was seventy-nine.
In the previous Session, which began in February and ended
on Aug. 14, the number was sixty-nine.
A recently-issued official document shows the balance
standing to the credit of the Paymaster-General on behalf of
the Court of Chancery is £1,080,006.
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more recent letters, dated the 17th ult., that a special circuit
court has just been held for the purpose of thinning the gaols
of their rebel occupants. Large numbers of Gaikas have been
sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from three to
fifteen years, but it is understood that in all ordinary cases
Government will remit the sentence when peace is fully
restored. Employment will be provided on the railways and
other public works for all natives in need of assistance, and it
is expected that many will avail themselves of this help in
consequence of the scarcity of food. It seems that for mqny
weeks previous to Sandilli’s death the Kaffirs had keenly felt
the pinch of hunger, and disease was rapidly spreading among
them. The great majority of the rebels would, no doubt, have
readily laid down their arms and submitted willingly to
any punishment the Government might have thought
fit to inflict upon them; but they merely followed
their master. This has been the plea of many a Kaffir
recently tried and sentenced for sedition, and there is much
THE LATE KAFFIR WAR.
Some graphic reminiscences of the late frontier war in South
Africa, which remained to us in the Sketches of our Special
Artist since his return to England, have been engraved for
this week’s publication. They represent no scenes of actual
conflict or hostile movements and preparations, but the
appearance and demeanour of Kaffir prisoners who were
brought into King William’s Town. We learn by one of the
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP WALES LAYING THE
DEDICATION STONE OF ST. MARY’S CHURCH, SOUTHAMPTON.
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AUG. 24, 1873
reason in the words. The Gaikas were,
simply “the dogs of their chief,” and they ran hither and
,hUh« at U..beck aad call.,, and
subiect. Sandilli was practically an ini»~,- .
exercised despotic power over his people whenever he *oae to
do so The Colonial Government simply pretended to govern
him, and wasalwajs half afraid of him. The wdy sava e
knew what a hold he had on his tribe, and be also knew thnt
this would be his last struggle with the white man When
beaten back at all points on open ground he, in sheer
desperation, betook himself to the mountains, probably with
the P intention of wearying his pursuers and obtaining
peace on terms favourable to himself. The greater portion
of his tribe fought because their chief fought. They were
bom to abject submission to their despotic master, and his
will was their law. At the outset they fought with bravery
and enthusiasm; and though defeat followed defeat .though
the Snider daily thinned their ranks, though starvation and
disease aggravated then* misery, no semblance of disaffection
towards their wanton, unscrupulous leader ever manifested
itself. They were tired of fighting, but their chief was not;
so they kept the field with him, and for him alone His career
has happily been cut short, and his death afforded an oppor¬
tunity to surrender which his followers were not slow to accept.
Many have received a free pardon from the Government, but
a few influential or especially active rebels have been singled
out as men to whom thifl clemency cannot be extended, for¬
tunately, the most important men among this latter class
have been captured, and are now in gaol. The captive
rebels include pretty well all Sandilli’s family, and of this the
eldest son, Edmund Sandilli, is, perhaps, the most interesting
member. He is a young man of about five-and-twenty years
of age; his features are well formed, and his appearance is
prepossessing. He has received a good English education, and
up to the time of the outbreak filled the post of magistrate s
clerk at Middle Drift. But neither this well-paid employment
nor the possession of land and cattle could preserve him from
the war-fever infection. He joined his father shortly after
hostilities commenced, but declares now that lie only went to
his father to dissuade him from war, and remained with him in
the bush vainly endeavouring to bring hostilities to a peaceful
termination. He states that several thousand Gaikas lost their
lives while actually fighting, and that disease and starvation
carried off large numbers of the fugitives in the mountains.
We learn by the latest news from Cape Town, to the 30th
ult., forwarded by telegraph from Madeira, that hostilities
still continue in Griqua Land West, where Mr. Arnold, of the
Diamond-Fields Horse, was killed in a recent fight, and four
other Europeans wounded. In the Trans-Vaal province some
military movements against the hostile portion of the Zulus
are now in progress. The session of the Cape Parliament
closed at the end of last month. The Sprigg Ministry have
carried their taxation measures, passed an Indemnity Bill for
military operations, and obtained authority for loans of
£750,000 for war expenses, and £1,750,000 for completing
railways, a survey having been sanctioned to ascertain the
best route for a railway to the Orange Free State. A subsidy
of £15,000 per annum for a telegraph between the colony and
England has also been passed.
ROYAL VISIT TO SOUTHAMPTON.
The Prince and Princess of Wales on Monday week visited
Southampton to lay the “ dedication stone ” of St. Mary’s
parish church, which is to be rebuilt as a memorial of the late
Bishop Wilberforce. The Rector of the parish is his son,
Canon Wilberforce. The church is to be a handsome building,
in the Early English style, from the designs of Mr. G. Street,
which will, if completely carried out, at an estimated cost of
£18,000, include a noble three-storeyed tower, 104 ft. high, with
a steeple and spire rising 100 ft. above it. Only part, however,
of the proposed building, the chancel, the transepts, and one
bay of the nave, is actually commenced, the cost of which
will be £10,000. The Mayor and Corporation and townspeople
of Southampton made a public holiday of the Royal visit
to their town. Several triumphal arches, with banners and
evergreen garlands and mottoes of welcome, were erected in
High-street, with a double line of small triangular flags, of
every possible colour, extended along rows of Venetian masts,
all the way from the quays to the Bar, the ancient town gate,
and beyond it to the New-road. The piers and vessels lying
there were also decorated with flags. The Prince and Princess
came in the Royal yacht Osborne from the Queen’s marine
residence in the Isle of Wight. They were accompanied by
their two sailor sons, in naval uniforms, and attended by Lord
Colville of Culross, Mr. Knollys, Captain Stephenson, R.N.,
the Hon. Eliot Yorke, Mr. C. Sykes, and Miss Knollys.
Many yachts and other vessels awaited the Osborne at
Netley Buoy, where the Royal visitors descended into
a steam-launch to come up to the pier at Southampton.
All the vessels lowered their flags by way of salute, while the
18th Hants Artillery Volunteers fired a Royal salute.
The Prince and Princess, with their party, were received
on landing by a guard of honour of the 15th Hants Artillery,
whose band played the National Anthem. The Mayor and
Mayoress, with the Town Clerk, presented his Royal Highness
with an address of welcome, and a bouquet was given to the
Princess. Their Royal Highnesses were conveyed in a four-
horse carriage to the site of the new church, the walls of which
have already been raised several feet high, forming a sufficient
inclosure. A platform had been put up within it, which
was adorned with flowers from the Bevis Valley Nursery
Gardens, lent gratuitously by Mr. lvinsbury, and tastefully
arranged by Mr. Frank Lankester. A temporary altar was
placed in a sort of alcove, behind the site of the chancel-arch
of the former church, backed with a bank of ferns and flowers.
The arrival of the Royal party was greeted by fifteen hundred
school-children singing “ God Bless the Prince of Wales,” and
the choir afterwards sang “ God Save the Queen.” The Prince
and Princess, with those in their company, took their seats in
a pavilion on the platform. Canon Wilberforce, aided by the
Bishop of Winchester and other clergymen, conducted the special
religious service. A silver trowel was presented by a little
boy, the son of Canon Wilberforce, to his Royal Highness, who
laid the stone under the guidance of Mr. Street, the architect,
stating that it was “in memory of Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop
of Winchester.” There was a procession of thirty or forty
ladies, with the Hon. W. F. Cowper-Temple and the Mayoress
•of Southampton at their head, to deposit on the stone purses
of money which they had collected. The amount was £407, in
fifty-eight purses ; and the offertory at the doors, and other
gifts that day, brought up the total to £630. Another hymn
and prayer ended the ceremonial, after which the Prince and
Princess had some refreshment at the Deanery, the residence of
Canon Wilberforce, and returned to Cowes about 3ix o’clock.
THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY’S GARDENS.
c“Ss!“orC^
framed in empty galleries once dedicated to International
Arts, and its broad b streets of stucco palaces, covering the
estate of the 1851 Exhibition Commissioners, axeikftm silent
solitude till the advent of next season. Let the West-End
now suffer its autumnal period of loneliness and dulness, re¬
lieved only by the irruption of country visitors, who emerge
from the South Kensington Museum to wonder at the
vacancy of that stately neighbourhood. The brightest and
prettiest, and by fa/ the pleasantest of all places of
resort in these days within the cab-fare radius, is the
north-east comer of Regent’s Park. It is worth while to
run up there, by the Waterloo omnibus if you like, merely to
look at!the new bridge over the canal at Gloucester-gate, at
the top of Albany-street; a bridge the very lines of which,
with those of its approach roads, are designed with such
masterly skill, with such regard to elegance as well as con-
_ —,, ,'fwnnid hp fiiitticicntlv ornamental even wituoui
It may interest some of our readers to know that the King
of the Sandwich Islands has changed his Ministry, which con¬
sists of one Englishman, one American, and two natives. The
ioimer Ministry contained three Americans and one native.
venience, that’it would be sufficiently ornamental even without
the graceful statuary groups and decorative lamps, and the
beautiful fountain, there erected. The ever fresh verdure of
the park, its healthy young treeB and charming lake, with the
green mamelon of Primrose-hill and the distant view of
Hampstead heights beyond, will bear comparison with Hyde
Park and Kensington Gardens. .
Here too, in August and September as well as in the early
summer of fashionable living in town, the Zoological Society
continues to invite all classes of shilling and sixpenny visitors
to its peculiar domain of wonders and curious delights. What
though no longer on Sunday afternoons you can admire
or envy, if you be feminine and foolish, the costly attire of
those conscious patterns of their sex’s finep’, who promenade
the sunny lawn and shady walk, accompanied by men trying
to look distinguished, and form a moving exhibition of Les
Modes de Paris ? What though no longer on Saturdays to
the spirit-stirring strains of the Life Guards band under the
great tree a thousand ladies and gentlemen, with their merry
children, sit comfortably in the ranks of chairs on the soft cool
grass, and rest for two hours after a fatiguing social week ?
The Zoological Society’s collection of animals, unsurpassed in
certain departments, may now be seen without distraction,
and leisurely inspected with an intelligent quest of ‘ ‘ enter¬
taining knowledge.” The beasts and birds are not in these
days frightened out of their limited wits by the haughty
presence of so many over-dressed dames and arrogant lords of
the creation, strutting before their dens and cages, and speaking
with a Pall-mall tone of drawling depreciation, to which the
modest brute mind, unless it be that of a dog, is more sensitive
than to the harsh tones of anger and rebuke. We have distinctly
observed, in the demeanour of the Great Carnivora, sporting
daily in the open-air cages where lions and leopards seem
almost happy, and in the gentle manners of the wild ass, the
zebra, and the different antelopes, not to speak of our familiar
feathered favourites, a more conciliatory mood since Mr. and
Mrs. M’Bullion, who spend nearly £10,000 a year, and Lady
Alexandra Goldstick, with the Captain, her husband, departed
from Cliariug-cross Station. The guileless creatures feel per¬
suaded that they are now left to be examined by a different
class of visitors, who will not flout and despise their brutish
nature, but “ wonder at the wonderful works of Providence,”
with the immortal Rumtifoozle of Mathews’s” Country Fair.”
Even the rhinoceros has his fiuer feelings of self-respect, and
prefers, as does also the Wart Hog and the Raccoon, albeit
unused to the expression of tender sentiment, that people
should regard him with a due share of attention. The so-called
inferior orders of the animal kingdom are disposed to be
sociable when they find themselves shut up, unable to run
away, and dependent on human mercies for their daily food.
Any person, therefore, who at this time of year happens
to be kept in London by his business, his duty, or his poverty,
and misses the company of his acquaintance, gone to Paris,
to Norway, Switzerland, or the Rhine, to Scotland, to North
Wales, or to “the seaside” at every point of the compass,
may do worse than turn his half-holiday steps again towards
“the Zoo.” The garden is still in perfect summer beauty,
with such brilliant masses of colour in the splendid flower¬
beds, and so tastefully arranged, with such fair pieces of
smooth verdure, bosky hedges, and ruddy brown paths,
agreeable to the eye and to the foot, that it is luxury to walk
there; and you meet no crowd of people, fewer than on the
esplanade of a marine watering-place. The animals, as we
have sufficiently remarked, are now to be seen under the most
favourable circumstances; and the keepers, an intelligeut and
obliging set of men, have leisure to tell you all about
them. We will not here describe some of the recent
improvements in the construction of new abodes for par¬
ticular classes of zoological specimens, and their removal from
lees suitable quarters, which render the Gardens a more dis¬
tinct Index, as it were, to a scientific classification of their
kinds, as well as more convenient for access to one or another.
Every time you go there, all the year round, there is some
beneficial alteration going on or lately accomplished, proving
the diligence of the Council, of Mr. Bartlett, the able Super¬
intendent, and of Dr. Sclater, the accomplished Secretary, in
the management of a place which needs constantly to be
adapted to novel or additional requirements. We have but
to notice, especially as connected with the subject of two of
our Illustrations this week, some interesting little animals
which have lately made their appearance. The hairy porcu¬
pine with the prehensile tail, the tree-porcupine of Brazil,
whose Latin name is “ Spliingurus villosus,” was obtained by
purchase in March, 1877; but she gave birth to a youngster on
July 9 of this year, and our Engraving represents both mother
and cliild. They have a lodging at present in the house
belonging to the Small Mammalia, on the east side of
the Gardens ; but the parent is apt to run up to the very top
of the bough placed aslant in a corner, so as almost to hide
herself beneath the roof. She is between a large rat and a
small rabbit in size, and of a greyish brown colour; the tail
is very’ useful, awake or asleep, for holding on to trees. In the
popular Monkey House, on the side where the Lemurs are to
be found, is a very pretty little black monkey, which is shown
in our second Illustration. It is the Black or Bearded Saki,
“ Pithecia satanus,” a native of the Lower Amazons in South
America. The one represented by our Artist, which is a female,
was purchased by the Zoological Society on the 11th ult. It
shares the cage of a Barbary ape, and they play together in
the friendliest and funniest manner ; but we are informed that
another Black Saki, likewise a female, has been procured this
week. A golden-headed marmozet has just been added to the
Collection of the Society, which is now rich in small mammals,
as well as in antelopes, in elephants, and in birds.
The annual flower show at Dover was held on Wednesday
in the College Grounds, and it proved very successful.
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
The Museum of Decorative Arts at the Pavilion de Flore at
the Tuileries was opened on Monday afternoon. Its object
is to enable France to keep pace with other countries in the
employment of every possible means for the development and
progress of art-indu6try. France has for a long time possessed
a certain supremacy in all industries to which art is applicable,
owing to the peculiar good taste that has characterised the
nation; but the Universal Exhibition of 1878 has shown
that this supremacy is considerably endangered by foreign
competition. It has, therefore, been deemed necessary to
create an institution similar to the South Kensington Museum
in London, and to initiate the liberal principles that have
guided its direction, not only in the collection of models of
architecture, sculpture, paintings, drawings, fixed and movable
decorations, furniture, mosaics, ceramics, glass, clothing,
jewellery, arms, scholastic instruments, books, &c., useful for
the instruction of artisans and others engaged in the study
and manufacture of articles of art-industry, but also in adopt¬
ing the English system of sending the chefs-d’oeuvre of the
museum into the provinces, by arranging and encouraging
numerous and frequent exhibitions throughout the country.
The opening of this new institution was limited to five or six
picture galleries, exhibiting numerous admirable works of the
old and modem schools belonging to friends of the under¬
taking. The exhibition is supported by voluntary contributions,
the first list of subscriptions showing a total of 132,350f. The
Due d’ Audiffret- Pasquier is honorary president, and Mr.
Cunliffe Owen and Sir Richard Wallace are the honorary vice-
presidents.
The Monetary Conference is holding its sittings at Paris.
A Congress of Industry and Commerce held its first sitting
on Tuesday, under the presidency of M. Ilonnete, the pre¬
sident of the Chamber oi Commerce in Paris. The delegates
of the United States, England, Belgium, and Russia were
appointed vice-presidents. A second sitting was held on
Wednesday in the Trocadero. The congress discussed the
question or tariffs, liberty of commerce, the rates of interest,
and the reforms of the commercial code.
The committee of the National Lottery in Paris have
decided to create grand prizes of the value of 50,000f., 35,0U0f.,
25,000f., and 20,000f. respectively. The first will consist of
diamonds, the others of objects of art. The drawing will take
place on Oct. 20.
The Deauville races terminated on Sunday, and there was
a brilliant contest for the Grand Prix, the unbeaten Hun¬
garian mare Kincsem winning her thirty-eighth race. She
was, however, closely pressed by M. Lupin’s Fontainebleau,
which was only beaten by half a length. Eight ran.
A considerable number of people assembled last Sunday
on the quays between the Pont de Grenelle and the Auteuil
Railway Yiaduct to witness the international regatta, which
was organised by the united committees of the Cercle Nautique
of France, the Paris Rowing Club, and the Societe Nautique
of the Marne, with the aid of several other French and foreign
clubs. Prizes to the amount of £160 were contributed by the
French Yacht Club and the Municipal Council of Paris.
A statue of Lamartine, by Falguiere, was unveiled on Sunday
at Macon. A large number of strangers were present. An
excursion was made to Cluny, where Madame Valentine de
Lamartine conducted the visitors over her uncle’s house, and
his tomb was also inspected. At Macon itself there were
regattas, and some of Lamartine’s poems were recited and
sung at the theatre.
The fetes fixed to be held at Boulogne-sur-Mer on Sept. 1
and 2 in celebration of the laying of the foundation-stone
of the new’ harbour have been deferred to Sept. 8 und 9. The
feundation-stone will be laid on the 9th by M. de Freycinet,
Minister of Public Works, and M. Leon Say, Minister of
Finance.
Prince Alexander of the Netherlands has arrived at Paris.
According to a statement contained in the Siecle of Wed¬
nesday, the well-known M. du Bois du Buis, whose death was
announced a short time ago, has bequeathed the whole of his
large fortune to the poor of Paris. The amount reaches close
upon £80,000.
M. Renouard, a French Republican Life Senator, and uncle
to M. Leon Say, died last Saturday, aged eighty-four. He
distinguished himself at the Bar, was Secretary-General of the
Ministry of Justice in 1830, and published various works on
political economy and jurisprudence.—M. Naudet, the author
of a “Histoiy of Etienne Marcel,” and formerly Professor of
Latin at the College de France, died on the 15th inst., aged
ninety-one. He is believed to have been the oldest member of
the institute.—A French Hebraist, the Abbe Auguste Latouche,
has also just died, at the age of ninety-five.
SPAIN.
The King presided over a Cabinet Council at Madrid yes¬
terday week, and afterwards returned to the Escurial.
BELGIUM.
The King and Queen were present on Monday at Bruges at
the unveiling oi a statue to Uio Flemish painter Van Eyck.
After the departure of their Majesties disturbances occurred
at several points between the Clericals and the Liberals. The
gendarmes dispersed the rioters, several of whom were
arrested.
The fetes in celebration of the Royal Silver Wedding may
be said to have begun on Tuesday at the Royal residence of
Laekcn. Beloie the monumental church a triumphal arch
with a Royal throne had been erected, and near it the Civic
Guards and the gairison were under arms. The King and
Queen and the two young Princesses, their children, arrived
shortly alter one o’clock, and were received with the strains of
the *‘ Biaban^-onne,” played by all the musical societies ot the
town, and the enthusiastic acclamations of the crowd. The
Communal Council and the clergy’ of the church were placed
to the light of the throne, and, alter their Majesties had t txjn
their seats on it, the Burgomaster of Laekcn read the address
iiorn the Communal Council congratulating them on the
happy event. The King replied, expressing his best wishes
for the prosperity of the commune of Laekcn. Five young
girls then presented a bouquet 'to the Queen, and the Royal
party afterwards returned to the Chateau of Laekcn.
On Wednesday afternoon their Majesties took up their
residence at the Palace of Brussels, where they stayed duriug
the fetes, which lasted four days, from the 22nd till the 25tn.
In the afterroon they received there a deputation from die
Cercle Artistique et Litteraire, who presented their homage
and offered an artistically worked basket, one metre in lengi.ii
and sixty centimetres in width, filled with roses, the Queen a
favourite flower. T 1 e deputation from the Federation oi tins
Belgian Horticultural Societies were also received. Tnejr
offered a basket of flowers.
The Societe de Philanthropic distributed oil Wednesday
3000 dinners to the poor at the tw r o establishments of the
Alimentary Co-operative Society. The dinners, which were
composed of soup, fish, meat, vegetables, rice boiled in milk
with sugar, bread, and beer, could be consumed on the
premises or carried away’, as the recipients pleased.
AUG. 24, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
The reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg, with a numerous
of 1 th'e Fmr>r"° Un ^f ^, P88<drode > Grand Master of the Court
f P e ™ an y. charged by her Majesty with a
congratulatory mission, have arrived at Brussels J Ou Wed-
SwZ a iWe° n f Pri r Ce WUUam of P™ 881 *’ elde8t son c Jit
Charles Lmds wh Ger “ a ^> . and the Austrian Archduke
Charles-Louis, who arrived with numerous suites were re-
ceivcd at the Northern Terminus by the King of the Belgians
and Im P erial Peonages was most
T orfl } Tn^w Hl S hne ff s are staving at tlic Royal palace.
6t F ;> V 1 ® pftrfc of Queeu Victoria, handed
to the Queen of the Belgians on Tuesday a letter conferring
on her Majesty the Ladies’ Order of the Star of India and the
audf’nee^^U^ 1101 ^ T + he Mar< l uis of Hamilton had a private
+v,«°S ^ ednc8da >; to make a presentation to the King
Prmce ° f V a les. The special Embassies sent to
Trance (W^nr^ thplr ^-jesties arc thu4 composed : —
1 ranee. General Clinchant, Commander of the French 1st
Army Corps, General Campeuon, the Senator-General Loysel
C ° l0UeI N 1 c S r . ier > and Captain Fayet; Spuin’
the Duke of Ossuna, and six attaches; Sweden, Baron
Cn°ni SCb r d 1 Hollaud > Baron Fagel, Grand Marshal of the
Court, Baron van Heerd, and Count Bylandt; England
nt 1S r°o U ri a • J ? rr i ngt< ? n = Russia - p Hnce Orloff, Ambassador
at Tans, Portugal, Count Tliomar; Italy. General Pasi •
.» nxe-W eirnar, Count Bomeburg; Saxonv, Count Witzthum ;
Tuikey, Caratheodon Effendi. The special Envoys have been
received by the King and Queen, and have presented the
letters of congratulation from their respective Sovereigns and
the President of the French Republic. On Wednesday the
diplomatic body and deputations from the Senate and the
Chamber of Representatives were also received by the Kin"
and Queen at the Palace of Brussels to offer ‘their con¬
gratulations.
The ceremonies attending the silver weddiug are set forth
m the programme ns follows The crown subscribed for by
the women of Belgium to be presented to the Queen
■on the 22nd inst. The deputation represents the 2016 com-
emumes which comprise the kingdom, each of which sends
a delegate. The same day communal councillors, to the number
of more than a thousand, entertain their Majesties and the
Royal family at a banquet in the Great Hall of the Bourse,
to winch the whole foreign diplomatic body is invited. After-
-wards the King and Queen go to La Monnaie Theatre to a
gala performance, at which will also be present the foreign
Pnnces expected at Brussels. In the proceedings for Friday,
the 2:Jrd, is a review by the King of all the civic guards of the
realm, a torchlight procession, and serenade. The third day,
the 24th, there will be an inspection of the primary schools
-when more than 30,000 children will pass before their
Majesties. In the evening a brilliant fete will take place
in the Zoological Gardens. On Sunday, the fourth day,
there is to be a gymnastic, fete, horse-racing on the new
■course in the Bois de la Cambre, general illumination
of the city, and fireworks. The diadem aud suite of
diamonds to be presented to the Queen of the Belgians by the
city of Brussels in commemoration of the wedding has been
completed by 111. Buis, to whom its manufacture has been
intrusted. It is made of silver plates jointed, entirely covered
with diamonds in gold setting. In the centre is a large
diamond weighing23J- carats, and valued at £1800. The silver
plates have the form of a waving plume, and bohiud is the
•diamond of the Baron de Marpurgo, which weighs three carats.
The whole diadem forms a crown of glittering plumes, aud is
considered to be a work of art.
HOLLAND.
It is officially announced that the King has sanctioned the
new law on primary instruction.
GERMANY.
Prince Hohenlohe, the German Ambassador at Paris, has
been re-elected to the Reichstag on the second ballot at Foreh-
heim, Kulmbach, Bavaria. He polled 9800 votes, while his
'Ultramontane competitor had 8600.
Prince Frederick Leopold, son of Prince Frederick Charles
•of Prussia, fell on Wednesday from the balcony of the
hunting-box at Glienicke and broke his leg below the knee.
The Berlin correspondent of the Morning Tost states that
the result of the elections is that the Ultramoutanes, including
■Guelphs, have gained six seats and the Conservatives forty
The National Liberals have lost twenty-nine, the Progressists
thirteen, the Socialists three, and the Democrats one. The
other parties have retained their numbers.
Hiidel, who attempted the life of the Emperor William on
May 11 last, was early yesterday week beheaded in the court¬
yard of the New Prison at Berlin.
BUS8LY.
An Imperial Ukase was published at St. Petersburg on
Wednesday disbanding the men of the Landwehr who were
first called out.
The successor to General Trepoff as head of the St. Peters-
ourg police was General Mesentzoff. Yesterday week the
latter was leaving a confectioner’s shop when he was set upon
by two men, who attempted to stab him to the heart. The
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heart was not pierced, but the General died of the wound in America by addressing, “ via the United States,” any corre-
the evening. The assassins drove off in a vehicle that was | IJPORdence they may desire to have forwarded by that route,
waiting and escaped. General Seliverstev has been appointed
chief of the Gendarmes and the third department of the
•Chancery, in the place of the murdered General.
A review of the Russian troops at San Stefano was held on
Saturday last. The manamvres lasted two hours, and were
witnessed by a great concourse. At the close of the review
•General ’lodleben, while making a speech to the men, was
fired at by a young Greek armed with a pistol. The shot did
not, however, take effect, and the Greek was arrested.
The Laxly News' correspondent in Berlin telegraphs that
Russia has determined to retain her position near Constan¬
tinople until the Turks surrender Batoum aud Varna. Accord¬
ing to a Constantinople telegram, the Turkish Commauder at
Batoum has informed the inhabitants that the Russians will
enter the town on the 27th. The Lazes are biding their time
in four intrenched camps.
SERVTA.
The festivities in honour of Prince Milan’s birthday began
on Wednesday. The town and public buildings were deco¬
rated with garlands and flags, and there was a general illu¬
mination and a torchlight procession at night. The state
celebration of the event and a grand review were held on
Thursday. Another battery of 18-poundej Krupp field-guns
captured at Nisch has been added to the war trophies, and
■arranged in the Great Square in Belgrade.
EGYPT.
Mr. Rivers Wilson on Tuesday’presented to the Khedive a
voluminous report of the labours of'the Committee of Inquiry
iu Egyptian Revenue. The Committtee df Inquiry has
accepted an offer of Prince Mohammed Tewfik, the hereditary
Prince, made on the advice of Nubar Pasha, to cede to the
Committee all liis estates, the annual rental of which amounts
to £30,000. Princess Fatma, daughter of the Khedive, has
also declared her readiness to cede aU hdr estates to the Com¬
mittee, and Prince Hussein Kamil Pasha, the Khedive's second
the t 2-, d0 v likpwise ’ Following these examples,
W tho Khedlve has also ceded to the Committee aU
ner estates, the annual value of which amounts to £20,000.
CANADA.
The Dominion Parliament has been dissolved. The new
elections will be held on Sept. 17.
The Attorney-General has introduced in the Legislative
°* ® n tosh Columbia a memorial to the Queen,
praying her Majesty that, if the terms of the Union with the
KS 1 ?”, 136 c ? mpl i ed witl * by the month of May, 1879,
Lntish Columbia shall be allowed to withdraw from it. The
memorial was adopted by a large majority,
, . ke 9“ lad j an papers publish accounts of a terrible storm
which visited Toronto on the 4th inst.
AUSTRALIA.
P,ii? r i el ^ l,rnc telepra ™ dated yesterday week says that the
Colonial Treasurer of Victoria has made his financial state¬
ment in the Legislative Assembly. The actual revenue for the
\ 8 e8timat f d at £4 >99U13, and the expenditure
at £5,137,1^12, leaving a deficit of £145,929. This deficiency will
be covered by arrears and recoupments. There are to be new
“ nd pubUc
The Agent-General for New South Wales has been informed
by telegram of the arrival in Sydney of the ship Smyrna, which
sailed from Plymouth with emigrants in May last.
INDIA.
The Calcutta correspondent of the Times, telegraphing on
Sunday- says that a good deal of rain has fallen throughout
the wesc coast district, the north-cast coast, iu the ceded dis¬
tricts of Madras and in Kurnoul. In the south-east coast
district the fall has been slight. General prospects are
reported good. A general rain is reported throughout Mysore.
Jraces have slightly- fallen, and prospects are favourable.
JLhcre lias been a heavy rain in all parts of the Bombay
Presidency, mclnding Sind; and a good rain in the Central
Provinces, in Central India a fair fall, and throughout
Malwa. The state of Bundelkund gives cause for anxiety,
the distress increasing. In Rajpootana prospects are good;
m Northern Bengal there is some damage from floods, but
more ram is required in certain districts ; in Assam the floods in
the viuley districts arc subsiding ; in the North-West Provinces
prospects are favourable. From Cashmere reports are very
gloomy, and the Durbar is said to be thoroughly aroused to
the appalling state of affairs. The authorities are buying
grain in large quantities. Relief works are being started in all
directions, and a mixed committee of Hindoos and Mussul¬
mans are working together to relieve distress. The thanks of
the Indian Government have been gazetted as due to military
officers for services performed during the Madras famine. The
Government hope to grant special concessions to officers who
have suffered in health from their labours. It is decided that
a winter camp of exercise shall be formed at Hassan Abdal
in the Punjaub.
The overland mail has brought news from Bombay to
July 26, aud from Calcutta to July 24. There is very little
news of importance that has not been already received by tele¬
graph. The Indian papers state that the Russians were en¬
deavouring to establish an Embassy in Cabul, but that the
Ameer refused to grant the needful permission. It is also
stated that the family of the late Yakoob Beg, Ameer of Kash¬
gar, have taken refuge in Russian territory, aud the Russiau
authorities have refused the demand of the Chinese for their
extradition, but have removed them to Tashkend.
A telegram from Bombay reports the death of the heir
apparent to the throne of Cabul on the 17th inst., and that, in
consequence of this event, the special mission of Sir Neville
Chamberlain will possibly be postponed. A telegram from the
Times' correspondent at Calcutta states that Abdul Karim
Khan, brother of Shere Ali and the former ruler of Khokand,
has arrived at Peshawur. After rebelling against the Russians
he took refuge in Cabul, aud has now left on the approach of
the Russian Envoy.
A telegram from Lisbon states that the phylloxera is com¬
mitting great ravages among the vines in the north of Portugal.
At Yokohama some students who ridiculed two Buddhist
priests for teaching that the sun moves round the earth have
been attacked by the populace and seriously injured.
The Congress on Prison Reform assembled ou Wednesday
at Stockholm, and the members of the Congress were enter¬
tained by the Municipality on Thursday.
The prize of 25,000f. offered by the King of the Belgians
for the best work on national history published between 1874
and 1878 has been awarded to M. Alphonse Wanters for his
“ Lcs Libertes Communales: essai sur leur origine et leurs
premiers developpements en Belgique, dans le Nord de la
France, et sur les Bords du Rliin.”
The public may avail themselves of the existing mail com¬
munications, via New York, for correspondence addressed to
Chili, Peru, and other parts of the west coast of South
The rates of postage (which must be paid in advance) are as
follows:—Letters, lid. per half ounce; newspapers, 3d. each
(not exceeding 4 oz. in weight); books and trade patterns, 3jd.
per 2 oz.; registration fee, 4d.
The sixth congress of the International Association for the
Reform and Codification of International Law being held at
Frnnkfort-on-the-Maine has adopted a resolution, proposed by
Herr Marcus, of Bremen, approving the decision taken at
Berne establishing a uniform railway goods tariff. Mr. Free¬
land, who was supported by Mr. Peabody, of the United States,
spoke, amid general assent, in terms of approval of the new
relations promoted in London by the Chinese and Japanese
Ambassadors, both in the domain of political economy and
international law. The Congress has unanimously adopted a
resolution proposed by Sir Travers Twiss, supported by Count
Sparre, of Sweden, to the effect that the Suez Canal and
similar international works should be declared free in case of
War, and not be subject to any restrictive measures on the part
of belligerents.
Queen Christina died on Wednesday night, at St. Adresse,
near Havre. Maria Christina, Queen Dowager of Spain, was
the daughter of the late Francis I., King of "the Two Sicilies,
and was born in April, 1806, so that she had completed her
seventy-second year. She was married to Ferdinand VII. of
Spain, in December, 1829, and was appointed Regent in October,
1832. On the death of her husband, on Sept. 29,1S33, her eldest
daughter, Isabella, then a child, was proclaimed Queen under
the regency of her mother, and a civil war followed which
lasted seven years. In 1840 Queen Christina was compelled to
take refuge in France, but returned to Spain in 1843, and
remained there until 1854, when she again fled to France, and
has since only occasionally visited Spain. Iu December, 1833,
slie was secretly married to Fernando Munoz, who was made
Duke of Rianzar&s, and the marriage was acknowledged by
a decree dated Oct. 13, 1844. The Duke died in 1873.
A RESTING PLACE.
Crabbc is out of fashion. Readers to whom the roses and
raptures of vice are as daily bread, to whom poetry is a thing
winch must be always either wild, dreamy, voluptuous, or
(best of all) entirely incomprehensible, can hardly be expected
to find the quiet old chronicler of Aldborough anything bat
dull; and to such readers dulness is the one deadly sin.
Nor can one well attempt the denial of this charge against
lnm. A poet who devoted twenty-four cantos (or “letters ”
as he, less pretentiously, called them) to the description of
an ordinary seaside borough who began with this very un¬
ambitious prelude—
‘‘Describe the Borough ’’—though our idle tribe
May love description, cun we so describe,
That you shall fairly streets and building trace,
And all that gives distinction to a place !
This cannot be; yet moved by your request
A part I paint—let Fancy form the rest;—
who, finally, attacked, with all the anger his gentle spirit was
capable of, an “enthusiast in religion:” such a writer
could hardly be expected to attract much attention now.
Yet it is by no means certain that Crabbe will not be read
and respected when Swinburne and Rossetti are as much for¬
gotten as the Euphuists of a former time; he has one great
lasting quality, in which they are entirely—almost avowedly—
deficient; and this is sound common-sense. His work wfil
always have, at least, a historical value; it paints, with
thorough fidelity, the life of its day—and his pictures of “ The
Almshouse and Trustees,” “The Professions,” “The Clubs
and Social Meetings,” of his little Borough, have a merit and
an interest unsuspected by those who devote themselves to
reproducing in most exquisite colours their owu idlest fancies.
And it has been said that Crabbe, with this dulness, aud
this strong sense, is ,in some sort a type of the part of the
world from which he came, and of which he constantly wrote
with such affectionate remembrance. The people of the
Eastern Counties are generally supposed to be slow—“ thick¬
headed,” their enemies call them ; and the silliness of Suffolk
in particular has become proverbial. Indeed, one does not fiud
in Eastern England the quickness of the West, nor the keen
North-countryman’s passion for work, nor the Irishman’s wit;
but the assumption that these defects are counterbalanced by
no good qualities is not necessarily a fair one. All over England
you will find East-countrymen in high positions of trust;
nor is there, probably, any part of England where life has
more steady comfort, more stable happiness, than in the east.
One sees this in their great painters—Gainsborough, Con¬
stable, Crome ; and one sees it, I think, in the scenery they
painted—to describe which one may almost repeat what has
just been said of Crabbe. There are not what the guide-books
call very “striking features” in these landscapes; there are
no mouutains, and not many hills: there are not even very
great rivers nor very picturesque lakes—Cumberland people
would probably despise the “ Norfolk broads” pretty heartily.
A et throughout the whole country there is an exquisite repose,
a quiet richness of colouring, a genuine beauty of a sort which
one gets to love very deeply.
Why do not people, ready enough to make tours iu the
East under the guidance of Mr. Cook, who drags them at
express speed through Jerusalem, Joppa, Jericho, aud other
abodes of insects evilly disposed—why not, I say,'make once
in a way, for a pleasanter change, a tour in the East of
England P Does Mr. Murray sell in a year half a dozen copies
of his hand-book to this part of the kingdom, “ so near aud
yet so far” ? Even of the excursionists to the two or three
popular watering-places, are not the great majority East
Anglians bom and bred ? Perhaps there may be nothing in
Norfolk really equal to Dartmoor, perhaps even the beautiful
Orwell is not so beautiful as the Wye; but there is such a
wholesome quiet about the entire country—it is so free from
the airs and affectations of a show district, it is so uu-
cockneyfied, and (may not one add ?) so cheap !
Not only are the large towns—Norwich, with its cathedral,
Ipswich, with its picturesque old houses and river—thoroughly
interesting and representative, but there are smaller places inau-
merable every bit as good; places whose names are never heard
but within a radius of barely fifty miles. There is Swaffham, in
Norfolk ; there is Yoxford, in Suffolk, with a haudsome church,
picturesque inns, a quaint high-street, and a delightful park.
Better still than the best of trips for real rest and refresh¬
ment is it to stay in one place—in any one almost among the
hundreds that he between jolly vulgar Yarmouth and dingy
Harwich. Crabbe would no doubt have recommended Ald¬
borough, his quaint old favourite; but since his day it hat
been converted into a watering-place, which though it is uot
fashionable would like to be—Camberwell-super-Mare some¬
body calls it. Felixstowe, too, has spoilt itself by a railway;
and even Southwold has just attracted to itself a “ branch ” of
the Great Eastern. But not far off this last-named place there
is a little village, hardly known to the herd even in Suffolk—
a village on the coast—which centuries ago was (we ore told)
a great town, with fifteen, some say forty, churches, of which
all have now been washed away by the encroaching sea. All,
that is, except the ruins of one, which now stand out most
picturesquely against the sky upon the cliff which shelters
the tiny town, making, with the broad sea at their
feet and the woods behind them, a picture more lovely
aud complete than any of Crome or Cotman. Near these
ruins are some more singular and finer still: the outer wall
and the refectory of an ancient priory. The wall now incloses
a great field, in the midst of which—like some strange ark
floating in a sea of yellow com—there rise the grey refectory
walls ; every passing breeze and cloud varies their surround¬
ings, every hour of the day there is some change in this
beautiful, tranquil scene.
Lower down lies the one street of the village : a street con¬
taining maybe ten houses, including the new schools (ugly,
rectangular, and redbricked) and a cottage which fulfils the
duties of Townhall, and in which is a great padlocked chest
containing the archives of the place—which, by-the-way,
returned it3 members to Parliament till 1832, and (as we find
from the aforesaid archives) in older times thought no small
beer of itself, sending representatives to consult the mighty
Coke on occasions of importance, and paying their expenses,
on that arduous journey to London, with becoming liberality.
Here is a resting-place for the tired man of business, for
the artist “fagged out” by the London season: nor have we
mentioned a tenth of its beauties—nor its principal defect.
There are delightful drives and walks round it, to strange and
ancient churches aud to glorious heaths; it is cool, healthy,
clean ; and—if the whole truth must be told—hardly a quarter
of its few dozens of inhabitants are on speaking terms with
each other. Thi3 confirmation of the truth of Crabbe’s “ Dutch
pictures ” of ‘life hardly adds to the beauty of the Arcadian
scene; but it was necessary to complete our little photograph
of it; aud these slow and heavy resentments of years, while
they do not interfere much with the comfort of the visitor,
give him a theme whereon to moralise—show that the most
sluggish and inartificial existence has faults as grave, iu their
way, as the follies of our headlong London life : faults which,
soothed by the beautiful sights which Nature here spreads
round him, he may uot unprofitubly rest to watch.
the illustrated l<
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REVIEW OF THE FI
)NDON NEWS, Aug. 24, 1878.— 177
SPITHEAD BY THE QUEEN.
178
AUG. 21, 1878
THE ILLUSTEATED LONDON HEWS
ECHOES OF THE WEEK.
Paris, Aug. 21.
Hodel, the would-be regicide, has had his head duly cutoff
at Berlin; and (assuming that we are entitled under any
circumstances to inflict capital punishment) the cowardly and
conceited assailant of the aged Sovereign of Germany
•certain! v deserved his fate. “Dr.” Nob fling's turn will
probably come next. Civilisation, nevertheless, may score a
cord many points when we contrast the comparatively merci¬
ful Mip/ lice undergone by this wretched man Model with the
drcadlul torments wreaked on Count Ankerstriim, the assassin
(at a masked ball) of Gustavus III. of Sweden, and the yet
more horrible agouies endured by Damiens, who wounded
Louis XV. of France very slightly with a penknife.
Ankerstrom (whose widow was living within the recollection
of persons still surviving) was scourged with iron chains for
three successive days preceding his execution, until he was
nearly flayed alive. As for the miserable Damiens, we have
all read and shuddered at the account of the “bed of steel”
to which he was strapped; the “question ordinaire et
extraordinaire” to which he was subjected; the melted lead
and boiling oil, pitch, and sulphur which wore poured into
the wounds which the pincers had made in his limbs; and his
final t'cartelement, or the pulling of him to pieces by four
horses The horses were sluggish in the performance of their
abominable task; and it was necessary to stimulate them by
tlia lash. There were many ladies present at the execution,
and when they saw the horses whipped they cried, in the
mincing Court dialect of the time, “ Ob, lea pauv’ zevaux ! ”
Mem.: Of course, George Selwyn went over specially to
I’aris to see Damiens done to death. He pushed so lustily to
get through the crowd round the scaffold that one of the
soldiers on duty, thinking that he might be the executioner
himself, asked him whether he was “Monsieur de Paris.”
“ No.” replied George Selwyn, " je suis Monsieurde Londres.”
All kinds of cynically humorous stories have been told about
executions. I remember one of a very cool criminal, a
•Greek, who was about to be guillotined, and who, on receiving
a hint from the chaplain that it was time to be moving, ex¬
claimed “JTa* tif den emporoitn n'archisoun choris erne ?" I
purposely leave the remark untranslated for the benefit of the
disciples’of Professor Blackie.
The Parisians, on the other hand, are furious because Hodel
was not guillotined. “Just like those barbarous Germans,”
they are saying, “ to chop a man’s head off with a hatchet.”
Nor is “ Atlas ” in the World quite satisfied. “ They actually
sent out and bought a new woodcutter’s axe,” cries the scan¬
dalised “ Atlas.” As a matter of, fact, I believe that the axe
with which Model was decapitated was made specially for the
•occasion by the first cutler in Berlin. There has not been these
sixteen years past any call for the judicial axe in Prussia.
There are two specimens of the implement extant at Berlin.
One was consigned to the Brandenburg Museum. The other
got into the possession of the proprietor of a waxwork show,
and continues to adorn his Chamber of Horrors. The old
manner of decapitation in Germany was not by the axe, but
by the sword. The blade was hollow, and contained a certain
quantify of quicksilver. The criminal was placed in a kneel¬
ing posture, but without placing his head on a block. The
executioner, grasping the glaive with both hands, held it
upright, so that the quicksilver in the hollow blade lay over
the hilt. But, ns the bourreau delivered his blow, with a semi¬
circular sweep, the mercury swept downwards from hilt to
point, and lent tremendously increased momentum to the
stroke.
Mem : It was not the executioner-in-chief who decollated
Hodel, but one of his assistants. The chief is an aged man,
und has grown wealthy by trafficking in stray dogs, which, by
virtue ot his office, he is entitled to seize in the streets. Alter
a certain time the dogs which are not claimed and which are
not woith anything are hanged. The valuable animals are
sold, us the pirquisites of the executioneer. The carcases of the
dead biut< s belong to his assistants, who go by the significant
name of “skinners.” All things considered, it seems highly
■appropriate that a fellow accustomed to skin dogs should be
called upon to cut off a man’s head.
Enough of an ugly subject; but who among us has not
been to Madame Tussaud’s and enjoyed the Baker-street
banqiut, ab ovo usque ad malum : that is to say, from the top-
bootrd (fligy of the late William Cobbett, M.P., to the model
of li e guillotine and the dreadful figure of Orsini in his
camiu.lt de force ? Who that goes to the Tower does not ask to
see the nxe with which Anne Boleyn was not executed, the
thumburews, and the Scavenger’s Daughter!' There is a
curious fascination about penology; and there are a great
many more George Selwyns among us than is generally
aeki.cwhdged.
By-tlie-way, talking of Madame Tussaud’s. students of the
Eastern Question might do well during the recess to study a
Temarkuble scries of water-colour drawings illustrating Turkish
punishments in the early days of the reign of Sultan Mahmoud.
These drawings are hung on the walls of a somewhat dark
staircase at Madame Tussaud’s; but they will repay inspection,
showing ns they do the marked improvement which has taken
place in the administration of crimiual justice in Turkey within
the Inst forty years. Politically, I abhor the Turk as heartily
as Torquato Tasso did, and many of the Muslim’s manners and
customs are to me utterly abominable; but justice should be
done to all; and it is good to know that impalemeut, decapi¬
tation for trifling offences, the bow-string, and the sack (the
last for rtpreln nsible Turkish ladies) have been as completely
abolished in the Ottoman Empire as the kuout has been
abolished in Russia. Even the bastinado no longer exists, so
far as Constantinople is concerned; although in the remote
districts mi.kitrunt taxpayers are still occasionally compelled
to “ cut stick.”
It should be a wholesome corrective to our national pro¬
pensity lor 1 ragging and boasting, and our national habit of
aliening at the “barbarism” of foreigners, to remember that
wc are the only nation in Europe who judicially scourge
criminals and who systematically beat children. I see that the
Maiquir. Townshcnd has been protesting in the London news-
piq I rs agaimt the practice of boxing schoolboys’ ears, and
that he proposes to give a prize of fifty guineas for the best
es?:n mi the impolicy of corporal punishment in schools
ait(p;’her W heii I was young boys were unmercifully
thia-h.d both at school and at home; but I was fortunate
ern uph to have a kind (although far from over-indulgent)
iv 1 ' r ' " r( to b , C brou R ht U P at a school in which, although
th< re were many hundreds of boys, not one blow was sehoWti-
J; /, n,< k . frr :“ yt i ar fi e,ld to y eur ’« end. I rejoice to believe
°, f R ur l nt , S aVc not 80 fl ' rocioU8 as they were
” *, ! md that the race of savage schoolmasters is
gnu nully declining ; but an immensity of-reform is vet lmees
sm v in .”,r schools, high and low, mul the pSce 3 hSK
children violent blows on the head is one that assuredly should
be put down by the law. To strike a child on the head is an
aggravated assault, and should be punished as one.
Mem: I picked up the other day in a Parisian paper an
intolerably nonsensical story about a precocious baby, which
made me laugh heartily. I wonder whether it will have the
same effect on you, dear reader. It is so highly expedient to
laugh whenever we have a chance of so doing, since in ten
minutes’ time we shall have good reason, perchance, to weep.
“I remember,” says the narrator of the nonsensical story,
“ that when I was an infant of about ten months old I was
naughty, and my nurse slapped me. ‘ Ah ; ’ thought I, ‘ it’s
all very well; but you see if / don't tell my mamma as soon as ear
I learn to speak.' ” There is a vogue idea of the Philosophy of
the Inarticulate in this trivial story. We should be merciful
to those who cannot translate their thoughts into speech. Did
yon ever mark the intensely wretched, expression iu the
countenance of a dog that is sick and that cannot tell you
wliat is the matter with him ? It is a look of puzzled, hopeless,
tongue-tied misery : the expression of pained bewilderment so
grandly defined by the French critic as “the look of the
Sphinx who has forgotten the solution of her own riddle.”
We have been laughing, but not immoderately, in Paris,
over the “ Old Englyshe ” of the bill of fare of the Minis¬
terial whitebait dinner. Who was the concoctor of this dull
joke? A really comic menu might have been drawn up had
the chef at Greenwich given ad captandum names to a few of
the “rich hashes” and “rare messes,” the “soufflis,”
the “surprises,” the “ cpigrammes,” and the “ sup rein is ”
of the Ministerial campaign. The gentleman, however, who
translated the bill of fure into French for the benefit of the
Parisian public is apparently a wag of the first water. There
is a specialty of the Greenwich cuisine called “ Omelette de
crabe a la Blue Seal.” I think that I mentioned this dish
some weeks since in “ Echoes,” and that 1 erroneously quoted
the “ Seal ” (which refers to a club of Guardsmeu) as a “ gold ”
instead of a “blue” one. But, for aught that I cau tell
with certainty, it may be a pink, or a yellow, or a pea-green
cachet. In the French translation of the Greenwich bill of
fare I find “ Omelette de crabe i\ la Garde des Sceaux.” This
is delicious. The “ Garde des Sceaux ” is a functionary who
combines some of the attributes of our Lord Chancellor with
others of the Lord Privy Seal. The translation, however, cau
be capped by that of the American who rendered the French
“Bureau du Timbre,” or “Stamp Office,” as “the Govern¬
ment Timber Yard.” For a witty translation commend me to
“ Mors Omnibus” as the Latin equivalent for a hearse. This
has been attributed to Lord Beaconsfield, in the days when
he was “young and curly.” Was it the Premier who,
when a loquacious member of Parliament boasted that before
he studied the art of oratory lie used to speak worse than
Demosthenes did before his course of pebbles, gently remarked
that the honourable gentleman's actual style of delivery
reminded him of Demosthenes, not after the course of pebbles,
but while he still had them in his mouth ?
I have heard of a traveller who remained for a whole month
at an hotel at Niagara, and minutely described iu his letters
home all the features of the surrounding country. In his last
communication he observed in a postscript: “ By-the-by,
they tell me that there are some waterfalls ”—I am not sure
that he did not write waterworks—“ near here.” I have been
in Paris for a fortnight, and I have not. I believe, written as
yet half a dozen lines in the “Echoes” about the Universal
Exhibition and its bewildering contents. There havebeen many
good reasons for my silence. In the first instance, I am anxious
not to bore you; and the “Exhibition Bore” nearly equals
the Eastern Question now as a social nuisance. In the next
place, I very rarely visit the Champ de Mars ; and as for the
Trocadero Palace and park, I have not yet set my foot inside
those sumptuous precincts. In the third place, the Exhibition
is so immense, and any information that I could impart to you
would be necessarily so infinitesimal, that I have been reluc¬
tant to say anything at all concerning it from a systematic
point of view. I have ventured, however, to set down just
twenty-five things which I would counsel you to do when you.
visit the Exposition Universelle.
Pay the cabman before you reach the Exhibition palace.
Give him six sous as a pourboirc. Don’t buy more than four
tickets at a time. If you do you will probably lose them.
Lunch at Catelain’s Restaurant Fran(,ais in the part of the
Champ de Mars to the right before you get to the Bridge of Jena.
If you are two in company “ portions ” for on* will suffice.
If you are three or four, order “portions” for two. “Eggs
on the plate,” an “omelette au jambon,” or “aux rognons,”
“ cotelettes de mouton i\ la jardiniere,” or “ an entrecote a la
Bordelaise,” are the safest things to order. Drink vin ordinaire ,
or, at the utmost, St. Estephe. The more expensive wines will
not he better. Never drink water at a restaurant. Don’t
drink Eau de Selz from a syphon. Drink Apollinaris, or Eau
de St. Galmier. Give the waiter fifty centimes for his fee.
Your lunch should not cost you more than six francs a head.
If you have a lady with you persuade her not to enter a Bath
chair or fauteuil roulant. She will be wanting to alight every
other minute to look at the pretty things See the “ Regent ”
Diamond by all means. Stand on tiptoe, but not (if you can
help it) on your neighbour's toes, to see it. See the magnificent
show of Sevres china and Beauvais tapestry. See Elliugton's
“Pilgrim shield;” the “Pompeian Lady at her toilette; ”
the “damascened steel vase:” the “Renaissance mirror;”
and the “tete-a-tete tea services of the famous Birmingham firm.
See Barbedienue’s bronzes. See the display of Tiffany, the
renowned gold and silver smith of New York; and the remark¬
able display of the American Watch Company of Waltham,
Massachusetts. See the Prince of Wales’s pavilion. See the
superb model of the Gallia, the newest built of the ocean fleet
of the Cunnrd Royal Mail Steam-Ship Company. See the
Gustave Dore vase and Copeland’s china; and then—come back
to dinner: I hope without a headache. G. A. S.
THE NAVAL REVIEW AT SPlTHEAD.
The Engraving that fills the two middle pages of this
Number represents the scene on Tuesday week at Spithe i.l,
when her Majesty the Queen inspected the vessels of the
reseive squadron, under the command of Admiral Sir A. C.
Key. The Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Beatrice,
and the Duke of Connaught were present, and there was a
great gathering of yachts and of the public. Unfortunately,
the spectacle was marred by bad weather, and the programme
lmd to be modified in consequence.
The events of the day began with the arrival, by the special
trains from London, of the members of both Houses and their
embarkation on board the Euphrates, while at the same time
from various points of the dockyard, other parties were
embarking on board the different vessels to which they h i*i
been allotted. The review was deprived of much of its ch inn
fis a spectacle by the unfortuuate meteorological conditions
under which it was held. On Monday night the wind went
down, and cverytlring promised well for the review, notwith¬
standing the appearance of heavy rain-clouds that
came sailing over the Isle of Wight. During the night,
however, the wind sprang up again from the south¬
west, accompanied by copious falls of rain, and
when day broke nothing could have appeared worse
in the shape of weather. A heavy haze hung upon the water
and shut out the ships from the spectators on shore, while the
mind, which had increased to half a gale, dissipated the last
vestige of hope with reference to the fleet getting under way.
At noon a Royal salute was fired from all the vessels at Spit-
head and in harbour, and the ships were dressed—those about
to proceed outside with masthead flags only, while the vessels
which were to remain stationary dressed in rainbow, with the
flags extending from masthead to masthead.
Towards three o’clock her Majesty was observed to be
putting off in a Royal barge towards the Royal yacht Victoria
and Albert, which lay with a slip-rope to a buoy off Osborne,
and soon afterwards the Royal Standard was run up to the
masthead, which was a signal for the fleet to salute. A line
was then formed of the yachts and tenders following in the
wake of her Majesty in the subjoined orderNext astern of •
the Royal yacht came the Royal yacht Osborne, with his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales and his frieuds; theu the
Enchantress, with their Lordships the Commissioners of the
Admiralty; then the Eire Queen, with the Coinmauder-iu-
Chief, Admiral Fansliawe, flying his flag at the main; then
the Euphrates, with the Lords, Commons, and a large bevy of
peeresses and lady commoners; then the Vivid, with the
foreign representatives; and in the rear of these the Dasher
and Britomart, with lialf-pay naval officers and officers of the
garrison. In this form the squadron of yachts, with a strong
breeze blowing behind them, bore down on the Fleet, which
was now seen to be anchored in most admirable order ani
perfect formation—the larger, but less formidable, vessels
forming the Starboard Division, the turret-ships und monitors
the Port.
The following is the dispo-itiou and order of the divisions: —
n«-irules. Admiral Sir A. C. Key. 14
Hoi-ior, Captain <\ It. Simpson . IS
Yulian*. C'npliiin AV.-C. Chapman. IS
Isnd YVa*dm,t'apt Hon. E. 1’. Fremantle 18
Warrior, Rear-Admiral Henry Hoys ... 32
Pt inlope, Ottpfciin \V. 8 Brown . 11
Rtt-ifUince, Captain A. T. Thrupp ... l(i
Bondirea, Captain J. E. Erskine .!. ... l*i
Emerald, Cut, tain W. H. Maxwell ... 12
Cormorant, Commander .1. A. T. Bruce ... 6
Eurynlus, Captain John D’Arcy . 16
Blazer, Lieutenant H. B. Lang . 1
Cornet, Lieutenant R. F. O. Foote ... 1
Pout.
Thunderer, Captain John C. Wilson ... 4
llelleisle. Captain C. J. Rowley . 4
Prince Albeit, Captain Loftus P. Jones... 4
Uoreou, Captain Sir 1 jimbton Loraine ... 4
Hyilra, Captain All art H. Markham ... 4
Hecate, Captain Edward Howard. 4
Glutton, Captain Morgan Singer. 2
Cyclops, Captain Edward Kelly . 4
Ready, Commander H H. Edwards ... 4
Tweed, Lieutenant John nayes . 3
Toy, Lieutenant Thomas E. Miller ... 3
Vesuvius, Lieutenant W. H. May. —
Lightning, Lieutenant C. J. Noreock ... —
219
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3-218
avn
6706
5169
4703
2128
5H0
2109
900
6250
262
6270
3955
2128
1669
1472
1755
72,350
Tom. Cr-w.
... 8377 ... 60S
... 6713 ... 527
... 6713 ... 520
... 7842 ... 537
... 9137 ... 70.3
... 4.391 ... .31.3
... 6070 ... 452
... 4027 ... .383
... 2162 ... 232
... 1124 ... 131
... 3932 ... 363
... 254 .. -23
... 251 ... -25
... 9387 ... 310
... 4720 ... 203
... 390.5 ... 193
... 3130 ... 147
... 3430 ... 146
... 3420 ... 1(9
... 4912 ... 161
... 3430 ... 150
... 692 ... 77
363 ... 43
... 363 ... 41
... 260 ... 14
28 ... 9
99,549 6(391
The vessels in these two divisions left a broad water-way,
down which her Majesty now steamed, having previously made
the signal that the fleet would not be required to get under
way. As the Royal yacht approached, the yards were
manned, and cheer after cheer rang from the ships. A crowd
of small craft followed thickly in the wake and on both beams
of the squadron of yachts ; and fortunately at this moment
the one stray gleam of sunshine which appeared throughout
the day shone forth and lighted up the scene. The long, even
rows of vessels, the fluttering bunting, and the figures of the
men as they stood on the yards presented a fine scene. The
Royal yacht now steamed towards the Warner light-sliip,
passing not far from the wreck of the Eurydice, which
must have attracted her Majesty’s attention, and then
turned towards the fleet again. It was not her Majesty’s
intention to visit any of the vessels, so that the bad
weather did not interfere with that part of the pro¬
gramme ; but from the signal winch was made it was evi¬
dently the intention that the fleet should have been got uuder
way and have performed some such simple manoeuvre as
steaming round the Royal yacht, either in two columus or iii
single line ahead, and then resuming their stations at Spithead.
But that it was wise to abandon this project all those who
witnessed the review must agree, as from the confined space,
the crowds of shipping and small boats, the violent squalls
of wind, and the occasional blinding showers, it would
have been attended with considerable risk. Her Majesty
now made the signal, “Am much pleased, and regret
that weather prevents evolutions : ” with which gracious mes¬
sage, and under the smoke of a second Royal salute, the Royal
yacht and her train of followers steamed away towards the
Solent.
This was a general signal for the visitors to disperse, and
soon the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour was crowded with
vessels of all kinds making for the various landing-places.
Dense crowds of people were now perceived to line the sex
I walls, and piers, and even the distant, liouse-tops of Soutlnea,
I waiting patiently through the gusts of wind and blinding
squalls of rain to see the far-off spectacle across the broad
I waters of Spithead. As the vessels approached their respective
I berths alongside the jet ties of the dockyard they were promptly
I moored, and in a very few minutes discharged all their
| passengers. A special train was in waiting to convey away
the members of the two Houses, who had been sumptuously
| entertained on board the Euphrates as guests of the Admiralty.
No accident of any kind it is believed, occurred throughout
the day, and no small credit is due to those responsible, when
the crowded state of the harbour and the strong tide which
j sweeps in and out are taken into consideration. Except that
the weather was not propitious, everything went off most
satisfactorily.
I Our illustration shows the Thunderer and other turret-
j ships and monitors to the right hand of the spectator, with the
\ Admiral’s flag-ship and the rest of the starboard division on
j the other side; the Royal yacht is approaching between them.
The yards of the ships in the starboard division are manned
by the sailors, cheering the Queen as she passes by; while the
men on board the Thunderer, and other ships without any square
sails, are assembled on the upper decks, and ou the turrets, to
greet her Majesty in the same fashion. Iu the front of this
anew is seen one of the beautiful and swift torpedo-boats
constructed by Messrs. Yarrow, of Mill wall, whose perform¬
ance was greatly admired.
The boys and girls of St. Mary’s Schools, Lambeth, wero
! entertained yesterday week in the archiepiscopal grounds to
! their usual animal summer fete.
AUG. 24, 1878
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179
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.
Av the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement
•of Science in Dublin on Thursday week the Mathematical and
Physical Science Section was opened without a formal address,
in consequence of the absence of the president, Dr. Salmon,
who remains at Manchester, owing to an accident. There were
proceedings in the Geological, the Zoological, the Economic
Science, und the Geographical Sections. The main feature in
the day’s proceedings was Sir C. Wyvillo Thomson's address
at the Geography Section, in which ho dealt with the brilliant
results of Mr. Stanley’s African expedition. Referring to
Arctic and other explorations of the last quarter of a century,
he declared that their result had been to give us an improved
idea of the physical conditions of the ocean, two facts especially
being made clear—in the first place, that there was a deposit
of a chalky character going on some few hundred miles from
land : and, secondly, that the ocean averaged 2000 fathoms in
depth, and nowhere exceeded 5000. When the sectional
business was over there was a gardeu party at the Viceregal
Lodge, Phcrnix Park, given by the Lord Lieutenant and the
Duchess of Marlborough. All the chief members of the Asso¬
ciation were present. Among the guests were also the Duke
and Duchess of Leinster, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Heaclfort, the Marquis of Drogheda, the Marquis of Kildare,
and other distinguished persons.
An interesting discussion took place yesterday week on the
subject of the antiquity of man, in the course of which it was
admitted that some supposed prehistoric human remains were
really those of quadrupeds. The same subject was revived in
an address delivered by Professor Huxley on anthropology.
Ho maintained that there was abundant evidence of the exist¬
ence of man in ages antecedent to the historic, and said that
the groat questions and problem raised by Darwin with respect
to animals were applicable to man. The data for solving the
problem were in course of collection, and he believed that it
would be solved one day. Pupers wore read on physiology,
geography, and other subjects of interest. A most interesting
paper was read in the department of zoology by Sir John
Lubbock on the habits of ants. Sir John stated that he had
kept thirty species of ants in confinement. They throve well;
and he had specimens which he had kept since 1874. They
were probably bred in the previous year, and were now,
therefore, five years old. A peculiar feature of iuterest
in these insects was resemblance to human beings in
many social respects. There were, for example, slave-
making ants, which, in one case at least were entirely
dept rdent on their slaves, and would perish even in the
midst of plenty if left to themselves. He had kept some
of these ants, however, alive for months by giving them a slave
for an hour a day to clean and feed them. These ants repre¬
sented an abnormal, and perhaps only a temporary, state of
thing*, for it was not improbable that the slave-making species
would eventually find it impossible to compete with those which
•were more self-dependent and had reached a higher phase of
civilisation. They found in the different species various con¬
ditions of life curiously answering to the earlier stages of
human progress, such as the hunting and the pastoral, and
even to the agricultural. Some species lived principally on the
produce of the chase, and they probably retained the habits
once common to all ants. They resemble the lower races of
men, who subsist mainly by hunting. Like these, they live in
comparat ively small communities, and the instinct of collective
action was little developed among them. They hunted siugly,
and their battles were single combats, like those of man in his
early history. Another species might be compared to the
•jaasioral stage of human progress, to the races that live on the
produce of their tlocks and herds. Their communities were
more numerous, they acted more in concert, their battles were
no me re single combats, but they knew how to act in com¬
bination. bir John’s opinion was that they would gradually
•exterminate the hunting species, just as savages disappeared
befoi e more advanced races.
Little sectional work was attempted on Saturday, nearly all
the numbers being absent on excursions. A party of fifty,
under the direction Lord Talbot de Malahide, visited the seat
of the Earl of Charlemont at Fairview, and Malahide Castle.
Another party, under the conductorship of Professor Hull,
went to limy Head, and were entertained at luncheon by the
Earl of Meath. One of the most interesting trips was made to
Mai nooth Catholic College; and Carton, the seat of the Duke
of Leinster. Phcrnix Park, Uowth, was visited by seventy-
five excursionists, under the guidance of Professor Mahuffy.
•Other trip« were made to Dublin Bay and Glencrec. A banquet
was given in the evening by the Lord Mayor of Dublin to the
members of the Association in the Round Room of the Mansion
House, his Lordship being supported on his right by the Lord
Lieutenant, and on the left by Air. Spottiswoode, the President
of the Association. Among those present were Lord O’Hagan,
Viscount Gough, Lord Talbot de Malahide, the Lord Chief
Justice of Ireland, Chief Justice Alorris, &c. The wiuners of
the Elclio Shield were present, the trophy which they had won
at the last Wimbledon meeting being exhibited over the
Loid Mayor’s seat. The speakers included the Lord Lieu¬
tenant of Ireland, Mr. Spottiswoode, the President of the
Association, the Earl of Rosse, and Air. Shaw Lefevre, M.P.
The Lord Lieutenant, in replying to the toast of his health,
referred in congratulatory terms to the advance which science
had made, and to the satisfactory work performed by the
Association during the past year.
On Monday morning the Association was early astir.
Before nine o’clock & number of the principal members pro¬
ceeded to the Zoological Gardens, in the Phtenix Park, where
they were entertained at breakfust by the president and
council of the Zoological Society. Among the mors important
subjects dealt with in the sections were an account by Captain
Burton of his recent wanderings in the East; a paper on the
island of Cyprus, by Dr. Phene; a description by Professor
Forbes of an instrument for measuring fire-damp in mines;
and an address by Mr. W. H. Preece on recent advances in
telegraphy. At a general meeting of the council, held in the
afternoon, Sheffield was chosen as the town in which the next
meeting of the Association is to be held. According to an
understanding previously arrived ut, Swansea was selected for
the place of holding the meet ing of 1880. Dr. Allman was
elected president of the next annual meeting.
The Association was kept very busy on Tuesday; the sub¬
jects dealt with including the progress of the geological survey
of Ireland, polar explorations, the habits ana customs of the
tribes of tropical aborigines, ancient races generally and their
traditions, and electric lighting. Professor Huxley presided
at the Anthropological Section, and made some observations
on a paper read by M. Henri Martin. In the course of a dis¬
cussion to which the paper on electric lighting gave rise, Pro¬
fessor Briggs, of Washington, mentioned that electric lights
were used in the House of Representatives and at the Pennsyl¬
vania railway station, and that the cost was one thirty-fourth
part of that which would be paid for gas. The Dublin
University at an extraordinary coinitia conferred the degree
of Doctor of Law upon Mr. W. Spottiswoode, Professor H.
Smith, Mr. P. C. Janssen, Mr. M. Simpson, Mr. A. W. William¬
son, Air. J. Evans, Sir John Lubbock, Air. J. D. Hooker, Pro¬
fessor W. II. Flower, Professor Huxley, Professor Wyville
Thomson, and Air. J. Thomson. At the conversazione of the
Royal Irish Academy in the evening there was an immense
audience. In the President’s reception-room there were ex¬
hibited reproductions of ancient Irish objects; in the museum,
bronze, iron, stone, aud wooden antiquities; in the strong
room, gold antiquities; and in the crypt, bronze curiosities,
canoes, and ogham stones. In the passage to the Mansion
House the library of the poet Aloore, which is in the possession
of the Academy, was shown. All the celebrities of the British
Association were present.
Wednesday brought the meeting to a close Many of the
members attended the breakfast given by the Irish Zoological
Society at the Gardens, in Phoenix Park. Professor Haughton
made a humorous speech on this occasion, descriptive of the
struggles the Zoological Society has hod to keep up its exist¬
ence. The remaining papers were read, and some of them
discussed, and the other proceedings were of a routine character.
Grants of money were made for scientific purposes. The
President, at the closing meeting, stated that the magnitude
of this year’s gathering was unprecedented in the history of
the Association. The tickets sold numbered two thousand live
hundred and seventy-eight. Votes of thanks were accorded
to the Provost of the University, the Lord Alayor, and the
local secretaries. The meeting was adjourned till Aug. 10,
187‘J, at Sheffield. * ’
ARCHAEOLOGY AT WISBECH.
The British Arch;eological Association opened its annual
Congress on Alouduy last in the town or Wisbech, in the
centre of the Fen Country, under the presidency of the Earl
of Hardwiekc. Lord Lieutcnnut of Cambridgeshire. The
Mayor and Corporation of that town gave its learned visitors
a courteous and hospitable reception. Lord Hardwiekc, iu his
opening address, spoke of the condition of the Feu Country in
re-bistoric times, and also within the era of history, showing
ow in very distant ages—many thousand years ago—the Isle
of Ely and the surrounding district was a waste and boggy
swamp, aud how it was reclaimed by pious men and women,
such as Guthluc and St. Etheldreda. and by those whom they
had civilised; how in the Saxon and Norman times it
had been the home of saints and of men of science;
how the latter had gradually finished the work which
the Romans had commenced, of draining off the waters;
and how in later times these advantages had been
lost by trying to make the natural subservient to the
artificial drainage ; and then how, lastly, an Earl of Bedford
and other resident noblemen of this and neighbouring coun¬
ties had charged themselves with the work of reclaiming the
“ Level ”—u work which they had done with such success that
over what was once a howliug wilderness the harvest smiles,
and the Fens are now one of the best corn-growing districts in
England. His Lordship dwelt with considerable pride on the
noble parish churches which adorn the Fens, in which he
felt sure that his arclucologist friends would find ample mate¬
rials for study and research. He also mentioned iu terms of
high praise a work on the churches of the Fens and marsh
lands, illustrated by photographs, aud published by Messrs.
Leach, of Wisbech. His Lordship added that the Prince of
Wales had felt great pleasure iu ordering his house at Sand¬
ringham to be thrown open to the Association.
We prebent, agreeably to our usual practice upon these
occasions, a page of Engravings, from Sketches by our own
Artist, showing a few of the most interesting architectural
antiquities of Wisbech, Lynn Regis, Castle Rising, Castle
Acre, Stamford, Thorney Abbey, Peterborough, aud Cam¬
bridge, which are within reach of the excursions to be made by
members of the Association this week and next week. They
are nearly all situated within the area or on the borders of
the South Pen Country—that is to say, south of the Wash—
comprising the levels drained by the rivers Ouse, Nene, Wel¬
land, and their tributaries, and situated mostly in the counties
of Huntingdon, Cambridge, and part of Norfolk, but extend¬
ing over a comer of Northamptonshire to the Lincolnshire
boundary. The North Fen Country, in Lincolnshire, prin¬
cipally occupying the lowlands on each side of the river
Wit ham to its discharge into the Wash below Boston, is
often considered as a separate region ; yet there appear to
be some grounds lor viewing the whole Fenland, from
Lincoln, at its northern extremity, to near Cambridge, at its
southern termination, a distance of seventy-three miles, with
an extreme breadth of half that space from Peterborough to
Brandon in Suffolk, as one natural division in English physical
geography. We may here refer, with very well deserved
commendation, to the important work just produced by two
joint authors, Air. Samuel H. Aliller aud Mr. Sydney Skertchley
(the latter of her Alajcsty’s Geological Survey), entitled “ The
Fenland, Past and Present,” a handsome volume published,
in folio and in octavo, by Alessrs. Leach and Son at Wisbech,
and by Alcasrs. Longmans and Co. in Patemoster-row. It is a
thorough scientific description of the entire region, its land
and its water, its shores, its climate, its botany and zoology,
its sanitary condition, its drainage, und its agricultural capa¬
bilities ; besides which there are several chapters on its history
in the successive British, Roman, 8axon, Danish, Normau,
and modem English periods, with notes of a philological
character, and some relating to local antiquities, particularly
those of the monasteries that flourished in this part of England.
The volume is furnished with serviceable maps and plans, and
is adorned with a large number of lithographs aud wood en¬
gravings. photographs of drawings, and one chromo-lithograph
of the “Sunrise at Crowland,” which render it not less
attractive than instructive. We nmy, perhaps, have a future
opportunity of citing this valuable work, which ought cer¬
tainly to be in the possession of all who feel any interest in
that remarkable portion of our country; but our present
concern is rather with the places visited by the British Archeo¬
logical Association.
Wisbech, a town of nine or ten thousand inhabitants, is
situated on the Nene, a few miles above its estuary in the
Wash, forty miles north of Cambridge, about twenty miles
east of Peterborough and Spalding, and eighty-seven miles
from London. It is a shipping port for vessels of 500 tons,
and bus a flourishing com trade, enjoying also communication
with the Great Northern, Midland, and Great Eastern Rail¬
ways, and having its own tramways on the quays and river
banks. The old church of St. Peter and St. Paul, which is
figured iu the centre of our page of Illustrations, is a large
edifice of mixed Early English and Perpendicular styles, with
a square tower, chancel, double nave, transept, and south
porch. The Vicar, who is the Rev. Canon Scott (a brother of
the late Sir Gilbert Scott), read to the Archeological Asso¬
ciation some notes of the history of the building prepared by
Sir Gilbert Scott himself. He gave a description of its chief
structural peculiarities, its monuments, and other relies of
antiquity, drawing attention to the flat roof which covered
both of its twin naves, and which he had little doubt was pre-
Rcloroiatiou und original work. Mr. Loftus Brock aud Mr.
Bloxham spoke briefly on the same subject, the former abo
drawing attention to the unique instance of an old Roman
Catholic altar-stone being used in the chancel on the top of
the communion-table. The stone is still to bo seen in situ,
but marked with only three instead of five crosses, as
is usual. The communion-table, which was set up iu
the nave of tins church at the Reformation, and now
kept in the vestry, was shown and commented on; and the
visitors were much interested in the fine “ brass ” of Sir
Thomas Baunstone, constable of Wisbech Castle, which lies
on the floor in the centre of the chancel. The beautiful tower
came in for its share of admiration. There could be little
doubt, as was agreed, that it was the work of that gru it
media-val prelate and statesman, Dr. Aloreton, Bishop of Ely,
and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury.
A mile or two from Wisbech is the village of Leveriugtou,
where the Association examined some Early English barrows
that had been opened for their inspection, and a portion of
the Roman fosse and agger still re maini ng. We give on
Illustration of Leverington Church. This is a fine specimen
of ecclesiastical architecture, with a perpendicular nave aud
open timber roof, an Early English chancel and sedilia, and a
large decorated eastern window. The font, of rich perpen¬
dicular work, with figures under canopies iu the upper part
nud also on the stem, and the southern porch, with its
“purvise” and ogee arch, aud its fine Early English tower,
were much admired.
The excursions for this week were to Ely and its majestic
Cathedral on Tuesday ; to King's Lynn and Castle Rising,
possibly to Sandriuglmin, on Wednesday ; to Swaffham, Castle
Acre, and again to King’s Lynn, on Thursday ; to Thorney
aud Crowland Abbeys, Deeping, and Spalding, on Friday; to
Stamford, Burghley House, and l’eterborough, on Saturday ;
and on Monday the Association will visit Cambridge.
Lynn Regis, or King's Lynn, the chief town of West
Norfolk, and the chief seaport of the South Fen Country, is
situated on the Ouse estuary, nearly a hundred miles from
London, about sixteen from Wisbech, and has a population of
17,000 souls. Its harbour and dock give accommodation to
a large amount of shipping, mostly employed iu the corn and
coal trades. It is a terminal station for three important
systems of railway communication throughout the Eastern
Counties. The municipality has enjoyed its privileges
since the time of King John, and has always sent
its two members to Parliament. There are frag¬
ments remaining of the old town wall, the south gate
with its tower aud triple archway, and an octagonal
tower ou the Red Alouut, overlooking the fosse on the east side
of the town, with a pleasant boulevard shaded by lime and
chesuut trees. The principal old church, St. Margaret’s, for¬
merly that of a Priory, is a fine old Gothic structure, with two
large towers at the west end, and consisting of chancel, nave,
aisles, and transepts. But it bus been deprived, by a storm in
1711, of the lofty spire, 258 ft. in height, that surmounted oue
of the towers; und the central lantern, at the intersection of
the nave and transepts, was also demolished by the fall of the
spire. The nave and aisles have been restored by Sir Gilbert
Scott, and the chancel by Air. Ewau Christian, for the Eccle¬
siastical Commissioners. St. Nicholas's chapcl-of-ease is an
edifice of Late Perpendicular style, the porch of which is
shown in our Illustration; it has a beautiful new spire. We
also give a sketch of the hexagonal tower of the old Grey
Friars’ monastery, imas’a Hospital. Lynn was
under the peculiar jurisdiction of the Bishops of Norwich,
and was called Lynn Episcopi till the reigu of Henry VTII.,
who confiscated much of the ecclesiastical property, and
changed the name to Lynn Regis. Iu the Civil Wars of
Charles I. this town sided with the King, and was besieged in
August, 1643, by the Earl of Manchester's army, which took
it lor the Parliament.
Four or five miles from Lynn is Castle Rising, a village that
once stood on the seashore, like Winchelsea and Rye in Sussex,
and had some maritime traffic, but is now separated from the
sea by a broad tract of sand. The Castle, of which a stately
remnant is shown in our Artist’s Sketch, was built iu 1176 by
William dc Albini. It has some historical interest as the
place of confinement in which the unworthy Queen Isabella,
widow of Edward II., epded her life, in 1358, twenty-seven
years after the overthrow of her favourite, Alortimer. The town
of Swaffham, fifteen miles south-east of Lynn, has an interest¬
ing old church, with tombs and monuments; and in its
vicinity is Castle Acre, where arc some remains of a Norman
fortress, constructed by William de Warenne, son-in-law of
William the Conqueror; and also the Priory of Cluny moaks,
a very magnificent establishment, which is the subject of our
Illustration. It is of enriched Norman architecture, dating
about the end of the twelfth century. The inclosure of this
monastery occupies about thirty acres, in which are several
fragments of its buildings. Castle Acre was allowed to fall
to ruin, as a feudal stronghold, in the reign of Edward III.,
and has but little history belonging to it.
On the river None, between Wisbech and Peterborough,
and upon a site which was once an isle in the midst of the fens
and meres, stood Thorney Abbey, a Benedictine monastery of
great wealth und dignity, founded in Saxon times. The
Abbey Church, shown in one of our Sketches, has been restored
by Air. Blore, and serves a parish of two thousand souls, under
the patronage of the Duke of Bedford. The architectural
character of tills church, a mixture of Norman and Early
English, bus been well preserved, and its interior is beautifully
fitted up, with stained-glass windows, a sculptured altar-
screen, and a fine organ. Thorney, which was once called
Ankeridge, lias been the scene of great local improvements,
described by Mr. S. H. Aliller, in “ The Fenland,” by which
the sanitary and social condition of its people, and the agricul¬
tural prosperity of the place, have been remarkably benefited.
It seems to be as well deserving of a visit from the Sooial
Science Association as from the Arolneological Association,
and the Duke of Bedford merits some degree of public com¬
mendation for such an example.
Peterborough Cathedral, of which we can only show a
cloister gate in a corner of the page of Engravings, will divide
with Ely Cathedral the admiration of those visitors who care
for the grandest architectural works in this district. Its
west front, with its three noble arches of equal height,
rising to 81ft., surmounted by gables with rose win¬
dows and flanked by turrets with spires, has nothing
like it in England, aud the portico of the middle door is
very beautiful in detail. But this is not the occasion for us to
describe the cathedral, and we have little to say of the gate in
the cloister, formerly leading to the Abbot’s Lodge, which
our Artist has sketched. To the north-west of Peterborough,
over the Lincolnshire border, is Stamford, which has many
features of interest for the amateurs of autiquariuu topography.
Our Illustrations represent St. Leonard’s Priory, with its
stately front of Norman arches, and the tower and steeple of
St. Mary’s Church. The British Arclneological tourist* will
find much to discourse upon iu these famous places of East
Anglia, which are associated with many stirring passages of
our national history. _
The Saddlers’ Company have given 410 10a. to the 2nd City
of Loudon Volunteers.
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Lontekf, Messrs. Z attired
Baron Mora and “ le “^the pianoforte stand of
numerous admmng aud *® n £;® Witrmore-street, London.
Messrs. John Bnnsmcftdand^. of ^ ciptesgi
The French papers hav ® ^.^^Srameiits. The two Grands
of admiration Parisian professors and amateurs
especially have enchmited tue ^ heir enormous power,
of music by their noble sonorousne , touch,
and the sy W h f? c ? U L V XSc q aS certS so that many
also, is beautifully light, e » Liazt do wnwards, who
pianists of every nation, from A complimented the
and extend in compass from sownin detaU, but
The improvemcntsaretoonumcrous tod ^ patents
it America. Vigorous
recognised throughout Lll * op f t every portion of these
attempts have bS conrtrScted on entirely
instruments, and the whole ™ rfect chcck repeater
quite as much to the ridic ^ S „^f ^haS^tSng 8 expo-
behaviour of ro J ete ^L^ g "to the serious objections and
nents of the code of b ine8 Expense, however,
arguments of more re ff?^ b L e _;t^rythmg, to do with the
aeems to have had someth g^f 1 ^ company to stop the
efforts made bv the late * „ ^ told, partly
practice. ‘‘They were ^tuated^^ ^ 8ervants from
by a laudable desire from the loss which
slaughtering each other, ^ brought on the public
a killed or disabled omcer b killed another
treasury ” : for “ whenever was^ ^
officer had to ““V?* wa 7’ 8 ent out from England,
fill his place, whilst another on Directors grew irritated
»tb/very pSTpto? order. that
and alarmed, and “*|“**, duel should be cashiered,
any officer convicted of ^fighting » dum himgel{ tolera bly free
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
All the children belonging to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum*
in the Old Kent-road, and their teachers, were entertained at
dinner and tea at the Crystal Palace on the 15th inst. by Mr.
Richard Winch, a member of the committee.
The twenty-fourth annual fete of the Ancient Order of
Foresters, in aid of the Widows’ and Orphans’ Fund of that
society, was held on Tuesday at the Crystal Palace. Although
the numbers present fell far short of the figures of a few years
since yesterday’s festival upon the whole may be pronounced
a snccess —A fete of a popular character, in aid of the funds
of the Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage, took place at
the Alexandra Palace on Wednesday.
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows that
. total number of paupers on the last day of the second week
\ a_ nr uA rcV.rkm 3ft 173 wptr in world
And alarmed ” and “issued tnc ul cashiered” ! the total number of paupers on the last day 01 me second wet*
any officer convicted of fightmg a duel bce Jg August was 75,845, of whom 38,173 were in workhouses and
Tf however our gallant author fo and his brother 37 (542 received outdoor relief. Compared with the corrc—
f romthoseperils among his own countrymenandlnsDrome 37 ,^re 1876> and 1875 respectively, these
SS£toVShewoSld have,been , ^Sow a decrease of 1038,1012, and 6915. The number
during the “good old times, J* e '* }te and with sporting | of vagrants relieved on the last day of the week was 633, of
Sold, Snd with expeditions^ ” SSlfaiS aild otlxer dan- whc ^?oo -™ 1 Sft women, and .,0 children under sixteen.
'‘toou hand . and ,,
of vagrants renevea on me ^ rr>
whom 392 were men, 186 women, and ■>■> children under sixteen.
n COUSuruencvA vu ...■
nuntuie, BUU — ''Hie “nerfect check repeater
new principles throughout. ^ j ner f C ct; “the
action” renders the Hmij and
new complete "“J* 1 ‘*5^®, t increa! » in the length
the sustaining power, .^tifidlv sSned effects, without the
^STJSSSShi. ^Sto^wSSdant on the employ-
oonfusedro^tbatlmhithem.^ ^ cmcuts are also con-
t^TSSiSS Erhibition.
BOOKS ABOUT INDIA.
IttEZZpJK idCo? two volumes written to a consider-
^ffi^Mrejntnisce^
in India as a younp E ’j „ 'ftercarc numerous I
Ease/^ssis 4 ~prrn“^,
f sort of hereditary or ancestral connection with
SSStSi 1
uu wim -- .“ •> elephants ana oiner uau- wnom ov& mtu, ----
among tigen ajd aen v to his hand; and he ^ coaching season is drawing to a close. The Orleans
be<uU, iSde™to recount. In connection with club and tho Portsmouth coaches have been takenoff the road,
nv exoloits ana eECapts bv * _rvloacumt to , iTr:_]_ _ «|< ita lsi«t. murnfiV this vear on
porous uttutw,, escapes to recount. In connection wan , Club and the Portsmouth cuw.u«> —*• —«—- --»
has many exploits and eecam Rasseinitis pleasant to d the Windsor coach ran its last journey this year on
the author s «>^JS^ a 2IS le d«ment of the assistance Satlirday i a8 t. The London and Brighton coach will, how¬
ever continue running until the middle of September. On
Monday the fifty-five horses which worked the coach running
between London and Portsmouth this summer were sold by
auction at Tattersall’s. Several of these roadsters fetched
o-’cr eighty guineas, and the entire stud averaged fifty guineas.
The medical colleges and schools of the metropolis will
onen on Tuesday, Oct. 1. At the Middlesex Hospital there
will be an introductory address by Dr. Arthur W. Edis; at
rendered bj Captain lieu itt6U by Lieutenant Low,
Indian Envy, whose history, as writi- of J Bunnege at hl e tic
SSt indfclS
are C to the^Waces, by 0 the “ f?PM eV ice’’he ^ib«i at , ^ ^ introductory aaaress D y nr. srisur w. m», ™
® ks of the second volume. A “ dead-hcat, if true, ana a choring-cross Hospital, by Dr. James Pearson Irvine ; at
fme “dead-heat” does surely sometimes occur, won ^ I gt Q eorg ^ 8 Hospital, by Dr.'Thomas T. Whipham ; at St.
ing to his description, cause the two b^hM of - Mary’s Hospital, by Dr.Robert 1 arquharson; at St. ihomiu_s
crasped by two men at the same moment, ifthey we 4 7 H ^ ital by Mr. Edward Nettleship, k .R.C.S. Eng.; at \Vest-
is excellent, and deserves to meet with general acceptance.
a lovely frontispiece, representing “ the Taj, Agra, at
“JK'^aoa'Low and
Zly sources besides personal experience, ^ ^Sore thm
tnnatelv that index which would have doubled and more than
doubled' the value and the tangibility of the information.
The author’s profession would naturally mdiice him to look
at certain matters from a point of view generally
adopted by the many writers who have preceded hun in
his field of 7 observation: and in that respect, if m no other,
his work is invested with some sort of originality and with
JAppearance of novelty. He commences hia »^ive
“from the egg;” and that egg he hatches both pcrsonaUy
and by means of artificial incubation, for which he is indebted
to other authors, until a full-fledged record, of very imposing
bL preS. i«ll for tho roodor'B gratiUtation. We tarn at
the outset that the author, having m the summer of 18 <3
“received the appointment of staff-surgeon in the island of
Guernsey,” was; after but five months’ p easant tonurc of his
n«w “ eurtlv ” ordered to India, for which d^tant land he
of that W llliam Fytche, turn ia 1752 . iust 1 Then foUows a desci
, ? iv vsnfVi nTruliar feelings, &s of oug wlio trends
gaitat
in mo on board the ship which was to bear him,
3 together with him the ^ous John Nicholson, to whom
+hp Sikhs in after years looked up as a demi-god, over the
wa“e of JTtween England and Calcutta His
departure took place, in other respects, under more flattering
auspices than was usual with the ordinary “ gnffln,” for it was
maJe the subject of some verses written by his cousin paries
Tennvson now, by change of name, Charles Turner, brother
of the Poet Laureate. Strangely enough, the first place at
which he was posted was Berhampore, ‘ the m^tory station
. _. 1.0 A ** that, he was “ ill the neighbourhood of
that a war was lmpenumg win *
applied and received employment, being fent.off to Burma
and ordered to do duty with the Arakan local battalion. And
thus began his acquaintance with the country “.which he
was one day to fill so high a position, and of which he has
written so interesting and so valuable an account. That
account commences with some historical sketchcsof
Burma,” bringing matters down to the tune, m 1841, when
our author wm ordered to Arakan. These sketches are fol¬
lowed by a chapter devoted to “personal reminiscences of
Arakan,'Basscin, and Tenasserim.” Then comes a chapter
descriptive of the author’s “mission to Mandalay, 1867,
and containing a “narrative of former missions to the
Kings of Burma.” After this wo have three chapter
dealing respectively with the “physical geography o
British Burma, including area, character of the surface,
climate, temperature, and botanical productions, with
“ agriculture, manufactures, trade, and finance, and
with the “ethnography of the inhabitants of Burma, and
of the neighbouring hill tribes.” So much for the contentsi of
the first volume, of which enough has been said to justify the
uni ark made at the commencement of this notice as to the
spirit of thoroughness whereby the author appears to have
been inspired. The second volume begins with a chapter
concerning “language and literature,” with a specimen of
“Burmese writing” in a character “ not underhanded of the
people ” of this country and with a “ translation of a Burmese
tirama.” The second chapter is occupied with “physical
description and habits and customs of the Burmese; ’ the
third with an account of “ four years administration of British
Burma, 1867-1871; ” the fourth and last with a dissertation
upon “ Buddhism and education in Burma ; ” and the rest of
the volume is taken up by the hereinbefore-mentioned exten¬
sive but instructive and serviceable appendices. Whether the
gallant author writes as a man under authority, having had
soldiers and civilians under him and a difficult province
to administer, or simply as a member of an honourable
profession, having seen men and _ cities, having met
with personal adventures, and having heard what is
worth repeating from trustworthy sources, he is always
pleasant to read, though, of course, he is more profit¬
able when he draws his material from the storehouse of his
official experience. He found duelling no longer very rife in
the Indian Army, though a duel was occasionally brought off
even in his time, and he mentions one case which exhibits the
absurdity of the practice in n very strong light. Indeed it is
probable that duelling, for which a great deal may be and has
been said, owes its extinction as a national custom among us
and his wile set 6au on ouu. o, ion, v.. --— -
Then follows a description of “life on the ocean wave, sue
ceeded by sketches of Malta, Fort Said, the Suez Canal, and
Aden ; and it is only at the end of the second chapter that we
are landed at Bombay. Next comes an epitomised history of
Hindustan, occupying another chapter. I he author may then
be said to resume his personal narrative, though hc still con¬
tinues to mingle with the story of his own and his wife a
daily life liberal contributions levied upon standard works
relating to “the principal cities of India, and to
“the history, religions, and manners and custonu of the
natives.” Nor let it be supposed that this manner of proceed¬
ing is mentioned with auy intention of bringing the author
into discredit or of reflecting upon him in any way; on the
contrary, it is mentioned for the sole purpose of showing how
which he was postea was ueraampuiu, I there is in the took than the title might lead
not touch; and upon very many he descants at considerable,
but by no means tedious, length. On some subjects, not of
the first importance perhaps, but nevertheless of no little
interest, he gives, so far as memory bears him witness,
information which is quite unique—as regards the lottery in
connection with horse-racing, for instance. What he says
about cholera and about the practice of medicine in India
derives weight and attraction from his professional capacity.
As to Esau, it is probable that readers will regret the
comparative ecantiness of the records concerning him. And if
anybody should wish to know who Esau was, the answer is not |
far to 6eek. lie was a person whom the author and his wife .
might, with the exaggeration of Oriental parlance, have
described us their “father and mother:” he was, in fact,
their “khansamah,” or butler, at Faizabad, which is the
principal town, after Lucknow, in the province of Oudli. Ho 1
was a Madras Christian, thoroughly acquainted with his duties, |
scrupulously honest, a fluent speaker of English, a most devout
Roman Catholic, given to the study of his Hindustani Bible, j
shaping his course of life thereby, save that he could not con¬
ceal his Pharisaical pride in not being as other men are, and ,
especially us those “ niggers,” of whom, however, notwith- |
standing the term he applied to them, he was in reality the 1
very blackest. His master and mistress, through “his care j
and devotion during a trying time of sickness and sorrow,” |
he placed under an “ everlasting debt of gratitude.” It is
very delightful to find this fact so simply and ungrudgingly
recorded. Poor Esau appears to have had his romance. It so
happened that his master and mistress had with them an
English maid whose name, there ia reason to believe,
was Curtis; and she, after the fashion of her kind, must
needs succumb to matrimony. So she was married to a
Sergeant-Major of the Royal Artillery; and Esau, “being a
Christian, was present in the church, where, arrayed in a gala
costume of a long white garment,” says the author, “ with
high shirt-collar, and his turban off his head in deference to
the sacredness of the edifice, he stood apart, with a dismal
expression on his block face, the most dejected-looking native
it was ever our fortune to behold.” He never told his love,
perhaps; but he confided to his master and mistress that he
“was very fond on the Courtis.” Altogether, it would be
difficult to mention a single book in which a reader will find
so much, in so compact a form, and so pleasantly related,
about the places, the peculiarities, and the general life of
India.
minster Hospital, Dy air. unaries juucuuumiu, * •
at King’s College Hospital, by Professor Garrod, KL.S.; at
University College Hospital, by Professor Lankcster, M.A.,
F R S • and at the Dental Hospital of London Medical
Schooi, by Mr. A. Coleman, F.R.C.S. Eng., the senior surgeon.
A meeting of the council of the Hospital Sunday Fund was
held on Tuesday afternoon at the Mansion House, for the pur¬
pose of receiving the report of the committee of distribution
and ordering the payment of the awards made by them for the
year 1878. The report stated that the total sum received in aid
of the fund was about £25,000, and awards had been made of
different amounts to seventy-nine hospitals and similar insti¬
tutions, and sixty-two dispensaries, the total amount awarded
being £24,600, and the balance is to be carried over to next
Year's fund. Alderman Sir Sydney Waterlow, the vice-pre¬
sident of the council, took the chair, and there were present
the Bishop of London, the Rev. Canon Millar, the ltev. Mr.
Walrond, Sir Rutherford Alcock, Mr. Jabez Hogg, Mr. Luke
Hansard, Dr. Glover, Dr. Sedgwick Sanders, and several other
members of the committee. The Bishop of London moved
that the report be agreed to, and the different awards paid at
once, and this was agreed to.
There were 2421 births and 1517 deaths registered in
London last week. Allowing for increase of population, the
births exceeded by 21, while the dcathB were 59 below, the
average numbers in the corresponding week of the last ten
years? The fatal cases of smallpox, which had been 18 and 14
in the two previous weeks, further declined last week to 9, a
lower number than in any week since the beginning ot
November last. Five fatal cases (all of children) were certified
as unvaccinated, and one adult case as vaccinated; in the three
other cases the medical certificates gave no information as to
vaccination. The Metropolitan Asylum Hospitals contained
236 smallpox patients on Saturday last, corresponding with the
number at the end of the preceding week. The deaths referred
to diarrhoea and simple cholera, which had been 494 and Jo 1 m
the two preceding weeks, further declined last week to 265 , ana
were 28 below the corrected averagenumber in the corresponding
week of the last ten years: 190 were of infants under one year
of age, and 50 of children aged between one and five years.
Only 5 deaths last week were referred to simple cholera and
choleraic diarrhoea, against 24 and 12 in the two preceding
weeks: 3 were adult cases, all of which were certified as
choleraic diarrhoea. 'There were 10 deaths from measles, u
from scarlet fever, 11 from diphtheria, 60 from whooping-
cough, and 17 from different forms of fever. Inthe Greater
Loudon 2884 births and 1851 deaths were registered. iae
mean temperature was 62 2 deg. Rain fell on six days of the
week to the aggregate amount of 108 in. The duration
of registered sunshine in the week was 4IT hours, tue sun
being above the horizon during 102 3 hours.
The fourth annual prize meeting open to the Army, Navy,
auxiliary forces, and all comers, has been held this wees
at Browndown, Gosport. Prizes of the value of £4 -j 0 were
offered, and the competitors entered number nearly JoUO.
The Admiralty have issued a fresh order impressing ou
commanding officers of training-ships the absolute D<»essity
for carrying out most strictly the regulations in 186J tor
instructing boys in swimming.
English Opera will be heard in London again early in the
New Year. At the close of the provincial tour of the Carl
Rosa Opera Company (to be begun at Bristol on .Sept, i) m .
Rosa will give a series of performances of Opera in English on
a grand scale at her Majesty’s Theatre. The repertoire will
include one or more novelties new to England.
The Alert, which has been fitted out for a scientific cruise
in the South Pacific, was on Tuesday morning comnnssioiiea
1 by Captain Sir George Nares, K.C.B., and was afterwards
inspected by Vice-Admiral Sir \V. King Hall, K.C.B.,
Commander-in-chief at the Nore. Nearly the whole ot the
j officers have been appointed, and the crew have joined.
Gray, who was cashier of the Bonk of Mona, in the
Man, and who is undergoing penal servitude for having
stolen money from that establishment, has made a coufessi
which has led to the discovery of nearly all the missing
'The greater portion of the money has been found concealea
the country residence of Gray, and the remiunder in t
grounds of the lady to whose daughter Gray had been enga 0 ea
to be married.
Mr. Sclater-Booth on Saturday last opened a home for
pauper children, which has been built, at a cost of £jUW, y
the Ipswich union, outside the town, and apart from the wor -
house. He said he was glad to know that several unions naa
intimated their desire to avail themselves of the advantag
which such a home presented. Provision had been “ ade ,
teaching the children the trades of tailor and shoemaker, _
he suggested the desirability of the children being taught wi
use of auricultural implements.
AUG. 24, 1878
SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS.
The arrangements for the Cheltenham Congress
to be held in October next, are complete ns
regards the filling up of the various presi¬
dencies of departments. Mr. A. E. Miller
Q.C.,one of the Railway Commissioners, has
undertaken to preside over the Jurisprudence
Department; the Hon. George Brodrick that
of Education; Mr. W. H. Michael, Q.C., F.C.S.
will take the Health; Mr. Bonamy Price, Pro¬
fessor of Political Economy at Oxford, the
Economy and Trade ; Mr. T. Gambier Parry
that of Art; and the whole will be presided
over by Lord Norton. The addresses of the
presidents will be delivered one on each day of
the congress.
The standing committees of the several de¬
partments have selected the special questions
lor discussion as follow:—
International and Municipal Law Sections
1. The codification of the criminal law, with
special reference to the Attorney-General’s
Bill. 2. Simplification of the evidence of
title to real property, by record of title or
otherwise. 3. Whether the extinction of all
customary and other special tenures and the
limitations of leasehold are not desirable.
Repression of Crime Section.—1. Should
the summary jurisdiction of magistrates be
further extended ? 2. The consideration of
the proceedings of the Stockholm Interna
tional Prison Congress.
Education Department.—1. Is it expedient
to increase the number of Universities in
England? 2. Is it desirable to establish free
piimary schools throughout the country!'
ci. In what way is it desirable to connect the
system of primary schools with the endowed
and other schools that supply secondary edu¬
cation ?
Health Department.—1. The importance of
complete disinfection, and the best means of
providing for it by sanitary authorities. 2. On
the better regulation of house building gene¬
rally, and the best mode of improving the
sanitary condition of existing houses. 3.°How
best to overcome the difficulties of overcrowd¬
ing among the necessitous classes.
Economy and Trade Department.—1. What
are the economic principles that should regu¬
late the borrowing powers of local corpora¬
tions't 2. What are the causes of the present
depressed and stagnant condition of industrial
enterprise, and what are the best remedies ?
3. What means can best be adopted to secure
to the wage-earning classes a due provision for
old age ?
Art Department.—1. How can street archi¬
tecture be beat improved with due regard to
economy ? 2. How can a sound knowledge of
music be best and most generally dissemi¬
nated P 3. By what means can good examples
of art be brought within the reach of the
population of small towns and villages ?
lu addition to the above special questions,
paptrs, volunteered on other subjects coming
within the scope of the departments, will be
read and discussed.
JTIIE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
A bazaar and a horticultural exhibition
largely attended, was held at Lymingtou on
Wednesday.
The Plymouth Town Council on Wednesday
resolved, after nearly four hours’ debate, to
expend £7000 in rebuilding the theatre, which
was burnt down in June, and which was Cor do
ration property.
On Wednesday the Durham County Agri¬
cultural Society’s annual show was held at
South Shields. £1100 was offered as prizes
including fifty-two silver cups. The exhibition
was one of the most successful ever held bv the
society. J
A correspondent of the Times warns ladies
against wearing green gloves, and mentions
two cases in which blistering and swelling of
the hands have been caused by what is sup¬
posed to be the use of arsenic in the colourin'?
of the gloves.
Mr. Gladstone will deliver his address as
Lord Rector of Glasgow University in the
second week of November. The right lion
gentleman wilt be asked by the West and
bouth-West of Scotland Liberal Association
mid the Glasgow Liberal Association to attend
two meetings during his visit.
Tlie Kilmalcolm Waterworks, Renfrewshire
were on the 15th inst. opened by Sir Michael
bhaw Stewart, Bart. The total cost of the
scheme is about £3300. The reservoir is
situated about three miles from the town, and
has a drainage area of about a thousand acres
With a water surface of fifty thousand square
leet, the length of piping being four miles.
aquatics.
SchtTlub R^ftt CUP at thG Royal Victoria
t ,, Ke 6 atta was won yesterday week
led at, 6 first^ with th^T ^{ orindrt aucl Corisande
ieci at nrst, with the Jullauar just astern • and
tw 11 + h ° 7? cbt8 ^appeared round St. Helen’s
they stood in the following order-_Florinda
Consande, Jullanar, Arrow, Ada, Hildejrarde’
Vol-au-W, 1-iona, and Enchantress a Ion-
hf w east $ ni ' Evcutuall y the Jullauar came
of Se to th“ 0t T; itllStan ^ the “Wu”e
Th»™+ 1 other yachts, won the prize
f 2 r , C n Utters of 40 tons and upSS
und yachts of 30 tons and under closed the
Irs STB£
The Royal Albert Yacht Club took un
Sh r r 8 °f Monda y> opeuing its regatta
with the race for the Albert Cup which wis
m?d <\ y Florinda ’ the Ada being second
and the Fiona, Jullanar, Vega, and Veotune
also competing. In the 40-ton class, Mvosotis
never gave Christine a chance, and won very
eaaily; and the lo- ton race was won by Florence
after a good race with Volga. Swift wof the
match for 9-tonners. The regatta w™ con?
®J uded 011 Tu ^duy with two races and a couple
° vcr - the schooner match for £3o
was walked over by the Miranda of Mr J C
Lampson and a prize of the value of £25 for
cutters of 201 tons was walked over by the
\ancssn of Mr. R. Borwick. For the £S0
prize for cutters, the Arrow, Vol-au-Vent
Oimara, Neva, and Psyche started There
1?* C 08 ? **h at Sonthsea. The Arrmv
sceme d to be winning easily, when the Vol-
au-Vent gamed on her, aud won by forty
Horn fh/i 01 ' aUow . in 6 for time she received
from the Arrow. In the Corinthian match for
to S 9 t, n0 w xcecdiug 20 t0U3 > the Florence
fouled the Warner light-ship, and the Maggie
won easily, the Mildred being the other cuttfr
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iTw, ^P her canvas, the Hildegarde not being
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arrived off Cowes Castle at 12h. 37 min 7 sec
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The town regattas of the south and east
coast are now being held. On Monday the
aquatic festivities of Brighton, Deal, and
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SUPPLEMENT TO THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Auo. 24, 1878.— 1M
THK BRITISH FLEET AT LARNACA, CYPRUS, SALUTING ON THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S BIRTHDAY.
FROM A SKETCH HT OUR SPECIAL ARTIST.
the tt.t.ttSTRATED LONDON NEWS
AUG. 24, 1878
T 1E BRITISH OCCUPATION OP CYPRUS. !
W" ~ S ^ ial Jrtitt and Cwr T££ Aug. 7.
2S £ SStfUSl *Vsf firSSSSS!
■was fired by the ships at the H M S Black Prince
other officers of the “^IhfSngTat
and I proceed at once to Nicosia. ,♦>,,» seat of
yi/fJortiflf Wolselev lias now established tfie seat oi
^JBSNSgsKS
baA^SSdayeSg and^ym^dnggT&^d
a^ga^cj^ wrs ztz
S7' 1 ^SaoWy r °for reinforcements
i r ssr&srJ!A^gp s.
purchased, by Captain Bury, of the Royal Artillery. But
Ft was found impossible to obtain “7 , ho ” e f oJ
requisite stamp, and the Suez returned without her cargo
Ser a fruitless visit. It is curious ^j£| ue *
been sent before the horses were purchased. At aU evmts,
information could have been obtained by telegraph as to the
Sate of the horse market in Syria. An idea is current, at
Damascus and Beyrout and the neighbouring ^ ^ ^
French contemplate an occupation of byna ^^
iudeine from their fortunate neighbours at Cyprus, look tor
iardto a rich harvest of European gold. Ihe troopswhmh
had disembarked on the Sunday were ordered to re-embark on
Friday, together with their stores and camp equipage, and
sailed* the same evening at nine o clock for their “fl®?* 1
destinations. U.M.S. Tamar embarked some for Kyrema,
and H.M.S. Simoom some for Baffo ; the hired transports
Bengal and Goa took others to Famagosta, convoyed by the
Tamar troop-ship ; while the Madura and Malda left for
Limasol, where the Pallas is lying. Bngadier-General
Macpherson aud his staff rode overland to take command at
that port. As for 1 the head-quarters of the British forces,
their latge camp at Chevlik Pasha is now well organised,
in first-rate order, and, barring the heat, might form
a portion of Aldershott. The camp is formed on a
sloping plateau, elevated 150 ft. above the sea, and distant
about four miles and a half from the Marina of Larnaca.
The lines face the north, with the Royal Artillery on
the extreme right. A slight interval separates them from
the Bengal cavalry, whose camp is next. A larger space
and a slight depression separate the cavalry from the Bntisfi
infantry, which are camped with the 101st in the centre, with
the 42nd and 71st on the right and left flanks respectively.
The ground falls to the front, forming a gradual descent, at
the lowest level of which is the aqueduct, which supplies
Larnaca with a perennial flow of pure and wholesome water.
A portion of this water is diverted for various purpose®, and
is carried, in pipes or open gutters, to the various wutenng-
troughs. As the ground falls away to the eastward, the
aqueduct, which is carried across the inequalities of the
ground on solid and apparently ancient arches, becomes
higher, and here and there forms an important feature in the
landscape. The soil is sandy and dusty, but wonderfully
fertile; and, wherever any irrigation is possible, the brightest
verdure is apparent. Of course, at this time of the year the
surface of the ground is burnt up and the vegetation is
scorched; but, nevertheless, w here the ground is but scratched
green crops of various descriptions are to be seen growing,
qiie gardens about the thriving villages are wonderfully pro¬
ductive, as is, indeed, shown in the inexhaustible vegetable
supply of the Larnaca bazaars and market. The place can pro¬
duce anything ; the soil is ric , aud fertile, in spite of its present
pulverised, dusty look. The health of the troops at present is
reassuring: the percentage o: sick in hospital is as small, if
not smaller, than it would bo in England at the same time of
year. We hear of no sickne- among the inhabitants either of
town or country; and it is i,<<t possible to see a more healthy
lot of country folk than thc^c cheery Cyprians, some very
rough-looking but picturesque peasants, with a lurge predomi¬
nance of classical features. A great proportion, we notice,
have fair complexions and hair.
The Canara transport, which had gone to Malta a week
since, returned on Aug. 2, towing a schooner. On the same
day the usual sea-breeze increased to nearly half a gale of
wind, aud put a stop to the disembarkation for a few hours.
Some heavy rain also alarmed the commissariat for the shelter
of their exposed stores of flour; but no harm was experienced,
and the oppressive weather hiis become decidedly improved in
temperature since, as the thermometer, which under a double
awning and in a cool situation originally stood from 85 deg.—
90 deg. in the day, has fallen to 80 deg.—85 deg. The heat,
however, is considerably tempered by the sea breeze, which
sets in regularly as the sun gets high. The land breeze at
night from off the heated shoie is, on the other hand, wonder¬
fully warm and dry.
But no sooner have the troops been disembarked, re-cm-
barked, and again client barked at the outer stations, than
orders are again received by telegraph to prepare the whole of
the Indian force for return to Bombay this autumn, and the
transports are to be ready for the reception of the troops by
the 23rd of this month—i.e., in little more than a fortnight.
All this change of front is most provoking to everybody:
counter-orders succeed to orders so rapidly that no one, from
the Admiral downwards, knows what is to be the next move, and
a good deal of discomfort and some discontent is the result.
The Indian troops, however, will be glad to return to their
own country, their known desire to be back, and the complica¬
tions likely to result as to troops serving in the same island and
receiving different rates of pay are among the causes which
have led to this decision of the home authorities. By this
time the disembarkation of troops and stores has been com¬
pleted, and things are settling down somewhat on shore ; the
naval camp on the beach has been broken up, aud the Duke
has re-embarked with his staff on board his ship, the Black
Prince. Saturday, Aug. 3, was the fete day of H.I.H. the
Duchess, and the ships of war were dressed in bunting for the
occasion. The crew of the Black Prince gave a burlesque
entertainment in the evening before the Duke and the officers
of the squadron, the Captains of the transports also receiving
an invitation to be present.
From Nicosia we hear that ills Excellency the High Com-
tSe?ce°to Kyrenia, trom which our neit tasUlrart
will be dispatched. * * . .
ArthsPs?fladc^ n rcp^ente th^ Britwli ^eet
&Se salute on the Duke of Edinburgh’s birth-
dayfthe6th ins?. The ^uadrcn, eve^Wp of w^ch /=
HMS Raleigh, ironclads, with —-—— ■ - ,
wheel despatch-boat, a little in advance, between the
Monarch and the Minotaur. The Admiralty tremsporLships
fie nearer to shore, and a number of hired transportsaro
lying beyond. The Duke of Edinburgh has now left Cyprus
and joined the Duchess and their children at Malta, having
fairly earned his holiday by real hard work. We are glad
also to learn that a plateau upon Mount Olympus,
sand feet above the sea, and at an easy distance from the
capital, has been selected as the site of a cantonment for the
go Fliers It is very salubrious, abundantly supplied with
water, and favoured with the aromatic fragrance of tho pine
woods. __
PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
The fifth Session of the ninth Parliament of the Queen was
closed by Royal Commission yesterday week the
being the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of adunondundGordon,
the Duke of Northumberland, the Marquis of Hertford, and
Lord Skelmersdale. The Commons having been summoned,
the Royal assent was given to the following amongst other
bills:—The Appropriation Act, Exchequer Bonds and Bills,
Intermediate Education (Ireland), Contagious DiseMe* (Ani¬
mals), Commons Jurisdiction, Statute Law Revision, Education
(Scotland), Turnpike Acts Continuance, Drainage and Improve¬
ment of Land (Ireland), Telegraphs Expiring Laws Con¬
tinuance, Metropolitan Commons, and bale of Intoxicating
Liquors on Sunday (Ireland).
THE QUEEN’S SPEECH.
The Lord Chancellor then read the Royal Message pro¬
roguing Parliament:—■
My Lords Giktlimik,
When, in a critical condition of public affairs, you assembled at the
commencement of tho year, I pointed out to you that, in the interests of my
Empire, precautions might become necessary, for which I appealed to your
liberality to provide. At the same time I assured you that no efforts in the
cause of peace should be wanting on my part.
Your response was not ambiguous, and contributed largely to a pacific
eolation of the difficulties which then existed. The terms of agreement
between Russia and the Porte, so far as they affected pre-existing Treaties,
were, after an interval of discussion, submitted to a Congress of the Powers;
and their councils have resulted in a peace which I am thankful to believe
is satisfactory and likely to be durable. The Ottoman Empire has not
emerged from a disastrous war without severe loss; but the arrangements
which have been made, while favourable to the subjects of the Porte, have
secured to it a poeition of independence which can be upheld against
concluded a Defensive Convention with the Sultan, which has
been laid before you. It gives, as regards his Asiatic Empire, a mare dis¬
tinct expression to the engagements, which in principle I, together with
other Powers, accepted in 1866, but of which the form has not been found
practically effectual. The 8ultan has, on the other hand, bound himself to
adopt and carry into effect the measures necessary for securing the good
government of those Provinces. In order to promote the objects of this
Agreement, I have undertaken the occupation and administration of the
island of Cyprus.
In aiding to bring about the settlement which has taken place, I have
been assisted by the discipline and high spirit of my forces by sea and by
land, by the alacrity with which my Reserves responded to my call, by the
patriotic offers of military aid by my people in the Colonies, and by the
proud desire of my Indian Army to be reckoned among the defenders of the
British Empire, a desire justified by the soldierly qualities of the force
recently quartered at Malta.
The spontaneous offers of troops made by many of the native Govern¬
ments in India were very gratifying to me, and I recognise in them a fresh
manifestation of that feeling towards my crown and person which has been
displayed in many previous instances.
My relations with all foreign Powers continue to be friendly.
Although the condition of affairs in South Africa still affords some
ground for anxiety, I have learnt with satisfaction from the reports of my
civil and military officers that the more serious disturbances whieh had
arisen among the native population on the frontiers of the Capo colony are
now terminated.
Gkstlbmkx ok tub House or Commokb,
I thank you for the liberal supplies which you have voted for the public
service.
Mv Lords axd Gbktlkmrx,
The Act which lias been passed for amending and greatly simplifying the
law relating to factories and workshops will, I trust, still further secure
the health and educution of those who are employed in them.
I have had much pleasure in giving my assent to a measure relating to
the Contagious Diseases of Cattle, which, by affording additional securities
against the introduction and spread of those diseases, will tend to encourage
the breeding of live stock in the country and to increase the Bupply of food
to my people.
You have amended the law as to highways in a manner which cannot
but improve their classification and management, and at the same time
relieve inequalities in the burden of their maintenance.
I trust that advantage will be taken of the menus which you have pro¬
vided for dividing bishoprics in the more populous districts of the country,
and thus increasing the efficiency of the Church.
I anticipate the best results from the wise arrangements which you have
made for the encouragement of Intermediate Education in Ireland.
The measure for amending and consolidating the Public Health laws in
that country is well calculated to promote the important object at which it
aims.
The measure passed in regard to Roads and Bridges in Scotland and for
the abolition of tolls will greatly improve the management of highways in
that part of the United Kingdom; while the Acts relating to education and
to endowed schools and hospitals cannot fail to extend the benefits of
education and improve the administration of charitable endowments in
that country.
In bidding you farewell, I pray that the blessing of Almighty God may
rest on your recent labours and accompany you in the discharge of all your
duties.
The Commission proroguing Parliament till Nov. 2 was
then read. The Lord Chancellor, on the part of the Royal
Commissioners, and in the name of the Queen, declared
Parliament prorogued till Saturday, Nov. 2 next.
With this the Session of 1878 came to an end.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
The prize meeting of the 2ud Loudon began last Saturday
atRainham, when the principal winners were Sergeant Lowder,
Colour-Sergeant Harm, Private Butler, 1 mute Millard, mid
Sergeant Brown. The company match was won by N company,
who beat F by three points.
At the annual prize meeting of the 4th Middlesex the
challenge vase and silver medal were taken by Lieutenant
Durranf, the bronze medal for second place bcmg Hecured by
Captain Heal. The champion badge, tor marksmen only, was
won by Colour-Sergeant Annison.
At the close of the competition last week at Rainham by
members of the volunteer corps of Middlesex the winuer of
the champion badge was Private H. -Stnith who tew thus eiuned
the distinction of being the champion shot of Middlesex.
The autumn meeting of the Middlesex Rifle Association
was held last week upon the City Rifles Ranges atltamhmn.
This competition was also the final one to decide who should
be the wiuners of the championship badges °f the county.
The result was that Lieutenant Munday, who won the gold
badge in 1875 and the silver budge in 18 <6 again secured
toe honour of being the premier shot ; 1 mate shoveller, of
the Civil Service, taking the silver, and Colour-Sergeant
Bacchus, of toe South Middlesex, the bronze badge ot the
Association. Private Rothon, last year’s bronze wanner
was fourth. In the day’s shooting winners were as follow: -
£8 10s., Private H. Smith and Quartermaster W. Hawley,
£5, Lieutenant F.W. Sharpe; £ 3 , Corporal 1. Andrews, lrivato
W. Spon, Colour-Sergeant J . Bacchus, and 1 mate ^ Adarns ,
£2 15s., Lieutenant J. A. Z. Allison, Private J. H. bhoveUer,
Sergeant P. Oliver, and Private C. b . Lowe, £2, 1 mate *• A.
HoUis, Corporal H. Brand, Private R. Bird, Private J. K. Shaw,
and Sergeant G. S. Tovey, Queen’s: other winners being
Private C R. Howell, Captain F. J. bweetmg, Private W .
Major Tit Morris, Private A. 8. Mich e, Sergeant
E. W. Brooking, Private J. A. M'Kenzie, Private G. E. Ewtii,
Private H. Bullimore, Corporal W. Weston, 1 mate J. L.Carew,
Sergeant Instructor J. B. Muinford, Private J. Sutherland,
Private T. Fletcher, Lieutenant H. Munday. Private R. J.
Cameron, Private A. Mackintosh, and Corporal H B. Wilson.
Range Prizes.—500 yards: £ 3 , Quartermaster W Hawlej:
£2, Private G. E. Eweu, Private C. F. Lowe, aud Private 11.
Smith; £1, Colour-Sergeant J. Bacchus, Corporal H. Brand,
Sergeant F. Elkington, Private J. A. M kenzie, Corporal H. B.
Wilson, and Private J. Wyatt. 600 yards: £3, tbrporal i.
Andrews
Private
8a°w.Captain F. J. Sweeting, and Corporal H. Weston. Extra
Prizes.—Seven shots at 500 yards: £2 10s., Sergeant L.
Pullman and Lieutenant J. A. Z. Allison; £2, Corporal A.
Leete ; £1, Private J. Runtz, Sergeant R. Cunningham,
Sergeant-Instructor W. H. Gilder, Private C. F Lowe, and
Corporal S. Short. Seven shots at 600 yards: £3 Sergeant-
Instructor W. H. Gilder; £1 10s., Corral W. H. Hobbw,
Private J. U. Jenner, Private C. F. Lowe, and Sergeant-
Instructor J. B. Muinford.
The annual official inspection of the 9th Kent Artillery,
by Colonel Waller, K.A., commanding the auxiliary artillery
of the Home District, took place last Saturday. Ihe usual
preliminary exercises having been gone through, the regiment
was marched to the batteries, and detachments were drilled at
the 40 aud 64 pounders, doing their work in excellent style.
The detachment of the corps that carried off the third prize
at Shoeburyness for repository drill were then called upon to
perform operation “ A,” which they did under the tune when
victorious at the National Artillery Association meeting. As
on that occasion, the squad was under the command of
Sergeant-Major Clayton.
The 5th Essex, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel
Birt, also underwent a satisfactory inspection in VVest Ham
Park by Colonel Rose, toe officer commanding the sub-distnct.
There was an excellent muster of the regiment.
The bronze medal of the National Rifle Association for
Norfolk has been won by Corporal Betts, 1st Norfolk Rifles,
the silver medallist of last year. Lieutenant Booth, of F orfur,
has secured the Forfarshire bronze medal, shot tor at toe Angus
and Mearns Rifle Meeting.
The Hants and Dorset Artillery Volunteers, under the
command of Colonel C. Lanyon Owen, J.P., and made up ot
corps from Portsmouth, Southampton (whose representatives
last yeaf won the Queen’s prize at Shoeburyness), Bournemouth,
Churmouth, Swannge, Portland, Weymouth, aud Lyme Regis,
on Saturday went into camp on the grounds ot bouthsen
Castle. On Sunday there was church parade at bt Judes,
Southsea, when twenty-five officers and about 3o0 men
atteuded, a few remainiug in charge of the camp.
The annual international rifle-match between members of
the Liverpool rifle corps took place at Altcar on Ihursday
week The result was a victory lor Scotland, whose repre¬
sentatives, captained by Private Richardson, 5th Lancashire
made 764 points, against England (Private Buckley, 5 th
Lancashire, captain), 750; Wales (Lieutenant Roberts, 1st
Lancashire, captain), 701; and Ireland (Surgeon Parsons, 64tli
Lancashire, captain), 699 points.
The sixth competition for the Brigade Challenge Medal of
the Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles took place on the ibth mst.,
when the holder, Sergeant Simpson, was again the wiuuer,
with the magnificent score of 48 points out of a possible oO, m
ten shots at 200 yards.
Yesterday week the fortnight’s encampment of the National
Artillery Association at Shoeburyness came to au end.
“ . r, _,_i_,,_i- 1 t> a .,^hiii H A addressed
The Bristol Chamber of Commerce has resolved to dispatch
ten artisan reporters to the Paris Exhibition to report upon
the following departments of trade:—Floorcloths, boot and
shoe makiug, bookbinding and stationery, saddlery, engineer¬
ing, cabinet making, aud boiler and engine works.
Before the camp broke up, Colonel Ravenhill, B.A., n
the men, aud, in closing his observations on the subject ot
their organisation and efficiency, said he hoped that any Utile
deficiencies that had been found this year would be perfected
before next year’s assemblage. Lord Waveney distributed
the prizes. His Lordship congratulated the men on their good
conduct in camp, and on the great progress which had of late
years been made in the science of gunnery by the volunteers.
Lord Truro, General M'Murdo, Major-General Radcfiffc, uud
others were present.
Mr. Donald Mackenzie, who is well known in connection
with his efforts to develop North-West Africa, sailed from the
Mersey last Saturday for the African coast. Mr. Mackenzie is
the bearer of a draft treaty which is declared to have received
semi-official approval. He will establish a station at Cape
Juby, and penetrate thence to Timbuctoo.
Miss Millar, a young lady from England, who was residing
us a summer visitor at the manse of Little Dunkeld, went out
last Sunday morning for the purpose of taking a walk She
did not return, and in the evening the rivers Tay and Braau
were dragged. Her body was recovered late at night in a pool
in the Braan, about 20 it. deep. It is not known how she got
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OCCUPATION OF BOSNIA.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
°S r of 6 thKSl f Tt“ndS C fhe y Mr ‘ f B f d1 ’ the S P ecial | th ‘^haVweS'beSS himJdSp^te have 8 bSn h fom 00 d P l int8
means of a bridge ofboate’ tb ® fronti <* town, by
have already related toe iicSents l? Kf*** °l July ’ W ®
their entry into Bosnia- £ i f tbe week following
Hussars iFy tbo • •»«*« of
Maglai, where seventy of th« g A e , nt ?’- m tbe defile of
and the defeat of the fns£«mS , t 8 mnS , " ere med >
on the 4th inst., with tof t!L by General Philippovich,
other hand, of si w P - 0r ^, re ^ on the
soon enabled, however to refoto to* 8 C ? lxm ^> w hich was
General Philippovich ’gainedTnoth J“Ti advancing Re¬
surgents at Hau Belalovf c on the lfifh ^ the
on to Serajevo, or Bosna So™; + iT 6t “ ’ w hich he pushed
numbering’ 30 , (TO m£‘ fe
Place, captured along the At T he „ ,eft ta
Jovanovich, the commande” in’• 6 tune General
put himself in communication tnui ^Dvi^ 118 ’ was moving to
learn that Serafevo w^taken PMlpp °™h. We now
portion of the Austrian forces underFieM M 0Dda y la3t by a
and General Kaiffel after a a* ® r * *, d Marshal Tegetthoff
which the aSSSS Spa weTS 7 conlict, in
house, doorway, and window Fven d Up ° Q fr ° m ever 7
and wounded insurgents in the miff w v° m ??. °? d 1 the sick
a 5
2^3T5£2s&Hr o|e f re - SSSK
stated. The SI St- be
towards Gorastln and Itogatica Aftei til dl f ec t 10 ns, especiaUy
and the complete ZE.“i A™ th ® clo » of the Ughtini
hoisted over igSf JSP »• ^Pfil 4t«
the singing of the National a h ^ ndred guns, amid
which the 8 troops were to£ed\v e a “5 accl r atiou s, in
Mussulman population ] by a portlon of the non-
ago. The feudal nobles and landowners at tw l year8
wSl’chThese^ Bec“^ 8to |f 10 1116 b?
187
the roads, which«
comprise at least 95 per cent of Tb ® hndle-patha
and on the table-lanSs iT^l weatbSfe*- In tt « T^ 8
every rain transforms them toto boS Jft® 7 ®f® ?,T ble ' but
however, lead over mountatoS * ^ * ^ 1116 patha ’
numbers about 48 than - - any other - »
Catholics, 3000 Jews°° -S? nSw’ ® om P n ^j? «00 Greek
principal residence of’ the Bosnian^nobfflty ^nd uZti) 1 S 5 (V?
thJvizierTand i^wwonW'afte^thT ? 8t , i “ dependent ev en of
the old castle that stanH« ™ f i* and valle 7 from
minareS. 6 The nart^ of ful + the , h< ? use8 tower a hundred
theelde. of themountedSlSs'SS £G?2*S
with that expected from the working of the law. Arnonn tha
bervmns in the south of Hungary id part of The Magyara i
has repeatedly occurred that out of one hundred or more
young men bound to serve in the army not ten have been
tound physically fit to enter the service. In some Darts of
Hungary and Galicia the number of fugitives from the con
scnption is very high. The percentoge of S solders
C 7 ^ 8 h« all M hlgher tha ? ^ an 7 other army; only the German
tSL ’ ^ a ^' arS ; and p Huthenians show a normal state of
thm^s in the hospital returns; among the Roumanians
thnTfi 8 ’’-f a Jl d Croatla ? fl > the number of sick is very large. But
men frnm OCCasl0ned *> P art l7 covered by toe surplus of
^ North Sclavic districts. It may be
considered that toe Austrian army numbers at least 1 000 000
men with a fighting force of 700,000, among toem 50 oS
fTS: f n S e be8ides se^hig 8 asganisons
for the fortresses and watching those districts where
the inhabitants are inclined to opposition, will probably
to to°e rC ^ army ^ th ^-^° 0 men. The landsturmf^iS
to the Prussian, wiU only be called out in case of extreme
tatomiTHi ? d r apa * &0 “ the guerrilla war in some moun-
PWof ^ t8_ Ii wl11 Probably not be more useful than the
situation „ The . geographical and political
? T on r ° f AuBtro-Hunganan Empire will never allow
armt on T ™ 88 u I 866 “ d 1870 > to concentrate its whole
y ° ® h 11 ® : but Au stna can, in spite of the inefficient
^ Lr mUMCab h 0 , U ^” th the 80uth > north-east, and south-
potatototoE m two to **b 3H0.0W «t each
THE AUSTRIAN ARMY.
uplands immediately behind the DinanV Alno on +v.„ ^. e a
shore of the Adriatic, <=i ^toblSTno^Ss 2id SS
^wiP 0 ? 1 / 011 ' B 7 for the greater part of Bosnia is covered
ith thick forests, fertile meadows, and fruitful fields Only
the tenth part of the 19,240 square miles in Bosnia—in the
Herzegovina almost the half—is incapable of culture • one half
of the surface is covered with forests, into which hi some
places the axe has not yet found its wav and frmr fanfiia
Sdt tifan iteo l!UltUre ‘ B ^° 8nia P roduce « much more com and
SSSS5SS
plums are exported to Western Europe. Little use has vet
with Tims tt tlle lacxhaustible treasures ol the forests, but
%, ^J* y , contribute to the Austrian State
colters. 1 he wood of the oaks is prized for its hard¬
ness, while toe beeches and firs attam a height and size
®i d h °“ 8e ^ elsewhere. The forests are State property, but
“ Permitted to take as much wood from them
as he needs for his own use, especially to build the houses
which are mostly of wood. Fishing and hunting are also free’
and th« 9 fT y i rCnU M er f iVe v The brook3 awa rm wito trout,
and the forests with deer, but also wito bears wolves foxes
aadly - e9 n Almost every metal is to be found in Bosnia? even
gold—the Dalmatian gold of which the old Roman poets sung
Bunrd iJdTn R°n nm v? y ,T fl S 0f Si ^ na and Clis8a > to Salona, and w£
In P ?h« d n?i^?tn G | by ^ h ® Pro P” 8ltus Thesaurorum Daimatinorum.
n the middle ages the Ragusa merchants profited by the
snian gold-mines, and to this day a rayah sometimes secretly
nn!? T* 1 qt LT ltl ™ r f gold dust to the goldsmith in Sigu
andeSrohrideo-^S 76 ! 18 H f<>U 5 d m the uort h-east, near Srebrffik
and Srebrnica, also lead and iron may be seen on toe surface in
m 16 Mohammedan inhabitants of Fonjica,
y are9b ’ Stan-Majdan, Vischegrad, and many other places—
toe Christians have no inclination for regular and laborious
a / m °A fc ^ tbout exception smiths. Inexhaustible
mines of coal and salt, too, exist in Bosnia. All these treasures,
of course, lie almost neglected. inures,
T J® c . omp]e ‘ iou ° f t^e railway from Serajevo to Novi, on
hettpT^SS, trontler > ^ er™ tl y change matters for the
oetter, and the more so as the numerous rivers afford excellent
means of communication. While in the Karst formation, in
wnmTwK “ any thousand years, the plateau rivers have
worn for themselves deep beds in the stone, so that the banks
nse perpendicularly to 2000 ft., most of the Bosnian rivers flow
br0ad - VaUeya ‘ Th® Save 18 navigated by
eteam-boats; its more important affluents, the Unna, Verbas,
Ukrina, Bosna and Drina, are navigable for long distances
and even the Ibar, in the Pashalik of Novibazar, floats small
barges of less draught. With other means of communication
TW k3 ^ adl /’ ° f cou ” e ' Highways exist only between
f A ” d “ d . b ® ra J ev °> Gradisca and Banjaluka, Radcha
L A “S, a ) and ^onnk, Vischegrad and Zvornik, and between
zvornik and berajevo; but even these few roads are so
£f gle ® te , d 1 t . hat fche 7 T nre °nly to be used with great risk of
bf®. and hniha - In the whole country there are no
5!.™°?; ®^® cpt . the arabas—clumsy, ill-suspended carts,
y oxen, in which the Mohammedan women make
MnWn ll8 / Ver K^ nda . y and Monday, every week-day with the
Mohammedans being devoted to a particular use; thus certain
da J s are tor marketing, others for travelling, and so on. The
ilaldermas, or paved roads, in marshy districts, are mostly
constructed by private enterprise, seldom by order of Govem-
rixT t wh? d h U T re i , i°T ed bl ° l i ks of 8toil e, often a cubic foot in
h “vei become worn down, thus forming
mpmcticuWe barncudes. Ti.e traveller, whenever the nature
of the ground allows it, avoids these paved roads, and rides
nfles consist of one regiment (that of the Tyrol) of’ seven
reserves, and the cadres of a dep6t company. The cavalrv
S7 ary batter 7 ha f ei P ht guns and eight ammunition waggons
S &rttesse ; nu " bera
companies, among them one en cadre; the engineer
^ n l 1S ^ °v two regiments, each of which is divided^nto
rl!. field battallon !> besides the cadres for eight companies of
time ol n “ d T battab0n ^ d ® p5t -‘ wbile JXneeS £
*“®® f P®f Ge form °oe regiment of five battalions and one
compuny of reserves. The troops for the hospital service are
«i 1 «T, ^iw tWenty - thr J ee d ™^ns; the baggage-S coT
f tffirty-six squadrons, and the cadres to thirty-six in
f® 1a f nd 811 m o r e m the ddpot. The Cis- Leithan landwehT
whV^Hnn^’u 011818 ^ °“I7 of cadres for eighty-onebattalions
keep ? up the cadrefl of ninety-two battaUons
and fifty-eight squadrons.
00 JJ hen the mobilisation takes place all the men bound to
CaUed t °- th j colours ; the regiments of the Line and
toe reserves are raised to their full strength in time of war, and
the ^visions at the depot remain stationary. The infantry
tw? eUt ^i +l th i e ¥a® an 5 tbe reserTes take the field, the first
d th 1 la8t tW ° battalions strong. In Cis-Leithania,
8 y plu . 8 “ ea > a Part of the troops at the dep6t, and
the landwehr, six battalions can be formed, so that the regi¬
ments of reserves may also each number three battalions; but
m °Y ms to the strict separation between the army
mxi the honveds, any such proceeding would be impossible.
The forty companies of reserves of the rifles will be changed
into ten battalions, and in Cis-Leithania ten other battalions
of reserves will be formed as soon as the last recruits are suf-
fimentiy trained. Every cavalry regiment will have a squadron
t of artillery its fourteenth battery
°f ^ es c rve8 ! ever 7 regiment of artillery its lourteenth battery
with the necessary ammunition; toe artillery in the fortresses
win fill up their cadres into companies, and the number of
mountain batteries will be raised from fire to ten. Every regi¬
ment will have a battalion of five companies at toe d£p6t and
reserves; four of the companies can be incorporated at any
time into the regiment. The pioneers will place their battalions
on a footing of war and have a company at the depot for each
battalion. Finally, ten railway divisions will be formed, and
the baggage train leaves some companies behind. The in¬
tendance, sanitary arrangements, gensdarmerie, and military
post and telegraph will at once come into operation. The
Lhs-Leithan landwehr will furnish eighty-one battalions
of infantry and just as many companies at the depot;
further, twenty-five squadrons of dragoons and Uhlans. In
addition to these are the ten battalions of rifles from the
Tyrol, the same number of reserves, and two squadrons of
mounted rifles; Dalmatia also furnishes one. The peculiar
relations in the Tyrol are the result of the insurrection in
the year 1809, when the little province received out of gratitude
for its loyalty the privilege that never more than one regiment
of nfles should be recruited there. It is true this regiment
now consists of seven battalions; but the Tyrolese still possess
advantages over the inhabitants of the other provinces.
. After the mobilisation the Austrian army will number
thirteen army corps with forty-two divisions of infantry and
five of cavalry. The division represents the tactical unit.
Each division of infantry consists of two brigades of six to
seven battalions, two to four squadrons, three batteries, one
company ot. engineers, one sanitary division, and one commis¬
sariat column. The cavalry divisions consist of two or three
brigades of eight to twelve squadrons, two to three batteries,
one ammunition-waggon, one sanitary division, and one com-
missuriat column. According to toe law the Austrian army
would thus number, after the mobilisation—
1. Regular army, 900,000 men, 150,000 horses, 24,000 con¬
veyances; fighting force, 570,000 infantry, 50,000 cavalry,
1700 field-pieces.
„ An^ and ' vehr ' 300 - 000 m en, 24,000 horses; fighting force,
270 000 infantry, 13,000 cavaliy. b ’
3. Together, 1,200,000 men, 170,000 horses, 26,000 con¬
veyances; fighting force, 800,000 infantry, 63,000 cavalry
1700 guns.
The number of cannon, which in proportion was less than
m any other large army, has now been increased with the I
introduction of the Uchatius cannon; the artillery will take
the field with at least 2000, perhaps 2200 guns, and in the men 1
who have served their time and retired it possesses excellent
and sufficient reserves. But it still remains questionable
whether toe number of the mobilised army will correspond i
MUSIC.
i^evenil'iZZrZZZ^ 16 piano /°^ Paying having been heJ£
SncSSSri pieces, notably in Mendelssohn’s second
in ,Y hlch was vei 7 finely rendered by her
8 miscellaneous concert, her finished execution
tot woto1«»» le ha r ngb ® en conspicuously displayed
OtheT Wnrt arg ® dem ands on both these qualities.
were tJt f^- f ^ h ® pr ° gramme > although of varied interest
SiTetohTifR to tE eed 8pecmcation - The serial perform-
“ of Beethoven’s nine symphonies was continued
nLtf^ y , CVenm £ When tbe “ Eroica ” (No. 3) wastoven-
*. be works . to which toe comnoser himself applied
tof fit7 e a CharaCteriSti , C t i tles - ^ n ‘ eit 8 p ecialty 3 be
FansM™ ppe “ anGe of toe eminent vocalist, Mdjle. Stella
Faustina; Mr. Charles Halle and Mr. Santley being anno meed
JSSrtfJSto'“f month - Viard ® fc > the S3
thetotoV^? S 17 ^ appear ’ 14 wU1 th U8 be seen that
of these performances-ably conducted by Mr
and his coadjutor, Mr. A. Cellier-is maintained with
Wednesday B P mt ' lh6 third cla88ical “ght took place on
? pe I a Performances are stiff being success-
l atUrday eveuing8 - Last week the “Son-
nambula was the opera, with Madame Rose Hersee
cS’ tL J w 7> Ba M er -f aS ® ViU0 ’ and Mr - Lud wig as the
& asar* “ ,o be8i ™“- ^ “«■“«
THEATRES.
titlJ^F^iLIT P , CC ® m 113 pr ? duced the Aquarium, en-
Evamn g Shadows.” It is a three-act comedy drama,
aadn f ®‘ ^ lth ° ut ,.ment- Its greatest is, that it provides a good
Ft a ™riLm aire ’ Wh °’ “ Guy Vere Desmond, achieved to
it a remarkable success. Other parts also to the new piece
were weff interpreted. When acted before a more Furness
audience than attended its production, it may prove attractive
«-F?lZf dneSday A*?- W - S - Gilbert’s sarcastic drama',
thrpp gag Tu! WaS “® ted at f he Str and, being the last night but
tnree. Ihe mormng performance was occupied with a new
entitled “ Our Accomplished Domestic,” and
a new three-act comedy, entitled « Love Wins.” Next Monday
Mr. Honey appears in a new extravaganza.
MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.
r J‘n Sailor’s Wooing,” “Sweet Dreamland,” and “ Three
Gifts, songs by J. L. Roeckel, will be acceptable to many
drawingroom singers. The melodies lie well for the voice, and
ZZtuI f ° Und gently available. Messrs. Metzler are the
publishers, as also of The Two Stars,” a vexy effective song
by Jacques Blumenthal, which gives good scope for declama-
to^r singing. The accompaniment, although of but moderate
difficulty, is an important feature. "An Old Chelsea
Pensioner, a characteristic song by J. L. Molloy, and “ The
n? J lg n’ - a g °°? s P eci men of the descriptive style, by
Odoardo Bam, are also published by Messrs. Metzler and Co.' ■
a 5 e , 80 i ne 1? plea8 m T g pianoforte pieces—“ Pera, Valso
Orientale, by Edwurd Dorn; “ Love Song,” by 0. Fontaine;
six easy duets by O. Henike, and “ Aquarellen,” a series of
pieces of similar kmd, by Heinrich Stiehl.
“ The Glee and Choral Library ” (Ashdown and Parry)
is far on its way towards the hundredth number. The con¬
tents of this cheap serial comprise various kinds of part-songs,
old and new well printed, to score, with an accompaniment
for the pianoforte, toe price of each part being twopence.
” England.’s Trust,” a patriotic song, written by Mr.
Edward Oxenford and set to music by Mr. 0. H. R. Marriott
(the same publisher), is a good specimen of toe vigorous,
declamatory style.
Three songs, by A. C. Mackenzie (Novello, Ewer, and Co.),
are settings of some very expressive lines by Christine Rosetti
The work forms Op. 17 of Mr. Mackenzie’s productions, and
are worthy of his reputation as a highly cultivated and refined
musician. The songs have much grace and charm. “Six Charac¬
teristic Pieces for the Pianoforte,” by G. J. van Eyken (from
the same publishers), are very pleasing bagatelles, each with
its distinctive title. “Two Polka-Mazurkas” and “ Galop ”
by the same (also published by Messrs. Novello), are very spirited
pieces to the dance style.
“Four Novelletten ” for toe Pianoforte, by Tobias A.
Matthay (Stanley Lucas, Weber, and Co.). There is much of
interest and marked character to each of these pieces; which,
moreover, afford excellent practice to various forms of
mechanism.
“ My Love is but a Sailor Boy,” by A. S. Gatty (Enoch and
Sons), is a telling song, wito a bold and effective melody.
The second annual meeting of the International Congress
of Librarians will be held at Oxford, under the presidency of
the librarian of the Bodleian, the Rev. H. O. Coxe, to tho
mouth of October. The principal subject to be discussed at
this congress will be one affecting the City libraries.
DON NEWS, Aug. 24, 1878 .—199
NIA ' CR06si NG the river save, at brod.
,R •WOUL AETIBT.
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THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
ATJG. 24, 1878
POETRY.
An exquisite rhymer and rhytbmist, and
what less exquisite than ^retof , ch l Swinburne
Ballad.: Second Series j by Algenion for rae
(Chatto and Windus), a volume ot vera language, mastery of
chanical skUl, ingenious employment of there ^
musical numbers. There are £ vm ’ on . the former
translations, chiefly from the Fre , , to an almost
ttele”thrttoe author, aa might ‘kStoMd*
best; and into the first of those pieces he nas m doubt
few lines of translation, bc > rei [^® d “ * three
E'^siisrs®
lessly taking up the order and^o^po g q{ a very
sss^P^SSSSuOk
however, is a smaU matter, wnmu ^ , ^ wled e nt of the
further comment, beyond a cordial ™ 1 h t he
metodtou. sweep wto winch om >*(S” X concluding
•welling strophes of The Laat urim ^ addrMse d to
?X U S*?w2SS:a«rZ -
s“* .SS58S i« L .tmih which
Ky T tha th ^oim'^‘com^momSe, 2d app^ciaSoh of
S?g d o 7 e^t K S»'i to
g£ “£ KoJyo” Z'TrZX b“ pUntag than the
have been intended *° “ffrto^'bit of
alternate booted feet “^JPede^ hc hag adopt ed an
road. In “The Two roets oi sprightly, but which
eight-lined stanza, whic ^ ^ rhythmic harmony in its
seems to dance in^ <d°g » rhyming has rather a tedious
movement, while the forced W J nQ particular interest,
effect. Here it is a triviai story * literary society
from the pereonalihes ofthe heyday of
that flourished in *ast ce ^^torahip, which the poet
Voltaire’s renown and intellect^l djetatom ^ ^ g _ fire ^ the
has to relate. _5® j 8 to ft tX first of Rene GentU-
rt'.SSSS 1 “
^ ^Xf^/kXtog totoc'atomto
Th^SSSSw.|XmS£., Who play » aamlyon
to.Ti X'.sH.mft»u ff u mao Play ««n »
SSXSrti “STou”'‘arc tteir productions so
SSecW or other affinity: otherwise they have no more
SiWover you than the mesmerist over one who is not a
“°nubiect ” They may pipo unto you, but you will not. y
cannot, dance ; they may mourn unto you but you will noL
_ otl cannot lament. Their cleverness, their elegance, their
foaming, their perfect acquaintauce with their art, their Dic¬
tum‘Rouen ess of dictionTthe pretty style m which they play
irithwords, the dexterous fashion in which theyconiurewih
sounds you readily admit, whUst you marvel and admire, but
they seldom or never touch your heart, quicken your pulse, thnll
vour whole 1 being, take you captive. You are more occupied |
with their manner than with their matter, so that m a little
whUeyou Se oppressed with a sense of general factitiousness
2d wwStoees steals over yon. Words -words-words, you
feel inclined to answer, with Hamlet, if anybody should ask
VOU What you T reading. To this latter class of poets
fir Swinburne, so far as his second scries of poems and bollads
is concerned may be considered to belong-unless, indeed, he |
be Sliced alone by himself. It is probable that readers who
have Sme sort of affinity with him will see in his latest
publication a proof, if any were needed, of his excellence as a
great poet ancl it is equally probable that very many readers
Si se P e fn it^nly an additional proof, if any were needed, of |
his exceUence as a great versifier. Indeed, B PP^*”2the
almost certain that one or two of the pieces contained m the
volume were intended by himself to be regarded aa scarcely
more than exercises in the difficulties of versification. And, f I
ao°it impertinent to remark that, when, as in ^ ‘‘sesUna;;
and the‘‘double sestina” and in the poem called Relics,
a trick of rhyme and of alternation is the prominent
characteristic of the structure, neither eye nor ear can
catch the full effect of assonance and Aversion, unless
thn sense be so luminous, the ideas so connected, the
construction so plain, the cadence so marked, that the lines
^an be read, as it were, at a breath, without break or P au *eto
interfere with the force of instantaneous impression. No more
graceful piece, whether for theme or for metre, is to be found
Si the volume than that which is entitled Chonambics But
it is with poetry as with beauty, as with wit, as w ith humour,
uidessit be ofthat very highest kind which takes all appre¬
ciative mankind by storm, it depends for ita greater or less
acceptance upon the degree in winch it responds to the
requirements of various tastes and idiosyncrasies.
There is profound meditation, though not very melodiously
expressed, ii the new volume of Mr. Robert Browning’s, which
_ __ mvfVi iinfAmilmr names. La Sat*\az , and
of Paul Deaforges Mainard, w o ve^ The en( jeayours of
and who was bkewiseawrite ^ « notice of the Pari8 ittn
this second poet of Uroisic mi aister. the Demoiselle
world, and the stratagem by which ««ter ^ d itor of
Malcrais, imposed upon Voltaire, as well m up ^ ^
a fashionable btermry , Jg hte ? Bty l? of narrative,
rendered amusing by 6 ^ quite unworthy of a
But a subject of thu J^ 4 a nd he has not the
ProfcBOr Edwald “
ta‘9*““S? i. true aud
&M, to thought, (eddDg. aud «p.e»iou, a^^g
mCTely’M prelusirafl to^wre eulMtautial and todependent wor ^-
Maiorca on his short Mediterranean voyage to Italy, where he
toe NUrto“<iho' k «»d dl«£,7r. rf EgyptiatoArabiato and
industry, associated with the general conditions ofm ankm d m
Asia in a highly instructive review of the entire subject,
i Four divisions of the present volume are occupied wit
- KframT^the fifth contains a variety of smaller poems
and translations, which have the merits of many other pieces
by Mr. Lougfellow already printed.
There is much imaginative faculty, roused to activity by
taeces ln this, as weU as in her treatment of the story of
poem in the same vein of classic enthusiasm. Wemremore
•u'd‘.ome ot the’meditntive ver.c« »hich g,».
vSnia 8 Gabriel’s. Lady Charlotte’s genius, we Aonld say,
rShcr for lyrical poetry, and she wifi succeed best with the
and lighter kind of
UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Tt is settled that Mr. Evans, the Master of Pembroke
College Oxford, will succeed Dr. Sewell, as Vice-Chancellor.
The’ appointment of the Rev. J. J. 8.
Deanery ofPeterborough will cause a vacancy in the Hulsean
pJSSnhip of Divinity, Cambridge. Dr. Perowne was
Professor on June 17, 1875, in succession to
Dr Lightfoot, who was elected Lady Margaret Professor.—
The toSs of entry for the December local examinations of the
Cambridge University have been Bent to local secretaries. The
date for their return is this year Oct. 1.
The following candidates have passed the recent First M.B.
man, C. A. Weber. c A Baflancc, H. A. G. Brooke. D.
Second Davideon, D. W. Donovan,
Hurst, Q. E. Marsh, U. R. W. Oram, E.
Secona mvuuou. a..
a l i 1 SSi , S! kih w: §“t&^ p.b. 0. J.
T. CAP. a. a Took., B. Hugh»,
W. J. Boeckel, C. W. Suckling.
The Marquis of Lome, who is an old and distinguished
tl ,?i ie University of St. Andrews, has contributed
8 100 to the fund of the new association for ita better endow¬
ment and extension.
'The Hev Algernon Boys, M.A., of Jesus College, Cam-
Toronto.
The following are declared by the Civfi Service Commis-
“iffl jfSt* vsxe&ssrrt.
» F - hfOf •sssz
m S I’S: £■■'* l c K i
SSiy. c \ J-oOi .“' < J*oSSi.u, K M F
shorter a
f versification.
expressed, in the new volume of Mr. Kooert nrowning »,
Contains two poems with the unfamiliar names, X« 5 o«««, and
Tht Two Pott, of Croitic (published by Smith, Elder, and Co.).
Some travelled' readers may, indeed, be aware that La Sauiaz
is a place in the Jura highlands near Geneva, and Croisic might
KSed to be somewhere in Brittany. These localities serve
merely for the stage upon which the author takes his stand, as
a contemplative wanderer about Europe, to utter Pregnant
discourses of moral wisdom, in bis accustomed fashion of a
lengthy monologue confidentially addressed to an mtimate
companion, who speaks little or not at all in re P} y -^°
posed partner of his stock of ideas and sentiments in on even-
in R walk up the hillside at La Saisiaz must of necessity
keep silence, being the spirit of a lady friend who
dieJ in the neighbouring village four or five days
before. With her imagined presence, in a scene of outward
solitude, docs the serious-minded poet continue Ins strain
of anxious metaphysical guessing and questioning, upon the
topics of a late conversation between them, ihe rational
probability, from such experience as we have of the laws of
nature and the nature of man. that God has designed the soul
vo inherit an immortal life, is here made a theme of most
earnest discussion, intermixed with tender reminiscences of
what seems an undying friendship. We are not, however, at
all satisfied with the merely problematical conclusion.
Tennyson’s “In Memoriam” is a tar worthier, bolder, truer,
more faithful treatment of this momentous question, and it is
incomparably better poetry. The kind of versification pn-
sentedby Mr. Browning, in “ La Sands-/,consists ot unwu-W
fifteen-aj liubied Lues, in rhymed couplets, which may put»ioiy
iricr uuu ugim-A --
Miss A. M. F. Robinson’s Handful of ^ney.uckU (Kegan
Paul and Co.) is something more than a pretty garland of wild
flowers We have rarely seen a volume so simple and unpre¬
tending with so much suggestion of a reserve of power.
Especially is this conveyed in the terseness and condensation
bywhichMiss Robinson differs so remarkably f rom thegene-
rality even of meritorious authoresses. A Pastoral is a
perfect allegory of the Renaissance m sixteen lines. evincmg
great depth of thought as well as fcUcity in concrete figurative
embodiment. The essence of Schopenhauer s philosophy is
rmt into eight lines in the little poem entitled Will.
?• Dawn Angels ” might almost bc attributed to Blake, a poet
more eoaUy 8 emulated by a kindred spirit than ‘"“ ta ted by a
coDvist “ Dawn’’ is almost equally beautiful in a different
Style “A Street Singer’’ thrills with genuine passion, and
the principal poem in the book evinces remarkable narrative as t
well ns descriptive power. Mingled with these shining suc¬
cesses are a considerable number of unconscious reproductions
of favourite authors, tedious refrains, and sonnets where ,
weight of thought is disproportioned to elaboration of form.
But 8 taken altogether, we have not hitherto seen a more
promising first volume.
Sffffiw’iBSS ffwSaVFllrt
tion for eomnusgiona in Uie Amiy . • a B. Phipps, C. (i.
I;as;o B '«. wliTnVi a.wn,,^
The following, in the order of merit, are declared by the
Pivil Service Commissioners to be the successful candidate
2^0™ impetitioa h«ld to July for «tom»iou to too
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich:— T
H. 8. Horne. D'Arcy W. Reeve, ^y. L CsirT-U. M. M.
W. W. Barlow,E PoUock, ■ Wwe, I^ J A E A Butcher,
i!£S« >'v~ a- 1 s - I ' Qu ””-
Th« following arc the names of the officers of Hie Royal
Nav^and S Marines who obtained prizes and certificatca
The opening chapters of a new novel, entitled An Eye
for an Eve,’’ by Mr. Anthony Trollope, appear in the
Whitehall RevUto this week.
The committee of the Royal Humane Society hod under
their consideration last Tuesday an unusually l»rge number of
cases in which gallantry had been displayed in saviug or
attempting to save lue. The medals, money rewards, and
certificates of the society were voted in accordance with the
varying circumstances of the cases—a lady receiving the
rcco ’inlieu of the society for saving a child lrom crowning.
^vv ss H
Jeffreys, James Cuddy, and C. A. F. Waters.
Scholarships, exhibitions, and prizes gained at St. Bartho¬
lomew's Hospital Medical College in the sessions i877-8 _
Bcholawbip, B. B. Bura; BraAenbrng- rglcw^ chemi||t *| D A King;
Senior Scholarship m ^atomy. Piil w Overend ; Preliminary
Open Exhibition ,h F HminB-
Sclentifte. Exjubition, P. ■ ^ ^| ir ^ e . Bentley Prire. T. W II.
ham ; Kirke’s Gold Medil, C. A U e mrse j Buller; Twix.
Oarstang; HUchen-. : Foster Prise W. T.
accessit. D. A King. Pi^™ aquioi > Collin s; 5, C. Senders,
S•“! SaSldTt>■ * »!«“• i B “"1 “■ »• J - BL “ rt; *■
Muriel, T. Mudge; 9, W. A. Hoyle.
The Charity Commissioners have determined to promiUgate
a new scheme Li connection with AUeyne’s College of God J
Gift Dulwich. The changes aimed at have for their object
tott’improvmeut of toe curriculum of the college.
Tbo nri»which Prince Leepold iriree to the :New-
nort (I W ) Grammar School has been awarded to Blaik.
Mr W. C. A. Radcliffo and Mr. 1L E. r. Huuui.
Br^un!e e SCf& M h^^
of the Royal Grammar School, Caermarthen.
i D,v. Charles Granville Gepp, M. A., has been appointed
I
AUG. 24, 1878
JTHE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
to the Head Mastership of King Edward VI.’s School, Strat- I
ford-upon-Avon, vacant by the resignation of the Rev R
Valpy French, D.C.L.
The following have been elected to open exhibitions at
Lancing CollegeA. Hammond, from Mr. Cornish’s, Clevedon
School; A. R. Reynolds, from Lancing College; F. R Blagden
from Mr. Malden’s, Windlesham House, Brighton. G. J.’
Pocock has been nominated to the Gladstone Scholarship.
At Crewkeme School the Wynford Exhibition has been
awarded to W. B. C. Treasure; and the four Owsley Scholar¬
ships have been awarded to T. T. Carlyon, J. A. Devenish
F. J. Tompsett, and W. W. Coombs.
The Shrewsbury School list, which has just been issued,
contains a long list of distinctions obtained by old boys during
the past year.
OBITUARY.
MR. BAGSHAW.
Robert John Bagshaw, Esq , of Gloucester-square, Hyde Park,
London, and Dovercourt, Essex, died on the 14th inst., at his
town residence, aged seventy-four. He was only son of John
Bagshaw, Esq., J.P. and D.L., of Dovercourt, M.P. by
Rebecca, his first wife, daughter of J. Johnson, Esq. He’ was
formerly a merchant at Calcutta, and after his return sat in
Parliament for Harwich from 1857 to 1859. Ho was also u
Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant for Essex, and
served as High Sheriff in 1*73. He married, first, in 1841
Georgiaua, daughter of Richard Baker, Esq., of Barham House’
Herts (which lady died in 1867); and secondly, in 1870, Emma
Ann, daughter of Matthew Clark, Esq. Mr. Bagshaw was
Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons.
The deaths have also been announced of_
The Rev. Thomas Steele, LL.D., D.C.L., on the 16th inst.
at 35, Sydney-buildings, Bath.
Colonel William Scott Adams, on the 12th inst., at 44
Chester-square, aged seventy-seven.
Richard Howson Lamb, Esq., J.P., on the 12th inst. at
Bragborough Hall, Rugby, aged eighty-nine.
Thomas Livesey, Esq., formerly of Chamber Hall, Oldham,
on the 4th inst., at his residence, Alton Grange, Ashby-de-la-
Zouch, aged seventy-seven.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Chalmers, Royal StafE Corps
and Commandant 14th Bengal Cavalry Lancers, on the 11th
inst., at 106, Lansdowne-road, Notting-hill, aged forty-six.
The Rev. William Gell, formerly missionary at Rarotonga,
South Pacific, and for nearly twelve years minister of Rectory-
place Chapel, Woolwich, on the 14th inst., at Camden House
Lee Glebe, Blackheath, aged sixty-five.
Colin Lome Lochnell Campbell, second son of the Rev.
Colin Campbell, and grandsor of the late Archibald Campbell,
Esq , of Lochnell, on the 2nd inst., shot while in action against
the Kaffirs.
The Rev. Thomas Jackson, M.A., of Brasenose College
Oxford, formerly Vicar of Wad worth, in the county of York’
and afterwards Vicar of Merevale, Warwickshire, on the
7th inst., at Brighton, aged sixty-two.
The Rev. Morris Hughes, Rector of Pentraeth, Anglesea,
to which he was appointed in 1854, at the age of ninety-six.’
He was ordained in 1811, and continued in the discharge of his
duties until a very short time before his death.
Viva Jane Maria, Lady Martin, widow of Sir Ranald Martin,
C.B., F.R.S., on the 5th inst., at 116, Gloucester-terrace, Hyde
Park. Lady Martin was the youngest daughter of the late
Colonel John Paton. She was married in 1826, and was left a
widow in 1874.
Lady Georgina Seymour, widow of the late Admiral Sir
George Seymour, and mother of the Lord Chamberlain, on the
20th inst., in her apartments at Hampton Court Palace. She
was in her eighty-sixth year, and had only been ill a fortnight.
She had lived at the palace sixty years.
Thomas Richard Peareth, Esq., late 12th Lancers, at Sand-
gate, on the 13th inst., in his thirty-first year. He was fourth
son of William Peareth, Esq , of Usworth House, in the county
of Durham, by Katherine, his wife, daughter of Thomas Law
Hodges, Esq., of Hemsted Park, in the county of Kent, M.P.
Rear-Admiral James Dirom, on the 12th inst., at his
residence in Annan, aged sixty-three. He entered the Navy in
1829, and served in the expedition to the Baltic in August and
September, 1854; and afterwards, sailing to the Black Sea,
took part in the naval operations against Sebastopol, and at
the capture of Kertch and Kinburn in 1855. He retired from
active service after the conclusion of the Crimean War, and
was promoted a retired Rear-Admiral in June, 1874.
Captain Edwin A. Porcher, R.N., late in command of her
Majesty’s ship Sparrowhawk, suddenly, at Homburgh, on the
13th inst., aged fifty-three. He entered the Navy in 1838, and
served as First Lieutenant of the Esk in the Baltic expedition
of 1855, including the naval operations against, Sweaborg. He
was subsequently First Lieutenant of the Hibernia flag-ship
at Malta, from 1857 to 1862, when he was promoted, afterwards
commanding the Sparrowhawk on the Pacific station from 1865
to 1868. He was promoted to Captain in October, 1868.
The Rev. Charles Henry Barham, M.A., J.P. for the counties
of Pembroke and Westmorland, andformerly Rectorof Barming,
Kent, and of Kirkby More, Westmorland, on the 15th inst.,
at his seat, Trecwn, near Haverfordwest, aged seventy. He
was the youngest son of the late Joseph Foster Barham, Esq.,
M-P. for Stockbridge, Hants, by Lady Caroline, his wife,
daughter of Sackville, eighth Earl of Tlmnet, and sat in Par¬
liament for Appleby from May to November, 1832. He
married, first, 1836, Elizabeth 'Maria, daughter of William
Boyd luce, Esq., of Ince, in the county of Lancaster; and
secondly, 1863, Ellen Catharine, daughter of Edward T. Massy,
Esq., of Cottesmore, in the county of Pembroke.
191
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2. ft to K Kt 3rd
3. B or ft mates accordingly.
1. B takes Kt, then a. Q to K 7th (ch
Problem No. 1798.
BLACK.
B takes Kt •
B take* ft, or aught
and if 1. B takes P, then 2. Kt to Q 3rd
PROBLEM No. 1801.
By the Rev. W. I, heron.
THE COUNTIES CHESS ASSOCIATION.
Played in the first-class Tourney of the above society between Mr. Thorold
the winner of the first prize, and Professor Wayte.— (Irregular Opening.)
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated Jan. 26,1872) with two codicils (dated Junel3,
18(6, and July 28,1877) of Mr. Philip Wykeham Martin, M.P.,
of Leeds Castle, Kent, who died on May 31 last at the Com¬
mons House of Parliament, Westminster, was proved on the
ith inst. by the Right Hon. John George Dodson, M.P.. and
Frederick Iltid Nicholl, the acting executors, the personal
estate being sworn under £140,000. The testator leaves to his
wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Wykeham Martin, £1000, all his horses,
carriages, wines and liquors, and other specific bequests; to
Miss Emma Martha Ayton, formerly governess to his son, an
annuity of £60 for life ; to his uncle, the Rev. Francis
William Wykeham Martiu, £200; to his executors, £200 each,
free of duty, and they are to receive certain umiuul
sums. 111 addition as trustees and for the management
of his settled estates; and to his servants who have
been two years in his service at the time of his decease two
years’ wages. All his real estate is devised to his executors,
in the first place, for the purpose of keeping up and preserving
them, for which object a sum of not more than £3000 per
annum is to be spent; and. in the next place, to pay to his
son, Cornwallis Philip Wykeham Martin, during the life of his
mother, £2000 per annum; subject thereto, he settles all his
estates to the use of his wife for life, and then to his said son
for life, with remainder to his first and other sons according to
their seniorities in tail. The residue of his personalty is given
upon trusts similar to the uscb declared of his real estate.
The will (dated July 1, 1876) of the Rev. Francis John
Eyre, late of Sandhurst Lodge, Tonbridge Wells, who died ou
June 3 last, was proved on the 9th inst. by Mrs. Anne Louisa
Eyre, the widow, Brownlow Poulter, and the Rev. John George
Gresson, the executors, the personal estate being sworn under
£60,000. The testator bequeaths to his wife £500; to his
executors, Mr. Poulter audthe Rev. J. G. Gresson, £200 each;
to his daughter, Sophia Frances, the income of £10,000 during
the life of his wife ; to his wife his residence with the furni¬
ture and effects for life, and on her death the same are to go
to his said daughter. The residue of his property is to be held
upon trust for his wife for life, then for his said daughter lor
life, and upon her death as she shall appoint.
The will (dated April 2, 1878) of the Venerable Hugh
Morgan, Vicar of Rhyl, and Archdeacon and Canon of
St. Asaph, who died on June 8 last, was proved on the 29th
ult. by Mrs. Anna Maria Morgan, the widow, the sole executrix,
the personal estate being sworn under £10,000. The testator
leaves all his real and personal estate to his wife.
The will (dated Aug. 14. 1863) with a codicil (dated June 30,
1865; of General Harry Thomson, late of Park-square West,
Regeut’s Park, who died on June 27 last, was proved on the
29th ult. by Miss Jane P. Thomson, the daughter, the acting
executrix, the personal estate being sworn under £9000.
The wiU (dated Jan. 15, 1877) of Mr. James Wilson, late of
No. 3, Blomfield-terrace, Shepherd's-busli, and of Craster,
Northumberland, who died ou the 9th ult., was proved on the
8th inst by Henry Barrett and Aaron Howey, the surviving
executors, the personal estate being swoni under £8000.
The will (dated May 4, 1876) of Mr. Henry Mitford Boodle,
formerly of No. 6, Leinster-gardens, Hyde Park, and of
No. 53, Davies-street, Berkeley-square, but late of Camerton,
Tonbridge Wells, who died on the 3rd ult., was proved on the
2nd inst. by Henry Trelawny Boodle, the son, and Frederick
Dumergue, the executors, the personal estate being sworn
under £8000. The testator gives all bis real and personal
estate to his wife, Mrs. Fanny Boodle.
The will (dated July 3, 1878) of Mr. Charles John Bythesea
Brome, late of Heavitree, near Exeter, who died ou the
8th lilt., was proved in London on the 5th inst. by Miss
Amelia Cecilia Brome, Miss Agnes Mary Brome, and Miss
Julia Bythesea Brome, the daughters, the executrixes, tho
personal estate being sworn under £6000.
: (Mr T.
1.1’toKB 4th
2. P to K 3rd
3. Ktto K B 3rd
4. P to ft Kt 3rd
5. B to Kt 2nd
6. Kt to B 3rd
7. Kt to K 5th
8. B to (1 3rd
t»kinjr k the f iFlO _
that line of play would have (riven Winn
a SneattacJcmpon the castkxl King.
9. Kt to Kt 4th Kt to B 3rd
10. P to ft It 3rd P to ft 4th
11. ft to K 2nd P to ft R 3rd
12. Castles (Q R) P to ft Kt 4th
13. Kt takes Kt (eh) B takes Kt
14. P to K Kt 4th P to B 6th
(Mr. T ) BLACK (Prof. W.)
15. BtakesKRP(ch)
The impetuosity of the attack that fol¬
lows here carries everything liefore it, and
is highly characteristic of Mr. Thorold's
vigorons style.
15. K takes B
10. P to Kt 5th B to K 2nd
17. ft to R 5th (ch) K to Kt sq
18. K R to Kt sq P to ft 5th
19. R to Kt 3rd Kt to K 4th
Intending to play P to K B 4tli, and
20. P takes Kt
21. R to R 3rd
22. K to Kt sq
23. P to Kt 0th,;
P takes Kt
P takes B > ch)
^P to B 4th
A Game played in the same Tourney between Mr. Fishkii and Professor
Wayte. — (King’s Bishop’s Game.)
WHITE (Mr. F.) BLACK (Prof. W.) | WHITE (Mr. F.) BLACK (Prof. W.)
K 4th
2. B to B 4th
3. ft to K 2nd
4. P to ft B 3rd
5. Kt to B 3rd
I* to K B 4th, at this point, for
K 4th
i KB 3rd
o B 3rd
B 4th
bably i
hazardous for a
I the move in tho
3rd. appear to Le
Yesterday week theEurydice was cleared of all the remain¬
ing bodies. Upwards of 120 have now been recovered, the
number including six officers.
Lord Rosebery has remitted 10 per cent on the rents of his
tenantry due for last year. In writing to his factor, his Lord-
ship says:—“A succession of bad years culmiuatiug in whut
was almost a famine year constitute so exceptional a state of
things that I feel compelled to disregard for once my con¬
viction that such remissions are wrong in principle.”
-The Government authorities have granted permission for
the erection of a second pier on the long stretch of esplanade
at Soutlisea. The site of the new structure is at East Southseu,
and it wiU command a very fine sea view. The directors, <>f
whom Colonel E. Galt, J.P , is chairman, have accepted the
tender of Messrs. Head, Wrightsou, and Co., ot Stockton-on-
iees, who have engaged to complete it within nine months.
Its entire length will be 580 ft., including a large pier-head of
octagon shape 145 ft. in diameter. Mr. George Rake, of
bouthsea and Portsea, is the engineer.
Whether this move pruceols from a
thru or timidity it is i-iually objectii
able, for 1 unites alfar'K at tile weak
point of the HoM. Whit-, we think, woi
have done Letter by developing Ills for
Black takes promptadvontagoof White's
8. Kt to R 2nd
9. P to ft 3rd
10. P takes P
11. Kt to B 3rd
12. B to K 3rd
13. R to ft sq
Is best r.
it Iliac
R to K Kt sq
P to Kt 5th
Kt takes Pat
Kt 5th
ft to B 3rd
ft to Kt 3rd
appears to be B
attack with a
13. B takes B
14. P takes B Kt takes P
15. Ktto R 4th ft to Kt 6th
16. ft to It 6th Kt takes B
17. P takes Kt B to Kt 5th,
and White resigned.
The Renfrew Town Council has resolved to buy five acres
of land on the Elderslie estate, for the formation of a harbour.
Until the return of her Majesty from Scotland iu November
tlie state apartments at Windsor Castle will be open to the
public on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
Tickets can be obtained by applying personally at Collin’s
Library, Castle-liill. The Albert Memorial Chapel is open
every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
A mutch between Mr. G. C Heywood, the well-known composer of chess
problems, and Mr. W. N. Potter, in which the latter yielded the large odds
of a Knight and the Pawn and two moves alternately, has just been brought
to a conclusion. In the course of the match ten games were played, Mr.
Totter -coring three and drawing two at the odds of a Knight, and each
side scoring two and one draw at the Pawn and two moves.
Messrs. Abbott, Andrews, and Pierce, the judges in the tourney of the
British Problem Association, have awarded the prizes to the sets bearing
the mottoes “ Ex sudore voluptas ” and “ Anything,” in the order named.
The best single problems are pronounced to be as follow—in two moves,
No. 1, of -‘Home, sweet home;” in three moves. No. 1, of “ ftui se
ressemble s’ assemble ; ” in four moves, No. 8, of “ Es giebt,” &c. The
award will remain open until Sept. 1£ next, when it will become final, should
no objections be raised regarding the accuracy or originality of the problems
in the interval. Eleven s-ts were contributed to this tourney, and the judges
inform us that eight of tlie-e were found to contain one or more unsound
problems Inaccurate compositions have always been too numerous iu
problem tournaments ; but »e cannot call to mind any former competition
lial |n l
mdurd o!
s tin-
.nd v
composers.
mg English
tne correct, mm* are reierreo vi nnove; the third is “Lome, sweet nouie, '
which secured the special prize for the best two-move problem, and is there¬
fore ineligible for the prize provided for the third best set. This sum is
consequently reserved lor future competition.
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Hands, Not Hearts. By Lady Isabella Schuster. (Chapman and Hall )
France : South Half; or, France beyond the Loire, with Parts of Italy and
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One Hundred Holy Songs, Carols, and Sacred Ballads. Original, and Suit¬
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THE LONDON GENERAL^MObRNING WAREHOUSE,
Regout-street.
nWTANDS’ ODONTO whitens the
^ p 7^ e SSVh. to hlrfcuing°^^rl D n| fit wither.
Sik jraSiMt fer Rowlands’ Article..
■T^ ATT TIE OHYPRE.—PIESSE and LUBIN
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•'The Mexican Hair • u’.i r ♦<) jta original colour, without
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tvlORILINE. For the Teeth and Breath.
ESSss&gs&sflSi
GaTluV.^!O xfonl-strMt^LonJon. ngt& everywhere. _
OCCUPATION OF CYPRUS!
t^cBEASE OF FEVER~AT NICOSIA.
« The fever here is Increasing. CapUln Baw»n
the acting Commandant, is down with It. and
-SrSXI-V svub rou.
In each attack with very great severity-ln fact,
three of them could not have been more danger¬
ous or critlcal-from a very exten.l veandcareful
observation, extending over » P«riod of . forty
year*, I am perfectly satisfied the true
nuse" of fever Is a disordered condition of
the Uver. The office of the Uver Is to cleanse the
Wood as a scavenger might aweep the stroets.
When the Uver Is networking properly a quan¬
tity of effete matter Is left floating In the blood.
Under these circumstances, should the poison
germ of fever be absorbed then the disease
results; on the contrary, anyone whose Uver and
other organs are In a normal condition may be
subjected to precisely the same conditions a. to
the contagious Influences and yet escape thefover.
This, I consider, explains satisfactorily tht
lug mystery that some persons who are placed to
circumstances peculiarly favourable for tbs
development of fever, who. In fact, live In the very
midst of it. escape unscathed. Thlsbelncrtb«i case,
the Importance of KEEPING THE LIVER IN
ORDER CANNOT BE OVEB-ESTIMATED,
and I have pleasure In directing attention to my
FRUIT SALT, which, In the form of a pleasant
beverage, will correct the action of the Uvct,
and thus prevent the many DISASTROUS CON¬
SEQUENCES; not only as an “mob of
WARDING OFF FEVERS and MALARIOUS
DISEASES, but as a REMEDY FOK ^nd ^RE-
TENTIVE of BILIOUS or SICK HEAD¬
ACHES, CONSTIPATION VOMITING.
THIRST ERRORS of EATING and DRINK
SKIN ERUPTIONS. GIDDINESS.
HEARTBURN, Ac. If lto great Vjdue in keeping
»h. hodv In health was UNIVERSALLY
JLNOWN^ NO FAMILY WOULD BE WITH¬
OUT A 8UPPLY. In many forms of fever, or
at the COMMENCEMENT of ANY FEVER,
ENO-8 FBU1T SALT ACTS as a SPECIFIC.
zz z .Srr thi^TsoN sr^ss
OFF Ld the BLOOD RESTORED TO ITS
HEALTHY CONDITION. 1 used my FRUIT
BALT freely In my last attack of fever.'“ d
have every reason to say It saved my Ufa.
- Q. Exo. Hatcham Fruit Balt Works. 8. E.
A LADY having a simple RECIPE that at
S' m£ P SI toWton,-Verwood Villas. Thumton heath, Surrey.
T axora medicated fruit
L %»s
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IwASY ONE LEAVING HOME tor CHANGE.
B 5^™dVhalf a dozen bottle, of ENO'8 FRUIT |W.T
E n^in^r! P^wId.* Govenim^.t*of 36,*1878.‘ '
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•• FOB THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE.*'
pLARKE’S WORLD-FAMED BLOOD
v fSw”S^rin’r*’«8<s*35sfssm!
mch^ o“aU ChralttS^nt to anyaddrm. tor 30 or 133.Umps.of
‘\o Proprietor, F.J.CLABKE,Chemist,
OOPING-COUGH—ROCHE’S HERBAL
I
London. Sold retail by most Chemist*. Price is. per Bottle.
H 1
OHOCOLAT MENIER, in Alb. and ^lb,
^ Packeu. for
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pHOGOLAT MENIER. —Awarded Twenty -
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QHOCOLAT MENIER.
PRIZE MEDALS.
Otminmption annnally
exceeds 17,000.000lbs.
Paris,
MevMfork.
D
'natural way of restoring
hast iSSSaffinfflesaw®
aensely increascde_____-— -
ti upee^hTng, cooling,
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TTOLLOWAY’S PILLS and OINTMENT^
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JNNEFORD’S MAGNESIA.
I 1 The best remedy for acidity of
the Stomach, llrurthuru. Head¬
ache. Gout, and Indigestion.
TMNNEFORD’S magnesia.
AperientVor delicate TOnstltn^onl,
Lit.114*14 ChiUlrou, and Infants.
OF ALL OUKMlSTtt-
■gLAIR’S GOUT PILLS,
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T»UGS Fleas, Moths, Beetles, and all other
I 13 Iniwrta are dwrtrovcd by KEATINGS 1N8EOT DE8TBOV.
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The only Jeweller In England whose Btodj; insists of one
^rasasagass:
THE "TALISMAN ’* B Ji ACEL ,5T m r»
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ATJG. 31, 1878
BIRTHS. ^ . .
” a SffbfiTS « Wbea^p^ Vicountws KD»«..., ■><
' “"'...CM, tot..* 33, «* ™ *
dau * hter - MARRIAGES.
AnstTuther, luesuiie,
Tahiti, Society Islands. Kastham. by the Rev.W. E. Ton*,
Onthe2l8tin«rt.,atthepj^hchurd.,Eas»am, £ Kn Bruce,
assisted by the Bev. B. Storw, n™ce St Rivermead, Sunbury, and
^cst ^toWisaiLiUie), younger daughter of John
ToS’m.P., of Caalett Tark, Cheshire.
DEATHS.
B .2lS S^-.”'3™;
Bpital-Fquare. London. k Wn/1 wife of Montavue Ainslie, Esq ,
On the 21st inst., Man- Ann. the beloved ™ f | ° an ' d o.Efor that county,
mm.
r,i«a. w »»=pt
the cniyintirnation ctoD< Que bee, Canada, Joseph Lougea, J.P.,
• ™ enarg J Five Shillings for each insertion,
CALENDAR FOB THE WEEK ENDINO SEPT. 7.
BUNDAY, Sept. 1.
I St. James’s, closed.
. Whitehall, 11 a m. and 3 pm.
’ Savoy, 11.30 a.ra , the Right Rev.
Waite H. Stirling, D.D., Lord
Bishop of the Falkland Isles,
7 pm., the Right Eev CTiarles
Robertson, D.D., Lord Bishop of
Missouri, U.8.A.
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to easy terms. No doubt they can still prolong resistance
and inflict upon the Austro-Hungarian Government
severe but temporary embarrassment. But Europe looks
on theconrsetheyaxe pursuing, n °t only without ^apathy
but with utter condemnation; and they have not the
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test they will kindle a European confla gration.
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»rce. THe Treaty *» -- “ “
averting a European War, has not yet succeeded-nou
Lleed could it have been expected to succeed-m
neutralising all the destructive forces which had been
caUed into play by the state of affairs with which it deal
Re public will regret this, but will hardly be surprised
at it P It somewhat retards a return to the settled con¬
fidence so indispensable for the revival of commercial
enterprise, and it prolongs in some places the bdter stnfc
and bloodshed which it was fondly hoped would quickly
come to an end. But it can hardly ho said with truth to
threaten the general tranquillity of Europe. Ve may
perhaps, be permitted briefly to advert to those causes of
disturbance which, although it may be hoped they have
apent their main force, have not wholly ceased to operate
in connection with the Eastern Question.
We begin with India. It is becoming anxious. The
Government of the Viceroy may he desenb ed as troubled
with apprehensive forebodings. An Envoy from Russia, it
seems, has been received with special honour by the Ameer
of Cabul. Nothing was known m India of his mission
until after the object of it-whatever that may have
| been-was accomplished. Of course, it opened out a pro-
snect of Russian influence in Afghanistan, seriously to be
1 deprecated by the nding authority in Calcutta. There
have been incidents during the last four or five years
which have irritated the Ameer against the British name*
They do not in the least militate against the honour, or
the straightforwardness, of the Indian Administration,
but they account for the secret enmity of Shere AH,
the occupant of the Afghan Throne. In ordinary tunes
they would probably have been left to perish of
neglect, and the wrath of the Ameer would scarcely have
obtained even a momentary recognition. But it is hardly
wonderful that the appearance of a Russian Envoy at
Cabul, and the ostentatiously friendly character of his
reception there, suggested the importance of initiating a
policy of counteraction, and of dispatching to the capital
of Afghanistan an Indo-British Mission, having for its
object the re-establishment of British influence at the
Court of the Ameer. Events, however, have subsequently
transpired, or occurred, which deprived the occasion of
almost everything which gave to it a menacing appear¬
ance. The action of the Russian Envoy at Cabul
has been admitted by the Government at St. Peters¬
burg as having resulted from the prospect of
a war between Russia and England. In some
sense, it was a counter-move to the transport of Indian
Native Troops to Malta. Its aggressive meaning has been
effaced by the Berlin Treaty. It has now lost its practical
import, and the objects which it was intended to subserve
have ceased to exist. But, in addition to this, events at
Cabul have occurred to offer special facilities for effecting
a reconciliation with the present ruler of Afghanistan and
with his probable successor. The next move is in the
hands of the Indian Government, and there is a reasonable
hope that, for the present at least, and for a time to come,
it may bring to a close a dangerous state of relations on
the frontiers of India, which would have greatly facilitated
a collision between England and Russia.
We now revert to Europe. The obstruction thrown in
the way of the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
by Austria cannot fail to ho regarded with regret, and still
more so the secret countenance evidently ministered by
the Porte in aid of that obstruction. It is clear, and it
might have been so from the beginning, that the
ascendancy of the land proprietary class in Bosnia would
not be surrendered without a struggle, or, at any rate,
without diplomatic efforts calculated to soothe down
affronted pride. The Porte can hardly be acquitted in
this affair of double dealing. The ruling Pashas have
evidently been too strong for the Sultan—the oligarchy
for the Monarch. They have, however, failed in their
design. They have roused the anger as well as wounded
the Imperial susceptibilities of Austria. They have no
chance of success. They are fast losing even their claims
will he obliged to swuuuw. --
may exorcise patience, but there can be no aufccient room
fo/fearing that in this case, as m others, the will of
combined Europe will not be complied with.
As to the surrender of Batoum to the Russians, it may
he looked upon as in principle accomplished. The Lazes
will perhaps cause no little suffering, an in 6 i
of their resistance may be destroyed. But Constantinople
will do nothing to help them. It pledged Batoum to
Russia by the Treaty of San Stefauo, and England
although it succeeded in modifying the terms, tacitly
acquiesced in the pledge. One can only lament that might
so often tramples right under foot. We are not sure how¬
ever, that in this instance humanity will lose much by the
transfer of Batoum as a commercial P 0 .rt .to Russian
hands. Altogether there seems to be a fair likelihood of
the stipulations of the Berlin Treaty being within a
moderate time reduced to facts. How far they will con¬
duce to the peaceful and happy developmentof the races
to which they apply remains to be seen. We shall no
venture to anticipate.
hjlcon^i
THE COURT.
The Queen, previously to her departure from Osborne, gay
aninterview to General Sir Lintom Simmons G.C.B., and
Captain Edwards, Royal Engineers, his aide-de-camp, was
presented to her Majesty. Lieutenant-Colonel Barrett, com¬
manding the troops at Parkhurst, and Captain Erskine, her
Majesty’s ship Boadicea (guardsliip at Cowes), dined with the
QU h«; TUniPstv received visits on the day of her departure
from the King and Queen of Denmark, the Prince and Princess
of WMes Princes Albert Victor and George, and Princesses
Loube Victoria and Maud of Wales, Princess Thyra and
vZce Waldemar of Denmark, and Prince William of
a'SompSS; Princess Beatrice and Prince
Leopohl, left Osborne It six .oVloek p.nn yesterday weekjfor
Broxmouth Park, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess ot
BoxWbe. on ber way to Balmoral. The enrie -n attendance
consisted of the Marchioness Dowager of Ely, Lieutermut
General Ponsonby, Sir W. Jenner Lord Bndport the Hon A^
Yorke the Hon Mrs. Phipps, the Hon. Miss Lascelles, and Miss
Bauer.’ The Royal party embarked on board the steam-yacht
Alberta, Staff-Commander Balliston and crossed to Clarence
Yard, Gosport, whence her Majesty travelled in a state saloon
bv a special train of the London and North-Western Rxdway
Comply over the South-Western and Great Western hues to
Banbury, where a stay of twenty mmutcs was midc for tea,
and at 10.41 the journey was resumed, via
Birmingham, to the Bushbury junction of the North-Western
line and continued northwards. The Queen arrived at
Dunbar at a quarter to nine ^. Sat ” da y hp m «’ and
was received at the railway station by the Duke ana
Duchess of Roxburgh.*, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Bowmont, Sir James and Lady Susan G r an t -&uttie Mister
Ker and Master Bertie Ker, Provost Brand, the ma lstrate
and Town Council of Dunbar, the Earl of Haddington the
Lord Lieutenant and the Sheriff of the county, MrJ^h
Stirling, chairman of the North British Radway Company,
Sir William Miller, and other directors of the company. Ih_
route to Broxmouth Park, a distance of a mile and a halt, was
lined bv the Haddington Artillery Volunteers, the East
Lothia/veomanry, a body of special constables, the county
constabulary, and the members of the se veral local a3,ociations.
The inhabitants of the district greeted her Majesty with
the utmost enthusiasm, which was gracefully acka ? wlu ^ t '
by her, the parish church Sunday scholars, who were
ranged on a stand, being specially noticed. At noon the
Provost presented an address from the Town C°uncil at th
castle for the Queen. In the afternoon her Majesty’ With
Princess Beatrice and Prince Leopold, accompanied by her
host and hostess and their various guests, visited Dunbar ,
the Royal cortege was escorted by a troop of East Lothian
Yeomanry Cavalry, under the command of Captain H° ust ° ar \’
the Lord Lieutenant of the county being in attendance on
horseback. The town was en fete, the floral and otk ® r
rations being artistically carried out, and the loyalty o
people most demonstrative. The Queen drove through the
principal streets and into the Castle Park, where she
the ruins of the ancient fortress. Her Majesty afterwa
drove out, and was met by the Gipsy Queen, Esther
Blythe, whose tribe was encamped in a field near DunDar.
Esther, with her subjects, raised a hearty cheer, which t
Queen acknowledged especially to the Gipsy Quoeu.
drive was continued past Belhaven Paper Works and throu h
the village of Westbum to the policies of Bell, the property ot
Lady Nisbet Hamilton, and through its grounds, thence by bur
George Warrender’s estate of Lochend to Broxmouth. ,
The Queen, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold attemiai.
Divine service, performed at Broxmouth House by the i ■■
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Robert Buchanan, minister of Dunbar. Mr. Buchanan was
prerented to her Majesty. The Queen drove in the afternoon
to Dunglafs Castle, the seat of Sir Basil Hall, Bart., and
through its policies, returning to Broxmouth by way of Inner-
wick, Thurston, and Barney Hill, the seat of Sir William
Miller. The Earl of Haddington joined the Royal dinner circle.
On Monday her Majesty and the Prince and Princess, with
the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, drove to Tyninghame,
the residence of the Earl of Haddington, and to the ruins of
Tantallon Castle, where she was received by Sir Hew and
Lady Hamilton Dairymple. Sir David Baird was presented to
the Queen. On the way through Dunbar 500 girls were
ranged on each side of the principal streets and strewed
flowers on the path. Her Majesty planted a cedar-tree
in Broxmouth Park in commemoration of her visit.
The Queen left Broxmouth in the evening. The Earl of Had¬
dington was in attendance on horseback, and a guard of the
Haddington Artillery Volunteers was drawn up at the station,
the road was lined with torchbearers and the town illu¬
minated, and her Majesty’s ship Lord Warden, in the Dunbar
roads, burned blue lights at sea. The Queen took leave of the
Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe at Dunbar railway station,
and proceeded by special train cn route for Balmoral. Her
Majtsty was much gratified by the loyalty displayed on the
occasion of her visit to Broxmouth, and by the beauty of the
surrounding country.
The Queen arrived at Ballater at eight o’clock on Tuesday
morning, and was met by Colonel Farquharson, of Invercauld,
and Mr. J. T. Mackenzie, of Kintail. A guard of honour, a
company of the 79th Highlanders, under Captain Gordon, was
in attendance. The Royal party drove in open carriages to
Bidmoral.
Her Majesty charged Viscount Torrington to present her
Order of Victoria and Albert to the Queen of the Belgians on
the occasion of the silver wedding of the King and Queen.
Her Majesty, Princess Christian, Princess Beatrice, and
Prince Leopold sent wreaths of flowers and immortelles to be
S laced upon the coffin of the late Madame Van de Weyer at
er funeral at Windsor.
The Hon. Harriet Phipps is Maid of Honour in Waiting,
and General Viscount Bridpcrt has arrived as Equerry in
Waiting to the Queen.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP WALES.
The Prince of Wales and the King of Denmark visited the
wreck of the Eurydice on Saturday last, proceeding from
Cowes in the turret-ship Thunderer. They made a close
examination of the ship, and clambered on to the top side of
the wreck, which Ties on its starboard bilge at an angle of
39 deg.; and here the means to be adopted for canting the
Eurydice on to her port bilge for caulking her lee side were
explained. The Prince, with the King of Denmark aud
Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales, paid a visit to
Portsmouth on Monday, and made a tour of inspection of the
dockyard. The Princess, with her children, pays daily visits
to the Queen of Denmark at Lisburn House.
Prince and Princess Christian left Cumberland Lodge on
Monday en route for Germany. Their Royal Highnesses intend
to return to England about the middle of October.
Princess Louise of Lome and the Marquis of Lome were
compelled to vacate their residence on Sunday week at
Kissingen in consequence of an extensive fire having broken
out in close contiguity to it, and which continued to rage
during the night. The Marquis and the Duke of Cambridge
were most active in removing the property, not only from the
Princess’s residence, but from the adjacent houses. The
Princess was obliged to remain in a small room at the Kurhaus
during the night. _
The annual gathering of the Cambrian Archaeological
Association was held last week at Lampeter, in Cardiganshire.
The Orleans Club, Twickenham, will be closed for the
winter season on Monday next, Sept. 2.
It is announced that, the resignation of Mr. Justice Keogh
having been accepted, the seat on the Irish Bench has been
accepted by Mr. Gibson, Q.C., Attorney-General for Ireland.
The annual harvest-home at the Philanthropic Society’s
Farm School, Redhill, was held on Wednesday. Three
hundred boys participated in the entertainments, which were
witnessed by a large number of friends of the society.
The Isle of Thanet Flower Show, held at Mr. Hannam’s
Park, at St. Peter's, on Wednesday, was attended by a large
number of visitors. Among those present were Messrs. Pem¬
berton and Deedes, the two members for East Kent, and Sir
George Bowyer, M.P.
An Eisteddfod was held at Llanwrtyd Wells on Monday.
The principal choirs and bands in Glamorganshire, Pembroke¬
shire, and other counties in Wales took part in the contest.
Miss Hattie Davis, Miss Jeaunie Lewis, and EosMorlais were
among the vocalists. Dr. Morgan, of Llanelly, was conductor.
The adjudicators were Mr. Owen, of Chester, and Mrs. Watson,
of Llanwrtydd Hall. There was a large attendance, both of
English and Welsh. Mr. Arthur Morgan was president.
The autumnal meeting of the Associated Chambers of Com¬
merce began on Monday at the Cutlers’ Hall, Sheffield. Mr.
Sampson S. Lloyd, M.P., the president of the association,
occupied the chair. Upwards of 150 delegates, representing
the whole of the Chambers of Commerce throughout the
country, were present. They were welcomed to the town by
the Mayor (Alderman Mappin), the Master Cutler (Alderman
Ward), and the president of the Sheffield Chamber (Mr. W. K.
Peace). An introductory address was delivered by the pre¬
sident, who expressed an opinion that great benefit would result
from the appointment of a Minister of the first rank to attend
to commercial interests, and of a Minister under him to attend
to agriculture. A resolution urging the Government to main¬
tain the principle of free trade in the negotiation of foreign
treaties having been adopted unanimously, the Sheffield
Chamber submitted a motion asking for a Royal Commission
to inquire into the causes of the decline of the foreign trade of the
country. This motion was carried by a majority of 27 to 23,
which the chairman said was too small to enable the asso¬
ciated chambers to take action upon the resolution. Another
resolution agreed to was that a deputation Bhould wait upon
the Prime Minister to urge upon him the necessity of the
appointment of a Minister of Commerce and Agriculture.—On
Wednesday a resolution was adopted against the Employers’
Liability for Injury Bill. With respect to the cost of foreign
telegrams, a deputation was appointed to wait upon the Post¬
master-General and present a report that might be considered
at the telegraphic conference next year. Resolutions were
passed against the present system of paying factory surgeons,
and in favour of the Bankruptcy Act Amendment Bill. In the
evening the Mayor (Alderman Mappin) gave a dinner, which
was attended by nearly 400 gentlemen. Mr. Roebuck, M.P.,
replied on behalf of the House of Commons, and advised the
association to endeavour to bring about a universal commer¬
cial law. Mr. Mundella, M.P., and others also responded.
(Extra
ELY CATHEDRAL.
We present, in the large Engraving that forms our Extra
{supplement this week, a view of the majestic Cathedral of Ely,
which was visited by the British Archeological Association
during then: late Congress at Wisbech. This week, their pro¬
ceedings were brought to a close, after an interesting visit to
Cambridge on Monday last. Ely, a city of eight or nine
thousand people, and a Bishop’s see, is about seventy mfles
from London, sixteen beyond Cambridge, and twenty-seven
from the sea at Lynn Regis. It is the capital of the district
called the Isle of Ely, which comprises the northern part of
Cambridgeshire, and which formerly was rather a group of
small islands, a sort of inland archipelago, surrounded or inter¬
spersed with lakes and fens, than a single island of
that name. We refer to the valuable new book men¬
tioned m our last, “The Fen-Land,” by Messrs. S. H.
Miller and Sydney Skertchly, for ample description and
history of that remarkable district. Ely Cathedral occupies
the site of a monastery founded in the year 673 by Princess
Etheldreda (Audrey), daughter of a King of the East Angles,
and widow first of Tonbert, the Saxon Prince of the South
feus, secondly of Egfrid, King of Northumberland. She
endowed her convent, both of monks and nuns, with all the
lunds of the Isle of Ely, bequeathed to her by her first husband.
After the Norman Conquest, the party of English led by
Hereward, still standing in arms against the Conqueror, mode
their Camp of Refuge in this neighbourhood, trusting to its
natural defences of marsh and mere. King W illiam I.
appointed a relative of his own, Simeon, Prior of Winchester,
to be Abbot of Ely, by whom, in 1083, the building of the
oldest, or Norman, part of the existing church was begun,
and this was carried on by Abbot Richard, son of the Earl of
Clare.
Under King Henry I. the Abbey was converted into an
Episcopal See, which was erected in 1109, its first occupant
being Bishop Hervc Lc Breton, translated from the diocese of
Bangor. Among the succeeding Bishops were several men of
mark ; Bishop Nigel, nephew to the powerful Bishop Roger of
Salisbury, and Lord High Treasurer of the Kingdom ; Bishop
William Longchamp, Chancellor and Grand Justiciary under
Richard I., and the stout opponent of John ; Bishop Eustace,
who took an active part in John’s dispute with the Barons ;
Bishop Hotham, Lord Chancellor in the reign of Edward II. ;
and one of still greater eminence, Bishop Morton, who was the
chief agent in overthrowing Richard III. and bringing in
Henry 'ludor, and who became Archbishop of Canterbury.
Since the Reformation, likewise, the see of Ely has been held
by several distinguished Churchmen.
The Cathedral is well described in a neat “Handbook”
published by Messrs. T. A. Hills and Son, Minster Place, Ely,
the tenth edition of which was issued last year. There is a
more elaborate treatise, “ The Architectural History of Ely
Cathedral,” by the Rev. D. J. Stewart, Minor Canon, and one
of older date, by the Rev. James Bentham. Upon the occa¬
sion, in October, 1873, of the bis-sexcentenary celebration of
Ethelreda’s foundation of Ely Abbey, Dean Merivale compiled
a memorial volume (also published by Messrs. T. A. Hills and
Son), which contains all the speeches, lectures, sermons, and
other addresses delivered at that festival, with a full report of
the proceedings, and an account of the works for the restoration
of the sacred building. Sir Gilbert Scott's lecture upon its
architectural characteristics may here be consulted with
advantage.
The view drawn by our Artist, Air. S. Read, is taken from
the north-west, showing the gap left by the fall of the north
transept tower, at what date is not certainly known. The
corresponding transept tower on the south side is seen, to the
right hand of the great tower, rising above the roof of the
west front. In the eastward part of the building, a beautiful
octagonal structure, of moderate height, marks the junction of
the nave with the choir, here crossed by the great transept,
which is chiefly Norman, and the most ancient portion of the
Cathedral. To the left hand in our view, and thus situated,
not as usual, east of the choir, but parallel with the choir on
its north side, is the Lady Chapel, which was originally the
shrine of St. Etheldreda. The eutire length of the cathedral
is 565 ft., which is greater than that of any other Gothic church
in Europe; and if the Lady Chapel were in the ordinary posi¬
tion, behind the choir, the whole edifice would be 100 ft. longer.
The nave, 203 ft. long, 72 ft. 6 in. wide, including the aisles,
and 72 ft. high, is of late Norman construction. Its ceiling
has recently been adorned with a series of paintings on wood,
representing Bible history subjects, by two accomplished
amateurs, the late Mr. Styleman Le Strange, of Hunstanton,
and Mr. Gambier Parry. The great tower, and also the two
transept towers near the west end, were probably built by
Bishop Geoffrey Riddell, in the latter part of the twelfth
century ; but the upper turrets are of Perpendicular style.
The noblest feature, however, of the whole Cathedral is the
central octagonal structure, which was built in about twenty
years, from 1321 to 13-12, by Prior Alan of Walsingham, in
place of the old central tower of the Norman Abbot Simeon,
which had suddenly fallen. The octagon is so arranged as to
take in the entire breadth of the church, including the aisles
both of nave and choir; its interior presents four large and
four smaller arches, with lofty clustered shafts to support a
ribbed vaulting of timber, and the lantern above all. This is
said to be unique in Gothic architecture. Part of the choir,
and the Lady Chapel also, which is of unusual dimensions
and very beautiful, are of the same period, the first half of the
fourteenth century. There is, perhaps, no cathedral in Great
Britain which displays more adequately the characteristics of
different stages in the progress of ecclesiastical architecture
than this Cathedral of Ely, the Queen of the East Anglian
Fenland.
SOUTH AFRICA.
Another of the remaining sketches by our Special Artist late
in South Africa, which we have called “ Reminiscences of the
Kaffir War,” finds place among the Engravings in this
Number. It is that of the departure of Governor Sir Bartle
Frere, on his return from the eastern frontier, at King William’s
Town, to the colonial capital city, Capetown. His Excellency
has just now closed the Session of the Legislative Assembly at
Capetown, where he, in the name of the Government, specially
commended to the constituencies at the ensuing elections the
necessity of a united South Africa for purposes of defence,
commerce, civilisation, and progress. The interests of all the
colonies and States, he urged, were one, and he hoped the
country would give no uncertain answer upon the most im¬
portant subject ever submitted to its judgment. The latest
reports from the frontier show that some still think that the
Kaffir rebellion is not yet quite extinguished; but official
information does not warrant such a conclusion. Another
chief, Delima, with his followers, has surrendered at Mount
Coke, and the disarmament of the people is being carried on
with ease. Mr. Griffiths will shortly resume office as the
Governor’s agent in Basutoland. Colonel Jarvis will have
temporary charge of the colonial forces. Colonel Lanyon and
Captain Warren, with a force of 500 men, had a successful
engagement with the Batlapis fifty-five miles north-east of
Kurmuan. The enemy’s fortifications covered some acres of
ground ; they were well armed, and fought with determination.
Ihirty-nine were found killed in the intrenchments. The
casualties on cur side were five men mortally wounded or
killed. From the Transvaal we learn that Captain Clarke is
making an effective impression on Secocoeni’s people, many
of whom are surrendering. General Thesiger is now in Natal.
THE NEW BELLS FOR ST. PAUL’S.
We give an Illustration of the first and largest bell, of the
new peal of twelve, presented to the Dean and Chapter of
St. Paul’s, which are to be placed in the north-west tower of
the Cathedral, as described in our last. This bell, which is
the gift of the Corporation of Loudon, ranks as the “tenor,”
and weighs not less than three tons and three cwts. The
others, given by the Grocers’, Clothworkers’, Fishmongers’,
Merchant Taylors’, Salters’, Drapers’, and Turners’ Companies
(Lady Burdett-Coutts, as a member of the last-named Com¬
pany, bearing a handsome part in the gift), are of smaller
dimensions, though one of these weighs 45 cwt. and another
33 cwt. The aggregate weight of the twelve is about eleven
tons, cast by Messrs. Taylor and Co., of Loughborough,
Leicestershire. Each bell bears on one side the emblematic
device of the cathedral, and on the other side the armorial
bearings of the company presenting it, with the company’s
motto and the name of the master at the time of the vote.
Messrs. Shaw, of King Edward-street, under the superin¬
tendence of the cathedral architect, Mr. Penrose, have executed
the necessary alterations and fittings. The work of prepa¬
ration has entailed un outlay of about £1000.
MUSIC.
The season of the Covent-Garden Promenade Concerts is now
half-way towards its completion, which will be at the end of
another four weeks. Recent performances have comprised the
four first symphonies of Beethoven, No. 4 (iu B flat) having
been given on Monday, the following four being reserved for
the subsequent Mondays. Thus the whole series of these grand
works, except the ninth and last (the “choral”), will have
been heard in regular order during the present season of
Messrs. Gatti’s concerts. That accomplished pianist Madame
Montigny-Remaury, having left London, has been re¬
placed by M. Paul Viardot, the eminent violinist, who
appeared on Saturday evening, and executed Mendelssohn’s
concerto with those excellent qualities of style and mechanism
on which we have more than once commented in noticing his
performance of the same work elsewhere. Saturday’s concert
included an effective orchestral arrangement of prominent
themes from Mr. Sullivan’s comic opera, “ H.M.S. Pinafore,”
comprising prominent solos for Mr. Radcliff (flute), Mr. Horton
(oboe), Mr. Lazarus (clarinet), Mr. Hughes (ophicleide), and
Mr. Howard Reynolds (comet), &c. Two pieces were encored,
as was M. Gounod's exquisite piece of musical drollery, the
“ Funeral March of a Marionette.” Another specialty in the
programme was the orchestral “ Suite,” by the late M Georges
Bizet, entitled “ L’Arlesienne,” of which highly characteristic
work, by the composer of “ Carmen,” we have already spoken
in reference to its first performance in England at one of the
concerts of Madame Viard-Louis. Other pieces, classical and
popular, completed Saturday’s programme. During last week
the principal solo vocalists have been Mdlle. Alma Verdini,
MesdamesRoseHersee, Edith Wynne, and Antoinette Sterling,
Miss Anna Williams, Mr. E. Lloyd, Mr. Bridson, and Mr.
May brick. A classical night was given on Wednesday. Mdlle.
Stella Faustina made her first appearance and was warmly
received in the air “Una voce” (“ II Barbierc di Siviglia”)
and “Ah, non giunge” (“La Sonnambula”), for the latter of
which she received an encore.
“The Crown Diamonds” is the opera announced for this
(Saturday) evening at the Alexandra Palace, the principal
characters to be sustained by Madame Blanche Cole, Miss Lucy
Franklein, Mr. Parkinson, Mr. Ludwig, and Mr. Marler.
AGRICULTURAL SHOWS.
The exhibition of horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs in connection
with the annual show of the Cheshire Agricultural Society
was opened last Saturday in Toft Park, Knutsford. In open
classes the Duke of Westminster took the first prize for
hunters, and the Stand Stud Company first for cart horses ;
Lieut.-Colonel Cornwall Leigh was first in the class for young
cart horses, and Mr. Wilson, Coddington, took the Duke of
Westminster’s prize for brood mares for hunters. In the open
class for cattle the Stand Stud Company took the first prize
for old shorthorn bulls and for shorthorn cows. Mr. Ackers,
Painswick, Gloucestershire, took the first prize for shorthorn
heifers. Mr. Ackers was also successful in the pig class, along
with Sir Philip Egerton. All the prizes for sheep went to Mr.
Cooke and Mr. Bowdage Mold. In the class restricted to
tenant farmers in the county there was a moderate show of
cattle, of which the principal feature was the bull class. The
prize winners in this class were pronounced better than any¬
thing shown at any previous snow of the Cheshire Society.
There was also a good show of horses, especially agricultural
horses. The show of turn-outs was good, aud the jumping
excellent. The society’s first prize was awarded to Mr. Goodall,
of Altrincham, and Mr. Cossuis was second with Blue Peter.
The Local Committee’s first prize was won by Mr. Dods worth’s
Snowdrop, and Mr. Goodall was second. The Duke of West¬
minster and Lieutenant-Colonel Legh were awarded medals for
extra stock in horses, and Lord de Tabley and several others
for some splendid Highland bullocks and Alderney and Channel
Island cattle. Mr. Leycester, on whose ground the show was
held, showed the best collection of farm produce. A large
number of medals were awarded for implements and for
special merit in various classes. Prizes were awarded for
cheese classes, the show of which was not large, owing to the
season not being yet sufficiently advanced for the maturity of
best Cheshire cheeses. There were also several awards for
farms and cottages.—The Duke of Westminster, speaking at
a luncheon in connection with this show, accepted the Cattle
Bill as a happy compromise between the town populations, as
representing the consuming interest, and the agriculturists.
The annual general meeting of the members of the Lanca¬
shire Agricultural Society, the most important association in
the north of England, was held on Wednesday at the Townhall,
Lancaster. Lord Winmarleigh presided. The arrangements
for the forthcoming three days’ exhibition at Lancaster were
discussed. The inspectors read their awards for the best arable
farms, dairy or stock farms, and green crops. The rewards to
men and women, servants and Labourers in the county, were
also made. The next exhibition will probably be held at
Manchester.
PEAL OF BELLS FOR ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL: THE TENOR BELL, PRESENTED BY THE CITY CORPORATION.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Aug. 31, 1876.—1U7
PARIS INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION: THE TUNISIAN, EGYPTIAN, AND SWEDISH PAVILIONS, IN THE TROCADERO PARK.
AUG. 31, 1873
~ - VT . I The French Association forthe A ^aj c ^ on the 22ad
the AumiAH I
$S 5 to occupy tin* f 22 Sedta«lupplcmott. Ttee
cation. and detouiB, sho* “ d „ theic bsP>"'»
lines must not be c0 ?f° i ^ boundaries of Dalmatia, Senna,
^vench Aaaociat' 01
TT1E AUSTRIAN of ft. I ^-^^SFfeSfcKVSSa
i^jfe^arisj^-assffis
“iiss^s t»^s^|3
3&S JkET-tf ffi^eSf^V^tor
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the capital city, named berw^o or c The trf pe o£ ^^ent
on the Drina, which is on the beman reaigtance at Citluk on ._„ _ .
General JovanovichnmtMostar the capital of
the 4th inst, but ^without any more fighting.
Herzegovina. next. da J’ h rthe municipality and townspeople
by Moslem iusurgents in £ t n ’ ar Stolaez, where the
S^tBSiSy — toe “ t0 '“^
I s£3**i> zs$!£*S&£^ v *‘
a °&£EiVES£3£22»* -«»
Monetary Conference. decided yesterday week in favour
The Commercial Congress deem rcsolved to appoint a
of a commercial !ll t ™ a ‘ 0 ^ re „ draught and report to the
committee, who are to p p e i d in Be’gium.
Congress of 1880, which ^U h Algeria, has been pre-
General Chanzy, Uie Govemo^ e q{ Honour winch,
e Montenegrin frontier at llilek- more difficult and Jfowtiiat vacant marshalships are n ®^ fi d ^ Mentions a” his
5££^r.ir™.d iram holding
General Tegetthoff and the Ddm ^ ^vanced
minor commands. The J Perven t, to the River
from Bred, on the Save, by Gcroen tbe B vaUe y,
Botna at Doboj, rk at SSai, on the 5th inst, from an
suffering temporary check at Mag > ntfl but defeating the
ambush laid for one dj HJ^ggpiaces, in the following
enemy at Zepcc and two or twee mu f g wag m0 ving
days. In the mean VT’ wuTTtheArchduke John Salvator
southward from ®. an ^ 1 “i ii arte ^ Travnik was occupied on
had established his head-quarters^ x afterward B effected
the 10th inst, ^nL^olumn and the main army. On the
between the ngbt-band Belalovac, in which the Moham-
15th a battle waafoughtat Han lal a T ttbo£E then pushed
medans were defeated Pjh ®uch \o ma in arm y in storming
on to join the effectSl on the 19th, but not
K„Ta"SSJSyrUancc, aad terrible havoc and
tto «: affga^.Miy
word from Doboj, has en nte^ assistance from Servian
which is supposed £ denve some ^ ^ Tuzla,
volunteers, and has beencomp Dag8aKC of the river. Its
fighting at Gracanica to secure P reinforcements, with
commander is now at Dobo] awaiting re^ ^ ^ ^
s as sssrs srw-ag retafM “ d - A stionE
garni on is aisohemgst^nedat 8 ml • th e a of
Cur Special Artist, Mr. J. Bell wjo ^ ^ recent con .
General Tbiloppovich, has eon ■ j our ne xt
flicts in the Bosnia ™Ucy, which our frontpage, and that
week’s Taper, The ® n jSi!cof 8 this Number, are from sketches
which occupies another page of this w umoe , he was
token n year or two since by llr. Melton rnor,w
in Dalmatia and brought on the Russo-Tur^ish
vincial hostihties which soo o Ra ,Tus,i the notable
S' C .b1rc Gr "n^iaS-**-*-*'
of Prince Nikita ofSStoSd refugee,
Raguia, ttrt otrw, aadrtUl18, rariar ^ ^ <oaght
from the nei e h ^ ftTs^Son thiTaccount that we have
military 8 intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovin .
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
The Grand Duchess Catherine of Russia arrived on Tuesday
CVCt M dS're the Minister of the Interior, was enter-
timUhere »« ao”groaad for fear that the emting tranquillity
essential point of an unswerving deternnnation to uphold the
Republic there was no difference of opinion amou thern-
P \Vhile M. dc Marcere was delivering a speech intended t
insuirc France with confidence in the future, M. x aui ue
Cassnmiac, at Brossac, in the Charente, was uttering one of
the Xt violent and seditious diatr lbea w ^ U J}? h b rfn^a
comnostd He accused the Republican party with bun„ a
mass of greedy place-hunters, who are refusing liberty to the
people afis evidenced by their conduct in annulling so many
If The late elections. He foretold the speedy coming of the |
Fomth Napoleon, and said that although F T\ c0 ^ aC J a ^ 1V f e o “
Kings from the throne it had never ceased to care lor
Imperialism, lie concluded by drawing a most gloomy pic¬
ture of the decline and dcatli-throcs of the B^pubhc.
hi Teisserenc de Bort announces that, with a view to en
coinage Improvement in Pkench agricult^e, he wil during the
year 187‘J award one gold medal of 1000, oae d S ^ a r ^ ^oof
7C0f, two ditto of 600f, two ditto of 500f, and one of 300f
to such lundowners or farmers in the Hautes or B »Mes Alpes
as shall have utilised in the most intelligent manner the waters
° f *011 Tuesday 8 evening the members of the Monetary Congress
warn entertained at dinner by Marshal MacMahon.
Mr cSe Owen, C.B, was entertained at a luncheon
yesterday week by the United States Commissioner. In pro¬
posing his health Governor McCormack ascribed much of the
success of the exhibits of English-speaking people to Mr.
Owen’s energy, tact, and good management.
campaigns. Plltrie s for the International Horse Show
There are USO ^jnes lor tbege are from England,
aSdtf Mgii aa r d tweatyfiva from Ru*«ai
other countries being ^^Jferewas held on the 22nd, under
A Council of at which, according to
the presidency of Marsha Credit Fonder was considered
the National, tte ‘^f^^U postponed its decision until more
-f“TH’E b ^ea!S^ r “^
coademned for P artl 'jP^ 0 J, i 5 1 t'cr6dlt Foacicr,MM. Lcveqae
andL^guay,'were*“^d^r^'gued, ^ppSentty in
SLKJSVi - Ma - de
LeSi0 " ° f
afld^f'M. W&S: MdUe. Gaichard ha» a domy of
18,OCO,OOOf. spAnt
tom. usotam of the Kmg. of ggtom the Esoa™^ ^
d^hl^S^Taai^ner. being con-
EedTo 1™°'^ friar twelve to eight year,
SWITZERLAND.
0C The'Aartrian police have hauded over to the Bernese
^VhfBisC'orR^Vlslknd^onsecrated at Geneva last
Saturday the new American Episcopal church.
GERMANY.
■ Sr'iStr/S ttlS/ ot the
G»adS.». df BaScn- After a stay
mwMsmm
S ’ l TS!kr™”conn,a B ht aad the Priaee.s Urdta toehrf
fT( ini'i'per*• enages* were present™ A dinner was given':P tour
O’clock hi the afternoon, to which 200 persons were mvited.
In the evening there was a gala performance m the Berlin.
° F TV e unTriM-e between William Frederik Hendrik Prince
last As Triuce li.nrv led his bride to the alt.il the K'Uo 0
Holland conduc tc d the Crown Trincess of Russia. The Crovm
Prinee followed with the mother of the bride, the lied I rince
with 1 the Grand Duchess of Saxony, Prince Frederik of the
Netherlands with Princess Albrecht of lrussia, and the Duke
cf Connaught with his betrothed. \ m w- a dor
I Count Hatzfeld, the uewly-appomted Geiman Ainbas-.iaor
I at Cmrstaadaople, left Berlin oSr'the 22nd tot. for his post,
lV nKm!div\be bill against tile Socialists was aimed to by
the German Federal Council, after being modihed. The
amended measure provides that the police authorities of the
different States, instead of the central Federal authorities,
T ia ll be competent to prohibit Socialist associations.
At the Radziwill Palace, on Wednesday the documents
bearing the signature of the Sultan in ratification ofthe treaty
of Berlin were exchanged against copies presented by the
0ll Tt instated from'Berlin that the assassin Nobiling will be
transferred to a lunatic asylum, m order to be placed under
medical observation, some physicians being of opinion that he
is not really deranged, but only simulating madness.
RUSSIA.
The Emperor of Russia started for Livadia on Tuesday
morning, accompanied by M• de Giers, M. de Hamburger,
aad have beea
w c ™ stidt
next spring to join the Baltic fleet. Belgrade, and
upon the lives of public omnes, enmes^a a {jr a
triel
according to the laws in force ui time of war.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
The rope ha, to^t 7S
bestowal upon him of the ^IsSSces were gazetted on the
with the decoration for m J em b er g was at the same time
22nd inst. The Dukeso^urtBmDe^ ter ^ Duke of
SEa ^ 4.h?™y o-'fesde ,ily ' FiVe “ PP0 “'
ments of Generals of Dmsion are al ^ Hungarian his-
01
in the Provisional Government of 181- ^ Qn iIonday by
The annual Vienna gram ft F d Flower Exchange.
Herr Naschouer, president o mid the opening was attended
by Her^Aimdt! re^eseatiaR 6 the Minister of Comamree, aad
by tbe Burgomaster, Herr Newald.
SERVIA. ,
The official f^.M eekb^ag^ultonwudy th^dA-
pendence of Sem^Pnnce Milan b birthday,^ ^ Court
to the throne, the church and palace, and there was
ceremonies were held m Tbe PrLce issued a proclamation in
a parade of the troops. I he peace , thanks the nation
which he announces a future era o p * congratulates
7or.be eacrifice, it “aaS piomta help to
the country on the accession o J during the hostilities,
the families of those ^.^Ss in the Evening.
Tliere were fireworks and lUumm t - of bis Cabinet,
Prince Milan lias “ C . C T the foWtion of a Ministry,
and has intrusted M. Ristiawt representatives in Bel-
The Austrian Russian, and Itafian repr^ diplomatic agcnts
grade who have ^Bberto he d the p ■ bterg Re3 ident at the
b B,“” „ b a Coa'XldVzSt ^ beea appointed Serv.ru
Minister Resident at Vienna.
A pew Order for
who has offered to confer 1 P , bor j ge Rs acceptance,
bury has, however, declined t Powers, in which he
Safvct Pa,ha’» cirodar dispotchjto m^t
aesigas re "°" s ”l y t ajE C rii n Congress to grant a ratification
recommendation of the Her n ° T b e document is long and
of frontier to G ^ ee0 ® 19 P d Jb7Turkish Minister expresses in
closely argumentative, and t p duly enlightened on
conclusion his convictiou that the powers, u ^ ^
the subject, will not U®; s tl He does not say, however, in
i'oTolS“orf.ffi'the P”rt? aill not do what the Congress
has i< commended. EGYPT.
It is announced on oiricial imriioritv froin A b ® xa onclllsllia ,
the Khedive has accepted nncon^tionaBy an the
of the report of the^Comniwon.of bimself and
restitution to the State °f * declaration to that effa Jt to
family, and has made “■ fonn independent Powers will
Mr. Rivers Wilson. A Nubar Pasha,
immediately be formed, under^the P ? thc Commission.
to carry 7 out the r ? fo ™ arc ^ h im by the British Govern-
Subject to permission_ being gven hi ^6 appointment of
roent, Mr. Rivers Wilson h P .+ eu ded the sittings
Egyptian Minister of Finance, K b e dive has promised Mr.
' renr *
foim partof Europe.” a mer IC A. . ... a
Mr. Sherman .lie Fccrc..^ of ae
speech at Mansfield, Ohio. . .. i p ir rrp amount of silver
himself in favour of the emcula mn £ a par with gold,
and greenbacks, po tl ’ at , execution of the Resumption
Mr. Sherman declared that the e >.e .u _ old , and paper
Act was rapidly approaching. States Treasury had
were now almost at par. d he believed that the
140,000,000 dels, in coin available, ana ne u ^ nn step
resumption wcmld be gy The Govcrnmeiit had effected
backward would be justmea. xnt, tQ the amount oE
LtaThf;bc F ^», r ^
over-production, and the same dewossio in the Unit 'd
ovCT-production, and tlie ““ e ^tTralierin'the Unit
countries, there was a better pr P received protecti...-
Siates. where labour as wdlp P ^ Sherman defended
ST^SSS^ pSlS"wbose object, bo sa.d,
' 0, ” T tCtKaL^ro,T 8 :rbave acceptedtbeterm,of
peace proposed by General Howard.
CANADA. , The
The Nova Scotian L^
new elections will be held on Sept l < nex .
with the elections to the Dominion Parliamen
The following intelligencTfs^elegraphed by the Calcutta
COr i’BepOT^ b from b Ma^as contamchceTiag^MComits^M^co.^
tinned improvements in the P^ a P® be alm0 3t destroyed by
Dehra, Ghazee, and Khan have been aim of affair a
I Hoods. In v-iew oj, thlfl yQ Sax ent isauthoriBed.
1 throughout the north-west, the local uoverum
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199
to carry out proposals for lowering the rate of relief wages
and turning off the works all able-bodied people who refused
to do a fair task in relief employment and all able-bodied
people for whom work exists in the fields.
“ Bombay has held a solemnity for the purpose of investing
Maharanee Suraoinove with the insignia of the Imperial Order
of the Crown of India. This lady is the Burdett-Coutts of
India, and of all the natives the most eminently distinguished
for her noble and enlightened benevolence. She has con¬
tributed over £20.000 to famine charities enumerated by the
Commissioner from 1871 to 1877, and bestowed over £50,000
in works of charity and public utility. During that period she
had expended in charity one sixth of her whole income.
Worthily indeed has this noble woman, by great personal
merit, earned the high distinction bestowed upon her.
“ A durbar was held at .Teypore on the 16th in presence of
the chief Sirdars and European officers for the investiture of
the Maharajah with the Order of the Indian Empire. Return¬
ing thanks, he said:—‘ I cannot express in adequate language
my sense of gratefulness for the token of Imperial favour con¬
ferred upon me by the Queen-Empress. The infinite obli¬
gation she has placed me under demands my constant
attachment and devotion to the throne, aud loyal duties to the
Sovereign a 1 ways remain uppermost in my mind.’
“ The Lieutenant-Governor left Calcutta on the 21st inst.
for a lengthened tour en route for Darjeeling. Sikkim Rajah
will meet him at Damsang. He desires advice and assistance
with reference to the conduct of Nepaitlese immigrants in
obstructing the collection of rents.”
The Government of India has published a resolution
thanking the military famine relief officers for their services.
Those who were compelled to take sick leave are allowed six
months’ full pay up to 600 rupees a month.
General Sir Neville Chamberlain, who has been appointed
the head of the English special mission to C'abul, arrived at
Simla last Tuesday.
AUSTRALIA.
Sir Arthur Blyth, lv.C.M.G., the Agent-General for South
Australia, has received a telegram from the Government at
Adelaide, dated the 20th inst., stating that his Excellency the
Governor, Sir W. F. D. Jervois, G.C.M.G., had arrived in the
colony, and had been enthusiastically received by the colonists ;
that the season was exceptionally good, and that Sir Arthur is
to send another emigrant-ship in September, so that the
emigrants might arrive in time for harvest.
By the overland mail we have papers from the Australian
colonies to July 9, but telegrams have anticipated the most
important items of news.
Slight shocks of earthquake were felt on Monday in Rhenish
Prussia, Holland, and Belgium.
An immense bronze statue has been found in the bed of the
Tiber under Ponte Sisto.
There have been waterspouts and inundations in the Tyrol,
and serious damage has resulted.
Telegrams from San Francisco announce that news had been
received of the death of the infant Prince Imperial of Japan.
Count Harry von A niim has bought from Count Colloredo,
for £60,000, a large estate in Bohemia, the possession of which
gives a title to a seat in the Vienna House of Lords.
Major-General Lothian Nicholson, C.B., of the Royal
Engineers, will, it is thought, succeed Sir William Norcott as
Governor of Jersey, on the expiration of that officer’s tenure
of the appointment next month.
A telegram of Tuesday’s date from Larnaca, addressed by
Sir A. D. Home to the Director-General Army Medical
Department, states that the health of the troops in camp at
■Cyprus has generally much improved.
The Government has accepted a tender from the Penin¬
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for the
conveyance of the India and China mails for a period of eight
years from February, 1880, when the present contract expires.
Four Italian Alpine excursionists (MM. Vaccarone, Costa,
Nigra, and Brioschi) have succeeded in making an ascent
which had hitherto been attempted in vain—that of Mont
Blanc from the Italian side, descending it on the French.
Lieutenant Meering Bloomfield Seagcr, of the Royal Marine
Light Infantry, has been appointed Assistant Civil Com¬
missioner in the island of Cyprus. Mr. Seager is a barrister-
at-law, and was called to the degree of the utter bar of the
Middle Temple in June, 1874.
Reports which had reached New York of a revolution
having broken out in San Domingo have been confirmed. The
revolutionary forces, according to the latest intelligence
received, are marching on the capital.
Advices from Sydney bring further particulars of the native
revolt in New Caledonia. It appears that the movement was
■confined to two tribes, numbering 1000 men, aud that it is
attributed to the arbitrary seizure of some land and a village.
The ship Pericles, 1598 tons, Captain Largie, chartered by
the Agent-General for New South Wales, sailed from Plymouth
for Sydney on the 22nd inst. with 441 emigrants, under the
supervision of Dr. A. Booth as surgeon-superintendent, with
Miss Jones in churge of the single women.
The Belgian Royal Quadrennial prize of 25,000f. for the
best work on the national history has been awarded to M.
Alphonse Wauters for his publication on 11 Communal
Liberties; an Essay on their Origin aud Development in
Belgium, the North of France, and on the Banks of the Rhine.”
The French forces in Senegal are preparing for au expe¬
dition into the interior, in consequence of the fact that the
negro King Sambala, an ally of France, has been attacked by
the Kersoukes, the Saracolcs, aud the Toucouleurs of the Logo.
The French corps is going to aid him. The officers propose
to penetrate as far as Medines, a town in the interior.
There was issued on Wednesday from the Foreign Office
the annual report, addressed to the Lords of the Admiralty, of
the Commander-in-Chief on the East India Naval station in
respect to the slave trade. Admiral Corbett remarks that
there is a manifest diminution in the slave trade on the East
Coast of Africa, and proves it by the figures, as the number of
•slaves liberated by her Majesty’s ships during the past year
was sixty, compared with 438 in the preceding year.
Vice-Consul Dupuis, in his report made this year on the
trade of Susa, Tunis, in 1877, says :—“Nothing has rewarded
research among the antiquities in the country. I have secured
the marble statue of one of the emperors, discovered some
years ago, but lost again from being buried up in rubbish,
and so baffled the endeavours of the author of ‘ Travels in the
Footsteps of Bruce ’ when here to discover. It stands
5ft. 3-Jin. high from the knees, where it is broken off. Two
winged figures and the head of Medusa are beautifully
sculpt end cn the breast. This had led some to suppose it to
be one of the Christian Emperors, but I am inclined to think
they represent the Glome. I have had it fixed up in my office.”
THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Begbie, Mars Hamilton, to be Vicar of St. Andrew’.s, Stojkwell.
Beley, Charles Allen Evans ; Perpetual Curate of Mauningtrce.
Bennett. George; Vicar of East Cowton.
Buckrnaster, E.; Viear of Epping.
Bush, Thomas Henry; Perpetual Curate of St. Luke's, Burton, B
Butter, J.; Vicar of St Thomas’s, Bethnal-green.
Clay, Edvard Kcatinge ; Vicar of Great Kimble, Bucks.
Darby, George 'William; Rector of North Wingfield.
Davidson, Arthur Armitstend ; Rector of St. Lawrence's, Norwich.
Grundy, Henry Dickinson; Vicar of Ceme Abbas.
Hodgson, F H.; Vicar of Abbots Langley.
.Tnuncey, Henry John ; Vicar of Houghton or Torside.
bgpp, George Barrington ; Vicar of Whittington.
Morlcy, Samuel; Perpetual Curate of Waralow with Elkstone.
Peake, George Eden Frederick ; Vicar of St. Margaret-next-Kochester.
Perry-Krone, Charles John ; Vicar of Dean Prior.
Peglnr, John James; Vicar of Stowe,
reel, Frederick; Viear of Little Malvern.
Philips, Edward; Rector of Checkley with Hollington.
Popham, John ; Rector of St. John and St. George, Exeter.
Prescott, Benjamin B.; Perpetuid Curate of Christ Church, Latchford.
Itandall, James; Rector of Itield.
Reynolds, Seymour Baylic: Rector of Thorndon.
Russell, Alfred Francis; Rector of Chingford.
Slaite, George Herbert; Perpetual Curate of Ashton Hayes.
Sowter, Francis Briggs ; Rector of Corscomhe, Dorset.
Stol art, W. J.; Vicar of St. Augustine’s, Bermondsev.
Starbuck, Edward Stephenson ; Rector of Saleott Vir’ley.
Tamer, James; Reetor of Chipping Ongar.
Theed, Joseph V.; Vicar of Lower Hulstow, near Sittingbourne, Kent.
Walters, W.; Rural Dean of Pershore.
Wellstcd, A. O.; Rectorof Colne Wake.
Whitworth. William ; Rector of Taxal.
Wilson, John; Vicar of Avenbury.
Winslow, Forbes E.; Rector of St. Paul’s, Hastings.— Guardian.
The Bishop of Truro has opened a school-chapel at Tregu-
dillet, Launceston.
Mr. J. L. Pearson, A.R.A., has been appointed architect of
the new cathedral at Truro.
On the 21st inst. the Dean of York opened the parish
church of Haxby, which has been almost entirely rebuilt.
The congregation of St. James’s Church, Ryde, have pre¬
sented a handsome silver communion service to the Rev. Ho ward
B. Finch on his leaving that curacy.
On St. Bartholomew’s Day the foundation-stone of a church,
to be dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, at Delabole, Corn¬
wall, was laid by Miss Hellyar, of Boscastle, who gave the site.
The subjects and speakers at the Church Congress, to be
held at Sheffield ou Oct. 1, 2, 3, aud 4, have been arranged.
The congress will sit in two sections—at the Albert Hall and
at the Cutlers’ Hall.
A beautiful fresco by Messrs. Campbell and Smith, of
Southampton-row, has been presented to the Rev. Arthur
Robins for the Church of The Saviour, Windsor, b y the officers
of the 1st Regiment of Life Guards.
A memorial has been placed in Playford church to the
memory of Thomas Clarkson, the strenuous advocate of the
abolition of slavery. It consists of a marble medallion portrait
of him in the prime of life, with a suitable inscription. Mr.
Clarkson lived at Playford for more than thirty years.
The Bishop of Exeter has consecrated the chapel of ease of
St. Michael, at Beer, restored at the sole cost of the Hon. Mark
Rolle. The altar cloth has been embroidered by Lady
Gertrude Rolle. Upon the ratable stands a polished brass
enamelled and jewelled cross. The oak lectern is the gift of
the Hon. Miss Trefusi3.
A painted window, representing the sanctity of domestic
life, has been placed in Gloucester Cathedral by the Dean and
Chapter, in memory of the wife of Canon Tinling. The window
is on the north side of the choir, the third eastward from the
restored chapel of St. Paul, and opposite to the shrines of
Edward II. aud King Osric.
A pulpit of Caen stone, executed by Messrs. Cox aud Son,
from the designs of the late Sir Gilbert Scott, and intended as
a memorial to the late Rev. M. Williams, M.A., Rector of
Llanrhyddlad, Anglesea, a clergyman well known in the Welsh
literary world, has been erected in Bangor Cathedral, and will
be used for the first time on Sunday. Miss Bonham, a lady
amateur, has executed the stone work cf the panels, which are
filled with representations of scriptural subjects.
The east window of the new chancel at St. Mary’s, South¬
ampton, of which the Prince of Wales recently laid the stone,
is in the hands of Messrs. Clayton and Bell, who are working
out a beautiful design by Mr. Street, R.A. The central
light contains a “ Crucifixion.” Above, below, and in the two
other lights are events from The Passion. It is to be given by
all whom Bishop Wilberforce confirmed; £120 is still lacking.
Subscriptions may be sent to Miss L. Plrillimore, The Coppice,
Henley-on-Thames.
The annual account and report to the governors of Queen
Anne’s Bounty has been issued. It appears that 117 grants
towards the improvemeut of poor benefices were assigned
during the year, as compared with 114 in the year 1876. The
receipts during the past year amounted to £152,962, and the
disbursements to £122,975, of which £114,970 was for interest
and dividends duo to the clergy. The liabilities of the cor¬
poration are estimated at £3,814,920, and the assets at
£3,844,018, leaving a balance in hand of £29,097.
The Bishop of St. Albans reopened the church of Tolles-
hunt Knights, Essex, on the 21st inst. It is a small though
interesting church, and it contains a defaced efligy, supposed
to be that of a Knight Templar.—Next day his Lordship re¬
opened the church of Little Horkesley, which had undergone a
thorough restoration, under the care of Mr. Blomfield. The
cost of the work which the Yicar has been enabled to carry out
has been £2415, exclusive of the cost of rehanging the peal,
and of adding a fifth bell and a chiming apparatus, which has
been done at the expense of Mrs. Bourdillon and Miss
Cardonell, of Horkesley Hall.
The Church of St. Mary, High Crompton, near Oldham,
was consecrated on the 22nd inst. by the Bishop of Manchester.
In his sermon he dealt with the subject of endowments. The
Bishop said that within the last thirty years the number of
parishes in the diocese had nearly doubled, aud all the new
parishes had been formed and largely endowed out of the
common fund, as it was called, which was at the disposal of
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Wherever a new pariah was
formed and the population exceeded 4000 the Commissioners
endowed it to the extent of £200 a year, and where the popu-
lat ion was under that, they met local liberality by making a
gxant corresponding to the benefaction which was offered.
A severe explosion of gas occurred last Saturday morning
off the Longships liglit-ship ou board the steam-vessel Sum¬
merville, of Glasgow, bound from Cardiff to Rochforfc, laden
with coals. Captain Clements, who was in the chart-room at
the time, was killed, and the cook was badly burned. Hie
tin-deck of the vessel was much damaged.
ART.
“ The Polo-Match at Hurliugliam,” now exhibited at the-
Guardi Gallery, Haymarket, is from the pencil of Mr. George
Earl, the painter of “Coming South” and “ Going North.”
The present work is about 7 ft. by 5 ft., and represents in a
spirited manner the game of polo as played by five officers of
the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), attired in jerseys aud caps
striped red and blue on the one side, and five gentlemen in
white shirts and red caps, belonging to the Monmouthshire
Polo Club, on the other. The match takes place in the grounds
of Hurliughnm, before the Prince and Princess of Wales and'
a large gathering of fashionable guests. The players are
mounted oil stout ponies, whose varied action the artist por¬
trays with his well-known facility. The portraits are all readily
recognisable, mid when translated into black and white the
animated scene has almost a better look than on the canvas.
Mr. Alma-Tadema’s picture of “Pleading” has been
etched by Mr. Leopold Lowenstam. It represents a Roman
youth lying on a marble seat urging his suit on the not unwill¬
ing ears of his lady-love, who, elbow on knee and hand
thoughtfully to mouth, sits beside him, with a lapful of un¬
heeded roses. This marble bench occupies the whole breadth
of the picture, aud beyond it we catch a glimpse of a summer
sea bounded by far-off hills. Mr. Alma-Tadema painted this
picture as a centre to his “In Confidence” and his “First
Whisper,” both of which have, like the subject before us, been
etched by Leopold Lowenstam, a Dutch artist of command¬
ing merit. The present etching is, for lightness, brightness,
and clearness of texture, perhaps the fiuest plate M. Lowen-
stam has yet etched ; and no doubt Messrs. Pilgeram and
Lefevre, to whom we are indebted for Mr. Alma-Tadema’s
published works, will find art-lovers of a like opinion.
Yesterday week, in the presence of Lord and Lady Rosebery,
£3500 was presented to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, as the
proceeds of an exhibition of paintings lent by the merchant
princes of Glasgow and the neighbourhood. Lord Rosebery
congratulated Glasgow upon the success of so worthy and
benevolent an enterprise.
The statue of the “ Deerstalker,” by Mr. E. B. Stephens,
A.R.A., exhibited at the Royal Academy three years ago, has
been bought by subscription for presentation to the city of
Exeter. The ceremony wus to take place on the 30th inst.,
the Earl of Devon making the presentation to the Mayor as
representing the citizens.
An International Art-Exhibition is to be held at Munich
next year, and thenceforth every fourth year.
We learn from the Hampshire Telegraph of the 24th inst. that
“Mr. Robins, marine artist, of Commercial-road, Landport,
has completed a large oil-painting representing the operations
in connection with the raising of the Eurydicc in Sundown
Bny. The picture shows the wreck, together with the Rinaldo,
steam-tugs, &c., and is complete in every detail. Mr.
Robins has also executed a capital sketch of the Naval
Inspection at Spithead by the Queen. The artist had the
honour of submitting these works to her Majesty at Osborne
on Thursday, wh cn she expressed herself highly pleased with
them, and bought a copy of the first-named picture, together
with the sketch. Mr. Robins also had the honour of showing
the picture of the wreck to the Prince of Wales, who expressed
his satisfaction. The picture was painted in less than forty
hours. Mr. Robins is a retired sergeant from the Royal
Marine Artillery.”
ROYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC EXHIBITION.
The forty-sixth annual exhibition of the Royal Cornwall
Polytechnic Society was opened at Falmouth on Tuesday by a
speech from the president of the society, Mr. Richard Taylor,
F.G.S., in which he dwelt on the most important points in
connection with the management of mines.
The exhibition throughout was a very good oue. Iu the
Fine-Art Department there are several Welsh views by L.
Leroux. W. C. Symouds has a couple of capital figures, one
being “A Sunny Page,” which was exhibited at the Royal
Academy, 1877; the other, “ Cupid’s Arbour.” Mr. W.
Williams has laudscape and river views; and Julia Bertha’s
Welsh and Thames-side views are unusually good. The other
professionals include F. U. Edgcombe, W. Gibbon, F. C.
Jackson, E. A. Frynne, Ac. In water colours, as usual, Mr. T.
Hart and Mr. J. G. Philp are the largest exhibitors. The
latter deals chiefly with the Cornish coast, while the former, in
addition to depicting the beauties of his native country, gives
Italian and Irish drawings. Amongst the other exhibitors arc
R. W. Boase Smith, Sheldon Williams, Mrs. Genu, Hester
Sterling, and Mary Philp. In photography, by professionals,
first silver medals are awarded to David Hedges for studies of
animals; and to Edwin Forehead for Old Church, Bonchurch.
Bronze medals are given to Robert Faulkner and Co. for studies
of dogs, to Marsh Brothers for a Quarry Wood, Great Marlow.
The Morning Post understands that Major-General Georgo
Brydgcs Rodney, C.B., Deputy Adjutant-General of the Royal
Marines, has resigned that appointment.
Garrison sports,in which officers, non-commissioned officers,
and men of the regiments at Woolwich competed, were suc¬
cessfully carried out at that place on Tuesday and Wednesday
Watches aud jewellery, to the value of between £200 and
£300, were stolen on Monday from the premises of Mr. W.
Clarke, watch and clock dealer, Manchester.
The Queen has conferred the honour of Companion of the
Civil Division of the Order of the Bath upon Mr. Johu Elijah
Blunt, her Majesty’s Consul at Adrianople.
Official despatches respecting the famine in China have
been issued. Mr. Fraser, writing from Pekin on May 10, says
be had heard, on good authority, that as many as seven millions
of persons were computed to have perished. The province of
Shaushi aloue was said to have lost five millions of its in¬
habitants during last winter. He cites a letter from the pro¬
vince, which stated that the people in some districts preyed
upon each other like wild beasts, and that in many villages
seven-tenths of the population were dead. Later despatches
announce that in all parts of North China enough rain had
fallen this spring to permit the autumn crops to be sown, and
that the wheat promised well.
Last week 2000 quarters of beef aud ninety-seven dead
sheep were lauded in Liverpool from Ataerica. The arrivals
of live stock were again on an extensive scale, amounting in
the aggregate to 1288 oxen and 1595 sheep. In addition to
the above, sixty-one horses were landed in good condition.—
Several valuable consignments of live cattle, sheep, pigs, aud
horses reached the Mersey on Wednesday afternoon from the
United States and Canada. The Leylaud steamer Illyrian,
from Boston, had ou board 276 head of cattle, 833 sheep, 407
pigs, 21 calves, irnd 3 horses; the American Line steamer Lord
Clive, from Philadelphia, brought 404 cattle; and the Beaver
Line steamer Lake Champlain, from Montreal, 290 cattle;
wliilst the steamer Egypt, of the National Line, arrived from
New York, with 564 quarte-rs of fresh beef and. 33 valuable
horses.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Aug. 31, 1878 —200
SKETCHES IN CYPRUS, BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Aug. 31, 1878.—201
THE AUSTRIAN OCCUPATION* OF HERZEGOVINA: STREET SCENE IN GRAHOVO.
the TT.T.TTSTRATED eokpon kevs_
AUG. 31, 1878
202_ ===== . .. NATIONAL SPORTS.
sanctity, n community of goods the unmm ^ ^ ^ the wag a cons i de rable decrease in the number of spectators
FOHOES OF THE WEEK. lennium, and all the against him. David Lazzaretti x the third a nd last day at Stockton, though those who re-
JiiaU „„ ,: RHrh tells us, laid authorities were forced to move a ams bufc doeg not his - d to the end were rewarded by witnessing some capital
•Seven cities of Greece, so the anonjjmou di tc Two was shot dead by the Itolia 5 o U , with curious precision, rt Ronaleyn, on the strength of his close race with
claim to the honour of being the gome mout hs past brief and ^gf^^otable noise in the county of II. on the previous day, was backed against the
French towns, Tours nnd Ckinon, li erect a statue of another fanatic who mad Do you remember the fi ld for the Twenty-second Zetland Biennial, but he seemed
been disputing as to which is ® ba3 pome to an amicable Kent some eight-and-thirty ye ^ Courtenay” (he was a JJ hppped at the start, and was never fairly with his field, a
of Francois Rabelais. . T) ?° ““S nf^ours having definitively madman Thom, aha* T thtok7 who went about persuading finish between Constellation and lretona ending m
termination, the Municipal Council of Toursha is bankrupt wine “^“^l^^Sthat he was all kinds of ™“ r g of the former by a neck. The winner who belongs to
abandoned its pretensions .and the JJ which he the simple-mmded Kentish p a ^ th t of infantry from * Bowes had never nm previously. She is by Krnght of the
to have a statue in the such honour was paid impossible things. “*WTh 0 mandhis followers. The out ’ of T oison d’Or, and was ridden by Tom Chaloner,
derives Ins sobriquet, tt w as • d 0 f the Renaissance. Canterbury was 8< - at Lieutenant who was in j ba8 appeared in the saddle far too seldom this season,
to the most illustnous satirist of the perioa ^ Q tua » a ud madman P° v ° did whereupon the soldiers fired a ™ fam0 ^ B “ black and gold ” was again earned successfully
The unutterable coarseness of die wholly unfit for command of the military cfea ■ Courtenay,” was killed. , Ti tbe piaiden in the Stockton Stewards Cup ; and, as
“Pantagruel” makes the works o^ Rubelais the volley, and Thom, ‘®f ft E Si-lv handsome man; and gkoShad won on the previous day, the news that all three
family reading; although, a ® a ’ ducat ioii of Gargantua The Canterbury maniac a ® tr ^° coal-black ringlets and ^objected to was most unwelcome to a large number of
superior of Chaucer. Jheessay on the educat ^ . q 1 a t of him at ho ^Xol COS ?ume whichhe wore. It appears that Mr. J. Peart, inn., who entered them
and the description of 1the Abbey ox ^ difficu it to a flowing beard and in the tom i other tbi Dac ^ ^ as far back as 1861 and on this ground
and the description of the ™
ethical discourses of the high* Urquliart’s scurrilous He called hmiself.if Ire oer g account of this J d Zetland au d Messrs. Lowther and Vyner claimed the
make English readers of Sir of Rabelais was a Knight of Malta. Thereanouia Charles Mackays tive rac es for which their horses ran second The
translation .understand that the gro He veiled precursor of DavidL«maretfa mner tracts of r n Kn was considered at York on Tuesday, and Lord
Sh n ifriuiL a u"
was a ribald jestw because he^ w^imous ^to a . itio ° tioned Samue i Richardson, novelist and bookseller, j^Bowe^ and to no way responsible for the entry
denounced by the Sorbonn an t g[mt pr e- 1 menu tost brought methe London World aud forfeits for the races for which he had nominated the
He w^ oac “ a tntoKr a nce. He Into all Luther’s to^^toTAnnouncement f rom “Atlas” that two "n question, they were not. disquahfied. There>can
cursors of the Reformation in _. ber , 8 . but fie lacked I hud tnerem „ clarissa Harlowe,” one by Mr. a little doubt that this decision is founded on common-
^Extraortoimy'popular^elusions ” or in one of the tracts of
the Miscellanies of the Messrs. Chambers.
Lord Zetland ana Messrs, cuwiua -
respective races for which their horses ran second The
Section was considered at York on Tuesday, and Lord
Harttogton, Sir George Chetwynd and Lord Falmouth over¬
ruled to deciding that, ns Mr. Peart was merely the paid
servant of Mr. Bowes, and to no way responsible for the entry
fnr f lip, races for which he had nominated the
Cursors of the^orrn^on t £/-Sr’s wtobut he l^ked \***^*£ oT^cSsf SSowe? one by Mr. ^Se'doSTat ttS Son is funded on common
common-sense and m . j minded piety, and apostolic drastic tb by Mr. Wills, are to contemplation for wid give general satisfaction; still it appear
SSS: 8 Ttm Sto^of^Chtoon deSt terrible blows at Vnol That aAouncement fills me with -me, nndj g V
sr- -s’, sEs&nssasv** -
Popery, nevertheless.
The fair city ol T.JJ" « mSmea?
^ be opfosed^ tte law oi the .abject, 'ft i.
lr Oh ilr Wilk! oh, Mr. Boucicault! do leave that laid J^n that “A person entenng a horse for a
mSt maudlin of stone., full of ^m^iment and mock th b bec0 „ f B.W.fm'theentmice-money
entered by mm, or in ms mime, ui , Y; E —VT+i *—
Forthwith did Mr. | U, ^thenttag. o, the
of stvlc but I remember that the gay and Bpnguciy v over- mp-nts at York Fortunately, it soon became known that Mi.
ifssgpssii
WmmWmM -smsWZMs
K SKS SfiSSAS = be brought with
?hat SS“rfSeMBtfmentrf the letters to the “Liaisons;; advantage on the stage X we re naturally enough laid u P°^ 1 ^ 1 L b aT riJe § hS
were nlmLt literally translated by Laclos from tbe Pamela Mem . ; Mr. Thackeray used frequently and laughingly to the running at a moderate pace, the filly g t P^ the
and the “ Clarissa Harlowe” of thevirtuous Samuel Richardson. expregg hig amb itiou to write a novel called “ The Married Lite distance mid beat hun n Ringleader
translation of’Balzac’s correspondence which he promised us The Austrian police, I perceive, have handed over to the ood Btart h e obtained for his victory at StocWon las
ev!r so many months ago. The French edition was produced ^ authoriti ^ 8 of t he canton of Berne, to Switzerland a g eek . Redwing (7 st. 12 lb.), the bearer ot the magpie ctoours
full eighteen months since. I know that the perusal of the J ertain adven tures 8 of Russian extraction, calling herself a ^ tUe Lonsdale Plate, to not more fortunate than Ki
letters g were a solace to me during a dismal nine days journey Countess who ia accused of having swindled tradespeople, leader , and did not finish within bad of
by rail, post-chaise, and sledge through the dnftrng snow from rindpaUy at Nice , Geneva, and Paris, of upwards of a million (8 st 4 lb .) f who has proved a rat ber
D cccntoerf ’ 76*; Me^thXglK " ’ SbS^S the
ThosepoorShakers;. Out to the pitil^shighw^^ STnd=^-^ ^c^r^
bailiffs and sold by the brokers by public roup, and, to tthat . they are beginning to be chary of lending any ft shade less, being freely accepted about her. 0£ course there
cap the climax of their catastrophe,” the luckless Mother ^^“^eSery at all If you will turn to a very curious ^s nothing in the performance; but the filly looked far bettor
SSTmori au^ouue quoted in called “Five S, 0 ughnt§e hea^th^jjheJ* ^“^7^
before the magistrates ror uusLru LL iu H , penal g ervitude *> you will find how the traua is, in an expect that Archer wiU elect to wear me hui^o
suppose that the Shakers are crazy—hopelrasly CT^y. Who probabilit perpetrated . The hero of the book, just before in F pTe fereuce to intrusting his fortunes to the ^f k bad
is to very sane, if it comes to that? Many years a o 0 a dear P^ term ^ pun ishment expired, had a conversation with a childeric. Alpha, who defeated St. Augustine last week, had
literary lriend of mine went out of Ins mmd, and lt wi s neces- {Ui P German, who proposed that when they left ma +ters all his own way to the Badminton 1 late, and, m the
sary to place him. to confinement. “ Just like him! ’’cried JgJJ KXould“into partoersnip to a transaction which Zlmce of the day, Ford ham squeezed King Boris first past
Verjuice, the cynic. “I’ve been ten timesmmdderthantoe bim ^ uld p ? ove highly remunerative. The the post by one of the most determined pieces of riding ever
for years; but 1 never ieas such a fool as to let people k,^u>how ^ ec ^;™ beme was for t ^ e manufacture of “triplets,” the ^
mad I was!" That is (I take it) where it is. The Shakers P o£ w hieh is that a piece of coloured glass is placed A bright afternoon made the second day s sport very enjoy-
have had the imprudence to make their eccentricities public. between two tbbl i aye rs of genuine precious stone. The ab]e Sword Knot, who can gallop away from anything not
If you want to get on in this world, you must not hopon.one bet ^ triumpbant : i[y ata nd all tests save one. The coloured quite in the first class, had no trouble m the Filly Saplmg
leg or turn round and roundtoke a toctotuin I' t-hich gl^s is made to adhere to the upper aud lower strata by ^ take8 ; but the next event produced a grand fimsh between
‘he g'un wiU di,.olve uud U,c .huu. geu> will Ceurop.-Xight, $2. fttfE
noplc are wiser to their generation. They are ancient and disintegrate. run prevmusiy. ^ hig third Ebor Handicap ; and
wealthy corporations; yet their antics (to be witnessed for so j never professed to know anything about grammar, or to i islittle doubt that the son of the defunct Marsyas was
many piastres a stance) are ten tunes more grotesque aud more ^ with more tbari the accura cy of a courier or a valet de be st-class horse to the race, as, though JageUon (7 st. 41b.)
revolting than those of the lamentable sectarian polko- ^ oue of tbe i an gu a g e3 which I have contrived to pick . . , bead we f ancy that the winner had a httle to
maniacs” at Hordle by Lymington seem to be. up still—if I ever betted—I would willingly, until a few rg ^ moreover be only received 9 lb. for the year from
Whither ttg-b. llauy oSTS it™ '• unZt
•• Rliaktoor Ouakera’ Universal Elixir ” which was Rebouteur,” on grammatical solecisms which lie calls let Railied by Knight Templar (8st. 21b.). Though the absence
supposed to be prepared from a recipe derived from the entorses de la yrmnmatr*,points out not only that the expression 6 f Rupel ? ra deprived the Prince of Wales’s Stakes of a good.
Pfmmiuntviif T pbimon NY USA so admirably which I have quoted is wrong, but that it is phjsivaUy lnipos- 0 ^ ^lie interest that would have otherwise attached to it,
MyS Bible that a mL should have his hands tied behind his. back “ e Ttog“Twheel of Fortune and Falmouth caused c^-
.cornn isrioned me to draw an immense cartoon depicting the M e should say, it would seem that J ava “« •J"sidcrable excitement, while Alice Lorrame in spite of her four
American Shakers-the brethren on one side, the sisters on the derrure, or derncre lut in English, his hands tied behind vit . tori es unsullied by a stogie reverse, attracted bttle atten
— ""exccu ing their pious gambadoes. This was to serve or “behmd him. Why ? bimply for the reason tha„ behind tj 0n tllis occasion she foimd the company too ^
advertisement for* the patent medicine; and a capital the human back comes, first, the inner P^essesofthe sprne, her> and Wheel of Fortune and Falmouth both of whom owned
. .VT t,.. :_,i;.i * l__ „„ „„.n tlienour internal arrangements, and, finally, the human breast. _ _„ wfiv hv t.bemselves and raced home
wewoiKcatne uung very prouiauiy, uuu eveumau y
into difficulties with H.M.’s Stamp Office, aud, discovering
that the Cagliostro line was not my vocation, I gracefully
retired from it.
then our internal arrangements, and, finally, the human breast. enalty drew away by themselves and raced home
So that, to verbal strictness, the only possible way of tying a . Y * tbe former securing a half-length verdict. Wfteel ot
man’s himds behind his back would be to tie them across his F( ? rtune ’ ia bv Adventurer from the famous Queen Bertha, and
bosom. Will anyb ody controvert this ? I sincerely hope that . g tbere f 0 re half sister to Gertrude, Queen’s Messenger,
somebody will ; for the nitorse pointed out by “ M. lo P ’ aladhl alK l’b P toaway, all of whom are high-class performer^
Rebouteur” is so ridiculously obvious as to be positively ex- ^ Lo ; d Fal ^ 0 uth seems to have a very rosycluto.ce of the
Uaks of 1879, especially as Leap Year is little inferior to tne
daughter of Queen Bertha.
Talking of mad people, history has repeated itself very TTQ A !! n r!f
oddlv in the case of the fanatic David Lazzaretti, of Arcidosso, neaopous, care oi
in the province of Grosselo, between Civita Vecchia and the Late du boleu.
Leghorn. You have read how this crack-brained adventurer
gathered round him a band of disciples as addle-pated but less Mr. Barber, soli
•tunning than himself; how he proclaimed his own super- the Peace for Cam
eomeuoay will ; ior ine nnorsc jjuuilcu. uui uy uj.. id
R ebouteur” is so ridiculously obvious as to be positively ex¬
asperating.
P.S.—All letters for me to be addressed (post-paid) to
Heliopolis, care of Thothmes III. I am always to be found, at
i\c>.—All letters ior me to oe auutesaeu vpv<au-paiu; KU uuujjmn ^ - .
Heliopolis, care of Thothmes III. I am always to be found, at j u xbe present extraordinary weather, we cannot help think*
the Cafe du Soleil. _ G. A. S. j 11R f ba t cricket “ lags superfluous on the stage ; ” ^ or »
- to constant rain, a match can seldom be finished, besides
Mr. Barber, solicitor, Bangor, has been appointed Clerk of which, the ground is far too heavy to furnish anything '
the Peace for Carnarvonshire, to the room of Mr. Poole. geed wicket. Glancing hastily over the chief matches
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203
past few days, we note that an Eighteen of Yeadon and District
have h< ate n the Australians by 24 runs, the scoring being
miserably low on each Bide. Journeying on to Scarborough,
the Cob nials took full revenge on an Eighteen of that district)
win m they defeated in a single innings, with 46 runs to spare,
the ir t ci ring being so good that we append the innings:—
A. ranreimnn b Di wrs.
TV. 1. lUmdfMhst Hod. nb Firth
T. Tit mu c Wataough b Free-
F. E Allan c and b Eastwood ...
F. B Hpt fforth Bt Boden b East-
J 5l' Blftckham run out!.' !.'.’ i
• O. H. Bailey thrown out by Hild-
yard . i
T. Garrett c Watmough b Free-
IV. Tobin b Watmough.
W. Butler not out... ...
F. H. Boyle c Eastwood b Wat-
mough .
B 3,1 b 1, n b 2 .
The Cheltenham Week was somewhat spoilt by the heavy
rain and only one match could bo finished. This was between
• Gloucestershire and Sussex ; and. as might have been expected,
the lonuer won anyhow. In the first innings of Sussex the
whole team were disposed of for 29; and though, at their
second attempt, J. Phillips (not out, 77) and H.’Charlwood (43)
halted exceedingly well, they succumbed by an innings and
24 nins. The Rev. P. Hattersley-Smith (not out, 51) did
best for Gloucestershire. Yorkshire v. Gloucestershire ended
in a draw ; as did Nottinghamshire v. Middlesex, which was
hard cn the northern county, Selby (96) and Shrews¬
bury (not out, 74 having scored so freely that defeat
was almost impossible. In the same way Kent, for
which Lord Harris (88), Heame (32 and 53), Mr. F.
Perm (67), and the Hon. Ivo Bligh (60) all did great things,
were deprived of a well-earned victory over Surrey, Jupp
(not out, 52; and not out, 43) showing some of his best
form on the other side. Middlesex beat Yorkshire by an
innings and 94 rims, thanks mainly to Messrs. A. J. Webbe
(94), I. D. Walker (59), and T. S. Pearson (41). This week,
Notts has beaten Surrey by 139 runs, Selby (56) and Mr. J.
Shuter (not out, 45) being the only ones to distinguish them-
eclve8 with the bat, but the bowling of Shaw and Morley was
magnificent. Gloucestershire has proved too good for Lan¬
cashire, Messrs. W. G. Grace (49) and G. F. Grace (not out, 73)
doing the most towards gaining a victory by eight wickets.
Then we must chronicle a splendid performance of the
Australians against, an Eighteen of Hastings and District,
which included such players as Lord Harris, the Hon. Ivo
Bligh. Messrs. C. Absolom, F. Penn, &c. Bailey made 106
and Murdoch 73, while Spofforth took twelve wickets for 39
runs, the Eighteen being beaten by an innings and 47 runs.
In aquatics the most important coming event is the Thame i
International Regatta, in which the finest professional scullers
of the Thames and Tyne, including Higgins (the champion),
Elliott, Boyd, and Blackman will compete between Putney
and Chiswick to-day and on Monday next.
The seaside regattas are being continued. The great
meetings in the Solent having been brought to a close, Saudown
took up the running yesterday week, and gave the visitors to
this pleasant nook of the Isle of Wight a regatta on its own
account. The principal race resolved itself into a match
between Mr. Little’s Florence and the Mosquito of Mr.
Wyndlnim, the Florence gaining first prize and the Mosquito
not leaving the prize-list unbitten.
Torbay Regatta took place on Monday and Tuesday, when
Devonshire witches were to be admired in numbers. The
Arrow, Yol-au-Ycnt, Neva, and Myosotis started in the lead¬
ing race, the first prize falling to the Vol-au-Vent, and the
second to the Arrow, albeit the latter gained the goal
1 min. 25 sec. before the Vol-au-Vent, which won by time
allowance. On Tuesday the chief prize was carried off by the
Jnllonar in a contest against the Corisande, Ada, and Florinda,
which won the second prize. In the match for cutters not
over forty-one tons the Glance came to grief, and the Myosotis
won with case, the Niobe being second. Maggie led through¬
out in the race for smaller cutters, Mable taking the second
prize. What with the festivities following the completion of
their sanitary improvements, and what with the regatta, the
residents and visitors have had a “ good time ” of it.
A race from Lowestoft to Yarmouth and back on Tuesday
was won by ilie Red Rover, and during the contest the Wan¬
derer, of which Mr. J. J. Colman, M.P., is the owner, had her
masts broken, and was placed hors de combat.
Falmouth held its regatta on Wednesday, when the prin¬
cipal race was won by Mr. H. Bird’s Ripple, the second and
third yachts being the Spina way and Butterfly. The yacht-
race of next importance was won by Mr. F. Anglesea’s Cygnet.
Swimmers have furnished the usual shoals of races, few of
which are worth dwelling upon. The fact, too, that on
Tuesday last a skilful swimmer, the winner of prizes at swim¬
ming-races, Mr. John Dillwyn Llewellyn, was, unhappily,
drowned -whilst bathing in Caswell Bay, Swansea, suggests
that endurance may be sometimes sacrificed to speed at
these swimming competitions. Be this as it may, it may be
suggested to the committees of swimming clubs that it might
be advisable to promote a more practical general knowledge of
swimming than they do. Descending to details, we may add
that on Saturday last tho captaincy of the Norwood Swimming
Club was won by Mr. G. S. Goodwyn after a stiff race with
Mr. Horton Ledger, the previous captain; and on Tuesday
the silver challenge cup of the Jersey Swimming Club was
won at St. Helier's by Mr. Charles Stone, the previous holder,
F. Luckarift, being defeated.
A town’s meeting was held in the Townhall, Liverpool, on
Wednesday, in aid of the sufferers by yellow fever in New
• Orleans. Nearly £1000 was promised in the room.
Mr. T. E. Smith, M.P. for Tynemouth, opened the
Aquarium and Winter Garden at that place on Wednesday.
The establishment consists of a marine and a fresh-water
aquarium, summer and winter gardens, skating-rink, concert-
hall, and assembly and reading rooms, and has been erocted
from the drawings of Messrs. Norton and Macey, of London,
at a cost of £100,000.
The Eurydice was successfully moved on Tuesday. To get
at the leaks on her starboard side it was necessary to heel her
over to port, and to assist in this operation eighty tons of
ballast were placed on a platform built on the port side of the
wreck. The starboard side of the hull has sustained a good
deal of damage through resting on the fluke of an anchor. In
moving the vessel twelve more bodies came to the surface and
were brought ashore for burial.—Admiral Fanshawe presided
on Tuesday, on board the Duke of Wellington, the flag-ship
at Portsmouth, over the court-martial on tho two survivors of
the Eurydice. Both of these stated that they had every con¬
fidence in the stability of the ship previous to her foundering
on March 24. The Court acquitted the survivors, but
adjourned the inquiry in order to take further evidence a3 to
the cause of the capsizing of the ship. The court-martial
was resumed on Wednesday, when several witnesses were
examined as to the peculiarities of the fatal snow-gale of
March 24, and as to the operations connected with the raising
of ti e Eurydice; and the inquiry was again adjourned.
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
Captain Frederick G. Frith has been appointed Deputy-
Governor of Coldbath-fields Prison.
Mr. Knox, the senior magistrate at the Marlborough-street
I olice Court, has retired from the bench, owing to ill-healtli.
A bicyclist has been fined twenty shillings at Guildhall for
riding a bicycle to the common danger in Bishopsgate-streot.
The defendant, coming noiselessly along at a late hour, knocked
down a constable, who was unaware of his approach.
The stud of twenty- eight horses which ran in the London
and Windsor coach tins season were sold at Tattersall’s on
Monday. Some clever roadsters brought seventy guineas,
and the teamsters, generally, produced good average prices.
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows that
the total number of paupers at the end of the third week in
August was 76,569, of whom 38,468 were in workhouses, and
38,101 received outdoor relief. Compared with the correspond¬
ing weeks in 1877, 1876, and 1875, these figures show a
decrease of 585, 717, and 6300 respectively. The number of
vagrants relieved on the last day of the week was 746, of whom
475 were men, 221 women, and 50 children under sixteen.
The report of the Civil Service Supply Association for the
half year ended June 30 last, which was presented at the
general meeting of the shareholders at the Cannon-street
Hotel on Thursday evening, shows a net balance for the half
year available for distribution to the shareholders of £19,460 —
a larger amount than has ever been available for division. Tho
number of shares is limited to 4500, and of these 4388 are at
present held by members of the Civil Service.
The fourteenth annual flower show of the East Tower
Hamlets Floricultural Society was held on Monday in the hall
attached to the Grecian Theatre, City-road, and drew together
a large number of visitors. In addition to the plants exhibited
by the members of the society, there was a collection of flue
foliage plants from Victoria Park, lent by the First Commis¬
sioner of Works. The plants exhibited by the members showed
great care and attention in their culture. Prizes were awarded
for dinner-table decorations, miniature gardens, and bouquets.
A fire took place on Monday morning in the first floor of a
house near Columbia Market, and two young children were
burnt to death. The mother of the children had gone out,
leaving them in the room in which the fire broke out, and it is
supposed that in playing with the matches the elder child set
the room on fire. Two firemen (C. Wright and P. Pettitt)
entered the blazing premises and were much scorched. A
lodger in a front room jumped into the street, and falling
twenty-five feet, sustained such injury to the spine that she
had to be conveyed to the London Hospital.
For the purpose of asking public aid for such of tho
recently discharged reserve men as are in need through want
of work, a meeting of the Reserve Forces Relief Committee of
the British Hospitallers was held on Tuesday afternoon, under
the presidency of Lord Shaftesbury.—Several members of the
reserve forces waited last Wednesday upon Mr. Alderman
Figgins, in the justice-room at Guildhall, to lay their case
before him. According to the statement of their spokesman,
more than half of the men recently called out were still
without employment, Alderman Figgins said he thought the
reserves had acted very well, and gave to each of those present
5s. for his immediate necessities.
For some of the original communications read and discussed
during the past session of the Institution of Civil Engineers,
at the ordinary meetings and at the students’ meetings, and for
other papers selected for publication without being read and
discussed, the council have made the following awards:—
Telford Medals and Premiums to Dr. Higgs, Mr. Brittle, and
Mr. T. Clarke; Watt Medals and Telford Premiums to Mr. H.
Davey, Mr. B. Leslie, and Mr. A. Holt; Telford Premiums to
Mr. Longridge, Mr. W. C. Unwin, Mr. Target, Mr. G. Wilson,
Mr. F. C. Barron, and Mr. Carson, and the Manby Premium
to Mr. E. Bazalgette. A Miller Scholarship has been adjudged
to Mr.W. B. Dawson, and Miller Prizes to Messrs. Britton,
Hurtzig, Moss, and Szlumper, while the Howard Quinquenni;il
Prize, given ou this occasion for the first time, goes to Mr.
Bessemer.
It has been arranged that the third annual show of the
British Daily Farmers’ Association shall be held in the Agri¬
cultural Hall on Oct. 10 and tliree following days. Prizes are
offered for milking cows of the various breeds of shorthorns,
crosses, Ayrshires, Channel Island, and Brittany and Kerry
breeds, in all, in eight classes, amounting to £245. For
heifers best adapted for dairy purposes £90 is to be awarded;
and for bulls, £100. Goats find a place in the schedule, there
being five classes, in which are distributed prizes to the
aggregate value of £36. For cheese of various makes £140 is
to be given, and for collections of not less than one ton £50 is
offered. In addition to these monetary prizes, there are
medals of gold, silver, and bronze, and special medals are
offered for foreign cheese and butter. For butter made iu the
United Kingdom the sum set aside is £63.
The Act passed in the late Session to amend the law-
relating to the raising of money by the Metropolitan Board of
Works has been issued. By this Act the board may raise and
advance £2,302,000, of which £50,000 is to be supplemental
loans, to public bodies for the present year and the rem under
for 1879. The board may raise money by the issue of “ Metro¬
politan Bills,” the date of such bills not to be less than three
months nor more than twelve months, and the interest payable
on such metropolitan bills to be at such a rate and in such a
manner as the board, with the conseut of the Treasury, may
direct. The new money powers conferred by this Act for the
year 1879 ore-.—£100,000 for minor improvements; £20,000
fire brigade; £1,500,000 Street Improvement Act, 1877;
street improvements under Act 1872, £60,000; Tooting-
common, £12,000; Plumstead-common, £10,000; loans to
vestries and district boards, £200,000; loans to guardians,
£200,000; loans to public bodies, £100,000; and loans to
managers of metropolitan asylum district, £50,000.
The Secretary of State for India has presented to the
Crystal Palace Company’s library a copy of the great trigono¬
metrical survey of India, on the scale of four mdes to the inch.
This most valuable and interesting series of maps, which
together would cover a superficies of fifty-one square feet, can
thus be consulted by inquirers in the company’s library
reading-room without any charge, and orders to inspect the
Indian atlas can be obtained in the Tourist’s Court for the
asking. The sections are bound in two great volumes, to admit
of close examination in detail. The gift was accompanied by
a copy of the survey of Turkestan and the countries between
the British and the Russian dominions in Asia, compiled by
Colonel J. T. Walker, R.E., on a scale of thirty-two miles to
the inch ; and that of Persia, compiled for the Government by
Captain O. B. C. St. John, R.E.; as well as the very interesting
map of Central Assyria, the monographic sketch of remains of
the ancient Nineveh, with the modern Mosul, and the similar
chart of the ancient cities of Nimrud and Selamiyeh, made by
command of the Government of India by Captain Felix Jones.
There is also the fine map of India on the scale of sixty-four
miles to tho inch that was compiled from the topographical
and revenue surveys.
There were 2491 births and 1433 deaths registered in London
last week. Allowing for increase of population, the births
exceeded by 145, whereas the deaths were 75 below, the aver¬
age numbers in the corresponding week of the last ten years.
The fatal cases of whooping-cough, which had steadily decline 1
from 106 to 60 in the five preceding weeks, rose again to 74
last week, and exceeded the corrected average by 38. The
deaths referred to diarrhoea and simple cholera, which h id
been 491, 351, and 268 in the three preceding weeks, further
declined to 201 last week, and were 64 below the corrected aver¬
age number in the corresponding week of the last ten years.
The fatal eases of smallpox, which had been 18, 14, and 9
in the tliree previous weeks, were 10 last week. The Metro¬
politan Asylum Hospitals contained 213 smallpox patients on
Saturday last, showing a decline of 23 from the number at the
end of the previous week: 22 new cases were admitted during
the week, against 21 and 36 in the two preceding weeks. The
Higbgate Smallpox Hospital contained but 9 patients on
Saturday last. There were 24 deaths from scarlet fever, 10
from measles, and 16 from different forms of fever. In the
Greater London 3021 births nnd 1739 deaths were registered.
The mean temperature of the air was 61-5 deg., aud 0 7 deg.
above the average in the corresponding week of the sixty years
1814-73. The duration of sunshine during the week was
21 - 5 hours, the sun being above the horizon during 99 4 hours;
the recorded duration of sunshine was, therefore, only equal
to 22 per cent of its possible duration.
EDINBURGH STATUE OF DR. CHALMERS.
The bronze statue of the late Rev. Thomas Chalmers, D.D.,
the eloquent Scottish preacher, aud author of many admired
writings upon religious subjects, is erected in George-street,
Edinburgh, at the crossing of Castle-street. It was uncovered
to public view on Saturday, the 27th ult., with addresses
spoken by Sir John M’Neill, Lord Moncrieff (the Lord Justice
Clerk), the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the Rev. Dr. Hanua,
and Provost Swan, of Kirkcaldy. Dr. Chalmers died so long
ago as 1847, and it was then proposed to have a marble statue
placed in the library of the Free Church College. But it was
felt that this was not enough, and that a monument of
Chalmers should not be of a sectarian or provincial but of a
national character. This movement was, however, allowed to
fall into abeyance till the end of 1869, when it was again
taken up by Dean Ramsay, Dr. Candlish, Dr. Guthrie, and
others, and the work was intrusted to the veteran Edinburgh
sculptor, Sir John Steell. He had executed several busts of
Chalmers, one of which occupies a prominent place in a public
gallery in New York, and had enjoyed for years his personal
acquaintance and familiar friendship. In this statue, of which
we give an Illustration, Dr. Chalmers is represented as stand¬
ing before an assemblage in quiescent attitude. He is attired
in a rich Geneva gown, with “buckled shoou” on the feet,
being the attire he wore as Moderator of the General Assembly.
The left hand supports an open quarto Bible, and the open
right hand is brought round over the top of it. The face is
an admirable likeness; the grand leonine head, with the broad,
manly brow, around which the shaggy locks lie carelessly, yot
majestically, at once recalls the presence of Chalmers. The
difficulties of the robe have been very successfully treated, and
fall in graceful folds around the well-proportioned figure.
The statue, which was cast in two pieces, stands 12 ft. high.
The pedestal, 15 ft. in height, is the work of Messrs. Macdonald,
Field, aud Co., Aberdeen. It is of polished Peterhead granite,
was designed by Mr. Steell, son of the sculptor, and, while
treated somewhat differently, is yet in accord with the other
statues in the street.
AS-HWORTH MEMORIAL, ROCHDALE.
The Memorial statue of the late Mr. G. L. Ashworth was
unveiled on June 1 last at Rochdale, about 15,000 persons being
present. It stands in the centre of the large ornamental
garden of the public pork of Rochdale. The ceremony was
performed by Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P. for the borough. There
was a procession, starting from the Townhall, joined by the
Mayor, Mr. James Tweedale, and by many gentlemen of the
Town Council, followed by the Liberal associations of the
town, the Order of Good Templars, and representatives of
the Sunday schools. Flags and garlands were displayed
throughout the town, and the event was made the occasion of
a general holiday. On reaching the park, the chairman of the
committee, Mr. Councillor Harley, made the formal pre¬
sentation of the statue to the Mayor on behalf of the town,
and Mr. Potter then unveiled the statue, proceeding to review
the life and labours of the late Alderman Ashworth, whose
whole time was devoted to the welfare of all classes of his
native town, and who twice held the office of Mayor. Tho
statue is placed on a granite pedestal, ten feet high; the figure
itself is eight feet high, and is cut out of a solid block of
hard Sicilian marble, which weighed four tons. It is of a
light grey colour, harmonising well with the tone of the
pedestal, and weighs one ton fifteen cwt. The attitude of the
figure is spirited and dignified, and full of energy; the likeness
is pronounced a most faithful one. The sculptors are Messrs.
W. and T. ‘Wills, of Euston-road, London, who have executed
statues of Sir Humphrey Davy, Earl Mayo, aud Richard
Cobden, the last named iu the High-street of Camden Town.
LEEDS MEMORIAL OF DR. HOOK.
The late Rev. Walter Fnrquhar Hook, D.D., author of “ Lives
of the Archbishops of Canterbury,” was Vicar of the parish
church of Leeds from 1837 till his promotion, in 1859, to the
Deanery of Chichester. On St. Peter’s Day this year (June 29)
the dedication festival of the Leeds parish church was held,
and advantage was taken of the occasion to uncover the beau¬
tiful monument which has been erected to the memory of
“ the great A’icar of Leeds.” Sermons were preached, morn¬
ing and evening, by Archdeacon Anson and by the Rev. Dr.
Alfred Gatty, Sub-Dean of York. The memorial consists of
a recumbent figure in white marble, representing Dean H ook
in his ecclesiastical vestments. The head rests on a cushion,
and at the feet is another cushion, upon which are two volumes.
The hands are closed as in prayer. The sculptor is Mr. W.
D. Keyworth, jun., Buckingham Palace-road, London. His
work docs him great credit, for he has with remarkable fidelity
reproduced the well-known features of the late Dr. Hook.
The late Sir Gilbert Scott designed the tomb on which the
figure rests. It is of alabaster, and of Gothic design, and has
been executed by Mr. Anthony Welsh, of Woodhouse-laue,
Leeds. It is a beautiful work of art, and forms a fitting
accompaniment to the noble piece of sculpture which rests
upon it. The memorial is placed in the second bay at th 3
north-east end of the church, between the ante-chapel and
the altar steps. It has cost nearly £1000. The late Dr. Hook
died in October. 1875, at the Deanery at Chichester. A
mcmoiiul pulpit has been erected in Chichester Cathedral.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Aug. 31, 1878 —205
THE PRINCE OF WALES IN A TORPEDO-BOAT.
THE NEW TORPEDO-BOATS.
At’the Naval Review on Tuesday, the 13th inst., at Spithead,
before'^ier Majesty and the members of both Houses of Parlia¬
ment, the Queen and all the spectators were very much pleased
with the performance of two torpedo-boats, which have been
? urchased by the Admiralty from their builders, Messrs.
arrow and Co., of Poplar. Upon another occasion his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales inspected one of the nimble
little vessels, and went on board of her for a brief experience
of their wonderful swiftness. These boats in their trial-trips
at Long Reach about six weeks ago attained a mean speed ex¬
ceeding twenty-one knots, or twenty-four statute miles an
hour. They are each 85 ft. long, with 11 ft. beam, and draw,
when fully equipped for service, an average of 3 ft. of water.
They are strongly constructed of steel, and are fitted with
compound surface condensing engines, capable of indicating
420-horse power. The high-pressure steam cylinder of these
engines is 12$ in. in diameter, and the low-pressure 21$ in.,
both having a 12 in. stroke. These boats are at present known
by their builders’ numbers, one being No. 419 and the other
No. 420. The former is propelled by a three-bladed screw,
5 ft. 6 in. diameter and 5 ft. pitch; and the latter by a two-
bladed screw of similar proportions. Messrs. Yarrow adopt
supplementary engines for driving the air-pump, circu¬
lating-pump, and feed-pumps; they consider this plan
preferable to that of working these pumps direct off the main
engine, as is sometimes done. One advantage in having
separate pumping engines is that, whether the vessel is in
motion or stationary, a powerful means is available for pumping
her out, should the necessity arise. It is estimated by her
builders that if the air pump and circulating pump were both
utilised for this purpose the water could be pumped out as fast
as it could enter either of these vessels through one hundred
holes made in the skin by Martini-Henry rifle bullets. If this
be the case, these craft may be deemed safe from sinking so
long as their machinery is working efficiently. The boiler is
of the locomotive type, is placed in the forward part of each
vessel, and has a closed stoke-hole. In connection with the
boiler a very important improvement has been introduced by
Messrs. Yarrow. This consists in a means of rendering the
closed stoke-hole safe for the men in the event of the collapse
of a boiler tube—a contingency which cannot be absolutely
guarded against. The arrangement appears very simple, while
its efficiency was proved beyond all question upon a previous
trial of one of these boats. This was No. 419, which was
tried on May 24 last under the supervision of the Admiralty
officials. Upon that occasion an accidental rupture of one of
the boiler tubes occurred nearly at the close of the runs over
the measured mile, which so far had been very successful.
When the boiler tube gave way the steam rushed out of the
foremost hatchway from the compartment in which the smoke-
box end of the boiler is situated, and soon after from the two
funnels. The men in the stoke-hole, however, being shut off
from the boiler, were uninjured, and remained at their post
several minutes after the first outburst of steam. The acci¬
dent, though an untoward event, was considered by the
Admiralty officials as affording a highly satisfactory proof of
the efficiency of Mr. Yarrow’s invention. The engines are
placed amidships, and each vessel has spacious cabin accom¬
modation aft, as it is intended that they may be used either as
despatch or torpedo-boats. For the latter purpose the cabin
framings above deck are removed and replaced by Bteel-
plating. These vessels are, in fact, now fitted one for one
purpose and one for the other. They are steered from the
cabin, there being a look-out for the steersman just above
deck-level. The deck is clear of till obstructions, the two
funnels being placed one on each side. They are fitted with
balanced rudders, and steer well, answering their helms very
quickly. These vessels would probably have now been on
their way to Russia but for the Government proclamation
which prohibited torpedo-boats leaving this country, and
which led to their purchase by our own Government.
ACCIDENT IN LONDON DOCKS.
Our Illustration represents the singular position of the ship
Eastminster, when capsized in London Docks, by a curious
accident, on Saturday, the 17th inBt. This clipper ship, which
is the property of Messrs. Berryman and Turnbull, had
recently discharged a cargo of rice from Akyab, Bengal, and,
after being in the dry dock, was taken into London Docks to
load a general cargo for the Cape of Good Hope. She is an
iron ship of 1200 tons register, was built at Port Glasgow,
THE IRON CLIPPER-SHIP EASTMINSTER, CAPSIZED IN LONDON DOCKS.
206
the tt.t.ttstrated London news_
ATJ G. 31, 1678’
classed A 1 at Lloyd’s, is commanded^
Captain Moxey, and has only made two voy-
nees. At the time of this accident the East
minster was lying at the western en °
flocks • the wind was fresh from the sontn
west and, curling around Hermitage basin,
found an outlet with accumulated force at a
point close to the Eastminster a position- The
shin was blown on her side, and as she fell
over she struck three barges, which were
loaded, and sank them. On board the ship at
the time she heeled were the chief mate, the
second mate, and twenty men, butfortunately
they all escaped with only a wetting. Wo
one*was on board the barges. The Dlurtrateon
shows the ship lying on her broadside, with
half her keel visible. The Thames 0°ns e i-vmmy
derrick barges, under the superintendence of
Mr. Wood, have been at work dismantling the
ship and preparing to raise her. The ship
been restored to an erect position, and moored
at the quay, where men have since been em-
nloved in pumping the water out of the hold,
and taking down the masts and rigging, before
removing her to the dry dock for the needful
repairs. _
POLITICAL.
The polling for the election of a member for
Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the room of fcnr
Edmtnd Buckley, took p'ace on the 23rd inst.,
the candidates being Mr. Rathbone Edge
(Liberal) and Mr. Donaldson Hudson (Con¬
servative). The Liberal candidate was elected
by a majority of 340, the numbers being r
Edge 1330, and Hudson, 990. The result is
that Newcastle-under-Lyme is now repre¬
sented by two Liberals, instead of, as before,
by one Conservative and one Liberal.
The polling for the representation of Argyle-
shire, rendered vacant by the appointment of
the Marquis of Lome to be Governor-General
of Canada, took place on Tuesday, the contest
being between a brother of the Marquis, Lord
Colin Campbell (Liberal) and Mr. J. W.
Malcolm (Conservative). It resulted in the
return of the former by a majority of 355; the
numbers being— Campbell, 1462, Malcolm,1107.
This leaves the representation of the county
as it was.
Mr. Samuel Morley will not seek re-election
for Bristol. Mr. Hodgson’s resignation, in con¬
sequence of ill-health, has been in the hands
of the Liberal committee for some months.
expenditure. He was compelled by the disorder
of the meeting to bring his speechteanabrupt
conclusion, but said he would attend every
ward meeting and insist upon a hearing.
Mr G. C. Bentinck, M.P., was on V ednes-
dav one of the speakers at the annual dinner of
the West Cumberland Conservative Re S ls ^‘
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a vigorous defence of the Government against
the charge of extravagance.
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on Tuesday a resolution was moved that ad¬
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field and the Marquis of Salisbury congratu¬
lating them and the Government on the success
which has attended their negotiations at the
recent Congress. An amendment was proposed
by Alderman Grimsley adverse to the conduct
of the Government, which, after aprotracted
discussion, was carried by a majority of six.
The first meeting of the Town Council for
Burslem, which has recently been incorporated,
was held on Wednesday. Mr. Thomas Hulme,
four times chief bailiff, was elected Mayor.
The aldermen were also chosen ; with one ex¬
ception they are Liberals, as is also the Mayor.
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colleagues in the Eastern Question, he believed
that had England Bhown her power eighteen
months ago there would have been no war
between Russia and Turkey.
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his constituents on Monday night in Paradise-
square, Sheffield; the square was crowded.
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and groans, spoke for some time amid great
interruption, and at last he addressed himself
to the reporters. He referred to the miserable
harvest of measures to which the Session had
S iven birth, and said that the only thing that
ad made great progress was the national
THE STORMS.
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the kingdom, and with special severity in
London and its neighbourhood. A number of
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men was dreadfully injured. A servant
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was much impeded. Along the south coast
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His watch was fused into a molten mass, and
the clothing on his right side burned off.
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M^m ^to 2 0 2 ,REGENT-ST^KoW° DbE '
Abrrge assortment of Clocks, Bronzes, and other Ornaments. Y^
JOINING-ROOM FURNITURE. — Forty A T PETFR -
rad. A 1 R °BINSON’S, of REGENT-
glLKS at GREAT REDUCTIONS,
01<”ck Silks, at is. lljd. per yard.
+00 pieces of rich Coloured Gres Grain Silks, every new shade,
1000 pieces of Black SUkifof ^Tl/puroness. In four prices-
viz., 2s. Gd.. 3s Jjd 3s lid., arid 4s. Gd. per yard.
RAILWAY PASSENGERS’ ASSURANCE
ACCIDENT BY &AILWjJv*MlSTEAM-BOAT
A awk'lMaid b 8h I 1 V“*d n ^i’“ *«^rKlUrt, or £8 per
may also be effected for One Three, or Twclve JI.mths on
Apply at the Bimking-Olllcos of the S."lftl
M aple and CO.—DRAWING - ROOM
FURNITURE. The Largest Assortment in London.
An endless variety of Cabinets, from 2 to GO guineas, many
quite new in design; a large assortment of Buhl Furnitnre, us
well as Block and Gold; 100 Easy-Chairs, from 1 to 10 guineas •
a very extensive Stock of Clocks, Bronzes, and Fancy Orna-
ments; M0 Chimney-Glosses, from 2 to so guineas; Console-
Tables, as well as (.firandoles. from 1 to 20 guineas.
jyjAPLE and CO., Importers,
J'URKEY CARPETS,
JNDIAN CARPETS,
pERSIAN CARPETS.
O YER 2000 DAGHESTAN and
SOWHNACK CARPETS, also 800 Turkey Carpets of
extra fine quality and at marvellously low prices, just receives!
from Constantinople. These Goods have lava txiughtb; Agents
especially dispatched by Messrs, MAPLE and CO. for cash, are
at£s nd 1 I!I ; A 1 C 'B HRESS SATINS, all pure Silk
at ts. 0d„ os. od„ 7s. Gd.. 8*. WE.mul ios. 9d.,mXby Messrs.
The DU0HES8E SATIN, at 12s. !>d. (26 Inches wide),
for richness he surpassed.
PLACE SILKS—Specially Cheap,
Manufactured by Messrs. Bonnet et Cio at ss ftl
Manufactured by Messrs. DSgovertCle, at " £ 1H.'
A ’at
r tlio n«*w<»st dcAigiiK, iimiaI price, 3s.
0 PIECES*$F fe"u.k PONGEES.
MO PIECES INDIAN PONGEE WASHING SILKS.
16s. nd. the piece of 20 yards.
1 attorns post-free.
VERY FASHIONABLE THIS SEASON.
TJICH VELVET VELVETEEN.
J1 300 pieces fast Black, very wide,
All the new Rich Shade’s of OiImirGis.^T.'to 4s. Gd. psr yar
CASHMERES AND CASHMERE MERINOS,
pOR AUTUMN DRESSES.
A sjiecial pnrehase. In Black and aU the new colours,
'TRAVELLING and SEASIDE DRESSES*
Witney, Estamene. and Angola Serges,
limey Casiinirs. Ilicii Poplins.
> A ,a t,,nin Moss Cloths, and other Novelties.
0 R DER EVERYTHING YOU REQUIRE
pRIZE TOULTRY and PIGEONS
AntSSWia?"' Alif Pi™,f. 0 ^ l, JS ,> Mi 'V' V c. and Game
~h^an^
QRANGE CHAMPAGNE is a light,
SI* ,? 1 V*f nt ' ,ri ; ik : n ‘»de simply from Oranges, n i, effor
K v n,,tU1 > t arned. .Vlade only by CUAS. CODDandCO .
XT I N A H A N’S LL WHISKY
2fi£ »w M d^lfiTarS™ uni'
says>i" Tire whisky^* •^ftfmel^ovv and^pure*weH\naEIr«I^mi
of very excellent quality.•’-20, Great T l^hheld-rt^t. w ' d
]gLLIS’S RUTHIN WATERS.
A T PETER R0I S? E S E ° T N ’ S > of re <*ent-
MAPLE and CO. - SILK DAMASKS. C ° 8T &i^a c „ K ed SILK '
^^^n^6ljk^^8^l^jn b sG>ci^ , jrojpu^haseni 0 thl8 t i8a graft COSTUMEs" IN BLACK
B LACR P r odS. RE ^ AE f INE ., COSTUMES. ELLIS'S PURE AERATED RUTHIN WATERS.
A ^*S^^TStoft ndrrf - Pure N ,ATFRS-CrysUl Springs. -Absolutely
These Goods are much less t han half price -See analyses, sent free on application. T
PETEK KOB1NSON, KB to IPS, oXFOBU-tfruEKT. W. EL ^ “ to”ato PuU “' 8elUw - Lcraonttdf >
gWzVN and EDGAR w^“~ Eor °° ut ' UM ' «<»
ARE NOW SHOWING a large STOCK ““I! 1 °w*«br4“de*,
M APEE “d CO.-CURTAINS, for Dining
o! (^rfain^^terials In’l^ndon.^GooIFtViwfRcps^dtTuJdo'w'ldtli! „
2s. Gd. per yard. Stripe Reps, in all colours, all wool, and COSTUMES' FOR DINNER AND EVENING DRESS
double width, from 3s. 3d. per yard. iu Grenadine, trimmed Satin and <ilk ’
-n large variety, from 3J to 7} guineas.’
M Ap EE and CO.—CRETONNE CHINTZ costumes in black Brussels net. at 29s. <w.
and Uufpnc™ ?a^ COSTUMES LN BLACK GRENADINE, at 2 guineas.
esftris&tr
POSTAL OEDEB DEPARTMENT. 00 ‘™ “ '"^RSSSSS^
COSTUMES IN BLACK MATERIAL (New Slimmer Fabric.
*8. MAPLE and CO. lx*c: respectfully to state that this
t Is now so organised that they ar«* fully prepared to
1 supply any Article tluit can possibly bo required in
at the same price. If not less, than any other house
. Patterns sent and quotations given free of charge.
COSTUMES IN BLACK MATERIAL (New Suramei
at 2 guineas, and up to 7 guineas.
Observe—The oslt Address for the above is
~ -————--- TETER ROBINSON, of REGENT-STREET,
M-Ad’PE a nd CO.—BED-ROOM SUITES the court and general mourning warehouse
-LlJL In EARLY ENGLISH, carried out to design by the bast _ Nos. 288 to 282._
^^ l «L^*«jw3iS l ^^thShSfira,^hmild uTleen^M^mirinar
*c.. has been erecteil so as to produce this class of furniture i
M O R T L O C K’S CHINA.
202. 203 204, OXFORD-STREET:
30. 31, 32. ORCHARD-STREET. LONDl.N, \V.
Messrs. Mortlock beg to state that although the exterior of
tlielr premises is not palatial the r.s.ius are the largest and most
con.en.ent.u London. They are thirty in nnmber, and u day
may I ie smut in examining the various productions. All goo,is aro
marked in plain figures with IS per cent for cash on or before
delivery. The public are respectfully solicited to walk through
JTURS at SUMMER PRICES.
REAL RUSSIAN SEAL PALETOTS.
‘S nrl.es lone .M guineas.
db inches long .11J guineas.
.»inches long . .. .. .. 13 guineas.
"VTOTICE.—In reference to the
■T ' above advertisements.
(GARDNERS’ NEW DINNER and TABLE
^rn». G .V A8S SERVICES are original In design, effective in
«e? nd . nu ri" allcd in P rl “- B |nner Services from
£3 3 a the Set for twelve persons, complete, with IS per c-ont dis-
i’i r . C L* 1 t“. n . or t* fo , re dcl, very. Table Glass Services from
£3 Ss. 6d. the Set for twelvo persons complete,
DINNER SERVICES.
Coloured Lithographs post-free.
»r»,. r J o Deep Bluc - „ . I In Blue and White.
The Lonsdowue .. £3 3 0 The Lansdowne ..£330
The Laurel .. .. 3 13 6 | The Indiana .. ..410
I The Danish .. ..880
PATTERNS FR
BLACK SILKS.
manufactured by Bonnet, of Lyons.
Messrs. JAY lieg to inform their Patrons
and the Public generally
that they are now selling these well-known
Pure Light-Dyed Silks
at n reduction .if from SI to 40 percent off
prices that were charged previons to
the depression in the Lyons Silk Market.
Present price, as. lid.; former price, 8s. 8d.
„ 8s. lid.; „ „ »s. Gd.
Messrs. JAY are also selling Jauberi’s good wear!
Black SILKS, at ti(e following reduced rate
Present price, 3s. 2d.; former price, .’is. M.
is these low prices are tioi at all likely to continue
nud ns Silk* wear much better
when not used fresh from the twin,
Messrs. JAY strongly ail vine their Customers
to take advantage of this occasion
to make purchases of that always fashionable
and useful article, a (rood Black Silk.
BONNET'S BLACK SATINS, all pure silk
22 Indies wide, from (is. 3d. per yard.
PATTERNS FREE.
T>AKER and CRISP’S WORLD-WIDE
-U NOTED CHEAP SILKS. CHEAP DBES8ES.
£10,000 WORTH
EARLY AUTUMN FABRICS OF ALL NATIONS
from KJd.
NEW CYPRUS CLOTHS. NEW ROUGH SERGES
NEW BECONSFIELD CLOTHS.
MALTESE CLOTHS. SAVOY CLOTHS.
LADIES SINT1NG8.
SALISBURY CLOTHS. PADUA CLOTHS.
SILK MIXTURES.
TWILLED FLANNELS. SOFT SERGES.
NEW ULSTER CLOTHS.
INDIAN CASHMERES. FRENCH CASHMERES.
BLACK FABRICS.
LADIES' SKIRTINGS. ESTAMENE SERGES
from 8Jd.
AUTUMN COSTUMES. TROCADERO COSTUMES.
UU1ZE MEDAL.
PRY’S CARACAS COCOA.
qualmc.VTeeuluX^lu^tlon «“rat^P^etaU*
pRY’S CARACAS COCOA.
Water."andAirenDrfHMaSl*. °* “ UCh Ch ° ICe *«t‘*-”-Food..
“ A most delicious and valuable artlde."—Standard.
PRY’S EXTRACT OF COCOA,
"*«« which, if properly prepared, there is no nlcor or
TENTH INTERNATIONAL MEDAL
_ awarded to J. S. FRY and SON.
JJORNIMAN’S TEA for Forty Years has
naVS!^,^ a^'f-r".
mported. Sold only In Packet*. 1,16 IX!5t **“
D vrrctiOT envT j o/x a . - Indian cashjiekes. french cashmeres.
NICHOLSON and CO. send post-free black fabrics.
• Patterns of * LADIES'SKIRTINGS. ESTAMENE SERGES.
"\TEW SILKS. AUTUMN COSTUMES. lr ° m ^TROCADERO COSTUMES
if 100New CostIIme*, from So*, ftl.
TAPrCQ ruijDTeo LADIES' ULSTERS. 12*. Gd. LADIES' ULSTERS, to 80s.
I JitESS FABRICS, Black Satin*. 2s. Gd. to 8*. Gd.
JL/ Coloured Satin*. 3*. Gd. to 3*. Gd.
MANTLES, and COSTUMES. 61LK8 ’ SATIN8> J ^». DAMA88E SILKS ’
1’J. Pattern* free.—BAKER and CRISP. 193. Regent-street.
D. N ICH0LS °N and C 0m>ANY ’ OHERTS. — FORD’S EUREKA. — “ The
60 to 63, ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD. LONDON. O most perfect fitting made.” — Observer. Gentlemen
--- deslron* of purchasing Shirts of the best quality should try
H ENRY GRAVE’S me^u%f°"stTre?%^onlto tt Ei^ Illustrations and eelf-
„ UNDERCLOTHING AND OUTFITTING. measure r’s - fee.-•_ on •-__
L A X 0 R A MEDICATED FRUIT
LOZENGES for CONSTIPATION SLUGG.8irvr.--u
OF THE STOMACH, BILE, HEAflACUE^GISUNEsS
nrmuiri'it wsTi "common 'ore 1 improvement on the
efficadnus, ’iSS'i”' UUt °™ L ° len * M ftre
Draseiatsi whoie -
pLAIR’S GOUT PILLS,
The Great English Remedy for Gout and Rheumatism. Sure
deslron* of purchasing Shirt* of tho best quality should try
Ford's Eureka. 30s.. 40*., 48s. half dozen. Dlnstratlons and self-
measure post-free.—41. Poultry. London.
The Si Tree .. 7 7 o| . . 6 0
Discount 18 per cent.
TABLE GLASS SERVICES.
riaiTi light stem glass £3 5 G I Light engraved glass.. 6 18 6
Richly cut glass s 6 0 | Richly engraved glass 6 1» 8
..... _ Discount 16 per cent.
Illustrated Glass Catalogue, which must be returned, sent
post-free on application.
W 5 reTstrand.aZng-“osi‘. U<1 UhinoM “°“'“<*bi*rs.483 and 484.
SILVER WAITERS. — The
KJ GOLDSMITHS' ALLIANCE (Limited) have always ready
and teatkay8 ° fth "
Size and Weight, j c ^^s I Nea«v"cha,ed. IRlch^Ul^iyed.
Ss.neroz. 3s. 6d. per oz. lls.Gd.paroz.
II and 12, Cornh.il, London.
Countess, Handsomely-Trimmed Chemise, Scotch In¬
sertion and Work, 2s. lljd.: or three for 6s. ltd.
Belter quality, and more handsomely trimmed, 3s. lljd.
-TNSTANT CURE.
TUDSON’S DYES.—6d. each, of Chemists. ±
M Curtains. Tahleeovers. Mantles. Scarves, Jackets dyed In ten FORMS A STOPPING.
SHirST^' “ d VALUABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR.
White Embroidered “Cuirass" Corset, with Spoonbill ii7 IT, , ,Ain?f oi f. , r°'iT i col »?''. without - ----
ftj'nd 28 ' n * d ’ Snd * 9 ’ lld ‘ : u ' ual i‘ rizc ' 3*- ^ld. and the hifr ehnrTnin ^y i^.tmn!^ TIOLLOWAY’S PILLS and OINTMENT
A lot of White French Wove Corsets at Ss. lid., 5s. lid., Aflk ^ , rrf T '“’ S I l’,.} >nrl,T tI i° l b,0 ? <, ' c "r rect disorders of the
, S^sS®iS ! 9SH ! Sfe ta,B *5 ^^ ibyH ^ RYcGA ^ up '^ {Xciro^'^te
Si ! » lusSct.’wh'Sto, S , g^y,itGe.“V,Ti!'m-cry T7L0RILINE. For the Teeth and Breath. pORPULENCE.—YATE HOLLAND’S
‘ Illustrated Lists of Underclothing. A Is the host Lin nld Dentifrice In the World; It thoroughly J-■* POWDERS (or PUls) speeilily and safely
Patterns, Samples, and all Information reret-free cleanses partially-deeayed teeth from all parasites or living * bsoz1 .’ sup^nuous fat and rednee corpulency, however long
, ran. 630, and 837, New Oxford-street, London, W.c. "anlmalcula-." leaving tliein pearly white. Imparting a delight- I rice 2s. nd.. 4s. Gd., an<l 11s. per Box.—MARTIN and
H enry glave’s
SILK AND VELVET DEI
CO.. 3. Paradise-road, London, 8.W.; or through aiiy Chemist
u Scent for 1ST*. Dellcate.refreshlng. anddnrahle. 2s. fid. to xwl, .5 a ,15™Tiv ' , ' ,n “heumatlc.
Os. per Bottle. Breidcnbach's JIAOASSARINE. invaluable for i ' n . n i functional Disorders. Sent post-Deo for
ireserving the Growth of tho Hair. Is.. 29. (id., 6s. per Bottle. , T ijiP7v*ufi?r?-'HS»RPliVir ,v t n .... . .
Of all Chemists, and the Makers, 157 b. New Bond-street. W. J - LONDON 1 VV E8 *Kn «J h nnr N " T ’
the yard; former price, Ids. ’ '--- ■■
B & C DJd ttns ' ,8 ’ ° Jd " ls - cid " ls - nid ” *’ ° id ” ond T he COURT HAIR DESTROYER—This
Black Satins, 3s. fijd., Ss. lljd., 4f. lid., and Gs. lid. a yd. X newlv-dhcovered remedy completely removes superfluous
Coloured Satins. In 100 shades, 2s. 6Jd. and3s. 6jd. hair. Quite'harmles*. 3s. fid.: post 3s. Uhl., of Inventor. J. Leon,
much admired. Warranted perfectly harmless. Price 5s. 6<
10s. ftl of nil Perfumers. Wholesale. HOVENDEN and S
marcF^parTs STBEET ‘ lonuov ' w -: and 33 , rue 'st.’
W 0 R M S Tn A p u G.
TT "Vicarage, Wellev Rocks, Leek, June G, 1878.—A verv
handsome female pug which had been presented to me, seemed
very much out of condition, and, notwithstanding great care ,n
to diet. Ac., no improvement urns perceptible. I therefore gave
her yesterday one of Nnldire s Powders, and in fifteen minute*
she brought off a tapeworm Gft. in length, with a quantity <u
slime. You may''add this, with my name, to vonr numeral*
testimonials.—E. Duwnma.vn." NALDIKE'S POWDERS are
sold by oil Chemists jiriee 2s„ 3s. Gd.. and 6s.; and by Barclay
g.t.; and 6g, st. Jamcs's-strek, b.w . ^ ’ SPEARMAN and SPEARMAN,
J ADIES ABOUT TO TRAVEL should The royal DE7oNSHiB^EKGE rs ’)UtCo^?trne Yachting
•ome, wluf 1 TOllanribl?bo^ne?2. E ^ 8 Sii? E V TeI 7 u * bb “ nd hand- Sea Water cannot Injure It.
HAhBON?M^uf^re?^TH^^^ W, 081( ?' M - Any Length ls Cut by the Factors,
Irom Inna oi Court Hotel). Uli^tod IJrtStof T# ” wh0 arrange 10 g Im m LSd ^° TeTW0PC>nnd8
JYOES YOUR HAIR TURN GREY? ^(N^S^’lapTISJdratmy.
XJ Then use HERRING'S PATENT MACiNETIC BRUSHES DOGS, j cleanses the skin, and improves tho coat. Price la.,
and COMBS. Brushes, 10s. and 15s. each. Combs.2s.ftl.,5s..7s.6d..
10s., 16s.. and 20s. each. Pamphlets upon application.—5, Great
Marlborough-st., W.; 93 and 95, City-road; and of all Perfumers.
Mariborough-st., w.; ■» aim ^ J oriumers. -|} UGS> Fleas, Moths, Beetles, and all other
A _ , nnn -nr , err t. -D Insects are destroyed by KEATING'S INSECT DE8TBOY-
FACT.—HAIR COLOUR WASH.—By INO POWDER, which Is quite harmless to domestic animals.
damning the Hair with this Wash In twelve hours it 1° exterminating beetles the success of this powder Is extra-
becomes1t* P orfginal colour (this Is guaranteed). 10s. Od. Sent ° r< i i !l? r L “i* {Jv^n %miRD| iU * ppUcaUo11 ' 801(1 ln Tins . '*•
l. BOBS, 248, High Holborn, London.
208
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
AUG. 81, 1878
NEW MUSIC.
dance music.
novelties.
.. .. 2s. Od. net
E W _
pHAELES D’ALBERT’9
\_J CYPRUS POLKA .
CONGRESS LANCERS
PAUL ET VIRGIME WALTZ ..
PAUL ET VI KG INI K QUADRILLE ..
PAUL ET VIROIN1E GALOP .. ••
OnSulUvan'* Son. • • Sg;
SWEETHEARTS LANCERS . ’ od. net
THE^LOV^LETTER POLKA ” ~ f t £}’
MOLlf^DARUNG QUADRILLE .. Od! Set
8 ^5^^fe*M.D--Alb tt t''.PopuUrbenceMueic
wlU be ^eppllftlon^ ^ ^ Bond ^ rtet , _
ijiTTE LITTLE TIN SOLDIER. 2b. net.
rjpWO LITTLE LIVES. 2 b. net.
rpHE LITTLE MATCH GIRL. 2 s. net.
rpHE STORY OF THE NIGHTINGALE.
T)EATH AND THE NIGHTINGALE.
^ * ^Pnippm and Co-80. NewBond-street._
NEW NUMBERS OF
/CHAPPELL’S MUSICAL MAGAZINE.
C NO 118-POPULAB MARCHES. ni
Marche Romaine .... *........-
March of the Pashas .. Hen lei.
In ” Judas.Maccaben* •• •• •• u lU ,d e i.
n the ” Occasional Oratorio" •• ■■ Jjandcl’.
n “ Rinaldo”.Handel.
n “ Hercules ’. ” clues, d’Albert.
•Winston March - ..
March
March
March
March
March
The W<
is Maccabeus 1
Conquering Hi
i Handel.
T-"U
8one (Tenor) .. Elly Mavourrieen .. 8>f ®« n jf lct *
“ eg (Contralto) The lonely Harp •• gir j jj t . ne Ulcfc.
I’m alone
Pianoforte
Pianoforte
Pianoforte
Dance Music
’ocal Duet (Bop. 1 q to yolces gone .. Zcta.
and Con.) I J
Vocal Dnet (Bop. 1 Tw0 wft ndcrlng Stars B. Richards.
’ Soldier’s Prayer .. A. L|"dohl.
Blue BeUs"of Scotland B. Richards.
West End Polka .. Charles D Albert.
Little Noll Walts .. Dan Godfrey.
Danco music .. Lord of Lome Lancers nan Goofrey
Dance Music .. Express Galop .. .. Charles D Albert.
No.ll8.-(MIXED SERIES. No.2.)
Song (Baritone) The Bell Ringer .. W. Vincent Wallace.
Song (Soprano) Tender and True .. Arthur.
Bong (Contralto) To Thee^
Bong (Tenor) ..{thonV.™ .. ...
- 1 When Birds are sing-1
Vocal Dnet (Sop.
and Con.)
Vocal Dnet (Sop.
and Con.)
Pianoforte
Pianoforte
Pianoforte
Danco Music ..
Dance Muslo ..
Dance Music
Dance Music
Two Merry Gipsies .
The Soldier ’b Chorus
Air by Lonis XIII. .
A Ray of Sunshine .
Dew Drop Walts
The Sultan’s Polka .
Polo Lancers ..
The Mabel Galop .
No. 115.—(MIXED SERIES, No. 1.)
Bone (Contralto) Juanita .. .. .. Mrs. Norton.
Song (8oprano) The Malden's Story .. A. Sullivan.
Song (Baritone) The Stirrup Cup .. Luigi Ardlti.
Bong (Tenor) ..{ T &n 8 .^?. M
Vocal Dnet (8op. t and the Harp .. B. Glover.
G. A. Mucfarren.
B. Richards,
llcnri Ghys.
Carl Led tic.
Charles d’Albert.
Charles d'Albcrt.
Dan Godfrey.
" Godfrey.
Vocal Duet (8op. 1 atb Banctlsslma
Home. Sweet
Pianoforte
Pianoforte
Dance Music
Danco Music
Dauce Music
Dance Musio
Mrs. Hemans.
_ __B. Richards.
The Silver Trumpets F. Vivlanl.
Priired’une Vlerge .. T. Badarzewska.
. The Rink Galop
, The Hilda Waltz ..
~ ‘ 10 Quadrilles .. Charles D
Charles D’Albert.
Dau Godfrey.
. ___ Charles D’Albert.
T polka Kln * Plpp, “} Charles D’Albert.
ONE SHILLING 'EACH (post-free. Is. 3d.).
Chai-i-kll aud Co., 60, New Bond-street, London, W.
TJEMINISCENCES OF ENGLAND.
XL REMINISCENCES OF IRELAND
nwssTWra/icvncft OF SCOTLAND.
REMINISCENCES OF SCOTLAND.
REMINISCENCES OF WALES. .
Arranged for the Pianoforte by FRED. GODFREY (B. 31.
Coldstream Guards). Played by aU the Bands in her Majesty ■
Service. Price 3s. each net. .
Chai’pkix and Co.. 50, New Bond-street.
Now on view, an immense number of Pianofortes returned
from Hire, to be sold, at greatly reduced prices, for cash.
Pianinos from 18 guineas.
Cottages from 30 guineas.
Grands from 60 guineas.
60, New Bond-street.
PIANOFORTES at
-0, New Bond-street,
■nay bo hired, with option of purchase, or on the " Three-Tears’
System,” at greatly reduced prices.
SECONDHAND
O 60, Ni
SECONDHAND PIANOFORTES nov
O View by the following eminent Makers
BROADWOOD. I ERARD.
COLLARD. CHAPPELL.
LIPP. BOSENKKAXZ.
OHAPrELL and CO., 60. New Bond-street.
new music
COLONIAL
“ MODEL, 45 gs.. or £410s. per quarter on tlie
Three-Years" System of Purchase._
QHAPPELL
and CO.’S FOREIGN
MODEL. 60 or £6 per quarter on the
Three-Years’ by stem or 1 u re mise. _
/CHAPPELL and CO.’S MIGNON IRON
(j GRAND, 80 gs., or £8 per quarter on the
Threo-Years’ System of Purchase.
r'lHAPPELL and CO.’S BOUDOIR IRON
1/ H0 gs., or £11 per quarter on the Threc-
Years’ Svstem oFPnrchMe.
NEW BOND-STREET. W.
Price 10s. 6d.. bound in cloth,
CPOHR’S VIOLIN SCHOOL. Edited by
upuiiv HOLMES BOOSEY and CO. beg to announce
thcratudent in*the course to bo f°{' ow ®/ t M > "^ h t 'i 1 e t flnert paper!
view oi piaciu^^ ^ ^ ^ Begent-streot._
This day, price 6s., paper; 7s. Od., cloth, gilt edges,
rpHE CONTRALTO ALBUM. A
1 Collection of 60 Songs for MoHO-Sopn.no and <- 0 Ptraito
I, extracted from the most celebrated Operas, w itli Italian
Inglisli words. All in the original keys (witlu nt abbre-
Tiav.on or alteration). This Collection includes many beautiful
songs hut little known in this countl-y.beridcs alfthe most
renowned of tlie last one hundred years. Also now ready, same
rjpBffi ab pRIMA DONNA’S ALBUM. 40
T^E ^ENOlT^d 0 BARITONE AjJjBUMsTwntatodng similar
selections for *£» twotoig. ^ _
NEW MUSIO.
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HE
f H E D R A. Xj.
the'shakers’ encampment at hohdle, near lymincton, Hampshire
210
THE TT.LTJSTBATED LONDON HEWS
AUG. 31, 1878
THE SHAKERS IN HAMPSHIRE.
The extraordinary sect of religious enthusiasts, foil ang the
prophetic leadership of Mrs. Mary Ann ® ^'Tvmineton
been living together in a strange community near Lymingt
for several yLs past, have again got into trouble. These
misguided people, whose theological notionsi may be undent
enough went into the country from Walworth or “I®"
yearsfago. They unhappily make it a point of conscience not
to pay rent to unbelievers, but have attempted to sq ,
Sthout permission, on land belonging to pnvate own^s.
They have been evicted by due process of law, andhavesmee
been dwelling at the hedge-side in Vags Lane, m- the
narish of Hordle, which is a seacoast village between
Symington and Christchurch, and five miles south-west
of LvS^ton. On Saturday last Mrs. Girling, as the
acknowledged responsible head of the community, apP
before the magistrates at Lymington, Y 1 th^S
one of the elders, to answer a complaint made by the local
inspector of the Hants Constabulary, who charged her with
obstructing the highway in Vags-lane with a quantity of
» ® t*. Ropms that the household goods, which the
Shakers formerly kept in the huts they had built for them-
selves in the adjoining field, were removed by the Shenff s
officer not long ago, when they were ejected from the field, a
httiaII piece of two or three acres, for not paying rent to the
landlord They were forbidden by their religious persuasion
%SS SffflWZrKf
BE «
labour It is elid, indeed, that Mrs. Girling has been in pos¬
session of a sufficient amount of money, from the property
given up by several members of her flock, small tradesmen
fud farmers* in accordance with the rul« of their conventual
society No children are with them, and the men and women
Uve in strict celibacy without any scandal. The Lymington
magistrates adjourned the case to that day week (this present
Saturday), admonishing Mrs. Girling to clear away the things,
and to find proper lodgings for her people, under penalties
of the Highway Act and the Vagrant Act. Our Artist
his visited g Hordle to make the two Sketches from which
two Illustrations are prepared. Ihe 8Cen ® “ I
lane is wretched, as well as absurdly strange the
roadside margin of grass and ditch, on either hand,
for a length of one hundred yards, is covered with chmrs and
tables, beds, chests of drawers, sofas, and other furniture,
arranged as best it can be to form a little shelter for each of
these miserable family parties, with blankets, counterpanes
| and shawls, to screen them from wind and ram. Mrs. Girling
heiself contrives to dress neatly, and there is nothing very
peculiar in her appearance; but 6ome of the poor women,
though hitherto of decent character, have got into a very
untidy condition. There are many able-bodied men amongst
them ; but none will work for wages, which have been offered
them in harvest-time, nor will they take parish relief. It is
expected, however, that necessity will soon oblige the Shakers
to do what other people do, more or less without sin, and this
queer delusion will como to an end. The celebrated com¬
munity of Shakers at Mount Lebanon, in America have no
such fancies, but simply abstain from marriage, and hold all
property in common stock.
THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OF CYPRUS.
{From our Special Artist and Correspondent.)
Laknaca, Aug. 8.
The despatch-boat Salamis, with his Royal Highness the Duke
of Edinburgh, Captain of the Black Prince, on board, sailed
yesterday for Brindisi. General Ross, who came to Malta in
command of the Indian contingent, also left in the Salamis on
a month’s leave in England. The absence of his Royal High¬
ness here will be much regretted, as he had made himself very
popular both ashore and afloat. The London newspapers
which arrived here last contained the speech of Mr. Anderson,
of Glasgow, who objected in Parliament to the vote of money
for the Duke of Connaught on the plea that the Royal Princes
did not work. But if Mr. Anderson could only have been at
North Beach, Lamaca, during the last threo weeks he would
have been rather startled at the amount of work, of real
physical labour, gone through zealously and indefatigably by
the Royal Duke. From four a.m. till after dark the work was
incessantly carried on, Sundays not excepted, and even during
the hours of the night his Royal Highness was never free from
interruption, as letters, with incessant inquiries or instructions,
wei e continually brought to him from the Admiral, who well
susi ains the character which he bore in the Hector and Odin
of old. Lord John Ilay has not been fortunate in his relations
with the commissariat. Without a great deal of tact on both
sides the relations between naval and military heads of depart¬
ments, during debarkation, are nearly sure to cause friction
between clashing interests, and this occasion has been no
exception to the rule. On the re-embarkation of the Indian
levies for Bombay we may expect to see some of these contests
renewed.
The expected malarious fever has at length begun to show
itself. Most of the Minotaur’s and Monarch’s men, who were
up at Ni-osia, have succumbed to the disease, whioh only
nttacked them on their return to their ships at Lamaca. A
party of Royal Engineers are reported to have been stopped
la their survey by fever, which has stricken down the whole
of them. The Highlanders also, and other Europeans at
Chevlik, are said to be sending a large proportion of
their men into hospital from the same cause. The ride up to
Nicosia is through an almost barren plain, and in these sultry
days of August the country is quite arid. There is a diligence
which traverses the road daily between Nicosia and T -unim ^ j
but it is entirely taken up by the Government for official
passengers, and after wasting two days we were compelled to
ride. Blazing white limestone rocks, with little moisture or
vegetation, prevailed for the first half of the journey, and it
was needful to rest at Atheno, a village half way. Cyprus may
be delightful in the winter, but journeying at mid-day in the
island is simply torture. I have experienced Chinese,
Indian, and Central American summers ; but I never
remember to have suffered more from heat and vermin, and I
can quite imagine the effect upon the British troops.
The temperature of the atmosphere in the Levant is more
variable than that of most parts of the Mediterranean, for it
alters with every change of wind. Along the south-eastern
const of Cyprus, from Limasol to here at Lamaca and on to
Famagosta, a regular land-and-sea breeze prevails in the
absence of stronger winds. This land-and sea breeze is termed
the “imbatto.” It sets in with a sea breeze from the S.W.,
and, freshening towards noon, lasts till about three p.m. at
this time of year ; but sometimes it continues till about sun¬
set, when it dies away. An almost dead calm then ensues,
when a light air springs up from the land, which continues
until about an hour after sunrise. In August the refreshment
afforded by the sea breeze, cooled by passing over the sea, is
most grateful to the inhabitants of the south coast. Without
it, Cyprus would during the dog days be aptly termed
“ infamis nimio caloro.” Admiral Smyth, in his work on
“ The Mediterranean,” considers that the whole island of
Cyprus affords an epitome of the usual Levantine weather, for
here the action of the breezes is confined to a comparatively
circumscribed space.
We reached Nicosia by sunset, and had great difficulty in
obtaining a lodging. Hotels are unknown, and one or two
extemporised grog-shops do duty for the unexpected travellers.
Fortunately, a letter from the Consul at Lamaca procured us
a decent lodging at the house of the Governor’s dragoman.
At Government House discomfort reigned supreme ; Colonel
Biddulph, R.A., and staff were os badly off as ourselves.
We rode out at once to see Sir Garnet Wolseley, and it is
needless to say how genial and kind he always is. He takes a
most hopeful view of affairs here, which are to the outsider a
hopeless mass of confusion. The amount of work requisite
here to be got through by the staff is overpowering. We found
Sir Garnet, with Colonel Greaves, Lieutenant-Colonel Brackcn-
bury, R.A., and others of his staff, established in a long row
of most commodious buildings within the sanctuary precincts
of a Greek church. Just as we arrived the body of a murdered
man was being taken in, loosely carried in a sheet, previous to
its interment in the church. Sir Garnet's flag is to be con¬
secrated in due form shortly; but, as we must be on the move,
it is doubtful if I shall be present. Having waited for the mail
here, I proceed next to Cythera, of which we hear glowing
accounts from Mr. Forbes, of the Laxly News, and then to
Kyrenia.
Now, as to the future of Cyprus, should the present pro¬
tectorate of Turkey in Asia continue on a firm basis and
become permanent. To what practical use could we put it r
There is one suggestion which naturally arises—it is that, if
| we are to protect Turkey, Turkey must be taught how to
i protect itself; and Cyprus, with its wide plains and con¬
venient position, is admirably adapted for a large Turkish
camp of instruction. Here young Turkish officers could be
schooled in modern warfare; and English officers might learn
how to deal with Turkish soldiers. It is proposed to erect
cantonments on the western slopes of the Troodos range of
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mountains near Paphos (Baffo). as soon as a site has been
selected for the wooden huts which have been ordered from I
England, and which, indeed, ought to be on their way out I
here by this time. Here, in these elevated regions, about
2000 ft. above sea-level, the main body of European troops
might be quartered, at all events during the summer months
and during the season when fever is prevalent on the lower
plains, on the somo plan as the troops in Jamaica are mostly
kept up at Newcastle, on the high ground. The intended
station, in all probability, will be formed in the direction of
Melia, Phyti, and Panaia, in the neighbourhood of the large
monastery of Grisovoghiatissa. It will form an excellent sana¬
torium, both for soldiers and for the sailors of the Mediterra¬
nean squadron, as well as for our garrisons at Malta and
Gibraltar, where the troops suffer from the insupportable heat
from July to September. The change of quarters will be
most beneficial after the monotonous routine of garrison duty;
and Cyprus will doubtless soon be looked upon as a favourite
S uarter, as Corfu was once similarly regarded. Game
iws are at once to be instituted; the hunting will
be first rate across the wide Messarian plains, and we
shall see the wooded slopes of west and north Cyprus
dotted with villas, and resorted to by invalids during the
winter months, in preference to Nice, Monaco, Mentone, or
even Algiers. A fashionable watering-place will soon spring
up, and with a garrison of three crack regiments, and a
numerous English official staff of civilians as well as military,
prosperity of a certain description may certainly be predicted
for Cyprus.
To visit Paphos and her b
pgroTea,
And breat hing odours scent the balmy skies;
Concealed she bathes in consecrated bowers.
The Grace* unguents shed, ambrosial showers.
Unguents that charm the god*! She last assumes
Her wondrous robes ; and full the goddess blooms.
The mail from this place closes almost directly, and there¬
fore we must send off at once, not to lose an opportunity.
8. P. O.
ASTRONOMICAL OCCURRENCES IN SEPTEMBER.
(JVom the “ Illustrated London Almanack.")
The Moon is near Jupiter during the evening hours of the 6th
and 7th, being situated to the right of the planet on the former
and to the left on the latter evening. She is near Saturn
during the evening hours of the 12th and morning hours of the
13th; the nearest approach will be about 9h. p.m. on tho 12th,
when the planet will be a little below the Moon. She is near
Mercury and Venus on the morning of the 25th, and near Mars
on the 26th. Her phases or times of change are
First Quarter on the 8rd at 26 minutes after 8h. in the afternoon.
Full Moon „ 11th „ 49 n 3 „ afternoon.
last Quarter „ 19th „ 30 „ 6 „ afternoon.
New Moon „ 26th „ 10 „ 2 „ afternoon.
She is nearest the Earth on the afternoon of the 2Gtb, and
most distant from it on the afternoon of the 13th.
Mercury rises at about the time of sunrise on the 11th ;
on the 13th he rises at 5h. 5m. a.m., or 27 minutes before
sunrise; on the 18th at 4h. 26m. a.m., or lh. 14m. before the
Sun ; on the 23rd at4h. 9m. a.m., orlh. 39m. before sunrise; on
the 28th at 4h. 14m. a.m., or lh. 42m. before the Sun. He is
near Mars on the 7th, in inferior conjunction with the Sun on
the 10th, stationary among the stars on the 18th, in his
ascending node on the 21st, near Venus on the 25th, and again
on the last day ; near the Moon on tho 25th, at his greatest
western elongation (17 deg. 50 min.) on the 26th, and (the
fourth time this year) at his least distance from the Sun on
the same day.
Venus is still a morning star, rising 2h. 12m. before sunrise
on the 8th, lh. 55m. before the Sun on the 18th, and lh. 40m.
before sunrise on the 28th; the planet rising on these days at
3h. 13m. a.m., 3h. 45m. a.m., and 4h. 16m. a.m. respectively.
She is due south on the 1st at lOh. 28m. a.m., on tho 15th at
lOh. 40m. a.m., and on the last day at lOh. 51m. a.m. She is
at her least distance from the Sun on the 19th, and near the
Moon on the 25th.
Mars sets on the 8th at 6h. 42m.'p.m., or 13 minutes after
sunset; on the 18th at 6h. 14m. p.m., or 7 minutes after sun¬
set ; on the 28th he sets at sunset, and sets in daylight from
this day till tlio end of the year. He rises with the Sun on the
17th, and 20 minutes before sunrise on the 28th. He is due
south on the 1st at Oh. 22m. p.m., on the 15th at noon, and on
the last day at llh. 37m. a.m. He is in conjunction with the
Sun on the 18th, and near the Moon on the 26th.
Jupiter sets on the 1st at lh. 29m. a m., on the 9th at
Oh. 56m. a.m., on the 19th at 0b. 15m. a.m., on the 28th at
llh. 36m. p.m., and on the last day at llh. 24m. p.m. He is
due south on tho 1st at 9h. 18m. p.m., on the 11th at 8h. 36m.
>m., on the 21st at 7h. 56m. p.m., and on the last day at
fh. 21m. p.m. He is near the Moon on the 7th, and stationary
among the stars on the 23rd.
Saturn rises on the 7th at 7h. 5m. p.m., or 33 minutes after
sunset; on the 17th at Gh. 25m. p.m., or 15 minutes after sun¬
set; on the 25th the planet rises at sunset, and from this day
till the end of the year he rises in daylight. He sets on the
23rd at sunrise, and at 5h. 20m. a.m., or 38 minutes before
sunrise, on the 29th. He is due south on the 1st at lh. 28m.
a.m., on the 11th at Oh. 46m. a.m., on the 21st at Oh. 4m. a.m.,
and on the last day at llh. 22m. p.m. He is near the Moon on
the 12th, and in opposition to the Sun on the 22nd.
ft
A fire which broke out at the house of Mr. Dennison, a con¬
fectioner, near St. Martin's-lane, Birmingham, on Monday
night, resulted in the death of Mrs. Dennison, her child, her
sister, and a servant. The firc-cscane caught fire when attempts
were being made to rescue Mrs. Dennison, and she remained
shrieking at the window for assistance, ultimately falling
head-foremost on the pavement. Her child, which was acci¬
dentally let fall as it was being brought down the escape,
died shortly afterwards. The bodies of Mrs. Dennison’s sister
and the servant were found after the fire was extinguished.
Mr. Dennison was the only person saved in the house; he
lumped on to a high ladder which was placed against the
house before the escape arrived.
About two months ago a youth named William Hughes,
while bathing in the canal at Winson-green, near Birmingham,
got out of his depth and sank into the mud. None of the
spectators of his struggles had the courage to go to his assist¬
ance, till a youth named Reuben Saunders came up, plunged
into the water, and with great difficulty succeeded in rescuing
the drowning lad, who was then in an unconscious state.
Lieutenant Carter, master of the Birmingham Workhouse, to
which the rescued lad was removed, having communicated the
circumstances to the Royal Humane Society, had the satis¬
faction of receiving for presentation to Saunders the society’s
certificate for bravery. The presentation, which was made on
Monday with unusual honours, in presence of the schoolboys
of the workhouse, was accompanied by a gift of money subscribed
on the ground.
THEATRES.
STRAND.
This theatre has become very miscellaneous in character, and
showed distinguishable signs of a period of transition previous
to the commencement of a new season, under the temporary
management of Messrs. Walter Joyce and Arthur Swan-
borough, which began on Monday. The previous week
had witnessed the production of two pieces, one of them new,
both successful, but not yet repeated — “ Our Accomplished
Domestic” and “ Love Wins.” These pieces are clever. The
first bus been arranged for the stage by E. Dale, Esq., and
exhibits the versatility of two sisters, of the age of twelve and
nine, named Miss Jessie Sinclair and Miss S&Ilie Sinclair (the
daughters of Mr. Henry Sinclair, the actor)—the latter a
danseuse of considerable ability, who simulates different cha¬
racters, and performs a variety of Terpsichorean feats in
illustration of the dialogue. The second piece is a revived
comedy-drama, in three acts, by Messrs. Savile Clarke and
the late Du Terroaux, in which Mr. Charles Collette appears as
Profe^or Lobelia,an ex-circusproprietor. A confirmed drunkard,
this worthy has sold his daughter for a certain annuity to
a rich man, who has her educated with a view of making her
his wife. His son, however, Arthur Dalton (Mr. Caen), falls in
love with the damsel, and incurs thereby his father’s resent¬
ment. Compelled to work at his art for a living, he paints a
picture of the young lady careering on a bare-backed steed
round a crowded circus. Mr. Dalton, sen., becomes the pur¬
chaser of the painting, a circumstance that leads to a general
reconciliation. The professor, too. becomes a total abstainer;
and thus the curtain falls on the probable happiness of all
parties. There is, also, a fantastic part, the Hon. Tom
Leverton, well acted by Mr. A. M. Denison, which deserves
commendation. On Monday the new season was inaugurated
by two revivals of dramas almost forgotten from lapse of time,
but worthy to be remembered. “ An Ambassador from Below,”
by the late Robert Brough and Sutherland Edwardea, and the
three-act comedy of “ Love or Money," by the late Mr. Andrew
Holliday. These were preceded by Mr. T. J. Williams’s farce
of “ Peace and Quiet.” This clever, but noisy farce was
vigorously enacted, by Mr. Cecil Murray as tyr. Smashington
Goit, Mr. J. Day as Mr. Twitterly Fluttersome, and Mr. J.
G. Bauer as Mr. Jonas Closefist. The ladies, also, were
well represented, Mrs. Fluttersome by Miss C. Harvey,
Clara by Miss Helen Stuart, and Helen by Miss Verner.
The Brough-Edwardes Musical extravaganza then followed.
In this Mephistophiles is a leading part, and was satis¬
factorily represented by Miss Hetty Tracey. But the
burden of the most important role rested on Mr. George
Honey, that of the Marquis de Brancador (his original
character), and this he supported with his usual nonchalance
and irresistible humour. Tho scene between him and Honesta,
the Marchioness (Miss L. Gourlay), was capitally acted. The
gardener’s wife, Fiametta, and her husband, Pepito, were
admirably represented by Miss L. Telbin and Miss Verner.
The incidental music was effectively reudered. So much well
done was sufficient to predispose the audience to appreciate
the three-act drama that followed. ‘‘Love or Money” is
indeed powerfully sustained. First and foremost is Mr. George
Honey again, as Major Buncombe, a part full of opportunities
for the special kind of fun in which the artist naturally
delights. Mrs. Buncombe likewise is characteristically
interpreted by Miss Caroline Harvey. This impccuniose
couple are of that astute order of parents who build their
hopes on marriageable daughters, and succeed in obtaining
suitable husbands. One of the latter is apparently rich, but
really a needy speculator, and the other a worthy individual
in the situation of clerk to a firm in which he subsequently
becomes a partner. The contrast of the two households is
strikingly delineated—the false splendour of the one and the
substantial comfort of the other. The two daughters
were skilfully discriminated by Miss L. Telbin as
Clarissa and Miss Louisa Gourlay as Jemima. Miss
Hetty Tracey did the brilliant as Mrs. Darlington,
and really shed a lustre on the scenes in which she so
prominently assisted. In these revivals the scenery has
been well cared for; and the ostensible wealth of Alfred
Skimmington’s mansion is elaborately indicated in the stage
arrangements and accessories. It may be mentioned that the
acting manager for Mr. Honey is Mr. George Keogh. Pro¬
bably it is intended, after this intercallary season is over, to
give another chance to Mr. Dale and the Sinclairs, as also to
Messrs. Clarke and De Ttrrcaux, in connection with Mr.
Charles Collette and his talented associates. We shell be glad
to make Mrs. Leigh Murray’s acquaintance again as Mrs. Hirst.
Altogether, we do not see that a period of transition could
have been better occupied.
GAIETY.
At length the famous ‘‘Jeames” of Mr. Thackeray has
obtained a stage representative. Sir. Burnand has written a
four-act comedy on the subject of “ the diary ; ” and Mr.
Terry has impersonated the fortunate footman to the very life.
We have here the conceited James Blodder in all phases of his
character and history. Ho is first located (that is, in the play)
in Mayfair, where he is tempted to dabble in shares connected,
according to the same authority, with the “ Ellen Mine,” and
succeeds so far that he begins to forget his family relations
and early love, and aspires to an aristocratic union with the
Lady Angelina. The change, however, at last comes; and,
lo ! the upstart parvenu is reduced to his original level. The
dramatist represents this catastrophe as a moral benefit to the
man. Mr. Terry fully enters into the spirit of the portraiture,
and gives an actual individual, readily to be identified, whether
on or off the stage. Miss E. Farren also comes in for her
share of commendation as Mary Ann, the maid-servant. In
other respects the play is very efficiently cast, and its perform¬
ance will probably long continue to be gratifying to the players
and the public. The burlesque of “ Little Doctor Faust
continues its triumphant career, which has now lasted more
than 170 nights. _
Miss Glyn has been reading at Margate, assisted by her
pupil, Miss Annie Baldwin (Mrs. Raisbcck Robinson), we hope
with success. On Wednesday Miss Baldwin gave the principal
scenes of Rosalind in “ As You Like It ; ” and Miss Glyn read
from‘‘The Merchant of Venice,” and also from Ophelia’s
mad scenes and the Gravedigger’s scene in “Hamlet.” On
Friday Miss Baldwin recited “ The Wreck of the Hesperus
and “ The Charge of the Light Brigade,” Miss Glyn reading
“ Macbeth.” On Tuesday next they will appear together at
Ramsgate. We may here record that Miss Glyn prepares
pupils for the stage.
In the new Metropolis Management and Building Act
there are some regulations as to theatres and music-halls of an
important character, both in reference to existing and new
establishments. It is recited in the preamble that, with a view
to protect the public frequenting theatres and music-halls within
the metropolis from danger by fire, it is expedient that pro¬
visions should be made to empower the Metropolitan Board of
Works to cause alterations in existing theatres and music-
halls. and to make regulations with respect to the position and
structure of new theatres and music-halls. The Act provides
that, whenever it appears to the board that theatres and music-
halls containing a superficial area of not less than 500 square
feet, which at the time of the passing of the Act are so
defective in their structure that special danger from fire may
result to the public frequenting the same, then and in every such
case the board may, with the consent of the Lord Chamberlain
in the case of theatres under his jurisdiction, or of the Secre¬
tary of State in all other cases, if, in the opinion of the Beard,
such structural defects can be remedied at a moderate
expenditure, by notice in writing, require the owners to make
such alterations as may be necessary in a reasonable time,
and, if the owner failB, to impose a penalty not exceeding
£50, and £5 a day while the default continues. The owner,
within fourteen days, may give notice of appeal, and the First
Commissioner of Works is to appoint an arbitrator, whose
decision is to be final. With regard to new theatres and other
public establishments for entertainments, the places are to be
constructed to protect the public from the danger of fire, and
also the neighbourhood, with heavy penalties for non-com¬
pliance. Such places are not to be open until a certificate is
obtained, and all such buildings ore to be inspected by the
officers of the board.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
Our Illustrations this week represent the exterior of the
Tunisian, Egyptian, and Swedish pavilions, adjacent to each
other, in the Trocadero Park; the outside and inside of the
Monaco pavilion, likewise in the Trocadero Park; the facade
of the Austrian Section, in the Avenue of Nations, which is
the central avenue of the Exhibition Palace in the Champ de
Mars; and the entrances to the Persian and Siamese Sections,
that of Annam, in Cochin China, and those of the petty
Principality of Monaco and the petty Italian Republic of San
Marino, in the same avenue of the Exhibition Palace. Tho
Tunisian and Swedish buildings have been described upon
former occasions. The Egyptian, on the west side of tho
Trocadero, is a structure of two huge pyramidal blocks,
with truncated summits, connected by a gallery, beneath
which is the ponderous-looking doorway; tho side walls
have no windows, but the back wall, In its upper part,
has a wide bay, opening to tbe south, and overlooking
the Seine and the Champ de Mars. The only decoration is
that of coloured bands and miniature colonnades on the
massive piers to the right and left of the entrance. Passing
over to the Chomp de Mars, and entering the Exhibition
Palace, as we proceed up the Central Avenue, where the
entrance to each nation’s particular location is adorned with a
facade, often exemplifying its peculiar style or fashion of
architecture, the Austro-Hungarian facade commands our
attention. It has no pretensions, indeed, to be especially
characteristic of the architecture of Austria or Hungary, but it
is an elegant, graceful, and appropriate front, consisting of
two equal square blocks, one for each division of the two-fold
Monarchy, built of stone, having two storeys with a balus¬
trade on the top, connected together by an arcade or portico of
nine arches, supported on coupled pillars of white stone; and
the arcade is surmounted by allegorical statues of the
Fine Arts. The Austrian Imperial standard is dis¬
played at one end and that of the Hungarian Kingdom
at the other, which has a certain political significance. The
group of buildings, with very narrow frontage to each, shown
in another of our Engravings, requires a few words to dis¬
tinguish one part from the other. Beginning at the left-hand
side of the Engraving, the reader is to observe that here are
the three smallest of the European States, apparently under
one roof; the arched door, with an heraldic escutcheon above
it, is the entrance to the Monaco section of the Exhibition;
the window of the first-floor room overhead belongs to San
Marino, a little city in the Apennines, whose civic common¬
wealth, existing since the Middle Ages, has not yet been
absorbed by the kingdom of Italy; and the still independent
Republic of Andorra, on the south side of the Pyrenees, lias
likewise a place in the upper storey. Next to this comes the
Tunisian portal, with its narrow Saracenic arches, its first-
floor window protected by a screened balcony of carved
woodwork, a decorated frieze at the top, and a circular
turret above all; the whole coloured in alternate wide
horizontal bands of red and black. The Siamese front
may be recognised by its heart-shaped escutcheon, dis¬
playing a white elephant, over the door, and by the triple
pagoda roof. The Persian slip of building at the corner, with
its pointed angular arch, above and below, and its delicate
arabesque ornamentation, is next observed. The wide and
lofty triumphal arch to the right hand, with its winged dragons
and the flag above, appertains to the Eastern Asiatic kingdom
of Annam, which borders on the French colony in Cochin
China. _
The longest Act passed in the recent Session was to con¬
solidate and amend the law relating to public health in Ireland.
There are 294 clauses in the statute, and several sr hedules
extending to thirty-four sheets. The Act is divided into
several parts, and treats on sanitary matters and infectious
diseases. Among the penalties is one of £10 for any person
having a “wuke” over a person dying of an infectious disorder.
At a meeting of the Corporation of Worcester on Monday
a resolution was discussed for opposing the project of the
Liverpool Corporation to supply their town with water from
the Vernier, a tributary of the Severn, on the ground that the
diversion of the stream would jeopardise the navigation of tho
river. After long argument, an amendment was carried
adjourning the further consideration of the question to enable
the Corporation to obtain the opinion of the engineer of the
Severn Navigation Commission on the matter.
An extraordinary general meeting of the British Medical
Association was held at Birmingham on Tuesday. Dr.
Falconer, of Bath, the president of the association, occupied
the chair, and there were, besides many local medical gentle¬
men, representatives from Sheffield, Warwick, Croydon, and
other parts. The object of the meeting was to confirm a
resolution passed at a general meeting of the association held
at Bath on the 8th inst., to the effect that no female shall be
eligible for election as a member of the association. The reso¬
lution was unanimously confirmed, on tho motion of Dr. Wade,
seconded by Dr. De BartolomS.
Within this year the Missions to Seamen Society, Bucking-
ham-street, Strand, have distributed 80,977 secondhand books,
magazines, and pictorial periodicals amongst merchant-ships,
for the use of their crews when going to sea. This large num¬
ber of disused books was sent to the secretary’s offices by
benevolent ladies and gentlemen, and it included many thou¬
sand numbers of the Illuttrated London Noct, 2801 biblcs and
prayer-books, and 9003 hymn-books, very useful for services at
sea. The supply iB now exhausted, and fifty-eight hon. chap¬
lains and fifty-five chaplains and readers, working afloat in
forty-three harbours and roadsteads, solicit a further supply
through the medium of the instttutton.
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214 _
THE VOLUNTEERS.
A rifle-match which
interest among the metropolitan >oluntccr^ M p for
trophy, value fifty guineas presented which the hon.
Hackney, to ^JJJS^liSiSt came?ff last Saturday at
gentleman represents ^ Parhamen ntative teams of
the Rainham nnp«. « Essex. ^ ^ ^ Administratl ve
the battalions entitled to compete Colonel Sir Fowell
Battalion Tower Hamlets, Bri y ade commanded by
Buxton, Bart., the Tower Hamlete ) commanded
Colonel Mapleson and the OthEsscx^uverx b ted bj
by Colonel W. S. Silver. Each battalion was rt^ ^ ^
ten men, who fired seven rounds tareets The match
fiOOyarSth^Briglde still l further increased Batteli^’aid^U
237 to their fine score, as the Essex men tried
bv the Essex men. At the final rang nrevious
hard to retrieve Jhel^theyhad “ CUI jfwliteh they
distances and retain the custody oi tne ^ V & ftt the Essex
had held since last year ; and^^esult w ^ ^
battalion outdistanced the Brigade!ny respective
J* thisV
S“bytoSa^™"rp y B , Jt 565 by a. Admhriatrative
“1 prize-meeting of the Tower Hamleto Bright
SSfJSf Moore an^ Private Shaw;
£3 Corporal Werner and Corporal Arle.
,f The battalion prize-meeting of the 2nd London was con¬
cluded last week at Rainham - Sergeant Brovm was ttcmnner
of the Merchant Taylors’ Challenge Prize, Corporal White took
the Joiners’ Challenge Cup, and Sergeant Brown was ag
S^SSTfa the contest for the Salto Ou|.
Sergeant Lowden won Mrs. Rumngton s Challenge Cup. At
the H company meeting of the same regiment Colour-bergeant
GreS woWcompany Badge and first prize, the n«tpta»
being taken by Sergeant Spooner, Sergeant Swyer, and
Corporal Sears.
The B company of the 3rd London also held their meeting
at the same time as the latter. Corporal ^'iSwar
badge and first prize, next in order coming Privates Dewar,
Bramsgrove, Denmore, Remaine, and Sergeant Nicholas.
Yesterday week No. 2 Company of the Honourable Artillery
Company fired a match against No. 6 Company for the
championship of the regiment, which they won by 49 points
The highest scorers of the winning team were Privates Munn
and Chandler.
The third and last silver cup competition of the South
London Rifle Club resulted in a victory for Sergeant Eraser,
London Rifle Brigade.
The prize-meeting of the 7th Surrey at Wimbledon was
brought to a close last week, the following being the chief
winners;—Series A: £5 5s., Corporal Eccles; £4 4s., Private
Hart; £3 3s. each, Private Suttill, Private Lee, and Private
Richards. Series B: £7 7s., Private Hart; £5 5s., Private
Lee- £4 4s., Corporal Holland; £3 10s., Colour-Sergeant
Mansell; £3 3s. each, Corporal Francis, Private Martin and
Lieutenant Chubb. Series C : £5 5s., Private Suttill; £3 3s->
Corporal Holland. Series D: £3 3s., Corporal Eccles; £2 2s.
each, Colour-Sergeant Mansell, Corporal Holland, and Sergeant
Smith Private Hart won the Colonels and Corporal Broughton
the Majors’ Challenge Cups; the first places in the grand
aggregate series were taken by Privates Suttill and Hart.
The annual prize-meeting of the 19th Surrey began last
Saturday, the following being the winners:—£7, Private C.
Brown ; £5 each, Sergeant Fruen, Private Foster, Lieutenant
Sexby, and Lieutenant Richards; £4, Sergeant Hattersley
and Sergeant Meredith; £3 3s., Lieutenant Willington and
Sergeant-Major Laverock.
A match was fired last Saturday at the Great Marlow range
between the 1st Bucks and the H company of the London
Brigade, and resulted in a victory for the visitors by 38 points.
The bronze medal of the National Rifle Association for
Oxfordshire was won last week at the Oxon County Meeting
by Sergeant Thomas of Banbury.
The annual County and All Comers’ Meeting of the York¬
shire Association was held on Wednesday and Thursday last
week at Strensall-common, and was a great success. The
N.R.A. bronze medals were won by Sergeant Bogg, of Brad¬
ford, 1st West Riding medal; Sergeant John Depledge,
Doncaster, 2nd West Riding medal; Private Holmes, North¬
allerton, North Riding medal; and Sergeant Kirk, Hull, East
Riding medal. The principal winners in the various all¬
comers’ competitions were as follows: Class E.—To all
members of the association: £10, Colour-Sergeant Love,
Scarborough ; £8, Colour-Sergeant Goddard, Rotherham ;
£6, Sergeant Gilder, Harrow; £5, Sergeant Bogg, Bradford,
Frivate Kelsey, Leeds; £4, Quartermaster-Sergeant Ruxton,
Doncaster, Sergeant-Major Hodgson, Hull; £3, Sergeant
Woolley, Chester, Lieutenant Mitchelson, Pickering, and
Lieutenant Batley, Huddersfield. Class G.—All Comers,
Military Breechloaders: £5, Mr. Eddison, Leeds; £3,
Private Johnson, Carlisle, Sergeant-Major Gilder, Harrow;
nnd £2, Sergeant Harrison, Ripon. Class F.—All Comers:
£15, Lieutenant Redman, Stockton; £12, Private Holmes,
Northallerton; £10, Private Chapman, Wenslcydale; £7,
Quartermaster Cortis, Worthing; and Major Burt, Birming¬
ham ; £5, Lance-Corporal Allinson, Middleton ; Private
Kelsey, Leeds ; Private Wilson, Ossett; and Private Smith,
London Rifle Brigade ; £4, Sergeant Smith, Rotherham ; Ser-
the tt t.tththaTED LOTOON NEWS
AUG. 31, 1878
At an inspection on Monday of the 1st Ad ^ Hayling
Battalion Honta Volnnteo in a non-cfficial capacity
Island, General M Murdo, tbe battalion to see what
said that he was pleased eighte en years ago.
progress had been made 8 ... t be men and their
The° drill reflected great cre^t ^h <>n ™ in Une
excellent Colonel (Sir W. Humphrey), i ue
was excellently performed, wd be gainS over an enemy.
SSSEf t“ °%f«i i’SJffSS
forces, either regular or^gu m heata Botley, Romsey,
Aireaford, Alton, and Baaingstoke,
and numbers 615 on parade.
beganwith a competition for the battalion
^TbaMtonTAef^d pSTeaJoTe ne’S wSh toe fcUortjg
nrizes in this competition feU to Sergeant Seaward, 33rd,
Private Smith, 41st; Private Stringer, 12th; Captam Harnson,
12th- Private Lingard, 41st; Private Luff, 41st, Colour
Sergeant Blake, 14th ; Corporal Conn, 33rd ; Sergeant Janes,
14th; Corporal Wair, 13th The Marksman Prize, given by
Lieutenant-Colonel Warner, was won by Lieutenant Sharpe,
41 at; and the Consolation Prizes were taken 1by Pnvate
Norman, 13th; Sergeant Giles, 33rd; and Corporal Palmer, 41st
Loudon Rifle Bngado ; £4, Sergeant Smith, Rotherham ; Ser¬
geant Falconer, Middlesborough; and Sergeant Allen, Don¬
caster; Colour-Sergeant Slater, Oldham; Sergeant Metcalf,
Iti-liiuoud; Sergeant Woolley, Chester; Lance-Corporal Elli¬
son, Barnsley ; £3, Mr. Eddison, Leeds ; Private Jenner, Man¬
chester ; and Private C. F. Lowe (S. M.) Class I.—All Comers:
£4 10s., Lieutenant Allison, Middlesex, and Private Bonner,
Sleaford; £3, Private Kelsey, Leeds; Lieutenant Livesey,
Worthing ; Corporal Short, Harrow ; and Corporal Taylor,
Ripon. Class H.—All Comers—Military Breechloaders : £5,
Quartermaster Cortis, Worthing ; £3, Captain Crowtlier, Hud¬
dersfield ; Sergeant-Instructor Gilder, Harrow; £2, Private
11. Smith, London Rifle Brigade, and Lieutenant Livesey,
Worthing. Class K.—AH Comers, “The Wilton,” £20 for
Sniders : £5, Major Shepherd, Bradford; £3, Captain May man,
Dewsbury, and Captain Ellis, Batley.
Yesterday week the meeting which had been in progress
since Tuesday, the 20th inst., among nearly 2500 competitors
of the Armv Navy, and auxiliary forces for prizes of the aggre
™ wTof ggm! £400 a»d £500, was brought to a close at
the Browndown ranges, and has been productive of some
splendid practice with military rifles—the Martini-Henry, with
which the regular troops are armed, and the weapon still in
use among the volunteers, the Snider. In the first match for
the rank and file of the Army and auxiliary forces, and to
seamen below the grade of first-class petty officers, t'urty-five
prizes, of the total value of £35, were offered. Lance-Corporal
Kemp, second battalion 12th Regiment, won the first prize,
and a representative of the Navy, Seaman Coleman of her
Majesty’s ship Excellent, took the second honour. Sergeant-
Major Tuck gained the first prize open to naval petty officers
and sergeants, and Colour-Sergeant Strachan and Sergeant-
Instructor Bonner second and third. Major Nixon, Royal
Marine Artillery, carried off the Browndown Cup. In the
Officers’ Match, Captain Moore, second battalion 4th Regiment,
won the first prize, and Lieutenant Fumer, first battalion 60th
Rifles, took the second. In the match of Soldiers versus
Seamen,” Private Callaghan, 56th Regiment, won the first
prize, a silver watch; and the second prize of £5 went to
Corporal Salter, also of the 56th. In the Sergeants and Petty
Officers’ Match, Sergeant Legg, Royal Marines, took the first
prize, and Colour-Sergeant Newman, of the Hants Rifle
Volunteers, the second, of £4 ; Sergeant-Instructor Moulton,
56th Regiment, took the first prize, a silver tankard in the
Browndown Cup contest; and Barrack-Sergeant Patterson,
Royal Marine Artillery, the second. £5 ; and Lieutenant Atkin¬
son, 56th Regiment, the third. The Ladies’ Champion Belts,
value £5 each, were won by Captain Gosling, 37th Regiment,
and Lieutenant Evans, 30th Regiment. The Army and
Navy ” contest produced some fine shooting, and again the
first honour went to a representative of the first line of
defence-Seaman Rewell, of her Majesty’s ship Excellent;
Rowley, of the same ship, being second, and Sergeant Deane,
64th Regiment, third. For the Army Skirmishing Competition,
the 55th Regiment had a close struggle with the 109th, but
eventually were declared the winners, beating the 109th, who
took second place. The second battalion of the 60th Rifles was
third. The prize which the 55th have won is a handsome
carriage clock, mounted and inscribed. The match for the
Ladies’ Silver Belts, five rounds, resulted in some splendid
shooting, two of the officers making only one off the highest
possible score, Lieutenant Brooke, of the 94th Regiment, and
Major Tuson, Royal Marine Artillery, the prize eventually
being awarded to the former. The third contest for the
Browndon Cup brought thirty-eight competitors to the lists,
and the silver tankard was taken by Lieutenant-Colonel Hume,
of the 55th Regiment, Sergeant Collins, Royal Marines, taking
Becond place and winning £5. Lieutenant Godsel, 52nd Regi-
rnent, took the first prize (a silver pocket flask) in the officers
competition, and Captain Moore, second battalion 4th Regi-
ment, took the second prize, a field-glass.
Rear-Admiral Sir "William Edmonstone, M.P. for Stirling
shire, gave his customary annual dinner yesterday week to the
tenantry on his estate in the Dunreath Arms Inn, Kilsyth.
Sir William occupied the chair.
The important Act to consolidate the law relating to weights
and measures has been issued. On the Act coming into force
on Jan. 1 there is to be a uniformity of weights and measures
in the United Kingdom. The statute extends to eighty-six
sections and several schedules, and repeals a number of Acts and
portions of other statutes. The Act is divided into five parts,
and the latter two relate to Scotland and Ireland. The imperial
standards of weights and measures deposited in the Standards
Department of the Board of Trade are to continue to be the
standards, and all articles, with special exceptions, to be sold
according to the same; offenders as to unjust weights and
measures to be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5 tor a first
offence and £10 for a second offence. “Every weight, except
where the small size of the weight renders it impracticable,
shall have the denomination of such weight stamped on the
top or side thereof in legible figures and letters.” The Board
of trade are to have all powers and perform all duties as to
weights and measures, the “ local authorities” in every county
and borough to provide local standards, and each “ local
authority ” to appoint inspectors of weights and measures, and
all expenses to be paid out of the local rates. Orders in Council
may be made to carry out the Act. In a table the metric
equivalents of imperial weights and measures are given.
Penalties are set forth for infringements of the provisions, and
the Act with the schedules will require consideration before the
time of its operation. As it is a consolidation of the law the
other Acts specified will be repealed.
THE METROPOLITAN POLICE.
The Secretary of State has issued an order, founded on the
Commendation of the Committee appointed to inquire into
the pS and organisation of the metropolitan police force,
authorising the following changes, to date from the lOth mst..
„ .. H ants . i The class of station sergeants is abolished, and
veaK^ce Lmplfte. sLVr week; after two years’ and under five
^^teblU^l^eTdvSm^t of constables to second cloui wfll take
ConstaDies . 1 . iii r a» thrpp vears' service, provided tneir con-
place in fUturei oni the 'ComnteMoners’ favourable consideration.
cla^ constable is augmented to 3500 (a very
will receive Is. per ^^t^canadtyfLS an additional sum of Is. per
the ^t^?hl e tTerion A^iXSte “acting sergeants to be limited
week after that penoa. /. Appo selected, as occasion arises for
to first and second clani coastablM ; to oe oved by district
their services, by divisional supermtenaenm, th ^ laims of flrgt-clasa
superintendents. Special attention to be P^nte^ ^ respe cts except
constables who are qualified to ^ fchg egent ignited to
passing the edncational Hst^ Number^ l ^ P. on of about 2 per
100, to be allotted to toe extenor di rn tn ^ p authorised
&cT 6 BeridM this?toe »vmg of several years’ service in waiting for pro-
m0t The KmMyBWthe changes and promotions thus begun
have come as a surprise upon the force; but, notwithstanding
the considerable advantages which the order c0 “ f ^ 8
several branches of the service, it is only regarded as an
earnest of the Government to give early consideration to all
the classes embraced in the force.
Another new department is to be formed at Scotland-yard
—“ The Public-house Register Department
with which Mr. J. E. Davis, the legal adviser to the Cluef
Comnrissioner has issued an order to the whole of the divisions
within the metropolitan district calling for returas regarding
nubUc-houses. A report is to be furnished by the various
suDeriutendents of every public-house in their divisions, and
SpSaSSS connected 7 therewith The value (approximate),
the rental, and the rateable value of each house is to he given,
also, whether it was licensed under the oid Act or new .the
number of tenants it has had since the passing of the Act of
1872, what they were before they entered the busings, and (in
the case of those that have left the house) what they doing
now, whether the house bears a good name, or whrther^toere
have been any convictions against it or the holder of the license.
THE WINTER ASSIZES.
By an Order in Council, dated Osborne Aug. 14, 1878, the
Winter Assizes are directed to be held as follows .
SSS*SSS4«SS ZSSSg & VSiSSL.
The county and city of York will be united nnder the name of toe Winter
The counties of Huntingdon and (7^ e b ^e^hrid d S toe
name of the Winter Assize County No. 8, and the assizes new ai me
Shirehall at Chesterton. _ . f . „
County No. 10, and the assizes held at Gloucester. . ,,,
hC The ^tieToT Devon and Cornwall will be united under tbe name of
toe Winter Assize County No. 13, and the assizes held at Lxeter.
The counties of Montgomery, Merioneth, Angtesea^Den-
bigh and Flint will be united under toe name of toe Winter Assize County
No 14. and toe assizes held at Ruthin.
the Winter Assize County No. 16, and toe assizes held at SwaM© .
Winter Assize County No. 17, and toe assizes held at Chelmsford.
The Most Rev. Dr. Macarthy, vice-president of Maynooth
College, was consecrated Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry o
Sunday in the cathedral, Killarney. The consecrating Bishop
was the Right Rev. Dr. Crooke. Lord Kenmare read an
address of welcome to the new Bishop.
A banquet was given at Torquay last Saturday night to
celebrate tne completion of an important sanitary work a new
intercepting sewer having been constructed, bj which the
sewage of the town is conveyed to a headland two miles distant
M,dXre discharged iato the Channel The .c»er » alto¬
gether three miles long, and 6400 ft have been* tunnelled
through hard rock. The total cost of the work is L <0,°UO tor
L pSk, M.P., Sir J. Kennaway, M.P., and Sir Joseph
Bazalgette were present at the banquet; and the f ast naI P ’
under whose advice the work was carried out, stated that there
were few, if any, provincial towns which had undertaken more
comprehensive, satisfactory, and complete woms tor the total
removal of their sewage.—Another important scheme is the
water supply to the town. The water is obtained from a
mountain stream on Dartmoor, twenty miles from lorquay , to
is brought home by gravitation, and stands next in pu n ty w
that of Loch Katrine, used by Glasgow. The authorities are
engaged in doubling the area of the storage reservoirs, whicn
will mi able them to irive a continuous supply.
OBITUARY.
MADAME VAN DE WEYER
Elizabeth, Madama Van de Wever nf t j
F orest, whose death is just announced wZ
the lato Joshua Bates, Esq., of ShXn Unit™ « 7 chUd °j
Of enjoying the friendship of her The OuLn° n ° l A
aSrr»^:L L ^ti 1 r £ f” s
J< "“sct d.» g w; t William,' second
The deaths have also been announced of_
Captain Edrom Augustus Porchcr, R.N., aged fifty-three
»«-. -
“rF r^s^ »tL W Sgtori^^™dSi ht
ssKsssa? G1 “ eo "’ - •*• 2i « i swss
23rd iust., at tha HOtol du Pototo torM °pj£ Ja ““ “■ °" “«
Coltog" R oif“ l,U L G j b *?“’ ^•r m 0 ’ t r° “tarlQ—’.
Gloucestershire, on the 7th inst* .^cTninet^thLe^^'^^b’
•« saa asa^s-ss StaSst-t
Ferns, on the 15th inst., in his elfehty-fomSh ye2 7
ga.eiaisasa-rs
uJSSiVrjarA*! Szfznsr u °?‘™;
gddrea), aged seymty-six, oa tha 22 ad iaat, at^Ruaton, niS
Ps * , n °
Mary Fitowilliain, Bister of the present Earl. H^ianicceeded
m his estates by his nephew, Mr. E. Percy Thompson
Lady Limond (Jessie), widow of Major-General Sir To mM
Of fj. ® en j ami “ Coll f, Chairman of the City Lands Committee
of the Corporation of London and a member of the Irish
bociety, somewhat suddenly, at Bray, North WirkW ir„
was on his way home to London after an official visit to
Londonderry and Coleraine on the society’s Susinei
Mr. 8 . S. Dickinson, Chairman of tho Gloucestershire
ar^Sessmns, on the 24th inst., at his residence, BrcwiJs®
hill, Stroud. He represented Stroud in the last Parliament
was chairman of the local board of guardians and of the
magisterial bench, and held a number of public ofllcea. L
a ho Hon. Thomas John Wynn, eldest son find fcni-
apparent of Lord Newborough, on the 25th inst. at Glyn
^“ u “ r ,!°' 1 . shL f e - He was born in 1840; married, in 1871, Sibyl
SR'S^JTSfiStS 1 " Ch “ 1 “- b ° m 1873 ' BO ” !
Penelope Elizabeth Marie, Miss Lenigan, of Castle Ffoeerf v»
r^n? 8 ‘? er ^! )le ^heiress, and the representative of tiro old i
the* ? ° f + ° Fiogerty of the county of Tipperary, on 2 .'
the 3rd inst., at Bad-Gastein, Austria. She was the last 8 -
FffwJw 6 ’ T h n d ° f , l ~ e T late Jamcs Lenigan, Esq., of Castle 5
ty, T^' P ; •^ nd P; L > Hi * h Sheriff in 1864/ by Eleanor 6 .
Jranees his wife, sister of William Evans, Ew., M.P/for 7 .
n ^ w a r : Thc f representation of the family appears to be f-
kb?& tx Lenigan,fl aunt> bS ^ ^ * ■
fllne fi s ne T 1 h?H D/7 C °,? PC Z' ° n the 24th in8fc - * •**« a few hours’ £
eaeed °f Ucer entcred the Army in 1829, and <*“
kS \vIt of°i r «.ir r 7 e bat ‘ alion of . the 4 fth Regiment in the 10 .
Him,, ,. 1 ,/s ?u ^ ? nd one wing of the same regiment bi,
throughout the Kaffir War of 1850-3. He was aoDointed
SSrSf ot th « N «f?* Colooy »t the close ot tT ™
fCWn’ 1 - WllS “routed Colonel of the 79th Regiment 11.1
* ^ /- C , ameron Highlanders) in 1870, and was truns- ,2 - 1
feocL t l, e i^. ia1876 - Hisconimissi^on General SS. ^
22 n?Mi°«f' G *T ral °f ke8 ’ 0 B ’ at Farnham , Surrey, on the
Sl!tS ,r u a ,H , 5 d paiuful dluesa - The General,
rct,m «l f S y, i ha ^ ^ 8lded at Farnham for some years. He A 0 «
wSi n, H, Lngl *? d . b ?, t a few weeka a e°. having passed the °f
r “ . the 80ut . h of Franco. General Oakes, who had seen w
8 ervi( f> entered tho Army in 1846, served with J l
also intfufrw 5 *" *? the Kaffir War, 1850 and 1853 (medal); \ p
IS C ^“ ea .from May 2, 1855 (medal, with clasps for 4 .' K
ebastopol Sardinian, and Turkish medal, and the Fifth Class ™
Tbe G ' ncral «• g;
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
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SOLUTIOS 0» I’UOBLEM No. 1799
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WILLS AND BEQUESTS
The wifi (dated Ja n. 17 , 1878) of Mr. John Pcan,.K, late of
w k S ‘- James 8 -place, Westminster, who died on Mitv 8
Edmm?. b H n by Patrick Marcellinus Leonard, the Rev
e Ed “ aad “ Cnr7 F,shc , r ’ and Cha rlea Walter E&2C'The
P^oot ml aJ o’ly'oSf <o“hL t ^to,Etob. l ‘ t L c£ “f*
Mary Leonard, and Frances Pearson, and their children.
Hvalrvn ’w (dttt # ed Ja »; 2 . 1877) of Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell
June°19 W °i N °‘ n - Cavendish-place, Bath, who dS £
“t. Proved on the 12th inst. by Mrs Marv
Hyslop, the widow, and Robert Maxwell HysW the son the
SX ei 3Cf- ,'5° fc - n °'“ d V*om "'.i™
b^sursrs: % h L’^ tas r;
prop “ t7 he ‘“ v “ »r« <*»« ■«
was proved in London on the 10th inst. by^ Oliver Aucustua
SecutoS aad AJfred Kobort H tury s aunder8> tl]e eou ® tfa 8
xecutors, the personul estate being sworn under £30 000 The
legacy of £1000, to his said two sons, £4000 each • the re-
murnder of his property is to be held upon trustor h£ wife
for fife; at her death the portions of Sis six daughtem arc
made up to £4000 each; and tho ultimate residue is to be
divided among his children, as his wife shall appoint.
PROBLEM No. 1809.
By E. N. Fraukbsstkiv.
WHITS.
White to play, and mate In three moves.
ENGLAND v. AMERICA.
on the side of England, and Mr. Ecoexs^aLMAB, m 0 ^y^/ b 8 *"'"'
[Riahop't Qambit.)
wane (Mr. B.) black (Mr. D.) whits (Mr. B ) black fMV r» i
1. P to K 4th P to K 4th I Th. twi,1^'S ^.
2. p to K B tth P takes P I u. to be Terr ill-j U .|g„| * The Knfrhifnow
8. B to B 4th P to Q 4th «P «« Wu>, i, eud reiuleV. hSl
4. B takes P Q to R Sth (chi "'“Pleuuu. ot, Jre t for While-, .tuck. ^
2. P to K B 4th P takes P “* to be Tery ,11™^ riJ^ kJKSJKo.
8. B to B 4th P to Q 4th «P the yu„ i, end rii.dw h5£
4. B takes P Q to R Sth (ell) o'vret for White', .tuck. ^
6. K to B so P to K Kt 4th J* 9 3 ”L PtoKBeth
6. Kt to Q B 3rd B to Kt 2nd }°- J 1 . 1 ® Kt 3rd P takes P (ch)
7. P to Q 4th Kt to K 2nd 18 K takes P Kt takes P(ch)
8. Kt to B 3rd Q to R 4th Hi * on| r rewurce to u,a the Ooeea
9. P to K R 4th P to K Hard 17. KtoB2nd QtoKtqrd
10. P to K Sth 18. R takes Kt BtoK^
It ™, of courac, desirable to arold the o . jf° 0 ® ffb a to Kt 4th
attack springtiis fnun lo. K to Kt iq, wlneli 20-RtoR6th Q to K 2nd
Wls^to a wili-known dr.w by perpetual |1. B takes B P take, B
attack i*]>riiiirtii|r f n
]« uiU to m Wt-U-kiio
cbecJu
The will (dated Nov. 15,1877) of Thomas Clifford Da™
M.D., late of Plinolas, near Bury, Lancashire who died on
s r£ri,i 3 I 31 ’ Pro 7u ed ° n the 10th in8t - b y M "- Alice Eliza
? 2 a S tbe widow, the personal estate being sworn unde?
felv^her 1 ^ hifl^ft Wlf ° b f in | alread y provided for, ho
i“ T “ b 8r “1 bia furniture and effects for fife; amone the
bequests to take effect on the death of the wife iav be L
U oned riooo to toe U^venity of Edi«ba 4 ™<Sitobto
I teJwsfSLjryr - 17 ^ u “
T»7?i hC .'? 11 ( ?“ ted .°£ t . 10 .1876) with a codicil (dated May 5
C ? °“ d n lr U “' BI! C 1 “J. Hart , fonaily
DorSt^hJf? . Uffc ^ lme > Devon, and lato of Castle Hill,
d °o u 11 ? 6 30 ,ast ’ ttt No - 17 > Cavendish - square
Will S°s-“i 0 - 9 ? inst. by Dome Mary Caroline Clay, the
22^“ d #h S “i^b u * Lemple Felix Clay, the brother, the
executors, the personal estate being sworn under £8000.
Rp Tb 0 wdl ( d ate d Feb 9, 1878) of Admiral Sir Hastings
Reginald Yelverton, G.C.B., who died on the 24th ult at
BaSkhvd^ pr °, Ved on , ^e 10 th inst. by Gownui Wiffiam
Bamabyde Robeck, tlie nephew, the acting executor tlio
personal estate being sworn under £6000. '
«JS- “ d North-Western Railway directors are
thecMmnv 11 ^TL ffiilde , by Mr ‘ Moou - i ha chairman of
line J h 7 J^- 7 u early meetil) g. ambitious that tho
nwu ♦ worked.without an accident; and they were
fatally ^ed g ^ PMt half 'J' ear 110 Person had been
n/,/,f' 0 rd *? an o l 0n J °P ened a new branch Sailors’ Home at Livor-
of H,?, 6 22nd lnfit - Speaking of the commercial greatness
of the country, he said he thought the less the enter wise^
ur merchants was interfered with by Governmental action the
X^ Sper0U8i ^ d become - The tight horn gentleman
wTTh ? 8 t Pr ^ Be - nted 7 be prizcs 10 the boys being educated on
^ ard training-ship Indefatigable, in the Mersey/and
SSSfi- 111 BUltable *» 40 their prospects and
n 4t Newbury on the 22nd inst. the Earl of Carnarvon
K stotod thaMh etUlg ° f thC Pl Btrict Ficld Club . «t which it
“rangements for the erection of a memorial
u ttlkland ?“ the battle-field of Newbury, where
he fell, were being rapidly carried out. The noble Em -1 in a
r™ q h eD 8pe , ech ’ eongratulated the club on its archeological
searches, and urged upon the members the great value of
a l.wv “^“tigations near home. At the close oi the meeting
“ bl „ u f weighing eleven tons was placed in position
o'f°Vcwb5!. kl “ d Mcm0r “
• termination with^coaimemil I ^8^J : ^ Series of
Sir I f a ™/. B 1 ^ kb P n) l lT ; Justice Barry, Mr. Justice Lush, and
conside??he rf Phe, i,V Q ' C '’i are 1110 Coram i*sioners who are to
S der t he draught penal code during the recess ; Mr. Hugh
Cowit, barrister-at-law, is secretary to the Commission. b
aowcLh™™* 07, M P-’ distributed the prizes at the annual
S r ft! in connection with the St. Paul’s Working Men’s
that in liio lngS ’-° n ^ 22nd iust- The hon. gentleman said
tnat iu his opinion there was no effort which had been set on
StSSR the working classes which so m!«ff^eSi 4 d
meir sympathy and good wishes as shows of that description,
in decrea8e in the extent of land under crops in Ireland
arr,.« 8 lV l -th® itegutrar- General’s returns show, 62,198
cr^iMs'io i.«° c , decrease iu cereals is in oats, and in green
11 V 7 o 3 um P° ,atoc8 - 1 * lax also shows a decreased acrenge of
but L‘ Vw*5* - IK ftn *" croa * e i» ( be number of horses in Ireland,
l Ufa. -Vr® ,u c ,t,le ’ the latfcr entirely in the province of
"Z 7-1 Pho Kenerul result is to indicate a decline in agri-
bad harvest of 0 V 17 / thtni S h « slight one, in consequence of the
S i as t year. The yield from all crops this year
SkF** “ d “ rtUU * ua *•- • k K to Kt 2nd
li. B to B 4th P to Kt 6th -A #*?>« 1P „ t ... Kt to B 2n3
assria rS£»"r«-«-
■‘•jastteBssita-i *» Hto Skt ,„
THE COUNTIES CHESS ASSOCIATION
A ome‘8K&, t ^|^ C, r8
i.vsi'&s' .■sfgis’- »•» ■,m/. e.,
ias issif lafS?? pavt*
4. Kt to KB 3rd B to K 3rd 14 B K Uk« Kt
This eccentric defrace U known on the 15 P to B 4th 5U° ^ 3r( ^
«?“ »“* <!( E"r»l» « th. " From ”«,! ir t , ® n 4t J? „ , Q Kt to Q 2nd
hit, but it Wto. played In England |, r J 8 - Kt to Q B 3rd P to Q B 4th
kn*! 1 '" aiuatiui. rn.ny year, faf ro th. J7- P to Q 6th (ch) K to K 2nd
app.-r.ncx, of llerr From’, unaly.j,. Th. 18. B take, p 1 S *“ n,, ,
correct line of pUy for Black at UH0 point IQ Q Vt \,u H to 3ri ^
BOOKS RECEIVED.
Barnard iu„n f “-® lud ™ U - ..?T A Mayer and C.
appe™.oe«i iierr 1-rom . an.lyw., Tho
I lurrrrt lino of nl.y for alack at U.l> point
fj^.ithcr 4. F to kt4th or 4. Kt to K it
6. P to K 4th P to Q B 3rd
6. P to Q 4th P to K fl 3rd
7. B to tt 3rd Kt to Q 2nd
8. Castles PtoKR4th
From • player of Mr. EnaoF. forex, this
move i« nltogitliir mrxcumhlr. more
i-spcclaliy in au important tourney.
9. P to K 6th P takes P
10. B to KtGth (ch) K to K 2nd
19. O to Kt 4th
20. Q to K 6th
21. BtoKt4th
22. B takes Kt
23 . B to R 3rd
24. a to B Sth
23. a to a 3rd
26. Q R to Kt sq Q to R 6th
27. Kt to Kt 5th (ch), and wins.
CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
„ Tb® b* 4 ® ot B* 8 problem tourney in connection with the nuditrsfie'd
^ wtU be closed for Brituh amateun. on the 1st pronW
The pnr.e* in this competition are—First, a silver cup, value £5, Riven bv
Mr Medley from the Loweuthal fund ; second, three guineas m cash^
third, a set of Staunton chessmen and leather board, value two guineas •
and special .ewards wdl be given for the best single problems in ?w^U
up to < Dco«nber l^next COInposcn ' rt,tfdin S problems wdl bo received
A Sydney eoiTwpondent writes l it to interesting tourney is now nr.r-
gre«mg at the _8> dney Chess Club Mr. O M Fish* r stands >.Io-“ iii H e
fll-st class, und is handicapped to yie ld nearly every dc . t iption of raids to
five o thtr clashes of gri.dob. Ihe uaual tmcrt-oioiiLil match vith
Victom wiw not pl»yed thia year, " ILn
i&iisr’Jinr
■ X«»* 6 .B 5 S:
The Hazard of the Die. By Mrs. A. W Hunt. 3 vols. (IInr*t-n 1 r„ l
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^ jgAY-LEAF WATER.
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SUMMER DELICACIES.
gROWN and pOLSON’S
0ORN pLOUR
AS BLANCMANGE WITH STEWED FBUIT.
pROWN and pOLSON’S
QORN pLOUR
AS BAKED PUDDINO WITH STEWED FRUIT.
pROWN and pOLSON’S
QORN pLOUR
AS CUSTARD PUDDING WITH STEWED FRUIT.
f H10C0LAT MENIER, in Alb. and Alb.
\J racket*.
* few droD* on a sponge or towel moistened with water, and
the faro and^h^d'bathed with it, 1* very beneficial to the akin,
removing aU roughnesa. Moet highly recommended to apply
after shaving. A email quantity In the bath give* a delightful
aroma and It ha* moet remarkable cleansing propertlre. Par¬
ticularly adapted to the bathing of infant* and young children
Mott Kuteful to invalid* and aU who suffer from headache
from mental labour or fatigue Buy only the genutoe Golden
Star Bay-Leaf Water, sold In three elzea ToUet Bottles, to. 6d.,
L gs by Chemist* and Perfumer,, or on receipt o stamps
from the Wholeeale D4p6t, U* and 118. Bouthampton-row.
London. _
D r. D E JONGH’S
(KNIGHT OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR,
KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM)
piGHT - BROWN COD - LIVER OIL.
THE PUREST.
THE MOST PALATABLE.
THE MOST DIGESTIBLE.
THE MOST EFFICACIOUS.
0R. DE JONGH’S
T IGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL,
I J proved by twenty-five years' madlcel experience to be
I THE ONLY COD-LIVER OIL
which produces the f uU curative effects In
CONSUMPTION AND D1SKASES OF TILE .CHEST,
THROAT AFFECTIONS, G ENER AL DEBILITY.
I WASTING DISEASES OF CHILDREN, RICKETS,
AND AT.T. SCROFULOUS DISORDERS.
SELECT MEDICAL OPINIONS.
SIR G. DUNCAN GIBB, Bart., M.D.,
Physician to the Westminster Hospital.
“ Tphe value of Dr. DE JONGHS
I LIGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL as a thera¬
peutic agent In a number of diseatce. chieflv of nn
exhaustive character, has been admitted by the
world of medicine; hut. In addition. 1 have found
A, a mean, of keerfn*' thj,system clear. ^ thus tgff,
away the ffroundwoA of^lMan Refreshing Cooling and
TJKO'S RKUIT gALT 1
(PREPARED FROM 60UND RIPE FRUIT). Eas
THE TOPIC OF TO-DAY. t£
THE OCCUPATION OF CYPRUS. ««
INCREASE OF FEVER at NICOSIA.
teopardy of life. —great
o DANGER Of’Hf-^v'ER FOUR TIMES. °*
After suffering from I L> LB r ou ■ th
s
observation, extending over a perioa o .. J „ e
I condition of *
“,e Uver The office of the liver is to cleansethe £
I
Under these circumstances, should the sc
subjected to precisely the “ m !. et egc*pe the "
mystery that ^XTwVvourabta^fo^the °
gWSSSTof ^ver, whoDn In the very P
beverape, will DISASTBOUS CON- c
Siff !!
fN“ B8 ^K®N K ° ERUPnONs! 0 GIDDINESS'. ,
HEARTBURN, to ll‘‘“^J nIVERSaEl^ '
SInoS. no Mly^would be with- :
ESO'S FRUIT SALT ACTS as
1 o rLrHo tt b“ Stored "oTt|
Works, 8.E.
TX7THAT EVERYBODY SHOULD KNOW.
W HOW IMPORTANT IT IS toevenr
” have,at hand rome simple’c^^XLT.% ch“k
tho^trlckling mountain stream, buti not^the roU^
• Information upon all Houscholdera or Shi^
,d K? or^orel*^ CUmato;
“• Whenever a change Is contcmDlated Ukely to dls-
ly turb the condition of health, let ENO S FRUIT
Ul U^°efldU r Cd d ne a v D cJ C i2 , do
J - f^n“wh.n you f«d out of ^
: SSsSSSfs
i., Sn?’limbs coldness of the surface, and ofUn
— land that ioil always answer the veryjbest
a e^Vtoi positive Jsurance of doing go^ ln
SteS^To y b h rfnTu»eih«
M) Sfety, but ho eannotquell the ragingetorm^ Tl\
.w^'l ll s Ui phof ENO'S FRUIT SALT
calamitous results ^ ^ many hopes, breaks
SffirsSSrtsUiMcSblastssomany auspicious
pssiit
COMFORTING.
JAMES EPPS axd 00.,
IOMCE0PATHI0
OHEMIBTB.
rpHE "Civil Service Gazette” says:
plication of the fine propuri™ Jth a delicate v-fiavoured
has provided our breaaiasr-ua doctors’ bills. It la by
beverage which maysave ns mamy n y constitution may
ES^agS*fcsa6SWi
of tea or co 2**^oini bv offldal statistic* In it* oon-
thc steady lncrease ahown Dy g ^ # mat tcr of surprise.
SSSflS!iBS^««Sf%!S!iffid 6 SSr t teSSSSlMS
whoso HomceopathlcCoooa ls “. w ) lose business it lias been
nruverblala bou^old worels ^^’Xterate and oomph,
to watch at MeoBrs. d ] a ^ mr bestowed before the
processes, and to note tne ca . # or consumption, canuot
s ? g3 t A“ w «»
public to secure so gratifying a result.
, ^tT^nd^Skto&ra y juBtideaof.the value ol there
articles, not as luxuries, but a* actual food.
many Affretious of tho Throat » nd Larynx.
DR. SINCLAIR COGHILL,
Physician Royal National Hospital for Consumption. Vcntnor.
“ t have convinced myself that in Tuber-
„^ r rave%t«i U ci'V am acquainted j
It was especially noted in a large number of cases
In which the patients protested they had never
been able to retain or digest other Cod-Lhcr OU,
that Dr. DE JONGH S OIL was notonly tolerated,
hut taken readily, and with marked benefit.
LENNOX BROWNE, Esq., F.R.C.8.E.,
8enior Surgeon Central London Throat and Ear Hospital.
" ri'he action of Dr. de Jongh’s Light-Brown
I Cod-Liver Oil has proved. In my own experience.
particularly valuable, not only In those diseases
for which ft was originally employed, but also n
many cases of weakness of the Singing and Speak¬
ing Voice, dependent on Bronchial or Loryn-
ireal Irritation, and In all forms of Strumous
Enlargement of Glands, and Discharges from the
Ear.”
DR. PROSSER JAMES,
Lecturer on Slateria Medica, London Hospital.
“TYR- de JONGH’S LIGHT-BROWN
I J COD-LIVElt OIL contains the whole of tho
active ingredienta of tho remedy, and is easily
digested. Hence its value, not only in Diseases of
the Throat and Lungs, but in a great number of
cases to which tho Profession 1* extending it*
DR. DE JONGH’S LIGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL
is sold ONLY In capsuled Imperial Half-Pint*, to. (Id.; Pints,
4». 9d.: Quarts, 9s.; by all respectable Chemists and Druggist*
throughout the world.
E N0 ’ S *°?}i d 0
SSfflfa ®*Tn trotTn
-d oldl*ng dl|estlon ii
most striking._
T?N0’S FRUIT BALT (one of Nature’s
Hi ownproductei keeps the blood pure, andAs thus
of itself one of the most valuable means of keep¬
ing the blood tree from fevers and bkxHl l«d 8 ‘ ,ne .
liver complaint*, Ac., ever discovered. As a means
nf nrcacrviiiK and restoring health it is un
©quaflS; and It ia, moreover, a pleasant, refresh-
lng and invigorating tieverage. After a patient
^rwould^qitaintt!-/ c"£NQ. r ^
17N0’S FRUIT SALT.—IMPORTANT to
« Ple^ L send »e 1^^/sALT
for almost every complaint, fever Included, with
the most satisfactory results. I can strongly
...,.,wi It to nil travellers: in fact, lam never
without it—Yours, faithfully. An Enolib
?S; < l; 8- h“;S;^'ent ofindla^Jtum M, 1878
A BLESSING IN EVERY HOUSE.
ENO'S FRUIT SALT.
A Lady writes'" Everything,medicine or food,
ceased to act properly for at leant.three
before I commenced taking it. The little food
1 could take generally punished me or retunierl.
SIv life was one of great suffering, so that I must
have succumbed before long, to mo und our
family it has been a grea t earthly blessing.
H OW TO AVOID THE INJURIOUS
EFFECTS OF STIMULANTS. — The present
Bystem of living-partaking of too rich foods, as
pastry, saccharine and fatty substances, alcoholic
drinks, and an Insufficient amount of exerciso-
frequently deranges the liver. I would odviso all
bilious people, unless they ore careful to keep tbo
liver acting freely, to exercise grout care in the
uso of alcoholic drinks, avoid sugar, and alwajs
dilute largely with water. Experience show* that
porter, mild ales, port wine, dai
fi,a.„„»^no Honours, and brandi
rpHE “ Court Journal” says:—
discoveries have wltoln the last few ^emrs ul com p ar ,Uve&
a ? d ^ f S,rf o'fdietotto foods'*^Foremost*among these‘should be
iliort list of dietetic loous. x w borc H , veral centuries pre¬
ranged cocoa, which, although knOTvn^^ ^ Jftgt yoar8
o2KSSj*G-“
pSrS'fS@S 1 *^ f3 l
Prepared onginallyon nommop > v e a public
^uY^lstoe tog^tonta kind in thi s ooun&T.' 1
“ /Cassell’s Household Guide ” says
V •• We wiu now give an account of the process adopted by
Messrs. James Epps and Co., manufactareni of dietetic article*,
at their work* In the Euston-rood, London.
rrHE “Morning Advertiser” says:—
jilX^^^^ptlon’ ^oV Son. of
pounds yearly."
rpHE “ Christian World” says:—
1 ■ If I am to take cocoa.' said I. ' 1 must know what
\ and Co., in the Euston-rood.
> J°^ n ®^ranchf7of 'induBtry are roccnt ^enttfle wd
J chemical discoveries morep Target d^i.lut h “rhffirt^
, g proved it to be."
? rpHE "Church Review” says:—
ns J- " Although we cannot yet^^o^aJi^hr^a^taM.
h- the 1 1«t hSf'contuiT JSS^reulttogfrom the removal
at veUons increase In the consumption of mc«i s ln jo)
^ 3&Ha n £^^ “ u
_ annually four mllllou pounds.
I* T™ thereventecinth
!;X found their way into tho .pj; it
ith thcn U fetcliSaiTaUnorff^bulouspri™ 8 nd- r -P»>^S*y»
5 mlm" and enterprise, have plac«lttwithin
— Epps. Prepared on sound dietetic principle*, npi» » natjve
pathic cocoa contains all J*}? ““l^ren^eS^thorouglily solubU,
L. product in Buch a form that they ore render The mituralsuper-
ond. therefore, much more easy of Joreover not only
mst many mlUlon pound* a year.
US Li a "?hrouS. thSndnes* ^“Sf^Sled'tSd*^
sent an opportunity of seeing the many compllratMBD^ bUe
M-raUfip. to
fltltfo^vhol^mo and nutritious l^enigo.might be likewise
- turouKiioat tne woria.
------SOLE CONSIGNEES,_
^ \ 110C0LAT MENIER—AwardedTwenty- ansar, harfobd, and co., 77, stband, ix)Ndon,
PRIZE MEDALS.
Consumption annually
exceeds 17,000,0001b*.
f lHOCOLAT MENIER. Paris,
\J London,
New York.
Bold Everywhere.
" FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE." I
PLARKE’S WORLD-FAMED BLOOD |
MIXTURE 1, wan-onted to cleanse the Blood from all
1 Impurities, from whatever cause arising. For Scrofula, Scurvy,
Skin and Blood Disease* it* effect* are marvellous. In Bottles,
to. 6d. each,and in Case* containing atx time* tho quantity,Us.
each, of aU Chemist*. Bent to any address for SO or 133 itampf, of
the Proprietor, F. J. CLARKE, Chemist, Lincoln.
found the least objectionable. LN O S !■ it U11
SALT Is peculiarly adapted for any constitutional
weakness of the liver; it posaasca the power of
reparation when digestion has b<«n disturbed or
loit. and places the Invalid on Uie right track to
health. A world of woes is avoided by those who
keep and use ENO'S FRUIT SALT; therefore no
family should ever be without it.
f'lAUTION.—Examine each Bottle and see
u,eCapsule Is marked "ENO'S FRUIT SALT." With-
out it you have been imposed on by a worthlew imitation. SOLD
BY ^I^ffi T ^O^.^Td°l£^*;SjNDON. B.E.
E P P S’S
C O 0 0 A*
COMFORTING.
JAMES EPPS and CO.,
1OMCBOPATHI0
0 H E M,1 8 T S.
London; Printed and Published at .^'fheSmntyof Mlddleie*
Avouvr 31,1878.
REGISTERED AT THB O EKE UAL POST-OFFICE FOR TRANSMISSION ABROAD.
No. 2045. —vol. lxxiii.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1878.
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Ola daughter. MARRIAGES. mana(?er
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of the Dank “in of EUthorpe and Napier,N.Z.
1, Essex,
f Milton
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L ’(!rn thfrath nit., at the parish ehurch. HoMley^GJouc^^^ i^er ^
e > Cillery. DEATHS.
On July 23, at his resWence. The Hemitage, W^too^eland, f j
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Pin wscident, in his 20th year. Lauder , N.B., the Earl of
Lai^lr^e, 1 G t C.B t ,' , Admiralof the Fl^t, Brot herton, late
, Geu.nrl BIX H»»» *■*-»*-
Ijdit ,of Halnaby Hall, Yorkshire.
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THURSDAY, Sept. 12,
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HRBULTS OP METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT THE
KEW OBSERVATORY OP THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
I,at. 61° 28 6” N.; Long. 0° 10' 47» W.; Height above Sea, 34 feet.
Tho following are the readings of the meteorological instruments for
„)ve days, in order, at ten o’clock a.m.
--*-4 I 29*733 I 29*680 | 29*374 I 29*613 I 30*004 ' «««» ' »
above days,---
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Tniuiriirature of Evaporation..
filiation of Wind
29*680 | 29*374 I 29*613 I 30*004 | 30*267 | 30*25C
GS-S 3 62*7° I 69*8° ,W3' I 61*3° 62*0 :
01*5° 68'8° 1 OS'CT 65*3° 63*7° 67*8“
TIMES OF HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 14.
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There has been no unusual dearth of political events
during theweek-at any rate, of those which are con¬
nected with foreign affairs. The commemoration of M
Thiers’s death in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Pans, the
advance, difficult and slow, but nevertheless sure, of
Austrian troops in Bosnia and Herzegovina; the cession
of the port of Batoum to Russia; the reluctance of the
Porte to give effect to the Treaty of Berlin in as far as it
affects the rectification of the frontiers of Greece; and
several minor incidents thereto relating, offer subjects of
reflection both inviting and instructive. But for the
moment, all such topics arc effaced from the mind by the
appalling catastrophe which occurred on the river
Thames last Tuesday evening. The magnitude of this
disaster exceeds anything of the kind which has been
recorded for many years past. The details of the
accident, so far as it has been possible to collect
them, will be found elsewhere. It will suffice for our pre¬
sent purpose to state that the Princess Alice, one of the
largest saloon-steamers of the London Steam-Boat Com¬
pany, which had started in the morning with between
six and seven hundred excursionists on board, came
into collision, on her return passage, with a screw
collier steamer, the Bywell Castle, near the middle of
the stream, just off the City of London Gasworks at
Beckton, a little below North Woolwich Gardens.
Within about five minutes the Princess Alice, with her
crowded freight of holiday passengers, went down in deep
water. A few saved themselves by clambering on to tbo
other vessel; some were picked up by the Duke of Teck,
another steamer belonging to tho same company, which
was also on her passage up with a party of excursionists ;
but we arc told that “ the river, for a hundred yards, was
full of drowning people, screaming in anguish and praying
for help.” .
In the presence of so awful a calamity one can only
stand aghast, paralysed, heart-stricken. The first thought
that starts up within one relates to tho dead. Within an
hour or two of their respective places of abodo, buoyant
with the excitement of the pleasurable trip they had
enjoyed, mingling with grateful retrospection of the day,
pleasing anticipations of the homes to which they were
drawing nigh, with little thought of danger, and there¬
fore with no preparation for their swift-approaching fate,
it is impossible to realise what must have been tho agony
of emotion which convulsed that assemblage of gay-
hearted people during the few minutes in which death
Btared them in the face. A considerable proportion
of them would, on such an occasion, be made up of
women and children, many of them, of course, consisting
of family parties —few of them, perhaps, without
relations on board, or without intimate associates. It is
matter of question whether those who finally escaped, or
those who were engulfed in the stream, were most to bo
commiserated. Short and sharp was the summons which
called hundreds away from their earthly lot, just when
their cup of enjoyment was as full as it was sweet. What
I passed within those few minutes the most active imagina-
! tion scarcely dares to conjecture. Perhaps it were
I unwise even to make the attempt. The dead cannot be
recalled to life by the most earnest outcries of sympathetic
feeling from the living. They have passed beyond human
aid. There is nothing that can be done for them but to
collect their remains as soon and as far as may he possible,
and to commit them to the tomb in hushed resignation
and in hope of a happier future.
But the living are still among us. If symnathv
mitigate their grief, sympathy they certainly r“
no Bcant measnre. All London mourns with the bereay«l,
and the country shares its sorrow. There must have been
“hundreds o7homes on Tuesday night tumble suspense
nerheps anrious inquiries, and, eventually, apprehension.
Sountog to moral certainty with regsrf to some
member, perhaps members, of the household to whom
ttlni L happened. Even now, it may be, some days
after the event, there are people scattered over both the
metropolis and the provinces who know not the calamity
that has befallen them or what evil tidings m m store
for them. No list of tho passengers could be taken
beforehand, and the names of the few survivors only
are likely, for some time, to he given to the public
The consequences, direct and remote, of the event
resemble those of a great battle, save only that women
and children make up so large a proportion of tihi, victim^
It is suddening to think upon; it casts a shade of gloom
far and wide over the country; and in this sense, if m no
other, must be regarded as a national disaster.
As yet, of course, the exact conditions under which
the catastrophe occurred cannot be generally known To
the inquiry, “Who is accountable for this awful waste of
life?” no definite or well-assured answer can be given.
The wonder is, perhaps, all things considered, that
such accidents are not more frequent than they have
been. A comparatively narrow stream lie that of the
Thames in the vicinity of London, crowded with ship¬
ping seeking ingress and egress day and night, must make
ft a delicate and anxious task to steer a pleasure-steamer
full of passengers clear of dangerous collision with other
craft, and yet the infrequency of catastrophes similar to
that of the Princess Alice is evidence that, in proper
hands, the feat may be usually accomplished with safety.
We do not seo what measures of precaution can be taken
calculated to obviate with certainty occasional disasters
The risks attendant upon these pleasure tnps whether
visible or concealed from the eye, are many but expe-
rience shows that they are ordinarily escaped, and that,
under proper management, they are scarcely more to be
feared than those of a railway excursion-tram. Ihe
recreation which they offer throughout the summer
season to pent-up citizens is ordinarily as enjoy¬
able as it is beneficial to health, and may
looked upon by myriads as indispensable to the
maintenance of both physical and moral tone under
the pressure of business. It would be useless, nay. wo
cannot hut think it would he cruel, to take advantage of
such a misfortune as that to which we are advertnig for
the purpose of discountenancing excursions of the kind.
It may be a question whether all the arrangements which
affect them are os adequate as they might be for the pre¬
vention of accident. But it is by no means to be taken
as a matter of course that the most perfect arrangements
within the possibilities of the case would ensure to those
needing a day’s recreation now and then a complete
immunity from unforeseen disaster.
There will, perhaps, be some clamour for legislative
regulations with a view to lessen the dangers attendant
upon steam-boat excursions from the metropob 8 . It is
to be hoped that the question, if broached at all wfil be
treated with sufficient caution and under the fight of all
tho information bearing upon either side of tho subject.
It would be quite possible to destroy the sources of a vast
number of healthy recreations by a multiplicity of pre¬
cautionary enactments. But, perhaps, absolute safety of
life or limb could not be obtained thereby, nor be worth
having at so enormous a cost. Tho gain on the one hand
would be probably more than balanced by the loss on the
other. So long as society exists it will be exposed more
or less, to mischances of a deplorable nature; and it is
only within extremely narrow limits that legal regu¬
lations can be devised to eliminate them altogether.
the court.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, was presort
the Bmemkr games and gathering of the Braemar Royal
Highland Society at Mar Castle on Thursday week, and
nefsed the competition for the different prizes. Her Majesty
wao received by*the Earl of Fife and Colonel Farquharson oi
Invercauld; and a guard of bonoin composcd of the respectiv
“ U TteQueen ’receiled the gratifying “(S
of the Queen’s twenty-sixth grandchild on .
Imperial and Royal Highness the Duchess of Ediuburgh
having given birth at Coburg to a daughter. Her Majesty,
Princfsi Beatrice, and Prince Leopold attended Divine^service,
performed at the castle by the Rev. A. Campbell, of Crathie.
P The Queen, accompanied by Pnncess Beatnce. has made
various excursions on Deeside. On Tuesday her Mi^Christian
the Princess drove to the Glassalt Shiel. Pnnee C
Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, who is staying at Buchwo d
Cottage, Braemar, has paid various visits to Balmoral an
lunched with the’ Queei; and his tutor, Mr. Burnside, te
been presented to her Majesty. Pnnce Leopold takes daily
Wa The n RightHon. Sir Thomas and the Hon. Baffy Biddifiph
and the Rev. Archibald Campbell have chned with the Queen.
The Right Hon. R. A. Cross diues generally with her Majesty.
The Queen has telegraphed to the President o f the
of Trade to express her deep sympathy with the , 8U “ i f r !^ pd .
the recent rail way accident at Sittmgbourne ; and o
nesday her Majesty again telegraphed expressing her d p
sorrow and sympathy for the relatives and fnends of thepoo
creatures who perished by the sinking cf the steamer P
Alice in the Thames, which message was immediately for
warded to Woolwich. _ _ . _
M’Vm On poll lms rnrfiived. through Sir A. H. Layard, a mag
SEPT. 7, 1878
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nificcnt album from the Sultan, containing his own portrait
and those of the Imperial family.
Her Majesty has appointed Sai'vet Pasha, Grand Vizier and
Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Sultan of Turkey, to be an
Honor iry Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India.
The'Queen has appointed Captain Arthur John Loftus to
bo one of the Gentlemen Ushers Quarterly Waiters in Ordi¬
nary to her Majesty, in the room of General H. S. Stephens.
Upon the anniversary of the lamented Prince Consort’s
birthday, the gentlemen in waiting, togclherwith the servants
and tenants of the Balmoral, Abergeldie, and Birkhnll estates,
assembled at the obelisk at twelve o’clock, and drank to the
memory of his Royal Highness.
The following were the orders for the Court’s going into
mourning on Sunday last for the late Queen Dowager Christina
of Spain, grandmother of the reigning King—viz., The ladies
to wear black dresses, white gloves, black or white shoes,
feathers and fans, pearls, diamonds, or plain gold or silver
ornaments. The gentlemen to wear black Court dress, with
black swords and buckles. The Court to change the mourning
on the 16th, and to go out of mourning on the 22nd inst.
THE IHUNCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
The Princess of Wales, accompanied by the King and
Queen of Denmark, Princess Thyra and Prince Waldemar, and
Prince William of Schleswig- Holstein-Glucksburg, drove from
Cowes to Newport on Saturday last, and thence took the
ordinary train for Ventnor via Sandown, arriving at Ventnor
Station at two o’clock, where carriages were in waiting to take
the distinguished visitors to the Royal Hotel, Undcrcliffe.
After luncheon the Royal party walked in the grounds of the
hotel, ascending the mound forming part of them, whence they
obtained a bird’s-eye view of Ventnor, with its bay and the
pier. The King and Queen were to have inspected the grounds
of Steephill Castle, but the time was too short, and the Prin¬
cess sent a message to Mr. Hambrough, the owner, thanking
him for his courtesy, and regretting that there w'as not time
to see his place properly on that occasion. The Royal
visitors drove through Ventnor and Bonchurch to Shanklin,
where they viewed the Chine, and afterwards drove to
Sandown, where they re-entered the train and returned to
Cowes. The Prince and Princess, with their children, accom¬
panied by the King and Queen of Denmark, Princess Thyra,
and Prince William of Gliicksburg, left Cowes on Wednesday
for town. The Royal party crossed in the Prince’s yacht
Osborne to Portsmouth, whence they travelled by special train
to Victoria station, where they were received by the Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburg, the Danish Minister and Madame
Biilow, and Mr. J. P. Knight. Mrs. J. P. Knight, who was
also on the platform, had the honour of being presented to
the Princess, who presented her to the Queen of Denmark.
The Royal party drove to Marlborough House.
The Prince has subscribed one hundred guineas to the fund
for rebuilding the Marbceuf Chapel, Paris.
ACCOUCHEMENT OF THE DUCHESS OF EDINBURGH.
The Duchess of Edinburgh was safely delivered of
daughter at seven o’clock on Sunday morning last at the
Duke’s palace at Coburg. Dr. W. S. Playfair and Dr. C.
Florschustz were in attendance. Latest telegrams anuounce
that the Duchess and her infant are doing well.
THE GRAND DUKE AND GRAND DUCHESS OF HE
The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Hesse, accompanied
by the Hereditary Grand Duke, and Princesses Victoria. Ella,
Irene, Alix, and LI ary of Hesse, arrived ut Buckingham Palace
oh Wednesday from Eastbourne. Their Royal Highnesses
travelled by the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway
to the Victoria station, where Colonel Du Plat, Equerry to the
Queen, was in attendance to receive them.
Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein have
arrived in Germany.
rrincess Louise of Lome and the Marquis of Lome arrived
at Coburg on Sunday on a visit to the Ducal Court and the
Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.
The Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz has arrived
at St. James’s Palace from Strelitz on a visit to her mother,
the Duchess of Cambridge.
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia arrived in town on Wednesday
from Potsdam.
His Excellency Musurus Pasha has left London for Com
stantinoplc. Etienne Musurus Bey, Councillor of the Ottoman
Embassy, will act as Charge-d’Affaires during the absence of
his Excellency.
His Excellency the Minister of the United States and Miss
Welch loft town on Monday for the Continent. During
Mr. Welch’s absence the Legation will be in the hands of
Mr. W. J. Hopkin, the first secretary, as Charge-d’Affaires.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Duchess of Marl¬
borough have returned to the Viceregal Lodge.
The Duke of Richmond and Gordon has returned to'Gordon
Castle from Glenfiddich.
The Duchess Dowager of St. Alban’s has arrived at Ard-
darroch on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. White.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol have left Ickworth
Park, Bury St. Edmunds, for Scotland.
The Marchioness Dowager of Huutly and Lady Margaret
Gordon have arrived at Mount Auville on a visit to Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Roe.
Earl and Countess Sydney have returned to Frognal, their
seat in Kent, from the Continent.
The Earl of Countess of Clarendon have arrived at^ The
Grove, Watford, from visiting Colonel the Right Hon. i . A.
and Lady Constance Stanley at Witherslack Hall, Lancashire.
The Earl and Countess of Aberdeen have gone to Sir
Dudley and Lady Coutts Marjoribauks, at Guisaclian, Beauly.
Viscountess Combermere has left Tunbridge Wells for St.
Leonards-on-Sea.
Lord and Lady Londesborough have arrived at Londes-
borough Lodge, Scarborough.
The Dowager Lady Carington has arrived at Drummond
Castle, Perthshire, on a visit to Lady Willoughby de Eresby.
The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and
Lady Northcote and Miss Northcote have arrived on a visit to
Macleod of Macleod at his seat in the North of Scotland.
Sir Charles Lennox Wyke has left town on his return to
Denmark. _
FA8H ION ABLE MARRIAGES.
The marriage of Lord Granville Gordon, brother of the
Marquis of Huntly, and Miss Roe, eldest daughter of Mr.
Henry Roe, D.L., the restorer of Christ Church Cathedral,
took place in the cathedral on Wednesday. The bridesmaids
were Miss Hall, Miss E. Roe, Miss M. Roe, Miss I. Roe, Lady
Margaret Gordon, the lion. Nora Gough, Miss Napier, and
Miss Jameson. Tlicir dresses were of white Indian muslin
and lace over white silk. They also wore jasmine wreaths
and long tulle veils, and in their hair each bridesmaid had a
myrtle spray in diamonds and pearls, the gift of the bride¬
groom. The bride wore a white satin dress trimmed with a
lagnificent flounce of Brussels point lace and orange-blossoms
and myrtle. She also wore a row of Orient pearls, a diamond
heart, diamond and pearl earrings, and diamond bracelet.
Her veil was fastened with pearl and diamond stars. The
marriage service was performed by the Archbishop of Dublin,
the Rev. Robert J. Roe, uncle of the bride, and the Rev. Canon
Seymour, Precentor of the cathedral. The wedding breakfast
took place at Mount Aunville, the residence of the parents of
the bride. Lord and Lady Granville Gordon left Dublin by
special train for Killarney.
Lord Lyttelton is engaged to the daughter of Lord
Chesham, and younger sister of the Countess of Leicester.
The marriage will take place early in December.
The marriage of Captain J. Straclmn Bridges and Lady
Grace Stopford will take place ut St. Michael’s Church,
Chester-square, on Thursday, the 19th inst.
BURNING OF A SHIP AT SEA.
We give an Illustration of the burning of the German barque
Anita, and the rescue of her crew by H.M.S. Liffey, in the
Atlantic Ocean. It was on June 19 that the Liffey, com¬
manded by- Captain W. R. Kennedy, outward bound to the
Pacific, was running down before the north-east trade wind, to
the westward of the Canary Islands, some of which were visible
from the deck, when a smart soiling-barque appeared in sight
astern. After a few hours she was sufficiently close to make
out her name—the Anita, of Hamburg. Colours were
exchanged, and the barque passed on; but about nine
o’clock the same evening the officer of the watch
in the Liffey reported a light, and afterwards a rocket,
from a ship on the starboard side. The Liffey’s course
was at once altered, to close with the stranger, which proved
to be the Anita. In answer to the question, “ What is the
matter '< ” the barque replied, “ Ship on fire.” The Liffey was
at once brought to the wind, her sail shortened, and her boats
were sent away with fire engines, buckets, and other apparatus.
The barque proved to be laden with spirits for the West African
negroes, also some parafliu und gunpowder— a goodly mixture.
The flames had already got hold of the cargo, and spread so
rapidly that it was soon apparent that there was no hopeof saving
the ship. The captaiu and crew were therefore transferred to
the Liff ey, and the barque was left to her fate. In a very
short time the flames mounted on high, illuminating the sea
and sky, turd presenting a magnificent spectacle. About mid¬
night the mizenmast fell over the side, and soon after the gun-
pow’der exploded ; this was followed by the fall of the main¬
mast, which, after rocking for some time, fell over to leeward.
The Liffey stood by the burning ship till she was burnt to the
water’s edge, and then passed on her course to St. Vincent,
Cape de Verde Isles, where the crew of the Anita were
landed._
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
One of the subjects chosen this week for our Illustrations of
the Great Exhibition in the Champ de Mars at Paris will be
interesting to mechanical engineers and to iron and steel
manufacturers. It is the model of an enormous steam-hammer
constructed for the forge of M. Schneider’s great ironworks at
Creusot, iu Burgundy, some account of which has been given
in our Journal. This most powerful implement consists of a
piston moving up and down in a steam-cylinder which is
upheld by a horizontal slab of iron resting upon two oblique
converging side-pieces, 34 ft. high, the length of the cylinder
being 16 ft. The piston is armed, at the lower end, with a
huge hammer-head of the hardest steel, the combined weight
of piston and hammer-head being more than seventy tons ;
and its perpendicular fall being 16 ft., the force of its blow,
multiplying the weight by the effect of momentum in such a
descent, may easily be calculated. The anvil at Creusot is a
mass of iron, timber, and brickwork founded on solid rock,
the base of which is fixed thirty feet below the surface of the
ground. This tremendous forge-hammer is placed to work at
Creusot in a vast hall built of iron, with four steam cranes
attending upon it, to hand it the ponderous morsels of iron
and steel, often weighing more than a hundred tons, with
which it has to deal. The total cost of the forge, with all its
.machinery, is estimated at £120,000. It is destined especially
for manufacturing the shafts of screw-propellers for large
steam-ships, also the heaviest pieces of armour-plate for iron¬
clad ships-of-war and the monster ordnance lately introduced
for naval warfare. The model shown in the Paris Exhibition,
of the same dimensions, is placed at the north-east comer of
the Exhibition Palace in the Champ de Mars, but, of course,
it is not a working model. Another of our Illustrations repre¬
sents the clock-tower, of pinewood, which stands in the centre
of the space occupied by three Swedish and Norwegian model
cottages in the Trocadero Park. Such a tower is often to be
found in a small country town or village of Sweden. The sides
of the tower are plated with wooden shingles, laid so as to
overlap each other like slates on a roof; the doorways and
windows are of artistic design, and decorated with carving.
NATIONAL 8POKTS.
The death of Mr. George Payne, which occurred on Monday
morning last, breaks almost the last link between the present
and a bygone era in the history of the turf. It cannot be said
that the sad event was unexpected; indeed, nothing but the
most marvellous constitution could have enabled a man who
was nearly seventy-five years of age to survive a severe
paralytic attack for so long. Sir. Payne was born m 1804,
and after being educated at Eton and Oxford succeeded to his
father’s estates, which, owing to a long minority, had increased
immensely in value; and the almost regal style m which he
dispensed hospitality on all sides is still well remembered in
Northamptonshire. In 1826 he accepted the office of High
Sheriff, and was twice Master of the Pytchley, the occasion of
his final retirement being marked by the presentation of a
magnificent testimonial from members of the Hunt. In spite
of a connection with the turf which extended over fifty years,
Mr. Payne never possessed a really good horse, perhaps the
best that ever ran in his name being that fine stayer,
Musket, and he always carried the , co l ours , r of „° r f
Glasgow, by whom he was bequeathed to Mr. Payne.
When he first became an owner of racehorses he was
in confederation with the Marquis of Ailcsbury and Mr.
Grcvillc; but after one or two changes of stables he sent his
horses to Alec Taylor, at Fy field, and for many years past has
been closely identified with the successes of Mr. Stirling
Craufurd and other patrons of the Manton establishment.
But there were other branches of sport m which Mr. George
Payne distinguished himself far more highly than in rating.
Few have ever gone straighter or better m the hunting-field ,
he could well hold his own among the grouse and partridges,
while his reputation as a whist-player was European, btill we
cannot help feeling rather sad that a man of such unequalled
charm of manner and great natural gifts did not achieve, as he
might readily have done, a great reputation m widely different
pursuits ; but he steadily declined to represent a constituency
Fn Parliament, feeling that liis time and thoughts were fully
taken up with other occupations. Still a man has not lived in
vain who has shown that it is possible to be actively mixed up
with turf pursuits for half a century and yet to preserve his
honour bright and free from blemish, und to die honoured and
lamented by, perhaps, the largest and most distinguished circle
of friends of which nuy man could ever boast.
The result of the Great Yorkshire Stakes, which was run
on the last day at York, fairly extinguished the St. Leger
chances of the three outsiders that were engaged in it. Cer¬
tainly Glengarry ran a little better than he did against Bonnie
Dundee; but Castlereagli managed to catch him about fifty
yards from the judge’s box and beat him by a neck, while Eau
de Vie collapsed altogether inside the distance, and is clearly
a non-stayer. On the spur of the moment, so little as 20 to 1
was accepted about Custlereagh; but, iu the race, there
was little to choose between him and the second, while all
three were so close together that we may safely write
them down as very moderate. Amice had some little
trouble in getting rid of Coromandel II., and it was very
pleasant to see Mr. Savile’s luckless colours in front for
once in a way. The Queen’s Plate was naturally a gift
for Hampton ; but Lady Goligbtly had all her work to do to
beat the moderate Adamite in the York Cup, and it is clear
that Lord Falmouth’s filly retains little of the form that
enabled her to win so many good stakes about this time last
year. The xmich-talked- of Sans Fared made his first appear¬
ance in the Colt Sapling Stakes, and had so much trouble in
defeating the Woodbine colt, that the reports of his capa¬
bilities appear to be exaggerated, though it is never wise to
attach too much importance to a two-year-old’s first eesay, as
inexperience, and the complete novelty of the situation, often
prevent him from displaying his real powers.
Heavy' rain quite spoilt what might have been two pleasant
days’ racing at Scarborough at the end of last week; and the
sport does not require comment. During the present week
meetings have been held at Warwick, Richmond, Croydon, &c.,
but, with one or two exceptions, the events decided were only
of passing interest. At Warwick Sword Knot carried home
her 8 st. 12 lb. in gallant style in the first juvenile handicap of
the season; and the double victory of White Rose at Rich¬
mond makes Cacrau’s performance in the Ebor a very fair one
indeed, as she could not get near him, in spite of having about
16 lb. the best of the weights. Still, these minor meetings
evoked little interest, gencrul attention being concentrated
upon the St. Leger, which will be decided on Wednesday next,
and the field for which seems likely to comprise the fol¬
lowing :—Insulaire (Goater), Jannctte (Archer), Childeric
(Morris), Red Archer (Cannon), Beauclcrc (Snowden),
Attalus (Fordhain), Glengarry (distance), Cfistlereagh (J.
Osborne), Clocher (Heslop), Bonnie Scotland (Constable),
and Boniface. To this dozen may be added the names of
Cyprus, Topaz, Eau de Vie, Inval, Master Kildare, Matador,
Oasis, the Wild Deer colt, Potentate, and Ridotto, the starting
of each of whom is more or less doubtful, though it may be
taken for granted that some of them will help to swell the
field. Since Bcauclerc hit his leg again last week there have
been a good many changes in the betting; but, at present,
Insulaire is firmly established at the head of affairs, and seems
likely to hold his position until the fall of the flag. Red
Archer gains fresh adheienis every day, and, of Lord Fal¬
mouth’s pair, the colt, at Ihe time of writing, is in better
odour than the filly, though her credentials are superior to his
in every way*. Of course, after Beauclerc’s enforced absence
from exercise, Ihe hopes of a northern victory are greatly
damped; still the claims of four others seem so evenly
balanced that the contest will creute as much excitement as
ever.
The two last county cricket matches of the season ended in
draws, as the incessunt and heavy rain made continuous play
quite impossible. In all probability, Surrey would have wound
up the season with a glorious victory over Gloucestershire, as,
thanks mainly to Mr. J. Shuter (59) and Jupp (not out, 60),
and the good bowling of Barratt, the game was all in their
favour. Notts, for which Shaw and Morley bowled as grandly
as ever, must have beaten Kent, as the northern county only
required two more wickets to gain a single-innings victory.
Owing to an unfortunate misunderstanding between the
Australians and the leading professionals on the subject of
remuneration, “ the Australians v. the Players of England”
became a mere farce, as, with two or three excep¬
tions, England w T as represented by u second-class team.
Still they made a splendid fight, being only beaten by eight
runs. C. Bannermau (51) batted splendidly; but it was
essentially a bowlers’ match, and in the first innings of the
Australians Barratt performed the great feat of taking all ten
wickets for only 43 runs, though, oddly enough, not one of
them was bowled. Spofforth took twelve wickets for only 75.
Partridge shooting this year began on Monday under veiy
favourable circumstances. There seems to be an average
number of buds, and they are reported to be in good condition.
Profiting by the experience of former years, the committee
of management of the Thames International Regatta have
made it a great success, and an immense crowd of spectators
assembled at Putney last Monday to see the final heats. The
North-countrymen took full revenge for their defeats of last
season, and literally swept off every first prize that was open
to them. Boyd, Lumsden, Nicholson, and Elliott made a
grand Four; while, in the Pairs, Lumsden and Boyd com¬
pletely turned the tables upon Thomas and Higgins, who beat
them so easily twelve months ago. Of course the most inter¬
esting event upon the card was the meeting of Higgins and
Elliott fer the final heat of the Sculls; but bad luck still
followed the south, as, after getting well away, Higgins caught
such a bad crab that he lost four lengths, and was never after¬
wards on terms with Elliott. The amateur element has been
wisely eliminated from the regatta ; but the tradesmen’s races
attracted numerous entries, and furnished some very closely-
contested finishes. _
The Attorney-General for Ireland has appointed Mr. Henry
Fitzgibbon, Q.C., Crown Prosecutor for the County Down, in
the room of Mr. Thomas M’Dounell, Q.C., who has retired.
The quinquennial festival of the Royal Albert Asylum for
Idiots at Lancaster took place on Wednesday in the hall of the
institution—Lord Winmarleigh, the president, occupying the
chair. Lord Hartington presided at a banquet which was held
in the evening in connection with the event; and a distin¬
guished company, including several members of the Govern¬
ment and Parliament, atiended. Political subjects were
avoided iu the speeches, which dealt principally with the
objects of the institution.
The new Exchange, built in memory of the late Lord
Tredegar at Newport, Monmouthshire, was opened on Wed¬
nesday by the Duke of Beaufort., Lord Lieutenant of the
county. Among those present were Lord Tredegar, Lord
Henry Somerset, and Sir George Walker. Addresses were pre¬
sented by the Newport Town Council, the Chamber of Com¬
merce, and the Monmouthshire Chamber of Agriculture. The
Exchange will be used not only for corn, but as a metal market.
In the afternoon there was a luncheon—the Duke of Beaufort
presiding—at which about 200 guests were present.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION: SWEDISH CLOCK-TOWER, TROCADERO PARK.
THE NEW AQUARIUM, TYNEMOUTH.
MR. WILLIAM
SPOTTIS W OODE.
Mr. Spottiswoode, M.A.,
D C.L., LL.D., Tr. R.S.,
the President of the
British Association this
year at Dublin, was bom
on Jan. 11, 1825, being
the eldest son of the late
Mr. Andrew Spottis¬
woode, for some time
M.P. for Saltash, who
was the printer to the
Crown and the House of
Lords, and the energetic
promoter of many of those
improvements in the art
of printing of which we
now witness the fruits.
After due preparation, the
son proceeded to the Uni¬
versity of Oxford, where
he became specially
eminent for proficiency
in his mathematical
studies, the results of
which are apparent in
many profound papers in
the principal scientific
journals. His “ Medita-
tiones Analytic® ” were
privately printed in 1837
and following years ; and
he has long been an
earnest member of the
London Mathematical
Society. General litera¬
ture also was not neg¬
lected, and he gave much
attention to that of the
East, especially Sanskrit.
On leaving college and
assuming the active su¬
perintendence of a large
printing establishment, in
succession to his father,
he devoted his leisure to
the study of physics; and
by his long-continued ex¬
perimental researches in
the polarisation of light
has attained special emi¬
nence in that department
of optical science. The
results of these labours
have been, from time to
time, laid before the
members of the Royal
Institution of Great
Britain, with brilliant
chromatic illustrations,
in Friday evening dis¬
courses, and in a course
of four lectures in 1876,
notices of which have been
duly given in the Illus¬
trated London News, the
two last (“ Quartz, an Old
Chip ter re-written,” and
“A Nocturne in Black
and Yellow”) during the
present year. In 1874
Mr. Spottiswoode com¬
plied with a general re¬
quest by publishing, in
‘‘Nature Series,” a little
treatise on the “ Polar¬
isation of Light,” of
which a new edition, em¬
bracing his recent dis¬
coveries, is much desired.
The practical application
of his arithmetical powers
has appeared in his con¬
duct as treasurer of the
British Association from
1861 to 1874, of the Royal
Institution from 1865 to
1873, and of the' Royal
Society from 1871 to 1878
and all these bodies have
flourished under the com¬
bination of wise liberality
and judicious economy.
In 1871 Mr. Spottiswoode
succeeded the late Dr.
H. Bence Jones, F.R.S.,
as honorary secretary oi,
the Royal Institution, on*
of the more important
duties of which is pro¬
viding the lecture and
Friday arrangements, in
which, aided by the co¬
operation of Dr. Tyndall
and the other professors,
he has caused not only
pure and applied science,
but history, literature,
music, and the fine arts
to be honourably repre¬
sented. The Royal Insti¬
tution, being cosmo¬
politan in its character,
a meeting-place for the
scientific men of all
countries, has given Mr.
Spottiswoode the oppor¬
tunity of showing much
generous hospitality, in
which he has been warmly
supported by his wife.
All these facts prove that
his election as President
of the British Association
in 1877, and his nomina¬
tion as future President
of the Royal Society, in
succession to Sir Joseph
Dalton Hooker, is no more
than a just recognition of
his merits both as a worker
in science and as a patron,
since our more skilful
philosophical instrument
makers have always found
him a liberal supporter
of their ingenious inven¬
tions. Among these may
MR. \V. SPOTTISWOODE, F.R.S., PRESIDENT OP THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
be mentioned an exceedingly | ^ta^evmd weJks^efo^e'he leaves for his travels in October.
machine, with which some remarkable effects in vacuumtuea y 8 U1 tend over (jastille, Navarre, aud Aragon, un<
have been produced. In 1876 Mr. Spottiswoode wmj dectedThey will aud ^ps.
Corresponding Member of the ch hi The Cortes will assemble in the beginning of October.
Paris; in June last he was made D C.L.. at uxioru, miu ue bwttvfriAND
received the degree^ of LL.D. at DaUu i on the 22ndo ,..„ 8 for tlu . Natio nal Council have
The Official Messenger, the Government organ at St. Peters¬
burg, publishes an nrticle in which it is declared that the
urn tubes | stay several weexs oea Navarre aud Aragon, und the patience of the Government has become entirely exhausted by
elected a i They will extend over ^"f^^XamnT the series of criminal acts which culminated in the assassination
n the beginning of October. of General Mcsentzoff. The Government announces its inteu-
^ tion to proceed with inflexible severity against all persons
, LA>J). . „ _., . _ guilty of or accessory to machinutions against the laws, the
the Natiouui Council have b 0 f nnblic or family life, and the rights of DroDcrtv.
month. An abstract of his recent address to the British Asso- The general elections for the Natiouul CouncilhnveDee bagea o{ publk . or family life, and the rights of property,
ciation is given in our number for Aug. 17, page lol. In 1?56 fixcd f or Oct. 27. In the same month the people wU „ , The St. Petersburg Gazette, with reference to the subscrip
k. tn ■Rnst^m Russia. and desenbed his the renresentatives who will have to elect the Federal L u t the new Russian internal loan of 300.000.000 roubles
hs made a brief visit to Eastern Russia, and described his
experiences in a “Tarantasse Journey,’ published m loot,
with fourth n engravings, containing much information
respecting the country and native tribes.
The Portrait of Mr. Spottiswoode is from a photograph by
Mr. Chancellor, of Lower Suckville-Btreet, Dublin.
THE TYNEMOUTH AQUARIUM.
the representatives who will have to elect the * edcrul Council ^ tho new Ru8sian i nU .rnal loan of 300,000,000 roubles,
and the President of the Confederation in December. gtates that 30,000,000 roubles have been subscribed by the
HOLLAND. Discount Bnuk, 45,000,000 by the Volga Kama Bank, 7,000,000
Prince and Princess Henry of the Netherlands arrived on by the Russian Bank, 10,000,000 by the International Bank,
Thursday week at the Summer Palace of the Loo, from Berlin. 5,000,000 by the Moscow Merchants’ Bank, and 2,000,000 by
The telegram says that their Royal Highnesses met with a the Poliakoff Mosco Bank. 1 wo other banks have subscribed
warm reception from the King, the high dignitaries of State, for 2,500,000 roubles each,
and the inhabitants. A dense crowd had assembled to welcome TURKEY.
their arrival. On Saturday the Prince and _ ^cess Henry bfta handed to Sir A. H. Layard for Queen
The advantages of Tynemouth, as a place of seaside recreation entered the Hague city in state, amid enthusiastic demonstra¬
tor tho inhabitants of Newcastle and other busy towns of the fious of we l c omc. The streets were decorated with flags,
North, seem likely to be more fully appreciated than they have garlands, and triumphal arches. The Burgomaster, accom-
been in time past. Our Illustration shows the group of new pa U jed by the members of the municipality, gave an address
buildings on Tynemouth Links, consisting of an aquarium and to tbe Royal couple, who afterwards proceeded to the palace,
winter garden, baths, club establishment, skating-rink, and w h< re the King and the Grand Duke and Duchess ot Saxe-
pleasure-grounds. They were opened on Wednesday week by Weimar were waiting to receive them. Prince Henry and his
The Sultan has handed to Sir A. H. Layard for Queen
Victoria a magnificent album, richly bound, containing his
own portrait and those of the Imperial family.
We learn from Constantinople that, the Sultan having
telegraphed a remonstrance to the Czar on the subject of the
atrocities alleged to have been committed by Russians upon
Mussulmans in Roumelia and Bulgaria, the Emperor has re¬
pleasure-grounds. They were openea on » eanesuay wees, uy Weimar were waiting to receive mem. irmwuviu, sorrow at the disturbed state of affairs W
Thcre WU9 “ brU] “"‘ sswve
. planted with pines, tamarisks, aud other hardy trees and The Dutch papers speak of a contemplated marriage of the tro °P®- ___, . ., n ., v t , .
shrubs, and meandering paths traversing the slope will com- King to Princess Baulina of Waldeck, the eldest daughter of A the Sfture of tlie Rulsian teions frombefore 8 ???*
municate between the different levels. There is an entrance tho Signing Prince of Waldeck-Pyrmont, and of Helena, ^i aVA- v ^, '
g^ns> g *S ^ Me Dukc 011 " Wu ' s
GO ft. broad, with a mid-transept, increasing the width in The new Dutch education law sanctioned by the King mg orders ^ 7o GOO uf u^ire to Droeeedt 1 if *2**
sars 52 ^ »sa“ dude - thc mbk md rcli ! ZnT '"° ,rom ^ ssn.' i*sr
T^^a\pp^’ceot^buMtaewm\l%y^S% w
mid-transept, increasing the width in The new Dutch education law sanctioned by the King
The sides consist of a light and lofty excludes the Bible and religious teaching from primary schools.
. are filled in with glass. The rcof is BELGIUM
that part to 72 ft. The sides consist of a light and lofty
arcade of stone, and are filled in with glass. The rcof is
vault-shaped, of glass, on wrought-iron ribs and principals.
The external appearance of the building will be diversified by
^UDs^statuarTmid fountains Outside facing the sea, is to St. Nicholas, attended by MM. Gruux aud Sainctelette, has abandoned thc idea of a collective report. Each member
^ u P nDer of a ser es of tcreaces the Mlustmdes of whieh will Ministers of Finance and of Public Works. Their Majesties will 6end in hi9 repo rt independently, but those of the
bear v P ^s of flowere !* ofihe a^teV ^enTre were received by the tat echevin of the town and after British French, ItaUan, and Turkish Commissioners will be
♦w Ahnve. on the first floor, arc the library inaugurating the new Hotel de \ file and assisting at the identical.
udlmSw-ionna, ^T^reten^room? banquet which followed, the King and Queen returned to ~ The special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph at Con-
On th<> second floor are card, billiard, and smoking rooms. Laeken at ten p.m. His Majesty went to Ostend on Sunday. B tantinople telegraphed on Wednesday that “the Com-
On the third floor, arc the bed-rooms of the domestics. The The Chinese lantern and transparencies procession, which ml^ioners appointed for thc purpose have, as it appears,
aquarium includes both salt and fresh water tanks, occupying was to conclude the Royal silver wedding fetes, took place last signed at Batoum the arrangement relative to the cession of
both sides of hall. A row of columns divides the floor into Suuday night, notwithstanding unfavourable weather. More that town and its dependencies. The evacuation is to take
two avenues. Thc baths, at the bottom, are not yet begun, than one hundred societies took part in it, and the effect pro- p i ace on the Gth inst.”
The sum of £100,000 has been expended. The architects arc duced by it, and the detachments of warriors of the fifteenth 8ERMA.
Messrs. John Norton and P. E. Masey, of London. century accompanying it, was very happy. It was accom- Prince Milan, in accordance with the wish expressed in a
_ panied also by the car of the Amman (an historical souvenir of resolution unanimously adopted by the Council of Ministers,
The special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph at Con¬
stantinople telegraphed on Wednesday that “ the Corn-
two avenues. Tbe baths, at the bottom, are not yet begun.
The sum of £100,000 has been expended. The architects arc
Messrs. John Norton and P. E. Masey, of London.
8ERVIA.
Prince Milan, in accordance with the wish expressed in a
resolution unanimously adopted by the Council of Ministers,
has accepted the title of Sovereign Highness for himself and
the Princess, and the title of Most Serene Highness for the
- the old burgomasters of Brussels, who bore the title of Amman), has accepted the title of Sovereign Highness for himself and
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS containing the oldest married couple of Brussels. the Princess, and the title of Most Serene Highness for the
u u The battalion of chasseurs-eclaireurs of the Brussels Civic Hereditary Prince.
FRANCE. Guards have celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the EGYPT.
The great event of the week in Paris has been the funeral command of the battalion by Major de l’Eau d’Andrimont by The text of the Khedive’s letter announcing his acceptance
service in commemoration of M. Thiers’s death. It was held a banquet and the presentation to him of his portrait. Major of the p r0 p 08t( i Egyptian reforms has been published. His
on Tuesday with great pomp and solemnity in the Cathedral de l’Eau d’Andrimont commanded the Civic Guards during uj g i ine8a 8)l y 8 ._«• j tim fi rm ly determined to apply European
of Notre Dame. The event, one correspondent remarks, was their visit to London, in 1866. principles to the Egyptian administration, instead of the per-
& truly national cteniomtrotioii of sympathy townrds the fhc l*all Alall (Jdztttt correspondent at Brussels states that tonal power hitherto prevailing. 1 desire a power halanceu hy
memory of the liberator of the French territory and the nmn the Belgian Ministry is preparing projects of law for com- thc Council of Ministers, and am resolved henceforth to govern
ir visit to London, in 18bb. . . . principles to the Egyptian administration, instead of the per-
The Pall Mall Gazette correspondent at Brussels states that 801ia i power hitherto prevailing. 1 desire a power balanced by
who raised France from her ruins. An immense crowd, pleting the electoral
including all the leading political personages, the members of order and other meas _ _____ _______
the diplomatic body, and numerous deputations from the pro- 1842 giving to priests access to public schools. It is considered important” questions*"The majority" deciding" Thus, by
vinccs attended the religious ceremony. possible that after the completion of the electoral reform laws ap p rov i llg its decisions, I shall sanction the prevalent opinion.
The French Committee on the Franco-Amcrican Treaty of the Ministry will proceed to a dissolution of the Chambers and i f uch Minister will apply the decisions of the Council in his
Commerce entertained at a banquet on Thursday week the a general election. own department. Every appointment or dismissal of higher
Amencan delegates, at the Grand Hotel, Pans, the chief saloon GERMANY oflieials will be made by the President of the Council and the
of which was decorated for the occasion with the Amencan The Crown Prince proceeded on W ednesday evening, vii Minister of department with my sanction. Thc officials
and French flags. „ Stuttgardt to Ulm, to hold a review of the troops wi ll only obey the chiefs of their own departments.”
The Institute of International Law which met last year at Prince \VlUiam of Prussia started on luesday for Scotland. A le ( ter Nubar Paijha to the Khedive announces that he
Zunch, opened its congress at Pans on Monday. M. do Paneu The German Parliament will be opened on the 9th mst. by h fonned a new Mini8try> compOHed „ follows :-Nubar
is president, Sir Travers Twies is one of the two vice-pre- Count Stollberg, the Vice-President of the Ministry. Pasha. President of the Council. Minister for Foreien Affairs.
x . , , . .. . the Council of Ministers, and am resolved henceforth to govern
cting the electoral legislation by the vote in alphabetical with and through this Council, the members of which will be
der and other measures, and for the revision of the law of jointly and sevenilly responsible. Thc Council will disc uss all
142 giving to pnests access to public echools. It is considered important questions, thc majority deciding. Thus, by
a general election. own department. Every appointment or dismissal of higher
_ _ . GERMANY. . officials will be made by the President of the Council and the
c. T. he ^°7 n TM n T re C0dcd - ° n ^ d " esdfl y evemu S- ^ Minister of the department with my sanction. The officials
Stuttgardt { to Dim, to hold a review of the troops wiU only obey the chiefs of their own departments.”
Pnnce WlUiam of Prusma started on luesduv for Scotland A i e { ter Nubtt r Pasha to thc Khedive announces that he
„ The German Parliament wdl be: opened on the 9th inst. by haa fonned a new Ministiy composed as follows :-Nubar
The Institute of International Law which met last year at Pnuce WlUiam of Prussia started on luesday for Scotland. A le ( ter Nubftr Paghft to the Khedive announces that he
Zurich, opened its congress at Pans on Monday. M. do Paneu The German Parliament will be opened on the 9th mst. by h fonned a new Mini8try> compOHed „ follows :-Nubar
is president bn: Travers Twiss is one of the two vicc-pre- Count Stollberg, the Vice-President of the l inistrj- Pasha, President of the Council, Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Bidents, and M Jacqucmyns, the Belgian Minister of the Ihe second ballots for the election to the Reichstag were aud Minister of Justice; ltiuz P^sha, Minister of the Interior
Interior, is secretary. held on \\ ednesday in Berlin. In the farst district Dr. Lowe, r-hk P«sh» Minidnr nf \v»r • Alv Mnnhnrolr PabRa Minintor
DeCi ‘ °v ; 1 i e t ?r 0gr 5n t part y-, wa8 « turudd; . ,md ^ 8ecoud ^Publicli^tmction and ad iatrPaMinistcr of Agriculture
mal System of W eights, Measures, and Coins has held a congress district Herr Hoffmann, also a Progressist, wus elected. , p tthe
D i8 rL C n k f Tr r d T,, EUrl F ° r ^ SCUC is P^sident, and Monday being the anmversary of the battle of Sedan, the Ministry of Finance'vacant for a short time until I can submit
D. Leone Levi secretary of the association. occasion was celebrated by public festivities at Berlin and at . vonr sanction a ncraonaeo who I know eniovs vour esteem
A new English church has been erected at Biarritz. It most of the towns of the German empire. “ hi ! ^ J J 68146
will be opened by thc Bishop of Loudon on Oct. 11. The Crown Prince, after having attentively perused the p
will be opened by the Bishop of Loudon on Oct. 11.
Mdlle. Marguerite Gidel, the daughter of the Principal of records of thc j'udicial proceedings, has refused to grant a
the Henri IV. College, has passed thc first part of her exa- pardon to Mr. Bishop, the newspaper correspondent, who was
urination ns Bachelor of Art at the Paris Faculty of Letters, sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment.
The young lady is only sixteen years of age. M. Louis Some Russian students who are suspected of Nihilism have
Audiat, Professor of Rhetoric at Saintcs, and laureate of the been arrested at Berlin on the request of the Russian
institution, presented three of his children, one of whom is a authorities to the police there.
•don to Mr. Bishop, the newspaper correspondent, who was President Hayes had a great popular reception at Chicago,
tenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment. a procession of citizens five miles long being formed to escort
Some Russian students who arc suspected of Nihilism have him into the town.
m arrested at Berlin on the request of the Russian The President has gone to St. Paul, meeting with a hearty
girl, to the commission delegated by the Faculty of Poitiers at At Duisburg on Monday there was i
Limoges, for the examination entitling to the degree of Gemardt Kremer, commonly known as
koritie8 to the police there. reception uloug the route. Replying to an address of welcome,
At Duisburg on Monday there was unveiled a memorial of tho President declared that prosperity was returning with a
Mercator,” aud thc sound currency, a reduced public debt, and plentiful crops.
Bachelor of Art, and all three were received on the same day author of ‘‘Mercator’s Projections.” Born of German parents He urged the North to share its abuudance with the alllictcd
with commendations.
Readers of ‘‘Sartor Resartns” interested in the Rue there in 1594. The first stone of the monument was laid in
d Eufer will henceforth have to inquire for the Rue Denfert 1869, but lack of funds delayed its completion.
Rochereau, it having just been rechristened in honour of the . re¬
late def nder of Belfort. There is much criticism on the kind . T . , , auetma-hungaby.
of pun involved in the change; and other alterations on the , An^mpenai patent has been published convoking the Diets . cxistin iu
same principle, such us the Rue do Say for the Rue Desaix, are Gahcia Cannola Goneia, and Trieste for feept. 12 ; and in « Fujul „ cw „ rieuus UI1U OMjer lt IB
iwmcallr.uggclcd. Ui. other Pmrtada l P.eM. jnth lb« receptoa of thoro of the weather i, bud, and that th“ cpK<mSc i. iDcnSatog
The death, at Pans, at the age of eighty-four, is announced Istr ‘ a tm( l Dalmatia, for the ‘24th proximo. More than 1000 persons fell victims to yellow fever in thi
of M. Garcin de Tossy, who was elected a member of thc distnets m Hungary were visited by a terrible 8o uthem States Lt week- the fourth S the outbreak
Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres in 1838, where he thunderstorm yesterday week. Miskolcz, a town in Hungary, Tfa were dg£t^n deaths at Vicksbur K mi Monday? and i
succeeded Talleyrand; and,at Marseilles, of M. Etienne Aime J ,u, t completely laid waste One thousand houses were estimated that there w re17W pci then m and tha
“ie ,!udi ^ xvm - “ d ch “ ta x • tw.
The files organM ot Boulogne-soi- liet on the occooion mws ot . f” 11 ““T Pi"”" 8 'P 1 * 8 the^cout^b™ron."fo? the'S^tte teSe'Se^prcJIilhi,
of laying the first stone of tho monument which is to com- respondent of the Daily Telegraph writes that words cannot i n that city arc inadequate and ureinir the immediate issue o
^ a ^ h6 ,I 6 ^n°l the ^'J 0r creation of a deep-sea the ratiSwWcHbSSdT 8
| in Flanders in 1512, he settled ut Duisburg in 1552, aud died South.
ire in 1594. The first stone of the monument was laid in In the State elections in Arkansas thc Democratic can-
19, but lack of funds delayed its completion. didates have been returned unopposed.
aurtrta ttt-mp.arv Meetings are being held in the States, at which .large sums
STvSS 2?SLSL?& SsS2 ae* p>““/ * *> ^
port at that place will be as follows :-On Sunday, Sept 8, at T f h « on . ce commercial towm no longer exists A pUe ~nons wmen tove been orter^ telegraphs
half-past eleven, assemblage of the local bauds from the neieh- bricks und mortar now stands in its place. The sur- m c*” S # r* , ul Vr Ito ns “‘egrapne
bourhood; at t^oTregattS;^ fcSl* ™ ^usicM^ vivora without exception, utterly ruined. The -°£ L, T t i*PO° 1 stating that great distress prevail
tainmeut at the bathing establishment; eight, ball at the m,8chlcf was done » n °t by an ordinary flood, but by the amou 8 st lJntl - h subjects, and asking for funds for their rehe.
Tintclleries Garden ; illuminations, fireworks at eleven On ru P tur c of a colossal waterspout over the very heads of the CANADA
Monday at noon, arrival of M. de Freycinet (Public Works) Thc ®hock was terrific Furniture was hurled in Lady Dufferin was among the passengers on board tl
and M. Leon Say (Finance); formation of a procession and P cry du 5 ction ; lhe holUsca rcd «l for a moment from their Sardinian, which sailed from Quebec on Sundav for Queem
Monday at noon, arrival of M. de Freycinet (Public Works) pop 'r.V- 8a °cK was temne Furniture was burled in Lady Dufferin was among the passengers on board tt
and M. Leon Say (Finance) ; formation of a procession and ***** “'Section. Ihe houses reeled for a moment from their Sardinian, which sailed from Quebec on Sunday for Queem
laying of the first stone; from half-past two to six, public basements, and then came down with one tremendous crash, town and Liverpool J
concerts in various places; gratuitous performance in the ^ the village of Mud the greatest damage seems to have been The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia has bee
Municipal Theatre at two ; at half-past six, banquet to thc done by tbe flood that followed the breaking of the water- prorogued ^ *
Ministers at the baths ; at eight, tore-blight processions; at ^ ^ ddcl } ly 8cen n, * hill 6 In consequence of a dispute with a contractor, the Queb<
• P u bbc free ball at the Tintelleries ; at ten, subscription dow11 th ® fc,de of tbe hills behind the village like lava vomited Govcrnme^Uias'takcn'mihtory poVcssiOTToMhe^ilontreal'
ball at the baths; illuminations and fireworks at midnight, by a volcano. Ihe panic-stricken inhabitants fled in wild Ottawa Occidental Railway ^ P
Municipal preparations are being made at Calais for tho disorder, many of them to meet with death a few yards beyond
fetes of the 10th inst., when M. de Freycinet, Minister of their thresholds. Forty houses were completely destroyed, and
Public Works, and M. Leon Bay, Minister of Finance, will the rest all more or less damaged. The total number ot victims
visit that town to inspect the works of thc port.
SPAIN.
The remains of Queen Christina were deposited yesterday
week in the Chapel Royal of the Escurial. Thc body was
received by Cardinal Moreno, the members of thc Chapter of
the Escunal, and the Canons of the Chapel Royal. The King
and the members of the Royal family were present in the
chapel during the reception.
is not yet knbwn.
RUSSIA.
The Emperor arrived at Odessa on Friday morning last
week, and, after reviewing the troops, left at noon for Nicolaieff.
and THE CATE COLONIES.
:ims News from the Cape is received to the 13th nit Tl
Premier (Mr. Gordon Sprigg) has gone to the frontier, accon
panied by Mr. W. Ayliff, tho Secretary of State for Nati
last A flairs, and Mr. Luing, Minister of Public Works. Tl
ieff. position of . affairs in the war distri< t remains stafi°nar
Ti... i ... „ mtuuucu. yoainuu ta . luaiirs in me wnr custritt remains winruai
1 CnlSKl J p. 1 ®^ t 1 fe ^ P ® tersb, J r ff f orLlvud ‘ ao it Thursday week, chiefly from thc fact that the Kaflirs arc ulraid of eurreiub
Thesiger has arrived at Natal. Secocoeui is openly hostile, t
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
* THE CHURCH. " ' ~
INDIA. , _ . PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Sir Neville Chamberlain and his staff constituting tbo nm B^ne (jNv'h™ 0 ?? ’ be t B ^ al ^eanof Ulvereton.
posed mission to Cabul. remain at SMa.^Sg tie rL?St' ®SSS* »| liS^'SSf^!&SSSS& lm .
of an answer from the Ameer to the letter of the GoveSor- &i on ’ fe 4 = Bector ° f Oroat Chffl!“C f Melboume -
General expressing his intention to dispatch an Embassv ot Bttis00te . Banbury, Oxon.
aft^much^rfi 01113 - 111 ’ w? t Ug ' 21 ». state that the Ameer^ P. R.; English Community Chaplain at Canton
rf f “^!r Persuasion by the Mustaphi, attended a durbar that Twin?r > Edw f^? tepb r e l? 0 ? J ; Rector of Salcott Virle'y.
day for the first time since the death oi hi. son, Abdallah Jan.
The second reading o AhefoU fotroduced into the Victori
Assembly by Mr. Graham Berry for reforming tteComKtuS*" ’ Mie.r^ .moiB^; T ionclLtaHlo*.-OwJi.
thathehas no expectation of’ th^meSe^ing^ppeovedlif at Seat Sdto °^’ th / ^“^Hon-stone of a churc
by the Upper House, and that the inevitable Sit must be an ' ° k Sutton > m the P^ 11 of Eastham, on Wednesday.
He declares that this non-sectarian college is accomplishing
the noble designs of its founders and of Parliament.
Several members of the council of the Oxford Military
College, which mcludes amongst its number the Marquis cf
Lome and many officers of high rank, have announced their
intention of giving special prizes to be competed for annually
tho Bishop of Oxford giving one for religious instruction, Sir
E. Lechmere, M.P., one for history, Colonel MoncriefE one for
German, and other members for French, dictation, and mathe¬
matics. Other special prizes will shortly be announced.
Ar< J b ® Porki ? s ’ M.A, formerly Senior Mathematical
1 f^w* f n Read ^ 8 fecbool > has been appointed Head Master
tSt heh^fe^cteVon oV thfmeetingt ^ ?g“ Torr > MP > ^ the foundation-stone of a church ° f SCh °° L
by the Upper House, and that the inevitebfemS.lt mLt be an * GrCat Sutton > m the P^h of Eastham, on Wednesday. Cockayne ' dau 8 hter of the late Rev. T; Oswald
appeal to the Imperial Parliament. * 4 b The Archbishop of Canterbury is staying at a quiet hotel V” “*“7 7““ ““T. m Kin g’s College Schoil,
on Au arg 27 y wi! ended meetin S of Liberals was held at Sydney ° n the Lake of Geueva > not far frdL MontreiSc. q LaffifbollSg?^ Lad J r - Pnnci P al of th e Grantham
s^SSSEa&ftSSSS?
^g.fou^.ucnu party, was adopted amid much enthusiasm.
• bir ** ercules . Ro hmson has accepted a twelvemonth’s exten-
smn of his appointment as Governor of New South Wales.
The Melbourne Argus reports a “rush” for gold in the
Last Saturday afternoon Lord Winmarleigh laid the founds -
“' s ™ e of .the new Church of St. Barnabas, at Warrington,
T a he Freemasons’ Gold Medal, given by “ The Bard of Avon
L° d g® ,, tbe encouragement of the study of Shakspeato
to the College School, Stratford-upon-Avon, has been gained
by L. S. Penley, captain of the school. The examiners woro
Messrs. J. C. Parkinson and Edmund Yates.
ABC jnciuu'inw ^rgus reports a “rush” for gold in the „v,7Y .j -Darnaoas, at Warrington, jjacooxb. o . vj. iarionson ana Jidmund X ates.
rA^aWo At P +i rt / th f Government mining surveyors and „ rhr °ngh the liberality of Mr. Alfred Bell, of Bayford Indian Engineering College, Cooper's-hill, Surrey—
a ^ntteufd f ° + L thC qUart i er endin g Ma rcli 31 show ®mim, Hampstead, who is one of the churchwardens of that „ Edward C. Rawson. George H. Le Maistre, Arthur L Webb
a continued decline in the auantitv nf rrniri parish, and a member of the firm nf u«n „ T. Mackenzie. George Deurhers. Wait**. .t \
a continued decline in the quantity of gold raised. The P^h, and a member of the firm of Bell and Clayton, a £ Mackenzie, George ^c£e». WriterjfweightnSi, ChSwii^uSl?
quarter s yield is computed at 168,428 oz., or nearly 14,000 oz. h “dsome stained-glass window has been placed in the north wE teiof'l 3 m-‘ n ^;i, M w jonba v k8 i B ^ j T'“ K - Emnimute,’
below the corresponding quarter of last year. the parish chufoh of St. John,‘k.mpstead, to the |^^8 6 SS„?j„^f k i J 3?arilL K 7Si, l H Sli^
JAPAN. memory of Sir George Gilbert Scott. H- Amott, Richard 8. Strachey, Cuthbert J. Obrien, JamesK E
JAPAN. memory oi BIT George Gilbert Scott. H. Amott, Richard e s’, ^toebej^^utebert 1 J° el O^‘i*n h Jmu^K 10 ! 6
Tlll J?, ha p" ne fn ?° m Yok ° hama > San Francisco, to 0n Monday the new Church of St. Lawrence, Morecambe, A^hiftS^ B^Sldw^d r! SftKteite
July 31. Prrnce Takenomya, the fourth and only surviving consecrated by the Bishop of Manchester. The church, 5: ? c ^ 1 ?V : ^? u 1 nt f 1 tl V irt H - Jac kson, wuiiam Drew, James B. Chemside
son of the Emperor of Japan, and heir to the Imperial throne** whlch 18 situated in Chapel-street, consists of a nave four bays Rlcbard u - T,ckeU « Eredcnck w. MaunseU, Spencer Cox.
died on July 26. The Emperor starts on Aug. 27 on a len ^ th > ^ th north and south aisles, a south porch, and a The following is a list of the candidates for her Maiestv’a
P r °er, e . 88 . m the northern provinces. Six of the assassins of to ^ er at west end of the north aisle, a chancel with an Indian Medical Service who were successful at the competitive
tne Minister Okumbo have been beheaded, the other fifteen aisle on the south, and an organ transept and vestries on the examination held at Burlington House on Aug. 12 1878-
accomplices receiving lighter sentences. north. The lower portion only of the tower and spire is at Twenty-one candidates competed for fifteen appointments.'■Nineteen were
On Monday the new Chnteh of St. Lawrence, Morecambe, IfffiMS’d’JSSSiSS £ fSS
was consecrated by the Bishop of Manchester. The church, 5: Scoble, Moimtstuart H. Jackson, wmiam Drew, James B. Chemside
which is situated iu Chapel-street, consists of a nave four bays ® ic ^ iarc l TickeU, Frederick W. MaunseU, Spencer Cox.
in length, with north and south aisles, a south porch, aud a The following is a list of the candidates for her Maiesfvte
ver at the west, end nf the nAwth oiwlrr o ’-JU „„ Indian Afedie.nl Serving wU ... J 3
accomplices receiving lighter sentences.
The Government internal loan of 12,500,000 yen for P resent built . “ d f° r m3 the principal entrance to the church.
wlnnimr t.np TMnnroaa nf _i V * - - I _
developing the resources of the country has been successful
It is receivable and payable in paper.
The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Winterborne Monkton,
was opened last week alter a complete restoration, under the
Inouve Kaom reuAnflv « - , was °P en ca last week alter a complete restoration, under the
potatiiSSSSrSpSLwSf pe ’ has been ™ V the
Twenty-one candidates competed for fifteen appointments. 'Nineteen Wf re
^ h *A' ln 5 rc ' tlre ? the examination :-J. d.
Sweny, D. F. Barry, G. F. A. Hams, J. Anderson, O'. J. Bamber, E. H.
Dnmbledon, M. O Dwj-er, W. P. Carson, H. B. Briggs, C. G W Lowdeil
A. 8. raulkner, C. Matins, R. M. Allen, E. M. Damlafll. 8t C Carmth»i"*
appointed Minister of Public Works. ’
A gim-boat, the first built in Japan, has been launched.
thirteenth century by the monks of Glastonbury, to replace a
LoS^ts were ravaSn^the S ’ h - beCD ^ a “? hed - ^ hurch of wblch the only record remaining is some interesting LIFE-BOAT SERVICES.
111 80 “ e districts, but fragments which were found under the walls of the present At a meetim? of the National Ti
not generally prevent. I’he nce crop promises well, and church, and a grand old Norman font, which has been care- ThnrSfJ
the prospects of the silk and tea crops are still favourable’
At a meeting of the National Life-Boat Institution, held on
Thursday at its house, John-street, Adelphi, payments to tho
I—ceom^ m V^f the Whil g ot . tSS&Z SISSS
gun-boat, the first built at Japan. clerical friends as a tribute of their regard and affection.
Cremation becomes optional in Gotha on Oct 1 and a restoration cost £2000, and amongst the contributors wer<
building has been erected for the nurnose ’ trustees of the Littlecot estates, the Rev. Freeman Wilson
4_ r> _a: a i. impropriator of the great tithes, the trustees of Sir H. AJ
A new Baptist chapel (the third) is about to be built in and. most of the clergy and gentry of the neighbourhood.
Rome. Signor Alessandro Petocchi is to be the minister. Tn • w 6
lestorauou cost tzuuu, ana amongst tne contributors were the C rew of the brio-anfinp FV n „™, lu T _1- A ' V
trustees of the Littlecot estates, the Rev. Freeman Wilson, the l’ a l ° n that
impropriator of the great tithes, the trustees of Sir H. Meux, Ind rouS sca One of the H heay easterly gn 10
and most of the clergy and gentry of the neighbourhood. Z SeXatT'the 0 other maided toTtey
__ — w. , , ^ ‘ In a previous Number it was announced that a clock and shl P> but in the course of a few hours she began to break
in tne last number of Peterman s Gcographische Mittheil - an address of congratulation had been presented, on his golden U P> and at low water they had to take to their boat’ and
inhabitants of the globe is estimated at wedding-day, to Air. Henry Watts, who has been for thirty- come ashore through the surf at very great risk to them-
1,4JJ,145,3UU. 1 he number of horses existing (China and five years chief clerk and record- keeper in the Vicar-General’s selves. The receipt of different contributions and legacies was
1,4JJ,145,3UU. 1 he number of horses existing (China and five years chief clerk and record-keeper in the Vicar-General’s selves. The receipt of different contributions and legacies was
Japan not included) is said to be 51,000,000. office at Doctors’ Commons for the grant of marriage licenses announced at the meeting. A communication was read from
A telegram from Sydney states that the native rising which iu and tliroll g hout the metropolis and the whole province of Mr. Leopold March, H.B.AI. Vice-Consul at Santander, Spnj),
recently broke out in New Caledonia is still unquelled. The Canterbury. We have now to add that he was at the same stating that it was proposed to establish a life-boat station at
insurgents maintain their positions in the mountains and offer time P re8ented with a claret-jug mounted in silver by the that P ort and asking the co-operation of the institution,
a stubborn resistance to the troops. The military’force has Archbishop of Canterbury, with the following inscription Reports were .also read from the four inspectors of life-benta
been strengthened. upon it:—“Presented to Mr. Henry Watts, on his golden to the institution on their recent visits to life-boat stations
a pR n ,v nf v v . , „ , , wedding-day, Aug. 7, 1878.” At the same time Air. Watts The proceedings then terminated.
been I° unded at the received a centre-cup/with the following engraved upon it_
b l of Ktntt e« rt , und « pensioned “ Presented to Mr. llenry Watte by the Vicnr-General (Dr. -
STSrTT in'^Gennan ^ m T ipal
A chair of militarv floiennfi wm psfjihliBfipri enma a™* ® 6 y» o- > • week, on the occasion of the laying of the foundation-Rfnun rf
A chair of military science was established some time ago at , . , , „ , ■ .. , , . . A . ------*— -»«»t,u-Dwuoui
Zurich in connection with the Polytechnic School there The Act wluc b received the Royal assent on the day of the a hospital for infectious diseases, which is estimated to cost
Mooo „ Afrvnrrrr tt/- , . _ ' , . prorogation for the foundation of four new bishoprics in -£6000- The stone was laid by Air. William Beaumont, tho
* Money Wigram s sailing-ship Essex, Captain England has been issued. The preamble recites that it is antiquary, who forty-oue years ago was the first Alayor.
Ticehurst, with a full general cargo and fifty passengers, expedient to provide increased episcopal supervision in certain AGiwW « ( n nr ,
thirteen of whem were embarked at Plymouth, left Plymouth parts of England, and the four bishops are to be the Bishop t fl „ i ^e Manchester City Council on
Sound on the 29th ult. for Melbouine.-The New Zealand of Liverpool, the Bishop of Newcastle, the Bishop of South? J, dlsc V ss “ n » Free Librnrioa
Shipping Company s sailmg-ship Waitara, Captem M'Kelvie, weU, and the Bishop of Wakefield. The Ecclesiastical Com- Committee were nistructed, by a majority of twenty-eight to
with emigrants for Bluff Harbour, Otago, New Zealand, sailed missioned are empowered to receive public contribution for * 6 ° peniD8 ° f the ref ® rcuco
from Plymouth bound on the same day. She has on board the endowment of any of the new bishoprics, and whenever and branch llbranes on Sunda 7 afternoons.
222 emigrants. I he ship Rodell Bay arrived at Brisbane on they certify to her Alajesty that the annual value of the Early on Wednesday morning the woollen manufactory of
Aug. 26, the passage occupying seventy-nine days. The pas- endowment fund, with the sum to be derived from a con- Messrs. Mackenzie, Campbell, and Co., situated on the banks
sengers were landed all well. tributory bishopric, is not less than £3500 a year, or £3000, of the Earn, near Crieff, Perthshire, was destroyed by fire
A municipal demonstration was held at Warrington loot
week, on the occasion of the laying of the foundation-stone cf
a hosnitel for infpot.inna Hisonsnu _ a ._ _ .
irom i lymoutn oouna on tne same day. one has on board the endowment of any of the new bishoprics, and whenever
222 emigrants.—!he ship Rodeli Bay arrived at Brisbane on they certify to her Alajesty that the annual value of the
Aug. 26, the passage occupying seventy-nine days. The pas- endowment fund, with the sum to be derived from a con-
sengers were landed all well. tributory bishopric, is not less than £3500 a year, or £3000, of the Earn, near Crieff, Perthshire, was destroyed by fire
Vice-Consul Aloffat, in his report from Sebastopol this contributions to raise it within five years to £3500, then The flames lighted the valley for miles around. More than ono
year, states that the British cemeteries are in a fair state of her Majesty, by Order in Council, may “found” the new hundred hands are thrown out of employment,
preservation, but time and money are both required to bishopric. The number of Bishops sitting in Parliament is . .... .. .
ameliorate their present bare and dreary appearance. Besides not to be increased. So long as there is not a Dean and Chnpter . open competition for the situation of outdoor officer
isolated crosses and obelisks there are thirteen cemeteries, of any of the four new bishoprics, her Majesty may appoint Dublin^Livemool ^bTiv bG H? 1 m L? ndou > Ed inburgh,
isolated crosses and obelisks there are tmrreen cemeteries, Ul » u j u * mo mut uc* uieau^uw, ucr juujcauji muy uuuomt _i t>_- j i "xf-W-
some of them five miles distant from the cottage built for the the Bishop by letters patent. The new Bishops of Liverpool, Brastol INiewcustle-on-Tyne, :Hull, Leeds,
guardian in charge. Crosses and monuments are not unfre- Newcastle, and Wakefield are to be subject to the jurisdiction Glasgow, Aberdeen, Cork, Belfuot,
quently wantonly damaged, most probably by Tartars; the of the Archbishop of York, aud that of Southwell to the SrentoSaflSS 3 °Vi A PP 01 . 1 i t ? 1< : nt8 bc
walls have been slightly damaged bycattle, thus early after the Archbishop of Canterbury. * duly quab,lcd -
general restoration ; and the destructive effect of the weather =- ta?to the nort a? wSfe^Tw Sal T 8 J aryia ? a “ ord '
both on walls and monuments in such exposed situations UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS. rate of pay is £55 per annum. y be em P lo J ed - The lowest
must be expected to be serious. The present grant of £30 a _ v. „ . , „ , , , . , , - , , . _ F
year for repairs will, it is feared, prove inadequate for per- The Derby Memorial Scholarship at Oxford, founded m Lan- Consequent on the appointment of Araior-Genpi-nl V ft
s thirteen cemeteries,
both on walls and monuments in such exposed situations UN
must be expected to be serious. The present grant of £30 a „ „ . „ . , .. . .. T
year for repairs will, it is feared, prove inadequate for per- • The Derby Memorial Scholarship at Oxford, founded m Lan- Consequent on the appointment of Alai or-General F. S
manently maintaining the cemeteries in a satisfactory state, pasture in honour of the late Lari of Derby, has been awarded Roberts, C.B., V.C., to the Indian Frontier Commissionershin,
There are no funds provided for laying-out and gardening by the trustees to Mr. A. Milner, B. A., Fellow of New College. Colonel C. C. Johnson, Bengal Staff Corps, will be appoint'd
beyond the salary of £5 a year to the guardian. The ground The Rev. Samuel W. Wayte, B.D., President of Trinity Quartermaster-General of the Bengal Army; Colonel C. M.
round the Cathcart-Bill Cemetery, which has been ceded to College, Oxford, is about to retire from the presidency of that Macgregor, CJ3.I., Bengal Staff Corps, succeeding Colon si
the British Government, necessarily remains uninclosed. society,. ” . T ‘ v ~ ^ ^ ~
Newcastle, and Wakefield are to be subject to the jurisdiction A ortsmouth, I lymouth, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Cork, Belfuot,
of the Archbishop of Y’ork, aud that of Southwell to the and Limenck on Wednesday,,Oct. 30. Appointments will bo
Archbishop of Canterbury. th ® first thuty candidates on the list, if duly qualified.
_ Outdoor officers of the Customs receive salaries varying accord¬
ing to the port at which they may be employed. The lowest
rate of pay is £55 per annum.
Bursar, and Senior Proctor last year, is spoken of as Mr.
There were 2404 births and 1365 deaths registered in London Way te’s successor.
last week. Allowing for increase of population, the births Mr. Gladstone has made known to the senate of the nnTllM j„„ innintl j Ti ' * . . . TS, -
exceeded by 34, whereas the deaths were 83 below, the average Glasgow University his intention to give a prize of £50 for the ? ^ ^ Deputy Adjutant-General of the Royal
numbers in the corresponding week of the last ten years. The best essay on a subject to be afterwards announced. The r Major-General George Brydgcs
deaths included 6 from smallpox, 7 from measles, 29 from competition for this prize is to be open to matriculated U^ J^? andcr L - 01 ? Charles Beresford,
scarlet fever, 12 from diphtheria, 56 from whooping-cough, 23 students in any of the three sessions of Mr. Gladstone’s tenure J j a PP 01 ° t “ ent 08 8, ; C01ld
from different forms of fever, and 148 from diarrhoea. The 0 f office as Lord Rector. We are informed that there is no a d ^'^L S ' n f b d ’ n b ° 1 ^ t0 ^ act \ vn
fatal cases of whooping-cough, which had been 60 and 74 in foundation for the statement that Mr. Gladstone’s installation A^Itrniin^fataHo^ P 7 Commodore Wllson to tho
the two preceding weeks, declined to 56 last week—a lower will take place in November next. auhwubu smuon.
number than in any week since the middle of December last, . *. f th UheTgl e i eciora oi the Universities Mr - G - Muller » in b >s annual report of the working of the
Of Gl^sgowand^herdeenreridout in London lw« been^^eld* Orphan Home on Ashiey Down, Bristol, and his sfriptural
society, which he has held since 1866. Mr. Wayte will, it is Johnson as Deputy Quartermaster-General.—The appoint-
understood, go into private life, The Rev. H. G. Woods, the ment of Alajor-General Robert Bruce Hawley, C.B., as Deputy
Bursar, and Senior Proctor last year, is spoken of as Mr. Adjutant-General to the Forces, in succession to Lieutenai t-
Wayte’s successor. General R. C. H. Taylor, C.B., has been gazetted.—Mnjcr-
Alr. Gladstone has made known to the senate of the ,£ id . e ; de ; C T^ to tl J e Gaeen - Wil ?
the two preceding weeks, declined to 56 last week— a lower
number than in any week since the middle of December last,
but exceeding the corrected weekly average by 17. The
deaths from measles and scarlet fever were again considerably
below the average numbers. The 12 fatal cases of diphtheria
will take place in November next.
A general meeting of the Liberal electors of the Universities
of Glasgow and Aberdeen resident in London lias been held,
and an association formed for tho purposes of consolidating the Knowledge Institution, states that though the expense
• , . .. P i Liberal party aud of promoting all movements calculated to during the year had amounted to £42,000, the managers had
been able to close the accounts with a small balance in hand.
Since the founding of the institution £784,000 had bean
, j , ^ ,, , * . - - - * Liberal Dartv aud of Dromotini? all movements calculated to uuniie» naa ainouiiita ro tne managers liad
exceeded by one the number in each of the three preceding /^ b ^ e P t “e uSveKitSsTvsteS been able to close the accounts with a small balance in hand,
weeks. The deaths referred to diarrhoea and simple cholera, im P ro e tbc Universities syste . Since tho founding of the institution £784,000 hod been
which had been 494, 351, 268, and 201 in the four preceding The Rev. Dr. Henry, president of Belfast Queen s College, received, and 66,600 children or grown-up persons had been
weeks, further declined to 154 last week, and were 57 below has issued his report of the college for the session whioh ended taught in the various schools, besides tens of thousands
the corrected average number. The Metropolitan Asylum in June last. He refers to the prosperity of the college and benefited in other schools, assisted by the funds; 10 500
Hospitals contained 194 smallpox patients on Saturday last, its general condition as presenting continued evidence of its children and others at present frequent the schools;’ 12'f 000
showing a further decline of 19 from the numbers at the end adaptation to the progress of science and literature, and to the Bibles, 315,000 Testaments, 19,000 copies of the Psalms, and
of recent weeks ; 18 new cases were admitted duriug the week, educational demands of Ireland. Dr. Henry gives a return of 195,000 small portions of the Scriptures in various languages
agjfinst 36 and 22 in the two preceding weeks. The Highgate 463 students in the different departments, being an increase had been circulated. Upon the object of missionaries alone
Smallpox Hospital contained but 6 patients on Saturday last, on the past year of twenty-six, and on the past two an increase £169,000 had been expended from the beginning. During the
The mean temperature of the air was 6P8 deg., and 17 deg. of seventy students. He bears strong testimony to the spirit year the number of orphans had been 2193, and the mortality
above the average in the corresponding week of the sixty of harmony that continues to pervade the college and the pro- amongst them had been less than one per cent. For the
years 1814-73. The duration of registered sunshine in the fessors and students belonging to various churches, and no orphanage alone, without any one having been appealed to
week was 27‘5 hours, the sun being above the horizon 96 4 hours, instance of religious dissension has ever come under his notice, personally, £512,214 had been subscribed by the charitable.
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echoes of the week.
Messrs. Thom., Cook mid Son and their
s-sr-sHSsssj
Hue de hi Faisanderie-one of the t'ourteenhouse
has fitted up in Paris for boarding and lod ^°8 ^e shoiUs
tor themseLs at Messrs. Cook’s
look at the accommodation, and I found it <»P^*
cleanliness, solid and sober comfort, 8 J^SS^uwiI or
breakfast, and a plentiful meat and tea and cottee 8U PP >
‘‘ h?eh tea ” as the Americans call that substantial meal. I
saw g the kitchens and the bed-rooms, the parlours and the
refectories and, to my mind, everything was excellently
provided and admirably arranged. The fourteen boardmg-
houses, it is almost needless to say, are constantly thronged.
at his fingers’ ends long before he joins a Literary I s j x ironclad frigates, seven ironclad corvettes,
1 . . 11 _ l Un ofvA-n rvf Vt of f 1-1 a /vtwl of
houses,
Mr. Cook, senior, is an old friend of mine. I think: that, I
first met him in Venice in 1866, and since then I have been
personally aware of him and his tourists all
It used to be the fashion to sneer at and disparage Cook s
Tourists ” and the late Charles Lever (as “Cornelius O’Dowd
in Blackwood) once went out of his way to libel lm a very cruel
and uncaUed-for way the harmless travellers who were trotted
over Europe under the auspices of the personal conductor.
Mr. Cook has got over all that long ago, ^ I
smile at his detractors, and to forgive the shade of Charles
Lever,who^ abating a’few old-fashioned prejudices, was one
of the kindest hearted creatures that ever breathed.
I went over two or three of the. handsome suburban villas
temporarily tenanted by the “Cookists;” and the name ol
the proprietor of one of these mansions struck me with
a pleasant surprise. It was Madame St. Leon, who, as
Mademoiselle Cerrito was one of the most fascinating dancers
that ever adorned the grand era of the terpsichorean stage.
Nearly forty years ago Thomas Ingoldsby, describing the
memorable Tamburini and Coletti entente at Her Majesty s
Theatre, wrote (I am quoting from memory, mind)—
Mademoiselle Cherry toes
Shook to her very toes : . „ _ .
She could’nt hop on, so she hopp’d off on her very toes.
The delightful “ Cherrytoes”—the only ballerina whom the
austere consort of the Czar Nicholas of Russia would tolerate—
is still extant, hale, prosperous, and vivacious. Very blithely
did she come to terms with Mr. Cook. “ You are an English¬
man,” she said, “and I love England and the English.’ It is
good to think of these former Heines de la Danse enjoying a
green old age. The exquisitely graceful Duvernay, world-
famous as the dancer of the “ Cachuca,” lives still in England, |
the land of her adoption, a wealthy and most charitable Lady
Bountiful, beloved by all her neighbours; and only a few days
before I left London I met at a garden party a very sprightly
lady, Madame la Comtesse Gilbert dcs Voisins, whom more
than forty years before I had known as Marie Taglioni.
When Mrs. Partington remarked by the side of a scrubby
little plant in a Botanical Garden a little wooden ticket with
an inscription setting forth that the plant was (say) the
“ Tooraloorus Vulgaris {Linn.), introduced 1726,” the good
dame exclaimed that it was a burning shame that the poor
dear foreign gentleman had not had a better tombstone put up
to his memory after all these years. A graver injustice has
been done to the renowned chartographer known as “Mer¬
cator,” who has been waiting more than three hundred years
for a statue. At length the author of the cosmogony known as
“ Mercator’s Projection” has received a portion of his due,
and an effigy in his presumed likeness has been erected in his
native town, Duisburg. I am not ashamed to admit that until
I read this announcement in the newspapers I was utterly
ignorant as to whether “Mercator” was the geographical
gentleman’s real name or a pseudonym. It turns out that the
latter is the case. “Mercator's” name in the flesh was
Gerhardt Kremer.
“Mercator’s” projection was superseded by Malte-Brun,
just as Malte-Brun has been superseded by Keith Johnstone;
but the old geographer of the sixteenth century still enjoys
considerable prestige in Italy. His “projection,” if my
memory serves me correctly, forms a conspicuous feature in
the Hall of Maps in the Palace of the Vatican.
Mr. Cavendish Bentinck, M.P., in the course of a very
entertaining and very sensible speech at a Literary Institute
at Lytham, drew attention, I perceive, to a somewhat
injudicious rule of the institution, making it obligatory on
every reader of a newspaper to deliver it up ten minutes after
the journal had been asked for by another frequenter of the
reading-room. The regulation (which has probably by this
time been rescinded) was probably borrowed from the practice
prevailing in the cheap coffee-sliops ; and that practice was a
legacy of the days when newspapers (thanks to the stamp and
paper duties) were four, five, six, or seven times dearer than
they are now. Mr. Cavendish Bentinck preached a very
exhaustive lay sermon on the “ ten minutes newspaper read¬
ing,” but pointing out with much cogency that modem
society was, as a rule, in a desperate hurry, and anxious to do
everything, comparatively speaking, in ten minutes. Dis¬
missing, however, the metaphorical side of the question, I
have always been strongly of opinion that the Committees of
Library and Scientific Institutes would act very sensibly if
they banished the daily newspapers altogether from their
reading-rooms. I would go further; I would exclude all
novels save those of Sir Walter Scott. There is no more pas¬
sionate admirer than I am of the romances of Dickens,
Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eli ot; but youths
between sixteen and twenty-six would derive far greater
intellectual advantage from reading Gibbon, Robertson,
Macintosh, Mrs. Somerville, Froude, Carlyle, Macaulay, and
Freeman, than from lingering ever the fascinating pages of
“Bickwick,” “Vanity Fair,” and “Jane Eyre.”
Man : If the novels of Captain Marryat were not so cheap
I would make an exception in his favour. The wonderful and.
glorious naval history of the first fifteen years of this century
is writ large for all to read who run, in Marryat’s sea-stories.
But “Peter Simple” and Mr. Midshipman Easy ” (I drank
bottled stout with him in the spirit at the Vice-Consul’s house
at Teheran three years ago) can be bought for ninepence; and,
besides. I am disposed to think very meanly of an English boy
of twelve w ho has not got those renowned tales - aye, and
‘Poor Jack,” “Newton Forster/’ and “ The King's Own”
actual combat. The entire fleet of the
Marryat
Institute.
I and that whtit is known in English
“eoson" ha. .ot in with
isiigi&ss
SseSssgsgSg
whprfifls the “silly season” needs of a modern daily p p
extend over at least three columns per diem. How are those
dreadful columns to be filled? Advertisers decline to rush to
the rescue • since the present time happens to be precisely the
one at which prudent tradespeople care least about
T notice that apparently in despair at having nothing further
to say about the climate of Cyprus and the Rhodope massacre
t^o great metropolitan dailies have set themselves to the task
o7 vKating two very stale and thoroughly pumped-out
topics—the alleged grievances of commercial clerks, and the
subject of physicians’ fees.
Were I at home, and on my quotidian treadmill, I should
probably be writing Hading articles—and very sdly ones, too
on both the matters just mentioned. But my name being
still Nothing-to-Do, the woes of the clerks and the charges ot
the medicos do not, I rejoice to say, affect xne in ^e shghtest
degree. One tiny observation touching bot J passes m the
community I intend, however, to hazard. - note that a vast
quantity of nonsense has been published t°^ cl ? in o tb ® foob J'
ness of middle-class parents in making clerks of them sons
instead of apprenticing them to some trade. Phe authors o
these strictures appear to forget that a premium must be pmd
before a boy is apprenticed; and that vast numbers of young
clerks are the sous of clerks who, lacking the premium-paying
power, are constrained to turn their lads loose in the first mer¬
cantile office into which they can gam admission. How is a
luckless quill-driver at thirty shillings a week, or a Govern¬
ment writer at tenpence an hour, to find a hundred pounds, or
fifty, or even twenty, wherewith to bind his smart young son
’prentice to un engineer, or a cabinetmaker, or a grocer, l
wish with all my heart that I had been apprenticed to a
grocer.
Touching the physicians, I hold the outcry against them to
be wholly stupid, ungrateful, and unjust. The people who
grudge an eminent medical man a two-guinea fee for a lirst
consultation remind me of an enterprising capitalist who—it
is not so long ago—offered me the sum of ten pounds sterling
for the prospectus of a new periodical which he was about to
start. I told him that it had taken me some five-and-twenty
years to acquire the art of writing prospectuses for new
periodicals, and that I should be happy to oblige him tor the
sum of fifty pounds ; but that, if he thought the honorarium
excessive, I would willingly furnish him with the address of a
very clever young gentleman at Camberwell who would be glad
to write what he wanted for a guinea.
and two small gun-boats; this was its strength at the end of
the war, two corvettes having been lost, and five gun-boats, on
the Danube, surrendered to Russia under the terms of the
armistice. The most powerful of the frigates is the Massoudieh,
which was built in the Thames and completed in Chatham
Dockyard, and has been chiefly employed as guard-ship in
the Bosphorus. This ship is of equal dimensions with the
Hamidieh, the one lately purchased by our own Govern¬
ment, and now called the BeUeisle; her armour is twelve
inches thick, and she carries twelve 18-ton guns in a raised
central battery amidships, and three 120-pounder Armstrongs
on the upper deck. The Azizieh, Malimoudieh, Orkanieh,
and Osmanieh frigates were all built in England, and are
similar to one another, having armour-plating but 4$ in. thick,
and each carrying one 300-pounder Armstrong gun and fifteen
150-pounders. The Assar-i-Tefik is a smaller frigate, but
armed with four 12-ton guns and four 6-ton guns. She is of
French construction. The corvettes have 7^-in. and 9-in.
armour-plating, and carry each four 12-ton guns in a central
battery; the Fatih-Bulend, of English build, is the best of this
class._
ART.
The Liverpool Corporation Exhibition of Pictures was opened
the public on Monday. Some changes have been made in the
management this year, and Mr. P. H. Rathbone, M.P.,
succeeds Mr. Samuelson as chairman of the committee. So
far as can be yet judged, the exhibition will be a good and
successful one. Taken as a whole, the works contributed
appear to range higher in quality than on former occasions.
The Autumn Exhibition of Pictures at Birmingham, which
has opened its doors to the general public, is chiefly remarkable
for the large proportion of Academicians and Associates among
its contributors—most of them represented by works which
have passed the ordeal of criticism at the Royal Academy and
other London exhibitions. At the private view last week
“purchases were made (the Times says) on a fairly liberal
scale, considering the general depression of trade.”
An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Stockport
artists was opened in that town on Wednesday.
The Brighton fifth annual Exhibition of Modem Pictures
in Oil was opened to the public on Thursday at the Pavilion.
Sir T. Acland, M.P., on Saturday last distributed the
prizes awarded at an art and industrial exhibition at Bideford.
In the course of an address, in which he spoke with gratifica¬
tion of the means which existed for the multiplication of
copies of works of art, and of the employment of machinery
generally, he said that many persons bewailed that their lot
was not cast in the good old times of the past, but that, as one
whose recollection enabled him to go back many years, he must
confess that he believed in the present and in the future.
The four panels, designed by Boehm, to decorate the
pedestal of the equestrian statue presented by Sir Albert
Sassoon to commemorate the visit of the Prince of Wales to
Bombay were on Monday shipped on board the Avondale. The
panels, which weigh more than three tons, have been cast from
the original plaster models by Messrs. Elkington, of Myddelton-
street, Clerkenwell, and are as follow:—The first is the re¬
ception of the Prince by the native chiefs, the second is a pro-
r ■ ___- It. dLqtto nt
Mem : I don’t think that I have delivered a public lecture
more than half a dozen times in the course of my life; but I
remember going to Glasgow some years ago to talk about the __ _
United States, and Mexico, and Algeria. The Glaswegians | " na ti V e women bearing offerings in the shape of
received me with boundless hospitality, and paid me a great I cession oi native , . b , s , -
Tito, more money for my lectures than those discourses were
worth. Just before departing I received a telegram from the
secretary of an institute in a very distant part of the kingdom
inquiring if I would deliver a lecture on a given subject on a
given evening. “ If above two guineas concluded the message,
“ state lowest terms.” Forthwith I wired back, “ With m.y
panorama, a himdred guineas; with my canaries and white-
mice, a hundred and twenty.” I did not hear anything more
of the secretary of that institute.
I shall never, I hope, Btand at the reading-desk of a
lecturer’s platform again; and I never occupied the rostrum
in question without an overwhelming sensation of nervous
terror, weariness, and general aversion; but I can readily
understand the fatal fascination which magnificently paid
lecturing exercises over men of letters of real renown. ‘ ‘ I went
to America a poor man,” W. M. Thackeray used to say (he
had written “Vanity Fair” and “Pendennis” before he
went), “ and I came back with a pot of money.” This was
through reading the “English Humourists.” He went back
again with the “ Four Georges,” and made another “pot of
money.” Charles Dickens made some thousands of pounds
by his incomparably admirable public readings—and they
kiHed him. Too much express-train. Too much seven forty-
five a.m. and nine fifty p.m. on the brain. Too much agent
in advance. Too much contrasting of the receipts of last
week with those of the present one. Too much hotel break¬
fast, dinner, and supper. Too much deputation receiving.
Too much saying the same thing over and over again, night
after night, to the same kind of people. Too much gas-heated
atmosphere, black coat, and white cravat. Too much craving
for the unhealthy stimulus of applause. This surplusage of
everything will surely tell at last. It told with the most
illustrious man of letters of the Victorian era.
I hope thai^ my friend Archibald Forbes will read these
lines, all ill-conditioned as they may seem to be. Mr. Forbes
is, I understand, on his way home from Cyprus, the climate
of which delicious isle did not agree with him : and I read in
the World that he was visited en route by a slight touch of fever.
He should have gone to Corfu, which is a real sanatorium for
fever patients. But the trenchant Captain Pen of the Daily
News will soon be among us again, I hope, stalwart aud strong
as ever; and so soon as he sets foot on British shore people
will be offering him fifty pounds a night to go about the
country lecturing. I very meekly counsel Lirn not to overdo
it. A learned Judge once told a prisoner in the dock, whom he
was sentencing to two years’ imprisonment and hard labour,
that such a term of punishment would break down the strongest
man. I think that six months’ public lecturing would be quite
sufficient to break down the strongest Special Correspondent.
I should be glad to see Archibald Forbes in Paris, where (in
the centre of the Cascade in the Bois de Boulogne) I am still
residing. How we would Do nothing, to be sure !
G. A. S.
A TURKISH MAN-OF-WAR.
The Turkish ironclad fleet in the late war had few oppor¬
tunities of gaining renown by any brilliant action, but ren¬
dered important service to the Ottoman Empire by keeping
the Russian naval force, such as it is, confined to port on the
north coast of the Black Sea. One of our Special Artists
in Turkey, during the war, was permitted to visit a
squadron at the time of practising the series of ma¬
noeuvres, rehearsed at stated periods to instruct the
flowers and fruits, tlie third the Royal arms, and the fourth a
huge square panel bearing the following inscription:—
“Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, K.G.C., C.S.I., in com¬
memoration of the visit of his Royal Highness to India, 1875-6.
Sir Albert Sassoon presented this statue to his fellow-towns¬
men of the loyal city of Bombay.” The panels were sub¬
mitted to the Prince, and received his hearty approval.
The Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society
held its thirtieth annual meeting last week, the excursions
having been to the principal buildings of archaeological interest
in the neighbourhood of Bruton. The society has above 500
members, and the Rev. Canon Meade has succeeded Bishop
Clifford in the presidency. Among the places visited has been
a small and quaint old building at Witham, near Frome,
known as the Guest House. The parish church of Bruton was
the subject of a paper by Mr. Carpenter, who said the edifice
was one of the finest examples in the district of the style of
architecture prevalent at the end of the fifteenth century, and
for which Somerset and Dorset are famous. The works in con¬
nection with the restoration were described, and stated to have
so far cost £4500. The fine old Abbey ruins, the Abbot’s
house, and Hugh Sexey’s Hospital were visited, and a very
ancient and important cartulary of Bruton Abbey was intro¬
duced to the society by Mr. John Batten, of Aldon.
The ecclesiastical art-exhibition during the meeting of the
Church Congress in Sheffield will be in two divisions. The
first will be devoted to the exhibition of ecclesiastical art in
all its branches, at manufacturers’ expense ; and the loan col¬
lection will be displayed in a villa adjoining the main building,
and will be open for the reception of works of a purely eccle¬
siastical character.
The jury of the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris met lait
week to decide upon the sketches furnished by the pupils of
the School of Fine Arts in competition for the priaes for
historical painting and landscape founded by M. Jauvin
d’Attainville. Each prize is of 25001'. The subject in the
former class was “ The Miser who Lost his Treasure.” Out of
nineteen competitors, ten were admitted to the final trial. In
the second category the subject was “ Evening in a Clearing
in a Wood.” Nine young men were admitted.
The retiring pension of the Marquis de Chenneviferes, late
Director of the Fine Arts in France, has been fixed at 5000f.
Vice-Consul Dupuis, in his report made this year on the
trade at Susa, Tunis, in 1877, says :—“ Nothing has rewarded
research among the antiquities in the country. I have
secured the marble statue of one of the Emperors, dis¬
covered some years ago, but lost again from being buried
up in rubbish, and, so baffled the endeavours of the
author of ‘ Travels in the Footsteps of Bruce ’ when here
to discover. It stands 5 ft. 3£ in. high from the knees, where it
is broken off. Two winged figures and the head of Medusa
are beautifully sculptured on the breast. This has led some
to suppose it to be one of the Christian Emperors ; but I am
inclined to think they represent the Gloria). I have had it
fixed up in my office.”
Dr. Schliemann is said to have obtained permission from
the Greek Government to commence certain excavations at
Ithaca.
wellnigh by heart. A young Englishman should have his j officers and crews in the operations they Would have to
There have been several denths by drowning during the
past week. A sad accident occurred on a lake adjoining
Brymston House, Somerset, the sent of the De Vesci family.
Three young ladies were rowing on the lake, when the boat
capsized. Two of them were rescued, but the third, Miss Ellen
Ponsonby, third daughter of the Hon. Spencer Ponsonby Fane,
aged eighteen, was drowned.
SEPT. 7, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
227
TERRIBLE COLLISION ON THE THAMES-
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
The necessity of adopting effective safeguards to render the
navigation of the Lower Thames free from danger was pain¬
fully exemplified last Tuesday night, when the large saloon
Bteam-boat Princess Alice was run into below Woolwich by
the screw-steamer Bywell Castle, and sank in about five
minute* after the collision, with several hundred souls on
board.
It was a bright, mellow autumnal day, and the fineness of
the weather tempted a great number of persons to spend a
holiday in a trip down the river to Sheemess in the Princess
Alice, the saloon-boat in which the Shah of Persia visited the
docks five years ago. The Princess Alice (a light iron vessel,
219 ft. 4 in. in length, 20 ft. 2 in. in breadth, and with a
net tonnage of 158 tons, built by Messrs. Caird, of Greenock,
in 1865) left London Bridge in the morning about eleven
o’clock, and carried her light-hearted freight of six or seven
hundred pleasure-seekers in safety to Sheerness, and some
distance past Gravesend on the return voyage. There were
whole families enjoying a quiet holiday in this way, the num¬
ber of children on board being remarkably large. As darkness
began to gather over the river, the high spirits of the pas¬
sengers did not diminish. A band played lively airs, and the
popular tune of “ Nancy Lee ” was struck up as the saloon-
boat drew near Woolwich, between seven and eight o’clock.
Captain Grinstead, an officer with twenty years’ experience on
the Thames, was keeping a good look-out ahead from the
paddle-box. The lights of the Princess Alice shone over the
darkening waters; but there came an uglybend in theriver; and
ahugeblackscrew-st earner was seen bearing down on the saloon-
boat, which was thronged with humanity. “Hi! hi! hi! Where
are you coming to?” shouted out Captain Grinstead at the
top of his voice. But the warning cry was too late. Just off
what is known as Tripcock’s Point, a bend in the river less
than a mile below Woolwich, and almost on the identical spot
where the Metis, belonging to the same compapy, was run
down some ten years since, the Princess Alice was 11 rammed”
by an iron screw-collier, named Ihe Bywell Castle, bound in
ballast from Mill wall Docks to the Tyne, she being at the time in
charge of a pilot named Christopher Dicks, of Stepney. The
huge iron vessel appears to have come full tilt on to the
Princess Alice, striking her on the starboard side, near the
sponson, and almost literally cutting her in half, and causing
her to sink in about 18 feet of water in something like five
minutes. The scene that ensued is stated by those who wit¬
nessed it as being simply indescribable. The screw-steamer
appears to have at once stopped and thrown over her life
buoys and lines, afterwards lowering some boats, in which
some of the survivors and a number of dead bodies were picked
up. There happened, fortunately, to be a few shore boats in the
vicinity, and they rendered all the assistance they could, which
was, however, but little comparatively, so many of the unfor¬
tunate travellers being imprisoned in a similar manner to the ill-
fated mariners of the Eurydice, where they were drowned as in
a trap. The steamer Duke of Teck, belonging to the same
company, which was running on a similar service to the
Princess Alice, was about ten minutes behind her ; but when
she arrived it was too late to be of much assistance. She,
however, took on board the survivors and dead bodies that
were on board the Bywell Castle, and conveyed them
to the Arsenal Pier, where the bodies were laid out in
the board-room of the company’s offices; and the wants
of the sufferers were attended to at the Townhall and
other places, prior to their being dispatched to their homes.
Quite 500 are estimated to have been drowned, but the exact
number of the dead may not be ascertained for some time—
indeed may never be known. As soon as possible after the
calamity the police formed patrols along the banks. Mr.
Wrench Towse, superintendent of the London Steam-Boat
Company, assumed the direction of affairs, although he him¬
self had lost his wife and four of his children.
Some of the survivors saved their lives by swimming. Two
brothers, named Wiele, narrate in vivid terms how they escaped
by means of their familiarity with this readily-acquired art.
Their accounts being virtually identical, it will suffice to quote
the statement of one of the brothers. Mr. Herbert Augustus
Wiele says:—“I was on the saloon deck, aft, but looking
ahead. I heard a shouting, when I saw the huge hull of a
steamer coming upon us, towering high above our saloon. She
struck us amidships on the right-hand side, and then we seemed
to lie still for a minute. I ran down the companion-ladder
and got to the extreme after part of the boat, and I took off
my boots ready to dive. The passengers were frantic, and
I tried to pacify some of them, for I did not think we should
sink, and I think the people got a little quieter; but in three
or four minutes our vessel parted in the middle, and she seemed
to double up. The part where 1 was rose so high in the air
that I was almost afraid to dive. I shut my eyes and plunged
in, taking a long dive to get clear of the people in the
water. I had seen them eliding down the decks before
I leaped. Our vessel seemed near the north shore
just before the accident, and we were not steaming
at all, for the captain had stopped to avoid another vessel
which had just shaved us, and before she could go ahead this
other one came upon us. The captain and officers shouted,
* Where are you coming to ! ’ and she drove into our side.
When I came up after diving the Princess Alice was not to be
seen, but I wiped the water out of my eyes and saw my
brother. We swam together to the screw-ship and got hold
of a rope, which some one threw over to us. The screw had
stopped, and did wliat it could to save life; but it did not
lower any boats. I saw four or five men on board, and they
said they had no boats. Themoney-taker of the Princess Alice
climbed up the chain of the funnel when the accident took
place, and got on board the screw as she came crashing in, and
I also saw one of the stewards catch hold of the anchor-chain.
I believe these two Afterwards came ashore. My brother and I
got faint clinging to the rope, and let go. We swam about
till we got hold of a boat, and dragged on there for awhile,
until at last the man in charge of the boat took us in. We
were taken on shore at Barking Creek and lodged at the Crooked
Billet. We were in the water about twenty minutes. Before
there was any apparant danger I saw two clergymen on the
saloon-deck singing hymns, and the fellows down aft were
singing songs. The captain and crew were all steady.”
The Bywell Castle (an iron screw-steamer of 892 tons net
tonnage, 254ft. 3 in. in length, 32 ft. 1 in. in breadth, and
built by Palmer, of Newcastle, in 1870) belongs to Messrs.
Hall, of Newcastle-on-Tyne. She returned up the river on
Wednesday. The By well Castle looked a long, knife-bowed
tteamer such as could easily cut so frail a pleasure-
craft as the Princess Alice in twain with the slightest
touch of her sharp prow. Her master, Captain Thomas
Harrison, gives the following account of the deplor¬
able collision:—“Immediately I saw the collision was
inevitable I stopped the engines, and ran for’ard myself, and,
finding the people on the forecastle were doing all they could,
hauling people over the bows and saving life, I came aft again,
got together the chief engineer, the cook, the donkey-man,
and the steward, and sang out to get the boats out, and
assisted to get the starboard after-boat out, which was soon
done. By this time we were joined by some passengers who
had been saved from for’ard, I calling loudly for help
all the time, and superintending the getting out of the
boats. After getting out the starboard after-boat we
got out the port after-boat, and afterwards the port life¬
boat. I had the ship’s duties to attend to, and had
to run on to the bridge, and look after other things
myself. I kept giving just all the direction I could. Saving
life was the main object. I did not care about running on
shore, but we saw we did not run into other vessels to do
damage. The people were like bees swarming round us. I
think the boats took the people on shore. I do not know
how many were saved. The three boats I have mentioned
would hold seventy people, but they were not full.
The life-boat was so long getting out—it was so heavy—
that it was of very little use. I anchored just below
Barking Reach. My vessel was drifting down with
the ebb tide all the time. I anchored there, determined to
abandon the voyage, and return to London and make all the
report I possibly could. I weighed anchor again at eight
o’clock this morning (Wednesday), it having been foggy, und
made fast to Deptford buoys a little after nine, and then came
on to Loudon. Our ship is perfectly uninjured; a little paint
is alone scratched off, that is all. The other vessel was just like
an eggshell. She broko right up when touched. She was
totally unfit for her business. I had none of her passengers
on board during the night. They had all gone, either in
boats or in the Duke of Teck. Two or three were much
exhausted when they came on to my vessel. One poor
fellow had lost his wife and four children. About eleven
o’clock Mr. Chapman, the North Sea pilot, suggested taking
one of our boats on shore, and seeing if he could
be of any further assistance. He went ashore at Beckton and
found twenty-two bodies lying in a factory covered with bags.
He could not do any good, so he returned. I say most em¬
phatically' that, so far from my abandoning the wreck, I gave
all the assistance I could. I anchored, abandoned my voyage,
and have now come up to London. My own opinion is that
the cause of the collision was the Princess Alice improperly
starboarding her helm when she ought to have continued her
course on the port helm. If she had continued her port-helm
cour»e she would have kept clear. The By well Castle had no
weight in her, only water ballast. She was going to the north
to load coal.”
The Princess Alice (which was insured for £8000) was on
Wednesday morning discovered lying on the north of mid¬
stream ; her upper gear was visible, and she had eight feet of
water over her deck at low tide. The Thames Conservancy
flag floated above her, and she bade fair ta be speedily lifted,
for she lay right in the fairway. The divers said she was in
three pieces. A sad and anxious crowd of relations and friends
of the dead swayed to and fro in Woolwich on Wednesday
from the Pier to the Townhall. It was wisely determined
by the Coroners of the several districts to collect together
the bodies from the outlying places and group them in a
large open shed in Woolwich Dockyard. From Rainham,
from Erith, from the Lawes chemical works, from the North
Woolwich Gardens, and from Beckton gasworks, about sixty
bodies were collected. There were on Wednesday twenty-
eight at Woolwich Townhall, twenty-one at the Pier, and four
in a neighbouring tavern, the Star and Half-Moon. Thus 113
bodies had been recovered, and every hour since has added to
the number.
A black museum hns been formed at the Townhall, Wool¬
wich, consisting of various articles of male and female apparel.
' in an adjoining room were the twenty-eight corpses, twelve of
which had been covered with white sheeting, to signify that
they had been identified. The others lay in various attitudes,
but all with the left leg bent at the knee, and nearly all with
the left hand thrown forward. The faces were composed, but
much discoloured. A fair-haired woman had u gold watch and
chain and a locket laid on her breast.
The inquest was opened on Wednesday by Mr. C. J.
Carttar, Coroner for West Kent, in the Alexandra Hall,
Woolwich. The jury viewed the bodies and the spot where
the Princess Alice sank, and heard evidence as to the identifi¬
cation of the dead before adjourning till Thursday.
Her Majesty the Queen no sooner heard of the disaster
than she telegraphed for particulars to the Board of Trade,
and all the information in the hands of the London Stcam-
Boat Company was at once forwarded to Balmoral.
The board of the London Steam-Boat Company, which
ordinarily meets once a week, had at the time of the accident
a fortnight’s vacation. Mr. Edwin Hughes, an ex-director,
being on the spot, has, however, been exerting himself to the
utmost to circulate descriptions of the dead and missing. Mr.
J. Orrell Lever, another director, has addressed a letter to
the Lord Mayor, in which ho states that the Princess
Alice was in charge of a captain who had been twenty
years in their service. During the last ten years, he
adds, the company’s steamers had carried 200,000,000
passengers, exclusive of over 300 private excursion parties
every year, and not a single life (previous to the catastrophe
of Tuesday night) had been lost by neglect on the part of the
captains or other servants of the company. In a calamity
affecting so many bread-winners, he asks the Lord Mayor to
convene a public meeting, and to receive subscriptions towards
alleviating the sufferings of the survivors and their bereaved
families. Captain Pelly, R.N., has subscribed £100 ; and Mr.
On-ell Lever’s first subscription is £100; Mr. B. Barrow has
subscribed £100; Mr. Murray Aston, £50; Mr. John Maun,
10 guineas; Mr. C. E. M’Kenna, 10 guineas ; Mr. B. Nichol¬
son, Mr. E. Walker, and “ A. P.” have given like amounts.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
A terrible accident occurred last Saturday at the Sittingboume
station on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. A
cheap fast train leaves Ramsgate for London at half-past eleven
every morning: but on Saturday, in consequence of the great
number of holiday-makers who were returning home, the
train was divided into two portions, the first starting from
Margate at twenty minutes before twelve, and the second from
Ramsgate at half-past eleven. The first part of the train
performed its journey safely ; but the second, which consisted
of a powerful engine, foui teen carriages, two luggage-vans,
and a brake-van, and carried about 300 passengers, came into
collision with a goods-train on approaching Sittingboume
station. The goods-train had arrived from London, and had
to leave some trucks to be sent on to Queenborougu. I he
shunting operations were being conducted upon the down
line entirely, and the signals on the up line signified
that all was clear for the second part of the train irom
Ramsgate. While, however, the vans of the luggage-train
were being shunted, a guard engaged in the work pulled
the wrong lever, which sent them right across the up line,
in front of the approaching train, which at that moment was
seen advancing at the rate of forty miles an hour. Seeing
what had happened, the signalman put up the danger signals,
the senior guard of the goods-train ran forward to stop the
Ramsgate train, and the goods engine-whistle was sounded.
Tho driver of the passenger-train immediately reversed his
engines, and the brakes, which are said not to have been con¬
tinuous, were put on. But the notice was too short, and the
Ramsgate train dashed full into two goods vans standing across
the line. The force of the concussion was so greut that the
engine and tender were tlirown off the line, the tender was
bent shapeless, and the three first passenger-carriages—two
third-class and one first-class—were completely smashed.
Five persons were taken out of the ruins of the carriages dead.
They are—Mr. Corbett, of 7, Nutford-place, Edgwarc-road;
Mrs. Brown, of North-terrace, Oxford; Mrs. Over, of 36,
Loughborough-road, Brixton ; a boy named Frederick Knivett,
of Whitfield-street, Fitzroy-square; and a domestic servunt
named Robinson, of Rugcley, Staffordshire. Between thirty
and forty other persons were injured, and were removed to a
neighbouring infirmary or to private houses in Sittingboume.
A Coroner’s inquest has been held on the persons killed,
and the jury has returned a verdict to the effect that the
catastrophe was caused by the culpable negligence of Moden
and Clarke, the guards of the goods-train; and they have
been committed to Maidstone Gaol to take their trial at the
Centra] Criminal Court on the charge of manslaughter.
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
The London Conservatoire of Music gave on Monday last
the first of a series of four quartetjconcerts at Langham Hall.
The Guildford coach having been taken off the road for
the season, the horses are announced to be sold at Tattersall’s
next Monday. They are nearly all young horses; there are
two or three match pairs, and several young hunters.
As one of the river steamers, Citizen M, wac drawing near
the landing-stage at Westminster on Monday afternoon, u
passenger, who was sitting on the rail of the gangway, lost
his balance, nnd fell into the river between the bout und the
pier. James Harper, one of the hands on board, plunged iu,
and saved the man’s life at the imminent risk of his own.
Sir J. D. Hooker, in a report on the progress and condition
of Kew Gardens during 1877, states that his experience of the
management and working of the Royal Gardens, extending
over upwards of thirty years, led him unhesitatingly' to the
belief that neither the collections nor the grounds could bo
maintained up to their present standard if the public were to
be admitted in the mornings.
At a meeting of the council of the Royal Agricultural
Society held yesterday week at the offices in Hanover-square,
it was resolved that prizes shall be offered at the next show lor
the best breed of goats, and that additional prizes shall be given
for the best harvesting machines. Considerable satisfaction
was expressed at the steady influx of subscriptions, £425
having been received since the last report.
Next Sunday (to-morrow) the lists of persons liable to serve
as jurymen for the year 1879 will be placed on church doors,
and continue for 6ome days. Persons who are sixty years of
age can claim exemption by giving notice to the parotbiul
officers and attending a petty session to make their claim both
as to official position and as to age. Unless the names are
removed from the lists the parties will be liable to serve.
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows that
the total number of paupers at the end of the fourth week in
August was 76,733, of whom 38,618 were in workhouses and
38,115 received outdoor relief. Compared with the correspond¬
ing weeks in 1877, 1876, and 1875, these figures show a
decrease of 296, 337, and 5893 respectively. The number of
vagrants relieved on the last day of the week was 764, of
whom 496 were men, 207 women, and 61 children.
Some Roman remains have recently been discovered during
excavations at No. 9, Walbrook. The City 1’rcsa says that one
is a well, about 22 ft. in depth, the upper portion of the circle
being constructed with K entish rubble, and the lower, to the
extent of about 10 ft., being lined with chalk, without cement
or other material between the courses. A Roman jug, very
light and curious ; the lower portion of a wine or watercooler
(the latter made of Purbeck stone), and some pieces of tesse-
lated pavement were also discovered.
In the City of London Court on Wednesday Mr. Clegliom,
a merchant iu the City, sought to recover £1 from the Great
Eastern Railway Company, the amount of deposit left with
the company as a guarantee of the return of a season ticket
at its expiration. The contention of the defendants was that
the deposit-money had been sacrificed on account of the ticket
not having been, returned till a few days after the proper time,
the plaintiff being in the country. MLr. Bcsley tound for the
plaintiff for the sum claimed, with costs, and refused to allow
any appeal.
A fire broke out on Tuesday at Castle Baynard Wharf, in
Thames-street, Blackfriars, in the stores of Messrs. Price, oil-
merchants. From the inflammable nature of the contents of
warehouse the fire spread very rapidly, and all efforts to subdue
it were unavailing, though a number of steam fire-engines and
two steam-floats poured immense quantities of water into the
flames. The burning oil flowed alight into the Thames, and
the craft upon the river had to be moved. The warehouse,
about 45 ft. by 120 ft., was completely burned out and the rooi
destroyed, and great difficulty was found in suviug the adjoin¬
ing property. The fire was got under about seven o’clock.
A sentence of eight years’ penal servitude was on Tuesday
awarded, at the Surrey Sessions, to Frederick Payne, a tailor,
for feloniously breaking and entering a dwelling-house and
stealing various articles. On the apartment occupied by the
prisoners at Acacia Cottage, Park-street, Camberwell, being
searched, Detective Hunt lound concealed under a loose board
in the flooring of a cupboard 119 keys tied up in bundles, and
apparently classified. Of these fifty-nine were skeleton and
the remainder ordinary keys. The officers also found several
files, a small hand vice, a knuckle-duster, a life-preserver, a
thin piece of steel such as was used for pushing back window-
catches, and £5 in gold and silver.
During the month of July the fish-meters appointed by tl.e
Court of the Fishmongers’ Company seized, at or near Billings¬
gate and on board boats lying off that place, the enormous
quantity of 117 tons 11 cwt. of fish as unfit for human rood.
Of this nearly 107 tons had come by land, and the remainut r
by waiter. The fish numbered 76,750, and included 24 bream,
14 brill, 938 cod, 159 crabs, 3200 dabs, 5 doreea, 81 grayling,
4500 gurnets, 4962 haddocks, 10 hake, 11,675 herrings, 0 ling,
2701 lobsters, 460 mackerel, 3601 plaice, 125 shaUn, 1 thuix,
200 smelts, 130 soles, 7015 thornbacka, 190 trout, 53 turLoi,
and 39,400 whiting ; and, in addition, there were seized i"20
bushels of periwinkles, 120 of whelks and 18 of mussels, 426
gallons of shrimps, 7741b. of eels, 256quarts of whitebait, 5 lb.
of prawns, 1 barrel of anchovies, and 3 casks of goldfish. The
whole quantity was promptly destroyed.
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. family of Princes, who reigned as King 8
- ' the time of the Crusades. The
Cathedral 8 Church of St. Sophia, as shown by
but the choir was destroyed by the Turks when
™S P in token of which stand the lofty
minarets rising high above themaontChrirfinii
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nobles. There is little else in the town worthy
of remark - the streets are narrow, squalid,
and wretched in appearance; but the situa-
Sn to a fertile plain sheltered by noble
mountain ranges, has some natural attrac¬
tiveness when viewed from outside the waUs
The east gate, which is that by which Admiral
Lord John Hay, with his staff, escorted by
a party of bluejackets and marines fromher
Majesty’s ship Minotaur, made his entry to
take possession of Cyprus for her Majesty
Queen Victoria, has received the name o
‘‘The Channel Squadron Gate.
crateway or rather entrance to the town, from
fhe Saca road, is shown in the remaining
sketch with a portion of the old city walls
We may here notice that Mr. Stanford has
published an excellent coloured map of Gyp™,
showing its administrative districts, and the
ancient sites which have been identified ; with
accompanying small maps of the geology and
agricultural occupation of the Hand, and plans
of its towns. _
POLITICAL.
At a large meeting of Conservatives held in
Port-Glasgow on Thursday week a Conserva¬
tive Association for the burgh was formed of
which Mr. John Reid, shipbuilder was elected
president, and Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart vice-
president.
Yesterday week the Marquis of Harrington
presided at the annual meeting of the Craven
Agricultural Society, held at Skipton, in 1 ork-
shire. He said that it was a matter of pleasure
and satisfaction to find himself, alter an
arduous and protracted Session, once more at
Bolton Abbey, among the healthy lulls and
moors of Craven. In proposing the principal
toast, he confined himself chiefly to agri¬
cultural matters, but at the same time justified
the action of the Liberal party in discussing
and ensuring the modification of the provisions
of the Cattle Diseases BUI. He said the course
which they took was for the interest of the
agricultural classes as well as of the whole
community. All they desired was to secure
that no needless restriction was placed upon
the importation of foreign cattle. If there
arose a suspicion that the price of meat was
raised unnecessarily for the benefit of a single
class of the community, there would be an
agitation throughout the country that would
sweep away aU protective restrictions against
the spread of disease.
The Conservative Association of Oxford, to
the number of about one thousand, dined
together yesterday week. The speakers in- ,
eluded the Earl of Jersey, Sir Charles Russell,
V.C., M.P., Mr. Hanbury, M.P., Mr. A. W.
Hall, M.P. for the city, and several leading
Conservatives of the county and city. The
meeting was most enthusiastic. Favourable
references to the Earl of Beaconsfield and the
foreign pobey of the Government were received
with much applause, and the determination
was expressed to bring out Conservative can¬
didates at the next election.
The Oxford North Ward Liberal Association
entertained Mr. J. W. Chitty, Q.C., the future
Liberal candidate for the second seat, at
dinner last Saturday afternoon, at^Kcnnington
1 sland, a few miles from Oxford. Mr. B ucku eld,
president of the Liberal Association, occupied
the chair, and was supported by several mem¬
bers of the Corporation, and about three
hundred of the various associations. Mr. Chitty
met with an enthusiastic reception, and in
responding to the toast of his health he cen¬
sured the policy of the Conservative party and
lauded the conduct of Mr. Gladstone.
On the same afternoon the members of the
Oxford Working Men’s Conservative Asso¬
ciation, to the number of about one thousand,
dined together in that city. The speakers in¬
cluded the Earl of Jersey, Sir Charles Russell,
V C., M.P., Mr. Hanbury, M.P., and Mr. A.
W. Ball, M.P.
Sir Hardinge Giffard, the Solicitor-General,
addressing a meeting of his constituents at
Launceston on Saturday evening spoke prin¬
cipally on the Eastern Question. He de¬
nounced Russia as un unscrupulous Power
bent on a career of aggrandisement, and con¬
demned the conduct of Mr. Gladstone, which
he said, he had reason to believe was dis-
i p, roved of by the great bulk of the Liberal
pu-ty.
Mr. Mundella made another attempt at
addressing his constituents on Monday even¬
ing, and succeeded. In consequence of the
i p position a week ago, the Liberal Association
i f Shi ffield arranged that the address should be
delivered at the Albert Hall, and that admission
ah ould be by ticket. This course was pursued,
and the hon. gentleman was thereby secured an
ssar rsas? e— wM^had
taken place during the last two years. It had
been cfahned for the English pl enipotonrianes
that they had obtained peace honour,
but judging from what was now going on in
Bos’nim 'Herzegovina, Greece, Crete, and the
Rhodope Mountains, it did not look very much
like it.
The annual meeting of the Ro J a ^
Lancashire Agricultural Society was held on
Tuesday at Lancaster, under the presidency of
Lord Winmarleigh. Colonel S taQl ey, Secre¬
tary for War, replied to the toast of the Houses
of Parliament. He avoided any referenceto
party politics, and expressed his aarisfaction
with the present attitude of the country,
which, he believed, in this hour of repose gave
full credit to the Government for the good
efforts they had made for the preservation of
the peace of Europe. Lord Winmarleigh spoke
in approval of the action of the House of Lords
in regard to the Cattle Bill, but admitted that
it was unwise to array town against country
upon a question in which the good of the people
was concerned, and he expressed a hope tha
the modifications which the House of Commons
had made in the measure would prove satis¬
factory and beneficial to all parties.
Mr. Cowper-Temple, M.P., speaking at a
gathering of Liberals at Romsey on Tuesday
evening, referring to the Eastern Question,
said that there were two policies before the
country, and asked which had been earned
into effect. Certainly not that which aimed
at the independence and integrity of the
Turkish Empire—that had been completely
abandoned; but the principle, though the
details might be different, of the very bag-
and-bagguge policy of Mr. Gladstone, wlioin
people were taking every opportunity of vilify-
ing and misrepresenting. The bringing the
power of England to bear upon the civilisation
of Asia was a commendable object, if only it. [
could be attained ; but he believed the scheme
would turn out to be all moonshine. The
ruling races of Turkey in Asia would take care
of that. Cyprus would never be worth what
we should spend on it, much less the enmity
and jealousy which its occupation had created.
Addressing his constituents at Hammersmith
on Wednesday night, Sir Charles Dilke ex¬
haustively reviewed the legislation of the past
Session of Parliament, and, alluding to the
Eastern Question, condemned her Majesty’s
Government for not having boldly adopted one
of two inteHigible policies—either supported
the Turkish Empire, not for its own sake, but
as a bulwark against Russia; or broken with
the past, and made the Greeks the proteges of
England in the same manner as Russia had the
Sclavs.
took the first prize and the company silver |
badtre Private S H. Davies the second prize,
and Pnvate W. Letherem the third. Twenty
competitors of H (Captain Marrass) company
of the 3rd London fired at third-class distances
for the company prizes, which were won as
followFirst and company silver badge,
Sergeant Knight; and the remainder by
Private King, Corporal Sturgess, Lance-
Corporal Sharp, Private lmckney, Pnvate
Smith, Corporal Seers, and Pnvate Hills.
On Saturday also a large number of the
best shots of the 2nd, or South Middlesex,
proceeded to the ranges at Caterham Downs
and competed for many valuable prizes, com¬
prising the first series of the regimental, the
challenge cup presented by the hon. chaplain
of the regiment, and a prize of £20 given by
Mr. George Goodwin. As at ltainliam, the
weather was very unfavourable on the Surrey
downs, but some excellent shooting was made.
The prize was won by Corporal T. Pullman.
In the monthly jewel competition of the
South London Rifle Club, at the Nunhead
ranges, some good shooting was made with the
Snider. The club is composed of most of the
best shots of the metropolis resident in South
London. Captain W. Morris, of the 3rd Kent,
was the winner of the gold jewel. Private J.
Nathan, London Rifle Brigade, was second and
won the club Bilver jewel; and Sergeant W.
Tuke, Queen's (Westminster) Rifles, secured
the third honour, the bronze jewel.
The annual prize-meeting of the A company
(Lieutenant C. A. Thimm’s), 2nd London, took
place at Rainham last Saturday for a valuable
series of prizes, including four cups won by
the company for largest musters at special
parades of the battalion. Private Richardson
won the company silver medal and badge.
The Worcestershire County Association had
their annual prize-meeting (the thirteenth)
last week on Hurtlebury-common. The shoot¬
ing occupied two days, seventeen companies
entering the lists. The chief prizes were
those given by Earl Beauchamp, called Lord
Elmley's prizes. The prize-winners were
Lance-Corporal W. Noake, fourteenth com¬
pany, £10; Private J. Smith, thirteenth
company, £7; and Corporal T. Wliitehouse,
seventh company, £4. The following were
the winners of the prizes of £5 each for
efficient members:—Private G. Dickson, fourth
company; Private W. Walters, twenty-first
company; and Corporal W. Middleton, second
company. The prizes for the best shooting
corps in the county, ten men from each corps,
were won as follows:—Worcester, thirteenth
company, £10; and Wolverley, first company,
£5. The leading prize, £5, of the association,
prize for members only, was won by Surgeon
Parnell, of the fourteenth company. The
other leading winners were Sergeant-Instructor
C. Hall; Trooper T. B. Hobbes, Yeomanry
Cavalry; and Sergeant J. F. Partington,
Volunteer Artillery.
AGRICULTURAL SHOWS.
The annual show of the Royal Manchester,
Liverpool, and North Lancashire Agricultural
Society was held near Lancaster on Tuesday.
According to the verdict of the judges the
show was a great success, the animals and
machinery exhibited being quite up to, if not
beyond, the average. At the luncheon, which
took place in a large marquee erected on the
ground, there were more than 400 guests. Lord
Winmarleigh, as president of the society, occu¬
pied the chair, and was supported right and
left by Colonel Stanley (the Secretary for War),
and Mr. W. Lowther, M.P.
The eighteenth annual show in connection
with the Derbyshire Agricultural Society
(under the presidency of the Duke of Devon¬
shire) was held in the Cattle Market and
Holmes’s Ground, at Derby, on Wednesday,
and was the most successful exhibition on
record. The previous day’s show was devoted
to a grand display of horticulture and an exhi¬
bition of machinery in motion, implements,
poultry, roots, &c., while Wednesday was set
apart for cattle, horses, sheep, and pigs, as
well as the j umping competition for hunters,
which forms so important a feature in exhi¬
bitions of a similar character. The schedule of
prizes had been prepared on an elaborate and
liberal scale, amounting in round numbers to
close on £900.
Viscount Valentia presided at the annual
dinner of the Bicester Agricultural Associa¬
tion, held on Wednesday. Earl Jersey, Colonel
North, M.P., and Mr. Harcourt, M.P., were
present.
The finest exhibition of stock that ever took
place under the auspices of the Fermanagh
Agricultural Society was held in Enniskillen
yesterday week, and there was a large attend¬
ance of farmers of the county. Lord Crichton,
M.P., president of the society, Lord Cole. Mr.
Archdale, M.P., Captain Archdale, Mr. J. G. V.
Porter, and other gentlemen connected with
the society, were present, and the secretary,
Mr. Henry M. Richardson, was, as usual, at
his post. Horses and horned cattle made an
exceptionally fine show.
A statement of the election expenses in¬
curred on behalf of Mr. Albert H. G. Grey,
the Liberal candidate at the late election for
South Northumberland, has been delivered to
the High Sheriff, the returning officer. The
total is £8136. The chief items are:—Con¬
veyances and railway passes, £3126 ; agency,
£2114 ; committee-rooms and expenses in¬
curred therein, including clerks, canvassers,
and messengers, £1443; and printing, ad¬
vertising, and stationery, £977. The remainder
includes postage and telegrams, and the share
of the Under-Sheriff’s fees and expenses. The
total is less by £1536 than the amount paid
on behalf of . the successful Conservative
candidate.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
The annual prize-meeting of the Hon. Artillery
Company of London was held at their range
at Park, Tottenham, on Thursday and Friday
last week, when the foUowing competitions
were decided:—The £10 10s. prize presented
by the Hon. Mrs. Lindsay was won by Private
T. Munn. Colonel Loyd-Lindsay, M.P., V.C.,
prize value £15 15s., was won by Private T.
VVace. The prize presented by the Prince of
Wales, Captain-General and Colonel of the
regiment, value £20, was won by Private J. A.
M'Kenzie. Major Defrics’s prize, value £5 5s.,
for the highest aggregate in the three above
competitions, was won by Corporal C. E.
Lewis. The long-range prize, value £8, was
won by Private W. H. Webb (No. 1 company);
and the President’s prize, value £5 5s., by
Private H. Hawkins.
At the City rifle-ranges at Rainham, Essex,
last Saturday, upwards of one hundred com¬
petitors of the 2nd and 3rd London Rifles fired
for a long list of prizes. Like the previous
Saturday, when the Holms’ Challenge Trophy
was contested between the three principal East
London rifle battalions, the weather was again |
most unfavourable, rain descending heavily
throughout the morning, and being followed
in the afternoon, just as the competitors
reached the butts, by a severe thunderstorm,
accompanied with torrents of rain. In A
company of the 2nd London, Private Richard¬
son made the highest score. He takes the
silver medal, but was run pretty close by
Lieutenant Hodgkin. In D company of the
same regiment there were two series of prizes,
one being specially arranged for recruits, one
of whom made the top score of the company
and took the most coveted prize of the meet¬
ing, the silver badge. Drill points were added
to the shooting score, and in the first match,
open to the veterans, Private Hendersou
and Lance-Corporal E. B. George were
equal. In the recruits’ series, Private Lawrence
THUNDERSTORMS.
Yesterday week London experienced another
thunderstorm, and there was a violent down¬
pour of rain, with a high wind. In some parts
of the country where the storm raged also
people were struck with lightning, and much
damage lias been done to the crops. A storm
passed over the North Riding of Yorkshire.
A gentleman named S. S. Pocock, who resided
near Windsor, while out in a boat in Scar¬
borough Bay, was struck by the lightning and
killed. In the afternoon a severe storm passed
over Kendal, Westmorland, and the neigh¬
bourhood. A dwelling-house at Hawes Farm
was struck, the lightning entering by the roof,
and passing into a room occupied by three
persons. One of them, a servant-man, was
rendered insensible, and a servant-girl sus¬
tained serious inj ury in the right side, so that
for a long time she was as one partly paralysed.
A daughter of Mr. Lancaster, the occupant of
the farm, was burned in various parts of the
body. At sea a terrific gale blew, in which a
French fishing-boat wus capsized and her crew
drowned, besides other fatalities.
During a thunderstorm last Saturday after¬
noon two labourers in the employ of Mr.
Bennion, a farmer, near Leek, were killed by
lightning while reaping wheat.
A well - dressed man, whose name, from
papers found upon him, was discovered to be
Lucas, and who is supposed to be a clerk in
the Admiralty, was found by a shepherd’s dog
on Saturday evening in one of the defiles of
Woolmer Forest. The deceased, who carried a
knapsack, had evidently been killed by light¬
ning. His clothes were nearly burned off, und
his watch was melton into a shapeless mass.
The contents of his knapsack were burned, and
only the cane frame remained.
A new institution, called the St. Margaret’s
Club, for working men, which has been founded
at Tyler’s-green, Buckinghamshire, by Sir
Philip Rose, Bart., was opened on Wednesday
by Lord and Lady Carington.
The “ gambling hells ” question was again
discussed by the Brighton Town Council on
Wednesday. The result was a statement by
the Town Clerk that the Watch Committee had
never had sufficient information to act upon.
The Mark Lane Express of Monday night
takes, upon the whole, a favourable review of
the harvest prospects. Work in the north has
been delayed by rain ; but it is questionable
whether very much damage has been done in
the midland counties, although sprouting is to
be feared. A large quantity of wheat has been
secured under favourable conditions.
SOCIETY.
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The Trustee* and Judges appointed lor carrying into effect the
‘ ‘ "it- Will ot the late Captain George Archibald Taylor,
to the income arising from the sum lieu neat lied by
romotionof Art in Ireland, have fixed the term*
... £120 will he awarded in the year 1879, in Two
Scholarships and Two Prizes to Art 8tudents. ^
him for the
upon ‘* '
Particulars will
e furnished on application to
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The Working Men’s Club and Institute
Union formally opened on Monday a “ Seaside
Home ’ ’ which it ha6 provided at Margate, to
supply members of working men’s clubs in
London, and their families, with good and
cheap lodgings at the seaside.—The Right Hon.
G. Cavendish Bentinck, M.P., performed the
ceremony yesterday week of opening at
Lytham a handsome new Working Men’s In¬
stitute, which has been erected by voluntary
subscriptions at a cost of £3000. He referred
to the great importance of such institutions
to the country, and strongly urged on liis
hearers the necessity of thorough knowledge,
and not thut superficial knowledge a ten¬
dency to which was only too common in these
days. Mr. Hodgson l’ratt, of the Working
Meu’s Club and Institute Union, London, also
spoke on the utility of working men’s insti¬
tutions and on the necessity of working men
taking a proper position in social, intellectual,
and political life.
n application.
The rate for shorter periods can be ascertained
F. Laiikwouthv, Managing Director.
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S NEW FA BB IC9 AND FA9HION8 FOB AUTUMN. " ~ ~
ILKS, DRESSES, MANTLES (jHARLES GASK and CO. (Limited), 58
.COSTUMES. ’ ^ to S3, Oxford-street; lto6, Wells-street. London.
peter XTEW COSTUMES. “
ten thousand pieces of coloured, black, and
* EW THE
Now roudy, with Illustrations by the Author, Frederick Walker,
nt . , , BROCADED SILKS, ^ *
ol extreme richness^ ustud prices. **. «d. to Mi., will be sold
Damassls of the newest dcsigns.^suapprico, 3s. 6d., at
1000 PIECES (If Kill PONGEES,
with rich Embroidered Srum-g to?trimming, 39g. 6d. complete.
610 pieces Rich 811k Embroidered Cashmere, at 3s. Od.’per yard; ’
MO PIECES INDIANpSnGEEWASHING SILKS,
every variety.—42, Piccadilly. '
T--—=-~' ™' 1 ' M T ’S£ WWXnSp °™. 56 ' Cheapside"
THE tor r-— ai«Kas
andMDte££?- WithIUnstraU °“*» Goor * eDq M ® arl «' Q.ARDNERS’ NEW DINNER and TABLE
“ F< £ P £ C sZ?l''jy th V n , KnbiCbap. XLIT.—Walking fS^ihoCt^tST’ 0 ' 11 ^ 1 ^"'*® DlMerSerrtS?'Dorn
V?, i X.LIII.—Faiut Heart wins Fair Ladv Set for twelve persons. complete, with is Der cent diT
B!ando^ua^ tMU6lC ^" 0D - XLV - A ^hmiderboit fn
DINNER SEUVicL
The Centaurs. Parti. By 8. Colvin.
Rose Cherril: An Exile's Love Story.
Age of the Sun and Earth.
Ooino and II Mcdeghino.
Child s Play.
Within the Precincts (with an Illustration). Chap. XXII -
A^Chanco for Law. XXIII.—Good Advice. XXIV .—J
Ixindon: Bhith, Eldeb, and Co.. IS, Waterloo-plaoe.
DINNER SERVICES.
Coloured Lithographs post-free.
Discount - - « 6 0
TheOn^Xu^d^d™ 9 - I ^^WCrowt
sss issw
r [E BLUE bell' SERIES ol new jSSSSaftSf!. ? ! 2 isga,
NOVELS-A SIMPLE MAIDEN. By LESLIE KEITH The Sevres .. ..770
illustrated by W. J. Henneasy. The Fifth Monthly Volumo Is Discount 5 per cent.
The BLUE BELL SERIES has been und<
TABLE GLASS SERVICES.
VERY FASHIONABLE THIS SEASON.
T>ICH VELVET VELVETEEN.
J - b 300 pieces fast Black, >cry wide,
All tho new Rich Shades of Colour! 'Js.^Gd^to Is. 6d. per yard.
CASHMERES AND CASHMERE -MERINOS,
pOR AUTUMN DRESSES.
A special purchase. In Block and all the new colours,
•mounting to several thousand pieces.
Very wide, at Is. lid. to 3s. Gd. per yard.
'TRAVELLING and SEASIDE DRESSES.
Witney, Estamcne, and Angola Serges,
Fancy Casiinirs, Rich Poplins,
New Autumn Moss Clutiis, and other Novelties,
In endless variety, 10s. Od. to 31s. Gd. tho Dress.
* A NEW FABRIC IN BLACK.
/"7REPE CASHMERE (Registered).
__ A , *?, ost f 8 ®? 1 ! Material, in six designs,
speciaUy adapted for this season's Costumes.
Full width. Is. Od. per ySrd.
NEW FABRICS FOR PALETOTS, Ac.
AUTUMN DRESS FABRICS.
_ Tho Latest Fashions are now lieing daiiv nwl»«i
Pricra Horn ad. to 2s. Gd. per yard, line French°aJ&
__J^^^ts. ,s. Ud.. 2s. Gd.. and 2s. 1,3.
OEALSKIN PALETOTS, ULSTERS &c
*** Several Hundred line Boal«kln Pulftntid fUnali '
30 v n ‘ l0 yS5* »*/piiwa*. KmJllcr riiw in proiUirtlon? 1 *
UUtoru. 27 shades of colour, all wool,
MOURNING DEPARTMENT.
1,X .,?')!?,*f te8t , m ?< k ' s In Costumes. Skirts. Ac., as well ns
prices. New Costumes' Uhnmod'wilh^iSiit’iilIJ!?^
tomed?X'uS. r 3fto?g,dne^ f mournl '*e' rt “ J > *«»
Experienced liresainnkers sent to any distance free
of cliarge, to tnko orders. J wnce, iree
MEW MANTLES.
no^^sk 1 eai
Long Ditto, handsomely tnmm.d lj and ?iuhm'„
An immense varietvuf richly braidetlond cinbioidcruj
31 ant leu and Juckiid. 24 to 10 guima*. a
_ Patterns and Sampl es of all goods free.
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carriage'entrance,
_ 0, Wolls-stroet.
ols** Hair on l>tild llmtls. (W tttamp.H.—UN'WJN and AT
Perfumers to tho Royal Family ,17. Regent-street. ALJJ EHT,
T ADIES’ THIN HAIR.-New registered
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THE MONASTERY. With 37 Illustrations N(
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OUR NATIVE LAND: Its Scenes an
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nillarney. <
PEARS’ TRANSPARENT SOAP. For tlic
-*- Toilet, the Nursery, and for Shuvlng. Refilled free
from excess of alkali »i If a rt t! il r,
delicately and wholesomely perfum'd it is SoapTn
"WALKER'S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES
Paris isj^ SfSSwTN 11 0 * bcr8 ' PrUe Medals—London, 1862,
1 uriB, 1867. bluer W atchefl,from £44 b. ; Gold, from £6 6a Prlco-
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Men^desNight-Dress.2*. llW.eaeh; or three for8s. 9d.
La lieine N iglit-Dress, Trimmed 6cotch Work and
* nllmg. 3». Iijd l acli; or three for 11s 4d.
200 dozen Trimmed Drawers, Is. lljd. each; or three for
AMONG THE FLOWERS, and Other ' ; 220, Rcsent - atrect • atwnd.
-IX Poems. By FRANCIS W. I10URDILLON. rwTrTrs IT~I
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COCIAL NOTES. Edited byS. C. HALL, afojfviuk^aussfwbhS;
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COdAL NOTES This Week, No. 27, PatentLeverW.t^r^M^d^d. £1 14 G
contains:— Ditto,Jewelled In four holts, ami capuul .. a a n
Portrait of Wnberforce. Tho Corps of Commissionaires. Ditto, the finest quality. jeweUed in six holes ..’ 880
Biographical Sketch of Wilber- S. C. Hall, F.S.A. bllver Watches in Hunting Cares, 10s. Gd. extral
,, , The Pollutionof Rivers. Urqu- r , . . , Gold Watclies.-Sizo ror Ladies.
FashionnWo Slang. Charles hart A. Forbes, Barrister-at- L?T er batches, with gold dial, Jewelled _ .. UU 0
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Lower Marsh. Leith Derwent. Notes on Current Events, Ac. ., Gold Watches.—Size for Gentlemen.
all Chemist**, and by Poors, til, Gi
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'YY'RIGHT’S COAL-TAR SOAP
shapes, in soirlct, white, and grey, at 6s. Ud„ in every
Illustrated Lists of Underclothing.
-eras. Samples, and nil information poet-free.
634.536,636, and 637, Now Oxford-etreet, London, W.O.
COCIAL NOTES.—Each Weekly Number
Sketches tho Life, and gives tho Portrait, of some Public
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SILK AND VELVET DEPARTMENT.
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7000 yards Rich Coloured Vclvehens, 60 different shades.
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Use. freedom from infections diseases is secured ; the complex Ion
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TT OOPING-COUGH.—ROCHE’S HEIiBAL
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__ T7AU DE CHYPRE.—PIESSE andLUBIN. tb « “f bfiSSS TNDIGESTION
pOTTERY-PAINTING: a Handbook to IE! n^e A it .. conch
£,JSff JIT °* ?*>» ■pSdJl°p2S2 , ?r ^in P . r ‘s C nk Costume Velvets 6s. „„ PE.^In 2 w
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.umposition of whlCb
orafciry of Piesse and
out perfumes can be
Ti DJAPHANIE.—An easy and inexpensive Method t>f Dtoo- --
Dwelflii^h'by'which^may'^he'prod'iiced tho'ltkl^fcolourfrigan*d T HE C0URT HAIR DESTROYER.-This
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TRUTHS ABOUT WHISKY. Contents: “TheLCnffi
„ Chap. I .—The Position of the Authors. Chap. II.-The f TCI 7 “if Urey or White Hair to its original colour, withouo
Qualities and Popularity of Genuino Dublin Whisky. leaving the disagreeable smell of most “ Restorers." It makes
Chap. III.—Tho Peculiarities of the Dublin Manufacture: tho the hair charmingly beautiful, as well as promoting the growth
Water Supnly. Chap. IV.—Patent Btills and Silent Spirits. of the hair_on bald spots where the glands are not decayed. Ask
water Supnly. Chap. lV.-Patent Btills and Silent Spirits.
Chap- V—The Growth of Silent Spirit Into Sham Whisky.
Chap \ I.— I ho Relative Wholcsomeness of Whisky and of Silent
Spirit. Chap. VII.—The Action of the Chancellor ot tho
Exchequer and of Parliament. Chap. VIII.—The Action of the
Special Parcels of 27 in. Silk Costumo Velvets, 6s. lid.
the yard; former price, los.
BJack Satins. la. old.. Is. 6Jd., Is. lljd., 2s. Gjd., and
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H omoeopathic domestic (iA]
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"OREIDENBACH’S ABRONIA.—The New
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40s. per Bottle. Breldenbach's JIACASSARINE, invaluable for
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Of all Chemists, and the Makers, 167n, New Bond-street. W.
TJAKER and CRISP’S
D BILKS and SATINS, Is. lljd. to 6s. &
"RAKER and CRISP’S
-L> VELVETEENS and CASHMERES, 1
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It is conclusively ascertained that LAOTO.
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In a manner perfectly Identical to that obtained
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‘‘A glance at the Formula of LACTOPEPTINE
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pancreatine, hydrochloric and lactic acids, It Is a
combination of all the digestive agents; con¬
sequently. can never bo administered without
giving the utmost satisfaction; for If there is a
deficiency In tho system of all or any of there
agents, LACTOPEPTINE will supply It, and
thus assist in digesting the food, enabling
the orgunstliat produce these principles of diges¬
tion to restand recuperate their relaxed energies."
—From " Practical Medicine and Surgery." July,
1877. LACTOPEPTINE being presented In
saccharuted form, is most agreeable to the taste,
and can be administered even to the youngest
child. The price of the LACTOPEPTINE Is
4s. Gd. per one ox. bottle. (An ounce bottle con¬
tains forty-eight ton-grain doses.) If any dif¬
ficulty 1s experienced in obtaining LACTGPEP-
TINK from your Chemist, communicate direct,
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piLLS
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PURIFY THE BLOOD,
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No. 118.—(MIXED SERIES, No. 1.)
long (Contralto) Juanita ., .. .. Mrs. Norton,
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Jong (Tenor, { T fc' n
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•• An immense Improvement In arpeggios.
The rapid passages in the upper register, the
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perfect repetition were very effective. - '—
Figaro.
"Sir Julius Benedict, now seldom heard
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He played upon a new Patent Grand by
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TOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS’
GOLD MEDAL PIANOS,
with the Patent Perfect Check Bcpretcr Action.
“A metal bridge of a peculiar form Is
used to produce the treble, and a much finer
tono Is elicited than If a wooden Uridgo
were used.”—Morning Poet.
•• Beautifully light and elastic touch, and
an instant repetition.”—Globe.
"This Invention U simplicity itself."—
The Queen.
•' Receive the greatest approbation every¬
where of musicians and manufacturers."—
The Standard.
J OHN BRINSMEAD and SONS’
PATENT "PERFECT CHECK REPEATER ACTION."
Pianofortes of every description manufactured expressly for
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POSTAL ORDER DEPARTMENT.
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;VL 82APARVS RETROGRADE MARCH TO DOBOJ.
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SUPPLEMENT TO THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Sept. 7, 1878.—233
THE AUSTRIAN ARMY IN BOSNIA: SKETCHES BY QTTR SPECIAL ARTIST.
THE AUSTRIAN CAMPAIGN IN BOSNIA.
STS3S*WSSSSom an Austrian officer who
disbanded Turkish soldiery, was --- - we
Regiment and 47th Infantry Reserve. P , , ; an( j ’ one
ri”r?had been tlFe scene, three day. beg^ “J
iiss|t|gss
^ q iCt b the«Touid“be any forcible n*t«°e *“*2
taken pTioners at Zcpce, questioning them about their mten-
tions and the forces of the confederacy to which they belonged.
Thtatathe Pome which our Artist sketched on the spot and
of wh^h U furnishes an The «*“**£
lowed have already been told ; the battle of the> 16th at Han
Relalovac, and the storming of Sarajevo on ^e 19th, wi
terrible slaughter among the infuriated defends
At the same time, the insurgents
ioined by the Turkish garrison of Livno, fought with an
Aistrian detachment under General Csikos, but were repulsed
with some loss, and both those towns were afterwards taken
Austrian left wing, consisting of the
20th Division, c mmtnded by General Szapary, has not been
so successful Its task was to advance from Doboj, on the
Bosna, in a south-east direction, by way of Tuzla, to Zvornik,
a fortified town on the Servian frontier, which was held by a
powerful hostile force. General Szapary has been compelled
to fall back from Tuzla to Gracamca, and thence to Doboj,
recrossing the river Bosna, and finding; some difficulty in
securing his retreat. Our large Engraving, which forms the
Extra Supplement tor this week, represents a scene that
occurred during this retrograde movement, which was attended
with some confusion. General Szapary’s division on the 13th
inst. was vigorously attacked. The assailants were repulsed, but
on the following day the division n evertheless continued its march
to Doboj on account of alack of ammunition. The troops, who
were worn out with fatigue, effected the march in excellent
order, though they were constantly harassed by bands of
insurgents. All the wounded officers and soldiers and the
entire train were safely brought back, though in accomplishing
this task the troops, with much labour and self-sacrifice, had
themselves to drag or push the waggons along over very bad
Muds. We learn that on the 23rd ult. the enemy again
at.farked the position of the 20th Division on the right bank of
the Bosna. The fighting lasted nine hours. They first assafied
the left flank, and appear to have intended gaming the bridge
across the Bosna, but they were repulsed at the point of the
bayonet by two companies of Austrian troops. At the same
time, an attack was made on a portion of the Austrian centre,
but finally the insurgents were everywhere repulsed.
The conflict between Maglai and Zepce, on the 8th inst.,
which we have mentioned as the subject of another Illus¬
tration, took place at a point where the road cuts across a
broad bend in the river and over an extremely wild and
mountainous country, which the Turks defended inch by inch
with valour and desperation. Their numbers are fixed by the
Austrian staff at from 5000 to 6000, among whom was a large
force of Turkish regulars, with several officers in full uniform.
They also had several pieces of artillery and some cavalry.
The first attack was made in the morning, near Maglai, and
began withafuriousandwell-directedartilleryfire, which covered
the head-quarters, and for a time placed General Philippovich
himself in great danger. Under an infantry charge the Turks
fell back to their n» xt position. In the meantime two flanking
columns had been put in motion, one on the left of the valley
of the Bosna; while the other, on the right, skirted along the
ridge of hills overlooking the pass. Both were infantry.
The second engagement was in the afternoon, and the
musketry battle lasted over an hour. Here a detach¬
ment of Turkish regulars, nearly 400 strong, was cut
off and captured. Two Turkish staff officers were severely
wounded, and Adjutant Kuriu, of the Hartung Regi¬
ment, was killed. The prisoners were escorted back to
Maglai by a detachment of the 27th Jiiger battalion, which
laptured them. They are an unusually fine-looking body of
nicu and intelligent, and explain that they were forced to
fight by the insurrectionary Government of Serujevo. They i
were led by a Major, but Iiadji Loja, the head of the ;
Nrajevo revolt, was on the field, and had the chief command.
At the third attack, which took place on the heights above i
Zepce, the enemy were swept round the base of the mountain I
into the river, which they swam across, and escaped in the |
direction of Vranduk. Darkness and the nature of the country
made pursuit impossible.
According to the Correspondencia de Espana, the late Queen
Christina has left a fortune of eight millions of francs, which
is exclusively inherited by the children bom of her marriage
with the Duke of Rianzares ; her other daughters, Queen
Isabella and the Duchess of Mont.pensier, having already
received ad that was due to them at her death.
It appears from the annual report of the Commissioners in
Lunacy, recently issued, that the total number of registered
lunatics, idiots, and persons of unsound mind in England and
Wules on Jan. 1 last was 68,538, being an increase of 1902 on
those returned for Jan. 1,1877. The number of male lunatics
was 31,024, and of female lunatics 37,514. The pauper lunatics
numbered 60,846,and 7692 are described as “ private patients.”
ThiB last class includes the soldiers, sailors, and criminal and
other lunatics maintained at the expense of the State.
The mortality returns for England and Wales in the year
1876 record the death of 183 men and 409 women registered as
95 years old and upwards when they died. Fourteen of the men
had reached 100 or upwards, and one, who died at Mountain
Ash, was 106. Forty-three of the women had completed a cen¬
tury of life or more, and one, who died at Sedgefield, in
Durham, was 108 years old. Their respective ages were:—
Four men and twenty-one women, 100 years; two men and
seven women, 101; five men and four women, 102 ; two men
and three women, 103; two women, 104 ; three women, 105 ;
one man and two women, 106 ; and one woman, 108. Six of
the persons, one male and five females, who had reached 100
or upwards, died Ifl the London districts.
FRENCH PICTURES.
Everybody may
Pictures in English Chalk, by t d au thor, publisher,
Paris” (Smith, Elder, and Co.)-reaaer, aut ^ ^^ but
printer, bookbinder, and ^pecia 8ke ' telie8 ; in each
one volume, and it contains b much of actual incident
of those sketches, however, ther originality and fresh-
andof prejman mucK worldly know-
ness, bo much of hre ana vig , act description, so
ledge and ripe expenence so much t p P 88en tial
much of picturesque ,51 Jf social, political, or
spirit whether of romance or 8a Jf e > °\^ ^ 0 P uld almost
issssrji -as
s^TbS > cVt a ^o« s« f bouttb.
land” of France at the date of the Crimean VVar, the vtd g -
conclude th.t the
French, as a nation, were somewhat indifferent and langu ci
about it • unless, indeed, which is unusual with the Fren.li,
we are to behove that their indifference a “ d , ^me over
them as soon as they had tasted blood and had gatherid a tew
sheaves of glory. Under such circumstances they are wont to
i._ *v. p hitter end. However, all this matters little, so
far as the story is concerned. The second War^i
a real or fictitious incident of the Franco-German War .a
German officer loves a daughter of .France, wlbosh*outs hi
down for her country’s sake; but in death they we not
divided, she exposes herself to a shower of lead mid falls in
the arms of victory. The third is a 8t° r y °f J F re^h
marriage; and, though it is well told, it will make
Srge demands upon the credulity of the reader, whom
it will moreover impress in a manner her
Mademoiselle Viviane de Barre as regards her samtyandher
intuition; and, as regards the same quahties to women in
general, when they happen to be under the influence of 1
the deluder. A tale of married lite naturally follows, a tale
of a disobedient wife, of a husband who is a sceptic in
religion, of a flirtation, of a duel, of a reconcfiiation, of an
implied conversion : it is of slighter texture and o
material than those which the author is accustomed to exhibit.
Of the rest it is probable that most favour will be vouchsafed
to the story called “ Justin Vitali s Client., in wlnch ^ Pro¬
ceedings connected with a French “cause celebre and the
character of a French advocate, a Corsican by birth, are
portrayed to the life, and an innocent woman is rescued
from the jaws of death and from the clutches of so-called
justice. The title of the last story is A Romance b) hum-
light,” which has an unpleasant, slangy appearance and sound,
so that it may be well to remark that it refers simply to the
blazing rum around a plum-pudding, which had been P re P^ r cd
by some worthy French folk in honour of an equally worthy
Englishman. Howbeit the story is by no means the best of
the bunch,
the pages, are less liable to be affected by consideration for the
ace of those for whose gratification they are intended: what¬
ever is picturesque, whether it be a building, or landscape, or
human being or any other animal, or a collection of all these
is as well suited to the eye of the adult as of the child. Be it
remembered, moreover, that trips, whether to Normandy
or elsewhere, are often, if not generally undertaken by
the adult for the advantage of the child. Having thus
vindicated the character of the book, one should lose
no time in observing that “it was written soon after the
war of 1870,” lest misapprehension should lead to disappoint¬
ment. The contents of the book are soon summed up ; it is
“ the story of six months in the life of four children ’ whose
mother “was especially anxious they should learn French
and who, with that and other ends in view, it may be supposed,
left one fine day, their home by the Thames and started, by
wav of Southampton, to St. Malo. Thence “to the curious
old town of Dol, where they were to commence their diligence
journey into Normandy.” They reached a little Norman town
and were soon domiciled in a little Norman house on the out¬
skirts • and there, without any difficulty, they learned more
French in a fortnight than they would have acquired in a year
at home. They also made the acquaintance of Nanon, an old
woman at a neighbouring farmhouse, and Batou, a dog, and
other bipeds and quadrupedd; and they had a music-master
and a governess, and they saw strange sights, and they played
outlandish games ; and, on the whole, they had a good
time ” if not a very eventful one. However, it was an event¬
ful period; Sedan was looming in the distance; and one
Francois, a humble friend of theirs, found that his “ number
had been called” one day in August, and that he had to set
out on the morrow for Brest. They heard “the man of
Sedan” prayed for in the English church as “Napoleon the
Third, now a prisoner in the hands of his enemies, but cursed,
instead of prayed for, by his own people, inasmuch as every
one high and low, united in abusing him as having betrayed
and sold them ; ” and soon after this they returned, by way of
St. Lo and Cherbourg, to their own country. And so ends the
account of a summer in Normandy—an account simple and
adventureless, but presenting a pretty picture likely to be
■ appreciated by children and their mothers.
Whether the author of “The Member for Paris had or
had not a hand in the composition of the articles which form
the contents of Round About Prance, by E. C. Grenville
Murray (Macmillan and Co.), does not much matter, but the
author of one might very well be the author of the other, so
closely do they resemble one another in point of spirit and
style, and of intimate acquaintance with French life and
French institutions. “Round About France ’ consists of a
series of papers contributed, for the most part, to the Daily
News and dealing with subjects upon which English readers
should be eager to receive information, especially when it is
conveyed in so agreeable and interesting a form, and rests, if
there be no mistake, upon unusually trustworthy authority.
The topics upon which the author discourses, in his light and
airy but instructive fashion, are very many, and they are so
treated that the study of his remaiks will enable the ordinary
English reader of newspapers to peruse the “ French intel¬
ligence” with double interest and double understanding.
Among the most interesting of the articles may be mentioned
those relating to the French newspapers, to the prevalence
and the customs of the duel in France, to the peculiarities of
French legal procedure, and to matters connected with
elections. In the course of remarks upon duelling in France it
was almost inevitable that the name of the notorious M. Paul de
Cassognac should occur ; and that irrepressible duellist’s blood-
Ihirsty propensities are traced through the hereditary channel to
his maternal grandfather, M. de Beauvallon, a Creole of Guada-
loupc, who transmitted his fighting propensities to his son.
I M. de Cassagnac, of the“Epoque,” under the reign of Louis
Philippe, and, through that worthy, to his grandson, the re-
1 doubtable M. Paul. It appears that M. Paul has fought at
j least fifteen duels (perhaps more); that he has, nevertheless,
'• refused more challenges than he has accepted;” that “he
1 has not yet killed anybody ; ” and that among the well-
known persons with whom he has declined to fight are Licu-
i tenant Lullier, now in New Caledonia, who publicly slapped
his face; and M. Clemenceau, one of the members for Paris,
who is renowned as a swordsman, and is the more dangerous
from being left-handed.” He challenged M. Gambetta, who
disdained even to reply. Such a career is eminently calculated
to bring the practice of duelling into contempt, unless it can
be explained how a “ man of honour ” can, without losing caste,
pick and choose, his antagonists, according, as it is insinuated,
to their skill with their weapons, and sit down quietly under
the disgrace of having received a public slap on the face and
as having been treated as a creature beneath contempt. The
case ot M. Paul, as represented in the volume under con¬
sideration, is paradoxical to the verire of absurdity and gro-
tesqueness. It is cunous to find such a man included among
the “ French Orators ;” but there he is, and it is declared of
him that he “ might from his nerve become a capital speaker,
were ho less inexperienced, bumptious, and aggressive ” How
long ago this estimate was written, there is no saying; but
M Paid must by this time have had a tolerable amount of
experience. There are some very acceptable “ Recollections
of M. Thiers; ” aud altogether the volume contains a great
deal of excellent reading.
The type aud the style fully bear out the description given
1 of a Summer in Normandy with my Children: by Mrs. Charles
Ellis (George Routledge and Sons), that it is a little work
“ originally intended for publication in a child’s magazine," but
l illustrations, of which there are two or three soattered among
WORCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
The arrangements for this provincial music meeting are now
complete, and the festival will open, as we have previously
intmiakd,^on Tue^g 7^.^ derive8 e8pe cial interest from the
fact of the suspension of the usual oratorio performances m
1875 when the opposition of the Dean and Chapter and other
powerful influences succeeded in bringing about a return to
the primitive conditions from which the ihree-Choir Festivals
arose, more than a century and a half ago ; the performances
having consisted only of cathedral services and anthems ren¬
dered nn rely by the choristers, with organ accompaniment.
For many years efforts have been made at each of the three
cath.dral cities, but especially at Worcester, to suppress the
oratorios, including the engagement of eminent solo singers
aud orchestral performers ; and, as already intimated, these
endeavours succeeded three years ago Since then however
a powerful counter-movement has been made by the civic
authorities and other influential parties who were “ '° f
the festivals being given on the extended plan wb.ch had pre
vailed for the greater part of the period of then: existence—-and
the result has been the restoration of th ®. ^wf^toth^
to its wonted importance. The steps which have led to the
acquiescence of the Dean and Chapter and the Bishop have
been from time to time reported, and it now only remains for
us to detail the arrangements that have been made for the
are Male. Alta-1, Mi-e.Aim,
Williams, Mary Davies, aud Bertha Griffiths, Madame 1 utey,
Mr. E. Lloyd, Mr. Guy, Mr. Wadmore, and Signor Fob.
The nucleus of the chorus will be, as usual, supjjhed by
the members of the three choirs, who will be largely
by choristers from London, Birmingham, Oxford, Bradford,
Let The a orche8tm t w-ffl'consist of about seventy of the most
eminent performers, headed by M. Sainton as prmcip
solo violinist, and including other well-known m^here^four
Opera aud Philharmonic bands. In accordance with precedent
the cathedral organist of the city in which the fesrivM is lidd
will conduct the performances, the office m thui case being
filled, as heretofore, by Mr. Done. Mr. C. H. Lloyd ( or g“^
of Gloucester Cathedral) will preside at the organ, except
at the early morning services, when Mr. Colbome (or^mst
Hereford Cathedral) will so officiate, besides acting as piano
forte accompanyist at the evening concerts. p , . .
Among the stipulations made by the Dean ^ Chapter m
acceding to the revived importance of the festival,it-was ogre
that the celebration should open nnd close with special
services in the cathedral, early morning and evening servmes
being held therein in the intermediate days of the week, as
Dettingen “TeDeum,” Purcells juDiiate m y,
anthem, “ Blessing, Glory, Wisdom, and Thanks, adaptt
from one of Bach’s motets for double choir. On Tuesday
evening the first part of Haydn’s “ Creation Mozart *
“Requiem,” and Mendelssohn’s “ Lobgesang ( Hymn
Praise ”) will be given in the cathedral; where ^ Wednesday
morning, “ Elijah ’ will be performed; on Thursday
Armes’s short oratorio, “ Hezekiah.” Mendelssohns hymn
“ Hear my Prayer,’ and Sphors oratorio The Last Judg
ment;” and on Friday morning Handels Messiah, tne
Festival closing in the evening with a apecul senuce the
musical portion thereof including a “ Magnificat and Nunc
Dimittis,” by Sir F. Gore Ouseley, and an anthem by Dr.
Stainer, both composed expressly for the Festival.
On the evenings of Wednesday and Thursday miscellaneous
concerts will be given in the College Hall. The programme
on the former occasion includes Sterndale Bennett a cantata
“The May Queen” and the first movement of Beethovens
violin concerto, to be performed by M. Sainton. At the eecon
concert Miss Done is to play Ktrmdale Bennett a P ianafor ,
concerto in F minor. A list of 150 stewards, headed by
Bishop of Worcester (president of the festival), affords amp
guarantee that the expenses of the performances will be mo
should the amount received lor tickets fall short thereor
very improbable result. It will be borne in mind that it
only bji the collections made at the cathedral doors
donations that the benevolent object of these festivals
realised—the benefit of the widows and orphans of the P<m rt ’ r
clergy of the three dioceses associated therein—Gloucesic ,
Hereford, aud Worcester. . -
The important restorations effected in the cathedral,
the many beautiful additions therein since the festival ol loi .
SEPT. 7, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
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THEATRES.
PRINCESS’S AND THE AQUARIUM.
Theatrical management in these days has become rather retro¬
spective than progressive, and the past overbears the present.
One might have supposed that the change that has taken place
in American government since the publication of Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe’s story of “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin ” had rendered
rather inexpedient a revival of the subject, whether in the shape
of novel or drama. But what is the actual fact ? A new
version of the play, by Messrs. Jarrett and Palmer, as
acted at Booth’s Theatre, New York, is now placed simul¬
taneously on the stage of two London theatres—at the
Princess’s and at the Aquarium. The same play and the
same actors appear at the two theatres in succession on
the same day. At both theatres we have Mr. Charles H
Morton in Uncle Tom, Mr. Charles Warner in George Harris,
Mr. Harry Hawk in Lawyer Marks, Mr. J. H. Rowe in Simon
Legree, Miss Dolores Drummond in Eliza, Miss Mary
Bates in Topsy, Miss Edith Wilson in Cassy, Miss Fanny
Denham in Aunt Ophelia, and Miss Carrie Coote in Eva.
This altogether is a brilliant cast; nor are the inferior
niles less efficiently interpreted. Besides this, there are
first-rate spectacular arrangements and artistic specialities,
which, though they increase the length of the per¬
formance, also increase its popularity. In addition
to a considerable number of European and American artistes,
have been imported “a host of genuine freed slaves from the
Southern States of America,” who appear together in an
original plantation festival scene. The plaintive songs of the
slaves, to adopt the language of the programme, are “ sung by
carefully selected bands of Jubilee singers, including the un¬
rivalled Louisiana Troubadour Quartette, the Four Jolly
Coons, and the Richmond Camp Meeting Choir.” To crown
these extra arrangements, “ the greatest banjo player in the
world, Horace Weston,” takes a conspicuous part in the enter¬
tainment.. Realistic scenery, painted by William Perkins,
combine, with other signal stage-illustrations, to augment the
general attractions—the last and finest representing the
apotheosis of. Little Eva. One serious drawback necessarily
attends the dialogue—namely, its semi-religious tone, which
somehow docs not suit well the moral air of the playhouse.
One nigger melody, though a genuine example, we believe,
is remarkably profane, os burlesquing a sacred topic, and
causing indecorous laughter. In all other respects the
getting-up at both houses is as effective as it is costly. The
speculation is a bold one; but in all probability its success
mil equal its daring.
GLOBE.
On Saturday this house opened under the manage nent of Mr.
Alexander Henderson, already conductor of the Criterion and
Folly Theatres. Planquette’s opera of “ Les Cloches de
Corneville ” was revived, with new scenic andspectacularacces-
sories, and was received with great applause. A new two-
nct play by Mr. Joseph Mackay, entitled "Mayfair and Rag-
fair,” preceded its representation. The signification of the plot
or plan of the play is obvious enough, but the structure
nnd treatment suifer from incoherence and incongruity to an
extent which puzzles more than usual the mind even of an
intelligent audience. There is in it an old Jew usurer,
Emanuel Goria, who also passes under the name of Mopus
Mo’, and does business both in the West and East of London, I
in the-latter as a marine-store dealer and receiver of stolen !
goods. He has a daughter, secretly married to the expectant
Earl of Penmawr; a pretender to the earldom, Mr. Trefusis,
being also a candidate for her hand, who contrives to take in
the Jew in his character of Goria, and indeed to effect his ruin.
But the cunning Hebrew finds compensation os marine-store
dealer, as such receiving plate offered for sale by his own thief
of a butler, as also £1200 for the support of his daughter's
child. Mr. Fernandez ably sustained the burden of the per¬
formance in the part of the fraudulent hero; nevertheless, its
success must be pronounced as rather equivocal.
Mrs. Bateman announces that her tenancy of the Lyceum
terminated last Saturday, and that her lease lias been trans¬
ferred to Mr. Henry Irving, who she hopes may conduct the
theatre to still higher distinction and a state of complete pros¬
perity. We trust that Mr. Irving will correct some errors in
management which have recently provoked severe remarks in
more than one journal.
The proceeds of the first Gaiety matinee this season,-on
Saturday next, Sept. 14, will be devoted to the benefit of the
Hospital for Sick Children. All the company have kindly
given their services. The programme will include the Dampier
children in " Helen's Babies ” (first time in England), and all
the Gaiety favourites in a farce and Byron’s burlesque, “ The
Bohemian G’yurl.”
The Duke’s will be reopened this (Saturday) evening with
a dramatic version of Victor Hugo’s “ Les Miserable,” pro¬
duced under the title of “The Barricade.” The stalls have
been abolished, and prices reduced to all parts of the house.
Messrs. Charles Wilniot and Clarance Holt are the new lessees.
Messrs. Maskelyne and Cooke have increased the value and
effect of their extraordinary exhibition by the addition of a
new musical automaton, called “ Labial.” The figure is sup¬
ported on a solid glass pillar to prove that electricity has
nothing to do with its movements; Dut as to the real agency
at work we have no knowledge at all. The fingers govern the
keys in quite a natural way; and in this manner the airs
Bishop’s " Mynheer Van Dunck” and Braham’s “Death of
Nelson" are played in conjunction with the elder android
“ Fanfare.” The tone and expression are marked with a pre¬
cision not less wondprful than the invention itself. The
public cannot fail to feel the greatest interest in the truly
scientific phenomena.
Mr. Edward Augustus Bond has been appointed Principal
Librarian of the British Museum. Mr. Bond (the Academy
romnrk*) is a meritorious officer of long service. He succeeded
Sir F. Madden as keeper of the manuscripts in 1866.
The Marquis of Ripon is inspecting the Catholic educational
institutions. Yesterday week he visited the female training-
college, whence is supplied most of the Catholic school¬
mistresses. Lord Ripou, in addressing the pupils, said no
error could be greater than separating religious from secular
instruction. The two should go hand in hand; religious
instruction should be the foundation of education. !
Judgment was given ou Monday by the court-martial upon 1
the survivors from the wreck of the Eurydice. The two sea- 1
men were acquitted, and the Court found that the loss of the
vessel was occasioned by pressure of wind during a sudden
and exceptionally dense snowstorm; that no blame is attri¬
butable to anyone; that due consideration to stability was
given when the Eurydice was built; and that when 6he was
converted into a training-6hip her stability was maintained.—
Amidst the cheers of the officers and men, the work of the
divers was brought to a successful result on Saturday, and
next day the Eurydice wus towed into Portsmouth harbour.
NEW BOOKS.
The idea of anachronism is suggested by the dedication pre¬
fixed to the History of the War of Frederick I. against the
Communes of Lombardy , by Giovanni Battista Testa (Smith,
Elder, and Co.), for the date of that dedication is 1853, it is
inscribed to Sir. Gladstone, and it mentions the “ great
injustice” with which “so many Italians are kept shut up in
the wretchedness of the Neapolitan prisons,” a state of things
which, so far as all Italians, save brigands and their like, are
concerned, may be considered to have passed away for a while, if
not for ever. The explanation probably is that the original
W j V 1 t ^ ie ^ ta ^ ian language was dedicated to Mr. Gladstone,
and that, when the translation, which has been “ revised by
the author,” was undertaken (in 1877, apparently), the dedica¬
tion was retained without any alteration. However that may
be, the subject of the book is an interesting piece of history,
which can never become anachronoua or antiquated; and, lest
the debt of gratitude be forgotten if its acknowledgment
be deferred, let it at once be thankfully stated that
the volume is provided with an index, than which
nothing is more conducive to the completeness and
usefulness of an historical monograph. The author begins
with a “ preliminary discourse,” which occupies rather more
than a hundred pages, and iu which he hastily reviews various
matters connected with the origin and progress of the power
attained and the liberty enjoyed by the cities of Lombardy up
to the time when they were called upon to defend then-
privileges against the mighty Barbarossa, for that was the
name, in consequence of his red lmir and beard, bestowed
upon Frederick. Having thus paved the way, the author sets
seriously to work upon his history proper at the date of Feb. 15,
1152, when Conrad III., King of Germany, having fallen sick
at Bamberg, and being convinced iu his own mind that he was
poisoned, expired, after recommending for election as his suc¬
cessor his nephew, Frederick, Duke of Swabia, “ a Prince who
had already given signal proofs of wisdom and valour.” and
who to the fame of his prowess and the comeliness of his
youth added the advantage, as the son of Frederick the
Squinter, Duke of Swabia, and Judith, daughter of Henry
the Black, Duke of Bavaria, of uniting in his person
“ the two leading families of the Guelfs and GhibeUines.”
The dying words of Conrad were respected, and Frederick was
elected Kmg on March 4, 1152. The new King lost no time in
proclaiming t hat " it was his intention, as soon as he had regulated
the affairs of Germany, to come down into Italy to receive the
Imperial crown, and to compose by his authority all the dis¬
cords and dissensions by which that beautiful part of the
Empire was so much disturbed.” It was not until October,
1154, that Frederick had sufficiently settled the affairs of
Germany to turn his attention elsewhither; iu that month,
however, he “ led his army through the Vale of Trent into
Italy,” and so began the first of the five expeditious he waste)
make against the Lombards During this expedition he entered
Rome, where, at St. Peter’s, “ he received from the Pope,
after the customary prayers, the sacred chrism, the ring and
the naked sword; the golden crown was placed upon his head
and the imperial sceptre iu his hand, and, with loud acclama¬
tions, all present hailed him Emperor.” Iu the autumn of
1155 he re-entered Germany,and (here he was detained during
the years 1156 and 1157, which wi ro chiefly occupied—the
former iu uffuirs connected with the marriage he contracted
with Beatrice, daughter of the Count of Burgundy, and the
latter “ in taking possession of the States which she had
brought him as her dowry.” At Whitsuntide, 1158,
he had assembled at Ulm so numerous a host that,
“ fearing, if he led them altogether, to create a
famine by the way," he “divided them into four bodies,
and moved them into Italy by difftrent roads, part
by _ Friuli, part by the St. Bernard, part by Chiavenna;
whilst he himself,” with his personal following, “ proceeded
by the vale of Treut, and arrived in Italy at the end of May.”
At the end of this expedition, “ all the land from the Adige to
Rome is subject to him,” nnd iu the summer of 1162 he,
“ taking with him the Autipope Victor, departed with the
army for Besamjon, in Burgundy.” His third expedition, such
as it was, took place in August, 1163, when he returned into
Italy “with the Empress and many German barons;” and,
having failed to obtain the army he had expected from home,
he had to retire, much worsted, in November, 1164, to Ger¬
many, where he was detained for two long years by the discord
and confusion prevailing among the princes and by the oppo¬
sition he met with from the Church. In November, 1166,
however, he commenced his fourth expedition by a descent
“ through the Valle Camonica into the territory of Brescia; ”
and the end of it was that “ expelled by the people, exhausted
by the climate, disowned by the Church, this Emperor again
quitted Italy, leaving behind him the banners of the Empire,
a buried army, and, on the Alps, the footprints of an igno¬
minious (light.” This was in the spring of 1168. His fifth and
| last expedition was postponed until the coming of October, 1174,
: and it resulted, after a narrow escape from death on the
j Emperor’s part, in the conclusion of a truce with the Com¬
munes for six years, commencing from August, 1177, which
j truce, a few weeks before its expiration, took, in June, 1183,
I the more permanent form of the Fence of Constance, whereby,
“ after a contest which had lasted, with little intermission, for
nine-and- twenty years, the peoples of Lombardy, in right both
of victory and of justice, were at last permitted to settle down
again in peace; in the possession of that liberty which had
raised them, little by little, from the humble franchises of
their municipalities to the order, form, und dignity of
commonwealths.” This strife between Frederic k and the
Lombards has one point of special interest for Englishmen,
inasmuch as it introduces upon the scene the English Pope,
Adrian IV., otherwise Nicholas Bre.vkspear, who refused the
King the kiss of peace until the ceremony of holding the
Pope’s stirrup had been performed by the haughty Frederick.
Adrian TV., however, was not the only Pope whose stirrup was
held by Frederick ; for, as Emperor of long standing, in 1177,
he both kissed the foot and held the stirrup of Alexander III.
The monograph is, of course, deeply interesting and
instructive ; it shows signs of patient and honest research, it
is pervaded by an unmistakably patriotic spirit, and it glows
in parts with the fire of a simple but fervent, spontaneous
eloquence.
Methuselah would have delighted in a book like The Lift of
John Milton, by David Masson, M A , LL.D. (Macmillan and
Co ), a book which would have euabled him to while away a
lingering year or two ; but mere eplu-meral.s, such as mortals
now are, grudge the time required for the study of a work I
which is not only voluminous in itself, but appears by instal¬
ments issued at such wide intervals that the memory cannot
sustain the burden imposed upon it. The work, however, is
a great one, performed with a research, an industry, a minute¬
ness, a completeness, worthy of the longest-winded German
professor. It must be remembered, moreover, that the
volumes, when the sixth and last of them has been published,
will contain not merely a biography but a history, political,
ecclesiastical, and literary, of the momentous time at which
Milton lived. The fourth and fifth volumes, which have here
j to be considered, refer respectively to the years comprised
between 1619 nnd 1654, nnd between 1654 and 1660. Each
, vo.ume is divided into three “ books; ” each book is sub¬
divided into two portions, one historical and the other
biographical, and the two portions, thus kept distinct, undergo
further subdivisions calculated to prevent confusion and to
assist the reader in tracing Milton’s own career and appre¬
ciating his motives and feelings apart from the hurly-burly of
public eveuts. As regards the historical matter, we have “ a
history of the English Commonwealth, a history of Cromwell’s
Interim Dictatorship and of his first and second Protectorates,
and a history of the Protectorate of Richard Cromwell and of
the subsequent Anarchy to the Restoration ; ” as regards the
biographical matter, we nave the story of Milton’s life during
eleven anxious years, “ with an account of his secretaryship
and other relations to the successive Governments, and an
elucidated inventory and abstract of his State Letters.” When
we commence the fourth volume England is a Republic ; when
we close the fifth, the English Commonwealth is no more, and
Milton has been “ conveyed furtively out of his house in Petty
France to some obscure but suitable shelter." The volumes
have but few, if any, literary graces; few, if any, charms of
style, such as render some histories and some biographies
more fascinating than the most brilliant romance, whether
written in verse or in prose; their merit lies in their solidity,
in their copiousness, in their exhaustiveness. They are a very
storehouse of information, a source of permanent instruction,
not of transitory delight.
Anybody who should be requested to mention a pleasant,
vivacious, unpretentious book, calculated to recall agreeable
recollections of past wanderings or to suggest a line of pro¬
ceeding for a projected trip, might safely recommend a volume
entitled Holiday Rambles in Ordinary Places by a Wife with her
Husband (Daldy, Isbister, and Co.)—a collection of letters
which originally appeared in the Spectator, commencing about
ten years ago, and which, though they contain nothing very
substantial, nothing very novel, nothing very interesting,
nothing very exciting, are redeemed from the commonplace by
a pervading spirit of cultivation, and by a lively, piquant style
of composition. And tbero is just that intersprinkling of
domestic chat which English people of the middle class
seem to consider refreshing. One thing is necessary for
perfect enjoyment of the letters: the reader muBt be
familiar with Mr. Anthony Trollope’s novels, to which fre¬
quent, not to say constant, reference is made by way
of illustration, whether as regards personal character¬
istics or particular incidents. Wordsworth’s poems also
are largely drawn upon for a similar purpose ; but as, in this
case, the poet’s own words are generally quoted, there is less
need to have the memory stored with his multitudinous
effusions. Howbeit, neither is Trollope the only novelist, nor
is Wordsworth the only poet, whose works are subjected to a
process of illustrative allusion and extraction ; the pages are
peppered liberally with such condiments, from German and
from English cruets, and the flavour produced is far from dis¬
agreeable. The letters appear to have been a joint production;
and neither the husband nor the wife, when they began their
rambles in the year 1867, had apparently much experience of
travelling either abroad or at home. They had never
been even in Paris. Their letters, accordingly, record
the effect produced upon them by what they saw,
did, and suffered in a trip to the Engadin, to the Grand
Chartreuse, to Ammergau, with its now hackneyed “passion
play,” during a holiday in Yorkshire, upon a driving-tour
to Winchester, the New Forest, and Stonehenge, and on a
drive in Devonshire, chiefly to Lyme Regis and Dartmoor. It
is evident, therefore, that they can have little to relate which
will come upon the reader as the revelation of a new world;
the charm of their letters lies simply in the manner of relation.
Important subjects are generally, according to the law of
compensation which seems to govern moet affairs of life, pro¬
portionately dry, so that The Conflicts of Capital and Labour, by
George Howell (Chatto and Windus), cannot be recommended
to readers in search of amusement; but to those readers, a
minority no doubt, but a numerous and a worshipful minority,
who are earnestly desirous of understanding the most human,
the most difficult, the most momentous question of the day, it
is commended with a fervent hope that its contents may be
carefully reud and soberly, impartially, attentively considered.
The very title of the book, a title perfectly justified by the
condition of regretable but undeniable facts, is of itself enough
to make a Democritus laugh and a Heraclitus weep. That
there should be a conflict, as there undoubtedly is, between
capital and labour; that there should be, as it were, a war
to the knife between them, is no less unreasonable and
absurd at bottom than if the members and faculties
of a man should fight together, one saying to another: I have
no need of thee. For what is capital but fructified labour, and
what is labour but inchoate capital ? However, it were idle
to dilate upon this threadbare theme. The state of conflict
unhappily exists; and the author, or compiler, of the book
under consideration quietly accepts the position. He is human,
and he is, therefore, pretty sure to be affected by some natural
bias; but he has evidently endeavoured to be strictly impartial,
he assumes the character rather of on expounder than of an
advocate, he appears rather as “ amicus curirn ” than as the
champion of a cause. Let him set forth in his own words the
main purpose of his book : it is, in the first place, “ to supply
the fullest information with regard to the history, organisation,
constitution, and working of trade unions in all their multi¬
farious details; ” in the second, “ to furnish an authoritative
exposition of the leading features of those unions, their chief
characteristics, their aims and ends, and also the methods or
means by which they seek to attain them; ” in the third and last,
“ to give a trustworthy explanation of some of the alleged
restrictive rules by which they are said to be governed, together
with a refutation of many of the utterly wild theories and reckless
statements regarding them, which too often find a place even
in the writings of those who are more or less friendly to their
general objects, but whose opinions are founded on inadequate
information, supplied often by one side only, with regard to the
nature of those unions, the rules by which they are governed,
their management, and the scope of their action.” The most
interesting chapters, so far os the ordinary reader is concerned,
are probably the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth—the chapters
in which the author deals with the questions of piece-work,
hours of labour, overtime, coercion, intimidation, rattening,
picketing, restrictive rules, strikes, and foreign competition,
and labours to remove certain misconceptions which prevail
concerning them. It were proof of a very sanguine tempera¬
ment to express a belief that the book will do much towards
improving the relations between labour and capital; but the
author's pains will not be thrown away if he should succeed,
as lie may fairly hope to do, in helping the public to a clearer
understanding of matters intimately connected with the general
prosperity of the nation and, it is not too much to say, with
the solidity and safety of the empire itself.
The electric light is about to be tried on the Copenhagen
forts, and will light up a large expanse of the Sound.
rail
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minutely surveyed, and friendly relationships
formed with some of the leading native chiefs.
In May, 1876, a second Free Church party,
under the Rev. Dr. Black, was organised and
sent out, accompanied by Mr. Thelwall, in the
interests of art and natural science. At Port
Elizabeth, Algoa Bay, these were joined by
Dr. Stewart, of Lovedale, South Africa, who
by pre-arrangement assumed the headship of
the different parties combined, with the view
of conducting them, under his experienced
leadership, to their destination. This, after
encountering and overcoming many difficulties
by the way, he was enabled successfully to
accomplish before the end of October that
year. After all matters were adjusted and
needful arrangements completed between Dr.
Stewart and Mr. Young, the latter resigned
his arduous and responsible charge into the
hands of the former, and returned home. In
the same year Livingstonia was visited by Mr.
H. B. Cotterill, son of the Bishop of Edin¬
burgh, whose special object was to check tbe
internal slave trade by opening up legitimate
and useful commerce with the natives. He
was joined by the late Captain Elton, British
THE
CHAMPION CHESS-PLAYER.
Herr J. H. Zukertort, the winner of the first
prize in the International Chess Tournament
held in Paris during the mouths of June and
July last, was born at Riga, on Sept. 7, 1842.
He made his first public appearance in the
chess arena in the year 1862, while a student
at the University of Breslau, receiving the odds
of a knight from Herr Anderssen, in which
encounter he scored a large majority of the
games. In 1867, having in the interval had
the advantage of constant practice with the
best players of North Germany, he was
appointed editor of the Neue Berliner
Sehachzeitung, and during the next four years
he published the “Leitfaden des Schach-
spiels,” “A Collection of Chess Problems,”
‘‘Studies and Endings,” ‘‘A Short Synopsis
of the Openings,” and, jointly with Herr
Dufresne, the “Grosses Handbuch des
i 1 Vice-Consul at Mozambique, who accompanied
\ him in a journey overland from the north end
of Lake Nyassa to reach the seacoast opposite
Zanzibar ; but Captain Elton was unfortu¬
nately taken ill, from exposure to wet and
extreme fatigue, and died on the way. Mr.
Cotterill succeeded in reaching Zanzibar after
a most arduous journey of four months and
a half. He gave an interesting account of
his travels in »i lecture to the Royal Geo¬
graphical Society about six months ago. Mr.
E. D. Young’s narrative, entitled “ The
Nyassa Mission,” was published last year.
I A letter from Dr. Stewart conveys some in¬
teresting information. He describes a visit paid
to Mapunda, the most powerful chief on the
Upper Shire. Dr. Stewart says:—“I found
Mapunda a younger man than I expected,
perhaps about forty. He was exceedingly
friendly, but not quite sober, though it was
only the third hour of the afternoon. He is,
like many other African chiefs, a great beer-
drinker. What disappointed me most in my
visit to him was the many traces of Arab influence and Arab
civilisation, such as it is. We cannot wonder that he has taken
what they have brought, as it was better than anything he had.
They have been his teachers; and so much the greater pity.
He might ask why we have been so long in coming. There
were several good, large, square houses in the village.
His own house had high doors, the posts and lintels of which
were carved with that debased style of ornament common
everywhere among the Arabs. Degraded and very ugly
negroes from the coast, with small straw fezes stuck on the
crowns of their badly-shapen heads, and wearing greasy Arab
dresses, were lounging about the entrance to Mapunda’s
house. They carried old flint muskets, the barrels of which were
polished as bright as abundance of grease and much rubbing
could make them; and they comported themselves with the
air of armed men of a higher caste than those about them.
There were many good faces in the crowd of villagers who
stood and squatted round about us that they might stare to the
HERR ZUKERTORT, THE CHAMPION CHESS-PLAYER.
pieces, to be called the Ilala, after the place where Livingstone
died. At the Kongoni mouth of the Zambesi these pieces,
with the cheerfully proffered assistance of the natives, were
put together, and the mission party steamed up through the
malarious regions of the Lower Zambesi and Shire to the
Murchison cataracts. There the steamer had again to be taken
in pieces and carried up the rugged heights, a distance of fifty
or sixty miles, by 700 natives, to a point beyond the cataracts,
about 1800 ft. above the sea. The pieces having been again
put together, the mission party steamed up the river for
upwards of a hundred miles, and thus entered the
great lake, with the British flag gaily streaming in the
breeze, about the middle of October, to the amaze¬
ment and delight of the natives. Since then the mission
settlement of “Livingstonia” has been established on the
promontory of Cape Maclear, at the southern extremity of the
lake ; while the lake itself has been circumnavigated, the
principal localities along its magnificent mountainous shores
THE SHIRE AND LAKE NYASSA.
We present another of the sketches, by Mr. H. Thelwall, illus¬
trating the scenery and appearance of the native tribes on the
Shire river, which is the outlet from Lake Nyassa to the Delta
of the Zambesi, on the Mozambique coast of East Africa. It
will be remembered that, three or four years ago, the Foreign
Missions Committee of the Free Church of Scotland resolved to
establish a missionary station on Lake Nyassa, to be named
“Livingstonia,” after the discoverer and explorer of the
lake. The appointed leader of the expedition for this purpose
was Mr. E. D. Young, R.N., who commanded the “ Livingstone
Search Expedition” in that region. The Scottish Free Church
Mission first party, under Mr. Young’s leadership, went out in
May, 1875, taking with them a small steamer, in portable
MANGANJA VILLAGE ON THE SHIRK, AFRICA.
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nch nibfa
H.M.8. REVENGE AT QUEEN8TOWN, FIRING A ROYAL 8ALUTB FOR THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.
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BREAKFAST GIVEN BY TEE MAYOR OF CORK TO TEE LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.
238
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SEPT. 7, 1878
full at tlicir new visitors. T noticed also that the nose-ring or
button peculiar to the Hindoo women was beginning to be
worn, too, by the women here. This is new on the Shire, and
our Arab friends must have introduced it also. I was not
much gratified with the result of our visit; but it would be
wrong to represent Mapunda as otherwise than very friendly
to us at present, despite, no doubt, of much which the dealers
in flesh and blood must say to prejudice him against us. He
is said to have been a heavy loser by the sort of half treaty or
understanding between him and us that he will not sell slaves
or allow them to pass the ferry close below his village.”
THE LORD LIEUTENANT AT CORK.
The visit of the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, accompanied by the Duchess of Marlborough, to Cork
and Queenstown, affords subjects for two Illustrations. His
Excellency and her Grace arrived on Monday week, and were
received by the Mayor of Cork, Mr. V. Gregg, and the other
members and officers of the Corporation, with the customary
honours due to the representative of Royulty. They went on
to Bandon, where they were the guests of the Earl and Countess
of Bandon, with a large party of distinguished friends. Next
day they returned to inspect the public schools, hospitals, and
charitable institutions of Cork, and in the afternoon went down
the river, in a steam-boat named the City of Cork, accom¬
panied by the Mayor, and by Lord Bandon, Lord Doneraile,
and others, to the harbour and seaport town of Queenstown,
formerly called Cove. At Haulbowline they were met by the
Queenstown Commissioners, on board a steam-tug, and Mr. J.
W. Scott, the chairman of that body, presented an address of
welcome, after which they proceeded down the harbour. At
Passage and on passing theguordship,H.M.S. Revenge,the Lord
Lieutenant received the Royal salute. The steamer then passed
up the Carrigaline river, a district which for its beautiful scenery
deserves to be more widely known than it is. Returning to
Haulbowline, the Viceregal party and excursionists were met
by a guard of honour formed of military and police. Shortly
after the company, with appetites sharpened by the fresh air,
sat down to a sumptuous dejedner, which was laid out in a
large temporary pavilion on the island. The interior of the
structure was decorated with flags and evergreens, and pre¬
sented a very pleasing appearance. The Mayor of Cork, who
was the host upon this occasion, presided at table, having at
his right and left hand the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough,
with the Mayoress, the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, the
Earl and Countess of Bandon, Lord and Lady Carysfort, Lady
Doneraile, and others of the Irish aristocracy: there were two
or three hundred gentlemen besides. The health of the Lord
Lieutenant, after that of the Queen and Royal family, was
cordially responded to, and his Excellency returned thanks in
a speech expressing his warm interest in the prosperity of
Cork and of all Ireland. The Viceregal party returned to
Queenstown in a steam- launch, on their way to Bandon.
They have since visited Limerick and other places in the South
of Ireland,and everywhere had a friendly reception.
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL.
The very useful series of volumes published by Mr. Edward
Stanford, of Charing-cross, entitled the “ Compendium of
Geography and Travel,” was noticed by us on a former occa¬
sion. It is based on a German work of standard repute, “ Die
Erde und Ihre Viilker,” by Von Hellwald, each portion of
which, corresponding to one of the main divisions of the globe,
Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, Central and South
America, and Australasia, is revised and completed by an
English editor specially conversant with its subject. These
editors are Professor Ramsay, the eminent official geologist,
Colonel Henry Yule, Mr. Keith Johnston, Professor F. V.
Hayden, of the United States’ Survey, and two distinguished
travellers and naturalists, Mr. H. W. Bates and Mr. Alfred
Wallace. We have already commended the volume relating
to Africa, edited by Mr. Keith Johnston; and in the present
instance, having before us Central America, the West Indies,
and South America, we must renew our testimony in favour of
the series. This volume is adapted to the most recent and
accurate knowledge by Mr. H. W. Bates, author of “The
Naturalist on the River Amnzons;” but the portion taken from
Von Hellwald is translated by Mr. A. H. Keane, who has also •
supplied an ethnological appendix, with copious details of the 1
native races and languages. The sections relating to natural
history, and the distribution of the fauna and flora of every
region, have been entirely recast by Mr. Bates ; and he has
introduced much new matter into the description of those
parts of South America which were explored by himself. As
for the general plan of this treatise, it falls into the threefold
division of Central America, the West India Islands, nnd
South America. The first-named part, including Mexico, the
peninsula of Yucatan and Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, San
Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, occupies 140 pages of
concise description. In each case it sets forth with methodical
clearness and exactness all that the general reader, using the
book for reference in the mann< r of a geographical encyclo¬
pedia, is likely to want to know. The same convenience and
completeness of arrangement prevails in the second part,
comprising “ the Great Antilles ’’—namely, Cuba, Jamaica,
Hayti, and Porto Rico; and the Lesser Antilles, being the
Leeward and the Windward Isles, with Barbadoes and
Trinidad. The third part, occupying nearly 250 pages, is a
very thorough and systematic account of South America,
nearly one hundred pages being devoted to the main physical
features of that vast continental peninsula, as a whole,
delineating each of its crand natural regions, with their
vegetation and animal races; the remaining space being
filled with special descriptions of Venezuela, Colombia,
and Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile, the River
Plate, Paraguay and Uruguay, the Empire of Brazil,
and the British, French, and Dutch provinces of Guiana
The compact disposal of the matter, and a concise descrip¬
tor® style, with the suppression of abstract discussions,
allow the editor to set forth all that is useful or helpful towards
correct views of the several countries and their inhabitants
and of their relations to each other. The judgment and
memory are gTeatly assisted by this strict observance of due
proportion in the amount of details permitted to respective
sections of the work. A dozen coloured maps, designed pre¬
cisely to show what is mentioned in the text, and placed
exactly where they are wanted, are furnished to each volume
besides a couple of hundred wood engraving;, views of scenery’
of towns or buildings, costume figures of people, or illustra¬
tions of their manners and habits. We have great satisfaction
in heartily recommending this excellent work to public favour.
At the opening ceremony of the Silverhill Church Sell
Hastings, yesterday week, Mr. T. Brassey, M P., spoke i
the advantages of education, in the course of which he
that he was rejoiced to see in Hastings that the volur
system and the school-board education principle went hai
hand, for he felt that each in its way fultOed its own inissu
TOURISTS’ GUIDE BOOKS.
The series of Practical Guides, by Mr. Henry Irwin Jenkinson,
to the most interesting districts of Great Britain, which have
been published by Mr. E. Stanford, of Charing-cross, are very
superior to any previous works of this kind. Those hitherto
produced are the Guides to the English Lake District, to the
Isle of Man, to the Isle of Wight, to Carlisle, Gilaland, and
the Roman Wall across Northumberland; and to these is now
added the Practical Guide to North Wales. Mr. Jenkinson, who
is an ardent and experienced touri-t, residing at Keswick,
personally visits every place to be mentioned in his books, and
notes down his memoranda on the spot. He afterwards sub¬
mits for revision, whenever he can, every passage of local
description aud history to the most competent authorities in
each district; and he frankly inrites his readers to correct, for
the future editions, any errors or omissions they may perceive.
A literary work of topographical research, it may almost be
said, of exploration, has seldom been performed with more
conscientious diligence. We have had occasion, in certain
rambles of our own, carrying one of these “ Practical Guides”
in our packet, to rejoice in the accuracy and completeness of
Mr. Jenkinson’s labours; and this Guide to North Wales,
tested by our recollection of the localities we have visited, is as
good as any of the preceding volumes. There is an entire absence
of the tedious declamatory eulogies of scenery, and vague
panegyric of romantic historical traditions, which are met with
in the class of Guide-books compiled some twenty years ago.
Exactness and minutenessof detail, with regard to all the features
of each place, noticing every object, either close by or in the
distant views, that would strike tho observant eye in a walk or
ride along the prescribed road, makes this book a most useful
companion. If we take, for example, the walk from Dolgelley
by the Foxes’ Path to the ascent of Cader Idris, where we
once happened to lose our way, Mr. Jenkinson is now ready to
give us the most precise directions. “The path,” says he,
44 descends a few feet and crosses a wall and nil. Avoiding a
bridge which spans a streamlet and leads to a slate quarry,
wind to the left and pass through a gate close by some sheep-
cotes and the remains of an outbuilding. The open fell is
now entered, with rocky hillocks close by on the left. A strip,
of the sea appears in the direction of Barmouth, and the
distant summit of Snowdon is seen. When over a little
heath-clad ground, the last wall is passed through at a gate,
and a few yards farther a rivulet is crossed, and then a
second stream, just where it issues from Llyn Gafr, a
small, uninteresting tarn, half covered with weeds. A steep
climb has now to be made up a grassy slope to Llyn-y-Gader.”
We perfectly well remember, a few summers ago, visiting this
spot aud observing all these details. At that time we had
with us Cathrall’B “ Guide through North Wales,” published
in 1860, which contains three pages of general description of
Cuder Idris, with the adjacent heights of Mynydd Moel and
Mynydd Gader, the Foxes’ Path between them, nnd Llyn
Gweman below them, on the road from Dolgelley. But all it
tells us of the path we then sought is this :—“ The ascent from
Dolgelley follows the high road to Towyn for two miles, where
it reaches Llyn Gwernan, and a course is then taken across the
lower part of Mynydd Gader, direct to Llyn Gafr, and from
thence to Llyn-y-Gader, above which the track to the summit
slopes upwards over a bank of broken rubble.” These direc¬
tions, in the excursion to which we refer, proved quite
unavailing, and so much time was lost in getting to the foot
of the Foxes’ Path, which was only done, after all, through
finding the precise course now indicated by Mr. Jenkinson,
that it became too late for the ascent of the mountain
that day. So much by way of personal testimony; but
the merits of his work, in respect to fulness and correct¬
ness of information, and clearness of arrangement, will be
readily acknowledged. He divides the perambulation of
North Wales into eight sections, named from the head¬
quarters of each, Chester, Llandudno, Bettws-y-Coed, Snow¬
don, Dolgelley, Bala, Llangollen, and Aberystwyth, each
complete in itself. Brief essays on the history, geology,
botany, and mineralogy of North Wales, with a list and inter¬
pretation of the Welsh names of places, a catalogue of the
mountains, lakes, and tarns, and instructions for angling,
form part of the volume. It is furnished with a very go id
map, on the scale of four miles to the inch, and with an out¬
line railway map, which serves for an index to the Ordnance
Survey.
The small books, in flexible but durable binding, likewise
published by Mr. Stanford, entitled the Tourist’s Guide to each
county of England, or division of a larger county, deserve not
less commendation. Every one of these neat little volumes
bears on its cover and titlepage the name of a trustworthy
author. South Devon is described by Mr. R. N. Worth, who
has written guide-books and histories of Plymouth, Devon-
port, and Falmouth. Its plan is to give, first, a general
description; next, a variety of excursions, by railway, from
Exeter, Newton Abbot, nnd Totnes; thirdly, river trips up
tho Tamar and the Dart; lastly, several road rambles over
Dartmoor, also from Plymouth to Dartmouth, to Modbury,
Kiug8bridge, and other places in the southerly peninsula of
*' 8un ny Devon moist with rills.” A map, of course, is inserted
in this and every othervolume. The Tourist’s Guide to Cornwall, by
Mr. Walter H. Tregellas, chief draughtsman of the War Office,
also recognised as an archaeologist aud writer on geography,
differs from and somewhat excels the other handbooks of this
convenient series. It contains, besides the “ Itinerary,”
concise and distinct reports upon the geology and physical
geography, the climate, the people, the history, the ancient
language, the local antiquities, the mines, the fisheries, and all
the statistics of Cornwall. The name of Tregellas is a sufficient
token that the writer is thoroughly familiar with his subject;
it is, indeed, a name already known to literary students of
Cornish legendary lore. The Itinerary, constituting two
thirds of tho thin volume, proceeds westward from the Tamar
at Saltash to Liskeard, Bodmin, Truro, Falmouth, Helston
Penzance, nnd the Land’s End, with a separate trip to the
Stilly Isles; after which it re turns along the north coast by
St. Ives Camborne, nnd Redruth, St. Columb, Padstow,
Camel ford and Tintagel (lingering awhile about tho grand
cliffs and Castle ruins there), to Bude and Stratton, finishing
at Launceston. This is a most interesting tour for one week*
and it may be undertaken much later in the autumn than a tour
in any other part of Eugland. Even the first week in November
if one s holiday comes so late, will be found very enjoyable
in Cornwall, allowing for the shortness of the days We I
next take up Stanford’s Tourist’s Guide to the North and East
Ridings of lorkshtre, which is compiled by Mr. G. Phillips
Bevan, following one of the West Riding , already published.
The noble features of North Yorkshire scenery, the bold hills
anddalcsof its gradual slope from the lofty region of Westmore-
l^l d ’J U ^ h , aa ^ eosdalc ’ Sw ^dale, und Uredale, not to mention
Wharfedale, in the West Riding, the fine country about
hnaresbo rough, FI arrogate, and Ripon, Fountains Abbey nnd
Rievaulx, and other pluces of interest, are most refreshing
to the visitor from town. Mr. Bcvan’s assistance will bo
acceptable to many such tourists. Equal merit belongs to the
Guide to Derbyshire, by Mr. ,T. Charles Cox, another of
btauford s new senes, in which is to be found all needful
I detail of the towns nnd villages, the halls nnd palatial
mansions, the rivers, streams, rocks, and tors of that midland
county, with its romantic Dovedale, its Peak, its Chatsworth.
and Haddon Hall.
But, leaving here the examination of ordinary guide-books,
we take occasion to notice a book of more original character,
On Foot Through the Peak; or, “ A Summer Saunter among
the Hills and Dales of Derbyshire,” by Mr. Janies Croston
(published by John Heywood, Manchester, and by Simpkin,
Marshall, and Co.). It may be read with advantage before
or after an excursion to the highland northern part of that
county, which is as good as any place in the United Kingdom
for one seeking to get rid of those city nuisances called
business, society, and entertainment, that wear out our lives
in the slavery of civilisation. The attractions of Buxton
and Matlock for invalids who would keep in tho
fashion have long been practically acknowledged; and
it has been considered well worth while to see the
natural curiosities of the limestone caverns, not only there
but in the neighbourhood of Castleton, where they are
far more wonderfully revealed. All these objects of interest
and a great deal besides will be found amply described in Mr.
James Croston’s pleasant work ; but the account of his sensa¬
tions at escaping from Manchester to the moorland road
beyond Chapel-en-le-Frith, leading by Bowden Edge, Mam
Tor, and the Winnats into the heart of the High Peak district,
has our most cordial sympathy. We are beginning to dread
the picturesque as a sort of Great Exhibition, which means a
vulgar fuss and bustle ; it is some consolation to hear of quiet
walks in the north of Derbyshire.
For the benefit of Londoners who cannot leave home a few
days we would suggest that the Home Counties, within an hours’
railway journey, afford much delightful rurality ; and which¬
ever line be chosen, north or south, east or west, at a distance
of twelve or twenty miles from St. Paul’s, there is some piece
of really beautiful country, to be enjoyed and admired. Hert¬
fordshire on the one hand, West Kent on the other, have such
charms as cannot be excelled by anything within a rat h(r long
journey. Mr. Standford has provided a corresponding hand¬
book, called Round About London, by a Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries, which is just the help required. It comprises
44 every place of interest within a circuit of twelve miles from
the General Post Office, exclusive of those which are within a
circle of four miles round Charing-cross; ” but the map extends
from beyond Watford, in one direction, down to near Shore-
ham, in the other, and from Epping down to Epsom. The
places are alphabetically arranged, not as in a guide-book,
along the roads. By dint of extreme conciseness of statement,
a large quantity of topographical information is packed into
this little pocket volume, and the distances and routes are
carefully specified. For deliberate qtudy at home, we must
again recommend the excellent Handbook of the Environs oj
London , by Mr. James Thome, F.S.A., which Mr. Murray pub¬
lished, in two volumes, the year before last. This is a more
important work, of greater historical and literary merit, and
worth its place on library shelves. Its range is twenty miles
round London, but excluding, as in the small book j ust noticed,
all within four miles, as properly belonging to town. The
names of places are given alphabetically, and include, of
course, a great many more than those described in the abridged
work, “ Round About London,” with much fuller accounts of
their history and present condition. We may here say another
word, also, for Mr. Louis Jennings’s interesting volume, Field
Paths and Green Lanes (Murray), in which he narrates above
twenty agreeable walks, chiefly in Surrey and Sussex, with
plenty of lively anecdotes, passages of roadside or tap-room
talk with natives or fellow-travellers, and good-natured reflec¬
tions of his own. It takes more than oue day, suppose we say,
the Saturday and Sunday, to manage these expeditions over
the Downs, into the pleasant Weald of southern England; but
you return to your work on Monday morning ull the better in
health and spirits. Before dismissing the review of these books
of home travel, we have to notice the series, in four parts, of
British High Roads, Arranged for the Use of Tourists (Tinsley
Brothers). This is a guide-book specially designed for people
who travel, either on foot, on horseback, on a bicycle, or by
fancy stage-coaches where they exist, or in a private phaeton,
like Titauia and her husband, wiht her sister Bell and the
Prussian Lieutenant, in Mr. W. Black’s delightful story, along
the old turnpike roads. We have only seen the first part, which
comprises the north und north-eastern routes, to Edinburgh,
and to Hull, Whitby, and Scarborough ; but it seems well
calculated to serve its purpose. Some of the pages contain
small maps of sections of the road, showing the places close by
the roadside.
Having thus endeavoured to do j ustice to 6ome of the guide¬
books for our own country, we now observe that Mr. C. B.
Black has just brought out a second edition of one of his very
complete and serviceable Continental Guides: that to the
South of France, and Part of Italy and Spain (A. and C.
Black, Edinburgh). He divides France beyond the Loire
into an eastern and a western half; and he adds to the
eastern half the Genoese Riviera, with Spezia, Lucca,
Pisa, aud Florence; while to the western half he annexes,
beyond the Pyrenees, a run across Castile, from Burgos
and Valladolid to Madrid and to Malaga. This seems prac¬
ticable enough, without going too much out of the way,
just as a visit to Milan, Verona, and Venice can easily bo
joined with a tour in Switzerland and the Tyrol. The volume
is well furnished with maps and plans. Baedeker's Leipsic
Handbooks for English travellers, which should huve almost
beaten Murray’s out of the field, do not require any further
general commendation. The one for 44 Switzerland, and the
Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and the Tyrol,” published
last year, beiug the seventh edition, and then modelled anew,
is still perfectly available, and it is the best Swiss Guide now
extant. There is now, moreover, a Baedeker's Syria and
Palestine, but this is not the time of year for travels in that
direction; and Baedeker's Handbook for London will likewise do
for next season. An excellent German Guide to the Upper
Engadine, by M. Caviezel, has been translated into our
language, and published by Mr. Stanford. It will be very
useful to all those of our countrymen and countrywomen who
seek repose and health at St. Moritz or Pontresina, places now
in great favour during the summer mouths. The Visitor's
Guide to Cannes and its Vicinity (Stanford, publisher), written
by F. M. S. at Cannes, may be consulted on the approach of
winter. So there is an abundance of literary advisers and
instructors upon the important question, ‘‘Where shall we
go” aud we hope nobody will be very much disappointed.
The widow of Mr. Alex. Moore, late Chief Constructor of
the Navy at Devon port, has been granted £300 from the special
service aud Royid bounty funds in recognition of the valuable
services rendered by Mr. Moore during a long series of years.
A fire brigade display and fdte, in which the Brighton and
several other corps took part, was held on Monday at the Swiss
Gardens, Shoreham. The Brighton Brigude, who were allowed
six minutes in consequence of using a large engine, won the
whole of the three local competitions.
II 333 3*f S*** Ssij# a yta.TfK
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
OBITUARY.
on D . u „ THE EARL op LAUDERDALE.
The Right non. Sir Thomas Maitland, Earl of Lauderdale,
i jAt Viscount of
Lauderdale and
'rSiSf’ 8 Maitland, and
«S»?sUA Baron of Thirle-
stane and Bol-
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CHESS - WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
Mlcommmicntimurflglino to IhU .i~.ij *. —.i. rrrrr1 , c rtf Aa^tt ®’ ^‘th B Codicil (dated Feb. 7,
iiWor - <*»<f *«»» Hu mUT- chat ■ wriurn m Uu mniopt. J?T?) ol the Right II on. Georgian a Charlotte Mary. Baroness
rn. £"ya »rtth rm.t i.tert .od .h .11 i*. M to .id Balling and Bulwcr, late of Flemings Hotel, Clargcs-etreet,
SUSSs^S? ° *• imu bare . report o» u,o» .«b- who died on the 2nd ult. at Woodvillefnear Dover, was proved
3 <*«* H •? ilTkl’* *?55 run , ’T, u * t If ‘"oonwt. inumachu both Kins* it re in on the 22nd ult. by the Hon. and Very Rev. Gerald Wellesley
t T z-nlVtaV? lodl “ p ™ bl ™ '* h 11 *" y “*>• aud Bord Eustace Brownlow Henry Gascoyne Cecil thi
™EXc.“Yr e.wn^v' "* ln ^e l.nVtrncthmTf ?executors the personal estate being sworn under^E30.000.’ The
r w^Dedtonih—T^^»rt^r»r» , wiS^*of W0U J? *S n *' testatrix bequeaths to Arthur Wellesley and to her nephew
1 » ft . „.ne «>ch u h!», Gerald Wellesley £5000 each; between the five daughters of
••suucuin” her late brother, William Henry George Wellesley, £3000;
rrn^Hui.h-. homi.-aii u„ m ,« of IV* 1111(1 Acquests of jewellery to many relatives and
v..»rC^X!i,mof’No'^^mTofth'j SSE* neoU ** ,ndMlU, ““»*“• (T 1211 ' 13 ' n lh ® res,due of her «>**<* sho gives to the said Lord
7 ° ar , nnt “">• "nwtl. iWptII*< 1 U8taC ® GCClL
■ V ****** , B7 M (***/«»• 25,1872) with a codicil (dated Oct. 11,
' thel«5iuth,u"il«w > ;~ Yoar cx “ mln * tl0D 01 No - 1800 murt U “ T « «*en «uperflcui. b<« t® 70 ) of Admiral Sir George Back, late of No. 109, Gloucester-
S 1 t 10 ? 7th ult - ^ tho Itev.^ioiry 11 Bite? and^he^Tev^Joh^
Back - th ° * e ™ nai ^ ^
w ILL. (St. j, Im. K.B.).—Altogether mirtnkcn. Look «g»in *t No! niff. j^ or ? ““do* ^50,000. The testator bequeaths to his brother,
oBBcc-rSoLirnnKs o» i'..i«u:» No. i7*io rccctrcd from e p Griffln and w Warren. Charles Back, £->000; and legacies to nephews and nieces and
gX&TOV ag&ifc-S*'. FTP f er 1 tf7- fiends, and servants ; £100 each to the Royal
" ®nfn. An old Hand, and a Eeaaide Party. rtitute, u and c. m it w. Naval School, New Cross, the Royal Naval Female School,
"’"uS, q l hv“E n r HV h*r!» N oOEiii2'n T o k ?^'L d * p ^ p ?5»-. wJ T^ ckenl i ai n. the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, the
(8hc|iiicrdwjiia«h), c*kM a^BlnS'w®D«inK»tc >n feartMai^iJn' Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners’ Royal Benevolent
H.uJ 1 ’? ^na^V^^ribiv.'S^'^nf£:K n * l ''T,'.';,k. W 5,!!l„ I,r tl-n,H'■ ™ t V tiou ,\ and St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington; he gives
k l^TTv" SS Vsi“ rV«r H L ? sr 0,, ‘"i ,a «’- f 2 ??’ , ln addition, to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution,
A. V cri;„h,o.TLi,i*. E w^llej. to be invested, and the Income applied in providing a dinned
< , n , ;;;: i T l, h^^rk rt E , ’iX.t ( 8 A^m l , t0 T;itL Ko <7 1 ^ 1,1 '^ k j5l"« h i ■? w ann ‘ ld lly f°, r the crcw °f the Ramsgate life-boat; £100 to the
and ABlfld'llilS nkUn ’ M Mcro ^ lthl CJ ”, st j r E,°Bi^^dftjII;ci^ B!w'warm>; Rector of the parish in which he shall bo living and whose
_ church ho shall be in the habit of attending, to be distributed
Solution ov Fboblhs No. 1800. ^7 klm <™i°ng the poor of the said parish ; £600 to the Royal
wmrs. black Geognmhical Society, the income to be paid annually to such
1. Kt to Q n 7th (die ch) P to Q B 4th (din chi scientific geographer or discoverer as the president and council
JOB In 'T We VI** 1 yuur , '' tt, r «4th prvnt Intcm
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TV, k, y-ra..*o to tli« •ulution of the Indian Probl
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iso of one piece, no metier what
of a rhe»» problem than two or
would Dot Improve No. ]NU.
regard* both Noa. 179!) and 1800.
TROBLEM No. 1803.
By A. IVLADiinnory, Berlin.
BLACK.
stane Castle Berwickshire Wl. T a v C * ac - ““ ,rT “‘ l,TT,o >'»®rP««et.KiiNo.l7<j0rccrtTedfromEPGrifflnandV
mSmirbyt.’X.V STS2S;“EjHft Srtg* HSSS3 :im«v»ugi»ini
Richard Orpen, of Killowen, and'’widow*" ofjohnTraie™
to'liie' of Cork > nnd
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KSKTiSM 5:|W.S!M A > ISSWiV
Lordship married,ia 1828, Amelia, third daVghffWilliam 8 KtUlKKt7th(<Uach)
vS , ®tf &, '’T 0f Rl0 * e Janeiro > and leavea aa only surviving -
child, Mary Jane, wife of Lord Brabazon, only son of the „ rR0BLEM No - 1803 -
present Earl of Meath. The succession consequently devolves By A ‘ Wladimiboff, BerUn.
on the late Earl’s kinsman, Charles Barclay Maitland r. n black.
now twelfth Earl of Lauderdale. M * i
George Payne Esq., late of 8ulby A IIMl, Northamptonshire, IlH
D.L so well known on the turf, died, after a long illness, on _
he 2 nd mat. Ho was born April 3, 1804, the eldest son of WM lUfl
(he late George Payne Esq., of Sulby Hall, by Mary Eleanor, WM. WW, Wm Wm
.us wife, second daughter of Ralph William Grey, Esn., of ''Mm, mm. Wm WWa
l ackworth House, Northumberland, and was grandson of I WWt WM I-
Rene 1 ayne, Esq , an eminent banker, of London, of the firm ,|»|
?i f - tu . ld Co Jrr - 1>ll 3’ lie served the office of WMM Wmm
High bhenff of Northamptonshire in 1826. W^W' WW Mm" ’ 'W%W
MR. CLIFFE, OF BELLEVUE. lIllUP
Anthony Cliffe, Esq., of Bellevue, in the county of Wexford 'Mmm _ WW: l%HH|
2u U landed gentJemen in that county and High WW, /A WWM I
bhenff in 1823, died on the 27th ult. at Montagu-square aged Vm W7?$ ® Wm
aeventy-dcht. He was last surviving son of Major Anthony _HH Wm. -S=* wM. I
C i^’ ° f i , ' W by Franc es, his wife, second daughter 'W£% '" o ': # //W#,
of Colonel Joseph Deane, of Tcrenure, in the county of Dublin, y/ft§ IrJX' k Wm
and represented a family that was established in Ireland by pGa " S
John Cliffe, of Westminster, Sccretary-at-War of the Army ' vmml ~ '/'/////*/■ ***' '
sent by the Parliament to that country in 1649, under the A |1§11 Wf/M
command of CromweU. He married, June 23, 1821, Isabella M WM WM WOW
Frances, dnughter of Charles Powell Leslie, Esq., of Glas- , mm. _ Wm. . VZ&A \
lough, in the county of Monaghan, M.P., and by her (who WMM- WM. WMM
died in 1873) had three sons and six daughters. The eldest of W/M WM \WM%
the former, Anthony John Cliffe, Esq., J.P. and D.L., ia now mW A WM/,. \Wm.
of Bellevue. _____
JSFSSZfigSSt FB0 - 8 -- re.reSrt.re.
’Die Rev. Janms Bcdingfleld, J.P., F.L.8., forty-five years CHESS IN LONDON.
Rector of Bedingfield, Suffolk, on the 22nd ult., aged sixty-nine. a Game played recently between M«m, Fisuer and Macdo:
Audrew Mnskett Blomfield, Surgeon-Major Bombay Army, [Scotch Gambit.)
on the 30th ult., at 3, Verulam-buildings, aged fortv-seven ’ wuitk (Mr. F.) black (Mr. M.) | whits (Mr. F.) black
t> . , T _ ’ 6 , J , 1. PtoKltu P to K 4th he will M-rure ft rtrong ntbui
Richard kepp, Esq., J.P., on the 30th ult., at Susscx-place, 2 Kt to K uaid Kt to u B 3 rd •‘i^r^ry i» purging •• thoea
Regent’s Park, aged eighty-nine. 3. l'to«4Ui P takes P U- B to K Kt 5th QtoC
Captain Francis Kellett Hawkins, son of late Major-General lift takes Kt u to P 3 rd I 3 . Q to'tiVnd Rtsi,
Hawkins, C.B., Bengal Army, on the 25th ult., aged forty-five. 6. P to K B 3rd 14- Castles Q R
Mr. C. II. Frewen, of Cold Overton Hall, Leicestershire, Tim bat move here iii«. Q to k b m. “"““(jw'l! 7
formerly M.P. for East Sussex, at the age of sixty-five. ?; K ttoB3rd b£,k £i ^ BU ' K4U * Q to ,
Edward John Gayer, Surgeon-Major, Indian Army, and 8. B to u 3 rd 15 . P to R 3rd PtoC
Professor of Anatomy, Medical College, Calcutta, on the 26th dKiri^l a*™ I'i n
ult., at Calcutta, aged forty-four. • u ' 1 bri “» i “« ““ k b a. y mi, aim .uc
e ^ e T, Re I- WU! j am G” 1 ’ formerly missionary at Rarotonga, 8 ‘ CasUea ^ Ptato R U "““Kttol
^uth 1 ucific, and nearly twelve years minister of Rectory- 9 . QtoKaud KttoK 2 nd 9 . k to B 2 nd Ktuk
place Chapel, Woolwich, on the 14th ult., aged sixty-five. 10 . p to K K 4th Kt to Kt 3rd 20 , p takes Kt B to R
Henrietta Weeks, Mrs. Wright, widow of the Rev. T. B. ou'^u ^Ti!«h"bat unrtithrt k uk^B Qto*l
Wright, Vicar of Wraugh, Lincolnshire, and sister of the and White rationed.
great Arctic navigator, Sir John Franklin and of Sir Willing- -
ham Franklin, Judge of the Supreme Court, Madras, on the CHESS IN HUNGARY,
21st ult., at Wraugh vicarage. We are indebted to a correspondent at Buda-Peath for the
... . ~ „ „ amusing Games pin yed at the Chens club in that city between He
Lieutouant-Geueral Richard King Clavell, Royal Mamie and a! Stem.—(A k.i**’* Gamht.)
Light Infantry, on the 1st inst., at Gosport, aged fifty-eight. wuitb (Herr B.) black (HerrS.) , white (Herr B.) black
O n several occasions his name was honourably mentioned in i.PtoK 4 tb PtoK 4th I 9 . Pto K 6 Ui p w tl
despatches. He had received the medal, with clasps, for his 3 u^b^ 31 ^ Bt^U ^ lLPtottftto QWk«
services in the Black Sea; the fifth class of the order of the 4 . p to ft Kt 4 th B takes P Pd. P takes Kt ft take
Medjidie, and the Turkish medal. For some years he was 6. P to B 3rd BtoB4th 18 . R to K «q (ch) BtoK
Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Marines at Portsmouth. «■ C-sUes Kt to B 3rd M^Btakaa Bj«h> ^ Ptoke
P e o?°L n ' , WiUiam Powe11 Powcll-Rodney, J.P. and D.L., ££&£?.&
on the 2/th ult., at Llanvihangel Court, Monmouthshire, aged ™ th « tttth 13 . ft to ft 7 th (ch) K to B
eighty-four. He was the eighth and youngest son of George, 7 . P to ft 4th PtakesP is. B to R 3rd (ch) KtoK
second Lord Rodney (son of the great naval commander), by 8. Pukes P UtoKtard 17 . ft takes P. Checkmate.
Anne, his wife, daughter and co-heir of the Right Hon. Thomas , „ , ' ,
Harley, and was brother of the tlii’ 1 , fourth! and fifth Lord Anolher a,irac bctween the 811,116 P>»y«s -(G.uceo Piano.
SSK- ,1s,"™ 1 “UleHSb, Jf in the county of Mon- T ’ S7S?i
mouth in 1860. 2 Kuo K B 3rd Kt to ft B 3rd 14. B to Kt 3rd B takei
Jane, relict of the Rev. CecilCrampton, Rectorof KiUucan, 8 Bard !«! kToR^ PtoK
in the county of Westmeath, at Kingstown, Dublin, on p to ft 4 th Ft«ke*P 17 . KttoKt3rd Ktifro
Aug. 31, aged ninety-one. Mrs. Crampton was fifth daughter 6. Ptakesl’ B to Kt which) toft
of Sir George Ribton, Bart., of Woodbrook, in the county of » « ta « -’ uc ' „ « ^ B ' ch) tC w.“'
Dublin. Her brother Sir John (who predeceased her in 1877) S ? “ k Kt takes P "V'rrl ,,le to „'r t ?' d 1 f"V.' 1
served throughout the Peninsular War, in the Rifle Brigade! 10 MuZ oJuc T '
and was four times wounded. Three of her sisters were II. KttoK4th j« { t “ k ® 6 g ,lch) KtoK
niarried—Louisa, first to Robert Carton, and secondly to w ,"of , iI 0 luore' 1 t!.^u bC Hm o?ure Evi.ie..tiy ..v«rt«,king the
Robert Reid, Esqrs.; Georgina, to John Ferguson, Esq., heir Bi«ck*» M.T«ntr«ni!i mov**
to his cousin. Sir Robert Ferguson, Bart. ; and Sophia, to the 19- ^ R
Hon. and Very Rev. Dean Gore, son of Arthur, Earl of Arran. 12 R tJ u B “> R t to B Sth _ aad wins.
The Rev. Cecil Crampton (a first cousin of Sir Philip, Bart., ™, as twpt t rr.pvrv
UteRtobril 10 he T r H ftje8 p y ^ I / el ‘ lUd) ! WUS a i br0th f r tb f 1" international match by corrc^nde^ between Engl,
the late Right Hon. Judge Crampton, and grandson of the America, uow in proinvM, the .core stand* a* follows :-EngW
Rev. John Crampton, Archdeacon of Tuam, and Charlotte, his Brewer, Coppiug. Monck, Naah, E Palmer, J. T. Palmer, R H. Ph
wite, daughter of F. Twisleton, Esq., of Broughton Castle, game each, and J. Paricer Urn game.; total, nine. Onthsisideof
* Hwt * , n*-All Cttrrvct aulutlona ara acknowlcMlirri, but In 1
indiTi
rFM t w ll5, I l? 1 ou du t,,>l a - •» tc> Kt«|. leaving tl,e Kt cupriL*
tl."wluirim , iSw > _YoUr cx “ ml “ tl0 “ «* No. J»0 murt huro been .up.
to the Queen oTr^ U < XL tJtl L Ud '^ 0 2 ^ j tou'niTui^twTu'l?^'!!
died on the -it W * W,! turwarded your card to the author of XTW.
dlLdon the 1st 1 J ' hu. N.B.).-.Mto*rthcr mistaken. Look again at No. 1797.
ult , at Thin f. - Pubbbct Souttiok. or PaoBLEU No. 17S9 recti red Irom E P Griffln and W ’
>LE1I No. 1799 received irom E P Griffln and W Warre
“h*« No. 1800 received from Thorpe, Dean‘gate. (E
Belvedere. Tonkn. Pranklin Iurtitute. U and G M
, aud A Setwlde Party.
Ym? N o r 8, Fif!' cc ‘ vcd frnm 3 de nonrtoyn, P le Pam
4. Kt takes P
5. Kt takes Kt
6. P to K B 3txl
re la e. Q to KB 3rd.
ft P takes Kt
B to K 3rd
scientific geographer or discoverer as the president and council
of the society shall determine; he also leaves to the said society
his portrait in oil by Brockendon. The plate presented to the
deceased by the subscribers to the Arctic Laud Discovery
Fund, his case of medals, his Arctic medal, and the compass
and small case of instruments presented to him by her Majesty
the Queen when Princess Victoria and the lato Duchess of
Kent he gives to his nephew, the Rev. Henry Back. The residue
of his property is to be divided between his said nephews,
Henry and John.
mil! ot 1113 Property i. to be divided between his said nephews,
WMw Henry and John.
'WMk _ M/Mt The will (dated March 26,1877) with two codicils (dated
WM 'WM I 9 > 18 "‘ J - aud Jun « 22,1878) of the Rev. John Antrobus,
late of The Cloisters,Westminster Abbey, who died on July 26
WM .I iHH I laa *« proved on the 19th ult. by the Rev. Edmund
■ 'Mm '-1 ’mm'''' Antrobus, the brother, the sole executor, the personal estate
Mm\ Wm% being sworn under £60,000. The testator leaves to his brother
Edmund all his freehold, copyhold, and leasehold property at
- 4 msm mam Acton, Middlesex, 1000 shares in the Loudon and Blaekwall
Railway, and £400; to his cousin, William Rudd, £1050; to
his nephew, Rodney Edward Munday, certain shares in the
_ 'MW™ _ Ha 8 Light and Coke Company ; and there are some other
K /A WMM\ HHpl bequests. The dividends and interest of the remainder of his
m MW '(mm investments are to be paid to his sister Charlotte tor life ; at
■~^=* WAm. Wmk llcr deat71 two fifths of such investments are to go to his said
■"'/m//, y/WM -I nephew, Rodney Edward Munday, and one fifth each to his
•v/Y 9 Wvm nieces, Mrs. Lindsay, Miss Munday, and Mrs. Johnstone.
' . ' “ Wy//;. The win (dated Jan. 0, 1878) of the Ven. Carew Anthony
H v/r/y/xfA John Mildmay, Archdeacon of Essex, who died on July 14
WM la8t > at Homburg, was proved on the 17th ult. by Miss Caroline
mm. Eugenia St. John Mildmay, the daughter, and the Hon. Paecoe
■ j "yyy/y. /// "' // '"' Charles Glyn, the son-in-law, the executors, the personal estate
being sworn under £25,000. All and everything he possesses,
real and personal, he gives to his two daughters, Caroline
_ \4mm. _ Eugenia and Evelyn Mary.
The will (dated June 24, 1876) with a codicil (dated July 1
[TB - following) of Mrs. Lucy de Sainte Croix, late of Firbank,
Bate in three movet. Guildford, who died on July 27 last, was proved on the 17th
— ult. by Sir Philip Rose, Bart., and Philip Frederick Rose, the
LONDON. executors, the personal estate being sworn under £20,000.
Messrs, Fisher and Macdoxkell. After giving some legacies, the testatrix leaves the remainder
Sawirt -1 of her property to her friend Lady Margaret Rose,
iwwiii nJcvire a atrong whittle The will (dated June 4, 1867) of Mr. Thomas Pcrcival, late
of Stibbington, Huntingdonshire, and of White’s Club, St.
wiBukwH 01 KttoBsth James’s, who died on July 12 last, was proved on the 22nd
13. ft to ft 2 nd R taken B inst. by Mrs. Elizabeth Percival, the widow, the sole executrix,
14. Castles ft R to whom he gives, devises, aud bequeaths all liis real uud
oS^toSure o r,nt k j; ^ ?ch>" x a personal estate. The personalty is sworn under £18,000.
X. IS to K «ui * ‘ ' _
White to play, and mate in three moves.
CHES8 IN LONDON.
A Game played recently between Messrs. Fisher and Macdosnell.
[Scotch Gambit.)
white (Mr. F.) black (Mr. M.) I white (Mr. F.) black (Mr. M.)
1. f to K 4lu P to K 4th he will MTure a atrong attack while tin)
2 Kt to K li 3rd Kt to ft B 3rd advewary l» |«ur»utiig •• thoegcliange."
3. P to ft 4tli PtakesP 11. B to K Kt 5th Q to ft 6th
Kt takes P B to B 4th 1*. B takes K Kt to B 5th
Kt takes Kt ft to B 3rd 13. ft to ft 2nd R takes B
f to K 11 3rd 14. Castles ft R
ditieU to think. in> It all* I ran HUck t
cppnrinnll) «t m.llii.g and bringing t
QU Into |.i«y at ouni.
8. Castles
9. ft to K 2nd Kt to K 2nd
10. P to K K 4th Kt to Kt 3rd
15. P to R 3rd
■ 1« Kt to Kt sq
• 17. ft to B 3rd
’ 17. B to y sth seem*
move in the toxt auQI,
18 P takes R
19. K to B 2nd
20. P takes Kt
, 21. P to ft 4th
ft to K 4th -
n to r mi, 4th The Very Rev. William Pakeuliam Walsh, Dean of Cashel,
R takes B 11118 1)0611 elected Bishop of Ossory in the room of Dr. Samuel
aim rtrong. but the ^rogg, who resigned the bishopric on his election to the see of
“■ .. Cork. The Archbishop of Dublin presided at the election,
Kt takes u* ^ which was held at St. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny.
Mrs. Girling, the head of the Shaker community in Hamp¬
shire, appeared before the Lymington district magistrates last
Saturday on the adjourned summons for obstructing the high¬
way at Hurdle. The police reported that there was now no
obstruction, the goods haring been removed to one side of the
KttoK.th (ch)
Kt takes ft
B to R 7th
B takes Kt (ch)
ft to K 3ni,
CHE88 IN HUNGARY.
| way at Hurdle. The police reported that there was now no
| obstruction, the goods haring been removed to one side of the
correspondent at Buda-Pcath for the following ro »id. The magistrates allowed a fortnight longer for the road
amusing Games pluycd at the cbeiai club ia that city between Herren Bi
aud A. Stebx.—(A i*m«’« Gambit.)
white (Herr B.) black (Herr 8.) , white (Herr B.) black (HetT
l. P to K 4th PtoK4th I 0. PtoK6th P to ft 4th
wtrrrw /TTnrr u i „ ( g 0 „ j i I The delegates attending tho nicctiug of the Associated
i P to K 6th P to ft 4 th | Chambers of Commerce at Sheffield on Thursday week visited
\. P takes Kt P takes B [ the Cyclops Works, where they saw on armour-plate rolled,
.•PJoQSth ft takes P (Both; nnd other processes of manufacture. They afterwards went to
I" RtoK«o (ch) B to K 3 nl the cutlery establishment of Messrs. Rodgers. In the after-
>. B tokes B (chj P takes R noon they were entertained at luncheon by the Cutlers’ Com-
it im had piay«i ii. Kto B aq. wiiito pany. Mr. Sampson Lloyd, M.P., and Mr. Barran, M.P., were
uaiDg'cuBUjfaUhuugii'no^ioquicitiyY'' among the speakers. In the evening the delegates were enter-
'. ft to ft 7th (ch) K to B sq tained by the Sheffield Chamber ot Commerce, followed by a
. B to It 3rd cch) K to Kt eq ball.—The meeting was brought to a close next day. There
ft takes P. Checkmate. was an excursion to Chatsworth, the seat of the Duke of Devon-
, . shire; and the delegates were afterwards entertained at luncheon
e players.—(Gtuoco Piano.) by the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce. Mr. S. S. Lloyd, M.P.,
"ptoQMli KttoK 4 th B in reply to the toast of “The Associated Chambers,” epokcofthe
! B to Kt aid B takes Kt meeting as having been most successful, aud said he hoped for
. P takes B ft to R sth good results from the resolutions that had been passed.
. KtoRsq I* to KB 4th _ , , . , , . , , , ,_
. Kt to Kt3rd Kt ;from K 4 th) A correspondence which lias taken place between Mr.
to ft sth Welsh, the Minister of the United States, aud the Marquis of
r q l, t jTMt "'i?in ltdla 5i t ni l '| l " ; t I Salisbury respecting the prisoner Condon, now undergoing
1. P to K 4th P to K 4th
2. Kt to K B 3rd Kt to ft B
3 B to B 4th B to B 4th
4. P to ft Kt 4th B takes P
6. V to B 3rd B to B 4th
6. Castles Kt to B 3rt
10. P takes Kt F takes B
11. P to ft 5th QtakesP(]
12. P takes Kt ft takes R
13. R to K »q (ch) B to K 3nl
14. It takes B (clu P takes R
If lie had played II. K to B *q.
Thl« l> not a good defence after the I cmild continue with IA. Q to ii 7tli
Bhlmp hat been played totlie Bishop a tile i winning enelly, although not ao quickly,
on the llfth move. 15. ft to ft 7th (ch) K to B sq
7. P to ft 4th PtakesP 18. B to R 3rd (ch) KtoKtsq
8. P takes P R to Kt 3rd 117. ft takes P. Checkmate.
Another Game between the same players .—(Giuoco Piano.)
white (Herr 8.) black (Herr B ) wiiitk (Herr T.) blaok (Herr B.
1 Pto K 4th P to K 4th ,13. P to ft 6th KttoK4th
2 Kt to K B 3rd Kt to ft B 3rd 14. BtoKt3rd B takes Kt
3 B to B 4th B to B 4th 15. P takes B ft to R Sth
4 P to B 3rd Kt to KB 3rd 16. KtoRsq I* to KB 4th
6 P to ft 4th P take* P 17. Kt to Kt 3rd Kt (from K 4th) i
to ft Sth
3 B to B 4th
4. P to B 3rd
6. P to ft 4lh
6. P takes P
7 B to ft 2ud
8 ft Kt takes
9. P take* P
10 forties
B to B 4th
Kt to K B 3rd
P take* P
B to Kt 5th | eh)
B takes B (ch)
Pto ft 4th
K Kt lakes P
Castles
iJi'toT^.^ !;."■£ Salisbury respecting the prisoner Condon now undergoing
imiHuait.ie to avoid iwth tin- mate* wit* bentcucc of penal servitude, has been published. Mr. Welsh
which Im would then be threatemd. gays the belief in the United States is that Condon, an ardent
18 P to ft 6th (ch) KtoRsq Irishman, who had served most honourably in the American
‘ViHST overlooking th. object of W". Yj ctim circumstances in his wrongdoing, and
Black'* seventeenth move that, having been eleven years m prison, he has learned
19 . ft to R 8th, wisdom, and may well be restored to his family in the United
and wins. States. The Marquis of Salisbury, in reply, says that her
— Majesty’s Government have been strongly moved to look
LLIGENCE. upon this application in the most favourable light, finding that
e«pondei)ce between England and j t ^ one t 0 which the President and Congress of the United
fmw J*T wL.r'hpmKm States attach great importance, and are glad to be able to
total, nine. On the side of America think that the time has arrived when the clemency of the
eh to the following players : Messrs. Crown may be exercised. The remainder of the sentence on
Oxon • her nonflow Thomnu TriXtnn Imvinfr mn coodod lho * oore ls B,x 8» me8 ' bein B one enrh to , tbe f , olb) " in * : Mes |™; Crown may be exercised. The remainder of the
to the Sony^ S«^o h °a”d Se^ugh^fSe uS Condon
In 1781. tebroTJght to a concluaio* in the oonne of the next three months. Melody, who was oonvicted for the same offence.
240
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
SEPT. 7, 1878
riYPRUS.
VJ to Cypru
themselves rr
—Officers and others proceeding
_their orders
iVd'in extVii strong
J«M» ~l CO-
J^URNISH THROUGHOUT.
gUBSTANTIAL ARTISTIC FURNITURE.
QETZMANN & CO.,
JJAMPSTEAD-ROAD,
j^EAR TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD.
"IVYOURNING ORDERS SENT AT ONCE
IVl UPON RECEIPT OF LETTER OR TELEGRAM,
with nil assortm ttnd 8Uitable description.
'by Dressmakers of the greatest proficienc;
(either French, German, or English).
Obeervethe only 0 "*.^^ re S7 B1NSO N'8
S3@SP53£I
CARPETS, Furniture. Bedding, Grupery, p r .i™“"“« ronzeSi
ocktr&c.^nd'eTeryother'rwiuUltefa/completely furnishing
house throughout.
rpHE IMMENSE RANGE of PREMISES
OET&'m AIvN 'anrTcOa re cnabitai
\L ADVAN-
iosi/h
5 „^f^nWfrS!i C 0&ANN
and CO.
-PAINTINGS, OLEOS, CHROMOS,
X PHOTOS. and ENaRAVINGS.-A cho. e re «*irtu>ent^n
and'thfl^amepmranbwd.^'Al*^. 11 * 9 l^e Assortment q^Bronzcs!
6tatucttcs. Vases. Clocks, Antimie
nlshingitems. AOsUl^ofArtDegartmen
/YETZMANN and
V/ SUITES.—One of the lari
kingdom to select f ~ '
with Bedsteads and
Suite, consisting of
Toilet Table and Gil—- .
CO.’S BED-ROOM
Chairs, and Pedestal
handsomely cfcco-
...id other woods, at
and gold, SO guineas
T> APERHAN GIN GS. — OETZMANN
X CO.—PAPERHANGING8 at WHOLESALE TRIi
great redaction In 1 A11 A>rT '* Arn nnw
A RTISTIC FURNISHING—OETZMANN
and CO. arc Introdacinp n variety of Elegant Pendan and
Indian Designs in Rugs and alata, to meet tho
Artistic Furnishing, at moderate cost. Large Ru(,a (excellent
ooniea of real Persian and Indian) froih 10s. each. A vis’ f
I impact ion Boliclted.—-OE^T2^IAifN and CO.
T? LEG ANT TAPESTRY CRETONNE
Pi CURTAINS, in various ehojco design", adapted for l>r«vn
_I CURTAINS, .
Ing-Rooms, l)ining-Rc
throughout with ..
With best Silk l’l...---. ..-
00 inches wide, 10s. Gd. per pair; ditto. <3 n
__Igns, adi
Parlours. Bcd-Ro-... —
Cretonne Lining, and bound nil round
Paris Lace, or Cretonne Binding,var-'” *•»
10s. Gd. per pair; ditto. 13 inches wide.—. —
» yards long by 45inches wide. 17s. Gd. per pair Also every de-
Sription of materials used for Curtail
»d best Assortments'
e of the largest
’POSTAL ORDER DEPARTMENT.
X OETZMANN and CO.-Orders sent per post, whether large
■r small, receive prompt and careful attention. Those residing
at a distance, or any to whom a personal visit would he incon¬
venient, desirous of leaving the selection to the Arm, may rely
upon a faithful attention to their wishes and Interest In the
selection. This department Is personally supervised by a
Bomber of the Arm. For further particulars please see page 287
fn Catalogue, sent post-free on application._
XkETZMANN and CO., COMPLETE
\_7 HOUSE FURNISHERS, G7,69,71,73,77and 79, Hamustead-
load (three minutes' walk from Tottenham-court-road jand
•r-street Station, Metropoli
consistent with guaranteed q—
Saturdays at Four. Descript
Railway;. Lowest prices
..... Close at Sever —
Catalogue post-free.
QESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE, post-free.
QETZMANN & CO.,
JJAMPSTEAD-ROAD.
au, ai, 32. ORCHARD-STREET, LONDON, ...
Messrs. Mortlock beg to state that although tho exterior of
their premises is not palatial tho rooms are the largest and most
convenient in London. They are tliirt - — 1 “
mR5 k'S > F en V'i various]
dellvory. T^he ’a^^poct/ullysolicited to walk through
tho rooms and compare tho prices and character of the designs
with any of the smaller or more recently established houses.
JOHN MORTLOCK and CO..
Oxford-street and Orchaid-street, W.
T ADIES ABOUT TO TRAVEL should
-Li see the “OSBORNE" DRESS-CASE, very light and hand¬
some, with collapsible bonnet compartment. Price ins. 6d.
HARRON. Manufacturer, 261, High Holborn (Ave doors west
from Inns of Court Hotel). Illustrated List free.
rpHE NEW CRAPE.
The Tare Silk Gordian Crape,
FOR WIDOWS AND FAMILIES.
Its advantages are—that it is made
of SUk so pure that it willnot crease when sot upon,
It is a rlchcrblaci.'freelroni dress and
the gummed appearance so objectionable *“9*J ,cr t,rftpe '
The wear of every yard is guaranteed.
THE GORDIAN CRAPE
PFTEIt*RGBlN80i<”s!^oV > REGENT-STREET.
ThfjlOUKNING WAREHOUSE^New. MG to 20.
Excellent qualities at
IMPORTANT TO ALL,
ESPECIALLY TO CONSULS. SHIP CAPTAINS.
EMIGRANTS. AND EUROPEANS GENERALLY,
who are visiting or residing In
HOT OR FOREIGN CLIMATES.
As a means of keeping the system clear and thus taking
JUNO’S fRUIT g ALT
(PREPARED FROM SOUND RIPE FRUIT).
THE TOPIC OF TO-DAY.
THE OCCUPATION OF CYPRUS.
INCREASE OF FEVER AT NICOSIA.
-GREAT
T _ _ "There Is no sweeter Tobacco comes from
\\T lLLio virglnla.and no lictter brand than tlie‘THREE
} > CASTLES.' "-Vide " The Virginians."
"THREE
Sold only In Packets and Cigarettes, pro- CASTLES ”
tected by the Name and Trndc-Mark of - ‘ L "“ C3 ‘
y W. D. and H. O. WILLS. Bristol and London. _
ALOMINO* A Pure Spanish SHERRY
of dry character, produced from the finest grape In the
Xcrez district. Recommended with romplete confidence.
itnt^rrand fy> 1 .^Gand27. tt fHgii R D’lborDl W^.cl^EstoMlJu^lK^
TEOPARDY OF LIFE.
’’ AfGr^ff™B°From K FEVER FOUR TIMES.
ars.'iKSisiaKKS'S’r.-rg:
ous or critical—from a veiy extensive and careful
observation, extending over a Period of „ f " rt F
years. I am perfectly satisfied the " true
cause” of fever is a disordered condition of
the Bvcr The office of the liver is to cleanse the
blood as a scavenger might sweep the streets.
When the liver 1s not working properly n Quan¬
tity of effete matter is left floating in the blood.
Under these circumstances, should thi
genn of fever be absorbed then
result*; on the contrary, anyone “* *
A T
PETER ROBINSON’S, of REGENT-
street.
BLACK DRESS SATIN8. all pnre Silk.
It 56. 9d„ 08. Gd., 7s. Gd., 88. 9d., and ,n - •*« 1
Bonnet.
1., made by Messrs.
TheDUCUESSE SATIN, at 12*. M. (2G Inches wide),
for richness and forclurability cannot bo surpassed.
J^LACK SILKS—Specially Cheap,
Manufactured by Messrs. Bonnet et Cie, at .. 6s. Gd.
Manufactured by Messrs. Taplssier et Cio. at os. * .
Jlomi luctured by Messrs. Jaubert ct Cio .. is. ou.
Manufactured by Messrs. Digovo et Cie, at .. 4s. lid.
..C.
n«a.,i~r__liver al
__ her organs are in a normal condition may bo
subjected to precisely tho same conditions as
to contagious influences and yet escape the
fever. This. I consider, explains the seeming
nivstery that some persons who ore placed in
circumstances peculiarly favourable for the
RANGE CHAMPAGNE is a light,
V/ pleasant drink, made simply from Oranges. It is effer¬
vescent, but entirely free from spirit, and Perfectly wholesome.
Price 7s. por Dozen. Quarts; 4s.. Pints. Bottles 2s. iarid Coses Is.
per Dozen until retorned. Made only by GHAS. CODD and CO.,
79, Copcnhagen-street, London, N._
K INAHAN’S ll whisky.
THE CREAM OF OLD IRIBH WHISKIE8.
Pure. mild, mellow, delicious, and most wholesome. Uni¬
versally recommended by the medical profession. I)r. Hassall
aavs—"The whisky Is soft,mellow,and pure, well-matnred.and
of very excellent quality."—20. Great TitchHold-street, W.
JjMLIS’S RUTHIN WATERS.
ELLIS'S PURE AERATED RUTHIN WATER8.
ELLIS'S RUTHIN WATERS.-Soda, Potass.Sel
and also Water without Alkali.
ELL1S'8 RUTHIN WATERS.—For Gout, LUii» Water, and
Litliia and Potass Water.
ELLIS'S RUTHIN WATEHS.-Crystal Sprinp. Corksbrynded
'■ R. Ellis and Son, Ruthin." Every label bears Traae Mark
ELLIS'S RUTHIN WATERS.—Sold everywhere. Wholesale,
R. Ellis and Son, Ruthin, North Wales. London Agents, W.
BEST and SONS. Hcnrietta-strcot. Cavendish-square.
devel<.
midst of it, e
Jf /ever.' who, 1 n"foct.iivein . -
is well o
a Retail
the Miuiufuct'arcr,
PETER ROBINSON is a Wholesale i
Dealer In Bla- k “ llk *
As lie buys din-ct from
all intermediatepro,*i«...,
Address only for Patterns as follows:—
PETER ROBINSON, 256 to 262,
REGENT-STREET.
THE COURT AND GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE.
A T
PETER ROBINSON’S, of REGENT-
COSTU5IES IN BLACK SILK,
Exquisitely fashioned,
at 4}, 6$, GJ, 7J, 8i, uud luj guineas.
COSTUMES IN BLACK SATIN,
the Purest anil Richest Qualities,
at 10} guineas.
COSTUMES FOR YOUNG LADIES,
in pretty Fancy Grisaille Silks,
at 6} guineas.
COSTUMES FOR DINNER AND EVENING DRESS,
in Grenadine, trimmed Satin and Silk,
a large variety, from 3} to 7} guineas.
COSTUMES IN BLACK BRUSSELS NET, at 29s. 8d.
COSTUMES IN BLACK GRENADINE, at 2 guineas.
J FOR GARDEN PARI
,h Material for Bodice.
Observo—Tho only Address for the above Is
PETER ROBINSON, of REGENT-STREET,
THE COURT AND GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE.
Nos. 23G to 262.
and I huve pleasure In directing attention to my
FRUIT SALT, which, in the form of a pleasant
bcvernirc. will correct the action of the livir,
anil thin prevent the many DISASTROUS CON-
SKOUUNCES ; not only as an t flicient me*i*^4
WARDING OFF FEVERS and ilALARiOUS
DISEASES, but as n REMEDY FOR and IRE-
VKVITYE OF bILlOUS or til UK HEAD-
ACHES. CONSTIPATION. VOMITING,
THIRST ERRORS ol EATING and DRINK¬
ING. SKIN ERUPTIONS. GIDDINESS,
HEART11URN, Ac. If Its great value In k^u ng
the l»«lv In health were UNIVERSALLY
KNOWN. NO FAMILY WOULD BE WITH¬
OUT \ SUPPLY. Ill many forms of fever, or
at the COMMENCEMENT of ANY FEVER
ENU'S FRUIT SALT ACTS as a^S^FEUFiC^
remcX: by it^nVthe'i^o'isON 1 s°TH C RO\v"n
OFF and the BLOOD REtTURED TO ITS
1IEALTI1Y CONDITION. 1 used my FRLI1
SAI.T freely in my lo.t attack of fever, and 1
have every reason to say it saved my life. _
J. C. Exo. Hutchm Fruit Salt Works, S E.
w
pURS
at SUMMER PRICES.
REAL RUSSIAN SEAL PALETOTS.
33 Indies long .9} guineas.
36 inches long .11} guineas.
39 Indies lon^ ^ 13 E oinca3 -
and of tl
■VTOTICE.—In reference to the
X v above advertisements.
It is ImjKirtant that letters
shonld be dearly addressed to
256 to 262, REGENT-STREET.
P IANO, £35 (Civil Service cash price).
Trichord Drawing-Room Model, repetition action, grand,
rich, fnll tone, in very handsome Italiun walnut-wood case, with
elaborately earved and fretwork front, and cabriole trnsB legs.
The usual price charged for this Instrument Is 00 —'
" ' rs of tliir'-™-* —* * _
T) ROADWOOD and COLLARD (
-U PIANOFORTES, fullest compass of 8even
T wenty-pound school-room
PIANO (Co-operative price for cash). Seven octaves.strong,
sound, and substantial. Adapted for hard practice. Packed free.
Illustrated Book of Designs gratis and post-free.
THOMAS OETZMANN and CO.. 27. Baker-street, W.
T HE LOUIS VELVETEEN.
The " Morning Post" of Aug. 15,1878, says
Probably In no city in the world Is all that pertains to dress
and personal adornment submitted to a keener criticism than in
Paris, which 1ms long enjoyed the reputation of being the centre
of fashion. One of the most recent examples of articles of attire
of English manufacture satisfactorily passing such an ordeal is
afforded by the favour with which the introduction of
THE LOUIS VELVETEEN
has been rec, i ved in that city. This
BEAUTIFUL FABRIC.
which, in texture, appeamnee, and durability, hears the closest
possible resemblance to the best Lyons Silk Velvet has com¬
pletely won the sullrages of the most severe PARISIAN critics,
and deservedly so too. The Louis Velveteen, which is now
17 BONY and GOLD PIANOS, 25 guineas,
Xi 35 guineas, and 45 guineas.—These charming and elegant
Pianos, with ormolu embellishments, repetition action, and
every recent improvement, may now be obtained at the ubovo
low prices for cosh, or on the Three-Years'System, at 1 guinea
per month. The new Illustrated Catalogue gratis and post-free.
THOMAS OETZMANN and CO„ 27, Baker-street, W.
“ I^HE WORLD lias been endowed with
JL with one of the greatest, blessings In the manufacture of
Macniven and Cameron's excellent pens."—Reading Herald.
" They cmne as u lmon and h blessing to men.
The Pickwick, the Owl. and the \V aver ley Pen."
"They are a treasure."—Standard.
Just out. the II IN 1)00 PENS, Nos. 1,2.3.
Patentees: MACNIVEN and CAMERON. 23 to 33.Blair-street.
Edinburgh (established 1770), Pcnmnkers to her Majesty's
Government Offices.
Sample Box. nssorted of all the kinds. Is. Id. by post.
Just out, No.2 WAVERLEY’ PEN, Large Size.
JOSEPH GILLOTT’S
° STEEL PENS.
Bold by all Stationers throughout the World.
and all considcratioi
... advantages o... ....
,o specially mcntio\-tt:l
___ockles, nor spots wi.c r
iof great importance. It is, ml -'v
IIAT EVERYBODY SHOULD KNOW.
HOW IM PORTANT IP IS to every individual to
have at hand some simple,effective, ami palatable
remedy, such ns ENO'S FRUIT SALT, to cheek
disease at the onset! For this is tlic time. \\ ith
very little tremble you can change the course of
the trickling mountain stream, but not the r..II-
ingihcr. It. will defy all your tiny efforts. I fed 1
cannot sufficiently impress tills important
intormation upon all Householders or bmp
Captains, or Europeans generally who arc visit¬
ing or residing in any hot or Eore gn Climate.
Whenever u change is contemplated likely to dis-
tnrli the condition of health, let ENO S FRUIT
SALT be your companion, for, under any circum¬
stances, its use is beneficial and never can do
harm. When you feel oat of sorts, yet unable to
suU(renTysetz^ , wi/h V iiws?tude^ l jisirKfli nation* for
n?ss)'pidn“fn tho P foreliead|°duId* ac^Jng*of back
and limbs, coldness of the surface^ and often
shivering, * ""
but you do*niot know - .
is a real necessity to have a simple remedy at
hand, that will always answer the very best
end, with a positive assurance of doing goeM In
every case, and in no case any harm. T he 1 ilot
can steer and direct so as to bring the ship Into
safety, but lie cannot quell the raging storm. The
common idea when not feeling well is—I will wait
and Bee; perhaps I shall be better to-morrow;
whereas, hail a supply of ENO'S FRUIT SALT
been at Imnd, and use made of it at the onset, all
calamitous results might have been avoided
What dashes to the earth so many hopes, break-
so many sweet alliances, blasts so many auspiciom
enterprises os untimely death ? It is not exagge¬
ration, hut simple fact, when 1 state that nnj
little pecuniary benefit I may derive lrorn tlio
sale of this preparation is absolutely nothing as
compared with the immense benefit by those who
use it.
E NO’S FRUIT SALT
is particularly valuable. No traveller should
leave home without a supply, for hy its use the
most dangerous forms of Fevers. Blood Poisons.
Ac., are Prevented and Cured. It is, in truth, a
Family Medicine Chest in tho simplest yet most
potent form. Instead of being lowering *-
system, this preparation is in the highest i
invigorating. Its effect in relieving t--~—.
giving tone to the system, and aiding digestion is
most striking.
JUNO’S
own products) keeps the blood pure, and l!
of Itself one of the most valuable means of
lng the blood free from fevers and blood po
liver complaints, Ac.,cvcrdi»covered. Asai
of preserving and restoring health it i
equalled ; and It i9. moreover, a pleasant, re
have no hesitation in stating that if its great
value iu keeping tliebody healthy were universally
known, not a household in the bind would lie
E NO’S FRUIT SALT.—IMPORTANT to
ALL TRAVELLERS.
P<H0C0LAT MENIER, in i lb. and ^lb.
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Consumption niiuuall)
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a have establish^! its position a
I 7RY’S CARACAS COCOA.
. “The Caracas Cocoa of such choice quality."—Food,
Water, and Air (Dr. Hassall). . .
" A most delicious and valuable article. —Standard._
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X "than which, if properly prepared, tliore is no nicer oi
more wholesome preparation of Cocoa. —Food. Water, and Air
Edited by Dr. Hassall.
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awarded to J. S. FRY and SON.
i CHWEITZER’S COCOATINA.
3 Anti-Dyspeptic Cocoa or Chocolate Powder.
Guaranteed Pure Soluble Cocoa, with excess of Fat extracted.
Four times the strength of Cocoas Thickened yet Weakened with
Arrowroot. Starch, Ac.
The faculty pronounce It the most nutritious, perfectly digest;
re Beverage for “BREAKFAST, LUNCHEON, or bUPPEB.
Keeps in aU Climates. Requires no Cooking. A tcospoonful to
Breakfast Cup, costing less than a halfpenny. Samples gratis.
' Tight Tins, at Is. Gd., 3s„ Ac., by Chemists and Grocers.
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'IUIE BEST FOOD for INFANTS.
JL Supplied to the Royal Families
Ol England and Russia.
To be hail of Chemists, A<ff, everywhere.
'J'HE
BEST FOOD for INFANTS.
The most digestible: contains the
Highest Amount of Nourishment,
In the most convenient form.
rpHE
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Entirely free from Beetroot Sugar.
QAVORY and MOORE, 143, NEW BOND-
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Sold by Chemists. Ac., everywhere.
p-
DR.
5
JJIDGE’S
sh-
?nt
1.1 _
FOOD
Gives Health, Strength,
Comfort, and Quiet Nights
to Slathers, Nurses,
Infants, and Invalids.
pORPULENCE.—YATE HOLLAND’S
V ' EMACEUATING POWDERS (or Pills) Kpccdllynnd wifely
absorb minerlluous fat and reduce corpulency, bowever lone
standing. Price 2s. 9d.. 4s. Cd., und lls. i»er Box.—MARI IN w*a
Cl).. 3, Paradise-road, London, S.W.
n the
FASHIONABLE PERMANENT ORIENTAL r.LUE-
BLACK,
and made In various qualities and thicknesses suitable for either
in iiiin—rv lir.-ianiHliimr, or Trimming purposes. With somanv
ud it. it is not surprising tlmt the I.<
ave been largely Unit.* - • —* —
v to stump it on th« .
..de-Mark representing
and the motto. “Nos nspera juvant."
THE LOUIS VELVETEEN IS NOT DEARER THAN
INFERIOR DYES AND .MAKES.
BE CAREFUL TO SEE T11E VELVETEEN BEAUS THIS
go,.| points to recomnv
VEi.VETEEN should I
has rendered it ncces-m
■ly imitated, a
Griffin's Htltul,
" Please semi me half a dozen bottles of ENO'
FRUIT SALT. 1 havetried ENO'S FRUIT SALT
in America, India, Egy' " ^ - ■■ - -■
tor almost every complaint. lever mciuaea. « mi
the most satisfactory results. I cun strongly
recommend it to all travellers; in fact, I nrn never
without it.—Yours, faithfully. An Englishman.
K.G.S.. M.R.A.S., Ac., Executive Engineer,
l'.l
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t, Ixmdon;
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GOLD MEDAL SIARIUNG INK.—Some Chemists and
Stationers, for extra profit, deceive you. Genuine Label,
“Prepared by the Daughter of the late John Bond."—Works,
75. Southgate-road, London. No heating required.
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Curtains, Tablecovers, Mantles, Scarves, Jackets dyed iu ten
minutes in a pail of hot water.
Judton's Dyes—Crimson, Green, and Twenty-tour Colour*.
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AND VARIOUS OTHER APPROVED WOOLLEN FABRICS.
EGERTON BURNETT has repeatedly had the honour of
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Prices from Is. 2}d. to the finest nt4s. Gd. per yard. PATTERN-
BOOKS sent free by post and carriage pala to Bristol or I guidon
on parcels over Cl. GOODS PACKED FOR EXPORTATION.
A Special 6trong Make for BOYS' and GENTLEMEN'S
SUITS, 54 inches, from 3s. Gd. per yard.
J^GERTON JJURNETT,
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WELLINGTON, SOMERSET!
BLESSING IN EVERY IIOUSL.
ENO'S FRUIT SALT.
A Lady writes:—" Everything,medicine or food,
ceased to act properly for at least three nioolli-
beforo I commenced Liking it. The little b-al
1 could tako generally punished me or return,-n.
My life was one of greut suffering, so that. 1 mu t
have succumbed before long. 'To me and our
family it has been a great earthly blessing."
H°
TO AVOID THE INJURIOUS
EFFECTS OF STIMULANTS. - Tlu- present
system of living—partaking of too rich r,aids, as
pastry, saccharine and fatty substanec-s. alcoholic
drinks, and an insufficient amount of exercise—
frequently derange* the liver. I would advi-e all
bilious people, unless they arc careful to keep tho
liver acting freely, to exercise great care in the
use of alcoholic drinks, uvoidsugar, and always
dilute largely with water. Experience shows that
porter, mild ales, port wine, dark sherries, sweet
champagne, liqueur*, and brandies are all very apt
to disagree: while light white wines, and gin or
whisky largely diluted with soda-water, will lie
found tlic lenst •bjectlonablc. ENO'S FRUIT
SALT is peculiarly adapted for any constitutional
weakness of the liver: it possesses tho power of
reparation when digestion lias been disturbed or ]
lost, and places the Invalid on the right track to ;
health. A world of woes is avoided by those who
keep and uro ENO'S FRUIT SALT; therefore no
family should ever be without It.
Y'lAUTION.—Examine each Bottle and see
the Capsule is marked “ENO'S FRUIT SALT.” With¬
out It you have lieen imposed on hy a worthless Imitation. SOLD
BY ALL CHEMISTS. Price2s. 0d.and4s.6d.
FRUIT SALT WOBHS, UATCUAM, LONDON, b.B.
__corpulency,
4s. Cd., and 11s. per Box.—MARTIN ai
- through any Chemist.
“FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE."
pLARKE’S WORLD-FAMED BLOOD
VV MIXTURE Is warranted to cleanse the Blood from^ 1
impurities.
>1 ltt,»al Diseases
..._effects ...
n Cases containing
nlsts. Sent to any ■
F.J. CLARKE. Cli
dlous. iu Bottles,
___j the quantity, lls.
address for 30 or 132stamps.of
ELECTRICITY IS LIFE.
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THE ILLTJSTBATED LONDON HEWS
SEPT. 14, 1878
BIETHS. , „ ,
On the 9th inst., at Thiekhollina Hall, Yorkshire, the wife of Edward
HUdred Carlile, of a daughter. mj
On the XOth inst., at 61, Bedford-square, the wife of Borlaee Hiu
Adams, Esq., of a daughter. _ »
On the 4th inst., at Highgate, the wife of the Hon. Mr. Justice Fry. of
* ^fthT^th inst., at Holkham, the Countess of Leicester, of a daughter.
On the 10th inst., at 8, Hereford-gardens, Lady Gilford, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
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H Tlftrhvshire M A , Incumbent, John Bromfleld Williams, of Gatesneatn,
^^riivc^ortoTamzcn, eldest daughter of the late Samuel Barr,
° f On^iinst-.at St. Margaret's Church, ^chd^Icon
W Wynne Jones, Vicar of Aberdare, and son of the Yen.
of Bangor, to the Hon. Jessie F. Bruce, daughter of Lord Aberdare.
On the 6th inst., at 8t. George’s Church,
0. Dugdale, Rifle Brigade, of Bordesley Park, Worcestershire,
CKriliafsecond daughter of Mr. and Lady Charlotte Montgomery, o 7
AbbCy ' DEATHS.
On the 7th inst., Mary, wife of John Molesworth, of Town House,
Iittleborough, Lancashire, aged 61. , .
On the 1st inst., at The Firs, Esher, John William Brotherton, late 11th
Hussars, only son of General Sir Thomas W. Brotherton, O.C.B., aged 67.
On the 3rd inst., at Agra, N.W.P.. Charles Currie, B.C.S., fourth son of
the late Sir Frederick Currie, Bart., aged 49.
On the 8th ult., at King William’s Town. Cape of Good Hopo, Alice
? - ~ b. Clmstian, and daughter of the late John Owen
Owen, wife of George I
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On Monday last the newly-elected German Parliament
was opened at Berlin, in the White Hall of the Royal
Palace. The Speech from the Throne was read by Count
Stolberg to about one hundred and fifty members, who
cheered with enthusiasm, at both the beginning and the
end of the ceremony, the name of the Emperor. There
is no lack of the sentiment of loyalty in the Federation.
To pay something approaching to reverential homage to
his Imperial Majesty is a welcome task to the immense
majority of his subjects. In political affairs, however,
and especially in those comprising their domestic interests,
Germans are governed, and they know it, by the
Chancellor of tho Empire, Prince Bismarck. The same
allegiance is not felt to be duo to him, nor is it paid.
The Speech from the Throne was an embodiment of his
internal policy, revealing his ideas, declaring his purpose,
and making demands, not, indeed, in his own name,
but under cover of that of his Imperial Master; the chief,
may almost say the exclusive, object of the Emperor’s
speech was to enforce upon the Parliament a policy of re¬
pression, substantially identical with that for the rejection
of which the last Parliament was dissolved. Tho Con¬
stituent Bodies, however, declined at the General Election
to endorse the proposals repudiated by their repre¬
sentatives, and it remains a question whether, without
allying with himself the Ultramontane Party, to which,
on that supposition, he would be compelled to make very
serious concessions, Prince Bismarck will be able to carry
through his legislative designs.
In the Speech from the Throne the attempted assassi¬
nations of the Emperor arc placed in the fore front. This
is natural enough, and cannot, perhaps, be fairly described
as a logical, or even a rhetorical, artifice. But the fact, no
doubt, greatly aided Prince Bismarck’s purpose. In pre¬
sence of tho double attempt to take the life of the Emperor,
so nearly successful in the last instance, and of the poli¬
tical inconveniences to which it had given rise, there was
an obvious opening for rallying the personal loyalty of
the members present, in support of that policy of
Administrative repression which the preceding Parlia¬
ment had refused to sanction. Nor was the opportunity
missed. “ The Federal Governments,” it is urged in the
Imperial Speech, “are of opinion now, as in the past,
that extraordinary measures are required to prevent a
further extension of the already widespread evil, and
pave the way for its gradual extinction.” The “ wide¬
spread evil” referred to is “the prevalence, not to say
increase, of Socialistic doctrines, the pernicious agitation
of which threatens the foundations of tho life of the
State and all culture.” The Government presided over
by the Chancellor is not to he diverted from its purpose
by what occurred before the dissolution of Parliament,
nor by what happened sinco. It still adheres to
its first anti-Socialist Bill, and with little modification it
intends, if possible, to push that Bill through the
Reichstag. This constitutes the sum and substance of the
Speech from the Throne. The will of Prince Bismarck,
concentrated into a brief succession of vivid phrases, and
expressive of a “ no-surrender ” policy on the part of the
Chancellor, intimates to Germany and to Europe his deter¬
mination to put his foot upon Socialism in every part of
the Empire, and to claim for this purpose, and doubtless
(if he gets them) to use with his accustomed vigour,
powers so despotic that, save in case of the last necessity,
no ruler over an intelligent people ought to be allowed to
possess. In fact, Prince Bismarck seems intent to employ
the whole machinery of the State in trampling under foot,
and thereby checking and ultimately extinguishing, all
agitation in Germany of what is commonly regarded as a
pestilent anti-social theory.
promise of Buccess. “Whence has arisen this Socialism
which plagues most of the Continental States? The
sentiment, or doctrine, or theory, is not one that would
spontaneously commend itself to human reason. It smacks
rather of desperation than of benevolent aspiration. It
resembles an ignis fatuus over a pool of corruption. It is
the protest of man against the tyranny which outlies his
patience. It is a foul weed which grows only in soils
specially favourable to its nurture. One would think that
the readiest way to get rid of it would be, not to pull up
“ the tares with the wheat,” but to ascertain and counter¬
act the causes which give life to them. Here, in Great
Britain, for example, the doctrine of Socialism does not
take root. It need not be repressed b y law; it is sufficiently
repressed by opinion. Persecution, or prosecution, might
infuse into it an unnatural vitality. Let alone, it very
soon dies away. But, then, in the British Empire there i 8
not the same overwhelming pressure of military and
administrative machinery as th ere is in Germany, and it
is a problem asking to be patiently worked out how far
Socialism on the Continent results from the immense
armaments, which burden and tend to paralyse individual
energy among the people.
It ought not at this time of day to he a matter of political
speculation whether ideas can be effectually put down by
force. The worst of theories will be comparatively
popularised by repressive legislation. You may cut
off all known means of intercommunication between
mind and mind; but there will always remain unknown
facilities, or, at all events, invisible and intangible,
by which sentiment may diffuse itself amongst men.
There is only one instrument by which opinion can be
regulated, and that instrument is counter-opinion. Look,
for example, at the present state of France. The Due de
Broglie and the Bonapartists together, who undertook to
YTiifi'ata “ mnrn.1 order” bv Dolitieal authority, have only
initiate “ moral order” by political authority, have only
succeeded in spreading everywhere, or confirming where
they previously existed, Republican principles. In this
country, we have gone through a sufficiently long and
significant experience to convince most of us that the
repression of even the worst order of ideas by the appli¬
cation of law is utterly impracticable. Not only does it
not secure the end at which it aims, but, even if it
could secure it, the process would be too costly to
admit of its being resorted to. If repression of mis¬
chievous opinions could he fully effected by forcible
means it would destroy much of the manliness ,
of the.nation subjected to the experiment. Over govern¬
ment always deteriorates the moral tone of the peoples to
whom it is applied. Prince Bismarck, we fear, is entering
upon a crusade which will far more than task his strength,
however irresistible he may seem to feel it. It does not
follow that because hiB foreign policy—a policy which he
himself described as one “of iron and blood’’—has
hitherto been successful that the domestic affairs of the
Empire can be managed upon the same principle. He
will soon have enough upon his hands to test his will and
his sagacity to the very utmost; for, after all, he needs
to bo taught that the fixed laws of human nature cannot
be set aside—permanently, at any rate—by the most
relentless determination which passionate authority can
bring to bear upon them.
THE COURT.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, on Saturday
last went to Craig Daighu, on which a cairn has been erected
to commemorate the recent purchase by her Majesty of the
Ballochbuie Forest. Prince Leopold drove to the Lmn of Dee
with Sir William Jenner and the Hon. Alexander Yorke. ine
Rev. Dr. Donald M'Leod dined with the Queen.
Her Majesty, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold
attended Divine service on Sunday, performed by the Rev. Dr.
M'Leod. Dr. M‘Leod dined with the Royal family.
Princess Louise of Lome and the Marquis of Lome amvea
at Balmoral on Tuesday. - -d
The Queen, accompanied by the members of the Koyai
family, has walked and driven out doily, and visited Castle¬
town, Loch Callater, and other places around the neighbour¬
hood. Her Majesty has also paid a visit to Mrs. Campbell, at
the Manse. ,
Prince Christian Victor has lunched with the Queen, and
Mr. John Athole Farquharson has dined with her Majesty.
The Right Hon. R. A. Cross has generally joined the Royal
dinner circle.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
The Prince of Wales was present at the funeral of Mr. Ge° r g®
Payne at Kensal-green Cemetery yesterday week. The Grand
Duke and Grand Duchess of Hesse, accompanied by Pnncesses
Victoria and Ella, visited the Prince and Princess of Wales
and the King and Queen of Denmark at Marlborough House,
and remaiued to luncheon. The Prince, accompanied by the
King of Denmark and Prince William of Gliicksburg, took
leave of their Royal Highnesses at Charing-cross station on
their departure from England. The Prince and
with Princes Albert Victor and George, accompanied by tne
King and Queen of Denmark, went to the Princess s Theatre
in. the evening. Prince Albert Victor and Prince George ol
Wales left Marlborough House on Saturday last for^ Harp"
mouth, to resume their studies ou board her Majesty s ship
Britannia. The Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg - btrelitz,
Princess Louise, and the Marquis of Lome visited the rrmce
and Princess and the King and Queen of Denmark at Marl¬
borough House. The Prince and Princess, accompanied by
their Majesties and Princess Thyra of Denmark, weat to the
Hay market Theatre in the evening. The Prince left Marl¬
borough House on Monday, on a visit to Mr. Christopher
Sykes, at Brautingkam Thorpe, Brough, during the Doncaster
races. The Princess, with Princesses Louise Victoria ana
Maud of Wales, left en route for Rumpenheim. 'Hie Prince
and Princess have consented to open the new buildings of the
Hunstanton Convalescent Home, just erected as a memorial
The Chancellor’s enterprise does not bear upon its _________
surface, at least to any enlightened student of history, a 1 of gratitude for the restoration to health of his Royal Highness.
SEPT. 11, 1873
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243
Colonel Teesdale lias succeeded Captain Stephenson as
Equerry in Waitiug to the Prince.
DEPARTURE OF THE KINO AND QUEEN OF DENMARK.
The King and Queen of Denmark, with Princess Tliyra and
Prince William of Gliicksburg, accompanied by the Princess
of Wales and her daughters, left Marlborough House on
Monday for Rumpenbeim, the residence of the Landgrave of
Hesse, en route lor Copenhagen. Their Majesties were received
at Cliaring-cross station by Colonel Byng, attending on behalf
of the Queen; the Danish Minister, and Major-General Sir
Dighton Probyn. The special train was under the control of
Mr. John Shaw, and proceeded to the Admiralty Pier, Dover,
whence the Royal party embarked on boaid the special boat,
Maid of Kent, Captain Dane, and crossed to Calais, travelling
thence by the Northern Railway to Brussels, where they arrived
at half-past six on Tuesday morning, and were received by the
King and Queen of the Belgians at the station. The Royal
travellers left in the evening for Cologne, and passed the night
at the Hotel du Nord, proceeding on Wednesday, via Frankfort,
to Rumpenlieim.
DEPARTURE OF THE GRAND DUKE AND GRAND DUCHESS
OF HESSE.
The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess, the Hereditary Grand
Duke, aud the Princesses of Hesse left Buckingham Palace
yesterday week for Antwerp. Their Royal Highnesses,
attended by Colonel Du Plat, left the Charing-cross station of
the South-Eastern Railway by special train, and embarked at
Gravesend on board her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert,
Captain F. T. Thomson, K.N. Earl Sydney, Lord Lieutenant
of Kent, was present at their embarkation.
Princess Louise of Lome and the Marquis of Lome arrived
at Queenborough on Saturday last, in the steam-ship Princess
Marie, from Flushing. They travelled by the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway to London, and proceeded to
Kensington Palace. The Princess and the Marquis passed
three days last week on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of
Edinburgh at Coburg. During their stay they weut, with the
Duke of Edinburgh, to the Opera at Coburg. The Princess and
the Marquis paid visits to their various Royal relatives in town,
and left on Monday evening by the Midland Railway for
Scotland on a visit to the Queen previous to their departure
for Canada.
The Duke of Connaught and Prince Leopold have been
constituted honorary members of the Grand Lodge of Scot¬
land, on the nomination of the Grand Master Mason, Sir
Michael R. Shaw Stewart, Bart.
The Duke of Cambridge has left Kissingen for Basle,
travelling through Switzerland to Paris on his return to town.
The Duke and Duchess of Teck have arrived at Rumpenheim.
Prince and Princess Lynar have left town for Spa.
Prince Doria de Pamphili has arrived at the Bristol Hotel
from Norway.
Prince and Princess Rospigliosi have left Claridge’s Hotel
for Paris.
The Duke of Rutland has arrived at Longshaw Lodge,
Derbyshire, from Cowes.
FASHIONABLE MARRIAGES.
Sir Francis Stapleton, Bart., of Grey’s Court, Oxfordshire, was
married to Miss May Gladstone, youngest daughter of the late
Mr. Adam Steuart Gladstone, on the 5th inst., at St. Mary’s
Church, Shortlands, Kent. The marriage ceremony was per¬
formed by the Rev. H. Stapleton, M.A., Rector of Mereworth,
brother of the bridegroom, assisted by the Rev. J. Walker,
M.A., Rector of Averham-cum-Kelham, uncle of the bride.
The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr. Henry
Gladstone, was dressed in white satin duchesse, trimmed with
d’Alent,on orange-blossom and white heather, with ruffles of
the same lace. Her ornaments were diamonds. Her brides¬
maids were the Misses Annie, Helen, and Fanny Gladstone,
Miss Richmond Jones, and Miss Maud Walker (cousins of the
bride), the Hon. Miss Boscawen, Miss Stapleton, Miss Nellie
Lennard, and Miss Drummond. They were attired in pale
blue cashmere princesse dresses, slashed with moss-coloured
satin, the dresses being artistically embroidered with pale
yellow china asters by the ladies of the Decorative Work
Society of George-street, Tor tman-square; beefeater hats of
moss-coloured satin, and pale blue feathers. Each wore a
silver serpent bracelet, the gift of the bridegroom. Lieu¬
tenant-Colonel Frederick Palmer, Scots Guards, was Sir
Francis’s best man. After breakfast at Langley Farm,
Beckenham, Sir Francis and his bride left for Dover, on their
way to Paris for their wedding tour.
The marriage of Major Henry Charles G. Dugdale, Rifle
Brigade, of Bordesley Park. Worcester, fourth 6ou of the late
Mr. William Stratford Dugdale, of Merevale Hall and Blyth
Hall, in the county of Warwick, and Miss Edith Montgomery,
second daughter of Mr. Hugh and Lady Charlotte Montgomery,
of Grey Abbey, in the county of Down, was celebrated at St.
George’s Church, Hanover-square, on the 5tli inst. The
bridesmaids were Miss Montgomery and Miss Evelyn Mont¬
gomery, Miss Florentia Herbert, Miss Bertha Turner, Miss
Hussey, and Miss Peel. The bride, who was given away by
her father, wore a dress of cream-white satin, trimmed with
Brussels lace aud orange-blossoms, and a wreath of orange-
blossoms and lace veil. Her jewels were diamond earrings and
pearl necklace. The bridesmaids’ dresses were of pink cash-
mere, trimmed with pink satin and cream lace, pink hat,
trimmed with cream lace, cream feathers and flowers. Major
W. H. Deedes, Rifle Brigade, was the best man. The ceremony
was performed by the Hon. and Very Rev. George Herbert
Dean of Hereford, uncle, and the Hon. and Rev. Algernon
Parker, Rector of Bix, cousin of the bride. The relatives and
and friends met to breakfast at the Earl Powis’s (the bride’s
uncle) residence in Berkeley-square. The newly-married
couple left town for Sherborne Castle, Mr. Wingfield Digby’s
seat in Dorsetshire, to spend the honeymoon.
Mr. Frederick Gustavus Fowke, eldest son of Sir F. T.
Fowke, Bart-., of Lowesby Hall, Leicestershire, was married
on Saturday last to Cecilia Eva, a daughter of Mr. E. N.
Conant, of Lyndon Hall, Rutlandshire, in the parish church of
Lyndon. The Rev. H. Berners Upsher, Rector of Dingley,
officiated, assisted by the Rev. F. Orme, M.A., Rector of
Lyndon. The bride wore a white satin dress with cuirasse
bodice and slashed sleeves, trimmed with Brussels lace and
orange-flowers, a wreath of orange-flowers and tuUe veil,
and in her hair a diamond, the gift of Lady Fowke. She also
wore a pendant of diamonds, the gift of her father. The
bridesmaids—her six sisters and the two Misses Fowke—were
attired in cream-coloured cashmere dresses, with puffed sleeves
and ruffs of lace ornamented with old gold brocades.
The marriage of Earl Beauchamp and Lady Emily
Pierrepont will take place at Thoresby Park, Notts, on
Tuesday, the 24th inst.
Marriages are arranged between Lord Lyttelton and the
Hon. Mary Susan Cavendish, second daughter of Lord and
Lady Chesham; and between Mr. Frederic Molyneux Mont¬
gomerie and Miss Isabella Lindsay, eldest daughter of the
Hon. Colin and Lady Frances Lindsay.
THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Atkinson, Arthur H.; to the Sole Charge of Spemall, Warwickshire,
niomneld, Canon, Vicar of Barking ; Archdeacon of Essex.
Byrde, Charles Edward ; Curate of Shircnewton.
Corbett, W. A. ; Clerical Deputation Secretary to the Church of England
Sunday-School Institute.
Falconer, D. R.; Honorary Canon of Durham Cathedral.
Hodgson, Henry Wade; Rural Dean of Watford.
Johnson, John ; Vicar of Rudby, near Yarm, Yorkshire.
Jones, Joseph Frederick ; Rector of Tintem l’arva, Monmouthshire.
MacUregor, William; Vicar of Tamworth.
Iollock, William James; Curate of St. Paul’s, Newport.
Rogers, Percy • Honorary Canon of Durham Cathedral,
tidgeway, F. E. ; Incumbent of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Glasgow,
robins, Arthur ; Honorary Chaplain to nor Majes; y.
Stanton, J. John; Rector of North and Vicar of South Barrow, 8omer. et.
Schofield, J ; Vicar of West^ate, in We&rdole, near Stanhope.— Guardian,
The Countess of Ellesmere opened on Saturduy lost a new
school in connection with tho new Church of St. John the
Baptist, Little Bulton.
Mr. llordcostle, M.P., opened a bazaar at Famworth-with-
Kersley on Wednesday in aid of the building fund of St.
Thomas’s Church, Dixon-green, now in course of completion.
The executive committee of the memorial to Lord Lyttelton
have, with the concurrence of the Dean and Chapter of Wor¬
cester Cathedral, decided to change the site from the nave of
the cathedral to the open space in the north transept.
The golden wedding of Dr. Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff,
was celebrated on the 5th inst. His Lordship was married in
1828 to Alicia, daughter of Lieutenant George Spencer, of
Bramley Grange, Yorkshire, by whom he has had four sous
and two daughters.
The foundation-stone of a new church was laid on Wed¬
nesday at Water Orton. Mr. G. W. Digby, of Sherborne
Castle, Dorsetshire, who owns a great part of the land in the
district, has given the site and £600 towards the expenses.
The cost is estimated to be £3000, and about £1820 has been
subscribed.
Among the many restorations of old churches and abbeys
now going on throughout England, that of the Priory church
of Leominster has almost escaped notice. As far back as
1863 a committee was formed to consult the late Sir Gilbert
Scott, R.A., upon the subject, and ever since the work has
been going on gradually as funds were at hand. The stone¬
work of the noble window of the west side has lately been
completely restored by Mr. Edwards, of Leominster, and the
esutre portion has been filled with magnificent stained glass
by Messrs. Mayer and Co., of Munich and London.
Dr. Campbell, the Bishop of Bangor, delivered his seventh
triennial charge on Tuesday at Llangefni church. He warmly
commended the activity of the Diocesan Church Extension
Society, and approved the architectural character of the
churches rebuilt or in course of restoration—such as Aber,
Holyhead, Penegoes, and Llangurig. He urged the propriety
of greater attention being paid to the religious teaching of
the young, to counteract the secular education given in board
schools, the preparation of candidates for confirmation, and
the maintenance of a closer spiritual communion between the
pastor and the adult members of his flock.
It was announced in our Court news last week that the
Prince of Wales had subscribed a hundred guineas to the fund
for rebuilding the Marbeuf Chapel in Paris. Down to 1824
the only Church of England services in Paris had been held
in the ball-room of the British Embassy. In that year the
Rev. Lewis Way, at his own expense, built a small but beautiful
chapel in the Rue Chaillot, attached to the Hotel Marbeuf.
The larger chapel, erected in 1844 in the Avenue Marbeuf, by
the Rev. Lewis Way’s only son, Mr. Albert Way, is dilapidated
and must soon be pulled down. Hence the effort now being
made to rebuild it in more creditable style and in a better
position. On account of its present surroundings (so different
from those of thirty years ago), it is facetiously called “ the
Church of England in the Mews.” The Archbishop of Can¬
terbury and the Bishop of London sire most desirous to see it
replaced by a suitable edifice. Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59,
Strand, receive subscriptions.
An event of considerable importance to the English colony
of Rouen took place last Saturday in the dedication by the
Bishop of London of an English church for the community.
For more than forty years there have been every Sunday two
English services in the city; but it had long been felt that one
central place for English service should be erected, and many
attempts have been made, but all have ended in failure till the
present occasion. About two years ago the Rev. Dr. Greenfield
was appointed Chaplain by the Colonial and Continental Church
Society ; and, having gained the goodwill of the community,
he urged upon the people the importance of erecting a suitable
church. On June 30, 1877, the Bishop of Bathurst laid the
first stone af All Saints’ Church, lie la Croix, Rouen; aud on
the 7th inst., in presence of a large congregation, the work was
completed. The Bishop of London preached on Sunday morn¬
ing and held a confirmation in the afternoon. A sum of £500
is required to pay off liabilities connected with the church.
THE UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Lord Hartington has arranged to deliver his inaugural
address as Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh Borne
time in November.
Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P., has declined to accede to a
request by the students of Aberdeen University that he would
stand for re-election as Lord Rector. Mr. Grant Duff, M.P.,
has refused consent to his nomination as a candidate for the
Lord Rectorship, and has recommended the students to
support Lord Rosebery, stating that they will be extremely
fortunate in their selection if they place his Lordship in the
rectorial chair. The Glasgow News says that the Earl of
Aberdeen has consented to become a candidate, on condition
that the candidature is regarded as non-political.
The late Mr. P. Ellis Eyton, M.P., has left by his will
£2000 to found a scholarship for a North Wales boy, tenable
at the University College of Wales. This bequest quickly
follows that of the late Mr. Henry Pamall, of Bishopsgate,
who has left £5000 for the general purposes of the college.
Mr. Hardcastle, M.P., distributed the prizes to the suc¬
cessful students of the Church Institute, Bolton, on Tuesday
evening. In his address he said he thought it a very good
feature in a school of that kind that a certain amount of
classical instruction was insisted upon. It was an advantage
to study Latin and Greek, if only in a slight degree. The
institution, though founded upon Church principles, was
attended by all denominations. That was as it ought to be,
and must tend to create kindly feeling among those who differ
upon certain points.
The list of successful students in the certificate department
of the work of the joint board of the Oxford and Cambridge
Schools Examination Board for the past year has been issued:—
This board not only examines schools which have regularly constituted
governing bodies, or which prepare a fair proportion of their boys for tho
Universities, but also examines individual students for certificates, the
possession of which exempts from the necessity of examinations of
various public bodies, including the previous examination, or “little go,”
at Cambridge, and the responsions at Oxford. This scheme, after various
conferences with head masters and University authorities, was matured in
1873. The present is the fifth year of the scheme being in operation, and it
is conducted under a board constituted from the leading men engaged in
tuition at both Universities, Mr. E. J. Gross, M.A., of Cnius College, being
the Cambridge secretary, and Mr. W. W. Jackson, M.A., of Exeter College,
filling a similar position for Oxford. This bourd exerts a similar influence
on the public schools that the Local Examination Syndicate and Delegacy
do on the middle-class schools of England. During the five years that the
board has been in existence the number of candidates has increased from
269 in 1874 to 747 in 1878. Of the candidates this year 419 huve obtained
certificates. Analysing the results as regards subjects, we find that of the
700 who offered in Latin, 504 passed, 80 with distinction; 662 offered for
Greek, 479 of whom passed, 61 with distinction; 187 offered in French,
114 of whom passed, 34 with distinction; 65 offered in German, 49 of whom
passed, 14 with distinction; 736 offered in elementary mathematics, and
514 passed; 325 offered in additional mathematics, 224 of whom passed, 46
with distinction ; 603 offered in Scriptuie knowledge, 476 of whom passed,
67 with distinction ; 161 offered in English, of whom 88 succeeded, and 13
gained distinction ; 548 offered in history, 246 passing, and 113 with distinc¬
tion ; 28 were examined in the mechanical division of natural philosophy,
ten of whom passed, two with distinction; 60 offoied in the chemical
division of natural philosophy, 39 of whom passed, 11 with distinction; 7
offered in botany, 4 passing, 2 with distinction; 33 offered in physical
geography and elementary geology, 22 of whom passed, 3 with distinction ;
1 offered in music and passed. Of those who obtained certificates 21 passed
in seven subjects.
The secretary of the Oxford Local Examinations, the Rev.
S. Edwardes, has issued the division lists containing the names
of the senior and junior candidates who have received cer¬
tificates in the late examinations. The following is the First
Division of the senior candidates :—
H. Leward, Liverpool Institute; R. H. Pigott, T. 8. Simpson, F. W.
Kellet, and E. P. Gaskin, Kiugswood and Woodhouse School, Bath; A. W.
Targett, Warminster; W. P. Workman and 8. Jackson, Kingswood; J. J.
Findlay, New College, Eastbourne; A. E. Blagrave, High 8chool, Oxford;
W. F. Dingwall, Boston Grammar School; P. Z. Round, Wolverliumpton
Grammar School; H. B. "Workman, Kingswood ; W. Hallworth, Charlton,
Manchester ; E. F. J. Love, Wolverhampton; A. L. Gaskin, Kingswood ; P.
Robinson and C. Holton, Manchester; W. J. Ward, Wesleyan College,
Taunton; C. Brown, Waterloo; A. E. Restarick, Camden Town; E. 8.
Wheeler, High School, Oxford.
The candidates recommended for the medals offered by the Royal Geo¬
graphical Society are—for the silver medal, A. E. Restarick ; for the bronze
medal, F. W. Kellet.
The following candidates have shown sufficient merit to be excused from
Responsionsw. F. Dingwell, E. P. Gaskin, A. G. Grant, F. W. Kellet,
E. F. J. Lowe, A. C. Neely, F. J. Newhaven, P. Robinson, F S. Simpson,
A. W. Targett, W. G. "Ward, H. B. Workman, and W. P. Workman.
Total number examined, 2330, including 350 junior girls, 1315 junior
boys, 326 senior girls and 339 senior boys; 199 junior girls and 787 junior
boys satisfied the examiners, and will receive certificates; while in the senior
department 213 girls and 221 boys qualified themselves for the title of
“ Associate in Arts.”
THE WESLEYAN METHODISTS.
The Minutes of the last Wesleyan Methodist Conference have
been issued. The book is official, and gives a large amount
of statistical and other information about Wesleyan matters.
In Great Britain there are 380,876 church members, 24,090
on trial for church membership; 1412 ministers, and 208 on
trial for the ministry; supernumeraries, 249. In Ireland and
Irish missions there are 19,950 members, and 506 on trial for
church membership; 186 ministers, and 36 on trial for the
ministry; supernumeraries, 41. In foreign missions, 83,969
church members, 10,227 on trial for church membership ; 288
ministers, and on trial for the ministry, 150; supernumeraries,
13. In the French Conference, 1888 church members, on
trial, 63; ministers, 24, on trial, 3; supernumeraries, 2.
Totals: 486,083 church members, 34,t92 on trial; 1910
ministers, 397 on trial; supernumeraries, 305.
A committee has been appointed to consider the proposal
to hold an ecumenical Methodist conference. Various regula¬
tions are for the pastoral oversight of the young, under the
designation of junior society classes, which shall be under the
care of leaders. Special notes will be given to the members of
such classes when they are met once a quarter by the ministers.
General directions are also given for what amounts to the
establishment of a new public recognition service for new
members joining the Church.
The Committee for the Revision of the Liturgy and Book of
Offices has been reappointed, and another committee has been
appointed to consider the question of an educational standard
for candidates for the ministry. This has long been under
consideration and in dispute ; but it is expected that the next
Conference will settle it upon the committee’s report.
The Conference has authorised tho Scotch Relief and
Extension Fund Committee to begin their work of relieving
debts on Wesleyan trust property by loans without interest.
It is expected that the fund will in the course of time increase
sufficiently to enable the administrators to make gifts to various
Wesleyan projects in Scotland.
The various British districts are to have more local admi¬
nistrative power in various home mission matters, and there
are a number of new regulations for the employment of district
lay agents.
The Theological Institution Committee are directed to take
into their early consideration the best means of providing a
new branch of the institution in the Birmingham district for
the training of young men for the ministry.
The sum of £7991 has been voted for the extension of
Methodism in Great Britain.
A committee for connectional finance has been appointed
to consider the proposal to raise a large fund for many objects
as a memorial of the admission of the laymen into the Con¬
ference, and, if necessary, the president will call meetings for
the purpose during the year.
There is to be a committee upon middle-class education,
and one upon the work of class leaders.— Tunes.
A Diocesan Missionary Conference, under the auspices of
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, was held at
Liverpool on Monday. The proceedings opened at eight o’clock
by the celebration of holy communion at St. Peter’s parish
church, which was followed by a breakfast at the Compton
Hotel, at which the Rev. Chancellor Espin presided. A service
at St. Peter’s took place at 10.30, the sermon being preached
by the Dean of Lichfield; and at noon the Conference began
in the small concert-room, St. George’s Hall, under the pre¬
sidency of the Bishop of Chester. Having been initiated in
order to take advantage of the presence in the country of
a number of the colonial and other bishops who attended
the Lambeth Conference, the meetings were of a more
widely representative character than usual. The right
rev. chairman gave an address, in the course of which he
reviewed the progress of missionary work from the forma¬
tion of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
1701. The Rev. J. H. Jowitt, organising secretary for the
archdeaconry of Lincoln, followed with a paper on the same
subject. Bishop Ryau having also spoken upon the subject,
the Rev. Dr. Kay was called upon to read a paper upon
Christianity and Islam, with special reference to India. The
time, however, being short, Dr. Kay gave place to the Rev. R.
R. Winter, who delivered an address on the same topic. After
this the Conference adjourned until the evening, when
papers were read by Bishop Claughton, Archdeacon of London,
upon a Native Ministry and Self-Supporting Churches, and by
the Bishop of Missouri on the Condition and Progress of the
Church in the United States, in India, and in our Colonies.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Sei*t. II, 1378.—211
THE GREAT DISASTER ON THE THAMES.
OFFICES OF THE LONDON STEAM-BOAT COMPANY, BENNET’s-HILL, CITY : INQUIRING FOR LOST RELATIVES ON THE NIGHT OF THE DISASTER.
Thames Conservancy Tug,
directly over the Wreck.
THE BYWELL CASTLE, SCREW-STEAM COLLIER,
NEWS. SErT. II, 1878.— 245
the illustrated
LONDON NEWS
SEPT. 14, 1878
246
foreign and colonial news.
FRANCE.
ezt£ sl£ i sa K i'5i r *
Sunday) pass in review at Vincennes th« 4 th Corps-d Anne ,
the Paris troops, and the 4th Division of Caval^. .
The Grand Duke Constantine, who has been at Biarritz
during the last fortnight, arrived in Pans on M ° n ^’ d d
Prince Frederick William of Hesse
The Academy of Fine Arts has elected Sir K. wauace a
^^asTsatunlaytl^ great trotting international matches, for
which the French Chambers had voted 60,(WOf., took placeat
the Hippodrome of Maisons Laffltte, Marshal MacMahon and
a large number of Senators and Deputies bemg presenri On
Sunday the first of the autumn race-meetings took place at
L ° n Atth™Horse Show on Monday afternoon the prize-winners
were marched before Marshal MacMahon, the Archdukes
Nicholas and Constantine of Russia, M. , Teisserenc de Sort,
the Foreign Commissioners to the Exhibition, and other dis
tinguishedvisitors. English animals figured pr °^wiC
thi fdifiU d'honneur. The prize-list shows that,
ing the severity of the judges, who withheld thirteen out of
the 250 prizes at their disposal, thirty-four have faBen to
English animals, being a much larger proportion than that
gained by any other foreign nation. England, indeed, though
distanced by Belgium in the number of exhibits, competed m
a larger number of classes than Belgium or any of the other
foreign States^ Qf Rugaia now in Paris paid Marshal
MacMahon an official visit on Wednesday.
M de Marc&re’s Tuesday evening entertainments have
been resumed. They began last Tuesday with a dinner,
at which country Mayors and provincial magnates prepon¬
derated. At half-past nine the reception began. Every room
on the ground floor of the Ministry was thrown open, and
the garden was lighted up and turned into an open-air salon.
Two days’ fStes in honour of the recent passing of a law
and a vote of 17,000,000f. fcr the construction of a new
harbour began at Boulogne on Sunday. There was a great
influx of excursionists from London, Folkestone, Pans,
Amiens, Calais, St. Omer, Lille, and Belgium. Mr. Alderman
Staples, Sheriff of London and Middlesex, arrived on Saturday
to represent the Corporation of London. Twelve English
Mayors were present by invitation, also the Burgomaster of
Liege and other Belgian notabilities. The ceremony of laying
the foundation-stone of the deep-sea harbour was performed
on Monday by M. de Freycinet, the Minister of Public Works,
accompanied by M. Leon Say, the Min ister of Finance. A
benediction, usually a feature of such proceedings in France,
was not included in the programme. At the banquet held in
the evening at the Casino, covers were laid for 400. M. Huguet,
the Mayor, occupied the chair, and, in proposing the health of
the two Ministers, took the opportunity to thank the English
visitors for coming to Boulogne to attend the banquet. M.
Leon Say made a finance speech, in which he referred to the
Three per Cent Redeemable Loan, saying that from the admir¬
able way in which it had been taken up it had placed French
credit on a level with that of England. M. de Freycinet pro¬
posed a joint toast to Marshal MacMahon and Queen Victoria,
while M. Say drank to English friends, particularly mention¬
ing the name of Mr. Alderman Staples, who returned thanks.
M. Leon Say, after visiting Calais and Dunkirk, is coming on
to England to study, with M. Cochery, Under-Secretary of
Finance, the British postal and telegraph system, these two
departments having recently been fused together in France.
M. Berger, Director of the Foreign Sections of the Exhi¬
bition, has received a letter from the Prince of Wales, who
declares his intention to witness the distribution of prizes, and
adds that the Princess will, perhaps, accompany him.
Winners of prizes and honourable mention in the British
sections of the Paris Exhibition have heard of their success
through the courtesy of Mr. Cunliffe Owen, though the official
awards have not yet been published. To Messrs. Jackson and
Graham have been awarded the “ Grand Prix ” for excellence
in class 17, that of furniture. The exhibition of English
pottery having elicited general admiration, it will interest
many to leam that the firm of Doulton, of Lambeth,
has gained the “ Grand Prix,” two gold and two silver
medals—George Jinworth, one of Mr. Doulton’s skilful artists,
having also been rewarded with a silver medal for his
terra-cotta group; whilst Minton won a Grand Prix, and
Wedgwood a gold medal. In the agricultural machinery
section Messrs. George Buchanan and Co., of Bucklersbury,
have been awarded a gold medal for their sugar-mills; and in
the food department Messrs. J. S. Fry and Sons have gained a
gold medal as manufacturers of chocolate and cocoa.
The Patent Congress has affirmed copyright and trade
marks to be a form of property not created but simply regu¬
lated by law. It also resolved that foreigners should be placed
on the same footing as natives.
M. Bardoux, Minister of Public Instruction, was present at
the opening last Saturday of the municipal schools at Dreux.
He dwelt on the importance of education in a democratic self-
governing nation, and stated that, as schools were now being
erected everywhere, even in the villages, the Government
reckoned on speedily laying down the principle of compulsion.
Whoever did not like the school was no patriot. Speaking
again at a dinner given by the municipality, he eulogised the
prudence and firmness of the Republican party during the last
few years. He attributed to that policy the moral, financial,
and military reorganisation of the country and the success of
the Exhibition. It was based, he said, on industry, education,
andpatriotism, and insured peace and prosperity.
The police made a descent last Thursday week on a Socialist
gathering, the “International Working Men’s Congress,”
which, though ostensibly convened at a private house, had
assembled in a hired hall, described as capable of seating 200
persons. They arrested five of the leaders, as also a German,
the correspondent of a Leipsic Socialist organ. The prisoners’
apartments were searched, and numerous papers seized.
Barre and Lebiez, who enticed a widow into their lodgings
on the pretence of exchanging some bonds for her and then
murdered her, were guillotined last Saturday morning in the
square opposite La Roquette Prison.
SPAIN.
A Royal decree has been promulgated approving the con¬
vention between the Minister for the Colonies and the Spanish
Bank at Havannah for the conclusion of a loan of 25,000,000
pesetas. It is to be issued in bonds to bearer of 500 pesetas
each in Paris, London, Madrid, and Havannah, and is gua¬
ranteed on the Cuban customs revenue. The interest is 6 per
cent, and the loan is to be redeemed by quarterly drawings to
the extent of 537,000 pesetas per annum.
ITALY.
King Humbert was present last Saturday at the manoeuvres
of the 1st Army Corps, near the river Mella. Further
manoeuvres were executed on Monday and Thursday.
SWITZERLAND.
The Grand Council of the Canton of Berne has granted an
amnestv to the Catholic priests of the Jura whowere deprived
rESp in 1873 for refusing to acknowledge the
aUt ^ ty phynox?m Congress began its sitting on Monday.
France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy, Portugal, and Turkey
are represented. BELGIUM.
The Triennial Exhibition of Fine Arts, which is heW Mter-
nately at Brussels, Antwerp, and Ghent, is held this year at
Brussels. It was opened on the 5th mst The King andQueen
attended by the members of the Royal household, visited the
Exhibitionfand were escorted through the suite of roomsby
the president and members of the committee. It comprises
1078 oil paintings, 198 drawings, paintings in water colour
and engravings; 180 pieces of sculpture and models, and 20
plans of architecture. Sir J. Savile Lurnley, K.C.B., our
Minister at Brussels, has contributed a picture representing a
storm on the coast of Cornwall. The Exhibition is established
this time in the great budding on the Boulevard du Midi (the
March6 du Midi). The permanent exhibition building m the
Rue de la Regence, in course of construction, will not be com¬
pleted before 1880. . ,
The prize of 25,000f. offered by the King will be bestowed,
in 1879, on the best work on architecture. The competition
will be confined to Belgian authors.
HOLLAND.
The Colonial Minister presented on Monday the East Indian
Budget for 1879, which shows a deficit of 10,000,000 fl., caused
by the expenses of the war in Atcliin and the expenditure for
the construction of new railways. The Minister proposes to
cover the deficit temporarily by advances from the Treasury to
the Indian Finance Department, and ultimately by a loan.
The expense attending the occupation of Atchin is estimated
at 9,000,000 fl. The Minister estimates the coffee crop at
820,000 piculs at the price of 48c. per half kilogramme.
GERMANY.
The German Reichstag was opened on Monday afternoon in
the White Hall of the Royal Palace, Berlin. The Speech from
the Throne was read by Count Stolberg, Prince Bismarck s
substitute. It related principally to references to the attempts
made upon the Emperor William’s life and the Anti-Socialist
Bill which is to be laid before the House. A confident hope
was expressed that the newly-elected deputies will not refuse
to grant the means of giving the peaceful development of the
Empire the same security against attacks from within as it
enjoys against those from without; that the spread of the
pernicious Socialist movement will be arrested; and that those
who have been led away by it may be brought back to the
right path.
Herr von Forkenbcck was on Wednesday elected President
by 240 votes out of a total of 359 recorded. Ilerr Franken¬
stein received 114 votes. The election for the post of first
Vice-President necessitated a second ballot, the candidates
being Ilerr von Stauffenberg (National Liberal), Herr Franken¬
stein (Centre), and Herr Semdewitz (German Conservative
party). Herr von Stauffenberg obtained 175 votes, against
142 received by Herr Frankenstein, and was electedfirst Vice-
President. Prince Hohenlohe-Langenberg (German Imperial
party) was chosen second Vice-President by212 votes outof 335.
General Grant arrived at Gastein on Wednesday, and
immediately proceeded to pay a visit to Prince Bismarck.
It is reported from Berlin that a circular despatch has been
sent by the German Government to the signatary Powers of
the Treaty of Berlin calling upon them to take a common step,
with the view of bringing the Porte to execute the stipulations
of the Treaty. To this proposal the Austrian, French, and
Russian Governments are stated to have given their adhesion,
to be followed, it is expected, by those of England and Italy.
Dr. Nobiling, who fired at the Emperor William a few
months since and wounded his Majesty in the hands and face,
and who was recently removed to an asylum that the autho¬
rities might ascertain if he was simulating madness, died on
Tuesday from the wounds inflicted by himself. The immediate
cause of death was paralysis of the lungB.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
The golden wedding of the Austrian Empress’s parents, the
Duke and Duchess Max, in Bavaria, was celebrated on Monday
at Tegemsee, in the presence of the Empress, Princess Sophie
d’Alen(,'on, and Dukes Louis, Charles Theodore, and Max
Emanuel. The Duke having declined any public festivities,
the celebration was confined to the family circle.
The Austrian troops entered Trebinje at noon on Saturday
last, without opposition. The Turkish troops surrendered
the citadel to the Austrians, and left the town the 6ame
evening. The Commander of the 36th Division reports that the
Austrian troops occupied Priedor also on Saturday, meeting
with a friendly reception from the inhabitants. The process
of disarming Novi and the surrounding district had previously
been accomplished without resistance. On the 6th inst.
Major-General Sametz attacked the insurgents in a strong
position before the town of Klijuc, and drove them back to
the left bank of the Sana, and ultimately, after a hotly-con¬
tested engagement, which lasted until nightfall, the Austrians
captured two of the enemy’s intrenchments, the town of
Klijuc, and also a number of houses grouped on the southern
acclivity of the citadel. It is announced that General Zach
sustained a serious defeat near Bihacs, on the Unne. The
town of Bihacs is said to be defended by Turkish regulars,
who have constructed strongly fortified intrenchments outside
the town on a hill commanding the plain. The Commandant
declares that he has no orders from the Porte to surrender the
town, and that, on the contrary, he was instructed by Hafiz
Pasha to defend it to the last extremity. The Austrian army
in Bosnia and Herzegovina numbers 208,000 men, 36,000
horses, and 480 guns.
TURKEY.
A short time ago Mehemet Ali Pasha proceeded upon a
special mission to Albania with the object of preparing the
population for the cession of territory to the Montenegrins, in
accordance with the decisions of the Congress, and to
endeavour to calm the public mind, which was unfortunately
most excited. The Pasha, however, was murdered on the 6th
inst. Some particulars, received from Constantinople, of the
way he met his death are telegraphed by the Vienna corre¬
spondent of the Times. It seems clear that at Gusinje, Plava,
and Kolasiu, even before the arrival of Mehemet Ali, the most
complete anarchy had gained the upper hand. On arriving in
Jakova Mehemet found the greatest excitement prevailing.
He was violently upbraided with having come up to hand over
the land to the Servians. The agitation went on increasing,
and the house selected by Mehemet Ali for a lodging was set
on fire by the Albanians of Jakova and Ipek. This done, there
arose between the incendiaries and Mehemet Ali’s escort a
regular fight, in the course of which twenty men of the lattei
fell. Towards evening, through the intervention of some
Ulemas, the conflict was appeased, the insurgents promising
to observe a peaceful attitude. About six in the evening, how¬
ever in Jakova, where Mehemet Ali still remained, the struggle
broke out afresh, resulting in the death of Mehemet’s adjutant,
Abdullah Pasha, with several officers, and the house in which
they had taken refuge was fired. Mehemet Ali escaped from
the burning building, and concealed himself in a small erection
close by, but his hiding-place was soon discovered, and he was
put to death.
Batoum was peacefully occupied by the Russian troops on
the 6th inst. At eleven o’clock in the morning Dervish Pasha,
at the head of a deputation of the inhabitants of the Christian
and Mussulman clergy, received Adjutant-General Miraky,
who was in command of the Russian troops. Complete tran¬
quillity prevailed in the district.
GREECE.
A note has been addressed by the Government to the
signatary Powers soliciting their mediation for the execution
of the stipulations of the Treaty of Berlin in regard to the
Turko-Greek frontier.
The Minister of War has issued an order summoning the
officers and men absent on leave, to the number of upwards
of 2500, to join their regiments immediately. The Govern¬
ment explains that this measure is simply precautionary,
while the semi-official journals say that it is necessitated by
“important reasons.”
BERYIA.
Last Saturday, being the anniversary of the birthday of
Princess Nathalie, was observed as a general holiday at Bel¬
grade. A gala parade of the garrison was held, and there was
a reception at the palace. The town was decorated with flags,
and illuminated at night. Wednesday, being the fete of the
Emperor of Russia and also of the Crown Prince of Servia,
the infant son of Prince Milan, was also kept as a holiday.
ROUMANIA.
A decree of Prince Charles fixes the reopening of the
Roumanian Chambers for the 27th inst.
Twenty-five thousand Russian medals have been sent to
Bucharest for the Roumanian troops whowere around Plevna.
AMERICA.
President Hayes, speaking last week at St. Paul, where he
is said to have had an enthusiastic popular reception, dwelt on
the progressive improvement in the financial condition of the
country, showing that in thirteen years the public debt had
been reduced by one third and the annual interest diminished
to the extent of 56,000,000 dols. paid monthly in America,
owing to the return of bonds from abroad. The annual taxa¬
tion of the country had been reduced to 247,000,000 dols., and
the expenses to 120,000,000 dols. The paper cmrency was
nearly at par, showing an increase in the coin value of
175,000,000 dols. The excess of exports over imports during
the past year amounted to 258,000,000 dols. The President
proceeded to declare that the balance of trade was in favour of
the United States, remarking that American enterprise and the
most important American products sought every land. “We
cannot,” said the President, “isolate ourselves from the rest of
the commercial world. Our increasing foreign trade requires
our financial system to be based upon principles whose sound¬
ness has been sanctioned by universal experience and by the
general judgment of mankind. We are on the threshold of
better times, and the surest foundations for prosperity are a
sound and honest currency and unstained national credit.”
The President concluded his speech with an eloquent appeal
on behalf of the people of the Southern States now suffering
from the yellow fever epidemic.
Subsequently President Hayes has been well received at
Dakotah and Milwaukie, where he addressed immense crowds,
and made effective appeals on behalf of the distressed popula¬
tion of the South.
Most terrible accounts of the ravages and spread of yellow
fever in the Southern States are contained in the latest tele¬
grams. The number of deaths from yellow fever on Wednesday
was ninety at New Orleans and 104 at Memphis. Out of a
thousand nurses in Memphis eight hundred arc ill with the fever.
It is stated that in the fever-stricken districts there are now
90,000 people without employment and destitute, for whose
subsistence alone within the next fifty days a million of dollars
will be required. A famine, it is believed, will certainly
follow the fever. A telegram of Tuesday’s date from
Washington reports that the Secretary for War is stated to
have declared that the means at the disposal of the Govern¬
ment for relieving the distress in the Southern States are now
almost exhausted. The principal Southern Congressmen and
other leading members of Congress have issued an appeal for
the immediate organisation of a national relief system, to
anticipate the famine which it is believed will certainly follow
the fever. The Governor of Ohio has proclaimed a day of
prayer to avert the pestilence from that State.
The King of the Samoan Islands has ratified the treaty
recently concluded with the United States.
CANADA.
Lord Dufferin, in reply to an address of the municipal
authorities of Ontario on the 6th inst., congratulated the
Canadians generally upon the appointment of the Marquis of
Lorne to the Governorship of the Dominion as a mark of con¬
fidence and affection from the mother country. His Lordship
also referred in terms of warm eulogy to the Marquis of Lome
and her Royal Highness Princess Louise.
The British Columbian Legislature, having passed an Act
disfranchising the Dominion officials, the latter propose taking
action to test the validity of the measure. A meeting has
been held at New Westminster, at which resolutions were
passed condemning the policy of separation pursued by the
Provincial Government.
THE CAPE COLONIES.
We have news from Cape Town by telegram from Madeira
to Aug. 20. Reuter’s summary says:—“Major Lauyon has
returned to Kimberley. The chief Mankaroane has been
sentenced to pay an indemnity to the family of the late Mr.
Francis Thompson. The 80th Regiment has left Natal for the
Transvaal. The Admiral’s flag-ship is surveying at St. Lucia
Bay, Natal, to select a suitable landing-place for troops in the
event of the dispatch of a British force to Natal being rendered
neceesary by a rising of the Zulus. Mr. Gordon Sprigg, the
Premier, in a speech at Grahamstown, declared that the con¬
federation of the South African colonies would be the test
question at the next general election for the Cape Parliament.
INDIA.
The Calcutta correspondent of the Times telegraphed on
Sunday last as follows:—
All those to whom the history of Indian politics is familiar are agreed
that active means must at once be taken to countervail the Russian advance
into Afghanistan. At the bwinning of last century the Russian advanced
forts were 2600 miles distant from those of the English. At the close o/f the
century the distance was lessened to 2000, and at the commencement o)f the
present oentury the distances were reduced to 1000 miles. Since the emd of
the Crimean War that distance has been further reduced to 400 miles. '1 'here
is, therefore, every possible reason for arguing from the past that, this
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distance will at some time or other before long be completely annihilated
and British and Russian frontiers become conterminous. In face of these
extreme probabilities it will be wise policy for the Government to endeavour
to determine beforehand the line of contact of the two Powers. The present
frontier line is stated by most military authorities to be indefensible. It
extends over 1000 miles, and can be penetrated at all points by forces in
the possession of tribes most hostile. Under these conditions, to allow
Russia to establish herself in security at Cabul would be suicidal policy.
She would command all the passes into British territory, and at the same
time obtain recruiting-ground with resources almost inexhaustible. The
Indian Government ore most anxious to avoid adopting any policy which
would bear even the semblance of hostility towards Russia, but the extreme
probability of a collision sooner or later cannot be overlooked. It is neces¬
sary, therefore, to provide for a strong stategic defensive position to guard
against eventualities. From this point of view it is indispensable that we
should possess a commanding influence over the triangle of territory formed
on the map by Cabul, Ghuznee, and Jellalabad, together with power over
the Hindoo Koosh. This would command the central routes of approach
to India, indirectly cover the eastern and western routes, and at the same
time enable us to threaten, if necessary, the whole line of Russian frontier.
This triangle we may hope to command with Afghan concurrence if the
Ameer is friendly. The strongest frontier line which could be adopted
would be along the Hindoo Koosh, from Pamir to Barman, thence to the
south by the Helmund Girish and Candahor to the Arubian Sea. It is pos¬
sible, therefore, that by friendly negotiations some such defensive boundary
may be adopted. The means by which this can be brought about are
either directly by diplomatic arrangement with : Russia or by entering
into an alliancejof guarantee and protection with Afghanistan. The
present Mission wall be essentially friendly and conciliator}-. Its objects
are to insure the prospects of a lasting peace, both with Afghanistan and
Russia; but in no circumstances will an alliance between Russia and the
Ameer hostile to the British Government bo tolerated. The latest news in
reference to the Mission states that Major 8t. John had gone in advance to
Peshawur to make tlnal arrangements for the Mission. Sir N. Chamberlain
and his staff left Simla to-day for Peshawur. The Mission will be formed
there. Gholam nussein Khan, the Viceroy’s messenger to Cabul, is ex¬
pected to return about the 17th, and the Mission is to start immediately.
He has met with courteous treatment en route. Applications from Indian
nobles of high rank, offering their services for the Mission, have been
received by the Government. The Viceroy has selected Maharajah Partaub
Sing, of Jodhpore, brother of the Maharajah of Jodhpore, and Sirdah
Abdulla Khan, of Tonby, uncle of the present Nawab, as being repre¬
sentatives of Hindoo and Mohammedan families of the highest rank, to
accompany the Mission. 'This is a wise act of policy, in so far that it will
enlist the sympathies and the interests of the Hindoos and Mohammedans
in the success of the Mission.
NEW ZEALAND.
A telegram of the 6th iiist. reports that a banquet has been
held at Christchurch to celebrate the completion of the rtiilwuy
between Christchurch and Dunedin. The Governor, Lord
Normanby, and a number of members of Parliament were
present. At the conclusion of the procedings the Mayors of
Christchurch and Dunedin sent Sir Julius Vogel a telegram
congratulating him, “on behalf of the Governor and repre¬
sentatives present, on the completion of the great work for
which New Zealand is so largely indebted to his exertions.”
The Junon, now on her voyage round the world, arrived at
Rio Janeiro on the 4tli inst.
To the report that cholera had broken out in Sweden a
second authoritative denial has been given.
A telegram from Cyprus states that the English troops
continue to suffer from fever. Sir Garnet Wolseley is about
to take a tour round the island on board the Raleigh.
Tuesday’s Oaiette contains the announcement that the
Queen has appointed Colonel Robert Home, C.B., R.E., to be
Commissioner for the delimitation of the frontiers of Bulgaria,
under article 2 of the Treaty of Berlin.
It is telegraphed from Alexandria that the reforms
advocated by Nubar Pasha arc steadily advancing, and that
the official announcement of Mr. Rivers Wilson as Minister
of Finance is impatiently awaited.
According to the latest intelligence from Yokohama, the
draught of a new law for the regulation and control of the
opium trade has been published, from which it appears that
opium may only be sold by licensed druggists.
According to news from the West Coast, dated Lagos,
Aug. 10, the King of Dahomey was still inclined to defy
England, and had positively refused to pay the indemnity.
The European factories of Lagos are occasionally being broken
into and plundered by natives, the King sharing the Bpoil.
The Egyptian Government has received telegrams from
Khartoum reporting an unusual rising of the White and Blue
Niles. Incessant rains continued, and an inundation was
apprehended, in view of which precautionary measures were
being taken.
The Agent-General for Queensland has been advised by
telegram that the following vessels, conveying emigrants to
Queensland, have arrived safe at their destination:—The
Lammershagen, from Hamburg; the Southesk and Windsor
Castle, from London; and the Rodell Bay, from Glasgow.
The Chinese population of San Francisco numbers 32,000,
classified as follows :—Merchants and professional men, 1000 ;
cigar-makers, 5000 ; laundrymen, 1500; servants, 7000; boot
and shoe makers, 2000 ; slipper-makers, 800 ; gamblers, 1400 ;
makers of clothing, 3000 ; pedlars, 2500 ; fishermen, 1000;
labourers, 1000 ; other occupations, 3800 ; women, 2000.
The new iron Aberdeen built barque Scottish Prince, of
894 tons register, Captain Moore, sailed from Gravesend on
the 6th inst., and had on board the following number of
emigrants bound for Townsville, Queensland—viz., 41 married
men, 42 married women, 111 single men, 69 single women, 40
children between the ages of twelve and one, and 14 infants,
making a total of 317 souls.
The small eruption of Vesuvius, which has now been in pro¬
gress for some time, is slowly increasing. The new crater,
which opened at the bottom of that of 1872, has gradually filled
with lava, which is now beginning to flow over into the large
one. With the new molten materials medals are being pro¬
duced, with the effigy of the director of the observatory, for
sale to the curious.
At Coblentz and Saarloius the police recently prohibited
Bmoking in the streets by youths under sixteen ; and at Treves
a by-law of 1857 has been brought into force, which imposes a
fine of from three to nine marks, or imprisonment in default,
on boys under sixteen who smoke in the streets and in places
of amusement. A similar police regulation would not be
amiss at places nearer heme.
The Chamber of Commerce of Foochow, having called the
attention of the foreign Consuls to the contemplated mixture
of dried and prepared willow-leaves with tea-leaves, the
Governor of Foochow has issued a proclamation threatening
delinquents with severe punishment. Those at the head of the
scheme, he says, are numerous, and any person who proves the
guilt of one of them will receive 100 piastres. “ Let all,” he
adds, “ tremble and obey.”
Letters have been received at Dundee from Captain Adams,
of the well-known Dundee whaler Arctic, up to July 12,
stating that not one vessel of the fleet had caught a single fish,
and the expectation is that the fishing will be a complete
failure. None of the vessels had been able to pass through
Melville Bay, a circumstance which has not happened during
any previous season. As seen from the highest mountains, the
bay appeared hopelessly blocked by ice, and all efforts to
penetrate it had to be abandoned.
It is announced by the Governor of New Caledonia to the
Minister of French Marine that, although all the insurgent
natives have not yet made their submission, he believes the
suppression of the insurrection to be only a matter of time.
The Danish Inspector of North Greenland, resident at
Godhaven, Disco, writing on July 18, says that in no year has
he seen the west ice approaching so near the Greenland coast
as this season, nor has it ever been seen in such a quantity. It
was lying to the northward, stretching beyond the reach of
the eye in vast packs and masses close against the seashore.
No such year for ice is remembered. Owing to expected
failure of whale-fishing, oil has risen £3 a tun, and bone has
advanced to £1200 a ton.
The Japan Mail says :—The members of the Imperial family
of Japan evince a sincere desire to promote the industries of this
country. A short time ago we had the pleasure of pointing
out the interest taken by the Empress in silk-spinning ; ana
now we learn from the native papers that the tea-shrubs
growing in the garden of the Imperial palace at Akasaka were
picked in the presence of her Majesty the Empress Dowager by
one hundred girls on the 26th inst., all of whom were for the
occasion dressed alike in holiday clothes, and were further
regaled with cokes and tea at the onclusion of their labours.
The Daily News' correspondent in the Rhodope district
writes:—“ I have frequently heard merchants and others in
England express a desire to find some point on the face of the
earth where they could enjoy perfect repose for a week or two.
Let them try Kirkova. There is no post here, no telegraph ;
and if you speak to a native of this little village about a
newspaper he will probably think it is something to eat. But
ask him for melons, grapes, plums, apples, pears, or black¬
berries, and he will overwhelm you with them, at about half a
farthing a pound.”
A notice from the Colonial Office appears in Tuesday’s
Gazette stating that the Queen [has appointed the King of
Siam to be an Honorary Member of the First Class or Knights
Grand Cross of the Distinguished Order of St. Michael and
St. George. Her Majesty has also appointed Sir Arthur
Hamilton Gordon, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in -
Chief of the colony of Fiji and High Commissioner for the
Western Pacific, to be an Ordinary Member of the First Class
of the said order. In this latter case her Majesty’s warrant
of appointment bears date Feb. 6,1878.
The Straits Times reports that the head gardener in the
Botanical Gardens at Singapore had rather a daugerous ad¬
venture recently with the python presented to the gardens by
the Maharajah of Johore. The creature iB sluggish in his
habits, and allows liberties to be taken with him. One day
the gardener entered the python’s cage and was showing to a
friend that he could do as he pleased with him, when suddenly,
irritated by a kick on the head, the python coiled himself
quickly round the gardener’s body, and hadwellnigh succeeded
in squeezing the life out of him before assistance arrived in the
shape of Private John Adolphus, of her Majesty’s 28th Regi¬
ment, who very pluckily seized the snake, and by sheer strength
forced him to let go.
Lieutenant Kitchener, R.E., handed over to the committee
of the Palestine Exploration Fund on Tuesday the whole of
the memoir, special plans and lists connected with the great
map of Western Palestine. These materials, now in the hands
of the committee, consist of a map of twenty-six sheets, on the
scale of one-inch to the mile, a map in three sheets on the
scale of three-eighths of the large map, and an immense col¬
lection of memoirs from the note-books of Lieutenant Conder
and himself. The committee have already taken steps for the
publication of the maps, and will at once proceed to consider
the publication of the memoirs—a part of the work as im¬
portant as the map. Lieutenant Kitchener exchanges the
service of the Palestine Fund for the important charge of the
survey of Cyprus, to which he has been appointed.
The Bluebook of Natal for 1877 shows in that year a popu¬
lation amounting 325,512, consisting of 157,929 males and
167,583 females. There were 22,654 whites, 290,035 natives,
and 12,823 coolies. There were 46,577 acres of crops reaped
by the white inhabitants—there being in this number 25,500
acres of maize, 9023 acres of sugar-cane, and 3712 acres of
oats. The yield of sugar is set down at 10,473 tons, of maize
at 140,700 muids (not quite six to the acre), of coffee at
222,727 lb. The Europeans cultivated at the rate of two acres
per head. The natives are said to have reaped 162,741
acres—or, say, half an* acre per head. The proportion, of
course, is low; but the aggregate shows that the natives
represent a substantial industrial element in the community.
The crop of mealies was estimated at 417,116 muids, of Kaffir
com at 27,861 muids, and of sweet potatoes at 96,270 muids,
while a partial guess is hazarded at an out-turn of 2926 tons
of pumpkins. It must be noted, however, that the number of
acres actually cultivated by Europeans was, at the end of
December, much in excess of the acreage reaped. It is set
down roughly at 69,270, which would give an average of over
three acres per head. The Europeans number in their pos¬
session 16,320 horses, 765 mules, 145,128 homed cattle, 451,110
sheep, 44,328 Angora gouts, 33,002 other goats, 11,213 pigs,
360 donkeys, aud 1489 unwoolled sheep. The natives are said
to hold 7874 horses, 254,579 homed cattle, 32,196 sheep, 4-4,844
goats, and 4922 pigs.
A correspondent writes to the Pall Mall Gazette from
Bayeux as follows:—“Through the kindness of Monsignor
Hugenin, Bishop of Bayeux, I was shown this morning the
famous casket which, much to the general disappointment,
was not sent to the Paris Exhibition this year. This casket,
which may be more correctly (described as a large ivory box
bound with bronze, was captured from the Saracens by
Louis XI., and an inscription in Arabic (of which the follow¬
ing is the translation: “In the name of a gracious merciful
good blessing and goodness”) may bo taken as a confirmation
of this legend. It is said that Louis XI. presented it to the
Cathedral of Bayeux out of gratitude for his daughter’s
recovery from an illness which had exhausted the resources of
the local faculty, but which yielded to a touch of the chasuble
which had belonged to St. Regnobert, the second Bishop of
Bayeux. The casket was sent to hold the miracle-working
chasuble, and both have been jealously guarded ever since.
This casket, which is a wonderful piece of alto-relievo work,
was seut to the Paris Exhibitions of 1855 and 1867, the
Government guaranteeing to pay a certain sum in the event
of any harm coming to it. The Bishop offered to let it be
exhibited this year, but the Commissioners declined to
guarantee its safety, mid the Bishop very wisely would not
part with it. The cusket is not shown to the ordinary
visitors, for one or two attempts have been made to make away
with it.
A public meeting, at which Lord Penrhyn, Lord Lieutenant
of Carnarvonshire, presided, was held yesterday week at Bangor,
in connection with the proposed memorial to the late Sir
ltichnrd Bulkeley. A sum of nearly £1500 has been subscribed.
It was decided that the form of the memorial should be left to
the family.
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
The new schools, affording accommodation for 1200 pupils,
which have been erected by the school board in Words-
worth-road, South Hornsey, have been thrown open for the
reception of children. The building was begun in June, 1877,
and the total cost will slightly exceed £15,000.
From the new report issued by the Victoria [Philosophical)
Institute, of 7, Adelphi-terrace, it appears that a considerable
number of American and colonial members have joined this
year: out of twenty-four elected last month, twenty were
country or foreign members.
Mr. Thomas William Saunders, who has been appointed a
metropolitan police magistrate in succession to Mr. Knox, took
the oaths on Wednesday before Mr. Justice Hawkins, sitting
as Vacation Judge. Mr. Saunders, who was called to the Bar
in 1837, practised on the Western Circuit, and holds the position
of Recorder of Bath.
Colonel Henderson reports that last year 14,410 new houses,
270 new streets, and two new squares, covering a length of 39
miles and 1623 yards, were added to the metropolis. The
average yearly number of new houses during the last twenty-
nine years has been 10,610, so that this year is above the
average; but the average length of new streets opened yearly
during that period has been forty-four miles.
Some boys were charged last Saturday, at the Marylebone
Police Court, with breaking into Trinity Presbyterian Church,
Kentish Town, and doing a great deal of damage there. After
the boys had made their way in they broke a valuable har¬
monium to pieces, and made a bonfire on the floor wjth such
Bibles and hymn-books as they could find. They drank the
sacramental wine and carried off some property. The magis¬
trate remanded them.
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows that
the total number of paupers at the end of the first week in
September was 76,306, of whom 38,648 were in workhouses
and 37,658 received outdoor relief. Compared with the corre¬
sponding weeks in 1877, 1876, and 1875 these figures show
a decrease of 484, 1029, and 5917 respectively. The number
of vagrants relieved on the last day of the week was 625, of
whom 437 were men, 146 women, and 41 children under sixteen.
The Liverymen of London will meet on the 28th inst. at
Guildhall for the election of the Lord Mayor for the ensuing
civic year. The Aldermen eligible are Sir Charles Whethom,
Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott, Mr. Alderman M‘Arthur, M.P.,
Mr. Alderman Ellis, Mr. Alderman Figgins, Mr. Alderman
Knight, Mr. Alderman Hadley, Mr. Alderman Nottage, and
Mr. Alderman Staples. It is customary for the Livery to
select the two senior Aldermen, and then for the Court of
Aldermen to make from them the final choice. Should that
course be followed this year, the Lord Mayor elect will pro¬
bably be Sir Charles Whetham, the Alderman of Bridge
ward. The new Sheriffs, Mr. George Burt aud Mr. Thomas
Bevan, will be sworn in on the 28th also.
The Cleopatra Needle, after its many vicissitudes, was on
Thursday placed in its position on the Thames Embankment,
between Charing-cross and Waterloo Bridges. A large number
of ladies and gentlemen were conveyed from Westminster Pier
to a saloon- steamer moored opposite the monolith. Under the
obelisk, in addition to the standard measures authorised by the
Government officials, and copies of the coins of the realm and
of the newspapers of the day, were placed, from the Bible
Society, copies of the Bible in the English and French languages,
the Hebrew Pentateuch, the Arabic Genesis, and a specimen
published by the Bible Society showing the 16th verse of
the 3rd chapter of St. John in 215 languages. On board the
saloon-ship Professor Wilson addressed those present, traced
the history of the monolith, and paid a tribute of gratitude to
Sir J. Alexander, who first suggested, and to Mr. J. Dixon,
who has so successfully carried out, the design of bringing the
Needle to this country. The monolith was then lowered into
its present position, the operation occupying one hour; after
which loud cheers were given for the Queen, for the Khedive of
of Egypt, for Professor Wilson, and for Mr. Dixon and his
assistants. We Bhall illustrate the ceremony next week.
The annual collections held under the name of Hospital
Saturday for the benefit of the London hospitals and dis¬
pensaries were made last Saturday, when collecting-boxes were
placed at suitable spots throughout the metropolis. On Monday
night at twelve o’clock the task of counting the money col¬
lected at the street stations was concluded. For this work ten
gentlemen engaged in London banking-houses volunteered
their services, all of whom were on Monday night at their posts,
busily engaged in arranging the £260 in copper found in the
boxes. As far as is at present known, this year’s collection
has exceeded that of any previous year. The amount collected
by street boxes in 1874 was £258, in 1875 £489, in 1876 £825,
in 1877 £777, while the amount taken to the Bank last night
exceeded £1000. The largest amount deposited in any single
box was £26 lls. 9d. found in that stationed at the Peabody
statue, of which £6 10s. was gold; and the smallest amount
any box contained was 7s. 7£d. This year the E.C. district
contributed the largest amount, the smallest being that col¬
lected in the northern district. One of the collectors, the lady
appointed to the station in Monument-yard, was lost in the
Princess Alice, as were also two of the fund’s boxes. The
collections on the London Steam-Boat Company’s boats have
been very good, that on Citizen H, commanded by Captain
Cuff, amounting to £5 lls. 3d.
There were 2416 births and 1260 deaths registered in
Loudon last week. Allowing for increase of population, the
births exceeded by 90, while the deaths were 166 below, the
average. There were 54 fatal cases of whooping-cough, which
showed a further decline of 2 from the numbers in recent
weeks, but exceeded the corrected weekly average by 18. The
deaths leferred to fever, which had been but 16 and 23 in the
two preceding weeks, further rose to 25 last week, but were 7
below the corrected averuge weekly number: 18 fatal cases
were certified as enteric or typhoid, 2 as typhus, and 5 as
simple continued fever. There were 30 deaths from scarlet
f eV er and 10 from diphtheria. The death* referred to diarrlnea
aud simple cholera, which had been 494, 351,268, 201, and 154
in the five preceding weeks, further declined last week to
124 and were 55 below the corrected average number.
The fatal cases of smallpox, which had been 10 aud 6 in the
two previous weeks, further declined to 3 last week, a lower
number than in any previous week since the beginning of
August, 1876. The Metropolitan Asylum hospitals con-
ttuned 178 smallpox patients on Saturday last, showing a
further decline of 16 from the numbers at the end of recent
weeks • 18 new cases were admitted during the week, against
36 22’and 18 in the three preceding weeks. Thellighgute
Smallpox Hospital contained but 7 patients on Saturday hist.
In the Greater London 2972 births and 1475 deaths were regis¬
tered The mean temperature of the air was 612 deg., and
2‘3 deg. above the average in the corresponding week of the
sixty years 1814—73. The duration of registered bright sun¬
shine in the week was 312 hours, the sun being above the
horizon during 93T hours.
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ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
SEPT. 14, 1878
echoes of the week.
On Saturday morning last five murderers suffered the pemdty
of death by the guillotine within the territory of the h re
Renublic Three of these criminals were Arabs, andwere
executed at Philippeville in Algeria. The remmnmg two were
Frenchmen, named respectively Barre and Th y
quite young men; one had been a medical student^the other
a clerk; and they had been convicted on tte clearest evidence
of the murder of an old woman named Gillet The de^ w
an evrentionallv deliberate and atrocious one. The motive
was thatgreed of gain which, under a hundred different aspects,
seems to be driving the French people mad.
If capital punishment is, under any circumstances,toibe
inflicted? it is certain that no two detestable caitiff see
deserved their punishment so richly as did Barre and Lebiez.
Their execution has, nevertheless, filled society “
universal sentiment of horror and disgust; and it is probable
that the butchery which took place at dawn last Saturday m
front of the prison of La Roquette will find its place in history
as the last public execution in France. The question remains
whether it will be thought expedient to retain the g^ffme
as an instrument of death. Looking at home we have an equal
right to ask ourselves whether it is worth while to retain tnat
remarkably venerable apparatus, the gallows ; _and whether a
dose of prussic acid or an overwhelming electric shock might
not be found as effectual a means of carrying out the ends ol
justice as Marwood’s halter and drop.
But the example, the advocates of capital punishment may
urge. Touching examples, I may be permitted to relate a little
apologue. I have heard of an austere French lady who was
accustomed to correct her little granddaughter when she was
naughty. “ Et tie croyezpas," she would gravely say, prior to
inflicting punishment, “ que c'est pour mon plamr que je vous
corrige." “ Pour leplaisir de qui, alors ?” piteously asked the
small logician. Who is to profit by the example set forth by
the solemn strangulation of an assassin in a prison yard r The
assassin himself ? Scarcely. He has read—and read too much
in detail, perhaps—the accounts of other men being hanged;
but those highly-spiced narratives have not deterred him from
the commission of murder. The mob outside ? Why it is the
same mob that in the old days used to look on an Easter-
Monday hanging in the Old Bailey as a joyous preliminary to
the subsequent Saturnalia of Greenwich Fair, and who even
now, when they have been deprived of the spectacle of a public
strangling, hang in dingy groups outside the gaol while the
hanging is going on, and waiting for the black flag to be
hoisted. It strikes me that the persons most immediately
brought in contact with the “ example” are the High Sheriff,
the governor of the prison, the chaplain, and the warders, who
are made sick by the horrible transaction.
Some two-nnd-twenty years ago I published a long letter
in the Times newspaper protesting against the scenes of infamy
which were then common when executions took place in front
of Newgate. In writing the letter I had before my eyes the
“example” of some dashing young men about town of my
acquaintance, who, in order to witness the execution of a
batch of peculiarly notorious murderers, hired the first-floor
front of a tavern in the Old Bailey, and played loo all night.
They were more fortunate in the morning than My Lord
Tomnoddy, for they did see the men hanged. I read in the
French papers that similarly gay parties were made up on
Friday, at the great boulevard restaurants, to “ make a night
of it ’’ prior to the butchery of Barre and Lebiez, which took
place at five thirty a.m. By four the cabinets particuliers of
the restaurants were evacuated; and the dashing young men
about town and their lady friends, smoking cigarettes and
singing merry songs, drove down to the Place de la Roquette.
By some means or another no less than fifteen hundred persons
obtained billets de circulation from the Prefecture of Police,
enabling them to approach the scaffold.
Mem: In quiting an ugly subject I may mention that I
witnessed, as the correspondent of a newspaper, the first
private execution that took place in England. It was in
September or October, 1867, at Maidstone Gaol; and my com¬
panions were Mr. J. C. Parkinson, then representing the Daily
News, and Mr. Edmund Yates, representing the now defunct
Morning Star. Looking upon a private hanging as a very im¬
portant experiment in criminal science I wrote, in the most
guarded and measured terms at my command, an account of
the transaction. The accounts written by my companions
were as cautiously worded as my own narrative was. Our
reward was to be dubbed “ ghoules ” and “ vampires ” by the
Saturday Review.
Alarming accounts continue to be current touching the
mental health of Victor Hugo. One section of the Paris press
stoutly declare that the illustrious poet is in possession of all
his faculties, while other journals as authoritatively assert
that the news from Guernsey is of the most serious character,
and that Victor Hugo is on the very verge of insanity. He
has a mania, it is stated, for having himself photographed ; he
will stand for hours before a glass pouring forth furious
diatribes against the Bonaparte family; and sometimes he will
lie at full length on the ground, and then slowly raise himself,
keeping his arms folded all the while. Well; “ great wits are
sure to madness near allied.” For the rest, every distinguished
man of letters must expect to hear from time to time that he
has gone out of his mind ; that he has taken to eating opium or
drinking chloral, that the bailiffs are in his house, that he has
run away from his wife and family, and that his last novel was
written, not by himself, but by Miss Sophonisba O’Bleek, of
Ballymulligan, Ireland.
The World has propounded sundry “ puzzles ” to its readers
in the shape of sundry phrases in French which are written in
incorrect grammar, and which the puzzle-loving public are
nvited to correct. I shall have something 1 to sav concerning
these
shall have something to say concerning
_ next week. Meanwhile “ M. le Rebouteur ”
continues to put his own countrymen to the blush in his
Eutorses de la Grammaire,” published in the Paris Figaro
This terrible purist has found out that it is wrong to say
Allumez le feu." Analogously we commit quite as grave a
solecism when we say “ Light the fire.” It is the coal or the
wood that we set on fire ; and to be strictly correct we should
say Kindle a fire,” or “Set light to the fuel in the fire-
P lace ” _ G. A. S.
The works of the Tynemouth Aquarium, of which we gave
an Illustration last week, were executed by Messrs. Aldin
and Bray, of Adelphi-terrace, London.
Ab Mr. Silas Pomeroy, a justice of the peace, was walking
over his estate at Blandy, Hampshire, last Wednesday morn¬
ing he was attacked by a bull. He retreated into a hedge,
and endeavoured to defend himself with his stick, but in vain
and he was gor> d to death. The day was the anniversary of
Mr^l omeroy s birthday, and a large party had been invited to
NATIONAL SPORTS.
It cannot be said that the Doncaster Meeting began very
ausniciously. The yearling sales on Tuesday morning, t
which we shall allude 7 again presentiy were a sad failure ; and
the first day’s race-card was the weakest that we have seen
for years. Looking back on the number of flyers that haye
contested the Fitzwilliam Stakes it was really melancholy to
see Ecossais walking over for the forfeits ; nor did■ *£«**“£
Stakes mend matters much, as Jessie Agnes had only to canter
in front of the Charlotte Russe filly. This was succeeded by
the Doncaster Plate, also reduced to a match ; and even the
Great Yorkshire Handicap displayed a^ marked falhng-ott, as
the field only numbered eight. A good deal of interest was
felt in the running of Advance (9 at. 3 lb.) as he was the
trial horse of Master Kildare and Boniface, Captain Machell s
Leger candidates, and he performed sufficiently well
to 8 satisfy their supporters. At the finish Rylstone
(8 st. 10 lb.) was promoted to the post of favourite, and Lord
Hartington’s mare managed to beat everything except
Flotsam (6st. 9 lb.), who had the race in hand quite half a
mile from home, and added one more to the long list of vic¬
tories achieved by the stock of Speculum this season. All
Fordham’s exertions could only get Jagellon (7 st. 5 lb.) into
third place, and we fancy that the horse is not always inclined
to do his best. Another small field of five ran for the Cham¬
pagne Stakes, though Rayon d’Or, Charibert, and Claudius
were fair representatives of quality. Charibert was in trouble
a long way from home, and Rayon d’Or appeared likely to
win easily; but Count Lagrange has lately experienced the
most provoking luck in running second for valuable stakes,
and Lord Falmouth’s colt, who is half-brother to Childeric,
struggled on with great gameness, and, fairly wearing down
the French youngster, won cleverly at the finish. Rayon d Or
still presents a raw, unfurnished appearance, and is quite
likely to develop into a better three-year-old than his con¬
queror, who, though very neat, is a trifle on the small side.
Magnificent weather and the apparently open character of
the race attracted an enormous crowd to witness the decision
of the St. Leger. The Prince of Wales, who was the guest of
Mr. Christopher Sykes, was in the Royal Stand, few of the
aristocratic patrons of the turf were absent, and all the sur¬
rounding towns contributed more than their usual quota to
the immense mob that occupied every advantageous spot on
the famous moor. Little interest was exhibited in the opening
events, in one of which Dresden China could make no fight
against Witchery, while in the other Ecossais, who seems
inclined to emulate Mr. Tennyson’s “ Brook,” and “ go on for
ever,” made nothing of his 9 st. 10 lb. The saddling-paddock
seemed the general object of attraction, and it was some
relief to the backers of Beauclerc, who were “ hoping against
hope,” to Bee James Snowden lifted into the Baddle before any
other jockey had mounted, and be thus assured that they
would have the forlorn consolation of a run for their
money. Little Insulaire, looking wonderfully fresh and
well, was the first to appear upon the course, and
he was quickly followed by most of the others, though Lord
Falmouth’s pair did not join the rest for some little time. At
a casual glance, Childeric is decidedly better looking than
Jannette; but the filly seemed more quiet and business-like,
while the innumerable followers of Archer unhesitatingly
declared for the one that their champion had elected to ride.
Lord Lonsdale and Mr. Houldsworth each followed Lord
Falmouth’s example and started a couple of representatives,
the former nobleman having purchased Master Kildare and
Boniface a few hours before the race. Just as the lot were
pulling up after the preliminary canter, Castlereagh kicked
F. Sharp, the lad who was riding Yagar, and broke his leg. The
horse was, therefore, withdrawn, and the starters were thus
reduced to fourteen, which is exactly the same number that
took part in the race last year. A capital start was effected
at the first attempt, and when they had fairly settled
down to their work Glengarry carried his colours to the
front, and went on, followed by Master Kildare, Potentate,
and Boniface, the last named being just clear of
Mappleton and Jannette. As they commenced ascending the
hill after going about three furlongs Potentate, on the outside,
increased the pace, and drew away with a clear lead of a couple
of lengths, his nearest attendants now being Boniface, Glen¬
garry, and Mappleton, who went away in a cluster from Master
Kildare and Attalus, Lord Falmouth’s pair being most pro¬
minent of the remainder, of whom Castlereagh had now
emerged from the ruck, which was whipped in by Beauclerc
and Eau de Yie. Potentate maintained a clear lead to the Red
House, where Boniface still lay second, while a couple of
lengths from Lord Lonsdale’s home succeeded Glengarry and
Master Kildare, just in advance of Attalus and Insulaire, Red
Archer at the same time taking a more prominent place on the
outside, Childeric making a bold show in the centre, and the
favourite coming up on the roils, while of the others Mappleton
was now tailed off many lengths behind everything. Imme¬
diately after passing the above-named landmark Potentate was
hopelessly beaten, and, with Boniface and Glengarry in trouble
in the next few strides, Master Kildare assumed the command
coming round the bend into the straight, when Red Archer
and Insulaire gave way to Lord Falmouth’s pair. At the
distance Master Kildare was well beaten, and Jannette,
coming through next the rails, drew clear away from
Childeric, and won with the utmost ease by four lengths.
Master Kildare was thud, half a length fcehind Childeric.
Clocher passed Insulaire half up the distance, and finished
fourth, clear of Count Lagrange’s colt, fifth. Attalus was
sixth, Beauclerc seventh, Boniface eighth, Castlereagh ninth,
Eau de Vie next, in front of Red Archer and Potentate, with
Glengarry last, excepting Mappleton, who came in with the
crowd. Thus, for two years in succession, Lord Falmouth has
supplied the first and second for the great race in the north ;
and on each occasion Archer’s judgment of the merits of the
pair has been amply vindicated. Master Kildare presented
such a bold front until reaching the distance that, with only
7 st. 41b. on his back, he must have an immense chance for the
Cesarewitch ; and Beauclerc, all untrained as he was, per¬
formed more than respectably. Red Archer proved the imposter
of the race; and Clocher fully confirmed his Goodwood form
with Insulaire, who, in spite of his stout breeding, did not run
like a stayer. The remaining races of the day may be dis¬
missed very briefly. White Poppy (8 st. 41b ) had no trouble
in giving weight to seven of her eight opponents in the Cor¬
poration Stakes, and Boulouf mode a thorough example of
Julius Csesar over two miles.
Doubtless, as Mr. Edmund TattersaU remarked in his recent
letter on the formation of a racing company, the depreciation
in the price of yearlings is only temporary; but there can be
no doubt that it is very pronounced, and on Tuesday and
Wedncsday breeders had a very bad time of it. On the former
after lot was sent back unsold; but matters improved
a little on Wednesday, when a few fair prices were realised.
Iwo of Lord Bateman’s five were sold oretty well, a filly by
Saunterer—Miss Livingstone making 620 gs. A dozen from
the stanton stud did not do very well, as the top price
obtained—for an own brother to Picnic—was only 550 gs.
Mr. Bromwich’s quartette averaged 358 gs., a grand success as
times go ; but few of the others did any good, and we can only
hope that we may have to chronicle brisker competition during
the remainder of the week.
The Australians are winding up their tour in this
country almost more successfully than they began it, and last
week achieved a grand victory over Gloucestershire by ten
wickets. Several of the team scored pretty freely ; but the
feature of the match was the grand bowling of Spofforth, who
took twelve wickets for 90 runs. The Australians v. Gentlemen
of England, at Scarborough, ended in a draw, greatly in
favour of our visitors, for whom C. Bannerman (54) and
Mr. Murdoch (not out, 44 and 49) batted very successfully.
In a match between Yorkshire and I Zingari Mr. A. J. Webbe
played a fine innings of 100 on behalf of the club, which,
however, was beaten by nine wickets.
To-day (Saturday) the sculling-match between Sadler and
Howden will take place ; and on Monday and Tuesday next
Higg ina , Blackman, Elliott, and Boyd will compete for the
challenge cup presented by the proprietors of the Sportsman.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
On Tuesday the annual rifle contest between the Central
London Rangers (40th Middlesex) and the London and West¬
minster (46th Middlesex), ten men a Bide, at 200, 500, and 600
yards ranges, came off at the Tottenham Park range. At the
first distance the 46th headed the Rangers by 11 points, the
respective totals being 242 against 231. At 500 yards the
London and Westminster team increased their lead by another
11 points—213 against 202. It was now plain that the match
was in the hands of the 46th, who at 600 yards increased their
lead, and eventually won by 63 points.
The B, or Railway, company of the 20th Middlesex com¬
peted at the Stanmore ranges for a long list of prizes. In the
first series the first prize, presented by Captain Partington,
was won by Colour-Sergeant J. W. Morgan ; Corporal Maffey
took the second prize, a marble timepiece, presented by Lieu¬
tenant Hill; the third prize (Lieutenant Long’s) went to
Private Curtis; and the fourth, fifth, and sixth prizes, pre¬
sented by Messrs. M'Corquodale, Colour-Sergeant Morgan, and
Captain Partington, were won by Lieutenant Long, Sergeant
Wright, and Private Boreham. In the second series Private
Miles won the first prize. The fourth series was open to all
volunteers in the service of the London and North-Western
Railway Company at Euston-square, many of whom were
necessarily handicapped. The principal prize was a silver cup,
value 10 guineas, presented by Mr. F. Taplin, which was won
by Colour-Sergeant Morgan. The second prize fell to Private
Curtis, and the third to Lieutenant Long.
A contest for prizes, presented by Mr. Alderman Ellis, the
Broad-street and Aldersgate-street Wards of the City, the
Worshipful Company of Drapers, and others, was held on
Wednesday at the Rainham ranges, Essex, the competitors
being the K and O companies of the London Rifle Brigade.
The winners were declared as follow:—First prize, the Com¬
pany’s Challenge Vase and eight guineas, presented by the
Ward of Aldersgate, was won by Private Sanderson; Corporal
Haines was second, and took a prize of six guineas, also pre¬
sented by the ward; Sergeant Kitchingman took the third prize
of five guineas, given by Mr. G. Sims, Common Council; the
fourth prize, five guineas, presented by Mr. H. Holland,
Common Council, went to Sergeant Brachi; the fifth, also
value five guineas, and presented by Private Chant, was awarded
to Sergeant Tayton; and Private Richardson won the sixth
prize (Ward of Aldersgate), four guineas; Private White,
Captain Poulter’s prize of four guineas; Sergeant Ellett, the
Sergeants’ prize of £2 10s.; and others of two guineas and
one guinea each (presented by Mr. D. Norton, Mr. H. Piper,
Messrs. Wrightson and Co., Lieutenant Marshall, and Private
Sanderson) were won by Corporal Wrightson, Corporal Lin-
stead, Private Neeley, Lieutenant Young, and Private Westrup.
In the Beries open to those only who had never won a prize,
Private Faulkner was awarded Lieutenant Young’s prize of
three guineas, Private Debenliam the Ward of Aldersgate prize
of one guinea, and Corporal Paxton the third prize, also one
guinea. For recruits who had joined the company since Oct.
31, 1877, and who had never won a shooting-prize in any other
regiment, two prizes were given, one being won by Private
Martin and the other by Private Briscoe.
The prize-list of the O (Broad-street Ward) company dis¬
played evidence in its conditions of care that only the men
who were as efficient in drill as in shooting could obtain a
chance of the rewards. No member was allowed to compete
unless efficient by the annual official inspection and who had
attended six commanding, officer’s parades, one pomt being
added, for every such attendance, to the second, fourth, and
sixth prizes. One prize (the third) was also restricted to those
only who had attended the regimental camp at Mitcham, the
march to Brighton, or the camp of exercise at Aldershott.
CaptainH. C.Wadd was in command, with Lieutenant Piggott.
The first prize, of five guineas, presented by Mr. Alderman
Ellis, was won by Lieutenant Piggott; the second, also of five
guineas, presented by the Broad-street Ward, was won by
Quartermaster-Sergeant Stuckey; the third, four guineas
(Worshipful Company of Drapers’), by Corporal Hall; the
fourth, four guineas (Captain Wadd’s), by Private Nash ; the
fifth, five guineas (Lieutenant Piggott’s), by Private Runtz; the
sixth (Broad-street Ward’s), three guineas, by Colour-Sergeant
Lowe; the seventh (Broad-street Ward’s), two guineas, by
Private Schultz; the eighth (Sergeant’s), two guineas, by
Private Prior; and the ninth (the Corporal’s), two guineas, by
Private Taylor.
The purveyors of Christmas cards and New-Year greet¬
ings have this year a new and formidable rival in Messrs. Eyre
and Spottiswoode, her Majesty’s printers, who are at the fore
with a complete series of these elegant trifles, their own design
and printing. Among the variety of dainty devices issued by
this firm are floral designs, poetical gleanings, Shaksperian
gems, Scripture text cards, and Christmas greetings in verse,
all gracefully embellished. Then there are large scripture
texts, the designs of which are masterpieces of floral illumina¬
tion, beautifully printed in gold and colours, and adapted for
the decoration of churches, school-rooms, and private houses.
The year’s public accounts show that the following annui¬
ties are payable out of the public purse:—£4000 a year to the
heirs and descendants of William Penn for ever ; £1080 to the
heirs of the Duke of Schomberg ; £1200 hereditary pension to
the Earl of Bath; £5000 to the person to whom the title of
Earl Nelson shall descend; £4000 to whom the title of the
Duke of Marlborough shall descend ; £3000 to the representa¬
tives of Jeffery, Earl Amherst; £2000 to the heirs male on
whom the title of Viscount Exmouth shall descend ; £2000 to
all and every the heirs male on whom the title of Lord Rodney
shall descend ; £676 hereditary pension to the Earl of Kinnoul.
The following are not among the perpetual pensions, but are
payable during the life of the present holder of the title men¬
tioned and his next successor:—The Duke of Wellington,
£4000 a year; Viscount Hardinge, £3000; Viscount Comber-
mere, Lord Seaton, Lord Keane, Lord Gough, Lord Raglan,
and Lord Napier of Magdala, £2000 each.
SEPT. 14, 1878
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POLITICAL.
During the past week many members of Parliament, chiefly
on the Liberal side, have given their opinions on State affairs.
The Marquis of Hartington, rpeaking yesterday week at
the Radnorshire Agricultural Show, said some of his audience
might think that he had come there under suspicious circum¬
stances. They did not very often see him there, except when
election matters were stirred. He was not in possession of any
secrets. He had no idea himself that we were on the eve of a
general election. If we were he was as much in the dark as
uny one. He had hoped to speak on political topics about this
time, but, considering the protracted and agitated Session, he
thought a month or two might well elapse before renewing the
fight, or he must find some new subject to fight over. He was
not equal to emulating the heroic exertions of some members
of the Government, who had begun a political campaign
immediately the Session was over ; and, with their kind per¬
mission, he would postpone his speech to his constituents for
a month or two.
Mr. Grant Duff addressed his constituents at Peterhead the
same day. He said a general election could not fail to come
before very long, at any rate within two years of the present
time, and that election would be one of the greatest importance,
for the question put to the country would be, “ Do you want
to be managed by the Liberal party and on Liberal principles,
or do you want to be managed by the party now in power on
its principles or no principles?” The election would be a
fierce struggle between the progressive and the retrograde
elements of our society embodied in the names of particular
merit. When the proper time arrived he would again present
himself as a candidate for the suffrages of his constituents.
Mr. Plimsoll, in giving a farewell address to his constituents at
Derby on Monday night, condemned the Treaty of Berlin as not
having brought honour, and as not likely in the future to bring
peace. He considered Cyprus to be useless as a base of
operations against Russia, and believed it was only acquired,
in the general defeat of the Government’s policy at Berlin, for
the sake of bringing something home. The acquisition had
Berved its purpose when the cheers which greeted the Pleni¬
potentiaries died away ; and, if the Ministry could find a decent
excuse, it was his opinion that they would be glad to be rid of
Cyprus. He stated that his special work with respect to the
protection of merchant seamen having been accomplished, he
felt entitled to ask those who had given him his position in
Parliament to excuse him from duty after the close of the pre¬
sent Parliament. He felt that nothing more could be done,
except by the President of the Board of Trade, in the direction
of making effective the measure which had been accepted at
his instigation by Parliament.
Mr. Fortescue Harrison spoke to a large meeting of the
electors of Kilmarnock the same evening, in the Com
Exchange, which was crowded. He reviewed the home and
foreign policy of the Government, and said that domestic
legislation had suffered, and would continue to be neglected,
so long as the foreign policy of the Ministry continued to
engage the attention of the country. He disapproved of the
Anglo-Turkish Convention, and said that the Berlin Treaty
had brought neither peace nor honour; but, on the contrary, it
had sown the seeds of future trouble for this country, and
that the treatment of Greece and the assent to the Austrians
took from the transactions all claim to be called honourable.
He contrasted the expenditure of the country with that which
obtained under a Liberal Government, and warned the electors
against political apathy.
Mr. Ernest Noel, speaking to his constituents at Dumfries
the same night, reviewed the policy of the Government and
justified the opposition of the Liberals. The Plenipotentiaries,
he contended, had not brought peace with honour, for no
country but Great Britain could have declared war.
Five Warwickshire members made speeches at an agricul¬
tural society’8 dinner at Coventry on Tuesday; the principal
subject named was the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Bill.
At Carlisle Mr. C. Howard and Sir W. Lawson addressed
the Liberal Association. The former gentleman devoted him¬
self to the foreign policy of the Government, which he
denounced ; and the latter remarked, referring to the rewards
given to the British Plenipotentiaries, that what they had
obtained might be best described as peace with honours.
Lord Stanley of Alderley, speaking on Wednesday night at
the annual dinner of the Anglcsea County Agricultural Society,
declined to concur in the opinion that peace in Europe was
now fully ensured, and that there was now no present prospect
of active employment for the naval and military forces of the
country. On the contrary, he feared that the country was in
danger now, and that the peace negotiations were a failure.
At the Wayland Agricultural Society’s dinner, on Wed¬
nesday, Lord Walsingham said ho was sure that all would
agree that the position in which the Government was lately
placed by advocates of the sentimental school of politics was
one of extreme difficulty, and that nothing but great coolness
and foresight, combined with unexampled forbearance, had
extricated the country from the critical dilemma in which it
was placed. He trusted that the foreign policy of the Govern¬
ment would be vigorously maintained, and followed and sup¬
ported by the growing approval and conviction of all parties.
Mr. Gladstone, in declining, with great regret, an invitation
to attend a dinner of the Liberal party in Newcastle-under-
Lyme, congratulates the Liberals of that borough on their
recent victory, and commends “that representative organisa¬
tion which the Tories and the weak-hearted Liberals are now
endeavouring to cry down.” He concludes his letter as fol¬
lows:—“Should your example, as I hope, be followed else¬
where, it will do much to check the Administration in a career
alike injurious to prosperity at home and to honour and
tranquillity abroad.”
Mr. E. Bridges-Willyams, who formerly represented Truro,
having consented to stand in the Liberal interest for that
borough, has issued his address; it states:—“My political
opinions remain unchanged, and, though I am a firm and
consistent Liberal, I should never offer a factious opposition
to measures which in themselves I considered for the public
good, from whomsoever they might emanate. I am not at
present prepared to condemn the whole of the foreign policy
of the Government, but I do look with great apprehension
and alarm at the continued enormous increase in the national
expenditure, and which, unless checked by a strong hand, can
only lead to the imposition of heavy burdens on the people.
I shall be found ready to support all sound measures having
for their object the prosperity of my fellow-creatures in all
S orts of the Queen’s dominions.”—Colonel Tremayue was on
fonday night accepted as the Conservative candidate. Mr.
Frotheroc Smith, brother of Mr. Justice Smith, has declined
to contest the Beat. Both parties arc working energetically.
Sir Stafford Nortlicote, Chancellor of the Exchequer, will
next month visit the midland counties, under the auspices of
various local Conservative associations. For a Conservative
gathering to be held in Birmingham on the 19th and on the
21st of that month, he will arrive in that district on the 18th,
When he will be the guest of Lord Norton, at Hams. He will
attend similar meetings at Wolverhampton on the 22nd, and
at Dudley on the 23rd of that month. During that time he
will be the guest of the Earl of Dartmouth, at Fatshull.
The Kilkenny Moderator is informed that the Hon. Henry
Edmund Butler, eldest son of Lord Mountgarret, will offer
himself for the county of Kilkenny at the next election.
TRADES’ UNION CONGRESS.
The eleventh annual congress of representatives of the various
trades unions of the country was begun at Bristol, on Monday,
in the Lecture Hall of the Athenamm. There were delegates
present representing every branch of industry.
Mr. Bailey (Preston), chairman of the Parliamentary Com-
mittee, presided at the opening Bitting of the congress. He
said that, taking into consideration the depression in all
branches of industry, he thought the attendance at that
assembly showed that the working men of the country had
every confidence in the usefulness and benefits of the trades’
unions. Though they had sustained defeats in Lancashire,
London, Northumberland, and other places, they had not
become wholly demoralised, but retained a nucleus by which
they could improve their position at no distant period. They
had now to contend with a strong federation of employers, and
he thought the day was not far distant when they, as trades’
unionists, would have to extend their lines, and have a strong
federation, instead of existing simply as isolated societies.
Mr. G. F. Jones, Secretary of the Bristol Trades’ Council,
was elected President, and other officers having been chosen.
Mr. Broadhurst (London), secretary of the Parliamentary
Committee, presented the report of the committee, which cha¬
racterised the past Session of Parliament as a most exciting
one. It referred at length to all the measures bearing upon
the labour question which were introduced into Parliament last
Session, expressing pleasure that the Employers’ Liability for
Injury' Bill had made so much progress in public esteem and
confidence, and believing that great advantages would result
from the operation of the new Factory Act. The committee
attributed the universal depression of trade to reckless specu¬
lation and the Eastern Question, but hoped for a revival of
trade next spring. Alluding to the defeat of unionists in Man¬
chester and London, the committee urged unionists to place
their societies on the soundest foundations.
The congress reassembled on Tuesday to hear the opening
address of Mr. G. F. Jones, the President, which dealt excellently
with matters of interest to their organisation. The principal
business was the discussion and adoption of the Parliamentary
Committee’s report. Mr. Macdonald, M.P.. spoke in defence
of the Compensation for Injuries Bill, and also condemned the
isolated action of the railway servants in trying for a bill of
their own. A vote of thanks was passed to him. The Stand¬
ing Orders Committee reported 136 delegates to be present,
representing 623,957 members of trade societies.
At the third sitting of the congress, held on Wednesday,
there were present Mr. Macdonald, M.P., Mr. John Morley,
Mr. Henry Crompton, and a large number of delegates,
including Dr. Eliza Dunbar, Mrs. Paterson, Miss Merrick, Miss
Simcox, and Miss Brown. Mr. Morley, who was warmly
received, read a paper on over-production. He said the
situation of trade at the present moment made the discussions
of that congress more than ordinarily serious. The industrial
world had been overcast with the gloom of falling markets,
silent factories, idle furnaces, closed pits, scanty profits, often
crossing the line to losses that were not scanty, and lowered
wages. Let them beware cf exaggerating the amount and inten¬
sity of the existing depression. They were told in the sombreness
of suppressed panic that the exports had fallen off. Considering
that both steel and iron rails had been at prices 120 per cent
higher than they were now, that coal had been 200 per cent
higher, and that within the last two years many large classes of
cotton goods were 40 per cent above the prices to day, it
would, of course, bo nothing short of a miracle if the volume
of expenses had maintained their money value. Employers
should be less ready to treat reduction of wages as the first and
only possible remedy. When trade was bad, a temporary
limitation of supply for the purpose of relieving over-pro¬
duction was the natural remedy ; whilst a permanent limitation
of supply for raising prices was an artificial device, lie denied
that foreign competition existed to any great extent, and
showed that foreign countries, said to be in competition with
England, also suffered in trade, particularly where they had
adopted the policy of protection. The Criminal Jurisdiction
Bill was discussed, Mr. Crompton reviewing at considerable
length the bill, which, in his opinion, was sound and thorough.
Mr. Knight (Liverpool) moved a resolution supporting the
bill, which was seconded by Mr. Turner (Sheffield), and wns
carried unanimously. Some other business haring been dis¬
posed of, the congress adjourned. In the evening the
delegates were entertained by members of the Bristol Trades’
Council at the Grand Hotel. The president of the congress
presided, and there were nearly 200 guests present.
On Thursday the President referred to the fearful colliery
accident in South Wales, and suggested that the Standing
Orders Committee should bring the matter before the congress
in some tangible form. The chairman of the Standing Orders
Committee said they would frame a resolution to meet the
case. A letter was read from the Council of the International
labour Union, calling the attention of the cougress to the
necessity of international organisation.
The congress lasted the whole week, and the subjects for
discussion included—Compensation for Accidents, Reform of
the Magistracy, Codification of the Law, Redirection of Jury¬
men’s Qualification, Reform of the Patent Laws, Co-operation,
Representation of Labour in Parliament, Overtime, and
Apprenticeships.
The old colours of the 23rd Royal Scots Fusiliers were on
Monday sent from Dublin in charge of several officers to be
deposited in the Greyfriars Church, Dumfries. The Duchess
of Marlborough recently presented new colours to the regiment.
A meeting of the subscription committee in connection
with the proposal to send Liverpool artisan representative
reporters to the Paris Exhibition was held on Tuesday in the
Townhall, Liverpool. The Mayor presided, and said it would
be understood that the committee would select and nominate
those who were to be sent to Paris, and any report the artisan
made should be made to the committee. It was resolved that
£6 be allotted each representative to meet all charges from the
time of leaving Liverpool to the time of his return. It was
also resolved that representatives be sent from the following
trades:—Cabinet-makers, sugar-refiners, printers, engineers,
pattern-makers, rope-makers, boot and shoe makers, rice-
millers, and coopers; and, if funds permitted, for the watch¬
makers, jewellers, bakers and confectioners, upholsterers, and
seed-crushers. Mr. Cunliffe Owen had written from Paris
that the representatives would receive every assistance in
accordance with the instructions he had received from the
Prince of Wales respecting visits of artisans. The committee
is to meet again next week to select the representatives.
THE WORCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
The one hundred and fifty-fifth meeting of the three cathedral
choirs of this city, Gloucester, and Hereford began on Tuesday
morning. Full details of all the arrangements having been
given last week, it will now only be necessary to speak of the
performances so far as they have gone at the time of writing.
The inaugural service in the cathedral took place at half¬
past eleven on Tuesday morning, in lieu of the oratorio per¬
formance by which, at a similar period, the festival had
hitherto been opened. This, as explained last week, was one
of the stipulations insisted on by the Dean and Chapter when
consenting to the recurrence of the celebration this year,
under the same conditions of musical importance os heretofore,
the meeting in 1875 having, as already stated, been reduced
to the primitive form of services and anthems rendered
merely by the associated choirs with organ accompaniment.
Tuesday’s service included a sermon, special to the occa¬
sion, preached by the Bishop of Worcester, who took for his
text the fourteenth verse of the ninth chapter of the first
Epistle to the Corinthians, on which the right reverend prelate
founded a discourse in which he referred to the benevolent
purposes of the festival and the modifications in the arrange¬
ments for the present occasion.
The musical portion of the service comprised the fine “ Te
Deum ” which Handel composed in celebration of the victory
of Dettingen; Purcell’s noble Jubilate inD; and an arrange¬
ment by Mr. Alfred Angel—as an anthem. “ Blessing, Glory,
Wisdom, and Thanks”—of one of Bach’s motets for double
choir. The work has been transposed from the key of F to
that of E flat, and the notation altered, with a view of facilitating
its practice. These grand works produced a profound im¬
pression, heard amidst the solemn surroundings of the fine
cathedral of Worcester. The vocal solos of the “ Te Deum ”
and “Jubilate” were distributed among Misses Mary Davies
and Bertha Griffiths, Madame Patey, Mr. Guy, Mr. Wadmore,
and Mr. Santley. Mr. Lloyd (of Gloucester) presided at the
organ and played, as an introductory voluntary, Handel’s
concerto in B flat, with orchestral accompaniments, the
co-operation of the band having been a special feature in the
performance of the “Te Deum” and “Jubilate.”
The oratorio performances began on Tuesday evening,
when the first part of Haydn’s “Creation,” Mozarts
“ Requiem," and Mendelssohn's “ Hymn of Praise ” (“ Lobge-
sang”) were given in the cathedral. A special feature was
the superb singing of Madame Albani in the soprano solo
music of the first and last of the works just named. That the
other solo music was worthily rendered may be inferred from
the names of the vocalists concerned therein—Mr. Guy and
Mr. Santley in the selection from “ The Creation ; ” Miss Anna
Williams, Madame Patey, Mr. E. Lloyd, and Mr. Santley in
the “Requiem; "and Miss A. Williams and Mr. E. Lloyd
in the “Hymn of Praise.”
Wednesday morning was appropriated to a performance,
in the cathedral, of Mendelssohn’s “ Elijah,” which has long
since been almost as invariably associated with festival arrange-
menta as Handel’s “Messiah.” Again on this occasion Hie
exquisite quality of voice, and refined and expressive style for
which Madame Albani is celebrated, were finely manifested in
the solo soprano music of the second part of the oratorio,
especially in the important air, “ Hear ye, Israel,” and the
leading port of the trio, “ Lift thine eyes,” in which the co¬
operation of Miss Mary Davies and Madame Patey secured a
good ensemble. The two ladies last named were also heard
m other portions of the music, the fine delivery by Madame
Patey of the air “O, rest in the Lord,” having been
as usual, one of the special effects. Miss A. Williams, who
was the principal soprano in the first part of the oratorio, was
well seconded in the duet (with chorus), “ Lord, bow Thine
ear,” by Miss Bertha Griffiths, to whom was assigned the air,
“ Woe unto them.” Mr. Guy sang the tenor solos of the first
part, and Mr. E. Lloyd those of tec second part, with much
effect; nnd Mr. Santley gave the all-important music of the
Prophet with fine declamation, os on innumerable previous
occasions. Here we may take occasion to mention that Signor
Foli was prevented by indispoeition from fu lfil li n g his engage¬
ment, and the valuable services of Mr. Santley were secured
instead. The oratorio performances were preceded by a short
form of prayer, as prescribed by the Bishop.
The chief specialty at Wednesday evening’s concert, in the
college hall, was Sir W. S. Bennett’s cantata, “The May
Queen,” which occupied nearly the whole of the first part of
the programme; this having aiso included the first movement
of Beethoven’s violin concerto, played by Mr. Sainton—a mis¬
cellaneous selection having concluded the concert.
On Thursday morning “ Hezekiah,” a “ short oratorio,” by
Dr. Armes, was to be given in the cathedral, followed by
Mendelssohn’s hymn, “ Hear my prayer,” and Spohr’s “ Last
Judgment.” A second miscellaneous concert was to take place
in the college hall on Thursday evening ; “ The Messiah ” was
to be performed yesterday (Friday) morning in the cathedral—
a special closing service therein, in the evening, bringing the
festival to a conclusion. For this service a “ Magnificat ” and
“ Nunc Dimittis ” by Sir F. G. Ouseley, and an anthem) or,
rather, cantata) by Dr. Stainer have been expressly composed.
Of the later festival performances we must speak next week.
POST-OFFICE NOTICES.
Orders payable at Cyprus can be obtained at any money-
order office in the United Kingdom. The rates of com¬
mission are uniform with those charged for mouey-orders
issued on Gibraltar and Malta—viz., for sums not exceeding
£2, 9d. ; above £2 and not exceeding £5, Is. 6d.; above £5
and not exceeding £7, 2s. 3d.; above £7 and not exceeding
£10, 3s. No order can be drawn for a sum exceeding £10.
Newspaper wrappers bearing penny postage-stamps will
shortly be issued for sale to the public. They may be purchased
singly or in any number according to the under-mentioned scale
of prices—viz., one for l}d., two for 2}d., three for 3}d., four
for i J ,d., five for 5ld., six for 6Jd., seven for 7id., eight for
8\d., and so on. The public can also obtain these wrappers
uncut in quarter reams, containing 120 sheets of fourteen
wrappers on each sheet, by making special application for
them at the post office at which they wish to obtain them.
The price for the quarter ream is £7 8s.
One of the most acceptable of our annual official returns is
that which shows the progress of the savings-banks of the
United Kingdom. At the end of the year 1867 the trustee
savings-banks held above 36$ millions sterling, nud the Post-
Office savings-banks 9} millions. At the end of the year 1877
the trustee savings-banks held nearly 44}- millions, and the
Post-Office savings-banks nearly 28} millions. The nmonnt in
both classes of savings-banks increased from £46,283,132 in
1867 te no less than £72,979,443 in 1877. But* it bus to be
observed that the trustee savings-banks are showing year by
year “payments out” to a larger amount than the sums
received in the year—in 1877 to the extent of nearly £300,000—
and the increase in the total amount due to depositors is
caused by placing to their credit the interest due on their
deposits.
IN THE COURTYARD OP NORTH WOOLWICH PIER—READING OUT
THE NAMES OP THOSE SAVED.
TEMPORARY MORTUARY, ROPP’S STEAM-BOAT WHARF,
WOOLWICH.
THE FORWARD PART OP THE PRINCESS ALICE LYING ON THE SOUTH SIDE OP THE THAMES : REMOVING BODIES FROM THE WRECK.j
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Sept. 14, 187S. 2.>2
he GREAT DISASTER on THE THAMES
PLAN SHOWING THE LOCALITY OP THE COLLISION.
THE TOWNHALL, WOOLWICH, WHERE THE INQUEST IS HELD.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Sept. 14, 1878.
THE DEER-8TALKER.” BY E. B. STEPHENS, A.R.A,
PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF EXETER.
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SCULPTURE AT EXETER.
The capital of Devonshire, for a city of modest
Bize, with some 40,000 inhabitants, u fairly
well adorned with modem works of fine art,
besides the glories of its noble Cathedral and
many relics of architectural antiquity. Devon-
ehire painters, of landscape and of portrait,
have vied with those of Suffolk, and have,
perhaps, the advantage over all Euglish shires
in the variety of grand and lovely scenery and
the graces of personal appearance bestowed on
the rustic native people. A Devonshire sculptor
long resident in Loudon, Mr. Edward BowTing
Stephens, A.R.A., enjoys not only a high
reputation, but much friendly regard in his
own county. He has been commissioned again
and again to design and execute the memorial
Btatues of local worthies that have been erected
by public subscription in the city of his own
birth. These are the statues of the late Earl
Fortescue, in the Castle-yard; that of the late
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, M.P. for the county,
on the beautiful terrace of Northemhay, which
is a grove of elms overhanging the deep moat
beneath the walls of the ancient Castle of
Eougemont; and the statue of Mr. John Din-
ham, a benevolent tradesman of Exeter, who
bequeathed large sums for charitable uses.
This western city is nearly as much ornamented
with the works of one favourite sculptor as is
the city of Edinburgh with those of Sir John
Steell, which meet the eye at short intervals
along Princes’-street and George-street.
But the Exonian taste for such works to be
set up and admired in their chief places has
not yet been satiated. Mr. Stephens, it may
be remembered, had in the Royal Academy
Exhibition of 1876 a fine colossal group of a
Highland deerstalker with a deer-hound,
gazing forward at the deer which he has
stealthily approached; the man is holding in
the dog with one hand, and with the leit hand
shading his eyes from the sun. This piece of
the sculptor’s art was noticed and praised by
many competent judges; but, somehow, it
moro vehemently took the fancy of a few of
the west-country men livmg in London. Ihe
subject, one would suppose, belongs rather to
North Britain; for, though it is only on
Exmoor, we believe, that the Red Deer is
still extant in the southern parts of the
United Kingdom, it is customary there
to ride after him with a pack of stag-
hounds. “ The Deer-Stalker ” of Mr.
Stephens, which reminds us, by its theme, of
Borne of Landseer’s or Ansdell’s pictures, was
coveted, at any rate, by some Exeter lovers of
nature and art for the decoration of their
beloved home city. A committee of Devonian
Londoners was formed, its most active pro¬
moter andhonorary secretary beingMr. George
Haydon, one of the officers of Bethlem
Hospital, and a loyal member of the Grand
Lodge of Freemasons. The Earl of Devon,
Earl Fortescue, the Bishop of Exeter, and
many other persons of rank and social
influence cordially assisted in the scheme ; a
local committee was formed, in which the
Mayor of Exeter, then Mr. W. Cuthbertson,
and Mr. J. Drew, then High Sheriff, bore
part; and the required sum for the pur¬
chase of the work, and for other expenses,
was subscribed. The site upon which it
has been erected is, as nearly as possible, the
exact centre of that compact little city. Bed-
ford-circus, which occupies the ground of old
Bedford House, the residence of Queen Hen¬
rietta Maria during the Civil War of Charles I.,
is situated a little south of High-stieet, with
the gardens of Southemhay just beyond. A
wider opening has recently been made from
High- street, opposite Queen- street, to approach
Bedford-circus, giving better access to the
Exeter Theatre, the Athenreum, and other
institutions there. “ The Deer-Stalker,” upon
a Cornish granite pedestal with railing about
it, now stands in the Circus facing High-
street. The inscription, on a bronze plate in
front of the pedestal, records that it has been
“ presented, by friends and admirers of the
sculptor, to his native city.” This kind of
public gift, dealing with a work of purely ideal
art, is comparatively rare in England, but was
frequent enough in ancient Greece.
The ceremony of unveiling “ The Deer-
Stalker,” and formally presenting it to the
Mayor and Corporation of Exeter, was per¬
formed on Friday, the 30th ult., by the Earl
of Devon, on behalf of the subscribers. The
Mayor, Mr. H. D. Thomas, the High Sheriff,
Aldermen, Town Councillors, and civic officers,
walked in state from the Guildhall, which is
but a few hundred yards distant. In the
absence of Earl Fortescue—who appeared,
nevertheless, at the subsequent public
luucheon, Mr. J. C. Moore-Stevens, Sir John
Kennaway, M.P., and SirT. D. Acland, M.P.,
represented the county gentlemen. The
speeches at the luncheon afterwards were
interesting; Lord Devon was in the chair,
and proposed the health of the sculptor, who
was, indeed, the honoured guest of the com¬
pany at table. Mr. Stephens, in returning
thanks to all, especially named his friends Mr.
G. H. Haydon, Mr. Samuel Cousins, R.A., the
engraver, and Mr. Phelps, the eminent actor,
by whom this dedication of his work to the
city of Exeter was zealously promoted. Earl
Fortescue, who was formerly an active
political man as Lord Ebrington, and whose
lather was one of the great Whig leaders of
the Reform Bill party, spoke upon this occa¬
sion. There were ladies at table, one of whom,
the widow of the late well-known Sir John
Bowling, a native and resident of Exeter,
responded for her sex when their collective
health was toasted. It was a pleasant business,
altogether, and of sufficient local importance
to be worth our Illustration of ‘‘The Deer-
Stalker” in this week’s Number. The
eculptor’s work needa no further praise.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
Class 60 of the Exhibition consists of ‘‘Appa¬
ratus and processes used in paper-making,
dyeing, and printing.” The British Section
contains, among other printing-machines, the
one which we described last October as baling
been invented by Mr. W J. Ingnam. M.P.
managing proprietor of the Illustrated London
News for the most rapid production of per¬
fected copies of this Journal. ‘‘The Ingram
Patent Rotary Printing-Machine, as it is
called in the official catalogue, is the object of
much notice among visitors to the Exhibition
who care for mechanical appliances. It is the
second of its kind that has been made.andhas
received certain improvements; the pnntin„
and impression cylinders are here all of equal
size, enabling three whole sheets to be prmted at
each revolution; or two copies of the half-sheet,
with a duplicate of the type, may be printed,
simultaneously by one of the _ cylinders.
Attached to the printing-machine is the fold¬
ing-machine, which can be worked either in
company with it or separately, cutting off and
folding the sheets as fast as they are printed.
The difficulty formerly experienced in printing,
by the action of a cylinder, sheets to be im¬
pressed with engravings has been completely
overcome ; the diameter of the cylinder is so
greatly increased that the plates of engravings
require to have but a slight degree of curva¬
ture ■ while two, three, or more duplicate plates
may be placed on the same printing-cylinder.
The “impression-cylinder,” which carries the
paper from a roll of immense length, is made
of corresponding size; this brings the paper
in contact with the inked type on the ‘ plant¬
ing cylinder,” rotating at the same speed.
Another improvement has been made in the
inking apparatus of distributing-rollers, or
cylinders to supply the engravings with ink,
which is done so amply and evenly as to render
the most perfect impressions on the paper. This
machine can deliver 6500 perfect copies an hour
of the Illustrated London News , with its Supple¬
ments, every sheet well printed on both sides,
cut off, and neatly folded. It has been manu¬
factured by Messrs. Middleton and Co., engi¬
neers, of Southwark. Mr. James Brister,
manager of the machine department in the
office of this Journal, was intrusted by Mr.
Ingram with the practical execution of his
design, and superintended the construction of
the new machine. We have this week received
an oflicial announcement that the Gold Medal
has been awarded to Mr. Ingram for the
“ Ingram Patent Rotary Printing Machine.”
A more detailed description of its mechanism,
with special Illustrations, will be found in our
publication of Oct. 7, last year.
AGRICULTURAL SHOWS.
On Tuesday the annual exhibition of the
Warwickshire Agricultural Society was held
at Coventry. The weather was highly favour¬
able, and there was a large and fashionable
attendance. The show was most successful, the
entries being unusually numerous. A public
dinner was held in a pavilion, Lord Leigh pre¬
siding. Among the company were Lord
Yarmouth, Lord Ernest Seymour, Sir H. M.
Juckson, M.P., Mr. C. Newdegate, M.P., Mr.
Bromley Davenport, M.P., and Mr. H. W.
Eaton, M.P.
The annual meeting of the Royal and Cen¬
tral Bucks Agricultural Association was held
on Wednesday in Lord Carington’s park, at
Wycombe Abbey, Bucks. Favoured by fine
weather, the exhibition was a success in every
point, the entries in the various classes being
large and choice, and the band of the Royal
Horse Guards, which played beneath a fine
walnut-tree in the centre of the ground, added
greatly to the attractiveness of . the gathering.
In the evening the members of the association
and tlieir guests dined at the Townhall, High
Wycombe, under the presidency of Lord
Carington.
The thirty-sixth annual show of the Birken¬
head and WiraU Agricultural Society was
opened on Wednesday at Birkenhead, and is
considered the most successful ever held. The
entries numbered 1220, which is nearly one
hundred in excess of the largest previous
entries. The increase is principally in horses
and cattle. Prizes to the amount of £900 were
offered.
The annual exhibition of the Wayland
Agricultural Society took place on Wednesday
at Walton, Norfolk. Lord Walsingham pre¬
sided at the dinner in the evening.
A number of farmers and others from Caith¬
ness have visited by invitation the Duke of
Sutherland’s reclamation works, near Kinbrace.
Mr. Greig, of Leeds, who has charge of the
machinery, conducted the party over the
newly ploughed land, and showed how the
various operations were conducted. The Duke
of Sutherland and a large party from Dun-
robin Castle were present at luncheon. His
Grace intimated his intention of dividing
the reclaimed ground into farms of from eighty
to one hundred acres, so that a farmer with a
capital of from £500 to £600 could profitably
work them. He said he wished to see the place
repopulated. _
A subscription at Liverpool in aid of the
Fund for Relieving the Distress from Yellow
Fever in New Orleans has resulted in £2400
being collected, which has been remitted to
New Orleans.
The Maharajah of Johore, who is at present
on a visit to this country, has commissioned
Mr. Tavemor Knott, of Edinburgh, to paint a
head-size portrait of the Queen. Some time
ago his Highness had a full-length portrait of
1 her Majesty painted by the same artist.
TERRIBLE
COLLIERY EXPLOSION.
The worst colliery accident that has ever
occurred in South Wales took place about noon
on Wednesday at the Ebbw Vale Company s
Prince of Wales Colliery, Abercarne, about
twelve miles from Newport, Monmouthshire.
Three hundred and seventy-one men had gone
down the pit, and at eleven o’clock twenty-one
came up and delivered their lamps. The pit,
which is situated a few hundred yards from
the Abercarne station, in the Western Valley
section of the Monmouthshire Railway, is 330
yards deep, and the seam of coal worked is
that popularly termed the Black Vein Seam.
The pit had. been deemed as safe as the
character of the coal would lead one to
expect, and every precaution was used to
prevent accident. The machinery was of the
most perfect kind, and the use of safety-lamps
was enforced among the colliers. The present
shaft was sunk in the year 1862, on the day of
the marriage of the Prince of Wales, and in
consequence of this incident it was named the
Prince of Wales Colliery. The explosion oc¬
curred at ten minutes past twelve, when a loud,
rumbling sound, a flash of flame, and a column
of black smoke ascending high into the air told
too plainly what had occurred. The discovery
was immediately made that the winding gear
was damaged, and communication with the
bottom of the pit destroyed. Efforts were first
made to make this complete, and working
parties were speedily sent down. Eighty-two
men and boys, who were working within a
few hundred yards of the shaft, were rescued
but it became evident as attempts were made
to advance into the workings that little hope
could be entertained of any life surviving the
catastrophe. About 400 yards from the bottom
of the shaft are situated the stables, and here
fourteen horses were found, all dead. Beyond
this point the explorers could not go on account
of the prevalence of chokedamp. The volun¬
teers succeeded in bringing out ten or twelve
men very much burnt, and seven dead bodies
were brought to the bank. Mr. Cadmau, in¬
spector of collieries, and Mr. Donald Bain,
assistant-inspector, were in the immediate
neighbourhood, and were among the first to
arrive at the pit after the explosion. These
gentlemen at once took counsel with Mr.
Pond, the general manager of the colliery,
the underground manager, the foreman, and
other managers and engineers, who speedily
arrived from other collieries in the district.
The pit’s mouth was surrounded with crowds
of anxious spectators, and the utmost excite¬
ment prevailed. Up* to six o’clock seven dead
bodies were brought up, and of these four
were identified, one being the overman, named
Rees. Two men, named Games and Jenkins,
who were brought up alive, died soon after¬
wards from the serious nature of the bums and
the effects of the afterdamp. There is no
reasonable hope that any further lives will be
saved; for at six o’clock on Wednesday even¬
ing the explorers were compelled to leave the
pit in consequence of the fire reaching within
three hundred yards of the bottom of the pit
shaft; and early on Thursday morning the
water from a canal near the pit's mouth was
turned into the down-cast shaft, in order to
flood the min e and extinguish the fire.
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_ ^ J_ 'hap. II.—Tli
qualities und Popularity of Genuine Dublin Whit'
Just published, in or
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TRUTHS ABOUT WHISKY.
I Chap. I.—The Position of the Authors. <
qualities und Popularity of Genuine Dublin Whisky.
Chan. III.—The Peculiarities of the Dublin Manufacture: tlio
Water Supply. Chap. IV.—Patent Stills and Silent Spirits.
ChSST V.-Tlfe Growth of Silent Spirit into Sham W'li sky
Chap. VI.—The ltelative Wholcsomenessof Whisky and of bileut
Spirit. C'hup. VII.—The Action of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer and of Parliament. Chap. VIlI.-The Action of the
Commissioners of Inland Revenue. Chap. IX.-Rncking in
Bond—Tlic Grogging Question. Chap. X.—Whisky Iiuuda
^’nio'vVork'is 1 burned* 1 by °u!e Whisky Distillers of Dublin, in
order to Impart to the public a kind of knowledge which 1ms
become necessary for the protection of consumers.
London: Sdttos, Suabpe, and Co., Queen Vlctorla-strcet, E.C.
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JL the Practice. By JOHN G. L.
Lambeth School of Art, Ac. Second ]
London: Lechsutikk, Barbs, and to.. 60, B
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many Important new chapters, comprising, among others, the
sYuv-itlr characteristic effects of aU the new American remedies,
pbdn Directions for the treatment of Aocidents, and illus¬
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the Eyes and their Appendages, and Illustrations rfiowlng the
various parte of the eye*. Full ilirections ora also given for the
treatment of Diseases prevalent in Tropical Climates. A new
and concise Dictionary of Medical Terms and 1 reatment, with
leading indications of Treatment prefixed tethovarious cbspteri
and divisions. An Epitome of the above, 23th Edition, pric ed
AOsoof Medicines adopted to tho former Work, In tinctures
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To the latter, tinctures or pilules, price £2 2a.; glc
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U their Successful Dispersion by the Michel and other Pro¬
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rj^HE
NOW BEADY,
ILLUSTRATED
The Great Seal was on Tuesday affixed to
the Royal pardon of the Fenians Patrick
Melody and Edward O’Meara Condon.
The result of the poll of the owners of pro¬
perty and the ratepayers of Manchester on the
question whether the Thirlmere water scheme
should be again brought before Parliament was
made known on Wednesday. The votes in
favour of the scheme numbered 43,362 given
by 35,431 voters, against 3530 votes given by
2592 voters.
The large cotton-spinning mill at Annan,
Dumfriesshire, belonging to Messrs. Forster
and Co., was destroyed by fire yesterday
week. Tho mill contained 16,000 spindles,
and employed 110 hands. Its value was about
£15,000. The fire originated in the fifth
story, from some machinery becoming heated,
and in an hour and a half the building was
gutted.
pLASSES for the SONS of GENTLEMEN,
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Tho AUTUMN TERM begins on SEPT. 24.
Principals—Miss M. E. Bailey and Fraulein Ncuhofer.
TJRIGHTON.
11 the SEASON.-
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_ For particulars of those in the best
_ Adelaide-crescent, Pulincna-square, Bruuswick-
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PARIS EXHIBITION.
Special Arrangements for Visitors to the Exhibition have been
made by the
T> AILWAY PASSENGERS’ ASSURANCE
XL COMPANY.
for providing ugalnst
ACCIUENT BY RAILWAY Oil STEAM-BOAT
during the journey to PARIS and back.
A Premium of One Shilling Insures £lnOo if Killed, or £6 per
week If laid up by Injury during tho Double Journey.
POLICIES AGAINST ACCIDENTS OF ALL KINDS
may also be effected for One, Three, or Twelve Months, on
moderate terms.
Apply at the Booking-Offices of the Southern Railways, or at the
pENNY
ALMANACK FOR 1879,
and other Foreign and Domestic 6ubiecU; ^Tables of Stamps,
Taxes, and Licenses; Eclipses. Remarkable Events, Post-Office
Regulations, uiid a great variety of Useful and Interesting
Information. Tho Trade supplied by Q. Yickkbs, Angel-court
(172). Strand; and H. Williams, Warwlck-lane, Patornoater-row,
London. _
_pl00 REWARD.
TO RTFKiTliN MAKERS STEEL PEN DIE CUTTERS
0 AND ST AM PEliS; ANDDEALERS IN STEEL PENS.
It having come to our knowledge that imitations of onr pens
* any person making, in violation of our
r Stool Feins, stumped with any of tue
jr titles, or colourable imitation* of the
L
>ucd names ot
THE OWL PEN.
THE NILE PEN.
THE PHAETON PEN.
name—MACNlVEN and CAMERON.
vhich will be treated us in strict confidence,
J. P. Mann, jun.,Solicitor, 37, Essex-strcet,
THE WAVERLEY PEN.
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the Registered Proprietors.
Dated this 2nd Sept., ltiTB. _
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O BOOKS, COLOURED. A large assortment. Specimen
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BENNETT, 65 and 64. Clieapside._
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SEPT. 14, 1878
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12. Gaseliers—2-light, 17s.; S-do„ 60s.; 5-do„ £4 4s.
13. Kitcheners, from 3 ft., £3, to 6 ft., £33.
14. Kitchen Utensils—Copper, Till, and Iron.
Deane and Oo., 48. King Willlam-st., London Bridge. A.D. 1700
TEWEL ROBBERIES PREVENTED.—J.
Y TANN'S RELIANCE SAFES have never failed to resist
theattempts of the most determined burglars. Fire-Resisting
6afes, £6 6s. Lists free.—11. Newgatc-street, E.C.
pIIUBBS’ PATENT SAFES.—Chubb’s
V_y Cash, Deed, Paper, and Writing Boxes, all fitted with the
Detector Locks. Complete Illustrated Price-Lists sent gratis
and post-free to any part of the world.—Chubb and Son, Makers
to the Queen and Bunk of England, 128, Queen Victoria-street.
Bt. Paul's; and 68,8t. James's-street, Pull-mall, London.
BUMMER DELICACIES.
JJROWN and p OLSON’S
QORN pLOUR
A8 BLANCMANGE WITH STEWED FRUIT
pROWN and pOLSON’S
QORN pLOUR
AS BAKED PUDDING WITH STEWED FRUIT
JJROWN and pOLSON’S
QORN pLOUR
AB CUSTARD PUDDING WITH ST CWED FRUIT
Drawings of this beautif u
THOMAS OETZMANN ai
at post-free on applfc
T>ROADWOOD and COLLARD COTTAGE
tow prices. Mar be seen st OETZM^N'S. ^. B^ker-rti^t
SCHOOL-ROO
1 , O< F' < 7" |,0m . tlvw price for cash). Seven octaves stre
THOMAS O ETZM.fyy and CO., 27, Baker-street, W.
J7BONY and GOLD PIANOS, 25 guineas,
m M *S)? e ®*'“ nd «ROinea,.-™-- ■ 1
Pianos, with ormolu embelltahtm,,,..,
every recent improvement, muy now lie obtained
low prices forcash. or on {he Three-Year, - 6y»ten.. ... .
I. repetition action, a
aiucui, may now De obtained at the abo
XT,, Marlboroogh-street. Lon
“■*]/ } ar * 8 - Makers to her Majesty and th
° f ,K* le *J, CAU . T1UN ' ‘he puf.Ilc that P
sold bearing the name of * ERARD " wl
at Marlborough-street, w
60 guineas.
OBLIQUES, from 86 guineas
GRANDS, from 126 guineas.
"YTUSICAL-BOX DEPOTS, 56, Clieapside,
jf’rr “nil 2?. Ludgate-hill, London.—Nicole's celebrated Musical
T ADIES ABOUT TO TRAVEL should
^.K ,e ‘,'. 08I ?, 0 , R J iE " 'rilKSS-CASE, very light and hand-
A , i^ l £ t Jlv C0 ll A,,Rl ^ 0 1 bonnet compartment. Price 10s. 6d.
UARKON, Manufacturer,2U1, High IIulL».»ru (flve doors west
from Inns of Court Hotel). Illustrated List free.
tunics, Mantles, and Millinery have returned Iron
the novelties of the scuaou.
JAYS*,
U5 t 217.249 2M. Regent-street.
PATTERNS F
Messrs. JAY beg to Inform their Patrons
and the Public generally
tout thoyaro now selling these wcU-known
Pure Light-Dyed Silks
at a reduction of from 33 to 40 {icrcent off
prices that were charged previous to
the depression in the Lyons Silk Market.
Present price, 6s. 6d.; fonnor prioe, 8s. 9d.
„ „ 6s. lid.; „ „ 9s. 6d.
Messrs. JAY are also selling Jaubert's good wearing
Black SILKS, at the following reduced rate;-
Present prico, 3s. ud.; formor price. 6s. ud.
„ „ 4s. fid.; „ „ 0s. 3d.
„ „ 6s. 3d.; „ „ 7s. fid-
As these low prices are not at all likely to continue,
and os Silks wear much lietter
when net used fresh from tho loom,
Messrs. JAY strongly advise their Customers
to take advantage of tills occasion
to make purchases of that always fashionable
and useful article, a good Black Silk.
BONNET'S BLACK SATINS, all pure silk,
22 inches wide, from 6s. 3d. per yard.
pH ARLES GASK and CO. (Limited),
VJ 58 to 63. Oxford-street;
1 to fi, Wcila-street. London.
CARRIAGE ENTRANCE, fi, WelU-stroet.
piCH SILK and other COSTUMES.
Ik A grand display of rich Silk, Broche Velvet, and Silken
Fabric Costumes for the Autumn, forming such a collection of
recherche Novelties as Is rarely seen out of Paris, at most
moderate prices.
A large variety of novel Costumes of Fashionable New Fabrics
In Serges, Linen Cloths, Cyprus Cloths, Camel’s Hair, Ac.,2,3,
and 4 guineas each.
\TANTLES, ULSTERS, and SEALSKINS.
J-*A A large importation of the Latest Novelties.
The Sedan Beaver Paletot, 1 and 2 guineas, handsomely
trimmed.
New Travelling Ulsters, aU wool, In 27 shades, at 1 guinea,
nneqnalied.
Fine Sealskin Paletots, 36 In. In length, 9) guineas each.
Smaller sizes in proportion.
Fur-lined Mantles and Pulotots, 31s. 6d. to 5 guineas.
PRESS MATERIALS in all the Newest
JL/ Textures. New Lichen Cloth, ll}d. per yard. Camel's-
Hair Cloth, ls.4d. Tartans, Bum poor Cloth, aud the new Broch*
Cashmeres, so much used in combination, 2s. 6d. to 6a. 6d. per
yft Fine French Cashmeres, in new shades. Is. lid., 2s. 7|d., and
2s. lid. per yard, double width.
every description at most moderate prices.
Black Serge Costumes, all wool. 2 guineas. Block and White
oroche Costumes, 1 guinea; handsome Costumes, trimmed with
potent unspotting crape, for nil grades of mourning, 3J to
8 guineas. Tho Dressmaking Department is under new and
superior management. A successful lit and the best style may¬
be relied upon, at moderate charges.
Patterns and Samples of all goods free.
QILKS.—SPECIAL NOTICE.
0 Oil MONDAY NEXT and during the week we shall offer
10,000 yards of Black uml Coloured Silks, in all the new shades,
' fully 13 to 20 per cent under last year's prices—2s. lid. to
_Inspection is solicited.
Patterns to the country free.
5s. lid. per yard.
/CHARLES GASK and CO. (Limited),
\J 68, 69, 60, 61, 62, 63, Oxford-stroet; 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, Welte-
CARBIAGE ENTRANCE,
6, Wclls-stroct.
TirOOLLEN CLOTHS for LADIES’
Y Y JACKETS. CLOAKS, ULSTERS. Ac., In great variety,
at very moderate prices. Wc also keep a very large Stock suit¬
able for Gentlemen's and Youths'wear. Livery Cloths, Ac.,
equally cheap. Terms, leady money only.
C. MEEK1NG und CO.. Woollen Warehouse,
corner of Hattoii-garden, Holborn-drcus.
\[EW AUTUMN COSTUMES, CLOAKS,
J. 3 Ac.—T. LITTLE and SON l>cg to announce that their
buyers and dressmakers Imve returned from Paris with the
latest NOVELTIES for the AUTUMN SEASON. During the
repaving of Oxford-street carriages can set down in Newman-
street, two doors from Oxford-street.
42 to 44, Oxford-street.
MANUFACTURER’S STOCK of LADIES’
1VL AUTUMN DRESSES Selling Off at Half tho Cost. Con¬
sisting of -Moss Cachemlrcs In the new dark^plalncqlours. ^Prlce
^ MOUHNmG ORDERS SENT AT ONCE
p ■ W - B - UPON RECEIPT OF LETTER OR TELEGRAM.
It A largo Staff of very competent Dressmakers and ASSISTANTS
1 - ar ® kept purposely to TRAVEL to all parte of the
, country—no matter the distance—
, with
— and suitable description. |
FOR A FAMILY MOURNING,
of and also Mourning fur Servants,
Orders, however large, can be completed at very short notice
by Dressmakers of the greatest proficiency.
(either French, German, or English).
Observe toe only one Addresa-
PETER ROBINSON'S,
1, OOURT AND GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE,
h to 262, REGENT-STREET, LONDON?
si 0u ®, 0 . f turnout important Houses of its kind In England.
Established as a Mourning Warehouse Thirty Years.
Z A T PETER ROBINSON’S, of REGENT-
si 8TBEET.
£ at a. aa D ? E8S SATINS, all pure Silk.
_ at 6s. Bd., 6s, fid., 7s. fid., 8S. tkl., and 10*. tkl., made W Messrs.
Bonnot.
The DCCHE8SE SATIN, at 12s. Od. (26 Inches wide),
I _ , , a magnificent quality,
tor richness and for durability cannot be surpassed.
BLACK SATINS, for Trimming purposes,
at 2s. Old., 2s. lid., 3s. 6d., and 4s.6d. per yard.
JJLACK SILKS—Specially Cheap,
Manufactured by Messrs. Bonnet et Cie, at ..6*. 6d.
Manufactured by Messrs. Tapissier et Cie, at 6s 3d
Manufactured by Mo«r.. JaXrt ct ' te! £h
‘ Manufactured by Messrs. IMgove et Cie, at .. 4s. lid.
Alto. BLACK S1LK8, in very serviceable qualities.
a£ 2m, tkl., 2s. llJd., 3s. tkl., 4s. 6d., and 4*. 9d.
CHINA WASHING SILKS, 21s. the Piece
of 20 yards.,
PETER ROBINSON Is a Wholesale as well as a Retail
' Dealer in Black Bilks.
As he buys direct from the Manufacturer,
all intermediate profits are saved.
Address only for Patterns as follows:—
PETER ROBINSON, 256 to 262,
REGENT-STREET.
THE COURT AND GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE.
JJLACK SILK COSTUMES.
From pure and good-wearing Silks,
at64. 6. Hi. and 8 guineas.
Copies of expensive French Models.
THE MYRA SILK COSTUME,
complete, lor 8 guineas.
" Photographs of the Costumes "
to PETER ROBIN SON's! 266 to M2,°It EG ENT-8TREET.
T7VENING DRESSES at One Guinea.
Black Brussels Net. at 29s. Od.
Tulle (condition keeping), 60s.
Grenadine, 62s. fid.
New Styles, well cut, nnd elegantly trimmed.
Illustrations free.
^OSTUMES.—Richly Embroidered.
THE FASHION FOR THE AUTUMN.
In Black, Navy, and neutral shades,
from 6 to 10 guineas complete.
Our Buyers have returned from Parte
with great novelties
in all department*.
For Samples please address only
to PETER ROBINSON,
Regent-street,
Nos. 266 to 262.
J^URS at SUMMER PRICES.
REAL RUSSIAN SEAL PALETOTS.
S3 inches long .ju guineas.
36 inches long .llj guinea*.
39 Inches long .13 guinea*.
New and Perfect Shapes,
and of the most enduring qualities.
FUR-LINED CLOAKS,
Lined Real Russian Squirrel. 46 inches long,
34s., 42s., 66s. Cd., and 3 guineas.
Also a special lot,
Lined with Plain Grey Squirrel,
,47 inches long, at 6 guineas.
For Samples—Address oxlt as follow*:—
PETER ROBINSON, REGENT-STREET,
Nos. 266 to 262.
"VTOTICE. — In reference to the
•^1 above advertisements,
It is important that letters
should be clearly addressed to
206 to 202, REGENT-STREET.
T> OYAL DEVONSHIRE SERGES,
A v woven from pure wool, for LADIES' DRESSES,
In Navy or Dark Indigo Bluo. Black, Dark Browns, Prune,
and other solid colours,
price Is. lid., Vs, 6d., 2s. lid. per yard.
For CHILDREN a lower quality is made, very strong,
at is. 64d. per yard.
For BOYS' HARD Wl’aR It is extra milled, price
64 in. wide, 3s. Gd. per yurd.
Books of Patterns sent post-free by
SPEARMAN nnd SPEARMAN,
Devonshire Serge Factors, Plymouth.
The ROYAL DEVONSHIRE SERGE is tlio only true Yachting
Serge.
Sea Water cannot injure it.
Any Length is Cut by the Factors,
who arrange to pay the carriage of all Parcels above Two Pounds
In value to and as far as London.
QILKS and SATINS, Is. ll£d. to 5s. 6d.
O BAKER and CRISP'S.
VELVETEENS and CASHMERES, la. lid.
V to Ss. 6d.
BAKER and CRISP’S.
QERGES and CYPRUS CLOTHS, Is. Ojd.
O BAKER and CRISP'S.
TTLSTERINGS and SUITINGS, from
Is. llld.
BAKER am! CRI8P'S.
AUTUMN COSTUMES, from 39s. 6d.
-£A- BAKER and CRISP'S.
J^-OTED LADIES^ ULSTERS, 12s. 9d.
BAKER and CRISP'S. 1
Engravings and Patterns of all goods free.
198, REGENT-STREET.
T\ NICHOLSON and CO. send post-free <
XJ • Patterns of
J^EW SILKS, !
TVRESS FABRICS,
U and Illustrations of
ANTLES, and COSTUMES.
JJ J^ICHOLSON and QOMPANY,
*60 to 63, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, LONDON. ]
QHIRTS. — FORD’S EUREKA. — “ The
O most perfect fitting made.” — Observer. Gentlemen
desirous of purchasing Shirts of the best quality should try
Ford's Eureka. 30s., 40s., 46s. half doien. Illustrations and self-
measure post-free.—41, Poultry, London.
NEW FABRICS AND FASHIONS FOB AUTUMN.
1ILKS, DRESSES, MANTLES,
J COSTUMES.
Patterns and Illustrations free.
PETER ROBINSON,OXFORD-STREET,W.
TEN THOUSAND PIECEjMGF^COLOURED. BLACK, AND
QILKS at GREAT REDUCTIONS,
k-J Including
20,000 metres of rich Stripe land Check Silks, at la. llld. per yard
400 pieces of rich Coloured Gres Grain Silks, every new-shade.
. at 3s. 2Jd. per yard.
1000 pieces of Black Silks, of special pureness. In four prices—
vix., 2s. Ud., 3s. <kl„ 3s. lid., aud 4s. 6d. per yard.
BKOCADED SILKS,
of extreme richness, usual price s, 8s. Bd. to 21s., will be sold
„ , „ at 4«. 6d. to 6s. Ud. per yard.
Damasses of tho newest designs, usual price, 3s. 6d., at
1000 PIECES ^E {Sail* PONGEES.
, ,, in lengths of 20 yards.
w * t ‘ 1 , c “ Bfjh'-oldered Scarves for trimming, 39s. 6d. complete,
ao pieces Rich Silk Embroidered Cashmere, at 3«. Ud. peryard;
usual prico 6s. 6d.
600 PIECES INDIAN PONGEE WASHING SILKS,
16s. tkl. the piece of 20 yards.
Patterns post-free.
VERY FASHIONABLE THIS SEASON
■piCH VELVET VELVETEEN.
-kk 300 pieces fast Black, very wide.
2s. 3d. to 3s. ud. per yard.
All the new Rich Shades of Colour. 2a. Od. to 4s. Cd. per yard.
CASHMERES AND CASHMERE MERINOS,
J70R AUTUMN DRESSES.
new colours.
A special purchase, in Black and all
amounting to several thouaai
Very wide, at Is. lid. to 3s. Ud.
'TRAVELLING and SEASIDE DRESSES.
Witney, Estamene. and Angola Serges,
Fancy Casiinirs, Rich Poplins,
New Autumn Moss Cloths, and other Novelties.
In endless variety, 10s. Ud. to 31s. Od. the Dress.
A NEW FABRIC IN BLACK.
C REPE CASHMERE (Registered).
A most useful Material, in six designs,
specially adapted for this season's Costumes.
Full width. Is. 9d. per yard.
NEW FABRICS FOR PALETOTS. Ac.
"OLACK BEAVER CLOTH MATELASSE,
D Poll do Chamean, Diagonals, Ac.
These elegant Fabrics can also be had In
Choice Shades of Fawn Grey, Culr Mode, Ac.
From 6s. ud. to 18s. Od. tho yard, 64 inches wide.
PETER ROBINSON, OXFORD-STREET, W.
TTENRY GLAVE’S
kl UNDERCLOTHING AND OUTFITTING.
Duchess Trimmed Chemise, Is. »id. each; three toi
Countess, Handsomely-Trimmed Chemise. Scotch In¬
sertion and Work, 2s. llld.; or three for 8s. 9d.
Better quality, and more handsomely trimmed. 3s. llld.
each ; or three for 11s. 4U.
Merredes Night-Dress, 2s. llld.each; or three for 8s. 9d.
La Lelne Night-Dress, Trimmed Scotch Work aud
Frilling, 3s. II Jd each; or three for 11s. Id.
QOOdozeuTrimmed Drawers, Is. llld.each; or three for
White Embroidered •'Cuirass'’ Corset, with Spoonbill
bu.k. 2., llld. and 4s. lid.; usual prize,3s. lid. and
A lot of White French Wove Corsets, at 3s. lid., 6s. Ud.,
and Us. Ud.. good shapes; all reduced In price.
Fashionable Deeii Corsets for Princess Costumes, in Black.
Scarlet, and Grey, 4s. Ud.; aud improved shapes, in
scarlet, white, and grey, at 6s. ltd., in every size.
Illustrated Lists of Underclothing.
Patterns, Samples, and all information post-free.
634,635,536, and 637, New Oxford-street, London, W.O.
H enry glave’S
SILK AND VELVET DEPARTMENT.
Black Silks, special prices for this month.
Black Silks, at Is. 6id., Is. Uid., 2s. 6id.. and 2s. llld.
Black bilks, Lyons Grua Grains, by Messrs. Goi
Croizat, and Cio., special prices, 3s. UJd. a yard.
Black B
Croizat, and Cie., special pric _
Blue-Black Velveteens, Is. ojd. a yard, 25 in. w__
700rt yards Rich Coloured Velveteens, 60 different shades.
27 in. wide. Is. 6Jd. ysrd ; former price, 2s. llld.
7000 yards Rich Coloured Velveteens, 50 different shades.
27 in. wide, 2s. 10ld. a yard; former price,Uld.
Tho new "Louis ’ Velveteen, q'heae Velveteens, dyed
the new shado of blue-black by a special process, are
guaranteed to retain tlieir colour uud brilliancy, and
cannot be distinguished from Lyons Silk Velvets at
four or five times the price.
Special Parcels of 27 In. Silk Costnme Velvets, 6s. Ud.
the yard; former price, 10s.
Black Satina. Is. Ojd., is. Sid.. Is. Uld., 2s. 6id„ and
Black 1 satins. 3s. 6ld„ 3s. Uld.. 4s. Ud.. and 6s. Ud. a yd.
Coloured Satins, in 100 shades, 2s. 6jd. and 3s. 61d.
Patterns of all kinds post-free.
534,635.636, and 637. New Oxford-street. London.
T HE COURT HAIR DESTROYER.—This
newly-discovered remedy completely removes superfluous
hair. Quite harmless. 3s. Id.; post.3*. lod., of Inventor, J.Leon.
1U, Porteus-rd., London. W., or Chemists. Particulars, 1 stamp.
G olden h a i r.—robare’s
AUKEOL1XE produce* the beautiful Golden Colour so
luch admired. Warranted perfectly harmless. Price fife. 6d. and
lid., of all Perfumers. Wholesale. HOVENDEN and SONS.
Great Marl borough street, W.; and 93 and 93. City-road. E.C.
..ondon ; Pinaud and Meyer,.'47, Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris;
31, Graben, Vienna; 44, ltue deu Longs Chariots, Brussels.
TVOES YOUR HAIR TURN GREY?
Then nse HERRING'S PATENT MAGNETIC BRUSHES
andJXiMliS. Brushes, lus. and 16s. each. Combs.2s lid.,6s.,7 b. 6d.,
10s„ 16s., uud 20s. each. Pamphlets upon application.—6, Great
Marlborough-st., W.; 03 and Wi, City-road; and of all Perfumeri.
QPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient
O in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTU ABIDES GIL. which speedily
produces Whiskers und Thickens Hair. 3s. 6d.; sent in blank
wrappers for 54 stamps.—Alex. Ross, 248, High Holborn.
JJLAIR’S GOUT PILLS,
The Great English Remedy for Goat and Rheumatism. Bure,
safe, and effectual. No restraint of diet required during theli
ose. and are certain to prevent the disease attacking any vital
part. Sold bv all Chemists at Is. ljd. and '2s. 8d. per Box.
I 'O PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH
RUPTURE.—PRATT'S WATER-PAD TRUSSES are the
most effectual Cure.-Apply to J. F. Pratt Surgical Mechanician
to6t. Bartholomew's Hospital, 420, Oxlonl-stieet, London.
ELECTRICITY IS LIFE.
P ULVERMACHER’S “ GALVANISM,
NATURE'S CHIEF RESTORER OF EXHAUSTED
VITAL ENERGY."
In tills Pamphlet the most reliable proofs are given of Lire
vast and wonderful curative powc a of Pulvermacher'i
Patent Galvanic Chain-Bands, Belts, 4c.. in Rheumatic,
Nervoua, and Functional Disorders. Sent post-free foi
J. L. PULVERMACHEU 1 ''^ GALVANIC ESTABLISHMENT,
194, REGENT-STREET, LONDON. W.; AND 3U, RUE ST.
MARC, PARIS.
H OOPING-COUGH.—ROCHE’S HERBAL
EMBROCATION.—The celebrated Effectual Cure with-
outinternal medicine. Sole Wholesale Agents. EDWARDS and
SON. 157, Queen Victoria-street (late of 38, Old Change).
London. Sold retail by most chemists. Price 4s. ]<er Bottle.
TNVALUABLE TO ALL WHO SUFFER
J- from BILIOUS COMPLAINTS, indigestion. Wind. Spasms,
Giddiness. Dizziness of the Eyes. Habitual Costiveness. Ac.
Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS (without mercury)
qpqnalled. Mild in tlieir operation, they create amietite.
itrengthen the whole nervous sy.-tem. Sold by W.
iEKT. 1 a. Yere-street, London, W.. and all Druggists, in
. 1s. lid., 2s. Ud. The Genuine are in a Square Green
'J’OOTH-ACHE.
P
S’ ST ANT CURE.
SAVES TnE TOOTH.
J. Hounaell, Esq., Surgeon. Jlridport, writes;—" 1
consider BUNTKR'8 NERVINE a specific for
Toothache. Very severe cases under mv cur* liav
found instantaneous and permanent relief."
Of all Chemists, at la. lid. per Packet
206
TEE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NETVS_
SEFT. 11, 1873
NEW MUSIC.
riHAPPELL and CO.’S IMPROVED
c
CLOUGH and WARREN.
DETROIT. UR.A. over the
°°' to
PLOUGH and W A R R E N S
Kleg*nttored*6an«llan Walnut Caie.
^ Price 28 Guinea*. _.
soi. ujsssas sasr»‘wwa-i.
cecondhaud PIANOFORTES at
QBOONDHAND PIANOFORTES now on
,aoMn““"” 7 “'i{fgr i r
collard. Sosenkranz.
CHAPPELL and 00.. SO. New Bond-street.
ciEPONDHAND HARMONIUMS, for
1 From 3 guineas to 100 guineas.
At CHAPPELL ami CO.'S,
NEW music.
new music.
Just pubUahed.
BARMEN. Fantasie Brillante for Piano-
C^S^jW. KUHE, on this popular Opera. Post-free. 30
and Go..37. Great Marlborongh-itreet. London. W.
/BARMEN Fantasie Brillante for Pi&no-
C A forSy J- LEYBAOH. on this popular Opera. Post-free.
" 4 «Sb and Co.. W. Great Marlborough-treet, linden. W.
This day. price 6*.. paper; 7s. 8d., c ^. gilt edges.
ISaamikmosm
gggSSMffiMEB
rnHE* 1> PRIMA DONNA’S ALBUM 40
•elections for t^two^cg. ^ _
/BARMEN Bouquet de Melodies pour
C «a^Tar RENAUD 5 e VILBAO. In Two Booh*. Post-
Now ready,
GRACEFUL DANCE tomfte
\T Music to Shakspearo's ' Henry w
Qi^’t M^roiSu-Street. London/W ^
rpHREE GIFTS. New Song. By J- L -
I nnETKEL. . _
Price 2s. «d.. paper; 4s.doth hoards,
/~1ALLCOTT’S HANDEL ALBUM.
G A»TtoS- of •bove S .hu^ j M^O , S to^
?o?te a by w”hTcAL?COTT. Wh Memoir and three lUns-
SSio^-niosEV and Co.. 235, Regent-street.
pHAPPELL and C0 -’ S ,®^.? IALITIES
in ORGAN HARMONIUMS._
/"1HAPPELL and CO.’S NEW ORGAN
C a^asagagrasny;
PHAPPELL and CO.’S NEW ORGAN
I MODEL by ALEXANDRE, two rows of
^ Lava five stops and sub-boss, Venetian swell,
two pSSals *s guineas, or £2 10s. per
quarter on Three-Years System.
^_
/■'tHAPPELL and CO.’S SCHOOL
I i PIANINOS. Canadian Walnnt, 20gi., or
^ 5^ per^rteVon the Three-Years’ System
PHAPPELLandCO.’S YACHT PIANINOS,
l j so kb., or 13 per quarter on Three-Years
Britain of Purchase.
PHAPPELL and CO.’S BOUDOIR
PHAPPELL and CO.’S ENGLISH
ij MODEL. 40 «., or £4 per quarter, on tbo
Three-Years'System of Purchase.
mnv QfiNGS OF SCOTLAND. A New
T^ Ma^ Edition
sx» ks'S'-im ?;• assaws
Edition most be orderod.-gXS. Regent-street.
A SAILOR’S WOOING. New Song. By
^ZbSSES&a*.
Metzi.xb and Co..37*,°GreatMarl^rongh-street.London,W^
rpHE MOUNTAIN SYLPH.—-A New
rpHE BLUE ALSATIANS WALTZ. By
1 GEORGES LAMOTHE. £n Stephen Adams s celebrated
Song. Price ^
A IR DU DAUPHIN. Ancienne Danse de
PAVOTTE DE LOUIS QUINZE. By
\T MAURICE LEE. Piano 6olo, Duet. Violin, Orchestra,
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THE GREAT DISASTER ON THE THAMES : SCENE IN WOOLWICH DOCKYARD.
268
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
SEPT. 14, 1878
THE DISASTER ON THE THAMES.
acquaintance, and in the neighbourhood of its residence, wnu
evcryvoice has daily repeated the expression of sympathy, and
pulpit _ of churcli or chapel, “
newspaper, has joined in uttering the g: ■ Although
and in commenting upon this terrible event. Althoug
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account of the disaster on Tuesday week and of the d«
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afternoon, we have now to relate many important par¬
ticulars Every morning and evening since then has
££££ to our lLwledge additional facts and ci^umstantial
dSX of the manifold calamity ; the ^nt^cation of
drowned persons, the bereavement of many households in all
pSTof Con the painful anxiety of those whose friends
and the progress of inqumes and ,(113-
, • Tallinn’s Reach in mid-channel, when
vessel was going down th e red and mast-
they saw, Princess P Alice, three quarters of a mile
IrSnf or right hand-ride. Din, the pilot Si!
SVeThite'mithe'ad'light, of. the
mdCnptoinHanSson to believe that the Prinoce.Al.ce woe
Zwfor the north ride of the channel, and wopld pats the
He heard her steam-
The Bywell Castle appears not to have been actually put on
the starboard helm, but to have held straight on in mid-stTenm
till she approached Tripcock Point, and then to have ported
her helm in order to pass near the south shore at that point;
unless we are to understand Henry Young’s statement about
her green li^ht as implying that her course was directed so as to
present her starboard side to the Princess Alice meeting her;
and in estimating this, we Bhould require to notice the precise
curve of the river bend. The master of the Bonetta, Mr.
Abraham Dennis, states that he saw the Princess Alice
“ rounding Tripcock Point and hugging the south shore,”
ri"ht abreast of his own vessel. He could not well be mis¬
taken about this fact, and he says that “ she appeared to
shape her course straight up Gallion s Reach along the
r, ^ --- >> it i a n ot true, therefore, according to this
were still missing, and the progress of inquiries
cions upon this dismal subject. It has been the nnun topic
of conversation in town, and probably in most places through-
ont the country; and it necessarily occupies the greater
portion of our space filled with Engravings rtom more than a
dozen sketches made during the past
the hands of our readers, and will reqaiAuou^--^-
several incidents delineated; besides which a few of the most
remarkable passages in the narratives of survivors may be
f0U Th^Princess AliceTwas a paddle-steamer ^cioiiging to tho
London Steam-Boat Company (Limited), of Bennet s-hill,
Doctors’-commons, London. Her official number was 52,614
She was bruit of iron, and was of 158 tons net tonnage, and
251 gross tonnage. Her length was 219 ft. 4 in.; her breadth
20 ftT2 in.; herdepth, 8 ft. 4 in. Her engines were by Caird
and Co., of Greenock. They were of 140-horse power The
vessel was built by Messrs. Caird, of Greenock, in 1865, and
belonged to the port of London. She passed, with the rest of
the fleet, into the possession of the London Steam-Boat Com¬
pany when this undertaking, of which the chairman is Captau*
Pellv R.N., and the principal promoter was Mr. John (Jrrell
Lever, absorbed the min or associations for the river passenger
tra The Bywell Castle is an iron screw-steamer, haying the
official number 63,546. She is known by the signal letters
• J. K. P. W. Her registered tonnage is 892 tons net, 13 1 6 tons
gross, and 1168 tons under the deck. Her length is254 ft. 3 in.;
her breadth, 32ft. lin.; her depth, 19 ft. 6m. She has com¬
pound inverted engines with two cylinders, diameter 2/in.,
and length of stroke 54-33 in. They are of 120-horse power,
and by Palmer’s Company, Newcastle. She was built by
Palmer, Newcastle, in the year 1870. Her owners are Hall
Brothers, of London. _. ...
After a day’s excursion trip for pleasure, the Princess Alice
was on her return up the river from Sheemess and Gravesend.
It was at twenty minutes to eight in the evening, with full
moonlight, that she was met and run down by the Bywell Castle
off Tripcock Point, or Margaret Ness, a mile below Woolwich
Arsenal, and opposite to the Beckton Gasworks on the north
shore The fragile saloon steam-boat was actually cut in two,
and she sank within five minutes. Of the multitude of men,
women, and children left struggling for life in the water, about
one hundred escaped by swimming or clinging to the ropes and
floating articles thrown out from the Bywell Castle, or were
immediately picked up by the boats of that vessel and others.
There was a strong ebb tide, which carried many away down
the river. Six hundred lives and more have been lost; there
were 558 dead bodies found up to last Wednesday evening.
The place where the two vessels came into collision with
each other is shown in a small plan of that part of the river
below Woolwich presented, with other Engravings, on page 252
of this week’s Number of our Journal. It is in Gallion’s
Reach, about one mile below Woolwich Arsenal, and the same
distance above the mouth of Barking Creek, on the Essex
The Princess Alice, after coming up Barking Reach,
had rounded the point of Margaret Ness, on the southern shore
above Tripcock, and just opposite the Beckton Gasworks.
The By well Castle was coming down Gallion’s Reach with the
ebb tide, and with her screw working at a rate equivalent
to four knots an hour, so that her speed, with the tide,
may be estimated at seven or eight knots. It is pro¬
bable that the intention of the commanders of both vessels,
when they caught sight of each other approaching in
opposite directions, was to pass on the south side of the
channel, as near ns they could to the Woolwich Mar h shore;
each supposing that the other was about to pass along the
north side. With this view, the helm on board the Bywell
Castle was put on the port side, or to the left hand, causing
the vessel’s head to turn to the starboard—that is to say, to
*ut right-hand side. At the same time, the Princess Alice
put her helm to the starboard, and thereby turned her head to
her port or left-hand side, instead of crossing over, as the
Bywell Castle had expected she would do, to the north side of
the river. The Princess Alice, in fact, continued to follow the
bend of the south bank, while the By well Castle made for the
point just below. The consequence was that the By well Castle
ran into the starboard side of the Princess Alice, striking her
just forward of the paddle-box, and crushing her frail side
like an egg-shell.
The most valuable testimony which can be obtained to
explain this lamentable occurrence should be that of surviving
officers and seamen. The commander of the Princess Alice,
Captain William Grinstead, is among the drowned, and cannot
speak for himself. Captain Thomas Harrison, commander of
the Bywell Castle, in his log published last week, states that
as the two vessels neared each other he observed that the
Princess Alice had “ ported,” as if to cross over to the north
side of the river, while his own ship had already ported her
helm to go over to the south side. This would have been all
right and safe; but he adds that he saw immediately after¬
wards that the Princess Alice “ had starboarded, and was
trying to cross our bows.” In other words, he alleges that the
Princess Alice, having first shown an intention to take the
right-hand side of the channel—that is to say, the north side—
capriciously and most rashly changed her course to the left-
hand side, endeavouring to regain the inside position at the
southerly bend of the river. This is the most serious question
that has been raised, affecting the conduct and seamanship of
the deceased Captain Grinstead, and thevcracity of Captain
Harrison is equally at stake upon it. The men belonging
to the two vessels, whose evidence has been taken by the
Receiver of Wrecks for the Port of London, are Mr. Chris¬
topher Dix, of Stepney, pilot of the Bywell Castle on this
occasion; William Charles Haynes, helmsman of the By well
Castle; John Hardy, lookout man on the forecastle of that
ship; and, on the other hand, Mr. George Thomas Long, of
Woolwich, the first mate, and Mr. Ralph Wilkinson, of Graves¬
end, second mate of the Princess Alice, John Eyers, the
helmsman, John Rand and Henry Young, two seameD, keep¬
ing the look out. The pilot of the Bywcll Castle was on
her bridge »Cuptain Harrison; and he states that their
Bvwell Castle pilot ordered his helm, which up
had been steady, to be slightly ported, which caused the vessel
fo veer sh’Sly towards the south shore When the vessels
annroaclied within about a quarter of a mile of each other ho
Castle Still way on her. When the Princess Agceojmeto
about 300 or 400 yards’ distance she showed her red and green
_ i lights bearing two points on the port bow of the Bywell Castle.
These are now m | Castle pilot ordered his helm hard aport, and put
the engines full speed astern. Loud shouts were heard from
the Princess Alice, and she was hailed to port her helm. Sud
denly the Princess Alice’s red light disappeared and the green
only was visible. A collision became inevitable, the Bywcll
Castle’s stem striking the Princess Alice on the starboard side.
This is the account given by Mr. Christopher Dix, . an ^
firmed, to some extent, by Haynes, the helmsman of the Bywell
Castle, who states that he saw the red and masthead lights of
the Princess Alice, apparently about a third of a mile
The I distant.’ He had been ordered, three minutes before, to
1 port his helm a little, which had been done, and this order
was given by the pilot upon a report from the look-out man
that he saw a red light ahead. Haynes further declares, that
‘‘when the Princess Alice approached within a quarter of a
mile, she suddenly shut in her light,” meaning that she turned
so as to hide from view the red light on her port side, and
the green light,” on her starboard side, became visible;
upon which the master or pilot of the By well Castle ordered
his own helm to be put hard aport, and the collision took
place. It docs not seem clear how the Bywell Castle could
hope to escape the collision by putting its helm hard aport,
when the immediate danger, as we arc told, arose from the
Princess Alice improperly starboarding her helm. Two vessels
approaching one another, tlic first with her helm put to star¬
board, and the second with her helm aport, would seem all
the more likely to encounter each other. If the Bywell Castle,
on perceiving that the Princess Alice had changed her course to
the south side of the channel, as is alleged, had then taken
the north side, by putting her own helm starboard, the col¬
lision would have been avoided, supposmg there was time
for thePriucess Alice to get across clear of her bows. The
other witness from the By well Castle is John Hardy, the fore¬
castle look-out man, who agrees with Dix and Haynes in their
statement that the red or port side light of the Princess Alice
was first seen, but that “ in a few minutes the red light was
shut out, and the green light came in view,” about a point
and a half on the port bow of the By well Castle. The two
vessels, he says, were in this position within two hundred
yards of one another; the By well Castle was then in mid¬
stream, but slightly inclining to the south shore. Is it so
plainly apparent that she could not, by altering her course
within that distance of two hundred yards, have passed astern
of the Princess Alice ? The answer to this question is fully as
important as that which may be given to the former question—
namely, whether the Princess Alice did or did not improperly
change her course from the starboard to the port side. We have
now to consider the evidence of the first mate of the Princess
Alice, Mr. George Thomas Long, who was on the top of the
fore saloon. He tells us that, “ on rounding Tripcock Point,
the vessel’s helm had been starboarded to pass a screw-steamer,
name unknown, which was going down the river. The engines
were going easy, and he next observed the green and mast¬
head lights of the screw-steamer, which proved to be the
Bywell Castle, coming down the river. The Ti incess Alice’s
helm at that moment was starboarded; the engines were
stopped. The Bywell Castle appeared to have ported her
helm, and was coming ftem on against the Princess Alice,
being about 150 yards distant. The Princess Alice sounded
her whistle, and loud shouts were made to the Bywell
Castle, but the collision then inevitably to. k place. The
same account is given by the second mate of the Princess
Alice, Mr. Ralph Wilkinson, and by Henry Young, her look-out
man, and is supported by that of Mr. Abraham Dennis, master
of the barge Bonetta, of Rochester, and Joseph Smith Burnitt, | helm
of Goole, master of the Ann Elizabeth, schooner, who were near
enough to see all that happened. Mr. Wilkinson says that,
when the Princess Alice arrived in Gallion’s Reach abreast of
the Beckton Gasworks, she was ‘‘on the starboard helm and
steering about mid-stream.” She would need, we may
observe, to have her helm put starboard, in order to keep in
mid-stream at that part of the river, which there takes a bend
to the port side, or left-hand side, of a vessel ascending the
stream. He states that he was standing on the starboard side
of the after sponson, from which part of the vessel, crowded as
the deck was, he could scarcely have seen the Bywell Castle
approaching till the moment before the collision. He was
occupied in coding the ropo to be thrown ashore for landing
at the North Woolwich pier, when, glancing over the bulwark,
he saw the Bywell Castle, stem on, coming down upon his
vessel. The testimony of the look-out man, Henry Young, is
more circumstantial with regard to the Bywell Castle, as he
was in a position to see much more of her. He says that he,
after rounding the Point, observed the green light (starboard
side) of the Bywcll Castle a mde distant. The Princess Alice
was then about mid-channel, inclining slightly towards the
south side of the river, and on the starboard helm, as she must
be in order to follow the bend of the river. If this be true, it
is not true, as Captain Harrison and others say, that the
Princess Alice first had her helm aport, and then
suddenly put it starboard. Again, Henry Young de¬
clares that the Bywell Castle, as she came on, still
showed her green light, and he never saw her red light at all
untd after the collision, when he climbed on board of her.
He then noticed that she was standing in to the south shore,
having suddenly ported her helm; and he is of opinion that it
was this which caused the collision, which might have been
avoided “if the Bywell Castle had kept her starboard helm.”
It is certainly obvious that this would have avoided it, sup¬
posing the fact to be, as he says, that the Princess Alice had
kept her own starboard helm without alteration. Two
persons walking towards each other in one path will not
jostle one another if both keep to the left hand, respec¬
tively, and the channel of the Thames is wide enough. But
the expression, “if the Bywell Castle had kept her starboard
helm,” does not seem accurately to fit the state of the case.
whistleand her master shout, “ Where are you coming to P ”
as the By well Castle met her, coming down the river on the
south side of mid-stream. This witness was half a mile behind
the Princess Alice. In half a minute he heard the order given
on board the Bywell Castle to “port.” He states again,
quite positively, that the Princess Alice was still pursumg her
course up the south shore. The ByweU Castle kept port helm
and he again heard the order given on board of her, Port!
port'” Then almost immediately, she struck the 1 rincess
Alice on the starboard side. This statement would fully justify
the opinion of Mr. Dennis, that “ the cause of the casunlty was
the Bywell Castle porting helm as she approached the Princess
Alice, and that it might have been avoided if the ByweU Castle
had kept her course straight down stream a little south of mid¬
stream;” The statement of Mr. Joseph Burnitt, master of the
Goole schooner, is that the Bywcll Castle appeared to be on her
port helm at the moment when the captain of the Princess Alice
called out, “ Where are you coming to? ” when the two vessels
were a hundred and fifty yards from each other. The Princess
Alice, which was coming up along the south shore, had eased her
igines, in passing the Powder Magazine, and then stopped
uiid whistled, after which she hailed the Bywell Castle. This
witness, therefore, is likewise of opinion that the disaster was
occasioned by the ByweU Castle keeping on with helm aport
when a collision became imminent, instead of keeping a straight
course down the river and passing the Princess Alice on the
starboard side. We have further to record the evidence of
John Evers, the surviving helmsman of the Princess Alice, one
of two men at the wheel, the other being William Creed, his
brother-in-law, who refused to jump overboard with Eyers
after the collision, and who was drowned. John Eyers states
that on arriving at the top of Halfway Reach, as be calls the
Barking Reach marked on our Plan, helm was ordered by the
master to be starboarded, and it was done. He presently observed
the ByweU Castle coming down on starboard helm, and then
bearing about two point? and a quarter on the starboard bow of
the Princess Alice ; but “ suddenly the ByweU Castle appeared
to port helm, and a coUision seemed imminent. The 1 nncess
Alice, which lmd her holm kept starboarded, stopped and
reversed her engines, but the Bywell Castle, coming on
apparently at half speed, struck heron the fore sponson of the
starboard side, and cut with her stem into the Princess Alice.
The statement of John Rand, who kept the look-out forward
on the lower deck, is that, before arriving at the top of the
lower reach, he saw, over the point, the lights of the ByweU
Castle, and reported to the chief mate, “Steamer right
ahead! ” The engines of the Princess Alice were stopped for
a minute or two, but then were set ahead, helm was hard
starboarded, and a caution was given by the master Mind
the helm on account of set of ebb tide.” The Princess Alice
answered her helm quickly and rounded the point close to the
Powder Magazine on the south shore. The ByweU Castle was
then a little to the north of his vessel, coming on with port
helm. The master hailed the coming steamer to starboard
helm, stopped and reversed engines, but the ByweU Castle
coming on with stem struck the Princess Alice, cutting her
through nearly to the boiler. The Princess Alice commenced
to fill ; there was great confusion.
It will be perceived bv the reader of these depositions that
there is an essential conflict of evidence upon the matter of
fact involved in Captain Harrison’s assertion, first made in ins
log, and repeated by him on oath before the Receiver ot
Wrecks. He declares that, when the Princess Alice had
rounded Tripcock Point, he “observed that she was paying
off to the port helm,” her red light being visible to him. His
own helm was already ported, and his vessel was paying o
quickly towards the Tripcock shore.” He kept his own helm
hard aport, but “ when the vessels approached within about
one hundred yards of each other, the Princess Alice was sud¬
denly observed to starboard her helm, showing her. green
light close under the ByweU Castle. Io this act
Captain Harrison attributes the coUision that instantly
followed. The question is, whether or not she was,
he states, previously keeping a course under port
noun. 11 is statement is flatly dcuied by every one of the sur¬
viving officers and seamen of the Princess Alice, and by
several witnesses who are nautical men. We must await the
decision of the Board of Trade official inquiry, and that of the
Admiralty Court, which wUl have to deal with the case as
between the two vessels. As for Captain Grinstead, wh
always bore the highest character, he refused to quit his post,
on the bridge of the Princess AUce, though entreated by the
helmsman F.ycrs to do so, and he perished in this great disaster.
Public feeling is not disposed just now to find fault, with him
upon slight evidence of any mistake on his part.
We pass on to the interesting personal experiences ofsorne
of the survivors, whose statements have been reported in the
daily newspapers. . . , „„__
One of the passengers’ narratives is this, given by Mr Henry
Reed, stationer, of 57, Oxford-street, who ^ys ‘ My wife
and I had been down at Gravesend spending the day. vv e
did not go down by the Princess AUce, and our returning by
her was quite accidental. We were during the voyage on the
upper fore-deck, where there were other first-class passengers—
men, women, and chUdren ; but the deck was not crowde .
The other portion of the ship seemed to me to be very muen
crowded, chiefly by pleasure-seekers. I never before saw so
many children on board a Thames steamer, and the pro-
portion of women on board seemed to me very large; but
throughout the passage from Gravesend there was perfect
order. I did not see one person under the influence of hquor
on board. Up to within a few moments of the collision a band
wasplaying, and its last tune was ‘Nancy Lee. AU went
well and quietly untd about twenty-five minutes to eight
o’clock, when it was any tiling but dark. You might not have
been able to read small print, but you could distinctly see the
picture on a photograph. We were near North Woolwich,
and had seen the powder-magazine. The captain was stand¬
ing on the paddle-box, looking ahead, and giving directions
to the hands. I am perfectly certain we were slackening
speed, and going very slowly. Some of the people around
us were straining their eyes, and looking ahead in the same
direction as the captain. My wife and I turned to look as tne
others did; we were then standing at the extreme point of the
deck, looking up the Thames. I saw a large vessel, a screw-
steamer, several lengths ahead, and coming directly towards
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•US. It appeared to me that our vessel had then altogether
stopped, and was standing still in the water. Everyone around
us was anxious, : nd inquired one from the other what was the
matter, but two or three of the men belonging to the Princess
Alice who were on the deck looking out told us not to fear for
we would go by all right, and that there was no danger. *My
wife expressed a fear that the great vessel towering so much
above us would come into collision. She was some lengths
off, but coming nearer in a direct line. I am quite sure She
was coming straight on. I looked, but could see no lights on
the large vessel, nor could I see any man in the fore part of
her facing towards us. I jumped up on the seat, still looking
towards the vessel approachiug us, but one of the hands
called upon me to come down, by the captain’s orders. I
observed that the captain of the Princess Alice was still
on the paddle-box and that our lights were hung out.
As the large vessel came nearer to us, while I believe we were
standing still, I distinctly heard the captain shouting to her
in a loud voice, ‘ Where are you coming to ? ’ I came down
from the seat, as ordered, when I found my wife and I were
the only passengers on the upper fore-deck. The large vessel
was then close upon us. My wife, who had not lost her self-
possession, said, ‘ Do not leave me ; ’ and I took her hands to
keep her by me. I looked up at the vessel close upon us, but
could see no persons in her fore part, nor could I hear any
cries from her; but her great height above us would probably
prevent our doing so. The collision must have occurred at
that moment; for, although there was no crash, we felt the
Princess Alice tremble under us—a kind of strong shivering
motion. We turned, looking aft, seeking for means of safety^
and I observed the captain was no longer on the paddle-box’.
I never saw him again. Screaming had then begun; and I
saw a lot of people, quite a thick and excited crowd, rush, as I
believe, across the gangway. I fancied there might have been
a ladder there, for I saw several people, women with children,
and men with women, drop over the side, but whether
on to a bidder or not I do not know; but, perceiving that
there was a fierce rushing of steam up the side at that
point, I feared approaching it, lest we might be scalded to
death. Without any apparent shock, we found ourselves, my
wife and I still holding together, in the water, and rose again ;
we sank again, I believe drawn down by the suction of the
Princess Alice. When we rose my wife was black in the face
and nearly insensible; I could not swim, and could scarcely
hold my wife up. She told me to keep quiet, and to hold up.
A plank was close by us, and going past I seized it, and, hold¬
ing on to it, it carried us right behind the vessel which had
come into collision with us ; the Princess Alice must then have
been behind us. All around were people struggling in the
water, screaming and calling to the men whom we could then see
looking over the bulwarks of the other vessel. My wife and I
also shouted, and ropes, I believe several, were thrown over us
by the men. I distinctly saw three ropes thrown, and I believe
there were more. 1 grasped one of the ropes, my wife still
holding on to me. Some four or five others took hold of the
same rope, but I could not see how many took hold of the
other ropes, as they were thrown behind us. The vessel
moved on, and, holding by the ropes, we floated down
the river along with her ; one of those clinging, a
woman, screaming all the while. I believe she had
lost a child. We must have floated in this way for more
than half an hour, going down the river with the ebb. We
were shouting to the men above, and could hear them shouting,
but could not hear what they said. Many vessels passed us at
a distance, and we could see a good many boats moving about
us. A small boat hailed us, and took us on board. It was a
two-oared boat, with three men in it. We were taken on
board, with all those hanging on to our rope. Some of those
clinging to the other rope must also have been taken on board,
as there were twelve or thirteen of us altogether. I do not
know the names of our rescuers, but, from the fact that they
were hailed by a passing vessel, I believe they belonged to her.
They rowed us to Greenwich, where we landed. My wife and
I, after procuring refreshment, took train to London, arriving
home a few minutes before eleven. The men in the boat told
us we were picked up two miles from the scene of the collision.
We neither of us lost consciousness during the whole time.
My watch stopped at twenty minutes to eight o’clock.”
Another of the surviving passengers, Mr. George Alexander
Haynes, of 113, Bow-road, gives the following account:—‘‘On
the return journey there were about 800 souls on board, count¬
ing the great number of children with the adults. The fore
part of the vessel was filled; so also was the saloon deck, but
not so much the aft part, where I happened to be. After
quitting Gravesend, and when nearly abreast of the beacon
light at Grays, our vessel nearly collided with a large brig, and
a serious accident was only averted by our captain reversing the
wheels full on. This incident caused no small amount of con¬
sternation among the passengers. After righting ourselves, all
went well till we arrived opposite North Woolwich. We had
just passed the powder magazine on our left, and the Beckton
Gasworks on our right; we were pretty nearly in mid-stream;
it was rather dark and hazy at the time. Suddenly there was
a bustle aboard, and low murmurs were audible amongst the
passengers, which gradually rose into loud exclamations. At
this time our signal-whistle blew tremendously loud and shrill;
the wheels of the boat were momentarily reversed and speed
slackened I heard thecaptainof our vessel and other people shout
out as if warning some approaching ship Being at the after part
of the boat, I went to look on the starbodrd" side, when the air
was suddenly filled with the terrible tumult of human voices,
und within a second afterwards the big ship crashed into the
Princess Alice on the starboard side and split our vessel right
in half. I cannot describe the scene of confusion and mad¬
dening perplexity which seized upon everybody. In a minute
or so I could sec distinctly the fore part of our vessel sink, the
middle going down like a plummet, raising the head of the
vcsb d into the air, and as it sank the poor people seemed to be
shot out as if down a shaft into the gulf below. Then our
part of the vessel speedily went down from the paddle-box
aft, the people from the saloon and after deck being also shot
into the water like those at the fore. I held on to the stem
above the rudder, as did a few others, and we were the last to
leave the vessel. Before this the cries of the women and ch ildren
were piteous beyond description. One of the crew rushed up ,
to the stern and tried to loosen the ropes connecting one of the |
davits on the port bow, in order to utilise the boat, but he
could not get the ropes unfastened, and said, * Who’s got a
knife? Have you one, Sir?’ I replied that I had, and
handed it to him, when he cut the rope, and, after shout¬
ing out * Below! ’ let the boat down into the water
without a single person in it, although by proper manage¬
ment people could have been got in. I might have seated
myself in it easily enough, but I thought it was intended
for the ladies and children. After being let down it must
have drifted away with the tide. I relied upon my good
nerves and swimming powers to save myself. I don’t think
three minutes elapsed between the collision and the sinking of
Ihe Princess Alice. Events went speedily on, and at last the
portion of the vessel on which 1 stood slipped away from my
leet, and I found myself struggling in the water. I seized i
hold of a lady next to me who was drowning, and supported 1
her in the tide. As well as I was able I trod the water, and
was thus better able to keep both of us afloat. Nevertheless,
I went under several times, for there was a great surge on
then, caused in great part by the screw of the big ship near
us. After buffeting the waves for some minutes, I was gradu¬
ally getting exhausted, but I held on as best I could, still
buoying up the lady. I could not see a body near us, nor was
there any appearance of drowning persons. After a while a little
boat hove in sight, commanded by Mr. Trewby, the manager
of the Beckton Gas Works, whom I have to thank sincerely for
the great kindness shown to me at his house after landing. Just
as this little craft came up I called out ‘ Help, help ! ’ and Mr.
Trewby jnit out an oar, which I seized. Mr. Trewby took the
lady in farst and I followed. At this critical and desperate
moment mournful cries of distress were heard a little way off
from us, where a lady and gentleman were seen to be violently
struggling. Without a moment’s delay the boat put off to
their rescue, and saved them. After this Mr. Trewby rowed up
and down, but only picked up a lifebelt and a woman's shawl.
The big ship which cut into us did not go on, but remained
stationary, for Mr. Trewby and we rowed right round her to
try and ascertain her name; but, owing to the darkness of the
night, we were unable to find it out. Having been landed at
the Gasworks, every kindness was shown to us by Mr. Trewby,
his wife, and servants. Fires were instantly lighted. We
were then more dead than alive. The ladies were invited
to change their attire, and did so, Mrs. Trewby supply¬
ing them with an entire change. The men were generously
offered suits of clothes, but respectfully declined, as
we were all very anxious to reach home. Brandy-and-water
and every procurable nourishment were provided, and even a
cab was sent for to take me to my home. When on the boat
I saw a young fellow pull off his boats and coat aud waistcoat,
and make a plunge in. One difficulty I suffered from in the
water was my gloves, which I had not had time to take off ere
the vessel disappeared. I believe that the people were so
thickly mix'd up in the water that they must have pulled one
another under. The upper saloon of the vessel was crowded
with people, and the only persons with the captain, who was
in his usual place over the saloon, were three little boys, who
must have been privileged to be where they were, and I pre¬
sume they were the children of Mr. Towse, the superintendent
of the company. It was high tide at the time, and our ship
was going against the stream. I do not think our ship, con¬
sidering her size and the number of passengers she was
licensed to carry, could be said to be overcrowded. There
were vast numbers aboard, but there seemed sufficient moving
room.”
Many other personal narratives have appeared in print,
which have a general resemblance, but often with some
particular circumstance, not mentioned by others, of the
individual experience while struggling with a crowd of fellow-
sufferers in tie water, and of the accidental means of escape.
The Bywell Castle, after backing a minute or two from the
Princess Alice upon the collision, stopped and rendered all the
help she could, lowering one boat on the starboard and two on
the port side, to pick up the drowning people, aud casting out
ropes, life-buoys, ladders, planks, and a carpenter’s bench, to
which many of them cluug and were saved. The masters of the
Bonetta and Ann Elizabeth instantly lowered their boats, and
one picked up ten persons, the other eleven, landing them
safely at Beckton and Barking. One or two shore-boats, as we
have seen, put forth and helped to rescue some of those in the
water. Two of the London Steam-Boat Company’s vessels,
coming up soon after the Princess Alice, gave some assistance.
It does not appear that anyone who had an opportunity of
helping neglected that duty, and there was no want of kind
attention to the survivors landing wet and chilled at Barking
or at Woolwich; indeed, some were put ashore at Erith and
elsewhere down the river.
The news of this terrible calamity reached Loudon at a
late hour in the evening, and spread quickly all over town.
The families and friends of persons known to have gone with
the Princess Alice to Gravesend and Rosherville, or to Sheeraess,
for an intended day of pleasure, soon learnt the terrible tidings.
A crowd of agouised inquirers beset the doorway of the London
Steam-Boat Company’s offices on Benuct’s-hill, City, vainly
asking if the names of those drowned, or of those saved, had bet-n
reported from Woolwich. At the office of the steam-boat pier,
adj acent to Wool wich Dockyard, a multitude of similar grieving
victims of passionate anxiety, who came down from London by
every train and boat, might be observed day after day. The
steam-boat pier at North Woolwich, on the opposite bank of
the river, which is accessible by a branch of the North London
Railway from the distant northern suburbs of London, was
also thronged with people intent on the same melancholy
errand; and here, upon the arrival of a frequent messenger
from Woolwich by the subway or the ferry acioss the Thames,
the names of persons saved from the Princess Alice were read
aloud to an eager audience. The doleful and shocking task of
groping in the bed of the river by menus of poles and grapnels,
and of divers searching the wreck for dead bodies, has been
continued daily from mom till eve, bringing up an average
number of one hundred each day, including those washed
ashore by the tide. Our large Engraving, which’ occupies the
two middle pages of this week’s Number, represents the scene
during this melancholy operation. Another view, from a sketch
taken on the next day, shows the exact place where the
Princess Alice sank, with one of the Thames Conservancy tugs
moored directly over the wreck, and two barges of the Thames
Conservancy keeping guard at a short distance above and
below, all three displaying the blue flag inscribed with the
word “wreck” in white letters. Another barge, nearer the
north shore, appears in this sketch laden with the funnel of
the Princess Alice, which was broken off in the collision, and
was soon picked up; many boats hover about the wreck, cast¬
ing out their drags and grapnels, and divers have gone under
water, continuing their laborious and dangerous task. This
■was on "Wednesday week, by which time already, at the Wool¬
wich Arsenal pier, at the Dockyard, at the chemical manure
works of Messrs. Lawes, on Barking Creek, also at the Creek i
Mouth school-house, at the Yacht Hotel, Erith, and at the !
Ferry-Boat public-house, at Raiuliam, on the Essex shore, a
large number of the dead had been laid out for inspection by
visitors seeking to identify those whom they knew. The
Townhall at Woolwich, the buildings in Woolwich Dockyard,
and a temporary mortuary at Iloff’s Steam-boat Wharf in that
town, were principally made the appointed depositary
of this sad public charge. A great variety of articles
of clothing, washed off from the corpses, was collected
for exhibition at the Dockyard, with trinkets and other
small things placed in boxes glazed at the top, to be
examined by those whose lost friends had not yet been dis¬
covered. It may well be imagined that this proved a very
distressing business ; yet incomparably more dreadful was the
inspection of the dead bodies, commonly much disfigured by
the water and slime in which they had lain for many hours, or
even during several days and nights. We will spare our
readers the description of these revolting incidents.
The Coroner for West Kent, Mr. C. J. Carttar, has been
holding, from day to day, an adjourned inquest at the Wool¬
wich Townhall, merely for the purpose of receiving evidence
to identify the bodies, in order that he might issue his
warrants for their burial. The reports of these proceed¬
ings have been published in minute detail by the daily
journals, so that the names, ages, residences, and occu¬
pations of most of those who have perished are known to
the public. The majority 6eem to be middle-class and work¬
ing-class people of the London suburbs, Camden Town,
Brixton, and other districts remote from the Thames con¬
tributing a good number. There are several instances in which
parties of school children, with their teachers, or members of a
Bible Class, had been taken out for a holiday trip on the river.
Two thirds at least of the whole number are women and
children.
Subscriptions for the relief of bereaved and destitute
families have been opened in many quarters, beginning with a
proposal to the Lord Mayor from Mr. J. Orrell Lever, a director
of the London Steam-Boat Company, himself giving a hundred
guineas. Her Majesty the Queen has made a gift of that
amount, having first, through Lord Sydney, expressed to the
Coroner her sincere grief for this calamity. The Prince and
Princess of Wales have 6ent to the Lord Mayor a message of con¬
dolence and a gift of fifty guineas. The managers and lessees of
several London theatres, and the company of the Comedie
Frangaise, which played in London some time ago, have
charitably offered their aid—the latter in the shape of a £50
subscription, the former by means of benefit performances.
The Charity Organisation Society has volunteered its services
in ascertaining where relief is needed.
The funerals of many of the dead, buried together, have
been conducted, in the Woolwich Cemetery, with great
solemnity, by the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Anson, the Rector of
Woolwich, and in other places by several clergymen aud
Dissenting ministers.
The By well Castle has been allowed, after a short detention,
to proceed to Shields, where she arrived on Saturday night.
The Loudon Steam-Boat Company have made a claim against
her owners for £14,000, the value of the Princess Alice. This
will be tried by the Admiralty Division of the High Court of
Justice. The official inquiry instituted by the Board of Trade
will be opened at Poplar on Tuesday week, the 24th iust.,
before Mr. Balguy, the Greenwich stipendiary magistrate, and
two nautical assessors.
Lord Sandon, President of the Board of Trade, has
announced, in a letter to the Lord Mayor, that, after the
Board of Inquiry into the circumstances attending the loss of
the Princess Alice, a committee will be appointed to consider
the rules now in force with respect to the navigation of the
Thames, and to report to Government whether any fresh rules
are necessary with a view to prevent collisions and to regulate
the traffic. The committee is to be thus constitutedOne
member from the Thames Conservancy Board, one from the
Trinity House, one from the Admiralty, one from the Strnm-
Ship Owners’ Association of London, and three members from
the Board of Trade.
UNVEILING THE FALKLAND MEMORIAL
AT NEWBURY.
Last Monday the Falkland Memorial on the battle-field of
Newbury was unveiled by the Earl of Carnarvon. The
memorial was suggested some time ago by Mr. Walter Money,
F.S.A., a local antiquary, who presented a site on Wash-
common, within a short distance of the spot where Lord Falk¬
land fell, and it has been erected by Messrs. W. aud T. R.
Freeman, of Westminster, from his design. It takes the form
of an obelisk, and is built of Cornish grey granite. On the
four sides of it are inscriptions, the chief of which is :—
In memory of those who, on the twentieth September, 1C43, fell fighting
in the arxnyof King Charles the First on the field of Newbury, and especially
of Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland, who died here, in the 32nd year of his
age, this monument is set up by those to whom the majesty of the Crown
and the liberty of their country arc dear.
The day’s programme included a procession of the Mayor
and Corporation, Yeomanry, Volunteers, Oddfellows, Foresters,
lodges of Freemasons, and others, which, headed by the band
of the 49th Regiment, marched through the principal streets
to the site of the memorial, where the ceremony of unveiling
was performed, amid enthusiastic cheers, by the Earl of Car¬
narvon, who said:—Mr. Mayor, Mr. High Sheriff, Ladies, and
Gentlemen,—I have to congratulate you, first of all, on the
completion of the work on which we have been so long engaged,
next upon the beauty of the day which smiles upon our pro¬
ceedings ; and, thirdly, upon the great concourse of people
gathered around us this afternoon. I trust, as the Mayor has
said, that this may be an ornament to this place aud town, and
handed down to our children’s children. The legal trust
is vested in me and another gentleman; but we look to you
to watch over it, to guard it, to preserve it. On this field, as
the Mayor has truly said, the battle of Newbury was once
fought, and Lord Falkland fell. And why do we now erect this
monument ? We erect it not to perpetuate the memory of by¬
gone feuds—we erect it not to exalt any one party or set of
opinions—but iu order to commemorate great events in which
we are all interested, and to do houour to the memory of a
man of singular purity, unselfishness, and honour. Lord
Falkland was a gentleman, a scholar, a statesman, a reformer
of political abuses, and yet a lover of the Crown. Living iu
troubled aud painful times, he reconciled, as far as was given
man to reconcile, the complicated duties of his age, and,
dying, he died without fear aud without reproach. It only
remains for me now to unveil this memorial, aud make it
public (Prolonged cheers).
At two o’clock luncheon was provided in the Corn
Exchange, and was par-taken of by about 600 or 700 persons.
Mr. C. S. Slocock, J.P., the Mayor, occupied the chair, being
supported by the Earl of Carnarvon, the Countess of Ports¬
mouth, Lady Winifred Herbert, and Sir Robert Phillimore.
The loyal toasts having been drunk, the chairman proposed
“ The Houses of Parliament,” coupled with the health of Lord
Carnarvon. His Lordship, who was enthusiastically received,
replied at considerable length. He said it was impossible to
find words to express his thanks for the chairman’s kind words
and for the kindly feeling and overflowing goodness which he
always met with in the town of Newbury. His Lordship
then gave a long and interesting address on the life of Lord
Falkland, and concluded by adding a few words as to the
memorial which had been inaugurated that day. He referred to
the various recommendations the committee had received as to
the form the memorial should take, they ultimately deciding upon
the monument they had seen. It stood nearly on the spot where
Lord Falkland fell, aud it harmonised, as he believed, in its
simplicity of architectural outline, with the noble character it
was designed to commemorate.
A number of other speeches followed, and Lord Carnarvon,
on leaving the Exchange, was loudly cheered.
We intend to give an engraving of the obelisk next week.
The Countess of Dufferin arrived on Monday at Belfast, via
Londonderry, from Canada, and proceeded at once to the seat
of the Eiirl of DulRrin, Chuidoboyo, County Down.
,y,-r-‘ - .MUini, ll ifllinilliSM
TOE GREAT DISASTER ON THE THAMES : IDENTIFYING THE CLOTHES OF THE DEAD AT WOOLWICH DOCKYARD.
residence, and the gloomy decaying mansion, with semi-
European gate and courtyard, where the Turkish Pasha lately
resided. Across the shores, where rock and forest alternate
with picturesque effect, the dim outlines of the snow-streaked
Caucasus are faintly visible. Here and there some cottager’s
red-tiled roof gleams amid the dark foliage, and long valleys
reach away into the interior, veiled with a perennial haze. In
the calm lake-like waters of the bay, close in by the shore,
coasting craft of diverse tonnage lie securely, and their crews
cover the beach in many a picturesque group. Such is Batoum,
now belonging to the Russian Empire.
Tiflis, and so making it the marine depot for trade with the
Caspian, as well as with Georgia and Persia. The town of
Batoum occupies the southern shore of a well-sheltered bay
running far inland. High hills, clothed with luxuriant forest
growth, hem it in ; and, save from north-westerly winds, its
waters are perfectly sheltered. Even when such winds prevail
vessels, lying as close to the town as they can, are unaffected by
them. Batoum itself is not a considerable place; its population
cannot much exceed three thousand at present. It is clean
and cheerful-looking. Along the shore arc the principal
restaurants and cafes, such as they are in Asia. Behind and
parallel to the sea front runs the bazanr street, where shops
for the sale of printed calicoes or stuffs of the country, the
workshops of tailors, and three or four jewellers, are to be
found. Here and there is an armourer’s shop, where
primitive flintlock rifles and leaf-shaped sword-daggers
are to be bought. Behind are open grass - grown
spaces, with a few official residences—the Government office
or konak, the telegraph and post office, the chief of staff’s
BATOUM.
The Russians took possession of Batoum yesterday week, by
the cession which Turkey agreed to at the Berlin Congress ;
there was no resistance, as a large part of the Mussulman
townsfolk, along with the neighbouring Laze population,
leave the district for other territories of the Sultan’s Asiatic
dominion. Batoum, a view of which is here given, from a
sketch by Mr. W. Simpson, is a small seaport town on the
Armenian coast of the Euxine, the nearest to Kars, from
which fortress it is distant a hundred miles. The hur-
bour of Batoum is the only one that exists along that
coast eastward of Trebizond. Its capacity has notoriously
been a subject of dispute; and Lord Beaconsfield’s
statement, that not more than three or four large ships could
lie close to the shore, though confirmed by the Hydrographei
to the Admiralty, does not meet with universal concurrence
There is some idea of connecting it by railway with the exist¬
ing Russian line of railroad crossing Circassia from Poti to
THE AUSTRIAN CAMPAIGN IN BOSNIA.
Our Special Artist with the army of General Philippovich,
employed in forcibly occupying Bosnia and overcoming the
resistance of the Mussulman insurgents, with the sanction of
the Berlin Congress, supplies a sketch of the bombardment of
Serajevo, on the 19th ult., preparatory to the capture of that
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SEPT. 14, 1878
city by assault. The main body of troops engagedl in this
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A thick foe favoured the march of the columns, which reached
whicTwi fiireXd by a wall, and In which the inaurgenta
had nlaced several guns in position. An hour later, the batteries
ofheangunswMch had been brought up near Bufad joined
S the attack upon the castle. At the same time Colonel
Villotz attacked the insurgents’ position new: &ndmselo,
which had been strengthened by artillery and lntrenchments.
Fin all v at ten o’clock, General Kaiffel, who had only been
able slowly and with difficulty to drive before him the strongly
posted forces he encountered, made his “PP 0 "™®®, ° n
heights of Debelo Brdo; and thereupon die enemy s guns
were silenced. The Austrian infantry then advanced in
swarms to the town. Fighting of the most desperate kind
ensued ; the Austrian troops were fired upon every house
dnoTwav and window. Even women and the sick and
wounded insurgents in the military hospital took part in the
fighting which lasted until half-past one m the afternoon. It
"S oufySg “ the good di.cfplb.of the Auetriau troop,
that the town was not more seriously damaged ;
a few houses were plundered and set on fire. The Austrian
losses were not inconsiderable. Tho insurgents dispersed in
all directions, especially towards Gorasda and Rogatica. After
the close of the fighting, upon the complete occupation of thc
town, the Imperial flag was hoisted over the castle and
saluted with 101 guns, amid the singing of the National
Anthem and unceasing acclamations, in which the troops were
joined by some part of the Christian inhabitants.
The Sultan immediately afterwards sent a telegram to the
Emperor Francis Joseph requesting his Majesty to instruct
the Austrian commanders to use all possible leniency towards
the inhabitants of Serajevo. The Emperor at once expressed
his compliance with the Sultan’s wish.
THEATRES.
DUKE’S.
This hitherto rather unfortunate house has passed under new
management, and seems likely at last to have commenced a
career of prosperity. Messrs. Clarance Holt and Charles
Wilmot appear to have determined to conduct it upon the
basis of a shilling pit and sixpenny gallery, and the experiment
seems likely to succeed. From its position vre have always
thought that this theatre might profitably prove the substitute
for the late Sadler’s Wells, and command very much the same
class-audience as that to which Mr. Phelps and Mrs. Warner
originally appealed. We think so still; and the maimer in
which Mr. Holt’s initial adventure has been received by a
large audience goes far certainly to prove the proposition. The
new manager shows remarkable boldness in the selection of his
subject, aud enlists in his favour a strong politic interest. He
presents his own version of Victor Hugo’s elaborate romance,
“ Les Miscrables,” a work which has been previously dramatised
but not with very great success. Mr. Holt’s version depends
more upon the original work than any previous version that
we have witnessed: the benefit thereby secured is evident.
The salient scenes of the novel are preserved, and the incidents
reproduced with remarkable fidelity. This result has not been
obtained without the sacrifice of many links needful for
ensuring the connection of the parts ; these, however, may be
supplied by the memory or fancy of the audience, who may be
supposed to have read the magnificent novel from which
the drama has been derived. The latter is divided into
five parts—that is, a prologue and four acts. The first
enacts the transaction between the discharged convict
Jean Vuljean (Mr. Clarance Holt), and the Bishop of
St. Germain, Mons. Myriel (Mr. D. Evans), in which
the poor hopeless convict yields to the temptation of his baser
nature, aud tteals the bishop’s plate, and the pious ecclesiastic
gently reproves the delinquent, by presenting hini with not
only the plate hut a pair of silver candlesticks in addition.
Such pardon and such bounty have the effect of instantaneously
converting the poor sinner, and leads to the various incidents
of his well-doing which are represented in the succeeding
scenes. Valjean’s efforts at reformation are impeded by the
vigilance of Javert, inspector of police (Mr. Jones Finch),
whose creed is, “once a convict always a convict,” and who
pursues our hero with an unwearied enmity, until he finally
effects his arrest. Here the benefit of the good bishop’s
example comes into play, and Yaljean (having the custody of
the inspector who has been placed in his keeping by the Com¬
munist mob that had delivered himself from the grasp of his
persecuting adversary) nobly pardons the man who so
long had been seeking his life and provides for his
freedom and safety. By this time, the revolution is
ripe, and the scene of the barricades is enacted. Tho play is
named after this situation, “The Barricade.” It includes,
besides what we have stated, the episodes of Cosette and
Eponine, both in their infancy at the commencement of the
action, and afterwards shown as adults during its progress,
represented by Miss Rose Dale and Miss May Holt with much
grace, aud in the latter with abundant agility. Of the general
acting our opinion must be favourable ; that of Mr. Clarance
Holt is uniformly powerful, distinct, and intelligible, and that
of his daughter is sprightly and pleasing, as well as eccentric.
New and appropriate scenery has been provided, as also a new
act-drop by F. C. Ellerman, which must be enumerated in the
embellishments of the house. The costumes are taken from
sketches of the period. Nothing towards securing success
seems to have been omitted by the new managers, whose
prosperity will be henceforth identified with that of the house.
the magazines.
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dent interesting to all tfender fieans i artistically
meat. The mireiaaeous papers are less
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torrents and cataracts.
The most important contribution to Macmillan is the! con¬
cluding portion of Mr. Lang’s account of Cyprus, which treats
principally of the important question of the finances of the
island^ It is satisfactory to find that in Mr. Lang s opinion
these can be so managed as to leave a handsome surplus, pro¬
vided that we abstain from rash experiments, and foster the
natural development of our new possession without attempting
to precipitately Anglicise it. His description of the climate is
ah^ery favourable, and comes with especial weight from so
SEES—«d’.resident. “Two Sides to>jSaint,” by
Professor Bacon, is a brilliaut and well-merited exposure of
the cold-blooded fanaticism and easy morality of the paragon
of modern Romau Catholic saints, St. Francis dc Sales. I ro-
fessor Mahaffy discusses recent theories respecting the Iliad
and Odyssey, and declares his own adherence to the view which
regards them as the work of a plurality of^ writers. Amon„
The Sussex Advertiser says a visitor residing on The Steyne
at Worthing has had her jewel-case (containing between £200
and £300 worth of jewellery, besides some valuable old family
relics) stolen from her bedroom. The empty case was found
in the neighbourhood on Sunday.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has conferred the degree of
Doctor of Medicine on Mr. Robert Druitt, F.R.C.P. Loud.,
andF.R O.S. Eng., author of “ The Surgeon’s Vade Mecum;”
the degree of Bachelor in Divinity on the Ven. Francis James
Wyatt, Rector of St. George's, Georgetown, and Archdeacon
of Demerara; and the degree of Bachelor in Divinity on the
Rev. William Henry Brett, Rector of Holy Trinity, Essequibo.
The detailed agricultural returns for Ireland for the year
are published, showing that one half the whole cultivatable
land is in pasture, and that wheat cultivation has been sub¬
stituted very considerably this year for that of oats. Hay has
yielded two fifths of a ton more, and is the best of the Irish
crops. Tn 1877 the yield of aii the crops was from two to
three p^r cent below tlie previous y*.ar. There are 4,000,000
head of cattle in Ireland, and about the same of sheep.
^ _ __ Among
the^thCT papers mV^Tmentioned a slight but elegant and
judicious criticism of Bryant’s poetry, and a summary of the
general spirit of Schumann’s musical writings.
Mr M'Coan’s valuable article in Fraser on the resources of
Asiatic Turkey shows how immense are the elements ot pros¬
perity only awaiting good government and the influx of capital
for their development. Not one single branch of pnvate
industry or public revenue yields anything like what it might
do, and some of the most important, such as mines, forests and
fisheries, yield hardly anything. Roads and the readjustment
of taxation are the principal conditions of regeneration in Mr.
M-Coan’s opinion ; but both must be earned out uuder Euro-
pean supervision. Turkey cannot be trusted. The third part
of “ Among the Burmese” also deals chiefly with the naturid
productions of a region of exceeding richness. While English
capital is thus solicited for the development of these Eastern
regions, it may not be unseasonable to direct attention to
another paper in the number on the employment of such
capital in foreign countries, by Mr. Conder, an engineer, who
has evidently had considerable experience of the subject. Ine
deduction from his facte and arguments would seem to be that
Englishmen cannot be too careful in their negotiations with
foreign Governments, and that, consequently, the application
of British capital to Asia Minor must be conditional on the
administration being thoroughly under British control. Miss
Bethani Edwards’s description of the French department of
the Seine and Marne is a delightful picture of a region of
exuberant fertility and general industry and content, and
indirectly a powerful testimony to the benefits effected by the
Revolution. “Studies of Italian Musical Life” is a most
lively sketch of the Italian musical world of the latter part of
the eighteenth century, based partly on Dr. Burney’s travels,
aud including a powerful defence of the style of Church music
prevalent at the time.
Blackwood offers an interesting, if not a particularly im¬
portant, contribution to the question of the day by publishing
a journal of a visit to Cyprus by Lady Franklin, made in
May, 1832. The actual information contained in it has been
mostly superseded, but the freshness of the notes and the
power of observation they display render them agreeable read¬
ing. “ Gordon Baldwin” is concluded, and must take rank
with the most striking and powerful of the numerous admirable
novelettes which have appeared in this magazine. “ A Fetish
City ” is also a striking conception, although the idea might
have admitted of further development.
Mr. Gladstone’s important manifesto in the Nineteenth
Century has already received full notice from the press. It is
reinforced by two minor contributions of considerable ability
from the same point of view, Mr. Greg’s warning against the
perils of an “imperial policy,” and Mr. Grant Duff’s sum¬
mary of the late debate. All three writers concur in admonish¬
ing the country against “the lust of territorial aggrandise¬
ment,” which, considering the hesitating and apologetic
manner in which such acquisitions are made under the stress
of circumstances, and with a distinct perception of their
pecuniary unprofitableness, we should have thought one of the
last dangers to which English foreign policy was exposed.
Mr. Dicey’s paper on “Nubar Pasha aud our Asian Pro¬
tectorate” is valuable as embodying the opinion of Nubar
Pasha himself. The Egyptian statesman looks for the solution
of the problem to tho organisation of a trustworthy civil
service, in which he evidently hopes that his own Armenian
countrymen may play a distinguished part. The non-political
articles are of comparatively slight interest, if we except Miss
Agnes Lambert’s erudite and yet very readable essay on the
ceremonial use of flowers, principally in antiquity: and Sir.
Ralston’s pleasant account of the French delineator of Russian
life, Henri Greville. This, it appears, is the pseudonym of a
young lady, Madame Durand, who, having resided several
years in St. Petersburg, is putting her experience to account
in a series of novels, attractive in story and composition, and
depicting various phases of Russian society with fidelity.
The Contemporary Review has no very remarkable con¬
tribution, but most of the contents possess a qualified interest.
The paper of most practical importance is, perhaps,
Prebendary Brereton’s account of Cavendish College, the new
foundation established at Cambridge with the laudable object
of diminishing the expense of a University education. Pro¬
fessor Monier Williams’s essay on Indian religious thought is
also valuable; and M. de Pressense’s outline of the questions
at issue between Church and State in France is the work of
one of the few Frenchmen qualified by position and temper to
view the case with impartiality. M. de Pressense shows very
clearly how utterly the encroachments of Ultramontauism
contravene the letter as well as the spirit of French law, and
what weapons French Liberals may legitimately employ with¬
out incurring the charge of persecution. At the same time,
be discountenances extreme measures, and tenders the wise
advice to conciliate the parochial clergy by protecting them
against the oppressions of their Bishops. Mr. R. H. Home
discusses some of the more remarkable phases of the myth of a
compact with the Evil One; and Mr. Buchanan handles a
kindred tradition in his “ Julia Cytlierea” with more clever¬
ness and fluency than genuine poetical imagination,
Tli
excited by Canon Farrar’s sermons on future punishment. Mr.
Motley’s retrospect of the Berlin negotiations is also telling,
especially his tree criticism of the proposal to establish th«
Greeks at Constantinople. Mr. Cotton’s essay on “ the pros¬
pects of moral progress in India” indicates the reaction against
excessive reliance on education as a universal panacea. “ The
Doctrine of Metempsychosis,” by Professor Knight, is a col¬
lection of the principal arguments that have been alleged in
support of a theory whose weakest point it is to be inevitably
destitute of all support from experience, but to which the
writer himself obviously inclines. Dr. Maudslay’s essay on
hallucinations is full of interesting anecdotes and judicious
observations, which might be of great service if delusions could
be expelled by reasoning. Mr. Minto’s notice of Mrs. Gaskel!
is a piece of refined and delicate criticism; aud if the same
cannot be altogether said of Mr. Barnett Smith’s review of the
life and works of the American Brockden Brown, he has at all
events the advantage of greater freshness of subject. Brown,
once popular, is now little known, but his works will always
be favourites with those who can appreciate the peculiar power
which works logically from premises allied to the supernatural.
Few imaginative writers have carried their conceptions so far
beyond the bounds of ordinary probability without actually
lapsing into the impossible.
Mr. H. James’s very clever and original story of “The
Europeans” is continued in the Atlantic Monthly , which also
has a retrospective review of United States finance up to the
year 1835 ; and an historical sketch of General Pope’s unfor¬
tunate Virginian campaign, in which the bold attempt is made
to justify not only General Pope but General Porter, the two
officers having hitherto cast the blame on each other. Scribner's
Monthly is, as usual, full of entertaining and capitally illus¬
trated papers. There is nothing very noteworthy in The Month.
In Belgravia we have to remark a pretty Tyrolese sketch by
Mrs. Linton, and “ A Mayfair Mystery,” an irresistible piece
of absurdity by Mr. James Payn.
The Gentleman's Magazine provides abundant amusement
for its readers in Mr. Sala’s “ Cupid: an Episode in the Cantu
of Professor MacPelvis,” written in Mr. Sala’s best manner
that is to say, a very light and discursive one, but exhibiting a
real power of genial portraiture in the graphic sketch of the
worthy Professor himself. The most remarkable of the other
contributions is Mr. Mew’s scholarly and agreeable analysis of
the minor tales of Cervantes. Judging from Mr Procters
article on the recent solar eclipse, the “ first fruits of tbe eclipse
observations” would seem likely to be a deluge of controversies.
Temple Bar adds another to the numerous notes of travel in
Cyprus, and has a really charming article on the apparently
unattractive subject of “Sickness in Spain.” “ The First
Violin ” is continued with no diminution in power.
Mr. Black’s and Miss Thomas’s novels continue to be the
chief reliance of Good Words and London Society respectively,
each magazine, nevertheless, has a fair proportion of very
readable contributions.
No. 33 of “ Men of Mark ” contains photographic portraits
of Lord Napier of Magdala, W. Caldcr Marshall, R.A., and the
Rev Dr. Goodford, with biographical notices ; and in Part *>
of “Distinguished London Men” there are portraits of S>r
Sydney Hedley Waterlow, Bart., M.P., and Mr. William
Black, novelist, with brief memoirs—that of the latter gentle¬
man being rather oddly worded in parts. Part 6 of “ Our
Native Land ” is adorned with three water-colour sketches of
the Killarney Lake district.
We have also received Part 4 of The Cheveley Novels •
Samuel Weir, St. James’s Magazine, the Magazine of Art,
Geographical Magazine, Lippincott’s Magazine, St. Nicholas,
Charing-cross Magazine, Mirth, Science for All, Science Gossip,
Familiar Wild Flowers, Pantiles Papers, Cassell s Family
Magazine, Toet’s Magazine, Church Sunday-School Magazine,
Mission Life, Daisy, Golden Childhood, Christian Age Myras
Journal of Dress and Fashion and Myra’s Mid-Monthly Jounial
and Children’s Dress, Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine
Sylvia’s Home Journal, Milliner and Dressmaker ; au<»
monthly parte of All the Year Round, Once a Weck, Weekly
Welcome, Golden Hours, Day of Rest, Sunday at Home.
Sunday Magazine, Leisure Hour, Garden, Gardener s Chronicle
and Gardener’8 Magazine.
Fortnightly Revieio presents a variety of interesting
papers on important subjects, the most powerful and effective
I of wliich is Mr. Leslie Stephen’s review of the controversy
THUNDERSTORM.
A thunderstorm passed over Birmingham on Sunday morning
Rain fell heavily from between six and seven o clock uu.u
towards eleven, and during the first three hours there were
frequent flashes of lightning, with loud peals of thuuder. I He
weather on Saturday was very close, and there was sneer
lightning from shortly after midnight until the storm arrived
The suddenness and volume of the raiufall caused the sewir
gratings in many instances to be choked and the roadway s >
be temporarily flooded. In some cases the water found it*
way into the cellars and ground-floor rooms of bouses, causing
considerable inconvenience to the occupiers. At the hous-
of Mr. Burton, surgeon, of Spring-bill, a clnmney was strut a
by lightning, and the roof was partially torn away. A chimney
was knocked down in Great Colmore-street.
At Dudley the storm was nlso severe. At Lower Uornai a
horse took fright at the lightning, and a milkman who
driving it was thrown a considerable distance and sustain^*
some serious injuries. At Stourbridge the lightning knoc «
down a chimney; and at West Bromwich some damage whs
d0D Mr. T. L. Plant, of Moseley, wrote on Sunday nightThe
storm of lightning, thunder, and rain commcncedhere about o*
this morning, aud lasted nearly four hours aud a half. 1 he rain¬
fall was 1’29 in. This is the heaviest depth of rain registers
at Moseley in any thunderstorm since 1872. In the last seven¬
teen years only three thunderstorms gave a larger dep
rain than that of this momiug. The rainfall on June 18,187*.
was the heaviest registered here or in Birmingham BinceJun ,
1858. The storm of this morning came from WJS.W.
barometer was high and steady throughout katurday,
declined fully l-10th of an inch during the nighty Ihe long
duration of the storm finds no equal in my records.
The Lords of the Admiralty have forwarded a communi¬
cation to Admiral E. G. Fanshawe, the Commander-in-uuei
at Portsmouth, stating that their Lordships have received the
commands of the Queen to express to him and to Rear-Admirm
the Hon. F. A. C. Foley and the officers and men under their
command her Majesty’s satisfaction at the success ot
exertions in bringing tho Eurydice into harbour.
A happy termination of a bankruptcy is reported from
Glasgow. The firm of Stevenson and Coats, gram millers, or
Glasgow, was sequestrated, and tbe estates of the comp ?
and individual partners were sufficient to pay a dividena c-
10s. 4d. in the pound to the creditors, the claims amounting w
over £100,000. Sir Peter Coats, father of Mr. George Coats,
one of the partners, has paid the company’s debts m lull, w
interest at five per cent.
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OBITUARY.
SIR FREDERICK WILLIAMS, BART, M P.
Sir Frederick Martin Williams, second Baronet, of Tregnllow,
in the county of Cornwall, D.L.,
Deputy Warden of the Stunnarii s
and M.P. for Truro, died at his seat,
Heanton Court, near Barnstaple, on
the 3rd iust. He was born Jan. 25,
1830, the second son of Sir William
Williams (who was created a Baronet
in 1866), by Caroline, his wife,
younger daughter of Richard Eales,
Esq., of Eastdon, near Exeter, and
succeeded to the title at his father’s
death, March 24, 1870. He received
his education at Winchester, and had
represented Truro in Parliament in
the Conservative interest since 1865.
Sir Frederick married, June 10, 1858,
Mary Christian, daughter of the Rev.
R. Y. Law, Prebendaryof Wells (son
of the late Bishop of Bath and Wells),
and leaves seven sons and five daughters. His eldest son and
successor, Sir William Robert Williams, third Baronet, now at
Sandhurst, was bom Feb. 21,1860.
SLVJOR-GENERAL SIMPSON.
Major-General John Simpson, C.B., died on the 8th inst. at
Fyuing, near Petersfield. The deceased, who obtained his
commission in March, 1835, was one of the officers receiving
rewards for “ distinguished and meritorious services.” He
served with the 34th Regiment in the Crimean campaign from
Dec. 9, 1854, including the siege and fall of Sebastopol, and
commanded a party in the assault and capture of the Quarries.
He was also present at the assault of the Redan on Sept. 8.
He served in the Indian campaigns in 1857-9, and was present
■.n the actions at Cawnpore on Nov. 26, 27, and 28, 1857, cap¬
ture of Meeangunge, siege and capture of Lucknow, relief of
A/.imghur, and commanded a column of Colonel Kelly’s force
at the defeat of the rebels under Bala Rao, near Bootwul, on
the Nepaul frontier. For his services in the Crimea he was
promoted to Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, and received the medal
with clasp, Sardinian medai, the fifth class of the Order of the
Medjidie and the Turkish medal, and was made a Knight of
the Legion of Honour. His name was honourably mentioned
in despatches, and in recognition of his gallantry in the field
he was nominated a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
MR. PERSSE, OF ROXBOROUGH.
Dudley Persse, Esq., of Roxborough, in the county of Galway,
J.P. and D.L., one of the most influential of the landed pro-
f rietors of that county, died on the 7th inst. He was bom in
802, the eldest son of the late Robert Persse, Esq., of Rox¬
borough, by Maria, his wife, daughter of A. Wade, Esq., of
Fairfield, in the county of Galway, and succeeded to the estates
at his father’s death, in 1850. He married, first, in 1826,
Katherine, daughter of Standish, first Viscount Guillamore, and
by her (who died in 1829) had one son, Dudley Persse, Esq., now
of Roxborough, late Captain 7th Fusiliers, and two daughters;
secondly, in 1833, Frances, only daughter of Colonel Richard
Barry, by Elizabeth, his wife, sister of the first Viscount
Guillamore, and by her had eight sons and five daughters.
The deaths have also been announced of—
Rev. John Metcalfe, M.A., on the 31st ult., at York-road,
Tunbridge Wells, aged 70.
Richard Gulston Wollaston, M.D., on the 1st inst., at Lyme
Regis, Dorset, aged 64.
John William Brotherton, late 11th Hussars, only son of
General Sir Thomas W. Brotherton, G.C.B., on the 1st inst.,
at The Firs, Esher, aged 57.
George Ruddle, Esq., of The Mythe, Tewkesbury, J.P. and
D.L. for Gloucestershire, on the 29th ult., atHinderton Lodge,
Cheshire, his nephew’s residence.
The Rev. Edward Fanshawe Glanville, M.A., late Fellow
of Exeter College, Oxford, and Rector of Yelford, near Witney,
•>n the 9th ult., at Oxford. Mr. Glanville was the fourth
son of the late Francis Glanville, Esq., of Catchfrench Park,
«.omwall. He was bora April 6, 1807. This gentleman was
descended from the celebrated Sir John Glanville, the Judge
of Common Pleas, temp. Queen Elizabeth; and Sir John
Glanville, of Broadhinton, Wilts, Speaker of the House of
Commons in 1640, and Serjeant-at-Law to Charles II.; and
likewise in direct descent from the famous Randulpluis de
Glanville, Count de Glanville, Normandy, and Baron de
Sromholm, in Yorkshire, who entered England with the
Conqueror in 1066.
The Rev. William Linwood, M.A., at Birchfield, Hnnds-
worth, near Birmingham, where for the last thirty-five years
he had lived in comparative seclusion. Mr. Linwood’s
University career at Oxford was one of singular brilliancy.
While in his freshman’s year he competed for and carried off
the Ireland, the Craven, and the Hertford Scholarships. In
May, 1839, he graduated B.A., and obtained a first class in
Lxteria humanioribus, and in the same year he won the Boden
scholarship for Sanskrit. Amongst his best-known works are
his “Lexicon to iEschylus,” the “Anthologia Oxoniensis,”
“ Sophocles, with Notes for Students ; ” and his latest work,
recently published, “The Theban Trilogy of Sophocles.”
An interesting scene took place yesterday week on board
the Marine Society’s training-ship Warspite, at Woolwich. The
officers and boys having been mustered in the schoolroom, Mr.
George Ward, on behalf of the committee, presented the Royal
Humane Society’s testimonial on vellum to Thomas Baker,
aged fourteen, who plunged into the water from one of the
Warspite’s boats in June last and succeeded in rescuing a
drowning child named Alfred Taylor. The boys greeted their
brave shipmate with three ringing cheers.
By a railway accident near Cork, on Sunday evening, four
lives were lost, and several passengers received very serious
injuries. At Carraheen a coupling-iron broke, the engine left
the rails and turned to the right, the carriages ran on a short
distance and fell on the left in such a way that one carriage
was broken to pieces, and the passengers sustained severe
fractures. The driver and stoker, a boy who was with them,
and one other man were killed.—Peter Jones, a signalman at
Chester, was committed on Monday, on a coroner’s warrant,
to take his trial at the Assizes on a charge of manslaughter, a
train having gone off the metals, killing two passengers, while
it was crossing the points which the prisoner was working.—
A landslip occurred last Monday afternoon on the Leeds and
Witherby line on the North-Eastern system. Shortly after a
passenger-train had passed Tliomer station a vast mass of
oiayey earth and shingle, weighing probably 4000 or 5000 tons,
slipped from the dip side of the Scorcroft cutting, about a
quarter of a mile in the direction of Wetherby. The line was
covered for a distance of nearly *v yards and to a depth of
about 30 ft. A similar slip occ'^xred within a few yards of the
spot last February.
CHESS.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
M eommunieallons relating to this dei*irt,nenlof the fa,er shout,I he addressed to the
Editor. a,ul have the ward " Class'* urrittan on the envelope.
Lieut .Tot H (Bombay).—In Problem No. 1791. utter White’s move 1. RtoKB 4th,
Bhou (l Hlio k play 1. P bikes K, thu answer Is2. I* to Q 4th male, and there follows to
1. K takes It, 2. Q to Q lith. Mate. You will flud tlio position worthy of lurthetr
examination.
Delta.— Tlio problem Is not impossible of solution. See below.
sliton).—When a chess problem admits of more than one solution it docs matter
-her the number Is two or two dozen.
B L (Peris).—The " Westminster Papers.” 8, Salisbury -court, Fleet-street.
J .(Ramsgate).—In Problem No. 1798, after the moves 1. B to KtStli, B toQ 8th.
White rent,m;es, 2. K takes B. and mates next move. The answer to 1. « takes Kt
at B 3rd is 1. B takes Kt, after which thore is no mate In two moves.
8 (Athens).—Your solutions arc usually accurate, but your examination of No. 1600
must have been made hastily. It cannot be solved by 1. Kt takes y (ch).
hVLV (Dundee).—Please refer to the Solution published on the 31st ult.
H L J (Mayfoii) —When a player ealns a Kook for one of his own Bishops or Knight
he has won the exchange." Wo do not recommend teachers of chess.
(Monmouth).—We have many problems to examine, and have not yet come t<
yours. It shall not lie forgotten.
Y i.9 <u lif rbl,ry, ; — Wambit” Is derived from on Italian phraso applied to
wrestling, and signiiles a feint, by which an adversary is tripixxi up. You will find
all such technical terms explained In Staunton’s "Handbook," published by Bohn,
Covent-garden.
P ^- K ". s , r £ c 5'l? d fr ° m J Bordas (Paris). J 8 T (Scarborough), J 8 Thoms (Scar¬
borough), 8 Stripe (Barnsbury), and M Harris (Plymouth).
Co . n ™ w J >K0BLKM No. 1800 received from J Q Finch, Chessophilc.
j W \\ , V, b B, P W, Bishop’s Pawn.
Oobbkct Solutions or Pboulem No. 1801 received from D L Arthur, J W W. Carlos,
Isaac Ashe, Polichinelle, W Scott. Jane Nepven (Utrecht), Emile Fran, A Pohlman,
b. p». Constance E, Dabbshlll, B O M 8, Waldenburg, Franklin Institute,
P 8 bhcnele, J 8 Hough. Hero, and Abdul Koeclilln.
Cobreot Solutions of Problem No. 1802 received from T Edgar, D Leslie, N Brock,
" srren, L Sbarswood, J 8 Wontone, P Hampton, W Cowell, O Darragh.
E Woraley, Amencaine, Dorothy, C 8 Coxc, I, of Truro, J W Cooper. CJO,
O Johnson. Joseph B Leonora and I™, It Roughead, St J E, T Grccnbank,
M Mercdith^S 11 of Leeds, E Lewis P W 8, Triton, W Alston, H Brewster, Black
Solution or Pboulem No. 1801.
WI1ITE.
1. Kt to Q B 6th
2. Mates accordingly.
PROBLEM No. 1804.
By John Cbum, Glasgow,
BLACK.
White to play, and mate in three moves.
ENGLAND v. AMERICA.
The following Games were played in this Correspondence Match between
Mr. J. Parker, of Grimsby, and Mr. J. E. Orchard, of Columbia,
South Carolina.— {.Irregular Opening.)
WHITE (Mr. P.) BLACK (Mr. O.)
1. P to K B 4th P to Q B 4th
2. Kt to K B 3rd Kt to Q B 3rd
3. P to K 3rd P to ft R 3rd
4. B to K 2nd P to K Kt 3rd
6. Cast'es P to ft 4th
6. P to ft 4th P to K 3rd
7. P to B 3rd Kt to B 3rd
8. <1 Kt to G 2nd P to Kt 3rd
9. Kt to K 5th Kt takes Kt
10. B P takes Kt Kt to ft 2nd
11. P to K 4th B to K Kt 2nd
12. P takes QP P takesP
The foregoing moves are all “ book ■■
:iu I ire in accordance with the lines laid
I,v tie- 1.. -t. known authorities on
the subject of Ibis excessively dull opening.
13. B to B 3rd B to Kt 2nd
Between the same Playei
IVHITK (Mr. P.) BLACK (Mr. O.)
P to K B 4th P to Q 4th
Ilia and the preceding game were played
•urreutly.ond Black, naturally enough,
ms to avoid running mi the same lines
loth. There is n..tiling to choose be¬
en the dl.-linct defences adopted, ouo
ig quite as good as the other.
Kt to K B 3rd Kt to ft B 3rd
P to K 3rd Kt to B 3rd
P to a Kt 3rd B to Kt 5th
B to K 2nd B takes Kt
B takes B P to K 3rd
P to B 8rd 1$ to ft 3rd
P to ft 4th Kt to K 2nd
Kt to R 3rd 1> to ft R 3rd
Castle? P to B 3rd
Kt to B 2nd ft lo B 2nd
B to ft Kt 2nd P to K Kt 4th
’e have seen many bi tter specimen* of
Orchard’s skill th in he displays in
ie games. His Soul li rii tmnprrament
wniTK (Mr. P.)
14. Kt to ft B 4th
15. Kt to ft 6th
16. P takes P
BLACK (Mr. 0.)
Custlcs
It to ft B 3rd
B takes P
17. Kt takes K B P K takes Kt
good attacking g«
18. B tks P (double K to Kt 2nd
ch)
19. B takes B R takes R (ch)
20. ft takes R U to ft B sq
21. It takes Kt Q tokos B
22. B to B 4th Resigns.
rs .—(Irregular Opening.)
WHITE (Mr. P.) black (Mr. O.)
opening us this, and tho attack h
attempts results in loss.
13. P to ft B 4th
14. P to ft B 5th
15. P takes Kt P
16. B to K Kt 4th
17. B to R 5th
18. B takes P (ch)
Kt to K B 4th
B to K 2nd
Kt to ft 2nd
Kt to R 6th
R to K B sq
adve
ito promptly avails himself of tl
_tary's weakness. Black should ha\
played 17. KttoKtSrd.
18. R takes B
10. R takes R K takes R
20. ft to R 5th (ch) K to Kt 2nd
21. ft takes Kt K to It sq
22. Kt to K sq R to K Kt sq
23. ft to B 4th ft to R 4th
23. Q to Q sq would have been more I
tho purpose.
24. Kt to B 3rd Resigns.
C1IESS INTELLIGENCE.
The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the City Chess Club will be held at
Moufflet’s Hotel, Ncwgate-strect, on the 25th inst., when proposals for the
inauguration of a series of consultation matches will be discussed, and
arrangements will be made for a handicap tournament upon the colossal
scale to which this popular association has accustomed the chess world.
A meeting of the chess club in connection with the Ladies’ College,
Little ftueen-street, was held on the 6th inst. for the purpose of opening
the winter session It was announced that the winner in the handicap
tourney of last season was Mr. W. T. Hearn, the unsuccessful competitors
next in rotation being Mrs. Down and Misses Florence and Nellie Down.
The score in the correspondence match between England and the United
States of America now stands—Eugland 11, America 9. In view of the great
interest in this match expressed by a large number of our correspondents,
wo purpose publishing, from time to time, a selection of the best games
occurring in it. Chess by correspondence is a much more arduous under¬
taking than is generally supposed, and the tax it imposes upon the time and
patience of ilia player is raielybome with cheerfulness to thu end. The
loser of the two game; given above, Mr Orchard, is reputed to be the best
player in the Southern States of America; but it must be confessed that he
does not appear to advantage on this occasion. His play in these games is
so far below bis public form, over the board, that its weakness must be
ascribed to a special inaptitude for chess by correspondence.
We are informed that Mr. Mackenzie, the American chess champion,
who returns to New York next week, will be entertained at a dinner at the
City of Loudon Chess Club before his departure from England.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated March 10, 1876) of Mr. Thomas James Hull,
formerly of No. 21, Queensborough-terrace, Hyde Park, but
late of No. 20, Leaiuingtou-roud Villas, Westbourne Park,
who died on March 20, 1876, was proved on the 28th ult. by
William James Hall, the son, the sole executor, the personal
estate being sworn under £140,000. The testator gives rail¬
way stocks to the amount of £12,000 to his grandchildren
being the children of his deceased daughter Lady Atherton ;
railway stocks to the amount of £10,000 to his daughter
Mrs. Ironside for life, and then to his said grundchildren.
There are bequests for mouming-riugs for Beveral of his
friends, and £50 to the London Police Orphan Fund. The
rest of his property he gives to his said Eon.
The will (dated March 27, 1872) with two codicils (dated
May 9, 1874, and July 6,1877) of Mr. William Ball, late of
Brace Grove, Tottenham, who died, on July 30 last, at Aber¬
deen, was proved on the 21st ult. by Francis Edward Fox and
Robert Nicholas Fowler, the executors, the personal estate
being sworn under £60,000. The testator bequeaths numerous
legacies to his own and his late wife’s relations and to friends,
and there are substantial bequests to his servants. To the
British and Foreign Bible Society and the British and Foreign
School Society he gives £500 each ; and to the Invalid Society,
Stoke Newington, £100. All his real estate is directed to be
sold, and the net proceeds, with the residue of his personalty,
is to be divided between his nephews and nieces.
The will (dated Nov. 3, 1877) of Mr. Charles Chichele
Plowden, late of Chiselhurst, Kent, who died on July 27 last,
was proved on the 26th ult. by Frederic William Steward and
Alfred Chichele Plowden, the executors, the personal eitate
being sworn under £40,000. The testator leaves to his sister
Harriet £5000 and all his furniture, pictures, and plate, except
certain plate which he wishes to be held as a heirloom in the
family; to his executors, £500 each; and the residue of his
real and personal estate upon trust for his said sister for life,
and at her death to her children, if any; in default of her
leaving children numerous other legacies become payable, and
the remainder of his property "is to go to the said Alfred
Chichele Plowden.
The will (dated Oct. 6,1875) with a codicil (dated Sept. 28,
1876) of Mrs. Katharine Bickersteth, late of Casteylon Hall,
Westmorland, and of No. 31, Warrior-square, St. Leonards-
on-Sea, who died on the 7th ult., was proved on the 29th ult.
by John Pares Bickersteth, the son, the acting executor, the
personal estate being sworn under £25,000. The testatrix,
after leaving legacies to various members of her family, leaves
the residue of her property to such of her daughters as at tho
time of her death shall never have been married.
The will (dated July 29, 1878) of Dr. Abraham Benisch,
late of No. 13, Brownswood Park, who died on July 31 last,
was proved on the 22nd ult. by Isaac Seligman, Ellis Abraham
Franklin, and Daniel CasteUo, the executors, the personal
estate being sworn under £18,000. The testator after giving
some legacies gives the remainder of his property, real and
personal, upon trust for his brother, Dr. Moritz Benisch, of
Vienna, for life, and then to his sister, Frau Anna Stein. The
deceased was the proprietor of the Jewish Chronicle.
The Greenwich Hospital Pension of £80 a year, vacant by
the death of Captain Sir George Biddlecombe on July 20 last,
has been conferred on Captain Robert 0. Allen.
The show of the Royal Manchester, Liverpool, and North
Lancashire Agricultural Society at Lancaster terminated
yesterday week. The receipts amounted to £1602, as compared
with £1980 received at Southport in 1876.
The inspectors of Irish fisheries state, through their secre¬
tary, that the export of salmon from Ireland to England has
of late years largely increased, and that the quantity sent to
London forms only a very small portion indeed of the gross
exports to England.
The Duke of Westminster distributed the prizes on the
I5th iust. at the annual flower Bhow of the Woburn Improve¬
ment Association. His Grace spoke of the importance of these
exhibitions in advancing the well-being and happiness of the
community. He felt convinced there was no better counter-
attraction to a public-houso than a clean comfortable home.
Lady Grosvenor was present at the distribution.
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“Art Journal" aaye;—Messrs. Octzmann have made a better
article than the Indians, Persians, and Turks, and at less than
half the coat, without sacrificing ought of the ktooo of design
and harmony af colours,'' For the convenience of those residing
at a distance, a large piece, showing the border and centre of
Carpet, sent on receipt of Us., which will be deducted from price
of Carpet or refunded upon return of pattern; or by sending 16s.
three pieces— vis., Angfo-Turkey, Anglo-Pcrslsn. and Anglo-
I ndlun-will be sent on the same terms. Hearth Bugs to match,
lift, long by 2 ft. 8in. wide. £18*. (id. A large stock of real
Turkey Carpete at reduced prices.—OETZMANN and CO.
4~1 RETONNES. — OETZMANN and CO.
VV CRETONNES.—An Immense assortment of all the choicest
designs In tills fashionable material, in every variety of style and
colourings: excellent Imitations of rare Tapestries, some being
exact copies of the finest Gobelin Tapestry. Prices varying
fmra Sid. per yard. Some at la. Old., usually sold at Is. sal.;
Super ditto, at Is. 21d„ usnal price, 2s. Patterns sent Into the
country by stating kind required.
LEOPATRA TOILET SERVICE.
Messrs. OETZMANN and CO. have Just received a large
consignment of the Oriental pattern—a handsome new regis¬
tered design manufactured exclusively for OETZMANN and CO.
This and a variety of other patterns can bo had on O. and
Co.'s new special design, the Cleopatra Shape. In any colour,
Including tho fashionable deep blue, at prices from Ss. 6d. per
set. Descriptive Price-List post-free.
■jyTRS. S. A. ALLEN’S
"yyrORLD’S HAIR RESTORER.
TT CANNOT FAIL TO RESTORE
j- GREY HAIR TO JOf^HTOI^OLOUlL
GLOSS. AND BEAUTY. WHEN THE
TURNS GREY, LOSES ITS LUSTRE, AND
FALLS OUT, IT SIMPLY REQUIRES NOURIBH-
MENT. MRS. 8. A. ALLEN'S WORLD S HAIR
RESTORER, BY ITS GENTLE TONIC ACTION.
STRENGTHENS AND INVIGORATES THE
HAIR. AND, BY THE OPERATION OF
NATURAL CAUSES. GREY OB WHITE HAIR
18 QUICKLY RESTORED TO ITS YOUTH! UL
COLOUR. GLOSS. AND BEAUTY. IT WILL
STOP ITS FALLING. AND INDUCE A
HEALTHY AND MOST LUXURIANT GROWTH
USE NO OTHER PREPARATION WITH IT.
NOT EVEN OIL OB POMADE, OB ZYLO-
BALSAM UM.
Cannon 11—The Genuine only In Pink Wrappers.
Bold by all Chemists, Perfumers, end Dealer* In Toilet Articles-
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
Mr*. 8. A. ALLEN manufactures two entirely distinct Pre¬
parations for the Hair. One or the other Is suited to every
condition of the Human Hair. Both are never required at one
time. For details as to each preparation, kindly read above and
below tills paragraph. Readers can easily determine which of
the two they require.
jyjKS. 8. A. ALLEN’S
^YLO-JJALSAMUM,
For the Growth and Preservation of the Hair.
A cooling trun«p*rent liquid, entirely Ycgutablo,
without KxiiJncnt.
A SIMPLE TONIC AND DRESSING
OF 1NESTISIABLE VALUE TO BOTH SEXES.
THE FAVOURITE WITH THE YOUNG AND
ALL THOSE WHO HAVE NO OBEY HAIR. PRE¬
MATURE LOSS OF THE HAIR, 80 COMMON
IN THESE DAYS. MAY BE ENTIRELY PRE¬
VENTED BY THE U8E0F ZYLO-BALSASIUM-
PROMPT RELIEF IN THOUSANDS OF CASES
HAS BEEN AFFORDED WHERE THE UAlIi
HAS BEEN COMING OUT IN HANDFULS. IT
PROMOTES A HEALTHY AND VIGOROUS
GROWTH. HAIR DRESSED WITH ZYLO-BAL-
KAMUM IS ALWAYS CLEAN. FREE FROM
DANDRUFF, AND WITH THAT BEAUTIFUL
GLOSS ONLY SEEN IN HEALTHY HAIR. IT
IS DELIGHTFULLY FRAGRANT. NO OIL OB
POMADE SHOULD BE USED WITH IT.
Cautiom 11—The Genuine only In Bluish Grey Wrapper*.
Sold by all Chcmiita, Perfumer*, and Dealer* In Toilet Article*.
GRANGE CHAMPAGNE is a light,
V/ Pleasant drink, made simply from Orange*. It l* effer-
T*«eenV. but entirely free from spirit. and pcrfcrtly whole*onie.
p_;«..x r norm Quart*; 4i-.,*Pinta. Bi'ttlcfl 3i. nod Cmoi 1i<
per DotetTuntll returned. Made only by CHA8. GODD and 00..
79, Oopenhagen- street, London. N. _
r'lHOCOLAT MENIER, in $lb. and $lb.
\J Packet*.
JJ P P S’S
poooi
SEPT. 14, 1878
JAME8 EPPS am CO..
OMCBOPATHIO
CHEMISTS.
pHOCOLAT MENIER.—Awarded Twenty-
\J Three PRIZE MEDALS.
Consumption annually
exceeds 17,000.OOCU*.
pHOCOLAT MENIER. Paris,
\ i London,
^ New York.
_ Sold Everywhere, _
TOSEPH GILLOTT’S
w STEEL PENS.
Bold by all Statlonor* thronghont the World.
S CHWEITZER’S COCO A TINA.
Anti-Dyspeptic Cocoa or Chocolate Povrdor
Guaranteed Pure Soluble Cocoa, with cxccaa ol Fat extracted.
Four time* the strength of Coo-** Thickened yet W eakened with
Arrowroot. Starch, Ac. , ,
The faculty pronounce It the most nntrit lous, perfectly (Ugeste
Ivo Beverage for - BREAKFAST. LUNCIII''UN\ or 8UPP1ER.
Keeps in all Climate*, Require* no Cooking. A teaapoonful to
Breakfast Cup. crating less than a halfpenny. Sample* gratia.
In Air-Tight Tins, at 1*. tel , 3*.. Ac., by Chemist* and Grocer*.
H. SCHWEITZER and CO.. 10. Ada m-street, London, W.O,
THE ESSEX FLOUR and GRAIN
1. COMPAN Y.*Liverpool-read. LondonJN., supply the BEST
GOODS ONLY. Whites, for Pastry, 9s. tel. per bushel; Houso-
holds. for llrend.8i.Sl. Wheat Meal, lor Brown Bread.8s. Coarse
Scutch Oatmeal, 3s. »l. per stone: fine. 3s. tel. American
Hominy, ts. Barley Maize. Buckwheat, amf Barley Meal. Os. per
husliel ’or 19*. Per sack. Oats. is. per bushel; la*, fid. per sack.
Pen**?*, fid. I-er bushel; Tiek Beans, 7*. tel.; Middlings, 2*.*d.;
Ground 1‘ollanl. is. tel. Meat Biscuit*.*)*, perewt. Split Pern*.
D r. DE JONGH’S
(KNIGIIT OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR,
KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM)
J^IGHT - BROWN COD - LIVER OIL.
THE PUREST.
THE MOST PALATABLE.
THE MOST DIGESTIBLE.
THE MOST EFFICACIOUS.
TYR. DE JONGH’S
THE “ Civil Service Gazette ” says
-L •• By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern
the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful ap¬
plication of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa. Mr. Epp*
has provided our breaklast-tablc* with a delicately-flavoured
beverage which may save u» many heavy doctor*' bill*. It i* by
the J much ms use of such article* of diet that a constitution may
bo gradually built up until strong enough to resist every
tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating
around us ready to attack wherever there Is a weak point. We
may eacape many a fatal shaft by kceptngourselves well fortified
with pure blood and a properly-nourished frame."
THE “ Naval and Military Gazette ” says:—
JL "Th* nutritive qualltie* of oocoa over either thoee
of tea or coffee are bow so generally acknowledged that
the steady increase shown by official statistic* In Its con¬
sumption during recent year* reams* to be a matter of surprise.
One of the first firms to popularise this now indispensable
adjunct to our breakfast-table was Messrs. Epp* and Co., whose
name, since 1839. ha* been ao continuously before the public, and
whose Homoeopathic Cocoa is as familiar In our homes a* the
proverbial • household words.' Those whose business It has been
to watch at Messrs. Epps'* works the elaborate and complex
processes, and to note the care and labour bestowed before the
crude cocoa bean Is considered ready for consumption, cannot
but admit that the popularity Messrs. Epps'* productions have
secured Is fully deserved. The vastness of these work* may be
Imagined when It Is stated that four millions of pounds of pre¬
pared cocoa alone are prepared there yearly. The reputation
gained, now many ream since, for Mr. .lames Epps's preparation,
both for it* purity and it* value as a dietetic, ha* been more than
maintained. A constant Increasing demand fully testifies to
this—which must be a* gratifying to Messrs. Epps as it Is
certainly flattering to the good faith they have kept wtth the
pubUc to secure so gratifying a result."
“ A B the Year Round ” says
jfi- " Having now disponed of fancy chocolate. let us
stroll to the Euston-read. hard by tho Regent’s Park, to Epps's
cocoa manufactory, where may be studied the making of coco*
on a stupendous scale, giving a ju*t idea of the valuo of thoee
article*, not a* luxuries, bat as actual food."
THE “ Court Journal ” says:—
_L In a climate so varying and trying a* our ewn. to main¬
tain sound and uniform health, our daily diet cannot be too
caret ally and attentively studied. Advancing science and recent
discoveries have within the last few years been instrumental In
adding eoveral most valuable additions to our comparatively
abort list of dietetic foods. Foremost among these should be
runged cocoa, which, although known hero several centuries pre¬
viously, only came into general use within the last forty years.
One of the first to popularise this now indispensable adjunct to
our table was Mr. James Epps, whose 'Prepared Coccus' ha*
gained such just repute for ltsexcellentand nutritious character.
Prepared originally on homoeopathic principles, in a soluble
and convenient form, and easy of digestion. It met a public
demand, speedily became popular, until now Messrs. Epp* pro¬
dace over tour million* of peunda of their oocoa a year, and their
gj QOLDEN STAR
Y-LEAF WATER.
For the TOILET, NURSERY, and BATH.
A few drops on a sponge or towel moistened with water, and
the face and hands battled with It, ts very beneficial to the skin,
removing all roughness. Most hlgldy recommended to apply
after shaving. A small quantity 1st the bath gives a dcliglitrul
aroma, and it has most remarkable demising properties. Par¬
ticularly adapted to tho bathing of infuuls and young children.
Most grateful to invalids and all who suffer from headache
from mental labour or fatiguo Buy only the genuine Golden
Star Buy-Leaf Water, sbld in three sizes Toilet Bottles, 2s. fid.,
6*.. 8*., by Chemists and Perfumers, or on receipt of stumps
from the Wholesale Dipfit, 111 and 116, Southampton-row,
London.
VALUABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR,
V If your hair Is turning grey.or white, or tulUng off. me
-no.- _ .. - -r. _ - r| || lively restore In
A -i proved by twenty-live years' medical experience to be
THE ONLY COD-LIVER OIL
which produces the full curative effects In
CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST,
THROAT AFFECTIONS. GENERAL DEBILITY.
WASTING DISEASES OF CHILDREN, RICKETS,
AND ALL SCROFULOUS DISORDERS.
SELECT MEDICAL OPINIONS.
BIR 0. DUNCAN GIBB, Bart., M.D.,
Physician to the Westminster Hospital.
“ The value of Dr. DE JONGH’S
_L LIGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL as a thera¬
peutic agent in a number of diseases, chiefly of an
exhaustive character, has been udmilted by tho
world of medicine; but. in addition. I havetoaud
DR. SINCLAIR COGHILL,
Physician Royal Natlonul Hospital fur Consumption, Yentnor.
“ T have convinced myself that in Tuber-
“/Cassell’s Household Guide” says:—
V/ •• We will now give an account of the process adopted by
Messrs. James Epps ana Co., manufacturers of dietetic article*,
at their work* In the Euston-road. London."
T HE “ Morning Advertiser ” Bays:—
" In the middle of the seventeenth century an announce¬
ment appeared in one of the few Journals of that period,
to the meet that • out of Blsiiopsgate-strect, at a Frenchman's
house, is an excellent Weat India drink, called chocolate,
to lie sold at reasonable rates.' This Is the first record we heve
of the introduction of cocoa into England. For a time it
flourished os a loahionuble drink, and then, Uke »M fashion*.
Subsided. Nearly two centuries after. In USB, the duties, whish
hod been almost prohibitive, were greatly reduced, and one of
the first to take advantage of re-establishing the popularity of
cocoa was Messrs. James Epiw and Co., the Homwo|»thlc
Chemists. Umler the nume of ' Prepared Oocoa' they Introduced
a soluble and convenient preparation, which required no boil¬
ing. olid wa* |Kdu(able and highly nutritious. It met a public
want, speedily became popular, and year by yearliu* increased in
demon J, till the consumption uow exceeds four miUlon* of
‘ T have convinced myself tlmt in Tuber- „ . w ,,,, _ _
X cular and the various form* or Strumous Disease, ^1 HE Christian V Orld SayS .
Dr.DEJONGH'S UUUT-UItOWN COD-LIVER JL "-If I am to tako cocoa,' said I, 1 must know
1 quality. Clone at Seven,
iptivc Catalogue post-free.
PRESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE, post-free.
QETZMANN Sc CO.,
JpAMPSTEAD-ROAD.
STORY’S FURNITURE.
HALL and OFFICE
tlTORY’S FURNITURE.
U DINING-ROOM and LIBHAliY
QTORY’S FURNITURE.
DRAWING-ROOM and UOUDOIK
QTORY’S FURNITURE.
^ BED-ROOM
CTORY’S FURNITURE.
PATENT COUCH BED (SI*, tel.)
CTORY’S 2, COLEMAN-ST., CITY.
^_SHOW-ROOMS.
(H ARDNERS’ NEW DINNER and TABLE
V,CE ^l ,n Hfcrtlse In
bucqualb-tl In price. Dinner Benivcs from
Li M .the Set for twelve persons, cniplvf. with la per cent dl»-
?; l ‘" t ^ ,r , c " h °'> or betor* delivery. T»> le Gloa. bervlcre from
*3 Ss. «d. the Set for twelve |irrtons complete.
DINNER SERVICES.
Coloured Lithographs post-free.
In Deep Blue. | In Blue and White.
The Lansdowne ..£8 8 0 The Lanodowne ..£380
The Laurel .. .. 8 18 81 The Indiana .. .1 « « o
I The Danish .. ..080
Discount 18 per cent.
The^r,!^:^*- I 1° their unequallrd Crown
The Japanese lii^iboi' fi « OMaPlSs? !! “ g £
TbSs*"^? .. .I "880
Discount 18 per cent.
TABLE GLASS SERVICES.
Plain tight stem glass £3 8 81 Light engraved gtan. 8 18 s
Richly cut glass ..8 8 ol Richly engraved glass 8 19 «
rn .* Discount 14 per rent.
Illustrated Glass Catalogue, widen must be returned, sent
paet-treo on application.
WaMBtnnk *nd Chin* Manufacturers, ii8 and tM
i» > et preserved i
Lubin. Thote
grntitied at a. No
ru-ade*. when Richard I. of Ei
f of Cyprus, tliut the famed I
o Europe, the coriit»*ition of
lives of the Laboratory of PIl-s
curious In ancient iierfumcs i
pAUTION.—'The MACASSAR OIL for
V> nourish! ng the hair, and ODONTw for whiten¬
ing the teeth, prepared by A. ROWLAND and
SONS,of 20. nation garden, London, are the
only genuine articles Bold under these or
similar name*. Avoid cheap imitations, and
ask tor Rowlands'.
THOMPSON AND CAPPER'8
TAENTIFRICE WATER arrests decay in the
i ' Teeth and sweetens the Breath—68. Bold-street. Liverpool;
and nt 39. Deansgate. Manchester.—Sold in la. (id., 2s. 6d.. is. tel.,
and 6s. tei. Bottles, by all Chemists.
pAUTION.—BOND’S CRYSTAL PALACE
gold MEDAL MARKING INK.—Some Chemists and
Stationers, for extra profit, deceive you. Genuine LaL-l,
•• l n parcsl by the Daughter of the late John Bond."—Works.
79, Southgate-rood, London. No heating required.
J U DSON’S DYES.—6d. each, of Chemists.
Cm tains. Tnblocovere, Mantles, Scarves, Jackets dyed In ten
iilinul.* in a poll of hot water.
J ml.oil’s Dye*—Crimson. Green, and Twenty-four Colours.
\\ EDDING TR0US8EAUX,
< 7 £ 20 . £ 80 . and £ 100 .
.. Indian Outfit. £28. List* free.
Mrs. ADDLEY BOURNE, 37, Piccadilly.
1>ABY LINEN.
LAYETTES, £8.£10, and £20.
List Juvst. free.
Mrs. ADDLEY BOURNE. 37. Piccadilly.
CWANBILL CORSET (Registered),
KJ especially for ladies lneltned to embonpoint. The 8wan-
blll I* m »t effective lu reducing tlie rieure and keeping the form
flat. Price H*. fid.; with Jeon d'Arc Belt. 21 s.
Send six* of waist, with !'n»t-o(fice order.
Mre. ADDLEY BOURNE.
87, Piccadilly; and 7#, Rue St. La rare. Pari*.
T 'O LADIES.—THE SHREWSBURY
r,vr ATERPROOF TWEED CLOAKS, SKIRTS, and
JACK his. in every variety of shape and colour are suntilicd hv
Jbe original Makers. K. W. and w! PHILLIPS. 37. Hlgli tuJte
Shrewsbury. Patterns and Pries* on annUcation.
system ef living—partaking of too rich f.««is, a*
pastry, saccharine and bitty substances, alcoholic
drinks, and an insufficient amount of exereiso—
frequently deranges tlit-liver. 1 would adii e all
bilious iieopie, utiles* they are careful to keep the
liver acting freely, to exercise great care in the
use of alcoholic drinks, avoid sugar, and always
dilute largely with water. Experience shows that
I«.iter, mild alee, port wine, datk sherries, sweet
champagne, liqueurs, and brnndy are all very apt
to dl-agree; wfrlle light white wines, and gin or
wliteky largely diluted witli soda-water, will las
found the least objectionable. ENO S FRUIT
SALT f»peculiarly adapted for any constitutional
neukiirre of the liver; it possesses tho power of
reparation when digestion ha* been disturbed or
hot. and Place* the invalid on the right track to
health. A world of woes Is avoided by all who
kei-p uml use ENO'S FRUIT BALT; therefore no
family should ever bo without It. " All our cus¬
tomer* for ENO S FRUIT SALT would not bo
without it upon any consideration, they having
received so much benefit from It.—Wood Brothers,
Chemists. Jersey." Sold by all Chemist* at
■yy ORSDELL’S
vellous increase in the consumption of cocoa *mcc ISO, up to
which jairiod an almost prohibitive duty was levisd. I«
the total amount consumed in this country was less than half a
million pounds yearly. At tho present time one firm alone, that
of Messrs. James Eiips and Do. the HomwopuUde GheUiUt*. sell
annually four wllliun pouuds.
T'HE “Civilian” says:—
-L " In the seventeenth century, before either tea or coffee hed
found Uieir way Into the English market*, chocolate w»» a
favourite beveinge witli tho luxurious classes at that period; it
then fktelied an iilnnat fabulous price |*r pouud. lo-day. when
inialcrn science and enterprise have placed it within the reiM.li
of every chin*, cocoa is not o>dy still regarded os a polatablo
..ef resiling drink, but I* valued lor its nutritive and
dietetic qualities. One or tlio first, wo believe, who may bo
credited with iutroruciug cocoa In Its present form Is Mr. Jam**
Epps. Prepared on sound dietetic principles, Epps s llonnao-
laltliic cocoa contains all the nutritive nromrtie* of the native
product, in such a form that they are rendered thoroughly eolu We.
and. therefore, much more easy of digestion. The nuturalsuper¬
abundance of fat present in raw cocoa l*. moreover, not only
counteracted, but mode to serve ono of the most essential func¬
tions of sound diet. Messrs. Epps * work* are uow. perhaps, the
largest In the country, the cocoa produced there amounting to
many million pounds a year."
“ T and and Water ” says:—
XU " Through tho kindness of Messrs. Epps I recently had
an opportunity of seeing the many complicated and varied
processes the cacao bean passes through ere it is sold for public
use. aud being interested and highly pleased with what I saw
during the visit to the manufactory. I thought a brief account
ol the cacao and the way it Is manufactured by Mresre- Epps to
fit it fur a wholesome and nutritious beverage, might be likewise
of interest to the readers of • Land and Water.'"
IMPROVE DIGESTION,
ESTABLISH THE HEALTH.
Sold everywhere.
L AXORA MEDICATED FRUIT
LOZENGES for CONSTIPATION. SLUGGISHNESS
OF THE STOMACH. BILE. HEADACHE.
The " Lancet: •• It Is a great improvement ou the
preparations In common use for the same purposo."
Mod leal Press" Lax urn Lozenges can be safely
recommended."
O. K. 0. Ttchborne. l’h.D.:—“Loxora Lozenges are
efficacious, and nicely made."
Sold. Is. ljd.. by all Cbrinist* and Druggist*; Whole-
P P 8’ S
GRATEFUL
OOMFOBTIMO.
Q O 0 0 A.
JAMES EPPS ant 00.,
HOMOEOPATHIC
0 H E M_1 B T 8.
Loxdos: Printed and Published at the Office. >*•.
Hie Parish of St. Clement Dane*, In the County.ofMiatua***,
by Ucouau C. LsiuttTON, 198, Strand,aforeeald.—B*xn***»>
voi.. lx sin.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1878.
TWO SUPPLEMENTS
THE AUBTRIAN CAPTURE OF BERAJEVO : THE 46th INFANTRY STORMING THE SALUTING OR YELLOW BATTERY.
FBOM A SKETCH BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST.
SEPT. 21, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON. HEWS
BIRTHS.
On the 13th mat., at Clive den, Maid enhead, the Lady Beatrice Cavendish,
° f OiTthe 12th in£t., at Bromley, Middlesex, the vrife of Sir Edmund Hay
CW On the 12th inst., at 25, BclgTave-equsre, the Lady Edwin Hill Trevor,
of a daughter. MARRIAGES.
On the 12th inst., at Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire, bv the Rev. J.
Catiilty, Vicar, John Swiiine Scales, of Higher Broughton, Manchester, to
Fiances Elizabeth (Lillia), eldest child of Thomas Fullard, of Thorney,
Cambridgeshire. __ T ™
On the 12th inst.. at St. Mary’s Church. Shrewsbuy, by the Bcv. J. W
Bromley, assisted by the Kcv. W. Bromley, Vicar of Sibton, father and
hi other of the bride grocm, and the Rev. Canon 1,'oyd, Vicar of St. Man's,
Henry, youngest so/of UicBcv. J. W. Brrmley, of The W^ers, Tonbnd>e,
Kent; to Tryphosa Maud, youngest daughter of the lateW. J. Clanent,M.H,
of the Council House, Shrewsbury, and grand-daughter of the late W. P.
Freme, of Wepre Hall, Fhnt.
On the 11th inst., at St.John’s Church, Goole, by the Rev. Hr. Bell,
Oeo. England, jun.. solicitor, Goole, to Harnett, rehet of the late WiUnim
Wiliett. C.E., and eldest daughter of Thomas Clegg, Stone House, Goole.
On the 11th inst., at the Church of the Servite Fathers, Pulham-rood,
Herr J. M. Kemp, of Braunsfcld, Cologne, Germany, to Frances Anne,
youngest daughter of B. H. Hickey, of 3J>7, Fulliam-road, London.
On the 5th inst., at Erskine church, Montreal, Canada, by the Rev. J. 8.
Black, assisted hy the Rev. J. M. Gibson, D.D., of Chicago. Frederick James
Claxton, oldest son of T. James Claxton, Esq., to Christina M.icdonald,
third daughter of Andrew Robertson, Esq.
DEATHS.
On the 7th inst.. at Island Cottage, Handsworth. Birmingham, of con¬
gestion of the lungs, Emily Jane, the wife of E. L. Bullock, and eldest
daughter of T. Holyoake, surgeon, Kinver, aged 38.
On the 14th inst., at Glasgow, Daniel Walker, of Broughty Ferry,
Assistant Inspector of Factories.
On July 23, at Arequipa, Peru. Rachel, daughter of the late John
Ogilvie, Dundee, and wife of James R. Balfour, Valparaiso, aged 31 years.
On the 12th inst., at Ardchattan Priory, Argyllshire, Jane Elizabeth
Mary, widow of Straclian Irving Popham, Esq., and daughter of tho late
Colonel Campbell, of Ardchattan.
On the 16th inst., at Dalston, London, of para’ysis, Sarah, wife of
Benjamin Puckridge, in her 8tth year. Friends will kinily accept this
announcement. .
On the 16th inst.. at 10, Eaton-plaoe, the Dowager Lady Cooper, m her
77th year.
On the 19th nit., at Simla. Florianne Margaret, wife of C. Clayton, Esq.,
Boyal Artillery, and eldest daughter of the late Sir John Campbell, Bart.,
of Ardnarnurehan, Argylcsliire.
The charge for the insertion of Births, Marriages, or Dsaths is
Five Shillings for each announcement.
CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPT. 5
SUNDAY, Sept. 2
Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity.
Abdul-Hamid, Sultan of Turkey,
horn, 1842.
Morning Lessons: 2 Kings ix.,
rjoluHnrva i ’Rvomnir T.pssnnw :
■Whitehall, 11 a m. and 3 p.m., Rev.
William Eulton.
Bt. James’s, noon, Rev. A. Sitwell.
St. Paul’s Cathedral, 10.30, Rev.
J. V. Povnh, Minor Canon;
3.15 p.m , the Bishop of Rupart’s
Land; 7 p.m , Itev. J. W.Bennett,
Vicar of Bt. Paul’s, Hampstead.
Westminster Abbey, 10 a m., Rev. A.
Plummer, Master of University
College, Durham; 3 p.m., Itev.
Canon Duckworth.
Savoy, closed till^Oct. 13.
MONDAY, Sept. 23.
The Planet Neptune discovered by I culations of Adams and Leverrier),
Gaffe (in conformity with the cal- | 1846.
TUESDAY, Sept. 24.
Board of Trade inquiry at Poplar I Equal day and night,
respecting the wreck of the Princess Races: Newmarket, Lanaik.
Alice ealoon-tteami r, noon. |
WEDNESDAY, 8kpt. 25.
Bayal Toxophilite Society (West Berks Handicap).
THURSDAY, Sept. 26.
New Moon, 2,10 p.m. I Royal Toxophilite Society (extra
Hem cl Hempstead Poultry and target).
Pigeon Show (two days). I
FRIDAY, Sept. 27.
Quekett Microscopical Club, 8 p.m. | Oswestry Poultry and Dog Show.
SATURDAY, Sept. 28.
Jewish year 5639 begins. I Election of Lord Mayor of London;
Royal Academy of Music : annual the new Sheriffs sworn in.
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Professor Macfarren, 3 p.m. I cruise.
THE WEATHER.
RESULTS OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT THE
KEW OBSERVATORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
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LONDON: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1878.
As a contrast to a dork, lowering, and storm-threatening
sky, one may feel a grateful sense of relief iu gazing upon
a misty canopy of dull, monotonous, leaden grey. It is
not what would be generally chosen for its own sake.
Sunshine is better, and much to he preferred. But wo
must take what comes where no efforts of ours can do
much to alter the scene. The political firmament, just
now, over almost the whole of tho Eastern Hemisphere, is
of a sombre hue ; it is not stormy ; it indicates no imme¬
diate danger ; it may, perhaps, gradually become brighter;
but it is not what—from an English standpoint, at
least—it was expected to have bfconit before now. We are
driven to the conclusion by tho constantly recurring
facts, that there has been no permanent settlement of
the Eastern Question. Even if we could look forward
to a solid pacification iu the territories of the Ottoman
Empire—of which we will speak a word or two anon—
there would appear to he, still farther East, a cropping-
up above the surface of a new but yet similar cause of
disturbance. The spirit of militarism has got into the
ascendant. In India it overhears the civilian sentiment.
It secs dangers of almost every kind in rest, in letting
things be as they are. It yearns to anticipate future pos¬
sibilities by immediate enterprise. Such men as Lords
Canning, Lawrence, Mayo, Northbrook, prosecuting as
they did in harmonic succession a policy of abstinence
from restless intermeddling beyond our Indian Frontier,
are now regarded as of little authority. Apprehensions of
Russian ambition, stirred by the late Mission to Cabul
and hy its ostentatiously friendly reception by Shere Ali,
have resulted in a state of feeling among the governing
class in Hindostan not altogether dissimilar from that
which pervaded France under the Second Empire—a
desire, namely, to break bounds and to take possession
beyond the existing frontier. The proposed mission of
Sir Neville Chamberlain to the Euler of Afghanistan is a
departure from the traditional policy of the Government
at Calcutta since the mutiny, and it is, perhaps, as fully
characterised by danger as by novelty. It may prove
successful, or it may not. The most threatening feature
of it is that, however successful in respect of its immediate
object, it cannot be final. Annexation will again become
the order of the Empire, and will gradually move west¬
ward towards Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor.
Nor do matters look much more pleasant nearer home.
Tho Constantinople Convention does not promise to result
in the advantages which its authors doubtless designed.
As yet, it must be admitted, no sufficient time has elapsed
since its signature for its practical development. The
Sultan, perhaps, means honestly, so far as he understands
the scope of his undertaking. We are told that he and
his Grand Council have decided upon accepting the sketch
of Reform presented to him some time since by tho
English Ambassador, and there would seem to be a pro¬
bability that Midhat Pasha will eventually be appointed
as Govern or-General of the Ottoman Asiatic Territories
for a term of years. But the system of rule needing to be
displaced is old, and administrative purity is objected to
by greedy Pashas, and is scarcely demanded with any¬
thing approaching to zeal hy the suffering inhabitants.
The work of transformation, if ever it is begun, will
necessarily proceed at a very slow pace, if it be allowed to
proceed at all; and it is not unlikely that upon this
United Kingdom will devolve, in some form or other
sooner or later, no small share of the expenso which will
be demanded by the experiment.
We come now to Europe. The role assumed by Turkey
as it regards those stipulations of the Treaty of Berlin
which affect European Provinces, or, at any rate, the part
actually played by her, is one with which she has been
long familiar. Perhaps, no Government on earth is so
well qualified as is the Sublime Porte to enact a scheme of
passive obstruction while professing its agreement to
active co-operation. Take the case of the Austrian occu¬
pation of Bosnia. Ostensibly the Porte is desirous of
smoothing the way for the advance of the Austrian,
troops. Really, the Mohammedan landowners in the
province dispute the advance step by step, and take no
notice of the remonstrances they receive from Constan-
tinople. But the most curious part of tho affair is that
the “ insurgents,” as they are called, are found everywhere
to he in possession of ample and even profuse stores of
arms of the most improved pattern, and of abundant
ammunition. Who has supplied them? It would per¬
haps he difficult to say. Not Austria, it may be supposed;
not Russia; certainly not France, or Italy, or England.
All the circumstances of the case being taken into con¬
sideration, it is doing no injustice to Turkey to conclude
that she has, somehow or other, made herself responsible
for this provision to her recalcitrant subjects. Look>
again, at Greece. By the Treaty of Berlin the Sultan
was “invited” to agreo with the Government of that
little Kingdom in the rectification of its frontier, or, in
case of failure in negotiation, to submit to mediation.
Nothing of the kind is done. The Sultan is said to
be unwilling to pait with an inch of territory; and,
what is even more serious, the Powers, influenced
thereto, it is said, by the British Government, evince a
disinclination to take part in giving effect to the Berlin
Treaty, so far as Greece is concerno d. Albania is in insur¬
rection to prevent any portion of what she regards as her
own territory from com ing into the hands of Montenegro;
and, on the whole, it is true that no part of the late treaty
is being carried out without disturbance, or threats of dis¬
turbance.
Such is the situation at the present moment. It is dis¬
couraging, hut there i6 no sufficient ground for inferring
that it is hopeless. Meanwhile, however, it calls for the
most cautious treatment; and it is doubtful whether
violent remedies do not tend rather to complicate than to
remove difficulties. Of one thing, however, we could wish
to be able to speak in terms of full assurance. It is that
England may preserve untarnished her national
reputation for uprightness. Great allowance, wo are
aware, should be made to those who have the conduct of
Foreign Affairs for the perplexing nature of tho obstacles
thrown in their way, as well as for the political mis¬
calculations for which it is quite possible they havo mado
themselves responsible. But honour is not necessarily
associated with success. It is in our own hands. It is
within our own command. It is not subject to caprices-
and chances beyond our own control. If that be preservel
immaculate, the country can afford to bear the fading
away of many illusory prospects touching its merely
material interests. The Government is not wholly free
from peril in this direction. But of all the disturbing
elements in conflict arising out of the Eastern Question,
this, we earnestly hope, is the least likely to be eventually'
embodied in palpable results.
THE COURT.
The Queen, with Princess Beatrice and Prince Leopold, con¬
tinues at Balmoral Castle. Princess Louise of Lome and the
Marquis of Lome have passed upwards of. a week on a visit to'
her Majesty. On Saturday last the Queen, accompanied by
Princess Louise of Lome and Prince Leopold, drove round the
Lion’s Face. Subsequently her Majesty held a Council, at
which were present Prince Leopold, the Marquis of Lome, the
Right Hou. R. A. Cross, and tho Right Hon. Sir T. Biddulph.
Mr. Charles Lennox Peel was Clerk of the Council. At the
Council it was ordered, that Parliament be further prorogued
to Saturday, Nov. 30 next. The Right Hon. R. A. Cross aua.
Mr. Peel left the castle. The Queen went out on Tuesday-
morning, accompanied by l’rincess Louise (Marchioness of
Lome). Her Majesty in the afternoon, with Princess Beatrice-
and the Dowager Marchioness of Ely, drove to Abcrgeldie-
Castle to visit the Prince of Wales, and was there joined by
Princess Louise, who drove to Abergeldie with Prince Leopold.
The Prince of Wales arrived at Abergeldie Castle, and dined
with her Majesty in the evening. The Queen invested the
Marquis of Lome, K.T., as Knight Grand Cross of the M^ sC
Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. I* 10
Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise left Balmoral for
Inverary, the seat of the Duke of Argyll, on Wednesday m° rn '
ing. The Queen, accompanied by the members of the I' 10 !”
family, has made various excursions in tho neighbourhood or
Balmoral. .
The Right Hon. Sir Thomas and the Hon. Lady Biddulplu
the Right Hon. R. A. Cross, the Rev. Archibald Campbell, amt
Lieutenant-Colonel Clarke have dined with her Majesty.
Her Majesty has subscribed 100 guineas to the Mansion-
House Fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Abercame
mine disaster.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
The Prince of Wales left Marlborough House on Monday
en route for the Highlands. His Royal Highness arrived at
Perth on Tuesday morning, and after breakfasting at the
railway station resumed his journey northwards, arriving at
Ballatei at a quarter past three. A guard of honour of a.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
267
detachment of the 79th Highlanders, under the command of
Captain Gordon, was in attendance. The Prince himself
drove along the south of the Dee to Abergeldie Castle. The
Princess, with her daughters, will join his Royal Highness at
Abergeldie upon her return from Rumpenheim.
The Duke of Connaught arrived in town on Tuesday from
Potsdam.
Lord Cochrane, the eldest son of the Earl of Dundonald,
was married at Llandulas church on Wednesday to Miss Bam-
ford Hesketh, of Gwyrch Castle, Denbighshire. Lord and
Lady Cochrane left Abergele by the afternoon train for Cefn
Park, Sir Roger Palmer’s seat, en route for the Continent.
Included in the wedding presents were a silver candelabrum
from the Denbighshire tenantry, and gifts from Sir Stafford
and Lady Northcote, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter,
the Countess of Longford, Sir Harvey and Lady Bruce, and
Earl Beauchamp.
The marriage of Captain Alfred Eger ton and the Hon.
Mary Ormsby Gore, eldest daughter of Lord and Lady
Harlech, will take place early in October at Oswestry. In
consequence of recent bereavements in both families the
marriage will be strictly private.
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
The Lady Mayoress resumed her receptions at the Man sion
House on Tuesday afternoon, and will continue them on Tues¬
days, Oct. 1 and 15, and Nov. 5, from three to five o’clock.
In pursuance of an old annual custom, the wardens and
court of the Fruiterers’ Company waited last Tuesday on the
Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress at the Mansion House
and presented them with a gift of fruit.
Mr. Stubington has been chosen a Common Councilman for
Cripplegate Ward, in the place of the late Mr. Turner;
and Mr. Wood for Coleman-street Ward, in the room of Mr.
Colls, deceased.
The teams of horses belonging to Mr. Carleton V. Blyth,
which have worked the coach between London and Oxford this
summer, were sold at TattersaU’s on Monday. They realised
a total of 3305 guineas, and brought an average of 68 Jj- guineas.
The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress entertained on the
12th inst. at luncheon M. Leon Say, the distinguished French
Minister of Finance, who has been on a brief visit to the
metropolis to study the telegraph and postal system.
At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. William Tinsley
(Tinsley Brothers, publishers, Catherine-street), held on Tues¬
day, it was resolved that the terms proposed by Mr. Tinsley—a
dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound, extending in respect of pay¬
ment over a certain time—be accepted.
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows that
the total number of paupers at the end of the second week
in September was 76,358, of whom 38,783 were in workhouses,
and 37,575 received outdoor relief. Compared with the corre¬
sponding weeks in 1877, 1876, and 1875, these figures show a
decrease of 47, 725, and 5199 respectively. The vagrants
relieved on the last day of the week numbered 447, of whom
309 were men, 105 women, and 33 children under sixteen.
At the meeting of the Paddington Vestry on Tuesday a
letter was read from Dr. Hinckes Bird, formerly surgeon of the
Paddington Rifle Volunteers, calling attention to the salubrious
effects of planting plane-trees along the public thoroughfaros,
irrespective of the pleasant shade they afforded in summer
heat, and offering to head a subscription-list with £100 to
start the movement of planting trees in some of the public
thoroughfares of Paddington. The subject was referred to
the works committee to report thereon.
The City Press states that Mr. John Morris Saunders, an
old commercial traveller, who travelled in recent years for
Messrs. Jones and Co., of 100, Wood-street, has, in the
absence of any near relatives, divided his property, about
£12.000, between three institutions in the prosperity of which
he had long evinced much interest—namely, the Linen and
Woollen Drapers, Silk Mercers, Lacemen, Haberdashers, and
Hosiers’ Institution; the Commercial Travellers’ Benevolent
Institution; and the Commercial Travellers’ Schools.
The ninth establishment of the Coffee Tavern Company
has been opened at 119, High-street, Stoke Newington. The
house is handsomely fitted up, and well supplied with the
usual accommodation. It has quite as smart an appearance
outside as an ordinary gin paluce. The formal opening was
presided over on the 12th inst. by Mr. B. Lucraft; and there
were also present Mr. Pope, chairman of the company, the
other directors, and Mr. E. C. Barnard, hon. sec. Several
ladies were present. A great portion of the success of the
undertaking is due to the support given to it by Mrs. Stewart
and other ladies.
On Monday afternoon the Rev. Dr. Rigg, Fresidont of the
Wesleyan Conference, presided at an inaugural service in con¬
nection with the transfer of the two schools for the daughters
of Wesleyan ministers to a new establishment in Clapham
Park-road. The service vfas held at Clapham Chapel, in the
presence of a large number of Wesleyan ministers, as well as
a numerous congregation. The new school consists of two
mansions thrown into one, and contains between fifty and
and sixty apartments, surrounded by spacious grounds. It is
intended to accommodate seventy-five young ladies, who will
be supplied with a first-class education. A scheme for the
education of the female children of the ministers originated in
1869, when two schools were established for that purpose.
These have now been amalgamated into one institution, which
has been called Queenswood School.
Last week 2373 births and 1259 deaths were registered in
London. Allowing for increase of population, the births ex¬
ceeded by 35, while the deaths were 106 below, the average
numbers in the corresponding week of the last ten years.
There were 37 fatal cases of whooping-cough, which
showed a further considerable decline from the numbers re¬
turned in recent weeks, and only exceeded the corrected
average by 3. The fatal cases of scarlet fever, 27, were 52 below
the corrected average. The deaths from diphtheria, 13, again
showed a marked excess. The deaths referred to fever, which
had been 16, 23, and 25 in the three preceding weeks, further
rose to 32 last week, although they were 6 below the average.
The deaths referred to diarrhoea and simple cholera, which
had declined steadily from 494 to 124 in the six preceding
weeks, further fell to 90 last week, and were 45 below the
corrected average. The fatal cases of smallpox, which had
been but 6 and 3 in the two previous weeks, rose again to 7
last week. In the Greater London 2908 births and 1519 deaths
were registered, equal to annual rates of 34T and 17’8 per
1C00 of the population. The mean temperature of the air was
59T deg., being 1*3 deg. above the average in the corresponding
week of the sixty years 1814-73. The duration of registered
sunshine during the week was 40T hours, the sun being above
the horizon 90 0 hours.
Mi (Extra
“THE HEIGHT OF THE SEASON.”
From May to July is the breeding season for those myriads of
sea-fowl, gulls and guillemots, kittiwakes, puffins, and raaor-
billB, that sit on their eggs along the shelves and ridges, and
upon every peak and point, of the lofty and precipitous cliffs
on the northern coasts of Scotland. Mr. 3. Read, as our
readers know, is an Artist not less familiar with those scenes
of wild sublimity than with the picturesque mediaeval archi¬
tecture of old towns and churches throughout all Western
Europe, which he has so often delineated for our admiration;
and we may rely upon the truth of his view of a magnificent
swanning-place for the multitude of birds in “ The Height of
the Season.” One might fancy this wonderful recess of the
seashore, with its countless feathered inhabitants, to be a
peculiar stronghold of their kind, which a vast army, keeping
its numerous sentinels ever on the alert, has occupied for
seasonable protection; as the poet has described it, in a
passage which may here be quoted:—
A million guards this fortress keep,
That rises 1 rom the ocean deep;
Its walls, sheer up, are built so high.
That but a narrow strip of sky
Looks through a roofless space above,
Prom which, if once the clouds remove,
Pew ruyB of sunshine ever light
So far beneath that awful height,
Touching the floor of water green
With but a moment’s brighter sheen;
Outside those walls, incessant rave
The forces of the wind and wave.
And wide expands the Northern 8ea
With heaven’s wide circle, full and free;
But there within, the swarming crowd
Of winged people, screaming loud,
Hironging, in many a thick-packed flock,
The jutting margins of the rock,
Pind scarcely room to flit through air,
And seem, in huddled conclave there,
With mustered weapons, claw and beak,
In numbers, dose-arrayed, to seek
licit nee against some passing harm;
As hnman cities, in alarm,
When fiercely comes their nation’s foe,
And trumpeters the signal blow,
Collect, in castle keep and tower,
The serried ranks of martial power.
This interesting scene may often be witnessed, in summer,
alcng those romantic Bbores round by Cape Wrath, which
another poet has called “the Wild West Coast of the North
Ccuiitret.’*
THE AUSTRIAN CONQUEST OF BOSNIA.
The capture of Serajevo, the capital of Bosnia, by the army of
General Philippovich, on the 19th ult., is the subject of our
front-page Engraving, from a Sketch by Mr. J. Bell, our
Special Artist. This represents the incident of the storming
ot the Yellow Battery, sometimes called the Saluting Battery,
the position of which was sh own in our Artist’s more general
view of the Bombardment of Serajevo, engraved for our last
week’s publication. Some accounts of the conflict, and of the
military operations preceding it, have already been given to
our readers. The city of Serajevo, or Bosna Serai, on the river
Bosna, is the capital of both Bosnia und Herzegovina, and is
the seat of the civil and military government of those provinces.
It has above 30,000 inhabitants, the majority of whom are
Mohammedans; there are about 5000 Greek Catholics, 1000
Roman Catholics, 3500 Jews, 1000 gipsies, aud 3000 foreign
colonists of various religions. It is situated on three rivers,
and its numerous bridges, islands, gardens, mosques, and
minarets give it a very picturesque appearance. Serajevo was
founded in 1465 by the Bosnian nobles Sokolovic and Zlatarovic,
who were the first to accept Mohammedanism. The palace
(called Serai', whence the name of Serajevo) was built by the
Vizier Usrenbeg. In 1480 Serajevo was captured and burnt
by the army of the Hungarian King Matthias, and in 1698 it
was again captured by the Austrian troops under Prince
Eugene of Savoy. From a commercial point of view, Serajevo
is the centre of the Bosnian trade; most of the goods which
are destined for Bosnia from Roumelia, or from Central and
Western Europe, come to Serajevo, and are thence dispatched
to all parts of the country.
News from Bosnia states that the Austrian reinforcements
have commenced the offensive against the enemy’s intrench -
ments on the banks of the Save, without auy decisive results
at present. Bjelina is provisioned aud fortified to stand a
siege. It is said that the Austrian losses from Sept. 4 to Sept. 9
exceed one hundred officers and 3000 men. The main strength
of the insurgents is known to be within the parallelogram
comprised between Doboj, Serajevo, Zwomik, and Bjelina.
The Austrian operations on that side will be conducted from
Brod, and not from Serajevo. The Austrian advance will be
resumed towards the 26th, and will be conducted with the
utmost vigour. The Bosnian town of Novi Brcka, ou the
Save was bombarded last Saturday.
According to advices from the Drina received at Pesth,
there are still 40,000 insurgents in Eastern Bosnia alone. The
main force musters 25,000, with twelve guns, and is in the
Spretcha valley. At Zwomik, on the Servian frontier, there
are 4500, with four guns ; at Doljna Tuzla 5000, with six guns;
and at Gratchanin 4000, with four guns. Amongst these
40,000 men there are about 18,000 Redifs aud a large number
of Albanians. The insurgent positions between Kotorsko and
Doboj are strongly fortified. At Sienitza there are several
thousand men well provisioned.
The whole Austrian force in Bosnia and Herzegovina and
on the frontier is now 200,000 men. The insurgents in the
Possavina district, in the vicinity of the Servian frontier, will
be taken in the rear by the Austrian troops from three points—
namely, by General Szapary, who has been strongly rein¬
forced, marching from Doboj; by a detachment from Briska,
where a strong corps is stationed; and by a force under
General Philippovich. It is expected that Behacs and the
Krajina district, to the west, will also be occupied, notwith¬
standing the repulse suffered by Major-General Zaoh, who lost
400 men at Behacs.
According to reports from Turkish sources, the Albanian
forces are divided into three branches—the first, with head¬
quarters at Kossovo, intends acting with the Bosnians and
defending the pass of Mitrovitza; the second, with head¬
quarters at Janina, aims at resisting incursions from Greece;
the third, with head-quarters at Uskub, proposes to march on
Kustendil and co-operate with the Rhodope insurgents.
Waterloo Bridge is to be free to the public in the second
week in October next.
The Olobe understands that the dignity of nn earldom is to
be conferred upon the Lord Chancellor, who will take the title
of Earl Cairns.
On Monday the first stone of a new workhouse at Sheffield,
to cost £180,000, was laid by Alderman Searle, chairman of
board of guardians.
THE EISTEDDFOD AT BIRKENHEAD.
On Tuesday morning the Royal National Eisteddfod and
Musical Festival, Choir of Arthur, and Gorsedd of Bards of
the Isle of Britain, was opened at Birkenhead in a pavilion
specially erected—the preliminary ceremony of the Gorsedd
taking place in Birkenhead Park on the previous day. Mr. J.
Osborne Morgan, Q.C., M.P., presided on the first day; Mr.
David Mnclver, M.P., on the second day; Sir Watkiu W.
Wynne, M.P., on the third day; and Lord Aberdare on the
fourth and closing day of the Eisteddfod. The competitions
were of the customary varied character. A large number of
riees were offered, including £50 and a medal for the con-
nctor for a competition of Welsh choirs of not less than sixty
voices, £100 for the best English essay on the Present State of
the Welsh Nation, and £150 and a gold medal to the conductor
for an all-comer competition of choirs of between 100 and 150
voices.
Owing probably to the wet weather, there was not a
numerous company on Tuesday. The National Anthem having
been sung, Mr. Osborne Morgan gave his address, which was a
vindication of the Welsh people and of Eisteddfodai from the
Eneers and criticisms of English speakers and writers. A
number of competitions in singing and pianoforte-playing
followed, Professor Macfarren, Dr. Parry, of the University
College of Wales, Mr. John Thomas, and Mr. Brinley Richards
being the principal adjudicators. Prizes were also awarded for
literary compositions. The following were some of the
awards:—Best translation into Welsh of Macaulay’s “Eesiy
on Addison,” the Rev. Dr. Pan Jones, Mostyn, fine guineas ;
best elegy upon Welsh celebrities, Thomas E. Davies, Ponty¬
pridd, 15 guineas; best ballad, David Rees, Swansea, three
guineas; best historical song, W. H. Prince, Birkenhead, five
guineas; performance of Beethoven's sonata appassiona'a,
R. W. Davies, Birkenhead, four guineas ; Miss Lewis,
Birkenhead, one guinea; best translation of Welsh into
English, Griffith Jones, Carnarvon, 10 guineas ; best anthem
on Psalm evii., W. T. Rees, Llanelly, 10 guineas ; best
Welsh dictionary of philosophical and scientific terms, E. T.
Lloyd, University College of Wales, £6 and modal; best
vocal rendering of Macfarren’s air, “ I rejoice in my youth,”
Miss Lily Price, Birkenhead, three guineas. The competitions
included, as a “ special subject,” a prize for the best English
essay on “the present state of the Welsh nation, more
especially in its industrial, literary, and social aspects,
together with the best means of securing its progress in those
respects.” Several essays were contributed, but the Rev.
John Rhys, M.A., of Oxford, one of the adjudicators, having
reported that all were of inferior merit, no award was given,
and the prize of £100 was offered for competition next year.
In the evening an Eisteddfod concert was given in the
pavilion, the leading artistes being Madame Edith Wynne,
Madame Patey, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Signor Foli. The
principal feature was the production of the new cantata,
“ The Fairy Tribe,” by D. Emlyn Evans, which gained the
prize at Carnarvon last year.
After the concert was concluded an alar min g accident,
fortunately unattended by loss of life, occurred. The floor of
the ladies’ cloak-room gave way with the rush of people iu it,
and about twenty ladies fell through to a distance of eight or
ten feet. Medical aid was promptly rendered, and the injured
persons were conveyed home in cabs.
The proceedings were resumed on Wednesday morning, the
business of the day being preceded by a Gorsedd in the park.
Mr. David Maclver, M.P., presided. Before the proceedings
began Mr. Brinley Richards announced that during the day
the audience would have an opportunity of contributing to
a fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Abercarne
explosion, boxes being placed in various parts of the build¬
ing. The meeting opened with the singing of the air
“God Bless the Prince of Wales” by the choir and audi¬
ence, after which an address to the chairman was read by Mr.
Ellis Davies, of Liscard. The chairman then gave a brief
address on the value of Eisteddfodau in cultivating the musical
tustes and national spirit of the people. The Eisteddfod song
having been sung by Lien Llwyfo, various awards were made—
amongst them being a prize of five guineas to H. T. Davies,
Pwllieli, for the best essay on bravery; 25 guineas and a good
medal to William R. Davies, Carnarvon, for the best critical
essay on “Locke’s Philosophy;” seven guineas to T. 3.
Roberts, of the Uiuversity College, Wales, for a translation
into Welsh of “The Raven.” Among the prizes offered was
one of 20 guineas and a medal for the best oil painting—sub¬
ject, “The Interior of a Welsh Cottage, with Blind Harper
playing before a group of figures.” Mr. Philip H. Rathbone,
one of the adjudicators, announced that of the three works
sent in none was of sufficient merit to justify them in awarding
the prize. The prize of 10 guineas and a modal for the best
pianoforte sonata in three movements was awarded to W. R.
Reece, of Huntingdon. In a spirited competition on the Welsh
harp the prize of five guineas was awarded to John Elias Davies,
of Bethesda. Dr. Macfarren, in awarding the prize of four guineas
for quartet singing, said he rejoiced very much in the great
musical talent which he recognised in this part of the country.
The principal competition was that by the choirs for £100, and
a gold medal to the conductor. The prize was open to all
comers, conditional upon their being not leas than one hundred
voices and not more than 150. The pieces for competition
were, “ To man God’s universal law ” (“ Samson ”), Handel;
“ O Lord, are thy decrees ” (“Jephtha”), Handel; and “As
the hart pants ” (Psalm xlii.), Mendelssohn. The adjudicators
were Dr. Macfarren, Dr. Pa^ry, and Mr. John Thomas. Five
choirs—one from Aberdare, the Rhondda choir, Merthyr Tydvil,
the North End Liverpool Philharmonic Society, the Eryri
Choral Union, Maenfawr, Carnarvon, and the Newtown Choral
Union, Montgomeryshire. They all competed in the order
given, and the Eryri Choral Union, Mr. Owen Griffith (Eryri
Eryri) conductor, was awarded the prize.
In a few copies of our Paper this week the death of
the Dowager Countess Cowper is recorded in the Obituary
column. We are happy to state that the announcement
is incorrect. The Countess is at Wrest Park, Beds, in her
usual health.
F. and C. Osier, of London and Birmingham, have been
awarded a gold medal for their exhibits iu glass at the Paris
Exposition Universelle ; and Messrs. F. Buchanan and Co. a
gold medal for their steam cane-crushing machinery.
The troops at Aldershott, under the command of Lieu¬
tenant-General R. Wardlaw, C.B., on Tuesday marched out
to Old Dean-common and Colony, the latter place about ten
miles from the camp, and were exercised in the movements of
a sham fight.
The Duchess of Norfolk will on Wednesday next, the 25th
inst., lay the foundation-stone of a drill-hall at Sheffield.
Towards the cost the Duke has contributed £3000. Alike sum
has been subscribed by the officers and honorary members of
the Artillery Volunteer Corps, and the balance of £4000 will
be raised by the public.
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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
The Duke of Cambridge was received by Marshal MacMahon
at the Elysec last Saturday morning, and in the afternoon
the Marshal returned the Duke’s visit at the Hotel
Bristol. On Monday the Duke dined at the Elysee. Marshal
MacMahon invited the Grand Dukes Alexis and Constantine,
the general officers of the 4th Army Corps, and the foreign
officers who have been attending the manoeuvres, to meet his
Royal Highness.
Marshal MacMahon reviewed about 55,000 troops at Vin¬
cennes on Sunday afternoon. In consequence of the fineness
of the weather there was an enormous crowd of spectators.
The President of the Republic was accompanied by the Duke
of Cambridge, the Grand Dukes Constantine and Alexis of
Russia, and all the foreign military attaches.
M. Gumbetta is making a tour through the south of France,
and delivering on his way short speeches to the municipalities
who offer him a welcome. He has assured them that the
Republican flag has now been planted so high that nobody
would be audacious enough to try to pull it down. At Valence
he was welcomed by a deputation of young ladies, and the
town was en fSte.
Tlio annual meeting of the members of the Iron and Steel
Institute was held in Paris on Monday. Six hundred members
were present. Mr. Edward Williams, of Middlesborough, the
president, having given his opening address, a most interesting
address was read by Dr. Siemens, F.R.S., on scientific training
in France. A paper was then read in French by M. Jordan,
Professor at the Ecole des Mines, on the resources of irou
manufacture in France. A long and technical discussion fol¬
lowed, which was chiefly confined to the best process of m iking
coke, and the relative merits of the Belgian oven used in
France and the beehive oven used in England. The speakers
were M. Fremy, Mr. Lowthian Bell, M.P., Mr. Samuelson,
M.P., Messrs. Reilly,Windsor,Richards, Griiner, and Lancaster.
On Tuesday the proceedings were opened with a speech by M.
l^csca, in which he said that combustibles for smelting pur¬
poses would never fail while the sun existed. Three papers were
read. The first, by Professor Akerman, of Stockholm, treated
of the most recent advances in the manufacture of iron and
and steel, as shown by the exhibits in the Paris Exhibition.
The second, and by far the most remarkable, by Mr. Adamson,
dealt with the mechanical and other properties of iron and
mild steel. The third, by a Frenchman, M. Marche, treated
of some recent aspects of the steel manufacture. In the dis¬
cussion that ensued on Mr. Adamson’s paper, M. Fremy,
M. Griiner, Dr. Siemens, and Mr. Bamaby, Chief Constructor
of the British Navy, took a prominent part. Mr. Bamaby
said he did not believe steel plates suffered more than iron
ones from oxydization, and that the British Government had
been induced to use them in future. M. Fremy, on the con¬
trary, said the chief French naval constructor had told him
that steel plates gave no satisfaction at all. They were sub¬
ject to excessive oxydization, and sometimes cracked liko bad
glass. The members and their friends, to the number of about
250, dined together in the evening at the Continental Hotel.
The chair was occupied by the president, Dr. Siemens, who
was supported on his right by M. Tresca and on his left by
M. Fremy. The toasts of ‘‘The Queen,” “ The President of
the French Republic,” and of “The Prince and Princess of
Wales,” were given from the chair, and warmly received.
Others of a complimentary character followed, and among the
speakers on the occasion were M. Henri Schneider, Professor
Jordan, Mr. Holley, Mr. E. Williams, Mr. Samuelson, M.P.,
Mr. P. Cunliffe Owen, C.B., M. Griiner, and Mr. Henry
Chapman. The institute closed, its meeting on Wednesday.
At the outset of the proceedings M. Jouxdan paid a tribute to
Mr. Whitell, who had died since the last meeting, and the
feeling terms in which he expressed the appreciation of his
labours by French engineers elicited a very sympathetic
response. Mr. Head then rose, and after expressing the regret
of the institute that it was about to lose the services in the
chair of Dr. Siemens, whose yearof office expired that day, moved
that Mr. Edward Williams be elected in his stead. The motion
■was seconded by Mr. Price, and unanimously agreed to. Mr.
Edward Williams, in returning thanks, remarked that the insti¬
tute could not expect to find in him such a chairman as Dr.
Siemens, who was essentially a man of theory, or Mr.
Lowthian Bell, who combined theory with practice. He
(Mr. Williams) was essentially a practical man, and his
year would be a practical year. He trusted that the members
of the institution would rally round him and give him every
support. The discussion on Mr. Adamson’s paper “ On the
Relative Merits of Steel and Iron for the Sheathing of Ships
and the Manufacture of Boilers, Rails, and so forth,” was
then resumed. The speakers were Messrs. Mitcholl, Kitson,
Richardson, Greg, Griiner, Crampton, Hollis (United States),
Lowthian Bell, and Adamson. A paper *on Pousard’s
“ Fouruo-Convertisseur ” was read in French by M. Perisse.
Owing to the time allotted for the meeting having expired,
two papers on “The Lowe Strong Water Gas Processes,” by
Mr. R. P. Rothwell, of New York, and another on “The
Elimination of Phosphorus in Bessemer Converters,” by
Messrs. Sidney G. Thomas and Percy C. Gilchrist, had to be
postponed till the next meeting. Votes of thanks were then
passed to the French Mining and Scientific Institutions for
their invitation; to the Prince of Wales for his liberality in
obtaining for the members free admissions to the Exhibition;
to Mr. Cunliffe Owen ; to the load French committee; and to
Dr. Siemens, for his able conduct in the chair.
Prince Napoleon has been elected President of the Conseil
G6n6ral of Corsica.
A telegram from Sydney last week says that the revolted
natives in New Caledonia having made an unsuccessful attack
upon the French troops and the natives friendly to them, the
French in their turn attacked the insurgents and completely
defeated them, with a loss of 130 in killed and wounded,
including the chiefs Attai, Baptiste, and Killik. Another
telegram says that Attai and Baptiste have been beheaded, and
adds that the punishment of the insurgents continues with the
utmost severity.
SPAIN.
The elections for the Provincial Deputations in Spain, which
were finished on Thursday week, have resulted in the return
of nearly 200 supporters of the Government, against the elec¬
tion of fifty or sixty Opposition candidates.
SWITZERLAND.
The Swiss military manoeuvres began on Monday. On Sun¬
day there was a review near Outerwyl, Canton Fribourg, at
which many foreign officers and 30,000 spectators were present.
The Federal Council has adopted, an ordinance making
instruction in gymnastics obligatory for boys in public schools.
A convention was signed at Berne on Tuesday by the repre¬
sentatives of Germany, Austria, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal,
and Switzerland relative to the adoption of common measures
to protect the vine-growing districts of those countries against
the phylloxera vastatrix.
HOLLAND.
The Parliament was opened by the King on Monday. His
Majesty, in the Speech from the Throne, expressed his appre¬
ciation of the cordial affection manifested towards the Royal
family on the occasion of the marriage of Prrnceand
Princess Henry. The speech went on to say that the relations
of the Netherlands with foreign Powers were most friendly,
and that the national industry, particularly agriculture, was
in a generally satisfactory condition. The state of the finances
called urgently for attention, and his Majesty recommended
to the consideration of the Legislature the question of the
reform of taxation. The Government promised to present to
the Chambers the draught of a new penal code. The speech
stated that the condition of affairs m the Dutoh East Indian
possessions was satisfactory, although the maintenance of the
Dutch authority in the north of Sumatra required fresh extra¬
ordinary measures. His Majesty, in conclusion, eulogised the
services of the army in Sumatra.
ITALY.
The King, accompanied by the Queen, reviewed two army
corps on Thursday, the 12th inst., numbering 25,000 men, at
Ghedi, in the province of Brescia. The Ministers of War and
the Interior, Signor Bruzzo and Zanordelli, were present, as
well as several foreign officers. The latter subsequently were
presented to their Majesties, and the King shook hands with
them. The King and Queen and the Ministers afterwards
took their departure, amid the cheers of the spectators. With
this review the Italian autumn manoeuvres came to an end.
The King and Queen arrived at Mantua on Saturday on their
way to Verona, and inaugurated the Mantua Exhibition. On
Sunday they visited each department, inspecting them
minutely. The King bought four horses. The Exposition in
the magnificent Piazza Virgiliana demonstrates the decided
progress agriculture is making in Italy. Their Majesties,
after attending high mass at the cathedral, returned to Monza,
thus ending their northern tour. They were present on
Monday at the inauguration of a monument erected in memory
of King Victor Emmanuel at Monza.
Prince Amadeus opened the fourth International Congress
of Orientalists in the Senate Hall, Florence, on Thursday week.
A banquet was given in the evening by the Duke of Aosta, in
the Petti Palace, in honour of the congress. Signor Amari
sat on his Royal Highness’s right hand, and M. Renan on his
left. On Friday morning Signor De Sanctis, the Minister of
Public Instruction, communicated to the congress a telegram
received by Signor Cairoli, the Italian Premier, from the King,
in which his Majesty greeted the congress, and expressed his
gratification on its meeting in Florence. Signor de Sanctis
supplemented the Royal message, which was received by the
congress with loud cheers, by a few complimentary remarks.
In the evening the members were entertained by Signor
Rossi, the famous Italian actor, at his private residence.
On Sunday night Signor De Sanctis entertained at dinner the
members. Speeches were made by Signori Do Sanctis, Amari,
and M. Lenormant. The toast, “ May the advance of science
bring peace,” proposed by M. Renan, was received with great
applause. The congress closed on Wednesday with a speech
from Signor Amari, who concluded by announcing that the
fifth meeting of the congress would be held in Germany in
1881, and it would be left to the German Oriental Society to
select the president, the committee, and the place of meeting.
Signor Amari also announced that the Government prize of
25<J0f. had been awarded to Dr. Immer, a German, for the
objects shown by him at the Oriental Exhibition, while
encouragement awards had been presented to three Indian
gentlemen, one of them being Dr. Dacunha. Signor de
Gubematis then said a few words, which were received with
applause, and the congress separated.
The Pope has been slightly indisposed, in consequence of
which his usual audiences have been suspended; but he is
reported to be better. His Holiness has raised his brother,
Don Giuseppe Pecci, to the prelacy, numbering him among
his domestic prelates and conferring upon him the office of
Under-Librarian of the Vatican Library.
Telegrams from Naples describe the continuance of great
activity in Vesuvius, above the new crater of which volumes of
lava are reported to be thrown to a height of one hundred
yards, accompanied by loud explosions.
GERMANY.
The Emperor William left Gastein last Saturday morning,
amid the acclamations of the inhabitants and enthusiastic cries
of “ Hoch ! ” The cure of his Majesty has surpassed all ex¬
pectations, and his strength has visibly increased. His Majesty
can now write with the right hand without inconvenience. The
Empeior arrived at Cassel early on Sunday morning in good
health, and was enthusiastically received by a great number of
people, who had congregated at the railway station and at the
road leading thence to the Palace of Wilhelmshohe. His
Majesty drove in an open carriage to the palace, and was
warmly cheered along the route. He replied to the salutes
with his left hand, his right being still in a sling. The Empress
Augusta had arrived on Saturday evening to receive his
M aj esty. For the first time since he was wounded by Nobiliug,
the Emperor mounted on horseback last Tuesday and rode for
twenty minutes.
The Duke of Connaught left Potsdam on Monday for
Balmoral. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess accompanied
him to the railway station.
Prince Bismarck returned to Berlin on Monday from
Gastein, apparently in good health; but on Wednesday he
was laid up with an attack of nettle-rash, caused, it is sup¬
posed, by a change in the weather.
A proposition made in the sitting of the German Parlia¬
ment yesterday week by Herr von Forckenbeck, the President,
to present a congratulatory address to the Emperor upon the
continued improvement of his health was carried by accla¬
mation. The German Parliament began on Monday the debate
on the bill for the repression of the tiocial Democrats. It was
opened by Count Stolberg, who explained that the measure
alone was not regarded by the Government as sufficient, and
suggested that their action should be supported by associations,
corporations, and individuals. Half measures, he added, would
onlydo harm, and he asked the House tofumishthe Government
with sharp and effectual weapons. The bill was opposed by
the representatives of the Ultramontane party, who proposed
that it should be referred to a Committee to determine what
amendments were necessary in the penal code. Amongst the
speakers was Herr Bebel, a Socialist, who deniod that there was
any connection between Social Democracy and the crimes of
Hiidel and Nobiliug. Count Eulenberg, Minister of the
Interior, replied to Herr Bebel, after which Herr Bamberger,
of the National party, said he should support the bill. The
Anti-Socialist Bill was again under discussion on Tuesday.
Prince Bismarck spoke at length, with the object of vindi¬
cating himself from the reproach, addressed to him the previous
day by Herr Bebel, of having formerly courted the Socialists.
The Prince admitted his intimacy with Lassalle, who, he said,
was deeply imbued with national and even with monarchical prin¬
ciples. The House ultimately resolved by a large majority to
refer the bill to a Committee of twenty-one members.
RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
The Czar arrived at Jalta last Saturday afternoon. His
Majesty had passed in the morning through Sebastopol, where
he inspected the troops who had returned from Turkey.
The Official Messenger of Monday publishes the text of the
reply of the Emperor of Russia, dated Aug. 30, to the telegram
of the Sultan of the previous day complaining of the atrocities
committed by Bulgarians on the Mussulman inhabitants, and.
requesting the Czar to take efficient steps for the protection of
the life, honour, and property of the Mussulmans. The
Emperor says :—“ Your Majesty’s telegram has made a painful
impression upon me, and I trust that the reports made to your
Majesty respecting the sufferings of the Mussulman population
of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia have been exaggerated.
Your Majesty is right in expressing the hope that I shall not
tolerate such a state of affairs. I am assured that the Com-
mander-in-Chief of my Army, as well as the Russian Com¬
missioner in Bulgaria, will severely punish any act of injustice
that may be committed against the inhabitants whom they
have been charged to protect.”
The Russian troops aTe evacuating Erzeroum, and Moussa
Pasha has arrived to take possession of the town. He is
authorised to proceed against all disturbers of the peace by
martial law. Ali Pasha has issued a proclamation exhorting
the Mussulman population to use tolerance towards their
Christian fellow-subjects. Turkish troops have been dispatched
to Alaschgerd to maintain order in that district.
In the course of a few days the Russian troops now-
stationed at San Stefano will evacuate that place and proceed
to Tchataldja.
The representatives of the National Assembly in Crete pro¬
pose (according to a telegram from Athens) that the Porte
should grant to the Cretans administrative autonomy, with
civil and political equality, and that the Assembly should
make laws which it would be beyond the power of the Sultaa
to modify. Ahmed Mukhtar Pasha, on the other hand, offers
the Cretans civil equality, the plebiscite, and the establishment
of a police force and gendarmerie composed jointly of Moham¬
medans and Christians. He also proposes that the Turkish
troops shall be stationed only in the fortresses. These pro¬
posals, it is added, have been rejected by the Cretans.
Midhat Pasha has been informed by the Turkish Minister
in Paris that the Sultan has granted him permission to reside
in Crete with his family. The Sultan’s letter adds that a
special vessel will be at the disposal of Midhat’s family to
convey them to Crete, and announces that a high functionary
of the palace will be sent thither to accord a fitting reception
to Midhat Pasha himself, who will embark at Marseilles in the
course of the present week and go directly to his destination.
From Constantinople we are told that instructions have been
Bent to the Ottoman Bank in London to pay Midhat Pasha
the sum of £1000.
Admiral Hobart Pasha left London on Tuesday night for
Constantinople, having been somewhat unexpectedly ordered
to return to his duties as Inspector-General of the Turkish
fleet immediately. The Pasha dined with the Prince of Wales
the night previoiis to his departure from London.
The Daily News hears that the Turkish authorities are
stopping cargoes of arms and ammunition for the Rhodope
insurgents, “ under severe Russian pressure.”
An envoy, from the Ameer of Afghanistan to the Sultan
has arrived at Constantinople.
INDIA.
By a Bombay telegram, dated Sept. 18, received through
Reuter’s agency, we learn that Gholam Hussein Khan, the
Envoy of the Indian Government, arrived at Cabul on Sept. 10,
and has been hospitably received. At a private audience of
Shere Ali he delivered to the Ameer the letters with which he
was intrusted from the Viceroy of India. Mir Akhor, who is
believed to be the bearer of despatches from the Ameer respect¬
ing the Mission, is expected hourly at Alimusjed. The mission,
in the mean time, remains at Peshawur, awaiting Mir Akhor’s
communication. A headman of the Khyberi has arrived at
Peshawur in accordance with the arrangements concluded for
the safe conduct of the Mission through the Khyber Pass.
A long telegram relating to the Cabul Mission sent by the
Times' correspondent at Calcutta, is given at page 286.
AMERICA.
President Hayes arrived at Chicago last Saturday. In a
speech addressed to the Board of Trade, he declared that the
course pursued by Mr. Sherman in regard to the finances of
the country was fair, open, and honest. He deprecated any
interference on the part of the Legislature with the currency
or with the resumption of specie payments, as calculated to
shake the confidence of business men and to retard the revival
of prosperity. The President held a reception in the evening,
which was numerously attended.
The Oregon Legislatuie have elected Mr. J. H. Slater, a
Democrat, as Senator for that State in Congress.
The order of the Treasury Department for the froe
exchange of silver for greenbacks, which was to have come
into effect on Sept. 16, has been postponed for legal reasons.
There was a return of warm weather on Tuesday at New
Orleans, but its effect in regard to the yellow fever has not
been stated. At Mempliis on Monday 111 deaths occurred,
and at Vicksburg on the same day twenty-three.
CANADA.
By a telegram from Toronto we learn that the elections to
the Dominion Parliament were held on Tuesday, and resulted
in the complete defeat of the supporters of the Mackenzie
Administration.
The elections to the Nova Scotian Legislature have resulted
in the return of twenty-eight Conservatives and ten Reformers.
Destructive storms have visited the middle and western
States of Canada, causing considerable interruption to railway
communication. Last Saturday the streets of Toronto were
flooded, and great damage was done to property.
Lord Dufferin will, it is understood, remain at Ottawa, in
order to receive the Marquis of Lome and her Royal Highucss
Princess Louise on their arrival in Canada, for which event
great preparations are being made.
The lor onto Mail contains the reply by Lord Dafferiu to a
farewell address presented to him at Quebec on the 5th inst.,
by the municipal corporations of Ontario. His Excellency,
who, in the course of his remarks, was frequently and heartily
cheered, said:—
I hardly know in what terms I am to reply to the address I have just
listened to. Quite apart from the personal grutihcatiou I experience, you
are teaching all future administrators of your affairs a lesson which you
may be sure they -will gladly lay to heart, since it will show tnem with how
rich a reward you are ready to repay whatever slight exertions it may be
within their power to make on your behalf Cheers). And wheu, in the
history of your Dominion, could such a proof of your generosity be more
opportunely shown ! A few weeks ago the heart of every man and women
in Canada was profoundly moved by the intelligence, not only that the
Government of Great Britain was about to send out as England’s repre¬
sentative to this country one of the most promising amongst the younger
generation of our public men, but that the Queen hersolt was about to
intrust to the keeping of Canada one of her own daughters (Cheers). If
you desired any illustration of the respect, the affection, the oonfldenoe
with which you are regarded by your fellow-subjects and by your
Sovereign at home, what greater- proof could you require than this, or
wl.nt more gratifying, more delicate, more touching recognition could
have rewarded your never-failing lovo and devotion for the mother
country and its ruler ? (Cheers.) But though the Parliament
and tie citizens of Canada may well be proud of the oonfldcace
thus reposed in them, believe me when I toll you that, quite apart
from these especial considerations, you may well be congratulated on Ura
SEPT. 21, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON HEWS
‘Ar L»™<»rthe
connected all my life Iobr faSu^vtf^ fortune b «
frit-ndahip. Hiniself I have Sirm-n TT y by tl< ? of fc , he closost Personal
more c-oiLkntiou* hl-h-min^cd „V ^tl^T bo - vllao l ',‘V ld *
have been selected (Wd cbeera). hI coniMoFa^m,^ 107 Mu ? d uot
encroach, when acting** the rep ^enU^ves o ^ho fe cendants «* W *W to
r,ot^r;;£s,"
life, and 7 ™AS“& u X^ 5S. ■‘SffigJJ' i'virT*
K -™« isffls
«ndlocrcuttfc,X«ficlJ h inM.i?’,h.t 1 l U ' e oPPOOuuiUw, witbin h.r r^cb
amomu ol popularity at home (Cheers) Wuen to
friendly, so ready to take the will for the deed, so ge^ous m them r« oV
1^tsS&Esa
b f' e ®H d > a f n ‘ l £ tltuile ot merits. Hut even spots will be discovered on the
sun, and unfortunately an irreparable, and, as I may call itVa congenitd
M S to tJ*«. appointment. Lord Lome is not anTS
newed^auehter 1 ! ls ?| 0t UB ,uult " Ite , dil1 tlle best he could for himself (Ue-
a CelUc IbihWl,, ile ( w P “ M ;ar t ‘,° ri b’ht thing as possible by being bom
a cernc Highland !i Continuedlausrhtei-L There is no doubt the world i
o f if t K v, ‘ e t,llne “<* neftl ' the right thing as poi
a Celtic Highland! l it ontmuedlaughter). There is no
with ■ Tl ‘^ never went'better
Great Britoi^—fchc ° T ; nbroad .’tnau wiicnTo^^rllmeftom 'Sod
Kenned >s, the Lallans. the Callaghans, the Gores, the Hennessya adi’uinis-
Have not 1 n °V ^wes and West IndiTpo^ont
ccsa^n lam *2 Vt ‘ n tLm * ^ i8h tiovemordJeueiuls ia sue-
8 “ r , c > ou wrll find your new Viceroy’s personal and acquired
xw i k ^ ltj0 t V.'!? 1 rxiu , rt than counterbalance Ins ethnological disadvanwW
How 1 must bid you lareweU. 1 cannot tell you how deeply i regret tuat
Lady Duffenn should not be present to sliaro the gratification I have eipo-
noflf M l y i y i° Ur i pi ^ 8Cn S e -. Ie “ y° ur friends at home how deeply I have been
-moved by tins last and signal proof of their goodwUl, that their kiiida ws
shall never be forgotten, and that as long as 1 live it will be one of SS
ambitions of my lUe to render them faithful and effectual service (Umars).
THE CAPE COLONTE8.
We Lave a week’s later news from the Cape ; the date ia
Aug. 21. Intelligence had been received from the Transvaal
that a mutiny had broken out iu Zululaud in the native police
The Swazies, who were supposed to be friendly, were now
considered unmist worthy. There had been some fightin^ at
Eort VY eber, which had been attacked by Kaffirs, who were
however, compelled to retreat. Troops had been dispatched
against Secocoeni. The Kaffirs have completely invested
Leydenburg. .Sir Theophilus Shepstone had incurred un-
. popularity by his policy with regard to the volunteers wlio
have tendered their resignation in large numbers. An appeal
had been made to Colonel Rowlands to settle the matter.
Intelligence from Capetown two days later, received by
telegram from Madeira, says it is officially announced that
Major Lanyou will succeed Sir Theophilus Shepstone as
Governor of the Transvaal, and that Mr. Maasdorp succeeds
Mr. Jorissen as Attorney-General. Colonel Bailey left this
• morning (Aug. 29) for the theatre of military operations on the
northern border. Mr. Dewes, formerly Solicitor-General, has
been appointed Recorder of Kimberley.
AUSTRALIA.
A telegram from Sydney informs us that Sir Hercules
Robinson, the Governor of New South Wales, opened the
Parliament of that colony on Wednesday, Sept. 11, and
announced that the issue of a new loan has been postponed.
Amongst the measures to be introduced by the Government is
a scheme for the construction of a thousand mil..* Q f railway.
THE CHURCH.
A.l.miH r- T7 fttEFEBMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Hyde, .Tohn Ihomas ; Hector of Wellington
Jen" Thomkj. 1 WofTlvv• C n‘‘ rfa > r 1? 1 ' 1 in St David ’ 8 Cathedral.
^“ b ' r - J ° bn , St «>od; Cut ate of Woking,"surrey. 5
} , D > RichardJumes; Vicar of Ht. Paul's, Penzance.
K, te Ce ( o 0r " , ;i ® cctor of Strathtifldsuye.
isonis, William Burrell; Rector of Warblington. Hants
James Dunne; Vicar of St. Mary tlw Virgin, Nuneaton
Pi.haiiLon^i'hottas 1 ; 11 ViSr^^ of Llamlefdsant, Carmarthenshire,
bei vanuFri 1 .!^ Pelpetual Curateof Little Dunmow.
lovmud, Edward: Rector ol Lesnewth.
Wralo’uVv.^i Smecure Rector of Khorwell, Die of Wight.
W (Uc, Robert Morey; Vicar of Priors Marston.
Lite, Heniy Ciratton ; Vicar of Maughold.
W coding,W. J.; Perpetual Curate of Eglwyafacli, Cardigans^o.-tfu ardiaa.
Convocation has been prorogued to Dec. 2.
v of Manchester consecrated last Saturday a new
church (St. Clement’s) at Salford. , y
Miss Majendie laid the memorial-stone of the new church
at St. Mary’s, Newbury, on the 11th inst.
The sixteenth annual festival of the Parochial Choir Asso¬
ciation of Kantwich and Middiewich, in the diocese of
Chester, was held on the 11th, iu Nantwich church.
The Hon. Mrs. King-Harman will carry out the desire of
her late husband m contributing £1000 to the Episcopal Fund
of the diocese of Kilmore, Elphin, and Ardagh. *
Last Saturday the foundation-stone was laid of a new
church at WnbbenhaU, near Kidderminster. The building will
tributes £2000. Hemmill e> of Spring-grove, con-
A musical festival service was held hist Saturday at Tewkes-
bury Abbey in aid of the restoration fund, when several
vocalists who had attended the Worcester Musical Festival
gave their services.
At the picturesque little village of Carlton, in the North
Riding of Yorkshire, the foundation-stone of a new church to
be built on the site of the old one, has been laid by Mrs Mar-
wood, of Busby Hall.
The Rev. E. J. Barnes, Vicar of Christ’s Church, Lowestoft
was last week presented, on his leaving that town, with a purse
of gold and other presents from his congregation and friends
in recognition of his much esteemed labours amongst them
during the past twelve years.
The Bishops of Exeter and Oxford preached at Ottery St.
Mary’s Church last Sunday, on the completion of the work of
restoration which Lord Coleridge has there carried out in
memory of his father, the late Sir John Taylor Coleridge, and
his mother, and also in memory of Lady Coleridge, who died a
few months ago. The work has cost £2000.
A movement is on foot for the erection of a memorial to the
late Rev. F. A. Bartlett, for upwards of twenty years Vicar of
St. Olave’s Church, Marygate, York, by the addition of a
chancel to the present structure, the foundation of which is,
according to tradition, probably the most ancient of the York
cliurchcB, being ascribed to Earl Siward, of Northumberland,
who died eleven years prior to the Norman conquest. The
subscriptions already amount to £700.
The General Swedish Synod, which meets every fifth year
was opened on the 3rd inst. at Stockholm.
It is announced from Belgrade that the Princess Nathalie
' was on Sunday delivered of a son.
Mr. Rivers Wilson has, according to a telegram from Alex-
• andria, been definitively appointed Egyptian Minister of Finance
with the permission of the British Government.
The King and Queen of the Belgians, following the example
of several oi the ancient rulers of the country, have presented
to the cathedral of Antwerp a stained-glass window.
We are informed by Nature that M. Bischofsheim, the
well-known Parisian banker, has sent a sum of 10,000f. to the
French Bureau Central Meteorologiqne, to help in the con¬
struction of the intended Mont Ventoux Observatory. We
.may remind our readers that he, at the suggestion of his*friend
M. Leverrier, helped in the same manner the construction
•of the Puy-de-DOmo and Pic-du-Midi establishment. M.
Bischofsheim has also agreed to pay M. Eichens £1000 to com¬
plete within a year the construction of the great refractor
begun in Levenier’s time, in 1870.
A CENTENARIAN.
The Dublin lady Express of Saturday last records an instance
of a gentleman having completed his hundredth year, and
being in good health and possessing a clear intellect. This
“hero of a hundred fights” with disease and death is Mr.
Henry Baldwin Foott, J.P., of Carrigacumia Castle, near
Mallow, in the county of Cork. The books of the parish of
Kilshannig show that he was born on Sept. 11, 1778. The
anniversary ol Mr. Foott’s birthday on Wednesday week was
signalised by the firing of camion, hoisting of flags, and a
general merrymaking at Carrigacmina. The tradesmen and
labourers employed on his property got a holiday and a day’s
pay, and were entertained at dinner. Mr. Foott received the
visits of several of his friends, who congratulated him on his
good state of health on his hundredth birthday; and the magis¬
trates at the petty sessions of Castletownroche, in which court
Mr. Foott presided for nearly sixty-two years, presented him
with an address. Mr. Foott is the oldest magistrate iu the
county of Cork, having been appointed in 1816. Mr. Foott
was brought up as an attorney, but gave up the profession on his
coining into possession of his large estate. He was a capital
sportsman, run well with hounds, was a crack shot with the
gun, and a very expert angler. Mr. Foott is presented each
week with his farm accounts, which he checks. He has had
several brothers and sisters, all of whom attained great a^es,
and his brother, Mr. Edward Foott, J.P., of Gortmoro, is now
in his ninety-first year.
A stuined window has been placed in St. John’s Church,
Leicester, in memory of the late Rev. William Barber, M.A.’,
who was for seventeen years Vicar of the parish, and whose
skill and taste as a musician did much to improve the rendering
of church music in the district. The parochial choral festivals
now so general in the diocese were originated by him, the first
festival huving been held in 1860 at St. John’s. It is executed
by Messrs. YVaileB and Strang, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and is
the sixteenth memorial window in the church by this firm.
The Prince of Wales has erected a monument in Sand¬
ringham churchyard in memory of the late Rector. It bears
the following inscription “ William Lake Onslow, M.A.,
R.N., F.R.A.S. Born 10th May, 1820. Died 30th August,
1877. Eleven years Rector of Sandringham. Domestic
Chaplain to II.R.H. the Prince of Wales, and late Naval
Instructor to H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. Albertus
Edouardus P. In memoriam posuit.” It was designed by
Mr. A. W. Blomfield, and executed by Mr. J. Forsyth.
The four temporary churches which it has been resolved
to provide at Barrow, in pursuance of a scheme to which the
Duke of Devonshire contributed £12,000, the Duke of Buc-
cleuch, £6000, und the Mayor (Mr. H. W. Schneider), Sir
James Ramsden, and other gentlemen, £6000, will be opened
next Thursday. The following clergymen have been appointed
to the new districtsSt. Matthew’s, the Rev. G. K. Meaby,
M.A., Cambridge; St. Mark’s, the Rev. J. M. Laycock, M.A.,
Cambridge ; St. Luke’s, the Rev. E. W. Oak, B.A., Cambridge;
and St. John’s, the Rev. A. Warren, M.A.
Harvest festivals are now being held all over the country.
At several of the Manchester churches Sunday was chosen as
the day of harvest thanksgiving, and one church (St. Paul’s,
Brunswick-street) was reopened after restoration. At St.
Columba’s, Haggerston, the services on Sunday were very
hearty, as they were also in the fine old church of Kelvedon,
Essex, at St. Paul’s, Colchester, where the olfertory was
devoted to the sufferers by the accident in the Thames ; St.
Peter’s, Chalvey, and Hurstpierpoint. At St. Paul’s, Bunhill-
row, on Tuesday, Mendelssohn’s “ Hymn of Praise” was sung
with full organ accompaniment at the harvest festival in the
evening. The new Archdeacon of Essex preached at the
harvest festival at Camden Town church on Thursday evening.
THE UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Another headship in Oxford is vacant through the re¬
signation of the President of Trinity, the Rev. S. W.
Wayte, D.D.
At Cambridge the Clothworkers’ Exhibition of £50 a year,
offered to non-collegiate students for proficiency in physical
science, has been awarded to John Ryan, of Newport, Mon¬
mouthshire, late Whitworth scholar.
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a lew months since, on the joint appli¬
cation of the Senate and of Convocation, empowering the
Senate to admit women to graduate in its several faculties
(arts science, law, medicine, and music), on such conditions as
the Senate, with the concurrence of the Home Secretary
should deem expedient, the Senate lost no time in passing a
resolution which made all the existing regulations, relating not
only to graduation, but also to the various honours and
rewards granted at the several examinations, open to
Jemale as well as to male candidates. This resolution
having been now approved by the Home Secretary
II iiiiile candidates will be admitted forthwith to the nntri-
culation examination ; and all such as have already
pasted the general examination for women will be considered
as having matriculated, and will be admissible (after the
required interval) to the first degree examination iu eituer of
tlie 1 acuities. Further, with a view to the special em .urami-
ment ol lemale candidates desiring to go through a nw ir
academical .course, the trustees of the Gilclirist°Educ itio ial
trust have lustituted two exhibitions, one of £30, the other of
£20, per annum, fi nable for two years, to the female candi¬
dates who pass highest at the honours division at cue
matriculation examination ; and two exhibitions, one of £40
the other of £30, per annum, tenable for two years, to the
lemale candidates who puss highest at the first B.A. examina¬
tion (provided that they obtain in the first case two thirds and
m the second three fifths, of the total number of marks) to
assist them iu pursuing their studies at some collegiate insti¬
tution approved by the trustees ; with the further reward of
u gold medal of the value of £20 (or of u book prize of the
same value) to the female candidate who passes highest at the
second B.A. examination, if she obtains not less than two
thirds ol the total number of marks.
The Earl of Rosebery, in accepting the invitation to become
a candidate lor the Lord Rectorship of Aberdeen University
says the invitation is one which it would be as unbecoming in
him to refuse as to seek. The contest will now be betweenthe
Earl of Aberdeen, the Conservative candidate, and Lord Rose-
bery, who is the nominee of the Liberal students.
Eton College reopened on Wednesday after the long
summer vacation with the return of the lower boys; the
students of the fifth and sixth forms assembling on Thursday
and I ridny. J
The gentlemen cadets reassembled on Wednesday after the
summer vacation at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
Amongst the new cadets is the second son of the Khedive of
Egypt, who will reside with his suite at Ohampion-terraoe,
W oolwich-common. *
The Rev. Professor Porter, of the Presbyterian General
Assembly’s College, Belfast, has been appointed one of the
two Assistant Commissioners of the new Board of Inter¬
mediate Education for Ireland, at a salary of £1000 a year;
and Mr. J. P. Corry, M.P., has been appointed to the Presby¬
terian Commissionership on the board vacated by Dr. Porter.
The two Forest School scholarships, £45 and £35, have been
awarded, the former to Tray ton Charles l’agden, the latter to
Charles Collison. At the sume time, Laurence, from Durham
House, Folkestone (the Rev. A. L. Hussey) ; Webb, already in
the school; and Mather, from Cleveland School (the Rev. S.
Cornish), were recommended for the three nominations. There
were eleven candidates.
The Council of the City of London College—evening
classes—have appointed Dr. Heinemann, F.R.G.S., F.R.H.S.
Professor of Political Economy and Logic.
In distributing the prizes at Worcester Grammar School,
Lord Hampton said the Legislature had now provided ample
elementary education for the working classes, and there already
existed public schools for the education of the wealthy; but
the great want had been schools for the middle classes. This
want such schools as the Worcester Grammar School were
calculated to supply, and it must be a great boon to the
neighbourhood.
The ancient grammar school at Dorchester has now been
shut up for about six months ; and the Charity Commissioners,
having effected a commutation with the late Head Master (the
Rev. T. R. Maskew), who was awarded nearly £600, have just
drawn up a scheme for the management of the newly-modelled
school. Under this scheme there are to be eleven governors,
the list being headed by the Mayor of Dorchester for the time
being, and including five representative and five co-optative.
The fees of the boys are to range from £6 to £12 per annum
Mathematics and one foreign language are. to be included in.
the course of instruction, and an extra charge of not less than
£3 per annum is to be made for teaching Greek. The Head
Mastei>—a graduate of a University—is to have the annual
stipend of £120, besides a capitation grant of from £2 to £5
for the boys. In order to meet a difficulty experienced in
regard to Hr. Maskew, the new Head Master is to enter into
an agreement to acquiesce in his removal if this be decreed by
the governors.
Lady Holies’ middle-class schools for girls, which are
situate in Marc-street, Hackney, were opened yesterday week
by the Lord Mayor, in the presence of the Lady Mayoress,
Mr. Alderman Nottage (Sheriff of London), Mrs. Nottage, Mr .
Alderman Knight, the Rev. W. Gilbert, Rector of Cripple-
gate, and a large number of ladies and gentlemen interested
in the charity. From a statement made by Mr. Alderman
Knight, who is the chairman of the board of governors, it
appears that the endowment was bestowed originally by Lady
Holies, second daughter of tho Earl of Clare, in 1710; and
though the bequest amounted to only £62, yet by careful
management on the part of the trustees, as well as by other
legacies since received, the board of direction of the Charity
Commissioners are now ‘enabled to provide a middle-class
school for girls. The new schools are spacious and furnished
with every requisite. The site has cost £3000, the structure
itself £7000, making in all about £10,000. Accommodation ia
provided for 250 girls, who must not be under eight years of
age nor over sixteen. A very liberal curriculum is offered,
but special subjects will be charged extra.
A burglary was committed early on Friday morning, the
13th inst., ut the house of Mr. Ford, chairman of the Enfield
bench of magistrates, Old Park, about a mile from Enfield.
The thieves effected an entrance through the conservatory,
and carried off a gold watch and silver plate to the value of
several hundreds of pounds. Several robberies of the land
have lately been committed in the neighbourhood.
The Hon. Hugh Gough and Mr. F. C. E. Denys have been
appointed Second Secretaries in her Majesty’s diplomatic
service. The Queen has approved of Mr. W. C. Christopherson
as Consul-General for Scotland for the King of Sweden and
Norway; of Mr. Eugene Schuyler as Consul at Birmingham
for the United States of America; of Mr. Juan H. Evans as
Consul at Brighton; and of Mr. Gabriel Samuel Brandon as
Vice-Consul lor Shoreham, Brighton, and Worthing for the
Republic of Peru.
NKNOWN DEAD AT THE WOOLWICH CEMETERY, EAST WICKHAM.
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THE tt.T.TTSTKATEP LONDON HW3_
SEPT. 21, 1878
ECHOES OF THE WEEK.
Tho Great Lottery of the Exhibition bids fair to become a very ]
to exercise all their influence over their contnbmbks to induce
them to take tickets.
I am clad to notice that the French press are almost
unanimous* in blaming a scheme which is fast attuinin 0 the
but as to the folly and immorality of a National Lottery there
! be I orprehend, no manner of doubt. The Banco ch Lotto
has kept Italy poor these many years past ; and the same ma.y
be said of 8 pain ; while the Royal Havana Lottery—which is
drawn once a mouth, and the first prize m which is
100 000 dol* or £20,000—not only keeps the Island of Cuba
L k conSunt Bttte’of ferment, but extends its maleficent
influence to the United States.
Perhaps I should speak of the Havana Lottery in the past
tense Changes of all kinds may have taken place in the
££nd durinf the insurrection; but I remember very weU
fifteen years ago how all the cafes and public promenades of
the Pearl of the Antilles used to be infested by ragged men
and boys hawking halves, quarters, eighths, and even six¬
teenths of lottery tickets. 1 need scarcely say that it is one
thtog to preach against the immorality of lotteries, and another
to practise abstention from that very fasemafang form of
ganiing: thus I do not hesitate to avow that m 1803 I went
chares with a friend in the purchase of an entero, a whole
ticket. It cost us an “ onza,” or doubloon, otherwise three
pounds ten shillings sterling. My friend was going to Eng -
land; I was returning to the States ; nnd he left me the cus¬
todian of the precious chance. How many sleepless eights
•did I pass before the day of drawing arrived At length the
list of prizes was published in the New lork Herald. It was
the number 10,303 that won the £20,000 prize. Our ticket was
16,305 ! Only two removes from felicity !
The ciros lot in the Paris Exhibition lottery is to be a
“riviere'” of diamonds, worth ever so many thousands of
francs; and among the remaining prizes plate, bronzes,
porcelain, and the nicknacks generally classed by the French
jib bibelots seem to predominate. In addition to these, a
number of patriotic manufacturers and tradespeople have
come forward (of course, without the slighest idea of adver¬
tising their wares) to oiler gratuitous contributions to the list
of prizes. These eleemosynary tributes are published with due
solemnity in the Journal OJ/icicl , and an extraordinary cata¬
logue do they make. Wliat do you think of a dinner for
twenty persons at a well-known Palais Royal restaurant, a
barrel of coal-tar, a box of scented soap, a case of blacking, a
miodel of the Place Vendome Column in chocolate, a series of
photographs representing fossil human skulls discovered in the
-department of the Sartlic, an electrical hairbrush, and a col¬
lection of pamphlets published by the Society for Dis¬
countenancing the Abuse of Tobacco ?
The society in question has just presented a memorial to
M. Albert Gigot, Prefect of Police, pointing out that the Paris
cab-drivers persist in smoking while on duty, in defiance of
the disciplinary regulations forbidding the practice in question.
The fumes emitted from the pipes and cigars of the cabbies
are it seems, particularly offensive to ladies. This reminds
me of an anecdote related of the late excellent Queen of
Holland. Her Majesty was taking a solitary stroll in the
n- — n t aha cnmn-ioi-’a pvfiiincr when she became aware
sembb
ever since Greece attained her ““JP . i 0lirim lists to purify
constant endeavour of her scholars and J • ht n0 longer
and elevate the national spe^hsothati moh 8.
Modern Greek as that flowing ^odious, eloquent, far
from difficult tongue iB at present written and spoken.
I am not in the least afraid of boring my indulgent readers
bv devoting three long paragraphs m these Echoes (they were
an Too short last week) to a topic ostensibly so dremry as that
of a Greek grammar. There are those who read me who arc
not disinclined to take serious things into consideration ; and
I hold that the education of English boys
thing indeed. I hold that, in nine cases out of ten, the timo
spent in learning ancient Greek in our public^schools> and
universities is so much time thrown away, and that our
academical method of teaching Greek is an imposture a snare,
and a sham. Not that I disparage the study of ancient Greek,
but I would have boys taught to speak Romaic first, and the
to compare the living with the dead language; just as when a
boy had acquired a iair knowledge of English and French I
would introduce him to Chaucer. As tor M. Legrand s
“ Grammaire Modeme Grecque,” which has only just made
its appearance, I hope that Professor Blaclue will lose no time
in procuring it. Wc have had enough and to spare of the
academical Greek which renders our young men, when they
are travelling in Greece, powerless to ask for a bootjack, or a
corkscrew, a bottle of pale ale, or a first-class railway ticket
from the PiraniB to Athens. And, I repeat, Romaic is not
by any means difficult. Read M. Legrand’s grammar from
beginning to end (and with a pen in your hand). Then
try the translation of the first three chapters ot the 1 ic-
torial Papers ” into Romaic. Then try a similar experi¬
ment with a portion of a novel by Alexander Dumas in French.
Then advertise for a modern Greek master, who will tell you
how many mistakes you have made in your translations, and
will set you right as to your pronunciation. When you can
translate a column of the police reports in the Timm vxvAvoce
to the satisfaction of your preceptor, dismiss lnm; and then,
if you like, you can read Homer or Xenophon, Pindar or
Anacreon, with the Rev. Xylokephale Logopratis, B.A., and
with the Erasniian pronunciation which that Batavian pedant
was so clearly entitled to settle, in defiance of the illustrious
Byzuntme scholars who were harboured and protected by
Lorenzo de’ Medici.
I read in the Paris Gaulois that the Right Honourable Lord
Cairns is to be straightway created an Earl. I am delighted
to hear it. “ A present ,” adds the Gaulois , “ Sa Sagneurie est
simplmcnt Baron dc VEchiquier.” What! what! 1 ho Lord
High Chancellor of England a Barou of the Exchequer ? As
well might one say that Marshal MacMahon is a Marcchal-
des-Logis.
One cannot, however, quarrel with the French paper for
its blunder, when we consider the anomalies and the mysteries
with which our Table of Legal Titles bristles, even to English¬
men. I spoke last week of the French puzzles propounded to
the readers of the World. But a few Anglo-French puzzles of
a legal nature might be with equal advantage ottered for
solution. What, for instance, **■ +Vl “ riiffowm™ hfif-.wnen a
"Wood at Loo one summer’s evening when she became aware
of a sentinel who was indulging in a few forbidden whiffs
inside his box. The poor fellow, with no end of courts-
martial before his eyes, threw away his pipe, and, in broken
accents, piteously begged the Queen not to denounce him to
the authorities. “ Don’t be afraid,” answered the kindly
Sovereign; “and here is a ducat for you to buy some good
tobacco. I wonder you can smoke such nasty smelling stuff.”
If the Parisian Jehus would only smoke a tolerably decent
preparation of the Indian weed the ladies might be more
tolerant of their infringement of the cab laws.
Mem: One anecdote may be reckoned upon, as a rule, to
suggest another. The story about the Queen of Holland re¬
minds me of one told of Frederick the Great, who, wandering
in disguise through the camp one bitterly cold winter’s night,
tried to tempt a sentry into the commission of the illicit act of
smoking. “It’s forbidden,” replied the soldier, doggedly.
“But I’ll give you permission,” persisted Frederick. “ You
give me permission,” cried the grenadier, disdainfully; “who
are you, I should like to know ? ” “I am the King.” “ The
King be hanged!” exclaimed the incorruptible sentinel;
“what would mg Captain sag?” The Great Fritz was
immensely pleased to learn how strictly discipline was pre¬
served among his troops; and I fancy that it was not long j
before that incorruptible sentinel was promoted to be a
sergeant. Perhaps he was wise in his generation, and had
known very weR to whom he was speaking. There is a way. of
flattering the Great, eveu while appearing to be rude to them.
* Did not Mr. Pye get his poet laureateship through anathe-
anatising the wig of George III. to his Majesty’s face?
I am about deliberately and aforethought to puff a new
book—at least, if to call attention to its conspicuous merits
can be called puffing. It is not a new novel, book of travels,
poem, or collection of essuys, published by Messrs. Anybody
of England. 1 don’t know the author from Adam, and I am
equally a stranger to the publishers. Having premised thus
much, I may state that the work in question (which I am
perusing with as much interest as though it were a tale from
the Arabian Nights) is the “Grammaire Grecque Modeme,”
by M. Emile Legrand, published by Messrs. Maisonneuve and
Co., of the Quai Yoltuire, Paris. The only Romaic grammar in
English which I have come across is one published in 1851 by
Mr. Henry Corpe, M.C.P., and translator of that strange
Levantine novel, “ The Devil in Turkey.” There is likewise a
little neo-Hi llenie grammar in French by M. Masson, pub¬
lished at the British Governmental printing office, Corfu, in
1822; while at Leghorn, in 1825, there was put forth by the
Athenian Professor Giorgio Kutuffa a Romaic grammar in
Italian. This last is dedicated to the Earl of Guilford, Lord
High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands: 11 To endoxotato
kai panevgenestato Komti Ghilphortio akadcmiarche tes ionekes
akadimias. The Earl was also Lord Rector of the Ionian
Academies.
"Why am I not satisfied with these grammars ? Because the
modern G»tek of fifty years ago was, comparatively speaking,
a barbarous jargon debased by a multitude of Turkish,
duiuhvu. ___, is the difference between a
French notairc and au English notary public ? Define the
respective functions of an avocat and an avouc in France and
an attorney and a solicitor, a conveyancer and a special
pleader, in England. What is the distinction between la.
magistrature debout and la magistraltire assise in France ?
Finally, specify the divergence, if any, which exists between a
French juge dc paix and an English justice of the peace.
G. A. S.
THE MOORE AND BURGESS MINSTRELS.
This company inaugurated their fourteenth consecutive year at
the St. James’s Hall on Wednesday with a new programme,
which is likely to prove as popular as its predecessors. Many
entirely new ballads and melodies of great merit were sung,
and met with applause. The comic element prevailed. Mr. T.
Sully produced much mirth by a song entitled “ Augustus
Daisy Beau,” and Mr. Lew Simmons sang for the first time a
song called “ Love, ’tis a funny thing,” which was not
deficient in broad humour. But the principal thing in this
way was a new comic song expressly written for Mr. Charles
Button on “ Emancipation Day,” which was capitally acted.
Mr. Walter Howard lamented in verse the mishaps of a man
bom on a Friday, commencing with “ I ’m such an unfortunate
man.” The other pieces were chiefly pathetic. Among these
may be distinguished “ Good Night,” by Mr. Charles Ernest;
“ The might have been,” by Signor Germanio ; “ The mother
to her child,” by Mr. Sydney Herbert; “The little word,
Yes,” by Mr. Allred Brenner; and “The Sailor Boy,” by Mr.
Vernon Reed. A new bass song by Mr. John Romer, called
“ Song of the God Vulcan,” was creditable to the fancy of
Mr. Henry S. Leigh and the musical talent of Mr. John
Hobson. A new ballad, “ My Lovely Star,” was well sung by
Mr. H. De Brenner. What followed was rather grotesque than
musical—the burlesque of an operatic scena by Mr. Frank
Fieri, an educational harangue by Mr. Charles Sutton, and a
banjo solo by Mr. Walter Howard. Messrs. T. Sully, Albert
Moynham, and M. Rene showed wonderful agility in a
burlesque on the Girards, called ‘‘ The Marvellous Gee-Hards; ’’
and the whole concluded with a farcical melodrama entitled
“ The Adventurers.” The hall was crowded with an appre¬
ciative audience.
NATIONAL SPORTS.
Dull weather and poor sport kept many intending visitors
away from Doncaster on the Thursday, and the course pre¬
sented quite a deserted appearance. Lord Rosebery's recent
purchase, Kaleidoscope, secured the first race in very easy
style, and he is likely to prove a far more profitable invest¬
ment than Bonnie Scotland has done. A six-furlong sweep-
stakes for two-year-olds has frequently produced a complete
reversal of previous form, and this year there was once more a
most remarkable case of in-and-out running. It will be remem¬
bered that in the Champagne Btakes, on the Tuesday, Charibert
beat R ay on d’ Or cleverly by a length. They met again on exactly
the same terms, except that the course was some seventy yards
longer, and the French colt won without an effort. Truly, poor
backers have much to contend with! A field of sixteen was
by no means what we have been accustomed to in a Portland
Plate, though it was an improvement on last year, when
Rosbach only had ten opponents. Hackthorpe (7 st. 3 lb.)
started a very hot favourite, though lie was ridden by a j ockey
quite unknown to fame ; but Athol Lad (7 st. 4 lb.) kicked
him severely just prior to the start and quite destroyed his
chance. Redwing (7 st. 0 lb.) ran the best of the younger
horses, though nothing had much chance against old
Telescope (8 st. 5 lb.), who seems returning to his
two-year-old form, which was uncommonly smart. In the
Turk Hull Btakes, on the Friday, Jannette had a very easy
task though Bonsie Queen ran sufficiently well to suggest the
idea that her defeat of Attalus at Ascot was not quite such a
fluke as was imagined at the time. For the' second year in
succession Lord Falmouth lost his annual match with Lord
Fitzwilliam, as the disappointing Ringleader, on whom
odds of 4 to 1 were laid, succumbed by a head to
The Dean, a dark Lecturer colt. At the last moment
Silvio declined the Doncaster Cup, which was thus reduced
to a virtual match between Pageant and Hampton.
Thanks to Kingsclere, the race was run at a strong pace
throughout, and when the last-named was beaten, which
occurred at the Red House, Pageant carried on the running at
his best pace. As they roimded the last bend Hampton made
a grand effort, und drew up nearly level; but 10 lb. was a
little more than he could give away, and a most exciting finish
ended in his defeat by three parts of a length. Still, he ran
wouderlully well, and secured many fresh supporters for the
Cambridgeshire, in which his weight is 9 st. 3 lb. The
Doncaster Stakes proved another triumph for Lord Falmouth,
who was in wonderful form during the week, as Caerau could
not live with Childeric when it came to racing.
There was a great improvement in the prices realised for
yearlings on the Thursday and Friday. In the Moorlands
Stud a son of Speculum and Produce made 750 guineas; and,
a little later on, Blue Rose, a half-sister to Doncaster, fetched
500 guineas, a sum that would probably have been doubled
but for sad memories of All Heart. Mr. Cookson’s lot did not
reach their usual average, though Mr. Perkins gave 1300 guineas
for an own sister to Palmflower. It was reserved, however,
for Mr.W. I’Anson to distance all rival breeders, on the last
day, when his eight were knocked down for the magnificent
average of 708 guineas, the list being headed by a half-sister
to Beauclerc, by The Palmer—Bonuy Bell (1500 guineas), aud
a colt by Adventurer—Bonny Leith (1050 guineas).
Though the cricket season should have been over some little
time a"o, we still have two or three matches to chronicle each
week. ° The Australians beat the West of Scotland in a single
innings with 84 runs to spare, Spofforth taking eleven wickets,
and making 48 rims, the top score. In the Colonists’ last
match in England, against Eighteen of Sunderland, neither
he, Horan, nor Bailey played, and the Eighteen won by 71
runs. The return contest between Notts and Leicestershire,
which has taken place this week, is the last of the county
matches. As might have been anticipated, the Notts team,
tor which Wild (74), Barnes (98), and Flowers (58), all scored
freely, won with ridiculous ease.
The match between Sadler and Hawdon, and the com¬
petition for the challenge cup presented by the proprietors of
the Sportsman, have given the admirers of sculling a great
treat. We need say little of the match, for Sadler, though
once a really high-class sculler, has long since seen his best •
day, and could make no fight with the Dclaval lad. The
latter, we believe, has not yet been beaten, and is a very likely
aspirant for championship honours at no very distant date.
The race between Elliott and Higgins, in the first heat
for the cup,, was a magnificent one from start to finish,
and the champion, who had all the worst of the stations,
was defeated by a couple of lengths. Then Boyd made
a fearful exhibition of Blackman, who, we fear, is rather
an imposter as a sculler, and thus the final heat was left
to the two North countrymen. They had a most curious
race, as when Boyd held a good lead, and odds of 20 to 1
had been betted upon him, he was interfered with by one
or two skiffs getting in his way, and Elliott, making a grand
spurt, caught him out of his course, and won on the foul. Of
course, Boyd’s supporters were by no means satisfied with this
result, and Elliott is not likely to keep his honours in peace, as
Higgins and Boyd have already challenged him.
In view of the epidemic of yellow fever now prevailing in
certain parts of North America, the President of the Local
Government Board has issued a notice drawing the attention
of port authorities to the necessity of taking precautionary
measures lor the purpose of preventing its introduction by
means of shipping to any English port. He points out the
measures which should be taken in the event of an outbreak.
Lord Gilford, C.B., and Rear-Admiral R. Hall, O.B., naval
secretary, transact business at the. Admiralty, Whitehall,
during the absence of the First Lord, and Board on their official
tour ot inspection. The Lords of the Admiralty made their
annual official visit of inspection to Pembroke Dockyard on
Wednesday.—The Whitehall Review states that the Right Hon.
W. H. Smith will start on his tour of inspection to Gibraltar,
| Malta, and Cyprus in the Enchantress on Oct. 15.
The released Fenians, Condon and Melody, sailed from
Southampton tor New York on Wednesday in the North
German Lloyd’s steamer Mosel.
Colonel J. H. Hudson, superintendent of the Royal Army
clothing establishment at Pimlico, is about to take his retire¬
ment. He was appointed to the clothing factory on its
establishment in 1856.
The Glasgow Hews says it is proposed to revive the idea of
constructing an underground railway through Glasgow, and
the plans are being prepared by Mr. Elder, C.E., St. Vincent-
street, under the direction of Mr. J. H. Tolinie, C.E.
A fire broke out about six o’clock on Wednesday evening
in the locomotive department of the Bricklayers’ Arms goods
station of the South-Eastern Railway. The fire was got
under about seven o’clock, but the fitters’ 6hop was severely
damaged.
A company is being formed for the erection of an opera-
house in Glasgow. The plans also provide for an aquarium,
a Polytechnic s imil ar to the London institution of that name,
and galleries in which it is projjosed to form a permanent
industrial exhibition.
The post-office at Wangford, near Southwold, Suffolk,
was on Wednesday destroyed by fire. The premises, which
are also used as a grocery store, were entirely destroyed, and
the telegraph wires injured, but the mails were saved. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
The Orphan Cottage Homes of Scotland, situated about
midway between Glasgow and Greenock, were opened on
Tuesday—Sir Peter Coats presiding. The ground upon which
the cottages are built consists of forty acres, and already a
large main building and three cottage homes have been erected.
It is intended to erect seven other cottage homes for orphan
children of Glasgow and the West of Scotland.
II
SEPT. 21, 1878
THE ILLUSTBATED LONDON NEWS
275
POLITICAL.
A report lias been agreed to by tlie Select Committee
appointed to consider whether any extension should be made
in the number of hours for polling at Parliamentary and
municipal elections in boroughs other than the metropolitan
boroughs, in winch it is stated that the Committee, whilst
believing that in some instances advantage would be gained
by an extension of hours, did not feel it desirable to m ike any
recommendation in that direction owing to the difficulties
which would beset such a proposal. They thought the question
•might very well stand over till the time came for considering
the Ballot Act, when some experience would have been gained
by the extension of hours in the metropolitan constituencies.
Mr. Gladstone, the Marquis of Hartington, and Mr. Lowe
have sent to the West Ham Liberal Association acknowledg¬
ments of a resolution lately passed by that association thank¬
ing them for the course they had taken with respect to the
Anglo-Turkish < onvention. The Marquis of Hartington’s
reply is a forrnul letter of thanks. Mr. Gladstone expresses
satisfaction that the association has noticed the dangerous
chaiacter of the present financial policy. Mr. Lowe says, with
reference to the straining of the Royal prerogative:—“If
every part of the Constitution were to strain its powers to the
utmost, if the principle which is now laid down with regard to
majorities were to be extended to the different branches of the
Legislature, the whole machinery of our Government would
soon be brought to a deadlock.”
The Hon. Algernon Egerton, Secretary to the Admiralty,
speaking at the opening of a Conservative Club at Little
Lever, near Bolton, on the 12th inst., responded to a vote of
confidence in the Government, eulogising both its home and
foreign policy. The protection of the route to India and the
demand that Constantinople should not be occupied by any
foreign Power had been Hie keynotes of their policy through¬
out. Speaking as to the occupation of Cyprus, he said the
Navy had always desired an establishment in that quarter of
the Mediterranean. It must, he thought, be considered un¬
healthy at present, but it had once contained over a million
inhabitants, and could be made healthy.
Lord Dalrymple, eldest son of the E irl of Stair, in reply to
a deputation which waited upon him at Lochin ch Castle on
Monday, consented to contest the county of Wigtown in
the Liberal interest at the next election.
The Hon. Cecil Ashley, the fourth son of the Earl of
Shaftesbury, was unanimously selected at a Liberal meeting at
Berwick-on-Tweed last Monday night as the candidate to
contest the borough, in conjunction with the present Liberal
member, Sir D. C. Marjoribahks, at the next general election.
Mr. Ashley has expressed his willingness to come forward.
Colonel Sir James M'Garel Hogg, M.P. for Truro and
Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, addressed a
crowded meeting of the electors of Truro held in support of
Colonel Tremayne’s nomination for that city in the Conservative
interest on the 12th inst. In the course of his remarks the
gallant Colonel, who was enthusiastically received, said he felt
certain that the electors of Truro would by their voices and
votes show their confidence in and appreciation of the services
of that far-seeing and sagacious Minister Lord Beaconsfield
and his trusty colleagues, who in times of unwonted peril had
steered the ship of our country safely into port. One of the
greatest and most masterly strokes of policy of Lord Beacons¬
field was the calling out of the Indian troops when the Russians
did not seem disposed to submit the whole of the San Stefano
Treaty to the Congress. Those 7000 Indian troops represented
70,000 or even a very much greater number who were willing
to fight; and not only was this the case, but Colonel Stanley
had told them that hundreds of offers of help for England
reached the Foreign Office from all quarters of the globe.
Viscount Newport, in replying to the toast of the county
members at the dinner of the North Shropshire Agricultural
Society, said that one reason why a very great amount of
domestic legislation could not have been accomplished last
Session was because a large proportion of the time at the dis¬
posal of Parliament was absorbed by the all-important subject
of Eastern affairs. He was old-fashioned enough to consider
that the best way of obtaining a lasting and durable peace
would be to make Turkey strong and well governed, and he
very much regretted the carving up of the Turkish Empire.
He regretted the cession of the port of Batoum, as it was very
undesirable that the naval power of Russia should have an
opportunity of increasing in the Black Sea. He yet felt, in
the circumstances, it would be possible to strengthen Turkey
under the Treuty of Berlin; and therefore he thought that the
signing of that treaty was preferable to war.
A testimonial, in the shape of silver plate to the value of
nearly £300, was presented on Wednesday evening at York to
Mr. W. D. Husband, a local Conservative leader in that city;
and the Right Hon. J. Lowther, Chief Secretary for Ireland,
responded to the toast of “ Her Majesty’s Ministers.” In the
• course of his speech he said he thought Europe would scarcely
be prepared to look with equanimity on any revival of the
Eastern Question.
Colonel North, M.P., presiding at the annual dinner of the
Banbury Agricultural Association on Wednesday, touched on
political matters, and expressed his disapproval of the frivolous
objections raised to the acquisition of Cyprus. He believed the
country had never stood higher since the days of Waterloo than
it did at the present moment.
The first municipal election for Burslem under the new
charter of incorporation has resulted in the return of seventeen
Liberals out of the twenty-four members elected, including
Hie Mayor and five out of six of the Aldermen.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
The ninth competition of the South London Rifle Club was
held on Tuesday. A strong wind prevailed, but some good
scores were made. The following are the winners :—Captain
Morris, 3rd Kent ; Captain Sweeting, 23rd Surrey ; Private 0.
Brown, 19th Surrey; Private Hay, Artists’. Range prizes:
200 yards—Privute L. H. Thomas, 19th Middlesex; Captain
Despard, London Irish; Major Farrell, 26th Kont. 500
yards—Private C. Brown, 19th Surrey; Major Farrell, 26th
Bent; Private Fraser, London R.B. 600 yards—Private S. P.
Beeton, L.R.B.; Major Farrell, 26th Kent; Private L. H.
Thomas, 19th Middlesex.
The annual prize-meeting of the 10th Shropshire Rifle
Volunteers was held at Whitbach on the 12th, when the shoot¬
ing was carried on under great disadvantages owing to a violent
gale. The silver challenge Cup was won by Corporal Biggs,
who, having won the cup two years in succession, becomes the
absolute owner.
The Volunteer Service Oatette states that one captain and
nine subalterns of volunteers resigned last week. There have
been six new appointments, so that there is a net loss of four.
Seven of the retiring officers held certificates of proficiency.
The General Baptist Assembly has held this week at Dover
fits 225th annuul meeting.
AS OTHERS SEE US.
English critics have lately been making merry over the faults
found with modem London by an Italian critic—one Signor
Petruccelli della Gattina, who seems to combine advanced
Radicalism in politics with a curious Toryism in domestic
matters, and whose principal objection to the English of
to-day would appear to be that they are too like the French.
Of all possible accusations this must be surely the most
groundless. We have adopted some French improvements, it
is true ; and the French have to a certain extent returned the
compliment—as, for example, in the manlier tone of their
polities during the last year or two; but it is hardly possible
to exaggerate the essential difference betwen the two nations.
To see ourselves as others see us is generally a thing much to
be desired; but, of all recent foreign observers, Signor della
Gattina would seem to be the one whose views are least worthy
of our attention—they,are likely to do good only as showing
to what absurd lengths a prejudiced praiser of the past may go.
But Signor della Gattina is, in his uselessness, an excep¬
tion ; as a rule, the criticism of strangers, whether partial or
impartial, is of the greatest value. They repeat themselves to
a certain extent, it is true ; but even this is useful, for it shows
which features of our insular manners and customs arc really
the most striking and invariable.
To begin with: “manners,” say the French, “they have
iione.” Critic after critic repeats the remark ; and of its truth
there can be surely no doubt. We are the most ill-bred nation
upon earth—except, some travellers tell us, the Americans;
but the exception is doubtful. It is not bearing nor, in some
senses, refinement that we want; there is a remarkable air of
distinction about the better sort of English men and women;
it is mere genuine civility. One often hesitates to make a
remark to an Englishman, simply because one does not know
whether one will get a civil answer: a Frenchman will reply
courteously even to the least interesting truism one may hazard.
More than this, it is absolutely certain that he will say some¬
thing ; many Britons are so ignorant of the most elementary
laws of good-breeding that they will merely stare in a way only
to be excused on the supposition that they are stone-deaf.
In a hundred details the foreigner notices our want of
civility, cur want of thoughtfulness in small matters which
affect the comfort or pleasures of others. There is a reverse
to the picture, but this ho is not so likely to notice—one
remembers a single thing that incommodes one far more
keenly than half a dozen which add to one’s pleasure; and a
Frenchman very probably does not remark how much less
ready he is than an average Englishman to put himself to bodily
inconvenience to oblige others, to give up what is strictly his
due—in such matters, for example, as his seat in a train, an
omnibus, or a theatre. It may be said that the French are
better bred than the English, but more selfish; though
discourtesy is, as a rule, only a minor form of selfishness.
One thing, however, all foreigners notice, with pleasure
and even with surprise, in England ; and this is the great
civility of our official people— policemen, attendants at public
places, railway guards, and so forth. The overbearing
insolence of the German minor official, the brutality of the
French, are replaced in England by a quiet and friendly
helpfulness thoroughly appreciated by the stranger who is
travelling or sightseeing. Here every man feels himself more
or less a member of the Government; abroad, where the
traditions of despotism have not had time to die out, a ruler
and a bully are still thought to be terms almost synonymous.
Closely related to the subject of manners is that of caste;
few foreigners fail to observe the great difference between the
classes in “aristocratic England,” as the freest of countries is
(not unjustly) called. In France, if a Duke were talking to a
dairyman, he would call him Monsieur : the dairyman would
return it— aud no more. But in England— ! Let us give an
example of the English politeness which addresses a man
according to the value of his coat. ;
There was brought out, a short time ago, at one of the
principal London theatres, a play (written by an author of
some distinction, a University man) wherein one of the chief
characters was a young man, quite a “ gentleman ”—he was,
I think, supposed to be fresh from college, aud was at all
events not intended to be in any way boorish or vulgar. This
person wanted to attract the attention of a man standing at j
some distance, shabbily dressed, and of an appearance gene- j
rally rather disreputable; and the only remark which the
youth’s courtesy suggested to him was “ Hi! you fellow! ”
(or “ Hi! you there ! ” I will not be certain which). Nobody
in the audience seemed to think this rude; they apparently
took it for granted as the way in which a “gentleman ” would
be likely to speak to one who was not a gentleman.
This a Frenchman would notice at once—and the French
are our most constant critics, and our best. To have read
Tame’s Notes on England is almost a liberal education ; the
censure is, with very few exceptions, so unanswerably just—
the praise such a noble stimulus to further effort. He has
theories, it is true; and we in England are suspicious of
theories—but this is only another of the points on which we
differ, possibly another in which we ar<*not in the right!
Perhaps of all our English customs, that of cleanliness is
the one to which the French do least justice: they have not
learnt the need of it, and do not really care for it —and, besides,
there is in France much more apparent cleanliness than here.
The streets of Paris are beautifully kept (though the gutters
are malodorous), and the houses are not black with smoke : the
lowest class is not so filthy as ours: and their public places—
notably, eating-houses—are far more decent. But within-!
There are horrors in French homes, even of the better class,
which the pen refuses to describe.
One thing there is, finally, which fills all foreigners with
amazement and with woe : no description suffices to prepare
them for it, no length of time makes it more endurable to
them, they never understand it—nor does, one may confess,
anybody else. This is the British Sunduy—and above all the
British Sunday of large towns. Whether the French entirely
fail to see the advantage of a weekly day of rest, I do not
know ; but they protest constantly against what they call the
stagnation of the British Sabbath. They hold it an oppor¬
tunity for mental culture and refinement wasted by the closing
of all museums, picture-gaReries, and libraries, which axe on
that day most universally open in France.
People say that the Continental Sunday is impossible in
England, even if it were in every way desirable; that the
lower classes, if left to amuse themselves unrestrained, would
simply get drunk. This may or may not be so; and, at all
events, however unwillingly, one must confess that drunkenness
is the great national vice that first strikes every foreigner. I
never met a Frenchman or a German who had seen a tipsy
woman in the streets till he came to England. It may be
partly, as M. Taine thinks, the result of our climate; it may
arise from what Mr. Matthew Arnold calls the “immense
ennui ” of our middle classes. At any rate, it has been our
characteristic sibce the days of Sliakspeare; others see it,
and are horrified; we see it—and do nothing. Whether it
is diminishing in any way, one hardly knows ; but until it
shall disappear almost entirely, the Continental critic will feel
that between Iris country and England there is a great gulf.
THE BRITISH FLAG IN CYPRUS.
Our Special Artist in Cyprus, “S. P. 0.,” contributes a
sketch of the scene at the door of the Greek Monastery
Church at Kiko, two miles from Nicosia, adjacent to the head¬
quarters’ camp of General Sir Garnet Wolseley, on Sunday,
the 18th ult., when the Most Reverend Archimandrite, with
other Greek clergy, blessed the British flag. This ceremony
was preceded by the performance of a high mass within the
church. Outside the main door, between the two towers of
the sacred edifice, a carpeting of rugs and cloths, variously
coloured, was laid down ; a gilt chair of state was
placed for the English Governor, and a table, with a
pair of tall candlesticks, for the clergy. Sir Garnet Wolseley
declined to sit in the chair, which looked too much like a
throne; but he stood beside it, while Colonel Brackenbury,
Captain McCalmont, and Lord Gifford, members of his staff,
were behind the chair. The monks and priests, with acolytes
bearing the crucifix and censer and vessel of holy water, came
out in procession, attired in gorgeous vestments, and chantin'*
a solemn hymn. The flag was hallowed by the Archimandrite
with a particular benediction, and was then hoisted, rather
clumsily, by one of the church attendants. Three cheers were
given for Queen Victoria, for Sir Garnet Wolselev, and for the
British nation. There was no parade of military force;
indeed, most of the British Indian troops have now departed’
and Turkish soldiers are still employed to mount guard, though
ander British officers, in the capital of Cyprus.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
The Northamptonshire Agricultural Society held its annual
exhibition of horses, stock, and implements last week in &
spacious show-ground on the racecourse, Northampton. The
show was a good one, the number of entries being greater than
in any previous years, and the quality of the exhibits leaving
nothing to be desired. A horticultural show was held in con¬
nection with the county agricultural exhibition.
Tho Thame Agricultural Society had its annual meeting
last week; the Woodstock Agricultural Society’s Show was
held on Tuesday in Blenheim Park; and on Wednesday the
annual dinner of the Banbury Agricultural Association was
held—Colonel North, M.P., in the chair.
The thirty-third annual show of the Staffordshire Agricul¬
tural Society was opened at Leek on Wednesday. The prize
list amounted to £1000. The show was very suocessful, the
number of entries being far in excess of previous years.
The annual sale of the Duke of Devonshire’s shorthorns
took place on Wednesday at Holkar-in-Furness, when about
thirty head of cattle were sold, realising £20,000.
Kingsdown great cross-bred sheep fair was held at Box,
near Bath, on Wednesday. Nearly 3000 sheep were penned.
Superior lambs fetched £3 each, whilst best owe 3 brought £3 10s.
Howden horse fair has been held this week. On the whole,
whilst the fair was a good one for better class horses, the
supply of middle class animals was in excess of the demand.
The twenty-second annual festival in commemoration of
the safe in-gathering of the crops in the district of East Brent
was commemorated on the 12th inst. The day’s proceedings
began with an early celebration at the parish church at eight
o’clock, a second celebration taking place an hour later. The
thanksgiving service began at half-past eleven, by which hour
the sacred edifice was crowded. The sermon was preached by
the Rev. Canon Baynes, of Coventry, who concluded an
excellent discourse by making an urgent appeal on behalf of
the sufferers from the late direful accident in the Thames.
The offertory amounted to £9. At the conclusion of the ser¬
vice a procession was formed, and, headed by Archdeacon
Denison and other clergymen, it proceeded to the vicarage-
field, the band playing “The Roast Beef of Old England,”
and there a monster marquee had been erected, the interior of
which had been lavishly decorated by ladies of the parish.
The Venerable Archdeacon, who appeared to be in excellent
health and spirits, presided. The company numbered upwards
of 400. Ample justice was done to the roast and boiled beef
and mutton, of which six hundredweight was cooked. Sub¬
sequently nearly 1000 women and children took tea, after
which dancing and other amusements were indulged in.
At the Glynde Cottagers’ Show on the 12th inst. the Right
Honourable the Speaker, as president of the society, distributed
the prizes. In his address he drew a contrast between the con¬
dition of the dwellers in London and that of the dwellers in
Glynde—much in favour of the latter—in respect of gardens,
water, sunshine, and air. There were, he said, hundreds of
thousands of persons in London who had never seen a garden,
and who were to be pitied. He passed half his life in the
greatest city in the world, and, by the favour of the nation, he
lived in the finest palace in that great city ; but yet he had no
garden.—The harvest-home feast at Glynde Park took place
last Saturday, and Mr. Brand, in responding to the toast of his
health, referred to the proposal which he made five years ago
to the labourers on his .farm to take, on certain conditions, a
share in the profits. Those profits, he said, were then about
5 per cent; but since that time they had not been so large,
and therefore he had not pressed on the labourers the expe¬
diency of accepting that offer. He traced the decline of
profits to the diminished yield, owing to wet weather, of some
heuvy land under tillage, and stated that he should lay that
land down .in pasture, looking forward to raising in future
more meat and lees com. It was turned from grass-land
when wheat was much dearer and meat much cheaper than
now, and he therefore expected a favourable result.
Mr. Walter S. Britten, of the Clarence Bicycle Club, has
ridden from London to Bath and back, a distance of 212 miles,
in one day.
Consequent upon an intimation from New Orleans that no
more aid is required, the American Yellow Fever Relief Fund
in Liverpool is closed, over £3000 having been remitted.
A specimen of that very rare tortoise the Trionyx Argus
has lately been presented to the Brighton Aquarium by C.
Thipps Lucas, Esq. It is a native of the rivers on the Western
Coast of Africa, and belongs to the soft-shelled tortoises.
Mrs. Soames, of Tramore Lodge, Kemptown, Brighton, lias
offered to invest £1000 for the purpose of providing prizes for
the senior children of the local school boards who distinguish
themselves in religious knowledge.
At the meeting of the Brighton Town Council on Wednes¬
day the plans for the rearrangement and improvement of the
water supply were brought under consideration, when the plan
of Mr. Edward Easton, involving an estimated cost of £13,500,
was agreed to without discussion.
An extraordinary bed of snakes was discovered on a farm,
at Werrallt, Carmarthenshire, a few days ago. A slaughter
was commenced, and 352 snakes were killed. Three of the
snakes were of great size, and one hundred of them were from
nin e to twelve inches in length.
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NEW BOOKS. -with i
SIR GARNET '™ LSE “J,j to ac (,*1!,*
Aridity i»* c ” c ' l T t ? <l .; tr0 ”fiSers me Soly to "P5 n »PP»'
with ■which the ma] ™%^?J*™c!?net J. Wolseley, K.C.B., whicl
A N<tnoir of Charles Rathbone Low I.N., pe rha
G C.il G., JJ.C.L., LL.D by . . {or thc two volumes ploye
F.R.G S. (Richard telling all that the writer faculi
bo entitled are devoted to d&ngmshed General hecm
could necort.un about the <£* ec * mmon conse nt as the “coming A utu
who mms to be re ftafo^ d by . need 0 f a commander like to Su
man.” should F^land be ag; would it b e surprising, so send
Marlborough or Wellington.^ omena are drawn, im iv<
paltry are the accidents rota whicU ^P^ milarity 0 f sound H ow
{f a lucky portent wme detected the Irisb extraction, mcn
betwecn W olseley and \\ ell y, of Astaautee and the fact
or at any rate connection ,oi both tnen the coming in fa
hero ot Waterloo. Theen hu S ,a8tic^niy , f ^ charftctc be the j
man has already come ; tat; Sir warn , diate the idea tbat
properly und, r>tood would be the ^^gullautry he has gcBe
that, icr all the tervioehc> h*^ ^“Mied as a leader, * as
displayed as a Foldier,for all tl developed as a diplomatist and
for all the talent and ability he has develop accoinplidhed - b y t
and as an administrator, he of accomplishing -any- p 0 ia
having never, m *.had/t . o£ high promise to the t he
thing that elevates him ft-om the Unless report have ] a ur
level of men who have achievi gr df who> after the con- in ;
donehim Aidh ring injusticeCoast, moderated 18 7t
elusion of his brilliant camp gn him a greatness a u ]
the exuberance which wouldliave common C3n9Cut in . c
to which he made no H ral expectation is frequently that
is not always tniBtwortW^general«P of GeQeral McLe iian, 6 titi
disnppomted, wasrllns t ^ Southeni hosts in h im
who commanded the ■ and whom, to his own t un
the early po^ oJ th e \V to sabse quent depreciation c ha:
disgust, uo doubt, and certai y ^ showed and the repu- out
and obscuration of the abitie e ^ titl L J d 7 Trausat lantic swagger n0 ,
tation to which he L under the arrogant style and enc
had paraded before the wort then McLellan had never Cai
title of “the has ; hod never found so many ur .c
proved himself, •> . ouch excellent account. If ever
opportunities to be tunK'd to sue exceu« 2 ^^ ugtifiudj be ing o{ (
common consent and general P ■ -positives and com- to
ta,cd upon ^P'tSX“; u StifS,“n1™nldB.T
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jg
among the believers in 1 f Water loo was won in the w ii
ssSsasasSi, *£ 3 ?£ 2 -«*—— - * *>
^ sstfss ?
fomgwho boast that they rajd nothmg but the „
Armv List ” it must now be mentioned, still on the autnoricy tc
memoir that “ Sir Garnet Wolseley was educated at a B :
W ^oi “blii“ «?£tcr had private tuj™ ji ” that £ ,
“ms a hoy he was remarkable for his studious habits, an , b
when a mere child, had read all thc chief works on military b
history ” that “ his predilection for study was not confined a
to a liking for one branch of learning ; ” that he was re- 0
maikable 8 for aptitude in mathematical studies, and used p
reculnrly to go out four or five times a week surveying and \
Sring a knowledge of the art of military engineering ; ’ a
that “he was also versed in fortification and astronomical 0
See and exhibited his versatility by the proficiency he r
acquired in such practical pursuits as carpentering and the t
use of the lathe.” This, unfortunately, is about all tbat j,
can be gleaned from the memoir touching those early years (
which, in the case of such men of Sir Garnet Wolseley, are *
generally considered especially interesting : the years dunn t
which the child is begetting the man, and the life at home is ,
bringing out characteristics to be hereafter intensified or j
modified in the life beyond the family circle. We have
scarcely a glimpse of the internal economy of the household ,
in which he was brought up, scarcely a hint of the ivay in
which he may have been affected by domestic influences, n
history of boyish adventures, not a , sin glc anecdote, uide® it
have been missed, like that which we have all read about Nelson
and “Mr.” Fear. Perhaps there was no story to tell, and, if
there were any story to tell, there is a full and sufficient
explanation why it Las not been told. All Sir OtnuA’s papm*
and journals have been lost^partly stolen during the Indian
mutiny, and partly “ burnt at the peatj fire \ t '
technicon, where,” as many of us must ^ cU , r ie “®^ er ’,. h
his furniture and effects were consumed. Moreover, such is
thc modesty of the man, he is a very difficult person to
“pump,” so that the writer of the memoir had not a very
promising subject to perform upon when personal details had
to be extracted. On the other hand, the book was WTitten
under the very eye, as it were, of Sir Garnet, who, after
perusal, testified to its absolute veracity. So that, however
meagre the work may appear in some respects, imagination or
hearsay has not been drawn upon for facts. Moreover, the
author of the memoir had already shown by his History of
the Indian Navy ” that he was eminently qualified to appre¬
ciate such a man and such a career as he has undertaken to
d ^ c ' memoir, then, is confined almost entirely to a record
of public services in the field and in the closet, the services of
an officer who takes high, if not the highest, rank not only
as a soldier and administrator, but as an author, artist, aud
surveyor ” It is, therefore, to a very considerable extent a
compilation; but it has been compiled from the very best and
most tiustworthy sources. It entailed upon tbo writer the
necessity of dealing with many of the most momentous events
in which this country has been concerned, from the Second.
Luimtse War in 1852, to the occupation of Cyprus, m 18 (8.
We find Ensign Wolseley distinguishing hmiselt, a few months
after he had joined, in that Burmese campaign; and Captain
Wolseley, once more severely wounded, gaining golden opinions
in the Crimean War and in the Indian Mutiny. Next, we have
Colonel Wolseley a Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel at the early
age of twenty-six, taking his part in the War in China m
the thick of the fire at the capture of tho Taku Forts, doing
good work as a surveyor, and present at but scorning to take a
part in the sack of the famous Yuen-Ming-Yuen. InlSGl we
follow him, promoted to a substantive majority, to England
and then to Paris, where he “ employed his leisure in painting
in oils and water colours ; ” and anon, at the time of the scare
about the “ Trent,” in the winter of 1861, we see him inter¬
rupted in the midst of his hunting in County Cork and
gent away to Canada. Sere^Colonel married
J^r^hoTleavtin
England to the Dominion. In f Expedition, of
appointed to the ooMjmdoJ*^ Red an d in which, more
w Vh a most noteworthy acconmt ^ , h he hag been e ni-
perhaps than many other business ^ excell o£ ^s
ployed, he showed the Tan ^ d witb a knighthood, and
faculties. He was “2nh W^Mey ^C M.G. Dnring the
became Sir Garnet Joseph W waa 0 f the Staff
Autumn Manoeuvres of 1871 S resolved to
i Bir Ctrie.SteTcl^ md. ml TO, W as, irilh the
and im eipedition to confcrre d upon Sit Gurnet,
universal approya 1 of the «)^Confidence placed in him know all
How amply he JJ^^^rcSSded may be inf erred from the
men ; and how ^ til he w offered him —declining,
fact that he refused totake all ^ ^ thougb he had held
in fact, the G - C '®V T 6 p ral on ^ Gold Coast, was still
the local rank of M n 1 " forthwith promoted by special
that of Major ; and General, an honour which
general order to theff e ^Maor ^ G . C . M .G.,
was accompamed bj the ^stow_1 t t , was cai led upon
and a grant of £25,000 and assume tem-
by the Government to proceed arv ’ a n d civil affairs m
poTarily the supreme dire q f with fresh, but peaceful,
b f 10 ? 1 ’ hl dS wM^Te hS pterioudy gachagd
laurels to the duties wnicn ished> ^ November,
in England, a » d . ?£pL,55n o£ India.” He is now, as we
1876, for a sea a Hig b Commissioner and Commander-
aU know, her Majesty JUign uaj up0 n to occupy
in-Chief at Cyprus, where hejffinJ bae ^ good for his con-
that bed of roses which one who knows
Btitntion. Bis chanicter u __® ( y ^ tbe best oppor-
himweU mtbe and j say he is the most perfect
tnnity of judgiugofthe'nan, “ d ^ e f m uch of him with-
character 1 have ever met, , , „ p er fect affection;
out having for him a regard which becomes^en^ ^ dJfler .
no one could be more unspoilt by ’ very young
enee in him now from the time when fe^ a veryyo g
‘ t o'.uccS
p«rt°uguy
occasionally bclray. not m re™*. 0““^ “ d f om .
Indian Navy.”__
He prominent p fn
the late war by those gallant allies to ah<j repaSd by en
thanks for help in time ot tro » fc ^ account £or the an
an act of spoliation, are quite, b by j_ ’VY. Ozanne en
appearance of ^ i/which the author, who had stc
Sra^rnMmetatcrcst^^^ J
e
respects as totaSSSbdtaf tfiattoenaiTw^bestoweduga J
t
i
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course of time by “ a scion of the House of Hohenzollern.
And so we arrive 7 it the last chapter, .cxmtaimng a «view of
+>ip -nolitical situation.” When it is stated that the wnoie
volume contains fewer than two hmffired _ and fifj;
will be evident that, though “ Koumama is not »
State ” the woik can only be regarded as a slight ana some
what superficial one. However, from ^^^“/RbSrue
i -ntet of view. “ ’t will serve,” aud serve amply, it it De true
' that “there are two hundred churches in Bucharest, w^erc
r there ore but two hundred and forty-four thousand tnha-
l bitants, the proportion is creditable to the1 ^.
1 proclivities but, regarded in connection with what we
f are told about their manner of Hfo, ***%* to
r the saying about “the nearer the church, Ac. me
r social institutions of the Roumanians seem to lead sometimes
e to curious complications. For instance, we read of children
f who have their mother in one family, them
* (though, perhaps, we might not have muchdifficultym M g
0 the parallel of that even m our own country), and of women
who P at a soiree meet two or three former husbands, lean on
d tbe arm of a fourth, and blush at the compliments of a
>f fifth ”—a state of things with which we cannot as yet pretend
7 to compete, and which probably arises to a considerable
d extent From the fact, if it be a fact, that the Roumanian
a women are famed for their beauty, and their whole existence
d is devoted to loving and being loved.’ T he author seems to
ie be possessed of a spirit of exaggeration when he says that, m
ts tbe P hour of danger at Plevna, “ foiled and beaten, the Czar,
ld who had often before declined with contempt the offers ot
A- Prince Charles, fell on his knees and besought the Roumanians
113 to save him ; ” and “ it is clear that, but for their hearty co-
iu operation, the troops of the Czar could never have held their
118 own but must have been driven back until tbey took refuge
ve on friendly soil.” Moderation would prompt one to say that
iy the Roumanianshelpedthe Czar out of apredicament, from winch
in he would not otherwise have extricated himself without great
ag temporary loss and disgrace, andthat he only ‘ ‘ fell on his knees
5 a in a very shadowy, figurative sense. However, for all this, we may
we cheerfully allow that the Roumanians “are, without exception,
ud the most promising of the Christian races of the East; ” and
ug ye t they may not be very promising after all.
^ In the category of really useful, admonitory, and deeply-
jid mOYing books may be included Letters from Muskoka: by an
Emigrant Lady (Richard Bentley and Son) ; for it certainly i»
Xlymoving to read such an account of a lady’s experience
of emigration as is summed up in the following pathetic para-
oTftnh “ I went into the Bush of Muskoka strong and
healthy, full of life and energy, aud fully us enthusiastic as
the youngest of our party: I left it with hopes wmpletely
crushed, and with health so hopelessly shattered from hard
work, increasing anxiety and trouble ofall kinds, that I am
now a helpless invalid, entirely confined, by the doctor’s orders,
to'my bed and sofa, with not the remotest chance of ever
toaJtag them for a more active life during the remainder of
STals on earth.” And all this deterioration was effected
by about four years’ endurance of an emigrant s life. It
is 7 impossible not to sympathise with the sufferer though
it “Equally impossible not to see that the unfortunate
lady whether we judge of her case from her own candid con-
fSon or from the evidence of artless revelations which dis¬
close her natural tendencies, her normal state of mind, her
prejudices, her prepossessions, and her “ notions, was about
as unpromising an emigrant as ever crossed the seas. The
Franco-German war was at tho bottom of her misadventure,
to “he was resident in France at that date, and what with
“virulent smallpox and other epidemics, the result of elm
from the battle-fields,” and what with “ reduced income” (a
very prevalent complaint), whilst “ provisions rose to an
enormous price, taxation greatly increased, and the country
b id fair to be long in an unsettled condition, she, with cer¬
tain members of her family, “ began to think of emigration.”
So they “ read up a few books on emigration, wlucli invariably
paint it in the brightest colours, and being quite ignorant of
the expense of so long a journey, of the hardships ot the
. hush P and of the absolute necessity for a sum of money to
begin with,” tbey left home, believing in the innocence of
ignorance and with sanguine disregard of common-sense that
strong hearts, willing hands, nnd the pension of an officer s
widow would be mexhaustible riches in the wilderness;’
is all very well to throw the blame upon “books
Jn LS»tS” wMch, If memory may be trasted,
■ do not Dy any means “ invuriably ” paint the emigrant s
: prospects in rosy colours, but it is far more likely that the blame,
d l my might be more justly laid at the door of the lady s own
- soS whm it appears, “ had settled on the • free-gmnt lauds’
i of Muskoka, and who wrote frequently to urge other members
f of the family to come out before all the good land near his
f location was taken up.” At this time, it is pertinent to
t observe “ he was himself thriving, but immediately after suf-
\ tored' gTeat reverses.” At any rate, the lady s own book is
! not open to the reproach of painting thiags m such colours as
i to send emigrants thronging to the wilds of Muskoka, Ontario,
’ Canada • it is, on the other hand, eminently calculated, as it is
professedly intended, to “deter others of the genteel class,
und especially elderly people, from breaking up their comfort-
n able homes and following an iynw fattens m the shape of emi-
S oration to a distant land.” People, indeed, before they
J emigrate, would do well to reflect that man *us created mg
ie and b female, but was not created “genteel, and that the
ie emigrant, in the sense in which the word is generally under-
td stood—that of a first settler, in fact in an undeared region
T- has as little to do with gentility as Adam and Eve Aadattae
ur date of their creation. The “ genteel class is out of place
id in a wilderness, where before all things it is necessary
Ad to brave in naked, rude reality the unpleasant con-
re sequences of the “ primal curse.” The -letters of the emi-
” grant lady are few, and the information they contain is
a • somewhat scanty, but they are interesting and quite enough
he for the purpose ; they are followed—that a decent number of
Us pages, presumably, might go to tlie volume-by various papers
O- having more or less connection with Muskoka, and including
>W ! S of “anecdotes of the Canadian Bush;’ These anec-
itv dotes refer to “ thirty years ago,” and were told to the iaay
S hy “the w“e of an old settler.” The most remarkable of
re, them should be worth many a bun to the brown beara at
in Voolocical Society’s Gardens; tor a brown bear it was, it the
. >5 anecdote and the conclusions based upon it J*
uy that slept every night for a week or bo We a poor tost
ion little boy, and “ was so kind and good-natured that it let h
ben creep quite close to it, and put his arms round it, th^t
am this way he slept quite warm.” And yet we say,
the as a bear.” But, no doubt there are bears and bears, the
:; »* difficulty is that one never knows which is wlncn.
CUIUCUliy uuv “G.v. --
It is pleasant to find an old purveyor of light literature
still to the front; and there will, no doubt, be a kmffiy wd-
come at many a club and elsewhere for the two flumes
entitled Fashion Then and Now, by Lord
(Chapman and Hall), who once more comes forward with a
coUection of vivacious gossip, such as one can dip into y
Se ^mentS the fertaSty of fastening
curious or entertaining. The “then” of the title appues
apparently to any time within the period which has P
JL the Deluge, but chiefly to the last century or so, the
“Tow”e^lS itself; and (he contents of ^ volumes form
a far froni disagreeable mixture of ^
hearsay, and extracts from printed records. There are ane
dotes, social, poUtical, military, dramatic, and sporttog^
amusing in itself, but may be as useful as a seciand ’nem
as a convenient work of reference, though there is,
unately, no index for the consultor’s assistance.
Thc Whitehall Review this week gives to its subscribers a-
portrait of Fiincess Thyra of Denmark.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
EDUCATION OF POOR CHILDREN.
A report by Dr. F. J. Mount, Local Govern¬
ment Board Inspector, and Captain J. D.
Bowly, R.E., on the home and cottage system
of training and educating the children of the
poor has been issued as a Parliamentary paper.
The system of education and training at the
following institutions is described:—Princess
Mary’s Village Home, Addlostone; Home for
Little Boys, Farningham, Kent; Dr. Bar-
nardo’s Village Home for Orphan, Destitute,
and Neglected Girls, Ilford; Philanthropic
Society’s Farm School, Redhill; the Stock-
well Orphanage ; the Children’s Horn
Bonner-road, Victoria Park.
system is applicable to the education and
training of pauper children, and upon this
subject they come to the following general
conclusions “ 1. That the moral and physical
characteristics of pauper children as a class
render it imperative that they should receive
special care in education and training, to cor¬
rect the original defects of mind and body
which are more or less inseparable from the
circumstances of their birth, parentage, and
bringing up. 2. That in the education and
training of such children the primary con¬
dition to be obtained is improvement of their
physical state, next to which should come moral
and industrial training, and, lastly, mental
culture to the point necessary for their future
position in life. 3. That these conditions are
most likely to be best secured in schools con¬
structed and managed on the separate cot¬
tage, home, or farm-school system. 4. That
in all such schools boys and girls should, as a
rule, be brought up together in mixed families
until the boys attain the age of ten years, after
which the boys should be moved to separate
families, as also should any girls whom for any
special reason it may seem undesirable to
retain in a mixed family. 5. That the family
unit should be as near an approach to the
natural family as is consistent with a due
regard to economy. That the mixed families,
and also the separate families of girls, should
not contain more than twelve to twenty
children under a house mother, and that the
separate families of boys should be limited to
twenty-five or thirty children under a house
father and house mother. 6. That the mental
education should be carried on in a central
establishment corresponding to an ordinary
village school, and that boys and girls should lie
taught together. 7. That the industrial train¬
ing should be as varied and comprehensive as
possible ; similar, in fact, to that long in use
in the farm and reformatory schools of Ger¬
many and the Continent generally, so as not
only to fit the boys for any handicraft in which
there may be a demand for trained hands, and
the girls for such as are suitable for their sex,
in addition to those needed for domestic service;
but also to fit both to become the healthy
heads of families and the progenitors of j
children free from the hereditary taints now
common to their class. 8. That, provided
that in designing the buildings efficiency, com- I
bined with economy, be the first considera¬
tions rather than architectural effect, a school
constructed on the family system ought not to
cost much, if any, more than one on the
aggregate or barrack system; and that, ns
regards management, the extra expense, if any,
will be wisely and profitably incurred.”
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-LIA for HOCSE FUKNISHINU, including Linen*, Iron¬
monger}-, Glaus. Crockery ware, Clocks. Bronxe*, and every
FURNISHING ESTABLISHMENT in the
«f any magnitude Furnished from Stock in
r chase is Humid inspect the Stock before deci.liug
goods marked in plain figures. Estab. HI years,
n lllu ti nted Catalogue post-free.
jyj^APLE and CO., Importers.
pURKEY CARPETS,
JNDIAN CARPETS,
pERSIAN CARPETS.
_ and
SOWRNAOK CARPETS, olso 600 Turkey Carpets, of
extra flue quality andat marvellously low prices, just received
trvm Con *t «nt inop 1 e. Tlifflo Goods lrnve been bought by Agents
especially dispatched by Messrs. MAPLE and CO. for cash, lire
oi great rarity, some being very handsome old prujer rugs, wlxicu
nave been made over a hundred years. The prices aro wonder¬
fully low—in fact, one third of that usually asked for these
curiosities.—H6, lie, 147, Tottenham-court- roaa, London.
DUPLEX table
Instantaneous extinguisher.—The 1
?! r petroleum .t rock oil, gives an intense, pure, anu ncanurui
licht, equal to that of twenty-four sperm candles, at a cost of
, faithing per hour. Deane and Co. Invite inspection
or their new season's stock in Crystal, China. Orrnouln, and
Bronze. Pri.es from 15«. to £l>.
lUnztrated Priced List for 18
DEANE and 00., 46, King William-st
NEW SERIAL WORK.
r “ rt ,cudy I'rioe 7d„
TJEROES OF BRITAIN IN PEACE
a iit l. i, , .! 1 ' TL AK {OA , D - u will embrace an
univoiua'l honoin!" ^’' Ml " f uU,l ' , '“' ' ,lul wlu> " 0 deeds are held in
Prospc"tnsos at nil Hookrellcrs.
CassEix. I etteu, and Ualpin, Lndgute-hiU. London.
NEW SIIAKSPERE.—Complete in Nineteen Parts, at Sixpence.
_ Parti, ready Sept. 23, price Od. ‘
T™ s LEOPOLD SHAKSPERE.
t 7, , '.r 1 " ith 400 Eugmving,. Dedicated, by permission,
"h'l Exphunatery Introduction by'?. J* FUUn7vall' J
pubhaind/^Dmly Ncwe! 0l<,mC U ‘* iti °“ ° f **“ 1Wtt ' 8 Wufhs **
t , Prospectuses at all Bookseller*'.
Caksvij,, I jcttxb, and Gauux, Ludgate-liill, London.
T ECONS pour des ENFANTS de l’A^e
J ust P'jJj^ecLin "“Vriii ™ p .. sr r 0, ' vin ' four litho rraphic
^TRUTHS* ABOUT ’wHISKY? ^Contents:
d7iditi 1 i’ r ' I '7 T1 o C rf ; rft '" n Authors. Olinp. 1 1.— The
Chan III Th. 1*^.7 ‘/. 1 (> ; luill ‘' Poblin Whisky.
Wntcr smmu 1 «wl'aritiis of the DahUn Manufacture: th#
Water hnpvdy. Cliap. IN ,— Patent Stills and Silent Solrits
Cliiip. \.— The Growth of Silent Spirit into Sham Wniulr-r*
merit VI n Th ® Kf'ativcWho'eyomenVa.of Whisky and of Silent
ot Parliament. Chap.VllI.-The Actlono^ tile
& T iL eveum -„ Ch *E- lX — Hacking in
STthe&rNfaX^’.*- CUP ‘ Y -' WlUfey FfaUj '
btcoiuf hopwwu y for ll i j)ri'lo€tion of cutminors.
London : br-rroj*. Hiubps. aud Co.. Qui^n Victoria-stivet, E.O.
POTTERY-PAINTING: a Handbook to
« r . act1 ,“; pj i OU £ C.L.SPARKES, Director of the
I^mlK»th School of Art, Ac. b«)ond Edition. Poat-froo. la. Id —
I/indon: L*rn*irrixu, Da&bk, and Uo., tin, lb ironfr-dtreat W
(Agent « In England for Lacrobt'a Ceramic Colonn»).
yiTREMANIE SUPERSEDING
I, DI Al'HANIE.—An easy and inexpensive Method of Deco¬
rating Windows In Churchti, Public Wildings, and Private
Dwellings by which may be produaxi the Rich Colouring and
Beautiful Designs of Beal stained Glass. Handbook of Designs
and Inslructious, Is. Id. Particulars post-free. Sole Inventors
J. Bars Atm and Sox. 339, Oxford-street. London, W.
/^ANCER AND TUMOURS, A Successful
V-/ Mode_of Treating Certain Formiiof. Uy ALEX. MAUSUEN,
M.D., Senior burgeon to the Ctuiwr HomiIUI, London. Price
8e. 6d. — J. and A. Cuguouill, New Burlington-sfcrwt.
'W'OSE AND THROAT DISUSES, and
WOO^‘ t ’M^^!t^iTs t Tr n iV'X?nr» Cat<Si By ,;E01:<) “
J AUKS Errs and Cm, 17ti', HccadlUyTund 1S , Threadneevlle-strc-t
By I>r. BABR MEADOWS. Physician to the National Institution
for Diseases of the Skin. Seventh Editdon.isist-frce.tMotainpa,
IRRUPTIONS ; their Rational Treatment,
-A-J Remarks on the abuse of arsenic, merenry. aud other re¬
puted spcciflcs.—London: G. Hill, Ifil, Westminster Bridge-rd.
NOW READY,
'JHE ILLUSTRATED
pENNY ALMANACK FOR 1879,
containing Twenty-fonr Engravings from the InnuBrajiTan
Li.Mi.vs New-h of our Ironclads, the Cleopatra. Ostrich Farming,
and other Foreign and Domestic Subjects; Tables ot Stamps,
Taxes, and Licenses: Eclipses. Remarkable Events, Post-Offlos
Regulations, anil a great variety of Useful and Interesting
Information. The Tnult* fmpplipd by G. Vickeiw, Angil-oours
(172). btrand; amd H. Williams, Warwlck-lane, Paternoster-row,
London.
(ANE THOUSAND SPORTING PICTURES
v-r for SALE—great bargains. The Guinea Prize 1 nrcel
consists of the Derby winner, Sefton : City and riibiirban winner
Julius Ca-sar; three Waterloo Cup winners — viz... M.ist/r
Magrnth. Donald Honeymoon. The aliovcprice is for this month
only, as the usual price is three guineas.—GEO. REES, 41. 42. 43.
Em-Mill-street, &ivent-garvlen. IainMId.cd quarter of a century.
P.S.—Jnnnettvi can lie had In plaoe of either of the above horses
when published.
IROR ARMS and CREST, send Name and
-L County to T. MORING, Intis of Court Heraldic Offlcee,
44, High llolborn. W.C. Plain Sketch, 3s. Del.; Gdour.vl, 7s. 6d
Beals, Diea. and Diplomas. Illustrated Price-Li.its po^t-troa.
P. J. SMITH AND SONS’
TRON-STRUTTED PIANOS.
A •• The lieet snd meet substantial instrument prodnoed."
9. CONDUIT-STREET, REGENT-STREET, W.
A T USICAL-BOX DEPOTS, 56, Cheapside,
and22. Lndfrate-liill. London.—Nlcx>le*6 colcbrutisl Mimical
playing beat »<H nluraLul vaend mimic. Prices, £4 to £120.
8nufnB XM,fn*mlhfl.totiO*. J^rrefftwtookiu London. Untiiloiruo
gratioundpost-free. ApplytoW-\LEBAM'CULLOCU.a.'iabovt).
BENNETT’S WATCHES.
In return fora £10 Note, free and safe per post, one of
lDnNKTT'S LADY'S GOLD WATCHIOS, iierfect, Tor time,
Iv Hiity. and workmanship, with keyless action, air-tight, damp-
tight, and dust-tight.—Co. Cheaiaide. London. Gold Chains at
manufacturers' priciw. P.O.O. to Jolm Bennett.
BENNETT, 65 and 64, Ch#apsi(ls.
■WALKER’S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES
T T oresnpmoedingall others. Priz# Mtvlals—London. 1862.
Paris. 1867. Silver Watches, from £4 4s.; Gold, from £6 6s. Pricc-
l.itts sent free.—77, CornhUl; 220, Regent-street; and 76, Strand.
/ VROIDE GOLD WATCHES, 21s., 25s.,
V ’ 3os.; free by na lstered jKizt (Vl. extra. Facsimile of costly
gold wutebee; exact time-keepers. Catalogues post-free.
C. C. ROWE. 88, llrompton-road, London,8.W.
THE luminous clock.
JL A MOST WONDERFUL INVENTION,
by which the Time can be SEEN in tho DARK
without tho aid of any artiticial light. Every
home should possess one. See opinions of Press.
ASSER and 6HERW’IN,'80 and 81, Strand, W.
pAMILY MOURNING.
Widow’s Dress, mode complete,
Widow's Drum. ^ **"“ " •"
Parent's Monrnteg " "
t. .. .. trimmed Cyprus Crape, trora ..
lorcnt s Mourning Drees, made complete.
... . . „ tiinmieil English Cmi>e. from ..
Bister s or Brother » Mourning lirc.ss, made complete,
„ . . 1 rimmed Cyprus Crape, from ..
Sister a or Brother s Mourning Dresa, made complete,
incd English Cmpc.lr.tuv ..
Mourning for N<
Mourning for N.
d Cyiirus Crape, from ..
fives, m ol. complete,
d English Crape, from ..
it One Shilling per Yard.
JAYS',
. 249, Ml, Regent-street.
_
and Navv ic. Prospectuses forwarded on application to
D. G. BERRI, 36, High Uolbom, London, W.C.
MAN HIS OWN PRINTER.
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jyjR. STREETER,
IS NEW BOND-STREET. W.
GOLDSMITH AND JEWELLER.
The only Jeweller In England whose Stock consists of one
uniform standard quality—vi*., in carats.
LONDON-MADE JEWELLERY
of Exquisite Design and Workmanship.
DIAMOND ORNAMENTS
In great variety, at prices relative to their intrinsic value.
SPECIALITIES lk BRIDESMAIDS' LOCKETS, WEDDING
PRESENTS. Ao.
THE ••TALISMAN" BRACELET
(Patented),a Noveity lor the Season .from £&
TRAVELLING ASSISTANTS.
Mf rsrs. JAY have a Staff of AKristanta
specially mgaged to wnit^upi.ii Lulien at tiieir liome*
to submit Gouda for inapi-ctmn.
nil or u hu b are marked in plain Hgun*.
ami -old nt l he same pru> aa If purcliAaed
ut the Waivlioiirc m logout-strwt.
JAYS’,
TIIE LONDON GENEUAL MOUUNING WsVREUOUSE,
CHARLES GASK and CO. (Limited),
to 113. Oxford-street:
lto#V Wella-atrnvi. London.
CARRIAGE ENTRANCE, 6. WeUs-strcct.
T>ICII SILK and other COSTUMES.
^^ic^r.M unoe'rur'tYc'yuUinm 1 nlrndh' llL ^^ , c'* Vt,:, Snk,>n
mTsjeilite n ° iS #t ' cu uUt °* Paris, at most
1 I: ' r 7" YV ': , i n . r ; vci ( '"' ,m n«M.f Fashionable New Fabric,
un<l 4 gu'iii! im’ til Cloths, Cornel's Hair, Ac., 2,3,
■\TANTLFS, ULSTERS, and SEALSKINS.
.... . ^ importation of the Latent Novelties.
trimniiM ^ WI1 ‘^ curur A'aletot, 1 and 2 guiucaa, handsomely
mmquahed VtIUnK tnrt<,r ’' 411 W001 ' to 27 blades, at 1 guinea,
line Snilskin l'nlctote, 36 In. in length, 91 guineas each.
Smaller uz.es in proportion. ' 8
Fur-lined Mantles mid Paletots, 31s. Cd. to 5 guineas.
TIlvESS MATERIALS in all the Newest
J-F Textures. New Llcheu Cloth. Uhl. per yard. Oamd'i.-
Italr 1 loth, ls.4.1. lurtuus, RampoorCloth, aud the new Brocli*
yurd tTC *' 60 tllucil usul * n oembinatiun, 2s. 6<1. to o». «d. p.r
line French Cashmeres, in new shades, Is. lid., 2s. 7Jd„ and
fc. Ud. per yard, double width. ’ 5 ' u
OURNI]S T G GOODS
,,, . _ tvtrjr dc?rription nt most moderate prices.
'“tom*** “11 wool, 2 gnincus, liliuik and White
UroclH CoMnnies, 1 guinea; handsome Gosfcuiues. trinumjd with
1,™ HH.-pc-tUiiR craiJO lor all grades of mourning. t>
8 gmni as. Ilio I)re.sfmuking Dupartment is under new and
superior management. A bucci‘s*1u 1 lit und the best style may
be iciicd u]H.»n, *it moderate charges. J ^
Pattenie and Samples of all goods free.
QILKS.—SPECIAL NOTICE.
mL ^ e .Tei n ^ 40,000 yards of Black and Colonre.1
Bilks, in all the new shades, at fully lo to 20 per cent under laat
ytar’s prices-2s. lid. U> »is. lid. por yard.
An insiKy:tIon U solicited.
Patterns to tlie country free.
/CHARLES GASK and CO. (Limited),
VJ 6S. 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, Oxford-street ; 1, 2, 3, 4, 0. WoiU-
street, London.
CARRIAGE ENTRANCE,
a, Wclls-street.
TTENRY GLAYE’S
AX SILK AND VELVET DEPARTMENT.
Black Silks, at Is, Old., Is. U jd. 2s. 6M„ and 2s. Ilid. yd.
Black Silks, Lyons Gres Grains, by Messrs. Gourd
Croiz-at, and Cle.. special prices. 3e. Uhl. a yard.
Blm-Hluck Velveteens, Is. OJd. a vurd, 26 in. wide.
7000 yards Rich Coloured Velveteens, CO different shades.
27 In. wide. Is. 6*d. yard; former price, 2s. l!Jd.
7Ckd yards Rich Coloured Velveteens, A0 different shades,
27in. wide, 2s. lOkl. aynrd; fonucr price, 3a. lltd.
Tho new "llOuifl , ' Velveteen. These Velveteens, dyed
the new shade of blue-black by a special process, .re
guaranteed to retain their colour and brilliancy, and
cannot be distinguished from Lyons Silk Velvets ut
four or live times the price.
Special Parcels of 27 In. Bilk Costume Velvets, 6s. lid.
the yard; former price. 10s.
Black Satins, Is. OJd., Is. 6Jd-. Is. Hid-. 2s. 6j.l„ and
Bl^k h'/tins. 3s. 6W-, 3s. llld., 4s. ltd., and 6s. lid. a yd.
Coloured Satins, in 10O shades, 2s. UJd. and 3s. 6-)d.
Patterns of all kinds post-free.
534, A3A, 636, and 637, New Oxlord-street, London.
TTENRY GLAVE’S
11 NEW AUTUMN DRESS FABRICS.
Rongh-oud-Kendy Surge* at 8{d- »ud 10jd., in line abates
shades; 20 in. to 28in. wide.
80(»i yards remarkably cheap New Dross Fabric, at Old.
flooo yards Douglas Brilliautiue, new autumn shades, sjd.
The Estamene Sergo, newest colours. Is. Hill, a yard.
Heather Mixtures, something quite new for Autumn,
20 in. wide, Is. 6jd. a yard.
Cashmere EstiiuL Bjd. u yard, 21 in. wide.
French Bege FouflC, la. 4}d-. '^i In. wide.
The Scarborough Twill. 60 new Autumn Colours, lOJd.
Scotch Cashmere FriullC, is. (Sjd., width 26in.
Satin Glottis and Wool Topline*, dyed by the best French
houses, various prico* and endless shades.
Cashmere Estlmi, width 27 in., i.rico Is. 6Jd.
Scotch Cttilrmere Estlmd. 27 in., price Is. 2Jd.
Special prices of donblc-width Navy Blue Serges,49 in. to
64 in. wide, Is. 0*d.. le- 2Jil.. and Is. 8kl. a yard.
634, 636,630, and 637, New Uxford-street.London.
TTENRY GLAYE’S
11 MOURNING DEPARTMENT.
Black Duchess Cloth, luudo exclusively for us, Is. 11W.
aud 2s. i4d.. 30 in. wide.
Black Cashmeres, of English and French production.
Plack Cashmeres, of the very beet vulue.
Black Cashmeres, ut Is. llld., 2s. Hid., 3s. Xlld.. and •
4s. lld.^the ^ard, 44 in. to 48 iu.^wide.
034,636,636, T and OST^NoW Oxfi’rd-street,'London.
■WOOLLEN CLOTHS for LADIES’
T T JACKETS. CLOAKS, ULSTERS, Ac., In great variety,
at vary moderate price*. We also keep a very large Stock •nit-
able for Gentlemen's and Youths' wear. Livery Cloths, An.,
equally cheap, 't erms, ready money only.
C. MEEK1NG und CO.. WooUcn Warehouse,
corner of Hutton-garden, Ilolborn-clrcus.
T)AKER and CRISP’S.
U The cheapest and beet Silks of every description, from
Is. Hid. per yard; patterns free. Richest Black Satins,
2s.Cd.; Coloured, every shade, 3s. Od.
TTELYETEENS EXTRAORDINARY.
V 1000 Boxes richest Lyons Silk Moleskin Velveteens, in
Black, fromls.uil.iyurd; all the Now Colours, from 2s. lid.
Patterns tree.—BAKER and CRISP, 198, Regent-street.
pASHMERES EXTRAORDINARY.
vV . 11260 Pieces of all tho new Early English and
1 a SxI UB < School of Art Colours. Is. UJd. yard.
tree ' l BAKER and CRISP, Regent-street.
TVRESSES EXTRAORDINARY.
-LI ls00 Piecesof^ainiio^Ncw AijtumnSmtings, Ulsterings,
Fufi Dress. Patterns free.—198, Regent-street, London.'
rpROCADERO COSTUME (a Speciality).
A Engravings free. 1000 New Costumes, Cashmere and
faulin, 41*. rd. All other New Fabrics from Sis. Cd.
BAKER and CRISP'S, 198, Regent-street.
/''COLOMBO, MADRAS, and CALCUTTA.
DUCAL LINE. Exceptional and favourable terms of
pipage for n limited numlJer of nrrt-clS j^eS«r^onlr
Apply to the Agent**, F. uprn and Co., or M^DiarmiS*
Greentbiolds, and Oo„ No. 112, Feuchurch-streot, E.O. ‘ “
FORD’S EUREKA. — “ The
CHIRTS.
O most pci
desirous of pui
Ford's Eureka. 30s.. 40s, 46*. half-dozen,
measure post-free.—41, Poultry, London.
,_ ___ __ Gcntlemc..
mrebaaing Shirts of the best quality should try
. ...- .... .... > -'• J- Illustrations and self-
T OANS PRIVATELY NEGOTIATED.
Oonfldpntiftl communications to Mr. Mo Kills 2.1
Lite kn’d purehS^L ^ attonUou - ^vensions.
0^, EE EVERYTHING YOU REQUIRE
SOClETY°4VlmS ,Ll f ^UCKN-S UNITED SERVICE AGENCY
and muc^ time aud7rouble Liyso 3 W
T) NICHOLSON and CO. send post-free
J / • Pattern* of
J^EW SILKS,
TTRESS FABRICS,
A- and Illustrations of
j^JANTLES, and COSTUMES.
J[)^ ^ICIiOLSON and QOMPANY,
60 to 63, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYAIUVLONDON.
nAUTION.— BOND’S CRYSTAL PALACE
l^tion™ r ’f UED e L MA « KI ? G INK.-Some Chemist* and
piuuoners, lor extra jirotit, deceive you. Genu ne Laliel
• Prep*n,i by the Dauchter of the late John Houd."lwSrks’
76, fcouthgato-roiid, Lomlon. No heating required.
TUDSON’S DYES.—6d. each, of Chemists.
SnSj^m'a pill ofhotw’ato^ 11 * 4 ' Scan ’ e *' JacketH d y° d lD *««
J ml sou's Dyee—Crimson, Green, and Twenty-four Colour*.
r |'HE COURT HAIR DESTROYER.—This
lialr.
19. Porteus-id., London. W., orChernlsts. l'artiruLara.'i gamp!
GOLDEN H A I R.—ROB ARE’S
much U°ldon Dolour so
mum nanurwl. W hi runted perfectly liui-mlesa. Price 6s cd and
1 ( * id., of #11 Perfumers. Wholesale, UOVKN DEN and BUNS
6. GreutMarlhorougli-dreet, W. : un d Wamlii is tv-mad lx n’
L-nd"ii; Plnaud ami Mever,37. Boulevard d<- Srred«nre Paris-"
SI, Greben, Vienna; 44, Rue des Long* Chariots, BroMaFft, ‘
T\OES YOUR HAIR TURN GREY?
MurlGwough^L, Wg 93indKlJci^SSl;'
YUDA VERITAS.—GREY HAIR
- L 7 , restored by this valuable spe-clficto it* original simile after
which it growl the natural colour, not grey. Used asailresslug
It causes growth and arrests tailing mist UrrawS
ii-Bectual restorer extant. Om; trial will convime it liunO MU»l
1 rice Uls. 6d., of all Chemist* and llainlre«ers. 'iVstimonlals
j/Obt-frue.—K. IIOVEMDLN and BUNS, Loudon.
SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient
^ . in BOSS'S CANTIIARIDE6 OIL. which speedily
l'». d,1 "'“ V BisYm and Thickens Hair. 3,. «d ; ,-mt in Wank
wrapper# tor 64 stamp*.—Alex. Ross, 248, High Uollajrn.
(CAUTION—The MACASSAR OIL for
VV nourishing the hair, and ODONTO for whlten-
;*i 1 , 1 'A ,r U Jared l 7 A ' ROWLAND and
SONS, of 20, Uattnn-gordcu, Iamdon. ore the
only genuine articles sold under these or
similar names. Avoid cheap Imitations.
UAU DE CHYPRE.—PIESSE aud LUBIN.
t , ‘ c ; i lT t 1 P 1 t un ?? from Cyprus. Durhig the
national career of Egypt, l’ers a, Greece, and Rome, the Island
of Cyprus w »« tho resort of the Sllte, learned, ami reilned. It
wa f.“L.? .‘f, to? Crueailre, when Richard 1. of England
assumed the title of King of Cyprus, that tho famed Kau de
Chypre was Introduced into Europe, the compoaition of which
in yet jirew rved in the archive* of the Laboratory of IMedfie ami
Lubln. Thofee who are curious in undent perfumes con bo
gratified at 2, New Bond-street. London.
VrALUABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR.
.. a., II y ? nr tuning grey, or white, or fiflUng off. use
The Mexican Hair Rem wer,” for it will positively rewtore in
every case Grey or Mbit* Hair to it* original colour, without
leaving the disagreeable smell of most " Restorers." It make#
the hair charmingly tmmUful, as Well aa promoting the growth
of the hair on bald sp. .ts where the glands are not decayed. Ask
nny (.Immist for the *• Mi xIcilu Hair Keaewor.” orice ’ta tit!
1’ivpiiitd bj HtLMi Y C. GALLUP. 423, Oxford-6tro^*Lomlon.
T^LORILINE. For the Teeth aud Breath.
J- Is tlie best Liquid Dentifrice In the World: It thoroughly
chouses ]mrtiwlly-decayed teeth from all parasites or living
• finiuittlcul.-e, leaving them pearly white, imparting a delight¬
ful fragrance to the breath. Price 2*. Hd. per Bottle The
Fragrant Klorillne removes Instantly all odours ari-lng from a
fonl stomacJi or tobacco smoke, beiug partly composed ot houey,
reda. and extnmts of sweet herbs ami plant*. It is jierfoctiy
harmless, and delicious ns sherry. Prepared by HENRY 0.
GAl*LL 1,483, Oxford-street, London. Botailedcvc , iywhen‘.
JOHN GOSNELL and CO.’S VIOLET
y . »'»'> MII-LEFLEUK POWDER, for the Toilet and Nursery.
Univeraally admired for it* purity and fragramv. Sold by <01
Chemists and Perfumers, w holcsale, 93, Upper Thumes-street.
JJREIDENBACH’S ABRONIA.—The New
d ' -C'-iit f.ir 1878. Delicate, refreshiag, and durable, 2s. 6d. to
40s. per Bottle. Brcldenlwch's MACASSARINE. invafuable for
pies* i vine the Growth of the Hair, Is., 2s. 0d., 6s. per Bottle.
Of all Chemists, and the Makers, 167u, New Bond-street, W.
THE ONLY SOAP FOB THE COMPLEXION.
Making the skin clear, smooth, and lustrous.
■WRIGHT’S COAL-TAR SOAP
T T iSAPO CAKBONIS DKTERGHNS).
Highly ami extensively recommended for Uie toilet and in all
of cutaneous discos by Mr. Jos. Startiu. M.R.C.8., Suriroon
to at. John s Hospital for Diseases of tho Skin, the late Mr.
James btartin, >f.D F.K.C.S., of Sarlle-row, Mr. McCall
AnderBon, M.D., F.F.r.S., of WixxlBide-creaa’ut, Gla*.ffow, and
the other leading memt<*r8 of the profession, iu TableU, 6d.
and la., in nlixant Toilet-Hoxea. of all Chemist*.
w. V. WHIGUT and CO. London.
fJ’HE SKIN. — To give to it that Smoothness,
-L Sweetness, and Lustrous Elegance Indicative of Perfect
Health use ••THE ALBION MII.K* 4ND HUI.I'HUIt SOAP "
It 1* elegantly white und purest of all soaps. " It is tne most
agre^bR and elegant preparation for the skin I know."-James
Staitln, M.R.C .i?.. Hurgcxm to St.John h Hosi»itnl. Loudon. Hr
all Chemb*ti.in Tablet®.6d. and Is. -THH ALBION .SANATORY
SOAP CO., &:«, Oxloni-atrecst, London. Refuse all mibtftitutes.
PEARS’ TRANSPARENT SOAP.—Pure,
X Frafrrant,und Durable. Established «oyears. Tho
‘•Jour mil of Cutaneous Medicine,*' edited by.Mr.
t.ra.'tiniis \\ nson, says:—•* rearais a name cnirravi n
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onght to have, and In touch and action was
perfect. The *weet and silvery quality of
too upper octave* was worthy of special
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" Sir Julio* Benedict played on one of
Mcears. Jnlm Brlnsmaad and Sons' grand
pianos, with tho recently patented Improve-
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toe light and shade of tonee. especially *o
when extreme delicacy of touch was re¬
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Morning Advertiser.
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"The Improvement* m«le In English
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growing dciti&nil. Oil© •? tilG Urgflt 01
Ehe*e Ut^ly prwrted by Mom. John lirin*-
mSd’ and Bon*, of WlgmorowtrreL cover,
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alone can supply 3000 pianos annually. The
French paper* 7 have been unanimous In
their expressions of admiration of these
rplenditl Instrument*. The two Grands
especially have enchanted the Parisian pro¬
feasors and amateurs of music by their noble
sonorousness, their enormous power, and
S5JTefS2^TSSWSS«
^■asMawauss
warda. who have trirel HbM Impn mtkte.
have highly coropllmentcd tiie enterprising
manufacturers on their success. Tl»lm-
provements are too numerous to deecril*
In detail, but It has been necessary to
embody them In eeveral patents «**•
nised throughout Europe and Amerkw.
Vigorous at&rmpt* I**v* been rnade to
Ke rf nti? and'a. ‘wl^el.ss^beeu^g
Tha^rtrot check
framing' ensure* the
I durabiilty and strength of the case, in »plt*
of a great Increase In the lengthoftlio
strings: 'tlie new eostenente rsundlng-
produces a lovely 'singing an'l
X7RY’S CARACAS COCOA. _
-I? ** The CirtcM Coco* of inch choice quality.' —Food*
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Edited by Dr. HasaalL ___ ,
TENTH INTERNATIONAL MEDAL
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HE ESSEX FLOUR and GRAIN
produce* a lovely 'singing and
grandly powerful quality of tone; while
7the sympathetic bridge of rcverU rnt,M
assistsdn’the sustaining power; and the
msstalnin^ ’ enabled »h® PC^S rnif r*{f )
JSoduce Ssnutlfully-sustalnrel ellect*. vrith-
TOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS’
O GOLD MEDAL PIANOS.
with tho Patent Perfect Check Repeater Action.
"A metal bridge of a peculiar form Is
used to produce the treble, and a much liner
tone Is* elicited than If » wooden bridgo
were used.”—Morning Post.
" Beautifully light and eUutic touch, and
an inetant repetition. —Globe. m
“This Invention la simplicity Itself. —
The Queen.
Receive the greatest approbation every¬
where of musicians and manufacturers.
The Standard. ___
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PIANOFORTE# OF EVERY DESCRIPTION-
AT Aii THE PRINCIPAL MUSIC WABBHOtiSEfl.
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EXTRA SUPPLEMENT TO THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Sbtt. 21, 1878
ON THE SUTHERLAND COAST—THE HEIGHT OF THE SEASON.
SUPPLEMENT TO THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Sept. 21, 1878.—281
THE GREAT COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN MONMOUTH8HIRB : SKETCHES AT ABERCARNB.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
SEPT. 21, 1878
THE MONMOUTHSHIRE COLLIERY
DISASTER.
The great lose of life and consequent distress of ^
Abercarne, near Newport, from the explosion on Wednesday
week in the Colliery there, has excited general sympathy. We
gave some account of this disaster in our last. A view of the
Colliery is now presented, with a few sketches, taken by one o
our Artists, showing the scenes he witnessed soon after this
sad occurrence. The Abercarne Colliery is situated m the
Ebbw Vale, ten or twelve miles north of Newport. It lies
between two well-wooded mountains—the Cwmcarne on the
east and the Mynyddisllwyn on the west, which rise almost
perpendicularly to about 1000 feet. At the foot of the Cwm-
came, and adjoining the Abercarne and Cwmcarne Colliery,
runs tho Monmouthshire Canal, and around the pit-shaft are
the usual coke-ovens and rubbish heaps, forming miniature
mountains. To the west the Ebbw river flows at the base of
the Mynyddisllwyn. The Abercarne Colliery is the largest of
the pits owned by the Ebbw Vale Company ; it has an output
of about 1000 tons of coal per day, and employs about 600 men
and boys to get them. Their other collieries, fourteen m all,
lio further up tho Ebbw Vale and in the adjoining valley, just
over the top of the Mynyddisllwyn. Their- annual
output of coal is over 2,000,000 tons. The Ebbw Vale
Company has been remarkably free from accidents, and
its own officials consider that, in the present case, no
human foreeight could have prevented the catastrophe. The
company took over tho Abercarne Colliery in 1859, after it had
proved a failure in various hands from the tame that the first
shaft was made, in 1837. After working it for some time with
improved machinery they, in 1863, struck the nine feet black
vein, which proved fatal last wock to 267 of their workmen.
Tho pit was worked on the pillar and stall system, and it was
only four months since that tho company completed a down¬
cast air-shaft, the Cwmcarne, at a cost of £60,000, which has
increased the volume of fresh air through the working from
90,000 cubic feet to 150,000 cubic feet per minute. The Cwm-
carno shaft was driven to a depth ot 268 yards, and then a
drift was made of about a thousand yards in length to com¬
municate to the old workings. The men go down the shaft at
Abercarne, and then ride on an engine for about a mile in an
easterly direction, where they get into the black vein seam,
and this seam is in communication with the Cwmcarne air-shaft,
which lies about a mile south iu a straight line. It was in this
seam that the explosion is supposed to have occurred. The
men were, therefore, about a mile off both the Cwmcarne
shaft and the Abercarne shaft, uud not one man, from that
part of the pit, is left to tell the tale. There were about 350
men below, of whom nearly one hundred came up alive.
In documents carefully compiled under the direction of the
managers of the colliery the exact number of persons lost in
tho mine is given at 257. Of these 131 were married men,
sixty-seven were single men, fifty-five were boys under
eighteen years of age, and four were widowers. An approx¬
imate list of persons dependent upon those who are lost shows
131 widows, 363 children, eight parents, and seventeen
brothers, making a total of 519 persons. Estimating the cost
of subsistence at the moderate rate of 5s. per head per week,
tho weekly sum required for their maintenance would be
£129 15s., or £6747 per annum. For some considerable
time past tho colliery has been slack of work; the wages
earned were consequently low, and very little indeed could be
saved. A public subscription has been opened for the relief
of the distressed families; aud the London Mansion House
Fund for that purpose, up to last Tuesday evening, was £4000.
It is a case, probably, of still greater need than that of the
sufferers by the steam-boat collision at Woolwich.
The conference of the mining authorities and engineers
resulted in the decision to flood the mine. This step was taken
as early as possible. The extent of the workings is over fifteen
miles, and it is difficult to estimate the time that must elapse
before the fire now raging can be extinguished. Months will
elapse before the colliery can again be in working order. Water
must be poured in by riversful for some days before the flooded
mine is submerged and all the fires are quenched. It must
then bo drawn and pumped out again at. the Abercarne shaft
and poured into the stream of Ebbw. Not until this work is
accomplished can the 250 bodies be brought up for Christian
burial- The Nonconformist ministers of the district have been
not less diligent than the Church clergy in visiting the desolated
homes.
The Coroner for the district (Mr. W. H. Brewer) formally
opened an inquest on the body of one man which had been
brought up, aud then adjourned the inquiry to the 19th inst.
The Sketches presented iu a page of this Supplement show
ports of the surface premises of the Abercarne Colliery, the
entrance to the Prince of Wales’s shaft, with the approach to
it through the village street, and the place where the canal
was tapped, with the aid of wooden conduits and iron tubes of
15 in. diameter, to flood the shaft and quench the sub¬
terranean fires. Portraits are given, also, of several of the
bravest and best men of the exploring parties, Miles Mosely,
Harris, and Simmons, with the scene at the pit-head when a
party returned from their ineffectual attempt to traverse the
E usages below. The medical gentlemen, of whom Dr.
owbotham and his sons deserve especial mention, appear in
another Sketch, diligently and tenderly caring for one of the
living sufferers from this deplorable disaster.
Lady Wrottcsley opened the Staffordshire County Refuge
for discharged female prisoners on Tuesday. The building has
been erected at Stafford at a considerable cost, the money
having been obtained by subscriptions through the efforts of
the Earl of Lichfield and other noblemen. Amongst those who
assisted at the opening were Lord Wrottesley, Lord Lieutenant
of the county, the Earl of Harrowby, and the Earl of Lichfield.
A labourer named Hicks, employed recently at Windsor
Castle, was brought before the magistrates at Windsor last
Saturday, charged with breaking into the servants’ lobby at.
the castle and stealing some clothing. It appeared that the
prisoner had effected an entrance to the lobby by a window
over the leads; and ou his being apprehended keys were found
in his possession which opened thirteen drawers in which the
servants’ clothing was kept. The clothing had been pledged
with various pawnbrokers. He was committed for trial.
The business of the Trades Union Congress at Bristol was
concluded last Saturday. At the opening of the proceedings a
letter was read from S. Morley, M.P., regretting that he had
been unable to attend the meetings of the Congress, and
adding, “My hearty wish is that the result of your recent
meetings may be to knit together the two great classes of
employers and employtd.” Mr. H. Broadhurst was elected
secretary of the Parliamentary Committee, and Edinburgh
was chosen as the next place of meeting. Resolutions were
f assed in favour of co-operation and labour representation in
arliameut, und against tho twenty-third clause of the Poor-
law Amendment Act; and the Parliamentary Committee was
instructed to prepare a list of test questions, to be submitted
to candidates at the next general election.
THE DISASTER ON THE RIVER.
There is at length some abatement of the stress of painful
feeling that has prevailed in London during the past three
weeks The dreadful task of collecting, numbering, identify¬
ing and burying the dead has been completed. The Coroner s
inquest has begun a regular investigation of the evidence
relating to the collision between the two vessels, and the
official inquiry appointed by the Board of Trade will be
opened next week. Our Illustrations in this number, following
those published in our last, which were numerous, represent
but a few of the later incidents. The scene at the cemetery
belonging to the town of Woolwich, at East Wickham, near
Plumstead-common, when many of the unknown dead were
together interred there on Monday week, is the subject of our
two-page Engraving. Portions of the divided wreck of the
Princess Alice, the after-part of the vessel lying on shore
below Woolwich Arsenal, having been raised by three lighters
moored above its sunken position, aud removed by a steam-
tug into shallow water at high tide, are shown in other
Illustrations. The interior of the saloon, with its floor still
submerged and partly blocked up with floating furniture,
amidst which the divers groped for more dead bodies, was a
dismal place to peep into. The visit of the Coroner, Mr. C. J.
Carttar, with his jury, in a boat, to examine the wreck of the
ill-fated steam-boat, was sketched by our Artist from the
engine-room. We also give an Illustration of a sitting of the
inquest at the Woolwich Townhall, with a female witness
giving information of the identity of some relative or friend
she had lost. The exhibition, at Woolwich Dockyard, of a
quantity of clothes, shoes, hats, bonnets, and caps, bags and
baskets, umbrellas and parasols, cases of musical instruments
of the band, and various other articles picked up about the
wreck, was inspected by many who were in search of some
THE LATE CAPTAIN GRIN8TEAD, COMMANDER OP THE
PRINCESS ALICE.
trace of their missing friends. The watches, rings, and
brooches, and other jewellery, were placed in cigar-boxes,
fitted with glass lids, ou the table, to be viewed with more
safety; the shawls, coats, and different garments hung on a
clothes-line aloft. Some things were claimed by survivors of
the disaster.
The stern part of the wreck was lifted from the bottom on
Monday week, by the labours of the watermen in the lighters
under the direction of Mr. Wood, Surveyor of Moorings, and
other officers of the Thames Conservancy Board; aud in the
night, at low water, the wreck was left high and dry upon the
river bank. At four o’clock next morning the searching
operations recommenced. Two young men named Shephard
and Kelsey volunteered to go into the cabin, which was half
full of mud. Everything was in the utmost confusion, broken
tables, chairs, cushions, and other things lying in heaps in the
mud, which was about four feet in depth. The first body
found was that of a man who had evidently been carried by
the water into the ladies’ cabin. Next came the body of a
woman which the searchers found under a broken table, and
then another woman was taken from below the cabin oil-cloth,
which had covered her. The wreck itself it would be almost
impossible to describe. The engine-room is full of twisted
rods and pipes knocked out of their original form, and as red
with rust as though they had been under water for a twelve-
j month. The paddle-floats are tom and turned up as if they
had been made of paper, and the iron casing of the vessel is
cut through and splintered in almost as bad a fashion as any
of the most modern forms of steam-rams could effect. The
searchers were successful in bringing to light many remnants
and articles of various descriptions, such ns baqs, umbrellas,
and cloaks; but only the three dead bodies before mentioned
were found in the cabin or saloon.
The burial of the unclaimed dead collected at Woolwich
Dockyard could not be deferred longer than Monday week,
most of the bodies having become so decomposed as to be
beyond recognition. Early that morning nearly 150 corpses
were ranged across the immense shed, but before night not less
than eighty-three had been consigned to their graves in East
Wickham Cemetery—namely, forty-seven women, eighteen
men, and eighteen children. Coffins having been provided at
the expense of the local authorities, sixteen bodies were first
selected for burial; but three of them were identified by
mcnnB of the clothes exposed to view in another shed. The
first funeral was announced to leave the dockyard at ten
o clock, and punctually at that hour the procession started.
A mounted constable or two cleared the way. At the head of
the procession, in the capacity of chief mourners, were the
Church wardens and Overseers of Woolwich, Messrs. John
laylor nnd H. Howes, and Messrs. J. Edwards, R. J.
Naylor, and A. W. Lockycr. Messrs. Paine and Tuflield,
as a deputation from the Local Board of Health, were
also in the procession. Next to these came four am¬
bulance waggons, containing thirteen of the unidentified
bodies, some of which had been laid out for identification so
long that all hope of their ever being claimed was to be aban¬
doned. Following the ambulances were a few cabs and other
vehicles. The procession passed along Edward-street, Powis.
street, and the Plumstead-road to the cemetery, which stands
on elevated ground on the south side of Plumstead-common.
All along the route the streets w<-re lined with people. At the
cemetery gates the cortege was met by the Hon. and Rev. A.
Anson, Rector of Woolwich, who, reading the processional
sentences, preceded the bodies to the graves. These are
placed at the brow of the hill, and two hundred had been pre¬
pared. The coffins, which were covered with black cloth, and
severally bore a plate giving the number of the body In the
S olice books, were then lowered into thirteen of the graves.
ieanwhiie the Hector read portions of the funeral service as
the laborious work was proceeding. All the bodies having
been lowered, the service was concluded; the clear, sonorous
voice of the Rector could be heard for some distance. There
was an immense crowd of persons at the grave. The greatest
order, however, prevailed, and, with the exception of the
trampling on a few graves, little or no damage was done.
After the interment the Rector addressed the congregation
with some impressive remarks upon this solemn occasion.
The largest funeral, or rather series of funerals, took place
in the afternoon, when seventy bodies were interred at the
cemetery. The first instalment of twenty-eight left the dock¬
yard at four o'clock, in seven transport-waggons. The pro¬
cession was headed, as before, by a mounted policeman, a
churchwarden, and an overseer, as representing the parish.
It was followed by several thousand persons of all ages, some
of them in vehicles, but the great majority on foot. After
more than an hour the cemetery was reached. Here the vast
multitude was met by the Rev. T. Love, Curate of St. Mary’s,
Woolwich. He conducted the procession, not into the church,
but to a spot at the top of the bill, where a hundred graves
had been prepared. He read the solemn sentences of the
burial service on the way. The waggons ascended the path, aud
their contents were removed and deposited in the earth ; not
less than 6000 or 7000 persons witnessed the distressing scene.
Before the service, in which the Rector subsequently assisted,
had been completed, twelve waggons, bearing forty-five
additional corpses, arrived at the cemetery, and forty-two of
them were buried in the same way as the others had been.
Of the remaining three one coffin had been taken by mistake,
as it contained a body which had really been recognised. At
the last moment messengers hurriedly came with the state¬
ment that the other two corpses had been identified in the
dockyard by relatives through seeing the clothes. The right
of the relatives to bury their own dead was, of course, at once
allowed. A lady belonging to the congregation of St. Mary’s,
Woolwich, strewed flowers upon the coffins in each of the
graves. The melancholy ceremony did not terminate until
nearly dark. A large number of the spectators stayed to the
close. Since these funerals applications have been made in
several cases to have particular graves reopened, the bodies,
which were distinguished by numbering, having beeii claimed
by friends who read the descriptions and saw the clothes or
relics at the dockyard. Mr. Anson has applied to the Home
Office and to the Bishop of the diocese for the necessary
permission.
On the Friday after, one of the victims of this calamity, Mr.
Frederick Whomes, the organist of the Dockyard Church, was
interred in the East Wickham Cemetery. There was a large
number of mourners, and great sympathy was felt for the
family of the deceased. The service was performed by the
Hon. and Rev. A. Anson, the Rector, assisted by the Rev. E.
Rust, of the Dockyard Church; and the choristers of St.
George’s Garrison Church, St Mary’s, Woolwich, the Dock¬
yard, the Royal Arsenal Chapel, and St. Michael’s and All
Angels, attended and sang a processional hymn as the body
was lifted from the hearse and carried up the steep hill. Mr.
Whomes, father of the late organist, was chief mourner. At
Limehouse there was an entire family, Mr. George Davis, with
his wife and four children, all drowned in the Princess Alice.
The funeral took place in the East Loudon Cemetery at
Plaistow, but the procession thither included torty carriages,
with deputations from the Freemasons’ and Druids* Lodges,
and a great concourse of people.
The total number of bodies received at Woolwich Dock¬
yard to the end of last week was 567, besides about forty at
Barking, thirteen at Poplar, and a dozen at Rainham and
elsewhere. Several cases are known in which persons got out
of the water alive, but died from exhaustion: one is that of a
young American lady, Miss Ella Hambury, who swam two
miles, was picked up by a boat, and survived a week, but died
at last at her brother’s house at Mildmay Paris, Islington.
Her intended husband, Mr. Harrison, was drowned in the
Princess Alice.
The Woolwich inquest, on Monday and Tuesday last, its
tenth and eleventh days, examined some of the most important
witnesses; Mr. G. T. Long, chief mate of the Princess Alice;
John Eyers, a seaman casually employed, with his half-
brother Creed, to steer the vessel; J. R. Rand, one of the look¬
out men; Mr. Ralph Wilkinson, the second mate; Henry
Young, another look-out man; and Thomas Longhurst,head
engineer. Mr. Edwin Hughes, solicitor, of Woolwich, attended
for the London Steam-Boat Company; Mr. Myburgh, barrister,
for the owners of the Bywell Castle; Captain Bedford Pim,
M.P., who is a barrister, and two or three other gentlemen,
appeared for relatives of persons lost in the Princess Alice.
An inquest was also held last week, at Poplar, by the East
Middlesex Coroner, but only a formal verdict was returned.
The Mansion House Fund, for the relief of distressed
families of any of those drowned by this misfortune, amounted
to £20,000 on Tuesday evening, which we should think
more than sufficient for the need, os two thirds of
those lost were women and children, and rnauy of the
others young men with nobody dependent upon them. It has
been suggested that the surplus, after relieving all the actual
destitution, should be given to the widows and orphans of the
257 working colliers killed at Abercarne, in Monmouthshire.
We should like to see a permanent trust fund created, for the
whole of England and Wales, to receive and invest all unex¬
pended balances of these charitable subscriptions raised upon
different occasions; and the trustees empowered to make
grants of money, at their discretion, for any fresh emergency.
There are many large sums at the bankers, freely given by
public liberality upon such occurrences as wrecks, fires, colliery
explosions, and other accidents causing much loss of life, but
of which, after the bestowal of such temporary relief as is
wanted, the public never hears any more. It is much t* be
desired that the remaining balances should be collected, and
the aggregate fund secured for future use, with the consent
of its principal contributors or of their representatives at this
time.
We present a portrait of the late Captain William Grinstcud,
commander of the Loudou Steam-Boat Company’s saloon
steam-bout Princess Alice. He remained at his post on the
bridge of that vessel, refusing to leave it, us lie was entreated
to do, after the collision, when he could no doubt have escaped
either by climbing the bows of the Bywcll Castle, or by
jumping overboard. He had with him the little children
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Captain Grinstead hud been about two vears in com¬
mand of the Princess Alice. All who "knew Captain
Grinstead speak in high terms both of his character
and his skid. Captain V. L. Cameron, R.N., the African
traveller, has written a letter in which he says, “ It may be
some slight solace to the friends of the Captain of the Prin¬
cess Alice that I should bear testimony to his skill and
unremitting carefulness. Some years ago I was stationed
at Sheemess, and the manner in which he used to handle
his steamer was a common topic of praise among naval
officers. I then occasionally went to Southend on board
his steamer, and his unremitting care and knowledge of
how to handle a long, unhandy vessel were beyond all
E raise. Last June I was one of a party invited by Mr J 0
ever to take a trip down the Thames on board the Princess
Alice, and I took the opportunity of renewing my acquaintance
with her captain. His care was the same as I had known of
old, and the same, as I doubt not, was exhibited in the last
moments of his life. I hope that some testimony to the memory
of one who for twenty years has ministered to the pleasure of
the people of London may be raised, and the best form such
a testimony could take would be placing his wife and family
beyond want.” J
A sister of Captain William Grinstead, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hoffmeister, relict of the late George Bernard Hoffmeister,
Commander Royal Navy, resides in Shakespeare-road, Sitting-
bourne. Her brother, Mr. Charles Thomas Grinstead, of Swale-
street, Poplar, and his wife had been staying with her, and
left on Tuesday, the 3rd, for Sheerness, to proceed thence in the
ill-fated Princess Alice with their brother, the captain They
are both drowned. Mr. Charles Thomas Grinstead rendered
very active assistance on the previous Saturday in getting the
pessengers out of the train which met with the accident at
Sittingboume, helping to raise the overturned carriages by
means of jacks. Another brother, Mr. George Grinstead, of
10, North Kent-terrace, Woolwich, was captain of the Sea
Swallow, but is now on the sick list, having burst two blood¬
vessels. Mrs. Hoffmeister fears that this sad news will retard
his progress. A third brother, Mr. Frank Grinstead, resides
with Mrs. Hoffmeister.
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MUSIC.
THE WORCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
Our last week’s record of' this celebration necessarily closed
with a brief reference to the first of the miscellaneous concerts,
in the College Hall, on the Wednesday evening, when Sir w!
S. Bennett’s cantata, “ The May Queen,” was very effectively
rendered. The important overture was finely played by the
band, and the vocal solos were well sung by Misses Mary
Davies, Bertha Griffiths, Mr. Guy, and Mr. Wadmore.
Several of the pieces produced much effect, particularly the
solo and chorus, “With a laugh as we go round” (the
solo by Miss Davies) ; and the favourite trio, “ The haw¬
thorn in the glade,” in which that lady was associated
with Mr. Guy and Mr. Wadmore. After the cantata, Miss
Anna Williams sang with good dramatic feeling and ex¬
pression, thescena (“ Softly sighs”) from “ Der Freischiitz,”
and this was followed by M. Sainton’s brilliant execution of
the first movement of Beethoven’s violin concerto, in which
the excellent violinist produced a marked impression. The
second part of the concert was miscellaneous, and included
admirable orchestral performances of Mozart’s symphony in
G minor, and Rossini’s overture to “Guillaume Tell,” and a
selection of vocal pieces, the prominent effect in which was
produced by the brilliant singing of Madame Albani in the
aria “ Qui la voce,” from “IPuritani.”
On the Thursday morning Dr. Armes’s “ short oratorio,”
“ Hezekiah,” was given in the cathedral. This work,
the production of the organist of Durham Cathedral,
was first performed at Newcastle-on-Tyne last year. The
text is compiled by himself, and consists of passages,
taken from the Book of Isaiah, referring to the invasion
of Judea by Sennacherib, the destruction of the Assyrian
army, and the sickness and miraculous recovery of
Hezekiah. The vocal music is preceded by a spirited
orchestral introduction in the martial style, supposed
to accompany the advance of Sennacherib’s army upon Jeru¬
salem. The choral writing is the best portion of the work, and
proves that Dr. Armes has studied well the productions of our
older cathedral composers. A predilection for the style of
Mendelssohn is also frequently observable in the music of
“ Hezekiah.” The choruses that proved most effective in
performance were “ Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,”
“ 0 Lord, I will praise Thee,” and the concluding “ Sing unto
the Lord.” The solo pieces are somewhat forced and strained
in style. The most elaborate of these is a bravura air,
“Therefore with joy,” which was extremely well sung
by Miss Anna Williams. The contralto air, “Enter
into the Rock,” is flowing in its vocal melody, but possesses
no distinctive character It proved, however, effective,
chiefly owing to the fine singing of Madame Patey, the ladies
just named having given every advantage to the rather pretty,
nut too volatile, duet, “The Virgin, the Daughter of
Zion ; ” as did Mr. Wadmore to the bass song, “ I have blotted
out as a thick cloud,” and Mr. E. Lloyd to some incidental
tenor passages—the four vocalists having co-operated in
the quartet, “ Seek ye the Lord,” a smooth and unpre¬
tentious piece of part-writing. Dr. Armes conducted the per¬
formance of his work, after which the conductor of the
festival, Mr. Done, took the baton, and the first part of the
programme closed with Mendelssohn’s sublime hymn, “ Hear
my prayer,” for soprano boIo, choruB, and orchestra. The solo
part was sung by Madame Albani with exquisite purity of
voice and style and unaffected devotional feeling. The Thursday
morning’s performance closed with a very satisfactory rendering
of Spohr’s “ Last Judgment,” the solo music of which was
assigned to Misses Davies and Griffiths, Mr. Guy, and Mr.
Santley. The overture which opens the oratorio, and the
symphony with which the second part begins, afforded fresh
evidence of the excellence of the orchestra.
The Thursday night's concert, which was entirely miscel¬
laneous, included the overtures to “ Euryanthe” "(Weber),
“ Egmont ” (Beethoven), and “ The Merry Wives of Windsor ”
(Nicolai), and Sir W. S. Bennett’s pianoforte concerto in F
minor. In this last-named piece Miss Done (daughter of the
organist of Worcester Cathedral and conductor of the
festival) made a genuine impression by her excellent perform¬
ance. The young lady possesses a touch both powerful and
delicate, and a thorough command of bravura execution;
and her phrasing is admirable for clearness of emphasis
and rhythm. Miss Done should be heard in London. Special
among the vocal music on this occasion was Madame Albani’s
brilliant singing of the arias “Ah fors’ £ lui” (from “La
Traviata”) and “0 luce di quest’ anima” (from “Linda
di Chamouni”); other well-known pieces having been con¬
tributed by some of the principal vocalists, besides some
effective chorus-singing in Beethoven’s “ A calm sea and a
prosperous voyage; ” a clever part-song, composed by the Rev.
E. V. Hall, and well sung by the cathedral choir; and part-
songs by Pinsuti and Leslie, powerfully rendered by the
Yorkshire choristers, who had to repeat the first one.
(Jf the concluding Oratorio performance yesterday (Friday)
week it is unnecessary to say more than that it consisted of the
usual festival climax, “ The Messiah,” the vocal solo music
havmg been distributed between Madame Albani, Misses A.
Williams and Griffiths, Madame Patey, Mr. E. Lloyd, Mr.
oantley, and Mr. Wadmore. Madame Albani’s share included
the airs ‘Rejoice greatly” and, 4 1 know that my Redeemer
hveth; the first of which was given with fine bravura
exe £^ 10n > hnd the other with affecting pathos.
The special evening service which closed the Festival brought
forward a Magnificut” and “Nunc Dimittis,” by Sir F. G
Ouseley, and a sacred cantata, “ The Daughter of Jairus,” by
Jur. Stainer—all composed specially for the occasion. The
cantata, which was given as the anthem, and was conducted
hy the composer, is written for solo voices (soprano, tenor, and
bass), chorus, and orchestra. It contains much effective and
masterly writing, and produced so highly favourable an im-
p ession that it can scarcely fail to be soon heard in London,
ihe cantata opens with an orchestral introduction of some
ength, in which are some good effects of combination and
contrast, and many skilful harmonic progressions and modu¬
le 01 ?, 8 ' The solo vocal music is full of melodious grace, while
the choral writing is always effective, and in one instance of
special mastery and power. In the first-named respect, we
ma /o e ® to ^e tenor air, “ My hope is in the Everlasting,”
and the duet, for soprano and tenor, “ Love divine,” the first
of which was well sung by Mr. Guy, who was associated
n jL . e other with Miss A. Williams; Mr. Wadmore having
cmaently rendered some incidental bass solos in other portions
of the cantata. All the choruses told well, particularly that
for female voices, “ Sweet tender flower,” and, above all, that
for full choir, “Awake, thou that sleepest,” the movement
above alluded to. This chorus is remarkable for its vigorous
treatment, its amplitude of development and well-sustained
interest. Excellently rendered, it produced a very marked
impression, and the close of the cantata left a strong desire
for an early re-hearing.
Sir F. G. Ouseley’s two pieces of service music are fully
worthy of the reputation of the learned Oxford professor.
1 hey are written with a fluent command of counterpoint, and
contain many phrases of melodious beauty. The orchestra
and chorus were employed in both, and there are incidental
passages for solo vocal quartet, which were well sung by
Masses A. Williams and B. Griffiths, Mr. Guy, and Mr.
Wadmore.
altered position of the orchestra from the west end of
the cathedi-ai (as at the festival of 1872) to the centre of the
building, was not an improvement, as it tended to con¬
siderable dispersion of sound; and the slighter elevation of
the platform on this occasion rendered the performers invisible
to all but the comparative few who were placed in imme¬
diate neighbourhood thereto. Possibly at the next festival
(m 1881) this experience may tend to a resumption of the
former arrangements.
Mr. Done has conducted the performances with care and
judgment; and his coadjutors, Mr. Lloyd, organist of Glou¬
cester Cathedral, and Mr. Colbome, organist of Hereford
Cathedral, have done good service in presiding, respectively,
at the organ and the pianoforte.
Allusion has already been made to the suppression of
oratorio performances and miscellaneous evening concerts in
1875, and to the virtual triumph just gained by the advocates
of the festivals in their extended form—the new arrangement
of opening and closing with a grand special service, and pre¬
ceding and following the oratorios with a short form of prayer-
being a slight and by no means unreasonable concession to the
cathedral authorities. The success of the festival has been
complete, the collections and donations having amounted to
nearly £1400.
The many attractions at the Covent-Garden Promenade
Concerts have just been heightened by the engagement of Mr .
Santley and Mr. Charles Halle. Our excellent baritone has
sung several of those favourite pieces which have so often
been associated with his name, and Mr. Halle has displayed
his well-known skill and taste in classical and brilliant com¬
positions. The performance of eight of Beethoven’s nine
symphonies, in regular order, on Monday evenings, is nearly
completed, No. 7 (in A) having been given this week.
Wednesday was another “Classical Night,” and for this
(Friday) evening an “English Night” is announced. This
series of concerts, under the management of Messrs. Gatti, is
now almost completed, and is to be succeeded by another
series, directed by M. Riviere, beginning on Oct. 5.
The performances of operas in English, at the Alexandra
Palace, have proved specially successful, and are still, con¬
tinuing on Saturday evenings, the announcement for this week
being “ II Trovatore,” with Madame Blanche Cole as
Leonora.
The twenty-third series of Crystal Palace Saturday After¬
noon Concerts will begin on Oct. 5, when the programme will
include Brahms’s second symphony (in D), this being its first
performance in England. M. Brassin, the Belgian pianist, is
to make his first appearance in England, and play Beethoven’s
concerto in E flat (the “ Emperor ”) and Liszt’s Hungarian
Fantasia. Amo.i- the forthcoming specialties will be a Men¬
delssohn comm *ii* T' * ion concert, on Nov. 2, when a manuscript
symphony in F minor (for stringed instruments) will be per¬
formed for the first time. Among other interesting announce¬
ments is the promised performance (in November) of Berlioz's
great symphonic work, entitled “ Harold en Italie.”
The last of the four classical chamber concerts by the
London Conservatoiie of Music will be given at Langham Hall
next Monday evening, under the direction of Messrs. H. C.
Cooper and Lansdowne Cottell.
A grand concert is announced to be given in Exeter Hall
next Saturday evening, the 28tli inst., in aid of the fund for
the relief of the Bufferers by the wreck of the Princess Alice.
The Norfolk and Norwich nineteenth triennial musical
festival will be held in St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, on Oct. 15
and three following days. From the programme we learn that
Sir Julius Benedict will conduct, and that the principal
vocalists will be Madame Albani, Miss Catherine Penna, Miss
Anna Williams, Madame Antoinette Sterling, and Madame
Trebelli; and Messrs. Edward Lloyd, H. J. Minus, W.
Shakespeare, R. Hilton, and Mr. Santley. Dr. Burnett will
be the organist, and Mr. J. Harcourt the chorus master; the
chorus will number 273, consisting of 77 sopranos, 40
contraltos, 21 altos, 67 tenors, and 68 basses.
THEATRES.
HAYMARKET.
Mr. H. J. Byron may congratulate himself on his success on
Monday with his new comedy-drama, “ Conscience Money.”
It is in three acts, neatly constructed, simple in story, and
abundant in character, each distinguished by nice shades,
indicating a skilled artist. The manipulation of the dialogue
is perfect. First in the development of the plot are Sir Archi¬
bald Crane (Mr. R. Pateman) and Mrs. Calverly (Miss E.
Thome). In the drawing-room of the former certain friends
assemble, who are interested in Mrs. Calverly’s daughter
Helen (Miss Bella Pateman). The young lady has the
fortune, bad or good, to have three lovers, Frederick
Darner (Mr. Charles Kelly), William Tapery (Mr. D. Fisher
jun.), and Sydney Sefton (Mr. W. Terriss). These differ much
in disposition and character. The first is morose bnt honest,
the second sheepish, and the third clever but slippery. The
lady’s instincts lead her to prefer the solid virtues of Damer,
the supposed owner also of a country seat; wherefore his
rivals have to surrender their claims. A change comes over
the picture in the second act. To the surprise of all, the
marriage is not a happy one. Some dreadful secret occasions
the husband to be absent from home, and thereby to supply
his wife with motives for jealousy. The fact is, that Darner’s
elder brother, reported dead, has returned alive, and the
country seat belongs to him. Willingly would Damer have
surrendered it at once; but the brother, under suspicion of
murder, - is a fugitive from justice, and therefore depends
on Frederick for the income derivable from the estate.
Under these circumstances, Damer refuses to take possession
of the family mansion, and his wife is disappointed of
a social position to which she lmd aspired. Helen, when
married, finds herself neglected by her apparently wayward
husband, and assailed by her two remaining lovers. She nearly
yields to the temptation; but Damer has a sincere friend in a
schoolfellow, Dick Simpson (Mr. H. J. Byron), who protects
him from his false ones, and guides him in a judicious course
of conduct. Sydney Sefton overhears a conversation between
the two friends, and discovers that Damer is not entitled to the
country seat to which he has all along laid claim. Armed with
this information, he retaliates upon Damer in presence of his
wife, accusing him of having married under false pretences.
The effect produced by this revelation is different from what
Sefton had expected. Finding that her husband had not been
unfaithful, but merely perplexed, Helen throws herself into
his arms, a happy wife. The third act needs no detail, it
merely gathers up the fragments of the story and points its
moral. The acting is admirable, all round. Mr. Byron had
reserved the few puns it included for his own delivery. The
performance throughout was received with applause.
The opfira-bouffe, “ Genevieve de Brabant,” with Miss
Emily Soldene in the part of Drogan, has been revived at the
Alhambra.
A revival of an American adaptation of “ La Grace de
Dieu” was attempted at the Court on Saturday, but, as we
hear, without success. It is played in five acts, under the title
of “Marie, the Pearl of Savoy,” and the subject may be
known from Donizetti’s ballad-opera, “ Linda di Chamouni.”
As we were not invited to the performance, we cannot describe
its merits, or those of Miss Agnes Leonard, in the character of
Marie; of both the current reports are unfavourable. The
theatre is under the temporary management of Mr. W. H.
Stephens.
Relative to the performance at the Duke’s of “The
Barricade,” we may mention that the double role of Fan tine
and Cosette was played by Mrs. Digby Willoughby.
The Gaiety benefit for the Hospital for Sick Children last
Saturday produced (including the Toy Fund) about £150 for
this excellent charity. The toys were the largest present of the
kind ever made to the hospital.
The benefit performance at Astley’s Theatre on Saturday
in aid of the Princess Alice Relief Fund resulted in an addition
of more than £60 to the fund.
At St. George’s Hall, Langham-place, the autumn season
of Mr. and Mrs. German Reed’s Entertainment will begin on
Monday, Sept. 30. The programme will be “ Doubleday’s
Will,” “ The Paris Exhibition,” and “AnArtful Automaton.”
A new first part by F. C. Bumand and a new musical sketch
by Mr. Comey Grain are in active preparation, and will be
produced without delay.
The Shakers in Hampshire have removed their goods from
the roadside at Hordle to an adjoining field, and the summons
on which Mrs. Girling was to appear before the magistrates on
Saturday morning lor causing an obstruction was accordingly
withdrawn. Mrs. Girling and her “family” are about to
remove from Lymington to the racecourse at Kingsbury, near
London, where they will be lodged in the grand stand.
We are glad to learn that Mr. Gullick, the art-critic, has
completely recovered from his long and severe illness, and
that he will shortly return to London from Italy.
The annual exhibition of modem pictures at Manchester,
which is now open, is described as being superior in every
respect to its predecessors for many years past. Among the
exhibitors are Millais, Aumonier, Watts, Israels, Legros,
Herkomer, and J. D. Watson.
A committee of the Aldermen, Councillors, and leading
inhabitants of the borough of Crewe have commissioned Mr.
Hooke, of Manchester, to paint two lifesize portraits of Dr.
Atkinson, first Mayor of Crewe, one for the Corporation and
the other for presentation to Mrs. Atkinson.
The Berks Archaeological and Architectural Society visited
Bray church, Ockwells, Shottesbrook, and Maidenhead on the
21st inst., and inspected the antiquities of the district.
A largely attended meeting of mechanics and artisans was
held in the Hastings School of Science and Art Institution on
the 12th inst., under the presidency of the Deputy Mayor.
Addresses were given by Mr. T. Brassey, M.P., and other
gentlemen, in which the speakers pointed out that mechanics
who had a taste and could draw could command better wages
than those who could not.
A monument to the late Mr. John Platt, M.P. for Oldham,
was unveiled last Saturday by his widow in front of the Town-
hall, Oldham. Mr. Platt was member for Oldham from 1865
to 1872, the time of his death. The day of the unveiling was
celebrated with great rejoicing. A procession was formed of
upwards of 10,000 people, the streets were decorated with flags,
and at night the town was illuminated. The monument,
which is a statue in bronze, is the work of Mr. D. W. Stevenson,
Edinburgh, and cost 3000 guineas.
The Secretary of State for India, through Sir Louis Mallet,
has allowed the marble bust of the late Mr. Henry Woodrow,
subscribed for by the natives of Bengal and others, to be
placed in one of the committee-rooms at the India Office for a
short time before it is sent to Calcutta. In addition to the
bust, the natives of Bengal have subscribed funds sufficient to
found at the University of Calcutta a scholarship in com¬
memoration of Mr Woodrow’s services, and to be called “ the
Woodrow Scholarship.”
A fine-art exhib ; tion lias been opened at Poonah, in which
some pictures by the Governor, crir Richard Temple, are
exhibited. The prize given by his Excellency was curried off
by a well-known amateur artist, Mrs. Gillespie, for the “ Head
of a Kabyle Woman, Algeria.”
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS Sun. 21, 1S7« —
TUK ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Sept. 21, 1878.— 280
1. The Obelisk on Sept. 11.
2. Windlass to lower the bottom end of Obelisk.
cleopatba’b needle, on the victoria Thames embankment.
3. Obelisk descending to vertical position, Sept. 12.
4. Obelisk erect on its pedestal.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON HEWS
SEPT. 21, 1878
THE NEW HARBOUR AT BOULOGNE.
The Government of the French Republic has begun the con¬
struction of a deep and capacious harbour at Buulogne-eur-
Mer to be formed by sea-walls inclosing a large space, which
wiUcomprise 340 acres of good anchorage crated® I;he;present
shore-line so as to advance the steam-boat wharf to a new
basin that will have, when dredged, a depth of five metres,
or nearly sTxteen and a half feet, at low tide. The railway
trains will run out to this wharf; and the surrounding har¬
bour beyond it, will be protected by long jetties and break¬
waters on three sides ; these sea-walls having an aggregate
SSh of one mile and a half. There is to be a passage,
between two jetties, to enter the inner harbour of the town.
It is further proposed to form docks in part of the space
reclaimed bv the sea-wall, and a small harbour for the Boulogne
Sing-boats. Vessels drawing 26 ft. water. will enter the
harbour at lowest tide. The ceremony of laying ^ founda¬
tion-stone of a monument, to commemorate the beginning
of this great and useful work was performed on Monday
week by M. de Freycinet, the Minister of Public Works,
accompanied bv M. Leon Say, the Minister of Finance,
in the presence of a large number of spectators^ Among tlie
company specially invited were Alderman and Shenff Staples
(representing the Lord Mayor of London), Sir Edward Watkin
chairman of the South-Eastern Railway), the Mayors of
Folkestone and Hythe. and several English engineers. Ihere
were also present all the French authorities from the neigh¬
bouring departments. The streets of Boulogne were decorated
in a festive manner; and the Ministers of State, on their
arrival from Paris, were met by a procession of the municipal
bodies, the bands of the regiments in garrison, the fire bngade,
and hundreds of fisher-women in their quaint white shell-
shaned caps. In addition to the numerous English visitors
who were staying in the town, a thousand excursionists
arrived''for the day in three of the steamers belonging
to the South-Eastern Company from Folkestone. They
were welcomed with great cordiality, the bands stationed
on the pier playing “ God Save the Queen. The
procession having escorted the Ministers to the appointed spot,
the stone was duly laid, after which brief speeches were made
by the Mayor of Boulogne and by the Ministers. M. de
Freycinet made especial reference to the near proximity of the
greatest mercantile nation, and expressed a hope that the new
undertaking would afford encouragement to increased com¬
mercial transactions with England. In the evening a grand
banquet was given in a marquee erected behind the Etablisse-
rnent des Bains, and facing the sea. It was attended by 400
guests M. de Freycinet, in his speech, said this year had
been fruitful of great works in France. The Exhibition,
which was one of its achievements, had been augmented in
importance by the assistance and co-operation of England; and
they were now about to build a harbour to facilitate their
communications with that generous country. The presence of
several members of the English Parliament afforded them
great pleasure. In conclusion, M. de Freycinet proposed the
healths of Marshal MacMahon and the Queen together. The
other Minister, M. Leon Say, in his speech, referred to the
state of the national finances, and expressed his gratification
that France, for the first time in her history, now occupies
nearly the same position in the money market as wealthy
England. Mr. Alderman Staples, as representative of the
City of London, spoke in English and afterwards in French,
and dwelt strongly on the deep interest taken by many persons
in the City in the construction of the new harbour. He was
very heartily cheered. The banquet having terminated, the
guests entered the saloons, where a splendid bell to close the
fete was given. Sixteen hundred persons were present, and
the whole of the day’s proceedings may be declared to have
been brilliantly successful. The theatres were opened, and
torchlight processions, and public balls in the Tintelleries, and
other places, provided ample entertainment for all classes.
CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE.
The Egyptian obelisk from Alexandria, which was lately to be
seen hoisted aloft in a horizontal position at the river-stairs of
the Victoria Thames Embankment opposite Adelphi-terrace,
was on Thursday week placed in its due perpendicular attitude,
directly over the pedestal, which will now be completed by
adding the upper course of masonry.. The mechanical arrange¬
ments for swinging this huge monolith, which measures
68 ft 3 in. in leugth, 5 ft. 10in. by 4 ft. 10 in. in breadth at one
end, and 7 ft. 10 in. by 7 ft. 8 in. at the other, weighing
193 tons, have been described in our Journal. It had been
fitted with an iron jacket round the middle, and with a
wrought-iron girder by way of a stirrup, to support the
heavier aud lower end of the stone, when it was gradually let
down, and so to prevent its slipping out of the iron jacket by
which its centre was held suspended. The obelisk had been
lifted to the height of 50 ft. above the pedestal, through the
elevation, by hydraulic jacks, of a pair of iron girders working
upwards iu grooves left in the main angles of the scaffolding.
Upon these girders rested a pair of peculiarly-formed trunnions
projecting from the iron jacket, and supported the obelisk
iu a horizontal position during the time it was being
raised. The monolith having attained the necessary altitude,
it was only necessary to swing it on the trunnions, or,
in other words, to let down the butt or thick end, so as to get
the stone into a vertical position, but still held up, with its
bottom a few inches above the top of the pedestal. The total
weight., including the iron girders, was 216 tons. The oper¬
ation of “ swinging ” was completed in about three quarters of
an hour, and by lowering the girders the obelisk was allowed
to descend to the pedestal and the “ Union Jack” and Turkish
ensign were run up in token of the success of the work. The
obelisk was still kept a little held up, in order that its exact
perpendicularity to the surface of the pedestal might bo tested
with mathematical precision. It had a partial support from
the wooden packing laid underneath. On Friday morning
this was removed, the weight having first been eased by the
action of the hydraulic jacks. The obelisk was then let down
the remaining four inches, till it finally rested on its pedestal.
The iron jacket and strap will now be stripped off and the scaf¬
folding removed. The operation of Thursday week took place
between three and four o’clock in the afternoon. For the
accommodation of those who have taken a special interest in
the progress of the work. Professor Erasmus Wilson and Mr.
John Dixon had chartered a steamer, which was moored
abreast of the works. Sir J. W. Bazalgette, C.B., chief
engineer to the Metropolitan Board of Works, and several
gentlemen of the engineering profession, were present ; also
Major-General Sir James Alexander, C B., Admiral S. E.
Ommaney, C B., Sir Charles Read, Professor Owen, Alderman
Sir C. W hetham. Sir G. Elliott, M.P., and Mr. Grantham,
M.P. It is stated that Mr John Dixon C.E., has expended
£5000 over and above the £10,000 liberally bestowed by Mr.
Erasmus Wilson, for the cost of bringing Cleopatra’s Needle
from Egypt, with its detention by the accident in the Bay of
Biscay, and finally erecting the obelisk in London. The Hon.
C. Vivian, Consul-General in Egypt, was present on the Friday.
Telegrams were received by Mr. Dixon from her Majesty
the Queen at Balmoral, and from the Khedive of Egypt, to
congratulate him and Mr. Erasmus Wilson upon the com¬
pletion of tin ir undertaking. The following is an authentic
list of objects deposited in the two large earthenware jars
inclosed iu the core of the obelisk’s pedestal and supports, and
now at length covered by the monolith’s base Standard foot
and pound, presented by the standard department of the
Board of Trade; bronze model of the obelisk, £in. scale to
the foot, cast, and presented by Mr. Joseph Whitley, of Leeds ;
copies of “Engineering,” printed on vellum, with plans
of the various arrangements and details employed in erect¬
ing and transporting the obelisk, together with its com¬
plete history, presented by the proprietors of the pub¬
lication ; jars of Doulton ware, presented by Doulton
and Co. ; a piece of the obelisk stone; complete set
of British coinage, including an Empress of India rupee;
parchment copy of Dr. Birch’s translation of the obelisk’s
hieroglyphics ; standard gauge to 1000th part of an inch as
sample of accurate workmanship, presented by J. Holtzapffel;
portrait of her Majesty the Queen; bibles in various languages,
presented by the British and Foreign Bible Society; Brad¬
shaw’s railway guide, Mappin’s shilling razor, case of cigars,
pipes, box of hairpins and sundry articles of female adorn¬
ment ; Alexandra feeding-bottle and children’s toys, presented
by a lady; a Tangye’s hydraulic jack as used in raising the
obelisk, presented by Tangye Brothers; wire ropes and spe¬
cimens of submarine cables, presented by Mr. R. S. Newall;
map of London, copies of the daily and illustrated papers;
photographs of a dozen pretty Englishwomen, presented by
Captain Henry Carter; a 2-ft. rule, a London Directory;
Whitaker's Almanack, the last copy of the impression for the
year, presented by the publishers.
A full-sized plaster cast of the obelisk is to be made for
the South Kensington Museum.
THE FALKLAND MEMORIAL.
We reported last week the proceedings at Newbury, on the
Monday, when the Earl of Carnarvon bore the chief part in
dedicating to the memory of Lucius Cary, Lord Falkland, a
monument of the battle fought in 1643, between the army of
Charles I. and that of the Parliament commanded by the Earl
of Essex, on Wash Common, a mile and a half south of the
town. It is there, within a few yards of the spot where
Falkland is believed to have been slain, that the monu¬
ment is erected of which we give an Illustration. It
is a plain "and massive obelisk of grey granite placed upon a
pedestal, elevated upon four courses of granite. The shaft is
a monolith, 17 ft. high; the total height is 33 ft. On the north
side of the pedestal, facing the road, iB chiselled the following
inscription In memory of those who on the 20th of Sep¬
tember, 1643, fell fighting in the army of Charles I. on the
field of Newbury, and especially of Lucius Cary, Viscount
Falkland, who died here in the thirty-fourth year of
his age, this monument is set up by those to whom the
majesty of the Crown and the liberties of their country
are dear.” The other sides bear inscribed upon them,
respectively, a sentence in Greek, quoted from Thucydides, a
Latin sentence from Livy, and an English one from Burke.
The sentence from Burke runs thus :—“ The blood of man is
well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our
country, for our kind; the rest is vanity, the rest is crime.”
At the base of the octagonal shaft are gablets, having sunk
panels filled in with a cross and ciphers of Lord Falkland, as
well as of Lords Carnarvon and Sunderland, who also lust their
lives at the battle of Newbury. The effect of the whole design
is that of extreme simplicity and solidity combined. It is the
joint work of Mr. James II. Money, a local architect, who
furnished the design, and Messrs. W. and J. R. Freenun, of
Millbank, Westminster. The granite, about forty tons, is fiom
the quarries of Messrs John Freeman aud Sons, of Penryn,
Penzance, and Cheesewring, Cornwall.
Mr. George Palmer. M P , laid the memorial-stone of anew
Foresters Hall on Tuesday at Reading, where the society is
very strong. At the close of the stone-laying ceremony there
was a procession of Foresters, and a public dinner was held in
the evening at the Townhall.
THE CABUL MISSION.
The Calcutta correspondent of the Times telegraphed on Sun¬
day as follows:—
The Cabul mission remains the one topic of universal
interest. All other subjects have become dwarfed into com¬
plete insignificance in comparison with the paramount im¬
portance attached in India to the present momentous departure
from the long-established principles of Indian foreign policy.
The key note to the whole policy of abstention from inter¬
ference Vith Central Asian politics existed in the absence of
any idea that Russian influence could ever be established at
Cabul otherwise than by conquest. It was believed that
Afghanistan, if left alone, would constitute for all practical
purposes a barrier completely impassable between the two
Powers, aud that strong feeling of national independence,
supported by the natural features of their country, would
render the conquest of the Afghans by Russia a task of in¬
superable difficulty, considering the distance of the Russian
base of operations and the consequent danger of interruption
to her communications. It was felt, moreover, that in the
event of Afghanistan not being able unaided to resist Russian
aggression, it would be open to the British Power to accord
her succour and assistance, subject to such conditions and
terms as might seem desirable whenever the necessity for
energetic action should arise, the Government being com¬
pletely unfettered by treaty stipulations.
Present events, however, have wholly cut the ground from
under our feet, and a policy has now to be initiated which may
be calculated to deal successfully with a very different set of
possibilities. Every conceivable device of Indian diplomacy,
supported by the all-cogent argument of immediate resort to
military compulsion if the occasion demand it, will have to be
exerted now and henceforth to prevent Afghanistan from
becoming converted into a Russian camp. The Ameer has dis¬
tinctly shown his hand, and, unless he entirely withdraws
from his present attitude of hostility, it will be deemed indis¬
pensable for the protection of India to adopt in self-defence
an infinitely more active foreign policy than that previously
accepted. One of our great military authorities has lately
stated, as the result of his deliberate and well-conBidered
opinion, that our present frontier line is indefensible; that a
mountain chain that can be pierced at many points is no pro¬
tection ; aud that if we desire the Himalayas to serve as a
natural barrier for the protection of India we must, as a mere
defensive measure, insist on holding the outlets of the passes.
Preparations are being vigorously pushed forward at
Peshawur for the dispatch of the mission. The latest infor¬
mation states that the number of the mission will amount to
about 1000, including camp followers. Every effort is being
made to keep the number within reasonable bounds; but it is
necessary to carry supplies for the road. The escort will be
increased by an infantry detachment, and possibly by a troop
of the 10th Hussars. Arrangements have been effected with
the Ivhyberees for a safe conduct through the Khyber Pass,
and we have received hostages for the due performance of this
undertaking. The Commissioner will accompany the mission
as far as Pakha, on the other side of the Khyber Pass, where a
string body' of the Ameer’s troops is stationed. The Nawab
Ghulam Hussein Khan, the bearer of the Viceroy’s letter, is
said to be popular with the Ameer and his nobles, to whom he
is well known in consequence of having acted as our agent at
Cabul for many years.
Shere Ali is reported to be in favour of the succession of his
grandson, Ahmed Ali Jan, Bon of Mahomed Ali Khan, who
was killed in 1865 near Khilat Ghilsi while fighting for his
father’s throne against Sirdar Azim Khan. Ahmed Ali is
described as an intelligent youth of about eighteen, with a
pleasing demeanour, and fairly well educated. The mother of
Abdulla J an is said to have still another son living, but incapaci¬
tated for rule by being totally deaf and dumb. The report of
Yakoob’s escape is still unconfirmed.
The Viceroy entertained Sir Neville Chamberlain at a
banquet given in his honour prior to his departure for Peshawur.
Lord Lytton made an impressive speech on the occasion, to
which Sir Neville returned a fitting reply.
It is universally felt that a task of no slight danger and
difficulty has been imposed upon him, and he will carry with
him the sympathy and good wishes of all. As a measure of
the passionate animosity towards the British which it will be
his duty to endeavour to convert to feelings of goodwill, it
may be sufficient to quote the following extract from the
Ameer's speech publicly uttered in open Durbar:—‘‘I have
seven crores of rupees by me, every rupee of which I will hurl
at the head of the British Government, and I will roll the
border tribes against them like blasts of fire.” It is quite
true that this beneficent intention was expressed some time
ago, but we have no reason for believing that the Ameer’s feel¬
ings have in the slightestdegree been mollified since these words
were uttered—unless, indeed, this has formed one of the results
of the visit of the Russian Envoy, a supposition possible, but
hardly probable, and one on which it would hardly be wise for
General Chamberlain to rely for the protection of his mission
without taking other precautions.
The frontier is reported quite tranquil. The left wing of
Jacob’s Rifles and a detachment, 250 strong, of Scinde Horse
are ordered to proceed to Quettah.
There was a violent volcanic eruption of Hecla on Aug. 22.
Mr. George Smith, of Coalville, has received a free grant of
several hundred volumes from the Religious Tract Society, for
distribution among the canal boatmen.
Russian officers have taken soundings in the Siberian lake
Baikal, which show a depth of 2940 metres, with a southward
sinking indicating a probable depth of 3700 metres, whereas
the deepest sounding in the Mediterranean is only 2158 metres
A great fire occurred at Zante on Friday night, the 13th
inst., by which seventeen houses and a large quantity of other
property were destroyed. There was much robbery in the
panic which ensued while the fire was raging.
Messrs. Devitt and Moore’s sailing-ship Rodney. 1447 tons,
Captain Alexander Louttit, chartered by Sir Arthur Blyth,
K.C.M.G., Agent-General for South Australia, left Plymouth
on the 13th inst. for Port Adelaide, with 505 emigrants, among
whom were 105 single female domestic servants.
Her Majesty’s troop-ship Euphrates left Portsmouth on
Tuesday for Bombay, conveying several military officers, twelve
officers’ wives, 999 non-commissioned officers and privates,
twenty-one soldiers’ wives, and twenty-eight children, to join
different regiments in India.
A band of 600 Mormon converts en route for Utah sailed
in the Guion steamer Wyoming, from Liverpool for New York,
on Saturday. Ot these, 205 were collected in Scandinavian
countries and sixty from Switzerland and Germany. Ireland
did not contribute a single proselyte: but there were forty
from Scotland, fifty from Wales, and about 200 from England.
There were also on board seventeen Mormon elders, besides a
principal agent who has been in Europe two years on a Mormon
propaganda.
8EPT. 21, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
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OBITUARY.
LADY EGERTON OF TATTON.
The Right Hon. Charlotte Elizabeth Baroness Egerton of
Tatton died on the 11th inst. at Homburg. Her Ladyship
was bom April 22, 1811, the eldest daughter of John, second
Marquis of Ely, K.P., by Anna Maria, his wife, daughter of
Sir Henry Watkin Dashwood, third Baronet, of Kirtliugton
Park, and was consequently sister of John Henry, third
Marquis of Ely (father of the present Marquis) and of Lord
Augustus Loftus. Ambassador at St. Petersburg. She was
married, Dec. 18, 1830, to William Tatton Egerton, Esq.,
of Tatton, M.P. for Cheshire (created Baron Egerton of Tatton
April 15, 1859), and leaves two surviving sons, the Hon. Wil-
braham Egerton, M.P. for Mid Cheshire, and Alan de Tatton
Egerton ; and three surviving daughters, the Hon. Elizabeth
Anna Maria Barbara Egerton, the Hon. Emily Marianne, Mrs.
Percy Mitford, and the Hon. Beatrix Catherine Lucia, Mrs.
Tollemache. Lady Egerton’s second daughter, the Hon. Alice
Mary, Mrs. Cholmondeley, of Condover Hall, Shropshire, died
in 1868.
GENERAL HILL.
General Edward Rowley Hill, Colonel of the 5th Fusiliers,
died on the 10th inst. at Montpelier Villas, Brighton, at an
advanced age. General Hill served in the Peninsula from
September, 1812, to 1814, being present at Vittoria, the passage
of the Bidassoa, and the battles of Nivelle and Toulouse, and
had received the war medal with four clasps. In the Crimea
he commanded the 63rd Regiment from the fall of Sebastopol
till the end of the war.
MR. NEVTLL, OF DANG8TEIN.
Reginald Henry Nevill, Esq., of Dongstein, Petersfleld, J.P.
and D.L. for Sussex, died there on the 11th inst. He was
bom Sept. 14,1807, the third son of the Hon. and Rev. George
Henry Nevill, of Flower Place, Surrey, second son of George,
fifteenth Lord and first Earl of Abergavenny, the ancestor of
the Marquis of Abergavenny; and married, Dec. 2,1847, Lady
Dorothy Fanny Walpole, daughter of Horatio, third Earl of
Orford, and leaves three sons and one daughter.
MR. JOHN HILTON, F.R 8.
This distinguished surgeon died on the 14th inst. at his resi¬
dence, Hedingham House, Clapham, in the seventy-fourth
year of his age. He had deservedly obtained several of the
high appointments and offices open to members of the pro¬
fession, having been appointed Surgeon Extraordinary to the
Queen, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Con¬
sulting Surgeon to Guy’s Hospital, at which institution he
received his professional education. In 1854 he was chosen by
the Fellows to represent them in the Council, of which at the
time of his death he was the senior member. In 1859 he was
appointed Professor of Human Anatomy and Surgery, in 1865
he became a member of the Court of Examiners of the College,
and in 1867 he was elected Hunterian Orator and President of
the College, in the affairs of which institution he ever took the
deepest interest, and displayed great administrative ability.
Mr. Hilton had been a valuable contributor to the advance¬
ment of surgical science, not only by his published works, but
in the Transactions of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical
Society, the Guy’s Hospital Reports, the Lancet, &c. He
leaves a widow and several children.
The deaths have also been announced of—
John Jeffcock, Esq., on the 7th inst., at Cowley Manor,
Yorkshire, aged seventy-five.
Charles Greenwood, Esq., on the 6th inst., at The Croft,
Wallingford, aged eighty-five.
Rev. Robert Henry Fowler, M.A., late Rector of Colmer
and Prior’s Dean, Hants, on the 5th inst., aged eighty-one.
Charles Currie, Esq., Bengal Civil 8ervice, fourth son of the
late Sir Frederick Currie, Bart., on the 3rd inst., at Agra.
The Rev. John Richard Frederick Billingsley, M.A., Rector
of Wormington, Gloucestershire, on the 9th, ageaseventy-three.
William Hinde, Esq., for eighteen years Master of the
Supreme Court, Adelaide, South Australia, on the 11th inst.,
at Newlands, Lansdown, Bath.
George Roche Smith, Esq., M.D., late Surgeon to the 7th
Hussars and 2nd Queen’s Royals, on the 7th inst., at Broudes-
bury-road, Kilbum, aged seventy-five.
Colonel Arfhur Leslie, C.B., on the 12th inst., at Half¬
moon-street, aged fifty-six. He was formerly Lieutenant-
Colonel in the 40th Regiment, with which he served in various
actions in New Zealand in 1860-1 and 1863-4.
Atwood Dalton Wigsell, Esq., Colonel 2nd 8urrey Volun¬
teers, formerly Captain Queen’s Bays, on the 7th inst., at
Sanderstead Court, Surrey, aged fifty-seven. Colonel Wigsell
was the only surviving son of the Rev. Atwood Wigsell, of
Sanderstead, and was formerly Captain 2nd Dragoon Guards.
Martyn John Roberts, Esq., F.R.S., late of Pendarren,
Breconshire, J.P. and D.L., on the 8th inst., at Bath, aged
seventy-two. He was the only son of the late John Roberts,
Esq., of Bryn Caeran, in the county of Carmarthen, by
Caroline, his wife, daughter of William Yalden, Esq., of
Lovington, Hants, Rector of Winchester.
Mr. John Bradshaw, J.P., of Knowle, on the 11th inst., at
Boulogne, in his seventy-fifth year. He was one of the oldest
magistrates sitting on the Guildford bench, having been
appointed on Oct. 20, 1850. In 1865 Mr. Bradshaw served
the office of High Sheriff for Surrey. He married, in 1838,
Jane Mary, daughter of Mr. George Hole, of Broomfield,
Lancashire, who survives him, as do also two sons.
The Rev. Dr. Jackson, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford,
at Askham Hall, Penrith, on the 13th inst. He was suc¬
cessively Fellow, Tutor, and Bursar of his college, and suc¬
ceeded to the Provostship in 1862, upon the elevation of Dr.
Thomson to the Bishopric of Gloucester and Bristol. He was
formerly Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Lonsdale; was
appointed Whitehall Preacher in 1827; was Chancellor of the
Diocese of Carlisle from 1846 to 1855; Rector of Clibum,
Westmorland, from 1841 to 1858; Archdeacon and Canon of
Carlisle from 1856 to 1862; and was afterwards appointed
Rector of Lowther, near Penrith.
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T.u- ob, ™“ I" Six inorrs *„• ui.xiiubK There are not twenty chew.
ohniii 1 }"' uorld wh '; n ” l,m he Induced t» examine pasHtoas of that kind. Wc
are Obliged for your couitcsy. lu-Yitrth.lras.
u t^nical tenn. used In the uriictlce of olios* will he found In
Staunton « Hiinalxxik: and If tou require » f»t«r work, procure Mr. Oustin'!
tnhiacf , P ub J Ub f? by Longmans, There are still' later works on 111*
subject of the Openings, but these do not give the Information you ask for.
® J®, ***“■ (Kensington).—In the Brat step of your proposed solution of Problem
KlnJ^-ri' noTe f l . ook ,h *‘ more, I. II take* (j discovers check to tho White
King! The problem cannot b* solved In <uiy other wmy than that published.
P W (Bedford).—We have rent you a diagram of the position as published.
SAl ftT.T^ h'err'fnim *" *°” ^ ' 0C,U * UM '
(Plymouth).—Thanks for the problem. It shall have early attention.
patience. In the cases ni
some mistake in playing .
Faxxm. 1 * 1xstittt«.—W e
T £™. < V * n) ~- Wb *P >°" Information about the forty-eighth. _
ftTre,?. # “ ,,d '‘diagram of the position. To play over forty-eight moves
” ‘ — time, and to IInd that time waste] is a tax —
In your letter you have, evidently enough. ;
s from the printed record.
•—We are meatly surpilsed to And you tripping. In Problem
i. n to o 3rd Is 1. r to Q 4th, 4c
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*}S' , f apo “ ,Te ? V Kamer. K It H V. Emile
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Byecroft.and Adam*(Eastbourne).
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Solution of Fhoblrm No. 1802.
WHITE. BLACK.
1. KttoKt8th Ptuadth*
2. R to B 7th Any move
3. R mates accordingly.
• If Black play 1. KtoQttb, White continnee with 2. B to B Srd and 3. Kt mate*.
PROBLEM No. 1806.
By J. G. Finch.
BLACK.
White to piny, and mate in three moves.
CHE88 IN LONDON.
In the following Amusing affair Mr. Mackknzik, the American Champion,
gives the odds of » Pawn and two moves to » London Akateuii.
(Remove Black’s K B P from the hoard.)
WHITE BLACK I WHITE BLACK
(Amateur). (Mr. Mackenzie). (Amateur). (Mr Mackenzie).
. I P to K 4th 11. P to K Kt 3rd Kt takes K P
i P to K II 4th P to K 3rd A very pretty as well as forcible move.
2. Kt lo K B 3rd P to a 4th 12. P takes Kt Kt takes Kt P
3 P to K 6th PtoB 4 th 18. Kt to B 6th (eh) B takes Kt
14. P takes B Kt take* R
_ P to Q 6th
6. P to (4 3rd Kt to <4 B 3rd I 15. Q takes Kt Q takes P
6. P to (4 R 3rd KttoKRSrd 16. (4 to Kt 2nd C4toR6th(ch)
7. P to K R3rd ll7.Kto(4*q Bto<42nd
White appears resolved to shut out the 18. B to (4 2nd R to B 7th
decree Knights, but he loses time In the 19. B to K sq
| His game is past surgery, but this affords
7.
8. Kt to Kt 6th
9. Kt to K 4th -
10. <4 to B 3rd B to R 6th (eh) I
B to K 2nd Black an opportunity lor a good liuiih.
Castles 19. BtoR6th(ch)
Kt to B 4th 20. K to B sq R to B 7th (ch),
and White resigned.
CHESS IN CANADA.
A Game, played in the tournament of Canadian Amateurs now in progress,
between Mr. White, of Quebec, and Mr. Ascher, of Montreal.
(K B Opening.)
The memorial-stone of the building in which the Burns
statue at Kilmarnock is to be placed was laid last Saturday
with full Masonic honours. A procession, of which the Ayr¬
shire volunteers, Good Templars, Foresters, and Freemasons
formed part, proceeded to Ray Park, where the memorial-
stone was laid by Mr. Cochran Patrick, of Woodside, the
Depute Provincial Grand 51 aster of Ayrshire. The ceremony
was witnessed by about 16,000 spectators.
At Dorchester on Saturday Emma Levi was charged on
remand with aiding her husband, who had been confined as a
criminal lunatic, to escape lrom the Dorset County Lunatic
Asylum. The evidence of the medical officers of the asylum
showed that during nn interview with her husband alone Mrs.
Levi gave him a suit of clothes, by means of which he escaped.
He hid the asylum drees up the chimney. He lias not since ,
been heard of. The prisoner was committed for trial. I
B 4th
black (Mr. A.)
P to K 4th
Kt to K 11 3rd
Kt to (4 B 3rd
3. P to U 4th
4. P to U 6th
We should prefer 4. Kt to K B 3rd.
4. Kt to K 2nd
6. Kt to K B 3rd Kt to Kt 3rd
6. Kt to B 3id B to Kt 5th
7. Q to Q 3rd
7. B to Kt Sth is a better way of defend¬
ing the pawn.
7. Castles
8. Custlca B takes Kt
9. P takes B P to <4 3rd
10. P to K R 3rd
White baa not time for thla sort of
muDtotivrt!. All his effort* i‘)inu)d now be
directed to exclude the adverse Kt from
10 .
11. KtoR2nd
12. B takes Kt
13. U to Q 2nd
14. P takes P
16. Kt to Kt sq
16. P to Kt 3rd
17. B to 4 3rd
Kt to R 4th
K Kt to B 6th
Kt takes B
PtoB 4th
B takes I*
B to (4 2nd
Kt to Kt 3rd
QtoKsq
BLACK (Mr. A.)
B to B 4th
a to Q 2nd
P to Q Kt 3rd
R takes B
(4 R to K B sq
ring tlmt t!u> Knight
a tho miur re ut oner,
ova at ibIf iioiot la
white (Mr. w.)
18. Q R to K aq
19. (4 to K 3rd
20. P to (4 B 4th
21. B takes B
22. U to Q 3rd
23. P to K B 3rd
24. P to <4 R 3rd
26. R to K 4th
This is lost tiioi
drives the Kook I
Pei bap* til* best
23. P to K U 4th
25. Kt to Kt 4th
26. a R to K aq P to K 6th
Very well played, and much better than
taking the h B P.
27. P takes P R to B 7th (ch)
28. R takes R R takes R (ch)
29. K to R so Kt to B 6th
30. Q takes Kt
The ending that, follow* It summary
indeed ; but White might have prolonged
the game by piayiug now Ik). It to K 2nd.
30. R takes (4
31. Kt takes R (4 takes P (ch),
and White resigns.
CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
The approaching departure from England of Mr. Mackenzie, the American
chess champion, was marked on Saturday last by a dinner in his honour,
given by Mr. H. F. Gustineau, of the City Chess Club. A number of the
champion’s friends were invited, including all the representative amateurs
of the metropolitan chess world, and his recept on on the occasion was of
the most cordial character. Duriuir his visit to England Mr Mackenzie has
contrived to chann everyone with whom he has been associated, and his
return to America is universally regretted in London chess circles.
The Globe of the 14th inst. contained a description of the Caf« de la
R&rencc, the famous resort of Parisian ehessplaytus. The description is
accurate as well as picturesque ; but the writer appears to be unaware that
the structure to which he attaches such historic interest possesses no claim
to antiquity whatever. The Cafe do la lt.ycnco of the present duy was
erected, on a new site, about twenty-live years ago. when the municipal im¬
provements iff. cted by the late Kii.JH.rur led to t-'C destruction of the old
one, and t he ground where once stood the haunt of \ oltnire. 1 hlltdor, Robes¬
pierre, Rousseau, and the great Napoleon is now an open thoroughfare
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated Feb. 23, 1878) with a codicil (dated Aug. 1
following) of Mr. Alfred George, formerly of Bristol, porter
brewer, and late of Downside, Stoke Bishop, Gloucestershire
who died on the 6th ult., was proved on the 21st ult at the
Bristol district registry by William Edwards George, the sou,
Edward Harley, and Edwurd James Swann, the executors, the
personalty, including leaseholds, being sworn under £250,000.
The testator bequeaths to his executor 5Ir. Harley £200; to
John Lawrence Uurige, in consideration of his long and faith-
fnl services us liis clerk, £100; upon trust lor his daughters,
Mrs. Eliza Robinson, Mrs. Lydia Williams, Mrs. Emma
Frances Hall, and 5Ire. Lucy Parfitt. Finzell, £20.000 each;
£40,000 is left upon trust to pay the income of £8000 thereof
to Mrs. Fanny George, the widow of his deceased sou P hili p,
during widowhood, aud then the capital sum, and also
£32,000, the remaining part of the £40,000, as from his
decease, for the children of his said deceased son. The residue
of his real and personal estate the testator gives to his son
William Edwards George.
The will (dated May 13, 1874) with a codicil (dated Jan. 8,
1878) of Mr. James Helme, late of Chestnut-walk, Waltham¬
stow, Essex, who died on July 27 last, was proved on the 29th
ult. by Richard Helme, the son, Burchall Helme, the nephew,
and the Rev. Thomas Wetherhead Sharpe, the executors, the
personal estate being sworn under £200,000. The testator
leaves to his wife, Mrs. Jane Sarah Helme, his household fur¬
niture and effects absolutely, and his town residence in Queeu’s-
square, for life ; and there are legacies to his daughter 51 rs.
Alice Ximenes, to Mrs. Jane Read, and other relatives, and to
servants. As to the residue of the personalty, one fourth is to
S o to his wife for life, and then to his son ; one fourth to his
aughtcr 51rs. Ximwnes for life, and then to his son ; and the
remaining two fourths to his son. All his real estate is devised
to his said son Richard.
The will (dated Jan. 2, 1878) with two codicils (dated
Jan. 9 and 13 of the same year) of Mr. Edward Valentine
Pegge Burnell, late of Winkburn Hall, Notts, who died on
June 15 last, was proved on the 4th inst. by Edward Strelley
Pegge Burnell and Hugh D’Arcy Pegge Burnell, the sons, the
executors, the personal estate beiug sworn under £30,600.
The testator leaves to his wife his furniture and household
effects and the sum of £5000 for life; at her death the said
sum is to be divided among his children, except his eldest son,
as she shall appoint; he also gives her u rent charge of £420
per annum for life on the Winkburn estate; the said estate is
also charged with legacies of £1000 to each of his five younger
children, in addition to legacies out of his general estate ; the
Osmandthorpe estate, in which his wife takes a life interest,
at her death is to go to his three younger sons, Hugh D’Arcy,
William Acton, and Edward Annesley. There are legacies to
his agents and housekeeper, £200 to the Nottingham General
Hospital and £100 to the Newark Hospital. The residue of
his property is to be divided between his younger children,
his eldest son being already amply provided for.
The will (dated May 30, 1878) of Captain Sir George
Biddlecombe, R.N., C.B., late of No. 68, Granville Park,
Lewisham, who died on July 19 last, was proved on tho
5th inst. by George Ward, William Francis Kent, Samuel
Scott Kent, and Edwin Low, the executors, the personal
estate being sworn under £7000. Among other bequests the
testator gives £100 each to the Merchant Seamen’s Orphan
Asylum, Snaresbrook, and the Royal Naval School, New-cross;
and £50 each to the Chichester Training-ship for poor boys,
and the Royal Naval Female School at Isleworth.
The will (dated July 19, 1878) of Mr. Edward Chatterton
Middleton, late of Loughborough, Leicestershire, banker, who
died on July 19 last, was proved at the district registry,
Leicester, on the 7th ult.. by Edward W illiam Craddock
Middleton, the son, the acting executor, the personal estate
being sworn under £14,000.
The will (dated Aug. 24, 1876) of the Rev. Robert Gibson,
late of Chidcock, Dorset, who died on July 19 last, was proved
on the 4th inst. by the Rev. Robert Henry Gibson, the son, the
acting executor, the personal estate being sworn under £6000.
Captain R. D. Hay, Adjutant of the 3rd Essex Artillery
Volunteers, has been appointed Chief Conslable of Wolver¬
hampton, in place of Captain Segrave, who has resigued.
There were 106 candidates. The annual salary is £300.
The current number of the North American Review (now in
its sixty-third year) contains an article by the Right Hon. W.
E. Gladstone, entitled “ Kin Beyond Sea,” in which he dis¬
cusses the condition and character of tho United Stutes of
America, their people and Constitution.
A long list is published in the Gatette of War Office appoint¬
ments and promotions, among them being the appointment of
Lieutenant-General Sir Daniel Lysons, K.C.B , to be Colonel
of the 45th Regiment of Foot, vice Lieutenant-General H.
Cooper, deceased. Lieutenant-General C. A. Edwards, C.B.,
Colonel of the 18th Foot, is appointed General; and 5Lajor-
General Sir John Josiah Hort., Bart.,C.B., Lieutenant-General.
By the appointment of Sir D. Lysons u second distinguished
service pension is placed at the disposal of the Commander-
in-Chief.
The returns prepared by the Government emigration officers
at Liverpool show that during the month of August 9495 per¬
sons left the Mersey as emigrants, the largest number in any
month this year, except May, when 9889 sailed. The largest
proportion—viz., 758-4, proeeeded to the United States, while
1641 went to British North America, aud sixty-eiglit to
Australia; the remainder sailed to South America, the East
and West Indies, China, and the West Coast of Atrica. The
nationalities of the emigrants were—English 5834; Scotch,
114; Irish, 786; aud foreign, 2091. Of 670 the nationalities
were not denoted. The returns show an increase of 2229 over
those for August last year. The total number of emigrants
from the Mersey during the present year, up to the end of last
month, is 48,333.
An experiment of considerable interest in pisciculture is
intended to be tried on one of the estates of the Marquis of
Exeter—the naturalisation of the American black bass. A
large number of this fish has been brought over from New
York in the steamer Spain, of the Nutional Line, and it is
expected that they will take readily to their new home. They
were placed on the passage in an improvised tank, the water
of which was kept constantly fresh by the injection of air at
intervals of ten minutes. The passengers and crew had an
opportunity of witnessing an interesting exhibition of im-tinct
on the part of the piscine emigrants A large catfish having
been caught was placed in the tank, whereupon the buss
immediately combined their forces and attacked the intruder.
They at first charged at his head, but, iindiug themselves
becoming worsted, changed their tactics and took him in flunk,
and soon succeeded in vanquishing him. completing the
victory by devouring him at leisure. The buss is considered
by some as having the finest llavour of all the freshwater fish
of America.
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universally sold, possesses several advantages over other Vel-
vetoens. amongst which may be specially mentioned that it
neither changes colour fades, cockles, nor spot* with rain, ono
and all consideration* of great Importance. It is, moreover, dyed
by a new process In the
FASHIONABLE PERMANENT ORIENTAL BLUE-
BLACK,
and made In various qualities end thicknesses suitable for either
Millinery, Dressmaking, or Trimming purposes. With so many
good points to recommend It. It Is not surprising that the LOUIS
VELVET HEN should bava been larael/lmitaEed. . tort which
ha* rendered It necessary to stamp It on the reverse side every
•oven yards with a Trade-Mark representing a Griffin's Head,
and the motto," Noe espera jnvent.”
THE LOUIS VELVETEEN IS NOT DEARER THAN
INFERIOR DYES AND MAKES.
CAUTION.—SEE THE VELVETEENS ABE 8TAMPED „ *
THE BACK IN PLAIN LETTERS "THE LOUIS VEL¬
VETEEN." WITH TRADE-MARK AND MOTTO AS
Agents for Wholesale only:-
atreet, London: WM. FIFE. ___
JOHN FREEMAN, 20. Wicklow-street. Dublin.
Q WAN and EDGAR.
AUTUMN 8HOW OF NOVELTIES AT ALL PRICES.
Black Silks made to I Drew Materials. Lace.
Wear. Gloves. Sealskin*
VelveU and Satin*. I Costumes. Wool Wrap*.
Millinery. 1 Dinner Dresses. Fancy Horary.
Mantles. I Ball Dresses. fibawla. 7
\TANUFACTURER’S STOCK of LADIES’
AUTUMN DRESSES Selling Off at Half the Cost Cun
elrtlngof Mom Cnrhvinlrv* In tho now dark plain wlounT Prlra
4»d. per yard.—JOHN HOOPER. 82. Oxford-.toit w“^.ttor?s
TO LADIE 8 .—THE SHREWSBURY
A*aagrg. .aigg-saa* g »a,f g
O'* E. w no wTpii SlllS'ff aiSCSUf
Shrewsbury. Pattern* and Prices on application. B '
¥EW AUTUMN COSTUMES, CLOAKS.
£ 1 *c--T. LITTLE and BON beg to announce that tlielr
buyer* and dressmaker* have returned fr*-m Pari* with tka
latest NOVELTIES tor the AUTUMN SEASON Darini th!
ntwvlng of(Oxf.mlratr.wt carriage. c^> reTdJwn
•tivel. Iwodnnre v-irn (Jxfonl-atreet. crewman
42 to 44. Oxford-rtraak
AUTUMN SILKS, 1878.
SPECIAL NEW SHADES.
N™ .,EC,.E ...
bar quail tie*. Oolonred Silks, 4a. ad., 6a. M., and 6*. 9d. per
all racially mannictu’red for this season.
869Piece* extra rich Brocaded Silk*, at it. 6d. and 4*-6d.
Three price* are the lowest ever known for *uch qualltle*.
809 Piece* of China Washing Silks, 18a. 9d. for 20 yards.
A apodal purchase of Grisaille and Quadrille Bilks, 23*. fid. the
PETER ROBINSON, 103 to 108, OXFORD-STREET.
Established at this addrea* In 1833.
IMPORTANT NOTICE—BLACK SILKS.
X One Thousand Piece* of the be»t manufacture
at 2*. Ud. and 3e. lid. per yard.
A racial purchase of Bonnet * Black Silks,
commencing at 2*. lid. per yard.
278 Piece* Black Satin* of extreme brightneU,
2*. fid. and 8i. fid. per yard.
For Pattern* please addreu only _
PETER ROBINSON! OXFORD-STREET, W.
piCH SILK AUTUMN COSTUME 8 .
Xv One Thousand Coloured Silk Costume*
BLACK 811$ lx)STUME8
Black Silk Skf&f’one guinea.
BLACK GRENADINE C0STUME8,
Including five yard* for Bodice,
*ultable for Dinner or Evening wear,
at One Gninna each.
'““Masr 1
style of Faahlon and Ready tor Wear.
For Illurtratione plnase addreu only
PETER ROBINSON. OXFORD-STREET, W.
VERY FASHIONABLE THI8 SEASON.
PICH BLACK VELVET VELVETEENS.
Xv 300 piece* fart Black, very wide.
£. 3d. to 3*. 6d. per yard.
AU the New Rich Shade* of Colour, 2a. fid. to 4*. 84. per yard.
Black Catlimerea and Caahmcre Merino*
FOR AUTUMN DRESSES.
A Special Purchase in Black and all the New Colour*,
amounting to several thousand piece*,
very wide, at la lid. to 3e. fid. per yard.
TRAVELLING AND SEASIDE DRESSES.
Witney, Ertameno, and Angola Serge*,
Fancy Caaimlres. Rich Poplin*.
Hew Autumn Moea Cloth*, and other Novelties,
in endleu variety, Ids. fid to 31*. Gd. the Drees.
A New Fabric In Black
CREPE CASHMERE (REGISTERED).
A roost useful Material, In six design*,
specially adapted for thl* *c*«ra'« Uoetumae,
full width, la. 9d. per yard.
New Fabric* for Paletots, Ac.
Black Beaver Cloth Matelaa»4.
Foil de Chamean. Diagonals, Ac.
The*' elegant Fabric* can al*o be had In
Choice Shade* of Fawn. Grey, Cuir, Mode. Ac.
Prom 6*. fid. to 18a fid. the yard, Min. wide.
For Patteroe vldreu only
PETER ROBINSON. OXFORD-STREET. W.
AfADE BALL and WEDDING DRESSES,
111 in Tulle, Tarlatan, and Mutlln.
THE SIa(1DE.
a charming Dress In Black Tarlatan,
profusely Trlmmid with Bouillonnfi and Pleatinga.
This Dress can be had
In White end all the New Colour*,
price 21*., a substantial Box Included.
A Pretty Drasi in Black HruseoU Net,
orKon-CrurtSgffilk Net,42*.
The New Sheet of Engravlna* can be had. poet-free, from
PETER ROBINSON. OXFOBD-STREKTTlONDON.
\YANTLES and JACKETS for
1YJL AUTUMN and WINTER.
NOVELTIES FROM PARIS AND BERLIN DAILY,
in Beaver Cloth. Diagonal Cloth, HUle raye Cloth,
and Drap Brute: also. In Velvet, Fecc, Sicilian,
and Grn* Grain, lined and quilted.
Several New Shape* In Ulster Mantle*.
The New Waterproof Tartan Mantle*.
For Illustration* apply to
PETER ROBINSON, OX FORD-STREET.
The only addreu.
T)EAL RUSSIAN SEAL FUR PALETOTS
IV (half fitting).
S3 In. deep, from 7 ge.
36 in. deep, from 8 g*.
Several New Shape in Seal Mantle*,
in the flnert quality.
GREY SQUIRREL PALETOT8 la great novelty).
Sable. Seal. Fox. Racoon, Skunk, Bearer,'
Otter, Russian Hare, Chinchilla, Ermine,
and every other deecrtption of
Muff*. Neckties, Ac.
A large Stock of
RUSSIAN SEAL FUR JACKETS,
24 to27 in. deep, from4 guinea* upward!.
Imitation Seal Fur Jacket*.
42*. each, 26 to 28 in. deep.
Cashmere Circulars, wlthJHood,
and lined Ruuian Squirrel, 46in. deop. from 21e. upward*.
Caahmcre Circular*, with Hood, and lined from Ruuian Squirrel,
48 In. deep. 68*. fid. upward*.
A great variety of New Shape!
In SUk Mantle*, ^
lined with the finest quality ot Ruuian Squirrel.
Fur Carriage and Travelling Hugs, from 30*. upward*.
DETER ROBINSON, SILKMERCER and
X DRAPER,
108 to 108. OXFORD-STREET, LONDON,
INFORMS THE PUBIJO
that hi* buaineu ha* been carried on at them premise* tine* It*
establishment In 1833. and respectfuUy requests hi* Customer*
to eddrou orders to this addreu only.
WIDOWS’ MILLINERY.—Mrs. Creaton
T T begs to Inform widow ladle* that she ha* her uiual select
assortment of WIDOWS* CAPS of the first designs, for First and
Second Mourning, In all material* suited to the present fashions.
Also Collarettes. Cuff*, and Collars for evening and morning wear.
A superior class of Widows' Bonnet*, and every description at
Widows' Millinery.-Show-Rooms. No. 291, Regent-street, W.
Pattern Sheets post-free. Established thirty-one yean.
YXTAYRE’S SEAL PALETOTS
TV at SUMMER PRICES.?
33 inches, SB Inches, 40 inches, 45inch*i,
Three Paletot* can be sent on approral to any part *oi the
country by giving a reference, and undine tho foUowing
measurements :—Width of back between shoulder*, across chest,
round walrt, length ot Paletot.
WAYRE ’8 FUR-LINED CLOAKS,
Lining*.Sffchu toS! r Pr '“- F " nCh *•» *^ l7rel
WAYRE’S SKUNK PALETOT SETS
. ' complete, 4 g*. Bummer price. Length of front*, 36 in. :
depth of flounce, 11 in. Dark natural colour.
WT AY RE’S REAL SABLE-TAIL
TV PALETOT BETS complete, 20 gt. Summer price.
Natuial colour. Length of frontjsfiln.; depth of flounce, film
WAYRE’S REAL MARTEN - TAIL
* T PALETOT SETS complete. 8 n. Summer price. Dark
natural colour. Length of front. 3# In. ; depth of flouna? 12 In.
WAYRE, FUR MANUFACTURER,
«> n.. Ira P°. r ^°! Pord «" ? k '°* dlrert -«. Oxford-rtraet. and
3M. Oxford-street (corner of Regent-circus). Furs of every
de*eri|>tlen rent for selection to all parts of the Kingdom.
P^Jc* own Bral Jackcu re dyed. re-limSTrepnired,altere^.llnd
lengthened to present fashion.
FO ?,^f;fe„ 8f ^. SON8 ^ ND ALL CLIMATES.
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE
JJNGLISH AND pOREIGN QOURTS.
EGBRTON BURNETT’S
WELLINGTON SERGES,
AND VARIOUS UTIIER APPROVED WOOLLEN FARRTrq
EOERTON BURNETT ha, repeatedly had th* hommr of
anpplymg "the-e admirable bergre" to the ROYAL FAMILY
an.l executreOntoi.dally FROM ALL PARTS. '
Nrttlier rmln nor salt water can affect their permanent dra
Price* from 1*. 2Jd. to the finest at 4*. fid. per yairt PATTERN-
BOOKS rent free by poet and carriage paldfar Bristol or Ixmdnn
on parcel, over £2. OOOD8 PACKED FOR EXPORTATIION
. A Spedal Strong Make for BOYS' and GENTLEMEN'S
SUITS, M Inches, from 3a. fid. per yard. *^***aj, a
JJGERTON gURNETT,
SERGE WMIEI10U8E8
WILLING'TUN, iKiU raSET.
JNDIGESTION.
PEPT1N E will bring abont the Digestion of Food
In a manner perfectly Identical to that obtalnad
under the Influence of tha natural gastric Jnlca.
“A glanoe at the Formula of LACTOPEPTINI
valuable results that mart ansae through It*
administration. Composed of ptyalln, pepsins,
pancreatine, hydrochloric and lactic adds. It Is a
combination of all tha digestive agents; con¬
sequently, can never be administered without
giving the utmost satisfaction; for tf there it a
deficiency In the syttem of all or any of then
agents, LACTOPEPT1NE will anpply It, tog
thus assist In digesting the food, enabling
the organrthat produce these principle* of diges¬
tion to rest and recuperate their relaxed energies."
—From “ Practical Medicine and Surgery," July.
IF!?. LAOTOPBPTINE being presented In
aaccharated form. 1* moot agreeable to the tarts,
and can be administered even to tha youngest
child. The price of the LACTOPEPT1NK 1*
4s. fid. per one ox. bottle. (An ounce bottle con¬
tains forty-eight ten-grain dona.) If any dif¬
ficulty Is experienced In obtaining LA0TCPEP-
TINE from your Chemist, communicate direct,
•ending P.O.O. for 4a. fid. Addreaa—CABNRICE,
KIDDER, and CO., Gt. Busaell-rt.,corner of Char-
lotto-sL. London, W.O. Pamphlet to anyaddrres
H °W
TO AVOID THE INJURIOUS
EFFECTS OF 8TIMULANT8. — The present
syrtem of living—partaking of too rich foods, si
paltry, saccharine and fatty substances, alcoholic
drinks, and an Insufficient amount of exerdin¬
frequently deranges the liver. 1 would advise all
bilious people, unleu they are careful to keep the
liver acting freely, to exercise great care In the
u*e of alcoholic drinks, avoid sugar, and always
dilute largely with water. Experience show* that
porter, mild ales, port wine, dark theme*, sweat
champagne, liqueur*, and brandy are all very apt
to disagree; while light white wines, and gin or
whi»ky largely diluted with soda-water, will be
found the least objectionablo. ENO'B FRUIT
BALT 1*peculiarly adapted tor any eonrtituttonal
' neu of the liver; it poucmm the power of
_ A world of wool -- --
keep and nee ENO'8 FRUIT SALT; therefore n*
family should ever be without It. " AU our cus¬
tomer* for ENO'8 FRUIT SALT would not be
without It upon any consideration, they having
received to much benefit from it.—Wood Brothers,
Chemists. Jersey.'' Bold by all Chemist* *t
2s. Pd. and 4s. fid. Examine each bqttle and see
the capsule i* marked •• ENO'8 FRUIT SALT."
Without it you have been Imposed on by a worth-
leu Imitation.
QHOCOLAT MEN TER, in ^ lb. and 4 lb.
pHOCOLAT MEN IER.—Awarded Twenty-
V Three ___
QHOCOLAT MENIER.
Paris,
Newtek.
TklNNEFORD’S MAGNESIA.
XJ Tha best remedy for oddity of
the Stomach, Heartburn. Head¬
ache. Gout, and Indigertlon.
TlINNEFORD’S MAGNESIA.
XJ The rafert and most gentle
Aperient for delicate constitutions.
DR.
JJIDGE’S
FOOD
Comfort, and Quiet Night*
to Mothers, Nurare,
Infante, and Invalid*.
dbyel
and G
••FOR THE BLOOD 18 THE LIFE."
pLARKE’S WORLD-FAMED BLOOD
\J MIXTURE 1* warranted to cleanse the Blood from all
each, of all’ciiemlrt*. bent to any addreu for 30or 11
the Proprietor, F. J. CLARKE, Chemlrt. Lincoln.
LAIR’S GOUT PILLS,
The Greet English Remedy for Gout and Rheumatism. Buie,
safe, and effectual. No restraint of diet required during thdr
use. and are certain to prevent the disease attacking any vital
part. Hold by aU Chemlrt* at li. l|d. and 2s. »d. per Box.
AXORA MEDICATED FRUIT
J LOZENGES for CONSTIPATION. SLUGGISHNESS
OF THE STOMACH. BILE. HEADACHE.
The " Lancet:" It U a peat imp- ""
preparation* In common u*e for the u
"Medical Preu": -
adoui, and nicely made." __ .
_xld, 1». ltd., by all Chemlrt* and Drugglrta; Whala-
■ale, 82. 8outh work-street.
pORPULENCE—YATE HOLLAND^
Vy POWDERS (or Pill*) tpeodllyand mielj aUorto ioper-
fluoui fat and reduce oorpulency, howerer lonr standing. Pn»
•*. sd., is. Gd., and 1 fi. per Box.-MAHTIN and CO., K
Pondlae-road, London, B.W.; or through any Chemiit.
rFHROAT IRRITATION.— EPPS’S
X GLYCERINE JUJUBES. Soreneu end dryneu, tickling
and irritatiou, Inducing cough and affectingthe yoloe. Bold only
in Box**, fid. and Is., which mart be labelled tha*:—
JAMES EPPS and CO.. Homoeopathic Chemlrt*, London.
g^AYE’S
jy ORSDELL’S
piLLS
PUBIFY T1IE BLOOD, ___
CLEANSE FI10M DISEASE,
IMPROVE DIGESTION,
ESTABLISH THE HEALTH.
J’OOTH-i
JNSTANT CURE.
FORMS A STOPPING.
SAVES THE TOOTH.
^r? 8 i.?&i"!ssiv®i'T'sa , S
Toothache. Very sever* case* under mi can hare
found inrtanUneou* and permanent relief.
Of all Chemlrt*.atl*. !}<L per Packet.
ELECTRICITY 18 LIFE.
P ULVERMACHER’S “GALVANISM,
NATURE'S CHIEF RESTORER OF EXHAUSTED
VITAL ENERGY." . , K .
In thli Pamphlet the mott reliable proof* an given of the
vert and wonderful curative powere of Pulvermaclier •
Patent Galvanic Chain-Band*. B.lto, Ac.. In Rheumatic.
Nervon-, and Functional Dtaorden. Sent po»Ufre« for
J. L. PCTTe'rmXcHEK^'gaLVANIC E8TABU8HMENT,
TO PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH
X RUPTURE.—PRATT'S WATER-PAD TRUSSES are the
mort effectual Cura.-Apply to J. F. Pratt. Surgical Mechanician
to St. Bartholomew'* Hoapltol, 410, Oxford-rtreet, Loudon.
Loxixxx: Printed and PubUihed at the Office. 188. gtrenfl-
the Pariah of St. Clement Dana, In the Oounty ofMAMleej*.
by Qbdmb 0. Lxieurov, 188, Strand,aforau ld -4*iw8*t,
THE OCCUPATION OF CYPRUS: PRISONERS FROM TIIE GAOL AT NICOSIA ESCORTED TO KYRENIA BY BRITISH AND TURKISH TROOPS.
tt t.ttstT). ATED LONDON NEWS^
births.
On the 28th test., at Stoke House, Nantwich, Cheshire, Mrs. C. H.
^ tt“ rn tot., at M»or Hou*. D»rriagto», ““»■*» a.
WILL BE PUBLISHED, OCTOBER 7,
PRICE ONE SHILLING,
THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON ALMANACK
the field of Askalon. _ „
-_ „ TTTJ r TQFTii’n OCTOBER 7, to Buspect, that, in consequence of the foregoing events,
WILL BE PUBLISH , tll0 g arr ison at Qucttah is to be reinforced by 3000 more
PRICE ’ troops; that a mixed European and Native Force of 4000
, TT/Nmn i mn-n T n-wnnu AT.M AN ACK men is ordered to assemble immediately at Thull, a town
ILLUSTRATED LOW DOW All at t ^ c entrance to the Khooram Valley; and that a reserve
r0 * force of 6000 men will be formed at Sukkur early in
18 7 9, November. It is intimated that no attack on Cabul is
_ „ PICTURES. intended; that the armed demonstration resolved upon by
TWELVE COLOURED tlie yi ceroy has for its chief object to show the Ameer how
■'TAVoArn^ utterly helpless he would be if prompt hostilities on the part
tWFT VE SKETCHES ILLUSTRATING THE SEASONS, of t he Indian Government were to be brought to bear upon
1VV ^ j A8 headings to tiie calendar; him ; and that no design to abridge his independence as a
TWELVE FINE-ART ENGRAVINGS; Sovereign will be entertained, on the condition, however,
ASTRONOMICAL DIAGRAMS OF^REMARKABLE PHENO •- - it stall not ho pledged to Russia. The Russian
_ _ IX- nrTntBritftto^ theQueen’s Household; herMajosty’a Mission still remains at Cabul, and continues to be treated
MitosteL; LiMs of S^neT; Aoto^ with special favour. But it is declared at St. Petersburg
pSrnlnt^^eed durmv the Session of 1878; Revenue and Expenditure; t th assmup ti 0 n of an understanding having been
established between Bussia and Afghanistan is purely
SffiWater; Post-Office ResuMio™;, toother .witoa large amount of imaginary> and tha t there are no known grounds to j ustify
18 7 9,
CONTAINING ^
a 80D ’ marriages. . T twelve coloured pictures,
“«Sias-rs&“-“ !S *—* “wassssK" ~
Woles, his Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson, G.C.M. ., ^ Faroily o{ G re ot Britain ; the Queen’s Household; her ^jostyi
Lady Robinson. UVATffS. EE Lurt/of Public Offi^'and Officers ; Bankers andUn,
AS UEADINOS TO THE CALENDAR:
TWELVE FINE-ART ENGRAVINGS;
ASTRONOMICAL DIAGRAMS OF REMARKABLE PHENOMENA-
WITH BXPLAKATOKY KOTEB;
2* Bona p™ji 5 o<
^eSSty F^cd and Movable Festivals; An
V.vnonditure:
0„ the 21th inst., early, Beach CottagelSnen™^eddurin «the BeSionof 1878; Revenue and that the assumption
nna Jaques, * the W„° n .^^htod bvRtoh“d K de Lein on Obituary of Eminent Pergn Taxes, n an l d "Government Dutiee ; Times of established between
• ln Five Shillings for each announcement. -i—^ mVm.taGnn second only to that of the Ilhistbated u
ffiaoS its circulation second only to that of the Illustbated londo,
HAT ENDAR FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCT. 5. forma auseful
CALENDAR FOR -
SUNDAY, Sbpt. 29. of the Illustrated Lokdoh News, 198, Strand, and so y
_ , .. Of I Rf Paul’s Cathedral. 10.30 a m., scllers and Newsvendors. _
THE ILLUSTRATED
PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION
Whitehall, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., Rev. Savoy, closed.
■William Hulton. An English Edition of
MONDAY, Sept. 30. b 1
Si. Jerome, Father of the Church, I Hajfffie «ad^yof London Bridge L , EX p 0SITI0N UNIVERSELLE DE 1878 ILLUSTRE!
Doctor and Confeseor, died, 420. | ciosea uu inoy. .
XUE8DAY, Oct. 1. in continuation of the Illustrated Journal issued in 18o7 under t
Cambridge Midmelto.Tenu begto. | X«ndon nom^WMralS^hool. re- , ullloritj 0 , the Imperial Commission, is issuod every Tuesday,
THE ILLUSTRATED
PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION.
An English Edition of
L’EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE 1878 ILLUSTREE,
in continuation of the Illustrated Journal issuod in 1867 under the
Pheasant-shooting begins. opened tMdfi
National Gallery, closed. iv^'n m fl
British MuFCiim, closed for a week.
Church Congress at Sheffield (pro- Georg s. ! p.
indent the Archbishop of York). St Mary s._
Albert Hall, 2 p.m., the president’s hareon) . Gb
address; 2.30 p.m., papers and (Dr- J-
opened; addresses;—St. Thomas’s
4 u.m. (Mr. Nettleship); Middle¬
sex, 3 p.m. (Dr. A. W. Edis) ; St
sex, 3 p.m. (Dr. A. W. Edis) ; St.
George’s. 4 p.m. (Dr. Whipham);
St. Mary’s, 3 p.m. (Dr. Farqu-
hareon) ; Charing-cross, 4 u.m.
(Dr. J. Pearson Irvine) ; West-
Gssuz&ss&ifz o—SJyirafj:
TTnivf-rsitv College: Introductory am. (I’rofessoi A. w. »aiu, ou
U I^eturM-ProfSrsor H. Morlev, University Experiences of the
3Pin (onUniversity College, 1828 Renaissance and Refonnage m
jo,W») i P ro t«orB.E.Imnk«l,r. T ^„ attb ,
Nottingham Races. cruise.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 2.
Church Congress at Sheffield, Albert Sanitary Institute, congress at Staf-
nSl 10 am., papers and discus- ford, general meeting, address by
“ons on Comprehensiveness in the Mr. E. Chadwick, the president of
National Church ; 2.30 p m., tlie the congress. Exhibition of 8am-
Church’s Work ; 7 p.m., the Duty tory Applianws, opcn till the 19th.
ronirrh in Regard to In- Entomological Society, 7 p.m.
tempera^e. r< CutUrR’Hall, 10a.m., Pharmaceutical Society 8 p.m. (Dis-
th? Omroh in Relation to the tribution «f prizes and oertificatM
State; 2.30 p.m., Ecclesiastical to students; address by Mr.
ratronnge ; 7 p.m., Marriage Law. 1 Octavius Corder, of Norwich).
THURSDAY, Oct. 3.
Mnrm’o first nuartor. 7 1 n m. I Hall, 10 a.m., papers aud discus-
Banitarv Institute at Stafford, read- I sions on the Attitude ofthe Church
ing and discussion of papers, con- Awards Pop ul " f c : >
versazione and reception m the 2.30 p.m., on Woman s Work in
■Rrvw'.n&Vi Trail the Church ; 7 p.m., meeting of
A^wivenny Horse Show and Agri- ! working men. piers’ HaU, 10
cultural Association, exhibition of a.m., on Parochial Chur A Councils,
hunters, &c. ! 2 30 p.m . Cathedials, «.; 7 p.m.,
Church Congress at Sheffield : Albert 1 Sunday Schools.
FRIDAY, Oct. 4.
Sanitary Institute at Stafford, read-I Holy Orders; 7 p.i
im? and discussion of papers, pub- Music. Cutlers Hall,
ugli, Peebleshire, aged 32^ d eg ,mt companio^theiibre^; whflst R wuniversaUy a° ow cage The state of affairs thus slightly sketebod is grave
■ " J “ S " c„orgb in regard to its possible consequences. It may
r, Mn or Ufis. “ f™^2V^S^S“TOPti ! <io P S , ’'f!.™lr«bli. afttot ubieh ha, MM pnss off like u flash in the pan, but it may also lead ou to
lOU ncement. plaoed ita circulation second only to that of the Illustbatsd . x ^ Rtru£r£r ] c which might shake the very foundations of OUT
^“Tbe Illustrated Almanack is inclosed in an elegant Mver printoi in ^ ° E ire< Be it remembered, we have to take into
‘ ENDING OCT. 5. colomw^the^Pthe account that when once the ball has been set rolling
K of jfe^ across the North-Western frontier of India its motion
tul’s Cathedral, 10.30 a m., sellers and Newsvendere. will, to a certain extent, become uncontrollable. It IS
Prebendary B^Kyn^n; ----' likely en0 ugb that nothing at present is to be appre-
rm*of* Calcutta; 7 p.m.. Rev. Tup ILLUSTRATED hended from Russian military aggression; but it would be
o"y d Tntoty.Hiwtines. ’ DADTC TTMTVrPQAT T^YRTRITTON rafil1 to enter u P 0n a confliet even Sliero ^
n iQS ^v. Canon D 1 uckw”th! in PARIS UNIVllRoAL LaHIdI I lUil. wit h 0 ut having provided against the chance of
"closed. ----being more sorely pressed, or, perhaps we might better
An English Edition of gay, of being more obstinately resisted, than our cal-
EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE 1878 ILLUSTREE, Z
, 1. in continuation of the Illustrated Journal issuod in 1867 under the ^ qqq men should be required to occupy Afghanistan
ed n0 addr«s^8! ThS authority of the Imperial Commission, is issuod every Tueeday, ag ^ ’ &dyanced Front i e r of the Empire, it has to be taken
3 PMCB TimEEI ,ENCE - # into serious consideration whether, looking at the Annies
uGs. i p.m. (br. Whipham); published at thb opficb of maintained by Native Sovereigns, India can safely bear so
S^ChinCcroas' 4^ T H E ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. great a draught upon her defensive resources. If not,
TEE stsa™, WNDON. the ease would be harffly mended, .naamneb a, the
^’r CoUege, 4 P- m * (Professor -- Xlnited Kingdom would have to furnish the necessary
' and St London h °nMpit;ii j±u Country Orders to be supplied through the London Agents. Edition to the armed Forces of India, and ultimately, it
fS-CoSScT'^ctu^by Pro- ~~ ^ to be feared, to share the expense of maintaining them.
31- Brown, i p.m /CRYSTAL PALACE PICTURE-GALLERY. The question, therefore, is no remote one, without making
I (ffioi^w^i/on oVrRm^d^ much practical difference to ourselves at home, we may
'aiSe B n P a eri ffirn£ge °in w - WAta - Cr r gt * 1 p<tlac<; - _view with favour, or with disfavour, as the case may be;
manv.) TAORE’S GREAT WORK, “THE BRAZEN SERPENT,” but it is one which will assuredly touch English interests,
^Alfred Yacht Club, closing JJ ^msT .leading the EugHsh taxation, and Engbsh commerce (to say nothing
(0T 2 the croM." ic..’«t the dob'e 6aliAky. 35. New Bond-street, w. Daily. io to o. la. Emrlish securities) before its final settlement,
ary institute, congress at staf- wiu. cixise on honday next. The phase of events which now confronts the Indian
^E^^adwlckf^the'president of T?LIJAH WALTON.—EXHIBITION of ISLE OF Government cannot, it is true, be ignored as if it did not
vXSces^n tm n th f e mh‘ .I^&hliVuto^ga^eb^ V*. exist. The problem first started by the Viceroy at Cal-
!Jr “ • Admlaalon, includiDg Catalogue, la. _;_ cutta more than twelve months UgO must BOW be Solved,
mtton prized and* «rtiflcatM A , T h. and Mrs. GERMAN REED’S ENTERTAINMENT and in all probability solved by force. Circumstances
avius^Corier.^fJtorwidf). may so far change as to lead to a fortunate conclusion
; T 3 idonfiiRind'S?—ST.^^oftGE^s^iiALL^LioghanrqdBcef ** Tiiree. Admf.- ihG a ppii ca tion of warlike means. The Ameer
11,10 a.m., papers and discus- --Z~7~Tr~ TT T T may thinli better as to the line of conduct which it will
18 on the Attitude of the Church ASKELYNE and COOKE, EGYPTIAN HALL, ~ , _ U rsue The influence brought to bear
•ards Popular Literature. Ac.; J>1 EVEKY EVENING at Eight: TUESDAY. THURSDAY, aud SATUiiDAY be W1SC lor mm TO pursue. 1I1U muuuuu:
) r P hiuch° n 7 T 0 m tt meeti^ ,t j,f "P on Lim with a view to conciliation may operate with
rking rn™ Cutlers’ H^, io , T 0 ^greater power than just now there seems reason to anti-
iat P, SSS« C “rp'S.; «Bd H may turn out, after aU, that nottnng
rovaTEEKTH cwiMcimvE VEia .» ohb unduoke? seaw-., very Berious will result from that compboation of^causes
r. 4. erp TAM-po-Q TTAT,T, PICCADILLY to which the disagreeable relations of Cabul to Simla
me Sutlers’ HaU.m’a.^'^d ^ 1 the ’ ^ may, without much chance of error, be attributed. But
o p m., on Results of Discoveries "VT OORE and BURGESS MINSTRELS. challenge which the Ameer has discourteously
to^lnteiquetfiti'mof 1 Script Every Night «t Eight, and on sveiyMtnd^wSfnesdsj. *ud Satnrdsyst Three and Punched at U8 Cannot WcU be allowed to remain without
S- 8 Kempton QVC pitrk 0Q Autumn Tins company now heaks TiiE B pRovD distinction OF being thk reply. It had been better, perhaps, never to have pro¬
ving (two days). oi.dest established and host successful upon the earth. yoked it. It was an unwise departui’e from precedent of
It i»»lso the K-tiroe whence all imitator* obtain the salient feature* of the charming it,,, f +Lo
'CT. 6. and popular Entertainment now universally aaeociated with tho names of Jloore and some standing. It WOllld even Seem to US tuat bile
““tue'new and EXCELLENT programme performed for the first time last Vicerov himself looks upon it as a possible mistake, and is
ru-bnclire, duu LCicwtvrurouiiu, ,.. m l iriii mipstjkl mitil notification of snotbf’r cliKBirc is irivpu. ^ . . ■»•,* ii _
^ lea tone-road. Y* ut^alls,/i.: Sofa Stulls, S«.; Arwi.to.: Gallery. Is. No feea. Places can be inclined, ill as far aS lie has the power, to modlly the
_ _ - secured at Austin's Office, St. James’s HaU, dully, fromNiue a.m., without extra charge. . *r> a at /Irmltf wo
-- -- character of its results. But there can be no doubt, we
price threepence,
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lito™; »E S SdlX(".%Sa?atof T-LIJAH WALTON.—EXHIBITION of ISLE OF
S'‘’Stssu^SS: fcL.'SSE'offt SSnlSWiTSTiW fi
». )eml 0*.—ST. OEOROE S HALL, Langham-plaoe.
Voman’s Work in AFTERNOONS at Three. A Programme of lnexplical
D m . meetinsr of Wonder*. MnaichyMeehaniamia Hr. Mashelync b lat«
Cutlers’ Hnll 10 The performance* of Fanfare, the Cornet-Player, and La
cutlers nail, io . t * thc attraction and talk of the entire kingdom
ll Church Councils; L mls 0 f unqualiiit d praiw. Private Boies, from 21a. to
drals, Sri .; 7 p.m., Admtieion, 2*. and la.-W. MORTON, Manager.
Parochial Church Councils; {“‘J
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iteet and greatest achievement.
Labial on the Euphonium, are
mi. the Press having spokeu in
to 24 guineas; Stalls, Se. and 3s.;
__e at Stafford, reatl- Holy Orders; 7 p.m., Church J
ing and discussion of papers, pub- Music. Cutlers’ Hall, 10 a.m. ami
lie dinner 2,30 pm., on Results of Discoveries IT OORE
Cbiirch Congress at Sheffield, Albert in Egypt, Nineveh, Palestine, and JLTL
Hall 10 am , papers aid dis- Rome as to Interpretation of Scrip- Every Night at Eight.
eiiKsirma on Spiritual Life; ture; 8 p.m., conversazione.
2.80 p.m., Supply, Training, and Races: Kempton Pork Autumn THIS COMPANY NO
Examination of Candidates for Meeting (two days). OLDEST ESIAB1
SATURDAY, Oct. 5.
Sanitary Institute at Stafford ; visits I Grafton Club Athletic .Sports. Stam-
to public works and manufactories. ford-bridge ; and Leicester Ground,
Horticultural Society, promenade, 4. I Ayleatone-road.
THE WEATHER.
RESULTS OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT THE
KEW OBSERVATORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
Lat. 51“ 28' 6' N.; Long. 0° 10’ 47" W.; Height above Sea, 34 feet.
FOURTEENTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR IN ONH UNBROKEN SEASON
ST. JAMES’S HALL, PICCADILLY.
All the year ion
every Monday, W
Eight also.
V ANI) EXCELLENT PROGRAMME
repeated until notification of another cl
Or.: Sofa Stalls, Ss.: Area. a*.; dalle
»tin'«Office, St. James's Hall, dally, froi
Lated with tho name
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I Manager. F. B. Chatterton.—This Theatre, redecorated. OPEN for the SEASON 1 . tobnn wo have
SATURDAY. trEPT. 2a: and Every Evening at Eight o'clock will lie presented I'etrOCeSSlOll. That it YVaS thOUglltleSSly taKcn Wl mive
I.n'inU^Mrl Chariei'Wllon : A HCTiidoiie K Miss Vaiiis; Perifita.' Miss Fowler: and nO right to Venture CVeil to Suggest. Blit whcil the
Angela””^”T' wumau^'wiL rc SSidudi with U tha < 'coinic l 'Liirt “loud DUn a normal tone of British foreign policy (including that of
dreary. Rox-onRoopm Tmtai tiv«daily. _ India) is about to undergo essential change it is hut fair,
rpHE TWO ORPHANS, with all the Original Effects we think, to ascertain by the usual methods what is the
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.
Iff’ <mo LONDON: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1878.
212 '0125 The projected Mission to Cabul has been dissolved. Sir
S3 o-ooo Neville Chamberlain, who Yvas to have conducted it, has
— ~r ~—been recalled. The Ameer of Afghanistan, Shere Ali,
country.
Lord Carnarvon, if we correctly catch his moaning, has
suggested that we had better, if Yve intend to baffle Russia,
adjourn the conflict to some more accessible region than
that of Central Asia. The suggestion does not exhibit,
we venture to think, his usual Yvisdom; and, indeed, we
are not sure that there is any solid ground for troubling
the relations between Great Britain and Russia at least.
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ibov^Vaya^to^rdM, o'uen'tfctock a.m*:— it6orol ° Kicalm8trumentaforthe ] ia3 declined to receive it, and the commandant who so far as Afghanistan is concerned. It is surely not any
?e™tu ( rl n of n Air ,),x ’ rrected " Y*™ 1 |^"Sf ?|^\ \ represents his authority at Ali Musjid, in the Khyber part of our National Mission or “manifest destiny —
teonoiwtad 4110 ^ 10 ";: ":’:|w.w!l S5T1 fw 5 °| Pass, in response to an application by Major Cavagnari much less a chief part of iti-to meet and, if possible*
• - for a safe passage, abruptly refused it with threats and obstruct the imperfect phase of civilisation adopte y
TIMES OF high “WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE armed demonstration. The question now presents itself, Russia wherever it may chance to make itself visible. ®
- F " . R . THE . r KEK ExmN(i - what are the next steps to he taken by the Viceregal form of government to which she resorts may he ex-
_sunday. _Mo n d. y . | Ttitaday. Wodp«tay. Tfinrad^., Friday, Batarda^ Govcminent of There see ms to be no doubt that tremcly distasteful to us and largely oppressive to tho
3 ivla S s Si? »!* 2|3 “ 5 Sis S o w|6 S 7 Sis “'a “Io S the Ameer’s officer in charge of the Frontier relations millions subject to her authority; but we can hardly
- • ■ - 1 • ==* was fully instructed from Cabul as to the course be should undertake to preY'ent its extension by force of arms, save
TDROFESSOR TENNANT’S LECTURES on pursue. It may, therefore,' be taken for granted that the as it may threaten interests which we are bound to care
COLI,K(}E EK Two Cour AFI are5v«>n?nM E on L, \yi:dni»tay and Friday Mornings, from rude and even fierce repulse of the British Envoy is for and protect. We must beware of tempting Shore A
A MINERALOGY. APPLIED TO GEOLOGY AND THE ARTS, at
COLLEGE. Two Court..’* are given, one on Wednesday and Friday Mornings, from
Nine to Ten, and tne other on Thursday Evening*, from Eight to Nine. The public
— limitteil on paying the College lees. The Lectures begin Friday, Oct. 4, and
Date at Easter. They are IBurtratcd by a large aerie* of specimens, cli iefly from
ovate collection. Person* unable to attend public lecture* cun have private
iction in aimerulogy and Geology at Professor Tennant’s residence, Ho,
rude and even fierce repulse of the British Envoy is for and protect. We must beware of tempting Shore A
an act for which Shere Ali has made himself per- into a political position which would enable him to ho
sonally and politically responsible. The public is the balance between two great Empires, so as that, now
informed, upon authority which there is no great reason inclining to one, then to another, he might improve his
SEPT. 28, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
291
own circumstances by placing their international relations
in danger. It will not do to put into the hands of bar¬
barous kinglets the possibility of stirring up war whenever
they please. We cannot but hope that the present com¬
plicated knot of perils may be quietly unravelled, and that
what is in itself of comparatively trivial import will not
be exaggerated into something approaching a disaster-
There still remains discord enough in Europe to keep alive
our solicitudes. One Eastern Question is quite enough for
a single generation. If another supervenes, surely our
statesmanship muBt be at fault.
THE COURT.
Tlic Queen, with several members of the Royal family, con¬
tinues at Balmoral Castle. Her Majesty, Princess Beatrice,
and Prince Leopold attended Divine service on Sunday at
Cralhie church. The Rev. A. K. H. Boyd, of St. Andrew’s,
officiated. The Prince of Wales visited the Queen and
remained to luncheon. Her Majesty and Princess Beatrice
visited the Hon. Lady Biddulph in the afternoon at Abergeldie
Mains. Prince Frederick William of Prussia arrived at the
castle on Monday on a visit to the Queen, attended by Major
Vcn Liebenau. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice
haB taken daily walks and drives in the vicinity of the Roya
demesne. The Prince of Wales aud Major Von Liebenau have
dined with the Queen. Viscount Cranbrook, who is Minister
in attendance, lias dined generally with the Royal family.
The Duke of Connaught and Prince William of Prussia
have had good sport deer-stalking. The Duke left Balmoral
on Wednesday. Prince Leopold has driven out daily.
Lieutenant-Colonel Prickard, V.C., has arrived at, and
Lieutenant-General Ponsonby 1ms left, Balmoral.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
The Prince of Wales left Abergeldie on Sunday afternoon
for Invercauld on a visit to Lieutenant-Colon el Farquhnrson.
A grand deer drive took place on Monday, at which
his Royal Highness was present, and had excellent sport.
On Tuesday the Prince and Colonel Farquliarson were in
Invercauld Forest, and again had good sport. A grouse drive
was arranged for the remainder of the party staying at Inver¬
cauld. The Prince returned to Abergeldie in the evening. His
Royal Highness has enjoyed good sport in the Royal forests.
The Princess of Wales, accompanied by Princesses Louise
Victoria and Maud of Wales, returned to England on Tues¬
day from Rumpenheim. Their Royal Highnesses crossed from
Calais in the special mail-steamer Maid of Kent to Dover. The
Princess was received upon landing by the principal naval and
military officials; a guard of honour was drawn up upon the
Admiralty Pier, and Royal salutes were fired from the castle.
Her Royal Highness, with her daughters, travelled from Dover
in a special train, which was under the charge of Mr. John
Shaw, to Charing-cross, whence the Royal party drove to
Marlborough House. The Princess, accompanied by her
daughters, left Marlborough House on Wednesday, en route
for Abergeldie Castle, to join the Prince of Wales.
The Prince has sent a cheque for fifty guineas to the Lord
Mayor as a donation to the Mansion House Fund for the
relief of the sufferers by the Ebbw Vale Colliery explosion.
The Duke of Cambridge arrived at Gloucester House
yesterday week from Paris, where he stayed a week on his way
home from Kissingen and Switzerland.
The Duke de Nemours has arrived at the Pulteney Hotel.
The Maharajah of Johore, after a stay of three months in
this country, has left for France, en route to Singapore.
His Excellency Count Miinster has arrived at the German
Embassy, Carlton House-terrace, from Berlin.
His Excellency Viscount de Rio Branco has arrived in
London.
The Duke of Westminster has left town for the North of
France.
The Earl and Countess of Dudley have arrived at Black-
mount, N.B.
Viscount and Viscountess Cardwell have arrived at Eller-
beck, Chorley, from Scotland.
The Duchess of Norfolk opened St. Edmund’s Roman
Catholic Schools in Queen’s-road, Sheffield, on Monday. The
Duke and Duchess afterwards received an address Horn the
Roman Catholics and the Roman Catholic Association of
Sheffield. A brooch set in brilliants, of the value of 150
guineas, was presented to the Duchess. The Duke entertained
a dinner party at The Farm. At his Sheffield residence on
Tuesday he entertained 600 of the townspeople and tenantry ;
and on Wednesday the Duchess laid the foundation-stone of
a new drill-hall, to be called the Norfolk Drill-Hall, for the
use of the Sheffield Artillery Volunteers, of whom the Duke is
the honorary Colonel. The volunteers were afterwards enter¬
tained at a dinner given by his Grace at The Farm.
Lord and Lady Carington arrived at Guuton Park on
Saturday last on a visit to Lord and Lady Suffield. They
were received with the utmost enthusiasm by the residents of
the district, and a congratulatory address was read. Lord and
Lady Suffield afterwards entertained the tenantry at luncheon
in the purk pavilion.
FASHIONABLE MARRIAGES.
The marriage of Earl Beauchamp, Lord Steward of her
Majesty’s Household, and Lady Emily Annora Charlotte
Pierrepont, eldest daughter of Earl Manvers, was solemnised
on Tuesday at Perlethorpe village church, adjacent toThoresby
Park. The bride, accompanied by Countess Manvers, on
her arrival at the church was received by her father, who gave
her away, and her bridesmaids—namely, Lady Mary Pierre- I
pout, her sister; Lady Jane Dalrymple, Miss Emily Egertou.
Miss Mary Wynn, Miss Evans Freke, and Miss Madeline
Seymour. Earl Beauchamp was accompanied by his nephew,
the Hon. George Fitzroy Somerset. The bride’s dress
wus of wliite satin, trimmed with Brussels lace, and over
a wreath of orange-blossoms a veil of the same lace.
The jewels were pearls and diamonds. The bridesmaids’
toilettes were of white muslin, trimmed with blue, blue
silk fichus, and blue bonnets to match ; dresses relieved
with bunches of lilies of the valley. Each wore a locket the
gift of Earl Beauchamp, set with pearls and pink coral. The
marriage rite was performed by the Rev. Evelyn H. Harcourt
Vernon, B.A., Prebendary of Lincoln, Rector of Grove and of
Headon, Notts ; assisted by the Rev. Thomas J. Luard, B.A.,
Incumbent of Perlethorpe, aud the Rev. Henry Seymour, B.A.,
Rector of Holme-Pierrepont, Notts. Earl and Countess
Manvers received their relatives and friends at breakfast, after
which Earl Beauchamp and his bride left Thoresby for Madres-
ficld Court, Earl Beauchamp’s seat near Great Malvern. The
bride’s travelling-dress was of dark blue velvet, trimmed with
satin, bonnet to match, trimmed with Brussels lace. The
wedding presents were very numerous.
The marriage of Captain John Straclian Bridges, R.A.,
and Lady Grace Harriet Stopford, fourth daughter of the Earl
of Courtown, was solemnised on Thursday week at St.
Michael’s Church, Cheater-square. The bridesmaids were
the Ladies Charlotte, Eleanor, and Lily Stopford, her sisters ;
Miss Ernestine Shelley, her cousin ; Miss C. Bridges and Miss
C. Way, nieces of the bridegroom. The bride’s dress was of
nch white satin brocade, handsomely trimmed with Brussels
lace, orange-blossoms, and tuberoses; and over a wreath of
orange-blossoms was a Brussels lace veil, fastened to the hair
by pearl stars, the gift of her father. Her other ornaments
were a pearl necklace and earrings, also the gift of her father
and a diamond pendant set with pink pearls, the gift of the
bridegroom. The bridesmaids wore dresses of ivory foulard
de lnine, trimmed with satin of the same colour and wide
Valenciennes lace, and Du Barry hats with feathers to match.
JLhe bridegroom was attended by Captain Gerald C. H.
Parlby, R.A., as best man.
T lie marriage of Sir Lambton Loraine with Miss Frederica
Broke is arranged to take place in London on Tuesday, Oct. 22.
Marriages are arranged between the Hon. and Rev. Henry
Augustus Stanhope, Rector of Gawsworth, Cheshire, third son
of the late Eiirl Stanhope, and the Hon. Mildred Vernon,
daughter of Lord Vernon; and between Captain
Wilham Codrington, R.N., private Secretary to the First Lord
of tlmAdmiralty, aud Miss Leach, stepdaughter of the Right
Hon. W. H. Smith.
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
On Wednesday the Lord Mayor remitted to Admiral
ranshawe £5496, being the amount collected at the Mansion
House in aid of the sufferers by the Eurydice disaster.
Mr. Thomas William Saunders, recently Recorder of Bath,
officiated at the Thames Police Court on Monday for the first
time as magistrate, in the place of Mr. De Rutzen, now at
Maryleboue Police Court
It is announced that, in consequence of the Premier having
expressed to the Chief Commissioner of Police his disapproval
of the scheme for the registration of public-houses, no further
steps will be taken in the matter.
The teams of horses which have run in the Tantivy coach
from Loudon to Watford were sold on Monday at Tattcrsall’s,
and realised an average of 58 guineas. The horses were the
propel ty of Mr. F. Sedgwick.
Jn consequence of the Lady Mayoress’s indisposition, and
of the confusion that would arise by the holding on the same
day the dinner to the Lord Mayor elect and the inauguration
dinner of the new Sheriffs, the Lord Mayor has postpon ed the
banquet at the Mansion House from to-day (Saturday) until
next Tuesday, Oct. 1.
Last Saturday being St. Matthew’s Day, the Lord Mayor
and the Sheriffs, according to custom, went in state to Divine
service at Christ Church, Newgate-street, which adjoins
Christ’s Hospital, and afterwards formally received from the
treasurer of the hospital the list of governors aud other
information, for preservation in the Corporation records at
Guildhall.
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows that
the total number of paupers at the end of the third week in
September was 76,295, of whom 38,903 were in workhouses and
37,392 received outdoor relief. Compared with the corre¬
sponding weeks in 1877, 1876, and 1875, these figures show
a decrease of 258, 1315, and 5544 respectively. The number
of vagrants relieved on the last day of the week was 423, of
whom 309 were men, 99 women, and 15 children under sixteen.
The Thames Steam-Ferry Company have given notice of
the closing of the ferry from Wapping to Rotherhithe on
Saturday (to-day), in order to make the necessary preparations
for the increased traffic resulting from the partial closing of
London Bridge on the 30th inst. The ferry will be reopened
next Monday, at six a.m.—One half of the roadway of London
Bridge will be closed for repaving from Monday next until
Nov. 2, during which period one line of traffic only each way
can pass over the bridge.
The annual Fruit Show of the Crystal Palace was held on
Tuesday and Wednesday. The International Potato Exhi¬
bition, under the auspices of a society of which Aldermau
Hadley is president, was held at the same time. Except at
great shows in Edinburgh, no such collection of grapes had
been seen as that now at Sydenham. The north nave was
redolent of peaches, fragrant apples, nectarines, and other
fruits. In the south nave the round and kidney potatoes suc¬
ceeded each other in piles upon long tables. The potato exhi¬
bition was probably the best of the kind ever witnessed. There
was an enormous aggregate and a great variety of sorts, some
of these being very remarkable. Messrs. Sutton, of Reading,
exhibited very extensively, though not for competition.
The ope ning of the Metropolitan and Provincial Medical
Schools will take place as usual next Tuesday, Oct. 1, and at
most of them introductory addresses will be given—by Dr. J. P.
Irvine, at the Charing-cross Hospitai; by Dr. Whipham, at
St. George’s ; by Professor Garrod, F.R.S., at King’s College;
by Dr. Farquliarson, at St. Mary’s ; by Dr. A. W. Edis, at the
Middlesex; by Mr. Nettleship, at St. Thomas’s; by Mr.
Lankeeter, F.R.S., at University College; and by Mr. Mac-
nnmara, F.R.S., at the Westminster. At St. Bartholomew’s,
the London, and Guy’s Hospitals no introductory addresses will
be given; but at the first-named a dinner in the hall to old
students and distinguished visitors ; at Guy’s aud the London
the distribution of prizes and conversaziones will be given.—
The provincial schools will also inaugurate the opening of the
session by addresses at Queen’s College, Birmingham, by
Professor W. Thomas ; at Leeds, by Dr. J. E. Eddison ; Liver¬
pool Royal Infirmary,.by Dr. Shearer; Newcastle College of
Medicine, by Mr. S. M’Bean; the Sheffield, by Dr. W. Dyson.
There were 2491 births and 1259 deaths (including 16 caused
by the late collision in the' Thames) registered in Loudon lost
week. The deaths included 4 from smallpox, 2 from measles,
24 from scarlet fever, 10 from diphtheria, 43 from whooping-
cough, 30 from different forms of fever, and 80 from diarrhoea.
The 43 fatal cases of whooping-cough exceeded the corrected
average by 14, and included 16 in South London. The 24
deaths from scarlet fever were 54 below the average. The
fatal cases of fever, which had been 16, 23, 25, and 32 in the
four preceding weeks, were 30 last week, of which 25 were
certified as enteric or typhoid, and 5 as simple continued fever.
No deaths were referred to typhus. The fatal cases of smallpox,
which had been 3 and 7 in the two previous weeks, were 4 last
week. The deaths referred to diarrhoea and simple cholera,
which had steadily declined from 494 to 90 in the seven pre¬
ceding weeks, further fell to 81 last week, and were 23 below
the corrected average. In the Greater Loudon 3022 births and
1521 deaths (including 48 caused by the sinking of the Princess
Alice) were registered, equal to annual rates of 35 4 aud 17‘8
per 1000 of the population. The mean temperature of the air
was 54 4 deg., being 1‘9 deg. below the average in the corre¬
sponding week of the sixty years 1814—73. The duration of
registered bright sunshine in the week was 34’6 hours, the sun
being above the horizon during 8C'9 hours.
THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Allan, George Alexander, to be Rector of Pnckington.
Barlow, John Janies ; Rural Dean of Fairford.
Bathw, Henry F.: Prebendary of E. With in-ton in Hereford Cathedral.
Ben Oliel, Maxwell M.; Perpetual Ornate of St. Patrick’s, Earl's Court.
Bucknell, Samuel; Rector of Howick. -
Bulkley, James Rico; Vicar of Llunduff, Glamorganshire.
CIudd, William D.; Curute of Mcnoi mer. Pembrokeshire, during vacancy.
Cnmby, William; Pdpetual Curate of Whorlton ° '
De Lusignan, Constantino Adolphus ; Vicar of Caton, near Lancaster.
Dighton, C. E., Rector of Mitcheldean; Vicar of Maisemore
Downtr, Arthur Cleveland; Vicar of Ilkley
Douglas-Hamilton, Hamilton A.; Vicar of East Witton, Yorks
Feattiei stone, Samuel; Vicar of Whitchurch.
Hnilntcs, George Law ; Vicar of Purton, Wilts.
Jones, Hugh; Curate of St. David’s, Pembroko.
Lee. Henry; Rector of Sheinton, Salop.
Lewis, Joseph Pollard, Vicar of Wislon, Pembrokeshire; Curate of Clar-
bis ton in pome county during vacancy.
w - St. Maur; Vicar of Balking-with-Woolstone, Berks.
Mathias, Thomas; Curate of hewmoat during vacancy
Packer, Arthur; Rector of Hartest-with-Bosted, Suffolk
1 ‘ileber, Francis; Rector of St. Clement’s, Oxford
Richaidson, Thomas; Vicar of Rhyl.
Smith, John; Vicar of Thomey.
StantOD, J. John; Vicar of South Barrow, Somerset.— GuarJian.
A harvest festival will be held in St. Paul’s Cathedral ou
Sunday, Oct. 6.
The Archbishop of Cante rbury laid the foundation-atoue of
the new Folkestone vicarage ou Tuesday afternoon.
A church at Studley, the gift of the Marchioness of Ripon,
was consecrated on Monday by the Bishop of the diocese.
St. Nicholas, Grosmont, which is said to be one of the most
interesting churches in South Wales, from the beauty of its
architecture, has been reopened after restoration.
The Bishop of Lichfield on Monday consecrated a new
burial-ground in connection with All Saints’ Church, West
Bromwich. The ground, which forms part of the Sandwell
estate, was presented by the Earl of Dartmouth.
The memorial of the late Lord Lyttelton, which has been
placed in Worcester Cathedral, was on Saturday last formally
handed over to the Dean and Chapter by Lord Hampton, the
chairman of the memorial committee.
The Birmingham Gazette is informed that Miss Ryland has
added to her other benefactions to Birmingham aud the
neighbourhood by the generous offer of land for a new church
in Balsall-heath district.
The palish church of Hampton-in-Arden, which has been
restored at a cost of over £300U, was reopened ou Tuesday by
the Bishop of Worcester. About £600 remains to be collected
towards the cost of the work.
The Rural Deanery of Liverpool South, at a conference held
on Tuesday night, passed a resolution declaring it to be
undesirable to frame a canon recognising brotherhoods aud
sisterhoods as a part of the system of the Church of Euglund.
The Rev. J. Erskine Clarke, Vicar of Battersea aud hono¬
rary Canon of Winchester, has presented a stained-glass window
to the Church of St. Andrew, Derby. This window, the
subject of which is Nicodemus, was inaugurated at the harvest
thanksgiving service this week.
On Tuesday the Bishop of Ely consecrated a new church in
the parish of Guyhime, near Wisbech, the erection of which
is due to the munificence of the Dean of Edinburgh, Dr.
Montgomery, who has given £1500 to the building fund. The
church is built from designs by the late Sir Gilbert Scott.
The Bishop of Oxford on Tuesday consecrated the enlarged
parish church of Upton-cum-Chalvey, better kuown as Slough.
The old church was built about forty years ago, and its
foundation-stone was laid by the present Duke of Cambridge.
Great interest has been taken in the work of enlargement, the
Queen heading the subscription-fist with a donation of £100 -
Mr. Chnrsley gave 1000 guineas, Mr. Algernon Gilliat £600,
and Mrs. Nixey £500, and a further sum of £2000 remains to
be Taiscd. If funds can be obtained it is proposed to build a
memorial spire to the memory of Sir W. Herschell, whoso tele¬
scope stood on the spot occupied by the present tower.
The Bishop of Durham began his visitation in the chapel of
Auckland Castle on Saturday last. In his charge the Bishop
dealt with the questions of the increase of the Episcopate, the
Burials Bill, Rationalism, and Ritualism. He would view
favourably the demand of the Nonconformists with regard to
the burials questionif it were not avowed to be part of a scheme
for the disestablishment of the Church. Clergymen, he said,
ought to specially prepare themselves to meet the opposition of
the Rationalists, who were multiplying with rapidity. Ho
concluded by strongly condemning what he considered the dis¬
honesty and rapacity of the Ritualists in setting the laws of
the Church at defiance, but yet retaining their benefices.
THE OCCUPATION OF CYPRUS.
We have engraved for this Number our Special Artist’s
Sketch of the south-west city gate of Famagusta, and shall give
a few more Sketches of that place, with his letter describing a
trip to the east coast of Cyprus. Famagusta was the principal
seaport and fortress of the Venetians, who ruled Cyprus nearly
a hundred years after the fall of the Lusignan kingdom. The
siege of Famagusta by the Turks in 1571, and the fate of the
Governor, Marcantonio Bragadino, who was skinned alive by
his captors to revenge bis heroic defence of the city, will be
remembered by readers of history. Othello is an unhistorical
personage, but Famagusta is the city where he was supposed
to have been persuaded by Iago to take the life of innocent
Desdemona. Our large Engraving is a Sketch, by the same
Artist, of the landing-place at Baffo (the Greek Paphos),
at the western extremity of the island, with British and Indian
soldiers, a few sailors, Greeks, Maltese, and donkeys, apparently
in some confusion. We are indebted to Captain It. Covcney,
of the 42nd Regiment, for the sketch of a large batch of
criminal prisoners, removed from the Turkish gaol at Nicosia,
under guard of a detachment of the 42nd, with some Turkish
troops, arriving at Kyrenia to be there embarked for trans¬
portation to Asia Minor. The number thus transported was
altogether 266, and it is stated that they were not natives of
Cyprus, but Turks from Asia. The officers in charge wore
Colonel Baker Russell, Major Lome Macdonald, Captain Lord
Gifford, Major Wood, and Captain De Lancey. We also give
a view of the castle of St. Hilarion, near Tcmbros, ou the
north coast of Cyprus.
Mr. Mapleson and his opera company sailed from Queens¬
town for America on Wednesday in the Inman steam-ship
City of Chester. The party numbered together 104 persons,
and included Mesdnmes Gerster, Lablaclie, Parodi, Pisani,
Robiati, and Sinico ; Mdlles. Cavalazzi, Hauk, and Parodi;
and Signori Arditi, Bolli, Campanini, Foli, Gardini, Galassi,
Del Puente, and ltosetti. Mr. Mapleson has entered into an
engagement to give representations of Italian opera in New
York during the winter season for seven years.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Sept. 28, 1878.-292
THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OF CYPRUS.
THIS AUSTRIANS IN BOSNIA : BRINGING IN INSURGENT PRISONKRS,
PROM A 8KETCH BY OUR 8PECIA1 ARTIST.
294
THE tt.t.ttstRATED LONDON NEWS
SEPT. 28, 1878
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
Marshal MacMahon and his family left Paris for La Foret on
Monday. The Grand Duke Constantine Coustautmovic-i went
to the Flvsec on Thursday week to take leave of the Marshal.
His Excellency. a«ompLcd by General d’Abzac, returned
the Grand Duke’s visit shortly afterwards. In thceveuingthe
Grand Duke left Paris. Colonel Laniorclle went to the Northern
Say Nation to present to the Grand Duke the Marshal s
best wishes for a prosperous journey. . . .
The Grand Duke of Sachsen- Weimar, accompanied by the
Grand Duchess, arrived at Paris on Sunday. . ,,
The Government has decided to open a subscription in ai
of the victims of the yellow fever in Louisiana.
M. Gnmbetta, on account of persistent hoarseness, had
been obliged to abandon his purpose of going to Grenoble, and
has gone to the Chateau des Cretes at Clarens for a few days
rest M. Oamhetta ’8 speech at Romans is regarded in lam
as containing the programme of the Republican party. Rc-
pubS papers generally refer to it with mixed approb.ition
while the non-Republican journals criticise it keenly .The
Catholic mess regards it as a declaration of war against
Catholicism, and the Bonapartist papers condemn!.t «trongjjr.
The Journal dcs Dibats agrees with M. Gamlwtta os to the
object of his political programme, but is n ^ e ntuely at one
with him in regard to the means. After the speech 10.00U
people Escort eaM. Gambetta to hia hotel
h Marseillaise.” Children dressed in white strewed flowers
before him, and a little girl read a complimentary address.
The recent speech of M. Gambetta has been sharply rephed to
in a letter, which some of the Paris newspapers published
from the pen of the Bishop of Angers who, in answer to the
charges againstti» clergy reminds ,*[ 0 «M.: th“t him-
||
author of P a pamphlet libelling the Emperor of Germauy, and
present at the trial, and judgment was passed in contumaciam.
HOLLAND.
In bringing forward yesterday week the Budget for 1879
the Finance Minister said after 1879 it would be necessary to
fiud means of increasing the annual public ^
4 000 00011, and the Minister intended to propose with that
Object income and property taxes. The state of affairs was
“ not alarming, but required the exercise of core, foresight,
aD T 7 i C e 01 Sc“ond Chamber of the States General on Tuesday
adopted, by 47 votes to 13, the Address m reply to the Speech
from the Throne, almost paraphrasing the Royal bpeech. M.
Vauhouten, an advanced Liberal, delivered a speech in the
course of the debate, in which he energetically advocated a
general reform of the system of taxation. The members of
Die Catholic party also took part m the discussion, warmly
condemning the report presented to the Ring by the Govern¬
ment against the petitions asking the Kiug to refuse his
sanction to the law on elementary instruction. The Minister
for the Colonies, in reply to some objections expressed by M.
Caecmbroot, stated that, according to advices from the Dutch
Commandant in Acheen, twelve complete battalions of troops
were at present engaged, forming a force amply sufficient to
etruction of an alliance amongst those who regard religion as
the basis of social order. .... .
Banquets were held on Sunday, in Paris and m the provinces,
to celebrate the proclamation of the First Republic in 1792.
It is stated by some of the P<iris papers that the Exhibition
will remain open until Nov. 20. Exhibitors will, it is added,
be permitted to sell their goods after Nov. 1.
The Peace Congress was opened on Wednesday with a
speech by M. A. Franck, member of the Institute and president
° Th edeath iTanuoiinced of General de la Hitto at Bessidres,
Ilaute-Garonno. Ho was bom in 1789, and served m the
Spanish war during the First Empire. He took part in the
Morea Expedition, and commanded the artillery at the taking
of Algiers. In 1849 he was appointed Minister of Foreign
Affairs. Under the Second Empire he sat in the Senate. Since
the war he has lived in complete retirement.
The whole gang of French bank-note forgers have been
convicted: the principal, Joseph Barreau, being sentenced to
penal servitude for fife, and the others to lesser terms of
imprisonment. T TATjT
Yesterday week, being the anniversary of the entry of the
Italian troops into Rome, laurel crowns were placed by the
Syndic and Municipal Council upon the tomb of the late Victor
Emmanuel and upen the monument erSctcd at the Porta Pia
to the soldiers killed near the spot. Congratulatory telegrams
on the occasion were sent by the Syndic to the King and to
General Garibaldi. „ „
Cardinal Nina has sent a circular note to the Papal Nuncios
at the foreign Courts stating that the Vatican may possibly
be obliged to take measures for preserving the authority of the
Pope, in view of the hostile attitude adopted by the Italian
Government, observable chiefly in the exercise of the pre¬
rogative by the King in the nomination of Bishops whom the
Pope would never recognise. The Nuncios are instructed to
sound the Governments to which they are accredited, and
especially to ascertain their views in the event of the Pope
taking extreme measures. It is stated that the Pope has
addressed a second letter to tho Emperor of Germany, con¬
gratulating his Majesty on his restoration to health, and
wishing him a long and happy life. The letter makos no
reference to ecclesiastical questions. On Monday the Pope
received a band of pilgrims from Piedmont, and, in addressing
them, 6 aid he knew that efforts were being made to root out
the faith in Italy, but the Italian people were not disposed to
allow it to be taken from them. He was confident that the
Catholics of Italy would continue their allegiance to the
Church, the more because the difficult position in which the
Pontiff was placed tended to become more serious.
The eighth annual congress of the Italian Medical Asso
ciation began at Pisa on Sunday. The medical profession was
represented by over 500 members.
With the exception of seven, all the brigands arraigned at
the Court of Assizes at Palermo have been convicted. The
three who escaped while being taken to the place of trial have
been sentenced in default, and active endeavours ore beiug
made to recapture them.
Vesuvius is in a state of partial and intermittent eruption;
at the base of the cone are immense fissures, from which flames
and lava are issuing. On Tuesday part of the crest of the
cone gave way. The volcanic activity is on the increase.
SPAIN.
The King arrived at the Escurial on Monday night, where
the Duke de Montpensicr, the Duchess, and family also arrived
next morning. Mass in memory of Queen Mercedes was said
on Tuesday, in the presence of the King and Royal family. The
King went to Madrid on Wednesday morning to preside at
the Council of Ministers, at which the date and route of his
journey were fixed. He will leave Madrid on Oct. 2 for a three-
weeks’ journey. He will attend the manoeuvres in the Ebro
Valley, near Vittoria.
BELGIUM.
The fetes and ceremonies in celebration of the forty-eighth
anniversary of Belgian national independence began on Mon¬
day, and were continued until Thursday. A solemn funeral
service to the memory of those who fell whilst fightiug for
their country in 1830 was performed at the Church of Ste.
Gudule, and was attended by several members of the
Government, the Presidents and several members of the
Chambers, the Judges of the superior courts, in official cos¬
tumes, and numerous officers of rank, and of the Garde Civique.
The choir of the church was draped in black for the occasion,
and a catafalque specially prepared was lighted with candles.
Their Majesties were represented by several members of the
Royal household. On Monday morning the Brussels LiuUauu
Society opened their annual exhibition, consisting chiefly
of agricultural instruments and farming machinery. The
King and Queen of the Belgians honoured the exhibition by
their presence, and they were also present at the races which
took place in the afternoon. The tower of the well-known
HOtel de Yille was splendidly illuminated in the evening, and
there was a display of fireworks. All the leading thorough¬
fares, ns also all the Government and public buildings, were
profusely decorated with the national flag in honour of the
event. During the ensuing three days Brussels was cu fete, and
Princess Emma of Waldeck-l’jrmont is contradicted.
GERMANY.
The Emperor of Germany was yesterday week present at a
grand military parade held at Cassel, and rode ou liis charger
down the lines to inspect the troops. He no longer carried his
right arm in a sling. The Empress followed in a carriage
drawn by six horses. His Majesty was enthusiastically greeted
by a large crowd of spectators. ...
Prince Bismarck was able to transact Government business
on Friday last. Following the advice of his physicians, he left
Berlin on Monday for Varzin, to spend a few days with his two
sons. His only daughter, the Countess Mary, is betrothed to
Count Rantzau, a rising diplomatist, of the ancient Schleswig-
Holstein family of tho same name.
Lord Augustus Loftus, the British Ambassador to Russia,
left Berlin last Tuesday night on his return to St. Petersburg.
The Official Gazette announces the appointment of Count
Statzfeld as Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Pleni¬
potentiary to the Sublime Porte.
The Parliamentary Committee on the Socialist Bill does not
make much progress.
The Times hears from Berlin that, notwithstanding the
strictest investigation of the Hiidel and the Nobiling cases, no
trace of conspiracy has been discovered.
The North German Gazette of Tuesday evening, referring to
the German Circular upon the dilatorinesa of the Porto in
carrying out the Berlin Treaty, says that Germany’s only
motive in urging dispatch was to contribute towards the pre¬
servation of peace. Moreover, as the Power who presided at
the Congress, her issue of the circular was a duty imposed by
her position, notwithstanding the probable rejection of her
proposals by the other Powers. Germany, having acquitted
herself of this duty, will not revert to the subject; the less so
as the murder of Mehemet Ali renders it doubtful whether the
Porte does not lack the powor rather than the will to fulfil her
obligations.
AUSTRIA-HUNQARY.
The Emperor, accompanied by tho Crown Prinoe Rudolph,
left Vicuna on Wednesday to attend the military manasuvres
in the Tyrol.
A telegram from Prague states that the Czechian Deputies,
who have hitherto abstained from attending any of the sittings
of the Legislature, on Tuesday appeared in the Diet and made
a statement, in which they declared that, while remaining true
to their former protests, they had entered the House in order
to prove whether they would attain their end by a conciliatory
attitude.
Official despatches published at Vienna state that the occu-
jation of Bosnia has been proceeding rapidly the last few days,
and that the pacification of Herzegovina is virtually concluded.
DENMARK.
The King arrived at Copenhagen from England at ten
o’clock on Thursday morning, the 19th inst. His Majesty was
received at the railway stution by the Crown Prince and
Princess, Prince Waldemar, the Ministers, the members of the
foreign diplomatic body, and the principal oivil and military
authorities. The King proceeded to his summor residence.
RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
The Emperor paid a visit on Tuesday to Sebastopol, where
he reviewed the treops who have returned from Turkey.
Hie Russian troops, it is stated, have now completely
evacuated fcmn Stefuno, but will remain a week or two longer
at Rodosto. The Russian head-quarters are removed to
Adriunoplc. General Todleben has sent to the Czar a tele¬
graphic report of his enthusiastic reception at Adrianop'c. He
was welcomed by the Mussulman, Greek, Bulgarian, Armenian,
and Jewish clergy, who requested him to express their un¬
bounded gratitude for the protection afforded by the Russian
authorities, and to state the opinion of tl»e inhabitant! that no
such order and justice had ever prevailed in the city us durinj
the Russian occupation.
The draught of a definitive treaty has been submitted by
the Russian Ambassador to the Porto, and is now under con¬
sideration by the Ottoman Government.
The Turkish scheme for a now loan has proved fruitless,
owing to the want of English co-operation, and the Porte, it is
now stated in a telegram from Constantinople, relies upon
England to exert a moral influence upon capitalists by making
an official declaration respecting the resources of Turkey.
Ahmed Muklitar Pasha has telegraphed to the Porte that
the pacification of Crete will shortly be effected.
fcaivet I’asba is stated to be willing to cedo eventually to
Greece several islands of the Archipelago, but no territory ou
the Turkish mainland.
It is stated in telegrams from Constantinople that the Envoy
of the Ameer of Afghanistan is endeavouring to induce the
l’orte to conclude on alliance with Russia.
Official despatches received by the Porte state tliftt the
Turkish troops under Moussa Pasha entered Erzeroum ou
the 2Gth.
All responsibility has been repudiated by the Porte for the
events which have occurred in Bosnia; and it lias addressed a
circular to that effect to its representatives abroad.
The Peru correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that
Admiral Hornby lias received telegraphic instructions direct¬
ing him to leave Prinkipo and at once proceed with the fleet to
Artaki, in the Sea of Marmora. The Admiral had, however,
telegraphed for permission to remain in his present anchorage
until Saturday. EQYpT
Mr. Rivera Wilson’s appointment to the post of Egyptian
Minister of Finance was announced on the 20th iust. in the
Official Journal, in which also it was stated that the cession of
lands by the Khedive for the benefit of the State has been duly
c fleeted by the Commission. The Ministry of Commerce and
Agriculture has been suppressed from economical motives.
The Customs arc to be under the control of the Finance
Ministry, and the Post Office under the Ministry of the Interior.
Prisoners for debts to the Duixa are released by order of
Nubar Pasha. „ A „. _ .
CANADA.
A telegram from Toronto, dated Sept. 24, says that the
Earl of Dufferin, in an address delivered at tho opening of the
Provincial Exhibition in that city, eulogised the people aud
institutions of Canada, and predicted a brilliant future for the
Dominion under the auspices of the Marquis of Lome and the
Princess Louise. His Lordship urged the Canadians to
cultivate the most friendly relations with the Americans,
whom he characterised as a noble, generous, and hospitable
S eople, and animated by the kindliest feelings towards the
(ominiou. His Lordship concluded by expressing his con¬
fident opinion that both countries were destined to bo united
in the bonds of an unbroken friendship.
Wc reported last week that the general elections to the
Dominion Parliament resulted in the complete defeat of the
supporters of the Mackenzie Administration, the Opposition
having a majority in each of the leading provinces. The
Ministers of Finance and Militia were defeated, as was also
Sir John Macdonald, leader of the Opposition, but a cou-
stitpc-ncy (that of Manitoba) for the latter has been found
since. The victors are pledged to a Protection policy, aud
owe their success largely, it is thought, to the late depression
of business.
Wc hear from Montreal that six Orangemen have been
committed by the police magistrate for trial before the Court
cf Quern’s Bench on a charge of belonging to an illegal
society. The action is brought as a test case in connection
with the disturbances on the occasion of the Orange celebration
of July 12 last.
J AMERICA.
President Hay* has met with an enthusiastic popular
reception at Pittsburg. ....
The American correspondent of the Times telegraphs that
Sitting Bull has sent six Sioux emissaries to Port Keogh, Montana,
to ascertain the terms on which he could surrender.
A demonstration of a threatening character was made at
Washington last Saturday by 400 men on strike. They were
dispersed without difficulty by the police. Two companies of
regulars have been ordered from Baltimore.
From New Orleans we have intelligence that the yellow fever
is rapidly decreasing, except in the country districts.
AUSTRALIA.
The following telegram has been received by the Agent-
General for Queensland from Brisbane“ Parliament pro¬
rogued. General election takes place in November aud
December. Prospects of season good. Rainfall general.”
MEXICO.
Cougrees was opened on the 18th inst. In his mossage
President Diaz declared that the Government had per¬
formed its duties towards the United States in good faith
and to the full extent of its power. The negotiations
entered into between the two Governments for the joint
military protection of the Rio Grande frontier had failed,
because the United States Government had declined to counter¬
mand its instructions to General Ord. The President con¬
cluded by stating that Mexico desired to maintain peace with
all nations, and especially with the United States.
INDIA.
Shere Ali has given a very decided negative to the overtures
of the Indian Government by refusing to admit Sir Nevilla
Chamberlain's mission into Afghan territory. The mission,
advancing from Peshawur, has been stopped in the Kliyber
Pass by troops that were no doubt acting under instruction#
from the Ameer. Details respecting the stoppage of the
mission, and the proceedings of our Indian Government con¬
sequent thereon, are given in another column.
The Times' correspondent at Calcutta telegraphs that flood#
have caused great damage in the Indus Valley. The Kusmort
Bund has been breached, and the railway lino near Phulji
station endangered. It is hoped, however, that the Indus
Valley Railway will be opened for through traffic from Mooltau
to Kotree before the end of October. The Government have
resolved to complete the Punjaub Northern State Railway to
Rawul Pindee with the utmost energy. All leave has been
stopped, and employes on leave recalled.
T elegrams from Rangoon state that the report of the doatn
of the King of Burmah was unfounded.
Khudojar Khan, the ex-ruler of Khokand, has, according
to the Turkestan Gazette, tied to Afghanistan, and is at Cabul.
The prisoners charged with being concerned in the riots ac
Surat in April last, on the occasion of the imposition of the
license tax, have been honourably acquitted.
The death of Otelie Antoine, formerly known as the King
of Araucania, is announced from Perigueux.
Mr. John Carr, jun., barrister-at-law, has been appointed
Chief Magistrate of the Gambia Settlements.
The Spanish frigate Pizarro has foundered at sea, but the
whole of the officers and crew have been saved.
The three principal hotels on the Righi—the Scheideck, the
Fiirat, aud the Kulm—have been declared bankrupt.
The Imalide Jlusse has received intelligence from Central
Ana that 20,000 Chinese troops have arrived at Manas ou their
way to join the army of Tso-lvoun-Tsan at Kashgar.
A terrible accident 1ms occurred in the St. Gothard tunnel,
where time eases of blasting-powder exploded, causing the
death of ten workmen and injuries to many others.
Despatches from Belgrade report the death of the newly-
born ten of Prince Milan, also the serious illness of Princes#
Natalie in consequence of her premature accouchement.
Under the presidency of Herr Brachelli, of Vienna, th#
International Railway Congress, for the discussion of railway
statistics and the means of facilitating railway communication,
was opened on Monday at Berne.
Commissioners from the Government of Japan have been
visiting Victoria ami New South Wales, for the purpose of
...... t,, .1,,. manufactures
obtaining information us to the products and manufactures of
the country. The principal member of the party, Mr. M.
Yokoyuna, is an experienced traveller, aud speaks and wnte#
English os well as a native-born British subject. Ue will
He will go
SEPT. 28, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON HEWS
home yia the United States and Europe. The others return
direct to Japan. . The commission went to Australia on a
strictly business mission, to ascertain what can be done to open
up trade between Japan and the colonies. *
The German .barque Elise, from Bremen, arrived in the
on Monday evening with the crew of the brig Ohio, of
n 1 i i wbom ® he P lcked U P in an exhausted condition
after they had abandoned their vessel. The Ohio foundered
during a gale off Souter Point about a week since.
The Postmaster-General announces that the steam-ship
Cuzco will leave Plymouth on the 30th inst. for Adelaida, Mel-
bourne, and Sydney, and will take letters and newspapers for
j. 1 “ Australian and New Zealand colonies, if specially
addressed “ per s.s. Cuzco, via Plymouth,” and posted in London
on or before the evening of to-day (Saturday).
n A - te i e ^T h£ J? been received fr °m Shanghae, dated the
18th inst, intimating that a good harvest has been reaped in
Northern China, and that it is, therefore, no longer necessary
to go on collecting money in this country for the relief of the
sufferers by famine. Under these circumstances, it is intended
to close the subscription list in London as soon as possible.
Galignani states that the President of the Republic has
-awarded a gold medal to Lieutenant William Leare, of the
English steamer H. D. Pochin, for saving the crew of the
French vessel Marie-Alexandrine, abandoned at sea; and
others of silver to the sailors William Humphrey, William
Edward Green, Christopher Marriott, Audrew Gibson, Bernard
Elliott, and Lona Yolla for their co-operation.
Sir "William Northcott, K.C.B., Lieutenant-Governor of
Jersey, who is on the eve of retiring from official duties, has
issued a farewell address to the island militia force, which he
compliments in the most gratifying manner for its efficiency in
every respect, and expresses his satisfaction at leaving behind
him a loyul, ready, and well-formed body, capable of fulfilling
all the purposes for which it may be required.
Two emigrant-ships sailed on Friday, Sept. 1. The ship
Clara, of 938 tons, Captain Cutler, sailed from the Clyde, having
on board the following number of emigrants, bound for Bris¬
bane—viz., 52 married men, 52 married women, 105 single
men, 54 single women, 50 children between the ages of twelve
and one, and nine infants : making a total of 322 souls. The
ship Hereford, 1440 tons, Captain McCarthy, chartered
by the Agent-General for New South Wales, sailed from
Plymouth for Sydney, with 463 emigrants.—The Agent-General
has been informed by telegram of the arrival in Sydney of the
ship Hawkesbury, which sailed from Plymouth in June last.
The Postmaster-General gives notice that, on Oct. 1, the
Republic of Peru will be admitted into the General Postal
Union, and thenceforth the rates of postage chargeable on cor¬
respondence addressed to that country, by whatever route it
may be forwarded, will be as followLetters, 6d. per half¬
ounce; post-cards, 3d. each; newspapers, Id. per four ounces;
other printed papers, legal and commercial documents and
E attems, 2d. per two ounces. Unpaid letters from Peru will
e charged 9d. per half-ounce on delivery. Letters, post-cards,
newspapers, legal and commercial documents and patterns,
addressed to Peru, may be registered, the registration fee being
in all cases 2d., which, in addition to the postage, must be
prepaid. As no post-cards bearing impressed stamps of the
value of 3d. have been issued, the ordinary or the foreign post¬
cards now in use must be employed when it is desired to send
a post-card to Peru, adhesive stamps being affixed to the cards
to make up the amount of postage required.
It is officially announced that the next examination of can¬
didates for admission to the Royal Military Academy, Wool¬
wich, will begin at the South Exhibition Galleries, South
Kensington, on Nov. 29, the medical examinations taking
place on the previous day at the Royal Military Academy.—
Prince Ibrahim Pasha, son of the Pasha of Egypt, who
recently passed successfully the examination for admission to
this institution, joined it yesterday week.
The Duke of Cambridge made his half-yearly inspection of
the troops in comp at Aldershott. After the inspection the
horse artillery and cavalry went through a sham fight,
manoeuvring against an enemy supposed to be in position on
Ca'sar’s Camp. On Wednesday the summer and autumn drills
in which the Aldershott forces have been engaged for three
months were brought to a close with a sham fight on the com¬
mon east of the staff college, Sandhurst, about eight miles
from the camp, in the presence of the Duke of Cambridge.
The troops were divided into two opposing forces; they
marched from the camp at on early hour, and arrived at their
•Hotted positions about ten o’clock. General Peyton com¬
manded the southern force, consisting of about 5000 of all
arms, and General Pakenham, with about 4000, commanded
the northern force, which was to cover Wokingham against the
force advancing from Woking.
The lectures founded by Sir Thomas Gresham will be read
to the public on the following days in the months of October
and November, 1878, in English, at six o’clock p.m., in the
theatre of Gresham College, Basinghall-street, in the following
order Physic, Mr. Symcs Thompson, M.D., Tuesday, Oct. 8,
Wednesday, 9, Thursday, 10, and Friday, 11; Rhetoric, Mr.
Thomas F. Dallin, M.A., Tuesday, Oct. 15, Wednesday, 16,
Thursday, 17, and Friday, 18 ; Law, Mr. J. T. Abdy, LL.D.,
Tuesday, Oct. 22, Wednesday, 23, Thursday, 24, and Friday,
25 ; Astronomy, Rev. E. Ledger, M.A., F.R.A.S., Tuesday,
Oct. 29, Wednesday, 30, Thursday, 31, and Friday, Nov. 1 ;
Geometry, the Very Rev. B. M. Cowie, B.D., Dean of Man¬
chester, Tuesday, Nov. 5, Wednesday, 6, Thursday, 7, and
Friday, 8 ; Divinity, the Very Rev. J. W. Burgon, B.D., Dean
of Chichester, Tuesday, Nov. 12, Wednesday, 13, Thursday, 14,
and Friday, 15 ; Music, Mr. Henry Wylde, Mus. D., Tuesday,
Nov. 19, Wednesday, 20, Thursday, 21, and Friday, 22.
Mr. W. E. Forster gave an address on the 19th in Marischal
•College to the students of the Aberdeen University, who pre¬
sented him with an address of thanks and congratulations for
the manner in which he had performed the duties attached to
the rectorial chair. Principal Pirie presided. Mr. Forster
declined to enter on a comparison between the English aud
Scotch University systems ; but this he would say, that he
hoped the special features of the Scotch system would never
depart from Scotland. One great feature which struck an
outsider more than any other was the fact that a University
education in Scotland was open to all classes ; and, after having
had some practical experience of the -work in the Universities,
he could now realise in some measure the importance and
advantage of nil classes being able to receive the higher culture.
He approved the Scotch system of giving degrees early in life,
so ns to allow young men to begin as early as possible to earn
their own livelihood, lie was of opinion that the experience
obtained at work and business at the age of twenty-two was •
far more valuable than college training. Ho referred to the
recommendations of the University Commission, aud spoke
with approval of the suggestion that there should be .v pro-
liminnry examination, and that classics should not bo so
entirely the conditions of a University degree as they had been.
REJECTION OF OUR MISSION TO CABUL
The news from India on Monday morning was of a verv serious
on'satn^' ® ir Neville Chamberluin’s mission left rLliawur
tUTdi i y “ U ? P roceeded towards Jumrood, a point in British
^Afghan frontier. Major Cava^ari had
nww* f to Ah Musjid, a station in Afghan territory, in
wiffi mtt «+ k f ° r n 8af ^ P.8f sa S e 1101)1 the Ameer’s officer,^but
n \£ nCe * by * a de . clded and unhesitating refusal, accom-
pauied by threats of resistance aud by a display of armed force
fiuifle^ 0 «t+ dlDg t hei + ghte ' t Aftcr three hours had been spent
to tte !i up *c at ae 8 otliltlon ! Major Cavagnari returned
a x d . tbe m ^ on withdrew to Peshawur in obe-
R min t A ° di r Ct inst . r . uctlona telegraphed from the Viceroy at
thpFiivov A™ 6 nc 'WB comes from Constantinople that
in thfTorS’T tbeAm< : er Afghanistan, who recentlyarrived
in the Turkish capital, is endeavouring to induce the Porte to
conclude an alliance with Russia.
corespondent at Calcutta, telegraphing on
stnnon 7 th( ? foll °wing details respecting^ the
stoppage of the British mission to Cabul : —
t i he f A ^ Cer hav £ earned a very critical character,
lne catml ruler has at last thrown off every semblance oven of outward
fnendlmcsa and courtesy, and lias chosen to adopt, in preference an atti-
Pcallawur . This morning private advices from Simla,
f lmnoe . c £? bu Placed, state that on the mission bring
to Jumrood Major Cavagnari rode forward to Ali Musjid,
ljy t K *r'vr T1 ”li lnorderto “k for a safepassigo. ThoAmeer’s officer,
TTr l r^’tf^a 1 ^“ 8 - |ld P^vely refused to permit tho mission to advance,
tee roiiYf^wit}, ^ I1Ce ’ an<3 cr ? wn l' J the surrounding heights commanding
wio Ute fiT ltl l? , I ned ,?r n in ° rder to dispute tho passage. The interview
f« t m ^? e< * ,e lj ndMaj0 !5 Cavngnarila8ted three hours, and though the
n in* orl T and over again that the Ameer would be deemed
f hM S°? duct '. he expressed an unflinching determination to
rerist the passage of the mission by force. Not the faintest shadow of a
f^htis entertained that this officer was acting under full instructions from
the Ameer, inasmuch as Mnfti Shah and Akhor, two responsible officers of
tew A rrivf’ T^ b€ f n t2“ pat « ed fr< t m °V bul to AU Muj $ d within the last
^ v? f ,i be8 ° °F* cera _5 avo been mentioned in Cabul news-
favourably disposed towards and engaged in direct communica-
*? U8i ?““ Emhosiy. Two important facts require to be noted -
the first that this insolent rebuff occurred in presenco of the two Indian
b ^ attach<xi ^- ttl0 (l? 1881011 ! who wero personal witnesses of theinter-
yitw between Major Cavagnan and the Ameer’s officer; the second
“ 018 Eus », ll \ n Envoy is still residing at Cabul. The mission
3- If “ ow withdrawn. In view of the long-continued ungracious
all v Mmduct of the existing ruler of Afghanistan, aggravated as it
“ by the present contemptuous slight offered to our national dignity, all
possibility of renewing friendly relations with this uncompromising and
morose barbarian ib utterly hopeless ; and, even if the prospects were still
hopeful, their realisation could only be accomplished at the complete sacrifice
of proper self-respect and at the grave risk of very considerable loss of
pre6tjge in the eyes of our Indian subjects and of our feudatory Princes. In
consequence, therefore, of the present conduct of Russia, and the future
policy for us which this conduct now decisively indicates, and against which,
loitunately for India, the Government and the English people are most
fully and completely warned, this important question of frontier policy will
henceforward cease to be treated from a merely Indian standpoint It at
once travels ont of the domain of provincial into that of Imperial con¬
siderations, and those of the very highest magnitude. No one is
more keenly alive than the Viceroy to this new development of the
question, and he clearly discerns that it is only by the united efforts
and energetic co-operation of tho English and Indian Foreign
Offices that this dangerously complex state of matters can be finally
brought to a satisfactory conclusion. The Indian Government are
backed by ample military resources to enable them promptly and
severely to punish the Ameer for his insulting attitude of disrespect, but
the significant fact is fully recognised that the Ameer is but the puppet,
while Russia stands behind as the deus ex machind. The measures, there-
fore, to be adopted in view of the Ameer’s conduct cease to be a question of
Indian policy, but are at once resolved into a serious problem of English
foreign politics, which can only be dealt with in strict accordance with the
settled principles of the English Cabinet. Meanwhile, the immediate object
of the Viceroy is to endeavour to make it clearly understood that we have
no cause of quarrel with the Afghan people, ana to endeavour to win over
and secure all the border tribes. Tho Khyberrics have on the present
occasion behaved well, and have shown every disposition to remain friendly.
The Daily News' Special Correspondent at Simla telegraphs
to the like effect with reference to the rejection of the British
mission to Cabul; and in a subsequent telegram he states that
the mission has been dissolved, and the Viceroy’s emissary to
Cabnl has been recalled. The garrison of Quettah is to be
reinforced by 3000 additional troops, and a mixed European
and native force of 4000 men is to assemble immediately at
Thull, at the entrance to the Khooram valley. A reserve force
of 60<)0 will be formed at Sukkur early in November. The
route by the Khooram valley is, the correspondent states,
through an open country to Cabul, and a force might advance
to within seventy miles of that town, entirely avoiding the
Khyber Pass. The intention of this demonstration is not,
the correspondent adds, an attack on Cabul, but to show the
Ameer his helplessness. At the same time, by friendly treatr
ment, an attempt will be made to conciliate the frontie-
tribes, who are weary of his oppression.
The Standard publishes a telegram from Bombay of Mon¬
day’s date which says that a special meeting of the Viceroy’s
Council was held at Simla, and General Roberts, the com¬
mandant of the frontier forces, has started for Peshawur
with secret orders. A large force is ordered to be in readi¬
ness on the frontier, where 12,000 men are already massed.
The Indian newspapers (the telegram says) universally con¬
sider that tke affront to the mission demands an apology or
the occupation of Afghanistan. A war feeling is prevalent
among the Europeans, trade is disturbed, and Government
securities have fallen.
The Telegraph has a despatch from Simla, dated Tuesday,
as follows Orders have been issued for the concentration of
troops at the Thull entrance to the Kurrum Valley, and also at
Quettah above the Bolan Pass. The Commissioner at Peshawur
is engaged in negotiations which have for their object to detach
the Khyberees from the Ameer; and the authorities are hope¬
ful that the end will be attained, as tbe Khyberees, by their
friendly bearing to the mission, have incurred the severe dis¬
pleasure of Shere Ali. The mission itself is now broken up,
and Sir Neville Chamberlain returns at once to Simla.
The Times' correspondent at Calcutta says that war with
Afghanistan is there believed to be inevitable. He states
that the commandant of Ali Musjid Fort threatened Major
Cavagnari, saying that, save for his personal friendship, he
would shoot him on the spot. Other telegrams show that it is
still considered uncertain in India whether the military pre¬
parations which are being made are intended as a demon¬
stration to terrify the Ameer or for an actual invasion of
Afghanistan.
The Indian papers have published the two letters, dated
Aug. 14 and Aug. 23, sent by the Viceroy to the Ameer, the
first announcing that it had been decided to send a mission to
Cabul, and asking for it a safe conduct and proper reception;
the second, offering condolences on the death of the Ameer’s
heir. To neither of these letters was any answer returned.
The Standard publishes their text, together with that of the
letter which Sir Neville Chamberlain addressed to the Afghan
commandant at the Khyber Pass.
295
The highest tide in the Thames for this year will probably
be this (Saturday) afternoon, at three o’clock.
The Bristol Docks committee have under their consideration
a scheme for placing buoys at all points of danger and shallow
parts of the seven miles of the river Avon from Bristol to
Kingroad, most of these buoys to have a light at night.
POLITICAL.
Tuesday’s Gazette announces that an earldom has been
conferred on Lord Cairns, whose titles will be Viscount
Garmoyle, in the county of Antrim, and Earl Cairns The
Gazette also announces that the Queen has appointed tho
Marquis of Lome to be a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of-
&t. Michael and St. George.
-At Truro on Tuesday Mr. Edward William Bryd^ei
\V lllyams (Liberal) and Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Tremayne
(Conservative) were nominated. The polling took place on
Thursday, with the following result:—For Lieut.-Colonel
Tremayne, 656 votes; Mr. Willyams, 611 : majority, 45.
Several members of Parliament have recently been airing
their views on the Eastern Question, both sides being pretty
equally represented. We give the pith of the speeches
Mr. W. E. Baxter, addressing his constituents at Montrose
on the 19th inst., said that the Berlin Treaty was a most im-
portant step in carrying out the policy which Mr. Gladstone
and his friends had always recommended. The area taken from
Turkey was greater than that abstracted by the Treaty of San
Stefano, and yet Lord Beaconsfield told us, and simpletons
believed him, that there had been no partition, and that
Turkey had been strengthened. Sir Austen Layard, who had
played a very pitiful part in all these matters, might well say
of the Treaty of Berlin that it would lead to the overthrow of
the Ottoman Empire. It was because that was also his (Mr
Baxter’s) firm belief that he rejoiced in it. The treaty, how¬
ever, failed in many respects, and it would not stand, any
more than the treaties of 1815 and 1856. The Convention
with Turkey, Mr. Baxter said, he looked upon as a sop to the
Jingoes, and it was, in his opinion, the most dangerous
arrangement ever entered into by British statesmen.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Secretary of State for the
Colonies, Lord Elcho, M.P., and Mr. Reginald Yorke, M.P.,
were amongst the speakers at the Winchcombe agricultural
dinner yesterday week. Sir M. H. Beach, replying to the
toast of his health, referred to the Eastern Question, and
asked that thos e who were disposed to criticise the policy of
the Government should wait before they expressed a decided
opinion. The Berlin Treaty, he said, was no particular work
of the British Government, but it was more satisfactory than
that of San Stefano. There were evils which the Government
had attempted to mitigate by the occupation of Cyprus, which
island would in time regain the prosperity it enjoyed in
centuries past.
Last Saturday Lord Carnarvon met his principal tenants
in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire at Teversall, near Mans¬
field. A military hand played on the village green, and there
were many signs of rejoicing at his Lordship’s visit after an
absence of many years. A dinner was given in the school¬
room, and the clergy and tho local gentry were present,
besides about one hundred of the tenants. After tho usual
loyal toasts, Mr. Crompton proposed his Lordship’s health.
In reply his Lordship referred at length to the foreign policy
of the Government, beginning with the Treaty of Ber lin ,
which, he said, ought not to be called a treaty of peace, for
every hour justified his former observation that it did not con¬
tain the elements of a really permanent peace. Turkey was
crumbling to pieces os fast as possible. The state of our
finances required the greatest possible caution on the part of
the Government. This was a very questionable time for our
interference in Afghanistan, when on all Bides there were
rumours of possible war in that State. Much more than war,
however, he dreaded the conquest or occupation of
Afghanistan.
Mr. Childers visited the Barrow Liberal Club on Monday
evening and addressed to its members some observations on the
present state of the Liberal party, advising them not to try to
tie each other down, but rather to bring about a general
progress and improvement.
A Liberal demonstration took place on Monday evening at
Newcastle-under-Lyme, to celebrate the result of the late
election in that town. Addresses were delivered by the
borough members, Messrs. Allen and Edge, Mr. Cotes, M.P.,
and Mr. Delahunty, M.P., and in the evening Mr. Jenkins,
M.P., addressed a mass meeting.2
On Tuesday night the Marquis of Lome addressed the
electors of Argyleshire at Inverary by way of leave-taking,
prior to his departure for tbe Dominion of Canada. Only a short
time previous, he said, he had no other expectation than that
he should have occasion before long to address them as a can¬
didate for their suffrages at a general election. In now leaving
for that important part of the Empire to which he had been
called, he wished to say a few words by way of taking leave.
He had always done his utmost to promote the interests of th®
country, though he could not hope that he had pleased every¬
body. Lord Lome concluded by giving an account of th®
resources and recent progress of Canada.
Mr. Ingram, the Liberal member for Boston, addressed his
constituents at a public meeting on Tuesday evening and was
enthusiastically received. He severely criticised the foreign
policy of the Government. Mr. Earp, M.P., and other gentle¬
men also addressed the meeting. The following resolution
was carried, with hut few dissentients :—“ That it is the duty
of the Liberals of this country to put forth their most earnest
efforts to curb the spirit of the Tory Government in a career
which is calculated to bring upon England grave trouble and
responsibility, if not disaster, with certainly an unjustifiabl®
increase of taxation ; and to promote, on every available oooa-
sion, the return of Liberal representatives to the House of
Commons.” Messrs. Ingram and Parry were unanimously
adopted as Liberal candidates at the next general election.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach distributed the prizes at the
Chipping Norton and Moreton-in-Marsh Agricultural Show
on Tuesday, and afterwards presided at the annual dinner in
the evening. He was supported by the Earl of Redesdale aud
an influential company. Sir Michael warmly eulogised the
loyal spirit displayed by the colonies in offering to form whole
brigades for the service of the mother country.
Colonel Stanley, the Secretary of State for War, spoke at a
luncheon on Tuesday at the North Lonsdale Agricultural Show.
He said that up to the present there was nothing to lead th®
Government to suppose that the recent negotiations at Berlin
would do otherwise than conduce to the ultimate security and
peace of the world.
Cclonel North and Mr. Harcourt, speaking at the Watling-
ten Fanners’ Association, took occasion to refer to the Afghan
difficulty. The former believed that the administration of the
Government was a thing that Englishmen should be proud of,
and that England never stood higher in the feeling of foreigners
than it did now. Mr. Harcourt could not conceal from himself
that Russia was touching the territory of Afghanistan. The
gentlemen who considered it patriotic to question the polioy
of the Government would be urging that it was not our part
to interfere with the Afghans, and that if another Power inter¬
fered we must make up our minds to lose India. We were,
however, prepared for war, and he believed the country would
be united as to any enemy that might assail us.
296.—TUB ILLUSTRATED LOMW
NEWS, Sept. 28, 1878,— 2U7
SEPT. 28, 1£78
298
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON HEWS
echoes of the week.
Afchanistfm is for the moment in all men’s mouths in Tans,
anti the leading articles of the daily! andevemn,
of more or lees hazy conjectures as to what the British uorem
ment intend to do in view of the a ®T )I ^. offe F ed 1 t ?
vrestioe by the repulse of Sir Neville Chamberlain s embassy.
One exceptionally well-informed Parisian journal warns us
that among the dangers which we shall “J
running p;* x PU f Ansrlais fli're race
TrourcDt Chypre et Khybre moult impasse.
So that we are to find no way out of it, either in Cyprus or in
Oebul.
There is a tiny Paris paper of four not too clearly printed
pages called the relit Journal, the circulation of which exceeds,
they tell me 300,000 per diem. One of the specialties of this
little sheet is that it contains every morning an essay of from
two and a half to three columns on the “ burning question
of the dav. For some years this diurnal essay was contributed,
under the pseudonym of ‘‘TimotWe Trimm,” by « wonder¬
fully prolific writer named Leo Lcspes. He died, and his
place is now supplied by a gentleman as fecund, but not quite
so facile, who adopts the worn de plume of Thomas Gnmm.
On Wednesday morning last M. Grimm was naturally called
upon to write a three-column article on Afghanistan. His
exordium is quite touching in its naive confession of imperfect
information. “ Unfortunately,” he remarks, “there is no
country in the world which is so little known as Afghanistan.
That it is eituated between Persia, Turkestan, China, and
British India; that its frontiers are defended by the spurs of
the colotsus of mountains, the Himalayas; that it has been the
region whence issued tho barbarians who overran and con¬
quered Europe, and that it is the promised land of wild beasts:
that is nearly all which is known about Afghanistan.” M.
Thomas Grimm, however, by dint of copious draughts on
“L’ Indedes Rayahs,” in the “Tour du Monde,” contrived
to get through his three columns a merveille.
Mem : If I had a copy of the “ Journal of Lady Sale” by
me I would send it, in a pure spirit of journalistic fraternity,
to M. Grimm. Do you remember that fascinating narrative
of hair-breadth ’scapes ? I well recollect, as a small boy,
pasting on my bed-room wall the portrait of the Anglo-Indian
heroine on horseback, a Cashmere shawl turban crowning her
head, her sash full of daggers and pistols, and waving a
scimetar, while the air darkened with arrows and matchlock
bullets shot by ferocious Afghans swarming on the crest of the
rocky ravine. I’he ‘‘War in Afghanistan ” was brought out,
I think, as a hippodraraatic spectacle at Astley’s. Tell me,
Orientalists, am I right in placing the accent on the last
syllable in Afghanistan ? But should it be an acute (') or a
grave (’) accent ?
The French, up to this present writing, have fully made
up their minds as to two things. First, that Great Britain
will immediately declare war against Russia (in consequence
of Afghanistan), and next, that Sir Garnet Wolseley will be
immediately appointed Viceroy of India and Commander-iu-
Chief of the Anglo-Indian armies. 41 The descendant of tho
haughty Cardinal Wolsey,” they point out, ‘‘will be no
longer suffered to waste his talents on the fever-stricken deserts
of Cyprus.”
I note in papers from home that the Earl of Rosebery has
been making a speech equally modest, humorous, and sensible
on Science and Art, somewhere in Scotland. Incidentally his
Lordship touched on cookery, an art which, according to his
showing, especially needed development in North Britain; and
then he mude a jocose allusion to that inscrutable mystery the
haggis. Now, with all due deference to the cleverest and most
promising of our Liberal peers, I must protest that there is no
more mystery about a haggis than there is about a plum¬
pudding. There are a dozen ways of maki ng both the one and
the other dish : that is all. I cannot eat h aggia any moro than
I can eat sweetbread, or tripe, or giblet soup, or “ internal
arrangements” of any kind; but catholicity in culinary
matters impels me to recognise haggis us a most artistic and
succulent dish.
It is elaborate, I grant, but far from mysterious. You will
find a very fair recipe for a haggis in Mrs. Glasse ; but the
riieh is far more learnedly and exhaustively treated in the
review of a work called ‘‘Meg Dods’ Cookery Book,” which
(the review) appeared in Blackwood' s Magazine about fifty years
ago. The article in question, in which every known form of
haggis is discussed at length, may have been written by
Odoberty ” (Dr. Moginn) or by “ Christopher North ” (Pro¬
fessor Wilson); still it is not impossible that its author was
Sir Walter hunself.
Nor am I, in my own mind, at all satisfied as to the
nationality of the haggis. The connection between Scotland
and France was in old times very close indeed. The Celt drank
claret long before the Saxon did; and in many old French
cookery bookB I have met with recipes intimately resembling
those given for the concoction of an orthodox Scottish haggis—
but always abating the oatmeal. The Italian ravioli, again, is
a miniature haggis, an envelope of macaroni paste taking the
place of the ovine sac in which the Caledonian dainty is con¬
tained. Bow would it be if the Italian cook of Mary Queen
of Scots brought over the haggis from the Louvre to Holyrood ?
Imagine Rizzio plunging his knife into that “mucklc” pudding,
just before the conspirators plunged their daggers into him!
I am compelled (I shall be home in a few days) to dine out
at a Paris restaurant every day; and I regret to state that
these eight weeks past (always in consequence of the Exhi¬
bition, 1 suppose) I have found the fish to have much more of
an “ancient and fishlike flavour” than is desirable. At the
Cafe Anglais and at the Restaurant Gaillon (conjuncture of the
Rue de la Michodicre and the Rue Louis-le-Grand) I have
invariably found the fish to be os fresh—to use tho proverbial
expression—“ as paint.” At the remaining restaurants, even
to the grandest, it is frequently more than equivocal. There
is but scant consolation for the habitual staleness of a most
wholesome and delicious article of food that the French papers
of the poorer order, su;h as the Figaro, the Gaulois, aud tho
Voltaire, revel day after day in extremely funny but, under
the circumstances, exasperating stories about stale fish. Here
is one: A customer at a boulevard restaurant complains, in
distinctly audible tones, that his mackerel is absolutely uneat¬
able. “ S-tstli !” whispers the waiter, discreetly putting his
finger to his lips. “ It isu’t the mackerel. l\x t k Hums da
nictate. It't the talmon of the gentleman opposite!"
. Another: A guest complains on Wednesday that his turbot
is not so good ns that of which he partook on the preceding
Sunday. “ 'Jhat’s very odd,” remarks the complacent gallon.
“Really, I can’t moke it out; for it happens to be a slice of
the very same turbot which was served to Monsieur on Sunday.
This is only a clever paraphrase of tho very eld* ranch Joe
Miller about Jocrisse and the salmon. “ I saw tins morning,
said Jocriese (the French Tom Fool), 44 the finest salmon at
Cbevit’s that I ever beheld in my life. I shall save up my
pocket-money till I am able to buy it.”
A wise gentleman in the World, apostrophising me by my
own proper name—not even as “ G. A. 8."—and cruelly tear¬
ing the mask of the anonymous from a writer in a daily news¬
paper, reproaches me with having boasted of the Burgundy,
Chambertin, and Roman^e-Comtes at the Cafe Anglais, as
that establishment piques itself on its Bordeaux wines, and
does not go in for a speciality of Burgundy. I beg to state
that I never heard of such a wine as Romance-any
more than I ever heard of “ Chateau-Lapouffe,” “ Clos-do-
l’ougcot,” or “Moulin h Vcndre.” When the wise gentleman
knows more about the wines of Burgundy I will talk to him.
For the moment I leave him Romanee—what? as a “ French
puzzle.” I may just add that the cellars of the Cafe Anglais
are among tho most surprising and the least known of the
wonders of underground Paris. The lease of the famous
restaurant is on the eve of expiry, aud the sale of the Cafe
Anglais wines—Burgundies as well as Bordeaux—will probably
be one of the leading “ events” of the year 1880.
Those 44 French puzzles ” in the World, at which I glanced
just now, are doing right good service in the cause of Anglo-
French education, although a few of the examples to be cor¬
rected are somewhat too transparent in the blunders which
they present for amendment. “ Le Prince de Galles tiendra
unc levee tl Buckingham Palace Mordi prochaiu a deux heures
ct demies” is too amusingly naive iu its inaccuracy to be set
right by anybody save “ the merest schoolgirl; ” yet at the same
time—quite apart from its being a “French puzzle”—it
exposes a solecism which has become ingrained in colloquial
English and in the phraseology of our own Court Circular. I
allude to the word “ levee.” There is such a thing as a “ levee
en masse and the embankment of the Mississippi at New
Orleans is correctly called a “ levee." It is a collective thing
which is raised. But her Majesty or the Prince of Wales
should hold not a “ levee,” but a “ lever”—that is the act of
a thing or person that is rising. Thus, likewise, “ mm lever de
rideau a short piece played to the rising, as it were, of the
curtain. But 44 lever” in a courtly sense has become a wholly
obsolete expression. Crowned heads no longer receive their
courtiers the first thing in the morning while they are arising
from their couches—you remember how Louis the Fourteenth’s
valet used to hand his Majesty’s periwig to him, on the point
of a gold-headed cane, through the barely-opened bed-
curtains and, certainly, since the Revolution of July, 1830,
there have been no Royal “ levers ” in France. I question,
indeed, whether those stately mummeries survivod the cata¬
clysm of v 1789. The First and the Third Napoleons and King
Louis Philippe did not hold “ levers” at the Tuileries. They
held “receptions,” just as Marshal MacMahonholds “recep¬
tions” at the Ely see. In England, on the other hand, we
persist in our wrong-saying; and not only Royalty but the
Field-Marshal Commanding in Chief holds “ levees.” Is it to
be assumed that H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge gets up at two
in the afternoon? Everybody knows that H.ll.H. is, like Don
Quixote de la Mancha, gran madrugador, and that he frequently
puts in an appearance in tho Park at seveu a.m. G. A. 8.
A new lecture-hall and library which have been erected at
the Lancashire Independent College, Whalley Range, were
opened on Wednesday.
Miss Wedgwood, a descendant of the famous pottery-ware
manufacturer, has offered to provide a home for training the
young pauper girls of Stoke-on-Trent as domestic servants.
The annual distribution of prizes to the students attending
the classes of the Free Library at Wolverhampton took place
in the council-chamber of the Townball on Monday night.
The Mayor (Mr. D. Kendrick) presided, and among those
J resent were Mr. Alexander Staveley Hill, Q.C., M.P., Mr. M.
ronmonger, Dr. Langley, Mr. Alderman Walker, and the
Rev. G. Duckett. Mr. Elliot (the librarian) having read the
report, Mr. Staveley Hill distributed the prizes.
At the Peterborough Agricultural Society’s annual dinner
on Wednesday Mr. Cave, of Boston, Market Deeping, Lin¬
colnshire, was awarded the £50 prize given by the Earl of
Cary8fort for the best cultivated farm within a radius of thirty
miles.—Mr. Abel Smith, M.P., presided on Wednesday at the
ploughing-match luncheon in connection with the West Herts
Agricultural Society, held at St. Albans. Responding to his
health, he wished the times were more cheerful for agriculture,
which was not very prosperous. He advised farmers to
increase their grass lands.—Mr. Gorst, M.P., addressing the
Waltham Cottage Gardening and Ploughing Society, com¬
mended the practice of working men employing their leisure
hours in gardening, and thought that every hour so spent
might be looked back upon with pride and satisfaction.
The sum of £2300, which included £1070 collected on the
Stock Exchange, was received on Tuesday at the Mansion
House in aid of the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the
explosion at the Abercarne Colliery. The fund amounted to
over £16,000 on Wednesday evening, exclusive of the large sums
collected in the country. Among the payments on Wednesday
were the following:—“A Welshman by Blood," £100; Mr.
James Duncan, £50; R. M. £20 ; Messrs. Herd, Dawson, and
Co., £50; Offertory at St. Margaret’s, Lee, £107 13s. 4d.;
Messrs. G. Marker and Co., £52 10s.; Miss Isabel Goldsmid,
£16; Collection at St. Mary’s, Reading, £15 18s. -id.; Miss
Gibbins, £50; Mr. Joshua Dixon, £2o; Miss Anne Turner,
£30; and Mr. Julian Senior, £21. A meeting of the Central
Committee was held on Tuesday at Abercarne and a scale of
relief was drawn up.
There are a few Art matte rs to note, besides those recorded
at page 306. Sir Sydney Waterlow, M.P., addressing the
students of the School of Art at Maidstone on Wednesday
evening, said the best remedy for depression of trade was the
cultivation of greater intelligence in those persons engaged iu
manufactures. Bv tho application of intelligent labour our
raw materials might be used in manufactures to much greater
advantage than they now were.—On the same day the Ipswich
lown Council decided to build a museum, a school of art and
a free library, at a cost of £8100 ; and also to erect a hospital for
patients suffering from infectious disease, at an outlay of
£3600. About one third of the first amount, it is expected
will be raised by private subscriptions.-A letter has been
received by the Bradford Corporation from the authorities at
South Kensington, in reply to a memorial for aid in cstablish-
V ,g » museum and art-gallery iu connection with the Bradford
f ree Library, that the authorities will place at the disposal of
the committee of the corporation Bix large cases, containing
objects of industrial art. Other eases will be sent requiring a
large amount of wall space, which will be filled with samples
of Uxtile manufactures. r
MICHAELMAS GEESE AND GANDERS.
Although I do not feel disposed, with Pope, to drop a “tributary
tear,” yet I desire to condole with the Gander on his oblitera¬
tion from poetry and general literature. It is true that in
Painting Mr. Briton Itivi&re may do him ample justice ; but
in Poetry he is altogether supplanted by his partner the
Goose. The old proverb, “What is sauce for the Goose is
sauce for the Gander,” does, indeed, appear to place the
Gander on an equal footing with the Goose; but it cheats the
ear with a delusive promise that is not fulfilled in the pages of
historical and poetical literature, wherein the lordly Gander
never finds a place. The Capitol was saved, not by Ganders, but
by Geese, who, according to Dryden, are “more wakeful” even
than “watchful dogs.” Macbeth demanded of his scared
servant, where he got his 44 goose -look; ” and Macbeth's
castle-porter jested about the tailor roasting his goose. It was
“noisy geese that gabbled o’er the pool” of Goldsmith’s sweet
Auburn, in whose village public-house the royal game of gooso
was played. It was the goosequill that was used and praised
by the Saxon scholars, Alcuin and Aldhclm, and by such
modem poets as Crabbe a nd Cowper. It was the grey-goose
feathers that winged the arrows of the victors at Aginccurt.
It was tho stubble-fed goose, reared on the Saxon wags, or
bundle of straw, that was selected aS the chief dish for the
priuters’ annual Mich ad mas feast of Wayz-Goose; and it was
roast goose of which good Queen Bess was eating, at Sir Neville
Humlreyville’a table, on the memorable 29tli of September,
1588, when she washed down the appetising fare with a half¬
pint bumper of burgundy, and gave as a toast, “ Destruction
to the Spanish Armada! ”
Not a word is there here about the Gander; all the glory is
reserved for the Goose. It was the Goose, too, that found favour
in the eyes of St. Thomas a’Beckett, who delighted in it when
roasted, and said that the dish had not been specially invented
for sinners. And St. Martin, Bishop of Tours, the Apostle of
the Gauls and Father of the Latin Church, is said to have
died, in the eighty-fourth year of his age, from eating too
bountifully of roast goose; wherefore in France a Goose is the
special dish for St. Martin’s Day, Nov. 11, and not for Sept. 29,
as with us. It would, however, be hard to say what connection
St. Michael had with geese beyond the fortuitous concurrence
of their being “ in their prime season ’’ at his festival, as was
testified by Poor Robin, in his Almanack for 1695 ; so that a
Michaclmns goose/wus the usual tribute to be made by a tenant
to his landlord when he came to pay his rent, as was shown by
George Gascoigne, in his “ Poesies,” so early as the year 1575;
and at an earlier date than that, in 1470, one of the Hereford¬
shire Barnaby’s granted a parcel of demesne lands to John de
la Hay on condition that he brought him, on the feast of
St. Michael, a goose fit for his dinner. With our ancestors,
too, a favourite Christmas dish was Goose-pie.
In all this the Gander is kept in the background, and only
comes forward in the proverb, “ What is sauce for the Goose
is sauce for the Gander.” But, what sauce? Apple-sauee
would seem to be the most popular with us, though the French
deride us for using it. Possibly we might take some exception
to the Strasburg recipe of their pates de foiet gras, which, in
their preparation, are not to be mentioned in the same cate¬
gory with that Roman delicacy, a white goose’s liver eaten
with fat figs, the fame of which has been handed down to us
by Horace, Juvenal, Persius, Athemeus, Yarro, and Martial.
There is also tomato-sauce, aud gooseberry and sorrel sauce,
though the two last are usually served with those green
geese that, as Shakspeare’s Biron tells us, come when
“the Spring is near.” Now, which of these four sauces
would you prefer to use with a roast Gander P but, whoever
heard of a roast Gander—or, for that matter, of a boiled
Gander? All the deftly mingled seasoning of onions, sage,
salt, pepper, and cayenne—further flavoured even by the aid
of lemons and port wine—would fail to reconcile us to a
Gander, whether roast or boiled. But, if it be a Goose, well
roasted—for, you would as soon boil a Goose as boil a haunch
of venison—well seasoned, and with its proper complements of
gravy and sauce, then you may sit down to its full-flavoured
attractions with the conviction that it is a dish to set before a
King, or a good Queen Bess ; and that it should never bo par¬
taken of by one of those covetous old sinners, who, according
to a quaint proverb, would not fear to steal a goose, and to
give away the giblets for alms.
But, what about that other proverb, 44 What is sauce for
the Goose is sauce for the Gander ” ? Must we consign it to
tho shadowy region of metaphor? Or, shall we consult that
Tennysonian goose, who “ let fall a golden egg, with caokle
and with clatter” ? Or go to 44 Mother Goose” herself, with
an introduction from her biographer, Charles Perrault? She
is wise, or, at any rate, affects a Burleigh-like appearance of
wisdom, with thoughts that are too deep for words; as said
that merry old country parson, John Skelton, “ When the
rain raineth, And the goose winketh, Little wotteth the gosling,
What the goose thinketh.” Perhaps she would refer us, for
an explanation of the proverb, to that Goosey-goosey Gander,
whose fitful and eccentric wand eringa up stairs, down stairs,
and in my lady’s chamber, have been so faithfully reoorded in
nursery chronicles.
But the proverb takes another form, aud tells us that
44 What is good for the Goose is good for the Gander.” It is
thought that this was the production of a woman’s fancy; and
it may have been so, for it is certain that the fair sex has been
so unfairly dealt with in the generality of proverbial sayings
that we are compelled to adopt the belief that what Bacon
caUed “ the genius, wit, and spirit of a nation” was expressed
from the brains of its male and not its female population.
It is true that there is scarcely any proverb that mar
not be capped and answered with another proverb; and,
if we are to believe that “"What is good for the Goose is
good for the Gander ” means that the two sexes should ba
dealt with precisely on the same terms, and placed on the same
footing, then we are at once tossed upon the troubled sea of
Woman’s Mission and Woman’s Rights. We should again
have Socrates declaring that half his virtues were to be attri¬
buted to the shurp exercises set him by his domineering wife;
and, even if we did not see our colleges supplied with “ prudes
for proctors, dowagers for deans, and bright girl graduate*
with their golden hair,” we might possibly witness the establish¬
ment of “Widow Clubs,” where “the Republic of Women”
would be enforced in the way so amusingly described by
Addison in the pages of the Spectator.
But, although the doctrine of equality of rights, and treat¬
ment, und occupations, and of the making, out of the two
sexes, 4 * what Addison calls “an uni-sex,” might, by forcible
straining, be deduced from our Michaelmas proverb, yet I
would prefer to take that rendering of its meaning which
would teach us the Christian lesson of doing unto others as we
would have them do unto us. And this is specially the case
where the Goose and the Gander are brought together iu the
most intimate and nearest and dearest relations of life. They
"bo are “ true yoke-fellows ” will pull well together, however
different may be tho fashions of their respective harness.
What is good for the one will be good for the other: what is
sauce for the Goose will be sauce for the Gander.
CCTHBSRT Bans.
SEPT. 28, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON HEWS
NATIONAL SPORTS.
Tlie programme of the Newmarket First October
Meeting did not promise particularly well, and
it was a pleasant surprise to witness a really
good day’s racing on Tuesday. Many a good
stake has been won by an animal whose chance
appeared hopeless, still it was difficult to under¬
stand what could have induced Prince Soltikoff
to pay £150 for the pleasure of seeing Howdie
struggle vainly to make Wheel of Fortune do
more than canter. Lord Falmouth’s beautiful
filly never looked better, and there arc far
more unlikely things than that she may tread
in Jannette’s footsteps at Doncaster next
September. Her form was further enhanced
by the result of the Hopeful Stakes, which
Peter, who was beaten easily by her at Good-
wood, won in a canter from Marshall Scott and
six others. The latter, whom Mr. Ellam has
publicly “ tipped ” as the probable winner of
next year’s Derby, was attempting to concede
6 lb. Peter, who is a son of Hermit and Lady
Masham, cost something under 400 gs. as a
yearling, and it is pleasant to see such
a sportsman as General Peel in posses¬
sion of so good a colt. The friends of
Hackthorpe (8 st. 21b.) again supported him
very heavily for the Great Eastern Railway
Handicap. It will be remembered that he
was made a strong favourite for the Portland
Plate a fortnight ago, and, in extenuation of
his poor display, it was alleged that Athol
Lad kicked him heavily just prior to the start.
For once an excuse appeared to have really
.good foundation, for though his weight was a
heavy one for a three-year-old, Archer brought
him home a clever winner from the luckless
Warrior (8st. 31b.) and Malay (6 st 51b), who
were second and third respectively. The
antagonism of Rayon d’Or and Leap Year in
the Boscawen Stakes created great interest,
and, as the filly was reported to be about the
same animal as Charibert, the French colt was
naturally a great public fancy. However,
he never appears to run twice alike, and,
after all sorts of odds had been offered on
him in running, he suddenly collapsed, and
was beaten by a length. Certainly his
form this year, taken altogether, is not very
encouraging; but we are loth to believe that
such a beautifully-bred, grand-looking, and
thoroughly sound colt will not distinguish
himself in the future. The Grand Duke
Michael Stakes showed Red Archer to be a
thorough impostor; and it is utterly un¬
accountable that he should have finished before
Childtiic at Ascot. Clementine ran well, but
could never get fairly on terms with Lord
Clive, though, being a very lazy horse, the
winner required a good deal of rousing at the
finish. A good deal of interest attached to
the running of Lady Golightly in a Triennial
in consequence of the manner in which she
has been backed for the Cesarewitch. No
exception could be taken to the style in which
•she polished off Balagny and Ivy, and an
advantage of 10 lb. in the weights will
scarcely enaUle the Frenchman to reverse this
result in the big handicap.
The racing on Wednesday was as indifferent
as that on Tuesday was good, and it is dif¬
ficult to find anything worthy of comment.
Massena (8 st. 81b.) secured a clever victory in
the First Nursery Stakes, and a Triennial gave
us an interesting contest between Attalus and
Castlereagh, both of whom ran fairly in the
•St. Leger. . The former gained a head victory;
■but both are clearly very moderate, and Mr.
Houldsworth’s colt seldom runs up to the form
that he displays in private. Breadfinder beat
Radiancy with consummate ease in the Granby
Stakes, and it is noteworthy that Archer, who
won five races on Tuesday, followed this up
with half a dozen unsuccessful mounts. We
regret to learn that Jongleur, the champion
racehorse of France, died on Sunday last from
the effects of an accident. In pulling up at
the conclusion of a training-gallop he trod on
the stump of a tree, and injured one of his feet
so severely that tetanus ensued. In addition
to winning many races in his own country,
Jongleur secured the Criterion in 1876, and
carried off the Cambridgeshire in the following
year with the heavy weight of 8 st. 4 lb. on his
back.
When the Middle Park stud was dispersed,
on the death of the late Mr. Blenkirou, it
realised the magnificent sum-of upwards of
£120,000, Blair Athol, Gladiateur, and
Breadalbane alone contributing about one
fifth of this total. Such a sunns scarcely likely
to be realised ngain for' any single stud, and,
considering that blood stock at present seems
a drug in the market, the second dispersal of
the stud, which took place at the end of last
week, was as satisfactory as could have been
expected. On the first day none of the brood
mares made over £500 gs.; but on Saturday
matters were far more lively, Helen (1030 gs.),
Pandore (1600 gs.), Gamos (1000 gs.), Lady
Sophia (1400 gs.), Anderida (2500 gs.), and
Hilda (1300 gs.) all running into four figures.
Mr. T. Blenkiron bought in Scottish Chief
for 5000 gs., and he will remain at Middle
Park; but two of the other sires, Vespasian
(400 gs.) and Victorious (300 gs.), a pair of
worthy descendants of Newminster, were
almost given away.
The last match of the metropolitan cricket
season was played at Kennington Oval last
week, for the benefit of the Princess Alice
Fund. It was between two strong teams of
North and South; and, though the weather
was far too cold for the thorough enjoymeut
of spectators, a capital addition of £260 has
been made to the amount subscribed at the
Mansion House. For the North, Ulyett (71)
and Selby (76) were the top scorers ; and, as
the Southern team could do nothing with Shaw
and Morley’s bowling, they were defeated in
one innings, with 123 runs to'spare.
THE LOSS OF THE PRINCESS ALICE.
A meeting of the committee of
299
House Fund for the relief of the "stiff eJeUb? I maining sketches taken by our
the loss of the Princess Alice steam-boat wi ' Snecial
held on Monday, when it was reported that
the fund amounted to £26,150. More than
£000 was received on that day, and contri¬
butions continue to pour in. During the past
week the sub-committee has been engaged
almost daily in going through the claims,
which have numbered between 300 and 400
It was resolved to refer the claims and re¬
turns to the sub-committee with a view to
their classification and to a recommendation
of 6uch immediate payments as might be ad¬
visable. The committee undertook to consider
the question of rewarding those who saved life
at the time of the accident after the more
pressing claims of the widows and orphans
had been settled. The sum of £300 was
placed at the disposal of a small sub-com¬
mittee, consisting of the Lord Mayor, Sir
Benjamin Phillips, Mr. Jcrvoise Smith, and
the Rev. W. Rogers, to relieve Buch persons
as, though poor and suffering, would shrink
from applying to the fund from fear of pub¬
licity. According to a statement made by the
Rev. Styleman Herring 370 families are
affected by the disaster. Several sums have
been received specially for the benefit of the
police at Woolwich, in appreciation of their
excellent conduct and services.
The fund at the Mansion House amounted
on Wednesday to £29,000, of which £1100
was received during the day. Among the
donations paid in were—from the Duke and
Duchess of Tcck, £20 ; L. L., £100; Mr. John
Orrell Lever (third donation), £100; the
Licensed Victuallers’ Fund (third payment),
£ 100 . h
A meeting of the sub-committee was held,
under the presidency of Alderman Sir Ben¬
jamin Phillips, on Wednesday, when it was
reported that, of the claims sent in already,
thirty were those of children who had lost
both parents, fifty-three of widowers with
eighty-tlrree children, twenty-two of widows
with sixty-five children, seven of widows with¬
out children, and 130 of other relatives.
Claims were still coming in. The sub-com¬
mittee went through many of the latter classes
and fixed provisional grants.
It is stated that the expenses incurred by the
parish officials of Woolwich in consequence of
this calamity may bo reckoned at upwards of
£1200, a sum which includes the cost of the
429 coffins they had to provide.
The inquest at Woolwich was resumed on
Wednesday. At the urgent request of the
Coroner for Kent, and of the owners of the
Princess Alice and Bywell Castle, the Board
of Trade consented to the postponement of the
official inquiry, which was to have begun at
Poplar on the 24th inst. This will obviate any
difficulty which might have arisen through
the attendance of witnesses at two inquiries at
the same time.
A concert will take place this (Saturday)
evening, at Exeter Hall, and the proceeds of
the entertainment will be devoted to the aid of
the sufferers in the late collision. Madame
Edith Wynne, Madame Nouver, Madame
Antoinette Sterling, Mdlle. Helene Arnim, M.
Federici, Mr. Muybrick, Herr Wilhelm Ganz,
and other artists have promised their services.
THE LATE KAFFIR WAR.
The arrangements for the meeting of the
Social Science Association, at Cheltenham, on
the 23rd prox., are fairly complete. The Rev.
Dr. Barry, Canon of Worcester, is to preach
the opening sermon, and Lord Norton,
K.C.M.G., President, will give the opening
address. The following are the presidents of
depaitments, each of whom will give an
address :—1. Jurisprudence, Mr. Commissioner
Miller, Q.C., LL.l). ; 2. Education, the Hon.
George Brodrick; 3. Health, Mr. W. H.
Michael, Q.C., F.C.S.; 4. Economy, Professor
Bonamy Price; 5. Art, Mr. Gam bier Parry.
Among the special subjects for discussion are—
in department 1, codification of the criminal
law and extension of the summary jurisdiction
of magistrates; in department 2, the ex¬
pediency of increasing the number of uni¬
versities and secondary education ; in depart¬
ment 3, regulation of house building and im¬
proving the sanitary condition of existing
houses; in department 4 will be considered the
economic principles which should regulate the
borrowing powers of local corporations; and
in department 5, the improvement of street
architecture, with due regard to economy, will
be discussed, and how a sound knowledge of
music may be more generally disseminated.
In addition to these questions which have been
specially appointed for discussion, and on
which papers have been obtained, papers
volunteered on other subjects coming within
the range of the departments will also be read
and discussed. It is proposed to hold two
conversaziones, to organise excursions to
various places of interest in the neighbourhood,
and to have a working men’s meetiug on one
evening during the congress, to be addressed
by members of the congress. The proceedings
will occupy eight days.
The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol dis¬
tributed the prizes at the Tolzey, Bristol, last
Saturday, to the successful competitors at the
musical examinations held in Gloucester in
June last. The Deputy-Mayor presided.
The Duke of Devonshire has signified his
intention of presenting two acres of land as
a site for the new Carlisle Grammar School,
which it is proposed to erect in lieu of the old
school in Eaglesficld Abbey, and towards
which the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have
made a grant of £10,000 as an endowment and
of £5060 in aid of the building fund.
Special Artist who was in South Africa, during
the early part of this year, with the British
military force employed against the hostile
Galekas and Gaikas on the colonial eastern
frontier, is presented, though so long after the
event, in the way of “Reminiscences of the
Kaffir War.” It represents a scene of blood¬
shed, but the charitable work of feeding
destitute Kaffir women and children, great
numbers of whom came to head-quarters, and
to every fort or advanced post, begging relief,
since the men of their nation had left them
unprovided for in taking the field against
us. Their wants, in every instance where
it was practicable, were promptly and libe¬
rally supplied,, and it is to be hoped that
the little boys, at any rate, will have learnt
not to fight the English, but to live in peace
and comfort.
We regret to be informed, by a telegram of
news from Capetown to the 3rd inst., that the
state of affairs in the Transvaal is rather worse.
The chiefs Gangelizene, Mantanzima, and
Umquileka are assuming an aggressive atti¬
tude, and the Zulus everywhere show hostility
to the British military operations in the Trans¬
vaal. The Kowannas have retreated into the
mountains beyond the Orange river. Cetewayo
continues to observe an attitude of covert hos¬
tility to the English. In the Transvaal some
fighting is now going on; Fort Weber and
Leydenburg are surrounded by hostile bands,
which have hitherto been repulsed.
The appointment of Colonel Warren, C.E.,
as Administrator of West Griqua Land, has
been announced ; Colonel Jarvis is appointed
Commandant-General of the 'colonial militia
force, and Mr. Griffiths to be Government
agent in Basuto Land.
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THE AUSTRIANS IN BOSNIA.
Our Special Artist with the army commanded
by General Philippovich in Bosnia supplies
two or three more sketches of the incidents
which attended the Austrian advance upon
Serajevo, with a view of the house in that
city occupied for the head-quarters of the Com-
mander-in-Chief. It is said that in every
town occupied by the Austrian forces enor¬
mous depots of arms have been found; in
Serajevo alone there were stored 4,000,000
cartridges, 10,000 cannon charges, 500 cwt.
of gunpowder, and a large number of new
rifles by various makers.
The news of this week from Bosnia has been
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place Bielina, fallen without a struggle into
the hands of the Imperial troops, and the
insurgents in the Posavina have been driven
back on Zworuik. The surrender of Zwornik,
which is an important fortress on the eastern
frontier of Bosnia, adjacent to Sorvia, was
announced on Thursday last; but this wants
confirmation.
The correspondent of a Vienna journal at
Serajevo declares most positively that the
Bosnian insurrection will be altogether re¬
pressed in a few weeks’ time. It is stated
further that neither the Christian nor the
Jewish population have offered resistance to
the Austrians, who, as a rule, have only
been opposed by Mohammedans, incited by
fanatical priests and supported by the Turkish
civil and military authorities and detachments
of Turkish troops. Large numbers of tho
native population, including some Moham¬
medans, are flocking from all sides to Serajevo
and other towns, to place themselves under
the protection of the Austrian army, while
anxiously awaiting the termination of the
insurrection.
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chiefs in Bosnia, the Sorvian Government has
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be disarmed. Many hundred Mohammedan
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been furnished with transport, provisions, and
lodgings by the Servian officials.
The western part of Bosnia seems now to
be almost entirely subdued, as the fortress of
Bihacs capitulated last week. The Imperial
troops entered the fortress, and found thoro
five cannon of heavy calibre, arms of other
kinds, and ammunition. Of the Turkish
regular troops there were in the place one
staff officer, and a body of artillerymen. The
town is picturesquely situated at the foot of
the Benakovac Mountains. The river Unna
divides the town in two, but the greater part
is built on the left bank. There are some
4500 inhabitants, almost exclusively Mussul¬
man. Tho fortress which gave the assailants
so much trouble is on a small island in the
river close to the town. Bihacs is a place of
historical note, having been the scene of san¬
guinary battles in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and
eighteenth centuries.
General Jovanovich announces that the /CANCER and
virtual pacification of Herzegovina is con- | VA their succc«rui i
eluded. On the 11th inst. he started upon
an expedition against the most important
places in Eastern Herzegovina. On the 16 th
Bilek, the great rallying point of the in¬
surgents, was occupied without, any resistance,
and on the 18th he reached Trebinje. A
column was then directed to proceed to
Gatchko, which had already sent its allegiance
to the Emperor Francis Joseph. Korjenice,
Livno, and lvlobuk will shortly be cleared of
the insurgents. During the difficult march of
the Imperial troops the Montenegrins main¬
tained a friendly attitude.
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pIIUBBS’ FIRE aud THIEF RESISTING
V SAFES, steel-plated.and with their Patent Diagonal Bolt*,
arc the iixwt *o u. t. Chubb*' Patent Latcl.es aud laetk* for all
iiurpere*. Cast, and Deed RoXi~. I’ri-e-l.i»l» sent free.
CHUBB and SON, 12s. Queen Victoria-street, 8t. Paul's.E.C.;
and eft. St. Jaiuee'swt reet, S.W.
VTOTICE.-SILVER and ELECTRO-
L> PIJLTE.-EI.KINGTGN aud CO., M.nnfacturlng
Silversmith* and Patentee* <>f the Electm-Plate.
Revived Illustrated Pattern-Hook of New Designs
in Table Plate of all kinds, and new qualities la
Spoons and Forks forwarded free by poet on appli¬
cation. Testimonial Plate in Solid silver, in great
variety, always In stor 1 -- —-* n -
with Decigr- —*
Address—Elkingb-n
ZAETZMANN and
W HOUSE FURNISHERS, c
HOUBE_
ion.. (Hires minut
Guwer-street 8t«ti.
conaleteut with gu
Saturdays
CO.,
OP.71,73.T
COMPLETE
...and79. Hampetead-
_ __Tottenbam-couit-road and
_ Metropolitan Railway). le wcrt price*
guaranteed quality. f1 “ ■* "-
— Deacriplive Cat
t greatly reduced price*.
the shortest notice.
Carhiuere Costume*, trimmed
Paid * '
r _____.. Od.; witt
1216s. Cd.; iu new Autumn shade*.
i.**i.u>rre Costume*.35*.Cd.; with Paletot,2g*. Trimmad
ailk. 1212*. «d.; with Paletot,,12 lss. 64.
Autumn Lustre Costumes, 2W. «d.; with l’*l«t«t.
Black (3ashmere Costumes, 32s. 64.; with Palstnl,
to* Od Slightly trimmed with .Ilk, 2 g*.; Witt
l'Ker-swl*. Hants Nouveaute, ran,la¬
in all fashionable Clan*, with 811k or Velvet Waistcoat,
price 3i g». T hl* Cortuma 1* an exact copy from lh*
Pari* Exhibition, being sold 245 time*, gaining more
admiration tl.an any other In thit gigantic building.
Louvre Hat. to match Cortume. 2*. ikL
Horn! and handsome Black Silk Cortuum, greatly r«luc*4
In price, mode in the latest Parisian rtyle. *i, 5,ij. aud
KM *Fc]t Drcreing-Gowns, trimmed varlou* colours, at 12s.
each; a in licit better quality, of variant »h<i|W» »a4
patterns. 14*. 9d. and 16*. 9d..
Seine Soiled Urea*lug-Gowns,
about hall the usual prices
JJENRY GLAVE’8
T'/.otnSon's -• IKicl.es* Corset*," aU onlours, at 12*. 94.,
with the celebrated Taper Busk, imppreliig the ortlina
the figure and giving care and freed am to U.e '*»ly-
A M.nerb hnlf-guima lila.k aid Gold Embretdrred
* Corset, with the uew dc- P twit and Taper Bu»k; also la
A fariito'ualde drepC?wt. witTbrtf aSTaper Busk,at
6ft. lid.. Mil! H *eoond Quality at ♦«. lid.
Bar 1c ime White O-nict. Iixnd^wodj tabroldmaa Taper
Cyi'rus* i^artrt‘Belt Corset, s aew French Model sod
Taper Busk, present price 11*. M.; usual prior a.pnnm.
IOkT Embreldcrcd White Paris Wore Stay., wi!h ttaa
Intbloiiablc Taper Busk. to. lid.
Carlton's Binder licit*. IS*. 6.L, In aU siref.
63, 636 636, and 587, New Oxford-rtroet, London.
Widow's Drast,
Widow'* Dress, made n
Jj'AMILY MOURNING.
de complete, _ .
imtned Cy i.ru* Crape, from ..
trim in .cl tn g 11 th Crape, from ..
ng Dies*, made complete.
Sister's or
SitterT
n Brother * Mour
JQESCRIPTRTE CATALOGUE, post-free.
QETZMANN & CO.,
JJAMTSTEAD-ROAD.
G A
ARDNERS’ NEW DINNER and TABLE
GLASS SERVICES are original in dedgn. effocUve in
appearance, and unequalled in prlc-. Dinner Service* from
£3 3t>. the Set for twelve persons, complete, with 15 per rent dis¬
count for curl, on or before delivery. Table Glass Scrsicee from
£3 3*. lid. the Set for twelve persona complete.
DINNER SERVICES.
Coloured Lithographs post-free.
In Deep Blue. I In Blue and White.
The lamdownc ..£3 3 o J The launatowne ..£3 3 6
The Laurel .. .,3 13 is The Indiana .. - * < «
| llio Danish .. 8 6 f
Discount 16 |>er cent.
In Enamelled Patterns. - *- **--*
! 5 0
In tlu-ir enequalled Orowa
Ware.
InRnby.£5 5 0
In Pink.5 5 0
In Black .. ..4*0
TlraGucTboUMiudaml _
The ifuminl
The Sivrca .
Discount 15 per cent.
TABLE GLASS SKBVIC-
Plain light stem glue* £3 J a I Light engraved v-Ia-
lllcbly cut glare ..5 5 ' '-- 3 -
Discern
Illustrated Glas* Catalog.
p.wt-tr.i
l**mp. Gla»
it Stroud, Charing-croes.
| Richly cngmvtai glare * 19 •
15 per rent.
which must be returned, sent
m.l China Manufacturer*. 453and 45
... Dreae, made cwaiplete,
trimmed English Crape, from ..
Mouruiog lor Near Relative*. made complete.
tvimnicd Cypru* Orapo, from ..
Relatives, made rornplrte.
trimmed English Crape.from .. ..
Material at OM SldUlng per Yard.
248,247,249.251, Regent-streei.
£513 I
£3 11 (
£313 (
£31* «
£3 11 I
£4 4 0
Mourning fm Xea
T
RAVELLING ASSISTANTS.
Messrs. JAY ha'
specially engaged to - ■
e a Staff of Assistant*
t upon Ladies at tlieir horns*
‘"'S)|. r iu Town or Country,
to submit G*wds tor lnspocttom.
all of which are marke.1 in plain figure*,
and to la at the same prlc* as If purebared
•t th« Wiuvhouftr in Rrgwit-street.
THE LONDON GENERAL Y MOCRNINO WAREHOUSE,
Regent-strict, W.
X T 0TICE. - VELVETEENS.—1500 Boxes
Silk Lyons Moleskin Velvet***,
Patternsfrae.-BAKEK ^andCBISP.IM, Begent-street.
o I L K S, Is. llid. —Richest Black,
P.tte 8 £SSiS^0Ri S p.
QOSTUMES,
and otlii •
and most Ladylike <
TROC’ADERO, LEN0RE,
tumiCU^ua |»n>ri<|(vd
ir 42, Moorgxtc-rtreet, City.
QSL
u the usual price la three guinea*.—l?EtL REEH.'il.'vv.’V
avoeevU-street. Covcnt-garden. Irtablidied quarter of a rc.it.iri
P.s.—Jaimette cau be had in place of either of tbe above le-to
win n published.
- . -------- ,— ...mine Icvlel,
- . Daughter of the late John Boud."-Worlu,
<6, Soiilhgate-riMid. London. No heating required.
J UDSON’S DYES.—6d. each, of Chemists.
Curtain*, Tableo.ver*. Mantles, Scarves, Jacket* dyed iu ten
minute. In a nail of h. t water. J
Judson's Dj ta—Crimson, Gmn, aud
t* dyed ii
id Twenty-tour Colours.
LER’S GLASS CHANDELIERS,
I Light* and Lustre* tor Gas and Candles.
C handeliers In Hrouxr nnd Ormolu.
DU rLEX LAMPS
fitted with rntont F.xtingnlfher.
KEROSENE AND OTHER OILS OF THE FINEST
QUALITY.
TABLE GLASS of ALL KINDS
and NEWEST DESIGNS.
ORNAMENTAL GLASS. ENGLISH and FOREIGN.
Minton', and Worre*tor. Porcelain ami Stone China.
BIRMINGHAM; Manufactory and Show Room*. Bicut-street.
LONDON : &how-R<umi*.45, Oxford-street, W.
\\ OUTLOOK’S CHINA.
lVA MORTLOCK’S ART POTTERY.
MORTLOCK'S NEW GLASS.
Ml IRTLOCK'S LAMPS.
JOHN MORTLOCK uml CO..
TUEOLD POTTERY UALI.ERIES.2iU.‘393.tol.Oxford-
3U, 31.3*. Orchanl-rtrurt. W. Kstablbdied 1744.
TAEANE and CO.’S TABLE CUTLERY,
JL/ celebrated for more than 150 year*, remains unrivalled for
quality and cheapness. The stock, ex tensi vc and complete, afford*
choice suited to every purch*«er.
.-- J . . d. I s.d. I a.d. I i.d. I s.d. I s.d.
> 0 I 22 0 | -3 0 I 32 0 | 35 0 | 40 0
0[19 0|21 0270|800|S40
« 7 0 80 #0 100 ISO
TAEANE’S FENDERS and FIREIRONS.
XJ Deane and Co.'s Show-Room* for t he display of these
contain a large, cheap, i
'--ith Finder* ' r
Drawing-..
Fender*. Dining-roc
Tilt-II.
Fendi r... .
Find nil*
display of these
variety of iretto-m*.
r, C« «. £4 171 £8 0
11 11 15 0
G ASELIERS, in Crystal, Glass, Ormouluv
or r.ronre. Mediwval Fitting*. Ac. A large **.<rtment
alwav* on view . Even- article marked w ith plain lleures.
D. HU LETT amt CO., Man..tsctnrers..v, and 5«. High Holborn.
P [PROVED BREECHLOADERS, Central
Fire. Choke-Bore. Expr.se Hide., single and donble.
Wildfowl Gnu*, large call!.: --
6o2, Gxfurd-itm-t, Lot ‘
, Rue Scribe, Fails.
4 10 cm
1 lo| 2 5
>m 3e. to lb.
Deane and Co.. 48. King WiiUam-rtrrct. Eondon Bridge. E
CP00NS and FORKS.—SLACKS’ SILVER
LJ ELKITRU-PLATE1* « rtrong coating of Sterling Silver over
Slark's Nickel, and wear* .quid to real silver. Table Spoons or
Fork* raw. dozen: Dessert. 20*.; Tea. 12*. Cabilcg.ie* free.
■T £2 free.—Iticluinl and Jehu Slack, 336, Strand,
U LSTERS nnd JACKETS.
10X1 Home-i I Watenwoof and rthcr
Tl*tri> i Jacket-*, 1>. w. to aw*. ^ .
rattorns frre.-l AKEK and CRISP, Rogtnt-ttreet.
T\RESS FABRICS, lOid.
I / £-jg.x> • ,. I. New Autuain Fabric*..
Rough-aud-Rcady and Kmxk-aboat Senrgre. 1 IA MT .
Eaton,ene
Pattern*V«.-13AK IR andCR 1 ^
WOOLLEN CLOTHS for LADIES[
V V JACKETS. C LOAKS. VLSTERS. Ac., “
^ * c ’
. t ual„ SS#2jL Warehouse,
^ corner of Hatton-garden, Holhorn-clreu*.__
WIDOWS’ MILLINERY-Mr^- Crca^n
T T elate Of 110. Oxford-.,reel) beg* to '.P.^ioVV.V C* P4 of
bat she W her usual retort in *U inrtcrlaU
QHIllTS.
O rnoet i^rfort fitting n
UftnIrouB of i»urch«>inff
Ford** EuitkV 40 b. to. I.u
niteuuie i>obt*firte.—41,1 oultr>,
T^the^r^irtity m"iSd^
il r-doren7lUu*trntlou» and toU
SEPT. 28, 1878
TV EW AUTUMN SILKS, 1878.
SPECIAL NEW SHADES.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
110New Tints, at 3*. «d. per yard.
Coloured Satins to match, at 3*. fid. per yard.
Birhtr qualities. Coloured Silka, 4s. 6d., 5*. 3d.,' and Os. 9cl. p
369 Pi*ee« extra rich Brocaded bilks, at 4a. 6d. and Sa. fid
600 Piece* ot China Washing Silk*. 18s. nd. for 2:> yards ’
Grisaille and Quadrille Silks, 23*. fid, the Dross.
PETER ROBCKSON. lit! to 10M, OXFORD-STREET
Established at this address in 183.1.
K 1 ?HB o, L L WHISKY.! M ES - s - A - ALLEN’S
P«r.. ^!d Slo^dX^ 1R J SH WU,5KIES - I
303
JMPORTANT NOTICE.—BLACK SILKS.
One Thousand Pieces at 2a. lid.
special purchase of Bonnet's Black J s^ Jird -
fid. lwr yard.
■ commencing at 2s. lid. per
ik Satins of extreme brightness. 2s. fid 1-v
For Patterns please address only
PETER ROBINSON, OXFOHD-STBK0T,
R ICH
SILK AUTUMN COSTUMES.
One Thousand Coloured Silk Costumes
black sil$ Costumes
at
Block Silk Skirts, one guinea.
VERY FASHIONABLE THIS SEASON.
R ICH BLACK VELVET VELVETEENS,
All the New Shades of Co'lonrrihiriSdrto 4** 6d. per yd. Cashmeres
FOR AUTUMN OH ESSES,
in Black and all tho New Colours,
Tory wide, at Is. lid. to 3s. fid. per yard.
TRAY-ELldKC, AND SEASIDE DRESSES.
Witney. Hstamene, and Angola Sergos,
Fancy Ousimires. Rich Poplins,
New Autumn Mom Cloths, and other Noycltiea.
10s. fid. to 31s. 6d. the Dress.
New^ Fabrics ’for P.lb LS., „c.
Rearer Cloth MatelassJ,
. ... . Poil ,lc Clliameau, Diagonals, Ac.,
in Black and Choice Shades of Fawn. Grey, Ouir, M.. Is A
From 6s. fid. to 18*. fid. the yard, 51 in. wide.'
For Pattern* address only
PETER ROBINSON. OXFORD-STREET, W.
TV/fANTLES and JACKETS fc
•ATI. AITTUMN nndhWINTER
NOVELTIES FROM FARIS AND BERLIN DAILY,
in Bearer Cloth, Diagonal Cloth. Mille-raye Cloth,
and Drap Brute - also. In Velvet, Fare. Sicilian,
and Grog Grain, lined and quilted.
Several Now Shapes in Ulster Mantles.
The New Waterproof Tartan Mantles.
For Illustrations apply to
J^LLIS’S RUTHIN WATERS.
Seltzer. Lemonade.
Oont. Llthla Water and
R Tm i I1UT , I L r „ N WATERS.-fiold i
AMERICAN OFINTENX f AT
PRIZE irpnir " 1 A L
■pRY’S CARACAS COCOA
.. It* pure flavour _
"PRY’S CARACAS COCOA.
Water.'and Ai^D^H^II) °' " Ucn ch ° :co <I»«lity."-FooJ,
" A most delicious and valuable article.' '-Standard.
F
^ORLD’8 HzMR RESTORER.
CANNOT
JURY’S EXTRACT OF COCOA,
and Air,
EDAL
n. SCHWEITZER
QHOCOLAT MENTER, in jib. and jib.
T)EAL RUSSIAN SEAL FUR PALETOTS
Jv (half fitting).
33 in. deep, from 7 gs.
Several New Shapes in Seaf Mantles,
in the finest quality.
GREY SQUIRREL PALETOT8 (a great novelty).
Sable. Seal, Fox. Racoon. Skunk Itcavor •
Otter, Russian Hare. Chinchilla, Ermine,
and every other description of
Muffs. Neckties. Ac.
A largo Stock of
QHOCOLAT MENIER.—Awarded Twenty.
PRIZE MEDALS.
Con«umption annually
exceed* 17.000.0001b*.
QHOCOLAT MENIER.
Imitation Seal Fur Jacket
4*. each, 2fi to 23 in. d<*m.'
Cashmere Circulars, withlHood,
and lined Russian Squirrel, 45 in. deep, from 21*. upward*.
' ..leu from Russian Squirral,
-Squirrel, I
Cashmere Circulars, with Hood,— _
48 in. deep. 58s. fid. upward*.
*-* —..... of Ncw gj,ape*
lined with the li
in Silk Mantle*.
P ETER ROBINSON, SILKMERCER and
DRAPER,
103 to 108. OXFORD-STREET. LONDON,
INFORMS THE PUBLIC
ik»t his bueine** has been carried on at these premises since its
establishment in 1833, and respectfully requests his Customers
to addi ess orders to this address only.
pHARLES GASK and CO. (Limited),
VZ 58 to «3. Oxford-street-;
1 to 5. Wells-street. London.
CARRIAGE ENTRANCE, 5. WeUs-street.
Sold Everywhere.
Paris,
New*York.
E p PS’S
Q O C O A.
GRATEFUL
lOMFORTING.
FAIL TO RESTORE
GREY HAIR TO ITS YOUTHFUL COLOUR.
GLOSS, AND BBAUTY. WHEN THE HAIR
TURNS GKBY. LOSES ITS LUBTRE, AND
FALLSOUT, IT SIMPLY REQUIRES NOURISH.
WENT. MRS. 6. A. ALLEN'S WOKLD'B HAIR
RE6TORER, BY ITS GENTLE TONIC ACTION.
STRENGTHENS AND INVIGORATES THE
1IAI11, AND, BY THE OPERATION OF
NATURAL CAUSES, GREY OR WHITE HAIR
IS QUICKLY RESTORED TO ITS YOUTHFUL
COLOUR. GLOBS. AND BEAUTY. IT WILL
STOP ITS FALLING, AND INDUCE A
HEALTHY AND MOST LUXURIANT GROWTH
USE NO OTHER PREPARATION WITH IT,
NOT EVEN OIL OR POMADE. OR ZYLO-
BALSAMUM.
Caimra 1!—Tho Genuine only in Pink Wrappers.
Sold by all Chemists, Perfumer*, and Dealer* in Toilet ArticlM-
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
Mr*. S. A. ALLEN manufactures two entirely distinct Pre¬
parations for the Hair. One or tho other is suited to every
condition of the Human Hair. Both are never required at
time. For details as to euch preparation, kindly read above i
l*low this paragraph. Readers can easily determine whieh of
the two they require.
M Ee -
S. A. ALLEN’S
YLO-ALSAMUM,
A SIMPLE TONIC AND DRESSING
OF INESTIMABLE VALUE TO BOTH SEXES,
THE FAVOURITE WITH THE YOUNG AND
ALL THOSE WHO HAVE NQ GREY HAIR. PRE¬
MATURE LOSS OF THE HAIR, SO VOMMON
IN THESE DAYS, MAY' BE ENTIRELY PRE¬
VENTED BY THE-USE OF Z Y LO- BALSAM U M.
PROMPT RELIEF IN THOUSANDS OF CASES
HAS BEEN AFFORDED WHERE THE HAIR
HAS BEEN COMING OUT IN HANDFUL6. IT
PROMOTES A HEALTHY AND VIGOROU8
GROWTH. HAIR DRESSED WITH ZYLO-BAL-
SAMUM IS ALWAYS CLEAN. FREE FROM
DANDRUFF. AND WITH THAT BEAUTIFUL
GLOSS ONLY SEEN IN HEALTHY HAIR. IT
IS DELIGHTFULLY FRAGRANT. NO OIL OR
POMADE SHOULD BE USED WITH IT.
Cactiom 1!—The Gcnulno only in Bluish Grey Wrapper*.
Sold by all Chemists, Perfumers, and Dealers in Toilet Articles.
JAMES EP
! H O M (E O
T H I C
CHEMISTS.
TTORNIMAN’S TEA for Forty Years has
J-J- commanded a large sale, because it ear, always be relied
I is the beet tea
commanded a large sale. _
on for strength. flavour, ami cheapm
imported. Sold only in Pac kets.
PURE KANGRA VALLEY TEA, direct
... & om U ,'£ PtontwMons,.at 4s. per lb., in Ten-Pound Tins.
P* 0 Oris* 1 '*' Chests of Fifty Pound* each mar
he obtained from COCKBURN'S AGENCY. 41. Ha/inark.t
Loudon. H.W. #
R 1 ™
SILK and other COSTUMES.
., . . -- q-—'1 display of rich Silk, Brecht Velvet.and Silken
Fabric Costumes for the Autumn, forming such a collection of
recherche Novelties as Is larelv seen out of Paris, at moat
mode.rate prices.
A large variety of novol Costumes of Fashionable New Fabrics
in Serges, Lichen Cloths, Cyprus Cloths, Camel's Hair, Ac., 2, 3
and 4 guineas each.
SUMMER DELICACIES.
pROWN and pOLSON’S
£J0RN pLOUR
A8 BLANCMANGE WITH STEWED FRUIT.
pROWN an
QORN
AS BAKED PUDDING
d pOLSON’S]
pLOUR
WITH STEWED FRUIT.
ANTLES, ULSTERS, and SEALSKINS.
A large importation of the Latest Novelties.
The Sedan Beaver Paletot. 1 and 2 guineas, handsomely
trimmed.
New Travelling Ulster*, all wool, in 27 shades, at 1 guinea,
unequalled.
Fine Sealskin Paletots. 3*1 in. in length, 94 guineas each.
Smaller sizes in pruportiou.
Fur-lined Mantles and Paletots. 31s, fid. to 5 guineas.
TYRESS MATERIALS in all the Newest
-J-f Textures. New Lichen Cloth, llld. per yard. Camel's-
Hsir Cloth.
Cashmeres. *o muen used
yard.
Fine French Cashmere*,
2s. lid. per yard, double wi
w shades. Is. lid., 2s. 7Jd-, »»d
"V/T OURNING GOODS
-i-LL of every description at mo*
ry description
... . wtunies. all -
-st umes. 1 guinea;
Brochfi _ _ ___
patent uimporting craj>e, for
8 guineas. The Dressmaking Denar _ __ _
superior mairagement. A surer**ful lit and tho best style may
be relied upon, at moderate charges.
Pattern* and Samples of all goods free.
_ _ iiatumes. ti _
iur no grade* of mourning. 3J t
ireaainaking Department Is under nev- --
S IL ™
—SPECLYL NOTICE.
offering 40,000 yards of Black
- ' ' * fully 15to2f
per yard.
Bilks. In all the ... ..
year's pricea-2s. lid.......
An Inspection is solicited.
Patterns to the conutry fre*.
pHARLES GASK
58, 69. 60, 61, 62, 63, Oj
and 00. (Limited),
Oxford-street; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Wells-
D NICHOLSON and CO. send post-free
• Patterns of
J^EW SILKS,
PRESS FABRICS,
-L' and Illustration* of
jyjANTLES, and COSTUMES.
J) J^ICHOLSON and ^JOMPANY,
60 to 53, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD. LONDON.
pROWN and pOLSON’S
QORN pLOUR
AS CUSTARD PUDDING WITH STEWBD FRUIT.
r PHE ESSEX FLOUR and GRAIN
J- COMPANY, Llverpool-road. London,N„ supplv the BEST
goods ONLY. Whitei. for Pastry. »s. hi. ,*r bu.liel; H.Mise-
holds.for Bread.8*.8d. Wheat Meal,for Brown Bread,8s. i>.»r-*e
Scotch Oatmeal. 3*. 2d. per >tong: line. 3s. 4d. Amori.ran
Hominy.4* Barley Maize. Buckwheat, and Harley Meal. 5s. per
bushel, or 19*. per sack. OaU. ♦*. per bushel; 15e. fid. rwr »«ck.
l>ea*. 7*. fid. per bushel; Tick Esau*. 7*. fid.: Middlings. 2*. id.;
Ground P‘d!ani, 1*. SH. Hi*f. liisanit*. 20*. ]*cr rwt. Split l’eas.
3. per peck. Until Flour, for IursUds. in Tins. 1 lb. size, is.:
7 lb.. 6*. All other kinds of Grain and Seed. Special prices fir
^quantities. P.O. Orders aud Clisque* payable to
P EARS’ TRANSPARENT SOAP. For the
Toilet, the Nursery, and for Shaving. Retlned.free
• -excess of alkali snd from artificial - '
delicately and wholesomely perfumed, it Is Soap in
It* purest form, and hence the most healthful in
use; Its great durability makes it also the most
Tconomical. For Ladies. Children, or anyone with
'‘ I IMm * ' ‘ ' a* it may
■ andsoualtlvasklu it
18- safely
it has st_
x prize medals, and ths
other Snap |g admisaibl
— - .Hal, received
recommandatioas
- Sold by
THE ONLY SOAP FOR THE COMPLEXION.
Slaking the skin clear,
'yyRIGHT’S COAL-TAR
Highly and i
SOAP
;SAPO CARBONIS DETEHGENS).
‘ insively recommended for the toilet and i
_of cutaneou* disease by Mr. Jos. Startin, M.B___
to St. John's Hoapital for Dlseoaes of the Skin, the late Mr.
Jame* Stsrtin. Ml)., F.R.C.S., of Savile-row, Mr. McCall
Anderson. M.D.. F.F.l’.S., of Woodside-rroecent, Glnqrow, and
the other leading members of the profession, in Tablets, fid.
and la., in elegant Toilet-Boxes, of all Chemlate.
W. V. WRIGHT and CO. London.
J)INNEF0RD’S
MAGNESIA.
ELECTRICITY IS LI FE.
P U LVEE MAC H E R’S “ GALVANISM,
VITAI N ICNERGY K ■ • CUIEK RESTORER OF EXHAUSTED
’"vast" O'* most reliable proofs are given of the
Patent Galvanic Chahi-Bands,^Belts' Ac., in Rhemnatic*
Ncrvons, and Functional Disorders. Sent post-ire* for
J - E- TTLVERMl1?idBi^ 1 G , ALV^IC ESTABLISHMENT,
^REOE^T-STHEET, LONDON, W. AND 3il HUE ST.
beet remedy for acidity of
Stomach. Heartburn. Ilead-
acuc. Gout, and iudigeetion.
TYINNEFORD’S MAGNESIA.
-Lc Tile safest and most gentle
orient for delicate constitutions,
Ijidii
‘'tiMr
OF ALL CHEMISTS.
theory»h
, It. rr
z\
En
pat&Smed
W.C. iRidon, v
INDIAN
« explodtal the
C» .11 a short time all
the necessity of any
snd tumours. --
.I caustic. It instantly i__.„
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I liave cu C i“ lviuced ni 3’self that in Tuber-
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“ ^he
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T°,
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SEPT. 28, 1878
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OPOHR’S VIOLIN SCHOOL, Complete.
0 Edited by HENRT HOLMES. BOOSEY and CO. beg to
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T HE CONTRALTO ALBUM. A
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MUSIC.
The series of CoTent-Gardcn ^omenade 5£®^ ance beiug
this (Saturday) c^ung. a supp eme :^ Q
announced for Monday night. t - b lio for the liberal
the directors, who deserve ^'^ i^acterised their manage-
spirit and enterprise which liare charac^mea g This
incut throughout the season, which ope^a S ^ Wed _
week’s programmesi haveCharles
ni Hlay, and nn English night ye. y i continued to be a
Hallo’s admirable pianoforte p.ajng DuriD the eeason
prominent feature in the P ^aye been performed in
light of Beethoven’s nine sympbomes “gjlatest of all, the
regular order on successive Monday ’ occasion ,
gigantic “ choral ” symphony, being resen ed
of the directors’ benefit on English at the
The Saturday performances of „ M S arita na „ is
Afternoon Concertsi at the Crystal fo Engl and of
SBT^SSfW »» d u “ tet »pp“’““ htre
of the Belgian pianist, M. Brassin. . . has (at the
at the
•Ir Fred<™ Aroto, organist “ d ““iductomhip o( tha
Alexandra Palace, Iris accepted „ pason w hich extends
toA?KL Ur° P L*e, letrtn. hi. appointment
at the Alexandra Palace.
the t t.T.ITSTBATED lokdqn_new s
The .econd «£ ffifgSJ i£ST5££« '
to the pupils of, the „ N atwnal place last Saturday
SEPT. 28, 1878
.. Nelson,” . M* * *« * iSSH* «
tssmust as
ssw?sa?& g-jye^f .s^mss
2>->5£—K2S phi« than one .4.0-
*«•^ been t “ tcnt0 pr °'
mote its accomplishment. _
by
THEATRES.
FOLLY.
MS
Sg Ih^tiUe of ^Xbo
comprised iu three> brief ‘ ° nd the heroine named
the scene being placed i” Clarges streer, «i i ^ ^ q( her
Mrs. Erie. She ^statue^t the lamented defunct
Sl=|=|SEt?Si
mmm&M
mwm pin
^.Eirh anneals to advanced intellects more highly cultivated
habitual insensibility to double meanings. There ““.nch
must not be monopolised by them—it must at least be shared
by a male actor, Mr. Harr* Paulton, as a jeweBer’s derk in
association with Miss Eastloke as the idolatrous widow. Three
vears’ accounts of her late husband’s expenses m jewellery
have to be examined and ticked off. For the first yearj or s
the items are accounted for, and the grave and steady clerkis
CTatcMfor the recognition of the claims of his firm But for
the last year and a half articles appear which inust hove gone
as presents to other ladies than the inconsolable relic of an
evidently spendthrift husband. Not long ^^is nre
lady’s sympathies with the living are revived, and she is pre¬
pared to accept the attentions of a gallant CaptmnErerae
(Mr. J. G. Grahame), consents to "visit the theatre, and
ultimately to become his wife. The gradations are finely
marked The lover is permitted to treat the bust of the
husband with a certain careless contempt. He
on its head, and next, as if by accident, brushes it off from the
pedestal to the ground. In the third act, the bust ^ repro¬
duced in a mended state-but the fragments are so marked off
that it looks like a phrenological map, and, with a portrmt of
the late Mr. Erie, is dismissed to another apartment. Such
incidents as these appeal to reflective spectators ;but having
stood the ordeal of two nights, the probability is that the new
comedy, well written and well acted as it is, will estabhsli its
claims to the appreciation of fashionable and enlightened
aU< So D much cannot be said for an opera bouffe constructed
by Messrs. R. Reece and H. B. Forma from L Etoi e
by MM. Leterrier and Vanloo, and denominated Stars and
Garters.” So much is left in this burlesque to the manipu¬
lation of the actors, that criticism is out of place-it must be
witnessed, and cannot be described. Miss Lydm Thompson,
Mr. Lionel Brough, and Miss Edith Bland are all ^titled
to commendation, and were adequately supported by the
general company. The scenery was good, aad
fanciful accessories that were suggestive. But the reception
accorded was certainly equivocal.
At the Olympic on Monday the winter season was opened
with a revival of “The Two Orphans,’ mwlnchMrHenry
Neville resumed his original character of Pierre the Cripple,
mid Mr. Eignold that of Jacques. Mias Manan Terry performs
the part of Louise, the blind girl.
Mrs. Bateman has bought Sadler’s Wells, which hasto be
rebuilt and remodelled for her occupation. Mr. G. J. 1 hipps,
F.S.A., is to make it a first-class theatre.
Mr. Arthur Matthison has a play iu rehearsal at the Court
A series of Shakspearean performances begins to-night at
the Park, in which Messrs. Swiubourne, H. Forrester, and
Miss Leighton will appear.
The programme of lectures and entertainments at the
Royal Polytechnic has been further varied by the introduction
of a lecture on Pekin and the Chinese and a lew version of the
story of Cinderella.” Jlie lecture on China is delivered by
Mr J L King, who compresses within the hour occupied by
the narrative a great deal of entertainig information; and,
with the aid of some original pictures and panorama of the
Yaugtse, succeeds in imparting ail admirable idea of the
Chinese at home and the scenery of the localities visited.
ART.
Th. portoit ot Colonel
unveiled j*tariWW& J^SngSby the Mayor, on behalf
Sm££ ia & wo* o, Mr. K. B.
present were Sur WiBmm E Burghs, and several of the
elementaiy H^LorfsliJP jJ,* toeecfTry
“ P “ bli0 ^ “ d “
valuable aids to education.
The annual Fine-Arts Exhibition at Simla was opened bj
the Viceroy on Saturday last, and various prizes were awarded.
ASTRONOMICAL OCCURRENCES IN OCTOBER.
(From the “ Illustrated London Almanac! i.”)
v. vf ">» - - ssss.
shell j. -j*« 01 the 23111 ’ md most
distant on the afternoon of the 10th. ,
t °»”fh 8t 32“lSL“Siri ™ 8 «he interval
from this day till Dec. 24 he nses in daylight. lie sets witu
theSunon the 16th, and 5 minutes after sunset on the 28 th
nr 1h 28m before sunrise ; on the 18th at 5h. 19m. n.m., or
ll^lim. before sunrise ; and on the 28th at 5h. 51 “-, a e “-’ “J
aMr ^ s
Hh 5m a.m“ and on the last day at llh. 12m. n,m bhe is
near Mars on the 21st, and near the Moon on the 25th.
Mars is a morning star, rising on the 8th at g h. 34m. a.m.,
or 40 minutes before tlie Sun; on the 18th at 5h. 32ra. a.m.^or
58 minutes before the Sun; and on the 28th at oh. 31m. a.m.,
or lh 17m. before sunrise. He is due south on the 1st at
llh 85m am. on the 11th at llh. 20m. am., on tlie 21st at
llh. 4m. a.m.,’ and on the last day at 10U. 50m. a.m. He is
near the Moon on the 25th. _ onm
Tuniter is an evening star, setting on the 1st at llh. -0m.
p m , on the 8th at lOh. 58m. p.m., on the 18 th iat lOh. 2-m.
pm. on the 28th at 9h. 48m. p.m., and on the lut.day at
oh 35m nm He is due south on the 1st at ih. lim. p.m.,
mi’tho lithJt 6h! 40m. p.m., on the 21st at Ch. 3m p.m., and
2 Se last day at 5h. 28m. p.m. He is near the Moon on the
4th, and in quadrature with the Sun on the 22nd.
Saturn sets on the 9th at 4h. 37m. a.m., or lh. 39m. before
sunrise ™n the 19th at 3h. 53m. a.m., or 2h. 3em. before sun¬
rise and on the 29th at 3h. 11m. a.m. He is due south ou the
1st at llh. 17ra. p.m., on the lltli at lOh. 3om. a.m., on the
21st at 9h. 54m. p.m., on the last day at 9h. 12m. p.m. He is
near the Moon on the 9th.
tiie volunteers.
it thfi nineteenth annual prize-meeting of the 9th (West)
wmnera.—series x. * » T - puteiiant Towerzey, and Sergeant
£3 each, Lieutenan > Q^ghtou, Lieutenant Cross, and
Wright; f2 e “ b ' ri P " 2 ' , (o p ento Omiers, Sergeant., <** Oar-
Private Rees. ,- b ®®yj^ ater .Serg e aat Stewart; £3, Cor¬
porals ouly) . » Lieutenant Towerzey. Series 3 (open to
porai Edmonds, £ f ’p^e iStiugton; £3, Private Clayton;
P^ vat ^ wTavlor Series 4 (a chased sflver tazza, com-
£2, Private J. W.raylor aeries^ ^ ^ of the value of
II
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1st London E g ereean t Cotter, and Sergeant Clarke.
Corporal Pannell. g . Corporal Ponnell, Sergeant
Second ;^“Sway ^^lapper Kirknp, Sapper Brock,
Cotter Corporal lll dg ^ g Binns Sapper
Sergeant Coretoii. aerg a ; or Collins, and Corporal
WrSiWSi” Priaea: sTppa.
Greenfield. Repmenrai » Corporal PanneU, Baud-
Chafienge Trophy^ by crp t ; ^ La dies’ Challenge Cup, by
Ban™*. Ag^^r ; £7 ^^.Sere^mt
Colour-Sergeant Purcell, and Corporal Rouse.
Simmonds and Drummer Thirtle.
mmsm
76 points at Queen’s Ranges.
The autumn congress of the Sanitary Iustitute of Oreat
Britain will be held at Stafford from Weduesday KxL Oct. 2,
to Oct. 5 inclusive, under the presidency of Mr. E. Chadwick, C.B.
Lord Londesborough held a bazaar last week at Londes-
borough Lodge, Scarborough, in aid of the funds of the St.
Anne’s Orphanage at Bridlington.
The sentence of death passed upon Isabel Grant for the
murder of her husband has been commuted into one of penal
servitude for life. , .
A monument erected over tlie grave of the late Tom Moms,
champion golfer, in the cathedral burymg-ground, St. Andrews,
by hiFfriends and admirers, was unveiled on Tuesday in pre¬
sence of a large number of spectators. Lord Justice General
Iuglis gave a short address and referred to the late champion s
prowess and golfing achievements.
Vice-Admiral R. Coole, C.B., has been appointed Com¬
mander-in-Chief of the China station, in succession to Vice-
Admiral C. F. Hillyar, C.B., who is to be promoted to the
rank of Admiral; and Admiral Sir William Faiishawe-Martm
Bart O C B , Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and of the Admiralty thereof, in the room
1 of Admiral Sir William James Hope Johnstone, deceased.
DuJfaSef ^““Wn^appSd Majesty’.
Inspectors of Schools in Scotland.
survey of the South Pacific. , .
The annual conference of the United Kingdoman
held last night. ,. ,
g.s:r P ssc“gH!«
than any other clock in the metoopoliB.
o^^sWaTsSsSSS
whom the Aldermen will elect the Lord M^ortarra y
The fifty-sixth session of the Bl ^^ k c^nceJy-lane,
Scientific Institution, Soutbampton-buildnigs, an
began on Thursday. Some indication of the ™« a J^ hat
on by this institution will be gathered from _ S „biects.
one hundred classes meet weekly in the l b ator y has
To meet the demand for more n s P ac « a “J S^tion will
been erected during the recess, and practical in . __
given both to organic and
The winter session of th ® ^w^next Wedfiesday,’ Oct. 2,
Ormond-street, is announced to begin next VVcm y, The
with a lecture by Mr. T. Dunman oil Modern kcieuce _
art-classes, which have been placed in con ““ tl ® the sam e
Science and Art Department will recommence on the ram
day.—A free library and reading-room wiU b P Kenn
Tuesday at the Working Men s College, 143, , PP . in
nington-lane. Professor Huxley ^ formal opening
October, at a general meeting to bs a mrmai^
of the new premises of the coUege, thes night, sc ool^_^ Qf th@
classes of which are now at work. The win , Young
evening classes of the institute ^^MdSregata strert, will be
Men’s Christian Association, at 165, ^ders 0 ate » Esq „
reopened ou Thursday liext, Oct. 3, when ■■ • ^ studeuts
M.P., will distribute the prizes to the successiui
during the last sessions.
SJCTT. 28, 1878
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
SEPT. 28, 1878
OBITUARY.
the earl of dysart. ,
Tie Bight Hon. Sir Lionel WOrnM*** fj*
Peerage of Scotland, and a
Baronet of Great Britain,
died on the 23rd. inat. in
Nor folk-street, Strand, m
his eighty-fourth year. He
was born Nov. 18, 1794, the
eldest son of William Lord
Huntingtower, by Cathe¬
rine, his wife, daughter of
Francis Grey, Esq., of
--- — - * Lehena, in the county of
Cork, and grandson of John Manners, Esq., of Grantham
Grange, in the county of Lincoln, by Louisa Countess
of Dysart, a peeress in her own right. He succeeded to
the peerage at the decease of his grandmother, bept. li,
1840, when he inherited the very extensive estates of tne
ancient and noble family of Tollcmache, from which he
descended, and to which the earldom of Dysart came by the
marriage of Sir Lionel Tollemache of Helmmgham with
the Lady Murray, daughter and heir of William Murray,
first Earl of Dysart, the preceptor and favouI ?‘ c
Charles I. His Lordship married, Sept. 23, 1819, his
cousin, Maria, eldest daughter of Sweney Toone Esq. of
Keston Lodge, and by her, who died Feb. lo, 1869, had one
son. William Lionel Felix, Lord Huntingtower, who married,
in 1851, his cousin, Katherine Elizabeth Camilla, daughter of
Sir Joseph Burke, Bart., and died, citd patrit, Dec. 21, 18' A
leaving, with two surviving daughters, on only son, William
John Manners, now Earl of Dysart, born March 3, 18o9.
SIR R. J. GRIFFITH, BART.
Sir Richard John Griffith, Bart., of Munster GrUlagh, in the
county of Londonderry, and of 1 enermg, m
the county of Anglesey, LL.D. F.R.S., died
at hia residence, Fitzwilliam-place, Dublin,
on the 22nd inst., in his ninety-fifth year.
He was born Sept. 20, 1784, the only son of
Richard Griflith, Esq., of Millicent, in the
county of Kildare, member for Askenton, in
the Irish Parliament, by Charity, his wife,
daughter of John Bramston, Esq., of Oundle,
and derived his descent from an old Welsh
family. He married, Sept. 21, 1812, Mana
Jane, eldest daughter and coheir of George
IWaldie, Esq., of Hendersyde Park, in the
county of Roxburgh, and by her, who died
Tan. 2, 1865, leaves surviving issue a son, now Sir George
Richard Waldie-Griffith, second Baronet, and a daughter,
Elizabeth Charlotte, married to Lieutenant-Colonel Robert
Bramston Smith, of Hampstead, in the county of Dublin. Sir
Richard Griffith was a distinguished civil engineer, and author
of the famous Geological Map of Ireland, commenced by him in
the year 1812 and completed in 1857, for which he obtained
the Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society of London.
In 1825 he was appointed sole Commissioner for the General
Valuation of Ireland, and in 1851 Chairman of the Board of
Public Works in that country, which office he held until 1864.
He received the honorary degree of LL.D. in Trinity College,
Dublin, and was a member of the Royal Irish Academy, Fellow
of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Geological
Society of London, &c. His long and valuable public services
were justly rewarded by a baronetcy, conferred Apnl 20,1858.
The death of Sir Richard Griffith causes a vacuum in Dublin
society which it will be difficult to supply. Universally
respected and esteemed, the deceased Baronet had long been a
prominent personage in the city of Dublin. Although he had
attained the patriarchal age of ninety-four, he had up to
almost a month before his death the appearance and energy of
a man in tho prime of life. He seemed likely to rival in years
Mr. Baldwin Foott, of Carrigacunnn Castle, in the county of
Cork, whose celebration of his one-hundredth birthday we
recorded last week.
The deaths have also been announced of—
John 8imson, Esq., of Barrachan, on the 15th inst., at
Wigtown, N.B., aged ninety-one. I
Commander Charles Thomas Williamson, R.N., on the
llth inst., at the Royal Naval Hospital, lloslar.
The Rev. Edward Henry iEmelius Goddard, M.A., Vicar of
Eartham, Chichester, on the 12th inst., aged eighty-seven.
William Rolph Thomell, Esq., of Standon, Herts, and late
of Cleveland, Tasmania, on the 9th, in his eighty-first year.
Alexander Lorimer, Esq., M.D., H.E.I.C.S., Deputy In¬
spector-General of Hospitals, Madras, on the 14th inst., at
Bromley-road, Lee, Kent.
General Alexander Tulloch, C.B., late Madras Army, on
the 15th inst., at Dawson-place, Bayswater, aged ninety, the
oldest general officer in the Indian Army, in which he had seen
much active service.
Dowager Lady Cooper, on the 16th inst., at 80, Eaton-
place, aged seventy-six. Her Ladyship was the only child and
heiress of William Rickford, Esq., for many years M-P. for
Aylesbury, and was manied, in 1821, to Sir Astley Poston
Cooper, Bart., who died Jan. 6, 1866. Lady Cooper had ten
sons and three daughters, of whom the eldest son is the present
Sir Astley Paston Cooper, Bart.
The Rev. Archer Clive, of Whitfield, in the county of
Hereford, M.A., J.P. and D.L., formerly Rector of Solihull,
in the county of Warwick, at Whitfield, aged seventy, eight,
on the 17th inst. He was son of Edward Bolton Clive, Esq.,
by the Hon. Harriet Archer, his wife, daughter and coheiress
of Andrew, last Lord Archer of Umberslade, and represented
a younger branch of the family of Clive, now represented by
the Earl of Powis.
John Arnott, Esq., of Greenfield House, Auchtermuty, near
Dundee, connected for more than half a century with the Fife
linen manufacture, of which he may be considered one of the
original pioneers. His third son, Sir John Arnott, J.P. and
D.L., has long been known as one of the most enterprising
commercial men in Ireland, M.P. for Kinsale, 1859 to 1863,
and Mayor of Cork, 1859-60, and proprietor besides of the
Irish Times , the well-known Dublin newspaper.
Colonel William Fraser Tytler, of Balnain and Aldowrie,
in the county of Inverness, J.P. and D.L., Convener for that
county, and Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery Volunteers, on
the 12th inst., aged sixty-three. He was formerly Captain
in the Bengal Cavalry and Assistant Quartermaster-General
to the Bengal Army. He saw much service, and had five war
medals and seven clasps. He was third son of the late William
Fraser Tytler, of Balnain, and nephew of Patrick Fraser
Tytler, the historian of Scotland.
Reginald James Blewitt, Esq., formerly of Llantamam
Abbey, Newport, Monmouthshire, recently, at the age of
seventy-nine. He was tho 6ccond son of Major Edward
Blewitt, of Llantamam Abbey, and was descended from Sir
Samuel Blewitt.
mouth, in lus seventy-thar year^ „ exhib i tc d in public
life known as the Calculating Ly, afterwards became
his remarkable aptitude rn calc g^ assisted him in
associated with Mr. %rge h Parliament. Mr
gettiug several railway bills passea inro b Railway, and
Bidder was one of the ” ^ c e t ?“ C o ro t heVline9 He
was largely employed in thecon. Electr j c Telegraph Com-
r^bert Willie, formerly librarianof ». BgjJ College
of Surgeons of England, outliers hi3 professional
eightieth year ot his a„e. H , at D. in 1819,
education in Edinburgh,^where h< 8 j? lig and pas8C d his ,
soon after which he came t rjollece of Surgeons in
examination for the membership of the CoUege B of the
February. 1823. subsequentlypointed
HSlnSS 1
^Sfeb^aTbom.^d’Sr^^^
tinction from the various foreign Governments who had availed
themselves of his professional services.
CHESS.
Bournos or Pboblsm No. t
WHITE.
White to play, and mate in three moves.
CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
In the tournament of the Canadian Chess Association, forwhichlihcral
V®L-there aw thirteen entries, and, according to the
others. The play is inducted at the rooms o
and on the 26th ult. the highest scores were credited to Messrs Holt, Aschor,
Bokum, Hicks, and White, in the order named. The annual dmner of the
AMoriVtion was held on the 2«h ult., Dr. Howe presiding on the occasion,
^the course of the evening, which was cuUvenedVuh mub.c, an original
song on the subject of chess was sung by Mr. Henderson.
The names of the prize-winners in toe flwt tourney of the British
Problem Association are as followB First prue, Mr. J. H. Finlinson, of
WnAaWrsHeld • second prize, Mr. F. E. Lamb, of London. Tho prizes for
SSto ptwemTsve C’awarded to Mr. j! P. Taylor for the best in two
moves, to Mr. W. Coates for the beat in three moves, and to Mr. Callender
for the best in four moves. __
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
lVASiioE (Dublin).—(1.) You can castle after the Kina has been checked, provided
1 VnuT.5ve n "t moved that piece. <3.) You cannot cu.tf. to get out of check.
B W (Ureenwlch).-We .lo not think there is any decided advantage la the first move,
but must player* prefer having it. ...... . . _ , .
L (Truro).—The Counties Chess Association Is open to all bond fide amateurs of British
birth You should apply to the Rev. C. E. Rnnken. St. Ronan », Malvern,
nisiiop'a Paws -We regret that we do not fully comprehend your rueunlng. Before
e "«miolt.gany lifslt™ however, we require the name and ad<l«» ol the corre¬
spondent that Mints It.
Altbed.—W hite's answer to 1. Q to Q 2nd (ch) Is 2. Kt to K 7th. mating.
E P V (Cheltenham).—We should not have supposed that No. 1803 would have defeated
you. The solution Is given below.
B T K (Vcntnor).—The analysis Is clever, but wo have not space for It.
w T 11 (Salisbury-square).—Thanks for your obliging letter.
J FN (Wangford).—The King can never be played to any square within theUne of
movement of an adverse piece, whether the piece Is pinned or not.
W U S (Monmouth).—Very promising, but too obvious.
F O N H (Llvcrnool).—Your last compositions evince a decided advance in knowledge
of the art of constructing problems. We like the three-move problem, hut are not
yet satisfied of Its accuracy.
B (Athens) and W 8 Joiixsom (Sew York).—Solutions of Problem No. 1S01 are correct.
Pboblemh received from J Crum (Glasgow) and G Bbicl (Sunderland).
Cobuect Soixtioxs or Pbodlem No. liwj received from 1) A (Dublin), DahbshUl, CG
Ellison, Belvedere. Beatrice, E C Davies, and Deansgate.
CoBHKi-r SoLimoxs or Peoblem No. isn't received from CE.DA (Dublin), Lulu,
PrStextat, Coplaplno, Emile Frau, and Druusgate.
Cosbrct Bot-UTiox* or Pboblem No. 1*01 received from C E. J Burton, FV P. DA
(Dublin). R H Brooks. Lul« W GIU.... Fi.l.t J o
A H W, Mrs Clark. Leonard.
BODI.EM No. 1*01 received from C E. J Burton, F V P. DA
, Lulu, W GlbUmelster, Seven and Eight, J O McCreery.
inard, 8 Western. A H G. Coplaplno. C G Ellison. Thorne,
_Owlet, C R William. G H V. E H H V, H Dent hall. Alpha.
Cant, A Wood,P le Page, J de Honsteyn, W Lri-son. E 1* Vulllamy. T P F, Dr F bt,
PreUxUt. W 8 B. Norman Bumbelow. iknmj. L C Davies, Painterj Shenherd s bnsli).
C B Cox* Dorothy, O Johnson, P liamidon. W Franklin. E WorsVy. N Brock.
H Brewster. L 8bnr*wood. 8t J A WJtoe.JT Wjrjr. D^Lmlte, V W 8 , Black Knight.
K>ks, Lulu, W
A H W, Sirs Clark. Leonard, "
8 Stripe. East Harden, Owlet,
Cant. A Wood. P le Page. '
Pretax tat. W 8 B. Norms
C 8 Coxe. Dorothy, O Juuusun, ■ ov,..,. t, . *
H Brewster. L Shnrswood. 8t J E. W Lee, T Edgar. I> Leslie. F w (*, aiara rviugni.
B Ingeraoll, 8 B (Leeds), C Dnrragh. E Lewis. M Meredith. W Warren, C J G, Leonora
and Jeon, L of Truro. F W 8 Orson. T Greenhank. T R V’Ong. 8 Threlfall.
T W H. L Burnet. L H R, M White)ov\ G Fosbnroke, C C E, An Old Hand
U btonsfield, G Wright, W 0 Dutton, and R Roughcad.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated Dec. 11, 1876) of Mr. James Martin late of
T^mhard-street, banker, and of Chislehurst, Kent, who died
the 17th ult was proved on the 12th inst. by Richard
BWMph M«rtm and j5m Biddulph Martm, tt,e nepbem, the
as.™term thp oersonal estate being sworn under £500,000.
testator irives to hia nephew Richard Biddulph Martin hia
totoSta afteeMd premises, No. 68 I^mberd-etme , m d
hia freehold reeidence et Chielehnret.trith all the pewomd pro-
nStv therein; and there are specific devises of other freehold
nronerties to his nephews John Biddulph Martin, Hugo
Ctto and John Martin ; to his sister Miss Frances Penelope
xforMn Tip heaneaths £20,000; to his cousms 1 ranees and
So^e^eve,^10,000; to his cousins Admiral Arthur Forbes
Francis Forbes, £10,000 each ; to his cousms Helen
Dou^ Fo^ and Julia’ Cozier, and to his friend John
Biddulph, of Swansea, £5000 each ; to each of the clerks m the
tomkinS house in Lombard-street at the tune of his death, one
vear’s waees to his gardener, Mackenzie, and to each of the
I se“ante to his dwelling-house at Chislehurst, one year’s wagia.
! Afthe legacies are given free of duty. As to the residue of the
ix tAAtator crives one to the children of his
I brother John Martin, and the other half to his brother Robert
Martin.
The will (dated July 24,1855) of Mr. Beriah Drew form^lv
of Bermondsey, but late of Streatham, who died on the 17th
I tot? wr££v& on the 4th tost, by Mrs Elizabeto Drew, the
widow, the sole executrix, the personal estate bemg swora
under £140,000. The testator devises all hia freehold and
oonyhoW property to his wife, and gives and bequeaths to her
to^aud every his personal estate whatsoever for her own use
and benefit.
The will (dated June 2, 187 6) with a codicil (dated Feb. 11,
18781 of Mr. Robert John Bagshaw, late of Dovercourt, Essex,
who died oi the 14th tot.,It No. 43, Gloncester-squaw, was
provS on the 9th inst. by Charles FrederickHopeCollisson,
Ernest WilUam Fowler, and Charles De La Prynne, the
acting executors, the personal estate being sworn under
£45,000. The testator leaves to his wife Mrs. Enmaa Arm
Bagshaw, £700 per annum for life, m addition to £:> 9® P“
annum already secured to her by settlement, and “ residence
at Dovercourt; £150 per annum for life to Mre. Mary Ann
Bagshaw, the ^idow ofth late father; £250 per annum to hu>
sis^ Miss Mary Louisa Bagshaw; £250 to each of his
executors £30 per annum for life to his sen'ant Margaret
Webb, and other bequests. He “Iso bequeaths £200 ^h to
the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East, the
British and Foreign Bible Society, the London CityMisaon
and the Evangelisation Society, Surrey-street; and £100 ^ch
to University College Hospital and the Freemasons Grand
Lodge of Essex. AU his real estate, subject to the aimuitiea
which are charged thereon, is directed to be sold and the net
proceeds, with the residueof the personalty is togoasfoUoWB:-
One fourth upon trust for his niece Catherine CoU^sonand
her children, one half of the remainder upon trust for his
niece Mary Leathcs and her children, mid the other half upon
trust for his niece Georgina Walker and her children.
The will (dated May 18,1874) with a codicil (dated May 31,
1878) of Mr. Alfred Henley, formerly of Stamford, Lincoln,
but late of No. 13, Lansdown-crescent, Bath, merchant, who
died on July 21 last at Torquay, was proved on the 5th inst.
by Alexander Buchanan and Henry Yeames, the ^ecutors for
England, the personal estate bemg sworn under £25,000.
The will (dated March 17, 1877) of Miss Esther BetteU
late of No. 135, King ’s-cross-road. St. Pancras, who died on
the 16th tot. at No. 18, Hastm^-street, Burton-CTescent, was
proved on the 6th inst. by Menry Wdlimn Looker, Richard
£oomber, and Francis James Shaw, the executors, the per-
sonal estate being sworn under £4000. Among otber bequests.
the testatrix gives £50 Three per Cent Consolidated Bank
Annuities each to the University Hospitai Gower-ste^he
Great Northern Hospital, Ctoedonum-ro^, and^Midto^ex
Hospital; and £30 like annuities each to the London Missionary
Society and the London City Mission.
The assets of the London Corporation at the dose of last
year, exclusive of the City lands, amounted to £384,080, and
the liabilities, exclusive of loans sanctioned by Parhament and
secured upon the property of the Corporation, left a balance of
cash assets over liabilities, £294,491. ^
A Guildford correspondent of the Daily News bWb:—‘‘A s
a collector of rates and taxes named Ormerod was drmng on
Monday between Chaile and the line on the South k®
was stoDDed bv two men and pulled out of his dog-cart,^and
money m notes and gold, amounting to ^O.wastaken tom
him. The footpads, on leavmg, presented him with a gUt
edged copy of the New Testament/’
The Duke of St. Albans was installed yesterday week as
Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons for the provmce of
Nottinghamshire, in place of the Duke of
resigned the office last year. The ceremony was perfonned at
Nottingham Castle, the Art Museum there bemg c l°sed }o the
public during the day. The installing Master was Lord Car-
narvon, pro-Grand Master of England, and there was a large
attendance of members of the craft from various parts of the
country.—A new lodge of Freemasons named the 1 Ken f l ?
Lodgefand numbered 1767 on the register of the Grand Lodge
of England, was consecrated yesterday week at the Courtfield
Hotel, Earl’s Court, Kensington.
There was a large increase in the total of each description
of food landed at Liverpool last week from the United States
and Canada when compared with the previous week- It was
thought that the boisterous weather which most of the vesse
arriving last week encountered in the Atlantic would nave
caused considerable mortality amongst the live stock, but,
fortunately, this was not the case, as the vessels amvedwitn
their consignments — which in several cases were muen
augmented-in excellent order, and with a nominal.death-
rate. The steamers with live stock were . Hi® 4 Bu ?£ a ??e
having on board 285 cattle, 703 sheep, and l 38 ^
Mississippi, with 64 cattle and 1596 sheep; the Macgregor,
with 381 cattle and 19 J sheep; the Lake Nepigon, with 1U
cattle and 719 sheep; the Sicily, with 284 cattle; the Chtyof
Limerick, with228 cattle ; the Gracia,with 122 cattle andfour
calves; and the Atlas, with 392 sheep: the totals for the week
being 1478 cattle, 3590 sheep, 1384 pigs, and four calves, ine
number of sheep is the largest ever landed in one wees,
fresh meat the Montana had 1400 quartern on board. ,
Adriatic 700 quarters and 100 carcases of sheep, the England
704 quarters of beef, and the City of Chester 480 quarters ot
beef and 75 carcases of mutton: making 3284 quart era
beef and 175 carcases of mutton. The steamer British Empire
landed 185 tubs of fresh butter and the Sicily 209.
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EN1NG at Eight; TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY
0 040
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The following are the readings of the meteorological instruments for the
above days, in order, at ten o’clock r —
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NW. W. WHW.
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W8W.
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ATASKELYNE
1>I EVERY EVENIN'
AFTERNOONS at Thiee. a rru
Wonders. Music by Mechanism Is
The performances of Fuufure, the-
just now the attraction and talk of the enl
terms of tmuuuldicd praise. Private Boxes.-
Admission, 2». and 1».—W. MORTON, Muuugcr.
Maskelyne’s 1 Jute,
ct-Playcr, and Lu
2J guineas; Ola
THE ILLUSTEATED LONDON NEWS.
LONDON: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1878.
Barometer (In inches) corrected
Temperature of Air .. ..
Temperature of Evaporation ..
Direction of Wind .. ••
I I 29*953 I 30-067 I SO'OOO I 80*030 I 29*675 | 30*018
> 52 1= 07<P 60*1° 1 63-ii' W6 0 55*3°
’ 48*5° 1 53 0° 58*3° I 63*3° 62*5° | 51*6’
TIMES OF HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE
FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 12.
Sunday. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursda y. Friday. Satur day.
i h m h m h. m h m 1
rpHE TWO ORPHANS, with all the Original Effects
I and Powerful Cast, EVERY . * “ J ~” — *
Eleven to Five. No booking fc~
OCT. 8, at 1.45; Doors open al
at 7.31. Box-office open daily from
; PERFORMANCE on SATURDAY,
rpHEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. —Sole Lessee nnd
JL Manager, F. B. Chatterton.-Tliis Theatre, redecorated, OPEN for the SEASON
Leontes, M r. ClIartM^DlUon ^Ueridom-.'Sliss AiValih;, Penlita' M
ANG K"^or ? 1 A* , WomaiFB 1 "v Ite "^Conclude ^^"the^Comic^^all^IA/RD*I)UN-
DREARY. Box-Office oi>en Ten tUl Five daily.
FOURTEENTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR IN ONE UNBROKEN SEASON.
ST. JAMES’S HALL, PICCADILLY.
THE
M oore and burgess minstrels.
All the year round. , ,
Every Night at Eight, and on every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at Throe and
THIS COMPANY NOW BEARS TUE PROUD DISTINCTION OF BEING THE
OLDEST ESTABLISHED AND MOST SUCCESSFUL UPON THE EARTH.
It Is also the source whence all Imitators obtain the salient features of the charming
and popular Entertainment now universally associated with the names of Moore and
B °l!8x NEW AND EXCELLENT PROGRAMME performed for the first time last
week will be repeated until notification of another change Is given.
Fautenlls. 5s.: Sofa Stalls, 3s.; Are*. 2s.: Gallery, *18. No fees. Places can bo
paired at Austin's Office. St. James's UuU, dally, from N ine a.m., without extru charge.
The Quarterly Accounts of the Revenue receipts pub¬
lished on the 1st inst. can hardly fail to excite some mis¬
givings in the minds of those persons who are wont to
contemplate the future of the country in tho light of its
financial condition. Indications arc not wanting that the
elasticity of our ordinary fiscal resources has been to some
degree impaired. The Budget Estimates of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer have not been verified by experience.
The Revenue for the quarter, it is true, shows a net increase
of £83,000, as compared with the corresponding quarter
of 1877. But we are bound to bear in mind tho additional
taxation imposed on the public last Session by the two¬
pence extra of the Income Tax, by the Customs’ increased
duty on Tobacco, and by the Excise augumentation of the
Dog Tax. In point of fact, however, there is a fulling
off of £44,000 in the Receipts of the Customs, of £30,000
in the Receipts of the Excise, of £32,000 in the Receipts of
the Stamp Department, and of £13,000 from Land Tax
and House Duty. A great change for the better, not
certainly an impossible one, but one that can hardly be
looked upon as likely, must take place within the next two
quarters to bring up the year’s revenue to the Chancellor
of the Exchequer’s original estimate. The balance of
j receipts and expenditure may, however, be materially dis¬
turbed. There are liabilities before us which will claim to
next year, or the year after that, and everyone can
foresee that a declining revenue and a rapidly increasing,
expenditure must, if persisted in, terminate in disaster.
Probably, it will not bo persisted in. The prudence
of the nation will, though perhaps too tardily, discoun¬
tenance the policy which is pointing to such results.
That this United Kingdom shou’d fail to take her proper
place, or to exercise her undoubted influences among the
political Powers of the world; that 8ho is hound by her
selfish interests to isolate herself from those of humanity;
that she should hesitate to speak with authority wherever
the voice of authority can avail—few persons, we think,
whose intellectual and moral culture has not been wholly
neglected would be found to contend. But that England
should revert to her old and, till lately, obsolete habit of
intervening in a somewhat dictatorial spirit in all the
quarrels and intrigues of European and even bar.
barous Potentates, is quite another thing. We can
have a spirited foreign policy without going to
that length of self-assertion. We can potently sway
the movement of other States without making their
follies the measure of our own. Our political freedom,
our wealth, our industrial and commercial activity, and
other qualities of a moral kind, will always secure for us
such consideration in the Council of Nations as they
really deserve. Any departure of ours from a quiet,
steady, and self-appreciative policy, in regard to the
Powers by which we are surrounded, is sure, in the nature
of things, to tend to an unnecessary exhaustion of our
vital resources. So we have found it in days that are
past. So we shall find it still. Pever is not health. Rest¬
lessness does not always mean the energy of life. A blaze,
although here and there it may make itself more con¬
spicuous to onlookers, gives out less heat than a clear and
flameless fire.
It is not impossible that financial considerations will
exercise some perceptible influence in recalling the country
to increased political sobriety ; and, if so, it will have
reason to rejoice in, rather than regret, its present
declining fiscal condition. We are all of us somewhat
disposed to live too fast, and to regard an ostentation of
self-will as more honourable to us than the fulfilment of
high purposes. But already the day of reaction from this
state of feeling strikes us as having dawned. The process
of correction may be slow, and, in many respects, painful,
but the abiding good sense of Englishmen is a rich treasury
of national health and strength. There is no overpowering
reason, therefore, to look with despondency upon the
country’s destiny, or to imagine that it has already touched
the zenith of its career. If it has parted with some of its
best characteristics, it has done so only for a time. It
retains abundant elements of vitality. It may yet take
the lead of nations without needlessly offending then
self-respect. Above all, it can discharge its duty to man¬
kind without assuming to be their appointed master, to
whose interests they must in all cases give way, and to
whose dictation they must submit. For, after all, there
are moral principles which lie at the foundation of
political arrangements. To such principles our policy,
whether at home or abroad, had best be conformed,
and, sooner or later, we are convinced will be
conformed. Such thoughts as these soothe our
anxieties in regard to the prospects upon which the
country is entering. We can afford to look without dismay
upon the difficulties, financial or otherwise, which cast a
present shade upon the place we occupy. But we are no
unmindful of the obligations imposed upon us by imme¬
diate exigencies. And we cannot but think, with a goodly
number, as we hope, of upright and thoughtful patriots,
that the time has come, or, at any rate, is near at hand,
when such influence as can be exerted upon public opinion
ought to be put forth in furtherance of a more exalted,
as well as more watchful, order of rule than that under
which it is our lot to live.
bo discharged. There is a winter ahead of us which, for . , ,, _ , „ , , -
5?. . , . , . ,, . The winter session of the Leeds School of Medicine was
anything that meteorologists can promise to tho contrary, 1 opened on Wednesday, Dr. J. E. Eddison, president for the
may be severe; and there is a continuance of that slack- year, occupying the chair.
ness of trade which, not this country only, but almost sir William Armstrong has offered to present to the town
every other country, has experienced for the last two or of Newcastle-on-Tyne twenty-six acres of land, worth £20,00 ,
three years. The outlook, consequently, is far from adjoining the twenty-two acres recently bought y ° fVj
, . J ~ ci l v 1 v ,1 , j ,, noratiou for an East-end Park. The offer has been acccpteu
cheenng. Our fiscal system has probably reached the £ ifch thaukB , and it is proposed to call the grounds Arm-
aomo of its power. The purse of the nation is not strong Park.
OCT. 5, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
311
THE COURT.
The Queen, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold attended
Divine service performed at Balmoral Castle on Sunday by
the Rev. A. Campbell, of Crathie.
The Princess of Wales and her daughters have visited and
lunched with her Majesty, und the Queen has paid various
visits to their Royal Highnesses at Abergeldie.
Her Majesty, with Princess Beatrice, has driven to Glen
Gelder Shiel, and has walked daily in the castle grounds.
Prince Leopold left Balmoral on Tuesday for the south.
Prince Frederick William of Prussia took leave of the
Queen yesterday week on his return to Germany.
I n the presence of the Grand Duke and Duchess of Saxe-
Coburg and the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, the infant
daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh was on Wed¬
nesday baptised in the Palace of their Royal Highnesses, and
received the names of Alexandra Louise Olga Victoria.
The Earl of Fife and the Hon. Hamilton Duncan lunched
at Balmoral last week, and were received by her Majesty.
Viscount Cranbrook has left the castle. The Hon. Mrs.
Ferguson of Pitfour has been on a visit at Balmoral.
The death of General Sir Thomas Biddulph at Abergeldie
Mains on Saturday last has caused the Queen the profounde6t
grief. Hehadbeen for twenty-seven years oneof tlieQueen’smost
valuable and confidential servants, and his death is felt by her
Majesty as an irreparable loss. Her Majesty had called daily
during the week, and had only just left the house when the
sad event took place. The Queen, with Princess Beatrice and
Prince Leopold, went to Abergeldie Mains in the afternoon to
inquire after the Hon. Lady Biddulph andher son and daughter,
and her Majesty paid daily visits until the departure of
Lady Biddulph on Thursday for the south with the remains of
her late husband. All the members of the Royal family who
were absent have telegraphed their deepest sympathy and
regret. The loss of the lamented Sir Thomas Biddulph is
deeply felt by the whole of the Royal household, of which he
had so long been an honoured member. Sir W. Jenner and Dr.
Profit were in constant attendance on him during the week.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
The Princess of Wales, accompanied by Princesses Louise,
Victoria, and Maud of Wales, arrived at Ballater at a quarter
past two p.m. on Thursday week. The Prince of Wales met
their Royal Highnesses upon their arrival. A detachment of
the 79th Highlanders, under the command of Captain Gordon,
was drawn up at the railway station. Their Royal Highnesses
drove in a waggonette to Abergeldie Castle. The Princess,
with her daughters, visited the Queen at Balmoral the next
day. Her Majesty visited their Royal Highnesses at Abergeldie
on Sundby, and took tea with the Princess on Monday.
The Prince has passed a few days during the week on a visit
to Viscount Macduff at the Derry Lodge, Braemar. His
Royal Highness has had good sport in the Forest of Mar.
The Princess, with her daughters, has driven out daily in the
vicinity of the Royal demesne.
The Duke de Nemours has left the Pulteney Hotel for
Paris.
Count Munster has left the German Embassy, Carlton
House-terrace, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Rosslyn
at Dysart House, Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk have arrived at Arundel
Castle, Sussex.
The Duchess of Westminster left Grosvcnor House on
Saturday last, accompanied by the Hon. Algernon Grosvenor,
for Paris.
The Duke of Roxburghe has left Brown’B Hotel fo*
Scotland.
The Duke of Rutland has arrived at Belvoir Castle from
Longshawe Lodge.
FASHIONABLE MARRIAGES.
The Hon. Anthony Lucius Dawson (Coldstream Guards),
youngest son of the Earl and Countess of Dartrey, was married
to the Hon. Mary Frances FitzGerald de Ros, only child of
Lord and Lady de Ros, on Wednesday, at St. George’s Church,
Hanover-square. Mr. H. C. Jervoise (Coldstream Guards)
was best man. The bride was received by her father, Lord
de Ros, who gave her away. Her bridesmaids were Miss
Constance Kerr, Miss Sibyl Coke, Miss Frances and Miss
Constance des Vceux, Miss Caroline Boyle (cousins of the
bride), and Miss Long and Miss Susan Long (cousins of the
bridegroom). The bride’s drees was of ivory satin, trimmed
with Brussels lace, wreath of orange blossoms and veil, and
ornaments of diamonds and pearls. The bridesmaids wore
dresses of grey cashmere and ruby satin, and ruby satin toeques
with silver clasps. The religious ceremony was performed by
the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor. The bride and
bridegroom left Lord de Ros’s residence in Park-street, Gros-
venor-square, for Chaddesden Hall, Sir Henry Wilmot's seat near
Derby, to spend the honeymoon. The wedding presents were very
numerous. The Queen sent the bride an Indian shawl; Princess
Louise of Lome,an ornamented and chased looking-glass ; the
Duke of Connaught, an ebony and china clock ; Prince Leopold
and Princess Beatrice, a gold bangle bracelet, set with
diamonds and sapphires. Among the presents received by
the bridegroom were, from Lady Crcmome, his grand¬
mother, a purse of £500.
The Hon. Wilbraham F. Tollemache, M.P., was married to
Miss Mary Stuart Hamilton, youngest daughter of the Right
Hon. Lord and Lady Claud Hamilton, on Wednesday, at
St. Peter’s Church, Eaton-square. The bridesmaids were
the Hon. Mary Baring, the Hon. Rhona Tollemache
(sister of the bridegroom), Miss Hamilton (sister of the
bride), Miss Baillic, Miss Hamilton Gordon, and Miss
Catherine King. The bride’s dress was of white satin, trimmed
with flounces and garland of Honiton lace and orange
flowers, and over a wreath of orange-flowers and clematis a veil
of Honiton lace, which was fastened to the hair by a diamond
spray; and she wore a diamond and pearl necklace. The
bridesmaids wore dresses of white cashmere, trimmed with
white satin and forget-me-nots. Their head-dresses wero
white satin caps trimmed with lace and forget-me-nots, to
harmonise with their dresses. The Rev. George H. Wilkinson,
M.A., the Vicar of St. Peter’s, performed the marriage rite.
After the breakfast, the bride and bridegroom left town for
Peckforton Castle, Cheshire, the seat of Lord Tollemache, for
the honeymoon. The bride’s travelling dress was of claret
merino, trimmed with silk of the same colour, and hat and
feather to match.
The marriage of Captain H. M. Hozier, late 3rd Dragoon
Guards, and Lady Blanche Ogilvy, eldest daughter of the Earl
and Countess of Airlie, was celebrated at Cortachy Castle,
Forfarshire, on Saturday last. The Rev. C. Greenhill Hender¬
son, Incumbent of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Hamilton,
officiated. The marriage was quite private, owing to Ludy
Airlie’s delicate health after her severe illness.
A marriage is arranged to take place in November between
the Hon. Richard Clere Parsons, third son of the late Earl of
Rosse, and Miss Agnes E. Bateman, youngest daughter of
John Frederick Bateman, Esq., of Moor Park, Surrey.
ART, SCIENCE, AND LITERATURE.
Sir Richard Wallace, Bart., M.P., has given £500 towards
a museum, school of ait, and free public library for Ipswich.
The autumn term of the Quebec Institute for evening
classes, 28, Baker-street, will begin next Monday, Oct. 7.
Lord Carnarvon is to deliver, on the evening of Tuesday,
Nov. 5, the opening uddress of the winter session of the Edin¬
burgh Philosophical Institution.
Focardi’s marble statuette, “ You Dirty Boy! ” round the
plaster model of which at the Paris Exhibition a laughing
crowd of boys may always be seen, has been appropriately
bought by Messrs. Pears, soap manufacturers.
Mr. Brock, of 30, Osnaburgh-street, Regent’s Park, has been
commissioned to execute a statue of Mr. Robert Raikes, the
founder of Sunday schools. The statue will, it is believed,
when completed, be erected on the Thames Embankment.
The Ecclesiastical Art-Exhibition which opened on Monday
at Sheffield has been liberally supported by the best local and
the leading metropolitan firms who are engaged in art-manu¬
facture ; also by many architects and artists.
Mr. Sydney Hodges has completed a portrait of the Rev. Dr.
Bailey, late Warden of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury. The
portrait has been placed in the hall of St. Augustine’s, on the
retirement of Dr. Bailey, in commemoration of his having
filled the office of Warden for twenty-eight years.
The question of the advisability or otherwise of granting a
license for the sale of alcoholic liquors at the Art-Museum at
Nottingham Castle, which has lately created a good deul of
interest in the town, was settled on Monday, when the magis¬
trates granted the license.
The erection of the library and picture-gallery connected
with the Shakspeare memorial buildings at Stratford-on-Avon
was begun yesterday week. Mr. Lascelles, the contractor, is
also engaged in the construction of the theatre portion of the
memorial, which wiK be completed by the poet’s birthday
next year, when an inaugural ceremony will take place.
The annual meetings of the Union of Lancashire and
Cheshire Institutes were held on Tuesday. Attention was
drawn by the chairman to the importance of an extension of the
subjects taught in Government-inspected night schools; and a
resolution was passed requesting the council of the union to
take steps to induce the Education Department to amend the
education code accordingly. At a public meeting held in the
evening the prizes and certificates gained by the students were
distributed, the presentations being made by the Mayor of
Manchester, who presided.
Lord Wrottesley, Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire, pre¬
sided in the Wolverhumpton Exchange, on Monday, over
a numerous and influential assemblage for the inaugura¬
tion of a series of classes for the study of high-class
literature, with weekly lectures by gentlemen connected with
Oxford University. Lord Wrottesley said he could not with
others fail to perceive the growing desire that existed for
higher mental culture, and he was also desirous that he
should—though in a small way—join in promoting efforts
made for the purpose. He expressed his gratification that the
University of Oxford, as well as the sister University of Cam¬
bridge, had come to try to promote the cause. The lecturer
was the Rev. A. H. Johnson, M.A.
A series of water-colour drawings and sketches from nature
of Swiss life and scenery will be opened for free exhibition on
the first three Sundays iu October, at 33, New Bridge-street,
Blackfriars. The drawings are the work of Mr. W. L.
Thomas, who has lent them to the Sunday Society for the
purpose of furthering the object the society has in view—the
opening of public museums, art-gidleries, libraries, and
gardens on Sunday, the people’s leisure day. Works of art
exhibited for such a purpose are out of the pale of ordinary
criticism ; nevertheless, most of the drawings in this collection
are of such a sterling quality that they can well bear the
closest examination. These Sunday art-exhibitions are in¬
tended to be continued from time to time until the society’s
object is accomplished.
On Wednesday at midday the Mayor of Reading (Mr. J.
Silver), attended by the Corporation of the borough, opened a
loan exhibition of oil and water colour paintings, engravings,
and photographs in Victoria Hall, in that town. Among the
contributors are Mr. Walter, M.P., Mr. E. Hermon, M.P.,
Mr. George Palmer, M.P., and Sir Charles Russell, M.P.
The collection is large and valuable, aud comprises the works
of many old and modern masters, including Vandyck, Titian,
Rubens, Gainsborough, Canaletti, Sir John Gilbert, Millais,
Birket Foster, Riviere, and Teni. rs. There ore several pictures
which attracted considerable notice when exhibited at the
Royal Academy this year. The exhibition has been got up
for the purpose of encouraging and developing a taste for
higher art among the working classes, a similar exhibition
held in the town four years ago having been attended with
unexpected success. In opening the exhibition, the Mayor
spoke of the great value of such undertakings, and expressed a
hope that the aims which they had in view would be fully
realised. The exliibition will remain open for a fortnight at
very low charges.
The annual meeting of the Library Association began
on Tuesday at Oxford, and was presided over by the Rev. H.
O. Coxe. Amongst those present and who took part in the
discussions on the papers read, were the Baron De Watteville,
representing the French Government; Professors Acland and
Kolleston, the Master of Balliol, the Rector of Lincoln, Pro¬
fessor Seligmann, Count Babzani, Count de Massy, and
numerous representatives from the British Museum. In the
evening the Bodleian librarian held a reception in the hall of
Worcester College —On Wednesday the conference was re¬
sumed, under the presidency of the Rev. H. O. Coxe,
Bodleian librarian. The report of the committee on a
general catalogue of English literature was first eon-
sideied, in which it was agreed that the general catalogue
of English literature should consist of an alphabetical
catalogue under the authors’ names, and that it should com¬
prehend all books printed in English, either in the United
Kingdom or abroad. The report was adopted. Mr. E. A.
Axon, Manchester Literary Club, read a paper on “Is a
Printed Catalogue of the British Museum Practicable?” which
gave rise to a discussion; and Mr. Bullen, of the British
Museum, said if he could persuade the trustees and obtain the
support of the country, he intended to print a catalogue of the
j entire contents of the museum. Papers were also read by
1 Professor Seligmann, Dr. Acland, aud others, and the con¬
ference adjourned. In the evening Dr. Acland gave a reception
in Radcliffe Library, which was largely attended.
.Sir Wyville Thomson, Regius Professor of Natural History
at Edinburgh University, distributed the prizes to the success¬
ful students of the Liverpool School of Science at St. George’s
Hall on Monday night, when the Mayor presided. In intro¬
ducing Sir Wyville, his Worship referred to what Liverpool
had done for literature-, science, and art, aud said he did not
think that the people of any other town in the kingdom were
willing to tax themselves to the extent of £12,000 a year in
this cause, as those of Liverpool had done. Sir Wyville
Thomson delivered a practical address. In the course of
his address he mentioned that the school was intended spe¬
cially for the working classes, and went on • to remark that
able artisans were required as much us able professional
men, and to deprecate a wholesale effort on the part
of the former to rise to the ranks of the latter. In the former
station of life, with knowledge and steadiness of character,
a position of the utmost independence and respect was a man’s
birthright. If he sought to quit it, he exchanged his birth¬
right for a struggle in a profession alien to the traditions of
his family in which competition was great, and was entered
upon by him at a disadvantage, and in which he was probably
embarrassed for many years by a wretched necessity for
keeping up appearances. This was not a rise in life. The
position of a struggling professional man was not to be com¬
pared to that of a skilful artisan in comfort or independence.
While, therefore, he exhorted artisans to continue their
science studies, he recommended them to do so for the sake
of science, and not of “ rising in life.”
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
The Company of Haberdashers has contributed five guineas
to the Printers’ Pension Corporation.
At most of the hospitals lectures were given last Tuesday on
the occasion of the opening of the medical schools.
Another establishment of the Coffee Tavern Company was
opened last Saturday at 339-41, Commercial-road East.
Cardinal Manning on Sunday opened a new convent for nuns
of the Carmelite Order in St. Charles-square, Notting-hill.
The sixteenth annual edition of the Royal Guide to the
London Charities for 1878-9 has been published by Messrs.
Hardwicke aud Bogue.
In accordance with annual custom, the Lord Mayor and
Lady Mayoress entertained on Tuesday evening the Lord
Mayor-elect, Sir C. Whetham, at dinner at the Mansion House.
An open competitive examination for clerkships (Class I.)
in the Civil Service will be held in London on Nov. 5 and
following days. Preliminary examinations will be held in
London, Edinburgh, and Dublin on the 15th and 22nd inst.
A new member of the family of mechanical chessplayers
has been introduced to London in the person of “ MephiBto,”
who on Wednesday made his first appearance at the West¬
minster Aquarium. A number of gentlemen well known in
chess circles attended to witness the performance.
The Waterloo Bridge Company held a special meeting on
Monday, at which the directors were appointed trustees to
receive £475,000, to bo paid by the Metropolitan Board of
Works for the purchase of the bridge. At the board meeting
of the shareholders, held on Thursday morning, it was
arranged that the property should be handed over to the
Metropolitan Board of Works at midday on Saturday (to-day),
when the bridge will be declared free to the public.
At a meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works attention
was called to the statements made at the Princess Alice in¬
quiry that the water of the Thames where the accident
occurred was “poisonous ” and “its taste and smell something
it was impossible to describe.” The works and general pur¬
poses committee were directed to inquire into the accuracy of
these statements, and to report whether such a state of the
water, if correctly described, arose from the drainage outfalls.
We are requested to announce that the Commissioners of
her Majesty’s Works and Public Buddings intend to distribute
this autumn, among the working classes and the poor inhabit¬
ants of London, the surplus bedding-out plants in Battersea,
Hyde, the Regent’s, and Victoria Parks, and in the Royal
gardens, Kew, and the pleasure gardens, Hampton Court. If
the clergy, school committees, and others interested will make
application to the superintendent of the park nearest to their
respective parishes, or to the director of the Royal Gardens,
Kew, or the superintendent of Hampton Court Gardens, in the
cases of persons residing in those neighbourhoods, they will
receive notice of the number of plants that can be allotted to
each applicant and of the time and manner of their distribution.
The Mansion House Fund for the relief of the sufferers
through the Abcrcame Colliery explosion now amounts to
about £21,000.—A meeting of the Mansion House Committee
for the relief of the distress caused by the Princess Alice
disaster was held on Monday, at which it was stated that
about £10,000 had been appropriated, leaving a large pro¬
portion of the cases still to be considered. The committee
have decided, as a general principle, to award each widow
£100, children and widowers being dealt with according to
circumstances. A party of gentlemen selected by the Coroner
for the duty have made a careful survey of the wreck, with a
view to ascertaining the stability and seaworthiness of the
vessel at the time of the collision, the result of the exami¬
nation to be given in evidence before the jury. The relief
fund now amounts to about £33,000.
There were 2494 births and 1355 deaths registered in London
last week. The deaths included 2 from smallpox, 6 from
measles, 30 from scarlet fever, 13 from diphtheria, 53
from whooping-cough, 27 from different forms of fever, and
61 from diarrhoea. The fatal cases of whooping-cough showed
a further increase upon the numbers in the two previous
weeks, and exceeded the corrected average by 23. The deaths
from measles aud scarlet fever continue considerably below the
average. The deaths from diphtheria again showed an excess.
The fatal cases of fever, which had been 32 and 30 in the
two preceding weeks, further declined to 27 last week, of which
one was certified as typhus, 20 as enteric or typhoid, and 6 as
simple continued fever. In Greater London 3056 births and
1626 deaths were registered. The duration of registered
bright sunshine in the week was only 9 6 hours, the sun
being above the horizon during 83 6 hours.
For the first time after the recess the School Board for
Loudon met on Wednesday, and Sir Charles Reed, the Chair¬
man, presented a review of the work of that body during the
past year. From this it appeared that at the present time the
Board had under its control 278 schools, with 704 departments,
which give accommodation for 192.000 children. This was an
increase upon the last report of 36 schools, 112 departments,
and 29,092 school-pluces. Till recently the Board had followed
their enumeration of 1871, which showed thenumber of children
in the metropolis requiring elementary education to be 574,693.
This year they had, for greater accuracy, re-scheduled the
various districts, and estimated the number at 614,857. These
figures, however, were probably considerably below the real
number. Of these, the voluntary schools provided at Mid¬
summer last for 278,923, and the Board for 186,468, so that the
entire provision at that time amounted to 465,391 school places.
When they had completed works now in progress, the Board
would have raised their share of the supply to 240,000, thus
securing a total provision for 518,000 children.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oct. r>, 187$. U2
THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OF CYPRUS.
{From our Special Artist and Correspondent .)
Varoschia (near Famagusta), Sept. 2.
Having closed the mail for England on Thursday, the 29th
ult., I lost no time in leaving Lamaca, its dirt, dust, and
extortions ; and having chartered an-open boat, with a crew
of three Greeks, I embarked for a trip to the eastern shores of
this island. We sailed merrily before the south-west breeze,
which blows regularly here at this time of year, so as really
to be a trade wind, all day after ten or eleven o’clock till sun¬
set. In about two hours we were off the steep bluff of Cape
Pyla, distant from Lamaca thirteen miles as the crow flies.
We then passed the lower land, where the Turks are said to
have disembarked three centuries ago (1570), previous to the
capture of Famagusta. Four o’clock in the afternoon brought
us to Cape Greco, the ancient Pedalium Promontory, twenty-
six miles from Lamaca. Here there is a bold headland, a
miniature Gibraltar, or rather Table Mountain, looking like a
Cyclopean citadel cut out in terraced limestone. Doubling
the cape, and still with a fair breeze, only wearing the boat,
and having the wind on our port beam instead of right aft, as
we had hitherto been running before the wind, we coasted
within a stone’s throw of the low ledge of rocky coast,
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oct. 6 r 1878.—813
SliEUE ALX, AMEER OF CABUL.
apparently of coml formation, and parsed a fleet of boats off
shore engaged in sponge-fishing. The breeze subsided
slightly in the afternoon, but we slipped along till dark
in smooth water, and anchored, or rather were beached,
on the sandy shores of Varoschia, the inhabited suburb or
Greek village a mile outside Famagusta, having sailed in all
forty miles from Lamaca by sea. Famagusta is a walled city,
only inhabited by two hundred and odd
Turks, no Greeks being permitted to live
there. A lodging was soon procured by
the dragoman in a garden of figs and
pomegranates, watered by two rude water¬
wheels, turned by mules, and raising the
water from wells some thirty feet deep,
cut in the solid rock.
In the morning I accompanied the Com¬
missioner (Captain L. V. Swaine, of the
Rifle Brigade) to the Konak or official resi¬
dence in Famagusta. This place, which
probably is destined to be the port of
Cyprus, is at present quite a city of the
dead; Pompeii is hardly more so. Sur¬
rounded with high and massive ramparts,
solidly constructed of lasting masonry,
the large fortress town appears from with¬
out as if constructed yesterday. The
broad ditches and moats, cut out of the
solid rock, must have cost an infinity of
labour, aud were doubtless the work of
galley-slaves. They were formed in the
twelfth century for medimval warfare.
The Venetians, and after them the Turks
readily adapted the strong lines for artil
lery, and even now they are no mean forti
fication. Within, after traversing the per¬
manent bridge and drawbridge across the
moat, one enters a deserted ruin. A few
Zaptiehs and a guard of Turkish soldiers
at the gate spring up on our approach to
salute the Commissioner, and that guard
passed we are in solitude. I was at once
struck with the anomaly that in a strongly-
fortified city such as this, with the union-
jack flying over it, there Bhould not be a
single English soldier, while at Baffo and
other out-of-the-way places in the open
country there are companies of infantry
With nothing to guard except their precious
health. As it is, in Fomagusla the united strength of Turkish
soldiers, who, bj - the by, are deserting doily, and of Zaptiehs,
is barely sufficient to keep up the sentries at the gates of the
town. The truth, I suppose, is that Famagusta is reported
unhealthy ; and, having a bad name, it is shunned accord¬
ingly. I do uot myself believe Famagusta to be at all more
unhealthy than Larnuca, if so unhealthy; but of this we may
OUTLOOK HOUSE, NEAR THE KHYBBR PASS.
hear more b^ -and- by. Liuving the CuinniLucucr at his office,
I traversed the walls and ruins of this city of the dead, and
naturally bent my steps towards the ruins of the ancient
Cathedral Church, now used as a mosque. The west front,
although dilapidated, shows traces of great architectural
beauty ; and it is depressing to see the Moslem disfigurement
and desecration. Surely, where the Mohammedans are in
such a miserable minority, these ancient
churches should be restored to their pris¬
tine sanctity, and the ugly traces of Islam
removed. Let the ruins be Christian ruins,
at least. Although not so large as 8t.
Sophia at Nicosia, the design of the Fama¬
gusta Cathedral is lighter and more
elegant, especially the apse at the eastern
end. The pnotographs by M. Dumas lately
token will show more fully than pages of
description the beauties of the edifice.
Various other monastic and conventual
buildings, all in a state of desolation, are
scattered between the ruins of the streets.
Old bronze cannon, in considerable
numbers, are lying here; and there ore
some mounted on the walls, others dis¬
mounted and lying inside the gates, espe¬
cially the water-gate, as if ready for
removal. Most of these guns bear the winged
lion, or the winged horse, on the chase of
the piece; and, as a rule, their cascables
are cast flat, without the ornamentation of
rings, fillets, and ogees.
Captain Swaine, with his Assistant-
Commissioner, Captain J. A. 8. Inglis,
of the 71st Highlanders, are the only two
European residents in Famagusta. Till
to-day Lieutenant Eastman, of the Marino
Artillery and belonging to the Minotaur,
has been acting here in charge of the
native police (Zaptiehs); but, as his ship is
leaving, he is to proceed home with her.
This is another mistake in the semi¬
military, semi-civilian administration of
this unfortunate island. None of the
appointments in Cyprus arc permanent.
None of the officers appointed to civilian
posts feel secure; they all know that not
only they may be moved at any time, bnt
that they are nearly sure to be ultimately,
314
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OCT. 5, 187»
Mobummednns of CjP™*. ““ “J* to appoint a Legislative
had received orders from Jer “ a W n £ a bitonts of the island.
Coopcil, o< ,»b°m present,»letttr,
He at once handedtoHustafar u ^ q£ Nic08ia , ftn d a
nominating him to the Coun • * u b birth ) will also
landed proprietor of T ^^A“ t ^“fflial members, with
receive nomination. Iner p esident making a Council of
the High Commissioner d b j„h satisfaction. An
seven. This annouucemen aDDO i n ted and the work of
Executive Council will also PP 1X)SH ibl e The weather is
legislation ^two* is slightly
now eooland pteMant^an^rho will be sent for a
cXTin her u™ nit., con-
jss sts^ssk* g £ ss *£ ssr jtk
and for India. _ _ _—
ere not long either -Itogether.
British occupation. Larnaca will «o All tb ^ available ground
SSH!SpS^SS^
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predict all the present speculators will have their ejes y
of the land and selecting sites for sanatoria and cantonments.
Young Bothell has been through the T ™J°*
good sites, and Lieutenant A. H. Bagnold, ILE-. baa founa a
suitable camning ground up in the Carpas Mountains, not far
from the famouf Castle of Cantara, which commands
the sea on either side of the ridge, as well as of the opposite
coasts of Asuia^d ^ Regiment8 ^ by this time at Dali, the
ancient Idalium, some ten or twelve miles south of Nicosm. but
on higher ground, where it is to be hoped they will be
more healthy. I intend to pay them a visit there shortly.
The thirty-first company of Royal Engineers at Nicosia
have, I regret to learn, lost four men by death from
fever and sunstroke, and has other men badly Ul. Accli¬
matised men from Gibraltar and Malta should have been
sent. Absurd hurry, utterly uncalled for haste and confusion,
has been the predominant feature hitherto of the hasty occu¬
pation and rapid partial evacuation of Cyprus. Thousands
tons of hay are arriving for cavalry horses which have departed.
This is sold at a loss to speculators who arc eagerly buying up
forage, which is being stored at Bey rout, it is said on good
authority, on French Government account : if so, it is sig¬
nificant. Major Maitland, R.E., is over in the hills near
BeyTOut, suffering from dysentery, an old complaint, which
should have prevented his coming out here (at least in the
summer at all. Another blunder is that which I learnt at the
Consulate before starting for here. The commissariat here are
buying up firewood for fuel in large quantities, at what is con¬
siderably above normal market rates. Well, now it appears
that this firewood is all obtained from the extensive Govern¬
ment forests and property on the mountains to the norm of
the island, and so the English Government has actually been
buying its own wood at an exorbitant price; and not only that,
but the forests, which are valuable, are being destroyed for this
purpose, and within the last two months more damage has been
done in the way of disforesting and devastating the few remain¬
ing woods still existing in the Kyrenia and Carpas districts than
had been accomplished in a decade of years. As it is, the
island is quite burnt up enough, so that it is distressing to see
the enormous piles of firewood along the beach and by the
landing-places at Larnaca, and to know that they represent
many square miles of wood-land recently destroyed. The wood,
too, itself is not of worthless scrub, only fit to burn, but
includes olive and other fruit-producing trees, cypress and
various useful woods, which would be valuable to individual
owners ; but, as it is Government property, of course all the
contractors care for is to get wood as conveniently near as pos¬
sible for transport in boats to Larnaca. Of course, all this
will be remedied, and promptly, as soon as it is known; but,
meantime, it shows us that the task we have set ourselves of
ruling CypruB is far from an easy one: so let us take heed
before we are too much entangled in Asia Minor.
8. P. 0.
THE PROJECTED AFGHAN WAR-
Our Special Correspondent furnishes also the following
notes, in explanation of his sketches of the tombs at
Larnaca:—
“At the north-west side of the irregular quadrangle of
cloisters which surrounds the Greek Church of St. Lazarus, in
a remote comer, there is a small parcel of ground railed off,
containing the tombs of English, mostly of the seventeenth
century. The three shown in the sketch arc elaborately carved
in marble, the remaining ones arc not so elaborate. I tran¬
scribe one of the inscriptions, which is as follows:—‘Here
lieth the body of Ion Ken, eldest son of Mr. Ion Ken, of
London, merchant. Who was bom the 3 February, 1672, and
died the 12 July, 1693.’ The second inscription runs thus :—
‘ Heare lycth interred the body of Capt. Peter Dare, Comr. of
the ship Scipio, who departed this life 25 June, 1685, aged
38 years.’ I send you another sketch, also of a tomb, but far
more ancient. A short distance out of Larnaca, and near
where the Madras Sappers have their camp, is a ransacked
tomb of remote antiquity, probably Phoenician. Under a
huge mass of conglomerate is a species of arched antechamber,
beyond which is an inner cell, the entrance to which has been
guarded by a stone door fitting in a grove, and let down like a
portcullis. It is not dissimilar to several of the Etruscan
tombs of Hellenic origin.”
The niustration of a rustic scene near Kyrenia, peasant
women and a man gathering the fruit of the carob or locust-
bean tree, is from a sketch by Captain Coveney, of the
42nd Regiment. This fruitful tree (the Ceratonia siliqua)
abounds in some districts of Cyprus. Its succulent pods arc
an article of commercial export; and their pulp, vulgarly
called “ St. John’s Brend,” is believed to have been the food
of St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness. The word
“ locusts,” in the English New Testament, is therefore a mis¬
translation, though in many parts of the East people have
occasionally eaten the insect called by that name.
Yesterday week, tho 27th ult., being the first day of the
Turkish Feast of Bairam, Sir Garnet Wolseley held a state
loth in India and in England, and ive by
The military preparations in India, of which we receive, Dy
telegraph, very positive accounts, seem to be going on rapid y^
sswsssirt. ^
Another force will go to strengthen the garrison of Quetta,
bey end the Bolan Pass. It may be that these commna will
merely resolve themselves into corps of observation darned
not SO much for the actual invasion of the Ameer s territory
Lto ftop«n«e ot showing him that we .» MWed *•
strike should he remain recalcitrant; for althouBh there u i no
doubt that these three divisions could easily make good their
position in Afghanistan before the winter sets in with all its
severity yet it is by no means certam that provisions in suf¬
ficient quantities could be obtained in order to enable them to
withstand a siege in their winter quarters. The collection of
grain for such considerable numbers, of forage for h j )r ^® a ° d
fodder for the camels, must prove a work of time;
bering the sufferings and privations of the garrisons or
Jellalabad, Ghuzuec, Cabul, and Candahar during the winter
of 1841-2, it may be thought well in India to> stay actw®
operations until the weather is fine enough for the C°mm«-
sariat Department to cater properly for the welfare of the
arn ^Ihe Bombay correspondent of the Standard telegraphs that
the following is the personnel of the staff for the expeditionary
army as at present decided :-The column concentrating at
Peshawur, 15,000 strong, will be commanded by General
Crawford Trotter Chamberlain, C.S.I., at pr^ent Commander
of the Oude Division. He is brother of bir Neville Chamber-
lain and distinguished himself much in the last Afghan
war! The garrison of Quetta is being reinforced by
3000 troops, British and native; 4000 troops are assembling
at Thall; the reserve of 6000 men will be collected at
Mooltan early in October. General Roberts commands the
column at Kohat. Colonels Cobbe and Tvtler will each
command a brigade of infantry. Colonel Clough will
have the cavalry brigade. The Head-Quarter Staff will consist
of Major Galbraith, 85th Foot, Assistant Adjutant-General;
Major Collett, Assistant Quartermaster-General ; Colonel
Perkins, Chief Engineer. Lieutenants Spratt and Childers
will be the Field Engineers of the force ; Captain V\ ynneficld
will be Telegraph Officer; and Lord William Beresford one of
the Aides-de-Camp. General Biddulph will command the
Quetta column, having as his brigadiers Colonel Appleyard
and Colonel Nuttall, of the Bombay Army, with probably
Colonel Fane, of the Staff CorpB, in command of the
cavalry brigade. Major Wolseley will be Assistant Adju¬
tant-General ; Captain R. G. Stewart, Assistant Quarter-
msstcr-Gcneral, Colonel Hitchens Chief Engineer, and Captain
Bisect Aide-de Camp. Colonel Stewart commands the reserve
column, and Colonel Baxter and Colonel Hughes will be
brigadiers of the infantry. Colonel A. Hills is appointed
Assistant Adjutant-General, and Captain E. F. Chapman
Assistant Quartermaster-General. The following troops, in
addition to those before detailed, have been ordered up to
Kohat —F Battery A Brigade, and 11th Battery 9th Brigade,
under Colonel Alfred Lindsay, and 8th Batter}’ 4th Brigade,
and the 3rd Peshawur Mountain Battery, under Colonel
Le Mesurier. The 5th Company of Sappers and the 32nd
Pioneers are ordered to march at ouce to Quettah. The
A Battery B Brigade, G Battery 4th Brigade, and the
5th, 9th, and 11th Batteries 11th Brigade, will join the
reserve at Mooltan. A garrison battery from Madras and
one from Bombay, with a siege train, will probably be dis¬
patched to Sukkur. A telegram from Rawul Pindee states
that the troops are all ready to march, but are awaiting car¬
riage, which is not expected to be ready for some days. A *
Lahore it is understood that the Viceioy will pass the w
the late Ameer Dost Mohammed Khan refused to allow us to
have a Mission at Cabul, or even to send one there as a
temoorary arrangement, solemnly assuring us that such a step
would lead to mischief, and not to peaceful relations with the
Afghans. We accepted his excuses. In 1869 the present
Ameer affirmed the same policy. Whatever may be his own
faults and shortcomings, he has never concealed from us his
views on this subject. What occurred at the meeting in
Peshawur towards the end of 1876 between the Ameer’s agent
and Sir Lewis Pelly has not actually transpired, but I believe
that our wishes on the subject of a Mission to Cabul were at
that time reiterated, though in vain.
<• q’ be 0 i d policy was to bear with the Afghans as far as we
could reasonably do so, and to endeavour by kindness and con¬
ciliation to bring about friendly relations gradually leading
them to see that their interests and ours did not conflict. Of
late however we have seemed to think that we understood
the’interests of the Afghans better than they did themselves.
We appear to think that we can, in short, force our policy
them without their taking offence at such conduct.
” What are we to gain by going to war with the Ameer?
Can we dethrone him without turning the mass of his country -
meu against us? Can we follow the policy of 1838-39 with-
out in all probability, incurring similar results? If we succeed
in driving Where Ali out of Cabul, who can we put in his place ?
And how are we to insure the maintenance of our own creature
on the throne, except by occupying the country? And when
is such an occupation to terminate?
.< I have no doubt that we can clear the defiles and valleys
of Afghanistan from end to end of their defenders, and that
no force of Afghans could stand against our troops when
properly brought to bear against them. The country, how¬
ever consists of mountain ranges, for the most part broken up
into nigged and difficult plateaux, where brave men standing
on the defensive have considerable advantages ; and when we
force such positions we cannot continue to hold them.
“ The cost of invading such a country will prove very
great and the means for so doing must be drawn from else¬
where. The country held by the Ameer can afford neither the
money nor the transport, nor even the subsistence in adequate
quantity for the support of the invading army. It is impossible
to foresee the end of such a war, and in the meantime its
prosecution would utterly ruin the finances of India.
“ Such are the political and military considerations which
lead me to raise my voice against the present policy towards
Ameer Shere Ali. Are not moral considerations also very
strong against such a war ? Have not the Afghans a right to
resist our forcing a Mission on them, bearing in mind to what
such Missions often lead, and what Bumes’s Mission m 1837
did actually bring upon them ?
“ I have heard it contended that no nation has a right to
isolate itself in this way and refuse to have intercourse with
civilised Governments o
on the other. .... «. .
“ No doubt, Ameer Shere Ali has aggravated his offence by
the mode in which he has resisted our overtures, more par¬
ticularly in the threat of his Mir Aklior at Ah Musjid to shoot
Major Cavagnari if he did not turn back. But we should not
bear too hardly on the Ameer on this account. I have no
doubt that if we promise to give up forcing a Mission on him
he would make any apology that we could reasonably call
for. 1 urge that we were wrong in the outset in our policy
to the Ameer in many instances which could be pointed out,
and therefore ought not to be over hard on him in accepting
his excuses. I insist that there will be no real dishonour to us
in coming to terms with him; whereas, by pressing on him
our own policy, we may incur most serious difficulties, and
eve ” j be telegrams from India are that three considerable
bodies of troops are to be concentrated, one at Quettah, one
at Thall, on the river Koorum, and the third m reserve at
Mooltan, as what are called ‘ precautionary measures. 1
should call them very offensive measures. The same impulses
which have brought us into the present complications and
troubles will almost certainly lead us to still more decisive
movements unless very speedily checked by the people^of
England.—Yours faithfully, Lawuescb.
there, instead of going down to Calcutta. In Baroda and the
native States well affected to us public opinion is 6trougly in
favour of an immediate occupation of Afghanistan and the
prompt punishment of the Ameer. A telegram from Simla
says that in official circles it is considered that no advance
upon Cabul will take place until the spring.
Lord Lawrence, formerly Governor-General of India, lias
written the following letter:—
‘‘The news from Peshawur which appeared in the Times of
the 23rd inst., telling us that the Ameer of Cabul had refused
to receive the proposed Mission on its way to his capital, and
had forced Major Cavagnari to turn back from Ali Musjid, is
no doubt a serious rebuff to the Government of India, more
particularly as the Mission had actually started. It seems to
me to have been a serious mistake organising a Mission to Cabul
before we had ascertained whether Ameer Shere Ali was pre¬
pared to receive our overtures or not, and a still greater mis¬
take dispatchiug the Mission until we had received his consent
to our doing so. Had these precautions been observed, the
affront which we have met with would not have appeared to be
so flagrant as it now docs. But, however vexatious is the
Ameer’s conduct in this matter, it ought not to lead us to
force our Mission on him, still less should it induce us to
declare war against him. It appears to me to be contrary to
sound policy that we should resent our disappointment by force
of arms; for by doing so we play the enemy’s game, and force
the Afghans into a union with the Russians.
“ \Ve ought not, indeed, to be surprised that the Ameer has
acted as he has done. From the time of the Treaty of 1857
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
Marshal MacMalion, who arrived in Paris on Monday from his
shooting-box, attended on Tuesday afternoon the Dutcn
trotting-match in the Avenue des Acacius, Bois do Boulogne.
A handsomely decorated tribune was prepared, m wlncn
Madame MacMahon took her seat. The weather was wet, but
a considerable crowd was attracted by the novelty. A
Prince of Orange explained to the Marshal the system of tnes
matches, which are very popular in Holland. The winner,
l’rinscs, owned by M. P. Smith, beat the seven others m suc¬
cession, and won a work worth £100; the second had 1
francs. One of the losers, a mare, was sold for 14,000 Irenes.
The Dutch Ambassador, Prince Orloff, the Marquis and
Marquise dc Molins, the Due de FitzJames, uud the members
of the Dutch Commission were among the company.
M. de Marcere, M. Teissirenc de Bort, the Prefect of the
Seine, and the Prefect of Police, attended the opening on
Tuesday of the new horse market in the Place du Danu ,
Paris, where there is room for upwards of 1000 horses, lo -
plimentary speeches of a frankly Republican character we
exchanged between M. de Marcere and the Mayor of tn
nineteenth arrondissement. ,. ,
M. Bardoux has resolved on creating a Professorship o
Mediteval History at the Sorbonne, a domain hitherto appro¬
priated to the Chair of Ancient History. , ... .^
The Exhibition prize distribution on the 21st mst. wince
witnessed, it is expected, by the I’riucc uud Princess of Wales,
the Crown Prince of Denmark, Prince Henry of the Nether¬
lands, the Duke of Aosta, the Count aud Countess of 1 landers,
and two Austrian Archdukt s. _ ,_. »
The Government are about to found a Meteorologt
Bureau, in which will be centralised all the information
relative to the great movements of the atmosphere and m
warnings to be given to the stations in the seaports, in
service has hitherto belonged to the Paris Observatory,
the Government believe there would be an advantage
creating for it a separate department. ,
An International Peace Congress assembled at Ians ®
Thursday week in one of the wings of the Tuileries, under tne
presidency of M. Franck, Professor of International Law at
College de France. Delegates were present from the Englis >
French, Austrian, Swiss, Dutch, Italian, Belgian, and Ame¬
rican Peace Societies. Resolutions have been adopted to t
effect that it is the duty of civilised Powers to have recoil
to arbitration in the event of any misunderstanding, ana tna
an International convention should define the means to
enabling the execution of article 8 of the Treaty of Pans
1856. The principal members of the Congress, including » •
Pease and Mr. Henry Richard, attended a brilliant reception
at M. de Marcfcre’s, on Tuesday night. Among the company
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OCT. 5, 1878
THE ILLUSTKATED LONDON NEWS
315
were Lord Houghton and his son, and two daughters of Mr.
Cobden, who received marked attentions from several Ministers
The issue of the additional million tickets in the National
Exhibition Lottery was concluded yesterday week.
We learn from the Paris correspondent of the Standard that
the total effective strength of the French army for the next
year is fixed at nearly half a million of men.
M. de Freycinet, speaking at a banquet at Bordeaux last
week, said that he did not insist upon the absolute application
of the principles of free trade, but he demanded thut future
treaties should be drawn up in as liberal a spirit as that of 1800.
The French Southern Railway Company has signed a treaty
with M. de Freycinet for the construction and working of
1500 kilometres of railroad. The Northern and Eastern Rail¬
ways are negotiating with the Minister with the same object.
' SPAIN.
King Alfonso left Madrid last Wednesday on a military
tour. He will return on the 25th inst. The Cortes meet on
Oct. 30. During the tour of the King the Prime Minister und
the Princess of the Asturias will remain in Madrid. The Duke
of Montpensier will remain in town for ten days before he goes
to Seville, and will spend this winter in Spain.
Three cases of yellow fever are reported to have occurred in
the Madrid Hospital.
ITALY.
The Pope has appointed his brother, Professor Giuseppe
Pecoi, to be librarian at the Vatican, and has intrusted him
with the reorganisation of ( the library. Inquiries on the sub¬
ject of the letter recently addressed by the Pope to the Papal
Nuncios having been made by several of the foreign Govern¬
ments, a note has been sent to the Nuncios abroad explaining
that the intention of the Pope in publishing the letter in ques¬
tion was to show his willingness to assist foreign Governments
in overcoming the existing spirit of subversion against the
altar and the throne.
A scheme for a Vesuvius Railway, similar to that constructed
for the ascent of the ltighi, has been approved by the Superior
Council of Public Works at Naples.
HOLLAND.
The betrothal of the King to Princess Emma of Waldeck-
Pyrmont (which has been often affirmed and denied) was
officially announced at the Hague on Monday.
A telegram from the Governor-General of the Dutch Indies
has been received at the Colonial Office at the Hague announcing
the unconditional surrender of Habib Abdul Rachman to
Dutch authority. He not only consents to leave, with hiB
followers, the Bay of Olehleh, the Dutch port on the mouth of
the Acheen river, but urges the other chiefs to submission.
Further reinforcements, to the number of 2500 troops, have
arrived at Acheen.
GERMANY.
The Emperor William has resumed his public life. On
Tuesday week he left Cassel, with the Empress and Crown
Prince, for Cobleutz, after having witnessed the manoeuvres of
the Hessian Army Corps. On Thursday their Majesties, with
the Crown Prince, visited Cologne in state, and were present
at the uncovering of the equestrian statue erected on the
Heumarkt, to the memory of the Emperor’s father, Frederick
William III., the foundation-stone of which was laid by the
Emperor himself in 1865. Last Saturday night the whole
Imperial family reunited at Baden-Baden, in order to celebrate'
the Empress’s birthday.
His Majesty has sent the following reply to the con¬
gratulatory address recently presented to him by the President
and Vice-Presidents of the German Parliament:—“The words
which the President and Vice-Presidents of the Reichstag
have addressed to me in the name of the representatives of the
German people do my heart good. They are in harmony with
the sincere sympathy which has been accorded me from all
circles of the beloved Fatherland and by Germans from all
E arts of the world. They increase my gratitude to God, who
as graciously disposed everything for the good of Emperor
and country. The gravity of the lime is clear and tangible to
us all. We must, each in the measure of his power, strive to
avert the dangers which threaten moral order and the safety of
the State. The bill which has been submitted to the Reichstag
is intended to find the way to this end. My firm trust
aceempauies the labours of an Assembly to which, sprung as it
has lrom the choice of our nation, the whole of Germany looks
with hope.” .
Prince Bismarck has returned to Berlin from Varzrn.
The German Socialist Bill passed its first reading last week
before the Parliamentary Committee, who have provided for
a court of appeal of nine members, a majority of whom must
be attached to the supreme court of j ustice. The Emperor is
to appoint the president. Count Eulenburg, the German
Minister of the Interior, on Tuesday addressed the Committee
on the Socialist Bill on the second reading, and, speaking in
the name of the Government, said that the amendments made
during the first reading appeared, on the whole, to .be accept¬
able. The Government considered, however, that the term of
two years and a half to which it was proposed to limit the
action of the bill was much too short, and was, in fact, in¬
admissible. But, notwithstanding these observations, the Com¬
mittee on Wednesday passed the second reading of the measure
essentially in the form it passed the first reading.
The Municipal Council of Berlin hus elected Herr von
Forckenbcck, the President of the Reichstag, Chief Burgo¬
master of the city.
The celebrated German geographer, Dr. Petermann, died
on Thursday week at Gotha. He was bom at Bleiclierede, in
1822, and in early life attached himself to the Geographical
Academy at Potsdam. While there he became acquainted
with Humboldt, for whose work on Central Asia he prepared
the map in 1841. In the task of map making, in writing geo¬
graphical essays, and in the conduct of his well-known
magazine devoted to his favourite study, Pe terra ami’s life wras
passed, his efforts to cultivate an interest in geographical dis¬
covery extending far beyond his own land. In England he
was well known, and had many friends. He took great interest
in Arctic and African exploration, as was recently shown by
his writings in reference to the voyage of the Alert and Dis¬
covery, and Mr. H. M. Stanley's travels in Africa. It was
Petermann who suggested the Missions of Barth, Overwcg,
and Vogel; and it was he who organised the Prussian North
Polar Expedition in 1865-8.
AU8TRIA-HUNGARY.
The Emperor Francis Joseph, in receiving a deputation
from the Tyrol Diet at Innsbruck, expressed himself satisfied
with the country’s defences, adding that the performances of
the riflemen, who knew how to encounter any enemy, had
convinced him that the Tyrol was worth a good defence.
M. Szell, the Hungarian Minister of Finance, has resigned,
and the whole of his colleagues have done the same. 1 his
course of action is attributed to difficulties in connection with
the occupation of the Turkith provinces.
Further progriss has been made in the occupation of B' sma
and the Herzegovina. The Duke of Wurtewburg, the com¬
mander of the 13th Army Corps, telegraphs news of the
capitulation of Livno last Saturday, after a bombardment
| which had lasted from 7.30 a.m. on the previous day. Field
Marshal Lieutenant-General Jovanovich has also telegraphed
| to Vienna that Klobuck, the last stronghold of the Herze¬
govinian insurgents, was occupied at ten o’clock on Saturday
morning, after a violent bombardment lasting five days. Three
divisions of the army of occupation are, it is announced, to be
sent back to Austria, the object for which they have been
operating having been obtained. Severe rain storms are
reported to have prevailed towards the end of last week in
Bosnia, rendering the military roads almost impassable.
RU8SLV AND TURKEY.
A ukase has been issued by the Russian Senate authorising
the police and gendarmes to enter factories at any time, for
the purpose of searching the premises and making arrests if
necessary. Owing to various circumstances, amongst which
may be mentioned the retrocession of Bessarabia to the Czar,
and the future relations between Russia and Roumania, it is
intended again to place the south-western provinces of Russia
under the rule of a Governor-General. It is stated at Rustchuk
that the Emperor of Russia has presented guns for six batteries
of artillery to the new Bulgarian Principality. General
Scobeleff has issued a circular to the authorities of the ter¬
ritory occupied by the Russians in Bulgaria, in which he
threatens to proclaim martial law against those inhabitants
who may rebel against Russian authority. The Porte is stated
to be preparing a similar circular to be published in the pro¬
vinces recently occupied by the Turkish troops.
The British fleet, consisting of the Alexandria, Agincourt,
Invincible, and Research, with the Salamis and Helicon in
company, left Princes Islands on Saturday morning, and, after
appearing for a short time off the entrance of the Bosphorus to
salute the Turkish flag, proceeded to Artaki Bay. Osman Pasha
has been sent by the Sultan to express to Sir A. II. Layard his
regret at not having visited the British fleet before its departure
for Artaki Bay, and to tender his Majesty’s thanks to Admiral
Hornby and the officers and men of the fleet for their conduct
and kind feeling both towards himself and Turkey during their
stay. It is stated that Sir A. II. Layard objects to the plan
suggested by the Porte of generalising the reforms proposed by
England for Asia Minor. It is also said that the Porto intends
to submit the definitive treaty of peace with Russia to the con¬
sideration of the Powers. Another telegram gives a summary
of a circular note addressed by Safvet l’usha to the Tuikish
Ambassadors abroad denying the allegations made by the
Hellenic Government that the Porte is stiiriug up the fanaticism
of the Albanians against Greece and providing them with aims
and ammunition. The note further accuses the Greeks of
aggressive intentions towards Turkey. The Order of the
Medjidie in diamonds, an unusual mark of distinction, has
been conferred by the Sultan upon Safvet Pasha. Sir A. H.
Layard had an audience of five hours’ duration with the Sultan
on Wednesday.
GREECE.
Letters from the Queen and the Prince of Wales, expressing
wishes in favour of an arrangement of a moderate and con¬
ciliatory character being arrived at between Greece and the
Porte, are stated in a Constantinople telegram to have been
sent to Athens by Hobart Pasha. The same despatch Eaysthat
the Russian Government has promised to support the claims of
Greece in the frontier question.
The Chamber of Deputies held its first meeting on Monday,
aud the Government candidate, SI. Sortiropulos, was elected
President by seventy-eight votes.
ROUMANIA.
The Chambers were opened yesterday week with a message
from Prince Charles, which dealt chiefly on the painful sacri¬
fice to which the Roumanians have had to submit through the
decision of the Berlin Congress as to the retrocession of
Bessarabia. The Roumanians, however, are urged to have
faith in the future.
EGYPT.
The Daily News' correspondent at Alexandria telegraphs
that the first Beiram reception since the introduction of the
financial reforms in Egypt was held last Saturday by the
Khedive, when a large number of persons attended to pay
their respects. The Nile, the same correspondent says, con¬
tinues to rise, but there is no fear of an inundation, while
splendid promise is given for the next crops.
AMERICA.
Chin Lam Pin, Chinese Ambassador, presented his cre¬
dentials to President Hayes on Saturday last. He is the first
native Chinese Ambassador to the United States.
Resolutions denouncing repudiation in any form, demand¬
ing the resumption of specie payments, so that “greenbacks”
may be convertible into coin on demand, opposing the Southern
claims to free elections and equal rights, have been adopted by
the New York Republican Convention.
The Nebraska Democratic Convention has adopted a soft
money platform.
The Australian cricketers arrived in New York on Sunday.
Yellow fever is reported to be increasing in the country
districts in the Southern States, especially among the refugees
from infected places. At New Orleans on Monday there were
fifty-four deaths, at Memphis thirty-three, and at Vicksburg
A Reuter’s telegram from New York states that Mr.
Bancroft, the historian, has been thrown from his carriage
and seriously injured.
An explosion occurred last Saturday on board the steam¬
boat Adelphi, running between South Norwalk, Connecticut,
and New York, by which ten persons were killed and many
others received inj uries.
CANADA.
Lord Dufferin, replying to a deputation from the Irish
Protestant Benevolent Society in Toronto, urged upon them
the eradication of ancient religious feuds. In the course of a
speech made by his Lordship on Thursday week, he said that
he had recently proposed that Ontario aud New \ ork should
combine to make a public international park at the Niagara
Falls, and that the Governor of New York had received the
proposition very favourably. _ , ,
It has been declared by the Supreme Court of \ lctona,
Vancouver Island, that the bill recently pusstd by the Legis¬
lative Assembly imposing a tax of 40 dols. upon every China¬
man in the province is unconstitutional and void.
THE CAPE COLONIES.
Fighting, according to the latest intelligence (to Sept. 10)
I received from Capetown, continued at the Transvaal at the
early part of the past month, but without any decisive result.
The country on either side of the St.John’s River had been
1 occupied by the British troops, and Umquikcla, the Chief of
l’ondoland, had been deposed. Permission had beeu given by
Royal Proclamation to the subordinate chiefs to deal directly
I w jth the British Government as the sole paramount authority.
A rich gold-field has beeu discovered in the Transvaal.
JAPAN.
A telegram from San Francisco states that the Emperor
i has adopted his boy cousin as the heir to the throne. The
| telegram also states that a mutiny has occurred in Japan.
Three hundred men belonging to the artillery and the
Imperial Guard mutinied on Aug. 23, and killed three of
their officers. The mutiny was immediately quelled, and is
said to be wholly due to the discontent occasioned by the
reduction of pay in the army and the partiality with which
rewards and decorations have been distributed.
A telegram from Mandalay announces the death, on Wed¬
nesday, of the King of Burmah.
Lieutenant-Colonel R. Murray, Bengal Staff Corps, has
been appointed Director of Indian Telegraphs.
Vice-Admiral R. Cloete, C.B., has been selected for the
command on the China Station, and has left England, en route
to Hong-Kong, to enter upon his duties.
The Queen has appointed Major Charles William Wilson,
C.B., R.E., to be her Majesty’s Commissioner to mark out the
boundaries of the Principality of Servia in accordance with the
limits specified in the thirty-sixth article of the Berlin Treaty.
A scheme for a Vesuvius railway, similar to that constructed
for the ascent of the Righi, has been approved by the Superior
Council of Public Works at Naples.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have awarded
the medal for long service and good conduct to H. A. Barker,
Quartermaster of her Majesty’s ship Lord Warden, and to
John Harvey, commissioned boatman, of the Coast Guard.
His Excellency Sir William Robinson, K.C.M.G., will, it is
stated, invest his Majesty the King of Siam with the Order of
Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George.
The ship Marlborough, Captain Anderson, chartered by
the New Zealand Government, was dispatched from Plymouth
last week with emigrants for that colony. She had on board
336 souls, whose destination was Canterbury, New Zealand.
The German branch of the International African Associa¬
tion has appointed Herr Gerhard Iiohlfs to the command of a
new expedition. He is to set out from Tripolis for the Wadai
country through Koufara and Wuganga. He is then to follow
in part the course of the River Sclnirt to the angle formed by
the Congo, and to return by the road which he will deem most
advantageous.
Tuesday’s Gazette announces the appointment of Major-
General Lothian Nicholson, C.B., R.E., to be Lieutenant-
Governor of Jersey, in the room of Lieutenant-General Sir
William Sherbrooke Ramsuy Norcott, K.C.B., whose period of
service has expired. Wc hear from Jersey that General
Nicholson was sworn in last Tuesday.
A plague of grasshoppers, or locusts, has appeared in the
Central American States, and the crops in Salvador, Honduras,
Cobta Rica, and Nicaragua have been almost entirely destroyed.
The land has been turned into a complete wilderness. The
exportation of cereals and vegetable produce has been pro¬
hibited, and the whole population has been engaged in destroy¬
ing the insects, men, women, and children alike turning out
into the fields for the purpose. The Government of Costa Rica
has recommended the planting of potatoes, which are Baid to
be proof against the attacks of the locusts.
Alderman Grundy, at the unanimous request of the Man¬
chester City Council, has consented to serve as Mayor for
another year.
The late Provost Macneille, of Ayr, has bequeathed his
estate, subject to the life-interest of his widow, for the benefit
of the poor of Ayr who are not in receipt of parochial relief.
The value of the estate is estimated at £10,000.
Christmas aud New-Year cards, tastefully got up, have
been issued at a cheap rate from the office of the Religious
Tract Society, I'ateruoster-row. Among these seasonable
gifts are Bible Blessings, Christmas Wishes, greetings for the
New Year, and Sunday-school reward tickets.
We are authorised to state that, by command of the Prince
of Wales, the banquet to the farmers is fixed for Nov. 7 next at
Willis's Rooms. The buck-hounds will meet in the Harrow
country on the following day. The country banquet will take
place about a week later. No subscriptions can be received
after Saturday, the 26th inst.
The taking off coaches from the roads denotes as plainly
as falling leaves the approach of winter. On Monday the
horses which ran in the Margate and Canterbury coach were
sold at Tattersall’s, and produced an average of twenty-seven
guineas only.—The London and Brighton coach will run its
last journey out of Loudon this season next Saturday.
In view of a winter campaign in Afghanistan, the home au¬
thorities have ordered the immediate dispatch of bedding and
extra clothing for the troops, and already 10,000 blankets and
5000 sheets have been issued from store, at Woolwich, and are
now in course of transmission to Bombay. These are the only
stores yet specially ordered to India.
The following additional annual prizes at the Oxford Mili¬
tary College have been promised By the Chaplain-General,
Bishop Claugli ton, for classics; by Lord Waveney, for horse¬
manship ; by Lord Overstone, for military drawing; and by
Mr. J. MacGregor (“ Rob Roy”) for swimming. A prize for
good conduct and military proficiency has also been promised
by a friend who desires to remain incoy.
The annual meetings of the Amalgamated Society of Rail¬
way Servants of the United Kingdom began on Tuesday at
Liverpool. Mr. P. Stewart Mucliver presided. The general
secretary’s report stated that on June 30 last the society
numbered 207 branches, containing £13,400 members, and
that there was a bulance in hand of £21,000. The president's
address dealt chiefly with the questions of accidents and com¬
pensation to railway servants injured in the performance of
their duties. It was stated by the president that preparations
had been made for the defence of the two persons committed
for trial in connection with the Sittingbourne accident.
Among the awards for gallantry in saving life made at the
Royal Humane Society on Wednesday were a bronze medallion
voted to Mrs. Disney Roebuck, wife of Captain Roebuck, of
the 46th Regiment, and a handsome testimonial inscribed on
vellum to Miss E. Bond, for the following courageous con¬
duct Un the 8th ult. the three Miss Pfeils were bathing at
Broadstairs, when one of them was carried off her feet into
deep water. Another sister, going to her help, was clasped by
the neck and dragged into dei p water; and the third sister,
who went to help the other two, was cuiried out of her depth,
all three being in the utmost danger, when, an alarm having
been given by a man on the cliff above, Mrs. Disney Roebuck,
followed by Miss Bond, her sister, with their clothes on, rushed
in and rescued the three girls lrom their great peril. Mrs.
Roebuck was the first to reach the ladies, and was dragged out
of her depth. Miss Bond, partly wading and swimming, saved
the whole party, the difficulty being much enhanced by the
incumbrance of the clothes of herself and sister and the sltoi g
current setting to the eastward.
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| flat ted cambric of patt^ g^ P “f!°Tam
hv the Americans, and for plain gn fe
, Duval ha, been dctertcd by « ^
Taris damp during the winter, and offensive in the summer.
I dislike, too, our system of apartments. After all our revo¬
lutions we continue to be the slaves of our porters and our
porters’ wives. And one generally has Borne internal enemy,
some noisy or irregular neighbour among the strata of people
o' i 1 1f i ih' S OF THE WEEK. ; ?• the Americans, aud for plaid ginghams lutions we continue to be the slaves of our porters and our
EO HU Eh U V U 1 * Royal progrcb8 , fabrics are all of British manumeture. portercj . ^ olie rally has internal enemy,
General Ulysses S. Grant, after . 0 f the Bust, has been detected by a sharp- some noisy or irregular neighbour among the strata of people
through Eur pe and the more r ^ c _ e8!5 '“ 1 ® o£ interest to his A Monsieur Georges Duval has . j J Houor6 above aud below one. I often wish for the independence, and
returned to Paris, and is ^.^TGenerul wishes eyed Paris journalist in a gross Pla^m ^ Woir ietf and street-door of Belgravia ” We EngtLh, it is true,
countrymen in the French capital. bu ^ with their usual d ' Balzac. M. Duval, having to describe in about cannot all of us live m Belgravia when we are in London, and,
to enjoy a little rest and quiet the Pansians, ^ ^ ftU ftctre8it coolly d e Province i Paris.” as regards Paris, M. de Montalembert spoke of things as they
good taste, have rct . r ‘ u ° ed J™ ™ J K eyes of the fifty liuesirom Balzac s ^ ri " d Iloiu ' 1 ^ gcut]y borrowed- were in 1854 ; but, making all allowances and exceptions, it is
Americans who ‘-ought to know day m0 re steadily Who has not stolen-or, to put ^ “^^Vmaine”^ The doubtful, even now, whether a Londoner would do well to
people of the United Mates^xetun J fop th j, frorn the illustrious, authorof C° d he .. Dame aux .. gw0 p,” as an American would say, with a Parisian of the
enmards the Hero oi viCKSourg no « _efflec In BcpiH! of Marguerite nprammrv circumstances
“swop,” as an American would say, with a Parisian of the
towards the Hero of ^cksburg^i^ ^ ^ term of office. In death-bed scene of Marguerite, Aiexnnder Diunas the same social and pecuniary circumstances
MS General Grant once mow be elected Camellias wMwefflj the death of Coralie; and As for ” the life of a county gentlemmi La the Department
M 0 *’ M^t^an American artist 1 of an imaginative turn younger from Ba^ac’s descnption of^thej J o{ our ’ 0 wn of th e Sarthe,” let us see what answer was made by M. Beau-
^“■n'emberiug tbedegend of Dick Whittington, pain^a manifold was the indebtedness to the same ^ ont when h e was asked “ how he liked” it. “ l am busy,”
uTyS. as ayonng ? detat Wes^t Lord Lytton.
hlteSn?KTS?fm wStie on the Hudson River railroad, Georges Duval’s explanation of his plagiarifm is, to say ^jing Latinwith nylon and learning English fromhfcnl
listening to sounds into 'J •”„„, lioua He informs the public he lias a pro h t man age au estate of about seven hundred acres, sur-
and construing the shriU sonna L fm moTaSd that toe gift occasionally becomes an rounded by a g ou t one or tw0 hundred small owners, who are
£ again,’ U. 8. G., ?, Eon inasmuch as he is apt when writing to be unable to ftl trying to nibble bits away from me. I grow my own
Three time. PrcM **« United State, oj Amenca. dfettasrafeh his own language and thoughts from those of whe /t and vegetables, aud produce my own milk and butter,
ThP w, r t of it is-at least so it appears to English students of distmguish t may be admissible to English people d wine -at least, the wine tor my servants. So that I have
T meric an noli ties—to at in the rime of American Presidential other 1 which arose some six-aud- occu tion and domestic pleasures, but I have none of what
iSatesTis usually a “ dark horse ” that is nominated- I ^ 0 n ^“ e “ b 8 er a „n e about the Earl of Beaconsfield (then Mr. are ^Ued the pleasures of society. . . . The country
do nit believe that one educated Englishman in ^ thousand tweny^ years ag fc mortuary panegync on the Duke d me 8Warrns w ith gentilshommes who have good blood
bad ger heard of Abraham Lincoln when it was‘ announced “ a ”Jn the morrow of the delivery of that elo- and good man ncrs; they want nothing but intelligence and
that the Illinois lawyer and rail-splitter, destined to fill so of a liard -hearted book-worm wrote to the knowledge . . . . They shoot, they fish, they play at
illustrious a place in the history of his country, was to be we a o r* .® fe tQ int out tbat the glowing periods which dornino> they farm their little properties, and if they would
» w " for the Presidency; and I suspect that quitasmuch M J ^ House of Commons had been fadh- k oufc o£ way I should not complain of them; but they
ignorance prevailed in England touching the merits ot Mr naa {rom a funerea l oration pronounced over the have a terrible habit of coming to pass a day with you . . ;
Haves when that gentleman beat Mr. Tilden. y f tbe French Marshal Gouvion de St. Cyr. Mr. Disraeli s tbcy are i nca pable of taking a hmt, because they are incapable
. , nw pverv thine obviously. Innumerable Derfec tly satisfactory explanation was that he bad bunselt Qf enteriug into the feelings of a man who considers time as
But one cannot ^owe^thmg, y d defiance at the p ^ tmBs]ation iuto English many years before the anything b ut an enemy.” This picture does not lead one to
corre-^pondents of this Joumol hurl^ for 8ome Duke > s deat b, and that, finding it in his commonplace book, 1 that the English country gentleman, any more than
wretched.writer of1‘beBe Echoes because oUen .” The • ’ ed tb ^ wing peri ods to be all his own. But th ^ Londoner, would care to “ swop » with his French
infomation^pectmgtoe L d t ^ the 6 matter of the h “ he ^naturedcriticsf when Mr. Disraeli commonplaced allel . for> everything else being equal, the English country
wXh hSits mSLcharitable to other folks’ blunders. th “ oration the Duke of Wellington was-alive and b^rty and gentleman , 8 neighbours do not play at domino,” at any
Thn«M was only with a gentle smile that I noticed the other Mr Disraeli had nothing to do with Marshal Gonjmn d . ratC) ag a gener al rule.
day 1 that'an LitocntParisian journalist, M. Albert Millaud, Cyr _ T o the death of what.great commander to^ the^writer What sort of orator is Lord Beaconsfield ? Here is
had written a leading article in the Figaro commenting on the iu the commonplace book referring? The r J Lamartine’s reply, given by inference, when he was asked
nromotionof Loto Beaconsfield to be “Comte Cairns et triump hant. There was an aUusionm the speech to the white whcther Montalembert were not a great orator: “ No. He
Gartmoyle ” How was the French journalist to dis- head of a famous Roman General, Stihchomsapex. Obviously, for gome purpoee3) a goo d rhetorician ; he can elaborate a
StoSe between the nice nuances of the British Peerage. Mr Di8ra Gi had composed an imaginary discourse upon the g h iu hLj cabinet, full of sharp hits and epigrammatic
“French nuzzles” are fashionable just now; but what an deat h of Stilicho. conceits, and deliver it with point and effect; he can pleate
__ A ... * , •, • i .v. Mor/nilunf T.nmpis in reality OlnV —- - i rolmi. 1ia Ain 'atk rrmnli more, wound his
lie replied: “If
engaged in a work on Austria. I a
EncHskouzzle it is that the Marquis of Lome is in reality only --— hig frie n ds , and, what he enjoys much more wound his
Sir John Douglas Campbell, and the Marquis of Hartington is CONVERSATION S. enemies. He is just such a speaker as your Disraeh . . .;
only “ commonly so called,” and is simply Mr. Cavendish. he is a clever speaker, not a great orator. Altogether,
3 i,. Imaginary conversations between great, or celebrated, or M de Montalembert does not come out in these conversations
I hope that I am not v\o\o.txnglcsconvenance ... . ... notorious personages have before now met with considerable as tbe u very superior person” he was considered to be, at
fiances when I hint that, at tbe invitation of one of the love acceptance, as the literary career of Walter Savage Landor is lea8tamong 4rtain circles in thiscountry. As for Napoleon III.’s
ladies whom I have the honour to know, I dined the other y guffl ^ ent to sbow; but as regards the majority of the world arch _ imp ° s M . victor Hugo regards him, it would probably
at the Cafe Anglais with one of the _ a ^ ve "£ D , there is nothing like the leaven of reality to tempt the appetite cauge tl f e illustr ious poet a very bad quarter of an hour, as well
Corsican Brothers. Do not start reader Ihere was no a , ^ to promote digcst ion. And it is just reality winch gives M an outburst of sardonic laughter, to read how “the Cures
neither was there a Ghost Scene dorm our pleasant rep . portance to the two huge volumes entitled Conversations with . particular neighbourhood “ all talked with effusion of ce
The Original Corsican Brothers are^both> bapp^m the Und by the late Nassau William Senior; bQn P 8aiufc Monsieur de Momy ; ” but then M. Victor Hugo
of the living; but it was on certam episodes m the edited by his daughter, M. C. M. Simpson (EHmt and Blackett), WQuId considers the ordinary pnest capable of
arising from the phenomenal-1 may almost say supernatural * WQrk containing printed proof of a father s prodigious thin
sympathy existing between them that Akx^^reEMmas^he memory and of a daughter’s discreet and considerate editor- ? g conclude with some remarks made in 1855
«bip, I^creduhty is the chief feelmg with which one approaches ^ h e *™ leon m . by M , Grimbtot, who is described as
Elder founded his romance ot inecorauiu 8 hin Incredulity is the chief feeling with which one approaches TIT . M ( 4rfmh1nt who is described as
w M eubsequeutly amU-—to ^^ 0 ! perLal, .nd th. mc?eduli„ i. mcrc^ed rather ^uctang Napdeon UL^by ^r^tto
SSSS
iwned Republican Deputy. pages of his journals. No mortal memory, it seems, could ; » and, so
Those “ French puzzles ” in the World (to the usefulness of possibly have’retained so much, even if the mental resen-oir ^ring'^n^Th^Tetungs^ of the 1'rench people, “ he has
which I have already borne testimony) continue, in some cases, were habitually and methodically relieved by a process of t i g g xed ideil8 na to the wishes of the French people,
to^presuppo'e^TffiSg amount of ignorance, not only of bottling off,as it were at regular tor = lor mto^jLbuta. “S f rom tr^to time coincide with the truth, juntas a
the P French language, but of general literature among the soon as might be after a new supply, the continually dodf wMch stauds 8tm is twice in the twenty-tour hours
World's refined and fashionable readers. “ Whence comes and increasing flood of impressions into obli\ion-tight receptacles, exflctly righ t ; but he cannot follow the movements of public
of qualities in which he was commonly supposed to excel.
“ Louis Napoleon,” we read, “wants the first talent of a
Sovereign, a knowledge of human nature; ” and, so far from
entering into the feelings of the French people, “ he has
soon as might be after a new supply, the continually ™ k stauds BtjU is twice in the twenty-four hours
increasing flood of impressions into oblivion-tight receptacle
This is one of the “ puzzles ” propounded this week. Docs the . „„„„„ __
“ French editor ” assume that nobody reads Voltaire's understood that the late Mr. Senior took opinion ofsorne, ^ hg wid Not from auy feelings of honour, or fidelity, or
“Candide?” The Admiral who was shot at Portsmouth pour if not ail, ot the personages ruth whom he had^TOnverad.and honesty for bc is not affected by them. He has no moral
encourager les autres ” was Admiral Byng ? that they admitted the accuracy with which lie had represented / h doe uot iu tbe English sense of the word, know
6 their sentiments aud statements, or even corrected them with ^ „ » y . , ® suDnosed by almost general
I have no desire, myself, to engage in a « puzzle ’’ com- their own hands. At the same time it cannot be supposed England at the height ot his prosperity, \o be him-
petition; yet I should be very pleased it some of the accomplished that he put down on paper their very language : it is sufficient 1 b „l l able to “ ee through a stone wall or a
linguists with whom I occasionally correspond through the if we have the essence of what they said. The conversations “u. inscruraoiei u peor.le’s nature as easily an
medium of this column would furnish me with the English g i ve n iu the two volumes now under consideration were held 1 ,’ j / flddle-strincs and to be ivs faithful to the
equivalents for the foUowing French locutions. 1 confess that w itb. more or less distinguished persons who were intimately A “ wi nf his pvile-unless he should be abso-
they puzzle me :— 1 "A bon chat bon rat." (The stern joy that acquainted with the state of political affairs and of private as fneuds and the land ot n s a c to take vengeance
warriors feel In foernen worthy of their steel.” Would that we {! a8 pub i ic feeling in France and elsewhere during the ^eb’ ^rced by his nation and his ^ tw0
do?) “ Fautc d'un mow Vabbaye nc chdine pas." (The House period included between 1852 and 18R0. That was the first fo*™*™”™ ™*** ^ , y t _ , hl! aonreciution they deserve,
of Commons could get on without Mr.-, -the celebrated decade of the Second French Empire ; and, naturally enough, wonderfully attractn e i olumes to the appreciation y
ia-diiaf. The iB a u.. £&.***:
Thi, U one of the “ police " propounded tbi. week. Dj-jta sTetor tookXtpmSof L, *>. «>“> “ thful » «’ e ol,i ™f e - 1
they puzzle me:—“ A bon chat bon rat." (The stern joy that acq uainted with the state of political affairs and of private as , . nT)d lds name to take vengeance
wamors feel In foernen worthy of their steel.” Would that we {! a8 pubUc feeling in France and elsewhere during the ^eb’ ^rced by his nation and his »«“ lea f e two
do?) "Fautc d'un movie Vabbaye nc chdine pas." (The House period included between 1852 and 18R0. That was the first , h e aupreciation they deserve.
of Commons could get on without Mr.-, -the celebrated d0 cade of the Second French Empire; and, naturally enough, wonderfully attractiv e i olumes to the apprtcianou y
Obstructionist member. Would that be an equivalent ?) “ II the prominent topic is Napoleon HI., his character, liis policy, ——
met de Veau dans son tin." Mcttrc de I'eau dans son vin means his fatalism, his popularity and unpopularity, his improvidence, „ , , , . i n of £4000
to act with circumspection, or to speak with bated breath; but his abilities. It is probable that, what with Victor Hugo on A large Congregational chapel, erected a { ^
I know of no proverbial British equivalent to the French one side, and what with many writers of much inferior calibre was opened at Yeovil on \V ednesduy. An . f nU 0 f
expression. “ Manger de la vache enrages." That puzzles me on the other, the English reader has had about enough of proceedings Mr. Morley spoke on tree C .^ U . AC . ’
entirely; so does “ Tirer le diahle par la qtteue" which means to Napoleon III., whose proper measure is most likely to be which he thought there was scope, and saian aVtt ;j td
obtain money by desperate expedients. “Mcttrc du Join dans ascertained by the almost infallible method of striking a they would benefit by antagonism. Mr. Money J* . ‘ o£
set bottes." 1 give that up. " Le pate d' anguille cst bon; mais balance between the best and the worst that has been said of himself of his visit to Yeovil to address a large
they would benefit by antagonism. Mr. Moiley also a ' u ‘^
himself of his visit to Yeovil to address a large number oi
xlnefaut pas in abater." The only equivalent I can find for him, whether physically, mentally, or morally. We all know friends of the temperance movement.
this last locution is in Sam Weller’s “ rather too rich, as the how, especially in these days of innumerable newspapers, with meeting 0 f the Royal South Bucks Agricultural Aeso-
young lady remarked of the pork pie which was all fat.” their “ world-wide circulation ” and their universal influence, c i a tion held on Wednesday at Datchet, the Prince Consort
.... , , „ , ... ,. T the snowball of glorification or of vilification is rolled m\ v ~ r c„ n v „i„ e fu , pllt „ n,vm P n« triven by the Queen for root
And here is a puzzle for the French editor himself. In and increased in bulk untU it attains dimensions out-of ™Cup, value ti ven $ e^^L^ykham; Mr. Ives, of
Sedame s play of ‘ Richard Cmur de Lion the tioubadour a H proportion to the merits or demerits of any human being. t „ t L’,. v tnViTirr B prnnd nrize a niece of plate, value ten
Blondel sings a song which becomes the rallying cry of the j n couuec tion with Napoleon III. and the first ten years of hvMr v u I Iimbert Ml’. The members
Royahsts in the early days of the first French Revolution, his reign, it is a matter of course that we should find such a f tbe uometv dined in the evtnine at the Royai Hotel, Slough.—
The irst veree of the song run. thus 5ubjecte of convenatiou M the Crimean War and whatever !?JSh wSum Agricultuna
O Richard, 6 mon roi, and whoever had anything to do with it, Orsini’s plot and .l;.- 1,1 ,l,.v t.t Knrth Walsham, Norfolk,
murderous attempt, the swagger of the French Colauela and an TwS«geS att^dc^^^ in the eveing Lord
Qui s’intdresse Ji ta personne. their offensiveness towards England, _ the Italian War, the Snffip1d nrp °; d ' d nild 8U nnorted bv Lord Carington, Sir
Qui s’ uitCressc ft ta personae.
A Periaian new^aper h^ !ate ly peintol out.that thisd^ca. —
Corneille s othcr more or les ? co ? nate matters ; and it would be difficult From a Parliamentary return issued by an order of the
tmeredv nf “ Nienmedp ”_ to exaggerate the interest attaching to the diversity of opinion House of Commons it appears there are 458 old savings b
irageay oi ixicomeue among persons all competent, if not equally competent, to in the United Kingdom. The number of accounts open in
Et jc ne vois que vous qui le puisse am ter. form a judgment. It is not improbable, however, that ordinary these banks is 1,509,847, and the sum at the eredn oi
A lady who is a great authority on matters of costume readers will derive most gratification from the conversations depositors £44,238,686 ; and, notwithstanding five banks va
(and in many other things, alas !) tells me that the most con- which have reference to quite another sort of persons and 3421 accounts and an aggregate capital of £104 929 were clos
spicuous feature in the Paris autumnal fashions will be the things, and from the descriptions interspersed among the during the past year, the number of depositors mcrease
white waistcoat with gilt buttons: the jacket buttoned over dialogues, such as Ristori and Rachel, and their points of 16,446, and the amount by £954,986. There were l,o51,i*>
the vest, but cut away so as to display the waistcoat flaps, similitude and dissimilitude, and such as the very charming deposits, and 1,099,447 payments, or 2,950,640 transactions
A dove-coloured or a silver-grey dress, with a waistcoat sketch of M. Guizot’s home and mode of life at Val Richer, during the year. The number of paid officers employed wa§
coulcur cardinal (why not lobster colour? Did not Jules Janin It is always advisable that people should learn to be as con- 1576, their salaries amounted to £112,7t9, and the amount or
once call the crustaceous delicacy “ the Cardinal of the seas ?), tented as possible with their own country; but among our- security given to the Government by them was £380,610. At
likewise promises to be much worn this autumn. I remember selves there is a tendency to believe, or perhaps to pretend to the close of the year the amount owing to depositors in theoitt
that English ladies used to wear waistcoats some five-nnd- beheve, that Pans is a nicer city than London to live in, and savings banks was £44 238 686 to meet which the Government
twenty years ago; and Pepys mentions a similar fashion as that the Ponnau cabs are better and better managed than our held (including the surplus funds) £44,475,777, and in addi-
L Suffield presided, and was supported by Lord Carington,
T. Foweli Buxton, Colonel Duff, M.P., and others.
twenty years ugo ; unu repys mentions a mmum mouiun os ., r, ... , ““u ucuer managed than our iield (uicluding the surplus funds) £44,4 to, M i, » uu
prevailing amoDg the British fair in 1662. So far as my own own L he latter heresy has, no doubt, been much shaken l it. ly tion there was in the hands of the local treasurers £300,/5b,
observation goes, the “trail of the serpent” seems to be by t»u> exposures which took place during the late “ cab strike ’ lor which the Government held security to the amoimt oi
uuo '-‘ b —, ,-; ,, vr . zp r; ----- -- -- - „ - --uiu lor wuicu me government neiu security to
Bpreading over the whole of the Pans fashions. Hate and m Paris £317,910; so that, whilst the assets amounted to £44,/76,533,
shoes of boa-constnctor a skin are accounted exquisitely a la And now let us see what M. de Montalembert told Mr. the liabilities to depositors were only £ 44 , 238 , 686 , showing A
mode ; jewelled serpents are worn in the hair ; and bouquet- ht i u f“The large open spaces,” he clear surplus of £537,847 in favour of the banks. During the
holders are usually in the form either of snakes or lizards. Mad, the ground occupied by public buildings, hospitals, and past ten years the depositors in the old savings banks have
When will the reign of frogs and toads come in, I wonder ? C °™?***’ and the ' mmiur “ which shops, mauufaetories, and increased 124,065 in number and £7,704,670 in money,
Mem : English ladies of fashion have been much addicted, being kept separate as'they M^wiS^ou^endei^thid^t^ ° f allll0ugh 81 bauk ? have closed during that Period.
auriAg to P»t . a seatog to l-s to dices o! giesf , P . Then the'opai Osiriskeep'to’greaterp’art'of
COT. 5, 1878
THE ILLUSTEATED LONDON NEWS
319
THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Hudson, Richard, to be Perpetual Curate of St. Peter’s, Bury.
Jackson. P.; Vicir of Kingsteignton, Newton-Abbot.
Lu^as,M B. G. R ; Perpetual Curateof Chilton super Polden-cum-Edicgton
Norris. James; Perpetual Curate of St. Mary’s, Rawtenstall.
Pendered, W. L.; vicar of Ennerdale, Caraforth.
Shoiland, 'William Henry; Perpetual Curate of Oakhill .— Guardian
The Bishop of Ripon last Saturday consecrated the new
Church of St. John, at Cote Hill, Worley, near Halifax.
An organ, built by Mr. Alfred Monk, of Camden-town, will
be opened at St. Anne’s, Hoxton-street, on Sunday, the 6th inst.
An illuminated address, bound in morocco, and a purse
containing £60, have been presented to the Rev. Cunningham
Geikie, by the congregation of St. Peter’s, Dulwich.
The Sussex Advertiser states that a handsome window is to
be placed in St. Ann’s Church, Lewes, as a memorial to the
late Mark Antony Lower, the well-known Sussex archaeologist.
The memorial-stone of the Marsh Memorial Church, Rum-
worth, Bolton, was laid last Saturday by Mr. T. L. Rushton.
Excluding the site, which has been presented by Mr. J.
Ormerod, the cost of the church will be £3950.
It is proposed to erect a new cathedral at Colombo, on the
old Rifle Parade ground, at a cost of £25,000. It is arranged
that the present edifice, known as St. Peter’s Church, formerly
a Dutch official building, shall be taken over by the authorities,
the amount of the valuation going towards the construction
fund of a new cathedra 1 .
The festival service held in aid of the funds for the restora¬
tion of Tewkesbury Abbey Church added £350 to the sum
already raised for this object. The committee were fortunate
in obtaining, through the influence of Mrs. Ellicott, wife of
the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, the gratuitous assistance
of Madame Patey, Mr. Edward Lloyd, and Mr. Wadmore.
The Earl of WhamclifEe, Mr. W. Spencer-Stanhope, M.P.,
and Mr. F S. Powell have issued a circular in reference to the
Wakefield bishopric, announcing that an account named “The
Wakefield Bishopric Fund Account ” has been opened at
Messrs. Beckett’s Bank, Leeds, and also at Bradford, and at
Wakefield. They add that Viscount Cranbrook has, un¬
solicited, promised £1000.
On Wednesday, Sept. 25, at Bettisfield, a district of the
parish of Hanmer, in Flintshire, the Bishop of St. Asaph con¬
secrated a village church, which was built some time since, at
the cost of Lord Hanmer, in whose estate the district lies.
The building is of Btone, from Cefn and Grinshill, with a red-
tiled roof, and was designed by Mr. Street. It is cruciform
in plan, and consists of chancel, with aisles, nave, and
transepts.
After being closed four years for the purpose of under¬
going necessary restoration, the parish church of Handsworth
was reopened last Saturday afternoon by the Bishop of Lich¬
field. The cost of the restoration is £10,000, towards which
about £8000 had been contributed prior to the consecration
■ervice. The Bishop, in his sermon, expressed his gratification
at the renewed activity which was now perceptible throughout
the country in regard to church building and restoration.
The consecration of St. Mary’s, Lottisham, by the Bishop
of Bath and Wells, took place on Wednesday, Sept. 25. The
new church is intended as a chapel-of-ease to the parish
church of West Bradley, and has been built at a cost of about
£1700. On Friday all the poor of Lottisham were regaled
with a supper. The church was built and endowed chiefly at
the expense of the late Dr. Henry Jcukyns, Canon of Durham,
his son, Mr. Jenkyns, and some others interested in the parish.
Mr. Henry Marshall, assistant-secretary of the Curates’
Augmentation Fund, was charged at the Westminster Police
Court on Monday with embezzling upwards of £1000 belonging
to the fund. It was stated that it was the prisoner’s duty to
enter the amounts received on behalf of the fund and pay
them into the bank. During the present year he had received
£9767, of which only £8697 had been accounted for. He
admitted to two members of the council that his defalcations
amounted to £3000. He was remanded, bail being refused.
The restoration of the exterior of the south transept of
York Minster, one of the oldest and most interesting portions
of the edifice, is proceeding in a very satisfactory manner,
under the supervision of Mr. G. E. Street, R. A. The east aisle
was completed some time ago, and the west aisle has been
restored as far as possible at present. The restoration of the
central arch of the transept, containing the famous rosette
window, will, it is calculated, be completed in about eighteen
months. The Dean and Chapter are promoting a musical
festival to be held at the Minster on the 29th inst. in aid of the
restoration fund.
The Church of St. Michael, Overton, near Marlborough, was
reopened on Wednesday, Sept. 25. The church, which is a
handsome structure, has been rebuilt entirely at the cost of
the trustees of Sir H. Meux, Bart., the Marquis of Ailesbury,
and Lord Malden. Many costly gifts, iucluding two stained
windows, a set of silver communion vessels, a lectern, books,
and other fittings, have been presented by the parishioners
and other friends. The Earl of Pembroke also presented a
two-manual organ. A public luncheon was held after the
morning service in a tent, the Rev. F. W. Welbum, Vicar,
presiding. During the afternoon tea was provided for between
300 and 400 of the poor of the parish
At Sheffield on Monday the Archbishop of York con¬
secrated the first of nine new churches to be erected in that
town within five years, under a scheme for church extension.
This one is to be called the Sale Memorial Church, and is
erected in memory of the Rev. Canon Sale, late Vicar of
Sheffield. Canon Sale had long wished to see a church erected
in that locality, which was almost destitute of church accom¬
modation ; and it was thought the most fitting tribute to his
memory would be to carry out his long-treasured scheme.
This has now been done, and the church, which has cost
£10,000, will accommodate about 800. A sermon was preached
by the Bishop of Sodor and Man, who succeeded Canon Sale
as Vicar of Sheffield.
Under the presidency of the Archbishop of York, the
annual Church Congress began its proceedings on Tuesday at
Sheffield. About 2000 of the clergy and laity were present.
The introductory address was given by the Archbishop, who
entered upon a defence of Church Congresses, some influential
persons having sought to induce all the clergy of the Evan¬
gelical school to withhold their presence from this meeting.
His Grace also spoke at some length on the Pan-Anglican
Synod. He was very explicit on the subject of the confessional,
which could lay claim to no primitive antiquity, and which
was deeply repugnant to the feelings and instincts of English
people as a whole. The congress afterwards proceeded to the
discussion of some of the numerous papers set down for hear¬
ing ; and prominent amongst those subjects was that of foreign
and colonial missions.—The most important subject of discus¬
sion on Wednesday was the just limits of comprehensiveness
in the national Church, which was introduced by the Hon.
Charles Wood, and gave rise to an animated debate, at the
close of which the Archbishop spoke in strong terms con¬
cerning the resistance of the Ritualists to the authority of the
Bishops, and said it seemed to him a thing to “ make the
angels weep” that the Ritualists should be goir^ on in the
course they were pursuing.
On Thursday, Sept. 26, the ancient parish church of
Market Deeping, Lincolnshire, dedicated to St. Guthlac, was
reopened alter restoration. Richard de Rulos, a relative of
Here ward the Wake, about a.d. 1050, founded a chapel at
Deeping, dedicated to St. Guthlac, and made it the parish
church. The present building (now restored) is considered to
date from about a d. 1170, the nave having both pointed and
rounded arches. The exterior of the church is chiefly Per¬
pendicular in style. The north aisle has been rebuilt and
enlarged, adding some seventy sittings to the church An
organ-chamber and vestry have been built. The church has
been seated with oak seats, carved with emblems from Croy-
land Abbey or from monuments found in the church. The
cross over the porch is copied from the hermitage at Peakirk,
where it is said Pega, the sister of St. Guthlac, lived. Many
gifts, including hangings for the sanctuary, embroidered with
flowers from the Fen, the pulpit, subscribed for by school
children, with panels of olive-wood brought from Jerusalem,
adorn the restored parish church. The church porch and tower
were illuminated at night.
Four new churches were opened on Thursday week at
Barrow-in-Furness. Previously there were but three Episcopal
churches in the town for a population of 40,000. I’he Bishop
of Carlisle, in a sermon preached two years ago, pointed out
how essentially necessary it was to extend the church accom¬
modation in the town, and a movement was set on foot by Sir
James Itamsden and other gentlemen with this object. It was
determined to build four new churches in various parts of the
town, and to dedicate them to the Four Apostles. The sum of
£24,000 was soon placed at the disposal of the committee. The
Duke of Devonshire gave £12,000, thus practically giving effect
to one half of the scheme ; the Duke of Buccleuch gave £6000;
Mr. II. W. Schneider (Mayor of Barrow) gave £1000; Sir
James Ramsden, £500; and the remaining £4500 has been con¬
tributed by others. It was resolved that temporary churches
should be erected in the first place, and permanent parsonages;
but it is ultimately iutended that permanent churches shall
take the place of the temporary edifices. The churches are
constructed of wood and brick, and embrace the ordinary
church arrangements-chancel, nave, and north and south
aisles. Their extreme length is 102 ft., and their breadth 50 ft.
The sittings are open, and in each church there is room for
520 worshippers. The opening of the churches took place
simultaneously, the Bishop of Carlisle officiating at St.
Matthew’s, the Bishop of Hereford at St. Mark’s, the Bishop
of Sodor and Man at St. Luke’s, and the Archbishop of York at
St. John’s. At a luncheon held afterwards the Duke of
Devonshire, who presided, spoke with satisfaction respecting
the growth of churches in the province of York. He could
not conceal the anxiety, however, which somewhat qualified
this satisfaction, occasioned by the internal state of the
Church. The Archbishop of York referred to the same
circumstance as merely a passing phase.
Yesterday week the Bishop of Ripon consecrated a church
of a remarkable character. In March, 1871, the foundation-
stone of a new church at Studley Royal was laid by the
Marchioness of Ripon (then Countess de Grey), at the end of
the avenue in the park, which was intended for the villages of
Aldfield and Studley Royal, in place of two old chapels The
building is in the thirteenth century style, and is from designs
by Mr. Burgess. The church consists of a nave, with aisles,
chancel and inner chancel, vestry and west tower, and a spire
152 ft. high. The porch is on the south side, and has a
richly moulded archway, and in the gable is a sculptured repre¬
sentation of the Annunciation, the Holy Ghost being figured
in the quatrefoil above. The chancel is in two bays, divided
by bold buttresses. The windows are in pairs. The
east window occupies the whole width between the buttresses,
and has four lights. The central piece of sculpture is the
Crucifixion ; on the right are figures of St. George and the
Dragon and St. Bernard with his book; on the left those of
St. Wilfrid with his episcopal staff, and St. Gabriel with his
6word and shield. The tracery of the west window represents
the Root of Jesse and the Ancestors of our Lord, on the sill
of the window being the reclining figure of Jesus. The
window of itself contains scenes in the life of the Blessed
Virgin. The subjects of the aisle windows are all scriptural.
UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The Rev. J. R. Magrath, M.A., Vice-Provost, was on
Thursday morning elected Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford,
in the room of the Ven. W. W. Jackson. Mr. Magrath was
appointed to the office of Provost of the Society on Dr.
Jackson becoming incapacitated by age in 1877. Mr. Edward
Westrop Dorrington, of Christ’s Hospital, has teen elected to
a Holme Exhibition at Queen’s College, Oxford, of £45 a year
for five years.
Mr. George Pirie, M.A., Cambridge University, son of Prin¬
cipal Pirie, Aberdeen, lias been appointed Professor of Mathe¬
matics at Aberdeen, in room of Dr. Fuller, resigned. Professors
Nicol (Natural History) and Harvey (Materia Medica) have both
resigned their chairs on account of failing health. In both
cases the appointments lie with the Crown.
Viscount Cardwell was present on Tuesday at the opening
of the session at Owens College, Manchester (of which col¬
lege he is a governor), and presided over a meeting held in the
chemical theatre, to hear the introductory letter, by Professor
Ward, on “ Some University Experience of the Renaissance
Age in Germany.” There was a large attendance of the
friends of the college and students. His Lordship spoke in
terms of high praise of the important work which the college
was doing and its general efficiency, and expressed a belief
that, from the completeness of the schemes and the objects at
which it successfully aimed, it must be regarded as a singular
accession to the academical strength of the country.
Professor Henry Morley gave on Wednesday the intro¬
ductory lecture at the opening of the session of the faculties of
arts, laws, and science at University College, the subject being
the Origin and Progress of University College, from its incep¬
tion in 1825, and its subsequent establishment, down to the
present day, when the decision of the governing body relative
to the higher education of women comes into operation.
Professor Huxley on Tuesday evening inaugurated, the new
session of the local branch of the Society for the Extension
of University Teaching by a lecture on Physiology as a
Branch of University Education, at St. Mary’s School-Room,
Whitechapel. The Rev. S. A. Barnett presided, and the room
was crowded to excess. Professor Huxley, who was cordially
welcomed, gave a very interesting sketch of the lines which a
course of lectures in physiology might suitably follow. He
deprecated the adoption of the maxim, “ A little knowledge is
a dangerous thing,” if only the knowledge was real knowledge,
and said that what was a little knowledge now would have
been a great deal of knowledge not long ago. Sifch know¬
ledge in phyeiology as Harvey would have given his right
hand to possess was worth having on its own account. Ho
believed, therefore, that the work done by the sociity in
setting on foot lectures and classes in various districts of
London and the suburbs was a work well worth doing. At
the conclusion of the address Mr. F. Rogers said that, as a
working man of the Tower Hamlets district, he could testify
to the interest excited there by the society’s teaching.
Mr. Gladstone visited King William’s College, Castletown,
Isle of Man, on Wednesday, and addressed the boys. The
Principal, Dr. Jones, had suggested a lecture on Homer. The
time, place, and surrounding circumstances were extremely
suitable, but he objected. He was, however, glad the request
had been made, us it showed an appreciation of the old
poet, and he hoped all looked forward to reading him.
He expressed great pleasure to see such unmistakable
signs of interest there in ancient study. Although he
would not lecture on Homer, he would be glad to answer
any question. He knew the main cause of success in
schools to be in the teachers, and the centre of their life was
the Head Master. The rearing of the young was different,
and its varied requirements were increasing with the standard
of education. Boys could be helps to their teachers, could
cheer them, and make their work sweet. He impressed
strongly upon the boys the enormous importance of taking
every advantage of the passing time, cautioning them not to
let it slip through their hands, but to let every hour produce
fruits of an enduring character. Play earnestly, said he,
among yourselves, and let your work also be earnest. All
must be resolute and manly in whatever God had set them to
do, as the principles of courage, duty, and perseverance were
requisite for mauhood. In conclusion, he wished all a con¬
tinuation of their present prosperity, and prayed that God
would grant them health and happiness. On his leaving the
boys lined both sides of the road and cheered lustily.
Lord Carnarvon, as president of the Salt Schools, Saltaire,
gave an address there last Tuesday on the general subject of
education, his chief point being that instruction should be
more largely than at present directed to the development of
the moral side of character.
Mr. S. C. Logan, M.A., educated at the Perse Grammar
School, Cambridge, Foundation Scholar of St. John’s College,
and Goldsmith’s Exhibitioner, has been elected Head Master
of the Hull Grammar School.
The City of London School Committee have agreed upon a
report to the Court of Common Council, the principal point in
which is a recommendation that the foundation be removed
from its old site in Honey-lane Market to a new site on the
Thames Embankment, adjacent to the Royal Hotel. It is
estimated (says the City Frees) that the old site will produce
upwards of £100,000.
At the commencement of this term the following were
appointed to masterships in Reading SchoolThe Rev.
J. G. Cheshire, B.A., Scholar of St. Catherine’s College, Cam¬
bridge; Mr. F. P. Barnard, B.A., Exhibitioner and Honour-
man in Modem History, Pembroke College, Oxford ; Mr. C.
Brodie Searle, B.A., of the University of London ; Mr. A. J. H.
Barber, member of the Royal Society of Musicians, and
formerly Vicar-Choral of Ripon Cathedral.
A scholarship, to be held by the son of one of our foreign
missionaries, has been founded at St. John’s College, Hurst-
pierpoint, in memory of the Rev. R. L. Pennell, formerly a
master in that school, who died at Zanbibar whilst engaged in
work for the Central African Mission. This is the second
Mission Scholarship that has been founded at Hurstpierpoiut.
An examination for cadetships at the Royal Military
College, Sandhurst, will take place at the University of Lon¬
don, Burlington-gardens, on Monday, Dec. 2, and following
days, the first day being devoted to medical examination.
The election of the Head Master of Portsmouth Grammar
School took place at the meeting of the governing body on
the 19th—the Vicar, the Rev. E. P. Grant, presiding. There
were sixty-one candidates, three of whom were selected for an
interview with the governors—namely, Mr. Agar, assistant
master at the Manchester Grammar School; Mr. Bond, second
master at the Middle-Class School, Cowper-street, London ;
and Mr. Jerrard, head classical assistant master at the
Norwich Grammar School. Mr. Jerrard was unanimously
elected. The school has recently been reorganised, and the
new building, erected on land reclaimed by the demolition of
the fortifications, will be finished by the close of the year.
The administration of Abingdon School, Berks, passes this
month, under its new scheme, into the hands of a new govern¬
ing body. The school was founded in the reign ol EUzubeth
by John Roysse, citizen and mercer of London. Thomas
Tesdale, the first scholar admitted into the school, and his
nephew, William Bennett, were great benefactors: Tesdale
endowed the ushership and Bennett established scholarships
in the school. Tesdale’s munificence also combimd with
Wightwick’s aid to found Pembroke College, Oxford, that the
scholars of Abingdon School might enjoy the bent fits of the
neighbouring University. Under the University bill of 1854
the school still has five valuable scholarships at that college.
There are twelve governors, two ex officio, six representative,
and four co-optative. The ex-officio governors are the Mayor
and Recorder of Abingdon; of the representative governors
two are appointed by the Town Council, two by the master
and governors of the local Hospital of Chiist, two by an elect¬
ing body consisting’ of the Master of Pembroke College,
Oxford, the Camden Professor of Ancient History, and the
Savilian Professor of Geometry in Oxford University. The four
co-optative governors are named in the scheme—Colonel
Loyd-Lindsay, M.P., Archdeacon Pott, Mr. J. S. Bowles, and
Mr. J. T. Morlaud. The school is divided into a senior and
junior department. The instruction in the junior department
is to comprise the usual English subjects, with Latin and one
modem European language ; and in the senior department the
same subjects, with the addition of Greek, advanced instruction
in mathematics, natural science, modem languages, and
English literature.
On Wednesday week the Bishop of Manchester distributed
the prizes at the Burnley Grammur School, and in the course
of his address said he differed from Mr. W. E. Fore ter with
reference to the desirability of the education of young people
terminating at an earlier age than at present. Instead of cur¬
tailing the period of age, he thought that if parents could
afford the delay twenty-one was not too late a time of liie to
start in business. Quality, he added, rather than quantity,
should be the object of the teacher. He was in iavi ur of
political economy being taught in schools, and im-tancid the
recent strike in North-East Lancashire as showing the necessity
of such knowledge arnoDg our operatives.
The College of Preceptors announce that their course
of lectures on practical teaching will be given by Mr. J it.
Fitch, M.A., one of her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools, at the
institution, 42, Queen-square, Bloomsbury. The lectures,
twelve in number, began at seven, on Thursday, Oct. 3, and
will be given on successive Thursdays.
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OCT. 5, 1878
POLITICAL.
by surprise by dissolving Parliament, ond, as j <£xtl*H ^lipplCttlfilte
a buitfor renewal of confidence, promised the I -.-
Colonel Tremayne has been elected member , rcpeal 0 f the ^come t^- about aLi
for Truro, ns was reported in a large portion miUion8) which would almost enturcly iia o
of our issue last week The polling toot place ^to the pockets of the rich Nor <lid
on Thur.-day week, the numbers bemg-For follow JIr> Gladstone s action in regard to
Colonel Trcinayuc (C.)» Ci> G i f° r Mr. Badges t j ig j atc W ar, when he took such a str ) g p
... rm_.It tint. #ltpT thfi ... , v - T >_HP
ship course, on Tuesday afternoon, and resulted
just as all Hawdon’s engagements have done,
in his easy victory. Cannon took the lead for
a few strokes; but, before they had gone half
,, T - — __ i ■ v a mile, the north countryman was in front,
This picture, by Mr. E-_ K. Johnson, wMOi an(1 drawing away just ns he liked, won by
was in the Spring Exhibition of the Society of ^ lengths, in the very ' 1 '
‘GOING TO BED.”
Willyams, 611. The result does not alter the
position of parties in the House of Commons,
as the late member, Sir F. Williams, belonged
with the Russians. He, however, had1 no
feeline against Mr. Gladstone; on the contrary,
he admired his ability nnd honesty. Great
creditwas due to the present Government
naa __Spring _-
Painters in Water Colours, presents to us a ,
common incident of family life under a rather
interesting aspect. The lady whom we see
going out of the room with her back towards
us, but with a pretty head turned so as to
totheCon«rv.tiT.partr . hreK'^'ce'with "bright'nnd'ptiU youthtul face <m*
**^ ast00 ” B “ iPS&sfiiSwSlSi
tion to retire from the representation
Derby, the hon. gentleman has replied that
“ if at the next general election it is stul the
wish of his Derby friends that he should
represent the borough in Parliament his services
ore at their disposal.”
Mr. Pocliin, of Manchester, who formerly
represented Stafford and who owns an estate
near Conway, has been invited by a section of
the Carnarvonshire Liberals to contest that
county in the Liberal interest at the general
election.
Minor.
At a meeting of the executive committee of
the Birmingham Liberal Association, held on
Wednesday evening, the following resolution
was passed:—“That this committee regards
the action of the Government of India, m
relation to the Ameer of Afghanistan, consti¬
tuting as it docs a reversal of the sagacious
and prudent policy pursued for a long period
by the most eminent Indian statesmen, as
rash, aggressive, and untimely, and as likely
1 I
Indian peoples.”_
the pleasant task of putting the little darling
to bod, instead of delivering it wholly to a
nursemaid’s care. This is quite as it should be ;
aud we know middle-aged or elderly persons
who cherish the sweetest remembrance of
having been nightly laid to rest by their own
mother’s hands, comfortably tucked up, kissed,
blessed, and prayed for, with a tenderness and
earnestness which could not be had, for any
wages, from a female hired servant of the
household. Such recollections arc beyond
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COURT,
PARIS EXHIBITION.
The importance and popularity of the British
Section at the Champ dc Mars has been mate¬
rially enhanced by the show of wealth, in¬
dustry, and progress contributed by the great
dependencies of the empire in Australia. The
subject of our present Illustration is the
South Australian Court, which, although of
less area than older aud wealthier colonies,
has attracted much notice by the effective
The Liberal party in North
have resolved to request Lord Anson, son of
the Earl of Lichfield, and Mr. A. S. Bolton of
Oakamoor to allow themselves to be nonn-
nated in the Liberal interest at the earliest
opportunity.
Mr. Round and Colonel Brise, at Bristol on
Thursday week, addressed their hearers on both
home and foreign affnirs. Mr. Round dealt
with Afghanistan, and Colonel Brise with agri¬
culture. Mr. Round thought a policy of
“masterly inactivity” was all very well while
Russia was not making great strides on
Afghanistan; but Bhe had approached too
closely aud too craftily now to give no cause
for alarm. Colonel Brise deplored the ruinous
J rice of com, but considered the Cattle
(Leases Act of the late Session of the greatest
vtdue to agriculturists, although it did not
contain all they asked for.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson yesterday week ad¬
dressed a political meeting at Alston, in Cum¬
berland, und, in regard to the Afghan dif-
culty, said that, if Lord Lytton sent the
Cabul Mission without knowing whether the
Ameer was ready to receive it, he had done
the most foolish and leckless act any British
statesman had ever committed; aud if the
Cabinet did not recall him, they valued light
as a feather the integrity of the Indian empire.
Mr. W. P. Adam, addressing his con¬
stituents at Alloa on Monday night, referring
to the Afghan question, said that he was cer¬
tain that no more dangerous policy could pos¬
sibly be pursued than our venturing beyond
that impreguuble mountain barrier which
bounded our Indian empire. The first mistake
that was made in that respect was made when
we sent a body of men to occupy Quettah.
Since that time the ruler of Afghanistan had
naturally been jealous and suspicious. If an
insult had been offered to the British flag, we,
of coarse, must avenge it; but if war did
ensue, he trusted that we should moke it with
the single view of coercing the Sovereign, and
not of incensing the people. It was a most
dangerous policy to have such a nest of hornets
as the Afghans on a portion of our frontier.
The policy now being pursued with regard to
Afghanistan was fraught with danger to this
empire, aud lie lamented most sincerely that
we had not in India and at home statesmen
who were imbued with the old, safe, and steady
policy of other days, when it was thought
madness to go beyond the frontier. With
reference to home politics, Mr. Adam said
there was no doubt that the question of the
disestablishment of the Church of Scotland
would be ripe for solution at a very much
earlier date than the question of the dis¬
establishment of the Church of England,
which could not be considered within the palo Commissioner at Paris,
of practical politics.—Mr. Adams subsequently
addressed his constituents at Dollar, Culross,
and Kincardine in a similar vein.
one is left, probably, of those belonging to
the old home, whose presence might recall the
endearing associations of childhood. “ Going
to Bed” is a word that means a great deal;
its full significance, perhaps, is reserved for
the close of life._
NATIONAL SPORTS.
After a capital beginning on the Tuesday, pro-
seodings at Newmarket were very tame on the
following day, nor did the Thursday exhibit
any improvement, about the only race of
interest being a Triennial Produce Stakes.
Wheel of Fortune was opposed by a field of
six lengths, in the very fast time cf 23 min.
3 sec. Hawdon’s next engagement is with
Lumsden ; but when that is over wc expect be
will have to soar far higher before he can find
a match.
An American Billiard Tournament will be
begun to-day (Saturday) at the Aquarium,
Westminster, under the management ot George
Collins. Joseph Bennett and mest of the beat
players remaining in England arc engaged.
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which has secured the first prize, ns in 1851
and 1867; also by exhibits of wool, for which
a gold medal has been awarded, and by gold,
copper, and other minerals, for which a
filly, and Annie. There were, however, no
penalties, and the odds of 4 to 1 on Lord
Falmouth's crack were never in doubt. She
will have no end of admirers for the
Middle Park Plate, and though the ex¬
perience of each successive year seems to
show that it is hopeless to expect a fully
penalised animal to win the two-year-old
Derby, where is one to be found to beat her ?
We suppose that it will be found, probably
from among the “ dark” youngsters that have
been specially reserved for this event, and then
we shall have a Derby favourite at once. The
fact of Witchery having escaped a penalty
made her a great favourite for the Snailwell
Stakes; but her want of size generally stops
her in good company, and a capital finish be¬
tween Mowerina and Alpha resulted in a neck
verdict for the former, with White Poppy
diploma of honour has been granted. A third. The weather on the Friday had changed
_nmowl^l fnr Dio Tintioo onhla fr.r Din rerrenn still thpro WfLS
diploma has also been awarded for the native
weapons’ collection. Olive oil and wine are
also successful exhibits. In fact, in this small
space is shown what great results can flow
from the energy and enterprise of British
colonists in so short a term as forty years.
The population of South Australia now
numbers 250,000, its foreign trade reaches
£10,000,000, and its revenue £1,500,000. It
has no less thou 1,250,000 acres under wheat
cultivation, and it will bo gratifying to the
colonists to know that they have again suc¬
ceeded in carrying off the premier prize for
that cereal against all the world. Much
attention has been excited by a handsome
considerably for the worse, still there was
every promise of such exciting sport that most
of the visitors remained until the finish. Lina
(7 st. 31b.) secured such a runaway victory in
the October Handicap, that no importance
must be attached to the positions of Thunder-
stone (8st. 101b.) aud liylstoue (8 st. 12 lb.),
who were respectively second and third,
though Mr. Alexander’s giant might make a
fair show in the Cambridgeshire, for which ho
will have 7 lb. less to carry. A baker's dozen
went for the Rous Memorial Stakes, for which
the unbeaten Ruperra naturally started a
great favourite. As was the case in the
July Stakes, however, he showed
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yields of the mines for one year, value
£600,000: other staple products are grouped
at its base. Mr. Boothby, Under-Secretary
, for South Australia, is Special Executive
In the course of an address at a large tem¬
perance meeting at Yeovil on Wednesday, Mr.
Samuel Morley, M.P.,said that some action was
necef s iry to put an end speedily to public-house
legislation, aud that if working men would
decide in their own homes, instead of in public-
houses, whom they would send to represent
them in Parliament, they would fare better.
At the annual dinner of the North Walsham
Agricultural Association held on Wednesday
evening, Lord Suflield presiding, Lord Caring-
ton, who was warmly welcomed, said that as
the Embassy sent to the Ameer of Cabul had
been grossly insulted, it was for our Army to
vindicate the honour of the British flag, and
teach a lesson to this barbarian which he will
not soon forget. Sir Fowell Buxton thought
that possibly Russia might have urged the
Ameer to insult us, but it was possible also
that our occupation of Quettah, the sudden
stoppage, by the Viceroy, of the presents
formerly given to the Ameer, might have had
something to do with it. Colonel Duff, M.P., I
expected that the measures now being taken I
would have the effect of bringing the Ameer to
rcuson without a war.
In responding to the toast of “The House
of Commons” at the annual dinner of the
South Bucks Agricultural Association, held
or. Wednesday, Mr. Lambert, the Liberal
member for Bucks, said that about twelve
years ago, when he was selected as a can¬
didate, he undertook to support Liberal mea¬
sures, and he hoped he had always done so;
but at the same time he Btuted that he would
not undertake to support every measure a
Minister might bring forward. He was glad
that he made that reservation, for he could not
H.M.S. CORMORANT.
This new vessel of war, one of seven or eight
of the same class to be added to the British.
fleet, is designed for an unarmoured cruiser,
drawing little water, to bo able to run into
shallow bays and creeks. The hull is of
fact which will be terribly against his
chance at Epsom next season, and Peter won
cleverly from Peace, a smart filly in Mr.
Alexander's team, whoso debut must be con¬
sidered most satisfactory. Nothing could get
near the pair, though such smart animals as
Marshal Scott, the Modena filly, Japonica, the
Honey Bee colt, and High and Mity were
among the opposition. This form makes
Wheel of Fortune better than ever, as
she beat Peter easily at Goodwood. The
Second Nursery Stakes was left to Mas-
sena (9 st. 81b.) and ltomana (9st.) at the
finish, and, in spite of his crushing weight, the
son of Victorious got home in gallant style.
A 10-lb. penalty could not stop Japonica over
the last half of the R.M.; and then came per-
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vessel has a speed of eleven knots an hour.
She carries six guns ; namely, two revolving
guna of 4$ tons weight, and four 64-pounders.
Her complement of men is 141, and she has
been commissioned by Commander Bruce for
an experimental cruise of three months. The
Cormorant was built at Chatham Dockyard.
The Carysfort, a new steel corvette, built
for her Majesty's Government by Messrs. John
Elder aud Son, of Govan, Glasgow, was
launched on Thursday week.
ucwiumiui uuu. x ue muours oi me co
follow Mr. Gladstone when he took the country | tinued throughout the week.
Mr. Edwin Chadwick delivered a long
address at the opening of the Sanitary Con¬
gress at Stafford on Wednesday, in the course
of which he gave an outline of what, in his
oipnion, might be done for the improvement
of the sanitary condition of both towns and
rural districts, for the prevention of the spread
of diseaso in infantile and juvenile life, and
in workshops, schools, and lower-class houses
by the appointment of competent sanitary
officers. This institute has for its object the
advancement of sanitary reform generally, but
especially in relation to its local administra¬
tion. The labours of the congress were con-
This was the St. Lcger Stakes, over the severe
D.I., in which Sefton made his first appearance
since his unsuccessful effort in the l’rince of
Wales’s Stakes at Ascot. Mr. Craufurd’s horse
was reported to have improved wonderfully
during the last three mouths; still, a 7 lb.
penalty is no joke over perhaps the most try¬
ing two miles in England ; and he was opposed
by Childeric, Pacific, Insulaire, Inval, and
Thurio. The last-named, who was also bur¬
dened with 7 lb. extra, looked very short of
work, and Insulaire rattled the field along
at such a pace that Childeric had hud.
enough of it a long way from home.
Sefton assumed the command at the Turn
of the Lands, and, romping up the bill in
such style as we have seldom seen, won with
consummate ease from the French pair. This
brilliant performance fairly removes the stigma
of being one of the worst of Derby winners
from Sefton, and he ought to rival the Julius
feat and carry his 8 st. triumphantly in the
Cesarewitcli next Tuesday.
Wolverhampton Races last week were only
noticeable for the fine form shown by W.
M‘Donald, who earned six winning brackets
during the two days. At Nottingham on Wed¬
nesday Ronmna (8st. 121b.) successfully con¬
ceded all sorts of weights to fifteen opponents
in the Ruff ord Abbey Nursery Plate; and Lord
Clive was only opposed by Bonnie Dundee for
the Queen’s Plate.
j The sculling-match between J. Ilawdonand
i Joseph Cannon took place, over the champion-
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cent. ^ * tb mrt moderate prices. Cash discount 10 per
undXScrayn^a.W tb6 QUWm ' St ‘ ^s's-strect.
T^ITS.—EPILEPTIC FITS or FALLING
£ fl 8ICKNESS.-A certain method of cam has been discovered
t?nt 11 d !r treiwin8r c f ,,n P ,ai,lt l»y a physician, who is desirous
"POR ARMS and CREST, send Name and
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ATUSICAL-BOX DEPOTS, 56, Cheapside,
"'ll 2 ?; Ludgato-hjll, London.—N icolc’s celebrated'Musical
SS ft-om^lH." h, a m r#I t d “ ac ';« 1 music. Prices. £4 to £120.
gratisamipost-free. 8 ' ADply t^\I^LE^M'ciJLLOCU?asabove?
WHITE WOOD ARTICLES, for Painting,
pIpLkSv™ . SSSf&nSS. *2"te"I& ™tSST B00lU
Wm. Babxabd. 119, Edgware-read, Loudon.
Jnst published, post-free, two stamps.
TTYS PEPSI A AND THE SEVERER
A/ FORMS OF INDIGESTION. A small Pamphlet on these
T’S.pSKF FLOUR and GRAIN
8s ;. 8d uWheat Meal, for Brown Bread.fe. Oar
FORMS OF INDIGESTION,
'• •inplaints and their com,_
A ~‘ k ™ KICHABD^ KINO, Esq., Staff
•bed by
u. Royal I
Navy, 2.1, Warwick-sti
Peas, 7s.
Ground 1
3». per peel
for Brown Bread, 8s. Coarse
PANCER AND TUMOURS, A Successful
V/ Mode of Treating Certain Forms of ByALEX.MARSDEN
M.D., bemor Surgeon to the Cancer Uospitai. London. Price
Bs. 6d—J. and A. Cnuac’HiLL, New Burilngton-street.
By Dr. B A RR SH ADOWS. Physician to the National InrtitnUon I
for Diseases of the skin. Seventh Edition, post-free, S2stampa,
T?RUPTIONS; tlieir Rational Treatment, |
-M-J Remarks on the abase of arsenic, mercury, and other re¬
puted speciiics.-London: G. Hill, 151. Westminster Bridge-rd! i
THANOFORTE MUSIC. — TWELFTH '
CLEARANCE SALE. largest Surplus Stock I
In England. Hiree Pieces or bongs post-free for 2s. 9d.. irro-
jpcctivo of published price. Special advantages to Teachers.
Clearance Lists gratis. Complete Catalogues, post-free. 2d. |
J, Robin«k>n, Wholesale Mutdcdellcr, Romford, !•■«***
(JNE THOUSAND SPORTING PICTURES
's t for ,5i A H E \ great bargains. The Guinea Prize Parcel
‘•bird, Is. 8d. ’ Meat Biscuits. Ws. per cwt.’ bijTit Pei'i's.'
lb.. 5s. Ail other kinds of Grata und'seed.^Special^ pilcea 'for
G. r \-OL J N(L titlC8 - P> °- ° rJera and Cheques 1 payable *to
QHOCOLAT MENIER, in Jib. and Jib.
QH0C0LAT MENIER.—Awarded Twenty -
PRIZE JIEDALS.
Consumption annimlh
exceeds 17,000,000 lbs.
QHOCOLAT MENIER.
Bold Everywhere.
Paris,
New York.
e Parcel
Julius Cscsar; three Waterloo Chip winners — riz.','Master
Magrath, Donald. Honeymoon. The above price is for this month
only, as the usual price is three guineas.—GEO. REES, 41, *2 43
Russel I-street. Covent-garden. Established quarter of a century!
P.S.—Jannette can be had In place of either of the above horses
when published.
d will euro the most hopeless case after
l tried. Full particulars will be sent by
;f charge.—AddressMr. WILLIAMS,
Park, Loudon.
QTIMULANTS and insufficient amount of
^ vifino? ,. frt quently derange the liver. ENO'S
-- frequently d___ „, v
T SALT is peculiarly adapted for any cc
FBU__
stitntional weakn<_... .... _
^O-^rs^^iThur^o^W
Luo e Fruit Salt would not be without It upon
auy consideration, they having rec lived so much
b<>neflt from It.*’—Wood Brotberi, Chemists,
Jersey, 1878.
rj. OLDEN H A I R.—ROB ARE’S
V-A AUREOLINE preduces the beautiful Golden Colonr so
min* admired Warranted ncrfcctly li.irmle-s. Price lie.6d. and
1 °a nd of sll Perfumers. Wholesale HOVENDEN and SONS,
6, Great Martborough-street. W.; and 93 and 95. City-road, E.O.
L >nilon : l inaud and Mover,37, Boulevard do Strasbourg, Laris:
Sl.Orabun, Vienna; 44, Rue dew Longs Chariots. Brussels.
D°S„
YOUR HAIR TURN GREY P
HERRING'S PATENT MAGNETIC BRUSHES
,n “ Combs, 2s (id.,5s.,7s.tel.,
“PPjlpjUom—6, Great
COMBS. Brush
IDS., 1.5s.. and 20s. each. PampL
Marlborough-at., W.; 93 and 95, City-road;
d of all Perfumers.
¥EW AUTUMN SILKS, 1878.
SPECIAL NEW SHADES.
110 New TinU, at 3s. Cd. per yi
lured Satins to mutch, at 3s. (id.
lies, Coloured Silks, is. cd., 6s.
yard.
rard.
ryard.
PETER 1 ^ IR ^ ) N. , ^«*to i lM’^XTOR h ^6TKEET.
Eetabliahed at thlB addresa in
JMPORTANT NOTICE.—BLACK SILKS.
One Thousand Pieces at 2s. lid. and 3s. lid. per yard.
A special purchase of Bonnet's Black Silks!
Black Satins of ”^ r «tnc ^rfgh\nw i ,^ /aL and 3s. 6d. per yard.
PETEB IiOBINSON*,’ OXFOliD-STU^ET. W.
T>ICH SILK AUTUMN COSTUMES.
-l-v One Thousand Coloured Silk Costumes
BLACK Sn.Fv COSTUMES
Black Silk Ski rtf, one guinea.
'W'UDA VERITAS.—GREY HAIR
by this valuable speciflcto its original shade, after
wnicn It grows the natural colour, not gray. Um>l a#adra«Kin<?
it causes growth and arrests falling. The most harmless and
effectual restorer extant. One trial will convtnee it has no eo a *
Price 108. Hd., of all Chemists an»l Ilalrdt'c^eers. Toatimonh
poit-free.—B. HOVENDEN and SONS. Loudon.
SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient
J ln BOSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL. which speedily
produces Whiskers and Thickens Hair. 3s. Gd.: rent in blank
wrappers for 64 stamps—Alex. Ross. 218, High Holborn.
1 'HE COURT HAIR DESTROYER.—This
newly-discovered remedy completely removes superfluous
AUTUMN DRESS MATERIALS.
-O- CACUMEHE MERINOS.
CACHEMIRE DE PARIS.
AU the New Tints, 4ti inches wide,
3s. 6d. per yard.
VELVETEENS.
vet. finished in all colours, 3s. Bd. to 4s. I
ln black, Is. lid. to 6s. Vd. per yard.
3d. per yard.
WINTER SKIRTINGS.
Ie» in Stripes, Pluin. and Snowflake,
from Is. ikl, per yard.
s. 9d. per yard.
__ For Patterns address only
PETER ROBINSON. OXFORD-STREET. W.
M antles and jackets ft
_ AUTUMN and WINTER.
NOVELTIES FROM PARIS AND BERLIN DAILY,
,n Beaver Cloth. Diagonal Cloth, Mille-raye C
ud Drap Brute: also, in Velvet, Face, Slcilii
uud Gres Grain, lined and quilted.
Several New slia|*>4 in Ulster Mantles.
The New Waterproof Tartan Mantlea.
For Illttstrutions apply to
Clotl
(COLLECTIONS
Arranged, Completed,
. of PHOTOGRAPHS
, Arranged, Completed, Mounted, Titled, Bound, Framed.
—?ortfolloed.
places Photograpbs on Vlew of Ind i“. Japan. Spain, and other
MARION and CO„ 22 and 23. Soho-sqnnre, W.
B ank of new Zealand
<InC °2an™era te y t AC I? f '^? crab| y- Ju, >' 29,18U1).
Authorised Capital, £l,(muoo. Paid-up Capital, £725,000.
Reserve Fund, £325,000.
DIRECTORS.
J. LOGAN CAMPBELL. Esq., President.
George B. Owen, Esq | W. I. Taylor, Esq.
Alfred Cox, Esq., M.G.A. J. C. Firth. E.-q.
Samuel Browning, Estp | Hon. Jus. Williamson, M.L.O.
LONDON BOARD.
The Right Hon. Sir James For- I Falconer Larkworthy, Esq.
gusson. Bart., K.C.M.G. Robert Porter, Esq.
Archd. Hamilton, Es«i. Thomas Russell, Esq., C.M.G.
A. J. Mundella, Esq.. M.P. |
Head Office—Auckland.
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES.
In Australia—Melbourne, Sydney, and Newcastle.
In Fiji—Lev u 9-
In New ZeaJr— 1
Invcrcargir "
and at eight,_ ___ _
The Bank grants Drafts on all tlieir Brandies and Agencies!
and transacts every description of banking business connected
with New Zealand, Australia, and FIJI on the most favourable
terms.
The London Office RECEIVES DEPOSITS of £60 and upwards
for fixed periods of two to five years, bearing interest at 5 per
Sow Zealand—Auckland,Blenheim,Christchurch.Dunedin,
cargill, Napier. Nelson. New Plymouth, Picton,Wellington,
triglity-two other towns and places throughout tile Colony.
1 ?RY’S CARACAS COCOA.
" I )Uro flavour, delicate aroma,
qitiliticfl have eatabliahcd its position us a
1?INE ARTS and COLOUR BUSINESS,
ritl W Ai’ k “/' U r and M »nuf»rturiiig — For DISPOSAL, by
| death. About __ r
opportunity.-Sir .‘sAYEU,
PRY’S CARACAS COCOA.
Water, and Ate“ia^B,. 0f CholCe <inallty.''-Foo<i,
“ A most delicious and valuable article."—Standard.
"\TANUFACTURER’S STOCK of LADIES’
-O-L AUTUMN DRESSES Selling on at Half the Coat. Con-
"PRY’S EXTRACT OF COCOA,
- — ". th ,“ n which, if properly prepared, there is no nicer or
Sw by nCT r “ tl0 “ °* buC,Jtt '"- Food ' Water, and Air.
TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL MEDAL
awarded to J. S. FRY uud SON.
T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
-Li MEAT.
FINEST MEAT-FLAVOURING STOCK FOR SOUPS.
MADE DISHES, AND SAUCES.
T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
JLi MEAT.
CAUTION.—Genuine only with the facsimile
Liebig's Stenature In - • •
J^IEBIG
Signature in Blue Inki
COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
MEAT.
yard.—JOHN iiOOl'EU,62, Oxford-street, W. Patterns
TTENRY
J~L GIGA
3 FABRICS,
DR.
gIDGE’S
FOOD
Health, Strength,
Chcmi.'td and Grocers.
t. per annum. The rate for slio
n Victoria*
ir {jeriods can booacertained
Mansion House.
K ina han’s ll whisky.
THE CREAM OF OLD IRISH WHISKIES.
Pure, mild, mellow, delirious, and most wholesome. Unl-
vcrsaUy recommended by the medical profession. Dr. Hassall
says:—'• The whisky is soft, mellov ' .
of very excellent quality."—20, Gi
GLAVE’S
GIGANTIC SHOW OF DI
for the Fall and Willie, ,„ lo .
French FuuKSq Uishmcres <!' Ea.sse, Foreign and English
Cashmeres, Tweed Fwulrs, Kstainenca, All-Wool Fouli
Twills, Vicuna Cloths. Cloth Serges, Merinos. Serge,
Fouls, and Black Goods of all kinds, selected from the
leading B.itish and Continental Houses In all tho
l'ttsliionable Sliudes of the day, such us Bordeaux,
Bronze. Cherry, Cardinal. Myrtle, Nuvy, Purple. Fuon
or Peacock, with many othersin vurious tints.
The Real Roueh-nuci-Ready Serge. 28 in. wide, lOjd. a
yard, very suitable for warm costumes and winter wear.
Winter Cashmeres, 2C. in. wide. 8Jd.
Douglas Brilliuntim s, new autumn shades, 83d.
OViB Finite in all leading colours, at 10id.
Frencli Merinos, 42 in. to 48 in. wide, Is. lojd. and 2s. lMd.
Bmiill Fancy Designs for mixing with plain textures.
Tho Leopard Mixture, at 8Jd.; tho Cabul Mixture, at
Jbid.itfm Costume Mixture, at Is. Sid.; tile Afghan
Silk Mixture, at Is. 9Jd.; the All-Wool Silk Mixture, at
2s. lljd.
Heather Mixtures for Autumn, Is. G4d.
Ottawa Beiges, Hi in. wide. Is. OJci.
Fancy Scotch Clans as now worn in Paris. Is. SJd.
berge Neglige, a light w arm wool material in eleven new
fashionable mixtures, 2U in. wide. Is. 5ld.
Indian Cashmeres, 42 in. to 48 in. wide. Is. lOld. and
2s. lOld.: English Cashmeres, is. 3jd- and Is. «jd. a yard.
Tho Estamene Serge, Newest Colours, ls.Ojii. and Is. Old.
Cashmere Estamene, 25 in. wide, 93d.
French Beige Foute, 2>>In. wide. Is 41d.
The Scarborough Twill, New Autumn Colours. lOJd.
Scotch Cashmere li-tamcne, Is. 21d- and 1s. Gjd.
An endless variety of New Skirtings. 40ill. wide at
Is. llid., 2s. Hid., 3s. Old., and 4s. llil, a yard.
Patterns of all kinds po t-free.
634,636,636, and 637, New Oxford-street, London.
T) EAL RUSSIAN SEAL FUR PALETOTS
-LL (half fitting).
33 in. deep, from 7 gs.
a# in. deep, from 8 gs.
Several New Shapes in Seal Mantles,
in the finest quality.
_PALETOTS (a gi
E*...,o. Seal, Fox. Racoon, Skunk, l:
ter. Kussian Hare, Chinchilla,
and every other description oi
Muffs, Neckties, Ac.
A large Stock of
RUSSIAN SEAL FUR JACKET8,
“ ‘ ti 4 guineas upwards.
-ar Jackets,
—li, 20 to 28 in. deep,
i Circulars, with Hood,
Unit
42s.
Cashme ..
„ afid Hncd Russiun Squirrel, 46 in. deep, from 21t. upwards.
Cashmere Circulars, with Hood, and lined from Russian Squirrel.
48 in. deep. 68s. od. upwards.
A great variety of New Shapes
in Silk Mantles,
lined with the finest quality of Russian Squirrel.
Fur Carriag e and Travelling Rugs, from 30s. upwards.
PETER ROBINSON, SILKMERCEIi and
-L DRAPER.
103 to 108, OXFOllD-STREET, LONDON.
... , , INFORMS THE PUBLIC
that his business has been carried on at these premises since Iti
establishment in ltctt, and respectfully requests his Customers
torfuldress orders to this address only.
Mc&farmid.Greonshlelds, onil Oo.
Fenchurch-street, E.C.
PALL IN THE PRICE OF SILVER.—The
-L GOLDSMITH'S ALLIANCE, Limited, respectfully an¬
nounce a considerable REDUCTION in the PRICES of their
SILVER SPOONS and FORKS, consequent upon the present
faU in the volne of sterling sliver. For revised scale, see nelow.
P LATE. — GOLDSMITHS’ ALLIANCE,
Limited, Manufacturing Silversmiths,
11 and 12, CornhiU, London.
The best wrought SILVER SPOONS and FORKB.
Fiddle Pattern,7s. 4d. per ounce: Queen's Pattern, 7s. fid. per
ounce. Mauy other patterns, plain or highly ornamented.
. £ s. d. Quet . - -
Fiddle Pattern.
J2 Table Spoons
12 Oeasert. ditto
12 Table Forks
PURE KANGRA VALLEY TEA, direct
A from the Plantations, at 4s. per lb. In Ten Pound Tins, or
38. Od. per lb. in original Cbests of Fifty Pounds each, muy bo
*- """" AOKNirv ai, Haymarket,
WILLS’S BEST BIRD’S-EYE.
T T This Tobacco is now put up In 1-ox. Packets, in
addition to other sizes, thelubel being a reduced
facsimile of tliut used for the 2-oz. Packets. Also
in Cigarettes, In Boxes of Ten each, bearing the
Name and Trade .Hark of
W. D. and H. O. WILLS, Bristol and London.
Black Silks, rich
Black Silks, a new make, wear guaranteed. “ Tlia
Empress," not weigiited with dye, but mode of all pure
silk, price 3s. lOd. a yard. 1
Black silks, several thousand yards, from the best Lyons
firms, from 3s. njil. to 15s. a yard.
Oxonian Velveteens, ore blue blacks. Is. llid. to 4s. lid.
Tbo Lulls Velveteen is dyed tlio fashionable Oriental
blue black, and made various qualities.
7DU0 yards Uich Coloured Velveteens, 60 different shades,
26in. wide, 2s "iia .. ....-a
Silk Costume '
the yard. Patterns Tree.
Black Satins, a specially- cheap lot,__,
Satins. In overy possible shade, 1s. llid. to 4s. 11
yard. Patterns tree.
634,535,636, and 637, New Oxford-street, Lond
it 2s. 6R1.1 Coloured
JgNGLISH AND J^OREIGN QOURTS.
EGERTON BURNETT’S
WELLINGTON SERGES,
A EC Sfimvi 1 ^- AP1 ‘ BOVE , U WOOLLEN FABRICS.
Lt.ERTON BURN LIT lias repeatedly had the honour of
supplying " these admirable Serges "to the BOYAL FAMILY,
an i executes Orders daily FROJI AI.L PARTS.
Neither rain nor salt water cun affect tlieir permanent dye.
Prices fromls. 2Jd. to tho finest at 4s. '81. per yard. PATTERN -
UOUKb Mjnt fret; by jmst and carriuro p«iia liristol or Lh* 11(100
on parcels over £2. GOODS PACKED FOR EXPORTATION.
o.Am f ’( ,eci '! 1 btvong Make for B05S' and GENTLEMEN'S
BUIPlJ, inches, fr*»m 3a. (kl. per yard.
JgGERTON BURNETT,
8ERGE WAREHOUSES,
WELLINGTON. SOMERSET
(CHARLES GASK and CO. (Limited),
VV 68 to 63. Oxford-street;
1 Soup Ladle 10 3 13 4
4 Sauce ditto 10 3 18 4
4 Salt ditto, gilt bowl* 1 2 0
1 Pair Fish Carvers 6 10 0
12 Tea Spoons 10 3 18 4
1 Pair Sugar Tongs 0 15 0
— - - 12 Table Spoons 40
7 68 12 Dessert ditto 25
11 0 0 12 Table Forks 40
‘ ‘ ' 12 Dessert ditto 26
2 Gravy S)aion» 14
_ Pair Fish C
12 Tea Spoons
1 Pair Sugar
-PAU DE CHYPRE.—PIESSE and LUBIN.
JLj This is an ancient perfume from Cyprus. During the
national career of Egypt, Persia, Greece, and Home, the Island
of Cyprus was the resort of the elite, learned, and refined. It
was at the time of the Crusades, when Richard I. of England
assumed the title of King of Cyprus, that the fumed Eau de
Chypre was introduced Into Europe, the composition of which
is yet preserved in the archives of the Laboratory of Fiesse and
Lubin. Those who are curious in ancient perfumes can be
gratified at 2, New Bond-street, London.
"VrOTICE. — VELVETEENS.-
-L 3 Silk Lyons Moleskin Velvets
Patterns free.—BAKER and CRISP, 198, Regent-street.
■reir-i'ik
IvER and CRISP.
Set of Fiddle Pattern £59 3 8
* Pamphlet illustrated with_
'articlesrequired In fumishii
“ p £ a
Set of Queen’s Pattern £79 14 0
Engravings, containing the !
king, gratis and post-free on
and L U B I N’S
p I E S S E
. PESTACHIO-NUT SKIN AND COMPLEXION POWDER
For the use of committees a work has been published, with I , ..
large lithographic drawings of plate kept ready for presentation. ! imparts a natural whiteness and youthful delicacy to the skin,
- attainable by no other means ; also represses the unpleasantness
| of too copious perspiration.—2, New Bond-street, Lindon.W. May
; be had of all the fashionable Perfumers and Druggists through¬
out the Earth, with the same facility as a book. In boxes.
QOSTUMES,
TROCADERO,
nnd other Newest
*vlike Costumes, from AO
T>ICH SILK and other COSTUMES.
J-V a grand display of rich Silk. Broche Velvet, and Silken
Fabric Costumes for the Autumn, forming such a collection of
recherche Novelties os is rarely seen out of Paris, at most
moderate prices.
A largo variety of novel Costumes of Fashionable New Fabrics
in Serges. Lichen Cloths, Cyprus Cloths, Camel's Hair, Ac., 2,3,
and 4 guineas each.
ATANTLES, ULSTERS, and SEALSKINS.
I LTi A large importation of the Latest Novelties.
1 he Sedan Beaver Paletot, 1 and 2 guineas, handsomely
trimmed.
New TraveUing Ulsters, aU wool, In 27 Bliudcs, at 1 guinea,
unequalled.
Fine Sealskin Tuletots, 36 ln. ln length, 9) guineas each.
Smaller sizes ln pnqiortiori.
Fur-lined Mantles and Paletots, 31s. 6d. to 6 guineas.
D uplex table lamp, with
instantaneous extinguisher.—Tlie Patent Duplex Limp,
for petroleum or rock oil, gives an intense, pure, and bcautifuf
light, equal to that of twenty-four sperm candles, at a cost of
about one farthing per hour. Ilcane and Co. invite inspection
of their new season's stock In Crystal. China, Ormoiilu, and
Bronze. Prices from 15s, to £6. Illustrated Priced List post-free.
DEANE and CO., 46, King William-street, London Bridge,
unpiea-antuesa TTLSTERS and JACKETS.
«»y U luoo II oiiic.-piiri Waterproof a
2s. 6d., 4s. 6d
Price-Lists post-free.
tomespun
Patterns free.—BAKER uud CRISP, Regent-street.
JOSEPH GILLOTT’S
STEEL PENS.
Bold by all 8tat(onera throughout the World.
pAUTION.—BOND’S CRYSTAL PALACE
VV gold MEDAL MARKING INK.-Some Chemists and
Stationers, for extra profit, deceive you. Genuine Label,
'• Prepared by the Daughter of the late John Bond.”—Works,
75, Soutligate-road, London. No beating required.
Tj'VERY MAN HIS OWN PRINTER.
A-J The Peoplo’s Printing Press, for Authors. Amateurs, tho
Army and Navy. Ac. Prospectuses forwarded on application to
D. G. BEKRl, 36. High Holborn, London, W.C.
TUDSON’S DYES.— 6 d. each, of Chemists.
J^Cortalns, Tabtycovers, Mantles, Scarves, Jackets dyed in ton
d Twenty-four Colours.
Valuable discovery for the hair.
V If your linir Is turning grey, or white, or falling off, use
"The Mexican Hair Renewcr. tor it will positively restore in
every case Grey or White Hair to its orlgfuul colour, without
leaving the disagreeable smell of most " Restorers." It makes
tho hair charmingly beautiful, ns well as promoting the growth
of the hair on bald spots where the glands arc not decayed. Ask
any Chemist for the " Mexican Hair Renewer." price 3s. 6d.
Prepared by HENRY C. GALLUP. 423. Oxford-street, London.
F LORILINE. For the Teeth and Breath.
Is tlie best Liquid Dentifrico in the World; it thoroughly
cleanses partially-decayed teeth from all parasite's or living
" aniinulciilae," leaving them pearly white. Imparting a delight¬
ful fragrance to the breath. Price 2s. Cd. per Bottle. Tho
Fragrant Florillne removes instantly all odours arbing from a
foul stomach or tobacco smoke, being partly composed of honey,
soda, anil extracts of sweet herbs and plants. It is perfectly
harmless, and delirious as sherry. Prepared by HENRY 0.
GALLUP, 49.3, Oxford-street, London. Retailed everywhere.
JQRESS
Patte
FABRICS, lOJd.
£2(100 worth New Autumn Fabrics,
Loiigli-aiid-lb ady and Knock-ubuUt Serges.
Serges. Padua. Cyprus. Savoy. Uvaconsliehl, Salisbury,
Malta. Bosnia Cloths, Suitings, und
l"0 other Fabrics from liljd. to 2s. Od. yard,
is free.—BAKER and CRISP'S, 198, Regent-street.
W IDOWS’ MILLINERY—Mrs. Crcaton
(late of 110, Oxford-treet) begs to inform widow ladles
that she has her usual -elect assortment of WIDOWS' CAPS of
tho lirat designs, for Firstrand Second Mourning, in all materials
suited to the present fashions. 'Also Collarettes, Cuffs, and Collars
for evening and morning wear. A superior class of Widows’
Bonnets, and every description of Widows' Millinery.—Show-
.w. --. -»—- w “ — Sheets post-free.
T OANS PRIVATELY NEGOTIATED.
Confidential communications to Mr. MORRIS. 28. Red
L on-square. W.O., will receive immediate attention. Reversions,
Life Interests, and Legacies purchased.
TOHN GOSNELL and CO.’S VIOLET
tf and MILLEFLEUR POWDER, for thoToilct and Nursery.
Universally admired for Its purity and fragrance. Sold by aU
Chemists and Perfumers. Wholesale, 93, Upper Thames-street.
MADAME
ILL drebsmak
splendidly-f
nit stylo ol
cautlful m
"OREIDENBACH’S ABRONIA.—The New
-D Scent for 1878. Delicate, refreshing, and durable, 2s. Gd. to
40s. per B. ittle. Breidenbacli's MACASSAR1NE, Invaluable for
from 10s. 6
marked at cost prii— — „—.
Paletots und Polonaises, beautiful quality, f--
8, Great Portluud-street (four doors from Oxford-street).
QHIRTS. — FORD’S EUREKA. — “ The
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desirous of purchasing Shirts of tlie best quality should tnr
Ford's Eureka. 30s., 4os, 45s. half-dozen. Illustrations aud selte
measure post-free.—11. Poultry. London.
T\RESS MATERIALS in all the Newest
JL/ Textures. New Lichen Cloth. Hid. per yard. Camel's-
Hair Cloth, Is. *d. Tartans, ltumpoor Cloth, and tlie new Bructte
“ ' much used In combination, 2s. 6d. to 6s. 6d. per
2 s. lid. per yurd, double width.
French Cashmeres, In new shades. Is. lid., 2s. 7Jd., and
MOURNING
of every dcscrl
GOODS
- -., -jscription at most moderate prices.
Black Serge Costumes, ull wool, 2 guinea*. Black und White
Brochd Costumes. I guinea; liandsome Costumes, trimmed with
patent unspotting crape, for ull grades of mourning. 3J to
8 guineas. Tho Dressmaking Dep.utraent is under new and
superior management. A successful fit and the best style muy
be relied upon, at moderate-charges.
Patterns and Samples of aU goods free.
CILKS.—SPECIAL NOTICE.
O We are now offering 40,000 yards of Black a
Bilks, In all the new shades, at fnlly 15 to20 per cei
year's prices—2s. lid. to «s. lid. per yanl.
An Inspection is solicited.
Patterns to the country free.
ELLIOT’S STYLISH I pHARLES GASK and CO. (Limited),
DRESSMAKING. Stylo ami fit guaranteed. Speciality, j V7 68. 69. (50, 61, 62, 63, Oxford-street; 1, 2, 8, 4. 6, Wclls-
WOOLLEN CLOTHS for LADIES’
v T JACKETS. CLOAKS. ULSTERS. Ac., In great variety,
at very moderate prices. We also keep a very large Stock suit¬
able for Gentlemen's and Youths’ wear. Livery Cloths, Ac.,
equally Warehou M .
corner of Hatton-garden. Holborn-circus.
324
rpTn?. ILLUSTRATED LONDON KEVB
OCT. 6, 1878
NEW MUSIC.
pHAPPELL and CO.’S IMPROVED
CLOUGH and WARREN.
DETROIT, UJS.A. _ 0Mles g over the
The Immense adTantagM the* inrtrom^^ p<> n
,
PLOUGH and WABEEN S
(j ljUU .-favourite organ."
_-iaBStos^
S BO mS5toI w
Cottages from 20 guineas.
Grands from SO guineas.
SO, Now Bond-street.
jyjASON
new music.
and HAMLIN’S
AMERICAN ORGANS.
New mode ifta handsomely carved walnut cases, black and
.;; ggiSSt
The superiority of tlieso orMins nas r ‘ f r<ijvcd thc first medals
S'uiaprlndpA?exhibition*'*Every Instrument offered for sale
'’ccmiplete'catalogue for Cash, or on the Three-Years’ Bystem of
hl MET^ER^i CO-Great Marlborough-street, Idndon, W._
liTASON and HAMLIN’S
A MERICAN ORGANS.
SECONDHAND 0^ v ^^m hlro!u
*ȣ* ofHlreand Pur-
- Groat Marlborongh-stroet. London,
JOHN
BRINSMEAD and SONS’
n HlX Th^ar^C^ time they
at ALL THE'i’IHNCIPAT^MUS IC WAREHOUSES.
TOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS’
f) GOLD MEDAL
PIANOFORTES
THE GRAND PRIZE MEDAL^AND DIPLOMA OF HONOUR
of the Philadelphia Exhibition. 1876.
TW H 0 IGHraT U AwI^TOE GRAND DIPLOMA OF
HONOUR, Paris, 1874.
LA MEDAILLE D'HONNEUR, Paris, 1867.
THE PRIZE MEDAL, London, 1862. _
LE DIPLOME DE LA MENTION EXTRAORDINAIRE,
Netherlands International Exhibition. 1869.
THE GOLD MEDAL AND DIPLOMA OF MERIT, Bouth
Africa. 1877, Ac.
Ik/rOURNING ORDERS SENT AT ONCE
lYI BY PETER ROBINSON
■ upoN RECEIPT OF LETTER OB TELEGRAM.
FOR a FAMILY MOURNING,
and also Mourning for Servants,
Order*, however large, can be completed at very short notto*
' by Dressmakers of the greatest proficiency.
(either French, German, or English).
Observe the only one Address lor
UMonsvm i PETER ROBINSON’S,
COURT AND GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE,
U 236 to 2627BEGENT-8TBEET, LONDON.
One of the most important Houses of its Wnd in England.
Established as a Mourning Warehouse Thirty Years.
SECONDHAND PIANOFORTES at
O go, New Bond-street, Three-Years’
SECONDHAND PIANOFORTES now <
COLLARI). | ROSENKRANZ.
CHAPPELL and CO.. 60, New Bond-street.
M EDJi Chanson Arabe de CIL
GOUNOD. Transcrite ponr Piano, par A. LEBEAU. Pos>
ffCP M^n P and Co- Great Marlborough-rtrcet, I^ndon/W.
A T
PETER ROBINSON’S, of REGENT-
BTREET.
A COLOMBE. Entr’ acte pour le Piano.
^srvrai.K^aniKkm^ea^Marlhorough-'strcet, London. VL
L A
Tj'DOUARD DORN’S NEW PIANOFORTE
DOWN THE STREAM. CanGOdic. pour Plano.
6WEETLY DREAM (TraumcSuss).
TH E^CHOBISTe'^ 1 Transcrip11 on of Arthur SulHv.n’s beau-
^HE "loRCERER. Transcription of Arthur Bullivun’s
C0 MB™'mid ra°nreR ^arlboroug^-street, Ix>ndon. W.
TOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS’
J PERFECT CHECK REPEATER ACTION PIANOS.
Patented 1863,1868,1871, and 1873. In
GREAT BRITAIN, I AUSTRIA.
PRUSSIA, i^ScA. '
FRANCE, | AMERICA.
TOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS’
11 GOLD MEDAL PIANOS,
With the Potent Perfect Check Repeater Action.
“This most ingenious and valuable in¬
vention cannot fail to meet with succeas.
BirJuliue Benedict. „
•'The touch is absolute perfection. —
Sydney Smith.
“A very clever and useful invention, and
likely to be extensively adopted. —Brinley
Richards.
pHAPPELL and CO.’S n 5J££ IAlJTIBB
in ORGAN HARMONIUMS._
riHAPPELL and CO.’S NEW ORGAN
O HARMONIUMS.—Five octaves two p^ols,
^ suitable for cottage or s chool. Pilce7gs.
CHAPPELL and CO.’S NEW ORGAN
I , MODEL by ALEXANDRE, two rows of
kevs tlvestops and sub-boss, Venetian swell,
two knee pclials. 28 guineas, or £2 10a. per
quarter on Three-Years system
/CHAPPELL and CO.’S EXHIBITION
CHURCH SIODEL. fifteen »tops. 41 rows of
V vibrators, Venetian swell, 3J guineas, or
£3 i03. per quarter for Three Years.
CJHAPPELL ^,00^ S g (n piAN0F0BTE8<
/CHAPPELL and CO.’S SCHOOL
of Purchase.
!M^Trtofnr Tvro&>premosmi? T^or^wHhaccomigiiJment
Metzleb and Co.. Greit Marlborough-rtreet. London, W.
TOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS’
•J GOLD MEDAL PIANOS.
“The tone is full, melodious, end of ex¬
traordinary ix>wer. The touch ia extremely
deHcato. and the repetition H exceUent. -
The Chevalier Antoine do Kontskl, Court
Pianist to the Emperor of Germany.
tt m.s. pinafore.
Mztzub and Co., Great Marlborongh-street..
"OOBERT COCKS and CO.’S LIST of 400
1\, r , assICAL and STANDARD MUSICAI. WORKS, well
roiL fo/Mu^ifto" »ffo T rrf at greatly reduced prices, may be
had. gratis and postage-free, on application._
C HArPE L L»naCO;SYACHT™^.
System of Purchase.
T'lHAPPELL and CO.’S BOUDOIR
C H«SEv*&hS!£E ST °“
QHAPPELL
■^d CO'S ENGLISH
STANDARD SCHOOL BOOKS (MUSICJ.
h Clarke;. Catechism. l P " pU *
Sutton’s Elements of the
Theory of Music. 2s.
West’s <G. F.) Questions on the
Theory of Muslo. Is.;
cloth, is. fid.
Hamilton’s Modem InstraC 1
turns. 1195th Edition. 4s.
A^ndU to ditto. By G. F.
Bohner's Art of Singing,
/CHAPPELL and CO.’S MIGNON IKON
^ F’urchasm* 1 ““
/CHAPPELL and CO.’S BOUDOIR IRON
Vy HO gs.^orJGl^per^ quarter on the Three-
Years'System of Purchase.
NEW BOND-STREET. W.
v E w dance music.
nHARLES D’ALBERT’S NOVELTIES.
VV CYPRUS POLKA .to M Set
CONGBKS LANCERS .. .. .. ;’ g; Set
PAUL ET Y1RGIN1E QUADRILLE.2S- <*». JJ*
PAUL ET VIRGIN IE GALOP.to m Set
WST^NTSHOR^WALTZ. OnSulllnn’.Stong
SWEETHEARTS LANCERS .to Sd! Set
polka :: :: :: ::
SKT^nWWllm :: :: :: gj-g
A^COmph'te^LiVt "of *M. D’Alliert’s P<^p n **^ D^ceMiSio
wUlbesent^n^ication.^ ^ ^ I!ond . atrMt .
TOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS’
tl GOLD MEDAL PIANOS, ’
with tho Putent Perfect Check Repeater Action.
“The nearest approach to perfection of
‘manual expression yet attained. —Ex¬
aminer.
•• The tono of the grand now referred to
possessed all thc qualities that a go<xi piano
ought to have, and in touch and action was
perfect. The sweet and silvery qualjty of
the upper octaves was worthy of special
’ iration.’’—The Era.
miration. — auo
“Sir Julius Benedict played on one of
Messrs. John Brimunead and Sons grand
pianos, with tho recently patented improve¬
ments, which enabled “im to produccsua-
tained tones with great variety of effect in
the light and shude of tones, especially so
when extreme delicacy of toucL was re¬
quired.”—Court Journal.
BLACK DRESS SATINS all pure Bilk,
at 3*. 9d., 6s. 6d., 7s. «d., 8s. 9d., and 10s. 9d., made by Messrs
Bonnet.
The DUCHESSE SATIN, at 12s. 9d. (28 Inches wide),
a magnificent quality,
for richness and for durability cannot be surpassed*
BLACK BATINS, for Trimming purposes,
at 2s. 6id..2s. lid., 3s. 6d., and 4s. 6a. per yard.
J^LACK SILKS—Specially Cheap,
Manufactured by Messrs. Bonnet ft cl ®. “* .. Bs. «d.
Manufactured by Messrs. Tangier et Cle, at 3s. M.
Menu foctured by Messrs. Jaubert et Cle. at •• 4»- “.
Manufactured by Messrs. DCgove et Cie, at .. 4s. lid.
Also, BLACK 8ILKB, in very serviceable qualities,
at 3s. 6d., 2s. Hid., 3s.6d., 4s. 6d.. and4s. #d.
300 PIECES of BLACK SILK at one price,
6s.; usual price, 8s. 9d.
peteb K>»“ga wsssasr* - -" -
As he buys direct from tho Mannfsctnrsr.
all Intermediate proiits are saved.
Address omly for Patterns as follows:—
PETER ROBINSON, 256 to 262,
REGENT-STREET.
THE COURT AND GENERAL SIOURNING WABEIIurPE.
T)LACK SILK ^LVETS,
_lA Exceptional Value,
at 3s. lid., 4s. 0d., 3s. lid., 6s. 6d., and 7s. 6d.
RICH LYONS VELVETS,
at 10s. «d.. 128. 9d., nnd l»i. 1 6d.
Superb qualities for Dresses and Mantles.
For Patterns, address ms follows^—
TETEIt ROBINSON. REGENT-STREET.
Nos. 256 to 262.
cloth, Is. 6d. . , . _ ,
Cocks and Co.'s Musical Cards. ^ — -
Hamilton's Dictionary of 3300 Musical Terms. Is.; In cloth,
11 ^London: Rons nr Cooxs and Co- New Bnrlin gtomstreet.
rpoM THE SAILOR. New Song. For
1 Contralto or Baritone. Written by Charles Swain ; Mn6
oiPtheRWe^” Heaven’s Choristers.” 3s. each; all post-free at
h London*' Bole Publishers. Robkbt Cocxs nnd Co..NewBnr-
llngton-stre et; and of all Musicsellers. _
mHE MUSICAL TIMES. Price Threepence.
J. The largest and beet Musical Journal._
J OHN BRINSMEAD and SONS’
SHORT IRON GRAND PIAN08.
With the Patent Perfect Check Repeater Action.
” An immense improvement in arpeggios.
The rapid passages in tho upper register,the
beautiful ilutclike tono, nnd quick uud
perfect repetition were very effective. —
Figaro.
“ Sir Julius Benedict, now seldom heard
as a soloist, delighted the public once more.
He played upon a new Patent Grand by
Brins mead, possessing a remarkably loud
and dear tone.”—Echo.
■’The upilght lron Grand PUno witti
■ostenento sounding-board, produces the
obvious result of a fuller and richer tone. —
Morning Advertiser.
■gLACK SILK COSTUMES,
from pure and good wearing sU)^.
fashionably t'rlm’nud with Satin nndVelvrt.
Copies of the most recent Paris models.
Also good Black Satin Qniltod Pettiooati
for One Guinea.
For photographs of the Cortnme^and ^f-mearorem.nt forms
PETER ROBINSON. REGENT-STREET,
T 7 VENING and DINNER DRESSES.
_h New X^Ine^^Wi^^
Tarlatans In the most fashionable styles. 31s.
Black Brussels Net. 23s 29s. 6d.. and 33s
ri^HE MUSICAL TIMES FOR OCTOBER
I -Me<li«>critT—A Second Musical Retrospect—The
6. Reay. Postage-free,
4d. Annual Subscription. 4s., Including postage.
N
-ny vT.T. n, EWER, and CO.’S MUSIC
PRIMERS.
N 0 '
) io—FUGUE PRIMER. By J.
HIGGS. Price 2s. Now ready.
N°-
14 .—PLAIN-SONG PRIMER. By
Rev. T. HELMORE. Price 2s. Now ready.
NEW NUMBERS OF
CHAPPELL’S MUSICAL MAGAZINE.
\J No. 118.-POPULAR MARCHES.^
Marche Roinalne^^r ^ Marches by Handel. Mozart,
Gluck, Ac. Is.; post-free. Is. 2d.
No. 117.—(MIXED SERIE8, No. 3.)
Rone (Tenor) .. Elly Mavourneen .. Sir J. Benedict.
K®fi) 1 never can forget .. A Mellon.
Two wandering 1 Stars' KRlchanls.
Pianoforte .. SoldierV Prayer .. A. G
KK " lll'uo Hrtl’s'of Scotland B Richnr'ls.
finnra Vniate ” West End Polka .. Charles 1)'Albert.
dJISS Music :: LiUle Nell Waltz .. Dan Godfrey.
Dance ilualc .. Lord of Lome Lancers £{*"riJftySfoert.
Dance Music .. Express Galop .. .. Charles u AlDert.
No. U6.—(MIXED BERIES. No. 3.)
Bong (Baritone! The Bell Ringer .. W Vinrent Wallace.
Song (Soprano) Tender and True .. Arthur Sullivan.
^(cSKEalto) To Thee .. .. .. Alberto Randegger.
B ' v (Oh! whisper what i>| r i. ftr< i B
Song (Tenor) •• { thou feelest .. .. |B. Richards.
Vocal Duet (8op. | When Birds aro sing-1 H g nm rt.
Duet(Sop. ACon.) TyoMm GlP«ic» ■ • <{■ ^; M“ f '[“ rTCn -
BSSSSS :: Wfflm.. SiMSt
Pianoforte .. A Ray of Sunshine .. Carl Iaxiuc.
Dance 31 usic .. Dew Drop Waltz .. V bar eiid.Albert.
Dance Music " SklSl^ " Dan
Dance Music .. Tho Mabel Galop .. Dan Godfrey.
No. 115.—(MIXED SERIES, No. 1.)
Song (Contralto) Juanita .. .. .. Mre. Norton.
:: SU
Bong (Tenor) •• Th H «vJn~ t
Duet (Sop. A Con.) Windland the Harp .. ^ ln H te ^
Fii®* 00 ?. 0 Hom^Swret nome " XZT
Pianoforte .. The Sliver Trumpets F.VIv anL
Pianoforte .. Prifcre d une Vlcrge .. T.llndarws
Dance Music .. Th* Rink Galop .. Charles D ;
'—re Music .. Tlie Hilda Waltz .. Dan Godlr
1\JO. 15—INSTRUMENTATION PRIMER.
i]N By E. PROUT. Price 3s. Now ready._
XTOVELLO, EWER, and CO.’S MUSIC
(K. 3?"Rudlnrenta 5*5 JSfS
Curweu. (To be continued.)
Ready on Oct. 15. Price 3s. 6d.
Dedicated by spectal^ermi^on^H.B.H. the Duke of
GONGS FOR SAILORS. Written by
&£e%»
'1 and 81, Que en-street. E.C. _
Now publishing.
/' 1 HARLES HALLO’S NEW EDITION
\l of aU the most Popular PIANOFORTE PIECES.
Carefully Edited and Fingered, with metronome murks.
Ctttalocuos post-free. . ^ ^ _ .
Foesyth Brothers,272a, Regent-circus. Oxford-street, London;
Fobsyth ^ so’uth King-street. Manchester.
TOHN BRINSMEAD and SONS’
(J SHORT IRON GRAND PIANOS.
“The improvements made in English
pianos have caused this trado rapidly to
Increase, until one pianoforte manufactory
after another has been built to supply the
growing demand. One of the largest of
these lately erected by Messrs. John Brins-
luead and eons, of Wigmore-street, covers
nearly an acre of ground in the Grafton-
road, Kentish Town, and is intended to
accommodate 3u0 woikmen. Theso works
alono can supply 3000 pianos annually. The
French papers have been unammoi
their expressions of admiration of u™
iplendla instruments. The tvvo Grands
especially have enchanted the Parisian pro¬
fessors and amateurs of music by their noble
sonorousness, their enonnous power, and
the sympathetically volcdlke qnalitv of
tone. The touch, also, is beautifully light,
elastic, and certain, so that many phmGto
of every nation, from the AbW Liszt dowm-
wards. who have tried these Instruments,
have highly complimented the enterprising
manufacturers on their success. The im¬
provements arc too numerous to describe
tn detail, but It has been necessary to
embody them in several patents recog¬
nised throughout Europe and America.
Vigorous attempts have been made to
poifect every portion of these instru¬
ments, and tlie whole lias been constructed
on entirely new principles throughout.
The ‘ perfect check repeater action ’render*
tho mechanism durnblo nnd perfect; the
new complete metal framing ensures the
durability nnd strength of tlie case, in spite
of a great Increase in the length of the
airings; ’tlio new sostenente rounding-
bonrd’ produces a lovely ‘singing’ and
grandly powerful quality of tone; while
*tlie sympathetic bridge of reverberation
n.-slsts'in tlie sustaining power; and ’the
sustaining pedal’ enables! the performer to
produce lieautlfulty-siistaincd ellects. with-
out. tlie confused roar that lias hitherto been
attendant on the employment of the forte
pedal.”—Illustrated London Nows.
/COSTUMES.—Richly Embroidered.
^ the FASHION FOB THE AUTUMN.
In Black, Nary, and neutral shade*,
from 5 to 10 guineas complete.
Our Buyers have returned from Pari*
with great novelties
in ail departments.
ror ®ft»: nlT
rriTka Kumri
Regent-street.
Nos. 236 to 262.
-nURS at SUMMER PRICES.
^ REAL RUSSIAN SEAL PALETOTS.^
S3 Inches Jong .lllluiiKM.
38 inches ong .. .uSlnSM.
39 inches long ow ^ Pcrfect'sha^s
and of tho most enduring qualities.
fur-lined cloaks,
Lined with
l 47 Inches long, at 6 guineas.
For Samples-Addross okly as follovr*:-
PETER ROBINSON, REGENT-STREET,
Nos. 236 to 363. __
-VTOTICE—In reference to the
lV above advertisements,
..Albert.
.. Palermo QuadriUes S>* r j e6
Music .. King Pippin I’oika .. CharlesD Albert.
ONE SHILLING EACH (post-free, 1I.31J.
Chaitei-l and Co., 60, New Bond-street. London, W.
13IAN0F0RTES for HIRE or for SALE,
1 from 23gs.upwards.-JOIIN 13HOADWOOD and SONS,
S3. Great Pnlteney-street, Golden-square, W. Manufactory, 43,
Horaeferry -road, Westminster. _
GCIENCE and ART DEPARTMENT of
tiw. roMM ITTEE “f COUNCILon EDUCATION. BOUTH
Tuesday Evenings, at Eight o’clock, commencing TUESDAY,
°The puWic will be admitted on Payment of 10s. for each Ses-
slonal P Couree of Twenty Lectures; or 13s. for the complete
Annual Course of Forty Le ctures; or Is. each Lecture.
J OHN BRINSMEAD and SONS’
GOLD 31EDAL PIANOS,
with tlie Patent Perfect Check Repeater Action.
“A metal bridge of a peculiar form is
nseil to produce tho treble, and a much finer
tone is elicited than if a wooden bridgo
were used."—Morning Post.
“ Beautifully light and elastic touch, and
on instant repetition."—Globe.
“This invention Is simplicity Itself."—
TheQuecn.
■■ Receive tho greatest approbation every¬
where of musicians and manufacturess.”—
Tlie Standard.
M6 to 262. REGENT-STREET.
velveteen.
jl. xue JlorningPost’’olAug.l6,1878,say»:-
Probalily In no city In^the world to .11 «iat SSJS
'“'SSSg&'tSM.,
which, in textrare* a Pi^ A ^^ C 1J2 < lio l ne > SiS[ , v3^* Hsi com-
- 1 * *snco to tho best wone &iik . citlci,
- a ™? e *°^tn«nxo.i£ r,^n B whi^. r no*
T he louis
The " Morning Post" of Aug.
[REMINISCENCES OF ENGLAND.
evuiMseFtim OF IRELAND.
Jtl
KEM1N1BCENUKS ur fcWi JOA-
Arranged fo^HmSfianS^, 0 FRED^.ODFREY CB.M.
Coldstream Guards). Played by all the Bands In her Majesty s
B * rTl0 *- ^OBsY’rau!and Co., 60, New Bond-street.
/CYPRUS.— THE IMPERIAL OTTOMAN
1/ RANK is prepared, througli its LONDON and PARTS
AGENCIES to grant CREDITS, to receive and REMIT
MONEY, and to act generally as Bankers In connection wlih
Cj-pnis. where It has for many years past had a branch establish-
LOl 26° Thro^o'rton-street, E.C. ***?. Rue^irerbeer.
I TDRIGHTON. FURNISHED HOUSES for
J3 the SEASON. — For particulars of those In the be.t
situations - Adelaide-crescent, Palniena-sqnaro Bninswlck-
' square. Brumiwlck-tcrr«ce, West Urigliton—apply to Messrs.
CROUCH and STEVENS, 86, Western-road, Brighton.
J OHN BRINSMEAD and SONS’
PATENT "PERFECT CHECK REPEATER ACTION**
PIANOFORTES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
AT ALL THE PRINCIPAL MUSIC WAREHOUSES.
Prices from 35 Guineas to 330 Guineas.
GILBERT L. BAUER’S PRIZE MEDAL
VJT ORGAN-VOICED ENGLISH HARMONIUMS
on tho Three-Years' System.
J OHN BRINSMEAD and SONS’
PIANOFORTES.
FOR INDIA AND EXTREME CLI5LATES.
Illustrated Price-Lists and Descriptions, with opinions of the
Ixindon l‘ros« and Musical Profession, forwarded, post-free,
upon application.
18, YVIGMORE-STREET, LONDON, W.
MANUFACTORY.
THE “BRINSMEAD WORKS,”
GBAFTON-ROAD,
KENTISH TOWN, N.W.
iScotirtfi if**, moreover, dyed
by f^ W h 1 Sle°pebman^ oriental BLUB-
and made In various qualities and tliicknwc*
Slilitoery. Dressmaking. ^Trimming pun»^s. w>m e |
g,xKl points to recommend It^rtls notsurpnsm^n which
VELVETEEN should have been largely ‘.". ’“^Venie side every
iewe^yarda^wnVi^^Trade-JL'rk 1 representlng'a Grillin’.
THE LOUIS VELVETEEN IS NOT DEARKB THAN
INFERIOR DYES AND AB K
CAUTION .-YOU SI UST SEE ™E VELVCTEWfl,, g
STAMPED AT T1IE BACK IN PLAliN RR Al| tp
Ms®* a*
JOHlf FREEMAN, 30, Wlcklow-street, Dublin^__
-77 log Strand. In
London: Printed and Pnblished *t the Omce. r .
the Parish of St. Clement Dane, in the
by Gmmi C. Leiquton, 198, btrand.aloresaio.
OOTUBXE 3, 1878.
EXTRA SUPPLEMENT to the illustrated
LONDON NEWS, Oct. 6 , 1378
O' O I N G- TO BED.
BY E. K. JOHNSON.
SUPPLEMENT TO THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oct. 6, 18T8.—325
THE LATE MR. JOHN PENN, OF GREENWICH, MARINE ENGINEER.
THE LATE MR. JOHN PENN.
This eminent mechanical engineer, well known as the inventor
and constructor of the most approved steam-engines for ships
and steam-boats, was bom in 1805, at Greenwich, where his
father had established a factory for making agricultural im¬
plements and other machines. He began work very early,
and fitted the Bteamers Ipswich and Suffolk, running to
London along the east coast, with beam-engines, each of
40-horse power. In 1835 four passenger-boats to run between
Greenwich and London were similarly engined by him. In
1838 his well-known oscillating engines with tubular
boilers were applied to some of the boats running above
Loudon Bridge. The way in which these worked attracted
general attention. In 1844 the Lords of the Admiralty
were induced to place their yacht the Black Eagle in his
hands. He replaced her former engines by oscillators of
double the power, with tubular flue boilers, but in the same
space and without any increase of weight. A number of orders
followed to fit up ships on the same principle. Among them
we may mention her Majesty’s yacht the Victoria and Albert
and the Great Britain But Mr. Penn’s success was still
more remarkable with the trunk engine, designed for
the propulsion of fighting ships by the screw, and capable of
being placed so far below the water line as to be safe from an
enemy’s shot. In 1847 he was commissioned to fit her
Majesty’s ships Arrogant and Encounter on thi6 system. He
has applied trunk engines to no less than 230 vessels
varying in power from the small gun-boat of 20-horse power
to such ships as the Sultan, giving an indicated power of
ANCIENT TOMB EXCAVATED NEAR LARNACA, CYPRUS.
ENGLISH TOMBS IN CLOISTERS OF GREEK CHURCH OF ST. LAZARUS, LARNACA.
826
THIS tt.t.TTSTBATED LOTOOMJE!
OCT. 5, 1878
8629 hones, „nd the "ZSffgZ JJ'bSSS
upwards of 8800 indicated hors p.^itoerto realised with ono
s^'^ffi&stfsatsss
the Orlando, Howe, Bellcrophon, In Black Prince,
Ajax, Agamemnon, lanc j In 1854, at the
Achilles, Minotaur, * nd when Admiral Napier
commencement of the Crime , ^ . f want of
found himself powerless m toe B £ uc h ™ e 120 of
gun-boats, it became imperative ton for
ttem with 60-horse engines on Jut so
next spnng, and at fl«t the mej ^ ^ puwde d the
large an amount of work in . DraC fj ce an
Admiralty. Mr. Penn P? m ^,°^ culty P By calling to his
easy solution of the “echamcd. d^cid^ »7 ,
S “wo eLblisht
parts, and by a tuu use oi ble to fit up with
menta at Greenwich andDqp n . boat8 . Altogether
the requisite engine-power nine y s j f fitted with engines
during the Crimean War 121 vesseg wer ^ tnumeroufl
for our Government by Mr. PcMn Ue nas^ ^ ^ q{ the8e>
patents for lmpTOVcmcnta in f^g 1 ^ fertility of resource
Win “?Sys of ^ propulsion
iSsfcs ?*km s
En^eers in 1828, and.a Fellow*
Engineers, 0 mid*^ ^received many marka of distmetkm^from
i?M? n Willim I E C i^Hsh H of Enfield,’aSd has ’left foilr sons and
In 1872 he took his two eldest sons into part-
Shin IndThey^arcnow the beads of the firm, which employs
upwards of 2000 hands. Mr. Penn himBelf retired from business
to The funeral of Mr. Penn, which took place last Saturday
in Rt Margaret's Churchyard, Belmont-hill, Lee, adjacent to
Ws reaKT" The Cedars,” was attended by a thousand of
the workmen’employed by Messrs. John Penn and
by about a hundred gentlemen, amongst whom were several
engineers of repute, and many personal friends.
The portrait we have engraved is from a photograph by M.
Kcutlinger, of Paris._
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
A meeting of this institution was held on Thursday at its
Amteimg oiv.ua Mr Richard Lewis, secretary.
MUSICAL publications.
“ When Summer dieB ”
same class. It is published y soprano voice, the
have issued two to mv slJmbSa’’ and “ Soft
other in C for contralto. Smg to y p - ti w ho has long
star of the West” agreeable vocal music,
since been known as* to posSses a taking melody
Each of the pieces nowreferred to P.^ moderate compass,
which lies well for the voice, a adaDted to be sung in
The second of particularly
unison by a number of voices, an*“ v ^ Messra .
siutable for schools where vocM^music^ Qf ftn effective
Cocks and Co. are the pu . Meyerbeer’s “ Coronation
transcription, for the pianof J Lemoine; a similar
March,” from “Lb Scotch melody,
arrangement, by W. b. Kocastro, Extracts” (a series
‘•The Flowers of the For»t : ot < gfS, t “7opo«4, e«»il 7
of short pieces from the works of the P.^
0 Y “The Swallow's Fme.ell,” b 7
Claude Davenport. „ . ..
idepted for violin mid pnmoforte. “XT aL the
RUSSIAN AND BRITISH FRONTIERS IN
ASIA.
Our Map exhibits the territories which intervene between the
Russian possessions in Asia and British India. In its com¬
pilation the most recent explorations of Russian travellers and
of British native agents have been consulted, and the head-
streams of the Amu Darya, or Oxus, have been laid down in
accordance with the information collected by them. The
distance which now separates the Russian and British posses¬
sions in Asia hardly exceeds 160 miles, atone point. A traveller
desirous of following that line from north to south would start
from Khokand. He would first scale the mountain ranges
south of that town into Alai, then ascend through the Rial
Yart or some other pass, to that portion of the elevated steppe
region 0 f the Pamir, the centre of which is occupied by the
great Kara-Kul lake, and thence wend his way southward,
through an equally inhospitable region, to Gilgit. Hardly
anv inhabitants would be found along this route, and although
the country can be, and has been, crossed by small caravans
during summer, no army could ever hope to pass through it.
A very much easier route exists to the west, aud one, too, with
which the Russians are well acquainted, they having recently
explored it. Taking Samarkand for their starting-point, an
army, accompanied by guns and store-waggons, may even now
march to Cabul without meeting with obstacles which may not
easily be removed by the pioneers attached to every field-
force The route runs through bhahr l Zebs, the famous
Pass of the Iron Gate, Balkh and Bamian. The distance as
far as Cabul, without counting minor sinuosities, is not less
than 500 miles. The route leads through Bokhara, nominally
an independent State, though in reality very much at the mercy
of Russia. There are routes to Afghanistan still further west,
but a glance at our Map will show that none of these hold out
anv advantages to an enemy intent upon invading India from
thi north or west, unless, indeed, Persia were to be secured as an
all v The military operations of the Russians recently reported
from Central Asia appear to point to two objects, the sub¬
jugation of the Turkomans and the conquest of Kashgar. The
*. ** «__mmh the 'Russians much trouble, and
piee frem th.jameS
La Damu.Uond« F.u.t._ a 8hort onitnri o, b , £» ^8« 0^ „ * towI of „„„ importance, and tt. p»
I'STA^foveUo.E.er£ iC.) • ^ ’SXE
_.1 Von, tVvnt. tfipv now call upon the Russians
53; firat-named work having been P ™ =
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handy and inexpensive form.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
Some competitions took place last week, the following being
among the most noteworthy
The prize-meeting of the 13th Kent (Greenwich) was
hvo^t K cencii
A meeting of this institution was held on Thursday at its brought to ^ conclusion ^ Wells, the same member
« cap. in J- -SJJ-.
house, in John-street, Aaeipm. mt. ..' v
having read the minnteB of the previous meeting, rewards
amounting to £186 were granted to the crews ofltfe-boat* of
the institution for services rendered by them du ^“B ^ P^
month, in which period they saved sixty-two hves besides
helping to rescue a stranded schooner and several fishing-
boats which were in danger of being wrecked.
the institution has contributed this year, by its life-boats and
other means, to the saving of 436lives Rewards weregranted
to the crews of shore-boats for saving life from wrecks on our
coast, and payments amounting to £2865 were made on some
of the 268 life-boats of the institution. It waa decided to
form a new life-boat establishment at Clogher 'end, Ireland ;
and new life-boats have recently been sent to 1 .artlepool and
Dover. The committee earnestly appeal to the public for
support to enable them to meet the continued very heavy
expenses on the numerous life-boat establishments of the insti¬
tution. Reports were read from the four inspectors of life¬
boats on their recent visits to the coast.
SS^T: TuTSRSS’tSSSiV » “gSj
Hollis • £3 3s each, Private RidgcrB, Corporal Hatfield, an
S™t Ives ^2 2s. each, Private J. Shepherd Lieutenant
FriS, Sergeant Orchard, and Sergeant Shepherd. The
■nrizea for hichest aggregate scores were taken by Serge
$3S, ^ Lieutonant tovfbond, and Pmato ^dgers; and
Sergeant Carter won a sUver cup presented by Major Bnatow
for attendance at drill and shooting combined.
Eastern Turkestan, ciobo w wie “V 6 „ ; ,
Map, and we hear that they now call upon the Russians
to surrender the district of Kuldja, an important district to the
north-east, which they occupied whilst the country was in a
state of anarchy. The Russians naturally object to this
restoration, while the Chinese, whom recent successes have
rendered overbearing, may insist upon it. In that case, a war
maybe unavoidable; and, supposing the Bunuuito^ve
toe stronger of the two, the British and Russian boundaiies m
Asia will 8 come to be contiguous. With special reference to
ou?ma£ wrought to mention that the d^ncts of Darw^,
Roshan, and Shighnan, on the upper Oxus, ^ vutu^y mde-
nendent though they occasionally pay tribute eitner to
Sara or to Afghanistan, or to both Karatcgin we have
included in Bokhara, but that district, too, appears to be m
reality an independent principality.
EDUCATION AT THE EAST END OF LONDON.
Mr. Le Page Renouf, her Majesty’s Inspector of Schools in
the metropolitan district of the Tower Hamlets, in his report
for 1877, makes the following statement:—
The great defect of which all examiners complain is want of intelligence-
It is to be lamented, but certainly not to be wondered at. Persons who
have had the advantage of a liberal education are apt
under which their own minds have been formed, and which are altogether
laclung in the education of the chUdren who frequent elementary seho-ls.
Our own education waa in fact going on, unconsciously to ourselves, during
moat of our waking momenta. Welearned as much, like the ancient m .bi,
from our companions us from our touchers. It is not so with the children
of our sell' 'Ols. Their education is almost eut ircly confined withmthe school
hours. The vocabulary of Uieir families is extremely limited. Hotne
influences are destructive of school influences. This is tbe case even with
reference to pupil-teachers, whose reading up to the moment of entering
college is often as diflci-nt in accuracy, intelligence, and expression as
that of the younger children. It is, perhaps, natural that little chil¬
dren who know what a donkey is. or a ‘•moke,” should rot know
what an “ ass ” is, or that if asked how many legs a fish has, they
should say “four,” "two,” or "one;” but it is almost incredible
that great girls, pupil-teachers in the east end of London, should
not know what is a “ mushroom,” or that both toy and girl pupil-
teachens should habitually understand as a “ churchyard the ram¬
part" to which the body of Kir John Moore was hurried One of the
most favourite pieces of prose learned by pupil-teachers in them fifth year
is the famous speech of Lord Chatham. I have not yet had one who under¬
stood what is meant by “ extending the traffic to the shambles of every
German despot." The meanings of the words were not always known ; the
sense of the entire passage, never. An amusing story about a sow was
lately given out for the composition of the pupil-teachers. A good many
understood “ cow ” instead of “ sow,” but the animal, whether as cow
or “sow," was in almost every case spoken of as “he ’ or "him. The
following is tbe account of the Indian Mutiny given by u female pupil-
t, acher in her fifth year of service and the eighteenth year of her age
" There was a dreadful massacre in India, and thousands were slain j it was
placed under ihe hands of a Governor, but he did not attend properly after
the country, and so the people took the law into their own hands, and the
country became in a dreadful state, men and children bung killed. Tbe
Queen then became Empress of England.”
But the picture has lights as well as shadows. Treating of
the Jews’ Free School in Bell-lane, Spitalfields, he says
This school is the largest school in his district, and probably in all
England. The average attendance last year was 1248 toys and 850 girts.
At one of his visits he found 2137 children present—1452 toys and 985 girls.
There are nine certificated nutters and six certificated mistresses, hix
assistant teachers, and thirty-six pupil-teachers. The toys are under
auenuaucc ui/ uo" --o-
An All-comers’ Meeting was held at the range of toe South
London Ritle Club at N unhead, and brought forward some
verv fine shooting. The first day was devoted entirely to the
Martini-Henry rille, and toe second to the Snider, ihere were
also rouge prizes and sweepstakes by Messrs. Steward.
The Artists’ Rifles held their Monthly Cup Com^tition at
Ealing, when the first place was taken by Private Bouteher
Corporal Downe and Pnvate Brock coming next in order. In
addition to the ordinary trophy the highest scorer became the
holder of a challenge picture painted and presented by the
commanding officer of the regiment, Colonel Leighton, R.A.
The annual prize-meeting of No. 4 company of the 29th
(North) Middlesex (Captain Venables) took place at Child s-
hill range, Hampstead ; the following. being the winners
Messrs. Rudd, Sawle, Jennings, G. Batty, Johnson, H. Batty,
Byers, Hawkins, Beeching, Hide, Weston, and Brandt.
Private Phillips won the recruits’ pnze, and Privates Edwards
and Kerr the prizes for members who had never won a prize.
The annual repository competition of the 3rd Essex Artil¬
lery took place at the head-quarters of the corps at btratford.
The three following shifts with a 32-pounder gun mounted on
an ordinary standing carriage, had to be performed : —1st shilt,
fromcarriage to carriage by slewing; 2nd, dismount by par¬
buckling; and, 3rd, mount up the rear on long skids and
rollers. Eight detachments competed, and the first prize was
won by No. 8 Battery (under Sergeant-Major Macklin os
No. 1), who did the three shifts in 3 min. 58 sec. No. 4
Battery, with Sergeant Palmer as No. 1, completed the work
in 4 min 24 sec , and was second; and the third pnze was taken
by No. 3 (Bow) Battery, under Sergeant-Major Maw as No. 1,
their time being 4 min. 33 sec.
At Leamington, the ex-Mayor’e silver cup was won by
Sergeant Metcalfe, of toe Leamington Volunteers. Each
competitor had to run fifty yards between each shot, and the
prize was for the highest score thus made in two minutes.
An accident owing to rifle-practice occurred on the
Brighton Downs last Saturday evening. While Major kiucaird
Smith was riding with his daughter, the young lady remarked
that her horse was going somewhat strangely. Her father
lifted her from the saddle, and the horse immediately fell
dead. It was then discovered that the animal had been shot
There are nine certificated natter* ana *ix cere
I Mta.-cTS.; C.¥.i:, firiea. eewf AnBiaUmt Military In . iimitor mnnner »on e “o™.~Th. Cabul
of Mrs Phillip., neither of whom i* a certificated teacher. Mr. s _ crB ji ry at head-quarters, vice Major-General Robert aud before it can effect a junction witnine . name , and,
Anxel, however, stands in the place of director, training - school, ‘ -Aji w i„ v n ii aDDointed Deputy Adjutant-General river rises in the mountains near the city ot Khvber Pa^ 3
and indeed factotum of the entire institution, the efficiency and Beaufoy Hawley, L.M., appoimcu , j J Te' o T„ii„i a te.,rt moke* its wnv through the lto) oeri
prwperityof whteh« in a laree measure due to him. The inspector to the f 0 *cea.-It is also announced that Admiral SirGeorge piLssmgbyJcllalabad, makes close to Attock.
tea™ witness to the success of its action upon so large a number Em t K c B has been placed on the Retired List of his rank into British territory, falling mto uie iuu slopes
&Kt^ i ^ 1 m t the 26thult. ; and?he following promotion, consequent nw Hori Rod. takm. its rise m the north easte J ^
roiireatory habits. The senior certiflcnted mistresses, ifiaa Lipmann and Miss thereon have been made from the same date. Vice-Admiral
GoltUmid. are teachers of rare excellence. The inspector bays he finds no ch ar i es Farrel Hillyar, C.B., to be Admiral in her Majesty s
i- 1.—. - ,.f the nnmi-teachers.esneciallv of the p 1( , et . Penr . Admiral Henry Schanck Hillyar, C.B., to be Vice-
Admiral in her Majesty’s Fleet, with seniority of Sept. 16,
1877 ; Captain Algernon M’Lellan Lyons, to be Rear-Admiral
in her Majesty’s Fleet. Consequent on the foregoing the
following promotions have taken place on the Retired List:—
Vice-Admirals Frederick Byug Montresor, Edward Codd,
Spencer Smyth, Arthur William Jerningham, to be Admirals
on the Retired List.
Tuesday’s Gaiette announces that Major-General Martin
Dillon, C.B., C.S.I., has been appointed Assistant Military
AFGHANISTAN.
Our readers will endeavour to form a comet °^ he
country which before long may be entered by a British army.
Afghanistan is, on an average, about 430 miles * r0 “ fiforth
west, and 460 miles long from south to north. On the north
it is bounded by toe Oxus till a few miles below Kdat, and
thence the boundary line dividing it from Khi^an temtMy
runs east and by south to a point a few mdcs west of Sam* .
On the west it is bounded by Tereia, on the souto by li I t.
From its south-easternmost extremity the frontier^runs
north-easterly direction along British territory as far asSwat.
On the S it is bounded by Swat, Kaffiristan, and Kashgar. A
glance at the map shows that there isa longnarrew
as it were, of Afghan territory which is bounded on the wuin
by Kaffiristan, on the east by Kashgar, and on
some minor khanates, more or le«» sub ect to Kokand «.<!
Bokhara. At one point this promontory m only 200 miles cn
tent from Cashmere. As, however, we d ° 1 ^Xatioa
vasion from Afghanistan we may leave out of connd^
the above-mentioned tongue of terntory. Thc mm
of Afghanistan are the mountain chains, the general (Ui
o wmcMs’east aad west, but which.threw outbntW»» totb«
north and south. Afghuniston
from east to west by a chain of mounte ns. whi . ni J
viewed as an offshoot of the Himalayan system• ‘IJncn
called the Hindoo-Koosh, or more properjM*® ^of and at
ends in the Koh-i-Baba, a huge mass north-west or
no great distance from the city of Cabul. It » covercu
with perpetual snow, and its one ca llcd
18,000 ft. high. Thence run two paraUeUbaim^ « ^
the Bated Koh; the other-toe southernmost onei the mu
Koh. The northern range terminates J^tuortoofjH^ at. ^
the southern range, when it reaches a T ^ c mouu .
city, trends off to the south-west and by ™* abtl al)d
tains are of no great height. North of the non all „ es
the Safed Koh if a high plateauintersectedbymmo^nig^
and called the Huzareh distnet. Running i ° anol i ie r
direction from Cabul past Kandahar to w b 0 le of
chain of mountains. Practically, aim •»«. va Ueys,
Afghanistan is a mass of mountains “^P^^^^tersheds
of which some are of considerable size. tw0 diains which
of tbe country are, however the crests of the. two oi {rom
run, one from east to west, and the other am 0 oua j
north-east to south-west. Mnnrhab the Heri
The chief rivers of Afghanistan are the M, ur ^ 1 ha b,
Rud, the Balkh, the Cabul, and the Helmuud. The Mm
—- rising near the north-eastern extremity whose waters
Sheep- | flows to Mcrv, a little beyond which the t h ° 8 of irr i-
in its course have been greatly drawn off ^ Purpo es
gation, loses itself in tbe Bandy desert of Khiva- BUst<?d
rising in the northern slopes of the Koh-i-B of J{ llkhi
in a similar maun ersoon ^[^. 1 £ r ^^ c f heOxus. The Cabul
lifted her from tne saddle, anu me uui« me uuiei iu«» -jTLiUmmid The Murgnao,
dead It was then discovered that the animal had been shot r u <1 the Balkh, toe Cabul, and the Helm • Koh,
bya bullet fired, it is supposed, by some member of the 1st rising near the north-eastern ^ y wat£ra
Sussex Rifles, who were at ball-practice at the butts in Sheep- flows to Mcrv, a little beyond whudithe^i* for pU ’ r poses of irri-
cote Valley. . ~ **“ " TPA v ~~ n ~ nA ‘
are teachers of rare excellence. The inspector *ays he tinds
school in which so larise a proportion of the pupil-teachers, especially of
boys, obtain eranta. He addathat a large Jewish infanta 1 school is hell
Cornroercial-etrect, 8pitalfields, under the wise and maternal superintend-
of Mias Harris, and that he has reported that in many visits to this school,
private ns well as official, he has never seen a little child idle. To all per¬
sons interested in education, a visit to this school, in which a large variety
of physical types may be discerned, is full of interest.
The Glatgow News states that the Government intend erect¬
ing a general prison for Scotland in Renfrewshire.
passing by Jellalabad, makes its way -
into British territory, fulling into the I “ du ! h i^ e riy*'dopes
1 he Heri Rud, taking its rise m the nortli-easteriy
of the Siah Koh, traverses toe in . ^ tQ
formed by the Safed Koh and toe biah K?h, (he n0 rth,
south of Herat, a few miles pusit which Ht tiirn
following for some distance the boundary o , g faUa in to
then, quitting that country, turns north-west 0 f
the Tojend. The Hdmund rises in the south-eastew ^o^
the Koh-i-Baba, near Cabul, and, runumg■m ® 1 s® ‘| h of t] , a t
direction to Girishk, about one hundred md flowing
city, makes a sudden turn to the west, and, from
in that direction another hundred miles, ern S
OCT. 5, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
327
Afghan territory. There are other rivers besides those
we have named, but they are of no great import-
u-ce. As a whole, it may be said that Afghanistan is
well watered, and that in consequence the valleys are
iertile. Unfortunately, we are able to give but scant details
of even the principal rivers. The Murghab is described as a
clear and rapid mountain stream. Of the Balkh river we can
say little. Of the Cabul River we know that from Tezeen the
body of General Elphinstone was, at the end of April, sent
down on a raft to Jellalabad. We also know that in the same
month the Cabul River was forded by cavalry with great dif¬
ficulty opposite Lalpoora, at the Afghan end of the Khyber
Pass. It is probable, therefore, that the river throughout the
greater part of the course from Cabul to the Indus is navigable
for small boats even in the spring. According to Captain
Marsh, who travelled from Meshed to Herat about five
years ago in the month of April, the Heri Rud, where
he crossed it at the Afghan frontier, had very little
water in it, being exhausted by the irrigating canals
higher up. The stream itself was only two yards wide
and 1 ft. deep, but the bed was more than 1000 yards broad.
The plain of Herat is watered by canals from the river, and
one of these enters the city. The same author says that
during the winter, which sets in early and lasts four months,
all the streams near Herat are frozen. Concerning the
Helmund, which would have to be crossed by an army march¬
ing from the Bolan to Herat, Captain Marsh, who passed it at
Girishk in the beginning of the month of May, says that at
that season it is 100 yards broad and 3J ft. deep. It is then
at its lowest, and split up into many small streams. At the
end of May or beginning of June, when tho river is swollen
by the melting of the snow, its breadth is computed at about
a mile. The left, or south bank, is higher than the right, or
northern bank.
The climate and soil of Afghanistan are very variable. In
the valleys the climate is very hot in the summer, and fruit
and groin are abundant. There is also a good deal of culti¬
vation on terraces on the lower slopes of the mountains.
Throughout the country, however, and especially in the north,
there are frequent tracts of desert or rough rock-strewn
plateaus, where nothing is cultivated. The valley of Cabul is
remarkably fertile and highly cultivated—at all events, near
the city of that namd. The climate is, however, colder than
than of Afghanistan generally, but is very regular. There are
three months of the winter, three of spring, three of summer,
and three of autumn. During the winter, which sets in about
the beginning of December, the town is regularly blockaded
by the snow, which completely blocks up the streets, so that
business is at a standstill. The present ruler of Cabul, who
bears the hereditary title of the Ameer, is Shore Ali, one of
the sons of Dost Mohammed, our enemy from forty to thirty-
five years ago, but who afterwards became a peaceful neigh¬
bour. The Ameer Shere Ali once visited a late Governor-
General of India at Lahore, and received large gifts of money
and guns from the Indian Government. We give his portrait,
from a photograph by Mr. W. Baker, of Mnrrce and Peshawur.
He is shown wearing a head-dress of the Herat fashion.
It seems that history first recognises the existence of the
tribes called “ Afghans ” when they were settled at Ghor, in
Western Khorassan, in the eighth century. Here they were
invaded by the Mohammedans, and, embracing Islam en masse,
continued to flourish. About two hundred years later a Tartar
invasion of Cabul proper succeeded in driving out thence the
Hindoos who then possessed it, and in establishing a Tartar
dynasty at the city of Ghuzni. The Afghans assisted the
Tartars in the work of conquest, and with them spread,
not only over the present Afghanistan, but across the
Suleiman range into the present British districts of
Houltan and Rohilkund, where their descendants Btill
form a considerable proportion of the inhabitants. In
time, however, they grew stronger than the conquerors, and
in the twelfth century overthrew the Tartar dynasty of
Ghuzni. One portion of the Afghans settled down as rulers of
Cabul, while another entered India, where they founded at
Delhi a dynasty that ruled in Upper India until 1526, when
the Mogul conqueror, Baber, overthrew both kingdoms.
After his death Western Afghanistan fell to the Persians, (lie
Eastern portion remaining nominally under Delhi. But in
1740 Nadir Shah brought the whole under his sway, only,
however, for seven years, for he was assassinated in 1747. His
commander-in-chief, Ahmed Shah, an Afghan, at once seized
the vast treasure which the Persian army was cairying home
from the plunder of India, and, proclaiming himself King
of the Afghans, readily united under him all the tribes
of that name, and established within its present limits the
independent kingdom over which Shere Ali now rules. Between
the dates of Ahmed Shah and Shere Ali a hundred and forty
years have elapsed, marked throughout by violent internal
dissensions and resulting in frequent temporary changes of
dynasty and frontier. The most important of these was the
overthrow of the Suddozai family in 1839, which led to British
interference. Under the impression that the restoration of
the Suddozai dynasty would be pleasing to the Afghans, the
British Government attempted the reinstatement of the deposed
Ameer, Shah. Shoojah, hoping also, by thus constituting a
friendly Power in Afghanistan, to obtain a permanent gua¬
rantee against the intrigues of Russia, then threaten¬
ing to occupy Khiva and to disturb the peace of
Afghanistan. The history of that attempt and its results
is now recalled to memory. The British invasion of
Afghanistan in 1839, with an army commanded by Sir John
Keane, was for the time a brilliant success. Ghuzni was taken
by Btorm—the citadel being captured after a desperate combat
of three hours’ duration, and Hyder Khan, the Governor, one
of the sons of Dost Mohammed, the then ruler of Cabul, being
taken prisoner. The consequence was that Dost Mohammed,
on receipt of the news of the fall of Ghuzni, abandoned his
throne and fled, with only 600 horsemen, to seek a refuge
beyond the Oxus. When Shah Shoojah, under the protection
of the victorious British army, made his formal entry into his
former capital of Cabul, the Afghan war appeared to be
at an end. But the disasters ' which subsequently
befell the British forces in Cabul, isolated and surrounded
by hostile tribes — the assassination of Sir Alexander
Burnes and Sir William Macnaghten, the convention
under which Major Pottinger and Captains Laurence
and Mackenzie were delivered up as hostages to
Akhbar Khan, and the massacres which ensued—are also
matters of history. Twenty-six thousand men, women, and
children fell in the rocky defiles and mountain gorges of
Afghanistan, partly under the incessant attacks of the Afghan
troops and the wild hill tribes, but more from hunger and the
deep snows and wintry blasts of that region. Of all that host
only one, Dr. Brydon, made his way alive to Jellalabad, bring¬
ing the news that the army of Cabul had ceased to exist.
Seven or eight only of the survivors were taken prisoners; the
rest were killed. The campaign of 1842, conducted by General
Pollock and General Nott, vindicated t • e superiority of British
arms, and compelled the Afghans tc submit to the terms
imposed on them. It is scarcely probable that they will be
enabled to resist the military power of our Indian Empire,
backed by that of England, upon the present occasion.
THE KHYBER PASS.
The Khyber Pass may be said, generally speaking, to com¬
mence at Jamrood, ten miles west of Peshawur, and to extend
ns far as Dhaka, a distance of about thirty-three miles. The
actual entrance to the defile, however, is at Kadam, a place
three miles west of Jamrood, which is a small village, sur¬
rounded by a mud wall. There still exist the ruins of an old
Sikh fort built in 1837, after the defeat of the Afghan army on
the adjacent plains by the Khalsa army under Hurree Singh.
Within 1000 yards of Kadam the gorge narrows to 150 yards,
with steep precipitous cliffs on either hand. Between this and
the Afghan frontier fort of Ali Musjid, distant about ten miles,
the mountains on either hand are about 1500 ft. in height,
slaty, bare, and to all appearance inaccessible; the width
of the pass varies from 290 to 40 feet. For a distance of two
miles and a half beyond Ali Musjid the pass retains its difficult
character. It then enters the Lklk Beg Valley, about six miles
in length, with an average breadth of a mile and a half. The
western end of the valley, however, finds the road entering a
still narrower defile, there being scarcely room for two camels
to pass each other. The Lundi Khana Pas9 is distant from
this point about a mile and a half ; the ascent over it is narrow,
rugged, steep, and generally the most difficult part of the
road ; guns could not be drawn here except by men, and then
only after an improvement of the track. The descent, however,
is along a well-made road, and is not so difficult. On the west
side of the pass the mountains gradually open out and lose
much of their inaccessible nature. Dhaka is distant about ■
eight miles, and here the defile ends. Difficult as the Khyber
is to force, it is evident that what Wade and Pollock did many
years ago can, if necessary, be done again. Moreover, our
knowledge of these mountain ranges has much improved of
late years, and several roads are well known which completely
turn Ali Musjid, the most formidable obstacle between
Peshawur and Jellalabad. Among these is the Tatara road,
which enters the hills about nine miles north of Jamrood and
joins the main route at Dhaka; the Kadapa road and one
through the Bara Valley both avoid Ali Musjid, are practicable
for lightly-equipped columns, and doubtless would be made
use of w. re we compelled to force the Khyber. That the
Khyber Puss presents but slight difficulty to a well-handled
force is evident from the fact that in 1839 Colonel Wade
forced it at the head of an irregular contingent, penetrating
from Peshawur to Jellalabad, with a loss of but 180 men. In
1842 General Pollock forced it by shelling the heights from
the ravines below, while two columns of twelve companies each
on either flank pushed the enemy from ridge to ridge. His
casualties were 128. On his return march he lost but fifty-
six men.
It must be borne in mind that the tribes residing in the
Pass and its immediate vicinity, though nominally owing
allegiance to the Ameer of Afghanistan, are yet powerful
enough to demand and to obtain subsidies from him in return
for the privilege they grant in permitting the highway to be
made use of. In the time of the Durani Kings the Maliks
of the Khyber received 130,000 rupees per annum. Aft<r the
annexation of Peshawur by the Sikhs, Dost Mahomed paid
them only 20,000. During our occupation of Cabul, 1839-42,
we paid them 125,000 rupees annually; aud after our with¬
drawal Dost Mahomed continued a payment of 27,000. At his
death these allowances were stopped, nor has Shere Ali renewed
them. Consequently, his hold on the Afridi and Shinwarri
tribes, who virtually hold the pass from Jamrood to Dhaka,
has been much weakened. Once through the pass, there
appears small reason to believe we should be unable to keep it
open for the free transmission of supplies. Fortified posts at
judiciously selected spots, coupled with liberal douceurs to the
neighbouring chieftains, is all that is requisite. The forcing
of the Khyber and the necessary construction of a road
practicable for wheeled traffic to Cabul would be but the com¬
mencement of an Afghan war. The fortresses of Jellalabad,
Cabul, and Ghnznee would have to be reduced. Of their
present condition little is known ; but the Afghan rulers have
spent much labour and money in perfecting their defences.
The boundary line of British territory runs between Jam-
rood and Peshawur. It is understood that Sir Neville Cham¬
berlain, the British Envoy, had crossed the frontier on his late
mission to Cabul, and that his way was not stopped, according
to the telegrams, till he reached the mouth of the Pass. One
of our Illustrations therefore represents the scene of this event,
the importance of which, relative to future history, time only
can determine. Jamrood was erected by the former ruler of
the Punjaub, Runjeet Singh, as a sentry-box to watch the
mouth of the Pass. It was too small for that purpose in
British possession, and it has been left to go to ruin. The
station of Peshawur now servos the same purpose for which
Jamrood did before, and is the principal military station on
the frontier. The Khyber Pas3 being one of the only two
doors into India, Peshawur, as the guard-house on its inner
side, becomes of necessity a place of very great importance.
There is a large fort at Peshawur, otherwise it is not fortified ;
but, in the event of invasion, the town could easily be put into
a state of defence. An army coming into India by the Khyber
would have to force the Pass, and then to reduce Peshawur,
before advancing on the Indus, which is about twenty miles
away, and is commanded by the Fort of Attock.
With the prospect of war, and of an advance upon Cabul
through the defiles of the Khyber, the character of the tribes
there becomes a point of some interest. They are all, in the
true sense of the word, Highlanders, strong, active, and war¬
like, and they live in clans. They are usually arm Id with
some weapon or another, at every moment, so that, quarrels are
often settled on the spot in a summary fashion, which leads to
feuds and to wars of one clan with another. The Afghans
have a tradition that they are descended from Saul, and they
call themselves the “ Beni Israel”—that is, the “ Children of
Israel.” There is something of a Jewish type in many of their
faces, and Jewish names are common ; but these names might
be derived since the Mohammedan conquest. One of the tribes
of the Khyber is called the “ Yusuf-zais,” or “ Sons of Joseph.”
The “ Afreedis ” and“ Kookie-Kha'ils ” are the names of clans
in the same Tegion, which one often hears mentioned at Pesh¬
awur. They are very anxious, at all times, to take service in
the Indian army; but their fighting qualities are such that the
authorities avoid having more than a certain proportion of them
in our regiments. The fierce “ Kha'ils,” or tribes of that dis¬
trict, are one of the dangers which a force passing through the
Khyber has to calculate on. They live among the mountains,
and wherever there is a commanding point they can seize upon
it • and as they fight desperately, they make every post of the
road cost dear with the blood shed in forcing a passage. Such
people hanging about on the line of march, can swoop down
like hawks upon stragglers ; and their long knives are deadly
weapons. If they are still anxious for service, the best plan,
if we are to have war, would be to enlist most of them on our
8lde it may be remembered that it was in the region of the
Khyber Pass that Lord Clyde first won high military distinc¬
tion. It was for service in that region he received the honour
of the K.G.B. and became Sir Colin Campbell. Lord Clyde
was at Peshawur with Lord Canning in I860, at tho time when
our Artist, Mr. William Simpson, was there, having just paid a
visit to the Khyber. One evening Lord Clyde was looking over
Mr. Simpson’s sketch-book, and, seeing the original from
which our Illustration of an Outlook House is drawn, ho said
that those outlook houses were originally an idea of his own.
He then explained how the outlying sentries in the Afghan
War were sometimes found dead in the morning, stabbed to
the heart by the fierce Khyberees; and how, for their safety, a
line of these houses was consequently put up. The outlook
house is loop-holed all round, so that it not only commands
the view, but has military command of the space about it.
There is no means of getting up into the upper part except by
the ladder, which those on duty can pull up after them—a very
simple arrangement to accomplish the object desired. This idea
may have been taken from tho martello towers of our south
coast, or from the Border towers or “peels” of Tweedside.
THE BRIGHTON AQUARIUM.
The Brighton Aquarium has just added, to its other attractive
features, a new Promenade and Terrace Garden, with a Music
Pavilion, of which we give an Illustration. The space for these
has been gained by suppressing the skating-rink, which at
Brighton and elsewhere seems to have gone out of fashion.
Its site has been converted into a pleasant promenade, which
is partly sheltered by a glass screen on the side next the sen,
and which will be gratefully enjoyed by invalids in the winter
season. It is adorned with pretty flower-beds, and at the east
end is a pavilion, of Moorish design, for the accommodation
of a large band of musicians. The architect, Mr. E. Birch, has
showu good taste and skill in this improvement of th# Aquarium
premises. The opening of the new Terrace on Saturday last
was attended with some festivity. The Mayor of Brighton,
Mr. Alderman Mayall, performed the ceremony of declaring it
opened. A dejeuner was afterwards given, by the chairman
and directors of the Aquarium Company, to a party of invited
guests in the room beneath the Terrace. Mr. J. McMillan,
chairman of the company, presided, and the Hon. Howe
Browne was in the vice chair. The general manager, Mr. G.
Reeves Smith, received high compliments, his health being
coupled with that of the chairman, proposed by the Mayor of
Brighton. The band of the 5th Lancers played on the Terrace,
by permission of Colonel Massey, who was one of the guests of
the company upon this occasion. The Aquarium concert,
on the same afternoon, with songs by Madame Patey, and with
Miss Lillie Albrecht as pianist, was much enjoyed by a large
audience. _
The annual congress of homoeopathic medical practitioners
was held at the Bell Hotel, Leicester, on Thursday week,
under the presidency of Dr. Gibbs Blake, Birmingham.
Two memorial stones of the new English Presbyteriun
Chnpel at Denbigh were laid on Tuesday—the first by Mr.
Watkin Williams, Q.C., and M.P. for the Denbigh Boroughs,
and the second by Mr. Thomas Gee, the Mayor of Denbigh.
The chapel, which is to cost £3000, and to seat 300 persons,
will have a tower and spire 90 ft. high.
The Very Rev. W. Packenham Walsh was consecrated
Bishop of Ossory in Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, last
Saturday. This is the first ceremony of the kind that has
taken place in the cathedral since its restoration. The Arch¬
bishop of Dublin, assisted by the Bishop of Cork, officiated,
and the sermon was preached by Canon Peacocke. The
consecration service was read from the new Prayer-Book.
The predicted high tide on Saturday last was felt along the
south coasts of England and Ireland, where considerable
damage was done in the low-lying districts. On the eastern
coasts, however, the tide was unusually low. The water rose
very high on the western coasts,but no inundations took place.
In the Thames the tide rose to a considerable height, but no
damage was done.
Last week eight steamers arrived in the Mersey from the
United States aud Canada, having on board 1659 head of live
cattle, 2942 sheep, aud 1058 pigs. These figures, though large,
show a slight decrease when compared with those for the pre¬
vious week. The steamers conveying fresh meat were four in
number, and nil came lrora New York. The supply consisted
of 4236 quarters of beef, and 420 carcases of mutton.
At the eighth annual show of cheese and butter at Froine
last week £260 was competed for in prizes, and in several of
the classes the competition was open to tho United Kingdom,
while in the butter classes there were eighty-four entries,
against eighty-one last year. The cheese showed a remarkable
falling off, there being only 159 entries, against 264 last year.
Twenty of the prizes for cheese were carried off by Somerset
exhibitors and eleven by Dorset.
Last Saturday afternoon the liverymen of the various com¬
panies of the City of London assembled at Guildhall for the
purpose of electing the Lord Mayor for the year ensuing. The
choice fell upon Sir Charles Whctham, the senior Alderman
below the chair.—Mr. George Burt and Mr. Thomas Bevan,
the newly-elected Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, were
publicly admitted to their office on the same day. The
ceremony was followed by a luncheon at the Albion Hotel.
The returns of the revenue of th6 United Kingdom up to
Monday night show that the receipts of the past quarter
amounted to £16,708,527, being a net increase of £83,545 as
compared with the corresponding period of last year. Fur the
past half-year, however, the net increase is only £34,372.
During the past quarter there has been a decrease in customs,
excise, stamps, land tax and house duty, and miscellaneous
receipts; but an increase in property and income tax, Post
Office and telegraph service, and interest on advances.
On Tuesday morning the Coroner’s jury, which had been
for nine days engaged in an inquiry into the loss of five lives
at the fire at Digbeth, Birmingham, returned a verdict to the
effect that the fire was wilfully caused, but by whom there was
not sufficient evidence to show. The jury also strongly cen¬
sured the police for inefficient management of the Fire Brigade
appliances.—At the inquest held on the bodies of the persons
killed in the recent accident on the Macroom line, the jury the
same day brought in a verdict declaring that the deaths were
the result of culpable negligence on the part of the directors,
the traffic manager, and the working ganger of the line.
Last month the officers of the Fishmongers’ Company
seized at and near Billingsgate Market, and on board boats
lying off there, no less than 119 tons 2 cwt. of fish as unfit for
human food. Of this, 98 tons 17 cwt. had come by rail and
20 tons 5 cwt. by water. The fish numbered 144,186, aud
included 15 brill, 3 coalfish, 145 cod, 5 crawfish, 2500 dabs,
500 gurnets, 76,118 haddocks, 12 hake, 1875 herrings, 4 jack,
18 ling, 2538 lobsters, 94 mackerel, 257 mullets, 29,808 plaice,
22 skate, 500 smelt, 622 soles, 370 thombacks, 44 trout,
136 turbot, and 23,600 whiting. There were seized, in addi¬
tion, 2555 gallons of shrimps, 1464 bushels of periwinkles,
68 of whelks, and 34 of mussels, 4 barrels of cod-sounds, 28 lb.
of prawns, and 333 lb. of eels, a bag of escallops, and one of
oysters. Tho whole quantity was destroyed.
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oct, 5, 1878,— 328
TITK BALA HISSAR AND CITY OF CABUL, FROM THE UPPER PART OF THE CITADEL
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oct. 5, 1878.—329
THE ill^steated^lotoon^e^
OCT. 5, 1878
flowers, FERNS G c ^®pL;«.a
tsprs* jsr*«Jr T r&“4
SBJV*- jiSpSiS- be Vks
as^”«s^arri^A'^? s ,
beautms in many a woodland, . tbcir occasional
England. Townbred Pf^^have Sometimes to regret
rambles in the iweet open wuntjy, “ comm0 nest flowers, ff
the inability to tell the names * icftl observation, it is “J
they are not tramed t 0 8 ^ 1 ^ treatise without such
vain for them to consult a scie^c ^ drawQ for them in
pictorial iUnstrations as Mr. Hgme ^ ^ md here
this elegant and instructive ^tle booK ^ ^tmg,
provided, however, they wfll fin ne ^ the scenes of
gin a correct report of whrf they
have seen and enjoyed. ,. it8 harmony and variety
The living beauty of^get^JJ’ f it8 verdure, may bo
oi forms, and the delightful freshnes ^ which bear no
enjoyed to perfection in^ some.of th V predilection
flowers. There is much to ™ 8 «ia o » a8 not i ess justi-
for feras, and even for moss taste which cherishes
liable than the ord 'f^jJZfSc>xtc blossoms. Greenness,
artificial variations of rare an" 1 life, is always pleasing to
the everyday garb of of nature ; and it is nowhere
the eye in this department of awgj 8 ^ World.” Mr.
more richly provided than in instructive volume with
Kcis George Heath’s agreeable and ^™ ct ^ cdcd
Sf title, published last year P d high in.pubho
called The fern ^5*": X 0 n of this book, considerably
favour. It is the fourth ® d adorned with many channmg
enlarged and unproved, and aaoni ^ Co have lately
illustrations, that Messrs^ t a new book, though keeping
brought out. Beingmadealmostanew D^,
what was best in the onguaal tio n of “Fern-land,”
renewed notice. Part M 9 a gain ; the author leads us
which it is a pleasure to read over bles through the
along with him in “Tff^hbourhood of Totnes, on the
Devonshire lanes, in l thei neign about LuB tleigh
banks of the Dart towards Asnourro, , at the eastern
Cleave and Finglc Bridge, Us P !j tb the rapture of a true
border of Dartmoor; and lie cteristic feature of that
lover of Nature upon e ry b BOine past acquaint-
enchanting region. ' V , e ( " re . „ describes, to recognise the
ance with the localities he desenoes. ^ B profueion
general truthfulness of “ nlaccs' is such as would
of luxuriant ferns ^ tlio^ ^aces « bighly
make his assistance in the cajiainty discriminatmg
acceptable to one who shoidd visit them vvi fr0 m
admiration Jhe mws ofjuchpree^i ^
photographs by Messrs. ?!!“„ Process for this volume, are a
duced by the Woodbury yp P. .^, interesting pages. In
5,S undSS heading" A"Fen, r
suitable accompaniment to Mr. ueam 8 .. A ° Fem Para-
the second part of his work, under “X w-written for the
disc at Home, which * nractical instructions for the
present edition, we find sufficient p den roc kcries,
culture of these .S^and^artificial caverns, in areas and
upon lawns, in ff ott "" s ‘^tin's cascs, in pots or hanging
court-yards, or by ^^rfa.scase^ P ways,
baskets, on window-ledges, ana house . The
furnishing an exquisite satisfactory discussion of
s?
of ferns, and on the cmei spec ICC aUs or flowering fern,
group, the shield, the bucki , are iUu8tra ted by
woodsias, spleenworts, and otn . CooDer. in
_ : .i’ anr1 fTprmme humounst, to be met with m
-E _—-==:-- ■■ i w ^ ww to the chairman, Lord Hampton, in
======^^ like me, you would Sowledgfng which vote he expressed his extreme gratiflca-
Save e got n a bSng.”£*g 0 h eL? "ttS about j U ° n f the^aimual report of Mr. HuUah on the
gffiSSE
volume is a sign that °\ ur JT duct i onb y Itlr. Edwin Arnold, who the sugges ions training school in the country, but
ia°pref need with a hnef introduction Dyrnr for Mr . Robi nson’ s j now acted upon in every^aim practioe .
Of vegetable and ani mal life. __ 1 --
MUSIC.
The series of C°T® b ^^^^p^g^ance for the
derived special nnpo rt ™" d flnfd (the “choral”) sym-
includingBeethoven s nmth and ^ Not only did
phony, the greatest of all r . gt terminated, but it
this form a grand c ^ 7 e t jfJ e aeries of the great
completed the rendering ^ ^ regu i ar order on successive
master’s symphonies, t on jy having been promised in
Monday evenings, the nrst eignu j
Messrs. Gatti’s prospectus. Pnneerts also at Covent-
Anotlier scries of Pr0 ^ n J hi ?g a turday) evening—these
Garden Theatre, wfll begin t ^{ hi8 BC heme wfll
being under the dir .‘;" t n 10 n n f nnermanent chorus of forty voices,
include the co-operation of P Pittman, the number to be
under the direction of Mr. Josiah mn conce rts, which
increased to about two hun Wednesday evenings being
are to cod** of S oigM. i Md Tuee-
classical nights; Mondays, lmg Thur8day8 being appro-
days, operatic nights the nrs Welsh, and Eng-
priated, respectively, to Scotch^ .^ works to be performed
lish festivals. Among the sa^ d Meude]s8otn , 8 «. Hymn, of
are BajjOai is ‘ Stabat; Mater, £VeniDg3 classical
Praise,” and \ erdi s Ke^uiem besideB adaptations from
orchestral works will be . Rivifere. Among the boIo
popular operas, ^^M^^es Bherrington, Enriquez,
vocalists engaged ar Messrs Penna and Arnim,
D’ Alton, anl Osborne Wimarne ^ e8 ^ ad ^ 0 Mr . Thurley
i Mr. Vernon Rigby, Mr. Pearson, ^ nam ed in the
Beale, and Signor Urio , ma J CC8 The list of solo
prospectus, several being^ fir PP of Hcrr Remenyi, M.
instrumentalists includes th d The orchestra is to
Sainton, M. Vivien, “d ^“mers led by Mr. Eayres
consist of about seventy-^ep ft > mi i ita ry band. Mr.
and will be occasionaUy augm td ^ it and accompanist,
Lindsay Sloper will be the soio pm °.. ia to be in-
During the senes of concerts a ,. fi s bv Zarebski
over the other the tcole o E the^ uppe^ ^ at the left
sr T“r P r«s
Her Majesty s Theatre r j£ ° p .. Fide ii 0 ” being the
opera performances at red P ^ bldarnc Pappenlieim
S 7 S’rI
theatres.
DRURY LANE.
“pScS
“enr^Ve mly. if we will, see in this the advanced thinker
^ Artist imperfect possession of his powers; aiming at, and
and artist in perie p gtructure of drama, such as he had
succeeding m, a comp^ a tlTroilu8 an d Cressida,” and
aiready tried „ m . ^ ' in 80 calm and serene a mood,
* subject under complete control, and subduing it
holdl "| J. will Notwithstanding the conventional charac-
r^fthSwendary play, he has contrived to invest it with so
l n^heautv aiid gr^e, such fertility of fancy, and such
much of beauty ana b ’ etic element reigns supreme, and
facility of ^L^^isioS and humour alike of its tragic and
dominates eventti P“®“ is abso lute master of its theme
of a child’s sympathy, ballad is the model on which
a nursery tMe, and toe fambaifDaUch & picce ^ repres ented
ingly generally a xavour b m E Atkm3) a 60U nd
present occasion it waa pemed to act under restraint,
Lubdue the comic element, and keep it in
and with a desire to buu<* tragic busmess of
a condition of subordination to th i more ag, we had
the sunrounding scenes. ^We J^tea , ^ ^ ^
expected more hflantym the.group ^ ^ ^ ^
Ui T ^ U not e afrffid to P be’demonstrative in her retorts upon
and was not a { rald v “ rfraid too, that other characters and
her rustic rival. We are air and not ade quatcly
of more importance we d^ showe d lack of traming. for
represented. Miss wains, n , le rf Btllted
the part of Hermione, and adopted a x^ ^ ^ had to
elocution whichdeBtroycd le u thdr wontcd melody.
utter, and deprived the^ speccdignity, and
Her person also was too s g q tb0 ^ sculptural
not sufficiently de J elo P Gd ^ Throughout, too, she
development to tbe statu' e ^ rti c- like an actress whose
was stagey without bemg a ^ 8uppor t a character so
experience was insufficient d H y er ^ auu Vezin acted Paulina,
complex and intricate. H■ • ^ tbftt cons titutes force,
digxfltyTand. emphasis
^^sts t^whoi^to^bomds Lre g^^^^elegance^M 110
three prmcipal roles were in Ml Leontes, and
Mr. Charles DUlon looked, remarkably weu. ^ ^ • The
entered from the very °P®““S 11 ycr _ Cerent from that in
passion of jealousy in Leon from without, that of the
characteristic was that the^teache^^ each the
ws&smsm HHI
mmsiMwmam
the ants, flies, and mosquitoes a ud tbe ™stic haDUs
of life among the people, ns it seems, in tne neign
bomh^od of AUahnbld. It is a welcome change from
the repeated descriptions of so many Indian towns and
cities P temples and palaces, lately visited in state by
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ; and not
less relief is found in the contrast of these quiet idyllic
sketches with those perpetual 6tories of tiger and elephant
hunting which have made the name of a “ shikaree, or any
subsequently^SSSVtEoxSd, Cambridge^ ^ London
Universities. The study of languages-and ^imd ch^Uy
to ttoZS^r in t J fedemy » tb|
Iron, o (Uscrimmotmg oodieuce. r. in <U livery mi
John Ryder as Antigonu , 7 Ed W as excellent m
intelligent in action. M J-.J7' ^ t s was relieved by warlike
Polixenes. The progress of tbe even “ e chaTmillg scenery.
and .Bacchic ballets and illustrated bj 8 ^ e c j prin dpal per-
The curtain fell to ^theVront and e&husiUtically
formers were all summoned to the lroni, an
greeted. __
A brief ShakspeaTean season began^last^Sat 1 which com-
Park Theatre with the .^agedy °f^ g ^ bournea s the Moor,
manded a numerous audience. Mr^ l -bwin d aud were
and Mr. Forrester a.^Cassio was respect-
“ ton 01
-•irsyyki- virgin,.
melodrama by iMr. G. Manvflle » . j U t e rest, and consists
It is oil the old basis of an Irish n ^ an inte nse feel-
sa jssstss
opemticc!^Twhich^hehSped had since ^^b“ne ^ haired ^I’TtSdS bS- Matters ore so
to something beyond an experiment. It was the reg: e i grasp ^ n g landlord, and bis a t^iwirevious example, has to
might almost say the reproach-of this country th ; arranged that Bnan, according to P retumB> to meet with
—t an instituted opera in our language. fly the country; but m tbe 80 " 0 ^ ^ de voted priest.
’W-WfSSL 1 ' -w trouble., tomy^ by _ to .
SSS at home V S Phil Robinson’s readers are allowed to f performanc e in England of Brahms’s new symphony, of
Slayers m. __ v:1 „ thmniih the oaees of ! £_ ne-rt week.
Rtnvers at home. air. rnu nooiusuu o y-y- - | nrst pertormance ui Lu b u.u U
remain quite unconscious, whfle passing trough the pages of whic . h we mus t speak next week. h
this book, that there are such places as Calcutta or Bombay. . The gaturday afternoon performance of °P e ™.“ 1
In sojourning here the mind breathes only of the air of an announced for t lfls week at the Alexandra Palace is to conast
Indian garden ; and so true are the author s word-pictures, we of Aubcr ’ 8 “ Crown Diamonds,” with Madame Blanche C
can have no doubt but that the garden is a “compound in | ^ Catcrina.
the “ Mofussil.” The descriptions of the birds are perhaps Saturday last a meeting of the stewards of the recent
the best part of the book. 'Aat of the C 1 Worcester Festival was held, ft which the accounts were pro¬
be cited as an example; mdeed, it smacks of /Lsop. lne > _assed The hon. secretary, the Rev. 1. L.
author will no doubt be tempted to cultivate thia literory kind i ler eb P wed t hat, after paying all the expenses of the
of garden a little more. He might be reminded to add some- there was a balance in hand of £97 odd, besides the
thing*about the native traditions concermng birds and ^ iva ^ 0ted for thc charity at the doors of the cathedral after
animals in India; to give us what is now known as “tom- tort * whidl amounted to the almost
lore,” such as prejudices, superstitions, and romantic legends. [ ™e oratoim no^ ^ £15Q4 12g 4d The amount received
It is the common idea in the East that to see two crows is lucky, for P tbe d cbarity in 1872 was £865; and in 18 <o, when
while to see one is the reverse; and there is a capital story Dean and Chapter held a festival of their own,
«„„Y,anri on this, which is well known. A man said to his toe , . Vmlf was subscribed before
troubles, from which he is aenvew ~ ^ ou
The Star Theatre at Blackburn w e } ud woU ld
Monday morning. The ttento w-WR* ^ £300 0
seat 4000 persons, and had been crectea
A Home for In " uiab la 8 > Westom^r-Mw-e, on
Angels, was opened at Cheddar, near es e P doW i u g the
Monday. The rtole eipenae ol » nMr Brlat0 ,
home is borne by Mrs. Gibb , y during the
The Cambridge Free Library re P°p t8 k 3 tQ borr owcrs and
past twelve months the total issue ° °° £ 2 845 volumes
readers was 55,732, which was an F ^ C J S cla8si fi ca tion of the
over that of the preceding year Fromaci*^ 33 500 were
5SSSUL" «T5SSi-S*-
“ v ^r„ P d"o oi tt*sU?SL2&
across the Firth of Forth was laid on Monday^.^ Thfl
whfle to see one is the reverse; ana tnere is a capivm stoiy , mr c ba pter" held a festival of their own,
founded on this, which is well known. A man said to his wl 5 c h about one half was subscribed before ^““^7 Firth of Forth was laid on muu U »j ----- Th0
^ssnss^^-
to Whom The master remicu warn, « usual vote of thanks were passed to those gentleman wuo
oi his attendant ; but when he had done, thejervant stud, undertaken the execution; to Mr. Done, the c
“MastcT, you saw one crow, and you have received a present of kindly undertaKcn xne exccuuo
OOT. 6, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
331
OBITUARY.
CHESS.
LORD JOHN FREDERICK GORDON HALLYBURTON.
Lord John Frederick Gordon Hallyburton, G.C.H., Admiral
R.N., whose death took place on Sunday, the 29th ult., at
Hallyburton House, near Coupar Angus, was bom Aug. 15,
1799, the third son of George, ninth Marquis of Huntly, by
Catherine, his wife, second daughter of .Sir Charles Cope, Bart.,
and was married, Aug. 24, 1836, to Lady Augusta Kennedy
Erskine, sister of George, first Earl of Munster, and widow of
the Hon. John Kennedy Erskine. He was D.L. for the county
of Forfar, and represented it in Parliament from 1841 to
1852. His Lordship has died without issue. His wife had
pre-deceased him Dec. 8, 1865.
SIR GEORGE COLTHURST, BART.
Sir George Conway Colthurst, fifth Baronet, of Ardrum, in
the county of Cork, died on the 25th ult. He
was bom in 1824, the eldest son of Sir Nicholas
Conway Colthurst, fourth Baronet, M.P., by
Elizabeth, his wife, only daughter of Colonel
George Vcsey, of Luoon, in the county of
Dublin. He succeeded to the title at the
decease of his father in 1829, and married,
Jan. 14, 1846, Louisa Jane, only daughter of
' St. John Jeffryes, Esq., of Blarney Castle, in
V 1 the county of Cork, by whom he leaves, with
two daughters, one son, now Sir George St.
John Colthurst, sixth Baronet, formerly a
Lieutenant in the 43rd Foot, and A.D.C. to the Lord Lieu¬
tenant of Ireland. The late Sir George Colthurst was a J.P.
and D.L. for the county of Cork, served as High Sheriff in
1850, and sat in Parliament for Kingsale from 1863 to 1874.
SIR T. MYDDELTON BIDDULPH.
General the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Myddelton Biddulph,
K.C.B., P.C., Keeper of her Majesty’s Privy Purse, died on the
28th ult. The event has caused the Queen the profoundest
grief. Sir Thomas had been for twenty-seven years one of her
Majesty*8 most valuable and confidential servants. He was
bom 1809, the second son of Robert Biddulph, Esq., of Led¬
bury, in the county of Hereford, and Cofton Hall, in the
county of Worcester, by Charlotte, his wife, daughter and
eventual heiress of Richard Myddelton, Esq., M.P., of Chirk
Castle, Lord Lieutenant of the county of Denbigh, repre¬
sentative of a distinguished branch of the old Welsh family of
Myddelton of Gwaynenog. In 1826 he entered the 1st Life
Guards, and in 1851, as Lieutenant-Colonel, went on half pay;
he attained the rank of General in 1878. In 1851 he succeeded
Sir George Bowles as Master of the Queen’s Household and
Extra Equerry to her Majesty. In 1866 he became joint
Keeper of her Majesty’s Privy Purse and Receiver-General of
the Duchy of Cornwall, and in 1867 was appointed sole Keeper i
of the Privy Purse when the office was limited to one. For I
these long and valuable services he received the insignia of
K.C.B. in 1863, and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1877.
He married, Feb. 16, 1857, the Hon. Mary Frederica Seymour,
the Maid of Honour, and now Hon. Bedchamber Woman to ■
the Queen, and member of the Royal Order of Victoria and
Albert (third class), only daughter of Frederick Charles
Seymour, Esq., by Lady Mary Gordon, his first wife, third
daughter of the ninth Marquis of Huntly.
JUDGE KEOGH.
Mr. Justice Keogh died on the 1st inst., at Bingen, on the
Rhine, where he had been sojourning for the benefit of his
impaired health. He was bom in 1817, graduated at Trinity
College, Dublin, entered Parliament for Athlone in 1847,
became Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1853, Attorney-
General in 1855, and in the following year was elevated to the
judicial bench, where, during twenty-two years, he has acted
as one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas.
The deaths have also been announced of—
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Yarburgh Gorlld, on the 22nd
ult., at Windsor Cottage, Ringwood, Hants, aged seventy-two.
Mr. Thomas M'Donnell, Q.C., the father of the Irish Bar.
He was called to the Bar in 1816, and received silk in 1837.
He was a barrister sixty-two years.
Matilda, Mrs. Cairns, on the 26th ult., at her residence, 14,
Elgin-road, Dublin, widow of the late William Cairns, Esq.,
formerly of Cultra, in the county of Down, aged eighty-six.
The Rev. T. Augustus Purdy, M.A., on the 26th ult., aged
fifty-one, at his residence, 6, Plimsoll-stTeet, East India-road,
Poplar. He was formerly Chaplain of the London Hospital.
Charles Seager, M.A., Worcester College, Oxford, of Percy
House, Brook-green, W., Professor of Hebrew at the Catholic
University College, Kensington.
Henry Morris Kemshead, Esq., J.P. and D.L., formerly
Chairman of the Middlesex Magistrates, on the 20th ult., at
The Lodge, Westboume-park, Paddington, aged eighty-six.
He was long known as a City merchant, and held for nearly
half a century a prominent position in the city of London.
Sir James Jell Chalk, Kt., F.S.A., on the 23rd ult., at
80, Warwick-square, aged seventy-five. He was second son o
James Chalk, Esq., of Queenborough, Kent, by Mary, his
wife, daughter of Edward Shove, Esq., J.P. He was called to
the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1839, held the office of Secro¬
tary to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of England from. 1850
to 1871, and was knighted in the last-named year.
William Henry Lee, Esq., late Clerk of the Queen’s Privy
Council for Canada, at his residence, Leeland-place, on the 11th
ult., in the eightieth year of his age. The deceased entered
the Government service as a clerk in the Executive Council
Office of the late Province of Upper Canada in 1821 ; appointed
senior clerk 1831, acting clerk of the Executive Council 1839;
at the union of Upper and Lower Canada in 1841, assistant
clerk of the Executive Council of the Province of Canada, and
clerk of ditto, 1853. WhenThe union of the B.N.A. Provinces
took place in 1867 he was appointed Clerk of the Queen’s Privy
Council for the Dominion of Canada, and held that position
until 1872, when he retired on his superannuation allowance.
On his retirement the members of the Privy Council presented
the deceased gentleman with a valuable silver um, on which
was engraved a suitable record of his public services. Mr.
Lee married a daughter of the late Colonel the Hon. Samuel
B. Smith, senior Executive Councillor of the late Province of
Upper Canada, and some time Administrator of the Govern¬
ment, who survives him, together with two sons and three
daughters. _
The Duke of Cambridge yesterday week inspected the
troops at Woolwich, and expressed his satisfaction with their
appearance and training.
Mr. Gladstone, in acknowledging a copy of a book on the
subject of the “ Clergyman’s Sore Throat,” writes :—“ When
I have had very lengthened statements to make, I have used a
glass of sherry beaten up with an egg. I think it excellent,
but I have much more faith in the egg than in the alcohol. I
never think of employing it unless on the rare occasions when
I have expected to go much beyond an hour.”
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Torced by two Knights. The game Is therefore drawn.
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Solution of Peoblrm No. 1804.
WHIT*. BLACE.
1. P to K 6th B takes P*
2. R (from B 2nd) to B 3rd Any move
8. R mates.
• If the Bishop is played to any other square White continues with 3. B to B 5th, Ac.
WHITE.
White to play, and mate in three moves.
PROBLEM No. 1807.
By W. Gbimshaw.
BLACK.
CHESS IN HUNGARY.
A Game placed at the Chess Club in Buda-Pesth between Herren 8 . Bpitzbb
andJ. Ungab. —( Bishop's Gambit.)
black (Hen: U.)
P to K 4th
whit* (Herr S.)
1. P to K 4th
2. P to K B 4th
3. B to B 4th
4. K to B sq
An unusual, If no-„
move. It Is probably dee
other things, to prevent the
which, it now attempted, lc
altogether a novel
grazer attack!
K takes P
P takes P
F to Kt 7th (ch)
Q to Kt Sth (ch),
Ac.
5. Kt to K B 3rd
6. P to Q 4th
7. Kt to Q B 3rd
8. P to K 6th
D. Kt to K 4th
10. Cl to K sq
11. P to a 6th
12. K B takes P
13. P to B 4th
14. P to Q Kt 3rd
16. B takes Kt
10. Kt to Q 4th
17. B to Kt 2nd
18. Kt to K B 6th
19. R to Q sq
20. Q to U 2nd
21. R to K sq
~i. R takes B
_3. B to Q 4th
11. B takes B
The attack op to this point presents
many points of interest, but here White
commits an error that provee ‘ ‘ '
Q to R 4th
P to K Kt 4th
P to Q B 3rd
P to Q Kt 3rd
B to R 3rd (ch)
Kt to Q B 3rd
QRtoBsq
R takes B'
R to K Kt 3rd
Kt to Kt 6th
Rto K sq
B to Kt 2nd
B to Q B 3rd
B takes Kt
B to B 4th
Kt to B 3rd
white (HerrS.) black (Herr II.)
■ Kt takes R
Q to K 7th (oh)
This coup disposes of Uie attack effectually
_nough, but if there Is any danger to
Black from captuiiug the lilanop with Kt,
* ■- -ote that we are unable to din-
25. Q to Q 5th
is so remote that wi
26. K takes Cl
27. K to Q 3rd
28. B to Q 6th
29. K to K 4th
>. KttoQHth
Kt to B 6th (ch)
Kt takes Q
Kt to B 2nd
P to B 3rd
_ P takes P
81. B takes Kt (ch) K takes B
32. Kt to Kt 6th (ch) K to Kt 2nd
33. R to Q sq R to K 2nd
34. Kt to Q 6th (ch) K to B 3rd
36. Kt to B Sth R (from Kt 3rd)
to K 3rd
Black, It may be assumed, is willing to
concede the exchange, to simplify the
36. Kt takes P (ch) KtoKt2nd
37. Kt to Kt 6th P to Kt 5th
33. Kt. to ti 6th (ch) IC to B 3rd
S9. Kt to B 6th It to B 2nd
40. P to Kt 4th P to R 4th
41. P to Cl R 4th P to Kt 6th
42. P to It 6th P takes Q R P
43. P takes P (R5th) P to Q 3rd
44. P takes P P takes P
45. Kt takes P R to B 6th (ch)
46. K to IC 3rd R takes P
47. Kt takes P RtoKKtSrd
48. R to Q Kt sq K to B 4th,
and White resigned.
CHESS IN LONDON.
black (Mr. A.)
P to K 4th
B to B 4th
P to G 3rd
Kt to Q B 3rd
white (Dr. B.)
1. P to IC 4th
2. P to K B 4th
3. Kt to K B 3rd
4. B to B 4th
5. Kt to U B 3rd
This move Is now more frequent!;
adopted by good players than 6. P to (J i
3rd, wlilch is given in thc books.
B to K Kt 6th
x> Q6tb teems a tafer {
8. B takes P (ch) K to B sq
9. Kt takes Kt
Tlic coup juste. The proffered Queen, if
-*--■ ..vk gift.
10. Q takes B
11. U to B 5th
12. Kt to 0 6th
13. T to (l 3rd
P takes Kt
Kt to K B 3rd
K takes B
EtoKsi;
R to K 3rd
re in 13. IMo K 2nd;
7. P takes P P takes P
CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
Everyone interested in the practice of chess by correspondence will be glad to
learn that there exists an association designed to promote that phase of the
gentle game. Thc rules of the Albion Corresponding Chess Club requite
that each member shall pay an annual subscription of one shilling, and the
pairing of competitors is arranged by the honorary secretary, Mr J. W.
Snelgrove, Chancel-end, Hoytosbury. The competition tourney of the club
rill be begun on Nov. 12.
The following paragraph appeared in a recent issue of the Town and Country
Journal of Sydney under the title of “ Chess Dreams ” “ We came across
u curious work the other day, which professes to explain the sismrtlcation
of dreams—* the childien of an idle brain.’ Under the bead of * Chess, we
find tlie following inspiration:—* If any one dreams that he plays at chess
with an acquaintance, it is a sign that he will fall out with somebody ho
knows; and if he imagines in his dream he wins, he shall be over his
enemies ; and, on the contrary, if be dream that he loses, he will be over¬
come and worsted in the combat.’ ’’ We aro cunous to know whether this
interpreter of dreams was a Prophet or a Maityr.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated Aug. 14, 1878) of Mr. George Payne, late of
No. 16, Queeu-street, May-fair, who died on the 2nd ult., was
proved on the 21st ult. by Charles Snell Paris, the sole
executor, the personal estate being sworn under £25,000. The
testator, in giving hie plate, furniture, and other personal
effects to his sister, Lady Elizabeth Martha Goodricke, goes on
to say :—“ From this bequest I except a magnificent present
made to me by the farmers of Northampton blare, and which I
order may never be sold; and if Lord Spencer would
allow it a place at Althorp, making any use he pleases
of it there (except selling it), where it would be in
the old county in which I passed all the happiest
days of my life, I should esteem it a great favour and an act
of kindness on his part; in the event of his allowing this
request, I give the said testimonial or present to him and his
heirs, with this stipulation, that it is never to be sold.” All
his money in the Consols is left to his said sister for life, and
then for his nieces, her three daughters, Laura, Carolina, and
Harriet; to his executor he leaves £200; upon trust for Mrs.
Simmonds, and afterwards for her son George, £1000; to his
cook Annie, £20; and all his personal wearing apparel to his
valet. The residue of his property, including his half of the
Glasgow stud, goes to his sister, the said Lady Elizabeth
Martha Goodricke.
The will (dated Not. 21, 1877) of Mr. Henry Buckworth
Powell Montgomery, late of Wilverley Park, Lyndhurst,
Hants, who died on June 24 last, has been proved at the
Winchester district registry by Dame Laura Emmeline
Dickson, the widow, and William Martin Powell, the brother,
the acting executors, the personal estate being sworn under
£60,000. The testator bequeaths to his wife £500, and his
carriages, homes, furniture, linen, and china; and legacies to
relatives and servants The mansion house, park, and grounds,
Wilverley Park, and all other his real estate, the testator
devises to the use of his wife for life, if she so long continue
his widow, with remainder to the first and other sons of his
brother William Martin Powell successively, according to
seniority; his copyhold and leasehold property, and the residue
of the personalty, are settled upon similar trusts. All persons,
except his wife, becoming entitled in possession and not bear¬
ing the name of Powell are to take that name. His diamonds,
E late, pictures, statuary, books, and articles of rirtu are made
eirlooms, so as to go with the settled property
The will (dated April 3, 1869) with two wdicils (dated
Jan. 15 and Aug. 8, 1870) of Mr. John William Egerton
Green, late of Colchester, Essex, who died on June 1 last, was
proved on the 12th ult. by Henry Egerton Green and Horace
George Egerton Green, the sons, the executors, the personal
estate being sworn under £60,000. The testator devises his
freehold property at Ardleigh, Essex, to his said son Ilcury,
charged with the payment of £4000 to each of his sons the
Rev. Vernon Thomas Green and Cecil Egerton Green; he also
gives to his two last-named sons further legacies of £500 each ;
his capital in the Colchester Bank he leaves equally between
his sons Henry Egerton Green and Horace George Egerton
Green; in addition he bequeaths £1000 to his son Henry and
£500 to Horace. There are some other bequests, and tho
esidue he leaves to his said sons Henry and Horace.
The will (dated Oct. 27,1877) with a codicil (dated June 6,
1878) of Mr. Thomas Knight, late of Finchley Villa, Lewisham,
who died on Aug. 27 last, was proved on the 14th ult. by Octavius
Chapman Tryon Eagleton, Alfred Smart, and James Arthur
Tapley, the executors, the personal estate being sworn under
£25,000. The testator bequeaths £100 each to the Earkwood
Idiot Asylum, Redhill, the London Master Bakers’ Peusion
Society, the Royal Hospital for Incurables, the British and
Foreign Bible Society, the Religious Tract Society, the London
Church Missionary Society, and the Royal Kent Dispensary ;
and £100 to the Rector and churchwardens of the parish of
Gravesend, upon trust, to invest the same during the life of
H.R.H. Prince Albert Victor of Wales and twenty-one years
after, and to apply the dividends in keeping in repair his family
grave, and the remainder, if any, in the purchase of bread to
be given to the poor of the said parish in each year at
Christmas.
The will (dated July 19, 1878) of Mr. John Ritchie
Cartwright, late of No. 62, Grosvenor-street, and of No. 50,
Oxford-road, Kilbura, who died on Aug. 5 last, was proved on
the 17th ult. by Francis Machell Cartwright, the brother, and
Robert Pirie Shiell, the executors, the personal estate being
sworn under £14,000.
The will (dated June 25, 1864) of Major-General Georgo
Alexander Oakes, C.B., who died on Aug. 22 last, was proved
on the 13th inst. by Richard Francis Oakes, the brother, the
surviving executor, the personal estate being sworn under
£ 10 , 000 .
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(Simpkin, Marshall, ana Co.)
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Travels of Dr. and Madame Heifer in Syria, Mesopotamia, Burmah, and
Other Lands. Narrated by Pauline, Countess Nostits (formerly
Madame Heifer), and rendered into English by Mrs. George Sturge.
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Hibernia Venatica. By M. O’Connor Morris. With Photographs.
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Prince Bismarck’s Letters; to his Wife, his Sister, and Others. From 1844
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Sporting Sketches: with Pen and Pencil. By Francis Francis and A. W.
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OCJT. 5,1878
sSSm^^
77 to TO, H*m p*t**d-ro*d. neaiTottsnham-conrvrrowv. _
JpURNISH THEOUGHOUT.
gUBSTANTIAL ARTISTIC FURNITURE.
QETZMANN A CO.,
jj AMPSTEAD-ROAD,
■J^EAR TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD.
ssssstsaniBssSsf^is
a home throughout. _.—
"DESIDES THE RECENT ADDITION of
13 the Immeni* rang* of Premise* FJ^oMto too™M to»
Eagle Brewery, which hare been rebuilt end willed to their
extensive Show-Room* end Qnllerios,
-j^IQHT LARGE SHOW-ROOMS
I | AVE just been added
ij»0 THE DISPLAY OF
^RTISTIO FURNITURE, Ac.
F 1 IS NOW ONE OF THE LARGEST
FURNISHING ESTABLISH!! ENTS In tte W^Oom-
rpHE SANDRINGHAM EASY- CHAIR,
J. fall elie, upholstered eery eoft and comforUble. sultebTO
for any room, price Me.: Lady'e ditto, smaller *1**. 21s.; e'en the
Sandringham Couch upholstered eery eoft and
A nglo-turkey carpets.
QETZMANN and OO.-Theeo superior Oarpete. of which
a^'s^ssEtawsssswargi
"Art Journal*' «ay® detamann hav© made a better
article than the Indiana. Persian*. and Turks, and at lew than
half the cott, without sacrificing aught of the Kraceof dnjign
and harmony of colours." For the convenience of those residing
at a distance. a large piece, showing the border and centre or
Carru-t, wnton receipt of 6*.. which will be deducted from price
of Carpet or refunded upon ret urn of pattern; nr by sending 18*.
I n rBan^etlTbe aiaii^on’ t^ea^ne^t* rms*°H rerth *11 u gs to
T>OMBAY STRIPED CURTAINS.—The
I) cheapeet CURTAINS extant, effective style, 3 yard* long ty
ffd <£/ * ^^ ^
TT'URNISHING IRONMONGERY
_F DEPARTMENT.—Superior Electro-Pluto Tea and Coffee
Rote, Spoona, Forks. Cruets. Ac. (qiraliteguaranteed); beet war¬
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JL OETZMANN and CO.—Orderi sent per post, whether large
/QETZMANN and CO., COMPLETE
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Gower-gtreet Station. Metropolitan Hallway). Lowest prices
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Saturdays at Four. Descriptive Catalogue poet-tree.
QESCREPTIVE CATALOGUE, post-free.
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JJ AMPSTEAD-ROAD.
■\TOTICE. — SPOONS and FORKS,
It In SILVER and In ELECTRO-PLATE.
ELKINOTONand 00., aa the result of important
v Improvementa in the above manufactures,areable
^JR. STREETER, JNDIGESTION
IS NEW BOND-STREE T, W. . PEPTIN1
GOLDSMITH AND JEWELLER.
of Exquisite I>esign and W orkmanahlp. valuable
£5
-DIANO. £35 (Civil Service cash price) £££ nc j
iefwlth thus aai:
r l*^L£°. U iV?^ili| T S?l fretwork front, and cabriole trues lege. the organ
B ROADWOOD and COLLARD COTTAGE IJS^can
PIANOFORTES. faU^rom^offevenO^v^^ child. '
beautiful Instruments, of rich and ruu «>ne, m g«.«d.pe:
rpWENTY-POUND SCHOOL-ROOM SaM
5E5J?KS£££ EIDDEB
T7B0NY and GOLD PIANOS, 25 guineas, T ?,oar?i£eL-
Pj ss wiiineae and 46 guinea*.—These charming and elegant Throat and Hoarseness '
Pianos with ormolu embellishments, repetition , Immediate relief afforde
evenrrocent Improvement, may now bo obtained atthe above TROCHES. These fa.
low prices for cash, or on the Three-Years Syrtem, at lgnlnea resp ocUble Chemists in
per month. The new Illustrated Catalogue grati s and port-ties. troubled with a hack!
^ THOMAS OETZMANN and CO..37. Baker-street, W. affections cannot try I
__ allowed to progress, re*
P. J. SMITH AND SONS' alhctlons.—Ddpdt, 4BS.
TRON - STRUTTED PIANOS. ~ QLD8
1 C 0LDS culih
^ It TO conclusively ascertained that ^^t
. PEPTINE will bring about the Digestion of Food
ta a manner perfectly Identical to that obtained
under the Influence of the natural to**™*£“*•
••A glance at the Formula of LACTOPEFTINE
would convince even the moat sceptical of the
valuable results that most ensue through its
administration. Composed of ptyalin. pepsin*.
pancreatine, hydrochloric and lactic acids, It I* a
combination of all the digestive ipsb; »»;
seauently, can never be administered without
giving the utmost satisfaction; for If there TO a
deficiency In the system of all or any of these
agents, LACTUPKPTINE wlU supply It, and
thus assist In digesting the food, enabling
the organs that produoe these principles of diges¬
tion to reet and recuperate their relaxed energies."
—From “ Practical Medicine and Surgery," July,
1«77. LACTOPKPTINB being presented in
eacchaxatod form, TO most agreeable to the taste,
and can be administered even to the youngest
child. The price of the LACTOPKPTINB TO
«s. «d. per one os. bottle. (An ounoe bottle con¬
tains forty-eight ten-grain doses.) Ifany dif¬
ficulty TO experienced In obtaining LACTOPEP-
TINE from your Chemist, communicate direct,
sending P.0.0, for «S- 6d. Address—CARNRICK.
KIDDER, andOO..Gt.Bu*eeU-st..oornerof Char-
lotte-st.. London, W.O. Pamphlet to any address.
T hroat affections and
HOARSENE88-—All suffering from Irritation of the
^^1g«^b U y^f b W^^
TROCHES. These famous Lozengesi are now sedd bj » t
respectable ChemlsU In this country, at Is. ljd. per &>*■ People
troubled with e hacking cough, a alight pb"). °r»>ro“bhl*l
TOTTENHAM - DOUBT - ROAD.
pURNITURE.
pURNITURE.
pURNITURE.
\f APLE and CO. snpply every requisite
ill. for HOUSE FURNISHING. Including Linen*. Iron-
motigrry. Glass. Crockeryware. Clocks. Bronzes, ami every
dcwripti'in Of UrnamenU. vither for dining or drawms r>»*m,
or fu. Chrlstmas and Wedding Preeeots. In separatedepartmenta.
VTArLE and CO., the largest and most
ill convenient PUBN18UING ESTABLISHMENT In the
world. A IIoum of any magnitude FumUIntl from
throe days. Purchaser* thmild iuauoct the Stock • •"».*
elsewhere. All goo«la marked In plain flrnr^a. Eatab. lb jvare.
An Ill oat rated Catalogue po t-free.
J^JAPLE and CO., Importers.
pURKEY CARPETS,
JNDIAN CARPETS,
pERSIAN CARPETS.
poet on applicatinn. Purchasers of 81lvcr Spoons
and Forks obtain the advantage of any fluctuations
In the stiver market.
Address—ELKINGTON and CO.. », Regent-street. London,
or 13. Moorgate-street. City.
GARDNERS’ NEW DINNER and TABLE
VJ GLASS SERVICES are origiiial In design, effective In
appearance, and unequalled In price. Dinner Bervicee from
13 3s. the Set for twelve persons, complete, with IS per cent dis¬
count for cash on or beforedelivery. Table Glass bervicee from
£3 Ss. fid. the Sot for twelve persons complete.
DINNER SERVICES.
Coloured Lithographs post-free.
In Deep Blue. I In Blue and White.
The T-auedowne ..£3 3 01 The Lanadowne ..£3 8 0
The Laurel .. ..3 13 81 The Indiana .. ..440
I The Danish .. .. A 6 0
Discount 16 per cent.
In Enamelled Patterns. I In thedr unequalled Crown
The One Thousand and Ware.
Two (A) ..£A A 0 In Ruby.£A A 0
The Japanese Bamboo 8 6 0 In Pink.6 A 0
The Humming-Bird.. 7 7 0 In Black.A 6 0
The S4vree — .. 7 7 0|
Discount 1A per cent.
^ TABLE GLASS SERVICES
Plata light stem glass £3 6 61 Light engraved glass .. £A 16 6
Richly cut glass .. A A 0 | Richly engraved glass 8 19 «
. __ Discount 15 per cent.
Illustrated Glass Catalogue, which must be returned, sent
_ . . post-free on application.
••'***' Cl»li‘“ Manufacturers,4ASand 434,
BOWRNACK CARPETS, also 600 Turkey Carpets,
extra fine quality and at marvellously low prices. Just recelvi
from Constantinople. These Goods have been bought by Agen
especially dispatched by Meears. MAPLE and CO. for cash. «
of great rarity, some being very handsome old prayer rugs, whh
have been made over a hundred years. The prices are wornl,
fully low—In fact, one third of that usually aaked for the
curiosities.—146,146,147, Totte n ha m -court-road, London.
manufactured by Bonnet, of Lyons.
Messrs. JAY beg to Inform their Patrons
and the Public generally
that they are now aeUIng these well-known
Pure Light-Dyed Bilks
at a reduction of from S3 to 40 per cent off
prices that were charged previous to
the depression In the Lyons Silk Market.
Present price, 4a lid.; former price, 3a. 3d.
,. ., As. 6d.; .. „ As. M.
,. „ At. lid.; „ „ 8s. fid.
,, .. fis.Od.; „ 10*. fid.
leant. JAY are also selling Janbert s good wearing
Black 81LKB. at the following reduced rate
Present price, 8s. fid.: former price, Aa. fid.
„ 4a. fid.; .. At. 3d.
„ „ He. 3d.; „ 7s. fid.
"BLACK satin's, aiipuresllk,
13 Inches wi de. from St. 3d. per yard.
JAYS', Regent-street.
ATESSRS. JAY have a Staff of Assistants,
DA specially engaged to wait upon Ladles at their bomre,
either In town or country, and to submit Goods for Inspection,
all of which are marked in plain figures, and sold at the same
price ss If purchased atthe warehouse in Regent-street.
JAYS’,
THE LONDON GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE,
REGENT-STREET, W.
CWAN and EDGAR
kJ are now showing
A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT
AUTUMN NOVELTIES,
dl Bilks. Mantles, Costumes,
and Sealskin Paletots.
gWAN and EDGAR,
PICCADILLY and REGENT-STREET
Q 0 0 0 A.
JAMES EPPS an 00..
HOMCBOPATHIO
CHEMISTS.
Civil Service Gazette
12ga. 14 gs. legs. lags.
The* I’aletote, manufactured from flr>t-r!a** skint onlv. can
be sent on approval to any luirt of the country by giving a
reference, and sending the following measurements:—Width of
Paletot tW< *° * ,1<JUl<lOT ’' ® cro “ che * t ' roaiMl walrt > 1«®«U» of
W AYRE’S FUR-LINED CLOAKS,
3 gs. Summer prioe. French Cashmere, Real Squirrel
Linings, 60 inches long.
affection.'unnA
QOLDS CURED BY
TYR. DUNBAR’S ALKARAM, or
J J Anti-Catarrh SmoUing-Bottle.
^LKARAM. QOLDS.
^LKARAM. QOLDS.
^LKARAM. QOLDS.
T F inhaled on the first symptoms, ALKARAM
I. will at once arrest them, and cure severe cases tu half an
h .ur. Sold by all Chemists, Us. 9d. a Bottle. Address. Dr. Dunbar,
cure of Messrs. P. Newbery and Sons, Si. Newguto-street.
ELECTU1CITY IS LIFE.
T3 UL VERM ACHE R’S “GALVANISM,
A NATURES. C1UEP RESTORER OK EXHAUSTED
VITAL th# m0#t reliable proof, are given of the
vast and wonderful curative powe t of Pulve muebtr s
Patent Galvanic Chain-Bands. Bella, Ac., In Ulu umatiC,
Nervou . and Functional Disorder*. Sent post-free for
J. L. PIJ L V E It M AC HE K'a' G A1. V AN IC ESTABLISHMENT,
im. REGENT-STREET. LONDON, W. AND 38 RUE ST.
MARC, PARIB-_
TO PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH
A RUPTURE.—PRATT'8 WATER-PAD TBU88E8 are the
most effectual Cure.-Apply to J. F. Pratt. Surgical Mechanician
to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 490. Oxford-street, London.
T AXORA MEDICATED FRUIT
XJ LOZENGES for CON8TIPATION. SLUGGISHN ESS
OF THE STOMACH. BILE, HEADACHE.
The •' Lancet:“ It TO a great Improvement on the
preparations In common use for the same purpose."
•'Medical Prcas: LaxoraLosenges can be safely
recommended." „
C. B. C. Tlchborne. Ph. D.:— M Laxora Lozenge* are
Bold, Is.' lid., by all Chemist* and Druggist*;
Wholesale, 33, Southwark-street.
LAI R’S GOUT PILLS.
The Great English Remedy fqr Gout and Rheumatism. Sure,
safe, and effectual. No restraint of diet required during their
use, and are certain to prevent the disease attacking any vital
part. Bold by all Chemists, at TO. lid. and 3s. 8d. per Box.
XTOLLOWAY’S PILLS and OINTMENT.
AJL The Pills purify the blood, correct all disorders of the
liver, stomach, klaneys.and bowels. The Ointment TO unrivalled
In the cure of bad legs, old wound*, gout, and rheumatism.
C ORPULENCE—YATE HOLLAND’S
POWDEKS (or PIUs) speedily and safely absorb* super¬
fluous fat and reduce corpulency, however lung standing. Prioe
2s. #d . 4». fid., and lie. per Box.—MARTIN and 00.. 8.
Paradise-road, London, B.W. ; or through any Chemist.
'J'OOTH-ACHE.
JNSTANT CURE.
FORMS A STOPPING.
SAVES THE TOOTH.
J. Hounsetl. Esq.. Surgeon .Bridport, writes:—" 1
consider HUNTER'S NERVINE a specific for
Toothache. Very severe eases under my care have
found Instantaneous and permanent relief."
Of all Chemists, at is. lid. per Packet.
"FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE,"
pLARKE’S WORLD-FAMED BLOOD
\J MIXTURE TO warranted to cleans* the Blood from aU
Impurities, from whatever cause arising. For Scrofula, Scurvy,
8kin and Blood Disease* it* effect* are marvellous, in Bottles,
2s. fid. each, and In Case*containing six times the quantity. 11a.
each, of all Chemists. Bent to any sddresa for 30 or 133 stamps,
of the Proprietor, F. J. CLARKE, Chemist, Lincoln.
T)EARS’ TRANSPARENT SOAP.
-t For Toilet, Nursery, and Shaving.
Recommended in the "Journal of Cntaneoos
strong enough to resist even
disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are flostSi
ready to attack wherever there TO a weak polnt w?
i£Sd y s^\^lv T SS5 P riSf^ U ^“.Y ,U
Wood and a properlj-noorlAhMl trime.
^THE “ Naval and Military Gazette ” says
A "The nutritive qualitfe* of cocoa over either those
of tea or coffee are now so generally acknowledged that
the steady Increase shown by official statistics To its con¬
sumption during recent yean ceases to be a matter of surprise.
One of the first firms Co popularise this now indispensable
adjunct to our breakfast, table waa Messrs. Epps and (xTwho«
name, since 1839, has been eo continuously before the public sod
who** UomcBupathlc Cocoa Is as familiar In our homes u the
proverbial' household words.’ Those whose business It has been
to watch at Messrs. Epps's works the elaborate and complex
procesaes, and to note the; care and labour bestowed before the
crude coco* bean TO considered ready fur consumption cannot
but admit that the popularity Messrs. Epps's productions hue
secured U fully dsaorved. The vastness of these works mar be
Imagined when It TO stated that four millions of pounds of pre¬
pared cocoa alone are prepared there yearly. The reputation
gained, now many years aloe*, fur Mr. James Epps's preparation
both for It* purity and Its value aa a dietetic, has been more than
maintained. A constant increasing demand fully tertian to
th TO—which must be ae gratifying to Means. Eppsastt “
certainly flattering to the good faith they hav* kept with tha
public to secure so gratifying a result."
“ A 11 the Year Round ” says
TV " Having now disposed of fancy chocolate, 1st us
stroll to the Kuston-road, hard by the Regent's Park, to Epps's
cocoa manufactory, where may be studied the making of cocts
on a stupendous scale, giving a Just Idea of the vain* of thsss
articles, not aa luxuries, but aa actual food."
r FHE “ Court Journal ” says:—
A " In a cHmato so varying and trying as our own, to main¬
tain sound and uniform health, our dally diet cannot be too
carefully and attentively studied. Advancing sdenoeand recent
carefully and attentively studied. Advancing sdenoe and recent
diacoveriee have within the last few yean been Instrumental la
addiog several must valuable additions to our comparatively
short list of dietetic foods. Foremost among these should be
ranged cocoa, which, although known here several centuries pre¬
viously, only came Into general use within the last forty yean.
One of the first to popularise this now Indispensable adjcnctlo
our table was Mr. James Epps, whose ' Prepared Cocos' has
rained euah lust repute for Iteexoellentand nutritious character.
Prepared originally on homoeopathic principle*, in a soluble
and convenient form, and easy of direction. It met e public
demand, susodily became popular, until now Messrs. Epps pro¬
duce over four millions of pounds of their 0000a a year, and their
manufactory 1* the largtet of it* kind In this country.
“ /Cassell’s Household Guide” says:—
•• We will now rive an account of th* process adopted by
ROUGHNESS,
ASELIERS, in Crystal, Glass, Ormoula, WAYRE’S SKUNK PALETOT SETS
VA or Bronze, Medieval Fitting*. Ae. A Urge assortment a ... £«mplete. 4n. Summer price. Length of front*, 30 In.;
always on view. Every article marked with plain figures. depth of flounce, 11 Tn. Dark natural colour.
D. HU LETT and 00.. Manufacturers, 56 and 6fi. High Hi
BENNETT’S WATCHES. W^ sum^^
Av CHAPPING PREVENTED.
PEARS* TRANSPARENT SOAP.
Eighty year* approved by the Public.
A specialty for Sensitive Skins.
CRAVING, TOILET, and NURSERY.
PEARS' TRANSPARENT SOAP.
Always used by the Royal Family.
Sold by all Chemist*.
beauty, and workmanship, with keyless action, air-tight, damm
tight, and dust-tight—65, Chrapslde. London. Gold Chains at
manufacturer*'price*. £0.0. (0 John Bennett.
BENNETT. 66 and 64, Cheapslde.
WALKER’S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES
Prl,e Medal*—London, 1W2.
Pari*,lfifiT. 8llver Watches.from £44*.; Gold,from £66a. trice- I
List* sent f ree.-77. Corn bill; 230. Regent-street; and 76, Strand. |
T he luminous clock.
A MOST WONDERFUL INVENTION,
S7W ,llc . h ,«w> Time can bs SEEN In the DARK
without the aid of any artificial light. Every
home ahoirid^p,>ss»t one. Bee opinions of Press.
RBSKR and 8HERWUL «*aud M, Strand, W.
1 WAYRE’S REAL MARTEN - TAIL TITRiaHT’S COAL-TAR SOAP
’ ” . PALETOT Summer price. Dark v ! (8APO CARBON 13 DETEMGENS).
WAYRE, FUR MANUFACTURER,
J Y Importer of Foreign 8klns direct. W. Oxford-street, and
»3. Oxford-street icurner of Regent-cirrus). Furs of every
description sent for selection to all parts of the Kingdmn.
Ladles own Seal Jacket* re-dyed, re-lined, repaired, altered, and
lengthened to present fashion.
T O LADIE8.—THE SHREWSBURY
WATERPR 0 °P tweed CLOAKS. SKIRTS, and
JACKETS. In every variety of simp* and colour,arc .upplied by
the original Makers. E. \) and wTl'HILLIPS, 37, Hlg£-4tre«£
Shrewsbury. Pattern* and Price* on application
T 'HE “ Morning Advertiser ” says:—
"In the middle of the seventeenthoenturv*□ announce¬
ment appeared in one of tho few journals of that period,
to the ehect that ‘ out of Blshopagate-stresit, at a Frenchman's
house. Is an excellent West India drink, called chocolate,
V> be sold at reasonable rates.' This TO the tint record we hav*
>f the Introduction of cocoa into England. For a time It
luurlahod as a fashionable drink, and then, like all fashloaz,
lubridod. Nearly two centuries after, In 1833, th* duties, which
H«Mn aher, In lfiai,th* duties which
a soluble and convenient preparation, which required no boil¬
ing. and was palacable and highly nutritious. It met a public
waut, speedily became popular, and year by year has Increased In
demand, till the consumption now exceed* four million* of
pound* yearly."
T'HE “ Christian World” says:—
JL "'If I am to take cocoa,' sold I, ' 1 must know what
“ Tohn Bull ” says
V •• Id no branches ol
"C*RASMUS WILSON, F.R.8.,
L " As the most refreshing and
Agreeable balm for the Skin."
Pure. Fragrant, and Durable.
A HEALTHY SKIN and GOOD
COMPLEXION.
PEARS' TRANSPARENT SOAP, recommended
by the Homawpatbic Pharmaceutical Society as
rpHE “Church Review” says:—
JL •• Although we cannot yet boast of a free breakfast-tab!*,
still tho activo legislation in furtherance of that ohject daring
the last half century leaves u* much to be thankful for. A
striking instance of the general good resulting from the removal
of heavy Imposts upon our food supply 1* afforded by the mar¬
vellous increase lnthe consumption of coco* alnce lSSS.up to
which period an almost prohibitive duty was levied. In 1*30
tho toted amount consumed In this oountry was less than haff a
million pounds yearly. At the present time one firm alone, that
of MeeareTjamea Eppk and Co., the Homeopathic ChamlsTO, sail
annually four million pounds,"
rpHE “Civilian” Bays:—
JL " In the seventeenth century, before either tea or ooffte bad
found their way Into the English market*. choooUto w»* a
favourite beverage with tho luxurious classes at that period; It
then fetched an almost fabulous price per pound. To-day, when
modern acirnco and enterprise have Placed it within the macn
□f every ciaaa, cocoa ia not only still regarded as a palatable
and refreshing drink, but la valued for its nutritive and
dietetic qualities. One of the first, we believe, who may be
credited with introducing coooa In tU present form la Mr. Janwa
Kppa. Prepared on Bound dietetic principle*. Epps • Uommo*
patliic cocoa contalna all the nutritive prupt rtlea of tlie native
product in such a form that they are rendered thoroughly
and. therefore, much more easy of digestion. The naturalsuper-
abun dance of fat present in raw cocoa is, moreover .not only
counteracted, but made to serve one of the moat eaaential func¬
tions of aouud diet. Meaara. Eppa's works are now. perhaps, the
largeat in the country, the cocoa produced there amounting to
many million pounda a year."
“ T and and Water ” says
JU " Through the klndueM of Messrs. Epp», I recently h*A
an opportunity of seeing tbe many complicated and v*ne«!
proccase* the cacao bean passes through ere it is sold for public
use. and being Interested and highly pleased with wliat I saw
during the visit to the manufactory. I thought a brief S“° u "*
of the cacao and the way It 1* manufactured by Messrs. Klip« b>
I fit It for a wholesome aud nutritious beverage, might be Ukowler
7 v (8APO CARB0NI8 DETEHGEN8).
Highly and extensively ri-commended for the toilet and InaU
case* of cutaneous disease by Mr. Jos. 8Urtin. M.R.C.S., Surgeon
to St. John;, Hospital for Diseases of the 8kln. the late Mr.
James SUrtln, >LD., F.R.C.S.. of Savlle-row. Mr McCall
Andereon,M.D., F.F.P.S.. of Wtoidsldo-cresoeut, Glasgow, and
the other leailing raemter* of tho profession. In Tablets, fid
aud Is., in elegant Toilet-Boxes, of all Chemists.
W. V. WRIGHT and CO. London.
pAUTION.—The MACASSAR OIL for
VJ nourishing the hair, and ODONTO for whiten¬
ing the teeth, prepared by A. ROWLAND and
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BIRTHS.
On Ibe 19th nit., at S. Kenflworth-road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, the wife
of W. Bharpley, of a daughter.
On the 3rd inst., at Edinburgh, Lady Gibson Craig, of a son.
On the 8th inst., at Glebe Field nouse, Stoke Newington, the wife of
Frareis Arthur Suttahy, of a daughter. .
On July 20,1678, at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, the wife of Charles
H. Hi mining, of ft son. _ ,
On the 4th inst., at Heaths Court, Ottery St. Mary, the Hon. Mrs.
Coleridge, of a daughter.
On the 2nd inst., at Terling Place, the Lady Rayleigh, of a son.
On <he 2Sth nit., Jane B. (m'e Cooke), wife ofWilUam White, F.S.A.,
(JIC’A, ’Wimpole-strect), Lyndon Lodge, Hanwell, W., of a son. All well.
MARRIAGES.
On f l ePthinst.. at fit. Peter’s. Eaton-square,Frederick Wflltom,young^t
ron of Colonel G. A Maude, C.B., to Ellen Maud, only daughter of Sir John
Kelk, Bart., of Bentley rriory, Stanmore.
On tl:c 6th inst., at St. George’s, Hanover-square, C.W. Howell, Esq.,
to Par all, widow of the late Robert Keays, Puisne Judgo of the Chief Court,
On Oie 8th inst., at Branstone, Walter Hugh Earle Welby, Rector of
Heiston, sorond surviving son of the late Sir E -Welby-Gregory, Bart.,
to Florence Laura, eldest daughter of the Rev. G. Sloane Stanley, Rector of
Brimstone, near- Grantham.
DEATHS.
On June 25, at Bondebosch, Cape Town, Jessy Worsley, wife of S. J.
Brodribb, Cape Civil Service, aged 25 years.
On the 3rd inst., at St. John’s Park, Ryde, Sir R. Sutton, Bart., m his
B7th year. .
On the 5th inst., at Southsea, Annie Charlotte, wife of Captain i'.
Warren, R.N., daughter of the late Sir H. Blackwood. Bart.
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CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCT. 19.
8UNDAY, Oct. 13.
Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity.
Morning Lessons : Jer. v., Coloss. u.
8. Evening Lessons : Jer. xxu. or
xxxv, Luke xi. 1 to 23.
WhiUhall, 11 n.m. and 3 p.m., Rev.
W. F. Erskinc Knollys.
St. Paul’s Cathedral, 10.30 am,
Rev. Prebendary Row; 3.15 p.m.,
the
Bishop Claughton; 7 p- -
Archdeacon of Middlesex, Ven. Dr.
J. A. Hessey.
Savor, 11.30 a.m., Rev. Dr. William
Baker, Head Master of Merchant
Taylora’ School; 7 p.m., Rev
Edwin Price, Minor Canon of
Westminster.
MONDAY, Oct. 14.
Royal Masonic Institution for Boys : | Exhibition at Agricultural Hall
Quarterly General Court and (last day). ,
Elections, Freemasons* Tavern,, Royal Albert Hall ana Horticultural
noc . n< Gardens: beginning of Monday
British Dairy Farmers’ Association : I Organ Recitals, 3 p.m.
TUESDAY, Oct. 15.
Prince Alfred of Edinburgh bom,
1674.
Norwich Musical Festival.
IIuni ano Society, committee, 4 p.m.
Horticultural Society, fruit and
floral committee, 11a.m.; scientific,
1 p.m.; general meeting. 3 p.m.
Gresham Lectures (fourdays), 6 p.m.
(Mr T. F. Dallin on Rhetoric).
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 16.
Pathologi cal Society, 8.30 p.m.
Races : Croydon, Newcastle Autumn
Meeting.
Crystal Palace, Tenth National Cat
Show (threedays).
South Kensington Museum, 8 p.m.
(Dr. G. G. Zerffi on the His¬
torical Development of Ornamental
Art).
Warehousemen and Clerks’ School,
Croydon, new wing to be opened
by Princess Louise.
King’s College, 6 p.m. (Mr. O. C.
Warr on Ancient History— Greece).
London Dialectical Society, Lang-
ham Hall, 8 p.m. (Mr. W. O.
Coupland on the Principle of Indi¬
vidual Liberty: how far applicable
to the Relations of the Sexes).
THURSDAY, Oct. 17.
TheDuchessof Edinburgh born, 1353.1 College of Preceptors, 7 p.m. (Mr. J.
Fox-Hunting begins. G. Fitch on Practical Teaching-
Royal Toxophilite Society (extra Discipline),
target). I Sandown Park Races.
FRIDAY, Oct. 18.
St. Luke the Evangelist. I City of London College, 6 p.m. (Dr.
Society for the Propagation of the Heinemann on Political Economy-
Gospel, 2 pm. I the Causes of Production).
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the perusal of his volumes with two general impressions
deeply imprinted upon their minds. First, the long series
of disappointments which the voyagers, and especially the
sledge travellers, were doomed to encounter; and, next,
the indomitable pluck and perseverance with which thoy
met and wrestled with the most trying circumstances.
Politics—comprehending under that term the widest
range of signification which it will admit of—seem to
us, just now, to present a similar aspect of almost
unbroken gloom to that which the Arctic Regions
presented to Captain Nares’s exploring expedition.
It remains to be seen whether it will be faced
with the same bright courage and extraordinary power
of endurance. At present there is no hopeful outlet
in view, whether in respect of foreign or of domestic
complications. Things are taking a course quite beyond
the effectual control of her Majesty’s Government, and
possibly, for a weary period yet to come, of Parliament
and the public. The Fates are not propitious to us. The
plans of the most sagacious do not turn out successfully.
The prophecies of the least sanguine are overshadowed
and neutralised by what Napoleon III. aptly characterised
as “the inexorable logic of facts.” Of course, this will
not he always so. “ It is a long lane which has no turn¬
ing,” and, perhaps, in this as in other cases, “ tho darkest
hour precedes the dawn.” Still, it is difficult to bring
under review the general condition of affairs in the king¬
dom without becoming conscious of the strong effort, both
of reason and of will, which is needed to resist the
encroachments of that despondency which is gradually
eating its way into the heart of this great nation.
A glance, however cursory, at the domestic interests of
the country catches but a very few points, if any, of im¬
mediate promise. The Board of Trade returns for
September give no trustworthy signs that a revival from
the depression which industry and commerce have suffered
since 1874 has yet commenced. They indicate, we are
afraid, rather a downward than an upward tendency. The
imports of raw cotton and of flax and hemp are consider¬
ably below those of the corresponding month last year.
The exports are not much better. All show a decline both
in quantity and in value—greater in value even than in
quantity. This may result from a general collapse of an
artificial and unsound system of commercial enterprise.
following upon which business may thereafter resume a
more cheerful appearance. Meanwhile, the symptoms are
becoming such as are not merely embarrassing but alarm¬
ing. We cannot always feed upon hope, and especially is
this true of “ hope deferred.” We are destined, it would
seem, to an indefinite prolongation of the present gloomy
state of the times, and must make up our minds to endure
it as best we may.
As though to intensify the gloom of the present out¬
look, the public has been startled by an announcement of
the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank, with liabilities it
is said, of upwards of ten millions sterling. Except
amongst a few who discerned some reasons for antici¬
pating such an unhappy issue, the event was certainly
not foreseen by the public. The shares of the bank stood
at an unusually high figure in the Market. Its dividends
have for some years been at a rate of 10 or 12 per cent
per annum. The sudden break-down has, of course, carried,
with it some industrial and commercial firms which
had long depended upon it for support. It is an
instance of the ruin which is always likely to over¬
take banking establishments when they are managed
upon other than legitimate banking principles. The case
especially for Scotland, is believed to be quite an excep¬
tional one; but it has started doubts which may easily
grow into a panic. A great deal of vigorous self-control
will be neccssaiy in the financial world to abate, and
finally to suppress, the misgi vings which this failure is
calculated to excite. But, though it will undoubtedly
increase both the area and the intensity of com¬
mercial distress north of the Tweed, and although it
may, to some extent, undermine confidence south of it
there is no evident ground for the conclusion that it will
constitute a dominant factor in the financial and com¬
mercial depression of the country. No doubt it has some¬
what deepened the previously existing gloom; but we
must be upon our guard against inferring that it will
exert a more decidedly disastrous influence upon business
prospects.
Political matters abroad do not look much more
exhilarating. The quarrel of the Indian Government with
the Ruler of Afghanistan seems to be ripening fast into a
state of hostilities. The Ameer has evidently made up his
mind to a collision, and is taking immediate steps to make
it as disastrous to the British as possible. How far he has
been stimulated by Russian agents to take the bold step
which he has done by flinging defiance in the face of the
Indian Government it is, as yet, perhaps, impracticable to
determine. That Shere Ali is confident in his own mind
of receiving Russian support, in some form or other, seems
likely enough. But that he has any solid ground for that
confidence is not by any means incontrovertible, and is
strongly denied at St. Petersburg. At any rate, he seems
to he gaining the adherence of the barbarous tribes
between his and our frontiers, and, unless something
unlooked for turns up, there will be no little trouble in
dealing with him effectually.
We have not much to congratulate ourselves upon in
the contemplated reforms of Asia Minor. Sir Austen
Layard, although his influence over the mind of the
Sultan is evidently great, is unable to obtain on the part
of his Imperial Majesty the slightest relaxation of his
rights of Sovereignty. He will not yield an iota of them
even to Austria, though Austria’s arms have at length
availed to beat down opposition in Herzegovina and
Bosnia. He retains his nominal hold upon Cyprus and
expects British authority in that island to subordinate
itself (in theory, at least) to the interests of Turkey.
Indeed, our occupation of Cyprus may be described in
vulgar slang, not so much as “ fiuding a mare’s nest,” but
as “ catching a Tartar.” We have thrust ourselves into a
perfect hotbed of disease. We have found no equivalent,
either material or moral, strategic or commercial, to com¬
pensate us for the sacrifices we are making. Still, time,
no doubt, may reveal much more agreeable features than
have hitherto been developed by tho Anglo-Turkish
Convention, which so dazzled the oyes of the British
public.
Our readers will perhaps regard us as having fallen
into a pessimist vein of thought. It is not our wont. We
do not wish, and certainly we do not intend, in the pre¬
ceding remarks to lose sight of the recuperative energies
which our country possesses. We doubt not they will
come into play whenever a fair opportunity admits of it.
But just now the outlook is not a pleasant one. That it
will exercise upon us an educational and disciplinary
influence we should be among the last to dispute. Mean¬
while, however, we have to deal with realities, not
fictions ; and, in the confident expectation that the British
people will “ gird up their loins and quit themselves like
men,” we may all and each peer into the thickening dark¬
ness, and call to mind as we do so that we have more
than once faced, and faced successfully, blacker prospects
than any which the present generation is likely doomed to
encounter.
The Duke of Richmond and Gordon will take the chair at
the 214th anniversary festival of the Scottish Corporation on.
St. Andrew’s Day, Nov. 30.
A meeting of the Representative Church Council of the
Episcopal Church of Scotland was held at Dundee on Wednes¬
day. The Primus presided. Schemes for special grants to
poorer charges and for raising the salaries of the Bishops to at
least £500 were agreed to.
V
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
335
THE COURT.
The Queen, -with Princess Beatrice, continues at Balmoral
Castle. Her Majesty and the Princess attended Divine service
on Sunday at Crathie church. The Rev. Dr. Lee, of High
Church, Edinburgh, officiated. The Right Hon. Sir Stafford
Northcote arrived at the castle as the Minister in attendance
on the Queen. Sir Stafford Northcote and T>*. Lee dined with
her Majesty. The Queen, with the Princess, has walked «vud
driven out daily.
The Queen has appointed Joseph Lister, Esq., M.B.,
F.R.C.8., to be surgeon extraordinary to her Majesty.
The Countess of Erroll has arrived at the castle as Lady in
Waiting. The Duchess of Roxburghe, the Marchioness
Dowager of Ely, and the Countess of Dufferin have left
Balmoral. Colonel the Hon. Henry Byng has arrived at the
castle as Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty.
In consequence of the lamented death of General the Right
Hon. Sir Thomas Biddulph, Keeper of her Majesty’s Privy
Purse, the Queen intends to appoint Lieutenant-General H.
Ponsonby, Private Secretary, to be Keeper of the Privy Purse,
with two assistants. Lieutenant-Colonel A. Pickard, Y.C., of
the Royal Artillery, has been selected to fill one of the appoint¬
ments aB Assistant-Keeper of the Privy Purse.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess, was present on
the 3rd inst. at the funeral service which was performed at
Abergeldie Mains by the Rev. A. Campbell, of Crathie, in
the room in which the remains of the late Sir Thomas
M. Biddulph were placed. The Hon. Lady Biddulph, Mr.
and Mrs. Biddulph, und Captain Conway Seymour were also
present. Shortly afterwards the coffin with the remains of
the late General was taken in a hearse from Abergeldie
Mains and conveyed to the railway station at Ballater for
removal to Windsor. The Prince of Wales and various mem¬
bers of the Royal households followed in carriages to the
station, where the detachment of the 79th Queen’s Own
Cameron Highlanders, under the command of Captain Forbes
Gordon, were drawn up at the station with reversed arms. The
Queen remained for some time at Abergeldie Mains with the
Hon. Lady Biddulph, who afterwards, with her son and
daughter, ‘drove to Ballater, and, accompanied by Captain
Conway Seymour, proceeded by the same train to Windsor.
At the funeral, at St. Andrew’s, Clewer, on Monday, her
Majesty was represented by Lord Bridport; the Duke of Con¬
naught, the Marquis of Lome, and the Duke of Cambridge
were present. Wreaths, which had been sent by the Queen
and all the members of the Royal family, were placed upon
the coffin.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP WALES.
The Prince of Wales has had good sport in the Royal forests
in the Highlands during the week. The Princess, with her
daughters, have driven and walked out daily, and have paid
various visits to the Queen. Their Royal Highnesses are
expected to arrive at Marlborough House from Abergeldie on
Tuesday next, and the Prince purposes leaving for Paris on
Thursday next. _
Princess Louise of Lome has fixed Wednesday next for the
inauguration of the Leaf memorial wing of the Warehousemen
and Clerks’ Schools, at Russell-hill, near Croydon. The
Marquis of Lome will preside at the de j euner which will follow.
Prince Leopold left Buckingham Palace yesterday week
for Paris.
The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz arrived at
St. James’s Palace on Saturday last from the Continent, to
join the Grand Duchess.
The Duke of Cambridge returned to Gloucester House on
Saturday last from visiting Lord and Lady Londesborough at
Londesborough Lodge, near Scarborough.
The Duke and Duchess of Teck returned to Kensington
Palace on Wednesday from Rumpenheim.
His Excellency the French Ambassador and the Marchioness
d’Harcourt and Mdlles. d’Harcourt have returned to the
French Embassy, from Harisford House, Great Marlow.
His Excellency the United States Minister and Miss Welch
returned to London on Saturday last from the Continent.
The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton have arrived at Easton
Park, Suffolk, from their seat in Scotland.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry have arrived
at Plus Machynlleth, their seat in Wales, from Wynyard Park.
Marquis and Marchioness Conyngham have returned to
Bifrons from their marine residence at Ramsgate.
The Marquis of Iluntly has returned to Aboyne Castle.
The Earl and Countess of Aberdeen have arrived at Haddo
House.
The Countess of Lauderdale and Lady Brabazon have left
for the Continent.
The Earl and Countess of Courtown and the Ladies Stop-
ford have left town for Bournemouth.
Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam and the Ladies Wentworth
Fitzwilliam have left Wentworth House for Coollattin Park, in
the county of Wicklow.
The Earl of Roden has arrived in Paris from Scotland.
The Earl of Dartrey returned on Saturday last to Dartrey
House, in the county of Monaghan.
Lord Windsor, who lately attained his majority, entertained
on Wednesday a large number of his tenants at a banquet at
St. Fagans, near Cardiff.
Marriages are arranged between the Hon. Richard Clere
Persons, third son of the late Earl of Posse, and Miss Agnes
C. Bateman, youngest daughter of Mr. John Frederick Bate¬
man, of Moor Park, Faraham, Surrey ; and between the Hon.
Edwin Ponsonby and Miss Dora Coope, third daughter of Mr.
Octavius Coope, M.P.
The memorial-stone of the schools which the Birmingham
guardians are building for workhouse children, to remove
them from the influence of pauperism, was laid on Tuesday at
Mnrston-green. The buildings include three schools, fourteen
cottage homes, masters’ residences, workshops, and infirmary.
The cost will be £20,000, exclusive of the site.
At the monthly meeting of the Royal Masonic Benevolent
Institution on Wednesday the secretary read a letter from one
of the annuitants of the institution, who lives at Plymouth,
thanking the institution for the annuity she has been receiving
for the last four years, and stating that as, by the death of a
relative, she had succeeded to a competence, she did not
consider she was justified in receiving her annuity any longer.
The Hon. J. C. W. Vivian having resigned the appoint¬
ment of Under-Secretary of State for War, Mr. Ralph
Thompson, C.B., the Assistant Under-Secretary, has been
appointed to succeed him. Colonel H. G. Deedes, who was
private secretary to Mr. Hardy, and who was again selected
for the some post by Colonel Stanley, succeeds Mr. Thompson
as Assistant Under-Secretary. Mr. William Henry White has
been appointed Accountant-General of the Army, Mr. Ralph
Henry Knox to be Deputy Accountant-General, and Mr.
H. T. De La Bere to be Assistant Accountant-General.
POLITICAL.
A Cabinet Council was held last Saturday, at which all the
Ministers were present with the exception of Lord John Man¬
ners, who is detained in Scotland through an attack of gout.
Mr. Gladstone was on the 3rd inst. presented with an
address from a deputation in Douglas, Isle of Man, expressing
approval of the course which he had pursued in regard to the
"‘tern Question. In reply, the right hon. gentleman
retrainearrom entering upon political topics inconsequence
of the menacing and ambisuous condition of affairs in the
East—a condition of things which heVteWjrith the deepest
gnef and apprehension. The time would comr>W those
affaire must be searched and sifted to the bottom, but as
present, with the imperfect information we possessed, he did
pot think it became him either to form, or to express, or to
indicate any opinion respecting them further than to say that
they were to him a cause of deep concern and pain.—On
Mr. Gladstone’s arrival at Liverpool last Monday, from the
Isle of Man, he was received by the president of the
Liverpool Liberal Association and several gentlemen forming
a deputation, and at their suggestion delivered a short and
wholly non-political speech to an assemblage of 3000 to 4000
persons who had gathered to give him welcome. He said in
conclusion, “ I need not tell you that the place where I first
drew breath has ever been, and must ever be, to me associated
with the greatest and warmest and most lively feelings of
interest, and that I have no more hearty desire than the desire
for the prosperity and happiness of Liverpool.”
To celebrate the incorporation of the borough of Burslera,
a banquet was given by the first Mayor (Mr. T. Hulme) on the
3rd inst. Mr. Hanbury, responding for the Houses of Parlia¬
ment, remarked that, taking on one hand Sir Stafford North-
cote, and on the other the Marquis of Hartington and Mr.
Gladstone, he believed that more conscientious statesmen did
not exist. With regard to India, he said a cloud was on the
horizon, but we must hope it will not turn out a storm-cloud.
Lord Enfield, speaking yesterday week at the annual dinner
of the Middlesex Agricultural Society, expressed his approval
of many portions of the Berlin Treaty, but said he looked with
feelings of dismay and disappointment at the retrocession of
Bessarubia, the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by
Austrian troops, the disappointment naturally entertained by
the Greeks at the treatment they had received, and the Ang lo.
Turkish Treaty. With regard to the Afghanistan question, he
said he had not sufficient information to enable him to form
an opinion, but he had been greatly impressed by the language
of Lord Lawrence on the subject.
At a meeting of the Liberal party at Chatham yesterday
week, which is said to have been largely attended, it was
unanimously resolved to form a “ Liberal Seventy” upon the
Birmingham system.
Yesterday week Lord Colin Campbell, M.P., met his sup-
S orters at Glasgow, called with a view of forming a Liberal
irganisation for Argyleshire. Lord Colin said the doubt
regarding the recent contest arose from a want of sympathetic
organisation. He believed his majority would have been larger
if the party had been organised.
Mr. Samuelson addressed his constituents yesterday week
at Banbury. He said the effect of the change of policy toward
the tribes on the north-western frontier of India had been to
drive the Ameer of Cabul into the arms of Russia, which was
not sorry to see us placed in such a position in India as to
prevent the repetition of the importation of Indian troops to
Europe. The refusal to admit Sir Neville Chamberlaiu and
his escort of 1000 men into Afghanistan would, it was said, if
unresented, endanger our supremacy in India ; and he feared
there was too much truth in the statement. It was probable,
therefore, that we should soon be engaged in a war with a
barbarous Prince, in a nigged country destitute of supplies,
at a cost of twenty millions or more. That country, when
conquered, would have to be held at incalculable cost, unless
we were prepared to see Shere Ali or his successor become the
vassal of Russia the moment our troops were withdrawn.
These were likely to be the first fruits of Imperialism in India.
Mr. Samuelson spoke at Frome last Tuesday night on the
subject of Cyprus, whither he has been since the closing of
Parliament. He bore witness to the great fertility of the
island, but thought it was not likely to be a field for British
enterprise, nor a valuable possession to the British Crown.
Regarded from a strategic point of view, he preferred Malta.
Colonel Drummond Moray, M.P. for Perthshire, replyin g
for the Houses of Parliament at the annual dinner of the
Perthshire Rifle Volunteers last Saturday evening, said he was
proud to think that the Government and the party to which
he had the honour to belong had brought the country through
a great crisis with honour, and without the loss of a single
man. He defended the recent war preparations and the calling
out of the Reserves. He hoped war would not break out; but,
if it did, the resources and valour of Great Britain would be
once more demonstrated.
Speaking at Portsmouth on Monday night, Sir. Cowper-
Temple, M.P., referring to the Afghanistan Question, said the
affront which had been offered by that blind, wilful, barbarous
chieftain, Shere Ali, must be atoned for and wip ed out; and
he trusted the wisdom, experience, and skill of the Indian
Government, the courage of our soldiers, and the resources of
our empire would soon overcome this Afghan ruler. SIr.T. C.
Bruce, M.P., said the Ameer had been impressed, either by the
Russians or by the reports which had reached him, with the
idea that he had an opportunity of bearding the English, and
it was for them to teach Shere Ali that he was mistaken.
In addressing his constituents at Kinross last Monday, Mr.
Adam quoted the statistics of the elections which had taken,
place since January, 1876, and contended that the results, os
affording a test of public opinion, were largely in favour of the
Liberal party. With regard to the Afghan difficulty, he
approved of the policy laid down in Lord Lawrence’s letter.
Sir John Hay addressed his constituents at Stamford on
Monday, under the auspices of the local Conservative Asso¬
ciation. He upheld the financial policy of the Government.
In Afghanistan, in view of complications which might
arise between Russia and England, Russia had been stirring
up Shere Ali to make an aggressive war against England on
the North-Western frontier. Fortunately for us, the mine
had exploded at a time when the person who set fire to it did
not want it to go off; but the combustion had taken place,
and the sooner it was put out the better.
Mr. Morgan Lloyd, in addressing his constituents at Holy-
head on Tuesday night, severely criticised the Eastern policy
of the Government, and expressed his opinion that the
Afghanistan difficulty had been created by Russia, because
during the Russo-Turkish war we endeavoured to intimidate
that Power by bringing over the Indian troops to Europe.
Colonel Loyd-Lindsay, M.P., and Mr. Walter, M.P., were
present on Tuesday, at the dinner of the Royal East Berks
Association, held at Maidenhead. Colonel Loyd-Lindsay,
referring to the recent Russo-Turkish war, said his hearers
would share with him in feelings of astonishment at the
moderation of the Emperor of Russia and his armies in not
entering Constantinople when they had their hereditary enemy
at their feet. Ho felt equally grateful to the British fleet for
the part which it had taken, and especially that its object had
been accomplished without the loss of a single bluejacket.
Colonel Loyd-Lindsay said it was gratifying to observe the
respect which had been paid our Plenipotentiaries at tho
Congress, and he believed that the same success which had
attended our efforts at the Congress would follow us in an
Afghan war. Mr. Walter said that his own view of the Eastern
Question, without going into party politics, was that the
decline and fall of the Turkish Empire was only a question of
type. Nothing could arrest it, and this country was deter-
mmto not to allow Russia to take the place of the Turkish
Empire. When *»<* looked at the result of the Berlin Con¬
ference, he saw no strong rowaong for dissatisfaction.
Sir Henry Havelock, M.P., presided a missionary
meeting in the Leeds Townliall on Tuesday, antr, -rr^ crj .[ I1 c F
the Afghan difficulty, he declared that our dispute w3STn»t
with a half-savage ruler, but to prevent our rule in India
being disturbed by a power behind, which power, if it pre¬
vailed to break down our rule in India, certainly, to say tho
least, would not advance the cause of true religion.
Colonel Stanley, Secretary for War, was present last
Wednesday at a banquet and public meeting in celebration of
the opening of a Conservative Club at Blackpool. Speaking
at the public meeting, he said he saw no reason, in spite of the
desponding views which were taken, to be otherwise than
satisfied with that part of the convention with Turkey under
which we administered the island of Cyprus. There were
valid reasons of a civil and military character which rendered
that step as advisable as it was prudent. As to Afghanistan,
he had no wish for aggression or conquest. We desired to go
our way peacefully and untrammelled, but with the power of
carrying out our own business in our own way.
At a Liberal gathering last Wednesday at Caine, Lord
Edmond Fitzmaurice, M.P., was a speaker. Upon the
question of local government he pointed out that representation
and taxation should go together. The present system was one
of great confusion, and-it must be changed. Dr. Lush, M.P.,
congratulated the meeting on its earnestness and enthusiasm.
He said the principles of the Tory Government meant war,
taxation, and distress.
Sir Lawrence Palk and Sir J. Keunaway, the members for
East Devon, speaking at the annual dinner of tho Axminster
Agricultural Society, referred to Eastern Affairs. The former
explained his motives for originating a movement to remon¬
strate with the Government for inaction on the Eastern
Question; the latter, referring to the Afghan war, said that,
ns we held India by the sword, we must plainly demonstrate
that no stranger shall with impunity meddle with our north¬
western frontier.
Addressing his constituents at Helston on Wednesday
Mr. Young condemned the foreign policy of the Government.
An announcement ia mode that it is proposed to hold a
great North of England convention of the friends of “ religious
equality ” at Leeds in January next to consider the relation
of the Liberal party to certain great politico-ecclesiastical
questions, to urge upon Liberal leaders the necessity of at
once declaring in favour of disestablishment, and to promote
the better organisation of Nonconformists.
Burton-on-Trent has received a charter of incorporation,
being the sixty-sixth that has been issued since the passing of
the Municipal Act. There are now 240 boroughs governed
under the Act.
Among the applications for letters patent published in the
Gazette is one for “ a new or improved apparatus for protecting
hats, clothes, and other articles from being stolen or exchanged
in places of public resort.” The inventor is a German.
A public park, forty-five acres in extent, and valued at
between £20,000 and £25,000, the gift of Mr. John Talbot
Llewellyn, the High Sheriff of Glamorganshire, was opened
by the Mayor and Corporation of Swansea on the 3rd inst.
It is situated about three miles from the town.
The supply of American food which arrived at Liverpool
last week consisted of 971 live cattle, 3438 sheep, 360 pigs,
2064 quarters of beef, 276 carcases of mutton, and 850 tubs
of butter, being a decrease in every instance except as
regards sheep when contrasted with the figures of the former
week.
A fire occurred on the 4th inst. at Haileybury College, by
which the chapel dome was burned down. The flames were
subdued in time to save the other buildings, and no accident
happened to any person. The chapel was lately built at a cost
of £12,000.
At a special meeting of the Stratford-on-Avon Town
Council last Wednesday it was decided to promote a bill in the
next Session of Parliament for the extension of the borough
boundaries, and also to acquire possession, at a cost of about
£40,000, of the gasworks. The council contemplate making
the borough four times its present size and increasing the
number of councillors and aldermen.
The annual competition of the London .Schools Swimming
Club was held last Saturday at the Lambeth Baths. Mr. J.
Macgregor (Rob Roy) acted as starter; Mr. R. H. W. Dunlop,
C.B., as umpire. There were 122 entries. The head prize¬
winners were John W. Calder, Lambeth Boys’ School; G. W.
Austin, South Lambeth Board School; Arthur Blunden,
Mantua-street Board School, Battersea; Charles Clark, We3t-
moreland-road Board School.
The new session of the City of Loudon College (evening
classes) began on Monday. Efforts are in progress to obtain
a new building. The Haberdashers’ Company have given a
grant of £50 a year for five years. This is in addition to the
£2500 already secured by the council. The amount required
is £20,000. The Easter Vestries of several of the City parishes
have given donations towards the new building fund. The
inaugural address to the students was delivered by the founder
of the institution, the Rev. Prebendary Mackenzie, M.A., on
Thursday.
Speaking as the president of the North-Western Poor-Law
Conference, held at Preston on Wednesday, Mr. Hibbert,
M.P., said that, notwithstanding tne recent great strike,
pauperism in Lancashire was exceedingly small. He urged
all the delegates present to instil into the public mind the
supreme importance of being provident in their habits—a duty
they owed to themselves and to the ratepaying community.
In proof of the gratifying decrease in out relief in the county
he might state that, in tho year 1871, the expenditure on out
relief was £3,663,000, and in 1876-7 it had been reduced to
£2 616 000. In the 6ame six years the number of outdoor
paupers were reduced by 345,900. But the most satisfactory
feature was that, while outdoor paupers had been decreased,
indoor paupers had not been increasing.
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THE OCCUPATION OP BOSNIA : AUSTRIAN RESERVES PASSING BY VRANDUK.
FROM A SKETCH BY OUR SFECIAL ARTIST.
the road to Candahar. Its crest is 5800 ft. above the sea,
and its average ascent gives 90 ft. to the mile. The great
obstacle used to be from the Sir-i-Bolan torrent, but that was
only active during a few weeks in the wet season. In one
part the road becomes so narrow, as the ranges on each side
close in, that only three or four men can ride abreast. The
hills on each side tower up to a great height in lofty cliffs,
and can only be ascended at each end. After a while the pass
widens, and a broad plain is reached. The two narrowest
points are that beyond the Sir-i-Bolan, mentioned above,
where, it is said, a few determined men might hold it against
any odds, and again at Khundilani, seven miles from the
east entrance, which is shown in our Engraving. Water
is abundant and good throughout the pass. Fodder is
scarce, and hardly any wood is to be obtained. From a
military point of view, the Bolan Pass is important, as
artillery can be conveyed through it without serious dif-
culty. T JJL -*- J J v ” “ T, ‘
column, __| _
4-pounder howitzers, and 18-pounder guns.
In 1839 it was traversed in six days by a Bengal
whose artillery consisted of 8-inch mortars and
IG-pcu^dcr guns. There is some
danger from sudden floods, the Bolan torrent rising
very suddenly at times.
THE LATE SIR R. GRIFFITH, BART.
The death of this venerable gentleman at Dublin,
in the ninety-fifth year of his age, was recorded in
our Obituary a fortnight ago. He was a civil
engineer and geologist of some eminence, author
of the geological map of Ireland, on a scale of
one inch to four miles, which was published by
official authority in 1838; and during many years
he held the posts of Chief Commissioner of
Yaluatious for Ireland and Chief Commissioner of
Public Works. In 1858 he was rewarded for Ms
public services with a baronetcy, which descends
to his son, now Sir George Waldie Griffith, ihe
deceased gentleman preserved his vigour of mind
and body to extreme old age.
The Portrait is from a photograph by Mr. Chan¬
cellor, of Lower Sackville-street, Dublin.
There are now only two ex-Lord Chancellors ot
England—Lord Hatherley and Lord Selborne.
By the death of Lord Chelmsford a pension ot
£5000 a year ceases.
The movement for establishing hospitals fo*
paying patients having now attained an
position, and an association having ’
j assured
_____ been duly
incorporated by the Board of Trade to carry out
the purposes declared to be desirable in the inte¬
rests of the public by the meeting held on June ii,
1877, in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansion House,
under the presidency of the late Lord Mayor (on
Thomas White), the provisional committee ap¬
pointed at that meeting consider it expemen
to secure permanent offices (246, Regent-street;,
and to open the first home hospital almo
immediately. At the last meeting of the pro¬
visional committee, on the motion of Sir Kutner*
ford Alcock, K.C.B., seconded by Dr. Quain, a
unanimous vote of thanks was passed to o
Thomas White and to the present Lord Mayo ,
Mr. Alderman Owden, for the great sympathy tney
had extended to the scheme, and for the valua ,
THE BOLAN PASS.
The southernmost of three lines of approach, for
the military forces expected to enter Afghanistan
from British India, leads through this remark¬
able mountain defile. The Bolan Pass, of which
we practically hold possession by our garrison at
Uuetta, and its support at Dadur, begins five miles
to the north-west of the latter place. It is sixty
miles in length, and leads straight to Quetta, on
THE LATE BIR RICHARD GRIFFITH, BART.
THE IMPENDING AFGHAN WAR: ENTRANCE TO THE BOLAN PASS, FROM DADUR.
338
THE TT.T.TrSTRATEP LONDON NEWS
OCT. 12, 1878
Monday morning,- - A ,
Wednesday evening for St. Petersburg.
M. Gambetta arrived at Grenoble on Wednesday, and on
Thursday he delivered a political speech m the theatre.
The International Peace Congress at Pans taamded mtha
banquet and reception. The members have been invited to
meet next year in Rome. t_ A nr
M. Gounod's new opera, “Polyeucte (the text, by Mil.
Barbier and Carre, based on Corneille s tragedy),
at the Paris Grand Opera on Monday night. Judging from
the accounts received, the work is one of the grandest efforts
of the composer, and is especially great in those porfaons which
express the religious aspect of the subject. Folyeucte
appears to have been placed on the stage with almost un¬
paralleled magnificence, and the principal smgers-Mdlle.
Krauss, M. Salomon, and M. Lassalle-are highyspokenof.
M. Ambroise Thomas, the composer of 1 Hamlet and
“Mienon,” was married last Saturday, at Nancy, to Mdlle.
Elvire Remaury, a sister of Madame Montigny-Remaury, the
pia The Budget for 1879 makes provision for a sum of £215,316
way. ^Ali musjiia ^as middle'of "the I to be emended upon primary education in France, or about
' I £18,000 more than was voted by the two Chambers for the
Great preparations are being made at the Palais do 1’In¬
dustrie for the ceremony of the distribution of the prizes.
SPAIN.
The King arrived at Burgos from Valladolid on Tuesday
afternoon, and was received at the station by Marshal Quesada
and the principal authorities, both civil and military. The
troops of the garrison lined the street from the station to the
cathedral, where a Te Deum was sung by the Archbishop and
Chapter. A great concourse of people filled the noble pile.
The streets were brilliantly ornamented, and the balconies
decked with flags. His Majesty was prevented attending the
manoeuvres on Wednesday by a severe cold.
THE IMPENDING AFGHAN WAR.
A telegram of Wednesday last, from Simla, stated that the
column of troops under Brigadier
western end of P thc Pass. Tide was published by the Slandard
° f ^ESroor^SW under Brigadier Ross w* b £
draughts of two hundred men from each ^ “gg? 1
Peshawur making a force of 400 cavalry, 1200 infantry, iour
half.batteries of artillery, with a compauy of sappers a d
miners. It would comprise one battery of horse, one of neia
and one of mountain artillery, the head-quarters of two bat
talions of British and of four native mfantij ^unents. with
two regiments of native cavalry, all picked men But_ttas
force may since have been largely increased. The present is
notoccasion on winch General Ross has ^veionthe
north-west frontier of India. In 18ol-2 “d “53 he was
nresent at various expeditions under Sir Colin CampbeL, he
commanded the 14th Sikhs during the Umbeyla^Xnatchef
1863 when he was severely wounded, mentioned in despatches,
and promoted to a Brevet Lieutenant-Colonelcy, his latest
hill service being the command of the Peshawur column in the
JowS-SrS g cSipaign last winter. In mountain warfare,
therefore, he has had much experience. Pn „ aT1(1 its
Our description, last week, of the Khyber Ff 8 and
approaches, should be kept m mind by the readers The
frontier fort of Jumrood lies at the mouth of thelas3, and
five hundred feet higher than Peshawur, from which town it
is' distant some fifteen miles. Thence the road runs up the
Pass until ten miles farther the Fort of All Musjid bars the
way. Ali Musjid stands on the summit of a very steep flat-
topped rock, which appears to rise in the nnddle of the
vnllev The road, however, winds round under the rock
which lies on its left. The rock upon which the fortress
btands is too steep to bo scaled from the front, and its fire is
supported by that of a smaller fort built high up on the hiU
opposite to it. Both the forts, however, are commanded by
higher ground on each side, and our troops, with their long-
range liflcs, could annoy the defenders from these positions.
Fortunately, moreover, Ali Musjid can be turned by more
than one minor pass. There is a road from the Attock \ alley
which opens on to Lalabeg, eight miles in rear of All Musjid;
and there are other small passes which, though not marked
in the maps, arc locally well known. One telegram says that
Afghan troops have already been stationed in these passes.
But the Khyber Pass can also be turned by an advance from
our frontier fort of Abazai, north of the Attock, and some
thirty miles from Peshawur. From this post an advance might
be made by the Inzan Pass to Lalpura, at the Afghan end of
the Khyber Pass, Lalpura and the whole country between
that town and Abazai belonging to the Momunds, who are,
like the KhybereeB, entirely independent of Cabul, and with
whom an arrangement for a passage could no doubt be made.
The north-west frontier of India, stretching from Abbott-
abad in Hazarali to Jacobabad in Scinde, gives us a line of
defence of about 600 miles. To guard this we have ten large
military stations, garrisoned, in round numbers, by 20,000
men. In advance, again, of these cantonments are mnety
lesser fortified posts, placed so as to guard the entrance to the
chief passes in the mountains. In pushing forward through
the range into Cabul it will be essential that this line be not
weakened, else the frontier tribes will recommence their old
tactics of levying black mail all down our border. The ques¬
tion, then, before the Government of India is not only to take
effective measures to coerce the Ameer, but also to provide
against these border tribes aiding Shere Ah by carrying war
into our own country or harassing our communications after
cur advance. .
The total strength of our forces on the immediate
frontier, from the sea to Abbottabad, including Kurrachee,
Hyderabad, Jacobabad, Rajanpore, Dera Ghazee Khan, Dera
Ismail Khan, Bunnoo, Kohat, Peshawur, Hoti Mordan, Now-
shera, Attock, Abbottabad, together with the reserves at
Eawul Pindee, Sealkot, Jhelum, Lahore, Umritsir, Ferozepore,
Mooltan, Jullunder, and the advanced post of Quetta,
amounts to 800 British and 7000 native cavalry, 12,000 British
and 21,000 native infantry, with 102 guns. Many of these are
at stations which it is obviously impossible to denude of
British troops—namely, Umritsir, the head-quarters of the
Sikh religion ; Lahore, with its fort and large fanatical popu¬
lation ; Ferozepore, with its arsenal; Attock, with its bridge
of boats over the Indus. The stoppage of the rail at Jhelum
will prevent any very rapid movement.
AFREEDIS IN THE KHYBER PASS.
The wild and warlike tribes of hillmen on the north-we3t
frontier of the Punjaub, and in the bordering mountains of
Afghanistan, compose several distinct confederations, of which
the Wuzerees and the A fr eed is are the most considerable. The
country of the Afreedis begins from the right bank of the
Cabul river, and extends for fifty miles nearly due south, in
contact with British territory the whole distance. A tongue of
Afreedi territory interposes between Peshawur and Kohat,
directly interrupting the communication between these two
principal frontier stations. This tongue is known as the Kohat
PaBs, some fifteen miles in length and three or four in
breadth. Instead of holding and fortifying the pass for
ourselves, we chose, on the annexation of the Punjaub in
1849, to subsidise the Afreedis to keep it open for us for
the sum of £570 per annum, subsequently increased
for a time to £1370. The success of this sagacious arrange¬
ment may be gathered from the fact that for twenty-seven
years scarcely one has passed without some act of robbery and
murder on the part of the Afreedis and reprisals on ours.
Numerous military expeditions have been taken against the
Pass Afreedis, the last one during the cold weather of last year;
but if the authorities congratulate themselves on the result of
the Jowaki raid, and fancy they have tamed these gentry, they
will be much mistaken. The various divisions, including the
numerous Ozukrai clan, that make up the Afreedi nation, can
muster between 30,000 and 40,000 fighting men.
It has lately been rumoured as probable that the following
Afreedi sections will throw in their lot with Oabul:—Zaka
Khel, Siplias, Kuki Khel, Kliambar Kkel, and Malikdin Khel,
with the Shinwaris; they may be estimated to number about
18,000 fighting men, fairly well armed. These are the clans
that gave us constant trouble during our occupation of the
Khyber in the last Afghan war. Indeed, so aggressive were
the Shinwaris that General Pollock detached a force in July,
1842, to punish them. Brigadier Mouteath seems to have
carried out his instructions to the letter, for it appears he
destroyed thirty-five of their forts before he left their hills.
Rumours of collisions between the Ameer’s troops and the
Afreedis must be received with great caution.
The Illustration of a View of the Bolan Pass, a few miles
in from its entrance near Dadur, is copied, by permission, from
one of the series of lithographs, “Sketches of Afghanistan,”
by Mr. James Atkinson, published by Messrs. Henry Graves
and Co., of 6, Pall-mall.
foreign and colonial news.
FRANCE.
2 An election was held on Sunday for a member of the Mum-
• Council of Paris, the successful candidate being M. Maret
(Radical), who obtained 1571 votes against 14-17 recorded in
of Euraia armed * M on
Tb and the Grand Duke Constantine left on
GERMANY.
The Corporation of Berlin is making preparations for a
festive reception of the Emperor William on his return to the
capital. The civic authorities have applied to the Town Council
for 50,000 marks for this purpose.
Prince Bismarck was yesterday week received m audience
of the Crown Prince. „ i7 _
At the resumption of the sittings of the German 1 ar-
liament on Wednesday the second reading of the Socialist
Bill was begun, and Herr von Frankenstein read a declaration
from the Centre which, while recognising the dangers of the
Socialistic agitation, yet considers the bill before the House
as not calculated to arrest the evil, and stating that the
members of the Centre intend to vote against it. Prince
Bismarck took part in the debate. He pointed out that
working-men’s associations did not promote the welfare of
the labouring classes when they sought to undermine the
groundwork of the State and society and the rights of pro¬
perty. The Social Democrats had no positive propositions to
bring forward, but played with the ignorant masses. He
regarded the machinations of their unions as one of the causes
of the present unsatisfactory state of commercial activity.
In conclusion, he asked the deputies if they were more afraid
of him and of the Federal Governments than of the Socialists,
and he admitted that his aim went beyond the present measure,
for he wished to unite parties in order to form a bulwark
against all the tempests to which the empire was exposed.
SWITZERLAND.
By 8700 votes against 2600, the population of the Canton
of Geneva have rejected the proposed new Constitution—a
result considered to offer an important check to the present
Geneva Government.
DENMARK.
The Queen and Princess Thyra, who, after their stay in
London, proceeded to Rumpenheim on a visit to the Grand
Duke and Duchess of Hesse, arrived at Copenhagen last Satur¬
day morning. They were received by the King and the Crown
Piince and Princess, with their children. The Crown Prince
and Princess left Copenhagen on Tuesday for Paris.
The Parliament was opened on Monday by M. Estrupp, the
President of the Council. There was no Royal message. The
Budget was laid before the Chamber on Wednesday.
AUSTRIA.
The Pestli Official Gazette publishes an Imperial decree
accepting the resignation of the Hungarian Ministers, and
inviting them to remain at their posts until successors are
appointed. The Emperor has addressed a separate letter to
Herr Szell to the same effect. The whole of the Ministers, it
seems, share in the difficulties of Herr Szell in regard to the
financial situation and the foreign policy of Count Andrassy.
The Emperor has been to Pesth, and there consulted three of
the leading Hungarian politicians on the crisis, with the
above-mentioned result. The Austrian Ministry have renewed
their former resignation, but they also hold over for the present.
Visegrad was occupied on the 4th inst., without resist¬
ance ; and, in a despatch from Serajevo, Marshal Philippovich
says:—“Fotscha is clear of insurgents ; and I now respect¬
fully inform liis Imperial und Royal Majesty that the insur¬
rection has been crushed throughout Bosnia, and the country
is in our hands.” In reply the Emperor says: —“ His Majesty
is pleased to receive the congratulations and friendly assurances
alike of Christians and Mussulmans, and trusts that hence¬
forth an era of peace, reconciliation, and prosperity will begin
for the occupied districts.” The total loss sustained by the
Austrian troops in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including lulled,
wounded, ana those who have succumbed to sickness, amounts
to about 4000. There was some fighting last Sunday on the
heights south-east of Peci, but it is supposed that this will
be the last effort of the insurgents.
RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
General Todleben has informed his Government that, on
his route to Adrianople, where he arrived on the 2nd inst., the
utmost popular enthusiasm prevailed, and the towns were
decked with flags. The Turks, he reports, manifest their trust
in the Russian authorities by surrendering their arms. Many
Bulgarian families from Constantinople followed the departing
Russian troops. Official possession of Bessarabia will be taken
by the Russians on the 13th inst.
The Porte has decided to enter upon various reforms at
Aleppo, Bagdad, Smyrna, Diarbekir, Erzeroum, and Trebizond,
in conformity with the demands of England.
A committee has been formed in Constantinople for the
purpose of asking the Sultan to grant an extensive district in
Asia Minor near Ismid to the refugees, about 70,000 in number,
who still remain in the Tur£ish capital. It is proposed to form
an English company which would undertake to convey the
refugees to this district and provide them with houses, cattle,
agricultural implements, and seed. Sir Henry Layard has
recommended the scheme to the Grand Vizier, and it is to be
submitted to Lord Salisbury.
A circular has been addressed by the Porte to the Powers
requesting them to compel Austria to conform to the declara¬
tion made by her Plenipotentiaries at the Berlin Congress.
She ought, the circular says, to stop the advance of her troops
in Bosnia, and put an end to the excesses committed by them,
until a decision has been given by the Powers.
Roumania has telegraphed to the Porte requesting the
cession of the Dobrudscha before winter sets in. A similar
application has, it is said, been made to Russia.
AMERICA.
The elections in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and West Virginia
were held on Tuesday. We learn from the Times' corre¬
spondent at Philadelphia that “ in Ohio the Republicans m ile
large gains and elected State officers by 10,000 plurality.
The total Greenback vote was 40,000, mostly drawn from the
Democrats. The Democrats elected nine Congress men, and
the Republicans eight, leaving three doubtful. The Repub¬
licans will probably lose four Congress men. In Indiana,
5C00 Democratic plurality. Eight Democrats and five Repub¬
licans elected, a loss of one Congress man to the Republicans.
The Republicans elected nine Congress men, there being a
Republican gain of one. West Virginia elects two Democrats
and one Greenback Republican to Congress, a Democratic loss
of one Congress man. In Iowa, 20,000 Republican majority.”
Instructions have been given by the United States Attorney-
General to the district attorneys of Louisiana, Alabama, and
South Carolina to take all legal measures for preventing inter¬
ference with the freedom of election in those States.
There were forty-nine deaths from yellow fever in New
Orleans on Tuesday, and thirty-three in Memphis. The
Government has issued forty thousand rations to the destitute
in New Orleans. , .
According to intelligence received at Washington, the
Spotted Tail and Red Cloud Sioux Indians have left the
reservations of Dakota, and are moving towards the We3t,
probably for the purpose of joining the fugitive Cheyenue
lndiuns, who are reported to have crossed the Union Pacific
Railroad near Ogallala, closely pursued by the Federal troops.
A dreadful railway accident is reported. An excursiou-
train was returning to Boston with a large number of persons
who had been to a rowing-match at Silverlake, when it ran
into a goods-train. Five carriages were demolished, over
twenty-five persons were killed, and 150 others were injured.
The sculling-match between Courtney and Hanlon for the
championship of America was rowed on the 3rd inst. Hanlon
beat Courtney, after a close contest, by two lengths. The
time occupied was 35 min. 30 sec., the distance being five
miles, with a turn.
’ CANADA.
Lord Dufferin left Quebec for Ottawa, to receive the resig¬
nation of the Ministry, which was tendered last Wednesday,
and Sir John Macdonald lias accepted the task of forming
a new Cabinet. After the change of Government Lori
Dufferin leaves for England, when Sir Patrick MacDougaU,
Commander of the Forces in British North America, who has
arrived in Quebec, will act as Administrator tiff the arrival
of the Marquis of Lome.
The Grand Jury of Montreal have indicted the Orangemen
for unlawfully assembling on the occasion of the Orange cele¬
bration on July 12. . , ™ .
In a match between the Australian cricketers and Twenty-
two of Ontario, the Australians won, with eight wickets to
6pare ‘ THE CAPE COLONIES.
Sir Bartle Frere, the Governor of Cape Colony, according
to news of the 17th ult. from Cape Town, was to leave on the
following day for Natal, where he was to meet the Commander-
in-Chief, and afterwards proceed to the Transvaal, Pretoria,
Griqualand West, and Pondoland. , .
There is no news from the seat of war, and the advices
from the northern border of the Transvaal are unimportant
The Admiral’s flag-ship has arrived at Simonstown with
tT0 The” Cape° Parliament has been dissolved, and writs will
shortly be issued for a general election. p fl
A public meeting has been held at Cape Town by Sir Bartle
Frere with the object of raising funds to erect a memorial to
the men who fell in the late war. The meeting was largely
attended, and a liberal response was made to the appeal.
At a public meeting at Grahamstown a resolution was passe 1
conveying expressions of loyalty to the Ihrone, and co g >
lotions to Lord Beaconsfield on the Berbn fAr^elninu
acknowledging the debt of gratitude to FngW for hdpm
the colony in its recent trouble. The resolution concluded by
expressing approval of a confederation policy. , ..
Mr. Justice Dwyer has taken his seat on the bench
SU ^The > B^hops of Maritzburg and Pretoria have been cordially
received at Port Elizabeth. npwlv-
Fresh finds of nuggets are reported from the newiy
discovered gold-fields.
INDIA.
We learn from Simla that no collision with the Af g ba ? 3
yet occurred. Beyond active military preparations nothm it
is added, has yet been done. Shere All, it is stated, has> »«
strong reinforcements to the Khyber 1 ass, is m ® 3S1 & These
Ali Musjid and Candahar, and is threatening Quetta, iucso
and kindred matters are detailed in another column. ,
A telegram in the Times states that Scmdiah wasim™ tet
with the order of the Empire of India m full Darb f
on the 21st ult. Many guests were present. „ The Maharaja. ,
it is &tated, was “ gracious and conciliatory.
A general exhibition of Russian produce is to take place in
the First Garden of the Kremlin at Moscow in 18&u.
The new great synagogue at Warsaw was opened.on the
25th ult., in presence of the Governor-General and the 1
authorities.
The Pope has sent a message to the General of
desiring that all under him may abstain from political hostun.-s
and attend exclusively to their spiritual duties.
No disorder has followed the death of the Kingn^lffmei'at
whose successor, the Crown Prince, has been pr
Mandalay.
The Archduke Frederick of Austria married ou Taesday
Princess Isabell of Croy, daughter of the Dak ? ° r ?/’ ier
they arrived the same day in Pans, the Archdu J
accompanying them. . .
A Standard telegram from Alexandria
of the Nile in Lower Egypt continues. Near Massowah it n
OCT. 12, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
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already overflowed its banks, but the damage is at present
trifling. Cotton has increased half a dollar in price, owing to
the rise of the river. The weather is bad.
According to information received by Sir Henry Layard,
pirates have made their appearance in the Persian Gulf and
the Gulf of Yolo, and his Excellency intends to ask the Porte
to allow British vessels to act against them.
The Queen has conferred on Mr. Francis Ottiwell Adams,
Secretary of her Majesty’s Embassy at Paris, aud on the Hon.
Hussey Crespigny Vivian, her Majesty’s Agent and Consul-
General in Egypt, the Companionship of the Bath.
One thousand six hundred and ninety-one persons emi¬
grated from Switzerland last year for countries beyond the
seaB : 1027 of them went to North, 91 to Central and 211 to
South America, and 117 to Australia. Geneva and four other
cantons, however, have furnished no returns.
The Daily News' Correspondent in Malta telegraphs that
the last of the Indian contingent have left, and that their
departure is much regretted by the inhabitants. The conduct
of the men during their stay in Malta has, the Correspondent
Bays, been worthy of the highest praise.
Dr. Julius Muller, Professor of Systematic aud Practical
Theology in the University of Halle, died iu that city, after a
short illness, on Sept. 27, in the seventy-eighth year of his
age. He was a younger brother of the great archreologist and
historian, Karl Otfried Muller. He was originally destined
for the legal profession; but he devoted himself to theology,
became a pupil of Neander.and was greatly influenced by him.
Frederikstad, in the Danish possession of Santa Cruz, in
the West Indies, has been half burned down by negro
labourers. A telegram from Jamaica announces that the
insurrection has been quelled, and that the ringleaders have
been captured. It is said that the rising originated iu a dis-
agreemen 1 between the negroes and planters on the subject of
labour contracts.
"We learn from the Copenhagen Correspondent of the Pall
Mall Gazette that Professor Madvig, the Latin scholar, has
been elected Hector Magnificus of the University for the
coming twelve months. Professor Madvig was especially
elected with a view of the coming festivities on the occasion of
the celebration of the anniversary of the foundation of the
University in 1479.
The Salisbury, 1094 tons, Captain G. Case, chartered by
Sir Arthur Blyth, Agent-General for South Australia, left
Plymouth on the 4th inst. for Port Adelaide, with 376
emigrants, amongst whom were 85 single female domestic
servants, under the care of Mrs. Margaret Rogers, matron.—
The ship Fritz Reuter, of 1475 tons, Captain Walters, sailed
from Hamburg on the 5th inst., and had on board the follow¬
ing emigrants for Brisbane—viz., 60 married men and their
wives, 239 single men, 43 single women, 92 children between
the ages of 12 and 1, and 12 infants.
A Garibaldian demonstration took place on Sunday at
Bagnorea, the first stone of a monument in memory of those
who fell there in 1867 being laid with much ceremony. A letter
from Garibaldi was read, and speeches were made in which
allusions to the rectification of the Italian frontier elicited
loud cheers. This ancient town, the birthplace of Saint Bona-
ventura is perched at a height of some 500 ft. on a precipitous
summit, the cone of an extinct volcano, from the base of which
the walls of the great crater rise around to a higher level,
forming a complete geological basin, amid country of the
wildest picturesque beauty.
ENGLISH EXHIBITORS AT PxVRIS.
The British exhibitors and jurors at the Paris Exhibition are
subscribing for a testimonial to be presented to Mr. Cunliffe
Owen, C.B., secretary to the British Royal Commissioners for
the Exhibition. The treasurer of the fund is Mr. J. Hunter
Donaldson, of the firm of Messrs. Gillow and Co., Oxford-
street, and the subscription list will close on the 31st inst.
Among the exhibitors whose productions have been greatly
admired in the British Section, Messrs. Howell and James, of
Regent-street and Pall-mall, claim particular mention.
They have bestowed special attention upon the deco¬
rative application of ceramic art; and their display
of clocks aud other articles, designed in the Early
English, Queen Anne, and Jacobean styles, inlaid with
panels and plaques of faience, painted by lady artists
and amateurs, with other paintings on china and porcelain,
has proved highly attractive. It is not, indeed, a novelty to
most English visitors, since Messrs. Howell and James have,
during three years past, held an annual competitive exhibition
of such beautiful work, under the patronage of the Queen,
the Prince and Princess of Wales, and three other Princesses
of our Royal family, at their Art-Pottery. Galleries, in
Regent-street, where the last exhibition, consisting of more
than one thousand original works, was visited by nearly
ten thousand persons. Many of these paintings on china, at
the Paris Exhibition, have been purchased by the Directors of
Continental Museums of Art. We have before spoken of the
magnificent artistic productions of Messrs. Elkington and Co.
one of which was the subject of an Illustration. They have,
we observe, received a gold medal as exhibitors ; while their
gifted artists, M. Morel Ladeuil and M. Auguste WiUms,
have been rewarded, the former with a gold medal, the
latter with a silver one, for the designs of Messrs.
Elkington’s manufactured works. The eminent firm ot
Messrs. Joseph Gillott and Co., of Birmingham, has
also won high honours at the Exhibition; while Messrs.
Osier, besides their various elegant glass chandeliers and can¬
delabra, have shown a Gothic cabinet, in the form of an altar
with reredos, and a superb Oriental throne or chair of state,
made of solid cut glass, the back and seat of crimson velvet,
which were viewed with great admiration. The famous
chocolate manufacturers, Menier aud Co., are entitled, by
virtue of their great establishment in Southwark-street, to
appear in the English, as well as in the French Section of
the Food Department; and they have received a medal for
the excellent quality of their production. A huge block of
the finest chocolate, weighing about three hundredweight,
-commands the notice of passing visitors at the front of their
stall.
The Marquis of Ormonde has been appointed Lieutenant of
Kilkenny, in the room of the late Right Hon. Colonel Tighe ;
and Mr. King-Harman, M.P., has been appointed Lieutenant
of Roscommon, vice Lieutenant-Colonel E. K. Teneson.
It was announced at the meeting of the Sheffield Town
Council on Wednesday afternoon that the Duke of Norfolk
had set apart three pieces of land as recreation-grounds for the
people of Sheffield. The land is situated at Parkwood Springs,
Carhsle-strect East, and in Beighton-lane districts, where
thousands of working people will be able to use these open
spaces.
THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Bode, Charles Lloyd, to be C«rate of Kidderminster.
Chute, D. W.; Rural Doan of Basingstoke, N.E. Division.
EagcU, John; Vicar of Lambourne, Berks.
Harrison, William ; Vicar of Wormleigliton.
Humphrey, William Toplcy; Vicar of Wick.
Manclarkc, R. P.; Rector of Anmer, Norfolk.
Owen, S. Hubert: Rector of Bucknall cum Basaall.
Phillips, G. W ; Vicar of Pebworth.
Risley, 'William Cotton; Rector of Slmlstone, Bucks.
Scarlett, E. J.; Curate of Abbot’s Bromley, Rugeley.
Smeddle, John ; Vicar of Blacktoft, York,
f-initb. Edward Samuel; Vicar of All Saints’, Viney Hill.
Wilmot, Francis Edward William; Curate of Newland—Gi
On Wednesday Sir James Campbell, Bart, laid the
foundation-stone of a new church at Coleford, Forest of Dean.
On Oct. 1 the chapel of the recently erected county hos¬
pital of Lincoln was consecrated by the Bishop of the diocese,
and the hospital declared open for the reception of patients.
Among the collection at St. Andrew’s Church, Liverpool,
on Monday, afterasermon onbehalf of the Seamen’s Orphanage,
was found a massive gold chain.
The restoration of the fine old Priory Church of St. Mary,
Old Malton, which has been hi hand about fifteen months,
is progressing very satisfactorily, at the sole cost of Earl
Fitzwilliam. The cost, it is stated, will be £3000.
About £75,000 has been promised towards the fund
required for endowing a bishopric for Liverpool. This sum
includes four subscriptions of £10,000 each. The total amount
needed for the endowment is £85,000.
Whittlebury church was reopened for Divine service on the
4th inst., after restoration at the cost of Mr. R. Loder, the lord
of the manor. The restoration has been conducted under the
direction of Mr. St. Aubyn.
Messrs. Longmire and Burge have received the order to
proceed with the new roof for the nave of St. Alban’s Cathe¬
dral, of the old high pitch, according to the resolution of the
meeting of subscribers two months ago, confirming the previous
resolution of the Faculty Committee.
On Tuesday, the 24th ult., the Bishop of Hereford reopened
the church at Bobbington, Staffordshire. This old Norman
church is dedicated to the “Holy Cross.” The nave was
built not long after the Conquest, aud the chancel about the
time of Stephen.
Earl Nelson and the Bishop of Pennsylvania were present
on Monday afternoon at the distribution of the prizes to the
successful students of the Leeds Parish Church Middle-Class
Schools, and spoke in favour of religious instruction being
imparted along with secular knowledge.
Rome. The Congress terminated with a conversazione in the
evening. The meeting next year will be at Swansea.
At the Canterbury Diocesan Conference the chief subjects
of discussion were “ Mission Services in Rural Districts *’ and
“ The Church Defence Institution.” On the former the
general feeling of the conference was against the “revival”
system, though the Archbishop expressed the opiniou that
there were dull places where a little stirring up would do both
the clergy and the laity good. On the subject of the Church
Defence Institution, his Grace said the best means of Church
defence would be for the clergy and laity to earnestly
endeavour, in their various spheres, to perform the duty
devolving upon them. By that means they would defeat the
aims of the Liberation Society.—At the auuual soiree of the
Wakefield Church Institution yesterday week Mr. Beresford-
Ilope, M.P., spoke on the benefits of the Church of England
bishopric movement. Mr. Sanderson, M.P., said he trusted
they would not be long in having the bishopric question
settled to their satisfaction. In no town throughout the
country was the feeling between Churchmen and Dissenters
more amicable than at Wakefield, and that was one reason why
the town was chosen as the seat of a new diocese.—The Bishop
of Chichester, in his triennial charge at Chichester on Tuesday,
referred to the recent perversion to Rome of several of his
Brighton clergy, and said that the distress and grief at
such unfaithfulness had bowed down many hearts, but none
more than his own.—At the Carlisle Diocesan Conference,
held the same day, a resolution was carried by 47 votes
to 19 to the effect that the mode of legislation
for the Church should be reviewed and rearranged.—
The Bishop of Oxford opened the Diocesan Conference iu that
city on Wednesday. Referring to the proposed censure upon
Cuddesdon College, his Lordship said this conference
hitherto had considered the welfare of the Church was beat
served by taking counsel together how to meet the growing
secularism and increasing spirit of unbelief, rather than by
attacking one another. He desired that there should be a
loyal love to the Church rather than an attempt to use one
party as a weapon of offence against the other.
To the number of about seven hundred, the ministers and
delegates of Baptist Churches throughout England and Wales
assembled on Tuesday at Leeds. The sitting was devoted to
the consideration of the comparative stagnation of missionary
support during the past thirty years. At the afternoon meet¬
ing Dr. Underhill, in the name of the Baptist missionaries in
India, presented a silver tea service to the Rev. C. B. Lewis,
who has returned from Calcutta broken in health, after thirty
years of labour. In the evening a public missionary meeting
was held in the Leeds Townhall, which was crowded, about
3000 persons being present. The chair was occupied by Sir
Henry M. Havelock, M.P.
A festival of the united choirs of the various churches
within the borough of Leeds was held on Monday evening at
the parish church, under the auspices of the council of the
Leeds Church Institute and Sunday-School Association. The
gathering included over 800 surpliced choristers and some
sixty clergy in their robes.
The Church of St. Augustine and St. Faith, which ii
situated at the comer of Watling-street and Old Change, and
which, according to tradition, was rebuilt, after the Great
Fire, from designs furnished by a daughter of Sir Christopher
Wren, has been put into a state of thorough repair; and, at
the same time, has been rearranged and decorated, under the
superintendence, and from the plans, of Mr. A. W. Blomfield.
On Monday the Bishop of Oxford preached at the reopen¬
ing of Wilstoek church after restoration, costing between
£6000 and £7000, to which the Lord Lieutenaut of Ireland,
whose palace of Blenheim adjoins the town, subscribed £500.
The Bishop presided afterwards at a luncheon in the Townhall,
at which Lord Randolph Churchill, the member for the borough,
and a large number of local gentry were present.
The Church of St. Mary and St. Bartholomew, Hampton-
in-Arden, has been restored. It is a grand old structure, in
the Norman and Early English styles, aud it had originally a
lofty spire, which, according to Dugdale, was a noted mark to
a great portion of the woodland, but it was destroyed by light-
mug in 1643. The restoration of the church has been carried
out under the superintendence of Mr. W. Eden Nesfield. A
handsome reredos, given by the Vicar, the Rev. T. J. Morris,
will shortly be erected. Tho entire cost of the restoration has
been about £3200, of which £600 has been given by the owners
of the great tithes, the Master and Brethren of Lord Leycester’s
Hospital, Warwick.
A valuable testimonial was presented on Monday night to
the Rev. Henry Robinson, Rector of St. Paul’s, St. Leonards-
on-Sea, upon the occasion of his leaving that parish, after a
ministry there of over ten years. In acknowledging the gift,
the Rev. Mr. Robinson gave an account of Church work in
St. Leonards during that period, and pointed to the great
increase in the number of communicants as evidence that his
ministry had prospered. He said that he had collected iu ten
years for the purposes of his parish work £31,880, which had
all been expended by means of various charitable funds or for
the schools, creche, and other buildings, and he would venture
to assert that very few churches with a congregation of only
900 could boast of such results.
The Church of Holy Rood, Crofton, which replaces a curious
old structure originally founded more than eight hundred
years ago, was consecrated on the 2nd inst. by the Bishop of
Winchester. It stands about half a mile from the old church,
upon a plot of ground nearly an acre in extent, given by Mr.
Montague Foster. It is a building of considerable size, and
has cost £3500, the principal contributors being Mr. Foster,
Sir Frederick Sykes, Sir George Wingate, and Mr. Delme.
The architect is Mr. Goodchild. The church is in Transitional
Gothic of the thirteenth century; it is built of flints, and is
lined with Isle of Wight primrose-coloured bricks, pointed
with pink mortar. The font is a gift from the Hon. Miss
Baring; the Marchioness of Bath presented the reredos; Sir
Frederick Sykes the organ ; and Lady Sykes the lectern.
At the sitting of the Church Congress at Sheffield on the
3rd inst., the chief subject of discussion was the relations of
the Church to the Stage, in the course of which the Rev. G.
Everard of Wolverhampton, denounced the theatre in strong
terms, and said that either it must be given up or Christ must
be lost. The Bishop of Manchester, who said that “ for the
moment his breath had almost been taken away by that tre¬
mendous utterance,” contended that they had no right to
condemn or declaim against the theatre until they had by
some definite act of their own tried to amend it. On the 4th
inst the subjects of discussion included spiritual life, its helps
and hindrances, and the supply, training, and examination of
candidates for holy orders. In the section which met m the
Cutlers’ Hall, interesting papers were contributed by the Rev.
Professor Rawlinson, Canon Tristram, and Mr. W. R. Cooper,
on the results of the confirmation of Scripture given by the
discoveries in Egypt, Nineveh, Palestine, and the catacombs of
At the Asylum for Fatherless Children on Tuesday a new
church, which commemorates thirty years’ service rendered to
this charity by the Rev. T.Aveling, D.D., itshon. secretary, was
opened in the presence of a large number of the friends of the
institution. This asylum, which was founded by the late Dr.
Andrew Reed in 1844, was first established at Stamford-hill.
Afterwards it was removed to the present building, at Reedliam
(named after the founder), near Croydon.
Last Saturday afternoon the foundation-stone of a new
Baptist Chapel at North Finchley was laid, in the presence of
a large assembly of ministers and others. Mr. James Barlow
(of Accrington) performed the ceremony, and the Rev. J. A.
Spurgeon gave an address.
Mr. Mundella, M.P., laid the foundation-stone of a new
Primitive Methodist Chapel, near Sheffield, on Monday, aud
said in doing so he wished the stone had been laid by the
Archbishop of York or the Bishop of Manchester. He hoped
the day was not far distant when we should force the narrow
boundary lines which divide us, and that all Christians would
feel they were seeking one common result.
THE UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, the Rev. E.
Evans, M.A., was on Tuesday installed as Vice-Chancellor, iu
succession to the Warden of New College, who has filled the
office for the customary four years. Dr. Sewell, on retiring,
made the usual Latin speech, commenting upon the academie
events of the year; and the new Vice-Chancellor, having taken
his seat, remarked upon the difficulty he would experience in
following a man so universally esteemed as his predecessor.—
The following elections have been held at Pembroke College:—
To Classical Scholarships: Mr. Tower, from Lancing College,
and Mr. Walters, from Christ’s Hospital. To a Mathematical
Scholarship: Mr. Kingdon, from Eton College. Proximo
accesserunt, Mr. Hare, from Bradfield College, and Mr. Marcus,
from Manchester School.—The following elections to Classical
postmasterships have been made at Merton College:—Mr.
Philip Anthony Dwyer, of Christ’s Hospital, and Mr. Edward
Sumner Bicknell Fletcher, of Cheltenham College. Proxime
accessit—Mr. George Thom Drury, of the King’s School, Can¬
terbury.
At Cambridge, the following gentlemen have passed the
examination in Sanitary Sciences:—J. R. Arbuckle, M.D.;
E. A. Birch, E.R.C.S.; N. B. Elliott, F.G.C.S.; J. Mathews,
L.R.C.P.; I. C. T. Ross, surgeon.
The examiners for the Andrews prizes for new students of
University College, London, have recommended the award of
the prizes (each of the value of £20) a3 follows:— Classics,
G. B. Matthews; English and other languages, T. L. Allen;
Science, H. Duncan. For the medical entrance exhibitiona
(tenable for two years) the following recommendations have
been made: exhibition of £30 per annum, C. M. M'Shane;
ditto £20 ditto, W. C. C. Wilkinson; ditto £10 ditto, E. R.
St. Clair Corbin.
A meeting of Convocation of the Queen’s University in
Ireland was on the 4th inst. held in Dublin Castle. The report
mentioned the continued success of the Queen’s University
and its colleges, and recognised with satisfaction the passing
of the Intermediate Education Act, which, when modified in
course of time under experience of its working, would be
unexceptionable. The report further expressed a hope that
the Government would take into consideration the repre¬
sentation of the University in Parliament and the ereotion of
proper buildings.
We learn from the London (Ontario) Daily Free Press that
the autumn term of the Hellmuth Ladies College, in Western
Ontario, began under most favourable auspices on the 18th
ult. This college was opened Toy Prince Arthur about ten
years ago, when an engraving of it appeared in this paper.
The Rev. James Hill is the Resident Principal and Chaplain,
and Miss Clinton the Lady Principal and Musical Directress.
The Free Press winds up a eulogistio notice of those who
have charge of the college, singling out Mr. Hill and Ml3s
Clinton for special praise, by commending the institution.
all who may haye daughters to educate.
340.—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON ’
THE IMPENDING AFGHAN WAR: MEETING
F AFREEDIS IN THE KHYBER PASS.
THE tt.t.TTSTRATED LONDON NEWS_
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evmboclj „t least worth speaking of: rtatamen, «*j£ra, 1T .g “ Mont Blanc. visions, and the chief importance of his reply to the Abbe
deputies Indies in diamonds, diplomatists withdecoraUons. nonscim cal attention on tlie iu 0 m , additional witness it bears to his estrangement
ae P . ’' ___licit, mio-ht be nointed out m the stalls . ___„ tim nmnhccies of __i, Mr haliaf in +’
artists, authors, journalists, might be Panted out in the stalls reading some more of the prophecies of from the Church of Rome. Mr. Gladstone's belief in
Sthc arant-eeiue*. I need scarcely say that I notjmeDt. I ha e been ? them 80 desultorily that I can ultiniate manufacturing superiority of America, rece
or the aeant-eeiues. I need scarcely say tnai Nostradamus but reading them so desultorily that i can ultiniote manufacturing superiority of America, recently
I bare the honour to be acquainted withj« *« r ' h “J tell whether the following jingle is indeed to be found gtuted with such ill-judged bluntness, would probably have
manager of the Acndemie Rationale de Mow }™, g 1 “ d a ™Z u /the predictions of the old seer or whether it is a b een morc caut iously expressed if he had the advantage of
little doubt that the judicious .^mam in J^SSn of my own distempered imagination. reading Mr. Henderson’s paper on the subject Mr. Henderson
have seen me. at Hong-Kong or at Hyd^dab enMtng^ mat. . y ^ ^ ^ ^ Mixailte e t dix huit dwells on several considerations unfavourable to American
of giving me a fauteuil aorchestre f S Mart conduict un peintre eu gite, manufacturers winch could only have been appreciated by a
“ rolytucte.” Fr.-d.'ric, peintre. wuipteur <iui occm rytnon, practical man, ns, for instance, the dryness of the atmosphere.
_ T * ^ Vimrm “ dinnimr mv nose in the Gascon Maistre lea Acad^midens .rouvirent bon. He also refers to the degree to which American establishments
. ®°„ 1 which £e’ rcad P Hm de St. Galmier and Cftn No tradamus really aK “« carried on by col PP rtnie3 > th «'consequent facilities for
™ . Wrnce to smoke the pipe of peace over Francia Grant would be Mr. Frederick Leighton, R.A., and to gligence and peculation. The other contributions are not
‘Zememblr whaT^lbarBuaer h P J said about SL fhis is it possible that be addedremarkable, except the excellent letters from France and
trying to : numoer a n ints.” The critic of one of n f ,mp. de ioio en si leal valet,, Russia on the present intellectual condition of those countries.
dwells on several considerations unfavourable to American
manufacturers which could only have been appreciated by a
practical man, as, for instance, the dryness of the atmosphere.
He also refers to the degree to which American establishments
are carried on by companies, and the consequent facilities for
Polyeucte in the “ Lives of the Saints.” The cntic of one> or
the French papers savsthat lie has been readmgup Polyencte
inthe^Bollandists; but, at the risk of being considered dis¬
courteous, 1 must confess that I am loth to believe that criti
first because tho Bollnndists have not got as far as the letter P,
SE next because I never knew but one layman who hud
read the Bollandists at all. And he died.
Bonno Reyne, de joie en si leal valet,
Bref, sur le champ, le nomma caovalier.
That evidently points to Sir Frederick Leighton.
fl^becausetb? Bohnndists have not got as far as the letter P; « The descendant of Edmund Whidley, who.was fi^tcousin ugual Mr lj0we ’ 8 p ape r on “ Impel
S next, because I never knew but one layman who hud ^ John Rampden and of Oliver Cromwell Can ay BouTbon W o°r “--like ^ionot the question.
remarkable, except the excellent letters from France and
Russia on the present intellectual condition of those countries,
and the “ Contemporary Literary Chronicle,” im seven sections,
which promises well.
The contents of the Fortnightly Review are less interesting
than usual. Mr. Lowe’s paper on “ Imperialism ” is no states¬
man-like discussion of the question, but merely a brief
Jf th^Bollandists at all. And he died. eigned the death-warrant of Charles I. “ Can Bourbon or ) t *io n cering address. The first of Mr. F. Harrison’s pro-
d the lloliuiiaisis Nassau go higher” in the way of Puritan ancestry ? Poor Mr. b ..^ d ecrie3 b of C89aya 0 n ‘‘The English School of
It is the pleasantly equitable custom in Trc ^ G. H. "Whalley, sometime member for Peterborough. I read, ^ urisprudencei ’> treating of Austin’s und Sir H. Maine’s
the close of the first performance ofamw p d j n the English papers, with real sorrow of his death. I knew ^ ^ o{ 80V ereignty, is indeed a valuable contribution to
or actme manager, to come oeiorc we eurwuu »»u .. _-n wnn hut ‘
regieseur, or acting manager to come before the ciu^am ana ^ ^ ^ yeftrs> but recent i y from afar olf. I preferred
announce the names, not only of the authororauthors of n to talking about the Popo and the Tichborne ca
play, but also those of the scene-painter, the chief machinist^ meerschaum meanwhile, in a club smokm
the^ “property ” master and the ?oom,to talking to him; for talking leads.to arguing; and
desiened the costumes. He does, in fact, orally that which , b have named Mr. Whalley was
him well for years, but recently from afar off. 1 vreierred^to ^ gub j ectj but interesting only to a limited number of
listen to him talking about the Tope and the Tichborne case, rcaders M r. Pater’s pretty and ingenious criticism of Charles
milliner at bis meerschaum meanwhile, in a club smomug- T I1TT1 >, that the writer is much less interested in Lamb
designed the costumes. ^ w : t i, a ii the two thorny topics i nave nameu mr. ...» — method which he desires to recommend. The Uhiuese romauce
our playbills do typQgrftphicMlyiforthcF^ h.w tli aU above argument as the old German Kaiser was above » t wo Fair Cousins ” has frequently been summarised
their dramatic ingenuity, have notyet mastered the art oi But j did not fail heartily to congratulate him ^ David We dderbum, however, is enabled to impart
drawing up an exhaustive and «dtracti e niancLird’s after the last General Election on his being agaiu returned for ccrtain novelty to Ilia analysis by his intimate acquaintance
A Boxing Nigh is xSt tothe Peterborough ; and 1 may venture to predict that ho wdl be » Jf e . M r. Siintsbiiry’s criticism of the elder
nantomimes at the Theatre Boyal, Driuy , ,_ hv his ronsfcitucnts a3 he will be missed and _._hia nmdnnfl np.rfnrinancea
the two thorny topics I have named :
Lamb evinces that the writer is much less interested in Lamb
in his own personality than as the exemplar of a critical
method which he desires to recommend. The Chinese romance
of “The Two Fair Cousins” has frequently been summarised
pantomimes at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, is. next to the
celebrated advertisement in which Pope’s villa at Twickenham
was offered for sale—is that advertisement going on still, l
wonder one of the most artistic compdations that I have
ever perused.
Among the names of the co-labourers in the production of
“ Polyeucte” proclaimed by the rlguseur on Monday was that
of Pierre Corneille. The libretto of M. Gounod’s opera does
Pone’s villa ’at Twickenham as much lamented by his constituents as he will be missed aua D j probably not less able than his previous performances
SI Kgrcttod to tho House. Ho may ho.o had tho Pope and the bat we nre grtflng tired oi the internet
! MtnpUation. that I ha.e Claimtoat on the h™n; but_hc every: •<«•«» •« tn Fronch novelist., not one of wbontnrd
in g| a simple, kindly, true-hearted gentleman, whom every¬
body liked, and whom many loved. G. A. S.
THE MAGAZINES.
be read or thought of a century hence. Mr. R. A. Earle’s
criticism of Mr. Gladstone’s ideas of foreign policy is
ingenious and worthy of attention. Mr. Earle’s notion is
that Mr. Gladstone is trimming too much between two
opinions, and that he will ultimately have to come to a policy
indeed follow very closely the lines of the Each of the serial fictions of the Comhill contains exciting of Philo-Russianism and peace at any price.
French tragic dramatists; and m some cases ^dspusag^ matter thig month . but the strength of the magazine lies in The American magazines are, as usual, full of interest;
of Corneille’s rhymed C0U P^ ..nlmkt ”—^Gounod his its misceUaneous papers, which attain a high standard indi- but we can do little more than allude to their varied contenla.
but it is equally possible that they might “rise” to throw
orange-peel and halfpence at the performers.
Mem.: A literal version of the libretto of “Polyeucte”
„ n , l E its misceUaneous papers, which attain a high standard indi- but wc can do litUe more than allude to their varied contents.
recitative. How would you like " a “ ]ec ““• ^’J’wrend! viduallv and collectively. Mr. Gosac gives a highly intcroating Mr . Gladstone’s unlucky “ Kin beyond Sea,” in the A ortk
already made Hie Pnnce of " Verv like account of the great Swedish poet Iluneberg, recently deceased, American Review, has already received fuU attention from the
opera-^t to En^ words P Cavat^Polomuj Vegrbke with an exccU ent translation of one of his ballads. Runeberg English press. The same journal contains an exhaustive
« whale.’ Song, Hamlet, Alas, poor Ghost • W1VS a Fin and it i8 his great claim to distinction to have article on “ Torpedo Warfare by Admiral Porter, one of the
Ophelia, “To a hunnerygo; no, not I. It is ^ Fiimbh Ufe in ita idyllic aspects, and at the same mcn w hose practical experience of it has been the largest; and
the pit might nse at such an adaptation of thewordsofthc ^ himself the mouthpiece of the martial spirit a ep iritcd appeal in favour of Civil Service reform in the
“ divine William’s,” eyenasthey “_rose ; ^at Edmund Kean^ ^ mUita^y traditions of the country. His “Kings of United States.by Sir. John Jay “ Certain DangerousTem-
Salamis ” has also great reputation as a classical tragedy. The dencies in American Life.” The first paper m the Mlanm
Salamis” has also great reputation as a classical tragedy. The dencies in American Life.” The first paper m pno Attaniw
second part of Professor Colvin’s able monograph on the Monthly gives a gloomy prospect of the general war of tke
Centaurs is chiefly occupied with the representations of their p00 rer classes against property, which the writer regards as
monstrous but beautiful figures in ancient art. Mr. Grant preparing. A melancholy view of the enormous taxation oi
would scarcely, I am afraid, be tolerated in England. The monstrous but beautiful figures in ancient art. Mr. Grant preparing. A melancholy view of the enormous taxation oi
eubiectis much too theological to bo agreeable to a mixed Allen, after a careful analysis of the office of colour in painting, Boston, in the same periodical, deepens this uncomtortaDie
audience I remember, some twelve years since, witnessing seems more than half disposed to conclude that this will ulti- impression. “The Europeans ” is concluded, and tnere is tue
Donizetti’s “I’oliuto”or “ 1 Martiri I forget the precise mately become merely decorative, and that incident and feel- first of a promising series of papers on the inner life ottiie
name of the opera—at the Grand Opera, Madrid. Tamberlik ing will be expressed by mere form. “ Literary Coincidences ” Brook Farm community, depicted iu Hawthorne s Blitnerdaio
was the Poliuto; and the scene in which he destroys the pagan is an erudite and entertaining register of some of the most Romance.” The most important contribution to an excellent
idols provoked a violent religious demonstration in the house, remarkable instances, seasoned with much sound literary number of Scribner's Monthly is a thorough account ed tao art-
The gallery, orthodox Catholics to a man, broke out in loud criticism. “ Coven’s Revenge ” is another of the French stories schools of New York, copiously and capitally illustrated,
tita* of applause; while hisses and catcalls arose from the for which this periodical has obtained a deserved reputation. General Viele’s reminiscences of an expedition in company
sceptical stalls. It happens, nevertheless, that our own M r. George Meredith’s “ Love in the Valley ” is not only with President Lincoln and SoomtajAM OfaiMe rad. Stanton ars
dramatic literature possesses a masterpiece to which M. the be8t thini in Macmillan, but one of the moat beautiful of highly entertaining, and Mr. Mackay s little poem,
Gounod’s magisterial music might most appropriately be fitted, j^b poems. It is, however, by no means a novelty, having Parable,” ib very beautiful and feeling. .....
I mean Massinger s ‘\irgin Martjrr. The angelic Dorothea app^d in its original shape nearly thirty years ago, although The “remedy for Victorian Crises proposed m the
is a fur more interesting heromc than Corneille s vacillating n PP con6 id C rably expanded, and no doubt improved. Tho Melbourne Review is the election of the governor by the people,
Paulina. on l y othcr contributions of much mark are Mr. Freeman’s equivalent to the virtual independence of the colony. Victorian
A .» fbf>n Wwnll M Ommod. Who graphic sketches from Eastern Sicily and Mr. Minto’s highly banking, brewing, and schooling arc also the subjects
Paulina. only othcr contributions of much mark are Mr. Frecnum’s _ . „ . .. , inianM m 1T1H1
A brief “mem. ;” and then farewell, M. Gounod. Who graphic sketches from Eastern Sicily and Mr. Minto’a highly bunking, brewing, and schooling arc also the subjects
will favour mp with a French rhvme for Polveucte? Boileau interesting demonstration, apropos of the African passages in resting papers.
v f ftnnoV ance of Corneille did succeed in finding Defoe’s “ Captain Singleton,” Jiow mucl; of our recent African The Gentleman's Magazine treats us to the continuation
for “ les^s f S. discovery is rediscovery. Mr. A. J. Evans stands up for the Mr. Bala’s amusing “ Cupid J ” and to an almost equally
2/“ Lw/’^exclaimed the satirist. But the rliyrno was right of the Servians to absorb Bosnia and Herzegovina, entertaining articleliy Dr. Richardson on ether-cfrmkmg in the
not so clever as that discovered by the English wag for although on his own showrng such an aimcxation would be north of Ireland, where the^Doctor avers toat b “ 1 n ted pana
«i r,oiriu£?cr ” •_ litHc m harmony with the wishes e ither of the Mohammedan or
’rn.M~.rfw.i„.a.ugutoto, »' “*« c “ thoIi «° f the P°P U
He gave the Prince of Orange her. Fraser, as usual of late, is much to o heavy. Turkish slavery,
But the Princess did not marry the Prince of Orange. It was Victorian protection, Chineso cmigr ation, and English Non-
little in harmony with tho wishes c ither of the Mohammedan or trict the amestlietic has wholly superseded alcohol as a means
of the Catholic section of the popu lation. of intoxication, to the advantage, as he thinks, of the con-
_ PW«,. M?ra!( lofl ! jte,hmachtooh<«V 3 r. Tarktoh .1.^, “^“"3
has a good paper on the recent conference of Librarians, and a
vindication of the Jesuit Garnett from the charges brought
Leopold of Saxe Cobourg, afterwards King of the Belgians, conformity are all important subjects, ably handled; but,
that our poor dear Princess Charlotte wedded.
The French “puzzle-master” in the World asks for a of “Italian Musical Life in Hie Eighteenth Century,” the
French equivalent for “flirting.” It is not my business to only lively paper in the number.
spoil the play of his disciples; but I may hint that m the Blackwood, on the contrary, is exceedingly entertaining
nnacademital jargon of the Parisian papers of th e Figaro and „ ith the ri ch burlesque, deepening into seriousness, of « The
Vaulou type“ Uirter haslong since been adopted as a verb. New 0 rdeal,” and tho equally amusing abstract of the
In modem Greek a male flirt is phUareekos, and a female one Euro an an ^ oriental travels of the sturdy Scot Lithgow, a ™
kaloprotee, the act of flirting is areekuomax. In the way of worth o£ Sir Walter . “Three Days in Paris” is
nuzzle-locutions may I ask for equivalents for the following: - a ^ llRin ^ b ut too long. ‘ ‘ Fireflies ” is the outline of a
A la Saint Remi perdrxx eon perdreaux. ’ Ou la mouehe a u c b omod y; and the five little poems signed “ J. S.” attain
looktog . gift hor* to the meu.b come. ver r close ind ra I. „
taken altogether, are somewhat formidable, anu require more vuiuiw»wvi* - T he
relief than can be obtained even from the attractive continuation against him in connection with the Gunn ’ . „
of “Italian Musical Life in Hie Eighteenth Century,” the Publxn the
nnlv livf.lv ntirw'r in the number is concluded, “ An Innocent Sinner contmuett, au “
} J P P 0 * . . monthly portrait and memoir, both excellent of their lan ,
nn +Via rmfrnrv is evepeflinrrlv entertaminET . t, e _ nr _ tt rvoccirlif ” f-niltinUCS
r ,? Blackwood, on the contrary, is exceedingly entertaining are devoted to Professor Max Muller. “ Cressida ” continues
, h with the rich burlesque, deepening into seriousness, of “ The to be the chief attraction of London Society, as “ Maclcod of
New Ordeal,” and tho equaUy amusing abstract of the Darc »> is Q f Good Words, which periodical, however, is full o£
European and Oriental travels of the sturdy Scot Lithgow, a d mat t e r and is particularly remarkable for a lucid and
_ figure worthy of Sir Walter. “Three Days m Paris” is deta ii e d account of the last scientific marvel, the microphone,
amusing also, but too long. “Fireflies’ is the outline of a Tbe Arqosv maintains its modest but genuine standard of
pretty comedy; and the five little poems signed “J.S.” attain excc u en c e Of the St James's Magazine and the Churchman e
t a standard of late most unusual in magaziue poetry. Monthly there is little to be said.
looking a gift horse in the mouth comes very close indeed. The sensational article of the Century of this Social No( a we ekly periodical, conducted by Mr
month is Mr. Forbes s paper on the “hiasco of Cyprus, g 0 Hflll hag established a reputation for its light yet
“ Monsieur Francis Grand, of the British Academy, died which must itself be pronounced a fiasco. It is surprisingly thoughtful papers on social matters, in which evils are pointed
lately at Edinburgh.” Thus, in our French telegrams, was deficient in the item of personal experience, and is, in fact, t ® md ^medics suggested with a refreshing abscnco of
recorded the decease at Melton Mowbray of the accomplished hardly anything else than a restatement of those obvious eenn onising Writers of repute contribute to Social Notes,
and revered Sir FranciB Grant, President of tho Royal exceptions against the moral and strategical significance of which ia n ®" w rt . n dered additionally attractive by a pictorial
Acad, my of Arts; the “young Frank Grant” incidentally our occupation, which could be and have been perfectly well f _ outigr)iece eacb num ber portraying “Benefactors: ‘Not
mentioned in Lockhart’s «Life of Sir Walter Scott,” and the discovered at home. Mr. Uyndman’s study of the financial f an Age but for AU Time!’” drawn by Walter J. Allen,
brother of the heroic Sir Hope Grant. The French telegram- difficulties of India is a far morc weighty contribution to a Th firat “ 0 j ume of this prac tical pubUcation has been issued,
writer was not to be blamed, perhaps. The late President theme of more momentous consequence. Mr. Uyndman is a lt cmbo dies a large amount of valuable information concerning
filled a most distinguished place in English society. His severe critic of the present Indian financial system, and his go -.. re f onns 80 cial requirements, and social progress,
blameless character, his graceful manners, gained for him views, though not to be adopted implicitly, demand respectful . I. , f tb Lives of the Cardinals (Roland,
general esteem among his own countrymen; but as an artist attention. Mr. Mackonochie is a reformer of another sort. His ■‘■{l® j AaYY, „„ i..tf i «,ied and gives ample
Sir Francis was as totally unknown to Continental critics as proposal for the disestabUshment of the English Church, care- Bade , *' h } nddition to the literature of
Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A. Sir Joshua Reynolds and fully digested into a regular Act of Parliament, is a fine stroke promise of being a J^p Leo XIII (Cardinal
Sir Thomas Lawrence they do know and admire; they have of humour on the part of an unendowed incumbent who has K° man Uab i Holiness P f orm3 the
a dim notion that Sir Charles Lock Eastlake was a good judge everything to gain and nothing to lose by the operation. It is thft _ , . . f .. fira fZ mo 5 which is written
brother of the heroic Sir Hope Grant. The French telegram- difficulties of India is a far morc weighty contribution to a
writer was not to be blamed, perhaps. The late President theme of more momentous consequence. Mr. Ujmdman is a
filled a most distinguished place in English society. His severe critic of the present Indian financial system, and his
blameless character, his graceful manners, gained for him views, though not to be adopted implicitly, demand respectful
general esteem among his own countrymen ; but as an artist attention. Mr. Mackonochie is a reformer of another sort. His
Sir Francis was us totally unknown to Continental critics as proposal for the disestablishment of the English Church, care-
Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A. Sir Joshua Reynolds and fully digested into a regular Act of Parliament, is a fine stroke
Sir Thomas Lawrence they do know and admire; they have of humour on the part of an unendowed incumbent who has
a dim notion that Sir Charles Lock Eastlake was a good judge everything to gain and nothing to lose by the operation. It is
of the Italian school of painting; while, curious to remark, perhaps superfluous to observe that Mr Mackonochie makes
they entertain gTeat respect for our much maligned Benjamin very special provision for the abolition of the spiritual courts.
nifl nouness a upc ajw . v -
excellent lithographic portrait forms tue
everything to gam and nothing to lose by the operation. It is * rr . “;, « . * w hirh ia written
perhaps superfluous to observe that Mr Mackonochie makes frontispiece, is the subject of tae fl «t noe ,
very special provision for the abolition of the spiritual courts, m a fluent style by Mr. Patrick Justin 0 By • TWular
Mr. Mallock, so lively as a satirist, takes rather a gloomy view We have also received the Psychological Review. p-
of things when he comes to serious speculation. He writes a Science Review, St. Nicholas, Part 1 of Heroes of f . .
West, who is clussed with Raphael, Mengs, and with Mr. Mallock, so lively os a satirist, takes rather a gloomy view
Poelemburg, as a learned Academical draughtsman, but a of things when he comes to serious speculation. He writes a
weak painter. long essay to prove “ that there is no belief of any human value
ue euiues ou aeriuus speculation. lie writes a xvv,..., . x. x....uv.w«, --• ---- . . - : ans
long essay to prove ‘ ‘ that there is no belief of any human value Peace and War, Part 4 of A Dictionary of Music and fti ^ •
that cannot be doubted or contradicted without absurdity.” Fart 7 of Our Native Land, No. 18 of the Journal °t „ ^»
Mr. Romanes, however, in his interesting paper on “ Animal No. 34 of Men of Mark ^containing portraits^>f the
And yet our grancUircs—nay, the sires of some among us— Mr. Romanes, however, in his interesting paper on “ Animal No. 34 of Men of Mark (containing portraits of the Right “
used to go into ecstasies over Benjamin West’s grand picture Intelligence,” finds an exception to this dictum in the theory Hugh Childers, M.P., Dr. Andrew Clark, and Dr. J. btamor;,
of Death on the Pale Horse,” which the diva Sarah Siddons of evolution, which is not only indubitable, but “ a rising Sun Part 1 of the Leopold Shakspeare, Part 5 of Ine i/nevwojr
pronounced to be “ truly sublime.” I dare say Benjamin— of Truth.” Mr. Romanes may be over-sanguine, but hia Novels— Samuel Weir, St. Jamcs’a Magazine, Magazine
OCT. 12, 1 878
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Art, Geographical Magazine, Lippincott’s Magazine, St.
Nicholas, Charing-cross Magazine, Mirth, Science for All,
Science Gossip, Familiar Wild Flowers, Cassell’s Family
Magazine, Poet’s Magazine, Church Sunday-School Magazine,
Mission Life, Daisy, Golden Childhood, Christian Age, Myra’s
Journal of Dress ana Fashion and Myra’s Mid-Monthly Journal
and Children’s Dress, Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine,
Sylvia’s Home Journal, Milliner and Dressmaker; and
monthly parts of All the Year Round, Once a Week, Weekly
Welcome, Golden Hours, Day of Rest, Sunday at Home,
Sunday Magazine, Leisure Hour, Garden, Gardeners’ Chronicle,
and Gardener’s Magazine.
NATIONAL SPORTS.
The death of Sir Richard Sutton occurred suddenly on
Thun day week. He began his connection with the turf in
1856, and among the first four yearlings he bought was
Eurydice, who won the Altliorp Park Stakes and the Cam¬
bridgeshire. No man ever had a greater share of success with
a very limited stud; and he was exceptionally fortunate with
Gardevisure and Lord Lyon, both of whom he leased from
General Pearson for their racing career. We need hardly
remind our readers that Lord Lyon secured the triple crown—
Guineas, Derby, and Leger—a feat that has only been accom¬
plished by two other animals, West Australian and Gladiateur.
Sir Richard served in the Navy, on board the Pique, com¬
manded by the late Admiral Rous, and he afterwards entered
the 1st Life Guards.
The Newmarket Second October Meeting is of such great
importance that we may be excused from passing over the
“little-go’s” of last week with the simple remark that great
improvements have been effected at Kempton Park, and the
public has taken so kindly to the new venture that its success
seems assured. Proceedings began on Monday with the Royal
Stakes, which was reduced to a match between Childeric and
Sonsie Queen, and backers are becoming so tired of Lord
Falmouth’s ungenerous colt that they laid slight odds on the
filly, who, however, was beaten by three quarters of a length,
through Childeric required a good deal of driving home. Of
the six starters for the Clearwell Stakes, which was wisely
brought forward to the Monday, Rayon d’Or was backed freely
against the field, in spite of his 91b. penalty, and, running far
more gamely than he has sometimes done, he had little trouble
in defeating Ringleader, who up to the present time has always
disappointed Lord Falmouth and shown himself quite
unworthy of his relationship to Silvio. The filly by Vic¬
torious—Modena, on whom odds of 4 to 1 were laid,
was defeated by Prologue in a £100 Plate, and, on
the whole, the fielders had decidedly the better of a somewhat
poor day’s sport. On Tuesday the Burwcll Stakes fell an easy
prey to Mowerina, and the hollow style in which she disposed
of the speedy Preciosa at weight for age shows her to be a
really good filly, especially as Thomfield and White Poppy,
both of whom are winners, were behind her. The next two
races were of small importance, and people began to congre¬
gate in the Birdcage to see the Cesarewitch candidates saddled.
In this, however, they were somewhat disappointed, as, of the
twenty runners, only six appeared there; yet, strangely enough,
this half dozen included Jester (6st. 101b.), Start (7 st.), and
Roehampton (6 st. 91b.), the first, second, and fourth in
the race. Sefton (8 st.) fully maintained his premiership
in the betting up to the fall of the flag, and of
the remainder there was most money for Harbinger
(7 st.) and Insulaire (7 st. 9 lb.). A very even start
was effected without any difficulty, but after going a few
strides the line was broken, for Shillelagh (6st. 81b.) appeared
to overpower his jockey—a very favourite proceeding of his
recently—and made the running at such a cracking pace as to
completely upset a good many previous calculations. Coming
through the gap he held a lead of fully six lengths, and when
more than half the distance had been covered he was still
going well, and retaining his advantage. Of course this strong
pace told terribly on the heavily-weighted three-year-olds,
Sefton, Insulaire, and Master Kildare (7 st. 4 lb.) being quite
out of it at the T.Y.C. winning-post. Having completely
settled all the favourites, Shillelagh began to tire him¬
self, and at the Bushes was joined by Jester and
Start, the former coming away and winning in a cauter
by five lengths, while Shillelagh was third, about
half that distance behind Start. Mr. Naylor has thus
repeated the triumph that he gained with Cherie iu 1869, and
is the only man who has ever won a Cesarewitch twice, except
Mr. “Rosebery” Smith. Jester showed excellent form as a
three-year-old in 1876; but since that time he has never
earned a winning bracket. His weight in the Cambridgeshire,
including the 141b. extra, is 7st. 9 lb., so he is by no means
out of the race, though it is probable that he just lacks the
requisite turn of speed to score such a grand double event.
There was a novelty at the end of the day’s card, in the shape
of the Apprentices’ Plate, the horses to be ridden by lads who
had never had a winning mount. The idea was a capital one,
and the race fell to Brogden, a boy in Blanton’s stable, who
was on Sir John Astley’s Drumhead.
The same pair took the opening race on Wednesday; and
then the Bedford Stakes went to the great French stable by
the help of Ultima, a daughter of Flageolet and Contempt,
who performed so moderately on Monday that she started
without a quotation. When it became known that Lord Fal¬
mouth had decided not to run Wheel of Fortune for the Middle
Park Plate, there was a general run upon Peter, who escaped
with a 4 lb. penalty. Rayon d’Or and the unbeaten Scape¬
grace were also strongly supported, and, with the withdrawal
of Blink Boy, a promising son of Blinkhoolie and Laura, the
dam of Lemnos, Petrarch, &c., Discord became the fancied can-
•didate of the “ dark ” division. The last mentioned made the
running until coming over the Bushes hill, where he was joined
by Rayon d’Or; but, as they came out of the Abingdon Mile
Bottom, Victor Chief and Peter went to the front. At the dis¬
tance theformer held a lead of half a length, and appeared pretty
eure to win, but Peter struggled on with the greatest gameness,
and, getting on terms with the Duke of Westminster’s repre¬
sentative a few yards from the judge’s box, secured a neck
verdict. Three lengths off came Gunnersbury, and close up
with him were Rayon d’Or and Massena, all the others being
widely scattered. Rupcrra, who was saddled with the full
penalty of 7 lb., ran well until asked to come down the hill,
which he once more proved unable to do; and Charibert
roved a sorry substitute for Wheel of Fortune. Judging by
er Goodwood form with Peter, and allowing a wide
margin for the improvement of General Peel’s colt,
Wheel of Fortune would have won ; still, Lord Fal¬
mouth exercised a Wise discretion in sparing her such
a task, and reserving her for all her valuable engagements of
next seuson. Lord Clive disposed of Brie, Attalus, and
Phenix with consummate ease for the Select Stakes, and was
afterwards heavily backed for the Cambridgeshire. He is
about the best-looking three-year-old of the season, but the
only time that he has met really first-class horses he was beaten
easily—by Hampton and Vemeuil at Epsom—so we do not
led eure that he is quite so good as his warmest admirers aver.
Hermit, the sire of Peter, wa3 again to the front in the Ditch
Mile Nursery, in which his daughter, Out of Bounds, carried
8 st. 6 lb. successfully ; and, in the last race of the day, Ford-
ham and Goater rode their second dead-heat during the week.
After a period of complete stagnation in the billiard
world, the Westminster Aquarium Company have given £50
for an American Handicap on a championship table. There
was some difficulty in making up eight players of sufficient
calibre, as four of the cracks are away from England, and
Taylor wifi not play in public until he meets Joseph Bennett
at the end of the month. However, the number was at last
secured, and play began on Saturday. At the time of writing
the affair seems reduced to a match between G. Hunt (60 points
start) and R. Wilson (80), both of whom have won all the four
gamcB they have played. Owing to the exceptional difficulty
of the table, the play has been very slow, and a 47 by Collins
is the largest break yet made. We shall allude to the handicap
again next week.
ART, SCIENCE, AND LITERATURE.
Mr. Francis George Heath’s “ Fern Paradise,” which we
noticed last week, has already reached a fifth edition.
The subject of the crayon portrait in the Whitehall Review
this week is Mr. P. Cunliffe Owen, C.B., the British Commis¬
sioner at the Paris Exhibition.
Lord Derby has presented to the Manchester Conservative
Club three elegantly-bound volumes, the two first being a copy
of the Iliad of Homer rendered into English blank verse, and
the third a series of “ Translations of Poems Ancient and
Modern,” both works being by the late Earl of Derby.
At Hawkstone Hall, Christ Church, Westminster Bridge-
road, Sir Charles Reed presided last Monday at the inaugural
meeting of the session 1878-9 in regard to the lectures and
entertainments given weekly under the auspices of the Lambeth
and Southwark Mission and Temperance Society.
Mr. E. J. Physick has completed the erection of a handsome
sculptured monument in white marble over the grave, in Cheam
churchyard, of the late Lieutenant Frank Tabor, R.N., who
was picked up by a small boat sailing near at the time of the
foundering of the Eurydice, and died before the boat could
reach the shore.
Some enterprising gentlemen at Manchester have made a
discovery at Knowsley, the principal seat of Lord Derby. It
is known that photographs of Peel Castle, Isle of Man, repre¬
sent the place in ruins; but Lord Derby has in his possession
a painting of the castle as built 378 years ago. The picture
has been photographed by Mr. R. Banks, of Manchester.
Mr. Otway, M.P., distributed the science and art awards
to the pupils of the Rochester classes on Wednesday evening.
He remarked that, although this country always held its own
in the sciences, it was behind in the fine arts. He had, how¬
ever, procured returns from South Kensington, which showed
that the number of students in art-subjects was increasing.
Sir Charles Reed read a paper before the Society of Arts
last Tuesday night on Education at the Paris Exhibition.
There was a hope, he said, that, under men like M. Wadding-
ton and M. Jules Simon, France would work up her schools to
a higher efficiency. The result of his observations at the
Exhibition was that England had no right to consider herself
at the head of the education of the world.
The annual soiree of the Photographic Society took place
on Tuesday in the Gallery of the Society of Painters in Water-
Colours in Pall-mall. The guests were received by the pre¬
sident, Mr. James Glaisher, F.R.S., and other members of the
council. The display of landscapes was admirable. The
exhibition will remain open to the public until Nov. 12,
there being evening admission on Mondays and Saturdays.
Captain Charles T. Ritchie, M.P., on Wednesday evening
distributed the Queen’s prizes and certificates gained by the
students of the Old Ford-road School of Science and Art, and
in the course of his address referred to the lessons to be
derived from the Exhibition at Paris, and of the immense
importance of the efforts which arc now being made in this
country for a widespread dissemination of technical education.
Under the auspices of the Turners’ Company, an exhibition
was opened at the Mansion House on Tuesday of articles of
wood-turning, pottery, and diamond cutting and polishing.
In each subject, as a first prize, the company give a silver
medal and the freedom of their guild and of the City, and as a
second prize a bronze medal, besides many smaller gifts of
money and certificates. The Lord Mayor distributed the
prizes on Thursday.
The Librarians’ Conference at Oxford concluded on the
3rd inst. A pnper was read by Mr. Stevens on the Postal
Union and International Copyright, in which he expressed the
opinion that England should give the American Government a
ytar to withdraw or abide by the Postal Treaty. It was
decided that the next annual meeting should be held in
Manchester. The American Library Association has invited
the association to meet them next June.
An important announcement was made on Monday night
by Professor Barrett, in lecturing at Birmingham. He said
that Mr. Edison’s agent, Mr. Adams, had received the follow¬
ing telegram:—“1 have just solved the problem of the
subdivision of the electric light indefinitely ; but it will not be
shown until all the patents are secured, and then I will send a
description.” Mr. Adams writes that he is in receipt of letters
from Mr. Edison, in which he expresses perfect confidence in
having solved the difficulty of electric lighting.
We understand that the Second Winter Exhibition at the
Grosvenor Gallery will open in December, and will consist, as
before, of drawings by the old masters and water-colour draw¬
ings. All those collectors who last year contributed to the
success of the exhibition have again promised their support,
and many fresh promises of help have already been received.
Sir Coutts Lindsay will be grateful to all who possess old
drawings, or to others who may know of their existence, for
any information which would serve to render the second exhi¬
bition a worthy successor to the first.
After the usual autumn holiday recess, the new term of
the Working Men’s College, Great Ormond-street, has begun,
and a novelty appears on the prospectus in the shape of a
series of free popular lectures of a high class for men and
women, to be given every Thursday evening ; and how
thoroughly the efforts of the council have been supported may
be gathered from the fact that the list of lecturers comprise
the names of Professor J. R. Seeley (author of “Ecce Homo”),
Professor W. H. Corfield, Professor Lowne, Mr. Frederic
Harrison, Mr. F. J. Furaivall (the editor of the Leopold
Shakspeare), Dr. Casson, and also the Principal, Mr.
Hughes, Q.C. The subjects selected by these gentlemen are
literary and scientific.
The session of the Liverpool Art-Club opened on Monday,
one of the principal events being the display of a collection of
specimens of art-work in Chinese suuJf- bottles and other
articles in enamel porcelain-work, &c., connected with the use
of tobacco. The specimens form part of the collection of Mr.
W. Bragge, F.S.A., of Shirle-hill, Birmingham, and they pre¬
sent curious illustrations of Chinese skill and ingenuity in
porcelain, jasper ware, variegated glass, and cornelian. Mr.
Bragge was entertained at dinner by the club in the evening.
In addition to the Bragge specimens, the club have now on
view a loan collection of Italian carved wood of the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries, and several pieces of tapestry formerly
in the possession of the Earl of Nitlisdale.
A numerous meeting of gentlemen interested in the Brad¬
ford trade was held on the 3rd inst. in the Townhall, under
the presidency of the Mayor, Mr. B. Priestley, to consider the
desirability of permanently establishing the recently formed
and already flourishing Bradford Technical School by the
erection of suitable buildings for its location, at an estimated
cost of £25,000. Letters were read from Mr. W. E. Forster,
M.P., and Mr. H. W. Ripley, M.P., both strongly expressive
of their warm approval of the object. Resolutions were
adopted in favour of the object and appointing a committee of
gentlemen with authority to carry it out. A subscription-list
was opened, and £12,000 was subscribed at once, the following
being the principal subscriptions:—Mr. H. W. Ripley, M.P.,
£2500; the Clothworkers’ Company and Mr. Isaac Holdeu,
£2000 each ; Mr. Angus Holden, Mr. M. W. Thompson, Mr.
II. Mitchell, Messrs. D. Illingworth, and Messrs. John Priest-
man and Co., £1000 each; and Mr. Forster, M.P., £500.
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
A special mission for young men and others was begun on
Sunday evening at Exeter Hall, and will continue at the hall
and other places until the 7th of next month.
The fiftieth anniversary of the Butchers’ Charitable Insti¬
tution was celebrated, under the presidency of Mr. T. Knight,
on Tuesday, when the subscriptions amounted to £1000.
Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., has officially inspected
the second and last section of the Alexandra Palace branch of
the Great Eastern Railway, which runs from the Seven Sisters
station on the Metropolitan Extension to Wood-green.
The Lord Mayor - Elect (Sir Charles Whetham) has
appointed Mr. William Jameson Soulsby to be his private
secretary during his year of office. Mr. Soulsby has filled the
same office in the present and two preceding mayoralties.
In consequence of an accession of funds, the council of the
Printers’ Corporation determined on Monday to elect thre*
orphans, the successful candidates being James Francis Wheeler,
Mina Selina Usher, and Sarah Eleanor Robinson.
Owing to the death of Captain Redman, one of the senior
members of the Trinity House, the Elder Brethren of that cor¬
poration have in a body requested the Lord Mayor to forego
this year the usual banquet in their honour.
Waterloo Bridge and the foot-bridge at Charing-cross were
opened to the public free of toll last Saturday afternoon; the
sum paid by the Metropolitan Board of Works for the former
being £475,000, and for the latter £98,540. We illustrate the
opening ceremony at Waterloo Bridge.
Dr. Frankland again complains of the water supplied by
the five companies drawing from the Thames as being of
inferior quality, and of the Lambeth water as turbid and con¬
taining moving organisms. The Lea waters were last month
good, and had been efficiently filtered.
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows that
the total number of paupers at the end of the first week in
October was 76,767, of whom 39,327 were in workhouses and
37,440 received outdoor relief. Compared with the correspond¬
ing weeks in 1877, 1876, and 1875, these figures show a
decrease of 396, 1539, and 4698 respectively. The number of
vagrants relieved on the last day of the week was 745, of whom
481 were men, 224 women, and 40 children under sixteen.
The Queen, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Lady Gwydyr,
the Hon. Mrs. Baillie-Hamilton, the Earl of Stamford and
Warrington, the Earl of Rosslyn, and Lord Chesham, are among
the exhibitors at the third annual show held by the British
Dairy Farmers’ Association, which opened on Thursday at th#
Agricultural Hall. The entries in the classes of cows, heifers,
and bulls, number altogether 232, thus constituting the largest
exhibition of prize and pedigree cattle ever held in the metro¬
polis. Last year’s show of goats, the best on record, has been
excelled ; and among the objects of curiosity are specimens of
American cheese, each weighing more than half a ton. Butter-
churning and cheeBe-making are practically illustrated, each
day of the show, by dairymaids. The prizes amount to £1500.
The executive committee of the Mansion House fund for
the relief of distress occasioned by the sinking of the Princess
Alice met again on Monday, when it was stated that the fund
amounted to £34,300, that £13,000 had been distributed to
widows and other relatives, and that the cases of one hundred
orphans remained yet to be dealt with. In accordance with
the expressed opinion of the meeting, that the fund sub¬
scribed was large enough, a resolution was submitted and
carried for the purpose of closing the lists. The inquest at
Woolwich was resumed on Tuesday, and adjourned until the
18th inst. In the meantime the Board of Trade inquiry will
begin, but it has been arranged that the two inquiries shall not
proceed on the same days. The evidence of the general wit¬
nesses was nearly finished on Tuesday, and at the next sitting
technical evidence as to the build of the steamer will bo taken.
There were 2429 births and 1355 deaths registered in London
last week. The deaths included 4, from smallpox, 19 from
measles, 44 from scarlet fever, 20 from diphtheria, 40 from
whooping-cough, 28 from different forms of fever, and 45
from diarrhoea. The deaths from whooping-cough, although
13 less than those in the previous week, exceeded the cor¬
rected average by 10. The fatal cases of scarlet fever showed
a further increase upon the numbers in recent weeks, but were
62 below the average. The 20 deaths from diphtheria showed
an excess of 11 upon the corrected average. The fatal cases of
fever, which had been 32, 30, and 27 in the three preceding
weeks, were 28 last week, of which two were certified as
typhus, 22 as enteric fever, and 4 as simple continued fever.
Ihe Metropolitan Asylum Hospitals contained 105 enteric
fever patients on Saturday last, and 16 were under treatment
in the London Fever Hospital. The deaths from diarrhooa
and simple cholera, which had steadily declined from 494 to 61
in the nine preceding weeks, further fell to 45 last week, and
were 17 below the corrected average. The deaths referred to
diseases of the respiratory organs, which had been 215 and 213
in the two previous weeks, rose to 247 last week, and exceeded
the corrected average by 39: 155 resulted from bronchitis, and
61 from pneumonia. In Greater London 2906 births and 1600
deaths were registered, equal to annual rates of 35‘1 and 18'8
per 1000 of the population. The mean temperature of the air
was 55 8 deg., and 19 deg. above the average in the oor-
responding week of the sixty years 1814-73. The duration of
registered bright sunshine in the week was but 41‘0 houra
the eua being above the horizon during 80 5 hours.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oct. 12, 1878.—345
OUR ARTIST IN
CYPRUS.
VIEW FROM THE MONA8TERY OF KANTARA.
CASTLE OF KANTARA.
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“A VISIT TO THE DENTIST.’
There is a refined humour and a
delicate ^Storey, which wJ
j^s£=S«g
our remoter fore ? a J ere T ^^ a e “ ^Satement
gggfts&s
denounced:—
Of all our woes, since man wM Curet
(I mean of body, not the mental),
To' name the worst, amongthe
The dental sure is transcendental,
gome bit of mastieiting bone,
That ought to help to clear a she*,
Will let its proper work done.
And only serves to gnaw itself.
We wonder in vain who of mankind first had
the toothache, and who will have it las„. This
fair lady of the last century, m the picture of
which we present an Engraving, seems to he
I tender sufferer in the same th«nU«sMase.
She is an interesting person, and her l 00 *™;
soft despair makes us feel sincerely sorry for
her The composed air of grieving resolution
with which the female attendant prepares to
assist in extracting the peccant tooth has equal
Static Xth. i. for the dentist, he stands
in an apologetic attitude, concealing the for
SpTinhis ready right hand, while raising his
left to deprecate the idea that he could be
guilty of needless cruelty. It is a clever little
play of tragi-comedy, and only too real.
The south-west and west coasts of England
were visited on Monday by a severe storm,
which had been anticipated by the weather
warnings of the previous days.
The returns of the Government emigration
compared with September last J'^ar. Phe
number of ships that sailed during the month
was sixty-eight, containing 8402 passengers
The great majority of the emigrants (6810)
went to the United States.
The Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry com¬
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Stoneleigh Deer Park, lent by Lord Leigh.
The first prize, £10 with silver challenge cup,
given by Mrs. Wise, of Woodcote, was won by
Private Davis, of Warwick ; and the second,
£ti was gained by Private Griffin, of Chester¬
ton ; the third prize, £4, by Private Lloyd.
Heavy "in rendered it necessary to post¬
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amounting to another £20.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
OCT. 12, 1878
THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OF CYPRUS.
(Ffom our Special drtist and Correspondent.)
Trikomo, District of Carpas, Sept. 6.
On Monday, the 2nd inst., after leaving drawings, photo¬
graphs, and letters for you with Captain Inglis, the Assistant
Commissioner at Fumogusta, to be forwarded to Larnaca, we
started on our trip into the Carpas district, hitherto looked
upon as the wildest of all the country districts. The Com-
mis-ioner, Captain Swaine, or rather the Kaimakam of the
district, as he is styled by the natives, with his secretary and
interpreter, Mr. Cambettino, and myself, formed the party.
We were attended by our baggage-mules aud muleteers, and
were preceded by an escort of two Turkish zaptiehs, or
mounted police, in picturesque costumes—altogether forming a
small cavalcade. Having assembled in front of the Konak at
Fumagusta, we left that town by its medieval gates, the
guard turning out and saluting the Kaimakam in correct form.
Captain Swaine iB a strict disciplinarian, and keeps both his
zaptiehs and soldiers up to the mark; but I am sorry to Bay
that there are, just now, many deserters. This is not on
account of strict discipline ; but the Turks feel that their rule
is ended in the island, and know that they have given too much
cause to fear retaliation from the Greeks. An emigration of
the Turks to the coast of Syria has consequently set in.
It began to grow dusk long before wo reached our first sta¬
tion, and as the sun sets early it was past dark that we arrived
at Trikomo. Here we had been invited to stay with the chief
agriculturist and merchant of the neighbourhood, Mr. Michael.
At his house, on the outskirts of the village, we alighted after
three hours and three quarters in the saddle. We were agree¬
ably surprised with the comfort of our apartment. We were
up betimes on Tuesday morning, myself to sketch and the
Commissioner to transact business. There was a deputation to
be received of two priests and three Greek farmers. One of
the farmers spoke well and seemed very intelligent, while the
priests were backward and diffident. Their talk was all of
taxation and money advanced to the Turks, who seem to have
despoiled the Greek villages prior to their departure by all
manner of extortion.
We left Trikomo at three in the afternoon, and did not
expect to reach Haghios Theodoro until dark, but we only rode
for about two hours and a half. Our track lay eastward,
towards the seacoast, through a more undulating country
covered with low scrubwood. apparently juniper. We crossed
several streams, and went round a rocky point within a few feet
of the sea, meeting a train of mules coming in the opposite
direction, just where the path was worst. After passing this
point, Palaea, we turned northwards, through Gastria, to St.
Theodoro, a miserable hamlet, where we were to stay at the
house of M. Dingli, half Maltese by birth. He did all he could
for us iu the way of hospitality. This place is only interesting
as being the locality of the custom-house ; but I doubt much
if, after the inspection by the English Kaimakam, it will much
longer remain the seat of customs.
We were not sorry to get away next morning as soon as we
could, after the usual deputation of notables of tlie neighbour¬
hood, priests and farmers, all of whom seem to have been
ground down by taxation and to be very poor. We now fo -
lowed a track leading towards the hills, leaving the sea at our
back. Soon the landscape improved, and the scenery became
more rural and less desert. The fields, villages, and farms were
more frequent; the watercourses were not entirely dried up,
and wherever moisture remained in their beds thickets of lovely
oleander bloomed. The flocks of sheep and herds of cattle
were larger, and thriving better. The olive-trees, too, were
more abundant. Altogether, we had entered a richer district.
We crossed the line of telegraph which joins the submarine
cable to the eastward. We were almost up to the hocks of our
animals in marsh and water in one of the gullies. The mere
sight of anything like water, or even moisture and vegetation,
is pleasant to the eye after a continued course of desert
and sunburnt plains. We passed caravans of camels and riders
on mules, which also betokened a thriving district.
Early in the day wc reached Hepta-Khumi, a bright-
looking village on a spur of the southern slopes irf the Carpas
Mountains. Here we met Mr. Parkes, an Englishman, who,
next to the late Consul, Mr. Lang, has the greatest experience
of the island. We were amused by the custom of incensing
which takes place on the arrival of any important guest or on
the occasion of any serious business. The dwelling in which
we put up was more quaint and original than any we had yet
seen. We were surprised to see a fireplace, and were told that
it is really cold here in the winter. As we had no aneroid with
us, wo could not tell the altitude with any accuracy; but I
should judge we were at least 500ft. above the sea-level. The
usual deputation, on a rather large scale, was duly received ;
and the Mudir from the neighbouring village also paid au
official state visit to the English Kaimakam. A case of assault
was brought before the Kaimakam, and it was stated that iu
this rude district abductions were of frequent occurrence.
The proceedings were quite peculiar and picturesque ; a largo
amount of incense was burnt. Satisfaction appeared to reign
here, as it did everywhere, after the Kaimakain’s visit.
Captain Swaine appeared to be very popular, and generally
received what is vulgarly called an ovation.
After mid-day we were escorted by the Mudir to Khumi-
Kcbir. We had sent on our baggage by a more direct route
from St. Theodoro. We were received by all the population
of the village, the bells of the Greek church clanging out
their best peal to apprise the country-folks of the arrival of
the Kaimakam. We were followed to the house prepared for
us by a crowd of villagers, who nearly all had to run
to keep up with our animals. The reception and dur¬
bar here was very similar to all our previous ones, though
on a larger scale. We subsequently visited the Mudir
at his own house, and accompanied our host to his gardens
outside the village. Melons of different kinds, maize, bringals,
chilis, and other vegetables were in profusion here, as wherc-
ever water for irrigation is procurable. But the people are too
poor to procure the means of digging wells and tanks, or to
employ the labour of mules and horses requisite for the
machinery of the water-wheel to raise the precious fluid.
Outside Khumi Kebir there are plenty of vineyards and
quantities of olives; and here was the only place where we
observed hedges forming regular lanes. At this village we
first came across stone mills for crushing the olives, and the
wooden rude screw presses with which the coarse bags of crushed
olives are squeezed to make the oil exude—a very crude pro¬
cess. In about a fortnight’s time the olives would be ready for
picking. I should fancy that the introduction of proper
machinery for pressing and refining the oil would pay any
enterprising Englishman who turned his attention to this
matter. On Thursday we sent our baggage by direct route
back to Trikomo. We ourselves obtained the service of a
guide to take us over the mountains to the monastery of
Kantara. We knew that, according to the map, the monastery
was only a few miles beyond the castle of Kantara, which is a
conspicuous object for miles round, as it crests the highest
mountain top. Apparently that was all our so-called guide
knew. He took us safely enough up within half a mile of the
castle, aud then was anxious to take us down to Davolo on
the other side of the mountain ridge. But to tlni we
decidedly objected, and consequently made the best of our
way as we could to the castle itself, or rather foot of the stu¬
pendous crag on which this magnificent Gothic ruin stands,
T.iV« an eagle’s nest perched on the crest of lofty Apenninc-
And sure enough several splendid eagles were soaring about
the ruin, a pair of them occasionally swooping down within a
few yards of us. Their tameness showed that few guns find
their way up so high as this place. The crests of this range,
which hardly anywhere exceed 2000 feet, are remarkable for
their jagged forms. We were on the higher ground, and
could see the sea on either hand as we rode westward along
what was really nothing but a goat'B path on the very summit.
We diverged here and there, where the precipitous rocks
forced us to push through thickets of myrtle, and pines of
small, stunted growth (Pinus Laxicio), and we often had to
find paths for ourselves. The guide was utterly out of his
reckoning. I send you a few rough sketches of the really
grand scenery. We could see, in front of us, the chain of
mountains stretching west till their peaks were lost in the haze
of the distance, boldly faced with precipices towards the sea
on their northern sides, and descending in smoother slopes
towards the Messarian plains to the south. We were delighted
to find the monastery in sight, and to learn that the priest
from Ilios had arrived there to meet us, well provided with cold
chicken and eggs.
The sole actual resident at this tumble-down old monastery
is au aged and very ragged monk, who complains that the
neighbouring herdboys throw stones at him, and bring their
flocks not only into the grounds of the monastery, but actually
upon the roofs of the buildings. He pointed out holes in the
ceiling of the cloisters, which this obnoxious proceeding had
occasioned. We were many feet above the sea, and the Bolar
radiation was intense; we consumed a large amount of cold
water. Our Turkish zaptiehs, true to their Mussulman religion,
alone refused to drink, merely washing their faces and hands,
it being Ramazan this month (from Sept. 28 to Oct. 27), when
they are forbidden to touch food or drink or even smoke
between sunrise and sunset. The rapture with which they
enjoyed their sunset drink of water and subsequent pipe was
interesting to witness. Of the monastery of Kantara there is
little or nothing to say, as there was nothing to see. Only the
chapel building is actually in repair, and its interior is curious
to a certain extent from its intense squalor and poverty-
stricken appearance. As this monastery owns, I believe, a
considerable acreage of property, it would be interesting for
economists to inquire into the expenditure. The portly, hos¬
pitable priest who came from Ilios lives in affluence. The
descent from the monastery into the plains was an ordeal not
willingly to be repeated. The series of zigzag paths, which in
the rainy season must be simply the beds of torrents filled
with boulders and rolling stones, are of such gradients that to
ride down is simply impossible. Though fully exposed to the
rays of the afternoon sun, these paths are so sheltered from all
breezes that to enter them is like entering an earthly purgatory.
To lead a refractory mule down such a place is an intense
agony. We got cold water about half an hour afterwards at a
small village, and coffee at Ilios, in the priest’s house; but we
were pretty well done up when we arrived here, at Trikomo,
last night, after sunset.
Business now commenced, and tho customary compliments
were exchanged through the medium of the interpreter. Here
be it observed that until our officials are able to converse
freely and fluently with the people in their own tongue we
shall never be able truly to rule them justly or understand
their requirements. This place, Levconico, is mostly a
Christian town ; but there is a small community of Turks.
The Kaimakam, in his speech, observed that henceforth Turk
and Greek, Mohammedan and Christian, would be treated alike
under the Queen’s rule. But to show how little these people
appreciate toleration, they almost immediately asked that
two neighbouring Turkish villages should be destroyed, or
rather that the Turks should be driven away from these two
villages, because they annoyed them and stole their sheep, and
they had never hitherto been able to get redress. There was
the old palaver about poverty and the 6ame cry of too hard
taxation; and there is little doubt that the Turkish officials
ground down these unhappy people whenever they could.
Our travels for the day were not yet over, as we had
decided to go on at once to Cythraea. So, mounting our
animals at three p.m., we quitted Lcvconico, and rode over the
same flat plains, gradually approachiug the foot of the moun¬
tains. Leaving on our left hand, to the southward, several
S opulous villages, we rode into the groves and avenues of
ythrma after sunset, delighted to see green leaves, luxuriant
vegetation, and hear the sound of many streams, which spring
from the abundant source at the foot of Mount Pentedactylon.
We were astonished to see such large buildings rising through
the trees by which they are surrounded, in tho principal
place of the town, where the cafes are, grow plane and
sycamore trees of some height and girth, almost large timber,
the first umbrageous trees of any respectable size we had yet
seen in the island. A large proportion of ground in this
neighbourhood is planted also with mulberry, and there are
very many acres of cotton and the ubiquitous sesame. This
oasis at the foot of craggy Pentedactylon is visible from
Nicosia, which is only about nine miles off to the south. We
were hospitably entertained in the large roomy house of an
Armenian trader, and were thoroughly tired out after our long
ride.
Next morning (Saturday) we rode to Nicosia, sorry to leave
the verdure of Cythriea. 1 have omitted to mention that two
English agriculturists, Messrs. Sparrow and Bass, have bought
a large farm, called Cheftlic Lazara, at Leisata, in Kouklia,
not for from the sea. They speak highly of the country, and
intend importing good breeds of English sheep, which they
have found successful in Australia. These gentlemen are the
first English farmers who have become settlers in Cyprus, and
it is to be hoped that their experiment will prove remunerative,
and thus induce other Europeans to follow their example.
I shall endeavour, when I visit that part of the island, to
inspect their domain, and to judge for myself of their prospects,
when they have had more time to know the capabilities of
their property. It would be a good thing if the Government
would hold out inducements for men of this sort to embark
their capital in land here, as at present the landowners hold
such small properties, and larger proprietors could farm at a
far less expense. S. P. 0.
H.M.S. IIECLA.
Nicosia, Saturday, Sept. 7.
Yesterday was certainly the hottest day we have yet felt.
Leaving Trikomo we traversed the sandy plain for an hour,
reaching the village of Syngrassi, where, after some trouble,
we found the head-man. Captain Swaine halted to hold the
usual reception of notables; but the heat was so great, as
there was not the slightest breath of air, that I rode on quietly
with the baggage. Wo then ascended a limestone plateau,
pi rfectly destitute of vegetation, with little or no depth of
soil, but with stony ridges of limestone cropping up, the
whiteness of which reflected the blazing rays of the sun in a
manner quite painful to the eyes and face. Another hour
brought us to Lapatos, where we obtained a few minutes’
shelter and a drink of water. The next village was Ipsos. As
all these villages are alike, there is little to describe—they are
merely a collection of mud huts. If the village is Turkish,
there is a miserable building used as a mosque, barely rising
above the other houses; and the women are in white, and
covered, as to their heads, with yashmaks. Should the village,
as is ofteuer the case, be Greek, there is as miserable and
squalid a church, and the women are in colours, with only
kerchiefs tied round their hair. Another hour brought us to
Levconico, the most important town in the district. A zaptieh
had ridden on to announce our approach; and, as we were
expected to stay the night, the best house (that of the
doctor) was prepared for us. I had hurried on in front, so
that I was uble to witness Swaine’s approach and entry
with more advantage than if I had accompanied him.
The people were assembling at the entrance of the village,
and as soon os the Kaimakam and his escort were observed
coming over the plain, the bells of the Greek churches noisily
clanged. Many hundreds soon collected together in the
street, and also on the roofs of all the houses which commanded
a view of the scene. A good many priests and other leading
men of the town went out some distance to meet the
Kaimakam on his arrival, and a regular triumphal procession
was formed; but there was no cheering, no noise of any
description, except that of the bells ringing. In front rode
the brigand-like zaptiehs, looking as important as possible,
and then came Captain Swaine and his interpreter on their
ponies, surrounded by a motley crowd of townsfolk, which
increased in numbers os they moved along. Under the window
from which I surveyed the scene were collected a large
number of women, who on the like occasions always keep
together, and hold aloof from the men, awaiting the approach
of the procession, which came on at a rapid pace. Priests aud
all were on the trot, kicking up no end of dust, but, as I said
before, without noise. This noiseless crowd had a curious
effect; it must have numbered at least six or seven hundred,
and such a tumultuous running and jostling crowd would in
England and most parts of Europe have been accompanied by
shouts, hurrahs, and other cries. But all these people were so
serious and quiet that the contrast was peculiar. Captain
Swaine was quite taken aback by his reception, but preserved
his imperturbable demeanour; in fact, he looked every inch
the Kaimakam. The scene would have been almost ludicrous
if it had not suggested the painful thought of what these
silent, reserved people had suffered under former Kaimakams,
and of what they looked forward to under British rulers. On
dismounting, Captain Swaine came up to the upper chamber,
where I was, and the room was quickly filled; not only
the room, but the house was full of all the people who
could manage to push in, blocking up stairs, windows, and
doors, wherever there wus a chance of viewing the Kaimakam.
The lady of the house approached and presented the usual
burning incense in a handsomely worked silver censer, through
the fragrant smoke of which you are expected to pass your
hand aud waft the scent to your face, after which rose-water
was poured on our hands from a quaintly fashioned and chased
silver-gilt vessel or phial, and then coffee in the usual minute
cups was handed round.
In moving the Supplementary Naval Estimates last Session,
Mr. W. H. Smith referred to the preparations which had been
made for the arming of merchant steam-ships. He gave the
number of such ships which could be fitted out at a very short
notice, and he said that a merchant-steamer, the British
Empire, had been purchased to show how the idea could be
practically carried out. This vessel, now her Majesty’s ship
Hecla, was built under Lloyd’s special survey, taking the
highest class, and the engines, also included in Lloyd’s survey,
were made by Messrs. George Forrester aud Co., of Liverpool.
It has been decided by the Admiralty that no merchant-
steamer can be employed for the Queen’s service unless tho
water-tight bulkheads are so arranged that the ship would
float in smooth water with any one of the compartments in free
communication with the sea. The Hecla, wheu purchased, had
her water-tight bulkheads so spaced as to fulfil this important
condition. In the fighting-ships of the Royal Navy the engines
and boilers are kept down below the water-line, so that they
may be protected from horizontal gun fire ; but in merchant-
steamers a different form of engine, having the steam-
cylinders much above the water-line, is generally adopted,
and this type of engine is in the Hecla. The height
of the engines admits of a limited breadth, and leaves
ample room on both sides of the ship. Advantage has been
taken of this, and the cylinders and boilers are surrounded with
permanent bunkers, filled with ordinary coal or patent block
fuel, and with intervening thin iron plates, forming what may
be termed “ coal armour.” Experiments were recently made
in tho Oberon to ascertain the value of coal so arranged for
resisting shot and shell. The Hecla is fitted to carry eight
64-pounder guns, and two more may be added. The bow and
stern guns fire in a line with the keel as well as on the beam.
To provide for the stowage of powder, shot, and shell, a large
number of ingeniously arranged portable magazine tanks and
shell boxes have been supplied to the Hecla. She may now be
taken as a representative armed merchant-steamer, and could
in time of war be used as an ordinary cruiser or as a troop or
store ship. Her large cargo capacity makes her peculiarly
adapted tor the latter purpose. The Hecla i to be a torpedo
and mining store-ship. One of her compartments is devoted
to the stowage of Whitehead torpedoes, countermines,
electric cables, and such stores. Not only is she a
store for torpedoes, but she is also fitted to fight an
enemy with them ; for this purpose ports are cut through
the ship’s sides, through which they are to be fired.
She carries six steel torpedo-boats and a 42-ft. steam-launch,
all available for torpedo warfare; and strong derricks and
purchases have been provided for hoisting and lowering these
heavy boats. As a means of defence against the attack of
torpedoes, she has a strong wire netting suspended from booms,
at a distance of about 20 it. from the ship’s side, all round the
ship. The after-part of the main deck is appropriated as a
workshop for the repair of torpedoes and for doing light engine
work. The dimensions of tho Hecla are—Length, 390 ft.;
breadth, 38 ft. 6 in.; depth, 28 ft.; gross tonnage, 3573 tons;
displacement, 6000 tons. She is divided into seven main water¬
tight compartments, has two complete iron decks, a long deck¬
house amidships, and a light forecastle or “ turtle back.” She
has four iron pole masts and a fore-and-aft rig, with square
sails on the foremast and no bowsprit.
In the special arrangement of the ship great ingenuity has
been displayed, which reflects high credit on Mr. N. Barnaby,
the Dirtctor of Naval Construction, and his assistant, Mr.
Dunn. The la f ter has been for some years engaged in visiting
the entire merchant fleet of the United Kingdom, aud, with a
staff of surveyors, carefully surveying all ships offered for tho
public service.
The famous Lincolnshire herd of shorthorns bred by the lato
Mr. Hutton, of Gate Burton, Gainsborough, was sold on tho
3rd inst. by Mr. Thornton, the sale realising nearly £2000.
OCT. 12, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
351
MUSIC.
CRYSTAL PALACE.
The twenty-third series of Saturday afternoon concerts opened
well last week, the occasion having derived special importance
from the first performance in England of Herr Brahms’s new
symphony, tho second of his works of that class. The com¬
poser had become extensively known in this country during
recent years by the frequent performance of various important
chamber compositions—instrumental trios, quartets, quintets,
&c., and vocal pieces, his name having gained still greater
prominence through his Requiem, first given in public here,
in 1873, by tho Philharmonic Society ; and by his first sym¬
phony (in C minor), the earliest hearing of which by an
English audience was at the concert of the Cambridge Uni¬
versity Musical Society, in March last year, on the occasion of
Herr Joachim taking his degree as Doctor of Music. The sym-
S hony was soon afterwards given at the Crystal Palace and by
le Philharmonic Society.
The second symphony, performed on Saturday last, is in
tho key of D, and was originally produced at the fourth
concert of the Philharmonic Society of Vienna last Christmas
Eve. The work, brighter and more cheerful in tone than its
predecessor, is, like it, laid out on a sufficiently broad scale,
and consists of four movements—“Allegro non troppo,”
“Adagio non troppo,” “ Allegretto Grazioso,” and “Allegro
con spirito.” The whole work is more compact in treat¬
ment than the first symphony, and is, moreover, brighter and
more genial in tone, with the exception of the “ Adagio,”
which is sombre in character and vague in treatment. There
is much melodic beauty in the first “ Allegro; ” but by far the
best portion of the symphony is the finale, which is bright and
jubilant in style, and written with more fluency and freedom
than any other division of the work, the supplemental “ coda ”
forming a truly splendid climax. In the Vienna performance
the “Allegretto” produced tho most effect, having been
enthusiastically encored. This was not the case on Saturday,
when the impression made on ourselves was that the move¬
ment is forced and strained in the effort at originality. It
possesses, however, much bright piquancy of character, and
some effective contrasts of rhythm. The instrumentation is
masterly throughout the whole symphony, and the work will
no doubt find frequent repetition in this country.
Saturday’s concert also brought forward M. Brassin, a
pianist who holds a high rank at Brussels, where he is Pro¬
fessor at the Conservatoire. This gentleman gave an excellent
interpretation of Beethoven’s “ Emperor ” concerto (that in E
flat) and of Liszt’s “ Hungarian Fantasia.” His rendering of
the first was classical in style and masterly in execution, his
bravura powers having been successfully displayed in the
second piece. Ho met with an enthusiastic reception. Miss
Emma Thursby sang, with brilliant execution, Mozart’s
elaborate concert-scena, “Ma che via fece,” and was also
warmly applauded for her delivery of Taubert’s “ Bird Song ”
and Handel’s air (from “ Rodelinda ”) “ Mio caro bene.” The
concert began with Gluck’s overture to “ Iphigenio en Aulide’’
(with the coda added by Wagner), and ended, with Stemdale
Bennett's overture, “The Wood Nymphs.” Mr. Manns
received the usual greeting on his reappearance as conductor.
A new series of Promenade Concerts was begun at Covent-
Garden Theatre on Saturday evening, under the direction of
M. Rivi&re, who conducts the performances. As stated last
week, an excellent band has been engaged, headed by Mr.
Eayres as leader, and comprising many of our best instru¬
mentalists ; and a special feature at these concerts is the en¬
gagement of a select chorus of forty voices (under the direction
of Mr. J. Pittman), to be augmented to two hundred on
oratorio nights. At the opening performance Rossini's over¬
ture to “Semiramide” and Auber’s to “La Sir£ne,” the
“ Pilgrim’s March ” from Mendelssohn’s “Italian Symphony,”
and other pieces were finely rendered by the orchestra, which
was supplemented by a military band and chorus in a selection
from Lecocq’s “ Le Petit Due.” Vocal solos were contributed
by Mesdames Lemmens-Sherrington, Zimeri, and Jenny Pratt,
Mr Pearson, and Mr. W. Clifford; and Miss Fanny Albert
played two pianoforte pieces with brilliant effect, having been
encored in the second. M. Remenyi, the celebrated Hungarian
violinist, was to have played a solo; but, owing to his indis¬
position, his appearance was postponed to this week. There
was a very large attendance, and the concerts will doubtless
prove as successful as those recently given in the same theatre
by Messrs. Gatti.
Operatic recitals are being very effectively given on
Wednesday and Saturday evenings at the Royal Aquarium,
including the co-operation of Mesdames Rose Hersee,
Sanderini, and Osborne Williams; Misses Jose Sherrington,
Helen D’Alton, and Coyte Turner; Signor Leoni, Mr. B.
M'Guckin, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Thurley Beale, Mr. F.
Ward, and Signor Brocolini, and a chorus of 200 voices, and
the Royal Aquarium orchestra, augmented for the occasion.
This (Saturday) afternoon the first of a series of weekly
performances of opera in English will take place at Drury-
Lane Theatre, when Goetz’s comic opera, “The Taming of
the Shrew,” will be produced for the first time in England,
under the direction of Herr Karl Meyder.
Wo have already stated that Her Majesty’s Theatre will
reopen, under Mr. Mapleson’s management, on Oct. 19, for
Italian opera performances at reduced prices, “Fidelio”
being the opera announced for the first night, with Madame
Pappenheim as Leonora, and a new tenor, M. Candidus, as
Florestano. Besides other well-known works, Weber’s
“Oberon,” M. Gounod's “Mirella,” and Rossini’s “Semi¬
ramide” are to be revived; “Carmen” (produced by Mr.
Mapleson during the past summer season) is to be given, with
Madame Trebelli in the title character, in replacement of
Mdlle. Minnie Hauk, and Verdi’s “ La Forza del Destino” is
to be reproduced, with alterations by the composer. Besides
the vocalists just named, the company will include Mdlles.
Marimon, Valleria, and Bauermeister, Madame Crosmond,
Signori Gillandi, Runcio, Carrion, Rinaldini, M. Thomas,
Signori Rota, Mendioroz, Roveri, M. Behrens, and other
efficient artists; in addition to whom, first appearances are to
be made by Mdlle. Ambre and Signor Leli. As previously
stated, Signor Li Calsi is to be the conductor.
The Royal Albert Hall Choral Society will open its eighth
season—again under the conductorship of Mr. Barnby—on
Nov. 7, the dates of the following concerts being Nov. 28,
Dec. 12 and 25, Jan. 23, Feb. 13 and 26, March 13 and 27,
and April 11. The works announced for performance are
“Elijah,” “The Hymn of Praise,” “Saint Paul,” “The
Creation,” “Stabat Mater,” “Messiah,” “Israel in Egypt,”
and “ Judas Maccabseus.”
The Hackney Choral Association will begin its new season
at the Shoreditch Townhall on Nov. 18, again under the able
direction of Mr. Ebenezer Prout. The first concert will include
Schumann’s music to Goethe’s “Faust” (the third part) and
a selection from Mendelssohn’s “ Midsummer Night’s Dream”
music. The three remaining concerts will take place next
year—on Jan. 13, March 10, and May 5. As before, there will
be an excellent orchestra, and Mr. Prout will conduct tho
performances.
The competition for the Stemdale Bennett Scholarship at
the Royal Academy of Music took place last Saturday. There
were eight candidates, and the scholarship was awarded to
William George Wood.
THE NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
The nineteenth of these triennial music-meetings will begin
on Tuesday evening next—the performances taking place, as
on past occasions, in St. Andrew’s Hall. The arrangements
are, as usual, on an extensive scale, including the engagement
of a band of sixty performers, comprising many o our most
eminent instrumentalists, headed by Mr. Carrodus as leading
violinist. The other principals are—of second violins, Mr. A.
Reynolds; violas, Mr. R. Blagrove; violoncellos, Mr. W. Pettit;
double basses, Mr. J. Reynolds ; flutes, Mr. Radcliffe ; oboes,
M. Dubrucq; clarinets, Mr. Lazarus; bassoons, Mr. Hutchins;
trumpets, Mr. T. Harper; horns, Mr. C. Harper; &c.
The chorus consists of members of the Norwich Cathedral
choir, and choristers from various other places, numbering
altogether upwards of 270 voices.
As at eleven past festivals, Sir J. Benedict will conduct the
performances, and will contribute the only novelty of im-
E irtance in the programme—an overture entitled “ Das
iitchen von Heilbronn,” which wiU open the second part of
Thursday evening's miscellaneous concert. The principal
vocalists engaged are Mesdames Albani, Trebelli, and Antoinette
Sterling; Misses Catherine Penna and Anna Williams; Mr. E.
Lloyd, Mr. W. Shakspeare, Mr. H. J. Minns, Mr. Santley, and
Mr. R. Hilton. The programmes, with the exception above
referred to, consist almost entirely of familar materials, that
for the opening night comprising Handel’s serenata “ Acis
and Galatea” and the first part (“Spring”) of Haydn’s
“ Seasons.” On Wednesday morning Professor G. A. Mac-
farren’s oratorio “ Joseph ” will be given ; and in the evening
a ballad concert; “Elijah” is to be performed on Thursday
morning, the evening being appropriated to a grand operatic
concert; and the Festival will close on Friday morning with
the usual climax, the “ Messiah ” — the supplemental ball
heretofore given on the Friday evening being omitted on this
occasion. The long list of the vice-presidents and general
committee, headed by the name of the president, the Earl of
Leicester, gives good guarantee for the success of the festival
and consequent advantageous results to the funds of the prin¬
cipal charities in the county of Norfolk and city of Norwich, in
whose behalf the performances are given.
THEATRES.
Our dramatic record of this week is rather of a narrative than
a critical character. After a twelvemonth’s absence Mr. John
S. Clarke has reappeared at the Haymarkct. Of course,
Sheridan’8 comedy of “The Rivals” was selected for the
occasion, and we had again the pleasure to witness this wonder¬
ful actor’s performance of Bob Acres. On Monday Mrs. Swan-
borough resumed possession of the Straud, the performances
being “ Our Club” and the revived burlesque of “Nemesis.”
Both pieces were acted with great spirit, nnd will probably
continue to attract for some weeks. At the Gaiety a “ gaiety ”
has been produced at a matinee. On Saturday this novelty
saw the light for the first time. We see by the advertisement
that this piece is not to be mistaken for a burlesque, but to bo
accepted as a new kind of thing, “ a comedy-vaudeville.” It
is the dainty handiwork of Mr. Hermann C. Merivale, and is
entitled “ The Lady of Lyons, Married and Settled.” The non¬
descript is divided into three acts, leading the heroine back from
the enjoyment of affluence and luxury to the conditions of the
widow Melnotte’s cottage, where Claude, a Becond time in
love, is paying his attentions to a young washerwoman.
Pauline is the principal feature in this new kind of vaudeville,
and appears in a new light, Miss Nelly Farrcn's eccentric
person and manner being the appropriate media of illumina¬
tion. Miss Farren, notwithstanding her oddities, really looks
exceedingly elegant in the character. The fun is obtained by
exaggerating the peculiarities of the original actress. The
new Lady Pauline “ steps out like a horse” and “ throws out
her arms from the shoulders ” in a style that becomes appalling
by repetition. Beauseant is likewise made funny by an
admixture of the Lytton-product with Dubose in “ The Lyon’s
Mail,” and is well played by Mr. E. W. Ryce, not without
some casual reference to Mr. Henry Irving’s character¬
istic representation of the famous robber. Mr. Edward Terry’s
Claude must be witnessed to be understood. The eoi-disant
gardener studies poetry among his plants, and is famous for
the composition of inane riddles and patter-songs. One of the
latter does duty for the famous Lake of Como’s description,
and runs through the scientific topics investigated by the
British Association in a style calculated to provoke vertigo and
delirium. Whether this new sort of piece is destined for
popularity we cannot undertake to say. But its repetition this
afternoon, by affording it a second trial, will perhaps put the
matter to the test. By all means let us encourage originality
and prevent absurdity from becoming too ancient. A new
form of fun were not unacceptable.
Preparations are being made for the production at the Park
of “ The Flying Scud,” which is to follow “ Mazeppa.”
A new theatre at Cardiff, built on the most modern
principles, at a cost of over £10,000, and capable of seating
2500 people, was opened on Monday night, when “ Pygmalion
and Galatea” was played to an immense audience.
MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.
“Tears, idle tears” (Messrs. J. B. Cramer and Co.) is an
expressive setting, by Lady Ross (of Balnagowan), of
Tennyson’s beautiful lines. The melody is appropriately
pathetic in character, and lies well for a mezzo-soprano voice
of moderate extent. “ Soldaten-Leben,” by Albert Hartmann;
“Le Gage d’Amitie,” by H. De Vaux; and “ Lucette,” by
C. Coote, jun., are sets of waltzes of a very spirited kind.
Messrs. Cramer and Co.’s recent publications also include
“ Cyprus,'” a vivacious galop, by H. De Vaux, with a frontis¬
piece map of the island.
“The Farmer at the Banks ” is a very effective song, by
Mr. J. L. Hatton, who has set a melody of genuine English
character to some capital lines by Sir John Bennett, which happily
express the writer’s rejoicings in the wholesome influences of
country life. Messrs. Novello, Ewer, and Co. are the pub¬
lishers, and from them we have also “The Bouquet of
Flowers,” a series of sketches for the pianoforte, by C. J.
Frost. The collection comprises twenty-four pieces, in the
different major and minor keys, each named after a flower.
These movements are characterised by much grace and cont rast
of style, and are well adapted for the purposes of tuition,
copious indications being given for the fingering of the
passages.
“Woo a lassie, win her well,” Scotch ballad; “The spirit
of mom,” song; and “ When sparrows build,” ballad, all by
W. 0. Levey, are pleasing in melody and easy of execution,
and will be welcomo additions to the drawing-room repertoire.
“ Exercises and Solfeggios for Contralto or Bass,” by A.
Gilardoni, are a useful collection of practical lessons for
vocalists, each piece with a pianoforte accompaniment. Students
of the vocal art, of the class referred to in the title, may derive
much improvement from the practice of these exercises. They
arc issued by Messrs. Duff and Stewart, who also publish some
effective pianoforte music, among which are, “ Still Waters ”
and “ Sanctuary,” two brilliant pieces by Charles Obcrthur.
“Le Re veil'du Rossignol” (Duncan Davison and Co.) is a
spirited and brilliant “ Valso elegante,” by Miss Lillie
Albrecht, the well-known pianist. The piece has the true
dance rhythm, and is graceful as well as vivacious in style.
“ The Taming of the Shrew,” comic opera in four acts, by
Hermann Goetz (Augener and Co.). This work, which has
achieved a great success in Germany since its first production
in 1874, has just been published by the firm named above,
with the original German text and an English version by the
Rev. J. Troutbeck. As will be inferred, the libretto is based
on Shakspeare’s comedy. Of the music we defer speaking
until after its first performance in England, which is announced
to take place at Drury-Lane Theatre on Saturday afternoon,
Oct. 12. Meanwhile, we may draw attention to the neat and
inexpensive edition brought out by Messrs. Augener.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
The Volunteer Service Gazette says that during September, the
eleventh month of the current volunteer year, there were
twenty-eight resignations and only twenty new appointments,
so that there is a net loss of eight for the month. There had
been a gain on every month since last December, and over tho
whole eleven months juBt expired the gain is 274. One captain
and eight subalterns of volunteers have resigned since its last
issue. The new appointments are eight in number, giving a
net loss of one. Five of the resigning officers held certificates
of proficiency, three of them from schools of instruction.
The annual prize-meeting of the British Museum Asso¬
ciation was held on the 2nd inst. at Child’s-hill. The challenge
badge of the association, a silver cup, and twenty-two money
prizes, given by the officers and gentlemen connected with the
British Museum, were competed for. The following are the
principal scores:—Corporal Anderson, challenge badge; Private
Gatfield, silver cup. The money prizes were won by Corporal
Anderson, Privates Gatfield, Waghom, Saunders, Lake, Lowe,
Woolford, Parker, and Tatnal, Colour-Sergeant Tomlinson,
Corporal Baynes, and Private Layfield.
The annual prize-meeting of B (Art Students’) company of
the 1st Middlesex Engineers took place on the 1st inst., at the
Ealing range, with the following results:—Ladies’ Challenge
Cup, first prize, Captain Glenny; second prize, Corporal Shoe-
bridge ; third prize, Staff Sergeant Davison. For the highest
score at 600 yards, Captain Glenny; ditto at 500 yards, Cor¬
poral Shoebridge ; ditto at 200 yards, Corporal Girling. Com-
S any’s Subscription Prizes.—At 200 yards: Staff Sergeant
•avison, 1; Corporal Shoebridge, 2 ; Captain Glenny, 3. At
300 yards: Corporal Girling, 1; Captain Glenny, 2; Staff
Sergeant Davison, 3. Extra prizes, not open to winner of cup:
Corporal Girling, 1 ; Staff Sergeant Davison, 2. Recruits’
prize—Sapper Yeovil. Consolation prize—Sapper Body.
The results of tho great rifle contest with the Martini-
Henry and the 8nider, begun on the 26th ult., resumed on the
27th, and now concluded at the Nunhcad ranges, under the
auspices of the South London Rifle Club, have been announced.
The principal interest centered in the Martini-Henry compe¬
tition, for which seventy-one competitors entered for prizes of
the aggregate value of about £80. After a most exciting con¬
test, Private W. Vicars, of the Queen’s Westminster Rifles,
came in first and won £12 ; Private M. L. Mempes, of the
South Middlesex Rifles, the second prize, £8; Private R. J.
Cameron, Queen’s, was third, and wins £5 ; and Lieutenant
Baker, 33rd Middlesex, fourth. The remaining winners in
tins contest were:—£3 each—Private W. Fagg, 4th Cinque
Ports Artillery: Major Farrell, 26th Kent; Private C. F.
Lowe, Queen’s (the silver medallist at Wimbledon this year);
Private H. Courtis, 19th Surrey. £2 each—Private C Howell,
4th Surrey; Sergeant-Instructor Gilder, 18th Middlesex;
Private Sandell, 19th Surrey; Private W. Spor, 1st Surrey;
Colour-Sergeant Mould, 4th Surrey; and Colour-Sergeant
Honeyball, 5th East Kent. The other prizes, value £10, were
won by Corporal Frost, 26th Kent; Lieutenant Allison, 26th
Middlesex: Sergeant Gilbert, 41st Middlesex; Private C. Brown,
19th Surrey; Captain Lloyd - Jones, 6th Dorset; Private
Hollis, 3rd Kent; Private Butcher, 33rd Surrey; Private
H. Smith, London Rifle Brigade; Captain Stakie, Queen’s,
and Sergeant Wells, 13th Kent. The range prizes in this
contest, value about £20, were awarded to Private Cameron,
Queen’s; Major Farrell, 26th Kent; Private C. Brown, 19th
Surrey ; Private A. Reid, 19th Surrey; Quartermaster Cortis,
1st Sussex; and Lieutenant Livesay, 1st Sussex, for highest
scores at 200 yards. At 500 yards, Sergeant-Major Gilder was
awarded £1 15s. for his extraordinary feat of seven consecutivo
bull’s-eyes : Private Mempes, South Middlesex; Major Young,
39th Middlesex; Colour-Sergeant Fletcher, London Rifle
Brigade; Private Fagg, 4th Cinque Ports; and Sergeant
Mellings, Queen’s, received prizes. At 600 yards tho highest
individual scores were made by Private J. Serle, 23rd Surrey,
who wins £2 15s.; Private J. M. Hay, Artists’, £2 4s.; Private
H. Smith, London Rifle Brigade, £1 13s. ; Private W. Jenner,
1st Manchester, Private C. Brown, 19th Surrey, and Sergeant-
Major Gilder. In the Snider contest there was also some
splendid shooting. Captain W. Morris took the first prize of
£12 ; and the remainder, ranging in value from £8 to £1, were
won as follows:—Private C. F. Lowe, Queen’s (Westminster) ;
Sergeant J. Mellings, Queen’s; Lieutenant H. Munday, Hon.
Artillery Company; Corporal H. Brand, 26th Kent; Private
L. H. Thomas, 19th Middlesex; Private W. Spor, 1st Surrey;
Sergeant P. Oliver, 18th Kent; Sergeant P. Morgan, 49th
Middlesex; Private H. Felton, 19th Surrey; Private W.
Butcher, Artists’ ; Drum-Major Smith, 10th Surrey; Private
Manzie, 25th Kent; Private G. Sandell, 19th Middlesex ; Pri¬
vate G. Rosenthal, St. George's; Private J. Serle, 23rd Surrey;
Corporal H. C. Frost, 26th Kent; Sergeant-Major Gilder, 18th
Middlesex; Lieutenant R. M'Kerrill, London Scottish; Cor¬
poral Cutting, St. George’s; Sergeant-Instructor Mumford,
1st Essex; and Private H. Courtis, 19th Surrey. The range
prizes in this contest were awarded as follow:—200 Yards:
Private C. Brown, 19th Surrey; Quartermaster Cortis, 1st
Sussex; Private H. Smith, London Rifle Brigade; Colour-
Sergeant Fletcher, London Rifle Brigade; and Private J. Hay,
Artists’. 500 Yards : Private J. Serle, 19th Surrey ; Private J.
Hay, Artists’; Private R. Cameron, Queen’s; Private Bonner,
8th Lincoln; Private W. Butcher, Artists’ ; and Sergeant
Morgan, 49th Middlesex. 600 Yards: Private H. L. Thomas,
19th Middlesex; Private C. Brown, 19th Surrey; Quarter¬
master Cortis, 1st Sussex ; Sergeant-Instructor Mumford, 1st
Essex; Private J. Hay, Artists’; and Private A. W. Pilling,
Leeds Rifles.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oct. 12, 1878.— 352
RECEPTION OP A DEPUTATION, TRIKOMO.
CLOI8TERS OP MONASTERY, KANTARA.
THE LATE MR. JUSTICE KEOGH.
The death of this well-known Irish Judge, follow¬
ing soon after the terrible visitation of insanity-
under which he attempted to kill his man-servant
at Brussels, must be regarded as a merciful release
from a very deplorable state of body and mind.
The Right Hon. William Keogh was bom in 1817,'
a son of Mr. Keogh, of Roscommon, Clerk of the
Crown for Kilkenny. He was educated at Trinity
College, Dublin, where he obtained high University
honours, studied the law at Lincoln’s Inn, and
practised with success at the Irish Bar, becoming
a Q.C. in 1849. He became M.P. for Athlone in
1847. In 1852, under Lord Aberdeen’s Govern¬
ment, he was appointed Solicitor-General for
Ireland, and was promoted to be Attorney-General
in 1855. A year later he was raised to the Irish
Bench, as one of the Judges of the Court of
Common Pleas. Mr. Justice Keogh was, at one
time, an active politician of the Liberal party, and
a vigorous writer and speaker.
The Portrait is from a photograph by Mr.
Chancellor, of Lower Sackville-street, Dublin.
WATERLOO BRIDGE OPENED
TOLL-FREE.
The Metropolitan Board of Works on Saturday
last at noon opened Waterloo Bridge and the
Charing-cross foot-bridge free of toll for ever.
They have paid, under the arbitrators’ award,
£475,000 for Waterloo Bridge, which cost a million,
and which was opened by the Prince Regent in
1818. For the foot-bridge at Charing-cross, be¬
longing to the South-Eastern Railway Company
£98,540 has been awarded. It is intended to pur¬
chase the toll-bridges at Lambeth, Vauxhall,
Chelsea, and Battersea, and i ee them from toll
The ceremony of opening Waterloo Bridge, of
which W e give an Illustration, was performed by
Mr. Dresser Rogers, a member of the Metropolitan
Board of Works, and chairman of the Works and
General Purposes Committee, deputed by his
colleagues in place of Sir James Hogg M P
THE LATE MR. JUSTICE KEOGH, IRISH JUDGE.
Chairman of the Board. He was accompanied by
many other members of the Board, who came in
two omnibuses from their offices in Spring-
gardens. They passed on the bridge at its
north end, from Wellington-street, and the gates
were closed for a time. Mr. Dresser Rogers
ascended a portable rostrum, and briefly addressed
the meeting; he exhibited the key which he had
just received from the Chairman of the Waterloo
Bridge Company, and stated the arrangements
which had been made, under the Act of Parliament
of 1877, to settle all claims of the proprietors.
He then descended from his rostrum, and with his
colleagues mounted their two omnibuses, and were
driven first across the bridge. As soon as they
were fairly on their way the gates were taken
away, and there was an instant rush of foot-
passengers, cabs, and vehicles of all kinds, the
bridge in a few seconds presenting a scene of great
animation. The two omnibuses were driven fairly
over the bridge to the other end, where there was
equal excitement. A salute of guns was fired; the
roadway here was spanned by flags. The omni¬
buses turned and were driven back to the Strand,
and thence by Villiers-street to the entrance steps
of the Charing-cross Bridge. Here Mr. Dresser
Rogers’s rostrum was again in waiting for him,
and he and his colleagues were met by Mr.
Alexander Beattie, chairman of the finance com¬
mittee of the South-Eastern Railway, and several
other gentlemen connected with the company, with
a large concourse of people. The key ot the turn¬
stile gate was handed by Mr. Beattie to Mr.
Dresser Rogers, who spoke as he had done at
Waterloo Bridge; three cheers were given, the
turnstile was removed, and the members of the
Board of Works then walked on the bridge,
followed by a crowd of people.
Birmingham had its town’s meeting yesterday
week to consider the question of water supply.
The Town Council wish to borrow £300,000 to
extend the supply, and, though there was some
opposition, the proposal was agreed to.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oct. 12, 1873.— fins
THIS ABOLITION OF TnE TOLL ON WATERLOO BRIDGE : DECLARING TnE BRIDGE FREE.
PRESENT CONDITION OF THE CRATER OF MOUNT VESUVIUS, SKETCHED BEPT. 26.
854
THE ILLUSTKATED LONDON HEWS
OCT. 12, 1878
ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS.
Wo bid fair to have in course of time, by the co-operation of
Mr. John Morlcy aa editor, and Messrs. Macmillan as pub¬
lishers, such a series of handy volumes devoted to biographical,
didactic, and critical sketches of “ English Men of Letters ”
as, in respect of brevity combined with completeness and com-
E tcnt skill on the part of the biographers and critics, will
ive nothing to desire. This, at least, is the hope excited by
three samples, entitled, respectively, Gibbon, by James Cotter
Morison, M.A.; Samuel Johnson, by Leslie Stephen; and Sir
Walter Scott, by Richard H. Hutton. It may and will, no
doubt, be urged by persons who must find some objection to
everything, that such works, which are, of necessity and from
the very nature of the case, abbreviations and, for the most
part, compilations, are calculated, like long reviews of books,
to prevent readers from betakiug themselves to original sources
of information and forming therefrom an independent estimate.
But those persons ought to be silenced by the reflection that,
whilst the day Btill consists of but four-and-twenty hours and
the hours remain of the same length as heretofore, the quantity
of literature with which every cultivated mind should be
tolerably familiar has increased upon us with such rapidity
and in such bulk that, without the assistance of abbreviators
and compilers, it would be impossible for the majority of a
busy people to become acquainted with an appreciable fraction
of the whole. The main condition, of course, is that the
abbreviators and compilers should be capable and trustworthy,
a condition which, in the case under consideration, appears
likely to be amply fulfilled. Let a description now be given
of the process adopted in each of the three monographs.
“ Gibbon ” is disposed of in ten chapters. The first contains
a sketch of the illustrious historian’s life, from his birth, in
1737, to his conversion, in 1753, to Romanism, whereby “ he
had ceased to be a member of the University ” of Oxford.
The second deals with his five years* sojourn at Lausanne,
whither he was sent by his father, immediately after con¬
version, “ far away from the influences and connections which
had done such harm.” The third exhibits him soldiering “ in
the militia.” The fourth gives a very short but very interest¬
ing account of the visit he made to PariB and thence to Italy,
after a second sojourn at Lausanne, in 1763. The fifth “ shows
him returned to his father’s house,” in 1765, remaining there
“till the latter’s death, in 1770,” not only revolving but
carrying out certain literary schemes, and betraying the first
symptoms of that state of mind which was afterwards to make
his name almost synonymous with Antichrist. In the sixth wo
find him settled ‘‘in London as master in his own house,”
at 7, Bentinck-street, Manchestcr-square, taking his seat as
a member of Parliament, and cutting but a poor figure as
a politician; hungering for place, and accused of accepting it
at the expense of principle; and finishing, in the compara¬
tively short space of three years, the first volume of his
immortal “Decline and Fall,” a short space, be it observed,
when the difference between beginning and continuing a great
work is appreciated, and when his leisurely method of achieve¬
ment is taken into account. The seventh contains a discourse
concerning the first three volumes of the “ Decline and Fall,”
volumes wnich he had finished before he migrated, under the
pressure of pecuniary embarrassment, to his familiar Lausanne,
m 1783. The eighth gives a description of “ the last ten years
of his life in Lausanne; ” and the ninth is occupied with a
sort of commentary upon the last three volumes of the
“ Decline and Fall,” which was concluded in tho first half of
those ten years. The tenth and concluding chapter offers
the sad picture of Gibbon’s last illness and, in more than one
sense, premature death, together with some remarks upon his
miscellaneous works and with a sound estimate of his excellence
as an historian.
“Samuel Johnson” occupies but six chapters, devoted
respectively to a review of his childhood and early life, of his
literary career, of his personal figure, habits, and friendships,
of his position as a literary dictator, of the closing years of his
life, and of his writings. The whole is fully, compactly,
forcibly, sympathetically done ; and the reader cannot fail to
derive from it a very vivid and satisfactory idea of what manner
of man, out wardly and inwardly, was he who obtained the name
of the greatlexicographer. The monograph, moreover, is written
with great spirit and liveliness, with an evident relish for what¬
ever is droll and humorous, with open delight in the uncouth
antics of the dancing bear ; so that dulness has little or no
place in the pages. The dullest chapter is naturally, the last,
in which a judgment is passed upon Johnson as a writer; and
the inferior position he occupies in that capacity, compared
with his supremacy as a talker, is insisted upon. That is a
proposition which has by this time met with such very general
acceptance that to dispute it would be unprofitable, even if it
were not impossible. It may be said, in a general way, that,
though everybody who can reads Boswell’s “Life of Johnson"
and the table-talk wherewith that incomparable biography
abounds, nobody nowadays reads a line of Johnson’s own
writings, prose or verse, albeit, according to Mr. Leslie
Stephen, the “ Vanity of Human Wishes ” is “ perhaps, the
- - .-, ’ which “ intelligent readers,
who have once made its acquaintance, will be apt to turn into
a familiar companion,” is not clamorously demanded, if ex¬
perience may be trusted, either at the libraries or elsewhere.
And it is probable that the interest which Dr. Johnson and
hia career and his talk continue to excite among successive
generations of readers is duo less to the wisdom and moral
tendency of his utterances thnn to the fascination exercised
over mankiud by any monstrous phenomenon.
“Sir Walter Scott” may be called a biographical tragedy,
m seventeen chapters, based upon tho voluminous “Life’’
which we owe to the labour and affection of Lockhart; for
nothing short of a tragedy is tho story of a great enterprise
which ended as the “ Wizard’s ” attempt to “ found and
endow a new branch of tho clan of Scott. * The catastrophe
is thus summed upWhen, fifteen years after his dcith,
SStSfuZI! a H ength *f e ^j rom debt > hia own children
and the eldest of his grandchildren were dead; and now forty-
six years have elapsed, and then* only remains one girl of his
descendants to borrow his name and live in the halls of which
Pr °n d * Th ! foUowin P the order of subjects,
chapterAncestry, parentage, and childhood ;
youth and choice of a profession; love and marriage, though
the marriage was not the consequence of the love; Scott’s
earliest poetry, and “Border Minstrelsy;” his mature!
poems ; his companions and friends ; his first country homes •
his removal to Abbotsford and life there; his partnerahip with
S'm? a \ t}r,le J' : the Waverley novels ; 8cott’s morality and
religion, his distractions and amusements at Abbotsford •
h,s relations with King George IV. ; his character n
hi8 POl life lfU1 iJ 1 \ l f° ndlU , t in f H ' lvcr8it y ! the last year of
nis life, and the end of the struggle —that heroic
“rVT 8tru P gle which he had maintained to repair the
^ ,Un . C .. te,npor had worked,” and to leave his
name unstained. Of Course, there are mingled with
the biographical narrative pieces of criticism, ancf of acute
criticism, upon the “ Wizard,” both aa a man and as an
author; and these critical remarks, if they do not always com¬
mand assent, are fair enough, and certainly instructive. On
the whole, however, the monograph has been so arranged, and
is pervaded by such a spirit, that, notwithstanding the light
freely admitted to relieve the shade, the impression left upon
the reader is that of a tragic fate, of chastisement inflicted by
Nemesis, of vaulting ambition overleaping itself, of genius
forced to illustrate the fact that “man proposes, God dis¬
poses.” As we lay down the volume, we are inclined to dwell
rather upon the failure of Sir Walter Scott’s cherished purpose
than upon the literary riches he, incidentally rather than
intentionally, bequeathed to his country. Whether the author
of the monograph considered, and ought to have considered,
that it was his duty to leave us so impressed, we need not
pause to inquire; the fact remains that his work, satisfactory
as it is in other respects, causes us to lay it down with the
disagreeable sensations of men for whom victory has been
turned into mourning.
THE CRATER OF VESUVIU8.
We are indebted to Mr. J. Eddy for the sketch we have
engraved, showing the actual condition of the crater of Mount
Vesuvius on the 26th ult. It is accompanied by the following
letter, dated the 30th, from Rome “ Vesuvius having been
for a long time in a disturbed condition, and the reports of an
eruption growing more and more exciting, I determined to
pay a visit to the mountain, and to see in what condition it
really was. It is, perhaps, almost needless to say that I found
everything had been very much exaggerated. This, indeed, I
had expected; for anyone who knows where the Observatory is
placed, and how Professor Palmieri stayed there, unmoved
by the terrible eruption of 1872, will find it difficult to believe
that he would now spend his time in building a dyke round
his observatory, as the telegrams reported. Still, the visit was
not unsatisfactory, for I was able to descend into the old crater,
which would, of course, have been impossible in a great
eruption, and to see the new cone and the small eruption
which is actually going on. Leaving Naples with a friend, wo
drove up as far as what used to be the Hermitage, now
deserted by the monks, who have been expelled even from
that solitude by the Italian Government. Here we left our
carriage at a small inn and took horses to the foot of the
cone, accompanied by a crowd of guides, who, however, soon
tailed off, leaving us with the three who were chosen to go up
with us. At the foot of the cone we were beset by as many
more of them. My friend, after about fifty yards of ascent
among tho loose ashes, found it too fatiguing, and con¬
sented to be hauled up. This encouraged others of
the loafers to follow us, in hopes of my doing the
same; but, finding that it was a waste of time, they
soon left us. The climbing is certainly tiring, like walking
through loose sand on the seashore, with a stiff hill thrown in;
but, with a little patience, one works one’s way on. The
crater was so filled with smoke that we determined to descend
into it to see what was to be seen. Half-way down, when we
got in sight of the new cone throwing up flames and showers
of red-hot stones, I confess to feeling rather nervous about
continuing the descent, and I think it was excusable; but tho
guides said there was no need for alarm, and that other people
were already down there, so we went on. The floor of the old
crater has in the last few weeks risen a considerable height,
and is still rising, for when we reached it there were two or
three small streams of lava oozing out of cracks in it, and
slowly flowing over tho cooler blocks. These streams came
out red hot, but soon turned to the dull lead colour of the rest
of the lava; only directly you stirred them up they became
glowing like fused metal. The floor itself is full of cracks,
showing tho lava red hot at about a foot or two beneath the
surface; and even where we Btood yon could not bear the
hand on it long. At the upper end of the hollow is the new
cone, which forced its way up suddenly, and keeps up a con¬
tinuous shower of lumps of red-hot lava. The more violent
explosions throw up to a height of a hundred feet or so, with
a dull, smothered report; the lesser ones throw up the liquid
fire some twenty or thirty feet; and ns the pieces of lava fall
on the side of the cone they turn black almost instantly, and
help to raise the little hill in height. The cone is quite black,
and about fifty feet high. One theory is that it will grow until
it fills the present crater, and tako the place of the old cone,
ns the old one did that of the left-hand cone in the year 79,
when Herculaneum was destroyed. In front of the cone is a
mass of rock which lately fell from the sides of the crater. At
the opposite end of the crater, and therefore not visible in
the small sketch I took, is a sort of gap in the walls of
the crater, through which tho lava is expected to flow.
At present it will have to rise about 20 feet before
it reaches the gap, unless the side should crumble
away under the great heat and pressure. This gap is
on the side towards the hollow or ravine which divides the
two crests of the mountain ; and the lava would therefore take
the course it followed in 1872, towards the Observatory and
San Sebastiano. At present the activity of the eruption has
so much diminished that there is little probability of the lava
flowing down the sides of the mountain for some weeks to
come, if it does at all. But perhaps, os the moon seems to
exercise some mysterious influence over the volcanic elements,
there will be a further increase of activity at the next full
moon, and then the lava will rise high enough to overflow.”
The Glasgow News says that an elder of the Church of Sc
land, who on former occasions has shown great liberalitv
the Church, has given £6000 to the Home Mission, £1001
the Endowment Scheme, and £1000 to tho Colonial Scheme
Messrs. Anderson and MacGrigor, who were appointed
examine the books of the City of Glasgow Bank, have repor
that it is impossible for the bank to continue business. T1
advise it should be wound up. The directors will caU a me
mg of the shareholders for the 22nd inst., to obtain tl
decision on the subject. A Glasgow newspaper gives a list
ten firms, who collectively owe the bank £0,088,000. 'J
Times states in its City article that the position of this bank
better than it was at first thought to be as regards the nat
of the assets. The property belonging to the largest debt
whose liability to the bank is £2,200,000, consists of land
New Zealand of the first quality, valued at £1,300,000, and
balance is covered by wool. It is believed that the bank i
lose nothing in this case, buc the realisation will take tim
some few years, probably. The Australian merchants, Mesi
Fotter, Wflson, and Co., whose inability to meet their engn
rranrvlT be f n announced - «e put down for ab
filSPa? 0, r ftre wid to be very fair, and it is sta
that they will be well able to pay. At a meeting of the M
G1 *sgow on Tuesday the President, Sir Jai
Watson, said the failure would m one way be beneficial
business by stopping rash speculation and giving lmi
SSEJr oppo ty of on a wider
OBITUARY.
LORD CHELM8FORD.
The Right Honourable Sir Frederick Thesiger, Bnron Chelms¬
ford, of Chelmsford,
* 3 ,
in the countv
Essex, D.C.L.,
F.R.S., died at his
residence in Bitou
-square, aged eighty.
. four. He was born
| July 15, 1794, the
only sou to survive
youth of Charles
Thesiger, Esq., Col-
lector of Customs in
the Island of 8t.
. Vincent, by Mary
Anno, his wife, daughter of Thcophilus Williams. Esq of
London. At an early age he entered the Royal Navy as
a Midshipman, but, soon changing his profession, was called
to the Bar in 1818. Thenceforward his forensic career was
one of continuous success. He soon became a leading Counsel
on the Home Circuit, and obtained a silk gown in 1831 In
1844 ho was appointed Solicitor-General and knighted, and
in the following year succeeded to the Attorney-Generalship
which office he again filled in 1852. In 1858 he was con¬
stituted Lord Chancellor, and raised to tho Peerage. He
resigned the Chancellorship in April, 1859, but resumed it in
1866, again to retire in 1868. His Lordship was an eloquent
and brilliant advocate while at the Bar, and was lending
counsel in the chief causes cil'cbres of his time. His Lordship
married, March 9, 1822, Anna Marin, youngest daughter and
co-heir of William Tinling, Esq., of Southampton, and niece
of Major Peirson, the heroic defender of Jersey, and by her,
who died April 9, 1875, had issue five sons-viz., 1, Frederick
Augustus, O.B., a General officer, now commanding in South
Africa, who becomes second Lord Chelmsford; 2, Charles, late
Lieutenant-Colonel 6th Dragoons, now Inspector of Auxiliary
Cavalry; 3, George Cochran, died under age; 4, Alfred
Henry, P.C., Q.C., one of the Lords Justices of Appeal; 5,
Edward Peirson ; and five daughters—viz , 1, Sidney Louisa,
died an infant; 2, Augusta, married to W. F. Higgins, Esq.,
of Chester-place; 3, Sidney Maria, died young; 4. Julia
Selina, married to Major-General Sir John Eardley Wilmot
Inglis K.C.B., who died in 1862 ; and, 5, Mary Lincoln.
SIR B. SUTTON, BART.
Sir Richard Sutton, fourth Baronet, of Norwood Park, in the
county of Nottingham, died at St.
John’s Park, Ryde, Isle of Wight, on
the 3rd inst. Ho was bom Oct. 21,
1821, the second son of Sir Richard
Sutton, second Baronet, by Mary
Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of
Benjamin Burton, Esq., of Burton
Hall, in the county of Carlow, and
succeeded to the title at the death of
hia brother, Sir John Sutton, third
Baronet, June 5, 1873. He married,
first, May 18, 1815, Anna, daughter of
the Rev. H. Ilouson, Rector of Brant
Broughton, which lady died in 1846 ;
and secondly, July 2*9, 1851, Harriet
Aune, daughter of W. F. Burton, Esq.,
of Burton Hall, by whom he leaves four sons and eight
daughters. Of the former, the eldest, now Sir Richard Francis
Sutton, Bart., was bom Dec. 20, 1853. The deceased Baronet
was patron of four livings, and possessed a considerable estate,
not only in the counties of Nottingham, Leicester, and Berks, but
also in Piccadilly, London. He was a magistrate for Berks
and Leicestershire, a Deputy Lieutenant for Notts, and High
Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1861. He was formerly in the
Royal Navy, and afterwards in the Life Guards, and was master
of the Skcfflngton hounds.
OENERAL SIR H. J. W. RENTIN'CK.
General Sir Henry John William Bentinck, K.C.B., Colonel of
the 28th Regiment, Commander of the Legion of Honour, died
on the 29th ult., at 22, Upper Grosvenor-street, aged eighty-
two. He was the youngest son of Count John Charles
Bentinck, by Lady Jemina Helena, his wife, daughter of the
Earl of Athlone, and was descended from William, first Earl
of Portland, the ancestor of the Dukes of Portland. He
entered the Army, in the Coldstream Guards, in 1811, and
served with that regiment during the Crimean War with great
distinction, being present at Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman
(where he was wounded), and Sebastopol. For these services
he was created a K.C.B., and received the orders of the Legion
of Honour, and Medjidie, and the Sardinian and Turkish
medals. He was appointed Colonel of the 28th Regiment in
1854, and attained tho rank of General in 1867. He was
formerly a Groom-in-Waiting to the Queen. General Bentinck
married, March 10, 1829, Reuira Antoinetta, daughter of
Admiral Sir James Hawkins Whitshed, Burt., but had no issue
SIR FRANCK GRANT.
Sir Francis Grant, President of the Royal Academy, died at
his residence, The Lodge, Melton Mowbray, on the 5th inst.
He was bom Jan. 18, 1803, the fourth son of Francis Grant,
Esq., of Kilgmston, and Pitcaithlic, in the county of Perth,
by Anne, his wife, eldest daughter of Bobert Oliphant, Esq.,
of Rossie, Postmaster-General of Scotland. He was con¬
sequently brother of the late John Grant, Esq., of Kilgmston
(whose daughter Margaret became Baroness Gray), and of
General Sir James Hope Grant, the distinguished Indian a>m-
mander. He received his education at Harrow and at Edin¬
burgh High 8chool. This eminent painter, particularly noted
for hia portraits, was elected an Associate of the Royal
Academy in 1842, on Academician in 1851, and President in
1866. In that year he received the honour of knighthood, and
in 1870 the honorary degree of D.C.L. of Oxford University.
Sir Francis married, first, Emily, eldest daughter of J. Ross
Farquharson, Esq., of Invcrcauld; and secondly, Isabella,
fifth daughter of Richard Norman, Etq., by Lady Elizabeth,
his wife, sister of the Duke of Rutland. A portrait of Sir r.
Grant appeared in our Number for March 10, 1866.
MR. WHALLEY, M.P.
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., died on the 7th inst., at
The Tower, near Llangollen, in his sixty-sixth year. Mr.
Whalley was the son of a merchant and banker of Gloucester.
He was educated at University College, London, where he
took the first prize in rhetoric and metaphysics. In 1836 he
was called to the Bar and was appointed an assistant tithe
commissioner, a post which he held for eleven years. At the
general election of 1852 Mr. Whalley unsuccessfully contested
the Montgomery boroughs, but was subsequently returned for
Peterborough. Sir George Comcwall Lewis being an unsuc¬
cessful candidate. He was, however, unseated on petition.
He again contested Peterborough in 1857, and was defeated,
but was returned for that city in 1859, and has since continued
to represent it. He was nominally elected ns a Liberal, but
he was best known in tho earlier pert of his career in St.
OOT. 12, 1878
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355
Stephen’s as the opponent of the Jesuits in every shape and
form, and more recently ns the unflinching supporter of Arthur
Orton, the impostor who claimed the Tichborne title and
estates. He was a magistrate for Merionethshire and Mont¬
gomeryshire, and a magistrate and Deputy-Lientenant for
Denbighshire; he also served as a High Sheriff for Carnarvon¬
shire in 1852. Mr. Whalley married, in 1846, Anne Wakeford,
daughter of Mr. Richard Attree, of Bisteme, Hampshire.
MU. GEORGE THOMPSON.
George Thompson, Esq., died at Leeds on the 7th inst’., in his
seveuty-flfth year. He first became widely known to the
S ublic in connection with the agitation against slavery in the
ritish colonies, and by his ardent and powerful oratory con¬
tributed largely not only to the downfall of slavery, but also
to the abolition of the apprenticeship system. Subsequently
he joined the Anti-Corn Law League, and addressed many of
the earliest meetings held under the auspices of that great
organisation. He also took an active part in forming the
British India Association. Mr. Thompson was associated with
Mr. Garrison, Mr. Whittier, and the members of the American
Anti-Slavery Society, in the movement for the abolition of
slavery in the United States. A visit which he paid to that
country in the year 1834 led to the formation of upwards of
150 anti-slavery societies. He was, however, denounced by
General Jackson in a Presidential message; and, in con¬
sequence of repeated plots against his life, he was compelled
to leave the country. During the Civil War he revisited the
United States, a public reception being given to him in the
House of Representatives in the presence of President Lincoln
and the majority of his Cabinet. Mr. Thompson was asso¬
ciated with Mr. Hume, Sir Joshua Walmsley, and many other
public men in the National Parliamentary Reform Asso¬
ciations, whose programme included household suffrage, vote
by ballot, und equal electoral districts. In 1846 he was pre¬
sented with the freedom of the city of Edinburgh, and in
1847 he was elected M.P. for the Tower Hamlets.
CHESS.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
icallant relating In this department of the Paper ehould be addressed to the
Editor, and have tlte word " Chets'' written on the enretope.
Chess plate n (Lutterworth).—Your question raises a point that must be loft to
tho player's sense of honour. The rule Is that. If a player unre •' J'adoub*,"
after touching u piece, he I» not obliged to move it ami no one but himself can know
whether Ills intention was to move or to adjust It. The perpetual check at J>a*e SI
of Staunton's •• Handbook " is solved by 1. H to B 8th (ch). R takes R ; 2. Kt to Kt
6th (ch). K to Kt sq; 3. Kt takes K P (ch). K to R sq: 4. Kt to Kt 6th (ch) ad lib.
Woodsiock (Belfast).—The position shall be examined, os requested.
E O L (Park-hill) —You should consult some elementary treatise upon thogame. The
question Of a plurality of Queens has been answered frequently in this column. You
may hare two or more Queens, three or more Bishops, Knights, and Rooks all on the
board at the same time.
J P (Bedford),—The two-move position shaU ho sent to you through the post.
W B (Torquay)—The fifth edition of the •• German Handbuch.”
G J 8.—There is a second solution to your problem, commencing 1. Kt P takes B.
J 8 T.—After 1. B to Q 2nd, should Bluck play 1. R to K (itli, howls the mate effected f
J OC fHIjhgatei.—Your lost problem would bo vastly improved by cutting out the
first move on both sides. Shall we make this alteration ?
(Lima).— The solutions of Problems Nos. 1783, 1704, and 1705 by the mem¬
bers of your
is of playing a game by correspondence may address Mr. W. Ball,
The deaths have also been announced of—
Colonel James Hale Warden, Madras Staff Corps, on the
27th ult., in India.
William Richard Crabbe, Esq., F.S.A., on the 2nd inst., at
Heavitree, near Exeter, in his sixtieth year.
William Henry de Merle, Esq., of Iwood, Somerset, D.L.,
on the 29th ult., at Ward Hill, Famham, aged eighty-seven.
Captain G. J. Redman, J.P., an Elder Brother of the
Trinity House, ou the 30th ult., at Belsize Park, N.W.
Edward Armitage,E8q.,onthe 2nd inst., at Famley Lodge,
Cheltenham, in his eighty-second year.
Dr. Edward Denis de Yitre, of The Elms, Bare, near Lan¬
caster, the founder of the Royal Albert Asylum for Idiots and
Imbeciles of the seven northern counties, on the 4th inst.
Professor Robert Harkness, Professor of Natural History in
Queen’s College, Cork, on the 5th inst. He dropped dead
while walking along the landing in the Imperial Hotel, Dublin,
on Saturday.
John Thomas Woodhouse, Esq., of Derby, founder and first
president of the Midland Institute of Mining, Civil, and Me¬
chanical Engineers. Mr. Woodhouse was widely known in
connection with mining. He was in his sixtieth year.
Augustine William Massy, formerly of the 56th Regiment,
eldest surviving son of the late Lieutenant-Colon el the Hon.
John Massy, of Monkstown, in the county of Dublin, on the
29th ult., at St. Leonards-on-Sea, aged forty-two.
The Rev. John Duumore Lang, D.D., Presbyterian minister,
at Sydney, on Aug. 8. He was for many years a member of
the Legislative Council at Sydney, where he was very popular, ,
and was a zealous promoter of emigration to Australia.
Harris Prendergast, Esq., Q.C., eldest son of the late
General Sir Jeffery Prendergast, at Brighton, on the 30thult.,
aged seventy-three. He was directly descended from Jeffery
Prendergast, of Crohane, younger brother of Sir Thomas
Prendergast, Bart., of Gort, M.P., killed at Malplaquet.
Charles Henry Evans Judkins, for some years Commodore
of the Cunard Atlantic Fleet, at his residence, Linton Lodge, i
Mossley-hill, near Liverpool, on the 7th inst., at the age of j
sixty-nine years, after an illness of a fortnight’s duration.
Captain Judkins’s connection with the Cunard Company dated
from the early days of that great undertaking.
General John Liptrap, recently, at Kensington, aged
seventy-eight. He entered the military service of the L ist
India Company in 1818, and a few months since attained the
rank of General. He served during the first Burmese War in
the Afghanistan and Sutlej campaigns, and during the Indian
Mutiny, and on several occasions received special thanks for
daring personal bravery.
Joseph Ivimey, Esq., who was formerly for many years an
active member of and solicitor to the Anti-Corn Law League.
In the early days of the Reform Bill Mr. Ivimey was the poli¬
tical agent for the Liberal candidates for the borough of Hary-
lcbone. By the death of Mr. Ivimey the Superintendent
Registrarship of St. Pancras, which he had held ever since the
passing of the Registration Act, becomes vacant.
Robert Holbeche Dolling, Esq , of Maralin, in the county
of Down, und Tamlaght O’Crilly, in the county of Derry, J.P..
and D.L., on the 28th ult., in Dublin, aged Bixty-nine. He was
the eldest son of the late Rev. Boughey William Dolling, of
Maghcralin, by Mary, his wife, daughter of John Short, Esq.
He married, in 1842, Eliza, third daughter of the late Josias
Du Pr6 Alexander, Esq., M.P., and niece of James, first Earl of
Caledon, and by her (who died 1870) leaves issue. He served
ns High Sheriff of the county of Londonderry in 1865.
Major-General H. Bingham, late of the 60th Rifles, on the
1st inst., at Wolverton House, in the county of Dublin. The
deceased officer joined the 60tb Riiles in April, 1827, and
Berved in the regiment for upwards of thirty-seven years, lie
took part in the Punjaub campaign of 1848-9, and received the
medal with two clasps. He also commanded the companies of
the 60th engaged against the hill tribes in the Euzofzye
country in December, 1849, and was severely wounded m the
head. For these services he received the medal with clasp. On
quitting the 60th Rifles he was appointed inspecting officer of
the Leeds recruiting district. He was promoted to Colonel in
1862 and Major-General in 1874. By his death there is a
vacancy on the active list of General officers, and a
distinguished service reward falls vacant.
The total number of lives lost in the Ebbw Vale Colliery
disaster is now known to be 286, two fresh names, those of
Griffith England, twenty years of age, and a lad named Edwin
Williams, having been added to the list. No danger o fire
now exists, and the work of raising the water, which is
estimated to be about 28 ft. deep, is progressing satisfactorily.
We aro requested to say that gifts of flannel, clothing, &c.,
which wiU be much needed in the approaching winter, will bo
most gratefully received by the chairman of the Local Distri¬
bution Committee, Mr. Phincas James, of Abercamc House,
Abercame, Monmouthshire.
Emile Frau, EUHV, Tonks. ami C U B.
Co '“‘*'" r OF Puoblem No. 1806 received from J C M. An Old Hand,
KM and TP FT W Hope, O O E, S Threlfall. Copinj.ino, C 8 Cose. P le Pace, 11.
StansSeld. East Marten. T B Y. Cant, Leonora and Loon. Painter (ShephertVbush),
E Woreley). SR (Leeds), L Burnett, R lngei-soll, W Seott, Will Curtis M WMteloy,
H llrew ter, Dorothy, 1, of Truro, T Edgar, M Meredith, G Foebiooke, G Wright,
I Hamilton. L Sharswood. Orson. L II R. E Lewis, W Lee, C J G W C D. C Darragli.
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Solution of Pboulrm No. 1805.
WHITE. BLACK.
1. R to K B 8th Kt to R 4th •
2. R takes B (ch) P takes R (Queening)
3. Kt to R 2nd. Mate.
* If Black play the Kt to Q 2nd. the continuation Is os above, and If to any othei
square, 2. It takeo Kt.or 2. B takes Kt, and mates next move.
PROBLEM No. 1808.
By A. Wladimiropk (Berlin).
BLACK.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated July 10, 1874) with three codicils (dated
I July 10, 1874, and May 20 and 22, 1878) of the Right Hon.
Margaret, Baroness Gray of Gray and Kinfamis, and of No. 42,
( Grosvenor-gardens, Pimlico, who died on May 26 last, was
proved on the 23rd ult. by Charles Thomas Constantine Grant,
the brother, and Charles Archibald Murray, the executors, the
personal estate being sworn under £30,000. The testatrix
gives numerous legacien and souvenirs to relatives and friends,
and the residue of her property between her sisters Mary
Grant and Charlotte Augusta Grant, and her brother Alaric
Frederick Grant.
The will (dated April, 1876) with a codicil (dated May 28,
1878) of Mr. Jeremiah Rotherham, late of Aulaby Houses,
Upper Clapton, and of Nos. 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, and 87,
High-street, Shoreditch, who died on Aug. 30 last, was proved
on the 27th ult. by the Rev. Edward Hubbard Boardmon,
Frederick Snowden, John Daniel Viney, and Thomas Phelps,
the executors, the personal estate being sworn under £350,000.
The testator bequeaths £300 to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum
for Females, Lower Clapton; £200 each to the Linen and
Woollen Drapers’ Institution, the Warehousemen and Clerks’
School, Caterham, the London General Porters’ Benevolent
Association, the Consumption Hospital, Victoria Park, the
London Orphan Asylum, Watford, and the Infant Orphan
Asylum, WanBtead ; £100 each to the Shoreditch Girls’ School,
the Shoreditch Boys’ School, the Shoreditch new almshouses,
Haggerstone, and the German Hospital, Dalston ; and £50 to
the Hoxton Dorcas Society. There are very numerous bequests
to relatives, friends, executors, persons in the employ of his
firm, and others.
The will (dated March 1,1867) with two codicils (dated
May 31, 1871, and May 13, 1876) of Mr. George Bird, formerly
of No. 38, Edgware-road, and late of The Hall, Pinner, Mid¬
dlesex, who died on June 30 last, was proved on the 26th ult.
by Stanley George Bird and Arthur Bird, the sons, the
executors, the personal estate being sworn under £60,000. The
testator leaves to his gardener, William Plum, an annuity of
£20 ; to his wife, Pinner Hall estate, with the furniture and
effects, and certain other freehold and leasehold properties for
life; on her death the Pinner Hall estate with the furniture
and effects are to go to his son, Stanley George Bird, charged
with the payment of £1000 to each of his brothers and sisters.
There are specific devises and bequests to each of his childnn,,
and the rest of his property is divided between his said sous.
Stanley George and Arthur.
The will (dated April 25,1877) of Mrs. Caroline Clarissa Purser
late of Nos. 84 and 86, West India Dock-road, Limehouse, who
died on June 15 last, has been proved by William Merrin,
! Henry Kinder Cheese, the nephew, and John Webster, the
executors, the personal estate being sworn under £45,000.
The will (dated Feb. 21, 1873) with three codicils (dated
Sept. 29, 1875, Jan. 4, 1877, and June 29, 1878) of Mr. John
Arnold, late of No. 143, Seven Sisters-road, Holloway, who
died on Aug. 31 last, was proved on the 24th ult. by James
Arnold and George Arnold, the sons, the executors, the per¬
sonal estate being sworn under £26,000.
The will (dated March 20, 1875) of Henry Lockyer Sharp,
formerly of No. 24, Talbot-square, Hyde Park, but late of
No. 41, Kensington Park-gardens, who died on Aug. 28 last,
was proved on the 21st ult. by George Wyatt Sharp, the son,
and Mrs. Eliza Sharp, the widow, the acting executors, the
personal estate being sworn under £14,000.
While to play, and mate in three moves.
CHESS IN BATH.
A Gume played recently between Mr. E. Tiiorold and another Amateur,
the former yielding the odils of the Pawn and two moves.
(Remove Black's A" B Pfiom the board.)
WHITE (Mr. A.) black (Mr. T.)
, j P to K 4th
*■ | P to Q 4th P to Q B 4th
K 3rd.
Black's safest defences
1. I* to Q :lnl. or 1. Kt to Q o ora. spunsi
sound pla’ the sncrilicc of the second
Pawn should result in the hiss of the
2. Q to R 5th (ch) P to K Kt 3rd
3. Q takes Q B P Kt to K B 3rd
4. B to Q 3rd
A very injudicious move indeed. In
this position i he Bishop blocks the Queen's
opening of the buttle.
Kt to Q B 3rd
P to K 3rd
P to Q R 3rd
Kt to Q It 4th
5. P to Q B 3rd
6. Q to Q B 4th
7. P to Q R 4th
8. Q to R 2nd
The effect of his fourth mnvo.
concentration of force upon the (
side should be entirely satisfactory
recoild player.
8. Q to B 2nd
*J. P to Q Kt 4th B takes P
10. B to Kt 2nd
Qu ci-
10. B to K 2nd
11. KttoQ2nd Castles
12. Kt to K 2nd Kt to Kt 5th
13. Kt to K B 3rd P to Q Kt 3rd
14. Kt to K Kt 3rd B to Kt 2nd
15. P to K R 3rd Kt takes K B P
This little game Is a g.iod example of
the " readiness" that characterises Mr.
Th-rold's play.
1G. K takes Kt B to R 5th
17. P to K 6th Q B takes Kt
18. P takes B Q to Q B 3rd
19. P to Q 6th
19. B to K 2nd would have given Black
loie truuhlo.
_9. Q to B 4th (ch)
20. K to Kt 2nd B takes Kt
21. K takes B R takes P (ch)
All this Is very neat and forcible.
22. K takes R R to K B sq (ch)
23. K to Kt 4th P to R 4th (ch)
There appe,
by 23. Q to K Ktli.
24. K to Kt 5th Q to K 6th (ch)
25. K takes P Q takes B (ch),
and White resigned.
CHESS IN LONDON.
A Game played a few days ago between Mr. Macdoxnell and another
strong player at Simpson's Divan .—(Scotch Gambit.)
2 Kt U
e (Mr. M.)
K 4th
« K B 3rd
_ _ Q 4th
4. B to B 4th
5. P to B 3rd
6. Castles
: (Mr. -.)
r to K 4th
Kt to Q B 3rd
P takes P
B to B 4th
Kt to B 3rd
P to Q 4th
i 6. P to Q 3rd, pro-
n variation of the
_(Mr. M.) black (Mr. —.)
8. I* takes P B to Kt 3rd
9. B takes Kt Q takes B
10. Kt to B 3rd Q to K R 4th
The game would have lioen more in-
rtrn.-t.ive und probably longer in Its
:k here retreated the Queen
cout.se, had lilac
to her own square.
11. R to K sq (ch)
12. P to Q5ih
13. Q to K 2nd
14. Kt to K 4th
15. P to Q 6th
16. Kt to Kt 3rd, and w
K to B sq
Kt to K 2nd
B to (I B 1 th
B to Kt 6th
P takes P
7. P takes Q P Kt takes P
CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
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Walker of Ayr, representing the sixty-four squares of the chessboard, each
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
359
THE COURT.
POLITICAL.
THE IMPENDING AFGHAN WAR.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice continue at Balmoral Castle.
Her Majesty and the Princess attended Divine service on
Sunday, performed at the castle by the Rev. A. Campbell, of
Cruthie. Sir Stafford Northcote and the Rev. A. Campbell
dined with her Majesty. The Queen and Princess Beatrice
went to the Glassalt Shiel on Monday for a short stay. Her
Majesty and the Princess have taken their usual out-of-door
exeix ise. The Prince and Princess of Wales, Miss Knollys,
and Sir Stafford Northcote, dined with the Queen yesterday
week. Colonel Teesdale, Mr. F. Knollys, Dr. Robertson, the
ladies and gentlemen in attendance on her Majesty, and Dr.
Profitt and Dr. Marshall, joined the Royal circle in the
evening. The Princess of Wales with her three daughters have
also lunched with her Majesty.
The Queen has accepted the resignation of Lieutenant-
General Henry Ponsonby as Equerry in Ordinary to her
Majesty, and has appointed him Extra Equerry. The Hon
Mary Pitt has succeeded the Hon. Harriet Phipps as Maid of
Honour in Waiting.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP WALES.
The Trince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by Princesses
Louise Victoria and Maud of Wales, left Abergeldie Castle on
Saturday last for Marlborough House. The Prince of Wales
presided at a meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal
Commission of the Paris Exhibition at Marlborough House.
The Prince and Princess, accompanied by the Duke of Con¬
naught, visited Covent-Gardeu Theatre on Monday evening.
'Jhe l rince and Princess and Princess Louise of Wales went to
the Opera Ccmique on Tuesday evening. The Prince and
Princess left Marlborough House on Wednesday evening en
route for Paris. Their Royal Highnesses travelled from
Charing-cross by a special train (which was under the charge
of Mr. John iihaw) to Dover, whence they embarked on board
the special steamer Maid of Kent, Captain Dane, and crossed
to Calais. Here the South-Eastern Company’s saloon, which
had been specially prepared for the journey, was attached to
the Chimin de Fer du Nord train, by which the Prince and
Princess travelled, via Amiens and Creil, to Paris. Their
Royal Highnesses are staying at the Hotel Bristol, and they
are expected to remain in Paris about a fortnight.
Phe Piince has appointed General the Right Hon. Sir |
William Thomas Knollys Receiver-General of the Duchy of J
Cornwall. Colonel A. Ellis has succeeded Colonel Teesdale as
Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highness.
The Duke of Edinburgh will leave Coburg at the end of the |
week, to join htr Majesty’s ship Black Prince, which is to
escoit the Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise to Canada.
Princess Louise of Lome, accompanied by r the Marquis of
Lome, inaugurated a new wing that has been added to the
buildings of the Warehousemen and Clerks’ Schools, at Croy¬
don. The “Leaf Memorial Wing” has been erected in
respect to the memory of the late Mr. Leaf (of Messrs. Leaf,
Sons, and Co., a firm engaged in the silk trade), who, with the
members of his family, have been among the most liberal
benefactors of the institution from its foundation. After the
ceremonial purses were presented to the Princess by ladies.
The subscriptions and donations for the day amounted to
about £3000, of which half came from the ladies’ purses. The
Princess and the Marquis were afterwards entertained at a
dejeuner, at which the Marquis of Hartington presided.
The Duke of Connaught distributed the Queen’s prizes at
the Guildhall yesterday week to the successful students of the
metropolitan drawing classes. An illustration and particulars
of the ceremony are given in the Supplement.
His Excellency Count Munster has returned to the German
Embassy, Carlton House-terrace, from visiting the Earl and
Countess of Rosslyn ut Dysart House, Kirkaldy, Fifesliire.
The Duke and Duchess of Westminster have returned to
Clivtd :n from Paris.
The Duchess of Roxburghe has arrived at Broxmouth, the
Duke’s seat in Haddingtonshire.
The Earl of Eeaconsfield has arrived at Shifnal on a visit
to the Earl and Countess of Bradford, at Weston Park.
MARRIAGES.
The marriage of Captain Alfred Egerton, Equerry to the
Duke of Connaught, and the Hon. Mary Ormsby Gore, eldest
daughter of Lord and Lady Harlech, was solemnised in tae
parish church of Oswestry on the 10th inst.
The marriage of Lord Lyttelton and the Hon. Mary
Cavendish, second daughter of Lord and Lady Chesham, is to
take place at Latimer to-day, the 19th inst.
The marriage of Colonel Oliphant and the Hon. Mary Gerard
is fixed for Tuesday, Nov. 19.
The marriage of the Rev. W. Page Roberts and the Hon.
Margaret Grace Pitt, niece of Earl Granville, is arrauged to
take place early in November.
Ab a result of the recent Board of Trade inquiry at Liver¬
pool into the loss of the iteamer Democrat, on the Isle ct Man
coast, the Board of Trade have decided to erect a lighthouse at
Lange ness Point, where the disaster took place.
Their Excellencies Kuo Ta Jen, Ambassador to the Court
of St. James, and Li Fang Puo, Chinese Minister Designate at
the Court of Berliu, visited the Court of Session, Edinburgh,
on Wednesday. They were conducted through the Parliament
House by the Dean of Faculty. They afterwards visited other
places of interest in the city.
Mr. Balguy, stipendiary magistrate for Greenwich, on
Monday morning opened the Board of Trade inquiry into the
causes of the collision between the Bywell Casitie <and the
Princess Alice steamers. The points presented by the Board
of Irade for the consideration of the Court are five m number
namely, what was the cause of the collision i W as any blame
attributable to the officers of either or both °f ;
Were any alterations or additions to the rules relating to the
navigation of the Thames desirable ? W hat was the cause ot
the great loss of life? Was any alteration desirable in the
conditions upon which passenger certificates were granted by
the Board of Trade ? A statement was made by Mr. M. Jon&,
on the part of the Board of Trade, as to the facts m conmecrion
with the collision, after which the first mate of the P™ice^
Alice gave evidence. The inquiry is proceeduig. Itwas
determined, at a meeting of the Mansion House Committee on
Monday to confirm the recommendation of the sub - committee
to place the orphans, subject to modifications m
cases, in orphanages, and to invest money for them to receive
when they leave the institutions. Before sending thechddren
to the asylums, there is to be an inquiry into the educational
standard and general class of cluldreu admitted into them.
About 110 orphans will become chargeable to the fund, and
most of them arc between ten and fourteen years of age.
There were seventy fathers and mothers lost, and they appeal
to hav e had with them the whole of their younger chddrem
The balance in hand was £20,000, more than £lb,000 having
been disbursed to widows, widowers, and other relatives of the
deceased.
The war of words is as active as ever, and the Eastern Question
continues to be energetically argued pro and con. Even deaf
and dumb debaters have had their say on the matter. The
opening debate of the session of the Deaf and Dumb Debating
Society took place last week in the lecture-hall of the Royal
Association in Aid of the Deaf and Dumb, St. Saviour’s,
Oxford-street—Mr. Tbcmas Davidson (president) in the chair.
The question discussed was, “Is the Indian Government
justified in going to war with Afghanistan ? ” After a spirited
discussion by means of the finger-and-sign language, the fol¬
lowing result was obtained Ayes, 33 ; noes, 5; neutral, 2.
Several meetings were held on Monday:—
Mr. Jacob Bright, speaking at a Liberal’meeting at Man¬
chester, said the Government had stolen Cyprus, and that if
any other European Power, while talking in the loftiest tone of
public law, had Eecretly committed such a base act, it would
have been execrated by every newspaper in England, and not
least by that portion of the metropolitan press which had
followed with adulation the crooked paths of the Government.
Sir. G. O. Trevelyan, M.P., addressed a crowded meeting
of his constituents at Selkirk, and in the course of his speech
spoke strongly against the foreign policy of the Government.
Presiding at a temperance entertainment at West Hartle¬
pool, Mr. Bell, M.P., dwelt on temperance legislation.
A meeting of the Liberal Four Hundred was held at Bristol
to hear Mr. Morley’s reasons for retiring from the representa¬
tion at the end of the present Parliament. Mr. Morley denied
that he wished to retire because he thought he was in less
favour than formerly, or disagreed with liis colleague, or
intended to stand for another constituency. The fact was he
was getting an old man. He was in his sixty-eighth year, and
wanted rest, and the duties of the House of Commons required
the expenditure of more physical os well as mental powers uovv
than heretofore. Speaking as a commercial man, he could not
afford the sacrifice. He condemned strongly the Eastern aud
Indian policy of the Government, and said, whatever his
future sphere might be, he should press forward those Liberal
principles which he believed were closely identified with the
vvtliaie of the people. A resolution was cordially passed thank¬
ing Mr. Morley for his past services and requesting him to take
time to reconsider his intention.
Among the meetings held on Tuesday were the following:—
The annual meeting of the Midland International Arbi-
trution Union was held at Birmingham, when a resolution wa3
passed expressing satisfaction at the success of the efforts to
pi event this country being involved in the Eastern war. A
luither resolution was adopted regretting the action of the
Indian Government in the Afghan difficulty, and protesting
against any steps that might involve England in another
Alghan war, which, if successful, would entail suffering and
immense sacrifice of life and treasure. Several letters express¬
ing disapproval of the Government policy with regard to India
and Afghanistan were read.
Mr. Gorst addressed his constituents at Chatham. In
dealing with the Eastern Question, he expressed his approval
of the policy pursued by the Government, and deuounced the
conduct of the Opposition. Referring to the Afghan dif¬
ficulty, he thought the Home Government were to bo held
responsible for it. It might not, however, prove so serious as
seme thought, and he hoped it would only turn out one of
those frontier difficulties of which they had had bo many.
At the Reading Philanthropic Society’s dinner, Mr.
Palmer, M.P., said that if the nation determined to have a
large standing army, a great fleet, aud volunteer force, let
them do it well, but he objected to fostering ill will between
this and other countries.
There was more speech-making on Wednesday:—
A great political' meeting took place at Leominster, when
Mr. Blake gave his annual address to his constituents. Tue
hon. gentleman reviewed the Parliamentary Session, aud
touched also upon the Afghanistan difficulty.
Colonel Drummond Moray, M.P. for Perthshire, speaking
at Blairgowrie, said the Berlin Treaty was not perfect, but
everything was done that mortal men could do to arrive at a
satisfactory decision. Russia was intriguing at Cabul, and,
although we need not fear a Russian invasion on our Indian
frontier, disturbance in Afghanistan would strengthen Russia's
hand nearer home.
Speaking at a municipal banquet at Newcastle-under-Lyme,
Mr. Hanbury, M.P., referred to the absence of young men
from the British Legislature, and the necessity of a political
training for members of Parliament. As to the Afghanistan
difficulty, he thought a wrong policy had been pursued iu the
past in India—an uncertain policy having been pursued
instead of an open and consistent one. One result at least of
the present difficulty he hoped would be an honest and
straightforward policy for the future ; for he believed that the
one Sling upon which the British Empire in India must rest
wus a policy of justice with good government. Mr. Allen,
M.P., thought all parties were agreed that wo were bound to
hold India lor the good of the people themselves, and he hoped
an amicable settlement of the Eastern difficulty might yet be
arrived at.
Mr. Gamier, M.P., spoke at an agricultural gathering at
Plympton on the Eastern Question in favour of Government.
■ Sir H. Sel win -1 bbetson, in charging the grand jury at the
I Chelmsford Quarter Sessions on Wednesday, referred to the
v Prisons Act.
The Hon. J. W. Fitzwilliam addressed a crowded meeting
Peterborough electors, and was well received. Mr. Potter
3 met his supporters. Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Maoliver are
ding frequent meetings.
The Liberals of Hastings on Wednesday passed a resolution
uesting Mr. T. Brassey, M.P., and Sir U. J. Kay-S rnttle-
rtli Bait., M.P., again to contest the borough in the Liberal
crest for representing it in Parliament. A resolution was
a passed expressing the anxiety of the meeting as regarded
■ ioreign policy of the Government.
A memorial signed by sixty-five Armenians residing in
-laud, principally engaged in mercantile pursuits, has been
•sented to Lord Salisbury, expressing satisfaction at the
ispcct of an English Protectorate of Asia Minor.
The Mayor of Birmingham h lving issued cards of invitation
a dinner to meet the borough members on the Jlst, Mr.
ioht has replied, expressing his regret that he will not be
le to partake of his Worship’s hospitality, as ho is still
liged to refrain from taking part in public meetings.
The Home Secretary lias accepted an invitation to the Dol-
in banquet of the Colston anniversary in Bristol, on Nov. 13.
Mr Gladstone has consented to address his constituents
st month, and a committee has been appointed to make the
cesBary arraiiycnioiits for tlie meeting-
Francis Roxburgh, Q.C., has been appointed Recorder
borough, in succession to Mr. Schomberg, deceased.
The probable contingencies of war between the British Indian
Empire and the Ameer Shere Ali of Cabul are more seriously
discussed from day to day, and all the news or rumours we get
from India, bearing on this subject, find eager reception here.
The agent of the Indian Government who was sent to Cabul
to demand an explanation of the repulse of Sir Neville Cham¬
berlain was a native Indian gentleman, the Nawab Gholam
Hassain; and it is expected that he will now be on his return
journey by way of the Koorum Valley, and will arrive at the
frontier station of Kohat to-morrow (Sunday) bringing witli him
the Ameer’s reply. He left the City of Cabul on the 6th inst.,
having been treated by the Ameer with polite consideration.
No active measures will be taken before his arrival. If the
tenour of the letter is unfavourable all hopes of peace will be
at an end, and operations will begin at once, as by that time it
is anticipated that all will be ready for an advance. A steady
and continuous movement of troops is going on towards the
frontier, and many of the regiments are now at the positions
assigned to them. The 5tb Punjaub Infantry and the 5th
Funjaub Cavalry' arrived at Thull on the 13th, the 29th
Punjaub Infantry marched into the same place Jon the 14th,
and the 12th Bengal Cavalry came in from Kohat on the fol¬
lowing day. A squadron of the 10th Hussars, a mountain
battery, and the 5th Goorkhas are at Kohat.
The formation of a reserve at Hassan Abdul, between
Attoek and Rawul Pindee, towards Peshawur, shows plainly
enough that the Government of India does uot underrate the
possibilities of a situation long foreseen. It has now two, and
perhaps three, active field forces afoot. The Quetta and
Koorum columns, unless war be averted, are certainly intended
to move forwards; while it is possible that political con¬
siderations may enjoin a march on the Khyber Pass. They
are supported by the reserves collecting at Sukkur aud at
HaEsan Abdul. The former can only be designed to sustain
or reinforce the Quetta column when it sets out for Candahar;
the troops at Hassan Abdul might either proceed to Peshawur
or Kohat. If it should be determined to enter the Khyber,
the immediate objective must be Jellalabad.
The Kohat or Koorum column, under General F. S.
Roberts, will consist of three batteries, a squadron of the
ICth Hussars, the 12th Bengal Cavalry, the 17th Foot, and
six native regiments. The Quetta force, commanded by
Major-General A. S. Biddulph, will be composed of three
batteries, three native horse regiments, the 18th British, and
six native infantry battalions. At Sukkur, General Donald
Stewart will have eight batteries and a siege train, the 15th
Hussars, two Bengal cavalry regiments, and five native batta¬
lions. This is the Mooltan division. Sappers and engineers
are attached to each column. A correspondent states that the
Mhairwarra battalion has volunteered for frontier service, aud
their offer has been accepted by the Government. He adds:—
“ The great hindrances in the way of the advance of troops are
the defective commissariat arrangements and the deficiency iu
the means of transport. It is estimated that nearly 6000
camels alone are required, without taking into account other
various and numerous means of transport indispensable before
anything like a strong advance along the frontier can be
attempted. It is no light task to have to make arrangements
for supplying an army of 30,000 men, exclusive of camp fol¬
lowers, with all the necessaries of life while making a hostile
march into an enemy’s country which is almost completely
barren.”
There was no confirmation of the rumour we noticed last
week that Brigadier Ross, with the troops from Jumrood, had
already entered the Khyber Pass, beyond the fort of Ali
Musjid, in order to seize Dakka, at the western end of the
Khyber. Although Jumrood is in British territory, its
proximity to the mountains renders it unsafe as an outpost.
Ever since the British occupation of the Peshawur Valley it
has been the residence of gangs of Afreedi thieves. It is pro¬
bable that strong parties of the Peshawur Division were pushed
on to this village, uot for the object of an attack on Ali Musjid,
but for the purpose of watching our own frontier and prevent¬
ing its violation by lawless bands of Afghan levies. Now that
the Ameer has moved down a force to Ali Musjid, we may at
any moment hear of desultory skirmishing at or near the
mouth of the Khyber. The alliance between the Momuuds
and the Ameir will necessitate great vigilance on the part of
the officer commanding the Peshawur Valley, as one or two
successful raids into our territory would set au example to the
other froutier tribes, which they would not be slow to follow.
But some recent despatches state that dissensions exist between
Afghanistan and the Siah tribes, who threaten to withdraw
their support. The Ameer is stated to be endeavouring to
raise a Jehad, or Holy War of the Mohammedan populations;
but from Constantinople we are informed that the Turkish
journal, Al JatcaSb, deprecates Shere Ali’s hostile attitude
towards England, and says that a war between England aud
Cabul would profoundly disturb every Mohammedan kingdom
iu the world. It is stated that Shere Ali has asked the
Russians to construct a line of telegraph to Afghanistan.
Our Illustrations of this subject comprise a view of the
ruins of the celebrated native fort of Mooltan, in the Punjaub,
captured by the British forces, under General Wliish, in January,
1841, after a siege in which Major Herbert Edwardes greatly
distinguished himself. Mooltan had been held by the .Sikhs
since the conquests of Runjeet Singh iu 1818. It is a large
and wealthy town, next to Lahore and Umritsur the most
important in the Punjaub. The fort was irregularly hexagonal
in shape, occupying the summit of a mound, with a brick wall
sui mounting a high escarpment, faced with masonry, a deep
moat, and thirty towers. It was partly destroyed by Hoods
undermining the walls and towers soon after its conquest by
the British, and is now quite useless for defence, but
is occupied by a detachment of soldiers. Just outside the
walls is the tower of Idgurh, where Mr. Vans Aguew
and Lieutenant Anderson took refuge in 1S48, and were
treacherously murdered by Dewau Moolraj, the Sikh Com¬
mander at Mooltan, after pretending to give them up the keys
of the citadel. We are indebted to Mr. J. E. Hilton for the
Sketch of Mooltan we have engraved. A Sketch of one of the
Afghan watch-towers in the Khyber Pass, aud a View of Jel-
lalabud, are presented this week ; also a scene of common city
life at Cabul, the interior of a cook’s shop, where “ kabobs,”
or slices of hot roast mutton rolled on skewers, are sold by the
cook, who is a man from Cashmere. We are indebted for this
Illustration to the series of lithographs, “Characters and
and Costumes of Afghanistan,” published by Messrs. Henry
Graves and Co., of Pall-mall.
The Duke of Montrose, while staying at the Central Station,
Newcastle, during the races, was robbed of his travelling-bag,
containing valuables to the amouut of £200.
Messrs. Elkington and Co. have completed a costly silver
centre-piece lor the officers of her Majesty’s 14th, or Prince of
Wales’s Own, Regiment. The design consists of a massive
silver group, representing the origin of the Prince of Wales’s
crest and motto, an incident from the battle of Cressy, fought
a.d. 1346. The work has been submitted for the inspection o£
the Prince of Wales at Marlborough House.
THE LATE LORD CHELMSFORD.
THE LATE LORD CHELMSFORD.
An obituary notice of this distinguished member of the House
of Lords and of the legal profession appeared last week. Dying
at the age of eighty-four, the last ten years of his life have
been passed in comparative inactivity, and his brief tenure of
the Chancellorship, upon two occasions, was not marked by
any great historical achievements. But his earlier successes
at the Bar, and the sort of prestige he once enjoyed in popular
esteem, as Sir Frederick Thesiger, the most winning of con¬
temporary advocates with a jury at Nisi PriuB, must be
remembered by the majority of middle-aged men. He was
also, in the time of the late Earl of Derby’s leadership of the
Conservative party, an important politician, though never a
statesman, and he was a personage of social consideration.
The Portrait is engraved from a photograph by Mr. Fall, Baker-
street. _
THE AUSTRIANS IN BOSNIA.
Two Sketches by our Special Artist, lately with the Austrian
army of occupation in Bosn t, v'hich are presented this week,
illustrate the crossing of the er Bosna at Doboj, by a mili¬
tary bridge constructed for the passage of the troops, in order
to pursue the campaign against the Mussulman insurgents in
the eastern districts. One Sketch represents a crossing in
boats at Maglai, higher up the river. All substantial resistance
is now at an end; butthere arc local scattered bands which have
continued within the past week to give tte Austrian offlews
some trouble. It should not be forgotten that the people
recently subdued are the feudal retainers and partisansi of the
Mohammedan aristocracy, the class of privileged landlord
styled Begs in Bosnia, whose cruelty and rapacity had driven
a hundred thousand of their Christian feUow-countrymen into
exile. The miserable condition of those unhappy
during the last three years, mostly sojourning in the adja?™*
Slavonic provinces of Austria, has been frequently descnbed
Two English ladies, Miss Irby and Miss Johnston, have
employed themselves all the while m benevolent labours for
relief of the distressed families and more especially for the
instruction and mai^nanM of the orphan chddrmr- ^
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meeting in the Birminghnm Tomlmll, t'Sc
almost a vrastc. There “ . of the land ; the houses
Of the Austrian army of oceupal^J^ffiJSwthey
have neither houses nor food. It w ^ t prospect
all went back, and if ^ ^
there was for them unless the A strum Uove™m difflculty|
its scanty pittance, which it fLd condition,
expedition.
£ 5 ^kS«S£&h
SHSS|SHS«
'%Se“"enen.l Beinlander report, ttat the
Porte reaches us from Vienna. The ^arges of cruelty brought
mrnt The Porte is urged to compare the present occupation
S that of Omer St in 1851 and 1852, the one being
eceoinoli.hcd in two months, the other in two yeare. f
fSSKfoSed to contxnst the humane behnytonr of the
Austrian troops with tlio massacre and mutilation of the
Austrian wounded. Finally, it is maintained that the smntm
which the occupation was undertaken was proved by the
respeit shown to P all creeds, and, in spite of treacherous sur-
priL, the army felt bound in honour to
in accordance with its European mandate and the Imperial
proclamation.
SSontM» n SSe.r.o each »n extent that the campanile
fell. Seven persons were drowned.
DENMARK.
s^fSjSSiSSSv-S
now be reduced. GERMANY.
After long and at times acrimonious debate the second
SSX «ne«'e SSSE^-^&tt
vi nT „t, ioqi The Berlin correspondent of the Morning r
tfcifte Government hae eaneed it to he made known
of Public Worship and Educntiou, will remain m
Count Bismarck, nephew of the German Chancellor, on
Tuesday shot himself at Venice. Bodily suffering seems to
have prompted the act.
Elections were held on the 13th inst. throughout the king¬
dom for members of the Chamber of Deputies, and the Govern
the Uinho Railway on the
13th inst., and seven persons were killed.
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
At a meeting of the sub-committec of the Budget on Tuesday
morning the* report of M. Langlois upon the amount to be
provided for the Budget of the Ministry of V ar was read.
P The Council of Ministers was on Tuesday engaged m dis¬
cussing the question of the fetes to be held on the occasion of
the distribution of prizes to the successful exhibitors at the
Great Exhibition. The distribution is to take place, with great
ceremony, on Monday next, in the nave of the Palace of
Industry, in the Champs Elysees. Marshal MacMahon will
make a speech, and M. Teisserenc do Port will read a
report on the labours of the jury. Notice haa b een given to
the public and the exhibitors that no medals will be dis¬
tributed. They will be delivered by the respective commis¬
sioners at the close of this year. I he ceremony on
the 21st inst. will consist of the delivery of 150 dipjonms
for erand prizes. The presence of both Chambers, of all tli-
French authorities, of the jury, aud of one member of
each firm to whom gold medals aud grand prizes have been
awarded, renders any distribution or sale of tickets to the
general public or exhibitors impossible. The list offetw 1„ T
the occasion is imposing, and quite unusual at this dead
season of the year in Paris. On Thursday aud Fnday this
week soirees and entertainments at the Ministries ot 1 ublic
Instruction and Foreign Affairs have been announced;
and on Saturday (to-day) there is to be a gala per¬
formance at tho Grand Opera, to be attended by the
President, the Prince of Wales, aud other Royal personages.
On Sunday the Minister of the Fine Arts announces that
all the theatres, circus, concerts, Hipprodrome, &c., will be
open to the public gratis. Next Monday, after the dis¬
tribution of the prizes, a banquet will be given by
the President to the foreign Priuces, Ambassadors, Minis¬
ters, and a limited number of the recipients. On the 22nd
this festive week will end with the grandest fete of all, that at
night in the gurdens of Versailles, with the grandet eaux and
illumination of the fountains. The Baroness Alphonse de
Rothschild is preparing a fete to the foreign Princes sojourn¬
ing in Paris at her country seat at Ferri&res, on the day after
the distribution of the Exhibition prizes.
M. de Freycinet, the Minister of Public Works, left bt.
Malo yesterday week. After a careful inspection, it has been
decided that the towns of bt. Malo and St. Servan shall each
have a floating dock. The expenses are estimated at 10,000,000f.
A double election took place on Sunday. At Moulins 31.
Datas, a Republican, was elected deputy; and at Sceaux M. de
Goudert, a Radical. . . „ _ ...
In'his speech at Grenoble on the 10th mst. M. Gauibetta
said that he thought the Senate a necessary institution, but it
should be one of control, not of conflict. If it were to be
imposed of incorrigible Monarchists and aristocrats, it would
be swept away by universal suffrage. He was of opinion that
the Senatorial elections would give the Republic a majority of
t wenty. M. Gambetta reached Paris early on Sunday morning.
He was cnthmiastically cheered on leaving Grenoble and at
•various stations on his way.
The new Anglican Church of St. Andrew, Biarritz, was
consecrated on the 11th inst. by the Bishop of London. The
ceremony was attended by the Sous-Prefct of Bayonne, by the
English chaplains of Pau, St. Jean de Luz, and Archachon,and
the secretary of the Colonial and Continental Church Society.
The Comte de Montalivet, l.ouis Philippe’s last surviving
Minister, who four years ago rallied to the Republic, has been
celebrating his golden wedding at La Grange (Cher).
Paris was on Wednesday night enveloped in a white icy
fog. so thick as even to obscure the electric light.
Mgr. Dupanloup, the Bishop of Orleans, died suddenly on
the lltli inst., at the age of seventy-six. A brief memoir of
him is given in our Obituary column.
The deaths are also announced of M.Leymane, Professor of
Geology at Toulouse, the author of the first geological map of
France; and of M. Gabriel Delafosse, Professor at the Jardiu
des Plantes, a naturalist and mineralogist of some note, at the
age of eighty-four. ITALY
Signor Cairoli addressed his constituents at Pavia on Tues¬
day right, and stated that the financial position of Italy was
excellent, there being a large surplus to be placed against th i
loss by the abolition of the gnat tax. He spoke at great lengt i
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. . a
Baron Depretis received the appointment of War Minister
on Tuesday, and has accepted the mission of forming ft new
Parliamentary Cabinet. The formation of the
effected after the reassembling of the Reichsrath, next Tues
day, when the views of the Parliamentary majority maybe
dCt Count^ndraspy, the Hungarian Mmister. M. Tisz.a. and
Baron Wcnckheim had an audieuce of three bours duration
yesterday week with the Emperor. An Imperial autograph
letter has been published at Pesth charging the /Premier.
M. Tisza, with the provisional direction of the Ministrj of
Finance, and Baron Wcnckheim with the provisional manage¬
ment of the Ministry of the Interior. The Emperor defini¬
tively relieves M. SzeR from the provisional direction of the
Ministry of Finance. The Emperor was to arrive atBud -
Peefh. to open the Hungarian Diet by a speech from tho
Throne, on Saturday or Sunday. A „ .
A majority in support of the policy of Count Andrasty 13
assured in the two Legislatures and the Delegations,
believed that the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina will
not be extended, and that the expenditure will be.reduced.
Count Boust has been appointed Ambassador in 1 arts, and
will be succeeded in London by Count Karolyi. ..
Austria’s reply to the circular of the Porte and other
matters relating to Bosnia are noted in another column.
ROUMANIA.
Bv a vote of forty-eight votes against eight the resolutions
of the Roumanian Senatorial Committee, nuthoming the
Government to conform to the provisions of the Treaty of
Berlin, have been passed by the Senate.
SERVIA.
An official announcement has been made of the formation
of a new Cabinet, under the presidency of M. Rvstics who
remains Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Prince thanks the
former President, M. Michailovich, and his Cabiuet for their
services during critical times. _,
Nov. 10 has been fixed for the Skupteclnna elections. Serria
sends 104 delegates, New Servia twenty-four, and the Prince s
delegates number forty-two.
RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
A circular has been addressed by the Russian Government
to its agents abroad, expressing a desire to come to a definite
arrangement with Turkey on the basis of the Berlin Treaty.
It is stated that the circular was rendered necessary by various
difficulties arising from the powcrlessuess of the Turkish
Government on its own territory, massacres having occurred
after the departure of the Russian troops. In view of this
state of things a united and common action of the signatory
Powers is suggested. .
Prince Lebanoff, the Russian Ambassador, has. it is statea,
rerrefcnted to the Porte the necessity for stopping the
evacuation, on account of the massacre of Christians after the
departure of the Russian troops. Sir A. H. Layard is reported
to have discovered only a few isolated eases in which the
apsnFsirs were brigands. A despatch reporting atrocities com¬
mitted by Bulgarians in the neighbourhood of Philippopolia
has been sent by Consul Calvert to Sir A. II. Layard.
Prince Lebanoff, the Russian Ambassador at Con¬
stantinople, has received a telegram from the Grand Duke
Michael requesting him to urge the Porte to take such
measures ns will put an effective check on the extensive
emigration of Armenians into Russian territory.
The Sultan has appointed Baker Tasha one of his Aides-
de-Camp. ,
Hobart Pasha has had an audience of the Sultan, and is
stated to have been assured by his Majesty that it is the
intention of the I’ortc to carry out even more reforms than
I were demanded by England.
The Porte is said to be preparing the draught, of a scheme
fer the reorganisation of Eastern Roumelia, which is to be
submitted to the International Commission.
A Constantinople telegram states that tho Faysal tribes,
near Bagdad, have revolted, and captured the town of Datnam.
The authorities have telegraphed for reinforcements.
A telegram from Canea states that an arrangement between
the Turkish authorities and the Cretans, by which the questions
at issue have been finally settled, has been signed. The
documents have been sent to Constantinople for approval.
AMERICA.
The Vermont Legislature have re-elected Mr. Morrill
United States senator for that State.
The Agricultural Department estimates that the cotton
crop of the present year wifi be from 5,250,000 to 5,500,000
bales. r i his is the largest crop ever grown.
There were thirty deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans
on Tuesday, aud thirty-cue at Memphis.
Steps are being taken by the Vatican, on the strength of a
report sent by Cardinal M'Closkey, the Archbishop of New
York for bringing about a considerable development of the
Roman CathoUc Church in the United States.
There was a terrific gale last Saturday on the New England
coast, and the loss of life was considerable.
CANADA.
A telegram of Wednesday’s date from Halifax reports the
resignation of the Nova Scotian Ministry.
THE CAPE COLONIES.
Wc have news from Capetown to Sept. 24.
Sir Bartle Frere left Capetown on Sept. 18, per Courland,
amidst a great display of popular enthusiasm. News has been
received of his arrival at Durban on Sept. 23, where he was
met by General Thesiger. Before leaving his Excellency
commuted the sentence of death passed on Gongabele and
Tini Macomo to penal servitude for life. .
The news from the Zulu border is of no importance, beyond
a central feeling of uneasiness which prevails. No overt acts
on the part of the Kaflirs are reported on the Transvaal
Mr li. Hughes, of the commissariat staff, whilst in charge
of a convoy of provisions, has been attacked on the road
between Fort Weber and Fort Borgcrs. One man was
wounded and several bead of cattle were takeu. One hundred
men of the 18th Regiment have been ordered to march straight
to Fort Weber instead of to Lydenburg, as previously
intended, and more troops are leaving Pretoria for the front.
It is rumoured that Mapoch has broken out in rebellion,
and that Makapau is about to do the same. An attack is said
to have been organised on Secocoen , and was to have taken
place three days ago. It was thought that the Boers would
give their assistance in the attack.
e The Premier is at Queenstown, and has delivered a speech
in favour of the division of the Cape colony into provinces
under a federal union. . _
A detachment of volunteer artillery left Cape Town on
Fept 24 for the Northern border, whence no later intelligence
had been received. A special commission will bo appointed to
administer native affairs in that district.
The Rev. Samuel Hardey, general superintendent of tho
Wesleyan mission?, died at Capetown on Sept. 18.
AUSTRALIA.
It is stated in a Melbourne telegram of the 3rd inst. that
the Ministerial bill for a reform of the Constitution curtailing
the powers of the Legislative Council has passed tho third read-
ing in the Legislative Assembly by fifty votes against twenty-
one, substantially in the form in which it was originally pre¬
sented It is probable that a conference of the two Houses oi
the Legislature will be held to agree upon the amendments
proposed by the Legislative Council. Both Houses have sanc¬
tioned the loan for £3,000,000, and the measure has received
the Governor’s assent. . Q .
The New South Wales Parliament was opened on Sept. 10.
The Governor, in his speech, alluded to the continued
prosperity of the colony, and stated that efforts were being
made to bring about a general customs union in the Austrian
colonies. His ExceUcncy announced that the proposed loan
of £1,500,000 had been postponed, owing to the disturbance of
the English money market, which had temporarily affected
Australian securities. This unsettled state had apparentljr been
caused by the intention expressed by the neighbouring colonies
of borrowing largely in London. The speech promised
the introduction of an extensive “amber of useful mewures,
including bills for the amendment of the electoral rad of the
land laws, and stated that prospectuses for the construction of
1000 miles of railway would ulso be submitted. The
population of the colony at the end of last year was 662,212.
The extension of the railway to Wogga-Wagga, a distance of
304 miles from Sydney, was opened on Sept. 3, amidst a grand
demonstration. There are now CaO nides of railway open for
traffic in New South Wales. 1ft
The Queensland Parliament, was prorogued on Sept. 10
until Oct. 3. The Governor, in his speech, CongrataUted the
members upon the legislative activity displayed during the
past Session, stating that a number of laws of unexampled
importance had been embodied in statutes since the openu^,
° f ?ass a“' ar
Education, Mr. Rowland Rees ; Colonial Treasurer, Mr. Mann.
An official connected with the Spanish Consulate at•Totaau
has been assassinated by the Moors, and the Span
mint lias demanded reparation from Morocco.
The Dutch vessel William Barcndshos w*®^**™^
dem from her voyage to the Arctic regions. The vojage has
been very successful from a scientific point of view.
The Jersey police have arrested Stafford, the cle*
stole £15.000 worth of notes from the Liverpool branch of tte
Bai k of England. He had hired at Cowes a yacht, m whicli
he h* d been sailing about all last week.
The New Zealand Shipping Company’s sailing-ship
Captain Bnvd, left. Plymouth Sound yesterday week with eni
pSnts for New Zealand. The ship Feniglen, Captain Frazer,
sailed on Saturday with emigrauta for New Zealand.
Governor Hennessey, in submitting his finandal
to the Legislative Council of Hong-Kong on Get. 16, sa d th
the revenue of the colony had never been so prosper . ^
that the cash balances to the credit of the colony a
740,000 dole. „ ^
A telegram from Paris states that the Egyptian Govern¬
ment has given its adhesion to the arrangem^t eondudoa
between England and France respectmg the future
tration of Egypt.
The Doily Keren states that Sir George Bowen, who has
been successively Governor of Queensland, New ZjJ* i, ^
Victoria, has been appointed to the Governorship
Mauritius, in succession to Sir Arthur Phayre.
The Royal Court of Jersey has given a decision^ affirming
the validity of marriage with a deceased wife s ' °“ d in
ground that Lord Lyndhurst’s Act had not'iTwe there
Jersey, and that the law, consequently, had no force t •
Mr. J. S. Lumley, C.B., her Majesty’s Minister ««[»
potentiary to the King of the Belgians, hw bce “ 1 * ft ^ sSre-
Knight Commander of the Bath; and Mr. r.O. A “v the
tary to the Embassy at Paris, and the Hon H. C. Vinan,
British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt, Comp •
The following Consular appointments have becnapF'^
by her Majesty:—Mr. Gottfned Buhmeycr, 1 ^^ tii
Baseein for the Emperor of Austria, Mr. Tt e q jj.
Consul at Lagos for the King of 'r^mul for
Ooms as Consul at Aden, and Mr. , fr p y. <lo>
Siena Leone, for tho King of the Netherl ind ®^ ' ' yice-
San Juan us Consul at Gibraltar, Mr. Rafael L®. Coa3U i ft t
Consul at Swansea, and Mr. B. de Angulo as A lce-
I Ntwnort.. ftr the King of Spain.
OCT. 19, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
3G3
THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Bal.rr, Charles, to be Curate of Salmon Cove, Newfoundland.
Bennett, Hugh; Rector of Pirton with Croome D'Abitdt, Worcester.
Bl> th, E. II.. Yicar of Hammersmith; Incumbent of St. Paul’s, Edinburgh.
Bowles, William; Rector of Herringham, Norfolk.
Bnuthwaite. A.; Rector of Fersflela.
Breieton, Thomas Joseph; Perpetual Curate of Wjresdale.
Crock, Janies: Perpetual Curate of 8t. Paul’s, Townend, Morley.
Dillon, C. F. A. ; Vicar of Enstone.
Carlou, G. J.; Rector of Brimiield.
Hurst. John Palmer; Rector of Yelford, Oxon.
Jebb, Dr.; Chancellor of the Choir in Hereford Cathedral.
Lewis. Daniel; Vicar of Bettws Garmon.
l’ajne, C. L.; Curate of Bonne Bay, Newfoundland.
Pei ring, Charles Augustus; Vicar of Norton.
Shaw, T. S.; Rector oi Bedingiield.
Fmitli, F. J. J.; Missionary at Salvage. Newfoundland.
Tomer, Charles; Rector of Bixley and Framingham Earl, Norfolk.
Walters, William, Vicar of I’eruhore ; Rural Dean of Pershore.
Wilbcrforee, Ernest Rowland; Canon of Winchester.— Guardian.
The Convocation of Canterbury was prorogued on Thursday
week till Nov. 4.
The Church of St. Mary, in St. James’s-street, Brighton,
was on Tuesday consecrated by the Bishop of Chichester.
The Times understands that there will be a dedicatory
.service of the new peal of bells at St. Paul’s Cathedral oil
All Saints’ Eve.
The secretary to the Bishopric of Liverpool Committee
^states that only about £50,000 has been promised towards the
fund, and that it is not more than half the sum necessary.
The Bishop of Christchurch, Primate of New Zealand, left
London for Marseilles on the' 10th inst., en route for New
^Zealand, via Suez. He expects to arrive early in December,
and will have been absent from his diocese seven months.
A layman in the West of England has offered £3000 to erect
a church dedicated to St. Simon, at Shepberd’s-bush, as a
thank-offering for the preservation of the peace of Europe,
provided £2000 more is raised before the end of the year.
A new church, Holy Trinity, was opened at Aldershott on
Monday by the Bishop of Winchester, in the presence of a
large congregation of various denominations. The church will
accommodate 600 persons, and it cost about £6000.
A choral festival at the parish church, Leamington, on
Tuesday, attracted a crowded congregation. About twelve
choirs were represented, and the festival was entirely success¬
ful in a musical point of view.
Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., on Saturday last distributed the
prizes won by the children and pupil-teachers of the Church of
England schools in the diocese of Norwich, as a result of an
independent examination in religious knowledge.
Mr. Cross, the Home Secretary, laid the foundation-stone
of the new church of St. Lawrence, Liverpool, on Thursday
•afternoon. The right hon. gentleman was accompanied by
Mr. Torr, M.P., and Colonel Ireland Blackburne, M.P.
The Lord Mayor presided on Tuesday at the first of three
mission services in the Guildhall, conducted by the Rev. W.
II. M. Aitken, who has been conducting similar services
throughout the country. The Lord Mayor wore his robes of
office, and was accompanied by the Archdeacon of London.
Henry Stuart Marshall, late assistant clerk to the Curates’
Augmentation Fund, was finally examined at the Westminster
Police Court, on Tuesday, and committed for trial at the
Central Criminal Court, on the charge of embezzling nearly
£7000, the property of the trustees of the fund.
The Bishop of Peterborough officiated on the 10th inst. at
the consecration of a new church at Northampton, dedicated
to St. Lawrence, and the first of a series of churches under¬
taken by the Northampton Church Extension Society. The
building is a substantial structure of brick and stone, capable
of seating some 800 people, and was erected at a cost of £7000.
The Archbishop of Canterbury on the 10th inst. inspected
the School Board school in the South Lambeth-road, when, in
reply to an address presented by the teachers, he drew a com¬
parison between the educational facilities of the present day
and those which existed when he was a boy; and, pointing to
the fact that the education afforded in school should only be
regarded as the foundation for that of after life, urged upon
the children the importance of making the best use of their timo.
The company appointed for the revision of the Authorised
Version of the Old Testament finished their fifty-third session
on the 11th inst. at the Jerusalem Chamber, and were engaged
upon the second revision of the Psalms, which they carried to
the end of Psalm xliv.— The Revisers of the Authorised Version
of the New Testament met last Tuesday in the Jerusalem
Chamber for their eighty-third session, and sat for seveu hours,
and carried on their second revision to the close of the second
chapter of the Colossians.
The Bishop of Lincoln, presiding on Thursday at the annual
Diocesan Conference at Nottingham, in the course of an
address said that the acquisition of Cyprus had been censured
by some as a profitless venture. He did not desire to deal with
it iu its political aspect; but, regarding ".it from a religious
point of view, he looked upon it as providential. I here was
something full of interest in the history of Cyprus, and its
annexation to us might afford a happy opening for friendly
intercourse between the Church of England and the ancient
Church of the East.
The site of ChristChurch, in Darley-street, Bradford, being
required for street improvements, the site aud the church have
recently been bought by the Bradford Corporation, at the
price of £10,000. The church was built in 18lo, and was the
second in the town after the ancient parish church, erected
probably 700 or 800 years before. Seventeen or eighteen
churches have since been added to the number within the
borough, most of them during the last twenty years A new
site has been secured for Christ Church, at a distance of a
quarter of a mile from the old site, and last Saturday after¬
noon the foundation-stone of the new church was laid by r -
F. S. Powell. The estimated cost of the building, includmg
the site, is about £11,000.
Now that, owing to the untiring exertions of the Rev. J.
-Cumming Mucdoua, the restoration of the fine old abbey
church of Cheadle has been completed, a few remarks on the
nir st important points may be of interest. Thanks to the
generosity of Mr. Bamford llesketh, of Gwrych Castle,
the Moseley Chapel has been thoroughly restored and a beau¬
tiful Munich stained-glass window has been erected. Air.
Charles Stocks has also put in two handsome windows, wliile
the west window has been presented by Master Eger on
Macdona. The Rector has also presented to the choir a hana-
.seme window representing the origin of Christian music, in
the persons of St. Gregory and St. Cecilia. These windows
are all executed by Messrs. Mayer and Co.
By strenuous exertions Milland church, which has been
•distinguished in ecclesiastical reports as one of the worst ana
.most meffiment in England, is about to be replaced by a haud-
some Gothic building, the foundation-stone of which was laid
on Saturday last, in presence of the Bishop of Chichester and
a large body of clergy. The ceremony was performed by Mrs.
Durnford, the wife of the vicar, and great interest was evinced
in the proceedings, many hundreds being present. The land
for the church has been presented by Sir John Hawkshaw;
and, although the district is comparatively a poor one, the
building fund now amounts to £2600, leaving about £1000 yet
to be raised to defray the cost of the intended building, which
is to be erected from the designs of Mr. William C. Street, the
contractor being Mr. Pink, of Godaiming.
DIOCESAN CONFERENCES.
Four Diocesan Conferences were sitting on the 10th inst.
At the Lincoln Conference, which was held at Nottingham,
the Bishop, in his address, said that the acquisition of Cyprus
had been censured by some as a profitless venture. He did
not desire to deal with it in its political aspect; but, regarding
it from a religious point of view, he looked upon it as provi¬
dential. There was something full of interest in the history of
Cyprus, and its annexation to us might afford a happy opening
for friendly intercourse between the Church of Englaud and
the ancient Church of the East.
At the Oxford Conference a long debate took place upon a
motion made by the Rev. E. A. Knox declaring that the teach¬
ing of Cuddesdon College was not entitled to the confidence of
numbers of the Church of England. Sir Robert Phillimore
moved that the subject be not entertained, and this was ulti¬
mately carried by a majority of 252 to 75. Another subject
discussed was that of Sunday observance, which was introduced
by Mr. Walter, M.P., who moved the following resolutiou:—
“ This Conference commends to Churchmen throughout the
diocese the duty of promoting a better observance of the
Lord’s Day in their respective parishes.” Mr. Walter said
that he would rather see Sabbatarianism or over-strictness than
ihe Continental system. Mr. Wallace moved as a rider:—
“ That the Conference petition Parliament to close the public-
lionses on Sunday or shorten the hours; ” aud both the motion
and the rider were carried.
At the Winchester Conference the spread of scepticism and
the befet way of dealing with it was discussed, Lord Carnarvon
being among the speakers.
In the course of his charge, delivered at Pulborough,
the Bishop of Cliichester strongly animadverted on the
practice of Ritualism, but remarked that Ritualistic con¬
gregations, cvep fix places the most infected, were compara¬
tively few, though, like all minorities, they were zealous,
active, and self-sacrificing. He objected strongly to the
throwing open the churchyards to Nonconformists, and said
that the logical consequence of admitting Nonconformist
services in churchyards would be to allow them in the church.
Oil the same day the Bishop of Norwich distributed the
prizes and certificates awarded by the Diocesan Education
Board. Lord Hatherley was among the speakers, and dwelt
upon the increased activity of the Bishops as causing a larger
appreciation of the Apostolic institution of episcopacy, and
regarded the multiplication of Bishops as showing real life in
the Church at home and stimulating missionary activity.
At the Ripon Diocesan Conference on the 11th inst. the
principal subject under discussion was the proposed sub¬
division of the diocese. The conference formally approved of
the subdivision and of the creation of a see of Wakefield. The
Bishop of Ripon further expressed his approval of the schemes,
and it was stated that some £30,000 out of the £85,000 which
was necessary to found the new see had been raised. This is
the first year in which a conference has been held at Ripon.
The Bishop of Peterborough began his triennial visitation
in Peterborough Cathedral last Tuesday. He strongly advo¬
cated the increased utilisation of cathedrals for special services.
The Bishop of Carlisle had announced his intention to bring
before Parliament next Session a bill to enable cathedral bodies,
if they thought proper, to amend, from time to time, their
laws and statutes. He thought it desirable that Deans and
Chapters should possess the power of making such amendments
in their statutes as circumstances might appear to call for.
Conferences have also been held in the dioceses of Carlisle
and Bath and Wells.
The examination at Westminster School for the Mure
Scholarship bos resulted in the election of W. A. Peck, Q.S.
The play to be represented at Christmas is “ Phormio.”
The Cathedral of St. Mary, Tuam, was consecrated last
week by the Bishop of the united diocese of Tnam, Killala,
and Aehonry, the Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. Bernard, second
son of the second Earl of Bandon.
The presentation of a testimonial, consisting of a service
of plate and of a sum of £2000, for the foundation of Gaskell
scholarships at Owens College, Manchester, for students of
the Home Missionary Board, was made to the Rev. William
Gaskell, M.A., in the Townhull. Manchester, on Tuesday night,
hi commemoration of his jubilee as miuister of the Unitarian
Chapel in Cross-street. The Rev. W. Gaskell is the husband
of the late Mrs. Gaskell, the novelist.
The annual meeting of the Congregational Union was
=ned in Liverpool on Monday night with a sermon, at Great
orge-street Chapel, by the. Rev. Dr. Fairbairn, Principal of
redale College. The Congregational Total Abstinence
ciety also met, under the presidency of Mr. Edward Baines,
Leeds.—At Tuesday’s sitting the Rev. J. Baldwin Brown
ve the opening address, remarking that the uuion should
ist attempts to frame new formularies. Their Churches
enuously protested against the bastard imperialism that had
istituted force for moral influence, which it had been the
vilegeof England to express throughout the world. The
inst Afghan war was the outcome of imperialism. It was
latest and not least dangerous development. He spoke of
3 splendid services Mr. Gladstone had rendered to Englaud,
iich were even more conspicuous than the clear appreciation
had always manifested of England’s dignity and glory,
sated armaments were steadily crushing the industries, hearts,
d hopes of the people. Hierarchy, monarchy, aristocracy,
d plutocracy had alike failed to reign over Europe, and de-
icracy would come next, and one shuddered to think what
would cost the world. His hope that in England the
uggle will be conducted with moderation, and will issue in
rtne-s lay mainly in the influence which may be estabhshed
er those wild fierce hearts by the preachers of the gospel,
ibrcquently resolutions were agreed to touching the unport-
ce of the increase of a healthy denominational sentiment in
e Congregational body, and recommending a conference of
iresentatives of non-establislied churches. In the afternoon
We number of the members were, by the invitation of the
ivor (Mr. A. B. Forwood), present at an “at home at the
avnhall; and in the evening a meeting was held m Great
•orge-street Chapel.—At Wednesday’s meeting deputations
•re received from several other religious bodies, who gave a
rdial greeting to the union. The chairman, in acknowledging
the sentiments thus expressed, commented on the absence of
a deputation from the Church of England. A public meeting
was held in the evening, Air. S. Morley, M.P., iu the chair. °
A resolution was passed at the Baptist Conference, h Id at
Leeds, expressive of the high estimation of the delegate; of
the eminent services rendered by the late Air. George Thompson
to the cause of freedom to India. Reference was ma le m >re
especially to the part which he took iu bringing about the
emancipation of the slave, not only iu the colonies of Great
Britain, but in the United States of America. It was also
resolved that special efforts be made to raise the income of the
Home Mission to £10,000 a year.
A new Wesleyan chapel at Oxford, which has been erected,
at a cost of nearly £8000, from the plans of Air. Charles B 11.
architect, of London, by Alessrs. Syinm and Co., of <IxcorJ,
was opened yesterday week. The new chapel is situate 1 at the
north part of New Inn Hall-street. The architecture is of the
decorated Gothic style of the latter part of the fourt sen'll
century. The President of the Wesleyan Conference, the
Rev. Dr. Rigg, preached to a crowded congregation, aud.
appealed to them for funds to liquidate the balance of debt,
amounting to £3000, on the sanctuary, which had been erected
for the worship of their body in the city where Wesley himself
was an undergraduate, a graduate, and a fellow. The amount
collected at the close of the service was £185. At five o’clock
there was a public tea iu the City Buildings, and later the
Rev. Dr. Pope, the ex-President of the Conference, preached
to a very crowded congregation.
THE UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
OXFORD.
At Lincoln, Alessrs. Patchell, Hendy, Cripps, and Hodgson
have been elected to scholarships of £80 per annum; Messrs.
Jenkins and Vincent to scholarships of £60 per annum.
The following elections have taken place at Exeter:—
To a Natural Science Scholarship, Mr. Thomas Cunningham
Pcrter, from Bristol Grammar School; to Stapleton Scholar¬
ships, Air. Edward S. (Leverton, from Alarlborough College,
Mr. Isaac Richards, from the Wesleyan College, Taunton;
to an Exhibition, Mr. William Dawson.
'The following have been elected to scholarships and
exhibitions at Jesus:—To Scholarships—J. J. Huckwell, Owen
Jones, C. A. W. Gilbert, J. Carrow, S. W. G. G. Johnson,
P, E. Howell, E. Roderick, W. O. Nares. To Exhibitions—
F. W. Enson, P. Harold Davies, W. Jones, H. J. Bevan,
D. Stanley Davies, E. J. Evans, J. E. Evans, and T. Alorris.
The Rev. A. J. I). D’Orsey, Lecturer at King’s College,
London, lias agreed to lecture at St. Mary Hall every Saturday
during Term on “ Public Reading and Speaking,” beginning
on the 19th inst.
CAMBRIDGE.
The annual election of Fellows at Trinity took place on the
10th inst. W. A. Wright, AI.A., secretary of the committee
for the revision of the Old Testament, and joint editor of the
Cambridge Shakspcare, was elected a Fellow of the college on
the ground of literary merit. The undermentioned (all
scholars of the college and Bachelors of Arts) were elected to
fellowships, after competitive examination:—William Edward
Heathcote, bracketed eighteenth wraugler and also bracketed
eighteenth dame, 1876 ; Francis John Henry Jenldnson, sixth
classic, 1870; George Campbell Macaulay, bracketed fourth
classic, 1876; John Percival Postgate, bracketed eleventh
classic, 1876; John Henry I’oynting, bracketed third wrangler
and bracketed eighth classic, 1876; Richard Charles Rowe,
third wrangler, 1877.
At Queen’s, the Rev. Arthur Wright, M.A., has been
elected a tutor of the college, and Mr. Ernest Temperley,
M. A., has been elected a mathematical lecturer. These
appointments are vacated by the Rev. G. Pirie, M.A., Fellow
oi the college, who has been appointed a professor in mathe¬
matics at Aberdeen University. A scholarship of £50 per
annum, tenable until the holder is a Master of Arts, has been
awarded to D. G. Davies, B.A., who was senior in the Semitic
Languages Tripos, 1878.
At St. John's the following gentlemen have been elected
Sizars:—Atrnore, Bennell, Bonnett, Brill, Cory, Gaskin,
Hannam, Harker, Home, Lerigo, Mackie, Parker, Samways,
Thomas, Tucker, N. N. Thompson, A. W. Ward, T. Walker,
and Winter. Baker Exhibitioners—F. G. Alayor and W. P.
Alayor, from Durham School. Dowman Exhibitioner—H. R.
Hannan, Pocklington School. Lord Exeter’s Exhibitioner—
A. Robb, Stamford School. Lupton and Hebblethwaite
Exhibitioners—N. N. Thompson, C. P. Cory, Sedbergh School.
Munsteven Exhibitioner—G. M. Livett, Peterborough School.
Dr. Newcome’s Exhibitioner—W. A. Atrnore, Grantham School.
Duchess of Somerset’s Exhibitioners—J. S. Clementson, J. H.
Payne, Alan Chester School; J. A. Owen, Hereford SchooL
Spalding and Symonds Exhibitioner—W. J. Harvey, Bury St.
Edmund's School.
At King’s J. P. Whitney, R. Staveley, and A. F. J. Ford
have been elected to Scholarships; exhibitions for one year
being awarded to the following :— J. L. Green, G. H. Powell,
N. G. Lawson, R. B. Yardlcy, R. P. Scott, and A. R. Stokes.
At the annnal meeting of the Queen’s University in Ireland
on the 10th inst., in St. Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, the Duke
of Leinster, Chancellor, said that, during the past year, the
numbers had increased from 844 to 886 . Two hundred aud
twenty-six of them are returned as members of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of Ireland, 224 as Roman Catholics, 348 as
Presbyterians, and the remaining eighty-eiglit are of other
denominations. It was remarked that by far the largest
number of students came from the Queen’s College, Belfast.
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Endowed Schools
of Ireland is now fully constituted. The following are the
Commissioners:—The Earl of Rosse, Lord Randolph Churchill,
AX P , the Solicitor-General, Mr. Andrew Searle Hart, Vice-
Provost, T.C.D., Mr. Richard O’Shaughnessy, M.P., Mr.
Wilson, M.P., and Mr. Arthur Hill Curtis, LL.D., Professor
of Natural Philosophy, Queen’s College, Galway.
The Rev. Dr. Porter, Professor of tte Queen’s College,
Belfast, and the Rev. Dr. Alolloy, Vice-Rector of the Roman
Catholic University, have been appointed Assistant-Commis¬
sioners under the Intermediate Education Act for Ireland.
The Bishop of St. David’s and an influential committee
have issued an appeal for a Jubilee Memorial Fund for St.
David’s College, Lampeter, which was founded in 1822 by
Bishop Burgess for the education of candidates for holy
order£ It is proposed to commemorate the fiftieth anni¬
versary of the opening of the college by erecting a new
chapel in place of the present incommodious structure and by
raising a lund for the assistance of poor students. The Bishop
of Winchester, all the Welsh Bishops, the Earl of Powis, the
Earl of Cawdon, the Hon. Mrs. Cotton, Mr. Howell Gwynn,
and many others have subscribed, £1400 having been raised for
Ihe chapel and £500 towards exhibitions. A considerably
larger sum is needed.
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WATCH-TOWER IN THE KHYBER PASS.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oot. 19, 1878.—365
“LES CHaTELAINS.” BY HUGUE3 MERLE.
FROM THE PHOTOORAPH PUBLISHED BY OOUPIL AND 00.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON HEWS
OCT. 19, 1878
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ECHOES OF THE WEEK.
‘Sorrow os wide-spread os that felt in England for the death of
the admirable Bishop Wilbtrforce has been expressed in France
on the decease of the venerable Monscigueur Dnpauloup. In
the Homelessness of their lives, the amiability of their
characters, and their courage and activity as members of the
Church Militant there were many points in common between
the French nnd the English prelate; but in the fiercer polemics
of theological pamphleteering the late Bishop of Orleans more
closely resembled “Harry of Exeter” than “Sam Oxon.
There was a sonorous ring of the true Philpotts timbre about
some ol Monseigneur Dupnnloup’s deliverances. He was as
vigorous m his dislikes as in his likings. As a Professor at the
Sorbonne thirty years ago he all but raised a riot among the
students of his class by an attack on the memory of Volt lire ;
and nearly the last of his published writings was a furious
diatribe ugainst the Voltaire centenary.
Mem. ; It was Monsigncur, then the Abbe Dupanloup, cure
of St. Bocb, who was called in to administer the last rites ot
the Roman Catholic Church to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Perigoid, Prince of Beneventum. That wicked old gentleman
made, ns is well known, a very edifying end of it. There was
no time for the aged statesman to make anything more than a
general confession to his ghostly counsellor; but, had he con¬
fessed details, the breast of the late Bishop of Orleans would
have been the sole depository of the secret of who was really
responsible for the murder of the Due d’Enghien. Honore de
Balzac used to tell a terribly terse story about that tragedy.
Talleyrand, then Minister of Foreign Affairs under the
Consulate, was playing cards very late one night at the hotel
of the Duchesse de Luynes. Suddenly he laid down his car Is
and asked, “ How many children has the Due dc Bourbon ? ”
“What an idle question,” exclaimed the Duchess. “ No one
than yourself knows better that the Due d’Enghien is the Due
■de Bourbon’s only child.” “Then,” replied Talleyrand,
taking up his hand again, “ La maiton tic Condi etl finic .” At
that self-same time, nearly daybreak, the Due d’Eughien was
being shot to death in the ditch of the citadel of Vincennes.
I see by the Russian papers that “M. de Greigh,” the
Russian Minister of Finance, has arrived in Paris ; which
fact recalls to my mind a curious example of the hereditary
tenacity of “ the Scot” abroad. When 1 was at St. Peters¬
burg two years ago, I made a collection (breathe it not in
Jingoland!) of the cartes dc visile of the most conspicuous
Russian statesmen of the day; and among them was a portrait
of “ M.dc Greigh,” then Comptroller of the Imperial Finances.
Travelling subsequently down to Moscow, I made the acquaint¬
ance, in the raiiwuy-carringe, of a most agreeable Russian
gentleman of middle age, who, notwithstanding his General's
unilorm, had about him an unmistakably British lock. I was
struck, moreover, by his remarkable facial resemblance to the
Imperial Comptroller, and took the liberty of showing him the
■carte de visits. “That is the portrait of my brother,” the
General replied in fluent English—we had been talking French
for the last fifty miles—but with just the soupcon of Scottish
intonation. “ We were brought up at the High School of
Edinburgh, and we are the grandsons of Admiral Greig, of
whom, perhaps, you have heard.” Who has not heard of
Catherine the Second’s famous Scotch Admiral? I sub¬
sequently met the Comptroller of Finances himself at dinner
at St. Petersburg, and I found him attired iu full naval officer’s
uniform; lor M. de Greigh, it would seem,is an Admiral in the
Russian service, as well as the Czar’s Chancellor of the
Exchequer. Aud he was even more Scottish in mien than his
brother the General.
Mem.: The Irishman, I fancy, is apt to efface him nation¬
ally in the second generation, awuy from his own country.
Marshal MacMuhon is a thorough Frenchman. So was. ac¬
cording to history, Lally Tollendal. Marshal O’Donnell, Duke
of Tetuan, was a thorough Spaniard ; so was Count O’Reilly.
But the Scot, I take it, remains a “ Scot abroad ” even to the
third and fourth generation.
rrincc Bismarck, to judge from a passage in his great
speech against the Democratic Socialists, has been reading
“ Lalla Rookh,” that delicious pootic romance which, I ain
afraid, is not sufficiently studied by the existing Tennyson-
Browniug-.Swinburne-Morris-loving generation. The German
-Chancellor likens Socialism to Mokamia, the Veiled Prophet of
Klioratsan. In our youth, how we used to shudder at the
fearsome couplet:—1 quote from memory, aud possibly am
quoting it incorrectly—
He raised his vefl. The maid turned slowly round,
Looked ut him; shrieked; aud sunk upon the ground.
Mokanna, you will remember, lmd a Death's Head, which lie
was foolish enough to conceal under a veil. Well; Samuel
Rogers, the poet and banker, had a death’s head; at least,
when he and Thomas Moore were ushered into a Parisian
salon together, the valet de chambre, confusing the two names,
whispered to him, and struck by the cadaverous physiognomy
of Rogers, announced him as “ Monsieur le Mort.” But the
banker-poet was wise enough not to put his head in a bag;
.and so the maidens never shrieked nor sank to the ground
■when they saw him. On the contrary, they admired his wit
and his pleasantry, and thought him a very nice old gentleman.
Mem: If you ore modest and timid never give precisely
your own name to the servant at the door when you go into
society. I generally announce myself to the groom of the
•chambers as “ Mr. Solomons.” Nobody takes any notice of
Mr. Solomons; so you slip unobserved through the brilliant
throng; and when you pay your respects to the hostess she
either smiles and observes that the servant has blundered in
pronouncing your name ; or she hasn’t heard it at all; but she
smiles all the same (and very sweetly), and there is an end of
it. Bashful people might save themselves from very nearly all
the agonies which they suffer when they fancy that “ all eyes”
are upon them, if they would only bear this cardinal verity in
mind, that in nine hundred and nine cases out of a thousand
nobody cares twopence-halfpenny about who or what they are,
and are totally indifferent to their presence.
But, returning to Prince Bismark’s ad eaptandum reference
to the Veiled Prophet of Khorasson, I think that the tables
might have been signally turned on him had some member of
the opposition drawn attention to an appalling apparition
occasionally witnessed in lonesome churchyards on moonlight
nights. The Apparition is thought to be a Ghost; but, on
close examination—after knocking the Ghost down—it will be
found to consist of a white sheet stuck on a pitchfork, and
.surmounted by a large turnip scooped out so that the light of
a farthing rushlight within may give dreadful radiance to
two goggle-eyes. The whole is a contrivance of some mis¬
chievous rustic; but it may bear a very close resemblance
to Prince Bismarck’s “ Veiled Prophet,” nevertheless.
In brief, it is “ Bogey: ”—“ Bogey ” that used to
frighten us so terribly when we were children, and
that sometimes frightens us quite as much when we are grown
«mcu. There is a “Bogey,” just now, whose weird, wicked
shadow is apparent to I know not how many thousand wise¬
acres—now looming over the blue mountains of the Bosphorus,
now flickering on the craggy passes of Afghanistan. Of
course, there can be no doubt about the genuineness of this
particular “ Bogey” (which is made in the likeness of a Bear).
It would be “ un-patriotic,” “un-English,” and all the rest
of it, not to hate Bogey, not to hold him as a savage monster,
not to thirst for his blood; but how is it that there was no
“Bogey ” on the English brain a few—a very few-years ago,
when I had the privilege of sitting in the gallery of St.
George’s Hall, Windsor, to watch her Majesty the Queen
sitting at a grand banquet with the Czar Alexander, the Grand
Duchess his duughter, aud the Duke of Edinburgh ? How
was it that nobody talked about “ Bogey ” when I went to the
Guildhall to see the Czar welcomed in right Royal style by
the Lord Mayor and Corporation ? Mr. Monckton, the Town
Clerk, ought to he a philosopher by this time. How many
addresses of welcome and felicitation has he read, iu that
sonorous voice of hie, to Imperial and Royal Personages who
only to-morrow may become “ Bogies” ?
That horrible accident at the Colosseum Music-Hall, Para¬
dise-street, reminds me that I wrote an article about the place
in “Household Words” some six-and-twenty years ago
Whether it had been rebuilt since 1852 I do not know ; but in
my time it was one of the lowest of conceivable music-halls.
There was a legend that it had onoe been a church or chapel;
and the compartments in which the seats were placed certaiuly
bore an uncomfortable resemblance to pews. If I am not mis¬
taken, the Pantheon in Oxford-street, an edifice which had
been twice a theatre, once a bazaar, and is now the store of a
well-known firm of wine merchants, was at one time a church.
They tell me that, owing to the telegraphic announcement
of the discovery by Mr. Edison, of New York, of the divisibility
of the electric current and the feasibility of establishing innu¬
merable luminous points more or less distant from the
source of light, gas shares ure rapidly going down in the
Loudon market. Similar financial consternation has arisen
in Paris, whose quick and ingenious inhabitant* are fast
utilising the electric light (let me see, was it in 1811 or 1812
that 1 saw Trafalgur-square illumiuated by the “Bude Light,”
a title immediately adopted by a short-lived comic periodical ?)
to a thoroughly practical nso. M. Jablochkoff, who claims
priority of invention over Mr. Edison (it is well known that
nobody ever invented anything: people only find that which
somebody else dropped ages ago), points out in the Paris
papers that his light has been for a whole year in full aud
habitual use at the Grands Magasius du Louvre, the largest
dry-goods store in the world; and that a saving of thirty per
cent, as against the expenditure of gas, has been effected. The
manager of the Cliatclet theatre saves thirty-five francs a
night by using the Jablochkoff light. Gus used to cost him
forty-nine Hanes a night. Jablochkoff can be had for
fourteen.
Mem: I suppose that, when the names of the great gas
companies have passed into the legendary stage, and your
burners are fed by an “ electric crayon,” that electro-horology,
on which 1 heard a lecture at the Polytechnic ever so many years
ago, will assert itself; and that the “ time of day” will be laid
on by wire to all our clocks. The electric clock company ought
at once to be a commercial success. Most housekeepers arc
generally iu arrear with the gas company’s collector; but
you would be obliged to puy your electric-clock rate t j the
minute— else, “ connections ” being severed, you would be iu
the dreadful condition of possessing so many dials in your
house aud not knowing what o’clock it was. G. A. S.
“LES CHATELAINS.”
This picture by a French artist, Hugues Merle, which is copied
for our Engraving from the photograph published by Messrs.
Goupil and Co., represents such an ordinary incident of the
manners of the feudal age, in Germany, France, Flanders, or
Italy, as must be familiar to the imagination of all readers of
historical romance. It makes us think, at once, of the kind of
persons we meet with in “ Anne of Geieretein,” and in many
unothcr tale of fiction abounding with stately aud gentle
figures of highborn chivalry and its companionable ladyhood.
How they used to walk, in times of peace, upon the terraces of
their grand and stern old castles, and would there graciously
bestow a dole of Christian charity, with a serene benediction,
on the grateful peasantry waiting beside their path, like that
poor widow in the picture with her baby on her lap ! Nous
at om change tout cela, in these days of Poor Law guardians
and overseers, and of a Charity Organisation Society;
and Charles Lamb’s “ Complaint of the Decay of Beggars ” is
already quite out of date. But we cannot doubt that my Lori
and my Lady, and every other couple in the aristocratic or
wealthy classes of modem society, continue to exercise the
virtue of liberal pecuniary benevolence, not in careless alms¬
giving to chunce-comers by the roadside, but with strict
examination and inquiry, and with earnest consideration of the
probuble effects of their bounty. “ The poor will never cease
out of the land ; ” and it will ever be the duty of the rich, and
indeed of all who have wherewith, be it only a little to spare,
to contribute, in some way or other, to the relief of distress.
A fete was given on Wednesday by Mr. Edmund F. Davis
in his private grounds at St. Peter’s, near Broadstairs, to the
members of the sixteen fire brigades of East Kent, amongst
whom a scries of contests took place, witnessed by several
thousand spectators.
At the agricultural show held ou the 10th inst. iu Tralee for
the county of Kerry the show of horses and cattle was good,
and several valuable prizes were awarded. A banquet was
served in the evening in the Corn Exchange—Mr. Herbert,
M.P., occupying the chair, and Sir J. Godfrey the vice-chair.
The October Quarterly Itevieic has an historical essay of sub¬
stantial quality ou the “ Rise of the Modern British Empire ; ’ ’
a good piece of literary and biographical criticism upon
“Dryden,” like those which the late John Forster used to
write; a monograph ou Petrarch, interesting to Italian
scholars; a chapter of entertaining anecdotes on the eatchiug
of wild elephants in India; and a dissertation upon the
antiquities of Cyprus. The articles of more urgent practical
discussion relate to the political career of the late M.
Thiers, the recent strike in the Lancashire cotton-manufacture,
the “ Revival of Turkey,” and that important religious
question of the day, “Is the Church of England Pro¬
testant ? ” The answer given to that question is what might
be expected from an honest and faithful organ of Conservative
English nationality ; aud it is to be hoped that the Ritualist
clergy, and those who coquet with their ecclesiastical school,
will be attentive to the serious warning here administered.
The concluding article, devoted to an examination of the
actual defects and abuses in the administration of Asiatic
Turkey, and its capabilities of amendment, is well worthy of
perusal at the present crisis.
MUSIC.
TBURY LANE THEATRE.
The experiment of a weekly performance of operas in English
was inaugurated on Saturday afternoon last, under 6 the
direction of Herr Karl Meyder.
The occasion brought forward, for the first time in this
country, a version of Hermann Goetz’s comic opera, “Der
Widersponstigen Zuhmuug,” the original text being’a free
adaptation, by Herr Widman, of Shakspoare’s cornedy, “The
Taming of the Shrew,” under which latter title the opera was
given last week, the English version being by the Rev. .1
Troutbcck. The composer was barn at Kimigsberg in lsg)
and died in 1876, just as he was entering on a career of success
which would probably have led to the production of mare
important works than that now referred to.
The pervading tone of the music of “ The Taming of the
Shrew” is far too serious to be in keeping with the comic
humour of the subject, which sometimes becomes even farcical
In many cases HerrGoctz’sstyle issombreto the point of gloom-
aud the general impression left on hearing the entire work is
that he would have succeeded far better in tragic opera
Several traces of the influences of Gounod’s music on the
composer are observable, and still more of his admiration of
Wagner. The frequency of prolonged heavy declamation is
felt us peculiarly wearisome in an opera that ought to be bright
and sparkling throughout—the fierceness of Petruchio being
assumed, aud the contumacy of Katherine comic rather than
affecting. That the music is ingeniously written, aud in¬
cludes much elaborate and skilful instrumentation, must be
admitted by all; but it cannot be denied that its general
heaviness suggests a larger amount of retrenchment than was
exercised ou Saturday, when the four acts of the opera
occupied nearly as many hours in performance.
The characters retained from the comedy are Katherine,
Bianca, Baptista, Petruchio, Lucentio, Hortcnsio, Grumio, a
Tailor, and one or two other subordinate personages. The over¬
ture i9 spirited in style, but somewhat fragmentary in con¬
struction. The first act contains a pleasing although simple
serenade, “Haste, ye tones,” for Lucentio, followed by some
clever concerted music, including some good choral climaxes,
an effective love duet, “ Fair Bianca,” for this character aud
Lucentio, and a well-written duet, “ Truly, great con¬
gratulations,” for Horteusio aud Lucentio. The second opens
with a song for Katherine, “ I ’ll give myself to no one,” in which
a good opportunity is made but little of by the composer. It
was very well sung by Mdllo. A. Zuliani. The following con¬
certed music has little interest or merit, except in the clever
details of the orchestral accompaniments; the subsequent
scene of the interview of Petruchio aud Katherine, however,
being one of the best portions of the opera It contain* several
effective passages, especially that for Katherine, “ He makes
me fear.” Even in this movement, however, the composer’s
serious tendency is occasionally disodvautageously apparent.
The quintet “ All is well,” which ends the second act, is much
brighter in style, aud forms an agreeable close. The third act
is, perhaps, the best in its general treatment. The opeaing
quartet, “ As it seems, all vainly arc we waiting,” includes
a melodious solo for Baptista, “ You are welcome,”
which, like the other music of the part, was very
effectively rendered by Mr. G. Roland. The lesson-scene for
Bianca, Lucentio, and Horteusio contains some ingenious
treatment. The passage at the Latin quotation “Arms
virumque cauo,” which Lucentio translates into an uvowal of
liis love for Bianca, and its repetition by the latter, is
characteristic, and produced much effect, well delivered as it
was by Mr. F. Gajnar and Madame Rolt; nnd Hortensio’s
explanation of the gamut, each musical phrase commencing
with the note indicated, and the first word of each sentence
beginning with the corresponding letter, is cleverly con¬
trived. A trio for the characters last named—melodious but
rather trite—is followed by a spirited quartet, announcing the
arrival of Petruchio—perhaps the most cheerful piece in the
opera. Petruchio’s entry gives occasion for some music in
which he repeats characteristic phrases that have before
been used to mark his individuality, and some con¬
certed writing, including some good choral effects,
bring the act to a close, and leave the best impression
yet obtained. The fourth act is short, and forms a
musical anti-climax, beiug forced and strained, and offering
a special instance of the composer’s non-appreciation of the
comic humour of the subject. The scene between Katherine
and Petruchio, at table, is treated very heavily, the only effec¬
tive point being an expressive adagio, “ My strength is spent,”
for Katherine. The quartet, “ Still, I say the cap is charm¬
ing”—in which the interview with the tailor occurs—is utterly
wanting in the “ vis comica.” Far better is the following
duet, “ Come, Kate, my dearest,” iu which the husband con¬
fesses that his bearing has been assumed, and the wife recipro¬
cates his love. The closing septet and chorus have little of
the character of a finale to a comic opera.
We have only incidentally referred to the representatives
of the principal characters, and fresh recognition of their
merits is due. All exerted themselves to the utmost, aud gave
evidence of careful preparation. Mdlle. Zuliani as Katherine,
Madame Rolt as Bianca, Mr. Walter Bolton as Petruchio, Mr.
G. Roland as Baptista, Mr. F. Gaynar a9 Lucentio, and Mr.
C. Howard as Grumio, sang and acted with effect; and the
subordinate parts were adequately filled. The Drury Lane
orchestra had been greatly increased for the occasion, aud was
highly efficient; an excellent chorus (of about seventy voices)
having been an important auxiliary. The performance was
ably conducted by Herr Karl Meyder.
The Covent-Garde i Promenade Con erts, under M.
Riviere's direction, are pursuing a successful career. Tuo
celebrated Hungariuu violinist, M. Remeuyi, who was pre¬
vented by illness from playing on the opening night, has smea
appeal'd, and contributed some brilliant solos. This week
be was succeeded by M. Vivien, an eminent Belgian violinist,
whose performances have proved highly successful.
Dr. Stainer, organist of St. I’aid’s Cathedral, presided last
Saturday at the opening soiree of a series of music classes to
be held during the winter by the Tonic Sol-Fa College.
A morning concert was given on Wednesday evening in the
Egyptian Hall of the Mansion-house by the pupils of the
National Training School for Music, under the auspices of the
Court of Common Council.
We gave last week full details of the arrangements for the
Norwich Triennial Festival, which took place, for the nine¬
teenth occasion, this week. As already said, the programmes
were almost entirely devoid of novelty, and slight comment is
therefore required. The opening performance on Tuesday
evening consisted of Handel’s “Acis and Galatea,” and the
first part (“ Spring ”) of Haydn’s “Seasons.” The solos ia
the first-named work were sung by Misses Anna Williams aud
Catherine Penna, Mr. W. Shakspeore, Mr. H. J. Minns, and
Mr. Santley ; the solo vocalists in the selection from “ The
Seasons” having been Miss Williams, Mr. Shakspeare, and Mr.
Hilton. On Wednesday morning Professor G. A. Macfarren a
oratorio, “Joseph,” was given, the principal soloists having
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bci n Met domes Albani, Trebelli, Antoinette Sterling, Miss A.
Williams, Mr. E. Lloyd, Mr. Hilton, and Mr. Santley. The
oratorio was followed by Mozart’s First Mass (in C), the solos
by Miss A. Williams, Madame Trebelli, Mr. Shakspeare, and
Mr. Hilton. On Wednesday evening a miscellaneous vocal and
instrumental concert was given. For Thursday morning
“ Elijah” was announced, the evening being appropriated to
another miscellaneous concert; and the festival was to close
.yesterday (Friday) morning with “The Messiah.”
As we have already announced, Mr. Mapleson will reopen
Htr Majesty’s Theatre this (Saturday) evening for a series of
Italian ' opera performances, beginning with Beethoven’s
“ Fidelio,” in which Madame Pappenlieim will reappear as
Leonora, M. Candidus making his first appearance here as
Florestano. The cast in other respects is as often b efore.
On Thursday next Mr. W. Carter begins his new season of
•oratorio performances at the Royal Albert Hotel with Haydn’s
“ Creation.”
The twenty-first season of the Monday Popular Couccrts
"will begin on Nov. 4, and the first of the afternoon perform¬
ances associated therewith is announced for the following
•Saturday.
The fifth series of concerts given by the Edinburgh Choral
Union will begin on Nov. 18 with a performance of “ Elijah,”
which iH to be followed by “ Israel in Egypt” on Dec. 18, and
“The Messiah” on Jan. 4, all conducted by Mr. Adam
Hamilton. The orchestral concerts, directed by Herr Tausch,
will take place on Nov. 18 and 25, and Dec. 2, 9,16, and 23. The
programmes of these will include many classical symphonies,
overtures, and other instrumental pieces, in addition to which
Brahms’s new symphony, in D major, and a new overture,
composed for the occasion by Herr Tausch, will be given.
Among the solo vocalists will be Madame Nouver, Misses
Robertson, F. Robertson, E. De Fonblanque, and Mr. Harries,
Mrs. Davison, Mr. B. M’Guckin, Mr. H. Guy, Mr. J. H.
Pearson, Mr. Wadmore, and Herr Behrens. The orchestra
will be on an extensive scale, and will include many members
of our opera and Philharmonic bands. Mrs. Beesley and Herr
Tausch will be the solo pianists, and Mr. H. Hartley will
officiate as organist and accompanist. The scheme promises to
maintain the high reputation which Edinburgh has for some
years maintained as a centre of Bound musical taste.
The sixth annual festival of the London Church Choir
Association will be held in St. Paul’s Cathedral next Thursday.
The forty-seventh season of the Sacred Harmonic Society
will begin at Exeter Hall on Friday, Nov. 22, when Meudels-
tolm’s “Hymn of Praise” and Rossini’s “ Stabat Mater”
will be performed. Among the other works to be given during
the season are Rossini’s “ Moses in Egypt,” Handel’s
“Samson,” Mozart’s “Requiem” and “Twelfth Mass,”
Beethoven’s “ Mount of Olives,” Spohr's “ Last Judgment,”
-Costa’s “ Eli,” Mendelssohn’s “ Elijah,” and Handel’s “ Israel
in Egypt.” Sir Michael Costa will be the conductor.
MASKELYNE AND COOKE’S AUTOMATA.
The wonderful exhibition at the “ Home of Mystery” in the
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, where Mr. John Nevil Maskelyne
end Mr. John Algernon Cooke present their series of contrived
illusions to nightly crowds of interested spectators, has been
a popular London entertainment these five or six years past.
It will not soonbe forgotten that Mr. Maskelyne, who is a zealous
opponent, on moral and social grounds, of the hypocritical pro¬
fessors to morbid supernatural agency, the “ mediums,” “clair¬
voyants,” and necromancers of different pretensions, contributed
to their practical defeat, in several instances, by proving that
be knew how to produce the same appearances without the aid
of “the Spirits.” This was a public benefit, added to the
continual supply of harmless amusement, not without stimu¬
lating a desire for scientific knowledge, through the honest
performance of what are ironically styled “ Modern
Miracles” at the Egyptian Hall. We give an Illustration
of lour ingenious mechanical figures, apparently self¬
acting or automatic, which have been admired by thousands
of curious and wondering visitors, and the secret of whose
motions, evidently guided by intelligence and consistent pur¬
pose, no one has been able to guess. These are Psycho, the
Hindoo whist-play er, card-player in general, and arithmetician:
Zee, a pretty little lady in Greek costume, who writes and
draws portraits; Fanfare, the comet-player, and another
musician, named Labial, who performs on the euphonium,
these sometimes playing in company with their human
masters, executing duets or trios. The figures are too
small for even a Little boy or girl to be concealed inside
them, and they are placed on glass pedestals, which might be
supposed to preclude any communication with them by wires,
cords, nr tubes. That there is some kind of hidden clock¬
work, we can hardly doubt; but the marvellous control of the
various movements by an intelligent mind, somehow or other
directing the machinery, is ready worth consideration. All
we can say about it is that Messrs. Maskelyne and Cooke are
ver y clever men, and fully deserve the patronage they have so
fairly won. _
Baron Abraham Oppenheim, the chief of the great banking
firm of that name, died at Cologne last Saturday night, at the
age of seventy-four. Together with his brother, he has con¬
ducted the affairs of the house for the last fifty years. It was
owing to his urgent intervention that the Prussian Govern¬
ment decreed in 1817 the emancipation of the Jews.
A beginning has been made in the erection of the new
Glasgow University Hall, the gift of the Marquis of Bute. The
want of a common hall has been much felt by the University
authorities, and when finished the hall will be a splendid
addition to the college buildings, of which it formed a part in
the original design.
More injurious dyes are complained of. Mr. Charles Ekin,
of Bath, writes that this year a special green and bronze are
fashionable, the former chiefly for gloves and the latter for
artificial flowers; and that he has had several cases brought
under his notice where the patient had suffered for weeks from
a troublesome eruption. In one case the gloves were suspected
and tested for arsenic, with, of course, negative results, and
the eruption, which necessitated several weeks of medical
attendance, continued until the gloves were worn out.
The system of lectures recently established uuder the
auspices of King’s College, London, for the higher education
■ of women has assumed a permanent character. The classes
are to be conducted in the same neighbourhood where they
were commenced—at 5, Observatory-avenue, Kensington.
During the first two terms, when the system was regarded as
tentative, the entries ranged from 500 to 600. A regular
•examination was held at Midsummer, with very satisfactory
results; a class-list was issued and certificates granted. The
committee have now ventured on a larger scheme, in which all
the chief elements of a liberal education are represented.
Canon Barry, Principal of King’s College, gave the opening
•address on Monday.
NATIONAL SPORTS.
Thanks to the Champion Stakes, which was established last
year, and the Grand Challenge Stakes, an entirely new race,
the interest in the Newmarket Second October Meeting was
fully maintained to the end of the week. On Thursday a
Maiden Plate for two-year-olds fell to the Duke of Beaufort,
by the aid of an unnamed colt by Knight of Kars from
Crytheia, who completely overpowered Archer, and won,
running away. Indeed, he made such a frightful exhibition
of liis eight opponents, that, from £500, at which price he was
entered to be sold, he was run up to 1150 gs. before Mr. Peck
could obtain possession of him. Though there was no Spring-
field among the seven competitors for the Champion Stakes
this year, we must not expect to see such a horse as
Mr. Houldsworth’s wonder twice in a decade, and quality
could scarcely have been better represented. There were
the St. Leger winners of 1876-7-8 — Petrarch, Silvio,
and Jannette—the winners of the Prince of Wales’s
Stakes in the same years—Petrarch, Glen Arthur, and Glen¬
garry—Vemeuil, the hero of the unprecedented triple event at
Ascot, and and Kaleidoscope, one of the best handicap horses
in training. In fact, for a field of similarly high class we
must go back to the Ascot Cup of 1867, in which three Oaks
winners—Regalia, Tormentor, and Hippia—took part, to say
nothing of such celebrities as Lecturer and Rama. Lori
Falmouth made no declaration with respect to his pair ; and
Archer wore the first colours on Jannette, and as soon as the
flag fell Osborne took Silvio to the front and made the run¬
ning at a rattling pace. Jannette lay off with Petrarch, and
only began to close on the leaders at the T.Y.C. post, soon
after passing which Vemeuil was done with, and Jannette, very
tenderly ridden, defeated her stable companion cleverly,
though only by a neck. Within a couple of hours the mare
appeared again and galloped the T.M.M. against Clementine,
to whom she gave 7 lb. and such an easy beating that the
French filly’s chance for the Cambridgeshire appears hopeless.
Lord Falmouth began with another of his favourite first
and second on the Friday, as Leap Year and Charibert
occupied those positions in the Prendergast Stakes, and once
more “the mare was the better horse.” Leap Year is evi¬
dently an improving filly, and ought to prove a rare second
string to Wheel of Fortune next season. The third meeting
of Hampton and Vemeuil created the greatest interest, as
each had defeated the other once this season; and they could
not have played out the rubber better than over the last two
miles of the Cesarewitch course. Winchilsea took care that
there was a strong pace for fully a mile and a half, when he was
passed by the cracks; and, though Vemeuil led until close home,
it was evidently only on sufferance, as Hampton then came
away, and won in a canter by a couple of lengths. Trappist,
Lollypop, Placida, and Peace were capital representatives of
speed in the First Great Challenge Stakes, and, naturally enough,
odds were laid upon the first named, who has been reserved for
this event. He was rather fractious as he went down to the
post, and, net getting away so well as Lollypop, he never
seemed to care to really do his best. Peace swerved about a
good deal at the finish, and seriously interfered with Placida,
who pulled up so full of running that, but for this misfortune,
she might have defeated the Duke of Hamilton’s horse ; and,
as she was conceding him a year and 41b., exclusive of sex
allowance, it should not be forgotten that she is engaged in
the first race of next Tuesday, with 8st. 91b. to carry. The
Newmarket Derby was virtually a match between Thurio and
Inval, and, though the Grand Prix winner had a 7 lb. penalty,
he just managed to beat the Frenchman by a head.
The present week is an •“ off” one in every sense of the
word. I he meetings at Croydon and Newcastle need no com¬
ment, while, at the time of writing, that held at SandownPark
is not ripe for discussion.
On Tuesday last Messrs. Tattersall disposed of the Glasgow
stud, which was left by the nobleman of that name to the late
Mr. George Payne and General Peel. Within the last three
or four years such animals as Sefton and Peter have been bred
at these paddocks, and hence, in spite of the present great de-
pressionin the valueof bloodstock, the twenty-eight brood mares
realised the sum of 12,330 gs. Lady Masham, the dam of
Peter, headed the list, Mr. Crawfurd giving 1700 gs. for her:
and the same gentleman obtained the dam of Sefton for
1550 gs., and Flurry at the same price. Mr. Chaplin was also
on extensive purchaser. Thirteen foals made 2380 gs.; but
the sires did not sell at all well, and 520 gs. was all that could
be obtained for that sterling good horse Musket.
The American billiard tournament at the Westminster
Aquarium resulted in the victory of G. Hunt (60 points start),
who won all his seven games. He played a steady and care¬
ful, but by no means brilliant, game throughout. Naturally
enough, the best form was shown by Joseph Bennett (scratch),
and his break of 96 was about as great a performance as has
ever been accomplished upon a billiard-table; he also made
breaks of 78 and 64. D. Richards (35) played very well during
the latter half of the tournament, and made the third-best
break, one of 65 ; and R. Wilson (80), who won six games out
of seven, played a thoroughly sound game. G. Collins (25)
succeeded in making ten consecutive spot-strokes, a number
that has never been exceeded in public on a champion table;
but the very small pockets seemed to put him all abroad at
times, and he not unfrequently played the wrong game. The
attendances during the seven days was very fair, and often
included a few ladies.
There were four competitors for the Long-Distance
Challenge Cup of the Thames Hare and Hounds Club on
Saturday last. The course is the well-known eight-mile one
at Roehampton, and the holder, C. H. Mason, resigned.
Benson was favourite; but was well beaten nearly two miles
from the finish, and, eventually, Stevenson defeated Fuller by
forty seconds, his time being 48 min. 20 sec.
Mr. John Brinton has presented the Mayor and Corporation
of Kidderminster with a cabmen’s shelter.
An Illustration of H.M.S. Hecla, the fine ship recently
purchased by the Admiralty and fitted up as a torpedo and
general transport ship, was given in our last week’s paper. It
was stated by us that this vessel had originally been built for
the merchant service, in which she was known under the name
of the British Empire. No reader could suppose that the
credit of constructing this vessel was claimed for a
Government dockyard. We much regret that, by a
defect in the information then supplied to us, the
name of the builders, Messrs. Harlaud and Wolff,
of Belfast, was omitted in our description of the Hecla. The
performances of that eminent ship-building firm have re¬
peatedly been noticed in this Journal with the applause they
fully deserve. We are heartily glad that Irish shipbuilders, as
well as those of the Tyne and the Clyde, should get their due
share of whatever Admiralty patronage is bestowed on private
firms; and we are now reminded of the fact that Messrs.
Harland and Wolff were the builders of a gun-boat for her
Majesty’s Government some years ago, which gave entire satis¬
faction to the official authorities.
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
The tenth national exhibition of cats has beeu held at the
Crystal Palace this week.
A cabmen’s shelter, being the twentieth erected in the
metropolis by the Cabmen’s Shelter Fund, has been opened at
Paddington Station.
Messrs. Burt and Bevan, the Sheriffs of London, intend to
give their inaugural banquet on Friday, Nov. 1. The entertain¬
ment will, by permission, be given at the Grocers’ Hall.
A bicycle-rider who had knocked down and seriously
injured a lady was on Tuesday fined forty sliillings by the
Wandsworth police magistrate, and ordered to pay £10 com¬
pensation, with an alternative of a month’s imprisonment
Mr. Arthur Sketchley has consented to give his enter¬
tainment, “ Mrs. Brown at- the Play,” at Mr. and Mrs. German
Re<d’s entertainment during the enforced temporary absence
of Mr. Comey Grain, who has been ordered complete rest.
The show of fruit and flowers held on Tuesday at South
Kensington, in connection with the meetings of the fruit and
floral committees of the Royal Horticultural Society, produced
u small but fine display of those riches of the botanical world
which come to perfection late in the year. There were hardy
ornamental shrubs, orchids, apples, pears, and potatoes, and a
remarkable collection of grapes.
Some friends of the Rev. B. Waugh, formerly a member of
the London School Board for the Greenwich division, have pre¬
sented him with a cheque for 500 guineas, “ as a mark of their
appreciation of his work for neglected children, especially as a
member of the first and second School Boards for London, and
as an expression of their sympathy with him in his present
enforced retirement from public life.”
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows that
the total number of paupers at the end of the second week in
October was 76,893, of whom 39,641 were in workhouses
and 37,252 received outdoor relief. Compared with the corre¬
sponding weeks in 1877, 1876, and 1875, these figures show
a decrease of 184, 866, and 3818 respectively. The numbor
of vagrants relieved on the last day of the week was 976, of
whom 603 were men, 277 women, and 96 children under sixteen.
Three persons were summoned at Brentford last Saturday
for taking roach under the proper size. It was stated that the
Thames Conservancy has issued an order that no roach
measuring less than 8 in. from eye to tail should be allowed to
be taken by anglers, and handbills had been circulated to that
effect; but the defendants were found to have taken six or
seven dozen about half that size. The defendants, who said
they were ignorant of the rules, and stated that they intended
to use the roach for jack-fishing, were fined—the punt-owner,
£1, and the other two 5s. each, the magistrate remarking that
the public ought to support the Conservancy in their action.
There were 2358 births and 1418 deaths registered in
London last week. The deaths included 5 from smallpox, 13
from measles, 33 from scarlet fever, 17 from diphtheria, 52
from whooping-cough, 34 from different forms of fever, and
37 from diarrhoea. The deaths referred to diseases of the
respiratory organs, which had increased from 158 to 247 in the
five preceding weeks, further rose to 286 last week, and
exceeded the corrected average by 59. In Greater London
2887 births and 1652 deaths were registered. The mean tem¬
perature of the air was 56 9 deg., or 5 deg. above the average
in the corresponding week of the sixty years 1814—73. The
duration of registered bright sunshine in the week was 3F3
hours, the sun being above the horizon during 77’3 hours.
Last Saturday afternoon Mr. Daniel Grant opened the
Station Arms coffee tavern, situate at 387, Euston-road, near
the Portland-road station, being the eleventh institution of
its kind built by this company. The company has now
eight coffee taverns open; and houses have been secured in
Commercial-road East and in High-street, Stoke Newington,
where business will shortly be commenced. The Euston-road
e stablishmenfis situated at the comer of the street, and has
been plainly but substantially furnished with comfortable
wooden seats, and the conventional narrow tables with marblo
tops. On the counter are the supplies of cocoa, tea, and coffee,
in huge urns, while the rest is covered with plates of bread and
butter and cake. Bills on the wall announce that workmen
may bring their own dinners and have them cooked on the
premises. No intoxicating drinks are sold or allowed to be
consumed on the premises. On the doors being opened to the
public the shop was at once filled with working men and
others, who seemed to take considerable interest in the pro¬
ceedings. After a few words from Mr. Pope, the chairman of
the company, Mr. Grant gave a short opening address, in
which he wished the tavern every success. Mr. Barnard, the
hon. secretary, announced that if the establishment was well
supported by those for whom it was intended, smoking, read¬
ing, chess, and billiard rooms would be added.
On Monday night the successful show, in the Agricultural
Hall, by the British Dairy-Farmers’ Association was brought
to a close. The attendance was greater than on any preceding
day, and the numbers during the period of this interesting
display were equal to those registered at the last Islington
Horse Show. Many leading agriculturists and landowners
were among the visitors. This year's show has been the
third of the annual series, and its management, under a good
working committee, with Mr. John Itaffety as principal director
of the arrangements, and Mr. Robert Dale as secretary, has
been such as to receive general approbation. The prizes dis¬
tributed, in plate, medals, and cheques, amounted to the
aggregate value of about £1600. Mr. Wodehouse, as exhibitor
in the pure bred shorthorn class of cows, took first prize, Mr.
Tisdall being second. In this class her Majesty’s fine cow of
the Fawsley tribe took commendation only, in the face of so
formidable a competition as was brought to bear upon it.
Lord Chesham met the same fate iu the excellent A derney
class; but the Queen and his Lordship were more fortunate
in the principal class for butter, taking severally first aud
second prizes. In the class of cured butter Messrs. Salter and
Stokes, cf Colyton, Devon, were recipients of the first prize.
From a paper which was read by Mr. Finlay Dunn, it appears
that there about 2,250,000 cows in the United Kingdom, aud
that about 3,000,000 gallons of milk are yielded daily for
human food. As about two thirds of this quantity are used
for butter nnd cheese, the daily consumption of fresh milk
does not exceed a fifth of a pint per head. On the whole, it
would seem that our dairies are deplorably inadequate; for
last year we had to import £3,732,405 worth of butter from
France alone. Combined with the show was one of poultry,
and the fancy price of £100 which was set upon a carrier-
pigeon by its owner was, to his chagrin, actually tendered aud
paid. _
Herr Rosier, Professor of Political Economy at the Uni¬
versity of Rostock, has accepted the post of councillor in the
Japanese Foreign Office, at an annual salary of £1850 for the
next six years. The payment of the salary is guaranteed by
the German Government, which engaged him for the post.
TIIF. ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oct. 19, 1879.
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wed wind u blowing up difice re .
The v”*
eeu.bling a Chinese am atcur, Mr.
the reign of WdhamllL.by rniam
Henry' Wmstanley* first November
bu t was swept away by Win8tim i e y, with
2SoT hU workmen and servants we»ta
the lighthouse, lin { d 0 P; d n3h T hc n^tarchitect
bodies were never f °X wa J$*£ Uud yerd, a
on those ®“ d *eat in 170b completed
mercer ot Ludgate-hm, wu 10 f oakcI1
f. T* SKStt?Sf ind£U courses
timber and 8™ ' ith cramps and
and welded together a base
This was destroyed by fire ^ mo iten
one of the keeper mJu ^ 7^ pourc d
lead of the rooi, prostrate,
SwS
©thergnut con ^V. eTO ^i-l 1 ^ 0 Hi 9 °
ssiis
•n it above the top of the natural rock, its
nethermost course, being set in a deep cajAy
.».« rock consists but of four laid stones.
It uS. *» ‘““ih^uSTol
• thirteen stones, the tiura oi
twenty-five** «2fS? fourth of thirty-three.
The ordiSry wash of the tide reaches the
sixth coum^ Above the solid portion, which
is really a pillar of jointed stones, nses the
tewer ot three floors, containing a store-room,
without windows, an upper store-room, a
kitchen a bed-room, mid the top lantern,
altogether 70ft. in height; the rooms, which
aie circular, being 154 tt. 4 m. of diameter,
with walls more than 2 ft. thick. This is the
Vddv stone Lighthouse, which is, so lar as
concerns the artificial building, quite as strong
“d good as it was in the first year ot King
George III., and would probably outlast
Plymouth Breakwater, if the rock beneath
Smeaton’s structure did not begin to give way.
It is understood, however, that the new
Eddy&tcnc Lighthouse, now to be erected, will
more than equal its predecessor. It is
established,” we are told, “upon a hrnierand,
in manv respects, a much more durable rock.
it will be l2 exposed to the tembto action ot
the sea; it will be nearly double the heigut
tliut is, a hundred aud thirty as against the
seventy-two feet of the present tower ; and it is
being constructed on a principle of dovetailing
which will ensure it against all the worst fury
of the waves, even Bhoukl they exceed tlie
enormous power lately registered at the
Murryvore Rock, which equalled ft pressure ot
three tons to tlie square foot.”
the winner OF the
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The WfcliR °f tb^ 6 Cesarcwitch 1 Stokes,
Tuesday ^ chronicle of National
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Sports. We now gi^an ^ fivc .year-
•fiows the but whose
old, whose sure was Merry He b owned by
i’s pedigree is unknown elouge d to
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
TT OMGSOPATHIC HOSPITAL (SELECT)
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L-tubhshed HOT. A Private Home, where Patients *nfforiiig
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forwarded for twelve stamps. Physician, DAVI It JONES. M.D.
Consultations daily. Eleven to One (Tuesday and Frol iv
cxceptisl) at 15, Welbeck-streit. London.
3 7KESH HEAT FROM CENTRAL
EUROPE.—LONDON MEAT IMPORTATION AND
STORAGE COMPANY (Liinltertl.-CanlUIUtliSuM. In 10 0.,)
b, *fv5l‘TrraJp»rfIV lnd Snare* of £1 each.
APPLICATIONS are invited for .TUI SHARES, forming the
balance of the First Issue of 236) Shores, and the Second Issue
"{,25110 Shares, payaldc us follows:—£2on apiilb-atlon • £|.m
allotment: £2 10s. on Jan. I. IxTil; and £2 UK on Man’ll l' 1S7U.
In inviting snliscrlptlons for these Shares, the Uire.-tor* would
js'int out to investors that this undertaking presents itself to
iimsmncli ^- Ut “ U ’ r 0xt0!ptto " aUy favourable circumstances,
l. All the preliminary arrangements of the Company are corn-
p'vteil; mid actual pennain nt operations commenced/
{] ; ""<1 Mutton Imported have given the greatest
satisfaction at the loreign Cattle Market at lleptf.ird. at-the
MetroiK.lltan sieut Market. Smithllel 1, and at the Central
llnrk’-t Hall in the Company s Premises.
:i. The Con ninny can at once obtain from .VI.OXi to pn.noi
bins t i and a large quantity of Cattle for delivery during the cur¬
rent remain at very low prices.
4. Definite arrangements have been made for slaughterhouses,
refrigerator cars, and through traffic. which will enable the Meat
t.- be Imiight and r- alisssl In this market at good prod's.
6. 1 lie lust evidence of the soundness ot the c i hw'b
V oliriV'voii r'I': , ; n /U?J' ,< ‘, u,,,l ‘' x *'d CEIITIFinvTKS of the
M I.fiLhxAI.I. SALESMEN, in whose hands tile Con-irnmenta
rcceivid were pluctd for disjxisal.
_. .. _ . foreign Cattle Market. Deptford. Cl t. 4,1*78.
To the London Mrnt Importation ami ocorng-- (Jo.ujany
Gentlemen.—We ’
miiorted liv mui. ex Mow
liorting that the
Usual shipments of I oiitinental sheep that reach this market;
tin y mid leiulCv at the best rates of the day for their .’lass; and
luircels of.il Similar desorijition will command good current rates
A OPPENH1EMER m
B(IAS BROTHERS.
K. A. ROSELAAR.
IVAN UELDER.
... , . ... ,,Metropolitan Meat Market.Oct. VI. 1878.
We hereby certify that tile 458 ahi-cp received l.y the I, union
Sh ut Importation and St-irace Company (Limited), ex Roll Call.
fvi ra dntwi rp prnvr d a.I Useful mutton, such in would at ad
times make n fair rale in mir market.
R. PARSONS. Ill 112. Metmpolltan Meat Market.
ami w . ( (KIKE. lay. Metropolitan Meat Mirket
w. ■ DGKEan l SON. 127. Met,-.,!oflta'n HitMaVk t
iVi v V , ,v uV , I 'i 1 !, i-'f' 5l, ' ,r Is.’itnn Meat M .rket.
,,w - -Metropolit.il, Meat. .Market.
JUfclAH III. RELIT, 1F1, Metropolitan Moat Market.
Central Market Hall. *i. Uoner Tin u i-stroet.
... . . ... London. E C.
v c bi n by certify that the meat imported liv the above Com-
Mt&acUon' tU ‘ kJ y ,u to 11,8 I”'hlie, 1ms given universal
BUCKINGHAM BROTHERS,
_. _ Sole Retail Agent, for the Company.
N. tick. Tlie Company s Refrigerated Steamer Roll Call
arrived on '1 hursday at the Cold Storage Wharf, with a cargo of
800 Sheep in carcase.
Forms of Application for Shares may ho had of the C minaiiy's
Bankers. Messrs. Barclay. Be ran. Tritton. T wells, aid Co lit
Lombard-street. E.G.: Messrs. Lucy, Son. anil Hartla.nl. Smith-
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lentral Market Hall. T. li. GROBECKEU. Secretary. '
84. t pper Ihames-street, London.
THE ESSEX FLOUR and GRAIN
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^URKEY CARPETS,
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O VER 2000 DAGHESTAN and
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from Constantinople. TheseGoods have been bought by Agents
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9ix prize me<lajs ( ijnd tlio valued r**ci»mmendatious
of many eminent ruedinil practitioners. Sold by
all Chemist.*, and by Poors, 91 . (rreat Russoll-street,
London.
pAUTION.—BOND’S CRYSTAL PALACE
V/ GOLD MEDAL MARKING INK.-Some Chemists and
Stationers, for extra profit, deceive yon. Genuine Label,
"Prepared by tin- Daughter of the late John Bond."—Works,
75. Suuthgate-road. I.ondon. No heating required.
TUDSON’S DYES.—6d. each, of Chemists-
U Curtains, Tablecuvers, Mantles, Scarves, Jackets dyed in ten
A FACT—HAIR COLOUR WASH.—By
damping the Hair with this Wash, In twelve hours it
becomes it - nnginul colour (this is guaranteed). 10s. 6d. Sent
or stamps.—ALEX. ROSS. 248. High Holborn. London.
T 0ANS PRIVATELY NEGOTIATED.
L Confid-ntial communications to Sir. MORRIS. 28, Red
Le n-»qi)are.,W.C,. W.il! receive immediate attention. Itcveiniona,
Lif Intereets, and Legacies purchased.
’ «*>« ORDERS FOR
pETER JIOBINSOX,
•SILKMERCER and LINENDRAPER,
THE ONLY ADDRESS.
103 to 108, OXFORD-STREET, W.,
when* the Business vcos establiblied In 1833.
371
MEW AUTUMN SILKS, 1878.
SPECIAL NEW SHADES.
n . Tint*. «t 3s. Gd. per yard.
Richer 9d. per
srapiecesextra rlcli Tlroi-iele.1 Silks, at 4s. Gd. and 5s. fid.
r-!«ni° f w '!«!i!'>v Silks. 18s. nd. for 20 yards,
rmo DDi'.'.’i,hla-lriRe bilks, 2is. nd. the Dress.
TETER I SON. IftS to 1U1. OXFORD-STREET.
Established at tills address in 1833.
JJLACK SILKS.
One Thousand Pieces at 2s. lid. and As. lid. p»r yard.
A special purchase of B mnet's Black Silks,
Black Satins of^xtr™e hj^htnras, 1 2i.?kL anil to. (id. ;>er yard.
PETER ROBINSOnFoXFORD^STREET. W.
■UICH SILK AUTUMN COSTUMES.
° ne Thousand Coloured 8llk Costumes
BLACK 8ILK COSTUMES
Black Silk Skirts, one guinea.
AUTUMN DRESS MATERIALS.
CACHMERE MERINOS.
Fine textures and rich shades. 45 Inches wide.
2s.Gd.t0 2s. 1 hi. the yard.
CACHEMIRE DE PARIS.
All the New Tints, re inches wide,
3s. Gd. per yard.
_ , . VELVETEENS.
Velvet, finished in all color, re. ,u. 9d. to 4s. 6d.
In black. Is. lid. to 5s. Gd. per yard.
ANGOLAS.
and other Fashionable Materials.
Is. 2d. to 3s. 3d. per yard.
v- WINTER SKIRTINGS.
Novelties In Stripe*, Plain, and Snowflake,
from le. l)d, per yard.
CREPE CASHMERE (REGISTERED!.
A most useful Material, in six designs, Block,
full width, Is. 9d. per yard.
___ For Pattern* address onlv
PETER ROBINSON. OXFORD-STREET. W.
ATANTLES and JACKETS for
- LTJ - AUTUMN and WINTER.
NOVELTIES FROM PARIS AND BERLIN DAILY,
In Beaver Cloth, Diagonal Cloth. Mille-rave Cloth,
and Drap Brute: also, In Velvet. Fac .Sicilian,
nud Gres Grain, lined and quilted.
Several New Shapes in Ulster Mantles.
The New Waterproof Tartan Mantles.
For illustrations apply to
rETER ROBINSON. OXFORD-STREET.
The only address.
T3EAL RUSSIAN SEAL FUR PALETOTS
AV (half fitting).
S3 in. deep, from 7 gs.
Several Now Shu;)es in Seal Mantles,
in the lineit quality.
GREY SQUIRREL PALETOTS fa great novelty).
Sable. Seal. Fox. Racoon. Skunk, Bouvor,
Otter, Russian Hare, Chinchilla, Ermine,
and every other description of
Muffs, Neckties, Ac.
A large Stock of
Russian seal fur jackets.
24 to 27 in. deep, from 4 guineas upwards.
Imitation Seal Fur Jackets,
4fe. each, 20 to 28 In. deep.
Cashmere Circulars, with Hood,
and lined Russian Squirrel. 45in. deep, from 21s. upwards.
Cashmere circulars, with Hood, and lined from Ruisiau Squirrel,
48 in. deep. 58s. Gd. upwards.
A great variety of New Shape*
in Silk Mantles,
lined with the finest quality of Russian Squirrel.
Fur Carriage and Travelling Rugs, from 30s. upwards.
PETER ROBINSON, SILKMERCER and
A DRAPER,
103 to 108. OXFORD-STREET, LONDON,
INFORMS THE PUBLIC
that. Ills business has been carried on at these promise* since It*
establishment in 1833. and respectfully requests hta Customers
to address orders to this address only.
WAY RE’S SEAL PALETOTS,
* 1 33 in. long. 9J guineas.
WAYRE’S SEAL PALETOTS,
11 So in. long, 12 guineas.
WAYRE’S SEAL PALETOTS,
T T 40 In. long, 14 guineas.
WAYRE’S SEAL PALETOTS,
TT 45 in. long, Bi guineas.
WAYRE’S RUSSIAN SABLE TAIL
TT SETS. 70 guinea*. Real Marten Tall, 8 guineas. Skunk.
4 guineas. Length of fronts, 36in.; depth of flounce, 9 in. to
WAYRE’S SEAL PALETOTS
T V can be sent 011 approval to any part of the kingdom by
forwarding a reference, and the measurements ucross back,
across chest, round waist, and length of paletot, to
WAYRE, SEAL PALETOT
T T MANUFACTURER, 9G. Oxfonl-strect, uu l 332, Oxfor.L-
street (corner of Regent-rlrrns).
Established Half a Century.
FOR ALL SEASONS AND ALL CLIMATES.
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE
JVNGLISH AND JpOREIGN QOURTS.
EGERTON BURNETT'S
"WELLINGTON SERGES,
AND VARIOUS OTHER APPROVED WOOLLEN FABRICS.
EGERTON BURNETT has repeatedly lind the honour of
supplying "theseadmirable Serges" to the ROYAL FAMILY,
and executes Orders daily FROM ALL PARTS.
Neither rain nor suit water can affect their permanent dye.
Prices from Is. 2}d. to the finest ut4s. Gd. per yard. PAT PERN-
BOOKS sent free by post, and carriage paid to Bristol "r Loudon
on unreels over £2. GOODS PACKED FOR EXPORTATION.
A Special Strong Make for BOVS' and GENTLEMEN'S
SUITS, 54 inches, from 3s. Gd. per yard.
J^GERTON JBURNETT,
SERGE WAREHOUSES.
WELLINGTON. SOMERSET
TO LADIES.—THE SHREWSBURY
-L WATERPROOF TWEED CLOAKS. SKIRTS, and
JACKETS, in every variety of shape nud colour, are supplied by
the original Makers, E. \V. and \V. PHILLIPS. 37, High-street,
Shrewsbury. Patterns and Prices on application.
WOOLLEN CLOTHS for LADIES’
T V JACKETS, CLOAKS. ULSTERS, Ac., In great variety,
at very moderate prices. • We also keep a very large Stock suit¬
able for G.n'b men's and Youths'wear. Livery Cloths. Ac.,
equally clwe^lerras.rea^ WArehonse>
comer of Ilatton-garden. Hoi bom-circus.
C WAN BILL CORSETS. — NOTICE. —My
O advertisement referring to the salo by me of Swanbill
Corsets is an infringement of the rights of Mrs. Addley Bourne,
of 37, Piccadilly, who is the sole proprietor and vendor of Swaubil 1
Corsets; the public are informed that SWunbill Corsets are not
supplied by me.—Henry Glave, 531 to 537, New Oxford-strec..
AUTUMN AND WINTER MANTLES.
-JA- The small capes worn during the spring and summer
seasons pyalysed for a tl me tlio 'business of' 1 &!mo r?f‘tlie"largjil't
caterers of Fashnm ; liut It nevertheless gave them Impetus and
SfiS fomc attr “ ct,vo MantU8 for th0 Auiamn “ aJ
.Messrs, Jay are unusually well snpplied with these necessary
garments and elegant luxuries and their charges will suit all
classes of the comm unite.
FAMILY MOURNING.
TJU'IDOW’S DRESS, made complrte,
Widow’s Dress. m t a ri d n e , S^ UBCrai,e ' ,rorn " " " “ “
Parent’s Mourning lfrcss,m«Se c(impGete/ r0ln " « 18 8
t, .. ,, trimmed Cyprus Crape, from .. .. £3 13 6
Parent s Mourning Dress, made complete,
, . trimmed English Crape, from .. .. £3 18 6
Sister s or Brother's Mourning Dress, made complete,
„ trimmed Cyprus Cmjie. from .. .. £3 18 G
bister s or Brother’s Mourning Dress, made complete,
, r . trimmed English Crape, frem .. ..£4 4 0
Monrning for Near Relatives, made complete,
,, , trimmed Cyprus Crape, from .. .. £3 13 G
Mourning for Near Relatives, made complete,
trimmed English Crape, from .. .. £3 18 fi
Materials at One Shilling per Yard.
JAYS’. Regent-street.
jyjILLINERY.
The small-shaped bonnets of last season are no longer the
fashion, the Bonnets now protect tho bead, and the face is not
so much exposcil.
..The correct and newest modes may be seen in Messrs. Jay's
Millinery Department.
JAYS',
THE LONDON GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE.
Regent-street. W.
J^AKER and CRISP’S SILKS
From 1*. ll jd. -[ Patterns free.
1 198, Regent-street, London.
T>AKER and CRISP’S VELVETEENS.
( 1000 Boxes Lyons Moleskin.
Patterns free. •( Black, from l«. l>4d.
( Colonrs, from 2s. lid.
J^AKER and CRISP’S SERGES.
Patterns free. / ns’olvertf ed.
(. from loid. yard.
J^AKER and CRISP’S CYPRUS CLOTHS
From 8Jd. yard. -[ 10(1 Fabrics, New
(. for Autumn. Patterns fre-.
JgAKER and CRISP’S ULSTERINGS
198, Regent-street. { 0 ExtoawuS’
(. Patterns free.
T3AKER and CRISP’S TROCADERO
D f and other Costumes, from 29s. fid.
Engravings free. < Patterns free.
f 198. Regent-street.
T3AKER and CRISP’S ULSTERS.
-D 12s. 9d. ( WOO
21s. 1 New and Slost Ladylike.
Sent for Remittance.—199. R' g' Ut-S'omt.
PARIS EXPOSITION COSTUMES.
A D. NICHOLSON ami CO. beg to announce the lb-turn of
their Buyers frem Paris, ami that on MONDAY NEXT and
Following Days they will make a Grand Display of Elegant
ObTOfe. including several facsimile Copies of those shown
in the Taris Exhibition.
D. Nicholson and Co.. 50 to 53, St. PauVs-churchyord, London.
gILKS ! J^RESSES ! ‘yELYETEENS !
D. NICHOLSON atid CO.’S NEW AUTUHW PATTERN-
BOOK of COLOURED SILKS, containin'! W3 Varieties of the
best Lyons Manufacture, in tile following hots, may now bo ha l
wst-free. *. A £ s , j.
[-OT1. Lyons Gros Grain. t 111 pc-rytl.; or lGyds. 2 7 0
LOT 2. Rich .. .. .1 si „ „ 2 12 «
l,OT3. „ Drop de Franco 3 111 „ 3 3 0
LOTI. „ Lyons UfosGrain 4 Gi ,. „ 3 12 G
LOT 5. „ „ ., „ 4 ll| „ „ 318 0
LOT 6. ,, PotiltdoSole .. 5 ll „ „ 4 14 G
LOT 7. Extra Rich FnUl. 6 11 ,. „ 5 10 0
D. NICHOLSON and CO..
50. 61, 52, and 53, ST. PAUL'S-CUURCHVARD, LONDON.
PLACK SILKS
D OF GUARANTEED MANUFACTURE,
to. 2}d.. 2s.G»d.. 2s. lUd.. 3s. 3)4., 8s. 0)1.. .3s. 9)d.. 3s. 11) !.,
4s. 3jd., 4s. G)d.. 4s. lljd., 5a. 31., 5s. ll)d.,(is. Gil., 6s. lid..7s. 61.,
gs. Gd.. 9s. Gd.. and 10s. Gd. per yard.
D. NICHOLSON and CO.'S QUEEN CACHEMIRE, war¬
ranted pure dye and not to cut or wear greasy.
Patterns post-free.
D. Nicholson und Co., SO, 51,52, and 53, St. Panl's-chnrchyard.
\fEW AUTUMN and WINTER DRESS
13 MATERIALS.
All the latest Novelties In French Cashmeres and Mertnoos.
Velour Cloths, Estamene and Lome Serges, Diagonal Serges.
Cashmeri ttes, Wool Plaids, Fancy Botinrttes. and every other
fashionable material suitable for the present and coming soasuu.
Patterns post-free.
D. Nicholson and Co., 50,51,52, and 53, St. Paul's-Chureliyard.
"VIEW BOOK of BLACK and COLOURED
ll VELVETEENS,
containing the new Blue-Black Linden Velveteen, warranted
fast dye. Is. !dd.. 2s. S)d„ 2s. lljd. 3s. GVI., 38. ll)d.. and
4s. lid. jar yard; also {he Bla<k Genoa Velveteen. Is. rM„
lS.S9*d„ Is. lljd.. 'A*. 3jd., 2s. BJ.L, 2*. 9Jd.,As. ll)d„ As. 3)d..
3s. 6jd.. 3s. lljd , *8. 61.. and 5s. 3d. per yard; and Coloured
Genoa Velveteen in all the newest shudes at 2s. lljd. und
3s. 9jd. per yard.
Patterns post-free.
D. NICHOLSON and CO.,
SILK MERCERS TO THE QUEEN,
60, 61. 52. and 53, St. Panl's-churchyard, London.
TTENRY GLAYE’S
-LL GIGANTIC SHOW OF DRESS FABRICS,
for the Fall and Winter of 1878.
Tho Real Roush-aud-Renity Sergo. As in. wide. 10}d. a
^yiird, vj r,v suitnbbrti'r wariu costuraesand winter wear.
Douglas Brillianti'nes. now autumn shades, 8Jd.
Twill Fonte in all lending odours, at 10,‘d.
l'rrm h Merino42 in. to 48 in. wide, 1*. I0|d.and2s. lOJil.
Small Fancy Designs for mixing with plain textures.
The Leopard Mixture, at- 9fil.; the Cabal Slixtu-e, at
Kid.; the Costume Mixture, nt 19.3)1.; the Afghan
Silk Mixture, at Is. 95d.; the All-Wool SUk Mixture, at
2s. 11 )il.
Heather Mixtures for Autumn, Is. «)d.
(ittawa Beiges. 18 in. wide. Is. u)d.
Fancy Scoti-h Cinns.as now worn in Paris, Is. 3)d.
Serge Neglige, a light warm wool material In eleven new
Indian Cashmeres, 42Yn" to 18 in! wide, Is. IOJd. and
As.lidd.; English Cashmeres, ls.3Jd.and ls.GJd.ayard.
The Eatamene Serge, Newest Colours, ls.OJd. und Is. Gjd.
Cashmere Estamene. 25 in. wide, 9Jd.
French Beige FoulO, Alin, wide. Is 4jd.
The Prnrts'rmigl) Twill, New Autumn Colours, 1()}d.
Scotch Cashmere Estamene. Is. >ld. and Is. G)d.
An endless variety of New Skirtings, 40lu. wide at
Is. llid.. as. lljd., 3s. Gjd., and ts. lid. a yard.
Patterns of all kinds post-free.
534,535,636. and 537, New Oxfonl-street. London.
TTENRY GLAVE’S
XI SILKS. SATINS. VELVETS. AND VELVETEENS.
Black Silks, rich Gros Grains, 2s. lljd.; late 3s. BJd.
Black Silks, a new make, wear giuiranteed. "Tile
Empress.*’ not weighted with dye, hut mode of all pure
silk, price 3s. 161. a yard.
Black Silks, several thousand yards, from the best Lyons
firms, from 3«. 6Jd. to 15s. a yard.
Oxonian Velveteens, are bine blacks. Is. lljd. to 4s. lid.
Tho Louis Velveteen is dyed the fashionable Oriental
blue black, and made various qualit ies.
76)0 yards Rich Coloured Velveteens, 50 different shades,
26in. wide, 2s. 10)d. a yard.
Silk Costume Velvet, in Black, 27 in. wide, only Gs. lid.
the yanl. Patterns free.
Black Satins, a specially cheap lot. at 2s. Gjd.; Coloured
Satins, in every possible shade, 1 b. lljd. to 4s. lid. a
yard. Patterns free.
634,535.536. and 537, New Oxford-street. London.
OHIRTS. — FORD’S EUREKA. — “ The
kj most perfect fitting made." — Observer. Gentlemen
desirous of purchasing Shirts of the best quality should try
Fowl's Eureka. 30s.. 40s. 45s. haD-dowm. Illustrations and self-
measure post-free.—41. Poultry, London.
CHARLES GASK and CO. (Limited),-
^ Oxford-street;
_, __ 1 to 5, Wells-street. London.
CARRIAGE ENTRANCE, 6. Wells-street.
T3ICH SILK and other COSTUMES.
I^bricCef^J'f?^. of /‘ ch Brochc Velvet.and Silken'
Af ANTLES, ULSTERS, and SEALSKINS,
The ''nr-ortatlonoftticIartestNoyelUc^
trhumed^ “ r p “ lotot < 1 “nd 2 guineas. hand;CUlcly
nmqua?i™ TelUnS U,eter *- R " w ° o1 - <n 27 shades, at 1 guinea.
Bma"lersize?/n (^Yon. 38 ,n ‘ ,n ,en ^ h ' 9 ‘ ^'neas each.
I ur-lined Mantles and Paletots. 31s. 6d. to 6 guineas.
T)RESS MATERIALS in all the Newest
Hair Cloth*” ». Id. ^*retHn*s^RainpoorClothi S the new ILoch*
yard™ ' *° ' UUcJ ‘ U,ed lu °"nibinatlon. 2s. 6d. to 6s. 6d. per
AKtRliS,."" 6hmIcS ' 1,d " m., «nd
A/TOURNING GOODS
,,, , „ of every description at most moderate prices.
BrecbM^tmni^'rei'T’ K “ rt- 2 Suinear. Black and Whiter
1 pninwi; handfioino Custumrs. trimme'd with.
BSSSi a*
Iples of all goods free.
Putterns and Samples
CILKS.—SPECIAL NOTICE.
Bilksh.T,.^a S nf BI 'Mk and Oolonred
prT^^.tt 20 PlT “ ut aud “ >“*
CHARLES GASK and CO. (Limited),
tr t S l 8 ' "a' ®°' 61, 62 ’ **' Dxford-street; 1, 2. 3, 4, 3, Wells-.
T OUIS ^LVETEENS, Dyed in the N ew '
toretidn Blue Bln-k by a special process, are guaranteed
prices are from Is. lljd. to 4s. lid. 1 U
JAMES SPENCE an^CO* M?P»nPs-chnrchyard.
'THE LOUIS GENOA PILE VELVETEEN,
n a,| d6s. lid. per yard.
Cannot be dintiui^uiilicd from velvets at 21a. to 30a. per yard.
COLOURED VELVETEENS in 100 Choice
made,«.; u'.\^ri : ce , !r 1 ,Fd ri * 6 p?t^J^fr^ iCl,eat<1U ‘ Uity
JAMES SPENCE and CO., St. PanPs-chur'chyard.
flYPRUS SILK.-A Specialite.—A New
Pure Silk of ektl'eme richness, beautifully soft, and lias
thehnmlsomo fcfllwt of a Lynns Grog Grain at. half a guinea a
yam. The shades are simply lovely, and the choice almost
Unlimited. Only 2s. llid. per yard.
. Patterns free.
JAMES SPENCE and CO.. St. Panl's-chnrchyard.
SPECIALITY for WIDOWS' MILLINERY.
Cz A large and varied assortment of Widows' Caps, Ac., for
First and Second Mourning, of the most superior quality
und styles, on view at lire. Creaton’s Show-liooim>, an Inspection
of which is solicited.
Mrs. CREATON, 291. Regent-street, W.
~T>RETTY r FLOWERS.—Tastefully arranged
A Ili-idal Bouquets from 7s. 6(1.; Bridesmaids' Bouquets from
3s. Gd. each. Baskets of Cut Mowers and Plants. Forwarded to
any part of London or country.
WILLIAM HOOPER, 88, Oxford-street, London, W.
G olden h a i r.—rob are’s
AUREOLINE produces the beautiful Golden Colour so
much admired. Warranted perfectly harmless. Price 6s. Gd. and
10s. Gd., of all Perfumers. Wholesale, 1IOVENDEN and SONS,
6, Great Marlborough-street, W.; and 93 and 95, City-road, E.O.
London; Pinand and SIeyer,37. Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris;
81. Grahcn, Vienna; 44, Rue des Longs Chariots. Brussels.
D oes your hair turn grey?
Then nse HERRING'S PATENT MAGNETIC BRUSHES.
and COMBS. Brushes. 10s. and 15s. each. Combs,2s.«d.,5s.,7s.6d.,
10s.. 15s.. and 20s. each. Pamphlets upon application.—5. Great
Marlboroug^-st.. W.; 93 and 95. Oity-road; and of all Perfumers.
UDA VERITAS.—GREY HAIR
restored bythis valuable specific to its original shade, after.
“-the natural colour, not grey. Used ire r 1 --
N ,
hlch it grows the natural co
- turning grey, or white, or failing off. use
___Henewer.” for it will positively restore in
every case Grey or White Hair to its original colour, witl)out
leaving the disagreeable smell of most •' Restorers." It makes
the hair charmingly beautiful, as well as promoting the growth.,
oi the hair on bald spots where the glands are not decayed. Ask
suy (hemlst for the " Mexican Hair Henewer." price 3s. 6d.
Piepared by HENRY C. GALLUP. 423. Oxford-street, London.
I ^LORILINE. For the Teeth and Breath.
Is the best Liquid Dentifrice In the World : it thoroughly
cleai ses partially-decayed teeth from all parasites or living
" animalcule," leaving them pearly white, imparting a delight¬
ful iragianee to the breath. Price 2s. Gd. per Bottle. The
Fragrant Floriline removes instantly all odours arising from a
foul stomach or tobacco smoke, being partly composed of honey,
soda, and extracts of sweet herbs ana plants. It is perfectly
harmless, and delicious os sherry. Prepared bv HENRY 0.
GALLUP, 493, Oxford-street, London. Retailed everywhere.
TOIIN G0SNELL and CO.’S VIOLET
O and MILLEFLEUK POWDER, for the Toilet and Nursery.
Universally admired for its purity and fragrance Sold by all.
Chemists and Perfumers. Wholesale, 93, Upper Thiunes-street
TJREIDENBACII’S ABRONIA.—The New
JL> Scent for 1878. Delicate, nfnMuff, «n*l rlnmblo, 2s. (kl. to
40 b. per B"ttle. Breidenbach's MACASSAK1NE, iauilualilo for
preserving the Growth of the Hair. 1«., 2*. Cd., As. per Bottle.
Of all Cneminth and the Makers. 157 b, New B*m>l-yti-eet. W,
pAUTION—The MACASSzAR OIL for
V/ nourishing the hair, und ODONTO for wlilten-
lnc the teeth, prepared by A. ROWLAND and
SONS, of 20, liut ton garden. Lou ‘
only genuine articles sold nu ll
similar names. Avoid cheap irnt*
f these or
pIESSE and LUBIN’S
PESTACHIO-NCT SKIN AND COMPLEXION POWDER
imparts a natural whiteness and youthfnl delicacy to the akin,
attainable by no other means ; also represses the unpleasantness
of too copious perspiration.—2, New Bond-street. London. W. Slay
be had of all the fashionable Perfnmers and Druggists through¬
out the Earth, with the same facility iu a book. In boxes,
•2s. Gd.. 4s. 6d.. 10a. Gd., and21s. each. Price-Lists post-free.
I j'AU DE CHYPRE.—PIESSE and LUBIN-
J This is an ancient perfume from Cyprus. During tho
national career of Egypt. Persia, Greece, and Rome, the Island
of ClTrus was the resort of the elite, learned, and n final. It
was at the time of the Crusades, when Richard I. of England
stunned the title of Kiiig of Cyprus, that Mo- famed Eau de
Chypie was introduecd into Europe, the composition of which
is vet preserved in the archives of the LaUiratory of Piesse and
Liil'in. Those who are ciirions in ancient perfumes can bo
gratified at 2, New Bond-street. London.
rj^HE
COURT HAIR DESTROYER.—Thie.
newly-discovered remedy completely re
372
THE tt.T.TTSTEATEP LONDON NEW8_
OCT. 19, 1878
NEW MUSIC.
TMPROVED
COMBINING* PIPESJJITH HEEDS,
riHAPPELL and CO.’S
AMERICAN ORGANS.
CLOUGH
s possess over the
isrsTchappell and
undertake Uienole A*oncy of ^'^^'“MpSness. 1:1017
Bond-aticct.
DETROIT. U.8.A.
The Inimente advantage* these Instrun
Organs hitherto imported have Induced
and WARREN’S
_JUBITE ORGAN.”
ssa^gtfSatf-—■
Bo.,
s Ic ss?-SS
forc “ h -
Cottages from 20 guineas.
Grands from 50 guineas.
SO, Now Bond-street.
CJECONDHAND PIANOFORTES
0 50, New Bond-street,
mar be hired, with option of purchass. or on the Three-
System," at greatly reduced prices.
at
SECONDHAND PIANOFORTES now on
CHAPPELL and CO., i
ERAllD. .
CHAPPELL.
ROSENKHANZ.
New Bond-utreet.
S EC °cK|ooe.,StSSS-
Upwards of a hundred varieties now on view.
At OHAPPKLL*and*O0*'8, SO. Sow Bond-itrect.
QHAPPELL and CO.’S SPECIALITIES
in ORGAN HARMONIUMS.
new music.
■gOOSEY and CO.’S NEW LIST.
This day, price 10a. 6d„ cloth,
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restored, and the people gradually made their way out
of the main door, as well as by the other exits. The panic,
however, had done its worst, though brief in duration. In a
few moments thirty-seven dead and numbers of injured
persons were carried out into the street. As fast as possible,
they were placed in cabs and taken off to the Royal Infirmary.
In the interval, different means for restoring animation were
used under the direction of Dr. Worsley, of Manchester, who
happened to be there at the time. Crowds of people followed
the cabs to the Infirmary, and assembled round the entrance to
that institution to watch the conveyance of the bodies into the
hall Here they were received by Dr. Darner Harrison, resi¬
dent medical ofHcer, Mr. Hodgson, and Mr. Twinem. assistant
surgeons. One gentleman was appointed to ascertain whether
there was life in the bodies; the others trying to recover those
who were pronounced to be still living. But out of thirty-nine
persons received only six were living; the others were all dead,
and were placed in a small room in a melancholy array. The
faces were in nearly every instance calm in appearance; and
the verdict of the doctors, from the widely-opened mouths,
was that death had resulted from suffocation. Few bore
marks of outward injuries, but their tom clothing showed
how severe had been the struggle. Three of the living were
removed to the wards for medical treatment, two were able to
walk away, and one remained, being more drunk than
injured. Some of the injured were taken to the Northern
and Southern Hospitals. At the former establishment one
was received dead, and at the latter three. The structure of
the building at the point where the crash took place is
intricate. The exit converges into a narrow well, and in this
the dead Were collected, until they formed a ghastly pile six
or seven bodies deep. The upright before referred to in the
centre of the doorway stopped the passage, until one of the
men attached to the place, having procured an axe, cut it
away, and so enabled some of the imprisom d people to escape.
A scene of great excitement prevailed outside the building.
The fire-engine and fire-escape arrived on the scene, and the
firemen, joining with the police, entered the building to
reassure the people. Mr. Jacob Goodman, the manager, upon
the first alarm, rushed into the pit and shouted to the audience
to remain quiet, but his words had not the least effect on tl e
excited throng. There does not appear to have been the least
foundation for the alarm. The panic over, the people who had
not left the hall remained, whilst others returned; but the
performance was, of course, stopped, and the building was
taken possession of by the police. Major Greig, the head
constable, was present, and took occasion to warn the people
against the folly of raising such panics. The bodies at the
Royal Infirmary were laid out for identification next morning.
There were two women amongst them; the rest were youths
and boys, and so.were the dead at the other hospitals.
Mr. Briggs Priestly, the Mayor of Bradford, last week
opened a handsome block of thirteen dwelling-houses con¬
nected with the Bradford Tradesmen’s Home, erected at the
sole cost of Mrs. Wright, in memory of her husband, the late
Mr. Isaac Wright, a former Mayor of Bradford. The expendi¬
ture was more than £5000, and an additional £1000 has been
invested by Mrs. Wright's son, Mr. J. C. Wright, as an endow¬
ment for the repair of the houses. The thirteen houses make
up forty-three, which form what is known as the Bradford
Tradesmen’s llotne, which consists of dwelling-hcuses for
unsuccessful tradesmen and their wives and widows in their
declining years, and is situated on a broad area of ornamental
ground in n pleasant suburb of Bradford.
There arrived at Liverpool last week from the United States
nnd Canada 2120 live cattle, 6509 sheep, 809 pigs, and 10
calves, numbers which far exceed those of any other week since
the trade in live stock was initiated. As regards sheep, the
increase over any former period is enormous. The importation
of live stock last week is significant from the fact that, although
the weather experienced in most instances was very severe, the
mortality amongst the animals in transit was small. There
was also a larger supply of fresh meat. Four steamers arrived
from New York and one from Philadelphia, bringing 4280
quarters of beef, 535 carcases of mutton, and 710 packages of
fresh butter.—The steam-ship Brooklyn, recently bought by
the Dominion Steam-Ship Company, arrived in the Mersey on
Monday, from Canada, with her first, cargo of live stock,
comprising 2010 sheep and 442 head of fat cattle.
A case of most audacious fraud came before the Birming¬
ham borough sessions yesterday week. George Dunn,
described as a merchant, was convicted of various frauds. A
few months ago he opened a small shop, and sent circulars all
over the country, headed “The Birmingham Bedstead and
General Hardware Company,” requesting orders accompanied
by remittances, as, according to the circular, the company
intended *• doing nothing but a cash trade." Numerous orders
inclosing checks and post-office orders were sent to the
“ company,” but no goods were received. When letters com¬
plaining of the delay in the sending of goods were pent to the
prisoner, he replied that the delay was owing to the pressure
of business, and issued prospectuses stating that the company
had been turned into " Moore, Thomas, and Company
(Limited), incorporated under the Companies Act 1862 and
1867, with a capital of £10,000, divided into 2000 shares of £5
each.” The public were invited to take shares, and a large
number was subscribed. It was proved that the company was
not incorporated, and was in renlity fictitious. After Dunn’s
arrest his stock-in-trade was sold for £6, and it appeared that
he had been sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment as a
fraudulent bankrupt at Leicester. He was sentenced to fifteen
months’ imprisonment.
THE PRESIDENCY OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
In accordance with the rules of the Royal Academy of Arts, a
meeting of the members has been appointed to take place one
month after the interment (on Saturday last) of Sir Francis
Grant, in order to elect a successor to the presidential chair
left vacant by his lamented death. The task of selection
appears to be regarded as of more thim ordinary difficulty and
delicacy. At least four Academicians are named as presenting
nearly equal claims; but it is not always certain that the office
will be accepted by the member upon whom the choice may
fall It is no secret that, on the last election, the presidency
was in the first instance offered to, and successively declined
by Sir Edwin Landseer and Mr. Maclise. On that occasion
eminence in the artistic profession was evidently a paramount
consideration in the minds of the Academicians (and very
properly so) in the nomination of the official head of the fine
arts in this country. And now, if the honour were to be offered
to at least one of the most eminent members of the Academy
it would be almost certainly declined, so unambitious is tho
character of some of the ablest artists of our school.
It may be interesting shortly to describe the process of
election to the presidency-the same process applying equally
to tho election of Associates and their elevation to full Mem¬
bership, and which has been unvaryingly used since the
election of the present secretary. The plan is the more worthy
of notice because it is, like many other of the internal regu¬
lations of the Academy—whatever may be its shortcomings
in other respects-well devised to secure purity. We should
premise that no voting by proxy is allowed. One reason is that
members should not vote, as it were, in the dark, but have the
benefit of the discussion in the council, or general meeting,
on the merits of candidates or nominees. The names of
those proposed for election are chalked on a black board, and
each member has a list. Against the name of his choice the
voter privately makes a mark or “ scratch.” All those names
which have three or more marks are subjected to a fresh
“ scratching,” and the two names which en mite receive the
highest number of marks are finally put to a vote by ballot.
Curiously enough, it not unfrequentiy happens that of the two
names which come out of the second scratching with the most
marks, tho one which has a minority only comes out of the
ballot with a majority.
To speculate respecting the probable successor to Sir
Francis Grant is not unnatural. An attempt, however, to
influence the choice of the Academy in favour of any individual
candidate or candidates, is not, we conceive, within our pro¬
vince. There are severed Academicians almost equally eligible;
and the Forty themselves should be in a better position to
estimate relative suitability than any “outsider. ’ Never¬
theless, there are some most important considerations
which may, without impropriety, be submitted to the
Academicians; seeing that all bodies, self-elective, and hold¬
ing their councils within closed doors, are liable, however
unconsciously, to be biassed by corporate interests or prestige,
and personal predilections, in forgetfulness, more or less, of
public obligations. First, then, it is of the highest consequence
that the future President should be the best artist that can be
induced to accept the post. Although the office is most
inadequately paid, the honour (which on that account is the
greater) should go to the worthiest. It is likewise most
desirable that he should belong to no clique, and that his art
should be of indigenous, not exotic, growth—should represent
the national life and character. For, such an artist would, in
a measure, raise the status and increase the estimation of
British art, both at home and abroad. Secondly, the future
President should—since the Academy is a school as well as an
arena for the profession at large—be an active and enlightened
promoter of art-education, and an impartial and sympathetic
friend to his brethren both withinand withoutthe academic pale.
The President haslittle power directly; his throne resembles that
of a Constitutional Monarch ; he has only a casting vote in the
event of a balance of votes. Indirectly, however, he can
exert much influence alike in the secret councils of the
Academy, and in many public relations which are or should be
incidental to the office. But, though desirable, it is not neces¬
sary that he should have a scholarly acquaintance with the
history of art, like Sir Charles Eastlake; or be able to give,
like Sir Joshua Reynolds, a masterly exposition of its
principles; or, indeed, be a teacher otherwise than by his
work; for there are Professors within and attached to the
Academy.
Other requirements are quite secondary, or purely fanciful.
An absurd impression seems to prevail that the President of
the Royal Academy should be, before all things, a courtier and
an orator—perhaps because there have been one or more
Presidents that were these, and little more. But the first and
greatest President, Sir Joshua Reynolds, was no courtier
in the sense intended; rather, he himself was courted
by the major part of the rank and wealth, the beauty
and learning of his time. A mere rhetorical display is
barely listened to in the first assemblage of the realm; and few
men who have received a liberal art education would be in¬
capable of setting forth in an acceptable manner the plain
facts concerning the progress of British art, which is all that is
looked for from the President on returning thanks to the toast
of the Royal Academy at the annual dinner in Burlington
House. The Court and aristocracy do honour to themselves in
honouring the arts which adorn the life of all classes in their
degree. The day has happily long past when British artiHts
were almost entirely dependent on fashionable “ patronage”—
and that vouchsafed for portraiture alone. It is the great
middle class that has created the enormously increased demand
for the products of British genius nnd taste. It is the great
British public that has caused the marvellous development of
British art, which has placed it, at least in several of its appli¬
cations to industry, second to none, if not superior to all, in
the world-wide competition now about to close in the capital
of our artistic neighbours. T. J. G.
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION.
The annual exhibition of the Photographic Society of Great
Britain is now open for a short time at the gallery of the
Society of Painters in Water Colours, Pall-mall. We miss
from the walls some of the most valuable contributors of
former years; particularly of the class of amateurs whose
legitimate success was due to their aiming at purely scientific
and artistic results, without resorting to any artifice to secure
a trading profit. We think the society would act wisely by
not only rendering (as already done) ineligible for a medal
photographs “improved” by hand, but by limiting the works
admissible in the exhibition to pure photographs from un-
I sophisticated negatives. At all events, any “ retouching ” of
| portraits, any additions of skies to landscapes, any “ com-
i bination’’ contrivances; in short, any falsification of the
direct products of the camera from nature, taken at a single
sitting, should be distinctly avowed in the catalogue.
This would prevent the exhibition from degenerating into
a show-room and advertising medium for the benefit, prin¬
cipally. of those who are least scrupulous in the means adopted
I to catch the eye and flatter ignorant or perverted taste.
Take, for example, the portraits. We may safely say that
nearly the whole have beeu touched up by hand; in most
cases the flesh has been stippled all over, though the touch's
may be almost too minute for the eye to follow. It is this
“ retouching” which gives the waxen hue or the woolly or puffy
surface to the flesh, the insipid expression, the characterless
want of detail, the glaring eyes, that render so much photo¬
graphic portraiture comparatively worthless. A remarkable
illustration of the truth of our remark is afforded in the present
display. We allude to two photographs by Mr. G. Nesbitt, from
a negative portrait of a man in slouched hat and swathed cloak
called “ The Brigand.” The first (142) is “untouched," as
stated in the catalogue; the other (202) has undergone the usual
manipulation. In the former the eye may, it is true, lock due
brilliancy; the lips may be too white, owing to the diffusion
of the light on smooth surfaces in photography ; the skin may
appear unnaturally coarse, and freckles and the colour of the
hair may be much deepened in tone, because, while photo¬
graphy is almost insensible to the softening pearly tints, it
greatly exaggerates in intensity the yellows and reds Never¬
theless, an artist would not hesitute for a moment in prefer¬
ring the former. The difference is that between a painting by
Rembrandt in his more vigorous manner and a tame, over¬
wrought miniature.
Several other portraits by Messrs. Lombardi, Slingsbv
Boucher, and Lock and Whitfield possess much merit, making
due deduction for the retouching; and the costume por¬
traits of Mr. Shuter may afford suggestions to artists. Mr.
Faulker’s faint portraits of children on opal glass strengthened
in sepia are more frankly wrought up by hand, and are charming
vignette sketches, so to speak. 'ITiis operator is peculiarly
happy in seizing—of course by thei nstantaneous process—the
characteristic attitudes and gestures of his little models. It
is much easier to work by the instantaneous process on a
small scale, and a tiny photograph may be enlarged to nearly
any dimensions, as shown in some remarkable examples exhi¬
bited by the Autotype Company. The value of the process in
the rendering of animals is illustrated in contributions by Mr.
H. Dixon ; and in sea-studies with yachts in full sail, by Mr.
P. Jennings—the later of which have been awarded a medal.
In the department of “genre” a medal has also been given
to Mr. G. Nesbett for an artistically arranged group of a little
girl fondling a dog with a “broken leg” enveloped in
bandages. Another medal has been carried off by Mr. A. W.
Wilson for one of an expressive series of figures illustrating
Shakspeare’s “ Seven Ages of Man.”
In landscape the exhibition is, as usual, very rich. Some
views in Warwickshire, by Mr. Bedford, leave, it need hardly
be said, nothing to desire. They are “not for competition,"
Mr. Bedford having been a member of the jury. To Mr.
Vernon Heath a medal has beeu awarded for a series of land¬
scapes ; and there are many other admirable works in this sec¬
tion by Captain Abney, Messrs. H. Cooper, Pringle, &c. One
of the surprises of the exhibition is the excellence of the work
turned out by the School of Military Engineering, Chatham,
considering that the students can have little experience of the
requirements of picturesque landscape photography. A view
“ Near Bettws-y-Coed ” by the school has been justly
awarded a medal, although there are few planes of dis¬
tance to test the operator’s delicacy of chemical manipu¬
lation and focal adjustment. Mr. England sends numerous
illustrations cf the buildings and courts of (he Paris Universal
Exhibit on ; and Mr. G. Berwick points to the applications of *
photography to scientific purposes in his “ Micr photographs.”
Mr. Wamercke has lent a highly interesting series of Russian
and Swedish subjects, some of them taken in the Russian state
establishments. The Woodbury Company (to whom a medal
has been given) exhibit samples of its highly ingenious pro¬
cess of reproduction in a series of “ book illustrations,”
which present great fidelity to the originals from which
they were taken. By the side of the printed impressions
are the metal blocks from which they were taken; and
a fresh wonder is awakened at seeing hard metal dng
into as though it were by the burin, knowing all the while
that those furrows are due to pressure of a mere photo¬
graphic film. The sole drawback of the process—and it is
only a commercial one that is perhaps compensated for by
other advantages—is that the printing is less direct than in the
rapidly-improving processes of the “ Eliotype,” the French
“ Photogravure," and the “Autotype.” A transparency of an
interior taken by lamp or gas light (of course, by means of a
long exposure), exhibited by Mr. Bennet, is suggestive of the
possibility of new applications of photography being found on
the introduction of electrical lighting.
A rale of the society which forbids the introduction of
photographs coloured by hand has not prevented some
specimens of the so-called “ Poikilographic Process” of colour¬
ing, introduced by Lombardi and Co., from finding their way
to the stairs leading to the gallery. These are simply photo¬
graphic transparencies on thin prepared paper or canvas,
painted in colours on the reverse, so as to show through.
Artistically considered, the process is almost valueless,
though less objectionable than painting on the obverse,
for the reason that the photograph is less obscured
nnd falsified. It is also an advance on the “ photoebronue
of M. Vidal—that is to say, the application of variously-
coloured films of gelatine— for the display of which a special
pavilion has been provided in the Champ de Mars. But it is
obviously not the slightest approach to photographing in
colours : the photographers are as far off as ever from making
Apollo a colourist as well as draughtsman ; nnd, if they were
to succeed, the result would be no more a work of art than the
present photograph is so, and the sun-god would be no more an
artist than he now is. In the section of apparatus, a medal
has been awarded to Cadett’s patent pm-umatio shutter,
devised for rapidly closing the mouth of the camera. It is
more portable than tho electrical apparatus for the same
Tve may announce, in conclusion, thut a competition is
invited, by the dry-plate process now so much in use, tor a
prize of £50, offered by Mr. Joseph Paget.
The Duke of Marlborough has appointed Lord Gough and
Sir R. Wallace to be trustees of the Irish National Gallery.
The Duke of Connaught yesterday week, at the Guildhall,
distributed the Queen's prizes awarded to students ot un
Metropolitan Drawing Classes.
Our portrait of the late Mr. Justice Keogh in last week *
issue was taken from a photograph by Mr. Cranfield, of Uratto
street, Dublin.
The Lord Mayor’s colleagues in the representation of the
Ward of Bishopsgate have presented his Lordship *n
portrait of the Lady Mayoress, painted by Mr. Hughes, K . •
The private view of the Twenty-sixth Annual "
Exhibition of Pictures at the French Gallery will take P *"
next Saturday, and the exhibition will be open to the P UL>
on Monday, the 28th inst.
The French Government has ordered a statue and two bust*
of M. Thiers—the former for the Museum of Versailles—of
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Guillaume ; and the others, one for the institute and one for
the native city of the illustrious statesman, of M. Chanu and
Madame Claude Vignon.
The final casting of Mr. Foley’s equestrian statue of the
late Lord Gough, which was to be erected on Carlisle Bridge,
Dublin, was successfully accomplished on Saturday after¬
noon at the foundry of Messrs. Masefield and Co., Chelsea. It
is expected that the work will be completed and in readiness
for the formal ceremony of unveiling within six months. This
statue, which was originally sketched by Mr. Foley, has been
finished by his pupil and chief assistant, Mr. Thomas Brock.
The funeral of Sir Francis Grant took place at Melton
Mowbray last Saturday, the ceremony being performed by the
Archbishop of York, Chaplain to the Royal Academy, and the
Rev. Dr. Collis, Vicar of Melton Mowbray. The funeral was
attended by, in addition to the members of thedeceased’sfamily,
most of the chief members of the Royal Academy. The pall¬
bearers were the Duke of Rutland, Lord Kinnaird, Viscount
Hardinge, Mr. Charles Grant, and Mr. W. C. Marshall, R.A.,
Mr. Cope, R.A., Mr. Frith, R.A., and Mr. Redgrave, R.A.
Colonel Grant and Mrs. Grant were the chief mourners. Mr.
George Scharf, Keeper and Secretary of the National Portrait
Gallery, was present at the funeral. Sir Francis was a trustee
of the Gallery, and always manifested a warm interest in its
advancement. Mr. Alfred Bierstadt, the American landscape-
painter, attended as the representative of theFine-Arts Society
of the United States.
The Society of Arts announce that their opening meeting
will be held on Nov. 20, when the chairman’s address will be
given and the following medals presentedThe Albert
Medal (gold), for “ Distinguished Merit in Promoting Arts,
Manufactures, or Commerce,” to Sir William G. Armstrong,
“ because of his distinction as an engineer and as a scientific
man;” to Alexander Graham Bell, for his paper on “The
Telephone; ” to J. Bennett Lawes, for his paper on “Freedom
in the Growth and Sale of the Crops of the Farm, considered
in its bearings upon the interests of Landowners and Tenant
Farmers;” to W. II. Preece for his paper on “The Phono¬
graph or Talking Machine; ” to R. M. Gover, for his paper
on “ Dietaries in their Physiological, Practical, and Economic
Aspects; ” to Basil H. Cooper for his paper on “ Egyptian
Obelisks and their Relation to Chronology and Art; ” to H.
B. Cotterill, for his paper on “ A Year on the Nyassa, with
Notes on the Slave Trade, and on the prospects and means of
opening up the surrounding country ; ” to Sir Joseph Fayrer,
M.D., for his paper on “ The Destruction of Life in India by
Wild Animals; ” to W. T. Thornton, for his paper on “ Irri¬
gation regarded as a Preventive of Indian Famine;” to
Colonel J. T. Smith, R.E., formerly Master of the Mint, Ma¬
dras and Calcutta, for his paper on “ The Depreciation of the
Value of Silver, with especial reference to the exchange between
India and England, and suggestions for a remedy; ” to F. C.
Danvers,, for his paper on “Agriculture in India;” to James
Mactear, for his paper on “ Some Recent Improvements Con¬
nected with Alkali Manufacture; ” to Dr. Yates for his paper
on “Higher Commercial Education;” and to Mr. Thomas
Wills, on “ Explosions in Coal-Mines.” The following
examination prizes have been awarded:—The Prince Consort’s
prize of 25 guineas to G. W. Irons, who has obtained nine
first-class certificates ; the council prize(for female candidates)
of 10 guineas to Emma Dickes, of the Birkbeck Literary and
Scientific Institution, who has obtained three first-class cer¬
tificates and about twenty other prizes in commercial and other
subjects. The council also announce that the following papers
will be read:—On Nov. 27, “The Land of Midian,” by Captain
Burton ; Dec. 4, “The Electric Light,” Tully illustrated with
experiments, by T. N. Shoolbrcd; Dec. 11, “The Route to
India, with especial reference to the Euphrates Valley Rail¬
way,” by Hyde Clarke; Dec. 18, “ Science Teaching in Ele¬
mentary Schools,” by Dr. Gladstone, F.R.S. ; and the first
course (six in number) of lectures by W. M. Williams on “ The
Manufacture of Mathematical Instruments.”
The Misses Brooke, sisters of the late Mr. John Brooke,
Q.C., have forwarded to the National Life-Boat Institution
£600 to defray the cost of a new boat for Cahore, on the coast
of Wexford.
The Bradford and Thornton portion of a new railway in
course of construction between Bradford and Halifax, and
Bradford and Keighley, in connection with the Great Northern
system was opened on Monday for passenger traffic. The work
was begun four years ago. This portion of the line has been
open some time for mineral traffic.
At the meeting of the Surrey magistrates last Tuesday the
report of the committee of visitors appointed to provide an
additional lunatic asylum for the county, which contained a
recommendation that the plans of the new asylum and the
estimates prepared by them be sanctioned, and that the finance
committee be empowered to raise £200,000 when called upon
to do so by the committee of visitors, to be at their disposal as
they might require, was agreed to.
A public meeting, attended by the leading agriculturists of
the district, was held on Tuesday at the Royal Hotel, Slough,
for the purpose of establishing a com market at that place.
There is already a cattle market of considerable importance
held on Tuesdays at Slough, and it has been thought that the
addition of a com market would be a great convenience. A
resolution having been unanimously passed that a corn market
be held every Tuesday at one o’clock, the market was on
Tuesday declared open. The market will be held for a time
at the Royal Hotel, near the railway station.
All the arrangements are complete for the holding of the
twenty-second annual Congress of the National Association for
the Promotion of Social Science, which will be held at Chel¬
tenham next week, beginning on Wednesday. The week’s pro¬
gramme may be summed up as follows:—On Wednesday, the
23rd, after morning meetings of the committee of departments
and the council, there will be a sermon in the afternoon by the
Rev. Dr. Barry, Canon of Worcester, at the parish church, and
at the evening meetiug, at the Assembly-room, at eight o’clock,
the President (Lord Norton) will deliver the inaugural address.
The addresses of the presidents of the different departments
will be given on successive mornings—viz., on Thursday by
Professor Bonomy Price (Economy and Trade); on Friday by
the Hon. George Broderick (Education); on Saturday by Mr.
W. H. Michael, Q.C., F.C.S. (Health); on Monday. 28th, by
Mr. Commissioner Miller, Q.C., LL.D. (Jurisprudence and
Amendment of the Law) ; and on Tuesday by Mr. Gambier
Parry (Art). On the last morning, Wednesday, the 30th, the
president of the council, Mr. G. W. Hastings, null also give an
address. The five departments will meet daily in different
sections during the week. On Thursday night there is to be a
conversazione, on Saturday there will be excursions to places
in the neighbourhood, and on the following Tuesday a con¬
versazione will be held at the Ladies’ College. The concluding
meeting will be held on Wednesday afternoon, the 30th, at
the Queen’s Hotel.
THEATRES.
Two new pieces, both of an irregular character, have been
produced since our last notice—one at the Folly, and the other
at the Court; the former a success, the latter with an equivocal
result.
The former is an extravaganza, entitled “Tantalus; or,
Many a Slip ’Twixt Cup and Lip,” by Arthur Matthison and
Charles Windham. They who recollect “ the musical mad¬
ness, in three fyttes,” called “ The Night of Terror,” or “ La
Boite a Bibi,” on which it was founded, will understand the
kind of thing now produced. “Tantalus” is divided into
“ five sips,” in which the hero is brought into near but not
actual contact with the object of his desire, that even to the
end evades his pursuit. The incidents are partly suggested by
some of the situations in “ La Boite a Bibi” aforesaid, so far
connected with the previous piece alluded to as “ The Night
of Terrors.” The hero is personated by Mr. W. J. Hill, as
one Mark Chubbley, a sentimental locksmith, in love with an
aristocratic lady, Madame Vere de Vere, a widow (Miss Annie
Poole), and meets with the most ludicrous accidents in
the course of his adventures. It is almost impossible to
describe these within reasonable limits. They are scarcely in¬
telligible when witnessed, they would be much less so if told.
Besides, the interest could not be maintained in the narrative.
The central situation is the unconscious drugging of Chubbley,
who in a state of insensibility is treated not as a man but
as a thing. The action throughout proceeds with a
dazzling and perplexing rapidity which precludes even
any attempt at reflection. Character is out of the question
One, however, is permitted to make its mark; that
of Mrs. Gunne-Cotton (Miss Lydia Thompson), whose husband,
Major Gunne-Cotton (Mr. Lionel Brough), with his Irish ex¬
travagance, provokes the jealousy or impatience of his excitable
partner. The whole passes before the mind as a perpetually-
changing panorama, like an evanescent vision, which fades as
soon as seen. The scenes are artistically illustrated with
fashionable accessories, well calculated to ensure the success of
the performance.
The Court is now under the temporary conduct of Mr. W.
H. Stephens, who appears to work under disadvantage. Miss
Agnes Leonard is the leading actress of his company. The new
piece is entitled “ Memories; ” it is in three acts, and written,
it is whispered, by Mr. T. A. Palmer. Like its predecessor,
“ Marie, the Pearl of Savoy,” it appears to be deficient in the
requisite dramatic art, without which, in these days, no so-
called drama can take possession of the boards. Not having
been invited to witness the performance, we cannot personally
speak as to its merits.
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NEWSPAPERS FOR FOREIGN PARTS.
A very large number of newspapers posted for foreign parts are
daily kept back and sent to the Returned Letter Office in conse¬
quence of one or more of the regulations not being complied
with. In the great majority of cases these newspapers cannot
be returned to the senders, so that not only do they fail to
reach the persons for whom they were intended, but the
senders themselves are unaware of their having been
detained. The most common fault in these cases is an
insufficient prepayment of the postage. Some of the news¬
papers are prepaid a half-penny only, which is the postage
for an inland newspaper, and some, although exceeding four
ounces in weight, are prepaid only a penny, the right postage
in most cases being a penny for every four ounces, or fraction
of that weight, in the case of each separate newspaper. A
large proportion of the newspapers are found to be written
upon, or to have inclosures, sometimes letters, inserted in
them, and not a few are posted beyond eight days from the
date of publication. The public arc requested, in order to
prevent disappointment to themselves, to be careful not only
to prepay sufficient postage on the newspapers which they
post for foreign parts, but also to comply Btrictly with all the
regulations affecting such newspapers as laid down in the
“ British Postal Guide.”
BOOKS FOR THE UNITED STATES.
In a communication received from the United States Post
Office in December last, and announced to the public, it was
stated that a book sent from this country to the United States
in the mails was exempt from Customs duty provided it did not
exceed in value one dollar. The Postmaster-General has now
been informed by the United States Post Office that this
exemption is not an absolute right, but is altogether subject to
the discretion of the collectors of Customs, who are instructed
not to permit the delivery of books imported through the mails
which are sent by publishers or booksellers in the way of trade,
or which, from the quantity or other circumstances, are pre¬
sumably intended for the use of anyone other than the person
to whom they are addressed, even though such books are of less
value than one dollar. It should be understood that no exemp¬
tion from duty will be allowed except in the case of single
copies of books transmitted through the post for the use of
private persons sent in good faith for that purpose.
Through the use of the electric light a football-match,
witnessed by nearly 30,000 persons, was played on Monday
night at Sheffield.
The South London Free Library and Reading-Room will be
open for men and women daily (excepting Saturday and Sunday)
from 9.30 until twelve, as well as in the evening.
Baron Dimsdale was on Monday elected Deputy-Chairman
of the Herts Quarter Sessions, in succession to Earl Cowper,
who was elected Chairman on the retirement of Lord Salisbury;
and at the Oxfordshire Quarter Sessions on the same Jay Mr.
C. E. Thornhill was unanimously elected Chairman of County
Sessions, in the place of Mr. Hugh Hamersley, who retires;
the Earl of Jersey being unanimously appointed Vice-Chairman
in Mr. Thornhill’s place.
One of the balloons with which the military authorities
have been experimenting at Woolwich escaped on Monday out
of the hands of those engaged about it. The balloon had been
inflated with gas to the height of sixty feet, and twenty men
were holding it to the ground. The wind, however, being
gusty, the balloon broke away and sailed aloft with only two
or three sand bags attached to the netting. It touche d terra
firma again the same evening in Essex, and was secured.
On Monday the Duke of Cambridge reviewed the troops
statioued at Colchester, on the parade ground at Middlewkk
Farm, near that town.—The Duke of Cambridge, who has been
at Port mouth on his annual inspection, was present last
Tuesday at a sham figl.t on Portsdown-hill. About five thou¬
sand men were engaged, the defending force occupying Fort
Fareham. on the crest of the hill. The object of the attack
was to carry the fort by assault, so as lo plant artillery on the
hill and destroy Portsmouth Dockyard. After nearly an hour s
vigorous fighting, the Duke decided that the attack had b« eu
successful A march past concluded the day’s engagement, in
which the local rifle volunteers took part.
THE RETURN OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY.
It does not seem as though Russia intended to withdraw more
than a portion of her army from Turkey, the province of
Eastern Roumelia, as well as Bulgaria, still remaining in her
military occupation. But the Imperial Guards, and other
bodies of troops, have been conducted homo to St. Petersburg,
where they were greeted, in some instances, with a triumphal
reception, but without much popular enthusiasm. The entry
of a regiment of Cossacks on the 20th ult. is the subject of our
Illustration, from a sketch by Mr. John Beer. The scene
upon this occasion, however, was surpassed three or four days
later by the entry of the Imperial Grenadier Life Guards,
accompanied by four field batteries of Guards Artillery, a
battalion of Sappers, the Staff of the Guards Corps, and a
squadron of Life Guards Gendarmerie, all of whom were
loudly cheered. Among the Grenadiers there was a whole
company of Knights of St. George, several of them being
decorated with two and even three crosses. The St. George is
the only military order par excellence in the Russian army,
and is given for personal valour on the field of battle.
There are four grades of the soldier’s order and four of the
officer’s. Of the former, the first two are silver crosses, the
second two golden ones. The members of the Imperial family
were present at the ceremony of reception. The inhabitants
of the poorest quarter of the city welcomed the Grenadiers right
hospitably, and treated them to a good dinner, with plenty to
drink and smoke, every shopkeeper and inhabitant contributing
his share of the entertainment. The same thing was done by
the dwellers of the Vasily Ostrof, or William’s Island (en¬
circled by the waters of the Great and Small Neva), for the
Finnish regiment, which is quartered in that part of the town.
The tobacconists contributed cigarettes, the bakers bi^ead, the
butchers meat, and the publicans beer and vodka. Tyvo days
after their entrance into the city the officers of the Imperial
Grenadiers were entertained at dinner by the members of the
River Yacht Club.
METROPOLITAN DRAWING CLASSES.
Yesterday week, at an evening meeting, his Royal Highness
the Duke of Connaught presented to the successful com¬
petitors the prizes given by the Queen for students of the
Metropolitan Drawing Classes in connection with the South
Kensington Museum. The ceremony took place at the Guild¬
hall, in the presence of a large assembly, the Lord Mayor
occupying the chair. The Duke remarked that the results of
the present examinations had been most successful, and that
nowhere in the kingdom had they been more so than in the
metropolitan classes, which had taken one fifth of the total
number of prizes. He must, he added, congratulate the work¬
ing men of London upon having these opportunities of improv¬
ing themselves in the art of drawing, which would qualify them
for higher employment in trades and handicrafts., These
classes are opened at Blackfriars, Marylebone and Paddington,
Westminster, Somers-town, Hoxton, Chelsea aud Battersea,
Lambeth, Stockwell, Bermondsey, Peckham, Deptford, Wool¬
wich Arsenal, Hampstead, and Croydon, under the direction of
Mr. W. Busbridge, first-class certificated teacher, assisted by
Messrs. Ellercamp, J. Busbridge, Grovpr, and Spencer; each
class for one evening in the week, besides lessons to be done by the
pupils at home. The instruction comprises geometrical draw¬
ing, machine construction and drawing, building construction
and architectural drawing. Local examinations take place in
each class at the end of the course, whieh terminatee'in May,
when every student who gains a sufficient number of marks is
entitled to a Queen’s Prize. The prizes, thus unlimited in
number, consist of books, drawing instruments, colour-boxes,
and microscopes, with gold and other medals. Her Majesty
and most of her sons and daughters are themselves accom¬
plish d in the art of drawing; and it is pleasing to observe
that these classes are specially patronised by the Royal Family.
THE CITY OF GLASGOW BANK.
Yesterday week a meeting of the shareholders in the City Bank
was held in Glasgow. The idea of resuscitating the bank was,
it is stated, regarded as hopeless, and the general feeling is
said to have been favourable to voluntary liquidat ion as against
compulsory liquidation. A committee of ten Glasgow share¬
holders was appointed, to act with the Edinburgh and Aber¬
deen committees, and take such steps as they considered requisite
for the general interests of the shareholders. Stock in the
bank to the amount of £73,917 is held by the committee.
A meeting of the managers of the Scotch banks was held at
the Bank of Scotland head office at Edinburgh, on the 11th inst.,
for the further consideration of the facilities tobe afforded to the
City of Glasgow Bank depositors. The conclusion arrived at is
contained in an announcement to the effect that the banks are
now prepared to allow depositors of the City of Glasgow Bank,
whose accounts may be taken over by them at their head office
or branches, and who are not shareholders of or debtors to
that bank, the following facilities—viz., 1. On all accounts or
receipts where the total balances do not exceed £200 one half
of the amount will either be placed to depositors’ credit on
current account, or a deposit receipt will be granted therefor,
payable on demand. 2. On all accounts or receipts where the
total balances exceed £200 the banks will issue deposit receipts
for one half of the amount, repayable upon a notice of twelve
months. It will be necessary in every case that a certificate
be procured beforehand from the City of Glasgow Bank
stating the amount due to the depositor, and that he is neither
a shareholder nor indebted to the bank. The City Bank, how¬
ever, have given official notice that they will not be prepared
to issue these certificates until after the 18th inst. In all cases
the full amount of the deposits must be transferred to the
banks, who will charge the same against the City of Glasgow
Bank, and account to the depositors for all payments recovered
from that bonk.
There have been other failures in connection with this bank.
The Cardiff Town Council has decided to buy the local
waterworks for £300,000.
The Ludlow Agricultural Society held their annual plough-
ing-match last Saturday on Lord Windsor’s estate at Felton.
There were sixteen competitors, and the ploughing prize was
taken by John Russell, in the employ of Mr. E. Groucoft.
The Irish Sunday Closing Act came into force last Sunday.
The Dublin constabulary were instructed to see that it was
observed, and the suburban districts presented a quiet appear¬
ance. In many places of worship, both Roman Catholic and
Protestant, allusion was made to the enactment, with the
object of interesting the congregations in its success.
During the quarter ending Sept«mber last, 349 seamen
were admitted to the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, Green¬
wich, as in-patients from the British and foreign ships, of
which number seventy-four came from the port of London,
twenty-one Irom Liverpool, twenty-four from Glasgow, eight
from Newcastle, eight trom Hartlepool, aud seven each from
Shields and Sunderland. In addition to tie British seamen,
eighty sailors of different nationalities were benefited.
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THE DUKE OF CONNAUG1IT DISTRIBUTING
THE QUEEN’S PRIZES FOR DRAWING AT GUILDHALL.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oct. 19, 1878.—377
THE LATE MR. WHALLEY, M.P.
A brief record of the public life of this hon. gentleman, who
died in his sixty-sixth year, at his residence near Llangollen
on the 7th inst., was given in our last publication. He had
been nearly twenty years M.P. for Peterborough; but his
usefulness in the Legislature was much impaired by a sin¬
gular want of tact, and of the sense of due proportion and
plausible likelihood, in his pertinacious advocacy of views not
conducive to the harmonious progress of business. Mr.
Whalley was, nevertheless, a man of considerable intelligence,
of cultivated mind, and of unquestionable sincerity; cordially
patriotic and benevolent, and with an enthusiastic love of
justice. His local influence and activity as a Welsh landowner
in Denbighshire, Montgomery, and Merioneth, as a magistrate,
guardian of the poor, railway director, and patron of
THE LATE MR. G. H. WHALLEY, M.P.
volunteer corps, and in various industrial undertakings,
were exercised much to the general advantage. Personally,
in social and domestic intercourse, he was a good deal liked,
and esteemed by those who knew him. The friendly remarks
to this effect of our regular contributor “ G. A. S.,” in our last
“ Echoes of the Week,” have drawn forth a responsive testi¬
mony from Mr. Freeland Filliter, Recorder of Wareham, who
was intimately acquainted with “ poor George Hammond
Whalley.” We readily admit that gentleman’s expression of
high regard for Mr. WTialley’s “simple, kindly, true-hearted,
and unselfish nature; ” and many other persons will agree in
saying that they always found him ready to do a kind action.
He was, in short, a good man and clever man, with an imper¬
fect faculty of critical perception, and with a sanguine rashness
of temperament, which too often led him into eccentric
mistakes. It may be observed, before quitting this mention of
the late Mr. Whalley, that he was a lineal descendant of
•Edmund Whalley, cousin to Oliver Cromwell, and one of the
members of the “High Court of Justice” which tried King
Charles I. in 1649. There was an ancestor of remoter date
who held a high place at the Court of Edward VI.
Our Portrait of Mr. Whalley is from a photograph by
Messrs. Barraud and Jerrard.
THE PLATT MONUMENT AT OLDHAM.
This monument, dedicated to the memory of the late Mr. John
Platt, M.P. for Oldham, was unveiled by his widow the other
day in front of the Townhall, Oldham. Mr. Platt was member
for Oldham from 1865 to 1872, the time of his death. He was
a Liberal in politics; and, as the head of the great machine
firm of Platt Brothers and Co. (Limited), commanded large
influence in Oldham. The inaugural ceremony was celebrated
with great rejoicing. A procession was formed of upwards of
10,000 people ; the streets were decorated with flags, and at
MONUMENT TO THE LATE MR. JOHN PLATT, M.P.,
AT OLDHAM.
night the town was illuminated. The monument, which is a
statue in bronze, is the work of Mr. D. W. Stevenson, Edin¬
burgh, and cost 3000 guineas. Its pedestal has three support¬
ing female figures, designed to personify Mathematical Science,
Engineering, and the Cotton Manufacture.
THE LATE MR. GEORGE THOMPSON.
Those who are old enough to recollect the habits and customs
of public discussion and “ agitation ” some thirty years ago,
methods which have to a great extent been superseded by the
penny newspaper of these days, will appreciate, better than
the youth of the present generation can, the profession of
platform orator and lecturer at large popular meetings. The
Anti-Slavery cause, the Anti-Com-Law struggle, and the
efforts to carry measures of Parliamentary Reform, Extension
of the Suffrage, the Ballot, and bo on, beyond the Act of 1832,
were Berved with great industry and ability by a special class
of accomplished speakers, the like of whom scarcely now
remain in public view. They were, as distinguished from the
zealous men of independent position combining to promote
such beneficial objects, persons whose talents and training had
fitted them to make this avocation the business of their
lives, and who, having from conviction adopted certain
ideas of political or social welfare, were engaged for due
THE LATE MR. GEORGE THOMPSON.
worthy champions of every righteous cause, when it was tried
upon its merits, ought not to be entirely forgotten. Mr.
George Thompson’s later years have been spent in the retire¬
ment of private life.
The portrait is from a photograph by Mr. C. H. Braith-
waite, of Briggate, Leeds.
SKETCHES IN CYPRUS.
The letter from “8. P. O.,” our Special Artist and Corre¬
spondent in Cyprus, which was printed in last week’s paper,
narrated his journeys through the Carpas district of Eastern
Cyprus, starting on the 2nd ult. from Famagusta, and passing
through Trikomo, St. Theodoro, Hepta Khumi, and Khumi
Kebir, visiting the decayed Greek monastery of Kantara, and
returning to Trikomo; thence again making an excursion to
Cythrtea, by way of Syngrassi and Levconico, not to mention
several insignificant villages. It was an official tour made by
Captain Swaine, the British Commissioner for the district,
which gave our Special Artist the opportunity, by kind per¬
mission, of accompanying that officer in this round of admin¬
istrative inspection. Very soon after setting out from
Famagusta, proceeding northward along the seacoast, in the
neighbourhood of the ancient Greek fort and town of Salamis,
our Artist made his two sketches of a remarkable structure
called the Church of St. Katharina, and used by the Greek
clergy as a church, but which is of remote antiquity, in form
a rude vault, built of large stones without mortar or cement,
the “ Cyclopean” kind of building, and which he considers to
have originally been a sepulchre. It is hopeless to guess by
whom or when it was constructed, the island of Cyprus having
been occupied by so many different races in pre-historic and
historic times. The roof appears to have been formerly
covered with a tumulus, or heap of stones, protecting the
pecuniary remuneration to do the work of promulgating them.
One of the most eminent of this class was the late Mr.
George Thompson, whose recent death at Leeds, in his seventy-
fifth year, has been announced in our Journal. We have
already noticed the most important of his labours, beginning
with the ever-memorable contest for the abolition of slavery
in the British West Indian colonies, leading to the Act of
1834; then extending to an active share in the American
crusade of Lloyd Garrison and others, for a similar purpose, in
the United States; afterwards takiug up the questions of Free
Trade and Constitutional Reform in England, which gained
for him, in 1847, as a prominent second-rate politician, the
seat in the House of Commons for the Tower Hamlets. These
historical achievements, no doubt, have during the last quarter
of a century been overlaid by a great press of other national
and international concerns; but the names of those who proved
ANCIENT SEPULCHRE IN CYPRUS.
INTERIOR OF SEPULCHRE, USED AS A CHURCH.
378
THE tt.T.TTSTRATED LONDON NEWS_
OCT. 19, 1878
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Constantinople and Cairo, should be sent here. It is an up¬
hill iob for Sir Garnet Woleelcy, with a raw staff, utterly
ignorant of the requirements of a strange people, to administer
the government. The whole administration will faU into dis¬
repute if we are not alive to our interests which suffer now.
Our Treasury is robbed with impunity, as no one knows accu¬
rately what should be paid in and what the revenues are, and
that can never be arrhS at as things areicarried on at present
“ It may seem presumptuous for me tossy so, but I cannot
heto thinking that the Executive has too much of the milita^r
Sent in it at present. It is all very well to appoint smart
young subalterns of crack regiments as Commissioners and
Assistant-Commissioners of districts, but a military education
is hardly that which is best fitted to train civilian Judges ; a
staff of experienced Indian civil servants would have been far
superior. As it is, all the appointments made to the districts
are good as far as energy, hard work, and goodwill may do the
utmost in their power.” „ , , . na _,
The above remarks were written so far back as Aug. 28, and
must not be taken as bearing reference to anything witnessed
subsequently in the Carpas district, but may find their appli¬
cation more properly elsewhere. It could not have been
expected that the British civil administration of Cyprus would
at once be made perfect; it is nevertheless a vast improve¬
ment upon the barbarous Turkish anarchy, by which the island
was all but irretrievably ruined. The Greek Christian popu¬
lation, at any rate, seem to be most grateful for the change.
The remaining Sketch presented this week is a viewof the
lagged summit of Mount Pentedactylon, about 2200ft. high,
looking over the nearer hills above Cythraea, which pleasant
little town, with its surrounding groves and gardens, is
situated nine miles to the north of Nicosia, the capital of
Cyprus. Our Correspondent spoke with pleasure of his bnef
stay at Cythnea, which is agreeably shaded with trees, and
watered with streams from the neighbouring mountains.
of Mr. Utrobfi, it. Supcrmtendcnt acting under Sir B.
So”mo “ f^iation, the dCTclopment^f
sisss^ssir#:
with Mr Latrobe for its first Governor; and how, m 18o6, it
was endowed with a constitutional Government. The dis¬
covery of the gold-fields in 1851, the rush to the Ballarat and
Bendigo diggings, and the extraordinary transformationof
social fife that ensued, are but lightly touched upon The
author however, relates some curious and amusing features
of domestic and personal experience in those days of colonial
youth. His work is recommended by an engaging air of
modesty and by a candid and impartial spirit.
CLASSICS FOB ENGLISH READERS.
He that has no Latin may learn quite as “uchasheneed
know and perhaps quite as much as is good for him, about the
Roman philosopher-poet who wrote the famous didactic poem
“Concerning the Nature of Ihiqgs, and about the poem
itself together with the doctrines it contains, from the little
volume Stied by W. H. Mallock (William.Black¬
wood and Sons), and belonging to the> aneUent ° f
“ Ancient Classics for English Readers edited by^the >
Lucas Collins, M. A. It was hardly to be supposed that either
Mr Munro or Mr. Sellar would find it worth their while to
NEW BOOKS.
The history of comparatively brief periods and small trans¬
actions at the commencement of those new English communi¬
ties beyond the ocean, which seem destined to grow into
considerable nations, has a sort of ex post facto importance.
Mr. F. P. Labilliore, a native of Melbourne, residing now in
London, and a zealous member of the Royal Colonial Insti¬
tute, has compiled two volumes of the Early History of
Victoria, published by Mesers. Sampson Low and Co. lhe
first volume is chiefly occupied with the explorations, from
1798 to 1836, of that south-eastern comer of the Australian
Continent which was an unknown land for a long time after
the colonisation of New South Wales. The bold mantime
adventures of Bass and Flinders, in boats or small vessels, with
which they volunteered to examine the dangerous coast, are
related with much exactness ; and fresh light is cast upon the
discovery of Port Phillip, in 1802, by Lieutenant Murray, com¬
manding the Lady Nelson. Westcmport, a large inlet not far
eastward of Port Phillip, but not available for a commercial
harbour, was discovered by Mr. George Bass, naval surgeon,
four years before. Mr. Labillifcre is now enabled to pub¬
lish, for the first time, the log of the Lady Nelson, as
written by Murray in 1802 and sent to the Admiralty; it has
been lying neglected ever since in the Record Office. This is
an interesting original narrative, and it is not the only valuable
document which Mr. Labilliore has rescued from oblivion.
The abortive scheme of a settlement at Port Phillip in 1803
and 1804, concerning which there was an obstinate difference
of opinion between high colonial officers, Governor King, of
New South Wales, and Lieutenant-Governor Collins, of Tas¬
mania, are detailed in one or two chapters. The result was, at
any rate, to save the future province of Victoria from beginning
as a penal abode of convicts ; but its occupation was deferred
more than thirty years. Overland explorations, from the back
country of New South Wales, in a direction west by south,
superseded those conducted along the southern shore. There
were the journey of Mr. Hamilton Hume and Captain
Uovell, in 1824 and 1825; that of Captain Sturt and Mr.
Macleay, in 1830, down the Murrumbidgee and Murray
rivers; and that of Sir Thomas Mitchell, the Colonial Sur¬
veyor-General, in 1836, crossing the Australian Alps and
Grampians to the well-watered and fertile country beyond.
Mr. Labilliore does not ndd materially to our previous know¬
ledge of these interesting journeys; but he has condensed the
accounts of them with much skill and judgment. His second
volume deals with the actual settlement and colonisation of
the territory, commencing with the private venture of Mr.
Henty and his sous, from Tasmania, who had established
themselves at Portland Bay shortly before Sir T. Mitchell’s
overland journev. The settlement of Messrs. Batman and
Fawkner, in 1835, on the shores of Port Phillip, where they
pretended to buy from the natives a vast extent of land, now
the site of Melbourne and the neighbouring townships, is next
related, with the romantic story of William Buckley, a fugitive
convict, and his wild life among the black people. Then
came, in September, 1836, the official establishment, by the
authority of Sir Richard Bourke, Governor at Sydney, of a
regular settlement at Tort. Phillip, from which point its civil
and social history is continued by Mr. Labilliore for twenty
years. The Inundation of Melbourne, its capital city,
named after the Whig Prime Minister, and the rulo
fallen into such competent hands, especially as regards the
manner in which certain passages of the original have been
rendered into English verse. They are not all equally well
done, nor would anybody expect such equality, but
nearly all the specimens given are good, and some of them
are really admirable. Moreover, they are selected from
each of the six books in regular order, and are accom¬
panied by a running commentary in prose, briefly explaining
the succession of ideas and the course of the argument, bo
far the author has carried out what is understood to have been
the original intention with which the series was projected
namely, to set before the English reader a summary of the
ancient writer's work, together with a sufficient number of
translations to illustrate the style. Criticism, comparisons
between ancient and modem ways of thought, and all such
matters, would seem to be beyond the scope of the under¬
taking. No doubt a biographical sketch of the ancient classic,
ami a few remarks upon the prevalent characteristics of the
age in which he lived, would be looked for; but they would be
expected to occupy but a very small portion of space, com¬
pared with the amount allotted to an analysis, with copious
illustrations, of the writer’s actual productions and peculiari¬
ties. A different plan, however, has been adopted, so that,
out of the 172 pages devoted to “ Lucretius,” not more than
sixty-one are occupied with an exposition of the poem to which
he owes his immortality, to which he owes the fact that
his name is known to Englishmen. It is true that we
have a very long chapter, wherein the “scientific system
of Lucretius ” is discussed; but one would rather have
imagined that the proper method would have been to let the
poem speak for itself and book by book, by means of helpful
comment and explanation, unfold its own system before the
astonished reader. But opinions differ; and there are those
to whom the preliminary dissertation may seem preferable.
That the little volume contains no story of the poet’s life is
nobody’s fault; for there is scarcely more story than the needy
knife-grinder had to tell: not only is next to nothing known
about the life of Lucretius, but the little which is known is not
to be altogether relied upon. If it be granted that Mr. Mallock
has gone the right way to work, he has done it more than
indifferently well, though there are those who would have been
better satisfied if he had regarded Lucretius more from the
poetical and less from the philosophical point of view, more as
a picturesque describer of natural effects than as a speculative
interpreter of natural causes.
The hand of a master, the knowledge of an expert, who is
as familiar with his subject as with his alphabet, may be
cordially allowed to the author in the case of Goethe : by A.
Haywood (William Blackwood and Sons), a volume of the neat
and useful “ Foreign Classics for English Readers,” edited by
Mrs. Oliphant; and yet it maybe doubted whether he has pro¬
duced such a work as one would think it was the object of the
series to produce. It was no affair of his, one would imagine,
to run a-tilt, every now and then, at Mr. G. H. Lewes, or Mr.
Carlyle, or anybody else with whom he differs or whom he has
detected in a mistake. All he had to do was to put within the
reach of English readers ignorant of German, and without the
leisure or the inclination to tackle long and learned biographies,
a sort of Liebig’s extract of Goethe, together with the best life
of him, consistently with brevity as well as wit. This, probably,
he could have done better than any other living man could do it.
But he has chosen to do something else ; he has mixed up with
what was necessary a great deal that was unnecessary. Not
that he has thereby spoilt his book. Far from it; he has made
it, perhaps, still more interesting, but rather for readers who
have already a tolerably wide acquaintance with what has been
written by and concerning Goethe than for those who are sup¬
posed to be intended by the style and title of “English
readers.” The latter, one cannot help thinking, would have
been led to a better appreciation of Goethe if a liberal
allowance had been given of his minor poems and ballads, to
the exclusion, if need were, of the criticisms and con¬
tentious observations, or even of some among the specimens
translated from the dramas. The estimate which the reader
is taught to form of Goethe as a poet is probably quite correct;
beyond “ Faust,” says the authority, “ there is no other work
of Goethe which can be called first-rate of its kind; but take
them all together, and where shall we find a richer cluster, a
brighter constellation, of poetry, romance, science, art, philo¬
sophy, and thought?” This estimate, however, would no
doubt have disgusted the German gentleman who, os spokes¬
man of a deputation at the tercentenary in honour of
Shakspeare, rose and said that he and his friends had come
to show their respect for “ the second greatest poet that ever
lived—Goethe being the first.” As for Goethe's physical
attributes, they drew from Napoleon I. the laconic acknowledg¬
ment—“ voili un homme! ” As for his moral qualities, they were
not quite so irreproachable, as some people count morality.
He is likened by Heine to Zeus, and, with malicious signifi¬
cance, is said to have “ smiled with the same lipB with which
he had once kissed the fair Leda, Europa, Danae, Semele. and
so many other Princesses and ordinary nymphs besides.”
And so we commend him to the attention of “ English
Readers” in search of a “ Foreign Classic.”
OBITUARY.
THE BISHOP OF ORLEANS.
Monsignor Felix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup, Bishop of
Orleans, the eloquent and eminent prelate, perhaps the most
prominent of his generation, died suddenly on the 11th inst.,
in his seventy-seventh year. Ordained priest, he became, in
1827, Chaplain to the Due de Bordeaux, and at the Revolution
of July, 1830, was Almoner to the Dauphin. In 1841 he was
nominated to one of the chairs of Theology in the College of
the Sorbonne, and in 1849 was consecrated Bishop of Orleans,
being decorated the following year with the insignia of the
Legion of Honour. As a preacher, Dupanloup stood in the
foremost rank, and he was author of several works of more or
less importance. His literary acquirements gained for him
admission to the French Academy; but all his zeal in the
cause of religion failed to secure the honour of a Cardinal’s
hat. The Bishop of Orleans is universally regretted. Friend
and foe, Catholic and Protestant, Royalist and Liberal, join
in paying a high tribute of homage to the memory of this
illustrious French divine.
THE RIGHT REV. DR. MACKENZIE.
The Right Rev. Dr. Mackenzie, late Bishop Suffragan of Not¬
tingham, died on the 15th inst. at his residence, Lincoln, from
congestion of the lungs, in his seventy-second year. Dr.
Mackenzie was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford,
graduated B.A. in 1834, M.A. in 1838, and D.D. in 1869.
He was ordained priest in the year 1835 by the Archbishop
of Canterbury, and appointed Canon Residentiary and Sub-
Dean of Lincoln Cathedral in 1864. From 1840 to 1843 he
was Perpetual Curate of St. James’s, Bermondsey, and from
1848 to 1855 Vicar of St. Martin's-in-thc-Fields, Westminster.
From 1866 to 1871 he was Rector of South Collingham. Notts,
and in 1870 he was consecrated Bishop Suffragan of Notting¬
ham. The duties of this position, which has since been
enlarged into an additional see, called the Sec of Southwell,
he discharged until about eleven months ago, when failing
health compelled him to relinquish it.
COLONEL JONES, OF KELSTON PARK.
Lieutenant-Colonel Inigo William Jones, Esq., of Kelston
Park in the county of Somerset, M.A., late of the 11th
Hussars, died on the 5th inst., at Nice, in the seventy-third
year of his age. He was cider son of the Rev. Inigo William
Jones, of Chobham Place, Surrey, by Margaret Elizabeth, his
wife only daughter of Lieutenant-General Henry Richmond
Gale of Bardsey Hall, and, as the Christian name indicates,
claimed to be of the family of the celebrated architect.
Colonel Jones was educated at Harrow, and Trinity College,
Cambridge, was a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy-Lieu¬
tenant for the county of Somerset, served as High Sheriff in
1868, and was Lord of the Manor of Kelston, and patron of
one living. He married, Aug. 14, 1844, Miss Neeld of
Grittleton, Wilts.
The deaths have also been announced of—
James Patrick McInroy.Ecq., of Lude, on the 11th inst., at
Lude, Blair Athol, aged seventy-eight.
Edward James Shearman, M.D., F.R.S.E.,on the 2nd inst.,
at Rotherham, in his eighty-first year.
The Hon. F. A. Forbes, formerly Speaker of Parliament,
Queensland, on July 9, at Ipswich, Queensland.
Dr. Julius Muller, Professor of Systematic and Practical
eology in the University of Halle, in that city, on the -ith
Theology in the University
ult., aged seventy-seven.
Prince Kivaan Kudr Ahmud Ullee Meerza Bahadoor,
fourth son of his Highness the Nawab Nazim of Bengal, on the
16th ult., at the Palace, Moorshedabad, in his twenty-nxth year.
Lancelot St. Albyn, Esq., eldest and last surviving son of
Laugley St. Albyn, formerly of Alfoxton Park and Weacombe,
Somerset, on the 4th inst., at Alfoxton Park.
Thomas Crowley Weston, Esq., formerly Judge of the
Mixed Commission Courts at Sierra Leone for the Suppression
of the Slave Trade, on the 4th inst., aged sixty-three.
Walter John Clifford, Esq., late 68th Light Infantry, second
son of the late Henry J. Clifford, Esq., of Frampton-ou-Jsevem,
on the 6th inst.
Joseph Kay, Esq., Q.C., of the Northern Circuit, and one
of the Judges of the Court of Record for the Hundred of Sal¬
ford, on the 9th inst., at Fredley, Surrey, aged fifty-seven.
The Rev. Thomas Brown, M.A., Prebendary of the
Cathedral and Rural Dean of Chichester during forty-two
years, Vicar of the parishes of St. Paul and St. Peter the Less,
and Master of the Prebeudal School, on the 10th inst.
Captain Richard Charles Elliott, one of the survivore of the
Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns. He joined the Army w
1809, and was present at the battles of Salamanca and Vittoxia,
and through the campaign in 1815. He had been on the half-
pay list since 1827.
The Rev. Peter Holmes, D.D., suddenly, at Plymouth,on
the 13th inst., at an advanced age. He was ordained in im
by the Bishop of Exeter, but devoted the greater part of his
life to scholastic work. He was a ripe theological scholar, imd
collected a fine library of 25,000 books. Hewas associated with
the late Dr. Tregclles in critical works on the text of the f»ew
Testament. , .
Colonel Joseph H. Hampton, late Bengal 50 th Native
Infantry, on the 5th inst., at Brynhyfryd, Beaumaris, aged
seventy-eight. He was second son of John Hampton Bampte*
Lewis, Esq., of Henllys, in the county of Anglesey, by Mary,
his wife, daughter of Richard Chambers, Esq . of Whitburn
Court, in the county of Hereford. He married Ellen, daughter
of Major Hall, E.I.C.S. ,
William Henry Francis Bosanquct, Esq., of Knockancand
Kilmagamogue, Waterford, third eon ot the late
BoBanquet, Esq., of Forest House, Essex, andi Dingeston Court,
in the county of Monmouth, by Letitia Phihppa. his ,
younger daughter of James Whatman, Esq., of Vinten^aj^
The Liverpool Courier states that the late Captain Judkins,
so long connected with the Cunard Company, has bequeathed
£1000 to the Seamen’s Orphanage.
on the 20th ult., five days after the death of his wile. Amelia
Mary Georgiana, daughter and coheir of John bneriocx,
Robert Capel Cure, Esq., J.P., barrister-at-law M.A, on
the 28th ult., at Blake Hall, Ongar, Essex. Hewas eldest son of
Capel Cure, Esq., of Blake Hall, High Sheriff of NssexJ830,
bv Frederica, his wife, daughter of General Cheney, of Badge
Hall. He married, first, in 1850, Sarah Mana, daughter of
Dr. George Murray, Bishop of Rochester; and, secondly, 1868,
Margaret Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas esteru, B .
The Rev. Anthony Berwick Lechmcre, M.A., View of
Hanley Castle, Hon. Canon of Worcester Cathedral and Rural
Dean, on the 8th inst., at The Vicarage, aged seventy-six. n
was second son of Sir Anthony Lechmere, first Baronet, of lfi
Rhyd, bf Mary, his wife, daughter and heiress of
Berwick. Esq., of Hallow Park, in the county of
He married, Oct. 11, 1842, Emily Mary, eldest daughter of bir
Sir Hurry V. Darell, Bart , and became a widower in
George Huband, Esq., M.A., J.P., in the county ofDubhn,
formerly Captain 8th Hussars, and subsequently a Poor- gs
Inspector in Ireland, on the 13th inst., ut his resi
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Upper Mount-street, Dublin. He was elder son of the late
Wilcocks Huband, Esq., by Frances, his wife, eldest daughter
of Arthur Chichester Macartney, Esq., of Murlough, in the
county of Devon, and descended from a branch of the ancient
family of Huband, of Ipsley, in the county of Warwick. He
married, May 1,1844, Marianne, youngest daughter of Admiral
Croft, of Stillington, in the county of York, and leaves two
sons and two daughters. Captain Huband held high office
among the Freemasons of Ireland.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The wiU (dated April 3, 1873) with three codicils (dated Jan.
23, 1874, Dec. 6, 1877, and Feb. 1, 1878) of the Right Hon.
Bertram, Earl of Ashbumham, late of ABhbumham Place, near
Battle, Sussex, who died on June 22 last, was proved on the
8th inst. by the Right Hon. Katherine Charlotte, Countess of
Ashbumham, the widow, and his eldest son, Bertram, now
Earl of Ashbumham, the executors, the personal estate being
sworn under £90,000. The testator leaves to his wife the
vicarage and parish church of Ashbumham, and the rectory
and parish church of Penshurst, Sussex, and the rectory and
parish church of Barking-cum-Darmsden, Suffolk; all the
rest of his ecclesiastical patronage is to be sold, and the net
proceeds divided between his sons John, William, Thomas
and George, and his daughters Margaret and Mary; he also
leaves to his younger sons £15,000 each, and to his said
daughters £1000 each, a further sum of £5000 each on
their respective marriages, and until then annuities. In
addition to other benefits, the testator gives to his wife his
town house in Dover-streot, with the furniture, pictures, and
effects, certain carriages and horses, the “St. Asaph” plate
and all his jewels, except the Ashbumham family diamonds,
and he makes up her income to £4500 per annum ; to his land
steward, Robert Hodgson, he bequeaths £1000, free of duty ;
to his butler and house steward, James Toynton, an annuity
of £100; to his valet, Thomas Fraser, an annuity of £50; to
his footman, John Quintrell, an annuity of £20; to his game-
keeper, Relph, an annuity of £20; a conditional annuity
to Mrs. Williamson ; and two years’ wages to each of his
other domestics who have been ten years in his service at his
decease. His unsettled real estate in the counties of Suffolk
and Sussex and the Principality of Wales are devised to the
use of his eldest son, on the condition that he resettles within
a twelvemonth the settled family estates ; and the residue of
his property is given to his said eldest son.
The will (dated Nov. 12, 1875) of the Hon. Mrs. Mary
Eliza Henniker, late of Brighton, who died on Aug. 4 last, at
No. 48, Upper Grosvenor-street, was proved on the 3rd inst.
by Philip Witham and Richard Ward, the executors, the
personal estate being sworn under £40,000. The testatrix
Deqiieaths £100 each, free of legacy duty, to the Convent of
the Little Sisters of the Poor, Portobello-road, St. Elizabeth’s
Hospital, Great Ormond-street, and the Aged Poor Society;
and £25 to the clergyman of the parish church of Quorndon,
Leicestershire, to distribute, at his discretion, among the poor
of that place; she also bequeaths, out of such part of her personal
estate as the may by law bequeath for charitable purposes, to
his Eminence Cardinal Manning or other the person who for
the time being shall fill the office or represent the Archbishop
of Westminster in the Roman Catholic Church, the sum of
£•1000, upon trust, for the disposal thereof for such lawful
charitable uses as he shall, in his absolute and uncontrolled
discretion, think fit. There are legacies to relatives and
others, including a bequest of £9000 which is settled upon her
niece Louisa Augusta Manning, and the residue of her
property the testatrix leaves to her said niece absolutely.
The will (dated July 13, 1870) with three codicils (dated
Oct. 11. 1872, Jan. 17, 1873, and March 29, 1878) of Mr.
Andrew Cuthell. late of No. 61, Warwick-square, Pimlico, who
died on Aug. 17 last at Shrub-hill, Dorking, was proved on the
28th nit. by Mrs. Mary Anne Cuthell, the widow, the Rev.
William Middleton Snell, and George Cubitt, the executors,
the personal estate being sworn under £45,000. The testator
gives to his wife all hiB furniture, plate, household effects,
horses, and carriages; the remainder of his property is left
upon trust for liis wife for life, giving her a general power of
appointment at her death over the sum of £4000; ana subject
thereto the residue is to be held for his sons, Thomas George,
Charles Edward, and W r illiam Andrew, and his daughter, lire.
Mary Sybil Kinglake.
The will (dated May 18, 1878) of Mr. Lutwidge Dunbar
Reynard-Cooksou, late of Whitehill Park, Chester-le-Street,
Durham, and of Scarborough, Yorkshire, who died on Aug. 5
last, has been proved at the York district registry by John
Woodall Woodall and W r alter James Guy, the executors, the
personal estate being sworn under £30,000. The testator
charges the settled real estate under the will of his grand¬
father. John Cookson, with £400 per annum in favour of his
wife, Elizabeth, and he gives her all his furniture, plate, and
household effects; to his friend Walter James Guy, an annuity
of £100; to his valet, John Freeman, 100 guineas; to his house¬
keeper, Mary Bates, an annuity of £50; to her daughter, Mar¬
garet, an annuity of £25 ; and the residue of his property upon
trust for his wife for life if she shall so long continue his widow,
and then for his children.
The will (dated Dec. 22, 1877) of Mrs. Elizabeth Howey,
late of Coleshill House, Amereham, Herts, and of No. 9,
Stanley-crescent., Notting-hill, who died on Aug. 24 last at
Lowestoft, was proved on the 4th inst. by Ralph Pattereon
Nisbct, the nephew, and John Dunkin Francis, the executore,
the personal estate being sworn under £30,000. The testatrix
after giving some legacies, leaves one half of the residue of her
property to her said nephew, Mr. R. P. Nisbet, and the other
half upon trust for her nephew, John Nisbet, for life, and then
for his daughters.
The will (dated Feb. 16, 1874) with two codicils (dated
March 9. 1876, and Dec. 18, 1877) of Mr Aaron Cohen, late of
No. 35, Upper Bed ford-place, who died on Aug. 30 last, at St.
Leonards-on-Sea, was proved on the 27th ult. by Samuel
Anion Cohen, and Edwaid Aaron Cohen, the eons, the
executors, the personal estate being sworn under £18,000.
The will (dated March 17, 1874) of Mr. Henry Holme,
formerly of Manchester, but late of Altrincham, Cheshire,
who died on Aug. 24 la-t, was proved at the district registry
at Chester on Sept. 18 last by John Holme, Henry Holme, and
George Hartley Goldsmith, the executors, the personal estate
being sworn under £40,000. The testator, who was a widower,
gives all his property for the benefit of his children and grand¬
children.
On Monday afternoon Councillor Carbutt, the Mayor of
Leeds, laid the foundation-stone of the new corporate offices,
which are to be built opposite the Townhall, at an estimated
cost of £60,0(50. The Mayor said the new offices were required
owing to the growing wants of the town, the population,
during the past twenty-five years, having increased from
175.000 to 300,000. After the ceremony of lnyiug the stone,
the Mayor gave a luncheon in the Victoria Hall, at which 400
gentlemen sat down.
id it shall bo examined.
CHESS.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Att eommunifationi renting to this detriment of It* faper »wd he atUretsed to the
t-tilor. anti hart the word " Cke*e‘ ( written on the envelope.
El.OfBUrkwoton.-Wo .bill miu your repilar and uniformly enrrert Fnlutton.
«»roar prtiblMM, but ulmll hopcio hear from you Ag«iin upon your return to England.
A K C (Camberwell).—The City of I/'n<l..n Cli*« Club thoald «ult yon. The member*
moot on Monday, WediH«d*y, un<l Friday, at Muum.t» Hotel. *—*
IIT S.-The <nl»w to I. K take* K!» 2. IJ to Q B Stlt (ch).
E 8 (Port Glasgow).—Heml the position upon a diagram, nr
V V P.—We Indorse your opinion of both problems.
H M P(Plymouth! -The machinery I* too |«ndrroi„ forth* conception embodied in
the problem. 1 here ehonld bonoincthfni? beyond tin- mere •• block" in a two-move
problem Wc oro oblig'd f„r the trouble yon haro taken, and (ball bo clad to
oxutnlm* your future t-umpObitJon*.
P le P (Guenwey).-Your eoln lion was correct, and was acknowledged some weeks ago.
I, (Truro).—Please refer to the solution In our ln»ue of Dee. 22 last.
J P (Bedford).—If Black play 1. Kt to Q tth, what Is White * continuation?
C E I Broud-strret).—Thank*; the problem shall have early attention.
B T (Munchestei >.-Wc have no recollection of the tint letter. Your analysis Is correct.
aMlnV am ]"Thor£*° < "'** ***** teom Ucroward.H Bcnthall.
^“CVJ »w«*ed ♦">"> Here ward, Emile Frau. DA
< Dublin). lVttexUt, H Benthall,.? G Kidd, F V P, nod C Expert
CoRa.i-rSoLOTiosaor Pw.iL.jt No 1»7 received from II B, Hereward, CCI.S
Inwk Lot Truri^ TEdgar 1) W il« ; n It Koualicad. fit J E. L Hu mett. Leonora and
I Kl'fht ttlngrS^T.W C Dutton. E Lewis. L Sharswood,
w v 1. 0 V. L ^ ",*• H Brewster. Ml of Leeds. Orson.uw W,
1 K HN B, VrttexUt, Alpha. EnntMunltn, Punt. Dark! Millar, J G Finch.
v Kf n * ,h “ Uu ‘ — ”—M (Utraekt), $ Stripe,
- a vbuah>. 8t Aldat'-*
W J [ Vi (ClavcruM), I)r V St. D A (Dublin), Jane Nepven (X
Guillaume, .r dc Honrteyn. E P Vulliamy. Painter (Shepherd'
(Uxford), W I^»"i. Freddy A Pohlmaun J K. N Rumbelow. C ...
the Chapel of Bore ChessClub i Islington). fe M and P V. C H Ste|*n. E L Q, Thorpe.
C A 1 ryce, I le I *gv, Julia Short. W Scott, Foirbolme. and Coplaptnu.
r - -A lanre riumher of correspondent*, overlooking the true defence, believe they
solved this problem bv 1. ft to K B «th. Illaek's reply to that move Is 1. K to
: and, should \\hit* then play 2. U lo B iq (ch). the answer U 2. P to K 8th.
due. and there Is then no mate on the fol 1 -—‘..
Note.-
y sth
following move.
Solution of Pboblbk No. 1806.
WHITE. BLACK.
I 5 to K B 8th Kt to R 4th or Q 2nd*
2. R takes B (ch) p t.U. r
3. Kt to R 2nd. Mute.
•IfthcKt Is moved elsewhere, White captures that piece with Rook or Bishop,
PROBLEM No. 1809.
By B. 8. Wash, 8t. Louis,
BLACK.
White to play, and mate in three moves.
CHESS IN LONDON.
T1 e following Game was played at Mr. Gastineau’s garden party, by
Messrs. Cn apfkll and Dows, in consultation, against Dr. Ballaiio, the
latter yielding the odds of Pawn and move.
(Remove Muck's K D Pfrom the board.)
WHITE BLACK
(Messrs C. and D.) (Dr. B.)
1. PtoK Ith P to K Kt 3rd
2. P to Q 4th P to Q 4th
3. P to K 5th F to K 3rd
4. B to Q 3rd
White might also have played 4. P to
K R 4th. after which Staunton recom¬
mended the following continuation :—
♦. p to q b tth
3. P to Itoth B to Kt 2nd
«. P lakes P P take* P
7. K take* R B takes It
8. 1< to y Snl. with a good attack.
4. Kt to K R 3rd
6. B to K 3rd P to Q Kt 3rd
8. P to K B 4th Kt to U R 3rd
Till*, as will be aeen from hi* eighth
y B tth f*th« beat Hue of play hr
7. B to Kt 6th (ch) K to B 2nd
8 U to K 2nd Kt to d Kt sq
9. Kt to KB 3rd B to K 2nd
10. Q Kt to U 2nd K to Kt 2nd
11. P to K R 3rd ~
12 P to K Kt 3rd
13. r lo (i B 4th
14. P takes Q P
15. Kt takes P
13 B take* P wool
WHITE BLACK
(Messrs. C. and D.) (Dr. B.)
Very well timed. Indeed, the Allie*
must Ih> credited with much care and
skill lu tlie conduct of the opening.
17. Kt takes Kt
18. B takes Q Kt to B 7th (ch)
Black ha* a choice of ills here. U he play
18. Kt takes y. then follows B takes B.and
the Kook I* lost.
19 K to Q hi
20. Q takes Kt
21. Kt to K 4th
22. P to ft R 3rd
23. R to Q 2nd
24. RtoQBaq
25 KtoKsq
26. Kt takes Kt
27. « to K 2nd
Kt takes B (ch)
B takes H
Kt to R 3rd
Q Rto Q*q
R to Q 2nd
K R to Q sq
Kt to B 4th*
B takes Kt
R to U B 2nd
28. K R to u B 2nd P to Q R 4th
29. Q to Kt 5th B to B 3rd
1 30. R takes B P takes R
P to « B 4th
B to Q Kt 2nd
B P takes P
« takes P
have been better: '<
to y Kt Tth, Ac.
81. Q takes RP K R to Q 2nd
32. R takes P It to R 2nd
33. Q to Kt 6th B to d 4th
mi, niaca „ r 34. R to B 8th K to K B 2nd
event* underestimated, the lorce ol the 35. y to y 8th K to R 3rd
ran,, threaten*.! the moment the Itook has 36. P to K R 4th Q It to Kt 2nd
been moved to a place of safety. 37. y to Kt 6th (ch) K to Kt 2nd
16. R to R 2nd Kt to K B 4th 38. PtoRSth,
17. B to Q B 4th I and wins.
CHESS IN CAROLINA.
A Game occurring in a recent Mutch between Mr. M. B. Paine, the
strongest player in Charlestown, and Mr. J. E. Obchabd. of Columbia.
(Greco Counter-Gambit.)
white (Mr. P.) black (Mr. 0.) I white {Mr. P.) black (Mr. 0.)
1. P to K 4th P to K 4th 12. P to Q 3rd P to y 4th
2. Kt to KB 3rd P to K B 4th 13. y to B 3rd
3. KttakesP Kt to y B 3rd | IX y tn Kt3lh(rh). nffrrlngan exchange
This ingenious move Is the invention of *J uolU4 ' ** nu t much more promising.
Mr. O IL Kra- r. of Dundee. It pro- 13.
many 'nten-stliie position*, t»nt in
•n with every other variation ofilii*
opening. It I* »u*i»-ctod of being theo¬
retically unsound.
4. U to K 5th (ch) P to Kt 3rd
6. Kt takes P Kt to B 3rd
■ here is IS. Q to R 3rd.
R to K Kt sq
R to Kt 6th
It takes P (ch)
K Kt to Kt 5th
6. y to R 4th
The correct mov
6 .
7. Kt takes B
8. y to It 6th
9 K to U «q
14. QtakisKt BluKt5th[ehj
15. Uto K2nd
If. IS. K to y 2nd, Clark mate* in Uve
16. K to K sq
17. K to Q sq
18. K to K sq
19. Kt to R 3rd
20. B to K 3rd
21 K loti 2nd
B takes P (dis.
ch)
B to IC 7th (ch)
Kt to y 5th
y to yard
Pto B 4th
y R to K sq
and Black wins. The final position is curi -us as well us pretty.
CHE88 INTELLIGENCE.
The annual report of the Bristol and Clifton Chess Association announces
that the president, the Rev. J. Greene, has presented a silver cup for com¬
petition among the members. The competitors are to be paired by lot. and
the victor will be requited to play a deciding match with the winner of the
first prize in the late handicap.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
At the City rifle ranges, Rainham, Essex, on Saturday last the
C and E companies of the 2nd City of London competed for
their annual prizes. About sixty members entered, the
majority of the competitors being furnished by E company
(Messrs. \Vaterlow aud Sons), under the command of Captain
S. E. Underwooxl. In C company the winners were: Corporal
W. White (who wins the company silver badge the third year
in succession), Corporal P. Hart, Private H. Houghton, Private
E. Houghton, Private F. Parsons, and Sergeant J. Symons.
Second series, third-clas9 distances and targets, open to
recruits: Private Ramsey, Private Rice, Private VeniBS, E com¬
pany. The highest scores were made by Private Cowan,
Private Fellows, Private Trenhaile, Captain Underwood, and
Sergeant Richards.
The annual carbine prize competition of A bnttery of the
1st London Artillery took place at the butts on Staines-moor
on the 5th inst. The men mustered at the Staines railway
station, and were marched to the range by Captain Adams.
In the battery series, open to non-commissioned officers and
gunners, the winners were—Gunners Taylor and Gurling,
Staff-Sergeant Wame, Sergeant-Major Berry, Corporal Scard,
and Gunner Daniels. The second series, or club prizes, were
won by Quartermaster Gray, Captain Adams, and Sergeant
Wame. The consolation prizes were won by Gunners Tomble-
son and Stevens, and the battery officers’ prizes by Quarter¬
master Gray.
The Islington company (No. 8) of the North Middlesex
(29th) held its annual prize-competition at Child’s-hill Range,
Hampstead. The first prize, “The Mohawk Cup,” valued at
five guineas, presented by the Mohawk Minstrels, was won by
Sergeant Ross. The remaining prizes, given by the officers
of the company, were won by Sergeants Shaw and Powell,
Corporals Hackney, Harris, and Freeman; Privates Herbert
and Wade, and Sergeant Tregear. The first recruit’s prize
was won by Private Haswell. At the same meeting the com¬
pany’s badge was won by Sergeant Shaw.
The new drainage works at Windsor were formally opened
on Monday in the presence of the Mayor and Corporation of
the Royal borough. About five acres have been purchased for
the works, and the entire cost of the new system wiU, it is
Baid, exceed thirty thousand pounds.
Lord Cottesloe presided on Monday at the Bucks Michaelmas
Sessions held at Aylesbury, at which Lord Beaconsfield was
present. A resolution was agreed to constituting the County
Licensing Committee as the authority for carrying out the
Highways and Locomotives Act. It was further resolved, on
the motion of the Hon. P. Barrington, that it was desirable
to establish a county mendicity society.
Lord Coleridge and his former colleague in the repre¬
sentation of Exeter, Mr. Edgar liowring, attended on Monday
evening a lecture by the Hon. Bernard Coleridge on Oliver
Cromwell, the Bishop of Exeter presiding. His Lordship
pointed out that nothing so tended to the elevation of the
working classes as the existence of mutual improvement
societies, and nothing promoted improvement more than the
study of such characters as Cromwell’s, who was one of this
greatest rulers known in this or any other country.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
Light and Shade By Charlotte G O’Brien. 2vnla. (C.Kegan Paul, and Co )
Canterbury Chime*; or, Chaucer Tale* Retold for Children. Bv F. Storr
and H Turner. iKegan Paul, and Co.)
A Secret Marriage and Its Consequence. By the Author of “ The Honey¬
moon," &c. 3 vols. (Chapman and Hull.)
The Donalds. By Mary J. Mapother. (M. H. Gill and Son, 50, UcMt
Sackville-atreet, Dublin.)
The Autobiography • .f Sir George Biddlecombe. C.B. (Retired) Captain.
Royal Navy. (Chapman and Hall,)
Life of Robert Schumann. With Letters, 1833—1852. By Yon Waaielwaki.
(Reeve*, 185, Heet-atreet )
Oar Woodland Tree*. By Francis Geonje Heath, Author of •• The Fern
Puradiae," &c. (Sampson Low and Co )
Cecil Crofton’* Repentance. By Vere Grey. 2 vnls (Chapman and Hull )
On Horseback Through Aaia Minor. Captain F. Burnaby. Seventh and
Cheaper Edition. (Sampson Low and Co )
Cook’s Handbook to the Health Resort* of the South of France and the
Riviera. (Cook and Son.)
Cyprus : Its History, its Present Resource*, and Future PiwpcM*. Ry R.
Hamilton Lang, late H.M. Consul for the Island of Cyprus. (Macmillan )
Our Village. By Mary Russell Mitford. Illustrated. (Sampson Low aud Co.)
Old and New London: A Narrative of It* History. It* People, and its
Places: The Southern Suburbs. By Edward Waiford. Vol 0
(C«swell, Tetter, and Galpin.)
Song* of Far Away Land*. By Joaquin Miller. (Longman* and Co )
Songs of the Sierra* and Sunland*. Two Volumes in One. By Jou ( uiu
Miller. Revised Edition, i Longmans and Co.)
Root and Flower. A Story of Work in a London Pariah. By John Palmer.
(Griffith and Farran).
(Published by the 8ocicty for Promoting Christian Knowledge.)
North Wind and Sunshine. By Annette Lyster.
Cringlcwood Court. By F. Scarlett Potter.
Ned Garth; or. Made Prisoner in Africa. A Tale of the Slave Trade. By
W. H. G Kingston.
The Royal Banner. A Title of Life before and after Confirmation. By
Austin Clare
Percy Trevor’s Training. By the Author of “ Motherless Maggie," &o.
The Mate of the “ Lily ; ” or. Note* irom Harry Musgrave’s Log Book. Bv
W. H. G Kingston.
Real Stories from Many Land* By Lady Vemey.
The Little Dwarfs Mirror and The Children’s Prayer. Adapted from the
German. By A. L. G.
A Bonfire and What Came of it. By M. D.
A* Good ns Gold. A Tale. By F. Harrison.
Kitty Bligh’s Birthday. By Alfred H. Engclbacli.
Harry Preston; or, “To Him that Overcometh." A Story for Boys. By
the Author of “Elben Mansel,” &c.
Hereward Duyrell, and other Talcs. By Eadgyfh.
Left in Charge: The History of My Great Responsibility. By Austin Clare.
The Wilford Family: or, Hero-Worship iu the Schoolroom By Eadgyth.
Hidden Working*. By H. Rutherford Russell.
Harvey Comptou'a Holiday. By the Author of “ Motherless Maggie,” *e.
Manual of Elementary Science: Crystallography. By H P. Gurney, M A.
Sinai. From the Fourth Egyptian Dynasty to the Present Day." By II,
Spencer Palmer, Major It.E
The Koran. Its Composition and Teaching, and Testimony to the Scriptures.
By Sir W. Muir, LL D.
Step by Step; or. The Devout Communicant led through the Church to
the Vision of God. By W. C. Bromehoud.
The Rule of God’* Commandment*. By George E. Jelf, M A., Vicar of
Saffron Walden.
Bible h tones in Words of One Syllable. By M. A. B.
A Manual of Prayer* ; for the use of the Scholar* of Winchester Co’lege,
and ail other Devout Christian*. By the Bishop of Bath and Wells.
The Aged Pilgrim's Staff. By the Rev RoL-it limn , B C.L.
The Jewish Prophets : from the Babylonian Captivity till the Close of the
Old Testament Canon.
The Home Library:
The Inner Life; as revealed in the Correspondence of Celebrated Chris¬
tians. By the Rev. T. Krskine.
The House of God the Home of Man. By the Rev. G. E Jelf, M A.,
Vicar of Suff on Walden
Savonnreln: His Life and Times. By W. R. Clark, M A , Vicar of
Taunton.
Conversion of The West:
The Celt*. By the Rev. G. F. Maclear, D.D., Head Master of King's
College School.
The Continental Teutons. By the Very Rev. Charles Merirale, D D.
The Northmen. By the Rev. G. F. Maclear. D.D.
The English. Bv the Rev. O. F. Maclear, D D.
The Father* for English Readers:
The Defenders of the Faith ; or. The Christian Apologists of the Second
and Third Centuries. By the Rev. F Watson, »f .A.
The Apostolic Futher*. By the Rev. H. 8. Holland, M.A.
Saint Jerome. By the Rev. Edward L. Cutts, B.A.
Saint Augustine. By W. R. Clark, M.A , Vicar of Taunton.
880
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS_
OOT. 19,1878
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Xj’tJENISH THROUGHOUT.
COTSIANTIAL AUTISTIC FOBMTUBE.
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y v.Att. TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD.
Fall-mail
-OESIDES THE RECENT ADDITION of
33 the lmraenro nmge of .^^JSSgSS iStod*) their
Eagle Brewery, which h »T e .!’‘T 1 " ri „ tho goods In which are
LONDON-—, ---
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TTp NEW ZEALAND
«isgSg»“*
directors.
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BRANCHES AND AGENCIES.
In Australia—Melbourne. Sydney, and Newcastle.
In FIJI—lornka- . Blenheim Chrlstehurch.Dunedln,
S&Wzffi ttSSSM W «£*. met favourable
^London Offl»RECE^MDCTOSrrflof^tWendn^w^nU
for fixed periods 0 Vhe rate for shorter portodfean be ascertained
cent. Pfr Tbo ^,™uthv. Managing Director.
O NU ,P 1.0u«n Victori a-street, M an sion House. E .a
"CIGHT LARGE SHOW-ROOMS
JJAVE JUST BEEN ADDED
ijO THE DISPLAY OF
^RTISTIC FURNITURE, &c.
PLEASE notice—
there is only one address
FOR PETER ROBINSON’S
M ourning warehouse.
all letters and teuwramb
tot s£& BE ai^YD&ECT^ 04 *
TO REGENT-STREET, Nos. 25<Mto 262#
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1 VYOURNING ORDERS SENT AT ONCE
JVL BY PETE R RO BIN 80 N^ „
X J ~ jjpojj RECEIPT Or LETTER OB TELEGRAM.
..aiaSSS? 2 ^
for a family mourning,
and also Mourning for Servant*.
^yprus^theImperial^ottoman
C'SS \ wsss'jmss*
"tTS W B.0. P> t H^Vcrbee r.
V..° U £^ &S2d num£r ot £"V cU £ J2MV 0l fc
®sea®afisses«- fc
TT 18 NOW ONE OF THE LARGEST
ciKiwherc. OETZH1ANN Mid GO. j good* by their
”^^^^tTZMANN and CO. __
/'VKT 7 MANN and CO.’S BED-ROOM
0 ^§- 35 -
“«E»SdJt!lJSSSlBaling ; t t?dJ.plorln.pecD<m.^Bsd-rocm
tagi ^ES 2 S 3 s-^^' i ^“
-DRIGHTON. FURNISHED HOUSES for
mi-r. r ^E^'»d W ^re g read. B%hW
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A RTISTIC FURNISHING.— 0 ETZMANN
^■M^EsaKsHgajss
/CRETONNES. — OETZMANN and CO.
O CRETO N NES.-An imracn* «* .rtinent of «dl the cholcwt
SttS^SrSUSSrSrasis
rent Into tffocountry by swing kind required._
300 PIECES of BLACK SILK at one price.
6*.; usual price* 8**
prrEs sa aigr-
A* he buya direct from the Mennferturer,
a»*foUows :—
PETER ROBINSON, 256 to 262,
REGENT-STREET.
THE COURT AND GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE.
JNDIGESTION.
It li oonslnitvely eaoeitalned that LAOTO.
PEPTINB wiu bring about the Dlgeetlon of Pood
In a maimer perfectly Identical to that obtained
under the Influence of the natural gastric Juice.
« A glanoe at tho Formula ot LA0T0PEPT1NB
would oonvinc* even the moat sceptical of the
valuable reenlU that mart enaue through It*
administration. Composed of ptyelln, pepalca,
pancreatine, hydrochloric end lactic add*, it la e
combination of all the digestive agent*; con¬
sequently, can never he administered without
giving the utmost satisfaction; for If there Is *
deficiency In the system of ell or any ot these
agents, LACTOPEPT1NE will supply It, sad
thus assist In digesting the food, enabling
the organs that produce these principles ot diges¬
tion to rest and recuperate their relaxed energies.”
—From " Practical Medicine and Surgery," duly,
1877. LAOTOPEPTINE being presented In
aaccharated form. Is most agreeable to the taste,
and can be administered even to the youngest
child. The price of the LAOTOPEPTINE Is
4s. fid. per one ox. bottle. (An ounce bottle con¬
tains forty-eight ten-grain doses.) If any dif¬
ficulty Is experienced In obtaining LAOTOPEP¬
TINE from your Chemist, communicate direct,
sending P.O.O. for 4*. fid- Add re s s CABSB1CK.
KIDDER, and OO., Ot. BusaeU-st..corner of Cfcnr-
lotte-st.. London, W.O. Pamphlet to any sddrees.
THE ONLY SOAP FOB THE COMPLEXION,
Making the akin clear, smooth, and 1 nitrous.
W RIGHT’S COAL-TAR SOAP
(8APO CABBONI8 DETERGENB).
?« 2 i , aa. a «sf
Sid la In elegant Tollet-Boxea. of all Chemists,
end 1*-, ^ v WRIG11T and 00. London.
J)LACK SILK VELVETS,
I) Exceptional Value,
at 3S. lid., 4*. 0d., as. fid., 6». fid., and 7e. fid.
RICH LYONS VELVETS,
at 1U*. 9d., 12*. tad., and lSi- M-
^^r.K'.^dKfouow.^"
PETEK U015INSON. KEGEh'T-STKEET.
T AXORA MEDICATED FRUIT
LOZENGES Jer (X)N8T1PAT I ON.8LU001BHNE88
0 Tho'"^smoeto itiaagrraUwprovmnentonlhe
WILLS’ y^K^o^rZS OTbSS
W OaStLES; "-VUle The Virginians."
11 THREE
Bold only In PackoU and Cl^rettro. pro- CASTLES.”
tectedby the ggSg^grSriltol and London.
X>ALOMINO. A Pure Spanish SHERRY
A of dry character, produced from the flneat grape In the
X * r doim?raU^^ e t^ 0 Cd pTId. h W^mp^-^HENRY
ypifTTandOO..a6emdin\‘filgiiH 0 lborn.Vf .C, Establishedlt iu
/VRANGE CHAMPAGNE is a light,
\ / -t —— > drink, made simply from Orange*. It la effer
■, ii.-f n? but entirely free from apirit. and perfectly wholesome
Mr'Doi'i'n^otiU^returnoA* SDwl^iDVhy^H^AB.^OD'D andTcO**,
■jp, Oopcnhagen-street, London. N.
PARIS EXHIBITION.-Mcssr,.
feas?^assas 4 ffii
MtmChitiA tho new BwU* Dec«r»t«l Faience. }■ rr-nch and
gLACK SILK COSTUMES,
^ frem pare and good wearing s|to.
at 64 74. 9, 10, 12. and up U>» guinea*,
fashionably trimmed with Satin and V'Det.
Copies of tlie most recent Paris models.
Also good Black Batin Quilted Petticoats
for One Guinea.
For photographs of IMMgi wdf-nreasurement form
PETER BOBINSON^REOENT-STBEET,
1 EVENING and DINNER DRESSES.
_Li Now8t ^ , ^one|
K IN AH AN’S LL WHISKY.
THE CREAM OF OLD IRISH WHISKIES.
Pure mild, mellow, delicious, and most wholesome. Uni-
Tonally mrommrmlwi by tha medical profeision. Dr. Hauall
Tho witky I* *oft. mallow, and pnra. vrell-iDatnrea,anQ
“very extent udaUty.”-*. Great Tl fchfleld-street, W.
rpHE ‘‘Art Journal” says:—‘‘We were
.f » sSYSiaaif ss saftsBBasjSffi
Sn7enl«re^nToomfort.'^-<)ETZMANN and OO. C.>mpl<’t*
B&saw±fa
£agle*place. Lon don, N .W, ___
TOSTAL ORDER DEPARTMENT.
_L OKT'ZM ANN and OO.—Orders rent per post, wheth cr Urge
relection. This department I* personally supervlw d by a
OETZMANN and CO., COMPLETE
TlOliHE FUUNI8HERH. 67 ( 99,71.73,77and 79. Hamnatcad-
aSS .-s^'sssirp*^
ssSffii htg-gax&sSg^ar-
S CHWEITZER’S OOCOATINA.
Antl-DyapepUc Cocoa or Chocolate Powder.
Guaranteed Paro fcluble Cocoa, with excess of Fat extracted.
Four time* the strength of Cocoas Thickened yet M eakeued with
Arrowrout. Starch, Ac. .
IvetUverej^for 0 " BREAtUFAST^T.u'Nc'HE^ifor^SC^P^S/"
Keep* In aTTcilinAtet. Reonlmt no Cooking A teaipoontnl to
a. SCHWEITZER and 00., 10. Adam-street, London, W.O.
T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
^ MEAT.
* SSS &SS88&
MADE DISHES. AND 6AUCE8, AND EFFECTS
OREAT ECONOMY.
T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
MEAT.
Caution.—Genuine only with facsimiled Baron Liebig's
signature In bine ink across label.
T IEBIG C OMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
MEAT.
In use in most households throughout the Kingdom.
T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
J MEAT.
batnroaya a* r um. -- r __
0 ESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE, post-free
QETZiLVNN & CO.,
JJAMPSTEAD -ROAD.
eu cut. and elegantly trimmed,
„oe guinea to 10 guinea*.
Tarlatans In the most fashionable style*. M*.
Black Brussel. Net, 25... »s. W .and 35*.
D “ l
^gM«»r»E*a d STsa"r{r
Noe. 258 to 282.
ENO'S FRUIT bai/i.
Eno's Fruit Salt would not do wiuiout ii upon
any consideration, they having recslved somoch
benefit from It/’-wood Brothers. ChemlsU,
Jersey. 1878.
"cT KCb Tldibome, Ph. D. : r " Laxora Loxengre are
Wholesale, 82. Southwark-etreot.
LAIR’S GOUT PILLS.
T hroat affections and
?oarse ?1 esb. 7 aii
TttfK’Htfi Theac famoua ijozcngn* are now told by mo*t
reapectablc Chemli't* In tbla country, at1«.. l|d. per
affrotlmia!—D*p5t. 493. Oxford-street. London. _
xfoOPING-COUGH.—ROCHE’S HERBAL
rt EMBROCATION.—The celebrated
SO t N <1 *187 il Uuo*n* n vic^T*-*twt* l j'lat* S, of**3»!*^Orii'^^ff'h
f/^cfonf^Sohfretall hymoat Chemlrta. Price 4*. per Bottle.
JJ E A L and g
O N
HAVE ON SHOW
THE LARGEST STOCK OF
BED-ROOM FURNITURE
IN LONDON.
FORTY SUITES are set apart in separate room*, and the
general stock occupies six galleries and two ground floors, each
fltted with every dcscripUon of bedding, are
««ly fixed ^IJ'Y'^raTED CATALOGUE.
OONTAINING*4'*> DESIGNS OF BEDSTEADS AND BED-
K«)riM A FCRNITCRK.AND PRICE-LIST OF BEDDING.
SEN Tm F &Hw. P TOTTK<HAM COURT-ROAD. LONDON.
-CURS at SUMMER PRICES.
^ REAL BUS8IAN BEAL PALETOTS
SSaa :: ::
" I^o'mori’^riKliltlre.
FUR-LINED CLOAKS,
^ g^“ lon< ''
Lined with*VlSrarey^qulrrel.
1 47 Inches long, at 6 guinea*.
For Sample*— Address om.» a* follows:—
PETER ROBINSON, REGENT-STREET,
No*. 286 to 282.
0OLDS CURED BY
VTOTICE.—In reference to the
i.Y above advertiseroenta.
It Is important that letter*
should be clearly addressed to
REG ENT-STREET. Not. 286 to 283._
“ C WAN and EDGAR
O are now showing__
A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT
DR.
' Gives Health. Strength,
J^IDGE’S
[ to Mothers. Nurses,
Infanta, end Invalid*.
FOOD
Sold by all
l Chemist* anil Grocer*.
QAV0RY & MOORE, 143, New Bond-street,
IO Prepare___
rrtTTF. WTiST Toon for INFANTS.
A Supplied to tho Royal Families
Ot EngUnd and Russia.
To be had of Chemist*. Ac., everywhere.
rpilE BEST FOOD for INFANTS^
A The most digestible; contains llie
Highest Amount of Nourishment,
In tlic most convenient form.
rrHE BEST FOOD for INFANTS.
A Malted on Liebig's principle. Is
hweet and Wholesome in Itself.
Entirely free from Beetroot Sugar.
QAVORY and MOORE, 143, NEW B0ND-
C5 STREET. LONDON;and
Sold by Chemists, Ac., everywhere.
jyjAlTIN
jJ^JAPPIN
jyjAPPIN
^JAPPIN
^JAPPIN
-^JAPPIN
J^|APPIN
Tyj^APPlN
jyjAPPiN
jyjAPPiN
In
A UTUMN NOVELTIES,
Silks. Mantles, Costumes,
and Sealskin Paletots.
TkR. DUNBAR’S ALKARAM, or
I ) Anti-Catarrh Sm ell i ng-Bottle. ^
^LKARAM. C°LDS.
^LKARAM. Q0LDS.
TF inhaled on the first symptoms, ALKARAM
1 will at once arrest them, and cure “"f* °^“ D L n 1 l'ji' b ^,
hour. Sold by all Chemists,2s.9d. a B^tle. Address. W. V
of Messra. P. Newbery and Son*. 87. Newgato-rireet.
Q0LDS.
tEroTt iRR ITATI 0 ?;=S. p S
J)ILIfl
purify THE BlX)OD.
gSS fa gMM DlbEABE.
IMPROVE DIGESTION
E8TABUSH THE HEALTH.
Bold everywhere.
gWAN and EDGAR,
PIOCADILLY and REGENT-STREET,
BROTHERS— DlcctroPUtcn ACutlers,
Are placing the Public
BROTHERS — On tho same tooting as
BROTHERS- Mcmbcr *°‘ Co ' flp<r * UTe
Stores, having
BROTHERS— Reduced their Prices
BROTHERS— wp,rCent '
The well-known quality
BROTHERS of their goods Is strictly
BROTHERS- m *‘ nUlDtd -
Write for Catalogue to
BROTHERS— London bridge,
brothers- LOSDONBBIDUE: or ’
REGENT-STREET, W.
BROTHERS— regent-street, w.
OTICE. — SPOONS and FORKS,
in SILVER and In ELECTRO-PLATE.
ELKINGTONand CO., a* the remit of important
improvements In the shoe manufactures, are able
to offer their guaranteed qualities at such prices
as. whilo fully maintaining their acknowledged
superiority, place them within the reach of all
claaaes. Revised Illustrated Price-Llita free by
poston application. Purchasers of Silver Spoons
and Forks obtain thradvantage of any fluctuation*
In the silver market.
Address—ELKINGTON and CO.. 22. Regent-street, London,
or 42, Moorgate-atreet, City.
JOSEPH GILLOTT’S
° STEEL PENS.
AYE’S
T 7 ITS— EPILEPTIC FITS or FALL^G
P SICKNESS.—A certain mrthod ofcare^hM bem {J^J ,
rSSSa^'^
-FOB THE BLOOD I8 THE LIFB. '
j-iT A TIKE’S WORLD-FAMED BLOUU
0 MIXTURE I* warranted clranMjth^aTOd^rom^y
Impuritira.fnOTwhatevor c*ufearliring^^P oQ| InlU,ttle<.
CLARKE. ^Chemist. Lincoln^
RnM Viy kll KtMtir.riHTR
, besirs the cloaest
IX Velvet, has coin-
, severe PARISIAN critics,
j. to too. Tho Louis Velveteen, which Is now
untvenaUy sold, possesses several advantages over other tel-
vetcens, lunongst which may be specially mentioned that it
neither changes colour, fade*, cockles, uor spots with rain, one
and all considerations of great Importance. Itls, moreover, dyed
by a new process in tho _
7 FASHIONABLE PERMANENT ORIENTAL BLUE-
and made In various qualities and thlcknmse*
VELVETEEN *hould hi*vc b«;n largely imiUUd, a tact which
)iu rtmdcrrd It noce**ary to stamp It on the raverMi •ide erotj
sevm yards with a Trade-Mark representing a Griffin s Head,
and the motto, ” Nos aspera Juvant. .
FROM VELVETS AT 21s. TO 80 s. PER k ABD.
*"* THA ’*
Tori'! vf IV ETKKN r WITH T BAD fe MARK AND
mYiTTO OR Y»)l! ARE not BUYING THE GENUINE
ARTICLE, NOTWITHSTANDING ALL ASSERTIONS
TO THE fcONTRABY. _
Agent*for (Wholesale only:—J. H. FULLER, 92, WatUng-
rtA5t?London; WM. FIFE. 82. Glasstonl-street, Glasgow
JOHN FREEMAN.20. Wlcklow- streeit. Dublin. _
TVTANUFACTURER’S STOCK of LADIES’
lvJL AUTUMN DRESSEBSelllngOffat Half the Cost. Con¬
sisting of Sloes Cachemlre* In the new dark jdain colour*. Rrlca
ard. nlr yard.—JOHN HOOPER.62, Oxford-street, W. Patterns
TTOLLOWAY’S PILLS
S .M!kiSS^and 6 li^u:
I IT thecureo f bad Ugs. old wounds, gout, and rheumMmm
—— T OCOOK’S PULMONIO WAFEK&
pUints. Sold at la l|d. per Box. _.—-—
ELECTRICITY IS ^"- vrrcxr
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REGISTERED AT THE GENERAL P08T-0FFICB FOR TRANSMISSION ABROAD. *
No. 2052. — vol. lxxiii.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1878.
with i SIXPENCE
TWO SUPPLEMENTS) By Post, 6Jd.
THE I11EBTHATEEJ0TO0BJEW8
X _~ *1,
OOT. 26, 1878
Fifei the wife of Keith Norman
HectoryiNottioghan*.the
0. Russell, of a son. MAR RIAGES. , ^
j*a 2 SSSBS&^^
- stesrsf- »^ - avsaBh.’iS&-® i
^scrissiW^
DEATHS. ., Q nll th B ea.
On the 17th tost., at 8^“^a sW’thS K^JEdw’arf Hareni
Herbert Benjamin Hweno, ^.^rd Herefordshire,
and Mrs. Harenc, of The Lower iiau, Dorot hea Beauchamp. wodow of
On the 16th inst.. Lancers and Grenadier Guards, in
Colonel lUchard Beauchamp, late ot loin x.
the 83rd year of her age. nelen) eldest daughter of the late
Jota I^£fe-S., o' Thomas Docwra, of Ball’s-
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LONDON: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1878
1 - • Hall.
The following are the readings of the meteorological instruments for the
above days, in order, at ten , vra , | »^981 trtm \ Mi
Barometer (In lntoe,) corrected " ™ ^ -
Temperature of Evaporation..
Direction of Wind .. ••
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TIMES OF HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE
FOB THE WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 2.
Sunday. Monday. Tuesday. We dnesday. Thursday, i Frid^
PUUBTEENTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR IN ONE UNBROKEN SEASON.
ST JAMES’S HALL, PICCADILLY.
THE _
M oore and burgess minstrels.
..../Night at Eight, and on ev^yMon^^ySmesday, and Saturday at Three and
THIS COMPANY NOW BEARS THE PROUD DISTINCTION OF BEING THE
OlXt^TABLISHED AND MOST SUCCESSFUL UPON THE EARTH.
jy* 8 BS 3 E^
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n: dntly.from^i I
that selfishness, carelessness, and culpable ignorance have
. muc h wider sphere for making themselves manifest.
What the breadth of that sphere m may be judged from
^e following facta :-In 1876-7 the number of Bnheh
vesaele which entered inwards and cleared outward.
and from ports of the United Kingdoui was
m m representing a tonnage 101,799,050, 224,669
of which vessels, with a tonnage of 66,560,127, were
steamers. Add to these about 00,000 foreign ships,
^ith a tonnage of nearly 20,000,000, which, dnrmg the
same period, arrived at or left onr ports; mid Urswiss,
that on board these 641,099 ships, British and Foreign,
there were probably (apart from passengers), fourmutton.
“ men end boys, and some not altogether inadequate
idea may be obtained of the vast magnitude of that
••shipping interest” with the Operate fatoht.es and
casualties of which the Wreck Register and Chart o ths
Board of Trade summarily deals. We have no right nor
wish to forget, when analysing the cases in which ship,
have come to grief, the immense majority of case, m
luch the dutiee they have undertaken, penlons as the,
aro, have been successfully achieved.
The year 1876-7 was remarkable for the frequency of
its violent and destructive gales of wind which are to be
taken into due account in considering the sum total of
losses sustained in the course of it.hy our Mercantde Navy.
The number of Wrecks, Casualties, and Collisions from all
causes on and near the Coasts of the United Kingdom
was 4164, exceeding that of the foregoing twelvemonths
by 407. Of these cases, 511 mvolved total loss, while
those of the two preceding years were 502 and 472 respec¬
tively. The remaining casualties, after deducting these,
comprise 1120 of a serious character and 2533 of a minor
class*: 847 of these wrecks were caused by collisions, and
involved a loss of human life to the extent of 57 souls,
while no less than 48 occurred on or near our coasts
between two steam-ships both under way, “ot to
mention numbers of others in our harbours and mem,
the particulars of which are not given in the
Abstract. This fact is an extremely serious one. A
Collision at sea may occasionally, it is true, he purely
aaddentah but in most instances it will be found to have
resulted from easily preventible causes. Thc ioss of the
Princess Alice, in September last, reminds us how terrible
may bo the effects of such a calamity, and induces Ihe
conclusion that something additional should he done by
authoritative regulation to prevent (in as far as they can
he prevented by such means) this class of disasters^
the P 3317 wrecks and casualties, other than collisions the
whole number reported during the year-446 resulted m
total loss, 902 in serious damage, and 1969 were mmm
accidents. They were more by 335 than the number reported
durin- the previous twelvemonth. We need hardly pimme
the analysis further. It is made up of the same items
as usual 7 The proportion of serious cases attributable to
defects in structure or equipments of ships, to error8
officers, to stress of weather, and to other causes; h
age and tonnage of the vessels destroyed or damaged th
. Sties in wffich the wrecks occurred; the ^
force of wind under which they happened; and m>t*b«
particulars, curious as well as interesting m the “ 9el ™ ’
£Sh much the same kind of information as that wiffi
Which tho public has been annually made ^amtedl for
several successive years. There is one featime,,
of the Wreck Register Abstract to which « 9 P ecial ^ { ° er
needs to he called and will surely he directed. We
to the casualties which have occurred to our 9hl PP mg
the rivers and harbours of the United Kmgdom
total number of these during the year now ^
was 984; of whioh 658 were ia
strandings 184, and miscellaneous 129. me
these casualties were 15. , . v p f ore
Wo have left ourselves hut little ispace ^to g tional
the reader the brighter picture exhibited by ^
Life-Boat Institution. In tempestuous
hardly take up a newspaper, metropolitan P b
without lighting upon some unobtrusiv P
cursorily describing the saving of life by one ^
the Boats of this Institution. Taken in comection
the Board of Trade’s Rocket-Apparatus• wf^ ^
Coastguard and Volunteer Brigades, 4795^ hve ^
rescued from the fury of the waves m oours^ ^
year. The number reported as lost is 7 ^
Tagure, ala.! but what it would hava beau but for*
| appliances and exertions B^oially dcvoted to th
of life at sea may be approximatdy 0 -
story would then have b r ua much morejerti ^
vr ilail, dully'.
Once more we have before us the documents respectively
issued every year by the Board of We and by the
National Life-Boat Institution, so vividly illustrative of
the perils braved by the “ toUers of the deep. It will he
home in mind that the statistics with which they have
I furnished the public relate, not to the current year, but
to the year 1876-7, ending June 30, 1877. The account of
1 the year 1877-8, ending last June, will, we fear, teU a
gloomier tale than many preceding it. But sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof.” Our business now is ^ WQuld tten have been a muuu — — ^
with the earlier annual period exclusively. ^ here * J . now _t e rrihle as it must he admitted
two pictures of marine experience brought by these sum- reon8 we think, of human, not to say gen“ ’
maries under notice, and it is our custom to look at them * e ? ^hesitate to congratulate the Nationally
NEW AND EXCELLENT PROGRAMME performed for the
w.U be repeated until notltlcatlon of another cliange U^ven.
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human nature, in une one, wo * \
to he ashamed of, something even to denounce with indig¬
nation • in the other, we meet with little hut what evokes
our praise and gratifies our pride. The one embodies, to
a distressing extent, the selfishness of man; the other, his
generosity, his enthusiasm, his heroic self-sacnfice. Not
that we mean to depreciate the large amount of con¬
scientiousness, courage, and noble character to he found
, i xv*-flxaof nf this
__—— , scientiousness, courage, and noble character to be l<
and COOKE, EGYPTIAN HALL, 1 „ enera n y diffused through the mercantile fleet of
r SWQ a-ySSUiJ. U o¥Pn A «I x -A. Iw Tint. n. few instances it
AFTERNOONS at Three” A VroararamVoTuiexplIcable llluaiont and Mechanical
Wonoera. Music byMjchanUm la Mr
Fanfaro. tho Comet-l’Uyer. ana
' talk of the entire ktnRdi
u -, from 21a.
i performances ui .
--- t p e attraction ana »
i uallHcd praise. Private Moxcs. iron
■ and U.-W. MORTON. Manager.
elyne's latest and greaveas srinsnai
—A • ablal on the Euphonium
i. the Press ‘
12i guineas
.PL’SIlSfi £“Ly, y aor to den, that in not a few instances it may j tion wn.cn » on
ffcfffiKpr UZS worth, comparisons with wbat is especially | destruction those whom tho per
r : a«d n si" I characteristic of the Life-Boat Institution; but hero it is engulf.
envied, for its great success. It is to <jertainly
admired for its noble and persistent exert • Britis h
deserves the hearty and liberal suppo the a id
public. To some extent, it has recel ™ J' , W e afi owe
be even more fully rendered m days ^^ble fives,
our brave tars this recognition of their ^ comioTts and
They contribute not a little to our J thenl in return
pleasures. Perhaps the least we can o ^ organisa-
l to hold out a helping hand to the {roffl
tion which is on watch round^o^^ threaten to
OOT. 26, 1878
383
THE ILLU8TBATED LONDON NEWS
THE COURT.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, returned to
Balmoral Castle yesterday week from the Glassalt Shiel. The
Bight Hon. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach arrived at the castle on
Saturday last as Minister in attendance on her Majesty
Captain Edwards, R.E., and the Rev. Dr. Taylor also arrived!
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach and Dr. Taylor dined with the Queen.
Her Majesty and Princess Beatrice attended Divine service on
Sunday at Crathie church. Dr. Taylor officiated. Lord and
Lady Muncaster were invited to luncheon at the castle on
Monday, and they were afterwards received by the Queen
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach dined with the Queen on Tuesday.
Her Majesty and the Princess have taken their customary
daily out-of-door exercise.
The Queen has selected Captain Edwards, aide-de-camp to
General Sir J. Lintom Simmons, for the appointment of
Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse, jointly with Lieutenant-
Colonel Pickard.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
The Prince of Wales took part in the ceremonial on Monday
in Paris at the ffite for the distribution of awards accorded by
the juries of the Universal Exhibition. His Royal Highness
responded in French to the opening speech of the President,
and was very warmly applauded. The Princess of Wales was
present. On Tuesday a deputation of British commissioners,
exhibitors, and jurors waited on the Prince at the British
Embassy, to present him with an address inscribed in a costly
volume. The Prince received them standing, Lord Lyons
being on his right hand, and Mr. Adams, first secretary of the
Paris Embassy, on his left. Lord Granville read the address.
The Prince’s reply was received with the utmost enthusiasm.
His Royal Highness was afterwards at the luncheon given by
Lord Lyons. The Prince, accompanied by the Duke of
Edinburgh, has made various inspections in the Exhibition.
Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein have
returned to Cumberland Lodge from Germany.
The Duke of Connaught went to the Folly Theatre on
Saturday.
The Duke of Cambridge returned to Gloucester House last
Saturday from inspecting the troops in garrison at Devonport.
The Empress Eugenie and Prince Louis Napoleon have
returned to Chiselhurst Horn the Continent. The Empress has
recovered from the effects of her fall upon landing at Dover,
and was able to walk to church on Sunday.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the
Duchess of Marlborough, accompanied by the Ladies Georgiuua
and Sarah Spencer Churchill, have left the Viceregal Lodge
for Knockdriu Castle, county Westmeath, the seat of Sir R.
Levinge, where he is to reside for a couple of months. At
Mullingar an address was presented by the town commhsioners,
and in his reply the Lord Lieutenant spoke of the prosperity
of the country, and added that he looked forward to yet
spending many happy days in Ireland.
The Duke and Duchess of Westminster have arrived at
Eaton Hall from Paris.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk have left town for Paris.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have arrived at
Kimbolton Castle, Hunts.
The Duchess (Dowager) of Cleveland has arrived atOsterley
Park.
Count Beust arrived at the Austrian Embassy on Tuesday
from Vienna to resume his diplomatic duties.
Lord Beacousfield passed through town last Wednesday on
his way to Huglienden Manor from visiting the Earl and
Countess of Bradford at Weston Park, Shifnal, and the Countess
of Chesterfield at Bretby.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath, the Earl and
Countess of Darnley and the Ladies Bligh und Viscountess
De Vesci have arrived in Paris.
The Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warrington have
arrived at Parks House, Newmarket.
The Earl of Carnwath and Lady Emma Dalzell have arrived
at Torquay.
Count and Countess Batthyany and Mdlle. Anna de
Bomemann have arrived on a visit to Lady Delawarr at
Buckhurst.
Count Montgelas has returned to the Austrian Embassy,
Belgrave-square, from the Continent.
Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald have arrived at Oakeley
Court from Paris.
Lord and Lady Dacre have arrived at The Hoo, near
Welwyn, Herts, from Scotland.
Lady Churchill has arrived at Nairn Side, Inverness.
The Hon. Lady Biddulph, accompanied by Countess
Spencer, has left town for Hastings, to pass a few weeks in
retirement.
The Right Hon. Sir Stafford and Lady Northcote have
arrived at The Pynes, Devon.
The Hon. Sir Arthur Gordon, Governor of the Fiji Islands,
and Lady Gordon and family have arrived at Haddo House,
Aberdeenshire, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen
and the Dowager Countess of Aberdeen, after a long absence
from England.
Sir Richard Garth, Chief Justice of the High Court of
Judicature of Bengal, with Lady Garth and Miss Garth, has
left England for Brindisi, en route for Bombay.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., with Mrs. and
Miss Mary Gladstone, have arrived on a visit to the Duke and
Duchess of Bedford at Woburn Abbey.
The First Lord of the Admiralty left town on Monday for
Paris, on his way to Marseilles, whence he goes to Malta and
Cyprus, accompanied by the Secretary' of State for War.
FASHIONABLE MARRIAGE8.
The marriage of Lord Lyttelton and the Hon. Mary Susan
Caroline Cavendish, second daughter of Lord and Lady
Cliesham, was solemnised at the village church of Latimer on
Saturday last. The bride, who was givtn away by her father,
wore a dress of white satin duchesse, trimmed with Brussels
point and orange flowers, and a veil of the same lace, over a
wreath of orange flowers, fastened with diamond brooches.
The other ornaments comprised a diamond necklace and pen¬
dant, the gift of the bridegroom. The bridesmaids were the
Hon. Katherine Cavendish, her sister, Lady Susan Byng,
Miss Grenfell, the Hon. Sarah Lyttelton, Miss Talbot, and
Miss Mary Gladstone. The dresses were of ivory white
broche silk, trimmed with satin and lace fichus, and white
satin hats; and each wore a brooch with the initials
“ M. L.” and coronet, studded with pearls and turquoises,
the bridegroom’s gift. Lord Lyttelton was accompanied by
his brother, Captain the Hon. Neville G. Lyttelton, Rifle
Brigade, as best man. The marriage ceremony was performed
by the Hon. and Rev. W. H. Lyttelton, Canon of Worcester
and Rector of Hagley (uncle of the bridegroom), assisted by
the Rev. Bryant Burgess, M.A., Rural Dean and Rector of
Latimer. The service was choral—the Hon. Victoria Grosvenor
presiding at the organ. Lord and Lady Cliesham received
about a hundred friends to breakfast, after which, Lord
Lyttelton and his bride started, amidst a shower of rice, for
Cleveden, the Duke of Westminster’s residence, near Maiden¬
head, for the honeymoon. The bride’s travelling dress was of
dark green velvet, with bonnet to match. The gifts were of great
value; and not least valued were those from Lord Lyttelton’s
tenantry and household, and the inhabitants of Hagley.
The marriage of Mr. Frederic Molyneux Montgomerie
and Miss Isabella Lindsay, eldest daughter of the Hon. Colin
and Lady Frances Lindsay, was solemnised on the 17th inst.
at St. James’s Church, Piccadilly. The bridesmaids were the
Ladies Mabel and Anne Lindsay, her cousins; and M'ss Gun¬
ning and Miss Georgina Mary Gunning, granddaughters of the
Rev. Sir Henry J. Gunning, Bart. The bride, who was given
away by her father, wore a dress of rich white satin duchesse,
trimmed with point de gaze and orange-flowers, and over a
wreath of orange-blossoms a tulle veil. Her jewels com¬
prised a diamond pendant, the gift of her aunt, the Coun¬
tess of Crawford and Balcarres, and a diamond brooch
and pin, presents from the Hon. Mrs. Loyd-Lindsay and
Miss Emily Sumner. The bridesmaids wore dresses of
white cashmere, trimmed with dark blue velvet, and dark
klue velvet hats trimmed with white lace. Each lady wore a
gold locket, with the monogram “LAI.” in the centre, the
of the bridegroom. The bridegroom was accompanied by
the Rev. A. I). L’Estrange as best man. The ceremony was
performed by the liev. Charles Beaulands, M.A., Incumbent of
St. Michael’s, Brighton, assisted by the Curate of St. James’s.
Ihe wedding party proceeded to the Hou. Colin and Lady
Frances Lindsay’s residence, 15, Collingham-road, South
Kensington, to breakfast, after which the newly-wedded
couple left the Hon. Colin Lindsay’s for Tunbridge Wells for
their honeymoon. The bride’s presents were numerous.
metropolitan news.
The Court of Common Council has fixed the salary of the
Remembrancer at £1500.
The Mercers’ Company have contributed £105 to the fund
being collected at the Mansion House towards the expenses of
holding the agricultural exhibition in London next year.
_On Tuesday morning the whole of the roadway of London
Bridge, which hud been partially closed for repaving since
the 30th ult., was thrown open for truffic.
Sir Richard Wullace, M.P., who is an Honorary Associate
of the Order of St. John, has sent £50 in support ot the funds
of the St. John Ambulance Association.
It is stated that Dr. Erasmus Wilson has liandid to Mr.
John Dixon a cheque for £10,000 in redemption of his pledge
to pay him that sum on the erection of Cleopatra’s Needle on
the bunks of the Thames.
On Wednesduy the teams, consisting of forty horses, which
have run with the Brighton coach this season, were sold by
auction at Aldridge's Repository. The top-priced horses
were Cavalier, 100 gs. ; Lily. 86 gs. ; Blue Bell, 86 gs.; Hendon,
82 gs. The entire stud fetched 2200 gs.
Experiments with the electric light are to be made on the
Thames Embankment, on Waterloo Bridge, in Billingsgate
Market, in front of the Mansion House and on the llolbom
Viaduct. Mr. Edison’s patents for the subdivision of the
electric light have been filed in the Patent Office in Loudon.
Under the patronage of the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs of
London and Middlesex, an industrial exhibition was opened
last Wednesday at Tottenham, in the Drill Hall, Park-lane.
In the evening a concert was given, and on each successive day
of the show some musical entertainment will be provided for
the visitors. The exhibition will close next Wednesday.
Some time ago a gentleman, whose name has not trans¬
pired, announced his intention to give one hundred pounds to
each of the metropolitan parishes, to be expended on the pur¬
chase and planting of trees in the principal thoroughfares.
The same person has made a similar offer to the Hornsey Local
Board for the purpose of planting Highgate with trees, and at
a meeting of that body on Tuesday the offer was accepted.
At the Auction Mart, on Wednesday, Messrs. Fox and
Bousfield offered to auction freehold estates in the New River
Company, comprising two fifths of a king's share, one eighth
of an adventurer's share, and thirty-one £100 shares (paid up).
The adventurer's share realised at the rate of nearly £91,000
per share; the king's share at the rate of £88,200 per share;
and the £100 shares sold at an average price of £310 per share.
Mr. II. M. Stanley gave a lecture at St. James’s Hall on
Wednesday evening to a large and appreciative audience, who
greeted his entrance with continued cheering. The subject
of the lecture was Through the Dark Continent, being a
brief description of Mr. Stanley’s journey from Zanzibar to
the Victoria Nyanza, thence to the Tanganyika, ar.d on by
the Lualaba and Congo, now called the Livingstone, to the
Atlantic Ocean.
At the sitting of the Commissioner and assessors in the
inquiry into the loss of the Princess Alice on Tuesday Mr.
Mansell Jones stated, on behalf of the Board of Trade, the
nature of certain charges which will be brought against
George Thomas Long, first mate of the Princess Alice;
Thomas Harrison, captain of the Bywell Castle; and Henry
Dunelow and Robert Thorn, first and second engineers of the
By well Castle.
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows that
the total number of paupers at the end of the third week
in October was 77,069, of whom 40,123 were in workhouses,
and 36,946 received outdoor relief. Compared with the corre¬
sponding weeks in 1877, 1876, and 1875, these figures show a
decrease of 869, 1003, and 4656 respectively. The number
of vagrants relieved on the last day of the week was 967, of
whom 644 were men, 249 women, and 74 children.
Mr. Thomas Cant Mills, a milk-dealer, in Pratt-street,
Camden Town, who was recently convicted by Mr. llarstow at
the Clerkenwell Police Court for assaulting a detective officer
and sentenced to six months’ hard labour, appealed, at the
Middlesex Sessions last Saturday, against the conviction.
Witnesses who did not appear before the magistrate were
called on behalf of the appellant, and their evidence satisfied
the justices that the constable was mistaken as to the person
who assaulted him. They therefore quashed the conviction.
A quarterly court of the governors of the Marine Society was
held at the offices in Bishopsgate-street on Monday—Mr. Joseph
Moore in the chair. The report of the committee stated that,
during the last quarter, thirty-seven destitute persons had
been admitted to the Warspite, twenty-five of that number
being orphans ; thirty-four boys had been sent to sea in the
merchant service, and seven draughted into the Royal Navy,
leaving on board the ship 301. Five medals for good service
at sea had been presented. The swimming practice had
been most successful, no less than 134 boys who, on joining,
knew nothing whatever of this important branch of a sailors
training, having become good swimmers during the s umm er.
The opening meeting for the present session of the members
of the Society ot Medicul Officers of Health took place yester¬
day week, at the Social Science Rooms, Adelphi, under the
presidency of Dr. Thomas Stevenson. He gave an address on
the “ Acquisition and Distribution of Sanitary Knowledge by
the Medical Profession,’' enforcing with particular emphasis
the desirability for the advancement of sanitary science, of
hygiene, or what might be termed preventive medicine, form¬
ing an obligatory and systematic part of the instruction given
at our medical schools. The report for last year states that
the society now consists of 158 members, of whom thirty-six
are metropolitan and sixty-seven country members.
In digging the foundations for a new shaft at the rear of
premises in the occupation of Messrs. Morgan and Co., in Long
Acre, some workmen came upon a chest containing a large
number of gold and silver coins of the reign of Henry VHI. in
a good state of preservation. Besides a quantity of miscel¬
laneous articles, the box contained about twenty pieces of
church plate and ornaments. Among these were a massive
chalice, a ciborium, and a monstrance, all set with precious
stones ; a finely-carved crozier head, a lapis lazuli crucifix, a
pectoral cross aud chain attached, some small vessels, and what
appears to have been the mitre of an abbot or a bishop. At
the foot of the chalice a cross with a nimbus is engraved, and
in a scroll the Latin inscription, “ Ad majorem Dei gloriam.”
Ihere were 2558 births and 13C9 deaths registered in
London last week. The deaths included 5 from smallpox, 10
lrom measles, 45 from scarlet fever, 12 from diphtheria, 33
from whooping-cough, 30 from different forms of fever, and
36 from diarrhcea; thus to the seven principal diseases of the
zymotic class 171 deaths were referred, against 190 and 191 in
the two preceding weeks. The fatal cases of scarlet fever
exceeded the numbers in recent weeks, although they were 60
below the corrected average. Ihe latal cases of diphtheria,
which had been 20 and 17 in the two previous weeks, further
declined to 12 last week, although they exceeded the corrected
average by 4. The deaths referred to diseases of the respira¬
tory organs, which had risen from 158 to 286 in the six pre¬
ceding weeks, further rose to 326 last week, and exceeded by
66 the corrected average ; 216 resulted from bronchitis and 73
irom pneumonia. In Greater London 3111 births aud 1635
dtalhs w( re registered. The mean temperature of the uir was
51 - 9 deg., or 1 9 deg. above the average in the corresponding
week ot sixty years. Ihe duration of registered bright sun¬
shine in the week was 18 horns, the sun being above the
horizon during 74 2 hours.
NAWAB CIIULAM IJUb&EiN KHAN, C.8.I.
Our 1 rout-page Engraving is a portrait of Nawub Gliolam
Husstru Klnai, tiie native gcntiiman ueputed by Lord Lyttou
to announce to blieie Ail fcir Neville Cltumberlain’s intended
Mission. He belongs to the clan of the Alizae Bathans, who
have, according to their own traditions, been settled in the
Derayat upwards o : 1000 years. He is eldest son of Asliik
Mahomed Khan, who was ruler of the Tauk subdivision of the
Deru Ismail Khan district under the Maharajah Runjeet
Singh. On the death ol his lather, Gkolam Hussein Khan
went to Lahore. In 1847, under the orders of the late Sir
Frederick Currie, then resident at the Sikh capital, he,
together with other Mohammedan chiefs, attacked the rebellious
Bhui Maharajah Singh, completely dispersing his band. We
find Gholam Hussein Khan a few weeks later earning the
approbation of Major R. Napier, chief engineer at the siege of
Mooltun. He was next dispatched to Dera Ismail Khan to
hold the country against the Sikh troops then in open rebel¬
lion in Bunnoo. Iheir loyal assistance to Lieutenant Reynell
Taylor enabled that officer, with a few untrained levies and
two old cannon—the only shot for which were stones—to
reduce by siege the fort of Laki, which was defended
by 500 men and ten guns. This exploit is, perhaps,
one of the finest military achievements in our Indian history.
During the siege Azirn Khan, Dost Mahomed’s son, marched
down from Cabul with a strong force and endeavoured to
seduce the Alizae chiefs from their allegiance, but it was of no
avail; aud, on finding that he could expect no support from
his co-religionists in the Derayat, Azim Khan fell back. From
1851 to 1857 Gholum Hussein remained at or near Bunnoo,
aiding his old chief, Major Reynell Taylor, in the civil duties
of the place; but on the outbreak of the mutiny he once more
placed his sword at the disposal of the British, and was directed
by Sir Herbert Edwardes to raise abody of Horse for service in the
Derayat, so that the regular garrisons might be detached for
service in Hindostan. In a lew weeks Gholam Hussein had raised
2000 men, who were the mainstay of the District Officer on the
frontier during the early part of the rebellion. Towards the
end of 1857 Sir John Lawrence directed the Nawab to take six
troops of his Mooltun Horse to Lahore, where they were formed
into a regiment and placed under the command of Captain—
now Geueial — C. Cureton. This corps took part in no less than
sixteen different engagements with the rebels; and for his
services during thut period Gholum Hussein received the title
of Khan Bahadur, the third class Order of Merit, the Mutiny
Medul, and a pension.
At the close of the Mutiny the Nawab was dispatched to
Cabul as our Envoy, and remuined there until 1863, during
which time he did the British Government excellent service.
He accompanied the Afghan army to Herat, aud was the means
of inducing iShere Ali to punish Sultan Mahomed Khan (his
own father-in-law), who openly assisted the Momunds in the
affair against us at Shubkudder in 1863. During the five years
he mourned in Cabul his conduct received the warmest
approval of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjaub. On his
return from Cabul Gholum Hussein was raised to the rank of
Nawab, and in 1868 he was made a Companion of the Star of
India. In the same year he was appointed Commandant of
the Army of the State of Bkawulpore; but, owing to a slight
put upon him before the Nawab, requested to be removed.
Lord Napier, of Magdala promptly reinstated him in his
position of Native Commandant of the Mooltun Horse, and
appointed him his Aide-de-Camp at the Camp of Exercise in
1873. During the Prince of Wales’s visit to India the Nawab
was nominated to his Royal Highness’s Staff.
The Duke of Sutherland has presented each of the trades¬
men on his Trentliam estate, some 120 in number, with a
milch cow and sufficient pasture land for feeding. This is in
addition to the gardens and pasture land they already possess
The Eastern Telegraph Company announce the extension
of their submarine system to Cyprus. The cable has been
laid by the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company
between Alexandria and Lamaca, and was opened for traffic
yesterday week.
Lady Hall, widow of the late Admiral Sir William Hall,
K.C.B., has informed the secretary of the Falmouth Sailors’
Home that she is about to present a portrait of the Admiral to
the institution. Sir William was the founder of sailors’ homes,
and that at Falmouth was one of the first he helped to start.
Mrs. Cecil Hall has also presented £5 to the funds in memory
of the Admiral.
THE ILLUSTRATED
LONDON NEWS, OCT. 20,1878.-334
.
MONUMENT TO THE hate LOBE LYTTELTON IN WORCESTER CATHEDRAL-
Zoological Society’s collection.
the LATE LORD L YTTELTU jn .
Shortly after the death of the late Lord Lyttelton a
number of his Worcestershire neighbours and friends
mTto give expression to their regard by the erection of
^L ^nronriate memorial. An influential committee
was formed, Laded by the Earl of Dudley, Lord Hampton,
and Sir Edmund Lechmere, Canon Melville acting as
honorary secretary. On the announcement of the pro-
nosfd liberal subscriptions flowed in, and the committee
lifter due consideration, determined upon the erection of
amonument in Worcester Cathedral This proposal was
cordially sanctioned by the Dean mid Chapter. The late
Sir Gilbert Scott was commissioned to prepare a design,
which was approved, and which has now been earned
out The design is an altar-tomb in the manner of early
fourteenth-century Gothic, on which reposes a recumbent
statue of the deceased, dressed in the robes of a Peer.
The statue is distinguished by perfect repose, as if asleep.
The head inclines slightly to the left side , the left arm
lies at full length by the side the n ? ht hand Kstrng
upon the breast, holding a parchment with seal*attached,
iitoken of hiB office of Custos Rotulorum of Worcester¬
shire. The figure and the four kneeling angels which
flunk the four comers are executed in pure white marble.
The tomb, which is executed in alabaster and different
coloured marbles, is enriched with a series of arch-headed
panels, supported by antique marble columns and carved
capitals Ttie* 0 panels are filled with shields, on which
are marshalled •rmorial bearings, illustrating the pedigree
of the Lyttelton family. The sculptor is Mr. James
mum
exploration.
's sketches of the
Africa, between
_inland from the
whidT has lately been traversed by
—-ns. This is a view of the
_a Morumbala marsh, on the
river, at the season c* A
which was continued by means Ox.
- • alcft are pelicans, then
the bright sun, alternating
_ K that often attracts notice.
Our scientific contemporary j
iner ann ouncement concerning-„ +
tion According to present a^g^nto, we
that Mr. Keith Johnston the e^r *
which the committee of tbe African Kjpi to
are about to dispatch from the East C f or
Lake Nyassa, will leave Englaud on Nov^
Zanzibar, together with Ins "^cial function it
Mr. Thompson, whose more especial to .
will be to study the has a n excellent
versed. Mr. Thompson we b^ve. h^s ^
training as a geologist. Mid it is expeeww q{ th(
make important contributions to o ^ expe( htion wil
geology of the region to be mtoi spring, ^
not actually start for , the “^u^d ^ maLng shor
the interval will no doubt ^^^uringaUinfonnatioi
journeys on the mainland, and mp g language, an*
possible in regard to the inhabitants, lanQ ^
natural condition of the region We gincere i
thoroughly and scientifically explor^. ^ ^
trust that Mr. Johnston may not meet wi ^
trouble in the matter of P 0 ^” “^pSs.”
the nrocress of the Belgian and other expeoi
EAST AFRICAN
We present another of Mr. H. Thelwall L
scenery in that region of troP^cal East Africa,
the Lower Zambesi and ^ Lake Ayassa,
Mozambique coast, v r~
several missionary expeditions,
inundation that covered the
left bank of the Shire river, a
journey, .Thick”"" "
The birds flying nloft
flashing in tk_
wings, in a manner
i of the Artist s
of a native boat,
white backs
with the dark grey
notice.
e makes the follow-
; African Exploia-
ttc beUeve
of the expedition
- Fund
THE ORIENTAL EAGLE OWL.
imong the recent additions to the aviaries of the Zoo-
ogical Society in Regent’s Park is an example of the
■are and little-known owl of which we now give an
[llustration. This bird, which had not previously been
received alive in Europe, was obtained in Siam by Mr.
Charles Fowler, of Cherryhinton, near Cambridge, and
was presented to the Society on the 14th of last month.
Its native home is said to be the forests of Karenne, in
the interior of Siam. The Oriental owl belongs to the
croup of eagle owls, which are distinguished by their
large size and by the long tufts of feathers that spring
from each side of their heads, and cause them to be
commonly designated as “homed” owls. Of the habits
of the species, which is found in Malacca, Java, and
Borneo, as well as in Siam, little has been recorded by
naturalists. But there is a closely allied species found in
British India, which Jerdon, in his “ Birds of India,”
calls the “ forest eagle owl ’ ’ (Huhua Nepalensis). Jerdon
found this bird in the high forests of Malabar, where it
was not very common, and was said to kill hares, various
birds, cats, rats, and even fishes, and to have a low, deep,
and far-sounding hoot. Other members of the group of
homed owls are the great homed owl of Central Europe
THE ORIENTAL EAGLE OWL, ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oot. 26, 1878.— 386
THE LATE MONSEIGNEUB DUPANLOUP, BISHOP OP ORLEANS.
IN THE MORUMBALA MARSH, EAST AFRICA.
386
THE tt.t.ttrtb. A.TED LONDON NEWS
OCT. !
THE IMPENDING AFGHAN WAR.
He return to India of -
and the military preparations m lndiaaie^o^ .^ th.
it b etated, in the JtajJw 0«"^f ^ atSck on Cabnl
Government has decided t p stl^ ^tjbie force” will
till next year, for which purp° 8 ® Uectc ain the p e8 hawur
be organised. The force to Kll oorum Pass, is stated to be
Valley and at the ° f {Jj c h thereare the troopB destined
35,000 of all arms, be ? ldeB ^ h ^uettl and perhaps to occupy
to reinforce tie garrison of Q ^ eotfJo infantry,
m^tly ^rmed with <Send
Stolietcff, who had been has left at
since last July, Jellfemdto topographical
Cabul publishes an
SUSANS
Ira
SSiiTmrTi Z£* ^ont
Shore Ali has offered to extend the wire to Cabul.
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
Marshal MacMahon presided on Monday at the distribution of
the Exhibition prizes at the Palace of Industry in * be £ ba “PJ
ElysSes. The ceremony is said to have been one of the most
successful of the kind ever witnessed in Pans.
r»re«nnt were the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Crown
Irince^f Denmark, the Crown Prince of Sweden, and the
Dukeof Aosta. The Marshal delivered an address, in which
he thanked the Governments and peoples for the confidence
they had shown by their readiness to take part m
Stion, the success of which showed what could be eftetedby
seven years of self-concentration and labour m **■***”£
terrible disasters. “ It has been seen (he added) that the
solidity of our credit, the abundance of our resources, the
peaceof our cities, the calm of our population, the traming
Ld good bearing of our now reconstituted. anny, testify to»an
organisation which I am convinced will be fruitful and
durable! Our national ambition will not stop there. If
we have become more careful and laborious, we etiU owe
it to the memory of our misfortunes to maintain Mid. develop
mnong us the spirit of concord, respect for institutions and
laws, and ardent and disinterested love of our country.
The Minister of Commerce, after acknowledging the Marshal s
speech, proceeded to read the lists of awards and to distribute
tneprtocipal prizes and decorations. The president of each
group, French and foreign, here came forward and received
tiie decorations and honours accorded to each particular
section en bloc , this being the only way of recognising the
multitude of awards. The ceremony closed with musical
honours, amongst which the new hymn of Laurent de Rille
was conspicuous. The President retired with a military
escort, as W the Royal Princes. We intend to illustrate the
ceremony next week. ..... . . .„ ...
Some idea can be formed of the share assigned to dif¬
ferent nations in the Exhibition awards. , 9 ut ° f J£° ^ nnd
prizes, 2470 gold medals, 6400 silver medals, 10,000 bronze
medals, and 10,000 honourable mentions, England takes 20
grand prizes, 231 gold, 341 silver, 459 bronze medals, and 349
honourable mentions ; while the Colonies carry off three grand
prizes, 59 gold, 199 silver, 286 bronze medals, and 318 honour¬
able mentions. England also takes 21, and her Colonies 13
diplomas of honour. The United States, according to the
American Register, carry off grand prizes, 10; diplomas of
honour, 30; gold medals, 135; silver medals, 200; bronze
medals, 220; and honourable mentions, 156.
An address bearing upwards of a thousand signatures was
presented on Tuesday by Lord Granville to the Prince of Wales
at the British Embassy thanking his Royal Highness for his
labours in connection with the Exhibition, and also referring
to the able manner in which Mr. CunliffeOwen had discharged
his duties as secretary to the British Commission. The Prince,
in reply, said he was very sensible of the compliment paid him,
spoke of the cordial good feeling which existed between Eng¬
land and France, and said that he thoroughly concurred in
the remarks which had been made respecting Mr. Owen. The
deputation, which included a large number of British jurors
and exhibitors, was afterwards entertained at luncheon by
Lord Lyons. In the evening there was a grand fete in the
park at Versailles, and later in the evening a ball was given in
the rooms of the palace. Great confusion prevailed at the
ball, owing to the want of proper organisation.
A breakfast was given on Tuesday by about fifty Prefects,
who had come up to Paris for yesterday’s ceremony, to M. de
Marcfere, the Minister of the Interior. He was warmly com¬
plimented on the goodwill he had invariably shown; and, in
reply, he described moderation and sincerity as the funda¬
mental qualities of a Prefect.
On Wednesday the remains of Monseigneur Dupanloup
were interred at Orleans with imposing religious ceremony, in
presence of a large concourse of people from all purts of
France, including many dignitaries of the Church and high
personages in the political and social world. The funeral took
place in the cathedral.
ITALY.
Signor Cairoli arrived at Rome on Tuesday from Monza. On
his presenting to the King the resignations of Count Corti,
General Bruzzo, and A dmir al di Brocchetti, he Btated that the
whole Cabinet had now resigned. His Maj esty protested warmly,
and declared positively that even if the whole Cabinet retired
from office he would again charge Signor Cairoli with the
formation of a new Ministry.
An increase of activity in the eruption of Vesuvius was
observed on Tuesday evening.
HOLLAND.
Both Chambers have passed the bill sanctioning
approaching marriage of the King of the Netherlands
Pnneess Emma de Waldeck-Pyrmont.
The Dutch Society of Commerce and Industry has resolved
tobe^ined by a canal to the Meuse.
DENMARK.
to be expected. GERMANY.
«»S»llrSf|LS£
joined by Prince Bismarck then read a message from the
mMrnmm
After (Sing three cheers for the Emperor, the House adj°imied-
Anti-Socialist Bill, which was signed by the Crown
Prince at Potsdam on Monday, was published on Tuesday by
the German Official Gazette, and immediately came into force,
S^dXto Berlin and a large number of publications
for hi.
«!BSSS o F o^“ e A r»7 *>,«*> mm-
aubtria-hunoary.
The Hungarian Parliament was opened on Sunday by the
Emperor who delivered a speech in which reference is made to
SSSpattoa °f Bosnia.” Hi. Moje.tr, amid* th.oh«n of
the Assembly, spoke of the bravery and praiseworthycond™*
of the army, by which he said the first part of the duty c
upon Austria by the Berlin Congress had been accomplished^
That justified them in the hope tnat what remained to be done
would be achieved without further sacrifices being demanded
from the nation. On the whole, the speech seemed to have
produced a satisfactory impreFsion. In Ihureday s 8lttl ?6
the Chamber of Deputies* M. Kolomaii Ghiczy was elected
President by 206 votes out of 35 0 recorded.
The Austrian Reichsrath reassembled.
recess. In the Lower House the President thanked tbe army
for its bravery, heroism, and self-sacrifice, and his remarks
were received with loud cheers. The Austrian estimates for
1879, which were distributed to the members, show a ruction
of twelve millions of florins in the expenditure and a decrease
of four millions in the revenue as compared with the preceding
year. The requirements of 1879 will exceed those of last year
by upwards of four millions of florins. The deficit m 18 <9 is
to ro?nd numbers fifteen millions of florins, ^ h } ch » J
with the deficit of 1878, shows an improvement to the amount
of eight millions.
Hobart Pasha having informed the Sultan that he was sus¬
pected in England of inclining towards a Russian alliance, his
Majesty has declared to Sir A. H. Layard that he would never
conclude such an alliance.
GREECE.
A debate to the Chambers on the past policy of the Govern¬
ment, which began on Monday week, was brought to a con¬
clusion on Friday evening. On a resolution being put to the
vote sSy-mne 7 members supported the Government and
sixty-three the Opposition.
ROUMANIA.
The extraordinary Session of the Chambers was closed on
the 16th by a Message from Prince Charles, and the ordinary
Sssion is announced to begin on Nov. 27 The Government
is now authorised to take possession of the Dobrudscha, and
troops destined for its occupation have been <k«P«cbed.
A Cabinet Council was held on Tuesday at Bucharest for
the purpose of deciding upon the measures to be taken lor
the administration of the Dobrudscha. _ . .
The troops made their triumphal entry into Bucharest on
Sunday, and were reviewed by Prince Charles. The men were
received with much enthusiasm, and at night the town was
A new decoration, called the Elizabeth Cross, has been
established by princely decree. It is to be given to persons
who have aided the Roumanian sick and wounded during the
recent campaign. BXJfl8IA m TUBKBY .
- the
A semi-official statement has been published to St. Peters¬
burg giving a contradiction to the report that the Czar intended
to withdraw from public affairs. His Majesty, it is declared,
attends to business exactly as he Las done for yeurs past.
M. Miliutto has (a Berlin telegram says) returned to bt.
Petersburg from Livadia, with strict orders from tbe Czar to
spare no pains and to use whatever means seem proper lor the
suppression of Nihilism to the empire. .
Two of the St. Petersburg newspapers have received
official warnings, one for exhorting the new Chief of the
Secret Police to deal leniently with political offenders, the
other for publishing an article against the new Socialist law in
On Monday Bessarabia was delivered to the Russian autho¬
rities. The Governor, in a telegram announcing the event to
the Czar, says that the surrender took place amidst the un¬
bounded enthusiasm of the inhabitants. “All classes of the
population (he adds) join to expressing the most loyal sentiments
towards your Majesty.” . „ ' -
Administration of the finances of Eastern Roumelia has
been transferred to the International Commission. .
According to telegrams from Constantinople, published in
the Timet , Prince Lobanoff, at an interview with the Grand
Vizier on Monday, said that the Russian troops would not
retreat from their present positions till some arrangement had
been made concerning the Christian refugees who are fol¬
lowing the Russian army. Prince Lobanoff also repeated the
declaration made by him at a former interview, that the Russians
would not retreat beyond Adrianople till after the signature of
the definitive treaty imbodytog those articles of the Treaty of
San Stefano which are not annulled by the Congress of Berlin.
A great part of the Russian troops to Bulgaria are, it is Btated,
being moved southward.
The Sultan on the 16th tost, entertained the English Am-
bassador and Lady Layard, accompanied by Mr. Sandison, the
first Secretary of the Embassy, at dinner. Lady Layard,
having received permission from Queen Victoria to accept the
new order instituted by the Sultan, his Majesty, after the
repast, invested her Ladyship with the decoration. His
Majesty subsequently gave Sir A. II. Layard renewed verbal
assurances of his acceptance of the British schemes of reforms
to Asia Minor.
conclude such an alliance.
A telegram has been sent by the Porte to Mukhtar Pasha
thanking him for pacifying Crete, and congratulations have at
the same time been presented to him by the Christian and
Mussulman inhabitants of the island.
Baker Pasha, by order of the Sultan, has inspected the
lines at Tchataldja and reported on the subject to his Majesty,
who has authorised him to employ 40,000 men to complete the
fortifications. .. . . . . „ ,
The Sultau has given orders to his Ambassador m Berlin
to have a lifesize portrait made there of the late Mehemet
Ali Pasha. It is intended for the Military Academy in
Constantinople. AMEEICA .
The Philadelphia correspondent of the Timet telegraphs
that one of the new Russian steam-cruisers built at Philadel¬
phia was launched on Tuesday, Captain Semetchto, the chief
of the Russian expedition to fit out vessels, being present.
The vessel is n jt yet named. She is of 1000 tons burden, and
is expected to make a speed of 14£ knots at sea.
The correspondent ateo states that there have been immense
prairie fires in North-Eastern Nebraska. They have caused
great loss of property, and Bevcn persons were burnt to death.
Mr Mapleson’s company gave their first performance at
the Opera to New York on Wednesday week. Numbers of
persons were unable to obtain admission.
The order issued by Mr. Sherman, the Secretary of the
Treasury, for the purchase of silver bullion is to the effect that
400,000 oz. shall be bought weekly. _ , .
Nightly frosts are reported to be having the effect of
steadily diminishing the violence of the yellow fever epidemic.
On Wednesday there were nineteen deaths at New Orleans and
fifteen at Memphis. The relief associations are being dis¬
solved, and business is stated to be reviving.
The Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco has adopted
a resolution opposing a reduction to the Customs tanft for
French wines. , . , _ , v
During a wedding to a negro church at Lynchburg,
Virginia, last week, a piece of plaster fell from the ceiling and
caused the crowded congregation to rush to the doors, len
persons were killed and thirty injured.
Denial is given to the report that there has been fighting
at Water Proof. It is stated that the negroes made some
threatening demonstrations, but that quiet was restored on
the appearance of a body of volunteers.
A Solent storm has occurred in Pennsylvania, causing great
destruction to property. At Philadelphia Beven people were
Wlkd - CANADA.
After a most successful administration of the Dominion of
Canada, Lord Dufferin is on his way back to England Hu
Lordship embarked at Ottawa last Saturday on board the
steamer Polynesian for Europe. Pending the arrival of the
Marquis of Lome, the new Governor General, Mr. Macdougall
has been appointed administrator. ,
The new Cabinet has been gazetted, and is composed as
f ° U 6irJ Macdonald . Premier and Minister of the Interior.
Mr TiUv . Minister of Finance.
Mr Turner . Minister of Publio Works.
t£o . Minister of Agriculture.
xr Donald ... Minister of Justice.
Mr o'tWor ... .. President of the Councfl.
Mr Mamon° r '!! !.! Minuter of Militia
mT I'mtrcvin . Postmaster-General.
jS' K3T.Minister of Customs.
Mr Bafcv ... ... Inland Revenue
Mr! Alexander Campbell ... Itaceiver-General.
::: ::: asffJ'JBi—*—
The new Nova Scotian Government has taken the oaths of
office. Mr. S. H. Holmes has been appointed Prefer.
Mr J. S. D. Thompson, Attorney-General; and Mr. Creelman,
00 Manitoba ha. been JO-
Norquay, the late Minister of Public Works, betogPraim.
The Orangemen at Montreal, who were tried on a charge
ofbelongtogte an illegal society, have
they have entered an action for false arrest agains J
the CAPE COLONIES.
News from the Cape to the 1st inst. has been received- n
is steted on what is believed to be trustworthy a^honty that
camp at Moosfontein, a few miles from Gnquatown.btvras
repulsed. Most of the Kimberley volunteers are m tested.
The latest rumour from the Transvaal is to tbe
Mapock and Makapan have broken out in rebellion.
Asia Minor.
The Sultan has informed Sir A. H. Layard that he sent a
letter on the 16th inst. to Shere Ali, calling upon him, as a
good Mussulman, to come to an amicable arrangement with
the English Government.
AUSTRALIA. .
The Governor ol New South Wole., wit h the
Executive Council, has directed 14 of t he^^AiScultural
intended to hold, under the supemsion of the Agnc
Society of Ne» South Woles, au
Svdnev to August, 1879, according to a general prog™^“
which may be seen at the offices of tbe . A ® en y: ^Ltreet, or
South Wales, 3, Westminster-chambcre, Victoria-stree
obtained from that office on application.
Serious injury has been done by miS
several villages being under water
at great expense, have been adopted b> the Ho
Great discontent, the Turkcttan Gazette ^account
the newly -conquered Chinese province of
of the oppression of the Chinese officials and soldiera.
On the site of the lacustrine village of the
Switzerland, laid bare by the towermg ot the ^ be long-
Lake of Neuch&tel, have been found of the
tog to the age of stone, and £ hateful d last we ek,
age of bronze. Four canoes, besides the one ion
ra visible, but they have not yet been raised to the suriac
The readers of our columns during the
remember that the ambulance most used b ? ke d ooley
dooley, an improved form of which— the B ^ dooley
has been adopted bv the Government of'^ a ^ he ambulf uice-
may be used as a bed, and four of them A 1 ia di Govern-
waggon recently built by Dr Bourke for the Indian^
meut, and favourably reported upon officially in ng ^
Tbe Postmaster-General notifies that the
steamer, Orient Steam Navigation Company, ^ take
on Oct. 28 for Adelaide, Melbourne, and y 7^ z ca lmul
letters and newspapers for all theAustrahau via
colonies, if specially addressed P< ? ^ eD big of
Plymouth,” and posted to London on or before the even
OCT. 26, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
387
THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS
Andrews, Frederick Oould, to be Perpetual Curate of Wettenhall.
Anketell, H., Vicar of Seagry; Chaplain to the Chippenham Workhouse.
Baker, William Robert; Vicar of Hagbourne, Berks.
Bedford, William Campbell Rylaud ; Perpetual Curate of Little Aston.
Coghlun, John Armstrong; Vicar of Tetsworth, Oxon.
Domviile, Charles Compton: Rector of West Cliickerell.
Fearon, Arthur; Curate of Bianltsea.
Garde,Thomas Hugh; Senior Curate of St. John's, Bcdminster, Bristol.
Hamilton, A. ; Canon of Christ Church, Dublin.
Hare, Henry; Vicar of Towersey, Bucks.
Haymes, Robert Evered ; Reefor of Holdgate.
Henderson, Thomas Julius ; Vicar of South Banbury, Oxon.
Holmes, J.; Minister of the New Chur ch of St. J ohn-the-Evangelist, Warley.
Horsfall, Thomas M.; Vicar of Bobbington.
Johnson, John; Vicar of Rudby, in Cleveland, and Chapelrics of East
Rounton and Middleton.
Knipe, Christopher; Vicar of Erlestoke.
Lawson, R.; Rural Dean of Upton Deanery.
Laycock, James Marshall; Perpetual Curate of St. Mark, Barrow-in-
Furness, Lancashire.
Lutman, Adrian Henry; Vicar of Weston-Zoylond, near Bridgewater.
Lynes, W., Curate of Aswardby and Sansthorpe ; Vicar of Cinderthorpe.
Maclean, J. H., Curate of Whiteparish ; Vicar of Bromshaw.
Meuby, George; Perpetual Curate of St. Matthew’s, Barrow-in-Furness,
Lancashire.
Meade, de Courcy: Rector of Tockenham.
Oak, Edward William; Perpetual Curate of St. Luke's, Barrow-in-
Fumess, Lancashire.
Pepys, P. H.; Honorary Canon of Worcester Cathdral.
Powell, William F.; Prebendary of Pyon Parva, in Hereford Cathedral.
Ram, Robert Diglw; Vicar of Teddington, Middlesex.
Rhoades, E. J.; Vicar of Elmley Castle.
Ridley, W. C.; Rector of Bhalstone.
Rudkin, M., Curate of St. James’s, Gloucester; Vicar of Horsley.
Berjeantson, William James ; Curate of Foston.
Shaw, J. H. ; Incumbent of Trinity Church, Cheltenham.
Tylecote, Thomas B ; Rector of Lowther.
Veysey, John; Rector of CannSt. Rutnbold, Shaftesbury, Dorat.
Wickham, William Arthur; Incumbent of St. Andrew's, Wigan.
Yonge, Vernon George; Rector of Whitmore.— Guardian.
On St. Luke’s day Lord Skelmersdale laid the first stone
of a new church at Southport, with Masonic honours.
The Bishop of Iiipon has been presented by his clergy and
laity with an oil painting of himself, by Mr. Watts, R.A.
On the 16th inst. the parish church of Fittleton, Wilts, was
reopened after a partial restoration.
The Church of All Saints’, Great Glemham, Suffolk, was
reopened, after restoration, on the 10th inst.
On the 17th inst. the parish church of SS. Peter and Paul,
Dagenham, Essex, was reopened by the Bishop of St. Albans,
after having undergone a complete restoration.
A church was consecrated at Arcachon last week by the
Bishop of London. The church, which is being erected from
designs by Mr. Barber, will, when completed, seat 300 persons.
St. James’s Church, Piccadilly, which has been closed for
the last two months, was reopened on Sunday. The interior
has undergone a complete renovation and some alterations.
The Bishop of Manchester preached on the 18th inst. at the
opening of a new church at Dunston. His Lordship said the
Ritualists of the present day appeared to lack that simple faith
and largeness of mind which was peculiar to the founders of
the Tractarian movement.
The annual conference of the clergy and laity of the diocese
of Chester was begun on Wednesday. An address was given
by the Bishop. A paper on the Work and Influence of the
Church upon the Middle and Humbler Classes was read by
Mr. J. Croston, and a discussion followed.
At the Central Criminal Court on Thursday Henry Stuart
Marshall, who had pleaded guilty to four indictments charging
him with embezzling various sums of money, the property of the
Curates’ Augmentation Fund, was sentenced to be kept in
penal servitude for seven years. The Rec-rder added that,
after what had been stated that day, he should advise the
council of the fund to adopt some better sj stem of audit. The
total sum misappropriated was £6972.
A choral festival was held on Wednesday evening in the
parish church, Croydon, in aid of the Choir Benevolent Fund.
The choir consisted of about seventy members of the Chapels
Royal, Westminster, St. Paul's, Canterbury, Eton, and St.
George’s Chapel, Windsor, choirs; and Dr. Bridge, Mr. W. S.
Hoyte, and Air. Cambridge officiated at the organ. The sermon
was preached by the Kev. Canon Duckworth. The offertory,
together with donations and the collectiou at an organ recital
given in the afternoon by Mr. Hoyte, amounted to over £130.
We learn from the Guardian that testimonials have been
preseuted to the Rev. Henry A. Mason, Curate of Stepney
parish, prior to his departure to North (Queensland, Australia,
as chaplain to the Bishop of North (Queensland, and also ns
Vicar of St. James's, Townsville. From the congregation, u
gold watch ; from day-school teachers and scholars, a silver
salver; from Sunday-school teachers and scholars, a walnut-
wood writing case; from youths’ Bible class, books of con¬
siderable value. Airs. Henry A. Mason also received a testi¬
monial as a mark of the affi cti>m and esteem in which she
was held.—The Rev. W. A. C. Alacfurlane, on quitting the
vicarage of Criftius for the rectory of Elmswell, Suffolk, has
been presented with an illuminated address.
The seventh session of the Exeter Diocesan Conference was
begun at Exeter on Tuesday, the Bishop presiding. Among
those present were Earl Fortescue, the Earl of Devon, Sir John
Kennaway, Bart., Al.P., the Dean of Exeter, and other dig¬
nitaries ol the cathedral. The principal subject discussed was
religious education.—Animated and interesting discussions
took place on Wednesday (Bishop Temple presiding) respecting
extempore preaching, and a proposal to constitute a new order
of voluntary lay helpers, who should preach in churches and
perform all clerical dutieB except administer sacraments. This
was referred to the committee. Written sermons were gene¬
rally condemned, and extempore preaching recommended by
a resolution.
In his visitation charge on the 17th inst. the Bishop of
Peterborough dealt with the assaults made upon the Church
by sectarianism, infidelity, and democracy, and suggested that
some concessions should be made upon the burial question.
The subject ot disestablishment was also dealt with. On
Saturday last the Bishop continued his visitation charge,
addressing his clergy at Kettering. He quoted statistics illus¬
trative of the progress of church building and restoration, and
founded upon the work already accomplished an earnest argu¬
ment against those sweeping changes which in the estimation
of some were to make the Church what she might or ought to be.
On Wednesday the Bishop gave a portion of his charge at All
Baiuts’, Northampton. Dealing with the question of the
obedience or not of the clergy to the law as finally interpreted
by the Supreme Court of Appeal in matters ecclesiastical, he
urged on the clergy a thorough loyalty to the Church of Eng¬
land, free alike from Puritanical and Papal bias. The Bishop
coucluded his visitation on Thursday at St. Alarlin s, Leicester.
The Aleath Diocesan Synod, which met on Tuesday, was
presided over by Lord Plunket, Bishop of Meath, who in the
course of his address said that the Irish Church was at present
doing its work quietly, efficiently, and harmoniously.
The visitation sermon for the Archbishop of Dublin was
preached on Wednesday by the Rev. Hewitt Poole, Fellow of
Trinity College. It was, the Fall Mall Gazette correspondent
says, a well-knit argument in justification of Christianity
against recent philosophic criticism.
Sir E. Kerrison, Bart., has presented to the Roman Catholic
Church of St. Edmund, Bury St. Edmunds, a Gothic alms-
box made of the oak to which St. Edinuud, “ Alartyr, mayde
and kyng,” as Lydgate calls him, was tied at his martyrdom
by the Danes in 870, and which fell at Hoxne, near Eye, in
1848, an arrow-head being fouud in the trunk.
At the sitting of the Congregational Union at Liverpool on
the 17th, delegates were received from the Primitive Methodists
and the Congregational Unions of Ireland and Scotland.
Various papers having been read, the usual votes of thanks
were passed to the preacher of the year, Dr. Fairbaim, and
the local committees. The Union closed on the following
night by a meeting of young men, at which addresses were
delivered. The Rev. Alfred Morris, of Tynemouth, spoke on
the subject of amusements, contending that the character of
English amusements was very limited. The good from theatres
in the present day was counterbalanced by the evils, and the
plays often flung aside the Ten Commandments.
warded to Dr. Poore, secretary to the Parker’s Museum of
Hygiene, University College, £50, as her Majesty’s donation
towards the establishment of a Museum of Hygiene.
The foundation-stone of the additional building to tho
General Assembly’s College, Belfast, has been laid by Mrs.
Gamble, of Ashburn, Scotland. Some time 6ince “an
anonymous friend’’ subscribed £10,000 to the college, on the
terms that an additional £10,000 would be subscribed by the
Irish Presbyterian Church, five of the contributors to give
£1000 each. The subscription-list was headed with £1000 by
Air. J. P. Corry, Al.P. for Belfast, and with the amount thus
contributed the buildings are now being erected.
Lord Norton presided yesterday week at the annual reunion
of the Worcester, Lichfield, and Hereford Training College,
Saltley, near Birmingham.
Air. E. C. Copas, B.A., of Balliol College, Oxon, late
Assistant Alaster at Felsted, has been appointed Natural
Science Master at King William’s College, Isle of Alan.
The Bishop of Rochester has nominated the Rev. John
Fletcher Woodhouse, M.A., Assistant Inspector of Schools in
the diocese of Durham, to be School Inspector in Religious
Knowledge for the diocese of Rochester.
The successful competitor for the Entrance Scholarship,
value £30, of the London School of Medicine for Women, 30,
Henrietta-street, is Miss Annie M'Call. The subjects wero
English, Latin, arithmetic, geometry, and Physics.
THE UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
OXFORD.
Air. Howley, Professor of Tamil and Telugu at King’s
College, London, has been appointed to the recently con¬
stituted University lectureship iu those languages.
The election to the headship of Trinity College took place on
Tuesday. By the statutes of the college the Fellows are obliged
to submit two names to the visitor, the Bishop of Winchester,
and these were selected on Tuesday, the choice of the electors
resting on the Rev. J. Percival, M.A., Head Alaster of Clifton
College, who took his degree in 1858, and the ltcv. H. G.
Woods, M.A., who took his degree in 1865, and has filled the
office of bursar aud tutor of the college for some years.
In a Congregation held on Wednesday the Itev. J. Griffiths,
D.D., Warden of Wadham College, was elected a member of
the Hebdomadal Council, iu the place of the Rev. S. W.
Wayte, B.D., late President of Trinity College, who had
retired; and Dr. Rolleston, Merton College, Liuacre Professor
of Physiology, was chosen in the place of the Venerable Dr.
Palmer, late Corpus Professor of Latin, who hod also retired.
Canon Liddon was also nominated for the hitter vacancy, but
he retired previous to the voting.
The following elections to scholarships have been held at
Pembroke:—Classical: Air. Tower, from Lancing College, aud
Air. Walters, from Christ’s Hospital. Alathematical: Air.
Kingdon, from Eton College. Proximo accesseruut: Hane,
from Bradfield College, and Marcus, from Manchester School.
Mr. W. H. Grenfell, of Balliol and Taploiv Court, Maiden¬
head, has been elected president of the Oxiord University Boat
Club, in the place of Air. T. C. Edwardes-Moss, of Braseuose;
Air. W. IJ. Cross, of University, secretary, in the room of Air.
Alulholland, of Balliol; Air. Courtney, of New College, was
re-elected treasurer; and Air. Hobart, of Exeter and Air.
Southwell, of Pembroke, were placed upon the committee.
CAMBRIDGE.
The Right Hon. R. A. Cross arrived at Cambridge on Wed¬
nesday evening and proceeded to Trinity College, where he
dined in hall as a member of the college. He took his degree
in the Senate House on Thursday.
Professor Skeat, first Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon,
gave his lecture in the Senate House on Tuesday.
A studentship of £50 per annum, tenable till the holder is
of standing to take his AI.A. degree, has been awarded at
Queen’s College to D. G. Davies, B.A., who was the solitary
occupant in the first elass in the first Semitic Languages
Tripos, early in the present year.
The Board of Historical Studies, having been intrusted with
a sum of £100 per annum for three years, by grace of the
Senate, to make provision for the instruction of students pre¬
paring for the Indian civil service in Indian history and
geography, have appointed S. Al. E. Kempson, B.A., of Caius
College, lately of the Educational Service of the North-West
Provinces of India, to be teacher of the subject during the
preseut academical year, at a salary of £100.
The Cambridge Chronicle gives the following as the numbers
of freshmen entered at the several colleges:—Peterhouse, 13 ;
Clare, 32; Pembroke, 37; Gonville and Caius, 32 ; Trinity
llall, 49; Corpus Christi, 32; King’s, 11; Queens’, 12; St.
Catharine’s, 16; Jesus, 61; Christ’s, 29; St. John’s, 111;
Magdalene, 17; Trinity. 167; Emmanuel, 20; Sidney, 13;
Downing, 10 ; uon-collegiate, 46 (of whom five are at Caven¬
dish College).
DURHAM.
There is a great increase in numbers this term. Forty
students have eutered in Theology and Arts, and tho total
number in residence is much greater Ilian it has been for
several years. The examiners fur the first year examination in
arts have issued the following lists;—
Class List.—HI. Class—J. Howarth. Univ. Coll.
Pass List.—F. F Collin, Univ. Coll.; J. P. Collin, Univ. Coll.; T.
Davies, Hatf. Hall; C. E. Foottit, Univ. Coll.; J. H. Lewthwaite, Hatf.
Hall; W. E. Postance, Univ. Coll.
The Newby Scholarship is awarded to J. Howarth, Univ. Coll.
The Entrance Scholarsaips have been awarded as follows:—J. 8. Addison,
£70; W. H. Flecker, £10; C. J. Hull, £40.
Medical Scholarships, £20, C. S. lllair.
The following huve passed the First Year Examination in Theology :—
A. Armstrong, Univ. Coll.; J. Dodd; 8. Edge, Hatf. Hall; W. Edwards,
Hatl'. Hull;H. Hughes, Hatf. Hall; D. W. James, Univ. Coll.; A. Lees,
Univ. Coll.; R. Marley ; W. B. Pratt; W. rhwaites, Hatf. Hall; J. L.
Williams, Hatf. Hall; R. Williams, Hatf. Hall.
The Entrance Scholarships and Exhibitions have been awarded as
follows Scholarships : Wansborough, £60; Bowman, £60; Meldruin, £30.
Exhibitions : Boddy, £30; Carter, £30.
A “First Year” Exhibition of £30 has been awarded to 8. Edge, Hatf.
Hall, and one of £40 to A. B. Timbrcll, Univ. Coll.
The council of University College of Wales, having decided
not to apply any portion of the fuuds for new scholarships and
exhibitions this session, the Principal has placed ut the disposal
of the senate three scholarships of £ 10 each, tenable for one
year. The other scholarship and the exhibition now awarded
are the contributions of visitors to the college during last
summer, given for the purpose and tenable for oue year. The
Principal's Scholarships.—Alodern Languages and Literature:
J. E. Lloyd, Liverpool, £30, for one year. Classics: Rees
Jones, LlauwTtyd, £30, for one year. Science: Evan Evans,
Ystulyfera, £30, for one year. Visitors’ Scholarship and Exhi¬
bition.—General Proficiency: S. C. Jones, Llanddyssul, £30,
for one year; W. Jenkyu Jones, New Quay, £10, for one
year. Close Scholarship—T. Griffiths, £20 (Ardwyn School
scholarship).
At the Westminster School athletic sports, concluded on
the 18th inst., the tug of war was wou by the Town boys, who
pulled the Queen’s scholars over twice in succession.
General Ponsonby has, by command of the Queen, for¬
NATIONAL SPORTS.
The Houghton Meeting—the last of the seven held at New¬
market—commenced on Monday, and racing will bo carried on
unilaggiugly until this (Saturday) altemoon, when a few old-
fashiouedsportsmen consider that the season is ended, and ignore
the existence of Buch popular meetings as Liverpool, Shrews¬
bury, and Warwick. The Criterion Stakes was the chief
event of Alouday, for which Alonsieur Philippe, a son of
Plutus, who ran third to Peter aud Peace in the Rous
Stakes, was made a strong favourite. He looked far fitter
than when he ran a fortnight ago, and was in receipt of 7 lb.
from Rayon d’ Or, who has done an immense amount of work
this year. The most notable of the remaining half-dozen were
Alossena and Lancastrian,the latter of whom is by Toxophilito
from the dam of Sefton. Monsieur Philippe had the race in
hand a long way from home; and Lancastrian, though Btill
very backward, beat Rayon d’Or and the rest easily enough.
A capital field of twenty-three ran for the Aloud ay Nursery
Handicap, for which High aud Mity (8 st. 5 lb.) was as good a
favourite as anything, and, in Archer’s hands, made the wholo
of the running, and carried her heavy weight home easily.
There was another very heavy day’s racing on Tuesday,
though, with the exception of the Cambridgeshire, there was
nothing of much importance. By a somewhat injudicious
arrangement, no less than four events preceded the great race
on the card, and it was about four o’clock, and rapidly growing
dark, before the flag fell. A report that Alacbeth (6 st. 5 lb.)
was coughing drove him back in the quotations; and at last
Greenback (7 st. 1 lb ), iu spite of having drawn about tho
worst station, started an equal favourite with him; Touchet
(7 st. 7 lb.) aud Placida (8 st. 5 lb.) were also backed very
heavily. After a tedious delay at the post, the thirty-
eight got away very evenly, and, after running in an
unbroken line for some little distance, Lancaster (7 st.)
drew out and made the running until he was headed by La
Alerveille (6 it. 3 lb.). Passing the Red Post, Greenback was
beaten, and Isouomy (7 st. 1 lb.) bad drawn tip to the leader,
Tall as (7 st. 2 lb.), Placida, and Hampton (9 st. 3 lb.), being
the-most prominent of the remainder. A few strides furth- r
on Isonomy took the first place, and, though Fordham brought
Touchet with a rare rush, he was beaten pretty easily by two
lengths. La Merveille was only half a length behind, and
just beat Hampton, who rim grandly under his crushing
weight, for third place. Tallas and Placida came next. Air.
Gretton has thus won his second Cambridgeshire, Playfair
having secured the same race for him in 1872; and it is Baid
that he wins about £40,000 in bets, though Isonomy, not being
a public fancy, started at 40 to 1.
In the Home Bred Foal Stakes on Wednesday, Lord
Falmouth relied upon Placentia, a daughter of Parmesan and
Lady Coventry, and therefore half-sister to Lady Uolightiy,
who proved good enough to dispose of Reconciliation and
four others. Monsieur Philippe (8 st. 101b.) was made a hut
favourite for a Nursery over the Rous Course, but could nut
concede 15 lb. to Japonica (7st. 9 lb ), who got away from him
as they descended the hill, and won cleverly. In spite of tho
presence of twelve opponents, odds of 2 to 1 were laid upon
Wheel of Fortune for the Dewhurst Plate, Flavius, Discord,
Peace, and Caxto'nian, made up a respectable opposition, anil
a 7 lb. penalty is no joke over this long and trying course;
but tho beautiful filly scored a clever victory, and will retile
into winter quarters with an unbeaten certificate.
The return 100-yards swimming-nnitch for £50, betwi en
William H. Beckwith, of London (son of the ex-champion),
and E T. Jones (champion), of Holbeck, two of the fastest
swimmers in the world, was decided satisfactorily at the
Lambeth Baths on Monday evening last, when, amidst tlm
greatest excitement, Jones won by a trifle over a yard.
'Time, 1 min. 8£ sec., beating record time by over five seconds.
At Cambridge, in the amateur and professional five-mile
bicycle competition, the Hon. J. Keith-Falconer succeeded iu
beating J. Keen (champion), after a close race, by about six
yards, in 15 min. 13 2-5 sec.
The second autumn meeting of the London Athletic Club
will be held this (Saturday) afternoon, commencing, at half
past two, with the Ten-Aides Challenge Cup. Gibb having
resigned, an interesting race will probably take place between
W. Elton, Fuller, aud W. Stephenson.
A team of English cricketers left Southampton on the 17th
inst. for Australia in the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s
steamer. It includes Loid Harris, and Messrs. Hornby,
Schultze, Lucas, Absalom, Alackinnon, Royle, and Maule, and
Emmett and Ulyett, professionals. Mr. Webb, Air. Horne,
and Mr. Ayers travel by way of Brindisi, and will join their
companions at Suez. Lady Harris and Mrs. Hornby accom¬
pany the party. _
The shop of Mr. Yeal, jeweller, at Bath, was broken into
on Wednesday night, and nearly the whole stock of the shop,
valued at £400, stolen. Only plated goods were left. The
burglars effected an entrance by breaking through the roof,
and had previously made an attempt with a centre-bit to get
through the wall of an adjacent house.
Tho Rev. Jeremiah Donovan, Curate of Jonesborough, in
the county of Armagh, appeared in the Irish Bankruptcy
Court last week, having been made bankrupt at the suit of a
young lady, who recovered £500 damages against him for
breach of promise of marriage. He had pleaded ill-health
as the cause of the breach, but he had married another lady in
the meantime. He was ordered to furnish a statement of his
affairs within ten days.
the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oct. 20, 1878.-388
1IODKEN PKAK, AND VILLAGE OF 11ADZAI,
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oct. 2G, 1S7S.— 3S9
“ A WOMAN OP CONSTANTINOPLE.” PICTURE BY J. L. GEROME.
FHOM THE PHOTOGRAPH BY GOUPLL AND CO.
THE
tm.TISTRATEP LONDON KEWS
OCT. 26, 1878
echoes of the week.
I was imprudent enough, ^J^^be^nning^of August
which have been accumnlattog “* jJJJ foU ror five dif-
last at four or five London ad ™ Me aware. I had
ferent sections of my I should have saved
much better have le£ t^e tatters w 8eU a considerable
the Paris postman a heavy ^ ,r “ e », letters which come to
disbursement for portage. riag your absence abroad should be
your abode m Englaud durtng y dog8 0 f the proverb.
SlK ^* ndl " g ,ot theB 7
are apt to bark furiously.
Of course I make R n «^ption tothe “h 0 ™™ 1 of the wor ld
of the communications^ P Th e vast majority
to the office of the from 198 , Strand, are very nice
of the epistle, forwarded to me ^ ^ the whole ,f must
ones. Some of . lta k e their letters as answered —
entreat my correapondents to take t Briareua . next| because
first, because I have not the nan mentg which during
scores of the letters relate to on the “ French
three or four weeksrunmng I vent tom ^ deed wr itiug
puzzles ” in the World. One me of unfair
abusively (and of course a y ^ compc titions, and of
interference with the ^rf , £ 0 pine that feW
.•chUdish vanity ’ bec^mse I P^as not to know that the
educated people could be c encourager let autres,
expression used in Caname, ^ Now l have no
referred to the shooting ofAdnurainyng , French
desire to interfere gSrf, 7 ” JSt^iSy, «nd I will pledge
term “ ^neurrenee MoymU ™ ^ J zzle .be e s” continue,
myself henceforth, white th * 0 r English equivalents
not to say a word about h ren £™ ment of one uttle Parthian
for French locutions, rhe 1 ^ders of the World, please
dartl must, however, permitmyselt. ice thc viva-
*.c.cr i„“5%Seettotof Z five flagrant
department, tat in “ What the World says
Lu bon Picu. le monde, et lc* diable,
Et de Cluelcn et Dupanloup.
Tint ripar me who docs not blunder now and then? and
But, * ntrife and recrimination it would be if we
* riiri. d =«
H were or •» is ” instead of “ be.” For my part-
SS'^^ ta^nta^ hTIbi. humble column. And I
rm fulkTO Rrutitude to the Editor, the compositors, and the
“readers” who have so patiently deciphered and corrected
my much-blotted copy.
Ypt- even as "the meek Racine,” according to Mr-
Carlyle* uttered one cry of expostulation as he expired under
SSKSwKof Louis XIVO
nnrrfiw over a certain comma in the Echoes. Aiiuuing
lately to that conscientious but feeble painter, Benjamin
w£ I said that foreigners placed him ^ an academica
draughtsman, in the same category with Raphael Mengs
Rtid Poelemberg. The printers placed a comma between
Mengs. Alas aud alack ! Rafaelle Sanzio
d’uSino was one of the greatest painters 1 that ever 1lived.■
ifonhael Mengs was a highly respectable artist of the last cen¬
tury who wore a very voluminous full-bottomed wig, drew
very academically, painted very poor pi^urw (our Itoyrf
Academy have one of his pertormances, 1 think, in their
nrivate collection), wrote, albeit himself of Teutonic extrac¬
tion a very elegant tractate in Spanish on aesthetics, and was
munificeSy pateonised by Charles IV. of Spain Stiff is
Sere as wide a gulf between Rafaelle Sanzio and Raphael
Mengs as yawns between Dr. Samuel Johnson and Mr. Samuel
Weller.
Do you remember the “aristocratic fete” at poor old
Cremorne Gardens ? The festival in question, organised by a
noble Lord of artistic tastes, must have taken place (how the
time slips by !) nearly twenty years ago. Cremorne was then
in its glory ; the gardens were exquisitely pretty ; the enter-
in its gunj.w*> B er > , in _ alld attractive; and it
-* , for great-coats at I Mr. E. Jenkins addressed his constituents at Dundee on the
I remember quite as fearful “struggle fc. ioQ Qf the 18th, adversely criticising the foreign policy of the Govoru.
the Palazzo Reale, at Venice, in lH/o, on tu ' Francifl m ent. He declared that no nation would now accept the
ball given by King bJSne proverbhS in the cafes 1 ’ ' ^- J ‘ ** ’
Joseph of Austria. OMitest became ^
of St. Mark’s Place as £££? -7nd the Battle of
Italians are less placable than the; hren , « alarming in its
the Great- coats at Vemce ^e 1 ^ - n many jn-
^^=x5!2E5£*&
not . nSSt” But I am .ouch for the presence in Fane of the
Bt!fWr-W '“■assKsass ssfts
wTSmiaFtat Sri of tta JLiralty, and Sir George
EUio“; H l^tare )nrf p^cd through Pan. on their way to
Cyprus.
If the quotation be genuine which I have just read of a
.Joil frf th7wm of Monseigneur Dupanloup, Bishop of
*thc deceased . 0 prelate must have been richly gifted
sas?p g , “'-SjSSjd
ere my tomb is closed.” Good and noble words these. ^ g
ment. He declared that no nation would now accept the
diplomatic word of Great Britain, so full was it of double-
dealing and intrigue.
in its ffiorv ; the gardens were exquisiwaj yemyj . *
Siiments were varied, sparkling, and attractive; and it
SciUml to the noble Lord that it would be a very nice
thing to charter Mr Simpson’s premises for a single evening,
form a committee of ladies patronesses, and, by .f h *
tenance of a rigid system of vouchers, exclude all blit the
crime de la creme of society from the bowers, the buffets, the
marionette theatre, and the dancing-platform for that night
onlv The festival, harmless and even ingenious in its incep¬
tion,’duly took place. The Brahminical classes came, if not
in their thousands, at least in their hundreds, to the Chelsea
Casino There was music; there was dancing; “twenty
thousand additional lamps” shone upon fair women and brave
men • and all would have gone merry as a marriage bell, only,
unfortunately, it poured cate and dogs throughout the
evening ; and that which should have been an Almack s in the
opeu air was converted into a Festival of Umbrellas and a
Carnival of Goloshes.
Fierce downfalls of rain, combined with a furious wind,
spoiled a gr. at many things in Paris on Tuesday: the flags
aud Chinese lanterns on the boulevards to wit; to say nothing
of the tempers of innumerable promenaders who were over¬
taken by the showers who could not get cabs. At > ersailles
thc rain and thc wind worked between them even more mis¬
chief ; and the foulest of foul weather all but spoiled the
magnificent fete given in the palace aud gardens of Versailles
bv the President of the French Republic and Madame la
Marechale de MacMalion, Duchesse de Magenta, to the foreign
princes and grandees sojourning in Paris and the elite of
Parisian society. The gardens became one vast morass of
mud- the water was anklt-deep in the ill-paved Cour de
Marbre; large numbers of ladies had to walk a hundred yards
from their carriages to the staircase of entrance; trains (they
are worn longer than ever ; the which fact leads me to opine
that the fa-thion of very short dresses will soon set in again)
were trodden upon; laee scarves were soaked ; silk stockings
were splashed; back hair came down limp and damp ; gentle¬
men’s white cravats hung pendent with moisture ; aud, to
crown the drawbacks of the evening, nobody could find Ins
great coat at the rcetiaire when the hour of departure arrived.
The cloak-room arrangements were imperfect; the attendants
had “ lost their In ads ; ” ulsters were handed to people who
ought to have Inal Inverness capes, and the lawful owners of
overcoats with Astracan collars could not obtain their property
at all.
POLITICAL.
BIB STAFFORD NORTHCOTE IN THE MIDLAND COUNTIES.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has been making^ an
oratorical tour. Sir Stafford Northcote visited the Birmingham
Reformatory Schools, on the occasion of the annual meeting,
last Saturday, and moved the first resolution expressing
approval of the principles upon whmh the tostitutton^ad
earned on its operations during the past twenty-five years.
In the evening Sir Stafford Northcote addressed a public meet-
W at which it is computed that GOUO persons were pmoM
the* Townball, Birmingham ; aud, in a speech of great length
lad XiTriplaiflafaad defended the foreign,and, domeafio
Dolicv of thc Government. The Chancellor of the Lxc eq
visited Birmingham again on Monday, and was entertained,
by the Conservative Club at a banquet m the iownhall.
In replying to the toast of “ Her Majesty s Ministers,
Stafford Morthcote expressed lite acknowledgments for
the warmth of the reception he had met wth . h tt “
classes in Birmingham. He regarded it as a proof that
however much the people of Birmingham might differ from
the policy of thc Government aud the course they had pursued,
2 aSy iate they recognised that, under difficult cixeumsUmc^,
Ministers had endeavoured to do their duty, and had upheld
the honour and interests of the country. Adverting at length
to the financial position of the country, he repudiatccl ihe
responsibility for the annual increase of expenditure, and
pointed out that it was thc necessary result of legislation for
education, thc abolition of purchase in the Army, and grants
in aid of local rates.—At the close of the luncheon the right
hon. gentleman proceeded to Wolverhampton, where fie was
entertained by the Conservative Club of that town at a banquet
in the*Agricultural Hall. Replying to the toast of thc even¬
ing, Sir S. Northcote defended the foreign policy of the
Government, and said the manner in which J* e ha 4 h b ^9
received on his present visit showed that it met with the
general approval of the people. He lamented the unpre¬
cedentedly long check which the commercial prosperity of the
country had received, but promised that no effort should be
wanting on the part of her Majesty’s Government to lighten
the burdens of the people. On Tuesday night Sir Stafford
Northcote addressed a large meeting, chiefly composed ot
working men, in the Agricultural Hall, and dwelt at consider¬
able length upon the efforts made by the Conservative part)
to ameliorate the condition of the working classes, ihe
Chancellor of the Exchequer brought his visit over the midland
counties to a close on Wednesday. In the early part of the
day he drove over from TatshuU to Dudley, and was enter¬
tained at luncheon at The Priory and at u private banquet in
the altcmoou at the Dudley Arms. He subsequently attended
a lurge meeting of thc working classes in the public hall, and
received a warm welcome. He reminded his audience that he
owed his introduction to Parliamentary life to the constituency
of Dudley, having been returned as their representative nearly
tive-and- twenty Years ago. He proceeded then to contrast
the condition of the country now with what it was at the close
of thc Crimeun War, and to argue that the population had
made a steady advance, not only in political power and know¬
ledge, but in comfort, education, and independence.
dealing ana mingue.
Mr. Clare 8. Reed, M.P., presided on the 18th at the
Blofleld Agricultural Association, Norfolk, and in the course
of his speech expressed his satisfaction with the expenditure
of six millions on the national deiences, the calling out of the
reserves, and the summoning of troops from India.
Mr. Chamberlain, at a meeting in Birmingham last Monday,
condemned the policy of the Government, and expressed a
hope that no encouragement would be given to that policy.
Never in this generation had the political horizon looked
darker, both abroad and at home.
Mr. Herschell, 4.C., and Sir Arthur Middleton, the
members for Durham city, addressed a crowded meeting of
electors in the Townhall on Monday evening. Mr. Herschell
strongly condemned the foreign policy of the Government,
especially in reference to the Turkish Convention and the
acquisition of Cyprus, which, he said, had made France sus¬
picious, had irritated Italy, rendered Germany indifferent, and
Russia bitterly hostile. 'I he impending difficulty in Afghan-
istan was the outcome of the boastful policy of Lord
Beaconsfield.
Mr. Mackintoth, addressing his constituents at Inverness on
Monday night, said it was high time the people should have an
opportunity of expressing an opinion on the critical state of
our foreign relations. He condemned the Government for
entering the Congress tied down with conventions with Russia
and Turkey; but he believed Congress was useful in that it
checked Russian influence in South-Eastern Europe.
Mr. Forster, speaking at the Mayor s dinner at Bradford
on Tuesday evening, said the past Session, which was one of
the most laborious in his recollection, was chiefly spent in a
desperate effort to find out what the Government was doing.
He maintained that a reorganisation of the business of the
House of Commons was necessary, as it was outgrowing the
capabilities of that assembly to deal with it; aud he therefore
had come to the conclusion that their only hope was to depend
more upon the administration in localities than they had
hitherto done.
The Home Secretary and Colonel Blackburne were enter¬
tained at a Conservative banquet ut Southport on the 17th
iuat ’ and, in response to tne toast of “ Her Majesty a
Ministers,” Mr. Cross dealt with the causes of the depression
of trade. The Eastern Question aud the difficulties connected
with the carrying out of the Berlin Treaty, as well as the
objections which have been raised to the acquisition of Cyprus,
were likewise dealt with by Mr. Cross.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M.P., speaking at a meeting at Long-
town on the 17th inst., said the House of Commons ought to
refuse to vote one penny of the national money for the Afghan
war until the verdict of the people could be taken at a general
election as to whether they would endorse the Government
policy of aggression and wickedness.
At the meeting of the North Staffordsliire Union of Con¬
servative Associations at Hanley on the 17th inst., Mr.
Hanbury, M.l’., in replying for the House of Commons, spoke
on the leading political topics of the day. Referring to the
Afghan difficulty, he said that whoever started it did so on the
principle of darkness and intrigue. Doubtless it was Russia;
but England would protect her colonies, especially India.
Lord Rosebery on the 19th inst. addressed a large meeting
of Liberals in Aberdeen, aud strongly condemned the
responsibilities entered into by the Government in regard to
Asia Minor, and said that even India might be helu at too
dear a price.
Speaking at an agricultural dinner at Christchurch on the
17th inst., Lord Bury alluded to the Afghan difficulty, and
expressed the opinion that sooner or later we should have to
meet and cope with Russia, aud that it was better we should
do so now, rather than wait till the ruler of Afghanistan
became the vassal of the Muscovite.
hitherto done.
Mr Carpenticr Gamier, the junior member for South Devon,
in the course of a speech at Totnes on Tuesday, said he agreed
with Sir Stafford Northcote that thc Government were giving
their earnest attention to the fair and complete execution of
the Treaty of Berlin, and he urged that its provisions should
be enforced both upon the Turks and the Russians. He spoke
of an Afghan war us a thing to be avoided, because of the loss
of blood and treasure it would iuvolve. Nevertheless he main¬
tained that England could not submit to insult or ailront from
whatever quarter it might come.
On Tuesday Colonel Alexander, M.P. for South Ayrshire,
addressed his constituents in the Com Exchange, Ayr. Re
said it had been asserted that lust Session was entirely barrai
of legislation. If sensational legislation were intended, he
was not disposed to question the assertion. Alter noticing
several measures that had been passed, he adverted to the
foreign policy of the Government, which had been eminently
successful in promoting peace and averting the horrors of
war; so successful, indeed, as to induce the leaders of the
Liberal party, with characteristic audacity, to claim it as
their own. ,
Sir Julian Goldsmid and Mr. Otway, the members for
Rochester, gave their annual addresses to their constituente
on Wednesday evening. .Sir Julian Goldsmid s cnticnm of
the Government was thut, whereas their opponents were siud
to harass every home interest, they themselves harassed every
ffireign interest. Mr. Otway accused the Government of
having no comprehensive foreign policy, if they hadone at aU,
and blamed them lor not having attempted to come to a
peace!ul understanding with Russia respecting common
Asiatic interests. He added that Cyprus had been obtamai
in a secret manner, subversive to our Constitution, and he
despaired of Turkish reforms.
Lord Galway, M.P., and Mr. W. Beckett Denison, M.P^,
spoke on Wednesday night at a meeting of the
Working Men’s Association. Lord Galway Mhto*l to
Lord Lawrence’s letter on Afghanistan, uud asked what had
been the result of the policy pursued by Lord
self and previous Viceroys. It was that the Ameer uowdesp^d
ns, and refused to receive our mission. He iewlthe Afghan
trouble was only part of one great intrigue.
coincidence that at the same tune the Russian ^pa jere agi
advancing in Roumelia. Mr. Denison spoke at tte ffiamu*
of the Liberal party, of the manner in which the Go
had been harassed during a difficult and trying tune, an
the necessity of maintaining Conservative principles.
The constituency of Wolverhampton, which the Right Ron.
C 1* Villiers has represented 111 Turliauieut m unbroxen s
L ion SSS iU ta. -ub.cr.bri illbuu .or.*
re him. It takas the lorn, oi a atatua m bMl an murbla^n
a copy from that in the Manchester Iownhall. At a numerous
meeting of subscribers on Wednesday it was resolved to erect
it temporarily on Snow-hill, Wolverhumpton.
The Mayor of Peterborough receivwi the 1
and fixed the nomination for finday, the 25th, and the p 8
for Tuesday, the 29 ih inst. .
According to the Daily Neu>», Saturday, Nov 'V “ e w jU
decided on by Mr. Gladstone as the day upon which he*m
visit his constituents.
“A WOMAN OF CUJSSIANTJNOPLE.”
The Oriental type of female loveliness is probably no ^
endeared to the romantic imagination of iu the
auce with it comes from the leading of P° etr y* “ owu gome
heyday of Byron’s and Tom Moore s literary r , ’ we
filly or sixty years ago. There are few WJSSSSSiS
believe, of this generation,who arediapOMd tog ‘ be lonner i y
away to an ideal Delight of the Harem, such a f or .
supposed to y ield an indolent domestic lehuty *7. the
tunate Pasha, Beg, and Agha, or wealthy Efi . ived
Sultan’s happy Empire. We are now pretty well ^
and deeiUtuLnnie, by the hideous botherations ofjhe by
Question during the past quarter of a ceuttay, ^
the multitude of travellers aud newspaper torre p ^
in times ol peace as well as in the mihtaiT camp g _ . gQrry
prote writings have made us but too liumliar ^ . iU0U au( i
realities ol Mohammedan social lue. As lor the c lt w
quality of womanhood in that region ol tll< ' ^’ ss0 ne
evidently such as to render the sex, whether a m . £to their
sole wile or halt a dozen, the most tedious meumb t0
male proprietors. We sfiould not be inclined, to P ^
ui«.ke an exception in favour of this delicate ci or
her Dig black eyes sadly looking out above -h® » . beuut iiul
\eil that covers her nose and lips, in M. G tro c i, 0 ice
picture. She is, no doubt, ail inveterate boio u0
■>vriim tobuceo. and it is verv likely that she spits,
OCT. 26, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
391
more conversation, knowledge, sentiment, intelligence, or
manners than a wax doll; and to sit a whole evening in her
company would be the severest penance to any rational Eng¬
lishman. The women of Constantinople, and the men for their
sake, are very much to be pitied.
MUSIC.
HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE.
The event of last week was the reopening of this establishment
by Mr. Mapleson, to whose scheme we have already drawn
attention. The special features of earlier hours and lower
prices than those of the regular season, together with non¬
restrictions as to evening dress, can scarcely fail to be largely
appreciated by the many to whom these conditions are more
convenient and agreeable than their opposites. Tho opening
performance of Saturday consisted of “ Fidelio,” in which
Madame Eug6nie Pappenheim reappeared as Leonora, with
somewhat more effect than in her previous representations here
last summer. The great scena, the “Invocation to Hope,”
was artistically rendered, especially the beautiful adagio move¬
ment, the singer’s merits having been also favourably mani¬
fested in the music of the dungeon scene, particularly in the
grave- digging duet with Rocco, and in the gTcat quartet in
which Don Pizarro attempts the assassination of his prisoner
Florestano, and is foiled by the latter’s wife Leonora, disguised
as Fidelio. the gaoler’s assistant. With a little less restraint of
manner, Madame Pappenheim’s performance will gain in effect.
The occasion brought forward, as Florestano, M. Candidus,
a tenor, who made his first appearance here with great success.
His voice is pure and sympathetic in quality, he sings in tune,
phrases and declaims well, and has an excellent cantabile style,
free from the obnoxious use of the “ tremolo.” The delivery
of the arduous scena at the opening of the Becond act at once
established his position, which was maintained by his meri¬
torious singing in the subsequent trio and duet. The other
principal characters were efficiently filled by Mdlle. Bauer-
meister (Marcellina), Signor Rinaldini (Jacquino), Herr Behrens
(Rocco), and Signor Rota (Don Pizarro). The quartet (canon)
in the first act was encored, as also was the grand “ Leonora”
overture (No. 3), which was played between the acts, the over¬
ture in E major (the last of the four which Beethoven wrote
for “ Fidelio ”) having been given before the opera. Previous
to the commencement of the performance the National Anthem
was sung by the chorus, with orchestra.
“ Rigoletto ” was given on Monday, with Mdlle. Vallcria as
Gilda, Signor Gillandi as the Duke, and Madame Trebelli as
Maddalena; and on Tuesday “Faust” was the opera, the
cast having included Mesdames Helene Crosmond and Trebelli
respectively as Margherita and Siebel, Signor Gillandi as
Faust, Signor Rota as Mephistopheles, and Signor Mendioroz
as Valentino. Signor Li Calsi conducted the performances,
which have drawn full houses.
On Wednesday Bizet's “Carmen” was given, with the
substitution of Madame Trebelli for Mdlle. Minnie Hauk in
the title-character. Of the admirable performance of the last-
named lady we spoke when noticing the first production of the
Italian version of the opera, during Mr. Mapleson’s season of
the past summer. Madame Trebelli gives a somewhat different
version of the part, in its dramatic aspect—occasionally,
perhaps, a little over demonstrative—but her singing was
throughout of a high order of excellence, and produced a
marked impression, particularly in the “Avanera,” the
“ Seguidilla,” the scene of the fortune-telling with cards, and
that of the final duct with Don Jose. The success of Madame
Trebelli was complete. Mdlle. Alwina Valleria, as heretofore,
sang admirably as Michaela, and Signor Runcio was again a
satisfactory Don Jose; Signor Mendioroz having replaced
Signor Del Puente as Escamillo, the Toreador, the music of
which part he gave generally with good effect. Mdlles.
Bauermeister and Purdy were thoroughly efficient, respectively,
in the characters of Paquita and Mercedes, and other parts
were filled as before. _
The second of the new series of Saturday Concerts at the
Crystal Palace included a fine performance, by Madame
Arabella Goddard, of Field’s third pianoforte concerto (in
A flat), given for the first time here ; the orchestral selection
having comprised M. Ambroi.se Thomas’s effective overture,
“ Le Roman d’Elvire,” also heard for the first time at these
concerts. Last Saturday’s programme introduced Mr. W.
Macfarren’8 clever “Pastoral Overture” (written for the
Brighton Festival of February last), and “ Siegfried’s Death ”
and the “ Walkiiren Ritt,” from Wagner’s “Nibelungen”
operas. Both these were given for the first time here. Other
specialties wore Miss Agnes Zimmermann’s excellent rendering
of Schumann’s “ Concertstiick ” in G (op. 92) for pianoforte
(with orchestra) ; and a prelude and fugue of Bach’s, and
Stemdale Bennett's “ Rondo Piacevole ” for piano alone. The
vocalists at the second concert were Mdlle. Sartorius and Herr
Henschel—those on Saturday last having been Madame Patey
and Mrs. Davison. At this week’s concert Verdi’s “ Requiem”
is to be performed, preceded by a “Religious March” by
Gounod.
The Covent-Garden Promenade Concert of Monday brought
forward the double piano, manufactured and patented by
MM. Mangeot Freres, of Paris, the instrument being, in fact,
two distinct pianofortes, one placed over the other, as also are
the key-boards, both of which are available by one performer,
who is thus enabled to combine, with either hand, chords con¬
sisting of sounds that, on one key-board, are very far apart,
but are here brought into close juxtaposition. The player by
these means can produce almost the same effect as that of
two performers on two instruments. The capacities of the
double piano were exemplified on Monday by M. Zarebski,
who performed two pieces adapted to the purpose required,
one having been Liszt’s second “ Rhapsodie Hongroise. ’ The
pianist possesses exceptional powers of execution, and his
performances have been continued nightly (in other pieces)
with great success.
Herr Goetz’B opera, “The Taming of the Shrew” was
given for the second time at Drury-Lane Theatre on Wed¬
nesday afternoon, instead of (as at first intended) on the
Saturday following its production, on Oct. 12, with the same
cast as that already noticed.
Mr. W. Carter opened his new season of oratorio per¬
formances at the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday evening with
Haydn’s “Creation.”
An English version of Mozart’s “ Le Nozze di Figaro ” was
given at the Alexandra Palace last Saturday evening; the
opera announced for this week being Auber’s “ Fra Diavolo.
The music of “ La Traviata” is to be repeated at this
(Saturday) evening’s opera recital at the Royal Aquarium.
The first of this season’s Brighton Philharmonic concerts
was held on Wednesday night, supported by the Philharmonic
choir and by a number of leading artistes, including Miss
Robertson, Madame Sterling, Mr. Edward Lloyd, with Mr.
Kingsbury as conductor. Mr. Kuhe, assisted by Mr. Carrodus,
gave his second pianoforte recital in the afternoon. The pro¬
gramme included a tarantella by Mr. Charles Webb.
Mr. Walter Bache gives his annual pianoforte recital at
St. James’s Hall on Monday afternoon next.
The London Ballad Concerts, directed by Mr. John Boosey,
will enter on the thirteenth season on Wednesday Nov. 6.
Our last week’s record of the Norwich Festival perform¬
ances necessarily left unnoticed the proceedings of the two
last days. On the Thursday morning “Elijah” was given,
with the special feature of Madame Albani’s fine singing in
the soprano 6olos of the second part. The other principal solo
vocalists were Misses A. Williams and Penna, Mesdames Trebelli
and Sterling, Mr. E. Lloyd, Mr. Shakspeare, and Mr. Santley.
The concert of the Thursday evening included Sir J. Bene¬
dict’s new overture, “Das Katchen von Heilbronn,” and an
“ Adagio ” and “ Rondo ” from a pianoforte concerto by the
same composer. Of both works we sliall, doubtless, soon have
to speak again in reference to their performance in Loudon.
The overture was written in illustration of a drama by Heinrich
von Kleist, and was composed specially for the festival. It
produced so marked an impression that it had to be repeated.
The movements from the concerto are worthy of the same
hand, and were effectively interpreted by Mr. H K Rudd, of
Norwich. The closing oratorio performance of the festival,
yesterday (Friday) week, calls for no comment beyond the fact
that “The Messiah” was finely rendered, special features
having been Madame Albani's exquisite singing in the airs,
“ Rejoice greatly ” and “I know that my Redeemer liveth.”
The other principal soloists were Miss A. Williams, Mesdames
Trebelli and Sterling, Mr. E. Lloyd, and Mr. Santley. It had
been intended that the festival should end with “The Messiah,”
but a supplemental ballad concert was suddenly improvised,
to which several of the principal artists contributed. As stated
in our previous notice, Sir J. Benedict conducted the perfoim-
ances, as at the eleven preceding festivals; and Dr. Bunuett,
as organist, and Mr. J. Harcourt, as chorus master, have
rendered valuable co-operation.
THEATRES.
Nothing very lively or interesting varies the ordinary business
of the leading houses in our record of the passing week. The
Haymarket had an afternoon performance on Saturday of
“Little Cricket,” an adaptation, as the reader is aware, of
Madame Georges Sands’s romance of “ La Petite Fadette.”
The pastoral heroine was charmingly personated by Miss Lydia
Cowell, and the stern father, Farmer Barbeau, was charac¬
teristically sustained by Mr. W. H. Stephens. Other parts
were played by their original representatives ; and the whole
justified the applause of the audience by the general complete¬
ness of the rendering. Miss Cowell was summoned before the
curtain at the end of eocli act. At the Duke’s, a change in the
bill hasoccurred. “TheOctoroon” of Boucicault replaces“ i’he
Barricade” of Victor Hugo. Mr. Clarance Holt takes himself
the part of Wah-no-tee, the Indian chief, and his daughter that
of Zoe, the heroine. Mr. Charles Glennie, as Salem Scudder,
deserves encouragement. A new farce was produced the same
evening, by Mr. Frederick Hay, entitled “ An Awkward
Affair,” which may prove amusing after a few more rehearsals.
At the Gaiety on Monday Lutz’s operetta of “ The Happy
Village,”aud the farce of “ StageStruck” were performed,in¬
cluding the amusing burlesque of “ The Colleen Bawn,” as
interpreted by Mr. Elton and Miss Lawler. It may also be
noticed that it was the 218th time of “ Little Doctor Faust,”
by Mr. Byron. This afternoon the fourth representation of
Merivale’s “ Lady of Lyons, Married and Settled,” will have
been reached. We may therefore pronoimce this nondescript
piece a relative success.
Mr. Robertson, the managing director of the Westminster
Aquarium, has announced that, owing to the widespread dif¬
ference of opinion which exists as to the advisability of pro¬
ducing even selections from tableaux of the Ober-Ammergau
Passion-play, he has determined to “ withdraw it from the list
of his attractions.”
The Roscius Dramatic Club at Ladbroke Hall, Notting-hill,
had an entertainment last Thursday, consisting of “ A Pair of
Boots,” “ Alone,” and “ The Original.” Their next dramatic
performance will take place on Dec. 12, when “All that Glitters
is not Gold ” will be acted.
The Plymouth Guildhall was on Tuesday evening crowded,
the occasion being the opening of the grand organ, erected by
public subscription at a cost of £2500. Dr. btainer, organist
of St. Paul’s, officiated.
The Incorporated Law Society of the United Kingdom has
held this week at Manchester its annual two days’ provincial
meeting. Mr. Hollams, London, presided on Wednesday, and
in his address called attention to certain defects in the system
of the trials by referee. The council were instructed to try
and get them remedied. Resolutions were passtd asking for
an increased number of assizes at York, Lancashire, Durham,
and Northumberland for civil business. Papers were read on
the law of copyright, the conditions under which a solicitor
became a banister, and the publication of the evidence in
divorce and criminal cases.
Lord Norton gave the opening address at the twenty-second
Congress of the National Association for the Promotion of
Social Science at Cheltenham on Wednesday evening. He
reviewed the legislation of the past forty years during which
he had sat in Parliament, and its bearing on the subjects to
which the Congress specially devoted its attention—namely,
health, education, art, law, economy, and trade. With regard
to the latter, he argued that its present depressed condition was
only temporary, and that the expansion of the world’s wealth
and commerce would still provide scope enough lor Eugland’s
enterprise. We gave last week an outline of the week’s doings.
Under the presidency of Sir James Oldknow, Mayor of
Nottingham, the Midland Conference of Poor Law Guardians
was held on Wednesday in the Mechanics’ Hall. The day was
chiefly occupied in the discussion of a paper on “Pauperism
and Endowed Charities,” by the Rev. W. Bury, of Northampton.
Mr. Salt, M.P., speaking on this subject, said that, though
Parliament would not do anything violent in dealing with
eleemosynary charities, they would be guided by a general
expression of opinion, and that there were a number of them
which needed qpmewhat stringent treatment. The question
whether the Charity Commissioners should have more power
was one demanding serious consideration.
The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the United Kingdom
Alliance opened at Manchester in the New Townhall on 'Tues¬
day morning. Alderman Barlow presided, and said it was the
largest meeting of the kind ever held by the alliance. The
president, Sir W. C. Trevelyan, was unable to be present, but
he promised to give £250 for the coming year. The receipts
for the year were nearly £22,000. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M.P.,
was one of the speakers. The annual meeting, held in the
Free-Trade Hall, was presided over by Professor Smyth, M.P.,
and resolutions were passed in support of the objects of the
Alliance. Tho principal resolution was moved by Sir Wilfrid
Lawson and seconded by Cardinal Mauniug.
QUETTA, CANDAHAR, AND GHUZNI.
The fortress of Quetta, formerly called by the name of Shawl,
was occupied by the British Indian Government, three or four
years ago, under an arrangement with the Khan of Khelat, in
Beloochistan, to whose territory this place belongs. It is
situated about thirty miles beyond the farther end of the
Bolan Pass, to the north-west, in the Shawl valley, which is
inhabited by a mixed population of Afghans and Beloocliees,
and was reckoned in ancient times part of Afghanistan. The
soil is fertile and the climate healthy, but cold in winter, as
the valley lies 5000 ft. above the sea-level. There is abundant
pasture for cattle, sheep, aud goats on the neighbouring hills.
Quetta is a small town, built chiefly of clay, with a surrounding
wall, and with a citadel upon a mound 70 ft. or 80 ft. high, but of
no real military strength in modem warfare. It was, however, in
our Afghan wars of 1839 and 1842, an important post on the
Rue of advance from Soinde to Candahar, for which service it
was first garrisoned by two Bengal native infantry regiments
under General Nott, and became the head-quarters of General
England in the latter campaign. Its route of communication
with the Afghan province and city of Candahar, more than a
hundred miles farther on to the north-west, is minutely
described in our account of “ Roads through Afghanistan,” in
another page of this week’s paper. The reinforcement of the
small garrison of Quetta must now be the earliest object of
solicitude for the British Indian military authorities. We hear
that the 2nd Punjaub Cavalry, the 2nd Punjaub Infantry, and
the 30th Bombay Native Infantry regiments have already been
dispatched to Quetta.
Candahar, the capital of Western Afghanistan, and the
chief city of the Durani Afghans, is situated near the
junction of the Urghundab and Tumak rivers, in a well-
cultivated plain, but overlooked by rocky mountains to the
west and north. It is a town of great antiquity and historic
fame, but suffered terribly from repeated invasions of the
Mogul Tartars, from the conquests of Tamerlane, in 1384;
Sultan Baber, in 1507 ; and the Persian Tartar dynasty, in the
seventeenth century. It commands the southern route from
Persia to India, and must have been part of the Macedonian
conquests of Alexander the Great. The name “Candahar”
maybe a corruption of “Iskandria,” or Alexandria. The present
city, which has a mixed population of 50,000 or more, Aighans,
Persians, Beloocliees, Jews, and Hindoos, with a moderate amount
of trade, is subject to the Ameer of Cabul. It is nearly four
miles in circuit, of an irregular-quadrangle shape, inclosed by
an earthem wall, 27 ft. thick at the base, and of the same
height, with a ditch, 10 ft. deep, filled by canals from the
Urghundab; and with large towers at the four corners,
and six gates protected by double bastions. The citadel,
containing the palace, is near the north gate of the town, 'llie
two main streets cross each other in the middle of the city,
where a large dome, called the Kharsoo, with surrounding
shops, forms the bazaar or public market-place. The houses
of the richer citizens are inclosed within walled courts,
adorned with gardens and fountains, and their apartments
decorated with mirrors and plates of talc. The tomb of Ahmed
Shah, the founder of the Durani dynasty, is an octagonal
building, with a cupola and minarets, on a raised stone plat¬
form. It is not very magnificent, being constructed of rough
stone and brick, but covered with blue and red stucco.
Around this building, which is 70 ft. high, are twelve smaller
tombs of Ahmed Shah’s family, and cells for the Mollahs, or
Mohammedan clergy, who keep up incessant reading of the
Koran in the tomb. The mosques of Candahar have no great
architectural beauty. This city was held by a British army
from 1839 to the autumn of 1842, withstanding frequent and
desperate attacks from the Afghans under the officers of Dost
Mohamed. We give a view of Candahar, with one of the
approach to Quetta, on another page.
No place in Afghanistan, except perhaps Jellalabad, is
more memorable, in the history of British wars in that
country, than Ghuzni. It is situated on the road from
Candahar to Cabul, two hundred and fifty miles from the first-
named city, and half that distance from Cabul; the road from
India, through the Khoorum Pass, leads equally to Cabul and to
Ghuzni. The site of Ghuzni, on a plain 7700 ft. above the sea,
causes its winter climate to be severe, the thermometer falling
sometimes ten or twenty degrees below zero. The town has
some little trade, but its ordinary inhabitants do not exceed
ten thousand. Its high walls, erected upon the top of a
scarped rock, with a wet ditch below, have an imposing
aspect, but are not so defensible as they appear. One of the
gates was blown up and stormed on July 23, 1839, by the
army of Sir John Keane, with very small loss of men on the
British side. The Afghan garrison at that time was about
three thousand, of whom five hundred were killed, under
Mohammed Hyder Khan, a son of Dost Mohammed and brother
of the present Ameer Shore Ali. The gate forced by the
British assailants was the Cabul gate; the other two gates, the
river gate, and that on the Candahar road, having been wal.ed
up. i’he citadel, in the north quarter of the town, stands on
a commanding height, but could easily be bombarded troin
the neighbouring hills. Ghuzni was the capital of tiuitan
Mahmoud, the great Turkish conqueror of Persia and India in
the eleventh century. His sepulchre, amidst the ruins of the
ancient city, outside the walls of the existing town, is a place
of great interest to all Asiatic Mussulman nations. It is but
a simple structure, of no great magnitude, with a cupola above,
and a chamber that was formerly closed with the beautiful
gates of carved wood, supposed to have been brought lrom the
Hindoo temple of Somnauth, or Siva, which is at Rattan, in
Gujerat, Western India. In November, 1842, when General
Nott had recaptured Ghuzni from the Afghans, Lord Ellen-
borough, then Governor-General of India, ordered these
gates to be removed, and they are now deposited at
Agra. He thought it worth while to issue a proclamation
to the people of India, announcing that “ the insult of
eight hundred years was avenged,” by this restoration,
as he fancied, of the stolen gates of the Temple of
Komnauth. But it has unfortunately been proved that the
gates brought from Ghuzni to Agra cannot be those of the
Somnauth temple, as they are not of Hindoo workmanship,
and are not of sandal wood. It is very likely that the original
gates were, at some time, destroyed by fire, or by natural
decay ; and that these were substituted for them. Our View
of Ghuzni includes part of the ruins of the ancient city, with
the two lofty minars, built of brick, a hundred feet high and
twelve feet in diameter. These towers, and the tomb of
Sultan Mahmoud, were spared by the Prince of Ghore, Allah-
ud-deen, when he destroyed the capital of the mighty
conqueror, in 1151, soon after Mahmoud’s death.
Tuesday’s Gazette announces the appointment of Mr.
William Gifford PaJgrave, now her Majesty’s Consul in the
Philippine Islands, to be Consul-General in the Principality
of Bulgaria, and to reside at the capital. Mr. Richard Reacie,
her Majesty’s Consul at Rustchuk, has been appointed
Consul for the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, to reside at Phila¬
delphia.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oct. 2<S, 1878.-392
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oct. 20, 1S7S— 303
FORTRESS AND CITADEL OF GHUZNI, AFGHANISTAN, WITH THE TWO MINAR8.
ROADS THROUGH AFGHANISTAN.
n anticipation of the expected war, for which great
preparations are being made in Indio, against the Ameer
Shere Ali of Cabal, we continue to present Illustrations
of the most remarkable places in tne Afghan country,
and on its borders. The Khoorum Valley, which lies in
the most convenient route of march from the Punjaub,
either direct towards Ghuzni, or turning north-west to
Cabal, is the subject of one of these Views, showing the
village of Madzai and the Bodeen mountain peak, from a
sketch by Colonel Walter Fane. We also give a view of
the approach to Quetta, a fortress in British occupation,
which is situated in the territory of the Khan of Khelat,
in the northern part of Beloochiatan, but adjacent to the
south frontier of Afghanistan, and commanding the road
from the Bolan Pass to the important Afghan city of
Candahar. Views of Candahar and of Ghuzni are like¬
wise presented, which are from the series of “Sketches
of Afghanistan,” published by Messrs. H. Graves and
Co., of Pall-mall.
The southern frontier of Afghanistan seems most easily
accessible to an army from India. It is considered that
from Quetta to Candahar the advance would meet with
few obstacles if the inhabitants were well disposed. The
valley northwards from Quetta is overshadowed by the
Zarghun range, infested by lawless and hardy moun¬
taineers, who make unsafe for travellers and even cara¬
vans the direct road to Candahar, but to an armed force
could offer little molestation. These tribes muster in all
some 70,000 households, but they are scattered over so
wide an area that when, recently, the Khan of Khelat
organised an expedition against them, no trouble was
found in reducing them in detail to submission. In
December snow falls, and often after that the road, though
never impassable, is rendered difficult. The Mnrghi Pass
leads by on easy route down to the Peshin district,
and at fourteen miles from Quetta a small stream
is passed, which constitutes the frontier of Khelat and
Cabal. Another eighteen miles of practicable road brings
the traveller by the Surmaghazi Pass to Hykalzai, situated
on a plain of red clay soil—a favourite rendezvous of the
nomad Sarins, and marked by numerous ruins and several
inhabited villages. From Hykalzai a march of fifteen
miles attains Arabi Kariz, several streams being crossed
on the way, and a fair sprinkling of inhabitants encoun¬
tered. There is a good roadway thence past the spurs of
the Toba range, the populous villages of the DihsuriGlen,
to the Khojak Pass, at all times practicable in spite of its
narrowness. On the southern side the elevation has been
recorded to be 7000 ft., at the top of the Pass 7400, and at
Chaukah, on the northern end, 5600; and here, as every¬
where else along the road, pasture is abundant for three
fourths of the year. From Chaukah to Chaman, and thence
to Gatai, some twenty-five miles, the route lies north¬
westerly along a gradual slope on to the undulating
sweep of the plain; and from Gatai a march of fourteen
miles reaches Mel Maudah, the rood lying across a plain
and rolling downs, without inhabitants, as pasturage is
very scanty, aud the water brackish. After eighteen
miles further, MCikG Korez is made ; the Barghana Pass,
which lies midway at an elevation of 4100 feet, present¬
ing no difficulty to the traveller. Thence a winding
ravine leads to the village of Mfdrt, and sixteen miles
further, across an undulating plain as far os the Argheaon
river (a very shallow stream, though of considerable
width), and thence across broken country, lies Mund
Hiaaar. From here to Candahar is twelve miles.
It is well to note that from Candahar to Herat is 400
miles, from Candahar to Jacobabad, our frontier station
“ THE LITTLE CARPENTER.” BY E. B. STEPHENS, A.R.A.
IN THS LATE EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
in Bcinde, 300 mile*. From Candahar to Cabul is also
about 400 miles, Ghuzni being about 150 miles from the
latter. By the occupation of Candahar we should threaten
equally Herat and Cabul, and should practically be
masters of all Western Afghanistan. The inhabitants of
the Province of Candahar are much better disposed to us
than those of North-Eastern Afghanistan, and are not
influenced to the same extent by the bitter memories of
our lost invasion.
It seems to be arranged, in the plan of the impending
Afghan war, that the central column of the British forces,
winch is now being collected at Thull, shall advance
through the Khoorum Pass and Valley, with a view to an
eventual attack on Ghuzni and Cabul. From the British
military Btation of Kohat to the frontier at Thull, on the
hanV. of the Khoorum river, through the valleys of the
Lower and Upper Meeranzye, the road is well known. At
Thull the Khoorum is crossed by an easy ford, and from
this point there are two roads—both of which are prac¬
ticable for field artillery. The shortest and most direct
road is also the roughest. It leads from Thull to
Tara Khooa, eleven miles; next, to Huzar PeerZiarut,
fifteen miles ; third, the Durinzai Pass (not difficult),
eleven miles; fourth, Ahmedzye, on the right hand
of the Khoorum, a small mud fort, built by the
late Sirdar Mahomed Azim Khan when he was Governor
of Khoorum and Khool (this place iB held by a
small Afghan garrison); fifth, Peywar Kothul, a pass
practicable for cavalry, and might be easily rendered so
for field artillery by a few sappers, twenty-five miles. An
intermediate stage could easily be made, os the Khoorum
Valley is throughout open and fertile. From the crest
of the Peywar Kothul to Cabul is only seventy-five miles.
The Cabul side of the pass is steeper and more difficult,
but still practicable. The tribes here are, however,
hostile to us; the Ghilzyes more especially so. The pass
is never closed, even in the depth of winter, though suow
to the depth of four feet or so covers it. Traffic serves to
keep the path open, and Afghan troops constantly cross it
at all seasons. The Turis and Baugash tribes who inhabit
Khoorum are so much oppressed by their Afghan Governor
that they would gladly take any favourable opportunity to
rebel. They are, however, naturally less warlike than their
neighbours, the Wuziris and Ghilzyes, who overawe them.
Snow generally begins to fall in the Khoorum Valley in
December, and lies for two or three monthB. The road
from the Kothul to Cabul is fair, and water is everywhere
abundant. Supplies, of course, would not be procurable
by an invading force from that point, but a lightly-
equipped force could accomplish the whole distance in
three or four marches. The second and easier route,
from Thull to Ahmedzye, is along the bed of the Khoorum
river via Ibrahimzye, but is dangerous when the river is
swollen, as the stream has to be forded at frequent
crossings, and its banks are liable to be flooded. The
Turis and Baugnshes would probably furnish an auxiliary
contingent if called upon to do so to the number of three
to four thousand men ; but all the other tribes would be
in arms against a British force, and would have to be
coerced into good behaviour, with an expedition entering
Cabul from the Khoorum Valley. The cold is severe in
November, even before the suow commences to fall;
water freezes at night from the beginning of November.
For strategical purposes the mud fort mentioned above
would mark the point for the principal cantonment, and
on the advance to Cabul being made this place and the
crest of the Peywar Kothul could be roughly fortified to
m m i n tjtin the line of communication with Thull and
Kohat. The entry of a force into Afghanistan by this
road is comparatively free from difficulty.
394
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meeting of the shareholders was held on
Tuesday afternoon in the City Hall,
atwS it was resolved to wmdupthe affaim
of the bank by voluntary bquidation. Th
action of the directors, manager,and secretary
was denounced by the chief speakers.
rSois^uS.^d 722 minor casualties.
With reference to the collisions on and near
oui SLto during the year 1876-7, forty-e^ht
of the 847 collisions were between two steam
SilS'JllStway, ir«~cli,eof numejwjB
other such esses in our harboursiiiiOT,
the particulars of winch are not given to th
abstract. We cannot attach too mudi im
A YEAR’S WRECKS | fc”. d^OTst^
K." c SSh P S ; “’ T b h ut^ t yg^
one, of the Wreck Registcr for the yew b8tract > 6how3 that the number was «76 from
between July 1, 1876, and June 30, 1877. ao cks enumerated during 1876-7.
Nevertheless, this document yields abundant that the greate^t destructawn
useful information on a truly national s human life happened on the north and east
iect and, taken to conjunction with the of gngiand and Scotland,
numerous fearful calamities both and cowte^ (776) may appear to thei casual
| water, will make the records of disasters of a comparatively small one bythe
the present year memorable. . 0 f the thousands who escaped disaster
We find from other Parliamentary returns I {wm the numerous shipwrecks above men-
that the number of British vessels tioned We are, however, of opinion that it
entered towards and cleared outwards during _--when we bear to
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is a very large number; and when we bear to
mind the inestimable value of human hfe. we
ScT convinced that no effort should be left
of 101,799,uw. m uieac untried which can to any wa ? L f^ n 1110
steamers, having a tonnage of M.oWJAI. ^ loea of Uf e from shipwreck on our coasts.
In addition to these hgures, about 6M00 io “ Q ^ otber han d, great and noble work
foreign vessels entered inwards and clair^ accomplished during the same period, 479o
outwards during the same period to and from was^ P ^ ^ ^ yanous elnp-
^ rpnrAhcntius a tonnage oi
entered towards ana cuwcu
the Dast year to and from ports of the United
Kingdom was 581,099, representingatoiin^e
of m,799,050. Of these 6hi!», 214,669 were
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lives having been saved from the various ship-
fa tatogtog about that most ua-
rhftrtnnt service it is hardly necessary to say
thJtthe craft of the National Life-Boatlnsti-
tution played a most important part, m con¬
junction with the Board of Trsde’s ttckrt
apparatus, which is so efficiently work^ by
the coastguard and our volunteer brigades.
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«‘THE LITTLE CARPENTER.”
This graceful figure of childhood engaged in
sportive imitation of a common handicraft, and
Buffering the slight penalty of a blundering
Soke, is a statuette by Mr. E B. Stephens,
A.R.A., the sculptor of The Deer-Slayer,
lately erected as a public ornament at Exeter,
which was the subject of an Illustration some
weeks ago. “ The Little Carpenter ’ will be
remembered by visitors to the last Exhibition
of the Royal Academy, and it was one of the
most pleasing minor works of its class there
presented to notice. A little boy, provided he
& not dressed to knickerbockers, but in a shirt
or tunic, or his natural and innocent nudity, is
always a figure of classical beauty, as the
Greeks knew very well ; and the e^P'® 8 '
aive vivacity of his attitudes, free from
constraint or affectation, makes him an ex¬
cellent subject for ait. This urchin, it
will be at once perceived, has unwarily bruised
his left thumb with a careless blow of the
hammer still grasped to his right hand. A
skilful carpenter, we believe, does not find it
necessary to support the nail with thumb and
finger as it receives bis well-aimed stroke; but
sets it upright to the gimlet-hole, and sends
it home with the utmost precision by a single
effort, or else, if his strength be not sufficient
for that, by the fewest repetitions of the same
identical movement. The trick is one to be
leamt by much practice, no doubt, and thia
child is a young beginner ; be is a manly little
fellow, who disdains to cry, and may be allowed
to suck his thumb, in the present case, with¬
out reproach for indulging to a babyish habit.
British ports, ~ representing a tonnage of
nearly 20 , 000 , 000 . , . .
These 641,099 ships, British and foreign,
had probably on board, apart from passengers,
4 , 000,000 of men and boys. , .
We observe that to 1876-7 the number of
wrecks casualties, and collisions, from aU
causes, on and near the coasts of the reviewing tne vvreen. «* 6 «*~*-
Kingdom, was 4164, which nrnnbCT exceeds we ^ bound to take courage
that of the previous year by 407. 511 cases tbe U i an y gratifying facts it reveals in
out of this large number involved total loss, life, which, after all, is our
502 and 472 representing the same class of ?^ p{ ^ ob j ect in commenting on it.
calamities for the two preceding years. P™ F J k haa been done and is doing fra
C Again, if we deduct 511 from the yearly list K°biewor K ifc not 60 me thing, amidst
■^sssrt'srsrfiSrt ^ i
w it _i the number
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twenty ye^ (from 1857 to 1876-7) the number
of shipwrecks on our coasts alone has averaged
1948 a year, representing in money value
millions upon millions sterling.
In making this statement wo lay aside
entirely the thousands of precious lives, on
which no money value could be placed, which
were sacrificed on such disastrous occasions,
and which would have been enormously
increased in the absence of the determined and
gallant services of the life-boats of the National
life-Boat Institution. ...
In the abstract of the Wreck Register it is leu lue ----
stated that between 1861 and 1876-7 the num- f Q e ggjf. while that for Dartmouth has
ber of ships, both British and foreign, which jf ^ ^d by Mrs. Hargreaves, of Cley-
herwise desolate nome uauuuuv- •
To aid this merciful work we confidently
anDcal for support on behalf of the National
ItiFe-Boat Institution, whose noble
fleet of 269 boats is ever ready to hasten te the
succour of the shipwrecked sailor in his direst
distress.
The National Life-Boat Institution has sent
new life-boats to Fourdon on the coast of
Kincardineshire, and to Dartmouth, Devon.
They are both self-righting life-boats, «tch
being 33 feet long and rowing ten oars. The
cost of the Fourdon boat has been defrayed
from a legacy left to the institution by Mr.
a t!Ej. that for Dartmouth has
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THE CITY OF GLASGOW BANK.
The report of the auditors on the state of
the affairs of the Glasgow City Bank was pub¬
lished to last Saturday’s papers, and Idled
three columns cf small type. The auditors ;
state that at an early stage of their inquiry
it became apparent that questions seriously
affecting the course of management by the
directors and managers of the bank were in- |
volved to the investigation, and they had felt
it their duly, while soliciting from those
gentlemen explanations as to certain par¬
ticular items, to bring under their notice the
serious nature of the questions referred to.
In roo.-t instances the answers were that the
explanations invited related to certain points
which were as new and os startling to the
parties interrogated os to themselves. The
balance-sheet of Oct. 1, the date of the
stoppage, shows liabilities amounting to
£12 404,297, and the assets are £5,190,983
less’ than that sum, which, with a capital of
£1,000,000, makes a total loss of £0,190,983.
The publication of this report was followed
bv the arrest of the directors, the managtr,
and the secretary, on a charge of fraud The
names of the persons arrested are:—John
Stewart, merchant, Edinburgh; Robert Sal-
moud. of Rankwstou, Ayrshire; Henry Inglis,
of Torsonce, Writer to the Signet, Ediuburgn;
John Inues Wright, merchant, Glasgow;
Lewis Potter, shipowner and merchant, Ulas-
came to grief on our coasw, —
attended with loss of life, was 2784, causing
the loss of 13,098 persons. In 1876-7 loss of
life took place to one out of every twenty-two
shipwrecks on our coasts.
The number of ships reported is to excess of
the casualties reported, because m cases of
collision two or more ships are involved m one
casualty. Thus 847 of the wreckB were
collisions, and 3317 were wrecks and casualties
other than collisions. Of these latter casual¬
ties, 446 were wrecks, Ac., resulting in total
loss, 902 were casualties resulting m serious
damage, and 1969 were minor accidents.
It is to be observed that of the 3317 casual¬
ties (excluding collisions) 2824 are known to
have happened to ships belonging to Great
Britain and its dependencies, while 493
belonged to foreign countries.
The total number of English ships, exclud¬
ing collision cases, which, according to the
facts reported, appear to have foundered, or to
j have been otherwise totally lost on and near
I the coasts of the United Kingdom from defects
in the ehips or their equipments during the
year 1876-7, is 20; while 54 happened through
the errors, &c., of masters, officers, crews, or
| pilots ; 180 through stress of weather ; and 61
trom other or unknown causes.
been presented Dy airs. 11 ^™"^
gate, to memory of her deceased daughter.
EMIGRATION.
The ship Northampton, 1161 tons, Captain
Clare, chartered by the Agent-General for
New South Wales, sailed from Plymouth for
Sydney on the 17th tost, with 427 emigrants;
aid on the same day the ship Devon, 1147
tons, Captain Hicks, sailed from Gravesend
with 424 emigrants for Brisbane.
Intelligence of the arrival at their destina¬
tions of the following vessels, which were
dispatched by Sir Julius Vogel, Agent-General
for New Zealand, early in July last, has been
received:—The Rakaia, with 280 emi^mts
for Wellington; the Invercargill, with 336 for
Otago; and the Waitangi, with 319 for
Canterbury. .. _ .
The Agent-General for New South Wales
has been informed by telegram of the arnvai
in Sydney of the stop La Hogue, which sailed
from Plymouth with emigrants in July last.
The emigration agents for the Government
of Tasmania, 25, Queen Anne’s-gate, West¬
minster, have received the following advice
from the Board of Immigration at Hobart
Town:_“ We think it right to point out that
. inimicmiTita ve cliieflv want is
rpHE BULB GABDEN;
CO.. 7. Stationery lUll-court Lu^
pANCEB AND TUBOUBS ASu^W
b Modoot TroaUDBUrtam 1™
atth Edition. r»o, doth. Pl>- U®. 16 » -
TT O M (E O P A T H10 JO
sf&sst «S£g2Ss»
ssss suam ' ihip8 “ d Sots SSSUSA"' S tb e J «y
ThrSS?s g of^he wrecks, still excluding to the profitable employment of then capital.
I comstoSe thus gtien -St coasts of Eng- Femate domestic servants^ are al^ much m
I land and Scotland, 1140 ; south coast, 630; I demand ; but few of this mass can be expcc
west coast of England and Scotland, and coast
I of Ireland, 1259; north coast of Scotland, 129;
and other parts, l.’>9 Total, 3317.
Jurt publlAhcd, port-ta*. two ,UB ^ vrpp n
tayspepsia
7 adkiel’s almanac to*' JJJJvjK
md other parts. l->9 iouu, wn.
The sites of these several terrible disasters are
distinctly shown on the wreck charts, attached
to the Wreck Register Abstract. On the
charts the site of each one of the 269 life-boats
belonging to the National Life-Boat Institution
is aku given.
Female domestic servants are mao mucu m
demand; but few of this class can be expected
to have the means of paying their own
passage-money. Should opportunity offer,
the Board would not object to your sending
out some of this latter class, under bounty
tickets, of course charging them the regulated
price of the ticket—viz., £5—provided that,
upon inquiring, you were satisfied they were
eligible emigrants, of good character, and to
nnnnd health.”
Zl ■ I Tn-uLk^-y-iccO^
iTwlicUou*. UJWvtf'S!*£•
Yellow — *"
ifsttS’Eas
•S£zr 0 J2£& .
ROW READV.
rpHE ILLUSTRATED
1 PENNY ALMANACK FOB 1M».
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TVTUSICAL OPINION AND MUSIC
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111411 ™ Bennett, 65 and 04, Cheapside.
rpHE BEST ENGLISH WATCHES.
X The GOLDSMITHS' ALLIANCE (Limited) request the
attention of purchasers to their stock of LON DON -MAI >K
PATENT LEVER WATCHES, which, being manufactured by
themselves ou the premises, are coniidenUy recommended fur
accuracy and durability.
Prices of Silver Matches. .
Patent Lever Watch, jewelled, enamel dial, and seconds £4 14 S
Ditto, Jewelled in four hole, and capped.6 6 0
Ditto, the finest quality, jeweUed in six holes .. .. 8 8 0
SUver Watches in hunting cases. Ids. 6d. extra.
Gold Watchee.—Size for Ladies.
Patent Lever Watches, with gold dial, ewelled .. .. 1111 0
Ditto, with richly engraved case .. .. .. |1H J
Ditto, with very »ti ong case, and jewelled in four holes 14 14 0
Gold Watches.—Size for Gentlemen.
Patent Lever Watches, jewelled, seconds, and capped .. 13 13 0
Ditto, jewelled In six holes, and gold balance .. .. 18 18 0
Gold Watches in hunting cases, £3 3s. extra.
Lists of Prices, with remarks on watches, gratis and post-free.
THE LUMINOUS CLOCK.
A MOST WONDERFUL INVENTION,
by which the Time can lie SEEN in the DARK
without the aid of any artiliciul light. Every
home should possess one See opinions of Press
Price
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Leane and Co.'s Show-Rooms for the display of thes«
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&ni Draw , ln *-. room ;s 1111 1 14 0
Fenders, Dining-room .. 017 14
Flrelrons „ .. | o 101 0 IS | 1 1 |
Bed-room Fenders, from 3s. to 18s. Fireirons, from Ss. to 12 s.
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ready ffxed for inspection.
VN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.
~ " ^DESIGNS OF HEpSTEApS AND BED-
PARIS
X D. NICIK
their Buyers from Pari , and tliat on MONDAY REX'
Following Days they will make a Grand Display of E.cgoni
COSTUMES, including several facsimile Copies of those shown
in the Paris Exhibition.
D. Nicholson and Co., SO to 53, St. Paul’s-churchyard, London.
CONTAINING 4
gILKS! J^RESSES! yELVETEENS !
__ D. NICHOLSON and CO.'8 NEW AUTUMN PATTERN-
ROOM FURNITURE, AND PRICE-LIST OF BEDDING BOOK of COLOURED SILKS, containing 400 Varieties of the
SENT-FREE by post? 01 ur bedding, best^Lyons Manufacture,in tlie following Lots, may now be had
EoT 1. Lyons Gros Grain. 2 l?i
LOT 2 . Rich ,, 3 4
| LOTS. „ Drop de France 3 1 1 • „ _ _ _ _
LOT 4. „ Lyons Gros Grain 4 6$ „ „ 3 12 6
LOT 3. .. s 11| „ ., 3 18 6
LOT 6. „ Poult de Sole .. 3 11 ' „ 4 14 6
! LOT 7. Extra Rich Faill. 6 11 ,, S10 0
D. NICHOLSON and CO.,
60, 51, 62, and 53. ST. PAUL'S-CHCRCH YARD. LONDON.
/C HAR LES GASK and CO. (Limited),
^ 33 to 63, Oxford-street;
_ 1 to 8, WeUs-street. London.
CARRIAGE ENTRANCE, 6, Welli-street.
- £ s. d.
, 2 llj per yd.; or 10 yds. 2 7 0
3 »4 .. .. 2 12 6
T)ICH SILK and other COSTUMES.
J-V A grand display of rich Silk. Broche Velvet, and Silken
Fabric Costumes lor the Autumn, forming such a collection of
recherche Novelties as is rarely seen out of Paris, at most
moderate price*.
A large variety of novel Costumes of Foahlonable New Fabric#
ln Serge*. Lichen Cloth#, Cypru# Cloth#, Camel'# Hair, tfcc., 2 , 3 ,
C CRAPS for SCREENS and SCRAP-
BOOKS. Coloured Flowers, Figures, Birds, and Land¬
scapes, lrum Is. sheet; 12 assorted, 10s. 6.1.
WM. BARNARD, 119, Edgware-road, London.
WHITE WOOD ARTICLES, for Painting,
TT Fern Printing, and Decalcomanie, Blotting-Books,
ATANTLES, ULSTERS, and SEALSKINS.
A large importation ot the Latest Novelties.
^Tne Sedan Beaver Paietut, 1 and 2 guineas, handsomely
New Travelling Ulsters, aU wool. In 27 shades, at 1 guinea.
Unequalled.
Fine Sealskin Paletots. 36 ln. ln length, 94 guineas each.
Smaller sizes in prepo-——
Fur-lined Mantles ai
1VEW AUTUMN and WINTER DRESS
-Li MATERIALS.
Ail the latent Novelties in .Preach Cashmeres and Merinoea,
Velour Cloihs, KcUmeuc aud Lome berge*. Diaguuai borgeu,
Caahmervtten, Wool Plaids, Pinny bourcLtes, ana every other
fashionable material bailable ior tne present and coming season.
Pa i. ter us ifo*t-irce.
D. Nichol#on and Co., 60 , 61 , oz, aud &J, 6t. Paul's-cnurchyard.
TARESS MATERIALS in all the Newest
XJ Textures. New Ucheu Cloth, lljd. per yard. Camel’s-
Hair Cluth, is. 4d. Tartans, Rampoor Cloth, aud the new BrocliS
Cashmeres, so much used in combination, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. per
yard.
Fine French Cashmeres, ln new shades, Is. lid., 2s. 74d.. and
2s. Ud. per yard, double width.
17" NOCK - ABOUT CYPRUS CLOTHS,
J-V 1 *. ojd.
Patterns free.
BAKER and CRISP'S, 19s, Regent-street.
jyjOLESKIN VELVETEENS,
ATOURNING GOODS
L'-L of every description at mos
Black Serge Ci
every description at most moderate prices.
- 0 e Costumes, nil wool, 2 guineas. Black and White
Brocne Costumes, 1 guinea: handsome Costumes, trimmed with
patecS unspotUng crupe, for nil grades of mouruliig, 3} to
8 guineas. The Dressmaking Department is under new and
superior management. A successiul tit and the best style may
be relied upon, ut moderateenurges.
Patterns and Samples of all goods free.
QILKS.—SPECIAL NOTICE.
k) tVe are now offering *o,i)uu yanls of Black and Coloured
bilks. In aU the new siiuues, at fuHy 13 to 2U per c * • -
year's prices—2s. lid. toUd. per yard.
T)LACK SATINS, 2s. 6d.; Coloured, 3s. 6d.
X» SILKS.
aU kinds, BAKEU and CRISP'S,
it. Hid.
J^AKER and CRISP’S ULSTERS,
Pattern, to the c
C HARLES GASK aud CO. (Limited),
5s, 39, 60 , 61, 62, 63, Uxford-street; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Wells-
street, London.
CARRIAGE ENTRANCE,
6, WeUs-street.
SPECIALITY for WIDOWS’ MILLINERY.
A large and varied assortment of Widows' Caps. Ac., fur
First and Second Mourning, of the most superior quality
and styles, on view at Mrs. Creatou's show-ltooms, an ‘-“—
of which is solicited.
Mrs. CKEATON. 294. Regent-streot, W.
H
ENRY GLAVE’S
GIGANTIC BUUW OF DRESS FABRICS,
for the Fad and Wirner of 1878.
The Real Rough-und-Ready Serge, 28 in. wide, 10}d. a
yard, very suitable fur wanucostumesaud winter wear.
Winter CasiiiucrOs, 26in. wide, -.d.
Douglas Brilliautiues, new autumn shades, 8fd.
Twin mule in all leading culou-s, at mid.
French Merinos, *4ln. lo ism. wide. Is. Ui>d.snd2s. lOJd.
Small eancy Designs for mixing with plain lextuies.
The Leopard Mixture, a! 81 1 .. the Caoul Mixture, ut
lord.: me Costume Mixture, at Is. ?qd.; the Afghan
Sun ilixture, at is. bid.; the AU-Wool Silk Mixture, at
2s. Hid.
Heather Mixtures for Autumn. Is. njd.
Ottawa Beiges, 16 in. wide. Is. ujd.
Fancy Scutch Claim, us now worn in Paris, Is. 31<i.
Serge N4gligi, a light warm wool inaU-rial in eieven new
faahioiiahlc mixtures, 2o in. wide, is. ■ ■ jii.
Indian Cashmeres, iz in. t> 4» ln. wide. Is. lOJd. and
2s. lujd.; English Cashuier. s. ls.34d.aim Is. 6jd. a yard.
The Eatumcue Serge, Newest Co.uius, ls.Oid. and Is. bpl.
Cashmere Estamene, i. in. Wide, 9J I.
French Beige Fouie, 26 in. wide. Is 4jd.
The Scarborough Twill. New Autumn Colours. lOJd.
Scotch Cashmere Estamene, Is. Z|d. and Is. ujd.
An endless variety of New Skirtings, 40 in. wide at
Is. llid., 2s. lljd., 3s. 6jd., and is. lid. a yard.
Patterns of all Kinds no t-free.
634,635,336, and 337. New Oxiord-street, London.
OHIRTS. — FORD’S EUREKA. — “ The
must perfect iittiug made.”— observer. Gentlemen
desirous of purchasing Marts of the best quality should try
Fonl's Eureka. 3ils., 4os, his. halt-dozen. Illustrations and seif-
measure post-tree.—U, Poultry, Loudon.
G olden h a i r.—robare’s
AU RECLINE produces the beautiful Golden Colour so
much admired, llurranled pcrlectly harmless. Price Ss. 6d. and
Ids. isE, of all Perfumers. Wholesale, HUVENDKN and SUNS,
3, Great Murlboruugli-.tn-et, W.; aud 93 and 95, City-road, E.C,
L-jadon ; Pluaud and Meyer,37, Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris;
81, Grabea, Vienna; 44, Rue des Longs Chariots, Brussels.
J)OE8
YOUR HAIR TURN GREY t
H
ENRY GLAVE’S
SlEKS, SATIN'S, VELVETS, AND VELVETEENS.
Black Silks, rich Gros Uiaius, 2s. llpl.; late 3s. 6{d.
Black Bilks, a new make, wear guaranteed. "The
Empress," not weighted with dye, but nude of allpure
si.K, price 3S. lOd. a yard.
Bluck Bilks, several thousand yards, from the best Lyons
firms, from 3s. 6jd. to iis. a yard.
Oxonian Velveteeus. are blue blacks, Is. Hid. to 4s. lid.
The Louis Velveteen is dyed tlie fashionable Oriental
blue black, and made various qualities.
70uu yards Rich Coluuiea Velveteens, 60 different shades,
26in wide, 2s. lujd. a yard.
Silk Costume Velvet, in Black, 27 in. wide, only 6s. Ud.
the yard. Patterns fne. ,,
Black Batins, a specially cheap lot, at 2s. 6Jd.; Coloured
Batins, in every possible shade, Is. 114<L to 4s. Ud. a
334,'335, &S6, and537, New Oxford-street. London.
W AYRE’S SEAL PALETOTS,
S3 in. long. 9| guineas.
WAYRE’S SEAL PALETOTS,
T V 36 in. long, 12 guineas.
W AYRE’S SEAL PALETOTS,
40 In. long, 14 guineas.
w
AYRE’S SEAL PALETOTS,
46in. long, 16 guineas.
w
■ AYRE’S RUSSIAN SABLE TAIL
SETS 20 guineas. Real Marten Tail, 8 guineas. 6kunk,
us. Length of fronts, 36 In.; depth of llounco, 9 in. to
w
AYRE’S SEAL PALETOTS
n to font on approval to any part of the kingdom by
‘ u reference, and the measurements across back,
St, round waist, and length of paletot, to
W AYRE, SEAL PALETOT
MANUFACTURER. 96, Oxford-street, and 332, Oxford-
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T7 LORI LINE. For the Teeth and Breath.
X Is tlie best Liquid Dentifrice in the World; It thoroughly
Cleanses partially-decayed teeth from aU parasites or living
'• amuialculai, ' leaving them pearly white, importing a deliglit-
fui Iragronce to the breath. Price 2s. 6d. per Bottle. The
Fragrant Floriline removes instantly all odours anting from a
torn stomach or tobacco smoke, being partly composed of honey,
soda, and extracts of sweet herbs aud plants. It is perfectly
harmless, and delicious os sherry. Prepared by HENKY 0.
GALLUP. 493, Oxford-street, Loudon. Retailed everywhere.
rpHE COURT HAIR DESTROYER.—This
X newly-discovered remedy completely removes superfluous
hair. Quite harmless. 3s. 6d.; po»t.3s. livL, of Inventor, J. Leon,
19, Pprteus-rd.. Loudon, W„ or Chemists. Particulars, 1 stamp.
T)REIDENBACH’S ABRONIA—The New
I) Scent for 1878. Delicate, refreshing, and durable, 2s. 6<L to
Ids. per Bottle. Breidenbacli's MACASSARIN E, invaluable for
oietkTvinfr the Growth of the Hair, Is., 2a. Gd., 6#. per Bottle.
V of aU Chemists and the Makers, 137s, New Bond-street, W.
N°S
MACHINE.—A contrivance applied
> for an hour daily, so directs the soft cartilage
an lU-fotmed one is quUtkly^sliuped. ^lOs^bd.
Sent free for stamps.—AL£K. BOSS, 248, High Holborn, London
TADIES’ ELASTIC SUPPORTING
I 2 BANDS for me before and after Accouchement.
1 nstructions for measurement and gtasOB«ppllpdto'“
POPE and PLANTE, 4, Waterloo-pli
e, l'ail-xuall, London.
A BUSE OF SPIRITS—DISEASES of the
-£JL STOMACH treated by his original method of thirty-one
years' experience.
HEYJIANN, M.D. BERI.IN. 8.W.
Fees, iuciudibg remedies. One Guinea.
TOHN GOSNELL and CO.’S VIOLET
O and MILLEPLEUK l'OWDEB. for theToilct and Nursery.
Lulvi-rsaliy admired for its purity und fragrance. Sold by ail
Chemists und Perfumers. Wholesale, 93, Upper Thames-stroet.
VALUABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR.
V If your hair is turning grey, or white, or foiling off, use
'• a he Mexican Hair Rcnewer.' for it will positively restore in
every ux-o urey or White Hair to its original colour, without
leaving tlie iliragi teublo smell of most “ Restorers.” It makes
the hair chaimiugly beautiful, us wc-H as promoting the growth
of the ban on ba.ll .puts where tlie glands are not decayed. Ask
any Chemist for tlie " Jlexlcan Hair Renewer," price 3s. lid.
Prepared by HENRY C. GALLUP. 423, Oxford-street, London.
JJALVERN COLLEGE.
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Waters,” is a territory lying between the Sutlej and the
Indus, and watered by five tributary rivers. The Indus is not
one of the five rivers, and between it and the Sutlej, which is,
flow the other four, the Beeas, the Ravee, the Chenaub, and
the Jhelum. Near Mittunkote, 450 miles from the seaport of
Kurrachee, the Indus receives the united waters of the
Punjaub. Thence it is navigable up to Attock, near which
the Cabul river joins it, and continues the navigation to
within twelve miles of Peshawur, a distance of 470 miles
from Mittunkote. The Sutlej is navigable to Phillour,
442 miles from Mittunkote, and the Jhelum from the
same place to the station of Jhelum 435 miles. Native boats,
drawing from 2 ft. to 3 ft. 6 in., navigate each of these rivers
between the above places, and boats of smaller draught pro¬
ceed to the foot of the hills. The Punjaub plains, twenty-five
miles distant from the base of the hills to the northward, have
an elevation of about 750 ft. above the sea, from which they
are there distant nearly 700 miles in a direct line. The
average fall of the Indus is a foot in the mile, and the average
rate of the current is two mileB and a half on hour, increased
to four miles and a half after the rains and the melting of the
snows. When the l'unjaub rivers, excluding the Indus, are
full their average breadth is about a mile and a half ; when
the banks are overflowed the land is submerged for miles on
each side, as has been the case recently at Phillour and Dera
Ghazee Khan. The navigable channel is rarely more than
250 yards in width—frequently much less. During the rains,
boats drawing 3 ft. Pin. navigate them with trouble and delay;
in the cold season boats of only 2 ft. draught frequently meet
with obstructions, the navigable channels than varying from
twenty to sixty yards across. The rivers begin to rise per¬
ceptibly in the middle of April. They are fullest in July
and August, and are again very low by the middle of October.
The native boats are, at the best, very clumsy affairs, intended
only for the slow conveyance of merchandise. The Indus first
becomes navigable for these boats a little above its junction
with the Cabul river, which is itself navigable for fifty miles
for craft drawing 2 ft. 6 in.; but rafts can ascend sixty miles
higher to Derbund. Attock, on the Grand Trunk road to
Peshawur from Rawul Pindee and Hassan Abdool, at which
last place troops have been concentrating for some time past,
is about 980 miles from the sea. The breadth of the river at
Attock, at the narrowest part, is 330 ft. in the cold season, and
1300 ft. in the flood time, the rise of the river being nearly 50 ft.
Its velocity in the cold weather is a little over six miles an hour,
and during the flood season nearly thirteen miles an hour.
From Attock to Kala Bagh, the nearest ravine station to Thull,
where General Roberts’s force is being concentrated, is one
hundred miles. To Mukhud is eighty-three miles, whence
through Khoosulgurh, five miles from the river, a road leads
to Kohat, which will have to be occupied iu force in order to
coerce the tribes of that district. In the dry season the descent
from Attock to Kala Bagh is made in a day and a half by the
native craft, and in the floods in a shorter time.
SKETCHES IN CYPRUS.
The First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. W. H. Smith, and the
Secretary of State for War, Colonel Stanley, left England on
Monday, to visit the famous island in the Levant, which has
lately been taken into British possession. Our Special Artist
in Cyprus, “ S. P. 0.,” has been compelled by an attack of
fever to seek refuge, for a week or two, in the salubrious high¬
lands of the Lebanon, above Beyrout, on the opposite shore of
Syria. Oneof his sketches is engravedfor this week’spublication.
| It is a view of the Carpas range of mountains, from the village
of Hepta Khumi, which was described in the letter of
| “ S. P. O.” published a fortnight ago. This northern range
: of mountains, overlooking the whole plain of Messaria and the
Carpas district, begins at Cape Kormakiti (the ancient Crom-
myon), and is continued thence in an unbroken ridge to
the eastern extremity of the island, Cape St Andrea, a dis¬
tance of more than one hundred miles. It is very inferior in
elevation to the southern range, its highest summits not
attaining to more than about 3200 ft.; while in the eastern
portion they but rarely exceed 2000 ft. But it is remarkable
for its continuous and unbroken character—consisting through¬
out of a narrow, but rugged and rocky ridge, descending
abruptly to the south into the great plain of Nicosia; and, to
the north, to a narrow plain bordering the coast.
398
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
OOT. 26, 1878
MOPS.
Readers of the provincial newspapers, especially th°se pub-
lffhed in the Midland Counties, during the“°uthof gtobc
and between the dates of Michaelmas and Martinmas t&epi. z
to Nov n)^y chance to notice therein certain paragrap^
wSmodwto recently held on the "*“ e . da k e epit het8
for the hiring of Agricultural servants, which^ e M hel ^"“ nd
year, though at two different seasons of the year, Mav IJay ana
Martinmas, according to the custom of the
manv such Mops, in the month of October, in Warwickshire.
Sa at HotJe^ i-Arion i, held on Oct. M end gw. by the
SS. if St Luke’s Fair, although St Luke’s Day “ “ ^18,
Sys‘tttt 1 S 8 tao'S.“l»cSS^ the mooth. Jtany j{ the | clown, that Statute ^oya p» ? ue,
MiHinnd County Mops that fall late in October, or early in
year 1862, in the .
Church and State Reu
ow the e«mS!e. aud the Archbishop of that p_enod spoke o the
S "5iii.-n.me,- •• Kunaway
Mops,” a ’phrase which might be ns S
wrangling as the famous “ runaways’ eyes, in Romeo ana
JUl The thtee wry'different words, Hiring, Btatute.and Mc^p,
used for these fairs, take us back to various butorical dates.
For Hirine we must revert to Saxon days; for Statute
we must turn to the year 135 1 , when Edward IILregilated
the laws between masters and servants by certain
thereby coining a word from the Latin,.to signify the agree
ments that had bee„ entered inlo. and ^mh . broken could
be carried into the Statute Sessions, now called PettyJi.e.,
petit) Sessions. It was at the Statute, at Pershore. Worcester-
Shire, that Edward III. granted the manor of Dudston King a
Regis to the Abbot of St. Peter, with the nght to hold a
Statute-fair, and to permit unlicensed persons to sell ale, on
three consecutive Mondays, in buBh-houses, which right was
claimed and carried out for five centuries afterwards, until the
year 1863, when the Pcrshore Bush-houses had to succumb
before the attacks of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue.
The bush, I need hardly remind my readers, was used, even
from classical days, to denote a place where good hquor or
wine could be obtained; and at these Pershore fans, the bush,
usually a bough of oak or elm, was
house up to the year 1863. It was at that date that the many
evils incident upon the bolding of Mops, were beginning to
attract the attention of the press and the public, and to work
their much-needed reformation or abolition. . .
Like Statute, the word Mop has a Latin origin; for it is
identical with Map or Mapp, the a being altered to o by
the vagaries of Midland pronunciation. I possess two printed
handbills, of the dates 1734 and 1743, where the Worcestershire
Mop is all through called “the Mapp,” the later dated of
these handbills stating that the Mapp would be held on the
eleventh day of October, being the Monday before the Feast
of St. Luke, for the Hiring of Servants, where all Gentlemen,
Dealers and Chapmen, may depend upon good Entertainment
and Encouragement.” At the first blush, there would seem
to be no connection between the Midland county Mop and the
games of ancient Rome; and yet, there is so at any rate, in
name. For when Nero, or whoever was emperor, gave the
signal that the ludi circenset should be begun, he did so by
dropping his napkin, or mappa, from whence that word was
transferred to the sports. At a later date, a representation of
the geography of the globe, from being printed on linen
cloth, was called mappa Mundi, whence we derive the familiar
• word Map. And when such linen cloth was used to wipe
moisture from a floor or pavement, the mappa for the purpose
came to be known as a Map, and, later on, as a Mop ; and with
a somewhat similar mappa , or handkerchief, we can “ mop
our faces when heated. In Tempest’s ‘‘Cryesof the City of
London: Drawn after the Life, 1711,” the woman who i»sell-
ing mops is made to say, in English, French, and Italian,
“ Maids, buy a mapp ! Achetez de mes mappes! Mappi per
lavar’ terrazzi! ” Thus, the Mapp of the past century became
the Mop of the present; and it takes no gift of prophecy to
foretell that in the next century it will only be known as a
name, and not as a fact.
Let us take one other glance at the Mop before it has been
" Mon-tea” as it is called,is given, with much merry-making,
when the means of getting to see their^
were limited to stage-coaches and earners -carte. ine mop
is now reduced to an ordinary village fair “
peasant-poet Clare, when he speaks of the Milkmaids ana
Clowns that Statute joys pursue,” and mentions toe stalls for
gingerbread aud ribbons, and the “ glorious revels indulge*!
S by “ Hob, Nell, and Sue.” Roundabouts, knock emdowns,
niggers, peepshows, fat women, dwarfs, and ^am-jeweUery
dealers, these now form the attractions of the Mop, but the
agricultural servants who come there to be hired «e <»n
spkuous by their absence.” At the annual Mop, at the im¬
portant toil of Halesowen, near Birmingham, held on Oct. 14,
it is reported that “ not half-a-dozen farm labourers, and only
one or two lads,” were looking out for situations ; but “there
seemed no one who wanted them. The chief reasons for which
the Mops were held no longer exist, and
the Mops were mopped out.
CuTiiB ert Bede.
BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS.
A curious and interesting biographical study is pMMmtedte
contemplation in the two volumes entitled The life °f
Combe, by Charles Gibbon (Macmillan mid Co.), m which we
have a very minute account of a man who was remarkable m
many ways. He was remarkable as a valetudinarian, and he
was remarkable as a monomaniac, not to mention any other
points of remarkability. As a valetudinarian, he may rank with
De Quincy and others who, after ailing more or less from their
cradles, live to a good old age, and seem to enter upon vigorous
life at the very ago when their apparent superiors in physical
strength are about to shuffle off this mortal coil. As a mono-
moniac, he may rank with Lavater and others, who, having
established by observation the existence of certain coincidences
between a peculiar physical conformation and a peculiar moral
proclivity, are not content to marvel at the phenomenon and to
leave it as one of those very many similar natural curiosities
which “ no feller can understand,” but believe that they ha\e
discovered a sort of philosopher’s stone, that they can answer
the question as to “ what is truth,” that they have hit upon
the origin of evil, that they have found a solution of the most
difficult social problem, and they proceed to ride their
hobby after the style of a beggar on horseback, they become
enthusiasts, they preach a gospel, they build up an ingenious
system, and in accordance with that system they expect the
government of the world to be regulated. They, apparently,
do not believe that “out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries,” &c.; no; it is the prominence of a par¬
ticular bump or the size of a particular feature that accounts
for immoral or criminal propensities. How hardly, they seem
to infer, shall they that have long noses enter into the king¬
dom of heaven? and wherewithal, they seem to whisper,
shall a young man with that shape of head cleanse his way?
George Combe, in fact, was an apostle, if not the arch¬
apostle, in this country of the so-called science of phrenology.
That science, like most novelties which are not absolutely
absurd upon the face of them, created a considerable sensation
at the outset, aud held its own for many years; but it now
seems to have fallen, if not into general disrepute, into general
desuetude, after fair and earnest investigation an I trial, and to
have gone the way of many other “ ologies,” including
astrology, but, like astrology, not without having done a great
deal of good to the cause of scicntiflc and philosophical obser¬
vation. To phrenology, indeed, must be attributed no small
aioD Dciore » nas uccu share of the credit due to anatomists for the increased attention
improved off the face of “the earth. Wlfcn the farmer had | which came to be P»id
engaged with a servant "* —" *
bargain by giving him,-, - . ...
»KV " 1 I KTiBW-T*****«• •'»£*
shire “ tho fessen-Dennv.” I have known instances of several 1 education, or as a means of estimating character, abilities,
fesflcn-pennies being taken by the same man from different and tendencies, wiUbe at L^cldfacu’lti en*” and if At be
farmers, to none of whom ho went for service ; this, of course, great number of the phreno ogmul facultms, and if it be
he did at his own risk. And I also have known cases where, admitted that they
when the servant wished to break his contract before the experience of George Combe himself, in the notorious case of
twelve months had expired, he has been taken before a David Haggart, the pickpocket and
magistrate by his master, who, pleading the custom of the little mistake may be fatal to the whole esUmate. Nor os
fessen-penny, has secured the punishment of the servant for regards George Combe s own ascription o! hw^own course of
absconding from his service. The shepherds, waggoners, and conduct on occasions mentioned in^his vve
groom 9 usually denoted their occupations by pieces of wool,
whipcord, and horsehair placed in their hats; and Isaac
Bickerstaff, in his opera “ Love in a Village,” makes one
Beene to be a statute-fair, where the servants come forward
aud sing verses descriptive of their respective accomplishments.
Such a Beene (and also a somewhat similar scene in General
Burgoyne’s comedy “The Maid of the Oaks”) is about as
untrue to real life as is the pretty scene of the statute-fair in
Flotow’s opera “ Marta,” where the prima donna (say, for
example, Patti) as the Lady Enrichetta, with her companion,
takes the fessen-penny from the two young farmers, and is
afterwards seen and heard in the quartette in the Bpinning-
whcel scene. A very different aspect was given to such a
scene when Mr. Portman, a Commissioner to inquire into the
employment of women and children in agriculture, wrote of
“ tne great Mop-fair at Monmouth; ” and if space permitted,
all that he said could be corroborated by abundant evidence
from all parts of the kingdom where Mops were permitted to
linger.
But, happily, the Mop ifl fast being mopped out. They
are now on their last legs. Each year they are attended
by fewer and fewer masters; and, consequently, fewer
and fewer servants go to them to be hired. It may be
confidently said that the few who are now hired arc men and
youths, and that the women and girls, together with their mis¬
tresses, have been aroused to the fact that it is no longer con¬
sidered “ respectable ” to stand out in the streets and roads
for hiring purposes, notwithstanding that Dr. Plott defended
the system as being “ a scriptural custom.” If it ever was so
in Great Britain, it has been so overladen with customs that
are decidedly unscriptural that it merged into a scene of low
revelry, sufficient to sap the morals of the community in which
it was, unfortunately, permitted to be held. It has been my
always be disposed to accept his judgment: he ascribes to the
organ of “conscientiousness” that which we should some¬
times ascribe to a very different and not by any means so
respectable an “ organ.” That he was a devout believer in
the science admits of but little, if any, doubt ; and there is the
less room for doubt in that he himself resembled those who
perhaps he was de fleient, os he would have expressed himself, in the
I organof “ consistency,” if there be one so named. The “Life” is
partly autobiographical, and in that part he draws an excccd-
| ltigly interesting picture of the way in which a Scottish family,
the head of which was an illiterate but worthy brewer, lived,
in the good old times when the victories of the Nile and
Trafalgar were won, and when the laws of health were neither
understood nor unconsciously followed, at an unwholesome
house in an unpleasant precinct of Edinburgh. That was the
time when, especially at the High School, education was sup.
posed according to George Combe, to be identical with a liberal
application of “ tawse; ” though it must be confessed that he
seems to have expected from his instructors more than it would
be quite reasonable to expect even in these days of boy-spoiling.
He evidently thought that it is the duty of schoolmasters,
however numerous a form they may have to instruct, to fill
from the storehouse of their own minds the mind of each pupil,
however stupid, idle, antagonistic, and difficult to manage, as
a man mi'dit fill from a reservoir a number of empty bottles;
a perfectly preposterous view of a schoolmaster’s, especially of a
public schoolmaster’s, functions: it is as much as, nay, more
than can be expected of him that he should show each of his
pupiis how to handle their intellectual weapons, and, having
provided them with ammunition, leave them to load and fire
for themselves in their battle of wits, in their fight round the
tree of knowledge. Many a fainting spirit may be cheered
by reading how George Combe, a sickly child, a weedy youth,
an apparently confirmed valetudinarian, who wrote at twenty-
three years of age, “ I do not expect to live long, though I
eagerly desire I may;” whose early education may be said
to have been neglected, and whose health in early life was
certainly not very carefully attended to; who was rejected,
os unfit for anything but a scarecrow, by a small shopkeeper
to whom he would fain have been bound apprentice; who
became a respectable writer to the signet-retired, before he
was fifty, on a moderate competency from actual practice,
made a name for himself in the intellectual and literary world,
and died in the odour of phrenology at quite an advanced age.
Why Mr. Combe’s biography should have been withheld
from publication “ until nearly twenty years after his death”
is not to speak under correction, explicitly stated by tho
biographer, though the fact is regretted ; but it is not impro¬
bable that the biographer is a gentleman of unique intrepidity,
and that whoever before him conceived the idea of doing what
he has done was appalled—and no wonder—by the thirty
journals” and the “eleven large quarto volimies, not to
mention other biographical sources, which Mr. Combe, under
the influence of an “ organ ” closely allied, perhaps, to self¬
esteem,” was inspired to keep, preserve, and leave behind hum
Each volume is graced by a portrait of Mr. Combe; and
from them, as well as from what is revealed hi the volume,
one would be inclined to say that, all his “bumps to the
contrary notwithstanding, he was passably humane and
benevolent, no doubt, but, on the whole, an egotistica 1, a
self-conceited, self-satisfied, smirking, didactic, argumentative
old—writer to the signet.
Among the pleasures of memory may be reckoned a perusal
of studies, biographical and critical, of Voltaire, Rosseau, and
other more or less obscene and atheistical, as well as brilliant
and poetical, writers, the stars of the eighteenth century, to
which may now be added Diderot and the Encyclopadute, by
John Morley (Chapman and Hall) ; though memory foils to
recall any reason given either on the present or on any former
similar occasion why those stars should just now, more than at
any other time, be artificially rehoisted above the horizon
behind which they had sunk, leaving with us quite as much of
their refulgence as we required. It is true that the centenary
of Voltaire has lately been celebrated; but the essay entitled
“ Voltaire ” came long before that. The question is whether
Diderot aud the Encyclopedists, who may easily be
made out to include Rousseau as well as Voltaire, might
not very weU be aUowcd to rest in peace; what good the
world could get out of their doctrines has already,
without doubt, become incorporated imperceptibly in
the written or unwritten code of intellectual, moral, and
religious, or irreligious, rules whereby the social system of our
day is worked. The evil which they did—and it was great-
might surely, whatever Shakspenre has said to the contrary,
be interred with their bones. However, if it pleases learned
aud accomplished gentlemen, whose pens are the pens of ready
writers and whose essays are a very Golconda of literature, to
write, there is nothing for it but to read and be charmed,
whether their monographs refer to a Rousseau, or a v oltaire,
or, as in the present instance, a Diderot and his fellows, an
assemblage which readers of Milton might be tempted to liken
to the celebrated gathering of infernal peers in Pandannomum.
Diderot, however, would make but a poor figure as an arch-
fiend. Diderot, in the hands of the able analyst who has now
chosen him as a subject, is, of course, treated chiefly as tne
representative of certain ideas, “which tfie social and economic
condition of France on the eve of the convulsion made so wel¬
come to men;” but, apart from those ideas, the circumstances
of his life have been carefully brought together, and it is pro¬
bably upon these circumstances, which affected him rather as
a man with a living to gain than as a philosopher
with views to propagate, that the ordinary _ reader a
attention will be concentrated. Denis Diderot, then, was
bom at Langres, in 1713, of an ancient and reputable family,
which had been engaged in “the manufacture of cutlery for
no less than two centuries in direct line. He inherited, wn
he was fond of attributing to all the natives of Langres, a
head on his shoulders like the weathercock at the top of the
wentTo church'to scoffand remained to pray ; for he went as church spire.” He was in hiB early youth a pup' of the
a sceptic to have an interview with Dr. Spurzheim, who, from Jesuits. When the time came for earning lris^ re_
the very first, almost persuaded him to be a phrenologist,
aud at the end of three years’ study he “became convinced
that phrenology was true.” That conviction was to result in
the publication of “ The Constitution of Man,” a work which
had an enormous circulation, which brought him both praise
aud dispraise, which raised up against him many foes, and
which caused one of his friends to adjure him, “ for the sake
of his salvation, to renounce the opinious which he professed.”
However, it is probable that the general reader will be less
interested in George Combe as a phrenologist and a philosopher
than as a valetudinarian and “ a man and a brother.” He
taste for the cutlery which had made Iiis father a man of
substance, and he scorned both law and medicine, between
which he was bidden to choose. He became a literary odveu-
turer, and endured all the hardships that such a calling
entailed in his day, and still, though not to the same extent
perhaps, entails. In 1743 he married an illiterate seamstress,
otherwise an excellent woman, whose “narrow pieties ana
homely solicitudes fretted him ” however, and to whom,
according to the “manners of the time,” we are admonistiea,
lest wc should be tempted to set it down to his own innate
_ _ _ viciousness, he was systematically faithless, beginning nw
waTbom~on Oct. 21, 1788, and he died on Aug. 14, 1858, so faithlessness at the very time when she was ou a visit to im
that he was just the full span of seventy years at the date of his making her peace with his father. About this time, n» 2
death. And yet this is his own description of hi9 progress learnt English sufficiently to translate it, he publisnea, som
from an unpromising infancy to a comparatively hale middle what unseasonably, a translation of a book “ concerning v ur
I was and Merit,” qualities not generally associated with conjugal
infidelity. In 1749 he was imprisoned in Vincennes, ana
denied on oath, as it appears, that he had written wn
he had written. In 1751 there was given to the P u &
the first volume of the famous Encyclopaedia, the pro¬
ject of which had been “fully conceived and its deta
worked out between 1745 and 1748.” In 1754 he formed
attachment for a Mdlle. de Voland ; and subsequently, do
to tho end of her life, in 1784 (P), he lived in what the mono-
__ wwr _ __^ ... ... graph under consideration bids us remember was no t i
lot to see many and" many a Mop; and, although I could not does not tally with what he had previously stated {p. 25) about his amour with a coarse or frivolous woman of the world, o
be a witness to tho worst scenes at their evening and midnight | “ constitution, which must have been originally strong,” but i highly decorous adultery, such as no properly constituted
from an unpromising infancy to a comparatively
ago: “I was born with a rather feeble constitution,
given up by the doctor when two or three years of age:
hovered on the verge of the grave (but upborne by activity of
brain) during infancy and youth ; grew stronger at manhood;
and at forty-eight, after becoming acquainted with and
observing the natural laws, I am free from all complaints,
nappy, active, and comparatively vigorous, with the internal
consciousness of having my foot more firmly planted on the
green turf of life than at any previous period of my days ”
(vol. i., p. 335). The first sentence of this paragraph certainly
OCT. 26, 1878
THE ILLUSTKATED LONDON NEWS
399
mind, especially in the eighteenth century, could possibly
object to. In the interval between 1763 and 1765 he was
induced to become a pensioner of the Empress of Russia, who
had been brought to knowledge of him through the Encyclo¬
pedia; and in 1773 he, being sixty years of age and hereto¬
fore a mocker of travellers and travelling, took it into his head
that he “owed avisit to his imperial benefactress whose bounty-
had rendered life easier to him.” To Petersburg therefore he
went, was loaded with favours, and returned, in 1774, think¬
ing her not “less than the greatest of men.” In fact, his
adulation received its rebuke from the Empress herself, who
hinted upon one occasion that Diderot was qualifying for the
“deeper and fiercer hell” to which he thought that “those
who flatter kings ” ought to be consigned. In the evening of
July 30,1784, he, having had a serious illness in the early spring,
sat down to table and, regardless of his wife's remonstrance,
ate an apricot ; after which he leaned his elbow on
the table and trifled with some sweetmeats. A little while,
and she asked him a question ; she received no answer, and,
looking up, saw he was dead. He found strength to converse
to the end ; and “ in the last conversation that his daughter
heard him carry on,” he uttered what is called “ the pregnant
aphorism,” though to some persons it may appear the
monstrous fallacy, that “the first step towards philosophy is
incredulity,” if the latter term be properly understood as a
“tendency to disbelieve,” than which nothing is so likely to
breed indifference, the arch-enemy of philosophy. Diderot is,
no doubt, accurately described in the monograph, as a great
talker rather than a great writer—a character which, if his
remarks have been rightly understood, he also ascribed to him¬
self; but it is curious that the writer of the monograph
should have stated, at page 38 of the first volume, that, “like
Dr. Johnson, he was a great converser, rather than the author
of great books; ” and, at page 264 of the second volume,
that he was “ less an author than a talker—not a talker like
Johnson, but like Coleridge.” Would not Coleridge have
done in.both cases? Though, of course, a man may be a
talker “ like Dr. Johnson,” in a sense, without talking at all
in the style in which Dr. Johnson talked. However, readers may
safely be recommended to study the monograph for all that is
worth knowing, communicated in the happiest manner, about
Diderot and his talents, and his use or abuse of them, his
position among writers and thinkers, and his connection with
the Encyclopaedia, with art, with the drama, with the literature
which preceded, if it did not prepare the way for, the worship
of the Goddess of Reason. Appended to the monograph is a
translation of “ Rameau’s Nephew,” a dialogue which under¬
went some singular adventures, fully described in all their
interesting details at the commencement of the second volume.
That Mr. Morley Bhould translate the French word “ sage,”
applied to a woman, by our word of exactly the same appear¬
ance, must be due to eccentricity; there are few persons at
this day who would suppose that “ sage” woman was English
for “ virtuous ” woman. It is curious, also, to find so critical
and careful a writer tripping over a time-honoured stumbling-
block, and confounding, as third-rate novelists are wont to do,
“ a Frankenstein ” with the monster created by Frankenstein.
ART.
PARTS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION.—THE AWARDS.
Art and criticism, whether in the shape of awards and praise
or blame and indifference, must ever walk Bide by side, how¬
ever unwelcome the companionship may occasionally be to the
artist. Criticism supplies incentive and reward on the one
hand, and creates appreciation and demand on the other; and
both artist and public are often indebted to it for guidance.
The genius who may rail most bitterly against the want of
sympathy, or the incapacity, real or imaginary, of some of his
judges, is a critic to himself, for his work is the product of his
own critical selection, employed instinctively or consciously.
We hear it maintained by the disappointed, and also by Borne
theorists, that criticism is prejudicial to the artist. Nothing,
however, is more illogical. Can we suppose that the Athenians
were not keenly critical of the productions of Phidias and
Ictinus; that the masters of Gothic architecture found no
intelligent appreciation even in the “dark ages;” that the
merchant princes of Venice had no educated sense of colour !
Rut criticism should not be expected to be infallibly right more
than art is so ; the public is the final judge of both; and we
must be content with the reflection that mistaken criticism,
like incompetent art, can do little harm except by misleading
the ignorant or the tyro.
This view of the connection of art and criticism may lend
fresh importance to our estimate of the awards discerned in the
international competition at Paris—meaning in reference par¬
ticularly to our English artists. Speaking generally, the
numerous awards but confirm the highly favourable
impression previously made on the Continent by the British
art-show, whether as regards its comparative merit or the
rapid progress evinced, especially in many of the principal
applications of art to industry, as, for example, ceramics, glass
manufacture, and furniture. Moreover, it must not be for¬
gotten that many of our distinguished artists and leading
firms in art-manufactures, who had not to make a reputa¬
tion, were either absent or very imperfectly represented.
Nor has the British section owed anything to the manner
in which its contents were displayed. No pictures
in the whole exhibition were so badly lighted as ours. Far
too much of the light was obstructed in the English galleries
by the centre portions of the awning, which were intentionally
rendered more opaque; the rays consequently fell so perpen¬
dicularly that every projection of canvas or paint was thrown
into undue prominence. And when, recently, we visited the
Exhibition, the more transparent portion of the awning was so
loaded with dust (which had apparently not been removed
since the opening day) that the light was diminished to a
degTce we hardly remember to have seen equalled in any
public exhibition. The dust gave, besides, the yellowing tinge of
a London fog, and these combined influences had so disastrous
an effect that we could scarcely believe we were not looking at
bad copies of some of our old favourites. In other sections,
nearest the picture galleries, the chaotic diversity of the cases
and the want of plan in the hide-and-seek passages and in-
closurcs, rendered it impossible to obtain any of the striking
general effect presented by the French show, and which would
have been secured by uniformity of cases and the ordered
arrangement of our neighbours, or even of our public-spirited
colony Canada.
The jury which adjudged the awards given in the Palais
d'lndustrie on Monday last with so much ceremony may be
regnrded as, officially, the highest critical tribunal in the world
at this present time. But, as we have hinted, the data on
which its decisions were founded were necessarily incomplete
und imperfect. Other considerations should also have weight
in accepting its judgments, if we would from all points of
view “ see oursels as others see us.” The recent decisions
very much modified former judgments of a similarly con¬
stituted body. Novelty has its proverbial charm, but only for
a time blinds us to defects. Fashion has sway in art as in ,
other things, but what is “ demoded ” to-day may be in vogue
to-morrow. The awards were preceded by much criticism on our
Mt in the Paris press ; and certain French articles translated
in the English newspapers were “ one burst of applause.”
Some French journalists are evidently subject to Anglo¬
phobia, just as some of our own censors hold up
French art as a perfect model for imitation. A race
of critics is also not unknown on both sides the Channel
who prove their superior penetration by finding recondite
transcendental excellencies where common folk discover only
mediocrity or (worse) eccentricity and pretentious incapacity.
However, not a few of the French critics qualified the honey
of their praise with a great deal of the wormwood and gall of
censure. While universally admitting our superiority in water
colours, they assert that we carry the limpidity proper to that
medium into our oil paintings, or fall into the opposite extreme
of bituminous obscurity; that our colouring is false and
criard; that our execution is wanting in solidity and too
minute; that we neglect the higher branches of art, and have
nothing that can properly be considered a school. Much
in our art even that is good for us, as well as bad, could
not fail to prove distasteful to the foreign sympathies of
an honest Continental critic. Here then, if, in the words of
Solomon, “in the multitude of counsellors there is wisdom,”
there is also confusion—as a contemporary remarked the other
day apropos of the contradictions of the “ highest authorities”
touching the Afghan difficulty.
More valuable, perhaps, is the opinion of some eminent
French artists—for the authenticity of which we can vouch.
These generous critics have conceived a genuine admiration
for the display of British art in the Champ de Mars. “If
you have not,” they say, “ a school in the sense of traditional
development from master to pupil, you have something which
more than supplies its place. You have a hundred germs, or
more mature growths, which collectively constitute a dis¬
tinctive and national art. Teaching has rarely destroyed the
individuality; and art, like poetry, is nothing without indi¬
viduality. Your art is delightfully fresh, original, and living ;
while Continental art is mostly dead, or living only a galvanised
life. Even your defects—and, pardon us for saying, you have
many—have a naivete preferable to the most learned of
scholastic mannerisms. Look at even our French pictures—
you can tell to what section of our school they belong almost
invariably. Look at the German pictures—you have seen
counterparts of all of them before ; look at the multitude of
imitators of Fortuny! Whilst with you it is always a surprise,
a revelation, by its originality and its variety.”
In proceeding to cite the prize-winners, we would venture
to submit an occasional remark. As graceful, then, as it was
just, was the voting of “ diplomas of honour” to the memory
of the deceased painters, Sir Edwin Landseer, G. H. Mason,
J. Phillip, and F. Walker. Not less could be expected than
that a “medal of honour” should be awarded to Mr. Millais,
for he is assuredly the most powerful and—at least, tech¬
nically considered—the most original of English painters.
But it has probably been a surprise to many that the second
medal of honour should have been carried off (as we
think, deservedly) by an “ outsider ”—Mr. Herkomer, for
his pathetic picture, “The Last Muster,” which was
relegated to the comparative seclusion of the Lecture
Room in our Royal Academy Exhibition. The picture has
precisely that quality of executive “solidity” which many
French critics maintain is rarely found in our school—if
“ school ” it can be called after what has been said. The best
friends of the young artist will, however, urge him to strive to
maintain that special excellence, and will not conceal the
fact—which must be confessed—that his later pictures have
not been up to the level of that noble work. The next grade
of award—still in the section of painting—the “ gold medal,”
is given to Messrs. Alma-Tadema and G. F. Watts. Mr.
Calderon and Sir Francis Grant follow for the “rappel” of
gold medal (that is, in acknowledgment of their having
received the like award in a former Great Exhibition), the late
President having been yet alive when the jury concluded their
labours. A silver medal is appropriated to Mr. Ouless for his
male portraits; bronze medals are given to Sir John Gilbert
and Messrs. Orchardson and Briton-Rivi&re; and “honour¬
able mention” to Messrs. C. Green (for water-colour drawings),
G. D. Leslie, and J. Pettie.
In the class of sculpture (much the weakest part of the
British show) a gold medal is carried off by Mr. Leighton for
his admirable “ Athlete Struggling with a Python,” and Mr.
Boehm takes a silver medal. But why was not a diploma of
honour voted to the memory of Mr. Foley, who is repre¬
sented quite well enough, we think, for that distinction,
though very far from adequately? It not unfrequently
happens that an artist surpasses himself, as Mr. Leighton has
done in his Athlete, when working under the excitement of
finding a fresh vehicle of expression. The figure has the life¬
like energy (as contradistinguished from mere vivacity) which
is often wanting in French sculpture of the highest technical
accomplishment. Mr. Leighton was not, we believe, eligible
for a prize in oil painting for the reason that, having Berved
on the jury in that class, the three comparatively unimportant
pictures by which he was represented were “hors concours.”
In architecture the medal of honour is very properly
assigned to M*. E. M. Barry, the soundest and sanest of our
architects. It is gratifying to seethe highest official European
distinction conferred on a gentleman who, after proving first
prizeman in Government competitions at home-, has been
treated so unfairly. Mr. Waterhouse follows with the rappel
of the medal of honour, and Messrs. Pearson and Street are
the gold medallists. The silver medals are given to Messrs.
Norman Shaw and T. H. Wyatt; the bronze to Messrs. Horace
Jones and J. P. Seddon ; and Mr. T. G. Jackson has received
honourable mention.
An inference unfavourable to the capacity of Englishmen
for art has been drawn from the circumstance that some prize¬
men in the British department bear foreign names. The
inference, however, is assuredly not just, tn point of fact,
by the side of eighteen decidedly English names there are
six foreign—that is, one quarter. But we are morally
certain that an equal or larger proportion of names of foreign
extraction—names of several or all nationalities in Europe—
would appear in any list of art-prizemen at Paris. Of all
people, artists are the most migratory; and the best men
naturally gravitate to all great art-centres, such as London,
Paris, and Rome. Of the six artists bearing foreign names on
our list four, wo believe, have had English mothers, and have
received all or the major part of their art-education in Eng¬
land. Can a more typical Englishman be found in all respects,
and pre-eminently so in his art, than Mr. Millais ? It is an
additional honour to England that, possessing as she now docs
artists of the first rank of her own, she knows no nationality
in art, but still presents the warmest hospitality to the
foreigner. Ethnologists tell us that by fixed laws currents of
the great Teutonic, Latin, and cognate races have set towards
our shores, where, at length arriving at an impasse, they
mingle ; and that it has ever been by contact of races that the
greatest developments have been brought about of genius,
intellect, and valour. _
Tlio winter exhibition of Drawings by Old and Modem
Masters, at the Grosvenor Gallery, will this year include a rich
collection of the works of M. Ingres.
The Royal Academicians will meet for the election of a new
president on the 13th of next month.
Mr. E. M. Barry, R.A., has been re-elected Professor of
Architecture to the Royal Academy.
Applications for space in the Yorkshire Fine-Art and
Industrial Exhibition, to be opened at York in May next year,
can now be made.
The discovery has been made in the cellars of the Artistic
Museum of Berlin of some cases containing some valuable
mosaics from Ravenna. They had been lying there since
March 17, 1848, where they had been forgotten, having arrived
in the midst of the confusion of the revolution.
It has been decided to hold an “ Australian International
Exhibition” at Sydney next year, in the month of August.
Medals are to be awarded in the various sections, from Fine
Arts to Produce. The exhibition derives additional import¬
ance from the circumstance that it is intended to hold a similar
exhibition at Melbourne the following year, and in Queensland
in 1881. “ Exhibits ” may therefore be successively shown in
all three.
The Archaeological Society of Athens is in treaty for buy¬
ing up the houses on the site of the Temple of Delphi and
transferring the village to a short distance off. Excavations
will then be undertaken. A funeral urn was lately dug up
near the spot, containing a sculptured two-headed serpent;
and it is highly probable that, besides remains of the temple
itself, the site of so famous a shrine may yield a large number
of precious votive objects.
While excavating in the Roman Forum, on the line of the
Via Sacra, some highly interesting remains have just been
discovered. These are fragments of the fasti triumphales,
forming connecting links in the series of marble tablets found
close by in 1547, which were arranged by Cardinal Alexander
Famese, and deposited by him in the Capitol—whence their
name, Fasti Capitolini. The new fragments relate to the years
643, 616, and 647 of the city, and nearly correspond with the
Jugurthine War.
Mr. Hormuzd Rassam is about to start on a Becond and
much extended tour of exploration in Syria. The chief seat
of the explorations will be on the site of the ancient city of
Carchemish, the Hittite capital. The site of the city of Assur,
the metropolis of the early Assyrian empire, will also be
explored. The mounds which mark the position of this city
are larger and more lofty than those of Koyunjik or Nimroud,
and evidently cover the remains of important edifices. In
Babylonia, generally, extensive researches are to be made.
A statue of Giorgione was unveiled at the Venetian town
of Castelfranco on the 5th inst., to commemorate the fourth
centenary of the birth of the illustrious painter. The occasion
was made a great public fete in the picturesque old town;
and after the ceremony of the unveiling, a visit was paid to
the neighbouring cathedral, where hangs the master's finest
work, an altar-piece representing the Madonna enthroned and
Saints Liberale and Francesco. For the knight in armour of
this picture we have the study in our National Gallery, from
the Rogers’ collection.
A competition took place at the Dudley Gallery on Tuesday
last between the sketching clubs belonging to the art-schools
of South Kensington (male and female), Lambeth, West
London, and the “ Gilbert.” The prizes were awarded on
Wednesday as follows:—For a figure subject—Mr. W. P.
Cornish, of the Gilbert Club; for landscape—Mr Nightingale,
Lambeth Club; animals—Mr. E. R. Breach, West Loudon
Club; design—Mr. C. S. Reich and Mr. L. V. Reich, of
the West London Club, and Miss E. Harrison, of the Lam¬
beth Club; sculpture—Miss E. C. Bellows, West London. The
award of honour to the best sketching club collectively was
given to the Gilbert. The judges were Messrs. Pettie, R.A.,
and Peter Graham, A.R.A.
On Monday the annual civic banquet, known as the Col¬
chester Oyster Feast, was celebrated. The company, which
was presided over by the Mayor, numbered about 120.
It was recently announced by way of New York that five
missionaries had been murdered and eaten by the natives in
New Zealand. A telegram direct from Wellington states that
this report is completely unfounded.
A serious accident occurred last Saturday afternoon on the
Taff Vale Railway, at Pontypridd, near Cardiff, by which
twelve lives were lost and about thirty persons were injured.
The passenger-train taking people from the Rhondda Valley
to Pontypridd market ran into a train of empty carriages which
was being shunted.
The German Government has sent, through Count
Munster, in recognition of valuable assistance rendered by
the coastguards belonging to the Folkestone station, on the
occasion of the wreck of the Grosser Kurfiirst, a handsome
Berlin vase to Captain Usbome, R.N.; gold watches, with
the Emperor’s monogram, to Mr. Young, the divisional officer,
and Mr. O’Connell, the chief boatman in charge of the station,
and £200 to be divided amongst the men.”
There has been a considerable amount of change in the
personnel of the volunteer officers, says the Volunteer Service
Gazette , during the last week. Three majors, five captains,
and eleven subalterns have resigned, and the services of two
subalterns have been dispensed with, so that there have bsen
twenty-one retirements. But there have been twenty-five new
appointments, so that there is a net gain of four. Of the
retiring officers twelve held certificates of proficiency, three
of them from schools of instruction.
Mr. Mundella, speaking at the College for Men and Women
in Bloomsbury last Saturday evening, referred to Mr. Glad¬
stone’s article on “ Kin Beyond Sea.” He was sorry that he
could not agree with the right hon. gentleman in regard to the
view he took as to the position England would in future occupy
to America. Apart from the great material resources this
country possessed, they had a nation that was thoroughly cul¬
tivated, and which had a just appreciation of art, and which
had a vast command for its industrial productions. The con¬
ditions of industry must be altogether clianged before they
came to an end of their coal supply, which must be at so dis¬
tant a period that it was hardly worth considering. He could
not give a better illustration than France of what could be
done by an artistic nation without having theso material
resources, for France had, he believed, little coal or iron com¬
pared to England; yet there was a world-wide demand for her
productions, because of the artistic feeling that was introduced.
He believed that England was developing, though slowly, in
the appreciation of art, which was gradually making itself felt,
to their interests. With respect to its value, it was felt at this
moment at the I’aris Exhibition, and he thought that some day
or other would make England a great workshop of art-pro¬
duction to supply other parts of the world.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, OCT. 26, 1878.—400
PROFESSOR HARKNESS, F.R.S.
At St. James’8, Bermondsey, at Great Yarmouth,
THE LATE
The sudden death of this distinguished geologist took place at
Dublin on the 4th inst. Robert Harkness was born at Orms-
kirk in Lancashire, in 1816. He was educated at the High
THE LATE SIR T. BIDDULPH.
We lately recorded the death, at Balmoral, of General Sir
Thomas Myddelton Biddulph, K.C.B.,Keeper of her Majesty s
Privy Purse, whose portrait appears this week. He was second
son of Mr. Robert Biddulph, of Chirk Castle. He was born m
1809, entered the Army as Cornet in the Life Guards in 1826,
and served in the regiment till his promotion to Lieutenant-
Colonel in October, 1851, when he went on half pay. On the
retirement of General Sir George Bowles he was appointed
Master of the Queen’s Household and an equerry. He was
afterwards appointed Receiver-General of the Duchy of Corn-
Martin’s-in-the-Field, London, at Tydd St. Mary, and at South
Collingham, he had to deal with populations with markedly
different occupations and characters. Yet in each parish he
was beloved by the people : at Great Yarmouth he was the
idol of the fishermen, and at Tydd St. Mary he was the father
of the now prevalent system of school or mission chapels
When he became Bishop Suffragan of Nottingham his position
was a peculiarly delicate one ; but he never overstepped his
duties as Suffragan, or, on the other hand, failed to win the
respect which his genial manner, sober cliurchmanship, and
THE LATE PROFESSOR HARKNES8.
School of Dumfries and at Edinburgh University. In 1853
he was appointed to the Chair of Geology in the Queen’s
College, Cork. Professor Harkness has won for himself a
European reputation by numerous important scientific re¬
searches, whilst his character and genial disposition endeared
him to a very large circle of friends. The Portrait is from a
photograph by Mr. C. Voss Park, of Clifton.
THE LATE BISnOP MACKENZIE, SUFFRAGAN OF
NOTTINGHAM.
THE LATE SIR THOMAS BIDDULPH.
wall, and Joint Keeper of the Queen’s Privy Purse with the
Hon. Sir Charles Phipps, K.C.B. In May, 1867, he was
appointed Keeper of the Queen’s Privy Purse. In 1863 he was
created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and
was recently made a member of her Majesty’s Privy Council.
Sir Thomas married, in 1857, the Hon. Mary Frederica Seymour,
only daughter of Mr. Frederick Seymour, by his first wife, who
was a daughter of the ninth Marquis of Huntly. Sir Thomas
became full General in October last, on the promotions con¬
sequent on the New Army Scheme. The Portrait is from a
photograph by Hills and Saunders, of Eton.
sound judgment inspired. In Convocation likewise his
influence was considerable. He died in harness, having been
at the Diocesan Conference, and at the consecration of the
chapel at Lincoln Hospital, a few days previously. He was a
considerable author, among his chief works being a prize
essay on the Life of Offa, King of Mercia, a Commentary on
the Gospels and Acts, a work on the Parochial System,
Ordination Lectures, Meditations on Psalm xxxi , nnd other
theological publications. The Portrait is from a photograph
by Maull and Co.
THE LATE BISHOP MACKENZIE.
We announced last week the death of the Right Rev. Dr.
Mackenzie, who held during seven years the office of Suf¬
fragan Bishop of Nottingham, in the dioceseof Lincoln, a charge
henceforth to bo merged in the new diocese of Southwell.
It hai been remarked, in a notice of his previous career, that
his work as a parish priest was of the most varied character.
JAN MAYEN ISLAND, IN THE ARCTIC SEA.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Oct. 26, 1878.—401
BREAKING UP OF THE AU8TRIAN MILITARY BRIDGE NEAR DOBOJ.
FROM A SKETCH BY OPR SPECIAL ARTIST IN BOSNIA.
VILLAGE OF KHUMI KEBIR, CYPRUS, WITH CARPAS MOUNTAINS.
FROM A SKETCH BY OUR SPECIAL AKTIST.
the tt.t.ttstkatep London news
OCT. 26, 1878
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J J &
OBITUARY.
SEE QEOBGE HILL, BAHT. .
Sir George Hill, Bart., of St
Columb’s, Londonderry, who
died on the 17th inst., was born
March 22, 1866, the eldest son of
Major Sir John Hill, fourth
Baronet, Captain 17th Lancers, by
Charlotte Isabella, daughter of the
late Henry David Blyth, Esq., and
was nephew of the Bishop of Sodor
and Man. He succeeded his father
as fifth Baronet, July 20, 1872,
and the title passes to his next
brother, now Sir Henry Blyth
Hill, sixth Baronet, born March 31,
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, CAPTATN DELME RADCUFFE.
Hubert Delm6 Radcliffe, Esq., of Hitchin Priory, Hertt,
formerly Captain 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, died on the 13
Sst. He w£s bom March 27, 1839, the fifth son of the late
Frederick Peter Delme-Radcliffe, Esq., of Hitchin Pr^^,
J.P. and D.L., by Emma, his wife, daughter of John H. Wad.
dington, Esq., of Shawford House, Winchester. By {he death
of his*four elder brothers (the eld^t was failed at
1854), he became heir to his father, T ho “Ji® h 8U -7fhe well-
1875. Paternally he representedla junior branch of theijell
known family of Delmc, of Cams Hall, Hants; and, ^“{erna y,
the Radcliffes of Hitchin Priory, a branch of the Lancashire
Radcliffes.
DR. DAVID LAEfO.
David Laing. LL.D., for forty years Librarian of the Signet
Library. at Edinburgh, died recently at his reeidence. James-
street, Portobello, aged eighty-six. From 1823 till twelve
years ago he was Secretary to the Bannatyne Club, “tabhshed
by Sir Walter Scott for the printing of works on Scottish
history and literature. He was a long tune Treasurer of the
Society of Antiquaries, and edited and contnbutedtoite
“ Transactions.” The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him
by the University of Edinburgh, in 1864. Dr. L ^ P ttb J® h ^
a six-volume edition of the life and works of John Knox,
besides annotated editions of the works of <
Scotch writers. In early life he succeeded to his father b
business as a bookseller, in Edinburgh.
The deaths have also been announced of—
Lieutenant-Colonel John Ward, late 91st Highlanders, on
the 14th inst., at Kildarc-gardens, Bayswater.
Major Edward Dcnne Nares, of 91, Belgrave-road, on the
14th inst., aged forty-seven.
Mr. James Johnstone, the proprietor of the Standard news¬
paper, on the 21st inst., at Hooley House, Coulsdon.
Samuel Gurney, Esq., on Aug. 17, in Prince Edward
Island, aged eighty-three. He was brother of the late Sir
Goldsworthy Gurney.
Lady Harriet Frances Lane, widow of Colonel Henry Lane,
15th Hussars, and second daughter of Lawrence, first Earl of
Zetland, on the 13th inst., at Marske Hall, in Cleveland.
Jane Cannon, Mrs. Murray, widow of George Murray, Esq.,
of Ancoats Hall, Manchester, on the 13th inst., at the Polygon,
Ardwick, within a month of completing her hundredth year.
Henry Hewitt Kennard, Esq., of Rookcliff and Fernhill,
Lymington, on the 16th inst., aged seventy. He was fourth
son of John Kennard, Esq., of Clapham, Surrey, and of the
city of London, banker.
The Rev. A. Williams, M.A., Rector of Culmington. Salop,
some timo Afternoon Lecturer at St. Pancraa and Morning
Preacher at Berkeley and Quebec Chapels, Lcndon, on the
12th inst., at Llandudno, in his eightieth year.
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Saunders, late of the 60th
(King’s Royal Rifle Corps and Royal Newfoundland Com¬
panies), on the 12th inst., aged ninety-five. He entered the
Army in 1809, and served in the West Indies and North
America for more than forty-six years.
Lady Church, widow of General Sir Richard Church,
G.C.H., C.B., on the 15th inst., at Royal-crescent, Bath, aged
eighty-two. Her Ladyship, who was the elder daughter of Sir
Robert Wilmot, second Baronet of Osmaston, in the county of
Derby, was married in 1826, and was left a widow in 1873.
David Stewart Ker, Esq., of Portavo and Montalto, who
formerly sat in the House of Commons as member for Down-
E itrick and for the county of Down. He was a magistrate and
eputy Lieutenant of Downshire, in which he had served os
High Sheriff.
Lady Vassall, on the 17th inst., at 29, Hyde Park-gardens, I
aged eighty-three. She was daughter of the late Edward
Berkeley Napier, Esq., of Pennard House, Somerset; was
married, first, to Rev. C. H. Pulsford, Canon of Wells; and,
secondly, in J844, to Captain Sir Spencer Lambert Hunter
Vassall, K H., who died in 1846.
Robert Grant, Esq., of Kincorth, Fores, N.B., on the
15th inst., aged seventy-seven. He was the only son of the late
Robert Grant, Esq., of Kincorth, bv Anne, his wife, daughter
of the Rev. Lewis Grant, of Cromdale, and was educated at
the University of Edinburgh. He was called to the Scottish
Bar in 1823, and was a J.P. and D.L. for the county of Elgin.
Robert Garde Durdin, Esq., M.A., cn the 19th inst., at
Lower Baggot-street, Dublin. Mr. Durdin, who practised as
a solicitor in that city, served as Lord Mayor in 1872. He was
born, in 1818, the fourth son of Robert Atkins Durdin, Esq.,
of Cranemore House, in the county of Carlow, J.P. and D.L.,
and was married to Fidelia, only daughter of his uncle, the
late William Durdin, Esq., of Huntingdon Castle, Carlow.
Tiro Rev. Henry Lombe, of Bylaugh Park, Norfolk, on the
10th inst., aged eighty-six. He was the third son of the late
Thomas Browne Evans, Esq., of North Tuddenham, Norfolk,
by Mary, his wife, daughter of Edward Hase, Esq., of Sail
Park, Norfolk, and assumed the surname of Lombe, 1862,
under the will of his great uncle, Sir John Lombe, Bart. Thp
Ilev. Mr. Lombe was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge,
was J.P. for Norfolk and Suffolk, Lord of the Manors of
Bylaugh, Melton, &e., and patron of eight livings, and was
formerly Rector of Lyng, Norfolk.
The Rev. F. R. Rnines, Hon. Canon of Manchester, M.A.,
F.S A., on the 17th inst., at Scarborough, lie was bom at
Whitby on Feb. 22,1805, became a student of Queen’s College,
Cambridge, took deacon's orders in 1828, and in the following
year was udmitted priest by the Bishop of Chester. In 1832
he beenmo the Vicar of Milnrow, where he remained until his
death. He was Rural Dean of Rochdale from 1816 to 1877. In
1819 he received the appointment of Honorary Canon of Man¬
chester Cathedral. The Archbishop of Canterbury conferred
upon hitn the diploma of M.A. in 1845, aud he was elected a
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Canon Raines was well
known for his contributions to archa?ological literature.
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The -« he with
i SSSi •sSS-ESi.- *>■
L K (Buda-Petfli).—We ere obliged for M>® g»mc». un0 01 1
InecrtiuD. whito could hero won the Queen on
A S (M. ran, Tyrol).-Too weak for nnWIrntiun. Wmw anua
ti,c eleventh move by Kt takre Q B 1 »<*>• , „ no Interest for the public.
FKD (Strentl).—Bad rhyme end worae rhythm. There Kt Sth. We
H D <utllor before ex.min.n* problem..
_„ (Ltm«b— The SSMiSmST*-. IT* -d 17*7 hr the member, of
££ 2 ^ FJVlnto n ..nd
Franklin iMtituto.
YuabornTc'u'B*II Benthall. I Turley,
Co.bkct (journal
No. lima received from Herewnpl
THE AUSTRIANS IN BOSNIA.
The military campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina having been
finished, there are no important consequences to be appre-
hended from the destruction of the temporary bridge nt Duboj
by the swollen current of the Bosna river alter some days of
heavy rain. This is the subject of a Sketch by our Special
Artist late at the head-quarters of the Austrian army. The
task of restoring peace and prosperity to Bosnia, and of pro¬
viding for the safe return to their homes of more than a
hundred and fifty thousand refugees—Christians on the one
hand and Mussulmans on the other—will now occupy the
Austrian Government. It is stated that the late Bosnian
insurgent chief, Hadji Lodja, was up to the year 1863 a porter;
he then became teacher of Arabic in a mosque where his fathcT
was an imam. Shortly after he led an agitation of the Bosnian
Mohammedans against the plan which had been sanctioned by
the Porte of building a Greek church at Serajevo. For this he
was banished by the Civil Governor to Novi Bazar, whore he
lived till 1871. When the Bosnian insurrection first broke out
be assembled a band of Mohammedans, who plundered the
defenceless Christians of the province; but, the Government
having taken proceedings against him, he again escaped, and
remained in concealment until last July, when the anarchy in
Seraj evo enabled him to play the part of a leader in the Bosnian
Mohammedan insurrection.
8oi.utios of Problem No. 1807.
wtiiTK BLACK.
1 QtaBflU. P take. Q*
9! R takes Kt Any move
8. R or Kt mates.
• If murk play I. K t« <3 rth, then follow, a. Q to
;heo 2. lltu Kt *1 (Oh,, muting next move In each co*
B 4tli (ch), *n(l if 1. Kt take. Q,
PROBLEM No. 1810.
By J. A. W. Hunter.
BLACK.
THE DUTCH ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
The Arctic exploring-ship Willem Barentz, which left
Amsterdam on May 5, touched at Vardo on July 19, in order
to land despatches. Hitherto the Dutch Arctic “trial-trip”
has been as successful as its numerous well-wishers could
desire. The Willem Barentz has been at Jan Mayen, Spitz-
bergen, and Bear Island, fulling in with the “ice-pack” in
lat. 78 deg. ; and, though the weather has not been favourable,
only three fine days being recorded up to the middle of July,
many important scientific observations have been made; a
memorial-stone has been erected on Amsterdam Island; and
all on board seem full of zeal, health, and good spirits.
The return of the expedition may be looked for in October,
■when, if all goes well, they will have visited the Barentz and
Kara Seas, and will have done as much as possible in the
limited time at their disposal to advance the cause of
science. The Willem Barentz was off Jan Mayen on June 9,
which was one of their three fine dayB, so that the members of
the expedition had a good view of the whole island, a sight
which very few of their predecessors have enjoyed, the high
land being as a rule shrouded in mist. This curious island
was discovered by Henry Hudson in 1607, and by him named
“ Hudson’s Tutches ; ” it was afterwards improperly called
Jan Mayen, after a Dutch skipper who was said to have seen
it in 1611. It is thirty miles long by nine broad, and at the
north end rises the remarkable volcanic peak of Bemnberg,
6870 ft. high. On June 9 this peak was covered with snow
almost to the water’s edge, and presented a most imposing ,
appearance, the high, jagged summits of the lower hills, from
one of which smoke was slowly rising, being quite dwarfed by
comparison. The accompanying View is from an outline by
Mr. W. J. A. Grant, who served with Sir Allan Toung in tho
Pandora in 1876, and is the only English member of the
present Dutch expedition. Tho Willem Barentz is a small
Bailing schooner of eighty tons, built and equipped at
Amsterdam by a few private subscribers, without Government
aid. She is commanded by Lieutenant J. J. De Bruyne, a
Dutch naval officer, with Lieutenants Koolemans Beynen and
H. M. Speelman, as second and third in command, with three
or four scientific men, and a crew of eight sailors.
White to play, and mate in two moves.
CHE88 AT THE AQUARIUM.
The following Oame was played recently between the mechanical cheas-
me iouowiw (i and the Rev. A.Cybii. Pearson.
player “ Mephisto ” and the
lBishop'* Gambit.)
white (Mephisto). black (Mr. P-)
1. P to K 4th P to K 4th
2. P to K B 4th P take* P . . .
8 II to B 4th Q to R 5th (ch)
4. K to B sq P to Q 3rd
Thi* more 1. noticed at length In the
lA«t edition of the German " Hkndtrach
(HC4). with the resulting position in favour
of the Unit player.
6. Kt to Q B 3rd
According to the " Handbnch." White
day 8. Q to K B 3rd, attacking the
-— or 5. i’toUtt . In
iTiC 5
in pix.rt of the latter.'tho following varla-
Jo 6.p& T y
*. 0 to Kt 3rd
#. B tak« BP
ll>. Kt t« K Ind
11. n takes Q P
11. Q takes Kt P
13. K to Kt aq
14 U takes R
IS. P to Q R 4th
IB. P to B Sth
IT. F to Q Kt 4th, he.
6. KttoKBSrf
We believe S. B to K 3rd la tho correct
more here.
6. Kt to B 3rd Q to R 4th
7. P to Q 4th B to Kt 5th
8. KttoQBth
white (Mephisto). black (Mr. P.)
11. Q B takes P Kt to Q 2nd
12. P to K R 3rd KttoBSrd
13. Q to Q 3rd Castles lK R)
14. RtoKsq
Wo should have preferred 14. K to
2nd; because then, whether Biarlc rap-
n« the Knlrht or retreat* the Itishop,
attack can be directed nceoidlngly.
Q RtoKsq
15 K to B 2nd B takes Kt
IS T takes B P to Q 4th
17. P to K Sth Kt to Q 2nd
18. QRtoKKtsq P to K B 3rd
Correctly played. Tho move prow—
Ihe threatened attack upon the queen and
break* White's centre.
19. P to K (5th Kt to Kt 3rd.
20. P to K B 4th Kt to B sq
21. RtoKtSrd
This abandon* the advanced Pawn with¬
out an effort to preserve it. Ilia beat movo
appears to tie 21. P to U B 4th.
B to Q 3rd
10.1
Kt takes Kt
P to Q B 3rd
B to K 2nd
22. B takes B
23. Pto QB 4th
24. P takes P
25 K R to Kt sq
26. Q to « 2nd
27. B to Q sq
28. K to Kt 2nd
29. R to K 3rd
30. K to R 2nd
31. K to R *n
32. R to R 4th
Kt tnkrs B
R takes P
P takes P
R to K 2nd
K R to K sq
Q takes P
Kt to B 4th
Kt to K 6th (ch)
Q to B 5th (ch)
Q to B 4th
Kt takes B,
and White resigned.
Another Game played by Memiisto against one of the strongest player* of
the day, Mr. Burs, of Liverpool.
[Buy Lopts.)
black (Mr. B.) white (Mephisto). black (Mr. B.)
I 7. R to B 2nd B to B 4th (ch)
8. K to Kt 3rd
The position I* certainly nnlqne. Al-
I thongli Mephlato'a Kin* 1* thua early
better than to venture furred away from hla support., tho ail-
in a serious eo- l versarjr Is powerless to do him harm.
8. Kt to KB 3rd
takesB I 9. RtoKsq
10. R takes Q
white (Mephisto).
1. P to K 4th
2. Kt to K B 3rd
3. B to Kt Sth
P to K 4th
Kt to Q B 3rd
P to K B 4th
4. B takes Kt
5 Kt takes P
6. r to K B 1th
Q takes K P (ch) 111. P to K R 3rd
PtoK R 4 th
P takes R
Resigns.
CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
A match between the Ladies’ College Chess Club and the third and fourth
claws of tho City of London Chess Club was played on Tuesday last at the
Ladies' College, Little Queen-street, Holboni. The Ladies’ Club was repre¬
sented by Mrs. Down, Miss Down, Miss Helen Down, and Messrs. G.
Watson, T Watson, Manniinr, neurn, W. T. nearn. Lord, Mills, and
Hall; and the City Club by Messrs. Gnstineau, Piz*i, Heywood, Miller,
Hoare, M. Down, Israel, Templeton, Tudor, Atkinson, anil Steibel. The
play commenced at seven in the evening, and was brought to a conclusion
I soon after nine, when it was announced that the Ladies’ Club had carried
I the victory with a snore of fen games to eight and four draws. The honours
j of the evening were awarded to Mrs. Down, who won two games, and to
| Miss Down, who, after a prolonged struggle aguinst an expeiieneed
adversary, succeeded in forcing a draw. Miss Helen Down lost two games
to Mr. Miller, but afterwards, in offhand play, won an exceedingly well
contested game from the ltev. O. A. Macdonnell. The play was witnessed
1 by a large number of ladies and gentlemen interested in the'Ladies' College.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated May 23, 1874) with four codicils(dated
Dec. 11, 1875 ; Jan. 15, 1876; Sept. 12, 187i; and May 2o,
1878) of Mr. John Penn, late of The Cedars. Lee, Kent, who
died on the 23rd ult., was proved on the 16tli mat. bj Mre.
Ellen Penn, the widow, Edward Itouth, John Cameron
Macdonald, and Charles Thomas Lucas, tho executors, tno
personal estate being sworn under £1,000,000. The l
leaves to his wife all his furniture, plate, P ictu ?f®’ and
art, household effects, horses and carnages, £300,000, ana
all the capital stock and interest held by him in^ ony
waterworks company, absolutely; and his maneion house nJi
estate known as The Cedars, for life with the ^solute power
of appointing the same, at her death, to whom she pleaw*;
to his executors. £2000 each; to lus son John £40,WO,
to his son William, £25,000: to his sons Frank.and
Alfred, £60,000 each; and the testator expressly states that a y
benefit given by his wife to his two oMest
William (whom he had taken into partnership with him m m
business as a marine engineer, and w ho now succ '
entire business), or to his two daughters, Ellen andjsabella,
is in addition to any benefit given to or settled upondhem
his lifetime. The residue of his property real and pereonal, »
equally divided between his six children, John.V dliam.lrant,
Alfred, Ellen, and Isabella. ,
The letters of administration granted nt Dubiinon th^c 17tn
ult. of the personal estate and effects of Sir John.Bmjj
late of No. 9, Merrion-square East, Dublin, who dlcd " tc ;j a J
on Aug. 8 lart, to Sir 7ohn Ennis, the son, woMj-ggdJ
London on the 30th ult., the personal estate in England ana
Ireland being sworn under £50,000. . . .
The Scotch confirmation, under seal ot tho Owunwmo
of Haddington (dated the 19th ult) .of Sir George Grant
Suttie, Bart., of Preston Grange and Balgone, Haddingto
shire, who died at Grantham House Putney. on Juno 19 lasjt,
to Robert Grant Suttie, the son, and Robert Dundas, nasi
re-scaled in London, the inventory, given upon oath,
personal estate in England and Scotland amounting toupwaras
of £48,000.
The will (dated Jan. 13, 1878) of the Bcv. WUlhmSidnej
Saunders, late of No. 21, Eaton-square, who died on July
last, at Ellary, Princes Park, Liverpool, was pro«d o n
12th ult. by Alfred Castellan, jun., and George Brook© Wee,
tho acting executors, the personid estnte being sw u
£35,000. The testator leaves to his wife, Mrs. AHce
Saunders, all his furniture, plate, and household effects, aua ^
pecuniary legney of £2000; to his executors, £10 >
the residue of his real and personal estate to his wife i
and then to all his children. ,
The will (dated March 22, 1877) of Mrs. Emily Saundc^
late of No. 21, Eaton-square, who died on June 2b I ,
proved on tho 12th ult. by Alfred Castellan, jun-,, "‘
Frederick Walters, the surviving executors, the person
being sworn under £16,000.
Tlie Jersey States have passed a regulation, which camo
into operation on Saturday, directing that, all vessels 8®. j
in the importation of foreign cattle to Jersey shm',,.-’
licensed mid registered. Any infringement, of this reg
is to be punished by confiscation of both vessel and cargo.
OOT. 20, 1878
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The correct and newest modes may bo seen in Messrs. Jay's
Millinery Department. Ja ys'
THE LONDON GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE,
Regent-street. W.
6 LADIES.—THE SHREWSBURY |
WATERPROOF TWEED CI-OAKS, SKIRTS, nnd
JACKETS, In every variety of shape and colour, arc supidied by
the original Makers, E. W. and \V\PHILLIPS, 37, High-street,
Shrewsbury. Patterns ard Prices on application*
J 1ST OF MANUFACTURERS,
■*-* the whole of whose Goods,
Shown at the
PARIS EXHIBITION,
have been
PURCHASED
nt the Discounts stated below by
JOHN BARKER and COMPY.,
87, 89, 91, 83.
KENSINGTON HIGH-STREET;
20.22, 24,26, 28.
BALL-STREET, KENSINGTON, W.
DANIEL TYRODE, PerCent
77. RUE DE BIVOLI, F “
PARIS. Discount 20.
E. et C. GUITARD,
16, RUE PALESTRO,
PARIS. Discount 33 J.
ALF. HERVTEN, Successeur,
43, RUE DU BEN TIER,
PARIS. Discount 30.
E. BONNECHAUX,
12, HUE DES JEUNEUH8,
PARIS. DiscountSO.
E. HUBERT.
42, RUE DES JEUNEURS,
PARIS.
WE. MALZARD,
13, RUE DE 1
SERGENT et CIE.,
106, AVENUE D
J. HOURY et CIE.,
Discount 15.
VTON BAURY et CIE.,
45, RUE PARADIS POISSONNIERE,
PARIS. DiscountSS.
PEULLIER et CIE.,
19, HUE PARADIS POIS80NNIERE,
PARIS. Discount 37|.
DARTOUT et CIE.,
17, HUE PARADIS POISSONNIERE,
PARIS. Discount S3J.
BRIANCHON et CIE.,
222. RUE LAFAYETTE,
PARIS. Discount 45.
DELFORGE et CEE.,
28, ST. CLAUDE MARAIS.
PARIS. Discount 35.
POYARD et CIE.,
WE. PINOT,
11, RUE PARADIS POISSONNIERE,
PARIS. Discount 60.
F. WOODCOCK,
17, RUE PARADIS POISSONNIERE,
PARIS. Discount 55.
THRE LEMAIRE,
13. RUE DU SENTIER,
PARIS. Discount 02.
WILMART et MAILLE,
10, RUE DE CLERY.
PARIS. Discount 60.
H. GUYON et HELVIN,
34, HUE DU SENTIER,
PARIS. Discount 75.
BANDELIER ROCHE et DAVIGNEAU,
133, HUE MONTMARTRE,
PARIS. Discount 55.
A. GAUDICHAUD GIRARD et CIE.,
85. RUE MONTMARTRE,
PARIS. Discount 63.
REMY JEANNOT et BENSZCH,
11, RUE DU PETIT CANEAU,
PARIS. Discount 38.
E. BANCQUART et CIE.,
32, RUE DES JEUNEURS,
PARIS. Discount 30.
FRASER and SMITH,
SCOTCH TWEED MANUFACTURERS,
INVERNESS. Discount 20.
JOSHUA BARBER and SONS,
HOLMEBRIDGE MILLS,
HUDDERSFIELD. Discount 15.
WILLIAM THOMPSON,
PRIEST ROYD MILLS,
HUDDERSFIELD. Discount 15.
ALLEN and SOLLY,
KING EDWABD-STREET,
LONDON. DiscountSO.
THO MAS MELLOR and SONS,
THONGSBRIDOE MILLS.
HUDDERSFIELD. Discount 25.
B. HEPWORTH and SONS,
NEW WAKEFIEL MILLS,
DEWSBURY. Discount 25.
SLATER, BUCKINGHAM, and CO.,
35, WOOD-STREET,
LONDON. Discount 30.
WELCH, MARGETSON, and CO.,
CUEAPSIDE,
LONDON. Discount 30.
WILLIAM WATSON nnd SONS,
DANGERFIELD MILLS.
HAWICK. Discount 20.
MARTIN, MAHONY, and BROS.,
BLARNEY WOOLLEN FACTORY,
CORK. Discount 10.
JABEZ JOHNSON, and FILDES,
MANCHESTER. Discount 7}.
JAFFE BROS.,
LINEN MANUFACTURERS,
BELFAST. Discount 15.
BROWN BROS.,
GALAS1II ELS. Discount 20.
Discount 6.
The entire Lot comprising
MANTLES, DRESSES. MILLINERY,
BILKS, LACE. LINENS,
LONG CLOTHS, FLANNELS,
GLOVES. HOSIERY, FURS,
TROUSERINGS. COATINGS. AND
GENTLEMEN'8 UNDERCLOTHING,
will be prepared for Sale as soon ns possible
after the Close of the Exhibition.
The Public will he duly Informed of the time.
JOHN BARKER and COMPY.,
87, 89,91,93,
KENSINGTON UIGII-HTREKT,
20, 22,24,26.28.
BALL-STREET, KENSINGTOM,
LONDON. W.
„ IMPORTANT NOTICE.
PLEASE DIRECT ALL LETTERS AND ORDERS FOB
pETER pOBINSON,
8ILKMERCER and L1NENDRAPEB,
THE ONLY ADDRESS.
103 to 108, OXFORD-STREET, W.,
where tho Business was established in 1833.
J^EW
AUTUMN SILKS, 1878.
SPECIAL NEW 8HADES.
' yard.
_—— —-- — match, at 3s. Odf. per yard.
Richer qualities, Coloured Silks. 4s. fid., 6s. 3d., and 6s. 9d. per
889 Pieces extra rich Broendw?Silks, at 4s. 6d. and 5s. Cd.
PCTBB
One Thousand Piece* at 2s. lid. and 3s. lid. ver yard.
A special purchase of Bonnet's Block Si
Block Satins ofextreme brfghtnras, 1 "’ P '* r
2s. Od. and 3s. 6d. per yard.
For Patterns please address only
B ROBINSONj OXFORD-STREET. W.
J)ICH SILK AUTUMN COSTU MES
-LV One Thousand Coloured Silk Costumes
BLACK 8ILK ?X)STUMES
Black Silk Skirt?, one guinea.
AUTUMN DRESS MATERIALS.
-AA. CACHMERE MERINOS.
CACHEMIRE DE PARIS.
All the New Tints, 46 Inches wide,
3s. 6d. per yard.
VELVETEENS.
Velvet, finished in all colours. 3s. 9d. to 4s. 6d
in black, la. lid. to 6s. 6d. per yard.
ANGOLAS.
and other Fashionable Materials,
Is. 2d. to 3s. 3d. per yard.
WINTER SKIRTINGS.
Novelties in Strij
ipea, Plain, and Snowfltko,
is. 9d, per yard.
full width. Is. 9d. per yard.
■\J ANTLES and JACKETS for
AUTUMN and WINTER.
NOYELTIE8 FROM PARIS AND BERLIN DAILY,
In Beaver Cloth. Diagonal Cloth, Mille-raye Cloth,
and Drop Brute; also, in Velvet, Face, Sicilian,
and Gros Grain, lined and quilud.
Several New Shape* in Ulster Monties.
The New Waterproof Tartun Monties.
For Illustrations apply to
R EAL
RUSSIAN SEAL FUR PALETOTS
(half fitting).
33 in. deep, from 7 gs.
36 in. deep, from 8 g».
Soveral New Sbupe* in Seal Mantle*,
in the finest quality.
GREY SQUIRREL PALETOT8 (a great novelty).
Sable. Seal, Fox, Racoon, Skunk, Beaver,
Otter, Kuaslan Hare, Clilncblllu, Ermine,
and every other description of
Muffs, Neckties, Ac.
Cashmere Circulars, \—. —,
and lined Russian Squirrel, 45 in. deep, tram 21s. upwards.
Cashmere Circular*, with Hood, and lined from Ituasiuu Squirrel,
48 in. deep. 58*. Od. upwards.
A great variety of New Shapes
in Silk Mantles,
lined with the finest quality of Rus-lan Squirrel.
Fur Carriage and Travelling Rugs, from 30s. upwards.
J>ETER ROBINSON, SILKMERCER and
Jt DRAPER,
103 to 108, OXFOUD-Si'KEET. LONDON,
INFORMS THE PUBLIC
that his business has been carried on at these premise* since its
establishment in 1833, and respectfully requests his Customer*
to address order* to this address only.
J) OYAL DEVONSHIRE SERGES.
lv woven from pure wool, for LADIES' DRESSES.
In Nary or Dark Indigo Blue, Black, Dark Browns, Prune,
and other solid colours,
price Is. lid , vs, Cd.. 2s. lid. per yard.
For CHILDllEN a lower qunlity is made, very strong,
at Is 64d. per yard.
For BOV S' HARD WEAK it i* extra milled, price
54 in. wide. 3*. 6d. per yard.
Books of Patterns sent post-free by
SPEARMAN and SPEARMAN,
Devonshire Serge Factors. Plymouth.
Tho ROYAL DEVONSHIRE SERGE is the only true Yachting
Sergo.
_ ate-*
Any Length--
who arrange to pay the carriage of all Parcels above Two Pounds
in value to and as faros Loudon.
„„„ Gentlemen'* and Youths' wear. Livery Cloths, Ac.,
equally cheap. Term*, ready money only.
c. SlEEKINO and CO.. Woollen Warehouse,
corner of Hatton-garden, Hoi born-circus.
"ly/rANUFACT U RER’ S STOCK of LADIES’
1Y1 AUTUMN DRESSES Sailing Off at Half the Cost. Con¬
sisting of Moss Cacliemircs in the new dark plain colours. Prico
4Jd.per yard.—JOHN HOOPER. 52, Oxford-street, W. Patterns
free. _
"PATENT WEATHER-PROOF"
g IL K C R s f A ^ CTU ° n f E ENGLISH
This Crape, manufactured only by LK GROS, THOMPSON,
DOES NOT SPOT WITH RAIN.
riHEAP POCKET HANDKERCHIEFS.
All who appreciate tho luxury of a real Irish Cambric
Handkerchief should write for Sample (post-free), our Indies ,
bordered, at .’Is. lid. and 5s. lid. per dozen, hemmed for use.
Ladies' llim-stitched, nt7s. lid. and 10s. 6d., exquisitely fine:
of our Gent's bordered, at 5s. 10d. and ks. lid., andI eiii-stitehed
ntl2*. per dozen; by so doing a genuine article (all pure flax)
will be secured, and a saving effected of at least 50 lier cent.
ROBINSON and CLEAVER, Cambric Hundkerchief Manufac¬
turers to her Mnjesty the Queen, Belfast.
"PRETTY FLOWERS.—Tastefully arranged
JL Bridal Bouquets from 7a. Od .; Bridesmaids’ Bouquets from
3a. Gd. each. Baskets of Cut Flowers aud Fhmts. Forwarded to
any part of London or country. , w
WILLIAM HOOFER, 88, Oxford-street, London, W.
R ound shoulders and stooping
HABITS Cured by Dr.CHANDLER'S CHEST-EXPAND¬
ING BRACE for both so .es. It assist* growth, and produces a
handsome figure. 10s. 6d.cach.-66.Berners-st. Illustrationssent.
TJULVERMACHER’S
X NATUUE'S^CHIEF RESTOl
ELECTRICITY IS LIFE.
'3 “GALVANISM,
_ ___RESTORER OF EXHAUSTED
VITA ln tblsPamphlet the most reliable proof* aro given of the
vast and wonderful curative powe * of I ulvermactier i
Patent Galvanic Chain-Rands, Belts, Ac., in Rheumatic,
Nervou-, aud Functional Disorder*. Sent post-free for
J. L. PULVEUMACHEK^'gAL^^IO ESTABLISHMENT,
194* Begent-utreet, London, W*; ftnd S9, Bue bt. Marc, Faria*
404
THE tt.ttththA.T EP LONDON HEWS
OCT. 26, 1878
ciphttaTj NOTICK.—On MONDAY and
S OTS&.dSi-S M^OT 7 ZMANN.nd CO.
will OFFER for 8ALE an lromonM^^k^ BLANK ETS M
court-road). _ _
■pURNISH THROUGHOUT.
gUBSTANTIAL ARTISTIC FURNITURE.
QETZMANN & CO.,
JJAMPSTEAD-ROAD,
j^EAR TOTTENHAM-COUBT-BOAD.
F urnish throu qhout.—oetzm-ANN
aas&aaan
SSSflS'FSMrB&d&SSf s.
DESIDES the RECENT ADDITION of
I > the Immense rang* of Premia Sd!J*tO*thdr
Eagle Brewery, which hate Wn retullt and added to tn ir
c*ten*ive fthow-Boom* Md (MUentt,
glGHT LARGE SHOW-ROOMS
j|AVE JUST BEEN ADDED
rpo THE DISPLAY OF
^RUSTIC FURNITURE, &o.
jyj-APLE and CO.,
TOTTENHAM ■ OODBT - ROAD.
pURNITURE.
pURNITURE.
pURNITURE.
XTAPLE and CO. supply every requisite
M fur S5Z
jyjAPLE and CO., Importers.
pURKEY CARPETS,
JNDIAN CARPETS,
pERSLAN CARPETS.
O VER 2000 DAGHESTAN and
sowIlNACK CARPETS. also MO Torkey Carpete^of
extra line quality and at marvellously low pricr*. re
Xdually -Wbr three
curiosities.—UB. 14«. 147. Totten ham-oo art- road. London.
GARDNERS’ NEW DINNER aud TABLE
VJT CLASS SERVICES are original *" . d ” l ,f n Hf from
AIRS. S. A. ALLEN’S
■yyORLD’S HAIR RESTORER.
TT CANNOT FAIL TO RESTORE
1 gS. H St™ei!?Y T0 ™STS , ttA.;
TURNS GREY LOSES ITS LUSTRE, AND
SwffH««OT
®M*W 8 SSBg®
Ham AND BY TUB OPERATION OF
NATURAL CAUSES. GREY OR WHITE HAIR
IS QUICKLY RESTORED TO ITS YOUTHh^L
HEALTHY AND MOST LUXURIANT GROWTH
^NO OTHiA PREPARATION WITH IT.
NOT EVEN OIL OB POMADE, OB ZXDO-
BALSAMUM.
OavnoKl I—The Genuine only In link Wrapper*.
Bold by all Chemist*, Perfumer*. *nd Dealer* In Toilet Article*
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
Mi*. 8. A. ALLEN manufacture* two entirely {U** 1 ®**
pa ration, for the Ualr. One or the other ^
condition of Oie Homan Hair. Both are “*” *? ■ to
time. For detalU a, to each preparation, kindly read ahore ana
below thl, paragraph. Reader* can really determine which of
the two they require.
GRATEFUL
COMFORTING.
JAMES EPPS am CO.,
HOM(BOPATHIO
GHKMI8TB.
M M '
S. A. ALLEN’S
T HE “Civil Service Gazette" says:—
" By a thorough knowledge of the natural law, which govern
the operation, of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful
plication of the Sue properties of well-selected cocoa. Mr. Knee
has provided our breakfast-table, with a delicately-lUvound
beverage which may save u, many heavy doctor,' bill. It I, by
the judicious use of such article, of diet that a constitution may
be gradually built up until strong enough to relit every
tendency to disease. Hundred, of subtle maladies are Acting
around u, ready to attack wherever Uiere is a weak point. W,
may eacape many a fatal lhaft by kecplngourselve, well lortifiod
with pure blood and a properly-nourUhed frame."
IS NOW ONE OF THE LARGEST
.. onureis In the World. Com-
SisS :«53
hnntry customer. In delivery of good, by
ECHNICON VANS, and fixing fn ^
CABINET and UPHOLSTERY
V J DEPA RTM ENT.—Bert Plate Chimney-G lawee, In dvul'°"
«gu“u,^fan- lo-m fiffire
NEW CARPET, ANGLO-PERSIAN.
Three elegant Carpet, of which MrearA
and CO. have the exclusive sale, are of firrt-cloM Britl»h_
torture, hive all the *tyle and ap|*>arancc
pcU, with the tame beauty '* # *“**•" ***
The
X Th
lM, than half the cost, without sacrificing aught nL^ n S*Sf
of thai^n and harmony of colour*. lor th»? convenience or
tliovo*residing at a distance. a large piece •huvnnc lhc I-mder
and centre of carpet, sent on receipt of Of., which will be
deducted from price of carpet, or refunded upon return of
pattern; or, by tending 1ft*., three piece,—vt*., the Angh>-
Perslan, Anglo-Indian, and Anglo-Turkey—will be writ on the
wime term,. Hearth-Rug, to match. ti ft. 8 In. long by Sft- wide.
£11, fid. A large stock of real Persian Carpet,, at reduced
pricos-OETZMANS and CO.__
igYLO-J^ALSAMUM,
..£330
4*0
S 8 0
a'ppeaiwnSrand “unequalled' In'price. Dl"ncr Hervirez
£3 5,. tjd, the Set for twelve perron, complete.
DINNER SERVICES.
Coloured Uthograph, post-free.
TS.L«ai!KTo , ol-roiilSK“
"-reS - *“ ‘JagST
j P lL < thcir nnerjualled Crown
» 01 In Roby.*5 ? 9
Tlie J»|u»ne»e Bamboo 6 0 0 1 In Pink .. " g a n
The Humming-Bird.. 7 7 0 In Black. 8 8 0
The Sevres •• .. 7 7 0|
Discount IS per cent.
r,.,. .at. BK VfflSSgSra, • • n » •
Illustrated Gla», Catalogue, which must be returnod, rent
post-tree on application.
Gardner*’ Lamp. Giro,, and Chlua Manufacturer*. *33 an J Ini.
West Strand. Choring-cros*.
Tl>e One Thou>andand
H andsome Russian tapestry
CURTAINS, with fringe borders. 3 yard, lo “«
wide. 17s. 6d.; 34 yards. 19s. Sri.: 4 yards, 22*. #d. per prtr: 3 varel,
long by 73 In. wide, 25*.; 3J yards. 7*s. Cd.; 4 yards, 32s. fid. per
pair. Patterns rent post-free on application.
QETZMANN and CO.
WEDDING PRESENTS, USEFUL ami
W ABTI8TIC. - InUndUiB Purchaser* should lnep« t
OBTZHANN and 00. 8 YA8T I)18PLAY of tiegant
Lurttnu. Figure*, Bronx**, Clocks. I> >f t . Q . rr * , : N C t u , t Hr**
u’| nM x c ■ KLtctro-SUvcr 1 Into, lahlo Cutlt'ry, aod n larga
variety rt'eSSuSSul Mid Ommnental ArticU. suitable Hr
Present,.—Demriptlve Catalogue post-free._
T)OSTAL ORDER DEPARTMENT.
I QETZMANN and CO.-Ordeni sent per poat, whether lam
or small, receive prompt and careful rttamtjon Thororeri’*'"'
at a distance, or any to whom a personal visit won id bo Ir
venient. desirous of leaving the selection to the Arm. may
upon • faithful attention to their wishes and Interest In the
selection. This department Is personally snpervlwri by a
member of theSrmTF ,t further ^rticulnreplr^^pare^
Id Catalo*u«, tent freoon application.—OLTZMANN and CO.
__ CHINA.—ASTER
lXJTTERY.—Reproduction of the Oriental I'nltern.
mane expressly for Mesars Mortlock. This ware I* in exquisito
taste, of Oriental character, and. exceedinglydwap A Dinner
Service for li perrous for £3 lis. iri.. complete; Dcwert jervlce.
TH. ud.; Breakout Service for 12 perron* 2a. , lea Service.
9«. Od.; and Toilet Service, 15.- with 14 percentewh discount.
S.de Addresses—302. 2U3, and 201. Oxford-street; 30. 31. »
Orchard-street. Portman-square. W. Establish od 1,46.
For the Growth and Preservation of Uie Halr-
A cooling transparent liquid, entirely vegetable,
without sediment.
A SIMPLE TONIC AND DRESSING
J\ n , iviSTIMlBLE VALUE TO BOTH 8EXES.
THE FAVOURITE WITH THE VOUNG AND
ALL THOSE WHO HAYENO GBEYUAlK.PaL;
MATURE LOSS OF THE HAIR. » OMCMO*
IN THESE DAYS, MAY BE ENTIRELY PBB-
VENTED BY THE USE OK Z\ L 2 1 U a A ^ A “^
PROMPT RELIEF IN THOUSANDS OF CASES
HAS BEEN AFFORDED WHERE THE HAIB
HAS BEEN COMING OUT IN HANDFUL8. IT
PROMOTES A HEALTHY AND VIGOROUS
GROWTH. HAIR DRESSED WITH Zk LO-BAL-
BAMUM IS ALWAYS CLEAN. FREK FROM
DANDRUFF. AND WITH THAT BEAUTIFUL
GLOSS ONLY SEEN IN HEALTHY HAIR. IT
IS DELIGHTFULLY FRAGRANT. NO OIL OR
POMADE SHOULD BE USED WITH IT.
CatrrioMl 1—' The Genuine only In Bluish Grey Wrapper*.
Sold by all Chemists. Perfumers, and Dealer* in ToUet Article*.
rpHE “ Naval and Military Gazette ” says:—
X “The nutritive qualltlM of ooeoa over either thow
of tee or coffeo are now so generally acknowledged that
the steady Increase shown by official statistic* in it* con¬
sumption during recent years reases to be a matter of sarprtss.
One of the first firms to popularise this now IndlspeusaMs
adjunct to our breakfast-table wea Messrs. Epps and Co. who*,
name, since 1839, has been ro continuously before the public, and
whose Homeopathic Cocoa Is as familiar In our home* as the
proverbial • household words.' Those whose business It has been
to watch at Mews. Epps’s work, the elaborate and complex
processes, and to note the care and labour bestowed before the
crude cocoa beau 1, considered ready fur consumption, cannot
but admit that the popularity Me*sr*. Epps's
secured Is fully deserved. The vastneas of U
Imagined when it is stated that four million,
pared cocoa alone are prepared th—-
gained, now many year* e‘»~ 1
both f-r It* purity *nd it
maintained. A constan.- . _—--- --
this—which must bo as gratifying to Mresra. tpp* a. It is
certainly flattering to the good faith they have kept with the
public to secure ro gratifying a result”
“ A 11 the Year Round" says:—
it Having now disposed of fancy chocolate, let u,
stroll to the Euston-road. hard by the Regent', Park, to Epps',
cocoa manufactory, where may I* studied the making of cocoa
on a stupendous scale, giving a Just Idea o' “ ‘ ' -
articles, not a* luxuries, but as -‘‘ ‘
ss actual food.”
Q.0LDEN
ORANGE CHAMPAGNE is i
V/ pleasant drink, made simply from Onuiges.
veecent, but entirely free from spirit, and P» rfectly
Price 7s. per Dozen. Quarts ^4,.. PlnU. Bottlia 2aa
light,
it la effer-
wholeromo.
I>*'»z«‘nantll re to rued, ilad’e ouly by CHA8. CODD and CX>.,
K ' " IN AH AN’S LL WHISKY.
THE CREAM OF OLD IRISH WHISKIES.
Pure. mild, mellow, delicious, and most wholesome. Uni-
Ycrmlly reoommendra by tbo ractllazl prufeaaioD. l>r. Hassail
any,“The wlitxky Is soft, mellow.and pore w.ll-matiirod,and
of very exoeUcntquallty."—20, Great Titchfleld-street. V>.
IfORNIMAN’S TEA for Forty Years has
XX commanded a Urge sale, because It con always be relied
on for strength, flavour, and cheapness. It U the beat tea
Sold or
T>URE KANGRA VALLEY TEA, direct
X from the Plantations, at 4s. per lb. In Ten Pound Tin,, or
3*. «d. per lb. In original Chert* of Fifty Pounds each, may bo
obtained from COCKBUKN’S AGENCY, 41. Haymarket,
B AY
-LEAF WATER.
For the TOILET, NURSERY, and BATH.
A few drop* on a sponge or towel moistened with water. »nd
the face and hand, bathed with It. 1, Tery beneficial to the skin,
removing all roughness. Most highly recommended to apply
after Shaving. A small quantity In the bath give, a delightful
aroma, and It has most mnarkablo cleansing properties. Par¬
ticularly adapted to the bathing of infanta and young children.
Moat grateful to invalid* and all who suffer from headache
from mental labour or fatigue Buy only the genuine Golden
Star Bay-Leaf Water, sold In three sizes Toilet Bottles. 9*. 6d.,
S« 8,., by Chemist* and Perfumer*, or on receipt of stamp,
from the Wholesale D4p6t, 114 and 1U, Southampton-row,
ri'IIE “ Court Journal ’’ says :—
X •• In a climate ro varying and trying ss our own, to main¬
tain sound and uniform health, our daily diet eannut b« too
core-fiilly and attentively studied. Advancing science and recent
dlx overle* have within the last lew years been Instrumental la
adding several most valuable additions to oar comparatively
sliuit list of dietetic foods. Foremost among these should be
ruuged cocoa, which, although known here several centunei pre¬
viously, only came Into general uso within the last forty yean.
Due of the first to popularise thl* now Indispensable adjunct to
our table Was Mr. James Epps, whom 'Prepared Cocoa' has
gained such just repute for itsexcdlentand nutritious character.
T’roiuir.ri originally on homoeopathic principles, in a soluble
and convenient form, aud easy of digestion, it met a public
demand, speedily became popular, until now Messra. Epps pro¬
duce over four millions of pounds of their cocoa a year, and their
manufactory is the largest of It* kind In this country.'
“ /Cassell’s Household Guide” says :—
V " We will now gl ve an account of the proem* adapted by
Mc*>rs. James Epp* and Co- manufacturers of dietetic article,,
at their work* in the Eustou-road, London."
n'HE “Morning Advertiser" says:—
1 ' the middle of the seventeenth century -- **
ired in uno of the few Journals of
that ‘ out of Blaliopsgate-street, at
appeared In one of the few Journals of that period,
tthat' out of Bishopsgttte-street, at a Frenchman,
un excellent West India drink, called chonJats.
„ __reasonable rate*.' This is the first record wshsve
>f the lutroducUon of c
tube sv
/QETZMANN and CO., COMPLETE
HOUSE FURNISHERS, S7,69,71.73,77and 79. Hiunu*te*d-
rood (three minutes' walk from Tottnnhom-court-road and
Gower-street Station, Metropolitan Railway). Lewret price*
consistent with guaranteed quality. Cloro at Seven, and on
Saturdays at Four. Descriptive Catalogue post-free.
CATALOGUE, post-free.
JJESCRIPTIVE
QETZMANN A CO.,
JJAMPSTEAD-ROAD.
_ Electro-PUter* ACutlers,
rpHE ESSEX FLOUR and GRAIN
X COMPANY, Llverpool-rood. London. N-supply the BEST
GOODS ONLY. Whites, for Pastry. 9*. td. per bushel; House¬
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to St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, the late Mr.
Janies Staitln. M.D . F.R.C.8., of Savilo-row, Mr. McCall
Anderson. M.D., F.F.P.B- of Woodside-crescent, Glasgow, and
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D r. DE JONGH’S
(KNIGHT OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR.
KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM.
J^IGHT - BROWN COD - LIVER OIL.
THE PUREST.
THE MOST PALATABLE.
THE MOST DIGESTIBLE.
THE MOST EFFICACIOUS.
QR. DE JONGH’S
T IGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL,
which produce* the full curative effects In
CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST,
thboat affections, general debility,
wasting diseases of children, rickets,
AND ALL SCROFULOUS DISORDERS.
SELECT MEDICAL OPINIONS.
SIR G. DUNCAN GIBB, Bart., M.D.,
physician to the Westminster Hospital.
value of Dr. DE JONGH’S
LIGHT-BROWN COD-LIVLU OIL a* n thera¬
peutic agent in a number of disease*, chiefly of an
exhaustive character, ha* been admitted by the
world of medicine; bat, in addition, 1 have found
It a remedy uf great power in the treatment of
many Affections of the Throat and Larynx,
especially In Consumption of the latter, where it
will sustain life when evcryUiing else folia."
DR. SINCLAIR COGHILL,
Physician Royal National Hospital for Consumption, Ventnor*,
“ T have convinced myself that in Tuber-
X cular and the various form* of Strumous Disease,
Dr. DE JONGH’S LIQHT-BBOWN COD-LIVEB
OH, uoaeesac*greater thvrapeutlcefllcacy than-
other Cod-Liver Oil with wnldi I am acqualt_
It was especially noted In a large number of case*
in which the patient* protested they had neTer
been able to retain or digest otherCod-LivcrOil,
that Dr. DE JONGll'S OIL was not only tolerated,
but taken readily, and with marked benefit.”
LENNOX BROWNE, Esq., F.R.C.8.E.,
Senior Surgeon Central Loudon Throat and Ear Hospital.
“ ri'he action of Dr. de Jongh’s Light-Brown
X Cod-Liver OH has proved, in my own experience,
particularly valuable, not only In those disease*
for which it Wo* originally employed, but also in
many case* of weakness of the Singing and Spesik-
ing Voice, dependent on Bronchial or Laryn¬
geal Irritation, and in all forma of Strumous
Enlargement of Glands, and Discharge* from the
_____ ___England. _
_aa a fashionable drink, ond them like all feihkiei,
subsided. Nearly two centuries after, in 1831, thedutlas. which
trad been almost prohibitive, were greatly reduced, and Miert
the first to take advantage of re-establishing the popularity of
cocoa was Messrs. James tpp* and Go- the HonrosoMthk
Chemists. Under the name of “ Prepared Coco* thayfftnriiuwl
ssijniSiMsa^’SiT^^
pound* yearly.”
rpHE “ Christian World” says :—
X “'If I am to toko cocoa,’ sold I, ’I must know vkst
It is made of; I must examine the,process; I m “* t
the mystery of 1U manufacture; 1 must see and Judg* T«
myself what are the Ingredient* of whieb it is
tUii view I mjule my wmj to the manulectory of Jeoe* *pp#
and Co.. In the £uiUm-roed.’ M
“ Tohn Bull" Bays : —
V " In no brandies of Industry ^ re^t *dentlBc “d
"" ill. Jimeo!. 1 ':”mulolfiiSIntwDolUilii*^ —*—?*
noroiuusincreoro In the consumption of
irat&rJiJeS*
aaa n j^ssussastf
technically known aa • flesh-forming J
perties, is clearly an Invaluable addition to' o ur sra ntr Urioi
dietetic foods. Such Messrs. EppscUimforthelrpr ^rtvdeam s*.
and such analysis and-mort valuable of *U-exp*rl«o» ns*
proved it to be."
‘ijhe
rpHE “Church Review” says:-
X " Although we camnot yet boost of a free bi_-—■-
sell the active leglsUtlou in furtherance “i^ r
Wm last half century leaves u,
striking instance of the general good ireultlM ftmo «*«
iiatfflBa JBgJg’iszffla atAm
atmuaUy four mlUlon pounds*
T 'HE “Civilian” says:— _ _
•• In the seventeenth century.beforeelUuirbtaorra®(*hro
found their way into the fengll*!* it
- beverage with the luxurious Cl MMafj b«
-within ^rrack
O SLER’S GLASS CHANDELIERS,
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QUALITY.
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and NEWEST DESIGNS.
ORNAMENTAL GLASS. ENGLISH and FOREIGN.
Minton's ami Worre-trr, Porcelain and Stone Chinn.
BIRMINGHAM; Manufactory and Show-Room*, Broad-street
LONDON: Show-Rooms.45, Oxford-street.W.
PAU DE CHYPRE.—PIESSE and LUBIN.
Xa This is an ancient perfume from Cyprus. During the
national career of Egypt. Persia. Greece, anil Hume, the Island
of Cyprus wo, the tesort of the elite, learned, and refined It
win at the time of tlie CriiNuliia, when Richard I.of England
ssiimcd the title of King of Cyprus, that the famed Kan de
Chypre was Introduced Into Europe, the composition of which
Is yet preserved In the archive* of the Laboratory of Plcsse and
Lulfln. Those who are curious In ancient Dertumca can b«
gratified at 2. New Bond-street. London.
ASELIERS, in Crystal, Gloss, Ormoulu,
V* or Medieval Fittings. Ac. A Urge asvnrtment
tl w JR, , ,°JJ^' w ’a^'' r L* rtir J'” n * r '‘ wlw,lh ' ,l,Un fiznres.
V. HU LETT and 00.. Manulacturers.33 and 68. High Uolborn.
THOMPSON AND CAPPER’S
TYENTIFRICE WATER arrests decay in the
A, Teeth andsweetensthe Breath.-35,Bold-street. Liverpool;
and »t*>. Dcmiigat*. Manchester.—Sold In la. fid- 2*. fid 4s fid
and 8s. fid. Bottles, by all Chemist*. .m .se.ea.,
N°«
CURE NO PAY.—BALDNESS
CURABLE by tbo EAU MALI.ERON. Contracts nuule
th* Above t4?rm*. Reforpncet given to arsons cured by tills
Eric^. 40 1 :n^m^rt.''Lo!Xn:S.^! 7 to tb8 lf ~ ch U «‘“» e
QR
DR. PROSSER JAMES,
r on Materia Medico, London Hospital.
DE JONGH’S LIGHT-BROWN
COD-LIVER OIL contains tlie whole of the
active Ingredient, of the remedy, and is easily
digested. Hence it, value, not only In Disease* of
the Throat and Lungs, but in a great number of
cooes to which tlie Profession U extending It*
DR. DE JONOffS LIGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL
is sold only In capsuled Ihpxuxl Half-Pints, 2s.fid.; Pint*,
4*. 9d.: Quarts, M.; by all respectable Chemist* and Dragglat*
throughout the world.
SO 1.X OOHSICNgg*,
AN8AR. HARFORD, and CO.. 77. STRAND. LONDON.
&" 3 j&'ss«taYta 5 SeS.«aiS 5
S25SS VS wWaia; Sft JtS&uww-
Prepared on snuiid dieb tJc piimiplM. Epr^ s^Horoj^
ikoo contains all the nutritive nroptrtire «n e
..o. in sucha form that ^ey are;renJeroi thorou^drw^;
and. therefore, much more easy of digestion. Thenarum^ i'
abundance of fat pre.wnt in raw coco* U. mo w™*"?
ci iudU* meted, but iuimJc to serve one of ocyheps.
>f sound dlt, MeAgr*. U
® i
“T and and Water” says:—
1J Through the kindness of Meesre. Epps, I rw
an opportunity of seeing the roanyOMaphcatsd «
processes the cacao bean passes through Is .
use. and being Interested imd highly pleowd *1 thjrtirt^
during the -*- r * *“ ”**
of the cacac
S M ! .-hi' I IWMWJ
_anufactory, I thought
md the way it is manufacture! hy ,
m it loro wuulesome and nutritious l.cverage.nilghtbal
of Interest to tlie readers of • Land and W atcr.
QBATEFUL
"FOB THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE."
pLARKE’S WORLD-FAMED BLOOD
VV MIXTURE Is warranted to cleanse the Blood from all
Impurities, from whatever cause arising. For Scrofula, Scurvy.
Skin and Blood Disease* It* effects are marvellous. In Bottles,
2s. fid. each, and in Coses containing six times the quantity. Us.
each, of all Chemist*. Sent to uuy address tor 30 nr 132 stamp*
of th* Proprietor. F. J. CLABKE, Chemist, Lincoln.
E
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EX. ntSlONS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC AND THRO Gil T K MtU
FTATI'S—* JirunttV . t l-.d.Kei MUrs la I'M ni'ltt-te* : aiul it ORAN!) PANM EUhO-
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that the ground of quarrel between the Viceroy and
the Ameer will be removed by some concession on
both sides, so far as to preclude the necessity of a
resort to arms. The British public, we apprehend, is
in some perplexity as to the true object of tho Indian
Government in dispatching a second euvoy to ohere
Ali. It can hardly be pretended that there is any
show of ardour, in this country at least, in favour of a
war which can ereato no honour, and which in its remoter
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to. ,,r T„j;„ 4br.cn Ttrr>Tt n r»tions for war which the state of
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5111 S Q = ill EVERY EVENING at Eight; TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY
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a-.- * ^ ^Vortcrru. Moric by )1fclmni«m i* Mr. MMkolmc*f lAtcct ami gnutMit iiclm voiu^iit.
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AFTERNOONS »t Three. A Programme «.f inexplicable llluai.'.ns and Mtvlramral , ,,.,'11 +nl-f, ns llV SUTDriSC SOORer
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Theierfnnnanc«aof Fanfare.the Cornet-Flayer.an,l Labial on th® Eiuili.mmm.aro , „Hnmativn of TjeaCO Or WBT
laat now the attraction aud talk of the entire kingdom, the I’rtv., having ajuken lu or later. Rlld, meanwhile, the alternative Ul !*»«•
terms of «nqualllti<l pmDe. Private ltoxca, from 21». to 3* galueaa; SU1U. 6«. and :t».; . . ’ . , , wLflSfi ultimate
AdmioaiQD. a. and ia-w. Morton. Manager. _ remains in the hands of Ministers, wnoso U 1 W
fourteenth consecutive year in one unbroken season. determination is wrapt in impenetrable secrecy.
ST. JAMES’S HALL, PICCADILLY. The execution of the stipulations comprised in
TUE Treatv of Berlin -proceeds but slowly, and, we may cv
M OOKE cud BOEOESS MINSTBELS. But, while it JL he eoufessed M
eu«. - ...wg ; jd. i j ; w^.»io.»a^i.eu,wn,w...d somc dangere lmvo 81mn0 unted and some pcogm^
The following are the reading* of the meteorological instrument* for the <
above day*, in order, at ten o’clock a.m.I
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ST. JAMES’S HALL, PICCADILLY. The execution of the stipulations comprised in
TUE Treatv of Berlin proceeds but slowly, and, we may of
M OORE and BURGESS MINSTRELS. But , whi le it nL be confessed tha
Ev«y Night at Eight, and on M^^W.m^d.,. and Satanlayat Thr.o«nd gomc dftngers hayQ 8urm0 unted and Some ptOgTCoS
THIS comfany now bears the proud distinction of being the niude new and unforeseen obstacles have arisen to exci
OLDEST ESTABLISHED AND MOST SUCCESSFUL UPON THE EARTH. ’ , . , . ... . „ • o T1T) r(inriating »
It t« aloo tho ooarce whenor all imitators obtain thoaajiont feature* of tho charming general anXiety. Russia, it 18 t , PP _ Berlin
l Monday. | Tnmdajr. WodDBaday. Tharaday. | Friday, i Batnrday.
It ta al»<» tho ooarce whenor all imitators obtain thonaliont feature* of tho charming general IUlAlCl.y> avuooirv, xu “ » . Pprlill
d popular Entertainment now nniversally aamciatod with tho names of Mud-coml a( ,^ wag allowed to her by diplomacy in tnt
‘i'll F.'NEW AND EXCELLENT PROGRAMME performed for the ttrst timo last m , . v . .v„_lvnr DffluprS and Agents HI
*k will be repented until notification of another change U given. Treaty ; but the prOCeedmgS Ot Her Umcers 0
Fanteuils. 5s.; Sofa Stalls. Sa.: Area. 3s.: OaUery, la. No feea. PI area can bo r . w-, , • , . tlio irrrretTnCnt COI*
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- -——- certed by the European Powers. How far the ov
MR- and Mra ’ GERMAN BEED’S ENTERTrVINMENT. / gt p eterB i urlP do or will, recognise what is
l’l Tuesday next (Ant time A TREMENDOUS MYSTERY, by F. C. Bnrnand; ment at Ot. retCTSDUrg OO, Or win, » & i.„„dnrit.
and MRS. BROWN S HOME ,CN FOREIGN POLICY, by Mr. Arthur 8k,Schley. vonhired Iw I+o wnrwo 7iV those who act UnUCr lit
VERY EVEN I NO, except Thursday aud Saturday, at Eight; Thursday and Saturday being VCntUTCd in ItS name Uy tnOSC _
and MRS. BROWN'S HOME AN FOREIGN POLICY, by Mr.
EVERY EVEMMS.except Thursdayaud Saturday.at Eight. Tlmr
at Thtee. Admlsaiun. la., to.; SUUa.to.and fle.-ST. GEORQES
*uridar and satu*rday being ventured in its name by those who act
1B UA ^ L * Longham- remaiiistoheseen. We shouldbe foolish to hazard a prop
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NOV. 2, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON HEWS
407
We Lave no more faith in wholesale condemnations than
in wholesale eulogies; but we are bound to confess that, if
all that was done at the Berlin Congress was not exactly
conformable to what good policy and justice might have
prescribed, the peace which was established there seems
to us to lay a basis not altogether unfitted for the
approximate development of rudimentary rights in South-
Eastern Europe for some time to come. That basis, it is
true, may be set aside by the perversity or the ambition of
any one of the great Powers; but strong evidence ought to
be before us to warrant a suspicion that either of them
will venture to back out of Treaty engagements solemnly
undertaken. Troubles there will be, no doubt; occasions
for the exercise of diplomatic ingenuity ; materials for
Bluebooks in but too ample abundance. But of a general
War therefrom ensuing we cannot discern a sign.
If we have no reason for gratulation on the state of
our own public affairs, we hope we may yet be permitted
to take some share in the satisfaction of our more for¬
tunate neighbours. France is singularly felicitous in her
present position and prospects. The elections that have
just taken place with a view to the recomposition of one
third of the Senate give reason to believe that the form of
Government France has seen fit to establish for herself is
now tolerably secure against factious encroachments. Her
domestic condition is just now more thriving than that of
any other European people. Her revenue is fairly pro¬
gressive ; and the Paris Exhibition of Art and Industry
very soon to close, has been a most gratifying success.
They have proved the political capacity of the nation.
They augur bright results for the future. They may be
accepted, so far as they go, as a guarantee against any
possible initiation of aggressive warfare. The Prince of
Wales has rightfully and pleasantly represented the
sentiment and feelings of the people of England on this
head. Not less than France, we owe him thanks for his
valuable and timely service.
THE COURT.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice attended Divine service on
Sunday, performed at Balmoral Castle by the Very Rev.
Principal Tulloch. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess,
has walked and driven out daily, and has visited the Linn of
Quoieh and other picturesque localities. The Queen has
received at dinner the Marquis and Marchioness of Huntly,
Sir Michael Bieks-Beach, and the Very Rev. Principal Tulloch.
Lieutenant-Colonel Pickard has left Balmoral.
The Queen, in recognition of the services of the late Sir
The mas Biddulph, has decided to erect a statue to his memory
at the west of Balmoral Castle.
During the absence of the Queen in Scotland several of the
principal state rooms at Windsor Castle are being renovated, in
anticipation of the approaching marriage of the Duke of Con¬
naught, which will take place, according to the most recent
arrangements, about the middle of February.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
The Prince of Wales received an address on Thursday week
from the Colonial Commissioners to the. Paris Exhibition at
the British Embassy thanking him for the part he had taken
in the Exhibition. In the evening the Prince and Princess, with
the other Royal personages in Paris, were present at a reception
and ball given by M. Waddington, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
and Madame Waddington, at the Hotel Quai d’Orsay. The
Prince and Princess were present on Saturday last at a state
dinner given at the Elysee by the President of the Republic
and the Duchess of Magenta. On Monday the Prince passed
the day shooting, with Marshal MacMahon, at Compidgne.
The Prince and Princess have been present generally at the
fetes given in honour of the various Royal visitors in Paris.
In answer to an application by the Lord Provost of Edin¬
burgh, the Prince of Wales has expressed his willingness to
allow his Indian collection, now at the Paris Exposition, to be
exhibited in the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art.
The Duke of Edinburgh embarked at Marseilles on Thurs¬
day week for Gibraltar.
The Duke of Connaught has visited the Haymarket and the
Gaiety Theatres.
His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Baroness de
Solvyns have arrived in Grosvenor-gardens from Eastbourne.
His Excellency the Danish Minister and Madame de Biilow
have arrived at St. Anne’s-hill, Chertsey.
His Excellency Sir Augustus Paget and Lady Paget have
left Frognal, the residence of Earl and Countess Sydney in
Kent, on their return to the British Embassy at Rome.
The Earl and Countess of Mar have left St. Ives, Bingley,
Yorkshire, for Edinburgh.
The Earl and Countess of Crawford and Balcarres and the
Ladies Lindsay have left Loudon for Haigh Hall, Wigan.
The Earl and Countess of Listowel arrived at Kingston
House on Saturday last from visiting the Countess of Yar¬
borough at Brocklesby, Lincolnshire.
The Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warrington have
arrived at Enville Hall, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire.
The Earl and Countess of Dunmore have arrived in Brook-
street from their seat in Scotland.
The Earl of Northbrook and Lady Emma Baring arrived in
Hamilton-place on Saturday last from Scotland.
The Earl of Roden has returned to town from Paris.
Yiscount and Viscountess Barrington have arrived in town
from the Continent.
Viscount and Viscountess Malden and the Hon. Misses
Capel have left town for Paris.
Lord and Lady Odo Russell have left Claridge’s Hotel for
Berlin.
Lird and Lady Vaux of Harrowden and the Hon. Miss
Most} n have left London for Gayton House, Northamptonshire.
Sir Richard Wallace, M.P., and Lady Wallace have loft
Hertford House, Manchester-square, for Paris.
FASHIONABLE MARRIAGES.
The marriage between Captain Sir Lambton Loraine, Bart.,
R.N., and Frederica Mary Horatia, daughter of the late
Captain Charles Acton Broke, R.E., who was a son of Rear-
Admiral Sir Philip B. V. Broke, Bart., the hero of the
Shannon, was solemnised on the 22nd ult. at St. Peter s,
Eaton-equare. The bridesmaids were Miss Broke (sister of
fhe bride), Lady Evelyn Finch-Hatton, the Hon. Eva Byron,
Miss Constance Beckett, the Hon. Rhona Tollemache, Miss
Minnie Cochrane, Miss Ina Spencer, and Miss Dorothy Hoste.
The bride wore a dress of ivory satin, trimmed with point de
gaze, and a wreath of natural orange-blossoms, with a tulle
veil fastened by three diamond stars, the gift of the bridegroom.
Her ornaments were earrings, pendant, and bracelet en suite,
composed of pear-shaped pearls set with diamonds in the form
of heartsease, the gift of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Horton, and of
her sister, Miss Broke. The bridesmaids’ dresses were of white
silk and broche ; hats to match, turned up in front with
myrtle-green velvet. Each lady wore on a necklace of pearls
a pendant, the gift of the bridegroom, in the form of au ivy-
leaf, wrought in green enamel, and bearing the initials of the
bride and bridegroom traced in pearls. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Herbert James, Rector of Livermere,
assisted by the Rev. Sir Emilius Bayley, Bart., Vicar of St.
John’s, Paddington, and the Rev. J. Barrett-Lennard, Rector
of Crawley, Sussex. The bride was given away by Rear-
Admiral Horton, C.B.; the bridegroom’s best man was Captain
the Hon. Edward Stanley Dawson, R.N. The company pro¬
ceeded to 43, Grosvenor-place, to luncheon, after which the
newly-married couple left London for the honeymoon. The
bride’s travelling dress was of dark blue velvet, trimmed with
point d’Alemjon, with jacket, hat, and muff to correspond, all
trimmed with the fur of the blue fox. The marriage presents
were numerous and valuable.
A marriage is arranged between Charles T., second son of
Mr. and Lady Mildred Beresford-Hope, and Julia, eldest
daughter of the late Mr. H. A. Emuin, of Aylsham, Norfolk.
A marriage is arranged, and will take place in December,
between Mr. Robert Harley, of Brampton Bryan, Hereford¬
shire, and the Hon. Patience Rodney, only daughter of the
late and sister of the present Lord Rodney.
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
There were high tides in the Thames on Saturday and
Sunday. Precautions had been taken in anticipation of an
overflow, and no damage was done.
Mr. C. H. Roberts was on Thursday elected by the Court of
Common Council to fill the office of Remembrancer, vacant by
the resignation of Mr. William Corrie. There were eighteen
candidates.
The 20th Middlesex Rifles will assemble at Albany Barracks
to-morrow (Sunday) at 9.30 a.m. and march to St. James’s
Hall for Divine service. The honorary Chaplain, the Rev.
R. II. Haweis, M.A., will officiate.
Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., has presented seventy
volumes, as a second donation, to the Free Library, London-
street, Bethnal-green, in reply to the committee’s appeal for
10,000 volumes, required to render the library efficient.
The Home Secretary has approved of the transfer of the
Field-lane Industrial School, Little Saffron-hill, to new pre¬
mises at Hillfield-road, and has certified tho said premises for
the reception of boys, not exceeding one hundred in number.
With the close of the Long Vacation comes the annual show
of chrysanthemums in the Temple Gardens. Most of the
varieties are in full bloom, and the show this year is a very
good one, reflecting great credit on Mr. Newton, the head-
gardener of the Inner Temple Gardens.
At a conference held on Tuesday of the vestries and district
boards of London, it was resolved to memorialise the Home
Secretary in favour of the establishment in the metropolis of
one representative authority for providing hospital accom¬
modation for non-paupers suffering from infectious diseases.
The City Press states that the following members of the
Government have accepted invitations to the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs’ banquet at Guildhall on the 9th inst.:—The Earl of
Beaconsfield, the Duke of Northumberland, Sir S. Northcote,
Earl Cairns, Mr. Cross, the Marquis of Salisbury, Sir Michael
Hicks-Beach, Viscount Cranbrook, Lord J. Manners, Viscount
Sandon, Mr. G. Sclater-Booth, and Lord G. Hamilton.
The following is the title of the essay to which the Statistical
Society’s Howard MedalwillbeawardedinNovember,1879. The
essays to be sent in on or before June 30:—“ On the Improve¬
ments that have taken place in the Education of Children and
Young Persons during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries.” The council have decided to grant £20 to the
writer who may gain the Howard medal in November, 1879.
At the School Board for London on Wednesday — Sir
Charles Reed presiding—the debate on school attendances was
resumed, and ended with a resolution. On the recommenda¬
tion of the Educational Endowments Committee, it was
resolved to address a letter to the Charity Commissioners
urging an amendment in their scheme for the future adminis¬
tration of Sir William Boreman’s Green coat School, Greenwich.
The motion by Mrs. Surr in favour of the discontinuance of
corporal p unishm ent in girls’ and infants* schools, was got rid
of by the carrying of “the previous question.”
Lord Shaftesbury opened yesterday week at Twickenham a
new home belonging to the National Refuge Society for
Homeless and Destitute Children. The society now possess
nine homes, in which more than a thousand boys and girls
are supported and trained. The new one is for boys only, and
the committee want £4000 in order to free it from debt.
There were also present Mr. O. E. Coope, M.P., Mr. Hubbard,
M.P., Mr. Peto, the Rev. J. P. Chown, the Rev. W. S. Fisher,
and Mr. W. Williams, the indefatigable secretary. The
children from the Girls’ Homos and from the ships had been
brought to the new home for a day’s recreation, and joined in
singing hymns.
At the meeting yesterday week of the Metropolitan Board
of Works it was reported that the City of London would join
with the Board in applying to Parliament next Session for an
extension of the wine and coal dues until the year 1900, with
a view to provide the means for building the Tower Bridge.
The Parliamentary Committee were instructed to issue the
necessary notices for the introduction of a Bill into Parliament
authorising the construction of a new bridge over the Thames,
near the Tower. An offer by the Sun Electric Light Company
to light Trafalgar-square was referred to a Committee. The
returns of the traffic over Waterloo and Charing-cross Bridges
showed that it has doubled since the toll was abolished.
The annual competition of the adult female members of
the London Schools Swimming Club took place last Saturday
morning at the Chelsea Baths, King’s-road. Many ladies
were present, and tho races, of which there were eight, were
contested with much spirit. All the members are either
teachers or pupil-teachers of elementary schools, and belong
either to voluntary or to board schools. The competitions
were for the club medal, given by Miss Chessar and Miss
Richardson; silver watch, given by Sir John Bennett; and
prizes offered by Mrs. Surr, Mrs. Floyer, Mrs. Comyns, and
Miss Rose Adams; and a consolation prize offered by the club.
Most of the races were for two lengths of the bath, and one
was for three lengths.
William Stafford, the clerk in the Liverpool branch of the
Bank of England, who absconded with £15,000 in notes and
securities, and was arrested in Jersey, was again brought before
the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House yesterday week; and
the prisoner, who acknowledged he was guilty but reserved his
defence, was committed for trial.
It was stated at a conference held on Monday at the
Mansion House that £55,000 has been subscribed towards the
funds for the relief of the sufferers from the Abercame
explosion. The requirements are estimated at upwards of
£50,000. It was decided to close the lists, and when all the
claims are settled the balance will be invested in the names of
trustees for application to a kindred purpose.—A meeting of
county gentlemen was held on Monday in the Cardiff Town-
hall in support of the proposed Miners’ Permanent Relief Fund
for South Wales. Resolutions were passed approving of the
Miners’ Society lately formed by the united action of the men
and employers, and calling on trustees who have surplus funds
to apply the money to the Collieries’ Fund.
There were 2500 births and 1445 deaths registered in London
last week. The deaths included 4 from smallpox, 18 from
measles, 46 from scarlet fever, 12 from diphtheria, 33 from
whooping-cough, 30 from different forms of fever, and 30 from
diarrhoea. The deaths from lung disease, which in the seven
preceding weeks had increased from 158 to 326, further rose
last week to 347, and exceeded by 46 the corrected average;
225 resulted from bronchitis and 90 from pneumonia. In
Greater London 2987 births and 1711 deaths were registered.
The mean temperature of the air was 50 3 deg., being 21 deg.
above the average in the corresponding week of sixty years.
The duration of registered bright sunshino in the week was
15'6 hours, the sun being above the horizon during 71T hours.
The Lord Mayor yesterday week presided at a public meet¬
ing in the Beaumont Hall, Mile-end, for the purpose of
inaugurating a branch of the London Hospital Maintenance
Fund for the Stepney district. The appeal for a special main¬
tenance fund of £25,000 a year for five years was started at the
Mansion House on April 4 last, but up to the present time a
little under £14,000 a year for the period named, or its equiva¬
lent, about £69,000, only has been raised. Local branches have
been formed, and have been some time in operation in the
various districts round the hospital, in order to collect such
smaller contributions as these poorer districts can afford. At
the meeting yesterday week a branch for Stepney was formed,
and a resolution was passed urging the necessity of providing
the funds necessary for the proper working of the charity.
Professor Huxley, who is the principal of the Working
Men’s College, Upper Kennington-lane, recently inaugurated
the opening of the new premises which have been acquired for
carrying on the classes by a lecture on The Human Hand and
some of the Considerations Arising Out of It. Bringing all
his remarkable power of graphic exposition into play, the
learned Professor delighted his audience by a statement of the
marvellous mechanism of the human hand, beginning with the
framework, and showing how the wrist bones, the metacarpal
hones and phalanges, the radius and ulna, by their peculiari¬
ties of form and connection, admitted of the varied and com¬
plex movements of the Augers, thumb, wrist, hand, and arm.
Then he described the mode in which the motive power of the
muscles operates, illustrating muscular contraction by the
tangible example of the biceps in flexing and extending the
arm. Quoting Southey’s sneer—that to some men God has
given power, to some wisdom, and to others the capability of
playing on the fiddle—he took the fiddle-playing as the best
illustration that could be given of the marvellous power of
touch existing in the hand, since a good player has to regulate
the pressure of the fingers and to measure the length of string
to which the pressure is applied with marvellous precision, in
order to produce the notes perfectly in tune, processes which
have to be effected by thousands and thousands of muscular
contractions, though they are so rapidly carried out. Having
explained the mechanism of the hand, he showed how far
analogy existed between that and human mechanism, and then
diverged to the doctrine of evolution.
THE CITY OF GLASGOW BANK FAILURE.
Our last week’s Paper announced that the directors, manager,
and secretary of the City of Glasgow Bank were arrested and
brought before the police court on Monday week, in con¬
sequence of the publication of the auditors’ report, showing
not only a loss of six millions sterling, but the fraudulent
falsification of the directors’ reports to the shareholders, and
of the books kept to record the banking business, during
several past years. The prisoners in custody at Glasgow were
remanded to Wednesday last, when they were formally com¬
mitted for trial upon the charges of fraud, embezzlement, and
theft. They are six of the directors, Messrs. Lewis Potter,
Robert Salmond, John Innes Wright, William Taylor, John
Stewart, and Henry Inglis; the sccretaxy, Mr. Charles S.
Leresche; and the manager, Mr. Robert S. Stronach. We
give, in our front page Engravings, the portraits of Mr. Robert
Stronach, Mr. Lewis Potter, and Mr. Salmond, sketched as they
appeared in the waiting-room at the Sheriff’s chambers, beforo
the preliminary examination; and we also present an Illustration
of the scene at the Police Court, when five of the prisoners
were brought up before Mr. Gemmell, the stipendiary magis¬
trate. The counsel who appeared there for the prosecution
was Mr. W. A. Brown, the Procurator-Fiscal, whose office in
Scotland is substantially that of public prosecutor. The Sheriff
of Lanarkshire, Mr. Clark, is not like a Sheriff in England, a
mere administrative officer, but is a lawyer with some judicial
functions, having, indeed, the authority which belongs in
England to the Grand Jury, of finding a true bill against a
prisoner, and sending him to the criminal court for trial. The
principal charge against the Glasgow Bank directors will be
that of stealing certain bills winch had been confided to the
bank for safe keeping, or for collection when due, and which
have been pawned by them surreptitiously, or discounted in
London, to obtain advances to keep up the credit of the bank.
They will probably be tried in the High Court of Justiciary
at Edinburgh. Bail has been refused hitherto. Mr. Robert
Stronach is brother to the late Mr. Alexander Stronach, who
preceded him as manager; he is fifty-two years of age. Mr.
Lewis Potter, who is seventy-two, is a retired ship-builder;
and Mr. Salmond was at one time bank manager. Mr. Inglis,
of Torsonce, Galashiels, is an Edinburgh lawyer of good
social position, and high in office among the Freemasons of
Scotland. Mr. Innes Wright is declared bankrupt, his debts
being about one million sterling. One director, Mr. J. Nichol
Fleming, has absconded, and a warrant is out against him.
The liquidators of the Bank estate have resolved to make a
call of £500 per £100 share of stock, payable in two equal
instalments, on Dec. 22 and Feb. 24 respectively. The
liquidators are anxious to give every assistance and facility to
shareholders who cannot realise immediately their assets with¬
out serious loss. A meeting was held this week to take
measures for organising a fund to relieve the distress caused
by the failure of the bank, and steps were taken to extend the
movement to other cities and burghs of Scotland.
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Cyprus, Lieutenant-General Sir Garnet Wolseley, K.C.B., interpreter, with the English official gentlemen. Another
holds his official receptions in the Konak, the courthouse of Sketch by Lieutenant Gilmore presents a view of the head-
the late Turkish Governor, at Nicosia, the capital city, quarters’ camp of Sir Garnet Wolseley, at the Greek
Upon the occasion of the Mohammedan festival of Bairam, Monastery, a mile or so outside the Baffo gate of Nicosia,
which commences with the new moon after the Fast of The monastery building is shown to the left hand ; the tents
Ramazan or Moslem Lent, Sir Garnet Wolseley, adopting the pitched for the abode of his Excellency and of the Staff occupy
custom of his predecessors, received all the notables of the the middle ground, and there are some farm or villa buildings
town and lSiand. This visit is the subject of our Illustration, to the right; and a noble range of mountains in the background
from a sketch with which we are favoured by Lieutenant Allan of this view. We have already given one Illustration of the
Gilmore, of the 61st Regiment, Assistant to the Chief Com- head-quarters’ camp, from a sketch by our Special Artist,
mandant of Military Police in Cyprus, and now commanding “ S. P. 0.” He made an excursion to the western coast of the
the local police at Lunasol. His Excellency the High Com- island, just before he was taken ill of fever, but was unable to
missioner, in blue undress uniform, sits on the sofa, his hands go to Baffo, or to inspect the reputed site of the ancient
restmgupon his sword; an interpreter stands at his left hand. Paphos, renowned in Greek mythology as the abode of Venus.
Colonel ^iddulph^^C^ 8 * an< ^ n ® right foreground is For our Illustration of this locality we are indebted to another
R.A., Commissioner, with
whom are Colonel
Greaves, Chief Secretary
to the Government of — --- --
Cyprus, Colonel the Hon. j A t
Quartermaster - General, | til j| .. / \\ cz '
Colonel Baker Russell, | || // \ \
13th Hussars, Assistant | | // t / rA \
Military Secretary, also | // !/ h \ \
Surgeon - General Jack- U // (\ \
son, C.B., and Colonel I / "jo i \ \
Brackenbury, R.A., Chief I ^ ' k ) I 1 1 !
Commandant of Military I ' /;'>./'$.\y I 1
Police. Major the Hon. I a et \ UW
H. Wood, 12th Lancers, J" I Z \ \ 'VnsX V ;, v^ yW 2
and Captain Hare, 22nd , I “ \\ \Valpf \
Regiment, members of Ml \\
the staff, with Captain J. j ijl J \ \ ^
nnd'Lllut. Gilmore, were j 11 | ^^
^rt of the EngrardDg, M ■’ ^ Ul
Pasha, in a dark blue |
military uniform, with a - /turnr'
red^fez^on his head, sits r |! ' c
ing another Turkish || j m - iT ^a
officer on his right hand, u |J]_ eM flL, fl}l r! 1
and on his left a Moham- - - /” rll //■/
- —— —= - —** -soot; ,, „ «.
’’ Wilh "' ht b ' *“” “ *“■ circumference ™ coii,
a chair to the extreme 4 ! B^of°c£XS * : their lower endB in brass tubes,
left of the view. These 6. The lamp, or chandelier, Bhowkg“ g 1110 la “ P : “’ “’ conductors from “achim
visitors, seated around .uxTnnnTnv.’. __
hi v’ t T° “rbon rods, insulated by plaster, h ; their lower ends in brass tubes e
E^rrssas?, *** ‘ - - -sis >™s.:
M. JABLOOHKOFF’s ELECTRIC LIGHT APPARATUS.
correspondent, Mr. Thomson, one of whose sketches is
engraved this week. The supposed site of Old l’apho.-,
said to have been founded by the Amazons, or else by
Cinyras, the father of Adonis, would lie close to the seashore,
near the present village of Konklia, which is seen indicated
towards the left hand in this view; it was here that Venus,
whom the Greeks called Aphrodite, was fabled to have been
bom of the white sea-foam. Huge remnants of masonry at
this place are considered to belong to the ancient temple of
that goddess. On the hill to the right hand, several miles
distant, is the modern town of Baffo, which has superseded
another Greek city, called Neopaphos, erected there by Aga-
penor, grandson of Lycurgus, and inhabited by a colony of
Arcadians. Neopaphos was a flourishing city under the
Romans. It is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, four¬
teenth chapter, as the residence of Sergius Paulus, the Roman
deputy or governor, before whom Paul and Barnabas appeared
to declare the word of God; and it was here that Elymas the
sorcerer was struck with
blindness. These asso¬
ciations give a more par¬
ticular interest to our
View of Paphos, or Baffo
as it is now called. The
, tents of the English
military encampment are
fISKC HIR shown upon the cliff near
!LvCs§SM: * The first meeting of
Z the Executive Council baa
been held, and active
preparations are being
made for occupying the
time of the Legislative
Council. Among the first
j measures submitted to
; \ this body will be a pro-
j [iPij ffifl • posal for the conversion
j Wv^vJbB : of tithes into some oth*r
! • form of charge, probably
'vjjj into the form of a land-
rent limited in duration
and open to revision. A
Customs tariff will be
enacted; a scheme con-
, sidered for a judicial
I organisation, the novel
| > features of which will
1 ^ consist in a Chief Justice
Rk with appellate, civil, and
fw original criminal juris*
A diction, and in a Puisne
Judge who will embrace
||| the island in his circuit.
Y Matters of administration
and social order will re¬
ceive consideration; and
fc the whole criminal law
will probably be changed,
- either by tig enactment
lductor lnif-l.es to wiic roils in its entirety 0
Indian Penal Code or by
: a, a, wires conveying elec- the introduction of the
: ,c. principles of
Z criminal law as codified
in the bill prepared by
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 2, 1878.—409
.'CB TO TUB KHOJA K PASS, FROM PBR8HIN, ON THE ROAD TO CANDAHAR.
410
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
NOV. 2, 1878
THE IMPENDING AFGHAN WAR.
SHSS-3H;KSr-%i
iZZ^t tafAm^Shere All bcfoielheT^lS^on of
war, explaining thedimger of bis present cou»3.^heViceroy «
iourney to Lahore hns been abandoned. All the troops pro
Jetding to Pcshawur have been ordered to remain at^assan
Quetta, and the 3rd Scinde Horse and 1st OM
Sfesst* &«£ res?2B
Vrice^so^^^ aU the other^els
of Bhop^ h^ offered to place her army at the disposal
the 1 Indian Government, and a battalion of her troops ; has
volunteered for service. It is said that an intense enthusiasm
prevails among the Indian native troops, who are eager for em¬
ployment. Many of the native rulers and great nobloinen are
offering their troops and personal service, along with gifts of
irfliisnnrfc cattle carts, elephants, and stores. General Ross is
smjerseded by General Maude in the command at p cshawuu
General Stewart is to assume the command at Mooltan- Orders
have been given for the collection at Pesliawur of stores and
to Th^on or { 2^ Jer QeWfl w hj c h is important is the defection
from the Ameer of the Lalpoom Mohmunds whose' territory
extends a long distance north and west of the Khyber Pass
Their chief is Yakoob Khan’s father-ui-law, aud one of his
finn supporters. A St. Petersburg telegram states that the
Ruseiuu P general staff has had printed several thousand copies
of a new Afghnn-Russian dictionary for the use of Russian
officers. The Russian papers now openly avow ^at General
Stolietoff’s mission was designed to tie England s hands on the
A circular has been issued from the War Office intimating
that men enlisted for six years’ service with the colours, who
arc now under orders or may be required for service m India,
and who have completed three years of their first term of
service, may extend their period with the colours to nine
ye£l Amongst the special orders for India which have been
received at the Roval Arsenal, Woolwich, is a requisition for
star shcllB of a pattern just introduced into the service. Each
contains twenty-one magnesium stare, which, when the shell
explodes in the air, will light up a large tract of country with
great brilliancy for several minutes.
We present this week several Illustrations of Afghanistan,
which are more particularly commented upon in another
article. The view of the Khojak Pass, between Quetta and
Cnndahar, is taken, by permission, from the series of “ Sketches
in Afghanistan,” published by Mr. Henry Graves, of Pall-mall.
—
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
The Council of Ministers met on Tuesday, and Marshal
MacMuhon signed a list of changes in the prefectorial staff.
The Chambers reassembled on Monduy after the recess.
No business of importance was transacted in cither House.
The Senate adjourned until Thursday, and the Chamber until
Monday next.
The elections of senatorial delegates, which took place on
Sunday, passed off quietly. Few of the results are known,
but in those cases Republican candidates have been returned.
M. de Marcere, accompanied by M. Leperc, the Under¬
secretary of State, attended the opening of the mayoralty
of the nineteenth arrondissement on Sunday, aud mode a
thoroughly Republican speech. An immense crowd was
assembled, and bands played the “Marseillaise” as the
Minister went from the mayoralty in his carriage.
An address was presented on Thursday week to the Prince
of Wales by the Colonial Commissioners at the Paris Exhi¬
bition. The address thanked the Prince for his efforts on
behalf of the colonies, and begged him to promote the estab¬
lishment of a permanent colonial museum in London. The
Prince, in reply, said he would ask the Commissioners for the
Exhibition of 1851 to provide the accommodation required. At
the conclusion of his reply the Prince announced that the
Queen had conferred the Order of St. Michael aud St. George
upon Ihe representatives of the colonies at the Exhibition. It
is understood that these honours were bestowed at the request
of the Prince, as a fresh proof of his warm interest in the
colonies. After the ceremony Lord Lyons invited
the colonial deputation to meet the Prince at luncheon.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, the Couut of
Flanders, Don Francis of Assisi, the Crown Prince of Sweden
Marshal and Madame MacMahon, and other distinguished
persons were present in the evening at a ball given by
M. Waddington. Marshal MacMahon on Saturday gave a
dinner at the Elysee, the guests including the Prince and
Princess of Wales, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of
Denmark, the Crown Prince of Sweden, the Count of Flanders,
Lord Lyons, Earl Granville, the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk,
the Earl and Countess of Dudley, General Probyn, Colonel
Ellis, Colonel and Miss Knollys, General Conolly, Mr. and
Mrs. Cunliffe Owen, M. and Madame Waddington, and others.
On Sunday afternoon the Prince und Princess of Wales and
the Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark went up in the
captive balloon. The Prince of Wales went shooting on Mon¬
day with the Marshal at Compiegne, and was present in the
evening at the Theatre Francois at a performance of “ Le
■Sphinx.”
A list of nominations to the Legion of Honour, composed
of foreign members of the jury and of distinguished foreign
exhibitors, has been presented to the Ambassadors, who were
requested to forward the patents to the subjects of their
respective nations. The papers contain many letters from
eminent manufacturers, refusing, as inadequate to their merits,
the medals awarded them by the Exhibition jury. The largest
attendance on any one day at the Paris Exhibition was reached
on Sunday, when the number of visitors exceeded 209,000.
At a meeting of the central committee of the National
Lottery, held last Saturday, it was decided that, os the eight
million of tickets was already completely exhausted, the capital
of the lottery should be raised to ten millions. This figure, it
is announced, will be final. The committee also authorised
the purchase of new prizes to the amount of 2,255,00§f.
A fete was given on Thursday week by the Freemasons
belonging to the Grand Orient of France to their brethren
who are visitors to Paris. It took place in the Trocadero
Palace, and about 4000 were present, besides. a ^^ mimber
of ladies. In the evening there was a banquet at the Conti
T1Cn 'll!e H aimual public sitting of the five sections of the
Acadimie France was held yesterday week M. L “ bo « la 7 e »
who presided, dwelt on the revolutions in ideas effected by
tter known as “ Pipe-cn-Bois,”
di«Tlast Saturday. He was banished for the part he took in
^i^CommuneTbut w *> s allowed by the Government to return
Pnris a fortnieht ago to obtain medical advice.
The trial of 8 the persons charged with being connected
with the Socialist Congress recently held m Paris was brought
to a close on Thursday week. Several of the prisoners were
condemned to sentences ranging from six months imprison¬
ment, with a fine of 200f. to a fine of 16f. The two female
prisoners were acquitted. gpAIN
King Alfonso has returned to the capital from a short visit
to the Northern provinces. His Majesty was everywhere
received with the most loyal manifestations. An attempt was
made yesterday week at Madrid to assassinate t,lie King. A
man fired a pistol at his Majesty in the Callc Mayor but the
King escaped unhurt. The assassin was immediately seized
by the soldiers and taken to prison. The King went on to his
palace amid the cheering of the crowd. On being interrogated,
the prisoner, whose name is Juan OUva Moucasi. dedared
himself to be a member of the International Society, and
stated that he had come from Tarragona, his native place, to
Madrid, where he arrived about a week ago, with the
intention of killing the King. The Spanish newspapers
of all shades of opinion have expressed their horror or
the crime. Numerous congratulatory telegrams have been
received by the King, and the public indignation at the
attempt on the life of his Majesty is extreme. Imme¬
diately after the occurrence had become known the Ministers
and Foreign Representatives proceeded to the Royal palace to
congratulate the King upon his providential escape. A solemn
“ Te Dcum ” was celebrated on Sunday, at the expense of the
municipality, in the Church of Santa Maria in thanksgiving for
the King’s escape from assassination. All the Ministers, the
chief civil and military authorities, and a number of other dis¬
tinguished personages attended the service. Similar celebrations
were held in all the principal provincial towns. The King has
received telegrams from several European Sovereigns con¬
gratulating him upon his escape. Both Houses of the Cortes
pnesed on Wednesday motions protesting against the attempt
on the life of the King.
King Alfonso presided on Tuesday at a Cabinet Council in
Madrid, at which several hours were spent over an examination
of the present condition of the working men’s associations in
Catalonia, and in connection with which a communication was
made by the Minister of State as to important despatches
which have been exchanged between the Governments of
France, Austria, Germany, and Italy on questions connected
with Socialism and Secret Societies, and in view of the probable
united legislative action.
ITALY.
The ministerial crisis is over. The Commendatore Brin has
accepted the Ministry of Marine, and the portfolio of Agri¬
culture and Commerce has been accepted by Professor Pessina,
on the condition that he is not to enter upon the daties of the
office for some weeks. Signor Pessina is an eminent writer on
political economy, an advocate at the Neapolitan bar, aud a
member of the Chamber of Deputies.
Addressing his constituents on Sunday, Signor Minghctti
reproached the Government with having created distrust
abroad and encouraged vain illusions at home. He strongly
defended the action of Count Corti at the Congress, and urged
the necessity of wisdom, moderation, and sincerity in dealing
with a neighbouring and friendly Power, adding, in conclusion,
that there was territory that might form the object of legitimate
aspirations, but the opportunity for such rectifications of
frontiers only come to nations who follow a wise policy.
Headed by Mcnotti Garibaldi, about 2000 persons on
Sunday went to the VUla Gloria, near Rome, to celebrate the
anniversary of the desperate engagement in 1867 between 500
Pontifical Zouaves and a column of seventy Garibaldians com¬
manded by Henry Cairoli, brother of the present Premier.
SWITZERLAND.
The results of the elections to the National Council,
held on Sunduy, show that the position of political parties is
unchanged, the Liberals retaining a large majority.
GERMANY.
Field Marshal Moltkc entered upon his seventy-ninth year
on Saturday lost. The Field Marshal has quite recovered from
his recent attack of erysipelas.
The contract for the New Four per Cent Prussian Loan of
CO,000,000 marks was signed yesterday week by the Minister
of Finance and by Messrs. Rothschild, Bleichroder, and the
Lisconto Gesellschaft, the contractors for the loan.
Notices for the suppression of three Working Men’s Socialist
Societies have been issued by the District Governor of
Zwickau.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
Baron Depretis has placed his resignation of the task of
forming a new Austrian Cabinet in the hands of the Emperor.
He grounds his relinquishment on the impossibility of forming
a Parliamentary Ministry under present circumstances.
In Wednesday’s sitting of the Austrian Budget Committee,
the Government bill sanctioning the grant of 25,000,00011. was
brought forward. The Committee decided, however, not to
enter upon the discussion of the grant at present, aud called
upon the Government to present the Treaty of Berlin to the
Rcichsrath without delay, declaring that it ought to have been
submitted before the occupation of Bosnia was undertaken.
M. Koloman Ghiczy, the Ministerial candidate, has been
elected President of the Hungarian Chamber of Deputies by
206 votes out of 350 votes recorded. In Wednesday’s sitting a
resolution was brought forward by the Extreme Left proposing
the impeachment of the whole Ministry, and it was resolved
that the debate on the resolution should take place on Nov. 5.
Herr Tisza, the President, afterwards made a speech, in which
he explained the origin of the Ministerial crisis. Herr Szell,
the Finance Minister, had resigned because ho found the regu¬
lation of the finances disturbed by the unforeseen expenses
incurred in the Bosnian occupation. The other Ministers con¬
sidered it their duty to resign at the same time. They merely
held office provisionally now in order to carry on the Adminis¬
tration, and were of opinion that the crisis should be ended
as soon as possible.
RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
It is stated in St. Petersburg that Count Schouvaloff is
to receive an important post in the Ministry for Foreign
Affairs, and that he will be succeeded as Ambassador in London
by Prince Orloff.
In proclaiming the transfer of the Dobrudscha to Rou-
mania, the Governor of Tultcha has notified that all political
manifestations are forbidden.
A proclamation has been issued by the Governor of Bess¬
arabia informing the inhabitants of the districts which have
just been incorporated with Russia that they will bo free from
taxation until next January.
The Commission for the reorganisation of Eastern Roumelia
met at Philippopolis on Tuesday. Their place of meeting w,«
immediately surrounded by a crowd of Bulgarians, who
demanded the incorporation of that province with Bulgaria.
The Porte hns asked from Russia an explanation of the re¬
turn of her troops to the positions which they had evacuated.
Baker Pasha lias undertaken to carry out his plans for com¬
pleting the fortifications of Constantinople within two mouths.
The scheme of reforms for Asia Minor which was proposed
by the Marquis of Salisbury has been signed by the Sultuu
and delivered to Sir A. H. Layard.
Sir Henry Layard has addressed a Note to the Porte, insist¬
ing in energetic terms upon the execution of the convention
with this country abolishing the sale and importation of slaves.
The Mixed Financial Commission held its first sitting at
Constantinople on Tuesday, aiul resolved to observe absolute
secrecy ns to its proceedings.
The Porte has sent to its representatives abroad a Circular
describing the present position of the Mussulmans in Roumelia
and Bulgaria as intolerable. It is mentioned in another
despatch from Constantinople that a Note has been addressed
to the Porte by Prince Labanoff stating that the Rusiiau
authorities arc responsible for excesses committed by Bul¬
garians, and that they will take military measures against the
irruption of Bulgarians into Macedonia.
On the recommendation of General Nedjeb Pasha, Mr.
Frank Scudamore, son of Mr. Frank Ives Scudamore, has
received the Turkish war medal for his services with the
Stafford House hospitals and ambulances in the Balkans and
Bulgaria. SERVIA.
The Government hns received from the Moscow Committee
another present of 100,000 gold imperials. At the request of
the Czar, Prince Milan lias issued a decree founding a chair
for Russian literature at the University of Belgrade. Ia
official circles at Belgrade it is stated that the Servian army
will be immediately demobilised and reduced to a peica
footing.
EGYPT.
The Princes and Princesses of the Khedive’s family ycat-r¬
elay week completed, according to the formalities of the
Mussulman law, the act of ceding their landed property to the
State, represented on the occasion by Nubar Pasha. A decree,
countersigned by the President of the Council of Ministers,
has been issued by the Khedive, formally confirming the cession
of the lands and palaces of his family, and transferring them
to the State in perpetuity. He has also authorised Mr. Rivers
Wilson to contract a five per cent loan, not exceeding
£8,500,000, guaranteed by the ceded property, supplemented,
if needed, by an appropriation from the general Egyptian
revenue.
GREECE.
By a majority of four votes, the bill brought into the
Chamber by the Government, for calling out the third
and fourth class of the military reserves, was rejected in
Tuesday’s sitting of the Chamber. In consequence of this the
Ministry tendered its resignation, which was accepted by the
King. MM. Zaimis and Tricoupis have been summoned to
the palace.
AMERICA.
Speeches have been delivered by President II ay os aud Mr.
Secretary Sherman at Cumberland, Maryland, expressing a
conviction that there is every Indication of reviving prosperity
in the United States. The balance of trade, Mr. Sherman said,
was in favour of America to the extent of 289,000,099 dols.
A letter from Mr. Evarts, Secretary of State, to Sir.
Welch, the United States Minister in London, with reference
to the case of the American fishermen driven away from
Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, expresses regret that this
question should have arisen so near the time for the settle¬
ment of the Halifax award. Mr. Evarts states, in conclusion,
that until the reply of England has been received it would bo
premature to consider what course the States should take.
Since the outbreak of yellow’ fever in the Southern Stilt os
it is estimated that 30,000 persons have been attacked by Viz
epidemic, fatally in about 12,000 cases. Twenty-two deaths
from the fever occurred ut New Orleans on Sunday, and four
at Memphis.
The storm wind* burst over America last week was very
destructive to life aud property. It originated off the Florida
coast on Sunday, and struck the middle of the Atlantic coast
on Wednesday morning, expending its greatest force in tbs
States of New Jersey aud Pennsylvania. In Philadelphia
nearly 400 dwellings were unroofed aud 118 dwellings were
partly demolished ; twenty-two churches, seventy-nine mills
and factories, warehouses, schools, and several railway stations
were damaged ; two bridges were blown down, and seventeen
vessels sunk or damaged in the river. Five persons were killed,
and forty or fifty injured. In a wreck in Chesapeake Bay
twenty persons perished, and eighteen more were lost in a ship
which foundered off Cape Henry, and other cases of drowning
are reported.
Securities to the value of 2,673,000 dols. aud 84,000 dols.
in cash and negotiable bonds w-ere stolen by burglars on
Sunday from the “ Manhattan Savings Institution.”
Several whites in South Carolina have been arrested by the
authorities for interfering with political meetings, aud tor
intimidating the negroes.
The Australian cricketers have won a match at San r ran-
cieco against the twenty-two of California by an innings and
135 runs. The Australians scored 302 in their first innings,
while the twenty-two obtained only 62 in their first and 10o m
their second innings. The Australian team of cricketers sailed
from San Francisco last Monday, on their home passage.
THE CAPE COLONIES.
Sir Bartle Frere on the 8th ult., the time the latest news
was telegraphed from Cape Town, was still at Maritzburg, and
General Thesiger, the commander-in-chief, was inspecting the
frontier posts. From the Transvaal and the northern harder
no fresh intelligence has been received.
The King of Dahomey has had another “ grand custom,
and has slain several hundreds of his subjects within a montti.
Mr. Pope Hennessy, the Governor of Kong-Kong, has
received from Mr. Belilios, a director of the Hong-Kong ana
Shanghai Bank, £1000 for the erection of a statue to the Lori
of Beaconsfield at Hong-Kong.
The Indian correspondent of the Times states that new
from Mandalay continues satisfactory. The attitude of the new
King and his Ministers towards the British Government is
infinitely more conciliatory than in the last reign.
Serious disturbances are reported to have occurred at
Foochow, where the chapel of the Euglish missionaries has
been burned down by the Chinese. Assistance was asked for,
and a party of men was dispatched from her Majesty s 8lu J
Nassau to the scene of the riots.
NOV. 2, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
411
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THE WANDERING MINSTREL.
A graceful and pleasant scene is this of the lady and gentle¬
man in an elegant garden delighting themselves with the song
and guitar-music of a gentle feminine performer, who is
accompanied, in her tuneful tour of the country, by a pretty
little boy, carrying in his satchel the scanty provision for their
frugal repast. It is to be hoped that the more fortunate pair,
whose dress and manner betoken a certain degree of rank, in
the courtly fashion of the last century, will bestow a liberal
reward on this humble minister to the amusement of their
tranquil leisure. She is far more welcome to them, no doubt,
in these precincts of a rural mansion, than she would have
been in front of the windows of their towu house in St.
Jnmes’s-square, amongst the link-boys, sedan-chairs, pow¬
dered lackeys, and hackney coaches of bustling West-End
Loudon.
The Society for PromotingChristian Knowledge has received
£1000, given anonymously.
Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P., distributed the prizes at the
Keighley Science and Art Schools on Wednesday.
The Marquis of Lome, Governor-General of Canada, has
been elected a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute.
The Sheffield Town Council resolved on Wednesday to
borrow a further sum of £300,000 for street improvements.
The receipts from the congregational collections iu Bir¬
mingham en Sunday last in aid of the Queen’s Hospital
amounted to £5400.
The annual meeting of the supporters of the City Science
School was held in the Durham Townhall last Saturday, the
•chair being occupied by the Dean of Durham.
Mr. N. Barnaby, C.B., Director of Naval Construction at
the Admiralty, distributed the prizes to the successful students
of the science and art classes at Sheemess on Tuesday.
The Marquis of Ripon on Monday opened a bazaar which
is being held in the Com Exchange, Wakefield, with the obj ect
of raising funds for the erection of new Roman Catholic schools
in that town.
Lord Carnarvon is to deliver the opening address at the
meeting of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution next Tues¬
day. His subject (the Scotsman understands) will be “ Imperial
Administration.”
The Liverpool Town Council resolved on Wednesday to
present an address to the Marquis of Lome and Princess
Louise on Nov. 14, when they will visit Liverpool previous to
their departure for Canada.
The Limerick Chronicle says that Colonel the Hon. Charles
White, Lord Lieutenant of Clare, has sold hi3 Broadford estate
to Mr. Phelps. His mansion and demesne at Cahircon and the
Clondcrlaw estate are also for sale.
A full-length portrait of Mr. S. S. Bankart, painted by
Mr. Sydney Hodges, of Fitzroy-square, has been placed in the
board-room of the Leicestershire Bank, in recognition of his
•valuable services as chairman for several years.
The Town Council of Aberdeen has resolved to confer the
freedom of the city on the Hon. Sir Arthur Gordon, Governor
of Fiji, who is at present living at Haddo House, Aberdeen¬
shire, the residence of his nephew, the Earl of Aberdeen.
A life-size portrait in oil of Mr. Edward Shipley Ellis,
• chairman of the Midland Railway Company, painted by
Mr. Dowling, and subscribed for by a few friends of Mr. Ellis,
was on Tuesday presented to the Corporation of Leicester.
The Simultaneous, or “ Orphans’ Day,” collection iu aid of
the Commercial Travellers’ Schools, was made in every hotel
throughout the United Kingdom on Wednesday, it being the
anniversary of the opening of the institution at Pinner by the
late Prince Consort.
Mr. H. Edwards, Liberal member for Weymouth, having
advanced £5000 to the Corporation at 5 per cent interest for
the extension of the outer pier, writes to the Mayor that he
hands over the entire sum in perpetuity for the benefit of the
poor of Weymouth.
Lieutenant-General Henry Smyth, C B., has been pro¬
moted to the rank of General, and Major-General Richard
Walter Lacy to be Lieutenant-General; Major-General F.
Francis Maude, V.C.,C.B., serving as Major-General on the
Staff in India, to be Lieutenant-General.
At a special meeting of the Warwickshire Chamber of
Agriculture, held at the Shire Hall, Warwick, lost Saturday, a
resolution was unanimously adopted in favour of the cental
(100 lb ) being adopted as the uniform denomination for the
sale of grain, and the secretary was instructed to forward the
resolution of the chamber to the Board of Trade.
The Royal Society announces that applications for grants
from the Government fund of £4000 for the promotion of
scientific research, or from the Government grant of £1000
must be forwarded to the secretaries of the society before the
last day of the present year. The meeting of the committee
to consider the applications made will be held next February.
Last Saturday the annual presentation of prizes given by
the Worcestershire Volunteer Association took place at
Worcester. Eurl Beauchamp, Lord Lieutenant of the county,
presided, and the presentations were made by Countess
Beauchamp. His Lordship mentioned that the first battalion
of Worcestershire Rifle Volunteers had carried off the county
challenge shield nine times, and the second battalion eight times.
The Countess of Derby opened a college for girls in Grove-
street, Liverpool, on Tuesday. The new building, which is in
the Perpendicular Gothic style, is a development of the girls’
collegiate school in Bedford-street North, originated by Dean
Howson when he was Principal of Liverpool College. It is
arranged to accommodate 360 pupils, but is capable of ex¬
tension to the requirements of 240 more. Besides the class¬
rooms there is a lecture-hall, a dining-room, a gymnasium,
and a playground. There are also sleeping and sitting rooms
for the lady superintendent and the teachers.
Publishers announce an unusually large number of
Christmas publications this year. The special Christmas
number of the World, to be issued on Dec. 12, promises to be
particularly attractive. One of the brilliant band of literary
men who assisted the late Charles Dickens in the production
of his inimitably humorous Christmas budgets of fiction, Mr.
Edmund Yates, should know how to please the public palate
to a nicety. Among his contributors will be Mrs. Lynn
Linton, Captain Hawley Smart, Mr. Luke Fildes (who will
lumi&h an illustration to a story entitled “ Found. Dead”),
and Mr. Alfr ed Bryan, a rising young artist, who will portray
the best-known personages of the day in a coloured lithograph
called “ At the Play.”
THE BECKTON GASWORKS.
The Gas Light and Coke Company of London, formed in 1810,
and incorporated by royal charter in 1812, is by far the greatest
manufacturer and dealer iu gas, having annexed to itself, by
successive amalgamations, other large joint-stock concerns of
the same kind all over the metropolis. It is also the oldest
Gas Company, as its operations were commenced very shortly
after the first efforts of Mr. Winsor and others to introduce
the public use of this manucr of lighting the streets. The
earliest conspicuous instance, in England, of gas-lighting for
the interior of large buildings or premises was in 1802, at the
Soho ironworks and engine factory of Messrs. Boulton and
Watt, Birmingham. The name of William Murdoch, a Scotch¬
man, who had begun this application of gas some years before
at Redruth, in Cornwall, and who constructed the Soho gas¬
works, claims to be remembered, equally with that of the
French scientific ‘chemist Lebon, by whom the invention
was made known throughout Europe. Mr. James Clegg
and his successor, Mr. George Low, engineers to the
London Chartered Company in its early times, have the merit
of devising the chief mechanical appliances of gas manu¬
facture.
The Beckton Gasworks of this great company, named after
Mr. Simon Adams Beck, its chairman, were erected between
1868 and 1870 at a place on the north bank of the Thames,
about one mile below North Woolwich, and just above Barking
Creek. It was almost exactly opposite this plat* that the late
terrible disaster of the Princess Alice occurred ; and it wifi be
recollected that Mr. W. Trewby, resident managing director
of the Gasworks, then earned a share of public applause by
his prompt efforts to rescue the drowning, and his kind care of
those brought to land on that shore. We are now indebted to
him, and to Mr. Frederick Beale, deputy engineer, for the
opportunity of furnishing an Illustration of one of the pro¬
cesses, with a brief account of the gas manufacture at Beckton.
It will be of general interest at the present time, when many
shareholders in gasworks all over the kingdom feel somewhat
alarmed, we hope without much cause, at the rumoured
approaching competition of the Electric Light.
The aspect of Beckton is very striking to passengers down
the river. Vast piles of building, with a stately monu¬
mental clock-towcr in the spacious front lawn, and with seven
or eight immense gasholders (cylindrical iron structures painted
a bright red, supported by lofty iron pillars), rise near the
water’s edge.. Wharves and timber jetties, with a branch line
of railway, serve for the accommodation of a large private
traffic. The premises cover about 150 acres; and, in addition
to the gasworks, the company are now erecting chemical
works for the manufacture of tar and valuable liquors from
coal. The number of persons employed here is altogether
nearly 2000, of whom about 1200 work in the retort-houses. It
is an establishment to be compared in magnitude with that of
Woolwich Arsenal, on the opposite shore. Beckton is a remark¬
able creation of industrial enterprise, capital, and labour,
which has a more imposing appearance to the visitor from its
lonely situation. Around this spot, for a mile or so in
every direction, extend wide open spaces, the East Ham and
Barking marshes, with the broadening reaches of the Thames,
and the Plumstead marshes, on the Kentish shore, bounded by
the fair hills cf Abbey Wood and Belvedere. But after enter¬
ing the Gasworks, with competent guidance, one finds much
that is worthy of inspection.
The first department to be seen is that of the retort-houses,
in which the coal is distilled by the heat of underground
furnaces. There are at Beckton ten retort-houses, each 360 ft.
long and 100 ft. wide, and two larger retort-houses, which are
460ft. by 100 ft. The aggregate number of retorts is 4562. Each
retort-house is provided with its annexed buildings and appa-
ratusof “condensers,” “exhausters,” “scrubbers,”“purifiers,”
“ meter,” and “ gas-holder,” hereafter described. This system
is complete for each section of the works. Altogether, Beckton
is able, in the busiest winter time, to use up 2400 tons of coal
daily, producing 25,000,000 cubic feet of gas. In summer
its consumption of coal may average 4000 tons a week.
It is-chiefly Newcastle coal that is used, with a certain pro¬
portion of cannel, which is mostly from Scotland, but latterly
some canuel has been got from the Midland Counties. A ton
of coal yields at least 10,000 cubic feet of gas, besides one
chaldron of coke, ten gallons of tar, and twenty gallons of amtno-
niacal liquor, articles of commercial value. The gas made at
Beckton is all of uniform quality, and is supplied to consumers
in every part of London, some at a distance of fourteen miles.
Our Illustration shows men engaged in charging the retorts
with coal. Aretort is a horizontal tubeof fire-clay, twentyinches
wide, thirteen inches deep, and twenty feet long, the interior
shaped like an inverted D (thus, p), with a circular door at
each end, for filling and emptying, half the length being filled
at the door of one end, the other half at the opposite door ;
and with an ascension pipe, for the gas, rising perpendicularly
at each end. The coal, as used, is in the state familiar
to housekeepers as “ small coal,” aud is heaped on the
floor of the retort-house, against the wall confront¬
ing the range of retort-doom, which is shown in our
Illustration. The arrangement on the other side, at the other
ends of the retorts, laid transversely across the building, is
precisely similar. The retorts are laid in sets of eight or nine
above each furnace-house, and are so arranged, the lower and
upper tier alternately, that the bottoms of all are equally
exposed to the furnace-heat. Each retort will contain 2f cwt.
of coal, and it is charged for six hours. The work of charging
a retort takes about half an hour. It is done by three or four
stokers at each end ; after filling a “ scoop,” which is a con¬
cave sort of shovel, 10 ft. long, they lift it and thrust it into the
retort as far as it will go, then turn it over to empty it, and
withdraw it from the retort, leaving the coal evenly spread
along the bottom of the retort. Some coal is also thrown in
by shovels, but care is taken that it is equally distributed
throughout the length of the retort, which has to be accurately
filled. The flames burst out violently when the retort-door is
opened. The heat is oppressive, and the labour must be very
exhausting for the men. They have also to empty the retorts
of the coke, by raking it out after the gas is distilled. Methods
of gas-stoking by machinery have been proposed, which it is
hoped will be found practicable. Each gang of men has about
ninety retorts to look after. The coke is partly used for the
fuel of the furnaces below, and part of it Bold.
The gas, which is a foul, hot fume, consisting, in the gross
state, of all the mixed gaseous products of the coal as it rises
through the ascending tubes, is collected in the hydraulic
main. This is a horizontal tube, of from 12 in. to 18 in.
diameter, which passes along the front, above the retorts. The
top of each ascending tube is made to bend over and dip into
the hydraulic main from above. The hydraulic main iB partly
filled with tar, formed by the condensation of the gas. This
tar “ seals ” the open mouth of each tube, so as to prevent air
or gas passing back into the tube and down into the retort, as
it would otherwise do whenever the retort-door is opened. But
the gas discharged from the retort by the ascending tube
comes up through the tar in bubbles, and is collected in
Idle vacant upper space of the hydraulic main. This prin¬
ciple of “ sealing” the vessels of different kinds to contain the
gas, in the course of its manufacture aud stowage, by
immersing the lower open part of the vessel in some liquid,
usually in water, is of great importance. Its application in
the ordinary gas-holder, which resembles an inverted tumbler
held up with the edges dipping in water, is familiar to every¬
body.
From the hydraulic main, in the retort-house, the gas
passes out of that house to be cooled in what is called the
“ condenser.” Each retort-house can turn out the quantity of
2£ millions of cubic feet of gas daily. The gas, as it reaches
the condenser, which stands in the open air at some distance from
the retort-house, is rather hot, its temperature being commonly
125 degrees. This is reduced to 85 degrees by passing through
the condenser, which is an arrangement of horizontal tubes,
108 feet long; all the gas is sucked four times through that
length, and in so doing parts with its tar and other liquid sub¬
stances. The gas next passes into a building furnished with
“exhausters,” as they are called, which are machines worked
by steam, with revolving fans or flanges, like those of a
screw-propeller, set in the interior of the cylinders, through
which a strong current or draught is kept up, pumping the gas
out of the condensers, and thereby accelerating its flow out of
the hydraulic mains and retorts, while at the same time forcing
its pressure onwards to the “scrubbers” and “purifiers.”
There are fifteen exhausters at work, varying in capacity from
100,000 to 180,000 cubic feet an hour. The “ purifiers,” which
have the outward appearance of covered tanks, 30 ft. square
and 6 ft. deep, each with a ponderous convex lid of iron, are
the vessels in which the gas is forced to pass through layers of
oxide of iron and of lime, to get rid of its objectionable
elements by their chemical affinity. The sulphide of hydrogen
aud carbonic acid gas are thus absorbed ; but there is, previous
to that of the “purifiers,” a rudimentary cleansing process in
the action of the “ scrubbers,” which are irou towers, some
30ft. high and some 60ft., where the gas is “washed,” in
ermeating a mass of coke, with a fine spray of water rained
own from from a wheel covered with brushwood at the top.
The water used in this process (Mann and Walker’s patent)
is converted into an ammoniacal liquor of some value. There
are thirty scrubbers and ninety-six purifiers at the Beckton
Gasworks. The oxide of iron is the most efficient agent of
chemical purification from sulphuretted hydrogen, and it has
the advantage of being readily separated, afterwards, from the
sulphur it has taken away, so that it may be used again and
again for the same purpose. Large quantities of fouled oxide
of iron are sold by the Chartered Gas Company to manu¬
facturing chemists, and are re-purchased for the service of
these gasworks.
The outward aspect of the gas-holders, popularly but
wrongly called “ gasometers,” has been alluded to, and is
familiar enough in every town of England. Those at Beckton
are of stupendous size, but some bigger than others ; there are
two of them, which have each a capacity of two millions of
cubic feet; two containing each a million and a half; aud
four holding each one million. The Company are prepared to
keep in store 10,800,000 cubic feet of gas during the winter.
There is a much larger gas-holder at Kenuington, belonging to
the rheenix Company, which holds above 3,00U,000of cubic feet.
The largest gas-holdere are of what is called telescopic con¬
struction, with a joint of two cylinders, the upper portion made
to slide up, by the pressure of the increasing quantity of gas,
and to form a second compartment above the lower cylinder.
The height at which the cylinder stands, its sides being marked
with measured spaces, indicates the bulk of gas it contains at
the time. The meter-house is near, in which the amount of
the gas supply, or rate of pressure, is precisely measured by
self-registering machinery, which shows it also on a dial.
Here, too, the illuminating power of the gas is beautifully
shown by Lowe’s jet photometer. The length or height of a
flame which lias the prescribed illuminating power—say, the
equivalent of sixteen sperm candles, each candle to consume
120 grains of sperm in the hour—ought to show no variation
from gas supplied at a uniform pressure. For testing the
chemical purity of gas there are many delicate appliances in
the offices of the managers at Beckton and in the Loudon
offices. We need not, however, attempt to describe these
refined adjuncts to the manufacture, on an enormous scale, of
one of the most useful commodities of civilised life.
The German Empress has sent to Mrs. McGonnell, wife of
the chief boatman at Folkestone, a handsome gold brooch,
accompanied by a letter conveying the grateful acknowledg¬
ments of the Emperor and her Majesty of the charitable assist¬
ance rendered by Mrs. McGonnell to the sufferers by the loss of
the Grosser Kurfiirst.
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows that
the total number of paupers at the end of the fourth week iu
October was 77,660, of whom 40,465 were in workhouses and
37,195 received outdoor relief. Compared with the corre¬
sponding weeks in 1877, 1876, and 1875, these figures show
a decrease of 871, 760, and 4764 respectively. The number
of vagrants relieved on the last day of the week was 951, of
whom 617 were men, 256 women, and 78 children.
H.M.S. Himalaya arrived at Larnaca, Cyprus, on Tuesday
evening with the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Minister
for War. Sir Garnet Wolseley was there to meet them. Vice-
Admiral Hornby, on board her Majesty’s de spa tch-vessel
Helicon, arrived there on Monday. Sir Garnet Wolseley has
telegraphed to the War Office that the sick soldiers are all
doing well; that the work of hutting is making satisfactory
progress; that the climate of Cyprus is now extremely
pleasant; aud that no rain of importance has yet fallen.
The result of the poll at Peterborough on Tuesday was the
return by a large majority of the Hon. J. W. Fitzwilliam, the
Moderate Liberal candidate, who polled more votes than the
other two candidates together. The numbers were—Fitzwilliam
(Liberal), 1360; Lawrence (Conservative), 671; Raper (Advanced
Liberal), 653. Mr. George Potter (Liberal) had retired from
the contest.—The secretary of the Westminster Conservative
Association contradicts a statement which has been made that
the Right Hon. W. H. Smith does not intend again to offer
himself as a candidate for Westminster.—Several political
meetings, at which the Eastern Question has been the chief
bone of contention, have been held during the past week.
The labours of the Social Science Congress at Cheltenham,
were brought to a close on Wednesday by an address in the
Ladies’ College by Mr. G. W. Hastings, the president of the
council. Lord Norton occupied the chair, and there was a
large attendance. Mr. Hastings referred to the legal measures
introduced by the Government last Session, and said the con¬
gress had passed a resolution approving of the Attorney-
General’s measure for codifying and consolidating the statute
law. The general meeting of the congress was held sub¬
sequently, under the presidency of Lord Norton. A short
report was read from the secretaries of the various depart¬
ments, and votes of thanks were cordially passed to Lord
Norton, the presidents of the departments, Mr. Robinson,
the assistant-secretary, and the rest of the officials of tho
congress.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, NOV. 2, 1878.—418
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.
. I.IOHT APPARATUS: DYNAMO-ELECTRICAL MACHINE OF GRAMME.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON KEWS
NOV. 2, 1878
echoes of the week.
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soul I know that I ought to come home at once.
i« decidedly of that opinion. The butcher says dRt•
Bmke” The London fog, the London smoke, the nun, the
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song about a land full of oranges and lemons, of fig» jud
myrtle, a land where the sun is bright and the sky is blue.
t da da* Land t I fancy that Nice, in the Department of
the Maritime Alps, must be very like it.
Pnris is full of English Grand Prizemen and Gold Medal-
1iJ“Jdlboie°»S~DM« awarded to tha exhibitor, rn t h o
British section of the Exposition Uuiversolle arc ce ^ ta " ll {
numerous and brilliant enough to warrant the existe nce o f a
considerable amount of jubilation among our ™*nti7men.
Following the Ituliun custom of drinking the health of A
Sella Famiglia ’’-the British equivalent for which is^the toast of
“ Our noble selves ’’—there can be no harm in recalling the
nleosiii" fact that a gold medal has been conferred on the
“Ingram” steam printing-machine of the Illustrated London
FtJi I happened, in company with a friend from Chicago,
it S A., to pass the remarkable engine m question, the other
day, and an intelligent Englishman in charge of the machine
gave my American friend and myself a very lucid explanation
of its principal features. I asked the intelligent machinist
if the Jllu*trated London Acres was not a journal with a very
largo circulation, and altogether quite a family paper. 1 es,
he replied : that was the case. Then we went on our way,
and I saw him no more.
Altogether, we have every reason to be proud of the show
w hich we have made in the Trocadero and the Champ de Mars
Once more foreigners have generously admit ted that we take the
lead in calicoes, machinery and machine tools, ceramics, glass,
biscuits, preserved provisions, whisky, and beer. Sir Joseph
"Whitworth nnd Co. take a more splendid rank at Pans in_ 18(8
than lie rr Krupp took in 18G7. The Whitworth Exhibit has
gained no less than three Grand Prizes for machinery and
metal working, and a gold medal in addition for artillery.
Quite ns gratifying is the recognition accorded to the manu¬
facturers of pottery and of glass. In ceramics Minton, of
course, takes a Grand Prix. Due justice has thus been done
-to the superb works in ceramics exhibited by the renowned
firm of Stoke-on-Trent, conspicuous among which are the
wonderfully graceful productions in piite-sur-pulc of M. Solon-
Miles, and the curiously beautiful and, indeed, unique etchings
cn porcelain executed by Mr. William Goode, a member of the
firm which has acquired the whole of the Minton exhibit. A
Grand Prix goes, amidst general acclamation, to Messrs.
Boulton for their admirable Lambeth faience; while gold
medals have been given to the historic houses of Copeland and
of Wedgwood, to Brown and Westhead, and to the Worcester
Force’ain Company—not, I should say, because their pro¬
ductions are in any way inferior to those of Minton or of
Doulton, but because there were no more Grand Prix in this
particular section to give away.
In glnsB. monumental, table, and ornamental, the triumph
of the British manufacturer has been equally marked. Thomas
Webb and Sons, of Stourbridge and London, receive the Grand
Prix for their exhibits in engraved, sculptured, intaglio, and
coloured glass, for chandeliers and lustres, vases, tazze, and
plateaux in pure white crystal, in bronzed and iridescent, and
in poh chromatic glass. A gold medal goes to the renowned
home'of Osier, of Birmingham, London, and Calcutta.
Do you remember Osier’s Crystal Fountain in tbe Hyde
Park Exhibition in 1851? Osier’s Fountain was a favourite
trysting-plnce then, just as Gustave Dore’s vase is in the Paris
Exhibit ion now. “ Meet me at tbe Crystal Fountain at a quarter
to four” you used to say to the adored one of your heart. She
ftnilccl nnd blushed consent; and she was true to her rendez¬
vous, judiciously bringing her youngest sister, aged nine, with
her. It was the adored one of your heart who broke it by
marrying Captain Prosser, late of the Bombay Fencibles. You
met iicr flit other day looking at Barbedicnne’s brouzes in the
Exhibition. She is the mother of eight, and a grandmother—
ha ! hu a grandmother. She remarked that you had grown
stout. You managed to get that heart which she broke
mended : but now and again you feel the brass rivets which
keep the tracked organ together pressing against your ribs.
Stout, indeed! You watched her breakfasting at the Restaurant
•Catelnin, and she ate “ biftek aux pomme* ” enough for two—
she who could with difficulty be persuaded in’51 to partake of
so much as a Bath bun at Farrance’s.
Mem: Among the Osier exhibits, comprising, os they do,
a colossal Gothic sideboard in pure crystal with an ebony
buffet, a number of stately chandeliers and candelabra,
and smaller lustres and girandoles, presenting a very beauti¬
ful and novel combination of metal with ornamental glass,
there is an article which to my mind might serve
substantially towards a pacific settlement of the Afghan¬
istan difficulty. The article to which I allude is a
throne, cushioned with crimson velvet; but the structure
of which is entirely of crystal. Now, I deferentially venture
to express the opinion that if this crystal throne could be
acquired by the Indian Government, and if Lord Lytton
were only to send a photograph of this dazzling piece of fur¬
niture to Shore Ali, with an intimation that it should be his if
he would only promise to be a good Ameer, and have nothing
more to do with those wicked Russians, the morose ruler of
Afghanistan would straightway promise to abandon all his
intlipurs, to forswear his Muscovite alliances, and to welcome
a British embassy with a powerful escort three times a week.
De< in not the remedy which I have proposed a ridiculous one.
A dinner at in the Palais Royal in July, 1815,timeously
organised by the Duke of Wellington, was sufficient to dis¬
suade Blucber from blowing up the Bridge of Jena. “ I must
and will blow it up,” grumbled old “Marshal Vorwarts” over
his bisque soup. But, when he got to his parfait an cafe , and
liis third bottle of Moet and Chandon, and was preparing to
light hit meerschaum, he seized the Duke’s hand, and cried,
“Never was there such a dinner, I will not blow up the Bridge
of Jena."
While our great art-manufacturers, constructors of
other houses receive gold medals for products of the same
class) and while no less than five grand prizes and twenty-two
gold medals have been given to British exhibitors ^escction
of mining nnd metallurgy, the less important but, from a
social pofnt of view, highly important section of alimentary
products has attracted due attention and has receivedI wa-
spicuous reward. The French have sneered at us as a nation
nirkles and of fiery and indigestible sauces.
Their chef* are beginning to use Harvey and Worcestershire
curry and cliutnee, in their kitchens; and they have
awarded two gold medals and a bronze one to Crosse and
Blackwell, of Soho-square, for their exhibits ^ preserved
nrovisions, pickles, sauces, zests, condiments, vinegar, aui
preserved fruit. More conspicuous still is the concession of
a Grand Prix to Messrs. Huntley and Palmer, biscuit manu¬
facturers, of Reading, whose products are to bo found m
almost every restaurant, cafe, and grocer s shop in I?ans, as,
indeed, they- are to be found pretty nearly the whole world
over. I cannot remember to have visited any country.how¬
ever remote or imperfectly civilised, where I have not met
with Elkington’s spoons nnd forks, Mappin s razors, Benson s
watches, Crosse and Blackwell’s anchovy saucx' and Keatmg s
cough lozenges. I must not say anything aboutCocklc s pills,
because Captain Burnaby has a literary copyright in thorn
beneficent boluses; but if the undaunted traveller, soldi.
and candidate for Birmingham ever goes to Uextao' mxy
whisper to him that, in the street called the Calle Ancha, in
the town of Guadalajara, he will find a druggist s shop, kept
bv Diego Campcro, a very honest man, who will supply linn
the antibilious specific of the Sefior Cockle. As for Huntley
and Palmer’s biscuits, one of the chief reasons, I take
it, for their popularity in forcigu parts is that they do
not lose their freshness and good quality with ags.
They will keep; whereas the French and Italiau
biscuits, all nice and tasty as they are, soon become dry
and insipid. Two more gold medals m the alimentary
section have been given to Messrs. Column—one for mustard
and one for starch. The award for mustard is obviously well
merited. The excellence of the French “ montarde de maille
has within recent years sadly degenerated, nor was it at its
best a powerful mustard ; while the French, who are rapidly
becoming a nation of beefeaters (I wish that they would not
eat their beef more than half raw), naturally demand a more
pungent condiment than they have been formerly' accustomed
to. They find it in Column's mustard. Two silver medals
have also been won by Messrs. Keene, Robinson, B.-dlville, and
Co., a house which dates from the year 1742—one me lil for
mustard and another—Miss Mary Hooper, that distinguished
authority on gruel, will be glad to learn—for the preparation
known as Robinson’s Patent Groats. I am very fondot groats,
myself; but I like them best in the shape of fourpeireiy-
pieces.
Mem: Tbe fermented beverage section of the alimentary
department presents a due display cf Irish and Scotch whiskies,
headed by Dunville of Belfast’s “V. R.;” but neither Bass
nor Allsopp actunlly exhibit their world-famous pale ales. On
the other hand, Allsopp"s bitter beer is drank all over Pans,
and is to be had at any restaurant nnd buffet in the Exposition.
Furthermore, the claims of British beer have been gracefully
acknowledged by the award of a gold medal to John Bindley
and Co., of Burton-on-Treut, for the purity, brilliancy, and
flavour of their strong, mild, and pale ales. A final instance of
the equity and right feeling of the international juries is visible
in the award of a gold medal to Messrs. Fry for their pre¬
parations of chocolate and cocoa. That such a recompense
should be given to an English firm in France, the country par
excellence of chocolate manufacturers, is pleasantly significant.
Let me wind up this necessarily imperfect sketch of the
achievements of Great British industry at the Paris Exhi¬
bition—a sketch which must be full of errors of omission—by
a paragraph intended exclusively for the behoof of the ladies.
The firm of Messrs. Charles Gask and Co. have purchased for
exhibition in England, some of the most wondrous of the
fabrics and dresses from the “ Vetement ” department of the
Exposition, damasks and chenilles, bourrettc$ and Levantines,
lace shawls and fehus— all kinds of radiant finery, indeed, the
chefs fTouvrc of the Michels, the Bulteaux, the Vasseurs, and
Delportes, of Paris. A black velvet robe, trimmed with
leathers, worth 1800 francs, and a “ Marie de Medicia” dress,
embroidered with pearls, and valued at 10,000 francs, are
among the purchases of Charles Gask and Co.; while Peter
Robinson, of Oxford-street, has bought the larger portion of
the Lyons, the Italian, and the Austrian exhibits of silks,
velvets, satins, and brocades. The Oxford-street firm stands
to spend something like 300,000 francs on his little purchases
in the World’s Fair. _ &• A. S.
Mr. J. J. Mcchi will, on public grounds, continue to supply
instructions for the construction of these inexpensive and
effective warmers, “the Parson’s Grates,” on receipt of au
application, accompanied by a postage-stamp, addressed to
him at Tiptrce Hall, Kelvedon, Essex.
The receipts on account of revenue from April 1, 1878,
when there was a balance of £6,243,389, to Oct. 26 were
£41,052,207, against £41,004,239 in the corresponding period
of the preceding financial year, which began with a balance of
£5,988,650. The net expenditure was £49,361,631, against
£46,424,527 to the same date in the previous year. The
Treasury balances on Oct. 26 amounted to £1,152,299, aud at
the same date in 1877 to £1,294,489.
Lord Dufferin arrived at Derry on Monday evening. He
was met by the Mayor of the city, the High Sheriff, and a
number of gentlemen, who presented him with an address of
welcome and congratulation. His Lordship was also offered
the freedom of the city, which he accepted. Lord Dufferin,
accompanied by his suite, arrived in Belfast on Tuesday morn¬
ing, and was warmly welcomed at the railway terminus. After
breakfasting with the Mayor, he proceeded to the Townhall,
where he was presented with congratulatory addresses. His
Lordship afterwards left for his residence at Clandeboye.
Lord Coleridge has taken a decided step in the direction of
the reform of the constitution of juries, lie has intimated to
the Sheriffs at Exeter and throughout his circuit that he will
regard as a contempt of Court an attempt to evade the law by
leaving out special jurors from the panel summoned for
common juries. Custom has long exempted persons of
superior education from common juries; and Judges have
taken no pains to enforce the law, the constant infraction of
which was bringing in question the utility of the whole jury
system. Iiord Coleridge fortifies his position by citing the
weighty opinion of Lord Justice Bramwell.
THE JABLOCHKOFF ELECTRIC LIGHT
APPARATUS.
This is one of the recent contrivances for producing light by
electricity, and has been chosen for the subject of our lllug.
trations, without prejudging the comparative merits of other
machines and appliances for the same purpose. M. Jabloch-
koff is a Russian engineer who has long been established in
Paris. The machine employed by him to generate the electric
currents is that called the “ Gramme,” from the name of its
French inventor, M. Gramme, who was formerly a journeyman
carpenter, and is now proprietor and director of a moat im¬
portant scientific manufacture. His dynamo-electrical machine
consists of four magnets, revolving on an axle at the
rate of about nine hundred revolutions a minute, and
so arranged that each magnet touches two coils of copper wire.
There is a modification of the Gramme machine, in which the
magnets are stationary, and it is the coils of wire that revolve.
The machine is worked by a steam-engine, or other sufficient
motive power; a gas-engine is the best, as it is free from
smoke and dust, and wants little attendauce. To produce
light by electricity, either a constant current may be applied,
or alternate curreuts. With a constant current, two rods of
carbon are used, placed one above the other, and the light is
produced between them. With alternate currents, the light is
kept jumping from one carbon point to the other; and this is
the case in Jablochkoll’s apparatus.
Our page Engraving shows merely the outward aspect of
the dvnamo-electrical machine employed by M. Jablochkoff;
but the maguets and wire coils are here scarcely seen, being
inclosed in a cylindrical casing. The machine is not repre¬
sented as working, but as thrown out of gear; the straps by
which it is set in motion, descending from a shaft above con¬
nected with the power-engine, are conspicuous enough; and
so ure the wires, now hanging loose, by which the electricity
may be transmitted to the carbon lamps at u moderate distance.
Brilliant electric lights, resembling meteors, are watched by
the two spectators who are standing in the background.
We must describe with more particularity the drawings of
detailed portions of the apparat us, which are presented to the
reader on another page. The figure No. 1 does not represent
part of the Jablochkoff machine, but is an end view of the
Gramme machine used to generate a constant current of
electricity; a, is the revolving circular magnet, having coils of
copper wire about it; b, b, are the conductors of electricity
from the magnet to the coils of wire placed above and below;
these conductors, or collectors, are formed of bundles of line
wire, like a brush, sweeping the surface of the coil around the
magnet, and brushing the electricity off it, so to speak.
Figure 2 is the Gramme machine used by M. Jablochkoff
for the generation of alternate currents. It contains eight
magnets, arranged upon a revolving axis, like the spokes of a
wheel • and the inner circumference of the surrounding fixed
circle is furnished with eight coils of wire. These surrounding
fixed coils are so placed, alternately in pairs, that four of them
come in contact with four of the revolving magnets, and the
other four coils meet the other four magnets, there being two
different lengths of magnets corresponding with two different
sets of coils. As the machine revolves, therefore, the magnets
alternately touching and not touching the coils in the circum¬
ference, alternate electric currents proceed from it, the one
positive and the other negative. The current passes outward
through one magnet to the coils, and returns inward through
the next magnet, as is indicated by the little arrows in our
Engraving. The wires, a, a, convey the electricity to the carbon
candles. .. . .
Figure 3 represents one of these “ candles, which consists
of a pair of carbon rods, a and a, each nine inches long, aud
perhaps three sixteenths of an inch thick, or it may be thicker.
The pair are connected at the top by a short piece of graphite,
but are, throughout their length downward, insulated re-
speetively by an intervening composition of china clay, *.
The lower end of each carbon is inserted in a brass tube, e,
which is the socket by which it stands in the chandelier. The
clay plaster between the carbons is decomposed by the elcctac
action us the carbons are consumed; it is converted into
aluminium, which burns away, aud silica, which melts and
dr °Kgure4’ shows the chandelier, with the bases of four carbon
candles, each a pair of carbons, in their brass sockets, hell
by spring clips upon a stand, having a round disc of opal
glass beneath them to temper the glare, and below this are tae
metal conductors, a, a, to supply the electricity from the
machine. The four candles burn separately, one succeeding
another; each will last an hour and a half; and when it is
consumed the next one must be placed, by an attendant
touching a spring, in connection with the electric machine
and so on till the four are used up, in six hours. An attempt
has been made, however, to contrive an automatic apparatus,
instead of shifting the connection by hand.
Figure 5 represents the entire chandelier, but divested oi
tbe opal glass plate, so ns to show the candles m position,
with the “ commutator ” aud inductor below; the commutator
is a nucleus of conducting wires, inclosed withmanon-ductm^
case, and it serves to regulate the distribution of electricity
the four candles. ,_
The Fanner-'Wallace duplex engine, of American con¬
trivance aud construction, has some advantages, being capaoic
of serving eight or ten lights on one circuit, with less cost ior
each. It was exhibited ou Tuesday evening to a party «
scientific gentlemen at the premises of Messrs. \V. Ladd ana
Co., Plough-yard, Shoreditch, and was highly approved,
Pn ?n all apparatus for electric light a most important article
is the carbon “ points,” which must be made of chcmiiauy
pure carbon, and of perfectly uniform c msistency. ot c t
thickness und straightness, requiring the nicest pre
their manufacture. The Electric Carbon Factory of a.
Vassard, situated at Huntley’s Wharf, Church-sfcrec*. Green
with, just behind the Ship Hotel, is the only establishment
we know of in England for this peculiar branch ..
facture, comprising mills, presses, and furnaces, in w ,
carbon undergoes a series of operations, gnnding, ku <?•
moulding, drying, and baking, performed ^tii th team .
possible accuracy. The press is worked by a powerful steam
engine, and gives as much as twelve tons pressure to the W
foot. The chemical process of M. Vassard 13
a secret; but we have visited his factory, and have w,t .
the beautiful results of the mechanical operations m
the carbon rods. These can be made of v * i nous -
some being as fine as a lady’s crochet nwdle; whu *
which are made to the order of the Trinity House Corpu^*
for the electric lights in lighthouses at sea, aro three q
of an inch thick M. Yassard has no difficulty m making
rod of this brittle material, six feet long, and a q' iar ter
inch thick. Each rod is produced with a single stroke, oi
regular length, and is perfectly smooth and even throug
The carbon has to be purified, for this special purple,
some chemical processes; but it is not always easy 5° q
the quantities of good carbon that are required- >
from M. Vassard that the best carbou he can get is mn ™
deposit or incrustation which adheres to the msia
NOV. 2, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
415
'retorts at the Gasworks. A description of the Beckton Gas¬
works is given by us this week, together with an Illustration
of charging the retorts ; from which the reader will infer that
an abundant supply of carbon should be yielded by the manu¬
facture of gas upon such a vast scale. It seems rather curious
that the gas manufacture should thus be enabled to supply
the best kind of a material so essential to the production of
the electric light, which now threatens to rival gas in practical
use. This fact may tend to console the gas shareholders and
to moderate their panic fears. They will observe further that
the use of gas-engines for the motive power of the electrical
machines is likely to give them some compensation for the loss
of their street-lighting business, which is, after all, but an
insignificant part of the whole consumption of gas • and
it does not seem probable that the electric light will be
suitable for use in private houses. Gas-engines are found
preferable to steam-engines in many instances where only a
small power is required, and for short periods of time
The preparations for trying the Jablochkoff light on the
V ictoria Embankment are now being matured at the Metro¬
politan Board of Works, under the direction of Sir Joseph
Bazalgette, C.B., and the Board’s consulting chemist, Mr.
Keates. A steam-engine of about 20-horse power nominal
•will be placed -somewhere about the vicinity of Waterloo
Bridge, and the wires will be carried right and left towards
Westminster and Blackfriars respectively. The main con¬
ducting-wire will probably be laid under the coping-stone of
the Embankment parapet, and the lights mounted on the top
of a certain number of the gas standards which now surmount the
Embankment wall. Taking the entire mile and a quarter of the
Embankment, there are sixty-seven lamps on the wall, and sixty
on the outer side of the footway, fringiug the road. This makes a
total of 127 lamps now lighting the footway by the side of the
■wall. Other lamps, sixty-seven in number, line the road on
what may be termed the land side of the thoroughfare. The
•electric lights are to be limited to the footway against the river
side. These lights will be twenty in number, so that each
electric light will have to do duty for rather more than six
gas-lamps. Whether the gas-lamps on the land side of the
road can also be dispensed with remains to be seen. The
necessary arrangements for the commencement of this highly
interesting and important experiment will take some time, but
the arrival of winter will doubtless see the Victoria Embank¬
ment rendered cheerful and attractive by the presence of the
electric light.
THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Baker, C. H. C., to be Vicar of St. John’s, Bury St. Edmunds.
Blackn:ore, J. C.; Rector of Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.
Castell, H. T. S.; Incumbent of St. Philip’s, George Town, Demerara.
Charnian, F. R., Archdeacon of Sudbury; Rector of Stow Lang'toft.
Drew, A. A. W. ; Incumbent of the new parish of St. Antholia, Nuuhend.
Dum>. John Charles; Vicar of Boadnell, Northumberland.
Gawtliem, Francis T.; Rector of Alboumo, Sussex.
Gray, K. D. H., Curate of Wolsingham; Vicar of Briercliffe.
Holland, Stewart; Vicar of Askham, Penrith.
Hullicit, Charles Butler; Curate of Panton, Wragby.
Morris, David ; Vicar of Llanwnen with Silian, Cardiganshire.
•Oldiowl. J. B.; Vicar of St. Stephen’s, Ayres Guay, Suuderlaud.
Wells’ N. A. ^.Missionary on the Rivers Essequibo and Massamni, Guiana.
Williams, J. S.; Vicar of Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire.— Guardian.
There was a musical festival in York Minster on Tuesday
'(the first, held since 1835) ou behalf of the fund for the resto¬
ration of the south transept.
There is no foundation for the report that a layman in the
west of England had offered £3000 to erect a church, dedicated
to St. Simon, at Shepherd’s-bush.
The Bishop of Rochester intends to resume liis attendances
at 28, Great George-street, Westminster, for diocesan business,
on Monday next, from eleven to one.
Mr. L. R. Starkey, M.P., on Monday laid the foundation-
stone of a new mission church at Normanton, and delivered a
speech upon Church work and Church extension.
On the 17th ult. the Church of St. John Baptist, Midsomer
Norton, Somerset, was reopened, after having undergone con¬
siderable alteration in the fittings and arrangements.
It is understood that the Bishops have come to a resolution
that licenses shallnotbe granted for the re-marriage of divorced
(persons according to the rites of the Church of England.
The foundation-stone of All Saints’ Church, Marple, was
laid last Saturday bv Mrs. Isherwood, of Marple Hall. The
®ite, given by the Vicar, was a portion of the vicarage garden,
and Res between the vicarage and the old church.
The Bishop Suffragan of Lincoln has reopened the church
of Tallington, near Stamford, restored mainly at the cost of
Lady Lindsay. It is one of the few churches having the sancte
cot bell, and the south doorway is said to be as old as the time
of William II.
The Earl of Chichester has resigned the post of First
Church Estates Commissioner of the Ecclesiastical Commission,
and the resignation has been accepted. The appointment is
with the Crown, and the stipend is £1200 a year. The Earl
was appointed to the office in 1850.
The new chancel—the first portion of the work of rebuild¬
ing the Church of St. James, Exeter, was opened on Thursday
week. At noon a public meeting was held in aid of the
restoration fund, when the Earl of Devon, the Bishop of
Exeter, the Mayor, and the Sheriff were the speakers.
The ancient church of Astley, about four miles from Nim-
eaton, was reopened on Tuesday, after having been closed for
some months, during which the work of restoration has been
carried on. After the service a large party were enter tamed
at luncheon at Arbury Hall by Mr. Newdegate, M.l.
A public meeting was held on Monday in Ripon, promoted
by the Church of England Temperance Society, and presided
over by the Dean of Ripon, when a memorial to Earl de Urey,
M.P. for the borough, was adopted, askiug lnm to support the
Bill for Prohibiting the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday.
Last Monday the Bishop of London consecrated the Church
of St. Paul, North Bow, built for the purpose ‘of ministering
to the religious wants of the poor and populous district in the
neighbourhood of Old Ford and the northern portion of the
parish of Bow. The building, which is plain, and in the Early
French style, is to cost £7000.
A special meeting of the council of the Curates Aug¬
mentation Fund was held at the offices of the fund, Dean s-
yard, Westminster, yesterday week—the Archbishop of
Canterbury in the chair—at which, amongst other business, it
was determined that the system of a running monthly audit
be substituted for that of the annual audit hitherto m use.
The Earl of Hardwicke on Saturday last laid the founda¬
tion-stone of a new church at Cambridge, to be called
St. Barnabas. It is situate on Mill-road, and w intended to
accommodate a comparatively new distnctwhichhas sprung
up. The work at present contemplated will cost about £1800,
and it will require a further sum of twice that amount to
complete the church.
The Master of the Temple (Dr. Vaughan) will resume his
public readings in the Greek Testament (open to any men,
whether members of the Temple or not), on Tuesday, Nov. 5,
at eight o’clock in the morning, in the Lecture-Room of the
Middle Temple, and will continue them on Tuesdays, Wed¬
nesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, as in former years, at the
same time and place.
At a meeting yesterday week of the promoters of the
scheme for the establishment of a bishopric of Liverpool,
the donations to the endowment fund were reported to
amount to over £65,000. The sum required will be about
£90,000 or £100,000. It was decided to ask the Bishop of
Chester to issue a pastoral letter suggesting a simultaneous
collection in the churches early in 1879.
The members of the Badsworth Hunt have recently placed
a stained-glass window at the east end of Darrington church,
Yorkshire, in memory of the late Mr. Barton, of Stapleton
Park, in that parish, who was master of the hunt from 1869
until his 6udden death in the hunting-field on March 20, 1876.
The window, which is a five-light one in the Perpendicular
style, has been executed from designs by Mr. A. N. Bodley.
Two stained-glass windows have been placed in Sandring¬
ham church by the Prince of Wales, the subjects are “ Christ
Stilling tlie Tempest,” in memory of the Rev. VV. Lake Onslow,
late Rector ; and “David Slaying Goliath,” in memory of the
Prince’s late equerry, Colonel Grey. The windows have been
executed by Messrs. Heaton, Butler, and Bayne, of London,
under the superintendence of the architect, Mr. Arthur W.
Blomfield.
The Bishop of Peterborough concluded his visitation at St.
Margaret’s, Leicester, yesterday week. Before delivering his
charge he remarked that, in the communion service, he adopted
the eastward position in prayer for consecration, whereas on
Thursday, at St. Martin’s, he stood at the north side of the
table. He did that in order to conform to the usage of each
church with a view to securing unity, and also because he did
not attach any doctrinal importance to either position.
The Bishop of St. Alban’s began the primary visitation of
his diocese on Tuesday in his cathedral church. His charge
was largely occupied with the advantages of the cathedral
system, and the best steps for establishing it temporarily and
permanently at St. Alban’s. He condemned strongly the
“ Reformed Episcopal Church,” whose Bishops, he said, were
destitute of authority; and disapproved alike of laxity on the
one side and excessive ceremonialism on the other, expressing,
however, his opinion that punitive legislation was not the
remedy for existing dissensions.
The foundation-stone of a new church, to be dedicated to
St. John the Evangelist, at Mold, Flintshire, was laid on
Wednesday by the Duke of Westminster. The church, which
is to accommodate about 300 people, will consist of nave,
chancel, organ - chamber, and a tower spire placed at tlie
north-east end. It is only intended to build this latter
at present one storey high ; this will be covered with a
temporary roof and completed at a future time- The style
of the church is Early English, and, the funds being limited,
most of the details will be of a simple character. The designs
have been furnished and the work is being carried out under
the superintendence of Mr. Douglas, architect, of Chester.
The Bishop of Truro presided on Thursday week at his
second diocesan conference. The principal subject mentioned
was the importance of pushing forward the erection of a
cathedral as a centre for the Church work of the new see.—On
the following day the Earl of Mouut-Edgcuinbe made a state¬
ment as to the progress of the cathedral fund. The amount
subscribed or promised up to the present was £27,500. Of this
£5000 would be required at once towards the purchase of land
adjacent to the site of St. Mark's Church, where tlie cathedral
is to be erected, and this would leave sufficient to justify the
commencement of work during the coming year. A vote of
thanks to Lord Mount-Edgcumbe was carried. The Prince of
Wales has subscribed £500 to the fund.
The new Church of St. Mary the Virgin at Halkyn, Flint¬
shire, was consecrated on Tuesday by the Bishop of St. Asaph.
The church, together with the churchyard, boundary walls,
and lych-gate, is entirely the gift of the Duke of Westminster,
who has spared no expense that everytliing may be carried
out in as complete a manner as possible. The style of
the church is Early Geometrical. The plan consists of
nave, north aisle, chancel, and a tower 26 ft. square placed
at the north-cast end, and provides accommodation for 300
people. The walls, both inside and out, are of stone, and oak
has been used for all the timber-work. Ail the windows arc
filled with painted glass, the reredos is of oak, and is an
elaborate specimen of architectural woodwork; the upper part,
under the canopied top, is divided into seven compartments ;
these are filled with paintings, the one in centre containing a
representation of “ The Last Supper,” and the side ones “ The
Annunciation” and Our Lord as the “ Good Shepherd,” with
the Lord’s Prayer, Creed, and Decalogue on either side. These
paintings, together with the painted gloss, are by Messrs.
Heaton, Butler, and Bayne. A fine organ by Whiteley, of
Chester, has been provided, and the tower contains a peal of
six bells, and a clock with faces on the east and west sides.
The architect was Mr. John Douglas, of Chester.
A meeting of Wesleyan m inisters and laymen was held in
London on Tuesday to consider the financial condition of the
Connexion, and to discuss what methods should be employed
to remedy the present state of affairs. One plan suggested
was that a great connexional fund of £200,000 should be raised to
commemorate the introduction of laymen into the Conference.
The meeting was adjourned.
On Tuesday the memorial-stones of Shoreditch Tabernacle,
Hackney-road, connected with the Baptist denomination, were
laid in the presence of a large concourse of spectators, by
Mr.S. Morley, M.P., and Mr. J. Harvey. The new building,
designed to take the place of one erected in 1836, which had
become too small for the increasing congregation, will be
about one hundred yards from the Shoreditch railway station,
and will accommodate about 2000 people, the chapel which it
displaces having seated only about 800. Mr. Morley and Mr.
Harvey huve each contributed £500 towards the budding.
Mr. Osborne Morgan, M.P., assisted on Tuesday in laying
the foundation-stone of a new Welsh Calvinistic chapel at
Gwerstwelt, Wrexham, and in doing so said he had a few days
ago a proof that tlie Welsh language was not dying out, for
he had received a request that he would act as patron of an
Eisteddfod in New Zealand. In no part of the kingdom was
there so much respect for religion, so much veneration of the
Bible, and so much freedom from crime as in Wales.
The new peal of six beds cast for the Roman Catholic
Chapel Leamington, by Messrs. Blews, of Birmingham, were
on Wednesday consecrated by the Bishop of Clifton. Tho
bells were suspended at the entrance to the chancel, where the
ceremony was performed.
THE UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The Lord High Almoner has appointed Mr. George
Frederick Nicholl, of Balliol College, to be bis Professor of
Arabic at Oxford, in succession to Mr. Cheuery, resigned.
Mr. Cross received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
from the University of Cambridge on Thursday week, as noted
in our last issue. The Public Orator, in a Latin speech, g ive
an outline of the right hon. gentleman’s public career, i'he
undergraduates from the gallery lowered a reminder of Mr.
Cross’s boating achievement when he was a student; and,
cutting the string, he carried it away with him.—A more dis¬
tinguished statesman than Mr. Cross—Mr. Gladstone—has
since visited Cambridge, though in a strictly private manner.
He went, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Gladstone, ou
Saturday last, to stay with Mr. Henry Sidgwick. He attended
Trinity Chapel in the morning of Sunday, the University ser¬
mon at two p.m., and after it King’s Chapel, and dined in hall
at Trinity in the evening.—Mr. H. Hodgkin has been elected
to a scholarship at Jesus for proficiency in history.
At a meeting of the Edinburgh University council yesterday
week, Professor Blackie presented a report of the Celtic chair
committee, which stated that only £300 was wanting towards
the sum of £12,000 required for the endowment of a Celtic
chair in the University. The committee was reappointed to
arrange the constitution of the chair, so that a Professor might
be appointed to enter on his duties by November next year.—
The Scotsman announces that Dr. J. A. Carlyle, of Dumfries, a
Doctor of Medicine and of Laws of the University of Edinburgh,
has placed £1600 in the hands of the Association for tlie
Better Endowment of the University of Edinburgh, for the
endowment of two bursaries in the faculty of medicine.
Colonel Sir John Stokes, K.C.B., Commanding Royal
Engineers at Chatham, has promised an annual prize for the
best English essay at the Oxford Military College; and
General Maitland, C.B., a prize for skill in. the gymnasium.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
The ceremony of distributing the prizes to successful exhibitors,
which was performed on Monday week by Marshal MacMahon,
President of tlie French Republic, at the Exhibition Palace iu
the Champ de Mars, was noticed among the foreign news in
our last publication; as well as the presentation next day by
Eiirl Granville and a deputation of British j urors and exhibitors
of an address of thanks to the Prince of Wales and Sir Philip
Cunliffe Owen, for their labours in the British Commission.
Our Illustration of the former subject is furnished partly by
the Sketch drawn by our Special Artist upon that occasion and
partly derived from the photograph taken by M. Oppert. The
number of persons assembled in the vast hall is reckoued at
22,000. It was a splendid spectacle. At the east end was the
dais, with rows of seats which sloped up to the gallery. Here,
in the front row, on gold and crimson chairs of state, were seatel
the Marshal President, with the Prince of Wales on his left
hand and Don Francois d’Assisi on his right, and the other
foreign Princes on each side. To the right of the President
sat the Corps Diplomatique, all in full uniform, with the
exception of the Chinese and Japanese, and decorated with
glittering orders. On the Marshal’s left were placed the
foreign Commissioners. The next stage of the platform was
occupied by the Senate, the Chamber of Deputies, tho
Municipal Council, and the Council-General, and close under
the gallery the official deputations. Finally, on each side of
the dais, on a level with the Marshal, were the reserved tribunes
of Madame la Marechale, of the ladies of the diplomatic corps,
and of the Minister of Agriculture and M. Krantz. It is almost
needless to say that the ladies made an excellent display of
toilettes, but any detailed effect was lost in the general coup
d’ceil. The upper dais must have held some 2000 or 3000
persons. Its position was excellent. From whatever point
the palace was entered, whether by the door reserved for tlie
President or by one of the seventeen passages leading to the
interior of the edifice, the eye was at once caught by the dais
with its illustrious occupants. The whole of the platform, as,
indeed, the whole body and lateral aisles of the nave, was
carpeted and upholstered in crimson. Here, from the
presidential dais to the western end of the palace,
were seated the exhibitors, the jurors, and the invited
visitors, forming one compact mass. Finally, at the western
end of the palace, facing the official platform, was placed the
orchestra, composed of twenty-three choral societies, the bands
of the Garde Republicaine and of the .fifth Regiment of the
Line—in all, 1800 performers. The monotony of the body of
the nave was broken up in half its extent by eight charac¬
teristic trophies, each representing one of the groups in which
the exhibits are classed. It would be impossible to describe
all the decorations which concealed tlie walls of the edifice
with tapestries, velvet, gold, and trophies. All the galleries
were hung with crimson velvet, fringed with gold and festooned
with gold cables. Escutcheons with golden palm-branches
were placed at intervals, alternating with blue panels bearing
the names of the nations who have taken part iu the Exhi¬
bition, and with escutcheons inscribed with “Pax” and
“ R. F.” At each angle of the Palace were the arms of Paris ;
and finally, to complete the whole, flags and oriflammes of all
all nations hung from tlie roof. Every detail of the decoration
was executed with the utmost splendour, and the State Garde
Meuble poured forth with lavish hands its treasure of Gobelins
and Beauvais tapestries to complete the general effect, which
was imposing and grand in the extreme. The President,
Marshal MacMahon, whose rising was the signal for
general cheering and cries of “ Vive le Marechal ! ”
and “Vive la Republique!” first addressed the assembly in
an appropriate speech ; after which the Minister of Agriculture
and Commerce, M. Teisserenc de Bort, made a rapid expose of
the general situation of the Exhibition; and MM. Georges
Berger and Dietz Monin, the directors, proclaimed the names
of the Frenchmen and foreigners who have been decorated with
the order of the Legion of Honour. Then followed the pro¬
clamation of the Grands Prix, Diplomes d’Honneur, and
Rappels de Grand Prix. The presidents and vice-presidents
of the juries of groups came up and received the crosses
and recompenses en bloc for d istribution amongst the members
of their class. The end of the ceremony was in all points worthy
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national sports.
With the decision of the Cambndgeshire and
Dewhurst Plate the prinepd cveuta of the
Houghton Meeting were wiped °ff the hat.
Btill, the second half of the long we ^ k ® aC
embraced some very interesting On
the Thursday Lord CUvc and Insulfure met in
a^FieeHandicap, A F.; and, as the tenner
carried 5 lb. overweight, in order that Archer
might be enabled to ride him, he was only m
rcceint of 3 lb. from the French colt. Not¬
withstanding this, and the fact that he ran
very badly in the Cambndgeshire, odds of 7'to
4 were laid freely on him; and dashing out
of Abingdon Bottom in rare style, be wou as
he chose by four lengths. Of course, after this
very smart perforimrace, his admirers aver
more stoutly than ever that, but .f? r , th ®.
fortune of being wrongly nominated, he would
have won the Derby, and a mateh betwcui
h m and ^efton or Jannecte would be one of
the most sporting affairs that has been wit-
nefted for years. We fear, however, that it is
too late in the season to hope for such a con¬
test. Discord, who has hitherto been very un¬
lucky, and seemed “ doomed to be near, but
never to be first,” won the Houghton btakes
from a very fair field of eight. In most-of his
previous races he has performed like a non-
stayer ; but as this was run over the K-M , a
terribly long and trying course for a two-year-
old, the sou of See-Saw is certainly not de¬
ficient in stamina. Breadfinder (8st. 11 lb.) per-
foimed exceedingly well in the Bretby Nursery
Plate, conceding all sorts of weights to nine¬
teen oppontnts, and in the Dallingham Hate,
Foidliam rode one of the finest races ever seen
on Jogellon, in the sombre colours of his old
master, Mr. Bowes. . /a .
Another top-weight, Out of Bounds (8 st.
12 lb.), took the Old Nursery Stakes on the
Friday, and afforded one more proof that a
good two-year-old can concede almost any
amount of weight to a bad one. Odds of 2 to
1 were laid upon Trappist for the All-Aged
Stakes, in which he was only asked to give
3 lb. to EcoBsais; but, though he got well oil,
and led until reaching the Bushes, constant
work appears to have ruined his temper, and
he would not make an effort when Ecossais
went up to him. Silvio, Vemcuil, Insulaire,
and Hampton were the cream of the starters
for the Jockey Club Cup, which is run for
over the Cesarewitch course. His grand per¬
formance on the previous Tuesday appeared to
have taken all the steel out of Hampton, while
Vemeuil was a very different animal from the
Vemeuil that swept all before him at Ascot.
The surprise of the race was afforded by In¬
sulaire, who made Silvio do his best to beat
him by a length; and this was, we believe, the
sixth time this season that the luckless little
black has been second for a valuable stake.
The proceedings of Saturday call ter little
comment, and very few people were preseut
on the heath. Mr. Gretton wound up a most
successful week by taking the Houghton
Handicap with the roaring Bed Hazard (7 st.
5 lb.); and Hydromel secured the Winding-
Up Handicap for Lord Falmouth, beating
Clocher pretty easily at 5 lb.
On Tuesday F. Emmett, of Jarrow, and
W. Spencer, of Chelsea, sculled from Putney
to Mortlake ter £10t) a side. The latter had
never previously suffered defeat; but just now
the north countrymen are having it all their
own way in aquatic matters, and Emmett at
once took the lead and won with something in
hand by a length and a half.
For more than a year we have not had a
single billiard-match for money in London,
ana it is not surprising, therefore, that there
was a very large attendance at St. James’s
Hall on Tuesday evening, to see Joseph
Bennett and Thomas Taylor play 1000 up on
a championship table for £200. The pair have
met three times previously, when Taylor was
successful on each occasion, though his vic¬
tories were only gained by a very few points.
This time Bennett, who had rather better
luck than his opponent, completely reversed
the previous verdicts, and, making breaks of
69, 63, 46, Ac., won by 189 points. Taylor’s
best contribution amounted to 40.
Though there has been some capital racing
this week at Brighton, Lincoln, and Wor¬
cester, the meetings seem to have fallen a
little flat after all the excitement of New¬
market. Placida journeyed to the seaside
gathering, and had no difficulty in conceding
b61b. to Conductor in the Autumn Cup,
though he proved good enough to win a race
on tlie following day. The Oaks winner was
brought out again the next day for the
Autumn Handicap, but it was a little too
much to expect that she could give 32 lb. to
Grey Friar, who is the same age os herself.
Lord Zetland won a couple of events at Lin¬
coln with Ellangowan and Valseuse, who are
both daughters of the Yorkshire grey Strath-
conan; and though Roehampton (8 st. 5 lb.)
appeared to have the Great Tom Stakes in
baud some distance from home, ho ran very
unkindly at the finish, and was just beaten
by Ambergris (8st. 12 lb.). Large fields were
the order of the day at Worcester, though
the events decided need no comment.
The second great “ make the best of your
way ” contest, which was commenced at the
Agricultural Hall, Islington, at one o'clock on
Monday morning, seems likely to prove as
great an attraction as ever. The prizes ore
i.750 and a belt of the value of £100, and are
guaranteed by Sir John Astley. All the best
men of the day have entered, with the cx-
ctption of O’Leary, the winner of a similar
competition in March last, who did not care
to leave America again just yet. At the end
of two days the contest appeared to be con¬
fined to Corkey, “Blower” Brown, Cross¬
land, Vaughan, Weston, Rowell, and Hib-
bert, and it caused general disappointment
when it became known that
tired from the contest early on Wea
nesday morning, ns he was Buffenngw much
from the effects of an old sprain that ltwas
impossible fer him to continue on the tract.
Wemust not omit to mention that u P°£ th V?
occasion all the men walk upon one bread
track (seven lops to the mdej, and that the
sleeping accommodation, which gave ** t<
go many well-founded complaints on the occa¬
sion ct0 e last race, is now all that canbe
desired. At twenty minutes c on Hiur^
dav afternoon the record was as appended.
Corkey...
Brown ...
Weston
Howell ...
Hibbcrt
Crossland
Howes ...
Courtney
Ennis ...
Miles. |
... 846 1 Richardson
... 342 Ido
... 313 Croft ...
... 312 Day ...
... 306 Pellett ...
... 301 Hancock
... 2T8 Clarkson
... 275 Barnett
... 270 Stay the...
260
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U P L E X TABLE LAMP, with
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about one forthinp jier hour. Dejine and Co. invite Inspection
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I5a - ^ Illustrated Priced List post-free.
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M ATS -
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rPRELOAR and SONS, 69, Ludgate-hill.
JL Floor Decorators. Established 1834. Seven Prize Medals,
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Catalogue free by post. Paris, 1878. three Silver Medals to
THOMAS BRADFORD and CO.. 140 to 143, High Holborn,
London, and Cathedral-steps, Manchester.
pHOCOLAT MENIER.
V>7 Awarded
tho
GRAND
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pHOCOLAT MENIER, in I lb. and Jib.
KJ rasket*.
For
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and SUPPER.
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Three
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TTOOPING-COUGH.—ROCHE’S HERBAL
-LJL EMBROCATION.—Tho celebrated Effectual Our* with¬
out internal medicine. Sole Wholesale Agents, EDWARDS nnd
SON, 157. Queen Victoria-street (late of 38, Old Change),
London. Sold retail by most Chemists. Price 4s. per Bottle.
J^LAIR’S GOUT PILLS.
The Great English Remedy for Gout and Rheumatism. Sure,
safe, and effectual. No restraint of diet required during their
use. nnd are certain to prevent the disease attacking any vital
part. Sold by all Chemists, at Is. ljd. and 2s. 9d. per Box.
STIMULANTS and insufficient amount of
O exercise frequently dorango the livor. ENO‘8
FRUIT SALT is peculiarly adapted for any con¬
stitutional weakness of the liver. A world of
woes Is avoided by those who keep and use
ENO'S FRUIT SALT. “All our customers for
Eno's Fruit Salt would not be without it upon
any consideration, they haring roc lived so much
benefit from it."—Wood Brothers, Chemists,
Jersey, 1878.
THROAT AFFECTIONS and
-L HOARSENESS.—All suffering from Irritation of the
Throat and Hoarseness will be agreeably surprised at the almost
Immediate relief afforded by the use of BROWN'S BRONCHIAL
TROCHES. These famous Lozenges are now sold by most
respectable Chemists in this country, at Is. ljd. per Box. People
troubled with a hacking cough, a slight cold, or bronchial
affections cannot try them too soon, ns similar troubles, if
allowed to progress, result In serious pulmonary and asthmatic
affections.—D4p6t, 493, Oxford-street, London.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
PLEASE DIRECT ALL LETTERS AND ORDERS FOB
pETER J>0BINS0N,
SILKMERCER and LINENDRArER,
THE ONLY ADDRESS,
103 to 108, OXFORD-STREET, W.,
Where the Business was established in 1833.
CTOCK of LOVERING and CO., Liverpool,
PETER ROBINSON, Oxford-street, London, is the
PURCHASER, by PUBLIC TENDER, at a Large Discount off,
of the SILK COSTUMES. Dries Costumes, Shawls. Mantles,
Furs, Ac., of the above select and costly Stock, and will SELL
the SAME, on his premises in Oxford-street, at GREATLY
REDUCED PRICES, on MONDAY, NOV. 4,anil following days.
PETER ROBINSON. 193 to 108, Oxford-street, W.
J^EW
110 New Tints, nt
_____—i.6d. peryaru.
Co'on red Satins to match, at 3«. 6a. per yard.
Richer qualities, Coloured Silks, 4s. 6d., 6s. 3d., and 6s. Od. p
yard.
869 Piece* extra rich Brocaded Silks, at 4s. (VI. and 6s. 6d.
GrisRille nn.l Quadrille Silks. 23s. (Vi. the Dress.
PETER ROBINSON. 103 to 108. OXFORD-STREET.
Established at this address In 1833.
pLACK
SILKS.
One Thousand Pieces at 2s. lid. and 3s. lid. per yard.
A special purchase of Bonnet's Black 81
commencing nt 2s. lid. per yard.
Black Satins of extreme brightness, 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6d. per yard.
For Patterns please address only
PETER ROBINSON. OXFORD-STREET. W.
R ICH
SILK AUTUMN COSTUMES.
One Thousand Coloured Silk Costumes
black 8il$ Costumes
nt 5 j gs.
Block Silk Skirts, one guinea.
AUTUMN DRESS MATERIALS.
-LA cacumere merinos.
CACHEMTRF, DE PARIS.
All the New Tints. 46 inches wide,
3s. 6d. per yard.
VELVETEENS.
Velvet, finished In nil colours. 3s. 9d. to 4s. 6(1
in black, Is. lid. to 5s. 6il. per yard.
WINTER SKIRTINGS.
Novelties in Stripes, Plain, and Snowflake,
from is. 9d, per yard.
CREPE CASHMERE (REGISTERED).
* —,t useful Material, in six designs. Black,
' " ' "" *s. 9d. per yard.
11 width, li
>r Patterns address only
PETER ROBINSON. OXFORD-stREET, 1
M antles and jackets for
AUTUMN and WINTER.
NOVELTIES FROM PARIS AND BERLIN DAILY,
In Beaver Cloth, Diagonal Cloth, MiUe-raye Cloth,
and Drup Brute: also, in Velvet, Face, Sicilian,
and Gros Groin, lined and quilted.
Several New .Shapes in Ulster Mantles.
The New Waterproof Tartan Mantles.
For Illustrations apply to
T>EAL RUSSIAN SEAL FUR PALETOTS
-LX (holt fitting).
33 in. deep, from 7 gs.
36 in. deep, from 8 eg.
Several New Shapes In Seal Mantles,
in tlio finest quality.
Otter, Russian Hare, Chinchilla, Ermine,
and every other description of
Muffs, Neckties, Ac.
PETER ROBINSON, SILKMERCER and
X DRAPER,
103 to 108, OXFORD-STREET, LONDON,
INFORMS THE IT RI.IC
that his bnslness has been carried on at these premises since its
establishment In 1833. and respectfully requests his Customers
to address orders to this nddress only.
J£NOCK
ABOUT CYPRUS CLOTHS,
Is. Ojd.
Patterns free.
BAKER and CRISP S, las, Regent-street.
J^OLESKIN VELVETEENS,
BA KER°ami CRISP'S.
Black, from Is. Ujd. Colours, 2s. Ud. and 3s. Od.
pLACK SATINS, 2s. 6d.; Coloured, 3s. 6d.
JD SILKS,
all kinds, BAKER and CRISP'S,
Is. llid.
PAKER and CRISP’S ULSTERS,
AJ 8*. Ud. to 35s.
Marvellous value. Sent for P.O.O.
las, Regent-street.
PARIS EXHIBITION IN LONDON.
pHARLES GASK and CO. (Limited)
\J Will ofler for SALE on THURSDAY NEXT and Following
Days the whole of tluir VAST PURCHASES in the PARIS
EXHIBITION, the productions of the MOST EMINENT
MANUFACTURERS in the World, for which many PRIZE
MEDALS were awarded, comprising—
The SUPERB COSTUMES of noted PARIS EXHIBITORS.
The RICH and BEAUTIFUL SILKS and VELVETS of Lyons,
Zurich, and Italy.
The elegant PARTS MANTLES. JACKETS. Ac., so much
< Tho f BICH and COSTLY FURS and FUR GARMENTS of
Paris and Russia.
The KID GLOVES, of nearly nil the best makers, including
cvcrul hundred dozens of JOUVIN'S, for which silver medal
was awarded, 2s. 41d. per pair; usunlprice, 4s.
The DRESS FABRICS uml TISSUES of Amiens and Bonbaix.
The BEAUT1FU L REAL LACES of Frame. Brussels. Ac.
The FINE BRONZES and ORNAMENTAL OBJECTS of the
Exhibition.
The OXYDIBED and other WORKS OF ART of Vienna, prize
B< Thu’fine white and fancy coloured BLANKETS and COVER-
TURES of Orleans and Austria.
The TABLE LINENS, SERVIETTES, Guipure d'Art of
^TheVrizo LONGCLOTH8, CALICOES, and FLANNELS of
P Tho 0 NOVEL 0 mS' ARTISTIC UMBRELLAS of Cathiart and
Tilleard; also elaborate Ivory Carvings.
And a largo collection — *
numerous to particularise.
All these Goods are of the highest character, made expressly
for Exhibition, and, having been purchased at a large discount
off usual prices, will be sold accordingly.
[ other Exhibition Articles, I
pHARLES GASK and CO. (Limited)
Vy w to notify that, in order to prepare and mark the EXHI¬
BITION GOODS FOR SALE, their PREMISES will he
CLOSED on WEDNESDAY, the 6th inst.
"PATENT WEATHER-PROOF"
O ILK CRAPE, of ENGLISH
kj MANUFACTURE. —This Crape, manufactured only by
I.E GROS. THOMPSON, and CO., and Finished by a New
Process, protected bv the Queen’s Letters Fatcnt, is made
ENTIRELY OF SILK,
is of a Deep. Fast Black, and
DOES NOT SPOT WITH BAIN.
FAMILY MOURNING.
W IDOW’S DRESS, made complrte,,
. trimmed CynruB Crape, from .. .. £3 13 e
v\ mow s Drees, made complete,
jtrimnied English Crape, from .. .. £3 18 6.
13 6
Parent's Mourning Dress, made complete ?'
trimmed Cyprus Crape, from ..
Mourning foi Nco
Sister s or Brother's Mourning Dress, made complete,
. , trimmed Cyprus Crape, from .. .. j
Sifter s or Bro-her's Mourning Dress, made complete,
. trimmed English Crape, from .. ..£440
Mourning for Near Relatives, made complete,
trimmed Cyprus Crape, from .. .. £3 13 6
ear Relatives, made complete,
trimmed English Crape.from .. .. £3 18 6
Materials at One Shilling per Yard.
THE LONDON GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE.
Regent-street. W.
H enry glave’s
GIGANTIC SHOW OF DRESS FABRICS,
for the Fall and Winter of 1878.
The Real Rough-and-Iteady Serge, 28In. wide, loM. a
WinterI'a^imer^'acS^ "Yi" cf ’ l jj umc ‘ > ‘ u ‘d winter wear.
Twill Fouls in all leading colours, at lofd.
French Merinos, 42 in. to 48 In. wide. Is. told. and2s. 10jd.
Small Fancy Deslcns for mixing with plain textures
The Leopard Mixture, at 8}d.; tho C’abul Mixture at
he'd.; tlio Costume Mixture, at Is. 3id.: the Afghan
Silk Mixture, at Is. ojd.; the All-Wool Silk Mixture, at
Heatht r Mixtures for Autumn, Is. Ojd.
Funcjr Scotch Clans, as now worn In Paris, 6Jd. to .3s. a
Serge NVg!lg4. a light warm wool material In eleven new
tushi. liable mixtures. 26 in. wide. Is. 5pi.
The Estamene Serge. Newest Colours, ls.upt. and Is. 0jiL
E reach Beige FouU. 26in. wide, Is lid.
The Scarborough Twill. Now Autumn Colours, lojd.
Scotch Cashmere Estomcne. Is. 2jd. and U. Ud.
An endless variety of New Skirtings. Brin, wide at
Is. 11 jd.. 2e. lljd..3s. 61(1., and 4s. Ud. a vard.
Patterns of all kinds post-free.
634, 535.636. and 637, New Oxford-street. London.
H enry glave’s
EVENING DRESS FABRICS.
1 he^El Dorado^Guuze. a beautiful Fabric for Evening
Threads of brilliant brightness. and will not breoju
Price Is. 2jd. a yaril. Patterns free.
H
LNRY GLAVE’S
FANCY DRESS DEPARTMENT.
Tlie .?. p . w '*Corduroy" VelVeteen, In every colour, al
FOR ALL SEASONS AND ALL CLIMATES.
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE
J^NGLISH AND J^OREIGN QOURTS.
EGERTON BURNETT'S
WELLINGTON SERGES,
AND VARIOUS OTHER APPROVED WOOLLEN FABRICS
EGERTON BURNETT has repeatedly bod tho lmn,mr of
supplying "these admirable Serges" to the ROYAL FAMILY
and executes Ordera dally FROM ALL PARTS. '
Neither ram nor suit water can affect their permanent dye.
Prices from Is. 2jd. to the hnest at4s. 6d. per yard. PATTERN-
ROOKS sent free by post and carriage paid to Bristol or L >udon.
— parcels over £2. GOODS PACKED FOR EXPORTATION.
1 Special Strong Make for BOYS' and GENTLEMEN'S
‘’64 inches, from 3s. tid. per yord.
J^GERTON jgURNETT,
SERGE WAREHOUSES,
WELLINGTON, SOMERSET
BUlTls! 64
CHERTS. — FORD’S EUREKA. — “ The
k-7 most porfect fitting made." —Observer. Gentlemen,
desirous of purchasing Shirts of the beet quality should try
Ford s Eureka. 30s., 408,45a. half-dozen, illustrations and sail-
measure post-free.—41. Poultry, London.
J UDSON’S DYES.—6d. each, of Chemists.
Curtains, Tablecovere. Mantles, Scarves, Jackets dyed In ten
minutes In a pall of hot water.
Judson’s Dyes—Crimson, Green, and Twenty-four Colours.
pAUTION—BOND’S CRYSTAL PALACE
V7 GOLD MEDAL MARKING INK.-Some Chemists and
Stationers, for extra profit, deceive yon. Genuine Label.
" Prepared by the Daughter of the late John Bond."—Works
75, Soutligato-rottd, London. No beating required.
VTALUABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR.
If y?» r hair is turning grey, or white, or falling off, nse
" The Mexican Hair Rcnewer," for it will positively restore la
every cose Grey or White Hair to its original colour, without
•eaving the disagreeable smell of most " Restorer- " ** —
ihe liair cliai—*—-*“-■-"- -•
the liair diarmingly beiiutiful, as well as promoting the growth
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THE LATE CARDINAL PAUL CULLEN, ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OP DUBLIN.
BRITISH ANTIQUITIES IN
WILTSHIRE.
The Rev. Canon Greenwell, F.R.S., author of
a treatise on “ British Barrows,” in conjunc¬
tion with Mr. Walter Money, F.S.A., of New¬
bury, has been engaged exploring some of
the'many ancient grave-mounds in North Wilt¬
shire. They made an examination of a group
of four barrows on the ridge of one of the hills
which bounds the Vale of Aldboume. Three
of these barrows are connected by a surround¬
ing ditch, the fourth being separate. Two
stand upon what may be called platforms
within the encircling ditch ; the other two
mounds rise from the inside of the ditch. The
most northern is 60 ft. in diameter and lift
high ; the width of the platform being 16 ft.,
that of the ditch 12 ft. A section of the barrow
in the centre shows a layer over the surface,
3 ft. deep, of pure chalk, the remainder of the
barrow being principally earth intermixed
with chalk. Six feet from the top of the
barrow was a stratum of small Sarsen stones,
which extended over an area of 12 ft. diameter ;
those in the centre were much reddened by the
action of fire, and had above and below them
large masses of charcoal. At 9 ft. below the
surface, in the central portion of the mound,
the burnt bones of a man of full age were met
with ; immediately below that deposit, placed
in ahollow, 20 ft. in diameter, and sunk 2 ft.
into the chalk, were the burnt remains of a
woman, with whose bones were associated a
small perfectly plain vessel of pottery, of the
type of the “incense cup,” a bone pin with
E rated head, a thin flint flake, and seven
of amber of varied size and shape, some
discs, and others barrel shaped. In the barrow,
indiscriminately placed, were numerous animal
bones, principally of small ox and pig,
numerous flakes and chippings of flint, and a
1. Bronze dogger or knife, CJ in. long. 2. Incense cup, 3i in. wide, 2 in. high.
3. Jet ring, diameter 11 in. 4. Jet pendant omomtnt, diameter llin.
RELICS FOUND IN BARROW AT ALDBOURNE, WILTS.
single manufactured article, which seems to
fall more into the class of knife than dagger.
It has two rivet-holes, by which it was fixed
to the handle, probably with wooden pegs.
There were al-«o three flint scrapers.
When the size of these barrows is considered,
averaging as they do over 60 ft. in diameter
and 12 ft. in height, it is somewhat remarkable
that they should have contained so small a
number of interments—only eight, or at the
most nine, in seven barrows. This, however,
seems to be the rule in that part of England;
Sir Richard Colt Hoare and other investigators
having found but on very rare occasions any
interments except at the centre. The contrary
practice of interring a number of persons in
the same sepulchral mound prevailed to a large
extent in other parts of Britain. These barrows
were chiefly of the beautiful bell-shaped form
so remarkable in the numerous barrows around
Stonehenge; and the presence in them of a con¬
siderable amount of bronze, togetherwith glass,
amber, and jet, points to a higher condition
iu the ancient inhabitants of North Wilts than
has been usually attributed to them.
H.M.S. NORTHAMPTON.
The Northampton, of which we give an Illus¬
tration, has been fitted out at Chatham Dock¬
yard. She is u sister ship to the Nelson,
another of the new type of ironclad ships,
having only their vital parts protected, and
having a reserve of flotation. The Nelson
aud the Northampton may be considered in
some measure as rival ships, both having been
built by private firms. The Northampton
is from the yard of Messrs. Napier, Glasgow,
aud was engined by Messrs. Penn, Green¬
wich; and the Nelson has been built and
engined by Messrs. John Elder and Co.,
Glasgow. The trials were in every way satis-
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NOV. 2, 1878
factory. From the periodical return of the strength of the
Royal Navy just issued we find thut within the past six months
nine ve-sels, of various tonnage and power, have been launched,
and that at the present time there are seventeen others under
construction or about to be built at the various Government
dockyards and by privute firms. The vessels now being com¬
pleted for service are five out of the six screw-corvettes built
of steel and iron and cased with wood; they are each of
2383 tons, and have engines of 2300-horse power; they are to
be armed with fourteen guns each, and have been built and
launched by Messrs. Elder and Co., of Glasgow. The steel hulls
of these vessels are encased in teak and covered externally with
copper sheathing. They have been named Carysfort, Champion,
Cleopatra, Comus, and Cura<,oa. Their machinery and boilers
are protected by a strong armoured deck. Two screw-
sloops, of 1124 tons, with engines of 900-horsepower, con¬
structed at Devonport, and named the Dragon and Pegasus.
A double screw steel despatch-vessel, of 3735 tons, with engines
of 7000-horse power, armed with ten guns, launched at Pem¬
broke, and named the Mercury; and a double screw iron
armour-plated ship, of 7323 tons and 0000-horse power
engines, built by Messrs. J. Elder and Co., of Glasgow, and
named the Nelson, now being fitted for sea at Chatham. The
new vessels ordered within the same period to bo con¬
structed, and for which the necessary preparations have
been made, include a screw-corvette, steel and iron, cased
with wood, of 2383 tons, to be supplied with engines of
2300-horse power, and to be built at Chatham Dockyard;
she is to carry fourteen guns, and be named the Con¬
stance. A double screw armour-plated turret-ship, to be
named the Majestic, and to be constructed at Pembroke. Dock¬
yard ; a screw iron armour-plated torpedo ram, to be pro¬
pelled by engiues of 5500-horse power, to be built at Chatham,
aud to be called the Polyphemus; four composite scivvy-
sloops, each of 1124 tons, and engines of 900-horse power—
the Doterel, Miranda, and Plicenix, to be built at Devonport,
and the Kingfisher, at Sheerness. These ships are to be half
built thisyear and launched about next June. Two sailing-
brigs, building at Pembroke, to be called the Nautilus and the
Pilot. The other vessels under construction include two
double-screw iron armour-plated turret-ships, ot 8492
tons, designed to carry four guns each, and to be sup¬
plied with engines of 6000-horse power. They are to be
named the Agamemnon and Ajax, and are under con¬
struction at Chatham and Pembroke respectively. A sen w-
corvette of 2383 tons and 2300-horse power engines, to be
armed with fourteen guns, being built of steel anct in n, cased
with wood (sister ship to the Carysfoot, Champion, and Comus,
recently launched), building at Glasgow by Messrs. J. Elder
and Co. A double-screw iron armour-plated corvette, of 4720
tons, and to be supplied with 3900-horse power engines,
designed to carry four guns, building at Poplar, and to be
christened Orion. Fourdouble-screwjiron.'gun-boats.of 264 tons
and 168-horse power engines, each to carry one gun, to be built
at Pembroke, and named Gadfly, Griper, Pincher, and Tickler;
but the construction of these boats has for a considerable time
been suspended. __
QUARTERLIES.
The October number of the New Quarterly Magazine contains
several articles of thorough originality and substantial worth.
A study of the character of Luther, by the Rev. Dr. Dayman,
is remarkably vigorous both in conception and in style; and
its estimate of the popular German Reformer, being free from
religious sentimentality as well as from partisan bigotry, seems
fair enough. The natural capabilities of “ New Bulgaria,” the
land and the people, are described by Mr. F. D. Millett, late
War Correspondent of the Daily Newt, in a very encouraging
review, without any expression of hostility either to Russia or
Turkey, but looking forward hopefully to the cessation of
foreign interference, and to the free development of native
resources. Mrs. Lynn Lynton contributes a charming little
story of German domestic life, entitled ‘‘Our Professor,” the
scene of which is laid at a pleasant resort of holiday tourists
in the Tyrol. A thoughtful Liberal politician, Mr. George
Howell, difeustes the propriety and expediency of the
new - fangled “ Caucus System,” as a method of party
organisation, which he finds good reasons to disapprove; and
his remarks, deliberately weighed and temperately expressed,
merit a serious consideration. Mr. Sutherland Edwards, under*
the title “Dictionaries of Music,” presents many interesting
historical anecdotes of musical composers, and shows a little
of the manner in which operas are put together, or adapted to
I he words aud the dramatic theme. The tone and spirit of the
native press in India, more especially with reference to the
Afghan crisis, is exposed by an English journalist of Indian
experience. Mr. T. Adolphus Trollope gives some charac¬
teristic specimens and a general criticism of “ Italian Folk-
Song,” which has a rare degree of philological interest, judg¬
ing from the examples of Lombard, Piedmontese, Venetian,
Calabrian, and other provincial dialects, or rather branch
languages, here presented. The merits of a contemporary
French poet, Theodore de Banville, are set forth in an article
by Mr. Andrew Lang; while Mr. R. Louis Stevenson, under¬
taking to analyse “ the Gospel according to Walt Whitman,”
does not bestow indiscriminate admiration on that eccentric
American genius, but recognises the frank and generous
philanthropy that breathes through his uncouth writings, and
that animates his life.
The Church Quarterly Review is mostly occupied with eccle¬
siastical and theological discussions, concerning the “ Petrine
Claims,” the stale vagaries of “ Irvingism,” and the specu¬
lative “ theories of Development ” applied to the growth of
Creeds in Early Church history. An article of considerable
antiquarian interest, on the ancient Celtic Church of North
Britain, is founded upon Mr. Skene’s erudite work, the second
volume of which has lately appeared. There is, also, an appre¬
ciative and favourable notice of the poet Browning, who is
especially commended for his religiousness of spirit. Further,
the ancient history of Cyprus, the recent Lancashire Cotton-
factory strike, and Mr. Lecky’s History of England, with
reference to its dealing with Ireland in the last century, are
made the subjects of critical examination. The Popular Science
Review, edited by Mr. W S. Dallas, of the Geological Society,
has an article on the“Euc alyptus Globulus,” by Miss M. Betham-
Edwards, which is just now much talked of as a plant of
salubrious qualities for marshy grounds and fever-haunted dis¬
tricts. Mr. J. E. Hnriing treats of the extinct British wolf,
and Mr De Ranee inv/istigates the causes of colliery explosions.
There are two or three arficles which will suit the scientific
naturalist better than the general reader.
Last Saturday afternoon the premises, Nos. 30 and 32,
Goswell-road, opposite St. Thomas’s, Charterhouse, and close
to the junction of Old-street and Goswell-road, were opened
as a Coffee Palace by the Coffee Tavern Company. The new
palace is one of the largest concerns of the kind yet opened,
being capable of comfortably seating 500 persons. It is hand¬
somely fitted np, and provided with everything necessary for
the refreshment of the customers. J
MUSIC.
HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE.
Yesterday (Friday) week “Don Giovanni” was performed,
with a cost of much general efficiency. Although an apology
was made for Madame Pappenheim on the Bcore of iudis-
E ositiou, she sang, as Donna Anna, with more effect than she
ad yet done during her London engagement. Her share in
Donna Anna’s duet with Don Ottavio over the body of her
father, slain by Don Giovanni, and her recitative and air, in
which she denounces him as the murderer and calls on Don
Ottavio for vengeance, were finely declaimed, and produced
a marked impression. The Donna Elvira of Mdlle. Alwina
Valleria and the Zerlina of Madame Trebelli were, as during
the past season, excellent performances. Signor Gillandi sang
the music of Don Ottavio with good cantabile style, and the
Don Giovanni of Signor Mendioroz and the Leporello of Herr
Behrens were as good as heretofore.
On Saturday “Carmen” was repeated, with the same cast
as that referred to in our last week’s notice.
On Monday “Der Freischiitz” was the opera, the cast
having included Madame Pappenheim as Agata. Her per¬
formance was the most successful of any she has given here,
having been even better than her Donna Anna, meritorious as
that was. The delivery of the great scena (know as “ Softly
sighs ”) was an admirable piece of dramatic vocalisation. The
prayer was given with a subdued pathos and grace that were
finely contrasted by the brilliancy and impulse realised in the
final exultant movement. Excellent, also, were the grace of
style and the delicate pianissimo with which the cavatina,
“ E se la nube ” was rendered—not to mention other points in
the opera. The applause bestowed on the singer in several
instances—and especially after the scena—testified to the
powerful impression produced. As in former representations,
the Annetta of Mdlle. Bauermeister was a valuable feature of
the cast, which also comprised Signor Gillandi as Rodolfo, and
Herr Behrens as Caspar. Signor Li Calsi conducted with his
usual skill.
“Carmen” was repeated on Tuesday; and it was to be
given again yesterday (Friday). “ Faust” was announced on
Wednesday, with the same cast as recently. On Thursday
Mdlle. Marimon was to make her first appearance this season,
as Amina in “La Sonnambula;” aud this (Saturday) evening
“ Dinorah” is to be given, with that excellent artist in the
title-character.
Brief mention was made last week of the first of Mr. W-
Carter’s new series of oratorio performances at the Royal
Albert Hall on the Thursday, when Haydn’s “ Creation” was
given, the solo music excellently rendered by Madame
Lemmens-Slierrington, Mr. W. H. Cummings, and Mr.
Wadmore. The lady was particularly successful in the airs
“With verdure clad” and “On mighty pens,” as was Mr.
Cummings in “In native worth,” and Mr. Wadmore in
“Rolling in foaming billows” and “Now heaven in fullest
glory shone,” with its characteristic recitative. The chorus¬
singing of the very efficient choir trained by Mr. Carter was a
special feature of the evening, among the several effective
choral pieces having been the movements “ Awake the harp ”
and “The heavens are telling.” Mr. Carter conducted, and
Mr. E. Bending was the organist.—The next concert will take
place on Dec. 19, and will include selections from various
sacred works.
On Thursday next the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society
will open its eighth season with a performance of “Elijah,”
conducted by Mr. Bamby.
Last Saturday’s concert at the Crystal Palace consisted of
a performance of Verdi’s “ Requiem,” previous to which a
“Marche Religieuse” by Gounod was performed. The
principal solo vocalists in the “Requiem” were Mdlle.
Sartorius, Miss A. Williams, Mr. Barton McGuckin, and Herr
Henschel. This week’s concert is to be in commemoration of
Mendelssohn, the programme consisting of selections from
his works, including a manuscript symphony in F minor for
the orchestral stringed instruments.
M. Rivibre’s Promenade Concerts at Covent-Garden
Theatre will close this (Saturday) evening with a performance
for his benefit, for which special attractions are promised. The
week’s proceedings have included an English festival, a
Gounod night, a classical evening, a Volunteer night, and a
repetition of Mendelssohn’s “Hymn of Praise.”
Wednesday’8 opera recital at the Royal Aquarium con¬
sisted of the music of “ IlTrovatore.” For to-night (Saturday)
a repetition of “ Faust ” is announced.
This week’s Saturday opara performance at the Alexandra
Palace is to consist of “ Der Freischiitz.”
Mr. Walter Bache, the well-known pianist, gave his annual
recital at St. James’s Hall on Monday afternoon, when his
programme included pieces by Liszt, Chopin, A. 0. Mackenzie,
and Beethoven.
As previously stated, the twenty-first season of the Monday
Popular Concerts will open on Monday next. The string
quartet party will consist of Madame Norman-N4ruda, Mr. L.
Ries, Mr. Zerbini, and Signor Piatti. Mr. Santley will be the
vocalist, and M. Louis Brassin the solo pianist; Sir J. Benedict
occupying his accustomed place as conductor.
The London Church Choir Association held its annual
festival in St. Paul’s Cathedral on Thursday week, when about
800 choristers assembled from forty churches, ranging
between Kensington and Hackney, Hampstead and Camber¬
well. Mr. W. S. Hoyte presided at the organ, and Mr. J. R.
Murray conducted. The servioe began with hymns sung by
the choristers in their procession under the dome and to the
nave. The psalms were chanted to music by Mr. W. S.
Hoyte, the “ Magnificat ” and “ Nunc Dimittis ” to chants by
Mr. Gadsby, who accompanied them on the organ. The
anthem, composed expressly for this festival by Mr. Henry
Smart, entitled “Lord, Thou hast been our refuge,” contains
some good choral effects, relieved by passages of delicacy and
beauty. The musical portions of the evening service were
impressively rendered. The clergy officiating were the Rev. J.
V. Povah, Minor Canon, the Rev. M. Boulay, and Dr. Simpson.
At the close of the service a collection was made to meet the
expenses of the association, which are ahead of the income.
-uuaru nave intimated tnat tr
will prosecute the parents of all children under nine years
age found selling newspapers or other articles, and of
children over nine and under fourteen found selling ne\
papers or other articles after seven o’clock at night, unless tl
hold certificates as to their ability to read and write, and o
knowledge of elementary arithmetic.
The distinguished service reward, vacant by the death
Major-Generul Henry Bmgham, has been conferred on Colo:
Alexander J. H. Elliot, C.B., Assistant Quartermaster-Gene
at the Horse Guards; and the distinguished service rewi
vacant by the appointment of the Earl of Longford to I
coionelcy of the 5th Fusiliers has been awarded to Coloi
F. G. T. Deshon, half-pay, late Depot Battalion.
THEATRES.
DRURY-LANE.
, , establish the Shukspeorean
drama on its boards. The series has been led off by “ T)
Winter’s Tale,” and continued by “ Macbeth.’’ This tra^edv
with Locke’s music, ought to prove a great attraction Ti
cast is as strong as it can be. It is, in fact, composed of th
leading artists in tragedy; of those who have meritorioiX
worked up their way to the most eminent position,
and have now, whatever they may have had no corn’
petitors to contend with. The manager has wisdv
been led by the facts and not by mere critic^
opinions, which, however true, have little or no practical bear
ings on theatrical arrangements. No better living artists can
be found than Mr. Charles Dillon for Macbeth, Mr. J \v
Cowper for Macduff, Mr. John Ryder for Bonquo, Mr. E p'
Edgar for Rossc, Mrs. Hermann Vezin for Lady Macbeth and
Miss F. Huddnrt for Hecate. Their merits wero at once re
cognised, and the well-known points realised by eacli
accepted spontaneously by the audience, familiar with the
good old style in which they were conceived. Their
execution throughout was vigorous, and commanded
applause in the proper places. Mr. Dillon’s representation
of the guilty Thane was orthodox in its entirety and
equal in its execution. But it was not wholly traditional •
innumerable touches testified to the originality of his genius’
His readings, always singularly pathetic, were occasionally as
new as they were just. The famous purely poetical scene in
the third act was splendidly interpreted. Macbeth has
arranged for the murder of Banquo and recovered his marital
supremacy. He is no longer led by the counsels of his wife
and has already observed the “ restless ecstasy ” under which
she has begun to suffer, and therefore takes the business into
his own hands. He utters strange words, at which she marvels
but such as shall leave her soul “ innocent” of the new crime
which he has projected. In the banquet scene that follows
we find that he has overcalculated his moral strength •
with results that rewaken some of his wife’s nativo
energy; but he soon regains his proper balance, and resolves
on using “ the worst means ” for the security of his throne.
The dauntless lady has, accordingly, again to submit to her
lord’s dictation, and to learn from him that they “ are as yet
but young in deed,” and for their “own good” must “wade"
yet further in evil. “ Strange things I have in head that will
to hand;” and so the bewildered woman leaves the scene
dejectedly with her triumphant lord, who has now prepared
his mind for “ the worst.” In this mood he visits the pit of
Acheron, and there finally confirms his resolution that “from
that moment the very firstlingB of his heart shall be the
firstlings of his hand.” We see no more of Lady Macbeth
until her dejection and sleepless anxiety lead to the great
somnolent scene, so full of remorse and visionary terror, which
precedes her violent death.* Our acting editions conceal this
fact, which, however, should be present to the mind of every
critic who would discriminate between the two characters. The
part of Lady Macbeth, though evidently too great a strain
upon her physique, was finely and forcibly sustained by Mrs.
Vezin. We have also to distinguish for special praise Mr.
Cowper, who acted alike with commendable energy and dis¬
cretion. The performance throughout was, indeed, of Buch
excellence as is manifestly ealculated to aid in raising the
modem standard of acting to that desirable plane of elevation
which the histrionic art had attained “ in the palmy days of
the drama ” on the English stage.
FORTHCOMING PANTOMIMES.
Accounts of the pantomimes for Christmas next begin to
accumulate. According to these, we may expect at Drury
Lane “Cinderella,” with the Vokes family; at Covent
Garden, “Jack and the Beanstalk; or, Harlequin and the
Seven Champions; ” at the Gaiety, “Jack the Giant-Killer,”
by Byron; at the Adelphi “Proof” will continue to be
played; at the Crystal Palace, “ Robinson Crusoe; ” at the
Royal Aquarium, “Aladdin;” at Astley’s, “Cinderella;”
at the Surrey, “ The House that Jack Built; or, Dame Trot
and the Little Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe; ” at the
Standard, “ Robin Hood and his Merry Men;” at the Park,
“The Yellow Dwarf,” by Leonard Gaston; and at the
Alhambra, “The Goose with the Golden Eggs,” a fairy
spectacle adapted from the French.
Some amusements in the Egyptian Hall deserve a record.
Mr. Liston, one of the most versatile of our readers, compre¬
hending the various qualities of ventriloquist, vocalist, aud
character delineator, has introduced a new entertainment,
entitled “ Merry Moments,” a performance which he further
describes as “ Mirthful, Musical, and Mystical.” It is all
these, and stirs the audience to a recognition of bis great
merits. As an impersonator of dramatic individualities ha
shows himself, indeed, as a first-rate artiste.
At the St. George’s Hall, Mr. George F. Fairchild begins
this (Saturday) evening a series of his readings, the merit of
which is unquestionable.
Next Tuesday evening, Nov. 6, will be produced at Mr. and
Mrs. German Reed’s Entertainment at St. George’s Hall a
new vaudeville, entitled “A Tremendous Mystery,” written
by F. C. Bumand, the music composed by King Hall,
and new and charming scenery by Messrs. Gordon and
Harford. The programme wiH conclude with an entirely
new entertainment, by Mr. Arthur Sketchley, entitled
“ Mrs. Brown’s Home and Foreign Policy. — Mr. Coroey
Grain has sailed from Southampton in the Surat for
Egypt. Having recently somewhat overtaxed his voice,
he is ordered by the physicians complete rest from singing
for a few weeks ; but he will return in December to delight
and amuse his numerous admirers who frequent Mr. and Mrs.
German Reed’s entertainments.
Lord Derby and Lord Winmarleigh paid a visit to Sold-
port last Saturday for the purpose of presenting to the to *
valescent Hospital the surplus funds of the subscripts*
raised in aid of the distressed cotton spinners during
recent depression. In the afternoon their Lordships via
the hospital, and afterwards dined with the Mayor.
The arrivals of live stock at Liverpool last week
United States and Canada were very large, though some
below the average of recent periods, while the fi ua “ u ^
fresh meat showed an increase over late weeks. Seven steam _
reached the Mersey, having on board 1417 head of oxen, *
sheep, 173 pigs, and 8 calves. The steamers con '’^’ 1!1 £, r3
fresh meat were four in number, having on board 4094 qu
of beef, aud 1100 carcases of mutton, all of them comnig
New York. There were also landed 1104 packages ot
butter, and 24 live horses.
NOV. 8, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
423
THE WINTER EXHIBITIONS.
FRENCH GALLERY.
Coming back—as most of our readers will have done—from the
splendid art-show at Paris to the sundry minor exhibitions now
open, or shortly to open, in London, there will probably be
found not much to cheer “ the winter of our discontent.” In
fairness, however, it should be remembered that on the Champ
de Mars was arrayed the choicest art-fruit of the world during
a whole decade ; whereas we have little more than some glean¬
ings of one year’s crop, mostly of a single countrv, in the three
exhibitions we are about to notice, and in those which will
quickly follow at “ the Dudley ” and the galleries of the Water
Colour and British Artists' Societies. A better impression of
our art-wealth, if not of our productiveness, will be afforded
when we shall have the Old Masters, British and Foreign, at
Burlington House, and the Drawings Ancient and Modem at
the Grosvenor Gallery. Taking, however, the first-named of
these gatherings for what they are—i.c., a sort of stop-gap
between the more important displays of the summer—and
making allowance for the present depression of trade (which
must tell most heavily on the art-dealers), we may justly con¬
gratulate the entrepreneurs in Pall-mall and the Haymarkct on
their enterprise and hopefulness.
The sensational picture which Mr. Wallis has provided as
tho principal attraction of the French Gallery is one of the
most elaborate of M. de Ncuville’s illustrations of the Franco-
German War of 1870. It depicts a closing episode in the
fiercely-contested defence of Le Bourget, when, after the village
had a second time fallen into the hands of the Prussians,
a few French officers and some francs-tircurs of the press,
gardes mobiles, and others still held out in the church, and a
small remnant of them were only forced to surrender when
they were being shot down from the windows. The exact
moment represented is when the wounded are being
carried out through the church door along the lane of
Prussians that had been formed to allow the play of the artil¬
lery, which is seen unlimbered to the right. The artist is
probably indebted somewhat to his observations as a franc-
tireur himself for the extraordinary vigour and vrauemblance
with which he has rendered the ghastly scene. The truth of
aspect is further enhanced by the vivid realisation of the effects
of a rainy sky and sloppy street. However, even for such a
subicct, M. de Neuville’s execution and colouring are need¬
lessly rough and harsh, and from a French pencil, of course,
the French are all that is heroic and dignified, whilst the
hated Prussians arc but stolid or ferocious savages—evidently
so, though we see only the broad backs and bull-necks of the
giant Pomeranians and Rhinelanders. Some Prussian officers,
it is true, may be addicted to swagger—we ourselves saw them
the other day at Strasbourg turning men, women, and children
from the trottoir— yet we vouch for it that very few either
men or officers have the brutish features, albeit distorted by
the passions of war, which are seen here. The French
authorities acted wisely in excluding this and similar repre¬
sentations from the last talon. A quoi bon reviving the worst
memoirs of a hideous war?
Another prominent work in this exhibition is a large land¬
scape, “ An English River,” by Mr. Leader, with a beautiful
silvery daylight effect. The picture has all tho qualities
which have won popularity for the painter. But in the upper
room there is a large collection of studies and sketches from
nature, by the same artist—English woodland, river, and
coast scenery, Alpine slopes and valleys; and (what we had
not before seen from his hand) interiors—which, as often
happens with sketches, will be of more interest to artists than
the painter’s finished works. We were particularly struck
with a truthful and lovely view, “ On the hills above Inter-
lachen,” seen through tender gradations of autumnal haze.
Descending to the principal room, we should next note an
important picture by L. C. Muller, of many Oriental figures
and camels encamped in the Desert, which has masterly
breadth and warmth of tone, but scarcely realises the fierce
light and sharply defined shadows of the East.
A picture by Mr. Burgess, though rather thinly and
timidly painted, has the artist’s unfailing finesse of expression.
A benevolent old padre is examining a batch of Spanish girls
in their “ Church Catechism ” and pauses inquisitively and
impressively before the prettiest of their number—is it because
she lias forgotten, or is in danger of forgetting, her religious
lessons, through the temptations and distractions to which her
beauty exposes her? The cabinet examples of Continental
artists in this collection will in general better repay examina¬
tion than the larger “easel pictures,” whether native or
foreign. By M. Gerome there is a single figure, manipulated
with exquisite delicacy, of a Cairene woman, her volup¬
tuous form and face scarcely veiled by thin green and
black gauze. It is lent by the Duke of Wellington,
uud recalls a very similar picture, if not the same, exhi¬
bited some years back, Meissouier is represented by one
of his tiniest costume figures—“A Halbardier.” And there |
are fair samples, on a small scale, of several other eminent
painters, though not sufficiently representative to demand
detailed consideration. Among them may be named F.
Willems—a lady in white satin; J. Israels—an old. woman
seated sadly in church; E. A. Schmidt—an “Artist in his
Studio,” which approaches Meissonier in microscopic precision
and brilliancy; A. Passini—a crisp and sparkling sketch,
“ Outside a Mosque, Constantinople ; ” V. Chevilliard—a cure
inspecting, with much complacency, the electioneering poster
of a “ Monarchical Candidate; ” the rising Spauish painter,
J. Jimenez—a scurrilous-looking old scribe putting a fresh
point to his pen ; P. Sadee—a picture, full of quiet merit, of
Schevening fisherfolk gossiping on the beach; T. E.
Duvergcr—“A Young Connoisseur; ” J. Bertrand—a female
head in profile styled “Annuccia;” and K. Heffner—
“ Marshlands,” presenting very delicate relations of grey in
the cloudy sky. Also to be mentioned with more or less
commendation are the dexterously-handled “ Horse Fair,”
with figures in costumes of the last century, by W. Rauber;
the “ Autumn Sunset,” by L. Munte, which, in the sky, is a
counterpart to the effect of low-toned smothered light, that has
been with justice so highly appreciated in his snow-pieces; the
marine subjects by the Belgian painter, T. Weber, distin¬
guished by the usual dash and spirit in the action of the waves,
but in the colour of the sea somewhat too whitish and creamy;
the picture, rather liche in execution, by L. E. Adan, of a
small family wishing god-speed to a young soldier in the part¬
ing toast, “Vive la Gloire;” and the meritorious, though
slightly monotonous, view of Venice, by Mr. W. Wyld, who,
on account of his long residence in Paris, should, perhaps, be
classed with foreign rather thau with English artists.
Apropos of Venice, we would (in returning to the English
contribution*) call attention to two prominent pictures, the
one, by Miss Clara Montalba, showing bmgozzi clearing at the
Dogana, with a luminous sky focussed in intensity about
the gilded globe and figure of Fortune over that building;
the other by her sister, Miss Hilda Montalba, representing I
a crazy boat, rowed gondola fashion, returning laden with I
fruit from the market at the foot ot the Rialto. In
both works the conspicuous merits of rich colouring
and impaato, and the less palpable defects of inaccurate draw - 1
ing and hasty observation, are of a land which, had we space,
it might be serviceable to carefully discriminate for the benefit
of the promising young artists themselves us well as in the
larger interests of the public. It must suffice to hint that
colouring, however beautiful in itself, and though evincing the
possession of a rare faculty for decoration, only becomes truly
precious in fine art when subordinated to the facts of nature.
The Queen of the Adriatic is, it is true, “ all things to all
men ” : no two portraits of her are alike. Owing to the low
horizontal line few cities are so devoid of local colour (as dis¬
tinguished from local form, which at Venice is full of cha¬
racter) : she owes most of her witchery to the changeful effects
of the circumambient sky and the circumjacent sea. Yet,
dreamlike as is the floating siren, there are laws of reflected
light, Bhodow, and complementary colour, which obtain as
much at Venice as elsewhere; and it is the non-observance
of thoso laws which gives to one of these pictures somewhat
the aspect of a transparency, and causes the water in the other
to resemble stained glass. We must conclude with mention of
a study by Mr. Elmore in his familiar manner of an “ Algerian
Water-Carrier; ” “The Wood-Cutter,” by Mr. Linnell, sen.,
which we fancy is an old acquaintance ; “ Windsor,” a small
but unusually good example of Mr. G. Colo; “The Tug of
War,” by Mr. J. Morgan: a few big boys pulling a cord
against a larger number of small boys, which will find many
amused admirers; and landscapes by Messrs. J. Webb, H.
Dawson, jun., and others.
MR. TOOTIT8 GALLERY.
Mr. Tooth is coming well to the front with the exhibitions he
has recommenced holding in his enlarged gallery. The col¬
lection he has brought together maintains a fair average
throughout. If there is little to startle by its excellence or
novelty, or repay criticism, there is still less that falls far
below mediocrity. We should say that the pictures generally
are eminently saleable (though that, of course, is no concern
of ours)—they are calculated to tempt the ordinary British
purchaser of no very exalted taste and of no very profound
purse. The class of productions significantly called “ pot¬
boilers” more than ever abound in these minor exhibitions—
meaning thereby moderate-size pictures with one or two figures
or landscape “bits,” fabricated (with no other ambition than
to sell readily) from studies and sketches for more important
works, or old ideas reproduced under a slightly altered guise.
The times must indeed be hard to compel so many of our
most distinguished painters to turn out such a profusion
of this class of work. In this category must be iucluded
the specimens here of Messrs. T. Faed, P. Graham, E. Nichol,
8. Cooper, J. Linnell, J. Pettie, R. Ausdell, F. Goodall, P. F.
Poole, J. B. Burgess, Ueywood Hardy, B. W. Leader, Frank
Holl, E. Crofts, R. Beavis, J. Webb, John and Alexander
Burr, Hamilton Macallum, J. Seymour Lucas, G. B. O’Neil,
W. D. Sadler, and several others. We would not, however, bo
understood to intimate that these are altogether unworthy per¬
formances. On the contrary, they are for the most port
favourable examples of their kind: we only desire to imply
that they are not of sufficient novelty or importance to demand
detailed notice in our very restricted space.
One of the few artists who affords a “subject” which, if
not a very novel one, is wrought out with deliberate intention,
is Mr. Marcus Stone in “The Letter Bag”—a young
lady holds a missive which she is retiring to road from
the tea-table, whereat sit two middle-aged gentlemen engaged
over their own correspondence, brought bv the same post, and
who cannot have much sympathy with her evident emotion.
The female figure is treated with sweet feeling, but we regret
to see Mr. Stone reverting from the vigour and freshness of
recent works to his thinner and duller early manner. “ Near
Broadstairs,” by Mr. H. W. B. Davis, is an interesting example
of his former pre-ltaphaelite style. It will be inferred that
this collection is much more variously representative of British
art than the more mixed collection in Pall-mall. On the
other hand, the forcigu pictures are, with few exceptions,
not of so high a character. It is not necessary to
praise the broad and powerful “Winter Scene” by L.
Munthe, or the animal-pieces of another able German
painter, A. Braith; or the clever though queer-looking
Japanese belle by M. Tissot. But a costume-picture, painted
conjointly by B. Gnlofre and 8. Guzzone, has all the vices
with few of the merits of the Fortuny school. L. Rossi’s
“Lesson in Phrenology" is much better, though marked by
the colour exaggeration of the samo school. M. de Nittis’s
picture of an amateur boatman rowing a couple of pretty
girls somewhere up the Thames is as much an idealisation of
the brilliancy of a “ Summer Afternoon ” as his series of
pictures in the Paris Exhibition are a prosaic intensification of
the grimness of tho London streets and London fog. Despite
obvious defects, there aro in this picture some marvellous
passages of colour in the figures, and of reflected light on the
rippling river.
MR. M'LEAfTS GALLERY.
The exhibitions of water-colour drawings at this gallery,
which form a sort of appendix to those at the two Societies’
and Dudley galleries, may be said to “ pursue the even tenour
of their way,” though we have seen better selections than the
present one. To many drawings (some having been already
exhibited) the names of many living artists of more or less high
repute are appended ; and the remarks in our last notice
touching pictures painted by recipe to sell, apply equally here
also. There is also a sprinkling of works by deceased painters.
We can only, however, attempt, within our limits, to offer some
cursory remarks on a few works of relative importance or novel
interest.
At the head of the room is a brilliant yet careful study of
picturesquely costumed “Armenians” having a little rifle
practice, by Signor Tapin'., a follower of Fortuny, but who has
contrived to preserve ric liness of colour with due regard to
the influence of aerial perspective. Below hangs a charac¬
teristic drawing, by C. Green, of a grocer and his wife
bending anxiously over the balance-sheet of tho ledger, uud
finding “ Something wrong somewhere.”
Occupying a “ ceutre” of the left wall is the finest draw¬
ing by Sir. T. Collier we remember to have seen. It represents
a dreury moor chequered by purple heather and barred by
sombre cloud-shadows; and, for brendth and power of
execution and expression of space, nearly equals the artist's
adopted master, David Cox. Sir John Gilbert appears in
excellent “ form ” in “ An Invasion by the Danes "—a hardy
host of warriors, mounted or on foot, fording a stream. A
drawing of a herculean lover parting from his sweetheart, by
Hr. F. 8. Walker (a name new to us), has unmistakable power,
though obtained by considerable blackness of colour. A charm¬
ing Bttle drawing, by Mrs. Allingham, of a quaint cottage I
nook, with an “Apple-Tree” and little child, deserves n better
place, where its delicate execution could bo conveniently
seen. We must be content to commend to notice the
drawings by the following artists:—Basil Bradley, “Otter- )
Hounds ; ” R. Giannetti, “ Marguerite ; " Herman Ten-
kate, “A Court Martial;” F. Taylor, “ The Ferry Boat;”
W C. T. Dobson, a sweet head of a girl, entitled “ Inno¬
cence;” E. Duncan, “Wreck off Holy Island ; ” Rosa Bon-
heur, groups of sheep; but, even from so eminent an artist,
the public must be beginning to tire of such sheepish trivialities,
painted ever by the same formulae and with ever diminishing
reference to nature; E. K. Johnson, a girl with lamb; T. B.
Hardy, “The Straits of Dover;’’ “A Happy Family ”—i.e.,
kittens, by L. E. Lambert, the able French painter of those
most amusing of all liviug things; and A. W. Hunt, “ Whitby.”
The National Gallery will open to the public on Monday
next. The following pictures, acquired during tho current
year by purchase or bequest, have been added to the collection
during the recess:—“ Umbrian School ” (formerly attributed
to Raphael)— “ The Agony in the Garden; ” Filippino Lippi—
“The Adoration of the Ma^i;” Botticelli—“The Nativity of
the Saviour;” Francia Bigio—“ Portrait of a Young Man;”
Unknown—“ A Man’s Portrait: ” all these are from the collec¬
tion of Mr. W. Fuller Maitland. Paul Veronese—“St.Helena:
Vision of the Invention of the Cross," from the Novar collec¬
tion; Catharina van Hemessen—“ Portrait of a Man,” bought
of Mr. J. C. Wallace; Savoldo—“Mary Magdalene,” provenance
not stated; J. Crome—“ Landscape, Slate Quarries;” W.
Mulready—“ A Snow Scene; ” T. Barker—" Landscape ; ”
W. J. Muller—“ Landscape, A River Scene ; ” theso are also
from Mr. W. Fuller Maitland’s collection ; and J. Ward—
“ Gordale Scar, Yorkshire,” purchased from Lord Ribblcsdule.
We purpose to review these acquisitions in our next Number.
The French Government has ordered a statue and two
busts of M. Thiers to be erected. The statue is to be placed
in the Mus6e at Versailles, and its execution is intrusted to
M. Guillaume. The busts, the commissions for which are
given to M. Chapu and Madame Claude Vignon, are to be set
up, one in the Institute, the other in M. Thiers’s native town.
A loan exhibition of considerable importance, consisting
chiefly of pictures by ancient and modern masters, and china,
has been opened at Bristol. One of the most interesting
features of the exhibition is the collection of Bristol china,
very remarkable specimens of which ure lent by local residents
in whose families they have been preserved since tho days of
Richard Champion, the manufacturer.
At the meeting of the art-section of the Social Science
Congress on Saturday lost, that distinguished promoter of art,
Mr. Phillip H. Itathbone, of Liverpool, read a paper on tho
Moral and Austhetical Aspects of the Undraped Figure in Art,
in which he eloquently maintained thut man—inclusive of
woman—was made in the Divine image, and to object to the
crowning work of creation as not fit ior representation was to
accuse the Creator of indecency; that beauty and morality
ore naturally allied, as are prudisl.ucss and pruriency; that
the ideal human form is the standard of all beauty of form
and proportion, therefore both artists and public should bo
accustomed to see it; and consequently it is necessary for the
future of English art and English morality that the nude,
when represented by thoroughly trained and pure-minded
artists, should have a place in our galleries. We regret that
we cannot quote Mr. Rath bone’s remarks at length ; but the
subject is of so much importance in many ways that we hope
to have an early opportunity of returning to it.
It is intended to hold during the winter, at the Edinburgh
Museum of Science and Art, on exhibition illustrative of the
history of engraving in its various branches of line, stipple,
and mezzotint, from the earliest times to the middle of the
present century.
The death at Neuilly is announced of Mr. 0. Summers, the
sculptor, who began his career in Australia, but in recent
years was established with much success at Rome. Mr.
Bummers had in hand some public statues, principally for
Australia, at the time of his death.
The death is also announced of the French sculptor M.
Victor Leharivel-Durocher. Among his works is the group
“La Comedie Humaine,” in the Luxembourg.
Governor Hennessy, of Hong-Kong, has received £1000
from a director of the Hong-Kong and Shanghai Bank for the
purpose of erecting a statue to Lord Beacouslield.
A bust of the late Commodore Goodenough, who was killed
by the natives on landing at Santa Cruz Island in August,
1875, has been placed in the Painted Hall at Greenwich
Hospital. It was executed by Rear-Admiral Count Gleichen,
at the request of the Goodenough Memorial Committee.
An interesting discovery has been made relative to a
striking bust, in Pentelic marble, in the Sculpture Gallery at
Holkhum, which was bought about the middle of the last
century by Matthew Brettingham for Thomas, Earl of
Leicester. The bust, which is undoubtedly antique, and in
excellent preservation, has hitherto passed as a Metrodorus,
but Professor Michaelis, on comparing a photograph of it with
a photograph of the Hermes in the National Museum of
Naples, which has inscribed on it the name of Thucydides tho
historian, has arrived at the conviction that both certainly
represent the same person. The eminent German art-critic
further thinks it highly probable that the Holklmm bust is a
copy of a bronze statue—possibly of the bronze statue which
at one time adorned the Zueaippos at Constantinople, and
which was described by Christoaorus in some verses in the
sixth century of cur sera.
The Besthorpe manorial estate, the property of Earl Win-
torton, situated at Attleborough, in Norfolk, was sold by
auction, in lots, at Norwich last Saturday by Lord Winter ton’s
ageut, Mr. F. Suit ham Hobson, of London. The principal
lot, comprising Besthorpe Hall, the old manor house, realised
£17,500. The entire estate consisted of 1100 acres, and the day’s
sale produced, exclusive of tho advowson, a total of £50,000.
Lord Hatherley, presiding over a meeting held at Ipswich
lately in support of the N ur>es’ Home, spoke encouragingly of
the good results effected by such institutions in preparing
trained nurses for the service of the public. The race of
“Gamp” ho said, had entirely disappeared, and in its place
was a rising class of nurses of which medical men could have
no reason to complain.
The Coroner's inquiry into the cause of death of the twelve
persons killed in the Pontypridd collision was brought to u
close on Mouday, and the jury found that the accident was
due to the neglect of the signalman, Roberts, who was ordered
into custody. Before the breaking up of the Court the fore¬
man ot the jury said, “Out of consideration of tho long and
faithful services rendered the Tatf Vale Company by William
Roberts, we trust he may still be continued in their employ.”
During flic past week the crews of the five fishing-boats
who saved lives on the morning of the wreck of the Grosser
Kurfiirst received money rewards as under, the amounts
having been regulated by the number of men each succeeded
in rescuing:—The Mily (Richard May, master), £100, tho
Susannah (Saunders), £80; the Camelia (W. Saunders), £00;
the John and Hannah (John Carter), £40; and the Five Brothers
(Robert Mary), £10. The officers and men of the German navy
intend raising a monument in the cemetery to their comrades
who perished in the Grosser Kurfiint.
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THE ILLTJSTKATED LONDON NEWS
NOV. 2, 1878
VIEWS IN AFGHANISTAN.
We present three views of scenes in Afghanistan—namely,
those of the Khojak Pass, on the road through the Peshin
Valley from Quetta to Candahar, which was described in last
week’s Paper; the bridge at the city of Cabul; and the castle
of Zohak, which is situated on the road from Cabul, seventy
or eighty miles west by north, over the Irak Pass, to Bamian,
at the foot of the Hindoo Koosh mountains, on the borders of
the Badakshan territory, and in the direction of the Russian
dominions. Bamian is a place seldom visited by English
travellers; but in the war of 1839 and 1840, against Dost
Mohamed, a portion of our army moved that way in
pursuit of the retreating foe. The sketch of Zohak
was taken by an officer of the 13th Light Infantry
in July, 1840, and that of the bridge at Cabul by the
same hand, in October, 1841. Of all the northern passes
through the Hindoo Koosh, the best known is that of Bamian,
or Sighan. The altitude of this, on the direct road to Khulm
and Balkh, is 8500 feet, and the Harakotal Pass at the northern
entrance of the Sighan valley is the same. From Bamian
auother road branches off due west to the Balkh river and
Shiborgan, and the heights of the two or three passes here vary
from 5000 to 8000 feet. There is a fair road in this direction
from Bamian, via Kilai Jahudi to Shiborgan, and Andchui to
Kerkhi, the Russo-Bokharan post on the Oxus. The distance
from Kerkhi to Bamian by this road is only 350 miles, and
from Khoja Salih and Kilif the distance is rather less.
East of Bamian there are the following passes leading into
the fertile valley of Panjkir:—The Koushan, the Salalang, the
Girdshak, and the Khawak. Their altitudes vary from 10,000
to 12,000ft. The Girdshak, between Kundus, lnderaub, and
Cabul, is the most important and the most used. North¬
eastward of the Khawak are the Ishkasm and Nuksan Passes,
13,000 ft. high, leading from Badakshan and Wakhan to the
Chitral Valley, and then, continuing along the Hindoo Koosh,
we come to the Baroghil, 12,000 ft., leading from Kashgar. But
although these are the names of all the passes we know, it is
evident, from the chronicle of our campaign of 1839-40 in these
mountains, that there are many more ; in fact, that between
the valleys of Northern Afghanistan—and it is nothing but a
succession of valleys—there is constant communication, by
means of passes of all practicability. But on one point an
opinion may be ventured, and that is that the outer passes—
those which lend from the main range of the Hindoo Koosh
down to Balkh, Khulm, Kundus, and Badakshan—are sus¬
ceptible of being made impregnable, and the earthworks, which
should be the form our fortifications should take, could be left
during the winter months, when the cold drove our soldiers into
the plains and warmer valleys of Cabul.
The antiquarian relics and monuments at Bamian are
described by a writer in the Daily News , as of interest scarcely
inferior to that of the rock-cut temples of Elephanta. He
speaks of wonderful Buddhist chapels or hermitages and cells
of monks, excavated in the face of a cliff, with sculptured
figures 100 ft. high, carved out of the solid rock. Mr. William
Simpson, our well-known Special Artist, who is much addicted
to these archaeological studies, will not miss the opportunity,
if the fortunes of war should conduct him to B amian , follow¬
ing the same course as that of the 1840 campaign.
ASTRONOMICAL OCCURRENCES IN NOVEMBER.
{From the “Illustrated London Almanack.")
The Moon is near Jupiter during the evening hours of the 1st,
she is near Saturn during the evening hours of the 5th and
6th, being to the right of the planet on the 5th and to the left
on the 6th. She is near Mars on the mornings of the 22nd
and 23rd, near Venus on the 24th, the day of New Moon, near
Mercury on the 25th, and very near Jupiter during the early
evening hours of the 28th. Her phases or times of change
are:—
First Quarter on the 1st at 51 minutes after 9h. in the afternoon.
Full Moon „ 10th „ 34 „ 2 ,, morning.
Last Quarter „ 17th „ 58 „ 5 „ afternoon.
New Moon ,, 24th „ 11 „ 9 „ morning.
She is nearest the Earth on the afternoon of the 22nd, and
most distant from it on the evening of the 6th.
Mercury is an evening star, setting on the 2nd at 4h. 39m-
p.m., or 8 minutes after sunset; on the 7th he sets at 4h. 35m.
p.m., on the 12th at 4h. 33m. p.m., on the 17th at 4h. 33m.
p.m., on the 22nd at 4h. 34m. p.m., and on the 27th at
4h. 40m. p.m., or 34 minutes after sunset. It will be seen
from the above times that the setting of this planet differs but
little throughout the month. He is (the fourth time this year)
at his greatest distance from the Sun on the 9th, and near the
Moon on the 25th.
Venus rises on the 7th at 6h. 23m. a.m., or 42 minutes
before sunrise, and is a morning star. She rises on the 17th
at 6h. 55m. a.m., or 28 minutes before sunrise; on the 27th at
7h. 28m. a.m., or 11 minutes only before sunrise. She is due
south on the 1st at llh. 13m. a.m., on the 11th at llh. 22m.
a.m., on the 21st at llh. 32m. a.m., and on the last day at
llh. 44m. a.m. She is near the Moon on the 24th.
Mars is a morning star, rising on the 7th at 5h. 28m. a.m.,
or lh. 37m. before sunrise, which interval gradually increases
to lh. 55m. by the 17th (the planet rising at 5h. 28m. a.m.),
aud to about 2h. 13m. by the 27th (the planet rising at
5h. 26m. a.m.) He is due south on the 1st at lOh. 48m. a.m.,
on the 11th at lOh. 34m. a.m., on the 21st at lOh. 20m. a.m.,
and on tho last day at lOh. 8m. a.m. He is near the Moon on
the 22nd.
Jupiter is an evening star, setting on the 1st at 9h. 32m-
p.m., on the 7that9h. 15m. p.m., on the 17th at 8h. 4 4m . p.m.»
on the 27th at 8h. 14m. p.m., and on the last day at 8h. 5m-
p.m. He is due south on the 1st at 5h. 25m. p.m., on the 11th
at 4h. 51m. p.m., on the 21st at 4h. 18m. p.m., and on the last
day of the month at 3h. 49m. p.m. He is near the Moon on
the 1st, and again on the 28th.
Saturn sets on the 1st at 2h. 59m. a.m., on the 8th at
2h. 29m. a.m., on the 18th at lh. 48m. a.m., on the 28th at
lh. 7m. a.m., and on the last day of the month at Oh. 59m. a.m.
He is due south on the 1st at 9h. 8m. p.m., in the middle of
the month at 8h. 11m. p.m., and on the last day at 7h. 12m.
p.ra. He is near the Moon on the 6th, aud stationary among
the Btars on the last day.
Speaking at a large meeting last Monday evening in con¬
nection with the new Mechanics’ Institution, opened by Sir
Urhtred Kay-Shuttleworth, M.P., at Accrington, the Bishop
of .Manchester objected to the reading of novels to any great
« xi ent. There could be no douht, he said, that we had reached
a state of intellectual development considerably in advance of
preceding generations, but he maintained that the well-being
of the country depended tipon the moral more than the intel¬
lectual condition of its people. We were not so highly edu¬
cated as the Germans or the people of Holland and Sweden,
and we were approaching a gTeat trial. He believed that the
depression of trade was caused mainly by over-production.
BLACKBERRIES.
OBITUARY.
What is the trail of bright crimson leaves that I see, flashing
in the sun, on this October day, when November is nigh at
hand, and the autumn has coined every hedgerow into gold P
Those leaves vie in colour with the clustering gems of the briony
that hang near to them, like bunches of orange-red grapes. If
it were not for its situation in the hedgerow by the side of the
great North Road, I should take it for the elegant festoons of
the Virginian creeper. But, no; it is nothing else than the
common Blackberry or Bramble, whose broad leaves present
such varied ptudies of colour in their several changes through
sli mm er and autumn; first, through differing shades of green,
to pale yellow, golden russet, vivid brown, or, as I now see
them, pure c rims on, with no admixture of gold. No wonder
that artists are so fond of studying this most picturesque of
our commonest hedge-row plants, for it is always beautiful,
with its delicate five-petalled white roses of bloom, which, like
the orange flowers, are so often seen in conjunction with the
fruit, the berries on one Bpray being variously green, crimson,
or glossy black. And then, the grains of those berries present
multitudinous reflected lights, and sparkle like so many jewels
or facets of diamonds; so that a spray of Blackberries, with its
vividly coloured leaves, rich juicy fruit, and possibly some late
white blossoms, is a subject for a painter or a theme for a poet.
The merry Rosalind spoke of a rhymester who would “hang
odes on hawthorns and elegies on brambles.”
Indeed, Ebenezer Elliott was so led away by this theme that
he makes the Blackberry to have a soft voice and to sing hymns
to the woods when they are still—a needful precaution; for, if
the woods were roaring and raging with the storm and gale,
and that mighty harper, the wind, was smiting “ his thunder-
harp of pines,” the soft voice of the Blackberry would sing
very small indeed. One verse writer, not much known to fame,
Thomas Wilkinson by name, appears to have thought
that he was reserved to be the Bard of the Bramble, and
confessed that he was unable to tell with what pleasure
he saw it crawl over his cell—from which it would
appear that he lived in a hermitage; nevertheless,
he apostrophised it as his vine, with its dark clusters of grapes.
I do not suppose that any poet has ever ventured to sing its
praises under its provincial names, “scaldberry and “bumble-
kite.” It would require Mr. Bumble itself to pen a sonnet to
the bumblekite. What could have been the origin of that
word P Was it from seeing the “ bumble ” bee paying its atten¬
tions to tho rose-like flowers, in company with the pretty peach-
blossom moth, which is so fond of the bramble P The only
rhyme to blackberry that I can call to mind is by that incom¬
parable rhymist, Thomas Ingoldsby, who, in his version of
“TheBabes in the Wood,” when the one villain has killed
the other, says:—
The Babes quake with hunger and fear,
While th« ruffian his dead comrade. Jack, buries;
Then he cries, “ Loves, amuse yourselves here
With the hips, and the haws, and the blackberries I
They are still an amusement for babes, whether small or of
“ larger growth ; ” and iu all country parishes, on the days
immediately preceding the market day of the nearest town, it
is a common sight to see the children who are just let loose
from school trooping to the hedge-rows, provided with tin
cans, and basins, and quart pots, in which they may gather the
blackberries that will be taken by the village carrier and sold
at the market town. On the humane principle of not muzzling
tho ox that treads out the corn, the children eat heartily while
they pick industriously, the dark stains around their mouths
bearing visible witness to the destination of a portion of the
plucked berries. Falstaff declared that he would give no man a
reason upon compulsion, even “if reasons were as plenty as
blackberries.” I suppose that the crop rarely fails ; but 1 am
told that this last season it was unusually large.
The fruit of the poor though it may be, and the al fresco
dessert of the weary tramp and dusty traveller, yet, the black¬
berry is not unknown at the tables of the wealthy and great,
where, served up in tarts or puddings, it is extremely palatable,
though, from its “flatness,” it requires to be mixed with
apple. An old cottager, however, informs me, that crab is
preferable to apple, both in tarts and jam, and makes it all the
sharper. In Scotland—where poor Robert Nicoll, who died all
too soon, celebrated the blackberry in a poem, tender and true,
like the writer—it is not eaten to perfection, as it is not pro¬
perly ripened. As six cookery-books of great repute, into
which I have looked, pass over the items of blackberry tart,
jam, and jelly, I may conclude that these three methods of
utilising the common hedgerow fruit are considered to be
beneath the dignified notice of the compilers of household
recipes. Yet, there are houses of the nobility in which
blacKberry tarts, jams, and jellies are annually made, and, I
may venture to add, appreciated.
In the country the cottagers not only make use of the
blackberry for puddings for their families, and pin great faith
in the wholesomeness of the fruit, especially for little children,
but they also make it into jam, which is kept in readiness for
the Christmas feast and other great occasions. Last year,
when there was a dearth of damsons, the blackberries were in
such unusual demand that they “went up in the market; ”
and a case came within my own knowledge where a Manchester
manufacturer sent an order into the Midland Counties for a
hundred pots of blackberries. How many Peter Pipers picked
those pots I am unable to say; but they must have occupied
many hundreds, if not thousands, of buev fingers. After all,
they were not intended for the table, but'to be converted into
a dye; and thus a new notion was developed in the trade in
blackberries. _ Cuthbbut Bede.
The Earl of Whamcliffe presided at the annual meeting of
the North of England Manufactory for the Blind, held at
Sheffield on Saturday. It was reported that subscriptions to
the new school for the blind at Sheffield amounted to nearly
£13,000, and that a further sum of £2000 was required. Two
subscriptions of £100 each were announced at the meeting. By
the bequest of Mr. Holy, of Sheffield, the institution, when
erected, will be liberally endowed.
The whaler Arctic arrived at Dundee yesterday week from
Davis’s Straits. Captain Adams states that he had never, in
all his experience, seen the ice so thickly packed. He had been
unable to reach Melville Bay, the most productive of the
fishing-grounds. Several times he was so completely beset by
ice that it was only by sawing and blasting that he was able to
extricate his ship. This year’s season has been a most unpro¬
ductive one, the very few whales which were seen being
extremely wild and difficult to approach.
The annual report of the Local Government Board, issued
on Monday, states that the sums expended in relief to the
poor during the year ended at Lady Day, 1877, amounted to
£7,400,034, being an increase of £64,176, or less than one per
cent, on the corresponding disbursement of the previous year.
The latest ceusus of pauperism in 1877 discloses a slight
'increase compared with the enumeration at 1876. The loans
.to sanitary authorities have of lute years increased to a
remarkuble extent,' and now form a considerable element in
the annual growth of the local indebtedness of the country.
CARDINAL CULLEN.
His Eminence Paul, Cardinal Cullen, D.D., Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Dublin, Primate of Ireland, and Apostolic Dele¬
gate, died on the 24th ult. at his residence, Eccles-street, Dublin
in his seventy-sixth year. He was born April 29,1803, in the
parish of Ballytore, in the county of Kildare, and received
his first education at Shackleton’s famous school in that town
where, it may be mentioned, the great Edmund Burke had been
a pupil. He belonged to a family of the middle class, long
settled in the counties of Kildare and Meath, and still resident
there as opulent graziers. The Cullens are an old Celtic race
and the name “ Paul ” occurs among them more than a century
since. Passing through the ecclesiastical college of Carlow
he completed his studies in the Irish College at Rome. In
theology he achieved eminent success, and won many honours.
Subsequently admitted to the priesthood, he became Rector of
the Irish College at Rome, and also held for a time the Rector¬
ship of the Propaganda. In 1849 he was selected by the Pope
to fill the vacancy in the Archbishopric of Armagh, caused by
the death of Dr. Crolly, although he was not one of the three
whose names were submitted by Ireland to the Vatican; and
in 1852 he was appointed Archbishop of Dublin in succession
to Dr. Murray. Finally, in 1866, he was created a Prince of
the Church as Cardinal, and took for his title that of St. Peter
in Montorio, the burial place of the exiled Irish Earls, Tyrconnel
and Tyrone. Dr. Cullen was not distinguished either ns a
preacher or a writer; but, as a theologian and as the fervent
unflinching asserter of Catholicity and of his Church’s rights
and dignity, he was one of the most prominent figures of his
time. Churches, hospitals, convents, orphanages and asylums,
besides the Diocesan College of ClonUffe, of which he was
always so proud, the Catholic University, and the Mater
Misericordiro Hospital are memorials of his energy, piety, and
zeal. His Eminence felt the deepest interest in the question
of Irish Education, and cordially approved of the measure with
reference to it now about to be brought into operation. Despite
of popular clamour, and at the risk of personal odium, he
rendered the British Government infinite service in extinguish¬
ing the flames of insurrection during the Fenian excitement,
when his great influence was thrown heartily into the scale of
Constitutional authority. He was at the same time a stanch
advocate for every measure likely to decrease intemperance in
Ireland. The remains of the Cardinal were removed on Sunday
from his residence in Eccles-street to Marlborough-street
Cathedral, in the presence of a large concourse of people. The
funeral cortege was of a strictly religious nature, aud, like the
habits of the deceased, of an unostentatious and simple cha¬
racter. On reaching the cathedral the coffin was placed on a
catafalque, where it lay in state until Tuesday, when the
ceremony concluded with the Office for the Dead, a Requiem
High Mass, and the Absolution Office. All the Bishops of
the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, except the Archbishop
of Tuam and the Bishop of Cork, were present. In the evening
the remains were privately interred in Clonliffe College, near
Dublin. The Pope was deeply grieved at the news of the
Archbishop’8 death, and dispatched his condolences to Dublin.
Our Portrait of Cardinal Cullen, on page 421, is from a
photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company.
HON. MRS. CAULFEILD.
Hon. Mrs. Caulfeild (Elizabeth Margaret), of Hockley, in the
county of Armagh, whose death is just announced, was a lady
of considerable mental acquirements, and one whose loss will
be severely felt in the circles in which she moved. She was
second daughter of Dodwell Browne, Esq., of Rahins, in the
county of Mayo, and was married, Aug 30, 1819, to the Hon.
Henry Caulfeild, second son of James, the first and great Earl
of Charlemont, K.P. Her husband died March 4, 1862.
Their issue was James Molyneux, present Earl of Charlemont.,
K.P., who succeeded his uncle in 1863, Henry Willium, who
died unmarried in 1867, and Lady Margaret Stronge, wife of
John Calvert Stronge, Esq., second son of Sir James Stronge,
Bart., of Tynan Abbey.
DR. KYNASTON.
The Rev. Dr. Herbert Kynaston, Prebendary of St. Paul's,
died on the 26th ult. from exhaustion, after having undergone a
severe operation. Dr. Kynaston belonged to an old Shropshire
family, and was bom in 1809. He was educated at West¬
minster School, and was elected a student at Christ Church,
Oxford, where he graduated B.A. iu 1831, and in 1834 was
ordained Deacon and Priest by the Bishop of Oxford. He
acted for some years as tutor of Christ Church, and was
appointed in 1838 Head Master of St. Paul’s School, which
office he held until 1876. In 1842 and 1813 he was selected as
Preacher before the University of Oxford, and from 1850 to
1866 he was Rector of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey with St.
Nicholas Olave. In 1853 he was appointed to a prebendal stall
in St. Paul’s Cathedral, which lie continued to hold till his
death. Dr. Kynaston was the author of several volumes of
poems and hymns.
The deaths have also been announced of—
Rear-Admiral Samuel Mercer, on the 25th ult., at Deal,
where he was bom, in 1808.
Major-General Delamain, late Bengal Royal Artillery, on
the 19th ult., at Brighton, aged sixty-six.
William Forster Parsons, Retired Commander R.N., on the
21st ult., at Delos Lodge, Purkstone, Dorset, aged fifty-six.
General Romer, retired full pay Royal Artillery, on the
17th ult., at Christchurch-road, Winchester, aged ninety.
Lieutenant William Edward Stokes, 14th Hussars, eldest
surviving son of Major O. D. Stokes, of Caia Craig, Ireland,
on Sept. 27, at Madras, aged twenty-five.
C. Sidebottom, Esq., police magistrate and Judge of the
Worcester City Court of Pleas, at his residence, Lark-hill,
Worcester, on tho 26th ult., at an advanced aged.
Lieutenant-Colonel Augustus Hart Dyke, fifth son of Sir
Percival Hart Dyke, fifth Baronet, by Anne, his wife, eldest
daughter of Robert Jenuer, Esq., of Weuvoe Castle, in the
county of Glamorgan, aud Chiselhurst, Kent, on the 23rd ult.
Charles, Duke of Sleswick-Holstein SondcrburgGliicb-burg,
in the sixty-sixth year of his age. The Duke married, in 183*,
Wilhelmina Maria, daughter of Frederick VI., King of
Denmark, who survives him. He leave no issue, and is
succeeded in the dukedom by Prince Frederick, bom on
Nov. 23,1814.
Major-General Stuart Frederick Grnham, BSC. Com¬
missioner Mooltan Division, Punjaub, on Sept. 20, at Mooltan,
aged fifty-four. He was the elder surviving son of Sif Robert
Graham, eight Baronet, of Esk, and was uucle of the pre»eiit
Sir Robert Graham, Bart. He married Frances,_ daughter ol
Baunatyne M’Leod, Esq., M.D., afid"leaves*issue."
Colonel Andrew S. Smith, of the Bengal Infantry, and late
officiating Commandant of the Bhopal Battalion, at Soufhst a,
on the 27th ult. The deceased officer served throughout the
Sutlej campaign of 1845-0. In 1853 he was with the force
employed against hill tribes west of Dereiat, and took part in
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the affair of Kehat Kohtul, and in the Meransaie expedition
in 1855. He served also in the Indian mutiny campaign in
1857-8. He was severely wounded, in April, 1858, at Thunnnh
Bown, where he lost the use of his right hand, and in the
following month was in command of the pursuing party at
the Dojorah Nullah, where he captured the enemy’s guns and
ammunition, and had his horse killed under him.
Dr. Robert Blakey, aged eighty-three, the author of several
works on metaphysical and other subjects, and of some
volumes on angling and sporting topics. He was also a con¬
tributor to tho “ Encyclopedia Britannica.” In 1835 he was
appointed Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in Queen’s
College, Belfast, but relinquished this post on account of iU-
health.
The Rev. Prebendary Karslake, suddenly, on the 29th ult.
On Thursday week he was present at a banquet at South
Mol ton, given in his honour, and was presented with 300 guineas
towards restoring Meshaw Church, in recognition of his long
service in many public capacities. Mr. Karslake was educated
at Oriel College, Oxford, and was ordained by the Bishop of
Exeter in 1831. He was Rector of Meshaw and of Creacombe,
and Rural Dean of South Moiton.
Caroline, Mrs. Leigh, widow of the late William Leigh,
Esq., of Woodchester Park, in the county of Gloucester, on
the 15th ult., aged seventy. She was the fifth daughter of
Colonel Sir John Geers Cotterell, first Baronet, M.P., by
Frances Isabella, his wife, only daughter and heir of Henry
Michael Evans, Esq. ; was married in 1828, and was left a
widow in 1873. She leaves one son, the present William
Leigh, Esq., of Woodchester Park.
The Rev. Joseph Birchall, Rector of Church, near Accring¬
ton, Rural Dean of Whitby, and Proctor in the Convocation of
York for the Archdeaconry of Manchester, on tho 28th ult.,
aged seventy-two. He was a late Scholar and Hulmeian
Exhibitioner of Brasenose College, Oxford, and had been
Rector of Church for thirty-eight years, having been
previously for eight years Curate of Newbury. He was a
great authority on synodical law, on which he published a
book about ten years ago.
John Bond Cabbell, Esq., on the 25th ult., at his residence,
Cromer Hall, in his seventy-first year. Mr. Cabbell came into
the possession of the Cromer Hall estate upon the death, in
1874, of his relative, Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell. He was
chairmun of the Cromer Gas and Water Works Companies, a
director of the East Norfolk Railway Company, and a liberal
contributor to religious and philanthropic societies. He was a
Deputy Lord Lieutenant of the county, and a constant
attendant on the Cromer bench of magistrates.
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Robert Alexander George
Dalssell, C.B., on the 19th ult., at Kilmaurs, Torquay, aged
sixty-two. He was the fourth son of Lieutenant-General
Robert Alexander, Earl of Camwath (a title restored by Act
of Parliament in 1820), and was consequently brother of the
two late Earls and of the present Peer, to whom he was heir
presumptive. Colonel Dalzell had the decoration of the
Medjidie (fifth class). He married, in 1846, Sarah Bushby,
eldest daughter of John Harris, Esq., of Eldon House, London,
Canada, and leaves two sons and three daughters.
CHE8S.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
All communlrattnm relating to (Ml department of the Paper thou Id be addrened to the
Editor, and have the word " Chea' 1 written on the envelope.
H M (Leeds!.—Tht Sami la Intowtin* from the circumstances In which It waa played.
You shall bare a report upon It In onr next laaue.
A Ladx UxoixNim.—The b»*t continuation after White's eighth more—Q to K B 3rd—
In the two Knight*' defence li cither 8 <4 to It 2nd. or 8. Q to Kt 3rd.
0 E (Dmad-rUeet).—Yonr problem* ehall have onr be*t attention. Wo (ball hope to
hear from you during your visit to Sr nth America.
H M P (Bristol.—Although simpler In construction, the la*t composition ha* the *ame
defect a» the earlier ones. 1 n these tho Black force* were so disposed as to be Ineffec¬
tive. and now tho solitary King has not a plausible resource against the overwhelm-
A T (Newport).—Wo are pleased to hear of the formation of a chea* club In yoor
town.
EL G (Blackwater).—Yonr eolation of No. 1803 Is correct.
Correct Botmosi or P«obi.km No. 1807 received from P 8 8henele, Emile Frau.
W 8 B. Tonka. Franklin Institute. Dean agate. Dabbahlll, and E Burkhanl (Leipslc).
Ooanxcr Sourness or Fsoulkm No. 1808 received lrom I* 8 Shenele. Trcdnnnoch,
Guillaume. J K.DabbabUI. EC Davies. East Harden, Cant. W MCurtis, Frttextat,
and David Millar.
Correct SoLmous or Pboblim No. 18M received from O H 8tcp«n, P B Shcnele,
An Old Hand. Guillaume. C Dar'agh. Best Harden. St JlK, TP F and E M
W 0 Dutton. Hcroward. B Ineereoll. W S B, W Warren. 0 B Coxc. C H B. F
Hampton. F V P. C C Elmore, U Benthsll. W L, G Fosbrooke. (HIV, EHHV.I
Greentwnk, Cent, M Whltcley. Dr F St. It Knnghead. E I' Vnlliamy, T W Hope.
Julia Short. Mechanic. J K, J O Kidd. LSD. Only Jones. R H Brooks. Leonora and
I--on. Norman Kumbelow, E Worsley, I d« llonsteyn, Little Fedette. Jens Nepveu
(Utrecht). Orson. Major A. 8StrlDe. T R Young. a Adams, R T Kins, K Esmonds,
T Edgar, 8 Western. L EUmaker. M R Thayer, D l-eslie. B B of Leeds. Painter
(Shepherd's-bush), Frttextot, Onno, Alpha, and Coplaptno.
Solution ov Problem No. 1805.
(The solution of No. 1806 was published under this head in error.)
WHITS. BLACK.
1. QtoKKt4th K B takesR •
2. ft to Kt 7th (bh) K to ft 3rd
8. Kt to Kt7th. Mate.
•If B to B sq, White continues with 2. Q takes Kt; If 1. K to Q ith, then 2. Q take*
Kt (ch), Ac. _
Solution O* Pboblkm No. 1808.
WHITE. BLACK.
1. Kt to Kt 8th B to K 2nd*
2 R to Kt 7th Any move
Kt mates.
• It 1. B to Q 3rd. then 2. Kt to Kt 5th. Ac.
PROBLEM No. 1811.
By 8. WmaiiT, Liverpool.
BLACK.
THE 8T. GEORGE'S CHESS CLUB.
An amusing little Partie played between Mr. I. O. Howard Taylor, of
Norwich, and a member of the 8t. George’s Chess Club.
I, King’s Gambit.)
P takes P
P to K Kt 4th
B to Kt 2nd
P to K R 3rd
P to ft 3rd
ft to K 2nd
d position f
2. P to K B 4th
8. Kt to K B 3rd
4. B to ft B 4th
6. P to K R 4th
6. P to ft 4th
7. ft to ft 3rd
This la not a goo
Queen, l'lao-d hen
prevent P to K 8th. - --
known to be abortive. The correct ;
Is 7. Kt to Q R 3rd.
8. P takes P P takes P
8. R takes R B takes R
10. Kt to ft B 3rd P to ft B 3rd
11. B to ft 2nd P to Kt 6th
12. Kt to K Kt sq ft to R 5th (ch)
13. K to B sq ft to B 3rd
14. P to K 5tn P takes P
Black’s last few moves era very wen
The advance of the Fawn wan prcmatui
the check eerved no unrfnl purpwe, ai
now the Queen In at home again, havli
in her noetic contrived to assist tl
development of the advene forces.
16. R to K sq
17. B takes P P takes B
IT. B take* B would have been mor
the purpose.
18. Kt toft B 5th Q takes P
19. R takes B (ch) P takes R
20. ft to Kt 6th (ch), and wins.
CHE8B INTELLIGENCE.
A new chess association, numbering about thirty members, has been
organised at Newport, Monmouthshire. The meetings of the Newport
Chess Club will bo hold every evening in the reading-room of the Townhall,
and the following are the tint officers elected at tho preliminary gathering
of the membersPresident, John Moses, Esq. (Mayor); honorary secre¬
tary, F. Mason; committee, Messrs. C. Kirby, A. Williams, John Gall,
W. Phillips, E. Phillips, and A. Townsend.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated May 26, 1875) with a codicil (dated March 20,
1876) of the Right Hon. Frederic Baron Chelmsford, P.C.,
D.C.L., F.R.S., late of No. 7, Eaton-square, who died on the
5th ult., was proved on the 23rd ult. by William Frederick
Higgins and the Right Hon. Alfred Henry Thesiger, the son,
the executors, the personal estate being sworn under £50,000.
The testator leaves to his eldest son, Frederic Augustus, his
freehold house in Abcliurch-lane, £10,000, and all his plate,
including the falver, with the great seal in centre, presented
to him by the Queen, and he directs the latter to be held
as a heirloom with the barony of Chelmsford; to his
daughter, the Hon. Mary Lincoln Thesiger, £12,000; to his
son Alfred Henry all his books and certain engravings, a
clock, candelabra, and vases ; to Maria Questel an annuity of
£60; to Charlotte Hodgson an annuity of £20 ; and the residue
of his property between his sons Charles Wemyss and Edward
Pierson, and his daughters, the Hon. Mrs. Augusta Higgins
and Dame Julia Selina Inglis.
The will (dated April 4, 1865) with two codicils (dated
Feb. 14. 1877, and Feb. 9, 1878) of Mrs. Jane Charlotte Hull,
late of No. 13, Cambridge-road, Hove, Brighton, who died on
Sept. 26 last, was proved on the 21st ult. by Thomas Glover
Keneit and George Kensit, the acting executors, the personal
estate being sworn under £35,000. After payment of con¬
siderable legacies to relatives, friends, and servants, the tes¬
tatrix gives tho residue to Charles Edward Torriano.
The will (dated May 26, 1875) with seven codicils of
Mr. Joseph Trigge Schomberg, Q.C., late of The I-odge,
Seend, Wilts, who died on July 28 last, was proved on the 18th
ult. by Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Schomberg, the widow, Edward
Tylee, and Edward Clerk Schomberg, the son, the acting
executors, the personal estate being sworn under £30,000.
The late Mr. Edward Jones, of Port Hope, Ontario, Canada,
has left a legacy of 3000 dols. to the National Life-Boat Insti¬
tution of England. _
It was stated at a meeting of the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce on Monday that during the last five weeks there had
been 102 English and 72 Scotch bankruptcies, 29 winding-up
notices, and 1215 liquidations. The directors were instructed
to inquire into the causes of the depression of trade, and how
far Governmental action was responsible for it.
A correspondence between the Home Secretary and the
Middlesex magistrates was recently laid before a meeting of
that body, in which tho justices express an opinion that the
expenses of conveying juvenile offenders to reformatories, and
of providing the clothing requisite upon admission, had been
transferred to the Secretary of State under the new Prisons
Act; that their discretionary power of contributing remains
unchanged, and that there was no present intention of altering
the existing arrangements.
The annual general meeting of the members of the Oxford¬
shire Agricultural Society was held last Saturday at the Town-
liall, Oxford, when there was a large and influential gathering
of the gentry and tenant farmers of the county, including the
president (Mr. H. Barnett, J.P., of Glympton Park), the Earl
of Jersey, Lord Norrcys, and Mr. W. V. Harcourt, M.P. Lord
Randolph Churchill, M.P., was unanimously elected president
of the society for the ensuing year. A letter was received from
the Mayor of Woodstock, on behalf of the inhabitants of that
town and neighbourhood, asking the society to hold their
annual show there next year, and offering a monetary contri¬
bution to tho funds and a suitable show-ground. It was
unanimously agreed that the show should take place at Wood-
stock; and hopes are entertaiued that the Duke of Marlborough
will permit it to be held in Blenheim Park.
WHITE.
White to play, and mate in two moves.
fTTRSfl IN HUNGARY.
A Game played at Budo-Pesth between Dr. 8. Jakoby and Hen Bebr.
(Scotch Gambit.)
white (Dr. J.) black (Here B.)
1 P to K 4th P to K 4th
2! Kt^o K B 3rd KttoftBard
8 . P to ft 4th
4. B to ft B 4th B to B! 4th
6. P to ft B 3rd Kt to K B 3rd
6. B to K Kt 6th
white (Dr. J.) black (Here B.)
12 .
13. P takes Kt
« i 14. Kt to K 4th
Tho Seoul. Gambit la now eonvwted 15. Kt to ft 6th
sS. 15:8 S Sr
gsS&tJUir p - w.
«• Ptoa ' w
c urf iw ft. p to K B 3rd In better, for I p p
2?: ft takes R
uH* KUe ! » ride am). »h»ul.l ho capture 23. ft to K sq
Ilia Kt. riK-n Mluw.7. Q UkoaR an5 tho 2 4. R to ft .0
second player soon secure* a good position. ^ R t a v ra B
7 P takes P B to Kt 5th (ch) 26. P to K 6th
- - YrZrl.A B takes B (ch)
P to ft 4th
Kt takes P
Castles
8. B to ft 2nd
9. Kt takes B
10. P takes P
11. Castles
12. Kt to K 6th
IS. f to a. tan
White's last two move* have been made
In utter oblivlonsnosa of the beautiful
resource that foUows.
ft to K 4th,
and White resigned.
CHESS IN THE CITY.
_ an rt.mi.lot waa olaved offhand at Purnell's Coffee-House a
^.bort'ti£e g a£ b^Hcn theVv. Mr. Earnshaw and Here Gunzbeeo.
(Vienna Game.)
wniTB(Rev.Mr.E.) *L*CK(HereO.]
1 P to K 4th P to K 4 th
2. Kt to ft B 3rd B to B 4th
3. P to B 4th B takes Kt
Twhlch converts toe opening hi
well-known variation of the Kt
Gambit declined.
4. R takes B
S;?toKlgard PtakreP
7. R takes P <4 takes.* 5
8* ft to fi 3rd
p takes P
ft to R 5th (ch)
P to K Kt 3rd
I white (Rev. Mr. E.) black (HereG.)
It l« Instructive to note the result of
I rllaek's premature attack. He has won
two Fawns, but hlB Queen Is out of play
1 and the King Is already under the shadow
of iinpeudlng mate.
9. B toft B 4th P to KB 3rd
110. Kt to ft 6th ft takes BP
11. Kt takes K B P Kt takes Kt
(ch)
12. ft takes Kt ft takes B
13. ft takes R (ch) K to K 2nd
114. B to Kt 5th (ch), and wins.
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Varieties of Man,” " Nationalities of Europe,” Ac. (Allen and Co.)
The Story of the Christiana and Moors of Spain. By Charlotte M 1 onge.
f Macmillan ftnd Co.)
In the Track of the Troops. A Tale of Modem War. ByR.M. Ballantyne.
(Niabet and Co., 21, licrners-atreet.il ... ,
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(Chapman and Hall.)
Idle-Hour Flight*. Verse* by Robert J. D. Bumie* Swansea. (8. Poulton,
Market-squat*, Aylesbury.)
The Soldier's Manual of Sanitation, and of First Help in Sickness and when
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Household Economics. Second Series of Food and Family Papers. By
Samuel Phillips Day. (Arthur H. Moxon, Tavistock-strett).
Album of British Hporta and Pastimes (Charles, Reynolds and Co., Manu¬
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Theodore Cameron: A Home Story. By Fbebe F. M'Keen, Author of
“ Thornton HaU,” Ac. (Hodder and Stoughton.)
Leaves From My Note-Book; Being a Collection of Tales, till Positive Fads,
Portraying Irish Life and Character. By an ex-Officcr of tho Royal
Irish Constabulary. (Dean and Son, 160 a . Fleet^treet.)
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Holmes. (Boosey and Co.) _
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Tables Sixth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. (Chapman and Hall)
Less Black than We’re Painted. By James Payn. 3 vote. iChattoaiid Co.)
That Boy : Who Shall Have Him! By the Rev.W.H. Daniella, AM., Author
of “D. L. Moody and His Work,” &o. (Hodder and Stoughton )
Collecting Butterflies and Moths. Illustrated. By Montagu Browne.
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The Armenians and the Eastern Question; Letters by an Armenian.
EthireandLEathetiw of Modem Poetry. By J. B.8ilkirk.(6mithandEidcr.)
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John Smith. A Novel. By the Honi.Mre. CradocE2vol^. (Chapman and Co)
A New Source of Revenue for India. By ® eor ?«;,' T vJ??ug re ) M
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Quarter Sessions, from Queen Elizabeth to Queen Anne. By A. H. A.
A FineOld°Engli^Ge°tl c man exemplified in the Life and Character of
A %1& A Biographical Study. By WUltem Davies,
Author of “The Pilgrimage of the Tiber, Ac. (Low and Co.)
Half-HoiSof Blind Man's Holiday; or, Summer and Winter Sketdiee in
Black and White. By W. W. Fenn. 2 vote. (Sampson Low and Co
Dora's Bov. By Mr*. Ellen Ross, Author of "A Candle Lighted by the
Memoirs of the Lite of Anna^iuneson. By her Niece, Geraldine Macpher son.
With a Portrait. (Longmans and Co.) , _ ,
American and Other Drinks. By Leo Engel. (Tinriey Brothers.)
Memoir of the late Alfred Smec, K R.8. By hu Daughter. \V ith Belec-
tiona from his MisceUaneoua WnUngs. (GeorgeiBelLand Sons.)
Forty-eix Social Twitters. By Mrs. Loftie, Author of The Dining-Room.
(Macmillan and Co.)
CHESS AT MANCHESTER.
A Game played between Messrs. Robky and Stkixkuhlbk.
(Two KnighU’ Defence.)
whits (Mr. R)
1. P to K 4th
BLACK (Mr. S.)
P to K 4th
2* KttoK B 3rd Kt to KB 3rd
3. Bto H 4th KttoftBSrd
4. P to ft 3rd
white (Mr. R.) black (Mr. 8.)
J here. He should pl«T out his pieces on the
Queen's side at once.
P to K B 4th
miwee rimio. »»>•
of plsy.l. P «
are preferable.
4.
6. Castles
B. PteK R 3rd
7. B to Kt 3>d
8. K to It 2nd
12. P to K B 4th
118. ft P takes P rvi ro n. a ara
14. P to ft Kt 4th B to ft Kt 3rd
I-■ ”■ Kt to K 2nd
«. Kt
B to B 4th
P to ft 3rd
B to K 3rd
ft to ft 2nd
Castles ■ K R)
8. it to it znu ; —- ■■
9. Kt to K Kt sq B tokeaB
10. R P takes B Kt to K sq
11. P to ft B 3rd
There is no time for such manure
P takes K P
Kt to K B 3rd
15. P to Kt 5th -o ,v
16 K B P takes P Kt takes P
117. ft to Kt 3rd (ch) K to R sq
18. P to K 0th
An umusliur Illustration of a common
fault Whit- It riiuliiit be doubted, |>er-
ee.vrd tlmt the Ib-'k was e« j -rise, but
|.M>lietl no further, else the mate that fob
lows could not have escaped Ids notice.
18 R takea R
i 111] ft P take* ft B take* Kt (ch)
20. K to R sq Kt to Kt 6th
Mate.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.—On “J
& TUESDAY, NOV. 11 and 12, m *“'VS®5 Z ot^SiN 8 and
depression, vrtiteh * »ld off^description, will bo
asaESsssto
court-road).
J^URNISH THROUGHOUT.
gUBSTANTIAL ARTISTIC FURNITURE.
QETZMANN & CO.,
JJAMPSTEAD-ROAD,
> TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD.
J^EAR ’
Essss?7Kis£|g§
a house throughout.___
_ the RECENT ADDITION of
-J the Immense range of PremiereCit^/ JXtadVtheS
Eagle Brewery, which hare been rebuilt and added to wen
extenilTe Show-Boo mi and Qallarlea,_
"PLIGHT LARGE SHOW-ROOMS
JJAVE JUST BEEN ADDED
rjAO THE DISPLAY OF
^RTISTIG FURNITURE, &o.
TT IS NOW ONE OF THE LARGEST
jnsyoarasg&g
TMNING-ROOM SUITES.—OETZMANN
JL ) and CO.—Handsome Mahogany Dining-Room Suite, a)n-
alsting of a Conch, Six Choirs, ana two Eafy-yhaiig. well nSk^r
SDanuif Mahoran*y ^Tth^iSiSlome* Loung^.° Stx'^'uffb^ Back
ciialrsjand Tw^aay-Chalre, upholstered In b«rt leat^C^
■^ss\ssSiS^SXs^!ts^Si
manner, price 33 guineas.—OETZMANN and CO._
pLEAflE NOTICE—
THEBE IB ONLY ONE ADDBE8B
FOR PETER ROBINSON’S
lyi-OURNING WAREHOUSE.
^ ALL LETTEB3 AND TELEGRAMS
lnt MD8T ss
TO REGENT-STREET, Nos. 256 to 262.
Occasional misdirection of letters and orders
tvtourning orders sent at once
-upon becmft of E lettKtelegbam.
-iuaBsgBSS& st ^
yOB A FAMILY MOURNING,
/CHAPMAN’S, NOTTING-HILL, W.
Patterns Free.
BLACK SILKS and SATINS.
B»M?saSlSa»:: :: :: S;.!?:'"’
Grains(very special) .
Chv^n^Uow-^dged World-Fain.il Silk *s. lid. ..
(Equal to any Silk ever Issued at 6s. lid.
r-'.. .. - -
ISSSSla*. :: :: :: g "
“• I
Coloured Satina for Trimming*, Ac., *», lid. and 3a. «d. >•
COLOUBED GB08 GRAINS FOB PBOMENADE.
DINNEB AND EVENING 8ILB.8.
A Superior QnaUty-Blch Handsome Cord«l Gro. Grains,
Splendid Failles, madfc! Pnre ItoUaa Silk.
' 5,. 6d. and «». lid. per yard.
One Uniform Price. J One^nndfed Colours. Is. lltd. per yard.
0rf# "- h h°y W D^--,-,—
(either French, German,
be completed at very short notioe
Observe the only
PETER BOB INSON'S ,
T3LACK SILKS—Specially Cheap,
Manufactured by Messrs. Bonnet et Cle, at ®*. M
Manufactured by Messrs. Taplssleret Cle, at 6s. 3d.
Manufactured by Messrs. Jaubert et Cle, at .. 4«. ,«d.
Manufactured by Messrs. Digoveet Cle, at
;; is." iid.'
l etistio bordered carpets,
OETZMANN and CO y to meet the J“creMjng tastefor
Artistic Furnishing, are Introducing some very handsome ready¬
made Bordered Carpets In every class of design, adapted to every
style of furndshln£and decoration, at greatly re|uoedpr.c»
ranging from S9s. 6d. to 18 guineas. Price-List and Sketch-Plans
of Rooms, os guides for measurements, are sent post-free on
application.—OETZMANN and CO.
TV/TUSLIN and LACE CURTAINS.
ItX CLEANING OUT.-Elegant Design s . b r *°
^Vn , g d 'h7«k W ^U , ^d V e!^^ d ;
worth ids. 9d. Msgnifloent Tuilerire Lace Curtains, 4 yards long
by* 72 inches widens, lid. per pair. A Special Reduced List ol
Curtains, with site and description, post-free.
le price,
PKTEB ROBINS^ U t a ^olreetare weUa. a Betall
As he buys direct from the Manufacturer,
all Intermediate profits are saved.
Address oivlt for Patterns as follows:—
PETER ROBINSON, 256 to 262,
REGENT-STREET.
THE COURT AND GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE.
T)LACK SILK VELVETS,
JlJ Exceptional Value,
at 3s. lid., 4s. 9d., 6s. 6d., 6s. 6a., and 7s. 6d.
BICH LYONS VELVETS,
at 108. 9d., 12s. 8d.. and 13e. 6d.
Bnpcrb qualities for Dresses and Mantles.
ror Patterns, address aa follows
PETER ROBINSON. BEGENT-STBEET.
Nos. 236 to 262.
T INDEN VELVET OZONID.
T1, nerh^tlon of these splendid Velveteens Is so .apparent,
different names: but ^SSFtTl'NDEN VELVE’f
n°70VID TheseVelveteens are notdistinguishable from the
/CHEVRON DE LAINE.
A fine diagonally woven fabric, in twenty shades of colouring.
Is. Ujd. per yard.__
P ALOMINO. A Pure Spanish SHERRI
of dry character, produced from the finest grape In the
Xerez district. Recommended with complete confidence. .*»
per dozen, railway carriage paid. Sole Importers, HENRY
BRETT and CO.,26 and 27, HignHolbom.W.C. Established 11®
CHANGE CHAMPAGNE is a light,
VJ pleasant drink, made simply from Oranges. It is effete
vescent, but entirely free from spirit, and perfectly wholemne.
Price 7s. per Dozen. Quarts: 4s., Pints. Bottles 2s. and Cases Is.
per Dozen until returned. Made only by CHAS. OODD end CO.,
79, Copenhagen-street, London. N.
K 1
IN A HAN’S LL WHISKY.
_ THE CREAM OF OLD IRISH 'WHISKIES.
Pure, mild, mellow, delicious, and most wholesome. Uni¬
versally recommended by the medical profession. Dr. Hussll
says:—"The whisky Is soft, mellow.and pure, well-matnred.end
of very excellent quality."—20, Great Titchfleld-street, W.
WILLS’ thVitt_a-_
YY advance In the duty, W. D. and H.O. WILLS
____ have Intrudnced
HONEY "Honey Cut," s
Shag Tobacco, In
Ounce Packets, at Fourpenc*. and nall-Ounee
Packets, at Twopence, which they recommend as CUT. 1
the best possible value at the price.
May be had of all the principal Tobacconists.
COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
gERGES.
Varieties In Barges will form another Nove
BBBGE8. «o called from the peculiar rough i'sSiS
I” 11 *'”' 'Sp'iEftttW-M._
MADE DIM1J-..- a.m
GREAT ECONOMY.
J IEBIG COMPANY’S
EXTRACT OF
JiRENCH
MERINOS.
euperlluou. ^ IP My Stock reprint, every phase
of colour that is now worn. First quality, 2s. llld.,
-gLACK SILK COSTUMES,
from pnre and good wearing silks,
f u“hl?nabVy trimmed wlUi “^Un^dVe“it.
Copies of the most recent Paris models.
Also good Black Satin Quilted Pettiooats
for One Guinea.
For photographs of the Costumes and self-measurement form
address as follows:—
PETER ROBINSON. REGENT-STREET.
Nos. 266 to 262.
FRENCH
TWILLED FLANNELS.
Twilled flannel Is now a recognised material for dresses, «nd
very pretty and useful they are. For winter wear the double
muLS goods are recommended as being extra wairo. Particularly
for children. The novel tones of colour that are fashionable
this season have all been produced in these beautiful goods- All
are perfectly fast colours. 30in. wide, Is. 6d. and Is. Hid. per
yan^CHA^PMAN'S. NOTTING-HILL. W._
T\0WN QUILTS.—OETZMANN and CO.’S
U EIDER and ARCTIC DOWN QUILTS and CLOTHING
combine the greatest amount of warmth attainable with the
least possible weight, and are of the very best quality. Price-
Lists post-free.— OETZMANN and CO._
TflTCHEN REQUISITES.—OETZMANN
JV and CO.’S TEN-POUND SET (List No. 2s, page 231 in
their " GUIDE TO HOUSE FURNISHING," sent pewt-free on
application) includes Table, Chairs, Clock. Ac., with the various
(Jollnary Utensils and requisites, contains all tho most useful
articles required In every kitchen, each being of superior quality.
and la the most practical selection extant. A writer upon
Uc matters In “ The Queen " Newspaper says of this set:-
Li very complete and carefully selected with a view to
and durability."—OETZMANN and CO.
P OSTAL ORDER DEPARTMENT.
OETZMANN and CO.-Orders sent per post, whether lame
or small, receive prompt and careful attention. Those residing
at a distance, or any to whom a personal visit would be incon¬
venient, desirous of leaving tho selection to the firm, may rely
upon a faithful attention to their wishes and Interest in the
■election. This department is personally supervised by a
member of the firm. For further ParticularsMpleoM see WwMT
In Catalogue, sent free on application.—OETZMANN ana CO.
COMPLETE
load (three minutes’ walk from Totten--——
Gower-street Station. Metropolitan Railway). Lowest prices
consistent with guaranteed quality. Close at Seven, and on
Saturdays at Four. Descriptive Catalogue post-free.
-QESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE, post-free.
QETZMANN & CO.,
JJAMPSTEAD-ROAD.
FABIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION, 1878,
THE ONLY " GBAND PBIX "
In Class 17, for
FURNITURE,
was awarded to
TACKSON and GRAHAM, Oxford-street,
U London,
In addition to
GRAND PRIZE (EHREN DIl’LOM), Vienna, 1873. Tho sole
Highest Award fur English Furniture.
MEDAL, for " Great Excellence of Design and Workmanship,"
London. 1862.
HORS CONCOURB. Paris, 1887. ^ ^
GOLD MEDAL OF HONOUR for "Improvements In English
Furniture,” Paris. 1853.
PRIZE MEDAL, Great Exhibition, London, 1831..
XTOTICE. — SPOONS and FORKS,
IV in SILVER and In ELECTRO-PLATE.
ELKIKUTOX and CO., as the result of important
Improvements in the above manufactures,areablo
to ofier their guaranteed qualities at such prices
as, whllo fully maintaining tlielr acknowledged
superiority, place them within the reach of all
classes. Revised Illustrated Price-Lists free by
post on application. Purchasers of Silver Spoons
and Forks obtain the advantage of any fluctuations
in the silver market.
Address—ELK1NGTON and CO., 22, Regent-street, London,
or 42. Moorgate-street. City.
TT'VENING and DINNER
Xj New Styles, well ent, and elegantly trimmed,
from one guinea to 10 guineas.
Tarlatans In the most fashionable styles. Os.
Black Brussels Net, 23s., 29s. 0d., and 35s.
Black Silk Tulle (condition keeping), 42s. and 10s.
Grenadine, from 42s. to 4 guineas.
For Sketches of tho above, address as follows:—
PKTEB ROBINSON. BEGENT-STBEET,
Nos. 236 to 262.
pURS
at SUMMER PRICES.
BEAL RUSSIAN BEAL PALETOT8.
S3 inches ]ong..
. 13 guineas.
36 inches long .. „
88 long .”
l?ew and Perfect Shapes,
and of the most enduring qoalltlee.
FUR-LINED CLOAKS,
Also e special lot.
Lined with Plain Grey Squirrel,
,47 Inches long, at 6 guineas.
For Samples—Address oklt as follows:—
PETER ROBINSON, REGENT-STREET,
Nos. 256 to 262.
■^y^INTER SKIRTINGS.
S l!| t re n ^e P i. r tu y ott n . ,1 n S.°-.h3les
oaSght^our on a dark ground. Thus-amyrtlogTCen wll
have a stripe of very pale green, with a knotted line of car-
dimd rwland urge on Either .side or the same colourings will
ho mixed on a navy blue or §eal-brown ground. 4 Th cn to®r®
are endleu vorietiei in pretty useful mixture*, suitable for all
requirement*, and at all prices. Another novelty in ®ki[tings
for this season are Tartan Mixtures arranged longitudinally.
TlieM are most stylish, and the plain and rough-threaded
Skirtings well merit distinction. An excellent varied asrort-
ment that no one can fall to make a selection from. Is. to 6s.
P “ ^Complete 8ets of Patterns forwaried to aH Parti of the
Globe somo aay os Receipt of Order.
CHAPMAN’S, NOTTING-HILL, W.
ilEAT.
Caution.—Genuine only with facslmlleof Baron LUblg i
signature In blue Ink across label.
T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
MEAT.
In nse in most households throughout the Kingdom.
J^IEBIG COMPANY^ EXTRACT OF
MEAT.
COCOATINA.
QCHWEITZER’S
^uar^^Wu^e^^
Four timre tho rtrengthof^Coco
“birch, Ac. t
lvSh^versg?for°" BREtKFASTTLUN’CHEo'ii'^o^HlJr’P^K.^
KecDitt^n Climates. Requires no Cooking. A tcaspoonlul to
Breakfart Cnp L cortln| lereth^ » ^rchVmWdtta
and CO.. 10, Adain-ftreet. London, W.C.
r [E ESSEX FLOUR and GRAIN
COMPANY, Llverpool-road, London, N., supply the BEST
Peas 7s fld perbushol; Tick Beans.7e. 6d.; Middlings,ls.4d.;
UreernuantltlM^P^u! t)rdere and Chequoipayablett lj I Young .
O AVORY and MOORE, 143, New Bond-
street, prepare_
rj^HE
BEST FOOD for INFANTS.
A thoroughly cooked food, always ready, effi
An important saving of time and trouble
To Mothers and N uraes. by Its use._
rjiHE
BEST FOOD lor INFANTS.
Contains all tho elements
Necessary for the Growth,
and Vigour of the Child.
C1AY0RY and MOORE, 143, NEW BOND*
15 BTBEET, LONDON ; end
gold by Chemlsb, Ae.. everywhere.
"VTOTICE—In reference to the
Xl above advertisements,
it Is important that letter*
should be clearly addressed to
BEGENT-STBEET, Nos. 236 to 232._
gWAN
and EDGAR
AUTUMN NOVELTIES,
A Silks, Mantles, Costumes,
and Sealskin Paletots at all prices.
gWAN and EDGAR,
PICCADILLY and REGENT-STREET,
riREAT LIVERPOOL DRAPERY
VJT FAILURE. _
G. 0. LOVEBING and CO., 69, BOLD-STBEET,
LIVERPOOL. . ,
HARVEY, NICHOLS, and CO. (Limited), having purchased,
at a discount of 26} per cent from the cost price, the whole or
llie Silk Stock of the above, consisting of every description of
BLACK, COLOURED, and FANCY Sll.KS, will offer tliosam -
together with many Important purchases ln other deportment
_NOV. ...
Ladles will find this an exceptional opportunity for pur¬
chasing. as the goods orooll perfectly fresh, huvlng been bought
by Messrs. G. C. Lovering and Co. direct from the manufacturers
within tho last six months.! _
8,9,10,11,12,13.14,16.16,'.Lowndes-terrace, Knlghtsbrldgo.
rpo LADIES—THE
J^APPIN BROTHERS-^‘-^“““-’ |
re placing the Public
jyjAPPIN BROTHERS— On the same footing as
ATAPPIN BROTHF.RS—^Members of Co-operative
lv-l _ Stores, having
jyjAP P IN BROTHERS —Reduced their Prices
ATAPPIN BROTHERS— 20perCent ’
XvX The woll-known quality
jyjAPPIN BROTHERS — of their goods Is strictly
ATAPPIN BROTHERS— mMntalned -
■I'T Write for Catalogue to
JJy£APPIN BROTHERS —London bridge.
ATAPPIN BROTHERS— LONDON BBIDOE! «*•
XVi REGENT-STREET, W.
~\y APPIN BROTHERS — rroent-street, w.
Shre'ivslinry. ‘PetteroT'andPriceson application. '
SHREWSBURY
8. an«T
tiled
A/TANUFACTURER’S STOCK of LADIES’
lTL AUTUMN DRESSES Selling Offat Half the Cost. Con-
pHEAP POCKET HANDKERCHIEFS.
Kj All who appreciate the luxury of a real Irish Cambric
Handkerchief should write for Smplejipo^freeLour Lediia ,
Ely fine:
___stitched
muine article (all pure flux)
Manufac-
rp hE LOUIS VELVETEEN.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.
YOU MUST SEE THE VELVETEraJS ABE STAMPED
AT THE BACK IN PLAIN LETTERS "THE LOUIS
V T, T vKTFKN " WITH TRADE-MARK AND MOTTO
EVERY B ™e!nTH YARD. OR YOU ARE NOT BUYING
THE GENUINE ARTICLE. NOTWITHSTANDING ALL
ASSERTIONS TO THE CONTRARY.
The Morning Port” of Aug. 13.1878, says :-•• Probably In no
cltv In the wond Is all that pertains to dress and personal
adornment submitted to a keener criticism than in Baris.
has long enjoyed the reputation of being the centre of fash km.
Ono of Oie most recent examples of articles of attire of English
manufacture satisfactorily passing such an ordeal la afforded
by the favour with which the Introduction of
THE LOUIS VELVETEEN ,
has been received In that city. This
BEAUTIFUL FABRIC.
which In texture, appearance, and durability .bears the closest
possible resemblance to the best L 7 0 "'^ 1 pyn 1 , v f ffvt“^“‘
pletcly won the suffrages of the most severe PARISI AN critics,
unci i deservedly so too. The Louis Velveteen, which Is now
universally sold, possesses several advantages over other Vel¬
veteens, amongst which may bo specially mentioned that It
neither changes colour, fades, cockles, nor spots with rain, one
and all considerations of great Importance. It Is, moreover, dyed
by a new proccti in the
FASHIONABLE PERMANENT ORIENTAL BLUE-
and made in various qualities and thicknesses suitable for either
Millinery, Dressmaking, or TrimmingpurpMes- Wl^somany
good points to recommend It. It Is not surprising Oiat the I^UIS
VELVETEEN should have been largely Imitated^ f»tt which
has rendered It necessary to stamp It on the *i. d ® *, lt ^ *
Trade-Mark representing a Griffin's Head, and the motto. Nos
“•^The Queen ’’ say*:—“ The Louis Velveteen Is capital." (
The ” Silkworm, writing of tho Louis Velveteens ln Myra s
Tnnmai ” gavfl'_“ Th« luivantftccs rlaimftd for this Velveteen
are not a few* First, the colour, which U a fine B ' lie ^J* c 5;
appearance Is certainly very handsome, and not easily distin¬
guished from velvet; it Is thinner, and finer In texture, and
consequently lees heavy than an ordinary velveteen^and Is said
to take the needle more cosily than any other make.
” Sylvia ” writes In her Journal for October— The LOUIS
VELVETEEN Is on Improvement upon ordinary velveteen that
Is sure to be thoroughly appreciated, not only HuHingr ttto comlo*
winter, but for many seasons. The usual make of this pleasant
—very easily be distinguished from silk velvet; bi
dvcteeoB, though no more expensive, resemble tl
• indeed, so short and eompoct Is tl
. This axoelle;
cents the velveteen
'lie FoUet’"^‘fOT'Octoberiays;—’’ Velveteen of good quality
W TW’ FamUrHemld'^ ot’o'd. 6 says, In reference to the Louis
Velveteens:-" That, dyed in tills country they eertalnly provo
that It is possible at an exceedingly small cost, compared with
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St. Martin, Bishop of Tours and
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Medical Society, 8.30 p.m.
beogriii'hical 8ociety, 8.30 p.m.
(uiieniti: address by Sir Biitncr-
lord Aliick; Mr.L. M. D*Albertia
on his Journey up tholly Liver,
anil in other parts of New
Guinea).
I St 3 James's, 10 a.m. and noon, Rev.
W. Harrison. _ . . _
WhitehaU, 11 a.m., Rev. Erskine W
Knollys, Vicar of Addington (on
hohalf of the Westminster Refuge);
3 p.m., Rev. Canon W. F. Erskine
Knollys. . ,,
Temple Church, 11 a.m., probably
1 Rev. Dr Vaughan, the Master;
3 p.m., Rev. A. Aingenr. .
Christian Evidence Society, bt.
Clement Danes, 7 pm., Rev.
Brownlow Maitland, M. A.— Can
■we believe in a Fatherly God 1
TYOBE’S GREAT WORK, “THEj,BRAZENJ®Kg™J 4 ”
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THE ANNUAL WINTER EXHIBITION of HIGH-CLASS
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Catali
tuftpVNTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF WATER-
Catalogue), Is, -
'institution of Surveyors, 8 p.m.
(address by Mr. W. Sturgc, the
Royal "Academy, 8 p.m. (Professor
Barff on the Chemistry of Pig¬
ments) .
South Kensington Museum, lectures
to Working Men, 8 p.m. (Professor
Frankland on Elementary Cbe-
*--- i mistry, beginning of course).
James’s Hall, 8. | Races : Derby Autumn Meeting.
Uuineaj.
Popular Concert,
TUESDAY, Nov. 12.
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8p.m. | West London Scientific Association,
(Mr J. B- Mackenzie on Avon-
inouth Dock; Mr. T. R. Salmond
_Di'xroi* T .aimn and Harbour
Qouth Dock ; air. ±. a. ®» l “ uuu
on the River Lagan and Harbour
of Belfast; and Mr. J. C. Williams
on Whitehaven Harbour and Dock
Gresham^Lectures v four days), 6 p.m.
(Very Rev. J. W. Bmgon on
Divinity—Acts xx. 18., Ac ).
Photographic Societv, 8 p.m. (pre¬
sentation of medals to successful
competitors).
Literary Fund, 3 p.m.
King’s College, 6 p m. (Mr. «. w.
Warr on Aucient History—Greece).
Society of Telegraph Engineers, 8-
Gaelic Society, 8 p.m. (Mr. John
MacDonald on Proper Names )^
Medical and Chirurgical Society,
Faraday Lecture, Royal Institution,
8 30 p.m. (Professor Ad. Wurtz (in
French) on the Constitution of
I M atter in the Gaseous State).
Anthropological Institute. 8 pr
1 Victoria Hall. Bethnal-green, i
(Professor Fawcett, M.P., o
I Afghan Question).
| Shrewsbury Races.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13.
I Microscopical Society, 8 p m.
C. I Hunterian Society, London Insti¬
tution, 8 p.m.
Birkbeck Institution, 8 p.m. ( He
citals by Mr. S Brandrom^
° feraor A. Wurtz, Willis’s Roams. ' Amateur Mechanical Society, 8 p.m.
THURSDAY. Nov. 14.
Corporation of the Sons of the Mathematic il Society, 8^
Cler;
actionary authorities and influences have given to them a
hold upon the French mind, which nothing but their own
imprudence can now avail to shake. They are “ masters
of tho situation.” They have won their position hy
political virtues not heretofore common amongst French
men. Will they retain the advantages they have conquered
for themselves ? Will the prostration of their opponents
harmfully affect their own character ? Will they continue to
be as cautious in reaping the fruits of their triumph as they
were patient, courageous, and forbearing in encountering
and overmastering the vexatious obstacles thrown in their
way to it ? or will they, in the full possession of dominant
political power, lose sense of their responsibility and
become imprudent, if not reckless, in the use of their
supremacy? These are questions which only the future
can answer. We should scarcely dare to venture a dog¬
matic reply, even if the case were that of England instead
of France But of this we feel quite convinced, that the
«« era of Revolutions” will not he closed unless the Repub¬
lican majority continue to work on the same lines, now
that they have attained tho summit of their aspirations,
as those they pursued during the painful process of their
ascent. The destiny of France, for the most part,
is in their hands. It will be their fault, as well as mis¬
fortune, if it be not so shaped as to ensure national tran¬
quillity and prosperity.
In one great enterprise the Republic has admirably
succeeded. The Paris Exhibition, to be brought to a
close within a few days, has proved quite as signal a
triumph as any of those which have preceded it-more so,
perhaps, than those held under the auspices of the Empire*
The beauty, the variety, and the artistic completeness of
the show—if we may use a hackneyed form of speech-
loft nothing to be desired.” B >» not only » «od*
ln * ‘‘left nothing to db — - - — -
- , in these respects deserving of imitation hereafter but
R- i a of511 more importance to Pans, it was
/CRYSTAL
MR. and Mrs. GERMAN KEED^TERTAINMENT.
jyi A TREMENDOUS MYSTERY, by I'i C- Bnrnand; and MRS.
IIOME AN D FOKK'O* rOLlCA by atThroa. AduilMion.
jyjOORE
Every Night at
FOURTEENTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR IN ONE UNBROKEN SEASON.
ST. JAMES’S HALL, PICCADILLY.
and BURGESS MINSTRELS.
__ _ ht , and on er^Mon^^vSlnerfay. and Satnrday at Three and
THIS COMPANY NOW BEARS THEPROUD DISTINCTION OF BEING THE
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and poiml« t EntSSnment^ow'uSvcr t ^Jy'aA8ocia 1 ted ll w'iUi tbe^'rGaeei o^MuorouiiS
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The performances of Ponfnrc. the V kingdom tho Press having spoken in
THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY -LANE.-Sole Lessee and
1 Manager,F. B. Cbfttterton.—SATURDAYjNOV. fl^Tucadag, Nov. 11, and^TUora^
j - w ^ at Eight, 8hak«jMMre B Tw^^OTMELIaJj gj. L^JdemoiiI. Miss'Vullis:
rporation oi mo w.
Clergy, annual court, 11.30 a.
(election ol governors, &c )•
British Horae for Incurables, Clap-
ham, elections, City Terminus
Hotel, noon.
College of Preceptors, 7 prai. (Mr. J.
G. Fitch on Practical Teaching-
Language).
Metcoiological Society (at Civil En¬
gineers’ Institution), Lecture,
8 p.m. (Mr Rd. Straclian on the
Barometer and its Uses; Wind and
Storms).
iatnemaucu ooeieiy,o annual
general meeting (Lord Rayleigh on
tbe Instability of Jets; l’rofessor
M W. Crofton on Self-Strained
Frames of Six Joints).
Historical Society, 8 p.m. (inaugural
address by Lord Aberdare, the pre¬
sident-elect). , , _.
London Academy of Music, St.
George’s Hall, students’ concert,
, afternoon.
Roval Academy, 8 p.m. (Professor
1 Barff on the Chemistry of Oils,
Varnishes, Ac.).
_ _ATURDAY, NOV. !l. Tuealuv, Nov.
day. Nov.'u. it Eight, Bhak«p«re’s Tragidv orilELLO withto hjll^ ■ ( u alll8 .
cast:—Othello. Mr. Charles Dillon; [,i v h voV il * W^lmsday. Nov. 13. and
FRIDAY, Nov. 15.
k - i 'iPse
Denmark, i»*>a.__ TiPoort on the Congress oi
Denmark, . ...
Society for Propagation of the
Gospel, 2 p.m.
City of Loudon College, 6p.
. Political Economy).
8ATUUDAY. Nov. 18.
National Voluntcor
established, 1859.
Report* on” the Congress
Orientalists at Florence; Mr. U.
Sweet on the Cl'issification of
"Word-Meanings, Part 1).
O LYMPIC THEATRE.—THE TWO ORPHANS*
.‘
HAMILTON'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Holbam,
Boeora Haun, and A. Hamilton. Startling Mechanical Changes-andl Effects. 51u*lc.
Vora™amf Instrumental, hy a selected and tolenu-d Company ol Arthtes. N.B. 1 ho
interior lma been re-cmliclUaiied and a new stage constructed.
bAT U it UA l, Jrtov. m.
Association 1 St. James’s Hall, Popular Concert,
| 3 p in.; cv. niug concert, 8 p.m.
THE WEATHER
RESULTS OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT THE
KEW OBSERVATORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
Bat. 61 23’6 N.; L-mg. 0’ 10’ 47” W.; Height above Sea, 84feet.
THE GRAND ANNUAL FANCY-DRESS POLO and
J. UNITFD COUNTIES’ HUNT BALL will tako place on WEDNESDAY,
PlrasSilW. London W. Book, containing a toll brt of Mcmbcrii effthe
Inten.'itinn.d Gun imd Polo[ national' l rni)MENADE CONCERT will be
Following Day._
in TUE DOM E on
THE ILLTJSTBATED LONDON NEWS.
LONDON: SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 9, 1878.
WIXP. Is*. □
General
Uirection.
fll -of
|siji 5*!
sail fils
W3TW. W.
) »w. WNW.
1 WaNWa N.
) NSW. N.
3 KW*. w‘
7 X. NW.
Mile*. I In.
208 0’220
84 0’035
173 0-000
187 0 005
120 0010
165 O’OOO
1 320 0 000 1
and
Bonapartism have lost
ve had of imposing upon
Even
in these respects uescivu, B - . -
what was of still more importance to Pans, it was
immediately attractive. It brought together “to that
City of Pleasure an immense throng of foreigner
from all parts. It drew visitors of the lughes,
distinction. It’raised the tone ofrespectMregard
which the French have been wont to expect from
other nations, but which the late war with Germany
and the confusion which followed upon it, had
done much to impair. Of course there are not wantuig
many who take exception to certain details of manage¬
ment In such affairs, universal contentment can hardly
be looked for. All sorts of interests necessarily come mto
conflict; and to exhibitors, at east, disappcmted h°g8
are common enough. But, “take it for all m all, the
Paris Exhibition has done immense credit to Fiance, wh
it has largely profited the trades of Pans. » « »
feather in the cap” of the Republic. It has gratified the
amour propre of tho nation. Its influence has been to
mitigate i/somo degree the fierceness of PoWical feuds
and factions. It came in the “ nick of time to confer as
large a benefit upon France as is capable of being conferrc
bv such an enterprise. . ,
It is a pity that there should he any reverse pictere^
Such, however, is, unhappily, the fact. A grea
| has been made, which it seems not altogether unlikely
1 that the French people are destined to rue.
about one may easily explain; but ^at propo^ons of
mischief it may assume it is impossible to foresee,
speak, of course, of the National Lottery, which u now
exciting throughout France a spirit of gajuh^g, not to
say greed, which can hardly he enough deplored .- The
objeS in which it originated was to send to the Exhibi
before its close, from all parts of the country, a selection
from the vast number of those who were too ,P°... Jf
thither by their own means, hut whose intelligence,
industry, and patriotism gave them some claim^ to
share of the enjoyments of the capital,
fieulty YVftS the exponse. Tho State was not 1 y
! find the money-voluntary contributions, it was tlioB h ,
would not furnish an adequate sum ^cvfi homrit
was suggested that recourse should bo had to a lottery,
the prizes of which should be sufficiently aBimng: tc.com¬
mand a Yvide sale of tickets, and the proceeds of w^h,
besides securing the special end originally prop , «
be partly devoted to purchasing, as prizes,
some worth contained in tho Exhibition. A million
Sts were to he sold at a franc each. These were s^
rapidly disposed of that the number Yvas increased to
two millions. Subsequently, it has be«j raised^
ten millions, and, ultimately, to twelve millions,
sudden and gigantic development of this suhsid ry
Tnlei™ has asfonished, and even alarmed Ks manag
How are they to draw 230,000 pnzes out of twel
tickets in the course of any reasonable time. An ordinal y
wheel would not do it in weeks, months, "
Possibly some means may be found of multiply 0
1 speed of the allotments to be made, without changing
I conditions or chancesoi teT Th.
The following are the readings of the meteorological instrumenta for the
above days, in order, at ten o’clock a.m. :—
the country the ideas they respectively cherish. Even | conditions or chances o mdmauai sullcs *■ ^
Marshal MacMahon has publicly announced his accept- mechanical difficulty will, perhaps, d _
ance of the last verdict returned by the popular incongruous distribution o prizes peasant
vote on this head. There cannot now remain venture, give a steam - engine . ,„;i
a doubt as to the harmonious working of what
may be described as the three “ Estates ” of France—the
President, the Senate, and the Chamber of Deputies,
iriio Tto+fln nt t.Eft firmsf.itufinn has been foucrlit. .and
St Evaporation..
| wsn j 29vin 129j sonu | aojm 12?
TIMES OF HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE
FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 19
Baad*y. Monday. TaewUy. Wednesday. Thursday. Fri day.
m I h^m I h *m h*m I h % hmlhm
inn n m i n m
A\2 0 2 2)12 Uo
irrCSiaeilL, lUU DWllHy, ailLl WIU ^uauiuci WA
The Battlo of the Constitution has been fought, and
victory remains with the Republicans. The moderation
and self-restraint Yvhich, under the guidance uf M.
venture, give a steam-engine to a poor p • ^
or a cannon or a plough to a sliopkeepe ,
provide a fund of amusement for the Fiend ^
for many a month to come. The great o ]
the scheme is that it has waked up oyer ^
country a spirit of speculation but to< \ ^dtlirg
dilated to deteriorate the frugality and P° ®
NOV. 9, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED. LONDON NEWS
431
intended to repeat the experiment, and the Republican
Government may, perhaps, be wise enough to abstain from
raising money by any similar device. But the torrent o i
eager expectation which has burst its way through the
present opening may prove to be too powerful for legis¬
lative resistance. The thing, of course, will carry with it
its own cure. But, meanwhile, all the ordinary social
interests of the people will suffer more or less from dis¬
arrangement and perversion. It will be well, indeed, if
the cankerous and contagious evil do not eventually
undermine political virtue. However, not to take an
alarmist view of the consequences that may result from
this adventure, we are bound to express the utmost regret
both at the sanction given by it to this mode of raising
funds and at the eager and clamorous spirit which it has
evoked. It has cast a shadow over the character and
results of the Paris Exhibition.
THE COURT.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice attended Divine service at
Crathie church on Sunday. The holy communion was cele¬
brated, and the Rev. A. Campbell officiated. Sir John and
Lady Clark have dined with her Majesty. The Queen and
Princess Beatrice left Balmoral on Tuesday for a short stay at
the Glass alt Shiel.
The memorial which the Queen intends to erect to the
memory of the late Sir Thomas Biddulph, at Balmoral, is a
granite Celtic cross, somewhat similar to that placed in the
Jb'rogmore Gardens in remembrance of Lady Augusta Stanley.
Lady Churchill has succeeded the Countess of Erroll as Lady
in Waiting to her Majesty. Colonel the Hon. Henry Bynghas
left and Lord Sackvilie has arrived at the castle.
THE PRINCE AND* PRINCESS OP WALES.
The Prince and Princess of Wales leit Paris on Sunday upon
their return to London, and arrived at Marlborough House at
half-past six on Monday morning. Prince Leopold lunched
with their ltoyul Highnesses, and in the evening the Prince
and Princess, accompanied by the Duke of Connaught and
Prince Leopold, went to Her Majesty's Theatre. On Tuesday
the Prince went to Windsor, und, accompanied by Prince
Christian, passed the day shooting in the Groat Park, and in
the evening accoinj anied the Duke of Cambridge to Her
Majesty’s Theatre. On Wednesday his Royal Highness
presided at a meeting of the council of the Royal Agricultural
Society of England at 12, Hanover-square. The Duke of
Connaught and Prince Leopold visited the Prince and
Princess a: Muriborough House, aud remained to luncheon.
The Prince attains his thirty-seventh year to-day.
His Royal Highness will be the guest of Mrs. Gerard Leigh,
at Luton Hoo, from Dec. 2 to 6. There wiU be three days’
shooting, a county ball on the 5th, and a visit to Luton, with
the inspection of iwo of its chief manufactories, on the 6th.
Princess Christian has consented to be patroness of a bazaar,
to be held in the spring, on behalf of the Creche, in Stepney.
The Duke of Connaught and Prince Leopold will accom¬
pany the Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise to Liverpool
on the 14th inst. The Duke and Prince Leopold have visited
the Adelphi, the Gaiety, and the Globe Theatres.
The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, attended by
Baron Both and Captain G. Winsloe, has left St. James’s
Palace for Neu-Strelitz.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland arrived in
Grosvenor-place on Tuesday evening from Alnwick Castle.
The Duke of Richmond and Gordon has left town for
Gordon Castle.
The Marchioness of Bath has arrived at Longleat from
Paris.
The Prime Minister returned to town on Tuesday from
visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury.
The Earl of Dufferiu left on Saturday last for Paris.
The King of Italy sent valuable presents to the members
of the special mission who went to Rome by order of the
Queen for the investiture of his Majesty as Knight of the
Order of the Garter. The presents wereTo tue Duke of
Abercom, a lifesize portrait of the King, in the full dre-s of
the Order of the Garter, expressly painted for the Duke ; to
Sir Albert Woods, a miniature adorned with brilliants, and
standing on an eagle of chiselled silver, representing his
Majesty in full dress of the order; to Viscount Newport, a
paper-knife, with handle in lapis-lazuli; to Lord Frederick
Hamilton, a sugar-basin with stand in iron, inlaid with gold
and silver; to Lord Claud John Hamilton, a silver plate aud
sugar-basin ; to General Sir Frederick Chapman, a silver ink-
stand ; to Sir Reginald Macdonald, an Etruscan metal cup,
with inlaid figures in silver and gold; to Mr. Victor Buckley,
a silver casket, with figures in relief. To the other members of
the mission the following souvenirs were previously for¬
warded:—To the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe, a Roman paper-
knife, with a jasper handle ; to Mr. J. R. Blanche and to Mr.
George E. Cokayne, gold snuffboxes surrounded with brilliants.
The celebration of the coming of age of the youngest son o
the Right Hon. Milner Gibson (who is also heir to the Cullum
estate) took place at Hardwicke Hall, near Bury St Edmunds,
on Tuesday last. The day was one of general rejoicing in the
neighbourhood, and the decorations aud illuminations (curried
out by Messrs. Defries) were of an effective character.
FASHIONABLE MARRIAGES.
The marriage between Viscount Anson, eldest son of the Earl
of Lichfield, and the Lady Mildred Coke, youngest daughter
of the Earl of Leicester, was celebrated on Tue.-day at hoik -
ham church, Norfolk. Viscount Anson was accompanied by
his best man, Viscount Lewisham. The bridesmaids were
Lady Mary Coke, her sister ; the Ladies Florence, Maud, aud
Edith Anson, sisters of the bridegroom ; Lady Georgiuna
l.egge, and Miss Edith Stephenson. The bride, who was
given away by her father, woie a dress of white satin, trimmed
with Brussels lace, and over a wreath of orauge-llowers a
veil of the same lace. Her ornaments were pearls and
diamonds. The bridesmaids were dressed alike in white
silk and white beaver bonnets. Each wore a brooch with the
bride’s monogram, a present from the bridegroom. The
Rev. Alexander Napier, Vicar of Holkham, officiated. The
Earl aud Countess of Leicester afterwards received a large party
at breakfast. Viscount Anson and his bride left Holkham
Hall for lloretead Hall, the seat of Mr E. Birkbeck, near Nor¬
wich, to pass the honeymoon. The bride's travelling-dress was
of olive-green velvet, trimmed with blue fox fur, aud chapeau
to match. The wedding prtscuts were numerous. Viscount
Anson, among other gifts, presented his bride with a gold
bracelet set with turquoises, a pearl hulf-hoop ring, a coral
half-hoop ring, a set of silver Circassian ornaments, and a
silver Norwegian belt. The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh presented
the bride with five diamoud stars. The Shugborougb servants’
gift consisted of a Minton china dessert service ; that of the
Holkham school children an ivory-bound bible, aud the
members of the Holkham choir a hymn-book.
The Hon. aud Rev. Henry A. Stauhope, M.A., Rector of
Gawsworth, Cheshire, third sou of the late Earl Stanhope, was
married to the Hon. Mildred, second daughter of Lord and
Lady Vernon, on Saturday last, at St. George’s, Hanover-
square. The bridegroom was accompanied by Captain
the Hon. E. Primrose, Grenadier Guards, as best man.
The bride’s sisters aud the Ladies Philippa and Emily
Stanhope were bridesmaids. The bride wore a dress of
white satin, buttoned with pearls and trimmed with lace, a
present from Lady Stanhope. The bridesmaids’ dresses
were of white cashmere and satin, ornamented with
bouquets of pink chrysanthemums. Each bridesmaid had
on a lapis-lazuli and gold chain, the present of the bride¬
groom. The lion, and Rev. Adalbert Anson, Rector of Wool¬
wich, officiated. Lord aud Lady Vernon entertained their
relatives and friends at breakfast in Grosvenor-street. The
bride and bridegroom left for Chevening, the seat of Earl
Stanhope. The presents were numerous, aud included remem¬
brances from the tenantry of Lord Vernon’s estates in Cheshire
and Derbyshire, and the parishioners of Gawsworth and
Sudbury. _
THE IMPENDING AFGHAN WAR.
The Indian Government, pending the result of its ulti¬
matum sent to the Ameer of Cabul by order of the Home
Government, to which no reply can arrive before the 20th inst,
is continuing its active preparations for war. General Sir
Samuel Brown is appointed to command the reserve of troops
in the district of Pe=hawur. Sir Neville Chamberlain takes his
place as military adviser to the Viceroy in Coimcil. It is officially
announced from Simla that the field force in the Peshawur
vulley will be composed of two divisions, the one stationed at
Peshawur,uuderSir Samuel Browne, theothcr atHassan-Abdul,
under General Maude. A native contingent of troops from the
Sikh States will act with the Hassan-Abdul brigade. A division
from Madras and Bombay, under the command of General
J. M. Primrose, will assemble on the Lower Indus, as a
reserve to Geuerul Stewart’s force. It is stated that the people
of Kohistan have rebelled aud murdered the Afghan Governor,
and that the Ameer of Cabul has sent a large force to restore
order in the district. Another rumour says that Shere Ali’s
troops in the Khyber Pass are deserting in large numbers, in
consequence of sickness and want of food, and hopes are
said to te entertained that the Ameer will submit fully
and unconditionally to the British terms. The Afghan officers
at Ali Musjid are petitioning the Ameer to take immediate
action against the British or allow them to return. The
bridge over the Indus for the Quetta advance is fixed at
Sukkur, the site of the bridge in the previous campaign.
Schemes are under consideration for a railway to the
foot of the Bulan. The British regiments detailed to
lead into the Khyber are the seventeenth and fourth
battalions of the Rilie Brigade. The dispatch of troops through
the Bolan Pass continues, and four thousand men have now
reached Quetta. They are furnished with two months’ pro¬
visions. The last of General Biddulph’s troops will be there
in three days. Immense exertions are being made to supply
their requirements, and the extent of these may be estimated
by the tact that General Stewart’s column alone needs over
sixty thousand camels and a store of four months’ provisions
before it could advance.
There are diverse rumours about the purport and language
of Shere Ali’s reply brought last week by the native Envoy
whom Lord Lytiou had sent to Cabul. One version of it is
lrom Simla, to the effect that the Ameer, in his reply to Lord
Lytton’s note, suid he had been anxious for the friendship of
the British Government, but that of late years their policy had
been changeable; that Lord Mayo pursued one policy and
Lord Lyttou another, and that each new Viceroy as he was
appointed reversed all that had been done by his predecessor.
He says he is open to make a new treaty, not being bound by
any Russian alliance; and explains that the Russian Embassy
was not invited to Cabul.
It is stated that the eminent native Minister of the Nizam
of Hyderabad (the Deccan)—namely, our late visitor, SirSalar
J ung—will loyaBy co-operate in a war against Afghanistan,
and that he has placed, not only troops, but the treasury aud
all the resources of Hyderabad at the disposal of the Indian
Government.
We ure indebted to Major N. Cavagnari, C.S.I., Deputy
Commissioner, aud second in command of the party, under Sir
Neville Chamberlain, which was lately dispatched by the
Viceroy of India on the intended diplomatic Mission to Cabul,
for two Sketches drawn from his outlines and notes by Major
C. W. Wilson, of the Bengal Artillery, showing the scenery
about Jumrood aud Ali Musjid, at the mouth of the Khyber
Pass, where the Mission party was turned back by the Afghan
Commandant, Faiz Mohammed Khan, in pursuance oi his
orders lrom Shere Ali, the Ameer of Cabul. The following
notes accompany these Sketches, which we have engraved for
the present Number of our Journal:—
“ The Ivbyber Bass, which marly thirty years ago was the
scene of such stirring events, has once more become a subject
of interest to the British nation. Those who are imperfectly
acquainted with the physical conformation of the oouutiy, or
the tribal divisions oi the claus inhabiting the network of hills
that intervenes between the British frontier and Afghanistan
proper, may have been wont to regard the whole series of
defiles and passes that lead from Pe-hawur to Cabul, a distance
ot about 19U miles, as the Khyber Pass. But the actual Puss
which bears this name only extends from Jumrood to the
Landi Khauu Kotal, above Dakka, a distance of little
more than thirty miles. The tribes who own this
Pass are collectively known as the Khyberee Afreedis.
From Dakka to about forty miles beyond Jellalabad, the
country is occupied by the Shinwuri clan and by the tribes of
Ningrahkr aud the J ellalabad district, who are controlled by
the Ameer’s regular troops stationed at Dakka and Jellalabad.
The remaining portiou of the road to Cabul traverses the
passes of Gundamuk, Jugdalak, Tczeen, and the Khoord Cabul,
all made famous on account of the disasters which there beiell
the remnants of the “ Army of the Indus ” during its retnat
from Cabul, the record of which is so graphically described iu
* Kaye’s War in Afghanistan.’ The road is held by the power,
ful Ghilzi tribes, who, irritated at the resumption ot their
allowances, were prominently the most bitter opponents the
British forces met with after leaving Cabul. Financial con¬
siderations induced Sir William Macuaughten, in the interest
of Shah Shujah-ul-Mulk, to reduce the annual aUowances that
were paid to the hill tribes and certain leading sirdars. The con¬
sequence was that when the retirement from Cabul commenced,
the Ghilzis, actuated by revenge for what they considered ill-
treutment, contemptuously rejected the offer of a lac of
rupees, mude them by the British authorities to arrange safe
conduct for the retiring army to Jellalabad. So bitter was the
hostility of this tribe, that even the notorious Akbar Khan,
though desirous of assisting the English to retire after his
treacherous assassination of Macnaughten, was utterly unable
to allay the tempest he had raised, and could iu no way
control the tribes, who, having once given way to their blood-
shedding und plundering propensities, did not desist so long
as a single follower or baggage animal of the army remained
within the Passes. This brief statement will show that the
destruction of the British army in the winter of 1841-2 did not
occur in the Khyber Pass, but in the passes through the Ghilzi
country, between Cabul and Jellalabad. During the British
occupation of Cabul, the arrangements for keeping open the
Khyber Pass were carried out under the orders of the
British Resident at Peshawur; but after the withdrawal of
the English from Afghanistan the tribes were left to the
management of the Ameer of Cabul, who from that time up
to the present has shown that he is evidently more interested
in keeping up the savage and refractory spirit of the Khyberis
than iu bringing them under control and good order. The
result of this mismanagement has been that for many years
the Khyber Pass has remained closed, and the caravans trading
between India and Central Asia have been obliged to use
more circuitous and difficult routes. Since the close of the
Peshawur Conference of 1876 the Ameer Shere Ali Khan has
endeavoured to establish his authority over the Khyberis, and
with this object ho induced them, by liberal payments of
money to some of their chiefs, to consent to the recon¬
struction of the fort of Ali Musjid, which commands a nar¬
row defile about half-way through the Pass. This fort played
an important part in the Afghan war, and its defence by
Lieutenant Mackeson, and subsequently by Colonel Moseley,
apuiust large attacking forces of the Afreedis, is a matter of
history.
“ For some time before the date fixed for the departure of
Sir Neville Chamberlain’s Mission to Cabul, it was rumoured
that the Ali Musjid officials had received orders from Cabul to
oppose the advance of the British Mission. The Ameer him¬
self had never replied to the Viceroy’s letters informing him of
the intended dispatch of the Mission, and expressing con¬
dolence on the death of the heir-apparent, although ample
time for him to do so had elapsed since the native Envoy who
conveyed those letters had reached Cabid. It was considered
not desirable to expose Sir N eville Chamberlain and the whole of
the Mi.-siontotbehifultol being turned back ; so itwas decided
that Major Cavagnari, the second in command of the expedition,
with a smull escort oi the Guide Cavalry under Colonel Jenkins
and Captain Wigram Battye, should proceed to Ali Musjid
under the safe conduct of the friendly Afreedis, who had
undertaken to escort the Mission through the Khyber, unless
the Ameer’s authorities openly opposed this. Accordingly, on
Sept. 21, the camp of the British Mission moved to Jamrood,
at the mouth of the Klivber Pass, and Major Cavagnari’s
party started for Ali Musjid. On arrival at the heights above
Lala Cheena, it was found that pickets from the Ali Musjid
Fort had been placed on the ridge in front, which commanded
the descent to Lala Cheena and the remainder of the road to
Ali Musjid, which Lorn this point lies through the bed of the
Khyber river, and they threatened to fire on the party if it
advanced. Messages wire then sent to the Commandaut,
desiring that either he should come to an interview or that
Major Cavagnari should be permitted to proceed unmo¬
lested to Ali Musjid. After some delay, a reply was
brought that Faiz Mahomed Khau, the Commandant, was
about to come to Lala Cheena for an interview. Major
Cavagnari, accompanied by Colonel Jenkins and a few native
gentlemen, descended into the bed of the river, leaving Captain
Battye with the escort on the heights above to cover the retire¬
ment in case matters should not turn out peaceably. After
ubout half an hour’s pulley Faiz Mahomed Khan gave Major
Cavagnari distinctly 10 understand that if the British Mission
advanced it would be opposed by force of arms ; and, although
the responsibility that would rest with the Ameer, if a peacelul
mission was rejected in this maimer, was pointed out to the
Commandant, he decisively declared that he had no other
alternative. At one time the discussion began to grow warm,
and there was a soxf of uneasy movement amongst the
jdzailchees who accompanied Faiz Mahomed Khan, so that it
was considered fortunate that the interview was brought
to a close before the easily-aroused excitability of the
numerous Afghan followers of the Commandant, who
crowded round the place where the interview was
going on, should have assumed a form to which the
few members of the British Mission would have been unable
to reply as they would have liked to have done. However, the
meeting finally broke up with mutual expressions of personal
good feeling; Major Cavagnari having assured Faiz Mahomed
Khan that, as it was his duty to carry out whatever orders he
had received, the responsibility would lie with the Ameer, and
not with him. The Khyberees faithfully performed what they
had agreed to do ; and Major Cavagnari’s party reached Jum¬
rood without meeting with any obstruction. The camp of the
British Mission returned to Peshawur on the morning of
Sept. 22 ; and, as military preparations are being pushed on
with activity, it may be confidently expected that the insult
which the British nation has received lrom the Ameer Shere
Ali Khan will not be permitted to remain unavenged.
“ The Illustrations show the Fort of Ali Musjid from the
heights above the village of Lala Cheena. Between the fore¬
ground, where Major Cuvagnari’s party halted, and the
opposite ridge held by the Ali Musjid pickets, the road
descends into the bed of the river, along the course
of which it proceeds to Ali Musjid. The second sketch
represents the camp of the British Mission at Jamrood, a Fort
built by the Sikhs in 1837, and which was the scene of a battle
between the Afghans, under Mahomed Akbar Khan, aud the
Sikh troops, under Hari Singh. The latter was killed by a
long shot, said to have been fired by the Afghan leader. The
sketches are drawn by Major C. W. Wilson, Royal Artillery,
from rough pencil notes by Major Cavagnari.”
Several Illustrations of Afghanistan and the city of Cabul
are taken, by permission, from the series of lithographs pub¬
lished by Messrs. Ueury Graves and Co., Pall-mall, entitled
“ Sketches of Afghanistan ; ” the sketches being those drawn
by the late Mr. James Atkinson, superintending surgeon of
the army under Sir John Keane in 1839 and 1840. Mr.
Atkinson also wrote mi interesting personal narrative of bis
observations during that campaign, “The Expedition into
Afghanistan, Notes and Sketches Descriptive of that Country,”
which volume was published in 1842 by Messrs. W. II. Allen
and Co. It may still be perused with advantage, as the
greatest changes that have siuce taken place are iu the
Punjaub and Scinde, now under British rule, and there is less
change in Afghanistan. The occupation of Candahar, the
storming of Ghuzni, and a residence of some months at
Cabul, and afterwards at Jellalabad, with the surrender of
Dost Mohammed, which closed the first war, are related with
great animation; but the author did not remain in Afghan¬
istan to witness the frightful reverses that occurred a twelve-
month later, with the slaughter of our army, its retreat through
the Khoord Cabul Pass, or the subsequent re-conquest, of the
country by Generals Pollock, Sale, and Nott. His description
of the manners and customs of the Afghans, aud his account
of their history, are well worth reading. The book maybe
found in most good public libraries.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 0, 1878.— 438
SKETCHES IN AFGHANISTAN : GATE OP THE BAZAAR AT CABUL.
434
THE tt.t.ttstkA.TEP LONDON NEWS
NOV. 9, 1878
MOUNTAIN VIEWS IN CYPRUS.
Mr J Thomson, a photographic artist, who has lately visited
Cyprus to obtain views of its scenery, and of the costumes
figures, and dwellings of the people, ascended to the ^uimnit
of Mount Olympus in pursuit of his interesting Ration.
There is, as our readers are doubtless aware, more than o
Mount Olympus indifferent parts of the TjS}
of mythical history and poetic romance; and we have grea
doubts whether this Cyprian Olympus was the abode of
“ cloud-compelling Jove,” as Pope’s Homer caUs lnm. m the
days of the Iliad, seeing that the loftier the
Anatolian mainland is much more convenient to the site of
Troy. But there are plenty of clouds, and sometimes mist or
rain, upon the high mountain visited six weeteago by Mr.
Thomson, who has favoured us with a couple of Sketches, and
Wlt ” AccompaSed byan Arab dragoman, Habib Kuri, aadmy
muleteer, I rested at Prodromus for the night. It is the
village nearest to the summit of Mount Olympus, built on the
crestof one of the lower spurs of the range, temperature
fell perceptibly as we made the ascent durmg the day, and
at night could not have exceeded 40 deg. Fahrenheit. In the
Olympian district the mountains are clothed with mag¬
nificent forests of cedar. A number of the finest trees
have been quite recently cut down, but the supply is still
unlimited. We made the toilsome ascent of Olympus on our
mules in the morning, accompanied by the headman of the
village. The accompanying sketch pictures the apex of toe
classic mountain as it appeared partially wrapped m * robe of
clouds and mist. Our approach to the summit was heralded
bv an ominous peal of thunder, that made the earth tremble
beneath our feet. It sounded like a terrible protest against
the sacrilege of photographing, for the first tune, the ruins o
the ancient shrine. Dismounting, we clambered through stony
debris to the summit. The storm increased, and was accompanied
by a deluge of rain and hail, such as one can only experience in
high regions. Nothing daunted, after an hour s delay, tmd
with a friendly gleam of light, we succeeded in photographing
what remains of the ancient shrine. Shelter there was none,
save that represented in the sketch. My dragoman, robed m
his bed sheet, which he invariably earned in his saddle-bag,
tended the camera ; and for the details of our position I refer
the reader to the sketch. Worst of all, my umbrella, of thin
calico, proved useless; my pith-hat became limp and pasty;
while my shoes gave way entirely as I made the descent on
foot.” _
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
Both Chambers met on Monday. M. Waddington laid
Yellow-book upon the table in both Houses. The Sent
fixed the election of three life members for the 15th inst. In
the Chamber of Deputies, during a debate upon the election of
M. Leroux (Bonapartist), M. Paul de Cassagnac was called to
order for interrupting' a speaker by saying, “ There can be
nothing in common between Bonapartists and Marshal
MacMahon since he perjured himself.” The election of M.
Leroux was invalidated by 313 to 174 votes. The election of
M. Paul de Cassagnac was discussed in the Chamber on Tues¬
day, its invalidation being recommended by the Parliamentary
Committee of Inquiry, while the bureau has reported in favour
of its validity. M. de Cassagnac’s speech in defence of his
election occupied the whole sitting, and he ultimately obtained
an adjournment until Thursday to conclude his defence. The
Left had agreed beforehand not to notice any of his provoca¬
tions, and this understanding was pretty well adhered to. The
President, however, interrupted him several times, and pro¬
tested against his violent language.
Marshal MacMahon, according to La France, has expressed
to the Cabinet his strong desire that no proceedings shall .be
taken against M. Paul de Cassagnac for the personal outrages
of which he has been guilty.
The youngest son of Marshal MacMahon has entered the
Military College of St. Cyr as a student.
The Prince of Wales received at the Hotel Bristol, Paris,
on Thursday week Mr. Cunliffe Owen, C.B., Secretary to the
Royal Commission for the Exhibition, and in her Majesty’s
name conferred upon him the title of Knight Commander of
the Order of St. Michael and St. George. The Companionship
of the same order was conferred on the following Executive
Commissioners for the Colonies—viz., Messrs. Thomas Keefer,
Canada; Edward Combes, New South Wales ; Josiah Boothby,
South Australia ; Arthur Hodgson, Queensland; and George
Collins Levey, Victoria. His Royal Highness took the oppor¬
tunity of thanking the Commissioners for the services they
had rendered, in co-operating towards the success of the
British Section, and trusted that the intercourse which had
taken place would increase the feeling of affection which
already existed between the colonies and the mother country.
The Queen has appointed Sir Richard Wallace, Bart., M.P.,
one of her Majesty’s Commissioners for the Paris Exhibition,
a Knight Commander of the Civil Division of the Bath ; aud
has conferred knighthoods on Mr. B. Thomas Brandreth
Gibbs, General Superintendent of the Agricultural Division of
the British Section, and on Mr. J. Anderson, LL.D., M.I.C.E.,
General Supeiintendent of the Machinery Division of the
British Section.
The Prince and Princess of Wales on Sunday visited the
Bible stand at the Tiocadero entrance of the Exhibition. They
examined the various editions of the Scriptures with great
interest, and were informed by Mr. Alexander, the manager of
the Paris kiosque, that the society had distributed a million
and a half of Bibles, in twenty-two languages. Their Royal
Highnesses accepted and took away with them one of the
smallest Bibles in the world, printed at Oxford. The Prince
wrote his name in the subscription-book for £10, and the
Princess wrote hers for £4.
Their Royal Highnesses left Paris on Sunday evening.
The Prince, prior to his departure, presented to Inspector Giles,
of the London Police, and to Sergeant Wright, of the Royal
Engineers, valuable gold watches as mementoes of his appre¬
ciation of their zeal and of the valuable services rendered by
them during the Exhibition.
Lord Lyons, the British Ambassador, was present on Sun¬
day at a diplomatic dinner given at the Italian Embassy.
Madame Thiers returned to Paris on Sunday.
M. Gambetta went up in the captive balloon on Monday
morning. A good deal (remarks the Times correspondent) has
happened since his previous ascent, that of Oct. 7, 1870, when
he quitted the besieged city.
Official announcement was made on Monday that the
number of 12,000,000 tickets (to that prodigious number it has
mounted) for the French National Lottery will not be exceeded.
From Dec. 1 to 15, when the drawing will begin, the prizes
w ill be exhibited.
An agreement has been arrived at between the Ministers of
War and Commerce relative to the preservation of the palace
and park created in the Champs de Mars for the Exhibition.
The War Minister will retain the Gallery of Manual Labour
and the two large machinery' galleries as general warehouses
for the army. The space comprised between thei
Honour, with some of it, annexe., tlte ■Oreuzot
M SuhamicmPagis died on the 31st ult., after a short
mZs ™y. His *»»**«*&%£
the Church of St. Rock, on Monday morning. MM. Jules
Shnon.Crimieux, Jules Grevy, and Etienne Arago were pall-
bearers. Many political notabilities were present.
SPAIN.
King Alfonso on Sunday directed the man ® u ^ e ® ° h f J 4 ’???
men simulating an attack upon the line of redoubts near
Madrid at Carfbanchel. A great concourse of people was
Castillo read a bill concerning Senatorial elections in Cuba.
The number of senators for Cuba is raised to sixteen.
ITALY.
Enthusiastic receptions have been given to the King and
Queen at Modena and Bologna.
A requiem mass was celebrated last Saturday at the tomb of
the late King of Italy. Immense crowds assembled and
deputations from all the regiments of the garrison of Rome
deposited garlands upon the Royal tomb. H .
^Addressing his constituents at Iseo on Sunday, Signor
Zanardelli, the Minister of the Interior, defended the Liberal
policy of the new Ministry, and stated that if the Government
allowed Republican associations to exist it was because they
were of little importance. With regard to the demonstrations
made by the Italia Irredenta party, he declared that the Austrian
Government were aware that the sentiments of the Italian
Government were wholly opposed to these demonstrations.
A Daily News telegram from Rome states that a church,
built by the American Baptists, at a cost of £4000, was opened
in Rome last Saturday. The ministers of all the evangelical
denominations and the members of the Young Men 8 Christian
Association took part in the first service.
On Thursday week the stream of lava from Mount Vesuvius
increased in extent; on the following day the volcano was
again quiet; but on Saturday Vesuvius was in a high state of
activity, the lava flowing into the same ravine as in 1872,
HOLLAND.
In the Second Chamber on Tuesday the Minister for the
Colonies presented the Budget for the Dutch Indies. Defend¬
ing the military policy of the Government with respect to
Atchin, he said the Government desired that the positions of
the Dutch should be effectively maintained, but they wished
avoid all aggressive action unless it became absolutely neces¬
sary. Proposals would shortly be brought forward for the
definite settlement of the financial relations between the Indian
possessions and the mother country; and, in the meantime,
colonial bonds to the extent of 4.000,000 fl. would be with¬
drawn. The deficit for 1879 the Minister estimated at
i,000 fl.; and he stated that, in order to place the Indian
finances on a more stable footing, the Government was pre¬
paring several reforms.
* GERMANY.
Prince Bismarck arrived in Berlin on Sunday night last.
In a letter which has been published Prince Bismarck states
that he intends to propose a comprehensive revision of the
German Custom tariffs to the Federal Governments, and that
the preparatory labours for that purpose have been begun.
Countess Maria von Bismarck, only daughter of Prince
Bismarck, was married on Wednesday at Berlin to Count
Kuno von Rantzau. The ceremony took place in the grand
hall of the Chancellor’s official residence, where the late
Congress was held. An altar was erected, surrounded by
orange and myrtle trees, in the centre of the spacious apart¬
ment. The Crown Prince aud Crown Princess were present.
The Prussian Budget for 1879 shows a deficit of some
50,000,000 marks, which is to be covered by a loan.
A decree convoking both Houses of the Prussian Diet for
the 19th inst. is promulgated this evening.
Lord Odo Russell arrived at Berlin yesterday week to
resume his duties as British Ambassador.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
In the Lower House of the Austrian Reichsrath on the
31st ult. a motion was brought forward that some corre¬
spondence should be produced respecting a charge mad<
against Prince Auersperg, the Minister-President, of having
bribed certain members of the House. On a division the
motion was rejected by a large majority. Last Wednesday
the debate took place on the Address in reply to the
Speech from the Throne. Baron von Pretis defended the
policy pursued by the Government in the East, and said that
Count Andrassy would, in accordance with the Constitution,
justify that policy before the Delegations. The Address was
adopted, on the third reading, by 160 to 70 votes.
At the sitting of the Lower House of the Hungarian Diet lost
Saturday Herr Tisza, the Minister-President, laid on the table
of the House a copy of the Treaty of Berlin. In the debate
which followed he explained that international treaties which
had been concluded by competent authority could not be
assailed by the Legislature of one of the interested countries
without undermining the foundation of all international law.
The division on the motion for the impeachment of the
Hungarian Ministry took place last Tuesday. The result
was:—For impeachment, 95 ; against, 170: giving the Govern¬
ment a majority of 75.
RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
of Varna, and directed the commander to return to Constanti¬
nople with his troops and war material.
According to intelligence received at Constantinople the
Arab tribes between Bagdad and Bassorah are in full revolt
and have cut the communications between Bagdad and Mosul
A Constantinople telegram states that the Sultan intends to
renounce his Civil List for a month, and that he will appro,
priate the sum thus saved to the withdrawal of caimes from
circulation. oBEECE.
The new Cabinet, formed near the close of last week, has
not succeeded in obtaining the confidence of the Chamber of
Deputies; for, on a motion to adjourn the sittings for a fort-
night, which was intended to serve as a test, the Ministers were
defeated by 87 to 80 votes. In consequence, they at once ten.
dered their resignation. M. Tricoupis, the President of the
Ministry, had a long audience of the King on Tuesday after-
noon. His Majesty afterwards summoned M. Coumondouros
to the palace, who has undertaken to form a new Cabinet.
AMERICA.
Both the State and Congressional elections in America on
Tuesday passed off quietly. The American correspondent of
the Times says that the latest returns ensure to the Democrats
the control of the next House by about their present majority.
The members of the Cabinet are stated to have unanimou-lj-
agreed that the President’s Message at the opening of Congress
should recommend legislation with the object of increasing
the weight of the silver doller, or to diminish the amount
coined, in order to prevent depreciation in its value.
A meeting of the leading merchants of New York was held
in that city on the 31st ult., at which a committee was
appointed to arrange a national meeting for the consideration
of a proposal to hold an international exhibition at New York
in 1889, or earlier.
The American papers announce the death of Bishop
Rosencrans, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Columbus, and
brother of General Rosencrans ; and of Rear-Admiral Hiram
Paulding, of the United States Navy, at the age of eighty-one
THE CAPE COLONIES.
A telegram of Cape news to Oct. 15, received by way of
Madeira, says that Sir Bartle Frere is still at Pietermaritzburg,
and the Commander-in-Chief is at Greytown. There is no
trustworthy news from the Transvaal. Affairs in Zululand
remain stationary ; but from all appearances Cetewayo is
becoming more unfriendly. At Delagoa Bay the Zulus are
assuming a threatening tone towards the Portuguese, and in
Griqualand West a petition in favour of annexation to the
Cape Colony is being prepared.
The Russian Imperial yacht Livadia foundered on her
passage from Odessa to Livadia. The Grand Duke Sergius,
who was on board, was saved, as weH as the officers accom¬
panying him and the crew.
Major-General Kosloff has been appointed Chief of Police
at Moscow. General Drenteln, Chief of the High Police at
St. Petersburg, has been nominated a member of the Caucasian
Administrative Committee.
A letter from Orenburg which has been received at
St. Petersburg states that the Chinese Governor of Kashgar
has prohibited any commercial dealings with the Russians, and
has also ordered all the latter to accept Chinese nationality or
leave the country within two weeks.
Russian troops are reported to be massed in the Bulgarian
fortresses of Widdin, Silistria, and Shumla, which are being
strengthened.
A circular has been issued by the Russian Commissary
in Bulgaria announcing that the official language of the Prin¬
cipality is to be Bulgarian, and that aU Turkish administrative
names wiU be changed.
On Monday last the European Commission began the dis¬
cussion of the organic regulations for the administration of
Eastern Roumelia. M. Schmidt, one of the officers of the
Imperiul Ottoman Bank, has been appointed to the post of
Financial Director of the Province of Eastern Roumelia.
The Porte has issued telegraphic orders for the evacuation
A report has reached Sydney that the revolted natives of
New Caledonia have committed further massacres.
The Austrian mail-packets between Varna and Constanti¬
nople having been re-established, mails for Constantinople
will be forwarded from London twice a week by those packets.
The death is announced from Geneva of M. James Fazy,
:-member of the Grand Council and for many years a pro¬
minent member of the Radical party, aged eighty-one.
The German excavations at Olympia continue to be most
prosperous. On the 2nd inst. they discovered the chief entrance
of the so-called Pompey Gate.
The total gross tonnage which passed through the Suez
Canal during the first nine months of the present year was,
according to the official bulletin, 2,463,309 tons, of which
1,969,834 tons, or about four fifths, were British.
Throughout the tour in Cyprus the First Lord of the
Admiralty and Colonel Stanley were greeted with enthusiasm
by the population. On Wednesday morning Mr. Smith and
Colonel Stanley arrived at Port Said, and left in the evening
for Alexandria.
The Post Office authorities state that information has been
received from the French post-office that the French packets
leaving Bordeaux on the 5th of each month wiU for the present
cease to caU at Rio de Janeiro on the outward voyage. Under
these circumstances, no mails for Brazil will be made up in
London for conveyance by these packets until further notice.
The Morning Advertiser states that Mr. Thomas Michell,
formerly her Majesty’s Consul-General at St. Petersburg, has
been appointed to a similar position at Tiflis. The Gazttu
announces that the Queen has appointed Captain Georgs
Chaworth Musters, R.N., to be her Majesty’s Consul for the
Portuguese Possessions on the East Coast of Africa; and Mr.
James Lohrab, late her Majesty’s Consul at Erzeroum, to be
her Majesty’s Consul at Jeddah.
The Daily News correspondent at Lisbon states that the
King of Portugal offered to General Grant a grand cross, but
the General declined to receive it, stating that he had declined
aU such honours at other Courts. General Grant and Mrs.
Grant left Lisbon on Saturday for Cadiz, on their way to the
Alhambra, accompanied to the frontier by an officer of tn
Court. Mr. Morier, the British Minister, gave a dinner in the
General’s honour.
At the close of the recent missionary services at Baden-
Baden, the Bishop of Saskatchewan was accorded the honour
of a private audience of the Empress of Germany and Queen o
Prussia. Her Imperial Majesty displayed the warmest rnteres
in the Bishop’s devoted and arduous work in Canada, and pre¬
sented a special donation towards the Diocesan Training to ■
lege for Native Helpers. The Bishop during his stayin Bade
was the guest of the chaplain, the Rev. Archibald White.
The correspondence between the Marquis of Salisbury, M.
Waddington, and the Marquis d’Harcourt, on the subject
the Convention with Turkey, has been published. Lord b(U •
bury in his note informs M. Waddington of the considered
and exigencies by which the making of the Convention
dictated. M. Waddington writes along explanatory despa
to the Marquis d’Harcourt concerning the interviews ne n
with the British representatives at Berlin and the stateni
made by them.
Prizes were distributed on Wednesday at Margate by Mr-
J, G. Talbot, M.P., to the successful candidates at the uxioro
and Cambridge Local Examinations.
Lord Aberdare presided on Monday at a conference oj 1
temperance, held in the Slieldonian Theatre at Oxford,
with regard to the legislation of the past ten years, cont J
that it had, upon the whole, produced good effects .—a
of temperance demonstrations has been held in Dublin.
Lord Carnarvon on Tuesday night inaugurated the lectub
season of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution J,
delivery of a lecture on Imperial Administration. l ne ™ , h
been many utterances on the Eastern Question duto-JB
week ; but, as our readers will probably be glad to l ear “>^ i
have not space for the briefest summary of the speeches.
James Ramsay, M.P. for the Falkirk Burghs, has bt P
, sented with the freedom of the town of Linlithgow, ouc
1 group which the hon. gentleman represents.
NOV. 9, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
435
THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Ambr"8f\ O. C , t» be Curate of Redditch.
Bemnctt, J ; Inonmt>ent of Park Chapel, Chelsea.
Carrutliees C.; Minister of the District of 8t Stephen’s, Wandsworth.
Christum.-, Wilii.un Uenry; Rector of Crostwick.
Cnlyer, J E. ; Recti >r of Astbury, Cheshire.
Cooper, Fiederick; Perpetual Curate of Lea Mars ton.
Crofts, J. 1). Macbride; Rector of 11 rad Held Combust, Suffolk.
Deacon, A. W. N.; Curate-in-Chargo of Milton-under-Lyachwood, Oxon.
Ffoulkes, E. S.; Vicar of St. Mary's, Oxford.
Fisher, John; Perpetual Curate ot Nutburst-cum-Hockley Heath.
Houghton. Edward James; Vicar of Ulockley.
Jucornbs, J. W. N. ; Chaplain of Shepton Mallet Prison.
Ling, Henry Pratt; Rector of He; worth. Notts.
Maltby. Brough, Vicar of Farndon : Archdeacon of Nottingham.
Mann, William ; Minor Canon of Winchester Cathedral.
Wilson, A., Vicar of Tottenham ; Prebendary of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Wilson, William Osborn Pocock; Reetor of HunUpill.— Ouardian.
TlieTempie Church was reopened on Sunday, after extensive
alterations in the organ.
The Gresham Lecturer in Divinity (Dean of Chichester) will
lecture on Nov. 12, and three following days, at six p.m.
The Synod of Montreal has elected Dean Bond Bishop of
Montreal iu.place of Bishop Oxenden, who has resigned.
A handsome Munich stained-glass window, by Mayer and
Co., has been placed in Cossington church, near Bridgewater,
by Mr. E. Broderip, the patron of the living, in memory of
his wife.
Messrs. Cox and Sons have recently supplied to St. Mark’s
Church, Middleton-square, London, a font of fine design;
and an eagle lectern of polished brass for the chapel of the
Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich.
The Bishop of Melbourne has given up a fifth of his income
rather than abandon some outlying stations, where, owing to
the distress, funds for the clergy were not forthcoming. He
has given the £1000 sent him by his Paddington friends to
found a theological scholarship in Trinity College.
The Bishop of London has presented the Rev. Alexander
Wilson, Vicar of Tottenham, to the prebendal stall of Reculver-
land in St. Paul’s Cathedral, in recognition of the valuable
services which he rendered for so many years to the National
Society and the cause of religious education.
The choirs of eighteen of the parish churches within the
liberty of the city of Tendon met in St. Paul’s Cathedral on
Tuesday evening, on the occasion of a special choral service
given under the direction of the City clergy associated with
Sion College, London-wnll. A large congregation assembled
under the dome, and extended into the aisles and galleries.
Some time ago (says the Lincolnshire Chronicle ) we had the
pleasure of announcing that the Dowager Duchess of Cleve¬
land had presented the large sum of £1000 towards the
erection of a new see for the relief of the diocese of Lincoln.
We have now the gratification of announcing that the same
lady has sent a check for a second £1000 to the Bishop of Not¬
tingham towards a further endowment of the proposed see.
The autumnal conference of the Church Association was
opened on Tuesday at Derby, and was largely attended. Mr.
Andrews, who presided, said that the association was not at
all discouraged by recent events in the law courts. The law
could not be carried out, owing to official blunders or technical
points, and to remove these difficulties only one or two amend¬
ments would be required to be . made in the Public Worship
Regulation Act. Papers on several subjects were afterwards
read, and a public meeting was held in the evening.
Lord Peuzance had before him in the Court of Arches last
Saturday the Prestbury ritual case, and in giving judgment he
referred in pointed terms to the decision of the Queen s Bench
before the vacation, by which a writ of prohibition staying
further proceedings was issued in the St. Albans case. His
Lordship said it did not seem that at present he would have
the power to punish Mr. Edwards, the Vicar of Prestbury,
and he saw no use in giving grounds for a fresh writ of pro¬
hibition ; therefore, he judged it expedient—as, for sufficient
reasons, he did not wish to punish him by imprisonment-to
hold his nand, and would decline to proceed to any further
measures at present.
The burials question was referred to by the Bishop of
St. Albans in a charge delivered to some ot his clergy last
Saturday. Men were endeavouring, he said, to suggest a
compromise which would satisfy all parties; but such a com¬
promise seemed to him impossible, because one party would
hot be satisfied without the concession of all they desired, and
that was what the other party could not be induced to sur¬
render The best thing they could do was to promote in every
parish the formation of detached burial pounds, with the view
of closing in time all the churchyards. Ho believed the ques¬
tion might be settled by consent by a congress of Christians
meeting in love, and willing to lay down their weapons of war
when such weapons could no longer avail in death.
Earl Fitzwilliam presided at a public meeting held on
Tuesday at York in connection with the xork Diocesan
Church Building and Endowment Aid Society. It was
resolved to dissolve the society-which, since its form¬
ation in. 1861, has expended a sum of £62,000, and pro¬
moted the expenditure of not less than half a million of
money-and to establish in its stead the York Diocesan Church
Extension Society. This change was made m order to extend
the objects of the society. It is proposed now to extend its
grants in aid of endowments to benefices not exceeding £lo0 a
year, and to permit grants from the general fund in aid of
mission-rooms, mission-chapels, and sites ■for churches, chapels,
and mission-rooms. For the accomplishment of this work
during the next ten years a sum of £10,000 was required, a
large proportion of which was subscribed before the meeting
broke up7 The Archbishop of York, the Dean of ^ ork, Lord
Hotham, the Earl of Zetland, Sir E. Beckett, and Mr.
Christopher Sykes, M.P., took part in the proceedmgs.
The Congregational school and manse at Mold, the founda¬
tion-stones of which were laid in May last by the Duke of
Westminster, and which have cost almost £1800, were formally
opened on Tuesday by Mr. S. Morley, M.P. There was a large
number of clergymen and gentlemen present, among whom
was Mr. J. Roberts, M.P. for Flintshire Boroughs.
The North Wales English Congregational Union held its
second annual conference on Wednesday at Mold—Mr. Samuel
Morlev M.P., in the chair. The representatives present
included several from Denbighshire, Flintshire Merionethshire,
Carnarvonshire, Montgomeryshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, and
Shropshire. In the evening a public meeting was held.
Earl Fortescue, speaking on Monday evening at a dinner
in connection with the Devon County Schools, strongly pro¬
tested against Mr. Forster’s proposal to put middle-class
schools under Government inspection. He regretted that the
recommendation of the Endowed Schools Enquiry Commission
for a more liberal application of endowments to third-grade
schools had not been enforced. We wanted schools to educate
producers rather than those to educate clerks and shopmen, for
whom the demand was decreasing. Prebendary Brereton, the
founder of the county schools, stated that arrangements were
progressmg for founding a new college at Cambridge, to he
called Cavendish College, for middle-class boys.
Wesleyan Methodist finance committee sat again on
A -jj, n % wefc k, and considered the subjects of home missions,
middle-class schools, and the extension fund. It was resolved
to appropriate an additional £10,000 to this last-named object,
and various grants were made to home missions. It was also
decided, after a very animated debate, to establish Methodist
middle-class schools throughout the country, and to make a pro¬
visional grant of £10,000 in aid of such establishments.—On
Friday, the 1st inst., it was agreed to grant £500 towards pur¬
chasing the freehold of the Children’s Home. The Rev. T. B.
Stephenson proposed that £3000 should be granted towards
the ministers’ invalid fund. The resolution was withdrawn in
favour of a proposal by Mr. A. M‘Arthur, M.P., that the sum
should be £4000, which was carried. The llev. W. Davies
proposed that £2000 be granted for their work in North Wales.
This resolution was carried. Mr. M‘Arthur, M.P., moved that
the sums tentatively granted be now granted. The motion was
seconded by the Rev. Alexander Macaulay, supported by Mr.
Flitch. After considerable discussion, it was agreed that the
title of the new fund should be the Wesleyan Methodist
Thanksgiving Fund. A series of central meetings is to be held
before next Conference to raise money for the fund. A minister
promised £50, and Mr. Green, of Birmingham, £500. Mr.
Mewburn promised £1000, in addition to the £10,000 he has
already promised to the extension fund.
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
The Lord Chancellor has become a vice-patron of the Cab-
drivers’ Benevolent Association, 15, Soho-square.
The Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Thomas Owden, whose
year of office expires this week, is to receive the honour of
knighthood.
General the Viscount of Templetown, K.C.B , the Almoner
of the Order of St. John, has forwarded a donation of £30 in
support of the funds of the St. John Ambulance Association.
The National Hospital for Consumption on the Separate
Principle, at Ventnor, which is supported by voluntary con¬
tributions, has received 100 guineas from the trustees of Prison
Charities.
The Metropolitan Board of Works has resolved to request
the Home Secretary to introduce a bill into Parliament which
would make all cxtra-parochial places in the metropolis subject
to rating for local purposes.
The Michaelmas sittings of the Supreme Court of Judicature
began last Saturday, when the Lord Chancellor received the
Judges, Queen's Counsel, and other officials of the High Court
of Justice at his residence, Cromwell-gardens.
At the general monthly meeting of the Royal Institution
of Great Britain, held on Monday—Dr. C. W. Siemens, vice-
president, in the chair—the managers reported that they had
appointed Mr. Edward Albert Schafer Fullerian Professor of
Physiology for three years.
An application was made on Tuesday to the Master of the
Rolls for an injunction to restrain a young man, aged nineteen
years, a ward of Court, from contracting an improvident
marriage. It was stated that the banns had already been pub¬
lished ; and it was desired that the injunction should extend
to the clergyman. His Lordship acceded to the application.
A conference of managers of friendly societies was held in
the rooms of the Society of Arts on Wednesday, when it was
resolved to establish a national alliance of registered friendly
societies. The chief object is to secure, as far as possible, the
benefits of membership to non-resident members on the same
terms as resident members, by making each society the agent
for other societies.
A summons was set down for hearing at the Marlborough -
street Police Court on Wednesday against Lady Annie Louise
Gooch and Ann Walker, charging them with having conspired
to palm off on Sir Francis Robert Sherlock Lambert Gooch, as
his own, a strange child, with intent to defraud and deceive.
Lady Gooch was unable, through indisposition, to appear, and
Mr. Newton ordered an adjournment for a week.
A conference has been held between the Improvement Com¬
mittee of the Corporation and the promoters of the District
Railway Extension, at which (the City Press states) it was
mutually agreed that “ Route No. 3 ”—viz., by way of Cannon-
street, Ea8tclieap, Great Tower-street, Tower-hill, and the
Minories, to Aldgate High-street, should be adopted. This
plan embraces a new street from Eastcheap to Tower-hill.
We understand that the Worshipful Company of Cutlers of
London, with a view to the encouragement of progress in the
craft they represent, are about to follow the excellent example
set by others of the ancient guilds, and intend to hold an
exhibition of cutlery in the domestic, trade, and surgical
branches; also of sword cutlery; and of giving prizes to the
most successful competitors. The prizes will include the
admission to the freedom of the company.
The action brought by the Corporation of London, as
trustees for St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, against inhabitants
and owners of land in the parish of Christ Church, Newgate-
street, to recover tithes at the rate of two shillings and nine-
pence in the pound, imder a statute made in the reign of
Henry VIII., again came on for hearing in the Chancery
Division on Monday. The Master of the Rolls, in giving his
decision, said it was clear that the defendants were liable for
the rate, which he ordered them to pay.
The Archbishop of York wa* present yesterday week at the
opening of a coffee tavern at Rotht rlinm, built at the expense
of the Vicar, the Rev. Newton Hall. The building has cost
£5500. The Archbishop preached iu the parish church iu
favour of temperance, and at a meeting held subsequently his
Grace said the work would bring ministers and people more
together.—A large building at the nortln rn end of Scymour-
place, Marylebone-road, built for a public-house, but recently
bought by Mrs. Russell Gurney for the purposes of a coffee
tavern, was opened by Mr. Ernest Hart last Saturday.
The hundred and twenty-fifth session of the Society of Arts
will begin on the 20th inst. with an address from the chairman
of the council, Lord Alfred S. Churchill. Previous to Christ¬
mas there will be four ordinary Wednesday evening meetings,
in addition to the opening meeting. The special Indian,
African, and Chemical Sections will each hold six meetings
during the session, and a short additional course of two lectures
will be given by Dr. B. W. Richardson on Some Further
Researches in Putrefactive Changes, in continuation and com¬
pletion of his course of Cantor lectures given last session.
Last Saturday evening the seventeenth series of the
Lambeth baths Winter Meetings was opened, when nearly
1500 persons were present. The Rev. G. M. Murphy, who pre¬
sided, read the opening statement, from which it appeared
that the baths, which had been hired by Mr. S. Morley, M.P.,
for the purpose, will be open every week-day evening, when
lectures and addresses will be delivered and entertainments
given, to which working men and their families are cordially
invited. On Sundays, both morning and evening, devotional
meetings will be held in the same place.
In the Court of Bankruptcy last Saturday there was a
petition for liquidation in the estate of Messrs. Smith,
Fleming, and Co., merchants, carrying on business at 17 and
18, Leadenhall-street, and also at Kurrachee and Bombay.
The debts are estimated at £2,250,000. The value of the
assets, which consist of remittances from India and various
cargoes of rice and other East Indian produce, together with
book debts, &c., is not yet stated—In the petition for the
liquidation of the affairs of Messrs. Heugh, Balfour, and Co.,
the debts are stated at £1,562,000.
A meeting of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution was
held on Thursday, at its house, Johu-street, Adelphi, when
several recent life-boat services were reported. Nearly £250
were ordered to be paid to life-boat crews for their services
during the past month. Rewards were also granted to th
crews of several shore-boats for saving life from wrecks on ou
coasts; and payments amounting to £3334 were made on som
of the 269 life-boat establishments of the institution. Amongs
the contributions recently received were £600, for a life-boat
from Samuel Bird, Esq., of Hampstead; and £550, the result
of a collection amongst the officers and employes of the loco¬
motive and carriage department of the Great Western Rail¬
way, to provide a life-boat as a memorial of the late Mr. Joseph
Armstrong, who was for muny years their chief superintendent.
New life-boats have recently been forwarded to Dartmouth,
Gourdon, N.B., and Wexford, Ireland. Reports were read
from the four inspectors of life-boats.
A meeting of the board of delegates of the Hospital Satur¬
day Fund was held last Saturday night at the London Hospital,
Whitechapel-road. Mr. A. W. Mackenzie presided and sub¬
mitted a statement, from which it appeared that in the eight
postal districts of the metropolis 182 boxes had produced
£862 ; in places of amusement 42 boxes brought £55 ; 65
boxes in boats, £54 : making a total of £972. At Hammer¬
smith, West Ham, and Greenwich £118 had been collected in
addition. The secretary read a report, which stated that the
sums already deposited at the office amounted to £5744, while
other sums, amounting to £500, were yet to come in, making
in all £6200, as against £5786 last year. Subscriptions from
upwards of 1000 subscribers had also to be received, so that
this year’s collection would probably be the largest yet made.
About 850 additional firms had had collections made in their
establishments. It was unanimously resolved to close the
collection on the 30th inst., any sums received after that date
to be carried forward to next year’s account.
The route of the Lord Mayor’s Procession this (Saturday)
morning will be exceptionally long. Leaving Guildhall at
mid-day, the cortege will cross to the Surrey side of the
Thames by way of London Bridge (which is to be beautified
with flowers aud plants), returning to the Middlesex side over
Southwark Bridge, and therefrom proceeding to Westminster
Hall via Cannon-street, Ludgate-hill, Fleet-street, the Strand,
and Parliament-street; the journey back to the City being, as
usual, glong the Thames Embankment. We are promised a
grand horticultural show on London Bridge, the committee
sparing no effort to give the Lord Mayor a fitting welcome
there. Lord Beaconsfield and the rest of her Majesty’s
Ministers in town will attend the Guildhall banquet.—The
card of invitation to the Guildhall banquet, illustrated with
views of old and new London Bridge, is printed by Messrs.
Blades and East, of Abchurch-lane.
There were 2532 births and 1386 deaths registered in
London last week. Allowing for increase of population, the
births were 33 and the deaths 205 below the average numbers
in the corresponding week of the last ten years. The deaths
included 3 from smallpox, 15 from measles, 49 from scarlet
fever, 10 from diphtheria, 22 from whooping-cough, 34 from
different forms of fever, and 2 L from diarrhcEa. The deaths
from lung disease, which in the eight preceding weeks had
steadily increased from 158 to 347, further rose to 353 last
week, and exceeded by 5 the corrected average: 220 resulted
from bronchitis and 90 from pneumonia. In the Greater
London 3063 births and 1646 deaths were registered. The
mean temperature of the air was 41'0 deg., being 5-5 deg.
below the average of the corresponding week of sixty years.
The mean was considerably below the average on each of the
days in the week. The duration of registered bright sunshine
in the week was 11 2 hours, the sun being'above the horizon
during 68'0 hours.
At a meeting of the Mansion House executive committee
of the Princess Alice Relief Fund yesterday week it was
reported that there had been received at the Mansion House a
little over £37,000, of which the committee had distributed to
widows, £5475; widowers, £4740; dependent relatives, £5538 ;
survivors, £555 ; and in temporary relief, £600. There were
many applications still standing over, but in round figures the
committee has dispensed one half of the fund, or nearly
£19,000. A scheme of the orphan committee was adopted, by
which nearly one hundred children will be placed in public
institutions until they are fifteen years of age, at a cost of
between £15,000 and £16,000.—Mr. Carttar, and the jury on
Tuesday continued their inquiry into the cause of death of
the persons lost by the sinking of the Princess Alice, and the
inquest was adjourned until Monday next, when it will be con¬
tinued from day to day until it is brought to an end.—Towards
the Princess Alice Fund the Mayor and Municipality of Bou¬
logne have forwarded £58 16s., being the proceeds of two
concerts organised in that town.
Sir Charles Reed attended last Tuesday evening to open
the board schools which have been erected in Marlborough-
road, Chelsea. The area of the ground covered amounts to
17,723 square feet, at an inclusive cost of £8296. The cost of
building, exclusive of extras, which have yet to be reported,
amounts to £7608. The schools will accommodate 193 boys,
187 girls, and 152 infants. Sir Charles Reed, in his address,
said the school, which was occupied in August, and was now
crowded, was formally opened that evening by request, it
being thought desirable to do so because objections had been
raised to its erection ; and the School Board wished, if pos¬
sible, to meet any such objections, as they never shrank from
meeting the ratepayers in public, having nothing to conceal.
The question of corporal punishment in schools was dis¬
cussed at Wednesday’s meeting of the London School Board,
and the matter was referred as an open question to the school
management committee. Payment to teachers uLo formed
the subject of a resolution.
The entries for the forthcoming Birmingham Cattle and
Poultry Show, which were closed on Wednesday, are as follow:
Cattle, 125; sheep, 21; pigs, 73; corn, roots, and potatoes,
282; poultry, 2900.
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438
THE ILLUSTKATED LONDON NEWS
NOV. 9, 1878
ECHOES OF THE WEEK.
M. Halanzier, the director of the Paris Grand Opera, may
deem himself the luckiest of men among theatrical managers.
To begin with, the Academie Nationale de Mus^ue enjo^s a
subvention from the State of a million of francs, or £40,000 a
year. This is M. Halanzier’s working capital He draws in
addition lO.OOOf. per annum pour t ndemmte de logement, loaging
money 'and 500,000f. pour indemnity de voUure, cab or
brougham hire. Finally, he goes halves with the State in all
the profits accruing from the Grand Opera as a conimercia 1
enterprise During the six months of the Exhibition season,
dating from May 1, the gross receipts of the Academic
Nationale were 2,082,667 francs 16 centimes-say, *84,000,
so that the net moiety coming to M. Halanzier will amount to
a very pretty penny indeed.
These astonishing results have been acquired from the
nerformance of the most limited of repertoires. One new opera,
Polyeucte, has been produced, together with seven old ones
Faust, La Favorita, Les Huguenots, Robert le viable, Le
Prophete, Guillaume Tell, and Der Freyschutz. What would
Mr. Gye or Mr. Mapleson*s subscribers say to such a meagre biU
of fare for an entire season ? I hear that M. Halanzier, when
remonstrated with by a disappointed abonne who pleaded that
Shad seen “ Robert le Diable ” three hundred and fifty times,
and that he was thoroughly tired of it, shrugged his shoulders,
and, with a benignant smile, replied, Lt la nouielle 6aIk, done .
est ce quelle ne compte pour rien ? The remonstrant abonne
*« dried up.” Certainly the new theatre, to say nothing of the
staircase and M. ISaudry’s wonderful paintings, has counted
for a great deal with the foreigners and the provincials, who
have made up the vast bulk of the audiences at the Grand
Opera.
Still it is not only the abonnis who are not quite in love
with M. Halanzier’s system of management; that terrible
Commission of the Budget, presided over by M. Gambetta, to
wit The power of the purse is virtually not with the legis¬
lators at Versailles, but with the Committeeof Deputies sitting
at the Palais Bourbon; and this body entertain, it is said, very
serious views as to the expediency of remodelling the adminis¬
tration, financial and otherwise, of the Grand Opera. I have
even heard a whisper of a proposition “ in the interests of the
moral regeneration of the nation,” of depriving the subscribers
for private boxes and orchestra stalls of their time-honoured
privilege of wandering behind the scenes between the acts and
lounging in the Foyer de la Danse : the green-room of the corps de
ballet.
This privilege is a very old one indeed, and dates from the
days of the ancien regime, when Dukes, Marquises, Chevaliers
de St. Louis, and Genlilhommes de la Chambre, not only had
access to the coulisses and the foyer, but absolutely stood at
the wings, in full sight of the audience, during the perform¬
ance taking snuff or chattering with the actors and actresses.
Strangers behind the scenes of a theatre are to my mind
always a nuisance, and I happen to have been professionally
’ familiar with theatrical coulisses for nearly forty years; but the
dandies and financiers who dangle behind the curtain of the
Paris opera-house are not much in anybody’s way, first
through the vastuess of the stage, and next owing to the
admirable discipline existing not only among the dancers,
choristers, and “supers,” but also among the carpenters, the
scene-shifters, and the machinists. The order and regularity
observed behind M. Halanzier’s Beenes are worthy of a British
man-o’-war of the first class.
That ingenuous “Atlas,” in the World, observes that he
should dearly like to know whether Cardinal Richelieu, Cinq-
Mars, and Marion de Lorme had anything to do with the
invention of steam. “Atlas,” of course, means the steam-
engine. “The story goes,” continues the World, “that
Marion de Lorme, one day visiting Bicetre with the Marquis
of Worcester, saw a maniac who professed-to have discovered
in the steam of boiling water a substitute for the power of
man”—and of horses and water likewise, my “Atlas.”
"The maniac had been confined by the order of Richelieu.
The Marquis of Worcester is regarded as the first discoverer
of the power of steam; and Marion de Lorme is said to have
related the incident in a letter to Cinq Mars.”
The story, as the ingenuous “ Atlas ” surmises, is neither
new nor true ; it is about as vivacious as M. Frederic Soulie's
romance of “Les Deux Cadavres,” in which the decapitated
corpse of Charles I. is hung on the gallows at Tyburn in lieu
of the disinterred body of Oliver Cromwell, or as M. Alexander
Dumas the Elder’s audacious fiction of “ Les Sept Baisers de
Buckingham.” The Bicetre anecdote has furnished, never¬
theless, a subject for a picture very popular in France, and
which most of us have seen, representing Salomon de Caux
(who was a first-rate hydraulic engineer before he became
cracked) handing between the bars of the cage in which he is
confined a paper to the Marquis of Worcester, and entreating
the English nobleman to take note of it. The paper purports
to contain a diagram and description of a steam-engine
invented by Salomon de Caux. The picture was engraved on
wood about thirty years ago either in the People's or Eouitt's
Journal.
Touching the Great Marquis, “ Atlas ” will find all that he
wants relative to the share which can be claimed by his Lord-
ship in the invention of the steam-engine in Mr. Dircks's
admirable “ Memoirs of the Marquis of Worcester,” which is
preceded by an exhaustive resume of the entire controversy and
the respective inventors, from Hero of Alexandria to James
Watt, and in the appendix to which the “ Century of Inven¬
tions” is textually reprinted. I may mention, however, that
within the last few days one of the Paris papers has, in a
lengthy article, claimed for the old physician Denis Papin at
least thirty years priority over the Marquis in the invention of
the steam-engine. Papin lived to an extreme old age, and
died, curiously enough, a pensioner of our own Royal Society.
Everybody has heard of “Papin’s Digester,” a machine
originally designed for the simple purpose of economising fuel
and getting as much nourishment as possible out of meat by
steaming instead of boiling or roasting it. Poor old Dr. Denis
Papin would have been slightly astonished could he have fore¬
seen that his “ Digester ” would a century and a half after his
death be metaphorically utilised by Mr. Thomas Carlyle as a
peg on which to hang many wise and witty reflections. Denis
Papin certainly invented his own marmite, or “ Digester;” and
the French journal which I have mentioned also claims for
him the honour of having been the first to discover, from an
escape of steam through a fissure in his cooking apparatus, the
use of the safety-valve.
Mem: It happened that only three days ago, while “Atlas’
was penning his paraprnph about tho Bicetre story, I was
takiDg note in the English jewellery department in the Champ
de Mars of a very beautilul ebony casket exhibited by Mr.
John Brogden, which is enriched with a number of gold
rclievi representing incidents in the lives of the Marquises of
Worcester and other members of the maison princure of Beau¬
fort. Should it not be, rightly, “the House of Somerset (
Tell me ye heralds ! Is not the Duke of Somerset the head of
the House of St. Maur? Is it the House of Norfolk or the
House of Howard ? And should we not say the House of Guelph
instead of the House of Brunswick ? Guelph - like Plantagenet,
like Tudor, like Stuart— is a family name The German Emperor
will be the next Duke of Brunswick; but the Kaiser is the
head of the House of Hohenzollem, not of Braunschweig. But
I have no Almanach de Gotha by me; and it is just possible
that the Emperor William may have already succeeded to the
lapsed heritage of the Dukes of Brunswick. Of course, in
asking these questions, I shall be reminded of the lost verse in
the song of “ The Vicar of Bray ” :—
The illustrious House of Hanover
And Protestant Huccession,
I hereby swear allegiance to
While they can keep possession.
But is “ House of Hanover ” titularly accurate ? We say not
the “House of Austria,” but the House of “Hapsburg.
King Humbert of Italy comes of the House of Estc (I think),
and King Alphonso XII. not of the “House of Spain,” but
of the “House of Bourbon.”
Yet another and a final mem on the steam-engine question.
What a thrilling drama might be made out of it,” remarks
Atlas,” under the practical title of “ Steam,” “ by some of
the thousand or so of sucking dramatists full of burning
thoughts and destitute of a subject.” There happens to be
extant an elaborate drama in which steam plays a very im¬
portant part. I do not mean poor Watts Phillips's play of
“ Trial by Jury,” into one of the scenes of which a steamer
crowded with passengers was dragged, much on the same
principle adopted in the historic case of Mr. Vincent
Crummies’s pump and tubs. The drama I mean is a French
one, entitled “Les ltessources de Quinola,” a Spaniard who
is represented as the precursor, by a century and a half, of
Fulton in the discovery of steam navigation. The author of
this play was not by any means a “ sucking ” dramatist. He
wrote a comedy called “ Mercadet ”—the parent of our “ Game
of Speculation ”—and his name was Honore de Balzac.
Mem: not about steam, but concerning an element which,
in the sense of its power, is at once (pardon the paradox) the
elder and the younger brother of the vapour of boiling water—
I mean heated air. Among the last batch of candidates for the
French Senate is a Monsieur de Montgolfier, the grandson or
great-grandson of the inventor of the fire-balloon. About
a hundred years ago the Brothers Montgolfier were paper
manufacturers, in the south of France. For the pur¬
poses of illuminations at $ome popular fete they had made
a number of large paper bags, in which, at night, candles
were to bo placed. The bags, duly coloured and oiled, were
laid to dry in the sunshine on the grass in front of the
Messieurs Montgolfier’s premises. It was a very hot after¬
noon ; and one of the partners, who was watching the drying
process, remarked that the flattened bags were gradually
inflated and became plump and rotund. Then one paper
sphere after another slowly roso from the earth and began to
sail through the ambient air. In this simple phenomenon was
the germ of the invention of the fire-balloon.
Ere these lines are in print the election of M. Paul de Cas-
sagnac will probably have been invalidated by the Republican
mujority in the Assembly at Versailles. Ostracism will not, I
should say, disturb M. Paul de Cassagnac’s equanimity to any
serious extent. He is tolerably sure to be re-elected. With
the political opinions of this pugnacious Bonapartist I have
nothing to do; but I rather like M. Paul de Cassagnac per¬
sonally—first, because he is brave in action and outspoken in
speech ; and, next, because the things which he says are often
as clever as they are bold. There was a tremendous disturbance
in the Assembly on Tuesday on the invalidation debate, and
during many hours M. de Cassagnac conducted his own
case, and defended himscli in the tribune with as much
courage and as muci skill as he has shown, I know not how
many times, in duels with sword and pistol. He had to be
called to order for saying rude things about Marshal
MacMohon; but one of his sallies was as humorous as it was
hard-hitting. Some disparaging observations on the wasteful
expenditure of money on the fete given at Compiegne under
the Empire having been made by one of his adversaries,
M. Paul de Cassagnac at once fired up. “ At least,” he
retorted, “when the Emperor gave a ball, he did not con¬
fiscate the great-coats of liis guests, as you did the other night
at Versailles.” G. A. S.
THE GLASGOW CITY BANK.
After the meeting of the Edinburgh High Court of Justiciary
on Saturday the Lord Advocate agreed to release Mr. Stewart,
one of the City of Glasgow Bank directors, on bail to the
amount of £15,000.
Several meetings were held on Monday to promote the
formation of a national fund for the relief of the distressed
shareholders. At Glasgow subscriptions to the amount of
£60,000 were announced, and at Paisley to £9000. The follow¬
ing firms contributed £3000 each:—John and James White,
Janies Stevenson, Charles Tennant and Co., Messrs* Coats
(Paisley), Napier and Macintyre, and Clark and Co., Paisley.
Mr. James Alexander Campbell gave £2000, and several others
£1000 each, including Messrs. James Campbell, James Long,
W. Shirley and Son, Louis Leister, and Stewart and M’Donald.
At Edinburgh a second private conference, called by the
Lord Provest, was held in the Council Chamber on Tuesday, to
consider what 6teps ought to be taken, by means of a public
appeal, to raise a fund for the relief of the sufferers by the
fuilure of the City of Glasgow Bank. The Lord Provost pre¬
sided. After consultation, it was resolved to hold a public
meeting in the Music-Hall on Saturday (to-day), and a com¬
mittee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements. At
the close of the conference subscriptions to the amount of
£4000 were promised by a few of the gentlemen present.
In connection with the Glasgow Bank failure a meeting
representative of Lanarkshire was held on Wednesday in Glas¬
gow, and there it was determiued to adopt vigorous measures
to increase the fund being raised for the relief of the share¬
holders. The Presbyteries of the Established and Free Churches
adopted expressions of sympathy with the sufferers.
MUSIC.
HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE.
The reappearance of that excellent artist Mdlle. Marimon has
given a fresh and special interest to the performances at this
establishment. The accomplished singer has been heard, since
our last week’s notice, in two of her best parts—Amina in “La
Sonnambula,” on Thursday week, and Dinorah on Saturday.
On the iormer occasion special features were, as heretofore,
the grace and charm with which the opening cavatina, “ Come
per me sereno” was delivered; the pathos and tenderness
with which the music of the bed-room and sleep-walking scenes
was rendered ; and the brilliant bravura singing in the final,
“Ah! non giunge.” On the same evening Signor Carrion
appeared for the first time this season, and, as Elvino, 6ang
with more effect than in his few perf ormances of last season,
when he was first heard here. Herr Behrens gave the cavatina
of Count Rodolfo, “Vi rawiso,” with much success; but,
generally, the character does not suit him so well as most
others with which he has been associated. As-heretofore,
Mdlle. Bauermeister gave full importance to the part of T.kn^
as did Miss Purdy to that of Teresa.
As Dinorah Mdlle. Marimon displayed the same high merits
as on previous occasions, her refinement of style and finished
execution having been specially manifested in the “ Slumber-
song ” and the “ Bell Trio ” of the first act, and the still more
important “ Shadow-song” in the second act. In this piece
the bravura singing of Mdlle. Marimon was a display of excep¬
tionally fine vocalisation. Shakes, and scale and staccato
passages were executed with admirable precision, and drew
forth an enthusiastic encore. Madame Trebelli sang the music
of tho principal Goatherd with the same fine quality
of voice and polished style os on many former occa¬
sions, aud was encored in the aria at the beginning
of the second act. Signor Carrion sang well as Corentino;
Signor Rota (who filled the purt of Hoel) having apparently
been indisposed, this probably having been the reason for his
omitting the important romanza, “ Sei Vendicata ; ” Mdlle.
Bauermeister, as the female Goatherd, was thoroughly efficient;
and the characters of the Hunter and the Reaper were repre¬
sented, respectively, by Signor Roveri and M. Thomas.
On Monday “ Carmen ” was repeated, and it was also
announced for Wednesday morning and this (Saturday) even¬
ing. Tuesday’s repetition of “ Der Freischiitz” included the
first assumption here of the part of Rodolfo by M,. Candidus,
who sang artistically, although evidently still under the
restraining influence of recent indisposition. He was much
applauded after the great tenor scena in the first scene, in
which, and particularly in the trio of the second act, he dis¬
played a good style and thorough comprehension of the spirit
of the music. The other principal characters were filled as in
the recent performance already noticed—Agata by Madame
Pappenheim, Annetta, Mdlle. Bauermeister, and Caspar, Herr
Behrens.
The only other specialty of the week was “ Le Nozze de
Figaro,” announced for Thursday, with Herr Behrens’s first
assumption of the character of Figaro. Of this we must speak
next week. Signor Li Calsi continues to fulfil the duties of
conductor with unabated energy.
CRYSTAL PALACE.
Last Saturday’s concert—the fifth of the new series—was
commemorative of Mendelssohn, whose death occurred on
Nov. 4, 1847. The selection from his works given on the
occasion comprised a manuscript symphony. This is one of
twelve early works of the kind—chiefly for stringed instru¬
ments only—composed between the years 1820 and 1823. As
the works of mere boyhood they are, of course, vastly inferior
to his matured productions; but have yet an interest as dis¬
closing the germs of those powers which were developed at so
early an age, his overture to “ A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
having been written in 1826, when he was scarcely sixteen.
Detached movements from several of the earliest symphonies
had been given at previous Crystal Palace concerts; but that
in F minor, composed in 1823 (for stringed instruments), was
performed entire on Saturday, lt consists of four move¬
ments—an Allegro introduced by a brief Adagio, a slow move¬
ment (“ Adagio ”), a Minuetto (with Trio), and a finale.
The intermediate Adagio and the Minuet aud Trio were the
most effective portions; but the general impression left by
the performance of the whole was that it would be well not to
put forth more of the essays of the childhood of a composer
who has produced so much that is great and permanent.
The other orchestral pieces at Saturday’s concert were the
“Scherzo” (encored) and “Notturno” from the “ Midsummer
Night's Dream” music, and the overture to “ Athalie.”
Madame Montigny-Itemaury played, with much effect, the
pianoforte concerto in G minor, two of the “Songs Without
Words,” and the caprice in E minor (op. 16), and Madame
Lemmens-Sherrington sang two airs—one from the early opera
“The Marriage of Camacho,” the other from “Son and
Stranger,' ’ also an early dramatic work. M. Candidus gave the
cavatina “ Be thou faithful,” from “St. Paul,” and the air
“If with all your hearts,” from “Elijah,” under the dis¬
advantageous influence of a severe cold, for which an apology
was made. Mr. Manns conducted with skill and judgment.
The opening address of the winter series of lectures in con¬
nection with the Edinburgh Literary Institute was given on
Wednesday night by Lord Rosebery. He took as his subject
“ Lectures, and the good they might do.” In these days,
when we liked to get our infoi matiou boiled down to a mini¬
mum, lectures were a powerful agency for inspiring self-
improvement, and makiug better citizens and happier men.
Referring to their influence on the feeling of patriotism, he
asked whether they made patriotism their one sole and single
object in considering politics. He was inclined to believe that
if they were only single-minded they would not be so apt to
mistrust their opponents.
M. Riviere’s Promenade Concerts at Covent-Garden Theatre
closed on Saturday evening with a special performance for his
benefit, the programme having included many and varied
attractions. A supplemental concert, also of an extra descrip¬
tion, was given on Monday evening for the benefit of Mr. S.
Hayes, the acting manager.
The Monday Popular Concerts entered on their twenty-first
season this week, when the selection began with Mendelssohn’s
string quartet in E minor, No. 2 of op. 44, which was finely
played by Madame Norman-Neruda, Mr. L. Ries, Mr.
Zerbini, and Signor Piatti. M. Louis Brassin played
Beethoven’s great solo sonata in C major (dedicated to Count
Waldstein) with special success, the pianist having been
associated with Madame Neruda and Signor Piatti in
Schubert’s first trio (in B flat). Mr. Sontley sang Signor
Piatti’s song, “ O swallow, swallow ! ” (the violoncello
obbligato to which was finely played by the composer), and
was encored in Handel’s aria, “Nasce ol bosco,” for which
the singer substituted Gounod’s “Maid of Athens.” Mr.
Zerbini accompanied the vocal pieces.—The first Saturday
afternoon performance of the new season takes place to-day
with the same quartet party, Mr. Charles Hall6 as solo pianist,
and Miss C. Merivale as vocalist.
The thirteenth season of the London Ballad Concerts,
directed by Mr. John Boosey, began at St. James’s Hall on
Wednesday evening, when the singing of Mr. Sims Reeves was
a prominent feature among many attractions. Our great tenor
was heard in Mr. Sullivan’s “Once again” and “Tom
Bowling,” for the encore of which latter he substituted
“ Come into the garden, Maud.” Mr. Reeves met with the
usual enthusiastic reception. Other effective vocal pieces
(several of which were encored) were contributed by Mesdnmes
Sherrington and Antoinette Sterling, Misses M. Davies and M.
Cummings, Mr. B. McGuckin, Mr. Santley, Mr. C. Tovey, uud
NOV. 9, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
439
the members of the “ London Vocal Union.” Madame
Arabella Goddard was unable to appear, in consequence of an
inflamed finger, and was replaced by Miss Margaret Bucknall,
who played three brilliant pianoforte solos with great success.
Mr. Sidney Naylor conducted. The second concert takes
place next Wednesday evening.
The eighth season of the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society
opened on Thursday evening with a performance of “ Elijah,”
conducted by Mr. Barnby. The solo singers announced were
Mesdames Sherrington and Antoinette Sterling, Mr. V. Rigby,
Mr. Thornton, Mr. Hilton, and Mr. S. Smith.
The opera announced for performance at the Alexandra
Palace this (Saturday) evening is “Martha,” with Madame
Rose Hersee in the principal character; the operatic recital
promised at the Royal Aquarium at the same time being ‘ ‘ La
Figlia del Reggimento.”
Mr. F. J. Campbell, Principal of the Royal Normal College
and Academy of Music for the Blind, announces an Orchestral
Concert, to be held at St. James’s Hall on Tuesday evening,
the 19th inst.; when the pupils and professors will be aided
by an orchestra of eighty performers, under the conductorship
of Dr. Hans von Biilow.
THE MAGAZINES.
The instalments of “ For Percival ” and “ Within the
Precincts” in this month’s Cornhill are curiously contrasted,
the former concluding with a picture of despair, the latter
with one of bliss, each executed with equal power. The
remaining contents are not particularly striking, but are good
examples of the elegant and cultivated style of essay-writing
characteristic of this periodical. The best is that on the
Eighteenth Century, an entertaining and impartial review of
the manners, sentiments, and social conditions of that staid
and substantial time, when society seemed for a space as
solidly organised as in the Middle Ages. “A century,” says
the writer, Mr. Kebbel, “ of great moral and mental tran¬
quillity ; a century in which the landmarks were not removed,
and abuses were allowed to spread in picturesque luxuriance
over all our most venerable institutions ; a century, neverthe¬
less, of great men and great deeds.” “The Undefinable in
Art” and “The Fear of Death” are thoughtful and
suggestive essays ; the former more remarkable for
subtlety, the latter for manly sense. There is also an
interesting sketch of Regnard, the second French comic
writer of the classical school after Moliere, whose life, as well
as his writings, presents many points worthy of study.
Macmillan contains a great variety of short papers, the most
important being the three on political subjects which close the
number. Mr. Lang recommends letting the Turks alone until
the necessity of reform is forced upon them by the progress of
events. Sir T. D. Forsyth, in vindicating the Ameer Shere Ali,
seems to censure both the schemes of policy which have been
pursued with reference to Afghanistan, and to leave us
more uncertain than ever. Sir Garnet Wolseley expresses
his confidence in the future of Cyprus in a few frank,
soldierly words, not designed for publication. “ A Doubting
Heart ” and “ Haworth’s ” are good ; and the Italian parallel
between Bunyan and Dante, partly translated by Mr. R. L.
Nettleship, is interesting, both for the justice of the criticism
and as an instance of an Italian’s appreciation of a foreign
masterpiece very alien to the national standard of taste. Mr.
A. W. Ward discusses the expediency of establishing addi¬
tional Universities in England, and, as a Professor at Owens
College, naturally decides in the affirmative. Mr. Bradley
contributes an exceedingly graphic Bketch of negro life in the
Southern States since the emancipation; and Mr. Edward
Rose dwells on the practical skill displayed by Shakspeare as
an adapter for the stage in his treatment of the old play on
which he founded his “ King John.”
Fraser is more interesting than has generally been the case
of late. The best paper, as usual, is “Vernon Lee’s” study
of Italian music in the eighteenth century, the last of this
charming series. The Neapolitan musicians, as seen by
Dr. Burney, form the subject. The valuable series of articles
on British Bunnah is continued by a description of Burmese
manufactures and works of art. “How Turkey in Asia is
Governed” conveys a powerful picture of Ottoman corruption
and disorganisation, and the absolute necessity for British
interference. Miss Simcox’s proposal for “ The Organisation
of Unremunerative Industry” deserves attention. “Holidays
in Eastern France” is another of Miss Betham Edwards’s
pleasant and instructive sketches of French country life.
Conservative Blackwood startles its readers with a pair of
Utopias, the “ Ordeal,” by which war on the large scale is to
be abolished; and the author of “Piccadilly’s ' r serio-comic
proposals for the creation of an American aristocracy. Mr.
Oliphant’s project is founded on the theory of evolution, and
he deals out its hits alike at Darwinism and the growing pre¬
tentiousness of American wealthy society with the most
irresistible mock gravity and in the richest spirit of caricature.
The writer of “ John Caldigate” uses old material over again
with a freshness of spirit which almost prevails upon us to
accept them as new. The principal political contribution is a
temperate and argumentative defence of Lord Lytton’s policy
on tie Afghan question.
The Nineteenth Century is not particularly interesting this
month, though containing contributions from pens of no less
eminence than Professor Tyndall’s, Mr. Ruskin’s, Lord
Stratford de Redcliffe’s, Mr. Lowe’s, and Mr. Gladstone’s.
The most important of these by far is Professor Tyndall's
reply to Professor Virchow’s celebrated Berlin address, vindi¬
cating, in opposition to the German savant’s more matter-of-
fact spirit, that distinguished place for the imaginative faculty
which he has asserted for it on former occasions. Mr. Ruskin's
“ Three Colours of Pre-Raphaelitism,” though written with his
accustomed beauty of diction, is chiefly interesting as a proof
of his restoration to health. Mr. Gladstone's paper is an
electioneering pamphlet; Lord Stratford’s the conclusion of
a series; and Mr. Lowe’s championship of political economy
is less vigorous than might have been expected. Mr. J. G.
Fitch powerfully opposes the creation of a new University.
The most important contribution to a remarkably interest¬
ing number of the Fortnightly \a Mr. Wallace’s paper on the
replantation of Epping Forest. It needs an accomplished
naturalist like Mr. Wallace to show the enormous capacities
of this noble, though temporarily ruined expanse of forest
land, and the undreamed of beauties it is in our power to
create if the work be set about in a scientific manner, espe¬
cially by the acclimatisation of trees from North America.
There is probably no living man so competent for the task as
Mr. Wallace himstlf. Mr. Matthew Arnold does a good work
in pleading for the higher education of the middle classes, but
commits the mistake of underrating its actual quality,
and relies too much on Government aid. The excess of such
interference, its Mr. Fawcett reminds us at the conclusion of
his able essay on Socialism in Germany and the United States,
is a direct concession to the principle of Socialism, and such
tendency in that direction as now exists in this country usually
assumes the shape of a demand for it. A less objectionable
form of State assistance cannot be imagined than the creation
of the Museum of Casts for which Mr. Colvin pleads—vainly,
as we must fear, in the face of a declining revenue. In the
United States some public-spirited citizen would probably be
found to do the work by himself. Mr. Colvin further
pleads powerfully for the introduction of archieology into
the public-school curriculum of classical instruction ; but
here, again, little will be effected until the subject
is made to tell in examinations. Mr. Chamberlain apologises
for the despotism of the Liberal “six hundred” at Bradford,
and tries to justify the systematic exclusion of political
minorities from a voice in municipal affairs. He will find the
equity and independence of his countrymen against him on
both points. The second part of Mr. F. Harrison’s “ English
School of Jurisprudence” deals with Bentham’s and Austin's
definition and analysis' of law. Mr. Sully gives expression to
the complaints of sensitive dwellers in cities martyrised by the
noises incidental to their situation, or inflicted upon them by
the thoughtlessness of their neighbours. He concludes that
the law of nuisance should be made more stringent. Mr.
Barham Zincke draws an idyllic and, happily, at the same time
a realistic picture of the enviable moral and economic condition
of the French peasantry of the Limagne, under the system of
small landed proprietorships.
The Contemporary Be view ia also very interesting this month.
One of the most important contributions comes from Rome,
and dwells particularly on the thoroughly Italian character of
the College of Cardinals, which has its good side, as rendering
that body more sensitive to Italian public opinion, and its bad
side from the low degree of intellectual culture and political
morality which it implies. Leo the Thirteenth’s intentions, the
writer says, are excellent; but he will be unable to realise
them until he breaks the magic circle of the prelatura. Sir
James Paget and two other eminent medical authorities discuss
the question of the use of alcohol, and all arrive at the con¬
clusion that temperance is better than abstinence. Dr. Little-
dale endeavours to explain to the Abb6 Martin “ why Ritualists
do not become Roman Catholics; ” but is unfortunately com-
elled to explain at the Bame time why they do. Professor
ebb points out the unquestionable advantage to culture that
would result from the establishment of English schools of
archieology at Athens and Rome. Professor Dowden’s essay
on the text of Wordsworth’s poems is full of curious examples
of the changes, sometimes felicitous, more frequently the
reverse, introduced and revoked by the poet at different periods
of his life.
The Gentleman's Magazine has an interesting, well-con¬
structed tale by Mr. D. C. Murray, entitled “An Old
Meerschaum ; ” a popular essay on the migration of animals,
by Dr. A. Wilson; and a suggestive one on the growth of
nations, by Mr. Grant Allen. The most important com¬
munication, however, if trustworthy, is one from Mr. F. Bovle,
on the alleged regeneration of the Ashantee kingdom, which is
stated to be now more powerful than ever. The veracity of
Mr. Boyle’s informant seems not wholly beyond question;
et there is no intrinsic improbability in his story. Belgravia,
esides its serials, has an interesting short tale entitled
“ Bianca; ” a lively metrical dialogue by Mr. Austin Dobson;
and a collection of popular superstitions from the county of
Cavan. The most remarkable contributions to Temple Bar,
after the continuation of “The First Violin,” are a notice of
the Scotch Miss Austen, Miss Ferrier, interspersed with some
highly interesting specimens of her correspondence; and
Mr. Wedmore’s pretty sketch of “An Upland Valley” in
the Engadine.
The Altantie Monthly is, as usual, full of variety; but the
only contributions of great importance are Mr. Howell’s story
“ The Lady of the Arostook,” and a very significant account
of the aims and ideas of the new “ national ” or “ greenback ”
party, derived from confidential intercourse with some of its
representative men. Its cardinal principles may be defined as
a belief in the omnipotence of government and the equality
of paper currency with gold. One of the causes which have
tended to encourage such wild delusions is briefly pointed out
in Mr. Brook Adams's paper on the unfairness of taxation in
Massachusetts. Scribner s Monthly, besides much other excel¬
lent matter, has copious memoirs of Mr. Longfellow and the
great inventor Edison, fully and admirably illustrated. The
Month is chiefly remarkable for an article on some of the
internal dissensions of the Catholic body.
The University Magazine has an excellent memoir and
photograph of the author of “The Earthly Paradise,” and
several other good papers, among which Miss Helen
Zimmera’s account of the travels of Rabbi Benjamin of
Tudela and Mr. E. Robertson’s eloquent protest against
Malthusianism are especially to be noticed. The “ Spirit of
the Universities ” is also a notable feature, and on this occa¬
sion includes communications from seats of learning as remote
as Melbourne and Granada.
Good Words is as generally interesting as usual, and the
sudden turn iu Mr. Black’s novel is particularly striking.
We have also to acknowledge London Society, the Argosy, and
the New Era.
The first weekly Number of The Book-Analyst and Library
Guide, a small twopenny journal “for readers, teachers, and
students,” has been issued by Messrs. S. H. Lindley aud Co.,
of Catherine street, Strand. It supplies a brief account of the
scope aud contents of all new books of any importance, the
principal articles in contemporary magazines and reviews, and
the proceedings of learned societies, both in England and
abroad. This seems likely to be useful, and the arrangement
is well designed for general service.
At the meeting of the council of the Royal Agricultural
Society on Wednesday there was a long discussion respecting
the show to be held at Kilbum next year. It was resolved
that the exhibition should be open from June 30 to July 7.—
The question whether the huudredweight shall, as at present,
consist of 112 lbs. or be 100 lbs. is being agitated. At a
council meeting of the Central Chamber of Agriculture held
on Tuesday a resolution in favour of the cental weight of
100 lb. as the standard was adopted, together with one memo¬
rialising the Board of Trade to duly verify the cental as a new
imperial denomination and provide a standard of one half
that weight. At a public meeting held at the London Com
Exchange resolutions were also passed expressing an opinion
that grain of all kinds and the dry products thereof should be
sold by weight only ; and that the cental of one hundred
imperial standard pounds would be the most convenient selling
standard. But there was a strong minority against it.
At a meeting of the Staffordshire Chamber of Agriculture
on Saturday—presided over by Mr. Uanbury, M.P.—the
Weights and Measures Act of the last Session was discussed
and approved; but a motion that the cental of 1001b. afforded
the simplest definition of weights for grain, flour, fruit, &c.,
was almost unanimously negatived, and an amendment in
favour of the present 112 lb. was carried.
$he <M[a Supplement.
“SUNDAY MORNING.”
This picture, which is now in the possession of Mr. Reginald
Prance, was exhibited last season at the Grosvenor Gallery,
New Bond-street. Its subject belongs to a different sphere of
human life from that of Mr. Alma-Tadema’s most famous
workB. Instead of the interior of a Roman palace or villa,
occupied by stately and luxurious grandees of the ancient
world, here is a domestic apartment in the Netherlands,
perhaps a hundred years ago, with the quiet “ house-mother”
seated in peace to read her cherished Bible, a volume adorned
with fine woodcuts in the old style; and here is the nursemaid,
holding a babe in arms, as she stands by the open window that
the infant may feel the fresh air, while the soothing melody of
church bells comes into the room with sounds of sacred peace.
It is a pleasant idyll of pure household happiness, as good as
many a sermon in commendation of the spirit of Christianity,
and presenting an instructive moral contrast to some of the
artist’s most powerful delineations of Pagan pomp and pride
in the gorgeous society of Imperial Rome. The details of
costume and furniture, of which we may notice the curiously
shaped footstool, with a chafing-dish of charcoal to comfort
the feet, os well as the double tier of windows and other
architectural features, are precisely rendered from such as
might be observed in a Dutch or Flemish mansion of the
period. Altogether, it is a picture which deserves to be
admired, both for its truthful representation of character and
for the wholesome sweetness of its general expression.
THE NEW BELLS OF ST. PAUL’S.
The ceremony of the formal dedication and benediction of the
new bells in the south-west tower of St. Paul’s Cathedral was
performed yesterday week (Friday) at five o'clock in the after¬
noon. The usual afternoon service, at four o'clock, was
attended in the dome by an immense congregation. Among
those present were Alderman Sir W. Rose, Alderman Sir R.
Carden, and Professor Tennant, of the Turners’ Company,
which company is associated with Baroness Burdett-Coutts
in the gift of four of the bells. The Bishop of Loudon, Bishop
Claughton, aud the Dean and Chapter were seated in the choir.
The sermon was preached by the Rev. J. V. Povah, upon the
words of Psalm cl. 1, “ Praise ye the Lord; praise God in His
sanctuary.” In a discourse relating to the duty of praise, he
referred to the event of the day, “ the dedication of twelve new
bells presented by the Corporation and leading City companies,
aided by one whose name is almost a synonym for Christian
beneficence.” The preacher remarked that Wren’s bell-tower
had waited 200 years for its bells. He observed that when Eng¬
land was expressing her thanksgiving for the Battle of Trafalgar
and her grief for the death of her great hero, that cathedral,
which received the remains of Nelson, had no bells with which
to give voice to the nation’s joy and sorrow. Until now
St. Paul’s Cathedral had no bells to summon the worshippers
to her walls, to celebrate the great festivals of the Church, to
ring out the old year and to ring in the new, or to peal forth at
Royal accessions, marriages, and births. But the bells now
provided would be heard on such occasions by the present
congregation and by their children’s children.
At the conclusion of the afternoon service, a procession was
formed to the bell tower, where the ringers, members of the
“ Ancient Society of College Youths,” were assembled. The
procession was headed by Dr. Stainer, organist of the
cathedral, and Mr. Martin, the sub-organist; then came the
Bishop of London, Bishop Claughton, Dean Church, the Rev.
Canon Gregory, Prebendaries the Rev. W. Cadman and the
Rev. C. Mackenzie, the Minor Canons, Revs. W. H. Milman,
J. V. Povah, W. J. Hall, W. C. F. Webbe, and Sparrow
Simpson, and the choristers. As the dimension of the ringing
chamber would allow of none beside the ringers, the clergy,
and the choir being present at the ceremony, the only tickets
issued were invitations to the Press, admitted to the room
below the ringing-chamber during the service. This, which
was perfectly audible iu the room beneath, consisted of certain
versicles and responses, in which the Dean aud the choir took
part; Psalms exxx., xxix., and cl., sung by the choir; a
selection of prayers, read by the Bishop of London ; and the
hymn, “When morning gilds the skies,” from‘‘Hymns Ancient
and Modem.” The service concluded at ten minutes to
six o’clock, when the bells burst into a joyous peal. The
names of the company who had the distinction of being the
first ringers of the bells of St. Paul’s were Messrs. Haley, sen.,
Haley, jun., Cooter, Pettit, Mash, Haworth, Ferris, Dwight,
Horrex, Maskett,Wood, Hayes, Dorrington, Reeves, and Jones.
One or two of this company attended os a reserve, and two men
were required to ring the tenor bell, weighing 62 cwt., pre¬
sented by the Corporation of the City. The ringing lasted
until half -past seven o’clock, about a thousand chuuges being
executed. The bells are not connected with the clock, so that
the hours and quarters will not be struck by them, and a
carillon is still wanting; but before each daily service the
bells will be chimed by hand, and their summons to worship
will now be heard iu the busy streets of London.
The largest of the new peal, called the tenor, is toned in
B flat; it hangs in the south-west comer, a mass weighing
62 cwt., and measuring 5 ft. 8 in. in diameter. It was pre¬
sented by the Corporation. No. 11, scarcely smaller, is a gift
of the Grocers’ Company, 10 of the Cloth workers’, 9 of the
Fishmongers’, 8 of the Merchant Taylors’, 7 of the Salters’,
6, 6, 4, 3 of the Turners’ (aided by Baroness Burdett-Coutts),
2 aud 1 of the Drapers’. The lower numbers, of course,are very
much smaller and less costly, the treble weighing only 8 cwt.
The peal entire weighs rather more than thirteen tons, and cost
about £2500. The Chapter has expended near £1000in preparing
the bellry for it and in getting it into position. The bells
were cast by Messrs. Taylor, of Loughborough, a family
engaged for several generations in the craft near Oxford.
These bells altogether are scarcely more than twice the weight
of that which strikes the hours. It was cast in 1712, from a
quantity of old bell-mctal given by the Chapter of West¬
minster, and it weighs over six tons; but iu quulity and tone
it is surpassed beyond comparison by the new peal.
Mr. Samuel Phelps, the tragedian, died on Wednesday at
Anson’s Farm, near Epping, alter an illness of some mouths.
He was bom at Devonport in 1806, and was apprenticed to a
printer; but at the expiration of his apprenticeship he took to
the stage, and made his first appearance at York iu 1828. He
first appeared before a London audit uce, in 1837, in tne cha¬
racter of Shylock, at the Haymarket Theatre, then under the
management of Mr. Webster, aud utter wards performed at
Drury Lane, under Mr. Macready’s management. From 1844
to 1862 he was the principal manuger of Sadler’s Wells, audit
is in connection with this.part of his career that the name
of Mr. Phelps will be chiefly remembered. He alterwnrds
acted at the Lyceum, under Mr. Fcchter, at Drury Luue, und
other theatres. Mr. Phelps also edited an edition of Shakspeare's
plays, which was published in 1853. We hope to be able to
give his portrait next week.
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TUE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 9, 1873._441
THE RIGHT HON. BIR CHARLES WHETHAM, THE NEW LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.
MR. SHERIFF SEVAN.
MR. SHERIFF BURT.
THE tt.T.TTSTRATEU LONDON NEWS_
THE NEW LORD MAYOR and , Stog
SHERIFFS. j busin
We nresent on this Lord Mayor’s Day the Por- fleet;
traifs of Alderman Sir Charles metham, Lord street
Mayor of London, Mr. Sheriff B^t, and Mr. S'® v
SherifE Bevan Sheriffs of London and Middle- the t
sex^ind we are indebted to the City Press same
for the following account of those esteemed admi
members of the City Coloration:-
Alderman Sir Charles Whetlmm is son of the the i
late Mr. Stephen Whetham, of the firm of S. | Beva
Whetham and Sons, flax and hemp nmnufac- club
turers, of Bridport, of which firm^the Lord the
Mayor is now senior partner. The father ot otnei
the Lord Mayor married a daughter of Mr. Mr.
Tucker, by whom the works had previously sider
been conducted. Their second son, Charles, been
wS bom in May, 1812, and, after receiving man
hiT education at the Rev. Matthew Austin s Thoi
Grammar School, in his native town came and
oarlv in life to the metropolis. He married dau|
the y oSy daughter of the late Mr. George peac
Lamrlev and is the father of five sons and four of t
datXere Sir Charles Whetham has for | resic
many vears been a Justice ofthe Be ? c ?> ??
were his father and elder brother, and he is He
also a Deputy Lieutenant of London. In of t
1842 he was elected a member of the Court app«
of Common Council for the Ward of Bridge, stre.
Subsequently he was chosen Deputy of the the
ward On the death of the late Sir Joseph Coll
Causton, then Alderman of the ward, he was I
invited to assume the aldermamc gown, and Sati
was unanimously elected. He served the office to
of Sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1873-4 pan
(during the Mayoralty of Alderman S.r Andrew Cha
Lusk, Bart., M.P.), in conjunction with Sir The
J H Johnson. He received the honour of Gui
knighthood from her Majesty upon the occa- ban
sion of the visit of the Emperor of Russia to
the City after the marriage of the Duke or
Edinburgh. Sir Charles Whetham has been NL
a member of the Leathersellers’ Company forty
years, and in 1873 served the office of Master
of that corporation. In addition to the business afc
of his firm both in Bridport and m London, ^
he has found time to render good service to ^
various undertakings of a public nature, being eas)
chairman of the National Provident InsH- Qnd
tution, of the Scottish Australian Investment be
Society, and of some other companies in the i
City. In whatever duties he has been called I ^
upon to share he has been found ready an .
able to take a decided and active part; and
we congratulate him, and those who have ■
elected him to the Mayoralty, on the further I R fc .
step in a well-earned position. Our portrait
of Alderman Sir Charles Whetham is from a “
photograph by Messrs. Elliott and Pry, but 1Q(
which does not represent him in the Lord
Mayor’s robes. We have since received one ^
taken by Messrs. Maull and Co., in his full ^
costume; and we are indebted to Messrs.
Maull and Co. for the portraits of the two bQ
Sheriffs. I cei
Mr. Sheriff George Burt, of Grosvenor irc
Wharf, Westminster, was bom at Swanage, | ar
Dorset, in October, 1816. His family can be re]
traced in the parish register for nearly two 0J1
hundred years. They belonged to an ancient [ ar
guild chartered for working the quarries ot
Purbeck marble, the material of some of our - 8
finest cathedrals. His father. Mr. Robert Burt,
was a stonemason there, nnd brought up his son T]
to follow the same trade. At the age of nine- , w
teen the late Mr. Mowlem (also a native of er
Swanage, and Mr. George Burt’s uncle) brought
him to London as an assistant in his business.
In 1844 Mr. Mowlem took Mr. Burt and Mr. ig
Freeman (who had previously married Mr. a]
Burt’s elder sister) into partnership. The firm, n ,
which has now been well known in London T
for nearly half a century, was from that time e)
known by its present title of “John Mowlem h
and Co.” The senior partner died in 1868, ^
and the business was carried on by Mr. Free- b
man and Mr. Burt until 1875, when Mr. John d
Mowlem Burt, the elder son of the Sheriff, was t]
taken into partnership, and these three gentle- v
men now constitute the firm, well known in b
London as road and general contractors, and v
in Aberdeen and Guernsey as quarry-owners, y
They wero the first to manufacture and lay fl
down the pavement known as ‘ ‘ narrow cubes.” I
The first roadway so laid was that of old Black- j J
friars Bridge, in the year 1840. Mr. Burt acted I r
os outdoor partner of the firm, and some of the , -
largest public works in aud around London ^
were executed under his immediate superin- I
tendence. Mr Burt's has been a very active
career, and lately in his well-earned retire¬
ment his efforts have been devoted in pro- I 1
moting the prosperity of his native place and 1
its neighbourhoood. IIo generally lives at
Swanage, where he has built a mausion. Mr.
Burt married Elizabeth, daughter of the late Mr.
John Hudson, of Stowbridge, Norfolk, May 19,
1840. His family consists of t wo sons and three
daughters, the eldest of the latter married to
' Captain T. Davies Sewell. Mr. Burt has been
an active member of the Metropolitan Asylum
Board from its commencement. He holds many
other public appointments both in London and
Swanage. He is a member of the courts of the
Glass-sellers’, Shipwrights’ and Farriers’ Com¬
panies, having three times served the office of
n, ister of the first-named guild. He holds a |
distinguished position- in Freemasonry, being i
Past Provincial Grand Senior Warden of
Dorset, aud Past Master of No. 18 Old Dundee
Lodge, London, aud No. 1146 De Moulham
Lodge, of Swanage. Mr. Burt has appointed
Mr. Wynne E. Baxter, C.O., of 9, Laurence
Pountney-hill, as his Under-Sheriff, and the
Yen. Archdeacon Sanctuary as his Chaplain.
Mr Sheriff Thomas Bevan is son of the
lite Dr Thomas Bevan, M.D., of Finsbury-
cir-us, and was bom in 1829. He was educated
lie the City of London Schools, where he was
at oue time captain. He entered business life
in 1853 with Mr. J. M. Knight and Mr. Alfred
Shirrre constituting the firm of Knight, Bevan,
SdftoTwto “ to °rh y Nor S-
business of cement manufacturers at North,
fleet- Belvedere-road, Lambeth; anl Lime
street Sffice the death of Mr. Sturge, aud
the retirement from businessofMr.KmJd.
the business has been carried on under the
same title by Mr. Bevan, who Has recently
a r d S e Beiam to rememtored that
tto introduction into the firm of Mr. Robert
Bevan wis n ade the occasion of opening a
club and institute, erected by Mr. Bevan for
the use of the large staff of hl8 f W ^ k £?o 00
others at Nortbfleet, at a cost of £10,000.
Mr. Bevan has shown himself a wise and con
siderate employer, many of his;workmen havi g
been in his service for a lifetime. Mr -B
married Emma, daughter oftto’ateMr.
Thomas Bayes, of Kimberley, Norfolk, in 18o-
and has issue Robert, and two sons and four
daughters. He is in the commission of the ,
peace for the county of Kent, aodisamembcr
of the Shipwrights’ Company. Mr Sevan ,
1 resides at Stone Park, near Dartford, Kent,
and at 25, Eunismore-gardens, Prmces-gate.
He is a member of the Devonshire Club and
of the City Liberal Club. Mr. Bevan has
aDnointed Mr H. J. Godden, C.C., of Lime-
street Chambers, os his Under-Sheriff, and
the Rev. M. M. Ffinoli, Chaplain of Huggms
College, Northflect, as his Chaplain.
The new Lord Mayor was received on
Saturday last by the Lord Chancellor, tomtom
ho was presented by the Recorder, accom¬
panied by the other City officers, at the Lord
Chancellor’s residence m South Kensington.
The Lord Mayor’s state procession from
Guildhall to Westminster, and the usual
banquet at Guildhall, will take place this day.
NEW WINTER GARDEN AT X®
CHELTENHAM. I ca . c
The Imperial Winter Garden and Skating Rink
at Cheltenham, of which wc give an Illus- | ^
tration, was opened on Wednesday. It is
situated in “Imperial-square, on the south- j
east side of the Upper Promenade in a central ^
and commanding position, and will henceforth ; ^
be esteemed one of the town s chief orua- i
ments. In style it is Italian, in plan cruciform,
and is flanked by two towers. Where the I fln
transepts intersect the main building, a dome ~
rises to the height of nearly 100 feet. 1 to
floor area is 16,500 feet inclusive of the Cq
retiring-rooms and offices ; the ex !: r ‘'? ie lcn ? t J be
is 250 feet, and the average width oO feet—t hat
is to say, each end of the structure measures , •
100 feet by 50feet, and the dome and transepts !
together 130 feet by 50 feet. The walls are of
brick, faced internally and externally with
white Leicester pressed bricks, relieved with
bands and arches of red brick ; the mouldings,
boldly designed, are executed in Portland wi
cement. The roofs are light and elegant, of w<
iron and glass throughout. The mam ribs ' Bi
I are semicircular, with pierced openings, pi
! relieved with colour. The grounds lie chiefly oc
on the promenade side of the building, and _
l are ornamentally laid out in terraces and
i lawns. An important feature of the extenor
is the uncovered rink. It is upwards of 1000
square yards in extent, and is laid by the r
Trimmer Asphalto Company, with an asphaltc
which is esten-ively used. The south-west T
end of the building is occupied by another
rink, continuous with the former, and of large
proportions. The opposite end of the interior A
is a winter garden, concert-hall, exhibition, a
and place of general entertainment; the centre A
nnd transepts form an agreeable promenade. A
These latter, however, fulfil another and B
! equally important purpose. The vast floor I
1 has, at considerable cost, been laid down with c
> improvements — indiarubber springs having c
’ been placed under the joists—for the use of
1 dancing parties; it is the finest ball-room in C
3 the town or county. To the wanning and \
* ventilation of the building great attention has (
l been paid, as well as to other arrangements
1 which secure additional comfort, with harm- (
Jess amusement and recreation, to residents <
7 and visitors. The main entrance is from the ]
I promenade, but there are ad mission-gates for
j carriages on the opposite side of the grounds.
cl The whole is under the supervision of Mr.
0 j James Grant, the secretary and general
a j manager.__
1® The German Empress lias presented Lady
/ George Gordon Lennox, Lady Elizabeth Bryan,
id I Mrs. Osborne, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Darnell, and
at Mrs. M'Conucll with golden brooches in
r recognition of the active sympathy displayed
; r ' by them on the occasion of the loss of the
9 t ’ Grosser Kurfiirst.
ee On Tuesday the Lord Mayor transmitted
to to Mr. Farr, banker at Wigan, £1061, collected
en a t the Mansion House in aid of the sufferers
im by tho fearful explosion at the Hay dock
ny Colliery. Upwards of £25,000 in all has been
nd received at Wigan, but £2000 more is still
needed.
m ; Sir Stafford Northcote was present at a Con-
0t ferenee of Poor-Law Guardians and others
: 3 a interested ill the administration of the Poor
Law, held at Exeter on Tuesday, when he
a spoke at some length on the subject of a
dee paper on “Endowments and Pauperism,”
read by Sir Arthur Hobhouse.
nee air. E. Stanford, the eminent geographer
the and publisher, of Charing-cross, has produced,
a. for the present urgent occasion, an excellent
tho Coloured Map of the Indion and Afghan Fron-
iry- tiers; and another Map—that of Western
ited Asia —showing all the Turkish, Persian,
was Bcloocli, and Afghan territories, from Cyprus
life to Lahore, with the Russian dominions around
fred 1 the Caspian and the Sea of Aral.
national sports.
glad when the season comes to a clo „ 0 ' ,
event on^Tlvursday, it appears that the veteran
rmoXccessf.il debut. He has purchased
some of the horses that Lord Lonsdale re¬
cently sold to Captain Machell, and two of
them—Birdie and Hockthorpe-won their re-
snective races. The latter gave any amount
X
1 the week Roscius ran moderately. and it is
clear that, like the majority of Brocklesoy
I winnera, he will never fulfil his early promise.
The Liverpool Autumn Cup fell to Belpha.be
(8st lib.), with Touchet (8st.) second, and
Master Kildare (7 st. 4 lb.) third-the two last |
named thus filling the same luckless places I
that they occupied in the Cambridgeshire and
St. Legcr respectively.
Eight horses, the property of Mr. P. Loril-
lard, one of the leading sportsmen «f Ame¬
rica arrived at Newmarket on batuiday
Srt They will thus have the whole winter to
become acclimatised: and we hear very favour¬
able accounts of tlicir appearance and promise.
On Tuesday Musket, about the best horse ever
owned by the late Mr. George’ Payne, was
J shipped for New Zealand.
Now that the racing season is fast expiring
, 1 the admirers of coursing ore just getting into
, tho full swing of their favourite pursuit, and
each week sees some high-class gathering
. i wiped off the list of fixtures to come. Last
‘ i week the Border Union (Lougtown) Meeting
i ! was brought off with tto greatest eclat, ihe
weather on all three days was delightful, and
NOT. 9, 1878
NEW BOOK8 AND PUBLICATIONS.
MISS BRADDON-S NEW CHRtSTOAS ANXUAL.
Now ready, price On© Shilling, Illustrated with Light IVhol©*
now rwu,, * Vaf(e Hml Xwe nty other Engraving*,
rpilE MISTLETOE BOUGH. A New
J. Christmas Annual. By the Author ot "Lady Aodkj'i
BeCre London: J. and ft.M axwell, ShoMane, Flcot-street.
No. 1, for NOVEMBER price st. not.
T7NGLISH ORGAN MUSIC. Chiefly for
n church Use. Pul.llshod Monthly, under tho directiou ol
u,e amor Ot 'Jbe Mustad f^ard^ ^
WIU.1AM Kkkves, 185. Fleet-street, Loudon.
7 Ready this day. crown 8vo, price 8s. fid .
-OOBERT SCHUMANN’S LIFE AND
lL I CTTEItS with List of his Fublislied Work*. By
WA61ELEWSKI.’ With l’rchice by W. A. BAUUEIT. B. Mus.
William Beeves, No. 184. Fleet-street, London.
In One Volume,
B RITTANY: A Series of Thirty-five
sketches. By BIRKET FOSTER. The Drawings are
reproduced with the grentest exactness by Messrs » sclure sod
Miicdonsld's AutogrspUlc Frocess. and are printed on India
p *^'be obSuedonly of the Artist, The Hill. Wltlcy. Surrey.
TN THE LADIES’ TREASURY for
I wgvrmHPR i« irivon a Lnrsr© Fiu)ilon*Plato, with Eleven
ui the Newest Costume* for Autumn
j K^cy 1 w!S£u Cortumes.
London : Be mbose aud Sues, To, lWnoster-bufldlngl.
TIOTTERY -PAINTING : a Handbook of
I I Practice By JOHN C. L. BPARKES. Director of tbs
sje* «Jss 5 st«;
, (Agents in England f or Lacroix's Ceramic Coloors). _
7^ 8to, pp. 7*4.8s. post-free: or. In hslf morocco, 10s. 6d..
H omeopathic domestic
PHYSICIAN. ByDrs. PCLTE nnd El'PS.
And Muutb-tlie Windpilicnnd Chest-thestomach and Boweh-
ment^"o^^hUdrem-AimUmy'‘ond D ph^T.lo°gy-SKtai« tnd
TVTOSE AND THROAT DISEASES, and
• JN their Local Treatment by Medicated SprayA By GEORGE
' jiuEs Errand to!; 170*,’ hkSailBy: *nd *8, Threadnccdle-sfaert
; published, post-freo, two stamps,
weatner ou uu mice
there was a splendid stock of hares, the
Earl of Haddington carried off the hou s share
of the prizes, as his Haidee, by Donald—
Hornet, won tho Netherby Cup, beating Sir
James, by Blackburn- Fauny Warfield, in the
final ties, while he took a third of the Border
Union Stakes, with Herera. by Fugitive—
Houeydew, the co-dividers being Hagar and
Countess of Avon. These three all appear to
be very good puppies; and it may be remem¬
bered that Haidee ran well in the last Waterloo
Cup until she was put out, in the third round,
by Whistling Dick. Mr. Hedley’s judging, as
[ usual, gave the greatest satis taction to all, and
Wilkinson slipped beautifully.
The six-days’ race at the Agricultural Hall
was finished on Saturday night. W. Corkey
won with a record of 52 L miles, Blower
Brown and Rowell taking the second and third
prizes respectively. Au Illustration und a full
account appear in another i art of tho 1 aper.
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I been this year considerably enlarged through tlm erection :
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THE ILLUSTKATED LONDON NEWS
(JARDNERS’ NEW DINNER and TABLE
V-A G1.A8.S SERVICES are original In design, effective In
appearance ami unequalled In price. Dinner Services from
J3 .V.. t iie Set for twelve persons, complete. Table Glass Services
r »om £3 Os. 6d. the Sat for twelve persons, complete.
DINNER SERVICES.
Coloured Lithographs post-free.
... . In Peep Blue. i In Bine and White.
J'he Lan-downs .. £3 S 0 The Lansilowne ..£3 8 0
•he Laurel .. ..3 13 8 The Indiana .. ..440
I The Danish .. ..BOO
Discount 15 per cent.
1 In their unequalled Crown
Dlsconnt __
TABLE GLASS SERVICES.
Plain light stem gloss £3 5 61 Light engrav, d glass .. £5 15 6
lliclily cut gloss ..5 5 0 | Richly engraved glass 5 19 8
Discount 15 tier cent.
Illustrated Glass Catalogue, which must be returned,
post-tree on application.
Gardners Lamp. Glass, and China Manufacturers, 453and 454,
West Strand, Charing-cross.
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Are placing the Public
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BROTHERS _Members of Co-operative
Stores, having
BROTHERS— Reduced their Price*
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The well-known quality
BROTHERS of their goods la strictly
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Write for Catalogue to
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E A L and
g 0 N
BED-ROOM FURNITURE
IN LONDON.
FORTY SDITES are set apart in separate rooms, and the
general stock occupies sis galleries and two ground floors, each
130 feet long.
150 Bedsteads, fitted with every description of bedding, are
ready lixod for Inspection.
AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE,
CONTAINING 450 DESIGNS OF BEDSTEADS AND BED¬
ROOM FURNITURE,^ AND PRICE-LIST OF BEDDING.
Catalogue, with priced Furnishing Estimates, post-free.
1. Table Knives, Ivory, per doz., Ins., 25s., 35s., 40s.
2. Electro Forks—Table. 24s. to ills.; Spoons. 24s. to 66s.
8. Papier-Mache Tea-Trays, in sets, 21.*., ftis., H5s.
4. Electro Tea and Coffee Sets. £.i 7s., £7 10s., to £24.
6. IJish-Covors in Sets—Tin,22s.; Metal, 65s.; Electro £11 11s.
6. Electro Cruets, from 12s. Od. to £8 Us.
7. Electro Liqueur Frames, 40a. to £7 7s.
8. Lamp!—Patent Duplex llock Oil, Colza, 4c
». Fenders—Bright. 45s. to £16; Bronze, 3a. to £6.
10. Baths—Hot and Cold Water. Gas, Travelling, 4c.
11. Bedsteads—Brass and Iron, with Bedding.
12. GaseHers—2-light. 17s.; 3-do., 50s.; 5-do„ £4 4s.
13. Kitcheners, from S ft., £3, to 6 ft.. £33.
_ 14. Kitchen Utensils—Copper, Tin, and Iron.
Deane and Co.. 40. King Will
.. London Bridge, a.d. 1700.
T he luminous clock.
A MOST WONDERFUL INVENTION.
by which the Time can be bEEN in the DARK
without tho aid of any artificial light. Every
home should possess one bee opinions of Press.
Price 42s. each.
ASSER and SIIERWLN, 80 and 81, Strand, W.
“VOUR NEW ‘VOWEL’ A 1 is~a-
-I- one-derful Machine, both as Washer. Wringer, and
Mangier; seriously, Mrs. G. considers it beyond all praise."-’
Vide Purchaser. Prico £0 lOo., carriage fn-o and trial frix.
Catalogue free by post. Paris. 1878. three Silver Medals -
THOMAS BRADFORD and CO.. 110 to.
London, and Cathedral-steps, Manchester.
o 143, High Uolborn,
JEWEL ROBBERIES PREVENTED.—J.
V TANK'S RELIANCE SAFES have never failed to rerist
tlieat'einuts of the m—i drt-.m'm-.l lmnrt.tr*. Fire-Retislii.g
Safes. £5 5a. Lists free.—11. Newgate-ntioet. E.C.
K 1
of very excellent quality."—■,
v. and pure, vveU-mntureil. and
vat T.toll Acid-street, W.
fJRANGE CHAMPAGNE is a light,
V/ pleasant drink, mado simply from Oranges. It is effer¬
vescent, but entirely free from spirit, and perfectly wholesome.
79, Coy
LIQUEUR
QINGER
BRANDY.
IIEN KY BllETT and CO.
' An Elegant and Digestive Conllal
much appreciated by Sportsmen.
Tourists, and Traveller*, being
invaluable for cases of Choleraic I
Nature and Indigestion. In Square
Bottles and Yellow Bin Cases, bear¬
ing tnulemnrk, " A Negro’* Head."
4.56. per ease.—28 and 27, High
Uolborn, London.
J^PPS’S
GRATEFUL
00 M PORTING.
P O C O A.
JAMES EPPS and CO.,
HOMCEOPATUIO
CHEMISTS.
QHOCOLAT
QH0C0LAT MENIER, in $ lb. and $lb.
C 1IOCOLAT MENIER.—Awarded Twenty-
Three
TR1ZE MEDALS.
Consumption annually
excreils l7.UU0.PfiQlt)g.
Bold Everywhere.
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS.
J7RY’S COCOA EXTRACT
L guarnn'eed pure Cocoa, only deprived of the suiierfluous
oil. Sold in Packets and Tins.
TWELFTH EXHIBITION MEDAL.
A GOLD MEDAL, PARIS,
is evidence of the hlj?h opinion entertained bjr the Inter¬
national Jury of tho merit* of
EXHIBITION NOTES.—PARIS.—“ The
J-J Oaligimnl’s Messenger." of Get. 15 says" Messrs.
Ifoi nlman have had wonderful success with tlielr famous tea In
the Purls Exhibition; It 1* now sought after by foreigners as
well as English. There is no doubt but that Messrs. Homim.in’s
teats a great acquisition on ilie Continent; it is possessed of a
most delicious flavour, and Is unique in quality; the price, too,
is such as to bring it within the reach of all classes."
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
PLEASE DIRECT ALL LETTERS AND ORDERS FOB
pETER pOBINSON,
BILKMERCER and LINENDRAPEB,
THE ONLY ADDRESS.
103 to 108, OXFORD-STREET, W.,
where the Business was established In 1833.
CTOCK of LOVERING and CO.,Liverpool.
. V, ET 5 R ROBINSON. OXFORD-STREET. LONDON.
1® the Purchase* by Public Tender, at a large discount off. of
Costumcfi.^Dre.v* Costume*, Slm\vl«, Mantles, Kura, &c. ;
R ROBINSON, 103 to 108, OXFORD-STREET, W.
PETER ROBINSON, OXFORD-STREET.
FOR CHRISTMAS.
gILKS :
ONE THOUSAND PIECES OF NEW
LYONS GROS GRAIN, at 3s. 6d. per yard,
in every now shade. for evening wear.
Coloured Satins to match, at 3s. Ud per yard.
Richer quoUtles, Coloured bilks, 4s. lid., 6s. 3d , and 8s. 9d.
Grisaille and Qu^drUlr. 23s. 6d. the Dress.
300 PIECES OF LYONS CHECK SILKS,
at Is. llld. per yard.
specially suitable for Young Lillies’ wear.
RICH DAMASSE SILKS,
for Evening wear. 2s. fid. to 3s. 6d. per yard.
_ Patterns free.
TETER ROBINSON. OXFORD-STREET, LONDON, W.
piNNER AND BALL DRESSES.
BROCADED SILKS,
in the Newest Designs and Colourings,
as exhibited nt the Paris Exhibition,
are being Bold nt less than half price,
commencing at 4s. tsd. per yard, extra width.
GENOA VELVETS,
In ovory shade, to match the Silks and Batins,
J>ALL
and WEDDING DRESSES.
in Black, White, and’New Colours, from 18s. id. to 10 guineas.
THE MAUDE,
A pretty Tarlatan Dress, with ample Train,
profusely trimmed with pleated Flounces, 4c.,
one guinea,
a substantial Box included.
A pretty Dress in Black Brussels Net. Price 25a.
THE ARIEL.
A charming Tarlatan Robe,
trimmed with pleatlnga and Bonillonnd,
11 Black. White, and Colours Price Sis. 6d.
THE ADELINA,
A handsome Tarlatan Robe,
trimmed with pleating* and HouiUonnA.
with double scarf of silk or satin, iiruped across front, and sash,
in Black, White, and Coloure.
Price 426.
THE FLORA,
A Stylish Tarlatan Robe,
elaborately trimmed with flowers, and silk or satin Kart,
in Black, White, and Colours.
Price Bits.
The new Sheet of Engravings post-free.
PETER ROBINSON, OXFORD STREET. LONDON.
CACHEMIRE DE PARIS.
All the New Tints, 48 inches wide,
3s. fid. per yard.
VELVETEENS.
Velvet, finished in all colour*. 3s. 9d. to 4s. Od.
in black Is. lid. to os. fid. per yard.
WINTER SKIRTINGS.
Novelties In Stripes, Plain, and Snowflake,
from Is. «d, i>er yard.
CREPE CASHMERE (REGISTERED).
A most useful Material, in six designs, Black,
full width, Is. ild. per yard.
__ _ terns address onl
PETER ROBINSON. OXFORD-S'
1 >EAL RUSSIAN SEAL FUR PALETOTS
JlV (half fitting).
S3 In. deep, from 7 gs.
38 in. deep, from 8 gs.
Several New shapes In Seal Mantles,
in the finest quality.
GREY SQUIRREL PALETOT8 (a groot novelty).
Sable. Seal, Fox, Racoon. Skunk. Beaver.
Otter, Russian Hare, Chinchilla, Ermine,
and every other description of
Muffs, Neckties. 4c.
R EAL SEAL PALETOTS
Jj'ROM 5 Guineas to 50 Guineas.
J^EAUTIFULLY EXECUTED
T)HOTOGRAPHS OF ABOVE,
X POST-FREE.
D.
NICHOLSON and CO.,
0 to 53 ST. PAUL'S-CHURCH YARD. LONDON.
J^ICH PARIS AND BERLIN CLOAKS.
J^ATEST NOVELTIES,
JpROM 1 Guinea to 20 Guineas.
JgEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED
TDHOTOGRAPHS OF ABOVE,
X POST-FREE.
D NICHOLSON and CO.,
. 60 to 63. ST. PAUL'S, LONDON.
several facsimile Copie* of
^Nicholson and Co., 50 to53. 6t. Panl'a churchyard, London.
•VTEW DRESS MATERIALS—A Large
13 Assortment of New Drwi Materials for the present Season
in every fashionable shade, including
Bourettc Cloth*, from
Snow Flakes, from
Vclonr Cloths, from
Cashmere Serges, from
Mate In <*es, from
jiateiasses, iroin. sot.*, per yard.
Costume Cashmeres. New Shades .. 2s. fijd. per yard.
Velveteens. Flannels. Household Linens. 4c.
Patterns of any of the above post-free.
J^ICHOLSON and QO.,
60 to 63, ST. PAUL’8-CHURCHYARD, LONDON.
pARIS
EXHIBITION IN LONDON.
QRAND SALE OF PRIZE GOODS.
J'lHARLES GASK and CO. (Limited)
V-/ are NOW SELLING the whole of their VAST PUR¬
CHASES In the PARIS EXHIBITION, and from the most
eminent manufacturers In the world. Chiefly Prize Goods.
TheBUPEllB COSTUMES of noted PARIS EXHIB1TOR8.
„ Tiie RICH and BEAUTIFUL SILKb and VELVETS of Lyons,
Zurich.and Italy.
The elegant PARIS MANTLES, JACKETS, Ac., so much
admired In the Exhibition.
'Tho RICH and COSTLY FURB and FUR GARMENTS of
Pans and Russia.
The KID GLOVES, of nearly all the best Paris makers.
Several hundred dozens of JOUVIN'S (two buttons), which
received the silver medal, will he sold at 2s. 4jd. per pair; usual
price, 4s. ,
The DRESS FABRICS and TISSUES of Amiens and Roubalx.
Tho BEAUTIFUL REAL LACES of France, Brussels, 4c.
Tho FINE BRONZES and ORNAMENTAL OBJECTS from
the Frencli and Austrian Courts.
The OXYDISED and other WORKS OF ART of Vienna, prize
goods.
The fine white and fancy coloured BLANKETS and COVEB-
Prestou_
The NOVEL and ARTISTIC FRENCH CMBREI.LA8 of
Catliiart and Tilleard; also elaborate Ivory Carved Handles
(unmounted).
And a large collection of other Exhibition Articles, too
numerous to particularise.
n.i r .—r-- the highpgt diameter, made expressly for
..i--1- m .. large discount off
SALE COMMENCES n't*TEN O'CLOCK? mUDt7 '
CHARLES GASK and CO. (Limited),
68, 69, 60,61,62,63, OXFORD-STREET; 1, 2,3. 4,5, WELLS-
Tliese Goods an, ..... wu™.<«.
Exhibition, and, having been purchased
usual prices, will be sold accordingly.
All goods marked in plain figures lor
SALE flOMMKVeiVS TI.-V
STREET. London.
Carriage Entrance, 5, Wells-street,
w
FAMILY MOURNING.
IDOW’S DRESS, made complete,
trimmed Cyprus Crape, from .. .. £3 13 «
dc complete,
mmed English Crape, from..
Widow’s Dress, made com]
£3 18 6
£3 13 6
£3 18 6
pROWN & pOLSON
JS A WORLD-WI]
PRICE’S CHILD’S
JL PRICE'S PATENT CAND
recommend these Night Lights in tl
NEW PATENT NIGHT LIGHTS f.
the paper case, their GOLD MEDA
and BEST COMPOSITE CANDL)
CEHINE GOLD MEDAL again a
the PARIS EXHIBITION of 1878.
THE ONLY 80AP FOR Tl
Making the skin clear, sum-
W RIGHT’S COA
(SAPO CARBON18 D1
Highly and extensively recomincnde
coses of cutaneous disease by Mr. J as.
to St. Julin's Hospital for Diseases
James Stortin, 31.D., F.R.C.S., of
Anderson, 3I.D., F.F.P.8., of Woods!
the other leading members of the p
and Is., in elegant Toilet-Boxes, of
W. V. WRIGHT and C
JOHN GOSNELL and
H and SIILLEFLEUR POWDER, fi
Universally admired for Its purity unt
- ... ..a •»—.- Wholesale,
pAUTION.—BOND’S CR
GOLD MEDAL MARKING IN
Stationers, for extra profit, deceive
•' Prepared by the Daughter of the Is
76, Southgate-road, London. Noheatiu
A BUSE OF SPIRITS.—I
•2JL STOMACH treated by hisoriglni
years' experience.
HEYMANN. M.D. BERL1
Fees, including remedies, On
Parent's Mourning Dress, made complete,
trimmed Engliih Crape, from ..
Bister s or Brother's Mourning l)r™, made Complete,
trimmed Cyprus Crape, from . .. £3 18
Bister s or Brother's Mourning Dress, made complete.
- 1 "-iglish Crape,- ** *
Mourning for Neur ltelatb
Mourning for Near Relatives 1
Materials ut Oi
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FINISH OF THE GREAT WALKING-MATCH ON SATURDAY AT THE AGRICULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON.
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NOV. 9, 187a
THE SIX-DAYS’ PEDESTRIAN CONTEST.
This competition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, termi¬
nated on Saturday last. The accidents which happened to
Vaughan, Crossland, and Weston, and necessitated their
retirement at various stages of this long race, left the result
entirely in the hands of W. Corkey and “ Blower Brown,
and on the evening of the fourth day it was pretty apparent
that, bar accidents, the first and second prizes must fall to
them. All interest was therefore centred in the struggle
between them, and a more protracted and grandly fought one
has never been witnessed. For hour after hour—-indeed, one
might almost say for day after day, they 6tuck resolutely
together, neither ever allowing the other to have the track to
himself for more than a few minutes at a time. Three times
in the course of the week did each wrest the lead from the
other ; but at length, at the sixty-eighth hour, Corkey got m
front for the fifth time sinee the start, and was never caught
again. On Saturday morning, as a last resource, Brown’s
trainer took him away for a Turkish bathbut it did not
seem to exercise any beneficial effect upon his speed, and he
could never regain any of the ground that he lost during his
absence from the Hall.
Shortly after seven o’clock on Saturday evening Corkey had
covered 520 miles 2 laps, which was a greater distance than
O’Leary had accomplished in March last, and occupied less
time by more than an hour. As Brown was then about
nineteen miles behind, it was clear that he could not possibly
catch Corkey, so the little man retired to his tent for
a brief rest. Our Illustration shows the scene at the end of
the contest, with Corkey in front of the competing pedestrians
on the course. In about an hour he emerged again, fearfully
and wonderfully arrayed in a jockey’s cap of green silk, and a
canary silk jersey and knickerbockers—Sir John Astley’s
racing colours—and carrying in his hand a little white flag,
covered with small union jacks. In this solemn state he
headed a procession of the pedestrians round the track, the
rear being brought up by Mrs. Corkey, resplendent in a new
bonnet. After completing the 521 miles in this fashion he
finally retired, and the others 6oon followed his example.
There must have been fully 20,000 spectators present at the
close of the contest. We append a table of the distance
accomplished by each of the men during the six days, omitting
the five who retired:—
Corkey ...
Brown ...
Rowell ...
Hibbert
Courtney
Richardson
Howes ...
380
Croft ...
Ide
Clarkson
Pellett ...
Crossland
Hancock
Higgins
Barnett
Smythe...
Og
We cannot take leave of the subject without expressing a
earnest hope that we have seen the last of these painful
struggles against nature. It may be an advantage to know
that a man can travel 520 miles in 138 hours, and manage to
live through a week with an infinitesimal amount of rest,
though we fail to perceive that anyone could possibly be placed
in a position where his ability in this respect would be of real
use to him. Still, assuming the knowledge to be useful, we have
now seen five or six different men cover upwards of 500 miles
in less than six days; so, what is to be gained by a constant
repetition of the feat ? As long, however, as prizes
are offered, so long will men come forward to compete for
them; and we suppose the public will continue to flock to
these races until a man dies upon the track. Then there will
be a sudden revulsion of feeliug, a howl of virtuous indig.
nation, and such exhibitions will bo sternly repressed. But
why not repress them before anything so serious has occurred?
We have no hesitation in stating that prize-fighting is mild
and humane, compared with such sport (!) as six-day races;
and that tho one should be rigidly put down and the other
encouraged, in the same country, is a gross and glaring
inconsistency.
THE SARMATIAN STEAM-SHIP.
The voyage of the Marquis of Lome and her Royal Highness
Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lome, from England to
Canada, where his Excellency will henceforth reside as
Governor-General for her Majesty the Queen, is an occasion
of peculiar interest. It had been arranged that the Marquis
and his Royal spouse should be conveyed across the Atlantic
in H.M.S. Black Prince, the ship of the Mediterranean squadron,
under command of his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh.
The Black Prince had left Malta to come home for this dignified
service, but an accidental break-down of her engines has
required some repairs to be made, which could not be
completed in time. Her Majesty’s Government have there¬
fore engaged the well-known fine steam-ship Sarmatian,
of the fine belonging to the Montreal Steam-Ship Company,
Messrs. Allan, Brothers, and Co., of Liverpool, to convey the
new Governor-General and her Royal Highness, with their
suite, from that port to Montreal. The Sarmatian, of which
we present an Illustration, is a magnificent vessel of 4000 tons,
with splendid internal fittings and luxurious accommodation
for high-class passengers. The Marquis of Lome and the
Princess will embark on board this ship at Liverpool on Thurs¬
day next, at an early hour of the morning. We feel sure that
all her Majesty’s subjects on both sides of the Atlantic heartily
wish them a comfortable voyage and a prosperous entrance
upon the new career of public fife opened to them in the fore¬
most of British colonies in North America.
Professor Huxley gave the first of a series of science lectures
for the people in the Manchester Free-Trade Hall last Satur¬
day night, the subject being Harvey, and his Discovery of the
Circulation of the Blood.
At the meeting of the Wolverhampton School Board on the
1st inst. Mr. Hawksford, the chairman of the finance com¬
mittee, reported that the board’s liabilities were increasing
fast. The sum of £6000 would be required to clear off the
past year’s debts, which was equal to a rate of 8d. in the pound.
He said that was “ so outrageous and enormous ” that it was
absolutely necessary that the board should begin to practise
economy. He opposed the creating of new expenses, and
urged that the head teachers of the board schools were paid
far too highly. The question of expenditure is to be considered
by a committee.
Three men, named Burrows, Wilson, and Fell, were con¬
victed at Leeds last Saturday of stealing gold and securities
to the value of £14,000 from the bed-room of a publican and
bill-discounter named Sowden, who lived at Stanningley, and
made no secret of his possessions. The first two named were
severally sentenced to five years’ penal servitude, and Fell, as
an old offender, to seven years’.—At Chelmsford on Saturday
Frost and Smith wero found guilty of breaking into the pre¬
mises of a watchmaker at Colchester and stealing six hundred
pounds’ worth of jewellery. Frost, an old offender, was sen¬
tenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude, and Smith to twelve.
ART.
THE NATIONAL GALLERY.
The National Gallery reopened to the public on Monday last.
During the month of October—when, as usual, the gallery was
closed—nothing appears to have been done beyond cleansing
the rooms, a slight rearrangement of a few works, and the
withdrawal of certain English pictures. Among those we miss
from the walls are Benjamin West’s “ Healing the Sick” and
Robert Smirke’s twelve small illustrations of “ Don Quixote.”
We know of no sufficient reason for the removal of these pic¬
tures : there is ample bare wall-space to receive them and many
more. They were certainly among the most popular works
in the collection with the masses: though they are of little
artistic value, they could hardly do any harm to public taste,
and they have a place in the history of the British school.
The fourteen pictures acquired during the current year had
been (with the exception of a small ‘‘Snow Piece” by W.
Mulready, which is not yet hung) placed in the rooms before
the closing; but the reopening of the gallery seems to be a
fitting opportunity for noticing the whole together. Of the
new acquisitions the most important in relation to the history
of art, as an authenticated picture, is the example of Gheeraert
or Gerard David, representing Bernardino de Salviatis, the
donor, and his patron, St. Bernardino of Siena, St. Martin,
and St. Donatian, with a landscape background probably
painted by Joachim Patenier. It originally formed the right
wing of the reredos of the altar of St. John the Baptist and
St. Magdalene in the collegiate church of St. Donatian at
Bruges. The left wing has disappeared. The donor in this
picture was executor to the will of Richard de Yisch van der
Capelle, another Canon of the same church, for whom David
executed a picture which has lately been exhibited at the Loan
Exhibition in the Pavilion de Flore of the Tuileries, for the
benefit of the recently founded Museum of Decorative Art at
Paris. The last-named picture was catalogued as by Hugo
Van der Goes, but has been identified with much learned
acumen as the joint performance of David and Patenier, by
Mr. W. H. James Weale, to whom also we owe the correct
ascription of this picture in our National Gallery, aB well as
of several other works which formerly were attributed to
Memling and other painters. Nothing in contemporary art-
criticism—which has rectified the ascriptions of so many
works by the old masters—is more remarkable than the
researches in early Flemish art of Mr. Weale published in
“ Le Beffroi” and the Qaictte des Beaux Arts. In this
instance he has given us a painter of the first rank, whose
name was forgotten and unknown, and whose works were con¬
founded with those of others. Especially interesting is it to
trace the steps by which, in a series of years, Mr. Weale
arrived at the opinion, first, that Patenier was the pupil of
David before the master’s name was known ; secondly, that
the landscapes in David’s pictures were not by his hand;
thirdly, that the landscapes were in all probability by Patenier;
and finally arriving at the confirmatory discovery of docu¬
mentary evidence which showed that David went from Bruges
(where he had settled) to Antwerp in 1515, and was inscribed
as master-painter in the register of St. Luke’s guild, the next
name on the roll being that of Joachim Patenier; but that the
latter painter stayed at Antwerp whilst David returned to
Bruges, the separation of the two painters being synchronous
with an altogether different character in the backgrounds of
David’s pictures till his death, in 1523. We need not dwell on
the truthful character of the heads, and the beautiful exe¬
cution of the rich vestments and other details in the well-
preserved picture in Trafalgar-square. The influence of
David ’b predecessor, Memling, is apparent; but the handling
of the gold embroidery and metal-work is less rigidly
mechanical. The nation is indebted to tho late Mr. W.
Benoui White for this highly interesting and valuable
picture.
The principal purchases made during the year were from
the collection of Mr. W. Fuller Maitland, M.P. The titles
and prices of the foreign pictures from this collection are as
follow:—‘‘The Agony in the Garden,” Umbrian School,
£2000; “The Adoration of the Magi,” by Filippino Lippi,
£800; ‘‘The Nativity of the Saviour,” by Botticelli, £1500;
“Portrait of a Young Man,” by Francia Bigio, £500; and
“A Man’s Portrait,” unknown, £350. The more important
of these pictures are so well known from having been exhibited
successively at the Royal Academy and elsewhere, that
description and criticism are superfluous, especially in view of
the information procurable in the catalogue. We may remark,
however, that “ The Agony in the Garden” was attributed to
Raphael when in Mr. Maitland’s collection, and as such has
been accepted by many critics; but the authorities of the
gallery have acted with discretion in not retaining that attri¬
bution. It is a picture in the best manner of the Peruginesque
school, with apparently some of Raphael’s early characteristics ;
but more than this cannot be asserted positively. “ The
Adoration of the Magi” is assigned to Filippino Lippi, “or
Botticelli”—on the strength, apparently, of the resemblance
of some of the heads to the peculiar thin, square-jawed
type of face invariably found in the works of the
latter. On careful comparison, however, we think it
will be evident that the draughtsmanship is superior to,
and the touch and other technical qualities are different
from, those of Botticelli ; whilst, on the other hand, there is no
trace of the mystical imaginativeness which elevates into poetic
art the Nativity and its symbolical embracing of men and angels,
its heavenly choir and circlet of dancing angels. The affinity
of the dark-toned expressive head by Bigio to the charac¬
teristics of his friend Andrea del Sarto will be readily recog¬
nised. The small portrait by a painter “unknown” was
formerly attributed to Holbein. It has very delicate physiog¬
nomical truth, but does not quite realise the vicelike grasp
of the individuality and the warm, full colouring of the German
master.
From the Novar collection was purchased for £3465 the
lifesize figure of “ St. Helena ” seeing in vision “the Invention
of the Cross”—i.e., two cherubs bearing a cross through the
air, by Paul Veronese. It is a fine work, in rather a golden
than his so-called “Bilvery” tone, but belongs to a phase of
Veronese’s art already represented. We have not yet acquired,
pace Rumohr, an example of the master’s full strength and
brilliancy of colour as displayed in some of the galleries and
churches of Venice and iu one or two churches in Verona.
“Mary Magdalene approaching the Sepulchre,” by the rare
painter Savoldo of Brescia, with its twilight sky and sheeny
drapery, but wholly unpathetic face, though apparently per¬
fectly genuine, strikes us as unworthy of the painter of the
fine altar-piece of the Virgin and Child with saints—Savoldo’s
masterpiece—in the Brera. It was bought from Signor
Giuseppe Basliui, of Milan, for £350. The small portrait,
by Cathariua van Hemessen, bought from Mr. James C.
Wallace, is of the slenderest artistic interest, and was pur¬
chased, it may bo presumed, for the reason that our
national collection not only labours under tho reproach of not
? ossessing a single undoubted Holbein, and only one Francois
louet, but is generally curiously deficient in examples of the
cabinet portraiture of the sixteenth century.
The most important English picture acquired during the
year iB James Ward’s large and powerful “Gordale Scar
Yorkshire,” with cattle and deer gathered for shelter from a
passing storm on the level at the bottom of the scar and a
white bull conspicuous in the foreground. Despite consider
able mannerism of execution, the effect is very telling • the
gloom of the gorge, deepened by the storm, is only rendered
more weird by the silvery torrent that tumbles sparkling down
the head of the ravine, and the giant limestone cliffs rear
themselves sheer, stark, and black against a band of yellow
light thrown by the declining sun athwart the rolling cumuli
This picture was bought from Lord Ribblesdale for £1500. The
other English additions are a “Landscape” by Thomas
Barker, of Bath ; “Slate Quarries,” by Old Crome; “Laud-
scape: a River Scene,” by W. J. Muller; and a small “Snow
Scene ” (not yet hung) by W. Mulready—all purchased from
the Fuller-Maitland collection, the two former out of the
pecuniary bequest by the late Mr. Richard Charles Wheeler
and all, we submit—like two or three of the foreign pictures—
scarcely of sufficiently relative importance for a National Gal-
ery. A vast number of more or less insignificant pictures
must be offered to the gallery authorities for sale by private
individuals or in public auctions, and the constant temptation
must be to purchase works that would vary the contents of the
collection, though not increase its instructiveneRs. A betttr
policy, however, we think, it would be—especially now that
the collection is so widely representative — to resolutely
resist buying second-rate examples of second-rate men
and unimportant school pictures; but to reserve, if necessary,
the annual Parliamentary supply (which would doubtless be
voted anew! for the purchase of works illustrative of the great
capi-scuole (which are still procurable in Italy, and the North
and occasionally present themselves for sale) or chefaunt
only, by second-rate masters.
New editions of the official catalogues, both of the Foreigu
and British schools, have been prepared for the reopening.
The fresh acquisitions are included, and the accompanying
information, biographical, descriptive, and critical, is conveyed
in a manner so free from the dryness of the ordinary catalogue
raisonne, that it is evident the new Director and Secretary uim
at rendering, by this means, the national collection as popu-
larly interesting as possible.
Of all the schemes of destruction, under the pretence of
“ restoration,” which have been carried out to the ruin of so
many historical buildings at home and abroad, there has been,
perhaps, none more daring than one which at this moment
threatens to wholly transform the interior of Wren’s famous
church of Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, in order to suit the pre¬
valent Ritualistic fashion. According to the notice for a
faculty, it is intended “to rearrange the east end of the
church by forming stalls for the clergy and choir; to re¬
model the reredos or replace it by a new one; to improve
the interior aspect by coloured decoration; to lower the
floor of the main body of the church so as to form a
raised chancel, and to inclose the chancel by a dwarf
wall or railing; to remove the whole of the present seats,
and replace them by others ; aud to remove and re-erect in a
more convenient place certain monuments, &c.” If these
sweeping alterations are effected it is obvious that the church
will lose nearly all trace of its native and historic character,
both as regards architecture and worship. What renders the
project more startling is the fact that the Ecclesiastical Com¬
missioners are actually contributing £2000 from the proceeds
of the sale of the site of Allhallows, Bread-street (the church
of Milton’s monument) towards the cost of this falsification of
architecture and history—this mere freak of meddling ecclesi¬
astical dilettauteism. An outcry is, however, being raised
against the scheme, and we trust it will prove a timely one.
Mr. H. Herkomer was entertained on Monday evening last
to dinner by the Liverpool Art-Club—Mr. P. H. Rathbone
presiding. At a conversazione afterwards Mr. Herkomer pro¬
posed that, with a view to make Liverpool an art-centre, a
Painters’ Festival should be held in that town once a year;
that eminent painters should be invited to spend eight or ten
days in the town, and that they should during that time paint
in public from living models in the presence of advanced art-
students ; the pictures so produced to be afterwards deposited
in the Liverpool Art-Gallery. Mr. Herkomer thought that by
such a conference both artists and students would greatly gain.
The proposal was well received, and Mr. Severn, Mr. John
Collier, Mr. Samuelson, Mr. Bowes, and others spoke upon the
advantage to students of seeing the actual method of painters.
The same Art-Club has invited a competition for amateur
painting on porcelain and pottery, not confined to members
of the club or residents in Liverpool, but open to all amateurs.
Two prizes will be given—a Venetian glass mirror and u jar,
probably of Hungarian manufacture.
Lord Wrottesley, the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire,
opened at Stafford on Monday last an exhibition of pictures,
pottery, statuary, articles of virtu, and other works of art, m
aid of the Schools of Art and Science. The exhibition eon-
tains more than 300 paintings, including many by the old
masters, contributed by noblemen and gentlemen of the
county. The Staffordshire fine-art pottery is well represented,
as is also that of Worcester and Lambeth.
At a meeting at Brighton on Monday last, presided over
by the Mayor, it was resolved to establish a memorial fund for
the benefit of the family of the late Mr. T. W. Wonfor,
Curator of the Public Library and Museum. The matter was
warmly taken up, aud subscriptions to the amount of £190 were
announced in the room. The Mayor stated that Mr. V onfor "
exertions had developed an art and science gallery in Brighton
which perhaps was unequalled out of London.
It is proposed to publish a series of about twelve repro¬
ductions, by the photo-mezzotint process, of characteristic
specimens of the landscape work of Mr. Henry Dawson, who,
after long years of comparative neglect, has risen of late into
such deservedly high repute. The examples are to be taken
from the recent remarkable exhibition of the artist’s works n
the Art-Museum, Nottingham Castle. The process of repro¬
duction to be employed is the invention of the painter s son.
Mr. Alfred Dawson, and, judging by a small specimen issued
with a prospectus of the proposed publication, leaves nothing
to desire. The plates will be accompanied by a biographies
notice and critical review. The publishers are Messrs. Beignto
and Dunthome, 320, High Holbom, to whom subscribers
names should be forwarded.
The same publishers have lately issued an excellent
by Mr. C. P. Slocombe, after the recently-discovered 1 ortrau
of a Man,” by Rembrandt, which has recently been added
the South Kensington collection.
The British Museum has lately acquired a small frogmen
of a terra-cotta tablet containing part of the annais
Nebuchadnezzar—namely, the portion relating to his tmr ) -
seventh year and a war with Egypt.
A small leaden bowl, filled with gold and silver coins
dating about, the time of Nero, Claudius, and Vespasian,
been found at Aurons, near Aix (Bouches du Rhone).
The Reform Club is at present completing the Bcheme o
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decoration for its house which was proposed by Sir Charles
Barry, and has not been fully carried out till now.
An addition has been made to the exhibition of the Photo¬
graphic Society of Great Britain, which is now on view in
Pall-mall East, of a fine series of photographs, illustrative of
the scenery and natives of Cyprus, the work of Mr. John
Thompson, F R.G.S , and the exhibition, which was to have
closed on the 9th, will now remain open until the 16th inst.
An exhibition of drawings by scholars and pupil-teachers
attending the Board Schools in London was opened on Wed¬
nesday at the Saffron-hill Board School, Cross-street, Far-
ringdon-road, E.C., and continued open during the week.
On Tuesday the new session of the Society of Biblical
Archaeology was opened at its rooms, 9, Conduit-street,
Regent-street—the President, Dr. Samuel Birch, in the ehair—
when Mr. Theophilus G. Pinches, the late George Smith’s
successor as assistant to Dr. Birch, Keeper of the Oriental
Antiquities in the British Museum, read a paper upon the
Bronze Gates of Shalmaneser III., lately discovered by Mr.
Rassam at Balawat.
THEATRES.
ROYAL AQUARIUM.
The autumnal morning season, devoted to the performances of
specially selected artistes, begun at this house on Tuesday,
nnd was numerously atteuded. The revivals consisted of
“ Grandfather Whitehead ” and “ The Liar.” The former was
produced in 1842 at the Haymarket, a drama adapted from the
French by the late Mr. Mark Lemon, in which Mr. William
Farren the elder acquired great distinction. This reproduction
at the Aquarium has the advantage of being able to command
the services of his son, who reproduces all the specialities of
his father’s method of acting the part. The resemblance
almost amounts to an identification, and is a kind of marvel
in its minuteness and closeness. In other respects the
performance was excellently supported. Mr. E F. Edgar, as
Langley, was exactly the right man in the right place; and
the other characters were very ably impersonated, particularly
Louise Drayton by Miss Kate Corday, and Edward Drayton
by Miss M. Brunton. Equally satisfactory was the cast of
“The Liar.” Here we had again Mr. W. Farren as Young
Wilding, as true to the exuberances of youth as in the former
character he had been to the infirmities of senility. Papillion,
too, was well interpreted by Mr. Charles Collette. New
scenery has been provided for these revivals, which are likely
to retain possession of the boards for a considerable period.
ST. GEORGE’S HALL.
Mr. nnd Mrs. German Reed are again happy in their selection
of Mr. F. C. Burnand for a dramatic entertainment full of
humour and character. In the latter the new piece, entitled
‘ 1 A Tremendous Mystery,” is so abundant that the elegant
performers employed in its development have to double their
parts, and do so with their usual success. The little drama
(for a drama it is, and one exceedingly well constructed), deals
with an old topic, a foolish domestic trouble viewed from the
ridiculous 6ide, which, while it defies narration, is so contrived
as to amuse fashionable spectators. The artists engaged are
all up to their work. Mr. Alfred Reed as a French count, and
Miss Rosa Leo deserve particular appreciation. Mr. King
Hall has contributed some charming music to the action and
dialogue. We lose, however, Mr. Comey Grain, whose place
is ably supplied by Mr. Arthur Sketchley, who gives us an
account of Mrs. Brown’s disasters at the Paris Exhibition. The
whole performance is singularly successful.
Miss Marion Terry and Mr. Henry Neville will sustain the
leading rules in the new play, “ A Republican Marriage,” to
be produced at the Olympic Matinee this morning. The
authoress is said to be a member of the aristocracy.
The council of the Shakspeare Memorial Association held a
meeting on Monday at Stratford-on-Avon, when arrangements
were made for an inaugural festival on the next anniversary of
the poet’s birthday. The festival will extend over ten days,
and will include performances of Shakspeare’s finest plays,
concerts, and other entertainments, so as to show the suitability
of the theatre portion of the memorial to each of the purposes
to which it is intended to be applied. The general arrange¬
ments are to be under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, who is
one of the governors of the association.
Major-General A. Brown, C.B., late of the 44th Regiment,
has been awarded the distinguished service reward vacant by
the death of Lieutenant-General John Simpson, C.B.
Mr. Peake, the new representative of the London and City
Bank, at Oxford, has been elected treasurer of the city, in the
place of Mr. Rutherford Smith, deceased.
Her Majesty’s troop-ship Malabar, which left Portsmouth
on the 1st inst. for Plymouth en route to India, was towed
into Plymouth on the following day, having been found some
miles oif Start Point, with her machinery broken down. She
had troops on board for conveyance to India.
The Duke of Cambridge, accompanied by several members
of the Horse Guards’ staff, visited Aldershott on Monday and
saw the infantry battalions perform the new system of field
firing with ball ammunition. The enemy was represented by
“ dummies ” in a sheltered trench with supports of reserve and
artillery. General Steele and the Aldershott staff were present
A meeting of millers and corn-merchants was held at the
Com Exehauge on Monday, when it was resolved, in connection
with the new Weights and Measures Act, henceforth to sell
grain and the dry’ products thereof by weight only, and that
one hundred Imperial pounds should be the selling standard.
A large minority preferred to retain the present hundred¬
weight. The meeling resolved to submit their decisions by a
deputation to the Board of Trade.
Under the title of the Alexandra Album a handsomely-
bound quarto portrait-album is in course of publication by
Messrs. Marion and Co., of Soho-square. Its distinctive
features are a senes of thirteen designs, faithfully copied, in
colours, from drawings by Mr. Henry Bright. The pictorial
frontispiece shows a numerous group of birds ; and the twelve
succeeding illustrations, representing bird-life, together with
different forms of botanical beauty, relate to the several
months of the year. The album, which is of high finish, is
adapted in the usual manner for the insertion of portraits.
Yesterday week the yearly municipal elections were held
throughout England and Wales, and in most of the Parlia¬
mentary boroughs the contests were fought out on political
rather than on local issues. Particularly was this the case
in Birmingham, Liverpool, Sheffield, and other large towns in
the Midlands and North.—On Tuesday last the annual muni¬
cipal elections were held in most of the burghs in Scotland.
In Edinburgh, although there were two or three changes on
account of councillors retiring, yet there was no contest, a cir¬
cumstance said to be unparalleled in the history of the city
since the present election arrangements came into force.
THE FRENCH DELUGE.
Under the familiar title of The Revolution, by H. A. Taine,
D.C.L., Oxon (Daldy, Isbister, and Co.), translated, as well,
apparently, as could be reasonably desired, by John Durand,
we have the first of the two volumes which will complete the
second part of the author's ‘‘Origines de la France Contem-
poraine.” The theme of the volume now under consideration
is thus stated“ Popular insurrections and the laws of the
Constituent Assembly end in destroying all government in
France.” In other words, the volume contains a picture of
that deluge which was to come after Louis XV., together with
a sketch of the various causes which led to it, and of some
striking scenes to which it gave rise. The volume is divided
into three “ books,” whereof the first is entitled “Spontaneous
Anarchy ; ” the second, “ The Constituent Assembly, and the
results of its labours;” the third, “ The Application of the
Constitution.” Spontaneous seems a curious epithet to apply
to an anarchy whereof the causes are investigated and traced
in elaborate detail through a variety of channels. But let
that pass : it is the anarchy itself, rather than the quality of it,
with which we are chiefly concerned. The advent of that
anarchy was foreshadowed, towards the end of 1788,
in the correspondence of various civil and military
authorities — correspondence in which we detect “ the
dull universal muttering of coming wrath.” A general dearth
sets the ball rolling ; dearth is naturally followed by famine,
by that hunger which Homer calls shameless, which urges
the starving lion to pursue his prey to the very door of the
homestead, the castle, the palace; the state of tension thus
produced is increased by a whisper of better times coming, of
relief to be extended by the hand of power; there is a deter¬
mination to help on that time, to hasten that blessed hour;
popular gatherings and riots ensue; then “the dregs of
society at once come to the surface; ” the Bastille is sur¬
rendered, not taken ; Paris is in the hands of the mob, and,
in the words of Malouet, “ the Terror dates from the 14th of
July,” 1789. At any rate, anarchy has set in ; and the first
“book” closes with the spectacle of “the Government and
the nation in the hands of the revolutionary party.” As for
the leaders of that party, this is the strain in which their
antecedents and qualifications are described:—“ Desmouelins,
a briefless barrister, living in furnished lodgings, with petty
debts, and on a few louis extracted from his relations.
Loustalot, still more unknown, was admitted the previous
year to the Parliament of Bordeaux, and has landed at Paris in
search of a career. Danton, another second-rate lawyer, coming
out of a hovel in Champagne, borrowed the money to pay his
expenses, while liis stinted household is kept up only by means
of a louis which is given to him weekly by his father-in-law,
who is a coffee-house-keeper. Brissot, a strolling Bohemian,
formerly employe of literary pirates, has roamed over the
world for fifteen years, without bringing back with him either
from England or America anything but a coat out at elbows
and false ideas ; and, finally, Marat—a writer that has been
hissed, an abortive scholar and philosopher, a misrepresenter
of his own experiences, caught by the natural philosopher
Charles in the act of committing a scientific fraud, and fallen
from the top of his inordinate ambition to the subordinate
post of doctor in the stables of the Comte d’Artois.” This
tone of scorn is all very well, but it is somewhat gratuitous,
and of no argumentative force; many instances might be
given of men who, with unpromising antecedents, have become
shining lights when opportunity offered. However, to pro¬
ceed to the second “ book.” It is a critical monograph, an
exhaustive essay upon the Constituent Assembly and the
Constitution of 1791; and of the work performed by that
body a brief summary is expressed in the following
words:—“In several of its laws, especially those which
relate to private interests, in the institution of civil regulations,
in the penal and rural codes, in the first attempts at, and
the promise of, a uniform civil code, in the enunciation of a few
simple regulations regarding taxation, procedure, and adminis¬
tration, it planted good seed. But in all that relates to political
institutions and social organisation its proceedings are those of
an academy of Utopians, and not those of practical legislators.”
The third “book,” in which “the application of the Con¬
stitution ” forms the titular subject of discussion, is little more
or less than a somewhat bewildering collection of short narra¬
tives illustrating the general disorderly and sanguinary con¬
dition of France, before as well as after the date of the
Constitution, but intended, no doubt, to confirm a statement,
which is made in the preceding “book,” and which is to the
following effect:—“We see approaching the revolt of the
peasantry, the insurrections of Nismes, Franche-Comte, La
Vendee and Brittany, emigration, transportation, imprison¬
ment, the guillotine or drowning for two thirds of the clergy
of France, and likewise for myriads of the loyal, for husband¬
men, artisans, day labourers, sempstresses, and servants, and
the humblest among the lower class of the people. This is
what the laws of the Constituent Assembly are leading to.”
No doubt all these horrors followed the promulgation of the
laws mentioned, but it is sometimes difficult to distinguish
between the “post hoc ” and the “propter hoc ;” it is quite
true that “ as the effects of the Constitution are developed,
successive administrations become feebler and more partial;
the unbridled populace has become more excitable and more
violent; the enthroned club has become more suspicious and
more despotic. Henceforth the club, through or in opposition
to the administrative bodies, leads the populace, and the nobles
will find it as hostile as the peasants;” but we know that
effects are not always such as might reasonably have been
expected, and that it is easy, with the wisdom which comes after
the event, to show that what was meant to heal acted only as
an aggravation. Nothing can stop the inevitable; and before
the prophetic soul of a conscience-stricken king the French
deluge loomed huge and inevitable, and it is extremely doubt¬
ful whether any measures whatever would have been more suc¬
cessful than the “ Utopian” Constitution. The whole ques¬
tion had already been discussed to an almost wearisome extent
before M. Taine took it in hand; but such a writer as he must
needs command respectful attention. His method, too, has
peculiar characteristics ; he has relied, almost exclusively, upon
the testimony of trustworthy eye-witnesses, he tells us, and
“ the footnotes at the bottom of the pages indicate the con¬
dition, office, name, and dwelling-place of those decisive wit¬
nesses,” so that “the reader, confronting the texts, can
interpret them for himself, and form his own opinions.” More¬
over, M. Taine repudiates anything like personal bias, any
concern “ with the discussions of the day; ” he has written as
if his “ subject were the revolutions of Florence or Athens,”
esteeming his “vocation of historian too highly to make a cloak
of it for the concealment of another.”
The relief afforded by the Leicester-square Soup Kitchen
and Refuge during the past year amounted to 102,595 meals,
with 2600 nights’ lodgings in the refuge. The Christmas
dinner reached 1030 families ; and 151 tons of coals were dis¬
tributed to the aged and sick. In the fourth week of January
3359 meals were given; in the fourth week of August 687.
The institution is supported by voluntary contributions.
MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.
“I like you not at all” is a sprightly song, the words and
music both by Percy Fitzgerald, published by Messrs. Duff
and Stewart; who have also issued some pleasing pianoforte
pieces, among which are, “ La Joie d’Amour,” romance, and
“ Dewdrops on the Roses,” rondo giojoso, both by W. F.
Taylor; the Welsh air “Jenny Jones,” effectively transcribed
and varied by John Cheshire; “Invitation a la Polka,”
“ Polonia” (mazurka), and “ Galop de concert,” three bright
movements in dance style, by M. Bergson ; “ Les Filles de la
Cour” (schottische), by F. St. George; and “Zart und
Treue” (“Tender and True”),and “ Verlobt ” (“ Betrothed”),
two spirited sets of waltzes, as pianoforte duets, by Otto
Miiller.
“ Reminiscence du Freischiitz” and “Le Nozze di Figaro
Reminiscence,” both by Alexandre Billet (Stanley Lucas,
Weber, and Co.), are two short fantasias for the pianoforte in
which well-known themes from the operas named are varied in
a brilliant and showy manner, devoid of difficulty. The same
publishers also issue three short pieces for the pianoforte,
by G. J. Yan Eyken. These are entitled respectively “ Sara-
bande,” “Intermezzo,” and “Echo Song,” and each is
extremely pleasing in style and distinct in character.
“ Songs for Children,” by George B. Lissant (Nelson and
Sons), consists of twelve pieces, for voice with pianoforte
accompaniment, the words and music being in a simple style,
calculated to enlist the sympathy and attention of very young
people. —This collection of songs is also issued, in small
size, as portions of the “Royal School Senes,” with words and
melody only, both in the prevailing notation and that of the
Tonic Sol-Fa system, at a penny each.
We have heretofore called attention to the very characteristic
music of Heinrich Hofman, whose compositions have recently
found great favour in Germany. Since our previous notice
several works have reached us from his English publishers,
Messrs. Witt and Co., of Conduit-street, and these likewise
possess a more than common interest. They consist of the
following pianoforte pieces:—“Two Yalse Caprices” (op. 2),
“Album Leaves” (op. 11), “New Hungarian Dances”
(arranged by F. Brissler)—all for piano solo—“ Italian Love
Tale,” six duets (op. 19) ; “ Albion,” eight national airs tran¬
scribed (also duets), and “ Silhouettes from Hungary, seven
pianoforte pieces on original Hungarian melodies ” (transcribed
for violin and piano by F. Struss). All these are full of
strongly-marked character. Messrs. Witt and Co. also publish
a charming “ Mai-lied,” by Carl Reinecke, for voice, with
pianoforte accompaniment. This is given in two editions, one
for soprano or tenor, the other for contralto or baritone.
“ Merrily oh ! ” (words by Thomas Moore) and “ Country,
Home, and King,” are two very characteristic songs by
Stephen Jarvis—published by B. Williams, who also issues two
effective vocal pieces by H. Pontet, “ Bring back my Flowers,”
and “ The Fog Bell” (descriptive song); and a very spirited
“ Caprice a la Bourree,” and a capital “ Giga,” in old style,
for the pianoforte, by Stephen Jarvis.
“ Howard’s Harmonium Library” (Howard and Co.) is a
series of shilling numbers containing movements well adapted
for the instrument named, edited, and partly composed, by
F. Scarsbrook.
“The Imperial Grand Polonaise” by Madame Oury
(Cuningham Boosey and Co), is a brilliant pianoforte piece, in
the dance style indicated, by a lady well known as a pianiste.
THE SHORES OF LAKE ARAL.
We present a view of a scene in the desert of Kara Koom, or
“ Black Sand,” north-west of the Sea of Aral. It is one of a
series of pictures, by a Russian artist, Mr. N. V. Karajin, of
St. Petersburg, several of whose works have appeared in our
Journal. The vast territories of the Russian Empire in Central
Asia, recently much enlarged by the conquest of the Turcoman
Principalities on the Syr Daria (Jaxartes) and the Amu Daria
(Oxus) rivers, east of the Caspian and south-east of the Aral
Seas, consist in great part of uninhabitable plains, though
fertile and populous districts are situated on the banks of those
rivers and their tributaries, about Khiva, Bokhara, Samar-
cand, Khokand, and Tashkend, which is the Russian capital.
The Oxus, as students of ancient geography know, formerly
took its course westward to the Caspian, instead of northward
to the Aral Sea; and we now hear a startling rumour that it
has been restored, possibly by some artificial cutting or clear¬
ing of the old channel to its former course. This lies through
another Kara Koom desert, extending from Khiva nearly six
hundred miles to the eastern shore of the Caspian, where the
traces of the former bed of the Oxus may still be discerned.
The whole region is depressed much below the ocean level, and
there can be little doubt that the Aral and the Caspian are but
the remnants of a far more extensive inland freshwater sea,
which may have discharged the bulk of the waters into the
Euxine at some prehistoric time. This immense emptied
basin, as it may be considered, is a barren tract of
sand, interspersed with tracts of clay, beds of gypsum and
selenite, and layers of sea shells, with scanty vegetation, only
a few stunted bushes here and there, and with little of higher
animal life than insects and reptiles, or wildfowl in the shallow
lagoons. Post stations have been constructed along the routes
of travel, and wells of brackish water, at intervals of twelve
or fifteen miles, but the men and horses there stationed are
fed, in many instances, with grain, meat, and forage brought
them from a great distance. We have no cause to envy the
Russians their possession of such a dreary and forbidding
country, or even that of the Turcoman and Tartar Khanates,
inhabited by a barbarous race, the government of whose
territory costs Russia more than it is worth.
Mr. Bamaby, Director of Naval Construction, upon the
occasion of presenting prizes to the successful students of
science classes in Sheemess on Saturday, dwelt with some
degree of severity upon the want of artistic and scientific
enterprise on the part of our private shipbuilders.
The Emperor of Germany has forwarded to the Rev. M.
Woodward, Vicar of Folkestone, a beautiful Bible, bearing the
following inscription on the cover:—“William, Emperor of
Germany, to the Rev. Matthew Woodward, in recognition of
his valuable services, assistance, and sympathy shown on the
occasion of the loss of H.M.S. Grosser Kurfiirst.”
At Bath on Monday Mr. Murch, the Mayor, was presented
with a testimonial, consisting of a salver, together with a
marble bust aud a bronze copy of the Warwick Vase, in token
of the untiring zeal and great ability with which during a long
period of years he has striven to promote the best interests of
the city of Bath and county of Somerset.—Councillor S. W.
Wearing, of Lancaster, has presented to the Corporation of
that town, in token of his pleasant connection with that body
in 1878, a handsome badge aud collar for the use of the Mayor.
Messrs. Bell and Atkinson, of Lancaster, furnished the design,
and intrusted the work to Messrs. Williams, of Hatton-garden.
SCENE NEAR THE BEA OF ARAL, IN RUSSIAN ASIA.
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NEW WINTER GARDEN AND 8RATING RINK AT CHELTENHAM.
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THE
tt.t.tthtKATED LONDON NEWS
NOV. 9, 1878
<« HORACE TN LONDON.
The other day, on a
cheap oleographs of actresses, old^hy ^ ^ novels on ce fashion-
of Cassell's Magazine, and known to the P re8 ^
able, I saw a copy of a ^ ook h ^ u y 0 nce it was among the
generation except by name . J h » U ho8 e fame even now is
most popular works of two autuora d Addresses
great—the brothers Smith, wh°«. * their .. Horace
Remain at the head of allP° d etl ^ P the chance of buying for
in London —which I had ’nowi indeed) but for the
very name would most Ukely be
•fSTi-i -r *o«P-j
such a price 173 : ® ter “g t ing reading it proved to be,
could not be dear; and veryinteres^u early chapter8 „ e
full of reminders of Vanity r . hi h this book was pub-
lished-it is dated 1813, ana day. Jo8 Sediey
recently appeared in th ® “^“d h ave found in them many
(had he been a reading ® a °) wag n0 doub t, pretty famdiar
a mention of VauxhaR, Osbom So ho, which are
"S^rB^SrSe"where to-dny St. Johns-wood,
Brompton, Pimliwwould be ”““| d ; mWtlous . it is, to imitate
The object of the book is rate lightest burlesque
in English-free y, ’^London people and modern
spirit, witbcons antanuson L though these imitations
fashions-the Odes of “ ly M passing events sug-
were executed m no order but JJ t J e first a nd second
gested reference to the aiftwe » ith on i y 0 ne omission
looks are here completely^e^es^ted ^nn ^ satires of
(Bk. L od. xxi) Of the mmte and .MX* ^ ^ ^ is
need co P iou ? allu , ot ^“’ i^thought out. Yet one may say
has to be thus laborious y . *v,rnuehout not a high one—
that, while the hterary le „„ dec i ded ly inferior to that of
the general workmanship be J|Jjaad^ 7 £ the odes are re n-
the better vers ^‘^and spirit, and throughout the
tte01 tte
the volume “ To John Bull, Esq.
Dread Sir! half human, half divine.
srjisaaaifoseAflf
is capitally caught in—
Out charity begins at home.
And mostly ends where it begins.
And mostly enus —
The od. to Icciu. (I. nix.) »
who had turned out a termagant; and it concluaes
I took you for better as well as for worse,
But And you are wholly the latter.
S-5ESSSS5
I,
mo , t popular-Byron, Scott, and Moore are (I think) 1 l he only
nam^mentioned in this volume; it is the influence of Shelley
and Keats which has made it impossible for the writers of our
time to crowd theriines with false emphasis, to roll into one
nominal dactyl three words of equal importance and eight or
nine heavy consonants—the perfect and unhesitating flow of
m7sS£T.“ melody would, in 1813, h.v . been
great a novelty as the vagueness of his meanings, or the
“In S .IwSTSS - * ~uu can never, in the nature of
things vary very much: a dash of politics, a good many
dashes of personality and scandal, a fair amount of flattery, and
a great dK loveLaking, with constant hits at thei fashions
of the day in dress, in amusements, even in religion. these
Otters always were and always will be the staple of such
poetry as that, of which Mr. Frederick Locker just now is
laureate. But for this very reason the lighter to™ *
period is always interesting, as it reflects (and faithfully
enough) those minor features which express character so faith¬
fully? and which, nevertheless, the Muse of History is too
eie Tc» a the ^Londoner, for example, who loves and studies his
city, how pleasant it is to mark the growth and decay of its
various quarters, as in the allusions and descriptions in these
verses he may. Hyde Park, to be sure, was as fashionable m
1813 as it is in 1878 ; but one is amused to find the parvenu
citizen, as he grows in wealth, moving from his modest house
in Laurence Pountney-lane to a grander one in Russell-
square-next door, it may be, to the Sedieys . Clapham-com¬
mon, too, seems to have been a haven much desired by the
ambitious merchant—who, it may be noted if be did not spend
his holiday at Brighton (then in the flush of its first fame)
went more often to a literal “ watering-place, with a spa (as
Bath or Cheltenham), than to the seaside, Of the reputation
of Drury-lane and Hart-street at this period 1 have spoken-
there are constant allusions to them—and to \ auxhaU, with
its wherries, whose “ jolly young watermen, in these days of
penny steamers, find their occupation almost entirely gone.
Uf course, the great historical event of the day, which
threw its shadow over even the lightest verse, was the trench
Revolution, with Napoleon's subsequent career. In the
“Stock-Jobber’s Lament’’ (II. xiii- et nefasto te posutt
die) we find, in less artistic form, exactly the furious denun¬
ciations of old Sediey at the coffee-house, in that wonderful
twentieth chapter of “ Vanity Fair; ” and Napoleon s second
marriage is alluded to satirically in Ode xxvi., The Straw
Bonnet.” Of the dreaded invasion there are several hints,
and in the second ode we even find the question—
What power can awe the impending Gaul,
What psalm avert Britannia’s fall!
The nature of the allusions to the Revolution may be easily
imagined ; if any Englishman of the day saw the necessity of,
the good hidden in, that vast evil, we may be sure that such a
mail was no comic poetaster. The Jacobins are spoken of with
the unmixed horror with which a Scotch Presbyterian would
speak of the Catholics ; and in a mood not much less savage
are Cobbett and perhaps even Burdett attacked.
Many difficult!.. murt of £££*£
work of this class more thau^ixty } aUusioil) aud each
In some of the odes lineiaft<3:1m second poem m the
readCT ^ 0ffliand ^
this single verse P
Come, 1 Vinsor’s lamp, Polito's apes.
Come. Hawke, thou peer of many capes, (
Pearl-button’d and drab-coated spai k .
And thou, the dame of wicked wit.
Bound whom the infant hoaxes flit.
Come, mighty Mistress Clarke.
in the lines—
’Tis folly yourself and your readers to vex
With verses os feeble and bald as old Q. i
the nickname bestowed by our authors on Cc^e
Bifrou.;” though there U perhaps a lort of general appro
Prto S“S “Sght^Sdi for hour, the part alluaiona of thta
amusements of they^^ 8 h ’ i8 balloon> represented the
o havl Sen looked up to as thl leader of the En gb ah wits-
SsSfHfSSs
Count Rumford, Dr. Busby,
“ Walking Barclay, racing Hellish,”
these names, now for the most partsinkingtoobliviop meet
us on every page; and we cannot help making our own
imaginary listtf the heroes of to-day who m another balf-
"^If^uch^readiD^as^his^is^pleasant, it is yet sad; we all
know Thackeray’s^ouderful comparison between thecreations
S Fielding and the real people of their rime-how these have
disappeared, those live for ever-and we must be sonyforthe
real i^oole And there is, among the minor renowns at all
events, a capriciousuess in the doings of fate which 18 ^ceed-
infrly annoying. Why should the name of Joanna kouthcott
be still reSllefted, while that of Whitbread has sonearlydis-
anneared ? In what way was Mendoza more worthy of fame
than Gamerin—was not Garnerin, rather, the more deserving
of the two ? Is it not irritating that Romeo Coates should still
be a name, if nothing more, while a generation has arisen
which knows not Count Rumford ? .. +v ,„+
It is only when we come to the mighty reputations that
n the iustice of it ” pleases us. Napoleon fills the world of his
time as fully as ever; Wellington is only remembered because
he beat Napoleon. Scott’s poetry has gone the way of such¬
like things; Wordsworth’s fame has hardly yet ceased grow¬
ing. The genius of Byron is recognised ^ “JJ e D , the
smallness of Moore has become evident to al 1 men. The
“ Ancient Mariner” has lost absolutely nothing; but Nereis
the “ Curse of Kehama” ? And, to return to our immediate
subject, has not time very satisfactorily settled the relative
values of “ Rejected Addresses” and Horace in London t*
Enough ; there is but little to be said upon a theme so old
We have known, these many years, that fashion is fashion and
satire-only satire. Neither is a particularly good thing, yet
each has some virtue—is some proof of movement, of thought,
of a desire for higher things. If life were absolutely stagnant
there could be no change of fashion ; if men ivere
bad, there would be no hope of satire. Both appertain, in a
way, to life and manliness ; though it is possible that those
periods are best when their influence is ieast fdt-because
they are likely then to be least needed. Such periods art
those of enthusiasm and of progress ; such a period was not
the year 1813—such, alas! is not 1878.
English Gentleman.” ,Tlie entire arrangement is expressive of
comfort and hospitality ; and, although of elaborate workman¬
ship and design, it has a pleasing effect of harmony and
repose, which reflects great credit on the designer; while the
manufacturers have carried out his ideas in a thoroughly
honest and truthful manner, the whole being of solid oak
without any “ shams ” or veneering. The carving of natural
foliage, strongly conventionalised, is well and vigorously
cut, producing at once a pleasing effect, not weakened
by ’ evidence of mechanical labour employed in scraping
and sand-papering. On each side of the recess is a
settle, standing upon a parquet floor made of teak, and entirely
produced by machinery, every joint being made by the saw,
and unplaned; notwithstanding which, in the hundreds of
joints, not one would admit of the insertion of a piece of
writing-paper edgeways. The ceiling, which cannot be well
shown in our illustration, is panelled and ornamented with old
English mottoes. The remaining portion of the room has a
dado in corresponding style, panelled and moulded, with
pilasters dividing the upper walls into compartments, and sup.
porting an enriched cornice surmounting panels of needlework
embroidered on blue cloth. A few months hence will see this
work re-erected in the dining-room of the purchaser, who is
M.P. for Hull._
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
Among the British exhibitors in the Champ de Mars, at Pans,
we must notice with approval Messrs. Howard and bons, ot
Bemers-street, London. The object of these manufacturers
has been to show that labour-saving machnies may be em¬
ployed in the production of decorative house fittings, whether
as forming integral portions of the building, or detached
articles of furniture. This is performed without sacrificing
artistic effect and excellence to the all-debasing endeavour to
produce the “ cheap” or, more correctly speaking, worthless
article, which too frequently would appear to be the main
object aimed at by many manufacturers of household goods of
the present time. The articles shown by Messrs. Howard and
Sons display work of considerable artistic ment, designed by
their artist, Mr. Randall, and produced at a cost not beyond
the reach of the many, but manufactured with the greatest
care and certainly of thoroughly seasoned materials. A close
inspection of the work will not discover a single open joint or
split in the wood, and this after the ordeal of a French
summer. We now proceed to mention some of the articles
exhibited. In many old English houses the “ chimney corner
is still to be met with, one which had evidently been designed
for grandeur of effect, while those of the present day
too often bear evidence of the cost being limited at the
expense of all true art-principles. The chimney corner
exhibited at Paris by Messrs. Howard and Sons, the manu¬
facturers, may be classed as belonging to the English Renais¬
sance in style. Their arrangement at the Exhibition shows
part of a dining-room or hall in a large country house, having
a recess, at the back of which is a fireplace extending its whole
width, with hobs at each side ; in the centre is a dog-stove,
placed upon a raised hearth, and inside a screen with a brass
hood over it, panelled and ornamented with repousse work,
concave on plan, and designed to concentrate and throw for¬
ward the heat, while at the same time protecting the surround¬
ing woodwork from its dangerous influence. We refer to our
Illustration of this arrangement, The prevailing taste for
china and bric-a-brac has evidently suggested the gallery
over and round the sides, find provision has been
made in the centre, or place of honour, for some
family or historical picture. Over each hob in the lower part
is a window, affording an outlook across the country, having
in the centre a panel of stained glass, its subject illustrative of
I the true spirit of old English hospitality. The whole arrange-
ment appears as though suggested by the sons? of
OBITUARY.
THE DOWAGER LADY ARUNDELL.
The Right Hon. Theresa, Dowager Lady Arundell, died at
Northcourt, Abingdon, on the 26th ult. Her Ladyship was
bom March 21, 1812, the fifth daughter of Wflliam,
seventeenth ; Lord Stourton was married June 19, 1838, as his
third wife, to Henry Benedict, eleventh Baron Arundell of
Wardour (father, by his second wife, of the present Lord
Arundell of Wardour), and had two sons and three daughters.
Her eldest daughter, the Hon. Theresa Mary, married first,
April 17, 1861, Sir Alfred Joseph Doughty lichbome, Bart.,
brother of Roger, who was lost at sea in 1854, and had a son,
who died an infant, and a posthumous son, the present Sir
Henry Alfred Doughty Ticlibome, bom May 28, 1860, three
months after his father’s death. Lady Tichbome is now the
wife of Captain Henry Wickham, late Rifle Brigade.
BIB T. S. DYER, BART.
Sir Thomas Swinnerton Dyer, ninth Baronet, late Captain
Royal Artillery, died at 14, Redcliffe-square,
on the 31st ult., aged seventy-nine. He was
only son of Sir John Dyer, K.C.B., by Jane,
his wife, daughter of Simon Halliday, Esq., of
Westcombe Park, Kent. He was educated at
the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and
served in the R.A. from 1825—1832. He suc¬
ceeded to the baronetcy at the decease of his
uncle, Sir Thomas Swinnerton Dyer, in 1854.
He married, Feb. 7,1832, Mary Anne, daughter
of Colonel J. A. Clement, R.A., and had four
sons of whom the eldest inherits the title, and
is the present Sir Swinnerton Halliday Dyer,
— tenth Bart. The Baronetcy of Dyer was con¬
ferred in 1678 on Sir William Dyer, who manried Thomaane
daughter and heiress of Thomas Swinnerton, Esq., of Stanwey
Hall, Essex. gIR G G BUTTIE , B ART.
fiir Georee Grant Suttie, fifth Bart., of Belgone, in the county
g of Haddington, who died on the 30th ult., was
bom Aug. 1, 1797, the only son of Sir James
Grant Suttie, fourth Baronet, by Kathcnne
Isabella, bis wife, second daughter of James
Hamilton, Esq., of Bangour, and served, in
1817 and 1818, in the Scots Fusilier Guards.
He was n J P. and D.L. for Haddingtonshire
and a magistrate for the counties of Aberdeen
and Berwick. Sir George married Sept 3
1829 Lady Harriet, daughter of Francis,
seventh Eari of Wemyss, and by her (who (bed
May 30, 1858) leaves three sons and two
Roxburgh ^ and has one son and three daughters.
THE REV. G. LONGFIELD.
The Rev. George, Longfield^D D , Fellow^of ^ n ° o{ ’
Dublin, died suddenly on the 3rd mat. Hei was el ^
? e R eV o?Co U rW° r p. .^^’iKl2i^fe B >UBht«r
ofColonel William Conner and ho
gained his Fellowship in 184-, and 1864 be was
chiefly to classics and Onentai langnag^. five
appointed the Erasmus Smith Lecturer m l - p
years later succeeded Dr Todd m the Heb:^ the
fessorsbip. In his knowledge o^“JStly^fatinguiahed.
obscurer Semitic tongues he w a8 pre-emmently m g
sf a.w a ssrss ^
Nathaniel Webb Ware, Esq.
MR. FOOTT, OF CARRIGACUNNA CASTLE.
Henry Baldwin Foott, Esq., of Carngacunna Castie m
county of Cork, J.P., died on the
But a few weeks since he was presented by hundredth
tates with an adtas. on the compU*™ °< 1!kb „d
year. He was born Sept.11.1 1 ‘ 8, the seconu fey
Foott, Esq., of Millford, Colonel of the North of CaI .
Mary, his wife, daughter of Henry bter of
ryoody. He married, March 6, 1823, Jane, eia . 6 diedm
the Rev. Edward Mitchell Carieton and ^ f ^ or ge CarU’tou
1873, leaves, with other issue, a son, the present Ge Mr
Foott. Esq., of Carrigacumia C^tle. As to th^ ^ ^ ^
Foott having passed his hundredth yea :r ^ • what a
troversy. The evidence is clear and ^^ce-tlie
wondrous century of events did not Revolution
American War of Independence, the gre&t ^“^.engine,
MnnnWn’s whole career, the discovery of the
nf *‘ fVto nIH I married
American War of Independence, the great rreu ,“ m ine ,
Napoleon’s whole career, the discovery of the steam
the railway, and the electric wire.
The deaths have also been announced of—
William Dunbar Sinclair, Esq., on the 27th u ,
House, Caithness. . iqtll ult., at
Major John Bellamy, 17th Regiment, on the 19t
the camp, Shorncliffe. . „ nf1l ult.,
Major-General John Wray Mitchell, R.A., ^ 0 n, in
at his seat, Castle Strange, in the county of ^ jf the
his seventieth year. He was the only sur g . Ann,
late Edward Mitchell, Esq., of Castle Strang , Hull He
his wife, daughter of the late John \\ ray, Mb* q{ John
NOV. 9, 1878
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451
Wray, Esq., and by her, who died in 1852, leaves, with other
issue, a son, Major Edward Mitchell, R.E.
The Rev. John Nutcombe Gould, for thirty years Rector of
Stokeinteignhead, on the 19th ult., aged seventy-three.
Colonel Andrew Simpson Smith, Bengal Infantry, on the
27th ult., at Norwood-terrace, Southsea.
The Rev. John Chancourt Girardot, M.A., J.P., Rector of
Screveton and Vicar of Car Colston, on the 23rd ult., at Car
Colston, aged eighty.
Captain Hugh Alexander Kennedy, late Forfar and Kin¬
cardine Militia, and Lieutenant Retired List Madras Army, on
on the 22nd ult., at Ailsa House, Reading, aged sixty-nine.
The Hon. Mrs. Wrottesley (Ellen Charlotte), wife of the
Hon. Edward Bennet Wrottesley, to whom she was married
in 1846, and daughter of George Rush, Esq., of Elsenham Hall.
The Rev. Francis Robert Raines, M. A., F.S.A., Hon. Canon
of Manchester, forty-six years Vicar of Milnrow, Vice* President
of the Chetham Society, on the 17th ult., aged seventy-three.
George Frere, Esq., late Judge in the Mixed Court estab¬
lished at the Cape of Good Hope for the Suppression of the
Slave Trade, on the 26th ult., at Great College-street, West¬
minster, in his sixty-ninth year.
Mrs. Frances Freeland Broderip, relict of the Rev. John
Somerville Broderip, M.A., Rector of Cossiugton, Somerset,
and only daughter of the late Thomas Hood, poet, on Nov. 3,
at Clevedon, aged forty-eight.
The Hon. Anne Elizabeth Lady Williamson, on the 4th
inst., at her residence in Lower Belgrave-street. She was the
third daughter of Thomas Henry first Lord Ravensworth, was
born in 1801, and married on April 18, 1826, Sir Hedworth
Williamson, Bart., who died in April, 1861.
John William Miles, Esq., who formerly represented Bristol
in the Conservative interest in the House of Commons, on the
5th inst., aged sixty-one, at his residence near Bristol. He
was a director of the Great Western Railway, and a member
of the banking firm of Sir William Miles and Co.
General David Birrell, late of the Bengal Infantry, in his
seventy-ninth year. He obtained his commission as Ensign on
Aug. 30, 1818 ; served in the Burmese war, with the army of
the Indus in Afghanistan in 1839-40, and in the Sutlej cam¬
paign of 1845-6, having a horse killed under him at the battle
of Ferozeshah. He afterwards commanded a brigade at the
battle of Sobraon.
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Nassau Dore, late staff -
officerof pensioners at Tower-hill. He joined the service in
1841, served with the Buffs at the Battle of Punniar, and with
the 20th Regiment in the second portion of the Crimean
campaign. He was wounded before Sebastopol, and took part
in the expedition to Kinburn. Colonel Dore was subsequently
employed as staff-officer of pensioners at Derby, and after¬
wards in the London district. He retired from the service last
year by the sale of his commission.
Mr. Kenneth Macleay, R.S.A., in Edinburgh, on Satur¬
day last, aged seventy-six. Before the introduction of
photography he was in repute as a miniature painter. About
1873 he received a commission from the Queen to paint sketch
portraits of several of her sen-ants at Balmoral, and also a
series of representative men of the clans in their distinctive
tartans. Mr. Macleay was the last of the original members of
the Royal Scottish Academy established in 1826.
Charles John Sidebottom, Esq., of Elm Bank, in the
county of Worcester, J.P. for the counties of Hereford and
Worcester, Barrister-at-Law, on the 26th ult., at Elm Bank,
in his eighty-ninth year. He was the third son of the late
Radclyffe Sidebottom, Esq., of Middleton, in the county of
Lancaster, Barrister-at-Law, by Anne, his wife, daughter and
heir of Kingsford Venner, Esq., of Cosenden, Kent, and
leaves, with other issue, a son, Colonel Francis John Side-
bottom Venner. married to Flora Jane, daughter of the late
Right Hon. William Yates Peel, of Baggintou Hall, in the
county of Warwick.
Nearly the whole of the western wing of Maynooth College
was destroyed by fire yesterday week. The library was saved,
but many books were injured. All the effects of the students
residing in the western wing were burned.
On Monday evening the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress
entertained the General Purposes Committee of the Corporation,
and the Master, Wardens, and Court of the Tin-Plate Workers’
Company, of which the Lord Mayor is a member, at dinner in
the Egyptian Hall of the Mansion House.
Mr. J. G. Edwards, at a meeting of the Farmers’ Club,
held at the Caledonian Hotel on Monday evening, read a paper
on the necessity of greater unity of action in the agricultural
interest. Having pointed out the power which union gave, he
mentioned, among grievances which required to be remedied,
the restriction on the method of cultivation, the undue pre¬
servation of game, and the want of greater representation in
the House of Commons. A discussion followed.
CHESS.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
All communication, relating lo thi. detriment of the Paper ,hould be addreseed lo the
„ . Pddur. and hare the icord •• Cheu ' 1 uriUat ,m the erring,
w (Llmlau).—The solution was published last week.
lad to hear from you again. The problem shall hav
■ best course is to write to Mr. Morgan, B7, Barbican, for
DBS (Brighton).—We u
early examination.
G M (West Hartlepool).—Youi
a catalogue of chess works.
J G F (Ramsgate).—B0U1 are good, and very acceptable.
Thoiuk (Norwich).—The solution of No. 1809 appears below.
one -—'.—We have not been advised of any correspondence tourney to lie com¬
menced this
S v^ F :!!?im E . D Nai “ <Jto«kport).—Thanks for your compliance wiUi
i ou shall have a report ujgjn the position shortly.
Correct Solotk— — ■■-— -
ORB K rT S.,Lo T io ! <s or l’Rom.icM No. ISO* received from N Rumbelow. P le Pago.
1. H. Hobbs, Natal<? Bonanni. E Burkhard, East M*rden. and J G Finch.
received from Carlos. DabbshlU. Neworth.
kf)'. L," N.talo Bonanni, W Leeson, Emile Frau, Fairholme,
Solution ok Problem No. 1809 .
WHITE# m Aftr
1. Q to B 2nd K moves.
2. Q to K 2nd (oh), and either Kt mates.
PROBLEM No. 1812.
By A. Bbazelky and C. Hadley.
BLACK.
WHITE.
White to play, and mate in three moves.
5 IN LONDON.
A Game played recently between two Metropolitan Amateurs.
(Philidor’s Defence.)
WHITE (Mr. M.) BLACK (Mr. E.)
Leading to a very Ingenious combina¬
tion; but. to our thinking, unnecessarily
perilous to the posit ion.
26. Kt takes Kt
27. B takes Kt P (ch) Q takes B
28. K to K8th (ch) KtoB2nd
Inferior to 3. P to Q B 3rd or 3. B to
K 2nd, a* It allows White to convert the
opening Into a variation of the (i[
Plano favourable to the Hint player.
4. P to ft B 3rd B to K 3rd
5. ft to Kt 3rd Kt to R 4th
6. ft to R 4th (ch) P to B 3rd
7. B takes B P takes B
8 Pt_
9. ft to B 2nd
10 P to ft Kt 4th
11 P to ft R 4th
12. P takes P
13. R takes R
14. Kt to Kt 6th
15. ft to Kt 3rd
16. Castles
P to ft Kt 4th
Kt tc
I 3rd
Kt to Kt 2nd
P to ft R 3rd
R P takes P
ft takes R
Kt to ft sq
P to ft 4th
K 3rd
17. KttoKRSrd B to ft 3rd
18. P takes P
19. P to K B 4t
20. P takes P
21. R to Ksq
22. ft to ftsq
K P takes P
P to K 6th
Kt takes P
K to ft 2nd
ft to R 2nd (ch)
•csi. n to rv ara ft to B 2nd
24. ft t) Kt 4th (ch) K to K sq
25. B to ft 4th K to B sq
26. Kt to ft 2nd
This produce* an easier game for Black
to piay than that springing from 28. K
takes H; although, in the latter ea«e. he
remalnswith a Rook and two minor pieces
29 ft to ft 7th (ch) K to Kt3rd
30 ft takes B (ch) K to R 2nd
31. ft takes Kt R takes R
2. ft takes R
33. K to R sq
34. P to Kt 3rd
i. Kt to Kt sq
ft to K R 2nd
(oh)
Kt to K 6th
ft to R 8th (ch)
ft takes P
36. ft to B 7th (ch) ft to Kt 2nd
37. ft to B 5th (ch Q to Kt 3id
38. ft to ft 7th (ch K to Kt sq
39. Kt to B 3rd ft to B 3id
40. Kt to K 5th
White's mancenvr
ttgah'i Yiav ‘
CHESS AT THE DIVAN.
According to the quarterly report of the Registrar General,
in the United Kingdom the births of 285,506 children, and the
deaths of 167,084 persons of both sexes, were registered in the
three months ending Sept. 30. The recorded natural increase
of population was thus 118,422. The registered number of
persons married in the quarter ending June 30 was 118,484.
The resident population of the United Kingdom in the middle
of 1878 is estimated at 33,881,966 ; that of England and Wales
at 24,854,397, of Scotland 3,593,929, and of Ireland 5,433,640.
The Agent-General for New South Wales has been informed
by telegram of the arrival in Sydney of the ship La Hogue,
which sailed from Plymouth with emigrants in July last.—
The barque Carnatic, of 871 tons, Captain Rhind, sailed from
Gravesend on the 25th ult., and had on board the following
number of emigrants for Rockhampton, viz.:—38 married
people, 101 single men, 123 single women, 33 children between
the ages of twelve and one, and 7 infants.—A Reuter’s tele¬
gram from New Zealand states that the City of Auckland, a
Government emigrant-ship, with 245 emigrants for Hawke’s
Bay, has been wrecked on Otaki Beach. The emigrants and
crew have all been saved, as well as most of the luggage.
The reference in our“ Echoes” of Oct. 19 to “ the time of
day being laid on by wire to all our clocks ” was, it seems, the
echo of a true report, such a system being an accomplished
fact, both as regards London and several of the larger pro¬
vincial towns. In London ten miles of such “time wires”
have been laid down, serving over eighty establishments, in¬
cluding the Bank of England, Lloyd’s, &c., and keeping over
108 clocks to “ true time.” The system is that of “ synchro¬
nisation,” invented and worked by Messrs. Barraudand Lunds,
of Comhill. One of its many advantages is the impossibility
of any such result as that anticipated in the paragraph referred
to of “ severed connections ” leaving “ so many dials without
knowing what o’clock it is,” the little “synchronizer” being
applied to any existing clocks of any 6ize or kind, the severance
of its connecting wire simply leaves the clock to return to the
old error of its way6, without in any way stopping or inter¬
fering with it.
The following Game occurred a few days aeo between two amateurs, "White
yielding the odds of the ftueen’s Knight.
(Evans's Gambit.)
white (Mr. A.) black (Mr. Y.)
1. P to K 4th P to K 4th
2. Kt to K B 3rd Kt to ft B 3rd
3. B to B 4th B to B 4th
4. P to ft Kt 4th B takes P
5. P to B 3rd B to B 4th
6. Castles P to ft 3rd
7. P to ft 4th P takes P
8. Ptak.sP B to Kt 3rd
9. B to Kt 2nd Kt to ft R 4th
white (Mr. A.) black (Mr. Y.)
11. B takes K B P (ch)
The success that follows this alarming
sacrifice is its only justilication.
11. K takes B .
12. Ktto Kt 6th (ch) K to K sq
13. ft to R 5th (ch) Kt to Kt 3rd
14. P to ft 6th ft to K 2n.l
15. K R to K sq K to B sq
16. P to K 6th Kt takes K P
A player receiving the oilds of a Knight
cannot Ik- blamed for following the best-
known variations of an opening ; hilt the
move in the text is inferior to 9. Kt to K
B 3rd. as a reply to 9. B to Kt 2nd.
10. R to ft B sq Kt to K 2nd
aid have given him so
17. R takes Kt P takes R
18. B to R 3rd, and wins.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN KENNEDY.
It is with great regret that we record the death of Captain Hugh Kennedy,
a frequent contributor to this column durinir the past thirty years, and one
of the most pleasing writers upon the subject of chons. Captain Kennedy
had achieved a high reputation as a chessplayer so far back as 1844, and,
in 1851, he was the most energetic supporter of the International Chess
Tournament held in London during the summer of that year. To
that undertaking he devoted a liberal purse, and to the unfortunate
controversy that attended its opening and followed its close, a facile
and powerful pen. He was a competitor in the lists of the tourney
as well, and carried off the sixth prize, a line performance for any
amateur when pitted against such adversaries as 8tmnton, Wyviil,
Williams, Anderssen, 8zen, Kieseritzky, and Lowentliol While in practice,
indeed, Captain Kennedy was ranked among the players of first-rate
strength ; but when at the top of his force, it became evident from his
writings that the literature and history of chess, and the romantic legends
that cling to it, had more charms for him than practical play. Hence he
is probably more widely known as the author of “ Waifs and Strays
from the Chess-board,” and as a contributor to the Athcnaum and
Notes and Queries than as the competitor of Staunton, Buckle,
Wyviil, and of nearly all the great players of the most brilliunt
em in the records of the game of ches^ During the list few years
his health had been failing, and ho had been obliged to avoid the rigours of
our climate by wintering abroad. Nevertheless, whether his home was in
Madeira or at Reading, his interest in the game never faded. It was mani¬
fested in his latest contribution to its literature, a letter addressed to the
/frustrated London News upon the subject of the first chess-match by electric
telegmph, published in our Issue of July 20 last. Captain Kenuedy died on
the 22nd ult. at his residence, .Vilea House, Reading, in his sixty-ninth year.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated Feb. 19, 1878) of the Right Hon. and Rev.
Francis William, Baron Dynevor, late of Dynevor Castle
Carmarthen, and of Fairford, Gloucestershire, who died on
Aug. 3 last, at No. 54, Brook-street, Hanover-square was
proved on the 24th ult. by the Right Hon. Eliza Amelia
Baroness Dynevor, the widow, the Hon. John Talbot Rice
the brother, and Henry George Augustus Knox, the executors!
the personal estate being sworn under £60,000. The testator
appoints the residue of the trust funds under the marriage
settlement of his first wife to his daughter, the Hon. Mrs.
Ellen Joyce; all his East Indian Five per Cent stock he leaves
upon trust for his children by his present wife; £1000, and
all his furniture, pictures, and effects (except certain plate
and other things specifically bequeathed) to his wife ; and the
residue of his property upon trust for his wife for life, and
then for all his children by her.
The will (dated Feb. 10, 1873) with three codicils (dated
April 3 and June 16, 1873, and March 6, 1875) of the Rev.
Arthur Gibson, Vicar of Chedworth, Gloucestershire, who died
on Aug. 7 last, was proved on the 29th ult by Richard Gibson
the brother, the sole executor, the personal estate being sworn
under £140,000. The testator specifically devises purt of his
freehold property to his brother George and other part to his
brother Richard; to the Provost and Scholars of Queen’s
College, Oxford, he bequeaths £4000 Consols upon trust for
the dividends to be paid to the Vicar of Chedworth for his own
use for ever; to the Rev. H. E. Hooper, £3000; to Mrs. Ellen
Jones, £300; to his servant, Ann Birkiu, £500; and to each of
his servants, William and Harriet Birkin. £200. The residue
of his property is given to his said two brothers.
The will (dated Jan. 28, 1878) of Mr. Holden Sheppard
Ravenshaw, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service, and late of
No. 36, Eaton-square, who died on the 7th ult. at Brighton,
was proved on the 23rd ult. by the Rev. Thomas Fitzarthur
Torin Ravenshaw, the brother, and the Rev. Edward Stanley
Carpenter, the nephew, the executors, the personal estate
being sworn under £25,000.
The will (dated July 17, 1862) with two codicils (dated
Dec. 1, 1874, and Oct. 13, 1876) of General Sir Henry John
William Bentinck, K.C.B., who died on Sept. 29 last, at
No. 22, Upper Grosvenor-street, Park-lane, was proved on the
29th ult. by Dame Renira Antoinette Bentinck, the widow,
the sole executrix, the personal estate being sworn under £7000!
The will (dated Jan. 7, 1873) with two codicils (dated
Jan. 22 and Feb. 22 in the same year) of Mr. Peter Ellis
Eyton, M.P., late of Rhyl, Flintshire, who died on June 19
last, was proved on the 29th ult. by Mrs. Ann Parry Charles,
the sister, the personal estate being sworn under £5000. Among
other legacies, the testator bequeaths two sums of £2000 for
the purpose of founding two scholarships at the Welsh Uni¬
versity College at Aberystwith for North Wales boys, to be
tenable for not more than three years ; the residue ot the per¬
sonalty and the proceeds of the realty, directed to be converted
into personalty, is divided into fourths, and one part given
to the Vicar of Llanynys, Denbighshire; one part to
the Improvement Commissioners of the town of Rhyl; and
the remaining two fourths to the Mayor, Aldermen,’ and
burgesses of the borough of Flint, upon trust to apply the
same in the lessening of human suffering, such as the pro¬
motion of soup kitcHens, relief funds, clothing clubs, and
such like charities, and in promoting education in industrial
pursuits, particularly in teaching girls of the working classes
to cook plainly, plain sewing, and washing and ironing ; and
further for public improvements to which no public rates are
applicable.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
The nineteenth official year of the existence of the volun¬
teer force closed on Thursday, Oct. 31, and though it is yet
too early to have anything finished in the way of statistics, it
is tolerably certain that the returns from all parts of the
country will show that a considerable advance has taken place
in the efficient strength since October, 1877, and that the total
will approximate to 200,000 of all arms.
The first annual prize distribution of the present season in
the Home District took place last Saturday evening, at the
City Terminus Hotel, when the members of the 7th Surrey
Rifles received the rewards of their skill at shooting from the
hands of Mrs. Porter, wife of the Major of the regiment. The
prizes were to the value of about £250. The cha lenge cups
were taken by Corporal Broughton, Private Hart, and Private
Suttill. Corporal Broughton also took the badge lor “best
shot in the regiment; ” and the other principal prizes fell to
Corporal Eccles, Private Hart, Private Suttill, and Private Keen.
The prize-meeting of the 26th Kent Rifles, which was post¬
poned on account of the range being closed whilst so many
persons were traversing it to look at the wreck of the Princess
Alice, was concluded last week at the Laboratory Rauge at Wool¬
wich, and the following were the principal winnersCorporal
Andrews, Corporal H. Brand, Private Welsh and Captain
Foggie, Private Brand, Major Farrell, Sergeant Ogilvie, Ser¬
geant Wood, Corporal Bailey, Private Wren, Lance-Corporal
W. Marshall, and Staff Sergeant Marshall.
Surgeon-General Munro in Westminster Hall yesterday
week distributed prizes to those members of the volunteer
force who had passed satisfactory examinations at the end of
their attendance upon the classes of the newly-formed
ambulance corps in connection with this service.
Two members of the Order of St. John Ambulance Asso¬
ciation, Major-General the Marquis Conyngham and Lord
Leigh, have sent donations of £10 and £21 towards the
expenses of the St. John Ambulance Association. Besides the
rapidly-increasing country centres, there are now nearly thirty-
classes formed in London alone.
The Duchess of St. Albans presented the prizes to the
successful competitors in the Robin Hood Rifles, in the
Mechanics’ Hall, Nottingham. Amongst the speakers were
the Duke of St. Albans, honorary Colonel of the regiment, and
Mr. Bernal Osborne.
Among the list of exhibitors who have been rewarded with
the Legion d’Honncur wc read the name of Mr. Ch. de
Marnyhac, Directeur of the Mai.son Mamyhac, Regent-street^
London, and Rue de la Pnix, Paris The exhibitors in his
class (artistic and decorative bronzes) have unanimously agreed
to present him with the cross of the order set in diamonds.
There were the usual Fifth of November gatherings in
the streets of London on Tuesday, but the proceedings on
the whole were very poor. At the Alexandra Palace there
were a display of fireworks and a torchlight procession of
monster Guys. There was a grand display of fireworks at
the Crystal Palace also. Lewes again maintained its supre¬
macy as the chief celebrant of Guy Fawkes’ Day. There
were the usual torchlight processions, bonfires, and burning
of effigies, and the whole fortunately passed off without any
mishap. At Brighton, Croydon, Cambridge, and Exeter there
were similar celebrations of the day.
I
452
THE TTT.TTaTfi.ATED LONDON NEWS
NOV. 9, 1878
OPFOTATj NOTICE.—On MONDAY and
S TUESDAY. NOV.11CTBTAINS and
court-road)._—
■pUKNISH THROUGHOUT.
gUBSTANTIAL ARTISTIC FURNITURE.
QETZMANN & CO.,
JJAMPSTEAD-ROAD,
j^EAR TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD.
a home throughout._ -
B esides the recent addition of
extensive Show-Rooms and Galleries,_ .
"PLIGHT LARGE SHOW-ROOMS
JJAVE JUST BEEN ADDED
iJO THE DISPLAY OP
j^RTISTIC FURNITURE, &o.
pLEASE NOTICE—
thebe is only one address
FOR PETER ROBINSON’S
TIY OURNING WAREHOUSE.
iV1 . ^InPw^hTme
,Bt 5f0OT BE CLEARLY 1 DfBECTED
TO REGENT-STREET, Nos. 256 to 262.
-VrODKNINa OKDEES SENT AT ONCE
IYI BY PETER ROBINSON
11 UPON RECEIPT OF LETTER OB TELEGRAM.
- - extra charge whatever to the
ment of Made-up Good; of the
and suitable description.
.KABS&’SfSKSi.
'~*SE&&8aBr~
T 1ST OF MANUFACTURERS,
I i the whole of whose Goods, Shown at the
PARIS EXHIBITION,
PURCHASED
at the Discounts stated below by
JOHN BARKER and COMPY.,
87, 89.91.SS,
KENSINGTON HIGH-STREET;
20. 22. 24,28, 3*.
BALL-STREET, KENSINGTON. W.
TT IS NOW ONE OF THE LARGEST
JmUnCTt^frei.^0^rZMANN end CO. _
A RTISTIC CANE WINDOW BLINDS
A. and SCREENS.-These fashionable blinds can now be had
^uaHf charged Price-LlsU post-free.
T INOLEUM. — OETZMANN
Li LINOLEUM.-Warra eoftcarprt-hkein
very durable. All the New PRIZE DESIGNS a.
and CO.
TkOWN QUILTS.— OETZTSIANN and CO.’S
J J EIDER and ARCTIC DOWN QUILTS and CLOTHING
combino tlie greatest amount of war- - * ” "
LUti pSt- l fam.^OE , rZM ANN*and CO ■
pLACK SILKS—Specially Cheap,
Manufactured by Messrs. BonnetetOe, at ..8 s. 6d.
Manufactured by Messrs. Taptssieret Ue, at os, »•
For Pattern s-addresa only as follows:—
PETER ROBINSON, 256 to 262,
REGENT-STREET.
THE COURT AND GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE.
JJRS. S. A ALLEN’S
^TORLD’S HAIR RE8T0RER.
CANNOT FAIL TO
T)LACK SILK VELVETS,
_D Exceptional Value, .
it 3s. lid., 4s. 9d., 6s. 6d., 6s. 6d., and 7s. 6d.
RICH LYONS VELVETS,
at 10s. 9d., 12a. 9d.. and 1*». 6d.
Superb qualities for Dresses and Mantles.
For Futterns, address its follows
PETER ROBINSON. REGENT-STREET.
/CLEOPATRA TOILET SERVICE.
V> Messrs. OETZMANN and CO. have Just received a large
»avv 2 !ff r dSSg , a
Mt^DarerMSyePriclyUrt pos&faeef^-OKrZMANI^^d^cb?* 1 ^
T)0STAL ORDER DEPARTMENT.
I OETZMANN and CO.-Orders sent P*J^-^L b ZluSS
or small, receive prompt and careful attention.
»n ? ^i
■J^EW SILK COSTUMES
in Rich Lyons Gros Grain.
4 guineas, including live yards for Bodice.
NEW SILK COSTUMES. Trimmed Velvet or Satin.
64 guineas, with Material for Bodice.
A large variety.
pAMrEffA-
GOLD MEDALS.
YION BAWRY et CIE., _ Percent.
16, RUE PARADIS WIMONNnOl^ntw.
B. HEPWORTH and SONS,
new ^akepield b mills. DIJTOnnt M .
SILVER MEDALS.
ALF. HERVIEU, Successeur,
13, RUE DU BENTIER^ Discount30.
E. BONNECHAUX,
Ul rue DBS JEUNEUM. D i«ount80.
POYARD et CTE^ fauboubg st. martin^ ^
A GAUDICHAUD, GIRARD et CIE.,
86. RUE MONTMARTRE^ Discount 68.
E. BANCQUART et CIE.,
39. RUE DES JEUNECRg,
WILLIAM THOMPSON,
P RIEST H R L-DD D E^F^LD. Discount 15.
T. B. WILLANS and CO.,
FLANNEL MANUFACTURERS, .
ROCHDALE. Discount 17*.
THOMAS MELLOR and SONS,
THONQSBRIDGE MILLSj Discount 38.
SLATER, BUCKINGHAM, and CO.,
86, W00D-STREET dNi)0N DUcount ^
WELCH, MARGETSON, and CO.,
CHEAPSIDE, umDmm Discount 90.
WILLIAM WATSON and SONS,
DANGERFlELDMtLL9 k DUcount
JAFFfc BROS.,
linen manufacturers, DUconntl8 .
BARLOW and JONES,
MANCHESTER.
FRASER and SMITH,
SCOTCH TWEED MANUFACTURERS.
INVERNESS. DiscountSO.
ALLEN and SOLLY^
LONDOlf.
GREY HAIR TO ITS YOUTHFUL COLOUR,
GLOSS, AND BEAUTY. WHEN THE HAIR
TURNS GREY, LOSES ITS LUSTRE. AND
FALL80UT, IT SIMPLY REQUIRES NOURISH¬
MENT. MRS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR
BESTORER. BY ITS GENTLE TONIO ACTION.
STRENGTHENS AND INVIGORATES THE
HAIR. AND, BY THE OPERATION 0?
NATURAL CAUSES, GREY OB VfHITE HAIR
IS QUICKLY RESTORED TO ITS YOUTHFUL
COLOUR, GLOSS, AND BEAUTY. IT WILL
BTOP ITS FALLING, AND INDUCE A
HEALTHY AND MOST LUXURIANT GROWTH
U8E NO OTHER PREPARATION WITH IT.
NOT EVEN OIL OB POMADE, OB ZILO-
BALSAMUM.
Oavtiob 11—The Genuine only la Pink Wrappers.
Bold by all Chemists, Perfumen, and Dealers In ToUst Articles-
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
Mrs. 8. A. ALLEN manufactures two entirely distinct Pre¬
parations for the Hair. One or the other Is suited to fiery
condition of the Human Hair. Both are never required at <ms
time. For details as to each preparation, kindly read above end
below this paragraph. Readers can easily determine which of
the two they require.
S. A. ALLEN’S
M M -
2JYLO-J5ALSAMTJM,
T7VENING and DINNER DRESSES.
Pi New Styles, well cut. and elegantly trimmed,
from one guinea to 10 guineas
For the Growth and Preservation of the Hair.
A cooling transparent liquid, entirely vegetable,
without sediment.
A SIMPLE TONIC AND
OF INESTIMABLE VALUE TO BOTH SEXES,
THE FAVOURITE WITH THE YOUNG AND
ALL THOSE WHO HAVE NO GREY HAIR. PRE¬
MATURE LOSS OF THE HAIR. BO COMMON
IN THESE DAYS, MAY BE ENTIRELY PRE¬
VENTED BY THE USE OF ZYLO-BALSAMUM,
PROMPT BELIEF IN THOUSANDS OF CASES
TT AS BEEN AFFORDED WHERE THE HAIR
HAS BEEN COMING OUT IN HANDFULS. IT
PROMOTES A HEALTHY AND VIGOROUS
GROWTH. HAIR DRESSED WITH ZYLO-BAL-
BAMUM 18 ALWAYS CLEAN, FREE FROM
DANDRUFF, AND WITH THAT BEAUTIFUL
GLOSS ONLY SEEN IN HEALTHY HAIR. IT
IS DELIGHTFULLY FRAGRANT. NO OIL OB
POMADE SHOULD BE USED WITH IT.
Oatjtioh 11—The Genuine only In Bluish Grey Wrappers.
Id by all Chemists, Perfumers, and Dealers In Toilet Articles.
Discount 6.
KING EDWARD-STREET,
THE NOTTINGHAM HOSIERY CO.,
NOTTINGHAM.
Tarlatans In the most fashionable styles, Us.
Black Brussels J>et, 25a. 29s. 6d.. and S6a.
Black Silk Tulle (condition keoplng). 42s. and Mi.
Grenadine, from 42s. to 4 guinea.
/'YETZMANN and CO:, COMPLETE
U HOUSE FURNISHERS. 67.69.71.73.77 and 79. Hnmustend-
load (three minutes' walk from Tottenham-court-road and
n —--Station, Metropolitan Bailwny). Lowest prices
with guaranteed quality. Close at Seven, and on
at Four. Descriptive Catalogue post-free.
QESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE, post-free.
QETZMANN & CO.,
JJAMPSTEAD-ROAD.
PARIS UNIVERS AL EX HIBITION, 1878.
THE ONLY “GRAND PRIX”
In Class 17, for Expensive and Inexpensive
FURNITURE,
TACKSON and. W< GRAHAM, Oxford-street,
V London. _
GRAND PRIZE (EHREN DIPLOM), Vienna, 1878. The sole
Highest Award for English Furniture. ,_
MEDAL, for " Great Excellence of Design and Workmanship.
London. 1»52.
HORS COXCOUR9, Parts, 1867. m . f _ ,. .
GOLD MEDAL OF HONOUR tor " Improvements In English
Furniture," Paris, INS.
PRIZE MEDAL, Great Exhibition, London, 1851.
Nos. 256 to 262.
gTORY’S
HALT, and OFFICE
FURNITURE.
QTORY’S FURNITURE.
0 DINING-ROOM and LIBRARY
CTORY’S FURNITURE.
0 DRAWING-ROOM and BOUDOIR
r S FURNITURE.
BED-ROOM
QTORY’S FURNITURE.
0 PATENT COUCH BED (Sis. 6d.)
OTORY’S 2, COLEMAN-ST., CITY.
0 SHOW-ROOMS.
gTORY’g
TRELOAR and SONS, 69, Ludgate-hill.
J. Seven Prize Medals, Including Paris, 1878. Catalogues and
-puns at SUMMER PRICES.
REAL RUS8IAN BEAL PALETOTS.
83 inches long .
86 inches long .H’K SSl!
89 inches ion^w ^ p irfeci ' 8ha ^ 18
and of the most enduring qualities.
FUR-LINED CLOAKS,
Also a special lot.
Lined with Plain Grey Squirrel,
47 Inches long, at 6 guineas.
For Samples—Address orrLT as follows:—
PETER ROBINSON, REGENT-STREET,
Nos. 266 to 262.
BRONZE MEDALS.
E. HUBERT,
43, RUE DES JEUN EUR8 .
SERGENT et CIE.,
106, AVENUE D'ORLHANg.
Discount 88.
■\TOTICE—In reference to the
-Lx above advertisements.
It is Important that letters
should bo dearly addressed to
REGENT-STREET. Nos. 356 to 263.
OWAN and EDGAR
0 are now showing
A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT
AUTUMN NOVELTIES,
A. Silks, Mantles, Costumes,
and Sealskin Paletots at all prices.
Discount 83.
Discount 75.
gWAN and EDGAR,
PICCADILLY and REGENT-BTREET,
T>OYAL DEVONSHIRE SERGES,
Iv woven from pure wool, for LADIES’ DRESSES,
- “ Dark Indif-- " " ”-"-
Blue. Block. Dark Browns, Prune,
_other solid colours,
nice Is. lid., 7s. Gd.,2s. lid. per yard.
In Navy
For CHi'ldREN" alower quality is made’', very strong,
ot Is. Rlil.jier yard.
For BOYS' HARD WEAR it is extra milled, prioe
J. HOURY et CIE.,
80. FAUBOURG POISSONHIERE, ^
DARTOUT et CIE.,
17. RUE PARADIS POISSONNIEBE,
ii, nu*. PAB18. Discount S3*.
F. WOODCOCK,
17 RUE PARADIS POISSONNIERE,
PARIS. Discount 66.
THRE. LEMAIRE,
13, RUE DU BENTI ^®^ ib
WILMART et MAILLE,
10, RUE DE CLERY ^ ahis
H. GUYON et HELVIN,
34. RUE DU SEJ<TI !®k I g
BANDELIER, ROCIIE et DAYIGNEAU,
133, RUE 510NTMARTRE,
' PARIS. Discount 85.
REMY, JEANNOT et BENEZCH,
14. BCE DU PETIT CANEAU, „
’ PARIS. Discount 36.
JOSHUA BARBER and SONS,
HOLMEBKIDGE MILLS. _
11 CODERS FIE Lb. DiseountlB.
WE. PINOT,
11. RUE PARADIS POISSONNIERE.
’ PARIS. Discount 80.
MARTIN MAHONY and BROS.,
BLARNEY WOOLLEN FACTOBY^^ ^
“PARIS. ’ Discount 30.
JABEZ JOHNSON and I-'ILDES,
MANCHESTER.
DYSON and SONS,
HUDDERSFIELD.
QOLDEN STAR
JgAY-LEAF WATER,
Triple distilled from the fresh leaves of the
Bay Tree (Myrda Acris).
For the TOILET, NURSERY, and BATH.
A few drops on a sponge or towel “ d
the face and hand, bathed with It. is very beneflcial to ^
removing aU roughness. Most highly rccommeuded to spplj
after shaving. A small quantity in the bath 8iTC« adeiightful
aroma and It has most remarkable cleansing properties. P»r
tleularly adapted to the bathing of infant, and young chlkbm
Most grateful to Invalids and all who suffer from headache
from mental labour or fatigue Buy only toe
Star Bay-Leaf Water, told In three rise.
6a 81 bv Chemists and Perfumen. or on receipt oi nami*
££toe Depot, 114 and 116.
London. __
“ rphe
M ATS.
J^IN OLEUM.
rpURKEY CARPETS.
QRIENTAL RUGS.
rpHKLOAR and SONS, 69, Ludgate-hiH.
A Floor Decorators. Established 1834. Seven Prize Medals,
— " * — ig Paris. 1678. Catalogues and Estimates free.
/^JASELIERS, in Crystal, Glass, Ormoulu,
VjT or Bronte, Medlrval Fittings. Ac. A large assortment
alwavs on view. Every article marked with plain figures.
D. HULETT and CO., Manufacturers, 65 and 66. High Holborn.
SPEARMAN and SPEARMAN,
Devonshire Serge Factors, Plymouth. .
The ROYAL DEVONSHIRE SERGE is the only true Yachting
Any Length is Cut h.v i
who arrange to nay the carriage of - n
in value to and as:
Discount 7).
Discount 20.
AYANUFACTURER’S STOCK of LADIES’
1»A AUTUMN DRESSES Selling Off at Half the Cost. Con¬
sisting of Moss Carhemlrei In tho new dark plain colours. Price
4}d. per yard.—JOHN HOOPER. 53, Oxford-street. W. Patterns
Wall Lights and Lustres for Gas and Candles.
Chandeliers in Bronze and Ormolu.
DUPLEX LAMPS
fitted with Pntent Extinguisher.
KEROSENE AND OTHER OILS OF THE FINEST
QUALITY.
TABLE GLASS of ALL KINDS
__ and NEWEST DESIGNS.
ORNAMENTAL GLASS, ENGLISH and FOREIGN.
Porcelain and Stone China.
BIRMINGHAM: Manufactory and Show-Room/ ”—- —
LONDON: Bhow-Rooms.46. Oxford-street.W.
pHEAP POCKET HANDKERCHIEFS.
All who appreciate the luxury of a real Irish Camhric
Handkerchief should write for Sample (post-free), our Ladies',
bordered, ot 3s. lid. and 6«. lid. per dozen, hemmed for use.
Ladles'Hem-stitched, at 7s. lid. and 10s. fid., exquisitely line:
ofonrGent'8 bordered, at 6s. lod. and as. lid., and Hem-stitched
at 12s. per dozen: liy so doing a genuine article (all pure flax)
will bo secured, andasaving effected ofat least 60 percent.
ROBINSON and CLEAVER. Cambric Handkerchief Manufac¬
turers to her Majesty the Queen. Belfast.
P RETTY FLOWERS.—Tastefully arranged.
Bridal Bouquets from 7s. Gd.; Bridesmaids' Bouquets from
8s. 6d. each. Baskets of Cut Flowers and Plants. Forwarded to
any part of London or country.
WILLIAM HOOPER, 88. Oxford-street, London. W.
TUDSON’S DYES.—6d. each, of Chemists.
W Curtains, Tablecovers, Mantles, Scarves, Jackets dyed in ten
• t n £ pa]) 0 f p P t water.
i's Dyes—Crimson. Ur
HONOURABLE MENTION.
DANIEL TYRODE,
77. RUE DE BIYOLL BI8 ^
WE. MALZARD,
13, RUE DE MULHOUSE^
BRIANCIION et CIE.,
222. RUE LAFAYETTE,^
DELFORGE et CIE.,
28, CLAUDE MARAIS^
BROWN BROS.,
GALASHIELS.
PEULLIER et CIE., _ *
19, RUE PARADIS POISSONNIERE^^ ^
Discount 60.
Discount 48.
Discount 35.
Discount 5.
D r DE JONGH’8
(KNIGHT OF THE BEOION CT HONOUR.
KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF LEOPOLD OF BELGID )
y^IGHT - BROWN COD - LIVER OH.
THE PUREST.
THE MOST PALATABLE.
THE MOST DIGESTIBLE.
THE MOST EFFICACIOUS.
QR. DE JONGH’S
T IGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL,
L proved by twenty-five yemr.'m^l»J“P^ lra “
SELECT MEDICAL OPINIONS.
rtr (} DUNCAN GIBB, Bart., M.D.,
JONOH'S
LIGHT-BROWN CO^LIVEI^L« e » ^~ n
OIL I»»* f « 8srC niVwith Xch I am acquainted.
It was^c ally noti in a
“ ri'he action of Dr. de jongu
1 Cod-Liver Oil has proved.inmy
The Lot comprises
MANTT.ES DRESSES JIILT.INERY,
SILKS. LACE. LINENS,
LONG CLOTHS. FLANNELS,
GLOVES. HOSIERY FURS
TROUSERINGS. COATING8. AND
GENTLEMEN' S , UNpERCLOTllINg.
and will he ‘nov'il andllre " !
the'sS'dayV* commencing^MOMXA y! NOY. 18.
.QR
JOHN BARKER and COMPY.,
KENSINGTON*’ HIGH-STREET,
SHSSSgSSSSSS®
throughout the world. .oLgoozrs.oKrxa. W Np01C_
ANS AR. HARFORD, and
S«HaS3SUscaesfc
tjQwQM O. LmiaHTOJfylW.
K.iVXMBSB y.
ffU® !LLUSTJ?4F£0
SSSCl ! I' '
mm
WB8T FRONT OF THE CATHEDRAL OF FAMAGU8TA, OYFRD8-
454
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON HEWS
NOY. 16, 1878
BIRTHS. _
On the 9th at Kirkby, near Liverpool, the wife of Edgar . aeon,
* 'orTtheSth inst., at 11,Berkelemuare, the Countess of Clarendon, of a
'TKE 12th inst., at East Cowes, the Hon. Mrs. Foley Vereker, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 12th iMt-, to Fda^CTapeL C&non W °F. Vskine
Canterbury, agisted navi (Lon M A., the Archbishop’s Domestic
On the Slh inat., at MoubWtrart, Elg^t Son. Bir
Larmiaie, E.E., » Lan» IHfm $ gShwmr.
Eight Itev the Lord Bishop ° f ^^g^^^^deet son of Joseph
DEATHS. .
Robert Conway Hieiaon, J.P.. Tern,,* In a*
“KSUW; .t an-ra.™, s™““' c “"“”' wia °*
the late Captain Arthur Webber, 47th Regiment.
... The Charge for the insertion o f Births, Marriages, or Deaths
Five Shillings /or each an nouncement. _
"qALENDAR FOR THt TwEE kTeNDING NOV. 23.
THE
CHRISTMAS NUMBER
OF THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
Will be Published December 11.
rpHE ANNUAL WINTER EXHIBITION of HIGH-CLASS
X PICTURES at ARTHUR TOOTH'S GALLERY. S, HAYMARKET
-- <" NOW OPEN. Admission, <
HAYMARKET (opposite
One Shiiiing, Including
SUNDAY. Nov. 17.
Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity. I Whitehall, 11 a.
Mor ning Lessons : Dan. vi. ; Heb. |
x. 197 Evening Lessons: Dan. vu.
9 or xii. ; John v. 24
Moon’s last quarter, 6 58 p m.
St Paul’s Cathedral, 10.30a.m.,Eev.
Prebendary Plumptre; 3.15 p.m.,
itev. Canon Gregory; 7 p m., Rev.
J. E. Cross, Vicar of Appleby.
Westminster Abbey, 10 a m Bev.
Bradford Jones, Vicar of Bradi ord-
on-Avon; 3 p.m., Rev. Canon
Frothero. , .,
Temple Chnrch. 11 a.m., probably
Rev. Dr. Vaughan, the Master;
p.m., Bev. A. Ainger, the Reader.
St. James’s, 10 a.m. and noon.
MONDAY, Nov. 18.
Medical Society, 8 80 p.m. , Royal.Academy.Ji_ P/
London and Middlesex Arch mo-
logical Society, 8 pm. (Special
general meeting for alteration in
Popular ^Concert, St. James’s Hall,
8 p.m.
__ and 3 p.m. Eev.
J. L. Pa’plflon. _ .
Savoy, 11.30 a.m., Bev. Dr. Edwin
Abhott-Abbott, Head Master of
City of London School; 8 p.m..
Rev. Edwin Price, Minor Canon of
Westminster. .
Christian Evidence Society: St.
Clement Danes, 7 p.m.. Rev. Pre¬
bendary Rowe (“ The Importance
of the‘Moral Evidences ofChris-
tianity”). St. Andrew’s Presby¬
terian Church, Westow-street, 6.30
pm., Rev. Professor Bedford
[“Prayer—the necessity of mans
condition and the suggestion of his
reason”).
,_(Professor
Barff on a Process for the Preser¬
vation of Iron, &c.).
Church of England Young Men
Society, Islington, 8 p.m. (Rev.
Gordon Calthrop on Holiday¬
making and my Holiday).
A LARGE COLOURED ENGRAVING
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‘FUSS IN BOOTS,”
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LONDON: 8A TURD A Y, NOVEMBER 16, 1878.
Lord Mayor’s Day, the name by which Nov. 9 is popu¬
larly designated in the City, usually attracts no small
amount of anticipatory interest. It marks a sort of half¬
way station between one Parliamentary Session and
another. It may be described as the dawn of a new
political season. It breaks off with the past; it directs
public attention to the future. At the Guildhall Banquet,
the attendance of the principal members of her Majesty’s
Government has been customarily expected and given.
At the close of the feast, the Prime Minister, if present,
has been wont, in response to a toast drunk in compliment
to tho Ministers of the Crown, to deliver a speech more
or less illustrative of political affairs as they exist, and
more or less pointedly referring to political movements
as they may be likely to distinguish and affect the proxi¬
mate future. This year the occasion was looked forward
to with special, we think we may say anxious, curiosity.
Much has occurred since the prorogation of Parliament in
August last. Very little information has reached the
public mind to explain with authority certain facts which
no official reticence could conceal. Commercially speak¬
ing, the present aspect of affairs, to say the least, is
sombre; politically speaking, if not actually dangerous,
is calculated to engender serious anxieties. It was taken
for granted that Lord Beaconsfield would seize the oppor¬
tunity of making some communications to his audience,
and through them to the outer world, by the aid of which
facts might be discriminated from rumours, errors of
opinion might be effectually disposed of, and a correct
view might be given to the public of the position and
prospects of this country, as far as they come within that
range of influences which its Rulers are authorised to
employ. The Noble Earl frankly recognised, at the out¬
set of his speech, we will not say the obligation imposed
upon him by the occasion to clear away all impending
mystery, but the expediency enforced by circumstimces
of stating “the views of her Majesty’s Government on
the present situation of the country with regard to its
external relations.” . ...
Lord Beaconsfield adverted, in the first instance, to th
policy contemplated and pursued by her Majesty’s advisers
on the North-Western Frontier of India. They appre¬
hended no invasion of our great Eastern dependency acio
that Frontier. They regarded any such enterprise as im¬
practicable. But it was “ a hap-hazard and not a scient*
Frontier.” It might not lead to invasion, but it mign
oblige the Government of India “ to maintain a grea
military force in that quarter, entailing on the
proportionate expenditure.” To this unquestionable c
the Government was determined to put an end.
on this account that the Convention with Tur'ey an
occupation of the Isle of Cyprus were adopted, as mea
of prevention; and the Premier gave it as his op
that, if this proposed rectification of the North-
Frontier towards Afghanistan in conjunction witn
heforesaid Convention and Occupation were consummate,
“the English people might dismiss from their -
anxiety as to the external enemies of their
Then, as to that other aspect of the Eastern
which involves the independence of Europe, an esp
of the Mediterranean Powers, the object of th c 0
of Berlin, he said, was to extricate the Sultan
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THE ILLUSTEATED LONDON NEWS
455
“ sources of constant exhaustion,” and to establish him
as an independent Sovereign, capable of exercising no
inconsiderable influence in the maintenance of the political
balance.” The provisions of the Treaty there agreed
upon had already been carried largely into effect. The
Russians had retired from Constantinople and from the
Straits of Gallipoli, and had restored to the Porte the
City of Erzeroum, destined to become “the scene of one
of the strongest fortifications in Asia Minor.” The
Porte, on the other hand, had surrendered to Russia the
fortresses on the Danube and the bay of Batoum on
the Black Sea. Committees and Commissioners are
at this moment engaged in arranging the lines
of demarcation for the different States and Provinces
created by the Treaty of Berlin. Little more than three
months have elapsed since the ratification of that Treaty—
not much more than one third of the time provided by it
for the realisation of its provisions—and yet these results
have been obtained. Why are we to believe that all the
other points will remain unconcluded within the time pre¬
scribed by the Congress ? None of the signataries could
possibly contemplate any evasion of their engagements.
At all events, her Majesty’s Government will not retire,
but will see to it that the Treaty shall bo carried out “ in
spirit and to the letter,” and will, if necessary, appeal
with confidence to the people of this country to support
them in maintaining, with all their energy and all their
resources, the Treaty of Berlin.
We have not the space at our command which would
be required for any critical comment upon what friend and
foe aliko will admit to be the able and adroit speech of
the Prime Minister. It will suflice us, for the present, to
remark that it does not put the British Public into pos¬
session of any new information. In this respect, it leaves
things much as they were. All that we are told is that
the policy approved of and pursued by her Majesty’s
Government contemplates such a rectification of the North-
Western Frontier of India as will make it “scientific”—
mainly, we presume, in a military sense—and aims at
giving practical effect to the stipulations of the Berlin
Treaty for establishing the Throne of the Sultan as an inde¬
pendent European Power. How far this view of foreign
affairs will satisfy the English people, who will be apt to
tuke into their cognisance a vast number of collateral cir¬
cumstances, it is impossible to foresee at the moment.
Undoubtedly they will have to bear the brunt of the
expenditure to bo incurred in both cases, and would, we
are confident, willingly make the sacrifice, were it neces¬
sary to uphold a Foreign Policy framed for the purpose
of supporting justice and liberty abroad. Myriads of
keen eyes will scrutinise the bearings of the Premier’s
Guildhall statement. Thousands of critics will canvass
them under various lights. What is true and sub¬
stantial in them will be ungrudgingly recognised; what
is evasive or illusory will be detected and exposed. The
external policy of England will not eventually rest upon
oratory, however splendid, or flowing from the lips of
men of either party, however illustrious. It will be
determined, in the end, not by words, but by “the
inexorable logic of facts.” For this we must wait.
THE COURT.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice returned to Balmoral Castle
ou Saturday last from the Glassalt 8hiel. The Duke of
Richmond and Gordon arrived at the Custle as Minister in
attendance on her Majesty. The Queen and the Princess
attended Divine service on Sunday, performed at Balmoral by
the Rev. W. W. Tulloch, B.D., Maxwell parish, Glasgow. The
Earl of Dufferin arrived at the castle. The Duke of Richmond
and Gordon has dined generally with her Majesty ; and the
Earl of Dufferin has also dined with the Queen.
Her Majesty, with Princess Beatrice, has taken her usual
daily out-ot-door exercise The Court will return to Windsor
about the 23rd inst. Her Majesty 1ms inspected a picture of
the Princess Elizabeth, painted by Mr. T. Jones Barker, which
was submitted by Mr. U. Turner, of Newcaatle-on-Tyne.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
The Prince and Princess of Wales entertained Princes-
Christian, Princess Louise of Lome, and Prince Leopold at
luncheon on Thursday week at Marlborough House. The
Prince dined at the Royal Buckhound banquet given to the
farmers at Willis’s Rooms in the evening. The Muster of the
Buekhounds, the Earl of llardwicke, was in the chair, and the
Duke of Connaught, Prince Christian, and the Duke of Cam¬
bridge were among the guests. The Prince and Princess left
Marlborough House the next day for Sandringham.
Saturday last was the thirty-seventh anniversary of the
birthday of the Prince. Princess Louise of Lome and the
Marquis of Lome, the Duke of Connaught, and Prince Leopold
arrived at Sandringham House in the morning. In celebration
of the birthday a dinner was given to the labourers on the
estate at the Royal Mews, in a large room which is annually
set apart for that purpose. 170 men were provided with a
substantial dinner, and the Prince and Princess, with their
visitors, were present when the Royal toasts were given. At
all the towns adjacent to the Royal estate peals of bells were
rung:—viz., at King’s Lynn, Wisbech, Norwich, Cambridge,
&c. In London the customary honours were observed, and
the Royal tradesmen dined together, as usual, at Wilis’s
Rooms, the Prince having contributed his annual present of
venison. At the request of the Prince, Captain Fairfax,
of the Britannia Training-Ship at Dartmouth, granted the
cadets a day's holiday; and at Windsor and the principal
naval and military stations the day was celebrated with due
honours. On Sunday the Prince and Princess, Princess Louise
of Lome and the Marquis of Lome, the Duke of Connaught,
and Prince Leopold attended Divine service at St. Mary
Magdalene’s, Sandringham Park. The Rev. F. A. J. Ilervey,
M.A., Rector, officiated. PrincesB Louise of Lome and the
Marquis of Lome, the Duke of Connaught, and Prince Leopold
left Sandringham on Monday, and the Duke of Cambridge and
Prince Christian arrived on a visit to the Prince and Princess.
A county ball was given last evening by the Prince and
Princess at Sandnngliam. His Royal Highness .with his various
K cste, has had good sport shooting. The Prince will visit
rd Hastings at Melton Constable, Norfolk, at the end of
® on ^k. Lieutenant-Colonel Clarke has succeeded Colonel
A. Ellis as Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highness.
DEPARTURE OF PRINCESS LOUISE OF LORNE AND THE
UOVERNOB-UKNERAL OF CANADA.
Ihincess Louise of Lome and his Excellency the Marquis
of Lome left St. Pancras Station at twelve o'clock on Wednes-
day night by special train for Liverpool, where they embarked
on Thursday on board the Sarmatian, the vessel selected to
convey them to Cunada. They were accompanied by the
Duke of Counaught and Prince Leopold. The suite of
the Governor-General und of her Royal Highness con¬
sisted of Major and Mrs. F. de Winter, Colonel M‘Neill,
Dr. Andrew Clarke, tho Hou. Captain llarbord, and Captain
, • Campbell. The Duke of Teck and various frieuds took
leave ot them at the station. Two of the Pullman palace
sleeping-cars, “The Midland” and “Excelsior,” were specially
fitted up for the use of the Royal party, who were received
at the station by Mr. Ellis, the chairman, and Mr.
Allport, the manager, of the Midland Railway ; and
Mr. Needham, superintendent of the line, took charge
the train to Liverpool. The Royal party breakfasted at
Adelphi Hotel, and subsequently received addresses at the
Townhall from the Town Council and the Chamber of
Commerce; after which the Princess and the Marquis
embarked on board the Allan steam-tender for the Sarmatian,
which started on her voyage immediately afterwards. The
Duke of Connaught and Prince Leopold returned to town.
The Duke of Connaught and Prince Leopold were advanced
to the Thirty-third Degree in Freemasonry on Wednesday, at
the head-quarters of the Ancient and Accepted Rite, Golden-
square, in the presence of the Prince of Wales, Graud Patron
of the order. The ceremony was performed by Lord Skeiiners-
dale, the Sovereign Grand Commander, assisted by the other
members of the Supreme Council, Thirty-third Degree. On
Monday Prince Leopold was installed by the Rev. Thomas
Cochrane, M.A., Eminent Prior of the “ Cceur de Lion” Fre-
ceptory of Freemasons. Prince Leopold and Prince Louis
Napoleon went to the Globe Theatre m the evening.
The Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Tait and the
Misses Tait have left town for Blairlogie, near Stirling.
His Excellency the Danish Minister and Madame de Billow
have arrived in town.
Earl and Countess Granville have left town for Waimer
Castle.
The Earl and Countess of Derby have arrived at Keston*
their seat in Kent, from Knowsley.
The Earl and Countess of Lichfield and the Ladies Anson
have returned to Shughborough Park from visiting the Earl
and Countess of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk.
Mr. Abney Hastings and the Hon. Paulyn and Gilbert
Hastings have left Loudoun Castle for Donnington Park.
FASHIONABLE MARRIAGES.
The marriage of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lich¬
field and the Hon. Augusta Ann Barrington, youngest
daughter of the late Viscount Barrington, was solemnised on
Tuesday at Shriveuham church, Berks. Those present at the
ceremony were confined to the members of the family.
Viscount and Viscountess Barrington afterwards entertained
their relatives and frieuds at breakfast at Beckett House.
A marriage was solemnised on Tuesday, by special license,
in the private chapel at Lambeth Palace, by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, assisted by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Dover
and the Rev. Canon W. F. Erskine Knollys, between the Rev.
Randall T. Davidson, M.A., Domestic Chaplain to the Arch¬
bishop, and Edith M. Tait, his Grace's second daughter. The
bride was attended to the altar by her two sisters, Miss
Lucy and Miss Agnes Tait, the bridegroom being accom¬
panied by the Rev. Sidney Pelham as best man. Owing to
the recent death of the Rev. Craufurd Tait the company
present at the marriage was confined to the nearest relatives of
the two families, to persons immediately connected with his
Grace’s household, and to a few intimate friends of the bride
and bridegroom. After the solemnisation the Archbishop and
Mrs. Tait received their friends at breakfast, which was served
in the large dining-room, formerly the guard-chamber of the
old palace. Mr. and Mrs. Davidson left Lambeth soon after
the marriage ceremony for Italy.
The marriage between Lord Alexander Paget and the Hon-
Miss Stapleton-Cotton will not take place.
A marriage is arranged and will shortly bike place between
Count William Bernstorif, second son of the late German
Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, and the Baroness
Augusta Gutschmid.
Sir Lawrence Palk, M.P., has offered to the Torquay Board
of Health a beautifully situated piece of land as a recreation
ground for the nominal rent of 2s. Gd. per annum.
A shocking phase of the misery brought about by the
Glasgow Bauk failure is pictured in a statement made by a
Glasgow doctor. This gentleman says that two of his patients
who were shareholders have lost their reason, and have been
sent to a lunatic asylum, while several others connected with
the bank have been completely prostrated by disease, induced
by the effects of the calamity.—The Glasgow police have
obtained information to the effect that Mr. Fleming, the ex¬
director of the City of Glasgow Bank, has escaped to Spain.—
A meeting of the Glasgow unemployed was held on Monday on
Glasgow-green to protest against the Corporation giving £5000
to the City Bank Shareholders’ Fund while the unemployed
are starving.—The fund for the relief of the shareholders of
the bank amounts in Glasgow to £117,012, in Edinburgh to
£30,000, in Paisley to £10,000, and in Dundee to £3600.
The Colston anniversary dinners took place on Wednesday
at Bristol. At that of the Dolphin Society (Conservative) Mr. R.
Plunkett, M.P., spoke of the obstruction last Session in the
House of Commons. The Duke of Beaufort expressed his full
beliefthat the Berlin Treaty would be properly carried out. Lord
Henry Thynne, M.P., traced the bad state of trade from
which the country is suffering to the Liberal legislation of the
past forty years.—At that of the Anchor Society (Liberal)
Lord Carlingford criticised the conduct of the Government, and
remarked that at the Lord Mayor’s banquet things were
omitted to be said which the public would very much like to
know. He objected to the entire Eastern policy of the
Government, and asked why they could not see to the carry¬
ing out of the Berlin Treaty before they had anything to do
with Afghanistan. The Marquis of Lansdowne believed that
the diplomatic action of the Government had sown the seeds
of many foreign complications.—The dinner of the Grateful
Society (Neutral) was held at the Montague Tavern, under the
presidency of Mr. J. D. Weston. About one hundred gentle¬
men were present, including the Mayor (Mr. G. W. Edwards).
The speeches were of a non-political character. The co lection
amounted to £1035, as against £883 last year.
NATIONAL SPORTS.
In spite of the wretchedly meagre acceptance, the field for the
Liverpool Autumn Cup proved almost of average strength,
and a prettier finish has seldom been seen. A quarter of a
mile from home nothing but the three placed horses had any
chauce of success, und though, until reaching the distance,
Master Kildare (7st. 61b.) held a slight lead, he was then
passed byBelphoebe (8 at. 1 lb.) and Touchet (8st.), of whom
Lord Harrington's filly finished a little the stronger, and won
by a neck. Touchet certainly is a most luckless colt, and
seems to run second with almost as much persistency as does
Insulaire. The sport on Friday was not of a very grand descrip¬
tion. The Duchy Cup was reduced to a match between Belphrebe
(9 st. 51b.) and Julius Caesar (9 st.), the latter having no less
than 16 lb. the better of the weights, as compared with
the terms upon which they met on the previous day.
Nevertheless he only just had the call in the betting, and,
when challenged by Belphoobe at the distance, would not make
the slightest effort, having turned such a complete rogue that
it will be useless to train him after this season. Only seven
ran for the Great Lancashire Handicap; but among them was
Sir Joseph (7 st. 6 lb.), who started first favourite for the
Derby, and has not run since his failure at Epsom. He looked
very well, and secured a neck victory after & good race with
Tower and Sword (6st. 9 lb.).
Promoters of race meetings who arrange for fixtures to
take place in November are undoubtedly “ playing with edge
tools,” for frost may prove a spoil-sport at any moment.
Under these circumstances, therefore, the management of tho
Derby meeting may esteem themselves fortunate that they
only had to postpone their Becond day’s racing from Tuesday
to Wednesday, though even then they lost a good many
visitors, who went straight to Shrewsbury. With the
exception of the Great Shropshire Handicap, there was
no race to which we need allude during the first half of the
meeting, though we may mention that the proceedings were
enlivened on Tuesday by a riot, occasioned by the band of
thieves and welshers who invariably appear at every race
meeting. These scoundrels, emboldened by the immunity they
have hitherto enjoyed, made a determined attack upon the
ring, and for some little time had matters all their own way.
On Wednesday, however, Mr. Frail engaged an extra number
of police, and the ringleaders were taken into custody. The
doings of “ the scum of the course,” as they have been fittingly
termed, are becoming unbearable, and, unless promoters
of meetings take strong measures to put them down,
they will infallibly lose the patronage of nearly all
the respectable portion ol the public. The field for the Great
Shropshire Handicap only reached a dozen, which is the
smallest number of starters since the race was established in
1871. Touchet and Speculator, the former of whom was first
favourite for some little time, were both scratched two or three
days before the race, and the public then fixed upou Avontes
(6st 13 lb.) as a “ good thing,” and brought him to 3 to 1 before
the fall of the flag. Eminence (6 st. 5 lb.) was also very heavily
backed, but nothing else received much attention. Eminence
i8by nomeansu boy’s horse, and, though heran very prominently
for a considerable distance, he had no chance when Avontes took
up the running, and Mr. Crawfurd’s horse won in the com¬
monest of canters by ten lengths. Nearly all the others pulled
up when pursuit was evidently hopeless, so no importance
attaches to second and third places, which were gained by
Sunshade (6 st. 6 lb.) and Sutler (8 st.) respectively. This is
a fitting termination to a long list of Fyfield successes during
the present season, the City and Suburban, Derby, and Good-
wood Stakes being the most important of the previous victories
gained by Mr. Crawfurd this year.
The sale of the late Sir Richard Sutton's stud attracted a
good many people to Tattersall’s on Monday; but buyers were
lew and far between, and there was no animal of note in the
catalogue. The highest price of the afternoon was 175 gs.,
which was given for a filly foal by Dutch Skater—Consort, on
behalf of the Cobham Stud.
At Lullingatone Castle, on the 7th inst., in the presence of
a large company, a dessert service of gold plate, valued at
1000 guineas, was presented to the Hon. Ralph Nevill, in
recognition of his services as master of the West Kent Hunt.
The presentation was made by Sir W. Hart Dyke, M.P., in
the name of the subscribers.
Scarcely has the last visitor to the Houghton Meeting
quitted Newmarket when coursing men begin to assemble
there in full strength, and it is not until the Newmarket
Champion Meeting has been wiped off the list of fixtures that
the little town can settle down to its winter’s quiet. On the
first day some of the hares were weak, and afforded poor
trials ; but during the remainder of the week they ran strong
and well, and, as they were very plentiful, each day’s card
was got through in capital time. Mr. Wentworth and
T. Wilkinson, as judge and slipper respectively, gave
every satisfaction, and a better meeting in all respects
has never taken place on the famous heath. The
Duke of Hamilton’s kennel was in splendid form, and
divided the Champion Stakes, with High Seal, by Hawkshaw
Fate—Royal Stamp ; the All-Aged Stakes, with Black Beard,
by Blue Beard—Silkworm ; and the Chippenham Stakes, with
Hawkshaw Belle, by Hawkshaw Fate—Caroline. Lady Lizzie,
by Sir Charles—Lizzie, took the other half of the Champion
Stakes. Both she and High Seal are smart and very clever
puppies ; but as each was led to the hare once or twice during
the week, we fancy they are a little deficient in pace to take
high honours in the Waterloo Cup. Black Beard also ran
exceedingly well, and his co-divider was Hark Forward, by
Crossfell— Artiste.
The sculling-match between John Hawdon, of Delaval,
and William Lumsden, of Blyth, which took place over the
Tyne championship course on Monday last, caused an immense
amount of interest and excitement in the north. No less than
ten heavily laden steamers accompanied the race, and every
“ coign of vantage ” was crowded with eager spectators.
Hawdon, who is only twenty-three years of age, has won
seven matches in succession, and is still undefeated, while
Lumsden was wonderfully successful during the early part of
his career, and is undoubtedly the best man that Hawdon has
yet encountered. The latter lost the toss for choice of stations,
and, though this was a great disadvantage, especially during
the early part of the race, he became a much stronger favourite
as the time for the start approached, and at last as much as 3 to 1
was laid upon him. When thev got off, to a capital start, the
wind and rough water seemed to almost stop Hawdon, and
Lumsden soon showed in front. At the end of a mile the
latter held a lead of three lengths, but Hawdon, who was in
splendid condition, spurted again and again in the most extra¬
ordinary style, and, when they had gone about two miles and
a half, was once more level with his opponent. Lumsden was
now thoroughly beaten from the effects of his great exertions,
and Hawdon, drawing right away, won at his ease by ten
lengths. The young Delaval mau is now matched with Edward
Hanlon, of Toronto, the American champion, and, with
ordinary care, he ought to make a most dangerous candidate
for the championship of England.
SKETCHES IN CYPRUS.
The Engraving on our front page is a view, from a^photograph,
of thewSt front of the ruinedGothioCathedralof^Tama^sta,
which place was the chief seaport town and fortress of Cyprus
under tiie Venetian rule, from 1473 to 1571. It has been
described by our Special Artist; and Correspondent, S.P. 0.,
who was lately in Cyprus on the service of this Journal. We
Tea?n Som Mr. ^Hamilton Lang’s interestmg book on
“ Cyprus,” just published in one volume by Messrs. Mac¬
millan, that Famagusta in the sixteenth century, let us say in
the time of Othello's unhappy residence there, was a city of
thirty thousand inhabitants. It had belonged to the Genoese
from 1376 to 1464, having been wrested by that mercantile
Republic from the crusading Lusignan dynasty of rnnces, to
whom Cyprus was delivered, in 1192, by our own Richard
Ccbut de Lion. We are not told by whom or when the
stately Cathedral was built; its architectural style
is that of the fifteenth century in Western Europe,
with some variation, and it was probably erected
before the Venetian period. In striking contrast to
this relic of superb mediffival lordship on the eastern
shore of Cyprus we give the Sketch of a quiet pas¬
toral scene near Paphos, at the western extremity of
the island. The native herdsman there leads his
flock of goats to water, like Tityrus and Menalcas
and their like in a poem of Virgil or Theocritus,
caring little for the decay of proud Empires and
Principalities, which have so frequently come and
_.7. Wlaiua o-nrl Viilla nf fhmmR.
Ur wnat me isorman, uie veucuau,
or the British Imperial power, when a few more
E rations of mankind have lived and died ? The
iote goats and kids will browse and frolic in
pasture when Sir Garnet Wolseley’s adminis¬
tration is long forgotten.
THE LATE M. GARNIER-PAGfiS.
M. Louis Gamier-Pagfcs, who died a week or two
since, after a short illness, in his seventy-sixth year,
had retired from political life since the resignation
of the Government of National Defence in 1871, but
attended M. Thiers’s funeral fourteen months ago,
and sent a letter of adhesion to the recent Peace
Congress. He took part in the Revolution of 1830,
but only became a prominentpolitician on the death,
in 1841, of his half-brother, Etienne Garnier-Pagfes,
a Republican leader of some note in his time. As a
Deputy under the Orleans dynasty, he materially
contributed to the limitation of the concessions of
railway companies, thus securing their reversion to
the State, in 1848 he became first Mayor of Paris,
and afterwards Minister of Finance, being mainly
responsible in the latter capacity for the in¬
creased direct taxation which saved France from
bankruptcy, but brought on the Republic the
odium of the peasantry. He failed to obtain
admission to the Legislature of 1849; but in 1857
he was one of the chief organisers of the first
electoral opposition to the Empire, but was not
himself one of the half-dozen successful candidates,
being defeated in Paris by M. Emile Ollivier. In
1864, however, another Paris district elected him,
and he became a sharp critic of M. Haussmann’s
administration of Paris; but in 1869 be wi^ dMenlg
retained his seat against the opposition of M.
1870 he was a second time .member of a Provmiomd^vern-
ment, but took no very active part m it; he was not el^tedto
the Assembly of 1871, and refused a candidature for a by
election in 1872. The Portrait is from a photograph by
Truchelot, of Paris._
AN UNSCIENTIFIC FRONTIER.
The reader who may wonder at this phrase should turn to a
mgeEn^ng, i/which he will eeeL the!Suleiman range
of mountains rises like a mighty wall forty or fifty miles
distant, beyond the perfectly level plain, to a spectator looking
westward from a house-top on the banks of the
Ismael Khan, towards the centre of our Punjaub frontier. As
we consider “ the impending Afghan war —if it should not
THE LATE if. LOUIS GARNIER-PAG^S.
o^a Setcl Utely%ent .ta« esteemed *
MrSpondent, this View o« what *
mt an unscientific frontier, with its mere nap
Erd ” summit, the Takht-LSuleiman, or Solomon s
Throne attaining a sublime height of 11,000 feet, th
mwmm
accident of history, that made these marvdiouB
highlands, from time immemorial, the abode of toe
aboriginal race of Afghanistan, dividing them from
the Stives of the Punjaub and of S' n d, and tom
Daman or the Derayat, which is the stop of low
land west of the Indus, andfrom all which we took
from the Sikhs of Lahore thirty years ago. Tone
sure it has been the deliberate opinion °f three rac
cessive Govemors-General, and presumably of then
military advisers, till the advent ofthepreseutViceroy,
that this north-west frontier ofBntish In Jawaacme
of unsurpassed natural strength for defensive pur
poses; only needing the construction of bridges and
S up to the foot of each Pass, and a few con-
nected forts to guard them in time of war. But to
Anglo-Asian Mystery is fraught with a
insight into these'.and othcrmattemofpw^
statesmanship and strategy, which
to contradict; and its dictum is supported by new ^
paper letters from a distinguished common-law b
Is, tsrA‘ e «‘
It will certainly cost a tnfle of Asiatic w
British taxpayers’ money to effect the P^ ed
rectification of the frontier; and if
Koosh, north of Cabul, or even the ^
passes of Jugdulluk and Khoord Cabul are to^e
substituted for the Suleiman range, itmay hereaft^
be discovered that a more formidablei enemy
been invited to a nearer approach.But th
questions not requiring to be discussed m Lbgi
. at all, either by the Press or by
England has only to fight and to pay, an
harebrained chatter of irresponsible frivolity
desired to hold its peace.
AtC
county i
Sheriff of Cornwall, "^tm'g, pre-
and Colonel Tremayne, M.P., Bdd a meetog, ^
sided over by Mr. Bolitho, to consider the conoi
of the working men and their m
districts of Cornwall, and to provide for the
which exists.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 1C, 1878,— 457
THE CONNING TOWER ON BOARD H.M.S. THUNDERER.
458
THE TT.TTtsTK.ATED LONDON NEWS
NOV. 16, 1878
" H.M.S. THUNDERERS CONNING-TOWER
The interior of Ml ten n«vlToflkm
apparatus, which is occupied B ®. not apparently in-
and seamen, engaged in acme r Se JSfd by our
tclligiblc on a mere view of he scene P limation / Tho
Engraving, is a subject ^ to the equipment of
has been understood, in the art °i“ ^thTpwise aim to
the pointing and laying of the ^ “ of Jhich we gave
hit their objects of attack. The Ihu ^ r > torpedo nettings
“ rSfy »Tdo«blc«.re.
below the humcanc-dcck, altogether forg ^ hc
group of structures m the middle ofthe vessels le g
towtnk tb^more^pinrerfiJ^taiM^trof^S j^^y^and*
every movement of the vessel to port or atarboani. The wall
SS5 sjfigSS
£ a sailor waiting at the mouths of a row of speaking-
tubes to ’send down orders either to the persons m the
gun-turrets or to those in charge of the to^oes Electri
telegraph wires, communicating with all parts of the ship
below are laid in covered lines, painted red, along that side
of the’apartment, and may be worked by the small telegraphic
apparatus in* a°box on the shelf. We have next to invite
attention to the officer who is connuig ’’through atoles^pe,
fitted with an auxiliary “sight’ above its tube, and taking
the exact direction for aiming the guns. Hc ^ *** 8t ?jJ Jjeter-
use of a quadrant, or other graduated arc of brass, todew*
mine the bearings of the object, however distant, with the
utmost minuteness and accuracy; while the actual poeition
of the guns in their turret, which he never sees, is at the same
time correctly shown to him, in i uxtapoaition with hia mtended
Une of aim. He is thus enabled, by ordering the direction
of each gun to the required degree right or left, to make the
Sre of two guns, at 1000 yards’ range .converge at one
striking-point When the gun is truly laid, and the word
“ Readv” is passed up from below, this officer has only to
touch one of the knobs upon which his finger is reatbg andtoe
gun is fired; or he may fire all the four guns in the two turretoat
once. The fore turret has two 38-ton guns, and the aft turret
has two guns, each weighing 35 tons. The operation of latch¬
ing a Whitehead torpedo, after aiming its course in a similar
manner, is performed just as readily; the officer will torn
round, seize either of the two handles upon the tall rods which
rise through the floor grating, and by turning one or the other
handle he can discharge a torpedo from the port or the starboard
side of the ship. Below the grating, where a man s head is
Bceu, with another steering-wheel, is a chamber protected by
eight-inch armour-plating, where the officers could retire to
carry on these operations, in case the upper part of the conning-
tower were struck by an enemy’s shot or shell. The conuing-
tower in the Thunderer, is only bullet-proof, but in the
Dreadnought it is protected by thick amour. These modern
appliances of naval warfare would have puzzled the old Jack
Tars who “sailed with noble Howe and sailed with gallant
Jervis,” a hundred years ago.
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
The President of yX-
Sj wlT 8 IlS^M^on^esided ojera Cabinet
Council at the Elys* c on Tuesday Mc^occupied the attention
foreign affairs were the subjects to be well
of the Ministers. On the former
i gsf&teggg
Te^cttog a mSdiflcation in the Licenses Law was taken into
conjderation^^ ^ t have issued a manfferto rwpwt-
ing the coming Senatorial elections, m which the members of
last Wednesday on
reco^meSg toe unseating of M. de Fourtou, ex-Mmister
° f L6on°Say, the Minister of Finance, attended Wednes¬
day’s sitting of the Budget Committee, at which an agreeme
was arrived at for effecting reductions of taxation totheamount
of 19,000,000f. in the estimates for 18(9. ^^ ireduc
chiefly applied to the tax on chicory and oils aud bill-stamps.
The Budget Committee has finished ita labours.
M. Gambetta, replying to an address presented to tom
from Aveyron, pointed out the signs from which he deduced
proof of the stability of the Republic. He smd wliat was
desired was a RcpubUc which should represent th ® nat ‘ on Th
The Paris Exhibition closed on Sunday afternoon. 1
total number of admissions has been 16,032,72o, anav ^™ e ,®°
about 82,000 per day; and toe gross receipte dn^ May lliave
been 12,653,746f. Those of 1867 were 9,830,369f. In 18to,
moreover, there were only 400,000 free admission-; whereas
there were this year 950,000. One of the last incidents of the
Exhibition was the presentation to Sir l ’bihp Owen by the
Exhibition Executive Commissioners of New South Wales,
Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and New ^alandota
silver epergne, value 250 guineas. The Foreign Commissioners-
General have presented to M. Georges Berger, the Director of.
the Foreign Sections of the Universal Exhibition, a splendid
group in solid silver as a testimony of their gratitude and esteem.
The Canadian Trophy at the Exhibition, valued at lOO.OOOf.,
has been presented to the future industrial museiun. The
bureau. M. Guillery, of the Progressist party, was chosen
President; and the Vice-Presidents arc M. Dewael, Burgo-
master of Antwerp, and M. Descamps, deputy for Ath.
A Great Exhibition of National Industry will take place at
Brussels in 1880, on the occasion of the celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary of Belgian independence.
TOE VOLUNTEERS.
The results of the competition for the handsome challenge
cup, value £50, presented to the Queen’s (Westminster) Rifles
by the Right Hon. W. H. Smith, M.P., First Lord of the
Admiralty, for the promotion of good drill and shooting
in that regiment, have been announced. In addition
to the cup, ten prizes, value £30, were offered for the
highest scorers; aud the keenness with which the principal
pnze was contested will be shown by the fact that nine out of
toe ten members given in the list of winners scored 80 points
each for drill. In the final competition Private C. F. Lowe,
of the celebrated I company, made 89 points, which,
with 80 for drill and 65 in class, brought his aggregate
up to 234, and made him the winner of the cup
and £7. Sergeant A. Blackford was second, and takes
£5 • Corporal H. B. Wilson, third prize of £4;
Private G. Parkinson and Private J. Southam tied;
and take £3 each; and the remaining prizes in the contest
were won by Sergeant S. Millings, Lieutenant W. Dennis,
Private J. Dyke, Sergeant C. Webb, and Sergeant E. Rowley.
For the Champion Badge, to which was added a silver cup,
value £10, the rules were that the most coveted honour of the
battalion should be awarded to “ that member of the regiment
who, being an efficient and a marksman, should make the
highest aggregate score in the regimental competition to select
representatives for Wimbledon, the first stage of the Queen’s
Prize, Major Tyler’s Prize, and the final competition, making
altogether thirty-eight shots at 200, thirty-eight at 500, and
forty-eight at 600 yards.” Corporal H. B. Wilson was the
winner, with a total score of 447 points. Private C. F. Lowe
was second, Sergeant Brooking third, Private Cameron fourth,
and Corporal Cook fifth. Theother challenge prizes shot for this
season were the Burgesses of Westminster Cup, value 100 guineas,
won for the second year in succession by the I company;
F company was second, C company third, aud B compauy
fourth The Serubbs Shield, value 100 guineas, origiually
subscribed and shot for by all the regiments using the Serubbs
ranges, and finally won by the Queen’s, was contested. F
(Broadwood’s) company were the winners ; I ciinpauy was a
close second, C compauy third, and B company fourth.
The annual dinner of the members of the two Canterbury
rifle corps took place at toe Odd Fellows’ Hall, Canterbury;, on
the 7th inst., when the Mayor and other leading citizens joined
the volunteers. Colonel Lawrie, commandant of the 3rd London
Volunteer Rifle Brigade, was likewise present, and handed
over a handsome silver challenge cup and a money prize, which
he had given to be shot for.
Lord Elcho has resigned the command of the London
Scottish Volunteers, and is gazetted honorary Colonel.
Miss Amy Sheridan, the actress, died on Monday at
Brighton, somewhat suddenly of heart disease.
has been presented to tne iuiure muiuuuu ,”,7“' ~T
private exhibits in aud around it will be replaced by a col¬
lection of Canadian products. We learn from OaUgnant*
Messenger that Messrs. James Carter and Co , of High
Holboni, the seedsmen to the Prince of Wales received five
gold medals, which is a higher award than that received by
Sny other English exhibitor, and includes the only gold medal
for crass lawns on the Trocadero. , ,_
The Working Men’s Exhibition also closed on Sunday when
diplomas were presented to the successful exhibitors.
The French Lottery Commission Iras resolved that the
small prizes shall be divided into twelve groups, each of about
the same aggregate value, while the large prizes shall form a
special category, for which all the tickets shall compete. 1 he
drawings will be public, and, it is calculated, can be got
through iu eight or ten days.
The Academy of Fine Arts has submitted to the Minister of
Public Instruction its list of candidates for the post of Director
of the School of Rome. M. Cabat, landscape-painter, was
chosen unanimously. , . , -
A millionnaire, M. Darblay, a noted corn merchant and
miller at Corbeil, died recently, at the age of eighty-lour. In
1861 he was deprived of a postmastership for Bonapartism, to
which party he adhered through life, being for some years a
Deputy. The Time*' correspondent says that his property is
estimated at 70,000,OOOf.
ITALY.
Pisa and Leghorn were visited last Saturday by the King
and Queen, who met with magnificent receptions at both towns.
Queen Margaret and her son, toe Prince of Naples, who on
Monday attained his ninth year, went to the Hall of the Five
Hundred, Florence, where they were most enthusiastically
received by 8000 children assembled there to meet her Majesty
and the Prince.
In an election for the Chamber of Deputies, held at Clusone
on Monday, Signor Roncalli was returned by 330 votes against
257 polled by General Bonelli, the late Minister of War. A
second ballot will be necessary.
GERMANY.
A torchlight procession was held last Monday evening at
Wiesbaden in honour of theGermau Emperor. At the same time
a deputation of the inhabitants waited upon his Majesty, who,
in reply to their congratulations, said he had experienced,
besides bodily suffering, the pain of being forcibly withdrawn
from his usual sphere of activity. He hoped, after going
through a course of waters at Wiesbaden, that he would
shortly be able to resume his former active duties. A law
had been passed to put an end to criminal tendencies, and the
example thus set would be followed in other countries, because
the danger was one common to all.
The Emperor on Wednesday sent General Count Lehnsdorff,
his Adjutant, from Coblentz to Berlin to congratulate Prince
Bismarck on the marriage of his duughter, and to present to
him the Grand Cross of toe Order of the Red Eagle with
Sceptre and Crown, toe only Prussian decoration which
remained to be conferred upon the distinguished Chancellor.
Prince Bismarck left Berlin last Tuesday afternoon for his
country seat at Friedrichsruhe. The Berlin correspondent of
the Morning ro»t states that the Chancellor proposes to spend
some time away from Berlin. During his absence he will
continue to conduct personally the more important business of
State, without, however, tying himself down to regular work.
DENMARK.
The Ministerial bill authorising a loan of 1,200,000 crowns
for the reconstruction of the plantation works in Santa Crnz,
destroyed during the recent riot in that island, was read in the
Folkething on the 9th inst. The debate not being decidedly
favourable to toe measure, toe bill was referred to the Finance
Committee. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
The Emperor of Austria received the Delegations on
Sunday. Replying to the addresses presented by the Pr«i.
dents the Emperor said his aim was to secure peace and
Austrian interests as well as the execution of treaty stipu¬
lations, and he hoped that in this he should succeed, his
relations with other Powers being most friendly.
His Majesty has granted a complete and general amnesty
to all Bosnian and Herzegovinian insurgents, not excepting
the captured chief Hadji Loja. The amnesty is said to have
been grunted in consequence of a note addressed by the Porte
to Count Andrassy.
The Austrian and Hungarian Delegations were opened at
Pesth on the 7th inst. In the former Herr Caroninwas elected
President. Count Andrassy presented the Budget, and a
Finance Committee of twenty-one members was chosen.
The Budget Committee of the Austrian Delegation held
two sittings on Wednesday, in which it adopted the most
essential points of toe war estimates as submitted by the
U ° Coi^ Schouvaloff, accompanied by M. Palischeff, Secre¬
tary to the Russian Embassy at Vienna, reached lesth on
Tuesday morning, and at noon waited upon Count Andrassy,
with whom he had a conference. On Wednesday Count
Schouvaloff was received in private audience by the Emperor.
It is stated in a Vienna telegram that differences have
arisen between the Hungarian Government and Central
Philippovich with regard to the organisation and adminis¬
tration of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Commander-In-Chief
being reproached with having filled the administrative posts m
the occupied provinces with none but Croatmns, to the ex¬
clusion of the German and Hungarian elements. Genera
Philippovich has requested to be allowed to return to his
f0r Tttepirtation Begs has presented a petition to General
Philippovich praying for the annexation of Bosnia and tne
Herzegovina to Austria, for the removal of the piOYincwfrora
the religious jurisdiction of the Sheik-ul-Islam, and for Uio
establishment of national instead of denommationHlahook
The address is said to be signed by fifty-nine of the richest
and most trustworthy Mohammedans in berajevo.
SPAIN.
In Monday'8 sitting of the Chamber of Deputies toe
Minister of the Interior declared that the Liberal Conservatives
rejected universal suffrage, as being repugnant to the con¬
science of the party, and as opposed to the development of its
principles. In the debate upon the new Electoral Law in
Tuesday’s sitting Sefior Castelar opposed the measure as
restricting universal suffrage, and in the course of his speech
described the proclamation of King Alfonso as an ill-omened
act. SeQor Canovas del Castillo, President of toe Council,
denied this, and said that what was really an act to be deplored
wus the expulsion of the Cortes by General Pavia, which Seiter
Castelar was not able to prevent. The Electoral Law was
adopted in Wednesday’s sitting.
Sentence of death has been passed by the Tribunal of
First Instance upon Moncasi, the perpetrator of the recent
attempt upon the life of King Alfonso.
The Moorish Government has informed the Spanish Minister
for Foreign Affairs that it will grant indemnities to the families
of the Spaniards lately assassinated in Morocco, and, as
further satisfaction, salute the Spanish flag.
BELGIUM.
On Tuesday the Parliament was opened by the King in
person. His Majesty, in his Speech from the Throne, in refer¬
ring to the education question, said that the instruction given
at the expense of the State should be placed under the exclu¬
sive control of the civil authorities. Various bills would be
presented on the subject. Alluding to the state of trade, his
Majesty said he hoped the industrial crisis was now past. The
Government were endeavouring to find means to relieve the
distress caused by it. The estimates were not altogether
favourable, and the Government had contracted engagements
for which it would be necessary to provide. Proposals for
further electoral reforms would be laid before the Chambers
n-l... nn W. .U ,1 ncU a Tf nl/wiliul its
RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
Absolute denial is telegraphed from St. VcUn burg.of
statements that have been published concerning the iU stale
01 SUSSES* it is reported, will returu to ££
and, on his arrival, will be in a position to explai ,
immediate views of the Emperor of Ku f l f “ n it t ^
situation of affairs. Down to the present time, it « decla^a
in official circles at St. Petersburg, no intelligence l^ been
received in confirmation of statements
to the effect that Count Schouvaloff had been a PP®“|f^
Chancellor of the Russian Empire; nor hg-then: been any
announcement of the resignation of Pnuce Gortschakoff
Count Schouvaloff was with the Grand Duke ^ ^
board the Livadia at the time of her foundering. As noticed
in our Austrian news, the Count has been at lesth.
According to reports received from the ^ n ° r m0 , t
the state ol trade and manufactures is sported as **“6
satisfactory. Both in Nishm-Novgoroa and CharkoD^t^
fairs were very successful, and the factories in the G
of Vladimir have had a favourable year. Britis h
An official assurance has been given to the>
Ambassador at St. Petersburgthatitisthe - d ^
that the Berlin 'Treaty should be faithfully executea,
no Imperial functionary will fail in that respect.
It is stated in a Constantinople telegram that
the Porte accepting the English retornis m ^ j
enumerates the four fundamental points , officered by
The establishment of a gendarmery ti
Europeans. 2. The appointment of E^opc^ n >ecto^^
travel from one district to another TecMe* comphu« K 3<
the Judges, and watch over the admiuratration of j t o(
The reorganisation of the finances. 4. Ibc ttim
the valis and financial inspectors. nr.General of
Midhat Pasha has been appointed
Syria, replacing Djevdet Pasha, who had made nun*
obnoxious to the population. , , frnm its Pew
The Daily Telegraph publishes a ^ principle
correspondent which states that an( i is stated
the rectification of the Greco- Turkish f ^ n j t tlijl? , the
that, with the view of arriving to th»
appointment of delegates was on Monday proposed
Greek Minister. ______
M. Coumoundouros has formed a new Cabinet, of which the
Ministers took the oaths of office on the ith msi.
AMERICA. Lord
The Timet' correspondent at Phil^dphia lu -^ oU
Salisbury’s reply to Secretary cable.
NOV. 16, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
459
His Lordship’s reference to Newfoundland interference with
American fishermen is understood to be satisfactory to the
United States Government, which is convinced that England
intends in good faith to enforce the Treaty of Washington,
giving United States fishermen all rights and privileges
accorded by that treaty. Everything indicates that the United
States will pay the full Halifax award in London on Nov. 23,
the date specified by the treaty. The Daily News' correspondent
at New York says also, it is regarded as certain that the award
will be promptly paid, with the approval of all parties in the
United States.
The Times' correspondent says that from the latest returns
the following result is obtained regarding the new Congress
which will meet after March 4:—In the Senate, 41 Democrats,
3 4 Republicans, and 1 Independent; in the House of Repre¬
sentatives, 149 Democrats, 129 Republicans, and 10 Green¬
backs. There are still five vacancies. This result, it is
generally believed, will put an end to the Greenback party as
un effective political organisation.
Cape May, a sea-bathing town on the Atlantic coast, at the
mouth of the Delaware river, was partly burnt on Saturday.
The town, consisting chiefly of hotels and boarding-houses,
was entirely built of wood. The fire, kindled by an incendiary,
burnt over forty acres in the centre of the town. Nine hotels,
nineteen boarding-houses, a large number of private cottages,
bath-houses, and shops have been destroyed.
A strange story comes from New York. When Mr.
Alexander T. Stewart, merchant, died, his body was put in a
vault in St. Mark’s-churchyard, of that town. On Oct. 7 the
/ault was found to have been tampeied with, and a watchman
was in consequence placed there, who remained on duty till
recently. On the night of the 6th inst., however, thieves
opened the vault, and took the body out of three inclosing
coffins. A large reward has been offered for the discovery of
the robbers.
CANADA.
We learn by telegrams from Montreal that the arrange¬
ments for the reception of the Marquis of Lome as Govemor-
Generul of Canada are complete, and that the enthusiasm is
very great. The fleet at Halifax will steam out to meet the
Sarmatian and escort her into harbour. The streets will be
lined with military. The new Governor-General will spend
two days tit Halifax, and go straight through to Montreal,
deferring his visit to Quebec. The Scotch residents at Montreal
will give’a ball on St. Andrew’s Day. After staying two days
at Montreal the Governor-General will leave for Ottawa, where
he will take up his residence.
Sir Alexander Galt has arrived at Ottawa for the purpose of
assisting the Government in the preparation of the Canadian
case in the fishery dispute for the information of the English
Eoieigu Office. It is understood that Sir Alexander will be
sent to England by the Dominion Government in order to
state its views of the case. It is expressly provided by the
Newfoundland Coast Fisheries Law, according to a telegram
Ironi St John’s, Newfoundland, that none of its clauses shall
affect the right granted by treaty to the subjects of any Power
in amity with her Majesty Queen Victoria.
A movement is on foot in Canada for the creation of a per¬
manent military force,'and it is understood that the Minister
of Militia will introduce a bill in the Dominion House of Com¬
mons for the establishment of such a force and for remodelling
the militia. , , , x „ .
The 101st Regiment has landed at Halifax from Cyprus. A
despatch of Tuesday says eighty-six men are still prostrate
with Cyprus fever, which is of a malarious character; but
medical men there believe the patients will speedily recover in
the climate of Nova Scotia.
THE CAPE COLONIES.
War with the Kaffirs has recommenced. By the latest news,
to Oct. 22, from Capetown we learn that a small British force
in the Transvaal has been compelled to fall back before a great
number of natives, who were subsequently defeated with great
loss in a night attack which they made upon the English. The
Colonial Goverumeut is making active military preparations.
AUSTRALIA.
In the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on the 6th
inst. the Colonial Treasurer, the Hon. Henry Emmanuel
Cohen made his financial statement. He stated that the
revenue of 1878 would probably exceed the original estimate
bv over £40,000. The accumulated surplus at the end of 18 <8
would amount to £2,350,000. He estimated the revenue for
1879 at £5,031,000, and expenditure at £5,336,000; this sum
including, however, £400,000 for new public works, which
would be chargeable to the surplus account, still leaving a
surplus of about £2,000,000 at the end of 1879. The revenue
continues in a flourishing condition. No fiscal modifications
are proposed. The railways are self-supporting, and yield a
profit sufficient to pay the interest on the capital bo>-rowed for
their construction. The public debt amounts to £11 700,000
being rather less than in January last; and against this debt
are placed the reproductive telegraphs and railways, which
have cost £10,500,000; the balance due from land selections—
viz £8 000 000; the revenue surplus advanced to loans for
public works, £2,000,000; besides unalienated domains to an
extent of 160,000,000 acres. , r „
A Melbourne telegram announces that the Melbourne tup
has been won by Calamia._
Major Sartorius, V.C., who distinguished himself in
Ashantee, has volunteered for service in Afghanistan.
Notice, it is stated, will be given by the Swiss Federal
Government on Jan. 1 next of its intention to withdraw from
the Latin Monetary Convention.
A new Synagogue, said to be one of the finest of its kind in
Eumpe! hSVn?pied at Vn>. It ha, coat, th.» *«»*
World says, £48,000, exclusive of the cost of site, which was
70,000 roubles.
Baroness Mary Itulak Artymowska, twenty-five years of
nge, moving in the best Russian society, has, says theEstafette,
been banished to Siberia for forgery, fraud, and bribery,
leaving debts to the amount of 2,000,000 roubles.
The question respecting the adoption of a word-rate for
telegrams between England and Germany has been finally
settled. Telegrams from Berlin to England will be charged
from January next at,.the rate of 30 pfennige per word, which
is as near as can be to 3s. for the ten words.
The British Resident at Mandalay has remonstrated with
the Burmese Government against the conduct of the native
Governor in removing some persons from a British steamer on
the Upper Burmese waters of the Irrawaddy, and the Governor
lu.s been summoned to Mandalay to account for his conduct.
The Woodlark, 869 tons, Captain W. Gibbons, chartered
by Sir Arthur Blyth, K.C.M.G., Agent-General for South
Australia, left Plymouth on the 8th inst. for Port Adelaide,
with 290 emigrants, among whom were fifty-nine single female
domestic servants. The Agent-General for New South Wales
has been informed by telegraph of the arrival in Sydney of the
ship Pericles, which sailed from Plymouth with emigrants in
August last.
Orders have been given to the 42nd Regiment to embark
from Cyprus immediately for Malta.
News received -from the west coast of Africa states that
Europeans have been forbidden by the King of Dahomey to
leave Whydah without his authority, and a good deal of
uneasiness prevails. It is reported from Cape Coast Castle
that the various Ashantee tribes are becoming discontented
with having to pay tribute to the King, and many of them
are desirous of returning to their allegiance to the old dynasty.
A Bluebook has been issued containing official correspond¬
ence respecting the commercial relations between Great
Britain and Spain. There are in all 214 despatches, ranging
in date from April 29, ,1877, to Sept. 13, 1878. On the latter
day Lord Salisbury writes, with regard to the wine duties,
that the Government cannot abandon the principle involved
in the alcoholic scale, but is prepared to revise it if it be found
to press unduly upon the commerce of Spain and of other
countries which grow the stronger natural wines.
A Reuter's telegram reports a discovery of gold in India.
It is stated that Sir Andrew Clarke, the public works member
of the Viceregal Council, visited the Wynaad district, in the
Madras Presidency, last February, and noticing, from his
Australian experiences, indications of the presence of gold, he,
with the sanction of the Viceroy, invited Mr. Brough Smyth, a
mining engineer of Victoria, to bring to India some practical
miners for the purpose of exploring and testing the quartz
reefs. Mr. Smyth has already discovered, in an area of twenty-
five miles by thirteen, ninety outcrops of ore reef with a thick¬
ness of two to four feet, yielding from a few pennyweights to
200 ounces per ton, and it is believed that with capital and
good management a very large industry may be insured.
THE PROPOSED AFGHAN WAR.
Wednesday next, the 20th inBt., is the day when the reply from
Shere Ali of Cabul to the Viceroy of India’s ultimatum letter
is expected at Simla; but Lord Beaconsfield’s speech of last
Saturday has informed us that the aim of the British-Indian
Government is to get a more “ scientific frontier; ” and, since
we are not aware that the Ameer has yet been requested to
cede a portion of his border territory, we cannot feel sure that
the question of peace or war really depends on any explanation
he may have to make touching the refusal to admit Sir
Neville Chamberlain’s mission through the Khyber Pass. It
is already quite evident that the mission was sent with
a previous expectation that it would be stopped, as it was
eventually stepped, at the fort of Ali Musjid. There is proof
of this, if any were needed, in the letter which we published
last week, and which whs written by a member of that mission,
perfectly conversant with its objects and intentions, and was
sent us to accompany the Sketches of Major Cavagnari’sinter-
view with the Afghan commandant. That letter stated that
Major Cavagnari was sent on in advance to demand passage,
because “ it was not considered desirable to expose Sir Neville
Chamberlain and the whole of the Mission to the insult of being
turned back.” Itwas. indeed, well known in India thatthe Ameer
had declined to have a European military officer as resident Envoy
at Cabul; and the Indian Government, in sending one without
permission, must have reckoned upon the so-called “affront,”
which is now to be made the instant occasion of an offensive
war in Afghanistan, with a view to the acquisition of “a
scientific frontier.” This being the political situation, we
fear that the Viceroy’s reception of some answer from the
Ameer next Wednesday is a mere formality, aud that the
declaration of war rests entirely in the breasts of her Majesty’s
Ministers in London, and of her representative at the Indian
seat of government. The intentions of our Prime Minister
may be learned from his recent speech, in which he positively
announced that the Indian frontier should now be altered,
without referring to any contingency of a pacific reply
from Shere Ali, or to any settlement of an exist¬
ing dispute. As for the intentions of Lord Lytton
and his advisers in India, there cannot be much doubt
that they mean war, for they are making immense pre¬
parations, at a cost which would be frightful for India to bear,
and which can scarcely be charged to the account of England
unless war be eventually carried on beyond the Indian frontier.
Putting these circumstances together, we are obliged to con¬
clude that the proposed Afghan war is a certainty, whatever
message from (Jabul may arrive next week, and that it could
only be averted by a change of mind in her Majesty’s Govern¬
ment here, which is not very hopeful.
The latest news, from Peshawur on Wednesday last,
informs us that General Sir Samuel Browne’s Division is now
concentrating in brigades in that vicinity. The first brigade
is at Jamrood; the secondj at Hurri Singh; the third at
Peshawur; the fourth at Nowshera. The cavalry is at Mutra
Thaua. The Guides still hold the Jamrood mouth of the
Pass. The unhealthiness ot rhr troops, and the backward
state of the supply and transport organisation, scarcely warrant
the expectation of immediate action on an extensive scale.
Shere Ali is absolutely passive. He has cautioned the frontier
tribes against disturbances, and appears bent on posturing as
an unaggressive individual who is undergoing the process of
bullying. Major Cavagnari has assurances of the friendliness
of the tribes of the frontier zone, whose headmen daily crowd
into Jamrood and Peshawur, avowing their goodwill. Trust¬
worthy information puts the Ameer's force at Ali Musjid at
2500 men and twenty-four guns. It is quite untrue that the
Ameer has any force detached in the Mishnce direction. The
reports of artillery fire thereabouts are wholly fables.
According to a Russian letter received at St. Petersburg
from Orenburg, Yakoob Khan, the son of the Ameer of Cabul,
has been released from confinement, and will conduct the
defence of Ali Musjid. It is further stated that Ahmed Ali,
the nephew of the Ameer, will command an Afghan force
consisting of ten regiments of infantry and four of cavalry.
The Russian Embassy at Cabul is now under General
Razgonoff, General Stolietoff having received leave of
absence to go abroad. There is startling news of the
Russian military advance through the Turcoman’s country
north of Afghanistan. General Lamakine has marched
from the shores of the Caspian eastward up the river
Attrek, and is said to have occupied the town of Merv,
which is about two hundred miles due north of Herat; while
another Russian force, of eight thousand men, is on the road
towards Balkh, a city of Afghanistan, about the same distance
north-west of Cabul. The Russians have plainly declared
that they will not remain passive if England attempts to annex
Candahar or Cabul; they will at least, in that case, take pos¬
session of Herat, which would now seem almost within their
reach. _
iVe are requested by Messrs. Verity Brothers, of Regent-
et' aud of Queen’s-road, Bayswater, to state that they
e’the stove-grate fixed in the beautiful chimneypiece
ibited by Mes a rs. Howard and Sons, the manufacturers, at
Paris Exhibition, aud of which we gave an Illustration
week.
THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Barker, W., to be Vicar of Long Benington-with-Foston, Lincolnshire.
Calfin, George Crawford : Rector of Brimpton, Berks.
Cuwkwell, Henry; Hector of Miningsby, Lincolnshire.
Clayton, Edward ; Vicar of Iffley, Oxon.
Cullin, J.; Rector of Second Mediety of Lymm (Oughtrington).
D’Arcy, A. R , Curate of Nailsworth; Rector of Nympstield.
Davies, Octavius,Vicar of Tugaron; Rural Dean of Upper Ultra Ayron.
Douglas, Sliolto D. C.; Rector of All Souls’, Marylebone.
Dreaper, J.; Chaplain of her Majesty’s Prison, Strangeways, Manchester.
Dunn, John Walter; Vicar of Downend.
Hull, Robert B.; Rural Dean of Northampton.
Jones, Hugh; Bishop's Vicar in St. David’s Cathedral.
Jones, Thomas; Vicar of Gurtheli, Cardigan.
Moore, Aubrey L.; Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford.
Owen, Arthur Welsh ; Rector of Wembworthy, North Devon.
Patterson, A. H.; Diocesan Inspector for Durham.
Roberts, W. Page; Incumbent of St. Peter’s, Vere-street.
Smith, C. Penswick ; Rector of Great and Little Woolstone.
Smith, John; Vicar of Holland Fen, Lincolnshire.
Spittal, John; Rector of St. Luke’s, Heywood.
Stewart, Henry Holmes; Rector of Brington.
Thomson, Michael Andrew; Rector of Thistle ton.
Vaughan, Edward T.; Vicar of St. Paul’s, Langleybury, Herts.
Wright, Charles Sisum, Vicar of St. Silas’s, Sheffield ; Vicar of Doncaster.
Woodhouse, F. J.; Diocesan Inspector for Rochester.— Guardian.
A handsome memorial brass, executed by Messrs. E.
Matthews and Sons, Oxford-street, is to be erected in Lowther
church to the memory of the late Lord Lonsdale.
For the third time within thirty years the tower of the
parish church of Week St. Mary, North Cornwall, was last
Saturday night struck by lightning and destroyed.
The Church of All Saints, Child’s-hill, was reopened on the
6th inst. by the Bishop of London. Mr. John Young, of Great
Winchester-street, designed the additions, which cost £2000.
The new Church of St. Catherine, Nechells, built at a cost,
including the site, of about £7000, the seats being chiefly free,
was consecrated on the 8th inst. by the Bishop of Worcester.
On Wednesday the Bishop of Salisbury attended the re¬
opening service of Buckland Newton parish church, which has
been restored, at a cost of £2000. Tliis sum, within £400, has
been raised by voluntary subscriptions.
The Council of the Curates’ Augmentation Fund met on
Monday and adopted a report which had been received from
Messrs. Quilter, Ball, and Co. upon the recent frauds, and the
best mode of preventing the recurrence of the like.
The revisers of the New Testament assembled on Tues¬
day, in the Jerusalem Chamber, for their eighty-fourth
session. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol presided. The
company proceeded with the second revision of the Epistles to
the Thessalonians.
The chancel of Charlton Kings, which has almost been
rebuilt by Mr. Dixon Hartland and his Bisters, as a memorial
to their mother, was reopened on the 7th inst. The nave was
reopened on Bt. Mark’s Day, after complete restoration. Mr.
Middleton was the architect throughout.
St. Mary’s, Stalbridge, Dorset, which has been restored by
Mr. T. H. Wyatt, at a cost of £2600, was reconsecrated on the
7th inst. It is a large structure, comprising work of the thir¬
teenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. The works include
a new south aisle and transept, and lengthening of the nave.
The Rev. Dr. Lee, Incumbent of All Saints’, Lambeth,
appeared on Monday in the Queen’s Bench Division to show
cause against a rule which had been obtained by the Metro¬
politan Board of Works for a mandamus commanding Mr.
Cartridge, a metropolitan police magistrate, to issue a warrant
to levy on the reverend gentleman a sum of £100 for repairs
done to his church. The Lord Chief Justice said the Building
Act never contemplated that an outlay of this description
should be shifted from the parishioners upon the Incumbent.
He therefore dismissed the rule.
The Rev. C. A. Belli, who was for fifty-three years Yicar
of South Weald, near Brentwood, but who resigned the living
a short time since, has given £12,000 towards the building of a
church and its endowment, and for the erection of a parsonage-
house at Bentley, an outlying district of South Weald parish.
Mr. O. E. Coope, M.P. for Middlesex, who resides in the neigh¬
bourhood, has subscribed‘$2000 for the same objects; and a
site for the buildings has been presented by Mr. C. J. Hume
Tower. At the laying of the comer-6tone of the church, a
ceremony which has j ust been performed by Mr. Belli, it was
stated that during his incumbency that gentleman had rebuilt
the mother parish church and the parsonage, erected and
endowed the village schools, and been a liberal contributor to
the erection of Christ Church schools, Great Warley. The new
church will cost about £8000, and the remainder of the money
subscribed will be devoted to endowment. Mr. Belli’s suc¬
cessor as Vicar of South Weald is Canon Fraser.
The Bishop of Hereford preached last week at the reopening
of the church of Garway, situate on the banks of the Monnow,
close to the borders of the counties ot Hereford and Monmouth.
A new Vicar, the Rev. J. Jones, who has recently been
appointed, has set himself the task of effecting a complete
restoration of a church which his Lordship described, “ without
fear of contradiction,” as one of the mbst curious ana
interesting to be found in the West of England. The fine
Norman tower, 27 ft. square, is detached, and there is
much excellent work of the twelfth, thirteenth, and four¬
teenth centuries about the church. The stone altar, with
five incised crosses, remains in situ, and the rood loft steps are
intact, while the open seats of massive oak have ends four
inches in thickness. In the reign of Henry II., the Knights
Templars built a preceptory close by, and after their sup¬
pression in 1313 it fell into the hands of the Knights
Hospitallers, who remained there till the Reformation. Their
chapel, adjoining the chancel, contains many interesting-
features, while the church generally exhibits sundry J ewish or
Saracenic details, very harmoniously blended with English
features. The architect engaged in the restoration is Mr. E.
H. Lingen Barker, of Hereford; and the contractor for the
works just executed was Mr. W. Balcombe, of Kenilworth.
It is stated that Monsignor M‘Cabe, Auxiliary Bishop to
the late Cardinal Cullen, has been appointed Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Dublin.
Since our Supplement, containing a List of New Mayors,
has been at press we have learnt that Mr. T. H. Edmunds has
been chosen Mayor for Bridport.
The Devonshire Chamber of Agriculture has decided to
hold the next exhibition at Devonport, near the end of next
May. The prize-sheet shows that the total value of the prizes
to be offered will amount to about £1200.
The prizes gained at the Oxford and Cambridge locall
examinations at Ramsgate centre were distributed on thci
6th inst. by Mr. Talbot, M.P. for Oxford Univer.ity. Tl>e
lion, gentleman spoke of the importance of thoroughness iu
education, and of the great good which resulted from these.
* locul examinations.
TTTE rLT.USTTIATED LOXDOJf NEWS. Xov. !«. 1*78.— 4«1
A CHINESE TIIOCLAMATION.
4G2
THE tt.T.TTSTBATED LONDON NEW3_
NOY. 16, 1878
ECLLuFo UF TilF WEEK.
■■The hai«br«iiK - d ch.tt.ro! ,'SS’KtocSl
there has rarely b^ uuttt rcdamprt.mjytura Guildhall
of people who presume w » » , seasons besides
?' ^"-tconiiBgt. our
Lord Mayor s Day, on wn ^ truth „ ^ served up as
tori feacomfldd’, «rro»y jf IS.u.drJ-’ri.nd
charged “ S ' “ «
or foe alike. :v WTn i s *Lith their “ irresponsible frivolity,
SS’ffi’ubS* may re tum the compliment by btogbihg *
the Jingoes as “ hairbrained chatterers.
“rj^sLyiss? 7 - ' f7 i ^“hmtVSS
f'^no.- £ wholSy^po-ibl. *»« T *■»
to amuse my readers goes.
«tni T venture to opine that the eloquent Prime Minister
had muehbett^rhave ^jon* may hai?^
“ 1 d0 laUKhmg % s any great public question, or to be angry
But, so far as seriously argumentative and
has been watching you, and she^a, a f nd
to supply your needs. A wondmm ™ ^ . g not a
da„u» de eomptoir, and white *lai es ^i friend who is
horses?
Anything more doleful than the aspect of the building in
theffde Mars, tenanted until
by the peerless Exposition Umvereelle of 1878, itis d^culttt)
conceive Glass cases have been emptied, pictures, statuary,
big machines, even, have been carted away with almost magiod
rapidity; and by Tuesday morning the vast bazaar looked
miserably empty. The asphalte flooring has been torn up,
Sebare ith of the Champ de Mara is JWo«dtan«J,
with long lines of iron tramways to facihte the removal of the
heavier merchandise from the dismantled building. Ste transit
gloria mundi.
I proposed, jestingly, a fortnight ago that Messrs. Osier s
great crystal throne should be dispatched to Cabul as a peace
fffertogto our ill-conditioned neighbour, bhere Ah, Ameer °j
5 &-. Lvjzszrsastt sxssz
ficial. On the other hand, it may be justly argued that Mr
Leighton has by his example done a sendee to English art in
directing attention to classical ideality, and the graceful
aspect of life in Italy and the East. And we trust that when
in his new position opportunities for usefulness present them,
selves he will not fail to avail himself of them for the benefit
of the profession at large.
FARADAY LECTURE-GASEOUS STATE OF MATTER.
The Faraday Medal, given every third year to a distinguished
foreign philosopher by the Chemical Society of London, was
this year given to Professor Adolphe Wurtz, of Paris, merabtr
of the Institut (Academy of Sciences), and editor of the great
Dictionary of Pure and Applied Chemistry just completed.
The previous recipients of the medal were professors J. B.
Dumas, A. W. Hofmann, and Cannizzaro.
The lecture (in French), as on former occasions, was given
at the Royal institution on Tuesday. Professor Wurtz
chose for His subject, “The Constitution of Matter in the
Gaseous State,” one intimately connected with Faraday’s
earliest discoveries. After having described the experiments
of that philosopher in the liquefaction of chlorine, ammonia,
cyanogen, and sulphurous acid, the Professor explained the
principle of Faraday’s method, which consists in letting the
gas escape and accumulate in sealed tubes ; and then noticed
aSlTateut to^be* dispatched to Calcutta. At the'same time I that of fcl. Bussy in 1824, who subjected the gases to great
toe Raiah of Putaila has purchased from the exhibit of | cold. Both processes result in bringing closer together
Messrs. Thos. Webb, of Stourbridge (they got a Grand Pnx),
rSSdid^El «*5Tdeco«&d' with gilt metal-work :
while another Indian magnifico has become the possessor of
three vast ornamental mirrors, with clusters of candelabra
at the sides. A number of engraved and other glass from
the Webb exhibit has been acquired by the Duchesse De la
Torre for transmission to Spain.
All the scandal-mongers in Paris—there are said to be a
million of them, just half the number of people who talk
scandal in London- are in ecstasies at the extracts from Pnnce
Bismarck’s table-talk given in Herr Moritz Busch s recently
published book. Whether Napoleon III. was, as the Pnncc
qualifies him, a Tiefenbaeher- a carpet knight a commander of
the Lumber Troop, or not, may be a matter of opinion; but 1
own that 1 felt a bitter pang when I found the lllustnous
Alexander von Humboldt set down as an egotist and a bore
of the first water, who was always worrying people with stones
about “ Popocatepetl, a mountain in Mexico, seven thousand
yards above the level of the sea.” Ah ! Pnnce Bismarck, if
had ever lived in the shadow of Popocatepetl and.of its
business to di
^Sro < SJSd 7 iouiSK is "concerned, I hold” the Anonymous
S be oue of the chief factors in the power and punty of the
sib $»L.
weight. 81> individually, I may be obscure, fnvolous, hiur-
brained aud an irresponsible chatterer. But as W e, I
the*representative ot a certain phase of Pubhc Opinion, and I
can to be listened to with attention and respect.
It is quite true that personally and in pocket the writer of
leading mticles suffers grievously from the maintenance of the
anonymous. In France the successful journalist may become
a Deputy, an Academician, an Ambassador, a Minuter of
StAte Thiers Guizot, Villemain, Samte Beuve, Htury, all . ^ uu limi ***«;** *** —- ■ .— - vml
^ntheiJcmeer as journalists or as professors. Some of the Jj,ter i 8te lasiuatl, “the Mrgm m white reclining you
°Droprietois in Vam have been simple j y 0u pi .peak h.
wealthiest newspaper proprietors _ . , -
jourualuts. Louis vcron, Nestor Roqueplan, and
Royer, Successively managers of the Grand Opera, were news-
DaDer writers. Jules Janin, dramatic critic ot the Journal de,
^D^ats was a member of the French Academy. John
Lemoinne, of the Mat,, is an Academician now. The Qigh^
journalist, however eminent may be the rank which he has
taken in his profession, may expect to become-just nothing
at all No Academic distinction, no cross of the Legion of
Honour, no chance of being appointed to a foreign mission, no
chance of getting into Parliament-unless he have plenty of
money or, in Ireland, priestly patronage: in a word,
November, to paraphrase Tom Hood Stay, when November
is dragging to a close, and December, with waning faculties,
and poverty, and perhaps paralysis, approaches, the once
eminent journalist, provided he have plenty of “fluvial
friends to back his petition, may perhaps get a Civil List
pension of a hundred a year. In the faccofthese mournfully
obvious facts, I yet contend that the English Press would not
be half so useful nor half so powerful as it is were journalists
to sign their names to their articles.
I sec that Dr. Arthur Edis has been drawing attention in
the Time, to the cruel system of not permitting the young lady
assistants in shops to sit down in the intervals of their long
and weary hours of work; and I perceive that some of the
leading draper}- houses at the West-End have protested against
Dr Edis’s strictures, and declare that in their establishments,
at least there is an abundance of sedentary accommodation
for the female assistants. This I am extremely glad to learn:
but, at the same time, proffering my respectful compliments
to Dr Arthur Edis, who is doing, I think, yeoman’s service in
a righteous cause, I would entreat him to make the round of
the refreshment counters of our gTeat London railway stations,
and confidentially ask the young ladies employed there whether
they are ever allowed to sit down, and if so, how often ? Per¬
haps. since the letter in the Time* appeared, a few three-legged
8tools have been introduced into our railway buffets for the
relief of the barmaids; but I don’t ihink that there were any
such facilities for rest afforded for these poor damsels when I
left London.
S till, it is quite possible to have too much of a good thing.
What agonies, arising from muscular contractions of the
lower limbs, are suffered by the coutiuually sitting omnibus
driver, by the sewing-machine “ hand,” by the watchmaker,
the engraver, and, to a certain extent, by the author. The
merchant's clerk may stand or sit, as he pleases ; the painter
can stand to his work; but I have known very few men of
letters who could write comfortably, save sitting. Alexander
Dumas the Elder used to dash off his romances, standing, in
his shirt, with his bare feet on the cold tiles. He began at six
in the morning, and by noon his day’s work was finished.
But then the elder Dumas seldom troubled himself to think.
In Meissouier’s admirable full-length portrait of Alexander
Dumas the Younger the distinguished dramatist is immersed
in a capacious fauteuil, with one leg crossed over the other,
and an expression of the profoundest cogitation on his coun¬
tenance. Dumas the Younger is a wriur who thinks.
Mem: Two or three years ago I was afflicted during seven
months with a dreadful malady in the extremities which
caused me almost ceaseless torture. I experienced a little
relief when I stood up; so, having no tall counting-house desk
by me, I had a number of back volumes of the Illustrated Seir,
pile! bre ist high on the dining-room table, and supporting my
left arm with a crutch, tried to scrawl the “ Echoes ” I got
on pretty well for an hour or so, but after that the crutch
slipped, and I tumbled on the carpet, while the dining-room
table emitted divers sounds alarmingly symptomatic of giving
way under the weight of the back volumes. So 1 was fain to
call in an intebigent youth to write from dictation at a guinea
a week.
English shop girls do not sit down half enough. French
shop women, on the other hand, sit a great deal too much.
The female s in the newspaper kiosques on the boulevards sit
in their narrow little niches from seven in the morning until
midnight. As for the poor dame, de eomptoir in the restaurants
ana cafes, they are the whitest of all white slaves. Always
sitting, always scribbling out the customers’ little bills, and
always exposed to the glare of the gas and the fumes of bad
Tenostitlan. I never heard General Ulysses S. Graut talk
more eloquently than when he discoursed one night at ilr.
James Ashbury, M.P.’s house at Brighton, of his Mexico
campaign and of his ascent of Popocatapetl.
Mem: The monarch of Aztec mountains has, I admit, a
somewhat crabbed name. To remember it off hand requires
a slight mnemonic effort. Think of “ Pop the cat in the kettle
audthe transition to Popocatapetl will be instantaneous. 1 bis |
suggestion will, I hope, meet with the approval of Mr. Stokes,
the distinguished authority on the Art of Memory. I suc¬
ceeded the other day in “Stokesing” the name of a French
novelist, Pigault Le’ Brun, whose appellation, through some
perversity of memory, I have been during the last thirty years
persistently unable to remember at call. At last I determined
to “ Stokes” the name of the author of “ MonOncle Thomas
and “ Les Barons de Felsheim.” I remembered that he was a
great glutton, and that he was a favourite of Jerome Napoleon,
some time King of Wurtemburg, to whose Court he was
attached in some subordinate capacity. As a courtier lie
would have worn some kind of uniform. I arbitrarily assumed
that it would be of a brown colour embroidered with gold.
Then I made a pen-and-ink drawing of a pig on his hind legs
in a Court dress, and with a book under his arm. “ 1 ig gold
brown ”— “ Pigault Le Brun.” I shall remember, I hope, the
novelist’s name for good. G. A. S.
the ultimate particles of the gas. According to the
opinion of Sir Humphry Davy, it would seem that com¬
pression is more efficacious as a means of condensation than
cold ; but, as Professor Wurtz remarked, compression is not
sufficient for certain gases, which can only be reduced to - the
liquid state by the combined action of great pressure and
extreme cold. This also agrees with the present opinions on
the constitution of aeriform fluids and alio with Professor
Andrews’ discoveries relating to the continuity of the liquid
and the gaseous states. Tne Professor next referred to the
theory of Daniel Bernouilli, who first described gases as being
composed of minute particles, free in space, capable of moving
very rapidly in straight lines, so that the pressure which gases
exert results from the shock of their particles against the walls
of the vessels which contain them. The facts relating to what
Professor Andrews terms the “critical point” were next
explained, as well as the impossibility of reducing by pressure
alone any given gas above the temperature to which the
“critical point” corresponds. For the so-called perma¬
nent gases this point is very low ; and therefore
for their reduction to the liquid state the combined
action of a very great cold and a very powerful pressure
is essentially requisite. The Professor then explained and illus.
t rated the methods by which MM. Cailletet and Raoul Pictet
were so thoroughly successful in causing the disappearance
from science of the distinction between permanent and
coercible gases. After considering the physical constitution
of gases, the Professor terminated his lecture by touching upon
some of the most general points relating to their chemical
constitution. He said that the molecules, which move in
space with incredible velocity, are themselves composed of
atoms which are drawn together and so kept by affinity; and
he referred to a theory concerning the relations which exist
between the volumes of these gases nnd the number of
molecule's which thev contain. The Italian chemist Avogadro
was the first to say that equal volumes of gases or vapours,
taken in the same conditions of temperature aud pressure,
contain the same number of molecules. Professor Wurtz
insisted upon the importance of this proposition in a
chemical point of view, and discussed several alleged
exceptions, which he showed to be rather apparent than real,
to the rule of Avogadro; and concluded by warmly expressing
his sense of the immense importance of Faraday’s researches
THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
It would, perhaps, be asking too much of human nature to
furnish a model President of the Royal Academy—one that
should meet every conceivable requirement of the office—that
should reconcile rivalities and possible jealousies within the
Academy, and satisfy the exactions of “outsiders” and the
conflicting views of those who occupy themselves with the pre¬
sent aud future of British art. We think, however, that both
artists and public have reason to congratulate themselves on
finding so many desiderata realised in the new President,
Mr. Frederick Leighton, R.A., who was elected to the vacant
post on Wednesday. First, and foremost, Mr. Leighton is
eminent in art; and, as though to silence those of his critics
who found in his painting something of effeminacy in feeling
and conventionality of execution, he has lately produced a
group m sculpture remarkable for masculine energy both in
conception aud modelling. He may, also, be confidently
expected to grace the position by gentlemanly courtesy and
the gift of eloquence: whilst his command of Continental
languages will be of advantage in official intercourse.
It is natural to compare Mr. Leighton with his predecessors
iu the Presidential chair. But in some points of view he has
little in common with any of them. Three of the former
Presidents, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir Martin A. Shee, and
Sir Francis Grant were exclusively portrait-painters. Benjamin
West (who steadily refused knighthood on religious grouuds)
devoted himselt principally to scriptural and historical subjects,
but the encomia of his contemporaries and his own pretension
have not been indorsed by the present generation. Sir Charles
Eastlake— if he likewise failed to reach any high achieve¬
ment-formed his taste at the purest sources of Italian art;
aud his contubutions to artistic literature possess a value which
should be mure widely appreciated. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the
first ai d greatest l’re.-ideut, whose range extended beyond the
portraiture iu whi< h be pre-eminently excelled, alone is now
in relation to the present high position of modern chemistry.
At the close of the lecture, whioh was illustrated by a senes
of magnificent experiments, the cordial thanks of tkemeeting
were moved by Professor Frankland, seconded by Professor
Odling; and, finally, the Faraday medal was given to
Wurtz by Dr. Gladstone, the president of the Chemical bociet).
The meeting closed with the Professor briefly expressing Ins
deep sense of the honour awarded him. , .
The theatre was lit by the electric light, produced by the
magneto-electric machine of Dr. C. Milliam Siemens.
There was a great gathering of scientific men onY’edne?-
day night at the annual dinner of the Chemical Socwtj,
Willis’s Rooms, the occasion being made use of jo *> honour
to the eminent Freuch chemist, M. de \X urtz, who
previous night gave the triennial Faraday lecture a «
Institution. Among those present were ProfessorH^J,
Professor Tyndall, and Messrs. Crookes, Dewar, Franklanu,
Odling, and Roscoe.
L0S8 OF THE PRINCESS ALICE.
Last Saturday the official report of the Co“msffloners sp-
pointed by the Board of Trade to mquxremto the loss ot ^
Princess Alice was issued. The Court finds tht Cou .
casualty to have been a breach of rule *9 ofj tinK ^er
eervancy regulations by the Princess Alice n po ® - c
helm when she came end on the By well Castle, a v _ h
in the opposite direction. ReoominendatioM*
respect to the navigation of the river as precautions ag
the recurrence of similar disasters. „ ,. f 0 n
The Coroner’s jury in tins case, bel KJ?^ fif-P**
Wednesday evening, were locked up all night.
seven on Thursday morning they
verdict, fifteen out of the iron-teen jurymen a r n
inquisition returned 1 hat the deathsI ^ 1U tie
Beachey aud others were occasioned by dre *n g ^
waters of the river, from a collision that took^lacetft ^ #
set betweeu a steam-vessel called the Bywel a- p rincvrj
steam-vessel called the Princess Alice, whereby the i ^
Alice was cut in two and sauk : such collisio D rraiuti”U
That the Bywell Castle did not take the £ ines; and
a time for easing, stopping, and reveremg bT
acknowledged as a great English master; and his “ Discourses w -- .. .
have remained equally unapproached in our art-literature. [ t j iat , the That all collisions, in the opinw«j
It may, perhaps, be revetted that the works of the new stoppmg and n ™o|dedif proper and string
President ot our English Academy should have revealed , of the jury, mig down for the navigat" - ” A
areely a trace of sympathy with English history, life, ^“t^Sfi at th D e 8 Riv”, Slt^-The Rowing
were made
manners, or scenery. Nor is Mr. Leighton known as a j
prominent promoter of the interests of English artists, or of- ( -----
art-education iu this country. Criticism, unbiassed by fashion- j A “ ce was
able applause, often delusive, will find in his painting the ! Alice was not
perception of only the superficial aspects and relations of
beautiful forms and colours, in classical suggestions, or Italian
aud Eastern realities, as lending themselves to decorative
effect, rathtr than the deeper iusight into that highest beauty
which is also the highest expression of natural truth. We do
not demand that art should have a purpose outside itself.
Even the so-called “sensuous” Venetians tell us most
precious truths within the proper domain of art: their
_ addend*
on the River inames. — J JYT" t h» Princ*»
to the verdict:—“ 1, be j>£U'
n Sept 3 seaworthy: 2. We think
prr.ptrly
Of saving hfe on
the number of persons on 1
than was prudent; 4. We think ‘ TV^sel of h‘ r
board the Princess Alice were insufficient for a
class.” __
Trnfford, erectid
A new bridge over the river Irwell at , Commit**,
by the Corporation of Salford, the Cheshire lnvoll >,- a vi-
always exposea xo me glare oi me gas anu uie mines ut uuu , F .«~,vuo -uum pivyu u»u.s.u . —- the Stretford Local Board, and the Mersey
tobacco. Poor ladies! They are expected, moreover, to keep ‘ works are conditionally true, not unconditionally arti- * gation Company, has been opened#
NOV. 1G, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
4G3
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
The nomination of Sheriffs for the counties of England and
Wales took place in the Court of Exchequer on Tuesday.
Mr. Henry Bret Ince, Q.C., and Mr. Horace Davey, Q.C.,
have been elected Benchers of ihe Honourable Society of
Lincoln’s Inn.
The National Poultry Show began at the Crystal Palace on
Monday, and remained open till Thursday evening. The
entries exceed those of any previous year.
Mr. William Hurran, of the Green Gate, City-road, has been
elected to succeed Mr. William Rolls as chairman of the
Licensed Victuallers’ Asylum for the year 1879.
At Mr. Murray’s annual trade sale dinner Mr. Smiles’s
“ Life of Robert Dick” (the baker of Thurso) was exhibited,
and the whole of the edition, consisting of 5000 copies, sold,
and orders received for 2000 extra copies.
Mr. Fawcett, M.P., addressed a meeting in the Victoria
Hall, Bethnal-green, last Tuesday, on the subject of the
Government of India, and emphatically condemned the course
being pursued with regard to Afghanistan.
The Morning Advertiser is authorised to contradict a state¬
ment which has appeared to the effect that Christmas clubs
at the houses of licensed victuallers had been prohibited by
the Chief Commissioner of Police. The statement is said to
be entirely without foundation.
Between 600 and 700 gentlemen connected with the metro¬
politan counties branch of the British Medical Association
assembled yesterday week in the South Kensington Museum,
he occasion being the conversazione of the president of their
body, Dr. Andrew Clarke. *
The Common Serjeant presided on Tuesday night at a
meeting of about 300 thieves, who were brought together by a
mission agency at their chapel in Little Wild-street. Some
of the visitors had already served long terms of penal servitude.
Three or four reformed thieves addressed the assembly.
Last Tuesday the house 61, Gracechurch-street, was
opened as a people’s cafe by the People’s Cafe Company.
The house has been handsomely fitted up, and is replete with
all the appliances of the trade to which it is to be devoted.
The opening address was given by Mr. S. Morley, M.P.
Last week the total number of paupers in the metropolis
was 78,870, of whom 41,040 were in workhouses, and 37,830
received outdoor relief. Compared with the corresponding
weeks in 1877, 1876, and 1875, these figures show a decrease
of 680, 767, and 4409 respectively.
A contract has been entered into by the local authorities
with a firm of nurserymen to plant St. George’s-road, South¬
wark, with plane-trees from the Elephant and Castle to the
Westminster Bridge-road; also to complete the planting of
the Blackfriars-road up to the approach to Blackfriars Bridge.
The new session of the Royal Geographical Society was
opened at Burlington-gardeus on Monday evening—Sir
Rutherford Alcock, the vice-president, in the chair. In his
opening address the chairman renewed the progress of
exploration. Afterwards a paper upon the course of the Fly
river and the Island of New Guinea was read.
The first meeting of the Fellows of the Royal Botanic
Society since the vacation was held at the Gardens last Satur¬
day. Numerous donations of plants and seeds were reported,
including plants of Madras nutmeg, and other spices from the
Duke of Buckingham. A discussion respecting the sanitary
influence of certain classes of plants and trees growing in the
neighbourhood of dwelling houses took place, the speakers
being Professor Bentley, Professor Mivart, Dr. Brewer, and
other medical Fellows of the society.
Lord Salisbury has received a despatch from the Chinese
Minister in London, conveying the thanks of the Chinese
Government for the assistance rendered by Englishmen in all
parts of the world in relieving the distress caused by the
famine in the northern provinces of China. The Minister says
that this “ spontaneous act of generosity has made a deep im-
E ressionon the Government and people of China, which canuot
ut have the effect of more closely cementing the friendly
relations which now so happily exist between China and the
people of this country.”
A fancy bazaar, in aid of the Soldiers’ Institute at Ports¬
mouth, will be held at Willis’s Rooms on Friday, the 29th inst.,
and following day. A choice collection of useful and orna¬
mental articles, from India, China, Tasmania. Norway, Scot¬
land, and elsewhere, will be offered for Bale; also foreign
pottery, water-colour drawings, children’s clothing, Christmas
cards and presents, in great variety. One stall will be reserved
for the benefit of a projected institute at Sheerness. The
bazaar will be under the patronage of the Duke of Cambridge,
Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar, and many other
distinguished persons.
The Court of Common Council, after a long discussion, has
rejected by a majority of 92 the report of the committee re¬
commending the erection of a low-level bridge over the
Thames near the Tower.—At a meeting of the Metropolitan
Board of Works a recommendation of Sir J. W. Bnzalgette
has been approved, that in the Parliamentary notices there
should be included power to make an additional approach to
the .proposed Tower Bridge from the Surrey side, and it was
stated that the gradient of the approach to the proposed bridge
from the south side was one in forty, and was consequently
much less than the approach the Waterloo, Blackiriars, South¬
wark, and London Bridges.
In the Exchequer Division yesterday week, the hearing of
an action concerning the right of chemists and druggists to
prescribe was brought to a close before Mr. Baron Pollock and
a special jury. It had been instituted by the Society of
Apothecaries of London against a pharmaceutical chemist
carrying on business at Nottingham to recover two penalties
of £20 each for having acted as an apothecary without having
obtained the certificate specified in the Act; in other words,
for having medically examined and prescribed for customers
over the counter. The defendant pleaded that he had only
followed the practice of chemists, which was protected by the
28th section. The jury found a verdict in his favour.
The following are the awards of medals by the Council of
£he Royal Society for the present year. As will be observed,
the claims of foreign science have been fully recognised. The
medals will be given away at the society’s anniversary meeting
on the 30th inst.The Copley Medal to Mr. Jean Baptiste
Boussingault for his long-continued and important researches
and discoveries in agricultural chemistry; a Royal Medal to
Mr. John Allan Broun, F.R.S., for his investigations during
thirty-five years in magnetism and meteorology and for his
improvements in methods of observation ; a Royal Medal to
Dr. Albert Gunther, F.R.S., for his numerous and valuable
contributions to the zoology and anatomy of fishes and rep¬
tiles; the liumford Medal to Mr. Alfred Cornu, lor his various
optical researches, and especially for his recent re- determination
of the velocity of propagation of light; the Davy Medal to
Messrs. Louis Paul Cailletet and Raoul Pictet, for their
researches, conducted independently but contemporaneously,
on the condensation of the so-called permanent gases.
During the last two months the Fishmongers’ Company
seized at Billingsgate Market and destroyed the enormous
quantity of 145 tons 5 cwt. of fish as unfit for human food. Of
this, 74 tons came by land and 71 tons by water. The fish
numbered 247,959, and included 51 bream, 15 brill, 391 cod,
1053 crabs, 42,200 dabs, 43 john-dorys, 5063 gurnets, 74,787
haddocks, 657 hake, 1 halibut, 20,850 herrings, 2 ling, 972
lobsters, 440 mackerel, 234 mullets, 14,448 plaice, 24 skate,
18,960 smelts, 2612 soles, 517 thombacks, 12 trout, 206 turbot,
and 63,420 whiting ; and, in addition, 24 bags and 83 bushels
of oysters, 8 bushels of cockles, 266 of periwinkles, 1492 of
mussels, and 120 of whelks, 3724 gallons of shrimps, 12301b. of
eels, and 31 lb. of prawns.
There were 2607 births and 1590 deaths registered in London
last week. The deaths included 9 from smallpox, 18 from
measles, 60 from scarlet fever, 11 from diphtheria, 33 from
whooping-cough, 36 from different forms of fever, and 26
from diarrhoea. The deaths referred to diseases of the
respiratory organs, which had steadily increased from 158 to
353 in the nine preceding weeks, further rose to 434 last week,
and exceeded by 38 the corrected average: 277 resulted from
bronchitis. In Greater London 3173 births and 1896 deaths
were registered. The mean temperature of the air was 38‘8
deg., being 2 6 deg. below the average in the corresponding
week of sixty years. The duration of registered bright sun¬
shine in the week was 15'5 hours, the sun being above the
horizon during 65'1 hours.
The City Press states that the amount collected during
the year of office of Lord Mayor Cotton was £38,000: the
subscriptions being for the Thames Inundation, the Goliath,
Warspite, and Thunderer funds, and the Eastern War
Sufferers’ Relief Fund. During Alderman Sir T. White’s
year of office a sum of £495,000 was raised for charitable
purposes: the principal Fund was of course the Indian
Famine Fund, the other collections being for the West of
England Inundations, the Shipping Disasters, and the Fire
at St. John, New Brunswick. In the year just closed (Sir
Thomas S. Owden’s) the total is about £85,000: being in
respect of the Eurydice Fund, £5700; the Princess Alice,
£47,500; the Abercnrne Colliery Fund, £31,000 : and the
Haydock Colliery Fund, £1000. The total for the three years
is about £618,000.
The forty-sixth annual general meeting of the Sacred
Harmonic Society was held on Wednesday evening at Exeter
Hall. According to the report read, the subscription-list of
the past season was fully up to the average. Reference was
made to the successful production of Rossini’s “Moses in
Egypt,” both musically and financially, and the members
referred in very complimentary and congratulatory terms
to the valuable services rendered by Sir Michael Costa,
who from the first suggestion of the idea down to the moment
of its successful realisation gave unremitting attention to
every point connected with the score; and to his unceasing
vigilance, coupled with his well-known musical ability and
skill, must in a great measure be attributed this happy crown¬
ing point of the labours of the past season. The forty-seventh
season will begin on Friday next with performances of Men¬
delssohn’s “ Hymn of Praise” and Rossini’s “ Stabat Mater.”
The chief vocalists will be Miss Anna Williams, Mrs. Suter,
Madame Patey, Mr. Edward Lloyd, and Mr. Bridson.
The Duke of Bedford, this year’s president, and the Council
of the Smithfield Club have made arrangements for the forth¬
coming Cattle Show at the Agricultural Hall. The prize-list
for the ensuing show has been settled, and will be larger than
ever. The show is this year to be divided into seventy-six
classes—thirty-two for cattle, thirty-one for sheep, and
thirteen classes for pigs. For the Devon, Hereford, Short¬
horn, and Sussex breeds the money prizes for each breed ill
be £220. and the aggregate amount of the monetary prizes for
the cattle classes will reach £1400. for the sheep classes £755,
and for pigs £192. In addition, there are six silver cups of
the value of £40 each to the best Devon, Hereford, Shorthorn,
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£20 each, and a champion plate for the best pen of three sheep
in the show, value £240 ; and four silver cups for pigs, valued
at £15 each, or an aggregate of £60, thus making the entire
value of the prizes for the forthcoming show considerably over
£3000. It has been arranged that the show shall begin this
year on Monday, Dec. 9. Tuesday, the 10th, will be the
commencement of the show to the general public, and it will
continue open the three following days, finally closing on the
evening of Friday, Dec. 13.
The state apartments of Windsor Castle,are closed until
further orders.
The “ Hospital Sunday ” collections in Liverpool this year
amount to £10,044, a slight increase on last year.
The Leicester Corporation have decided to ask for powers
to use the electric light in that town.
The Ord Distillery, in Inverness-shire, one of the largest in
the north of Scotland, was destroyed by fire last Saturday.
The annual general meeting of the Royal Scottish Acade¬
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Robert Gibb, Edinburgh ; Mr. Robert Alexander, Cramond ;
and Mr. W. B. Hole, Edinburgh, were elected Associates.
Michael Aheame, the last of the Fenian prisoners, has been
released from Millbank Prison on the representation of Mr.
Butt, Mr. O'Connor Power, and Mr. O’Shaughnessey. He had
been eleven years in penal servitude.
The Cunard liner Gallia was launched on Tuesday from the
shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Thomson at Dalmuir, near
Glasgow. The vessel was named by the Marchioness of Ailsa.
Her length is 450 ft.; breadth, 44 ft.; depth, 36 ft., tonnage,
5200; horse-power, 700.
The inhabitants of the fishing port of Eyemouth, on the
Berwickshire coast, have resolved to adopt a scheme for the
improvement of the harbour proposed by Mr. Meek, C.E., of
Edinburgh. A pier is to be built, at a cost of £20,000, and
there is to be a line from the North British Railway.
The Dublin Chamber of Commerce on Monday adopted a
scheme of incorporation under the Companies Acts as an asso¬
ciation limited by guarantee. The association will be registered
under the Board of Trade; but the objectionable word
“ limited ” will, by consent of the Board of Trade, be omitted
from its title, and its accounts will not be audited by an officer
of the Board of Trade. There are at present about 1200
members, and the constituency is not to number more than
1500. The liability of each member is fixed at £5.
JOHNSONIAN A.
Dr. Johnson still stops the way. It is to be hoped, however,
that, when Dr. Johnson, His Friends, and His Critics, by George
Birkbeck Hill. D.C.L. (Smith, Elder, and Co.), and Johnson's
lives of the Poets, &c., edited, with a preface, by Matthew
Arnold (Macmillan and Co.), have stood their fair time at
publicity’s door, the “great lexicographer” may be finally
driven off, and the literary thoroughfare may be left free for
the circulation of less threadbare “subjects.” It is not
improbable, in fact, that the public have had more than
enough, by this time, of Dr. Johnson; and that his memory
may suffer from the irritation produced by “damnable
iteration,” just as the name of Aristides became intolerable to
the worthy Athenian citizen. One is almost tempted to ask
for a revision of the English language, if “ the portrait of one
great man drawn by another great man” is to be considered
a true description of Macaulay’s life of Johnson. Dr. Johnson
was undoubtedly a “great lexicographer;” and Mr.
Macaulay, before he became a lord, was undoubtedly
a great essayist; but it is surely an exaggeration
to write them down “ great men.” Moreover, for all
the fear which Dr. Johnson inspired (and it is notorious
that he inspired none in such men as Beauclerk or even
Langton) during his lifetime, there cannot be many people who
regard his memory with that awe of which a little is almost
inseparable from one’s idea of greatness. On the contrary,
one’s admiration for the “great lexicographer” is, in con¬
sequence perhaps of the manner in which Macaulay and other
biographers have dwelt upon his more repulsive and ludicrous
peculiarities, modified by a little of that feeling with which
such monstrosities as a learned pig, or a dancing bear, or a
talking seal are regarded. And that is not the sort of feeling
with which we look upon greatness. That Dr. Johnson was
an extraordinary man, and that he was something better than
a great man, as the world generally counts greatness, there is
certainly no inclination here to deny; but it is possible to have
too much of a good thing, and even of a good man. It must
be acknowledged, however, that the prevalent rage for John-
soniana has resulted, so far as both Dr. Hill and Mr. Arnold
are concerned, in two very entertaining, interesting, and
possibly useful works.
Dr. Hill’s volume consists partly of essays hitherto unpub¬
lished ; partly of articles already published in the columns of
the leading journals and periodicals, “so re-cast and so
enlarged that, so far as form at least is concerned, they may
fairly claim to be original; ” partly of compositions “ repub¬
lished in the same form in which they at first appeared,” but
with such additions as appeared advisable. The work is divided
into ten chapters. The first presents the reader with a very
striking picture of Oxford as it was when Johnson was an under¬
graduate of Pembroke. The second is occupied with a sort of
disquisition, in which anecdotes concerning Johnson are inter¬
mingled with or added to a vindication of his character against
the misrepresentations of Macaulay. The third is devoted
chiefly to the task of showing how far Mr. Carlyle is right and
how far wrong in his estimate of Boswell as a true hero-
worshipper and as a labourer in what the French might call the
exploitation of Samuel Johnson. The fourth is to all intents and
purposes a defence of Boswellagainsttheaspersionsof Macaulay.
The fifth contains a short dissertation upon “the melancholy
of Johnson and Cowper.” The sixth is apparently intended
to prove that “ the respectable Hottentot” mentioned in one
of Lord Chesterfield’s letters “ was not Samuel Johnson, but
Mr. L , Lord Chesterfield’s relation.” The seveutn has to do
principally with the tone of Lord Chesterfield’s celebrated
letters, from which we are called upon to conclude, as we have
probably long ago concluded, that “there could never have
been any intimacy, still less could there have been any affection,
between the author of ‘The Vanity of Human Wishes’ and
the writer of these ‘ Letters to a Son.’ ” The eighth is full of
pleasant writing about the “ tall Lincolnshire squire,” Bennet
Langton, of gentle and gentleman-like repute ; and the ninth,
of equally pleasant writing, about the fashionable Topham
Beauclerk. The tenth is a touching tribute to the memory of
Oliver Goldsmith. There is also an appendix, wherein the not
very important question of how long Johnson remained at
Oxford is discussed; and to that appendix is further appended
a “note” exhibiting the evidence upon which we should
conclude that, “ so far from being three years at Oxford, he
was there barely fourteen mouths.” The book is pretty certain
to be received with “the degree of favour” for which the
author is anxious ; but it is with mixed feelings that one
accepts the assurance that, if it should, the author will “ hope
in another volume to write of others among Johnson’s friends,
and, perhaps, of others among his critics.” Many of us would
be better pleased if the author would write an equally
agreeable volume about somebody else’s friends and critics, of
whom we know less and are desirous of knowing more.
As for Mr. Arnold’s book, there is scarcely anything to be
said about it beyond the few following remarks. He is so
grave an authority that we open our mouths and shut our eyes
and take what he pleases to send us. And it pleases him to
give us a preface in which he explains some of his views about
education, and his reasons for editing, in the interest of “ the
student of English literature,” the “ most important of the
lives in Johnson’s volumes.” He has accordingly chosen six—
the lives of Milton, Dryden, Swift, Addison, Pope, and Gray.
The selection shows that he docs not consid r “most im¬
portant” to comprise “ best; ” otherwise, he would certainly
have substituted the life of Savage for one of the chosen. He
has taken what Sydney Smith might have called a “ short
view” of his editorial duties; for he has added only
“one single note,” has “reprinted Johnson’s six chief
lives simply as they are given in the edition in four volumes
octavo, the edition which passes for being the first to
have a correct and complete text,” and has “left the
lives, in that natural form, to have their own effect
upon the reader.” There is, of course, a great deal to be said
in favour of this plan ; for in passing from Milton to Gray the
reader will pass from the English of 1608 to the English of
1771 and, in respect of the biographer himself, of 1781, when
Johnson was still sound as well as ripe in intellect and style,
though doomed to fall in a year or two, so that gradual trans¬
formations in manner, expression, and orthography may be
easily followed by the observant. On the other hand, the plan
allows wheat and tares, truth and error, what is worthy and
what is unworthy of imitation, to become implanted together
in the reader's mind, to be hereafter distinguished and
separated not without considerable difficulty and at some risk
of mental disturbance. However, the reader will certainly
have in Johnson’s criticisms, poor and unjust as they may
sometimes be, an example which might be profitably studied
by the majority of our modem critics: he does not use the
work which he criticises as a mere excuse for the display of
his own proficiency in the arts of rhetoric, mystification, and
fine writing; he does not wrap up his meaning in a cloud of
vaporous verbosity. It should be mentioned that between the
preface and the lives is interposed the vigorous “Life of
Johnson” contributed by Macaulay to the “Encyclopajdia
Britanuica.”
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 16, 1878.— 464
JlTiBALCOMB
ItH,*X/.K SCULPTURES OP GATES, AND ALABASTER CHEST
WITH TABLETS, IN THE TEMPLE AT BALA WAT, NEAR NINEVEn.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEV.'S, Nov. 16, 1878.—466
THE LATE MB. SAMUEL PHELPS.
ASSYRIAN DISCOVERIES.
Some interesting articles in the Timet, and in
several other daily journals, towards the end
of last August, described the important dis¬
coveries made in the spring of this year by
Mr. Hormuzd Rassam at Balawat, nine miles
north-east of Nimroud (Kalakh), and fifteen
miles from Koyunjik, on the Tigris, the site of
ancient Nineveh. Mr. Rassam, a native of
that country, but a naturalised British subject,
and long in the service of our Foreign Office,
was the assistant of Sir Austen Henry Layard,
now her Majesty’s Envoy at Constantinople,
in the famous explorations of Nineveh and
Nimroud, about thirty years ago, which con¬
tributed the first instalment of relics of the
Assyrian historical monuments to the British
Museum. Since the lamented death of Mr.
George Smith, who had carried on the work
partly for the British Museum, partly at the
cost of the proprietors of the Daily Telegraph,
the Museum authorities have commissioned
Mr. Rassam to pursue these researches,
from which he has already obtained some
valuable results. He came home last sum¬
mer, bringing some collections which are
now in the Museum, and a portion of which,
from Balawat, are the subject of our present
Illustrations. A lecture explanatory of these
sculpture-records of Assyrian history was
delivered last week to the 8ociety of Biblical
Archieology, in Conduit-street, by Mr. Theo-
S hiluB Pinches, the successor of Mr. George
mith at his post in the Oriental Antiquities
Department of the Museum. He described tho
mound of Balawat as the site of an ancient
Assyrian fortress, which had borne a different
name before the reign of Assurnazirpal, father
of Shalmaneser II., whose reception of tribute
from Jehu, King of Israel, is recorded on the
famous black obelisk. Though so close to
Nineveh, it had been taken and held by the
Babylonians during ft period of Assyria *b
political decline, perhaps coincident with the
epoch of Hebrew ascendancy. But when
Assurnazirpal, a great warrior, came to the
throne he recovered the city, and re¬
named it Imgur-Beli, and built there a
temple to the god of war, near the city a
north-eastern wall. These facts are recorded
on alabaster tablets found by Mr. Rassam in a
coffer of the same material near the entrance
of the temple itself. As Mr. Pinches remarked,
they shed a fresh ray of light on one of the
darkest periods of Assyrian history. The
lar ditches. .
Ic altar, with platform and seats m
e Old aqueduct*,
d Trendies.
The double dotted lines a
mound is nearly rectangular, and its corners
are turned pretty accurately towards the four
cardinal points of the compass. The temple
ruins lie near the north-eastern edge, where
ran the city wall. In the western half of the
mound four stone platforms were found mark¬
ing the sides of an irregular square. While
digging round these platforms Mr. llassam
unearthed some pieces of chased bronze, and
at length two huge bronze monuments slowly
came to view. They were of the strangest
shape. Each seemed formed of a centre¬
piece with seven long arms on either hand, like
colossal hat-racks, with which the first pub¬
lished accounts compared them. Even after
laying them bare, the energetic excavator bad
great difficulty in disinterring them, and was
mortified at hearing the precious bronzes split
and crack as the sun dried up the earth in which
they had lain buried during so many centuries.
According to the explorer’s ground plan, the
platforms mark the entrances to the courtyard
of a noble palace, having two entrances on the
north-east and two others on the north-west.
The bronzes arrived at the British Museum at
the beginning of August last. There they
met with an enthusiastic welcome, and no less
naturally called forth much speculation as to
their nature and use. To Mr. Ready, the in¬
genious artificer of the department at the
British Museum, whose task it was to see to
the cleansing of the fragments, piecing them
together, and nailing them with the original
bronze nails on wood of the same thickness as
that which underlay the plates thus fastened,
belongs the merit of solving the riddle. He
was the first to see that the bronze plates of
the larger of the two monuments had formed
the coverings of an enormouB pair of rectan¬
gular folding doom, each about twenty-two
feet in height and six feet broad, which had
evidently turned on pivots, and were held up
at the top by strong ringB fixed in the
masonry. The body of the doors was of wood
three inches thick, as measured by the nails,
which are found to be clinched a little more
than that distance from the heads, the overplus
being just the thickness of the bronze plates
themselves, which is about one sixteenth of an
inch. Each door revolved on a circular post,
about a foot in diameter. Each post had a
pivot at the bottom. The pivots are at the
Museum, but the sockets in which they turned
were unfortunately left behind. The bronze
platee are about eight feet long. They were
nailed horizontally across each door, but,
THE tt.t.TTRTRATED LONDON NEWS
NOV. 16,1878
allowing for their extension round the post^
the total length across each leaf wu but six
a*. as.
it is cut plain, but is indented on the
side overlapping th# * ack ° f 8 ^ mU ch
;i a s:
represent hunting scenes, and it belonga tc the
same reign as the larger whose ^ scr 'P^
are those of Shalmaneser II. The represents,
tions on the plates of both pairs are in
th(> rpTiousse style. Those on the plates
of the great gates depict Shalmaneser s
battles, sieges, triumphal processions the tor¬
tures inflicted on his prisoners and ta»w«»gP
of the gods. The bronze plates covering the
“styles” of the doors are also engraved with
historical inscriptions, of which reserving for
another time his account of the extremely
numcrou. and interesting designs chastd on
the door, themselves, Ur. Pmehee gave the
general purport. The record on the styles,
he observed^though Bomewhat fuUer than that
on the black obelisk, and than the Kurkh
and Bull inscriptions, is very carelessly exe¬
cuted, even the chronological order of events
having been to some extent inverted.
The new document begins with Shalmaneser s
Babylonian campaign, when he went to help
King M ard uku - Suma- Iddm against that Baby- |
Ionian Monarch’s revolted brother. Next it
places his war in the region of Mount Ararat
followed by that against Gozan, and his
triumph over Akhuni, King of Borsippa, which
paved the way for his conquest of Syria and
Palestine. A critical comparison of all the
sources proves, however, that the Ararat cam¬
paign came first, and then his expeditions
against Akhuni and the Babylonian war. In
concluding, Mr. Pinches held out the hope of
identifying, in his future paper on the bas-
reliefs (which greatly exceed in number those
in the Nimroud Gallery in the British
Museum), some Jewish faces of the ninth cen¬
tury before Christ. It is certain that, as he
remarked, this wonderful monument cannot
fail to be of great use to the ethnologist, as
well as to the philologist and the antiquary.
The late Mr. George Smith’s excellent sum¬
mary of the “ History of Assyria,” published
by the Christian Knowledge Society, tells us
the events of Shalmaneser II.’s reign, from
b.c. 860 to b.c. 824. He continued and main¬
tained the conquests of his father Assur-nazir-
pal the builder of the palace at Nimroud, who
had marched his army to the Mediterranean
seacoast, andexa cted homage from Tyre and
Sidon. The military expeditions of Shal¬
maneser II. likewise conducted him into Syria,
and le d to the series of conflicts related in the
(Second Book of Chronicles, in which Israel
and Judah became fatally involved, but at a
considerably later period. This circumstance
gives a share of Biblical interest to the actions
delineated in the bronze sculptures of which
we present some Illustrations. They show the
King with his army on the march ; warriors
standing in two-horse chariots, like those of
Homer’s heroes at the siege of Troy, the
horses led by footmen; the King riding on
horseback, wearing a loose robe and cap,
with attendant eunuchs before and behind
him, and men carrying his bows and quivers,
wading across the River Tigris. Then, in
the piece below, the King appears standing
to offer sacrifices upon an altar; the captain of
his guard is behind him, with soldiers who are
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VASES. STATUEYW GAUM 1URES. BEAUX,
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Established 1760._
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and Ft. ' "
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' *• Mauufactureis, 48, Cheupsuie. London.
SECOND EDITION OF MR. JABEZ HOGG’S WORKS.
Coloured Plates. 2s. tki. each.
rpHE CURE OF CATARACT AND
IMPAIRMENT HE OR Y LOsI E UF°VISION FROM
SIGNAL CONCUSSipN OB SHOCK. g w , n|am . gt reet , Btnuld .
Rv Dr BARR MEADOWS,Physician to the National Institution
LrDiseaisoftheSkin. Seventh &litlon,post-free,32stamps.
"L^RUPTIONS; their Rational treatment.
J list published, post-free, two stamps, _
TYYSPEPSIA AND THE SEVERER
l j forms OF INDIGESTION, A small Pamphlet on these
ATUSICAL-BOX DEPOTS, 56, Cheapside,
If X aud 22. Ludgate-hllL ^ “irilLs 1 ^* toiiao
grat?saud post-free. Apply to WALES A MCULLOCH.asabove.
/?10. BENNETT’S WATCHES.
~J~/ i n return for a £10Note, free and Bafe per post, one of
KSn eTT’S LADVS GOLD WATCHES, perfect lo t; tim e,
beauty, and workmanship, with keyless action, aix-tight, damp
tight, and dust-tlght.-aS. Cheapside. London. Gold Chains at
manufacturer*’ prices. F.O.O. Ui John Beunett.
BENNETT. and 64. Cheapside.
AHrALKER’S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES
IY aresunersedinKall others. Prize Medals—London,1863.
Paris 1867 SllverNV a^hes. from £4 4s.; Cold, from £6 6s. Price-
Lists 'sent free.-77, Cornhill: MO, Re gent-.treet; and 78. Strand.
8urgepu. ltoyal Navy, 2
his guard IS oemnu. mm, wim «th Edition. 8vo, cloth, pp. 1102.16s.,
bringing a slaughtered bull and a lve ram t T OM( eOPATHIO DOMESTIC
for the offering. There are four conical stones, u medicine. By J. laubie. m.d. Completely re-
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nrehensive Guido published for the use of families, emigrants,
iud missionaries, living free of all technicalities The present
edition contains, in addition to the symptoms and treatment of
all general diseases, including those of tern ales and Children.
mnVv important new chapters, comprising, among others, the
speei lie characteristic effects of all the new American remedies,
plain Directions for the treatment of Accidtnta and lBas-
cl* * Aff^U-ion 'rd’ the 61 ^M n fwBh B a’SewripUon 1 ©?
for the onenng. mere are mur cumrai
the well-known emblems of a common object
of Eastern nature-worship; there is a sacred
grove of trees, with a lodge or temple in the
background, and the guardian priest is talking
with the King's herald or secretary, who may
perhaps be asking leave to approach or enter
the sanctuary. The nethermost scroll would
seem to represent the King’s servants cutting
an inscription on the rock, and lopping a f. w
branches of the trees, to commemorate his
visit to the foreign shrine. This was situated,
most likely, in Northern Syria, and there
would be a motive of policy for thus record¬
ing the pious regard of Shalmaneser for the
divinities worshipped by the nations over
whom his ambition sought to reign. The
alabaster chest, three feet long and two feet
high, which contained three alabaster tablets,
all covered with inscribed history of the reign
of Assur-nazir-pal, is represented at the top
of the page. A ground-plan of Mr. Rassam’s
excavations at Balawat is also furnished, and
we may expect the publication of his own
account of them, as well as Mr. Pinches’
further interpretation of their historical import.
The executive committee of the Kent and
Sussex Labourers’ Union has resolved to accept
the offer of the Canadian Government to devote
upwards of 5000 acres of land to the locked-out
agricultural labourers.
A return has been issued which shows that
the number of plaints entered in 1877 in all
the county courts of England and Wales was
1,024,826, of which number 392,429 were for
sums exceeding forty shillings, 569.320for sums
exceeding five shillings and not exceeding forty
shillings, 61,950 for sums exceeding one shilling
and not exceeding five shillings, and 1127 for 1
sums not exceeding one shilling. The total 1
number of persons imprisoned during the year i
was 5088; and of that numbeT 2241 were im- I
prisoned in respect of .sums over forty shillings,
2791 for sums exceeding five shillings and not
exceeding forty shillings, twenty six for sums 1
exceeding one shilling and not exceeding five I
shillings, there being no cate of imprisonment
for a sum not exceeding one shilling.
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PATENT LEVhll WATCHES, which, Ming manufactured by
themuclvea on tliejjmni&es, are confidently recorauietulcU lor
accuracy and durability J^ „
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U oLACK^SILVER
its. Fish Carvers, in case. 109. i«l. to 50s.;
Forks, in case, 42s. to 120s.; bets of Specm
each), lias.; Sets of Cutlery, 76s.; Cruet
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XTOTICE. — SPOONS and FORKS,
JN in SILVER and In ELECTRO-l'LATK.
ELK1 NOTON and CO., as the result of Important
Improvements in the above nianufactures.aicsbto
to oiler their guaranteed qualities at such prices
ns. while fully maintaining tlieir acknowledged
superiority, place them within the resell of aU
classes Revised Illustrated Price-Lists free by
no«t on application. Purchasers of Silver Spoons
anil Forks obtain the advantage of any ffuctuations
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/CONSUMPTION: its Nature, Symptoms,
V7 Causes. Prevention, Curability, and Treatment. By
PETER GOWAN.M.D., B.Sc.. Into Physician and Surgeon in
Ordinary to the King of Siam.
London: J. nnrl A. Churchill.
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M A L V E U _ COLLEGE.
T HE CANCEE HOSPITAL (Free).
Founded 1851.-The only »i»ecial Refuge for Poor Persons
ainicted with this fearful disease, who are admitted Free, without
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__ H. J. Jupp, Secretary.
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B ank of new Zealand
(Incorporated by Act of General Assembly, J uly 29.1861).
PLEASE NOTICE—
THERE IS ONLY ONE ADDRESS
FOR PETER ROBINSON’S
MOURNING WAREHOUSE.
. ALL LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS
intended for the Mourning Warehouse
MUST BE CLEARLY DIRECTED
TO REGENT-STREET, Nos. 256 to 262.
AT FETER ROBINSON'S
JiAMILY MOURNING WAREHOUSE,
“ REGENT-STREET.”
Widow hi Dress, hcautifally fitted, made complete,
Widow's Bonnet and Cap. made by French Milliners,
from . j
Widow's Mantle or Paletot, handsomely trimmed.
Dresses, Made Complete, for a Parent! Sister, or
Brother, from .. ■.<
Mantles ana Paletots, handsomely trimmed, for ditto,
from .j
Bonnets, New Styles, made by French Milliners,
I pHAPMAN’S, NOTTING-HILL, W.
AV Patterns Free.
Rich Ores Grains i very sped
Very Handsome Ditto
Chapman's Yellow-Edged M
(Equal to any Silk ever :
per yard, and excclle
Black Lyons Ditto.Ss. 6d. „
Black Lyons, all pure Silk .. 6s. fid. to 15s. Od.
White Lyons, for Brides' Dresses, 7s. lid,
9s.lid., unci Us. 9d. „
ColouredSatinaforTrimmlngs, Ac.,2s,lld.and3s. 6d. .,
COLOURED GROS GRAINS FOR PROMENADE.
DINNER AND EVENING SILKS.
A Superior Quality—Rich Handsome Corded Gros Grains,
JQINDEN VELVET OZONID.
The perfection of these splendid Velveteens Is so apparent,
and their superiority to every other kind so undeniable, that
numberless imitations are produced in this country under
PATTERNS FEE
BLACK SILKS.
manufactured by Bonnet, of Lyons.
Messrs. JAY beg to inform their Patrons
and the Public generally
that they are now selling these well-known
PURE LIGHT-DYED SILKS
at a reduction of from 33 to 40 percent off
prices that were charged previous to the
DEPRESSION IN THE LYONS SILK MARKET.
Present price, 4s. Ild.: former price, 8s. 3d.
„ fis. 6d.; „ „ 8s. 9d.
„ „ 6s. Ud.J „ 9s. 6d.
„ „ 6s. 9d.; „ 10s. 6d.
Messrs. JAY are also selling Jaubert s good wearing
Black SILKS, at the following reduced rate :—
Present price, 3s. Od.; former price, 5s. 6d.
In the most fashionable colours, at 2 s. u$d. per yard.
Patterns free.-JOHN HOOPER, 62, Oxford-street, W.
The London Office RECEIVES DEPOSITS of £60 and upwards
for fixed periods of two to five years, bearing interest at 5 per
cent, per annum. The rate tor shorter periods cun be ascertained
on application. F. Lahkwoutuv. Managing Director.
No. I, Queen Victoria-street, Mansion House. B.C.
WRITING, BOOK-KEEPING, &c.
pursuits or private correspondence. Book-keeping by double
entry, as practised In the Government, banking, and mercantile
odices. Arithmetic. Shorthand. Ac.—Apply to Mr. W. SMART,
at his sole Institution, 97 b, Quadrant, Regent-street.
M AGIC OF SCIENCE. — STATHAM’S
DA POLYTECHNICJAMUSEMENTS. Catalogue, 3 stamps.
Chemical Experiment Chests. 6s. to £10. •• Box of Chemical
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London.
Ti'OR FAMILY ARMS (Lincoln’s-inn
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or stamps. Arms Painted and Engraved on Seals,Book-Plates,
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Paper-Knives. Boxes, Screens, Ac. Priced List post-free.
Ws. Baunabd, 119. Edgware-road, London.
TUDSON’S DYES— 6d. each, of Chemists.
W Curtains, Tablecovers, Mantles, Scarves. Jackets dyed in ten
minutes in a pail of hot water.
Judson's Dyes—Crimson, Green, and Twenty-four Colour*.
pAUTION.—BOND’S CRYSTAL PALACE
\J GOLD MEDAL MARKING INK. Three Gold, several
Silver, and other Medals. Some chemists and stationers for
extra profit deceive you. Genuine label “ Daughter of late John
Bond.' Works, To. Sonthgato-road, N. No heating required.
£100 reward on criminal conviction for misrepresentation or
colourable imitation.
M R. ERASMUS WILSON, F.R.S., writes,
in the "Journal of Cutaneous Medicine,”
“ T ALWAYS USE IT MYSELF and
A recommend it to my patients,” wrote the lute
einiment surgeon. Mr. James Startin, of |
PEARS' TRANSPARENT SOAP.
P ~ EARS’ - TRANSPARENT SOAP.
For a Healthv Skin and Good Complexion.
Of Chemists and Perfumers everywhere.
For Patterns—address o.vLr as follows:—
PETER ROBINSON, 256 to 262,
REGENT-STREET.
THE COURT AND GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE
TALACK SILK VELVETS,
A) Exceptional Value,
at 3s. lid., 4s. 9d., 5s. 6d„ 6s. 6d., and 7s. 6d.
RICH LYONS VELVETS,
at 10s. Sd„ 12s. i)d., and 16s. Cd.
Snperb qualities for Dresses and Mantle*.
For Patterns, address as follows
PETER ROBINSON.* I1EGENT-STBEET.
Nos. 256 to 262.
SILK COSTUMES
For Photos and Sketches address onlv to
PETER ROBINSON. " REGENT-STREET,"
Nos. 256 to 262.
EVENING and DINNER DRESSES.
Xi New 8tylcs, well cut. and elegantly trimmed,
from one guinea to 10 guineas.
i in tne accented colours-
which for durability remain ui
Estamenes, Is. llkd. per yard, s
other qualities, 7jd. to Is. per;
CHAPMAN'i
I JpRENCH MERINOS. I
| Merinos have become so associated with every idea of utility and
1 bcuuty perfected in a woollen dress mate lal, that it seems almost
superfluous to remind ray patrons that these useful fabrics are,
if possible, better than ever. My Stock represents every phase
and tone of colour that is now worn. First quality, 2s. lljd.;
second ditto, Is. ll}d. per yard.
J^RENCH TWILLED FLANNELS.
Twiled flannel Is now a recognised material for dresses, and
very pretty and u-eful they are. For winter wear the double
milled goods are recommended as being extra warm, particularly
for children. The novel tones of colour that are fuslilonablo
this season have all been produced in those beautiful goods. All
are perfectly fast colours 30in. wide. Is. 6d. and Is. llid. Tier
yard.-CHAPMAN'S. NOTTING-HILL, W.
■yyiNTER SKIRTINGS.
There useful and Indispensable fabrics arc now in great request.
All the new designs are prepared for distribution. Those in the
best style will be found strikingly pretty and effective. Tbe
lines or stripes are raised In fine silken knots, In various shades
T^TUDA VERITAS—GREY HAIR
X1 restored bythlsvaluable speclflcto Its original shade, after
which it grows the natural colour, not grey. Used as a dressing,
it causes growth and arrests falling. The most harmless and
effectual restorer extant. Onetrlalwlllconvinceithasno equal.
Price 10s. 6d., of all Chemists and Hairdresser*. Testimonials
post-free.—B. HOVENDEN and SONS, London.
G olden h a i r—robare’s
AUREOL1NE produces the beautiful Golden Colour so
much admired. Warranted perfectly harmless. Price 5s. ed. and
10s. lid., of all Perfumers. Wholesale, HOVENDEN and SONS,
6, Great Marlborough-street, W.; and 93 and 95, City-road, E.C.
London; Pinaud and Meyer,37, Boulevard do Strasbourg. Paris;
SI, Graben, Vienna; 44, Rue des Longs Chariots, Brussels.
TkOES YOUR HAIR TURN GREY f
requirements, and at. all prices. Another novelty In sklrtlnes
for this season are Tartan Mixtures arranged longitudinally.
There are most stylish. «ml the plain and rough-threaded
Skirtings well merit distinct! n. An excellent and varied assort¬
ment that no one can fail to make a selection from. Is. to 6s.
CHAPMAN’S, NOTTING-HILL, W.
ROM Is. 11 ^d. yd. BAKER & CRISP’S
BLACK SILKS, Evening, Wedding. Dinner, and other
JpURS at SUMMER PRICES.
REAL RUSSIAN SEAL PALETOTS.
S3 inches long .94 guineas.
36 inches long .Ill guineas.
39 inches long .13 gull
FUR-LINED CLOAKS,
PETER ROBINSON, REGENT-STREET,
should be clearly addressed t<
REGENT-STREET, Nos. 256 tc
F ROM Is. 9d. yard. BAKER & CRISP’S
MOLESKTN SILK VELVETEENS, unobtainable else¬
where ; Colours and Striped, from 2s. lid.
Patterns free.—198, Regent-street.
T7R0M 8d. yard, The WINTER DRESS
X FABRICS.
100 New and Useful Dress and Costumo Cloths,
from 8d. to 3a. «d. yard.
Patterns free.—198, Regent-street, BAKER and CRISP.
1 s. llid. yard, 54 inches wide, INDIAN
X CASHMERES,
Black and ul 1 Dark Shades:
also Pink, Sky. Ecru. White, Grenut, and other Shades.
French Twilled Flannels, all colours, Is. 114<L
Patterns free.-BAKEU and CRISP.
I 1 2s. 9d. to 35s. LADIES’ ULSTERS.
rPHE COURT HAIR DESTROYER.—This
X newly-discovered remedy completely removes superfluous
hair. Quite harmless. 3s. od.; post 3s. 10d., of Inventor, J. Leon,
19, Porteus-rd., London, W.. or Chemists. Sent abroad for 4s. Od.
VALUABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR,
V If your hair Is turning grey, or white, or falling off, use
"The Mexican Hair Renewer? for it will positively restore in
every case Grey or White Hair to its original colour, without
leaving the disagreeable smell of most " Restorers." It makes
1 the hair charmingly beautiful, as well os promoting the growth
of the hair on bald spots where the glands are not decayed. Ask
any Chemist for the “ Mexican Hair Renewer." price 3s. 6d.
, Prepared by HENRY C. GALLUP. 423. Oxford-street, London.
T7L0RILINE. For the Teeth and Breath.
X Is the best Liquid Dentifrice in the World; it thoroughly
cleanses partially-decayed teeth from oil parasites or living
| •• animalcule," leaving them pearly white, imparting a deliglit-
' fnl fragrance to the breath. Price 2s. 6d. per Bottle. The
Fragrant Florlline removes instantly all odours ari-ingfrora a
foul stomach or tobacco smoke, being partly composed of honey,
I soda, and extracts of sweet herbs and plants. It Is perfectly
harmless, and delicious as sherry. Prepared by HENRY 0.
I GALLUP. 493, Oxford-street, Loudon. Retailed every where.
■ROWLANDS’ MACASSAR OIL preserves,
Xl/ strengthens, and beautifies the human Hair, 3s. 6d., 7*.,
Highly and extensively recommended for the toilet and In all
cases of cutaneous disease by Mr. Jas. Startin, M.H.C.S., Surgeon
to St. John's Hospital for Diseases of tho Skin the late Mr.
James Startin, M.D . F.K.C.S., of Savile-row, Mr. McCall
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A Le Plancta Waltx.Lamothe.
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A Pergola Polka . .. ..Marie.
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LONDON NEWS
NOV. 16, 1878
470
NEW BOOKS.
Messrs Cassell Petter, and Galpin have published their
ss£s “a serai
S Sh this important work of evangelical history was
greeted, it would be superfluous to crftocweitiM
stvle of execution, or to discuss the objections stall enter
taLed by many thoughtful readers to any attempt, how¬
ever learned, skilful, and reverential, to recast the New
Testament narrative in a literary composition of uiodem
form. Canon Farrar must be admitted to have per
formed this task as well as it could have been done ujxm
the plan which had been laid down, and with such materials
as were extant; though it may appear to some, who much
accustomed to historical studies, that the result is
inapplicability of ordinary modes of inquiry to the examination
of the facts referred to, having regard to the nature of the
documents in hand. There can, however, be no question of
the great interest and value of a large amount of ,
information which Canon Farrar has brought to bear, from
extensive aad various researches, upon the surrounding cir¬
cumstances of our Saviour’s earthly lot in Palestine under the
Koman Empire. His work demands for this purpose a serious
and attentive perusal, accompanying that of the Gospels, to
which it furnishes an instructive commentary from the archm-
ological, topographical, and exegetical standpoints. The
book is rendered far more useful to that end, as well as
extremely beautiful and attractive, by the magnificent series of
pictorial illustrations with which it is now supplied in the
present edition. Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin have
spared no cost or care in preparing this noble volume. I hey
intrusted to Mr. F. Mason Good the service of taking original
photographs in the Holy Land, which he visited on that
errand; while the Rev. S. S. Lewis, Fellow of Corpus Chnsti,
superintended the copying and engraving of sculptures, coins,
and gems, and other relics of antiquity. The illustrations,
numbering five or six hundred, consist mostly of woodcuts
interspersed with the text, but some views of scenery are of
full-page size. No attempt has been made to design any fresh
artistic and ideal representations of the persons of Christ and
His disciples; but a few of the most ancient sculptures, and
paintings in Greek or Oriental manuscripts, which show the
primitive conception of grouping the figures, in such actions
as “The Raising of Jairus’ Daughter,” or “The Miraculous
Draught of Fishes,” have been copied in reduced outline.
This moderate and subordinate use of fine-art creations,
eschewing all those which belong to the later ages of the
Roman Catholic Church, may be deemed preferable to the
copious introduction of Italian Renaissance designs, those of
Raffaele and others, majestic and graceful as they are, in Mr.
Murray’s edition of the New Testament; but it would perhaps
have been still better to exclude all pictures of our Lord from
a book for Protestant English readers; The views of places in
Judea and Galilee, and ruins of buildings, of the towns and
cities, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Tiberias, the supposed
sites of Bethsaida and Capernaum, and many localities of hal¬
lowed associations, contribute the better part of the Illus¬
trations ; besides many others which exemplify the customs,
dress, manners, and habits of the people in that country, less
changed than among the nations of Christendom. Maps, plans,
and diagrams assist the topographical explanations, and there
are many small drawings of furniture, implements, aud
utensils of daily life, which help the reader to a correct know¬
ledge of things mentioned in the Gospel narrative, or in the
discourses and conversations reported of Christ.
The second volume of the New Testament Commentary , edited
by the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, of which also
Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin are the publishers, has now
made its appearance. We noticed, about eighteen months
since, the publication of the first volume, containing the Four
Evangelists, with an introduction by Bishop Ellicott, and with
commentaries on St. Matthew, Mark, and Luke, by the Rev.
Dr. E. H. Plumptre, and by the Rev. H. W. Watkins on
St. John. The present volume consists of the Acts of the
Apostles, with commentary by Dr. Plumptre ; and the Epistles
of St. Paul to the Romans, Corinthians, and Galatians,
with commentaries by the Rev. W. Sanday, by Dr. Plumptre,
and by the Rev. Teignmouth Shore. This portion of the New
Testament is certainly that which most needs the aid of a
judicious theological exposition; and we cannot doubt that
the esteemed clergymen to whose hands it was here committed,
following their eminent predecessors, Dr. Liglitfoot, Dr.
Vaughan, Dean Stanley, and others, have done all that could
be expected to render the full meaning of St. Paul clearly
intelligible, and to remove misconceptions and hindrances in
the 6tudy of his authentic writings. It should always be
remembered that these, after all, constitute the oldest in date,
and the most immediately Apostolic, of the Christian Scrip¬
tures in our possession ; that they have a peculiar impress of
originality and genuineness, not surpassed by any other ancient
literature ; and that they are the unquestionable documents of
the earliest form of Christian doctrine and practice. Every
contribution, therefore, to the better understanding of this
part of the New Testament, is even more valuable than the
more elaborate work of Canon Farrar above noticed ; and it
does equal credit to the same publishers that they have pro¬
cured its compilation for the benefit of their countrymen in
the present times of eager religious discussion.
E Hulme’s Familiar Wild Flowers, m the possession of all
those nersons living in town who love the country best, and
1E L\4 UP their happy lemembMjc. of rural
nature We have no doubt there are several hundred thou¬
sand of such residents in London and the other great towns
of England and Scotland at all seasons of the year; Jgdwe
entirely sympathise with their predilection, while referring
them to Mr. F. G. Heath aud several recent authors of the
same class for a certain amount of literary consolation.
We have lately renewed, upon the occasion of receiving,
from Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington,
the beautiful illustrated edition of “The Fern Paradise,” our
former expressions of admiration for that work, and for its
predecessor, “The Fern World.” The same author, Mr. Francis
George Heath, an enthusiastic and accomplished observer of
the loveliest forms of wild and free vegetable growth in his
native country of Great Britain, but more especially in
the West of England, has now produced a third book
of that class, which merits an equal degree of popu¬
lar favour. It is entitled Our Woodland Trees, and is
a worthy companion of the preceding delightful volumes,
being adorned in like manner with exquisitely fine coloured
lithographs, representing the leaves of trees with their
minutest veining, perfectly accurate in drawing, and life-
life to a charming degree, as well as many wood engravings of
forest scenery and other landscape, groves and glades and
single trees—a store of summer beauties to be enjoyed by the
winter fireside. The text, of which these pictures supply most-
agreeable illustrations, is a discourse, first, upon the life of
the tree, one of the most interesting topics of natural history ;
next, upon the romantic paths of the New Forest in Hamp¬
shire, with a nearer ramble to Epping Forest, which also repays
the visitor; thirdly, upon the cultivation of certain trees in
London and other towns, in the Parks, open roads, and
private gardens of a city or its suburbs; and, finally, we have
a brief account, but sufficiently precise, of sixty different
species—oaks, elms, and beeches, the ash, the chestnut, the
lime, the plane, maple, and sycamore, the willow, the
ART.
THE NATIONAL GALLERY.
In our article last week on the National Gallery, we men¬
tioned incidentally the genial manner in which the information
relating to the pictures acquired during the current year is
conveyed. Some emendations or rather alterations in the
old matter of the catalogue have, however, been made,
which seem to us scarcely so well considered. Among the
alterations to which we refer is the substitution of the
family name or surname of several masters for their frequently
better-known pseudonym, sobriquet, or nick-name. It Peed
not be said that no personal names are more difficult to
arrange alphabetically than those of the Old Masters. Fre¬
quently they were known in their own time, and have been
known since, almost exclusively by nicknames, tor instance,
Masaccio, “ dirty Thomas,” was so called on account of his
slovenly habits; Giorgione, “big George,” was an allusion to
his fine, handsome person; whilst Pintuncchio was the little
painter; ” Giovanni da Fiesole was styled “ Fra Angelico, on
account of the number of angels which the good frate intro¬
duced into his pictures, as “ Uccello ” derived his name from
his fondness for introducing birds, and Garofalo from the
gilliflower monogram in his foregrounds; “Guercino owed
that appellation to his squint, whilst the more flattering desig¬
nation, “ l’lngegno,” was given in acknowledgment of Aloises
cleverness. Sometimes the name was due to the painter s
office or order, as Sebastiuno del Piombo, “of the Lead, in
reference to the office he held of keeper of the leaden seals,
with which the Papal bulls were stamped ; and Domemchino,
or “the little Dominican.” But as frequently the father’s
occupation gave the cognomen, as'Tintoretto, “the dyer;’
l’Ortolano, “the gardener;” Andrea del Sarto, “of the
tailor;” and Ghirlandaio, in allusion to the art of his father,
the goldsmith, in making garlands. Very often, also, the
painter derived his name from his native place, or the place
he last hailed from, or where he was best known, as il Por-
denone, or the Pordenonese ; Parmegiano, “the little
Parmesan;” Perugino, “the little Perugian ; ” Spagnoletto,
“ the little Spaniard.” It is not easy, either, to arrange many
compound names alphabetically—such as Melozzo da Forli,
Guido Reni. Don Diego de Silva y Velasquez, Rembrandt
Hermanszoon van Ryn. ...
The principle adopted in the changes made in the new
catalogues is to class the works under the artist’s family or
surname. Thus Raphael appears under Sanzio, Titian under
Vicellio, Giorgione under Barbarelli, Guido under Reni, Michael
Angelo under Buonarotti, Francia under Raibolini, Moretto da
Brescia under Bonvicino, Claude under Lorraine, Spagnoletto
under Ribera. To persons familiar with the nomenclature of
the old masters this may be an advantage; and persons less
well informed are directed to the surnames by cross references
from the more popular names. The principle is not, however,
consistently pursued. For example, the names Tintoretto,
Masaccio, Veronese, Angelico, Del Sarto, Caravaggio, Correggio,
Garofalo, Guercino, l’Ortalano, Parmegiano, Perugino,
Pinturicchio, Sebastiano del Piombo, Pordenone, and others
are retained ; whilst there are no cross references from their
respective surnames. To avoid this discrepancy we think it
would be, on the whole, better in all cases to give, the
biographical notice under the popularly known name, and to
give the less well-known surname where there is the least pos¬
sibility of mistake, as a cross reference merely.
Before concluding, we would join in the complaint made
by many of our contemporaries against closing the national
collection so great a part of the year. On two days a week
the public is rigidly excluded for the sake of a few copyists,
whose generally useless and unintelligent, and frequently
decidedly mischievous, operations might be conducted equally
well, as they are in the galleries of Italy, France, and other
countries, on the days when the gallery is open, without
appreciable hindrance from, and with little impediment to,
the visitors. Not content, however, with thus virtually
closing the gallery one third of the year, the authorities
hermetically seal it one whole month—the month of October.
Such a custom, even when the gallery was in its infancy, was
not excusable ; but now that it is fast becoming worthy of
this great and wealthy nation—now that it is indeed one of the
most important in Europe—such a custom is little short of
scandalous. When we see from the Official Report that
the number of visitors last year ranged from 44.000 to
190,000 per month, we may conceive (taking only the smallest
monthly attendance as approximately what would be the
attendance were the gallery open in October) how great must
have been the inconvenience and disappointment -to the
masses unacquainted with the arrangement—attending this
closing the doors an entire month. It not only unfairly
deprives hosts of tax-paying provincials of the only oppor¬
tunity they have of seeing the collection— the opportunity
they have after harvest time ; but it is to the last degree dis¬
courteous to many classes of Continental visitors, who come to
London in larger numbers during the month of October than
during any other part of the year, and in regard to whom we
ought, if only for the sake of our amour propre, to endeavour
to support our recent pretentions to national taste. It is also
still more discourteous to our nearer relations, the American
visitors, half of whom—those who make the “ grand tour” in
the summer instead of the winter—pass through Loudon during
October, like a flight of swallows, on their way back to “ the
other side. ’
There is no gallery in Europe where such discourtesy is
shown. With or without a passport (or, at the worst, with an
easily procurable introduction) an Englishman has only to
present himself to gain admission at any time into any public
gallery abroad, aud even into almost any private gallery,
though his presence must occasionally be more or less incon¬
venient. This custom at the National Gallery is not paralleled
in any other great public resort even in England: there is
nowhere such a continuous wholesale exclusion of students,
amateurs, provincials, foreigners, and public at large. Nor is
there any substantial reason whatever for such exclusion.
During the recent recess nothing was done beyond cleaning the
windows and the floors, dusting the pictures, and making a few
trifling alterations; nothing which might not have been done in
any odd hours, morning or evening, or on “ students’ days.” No
one would deprive the director and secretary of their holiday.
But, even if it were absolutely necessary they should both have
their holiday together during the month of October and it
were impossible to provide a responsible substitute for either
the pictures could come to no harm in their absence • for
the gallery is in charge of a permanently-attached fowe of
police, consisting of two inspectors, one sergeant, and sixteen
constables, to say nothing of a staff of porters and assistant
porters. We purposely abstain from advancing the strong
arguments that might be adduced, and which are beginning to
be advanced by enlightened and liberal clergymen of "the
Church of England, in favour of opening the gdlery free on
Sundays for the moral and intellectual recreation of working
men, some of whom spend their Sunday afternoons so unpro-
fitably in the neighbouring Trafalgar-square. \V e purposely
abstain from any remark on that head : it will all be settled in
good time by public opinion. But we do contend that it is
high time the gallery should not be closed for a month at a time
and on so large a proportion of the week-days of the year. ’
The Prince of Wales’s Indian Collection is, it is stated to
be exhibited in the Science and Art Museum, Edinburgh on
the return of the collection from Paris.
Her Majesty has commanded that the ancient tapestries of
Holyrood Palace shall be restored at the Royal Windsor
Tapestry Works.
Earl Sydney, Lord Lieutenant of Kent, presided on Tues¬
day night at an inaugural banquet in connection with the new
science and art schools at Bromley, Kent, and referred to the
encouragement to art afforded by several members of the
Royal family. Mr. Talbot, M.P. for Oxford University, said
that, while not wishing to cast any slur upon modem science
and art, or to suggest that any of the wonderful inventions of
the present age were superfluous, he would recall to their
minds the fact that the great masters of antiquity laid down
rules in science and art—models and principles which we, in
the nineteenth century, were happy to follow.
A meeting was held on Monday at Mercers’ Hall for the
purpose of formally constituting the “ City and Guilds of
London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Edu¬
cation ” The meeting was, in fact, the first held by the board
of governors which the provisional committee of the guilds
had recommended should be constituted as the supreme
governing body of the new institute. This body consists of
representatives from the subscribing livery companies, nomi¬
nees from t he Court of Common Council, the Lord Mayor, and
other City officials, with a president and twelve vice-prebidents.
The first business was toe election of the council, which
consists of members elected by the board and other governors
nominated by the contributing companies, or by the Common
Council. The council, after their appointment, elected as their
chairman Lord Selbome, who has acted as chairman of the
provisional committee for the last year; they then proceeded
to select the executive committee of the council, which will in
future be the real working board of the institute, and is com¬
posed, like the other two bodies, partly of elected members
and partly of nominees. Mr. Bramwell, the deputy-chairman
of the provisional, became the chairman of the executive com¬
mittee. This formal business over, the committee took into
consideration the report of the provisional committee, and
fi nall y decided to prepare a scheme thereon which might be
laid before an early meeting of the council for their approval.
The amount of available income promised is £12,000.
The picture of “The Vintage Festival—Ancient Rome,”
by Mr. Alma-Tadema, is being exhibited at Messrs. Gladwell’s
gallery, Gracechurch-street.
A marble monumental bust of Canon Conway, executed by
Mr. R. C. Bell, has been placed in a handsome marble niche
prepared to receive it in the south wall of St. Margaret’s
Church, Westminster, and was unveiled last Saturday by the
Duke of Buccleuch.
Messrs. Deighton and Dunthome, of High Holborn, have
opportunely published two lithographic bust portraits, about
half lifesize, of the Marquis of Lome and the Princess Louise.
Some scriptural compositions of large size, by distinguished
German artists, exhibited by means of artificial light at the
back, thus forming effective transparencies, are on view at the
Westminster Aquarium, and are much superior to ordinary
productions of the kind.
The first of a series of water-colour exhibitions, under the
auspices of the Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colours,
has been opened at Glasgow, in a gallery in West Nile-street,
which has been specially fitted up for the purpose. The
collection contains 172 drawings.
A Fine-Art and Industrial Exhibition will be held in York
next year, to open on May 1 and close Oct. 31. The exhibition
will include paintings in oil, water-colour drawings, manufac¬
tures, machinery, natural products, antiquities, &c. The Arch¬
bishop of York is president.
The Council-General of the Seine has passed a resolution
against the demolition of the Exhibition building^ in the
Champ de Mars, and requests the Prefect of the Seme to
negotiate with the State the exchange of the Champ de
for a piece of ground for manoeuvres outside the city walls.
A statue of Rabelais is to be erected in the city of Tours.
Lord Methuen, Grand Master of the Wilts freemasons,
has been presented with a pair of silver candelabra ot
value of 600 guineas, on his having completed his twenty-
■year of presiding over the Freemasons of Wiltshire, an even
on which Prince Leopold congratulated him by letter.
Mr. Gladstone was present last Monday evening at the
opening of an institute and reading-room at Buckley,
village not far from the right hon. gentleman s resident
Hawarden. He spoke of the various kinds of combination m
vogue at the present day. Of friendly societies he ob•
that they should be based upon principles of sound e
mical calculations ; and of trades unions, that it was es * e .
that those who entered them should respect the liberty ot
who did not join them. One of the features of the new -
tute led Mr Gladstone to speak of the advantages de
from the practice of debating in such associations.
A meeting of the supporters of the Mary Cwpenter
Memorial Fund was held in Bristol on the 7th inst. tn .
presiding— for the purpose of receiving the report ot tn
rnittee. In answer to the committee’s appeal, neat: y
has been subscribed. With this sum £80 has been spe P
a memorial tablet in Bristol Cathedral; a Working .
Home had been built in St. Philip’s, capable ot
modating forty boys who have no home, or wish tor
oue; and also for twenty working women and giri. -
means will not allow them to procure such advun £ _jn-
themselves. The home will be conducted on the s in
ciples as the home which Miss Carpenter established ■
and worked in until her death. The Boys Home , ^
the women’s home nearly £500, and each has been .
with £300. The report was adopted, and committees appo
to superintend the working of the homes.
NOV. 16, 1878
THE ILLTJSTKATED LONDON NEWS
471
MUSIC.
HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE.
“ Le Nozze di Figaro,” as given on Thursday week, included
the first assumption here of the character of Figaro by Herr
Behrens, who snug with much effect, particularly in the aria,
“Non piu andrai,” and actid with considerable animation,
although perhaps scarcely realising to the full the light¬
hearted and flippant gaiety of the character. It was, however,
a generally artistic performance. Madame Pappenheim gave
the music of the Countess with much genuine feeling, especially
in the aria “ Dove sono ; ” and Madame Helfene Crosmond was
a very efficient representative of Susanna, both dramatically
and musically. Her by-play in the scenes with Cherubino
was very good, and she gave her principal air, “ Deh vieni,”
with much effect. Mdlle. Bauermcister was to have been the
Marcellina, but was prevented by indisposition, her place
having been taken, in the later scenes only, by a not very
efficient representative. Madame Trebelli, as often before,
sang the music of Cherubino charmingly, and was encored in
“ Voi che sapete.” Signor Rota was the Count; Signor
Zoboli, Bartolo ; and Signor Rinaldini, Basilio—as heretofore.
Bizet’s “Carmen” seems to retain its power of attraction,
having been announced on Saturday for the seventh time
during the present series of performances.
On Monday Flotow’s “Marta” was performed, with the
brilliant singing of Mdlle. Marimon as the Lady Enrichetta
(Marta). Her romance, “ Qui solo vergin rosa ” (“ The Last
Rose of Summer”! was encored, as was the Spinning quartet;
and the romance “ M’ appari,” for Lionello, in which character
Signor Carrion sang with considerable effect. Madame
Trebelli’s Nancy was, as often before, a valuable feature in
the cast, which included Herr Behrens as Plumketto and
Signor Zoboli as Lord Tristano.
On Tuesday “ II Trovatore ” was the opera, with Madame
Pappenheim as Leonora, Madame Trebelli as Azucena, Signor
Gillundi as Maurico, and Signor Mendioroz as the Count. In
the subordinate character of Ferrando Signor Mancini made
his first appearance here, and was well received.
Other repetition performances were announced for Wednes¬
day, Thursday, and Friday; and this (Saturday) evening Mdlle.
Ambre is to appear, for the first time here, as Violetta in
“ La Traviata.”
The quartet party at this week’s Monday Popular Concert
was the same as at the opening performance of the new season
lost week, having consisted of Madame Norman-Neruda, MM.
Ries and Zerbiui, and Signor Piatti. M. Louis Brassin, the
Belgian pianist, made his second appearance here, and again
layed with much success—hiB solo on this occasion having
een Bach’s “ Italian Concerto,” the encore to which was
replied to by playing Schubert’s “ Impromptu ” in E flat. In
Beethoven’s great trio in B flat the pianist was associated with
Madame Neruda and Signor Piatti. Miss Emma Thursby was
the vocalist, and Sir J. Benedict the accompanist.
At the sixth of the present series of Crystal Palace concerts—
on Saturday afternoon—M. Louis Brassin, the eminent Belgian
pianist, made his second appearance there and played a con¬
certo of his own composition, a work well calculated for the
manifestation of his highly-trained executive powers. Of
the three movements into which the concerto is divided—
“Allegro con fuoco,” “Andante,” and “Allegro molto
vivace ’’—the last was perhaps the most effective: each portion
pleased much by its skilful construction and clever instru¬
mentation. The solo portion was finely played by the com¬
poser, as also were two unaccompanied pieces, a Nottumo of
Chopin, and Liszt’s “ Rhapsodic Hongroise.” The clever
overture entitled “ The Masque of Pandora,” composed by the
accomplished lady formerly known as Miss Alice Mary Smith,
that to Cherubini’s opera,'“ Elise,” and Mozart’s “Jupiter”
symphony, were the other orchestral pieces. Mrs. Osgood and
Mdlle. F. Keller were the vocalists. At this week’s concert
Beethoven’s symphony in C minor is to be given, and, for the
first time in England, the ballet music from M. Saint-Saens’s
“ Dalilah ’’—and Mr. George Magrath is to play Rubinstein’s
fourth pianoforte concerto (in D minor).
We could only briefly allude last week to the opening cf
the eighth season of the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society, which
took place on the Thursday eveiling with a performance of
“Elijah,” conducted by Mr. Bamby. The chorus-singing
was, as usual, exceedingly good, the great choral climax to the
first part, “Thanks be to God,” having produced a special
effect. The principal solo music was distributed between
Mesdames Lcmmeus-.Sherrington and Antoinette Sterling
(encored in “Grist in the Lord”), Misses A. Sinclair and
Dones, Mr V. Rigby and Mr. Hilton, Mr. J. Thornton, and
Mr. S. Smith having assisted in some of the concerted music.
Mr Hilton appeared in replacement of Mr. Wadmore, whose
sudden death, at a very early age, and at the beginning of a
prosperous career, is a matter of wide-spread regret.
The second of this season’s London Ballad Concerts took
place on Wednesday evening at St. James’s Hall, with a
programme of the usual varied and attractive kind.
A series of Saturday evening concerts at St. James’s Hall
is to begin this week. Messrs. Ganz and Thouless are the con¬
ductors, and several eminent singers are announced to appear
A concert of very special interest musically, and also of
high importance on account of its purpose is to take place next
Tuesday evening at St. James’s Hall, conducted by Dr. Hans
vou Billow. The object is to raise funds towards the increased
expenditure of the Royal Normal College and Academy of
Mu.'ic for the Blind (at Upper Norwood), incurred by the
enlarged scope and efficiency of that most valuable institution.
Beethoven's symphony in C minor, a pianoforte sonata by the
same composer, Dr. von Biilow’s symphonic, ballad “ Des
Sangers Fluch,” and Liszt’s “ Danse Macabre,” for piano and
orchestra, are to be given, in addition to other pieces—Dr.
vou Biilow being the solo pianist. There is to be a grand
orchestra of about eighty performers; and the concert
deserves success on its own account, apart from its purpose.
The Borough of Hackney Choral Association, conducted
by Mr. E. Prout, opens its new season on Monday evening, at
the Shoreditch Townhall, with performances of {Schumann's
“Faust” music, a selection from Mendelssohn's music to
“ A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and other pieces—a pro¬
gramme of high and special interest.
Next year’s Birmingham Festival is to take place on Aug. 26
and three following days; Sir Michael Costa will again be the
conductor and Mr. R. Peyton orchestral steward.
It is stated that twenty-four meetings have been held in
London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle, and
other towns in the country to consider the new Weights and
Mea-urea Act. Ten of these were of Chambers of Agriculture,
three of Chambers of Commerce, and eleven of millers and
corn-merchants. Twenty-two meetings voted for weight by
the “ cental,” one voted for weight as in the Act, and one for
weight by the 112 lb.
THEATRES.
DRURY LANE.
A third Shakspearean tragedy was revived on Saturday, when
Mr. Charles Dillon appeared as Othello. A more pathetic
performance has been seldom witnessed, and the audience
recognised him as an old favourite in the part. Mr. Dillon
may be congratulated as having survived his competitors,
and must now be regarded as our leading actor. In all phases
of the character he manifested signs of greatness, but par¬
ticularly in the third act, which throughout he interpreted
with an artistic skill that was perfectly admirable, such was
its finish and discriminative subtlety. Mr. Ryder was the
logo. Since Mr. Fechter’s there has been no better, and it
must be pronounced to be thoroughly satisfactory. Mr.
Compton appeared as Cassio. Miss Wallis was respectable
as Desdemona, and Mrs. Hermann Vezin properly energetic
as Emilia. These artists, with Mr. Edgar as Brabantio and
Mr. C. Tritton as Roderigo, sufficed to supply representatives
for the principal characters, and the subordinate were
respectably filled. It is probable that a better company than
this cannot be assembled for the performance of legitimate
pieces, and that we shall have to wait long for a better.
The audience was numerous, and it is to be trusted will
continue to be so during the whole period of this interesting
experiment.
OLYMPIC.
The opportunity of morning performances is now beginning
to be utilised by managers for the production of new pieces.
They may thus be introduced without interfering with the
general run of business, and if found capable of signal
success be then retained on the stage for a permanence as
regular evening performances. “ A Republican Marriage” is
the title of the new play, which is in five acts, the plot of
which is a combination of several well-known incidents and
characters, that are so treated as not to suffer much from the
want of novelty. Marie de Courcelles, the heroine, is the
daughter of a Count, and at the opening of the play is likely
to become the victim of a democratic mob, who propose to sel^
her by auction. A witness of this disgraceful proceeding offers
a gold snuff-box, and is accepted as her purchaser. Henri
Duval, who passes for a mason, but is eventually proved to be a
Marquis, acts toward the poor girl in the noblest manner, set¬
ting at nought the republican marriage which they had been
compelled to submit to, and undertakes to restore her to her
family as free as she was before its enforced celebration. Of
course he wins her affections notwithstanding; and when in
the sequel he turns out to be the nobleman whom her father
had designed her to wed, she rejoices in her unexpected good
fortune. The part of the heroine iB well conceived by Miss
Marion Terry, and acted with so much heart-felt pathos that
she melts the audience to a tenderness almost equal to that
which she herself displays. Mr. Henry Neville, as Duval, has
a character that Buits him admirably. Some comic parts also
are well supported, and the scenes in which they appear
give relief to the serious interest. Altogether, there is promise
of success in the drama of “ A Republican Marriage.”
Messrs. David James and Thomas Thome have returned to
the Vaudeville, and again appeared in the comedy of “ Our
Boys,” which has now been performed more than 1231 nights.
At the Alhambra has been revived Offenbach’s spectacular
opera “ La Perichole,” with Miss Emily Soldene as the heroine.
The interest has been enhanced by the introduction of a new
ballet, called “ Les Sevilians,” which does credit to the com¬
poser, M. G. Jacobi, and to Mdlles. Rosa and Richards, whose
dancing commands admiration.
MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.
Spohr’s Violin School (Boosey and Co.). This is a new
edition of the greatest work extant on violin-playing, the author
of which has not only taken high rank as a classical composer,
but was also one of the most celebrated violinists of his time.
The edition now referred to has been newly translated from
the German by Florence A. Marshall, and edited and revised,
with additional text, by Mr. Henry Holmes, himself a violinist
of the first class. No doubt the task has been a labour of
love, he having been one of the favourite pupils of the great
master, whose excellent treatise is now presented in an im¬
proved form, and at a more accessible price than hitherto. The
book is thoroughly comprehensive in its didactic portion and
its practical exercises, and a careful study of it can scarcely
fail to lead to the highest technical skill and the purest taste.
Spohr’s original preface—dated Cassel, 1832—is given, pre¬
ceded by one by the editor; and there are diagrams of the
violin and the bow, and of the position and attitude to be
assumed by the player.
“Songs for Sailors” (Novello, Ewer, and Co.). This volume
contains the well-known nautical poems of Dr. W. C. Bennett,
set to music by Mr. J. L. Hatton. It is unnecessary now to
speak in praise of the characteristic verses the merits of which
have already obtained wide and general recognition. We have
here only to deal with the music, on which the composer has
very successfully impressed a bold national tone, in excellent
keeping with the spirit of the poems, of whveh there are
forty, in various styles, defiant, triumphant, pathetic, and
humorous. Of course some of our naval victories are cele¬
brated — among them being “ Trafalgar,” “ The Nile,”
“ Rooke in the Bay of La Hogue,” “ Hawke in Quiberon Bay,”
“Duncan at Camperdown,” and “Rodney and De Grasse.”
The volume is in every respect a worthy pendant to the col¬
lection of the immortal sea-songs of Dibdiu.
The Volunteer Service Gazette says that one Captain and nine
Subalterns of volunteers resigned last week. Three of these
officers held certificates of proficiency, one of them from a
school of instruction. There were seven new appointments, so
that there is a net loss of three officers.
Lord Northbrook was present last Monday night at a
banquet to the retiring Mayor of Winchester. Replying to
the toast of the Houses of Parliament, he referred to the state
of affairs in India and to Lord Beaconsfield’s speech at the
Mansion House. He remarked that he was responsible for the
settlement of some of the difficulties which arose in 1876
between the Khan of Khelat and his nobles, but he had never
contemplated in the arrangements which were then made the
occupation of Quetta; indeed, he had always been opposed
to such a step, and he also disagreed with other suggestions
which had been made for the rectification of the North-
Western frontier. He believed that our present frontier was
unassailable, and to make any further advance iuto Afghan¬
istan would be unwise Our greatest difficulty on the frontier
was in dealing with the independent tribes, and the further
we advanced the greater this difficulty would become. He
denied Lord Beaconsfield’s assertion that the question of the
j North-Western frontier had been under the consideration of
recent Indian Viceroys, and combated the idea of a Russian
| invasion of India in that direction.
THE LATE MR. SAMUEL PHELPS.
We have already recorded the decease of one of our best, if not
greatest, actors on Wednesday, the 6th of this month, at Anson’s
Farm, Cospersall, near Epping, Essex. Mr. Samuel Phelps was
born on Feb. 13,1804, so that he was in his seventy-fifth year at
the time of his death. He was the son of a wine merchant at
Devonport, and received his education at the school of Dr.
Samuel Reece, at Saltash. Having served his apprenticeship
to a printer, he came to London in 1821, and was
employed as a compositor on a newspaper; but his leisure
evenings were devoted to amateur theatricals. A few
years after he determined on becoming a professional
actor, and joined the company of the York circuit,
appearing at Wakefield on Oct. 29,1827, as Belmont in “ Jane
Shore.” In 1829 we find him playing at the Theatre Royal,
Hull, being then engaged in the second business ; but in 1833
he was employed as principal tragedian, performing occasion¬
ally in comic parts. During a period of nearly four y^rs he
acted at Belfast, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, and'other
Scotch towns, and while in North Britain acquired that
command of the Scottish dialect, which at a later date he dis¬
played in the part of Sir Pertinax Macsycophant, perhaps the
greatestcharacterinhisrepertoire. In 1837 he was so remarkably
successful at the Exeter theatre that Mr. Benj amin Webster was
induced to offer him an engagement at the Haymarket, where
he made his appearance on Aug. 28 of that year as Shylock
in “ The Merchant of Venice,” Miss Huddart, afterwards
Mrs. Warner, being Portia, and received distinguished applause.
Mr. Macready having become anxious to secure his services for
his Covent-Garden management, in October Mr. Phelps played
Jaffier to his Pierre, and afterwards Othello to his Iago. At
the end of the season he joined Mr. George Stephens, with
Mrs. Warner, in an experiment at the Lyceum, uudertaken
with the view of breaking down the monopoly at the
two patent houses, in regard to five-act plays. The tragedy
of “ Martinuzzi ” was peiformed at that house, having
been licensed as a three-act opera; but, after a few nights,
the songs were omitted, and the curtain fell for the orthodox
five times. Having thus shown that a coach-and-six could be
driven through the Act of Parliament, the matter was referred
to Sir Robert Peel, who entered sincerely into the views of the
speculators; accordingly, the privileges enjoyed by Drury
Lane and Covent Garden were in due time repealed. Mr.
Phelps’s name had now culminated in the ascendant, and he
accompanied Macready to the former theatre, appearing as
Adam, in “ As You Like It.” On the termination of his
engagement, he found that the legitimate drama was without
a home; and, taking advantage of Lord Mahon’s Act, which
had just passed the House of Lords, he, with Mrs. Warner,
migrated to Sadler’s Wells, and together they thus commenced
a management which was destined to last eighteen years,
during which thirty Shakspearean dramas were performed.
It was opened on May 27, 1844, with “Macbeth,” Phelps
playing the guilty Thane, Mrs. Warner, his ambitious
wife, and Mr. Henry Marston, Macduff—a cast which has
never since been equalled. In 1846 Mrs. Warner retired
from the theatre, and her place was afterwards supplied
by Miss Addison, Miss Glyn, and Miss Atkinson, by
whom Mr. Phelps’s efforts were ably supported. During the
same period Mr. Phelps, who was sole lessee as well as manager
of Sadler's Wells, produced other Elizabethan dramas, in¬
cluding Webster’s “Duchess of Malfi,” in whose character
Miss Glyn made a great hit. The tragedy of “ Antony and
Cleopatra” also afforded her a grand opportunity of which
that eminent actress took the utmost advantage. Among
the most costly of Mr. Phelps’s Shakspearean productions was
“ Pericles,” which he converted iuto a grand spectacle, and
in which Miss Edith Heraud sustained with admirable aptitude
the important part of Marina, the heroine The success of
this revival was extraordinary, extending nearly to a hundred
nights. Mr. Phelps also brought out several new plays,
principally by the late Rev. James White, paying him for one,
‘ ‘ Johu Savile, ” four hundred pounds. From the management
of the theatre he retired in March, 1862, but acted occa¬
sionally until November, when he finally took leave of the
audience. In Shakspeare’s more eccentric characters he showed
exceptional merit; witness Bottom the Weaver, Justice Shal¬
low, and Armado. He was subsequently engaged at Drury Lane
by Mr. Chatterton, and appeared as Manfred, Faust, the Doge
of Venice, and the King o’ Scots. The remainder of his life was
passed as a star actor at the Princess’s, the Lyceum, the Gaiety,
the Queen’s, Astley’s, and the Surrey. His profits during the
last ten years from these engagements were considerable; and
Mr. Phelps died a tolerably wealthy man. Full justice, how¬
ever, has not been done to his extraordinary merits whether as
actor or manager. In his personal habits Mr. Phelps was a
recluse, seldom dining out of his own house, avoiding theatres as
places of amusement, and shunning public banquets of all kinds.
His habits were thoroughly domestic, and his respectability
unimpeachable Such was Phelps as an actor and a man; and
his services to the cause of the Shakspearean drama exceeded
those of any other British actor. His funeral took place on
Wednesday at Highgate Cemetery: and never were obsequies
deserving of more veneration and gratitude than those paid to
the quondam manager of the humble theatre which became a
temple of poetry under his influence and example. We believe
that there is a probability of Sadler’s Wells again passing into
the hands of a competent conductor.
Our Portrait of Mr. Phelps is from a photograph by Messrs.
Elliott and Fry, of Baker-street.
Lord Justice Christian, who previously to his elevation to
the Court of Appeal in Dublin was a puisne Judge in the Irish
Court of Commou Pleas, has resigned his position, on the
ground of increased difficulty of hearing.
The foundation-stone of a new convalescent hospital, to
accommodate about eighteen children, has been laid recently
by Mrs Hapleton, of Meanwood Vicarage, near Leeds. The
site of the new buildings is on the high road between Mean-
wood and Moortown, and the architect is Mr. John Birch, of
John-street, Adelphi.
Yesterday week the annual meeting of the Association for
Promoting Secondary Education in Scotland was held in the
Royal Hotel, Edinburgh. Sir Edward Colebrooke, M.P., who
presided, said that the objects of the association had been
promoted in the passing of the Endowed Schools Act and the
eighteenth section of the Education Act last Session. Pro¬
fessor Laurie, secretary, read the report which stated that the
committee are of opinion that, continuing to keep a watchful
eye on the working of the Education Act, they might suspend
calling for further subscriptions. They saw to what extent
the new powers were taken advantage of throughout Scotland,
and that their duty would be mainly one of vigilance. In the
course of the proceedings, Professor Blackie said that the
Scotch were in the habit of boasting at dinners and elsewhere
that they were the best-educated people in the world. They
had starved the schoolmasters and dragged down the Uni¬
versities, asking the professors to do what it was a disgrace for
them to do.
A MUSTER QE JAPANESE PQI4CEMEN,
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 16, 1878.-473
JAPANESE POLICE, AND A FIRE.
The scene in a street of Yedo, which is represented by our
well-known Artist, Mr. Wirgman, in the sketch we have
engraved, represents an incident of the late Japanese Civil
the Yed0 cit y policemen were
draughted into the Mikado’s army, and here they are seen
mustering, in full view of the townsfolk, before starting for
the campaign in the southern provinces. The ordinary
appearance of this civil force, with their long overcoats belted
and buttoned around the chest, their low-crowned hats and
their gaiters, the staves carried by the rank and file, and the
swords worn by their officers, is sufficiently practical; and
they are said to have made very good soldiers. But we can
readily beheve the police of some other Japanese towns is not
equally efficient; and the large Engraving called “ A Fire in
Japan, which is presented for our Extra Supplement this
week, shows a rather scandalous amount of confusion. The
street is full of struggling and screaming people, lan¬
tern-bearers, luggage-porters, idlers and pilferers men,
women, and children, some of them half naked, whom the
awkward guardians of public safety
are trying to drive away. The fire¬
men, plying the hose of their engine
as best they can, and aiming jets
of water against the burning frames
of the houses, which are lightly
constructed of thin woodwork and
paper, do all they know to stop
the conflagration. Two or three
Englishmen or Americans seem to
be privileged lookers-on, in front of
these active operators ; and we
observe men with axes climbing
ladders, to cut away some portions
of the frail building, while others
come round by the first-floor outer
gallery, with buckets of water to
pour upon the flames. At the right-
hand corner is a civic magistrate of
some dignity, who is supposed to
have the police and Fire Brigade
under his orders ; while a party of
Japanese military, headed by a
demonstrative young officer in
spectacles, enter at the left-hand
side, resolved to disperse the mob
instantly, but terrifying a most re¬
spectable citizen by their sudden
onset. The Engraving is from a
sketch by Mr. Regamey, a French
artist who has frequently con¬
tributed to our Journal.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
Among the British exhibitors at
Paris we have to make special
mention of Messrs. Jackson and
Graham, of Oxford-street, London,
who have been awarded the only
“Grand Prix” for furniture in
classes 17 and 18. This firm have
in past Exhibitions attained the
highest honours, receiving at Paris
in 1855 the Gold Medal of Honour,
and at Vienna in 1873 the “ Ehren
Diplom; ” while the head of the
firm has been decorated with the
cross of the Legion of Honour, and,
later, the present senior partner
with the onler of Francis Joseph.
A special feature of their productions
shown at Paris is that every article
represents the ordinary manufac¬
ture of the firm. This manufacture
is conducted on a very large scale.
Aided by a “Corliss” engine in
each of their two manufactories,
together with all the most recent
and best mechanical appliances,
works in every style can be pro¬
duced to an unlimited exteat.
In one year, besides their ordi¬
nary business, they furnished
tho Langham and Charing-Cross
Hotels, and the Palace of the
Viceroy of Egypt, near Cairo.
Among their contributions to the
Exhibition at Paris we must espe¬
cially refer to the cabinet which is
the subject of our Illustration.
This beautiful upright cabinet is
in the Italian Renaissance style, it
is of exceeding beauty, and of mar¬
vellous execution. It is composed
principally of figured ebony, thuya,
box, and ivory, with panels of palm-
wood, cut transversely. It is
equally remarkable for its inlays,
the harmonious blending of colours,
and the exquisite engraving. The
work seems, as the poet says,
of especial merit, in the “ Adams” style, with glass doors, for
the display of precious objects; and, lastly, a chimneypiece
of oak and ebony carving—each of which might claim a longer
description, but that our space forbids. B
Messrs. Jackson and Graham had undertaken to furnish
and decorate the rooms in the “ Lascelles House,” which were
used by the English juries during the Exhibition. Early Eng¬
lish furniture was selected for the ground and the first floors,
and furniture of the Queen Anne period for the second floors.
The ground-floor room was furnished in Padouk wood, from
Burmah. This was imported into England by the Indian
Government, and was presented to Messrs. Jackson and Gra¬
ham on the understanding that they would test its fitness and
value for the manufacture of furniture. The whole exhibition
interesting and beautiful as it was, has added to the established
reputation of the firm in Oxford-street.
THE RUINS OF EPHESTTS.
The mo9t renowned of the opulent Greek mercantile cities on
the western coast of Asia Minor, one of the most important
Innumerable of hues and splec
This exquisite cabinet was de¬
signed by Mr. Alfred Lormier. It
has been purchased by Mr. H. A. Brassey, M.P. We may
further notice a cabinet of the Oriental Greek character,
composed of box-wood, ivory, ebony, and other woods. This,
like the cabinet above mentioned, is of singular beauty.
There was also a chimneypiece, in the Oriental Greek style,
composed of box-wood, inlaid with ivory, palm-wood, purple,
and other woods, surmounted by a garniture, consisting of
a clock and pair of candelabra. The next object to be
noticed was an escritoire, in the delicate style of the French
Renaissance, composed of sandal and other woods, with lines.
and mouldings of ivory. This escritoire, designed by Mr.
Prignot, has become the property of Mrs. Brassey. A
“ Juno ” buffet, of ebony and ivory, was worthy of high
praise for its originality of conception, elaboration of de¬
tail, yet quietness of effect. The subject of its jpanels
are Juno, Venus, Minerva, the Earth, and the Ocean.
These are surmounted by a pediment, in the shield of
which is a peacock; the panels in the lower part inlaid
with the lily, and those in the middle stage with a ship,
the golden apple, the olive, and the rose, on a ground
of subdued brown. Not less deserving of mention were a
Vitrine, in the “Chippendale” style, for receiving objects
of virth; a “Bonheur du Jour,” in the “Adains” style;
an Encoigneur of ebony, of Italian character; a cabinet
PABIS EXHIBITION : CABINET BY MESSRS. JACKSON AND GRAHAM, LONDON (GRAND PRIX).
LORD MAYOR’S DAY.
Saturday last being the Ninth of November, the new Lord Mayor
of London, Sir Charles Whetham, was conducted with a grand
procession from GuildhaU to Westminster Hall, to be presented
by the Recorder to the Chief Baron of the Exchequer Court.
The route taken by the procession was different from what has
usually been followed, as it crossed London Bridge to the
Borough, and passed through Southwark-street as far as
Southwark Bridge, where it recrossed the Thames and pro¬
ceeded westward by Cannon-street and St. Paul’s-churchyard.
The bridges were decorated for this occasion with triumphal
arches i f foliage, 30 ft. high, from which hung baskets of
flowers, and with rows of small cypress-trees, with creeping
plants up the lamp-posts, and shrubs placed in the side
recesses. The decorations in Bridge Ward were arranged
under the direction of a Committee, who were Messrs. R. P.
Taylor and J. Bath, Common Councillers, Messrs. Henry
Squire, W. Jones, and A. Dulacker. There were Venetian
masts, with trophies, banners and festoons, from the comer of
Fenchurch-street to London Bridge; and King William’s
statue was adorned with blue and
gold. Messrs. J. Defries and Sons, of
Houndsditch, were employed for the
decorations here.
The new Lord Mayor, accom¬
panied by the Rev. A. H. Lutman,
his Chaplain, and the Sword and
Mace Bearers, set out from the
Mansion House in the old state
coach, drawn by six horses, shortly
after eleven o’clock, followed by
his predecessor, Alderman Sir
Thomas Scambler Owden, with a
similar equipage. The procession
was marshalled at Guildhall, whence
it started punctually at noon, the
City police lending the way. Tho
band of the Royal Horse Artillery
followed, and then came the corps
of watermen, in picturesque cos¬
tume, with the large banners of
the City companies and of the past
Sheriffs. Behind them were the
bands of the Scots Guards and of
the London Rifle Brigade, in which
latter regiment a son of the Lord
Mayor holds a commission. These
preceded the Master, Wardens, and
Court of the Glass-Sellers’ Com¬
pany, of which guild Mr. George
Burt, the senior Sheriff, is a past
Master. Following the carriage of
these dignitaries came an inte¬
resting part of the pageant. A
huge banner, with the motto,
“ England’s Glory and Chief Sup¬
port,” ushered in the band and
the 200 boys of the metro¬
politan training - ship Exmouth.
The gallant Uttle fellows, in
their sailors’ dress, looked the pic¬
ture of strength and health; they
marched with the greatest pre¬
cision, and their band bore favour¬
able comparison with any one in
the show. They were led by
Admiral Robertson, chairman of
the Training-Ship Committee of
the Metropolitan Asylums District
Board, of which Mr. Sheriff Burt is
a member, and by Captain Bour-
chier, R.N. The Exmouth lads
were followed by an equally novel
and interesting feature in the pro¬
cession—namely, a life-boat of the
Royal National Life-Boat Institu¬
tion, fully equipped and manned,
and mounted on its trausporting-
carriage, drawn by eight of Messrs.
Mowlem and Burt’s powerful cart¬
horses. The men were in their life¬
saving dress, with cork life-belts
round their bodies, and each was in
the position he would have occupied
in a real errand of duty, some at the
oars, one at the helm, and another
making ready to throw out the line
to the distressed vessel. This also
brought out well-deserved applause.
Then came the band of the Royal
Marine Light Infantry and the
carriages of the Master, Wardens,
and officials of the Shipwrights’
Company, to which both the Sheriffs
belong. After them were the band
of the 17th Lancers and the Farriers’
Company, another guild of the
senior Sheriff; and then followed
the bands of the Hon. Artillery
Company and of the 3rd London
Rifles, preceding the Court of tho
Leathersellers’ Company, of which
the new Lord Mayor has been a
leading member for over thirty
years. The band of the Royal
V ’ Militia Aliri AT.Kl,arntr Wi-
London Militia, and ex-Sheriff Sir
John Bennett alone in an open
carriage, having passed, there came
places of Apostolic missionary preaching and teaching in the . the Epping Forest banner of the Corporation, borne by
earliest years of the Christian Church, the residence of St. 1 four foresters, and then the rangers of the Forest and
Paul during several months, and of St. John for many years, the bearers of the Aldermen’s banners. The state carriages
is now a scene of mournful decay and desolution. Its ruins,
more especially those of the theatre and of the great Temple
of Diana, have lately been explored by Mr. J. T. Wood ; and
some remarkable fragments of their architecture and
sculpture have been added to the collection] in the
British Museum. We have, upon former occasions, given a
more particular description of the results of archaeological
research at the site of Ephesus ; and our Special Artist, Mr. W.
of the Under-Sheriffs (Mr. Baxter and Mr. Godden) came
next, and those of the officers of the Corporation of London,
including the Common Serjeant, the Town Clerk, the Remem¬
brancer, and the Secondary. The equipages of Mr. Sheriff
Bevan and Mr. Sheriff Burt next attracted much notice ; these
were succeeded by the mounted trumpeters of the Royal Horse
Artillery. Of the twenty-sir Aldermen of the City of London
only one (Mr. Alderman Staples) took part in the procession.
Simpson, has visited the spot to make Sketches of what is to be ! The Recorder, Sir Thomas Chambers, followed the solitary
seen there. The View presented in our Engraving now pub¬
lished is one locking north, which may be recognised by those
who have some acquaintance with the features of this locality;
the sea, with the place of the ancient harbour, near the
mouth of the river Cayster, would lie further to the left
hand. The ground where the temple stood is now a
large pool of water, from which a morass extends to the
river. 1$ is stated by Pliny that this ground was always
marshy, and the foundations of the temple were laid upon
Alderman, and preceded the late Lord Mayor (Sir Thomas S.
Owden), who met with a very cordial reception in the City.
The band of the Household Cavalry rode next, and then,
preceded by the City Marshal on horseback and by the City
Trumpeters, came the new Lord Mayor in his State carriage.
The Chief Magistrate had a hearty greeting along the route.
Leaving Guildhall, the procession went through the Poultry
and past the Mansion House, where the balcony was filled with
friends of the new and the retiring Lord Mayors; thence up
a bed of rammed charcoal, which was expected to be firm i Comhill and Leadenhall-street, through BiUiter-street into
and dry; but earthquakes and fires seem to have destroyed Fenchurch-street, along Gracechurch-street, over London
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Bridge into the City, and thence hy Cftiinon-Btreet ^'<js?a
hill, Fleet-street, and the Strand to We9t “ ( ^® t fhe n^eant wm
the Thames Embankment On the way ^J***V^™
ioined by Lady Whetham (the Lady Mayoress) ana ner
SS&JS imd by Mrs Burt and Mrs. Bevan, the wives of the
Sheriffs of London and Middlesex. .
On arriving at Westminster, the civic dignitaries were
escorted in to the Hall, where the LordChief BaronBaronCle.isby
and Baron Pollock, who wore their fuU ^ 'jj
to receive him. The Recorder Sir lhom “ s n ^ 1 »” b ®^ 0 Lord
•with a suitable address, preen ed the new Lord Mayor to Lord
'Chief Baron Sir Fifcroy Kelly and t ie . oth> ^ J I U ^ 9 .i a , ( f
Fitzroy Kelly spoke in reply, congratulating the Lord M^or
and the City. The procession returned to Guildhall by way
of the Thames Embankment. The Lord Mayor s banquet
attended by the Prime Minister, the Lord ^Mchoffice
Secretaries of State, and many persons of rank ud high office.
Count BeuRt. the retiring Austrian Minister, spoke ^to retnr n
thunks for drinking the health of the 1-omgn AmWadore
Earl Cairns, the Lord Chancellor, was the next speaker , and
the Lord Mayor then proposed the health of h ^ r h ^ f t “®L y J
Ministers. Lord Beaconsfleld made a speech in which hc re^rred
to different subjects of foreign policy; the desixable alteration
of the north-west frontier of our Indian Empire;theoccuFition
of Cyprus, and the treaty guarantee of Asiatic Turkey , and
rthe punctual execution of the Treaty of Berlin, which hei con¬
sidered extremely satisfactory, both for England and the
Sultan. He thought it quite impossible that any of the
Powers which had signed that Ireuty should attempt to
withdraw from their engagements; but her Majesty s Govern¬
ment were determined that it should be earned out, in spirit
and to ihe letter; and they would, if necessary, appeal to the
people of this country, with all their energy and resources, to
maintain that Treaty, if any of its signatures were not dis¬
posed to an honourable fulfilment, of its obligations. But
that he did not believe; it was only “ the harebrained chatter
of irresponsible frivolity” that, imputed such a disposition to
them. The Marquis of Salisbury, Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford
Noithcote, also spoke at the banquet.
BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS.
Several years ago there was exhibited in London a picture to
•which, from the appearance presented by some human blood,
The horribly suggestive name of “the currant jt-lly picture
was given by a brutal wag, but which, however shocking it
may have be en to English taste, bore witness to the pictorial
skill of Henri Regnault, a French painter, of whom a bio¬
graphical sketch is presented in the volume entitled Modern
Frenchmen : by Philip Gilbert Ilam. rton (Seeley, Jackson, and
Halliday), a volume of singular grace and interest, lhe
“ modern Frenchmen ’’ are five in number, and of their names,
which are, respectively, Victor Jacquemont, Henri Perreyve,
Francois Rude, Jean Jacques Ampere, and Henri Regnault, it
is doubtful whether any but the last is at all familiar, or so
•familiar as to recall the memory of a particular person and a
•particular career, to English readers. The five modern
Frenchmen whom Mr. Hamerton has chosen for biographical
treatment have been selected by him partly on personal
grounds of sympathy and partly as examples of “ vigour
and intensity of life,” examples worthy of general imi¬
tation. Victor Jacquemont, bom in 1801, was a "traveller
and naturalist; " and as his course of life brought him
into very intimate association with Englishmen, especially
in British India, and with Americans, the biographical sketc h
of which he is the subject derives additional attractiveness
from the opportunity it offers of seeing ourselves as he saw us
and of weighing the criticisms he passed upon us and our
Transatlantic kindred It is not impertinent at the present
day to quote his prediction' that “ the British power in India
wiil not perish by foreign aggression.” Of Henri Penreyve we
are told that, he " was never an important personage; ” but
such purity of life as he exhibited affords a lesson which can¬
not be too often or too assiduously studied. He was born in
lUSl, and he died in 1865; he loved liberty and religion, and
Both almost equally; he was a Republican and, at the same
time, strange as it may appear for a Frenchman, a priest and
“ h very earnest Roman Catholic.” Ill Francois Rude, bom in
1784, we have what Mr. Hamerton calls "a great man mid a
great artist; ” at any rate, we have a fine man and a fine
sculptor, to whose memory the French Government lately paid
a tribute "by calling one of the rooms in the Louvre by |
his nnme” We have also “the singular instance of a
blacksmith who was at the same time au Academic gold and
silver medallist; for, notwithstanding his rapid progress in
art, he still remained obedient to his father’s will, aud worked
patieutly at the forge for years.” He died in 1855. As for
Jean Jacques Ampere, “ the well-known writer on Roman
History,” he died in 1864, at the age of sixty-four. He died in
harness, and he offers an example of indefatigable industry as
well as of other admirable qualities. He is also a remarkable
instance of the effect produced by Lord Byron's poetry "on
the most eager and excitable young minds of that generation.”
\* c now come to Henri Regnault, cut off in the flower of his
days, slain at Buzenval, during the Franco-German war, in
January, 1871. He was born in 1843, and was "the second
qon of Victor Regnault. whose name is as famous in the
scientific world as his son’s name has since become n the
world of art.” He is rightly called "painter and patriot;”
for by his brush he won renown, and, though he was exempt
even from serving, he preferred to set a good example; he fell
for his country, anil to his memory might, with equal
justice, be paid the honour accorded to that of "the first
Grenadier cf the Guard,” who was always reported "mort sur
le chump de bataille.” Oil his behalf Mr. Hamerton takes
up the cudgels against the cant which is talked in these
latter days about genius, as if it were merely " an immense
capacity for taking pains,” and so on. This, of course, is all
nonsense; there is Bucb a thing as inspiration, or quasi¬
inspiration, and no quantity of labour will ever supply the
want of it, whatever may be thought by the conceited plodder,
who sets up for a g* nius and wears his hat on the back of his
head to show bis mighty forehead, and all on the strength of
the quantity—not the quality—of his work.
Biography is the department to which, the title to the con¬
trary notwithstanding, Travel* of Doctor and Madame Heifer
(Richard Bentley and Son) must be assigned ; for the interest
of the two volumes centres rather in matters with which tra¬
velling has little or nothing to do than in anything else. The
travels, in short, to speak the plain truth, are ccrtaiulv anti¬
quated ; but that the book, nevertheless, is likely to be read with
a feeling as strong as curiosity, but somewhat deeper and more
creditable, will appear from the following statement:—
Madame Heifer, afterwards Countess Nostitz. lost her first
husband. Dr. Helfi r, in 1840, when he “ met his death by the
poisoned arrow of a savage off the Andauiati Islands, in the
Bay of Bengal.” A few years ago she was induced to publish
an account, which had been delay* d for good reasons until
after 1868, of the travels undertaken By her late husband and
herself, and to add thereto certain biographical and auto-
f’his sAuel at any rate, stops at 1871 when she lost her
second^iusband, Count Nostitz, whom she married in
1844 The two works, collected into one of two volumes,
have been translated from the German by Mrs. George isturge,
and will probably command the sympathetic attention of
Pnali-h readers Dr. and Madame Heifer travelled in
SyS,^ mSJiSSTB urmah, and other lands; met with
many adventures; and the " memoir and autobiography
derives increased interest from the exciting narrative of the
Euphrates Expedition, under the late General, then Colonel
Chesnev in which Heifer and his wife took part, as w. 11 as from
the graphic and lively descriptions ol the life of Oriental women,
intothemy steries of which a lady traveller could obtain glimpses
denied to man.” There can be no need to s^ more about the
pages in which a wife not only tells the tale dt her own life, or
offts most important portions, but also " erects a monument
over the grave of her first husband, the naturalist, who fell a
victim to his ardent pursuit of knowledge.
We are indebted to our Transatlantic kinsfolk for the well-
fllled volume entitled Charlotte Cushman; Her
Memories of her Life, edited by her friend Emma Stebbins
(Boston: Houghton, Ogood, and Co.), recalling to mmd an
actress who is best remembered in this country, one would say,
for her impersonations of "Meg Merrilies” and Romeo.
Charlotte Cushman, or, as her full name is believed to have
been Charlottto Saunders Cushman, was bom m Hichmond-
street, Boston, U S., July 23. 1810, and died at the Parker
House, Boston, Feb. 18. 1876. She was descended from
Robert Cushman, “an Englishman, a Nonconformist or I untan,
one of the original band of Pilgrims,” though he did not sail
for America in the famous Mayflower, but about a year later
in the “ Fortune, a small vessel of fifty-five tons. She met
with signal success, both here and in her own country, on
the stage; but her fame was not so enduring among
ns as on the other side of the Atlantic. The record of her life
is by no means remarkable, compared with that of many
another, even less celebrated, actress; but it is not entirely
devoid of interest or of instruction, if, as was said of her by
one who knew her, " She loved much, served much, earned by
hard work a noble reputation, and has left an example in which
her race is enriched.”
Filial affection and admiration not unreasonably inspired
belief that a Memoir of the late Alfred Smet, F R A., by his
daughter (George Bell and Sons), would have some sort of
attraction for the public, to many of whom the late Mr. Alfred
Smee, such was his tendency to come forward, either in person
or by letter addressed to the Times or to some other newspaper,
on any favourable opportunity, must have been known by
sight or name, or both. He was in many respects a remarkable
man, and, if one were called upon to write his epitaph, the little
busy bee that improves each shining hour would at once
suggest itself, were rhyme an object, and, should Latin prose
appear more desirable, one might get as far as "nihil lion
tetigit,” though there might be some hesitation about com¬
pleting the celebrated eulogy. Alfred Smee was bom on
June 18, 1818, and died on Jan. 11, 1877. He weut to St.
Paul’s School, which he left at sixteen for King’s College,
where he distinguished himself in chemis'ry. anatomy, physi¬
ology, aud divinity. Thence he migrated to St. Bartholomew's,
where he carried off the prize for surgery. He iuvented
about that time, iu 1839, “a form of splint for frac¬
tures ; ” and from that moment he may be said to have
started upon his indefatigable career as a scientific investi¬
gator, writer, and experimentalist. Iu January, 1841, "lie
was elected Surgeon tothe Bank of England,” which "appoint¬
ment was specially created for liim. and for it he was mainly
indebted to 'liat eminent surgeon Sir Astley Cooptr.” About
two thirds of the volume are devoted to an appendix, containing
"a selection from his miscellaneous writings;” and this
appendix, if it serve no other purpose, will bear ample testi¬
mony to Mr. Smee’s restless energy and unflagging industry
in the cause of scientific knowledge, from the sublimest
phenomena of nature to the sordid mystery of the Colorado
beetle. Among the illustrations, of which there are several,
may be mentioned a very good portrait of the late Mr. Smee;
but discretion would probably have brought about the omission
of the picture representing " Alfred Smee, with his son, fishing
iu the Thames, ” which seems to serve no particular purpose,
whether of elucidation or of embellishment; for the process is
pretty familiar to our generation, and the execution of the
scene, though creditable enough, is not of astounding
brilliancy. • _
A testimonial, consisting of a handsome silver tea and
coffee service suitably engraved, which has been subscribed for
by the magistrates, councillors, and other officials of Fal¬
mouth, has been presented to Mr. Thomas Webber, J.P., the
Mayor of Falmouth.
Lord Beaconsfleld has written to Mr. Mark Addy, boatman,
Salford, a letter in which he says:—“The attention of the
Sovereign having been called to the repeated acts of heroism
performed by you in saving, at the risk of your own life, the
lives of many of her Majesty's subjects from drowning in the
river Irwell, I have the gratification to inform you that the
Queen haB been graciously pleased to confer on you, in recog-
niiion of your gallantry and daring, the honour and distinction
of the Albert Medal of the First Class.”
The Castle Art-Museum committee of the Nottingham |
Town Council presented a report to the Council at its
adjourned meeting on Monday, stating that the totnl cost of
the opening of the museum by the Prince and Princess of
Wales amounted to £5316 11s. 4d. The committee, iu pur¬
suance of the powers conferred upon them by the Town
Council, had directed that £5000 of this sum should be paid
out of the profits of the gas undertaking (which is in the
hands of the Corporation), and they recommended that the
balance should be charged on the current income of the com¬
mittee. The total number of visitors to the museum since its
opening on July 3 to the date of the report (Sept. 18) was
106,121. The report was adopted.
The Gaiette announces that the Queen has appointed Lord
William G. 8. 8. M. Compton, now a Third Secretary, to be a
Second Secretary in her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service. The
following appointments are also gazetted: —Mr. George French,
now Judge of her Majesty’s Supreme Court for China aud
Japan, to be Chief Justice of the Court; Mr. Robert Anderson
Mowat, now Law Secretary to the same Court, to be Assistant-
Judge ; Mr. Richard Temple Rennie, to be Judge of her
Majesty’s Court for Japan; and Mr. David F. Carmichael, of
the Madras Civil Service, to be a member of Council at Fort
St George, in the room of Sir W. R. Robinson. K.C S I. Mr.
G. T Ricketts, Consul at Tifli*, is to he her Majesty’s Consul
at Rio de Janeiro; aud Mr. T. Michell, C. B. ,(o be her Majesty’s
Consul at Tiflis. A number of consular appointments in this
country have been approved by her Majesty.
OBITUARY.
THE MARCHIONESS OP CHOLMONDELEY.
The Most Hon. Marcia Emma Georgiuna Marchioness of
Cholmoudeley died on the 3rd inst., at Hyde Park-street, aged
seventy-four. Her Ladyship was the youngest daughter of
Jhc Right Hon. Charles Arbuthnot (some time Ambassador at
Constantinople, and afterwards Chief Commissioner of Woods
and Forests, and Chancellor of the Duchy of'Lancaster), and
was married, Feb. 28, 1825, to Lord William Henry Hugh
Cbolmondeley, M.P. (son of George James, first Marquis of
Cholmondeley, K G.), who succeeded his brother in themar-
quisate of Cholmondeley May 8, 1870. The Marchioness had
two sons and six daughters. Her elder son having died iu
1869, his son, the Earl of Rocksavage, is now heir-apparent to
Lord Cholmondeley.
SIR R. A. O’DONNELL, BART.
Sir Richard Annesley O’Donnell, fourth Baronet of Newport,
in the county of Mayo, died at Dorset-square,
Loudon, on the 9th inst. He was bom
May 28, 1808, the second son of Sir Neale
_ O’Donnell, Bart., by Lady Catherine Annea-
- -v* ley, his wife, fourth daughter of Richard,
second Earl Annesley, and succeeded his
brother in the baronetcy July 29, 1828. Sir
Richard was a J.P. and D.L. for Mayo, and
served as High Sheriff in 1834. He married,
April 16,1831, Mary, third daughter of George
Clendining, Esq., of Westport, and leaves
one surviving son, his successor, Sir George Clendining
O’Donel, now fifth Baronet, born in 1832, and married, 1865,
to Mary Stratford, only surviving daughter of the late
Euseby Stratford-Kirwau, Esq., of Bawn House, in tije
county of Longford Sir George was knighted in 1865,
as the eldest son of a Baronet, under the special clause in the
patent of creation. The O’Donnells or O’Donels, of Newport,
are the direct descendants of the ancient aud very historic
family of the O’ Donnells of TyrconneU, who played so con¬
spicuous a part in the annals of Ireland. Hugh Roe O’Donnell,
the most popular hero of Irish history, elder brother ol Rory
O’Donnell, created Earl of TyrconneU, was of the line of
O’Donnell to which the late Baronet belonged. Distingun-hed
branches of this grand old race are established in Spain and
Austria, the former represented by the Duke of Tetuan, the
latter by Count O’Donell. who, when aide-de-camp in waiting,
saved the Emperor of Austria from assassination.
SIR JAMES GRANT SUHTE.
Sir James Grant Suttie, sixth Baronet, of Balgone, in the
county of Haddington, died on the 30th ult,
" He was born May 25, 1830, the eldest son of
8ir George Grant Suttie, Bart., by Lady
Harriet, his wife, daughter of Francis, seventh
Earl of Wemyss, and inherited the baronetcy nt
his father’s death, only a few months since. Sir
James was a D.L. of the county of Berwick, and
was Lieutenant-Colonel Haddington, Berwick,
Linlithgow, and Peebles Artillery Militia. He
married, Aug. 6, 1857, Lady Susan Harriet
Innes Ker, elder daughter of James Henry
Robert, sixth Duke of Roxburghe, and leaves
three daughters and one son, his successor,
now Sir George Grant Suttie, Bart., bom
Sept 2, 1870.—In our impression of last week a memoir
w.uj given by mistake of the late Sir George Grant Suttie, fifth
Baronet, instead of his son. the Baronet just deceased. Ab
above stated, Sir George died a few mouths since.
MR. H. W. MEREDYTH.
Henrv William Mcredyth, Esq., of Noreluuds, in the county
of Kilkenny, J.P. and D.L., whose death is announced, was
born in 1829. the only child of the present Sir Henry Meredjth,
Bart., of Curlandstown, in the county of Meath, by Mary
Anne, his wife, only daughter of William E. M. Bayly. Esq.,
of Norelands. He was formerly a Lieutenant in the m
Hussars ; and, having succeeded to Nore ands, served as High
Sheriff of the county of Kilkenny. He roamed, April 12,
1862, Harriet Anne, elder daughter of the Rev. William and
Lady Louisa Le Poer Trench, and leaves two sons.
The deaths have also been announced of—
John William Carleton, Esq., A.M., Q.C., a J.P. for the
county of Dublin, on the 11th inst., at 70, Lower Leesou-
street, Dublin. ,
Mai or-General Thomas Kuox, R.A., at Greenhil. in the
county of Derry, on the 29th ult., aged fifty-nine. He had a
medal and clasp for service at the capture of Canton in 18bi.
Howison Young Howison, M.D., half pay Army Medical
Department, only surviving son of the late Archibald \ oung
Howison. M.D., of Hyndford, Lanark, and Carlton-terrace,
Edinburgh, on the 31st ult.
The Rev. William George Clark, M.A., Senior Fellow and
late Vice Master of Trinity College, and formerly Public Orator
in the University of Cambridge, on the 6th inst., at lork, aged
fifty-seven.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Brett, on the retired full-pay tot,
late of the Rifle Brigade He was one of a number of non¬
commissioned officers selected for promotion while on^ *rnce
in the Crimea, and received his commission as ensign
Margaret Elizabeth, Mrs. Oliver-Massey, of Tiekfow
Abbey, Newport Pagnell, Bucks, on the 31st ult., ^
Abbey, aged seventy-eight. This lady was roamed, inG82-,
the late Richard Manael Oliver, Esq., who assumed the addi¬
tional surname of Massey.
Major-General Frederick English, C B., )“ te Co1 . 0 "^ 1 ^
Regiment, on the 5th inst., at Oxford-place,^heltenl.ann
sixtv-two. He served during the Indian Campaign 1 ••
including, amongst various minor engagements, the siege an
capture of Lucknow. .
Major James David Beresford, formerly 76th Regiment, on
the 27th ult., at Woodbourne, 'Duninurry, ui the county
Antrim, in his sixtieth year. He was fourth son of th
Henry Barre Beresford, Esq , of Leannount P«k, Uudoudeny.
and grandson of the Right Hon. John Beresford, second son
of the first Earl of Tyrone. . ,
Francis Crawshay, Esq., of Bradbnurne Hall,
Kent, on the 6th inst., at Ecclesrim-squure, Belgnivm, ^
sixtji-six. He was the eldest surviving son of the late
Crawshay, Esq., of Cyfarthfa Castle, in the county of GU
morgan, and Cavershum Park, Reading, the great iro >
by Eliza, his wife, daughter of Francis Homfray. &q-*
Hyde ; married, 1837, Laura, daughter of R. Crawshay, E*l-.
of Honiugham, Norfolk, aud leaves issue.
Mr. F. P. Cockered, the honorary secretary for lomt
correspondence to the Institute of British Arch » .
denly of apoplexy at Paris, agctl forty-hve. He “a
pupil of his father, the .late Mr. C. R- Gx kerell, ^
Architecture to the Royal Academy, and of the UteMr. r.
I Hardwicke. The deceased shared his father s
* for classical architecture. One of hiB principal p
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is the Freemasons’ llall interior in Great Queen-street. He
was also the architect of several churches, schools, and country
mansions. One of his characteristic designs is the house in
Pall- Mall East which forms the entrance to the Gallery of
the Society of Painters in Water Colours.
Mr. William Callcott, the well-known musician, on the 6th
inst., at his residence, Gravesend, aged seventy-eight. Mr.
Callcott was more than half a century ago the principal
violinist in the orchestra of Her Majesty’s Theatre, and sub¬
sequently became musical director at the Adelphi, the Olympic,
and Astley’s, where he composed for Ducrow the celebrated
“ Statue Music.” The deceased was the father of Mr. William
Callcott and Mr. Albert Callcott, the well-known scenic artists.
Richard Dennistoun Campbell, Esq., of Jura, J.P. and
D.L., on the 4th inst, suddenly, at Jura House, in the county
of Argyll, in his sixty-ninth year. He was the eldest surviving
son of the late Colin Campbell, Esq., of Jura and Craignish,
J.P. and D.L., by Isabella Hamilton, his wife, daughter of
Richard Dennistoun, Esq., of Kelviu-grove, in the county of
Lanark, and was Heritable Keeper of Craignish Castle. Mr.
Campbell represented a junior branch of the Lochnell line of
the House of Argyll, and was a considerable landowner in
North Britain.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated Dec. 13, 1872) of Miss Ellen Hallifax, late of
Chadacre Hall, Shimpling, Suffolk, who died on Aug. 7 last,
was proved on the 17th ult. at the District Registry, Bury St.
Edmunds, by Sir Charles Henry Mills, Bart, Mrs. Diana
Weller Poley, the sister, and Alexander Pratt Barlow, the
executors, the personal estate being sworn under £300,000.
The testatrix d vises the Chadacre estate to her nephew, John
George Weller Poley ; and the Wicken Hall and Stanton Park
estates to Mrs Catherine Weller Poley for life; if she leaves
issue the Wicken estate is to go to her issue as she shall by
deed or will appoint, and if no issue then the Wicken Hall and
Stanton Park estates are to go to testatrix’s nephew, Thomas
Weller Poley. As to her personal estate, the testatrix bequeaths
£50.000 Consols to her said nephew, John George Weller Poley;
£50,000 Consols and £7000 Bank Stock to her said nephew,
Thomas Weller Poley; £35,000 Reduced Stock to the said
Mrs. Catherine Weller Poley; £35,000 Reduced Stock to
Louisa Anne Fitzgerald; £300 per annum for life to Mrs.
Catherine Hallitax, the widow of her late brother John;
£32,000 New Threes and £5000 London and North-Western
Stock to her said sister, Mrs. Diana Weller Poley ; £200 each
to her executors for their trouble; to Sarah Halford, £200;
to her domestic servants one year’s wages ; and the residue of
her property to her nephew, the said John George Weller Poley.
The will (dated Jan. 26, 1874) with a codicil (dated
Nov. 29, 1877) of Mr. George Parker Bidder, C.E., late of
No. 24, Great George-street, Westminster, who died on
Sept 20 last at Ravens bury, near Dartmouth, Devon, was proved
on the 31st ult. by Mrs. Georgina Warren Bidder, the widow,
and George Parker Bidder, Q (J., and the Rev. Henry Jardine
Bidder, the sons, the executors, the personal estate being
sworn under £9U,000. The testator leaves to his wife £1000
and all his furniture, plate, wines, and consumable stores at
Stoke House; he also leaves her his freehold estate, Stoke
House, Stoke Fleming, Devon, for life, and at her death to
their children, as she shall appoint. The residue of his real
and personal estate is directed to be held upon trust for his
wife for life and then for all his cbildren.in equal shares.
The will (dated July 20,1877) with a codicil (dated Aug 14,
1878) of Mr. William Hannen, formerly of Cann, otherwise
Sbaston St. Rumbold; and of Shattesbury, Dorset; and
late of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset; who died on Sept. 7
last, was proved on the 5th inst. by John Hannen, George
Phillips, and John Charles Guy, the executors, the personal
estate being sworn under £40,000. The testator bequeaths to
the Salisbury Infirmary and the Westminster Cottage Hos¬
pital, £50 each; the sum of £500 to be invested and the annual
income divided on the day preceding Christmas Day, if not a
Sunday, but if a Sunday on the day preceding it, among twelve
poor men or women of the parish of Shaston St. Peter s:
twelve of the parish of Shaston Holy Trinity; twelve of
Shaston St. James’s; and twelve of Cann St. Rumbold; his
intention being that they shall have a comfortable dinner or
other provision on Christmas Day. Such a sum is also to be
invested as will produce £6 lUs. per annum, which is to be
distributed on the day preceding Christmas Day, as above, as
follows—viz.. 5s each to the ten inmates of Spillers’, or the
men's, Almshouses, and 5s. each to the sixteen inmates of
Chubbs’, or the women s, Almshouses, to the intent that they
may have a comfortable dinner on Christmas Day. There are
many other legacies, and the residue of his property is left to
certain of his cousins.
The will (dated Oct. 15) 1875) of the Rev. Henry Robert
Fowler, formerly of Filton, Gloucestershire, and late of
Adelaide-crescent, Brighton, who died on Sept. 5 last, was
proved on the 24th ult by George Bernard Brodie, M D , and
Samuel Frederick Noyes, the executors, the personal estate
being sworn under £35,(-00. The testator gives to his wife,
Mrs Harriett Fowler, £1000, and his furniture, plate, pictures,
jewellery, horses, and carriages. The remainder of his
property, real and personal, is left upon trust for his write for
life,then lor his daughter, Mrs. Augusta Ashfordby ITenchard,
for life, and then for her issue, as she shall by deed or will
appoint.
The will (dated Nov. 26,1877) of Mrs. Georgians Drummond,
late of Fairfield House, Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, who died on
the 11th ult , was proved on the 29th ult. by Allan Ilarvey
Drummond, the grandson, Edward Drummond, the sou, and
Campbell Munro, the executors, the personal estate being
sworn under £35,000. The testatrix gives Fairfield House,
with the furniture, fixtures, and live stock, to her son-in-law,
Campbell Munro ; legacies, both pecuniary and specific, to
relatives and servants; and the residue to her daughter, Mrs.
Henrietta Maria Munro.
The annual county root show was held at Gloucester last
Saturday, and Colonel Kingscote and Mr. Reginald Yorke
attended the dinner held in the evening.
The importations of American fresh meat at Liverpool last
week were the largest yet recorded. Tin re were 5568 quarters
of beef and 1328 carcases of mutton unshipped from the
steamers which arrived from New York and Quebec.
A Parliamentary paper issued on Tuesday shows that last
year 2662 lives were lost in England and Wales by drowning
in inland waters, 2140 being males and 522 females : 1423 lives
were lost in rivers and running waters, 637 in canals, and 602
in lakes or ponds.
Heavy gales swept many parts of our coast on Saturday and
Sunday last, and proved disastrous, more especially off Harwich,
Lowestoft, and Yarmouth. Many lives were saved by the life¬
boats of the National Life-Boat Institution. There were
heavy falls of snow on Monday night in the north and north¬
western counties.
CHESS.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
All communications relating to this department of the I‘aper should he luldressei to the
Editor, and hace the word •• Chess " written on the cure I ope.
O B K (Philadelphia).—We are greatly obliged for your Interesting communication.
•J G C (Hlghgate).—The other four-move problem can be solved l>v 1. Q to It 8th, 2. K
to Kt Oth. Ac. We shall be glad to hear from you in reference to this.
T H H (Covent-garden).—Yonr solution of No. 1808 arrived too late for acknowledg-
Woodstook (Belfast).—Be content with solving problems, and do not attempt
criticism until you have acquired mure experience than you possess at present.
East Marden.— Your card has been forwarded to the author, who,-we feel assured,
will he grateful for the trouble you have taken.
T B (Bermondsey).—Thanks for the account of the match.
G H McL (Kllbnrn).—Thanks. We shall be glad to hear a favourable report of the
now chess club.
Delta (Kirkconnell).—We are always glad to hear from our old correspondent, and
shall look forward to the receipt of the premised games.
J C (Hull).—Thanks. If it prove to be correct it shall have early publication.
Any Amateur desirous of playing a game by correspondence, may address Mr. W.
Wilkinson, Noss Noddyu villa, Kingston-on-Thames.
Six or eightmeinbers of tho Diss Chess Club will be glad to plav a game by correspond¬
ence with nn equal number of members of any other club established In any town of
four or five thousand inhabitants within reach by a singlo pest. Address the secre¬
tary, Mr. E. A. Thrower, Diss, Norfolk.
Correct Solutions of Problem No. 1809 received from E Burkhart, A Burton, J G
Kidd. Bishop's Pawn, and Polichlnelle.
Correct Solutions of Problem No. 1810 received from Prftextnt, C H Stepan-
NEW MAYORS.
The following gentlemen have- been elected Mayors during the
ensuing year tor the towns mentioned :—
Abingdon—W.Bullard (fourth time). I Liskeard—S. Jenkins (re-elected).
Andover—Henry Pratt Moore. Liverpool—T. B. Royilon.
Ashton—Mr. Higginbottaiu. Llaudidloes—R. Hughes.
Banbury-W Edmunds. LougtOH—J. Kinney.
Barnsley— B. Marshall.
Barnstaple—W. Avery.
Barrow-in-Furness—E. Wndliai
Bath—Alderman Chaffin.
Batley - Robert Talbot.
Beaumaris—A Laurie.
Bedford—Thomas Uwyndger.
Berwick—Couucill r Allan.
C H B. Emile Frau. Bishop's Pawn, B C, Polichinelle, C P 1), J A Winstanley.
H Suisfield, and L Tournade.
Cohbkct Solutions of Problem No. 1811 received from L of Truro, H Stansfield-
W Nelson, L S D. J Lyndford D L W, J M M, Owlet, Onno (Utrecht). 8 Western.
E Esmonde. R M A. UretexUt, J A Winstanley. Sidonia. 8 Turley. N Powell, Lulu.
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H Benthall, W Lecson, G D Frankland. O h J. Carioca, Florence F S. Ois. F Fesser,
C H stenau, T Urecnb.nk, CHH.M Taylor, O Fosbrooke Cant, Norman Kumbelow,
Dabbshni.J Hopkins. Barrows Edges. W Scott. J G Kidd, Carlos. Hereward, Dr F
St. II H Brookes. P lc Page, J dc Hoostcyn. Bishop's Pawn. F F (Addiscombe). B C.
8 Stripe, .1 W 8 (Dawlisli), L Tournade, College Cap, Polichlnelle Copinpinu, C P D,
Jane Nepveu (Utrecht), Painter of Shepherd's-bush, Thorpe, and Mchose.
Solution of Problem No. 1810.
WHITE. BLACK.
1. B to K 7th Any move
2. Mates accordingly.
PROBLEM No. 1813.
By J. G. Chancellor.
White to play, and mate in four moves.
CHESS IN
A Game played recently at Simpson
Taylor, of Norwich, i
{Evans's
white (Mr. T.) black (Mr. A.)
1. P to K 4th P to K 4th
2. Kt to K B 3rd Kt to Q B 3rd
3. B to B 4th B to B 4th
4. P toClKt 4th B tikes Kt P
5. P to B 3rd BtoR4th
6 P to ft 4th P takes P
7. Castles P takes P
8. Q to Kt 3rd a to B 3rd
9 P to K 5'h a to B 4th
10 Kt takes P Kt takes P
11. RtoKsq P to a 3rd
If—11. P to B 3rd. then 12. B takes Kt
Ac.
12 Kt takes Kt P takes Kt
13 a to Kt6th (eh) atoa2ud
14. R takes P (ch) Kt to K 2nd
15 R takes Kt (ch) K takes R
16. B to R8td (ch) Ktoasq
17. a takes B
Better than 17. K to Q > 0 . to wh|cl
Black has a sort of resource by 17. B tak«
Kt. Ac.
17 P to a Kt 3rd
18 atoKKt5th(ch) P to K B 3.d
19. a to Kt 3rd a to K sq
LONDON.
,’s Divan between Mr. I. O. Howard
md another Amateur.
Gambit )
white (Mr. T.) BLACK (Mr. A.)
20. R to a sq (ch) B to a 2nd
21. Kt to Kt 5th R to a B sq
22. a takes Kt P P to a B 4th
23. a takes P (ch) Q to K 2nd
24. a takes R (ch) a to K sq
25. B to K 6th
An excellent stroke. It is not often that
one sees so good a sacrifice of the vjueen in
i 26. R takes B (ch) K to K sq
27. Kt to K 6th ich) K to B sq
28. R to B 7til (ch) K to Kt sq
I 29. R t > B 5th (uis. K to Kt 2nd
1 ch)
30. B to Kt 2nd (ch) K to Kt 3rd
It .10. Kto K 3rd. then follow31. Kt
B 7th (cli), and 32. K to Kt oth Male.
31. B to B 7th (ch) K to R 3rd
1 82. R to R 5th. Mate.
LougtOH— J. Finney.
Lou>h—J. Cubworth.
Ludlow—H. Rickards (second time).
Luton—A. T. Webster, J.P.
Lyinington—Alderman E. King.
Lynn (King’s/—Aid. T. J. Seppings.
Macclesfield—C. Brocklehurst.
Maidstone-Alderman C Ellis.
Manchester—Aid. Grundy (re-e)ctd.).
THE CAFE DE LA REGENCE.
Wc have received the following letter from our old-time correspondent and
contributor “ DeltaSanquhar, N.B , Kirkconnell Manse,
Oct. 28, 1878.
Dear Sir,—I saw a reference lately in your Paper to the old Cate de la
R&rence, the Chess Rialto at Paris, now demolished. It may interest your
numerous readers to learn that there, more than forty years ago. I had the
pleasure of meeting wi.h the veteran De la Bomdonnais, who sate in bis
favourite chair (reserved apparently for him), and seemed much amused
looking at a game which I played with one of the halntuls of the cafe,
whoaename I have forgotten. He said to me, in a pleasant tone. “ Mon
jeune ami. &c„ you would be an excellent player if you knew anything of
the openings.” I told him that I was utterly ignorant ot them all; and he
advised me, after I returned to Scotland, to mn e myself acquainted with
them which 1 did at la--t, but, not till 1813 He played one g..me with me at
odds 'of Queen’s Rook, which he. won in beautiful style. IIhave often
regretted since that I h id not a copy of it. He opened a K B Gambit upon
me I remember that much, and the dl'n-rtroent. We afterwards discussed
“bottle of Chamber, in together. He always played bestafter discussing
some Burgundy, as I was informed by himself and others. I bad heard
before that *• In vino est veritas,” but had never thought till then that In
vino est Caissa ” I can see still, as it were yesterday, the old Cate, and the
jolly, friar-like figure of old La Bourdounais.—Yours very truly, Delta.
CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
A chess club for Kilburn and the vicinity is being organised by a numberof
amateurs residing in that district. A large ami commodious . oom has been
obtained for aplace of meeting, and ihe sub.-cription has teen fixed at half
a Sea per Sinum Amateurs desirous of joining the new aas.icm .on
“hou d communicate with the secretary, Mr G. H. McLennan, 176,
epresentatives orSermondsey, who scored six games to the adversaries
.hree, with two draws.
Beverley—A. Crosskill (fourth time). Margate—Robert Wood.
Bewdley—Robert Acton Pardoe. MiJdlesborough—W. Bulraer.
Bideford—G. Pollard. Monmouth—John Thomas.
Birkenhead—John Laird. Newark—Alderman B. Tidd Pratt.
Birmingham—Jesse Collings. Newbury—T. E. Hawkins.
Blackburn—Adam Dugdale. Neweastle-on-Tyne—Aid. Robinson.
Bodmin—J. D. Williams. Newcastle (Staff.)—Dr. J. T. Arlidge.
Bolton—Alderman P. C. Marsden. Newport (Mon.)—Joseph Gibb.
Bootle—John Nowell. Newport (I.W.)—Alderman Pittis.
Boston—James Thorn. Northampton—Aid. W. Dennis.
Bradford—A. Holden (re-elected). Norwich—Harry Bullard.
Bridgwater—W. T. Holland. Nottingham— t>ir J.Oldknow(ro-eL).
Brighton—Alderman H. Davey. Oldham—G Hamilton.
Bristol—G. W. Edwardsjthird year). Oswestry—John Thomas.
Buckingham—Edward BL Ridgway. Oxford—James Grainge.
Burnley—Aid. Robinson (re-elected). IVnzance—C. Campbell Ross.
Burslem—Alderman Hulme. Peterborough—Jolm Core.
Bury (Ianeashire)—Alderman Park, l’lymou h—Edward James.
Bury St. Edmunds—J. Ridley. Poole—W. N Western.
I Cambridge—Alderman Hemy Ranee. Portsmouth—W. D. King.
Canterbury—C. Gouldeu.
Cardiff—Alderman D Lewis.
Carlisle—T Milbum.
Carnarvon—W. Williams.
( hard—F. Mitchell (second time).
Chatham—Adam Stigand.
Preston—Councillor Goodair.
Queenborough — Downes Wigles-
worth (re-elected).
Reading—H. B. Blandy.
Reigate—Aldermau Lambert.
Retford—Aid. William Wilkinson.
Cheltenham—AldermanH.Millmott. Kipon—Aid. Collins..!)
Chester—Lennard Gilbert.
Chesterfield—Theophilus Pearson.
Colchester—Thomas Moy.
Congleton—C Goode.
Crewe—Alderman Heath.
Darlington—William Foggitt.
Denbigh—Aide, man T. Gee.
Derby—W. T Smith.
Rochdale—William James Petrie.
Rochester—F. F. Belsey.
Rotherham—Aid. Henry Wigfield.
Ryde (I.W.)—Alderman B. Barrow.
Rye—C. P. Mcryon (eighth time,,
(•atfron-W alden—J. bell (re-elecied).
Salisbury—J. W. Lovibond.
St. Helens—Alderman Johnson.
Devonport-rJ W. Ryder (re-elected). St. Ives—George Williams.
Dewsbury—John Hough. Sheffield—Alderman D. Ward.
Doncaster—R. C Bentley (4th year). Shrewsbury—John Frail
Dorchester—Alfred Pope. Southampton—J. Blouat Thorni
Dover—Aid Alexander Bottle. 8ouihweld— F. W. Remnani.
Droitwich - J. Holyoake. South Molton—John Gallif'.rd.
Dudley—William Noith. South Shields—Aid. John Reudhoad.
Devizes—Thomas Chandler. Stalybridge—Aid. T. Harrison.
Falmouth—Thomas Webber.
Fiversham—L Shrubsole.
Flint—Aid. Muspratt (11th time).
Folkestone—Aid. John Banks.
Gateshead—Aid. J. W. Robinson.
Godaiming—Alderman Eager.
Godmauchester—J. B Wilkinson.
Gloucester—Aid. William V. Ellis.
Glastonbury—Mr Bailey.
Gravesend—F. B Nettlmgham.
Stockton—Aid. Joseph Richardson.
Stoko-ou- 1'rent—Aiu.J U Sweeting.
Stratford—Charles E Flower.
Sunderland—S. S Robson.
Tainwortn—Alderman Tempest.
Taunton—Myer Jacobs.
Tewkesbury—J H Bough ton.
Tiverton—E M Wintou
1'orrmgton—H. L. Mallett.
Totnes—Jobn P. F. F. Haines.
Hanley—T. Hampton. Waketl Id—T. Taylor
Harwich—Aldeiman J. Watts. Wallingford—Aldu-m
Hostings—A derm an Gausden elected).
Helstou—Mr F. V. Hill (re-elected). Walsall—G. Thomas.
Hereford Alderman Knight.
Hertford—Dr. Lasker Evans.
Honiton—F. C. Granville.
Huddersfield—Alfred Walker.
Hull- Robert Waher.
Huntingdon—A. W Marshall.
Hythe—Alderman Mockeson.
Ipswich—A. F. Nichols in.
Warrington—Joan Fairclongh.
Warwick—Dr. Ti> ‘betts.
W.Us—Mr Everett
Welshpool—William Thos. Paikpr.
West Hartlepool—Alderman Grows
Weymouth—G. Elioi.
Wigan—Councillor Crampton.
Winchester—Capt. John C. Moore.
Windsor—J.W Wellman (2nd time]
Lancaster—William Hail, M.D.
Leamington—W. Harding.
Leeds—Alderman A. Addyman.
Leicester—Alderman Grimsley.
Leominster—William 8. Boyce.
Lichfield—John Fowler.
Lincoln—F. J. Clarke (re-elected).
es—H. Shrubsole. Wisbeach—A Menu
Wolverhampton—Aid. Jobn Jones.
Worcester—W. Holland.
Wrexham—IShao Snone.
Wycombe—Councill r Peace
Yarmouth—Edward Henry Harvey.
Yeovil—E. L Wbi by.
York—Lord Mayor, Aid. G. Brown.
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ass; also, a large Assortment of both English and
-. «-a_i 01 -• everj ‘
rpHE “Art Journal” sayB“ We were
X conducted throngh the crowded rooms and Ion} galleries
of Messrs. OETZMANN and CO.'S Establishment, frequently
to admire productions of good and true and useful art, hut
more often to see how every need was met that ministered to
convenience and comfo-t."-OETZMANN and CO . Complete
House Furnishers. 67.69.71.73,J7 and 79, Harapstead-road; 146
ami M8, Druminond-street; 8. Frederick-!’
Eagle-place, London, N.W.
; and Nos. 1 to 34,
at a distance, or any to whom a personal visit--
venlent,desirous of leaving the selection to the Arm, may rel
nism a faithful attention to their wishes and interest In th
selection. Tills department Is personally supervised by
OETZMANN and CO.,
HOUSE FUKNI8HEB8.67,69,71.73,
COMPLETE
_ 71,73,77and79, Hanrostead-
loail (three minute*' walk from Tottenham-conrt-road and
Gower-strcet Station. Metropolitan Ballway). Lowest prices
consistent with guaranteed quality. Close at Seven, and “
Saturdays at Four. Descriptive Catalogue post-free.
J^ESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE, post-free.
QETZMANN & CO.,
JJAMPSTEAD-ROAD.
■DALL and WEDDING DRESSES.
Now ready, several thousand Elegant Bobes,
In B ir-w White! and'^ew?^ur* 0 ,"from IBs. 9d.’to 10 guineas.
THE MAUDE,
A pretty Tarlatan Drew, with ample Train,
profusely trimmed wlth^pleatcd Flounces, *c.,
a snbsta°nt!a f lVx*included.
A pretty Dress In Black Brussels Net. Price 28*.
THE ARIEL,
A charming Tarlatan Robe,
trimmed with pleatlngs aud Boulllonni,
In Black, White, and Colours. Price 31s. 6d.
THE ADELINA,
with double rearf of rilk or retln. “ d
Price 42*.
P ALOMINO. A Pure Spanish SHERRY
of dry character, produced from the finest grape In the
Xerex district. Recommended with complete conRdenc.
per dozen, railway carriage paid Role ImDorters. H
BRETT and CO.,26 and27, High Uol
LIQUEUR
G 1
BRANDY.
HENRY BBETT and CO.
An Elegant and Digestive Cordial
much appreciated by Sportsmen,
Tourist*, and Travellers, being
Invaluable for cases of Choleralo
Nature and Indigestion. In Square
Bottles and Yellow Bln Care*, bear;
Holboru, London.
rY RANGE CHAMPAGNE is a light,
U pleasant drink, madejimp^ljir from OrangJ*.
pleasant drink,
it, but entirely f r
7s. per Dozen Qn
per Dozen nntil return_— -
79. Copenhagen-street, London. N.
d perfectly w
Bottles 2s. am
T7XHIBITI0N NOTES—PARIS.—“ The
Fl Gallgnanl's Messenger.” of Oct. 16. »aj«'" Messrs.
Horn I man have had wonderful success with their famous tea In
the Paris Exhibition; It Is now sought after by foreigners a*
English. There Is no doubt but f - ”
it Messrs. Horniman'
tee Is a great acquisition on 1 he Continent; ... — r -—-- -
most delicious flavour, and Is unique In quality; the price, too,
is such as to bring It within the reach of all clauses.
OOMFOBTIBQ.
JAMES EPPS an 00,
HOMCKOPATHIO
OHEMIBTB.
'T'HE “Civil Service Gazette” says:—
-L " By a thorough knowledge of the natural law, which m.
provided our breakJast-tables wlthV'dihcately'.iumM;
srage which may save u* many heavy doctors' bill. It i.u
. Juficlous ure of such articles of diet that aconrtltutloi nM
gradually built op until strong enough to resiit
_idency to disease. Hundreds of subtle nmlsdles are flcatoil
around ns ready to attack wherever there Is a weak point wl
vn.v escape many a fatal shaft. h» k«nis.™.™,i— -Si
pore blood and a
C
H O 0 0 L A T
r^HOCOLAT MENIER, in Jib. and Jib.
\J PackeU.
PHOCOLAT MENIER.—Awarded Twenty.
Vj Three
the flora,
A StyUsh Tarlatan Bobe,
elaborately trimmed with flower*, and silk or satin scarf,
au.oor.vc ,, U1[ick Whlte> „ nd Colours.
Price 63s.
PKEB^SriN^okW- I 8TB^! r SiNDON.
A UTUMN DRESS MATERIALS.
CACHMERE MERINOS.
CACHEMIBE DE PARIS.
AH the New Tints. 46 Inches wide,
8s. 6d. per yard.
VELVETEENS.
Velvet, finished in all colours, 3s. 9d. to 4s. 6d.
In black Is. lid. to 6*. 6d. per yard.
and other 'Fashionable Materials,
Is. 2d. to 3s. 3d. per yard.
TER SKI!
CREPE CASHMERE (BEGI8TEBED).
A most useful Material. In six designs, Black,
full width, is. 9d. per yard.
For Patterns address only
PETER BOBINSON. OXFOBD-BtREET. W.
exceeds 17.000.0001b*.
pHOCOLAT MENIER. Paris,
V>) London,
Bold Everywhere.
Lonuon,
New York.
S CHWEITZER’S COOOATINA.
Anti-Dyspeptic Cocoa or Chocolate Powder.
Guaranteed Pure Soluble Cocoa, with excess of Jut e*tracted.
Four times thestrengtli of Cocoas Thickened yot Weakened with
Arrown ot. Starch, Ac. , ,
Keep, in ail Climate,, lteqiiires no Cooking. A tea.poonful to
Breakfast Cun, eontlng less than a halfpenny. Samples gratis.
In Air-Tight Tins, at Is. 6d,.3s., Ac., by Chemht, and Grocers.
H. SCHWEITZER and CO., 10. Adam-street, London. W.C.
J^IEBIG
COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
T'HE “Naval and Military Gazette ’’saya:-
JL "The nutritive qualities of cocoa over either thus
of tea or coffee are now so generally acknowledged thst
the steady Increase shown by official statistics in it, con"
sumption during recent years ceases to be a matter of Buri.riei.
One of the first firms to popularise this now mdiiuennbu
adjunct to our break fa. t-table was Messrs. Epps and Co. win*,
name, since 1839, has been so continuously before the public end
whose Homoeopathic Cocoa is as familiar in our bonus ia the
proverbial' household words.’ Thcwe whose budnea. It hu been
to watch at Messrs. Epps'* works the elaborate and oomniei
processes, and to note the care and labour bestowed before Uu
crude coooa bean Is considered ready for consumption eumot
but admit that the popularity Messrs. Epps's production, bar,
secured is fully deeerved. The vastness of these work, may be
Imagined when it is stated that fonr millions of pound, oTpre.
pared coooa alone are prepared there yearly. The reputation
gained, now many yoars since, “• i-~—w—■-
there yearly. The repuulinn
__Mr. James Epp,’« prenarstion
parity and 1U value a* a dietetic, has been more tbu
this—which must be as gratifying to Messrs. Elpp, u It i,
certainly Battering to the good faith they have kept with the
public to secure so gratifying a result."
‘ A R the Year Round ” says
XJL " Having now disposed of fancy c
r disposed of fancy chocolate, let ui
IU H> niio mueiou-ruad, hard by the Regent'a I'ark. to Epps',
>a manufactory, where may be studied the making of cocos
t stupendous scale, giving a Just idea of the value of the*
cles, not as luxuries, but as actual food.”
rpHE “ Court Journal ” says :—
X "lot climate so varying and trying as our own, to main¬
tain sound and uniform health, our daily diet cannot be too
carefully and attentively studied. Advancing science and recent
discoveries have within the last few years been instrumental In
adding aeveral most valuable additions to our comparatively
short list of dietetic foods. Foremost among theee should be
ranged cocoa, which, although known here several centnnee pre¬
viously. only come into general use within the last forty ytsn.
One of the first to popularise this now indispensable adjuncuo
our table was Mr. James Epps, whose 'Prepared Cocoa'ha,
gained such Just repute for itsexcellentand nutritious charscbv.
Prepared originally on hommopathic principles, in a eoluble
and convenient form, and easy of digestion, it met a public
demand, speedily became popular, until now Meefrs. Epp, pro¬
duce over four millions of pounds of their cocoa a year and their
manufactory is the largest of its kind In this country.'
“ piassell’a Household %iide ” says
V> " We will now give an account of the procea adopted by
Hesnra. James Epps and Co., manufacturers of dietetic articles
at their works la ‘
J^IEBIG
GBEAT STRENGTH AND FLAVOUR TO SOUPS,
MADE DISHES, AND SAUCES, AND EFFECTB
GREAT ECONOMY.
COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
MEAT.
Caution.—Genuine only with facsimile of Baron Liebig's
signature In bine Ink across label.
riEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
MEAT.
In qn In most households throughout the Kingdom.
EXTRACT OF
J^IEBIG
"DEAL RUSSIAN SEAL FUR PALETOTS
XL (half fitting).
S3 in. deep, from 7 gs.
8«tn. deep, from 8 gs.
Several New Shapes in Seal Mantles,
In the finest qnality.
OBEY SQUIRREL PALETOTS (a great novelty).
Sable. Sea). Fox, Racoon. Sknnk, Beaver,
Otter, Russian Hare, Chinchilla, Ermine,
and every other description of
Muffs, Neckties, Ac.
T)ETER ROBINSON, OXFORD-STREET,
X THE ONLY ADDRESS.
CWAN and EDGAR
O are now showing
■ -1 ASSORTMENT
A SPLENDID /
PARIS UNIVERS AL EX HIBITION. 1378.
THE ONLY “GRAND PRIX”
In Cla*s« 17 and 18. for Inexpensive and Artistic
FURNITURE,
TACKSON and GRAHAM, Oxford-stroet,
U London.
GRAND PRIZE (EHREN D1PLOM), Vienna, 1873. The sole
Highest Award for English Furniture.
MEDAL, for “ Great Excellence of Design and Workmanship,"
London, 1862.
HO 15S cOXCOURB, Paris. 1867.
GOLD MEDAL OF HONOUR for " Improvements In English
Furniture," Paris. 1855.
PRIZE MEDAL, Great Exhibition, London, 1331.
AUTUMN NOVELTIES,
u\. silks. Mantles, Costumes,
and Sealskin Paletots at all prices.
gWAN and EDGAR,
rPRELOAR and SONS, 69, Ludgate-hill.
-L Seven Prise Medals, Including Paris, 1878. Catalogues and
Samples Ireo.
HA™:
J^IN OLEUM.
rpURKEY CARPETS?
QRIENTAL RUGS.
rTRELOAR and SONS, 69, Ludgate-hill.
-I Floor Deoorators. Established 1834. Seven Prize Medal*,
including Purls. 1878. Catalogues and Estimates free.
ASELIERS, in Crystal, Glass, Ormoulu,
XJ ‘T Bronze, Medieval Pittings.de. A large assortment
always on view. Every article marked with plain firm—
D. Ill LETT and CO.. Manufacturers,55 and'86, Hlgn]
FOR ALL SEASONS AND ALL CLIMATES.
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE
JJNGLISH AND J^OREIGN QOURTS.
EGEBTON BURNETT'S
WELLINGTON SERGES,
AND VARIOUS OTHER APPROVED WOOLLEN FABRICS.
EGEBTON BURNETT has -— " J -
supplying " “ ' ' '' "
-affect their 'permanent
the finest at 4s. 6d. per yard. PATTEBN-
id to Bristol or London
rpHE ESSEX FLOUR and GRAIN
X COMPANY. Liverpool-road, London, N., supply the BEST
GOODS ONLY. Whites, for Pastry, 8s. 8d. per bushel; House¬
holds for Bread.8s. Wheat Meal, for Brown Bread.7*. td. Coarse
Scotch Oatmeal, 3s. 2d. per stone; fine, 3s. 4d. American
Hominy,4s. Barley Maize, Buckwheat, and Barley Meal. 5s. per
hushel or 19s. Der sack. Oats,4s. per bushel; 15s. Bd. per sack.
Peas, 7s. 6d. perbusliel; Tick lleans, 7s. lid.; Middlings.2s. 4d.;
Ground Pollard. Is. 8d. Meat Biscuits. 20s. pei; cwt. Sp It Peas,
3s. per peck. Lentil Flour, lor Invalids, In Tins. 1 lb.size, Is.;
"vT «.^Tii„,k-, ti.a.oi Grain and Seed. Special for
CAV0RY and MOORE, 143, New Bond-
O street, prepare
rFHE BEST FOOD for INFANTS.
X Malted on Liebig's principle, is
Sweet and Wholesome in itself.
Entirely free from Beetroot Sugar.
rpHE BEST FOOD for INFANTS.
X Superior to Condensed Milk and Swiss Foods.
More closely resemble* Healthy Mother’s Milk
OAVORY and MOORE,
0 143, NEW BOND-STREET, LONDON ; and
Sold by Chemists, Ac., everywhere.
d executes Orders dally
T has repeatedly had the honour of
ible Serges" to the ROYAL FAMILY,
1 FROM ALL PARTS.
BOOKS sent free!
SUITS
ec by post and carriage paid to Bristol or London
£2. GOODS PACKED FOB EXPORTATION.
trong Make for BOY8' and GENT.
es, from 3s. 6d. per yard.
JgGERTON j>URNETT,
pHEAP POCKET HANDKERCHIEFS.
All who appreciate the luxury of a real Irish Cambric
Handkerchief should write for Sample (post-free), our Ladles',
bordered, at 3s. lid. and 5s. lid. per dozen, hemmed for use.
Ladles’ Hem-stitched, at 7s. lid. and 10s. 6d.,exquisitely fine:
ofourGent's bordered, atfis. lOd. and 8s. lid., and Hem-stitched
at 12s. per dozen; by so doing a genuine article (all pure flax)
will lie secured, and a saving effected of at least 50 per cent.
BOBINSON and CLEAVER. Cambric Handkerchief Manufac¬
turers to her Majesty the Queen. Belfast.
0OLDS CURED BY
TUB. DUNBAR’S ALKARAM, or
JJ Anti-Catarrh Smelling-Bottle.
TF inhaled on the first symptoms, ALKARAM
X will at once arrest them, and cure severe cases In half an
rpHE “ Morning Advertiser ” says
X "In the middle of the seventeenth centure an asm
meat appeared In one of the lew Journals of thst period,
to the enect that • out of Blsliopsgate-street. at a Frenchman I
house. Is an excellent West India drink, called diocolste,
to be sold at reasonable rates.' This is the first record we litre
of the introduction of cocoa Into England. For a time it
flourished as a fashionable drink, and then, like all fsihioiu,
subsided. Nearly two centuries after, in 1832. thedutlee. which
*- ' ‘>een almost prohibitive, were greatly reduced, uni one cl
jrst to take advantage of rc-establlahing the popularity id
_a was Mesara. James Epps aud Co., the flomwopethic
Chemists. Under the name of • Prepared Cocoa they introducM
a soluble and convenient preparation, which required uo boil¬
ing, and waa palatable and highly nutritious. It met a public
want, speedily became popular, and year by vearhas movased in
demand, till the coniumption now exceed* four millloui of
pound* yearly."
rpHE “ Christian World” Bays
X •••« I am to take cocoa,' said I, I must tac
it is made of; 1 must examine the process; 1 must a
the mystery of its manufacture; I must see and Ju
myself what are the ingredient* of which It is composed
-■— I made my way to the manufactory of Jam
“ TohnBull” says:— , .
tl •' In no branches of Indnstry are recent scientific and
chemical di^coveri^ore generally applied than in
which our food supply is -o laigely dependent.
tile last generation have in many eases become the i neces¬
saries of the present. A forcible illustration of thl “‘“f’L
in the enormous Increase In the eonaumptiunol coroajeu
year—in exact proportion to the increased facilities lor d*m
facture. An idea of the vast extent of thm mdustry msj W
gained from the fact that one film alone-that of Messrs, hi P
and Go.—now sell over four millions of pounds annually.
technically known as ■ flesh-forming' ‘
Siebbtfc claim £l
and auch analyaU and—must valuable of aU-expentaoe u«
proved It to be.'~
T AXORA MEDICATED FRUIT
JU LOZENGES for CONSTIPATION. 8LUGGI8HNE8S
OF THE STOMACH. BILE. HEADACHE.
The " Lancet:" It Isagreat improveinentonthe
preparations in common use for the same purpose.”
“ Medical Press:Laxora Lozenges can be safely
recommended."
O. R. C. Tichbome, Ph. D." Laxora Lozenges are
efficacious, and nicely made."
Bold, Is. ltd., by all Chemists and Druggists;
Wholesale, 82, South wark-atreet.
T hroat affections and
HOARSENESS.—All suffering from Irritation of the
Throat and Hoarseness will be agreeably surprised at the almost
Immediate relief afforded by the use of BROWN'S BRONCHIAL
TROCHES. These famous Lozenges are now sold by most
respectable Chemists In this country, at Is. l|d. per Box. People
troubled with a backing cough, a slight cold, or bronchial
affections cannot try them too soon, as similar troubles, if
allowed to progress, result in serious pulmonary ‘
affections.—D*p*t. 493. Oxford-street, London.
7OUR NEW ‘VOWEL’ A 1 is a-
L one-derful Machine, both at Washer, Wringer, and
:ler; «• <£ n *' d «" >t bcvonA all praise."—
tiaaer. Price £6,10*.. carriage frre and trial free.
■DREIDENBACH’S ABRONIA.—The New
XJ Scent for 1878. Delicate, refreaiiing. nni durable. 2s. 6d. to
60s. per Bottle Breidenbach's MACA8SARINE, Invaluable for
preseiw nrtheCrowth of the Hair, Is..2s.6d.. 5s. per Bottle.
Of aU Chemists, and the Makers. 157b, New Bond-street, W.
JOHN GOSNELL and CO.’S VIOLET
U and M1LLEFLEUR POWDER, for the Toilet and Nnreerv. in t),e r
TkR. LOCOCK’S PULMONIC WAFERS
X/ instantly relieve and rapidly care Bronchitis,
Consumption. Coughs, Gont, Klieum-"— —-* -"
Complaints. Price 1*. lid. per Box.
ASTHMA,
F6itD and CO i*o m iz*n i-i w *° if . ““ miolefleur POWDER, for the Toilet and Nnreerv. eilectualli. the cure of tliese dangerous ms
ledral-ttens SluicWe^ H '* 1 ‘ Uolborn > Unlverwlly admired for tU liurlty and fragrance. Sold by all COUGH LOZENGES. One lozenge gives «
leurai steps. Jianclirster. I Chemist* and I'erfomcrs. Wholesale, 93. Upper Thames-street. I time ensures rest. They contain no opium
BRONCHITIS.
- other medicine Is as
dangerous maladies as KEATING'S
rpHE “Church Review” says : “ bl ,
MS Instance
Sb h .‘^t.^n5?^u^Tn U, ffiiro w“ *-^^5
a,liuu re po j u ^„«-^.BTss^ssasaft
milli on pound*.
annually four:
the Mv^teenth ce^vTiefore either tea or coffer^haJ
found their w
drink.
_ury. before either tea or col
__ tato tlie English markeU. choroWe,"**
favourite beverage with the luxuriou* cJaae* et ^beu
then fetched an ^mort fabu ous pr ee p^u^ ^
-
ut 1. valued for
mevevro u u «„v.„. of the iir.,t, we
credited with introducing cocoa In Its pn«nt fomis Uom(K> .
Epps. Prepared on sound dieU-tic prindplai. Fppe Mtju
pitShic cocoa contains all Jbe nutritive pr^.rtiesoIt lul |f
product in such a form that they are rauured « (111 * t .
and. therefore, much moreeasy of digestion. Jhem«u^ on|J
* fat present in raw coroa is. nmc-
iraczea, but made to serve one of the mi p^hap*. th«
,f aound diet. Messrs. Eppa a works are now^^^ to
of every class, coc
and refreshing d
dietetic qualities.
counteracted, b
“ T and and Water” b&jb 0yta4
1 A " Through the kindness of Mesari. Epps, renm iuj£ j
an opportunity of seeing tlie yaany compiiu* d { pob || C
processes the cacao bean passes M‘™ u .« h n ?2”VwWI
use, and being inti rested and highly l,“risf account
during the visit to the manufactory. 1 tl oug „ g.,p f to
of the cacao and Uie way it Is l ?>|‘" ' , ,^ 4 7l bT n ri,bt be lik»»U«
fit it for a wholesome and nutritious beverage.,™*
of interest to the readers of Land and W ater.
E 1
gbateful
aim
P P S’S
OOMFORTI" 0 '
JAMES EPPS am * c0 -
0 0 0 A.
HOM1BOPATH10
CHEMISTS _.
-- Ktrand. In
Low dom : Printed and Published «„ the County ot Mldd .‘fv
the Parish ofSt Clement v.
by Geo box 0 . Lkioutom. M. S-ranu.^
NovkUBKU Id, 1878.
REGISTERED AT THR OKNEIIAL POST-OPTIC* TOR TRANSMISSION ABROAD
No. 2056. —vol. lxxiii.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1878 W,TH j sixpence.
_ [ _TWO SUPPLEMENTS) By Post, 6*d.
THE KHOORD OABUL PASS, AFGHANISTAN.
SKETCHED BY SIR VINCENT BYE* IN OCTOBER, 1842, DURINO THE PASSAGE OP GENERAL POLLOCK'S ARMY.
THE ILLTJSTBATED LONDON NEWS
NOV. 23, 1878
478
i, the
BIRTHS.
On the 16th inst., at SC, Queen’s-gate-terrace, South
Countr£8 of Limerick, of a daughter.
On the 15th inst., at 1, Lowmles-street, Lady Hardinge, of a son.
Ou the 15th inst., at 4, Grosvenor-Eqnare, Lady Mary Fitzwilkam, of a
^'cfcMhe 11th inst.. at Barham, by Cupar, Fife, the wife of Sir A. A.
CsmrbeJl, Bart., of a daughter. , _ . „
On the 9th inst., at Listens, Normandy, the Vicomtcise de Pardieu, of a
"^On the 15th inst., at Orckardmains, Peeblesshire, Lady Arthur Cecil, of
' Chi the 13th inst., at 8S, Brook-street, London, the Countess of Dunmore,
On* 1 the loth inst., at 58, Cromwell-road, Lid/ Amabel Kav, of a
MARRIAGES.
On the 12th inst., at the parish church, Sbrivenham. the Bishop Lich¬
field to the Hon. Augusta Anne, youngest surviving daughter of the lat.,
^OiTthe" 1 4th Sst^at^SLMichacl’s, Bournemouth, the Re'^Boscawen
On the 12th inst., at the Cathedra 1 , Lnndondem’, F-C. BorokWt, of
AH^y^iLTr^u^erof 1 meVcry^v.'Charles Seymour, DO.. Dean of
I)crry ' DEATHS.
On the *>1st ult., at Hawthorn, near Melbourne, in her 52od year.:Susan,
the Moved wife of the Hon. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G., Speaker
of the Legislative Assembly of'Victoria. _
On the 13th inst., at Scaiisbrick Hall, Lancashire, Eliza Margaret de
Biandos Searisbrick, Marchioness de Costfj i, dau^itcr of the late 8 r
Thomas Windsor Hunlokc, Bart., of Wmgerworth HaU, Derbyshire, wife
of the Marquis de Castt'ja. R.I.P.
On the 17th inst., after a short illn-ss. at Bennett-street, ‘p*’
London. Mary Avarne Jollie, elder daughter of the late Walter Joll.e, Esq.,
of Edinburgh.
. . The'charge for the insertion of Births, STarriages, or Deaths is
Five Shillings for each announcement.
CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOV. 30.
Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity
(Collect, Epistle, and Gospel for
Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity).
Homing Lessons: Ecdes. xi. and
xii ; James iii. Evening Lessons :
Hag. ii. to 10, or Mai. iii.and iv.;
John viii. 31.
New moon. 9 11 a.m.
Bt. Paul’s Cathedral, 10.30a.m.. Rev.
Canon Coward ; 3.15 p in.. Rev.
Canon Grigory; 7 p.m , Rev R.
8. Gregoiy, \icar of St. Marks,
Myddclton-squore.
Wbitihall, 11 a.m., Rev. W . F.
Erskine Knollys’; 3 p.m., Rev.
Francis Garden, Sub-Dean of the
Chapels Royal.
SUNDAY, Nov. 24.
Westminster Abbey, 10 a.m , Rev.
G H. Trendell, Vicar of Worlabye,
Lincolnshire; 3 p.m , the Dean
St. James’s, 10 a m. Rov. Prebendary
Kerupe, Rector of St. James's, West¬
minster ; noon. Rev. H. A. Cotton.
Savoy. 11 30 a.m., Rev. Henry
Wtiite. the Chaplain, and 7 p.m ,
Rev. Canon Farrar, Chaplains in
Ordinary to the Queen.
Temple Church, 11 a.m., probably
Rev. Dr. Vaughan, the Master;
3 p.m.,Rev. A. Ainger, the Reader.
Christian Evidence Society, St.
Clement Danes, 7 p.m., Rev.
G. Henslow (“ Love, the Essential
Feature of Christianity”).
MONDAY, Nov. 25.
j° p.‘ Furler on Usumham,
Africa, and the adjoining Cotmtry).
Institution of Surveyors. 8 p m,
(discussion on the Use of Sewage
by Fanners),
TUESDAY, Nov. 26.
8 p.m. (Mr. W. ^lattieu Williams
on Mathematical Instruments).
Institute of Actuaries, 7 p.m.
Medical Society, 8.30 p.m.
Princess Maud of Wales born, 1869.
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8p.m.
(adjourned discussion on the Avon-
mouth, Belfast, and Whitehaven |
Harbour aud Dock Works; and
Mr Wilson W. Pliipson on the
Heating andVentilating Apparatus
of the Glasgow University).
West London Scientific Ass joiation,
8 p.ra.
Medical and Chirurgieal Society,
S.30 p.m.
Anthropological Institute, 8 pm.
Tredegar Agricultural and Poultry
Show (two days).
Croydon Rices.
Princess Mary of Cambridge, Duchess
of Teck. bora 1833.
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Warr on Ancient History—Greece).
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Marshal! on Anatomy — Pro¬
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tution), S p.m.
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cution Class Entertainment).
Rutland Agricultural Society, annual
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Brighton Intel-national Promenade
Concert anil Annual Polo and
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1867. 8 p.m. (Haydn’s “ Creation
Infant Orphan Asylum, Wanstcad,
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College of Preceptors. 7 p.m. (Mr. J.
Society of Antiquaries, 8.30 p.m.
Meteorological Socit-ty (at Civil En¬
gineers’ Institution), Lecture,
8 p.m. (Mr. George James Symons
on Itain. Snow, Hail, and Atmo¬
spheric Electricity).
G. Fitch on Practica! Teaching.)
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Hospital for Incurables, annual | City of Loudon College, 6 p.
meeting, elections, &q., :
Royal Academy, Spin, (l’rof. Mar¬
shal! on Anatomy—the Skeleton). |
_ (Dr.
Heincmaouon Political Emaomy—
Market Values).
Bt. i
London for intercession for Foreign
Mis skies (or following flays).
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone at the
Liberal Association, Greenwich, 7.
Royal Albert HaU, Grand National
Concert, by Mr. W. Carter’s Choir, 8.
Birmingham Thirtieth Annual
Cattle, Puultiy, and Dog 8how.
SATURDAY. Nov. 39.
dinner, Willis’s Rooms, 6.39 p_
Scottish Corporation. 21 tth anniver¬
sary festival—the Duke of Rich¬
mond and Gordon in the chair.
St. James’s HaU, Popular Concert,
3 p.m.; evening concert, 8 p.m.
London Athletic Club, Stamford -
bridge.
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LONDON: SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 23, 1878.
The week just closing will be memorable on more than
one account. It opened tragically, with a criminal attempt
upon the life of the King of Italy. His Majesty, with
the Queen Margborita, and Sigaor Cairoli, his Prima
Minister, was making bis public entrance into Naples
amid every demonstration of enthusiasm by the popukw
He bad dispensed with the escort of Cuirassiers who
customarily rode on the side of the Royal carriage,
probably for the purpose of displaying more impressively
bis complete confidence in bis Neapolitan subjects. Whilst
some persons in the crowd were engaged in presenting
petitions, a man named Giovanni Passamnte came up
with a dagger bidden in the folds of a small red flag and
struck at the King, who, seeing himself thus assailed,
swung round bis sheathed sword, and smote his
intending assassin upon the bead. The man, undis¬
mayed, returned to the assault. Signor Cairoli threw
himself between the King and bis assailant, caught
the latter by bis hair, received the dagger in his thigh,
but would not release bis grasp until the cynical desperado
was secured by a municipal guard. Tho affair was one of
a few moments only. It was not observed, in its true
character, by the crowd, and the cortege reachod the
Palace without further impediment. Signor Cairoli’s
wound, although not by any means a trifle, does not appear
to excite serious apprehension. Passanante declared to
the Magistrates by whom be was examined that bis sole
motive for the attempted assassination of King Humbert
was the loathing which be felt to Monarchy, and his
ardent desire to further by any means a Universal
Republic. He has not only failed, but has evoked from
nil parts of Europo an expression of indignant horror
which will probably greatly strengthen the Institution
which tho dagger was uplifted to destroy. The popularity
of the King is enhanced tenfold by this occurrence. The
sympathy of the Italian people has gone out towards the
Monarch and his Queen with that exuberance which only
an attempt upon his life could have produced. Such
crimes, however, are especially to he deplored. They are
contagious. They attract the notice and fire tho ambition
of the few individuals in the community who are
susceptible to their virus. Whether they result from this
cause, or from conspiracy, they diffuse throughout the
body politic a sense of insecurity highly detrimental to
the healthful development of national progress. They
seem to carry with them inferences which are not neces-
snrily warranted by actual facts; and, perhaps in another
sense than that expressed by our dramatic bard, they
illustrate the confession of Henry TV. to his son—
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
The Afghan trouble docs not promise a satisfactory-
issue. From a military point of view every prepara¬
tion is now complete. Indeed, whilst we write, war '0
operations are already in process. Telegrams from
India announce that tho British troops crossed 0
frontier on Thursday morning. But it can hardly be sai
that the conscience of the British people is quite e^tf
in prospect of tho contemplated conflict with
Ameer of Cabul. The Afghan Committee over w c
Lord Lawrence presides (originally organised for the pui
pose of preventing the outbreak of hostilities on
North-Western Frontier of India before tho merits 0
case Bhall have been ascertained and the judgmen
NOV. 23, 1878
THE ILLTJSTKATEE LONDON NEWS
479
Parliament pronounced) proves the existence of a very
considerable and influential minority, at least, who depre¬
cate the war, as well as the proceedings of the Indian
Government which have led to it. The Committee sought
an interview by Deputation with Lord Beaconsfield, which
the Prime Minister has declined, though he has promised
the publication of the diplomatic papers calculated to
throw light on the policy of the Government before the
end of the month. The substance of these papers is very
likely embodied in a document which has been issued. It
is a despatch from the Secretary of Stato for India to the
Governor-General of India in Council, recapitulating the
policy which has been pursued by successive Governments
of Great Britain towards Afghanistan, and explaining
the motives of the present Government in their recent
proceedings. It was, perhaps, too much to expect that
the noble Lord would stay proceedings at the instance
of a committee, however influentially constituted, at a
moment fixed for the commencement of hostilities. It is
clear, however, that in the present instance a popular
approbation of the course pursued by the Indian Govern¬
ment (so far as it is known) has been but very feebly
expressed, if at all. There has been nothing hitherto
calculated to rouse public sentiment in the matter—no
imminent danger threatens our Eastern possessions, no
distinct affront has been offered to our national self-
respect, no glory will be achieved by our success. Great
expenditure of means, if not of men, is of necessity
involved in this experimental expedition, and, after all, it
is not at all improbable that the extent of it, as originally
designed, will be largely controlled and limited by opinion
at home.
It will not be denied by any that the “Afghan
trouble” occurs at a very inopportune season. Neither
India nor England can look hopefully, in the face of
increasing financial demands. The depression of trade
and commerce is more serious than can be recollected by
most men. Our seats of manufacturing industry are in a
deplorable condition. Agriculture, notwithstanding a
favourable wheat harvest, has almost ceased to be
a remunerative occupation. Everywhere there is a
restriction of employment. Almost everywhere pauperism
is on the increase. Even the weather has assumed an
unusually menacing aspect. Floods are not uncommon.
They have occurred in several parts of the kingdom, as
well as abroad, and have already caused an untold
amount of suffering and a large destruction of property.
The winter has yet to be passed through, and the general
expectation appears to be that it will be a severe one. All
these things tend to relax the elasticity of the public
mind and indispose it for rushing blindfold into dangers
the end of which none can pretend to foresee. For,
perhaps, the most formidable feature of the present times
is the absence of any augury of hope for the immediate
future. It is a bad time for initiating bellicose measures,
even with a view to a “ scientific” rectification of “ hap¬
hazard” frontiers. People are out of heart, and perhaps
v\ ell may be, and are driven by the pressure of them cir¬
cumstances to divert their sympathies, and even their
attention, from Foreign to Home affairs. Letjus hope that
nothing worse may take place. The responsibility of this
country has been rendered much heavier than it was during
the last few years, and is getting to be oppressive. Our
obligations appear to outgrow our means of fulfilling
them.
The tenure by which we hold India is peculiar. It is
partly military in its character, but it is predominantly
moral. There is-not a native Prince or Eajah who does
not regard the engagements of the Indian Government as
the surest guarantee ho can hold for the permanence of
his privileges. It is of importance to refrain from any
course of action which may idtimately conduce to loosen
this delicate tie. How the policy of Lord Lytton may
affect it is at present merely matter of conjecture. But
they who are most versed in Indian administration seem
to be most confident in their judgment that the soundest,
and therefore the safest, policy in the East, as well as in
the ‘West, is that which most closely conforms .to the rule
of right._ _
THE COURT.
The Queen was deeply grieved upon receiving the melancholy
news on Saturday last of the death of her Majesty’s beloved
little grand*daughter Princess Mary of Hesse, aged four years,
which took place rather suddenly the previous uight at twelve
o’clock from diphtheria. The Grand Duke of Hesse, with the
Hereditary Grand Duke and the Princesses, who have all been
suffering from the same malady, are now progressing satis¬
factorily. Her Majesty receives daily telegrams concerning
the state of the Grand Ducal family. The Queen received a
telegram on Saturday morning stating that the barmatian, with
Princess Louise of Lome and theGovernor-Generalof Canada on
board, which had been delayed by a heavy gale at Loch 1‘oyle,
in the county of Londonderry, sailed at half-past eleven o clock
the previous night. The Queen and Princess Beatrice attended
Divine service on Sunday, performed at Balmoral by the Rev.
A Campbell. Her Majesty before leaving Balmoral received
Captain Forbes Gordon, Lieutenant Norman Chalmers, and
Lieutenant Gordon Money, of the 79th (Queen’s Own) Cameron
Highlanders, stationed at Ballater, who lunched at the castle.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice have returned to Windsor
U Queen Victoria, immediately on the news of the attack on
King Humbert reaching her, telegraphed to Naples con¬
gratulating his Majesty on Iris escape, and at the same tune
Sir Augustus Paget received instructions to go at once to
Naples and convey personally to the King and Queen of Italy
the fullest expressions of hex Majesty’s regard.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP WALES.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, and Princesses Louise,
Victoria, and Maud of Wales, attended Divine service at
Sandringham church on Sunday. The service was performed
by the Rev. F. A. J. Hervey, Rector, assisted by the Rev. J.
Durot, M.A., Rector of North Lynn with Lynn Regis. The
Prince received the Rev. J. B. Slight, M.A., Head Master of
King’s Lynn Grammar School, with Mr. E. A. Fitch, Under¬
graduate of Pembroke College, Cambridge, sou of the Rev.
Frederic Fitch, Vicar of Cromer, at Sandringham House on
Monday, when Mr. Fitch was presented by the Prince with the
gold medal which is annually given by his Royal Highness for
the most proficient pupil of the King’s Lynn Grammar School.
The Duke of Edinburgh landed at Halifax on Monday from
the Black Prince. The Duke held a reception on Wednesday
at the military head- quarters.
The Empress Eugenie’s fete day was observed yesterday
week, in the simplest manner, at Chiselhurst. The Empress,
accompanied by her suite, attended Divine service in the
Catholic School; and she received many telegrams and letters
of felicitation, together with numerous bouquets.
The Duke and Duchess of Westminster have arrived *at
Grosvenor House from Eaton Hall, Chester.
The Duke and Duchess of Grafton have arrived in town
from Euston Hall, Suffolk.
The Marquis of Hartington has left town for Chatsworth.
The Earl and Countess of Rosebery arrived in town on
Saturday last from Dalmeny Park, Linlithgowshire.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton have arrived at Heaton
Hall, near Manchester.
Lord Colville has arrived in Eaton-place from the Mediter¬
ranean.
Lord and Lady Monson have left Belgrave-square for
Brighton.
Lord Abiugcr has arrived at Bailey’s Hotel, South Ken¬
sington, from Inverlochy Castle.
FASHIONABLE MARRIAGE.
Lieutenant-Colonel Laurence J. Oliphant, Grenadier Guards,
was married to the Hon. Mary Gerard, eldest daughter of
Lord and Lady Gerard, on Tuesday, at the Church of The
Assumption, Warwick-street, Regent-street. The bridesmaids
were the Hon. Catherine Gerard (sister of the bride), Miss
Marie Hervey, Miss Luisa, de Murrieta, and Miss Clarita de
Murrieta. The bridegroom was accompanied by Lieutenant-
Colonel the Hou. C. Edgcumbe, his best man. The bride’B
dress was of ivory satin, trimmed with point d’Alen^on and
garnitures of orange-blossoms, with a veil of the same lace
over a wreath of orange-blossoms. Her ornaments were
diamonds. The bridesmaids’ dresses were of ivory Batin,
trimmed with dark brown fur, and ivory felt bonnets, trimmed
with satin to harmonise with their dresses. Each lady wore a
gold brooch, with the word “ Tinie ” (by which name the bride
is familiarly known to her most intimate friends) in diamonds,
the gift of the bridegroom. The rite was performed by the
Hon. and Right Rev. Mgr. Talbot, the bride beiug given away
by her father. Lord and Lady Gerard afterwards received the
wedding party at breakfast at their house in Grosvenor-square,
after which Colonel Oliphant and his bride started for Wad-
hurst Park, Mr. C. de Murrieta’s scat iu Sussex, to pass the
honeymoon. The bride’s travelling costume was of beige
cloth trimmed with sealskin, and a brown velvet bonnet to
match. The wedding presents were very numerous. The
Prince of Wales sent the bride a gold porte-bonheur studded
with diamonds and rubies, aud to Colonel Oliphant a jewelled
horseshoe pin. The Duke and Duchess of Teck sent the bride
an inlaid ivory and gold writing set. Lord Gerard’s gifts to
his daughter included two large double diamond marguerites,
a pair of diamond earrings, a brougham and harness, and a
flounce of old point d’Alen(,'on; and Lady Gerard gave a
dressing-bag with old silver fittings and an antique silver
minor. Colonel Oliphant presented his bride with a gold
bracelet set with pearl and diamond stars, two diamond hoop
rings, and a sapphire and diamond ring. The officers of the
Grenadier Guards presented Colonel Oliphant and his bride
with a travelling-bag and a dessert service, and Lord and
Lady Gerard’s household servants gave a gilt travelling clock.
DR. HANS YON BULOW’S RECITALS.
The first of Dr. Von Bulow’s two pianoforte recitals took place
at St. James’s Hall on Wednesday afternoon, when he played
the five last solo sonatas of Beethoven, from memory—an intel¬
lectual feat of an exceptional kind. The performance of each
piece was a masterly display of technical skill and in¬
dividuality of style, the chief specialty having been the
interpretation of the leviathan work in B flat, op. 100—
the longest and most elaborate of its kind extant. Each move¬
ment was admirably rendered, the interpretation of the final
complex fugue having been marvellous for sustained power and
clear enunciation. The sonata which preceded this, op. 101,
in A major, and those which followed, op. 109, in E major;
op 110, in Aflat; and op. Ill, in C. minor, were likewise
rendered in masterly style, and the whole performance was
or.e of remarkable interest, and was enthusiastically recognised
as such by a large audience.
The second recital takes place next Wednesday afternoon.
LONDON BALLAD CONCERTS.
At the third of this season’s concerts Mr. Sims Reeves again
contributed to the attractions of the evening by his fine sing-
ing * his songs on this occasion having been Blumenthal’s
“The Message,” and Bishop’B “ My pretty Jane,” each of
which was enthusiastically encored, a compliment that was
only accepted in the second instance, when the singer substi¬
tuted “ Come into the garden, Maud.” Madame Antoinette
Sterling’s fine voice and expressive style were very successfully
displayed in Molloy’s new song “Darby and Joan;” Mr.
Cowen’s “The Better Land,” and Mr. Hullah s “The three
fishers,” each of which was redemanded. Madame Sherrington
gave Roeckel’s “ A little mountain lad,” Molloy’s “Dresden
china,” and “Cornin’ thro’ the rye” (eucored); and Miss
Mary Davies gave much effect to Cowen’s song ‘ At la9t,
Cotsford Dick’s successful new song “ Olivia,” and the Scotch
ballad “ Jock o’Hazeldean.” ■ .
Among other prominent features of the evenmg were Mr.
Lloyd’s expressive delivery of Balfe’s “ Margaretta,” Bishop’s
“ Be mine, dear maid” (encored), and the old ballad, Sally
in our alley; ” and Mr. Santlcy’s fine declamation in Mazzom s
new song, “The wandering minstrel” (encored), and Hatton a
popular “Simon the cellarer” (also encored). Mr Maybrick
was unable to appear, and was replaced by one of the gentle¬
men of the London Vocal Union, the members of which
contributed some very agreeable part-singing.
Madame Arabella Goddard, who was prevented from
appearing at the two previous concerts, played two pianoforte
fantasias—Thalberg’s “Don Pasquale ’ and Benedict s
“Erin”—with brilliant execution. Mr. Sidney Naylor con¬
ducted as usual. St. James’s Hall was crowded in every part.
THE KHOORD CABUL PASS.
Twenty miles to the east from the city of Cabul, on the roads
to J ellalabad aud the Khyber Pass, there are some bad places,
of forbidding aspect and of dismal repute, which were the scenes
of a great disaster in the enforced retreat of the British and
Indian troops ffom Cabul, under General Elphinstone, iu
January, 1842. The mountains, here ranging from 5000 ft.
to 6000 ft. in height, are intersected by narrow ravines, the
scenery of which is extremely wild aud rugged. We are
indebted to Major-General Sir Vincent Eyre, who was in
command of a detachment of Horse Artillery in General
Pollock’s campaign of that year, for a Sketch of the Khoord
Cabul Pass. This stem defile is five miles long, and was
fiercely contested by Akhbar Khan, first with General Sale, and
subsequently with General Pollock; besides which, it also wit¬
nessed the notorious frightful massacre of our retreating Cabul
garrison. The following is an extract from a contemporary
narrative of the terrible event which took place there, nearly
thirty-seven years ago :—
“Akhbar Khan, whose violent hatred to the British had
been sharpened not only by the conquest of his father's terri¬
tories, but by his own exile and subsequent imprisonment in
Bokhara, and by his wild fanaticism, demanded, on the thirl
day of the retreat from Cabul, that the British should, when
surrounded by the Ghazees under his command, make new
terms with him, and promise not to proceed further until the
withdrawal of the force under Sir R. Sale from Jellalabad was
known; and he insisted on six hostages. Major Pottinger,
who was lame from a wound, instantly offered to be one, and,
at Akhbar Khan’s orders, Captains Mackenzie and Lawrence
•were included. The Ghazees were, however, not restrained
in their attacks, and a fearful slaughter followed on the
movement towards Khoord Cabul. The columu was at¬
tacked on all sides. The fourteen ladies were in the centre,
but Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Boyd had each a child carried off.
Akhbar Khan, while the Ghazees were thus busy, professed
his inability to restrain them, and on Jan. 9 demanded that
the ladies should be placed under his protection. The miser¬
able weather, the snowy wastes, the rough mountain tracks,
and the month of January in the coldest region of Central
Asia, compelled them to yield ; the hostages halted for some
days in that neighbourhood. The demand on General Sale to
relinquish his post was made on Jan. 9, and on that day he
refused to do so, unless by orders from the Supreme Govern¬
ment. This answer was taken back to Akhbar Khan. The unfor¬
tunate sepoys began again to move, aud were again assailed.
The sepoys, who form such good soldiers under the broiling
sun of India, being enervated and stupefied by tho cold,
scarcely offered any resistance, and hundreds of them were
soon dispatched by the Ghazees, but the Europeans aud some
brave men kept together until they reached the pass of
Jugdulluk. Here General Elphiustone and Brigadier Skelton
become hostages, and were detained two miles distant by
Akhbar. General Elphinstone wrote a note in pencil to
Brigadier Anquetil, ‘March to-night; there is treachery.’
The British troops.marched early in the night; they came to
the frightful mountain pass ; it was barricaded ; they forced
the way and reached Jugdulluk, which they defended some
time until Brigadier Anquetil was killed. All order was then
lost, and confusion and separation, slaughter and destruction,
ensued. Several officers who were well mounted attempted to
make good their way into Jellalabad. Some of them arrived
within three or four miles, when they were murdered and
plundered, and their bodies left on the road. Only one officer,
Dr. Brydon, of the 5th Bengal Native Infantry, though
wounded in several places and exhausted, succeeded in reach¬
ing the place of safety iu Jellalabad on the 13th. Of the fate
of the other 4000 soldiers and 6000 camp followeri nothing
certain is known; many have been killed, others are dispersed,
and as yet it. is difficult to decide. The names of thirty-five
officers have been published as killed from the commencement
of the insurrection.” We may add that the total number of
those who perished—men, women, and children—has been
estimated at nearly 26,000, including the troops aud camp-
followers attempting to return to India by different roads.
It need scarcely be remarked that this ferocious missicre
was avenged, within a few months, by the advance of General
Pollock, forcing the Khyber Pass, and relieving General Sale at
Jellalabad, while Ghuzni was recaptured by General Nott from.
Candahar. Tho memories of the Khoord Cabul and Jugdulluk
are, nevertheless, sufficiently gloomy, but they cannot yet be
allowed to pass into oblivion.
SKETCHES OF AFRICAN TRAVEL.
The two Sketches of native African porters, busied with lords
of European luggage, which appear oh a page of tills week’s
publication, are Horn the pencil of Mr. H. B. Thelwall, but
were taken at two very different places. Port Elizabeth, in
Algoa Bay, is a British seaport, on the coast of our South
African provinces, aud should be the commercial outlet of a
well-settled and fertile agricultural district. Unfortunately,
its roadstead is not a secure harbour, and the conveniences for
loading and unloading leave much to be desired. The process
of removing a cargo, in bags carried upon men’s heads and
shoulders, from the lighter which has taken this merchandise
out of the ship, is both tedious and expensive to the consignees
We pass on, above a thousand miles up the south-eastern
shores of the continent, entering tropical latitudes, to arrive
at Quillimane, on the East African coast of the Portuguese
territory, in the Mozambique Channel, at the mouth of the
Zambesi aud Shire Rivers. Here again, though so far past
Kaffirland, we find the black fellows employed in the porterage
of English calico bales, which have been brought into the Por¬
tuguese custom house for weighing, and for paying import duty,
before the owners can take them up the country on behalf of
the Lake Nyossa Mission. It should be observed that, among
the unsophisticated negro populations of the interior, cotton
cloth, preferably of bright and strong colours, is the most
acceptable medium of barter. It is, in fact, the ordinary
mercantile currency brought for the purchase of ivory and
other African produce by European or Arabian traders.
There is some disadvantage, as may be imagined, in having to
pay one’s way with huge quantities of Manchester piece-
goods, which must be conveyed for months by a train of a
hundred naked men walking behind you, all requiring their
food and wages, for this and no other service. A puree or
chest of coined money, not to say a bundle of notes or bills of
exchange, would be much handier means of procuring what
you want; but the conveniences of civilisation are not to be
enjoyed in the wilderness of Central Africa.
A public meeting of the National Education Union was
held on Monday at the Townhall, Manchester, under the pre¬
sidency of Mr. Hugh Birley, M.P.
The Local Government Board has informed the Greenwich
Guardians that they may charge £1, the cost of a wooden leg,
to the common fund. The auditor had disallowed the item,
on the ground that it ought to have been entered as “furni¬
ture,” instead of a “ surgical appliance.”
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482
THE TT.T/TTSTBATED LONDON NEW3
NOV. 23, 1878
THE AFGHAN WAR.
COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES.
As we had fully anticipated, war has ac hl v!
ji.), we pV bv the Government of the Empress Victoria of India,
being that of an Asiat,c despotic
mrnnrcbv is to be carefully distinguished from the Euglvm
Cniistitutional Government of our beloved Sovereign, the
Clucui of Great Britain and Ireland. This essential difference
of political character must have been tacjayje^gnwed, ^
Tuefdny, in the Prime Minister’s peremptory refusal to admit
n deputation of his countrymen, headed by several Pcers and
Members of Parliament, who asked leave to present a Memorial
for the immediate summoning of Parliament
dcf. Trim the action of the Indian Executive, upon the
nutrition' of the projected Afghan War. Lord Bcacous-
ficld, in his letter 5 of J Tuesday, did not tell Lord Lawrence
that, on Monday, a long despatch from Lord Crmi-
brook the Secretary of State, went out to the Viceroy,
“but ” says I.ord Bcaconsfield, “lam at a loss to perceive
ulutt useful purpose would be served by a more extended
expression oMhosc opinions from a deputation, es ^ cia J^ “
ill Government and the country have already so frequently
and so recently had the aclvantage of copioas expirations of
them, both from your Lordship and others who act with you-
The Premier goes on to say, “ With regard to the assembling
of Par 1 foment, her Majesty’s Government will, as a matter of
course be prepared, in the event of hostilities being commenced
in India, to advise her Majesty to make such commumcation to
Parliament ns the letter and spirit of the Act of 18 )8 would
seem to require.” This means, according to the Act
refeired to. by which the Indian. Government was vested in her
Majesty, that a Message relating to the war ^ to b® sent to
Parliament next Session, or within three months. In the
mean time, the war is to begin and to go on, as everybody
knows, at the cost of British taxpayers ; for, although it may
technically be “commenced in India, by the issue of the
Viceroy’s proclamation at Lahore, it will be conducted in
Afghanistan, being, os it is, an aggressive war of territorial
conquest, for the acquisition of certain mountainous districts
to make a new “ scientific frontier.”
The India Office published on Thursday morning a
dispatch from Lord Cranbrook to the Viceroy of India,
dated last Monday, “November 18, * m which the
Government explains its war policy. It states that, not¬
withstanding the friendly advances made to him, the
Ameer has maintained an attitude of unfriendly isolation,
and ultimately, having two years ago declined to receive a
British Envoy, even temporarily, on the ground that he could
not guarantee his safety, nor thereafter be left with any excuse
for declining to receive a Russian mission, has welcomed
with every appearance of ostentation an Embassy from the
Czar, dispatched to las Court at a time when there were in¬
dications that an interruption of friendly relations between
this country and Russia might be imminent.” The despatch
then refers to the refusal of the Ameer to receive Sir Neville
Chamberlain's mission, and says that this conduct was wholly
without justification. “By every bond of international
courtesy,” it adds, "as well as by the treaty engage¬
ments of 1855 existing between the two countries,
binding him to he the friend of our friends, and
the enemy of our enemies, the Ameer was bound to
a line of conduct the reverse of that which he has
adopted.” The Government of India considered that this act
deprived the Ameer of all further claim upon the forbearance
of the Brit foil Government, and necessitated instant action.
Her Majesty’s Government, however, was unwilling to accept
the “evasive letter” brought by Gholam Hussein Khau as
Shere Ali’s final answer, and determined to give him a short
time for reconsideration. They demanded of him a full and
suitable apology within a given time for the affront which he
bad offered; the reception of a permanent British mission
within its territories, and reparation for any inj ury inflicted
by him on the tribes who attended Sir Neville Chamberlain.
IJnlcsB a clear and satisfactory reply were received from Shere
Ali by Nov. 20, the Viceroy would be compelled “ to consider
liis intentions as hostile, and to treat him as a declared
<n< The Britisb-Indian army has therefore commenced its
invasion of Afghanistan, ly crossing the frontier before day¬
break on Thursday morning last. This was in the Khoorum
Pass, advancing from the frontier station of Thull. Ihe
decisive step was taken, by a portion of General Roberts s
force, at three o’clock on a cold starlit morning. The
10th Hussars crossed the River Ford, half a mile
below the bridge, and took possession of the Southern
Hills, cutting off the escape of the garrison of Kapa-
tyanga. At the same time a company of the 29th Native
Infantry slipped over the Khoorum River, a mile above
Knpatyanga. At daybreak an advance force rushed across the
bridge", advanced rapidly on the fort, and fouud the garrison
had fled—only three children were left. It is Btated that
General Roberts observed the operations from a small fort on
the British side. The Khoorum advunce force has gone to
take Fort Ahmed-ishah, five miles further up the valley.
The following are the precise details of the strength of the
three divisions which are to operate against Afghanistan.
These consist of the Quetta army, the Peshawur Valley Army,
end the Khoorum column. The Quetta army consists of
12,590 men, of whom 3380 are Europeans; the Peshawur
Valley Army of 16,364 men, of whom 7514 are Europeans;
end the column of 5766 men, of whom 1816 arc Europeans.
The total strength of the three forces is thus 34,730
men, of whom 12,710 are Europeans. The Quetta army
is now commanded by Major-General Biddulph, but the com¬
mand will be taken by Lieutenant-General Donald Stewart on
bringing up the Mooltan Division, for the advance to Caudahar.
The Peshawur Valley Army, led by General Sir Samuel
Brown, as second to the Commander-in-Chief, General Sir
F. Haines, comprises the Peshawur Moveable Columu, of
Brigadier-General Ross, and the Reserve at Hassan Abdul,
under Major-General Maude, with the outposts. It is ta
march through the Khyber Pass. The Khoorum Column is
under the command of Major-General Roberts, and is expected,
after traversing the Khoorum Pass, to join the Peshawur Army
cn the road to JeUalabad.
It is expected that the Peshawur division will at once
enter the Khyber Pass, attacking the fort of Ali Musjid,
which stands upon a rock, five miles within the Pass, but is
overlooked by neighbouring heights. Its position is well
shown in the large Engraving we published a fortnight
ago, from a sketch by Major C. Wilson, R.A., assisted
by Major Cavagnari, Deputy Commissioner of Peshawur,
ihowing the sceno of the interview on Sept. 27 between
Major Cavagnari and the Afghan Commandant, when SirNeville
Chamberlain's Mission party were denied passage on their
road to Cabul. We ore this week further indebted to Major
Wilson for two Sketches, one showing the mouth of the
Mr
at the Advance Camp ♦»' a 8 hort distance
IlHBSiW
STh of Lahore The troops in the Advance Camp there and
«f h,mrood six weeks ngof consisted of Major hfandenon’s
SS3S SPiiS&iWS'ga
ijyySSA s.«
of the sun. _
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
Congratulations have been sent by Marshal MacMahon to the
Kinc of Italy upon his escape from assassination.
M. dc Morctre on Wednesday afternoon inaugurated a mew
hospital containing six hundred and thirty-five beda, at
Menflmontaut, a part of the town inhabited chiefly by artisans,
where sucli an establishment was greatly needed.
TOe Minister of the Marine his ordered ten 100 -ton guns
at the Creuzot Works for the armament of floating batteries.
l’rince Hohenlohe, the German Ambassador, has returned
to Paris and resumed the direction of the Embassy.
M Taine, the author of numerous philosophical works and
historical criticisms, has been elected an Academician.
The claim of the Empress Eugenie against the State f- r
compensation for the Chinese museum at Fontainebleau and the
armour at Picrrefond came on last Wednesday before the Civd
Tribunal. The question is whether these collections wore
private or national property, and if the former, wliat price
should be paid for them. The case was adjourned for a week
Count Sekouvnloff had a long interview on Wednesday with
M Waddington, and an audience of the Marshal on Thursday.
M. Vibert’s apotheosis of M. Thiers, having been bought by
the State, fo about to be hung in the Palais Bourbon.
In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the 14th inst.
the election of Baron de Bourgoing, a Bonapartist, was
annulled. In the Senate on the 15th the election of three life
members took place. M. Baragnon, M. Oscar de VaUee, and
the Comte d’Hauesouville were returned. All three are Con¬
servatives. The Chamber, by 300 to 153, annulled the return
of M. dc la Rochcjacqueleiu. Tlie report of the Committee on
the French Budget was laid before the Chamber last Saturday.
The totnl expenditure is put down at 2,696,664,37of., and the
revenue at 2,714 672,014f. The committee propose to reduce the
latter to 2 , 701 ,080,0I4f., which will permit reductions and aboli¬
tions of taxes to be made. The election of M. de Mun, formerly
a cavalry officer, but now a Catholic lay preacher, was myall-
dated by a large majority for corrupt practices and intimi¬
dation. In the Chamber on Monday last the election of M. de
Fourtou, who was Minister of the Iutenor in the Cabinet of
the Due de Broglie, was declared invalid. An attack was
made upon the Government on Tuesday from the Right in
connection with a charge of favouring official candidates m
the Hautes Pyrenees. A vote of want of confidence was pushed
to a division, when it was negatived by 364 to 151.
A duel with pistols was fought on Thursday morning at
PlcfcMS Piquet, near Paris, between M. Gambetta and M. de
Fourtou in consequence of the expression “That is a lie,
applied by M. Gambetta to a statement made by M. de
Fourtou when defending his election for Riberac last Monday
in the Chamber of Deputies. M. de Fourtou, having the
choice of weapons, decided for the pistol. The distance was
fixed at thirty-five paces, and at the preconcerted signal each
party fired one shot. Neither of the antagonists was hurt.
M. Bcnazct, son of the proprietor of the gambling-table3 at
Baden-Baden, was on Sunday elected as a Conservative
member for the Indrc, in the room of M. Clement Laurier.
M. Berger, director of the foreign sections of the 1 am
Exhibition, gave a farewell dinner at the Cafe Riche on the
14th inst. to the foreign Commissioners, who took that oppor¬
tunity to present him with a splendid work of art, which
figured on the table. Two Ministers, M. Tefosercuc de Bort
and M. L£ou Say, were among the company.
The manager of the Petite Republiqu* has been condemned
to pay a fine of 200f. and insert the judgment in four news¬
papers for libelling a Brother of the Christian Doctrine.
M. Devincke, chocolate merchant, who was ousted from
the Chamber in 1863 by M. Thiers, whom lie unsuccessfully
opposed also in 1869, died on Wednesday at the age of seventy.
The death of M. Ilippolytc Lucas, librarian of the Library of
the Arsenal at Paris, is also announced. M. Lucas was known
ns an author, and was one of the founders of the Socicte des
Gens de Lettres. Baron Le Couteux du Malay, one. of the
founders of Die French Jockey Club in 1834, and for several
years deputy for the department of the Loiret, died on
Sunday, in his seventieth year.
The case of Moncasi, sentenced to death by the Tribunal
of First Instance, has been carried to the Supreme Court of
AP ^The Electoral Law has been adopted by the Chamber of
Deputies.
At a meeting of the Old Moderate party held on Sunday
evening it was agreed to accept tlie principle of religious
tolerance. A resolution also was passed assenting to the con¬
vention between the Captain-General and the insurgent leaders
of Cuba for the conclusion of peace.
ITALY.
An attempt was made to assassinate the King as he was
entering Naples in state on Sunday. The accounts given of
the affair differ in some minor particulars. The version fur¬
nished by the Times' correspondent is that as the Royal carriage,
in which were the King and Queen and the Prince of Naples,
accompanied by Signor Cairoli, was entering the city a man
who was among the trade associations which were drawn up
with their banners, and who also carried a flag, suddenly
lowered it and made a thrust nt the Kiug, woundiug him
slightly in the arm with a dagger with which he had armed the
head of the staff. The King instantly drew his sword and
struck the assassin on the head, and Signor Cairoli sprang to
the ground and caught hold of the man, receiving at the same
time a wound in the thigh. The captain of the Royal
Cuirassiers secured the assassin, and, dragging him on to his
horse, rode with him out of the crowd. Another account states
that the assassin struck at his Majesty with a dagger hidden in
the folds of a small red flag, and the King instantly swung
round his sheathed sword and struck his assailant with the
scabbard over the head. The assassin returned to the attack;
the Queen cried out to Signor Cairoli to gave the King, and as
the man aimed a second blow the Prime Minister threw him¬
self between him and the King, caught him by the hair, aud
received the dagger in his thigh, but held firmly on to his
captive until he was secured by a municipal guard. The
whole affair occupied but a few moments. The King
afterwards appeared on the balcony of the Royal
Palace, and, in answer to the enthusiastic cries of
the people, rode, wounded as he was, through tha
principal streets of the city. King Humbert's health is
stated to be such as to leave nothing to be desired.
On Monday evening, in company with the Queen of Italy, he
attended tlie performance at the San Carlo Theatre. A great
demonstration of loyalty was made on Tuesday night before
the Royal palace, the crowd which assembled being estimated
at 80,000. King Humbert and Queen Margherita, together
with Prince Amadeus, appeared on the balcony and expressed
their thanks to the people. A Court dinner was given on
Tuesday, at which several members of Parliament were
present. On Wednesday the birthday of the Queen was cele¬
brated. Extraordinary manifestations of the public joy at tha
escape of King Humbert were exhibited at Rome on Suuiiy
night. On the Corso alone 50,000 persons assembled with
flags and bands of music. . In other Italian towns similar
displays of popular loyalty have been made, and throughout
the country the deepest indignation has been provoked by the
murderous attack upon the King’s life. The members of the
Senate aud Chamber of Deputies have forwarded con¬
gratulatory addresses to the King; and it is stated that he has
received 4000 congratulatory telegrams.
The assassin is named Giovanni Passnnante, is twenty-nine
years of age, and is a cook by trade. He has confessed his
crime, and declares that he was uot instigated by any person
to commit it. His general demeanour is one of cynical indif¬
ference. Several letters written by members of the Inter¬
national Society have been found at his house, aud arrests of
some Internationalists have in consequence been made.
At Florence on Monday, during the passage along the Via
Nazionale of a procession forming part of a demonstration on
account of the attempt on the life of the King, a bomb was
thrown into the Corps of Veterans, by the explosion of which
three men were killed and several slightly wounded. Ontho
occasion of funeral honours being paid to Victor Emmanuel,
the same body was the subject of a similar attack.
During a demonstration of students and citizens at Pisa
on Tuesday evening in celebration of the Queen’s birthday, a
bomb was thrown amongst Die crowd aud exploded, but with¬
out doing much injury. The supposed author of the outrage
was immediately seized, and with difficulty escaped the fury
° f *Vio?ent storms, extending over all Central Italy, and accom¬
panied by torrents of rain, which continued without cessation
for seme days last week, caused an almost unparalleled extent
of damage. AB railway communication between Rome and the
north was interrupted, and only one telegraph wire with
Florence left standing. The Tiber overflowed its banks. The
Ripetta, the Piazza of the Pantheon, ViaTordinona, the Piazza
St Angelo, Ghetto, and all the lower streets were inundated.
GERMANY.
The Prussian Diet was opened on Tuesday. Count Stolberg,
the deputy of the Chancellor of the Empire, read the Speech
from the Throne, which referred to the attempts upon the life
of the Emperor William, and expressed a hope that the aber¬
rations of Socialism would be vanquished b7 the co-operation
of the powers upholding the State. The chief task before the
Diet, the speech said, was the solution of the financial dif¬
ficulties ; and, until a remedy was provided by fresh taxation,
the necessary resources would have to be furnished by a loan.
At the sitting of the Lower House Herr von Benmgsen, the
President, referred to the attempt against King Humbert, and
connected it with those against the Emperor, for whom three
cheers were given with much enthusiasm. The subject was
also referred to the Upper House. In Wednesday a sitting of
the Lower House the former President and V ice-Presidents
were re-elected by acclamation. Herr von Beningsen, the 1 re¬
sident, requested permission to express to the Emperor the
sentimente of the House with regard to the painful events of the
summer, and its participation in the general feeling of & rfttltud -
at his escape. The proposition was unanimously adopted.
Herr Hobrecht, the Minister of Finance, then proceeded to lay
the budget for the financial year 1878-9 before the House. lie
stated that the total deficit for 1878-9 was estimated at
73,750,000 marks. The Minister urged that to provide for this
deficit the State should be relieved from the payment^of
contribution to the Imperial expenses by the creation of_speuai
sources of income for the Empire ltselt, and by a reform m
the system of communal taxation. AH „ lbert of
Frau Theresa von Bamim, widow of Prince Adalbe t
Prussia, better known under her maiden name of iliercsa
Elsler, died at Meran on Tuesday. .
An official contradiction has been published m Berlm oi a
statement made in some French papers that the Oenjju
Government lias taken possession of the Samoan Islands, d
to convert them into a German colony. Geroimy,
proposes_
is stated, has no intention of acquiring
or founding any Trans¬
atlantic colonies. ., have
Princes Hassan and Mustapha, sons of the Khedive, na
arrived at Berlin with a numerous suite. , j .i.
A letter written by the Duke of Cumberland^ the deato
of his father, the deposed King of Hanover, ha3 £^ nhe
in Berlin. The Duke notified that he fullymaintanedaU e
rights, prerogatives, and titles devolving on him in virtue ot
order of succession to tlie Crown of Hanover.
DENMARK.
The Copenhagen correspondent of Die Pall before
ymtmg <m?hc l?th tee, «W-ThU
eleven o’clock, the Crown Prince and the {LJ™ t
arrived here on their return from u sojourn C H1 | lU(1
during which their Royal Highnesses have visited HolUmd,
Paris, and lately their relations at the family Chateau ot
PC T£?i, 1 S I ?TcSie.l K .d arrived * Copea^en k*
Saturday, and was mot by the King, the Cro , w “ £51“ cc ’ ul " t
Prince \Valdemar. The King 1 |i°Tf the beSSthal of
on Tuesday, in the presence of the Court, of the ^
the Princess Thyra to the Duke of ( ^ un .^f r ^ n ^L edeI1 ^borg the
dinner given the same day at the Castle of ^F t e e n „ tn |, l>r .
health of the King £
conferred upon his Royal Highness t
the Order of the Elephant.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
A Cabinet Council, at which the Emperor of Austria
sided, was held on Saturday at Buda,for toepurpo® ci (rjm
fixing the amount of the grant which is to be
Parliament to defray the occupation expenses. Lmv er
An important speech was given by M. . Auza su bject
House of the Hungarian Diet on the loth iost-» .. n0 s j u gle
of Die Government policy, in which he declared ^
Power will be permitted to have the reconstruction of
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483
East. On Wednesday Herr Pauler, the Minister of Justice,
in a long speech, which was frequently interrupted by loud
cheering, advocated the adoption of the Address in the form
drawn up by the committee, and at the same time defended
the Eastern policy of the Government against the attacks of
the Opposition.
Count Andrassy has informed the members of the
Hungarian Delegation that the report of the Ithodope Com¬
mission was not signed by the Austrian Commissioner because
Colonel Raab was seriously ill at the time the report was pre¬
sented for signature.
The Foreign Committee of the Hungarian Delegation has
approved the estimates of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
with the exception of the secret service fund, which remains
in abeyance; and the Budget Committee of the Austrian
Delegation lias adopted the report upon the ordinary estimates
of the Ministry of War, thereby approving for the most part
the amounts at which the several items are estimated.
Count Schouvaloff left Vienna yesterday week for Paris.
Serious disturbances took place at Lemberg last Saturday,
in consequence of the issue of an official order prohibiting a
torchlight procession which had been arranged in honour of
Herr Hausner, the deputy for that town. Several persons
were wounded by the police and many were arrested. The
commissionary of police and one citizen have since died of
thtir wounds.
Part of the troops belonging to the garrison of Vienna
which have returned from service in Bosnia made their
triumphal entry on Saturday into that city, the principal
thoroughfares of which were decorated by the municipality
for the occasion.
Wednesday’s Military Gazette contains an autograph letter,
addressed by the Emperor to General Philippovich, granting
his request to be relieved of the command o£ the Second Army
Corps, and reinstating him, at Iris .own desire, in the po3t of
General-in-Command at Prague. The letter, at the same
time, conveys the imperial thunks, and a full and complete
acknowledgment of his services.
The Emperor Francis Joseph received on the 11th inst., at
Pesth, a deputation of natives of Herzegovina, who presented
a loyal addiess. His Majesty, in reply, said he would do all
in his power for the well-beiug and progress of the people of
Herzegovina, but he must ask, in return, that they obey the
orders of the authorities. The Emperor added that all creeds
and the customs,and established rights of the country would
be protected by him. The deputation then waited upon Count
Andrassy, Herr Tisza, Prince Auersperg, Herr von Bylandt,
and Baron Hoffmann, who all expressed hopes for the future
tranquillity and prosperity of the province.
An address has been sent to the Emperor by Mohammedan
notables of Bosnia and Herzegovina, soliciting incorporation
with Austiia-Hungary, and engaging, in return, to serve in a
civil or military capacity against ull enemies of the empire—
■even against Turkey in the event of a war between the two
loweis. RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
The annual conscription in St. Petersburg began on the 13th
inst. The total number of men named in the Imperial ukase
as required this year to complete the ranks of the army and
navy is 218,000. . „ .
It is stated that the Russian papers have been semi-officially
recommended to moderate their language against foreign
Powers, on the ground that their attacks are in opposition to
the Imperial policy. ......
General Todleben met with a brilliant reception at Philip-
popolis on Sunday. The town was illuminated in the evening.
All the Tuikish prisoners of war, to the number of 58,000
men, who were sent to Russia have been returned to Turkey,
except £000, who will be given up shortly. Among the pri¬
soners were six lieutenant-generals, twelve major-generals, and
188 colonels, lieutenant-colonels, and majors.
The Porte has accepted the modifications made by the
International Roumelian Commission in the Turkish project of
organic reforms, one of the most prominent modifications
being the appointment of a permanent Commission of seven
members, to be elected by the Roumelian National Assembly.
A telegram from Constantinople states that the Financial
Commission is of opinion that the establishment of an equi¬
librium in the finances is impossible without the withdrawal
of the caimes and the payment of the flouting debt, lor this
mil nose it proposes a loan of £23,000,000, bearing interest at
4 per cc ut and guaranteed by England on the surplus revenues
oi Cyprus and Syria, and the Egyptian tribute.
According to another Constantinople despatch, Safvet Pasha,
• after a long interview with the Sultan, urged, at a meeting ot
the Tiuki.-h Ministers on Friday, the necessity of coming to an
amicable arrangement with Greece before any foreign inter¬
vention took place. The delimitations recommended by the
Berlin Congress were, he said, lmpracfacable. bu^ the Porte
the journey to England of three Commissioners, two of whom
aTe Mr. Graham Berry, the Premier, and Professor Pearson,
member of the Assembly, for the purpose of conferring with
the Imperial Government.
Habil Abdul Rachman, one of the Achenese leaders, has
surrendered to the Dutch authorities.
The efforts of Sir Samuel Wilson to acclimatise Californian
salmon in Victoria have been successful.
The nppointment of M. de Blignieres as Egyptian Minister
of Public Works has been gazetted.
The Government of India have purchased Bishop’s College,
Calcutta, of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, to
which they have given another site in Calcutta, and promised
that the chapel shall not be deconsecrated, but used for a
chapel of the Engineering College, into which it is to be
converted.
An open-air meeting was held at Hong-Kong on Oct. 7 to
consider the best means of remedying the present dangerous
state of life and property. Resolutions were passed con¬
demning the lenient policy of the Government towards the
criminal classes, and requesting the appointment of a Royal
Commission to inquire into the administration of the law.
The Postmaster-General notifies that the Lusitania, steam¬
ship, Orient Steam Navigation Company, leaving Plymouth on
Nov. 29 for Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, will take letters
and newspapers for all the Australian and New Zealand colo¬
nies, if specially addressed “per Lusitania, via Plymouth,”
and posted in London on or before the evening of Nov. 28.
A pilgrimage composed of about 300 archbishops and
bishops, and more than 100,000 other persons, is being organ¬
ised for the end of the present month to Goa, where the
remains of St. Francis Xavier, which are deposited there in a
mausoleum, will be exhibited during three days. Great
religious and other fetes will be celebrated at the same time.
News has reached Sydney of the massacre and eating of
four native missionary teachers by cannibals on the island of
New Britain in April last. An expedition was sent by the Rev.
Mr. Brown, the head of the missionary staff on the island,
against the murderers, fifty of whom were killed. These inci¬
dents gave rise to the reports published of cannibalism in New
Zealand.
The bark Selkiikshire, 1191 tons, sailed from Greenock on
the 15th inst., with the following number of emigrants for
BiisbaneEighty married people, 158 single men, 95 single
women, 54 children, and 11 infants, makiug a total of 398
souls.—Intelligence has been received of the arrival at their
destinations of the ships May Queen, Timaru, and Hydaspes,
conveying emigrants to Auckland, Otago, and Canterbury,
respectively, and dispatched by Sir Julius Vogel, the agent-
general for New Zealund, in July and August last.
The Brussels correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette writes :—
The Vicomte Charles Vilaiu XII1I, ex-meraber of the Belgian
National Congress of 1830, ex-I’resident of the Chamber of
Representatives, and ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, died on
Saturday at his Chateau of Leuth. The deceased statesman
was a Catholic of the old, now nearly extinct, school in his
younger days, a passionate adherent of Lamennais, and
esteemed bv all parties. The number “ X1IIT ” forms part of
his title, which was conferred on one of his ancestors by
Louis XIV. when entering Ghent.
CALLS TO THE BAR.
The undermentioned gentlemen have been called to the
Bar:—
Inner Temple— Richard Ramsden.M.A., Cambridge; Charles
Edwin Haig, M.A., Oxford; Harry Quilter, M. A., Cambridge;
Edmund Henry Clutterbuck, B.A., Oxford ; William Roylance
Court; William Raeburn St. Clair Andrew, B.A., Oxford;
Alexander Smith Harvey, B.A., London ; John Eldon Baukes,
B.A., Oxford; Howard Meuric Lloyd, B.A., Oxford; Ernest
Robert Moon, LL.B., Cambridge; Charles Duncombe Shafto,
BA., Cambridge; Alexander Grant M'Intyre, B.A., Cam¬
bridge; Arthur William Bairstow, B.A., Cambridge; Philip
Eolliolt Scott Stokes, B.A., London (holder of a Studentship
awarded in Trinity Term, 1877, and of a Pupil Scholarship in
Equity, awarded by tlie Inner Temple, July, 1877); Alexander
Kaye Butterworth, London (holder of a Pupil Scholarship in
Equity, awarded February, 1878); and PoUexten Colinac
Copleston Kadeliffe.
Middle Temple—Lewis MTver; Oliver Adams ; Nicholas
John Littleton, St. John’s College, Cambridge, B.A.; Edwin
l-'rancis Ashworth Briggs, B.A., Christ’s College Cambridge ;
Henry Russell Spratt; John William Campbell Fraser, M.A.,
■nMi„n„*rrii TTnivt-rsit.v : Charles Francis Cagney, University ot
would eive an eciuivalent in the direction of Volo. These views Edinburgh University , - -—- —•< > . r " e
rKuSudbjMhcCouncU. , . London, 11. A., bolder of a Scholarship m ^beraational Law of
^Alexander' Ciirtttheodori Pasha .Turkish First Plenipo-
tentiaiy at the Berlin Congress, und now Minister of 1 ubiic
Works, has been appointed Governor-General of Crete.
Samieb Pasha, formerly Governor of Crete, has been ap¬
pointed Comm and er- in - Chief of the Turkish forces in Mace¬
donia, and has established his head- quarters at Monastir. The
Porte originally intended to appoint Ghetket Pasha to this
-command, but desisted in consequence of the representations
° f Yonsiouf Pushaf the Governor of Scutari has been dis¬
missed from his post on account of having opposed the surrender
of Podgcritza to Montenegro.
SERVIA.
Prince Milan and Princess Nathalie, with their whole
household, took their departure by steamer from Belgrade ou
Sunday morning, tn route for Nisch, to wmeh place they are
to proceed by easy stages, iu consequence of the Princess s
state of health. The Court will not return to Belgrade before
the spring. AMERICA.'
Mr. Evarts has sent a reply to Lord Salisbury’s despatch
of Nov 7 and it is understood in Washington has.given an
assurance that the Halifax award will be paid by the United
States Government before tlie 23rd inst. _
President Hayes has issued a proclamation setting apart
Thursday the 28th inst., as a day of thanksgiving.
The Legislature of Georgia has re-elected Mr. Gordon as
b m“e in the recently issued ot
the Governor of Montana Territory that asylum is afforded
Canada to hostile Indians.
AUSTRALIA.
A telegram from Melbourne, dated Nsv. 14, announces that
SthlkStitution, as passed by
Tlie Assembly has, in consequence, adopted, alter an anunaie
debate lasting days, a vote of £5000 to defray the expenses of
lOOguiueas, granted by the Middle Temple; Charles Peile;
Arthur James Parker ; Edwin Layman; Arthur Morris-Lloyd,
Herbert Rushworth, Edward William Donohue Manson Brasc-
nose College, Oxford, B.A.; John Mountstuart Elphmstone
Gouldsbury, of the University of Edinburgh.
Lincoln’s Inr-Edward Arthur Scratchley, Edmund Strode,
M A., Oxford ; Ernest Bradford, B.A., Cambridge; Jonathan
Dunn, B.A., Oxford ; John Forst, B. A Oxtord; Henry
Charles Scddon, B.A., Oxford; John William Evans, B - Sc -»
London ; Henry Harrison Pownall, B.A., Cambridge; Perceval
Maitland Laurence, B.A., Cambridge l eUow 6t Corpus Christi
College • Richard Naylor Arkle, B.A., Oxford, and Robert
Sutherland Taylor MacEwcn, Judge of the Small Cause Court,
Cal G U raj a; s Inn-William Pitt Cobbett, of University OoUege,
Ovfnrd • Reinhold Gregorowski, B.A., scholar of the Uni¬
versity of the Cape of Good Hope (studentship. Hilary Term,
1878); and George Horton Sheppard, of Clare oolle 0 e,
Cambridge. .
The Daily Netvs states that the subject of Mr. Tennyson s
new drama is Thomas it Beckett.
The Dominion Line steamer Memphis, “5
Mersey on Wednesday from Montreal, brought 2424 sheep and
111 head of fat cattle.
Under the presidency of the High Sheriff of Lancashire a
meeting was held on Wednesday to promote the formation
S a nSional fund for the relief of sufferers from disasters
in mines.
The fund for the relief of the shareholders of the City of
Glasgow Bank now amounts to nearly a quarter of a million.
Glasgow has contributed £118,000, Edinburgh £60,000 Paisley
£11 U0U, and Greenock £8000. Readings given on Wednesday
by Mr Henry Irving and Mr. J. L. Toole, at the new Pub he
Halls Glasgow, in aid of the City of Glasgow Bank Relief
Fund realised*£380. The readings by these gentlemen on
Tuesday in Edinburgh realised £3o0. So that, by tbeir
txtx lions, there has been added to the fund £i30.
NATIONAL SPORTS.
Itwillbe noted with general satisfaction that to-day (Saturday) is
the closing one of tlie flat-racing season, for there is no disguising
the fact that since the Newmarket Houghton Meeting sport aU
over the country has been of a poor description. Tua Thurs¬
day at Liverpool may be passed over almost without comment,
though we note that Remorse carried his 8st. 12 lb. home in
gallant style in the Anglesey Nursery Plate, giving all sorts of
weights to his eight opponents. Belphcebe had nothing but
Whittlebury to beat in the Severn Cup, and though, with au
advantage of 22 lb., he tried his hardest to cut her dowu, ho
had not the smallest chance when it came to racing at the
finish. Belphoebe (9 st. 8 lb.) and Lord Clive (8 st. 10 lb ) were
the most notable of the seven competitors for the Shrewsbury
Cup ; and the latter started favourite, though he had only a
very slight call of Sunshade (6st. 10 lb.). The heavy state of
the ground was terribly against the top weights; aud a long
way from home the race was entirely confined to Sunshade and
the Makeshift filly (6 st. 7 lb.), the former winning pretty easily
by a length and a half. Jagellon (8st. lib.) was a very bad
third, and the others trotted in at intervals. In receipt of
22 lb. from Julius Ctesar, Ambergris could scarcely fail to win
the Newport Cup ; and the gigantic son of Hermit has wound
up his career on the turf in brilliant style with three con¬
secutive victories.
This week, the last of the racing season of 1878, has been
about the busiest of the year, as the Warwick, Manchester,
and Kcmpton Park Meetings have all competed for the suf¬
frages of the public. There has been no lack of horses or
spectators at any of them, and yet littie has taken place that is
worth recording. The Midland Counties Handicap was the
chief event at Warwick, and brought out seven runners, all of
whom were backed at comparatively short prices. Red Archer
(8st. 121b.), the St. Leger impostor, carried top weight, but
naturally was never dangerous with such a heavy impost; and
the little-known Mistress of the Robes (6st. 61b.), who had
been well tried before leaving home, fairly ran away with the
race, the disappointing Zucchero (8 st. 8 lb.) being placed
second to her. A penalty of 161b. could not stop Avon tea
(11 st. 11 lb.) in the Great Autumn Welter Cup; and the
Leamington Grand Annual Steeplechase produced a mag¬
nificent finish between the Irish horse Victor II. (10 st. lib.)
and Chilblain (10 st. 3 lb.). The former gained the verdict by
a head, and Citizen (list. 21b.), who started a very hot
favourite, was a poor third. A good field contested nearly
every event at Manchester, and those two grand mares, Bel-
pbcebe (8st. 121b.) andPlacida (8st. 121b.), ran in the Lanca¬
shire Cup. The latter seemed unable to act in the heavy
ground, und finished absolutely last; but Belphcebe made a
desperate struggle for victory, and only succumbed to Flotsam
(7 st. 9 lb.) by a short head.
The Messrs. Tattersall held a somewhat important sale of
blood slock at Albert-gate on Monday. Sheldrake, who
promised to make a good hurdle-racer, went to Mr. Jousiffe
lor 800 gs. ; and of Mr. Chaplin’s four, Devotee reached just
half that price, and Strike, who as a yearling cost 1500 g3.,
was now’knocked down for 310 gs.
Some of the best coursing ever seen took place at the
Altcar Club Meeting last week. Hares were not only plentiful,
but, with scarcely an exception, ran strongly and well; aud,
except in one case, Mr. Hedley’s judging and Wilkinson’s
slipping left nothing to be desired. Even in this one instance—
the course between Safeguard and Myosctis for the Holy-
neux Stakes—Mr. Hedley was not to blame, as, from
Iris position, it was impossible for him to see the
whole of the spin. The Duke of Hamilton had
matters pretty much his. own way at the late New¬
market Champion Meeting; but even the performances
of his kennel were eclipsed by those of the Earl of Stair
at Altcar. The latter nobleman took two thirds of the Sefton
Stakes by the aid of Stake Net, by Stranraer—Snowflake, and
Sulphur, by Contango—Sweetbriar; he won thej,Groxteth
Stakes with Silhouette, by Contango—Sweetbriar ; the Altcar
Club Cup with Sutler, by Bacchanal—Sweet Home ; aud the
Molyneux Stakes with Safeguard, by Scamp—Sweet Home.
Mr. Briggs was also in pretty good form, as his Brian, a very
good young puppy by Donald—Ballet-Box, took one third of
the Sefton Stakes; and Belle, by Blackburn—Topsy, ran up
for the Croxteth Stakes. Braw Lass, who was backed so
heavily for the last Waterloo Cup, won a couple of courses in
the Altcar Club Cup, but was easily put out by Havoc in the
second ties ; and eventually old Handicraft ran up to Sutler,
and looked like making a rare fight of it with him, had she
not unluckily killed before she had time to wipe off the points
that he had scored against her.
A second billiard tournament was begun at the Royal
Aquarium, Westminster, on Saturday last. This time the
play takes place on an ordinary match-table, and each heat is
500 up. Up to the time of writing, Joseph Bennett
(ex-champion) and D. Richards have played splendidly, and
the former appears pretty sure to win. We shall touch upon
the chief features of the handicap next week.
The public are still apparently mad upon the subject of
long-distance races; and this week it is the turn of the
bicyclists, who are engaged in a six-days’ race at the Agricul¬
tural Hall for the long-distance championship. The time for
riding is confined to eighteen hours per day; aud at mid¬
night on Wednesday, or just half time, Cann had completed
613 miles 4 laps, and EdUn 586 miles 4 laps. These are the
only two of the twelve original competitors who appear to
have a chance of success, as Keen has retired, and Stanton is
beaten off._
In Ireland, Lord Emly has been appointed a Commissioner
of Charitable Donations and Bequests, aud Sir John Ennis,
Bart., a member of the Loan Fund Board.
The Scotch papers state that Mr. Hunter Blair, of Dunskey,
who intends to join the Benedictine Monastery at Fort
Augustus, has given £20,000 to complete the building of the
monastery and colleges.
A woman who has been sent to prison at Greenock for dis¬
orderly conduct has been 142 times convicted, and since her
first conviction in 1850 has spent thirteen years and forty-nine
days in prison.
At a meeting held at the Dublin Mansion House it has been
determined, on the motion of the Lord Mayor, to Present a
national gift from Ireland to the Duke of Connaught ou the
occasion of his approaching marriage. It has been determined
timt the subscription shall not exceed £1.
that the subscription shall
Mr. Lowther, M.F., Chief Secretary for Ireland on Wod-
nesdav received a deputation m Dublin Castle, which pre¬
sented a memorial urging the high death-rate of that city on
the attention of the Government, and calling for an inquiry
commission. Lord Monck, Mr. Meldon, M.F., aud Mr. David
Plunket, M.P., were among the speakers. It was shown that
the death-rate of Dublin was higher than any other city in the
Empire. The Chief-Secretary promised that the subjecfc
should receive the anxious consideration of the Government.
the ILLUITRATID Lojjq-
THE MOUTH OF THE KHYBEIt PA88 • A SKETCH BY MAJOR C.
WILSC
& NEWS, Nov. SB, 1878.—486
IN FRONT OF THE ADVANCE CAMP AT HURRI SINGH KA BOURJ.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
NOV. 23, 1373
echoes of the week.
When the irreverent blacksmith ^^^ffe^hewould '“Take
the itinerant preacher, he asked * d gentleman
it fiplding” or “, 1 ^and,tothfastonish-
sStwaahwrf
of liis sabre a t0 . un L ^ to j ulV e been subsequently cut
g^assPi* *> “ d
“two for his heels.”
^SsSKffl’S
ss s
w^iHSSriSH
Sfei&s, k~S ! i™f.51
rid of Hoedel by chopping his head off. 1 assanante mi,
all probability, be guillotined.
■winch he tells about the distinguished American General
Rhlridau According to Herr Busch, when General Sheridan
was a euest at Prince Bismarck’s table at Versailles a con-
versatffin arose as to the conduct of the Bavarian troops m
burninc the village of Bazeilles, whereupon the American
General [teste Herr Busch) remarked that the civd population
^ an tnSiy’7 country bad no right to expect any clemency
ftomaiiSingann/; and that for his par
them nothing but their eyes, with which they might weep over the
miseries of war.
Nostradamus, was igM » FJgj c hair of the Royal
Frederick Leighton to the l a haye gnively informed
Academy. ° f itisMr JoU Leighton who has been
Limner. ._^ oth ^° f _;Jd P 80 ^ e tliing about the Good Queen
to be verified. He ^ if i s r foregone conclusion,
making her loy^ servant a KmgiL It the g Roya l Academy
Joshua Reynolds was ever bur Belliarnni £ Engliah
Book ” to ask him. _
I am loth, I say, to believe that “Phil Sheridan,’’ the t l
MuratTf the Americau Civil War, and as gallant, brilliant, E
accomplished, and humane a soldier as ever drew sabre, ever
made the brutally epigrammatic remark imputed to him, and
fshall be gSd J see the gossip of Herr Moritz Busch autho ci
ritatively contradicted in the American press. I can, rndeed, ^
recall some formidably epigrammatic utterances mde by
Federal commauders during the Great Rebellion, “ is true
that General Ulysses Grant publicly declared that he would a
so lay waste the Secesh borders “ that a crow flying across the £
Shenandoah Valley would have to carry his own rations with J
him; ” still, the hero of Vicksburg did not say anything about
making the peasantry weep. The farmers evicted by th- j.
Federal troops usually turned guerrillas or bushwhackers j
on the Confederate side. c
Mem: The remark attributed to General Grant about the
«last man dying in the last ditch” was made by William of \
Change, our William III., nearly two hundred years ago.
There is plenty of evidence in a book too little read m these <
days-the Memoirs of Sir William Temple—that the great
Dutch warrior King could, on occasion, say very smart things. ]
Temple nanates that William, when Prince of Orange, seeing ,
a soldier who was running to the rear in the heat of a battle, ,
gave hini a smart cut over the nose with his sword, exclaiming •
“ Comnn ! take that, in order that I may know thee again and
hang tine whin the battle is over.” I have an idea that the
soldier so snipped over the nasal organ did not press into the
front rank when the time came for distributing rewards for
braveiy.
There is a story of quite an opposite nature told of
Napoleon I. and an orderly dragoon who was on horseback a
short distance from the Emperor during an engagement. A
shell struck the horse full in the chest, and literally blew him up,
rider and all. “ Lc drble tt'en reviendra pas .-—the beggar will
never come down again,” quoth the Emperor, coolly. He put
spurs to his charger and thought no more of the matter. But
a few days afterwards, reviewing the cavalry division of ms
army, Napoleon observed a dragoon who was twisting his
moustaches, bowing, and smiling, and grimacing in the most
remarkable manner. “Who are you, and what is the matter
with you,” asked the Emperor, sternly. “ May it please your
Majesty,” replied the trooper, saluting, “ I am the beggar who
came down again." He had escaped, wellnigh by a miracle,
the fate of his horse ; and somebody had repeated to him the
Imperial comment when the shell exploded.
A la guerre cotnme d la guerre. Just now, when Jingoism is
raising its blatant head again, and “harebrained chatterers”
are prating so glibly about “ a brush with the Afghans ” and
“ hurling back the Russian hordes to their snow-clad steppes, I
I would, had I money enough, photograph and distribute, for
the benefit of all and sundry, the wonderful etchings of
Jacques Callot, the Horrors of War, and the ghastly aqua¬
tints of Francisco Goya, “ Los Desastres de la Guerra.”
“ 1 have seen it,” writes the artist, underneath one of his most
appalling pictures. Could I write four lines of poetry, I
would trunslute into English, for popular reading, the mag¬
nify nt “Ode h la Fortune” of Jean Baptiste Rousseau (not
Jean Jacques), which contains one of the most terrific descrip¬
tions and one of the most eloquent denunciations of war
ever penned. Many years have passed since I read that ode ;
but 1 will try to quote one of its most striking stanzas from
.memory:—
Quels traits me prftsentent vos tastes,
Impitoyables Conqutfrnnte!
Des veeux out res, des projets vastes,
Des rois voincus par dea tyrans.
Des murs qde la flamme ravage,
Des eitC-s fumant de carnage;
Un peuple au fer abandonin';
Des meres, pales et sauglantes,
Arrudicr leurs fillea trcmbluntea
Des bras d’un soldat effrCnd.
There is glorious war, in a nutshell.
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
The Lord Chief Justice of England was sufficiently recovered
to tTke his Mat in the Queen', Bench Divknon on Monduy.
Mr Goschen is to be asked by the Marylebone Liberal lour
Hundred to stand for that constituency at the next election.
r> cir T T\f‘Garel Ho erg has been re-elected chairman
of the^etnipolitan Bound alFworks, a post he has held for
the past eight years.
The proceedings for assault brought by Mrs. Rousby
against Mr. Bandmann resulted on Wednesday afternoon in
verdict of not guilty.
T he annual session of the Statistical Society began on
Tuesday evening, when Mr. Shaw Lefevre, M.B., the president,
gave the opening address.
A student has been fined, at tbe Wandsworth Pohce Coa rfc
40s., with 2s. costs, for driving a bicycle on the tootpath at j
Barkside, Wimbledon-common.
The session for 1878-9 of the Society of Arts began on
Wednesday evening, when Lord Francis Spencer Churchil ,
the president, gave the opening address.
The Bank of England directors decided on Thursday morn-
ine to reduce the rate of discount from 6 per cent, at which
figure it was placed on Oct. 14, to 5 per cent.
° L oid Beaconsfield has written to Lord Lawrence declining
to Teceive a deputation on the subject of the policy pursued
by the Government with regard to the affairs of Cabul.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board have adopted the report
of a committee recommending that the tender to erect the
proposed adult asylum at Darenth for £60,000 be accepted.
Sir Samuel Mur tin, formerly one of the BaroM o£ the Court
of Exel eouer has rejoined the Bench of the Middle IeinpK.
Mr. Serjeant Parry has been appointed a Bencher of the Inn.
Air l’ratt Alliston, warehouseman, of Friday-street, has
been elected a Common Councilman for Bread-street Ward lor
the^cmainder of the current year, in the room of the late Mr.
Deputy Hawtrey.
The Court of Common Council, after considerable dis¬
cussion upon the state of Leadenhall Market, has resolved to
apply to Parliament for leave to dismarket it, with n view to
’ its improvement.
society and also pointed out the danger which attended a free
State in which the passion for liberty existed without respect
for the just rights of weaker nations or of subject or iuforior
races —Dr. Charles Rogers, secretary to the Royal Historical
Society has been elected a foreign corresponding member of
the Imperial Archaeological Society of Russia.
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows that
the total number of paupers at the end of the second week in
November was 79,295, of whom 41,204 were in workhouses
and 38 091 received outdoor relief. Compared with the corre¬
sponding weeks in 1877, 1876, and 1875, these figures show
a decrease of 590, 1267, and 4445 respectively. The number
of vagrants relieved on the last day of the week was 811, of
whom 609 were men, 182 women, and 50 children.
Exeter Hall was crowded last Wednesday night on the
occasion of a meeting to express sympathy with the locked-
out agricultural labourers of Kent and Sussex. Between five
and mx hundred labourers, who had paraded the City in the
afternoon with band and banners, were present. The Hou.
Auberon Herbert presided. Resolutions were passed express¬
ing sympathy with the labourers, and a hope time the dispute
might yet be settled before ill-feeling had been engendered.
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The Right Hon.W. II. Smith, First Lord of the Admiralty,
and Colonel Stanley, Secretary of State for War, arrived at |
the Chariug-cross station of the South-Eastern Railway on
Monday morning, on tlieir return from Cyprus.
The new main line suburban terminus of the Loudon and
South-Western Railway has been inspected by General
Hutchinson on behalf of the Board ot Trade and will b„
opened for public traffic on the lBt of next mouth.
A paper on the British Section at the Paris Exhibition
was read on Tuesday evening by Mr. F. Young, at a meetiug
of the Royal Colonial Institute, held in the hall of the Society
of Arts, under the presidency of the Duke of Manchester.
The recent inquiries into the loss of the Princess Alice
bavin 0- pointed to the possible expediency of making some
changes in the laws relating to the navigation of the I names,
the Board of Trade has given notice of the introduction of a
bill for the consideration of Parliament next Session.
Mr Cross on Tuesday received a deputation from the City
of Loudon, which pointed out the unprotected state ot that
community in case of an outbreak of fire. In reply, the right
hou. gentleman admitted the necessity of further provision
being made, and undertook to communicate with the Metro¬
politan Board of Works on the subject.
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At a general court of governors of St. Thomas’s Hospital
on Wednesday it was unanimously resolved that the governors
should adopt the principle of admitting paying patients into
wards to be appropriated for that purpose, and that the grand
committee should be requested to prepare a scheme for the
sanction of the Charity Commissioners, m order to carry the
same into effect.
The twenty -fourth anniversary of the death of Lord Dudley
Coutte Stuart, well known for his benevolent exertions on
behalf of their Polish exiles and their national rights, tailing
this year on Sunday, was, in accordance with custom, com¬
memorated on Monday by a meeting of the Polish Historical
Society, held at Sussex-chambers, 10, Duke-street, St. James s.
Major Szulczewski, the president, was in the chair.
Wednesday was Grand Day in the Middle Temple, and, in
accordance with custom, the treasurer and Benchers of the Inn
entertained a distinguished company at dinner in their hall in
Plowden-buildings. There was a large attendance of bar¬
risters and students. Mr. Aspinall, Q.C., Recorder of Liverpool,
as treasurer of the Inn, presided, and gave as the only toast
“ Her Majesty the Queen,” which was warmly received.
The London School Board, at their weekly meeting ou
Wednesday, resolved to establish classes at certain centres for
the instruction of the blind, and authorised the school manage¬
ment committee to nominate for appointment two teachers to
take charge of these classes, and a female superintendent
thoroughly acquainted with the best methods of teaching the
blind. The question of board schools and voluntary schools
was also discussed.
The annual meeting of the Royal Historical Society was
held on the 14th inst., at the society’s rooms, 16, Grafton-
8trect, Gower-street, when an inaugural address was given by
Lord Abcrdare, F.R.S., the president-elect. Before the de¬
livery of the address the report of the council was adopted. It
stated that the council recommended as vice-presidents the
Marquis of Lome and the Earl of Rosebery; aud that the total
number of members was now 606, against 563 last year. His
Lordship dwelt upon the importance of the study of history,
l referring particularly to the love of historical studios which
characterised the late Earl Russell, recently president of the
mignt yei, ue —-°- °-
An exhibition of chrysanthemums was held in the grounds
of the Royal Horticultural Society at South Kensington on
Tuesday. Special prizes were given for vegetables, and
Messrs James Veitcli and Sons, by special request, exhibited
their extensive collection of hardy snrubs for winter bedding.—
The annual exhibition of the Hackney Chrysanthemum Society
was held on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Royal Aquarium,
Westminster, and was large in quantity aud good in quality.
Before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council last
Saturday an appeal was heard from Lucknow in regard to the
property belonging to the Queen Mother of Oude, and which
was confiscated by the Government, the appellant, Prince
Mirza Bahadur, claiming a share of the estates restored, which
claim the Indian Court held barred by the Statute of Limita¬
tions Tlieir Lordships reversed the decree as to the question
of limitation, and remanded the case to Lucknow to be tried
on its merits.
New buildings have been erected in connection with the
Strand Union ludustrial Schools, the first stone of which has
been laid by Mr. T. Hill, chairman of the board. These
buildings consist of three blocks. The first will be used as a
probationary ward, the second for general infirmary purposes,
and tlic last for contagious diseases alone. The ceremony was
performed in the presence of the two vice-presidents (Messrs
Barker and Barringer) and the members ot the board. The
architect is Mr. Cross, surveyor to the Bedford Estate.
The Lord Mayor presided on Monday at a meeting of the
Council of the Hospital Sunday Fund. Wishing to remove the
feeling which seemed to prevail that he was not favourable to
the movement, he expressed his approval of the fund. As
Lord Mayor, however, he was bound to consider the feeling
of all parties connected with approved charitable facies, ml
he thought the Mansion House was not the place where such
an office should be established for a longer penod thau twelve
months. It was only from a feeling of public duty that he
had acted in the matter.
The Epping Forest Fund Committee have issued their
seventh report, and express in it their great satmfactwn in
teeing the “ public enter into the enjoyment for ever, and m
security, of the large area of Epping Forest^comprising
6000 acres, or nearly nine and a half square mUe ®- , T h ®
mittee, in conclusion, “ desire to plaee onrecord tb eir ferve ^
hope that her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen wiU at some
future time honour with h er presence anddedica.e for the use
of her lSal subjects the g/and old forest now a legalised
recreation^ground not unworthy of this mighty metropolis.
; At the ninety-third annual meeting of the Bemwolent
' Strangers’ Friend Society, held on Monday evening .m Exeter
Hall, ?t was stated in the report that the fear of impen o
i war had affected the prosperity and comfort
1 c i a Kses During the year the 317 visitors had made o
r visits throughout the twenty- eight districts of^e metropol^
The amount of relief expended for the year endm S ^ e
3 Friday of October was £1646 6s. The cases of rehef were
o 4907. The report went on to state that thus a ^°^‘ >0 by
i of want, or sickness, or sorrow, or all combined, were year by
a year investigated and assisted.
The Mansion House Committee of the Royal
v Society, formed for the promotion of the show next. yea
it Kilbum, have resolved to offer the following amount*m
it prizes :—For English horses, £2530; foreign ditti, Mqqq .
n mid mules, £140? English cattle ,£3255 Iforeign
English sheep, £1710; foreign ditto, £2o0, £ ”° ’ Pg!
£300; hops (offered by a committee of grower ), - >
. English cheese, £285 ; foreign ditto, £lo0; butter £88 ham*
£ and bacon, £180 ; seed com, £70; farms and market garto
" £455. These amounts absorb a total of £12 »^ian The com-
JS House fund amounts at present to about £7000. Ifi
d mittee also contemplates to offer other prizes. I > 3e
H yaid it is proposed to illustrate the various processes of cheMj
110 and butter making, and also the action of the »ov<**
descriptions of farm implements, as well as to exhibit s y
ey side their most ancient and modem forms.
Z There were 2448 births and 1665 deaths £
London last week. The fatal cases of , [ to GO further
the eight preceding weeks had increased f r0 “ 2 1 J? W,
rose to 64 last week, which were, however, 33
3 ‘ rected average. The deaths from measles, 2 , . theria,
number in recent weeks. The deaths referred P u
in which had in the six previous weeks declined from JOW
un were 13 last week. The fatajleases of fever, 37, jjowea^
in further slight increase upon the munbers n nt q
«- The deaths referred to diseases of therespirat
ol, which had increased from 158 to ^.^ bronefiitis, aud
ast weeks, were 431 last week, including 269 from b r ca 43
differed but slightly from the weekly average. There wer^,^
ou deaths from whooping-cough, un . d . * l^ WandsworTh Uniou
lor death of a woman was registered in the Wan Grcater
, e . Infirmary, whose age was stated to be 101 , The
!e t0 Loudon 2088 birth, and 1965 S* the
eu t mean temperature was 39 8 deg., and A a n g Th0
the average in the corresponding week of sixty J* 1 wa3 4 - 8
mis duration of registered bright sunslnne in_t' 6 .,. 5bo urs.
hours, the sun being above the horizon during
An Irish Banking Institute has been founded at Dublin a
a general meeting of local bank officials. d
“ An escritoire, in the French Re^issanM sty e.^corn^^^
of sandal and other precious woods, vnth un displayed
of ivory,” was described last week among the "*Srj; at
by Messrs. Juckson and Graham,Murmture £or Mrs.
the l’aris Exhibition. “ was designed expressly^
John E. BulU, to whom it belongs, and not to iur.
Braesey, M.B., as stated in our notice.
NOY. 23, 1878
THE ILLUSTBATED LONDON NEWS
487
THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Power, Matthew; Curate of North Pickenham with Hou&hton-on-the-Hill.
Bruitliwaite, John Mastcrman ; Vicar of AH Saints’, Maidstone.
■Carr, Edward Henry; Rector of Bidborough.
Carter, Tlioinns Garden ; Rural Dean of Sutton.
Oroudnce, William Darnell; Perpetual Curate of St. Peter’s, Auckland.
Deal try, Thomas; Vicar of All Saints’, Maidstone.
Fitzgerald, Canon Frederick ; Rector of Beckingham, Newark
Godfrey, E., Chaplain H.M.’s Indian8ervice; British Chaplain at Coblcnta.
Good, J. H.; Vicar of Hythe, Hants.
Holme, George Ward; Rector of Corsenside.
I.ewis, T. Curling; Viear of Harmondsworth, Middlesex.
Mackey,Donald J. ; Honorary Chaplain to the Bishop of Bombay.
MacLeod, Donald J. F.; Vicar of St. James’s, Whitehaven, Cumberland.
Maclure, Edward Craig; Honorary Canon of Manchester Cathedral.
Marilher, Jacob Francis; Vicar of Much Dewchurch.
Morgan, E. K. B.; Vicar of St. John’s, Sevenoaks.
Norwood, Thomas Wilkinson; Perpetual Curate of Wrenbury, Cheshire.
Owen, Donald Miliman; Rector of Idcford.
Pitcairn, James Pelham ; Honorary Canon of Manchester Cathedral.
Bolfe, Charles; Rector of St. Matthew’s, Silverhill, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
Rynd, James William ; Rector of Brasted.
Xjsherwood, T., Hurst, Bournemouth; Archdeacon of Maritzburg.
Whittaker, Robert; Honorary Canon of Manchester Cathedral.— Guardian.
A Church mission has been held this week in York, under
the sanction and control of the Archbishop.
The Bishop of Manchester on Monday consecrated a new
church, dedicated to St. James, at Chorley. The building has
"been erected at a cost of about £5200.
The Council of the Curates’ Augmentation Fund have
decided to appoint a secretary at £400 a year, and applications
may be made both by clergymen and laymen.
Mr. T. Dyer Edwards has given £300 to restore the windows
in the south aisle of New Shoreham in harmony with the
Norman windows in the north aisle.
College and formerly of Harrow. Founder’s Kin Scholarship
(open pro Me vice)—C. C. C. Lynam, King William’s College,
Isle of Man. Brasenose Scholarship (for sons of former Fellows
of Brasenose, but open pro hac vice)—F. B. Taylor, Radley
College. Essex Scholarship (for those born or educated at
certain schools in Essex)—C. H. Grinling, Forest School, Wal¬
thamstow. Meeke Scholarships—H. Hare, Bradfield College ;
H. M. Taylor, Durham School. Lucy Scholarship—wfp
Hayman, Bradfield College.—At Christ Church W. E C. Frith,
commoner of the house, has been elected to a Holford Exhi¬
bition.—A meeting in connection with the Universities’ Mission
to Central Africa was held in the Townhall, Oxford, yesterday
week, under the presidency of the Bishop of the diocese, and
was largely attended by senior and junior members of the
University. . The Bishop spoke strongly of the importance of
the mission in its connection with the University.
The following resolution endorsing the munificent pro¬
posal of Trinity College, Cambridge, to found a Professorship
of History in that University to perpetuate the name of the
late Bishop of St. David’s, was passed by the Thirl wall Memo¬
rial Committee, at a meeting held at the Westminster Palace
Hotel, last week—the Master of Trinity (the Rev. Dr. W. H.
Thompson) presiding :—“ The governing body of Trinity Col¬
lege, Cambridge, having announced that they are prepared to
found a Professorship of History in the University, with an
endowment of £500 a year, to be called the ‘ Thirlwall Pro¬
fessorship of History,’ and, under certain conditions, with a
fellowship annexed, provided that the Thirlwall Memorial Com¬
mittee shall transfer to the college in trust the amount con¬
tributed by the subscribers to the memorial fund, resolved—
* That, subject to the approval of the subscribers, the amount
already contributed for this purpose, together with any further
sums which may be subscribed, be handed over to the govern¬
ing body of the college, to be applied towards making up the
said endowment fund of £500 a year.’ ”
At Downham, Isle of Ely, on Monday evening, after a
successful meeting in aid of the Zenana Mission, presided over
by the Rector, the parishioners presented the Rev. K. H. Smith
with a handsome clock, as a tribute of respect, after three and
a half years’ faithful ministrations among them.”
With reference to the new church at Bentley Mill, in the
parish of South Weald, we are now asked to stato that the
Rev. C. A. Belli (whose munificence wa3 noted in our last
issue), finding that his first donation of £12,000 would be insuf¬
ficient to build the church and parsonage and provide a
suitable endowment, gave a further sum of £8000 in April last,
making altogether the gift of £20,000.
The Rev. Dr. Plumptre, in preaching at St. Paul’s Cathedral
last Sunday morning on the subject of the impending conflict
in Afghanistan, deprecated that war “with a light heart”
which the voices of clamorous passion were eager to urge upon
us, remarking that it was the duty of every minister of Christ
to proclaim that they who “ sow the wind ” of an aggressive
ambition should “reap the whirlwind” of a disastrous failure.
The Bishop of Salisbury opened the parish church of
Buckland Newton, Dorset, on the 13th inst. The Early
English chancel, which has trefoil hoods to its lancets, sup¬
ported by Purbeck shafts, including seven memorial windows,
was restored nine years ago, mainly by voluntary contributions.
A mural decoration of the east end by Miss Gunning, daughter
of the late Vicar, was added. The restoration of the church
has now been completed, at a further cost of about £1800.
St. Michael’s Church, Lewes, was reopened on Monday.
The Bishop of Chichester officiated, and in his sermon said no
loyal minister or member of the Church of England looked
after prohibited usages or empty gestures, or used words bor¬
rowed from Romish sources and unknown to the great writers
of our communion. He grieved when he observed these
tendencies, because they were dangerous in themselves. They
habituated men and women to modes of thought alien from
our system, and encouraged religious disloyalty.
The subscriptions already received or promised for the
extension of the buildings of University College, London,
amount to upwards of £14,000.—At a meeting to be held in
the Botanical Theatre, University College, Gower-street, on
Tuesday evening, Dec. 3, an address on “ The Use of Physi¬
ology to Medical Students” will be delivered by Dr. Michael
Foster, M.A., F.R.S., Pnelector in Physiology and Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge.
Lord Rosebery was elected on Saturday Lord Rector of
Aberdeen University, by a majority over Mr. Cross, the Home
Secretary. Lord Rosebery had a majority in three out of the
four “ nations ” into winch the University is divided. Mr.
Cross had a majority in the “Angus” nation, consisting
chiefly of English students.
The installation of Lord Selbome as Rector of the
University of St. Andrews took place on Thursday. The
ceremony took place in the Library Hall, which was well filled
by the students and the public.
The Bishop of Melbourne has opened the new chapel of
Trinity College, at Melbourne, and his Lordship’s offer of
£1000 towards the Endowment Fund has produced a like sum
fiom the settlers in the western district. In a pastoral the
Bishop urges that the quantum of religious teaching sanctioned
by the London School Board might surely be allowed in the
colony, and says of the existing system:—“ What can be the
effect of a merely godless education like this, but in commerce,
feverish speculation and systematic knavery; in politics, selfish
ambition, cruel animosity, and unscrupulous oppression; in
social life, impurity, effeminacy, idleness, and inconstancy.”
The Court of Common Council has resolved to remove the
City of London School from its presentposition in Milk-street
to a site at the east end of the Victoria Embankment.
The Rev. E. Y. Hodge, M.A., of Balliol College, Oxford,
and an assistant classical master in the Bradford Grammar
School, has been elected to the head mastership of Archdeacon
Johnson’s School, Oakham.
The parish church of Highbray, near Barnstaple, was
recently reopened after a thorough restoration under the care
of Mr. Ashworth. The work has cost £900, to which Sir T. D.
Acland, M.P., and the Rector (the Rev. W. J. Edmunds) have
largely contributed. The sermon was preached by the Bishop.
At the luncheon (at which Sir Thomas presided) his Lordship
said it would be a delight to any prelate to know that there
was in his diocese a parish where such a spirit of harmony and
goodwill prevailed as at Highbray—a remark in illustration of
which it may stated that two years ago Sir Thomas Acland
built a school, which is supported by a voluntary rate of
twopence in the pound.
Mr. A. W. Adams, M.A., formerly scholar of Sidney
Sussex, aud for the last three years assistant master in Berk-
hampstead School, Herts, has been elected second master of
the Birmingham and Edgbaston Proprietary School.
Mr. Goschen on Wednesday distributed at the Theatre of
the London University the certificates and prizes won at the
Streatham-hill centres of the Oxford Local Examinations, and
spoke upon the subject of education generally.
The Right Hon. J. G. Dodson, M.P., on Monday presented
the prizes to the successful pupils of Chester British Schools.
The Bishop of Chichester opened the parish church of
Kirdford, Sussex, last Saturday, after restoration, at a cost of
nearly £1000. It includes the rebuilding of the south wall of
the nave, the removal of the galleries and pews, and entire
renewal of the interior. The church has been paved with
Minton’s tiles, new floored, and fitted with open seats of
uniform appearance. The ancient font and altar have been
retained ; but a reredos, after the design of Mr. Woodyer, the
architect of the work, has been added, composed of Bath stone,
Sussex marble, and alabaster. The altar-cloth, of dark
crimson-velvet, richly worked by hand in church embroidery,
is the gift of Mrs. Barwell, of Barkford House, as well as the
pulpit and lectern hangings.
On the 10th inst. the new Church of St. Peter aud St. Paul,
at Winderton, in the parish of Brailes, Warwickshire, which
has been built and endowed by the Rev. Ernest Thoyts, Vicar
of Honington, in the same county, at a cost of nearly £7000,
as a memorial to his parents, was opened for Divine service.
The little edifice is in the Early English style, with an arcaded
porch, a circular apse, and a shingled spire. The architect is
Mr. William Smith, of St. John-street, Adelphi, who is also
restoring the mother church of Brailes. The windows, which
are all of stained glass, are chiefly memorial, and have been
executed by Lavers, Barraud, and Westlake. A fine triplet at
the west end, representing scenes connected with Holy
Baptism, has been inserted by the founder to the memory of
his mother and his father, Mr. Mortimer Thoyts, late of Sul-
hamstcad, Berks. One window, on the south side, was given
by Mr. John Spencer, of Chelmscote, churchwarden of Brailes,
iB memory of his parents, who formerlyresided at Winderton;
and another, on the north side, by Mr Smith, the architect, in
memory of one of his daughters, recently deceased. The font
is a present from the Rev. F. Thoyts, Rector of Ashe, in
Hampshire, a brother of the founder. The lectern was given
By Mrs. Peel, widow of the late Rector of Rousham ; and the
site, which comprises three quarters'of an acre, by the late
Marquis of Northampton. It has been thought advisable to
to defer the consecration of the church till the spring.
THE UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The following have been elected to scholarships at Hertford
College, Oxford:—Open Classical Scholarships—E. Rhys Jones,
Haileybury College; O. R. C. Holt, Charterhouse. Open
Mathematical Scholarship—D. E. Brown, Exhibitioner of New
Sir Arthur Gordon, Governor of Fiji, was yesterday week
presented with the freedom of the city of Aberdeen.
At a public meeting held at Oldham yesterday week it was
decided to erect a memorial to the late Air. J. M. Cobbett, M.P.
At a meeting of com merchants held at Dublin a resolution
was passed adopting the hundredweight of 112 lb. as the
standard weight of the trade in the sale of grain and flour in
the Dublin market after Jan. 1 next. An amendment had
been moved in favour of a cental, but this was lost, it being
contended that the 112 lb. was more in accordance with the
trade of the country.—At a meeting of the Liverpool corn
trade on Tuesday resolutions were unanimously passed in
favour of the cental as a standard weight.—Earl Spencer on
Saturday last presided at a meeting of farmers, com mer¬
chants, and millers at Northampton, when the following reso¬
lutions were carried:—“That grain of all kinds and the dry
products thereof should be sold by weight only.” “ That the
cental of one hundred imperial standard lbs. is the most con¬
venient selling standard, and this meeting would be glad to
6ee it become the legal denomination for general use.”
Wednesday was the day appointed for a meeting of the
Commission of the Established Church in Edinburgh, but as
there was not a quorum of members no business wa3 trans¬
acted. It has been arranged to nominate the Rev. Dr.
Clirystal, of Auchinlecb, as Moderator of the next General
Assembly.—The Commission of the Free Church of Scotlaud
met on Wednesday in Edinburgh. Dr. Adam, of Glasgow,
reported that £82,000 of the £100,000 for Church extension had
been subscribed. In presenting the report he said that there
were about 500 congregations of the Church who had not yet
reported, and these belonged to districts where there was the
most need for Church extension. The consequence was that
the whole work of Church extension was at a standstill. It
was also, he considered, a wonderful thing that in times like
the present the Free Church, without withdrawing contri¬
butions from one of its funds, had raised in twelve months the
sum of nearly £42,000; he, however, held that, even though
the whole sum had been subscribed, it would have been unwise
now, when so many people were suffering from the monetary
pressure, to call up the first instalment. Dr. Wilson reported
that the contributions to the sustension fund had decreased by
£4138, consisting principally in a deficiency of legacies. The
Rev. James Chalmers Burns, of Kirkliston, was nominated
as Moderator of the next General Assembly.
<Mi[a Stopptyment.
BLOODHOUNDS ON THE TRAIL.
This drawing, by Mr. Goddard, who has before contributed to
our Journal many spirited representations of animal life, gives
an idea of the tremendous energy and intensity of purpose
with which bloodhounds of the true breed will pursue their
quest, sometimes for many miles, and during several days aud
nights, if permitted, following the scent of a fugitive man or
beast—only a wounded stag, it may be, or an escaped criminal—
a slave running from a tyrant master, or a spy in war-time
lurking near the camp in a hostile country, or any other object
of sufficient importance to be worth employing these powerful
liunting-dogs. The bloodhound, in spite of his terrible name,
is not a remarkably cruel and savage animal, but one of the
most generous of the canine race; and we have seen him the
beloved and affectionate playmate of little children on the
parlour hearthrug, never causing the slightest alarm,
and willing to watch Baby’s cradle for hours together.
He is certainly one of the noblest-looking of all dogs, as
Sir Edwin Landseer’s famous picture of “ Dignity and
Impudence ” has taught the world to see ; he has a kuightly
countenance and bearing, like a hero of the Court of Arthur,
which commands our sincere respect; and we scarcely think of
him as a brute, he seems to be such a perfect gentleman,
honourable, grave, and valiant, and the soul of truth. This,
however, is the individual character of the bloodhound, as he
appears when admitted to human society. The hunting scene
represented in our Engraving shows four or five of them in the
frill exercise of their native instincts and faculties, in the open
field. They are very likely to come up with their game, what¬
ever it be, after a brief course of further running.
AN INDIAN NIGHT WATCHMAN.
The sleepy figure delineated in our Artist’s Sketch, of a mau
leaning upon his slender staff, and warmly wrapped up iu the
folds of his cotton garment, with turban and shawl covering
head and shoulders, does not promise so much vigilance, out¬
side the verandah of the Sahib’s bungalow, as the Sahib's
family and household property might seem to require. This
must be a private watchman, not one of the “ burkundaz,” or
regular public constables, who are kept on duty, a 3 in
European countries, for the official preservation of peace and
good order. There has, indeed, been considerable improve¬
ment, of late years, in the organisation of the Indian police
force. Two entertaining ana instructive volumes, entitled
“Life in the Mofussil; or, The Civilian in Lower Bengal,”
recently published by Messrs. Kegan Paul and Co., will tell the
reader a good deal upon this subject, as well as upon other
matters of detail in the judicial and municipal administration
of India under British rule. We learn that, since 1861—at
least in the Bengal Presidency—each of the large districts,
with its own Civil Magistrate and Collector, has its own
Superintendent of Police, an Englishman, of course, with a
small army under his command, perhaps six hundred drilled
constables, in uniform, and three thousand “ chowkeydars ”
or village watchmen ; the whole district being divided into a
dozen sub-districts, each with its “thanuah” or police-
station, besides numerous outposts, in charge of inspectors
and sub-inspectors. The public peace is well kept, in general,
throughout British India; and there is little more risk of
“dacoity,” burglary or highway- robbery, than in Great
Britain or Ireland—including the suburban neighbourhood of
Blackheath, near London.
THE RUINS OF SARDIS.
The view shown in our Engraving may be recollected among
the Sketches of Oriental scenery exhibited by Mr. W. Simpson,
our Special Artist, at Messrs. Colnaghi’s, Pall-mall East, a
few months ago. Sardis, where one of the Seven Churches of
Asia, mentioned with solemn warnings in the Book of
Revelations, was founded in the Apostolic time, is now a
miserable Turkish village, about seventy miles inland from
Smyrna. It was the rich and famous capital of the ancient
kingdom of Lydia, one of whose monarchs, Croesus, has been a
proverbial example of wealth since the sixth century before
Christ. • Lydia was then conquered by the Persians under
Cyrus ; but the Ionian Greeks succeeded in recovering this
city from Darius, with some help of the Athenians; and it
became, in a later age, part of the Macedonian empire,
and afterwards of the Roman. The Acropolis of Sardis,
overlooking the valley of the Hermus, with its tributary
stream the Pactolus, renowned for golden sands, has a very
commanding aspect. It was crowned with a magnificent Ionic
temple, the remains of which are extant, and there are traces
of a grand theatre. Five miles north of Sardis, and near the
lake named after King Gyges, are the tombs of the ancient
Lydian Kings, amongst whom is Alyattes, the father of
Croesus. This potentate died in the year b.c. 562, after a
reign of fifty-seven years. His sepulchre, which is described
by Herodotus, was a vast mound of earth cased outside with
stone, 3800 ft. in circumference—one of the largest of its kind.
It has now the appearance of a natural hillock, conical in
form, and commonly called the “ Bin Tepe,” beneath which
King Alyattes may have long reposed, for aught we know,
like the Agamemnon of Dr. Schliemann at Mycente, or
the proudest of the Pharoahs, under his Royal Pyramid in
Egypt- _
ROYAL INSTITUTION LECTURES.
The arrangements for the season before Easter are nearly
completed. They include the Christmas course, by Professor
Dewar, ou “ A Soap Bubble,” beginning on Dec. 28. On the
Tuesdays before Easter Professor E. A. Schafer, the new
Fullerian Professor of Physiology, will give twelve lectures on
“Animal Development;” Thursdays, four lectures on
“ Electric Induction,” by Mr. J. H. Gordon; and eight
lectures on “ Sound, including its Applications and Methods of
Reproduction; ” Saturdays, Professor H. G. Seeley on
“Reptilian Life,” Mr. Reginald W. Macan on “Lessing,”
Mr. Walter H. Pollock on “Richelieu and Colbert,” and Mr.
F. Seymour Haden on “ Etching.”
The Friday evening meetings will begin on Jan. 17, when
Professor Tyndall will give a discourse on the Electric Light.
Succeeding discourses will probably bo given by Professor
W. E. Ayrton, Mr. II. H. Statham, Rev. H. R. Haweis, Pro¬
fessors Roscoe and Huxley, Mr. E. B. Tylor, Professor Abel,
Sir Henry C. Rawlinson, and Dr. Warren De la Rue.
Mr. John Westlake, Q.C., has been appointed Recorder of
Lostwithiel, in the place of the late Mr. Nicholas Kendall.
Sir Thomas Wade, K.C.B., her Majesty’s Minister to China,
left London yesterday week for Paris, en route to China, via
Marseilles. Several of the members of the Chinese Embassy
were at the station to bid him farewelL
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 23, 1878.—489
TOMB OF ALYATTES, OR BIN TEPE, SARDIS.
THE WESTERN UNIVERSITY,
LONDON, ONTARIO.
The English Episcopalian Church, though not an Estab¬
lished Church in Canada, has there, we believe, at least
half a million of adherents, and helps, by its social and
religious influence, to make life in that colony more con¬
genial to emigrant settlers from this country. In the
Province of Toronto, and little beyond a hundred miles
from the city of that name, which stands on the western
shore of Lake Ontario, there is an inland city bearing the
name of “ London,” situated on the river Thames. It is
in the heart of the well-inhabited peninsula between
Lakes Ontario, Erie, and Huron, probably the most for¬
tunate and favoured part of Canada in respect to climate
and soil. Here, at the lesser London of Canada West, is
the episcopal residence of the Right Rev. Dr. Hellmuth,
who presides over the Diocese of Huron, comprising
thirteen counties and 148 townships, with a population of
nearly 700,000 souls, and an extent of 12,000 square
miles. The Bishop has, since his arrival there in 1861,
by his personal exertions, and still more by his own
pecuniary liberality at his private cost, founded several
important educational institutions. We published, in
the Number of this Journal for Feb. 19, 1870, an Illus¬
tration of the Hellmuth College for Boys, erected in 1865,
to which Dr. Hellmuth, then only Dean and Rector of St.
Paul’s Cathedral in the colonial London, had devoted
80,000 dollars of his private fortune. It is now called
“ Dufferin College,” after the late popular Governor-
General of Canada. The Hellmuth Ladies’ College,
which had been formally opened by his Royal Highness
Prince Arthur in September, 1869, was also described as
having been erected by Dr. Hellmuth at the cost of
70,000 dollars ; and a beautiful chapel has since been
added. The Huron Theological College was established
in 1862 by the joint efforts of Dr. Hellmuth and of the
late Right Rev. Dr. Cfonyn, his predecessor as Bishop of
Huron, with the assistance of friends in England, one of
THE RIGHT REV. DR. HELLMUTH, BISHOP OF HURON.
whom, the Rev. Alfred Peache, endowed the Divinity Pro¬
fessorship with a'gift of £5000. We have now to record the
creation, by an Act |of the Provincial Legislature, of a
Western University of Canada, with its University College
at London, which will, it is hoped, shortly be opened by
the new Governor-General, the Marquis of Lome, and
by her Royal Highness Princess Louise. The University
building, of which we give an Illustration, was originally
known, since 1865, as the Collegiate Institute, but has
latterly been called Hellmuth College, after its munificent
founder. It is capable of accommodating more than a
hundred students, and is now being altered, for its new
destination as the University, by a colonial architect, Mr.
Gordon Lloyd, of Sandwich and Detroit, under the
directions of Bishop Hellmuth. Mr. Gordon Lloyd is
nephew to Mr. Ewan Christian, the well-known church
architect in England. The University charter bestows
the prerogative of granting degrees, and other privileges
of a University, for the Province of Ontario. The
entire cost of establishing this University is estimated
at £30,000, of which sum, we understand, about one third
has been subscribed or given, £2200 being a fresh gift
from the Bishop. The residents in the diocese have shown
their zeal and liberality by raising, within a very short
time, 35,000 dollars for the University. The Bishop of
Huron is now in England, and is endeavouring to procure
the requisite funds for its completion. We need say no
more of his good works in Canada West; their value will
no doubt be attested by visitors to that colony, as well as
by colonists now in Great Britain. The Earl of Dufferin,
while Governor-General, visited the Hellmuth Colleges,
and has since annually presented medals of silver and
bronze, to be competed for by the boys and girls of both
colleges. We take this opportunity to give the Portrait
of the Rev. Dr. Hellmuth himself. He is, we believe, a
native of Poland, and of Jewish family, who was educated
at Breslau, but embraced Christianity in 1841, then came
to England, and went to Canada in 1844. He there entered
the ministry of the English Episcopalian Church, and
490
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W. Williamson, of Toronto.
the morecambe aquarium.
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the belt part of the now rising village of
8U miner and autumn health-seekers is galled
‘Tirile Bradford.” Whether people actually
nowhere in the winter also we are 110fc “VJf‘°
fav ; but the budding shown m our Illus¬
tration is designed for a Winter Garden, as
well as for an Aquarium, and we havo uo
wish to deny that Morecambe is P°“*}7 *
tolerable residence for the conung month of
December. It was, however, in the month
of Jime last that the building was opened
by Mr. Charles Turner, of Bradford, one
of the directors of the company who
We ct nstructed it with a view to profit,
and for the improvement of other property
there. Qhe chairman of the Company is Mr.
T. Firth, of Shcarbridge, Bradford; and tho
capital, originally £40,000, is divided into
seventeen shares, all held by gentlemen of
Bradford. The building, of ornamental desima,
has teen erected from the plans and under the
CerSSon of Messrs. John Waugh and
Hcrbeit Isitt, architects aud engineers, of
Bradford. It comprises four departments—
the baths, the aquarium, the winter garden,
and the restaurant-each with a separatei en¬
trance in the front. lhcre are two large
swimming-baths for gentlemen and one for
ladies, supplied with filtered sea-water, private
lounge and slipper baths of warm water, medi¬
cated, sulphur, hot-air, and electricity baths,
with the most perfect appliances. The winter
garden is a hall 200It. long, GO it. wide, onl
52 ft. high, with an arched roof of iron and
cla-s, and is adorned with various plants, and
with pictures and engravings; the aquarium
consists of twenty-nine tanks, the largest
30 ft. long, ranged along the west side ofthe
hall. Morecambe has gamed by this establish¬
ment n valuable addition to her natural advan¬
tages, which the people of the West Hiding
s era to lecognite. Theyarc a hardy race and
not much afraid of the strong north-westerly
gales, to which this open shore lies fully
exposed.
Lieutenant-Colonel Knocker, on behalf of
the members of the Granville Club, Dover,
unveiled last Wednesday, in the presence of
a large assembly, in the club-room, a fane
lifesize portrait of the first president, Mr.
Hichurd lJickeson, J.P., which had been pre¬
sented by the members.
Colouel Ingltfield, It. A., commanding the
Hants Artillery Militia, has presented Captain
Turnbull, It.A. (on resigning the adjutancy of
that regiment) with u handsome silver-gilt
tankard, on bthalf of himself :uid the officers
of tLe r.gimuit, as a mark of their esteem and
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riAUTION.—BOND’S CRYSTAL PALACE
U GOLD MEDAt, MARKINO^INK^-Bom^ni«ml*t^and
- pJeHHred' byTheVlaugfiter cif the fata John Bond"'-Work*. 7 »‘,
SouSfito'rc 4 ul, Louilbn. No buailnf reqaired.
TUDSON’S DYES.—6d. each, of Chemists.
Curtains. Tablere-vers. Mantle*, Scarves, Jacket* dyed In ten
P. J. SMITH AND SONS' . ^ q g.
r RON-STRUTTED PIA --
L - The best and nir'ri snlwtautUl
UMI A 1 --UUO no- - vl ', le - t oelebr»tre ~
eeg^^fattawg eSig
E. D SSareai»' C Si’u^»WS'TBS-
Manufactiireraof tbeD*'**^
Kingdom) of the .duration.
No. .^wnSv EMBEB, price w.neL_ -
/AROIDE GOLD S Facdmde’<d oaW
G ■a^JBSSMS“sSfeasS.'r
NOV. 23, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
»THE BEST ENGLISH WATCHES.
X Tie GOLDSMITHS - ALLIANCE (Limited) request the
fJKPiiSS <'fjnurdi«e,TB to their stork ot LONDON-MADE
PATENT LEVER WATCHES, which, brine: manufactured by
them wives ou the promises, are confidently recommended for
Accuracy and durability.
^ Prices of Silver Watches.
Patent Lever Watch, jewelled, enamel dial, and seconds £4 14 S
llitto. jewelled In four hole* and capped.6 6 0
Ditto, the finest quality, jewelled In six holes .. .. 8 8 0
Silver Watches in hunting cases. 10s. f»d. extra.
„ A . _ Gold Watches.-Size for Ladies.
Tatcnt Lever Watches, with gold dial, ewelled .. .. 11 11 0
Ditto, with richly enKraved case .12 12 0
Ditto, with very owe, and jewelled in four holes 14 14 0
Gold Watches.—Size for Gentlemen.
Lcv f , , r Watches, jewelled. seconds, and capped .. 13 13 0
Ditto, Jewelled in six holes, and gold balance .. .. 18 18 0
T . . . G ol d Wutehes In hunting cases, £3 3s. extra.
Lists of Prieto, with remarks on watches, gratia and post-free.
The Goldsmiths Alliance (Limited). 11 and 12, Cornhill, London.
4?1°. BENNETT’S WATCHES.
— n C n for tt fid Note, free and safe per post, one of
BENNETTS LADY'S GOLD WATCHES, perfect for time,
beauty. and workmanship, witli keyless notion, air-tight, damp-
tight. and dust-tight.—66 cheapsido. London. Gold Chains at
manufacturers' prices. P.O.O. to John Bennett.
BENNETT, 63 and 64. Cheapside.
TTrALKER’S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES
—* , aroRnperscdlnifall others. Prize Medals—London. 1862,
Paris, 1867. Silver Watches, from £44a.; Gold,from £6«s. Prlce-
UbU sent free.—77. Comliill; 220 , Regent-street; and 76. Strand.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS AND NEW-YEAR'S GIFTS.
TV/fR. STREETER desires to Inform
intending Purchasers that ho has now on VIEW a Choice
^bcHon of Novel til s In JEWELLERY. ARTICLES of VERTU.
Mtlon < * c * > **cently purchased by him nt tlio Paris Exlii-
Mr. Street* r, Goldsmith and Jeweller,
18 . New Bond-street, W.
JEWEL ROBBERIES PREVENTED.—J.
Jy TANN'S RELIANCE SAFES have never failed to resist
the attempts of tlie most determined burglars. Fire-Resisting
Safes. £*5 Be. Lists free.—11. Newgate-atreet. E.C.
VENETIAN GLASS.
GOLD MEDAL. PARIS EXHIBITION. 137*.
THE VENICE and MURANO GLASS and
, . MOSAIC - COMPANY (Limited! invite an in-p-ction of
their Shirk of CHANDELIERS. Candelabra*. XUrro-s. Tnzzus,
***•“• Talile Gliuw, Mosaics, and Decorative Works. Especially
selected for Christmas and New-Year Gifts.
30. St. Jamea's-etrret, London, S.W.
TJEANE and CO.’S TABLE CUTLERY,
-Lc' celebrated for more than ISO years, remains unrivalled for
quality and cheapness. The stock.extensive and complete,affords
a choice *uito<l to every purchaser.
_ ,, Ivory Handle*. I s.d. 1 s.d. I s.d. 1 s.d. | s.d. | s.d. 1 s.d.
Table Knives, per dozen.. 116 0 | ID 0 I 22 0 I 25 0 32 0 | 35 0 40 0
Dessert, ditto . .. 14 0 16 0 119 0 | 21 0 27 0 30 0 34 0
Carvers, per pair.| 6 0 | 60 | 70| 8o| 9o|loo|l3o
JJEANE’S FENDERS and FIREIRONS.
-mS Deane and Co.'s Show-Rooms for the display of these
goods contain a large, cheap, and choice variety of patterns.
Tile-Heartli Fenders .. J £1 16 I £2 7 1 £4 2 1 £4 17 I £6 0
Fenders, Drawing-room 2 5 1 3 3 6 6 11 11 15 0
Fire runs „ 1 51 1 15 2 2 4 10 5 10
Fenders, Dining-room ..0 17 1 411 10 25 44
.. o 10 1 0 151 111 1 10 25
Bed-room Fenders, from 3s. to l*s. Firetrons. from 3s. to 12s.
Deane and Co. - * Catalogue, with Furnishing Estimate*, post-free.
Dmue and Co..46. King William-street. London Bridge, E.C.
/JASELIERS, in Crystal, Glass, Ormoulu,
V-* or Bronze, Meeliaval Fittings, <fco. A large assortment
always on view. Every article marked with plain figures.
D. HULETT aud CO., Manufacturers.55and 56. High Holborn.
JJ E A L and g O N
HAVE ON SHOW
THE LARGEST STOCK OF
BED-ROOM FURNITURE
IN LONDON.
FORTY SUITES are set apart in separate rooms, ami th
general stock occupies six galleries and two ground floors, each
130 feet long.
l - o Bedstead*, fitted with every description of bedding, are
ready Uxed for inspection.
AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE,
CONTAINING 4.-.I DESIGNS OF BEDSTEADS AND BED-
IlG'iM FURNITURE. AND PRICE-LIST OF BEDDING
BENT-FREE RT TOST.
195 to 193. TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD. LONDON.
JjHTRNITURE.—An immense assemblage of
A ilieh-e'ats Furniture, manufactured etprc-t-lyf rtlio ll-'tol
<le llanderille, Wigmorc-street Cav. ndMi viuan-, id. owing t >
tin Inability of the promoter* to rarry out tli-ir contract with
the manufacturer*, throw n upon the m irket. ami must Ik- SOLD
nt a gnat discount from tin- cn t. Tic- Furniture c 'mprise* all
the renaisites for hotels or miiktI.T private bouse*, viz C.in-
pletc J..suite, in . did walnut, an 1 six dozen m-.-dv,-
and no *t elegantly designed Dining-Room Chairs, s.did walnut,
upholster, <1 in last nii-r.ic,-,: Drawing-Room Suite* in el, my
and gold : Bed-Room suite*. « ltd, larv WarJnd. su 1 lind,e**c
Toil,t Tables, and Wa hstmil* of tie- ig-st qualitv of work-
tnun-liip anil the most iidmii-d and fa-lii.uiable stales, iu
fine Iteli,in ami solid American Walnut. Birch, did Ad, A -
artistic.llv deigned.... ... V. g-. Urn suit -, original
i-rlcc 4." g*.: fifty Iron and Brass Bel had* mid Be (ding of n. of
lnxnri, ns ehnrarter; Aubu-*on. Ispahan, and other Curia t- of
choic, description. In various style . each R ing complete, and
woven tlirmiglimit in one piece, suitable for nay rom,,. Tim
G,««ts. amounting in value to several tlron-.iiuls of pom,.D. are
arrangeMn a separate sliow-r,«>tn.^,ll-tineMr an tin- g n"rul
l y every one about to furiil -li. a* Mil* important and genuine
Sale can Is-continued tor a limite.1 p rio 1 mill-.—On vim-«t
LEAVIN’ CHAWCOUR and CIVS. 73 to 73. Brompt m-road. S.W.
^JURALIS.
^IIE SUNBURY WALL DECORATION.
r JMIE SUNBURY WALL DECORATION.
POSSESSES
pEAUTY,
pLE GANCE,
pE FI N E ME NT,
J DURABILITY.
gILVER MEDzYL,
pARIS EXHIBITION, 1878.
r | 'HE SUNBURY WALL DECORATION
X la in O-namentnl Relief, like wood-carving. It is water-
lltd, ftructilde, and the first cost is the last. It can be washed,
or oven scrubbed, with soap ami water. It will not. absorb
infection. It 1 b therefore highly sanitary. It has a warm and
computable appearance. It can be adopted by architects t-> any
style of building. It Is MiPulde for Drawing-Ito nua, Diuing-
Iloorns. Morning-Rooms, Billiard-Rooras. Ilunks. Theatres and
Com,ut-Rooms, ClitircbcK and Chapels. Stcam-Uoat*. and Rail¬
way Carriages. It is applicable for Dados. Panels, Cornices,
Friezes, Borders, Door-l’anels, Cabinet-Panels. Folding Screens.
r rO be had of all respectable Decorators,
X Upholsterers: and Wholesale of FREDERICK WALTON
and CO., at the Show-Rooms, 9. Berners-street, Oxford-street,
I IFTS.
1 J DINNER LIFTS, COAL LIFTS, and LUGGAGE LIFTS,
for PRIVATE HOUSES.
ESTIMATES and DRAWINGS on application to
Messrs. F. GODDARD and CO. 37, Camberwell New-rond, S.E.
pETER pOBINSON,
S1LKMERCER and LINENDRAPER,
THE ONLY ADDRESS,
103 to 108, OXFORD-STREET, W.,
where the Business was established in 1833.
1878.
pARIS EXPOSITION of
pETER ROBINSON, OXFORD-STREET,
Midblt^o/ |mrehu#er ' for caah - »» l«*e discounts, of the entire
S™
Black .Silks. 1
Costumes, Gut
TN consequence of the decision of th
l ' on q6eree prohibiting tho removal of cases c
magnitude and irnnortnnc* till the close of the Exhibition, th.
•hove unprecedented collection of the richest productions of
fiV i?JV“ c,1 ', m " t ■*' to the public until early in the
mouth of December, of which Sale due notice will be given.
PETER ROBINSON, OXFORD-STREET.
£ILKS FOR CHRISTMAS.
ONE THOUSAND PIECES OF NEW
LlcONS GROS GRAIN, at 3s. 6d. per yard,
in every new shade, for evening wear.
Colouml Satins to match, at 38. 6dL per yard.
Richer qualities. Coloured Silks. 4s. 6d., 5s. 3d , aud 6s. 9d.
Grisaille and QuadrSle, 23s. fid. the Dress.
300 PIECES OF LYONS CHECK SILKS,
at Is. Uhl. nor yard.
specially suitable for Young Ladies - wear.
RICH DAMASSE SILKS,
for Evening wear. 2s^Cd. b. 3s. 6d. per yard.
TETER ROBINSON. OXFORD-STREET. LONDON. W.
piNNER AND BALL DRESSES.
BROCADED SILKS,
in the Newest Designs and Colourings,
as exhibited at the Paris Exhibition,
are being sold at. less than half price,
commencing at 4s. fid. per yard, extra width.
GENOA VELVETS,
In every shade, to match the Silks and Satins,
fis. lid. per yard.
Sow ready, several thousand Elegant Robes,
,,,, specially prepared for this season,
White, and New Colours.from 18s, >kl. to 10 gu
pALL and WEDDING DRESSES.
n Black, White, arid New Colours, from 18s, "kLto 10 guineas.
THE MAUDE,
A pretty Tarlatan Dress, with ample Train,
profusely trimmed with pleated Flounces, Ac.,
a substantial Box included.
A pretty Dress in Black Brussels Net. Price 23s.
THE ADELINA,
A handsome Tarlatan Robe.
... ,. trimmed with pleating* and Bouillonn*.
th double scarf of silk or satin, draped across front, and sash,
in Block, White, and Colours.
Price 42s.
The new Sheet of Engaavings post-free.
PETER ROBINSON, OXFORD-STREET. LONDON.
VELVETEENS.
Velvet, finished in all colours. 3s. 9d. to 4s. 6d.
in black Is. lid. to 6s. fid. per yard.
ANGOLAS.
and other Fashionable Materials,
Is. 2d. to 3s. 3d. per yard.
WINTER SKIRTINGS.
Novelties In stripes. Plain, and Snowflake,
from Is. 9d, per yard.
CREPE CASHMERE (REGISTERED!.
A most useful Material, in six designs, Black,
full width, is. yd. per yard.
RICH JAPANESE SILKS FOR
LL and DINNER DRESSES.
.Hiito, Rlnck, ond forty-eight Choice Bright Colour*,
including New Simile* of Blue, Rose, Grey. Cream, Ac.,
iu Plain, rich Damn*.^. orS*tln Stripes.
All It*, lid. i*t yard, the highest quality made.
B A „
■DEAL RUSSIAN SEAL FUR PALETOTS
(half fitting!.
33 In. deep, from 7 gs.
Several New" Shapes inSenfjIantles.
in the finest quality.
GRET SQUIRREL PALETOTS (a great novelty).
Sable. Seal. Fox, Racoon. Skuuk, Beaver,
Otter, Russian Hare. Chinchilla, Ermine,
and every other description of
Muffs, Neckties. Ac.
PETER ROBTNSON, OXFORD-STREET,
-a THE ON LY ADDRESS.
D NICHOLSON and C O.,
• 60 to 63, ST. PAUL'S, LONDON.
E A L SEAL PALETOTS,
PROM 5 Guineas to 50 Guineas.
JgEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED
PHOTOGRAPHS OF ABOVE,
X POST-FREE.
J>ICH PARIS AND BERLIN CLOAKS -
J^ATEST NOVELTIES,
Jj^EOM 1 Guinea to 20 Guineas.
BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED
PHOTOGRAPHS OF ABOVE,
X POST-FREE.
P ARIS EXPOSITION COSTUMES.
I). NICHOLSON and CO. beg to announce the Return of
their buyer* from Paris, and that they will have this Day and
(luring the Week a Grand Display of Elegant COSTUMES,
including several facsimile Copies of those shown in tho Paris
Exhibition.
p. Nicholson and Co., SO to 63, St. Paul’s churchyard, London
■VTEW DRESS MATERIALS.—A Large
-Ll Assortment, of New Dress Materials for tho present Season
in every fashionable shade, including
Bourette Cloths, from ..
VTEEDLES, FISH-HOOKS, an(
-Lx FISHING-TACKLE.
TWO GOLD MEDALS—PARIS, 1878,
for the superioritjr of their quality,
W. BARTLEET and SONS, Rcdditch.
Velour Cloths, from .
Cashmere Serges, from.
Mated aaid-s, from.
Costume Cashmeres, New Shades .
lOid. per yard.
9id. per yard,
i. G|<1. per yard.
JQ ^ICHOLSON and £10.,
60 to 63, ST. PAUL’S-CHURCHYAILD, LONDON.
PATTERNS FREE
x BLACK SILKS.
manufactured by Bonnet, of Lyons
Messrs. JAY lieg to inform their Patrons
and the Public generally
that they arc now relling these well-known
, PURE LIGHT-DYED SILKS
) < j,. r, ' < V} l tlr-n of f r° m 33 40 percent off
depression in the’ LyoSk'SILK^LUIKET.
Present price, 4s. 11,1.; former price, fis, 3d.
„ ., fis. fid.; „ „ 8.*. 9d.
„ „ fis.lid.; „ 99.6d.
Merere. JAY are also selling ji»ubert'e gmxi wearing
Blwdc bTLKS, at the following rednred rate
Present price, 3*. »d.; former price, 5s. 6,1.
” ” /fc0d‘* M ’• 78 * 6<L
BLa6k HATINS. aii pure'silk. 88 ^
22 iiirii^ii wi<P. from Bn. .Hd. per vard.
JAYS’, REGENT-STREET.
pVENING DRESS.
-p Messrs. JAY - have a new and most fashionable a**ortment
of made-up Costumes for evening AA ear, suitable for ladies who
are in monrnlng. or for those who wear black from choice
houraif reqnired ra * 110 “ P bj 'dreramakers in a few
THE LONDON GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE.
REGENT-STREET, XV.
QWAN aud EDGAR
are now showing
A BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT
WINTER DRESS MATERIALS,
T T Silks. Sal ins. Velvets.
Costume*. Mantles. Ulflter*,
Seal-kin Taletot*, and Opera Clf>ak8.
<^WAN aud EDGAR,
riCCADILLT and REGENT-STREET,
London, W.
^HARLES GASK aud CO. (Limited).
Q.RAND SALE of PRIZE GOODS
pROSI the PARIS EXHIBITION.
pOSTTJMES, MANTLES, SILKS,
VELVETS,
J)RESS fabrics, furs, kid gloves,
J^EAL LACES, HOSIERY, UMBRELLAS,
J^LANKETS, LINENS, WORKS of ART, &c.
A LL GOODS of the Highest Character,
foroardlnar^ gwds S ° U1 #t lo ' Ver prlco3 t,mn “ re usually charged
X^HARIoES GzVSK and CO. (Limited),
WELI.T-STBEET. l!f,N'ri0N XF ° RD - STIlEET 1 >■ 2- 3- S-
IVOW SELLING at. BAKER and CRISP’S.
-Lx BANKRUPT STik'K OF SILKS.
B ANK TlTTT'STOCK' ( IF DRESS FAlttUC^*' ° Jd-10 “• ,M-
. BANKRUPT STOCK OF VUI.VETEFNS.
11 AN K R1' PT* 'STOCK t)V U I.STE tt i N GS* AND "j AC K ET IN ()s!
BANKRUPT'CTWK OF LADIES" ULSTERS AND JACKETS.
BANKRUPT STOCK OF CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEFS.
Tadie* - . 23J.1 to21s. Dozen : Gent* - . 8*. M. to 42*.
N.B.—The Whole of the Stock has undergone a Reduction
corresponding with Die above prices.
Patterns free on application.
BAKER and CRISP, 198, Regent-street.
W I D 0 W S’ MILLINERY.
inf rm XVbd'mri'idirTtlmt -i'e'l ^ f , u "‘ Oxfnrd-strref i lag* to
in»R7.wt.yffi
Cuff*, and Collars, for Ev.'niii’g mid Mondii!A* fiwiw
class of XVI,lows' Bonnet* and every description of Widows'
Millinery.—Show-Room*. No. ill, Regr-nt-street. XV. (b.Vwrn
I(i pi nt rirrns and Langliftm-jilare).
'T'HE MOST USEFUL PRESENT.
A THE MOST USEFUL PRESENT
FOR A LADY - is a dozen of our beautifully tine real IRISH
CAMBRIC POCKET-HANDIvERCIIIFS
(hemmed for ure!. nt 5s. 11,1. per dozen : or
our exquisitely line hem-stitched, at half a
guinea per dozen: post-free. Id. extra.
FOR A GENTLEMAN, a Dozen of our IRISH LINEN CAXU
BRIO POCKET-HANDKERCHIEFS, at
fis. lid.: or. our Gent's line hem-stitched,at
RORl>/sON 0 and CLEAVEIL^' tXt ™'
Pnmbrir Hondkercilief Makers to her Mnlcetv the Queen. Belfast,
send Samples of tlieir cheap Pocket Handkerchiefs post-free.
QHIRTS. — FORD’S EUREKA. — “ The
most i>prfRct flttinfi: mado.”—Obsorvor. Gontlomcn
de«irnnR of pnrchosfnK Sliirt- of tlio bf*st qmillty should try
Font's Enrf-ka. 30s.. 40*. 45a. half-dozen. lllustratlonB and self-
mooAure po«t-free.—41. Poultry. I/ondon.
XTALUABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR.
T If your hair is turning grey, or white, or fulling off, use
"The Mexican Hair Renewer." for It will positively restore in
every care Grey or XVliite Hoir to its original colour, without
leasing the dl.^greenble smell of most •'Restorers." It makes
the hair charmingly beautiful, as well 11s promoting the growth
of the hair on bald spots where the glands arc not decayed. Ask
any Chemist for the " Mexican Hair Renewer." price 3s. fid.
Prcpnred by HENRY C. GALLUP. 423. Oxford-street. London.
X, 1 LORI LINE. For the Teeth aud Breath.
X Is the best Liquid Dentifrice In the World ; it. thoroughly
cleanses partlally-decnyed teeth from all parasites or living
"animalcnbe." leaving them pearly white, imparting a delight¬
ful fragrance to the breath. Price 2s. Gd. per Bottle. The
Fragrant FI, riline removes instantly all odours arising from a
foul stomach or tobacco nnoke. being partly coraposod of honey,
sialn. and extracts of sweet herbs and plants. It is perfectly
harmless, and delicious us sherry. Prepared by HENRY 0
GALLUP. 493. Oxford-street. London. Retailed everywhere.
rrHE COURT HAIR DESTROYER.—This
A newly-discovered remedy completely removes superfluous
hair. Quite harmless. 3s. M.; post 3s. 10d., of Inventor, J. Leon,
1H. Portetis-rd.. London. XV., orChemistB. Sent abroad for 4s. (Id.
GOLDEN H A I R.—ROBARE’S
VX AUREOLINE produce* the beanttfnl Golden Colfiur so
lunch admired. XVurranted perfectly harmless. Price 5s.fid. and
10s fid., of all Perfumers. XYholesnlr, HOVENDEN and SONS,
5, Great Marlborough-street, XV.; and 93and 95. City-road, E.O.
Loudon ; Plufiud aud Mcyer,37. Bonlevard de Strasbourg, Paris:
31. Graben. Vienna; 44. line des Longs Chariots. Brussels.
T\OES YOUR HAIR TURN GREY f
XJ Then uso HERRING'S PATENT MAGNETIC BRUSHES
and COMBS. Bnislies.lOs. and 15s. each. Combs.2s.6d.,5s.,7s.6d.,
10s.. IBs., and 2os. each. Pamphlets upon application.—6, Great
Blarlborough-st., W.; 93 and 95. City-rood; and of all Perfumers.
THOMPSON AND CAPPER'S
TYENTIFRICE WATER arrests decay in the
JlJ Teeth andsweetensthe Breath.—65. Bold-street. Liverpool;
and at 39, Dvansgate, Manchester.—Sold in Is. 6d., 2s. 6d., 4s. 6d.,
and fis. 6d. Bottles, by all Chemists.
T^AU DE CHYPRE—PIESSE andLUBIN.
X-i This is an ancient perfume from Cyprus. During the
national career of Egypt, Persia, Greece, and Rome, the Island
of Cyprus was the resort of tho elite, luarned, aud refined. It
was nt tho time of the Crusades, when Richard I.of England
nsfnmed the title of King of Cyprus, that the famed Enu de
Chypre was introdm-ed into Europe, the composition of which
is yet preserved in the archives of tho Lnlwratury of Piesso und
Ltibin. Those who are curious in ancient perfumes can be
gratified nt 2. New Bond-street. London.
THROAT IRRITATION—EPPS’S
X GLYCEBINE JUJUBE9. Soreness and dryness, tickling
and irritation, inducing cough and affecting the voice, gold only
in Boxes. 6d. and Is.. InbeUed JAMES EPPS and CO., llomioo-
pathic Chemists, 48, Threadneedlc-street; and 170, Piccadilly,
491
GOLD MEDAL. PARIS.
i'RY’S COCOA EXTRACT
. S?ld?n^ , ^kCandT < Tns? ,llyd6l ' riTHi ° f t! ‘°
TWELFTH EXHIBITION MEDAL.
A GOLD MEDAL, PARIS
iiurional DiryoMhe merits'o?^ 1 "* 00 Cntort “ ,nCli *>y the Inter-
a e » CHOCOLATE AND COCOA,
parntiom FR ' 8 Celebnit<,d CARACAS COCOA, a choice pre-
pURE KANGRA VALLEY TEA, direct
3* Ol. per lb. in Original* ('iirets'of^Fift'v 1 ^PmmdV“each may be
li’“s.w: m C5,JKBUR -''" 8 A GENCY, 41. Uay^ftet!
TI l?u! NL sT S( , )AP THE complexion
Making the skin clear, amooth. and lustrous.
WRIGHT’S COAL-TAR SOAP
(SAPO CARBONIS DETEKGENS).
Highly and exteusiyely riTinnmended for the toilet and in all
tSTt jSin'Tlfo"? ? C l“f br . ! S r ' J “- strtrtin - «• « c S . sni^n
J.mre ‘ BTn ft M.^f^vile-row' M°r “mccJu
F F P f" of W^dtci^nL'OiiSmwfand -
til, other leading memWrs ot the profession. In Tablets, fid.
and Is.. In elegant Toilet-Boxes, of all Chemists.
XX'. V. WRIGHT and CO.. London.
T)ANGEROUS SOAPS.-At a recent
X “Bring of the Academy of Medicine. Dr.
Reve.1 read n pnpi r on the necea.lty of pre-
donge'rous Soap 1 ^™ fr ° m * Uln « polsono “ or
T'HE INFANT’S BATH.—CHILDREN
%-fT PKARs” : TRANSPARENT t |oAp W Ys
absolutely pure, whilo it is fragrant.
pEARS’ TRANSPARENT SOAP.
X Of Chemists and Perfumers everywhere.
XX boll-sub- mill U tail .,f
A. and F. PEARS, 91, Gt. Russeli-st., London
T^ITS.—EPILEPTIC FITS or FALLING
X SICKNE8S.-A certain method of cure lias been discovered
or this dirtressing complaint by a physician, who is desirous
hat all Buflcrers may benefit from this providential discovery • it
Is never known to fail and will cure the most hopeless rase after
all other means have been tried. Full particulars will be sent bv
iS^ pcrwJn , f , re f cll arge.-Address:-Mr. WILLIAMS,
10. Oxford-terrace, Hyde Park. London. ’
r PAMAR INDLEN.—Owing to the marked
A success of this fruit-lozenge—so agreeable to take and unl-
Tereallv prescribed by tlie Fucidtv for Constipation, ftc.-Base
Imitations are'being foisted on tlie public. The genuinepre-
paraiions hrnr the title Tamar Indien." Price 2s fid nor Box
E. GR1LLON. XVool Exchange, E.C.; and all Chemists.
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ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
NOV. 23, 1878
DEPARTURE OF PRINCESS LOUISE AND
THE MARQUIS OF LORNE.
The departure from England of his Excellency the^Ia^uis
Lome, the new Governor-Genei^ of Lornum, w the
his Marchioness her ^ H f Sinontol at Liverpool on
occasion of a farewell pnblc having travelled by a
Thursday week. The illustrious P > Roya fjii g hncsses the
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Duke of Connaught and Epnce^Leopo ion ^
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the arrival of the distinguished visitors, who entered the room
Marquis of Lome came last, attended by °*I Ws
Hnite Seats had been provided on the dais, but the Princess,
WtaothS? and the Marquis all remained standing during
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ac., the Recorder of Liverpool, to reJM * JJeS^The
welcome which had been prepared by the Corporation. The
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eouerrv The Marquis then replied to the address m the
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of those who go to look forward and not back; and it is pleasant
to think that across the water we shall find ourselves among our
own countrymen, having the same institutions as those we know
here, and that under the same flag we shall find the same hiws
and the same determination to uphold and abide by them,
the same love of liberty as here, and the same ability to guard
it in honour and order; the same loyalty to the Throne for the
same cause-because it is the creation of freemen, the bond of
strength, and the symbol of the unity and dignity of the people.
Where in the British North American provinces we do not tine
BSBaftlf
S' S‘»o“ette C ?’h^ SfurtathiTS a. mutybotween
other Liverpool men of business on the ®^“^^They
paved court of the Exchange, adjoining the Townhall. They
were very heartily cheered. Having again entered the car
riages, the Royal party drove to the landing-stage, the rmite
being lined the whole way with a dense crowd of spectators
At the head of No. 4 bridge, leading to the*
honour consisting of one hundred men of the 11th Regiment,
under the command of Colonel Corrie, was drawn U P
their band, and received the party with a Royalsaluteand the
National Anthem. Crimson cloth was stretched along the
bridge mid across the stage, and within the barner a few
member, and official, of the.board hjdr^emblcd.. The
strength, and the symbol of the unity ana aignny oi tue
Where in the British North American provinces we do not And
men of our own stock, we are fortunate in finding those who
descend from the noble French race-that race whose gallantry
we have for ages learnt to respect and admire, the friendship
of whose sons, and their co-operation in the public life of
Canada, which is adorned by their presence, is justly held to
be essential to the welfare of the country; for nowhere is
loyalty more true and firmly rooted than amongst the I rench
Canadians, enjoying as we all do the freedom of equal laws
and justice of constitutional rule. In conclusion, nothing has
struckmemore than the enthusiastic feeling manifested towards
Canada among all classes of the community in England and Scot¬
land wherever I have of late had an opportunity of hearing any
expression of the public mind; crowds at any public gathering
have always given cheers for Canada. This great gathering of
to-day is a remarkable symptom of the same favourable augury;
for a good augury I hold it to be that wherever there is any
opportunity men in the old country are ready to call, Hurrah
for Canada ' ’ On the other side of the ocean they are as ready
to call, ‘ Hurrah for the Old Country ! ’ and these cries are no
mere words of the Ups, but come from the heart of great
peoples. So long as the feelings which prompt these sayings
endure-and endure I believe they will-we may look forward
with confidence to the future, and know that those bonds of
affection which have been knitted by God through the means
of kinship and justice will not be sundered by disaster or
weakened by time.”
An address from the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce was
then read by the President, Mr. W. B. Forwood ; and, in his
reply to this address, the Marquis of Lome spoke further
to the same encouraging effect. “ It seems to me, he said,
‘‘but a short while since I last visited Canada; but in twelve
years there is a great change to be seen. Twelve years ago
the British North American provinces were only isolated
colonies, bound together by no federal union, and lacking in
the strength and deprived of the advantages of unity. Now
the decrees of the c ntral Parliament at Ottawa are passed by
the representatives of peoples whose mandates are obeyed
through all the broad zone of productive land which crosses
that mighty continent, and the name of ■ ur Sovereign is hailed
with the same affection as before, but by no mere collection of
colonies, rather by a great federal people. It is for their welfare
that you, on behalf of the merchants of Liverpool, express your
confident hope, and the feelings of sympathy you have shown,
will, I know, find a response on the other side of the Atlantic. I
members and officials of the aoex “
Mayor and Mr. T. D. Hornby received the party as
they aUghted from the carnage in which all had ridden
together The appearance of Princess Louise, leaning on the
arm of the Duke of Connaught, followed byherhusbandand
Prince Leopold, was the signal for an outburat of cheermg
from the thousands congregated on the stage smd t
approaches to the bridge. Taking leave of the “a) or mdMr.
Hornby, they went on board the special tender,the
After a few minutes’ delay the tender cast off andwent dong
side the Sarmatian, which was lying a short dista^e
from the stage. Having arrived on board the Sarmatian
the Princess turned round and gazed at the shore
for some time, and at the crowds on the stage and quay
walls. The fine vessel moved slowly down to the nver clo e
to the Liverpool side, flying the Royal standard from the mam
and the Dominion flag of Canada from the foremast. As the
vessel was moving away from her anchorage pound the band
of the 11th Foot was marched down to the stage, and played
the air, ‘‘Friends far from home, followed by some bcoteh
airs. The Duke of Connaught and Prince Leopold remained
on board the Sarmatian until she was off New Brighton, when
they took leave of the Princess and her husband, and returned
in the tender to Liverpool, and thence to London.
We learn by telegraph from Halifax, Nova Scotia, that on
Monday afternoon H M.S. Black Prince, under command of
his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, arrived at that
port, in order to lead the naval squadron which will put to sea,
towards the end of this week, to meet the Sarmatian and escort
the Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise into the harbour.
At Halifax, in these days, a thousand labourers and mechanics
are employed in erecting triumphal arches and decorations of
all kinds for the reception of the new Governor-General and
the Princess. The managers of the Intercolonial Railway are
making extensive preparations for facilitating the journey to
Riviere du Loup, and the oldest and most experienced officials
have been appointed to take charge of the trains. This railway
may be described as the eastern link of the great railway
system, destined to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
entirely through British possessions. But for the construction
of this railway, the new Governor-General would have had to
pass through United States territory, in Maine, in order to
reach the seat of his rule. The whole railway journey to
Montreal occupies about thirty-six hours, and the journey of
the Viceregal party over this line may be looked upon as the
formal inauguration of the new winter route into Canada.
Our Special Artist, Mr. Melton Prior, has arrived from England
on the opposite shore of the Atlantic, and will be ready to
furnish us with Illustrations of the manner in which the
Princess and her husband are to be greeted by the British
North Americans, whose loyalty and hospitality are well
known. ___.
NOVELS.
Venus attired by the Graces is a meet parallel to the spec¬
tacle afforded when a popular writer’s novel comes out adorned
with illustrations contributed by “ all the talents ; ’’ and such
a spectacle—rare indeed— is afforded by Mac!cod of Dare, by
Wflliam Black (Macmillan and Co.), a novel, in three volumes,
to which a dozen artists of high standing, some with It. A. or
A.R.A. attached to their names, have paid respect by travelling
out of their usual line to contribute an illustrative drawing.
Such a fact speaks considerably more than three volumes for
an author’s literary worth, though it may add little
to the intrinsic attractions of his latest story, a romance
concerning the Macleods of Dare. The tale, in many respects
a noble and vigorous tale, may be read, though it was pro¬
bably not intended to be satirical, as a satire upon that family,
and indeed, upon the -whole race of Highlanders. It is a tale
of love and revenge, of a love that maddened and of a revenge
that was taken in a fashion unworthy of a man, let alone a
modem gentleman, but not unworthy of a Byrouic corsair,
and q-iite in accordance with the many anecdotes which are
told in the first volume about Highlanders in general and about
the Macleods in particular, and which, tedious and purposeless
as they appear at the time of telling, are perfectly justified in
the sequel on the ground of a fixed intention, a preconceived
purpose of preparing the reader for the ultimate catastrophe.
Even thus regarded, there are many persons to whom the
anecdotes are likely to appear more numerous than necessary
for any other object than that of filling space, and who will
I think that art would have been better served by the choice of
| a single powerful, significant, premonitory example bor¬
rowed from the personal history of the Macleods alone. Of
the revenge itself, one may say that it is sufficiently heroic in
character to escape a charge of being cowardly, and even to
assume a specious appearance of self-sacrifice, the self-
sacrifice of a lunatic or, what is much the same thing, a jilted
Highlander. Sir Keith Macleod, of Dare, the last male of
his family, falls in love with an English actress, who, having
visited his proud home in the Highlands, repents of having
promised to be his wife, and throws him over for an English
elements are described, in the author's own masterly, im-
pressive style, with the grasp of one who has studied sea,
and mountain, and sky with something more than the merely
artistic interest, and with all the artistic appreciation, of the
poet and the painter. The story opens with a sketch of Castle
Dare and its inmates; and by a lew fine touches the reader
is made to understand the peculiarities of a Hi ghly
household, with their pride and poverty, their stateliness and
condescension, their reserve and affection, and, as regards the
behaviour of inferiors towards superiors, their dog-like
mixture of fidelity, obedience, petulance, familiarity. It is
among the servitors, indeed, that the reader will find the most
interesting types of character, the most striking sentiments,
and the most amusing conversation. Macleod himself, for all
his manliness and honesty, and notwithstanding his tragic fate,
is not calculated to command unqualified admiration or
sympathy ; he talks a great deal too much for a man of action,
and in his speech he shows almost as much tendency towards
length as in his pedigree.
Excellent entertainment for novel-readers is to be found
in the three volumes entitled Less Black than we're Fainted , by
James Payn (Chatto and Windus), a story in which the author
of “ Lost Sir Massingberd,” and of many another more or leas
popular romance, displays some of his best characteristics.
Here we have his gift of humour and his happy knack of
hitting off human nature with a few neat touches— sympathetic,
playful, ironical, or simply descriptive—very strikingly exhi¬
bited. He sketches with equal ease, equal fidelity, and equal
drollery, High Church and Low Church, a French youth and
an English youth, a proud squire and a low gamekeeper, a
highly amusing but highly reprehensible old master of fox¬
hounds ; and he is especially successful, as he always is, in his
delineation of womankind, whether old or young, whether
plain or pretty, whether aristocratic, or merely ladylike, or
trulv woman-like, or downright vulgar. That the tale is loosely
put together, and that many of the incidents are, pitchforked
Lto the pages after a fashion which suggests either a lack of
definite purpose at the commencement or an oblivion of that
purpose m the course of construction is the impression created
by a tolerably careful perusal; but, if a sense of dissatisfaction
with the whole as a work of art be unavoidable at the conclusion,
that does not interfere with the satisfaction derived from a study
of the component parts. As for the fundamental idea of the
story there is nothing new, no doubt, in the bare fact of a
love-affair between a high-born youth and alow-born maiden;
but there is a great deal that is new in the way in which the
course of that love is depicted and traced to its issue, not to its
conclusion. What that issue is must be discovered from the
novel itself. Of the youth it will be sufficient to state that he
is a young fellow of generous impulses, but deficient in mental
and moral stability; that his chief weakness is a mania for
nding money, even to his last shilling, and that his redeem-
uik characteristic is constancy in love. Of the maiden it will
be sufficient to state that she does honour to the author who
created her, and who has already won for himself a consider¬
able reputation for his delicate and charming creations of
similar, and yet dissimilar, heroines. As regards her, however,
there is just one point on which it is permissible to question
the author’s psychological truthfulness. It is quite impos¬
sible to believe that such a girl as he has represented her to
have been would have dressed as he has represented her to have
been dressed in the scene in which the camera obscure is
employed with such serious and yet laughable results It is
almost as certain as life and death that such a girl, with such
instincts, with such inborn refinement, with such intuitive per¬
ception of grace and fitness, would no more have dreamed of
putting on such “things” than of appealing m public as
Phryne appeared before her judges. lor let it be noted that
it is the heroine’s innate dignity which, notwithstanding her
occasional outbursts of ordinary passion, sustains her through
life and commands the reader’s favour and sympathy. Of htr
aunt Susan Parkes, the dwarfish, disfigured, unselfish, ang.be
Christian, -the goddess of the hungry little cripples, the
miraculous flute-player, readers will probably have not enough,
and yet too much; not enough, so far as she herself is con¬
cerned, and too much, so far as the necessities of the stowue
concerned • for she is one of the characters who tend to bear
out what has already been hinted about the want of
painter with a Jewish name. This, of course, is more than
any Highlander, especially a Macleod, can bear; and we know
that “ to be wroth with one we love doth work like madness
in the brain,” a statement which Sir Keith proceeds to verify
in a tragic and even diabolical manner. How he saved both
himself and her from what he considered degradation must be
discovered from the novel itself. It is written, whenever the
scene is laid in the Highlands, and sometimes when it is laid
elsewhere, a little in Ossian’s vein, true grandeur alternating
with windiness and rhapsody ; and here and there, when the
phenomena of nature and the relations of men with the
out what has already Deen nwreu auuuu tuo
mechanism, about the unequal adaptation of ag eam
the completion of a fixed purpose. ™ “
not unlikely to obtain most suffrages as aportnuttruu
to life, to y womanhood, to the lights and shadow of
human nature; and her aunt, Lady Earnshaw, will be
accepted as an admirable specimen of a toe old Enghta
gentlewoman-eccentric, no doubt but warm-hcarted hrevd,
and sensible On the other hand, the language which the
author puts into the mouths of people occasioria ly rouud,
strange, as is often the case in his novels and unlike tbe
language of real life; and in one scene, at least, he exhib a
an incapacity—which he not infrequently exhibite-for bus
tained gravity and for restraining his however
bounds as are required for solemnity. On thewh , ^
he, who is always entertaining, has seldom produced a
entertaining book.
A few pages instead of two volumes have u?
put a reader in possession of all the story tH t ( of the
in Auld Lang Sync, by the author of th -n
Grosvenor ” (Sampson Low and Co.), a ™vel which, for a 1 its
crudeness and diffuseness, contains Bcenea and ^“noticeably
geotive of latent power. The style of wntag is no«c«m y
deficient in ease and freedom; it is full of in {
affectation, and in spite of a certain exuberance in d«enptwn
suggests the image of literature in a stnu
eS .?££ css
ire, and general disturbance
is that young women, when they consent to a , rch & r
in London, should at least make a notei hich the
office) at which they are married, and of the date at^ ^
interesting ceremony takes place; for.parentsb y per .
people, are apt to look very blank at a d g ueithcr
fectly certain that she was married one day, b ,
when nor where and has no written evidence to produce.
Colonel F. H. Rich, reporting to the Board of
the circumstances of a collision which too p |( B j mu l-
head station on Aug. 31, s >ys it was f, nu ® , ^ enKfr .train,
taneous carelessness of all three guards oft p .
The annual meeting of th? National Educiita'n >!r
held at Manchester on Monday. Mr' • strongly
Birley, M.P., Sir J. Kenuaway, M- 1 ’’-.Junion,
urged that there was still a preseing necpssity d
and it was resolved that the committee sboiUdp-* iggi( P #ml
attention to the rating of elementary ticho ''‘ .' i an dthe lavish
payment of fees by school boards and guardians, ana
NOV. 23, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
495
MUSIC.
HER MAJE8TY’S THEATRE.
The specialty of last week was the first appearance here on
Saturday of Mdlle. Ambre as Violetta in “ La Traviata.’’ The
young lady, who comes from Oran, in Algeria, belongs to a
distinguished Moorish family, and has recently achieved much
success in Paris, where she first appeared in the same character
as that chosen for her London debut. She has a good stage
presence; and her acting, after the nervousness of her first
entry had subsided, was earnest and forcible, yet natural.
Her voice is a bright and flexible soprano, reaching easily to D
flat in alt, and her execution and intonation are true. She
soon established her success by her excellent delivery of the
scena “ Ah! fors’ 6 lui” in the first act, the “andantino”
of which was given with much sentiment and refinement, the
concluding “allegro” having been a fine display of brilliant
bravura singing. In the duet with the elder Germont and in
that with her lover, Alfredo, in the second act, Mdlle. Ambre
sustained the highly favourable impression previously made,
and confirmed her success by her excellent performance in the
final dying scene, in which genuine pathos was realised with¬
out exaggeration. The debutante bids fair to prove a great
acquisition to our opera stage. Signori Runcio and Mendioroz
both sang effectively in the characters, respectively, of the
elder and younger Germont. “ La Traviata ” was to be
repeated on Thursday, with the second appearance of Mdlle.
Ambre.
“ II Flauto Magico” was given on Monday, for the first
time this season, with a cast in most respects similar to that of
previous occasions. As Pamina, Mdlle. Alwina Valleria re¬
peated a performance the merits of which were commented on
during the past summer season, and Mdlle. Marimon’s brilliant
execution of the bravura music of the Queen of Night was
again a special feature. Signor Mendioroz was a vivacious
Papageuo; and other parts were filled by Signor Carrion
(Tamino), Herr Behrens (Sarastro), and Signor Rinaldini
(Monostatos); the co-operation of Madame Trebelli, Mdlle.
Bauermeister, and several members of the company, in
subordinate characters, having contributed to the general
efficiency.
The other announcements of the week were repetition per¬
formances : “ Carmen ” on Tuesday and this (Saturday) even¬
ing; “Dinorah” on Wednesday,“ Der Freischiitz ” on Friday,
“ Faust ” being promised for this (Saturday) afternoon.
At last Saturday’s Crystal Palace concert Mr. George
Magrath made his first appearance there. Of this young
American gentleman’s special executive powers as a pianist
we have several times had occasion to speak, and have again
to record his success on Saturday, when his performance con¬
sisted of Rubinstein’s concerto in D minor (No. 4). The solo
portion of the concerto presents some of the greatest difficulties
to be found in modern pianoforte music, having been written
specially for the display of its composer’s exceptional
powers as a bravura pianist. Mr. Magrath’s successful accom¬
plishment of so arduous a task gave fresh evidence of his
executive skill, and the impression produced was so favourable
that he was recalled to the platform after the close of his
performance. Berlioz’s overture to “ Benvenuto Cellini,”
Beethoven’s symphony in C minor, and two pieces of ballet
music from M. de Saint-Saens’ “ Samson and Delilah,” were
the other instrumental portions of the programme. Madame
Pappenheim and Mr. Barton McGuckin were the vocalists.
A series of weekly Saturday evening concerts was inau¬
gurated at St. James's Hall last week, the programmes being
modelled after those of the London Ballad Concerts. The
performances were of a similar popular character, having con¬
sisted chiefly of songs and ballads by past and present com¬
posers, most of which were encored. The vocalists were
Mesdames Sherrington, Osgood, Nouver, Patey; Misses Helen
„ Meason, Annie Butterworth ; Messrs. Y. Rigby, W. Clifford,
R. Abercrombie, and May brick. Mr. Abercrombie appeared in
lieu of Mr. E. Lloyd, who was indisposed, another substitution
having been that of Signor Tito Mattei, who contributed some
brilliant pianoforte solos, in place of Madame Arabella
Goddard, who is still suffering from an inflamed finger. A
duet for harmonium and pianoforte was well played by Messrs.
J. M. Coward and H. M. Higgs ; and an effective cornet solo
was executed by Mr. Howard Reynolds. Mr. Ganz and Mr.
Thonless were the conductors.
Mr. Joseph Barnby, the conductor of the Albert Hall
Choral Society, was presented on Monday evening, by the
members of the choir, with a service of silver plate, of the
value of £200, in recognition of his “ professional talents, and
of the courtesy and patience with which those talents had been
exercised for their instruction and recreation.”
We had occasion last year to speak of the excellent concerts
given by the Hackney Choral Association at the Shoreditch
Townhall. A new series of performances began there on
Monday evening, again under the conductorship of Mr. E.
Prout, through whose judgment and skill these concerts have
assumed their present high and special position. The efficient
chorus-singing of the society was specially displayed in Schu¬
mann’s elaborate and difficult music to the third part of
“ Faust.” An exceptionally good band (comprising many of
our be«t instrumentalists) gave effect to the important orches¬
tral details of Schumann’s score, and to a selection from Men¬
delssohn’s “ Midsummer Night’s Dream” music, in which, also,
the female members of the choir proved their high efficiency.
Other less important items completed an interesting programme.
Mr. Prout conducted with great ability.
Dr. Hans von Biilow was the pianist at this week’s Monday
Popular Concert, his solo performance having been Schumann’s
Fantasia in C (op. 17,) in which his special powers and in¬
dividuality of style were grandly displayed; as also m
Brousart’s trio in G minor, and Schubert’s rondo bnllaut for
piano and violin. The quartet party consisted, as before, of
Madame Norman-Neruda, Mr. L. Ries, Mr. Zerbim, and
Signor Piatti. Mrs. Davison produced a marked impression by
her fine singing in Mr. Sullivan’s “Orpheus with his lute,
and Rubinstein’s “ Du bist wie einc Blume.” Mr. Zerb””
was the accompanyist.
An interesting concert (to which we have previously drawn
attention) was given on Tuesday evening at St. James s Hall
by the Normal College and Academy for the Blind, the pupils
and professors of which excellent establishment were associated
with a fine orchestra of about eighty instrumentalists, the per¬
formances having been conducted by Dr. Hans von Billow,
whose symphonic ballad, “ Des Sangers Flueh,” was given for
the first in London. The text of this work is based on a poem
by Uhland. The music consists of a series of orchestral
passages, of a generally gloomy character, in which there is
some clever writing in the eccentric style of Liszt. Another
novelty was the “ Danse Macabre ” (“ Todtentanz ”) of Franz
Liszt, a paraphrase of “ Dies Ine,” for piano and orchestra,
comprising some skilful treatment of the hymn referred to, but
also containing much that is wild and incoherent. The
excessively difficult pianoforte part was brilliantly executed by
Mr. Frits Hartvigson. Besides conducting with his well-
known energy these pieces and a fine performance of Beet¬
hoven’s symphony in C minor, Dr. von Biilow played
Beethoven’s solo sonata in E flat (from op. 31) with great
energy and passion. Another solo performance—in this case
with orchestral accompaniments—was Beethoven’s romance
in F, for violin, very expressively rendered by Prince
Alexander of Hesse, a sightless violinist and pupil of the
college. The concert opened with Gade’s graceful “ Spring-
Song,” for solo voices, orchestra, and pianoforte. The vocalists
were also pupils of the college, the pianoforte part having been
well sustained by Master Schwier. During the evening the
“Slumber Song” from Bach’s Christmas oratorio was expres¬
sively sung by Miss Reece, and two part-songs (by Robert
Franz and Stern dale Bennett) were well rendered by pupils of
the college. The concert was a very interesting one, and it
is to be hoped will bring aid to the funds of the excellent
institution at Upper Norwood.
The first of two pianoforte recitals was given by Dr. von
Biilow at St. James’s Hall, on Wednesday afternoon, when
his programme comprised the last five solo sonatas of
Beethoven. A notice of the performance appears in another
part of this issue.
The third of the present series of London Ballad Concerts
took place at St. James's Hall on Wednesday evening,
when the programme was again of an interesting and varied
nature.
The second of Mr. J. S. Shedlock’s “Classical Musical
Evenings” took place on Wednesday at the Royal
Academy of Music, the first part of the progamme com¬
prising a selection from Weber’s pianoforte music, the second
portion including Schumann’s pianoforte trio in D minor.
The opening of the forty-seventh season of the Sacred
Harmonic Society was announced for yesterday (Friday)
evening, with performances of Mendelssohn’s “ Hymn of
Praise” and Rossini’s “Stabat Mater,” the solo singers
announced being Miss Anna Williams, Mrs. Suter, Madame
Patey, Mr. E. Lloyd, and Mr. Bridson.
A new series of Madame Jenny Viard-Louis’s excellent
orchestral concerts, at St. James’s Hall, is to begin on Tuesday
next, conducted, as before, by Mr.Weist Hill.
The programme of the Brixton Choral Society’s concert on
Wednesday next comprises Dr. Stainer’s sacred cantata, “ The
Daughter of Jairus,” and Haydn’s First Mass. Dr. Stainer's
cantata was written for, and produced with great success at,
the Worcester Festival in September last, as recorded by us at
the time.
According to the Morning Pott, it has been finally deter¬
mined that the works at the new opera-house on the Thames
Embankment, which have been at a stand for more than two
years, are to be actively resumed, and the building completed
for its original purpose in time for the opera season of 1880.
Our excellent prima donna, Madame Rose Hersee, lias been
engaged to appear at Melbourne in March next. It is said
that the terms agreed on with the manager of the Melbourne
Opera-House company, Mr. W. S. Lyster, are for a sum of
£5200. Madame Hersee’s husband, Mr. Arthur Howell,
accompanies her, in the capacity of stage manager to the
Melbourne establishment, an office which he recently held in
the Carl Rosa Opera company. There can be no doubt that
Madame Hersee will meet with a success in Australia similar
to that which she has justly gained in this country by her
versatile powers and accomplishments.
We adverted last week to the premature death of Mr.
J. L. Wadmore, the young baritone singer, who had recently
gained a distinguished • position in his profession. It is
grievous to hear that his career of success had been too
brief to admit of his leaving any provision for his widow and
child, for whom a subscription is now being raised. The
honorary treasurers are Messrs. Stanley Lucas, Weber, and
Co., 84, New Bond-street, and W. Gill, Esq., Royal Academy
of Music, Tenterden-street, Hanover-square ; the hon. secre¬
taries being H. Guy, Esq., and S. Lucas, Esq., at the first-
named address. Subscriptions are received by these gentlemen.
THEATRES.
At Drury Lane an entirely new bill has been presented to the
public, beginning on Saturday, and evidently designed to
continue until Christmas. The programme commences with
a new comic ballad, entitled “ The Plantation.” It is sup¬
ported by the celebrated Lauri family, and is a sort of negro
festival, in which a host of Ethiopian auxiliaries form them¬
selves into picturesque groups, shouting, singing, and dancing
in the most eccentric manner. The second piece is the com¬
pressed version of Colman’s comedy, “ The Jealous Wife,” in
which Mrs. Hermann Vezin sustains with great force and
comic vit the principal role of Mrs. Oakley. Mr. Oakley is
fairly interpreted by Mr. J. C. Cowper, and the Major by Mr.
John Ryder. Many characters and much dialogue are neces¬
sarily omitted; nevertheless, full effect is given to the central
figures, and great amusement is derived from the concentrated
interest and rapid progress of the general action. At half¬
past eight the stage is ready for the celebrated drama of
“ Belphegor,” in which Mr. Charles Dillon won his earliest
London successes. This actor is the prince of Bohemians,
and thoroughly exhibits the famous mountebank in his
various phases, humorous and pathetic. His command over
the feelings of his audience .is extraordinary, and placed
him immediately in the first rank of our actors. The course of
events has now given him the front position, and doubtless the
national drama must for some time to come acknowledge him
as its leader. We trust that he will take full advantage of the
opportunity, and aim at the highest obtainable results. The
very important part of Fanfaronade is thoroughly impersonated
by Mr. 8. Calliaem. Miss Wallis’s Madeline, too, is very fairly
executed ; and the villanous part of Lavereunes is effectively
interpreted by Mr. Howard Russell. Mr. John C. Cowper
looks sufficiently aristocatric as the Due de Moutbazon, and
Miss Hudspeth as Zephyrina is charming. The general get-up,
accessories, and costumes are magnificent. The performance
on Saturday excited unwonted enthusiasm, and the curtain fell
to the most demonstrative applause.
Some interesting revivals have varied the programme of the
Gaiety. Mr. Edward Terry has given new life to “ Paul Pry,”
and Miss Kate Lawler appears to advantage as the contriving
waiting-woman Phoebe. The cast oil the whole is satis¬
factory. Mr. H. J. Byron has also modified his version
of Diavolo and the brigands, and reproduces it under the
title of “Young Fra Diavolo, the Terror of Terraeina.
There is much ingenious condensation in this improved version,
and a variety of hits that are new. Miss E. Farren is inimitable
as the heroine. Miss Kate Vaughan appears as Zerlina and
Mr T Squire and Miss Amalia are amusing as Sir Simpleton
and Lady Simon. Mr Edward Terry and Mr. E. W. Boyce
exaggerate the two rogues, Beppo and Giacomo, with ad-
i vantage. The acce.^sorial characters are brilliantly costumed ;
' and the accompanying music, by Herr Meyer Lutz, is exceed-
ingly good. The scenery by Mr. Banks is ingenious as well as
appropriate.
Hamilton’s Panorama at the Holbom Amphitheatre—
which it is announced is henceforth to be known as
“ Hamilton’s Royal Amphitheatre”—assumes that the pas¬
sengers, being seated in their handsomely-fitted compart¬
ments, start, under the guidance of Mr. Winter Haigh, from
Euston-square Terminus, and, reaching Liverpool, embark on
board a first class steamer, from which they land at New York,
cross and recross the great American Continent, and return
home via Queenstown, all in the space of 120 minutes—a speed
unprecedented in the annals of travelling. Vast tracts are
traversed of prairie and mountain ranges, which the pencils of
such scenic artists as Telbin, O’Connor, Fenton, and others
equally well known to the London public, have made realistic.
Allegorical pictures are added appealing to the patriotism of
peoples, and there are some really surprisingly sudden changes
of effect—as, for instance, in the case of the City of Boston in
Flames to the city of Boston snow buried; or the Falls of
Niagara on a summer evening to the same volumes of water
under the fearful aspect of a winter sky. Throughout the
tour appropriate music, both vocal and instruments, accom¬
panies the voyageurs. It is matter for remark that the
greatest applause is bestowed upon the negro humourists and
melodists introduced into the plantation-scenes, some of
whose performances are most absurd. At the close a “ Pans-
tereorama of Passing Events ” at once transports the spectators
from the Western to the Eastern Hemisphere, including a view
of the blowing up of a Turkish monitor by a torpedo, the
riding at anchor of the British fleet in the Dardanelles, the
hoisting of the British flag in Cyprus, and the landing of
the British troops in our latest dependency.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated July 9, 1868) with four codicils (two dated
March 13, 1872, and two Feb. 10, 1873) of Mr. Henry Hewitt
Kennard, late of Rockcliffe, Milford, Southampton, who died
on the 16th ult., was proved on the 8th inst. by Coleridge John
Kennard and Henry Steinmetz Kennard, the nephews, the
acting executors, the personal estate being sworn under
£400,000. The testator bequeaths £500 each to the Church
Missionary Society and the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge; £300 each to the Hospital for Consumption and
Diseases of the Chest, Brompton, and the Refuges for Home¬
less and Destitute Children and Ragged Schools ; £200 each
to the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the
Jews, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, the British Oiphan Asylum, Slough, the London
Orphan Asylum, Clapton, and the Asylum for Idiots, Earls-
wood ; £800 to be distributed by his executors amongst refuges
&c., for destitute boys and girls; £300 to found a Christmas
coal charity at Milford ; £50,000 upon trust to pay
half the income to his brother, John Peirse Kennard, for
life, and the other half (and the whole at his brother’s
death) to his said nephew Coleridge John Kennard, and on his
death the capital sum to his children; a sum of £50,000 is
given upon similar trusts for his brother Stephen Ponder
Kennard, his said nephew Henry Steinmetz Kennard, and his
children; £25,000 upon trust for his sister, Mrs. Ellen
Simpson, and her children; and there are many liberal
legacies to other relatives, and also to his servants. The
residue of his real and personal estate the testator leaves to
his nephews, the said Coleridge John Kennard and Henry
Steinmetz Kennard.
The will (dated May 27, 1869) with a codicil (dated Aug. 9,
1876) of Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. Sir Thomas
Myddleton Biddulph, K.C.B., late of St. James’s Palace, who
died on Sept. 28 last, at Abergeldie Mains, Aberdeenshire, was
proved on the 7th inst. by the Hon. Dame Mary Frederica
Myddleton Biddulph, the widow, the sole executrix, the
personal estate being sworn under £25,000. The testator gives
to his wife his furniture, plate, jewels, pictures, household
effects, carriages and horses, and £700 ; upon trust for his son,
Victor Alexander Frederick, £1000; and the residue of his
property upon trust for his wife for life, and then for his
children, in certain proportions.
The will (dated Sept. 28, 1874) with a codicil (dated April
10, 1875) of Mr. John Hewetson, formerly of Newland, but
late of Lansdowne-terrace, Kiugston-on-Hull, who died on
the 17th ult., was proved on the 5th inst. by the Rev. John
Hewetson and Henry Hewetson, the sons, and Richard
Hewetson Greenbank, the executors, the personal estate being
sworn under £50,000. The testator bequeaths to the Infant
Orphan Asylum, Wanstead, and the Hull Seamen’s and
General Orphan Society, £100 each; to the Hull Infirmary
and the Hull Ragged and Industrial School, £50 each; to
the Hull and Sculcoates Dispensary, £30; to the Hull
Lying-In Charity, 19 guineas; to his executor, Mr. R. H.
Greenbank, £400, and such set of books or piece of plate as he
may select to the value of £20 as a memento; to his daughters
Ann Elizabeth and Sarah, his furniture, plate, wines, con¬
sumable stores, horses, and carriages, and his residence in
Lansdowne-terrace for their lives, or as long as they shall reside
there; he also leaves upon trust for his daughter Ann Eliza¬
beth £6500 Consols, and certain freehold property; and upon
trust for his daughter Sarah £3500 Consols, and certain free¬
hold property. There are legacies to servants; and the
residue of his real and personal estate he leaves to his said
two sons.
The will, as contained in papers A, B, and C (dated Aug. 17
and 18,1878) of Mr. Thomas Ball, late of Nottingham, banker,
who died on Aug. 19 last, was proved on the 8th inst. by
William Ball, the brother, William Lings, the nephew, and
Thomas Isaac Birlrin, the executors, the personal estate being
sworn under £30,000. Among the legacies may be mentioned
£100 to the Nottingham General Hospital and £50 to the
Congregational Church at Ilkeston; his farm and lands at
East Norton the testator devises to the use of his brother
William Ball for life, with remainder to his son John. The
residue of the personalty is directed to be laid out in the
purchase of realty, to be settled on the same uses as those
declared of his freehold property.
By the will of the late Mr. Charles Randolph, engineer,
who was at one time a member of the celebrated ship-building
firm of Messrs John Elder and Co., £60,000 has been left to
the building fund of Glasgow University.
An intimation has been received from the solicitor to the
executors of the late Miss Alice Atkinson, of Giggleswick,
near Settle, stating that she has bequeathed £100, free of duty,
to the National Education Union.
A decree was issued in Chancery yesterday week for the
administration of the estate of the late Dr. Fraser, of Hamp¬
stead. He had bequeathed £10,000 to the Edinburgh Uni¬
versity, but revoked it on learning that in its medical schools
vivisection was practised, and then transferred the bequest to
the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 23, 1878.—497
PASSAGE OP QUICKSANDS IN THE DESERT OP CENTRAL A8IA.
498
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
Frederick Watson, the inventor of linoleum, has introduced a jtoto;
new and highly interesting modification of that material, to* 8 ™;
many examples of the application of which—to the walls, . to
frieze, cornice, and dado of a room, to screens, &c.—may now a8 De
be seen in the inventor’s house in Berners-street. We need
not hesitate to say that “ Muralis ” is destined to play a very Me
important part in the present revival (which was so much duced
needed) of the arts of internal wall embellishment; and we of a G
commend it to the attention of architects, artists, decorators, “ Poik
and upholsterers, as, under certain conditions, a desirable sub- the PI
ART number of his original sketches, including those of the TURKS ANT) PTTRQTA xre
.t J w«ll TWn “ Comic History of Rome,” and the “Comic History of . .. ^ ^uooiAJNb.
Under^the name of Muralis, England,” &c., which would find an appropriate home in the Among the quantity of literature hastily put together m.
re* 1 ” 11 . 5 01 ? * t P f has introduced a library of the school in which John Leech received his first strength of the late war between Turkey and Russia must w
Frederick Watson, the m • , ... • , lessons in history. The managing commission of the library be mcluded the formidable volume, of bulky and diimifi/i
new and .. n f w i,ieh—to th „ wa lls’ have given £50 towards the purchase, and about £100 more appearance, entitled Russian and Turk, by R. Gtoatham^tf 1
many examples of the PP screens tc mav now has been raised already among the masters and former scholars M.D., &c. (William H. Allen and Co.), a volume which on’
frieze, cornice, and dado of a room, to screens, Ac.—may now Charterhouse tains the results of many years’ investimitionT n^T w- ? n ‘
be seen in the inventor’s house in Berners-street. We need 01 tue ^uarcernouse. based q learned U “ '“x' 0 ”, and which is
not hesitate to say that “ Muralis ” is destined to play a very Messrs. J. Barnard and Son, of Oxford-street, have intro- erudite author It is fifteen hed the 8am e
important part in the present revival (which was so much duced a new method of colouring photographs—the invention w j t h his “ Nationalities of vtotol,, i P 7 S< , ed the public
needed) of the arts of internal wall embellishment; and we of a German, Herr H. Krauss. In principle it resembles the preceded by “The Native Rac^nV itself been
commend it to the attention of architects, artists, decorators, “ Poikilographic Process,” which we described in our notice of £ uc h an author does not lav him if liU881an Empire.”
and upholsterers, as, under certain conditions, a desirable sub- the Photographic Society’s exhibition; but it appears to be attempting to make canifal ° pe ? “ a cbar ge of
stitute for paper-hangings, wainscoting, stamped leather, less liable to falsify the photograph proper, because a less when he iLe md toarnLi/Arfbpdly past events
carton-pierre, papier-mache, plaster ornaments, tiles, and, in complete pictorial effect is attempted, whilst it is decidedly derived from long rel88Ue8 » the results
some cases, even for wood carving. Linseed oil, Mr. Raskin superior to the “ l’hotochromie” of M. Vidal. The paper on conSdered “fW? * r 2? , Ru . 88iaa and Turk”
tells us, is one of the most durable of natural products—thatis, which the photograph is printed is attached to a convex glass; no j llt Q f \uew ” These ethnolo 8 lcal , and historical
when oxidised by long exposure to the air, or by boiling with it is then thinned, rendered transparent, and the high lights of interesting book ins* thn ^ f on ? a instructive and
a small admixture of oxide of lead ; and the perfect preserva- the colouring are laid on by operations on the reverse. A useful if it were ° f 7°°* ^ be rendered the more
tion of many works of the oldest of Old Masters is a sufficient second convex glass receives the masses of local colour. The of chanters then* «re ’ but unfortunately it has none,
proof of the assertion. Muralis is composed of oxidised lin- effect is very soft and pleasing, and the process has therecom- interest whnllv and some of them have an
seed oil combined with fibre rolled on to a cotton fabric. While mendation (like that of Poikilograpby) of leaving the photograph “the Fasten/ 0 t whut is popularly known as
still soft it is stamped with metal dies, which, of course, may itself intact. * though^ and would We that interest
be prepared with intaglios of any pattern in .iny style and A memorial stained-glass window to W. M. Balfe, the com- had never been heaM of S’ a efiter^thi
surface of the 3 material itself being, moreover, neither too dull ca ™ ed out b 7 Messrs. Ballantme, of Edinburgh. ConrtantR^nte ^ regards the Possession 5
or matte on the one hund, nor too lustrous or obtrusive on the H 18 proposed to erect a memorial window to the memory tantmopie, is a perfect Gallio ; and of Schamil and his
other, a subdued yet rich effect is obtained, which furnishes, of Thomas Fuller in the Church of St. Peter, in Aldwincle, “.*** ls , a 8bort ., but 7 ei 7 impressive account. The
as may be required, breadths of quiet ornamentation, like the °f which parish the great Church historian was a native, and p , P f . a F .*7°* ,^ cbaml1 ls that of a mysterious hereditary
background of a picture, or an admirable basis for parcels- hi® father was Rector. d . e i n i with rather more lives than a cat and with the pro-
tself intact. ° " ° 1 ° r ifa ’ v 7° uld have that interest
. , though Othman had never lived, though Peter the n-to
A memorial stained-glass window to W. M. Balfe, the com- had never been heard of. Such a chaDter is tw wtoT
oser, will shortly be placed in the south aisle of St. Patrick's is devoted to the subject of the Lithuanians their™//,! 1
Cathedral, Dublin. The design is of a figure of Erin leaning and their fairy tales; and such is that a nrevinna” 7 ’
n her ham and mourning over the musician and enmnnser a which deals with matters .v. oas oue i
i • r A • —.7, -“ 40 ***»« v* a mysterious lie
chieftain, with rather more lives than a cat and with t
uucKgruuuu oi n picture, or i*uuiiittu.ie uusin lur ptuvcia- , . » . . ~ .W_. witu me pro-
gilding, or colouration by printing, or picking out by hand. A bronze statue of Sir Redmond Barry is to be erected people m Sather'of ” garded b J U*
The self-colour of the material appears to be (though we pre- opposite the Public Library in Melbourne, of which he Ima household holing his pa K tnarchal tlmes b 7 his
same it may widely vary) a warm grey approaching fawn- been the President and chief supporter. It is to be raised by invader and oppressor wT/r£^h7 tl the
colour, which would furnish a telling foil for black and gold, public subscription, and will cost £2000. 7 1 the appears to be that
Schamil, ethnologically a Lesgian and not a Circassian, i
mistaken in taste was the imitation of wood-carving. The , ^ a ine, the eminent literary and art critic, has politico-rehpous rather than a dynastic or patriarchal or
reliefs, it need not be said, have not the charm of hand-work, r e< P ^cted a member of the Academie Franchise. Mr. Taine merely patriotic leader, and won his way to ascendancy from
and the monotonous stain has none of the textural marking l? bc ! 8 , “ l0V '7 1 m bbl , 8 . o° u ntry by his brilliant history of position of a simple disciple, a Murid under Kazi Mullah
and play of colour of the natural wood. One great advantage English.literature, his Notes on England ” and his criticisms ?? d er whoin he served with heroism when, “on Oct. 18*
of Mur<ilis is its durability. It is almost as little susceptible on English art. M. rame was bom in 1828. He obtained his “ 1 , r P n was invested by an overwhelming army of
to damage as gutta-percha, hence it is peculiarly adapted for 08 . octeU r!il* let / res m 1853, and in the following year Russians, and when he vanished for two years in that
dados. But it has many other recommendations as regards b * 8 Essai sur Tite Live was crowned by the Academy. In mysterious fashion which he turned to such good account
convenience, cleanliness, and hygiene. It is nearly imper- Urr, was appointed Professor of the History of Art and s ° oft .^ subsequently. The author repudiates the notion
meable to damp— entirely so when fixed by a waterproof -'Esthetics at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and it was in the form 0 * wnting in the spirit of a partisan, but, as regards late
cement. It is a bad conductor alike of cold and heat. It ?/ lectures from this cheir that his remarkable essays on art and events, he of course has and expresses his own opinions
may be washed with water or dilute acid—a most important lts philosophy first appeared. occasionally. He, for instance, “believes that, for any
consideration where there is any suspicion of infection. Last, There is an exhibition at Berlin of casts of the principal p . e ”. °£ , tbe worst Christian government is,
not least, it is, in proportion to its decorative value, compara- antiquities found at Olympia. The casts are arranged as the fpr Christians, better than the best Mahometan; ” and for
tively inexpensive. obiecbi rto >nnnn««l tn h.« ri-w i. "JTI tb at reason he holds that “few can see t.h«
—j u.wjiwii.xi. objects are supposed to have stood in their original position at .« a. n . ~ ,—- ~— —wjo extension
In the direction of art, and its rapidly-increasing appli- According to the bargain made with Greece, all recrct Ru8 ^ a ? d P ^ “ ^ i"^ tion . of A ™ e “ a with much
cations to industry, will probably be—nay, have been—found the originals found by the German excavator remain at that V6ry 1Inportant modification
the best and widest openings for improving the social position Athens, and Germany reserves to herself only the right of t hut the whole of the nonniaHe° m0g f ne01 # 8 ’ other words,
of women, by furnishing elegant and congenial occupation, taking casts. The most important find has been the statue of one re i:™ 0 j - ?- P tl0n 80 transferred should be of
or suitable and remunerative employment. This consideration Hermes, by Praxiteles; and this has excited so much admira- Eiometor' * 7 * In a11
induced us, in May last, to draw attention to the advantages tion at Berlin that the question begins to be discussed whether hostile to eaeh +v , different sects are more
presented by an “Art College for Women,” then recently f° me off « might not be made to the Greek Government to ma^Lkthath^ the Iufld f eL Som8
established at Rome-that marveUous city which in itself buy some of the onginals brought to light at the expense of SSl ^ut kf it™*g bt bave 8 oae evenfarther aud
remains, and must ever remain, one great school of art. Since Germany Mr. C T Newton, of the British Museum, is at °^l y “
we wrote we learn that it has not been possible to receive all P resent at Berlin, for the purpose of examining this exhibition, 1 doctomes, to keep religious questions
the applicants for admission to the college. We are, there- The loan exhibition of paintings in the Pavilion de Flore of mattemof Scs and ^v P e°™t° ? “ ght *5 de “ hDg ^
fore, glad to announce that additional accommodation, and the Tuileries is now closed. Thfpreceeds which are sai f d to “Sffimiltv to serin^ wh^X? ^ T
the very best opportunity for studying the highest as well as be satisfactory, go towards the fund that is being raised^ not be saifce for the gand^whv ff Ctokrian^ubtect,
the more rudimentary brunches ot art, are now provided in a the formation of a “ Mus6e des Arts Decoratifs ” Another be Dut on an ahsolntf pnn/u, Christian subjects are to
mssmmmm sasssa
the proprietor, is one of the largest and most comfortable to ===== ^ 1 °^^”,, are tb ? best judges of how much liberty may be
Rome; it is richly appointed with antique furniture, costumes, SKETCHES IN CENTRAL ASTA the othe^ ^ object 8 .tbe same ruie shoirid not be applied m
and artistic properties of all kinds; and the living model to , KAL ASIA. the other.
costume poses every day, Sundays excepted. Of Signor i° m °°j°i the fetches by Mr. N. Karajin, a There is a presumption that the contents of Plevna, The
Capobianchi's European reputation as probably the most 7;!, “ , 7 “° resided or travelled six years in Central Sultan, and The Forte, by J. Drew Gay (Chatto and Windus),
refined painter of the school < f Fortuny—with whom he was k/ a/v scene not unfrequent to the deserts of the have already, as a whole or to part, become familiar to the
an intimate co-worker—we need not speak. No painter could JV f ^^ ■ Rum * wbicb extend about six hundred readers of that newspaper which can boast to have “ the largest
we more cordially recommend either for setting the beginner , xr Ca8 P. lau and south of the Aral Sea, to the circulation in the world,” for the author was certainly a
in the right path, or for imparting to the advanced student /j ff,. 1 . of H 1 ® Afghan frontier. The trea- “special correspondent” on the staff of that paper, and his
the secrets of the most brilliant and exquisite school of colouring 0f r f8 lon entangle the caravaus of book is apparently, to a very considerable extent, a transcript
of modern times. And Signor Capobianchi is aided by other ti? 6 ! ^ants, sio that their camels or horses, struggling of letters sent home for publication. At any rate, the book
artists, including one of the ablest painters in water colours in j deep soft bed of a dried-up river or creek, often is imbued with the spirit, the tone, and the style of the
Rome. Further information maybe obtained of Signor * cloud8 of whirling^ dust, huve to suffer the most “special correspondent,” and may probably be all the more
Capobianchi, 80, Via della Puriflcazione, Rome. f. Uul dl ® trcs1, 14 18 remarkable that the extremest desicea- readable, in general estimation, on that very account; for the
The Winter Exhibition of Cabinet Pictures in Oil at the renion seemin^to hZ !! most depressed, the whole world is believed to be, for the most part, rather attracted than
Dudley Gullery will open to the public on Monday next We there are somf Dortions of WH ° f “?■ anCK ‘7 8 f tt ; but ? e P eU< l d h )’ tbe alr ° f importance aud superiority over every-
purpose giving a notice of the exhibition in our next Number, that retain a few pools o/ Sms/fw^tT/ 11 ^ wl ^ 1 J e Saud ’ Wl’ crowne d heads down to mere subalterns, which the
fm, n no _i v v . , ^ . p a or streams of water. A good descrip- special oorrespondent is almost obliged to assume. And
The newly-elected President of the Royal Academy of Arts tl0 . n , of * 8 8m 8 ular region, and of the Russian mUitary undoubtedly, in the present case the author was especially
Sv^StSa^f ° f th xr Beasion of the rnSlTmi.mXh 01 the nvers SyrDarya and Amu Darya, iol favoured, so that h e P can give many little details, such L
ocSiuiS mJtod ° Q M «? d V r > u P? n w hich ““ b lheJaxartes and Oxus, of the Kirghiz tribes in ordinary readers love, about the Sultan aud the Sultan’s
, ..rr<«i received a hearty greeting. Mr. Leighton con- the north, and the Tartars and Turcomans in the steppes of surroundings. Many an audience did he have of the Sultan,
very ^drei h ei™ks S reX.riL\ h heXf Ute f^>, maki “ ? 6 °f e “ The ShoreTof ^ake^? lleihe1 * Wood’s volume and many a cigarette did he smoke with that illustrious
ClwpaS N^X on h t f * he p081tl0n for Smith Fld/r f 1 ’ ^n lth WUS P ubllshe d by Messrs. but miserable and pitiable potentate ; he even dined more
Cleopatra s Needle on the Thames Embankment. bnuth * Elder ’ and Co., two or three years ago. than once, it is inferred from Iris narrative, in the palace
We learn from the City Frees that the Court of the Car- - of the Sultan, and plunged spoons into the same dish
penters Company are willing to receive designs or models for Mr. Gerald FitzGibhon OP ■ l ■, with mighty pashas, who, alas ! were more nimble than he, and
castings, to be executed in bronze, for insertion in the panels Lord Justiceship of Appeal to IrehmH^h a PP° lnted to the would have sent him away empty almost, so ill did he fare in
of the two fronts of their new hall being erected in London- having decked the place ’ Attorae y-General respect of » soup, vegetables, and pillaw,” had he notretained
wall, they offer a prize of twenty guineas for the best and „ ,, sufficient presence of mind to eke matters out with “theside
most appropriate pair or set of designs, and five guineas for , ln Ke T‘ C. Osborn, secretary of the Wesleyan Con- dishes of cheese and sweets.” He can describe, from close
the next or any other that they may feel disposed to retain. rerence, and one of the general secretaries of the Wesleyan inspection and frequent observation, the Sultan’s personal
he holds that “few can see the extension
conquerors are the best judges of how much liberty may be
allowed to the subjects, the same rule should not be applied in
the other.
There is a presumption that the contents of Plet'na, The
- of the Sultan, and plunged spoons into the same dish
Mr. Gerald FitzGibhon OP i, 11B . . . , , with mighty pashas, who, alas ! were more nimble than he, and
rd ,t liatiff-shin nt a nvw.ni T- i U .‘ i b ?, en pPPomted to the would have sent him away empty almost, so ill did he fare in
and still follows his profession.
xi ?^ art ’ bbnl rian to the Royal Academy, with the aid of
Mr Eaton, secretory to that body, aud Mr. Taylor, of the
Athenamm Club hbrary, has compiled a new and elaborate
Lord Justiceship of Appeal in Ireland the AttoXvP i would , hav ® sent him away empty almost, so ill did he fare in
having declined the place ’ e A ttomey-General respect of soup, vegetables, and pillaw,” had he notretained
T , p Ar n ‘ sufficient presence of mind to eke matters out with “theside
/to' C. Osborn, secretary of the Wesleyan Con- dishes of cheese and sweets.” He can describe, from close
mi!X’ 0 e° ne . 0f th ? ? eneral secretaries of the Wesleyan inspection and frequent observation, the Sultan's personal
8ai ed on Monday for the West Indies, appearance, physical and mental gifts, energy, and acquire-
upon an official tour of inspection. es> ments as well as want of acquirements; and it was hU good
Coffee-taverns are rapidly increasimr in town nnri fortune, once at least, to see how coffee is prepared for and
Last Saturday Mr. Thomas Hughes, Q.C. in opening takcn in to tbe Padishah. Of many pashas, too, he describes
the Lower Marsh, Lambeth, dwelt on the soundness nf fi/ tbe talents and characters, or want of talent and want of cha-
principles upon which such establishments were founded and rn cter, to say nothing of their physiognomies and bodily pro-
upon the good results which their multiplication must hai,!/!! portions, as if he had been brought up with them from child-
the classes for whose benefit they are intended_ a fn„^u bo °d- As for Plevna, there are but ten chapters to bis volume,
cocoa-house was opened at Chester on Saturrtov i„ B f .Vto and be does not arrive there until the reader arrives at the
„ - uio^uocu iu rumm. • q . , .. ”- -w.v.cwnwj ui tue wesieyan ucuucut uuscrvuuuii, tuc omuui d pciwu»
In recording the death of Mr. Macleay, R.S A in our issue upon an nt • °7 Monda ^ for the West Indies, appearance, physical and mental gifts, energy, and acquire-
of the 9th insl, it was stated that he was the l^st of the ? “ ms pec tion. ments as well as want of acquirements; and it was his good
original members of the Royal Scottish Academy. We are T *°f e * e '!5 Verna “re rapidly increasing in town and country mHune, once at least to see how coffee is prepared for and
happy to find, however, that there is one of the original Lust Saturday Mr. Thomas Hughes, Q C., in opening one in ^ kcn ln to ^ Padishah. Of many pashas, too, he describe!
founders at,11 living and enjoying excellent health—viz Mr tbe Lower Marsh, Lambeth, dwelt on the soundness of th t lC P llents and characters, or want of talent and want of cha<
Wh ° resides at Greenwich; ™ founded, and SS
cocoa-house was opened at Chester on Saturday last. The
* ' ^f,f“7 a 7 d ^ r ' Dodaou - M.P., were present!
and he docs not arrive there until the reader arrives at the
sixth; but he has a great deal to say about the journey
catologuTof the books'" prints 35*1 ?“ d “ ld 8 P oke 8a PP«rt of the' ^eit for’SsKThe C8peciall y about a P lace taUed Idltiman ’ where,Wh
of the Royal Academy.’ P ’ s m the hbrary number of such places of refreshment.—-Archdeacon Hannan he revilea lfc m ^ he most opprobrious language, he picked up,
M * * . - , 7 the Rev. Prebendary Vaughan, Lady Cardross and as a man mi 8 ht pick up a good thing at Nazareth, or any-
Mr James Neale, F.S.A., who is commissioned by the Dean a l ld K f-nt iemen were present at the openimr on Th.X iadies thing miraculous anywhere else, eight bottles of the “ softest
nh„„? e8 : u A ’ who 18 commissioned by the Dean aad Rcntlemen were present at the opening on Thursday thl ?E miraculous anywhere else, eight bottles of the “ *
«hi»^™f P X? f ^X“ b “f y .^P^ a “ d preserve the remark- | a .„^? ffee .‘P alace ” m the Queen’s-road, Brighton—Mr I a “ d m° 8t fragrant” Chateau Lafitte at the astounding
Cathfdi l tU h g * rece “' 1 ^ discovered iu the crypt of Canterbury E iorster M P., opened one at Bradford,on 8 tS° f ° De 8hiUmg a bottle - After such luck as this, we are. of
S25™! j!- ° n 8e v®rel examinationsof, end , xperi- T H . e 8ald , 1‘c imderstood that a similar estoblthXf course, prepared to find that the author, through the micht of
Mr i ? l ’ r d “ T k ' t " the course of his report, Liverpool yielded a profit of 10 per cent Though not «pf 1 mau y P erils . made his way both into and out of Plevna, hu
touted ^ th % r ? U ‘ f t8 ° f im experiment which Ulus- foot with that object, he thought that, at any rate th/tmfX e8C ' ipe from which be describes with almost excessive detail.
tb “ results ^ wiucn uius- - uujctji,, J, e mougnt that, at anv rate ltuul wmen ne aesenoes witn almost excessive u»»“.
read a tmnernnth!* ^ me b0 ! ut i 0ns ' Mr. Neale will become self-supporting The object was to’ ben/fit aud that ’ over a friendly cigarette, he opened his budget ot
Institute of Rdtt h h A °J / he8e Parings before the Royal working classes by providing them with places wh/re H lleW8 to the Padishah, who pinned upon his coat “ the silver
Bntish Architects during the forthcoming session. “ ul d get good wholesome refreshment without medal of Plevna.” In his last chapter he discourses about
An effort is being made among “Old Carthusians” to towar d^ 8 tbe drunlrenness which was the vice of the Fnitifu tbe future of Turkey; and he remarks, with very much more
?olF h r e iU f libr “ ry of tllu Charterhouse school a large , L ° f rd Sba| tcsbury and Mr. Co wp^r-Temp^sfp ?- f ^ utb than of originality, that “the great difficulty which
collection of the original sketches of John Leech° who *w
for 1 a.“ th 7 ltla 7 • His family lias offered to his old scho
Tuesday at the opeuing o^the'flret’oofr™’ England will have to encounter in dealing with the Eastern
outh. - . . "I Question will always be the counter-inllueuce of Russia.
ms lamily has offered to his old school ' a ' eru at Portsmouth, established on premises honohUrU^ ^, ue8u °n win always be the counter-influence ot nussia.
ior purchase, at a fair and reasonable price, a conriderable : ”i\ J ° hn r ° lmd8 ’ foa “der of the raggS school The V ° l , Umo haa uot ^ many pages, and. as a record of
nsiaerame | movement, who was a native of Portsmouth ragged - scho01 Personal adventure and experience, is decidedly lively and
readable.
NOV. 23, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
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MARCIIIONE88 DE CASTEJA.
Eliza Margaret de Biandos Scarisbrick, Marchioness de Casteja,
wife of Lfion Re my de Biandos, Marquis de Casteja, died on
the 13th inst., at her seat, Scarisbrick Hall, near Ormskirk.
This lady, a great landed proprietor in Lancashire, was born
Jan. 26, 1810, second daughter of Sir Thomas Windsor
Hunloke, Bart., of Wingerworth Hall, Derbyshire, by Anne
Eccleston, his wife, sister and heiress of Charles Scarisbrick,
Esq , who was reputed one of the wealthiest commoners in
England. The Marchioness came into possession of the
Scarisbrick estate at the death of her mother, March 6, 1872,
and has always been noted for her charitable munificence, and
for the costly improvements undertaken on her estates. Her
death was sudden. Her remains were removed for inter¬
ment in the family mausoleum at Wingerworth. She leaves
no issue.
GENERAL SIR J. GARVOCK.
General Sir John Garvock, G.C.B., Colonel 10th Regiment,
lately commanding the Southern District, died on the 10th
inst., at 81, Queen’a-gate, South Kensington, aged sixty-one.
He was the only son of Major Garvock, Assistant Adjutant-
General, Horse Guards, was educated at King’s College,
London, and entered the Army in 1835. He served in the
Sutlej campaign, 1845-6, and was present at Moodkee, Feroze-
shah, Buddiwal, Aliwal, and Sobraon, where he was severely
wounded. He was Chief of Sir Harry Smith’s Staff in South
Africa, 1848, and during the Kaffir War, 1850 to 1852. In
1863 ho commanded a force of 12,000 men on the North-
Western Frontier, and brought to a successful termination the
Umbeyla campaign. He was appointed to the command, suc¬
cessively, of the Northern and Southern Districts, and was
Colonel of the 89th Foot, 1870 to 1874, when he was trans¬
ferred to the 10th Regiment. He attained the rank of General
October, 1877. Sir John was created K.C.B., 1864, and G.C.B.
1875. He married, 1857, Blanche, daughter of the late Colonel
George Clayton, of Stone Hall, Surrey.
The deaths have also been announced of—
George Corderoy, Esq., on the 12th inst., at his residence)
Ickenham Hall, near Uxbridge, in his eighty-fifth year.
Mr. H. 8. King, the East Indian banker, formerly head of
the great publishing house of H. S. King and Co., on the 17th
inst, at the bank, Pall-mall.
Edward Hugham Royes, Esq., only brother of the Hon.
Charles John Royes, Windsor Castle, St. Anne’s Bay, Jamaica,
on Aug. 23, at Queensland.
Major-General Charles Otway (retired), R.A., on the 15th
inst., at an advanced age. He entered the Royal Military
Academy in 1804, and obtained his first commission in 1807.
Mr. J. J. Moody, Town Clerk of Scarborough for the last
thirty-three years, who also filled the offices of Clerk of the
Peace and Clerk to the Court of Record, died on the 18th inst.
at Gj imsby.
Mr. Sam Bough, R.S.A., at Edinburgh on the 19th inst.
He was bom in Carlisle in 1822, began his artistic career as a
theatrical scene-painter, became an Associate of the Royal
Scottish Academy in 1857, and was elected Academician in
1875. Although he painted many works in oil, his reputation
will rest mainly on his water-colour drawings.
Charles Hansard Keene, Esq, of 10, York-gate, Regent’s
Park, and 37, Lansdowne-place, Brighton, barrister-at-law,
one of the Registrars of the Court of Bankruptcy, on the
I5th inst., aged fifty-four. Hewas the eldest surviving sou of
the late William Charles Lever Keene, Esq., of Gowtr-street,
and of Dent-de-Lion, Kent, barrister-at-law.
Lady Duffy (Susan), wife of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy,
K.C.M.G., head of the Administration of the colony of
Victoria, .on Sept. 21, at her residence, Auburn Lodge,
Hawthorn, Melbourne, aged fifty-two. Her Ladyship was
the daughter of Philip Hughes, Esq, of Newry, and was
married, in 1846, as his second wife, to Sir C. Gavan Duffy.
General Delacombe, C.B., Royal Marine Light Infantry,
the w nior General on the list, died on the 15th inst, aged
eighty-nine, at his residence, Albion-street, Hyde Park-
sqiiare General Delacombe obtained his commission in 1805,
end served on board the Tonnant, covering the embarkation of
Sir John Moore’s army at Corunna, afterwards in various boat
affair* in Basque Roads in 1809, at the defence of Cadiz m
1810, and in other affairs. He was Commandant of the Ply¬
mouth Division when promoted to Major-General in 1855. Iu
1867 he was awarded the General’s good-service pension of
4)300 per annum. _
Two supplements to the London Gaulle, containing
despatches on the Fishery Dispute between Great Britain
and the United States, were published on Saturday last.
Owine to the recent heavy tainfall, the river Yare has risen
. . , J ±t... Vo. lb Vmnlrrt pAimino’ rrreat
temporarily rendered homeless by the uooamg oi tneir nouses
Serious floods have occurred in other parts of the country.
Mr. Alderman James Groves, J.P., shipbroker, has been
unanimously re-elected Mayor of Hartlepool for the fifth
time.-A meeting of the Town Council of the recently mcor-
norated borough of Burton-on-Trent was held on the 14Mi
iu^t when Mr. William Henry Worthington was unanimously
elected the first Mayor. The council also elected an Alderman
from outside the municipal circle in the person of Mr. Michael
Arthur Bass, M.P.-Mr. H. J. Veal, J.P., has been re-elected
Mayor of Grimsby.
The jubilee of the Sussex County Hospital, established at
Brighton iu 1828, was celebrated at Brighton on Tuesday by a
public meeting of it supporters, followed in the evening by a
banquet in the Royal Pavilion. The meeting was presided over
by the Earl of Chichester, Lord Lieutenant ot Sussex. A
report was submitted of the good done by the institution
during the past year, including the treatment of 14-> l in¬
patients and 7676 out-patients from all parts of the country ;
and it was resolved to signalise the jubilee year by sfartiug a
fund for the establishment of a convalescent home m
connection with the institution.
A correspondent of Social Note* states that she will give a
prize of ten guineas for an essay o» the subject of servants
clubs, considered in relation to domestic service-viz. the
effects of such clubs as at present esnstituted in producing
many of the evils complained of with reference to the undue
independence of servants, and the difficulties experienced by
employers in maintaining good order and efficiency in their
households. The authors should also consider whether the e vil
influencts of such clubs would be more effectually met and
corrected by legal enactment or by some combined action on
the part of employers of domestic servants. 1 he essays, which
should be of moderate length, must be sent to the office of
Social Note* on or before Jan. 1, with a signature, and m a
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Jncnisrh, la !>■• work .in the application of Mathematical Analyair te the Gun*
orChrM. It la there stated Hint the pintle can In- folrnl In ninety-two dilTirriit
ways—a conrluiiion thnt npp< are to differ from ) I IU r*.
T G (Smethwick).—Thanks fur the problem.
Mrsirras and PaasKTkBAXdt.-The qnertlon-Whnt is the bast (list move In a same
of chess .'is n Urcrr one than than yon appear to suppose. The one most In faroiir is
P to K 1th, and that Is decidedly preferable to playing cither of the Knlslits.
TOovuuira (Kioviec. Poland).—We should be sled to receive some information as to
the practice ot chess In Poland, and a tew games. Solutions acknowledged below.
FO'N H (Liverpool).—'The letter came duly to hand. We shall endeavour to report
on the problems next w eek.
H I) (Hampton).-Your suggestion was considered and rejected from want of space.
J P (Bedford)—We have noted the amendment, and the problem shall appear.
E B (Seymour-place).—We are obliged for the Information supplied In your letter.
CosBK. T ttoi DTioNS uv I'bdslm No. 1811 received from Thomas Gov. nlock iKlovloc,
Poland), Geelong. Neworth. .1 H Skelton. Pairholme, K Clarkson, 1* It Jamison,
g C- Baxter, Tre.lunn ch. Noriuan Kumlielow. II Mnmsteml. Emile Prau, W II
lessen Wk Payne, F West (St Austell), Thomas line, t Trial. R PS. 8 F Rcdhoilse.
Chapel of iSmChoss Club L0, A J w " . Natale Monnannl.and Islington
Doituri r Son'Tioxs ov Pkoki.kh No. 1812 received from W Galbraith and J P Hunter,
Lulu. Last Munlon. Herewaril, Only Jones. Maml. T W II. E Worsley. F Wharton.
N Bnrck. U Parkinson. Amerlcaiue. R T K, T Edgar. II Brewster. St .1 E. Triton, 1)
Leslie G Reeves. J Lyndford. S K of IsvrW. M Whiteley. C U Elmore. II Burgher. P
Hampton. It W Robson. J FSpiers. W Alston, A Madcenxie, J S W, N Hastings. S
Adams, Torn, C O Ellison, K H Hooks, O (,' Baxter. Cant. Arthur. Norman
l nmoeliiw, F V P, Julia Short. Aloha. G H V, E H II V. Florence F S, W S B. G 1)
Frankland, J de Houstcrn, Ur F St, Coventry, W lesson. 8 Turley. H Benthall,
Coi.lap no, c Gavel t Ure-lony. Tonks. 1> l« Page, 8 8tri|ie. R 11 N B. O A llalllngall.
Pnlrhulmo, J W W. bavld Mlllur, Neworth, Thorpe, T W Morris, and Uahbahlll.
Solution or Fboblex No. 1811.
PROBLEM No. 1814.
By W. Giumsiiaiv.
(From the forthcoming work, “ Chess Chips.”)
i
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White to piny, and mate in two moves.
THE COUNTIES CHESS ASSOCIATION.
The following Gamecccurred in the Inst Tourney of this Assts-mt on between
Mr. E. Tboboi.ii, the winner of the first prize, and the Rev. Mr. Eahxmiaw.
[King't Gambit dtelinal.)
WHITE (Mr. T.) B1.ACK (Mr E.) WHITE (Mr. T.) BLACK (Mr. E.)
1 P to K 4th P to K 4th j 15. B takes Kt P take* B
2. P to K B 4th B to B 4th ! 16. B to Kt 2nd tt to U 2nd
3. Kt to K B 3rd BtoQ3id | 17. P takes P KttoK2nd
4. P to Q 4th ll.PtoUSih Kt to b mi
black (Mr. E.)
P takes B
tt to U 2nd
* gives the following a
l» RttaKUSnl
8. U take It B hikes 1)
II. Kt takes II q to Kind
1... Ki Uy^H .Ini ^Ktto Q B TnL and
6 ' Kt to tt H 3rd
6. P to tt R 3rd B to K Kt 5th
ii. K Kt to K 2nd. followed by 7. P to I!
Ith, appears to lead to » rpolicr as well a.
safer development of the pieces.
7 Canties K Kt to K 2nd
6. P to K R 3rd B takes Kt
9. U takes B P to tt It 3rd
10. K to K 2nd P to K R 4th
It. P to tt Kt Ith B to Kt 3rd
12. PtoKtSth P takes P
13. B takes P Kt to Kt 8rd
14. Pto B3rd KtoHsq
Castling di es not now oiler a very In
vltlug pro-pect. hut the King would l.avi
beeti safer oil the other side of the hoard.
22. Kt to Q 2nd
23. Kt to Kt 3rd
24. B lo R 3rd
25. tt to B 4th
, Black, although nndonMwily a strnri
nl. and player, hire dnfted into a pusi ion Unit
me. Inrrcn of resource, and ranimt ho|«. f.
3rd anything beyond dofrrriug the dehal no
5,^ Impending.
. p to II 26. tt R to K sq tt to tt »q
well os 27. PtoB6th
The beginning of the end.
t 27. Kt to Kt 3rd
lrd 28. tt to Kt 5th R to tt Kt sq
m 21). P to K 6th
30. P takes T Ich) K takes P
31. R to K 7th (ch),
and Black resigned.
CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
Mr J P Taylor, the well-known composer of problems, has a little work
in the' press to be issued before the end of the year. The title of the
volume is ” Chess Chips,” and it comprises a collection of two-move
problems, nnecdoG*. brief snd brilliant gam«s, and an introductory essay
by Professor Tomlinson, F.R.8. ...
A number of friend* of Herr Zukcrtort celebrated that chess-master’s
viet rv in the lute l’aris tournament by a dinner held at the Criterion on the
14th inst. No official intimation of the affair was sent to the press.
A match was played last week between the Bryanston and Finsbury
Working Men’s Chess Clubs, which resulted in the loriner winning with a
score of sevtn games to three.
A orosneetus has been issued proposing to establish a chess club in con¬
nection with the Royal Aquarium. The subscription is ttx-dat two guineas
per annum and the entrance-f. e at half a guinea, and members of the chess
Sub will be entitled to free admission to the Aquannn. and the billiard and
reading rooms. Naim s will be received by Mr Edward Marks, s-ercLuy of
the Koval Aquarium Society, Broadway Chambers, W estminster.
The annual meeting of the City and County of Dublin Chess Club waa
held on Wedne-ilay last -Cap ain Melhado presiding cm the occasion. The
report of ihe honorary seeietury. Major Shaw, descr.bed the prosperous
condition and cheering pro-p. cts of the association, and it wua unanimously
adopted Toe annual tournament of the club is to be commenced imme-
(lia'ely? and d ring it* progress a p.of.ssioual blindfold p.ayer wUl be
invited from London. . , ,, ...
The chess library of the late Professor Alim, of Philadelphia, the
1 iognpher of PliXfor, i» offered for sale by the , xecuP-n. at t..e pure of
threetnousand dollars. Tin* collection includes some of toe retresi works
uoon the history, theorv and practice of tne game, besides complete s te of
TCriodiod chesspublications, cut ting* of newspaper cue*, column* and a
singularly interesting collect! -n of i-tiers by eminent player- a-d wiili-rs.
OfthcnuiT work*. Uamian.’s “ Libra impienue,' tec . published at Home
Iu1612, and »uppo«d o be the ori«iuiil ediUon. is the m,,*l curious, if only
W-aii'e it was largely “ compiled ” from the still rarer Lneena, wlio«. work
mfs the second practical one upon the subject of cbiss Ihe M8of Jacobus
df PtsMolin ii« oi roum* ft copy, as one K to b foui d in all tl.o irmt nai local
lihrariea of Europe and the original is said lo be in the library of the
UoTversity of Padua The catalogue is itself a valuable contribution to
cheaa literature, the character and contents of many of the wo ks being
minutely described.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
Last Saturday evening the Lord Mayor, who was accom¬
panied by the Lady Mayoress, Mr. Sheriff Burt, and Mr.
Sheriff Bevan, presided at the Guildhall at the annual dis¬
tribution of the prizes won in drill and shooting by the
2nd London during the past volunteer year. The challenge
prizes, presented by the City companies, with silver jewels,
were awarded to Sergeant H. J. Brown, Corporal W. White,
and Sergeant W. J. Lowden ; the latter also taking the first
battalion prize, given by the ward of Farringdon Without,
and the badge and three stars as best shot in the battalion.
The gold badge and medal were awarded to Corporal W. White.
Fourteen cups were awarded for the largest attendances at the
principal parades; there were forty-five battalion prizes,
nearly one hundred company prizes, ten silver company
badges, and thirty-two marksmen’s badges. At the close of
the distribution Colonel Vickers mentioned the services which
the staff had rendered in the management of the battalion,
especially remarking on the asshtance of Captain Nevinsou
and Sergeant-Major Spooner, the latter being awarded a testi¬
monial. The statistics of the regiment which were issued
show that the maximum establishment is 1000; enrolled, 841 ;
efficient, 796; non-efficient, 45; proficient—officers, 18;
sergeants, 50; and present at the last official inspection, 673.
The resignation by Lord Elcho of his command of the
London Scottish Rifles, which he has held almost since the
organisation of the force he was so largely instrumental in
promoting nearly twenty years since, having been received at
the War Office and announced in the Gazette, the gallant officer
has issued his last order to the regiment, which, after
announcing his resignation, goes on as follows:—“It is now
nearly twenty years since Lord Elcho, at the commencement
of the volunteer movement, was invited to take and accepted
the command of the corps of Scotchmen then about to be
formed in London. The position in which he was thus placed
by the favour of his countrymen, and which he has so long
held, has been to him a never-failing source of pride and satis¬
faction ; as, indeed, it could not fail to be. In efficiency, dis¬
cipline, and appearance the London Scottish are admitted to
be inferior to no volunteer regiment in the metropolis or the
kingdom; and the commanding officer has on all occasions
received, not only ready and zealous obedience on parade, but
kindness, courtesy, and forbearance at all times from every
member of the corps, whether in matters connected with regi¬
mental management or in others of a more social nature. It
been with sincere regret that the commanding officer has felt
himself unable of late years to be so actively connected
with the regiment as he had previously been, and it is
with keen sorrow that he now, for the good of the
corps, resigns the command. But though thus ceasing to hold
the active command of the Loudon Scottish, he has the satis¬
faction of stating that his connection with the regiment will
not be severed, as he has good hope that he may have the
honour of being appointed its honorary Colonel.” In con¬
clusion, Lord Elcho expressed his satisfaction that “ in Major
Lumsden the regiment will have as its commanding officer one
who has done good and zealous service as a commissioned
officer front its first formation, and who for the last three years
has successfully commanded it on parade.”
The distribution of prizes won during the season at great
gun and carbine practice by the first Sussex Artillery took
place on the 11th inst., at the head-quarters of the corps,
Brighton, the drill-hall of which was tastefully decorated with
flags and military devices. The prizes, of the aggregate value of
4)250, were awarded by Colonel Ravenhill, R.A., of the School
of Gunnery, Shoeburyness. A vocal and instrumental enter¬
tainment was subsequently given to the visitors, of whom there
between 200 and 300 present.
The High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh has refused to
grant the applications made for bail by the directors, manager,
and secretary of the City of Glasgow Bank.
Owen Roberts, a lunatic, is in custody at Llangefri, charged
with attempting to shoot Miss l’ritchurd, daughter of an
Anglesey magistrate, living at Trescawen. Armed with a gun
and revolver, he went to Miss Pritchard’s residence, and, upon
her coming to the hull door, he fired at her, but missed. A
gamekeeper disabled him by a shot, and he was arrested.
The Liverpool Mercury says that a noteworthy instance of
commercial morality is announced by Mr. Peter Bancroft, of
that town. On Saturday last he received an unsigned letter,
in which was inclosed a bank-note for £1000. The only
information vouchsafed by the sender was that the bank-note
was the amount of an old debt and accumulated interest, which
he was sorry not to have been in a position to forward to Mr.
Bancroft before. Mr. Buneroft has not the slightest idea from
whom ho has received this conscience money.
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-rTAMPSTEAD-ROAI), Tjj
J^EAR TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD. ^
pUEOTSHTmOTOHOOT.-OETZM|^
r Vbmet>«tory. Albion Work.; ,
Srummond-strect; BcddFurnishing ’ Iron- It.
CARPETS. Furniture. ^^“K’ri.JnrejLr/’ Pictures, Pronre*. -*
SocE'’ic.?and*’ever^therlwiubUte fo/completely fornUblng ^
a house throughout. _-m
■desides the k^cent addition of A
-D the Immense range of I „£ added to their JV
a^SXics, ____ "
-pUGHT LARGE SHOW-ROOMS ^
UAVE JUST BEEN ADDED ^
mo THE DISPLAY OF £
^ RUSTIC FURNITURE, &c. (
tt is now one of the largest £
kssiffillss^s!
^a5gas ,|!li!M 5
t ntiOING S.—E XTRA BED to T
L ^accommodate VWU.™ ; -A rtTcmg IRON FOLDINGB
BTEAD, 6 ft. long by 2 ft. 8 in- »>“*• S^,„e itenu, 3 ft. wide. 4-
estosk ®
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■yAsVm agco. _ J
"VTOTICE —BLANKETS for CHARITIES.
I!cducwl1>rlai '
-OOMBAY STRIPED CURTAINS.—The (
eWiSSmi w“ are iiS 1 "lie 80LK VEN 1X)R8 of
ESSsK 5 SBS*=
can be had port-free on application. _.
P OSTAL ORDER DEPARTMENT.
OETZMANN and CO.-Ordws sent
Sa¥Sffl1aap«aha.“jsr«ss
/VETZMANN and CO., COMPLETE
(SweMtreet BtaUon. Metropolitan Railway), Lowest price*
gfe “ d on
0ESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE, post-free.
QETZMANN & CO.,
JJAMPSTEAD-ROAD.
PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION, 1378.
THE ONLY “GRAND PRIX”
In Clause, 17 and 18, for Inexpensive and Artistic
FURNITURE,
was awarded to
TACKSON and GRAHAM, Oxford-street,
GRAND PRIZE (EHREN^DIPLOM). Vienna. 1873. The sole
MED-l^^or^MJreatExooflenco of Design and Workmanship,"
GOLD MEdTlOF honour' for •• Improvements in English
PRWE^iEDALfGroat Exhibition. Ia>ndon, 1851.
0 W A R D and SONS,
Manufacturers of
PARQUET PLOORS.
H oward and sons,
Manufacturers of
ARTISTIC WOOD CHIMNEY-PIECES.
THE ILLUST RATED LON DON NEW8^
— . , please notice-
rp T. n n K S’ CHINA.) THEBE 18 ONLY ONE ADDBEB8
MORTLO OK* CHINA.
ssskssj
pIS Bta gBnateasMa.ta-.w^
--„„„„ Electro-Platers ACntlers
•jyj-APPIN BROTHERS- ArciiadngthopnbUo
A/TAPPIN BROTHERS—on the same footing as
31- Members of Co-operative
]y[APPIN BROTHERS- 6toM hsTing
"Vf APPIN BROTHERS—Reduced their Prices
^APPIN BROTHERS-“-^ ovnqnallty
A/T APPIN BROTHERS— of their goodslsstrlctly
MAMW bbothebs-^^„
■\,f APPIN BROTHERS— LONDON bridge.
MAPPIN brothers--«- e t ;;;
-jyj-APPIN BROTHERS — begent-btbeet. w.
ARDNERS’ NEW DINNER and TABLE
G GLASS SERVICES «e original ^^f^g^om
8 CS^“?tweir^roo&. TsbleGU-Service,
from £3 »!m. the Set for twelve persons, complete.
DINNER services.
Coloured Lithographs post-free.
_ In Deep Blue. J _ & So ”,?*3 0
FOR PETER ROBINSON’S
AT OURNING WAREHOUSE.
iVA , ^ed®™! IgSSSjBSS*
MUST BE CLEARLY DIRECTED
TO REGENT-STREET, Nos. 256 to 262.
Occasional misdirection of letters and orders
01 renders this Not ice necessary. _
AT PETER ROBINSON'S
■pAMILY MOURNING WAREHOUSE,
“ REGENT-STREET.”
THE BEST ENGLISH CRAPES ONLY ARE U8ED,
which stand the wet and damp weather.
Widow'. Dress, beautifully fitted, made complete. ^ ]S
WMow™ Bonnet and Cap, made by French Milliners, ^ w
Widow™ Mantle or Paletot.''handsomely trimmed, ^ g
Dresses? Made Complete’, for a Parent, Sister, or ^ w
Mantles aiui pXtoti. handsomely trimmed, fordltto. tj ^
BonncU. New Styles, made'by French Milliners. ^ Jg
The Laurel ..
]
In Enamelled Pat'
P In their uneqnalled Crown
InBnby .. *?’ \ °
In rink.5 5 2
In Black.. . .
TABLE GLASS SERVICES.
attorns**** 1
Illustrated Glass Catalogue, which must be returned,
Gardners' Lamp. 463 and 4«.
West Stran d. Charlng-cross. _
N otice.—silver and electro-
A PLATE.-ELKINGTON and CO., MaPPfacturi y
In Table Plated all kinds, and newcnalitie. in
s^sssasssasafi
innroeo-o. ^ ^ Moorgate-street. City.
rkSLER’S glass chandeliers,
U Wall Lights and Lustres for Gas and Candles.
Chandeliers in Bronxe and Ormolu.
DUPLEX LAMPS
KEBOSENE t ZJfD t OTHER*mLS n &P THE FINEST
TABLE GLASS of ALL KINDS
OBNAMEN T M5ffi
BIRMINOHAM^M^af^o^andJbZw-Rooms, Broul-street.
LONDON: Show-Booms, 46, Oxford -stre et, W. ___
“VOUR NEW ‘VOWEL’ A 1 is a-
X one-dorfnl Machine, both f ' w “J 1 n e n r i Yu n«fie“ p -
3fangler; Mrioudyddr. G. conrfder. it bevond .U frairo.^ |
Vide Purcharer. Price £<> '?*■• silver Medals to
THOlfAS BBADfSrD aMW* Ho,born.
London, and Cathedral-steps. Manchester. _
Good-Fitting Dressmakers are sent to All Parts _
with a Full Assortment of Goods, and ^2 Jj*? order*,
immediately on receipt of Letter or Telegram.
WHICH MUST BE CLEARLY ADDRESSED—
REGENT-STREET, Nos. 256 to 262,
otherwise they would not rea ch as desired. _
TkLACK SILKS—Specially Cheap,
-£ i
MSSf^tuJrf by Messrs. Dfg^e at Cie. it .. 4s. lid.
Also, BLACK SILKS, in rery servIceableqnaUties.
28. tjd., 2a. llid., 3a. 6d., 4*. 6d., and is. 9d.
200 PIECES of BLACK SILK at one price,|
6 s.; usual price, 8s. 9d.
For Patterns—address only as follows;—
PETER ROBINSON, 256 to 262,
REGENT-STREET.
THE COUBT AND GE NERAL MOUBNING WAREHOUSE
T)LACK SILK VELVETS,
JJ Exceptional Value,
at 3s. Ud., 4S. 9d., 6s. 6d., 6s. 6d. p and 7s. 6d.
RICH LYONS VELVE7TS,
Bnpcrb' mi sliti’es for^ressS?an d* M antlea.
PETER ROBINSON. REGENT-STREET.
Nos. 266 to 262. _
J^EW SILK COSTUMES
in Rich Lyons Gros Grain.
4} guineas, including five yards for Bodice.
NEW SILK COSTUMES, Trimmed Velvet or Satin,
64 guineas, with slaterial for Bodice.
A large variety.
For Photos and Sketches address only to __
PETER ROBINSON^' REGENT-STREET,
T7VENING and DINNER DRESSES.
i ll New Styles, well cut. and elegantly trimmed,
from one guinea to 10 guineas.
NOV. 23, 1878
jy^RS. S. A. ALLEN’S
■^yrORLD’S HAIR RESTORER.
F CANNOT FAIL TO RESTORE
GREY HAIR TO ITS YOUTHFUL COLOUR,
GLOSS, AND BEAUTY. WHEN THE HAIR
TURNS OBEY, LOSES ITS LUSTRE, AND
FALLS OUT, IT SIMPLY REQUIRE8 NOURISH¬
MENT. MRS. 8. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR
EESTORER, BY ITS GENTLE TONIO ACTION,
STRENGTHENS AND INVIGORATES THE
HAIR, AND, BY THE OPERATION OF
NATURAL CAUSES, GREY OR WHITE HAIR
IS QUICKLY RESTORED TO ITS YOUTHFUL
COLOUR, GLOSS. AND BEAUTY. IT WILL
STOP ITS FALLING, AND INDUCE A
HEALTHY AND MOST LUXURIANT GROWTH
USE NO OTHER PREPARATION WITH IT,
NOT EVEN OIL OB POMADE, OB ZYL0-
BAL6AMUM.
Oaunoa 11—The Genuine only In Pink Wrappers.
1 Bold by all Chemists, Perfumers, end Dealer, In Toilet Articles
) IMPORTANT NOTICE.
J Mrs. 8. A. ALLEN manufactures two entirely distinct Pre¬
parations for the Hair. One or the other 1, salted to every
0 condition of the Human Hair. Both are never required at one
u time. For details as to each preparation, kindly read above and
below thia paragraph. Readers can easily determine which of
9 the two they require.
6 M 118- s ’ A> ALLEN ’ 8
^ YLO ALSAMUM,
For the Growth end Preservation of the Hair.
A cooling transparent liquid, entirely vegetable,
without sediment.
A SIMPLE TONIC AND DRESSING
OF INESTIMABLE VALUE TO BOTH SEXES,
THE FAVOURITE WITH THE YOUNG AND
ALL THOSE WHO HAVE NO GREY HAIR. PRE¬
MATURE LOSS OF THE HAIR, SO COMMON
IN THESE DAYS, MAY BE ENTIRELY PRE¬
VENTED BY THE USE OF ZYLO-BA1AAMUM.
PROMPT RELIEF IN THOUSANDS OF CASES
hah BEEN AFFORDED WHERE THE HAIR
HAS BEEN COMING OUT IN HANDTOLS. IT
PROMOTES A HEALTHY AND V1GOR0CB
GROWTH. HAIR DRESSED WITH ZYLO-BAL-
6 AMUM IS ALWAY8 CLEAN, FREE FROM
DANDRUFF, AND WITH THAT BEAUTIFUL
GLOSS ONLY SEEN IN HEALTHY HAIR. IT
IB DELIGHTFULLY FRAGRANT. NO OIL 0B
POMADE SHOULD BE USED WITH IT.
SE Cautiox 1 1—The Genuine only In Bluish Grey Wrappers.
Id by oH Chemists. Perfumers, and Dealers in Toilet Arttdss.
0OLDEN STAR
■gAY-LEAF WATER,
JJ O W A E D
H 0 w A
and SONS,
CABINET MAKERS
STEAM i>OWER.
and SONS,
DECORATORS
UPHOLsri'.UCRS.
35. 20, and 27,
BEBNER8-STREET,
LONDON, W.
GRANGE CHAMPAGNE is a light,
V/ Til PAS* nt drink, made eimplj from Oranges. It Ueffer-
veseen?! but entirely free from eplrft and perfectly ^hoU^me.
pe^DozerMintn^returrieil^ 8 Mad'e^lriVby^ri^ZB.^ODD andfcO.,
79, Copcnbagen-gtree t, London. W. __
K INAHAN’S ll whisky.
THE CREASI OF OLD IRISH WinSKIES.
■■MSI,
cSVe^‘exceH'ent > quauff.^^-2olGreat 1 Tl£:'h r fieid-»treet! W.
LIQUEUR ^c E h^»d D r^«!
Tourists, and Travellers, l»i»S
fi I N G E R &MdSSSoS! i c ntt
\J Bottles and Yellow Bin Cases, bear;
BRANDY. 45a. ‘per'High
HENRY BRETT and CO. Holborn, London. _
C HOCOLAT MENIER.
Awarded
GRAND
DIPLOM A OF HONOUR.
/CHOCOLAT MENIER, in Jib. and Jib.
vy PaokeU.
BREAKFAST
and SUPPER.
PH0C0LAT MENIER.—Awarded Twenty-
\y Three pBIZI MED aL8.
ConMimotion iSDUNiy
exceeds 17,000.00Olb8.
, /CHOCOLAT MENIER. Paris,
. \j London,
H 0 W
BERNERS-STREET,
CLEVELANDSTEA3I
^PPS’S
GRATEFUL
nm
COMFORTING.
0 0 0 O A.
JAMES EPPS AND CO.,
HOMCEOPATHIO
CHEMISTS.
Black SMk T™le*(conditlon keeping), 42s. and 40a. I
Grenadine, from 42*. to 4 guineas.
For Hketrhes of the above, address as follows :—
PETER ROBINSON, REGENT-STBEET,
Nos. 256 to 262.
-OURS at SUMMER PRICES.
BF.AT. RUSSIAN SEAL PALETOTS.
New and Perfect Shanes,
In every size and quality.
fur-lined cloaks,
Lined Beal Russian Squirrel, 45 Inches long,
52s. Gd. and 34 guincoa.
Lined vrith Plaln'G'rVy Squirrel,
47 inches long, at 6 guineas.
For Samples—Addres s only os follows :—
PETER ROBINSON, REGENT-STREET,
Nos. 256 to 262.
‘V'OTICE.—In reference to the
X V above advertisement*.
It is important that letters
should be clearly addressed to
REGENT-STREET, Nos , 256 to 262. _
F rench, all-wool foule serges.
The largest assortment of these beautiful Goods now seU-
ing K j qh^H^X)PER, 62, Oxford-street, W. Patterns free.
T) OYAL VELVETEENS.—Guaranteed new
It fast blue shade of Black, Is. 114<1-. 2»- M.. 3*. 6d. per yard.
In the most fashionable colours, at fc. llid. per yard.
Patterns free.—JOHN HOOPER. 52, Oxford-street, W.
■MANUFACTURER’S STOCK of LADIES’
1VI WINTER DRESSES, Selling Off at half the cost. Moss
Cachemirea, In New Dark Plain Colours, ut 4jd. per yard
Patterns free.—JOHN HOOPER, 52. Oxford-street, W.
T7VENING DRESSES. — Thousands of
Beautiful Lissette Grenadines, are now offering at 4}d. per
yard. The New Gold and Silver Iridescent Grenadines.
Patterns free.—JOHN HOOPER, 62, Oxford-street, W.
■q OYAL DEVONSHIRE SERGES,
it woven from pure wool, for LADIES’ DRESSES,
in Navy or Dark Indigo Blue, Black, Dark Browns, Prune,
CLEVELAND S1LA31
CABINET WORKS.
FOUR MEDALS
AWARDED,
including
PARIS EXHIBITION,
_ 1878. _
'T'RELOAR and SONS, 69, Ludgate-hill.
X 6 even Prise Medals, including Paris, 1878. Catalogues and
Samples free.
M ATS -
J^IN OLEUM.
rpURKEY CARPETS^
0REENTAL RUGS.
H^RELOAR md SONS^ 69, Lndgate-hill.
X Floor Decorators. Established 1834. Beven Prise Medals,
lodudlnf Paris, 1878. OaUlogues and Estlmatea free.
p ENU1NE BUTTER. — The celebrated
Vi RED STAR (" Extra Choice") BRAND, the shipment* of
which exceed 14.000,000. This extremely fine pure gras* Butter,
specially prepared for US’ in winter, when good Butter l» *o
scarce and dear, may be had tt,rough any Grocer in hermetically
sealed Tins of 7 lb.. 10lb„ 141b., and other size* suitable for
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS or family use. Wholesale from T. J.
CLANCHY. Munster Dairies. Depit, Cork. _
-[JURE FLOUR OF EGYPTIAN LENTILS.
X This Is the basis of all the Egyptian and Arabian Foods
so much advertised, and is the most nutritious and easily
digested of all cereal productions. It is usually mixed with
Essex ’Floor and G’raTn Oompany 1 ^L?verTnx>1-ro4td, London, N.,
IduVtcratlulf wlrn'ever. 119 1 lljHTVn^iL'i^f'lb^Tml&r. ;‘l4?b.*?n
Canvas Bag, 8s. Th e Trade supplied. _
nPHE ESSEX FLOUR and GRAIN
X COMPANY. Llverpool-road. London, N.. supply the BEST
GOODS ONLY. Whites, for Pastry, 8s. 8d. per bushel; House¬
holds, tor Bread.8a. Wheat Meal, for Brown Bread,7*. 4d. Coarse
Scotch Oatmeal. 3*. 2d. per »tone; fine, 3a. 4d. American
Hominy,4*. Barley Maize. Buckwheat, and Barley Meal, 6s. per
bushel, or IDs. per sack. Oat*. 4s. per bnshel: 16a. 6d. per sack.
Peas. 7s. 6d. per bushel; Tick Beans. 7s. 6d.; Middlings.2s. 4d.;
Ground Pollard, Is. 8d. Meat Biscuits. 20s. per cwt. Split Peas,
3s. per peck. Lentil Flour, for Invalids, in Tins. 1 lb.size. Is.;
I, 7 lbUss. All other kinds of Grain and Seed. Special prices for
larger quantities. P.O. Orders and Cheques payableto O. Young.
in Navy or Dark Indigo Blue, Black, Dark Browns, Prune,
and other solid colours,
price Is. lid . »s. 6d„ 2s. lid. per yard.
For CHILDREN a lower cjuaRty Uniade, very strong,
For BOYS' HARD* WEAlfft is extra milled, pries
54 in. wide, 3a. 6d. per yard.
Books of Patterns sent post-free by
SPEARMAN and SPEARMAN,
Devonshire Serge Factors, Plymouth.
The ROYAL DEVONSHIRE SERGE is the only true Yachting
Serge.
8 ea Water cannot injure It.
Any Length is Cut by the Factors,
who arrange to pay the carriage of all Parcels above Two Pounds
in value to and as far as London.
TJREIDENBACH’S ABRONIA.—The New
I) Scent for 1878. Delicate, refreshing, and durable, 2s. 6d. to
40s. per Bottle. Bretdenbocli's MACA8SARINE, Invaluable for
preserving the Growth of the Hair. Is.. 2s. 6d., 5a. per Bottle.
Of all Chemists, and the Makers. 157a. New Bond-street, W.
TOHN GOSNELL and CO.’S VIOLET
O and MILLEFLEUR POWDER, for the Toilet and Nursery.
Universally admired for its purity and fragrance. Sold by all
Chemists and Perfumers. Wholesale, D3, Upper Thames-street.
TV OWLANDS’ MACASSAR OIL preserves,
JX strengthens, and beautifies the human Hair, 3s.6d.,7s.,
and 10s. 6d. ROWLANDS' ODONTO whitens the Teeth
and arrest* decay. 2s. 9d. per Box. Of Chemists.
Triple distilled from the fresh leaves of the
Bay Tree (Myrda Acrii).
For the TOILET, NURSERY, and BATH.
A few drops on a sponge or towel moistened with water, and
the face end hands bathed with it, is very benefldal to the skin,
removing all ronghness. Most highly recommended to spply
after shaving. A small quantity in the bath gives s delightful
aroma, and it has most remarkable cleansing properties. Par¬
ticularly adapted to the bathing of infants and young children.
Most grateful to invalids and all who suffer from headache
from mental labour or fatigue Buy only the genuine Golden
Star Bay-Leal Water, sold in three iixe§ Toilet Bottle*, 2*. 6d„
6 s 8* by Chemist* and Perfumers, or on receipt ot rtamp*
from the Wholesale D*p6t, 114 and 116, Bouthampton-row,
London.__
D r DE JONGH’8
(KNIGHT OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR.
KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF LEOPOLD OF BEIX51UM)
J^IGHT - BROWN COD - LIVER OIL.
THE PUREST.
THE MOST PALATABLE.
THE MOST DIGESTIBLE.
THE MOST EFFICACIOUS.
0R. DE JONGH’S
T IGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL,
XJ proved by twcnty-flve y«r*' medlc*l experience to he
THE ONLY COD-LIVER OIL
which produce* the fuU curative effect* in
rrvwflTTM PTION AND DJLSBIASES OF THE CKKT»
^THROAT AFFECTIONS. GENERAL DEBILITY.
WASTING DISEASES OF CHILDREN, RICKETS)
AND ALL SCROFULOUS DISORDERS.
- SELECT MEDICAL OPINIONS.
SIR G. DUNCAN GIBB, Bart., M.D.,
Physician to the Westminster HoepitaL
i< rriL- value of Dr* DE JONGfl 8
T h LIGHT-BROWN COD-LIV^WL^* ® tber^
world of medicine; ^ ut '1“ ‘^treatment of
■SSK&S'rt Te Throat snd Larynx.
DR. SINCLAIR COGHILL,
IV Physician Royal National Hospitel forConsumpUon,
d. “x have convinced myself that in
ii
Chat Dr! IMS JQNGH'8 not only iterated,
but taken read ily, an d with marxeu
°r DENNOX BROWNE, F '^ B ^l iuL
Senior Surgeon Central London Throat uid^Ho^taL^
“ n the action of Dr. de J ongh s
„ I Cod-Liver Oil has proved, in my own expe ^—^
S, -*■ particularly valuable,
tag ’voice, dependent on ., B S^ “rfStroSS
Slid., mid Discharges from th*
COD-LIVER OIL <J >n t ^ n ‘^5 T ?imd ls easily
digested? ^ Henoe iUv.lue. noto^n
Uiel-hroatandLunn^utlna its
DR DE JONGH’S LIGHT-BROWN
throughout the world. 0R .
ANSAR. HARFORD, and CO., 77. STRAND. -.
^t tTiw a y’S PILLS and OINTMENT.
hj G so sox 0. Lbiodtox, 106,
MjvMSU 33, 1878.
KKOISTKHKD AT THB OBNKRAL POaT-QFKICS TOR TRANSMISSION ABROAD.
No. 2057. —vol. lxxiii.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1878.
with {SIXPENCE.
TWO SUPPLEMENTS ' Bt Post, flio.
THB AFGHAN WAR : 3rd GOORKHAS LEAVING BAREILLY. GUNNERS CHEERING THE GOORKHAB AT MEERUT.
BKBTCHBS BY LIBUTBNANT C. PULLBY, 3RD 000RKHA8, CAHUL EXPEDITIONARY POBCB.
602
the illustrated London hews
NOV. 30,1878
marriages. ,
On the 21st inst., at the British CojunJate, and at |£G«’ T f? ^Xida!
™X£?J£2£L
Bishop of Edinburgh, assisted hytheHe . “j Elton vicar 0 f tho
Baldstow church, near Hastings, and the Rev Aimyoungest son
parish, FiuncisWUliamMmckEsq.Benpa gvOS JJ^r of
..fiLsti auffoi^tgsa »’»— »*» *> d “‘
daughter of Lord Gerard, of Bryn.
DEATHS.
On the 23rd inst at Myrtle
Dorothea, widow of Samnel ’ ™kstone, and only daughter of
TKS™rSSS?S«- -
wt w** »«—. “* S»«.
Hnntly, aged 86.
Death* it
CALENDAR FOR TH E WE EK ENDING DEO. 7.
SUNDAY, Dec. 1.
Savoy, 11.80 a.m., Rev. Henry White,
- • 1 Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queeny
First Sunday in Advent. . __
Morning Lessons : Isaiah i.;irci. ^ v r^y Charles Crosslde,
swtti„.?ra.WE: T
r J\vwy, AV | 4i«i Ponfnrs nf Christianity
, BTB | tial Feature of Christianity ”).
^.R^vT^Ainger, the Reader. I Evidences of Christianity ).
MONDAY, Dec. 2.
auvobow w. Francis Joseph,
Emperor of Austria, 1848.
Pedro H., Emperor of Brazil, bom,
4.88 p.m
.m.. Cantor Lec¬
ture; a p.m. iMr. W. Mattieu
Williams on Mathematical Instru¬
ments).
Medical Society, 8 80 p.m.
Odontological Society, 8 p.m.
London Institution. 5 p.m. (Professor
Huxley on the Elements of Psy¬
chology) .
Institute of British Architects, 8jnm.
Moon’s first quarter,-- —
Royal Institution, general monthly
meeting, 6 (not 2) p m.
Society of Engineers, 7.30 p.m. (llr.
J. Atkinson on Utilising the Waste
Heat of Exhaust Steam).
Musical Association 6 p.m. (Lord
Rayleigh on Determination of Ab¬
solute Pitch by the Harmonium,
Royal 'Academy. 8 p.m. (Professor
Marshall on Anatomy—the bkele-
ton).
TUE8DAY, Deo. 8.
M^^ 8od^,^8 p.m.pjr. ? Iichael, 8.80 & (Pnn
Biids; Dr. A. GUnther on Reptiles
(Mr. Claude R. Conder on the.
Sanctuary at Jerusalem).
Victoria Institute, 8 p.m. (Professor
Noah Porter on Science and Man).
Popular Concert, 8t. James’s Hall, 8.
Birmingham Cattle, Poultry, and Dog
Show (four days).
CHRISTMAS NUMBER
OF THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
Will be Published December 11.
A LARGE COLOURED ENGRAVING
■WILL BB GIVEN WITH IT, BNTITLBD
e6 j? XT S S I3ST BOOTS,”
from a Picture Painted Specially for this Christmas Number
By JOHN E. MILLAIS, R.A.
ILLUSTRATIONS:
The Vicar’s Daughter. By G. D. Leslie, R.A.
The Finishing Touch. By H. S. Marks, A.R.A.
Follow the Drum. By G. A. Storey, A.R.A.
The Fairies’Favourite. By J. A. Fitzgerald.
My Lady’s Carriage Stops the Way. By A. Hunt.
On Christmas Day in the Morning. By Miss M. E. Edwards.
Our Noble Ancestor. By F. Dadd.
An Evil Omen. By S. Read.
Dancing was Dancing in those Days. By F. Barnard.
Lucky Dog! By Percy Macquoid.
Young Faces and Old Fashions. By M. W. Ridley.
Mr. Quiverfull’s Christmas Box. By A. Hunt.
Thankfully Received. By C. Gregory.
The Mistletoe Bough. By A. E. Emslie.
Where the Deed was Done. By Mason Jackson.
A Page of Pictorial Charades.
This Christmas Number will contain
A TALE BY MRS. J. H. RIDDELL,
Author of “ George Geith,” &c.,
ENTITLED
“MICHAEL HARGRAVE’S HARVEST;”
Sketches and Verses by F. 0. Burnand and others.
The whole will be inclosed in a Coloured Wrapper, and
published apart from the ordinary issue.
PRICE ONE SHILLING.
Through the post in the United Kingdom, 3d. extra.
No more Advertisements for this Christmas Number
can he received.
rpHE SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS
A The Seventeenth WINTER EXHIBITION of SKETCHES and STUDIES hi
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LONDON: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1878.
It was very gratifying to thTBritisb publicto reMiveon
Monday morning tidings of the safe arrival of the bar-
matian at Halifax, and of the welfare of all the V.cereg.l
Party on board. That she bad experienced an unusually
THE WEATHER.
RESULTS OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT THE
KEW OBSERVATORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
Lat. 61° 28’ 6" N.; Long. 0’ 10' 47" W.; Height above Sea, 34 feet.
30 084
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Barometer (in inches) corrected .. | 30-37H I 30126 I 30-013 I 30-007 I 29-920 I 29-317 I 29171
Temperature of Air .1 421' lo r .too" 31 -1 5 1 37-fi ftl-2
Temiieratare of Evaporation ..I :«*-»° I 37 S’ 3ii:C So o’ 37 “2 «u-4° 3»-7°
Direction of Wind .I ne. I nt. 1 ne. | nk. I E. | sw. 1 nnw.
Sunday. I Monday. | Tuesday, i Wednesday.I Thursday. I Friday. I Saturday.
11 10 4 llO SS| 11 3 11 30l 1184-1
i for this time of the year could hardly
be regarded as a matter for surprise. The Capbun of t c
stout and noble craft would not, perhaps, have allowed
that it was, at any part of the voyage,
but when the wind blowsa hurricane»in the North Atlwto,
when seas break over the ship, stem and stem, when
trysail and foretopsail are carried away, and the smog
room on deck is stove in, there would necessarily
bo some peril to be confronted, as well as much
comfort to bo endured. Neptune has no respect of p«
sons. The Princess Louise and many of her sm
severely, but towards the close of the voyage she rapidly
improved in MMk. »nd had . for reco^
landed at Halifax with her husband, the Marq
Lome, as to be strong enough to meet the fa^gu
grand official and popular recepUon. Tto nWO*
to the Viceroy and the Princess wtw P Mul ^ ly n ^ le
haps to some extent noisily, hearty, ibili t v of his
Marquis formally entered upon
office and took the customary oaths nnder weUboth
of advantage and scenes of rejmcing that a g^r to
j for himself and for the colony which he has go
g °He needed every adventitious aid to ohhtwatejrom
the minds of the Canadian people the PO gn ‘
which they felt for the retirement of Lord V
NOV. 30, 1878
THE ILLUSTKATED LONDON NEWS
503
instances are on record of such profound and even
affectionate harmony as that which existed between the
noble Lord and the people over whom he had presided in
the name of her Majesty. His administrative aptitude,
his reverential regard for constitutional principles, his
cheerful temperament, his winning eloquence, and the
thoroughness with which, heart and soul, he threw him¬
self into the broad current of Canadian feeling, had won
for him a place in their confidence, and even in their
affections, altogether unique. When he left them at the
expiration of his official term almost every inhabitant in
the Dominion mourned over his loss as if it had been
that of a personal friend. Not only in Ottawa, the
Seat of the Viceregal Government, but in Toronto, in
Montreal, even in Quebec, the influence of his presence, or
his name, seemed to be irresistible. So entirely did he
identify himself with the country, so chastely did he keep
himself disentangled from party politics, so serenely did
he soar above the clashing interests of faction which pre¬
vailed beneath him, that all looked to him with more than
common loyalty, and through him, of course, to the
Sovereign whom he represented. It would have been a
difficult and discouraging task for any ordinary man,
however wisely chosen, or however intellectually and
morally qualified, to take his place, unless he could have
brought to it recommendations equivalent in their practical
effect to those which bound Lord Dufferin in the strongest
ties to the Canadian people. Happily, the Marquis of Lome
presented to the Colony such an equivalent in the person of
Princess Louise, his wife. The arrangement carried with
it special advantages on both sides. The Colonists, no
doubt, fully appreciated the compliment paid to them by
committing to their trust and loyalty the happiness, for
some time to come, of a daughter of Queen Victoria, and
the position conferred upon the Marquis of Lome and the
responsibility which he has been induced by the Govern¬
ment of the United Kingdom to accept, raise him at
once out of that neutral sphere in which, since his
marriage, he has been compelled to move. There is room,
of course, for a little disappointment on both sides. But
there is no reason for apprehending that on either side
there will be any development of feeling tending to other
than loyal and grateful relations.
The Marquis of Lome will find his post no easy one.
Politico-religious differences in Canada are even now
exerting a disintegrating force. There will be no lack
of strong temptations to the Governor-General to
take sides with the majority. The noble Lord, however,
has proved himself by his publications to possess a highly
cultivated intellect and poetic sympathies. He will
probably have made himself thoroughly master of the
duties which his high position will entail upon him-
The Princess Louise cannot but have been a deeply
interested observer of the irreproachable constitutional
principles and practice of her Royal Mother; and in
some respects, perhaps, her tact will serve to guide
and her experience to strengthen the hands of the Noble
Marquis in his ministration of public affairs. Still, the
well-being of Canada will, doubtless, depend more upon
the tone of social influence diffused through it by the
presence and action of her Majesty's Representive than by
any political events with which he may be called to deal.
It is to be hoped that no slight advantage will result
to the people of the Dominion by the new ties thus
auspiciously formed. Where rulers and people are both
intent upon reciprocating towards each other the highest
manifestations of esteem and trust, there can hardly be
left much room for disappointment.
Our Canadian kinsfolk have given strong proof of their
attachment to the home country and their enthusiastic
loyalty to the Queen. For the present, at any rate, they
show no disposition to separate their interests from those
of the United Kingdom. They arc as free and independent
as any country can wish to be. Their subjection to
Imperial control is almost nominal. They are rough,
perhaps, in some of their manners, but they are hearty,
and are quite susceptible to those subtle influences
which may serve to sway beneficially their politica
action, and to refine, as well as ijurify, their public
movements. We congratulate them upon the evi¬
dence given by their mother country, its Govern¬
ment, and its Queen that there subsists, on the part of
the British public, a lively interest in the progress of the
Dominion. They will not any longer, we suppose,
suspect that they are regarded as “ poor relations.” And,
it is certain, that Great Britain will not fail to take a
more than ordinary interest in the affairs of a splendid
colony over the government of which the Queen’s son-in-
law, conjugally associated with her beloved daughter, is
called to preside._
A fancy-dress ball was given at Brighton on Wednesday
evening, under the auspices of the International Gun and
Polo Club. This was the fifth year of the ball, and it far
surpassed the previous ones. The lady patronesses of this
fashionable gathering at the Royal Pavilion included
the Baroness de Penedo, Mdlle. Musurus, Countess
Marie Munster, the Duchess of Hamilton, the Duchess
of Manchester, Marchioness Can len, the Counte-s of bear-
borough, and Viscountess Coiubeuicrc. Among the stewards
were the Ambassadors and Mini-ters from Austna-IIungary,
Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Turkey, Per-ia, Brazil,
Japan the Duke of Hamilton, Earl de Grey, Viscount bt.
Vincent, Sir G. Chetwynd, the Earls of Hardwicke Scar¬
borough, and Yarborough, and about a hundred other noblemen
and gentlemen. The guests numbered nearly eight hundred.
THE COURT.
The Queen received the Earl of Beacousfield at an audience
yesterday week at Windsor Castle, having arrived from the
Highlands the same morning. Princefs Christian visited her
Majesty.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, called upon
the Hon. Lady Biddulph on Saturday last. The Duke of
Connaught and Stratheam arrived at the castle. The Rev.
Canon Duckworth also arrived. Viscount Bridport and
Captain FitzGerald were included in her Majesty’s dinner
party.
On Sunday the Queen, Princess Beatrice, and the Duke of
Connaught attended Divine service in the private chapel of
the castle. The Rev. Canon Duckworth officiated. The Dean
of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, Sir John and Lady
Cowell, and the Rev. Canon Duckworth dined with her
Majesty. The Duke of Connaught and Stratheam left the
castle later in the evening for London. The Queen received
the news of the safe arrival at Halifax on Saturday evening of
Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lome, after a very stormy
passage.
Prince and Princess Christian dined with the Queen on
Monday. The Rev. Canon Duckworth left the castle.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, came to
London on Tuesday, and visited the Duchess of Cambridge at
St. James’s Palace. Her Majesty travelled by a special train
on the Great Western Railway to and from Paddington, and
arrived at Windsor shortly after seven o’clock. The
Marchioness Dowager of Ely and Lady Southampton arrived
at the castle. Lady Southampton was presented to the Queen
by the Marchioness Dowager of Ely on her appointment as
one of her Majesty’s Ladies of the Bedchamber.
The Queen held a Council on Wednesday, at which were
present the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, the Duke of
Northumberland, and the Right Hon. R. A. Cross. At the
Council Parliament was further prorogued to Thursday next,
Dec. 5, and then to assemble for the dispatch of business.
The Duke of Richmond and Gordon and the Right Hon. R. A.
Cross had audiences of the Queen. The following gentlemen
were severally introduced to her Majesty’s presence and
received the honour of knighthood, viz.:—Mr. James Salmon,
M.D., Inspects-General of Hospitals and Fleets; Mr.
Brandreth Gibbs; Mr. John Anderson, LL.D., M.I.C.E.; Mr.
Thomas Scambler Owden, ex-Lord Mayor of London; Mr.
John Milton, C.B.; and Mr. Philip Cunliffc Owen, K.C.M.G.,
C.B., Director of the South Kensington Museum.
The Queen has conferred a baronetcy upon the Right Hon.
Sir Andrew Buchanan, G.C.B., late her Majesty’s Ambassador
at the Court of Vienna.
The Queen has appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Gustavus
Hume, Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant of her Majesty’s
Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, to be Lieutenant,
vice Sir William Topham, Knt., who retires, with her Majesty’s
permission to continue to wear the uniform of his rank in the
corps.
The band of the Coldstream Guards has been ordered to
play at Windsor Castle during the mounting of the palace guard
every morning.
Lady Southampton has succeeded Lady Churchill as Lady
in Waiting; the Hon. Mary Pitt and the Hon. Amy Lambart
have succeeded the Hon. Frances Drummond and. the Hon.
Ethel Cadogan as Maids of Honour in Waiting. The Earl of
Dunmore, Vice-Admiral Lord Frederick Kerr, and General
Viscount Bridport arc the Lord, Groom, and Equerry in
Waiting. Lord Sackville has left the castle.
The Court went into mourning for ten days for the late
Princess Marie of Hesse, commencing yesterday week.
The Grand Duke of Hesse and his family are making very
favourable progress towards recovery.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCE8S OF WALES.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Princesses Louise,
Victoria, and Maud of Wales, attended Divine service on
Sunday at St. Mary Magdalene’s Church, Sandringham Park.
The Rev. F. E. J. Hervey and the Rev. H. Smith, of Castle
Rising, officiated. The Prince and Princess have entertained
during the week the Duke and Duchess of Teck and a
distinguished party of guests at Sandringham House.
The Duke of Edinburgh sailed from Halifax on Thursday
in the Black Prince for Eugland. The Duchess of Edinburgh
and her children are expected, according to present arrange¬
ments, at Clarenco House, St. James’s, frem Coburg, the first
week in January.
The Duke of Connaught, commanding the 1st battalion of
the Rifle Brigade at Woolwich, handed over his charge on
Monday to Lord Clinton, he having been granted leave until
the middle of December. His Royal Highness left for Dover,
and arrived at Calais on Tuesday morning en route for Berlin,
where he arrived at a quarter past ten the same evening.
The Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who has been
staying with the Duchess of Cambridge, has left St. James’s
Palace to join the Grand Duke at New Strelitz.
Hi 3 Excellency the Russian Ambassador has arrived in
town from Vienna.
The Duke of Northumberland has left Grosvenor-place for
Albury Park, Surrey.
The Earl and Countess of Dudley have arrived at Weston
Park on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Bradford.
The Earl and Countess of Harrington and the Ladies Stem
hope have left Harrington House for Elvaston Castle, Derby.
The Earl and Countess of Mar have left Edinburgh for
Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire, on a visit to Mr. and Lady
Harriet Wentworth.
Viscount and Viscountess Malden have arrived in Lowndes-
street from the Continent.
Lord Carlingford and Countess Frances Waldegrave have
left Carlton-gardens for Dudbrook, Essex.
Lord and Lady Walter Campbell left town on Saturday
last for Paris and Rome.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., has arrived at his
residence in llarley-street from Hawarden Castle.
The Earl and Countess of Scarborough have given a series
of festivities during the last fortnight at Saudbeck Park, near
Rotherham, and at Lumley Castle, as well as in the villages
around the estates, in honour of the coming of age of Viscount
Lumley, the heir npparent to the earldom.
FASHIONABLE MARRIAGES.
The marriage betweeu the Hon. Edwin Ponsonby and Miss
Dora Coope is fixed for Dec. 10. Owing to a bereavement in
the family, it will be as private as possible.
The marriage of Captain W. Codring tin, RN.,and Miss
Leach, stepdaughter of the Right Hon. the Find Lord ot the
Admiralty, will take place early in January. 1 he Right Hon.
\V H and Mrs. Smith will entertain a large party at Green-
lauds, Henley-on-Thames, for the occasion, as the marriage
will take place in the country.
A marriage is arranged between the Earl of Carnarvon and
Miss Howard, of GrcyBtoke.
THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Abud, Henry, to be Rural Deun of Uttoxeter.
Anderton, Richard ; Perpetual Curate of Whitewell.
Atkinson, Hans; Chaplain Royal Naval Female 8chool, Isleworth.
Bartleet, 8. E.; Vicar of Brockworth.
Bingham, Fanshawc ; Rector of Horfield, near Bristol.
ChtmpneyH, Weldon ; Rural Dean of AVhalley.
Chase, C. R.; Vicar of All Sainis’, Plymouth.
Chevallier, Charles Henry; Honorary Canon of Norwich.
Clark, Henry: Vicar of St. John-the-Evangelist, Peter Port, Guernsey.
Clarke, John Michel; Rector of Fenny Drayton.
Clarke, Robert Douglas Leonce; Vicar of Lax ton, Northampton.
Clemente, J.; Sub-Dean and Canon of Lincoln Cathedral.
D’Arcy, A. R.; Rector of NympsUeld.
De HaviUand, Charles Richards; Chaplain of Peter Port Hospital and
Asylum, Guernsey.
Ensor, George; Vicar of Rendham.
Gibbs, W. C.; Vicar of St. Helen-with-8t. Nicholas, Abingdon, Berks.
Gibson, Samuel; Perpetual Curate of Mapperley.
Hammond, Frederick ; Vicar of Tlireckingham.
Hancock, William Edward; Vicar of St. James’s, Halifax.
Harris, George Poulett; Perpetual Curate of Hawes.
Hawkins, C. F.; Vicar of East Grafton, Wilts.
Holland, F. W., Vicar of Evesham; Rural Dean of Evesham,
Jones, Edward Mountford; Rector of Llanmerewig.
Kcwley, Francis; Bettor of Remenham, Berks.
Letts, Ernest F., Minor Canon of Manchester; Precentor.
Linton, E. F. ; Vicar of Sprowston.
Lipscombe, H. A., Vicar of West Hyde, Herts; Vicar of Sawbridgwoith.
Lloyd, Thomas Henry; Vicar of Nerquis.
Mason, William Wright; Rector of Leverton.
Merriman, Charles Victor; Incumbent of the New Church of St. Clement
(Ordsall), Salford.
Moore, Daniel C., Secretary Board of Foreign Missions, diocese of Nova
Scotia ; Rector of Christ Chuch, Albion Mines, in the same diocese.
Morgan, D. Parker; Vicar of Abcrdovey.
Smith, Henry John Elliot; Perpetual Curate of Crantock.
Smith, J.: Vicar of Bussage.
Twyne, W.; Vicar of Whiteparish.
Tyler, William Walter; Vicar of Tonmington with Brandish.
Vale, H. B.; Senior Curate of Belgrave, near Leicester.
Valpy, Arthur Sutton ; Rector of Farnborough.
Watson, Richard Pilkington; Vicar of Clifton-on-Dunsmore.
Wharton, Edgar; Vicar of St. Mnry-le-Wigford, Lincoln.
WilliamB, John ; Perpetual Curate of St. Thomas’s, Buiy.
Winnifrith, Alfred; Minister of the New District of 8t. Luke, Cleckheaton.
Guardian.
Her Majesty has appointed Earl Stanhope to Eucceed the
Earl of Chichester as First Church Estates Commissioner.
A scries of windows representing the Te Dcum have been
placed in the Church of All Saints’, Bradford, at a cost of more
than £1500, the major part of which has been borne by Mr. F.
S. Powell, the patron.
Last Saturday afternoon the foundation-stone of the dis¬
trict church of St. George, Lewisham, was laid by Mrs. George
Parker, whose husband, of Lewisham House, Lewisham, has
given £8000, the entire cost of the building.
The Bishop of Carlisle has withdrawn the license of the
Rev. Michael Haslam, Curate of Maryport, for having pro¬
tested vehemently in the parish against the impropriety of
fruit having been placed on the holy table at a harvest festival.
The Bishop of Calcutta (Dr. Johnson) has written to the
Dean of Lichfield promising £50 towards the proposed “ Selwyn
College,” and expressing his hope that he may be able to raise
funds in India for an exhibition for the college.
The Chester Conrant has authority for stating that the Liver¬
pool Bishopric Fund has now reached over £70,000, and, not¬
withstanding the badness of the times, the promoters of the
bishopric entertain but little doubts that the required balance
will soon be raised.
The Archbishop of York addressed a meeting last Saturday
night in connection with the York Church Mission. His
Grace said the position of a working man was now higher than
it had ever been, both politically and socially. The drinking
habits of the labouring classes had, however, largely increased.
The Vice-Chairman of the London School Board (the Rev.
John Rodgers, M.A ) is about to deliver a course of monthly
sermons, especially addressed to school teachers, at his church,
St. Thomas Charterhouse, Goswell-street, E.C. The first of
the course will be preached on Sunday evening next.
The beautiful little church at Wentbridge, erected at the
sole cost of Mrs. Barton, of Stapleton Park, in memory of her
late Lusbaud, Mr. J. Hope Barton, for some years master of
the Badsworth Hunt, was consecrated by the Archbishop of
York on the 7th iust. The church, which is most
picturesquely situated, is built in the Early English style of
architecture* from the designs of Mr. A. Bloomfield.
The Rev. E. Norton Eldrid, Curate of St.John the Baptist,
Kentish Town, was presented on the 28th iii6t. with a testi¬
monial, from members of the congregation, of £45 in money,
with a memorial on parchment expressive of their high appre¬
ciation of his ministrations in the parish during the last year;
also, from the choir, two volumes of music, and a glass
epergne from members of the bible-class.
At Westminster Abbey to-day (St. Andrew’s Day—Day of
Missions) there will be a special service at ten a.m. (with the
holy communion), and a sermon from the Dean. At four p.m.,
on the conclusion of the afternoon service (at three p.m.), the
usual lecture on missions will be given in the nave by the
Very Rev. Principal Tulloch, D.D., Moderator of the General
Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The public will enter by
the west door, which will be opened at 3.45 p.m.
A public meeting was held at Plumstead on Tuesday in
support of a proposal to erect a local memorial church in con¬
nection with the wreck of the Princess Alice. The Incumbent
of St. John’s Plumstead, the Rev. W. T. Rowley, with his
son and daughter, were passengers in the Princess Alice.
Mr. Rowley himself narrowly escaped, and his children were
drowned. The site proposed for the memorial church is
situated on an eminence overlooking the scene of the calamity.
The meeting was unanimous in support of the proposal; and
a sum of £2160 has already been subscribed.
Dean Stanley preached in Westminster Abbey on Sunday
ternoon for the first time since his return from the United
ates. In the course of his sermon the Dean remarked that
; could not throw off the responsibilities which the past as
•11 as the present had thrown upon us. Our far-reaching
ies of ancestry and our wide-spreading dominions were around
like the mountains standing around Jerusalem There was
vast area of hearers—flesh of our flesh, and blood of our
ood who watched us with a preternatural sensitiveness. All
e good or evil of our doing might aid in raising or depressmg
ese our brethren. Far more to them than any flattery or
insure would be the examples of honest trade, of pure states-
anship, and of pure religious life and teaching; for they look
A V __i.nmi flAtxso Rhnrpfl from which the V
A banquet was given at Belfast on Tuesday evening to the
Earl of Dufferin, on the occasion of his return from Canada,
and in appreciation of the administrative ability which he had
displayed during his tenure of the Governor-Generahffiip of
the Dominion. Sir John Preston, the Mayor, presided, and
the company numbered about 400.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
NOV. 30, 1878
THE AFGHAN WAR.
THE MOUNTAIN PASSES POHCED.
We announced last week the actual beginning of what many
eminent and experienced statesmen declare to be an ill-
advised and unjustifiable war in Afghanistan. The Govern¬
ment of the Indian Empire, disposing, as it does nowadays,
of the military and financial resources of Great Britain, has
invaded the dominions of a neighbouring independent Prince,
upon a pretext sought and procured by the mission of an
Envoy unacceptable to him, for the purpose, which is avowed
in this country by the Prime Minister, of annexing to India
the Afghan frontier territory. This act has been so far accom¬
plished in one week’s hostile operations, which commenced on
the night of Wednesday week; and the Khyber Pass, the
Khoorum Pass, and the valley of Peshin, on the road from
Quetta towards Candahar, have been gained by a three-fold
advance of British-Indian army divisions, with no very Berious
resistance. In capturing the fort of Ali Musjid, at the entrance
to the Khyber Pass, a dozen men were killed on our side, with
two officers, Major Birch and Lieutenant Fitzgerald, while
some forty were wounded. The advance is to be continued
to the fortress of Jellalabnd, which is not expected to offer a
resolute defence ; and with this conquest, and with the occu¬
pation, probably unopposed, of the city of Candahar, it is
intended to close the winter campaign. But there is some¬
thing ominous in the tempting facility with which the ruler of
Cabul has allowed this hasty advance into his dominions, and
it seems likely that the real conilict is yet reserved for a future
opportunity, little being yet known of the amount or the
position of his forces.
The Viceroy of India, Lord Lytton, who arrived at Lahore
from Simla on Tuesday week, did not get an answer next
day from Shere Ali to his threatening ultimatum, but lost not
an hour in publishing his declaration of war, as Lord Cran-
brook, the Secretary of State for India, had instructed him to
do by the despatch of Monday, noticed in our last, the purport
of which must have reached India by telegraph. The Viceroy’s
proclamation recounts the history of the relations between the
Indian Government and the Ameer of Afghanistan during the
last ten years, refers to the Umballa visit, and to the assist¬
ance which the Ameer has received from the British Govern¬
ment from time to time, and points out that the Afghans have
enjoyed the benefits of free trade with India. For all these acts
there has been no return except ill will and discourtesy. The
Ameer has also openlyandassiduouslyattempted, both by words I
and deeds, to stir up religious hatred and tc incite war agaiust the
British Empire in India; and, although he has repelled all
efforts to bring about amicable intercourse with the Indian
Government, he nevertheless formally received a Russian Em¬
bassy. Finally, while the Russian Embassy was still at Cabul,
he forcibly repulsed an English Envoy, of whose coming he
had timely notice. Since then all efforts to promote friendly
relations have been met with open indignity and defiauce. The
Ameer, mistaking for weakness the long forbearance of the
British Government, has thus deliberately incurred its just
resentment. With the Sirdars and the people of Afghanistan
the Indian Government have no quarrel, as they have given
no offence. The independence of Afghanistan will yet be
respected, but the Government of India can never tolerate thut
any other Power should interfere in the internal affairs of
Afghanistan. The proclamation concludes as follows:—
“ Upon the Ameer Shere Ali alone rests the responsibility of
having exchanged the friendship for the hostility of the
Empress of India.”
Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel Browne, commanding the
Peshawur Valley force, entered the Khyber district early on
Thursday morning last week, with his head-quarters and the
3rd brigade of the 1st division. Ali Musjid fort, the scene of
the repulse of Sir Neville Chamberlain’s mission, was the first
objective point. Sir S. Browne, himself advancing to a front
attack, dispatched the 1st and 2nd brigades, under Brigadier-
General Macpherson and General Tytler, by a circuitous route
to occupy a hill above, and a village behind the fort, and thus
to outflank and cut off the retreat of the garrison Sir S
Browne reached the fort before noon, and occupied the
fehogai ridge, opposite Ali Musjid, without opposition. A
sharp artillery fight began at noon, lasting about four hours
rhe enemy s artillery was weU served, and inflicted some
loss on our troops ; but it was soon silenced by the fire of our
heavy batteries. The 3rd brigade, under General Appleyard,
was pushed up close to the fort; but the attack was held back
pending the arrival in position of General Macpherson’s
outflanking column. During the Thursday night our troops
bivouacked before the fort, and all were prepared for the
attack at dnwn. Daybreak, however, showed that the
enemy had evacuated Ali Musjid under cover cf night
and the British troops marched in unopposed. The enemy
had abandoned tents, mules, and twenty-two pieces of
Sgjfy-, %™ta«y was not bloodless. Our loss was from
thirt) to forty killed and wounded, including Major Birch and
Lieutenant Fitzgerald, of the 27th Native Infantry, killed,
and Captain Maclean, of the 14th Sikhs, wounded. A por-
"°* °? Sajriaon was cut off and captured by the
unde , r Gcneral ^tler. The Afreedis intercepted
V> ’o, ., puew 01 tne Academician, has foueht „ a. ,
with Baron d’Herpent, swords being used.
combatants was hurt.—A Hm.i .. er of the
a sepoy; in the left foreground
“ ghurrie,” or gong, which strikes the hour for the guard.
The ’‘doctor sahib’s” parade, while marching through a
fever-haunted district, where every man was daily dosed with
quinine by the regimental surgeons, is also worthy of
notice. Lieutenant “Links,” an officer of small stature with a
large amount of luggage, the allowance being 1601b. weight,
including camp equipage, makes a figure in these sketches.
The regiment was conveyed from Bareilly to Lahore by a
special railway train, starting from Bareilly on the 21st, at
three in the afternoon, with hearty cheers for the Queen.
At Meerut the Goorklias were met and cheered by the
Artillerymen, climbing upon the waggons and guns, as is seen
in our Illustration. They reached Lahore at mid-day on the
23rd, after a long and tedious journey.
The correspondence respecting the relations between the
British Government and that of Afghanistan since the acces¬
sion of the Ameer Shere Ali Khan, published by order of the
Secretary of State for India, has been sent out from the India
Office. The papers occupy 260 pages, and the documents con¬
tained begin with the treaty of 1855 with Dost Mahomed and
conclude with Lord Cranbrook’s despatch published last week.
combatants was hurt.-A duel, with pistols, endffi? in Jj| e
same manner, has been fought between M. Ernest Wii e
Bonapartist nnd M. Gilbert Martin, a caricaturist ^ *
Marshal Mac Mahon has pardoned forty more persons
victed as Communists. A Cnmmimi.t _™ v. . ons co &-
accused of murdering a captain of the Mobiles
there, he convoked an assembly of the hill tribes, aud arranged M. Taine, nephew of the Academician
with them for the supply of forage and fuel. At daybreak on 1 ”- J '" ■ ... 1
Saturday the head-quarters of this division moved to a place
called Hazari Fir, about twenty miles from Kapuyan. The
road immediately beyond Ahmadslmna was terribly bad,
boulders of rock, several tons in weight, blocking up the way.
The Royal Horse Artillery was unable to advance for several
hours, until the pioneers had blasted a way. It is officially
reported that the Khoorum fort was occupied on Monday,
and the Afghans have retired to Feiwar, and may take a
stand there.
We are indebted to Lieutenant Charles Pulley, Adjutant
of the 3rd Goorkhas, who contributed Sketches of the Imperial
Durbar Camp at Delhi, about the beginning of 1877, for those we
now publish, illustrating the recent movements of his regiment,
as part of the Cabul Expeditionary Force, to join the Mooltan
Division, for the advance through Quetta to Candahar, under the
command of General Sir Donald Stewart. The 3rd Goorkhas,
commanded by Colonel Paterson, and 600 strong of all ranks,
left Almorah on the 12th ult., proceeding by the route of
Bareilly, Meerut, and Lahore, to the permanent camp of
Meean Meer, a few miles from Lahore, whence it would pass
to Mooltan. They had to march through the Terai, which is
very pestilential at this season : one of the sketches was taken
during this march, another shows the regimental camp
at Sutooya; and there are some of various incidents
Si b ,T"deSS? bJ
ITALY.
In the Chamber of Deputies on the 21st inot
delli. Minister of the Interior, made a for^corSunSf 1 '
of the attempt on the life of the King at Naples Xd ^J 5
that the Government intended taking the measures it^m^H
necessary against secret revolutionary societies. The PreS
then, amid much cheering, proposed that an addressshonMk!
presented to the King; that all the members of the KuS
should go the radway station to receive his Maiestv or,
return to Rome; and that the President and VicSSriH JS
of the Chamber should proceed to Naples This
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on the march That of the Quarter Guard wilfgive'a good I mi^SfStim^^fterwS hi t 8 h ^jS^St ai o 0 S l shE^®
idea of the Goorkha sepoy; in the left foreground is the | the park of Capodimonte. accmnmniL “ ot “8.? n .
500 of the Ameer’s troops,
uncertain^ 61 theS<i men wcre fu 8 itives from Ali Musjidls
, Uj® fa P of ^ Musjid having removed the first obstacle
to the advance of the Peshawur column. Sir S. Browne,
having remained there during Friday
on Saturday towards Dakka and Jeuumoau. ueuerai
Macpherson’s brigade met with difficulties, but at length
reached the pass above Ali Musjid. twn i,; a
. . h . e P^ 8 . above Ali Musjid. Both his and
lytler s brigade rejoined the main advance. The occu-
the Khvbe^P^f’,°V h ? Cabul river - at the western end of
mVl. a PtlS8 > took P lace unopposed; while the chief of the
Mohmunds, a native tribe inhabiting Lalpoora onoosite
Dakka, with aU the district north of the Khyber, hastened to
come in and offer his submission. This example was followed
trie? aUGle vi J lll S es iu the Khoord Khyber dis-
General ChoS™ it V" Akh ° r ’ * he Af S htt11 Governor, with
rn™ o i 1 ™ Hn , ldar , escaped from Ali Musjid by the
Choora Pass, leaving the garrison, with sick and wounded to
i° ne des P atch states that General Tytier’s
fu^S i d v CUt ° ff thG retr L at ° f the Ame «’s troops and cap-
Ajeea. a ess.
Generaf Jellalabad will be made till the spring.
£ w al R ^ b 8 cohnnn will not probably go beyond the
Khoorum Fort, aud the Quetta column will merely occudv
Candahar aud remain there for the winter. 7 P7
a,.embl5atThSlMnT £ 3 r< l e L UDder Major-General Roberts,
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
The Chamber of Deputies yesterday week continued the debate
on the Budget, and discussed the estimates of the Ministry of
Public Instruction. M. Bardoux, the Minister for that depart¬
ment, explained the results already obtained and those still to
be expected from the reforms in the educational system, and
hiB speech was frequently interrupted by cheers from the Left.
I he whole of the estimates were subsequently adopted. On
baturday the Chamber disposed of the Ecclesiastical, the Agri¬
cultural, and Commercial, together with a portion of the
Finance Estimates. In the Ecclesiastical Estimates, M.
.bardoux had proposed an increase of 326,000f.—200,000f. for
fb® stipends of aged priests from 900f. to 1000f.;
n ", ,i°LirL a c ° rres P°u d ing advance to Protestant pastors,
and 14’000f. to Jewish rabbis—but the proposal was rejected
by the House by 268 to 193. It was objected by those who
opposed the augmentation that, poor as is the stipend allowed
to the clergy, it is more than is given by the State to the
schoolmasters and even to some of the Jugcs do Paix and
Judges of First Instance. In Monday’s sitting, M. deKerjegu
questioned the Government in regard to the appointment of
laymen in the place of teachers belonging to religious con¬
gregations. M. Dufaure, the Minister of Justice, replied that
the question had been submitted to the consideration of the
Council of State, audits decision must be awaited. The Govem-
ment would see that the law was carried out. The estimates
of the Ministers of Finance and Public Works were sub-
sequently adopted. The War Estimates were voted on Tuesday.
mTi Legitimist Toumais publish a letter which the Comte de
ESSES. f addressed to M. de Mun (whose election was
invalidated for corrupt practices and intimidation) con¬
gratulating him upon his recent speech in the Chamber, and
wishing him success in his appeal to the Breton electors. The
r”S fc > m ^elusion saysAmong those dear working
people, surrounded by so many flatterers and so few retd
i.?t1rn?L y ° U bett ? r thau iluy other > scrv e me as an
interpreter. 1 always hear with joy their cry of faith and
hope. Let them know that I love them too dearly to flatter
- 1 n ev cr cease repeating to them that for France to be
saved God must return as Master, that I may reign as King.
Sho meiTn^/m DaMun! Never forget that the future
is to tne men of faith und courage ! ”
““S* M “ M8 £°n has signed the decree appointing
Count Horace de Choiseul French Ambassador to Spain in
£j ac ® ; f ^nnntfoChaudordy. H e has signed decrees ordering
,b0 rm ’ ch k*
The Palace of Industry in the Champs Elvsees is occunied
Nationaf T c ® atnbu V.^| 18 ttnd purchases made for the Grand
f ttC 7‘ I n erC w . l H be twelve compartments, repre¬
senting the twelve million tickets. 1
v lb ® Ani8ri 1 ca n residents gave a dinner on Tuesday to
E'SSSt oLSS ral at
TT„T^ Pme orat ° r ‘°> entitled “Paradise Lost,” by M Paul
Sie CMteTe^ °. n Wednesda ^ the flit time at
tne Ltiatelet. Ihe Junes' correspondent in Paris states
the second part on hell, made the best impression but S a
hole ’ the ^ or . k 13 declared cold and monotonous ’
rPPnm,t 1 0 ^^ U ri? U . nppoiuted b 7 the Chamber has unanimously
8hould take place in the
A Statue of Admiral Coligny is to be erected hv
scription in the Louvre Quadrangle, rear the B pS where Se
M T U h^ Smat ^ d re tbe j fc ' Par tholomew massacred
Bar,, a, i u,e w ell-knowu Po
>[ AdcJswoerd the Swedish Minister to France • of
SdBCTtol^Vi^e 0 ^ 01116 ’ aCC ° mpanied by Generak* Medici
The King and Queen returned to Rome on Sunday Their
Majesties were met at the railway station by the Senator
Deputies, and the magistrates, and then went in a state^S
to the Quirmal, amid enthusiastic applause. After reach^
the palace the, h»d to appear fouram“on ttJwSS'j'
response to the appeals of the crowd. The city was profuse v
decorated with flags, and was illuminated at night. On Mond iv
SfnnSf 8 a £ d + S Ue i e » recei ved the Senators and
Deputies. _lo the latter his Majesty said he hoped that in
concert with the Parliament, he should be able to restore the
tranquillity which Italy needed in order to proceed on its path
Passanante is to be tried by the ordinary court at Naples.
Arrests of Internationalists continue to be made, and docu¬
ments of a highly compromising character are stated to have
been discovered by the police in tbe houses of three Inter-
nationalists at Padua.
Notices of twenty interpellations, aU hostile to the present
Ministry, were given on Tuesday at the bureau of the Chamber
of Deputies.
SPAIN.
In the Cortes on Monday the debate on the Press Bill was
resumed. Sefior Castelar, in a speech lasting two hours,
attacked the measure, and described it as a menace against
liberty of thought and conscience. Sefior Canovas del Castillo
in reply, maintained that the State had a right to defend itself
against calumnious attacks He argued that the bill would
regulate thought so as to prevent abuse.
A report that, in consequence of the discovery of a con¬
spiracy at Saragossa, numerous arrests have been made at that
place, has been confirmed.
The Supreme Tribunal has condemned Moneasi to death
An appeal will now be carried to the Court of Cassation.
HOLLAND.
In Monday’s sitting of the Second Chamber the bill for the
regulation of the financial relations between the Dutch Indies
and the mother country was presented. It provides that the
Indian Budget shall bear an annual charge of 6,000,00011.
as repayment to the Central Government of the costs of
administration. The colony will further be required to furnish
the sums necessary for the payment of the Rentes and the
redemption of the loans concluded by the State on behalf of
the I udies. The colonial bonds will be regulated by special
legislative measures. So far as they are not required to cover
colonial deficits they will be demoted before all to public works
in the Indian possessions, and to the extraordinary redemption
of the colonial debts.
GERMANY.
The Berlin correspondent of the Standard states that the
Emperor William is to return to Berlin on Dec. 5. Great
preparations are being made to give a most solemn reception
to his Majesty.
In Wednesday's sitting of the Prussian Chamber of
Deputies a letter from the Emperor William was read
thanking the members for the address of sympathy which
they recently sent to his Majesty and announcing that, being
now restored to health, he intended to resume the duties of
his position shortly. The discussion of the Budget was then
continued.
The Duke of Connaught arrived at Berlin at a quarter past
ten on Tuesday night. He was received at the railway station
by the German Crown Prince and Princess, and Prince
Frederick Charles, and was accompanied by them to the castle.
Lord Odo Russell was also at the railway station
Mirza Devud Khan, holding the rank of Persian'Com¬
missary-General, has arrived at Berlin, on a special mission
irom Teheran.
A great party meeting was held at Berlin on Sunday by
the German Progressists, in order to take into consideration
the modification and remodelling of the party programme of
1861, which up to that period has been the only authentic
record concerning the aspirations of the Prussian Progressists.
Herr Virchow welcomed the meeting by a long speech, in
which he reviewed the historical development of the party.
DENMARK.
Hunting excursions have taken place this week in the woods
in Northern Zealand, in which the Duke of Cumberland took
part.
In the sitting of the Folkething on the 21st inst. the
President announced the betrothal of Princess Thyra to the
Duke of Cumberland, the Deputies showing their assent by
rising from their seats.
The Landsthing on Tuesday resolved unanimously to pro¬
ceed to the second reading of the bill remitting temporarily
the contribution of Santa Cruz to the State expenditure. In
the course of the debate Count Frijis, a former Minister, aud
M. Kriejer expressed their approbation, amidst the universal
applause of the House, of the general attitude of the Govern¬
ment towards the West Indian colonies, and at the same time
pointed out how unadvisable a Parliamentary trial of strength
would be in a matter which owed its origin to so terrible a
disaster as that which had occurred in Santa Cruz.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
In the Austrian Delegation yesterday week the Minister for
Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question, stated that it was true
ltus.-ia had asked Turkey to conclude a separate Convention
respecting the points of the San Stefauo Treaty unaffected by
the Berlin Treaty, and hud declared that she would evacuate
Eastern Roumelia three months after the conclusion of that
Convention. Austria had been asked by several Governments
what her views were on the subject, and had declared that
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such a Convention was exclusively a Russo-Turkish question.
The evacuation of Turkish territory could, however, in no case
be made conditional upon the conclusion of a new treaty. The
Minister added that ro official confirmation had been received
of the report that Russian officers and soldiers were being
eurolled in the Bulgarian militia The Delegation adopted
the ordinary estimates of the War Department in accordance
with the proposals of the committee, at the same time reject¬
ing two motions for the establishment of an independent bat¬
talion of Engineers and for the appointment of a second
Captain to each battalion of troops. The extraordinary esti¬
mates were then discussed, and, after a long debate, lasting
several hours, in which Counts Bylandt and Andrassy took
part, a motion proposing that 1,712,000 fl. should be expended
f n adapting the Werndl rifles to cartridges of increased
strength was adopted by 30 against 23 votes. The Finance
Committee of the delegation decided on Monday, by 14 votes
to 6, not to discuss the demand of the Government for a sup¬
plementary credit to meet the costs of the occupation of Bosnia
and Herzegovina in 1878, on the ground that the Government
omitted to ask for an indemnity from Parliament, and that
the Treaty of Berlin has not yet received the sanction of the
Reichsrath. Count Andrassy (the telegram says} endeavoured
in vain to overcome the resolution of the Delegation. In
Thursday’s sitting Count Andrassy announced that, in view of
the opposition of the Budget Committee, he withdrew the bill
for a supplementary credit.
The Lower House of the Hungarian Diet on Wednesday
concluded the general discussion of the Address in reply to
the Speech from the Throne. After twelve days’ debate, the
Address drawn up by a Committee of the House was accepted
by 202 votes against 180.
The Army Committee of the Hungarian Delegation, after
along debate, has voted the amount of 1,712,000fl. required
for adapting the Werndl rifles to cartridges of increased
strength.
On Tuesday night, while Count Andrassy and a large
number of the members of the Delegation were present at a
soiree at the palace of Herr Tisza at Pesth, a bomb, filled with
dynamite, was exploded near the building, the windows of
which were shattered by the concussion. No due as to the
perpetrator of the outrage has been discovered.
The Town Council of Trieste was on Tuesday dissolved by
an Imperial order, in consequence, it is believed, of the
attitude of the majority of the members towards the Italian
party. RU88IA AND TURKEY.
The Emperor will arrive at St. Petersburg on Dec. 3, and
about the same time General Kaufmann and his Staff are
expected to reach the capital.
Advices from Orenburg received at St. Petersburg states
that in consequence of the concentration of the Chinese forces
on the Russian frontier and the reported pacification of
Khotan, the Russian fort of Maryn has been strongly rein¬
forced. The Chinese, it is stated, having suffered severely m
putting down the insurrection, and being enraged at the flight
into Russian territory of the principal insurgents, have
increased and reinforced their outpobts. It is further added,
that they have assassinated the youngest son of Yakub Beg.
From a statement in the Golos of St. Petersburg it appears
that the Budget for 1877 shows an excess of expenditure ovw
revenue of 465,512,069 roubles. An extra sum of b,000,000
roubles is to be devoted in 1879 to purposes of naval con-
8tri privy Councillor Schulz, Director of the Police Section of
the Imperial Russian Chancellery, has sent in his resignation,
on account of his health being entirely broken down.
The Russian authorities have drawn up provisional regu¬
lations for the free port of Batoum, to be applied pendingthe
establishment of definitive legislative enactments. I he
Custom House of Batoum has already been opened.
Russia has yielded to the representations of the Roumanian
Government that it would not permit its troops to enter the
Dobrudscha under conditions differing from those stipulated
in article 22 of the Berlin Treaty. The Roumanian troops
crossed the Danube at Braila on Tuesday afternoon; and
Prince Charles issued a proclamation to the people of the
Dobrudscha promising protection to all, without distinction of
race or creed, and abolishing the dimes and other taxes.
According to statements made in official circles at St.
Petersburg, the Emperor summoned Prince Dondoukoff-
Korsakoffto Livadia for the purpose of instructing him
most emphatic terms to adhere strictly to the directions given
him with regard to carrying out the organisation of Bulgaria
haacrordancf with the T leJy of Berlin, to
him not to leave any doubt on this point m his personal lnttr-
course with the Bulgarians. A St. Petersburg teiegnnn m
the Morning Post states that the Czar has aLo forbidden the
Prince’s candidature for the princedom of Bulgaria. A Bul¬
garian Assembly is to -eet a^ Tirnova on Dec 27 in accmrd-
ance with the provisions of the lreaty of Berlin. Ai
preparing the organic laws of Bulgaria, it will eiectaPrmce^
Pursuant to the provisions of the Treaty of Berlin, a Bui
garian Assembly, composed of Bishops, public
and notables, has been summoned to meet at iirnova on
Dec. 27, for the purpose of preparing the organic laws of
BU The Eastern Roumelian Commission discussed on Saturday I
the question of the future official language of the province.
The Russians proposed that it should be Bulgarian, while
other Commissioners were of opinion that Bulgarian and
Turkish should have an equal footing, and that Greek should
be privileged. The result of the discussion was.that.Baron de
King was appointed to draw up the article m the shape of a
compromise on the basis proposed by the Conference of Con¬
stantinople. A Times' telegTam says that the Tumoure that the
Turkish project has been adopted with slight modifications are
baseless. It has not been discussed.
The negotiations for an Austro-Turkish Convention are
““ gnf,,™ MinisterstConstantinople
have’ remonstrated the Torte on havi ng em et.nned ttte
organisation by the Governor of Salomca °* irreg 1
troops to put an end to the insurrection in Macedonia.
Colonel Maurice Fawcett has been intrusted with the
organisation of the gendarmerie m the island of Crete.
Knfvet Pasha in reply to inquiries made by bir Henry
I.ayard on the subject, has infoimed his Excellency that the
appointment of Midhat Push a as Govcrnor-Gener^ of byna
was definitive, and that he would remain m that post for fave
jears, in coufonnity with the convention introducing reforms
in ^jr* Henry Bayard has forward, d to the Marquis of Salis¬
bury a rquiL tbit England should guarantee>the projected
Turkish loan for £23,000.000 1’urkuh. ihe Porte J"
eluded a loan of £630,000 with the Ottoman Bunk, aud auotlnr
of £1 000 000 with Messrs Zuritt. The Council of'Ministers
has agreed to a decision in favour of the payment of 2 per
cent interest on the public debt, without any reduction of the
capital, as soon as the condition of the finances shall permit of
that course being taken.
A bill has been passed by the Chamber basiug the con¬
scription for the army henceforth on the Prussian system.
A Times' telegram from Pesth says that the British Cabinet
has joined the other Powers in expressing its readiness to
support the initiative taken by the French Government as to
the Greek question, so that a step in this direction on the part
of all the Powers may soon follow.
BOUMANIA.
The opening of the Roumanian Chambers on Wednesday
fitly followed the occupation of the Dobrudscha by the troops
of the Principality. The address of Prince Charles was also an
appropriate sequel to the proclamation which, as stated above,
he has addressed to his new subjects. In his Speech from the
Throne the Prince, after referring to the annexation of the
Dobrudscha, which had taken place on the previous day, said
that the neighbouring Powers had established diplomatic rela¬
tions with Roumania, in conformity with the conditions of its
newly-acquired independence. He was convinced that the
other Powers would follow this example, and that an Assembly
would be elected which would remodel the Constitution, and
thus enable the country to respond to the expectations of
Europe.
CANADA.
The Sarmatian, with the Marquis of Lome and Princess
Louise on board, arrived in the harbour of Halifax last Satur¬
day night at half past nine o’clock. The passage across the
Atlantic was a very rough one, and Princess Louise suffered
somewhat severely, and was only able to appear on deck once
during the voyage. As soon as the Sarmatian had anchored,
the Duke of Edinburgh went on board. The Marquis of
Lome and the Princess spent the night at the Admiral’s
house, where they remained in seclusion on Sunday.
The Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise landed at Halifax
on Monday afternoon, amid enthusiastic cheers from the
people and salutes from the war-ships in the harbour. A pro¬
cession was formed, which went threugh the principal street3
to the Province Building, where the Marquis was sworn in as
Governor-General. The Duke of Edinburgh was present in
naval uniform. In reply to an address presented to him by
the Corporation of the town, the Marquis of Lome thanked the
people of Halifax for their devotion to the Throne, and said
that in that town the Duke of Kent had passed many years of
a soldier’s life, and there two of his grandchildren had come
that day. At the conclusion of the ceremony, the procession
was re-formed, and went by a circuitous route to the Admi¬
ralty House. Much enthusiasm was shown by the crowds which
thronged the streets, and at night the city was illuminated. The
Daily News' correspondent says that the chief of the Micmacs,
with a dozen of his tribe, asked permission to walk in the pro¬
cession behind the daughter of the Queen of England. The
Princess Louise held a Drawingroom at Halifax on Monday
night, and it was largely attended. On Tuesday the Marquis
of Lome held a Levee. He afterwards received and replied to
a considerable number of addresses from corporate bodies and
societies. At night there was a general illumination.
The Times' Correspondent at Moncton, New Brunswick, gives
some particulars of the Governor-General’s progress after
leaving Halifax, , I
The Viceregal party left that town for Montreal at eleven
on Wednesday morning. The Duke of Edinburgh accom¬
panied the Princess to the station, where a large concourse of
people was assembled. The weather all day has been lovely,
and the whole country throughout the course of the journey
was bathed in sunshine, looking as if it were early spring. His
Excellency received addresses from a number of towns on his
route, to which he made replies which, though necessarily
showing a sameness in substance, yet contained each some
characteristic utterance. At Truro, a town of 5000
inhabitants, his Excellency, after thanking the deputation for
the expressions of loyalty they had given to her Majesty
and her representatives, said the people gave evidence
of being energetic and progressive—characteristics which,
he added, applied to the country generally, so far
as he had yet seen it. At Amherst, a town of 2000
inhabitants, his Excellency said In leaving at this place
the province of Nova Scotia, we wish to renew our thanks for
the hearty greeting given us by all the inhabitants of the
province. You have alluded in generous terms to her Majesty
having elected me as Governor-General of the Dominion.
Such a position is always one of anxiety; but it is a great
encouragement to undertaking the task and endeavouring to
win the approval of the people of Canada by unremitting
attention to their interests, when sympathy and kindness are
extended to the occupant of this high office. All classes in
Nova Scotia have contributed to assure me of this friendly
disposition; and I esteem it a matter of great good fortune
that I am called to represent her Majesty among sc
loyal and noble a community.” At this place (Moncton),
containing 5000 inhabitants, lii3 Excellency said:—“It
would have been a satisfaction to us had we been
able to make a more extended tour in New Bruns¬
wick, and we shall look forward to the day when we
shall visit your capital and chief centres of population. The
season of the year and the necessity of our reaching the
capital of Canada speedily huve prevented us this year from
doing us we should have wished, but we shall look upon you
as representing the province in bidding us welcome and in
renewing the assurance of your fidelity to the Government of
our Sovereign.”
had fallen back across the border, and all was quiet.—A large
number of officers and volunteers from regiments on home
service are about to leave England for the Cape, for special
service in connection with the Transport Department of the
Zulu Expedition, under General Lord ChelmBtord.
The Geographical Society of Marseilles has received from
Zanzibar, under date Oct. 16, news of the Central African
Expedition under the Abbe Debaize, which 6et out not long
ago from Zanzibar by Bagamoyo. The news is satisfactory,
Intelligence is telegraphed from Singapore of a band of
Chinese robbers having attacked the Dindings settlement, and
murdered Government Superintendent Lloyd in his bed, besides
wounding his wife and a Mrs. Jones. The police were called,
but were useless, and fled to the housetops.
MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.
A supplement to the London Gasette, issued on Wednesday
evening, contains the following:—
BY THE QUEEN.-A PROCLAMATION.
VICTORIA, R.
■Whereas our Parliament stands prorogued to Saturday, Nov. 30 inst..
We, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, hereby issue our Royal
Proclamation, and publish and declare that the said Parliament be further
prorogued to Thursday, Dec. 6, 1878; and we do hereby further, with the
advice uforesaid, declare our Royal will and pleasure that the said Parlia¬
ment shall, on the said Thursday, Dee. 6, 1878, assemble and be holden for
the dispatch of divers urgent ana important affairs; and the Lords spiritual
and temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burgesses, and the commis¬
sioners for shires and burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required
and commanded to give their attendance accordingly at Westminster on the
said Thursday, Dec. 5, 1878. Given at our Court at Windsor, this 27th of
November, in the year of Our Lord 1878, and in the iorty-second year of
our reign.—God save the Queen.
The following notices have been issued to the members of
the Liberal party in both Houses
18, Carlton House-terrace, Nov. 27.
My Lord,—I have the honour to inform your Lordship that the Address
in answer to her Majesty’s Speech will be moved in the House of Lords on
Thursday, Dec. 5, and I truBt that you may find it convenient to be in
your place on that day.—Your obedient servant, Gbaxvilli.
Devonshire House, Nov. 27.
Sir,—I have the honour to inform you that the Address in answer to
her Majesty’s Speech will bo moved in the House of Commons on Thursday,
Dec 5,1878, and I trust that you may find it convenient to be in your place
on that day.—I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, Habtikotox.
We understand that the Address to the Crown, in answer
to the Speech from the Throne, will be moved in the House of
Commons by Viscount Castlereagh, M.P. for the county of
Down, and seconded by Mr. A. W. Hall, M.P. for Oxford.
The official dinner given on the eve of the meeting of
Parliament will not take place until the reassembling of the
two Houses in February.
News of a fresh massacre of colonists by natives in New
Caledonia has been received in Sydney.
Mr. Rivers Wilson has arrived at Alexandria and assumed
the duties of Egyptian Minister of Finance.
A violent storm took place at Lisbon last Saturday, three
vessels being wrecked and eighteen lives lost.
The treaties of commerce and navigation between Germany
and Italy have been prolonged until the end of 1879.
An extensive strike has broken out at Sydney amongst the
seamen, who protest against the employment of Chinese on
board ships.
A cask of Johannisberg, containing 1600 bottles of the wine,
has been sold at Cologne for 56,000 fl., which makes the puce
of each bottle about 80f.
The ship Blair \thole, 1679 tons, chartered by the Agent-
General for New South Wales, sailed from Plymouth forSydney
on Wednesday with 502 emigrants.
Sir William Robinson, Governor of the Straits Settlements,
is about to visit Bangkok, to invest the King of Siam in person
with the insignia of the order of St. Michael and St. George.
A Reuter’s telegram from Sydney states that the City of
New York, with the Austialian cricketers on board, arrived
tliere from San Francisco on Monday. The Eleven were most
enthusiastically received ou lunding.
According to the latest intelligence from Cape To^to
Nov. 5 affairs in Zululand remained stationary at the begin¬
ning of the present month. The Kaffir rebels in Gnqualand
Mr. Campbell, the senior member for North Staffordshire,
has been presented by Marshal MacMahon with the decoration
of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
Mr. Richard Dickeson entertained ou Wednesday about 200
of the principal inhabitants of Dover, including the borough
membeis, the Mayor and Corporation, and the members of
the Granville Club, at the Royal Oak Hotel, to celebrate
the unveiling of his portrait last week.
It has been ascertained that the route of Lemburg and
Varna is at present the most reliable and expeditious for mails
to Constantinople. Accordingly, mails for Constantinople will
be forwarded, as a rule, , wholly by the above route, and will be
made up in London every Monday and Friday morning.
The Penzance Corporation has decided to celebrate Sir
Humphry Davy’s centenary on Dec. 17, by organising an exhi¬
bition of scientific apparatus, and to hold a public meeting to
consider the advisability of devising means to still further
commemorate the event in the spring, when several English
and foreign savants will be invited to attend.
A meeting was held in the Guildhall at Exeter on Tuesday,
under the presidency of the Mayor, to consider a proposal of
the Town Council to purchase the gas-works. The total out¬
lay which the purchase of the works will involve is estimated
at from £200,000 to £300,000. For a long time past complaints
have been made as to the quality of the gas supplied by the
company. The meeting, alter a warm discussion, decided not
to purchase the works, and a poll was demanded.
A meeting of the association which has been formed in
Lancashire to extend the singing in public schools into the
teaching of music was held on Tuesday in Owens College,
Manchester, the Dean of Manchester presiding. There were
also present Lord Wilton and Sir Henry Cole. Resolutions
were adopted approving of the preliminary steps which had
been taken for the establishment of a local association for pro¬
moting music as an art especially useful to the joint culture
and recreation of all classes, resolving that a committee should
be formed; that as soon as practicable, and when the time is
favourable, a school of music should be established in Man¬
chester, where teachers may be trained for teaching music in
public elementary schools; that free scholarships shall be
awarded by public competition, which might be held at some
musical class already existing in the city, and urging that a
deputation should wait upon the Corporation of Manchester
and request that they should use their influence to promote
music as well as the opening of the libraries and parks.
Another terrible disaster has occurred in the Channel. At
midnight on Monday a collision took place between the
German mail-steamer Pommerania and an iron barque, the
Mocl Eilian, which was in ballast. The steamer gradually
filled and sank. The Moel Eilian was too much damaged her¬
self to render any assistance, having a large hole in her bows;
but she made for Dover, where she is now in dock. The
l’ommerania had boats sufficient to save all who were on
board, who are believed to have numbered 220, but one of
them was swamped, and two others were crushed. Others
were floated; and 172 persons were saved by a Scotch
steamer, the Glengarry, which was passing, and saw the
rockets from the mail-steamer. Other steamers are said
to have passed near the scene of the collision, and it
is hoped that a few more lives may have been saved by their
means Amongst those who it wob thought had perished
was the cuptaiu of the Pommerania, who, although there was
plenty of time for him to euter one of the boats, refused to
do so, and remained stuudiug ou the bridge till the vessel
sank • but a Lloyd’s telegram from Maasluis states that lie
arrived there in the City of Amsterdam on Tuesday night,
having been picked up by that vessel. Mr. Thomas Blight
one of the passengers who was rescued, leaving by the last
boat and who holds a master’s certificate from the Board of
Trade, says that every life might have been saved if proper
order had been maintaiued, and the sailors had refrained
from rushing to the boats. The total number of persons
mi-siug from the wreck of the Pommerania is, according ro the
latest eports, between forty and fifty.—NUulst a crowded
ferry Dout was crossing the Mersey ou Tuesday morning, a fog
prevailing at the time, she came into collision with a ship lying
at anchor in the river, and several persons were drowned.
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oniinL'K OF THE WEEK. the bathos of the followin g wu.,uc. 1 u.^.-,--r. progress, but over a snorter uutiunce, is, u memory may be
EC HO Eis Oh inn, Int) cared in the Times of Thursday touching the recen recordvd in one of the chapters. As regards the
••The rain it raineth every day.” In have returned appearance of Madame Adelina Patti at the p . expenditure , it is melancholy to reflect that the leader of the
ihe truth of that poetical reminder, now that ina flne ijVrliu— . . „ expedition should have received letters complaining of the
from Paris and have renewed my acquaintance - n N*hili*m and aU other gnirabling t*nn<*ot tb®* 0 **£* expense of the Survey,” and that those letters should have
old British’ Institution the London mud. It mns^ jjj does to u,e winds b, the ^eet voaW the tmmU bePn “ the last drop in the cup " of the troubles which were
Paris from time to time, gnlore ; still the 1 . , nd f og u .*,va popular philosophers dedan to fa £ . * , lich aumkmed tben confronting him, so that he himself was worried into the
not habXlly get mixed with the fog; and the “J in.n o supers existence . « **,, fever from whic h bis comrades were suffering ; but it is easy to
wind lrom the chimneys of houses which Menoti } b „ tampli .hed singer. There nugbt bc better methods account given, the sum spent to defray the personal
down your throat and into your ungs eongestmg them* ^ndental, yet art Is one among others. charges of the party cannot have amounted to more than an
General Cold Weather is getting his red •« C ooiio; ergo sum," said the old metaphysician The formula almOBtinap p re dable fraction of the whole. In that respect not
Bronchitis ready. . nn1d L Altered to “ I hear Patti; therefore I exist. But onl econom y ) but something like parsimony, appears to have
... . lild -- va8t a city as London rn bloc, ll “ 1 # canuot afford twenty marks for a seat in ^ 8tud ied. Of this, however readers can form their own
It is impossible to rebuild so vast ty {3 that lt howjwfl■» «£ £ erlin Upera . Ho use to hear this enchanting inion . That the little band of surveyors worked with their
else it might be possible ^ P^Xhievous to cover acres and the stMls at the^Berlin up ^ in their hands is quite evident; but the most serious
is both absurd, wasteful, and ““Xvels one or two storeys psycho eutny . affair in which they were engaged occurred in July, 1875, at
acres of ground with mean little *» « ^ aud hau dsome To .. come dovra souse,” as Edmund Burke phrased it m Safed> in Upper Galilee. A camping-ground had been chosen
high (or rather low) instead of bu Tfa g titutiona i notion . j f um0U8 speech in Parliament on Jumus—to descend to the f Sftfed and the tents had been about half set
blocks of four, five, and *^oreya. ™^ 8 \ ave something 5fXt. it would seem that there are other mean. “ ^ highly re8pect able old Sheikh began to throw
of an Englishman s ^°“®®_X g A pllin g in brick-and-mortar ^ tin g in the German capital just now of a nature to remind stones, as if he had been a mere Christian child taking shots
to do with <T asthesavS £, “to swing a cat ^^“rcibly of the fact of your being almngbreaing, ^ & train . The 8heikh was immediately confronted
boxes scarcely big llat y .. g or a set of chambers y enticnt ' an d cogitating entity. Phe pohee t«*e toBtrin is the leader of the cxpe dition, who was minded to try polite
in ; but MW* 1 !, f * cloge my outer door against to be iucreajsc d in such a ratio as to provide one pol ccman tor tulation> but, before he could carry out his intention,
where I can *P? Tt m > °‘* be ca8t ellated in my domicile as seventy inhabitants. In London the P*®!** 1 . 1 ®“ was seized by the throat and roughly shaken-an insult which
unwelcome intruders ILean be“fining six or eight roon.s. * lic y con8ta blcs to the civil population is about oneJn four ^ ^ endured in ^ eyesight of the surrounding
the dweller in an ugly smiat co ^ jn victona - P° ndred This tremendous augmentation m the ranks of the nati and which caused the Sheikh to be twice knocked
We have Queen Anne s Maun hoU8e8 for the poor; Berlinese polizei is intended as a steptowarda the P^thigdffTO dean off hig leg8 with the fist after the English fashion.
street for the rich, andl Itab y ioogu g^ ^ „ o{ t hainbers, “f Socialism by enabling the authorities to exercise a stricter H the Maronites who were in attendance upon
but I want to ^^^^t^XcoUortaWe, for the smaller 8ap ^on over theatres, coffee-houses, hotels, beer-celb^ Englishmen seized the Sheikh and bound him;
externally handsome and internally comi XTpaper-offices, and the like. So that when you are worried ^ ^ Qn bis part , 8houtc d for his people,
middle classes. about your passiwrt or feel a policeman s gTasp on your collar flerce rocriminationa commenced between the Maronite
■«r _ . \\Tnn the late M. Guizot came to London ns Ambas- /j not necd to hear La Viva Adelina to be convinced ^ Moslem b y etander8; and, in the twmklinc of an eye,
to the Court of St. .lames's, the first thing which struck are ftn Eutity . It will be sufficient for you to reflect, “ ere commenc i d one of those “ fanatical riots^’ which the
hi^in driving through that London which he subscquenUy «^ ttre u to • run me in; ’ therefore I exist. surveying party had conetantlyendeavoured hitherto suceess-
lifl^M “no longer a city, but a province covered with fully to avoid. Nail-studded clubs, battle-axes, huntmg-
houl^” was the miferable meanness, paltriness, mid exigui y Faithful to my promise not to mterfere with the ^ crops’, stones, and firearms were employed ; ominous shouts of
5? thl’dJImng houses in the central districts of the town q{ ^ Freuth ^zzles in the World 1 w*jQ .hope^without ^^, „ and of ..Din. D m Muhammed” were
morefthan forty years ago; yet Seven Dials and Soho offeuce) point out that among the 1 uzz . le ®. i8 mfaed ; and blood began to flow. But, as comedy ever lurks
St TnTact mere is not the slightest reason why a nevs the current number of the vivacious P^“^ i( ^ ti^woAs of in the chinks of tragedy, the leader of the expedition shook
>vnrd a8 magnificent as the Avenue de 1 Opera m Pans, to me tbe two shortest and best P a P ers 111 “iSwinmnnel with laughter, even at this critical moment, to see himself
M^WoKcSromCharing-cross, rigk through the st>Evremon(L i do hope (with the selfishness of a bibliomane) with laugnter 8er _ eant Arm8trongl who stood at ‘the
. .. HitnrlP or sink to wonderment, could scarcely have been surpassed by the celt-
and " tall talk,” I could ever rise to the altauoe or Munchausen. Howbeit a still more astounding rate of
the bathos of’ the allowing wonderful paragraph, which faut over a short cr distance, is, if memory may be
aDDeared in the Times of Hiursday touching . trusted, recorded in one of the chapters. As regards the
“The rain u ramem ■ - tba . ] have returnea appearance oi —- —.
in the chinks of tragedy, the leader of the expedition shook
two shortest and best papers in the worKS laughter, even at this critical moment, to Bee himself
.. Ido hope (with the Bem^irnssof^a bibliomane) | ^ p ‘ & 0 Xd by Sergeant Armstrong, who stood atjthe
.hould not be constructed from Charing-cross, right through the gt Evrem ond. I do hope (with the selfishness oi ‘ - •• supported by Sergeant Armatn
£S d to Tottenbara-court-road ; but I suppose that it would that everybody does not possess a .^P)’o^ewritmgs of that PP the legs of the
carried every moruiug in a sedan no laughing matter, Jj°!L e 7 e J’ “
^“nn-English” to suggest that the new thoroughfare should delight ful essayist and letter writer, “the Bttle old man in t . matter however, as may be gathered from the
lit be fiuSfSrith gin-palaces, simply because so many .censed the * black silk coif who was carried every morniug n a ed<ui w J al t |“* ng ot one of the surveying party escaped injury,
nublic houses' alreSy exist on the site to be cleared and rebuilt chair through l>ull-inall to the house of the Duchewof Ma/.arin. tactm? ^ appear8 to have been lost, and from the punish-
upon Give the publicans compensation, and let them take Ue alwayB brought with lum a pat of butter. mad^ n t g ffi ctcd after an inquiry and trial,upon the Sheikh and
E liquor-bars elsewhere. little dairy, for her ^racesbKakfast. Next to Jdowei s abettor8 . He •• was sentenced to nine months’ unpnson-
4 „ , .. ,, nf Letters’ St. Evremond is the most char mmg of all reaaing , ave wbo wng proved to have used various weapons,
The legal world seems to be full of “ d Jf j when you wish to be thoroughly idle. I have a ^xom little ™ e ”wo years of hard labour; and several other offenders to
actions for libel. Hawks are picking out hawks eyes, wolf ed ition in five volumes, vellum extra, of the writings of J The sum of £270 was also paid, as a fine, to
eating wolf, managers are suing journalists, andartists K B the witty Anglo-French gentleman who wasappomted by Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund." Thus
to law with critics, in a to me npparenUj frcn/t J“ a "r.at Charles II. to the burlewiue governorship of DockIMudm ^as the honm£ of the British lion vindicated; and the volumes
Ou Monday and Tuesday, in the Exchequer, came ofi^thc^great gt Janies > fl p ark , and I do not intend to lend my St. Ewmond now b c teft to fulfil, as they are pretty sure to do, the
‘ n cocknev and accused of ignorance, im- | u _ _th« «prtcs contains the 1 _ . , ^ J n.-.*.-_ y, v
a coxcomb and a cockney, and accused of >8"°™“ \hc curious scholar. A certain letter in the series contains the aixteenth edition of Haydn's Dictionary of Vatu, by
pudeuce, and of flinging a pot of paint m the Jce of the 8txo ngcst inferential evidence as to the name of the y^cent, Librarian to the Royal Institution of Great
public, brought his action against hmcntic. HecUmed <4 FfelK . h b ,. who 8 ang“ love songs in that glorious gallery Ben^ been published, brought down to the present
a thousand pounds damagesi; and the juryJOAc him a atWhitcball on the Sunday evening preceding.the death of the Exactly two years have elapsed since the pubhcaUon
farthing: the learned Mjp (Mr. Bbjd ^ MacauUy ta rt4he bmder’s ; but I can- ^““^Son, and^almost every page of the new volume
farthing: the learned Judge 1 a 1 r ;. rl a„,/ t T„tn the Merry Monarch. My Macaulay is at the binder s; out i can- lagt a ud almost every page of the new vol
ing to grant costs against the defendant- ^ the ^ remember that the illustrious historian has told us who the ^lm q{ the vigilant diligence of the editor u
- NE w books. tsrs
IJo joupee'tlfut^stftr ''' nikwi Napolton, Language scarcely enables one to adequately commend such persons cun be awereol the daily Mid prompt Jhdpnent
M 3 D pwl, to a diplomatist who was venturous ‘enough a bo ^ k g s Tent Work in PaUstine, by Claude Rcignier Conder, {ndispensably required to mamtamthevalue of .
to animadvert on his Imperial Majesty’s policy. “ No, Sire! ” R . E . (Richard Bentley and Son), for the subject is so deeply nature. From its scope and jnze ,£*>, » » *7^ tl
replied the astonished Ambassador, staring nt a very substantial interesting, and the two volumes in which it is treated testify criticism, and information useful to s e y ^
wwiden ceiling “ I see it," tranquilly replied Napoleon. Mr. to so much conscientious labour and perilous adventure, to say regarded as superfluous by othera. ^ jgpornpt m»y l«am
Whistler, never doubt it, sees many things in his own pictures nothing of the minor matters, such as perspicuous and Intel- his motto. expres^s his ho^e JJJ r “ hifl p reface
utterly invisible to ordinary amateurs of art. ligent description, liberahty and excellence m the case of the 8n d the learned may like toberemU , t < re c t ived.
y , t, *. Ulustrations, clearness of type, and general sightliness, that gratefully acknowledges corrections ana sugg . f coun .
On the other hand, everybody recognises m Mr. John Ruskin nothing but personal inspection and intimate acquaintance can i n the present edition the politirel hwtory ot
not only an illustrious master of English prose and a consum- . ye “ pr0 per idea of the ungrudging spirit in which com- tries of the world has been[continued in^the to Dies,
mate cntic, but a blameless, magnanimous English gentleman g endalio n ought to be awarded. The volumes are illustrated important events being noticed ^separate art
with a heart of gold by J. W. Whymper; «d.they «>ntata.a^nanutive ofwhtch it incWe the P—«ni the
with a heart of gold. His whole long life through he Has been b j -
doing good. Well I remember, many years ago, when in the ^ eaf)1
daily paper with which I was (and am still) connected, I was hcard '
is easy to give an account in a few words. Most people have prelimi;
heard of the Palestine Exploration Fund, though they may battles
ireliminary aud subsequent to the Russo_
; the Treaties of San Stefano and Berlin,
daily paper with which 1 was lana am sun; ™u;aucu, beard of the Palestine Exploration r una, tnougn tney may battles ana sieges, iuc -------- Cyprus,
pleading the cause of a poor young girl who had been Beized not be aware that the committee of that fund, acting under the Anglo-Turkish Convention ; th ® tConstitutional
upon by the Sheriff’s officers and locked up in gaol on some the adv j ce 0 f previous experienced explorers, undertook, and Bosnia, Bessarabia, ^d Batoum , the ^nea n £ ^
wretched matter of a lawyer’s costs, that within naif adozen actua iiy commenced, at the end ol the year 1871 or the struggles in France; the attempted ass ^flirts irrtbe
hours of tlie publication of our uppenl a cheque for the sum beginning of 1872, “ the Survey of Western Palestine, to the 0 f Germany ; the Presidentialelection 0 ur own
nercssary for the captive’s release was forwarded to us by of one inch to the mile, the object being the complete United States; and the Kaffir War. in regax
John Ruskin. I have not the honour to know him personally ; exam i na tion of the whole country, with an amount of accuracy country we find duly noted a great number Governors
but I feel sure that he would shrink from inflicting porn, by eqvud to that of Ordnance work.” The surveying party was including the Cabinet Ministers, the Bishops, ju g . ^
word or deed, upon anybody. Very possibly the hard epithets or jgin a ]]y under the command of Captain Stewart, lt.E., who, 0 f colonies, and other^functionoru s,^ tnp g ^ An„y
word or deed, upon anybody. Very possibly the hard epithets ^gmally under the command of Captain Stewart, it.
which he applied to Mr. Whistler were used strictly in a unfortunately, was soon invalided home; he was,
“ Pickwickian’’ sense. From a similarly “Pickwickian promptly succeeded by Lieutenant Conder, R.E., w
point of view the Elder Pugin, in a pamphlet on church t_ urued to England in September, 1875, haviDg surve
decoration, once argued that “ the man who objected to BnnriTP milan.” and who. leaving the remaining 131
decoration, once argued that “tho man who objected 1
rood-screens was a miscreant and a villain.” Now, J have
square miles,” and who,
miles to be finished, as
iuvalided home; he was, however, revenue, trade, the Bank of England, the aff . ir cc iesiastical
Teutenant Conder, R.E., who “re- and Navy, the latest Acts of Parliament, *®- and Cbu rch
tember, 1875, having surveyed 4700 matters we have the Pan-Anglican of Mesgr8 .
leaving the remaining 1300 square Congresses, the new bishoprics, PPf* gg Society,and
they were last year by Lieutenant Tooth, Mackonochie, and Edwards, the Holy wo Att Ltion
„..1„.*1, U is. „Liv.founded Reformed Episcopal t-hurch. aucuuuu
rodfl-straiw WHO |> uiirucma • miles to De linisnea, as uiey were mot jetu uj uicuituuu, muiu, , --- -- u Attention
rooted objection to rood-screens, because they shut out the Kitchener, has published, under the auspices of the committee, the newly-founded Reformed Episcopal ' ‘ . and that
laity from the altar. 1 knew the Elder Pugin and revered w ho, be it well understood, “do not, collectively, adopt the Las been specially given to educational P 8 ’ geen in
him; but I cannot remember that he ever called me, personally, conclusions of any of their officers,” a “personal history of topographical history has not been neglectea Liye )(
a miscreant oi a villain. b ia W ork, without specially entering on the scientific results.” the articles on London, Edinburgh, . . , t ^
conclusions oi any ui meix a ----- —n„hlin Liverpool,
his work, without specially entering on the scientific results. the articles on London, Eoinpurgn, > ^
If anybody should ask what was the main object with which Manchester, and other important places. ■ >nce ba8
, „ ,, If anybody should ask what was the main object with which Manchester, and other important P la £ e8 ’... alienee has
Mem : I went down to Westminster HallonTuesday after- ^ q{ Pale8tine wa8 undertaken, the reply is: “to expected from the official position of the ejitor.^a^ ^
no- 11 ^ > „® ce the c ^ oee ot . the collect materials in illustration of the Bible,” to compare received particular attention, as shown m the iaril Mara ,
about 3.30p.m., and growing rapidly dark . almost too dar the information acquired upon the very soil of the “land” telephone, microphone, phonograph, O theo-
to discern the stately presence of Lady Diana Huddleston “ th thp account8 given U n d the refennees made in the satellites, planets, radiometer, new chemical e emeii ^
and Lady Holker who were sittmg on the bench bj the side „ „ Few Englishmen, however “ enlightened,” can 8C ope, phoneidoscopc, spontaneous ^
of the learned Judge. Candles were called for, and brought in to be dee ly birred at the bare mention of that land, theor^ of disease, and weights and measures. As regam^
by a careful usher. which has been for ages known as the “holy land,” or of Archeology we may refer to tb ® .“X Nineveh and
light, and left three fourths of the court in November darkness. ^ book which ^Ulholds its place as the “ book of books ; ” (including Cleopatra’s Need e , Babyion. Nmeveh,
Counsel for tbe plaintiff spoke Cimmman depths, and ^ there ^ bc 8ense of rel f ef iu man thousaild8 0 f hearts Mycemo. In the present edition extra attention ass
the voice of counsel for the defence was as one speaking from when it is EC en how hopefully and confidently the leader of given to philanthropic and rebgmua (a E ° c , 1 ' t T 'f ’ ld Satur-
the nbr.de of Chaos and Old Night. A gruesome spec a . tbe bunre ying expedition can speak “of the historic and the Mansion Home funds, Hospital Sundaj bica i
could make out, however, on the benchi a^ sumptuiusP^ture, nuthcntic cbaratUr of the Sacred Volume” from his own days, aud tln-ir results; and, in relation to “
a portrait of a Venetian Doge,by Titian. This picture d n ,. rsoIu .i observation and comparison. As for the woik accom- discovery, wc have the Antic Expedition, , .
e have the Arctic Expedition^ and »r. n.
urncy through Africa. Une very p d
a portrait ot a > raetian dj i limn, xi is P c personal observation and comparison. As for the work accom- discovery, we have the Arctic Expcaiuou, . . . art
be«n sent down by Mr. Ruskin in order that the j tj £ plished by the expedition, the story is in muny respects quite Stanley’s journey through Africa, une vc O P „dian ^nd
, R ?" lly .""hivanity of [ nmdib J. not _ p course, that there is any tet out ion hereof of the editors duty has been to record the iIndm & ana
t iirthlj things, close togBttc 8 , . ld throwing doubt upon the narrators veracity, but that the facta Chinese famines, wrecks (the Eurydicc, Prui ubo
there was suspended a most comm p 6 recorded arc simply stupendous. The work, we are told, was rail wuy accidents, coal explosions (Abcrcarne, ) . ^
junk A vep- uninttresting ewe about a ““tract for rope .. oufc ^ never etrong „ th ’ an fivi . M rega rds various articles relating to crime; trials, th^tun
i\as bung tried while the jury in . . Europeans,” and it hns now been completed in little over five and lease frauds, police detectives, the Benge case. „ y
ud, ring iheir v, ,diet; and the coil of old junk was part aud y ears _ An - d what was the work ? Why, a thorough survey of Assurance Company, and Artisans’ Dwelhngs CtoBgJJ
1 ttrte * theevidence. {JOOO square miles, “ from Dan to Bcersheba, and trom Jordan officials, Madame Rachel, &c. Among miscell t
“ And if I am a humbug,” said an Irish servant of a to the Mediterranean.” the task of identification ol places may be mentioned a list of assassinations an,, , , bi( ^ n ’ the
“ earn eying ” nature to me once, “ share, are n’t some of the being superadded to the labour of actual surveying. And the Br» ssa Prize, the Library Association, the ran University
1,1,,-st ie-.nle in the wurld humbugs?” With that postulate i feat was achieved by the few labourers, camping out tor the Hibbert fund, pedestrian und swimming lc »its, ■
“ And if I am a humbug,” said au Irish servant of a to the Mediterranean.” the task of identification ol places may be mentioned a list of assassinauono *1“^Exhibition, the
“ earn eying ’’ nature to me once, “ share, are n’t some of the being superadded to the labour of actual surveying. And the Br< ssa Prize, the Library Association, the ran - University
ni, est jcople in the wurld humbugs ? ” With that postulate feat was achieved by the few labourers, camping out tor the Hibbert fund, pedestrian und swimming euno „ites and
1 thoroughly agree. The same rule may be applied to that most part, amid perils almost as numerous and as dis- boat-race and Derby winners,Colorado beetle, a ^ ul)d
tiyle ot Mritmg which is satirically styled “ gushing.” Some of heartening as tho.e which St. Paul has enumerated in the Molokaui, l.uzzarites, ttpportiruists; Aioere, ^ ^ c ., to
lie nicest authors, male and female, whom I know are memorable list of the dangers he encountered. 1 n one portion Faraday medals; Cuxteai celebration, inaeii not ; t | xl ly tbe
6000 square mile-s, “ from Dun to lleersheba, and trom Jordun officials,
Irish servant of a to the Mediterranean,” the task of identification ol places may be
and I have, myself (so kindly critics tell roe), of the narrative we are astonished
sl own, upon occasion, a propensity to “ gush.” Still I do
not think that in the way of “buncombe,” “ high falutin,”
ntered. J n cue portion Faraday medals; taxton ceieonmou, _ ntol) ly th
> read that a thousand all which the editor has ,ndeavoured 40 a “ b 'J e f «s lar a
eeks, a rate of progress Question when ? but also where f how r ana ) •
square miles w, re surve} ed in eleven weeks, a rate of progress question when ? but also where P
which, if the remark be pardonable as the expression ol honest his limited space permitted.
NOV. 30, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
511
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
Mr. Serjeant Ballantyne has been elected an honorary
member of the Bench of the Inner Temple.
Mr. Francis Henry Bacon, of the Chancery Bar, has been
appointed to the Judgeship of the Bloomsbury County Court,
vacant by the death of Mr. George Lake Russell.
The honorary secretary of the Cabmen’s Shelter Fund states
that twenty shelters have already been established in various
S orts of the metropolis, that they are self-supporting, and that
le fund is still prospering.
Police-Constable Robinson, who was shot through the arm
by the burglar Ward or Peace, has been promoted to be a
lirst-class constable, the promotion carrying with it an increase
of pay of three shillings a week.
We are informed that in consequence of the numerous
applications to hear the new bells at St. Paul’s, the Dean and
Chapter have arranged that a peal shall be rung to-day
(Saturday) from 2.30 to 4 p.m.
The action brought in the Exchequer Division by a young
lady to recover damages from a grocer’s assistant in con¬
sequence of his refusing to carry out his promise to marry her
concluded on Tuesday, when, after the examination of the
defendant, the jury awarded £75 damages.
The Royal Humane Society has voted a bronze medallion
to Mrs. Disney Roebuck, wife of Captain Disney Roebuck, of
the 46th Regiment, who, with the help of her sister, saved the
lives of three ladies who ran a narrow escape of drowning
while bathing at Broadstairs in the early part of last month.
Under the presidency of Colonel Beresford, M.P., a meeting
of watermen and lightermen was held at the City Terminus
Hotel, Cannon-street, last Saturday, to protest against the
report issued by the Board of Trade relative to the Princess
Alice inquiry, and to adopt measures for opposing the proposed
new Thames Navigation Bill.
On Tuesday evening the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, M.P., opened
a new co-operative literary institute intended for the instruc¬
tion and amusement of the inhabitants of the Shaftesbury
citate; and, being affiliated with the Working Men’s Club and
Institute Union, the new institute had already received 127
applications for membership.
In the Admiralty Court on Wednesday morning an action
for damages brought by the London Steam-Boat Company,
the owners of the Princess Alice, against Messrs. Hall, the
owners of the Bywell Castle, was begun. A cross action has
also been brought by Messrs. Hall and Co. against the London
Steam-Boat Company.
The Company of Haberdashers have given £10 10s. in aid
of the funds of the Royal Albert Orphan Asylum.—This com¬
pany has forwarded £5010s. to the Mansion House Fund for
the promotion of the holding of the Royal Agricultural Show
at Kilbum next year; and the General Omnibus Company
have stated their willingness to offer a prize of £25 for the
best horse suitable for omnibus work.
At a meeting of the Hospital Sunday Fund Committee held
on Monday, under the presidency of the Lord Mayor, the pre¬
sident, vice-president, and secretary were empowered to engage
a suitable room or rooms for an office, the rental not to exceed
£100 per annum. It was resolved to ask the Duke of Bedford
and the Rev. Canon Fleming to fill the vacancies caused by the
death of Earl Russell and the Rev. Mr. Hoyse. It is proposed
that Hospital Sunday shall be the third Sunday in June next.
The committee of the China Famine Relief Fund have
issued a balance-sheet showing that the total amount raised
in connection with the fund is £32,303. A further sum of
about £16,000 has been contributed through various missionary
societies in England, and has been sent direct to China. Mr.
Forrest, the British Acting Consul at Tien-Tsin, speaks con¬
fidently of the favourable impression made on the Chinese by
the sympathy which England has shown them in their need.
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows that
the total number of paupers at the end of the third week
in November was 80,665, of whom 41,704 were in workhouses,
and 38,961 received outdoor relief. Compared with the corre¬
sponding week in 1877, these figures show an increase of 178;
but as compared 1876 and 1875 they show a decrease of 1056
and 3791 respectively. The number of vagrants relieved on
the last day of the week was 926, of whom 665 were men,
219 women, and 42 children under sixteen.
On Monday evening the existing method of lighting by gas
and by one form of the electric light (the Jablochkoff) was
subjected to a species of competition at Billingsgate Market,
in the presence of a considerable number of spectators. There
was some difference of opinion as to the practical efficiency of
the new mode of lighting; but it seems to be generally agreed
that for the riverside and the street-lighting the experiment
succeeded, but as regards the interior of the market many
persons doubted the superiority of the light to gas.
The appeal of Colonel Dawkins to the House of Lords
against a demurrer allowed by Vice-Chancellor Malins in a
suit instituted by him against Lord Penrhyn, his cousin, for
the recovery of a fourth part of Penrhyn Castle and the lands
belonging to it, which he claimed under the will of John
Pennant, deceased, the respondent’s father, was heard on
Wednesday. The Lords Justices of the Appeal Court had
sustained the Vice-Chancellor’s judgment, and the House of
Lords now dismissed the appeal with costs.
A meeting of the council of the Charity Organisation
Society was held on Wednesday in the hall of the Inner
Temple, the objects being that a knowledge of the aims of the
society should be more widely known, and that the Bar of the
country should advocate its importance. Mr. Baron Pollock,
who presided, mentioned some details respecting London
charities, and argued the need of this society from the fact
that four million pounds were annually given for charitable
purposes iu the metropolis. Sir H. James, M.P., moved a
resolution approving of the society, which was seconded by
Mr. Forsyth, M.P., supported by other members of Parliament,
and adopted.
Baroness Burdett-Coutts, in distributing the prizes to the
successful students at the St. Stephen’s Schools, Westminster,
on Tuesday evening, referred to the Elementary Education
Act of 1870, observing that she could not but regard it as a
very strong expression of the piety and patriotism of the
country. Among the principal awards were those to Frederick
C. Pendry (silvermedal and certificate presented by theCarriage-
makers’ Company), and to George William Irons, who had won
the Prince Consort’s prize of twenty-five guineas, with a cer¬
tificate, being the highest prize in Great Britain awarded by the
Society of Arts to members of evening classes and mechanics’
institutions.
A tutor named Weston was summoned at the Clerkenwell
Police Court for not sending his son, aged seven, to school.
The defendant, who stated that he was a properly qualified
tutor, having passed his examinations at the London Uni¬
versity, said he preferred to teach his boy at home, as he
found that he got into bud company at the board school. The
School Board officer said the defendant had no time to teach
the boy, as he was out all day. The magistrate dismissed the
summons, observing that the Act did not specify the time at
which children should be taught, and said that the father, who
was properly qualified to teach, might give his son lessons at
five in the morning if it suited him.
On Monday evening the first of the three courses of
lectures named after their founder, the late Dr. Cantor, which
are given every year under the auspices of the Society of Arts,
was begun in the theatre of the society’s house, John-street,
Adelphi. These lectures are especially devoted to the prac¬
tical treatment, on a scientific basis, of manufactures and
handicrafts, and kindred subjects. Those now in process of
delivery are on “Mathematical Instruments,” particular atten¬
tion being paid to the methods of their construction and use.
The Master of the Rolls had before him on Tuesday an
action in which Signor Bettini, the operatic singer, sought to
enforce a payment of £2000 by his wife, Madame Trebelli-
Bettini, under a deed of separation. The arrangement as to
division of property stipulated that a palace in Rome, freed
from incumbrance by the sale of another property in Paris,
should be Signor Bettini’s share. The Paris property, how¬
ever, did not realise enough by £2000 to clear the palace, and
Signor Bettini sought for an order upon his wife’s trustees to
make up the deficiency. His Lordship, having heard the
arguments, strongly advised the parties to arrange the matter
between themselves, and adjourned the case for a week in
order to enable them to do so.
The Metropolitan Board of Works decided yesterday week,
as a concession to the fire insurance companies, to station a
steam fire-engine temporarily in Watling-street. It was
explained that, in respect to the provision of new Fire Brigade
stations in the City, the Board was doing all that was possible
within its prescribed limits of the produce of a halfpenny rate;
and that no inconvenience or injury had been sustained by the
City during the six months that the central station had been
in Southwark.—The chairman, engineer, and several members
of the Board went down the Thames last Saturday, and took
samples of the water at the time when it would be most likely
to be contaminated with sewage from the outfall works at
Crossness. Their object is to decide the question raised by
Captain Calver in his report to the Thames Conservators, and
by others, whether the discharge into the river is injurious.
Last Saturday the Court of Appeal gave judgment in a
case which had been argued before it, affecting the religion of
the children of Mr. and Mrs. Agar-Ellis. The father is a
Protestant and the mother a Roman Catholic, and the question
was whether a promise made by Mr. Agar-Ellis before Mb
marriage, that the children of the union should be brought up
as Roman Catholics, could be retracted by him now. Vice-
Chancellor Malins had decided that the children should be
educated in the doctrines of the Church of England, and
against this decision Mrs. Agar-Ellis appealed. Lords Justices
James, Baggallay, and Thesiger now held that the whole
responsibility of the children’s education should be thrown
upon the father, and that no order should be made as to the
religion in which they should be brought up.
There were 2530 births and 1547 deaths registered in
London last week. The deaths included 18 from measles, 11
from diphtheria, 31 from whooping-cough, 24 from different
forms of fever, and 15 from diarrhoea. The fatal coses of
scarlet fever, which had steadily increased from 24 to 64 in the
nine preceding weeks, declined to 54 last week, and were 38
below the corrected average. The deaths from measles were
32 below the average. Whooping-cough fatality was also
considerably below the average. The deaths referred to
diphtheria were 2 less than those in the previous week. The
fatal cases of fever showed a marked decline from the
numbers in recent weeks, and were 17 below the corrected
average. The deaths referred to lung diseases, wMch had been
434 and 431 in the two previous weeks, further declined to
428 last week, and were 40 below the corrected weekly average;
277 resulted from bronchitis and 107 from pneumonia. In
Greater London 3124 births and 1846 deaths were registered.
The mean temperature was 40'6 deg., and 1'2 deg. below the
average in the corresponding week of sixty years. The
duration of registered bright sunshine in the week was 118
hours, the sun being above the horizon during 60 hours.
At the Sailors’ Home, in Well-street, London Docks, on
Saturday last the committee of the Shipwrecked Mariners’
Society presented Captain T. M. Almond, master of the ship
Decapolis, with a gold medal, and the crew with silver medals,
for their heroic conduct in saving the crew of the Eblana on
Oct. 10. The crew consisted of Martin Pearce Organ,
Frederick Christiesen, William Quirk, August Hausen,
William Adamson, David Stephen, George Herbert Adamson,
Harry Saunders, and G. W. R. Bourne, apprentice, who, iu
addition to the medal, received a sextant, as the committee
considered his conduct most praiseworthy in volunteering to
go with each boat to the rescue of the unfortunate men on the
Eblana. Captain the Hon. Francis Maude, R.N., chairman of
the committee of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society, occupied
the chair, and before presenting the prizes referred to the
gallant conduct of the captain and crew of the Decapolis on
the occasion iu question. He also said that their services had
met with the warm approval of the Board of Trade. He after¬
wards incidentally alluded to the advantages of the Ship¬
wrecked Mariners’ Society, which he urged all sailors to
become members of. They had now 50,000 members, who
brought in between £7000 and £8000, but they really received
nearly three times as much in return.
At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, held on
Monday evening in Burlington-gardens, a paper was read by
the Rev. J. P. Farler upon “ Usambaia, East Africa, and the
Adjoining Country.” After a brief review of the travels of
Dr. Krapf, Messrs. Burton and Speke, and Mr. New in the
country under notice, Mr. Farler went on to describe Usam-
bara, which has been called the Switzerland of Africa, and
wMch forms a link in the great East Coast range extending
from Abyssinia and Natal. A large portion of the paper was
occupied with an examination of the country iu its physical
aspects, a description of the manners and customs of the
natives, and a comprehensive survey of its history so far as it
has been recorded. The paper took the form to some extent
of a personal narrative of the journey of the writer to Magila,
where, he said, he frequently met men who had bceu
to Chaga and the Masai country, through which laud,
he considered, was to be found the only feasible way
to opening up the equatorial lakes. Such an expedition
as this Mr. Furler considered quite practicable, and
he offered to assist any attempt in this direction by pro¬
curing the right men and obtaining introductions from one
native cMef to another. After a discussion, in which SirT. h.
Buxton, who is aiding the construction of a road to that portion
of the African continent, took part, the proceedings closed
with a vote of thanks to the reader of the paper and a simitar
compliment to the chairman.
$tu (Extra Supplement.
NORWICH CATHEDRAL.
The good old city of Norwich, to which our attention has been
directed by the disastrous flood of last week, the subject of
two Illustrations in this Number, owes its prosperity to
J; lemish Protestant woollen manufacturers. But it has been
a Bishop’s See from the reign of William Rufus, in the year
ively
f the
first
i.the
views of the city, from Mousehold-lieath, fromthe Castle Hill,
and from the low meadows around Thorpe, this stately eccle¬
siastical pile is the most striking feature. Its central tower
and spire, rising to the height of 287 ft., may be well seen from
the south wall of the cloisters, or from the lower close. The
tower and flanking turrets are of Norman architecture, but the
spires are of Perpendicular GotMc So, too, with the main
body of the building; the nave and choir, internally, consist
of fourteen bays, of fine Norman arches, with similar
arches in the tril'orium above; three bays are included in the
choir, but its eastward portion, in the clerestory and roof, has
been changed to Perpendicular Gothic. The transepts, also,
have been somewhat altered by architects of the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries; but the original Norman ground-
plan is everywhere preserved. The side aisles are carried
on, beyond the transepts, to form a proceesion corridor
round the chancel. . The interior view is rendered
more effective by the choir roof rising 14 ft. higher
than the nave, and by the open Norman arcades of the central
tower; the roof of the nave is a beautiful structure of “ lieme
vaulting,” the work of Bishop Lehart, from 1446 to 1472.
There are many other details, architectural or ornamental,
which deserve admiration. The cloisters, in the Decorated
Gothic style, are considered very fine. The Erpingham gate,
and that of St. Etlielbcrt, leading into the Cathedral precincts,
have some historical interest. The Bishop’s Palace has been
more than once rebuilt. There was once a Lord Bishop, Henry
Despenser, in the time of Richard II., who personally wielded
a huge two-handed sword, with his knights and archers,
against the riotous local mob of Norfolk, in league with Wat
Tyler. The same warlike prelate, in 1383, led a body of troops
into Flanders, to fight for an elect Pope against an Anti-Pope,
and stormed the towns of Graveliues and Dunkirk. Bishops
of Norwich are now better employed.
il -i/uuwiuu since me conversion c
heathen folk” there in the seventh century. The
builder of Norwich Cathedral was Bishop Herbert de Losing
first Norman prelatewho held his Court at. Norwich Tn
ROYAL INSTITUTION LECTURES.
The following arrangements have been made for the Friday
evening meetings before Easter, 1879:-Jan. 17, Professor
Tyndall on the Electric Light; Jan. 24, Professor W. E.
Ayrton on the Mirror of Japan and its Magic Qualities;
Jan. 31, Mr. H. H. Statham on the Logic of Architectural
Design ; Feb. 7, Rev. H. R. Haweis on Bells; Feb. 14, Pro¬
fessor Johnstone Stoney, the Story of the November Meteors ;
Feb. 21, Professor Roscoe on a New Chemical Industry :
Feb. 28, Sir William Thompson on Maxwell’s Demonology;
March 7, Professor Huxley ; March 14, Mr. E. B. Tylor on the
History of Games; March 21, Professor Abel on Recent Con¬
tributions to the History of Detonating Agents; March 28,
Sir Henry Rawlinson on the Geography of the Oxus, and the
Changes of its Course at Different Periods of History ; April 14,
Dr. Warren de la Rue.
Lord Aberdare opened a coffee tavern at Mountain Ash on
Wednesday.
DURHAM-TERRACE, QUEBEC.
The “ summer season ” at Quebec, in Lower Canada, reaches
its height in the autumn. This would seem to be a paradox.
It is nevertheless true that, after Long Branch and Newport
are deserted, American tourists in Canada still linger at Quebec,
about 350 miles north. Many of these birds of postage, indeed,
fly northward from Saratoga and Luke George as the days
grow shorter and cooler in that latitude. Every spot chosen
as a “ resort,” however, has its own advantages ; and there
are special seasons of the year when they are best enjoyed.
The Americans, eager to spend the brighter months anywhere
except in their respective homes, have discovered that the
autumn days at Quebec ore particularly delightful. The
air is cool, crisp, and clear; above all, the evening
twilight is of very long duration, and very beauti¬
ful. This latter effect in nature is, perhaps, the
principal reason why Quebec has obtained such wide celebrity
on the American continent as a place to be visited iu autumn.
Tourists from all parts of the New World may be found there
in September and October strolling about Durham-terrace
during the afternoon and far into tne evening, to enjoy the
long, gentle, and delicious twilight. Though at other seasons
Quebec is one of the dullest of dull places, at this time it is
very difficult to find apartments, either at the “ St. Louis ” or
at the smaller hotels. Our artist has given a sketch of Durham-
terrace and its surroundings as it appears at the height of this
“ fashionable season.” For several reasons the scene illus¬
trated may be considered one of the most interesting to be
found in either the New World or the Old. There are few
cities in either hemisphere for wMch the romance of history
has done more to give it special interest than Quebec. But
we need not seek for the interest of Durham-terrace in
history. The crowd of people there gathered represents
all the variety of opinions it would be possible to collect
together between the Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
England herself is represented, not indirectly only by her
loyul colonial subjects, but by gentlemen who have come out
from England in various official capacities. There are leading
officers of the Hudson Bay Company—men whose duties lead
them into the rough ways and wild haunts of the fur-hunte r’s
life, but many of whom are cultured gentlemen, and are glad
to spend their periods of leisure among the refinements of
polite association. There are the native statesmen of Canada,
who are working out a problem of independent government
hardly less interesting than that of their neighbours across the
frontier, and they nowcommandthe frankly-expressed respect
of those neighbours. There are many men of wealth and
culture—merchants, bankers, and lawyers—of Upper and
Lower Canada. Of the Americans present, many are from the
Southern States, for the northern latitude of the St. I awrence
has proved unusually attractive to these people. Alter the
rebellion, too, and before their bitter feelings had subsided,
they flocked to Canada in large numbers, sell-exiled from the
northern resorts of their own country. Add to these their
lellow-citizens, now friendly, but still differing widely from
them in sentiments, manners, and appearam e. We have
already enough to give the gathering on Durham-terrace all
that interest of variety which is the greatest charm of a popular
resort.
Tire ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 30, 1878.-612
DURHAM TERRACE. QUEBEC. CANADA.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 30, 1878.—613
But there is another element which differs more widely
from all the classes mentioned than they do from each
other. France is there also ; France as she exists in the
New World, modified by two centuries and a half of
wide separation from Paris; a France which Paris has
entirely forgotten, but which has clung to the traditions
of the old French religion, the French language, and
French manners. The Canadian French gentlemen talk
English most of them, but with an accent—as if they
were Parisians in Brighton. They gesticulate quite as
earnestly and as incessantly. They are quite as enthu¬
siastic, and they exclaim “Mon Dieu!” with quite as
little thought that they are addressing the Deity.
They are also as polite as the French of Europe. For
the most part, they are professional men—for to enter
one of the learned professions is the pet ambition of a
French Canadian boy—and they are ardent politicians.
Many of them are legislators in the Dominion Parliament.
Some of the most cultivated are still Catholics; but,
determined to be untrammelled, are members of the
“ Institut Canadien,” with its interdicted books. Some
of them, however, are like their “foreign” French
brethren of the Continent—Free-thinkers.
We have been speaking of the men only; the ladies of
Durham-terrace present a picture of somewhat less variety,
but it is not less interesting. The variety is less, because
the Americans and the French Canadiennes, caring but
little for the commercial and political interests which
divide their fathers and brothers, join in a common
ambition to be prettily dressed. The fair Anglo-Canadian
ladies are equally interested, probably, in the same direc¬
tion, though they habitually put more restraint upon the
gratification of their tastes. The American ladies have
the advantage over their French-Canadienne rivals of a
closer intimacy with the latest Parisian fashion-plates.
The latter, however, exhibit all a Parisienne’s love of
showy raiment, if they have not preserved her taste
through all these years. They are inclined to overdress,
as are their American friends; but they are not restricted
by the same artistic rules as laid down in Paris; the
result, therefore, is less harmonious. Probably the less
prononcis costumes of the English Canadian ladies would
be more in accordance with the tastes of their sisters
here at home than those of either the French or Americans.
Leaving aside the all-absorbing question of dress, the
ladies show almost as much variety in manners, ideas,
and speech as the gentlemen; and they have some few
ideas, of course, on the minor subjects of politics, if not
of commerce.
In the background, and on all sides of this variegated
assembly, are such objects of historical interest as few
American cities can boast. The old city itself is quaint
aud picturesque, with such crooked little streets and old-
time nooks as are fast disappearing even from English
towns. Beneath the citadel is seen the “lower
town,” with its warehouses and the shipping along
the water’s edge. Rising abruptly above it is the
Ehrenbreitstein of the St. Lawrence and of America,
the height which the brave Montcalm, who was the
first to fortify it, afterwards lost to our own General
Wolfe. They both fell mortally wounded at the same battle ;
the monument on the right of our view was raised to the
undivided memory of those two heroes. The guns on the
right commemorate a more distant field of English success—
they were captured in Sebastopol. Beyond all flows the most
majestic of grand rivers. The St. Lawrence is at no place,
we believe, through the entire 700 miles of its course, less than
a mile in width, being upwards of five miles wide at its source
iu Lake Ontario. Immediately below Quebec it again reaches
that width, and 400 miles beyond it is still called a “ river,”
where it flows into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, with an expanse
of water seventy-five miles from shore to shore. The Saguenay,
St. Charles, and innumerable other rivers flowing into it are
favourite haunts of sportsmen and tourists, Quebec and
Durham-terrace being the general rendezvous. Curiously
enough, all these rivers, including the St. Lawrence itself, will
I be frozen solid, to remain so many months, within a few weeks
after the autumn guests disappear from the Terrace.
THE BALFE MEMORIAL BUST.
Some time ago a committee was formed in Dublin for the
purpose of raising some memorial in that, his native, city
to the popular composer Michael Balfe, whose music and
i fame are so widely known. They consulted his widow,
Madame Balfe ; she thus expressed her views :—“ It was
my great and anxious desire to have such a memorial,
offered spontaneously by persons whose opinion might
be taken as representing the Irish musical public, and
which would be a genuine tribute of affection. I feel
that a bust of Balfe placed in the National Gallery of
Dublin, his native city, in the department specially devoted
to illustrious Irishmen, would be a natural offering to his
memory.” The committee, having assented to these
views of Madame Balfe, placed the commission for a bust
in the hands of the eminent Irish sculptor Mr. Thomas
Farrell, R.H.A. We think we may congratulate the
artist and the public on the successful production of an
admirable work of art, which will faithfully convey to
future generations the lineaments of one still well and
affectionately remembered by many of his friends. The
bust, when completed, was placed in the National
Gallery of Ireland, on July 6 last, in the presence of a
distinguished company. It was unveiled by Sir Robert
Stewart, Doctor of Music.
A special department has been formed by the present
director of the Academy, Mr. Henry Doyle, R.H.A., in
which a collection has been begun of portraits and busts
of distinguished Irishmen. It has already made con¬
siderable progress, and will soon be a most interesting
Irish “National Portrait Gallery.” It contains marble
busts of Moore, the poet; Sheil, the orator; Maclise, the
painter; Archbishop Murray, and others. There are
portraits also of Burke, Grattan, Swift, Lady Morgan,
Lover, Sheridan, the Duke of Wellington, and others.
Among the painters of these portraits are to be found
Reynolds, Lely, Gainsborough, Hogarth, and Lawrence.
To have a bust placed in this Irish Pantheon is, therefore,
no small distinction. We noticed last week that a
memorial window has been placed in St. Patrick’s
Cathedral in honour of Balfe, beside a window already
erected to the memory of another Irish musician, Sir
John Stevenson. Both these are due to the exertions of
the Professor of Music in the University of Dublin, Sir
Robert Stewart. The window is by Mr. Ballantine, of
Edinburgh.
SKETCHES IN AFRICA.
We present another Engraving from Mr. H. B. Thelwall’s
sketches of the habits of the native population on the
Mozambique coast, near the mouth of the Zambesi and
Shire rivers. They are diligent cultivators of the soil,
and, having learnt the virtues of manure, will obtain lime
by collecting and burning the masses of ancient sea-
shells, extensive beds of which, the relics of past
geological changes, are found at some distance inland.
The course of events in South Africa has compelled
the annexation of another strip of territory to the
dominions of the English Crown. The region round
the St. John’s River lying between Kaffraria and
Natal, and forming part of the district known as Pondo-
land, has, by proclamation of Sir Bartle Frere, been
annexed to Cape Colony, on the deposition of the chief
Umquikela. On Aug. 31 the British flag was hoisted by
General Sir F. Thesiger, now Lord Chelmsford, who crossed
the bar of the river, and steamed up, the first occasion on
which a steamer had ever been inside the bar. The country
is beautiful and fertile; the climate is healthy; and cattle,
and poultry, and game abound. The river, some distance
above its mouth, passes between two high precipices, which
have been named, that on the right bank Mount Thesiger, aud
that on the left bank Mount Sullivan. British Residents have
been appointed for the newly-acquired territory, Major Elliot
for all the tribes on the right or western bank of the St. John’s
River, and the Rev. J. Oxley Oxland for all on the left or
eastern bank.
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elusion of the racing season of 1878, on which brmiancy right through the seven days. His 1
the curtain fell at Kemp ton Park on Saturday bcst brea ks numbered 213 (26 and 24), 117
afternoon. Turning first to the Manchester (n and n) m (37) ^fi^ed, 140 8, 4,
meeting, we note that, on the Thursday, and 5) 176 (55), 128 (32) unfinished, 143 (32),
Lutestring, a daughter of Brown Bread and and fa (31) ' G Collins, who took second
Lute, ran away with two Nurseries winnmg ri pla y e d splendidly at times, but was a
just as easily with 8st. 61b. as she had done f it tle uncertainf and the same may be said of
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be a far better animal than was generally sup- j ate jj Ri cbarda was singularly unlucky: he UcBST Bnd beackitt, is, Great Mariborough-street. Britain an,
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to which fiono was added attracted a enod , “ neve r played better 111 public, but each Of Price One Shilling, Illustrated,
Belphibe (9st. 5 lb )) xSliaU her’weight,’ Se tte ‘tS ^iSiTS ^ for £S, BEE '
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not been forgotten, had also plenty Of ad- e Tho Return of the Native. By Thomas Hardy. Illustrated by
mirers. The last-named whipped round when The Six Days’ Bicycle-Race at the Agri- ur op _
the flag fell, and lost so much ground that cultural Hall resulted in the victory of Cann Price 0n e shining, illustrated,
his chance was at onco extinguished; and of Sheffield, who rode 1060 miles 4 laps in the rpHE GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE
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about a mile and a quarter, he was beaten tance on record. Edlin a lad of only eighteen, Number Forty-seven. n y S™js. illustrated by Arthur
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point Belphcobe managed to keep in front, the distance, and finished up with a record of The o/Sm^ 0- By y j”l! < F!5ror“ :CoU '
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effort from the distance, and was only beaten petitors succeeded in covering 1000 miles. Morai W an<i Religious Estimate of vivisection. By h. n
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
615
NEW MTJSIO.
T HE LOST CHORD. Song. By
BEETHOVEN. The beet setting of these beautiful words.
Highest note F. Post-free, a* stamps, of the Publishers,
id Son, 74, Baker-street, London, W.’
OOMMER-NACHT. Valse by ADOLPH
j 1,ric ® 4, ‘ • Post-free, U stamps.— B. Hollis
and Co., Publishers and Muslcsellers, SI, Ebury-street, Eaton-
•nnare. " A most exquisite and ceptirating Walts, every number
being charmingly melodious."
CTUTTGART IRON COTTAGE
h-? P1ANOFOBTE8. - Vertical and Overstrung. In Walnut
and Rosewood Cases. At low prices. Direct from the Manufac¬
tory of P. HUND and SON, in Stuttgnrt. Germany. London
Wholesale Warehouse, 36, Castle-street, Lung-acre.
B ROADWOOD PIANO, 20 Guineas.
Full-compass PIANOFORTE, In rosewood case, good
condition, fine tone, at above moderate p»fce, for ca«h only.—At
OETZMANN’S, 27, Baker-street (exactly opposite Madame
C OLLARD PIANO, 30 Guineas.
Full-compass COTTAGE PIANOFORTE, line fall rich
tone, perfect oondltlon. May be seen at OETZMANN'S, 27,
Baker-street (exactly opposite Madame Tussaud's).
"E'RARD PIANO, 35 Guineas, full compass
JLd Trichord Oblique Grand Cottage, In handsume walnut-
wood cose, tine full rich powerful tone. Cash only.
AtOETZMANN , S,27.Haker-«t™.t PnrtniAn.
MUSICAL-BOX DEPOTS, 56, Cheapside,
IvA and 22. Ludgate-hlll, London.—Nicole's celebrated Musical
Rove, secnlarand sacred music. P"*«'>«>
is. to 60s. largest stock In Lon
i. Auniv t<> wales AM-nttr;
pHRISTMAS PRESENTS.—STATHAM’S
Scientific Amnsement , Educational Toys. Games. Ac., for
Presents, Prises, and the Instructive Amusement of Youth.
Catalogue, 3 stamps.—STAT1IAM, 111-2, Strand, London,
"DENSON’S WATCHES. Watch and
D Clock Maker to the Queen and Roj al Family, and by special
appointment to the Prince of Wales and Emperor of Russia.
Old Bond-street.and (Steam Factory) Ludgate-hlll, London.
"DENSON’S WATCHES of every description,
-I-J suitable for all climate*, from £2 to 200 guineas. Chrono*
EfiXf-----
strength.
Chrono-
-- ..ope A
Watches of
"DENSON’S EARLY ENGLISH and
-D QUEEN ANNE CLOCKS, in Ebony and other woods,
decorated with Bine China, Art-Tile*. Paintings. Ac. Novrltv.
Artistic Engli.h Clocks, specially designed to harmonise with
"DENSON’S PAMPHLETS on TURRET
A > CLOCKS, Watches, Clocks, Plate, ond Jewellery, Illus¬
trated. sent post-free, each for two stamps.^ Watches sent safe
. . _ _ .n-made Keyless Half-Chronometers,
...icing-Watches. Bepcaters, Chick-Watches. Ac.-CHARLKS
FRODSHAM and CO.. Makers to the Queen, 84, Strand, only
address.
WALKER’S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES
It are superseding all others. Prise Medals—London. 1862.
Paris, 1867. Silver Watches, from £« Is.; Gold, from £6 Ss. Price-
Lists sent free.—77, Corn hill; 220. Rogcnt-street; and 76. Strand.
BENNETT’S LADY’S GOLD ' WATCHES, perfect for time,
beauty, and workmanship, with keyless action, air-tight, damp-
tight. and dnst-tlght.—6.7. Chcaiwhle, London. Gold Chains at
manafactnrers’ prices. P.O.O. to John Bennett.
BENNETT. 67 and 64. Cheapside.
f\ROIDE GOLD WATCHES, 21s., 25s.,
v/ ms.; free by registered post6d extm. Facslmllo of costly
gold watches: exact tlme-keeia-rs. Catalogues post-free.
C. O. ROWE. Ml, Brutnpton-road, Loudon,8.W.
T he luminous clock.
A HOST WONDERFUL INVENTION,
by which the Time can be SEEN in the DARK
without the aid of any artilicial light. Every
le See opinions of Press.
C HRISTMAS DECORATIONS for
CHURCHES.—COX snd SUNS’ ILLUSTIl \TE1> CATA¬
LOGUE. with 100 Designs of Texts, Banners, Devices. 3d., post-
free*. The Art of Garnishing Churchc*. coloured plate*. as. 4d.,
post-free.—Cox and "Sons’ Ecclesiastical Warehouse, 2J, South-
/CHRISTMAS CARDS-NEW-YEAR
KJ CARDS.
4d. In the Is. off cards of the best publishers. ' “ ~ *
6, Junction-place. Hackney.
QCRAPS for SCREENS and SCRAP-
O BOOKS. Colonred Flowers, Figures, Birds, and Land¬
scapes, tram Is. sheet; 12 assorted, 10s. 6d.
WM. BARNARD, 119. Edgware-road, London.
NO CHARGE FOR STAMPING IN COLOURS BY
MACHINERY.
TENNER and KNEWSTUB,
O HERALDIC STATIONERS AND ENGRAVERS,
beg to call attention to their superb specimens of ILLU¬
MINATING BELIEF STAMPING and tllESINKING, conj¬
oining the perfection of work with tho must moderate price;
also, to their new mode of Stamping In Colours (by mnchfneryj
without charge. In quantities of nut his than two reams ond
lono envelopes. To clubs, public companies, and large con¬
sumers generallv. an Immense saving is thus clTected. All kinds
of Stationery at the most moderate prices. Cash discount loper
171 Drees) i „ _ _
.. .13 | Jewel Cases .. ..21s. to
Despatch Boxes .. 21s. to £0 | Work-Uoxos .. I0s.fld.to £2
Writing Cases .. 10s to £7 | Card Trays .. . .21s. to £7
Travelling Bags, Candlesticks, Candelabra, Flower Vases. Jar-
Jinieres, and a large and choice Assortment of English. Vienuise,
and Parisian Useful and Elegant Novelties, from 5s. to £5.
PORTRAIT ALBUMS at RODRIGUES’,
1- with Patent Leather Guard*. 4§. Bd. to £5. Easel Album*
Scrap Albums, Presentation and Regimental Albnme.
Albums of every description made to order.—12. Piccadilly.
T70R ARMS and CREST, send Name and
X. County to T. MURING. Inns of Court Heraldic Offices
44, High Holborn. W.O. Plain Sketch. 3a. Bd.; Colonml, 7s Sd.
Beals, Dies, and Diplomas. Illustrated Price-Lists post-free
T70R FAMILY ARMS (Lincoln’s-inn
X Heraldic Office) send Name and County, sketch. 3s. itf..
or stamps. Arms Pointed nnd Engraved on Sntls.Hnok-PIntes
Dies. Ac.—PUGH BROTHERS, Great Turnstile, LiucolnVIun
W.O.: and 76, Queen Victoria-street. E.C. 1 J»ts "li application'
T)UGH BROTHERS.—Turis Exhibition,
X 1*78. Prlxe Medal awarded f r HERALDIC PAINTING
and SEAL ENGRAVING.-Llncoln’s-lnn Heraldic Office
Ureat Turnstile; end 76, Queen Victoria-street.
„„„ _ VENETIAN GLASS.
GOLD MEDAL. PARIS EXHIBITION, 1878.
'THE VENICE and MURANO GLASS and
,?}r XUmlted) Invito an Inspection of
tbeir Stock ofCHANUriUEBS, Candelabras. Mirrors, Tairas,
Vases, TableGlas*. Mosaics, and Deonrative Works, KaiX'cially
selected for Christmas and New-Year Gifts. *
__30, St. James’s-street, London, 8.W.
CILVER TEA and COFFEE SERVICES.
GOLDSMITHS* ALLIANCE, Limited, Manufacturing
Sii vor^mths. have always read/ for immediate selection a great
and m0B * Ele » ttnt Detlgni. The following
— much admired;—
The Beaded Pattern.
Silver Teapot .. ..£13
Silver Sugar Basin .. 8
, 17 8 1
£44 10 I
--- --Sugar Basin
Silver Cream Ewer
811ver Coffeepot..
1VT0W SELLING at BAKER and CRISP’S.
BANKRUPT STOCK OF SILKS.
bankI^^&VreS- ■•&£&?■ 6ld - 10 Ss nd -
BANKRUPT STOCK OF VELVETEENS.
BANKRUPT STOCK OF LADIES’ ULSTERS AND JACKETS.
BANKRUPT STOCK OF CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEFS.
„ _ Ladle.’, 23jd. to 2ls. Dozen ; Gents’, 8s. Ski. to42-.
N.B.—The Whole of the Stock lias undergone a Reduction
BAKER and CRISP, 198, Regent-street.
A Pamphlet, Illustrated with 306 engravings, will be sent.
application,rand Lithographic Drawings of Silver
ate ’ - W i ,U w forw »™« bo committees and other*
requiring Testimonial Plate,
Goldsmltlu’ Alliance (Limited), Manufacturing Silversmiths.
Ac.^11 and 12, Comhlll, London (opposite the Bank of England).
D
UPLEX TABLE LAMP, with
Instantaneous extinguisher.—The Patent Duplex Lamp,
for petroleum or rock oil, gives an intense, pure, and beautiful
light, equal to that of twenty-four sperm candles, nt ft cost of
about one farthing per hour. Deane and Co. Invite inspection
of their now season’s stock In Crystal, China. Onnoulu, and
Bronze. Prices from 16s. to £6. lUustrated Priced List post-free.
/7J.ASELIERS, in Crystal, Gloss, Ormoulu,
^v.°Sn B vTew. e - Every*article rnarlted
D. Hu LETT and OO.. Mannfi '
mufactarars. 67 an <T M.lli gh "Sol born.
H
E A L and
S 0 N
HAVE ON SHOW
THE LARGEST STOCK OF
BED-ROOM FURNITURE
FORTY 8UITES are set apart In separate rooms, snd th
Sofeet fra** occupies six galleries and two ground floors, each
130 Bedsteads, fitted with every description of bedding, ere
ready Uxed for Inspection.
_AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE,
SSSIAQil?* 1 } 4W) DESIGNS OF BEDSTEADS AND BED¬
ROOM FURNITURE, AND PUI0E-LI8T OF BEDDING,
"OURNITURE.—An immense assemblage of
. hlgh-c'oss Furniture, mnnnfoctured cxprerslyf rthe Hotel
de Mandevllle, WIgmore-street. Cavendish-square, is, owing to
the inability of the promoters to carry out their contract with
the manufacturers, thrown upon the market, and must be SOLD
at a great discount from the cost. This Furnitnre comprises all
the requisites for hotels or superior private houses, viz.:—C. m-
plete Dining-room Suites in s did walnut, and six dozen massive
and most elegantly designed Dining-Room Chairs, solid wolnnt,
upholstered In host morocco; Drawing-Room Suites in ebony
and gold- Bed-Hoorn Suites, with large Wardrobes and Duchesse
Toilet Tables, ond Wa-hst-nds of the best quality of work¬
manship and tho most admired and fu-hiouakle St vie-, in
line Italian and solid American Walnut, Birch, solid Ash, Ac.,
artistically designed, commencing from 25 gs. the snitc, original
Price 47 gs.; fifty Iron and Brass lledstoads and Bedding of most
luxurious character; Aulrasson, Ispahan, and other Carpets of
choice description. In various styles, cadi being complete, and
woven throughout in one piece, suitable for any room. 7"—
Goods, amounting in value to several thousands of pounds,
-iged in a separate Show-r ’ " ‘ *
stoekfeoch suite o'r article being marked^n'plain UguresJ’ntMho
...id should lxi Inspected at
by everyone obont to fhmish.ns this important and gel
Balo can be continued for a limited period only.—On vi
LEWINCBAWCOUR and CO.’S. 73 to 77. Brompton-road,
MENTION AWARDED to CHUBB and BON at
PARIS, 1878.
D NICHOLSON and CO.,
• 60 to 63, ST. PAUL’S, LONDON.
REAL SEAL PALETOTS,
Jj^ROM 5 Guineas to 50 Guineas.
J^ICH PARIS AND BERLIN CLOAKS.
J^ATEST NOVELTIES,
Jl'ROM 1 Guinea to 20 Guineas.
pARIS EXPOSITION COSTUMES.
pEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED
PHOTOGRAPHS ^OF ABOVE,
MEW DRESS MATERIALS—A Large
L* Assortment of N ew Dress Materials for tho present Season
present S«
.. is. uoti. jkj yum.
.. 1*. 4J<1. per yard.
«. lUfd. ptr yard,
i .. 2s. tipi, piryurd.
J) ^ICHOLSON and QO.,
60 to 63, ST. PAUL’S-CHURCnYARD, LONDON.
QHARLES GzkSK and CO. (Limited).
QRAND
SALE of PRIZE GOODS
pROM
the PARIS EXHIBITION.
pOSTUMES, MANTLES, SILKS,
VELVETS.
pRESS FABRICS, FURS, KID GLOVES,
pEAL LACES, HOSIERY, UMBRELLAS,
pLANKETS, LINENS,'WORKS of ART, &c.
A LL GOODS of the Highest Character,
ax. and will he sold at lower prices tuau arc usually charged
for ordinary goods.
pH ARLES OASK and CO. (Limited),
Vy 68, 09.00, 61, 62, 03. OXFORD-STKEKT; 1, 2, 3, 4, 4,
WELLS-STHEET, LONDON.
pHUBB and SON, 128, QUEEN
Vy VICTORIA-STREET, E.C.. and 68. ST. JAMKS’S-
8TREET, S.W. LISTS OF ALL THE ABOVE SENT FREE.
Tj'VERY MAN HIS OWN PRINTER.
X-J The People’s Printing Press, for Authors, Amateurs, the
Army and Navy. Ac. Prospectuses forwarded on application to
D. O. BERR1, 36. High Holborn, London. W.C.
1 P 5 L_ _
superiority and'make of their Best Quality of Ladies' Kid Dluves,
at the undermentioned prices:—
I’.u.O. to Joseph Hammond at G.P.O. Detailed List of other
mokes from ta. per half doz., post-free,
THE LONDON GLOVE COMPANY,
1, Bow-churchyard, Cheapside, E.C.
for PRIVATE HOUSES.
ESTIMATES and DRAWINGS on ippllcntlon
Messrs. P. GODDARD and CO. 37. Camberwell New-
N EEDLES, FISH-HOOKS, and
FISHING-TACKLE.
TWO GOLD MEDALS—PARIS, 1878,
for the superiority of their quality, awarded to
W. BARTLEET nnd SONS, Rcdditch.
P ALOMINO. A Pure Spanish SHERRY
of dry character, produced from the flne.-t grape In the
Xerez district. Recommended with complete conSdence. 30s.
per dozen, railway carriage paid. Sole Importers. HENRY
BRETT and CO.,^> and 27, High Holborn. W.C. Established 1829.
LIQUEUR
RINGER
Tourists,
Natm
Rutth
appreciate)
Sportsmen.
..oM&olcraic
ind Indigestion. In Square
ind Yellow Bin Cases, benr-
e murk, *’ ANegro’sHead."
-case.—26 and 27, High
Uolboro, London.
fVRANGE CHAMPAGNE is a light,
V/ pleasant drink, made simply from Oranges. It Is effer¬
vescent, but entirely free from spirit, and perfectly wholesome.
Price Is. per Dozen Qnnrta: 4s„ Pints. Bottles 2s. nnd Cases Is.
per Dozen until returned. Slade only by CHA3. CODD and CO.,
79, Copenlingen-street. London. N.
K IN A HAN’S LL WHISKY.
THE CREAM OF OLD IRISH WHISKIES.
Pure, ini Id. mel uw, delicious, and most wholesome. Uni¬
versally recommended b^the mwlical^profession. Dr. Hn-.-nM
of^very excidlent quality.”—ai, Great TiichSeld-street, W.
GRATEFUL
p P P S’ s
AJfD
COMFORTING.
Q 0 0 0 A.
JAMES EPPS AXD CO.,
HOMCEOPATHIC
CHEMISTS.
TT TTT t o) "There is no sweeter Tolmceo comes from
W/ llxJ-io Virginia,nmi nnlK*lU*r brand than the* THULE
T T OAST’LKS.’ Vide “ The Virginian*.”
“THREE
Sold only in Packets and Cigarettes, pro- ri * arpT tjio ,i
tec toil by the Name and Trade Shirk of CAOILLo.
W. D. and 11. O. WILLS. Bristol and Loudon.
QHIRTS. — FORD’S EUREKA. — “ The
O moot perfect fitting mftde.”— Observer. Gentlemen
dealrou* of purcliaoiuK bhirta ot tlie beat quality should try
Ford's Eureka, .'to*., 40*. 46s. half-dozen, illustrations and self-
measure post-free.—41. Poultry. London.
pAUTION—BOND’S CRYSTAL I
Vy GOLD MEDAL MARKING INK. T1UI
PALACE
_ ___ THREE GOLD,
several SILVER, und other Medals. Some chemist, and sta¬
tionery r r extrujjrofltdecciruymi.^ Genuine h.bel “^Daughter
required. £luo reward on criminal conviction lor misi-epreseuta-
tion or colourable imitation. Eului gciucut of bottles—oil. ana Is'
G olden h a i r.—rob are’s
AUREOL1NE produces tbe beautiful Golden Golonr so
much admired. Warranted perfectly harmless. Price 5s.6d. and
1(18. «d., ot all Perfumers. Wholesale, IlUVEN DEN nnd SONS,
6, Great Marl borough-street, W.; and 93 and 95, City-road, E.C.
London ; Piiraud and Slyer,37, Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris
31, Graben, Vienna; 44, Uae des Longs Chariots. Brussels.
TVOES YOUR HAIR TURN GREY F
JLS Then use HERRING’S PATENT MAGNETIC BRUSHES
and COMBS. Brushes, 10s. and 15s. each. Combs,2s. Ud.,6B.,7e.6d.,
10s., 16s., and 20s. each. Pamphlets upon application.—6. Ureat
Marlborough-st., W.; 93 and 97, City-road; and of all Perfumers
DA VERITAS.—GREY HAIB
restored by this valuable specl lie to Its original shade, alto]
which It grows the natural colour, not grey. Used asadressing
it causes growth and arrests fulling. The most harmless and
effectual restorer extant. One trial will convince it bos no equal.
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Song (Contralto) Juanita.Mrs. Norton.
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THE FLOODS AT NORWICH.
been painted at one time and the slate-coloured clouds at grounds. The agreeable play of colour in m Tr
._,._,_another, for there is not the slightest relation between them. “ In Clover ” (309) should be remarks w U ' Mark F i*her'g
Our Illustrations show the extraordinary character of the dis- jf r Macbeth has done work of such high promise that it is the originality of Mr. J. Knight’s « Tr>’ n were 8t nick by
a^troos inundation at Norwich on Saturday and Sunday week, wor th while to call his attention to this and, indeed, other with a broad band of cast shadow from 5° nw ? y Vale” (27(/
the 16th and 17 th inst. The river Wensum, swollen by the 0 f hasty observation throughout the picture. A healthy “originality” we mean the evidence fh a P^f sln 8 cloud. By
increase of its tributary streams from the contumous mns of a eD j oymellt of co lour, combined with an unaffected sense of nature for himself, though at the artist lo °ks at
the 3S** North
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The citizens, led by the Mayor, Mr. Harry Bullard, and the No^a bv Mr ? W W UT P r 5. sented \ n Ba ™’ . C ‘ Bass A ano ,;. Walter Field, E. Fahey, J. Se f
Sheriff, Mr. D. Steward, promptly exerted themselves to relieve f 7. r )«nerin1e del P , nn „ P „ t pj re P r f ) sen .* I | "& tbe arcade Hethenngton, A. Finlay, T. 0. Hume, Pownal Williams imH
the suffering. A meeting for this good purpose was held at ^ ti tb ® to?™?* cf T fi- to ^f a 1 ? C f A % aU Mls , s P1 Gertrude Mart mean. ams, and
the Guildhall on the Sunday evening, which seems a novel and th nnhieete of the famnnFweL^vIwiil^ 68 - n^r^v 8 a j’f, tun . m al j pieces are headed by a picture bT Mr R
praiseworthy example, only that the clergy and other ministers jn t A f , e e f by Giovanni della Robbia, Ansdell, pamted with his customary careful equality thron'd
of religion were necessarily absent. The Rev. George Gould, 21 5 merc V tbe himself out- ‘A iavoured Calf ” (322); and there are capital doSr
Baptist minister, took part in the meeting. Some gentlemen t g \ a8 ., lfc ^ re ’ tbe ^rst of those cat subjects by Messrs. Bottomley, Couldery, and Charh/m
had been working hard all that day in rescuing the flooded-out ... p f . , t ^ e 1 stran e e r- Another foreign In stiU-hfe we have “ A Comer in a Japanese Curio shtm"
people, preparinf shelter for them in school-rooms, the Drill “^ le ( 301 > 18 . C 9 U ' < 206 )> . b ? Mr. F. Dillon- which, with all its^eritandl
Hall, and the Governor’s apartments of the City Gaol, which A - Bridgman, the rapidly rising scienciousncss, hardly gets at the secret or principles of Janata
is now disused; and distributing coals, bread, tea, and coffee been trained under Gerome, as Ins colounng-a subject deserving the closest attention fJTZ
to those in want of such help. These first efforts, in which not rS? 11 represents a Cairene artists Mr. l-’auf in, in his groups of hips, blackberries
an hour was lost, were followed by the raising of a charitable ^ - k *“} d bl ^?£ ' u l* dismounted ^° m ber cream- and cider-apples, repeats certain methods of applying p’sinttn
fund, with a regular committee for its application to cases * ho ^° OT ' the obtain T^ig and iUusive effects of colonwSch S
of need. ass-driver s attention being bidden for by a couple of orange- apparently rather to fail of their potency. Lust vg®
- - - girls. The costumes and trappings, the elaborately sculptured works in terra-cotta is a clever trrrhm maong the
THE DUDLEY GALLERY.
girls. The costumes and trappings, the elaborately sculptured works in terra-cotta is a clever group struggli™ o^’e^ kte,h
arabesque portal, and rich moucharabia, from which a lady Signor Barella, which has only too much Italian “ go bj
inmate is stealing a glance at the visitor, are all carefully and well may be pardoned the expression. g ’ lf we
painted. Excellently painted, also, and fully as characteristic
'2“ ,™» “ «■“. °134)'lt 1 aSoSSi^n < b^?StoS’frem“ 8 3^ t )K'rf “WHISTLER VERSUS RUSKIN"
danger, we say, is that artists should be tempted to prefer serviceableness whilst a kitten curling itself nn in tiZr P^mteff’ Mr. Whistler arose from a criticism by Mr. Buskin,
painting smaU pictures, likely to sell at moderate prices, SS?S?%fc^^ Mr P u CUl ^ V ntin P 5
instead of occupying themselves with works demanding careful sunlight. F J p sy Mr. Whistler, which that artist himself detcribed as
study, and therefore calculated to secure advancement in art. Of works of imaginative insniratinn there i« the „ 0 „ Q i nocturnes, symphonies,” “ harmonies,” or “arrange-
The danger is even greater where, as here, un exliibition is dearth Almost the <mlv touch of noetic fanev nn far Z ^ “ en ts, on the assumption that their effects are analogous to
organised by a large committee of the contributors themselves, mSmberl^curs in the feZle fiLPe nf Mr W.’iZ’ fil th ° Se ^ u . sic ; They do, indeed, render, as it were, a
not by dealers, as at the galleries we lately noticed. In for a Picture” (79) she being engaged arranging fln„?Pf lgn vague rhythmical echo of nature in a few hasty, more or less
natural sympathy with the artists, the public is apt to enter- her bed, Shile Loro foes out oT^fow ^fwrtvrn™* t0ne ‘*n ,, The T W . ere U0 ? ced ua when exhibited
tain illusions recrardlnff them and the often uniustlv mali^nied nf \ r ^ ___^ comes in at the Grosvenor Gallery last year, but we gave a fuller review
pains fora possibly frequent customer. It is a significant fact ob£ous^interpretationofPovatyasa^wnif ^ f ° r W^stlers ownsake, no less than for the
that the Paris dealers have always had through their hands SSTIiS^S^taSStaJfla d^ves sriff hifftegS P^tect^ of the purchaser, Sir Coutts-Lindsay ought not to
a very large proportion of the mass of good work produced in foreground Then this gives but a’one sided iS fe th f “ W0 J 1 “ mto the gaUery m which the ill-educated
France The great French school does not seem to have suf- there of the proVcrb Tndced in no uwet1« S n git ?° ncei * of th T e 80 nearl y approached the aspect of wilful
fered thereby; and it certainly has not benefited much by the adapted for romS^MriouTteZwZ^ncif Z imposture. I have seen and heard much of cockney impu-
recently-established minor exhibitions, with their impressionist, seems to contemnlate And w? hSf teo r T e w f enc ® be j or8 llow > bu ‘ ne J er ejected to hear a coxcomb ask
vagaries andother eccentricities. However, we should, perhaps, Mr. Watts’s genius to f °I < W ° bund ^ ed g™?™ 3 for fll »g ln g a pot of paint in the public’s
be grateful to the Dudley committee for showing some pro- in parte so 8 enriouste ,1 80 o 6loven1 /- and face x Mr. Buskin was excused from appearing in court on
iects for pictures and studies from nature which would hardly public exhibition even ^in^he 3 ^ medium^’a dea^^xr^ ac ^ ount ofdlness ; but the plaintiff was examined, and artists
have come under the public eye by other agency. We WgelSiSXthe Sw^, Mr ‘ aa d art-critics were called as witnesses for both sides, with the
* he d “ idrf —• - - »
Among works which treat an incident, scene, or impression, looking a street wffh r u . nder , a P erlst ; v le over- whether the criticism was fair as well as boua fide, they again
with comparative completeness, is Mr Hay’wood Hardy’s S Kver hoZ it h a g nneZ thL P 8881 ,^ chan °t- We would retired, and ultimately a verdict for the plaintiff wa/given,
humorous “Forced Company” (284). A young faWr hfomZilliS l? 6 ^ T damages one farthing, the Judge further deciding that the
mounted, with a pretty girl riding pillion behind him is over- dde TZ aL T n °? t the nearer tban t. he fa rihor verdict should not carry costs.
taken by the handsome young squire, in the tippeted riding- gem The materials ue <ff°the & ch “ mui 8 idyllic The “ contemptuous dnmages ” of the verdict (as the Judge
coat ( redmgote) of the Regency, who checks his hunter to keep “ Nut-Brown Maids ” (2891 fH^ a ?° u P le . of defined such damages to be in his summing up) pretty plainly
abreast with the farmer’s sober dobbin, and persists in a con- field from a spot where sit a nab^n/ W« mn8 f ^f° Ugh a ? how that 14 was scarcely worth Mr. Whistler’s while to bring
versation with the damsel that is evidently well received by is poetr^iteel ?L / f the s , cene hls ? ctlon = und had he not been “thin-skinned” (using
her, though her jealous companion steadily turns his head of softest summer sunlight ^ f 01 ? 611 “ edl “ m another of the Judge’s expressions) he would hardly have done
away from the unwelcome intruder. The difficult entire fore- pervades two pictures hflfr p n>ee ^dyllic feeling likewise so. On the other hand, the verdict would seem to establish
shortening of the horses as they advance directly before us is of a shepherd hov hailing hi fl ' w^ oms ’ Particularly that that the personal remarks of Mr. Ruskin did exceed the tech-
surmounted with rare skill of draughtsmanship; and the grey abT£2Sh? pa84ure8 - a nical limits of fair criticism. It would, however, none the
execution throughout is remarkably dainty, perspicuous, and children frightened hv a °* ber ,JS 1 . c . ture of le8S be the gravest misfortune for art, as for literature
descriptive. Similar completeness, in a warmer key of colour slight and 8 ot,herwis 11 Harv ® st (264) seems or public morals, if the utmost possible freedom were not
distinguishes Mr. Hodgson’s figu^ of the Algerian “ S SmXlleST^pS^-wilf 1 ^ ? I' 98 ,° f - P T th £ ? llowed to critici8 “- We may regret Mr. Rnskin’s
Poet (424), sitting with writhing limbs, and his hand to his Barnard’s “Tnrd a so D ^ e fou , nd , 11 ^.? Ir ; inveterate lmbit of exaggeration, and his partial views;
uchmg head, in the throes of poetic composition after numerous Progress” Mr J D Wat.«nn>« Buu I' an . 8 few > P r °bably, have differed from him in opiniou morefre-
abortive efforts to deliver himself of sufficiently high-flown the head of the room' of ^ la f gG - picture ( l69 ). at qnently than ourselves; but of his bona-fides there cannot
imagery—as we see by the rejected sheets at his feet. Very partners name ZTer W^f do ellWrlug a Prospective be a shadow of doubt. Nor can it be forgotten that he has
droU also, is the smartly got-up Algerian (435), whose turban however is to from^Z^fw engagements, which, done an infinite service to British art by his eloquence, his
another man is decorating with a flower by way of “ A Finish- Scholderer’s groun nf 7 hnv Zh 1 ° r < 8 ? ntltaent : Mr. 0. outspoken sincerity, his learning, diligence, and generosity,
mg Touch. The phrase (which has been bandied about so Flanders” (2^5) ■ M Tissot’s “Reve^ 7the - Duu ,V 8 . of bis sensibility to all that is beautiful in nature and art, and
much of late), “ Peace with Honour,” is taken by Mr. MarS inTwteker fauteuil' ovTr?Zling I (2,0 > a girl re £ U,lin g hi8 ^rveiit zeal and enthusiasm for everything that is true and
os the motto for a pleasant little picture—a portrait, pre- study but which seems a c ? n8er ' at : or y. an effective noble in aim or accomplishment. He has done far more for
eumably—of an elderly gentleman in morning dressing-gown works’which first made the Zt' ^ I ? arked . tldl ! n g off from Gie British art than any artist living, and both artiste and public
and slippers, seated in his library immersed in a favourite T E Cox’s “ 1 I ast l it “ n ot? WU1D thl8 C ° u , nt 7 • Mr - ™ a « da v the deepest obligations to him. *
author. Here every detail-every book on the well-filled her hand at nAlf y ^, B lad L klS8 - in ^ And let it be granted with aU cordiality that Mr.Whistler
shelves, the good man’s robe-de-chambre, the Guardian news- Spelling-Book” (1871 ’whir.ii W - Wynheld s ‘ The New evinces, especially in advanced work which affords a fairer test,
paper fallen at his side, the dozing cat, &«.-« p 5nted emphaUc ~ 18 prett >:- but sadly needs some such as portraits, an uncommonly delicate perception of
with a perfectly impartial carefulness, which, while agreeable Macquoid’s^prightl’v little niH-nre mm vig°J ir ; Mr. Percy chromatic harmonies (though still within very narrow limits
to examine seriatim, conveys an impression of somewhat hand to a bull-terner to he li k damscl g [ Y ia g ber of flatness and negative effect); yet, what are the performances
monotonous prosaic tameness when regarding the picture as a line from Madame de StaM—“ . Wlth ’. by of tltle > 4he to which Mr. Ruskin more particularly alluded? And is it
ehihl e r# dosep b Clark evinces so genuine a sympathy with j’aime les cliiens • ” Mr PAtehre!^ 8 ^a^S* 8 ce8 plus possible to criticise an artist’s work without, by implication,
child-life that we can hut regret his confirmed‘chalkiness of W Waterhouse’s Pomneian “ At Jiome (199); Mr. J. criticising the artist himself—his work being the very essence
colouring and tendency to smoothen off every .accident of M. Wwd’s “Lreet SeZe ’ , Mr Edgar o£ his Personality? Those productions are surely the merest
texture and natural mcidence of light and shade. Apart from Stacey’s cottage interior mihi.JfZ 150 ^ +i 340 ’ M f -. w - s - artistic notes or memoranda of a few colour relations, such as
f2i e 9 tboroughly enjoyable is the picture Messrs. H Paget G BirrlZ 41lecontrl b ut >onsof every artist should, and many artiste do often, “knock off, "as
Bayes^ and' IL^Hal^^T^re^i^^esi^s. ^xceffenf 0 hnle in a cou P le
enact1na^h Pla7i ^ g ^' 4 b its toy-boaL whilst a girl of 8 ^fteen, ftE' Z fortLite 522 -ellent smMl'burt by "tentativ^ 0^^, Tnd te se^
second niother, wupea a little older cherub, Haanen—“ A VenetianOirl "nn^ Ur m* 8 (437) and C. \ an for after reference. They can scarcely be caller
»uri ' *■ 18 manfud y buttoning up liis boots without Miss Starr (86). ’ Mrs. Jopluig (30/) and they are too arbitrary for that. But what if an artist,
naivete he Ghimney-Corner ” (23) has a similar charm of There are a few pictures of mnrteri n wn • , . , smitten by some accidental suggestive charm-frequency
“of.. . . u A1 human interest £'diffiteinS Gd ablhf y’. m which the caught in such rapid notes-sHould fancy them worthy
teehnieni pa m* :er 8 who take a more generous view of the are Mr Waterlow’s “ On a Thame a > G >°/o™\ an ^ e >'. Gf such to rank beside pictures that have taken months of tail
^ifS^ U ^^ t80 L^ rt H r F Mor « ano ‘^pie«afore- SdyTinde?]her^Japanese^ (9 ^ ^ a , young to P roduce - a «d should price them accordingly? Would
scheme of ootoirt^ 6 n +1* p t8u bdued and harmonious high bed of luxuriant grasses and ilowJ.rinS TT tb f 0ug , 1 a breast- it not be excusable for an earnest critic and an enemy toevery-
rather slender anTt^’re ^K th blS two Pictures, however, are Colin Hunter’s “In Search of Sea plant8 : iIr ' thing having the semblance of a sham, to think that the artist
W Th.2 d threadbare as regards sentiment and sub- looking out for “ floteamZnri J 4 l ^ boy on 11 pony was imposing on himeelf first, and (imconsciously, of course
(148), arii^other’Sher hah‘e^?iZ t£ ha . Ug . ef , ul 8 7 mar ^ n of a curved bay, where ^he bl£ wfvSnnw ^ a f bing the o£one 8eeki “ g °vi™it
serve modestly
called sketches,
scheme nf 7? h ptsubdued and harmonious high bed of luxuriant grasses and a breast- it not be excusable for an earnest critic and an enemy to every-
rather slender anTt^’re dK th blS two Pictures, however, are Colin Hunter’s “In Search of Sea plants : iIr ' thing having the semblance of a sham, to think that the artist
l™ a8 r f? ards sentiment and sub- looking out for “ floteam Zd i ft ft ^ boy on . a P ony was imposing on himself first, and (imconsciously, of course
(148) a ginsv motw’J^ 1 ^ 8 ’^ 8 ^ U ° der a Changeful Sky” margin of a curved bay where the hln!°f g the sur£ 1 * fnnged approaching the aspect of one seckiug to impose on others^
her siZ PP fi lttto^ h rL:Zl^ he i babe at ^ er breast aud a ffirl a t peacefully : this is strong natotin^ w 7 now dftace aU flight it not. even be legitimately inferred that, in bis conceit
clouds while the dn e3p011 H 1 ^ gly T a Death under lowering colour; Mr. C Napier Ilemv’s tL 7° ^ J latur C’ and . h ne iu or illusion, he had not “educated ” himself in art sufficiently
Xte J the camp kettle 8 lowly “The 8hrimZr’’Tl61)-fn ILb 8 ° hd pic - ture8 ’ to appreciate what constitutes a picture? Whether if the
8 f°, nge , r colour ing and the obtained without b ackness-an?’ J°T?I er ’ f the P °rf, 18 not artist ^ided in London, bv way of exposing a form of «nr-
KmXSTi;,’w he Scotch school, and the result, where we see^thefisheZiTn^thri,! ^' ,,g fC T (l74) ’ a,lce supposed to be peculiar to the metropolis, it would be
in his picture of “ FiaheZmJ’s Chff dren b ” n a “ d moderntiou dredging net that he hoists to the boat’s edgt-miThte H* ^ des,rable to charge hlm with cockney impudence is » further
selves on the verge of a iettx wifi! ” GH) amusing them- Macallum’s Scotch loch scene with a mH iZln ftIr ,Hamilton question ior the critic’s judgment, conscience, and taste. B
forming a harbour risintr ^’ar n^e^ a . C j ant milfiS of water, Hay ” (35) from a boat. Mr G D I e5i« g ^adow the critic should be at least sure of his facts ; and hs regard
height at which the horizontal the bunlscape-painters only with n view (2261 at th ® G. 10 bwt proposition, Mr. Whistler’s “ nocturnes,
emntv anaee hl } e . 18 P la c'ed. This of the old-fashion-d “ Angel ItoW “ 1 1 y '° U - lh,imes ’ nies - and “arrangements ” have no affinity with theebam-
ippears to have - 1 „i._ —si
empty space of pole” groen"" H pr i ex‘ , i e 1 18 piaceU - This I °f the old-fashioned “Angel iiotrfl““"onX^.t+ le7 e*u Pba “^’ nie8 .”and“arrangemente”havenonffinitywiththecbam-
sp ce pale green sea or loch appears to have 1 bourhood whence were dSvS sevetoof toea^^ 6 T g t' teristic8 of aa y “cockney” artiste; but merely carry to tha
ca 8Cveral o£ the artist’s back- extreme the principles of the French impressionistes; whilst
NOV. 30, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
519
the artist himself is of American parentage, but was bom in
Russia.
The private views of the Winter Exhibitions of the Society
of Painters in Water Colours and the Society of British Artists
take place to-day. The respective galleries open to the public
on Monday.
Mr. Seymour Haden, the distinguished amateur etcher, has
lent a number of his works, together with a selection from
his collection of etchings by the old masters, to the Fine-Art
Society, New Bond-street. Mr. Haden has also written a
pamphlet “ About Etching,” especially in reference to the
exhibited works; but as it is announced that neither the col¬
lection nor the pamphlet is in its final and complete form
and arrangement we defer a notice.
The Prince of Wales has presented to the Sevres Museum
the tomb in faience which figured in the Indian Exhibition at
the Champ de Mars.
Mr. Leighton, the President Elect of the Royai Academy,
received the gold medal and chain of the office from the
Queen on Monday last, after which her Majesty conferred the
honour of knighthood upon him.
Mr. Herkomer and Mr. Holman Hunt have been very ill,
but we are glad to hear that there is an improvement in the
condition of both artists.
It is reported that there is a scheme on foot for decorating
the Townhall, Manchester, with paintings by Messrs. F. Madox
Brown and F. Shields. So far as we are aware, neither of
these artists has had experience in mural decoration on a
large scale.
Messrs. Graves and Son have published a mezzotint by Mr.
Josey, after a portrait of Mr. Carlyle by Mr. Whistler. This
is the first mezzotint after one of Mr. Whistler’s pictures.
Sir Coutts Lindsay has received her Majesty’s permission
to publish a complete series of reproductions by the autotype
S rocess from the drawings by the old masters in the Royal
brary at Windsor. They will be arranged in four portfolios,
of winch the first two will contain one hundred drawings by
Leonardo da Vinci. The third portfolio will contain the
drawings of Raphael and Michael Angelo ; and the fourth will
be devoted to early Italian masters, to Diirer, Claude, &c.
The secretary of the Somersetshire Archmological Society
announces that excavations have been made at Wedmore, long
supposed to have been the site of one of the palaces of our
early English kings, and that extensive remains of ancient
walla have been found there which lead to the belief that they
belong to the palace of Arthur and our West Saxon kings.
The following British artists have been awarded the decora¬
tion of the Legion of Honour at the ch.se of the Paris
Exhibition : Officers: Sir Frederick Leighton, Millais, Alma
Tadema. Knights: Sir John Gilbert, P. Calderon, G. F.
Watts, W. P. Frith, J. Collier, Carl Haag.
A splendid series of chromo-lithographic copies have been
S roduced from Professor Caspar Scheuren’s series of paintings
lustrating the landscape, myths, history, and monuments of
the Rhine Provinces, which paintings have lately been pre¬
sented by the Empress of Germany to the New Museum at
Cologne. About 350 sets of the photographs are to be offered
to the English public through the agency of the New Book
Court at the Crystal Palace.
It appears that nearly the whole of the Exhibition Palace
on the Champ de Mars is to be preserved, and devoted partly
to the purposes of a national museum and partly to the storing
of war material. Only the Pavilion of the City of Paris will
be demolished, and the site of it converted into a magnificent
garden. The fine-art galleries will be used as a museum of
decorative art.
A monument is to be erected in the town of Chalons-sur-
Saonc to Joseph Nicephore Niepce, the inventor of photography.
A statue of Berryer, by M. Chapu, has been placed in the
Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais de Justice, Paris. At the pedestal
are seated female figures representing Eloquence and Fidelity.
A statue of the late Maharajah Ramanath Tajore, who was
for ten years President of the British India Association, is to
be erected in Calcutta. Mr. Geflowski has been intrusted with
the execution of the work.
The inventor of the new wall decoration called “ Muralis,”
which we noticed last week, is Mr. Walton.
MUSIC.
HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE.
The second appearance of Mdlle. Ambre took place on Thurs¬
day week, in the same character as that in which she recently
made her debut here—Violetta in “ La Traviata.” The
reception of the singer was again of the most favourable kind,
and the impression already made gave much interest to the
promise of her performance as Margherita, in “ Faust,”
announced for Thursday, of which we must speak next week.
On Monday “ Lucia di Lammermoor” was given, with the
clever performance of Mdlle. Alwina Valleria as the heroine.
■“ Carmen" is still continuing its successful career, having
been again announced for Tuesday and yesterday (Friday)
evening, and being promised for the last morning performance
of the season on Wednesday next.
Weber's “ Oberon ”—which has not been heard in London
for many years—is to be produced, with new scenery, dresses,
and decorations, on Dec. 7.
THE SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.
The opening of the forty-seventh season took place yesterday
(Friday) week, with an interesting, although familiar, pro¬
gramme. Mendelssohn’s “ Hymn of Praise” (“ Lobgesang ”)
and Rossini’s “ Stabat Mater” have before been given in
association by the society, and each repetition attracts large
audiences, as was the case on the occasion now referred to.
The contrast between the elevated dignity of Mendelssohn’s
music and the rich and florid melody of that of Rossini renders
the associated performance of the masterpieces just named
especially interesting. The vocal solos in the “ Lobgesang”
were well rendered by Miss A. Williams, Mrs. Sutcr, and Mr.
Lloyd. In the duet (with chorus) “ I waited for the Lord,”
Mrs. Muter was an efficient second to Miss Williams, and the
piece wus one of the effective features in the solo music; others
having been Miss Williams’s rendering of her share in the
duct, “ My song shall be alway,” in whivh Mr. Lloyd sang
finely, as he did in the remarkable declamatory solo passage,
“ Watchman, will the night soon pass ? ” The sublime chorus,
‘‘The night is departing,” and the chorale, “Let all men
praise the Lord,” were among the general grand choral effects
of the evening.
The vocal solos in the “ Stabat Mater ” were very effectively
sung by Miss Williams. Madame Patey, Mr. Lloyd, and Mr.
Bridsou. The duet “Quia est homo”—finely given by the
two ladies—was enthusiastically applauded, and had to be
repeated; other specialties having been the delivery of the
cavatina “ Fac ut portem,” by Madame Patey; of the air
“ Cujus animam,” by Mr. Lloyd: the “ Inflammatus,” by
Miss Williams; and “ Pro pcccatis,” by Mr. Bridsou.
The orchestra gave great effect to the symphonic move¬
ments of Mendelssohn’s cantata, and the elaborate accompani¬
ments to that and the “Stabat,” and the chorus singing—
occasionally somewhat too predominant—was, generally, very
satisfactory.
Sir Michael Costa reappeared as conductor, and was
warmly greeted. The performances were preceded by the
National Anthem.
Two more concerts will be given before Christmas—on
Dec. 13 Rossini’s “Moses in Egypt” will be the oratorio (as
produced in that shape by the society in May last with great
success), and on Dec. 20 “ The Messiah ” will be performed.
Seven concerts are announced in completion of the series,
ranging from Jan. 17 to April 25, and comprising well-
known and favourite sacred works.
MADAME JENNY VIARD-LOUI8’8 CONCERTS.
The new series (the second) of these excellent concerts began
on Tuesday evening, again under the able conductorship of
Mr. Weist Hill. The band, as before, is of exceptional excel¬
lence ; and the orchestral playing on Tuesday was of the same
high order as at the previous concerts.
Tuesday’s programme opened with the overture to
“ Oberon,” which was rendered with admirable spirit and
refinement. This was followed by the characteristic “ Danse
des Sylphs,” from Berlioz’s “Damnation de Faust,” which
was played with great delicacy, and had to be repeated.
After this Madame Viard- Louis played, with much executive
skill, a fantasia for pianoforte solo by Cherubini, one of the
many works left in manuscript by the great master at his
death, and still remaining unpublished. It is a long and
elaborate piece, consisting of several divisions, in each of
which the genius and power of, the composer are strongly
manifested. The interest and value of the fantasia are so
great that it is to he hoped it may soon find publication. Its
performance was followed by the bravura air, “ Che pur
aspro,” from Mozart’s opera, “ Belmont e Constanza ” which
was brilliantly sung by Miss Thursby, who was greatly
applauded.
The central piece of the selection was Brahms’s new
symphony, in D maior, which was first given in England at
the opening Crystal Palace concert of the present series, in
October last, when we spoke of the merits of the work. Again
on Tuesday it received a very fine interpretation, and pleased
greatly, especially the “ Allegretto,” which had to be repeated.
Miss Thursby then sang the romance, “In my pleasant land
of France,” from Mr. H. Leslie’s cantata “ Holyrood,” which
was followed by Hummel's last pianoforte concerto (in F), a
posthumous work, which was played with much power by
Madame Viard-Louis. A charming “ Gavotte,” for orchestra,
by M. Bourgault-Ducoudray, pleased greatly, and received a
unanimous encore; and the concert terminated with a very
characteristic orchestral fantasia on Spanish airs, composed by
M. Gevaert, the principal of the Brussels Conservatoire.
The two last pieces were given for the first time in London,
not so, we believe (as stated in the concert-book), with the
aria of Mozart nnd the concerto. Mr. Hill conducted, with
the same special ability as before. The next concert is to take
place on Dec. 17.
Lost Saturday’s Crystal Palace concert brought forward a
symphony by Haydn (in C minor), which, it is said, had never
before been given in England. Although apparently a work
of the master’s earlier period, it is full of genial grace and
melodic beauty, and was heard with much interest. The same
cannot be said of a new pianoforte concerto by Rheinberger,
which, skilfully aB it is written, both for the solo instrument
and the orchestral accompaniments, is dry and laboured
throughout. The excessive and incessant difficulties of the
pianoforte part were admirably rendered by Mr. Charles
Halle, whose performance was a masterly display of
sustained executive power. Two characteristic move¬
ments from the divertissement of M. Massenet’s “ Les
Erinnyes,” the overture to “ La Gazza Ladra,” detached
pianoforte solo pieces by Bach (played by Mr. Halle), and
familiar vocal solos by Mdlle. Keller and Mr. Lloyd completed
the programme.
The second of Dr. Von Biilow’s pianoforte recitals took
place on Wedesday, when his programme consisted of
Schumann’s fantasia in C, Beethoven's sonata “ Les Adieux,
1’Absence, et le Retour;” and pieces by Rheinberger,
Tschaikowsky, Chopin, and Liszt.
The fourth of the present series of London Ballad Concerts
tcok place at St. James’s Hall on Wednesday evening, when
the vocalists announced were Mesdames Sherrington and
Antoinette Sterling, Miss Mary Davies, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr.
E. Lloyd, Mr. Santley, and Mr. Maybrick; the programme
also including pianoforte solos by Madame Arabella Goddard
and part-singing by the gentlemen of the London Vocal Union.
The second of the Saturday Evening Concerts took place
last week, when a popular and familiar selection of vocal music
was contributed by Mrs. Osgood, Mesdames Lemmens-Sher-
rington and Patey, Misses M. Williams and de Fonblanque,
Mr. W. H. Cummings, Mr. V. Rigby, Mr. W. Clifford, and
Signor Brocolini. Madame Arabella Goddard contributed some
brilliant pianoforte-playing, and Mr. Howard Reynolds two
effective solos on the comet.
The second concert of the new season of the Royal Albert
Hall Choral Society took place on Thursday evening, when
Haydn’s “Creation” was given.
St. Andrew’s Day (Nov. 30) is to be musically celebrated by
concerts of Scotch music at St. James’s Hall, Exeter Hall, and
the Royal Albert Hall.
Mr. S. Hayes has announced a week’s performances of
English opera at Covent-Garden Theatre, beginning on Satur¬
day next. Mr. Sims Reeves is to make his first appearance
there as Tom Tug in “ The Waterman,” Captain Macheath
in “ The Beggar's Opera,” and Henry Bertram in “ Guy
Mannering.”
Organ Recitals are still being given weekly at the Angell
Town Institution, Brixton; the organist on Saturday last
having been Mr. C. J. Frost. For this week Mr. Fountain
Meen is announced; for Saturday next, Mr. Edward Barnes ;
for Dec. 14, Mr. J. Broadhouse; and for the following Saturday,
Mr. William Lemare.
The solo pianist at this week’s Monday Popular Concert
was Madame Montigny Remaury, who played with much effect
Beethoven’s “Moonlight” sonata, besides having been asso¬
ciated with Madame Norman-Neruda and Signor Piatti in M.
Saint-Saens’s trio in F. Schubert’s quintet in C was the other
instrumental piece of the evening, the executants having been
Madame Neruda and MM. Ries, Zerbini, Pezze, and Piatti.
Mdlle. Redeker gave, with much expression, some lieder by
Schubert and Franz, accompanied by Sir Julius Benedict.
A performance is announced to take place at St. James’s
Hall on Wednesday morning next for the benefit of the widow
nnd children of Mr. E. Ellis, whose recent death has left them
destitute. Mr. Ellis was for many years associated with the
orchestra of the Adelplii Theatre; for the greater part of the
time as conductor.
Saturday performances of operas in English at tho Alex¬
andra Palace, and opera recitals at the Royal Aquarium, are
still going on. For this week “ Lurline” is announced at the
former, and “ Lucia di Lammermoor ” at the latter place.
THEATRES.
At the Folly new life has been given to two pieces recently
produced elsewhere. One, the comedy called “ Retiring,” by
Mr. Williamson, that hails from the Globe; and the other, Mr.
W. S. Gilbert’s “ Wedding March,” originally acted at the
Court. Both dramas merit revival, and, as they are now acted
at this elegant little theatre, will well repay a visit. Mr.
Lionel Brough in the part of the livery-stable keeper, Samuel
Snaffles, realises the characteristic points of the honest middle-
class hero, whose respectability is suddenly imperilled, and
rises to pathos in his undeserved suffering. Miss Lydia
Thompson, as a hungry maid-servant, revels in the humour
of the conception. Mrs. Carter is great in Mrs. Snaffles,
Mr. J. Danvers as a detective is a good representative of a role
abundantly illustrated and affording few new points, and the
general cast is satisfactory. Mr. W. S. Gilbert’s rendering of
the old French farce, “ Le Chapeau de Paille d’ltalie,” loses
nothing of its rollicking spirit by its transfer to these boards.
Mr. W. J. Hill accompanies it in its new quarters, and as Uncle
Bopaddy, a deaf gentleman, is at once natural and comic;
nor is he without assistance in the excellent cast of the other
numerous characters, each of whom in turn provokes irrepres¬
sible laughter. The curtain falls upon an audience literally
exhausted with the wild and pitiless mirth which they have
been compelled to sustain through three acts of unmitigated
fun. The scenic accessories are all commendable and aid in
the general effect.
Miss Heath has appeared with great success in the character
of Jane Shore in Mr. Wills’s play at the Standard, where it has
been produced with scenic accessories worthy of its merits.
AN IRISH PIG FAIR.
“Plazethe pigs” is the proverbial condition that an Irish
peasant would formerly attach to any pecuniary promise. For
it was an established maxim, in those days of “haphazard,
not scientific ” rural economy, that “the pig pays the rint.”
Money, with our friend Paddy, meant little else than pigs and
their price in the market; even as the etymology of our dig¬
nified word “ pecuniary ” is but an allusion to the Latin name
of cattle. We understand, and hope it is so, that the Irish small
farmer has now some other commodities for sale. Butter he can
well produce, thanks to the sweetest fresh grass upon earth, and
to improved skill of dairy management, in vast quantities
and of beautiful fresh quality. Corn is not to be thought of
in Ireland, and perhaps not much in England, as a vendible
commodity against tho increasing foreign and colonial com¬
petition. Oats, indeed, are very suitable to the Irish climate.
The pig. the “ darlint,” and good luck to him ! is still to the
fore. Wo look into a handy little volume, “Introduction to
Irish Farming,” by Mr. Thomas Baldwin, Superintendent of
the Agricultural Department of National Education in our
sister island. He informs us that in 1870 Ireland rejoiced in
the possession of a million and a half of swine—may their
shadow never grow less ! He reckons that the yearly sale of
them is worth five or six millions sterling. It is the humble
cottiers, and cultivators of leBS than fifty acres, who rear two
thirds of these favourite animals. Piggy has been truly called the
poor man’s savings bank and justly the poor man’s friend. He
is the greatest domestic benefactor, the best of Home Rulers.
Yet the Berkshire and Yorkshire breeds are preferred in
Ireland. Buy a store pig for £1, and keep him in the sty or
yard, with more or less space for exercise according to his
destination for bacon or for pork, as running about will make
his flesh rather streaky. Cherish him as one of your children ;
fatten him with all the refuse of the kitchen, dairy, bam
garden, and field; in winter give him roots, cabbages, o
damaged potatoes; in summer treat him with vetches an
clover. It is well to cook some of the food; boiling or
steaming the potatoes. The most nutritious diet is Indian
com, with bran; but that costs money. Three regular meals
a day are what he expects; and who has a better right to them ?
for who works harder in his vocation, that of “ laying on fat?”
Let him put it on in peace from day to day; he is not to be
bothered. He should have plenty of clean water; a careful
master or mistress will give him a fair washing every Saturday,
or at least a good rubbing down with a brush or wisp of straw.
The pig is by nature a decent, nice, neat, and orderly creature
in his personal habits. It is we who force him to live untidy
He does not like any dirt in his sty; be so kind as to remov
it daily, and let his trough be without speck or stain. A1
these precepts, and more, are urged by Mr. Baldwin, with a
high degree of authority, on behalf of the pet Irish beast. It
grants responsive gratitude and fattens visibly before our eyes.
Now let us suppose the porker nine months old. Behold in
his rounded sides, as it were, a living Savings’ Bank, with a
sum of £3 to £5 safe to the provident Irishman’s timely
account! “This little pig went to market,” with several of
his companions. “ An Irishman in all his glory was there; ”
many of the same class, and some brave Irishwomen. Our
Artist has made a sketch of them, chaffering over a purchase.
We hear from Dublin that Mr. Holmes, Q.C., Castle adviser,
has been appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland.
The American Minister has paid to her Majesty’s Govern¬
ment the amount of tho Halifax Fisheries Award, by a check
on Messrs. Morton, Rose, and Co., for 5,500,000 dols. in gold.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have awarded
medals for long service and good conduct to the following:—
Colour-Sergeant William Kennedy, Royal Marine Light
Infantry; Sergeants James Willis and John Heath, Royal
Marine Artillery; Sergeants T. J. Casterton and W. H. Clay,
Royal Marine Light Infantry; Gunner James Court, Royal
Marine Artillery; and Private Nunn, Marine Light Infantry.
The now Townhall and Free Library scheme at Reading is
in abeyance, on account of its being estimated that the eost
will be upwards of £60,000, whereas it was not originally
intended to expend more than between £30,000 and £40,000.
It is now proposed to carry out the scheme so far os an
expenditure of £40,000 is concerned, leaving the extras to be
provided for at a future time. The subscriptions have already
reached £25,000.
The second annual exhibition of fat cattle, &c., was held at
Norwich on the 21st inst., in a large building erected for the
purpose. Tho entries were large. The prizes were of tho
value of about £700, and amongst the exhibitors were the
Prince of Wales, Mr. J. J. Colman, M.P., and Mr. C. S. Read,
M.P. The champion prize of £100, which includes the Prince
of Wales’s special prize for the best beast in the yard, was
won by Mr. Thomas Bond, of Lincolnshire, with a shorthorn
steer; tho Prince of Wales took a second prize for a Devon
steer ; and several others were carried off by Mr. J. J.
Colman, M.P.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 30, 1878.—521
FLOODS IN RO.V
: VIEW LOOKING UP nirETTA TO PIAZZA DEL 1'OPOH
fTIIEON.
MINISTERIAL VISIT TO CYPRUS.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
appears one great lake, reaching to the mountains; and,
unfortunately for us in Rome, all the water to the north has
tnrv _. 1 .i, to find an outlet. The Via Ripetta, of
--- umonuunroj „ J - 4 rrT,- Via Ifft of 1111 nr.*, oitt l. ii. V*. JUL.UMEnjSLD, BART
The visit of the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Secretary to p)i8S through Rome to find outlet appearance The Eev - Sir Thomas Eardley Wilmot Blomefield
of State for War to Cyprus is the subject of one of Oltf IUub- -/ohJj.end . •toteb, h»-*£”«**£•;^Baronet, of Attleborough, kSEjmS
trations. Her Majesty's troop-ship Himalaya, with Mr. W. of a street in \ enice. From t “® J"™? «» m aii natch of ground <L Pontefract on the 21st inst. He was bom
H. Smith, Colonel Stanley, and a numerous P art f street appeam all underwater, except a «®dl p b tfa d XffSS AuR ‘ 3 ’ 1820 > the eldest * on of Sir ThoJS
arrived at Laruuca on the 1st inst. lheywere received by a t the end of one of the cross st • p .j the Horse- William Blomefield,second Baronet, by Salome
General Sir Garnet Wolseley, the High Jommiss oner who Piazza del Popolo “ Jhe so-called but his wife, daughter of Samuel Kefcwfch £ ’
had come down to await their urnvaUtUruaea. JJnAaa«t ahoePiaaa, where the lottery u> drawing had to HT1-(*1 ° f Peamore. Devon, and was educated at Tfiffiy
College, Cambridge, where he graduated M A
in 1846. He was Vicar of All Saints’, Ponte-
had come down to await tneir umv»i m. — TT^rrC' ■—Zll'j' the drawing had to <TI -011 oi reamore. juevon, ana was educated at Trinity
day they proceeded in a body to Nicosia, and r ';[ m i ined .. as this piazza was some feet deep ’ other Startling 8 1 * College, Cambridge, where he graduated M K
guests of his ExceUency and the Head-quarter Staff at the be put 0 ff an d no doubt th «in 1846. He was* Vicar of Allslu’Pont’
Monastery Camp, which was the subject of a sketch we pub- event , will make a great many more *?£ill lZe “grin? by 1 ^ fract > from 1859 to 1872, when he became iW
lishcd a few weeks ago. The same afternoon they paid a f the next drawing, so tthose three^^ of Archbishop Holgate’s Hospital, hSS
visit to the town, and saw the principal build ?’ , the delay. The Ripetta Piazza del PodoIo and [ T' N \ v near that town. He succeeded his father
fine old Venetian Cathedral, now converted into the Moslem thoroughfares which converge in * h ® !1 ’ \/ y June 30, 1858. Sir Thomas married fiM
Mosque of St. Sophia; the Buy khan, or courthouse and except at a time like this, has nothing special about it. \ / Jan. 2, 1844, Georgina Louisa, thMdaugX
police station; and the Konak, which is the building used at — of General Sir Peregrine Maitland, G.cT
present for the head- quarters of the ml {' t£l 'T P° u , r ‘ THE VOLUNTEERS. Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and by her (who died
tad of polio* warDated on th. Slet’ult., ttojnttdta^wd « t^Sf aSSmTOSi O^dmghS” Hfc'rhS' £*
up outside the Baffo Gate to receive bur Garnet Wolseley and to its strength, the enrolled ^ now ste Thomas Wilmot Peregrine Blomefield, fourth Baronet'
his guests on their arrival, and followed the party, who were the previous year, and the efflmenU 8t y 2 -20 bom 1848, married, 1874, Lilias, daughter of Major the Hon'
mounted, through the winding bazaars and narrow streets of to 888 as against 816, or a percentage of 23 67 as agams • Nnnter cf Woodlands. Taunton, and has t.wn
. in 1846. He was Vicar of All Saints’, Ponte!
I / 'tf \ I fract, from 1859 to 1872, when he became Master
KqVvSj 1 of Archbishop Holgate’s Hospital, Hemsworth
l y' nT I near that town. He succeeded his father
1/ y June 30, 1858. Sir Thomas married first
Jan. 2, 1844, Georgina Louisa, third daughter
of General Sir Peregrine Maitland, G.C.B.
Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and by her (who died
‘pnrolled numbering 946 as against 885 in had by her five sons and three daughters. His eldest son,
'JLj the efflcientTcorrespondingly increased now Sir Thomas Wllmot Peregrme Blomefield, fourth Baronet,
or a D^nCeTfT3-6?rSinst 92 20. bom 1848, married, 1874, Lilias, daughter of Major the Horn
The subject of our sketch is the departure of the diatip- on the strength of the regiment. The 39th Middlesex (Fins- SIR J. B. EAST, BART,
guished guests from Nicosia. Having bidden farewell at the bury) returns 989 efficients out of a total enrolled of 990, the gir j ame8 Buller East, Bart., of Calcutta, M.A, D.C.L.,
llijrh Commissioner’s house, where they went to lunch, they pro flcient officers and sergeants numbering 74; the 36th formerly M.P. for Winchester, died on the
were escorted by him and the chief commandant of mili- Middlesex has 972 efficients out of 974 enrolled, 91 officers and 19th inst. He was bom Feb. 1, 1789, the only
tary police as far as the Lamaca gate, where they were sergeants holding certificates of proficiency; and the 37th Mid- son of the Right Hon. Sir Edward Hyde East,
met by an escort of mounted zaptiehs, uuder the Lieutenant dlesex (Bloomsbury) Rifle Regiment 966 out of 100th The 3rd Bart., F.R.S., M.P., Chief Justice of the
commanding, drawn up outside the gate according to instruc- London has also increased its enrolled strength and efficients, the —L C. -A Supreme Court, Calcutta, by his wife, Jane
turns and who accompanied the coach or omnibus some way f orm er being returned at 967 and the latter at 934. The -Tgr(jn~jgn Isabella, daughter of Joseph Chaplin Hankey,
out of the town. This “ bus” is used for the daily mail, and was North Middlesex return shows a strength of 746, every officer Esq., of Old Hall, East Bergholt, Suffolk, and
drawn by two horses and two mules. The view of Nicosia from anc j man being efficient. Among other returns of metropolitan succeeded his father as second Baronet Jan. 8,
the Lamaca road is most picturesque, comprising the venerable regiments which have been issued are the following:—26th / \ 1847. He received his education at Harrow,
Mosque of St. Sophia, and the numerous minarets of smaller Middlesex (Customs and Docks)—enrolled, 787 ; efficient, <70; / XX \ and at Christ Church, Oxford; was called to
mosques, intermixed with date-palms, and other species of pro fieient, 78. 49th Middlesex (Post Office)-enrolled, 757; / -0TS. the Bar at the Inner Temple, 1813; and in
vegetation, inclosed by a fortification of the bastion system; but efficient, 754; proficient, 75. 2nd Middlesex Artillery— / 1853 became a Bencher of that Inn. Sir James
which, according to modem warfare, would be perfectly useless, enrolled, 640; efficient, 607 ; proficient, 57. 1st London En- sat in Parliament for Winchester from 1830 to
The whole is backed by the sharp outlines of the Kyreniarange ginetrs-enrolled,475 ; efficient, 444; proficient, 25. 50th Mid- ^ 1832) an d f rom 1835 to 1864 ; andwasaJ.P.
of hills to the north-west; and to the south of the town is seen dltsex(Bunkof England)— enrolled, 86, efficient, 85: proficient6. an d D.L. for Gloucestershire. He married, June 27, 1822,
the Olympian Range The Head-Quarters Camp is situated Tower Hamlets Brigade—enrolled, 820; efficient, 746 ; capitation Caroline Eliza, sister of Chandoe, late Lord Leigh, and second
to the west of the town, and is not seen in this View. The gr an t earned, £1389. The Robin Hood return as usual their daughter of the late James Henry Leigh, Esq., of Stonelcigh
Mosque at the southern extremity of the tenvn was erected in ten companies of 100 efficient men each, the capitation grant, Abbey, in the county of Warwick; but by her (who died
memory of the first Turk who scaled the ramparts in the w , tb the addition of £165 for proficiency, amounting to £1665. April ^ 1870) had no issue ; the baronetcy consequently
assault and capture of the town from the Venetians. There -pbe i Bt Aberdeen have only 1 non- efficient, the efficients being becomes extinct.
are numerous graves scattered about, telling the tale where returned at 824. and 76 officers and sergeants receiving certifi- LADY HATHERLEY.
such and such a Moslem fell, especially in the taking of the cates of proficiency. The 1st Lanarkshire (Glasgow) has >pb e Bight Hon. Charlotte Lady Hat-herley, who died on the
Konak, and over each is placed a lantern, in respect to his increased its strength from 1134 to 1253, the efficients now 19th inst. at Red House, near Ipswich, was the only daughter
memory. Our Illustration is from a sketch by Lieutenant A. numbering no less than 1235, and the proficients 115, the 0 f Major Edward Moor, of Great Bealings, Suffolk, F.K.S.,
Gilmore, 61st Regiment, Local Commandant of the Military am ouut of capitation grant earned from the (’.overnment being and was married, Jan. 5,1830, to William Page Wood, Esq.
Police for the Nikosia District. £2140. The 1st Berks (Reading) has 1106 efficients out of (second son of Sir Matthew Wood, first Baronet, twice Loid
1 issue; the baronetcy consequently
THE INUNDATION IN ROME.
A correspondent iu Rome sends us the sketches we have
engraved, and writes as follows: —“ Noth withstanding the
many million francs wasted on Tiber improvement schemes,
the famous old river, as ill the days of Horace, still proves a
1115 enrolled, and 83 proficient officers aud sergeants; and the Mayor of London), who was created Lord Hatherley in 1868,
15th Lancashire (Liverpool) 841 efficients out ot 860 enrolled. ftnd wa8 Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from that year
Last Saturday afternoon at the Crystal Palace the regi- to 1872. Her Ladyship had no children.
mental and other prizes in connection with the brigade com- MB HAnRI
petition for this year of the London Brigade were distributed John Dovo H) . E of Bateliffe
bv the Lady Mayoress, in the presence ot the Lord Mayor, the T p ».»1 D I formerly M P
«ho-i<T. TT.kw.KhorifT* nf I^i.do.. and Middlesex, who ehire. J-P- aud D.L., formerly 01.1.
on the Wreake, Leicester-
for Leicester, died on the
the famous old river, as iu the days of Horace, still proves a sheriffs, uud Uuder-Sheriffs of Loudon and Middlesex, who ^ 1 ^ siitv'-nine He was the eldest soi of the late
great source of mischief to Rome. It has again buret its attended in state. The best company of the brigade of 18<8 , Harris Fea who was also M P. for Leicester, bv
bounds, curried away the wall meant to hold it in. at the wa8 Captain MiUer . 8 (the N compa uy). Richard Harris, Esq., who was^aiso ni.r^
At a luucheon at the Crown Hotel, Blandford, on the t b or p e ’ Northamptonshire, and was for many years head of
21st iust., Lieutenant-General W. Parke, C B., presented, in the fir J n> Harris and Sons, manufacturers, of Leicester. Mr.
bounds, carried away the wall meant to hold it in. at the Cnntuin Miller’s (the N eomnuuv) Richard Harris, r^sq., wno was ais . . •
“HSHSSrS”:
WedneKdiiv thu 13th inst 5 followed bv ft warm wind which nftmc %27 subscribers, to each of the four successful Harris sat in Parliament for that town from 1857 to 18o9 and
rlc » competitor, for the Loyd-Ltadwj pri» . nchly-chucd mlTer- , n „ m 1865 to I874 , ,„d twice hold the office of M.jor. H.
rt “’V, g", 1 " 6 -.- .“ ■ ?■!»- JSi HSiSrtf mnnied, in 1331- Emma, oldest daughter of hlr. George Shuley,
of T omworth, andleoree^asum
picturesque it look.-, with its noble portico rising out of the , u Pl ,eld 1 tuL The deaths have also been announced of—
water.. Though a long way from the river, it to on very low * ” b ‘ ed ®“’ “’ ,d cheered m they came forward Major Birch, 27th Regiment, killed iu the assault on Ah
rapidly that by noon on Thursday thw water had come out at
the quay of the Ripetta and in the low parts of the town.
The Pantheon is ulwuys one of the places flooded; and very
picturesque it looks, with its noble portico rising out of the
water. Though a long way from the river, it is on very low
water Though a long way from the river, it is on very low p ;^7 8 ^ “ t huriMtic^y cheered as they came forward Maji
11*111 imide, strlkiug on the -»ter through the clroulur eUrnghter, the drUl Im muctor of the n iimdfotd troop. I-mn
The deaths have also been announced of—
Major Birch, 27th Regiment, killed in the assault on Ali
Lieutenant Fitzgerald, 27th Regiment, killed at the capture
of Ali Musjid.
John Moore, Esq., late Captain 6th Dragoon Guards, on
opening at the top of the dome, has a very curious effect - _ , ,, „ , , n.i, -nmmvin Guards, on
when the water allows one to enter. Upon this occasion The operatives engaged in a branch of the cotton trade at Moore, Esq , 1 p o
there was ubout six feet of water in the church, and the Hood Oldham, having refused to accept a reduction of 5 per cent iu the 20th ult. at k;,
tlireateued to be as bad as the great one of 1870. By the their wages, begau a strike on Monday This has caused 120 Alderman Gnmsley, Mayor of Leicester, y>
middle of the day the Corso was inundated at various points, mills to stand idle, and the number cf operatives concerned is residence iu Southfielda.
and carts were employed to ferry people across the water; between 10,000 and 12,000. Lieutenant-Colonel James Lynn, R.E , on the Iztninst.,
pools of water appeared at every depression in the neighbour-
pools of water appeared at every depression in the neighbour- Th ,. re WU8 B largely-attended meeting of merchants, manu- at Wickham Market, aged seventy-four,
streets, aud the rising ground, unseen at other times, became fttuturer cler „„ £ud others at Sheffield on Monday, under The Rev. William James Damnier, M.A., Christ s College,
very prominent. 1 he Ghetto- specially Via h mmara. a very lhe pre6ideucy of the Mayor, for the purpose of raising a local Cambridge, for thirty-three years Vicar of Coggeshall, Essex-
low-lying street- is always liable to be flooded ; and the ^ fund wa3 8tat ^ d that the Stress was greater than Thomas Lcckie, M.D., Surgeon-Major H.M. Indian Army,
Municipality has to provide means for taking away the people j m d ever before been known in that town, and that there were on the 18th inst., at Southwick-street, aged seventy-one.
Sroi»! Tr.li 0 h«XL ItjhouMPdt of working m«» ..3 ttgi. fanUie. who were .by- Johk Holm™, C.B., Bomb.? Amj, » 0»
b® g> ven iffiinediaUjly by mekuaof dutnetcommittee. of «. 1ft.MIS-
’• Bread, bread ! ” until the boats sent by the Municipality At a meeting of representatives of the Scotch banks m Gordon, and cousin to the Marquis of Himtly, on bept. 2/, «
come round to the houses uud deliver the loaves. Of course Edinburgh yesterday week, it was decided for the present to Toorak Melbourne.
people are expected to pay for it, as usual, except the very take no action in the way of recommending their shareholders ’ j, dcreon H, e well-known art collector and con-
• o»*il mK.,** »lwbiw ic ... a fr% r»nnfrihnfi> frnm htmlr t/iwurrlH t.hn Hif.v nf ajia. la . , ... • j u A nAomdeMl a
to be given immediately by means of district committees.
people are expected to pny for it, as usual, except the very take no action in the way of recommending their shareholders ’ j.r„ uderson ^e well-known art collector and con-
poor ; and when their hunger is appeased, the whole affair to contribute from the bank rests towards the City of Glasgow ’ in hi8 eiohtv-third. He possessed a rare
is a most amusing spectacle for those who live high Bank Relief Fund. It was found that various difficulties stood nT1f i mn 'f valuable’ collection of paintings, drawings, and mis-
enough up not to sulfur damage from the water. The in the way, and especially that there was a want of unanimity of which, it is understood, he has
windows are crowded with people, who derive much amuse- among the shareholders.—At a meeting held at Birmingham bemieftthed our national institutions,
ment from the adventures of those who start in boats or on on Monday, uuder the presidency of Mr. J. 8. Wright, reso- ^ _ . onin in Queen Anne’s Mansions, on
men s backs to gain dry laud. If anyone comes to grief, or Iwtions were passed expressing sympathy with the shareholders „V.i ■ ♦ vear In the early days of his
drops the provisions he has been to purchase, there are yells in th e City of Glasgow Bank, and a local fund was opened to tho 24tli mat., in his eightieth ^ Ital / with Prince
of delight from all sides. Some ng up strings across the assist the worst sufferers from the disaster. Subscriptions professional career Dr Qum tra e J was appo mted
street, and send over wine or fruit to less favoured neigh- amounting to nearly £500 were announced.—Although the Leopold, afterwards Kmg of the B. e P • j gt st .^ e lcna,
bours ; everybody becomes lriendswith everybody else; and Glasgow Corporation have already provided work for seven for the special dutyot attenmng onis p Dr (Juin was
people who have never spoken to each other get quite inti- hundred of the men out of employment in the city, there but before he left Eng land £apoieo ^ Duke o(
mate during the time the Hood lasts. As evening draws on still remain over a thousand on the list of those requiring on intimate terms with tne irmca f ’ y-
there are shouts for lights; and, if the gas will not burn, relief. Cambr.dge, and other membere of Royal ^
people put out candles aud lamps, aud make quite an illu- At the annual meeting of the Cheshire Chamber of Agri- . M»j°r-.vf/lond inst in his eighty-eighth
munition, bomeoi o draws a piano near a window and plays culture held at Crewe on the 21st inst. the new Weights and Artillery, at Plymouth, on the ZZnu i d Lieutt , niU1 t in
waltzes for people to dance to, as there U no traffic to drown Measures Act was discussed, and a resolution was proposed y ear - t 0 ® t t in L e d _?. -..mnaitm of 1814 iu Holland,
the sound. It gums rounds of applause and haud-cluDoing: rc.-oinmendinc* the Board nf Tr.nh, t 4 , nSnnt ■> >tn,i[ii<ni r'l-nte June, 1810, and served in the campaign_ ^resent nt
e li e f. Cambridge, and other members of the Royal family*^ ^ .
At the annual meeting of the Cheshire Chamber of Agri- Major-Gemend Edwwd Trevo^ b is eighty-eighth
ulture held at Crewe on tlie 21st inst. the new Weights and i* ‘ Uer f,’ SrSSito JST&SA LieuteW in
waltzes for people to dance to, as there is no traffic to drown Measures Act was discussed, and a resolution was proposed y ear ' ,^th^camn^niin Holland,
the sound. It gums rounds of applause and haud-clapping; recommending the Board of Trade to udopt a standard cental Ju " e .> l f. l0 > a " d “ r r V t„ ' fln |.^and Frnnce; was present at
and altogether the Cardmal who, when he was asked what of 1001b. weight for the sale of grain and flour, and the arid in that of 181-. in Hanclere mid l nm , r ^ 81I
was the merriest time in Rome alter Carnival, replied, ” When standard of the present hundredweight for hay, straw, roots, th « » atlle ® f ^the captures of
the l ope died,” might have added ihat the next merriest was cheese, and other produce. An amendment was proposed subaltern officers unattached, and also at
during a fit od. Of course under it all there is a good deal recommending the adoption of a uniform standard of 100 lb. Cambray and 1 aris. t of
of misery-people drowiuwl out of ground floors property f„ r all produce. On a division, tho resolution was carried by George Dawson Rowiey, E«st Cliff,
damaged by the wet, colds caught in cleaning out shops as the casting vote of the chairman.-A meeting of the Essex Rutland, on the 21st ult., ot Chichester House, c, ^
s<»,.u as the water begins to run down; and in many trad.s chamber of Agriculture was held at Chelmsfonfon the 22nd- Brighton, aged fifty-six. Mr. Rowley was tne Neot ^
the stock in trade and materials are ruined Still Sir T. FoweU Buxton presiding. A discussion took place on George William Rowley Esq., of Pnory Hiji. r ; f ' Xbom « i
many of those who are prevented exercising their usual , he Weights and Measures Aet, 1878, the general feeling of Hants, by Jane Catherine, his wife ou, yMorcott,
trade dunng the tl,« d find occasion to pick up a very the chamber being in favour of selling by weight only, and Mein, Esq., and succeeded bis wife s grand untie »
t \. a U 1 J ', d '! nnK , ttUd lm : n, ' < luU ‘ 1 y. adopting as the standard the cental, or 100 imperial pounds - 1868. He was a J V. for the oounHes of « u ‘7^ t -named
Zl t at U Z"<Z riSe s “t Hl0VVl ? " 8 U f d,d We understand that Viscount Sandon, I’resident of the Board of and Hants, and a D.L . andm 18.0; sheriff ot the^hw ^
this time, utter the first rush, it is the shopkeepers own fault Trade, has consented to receive a deputation on Monday, county. He married, in 1819, Caroliue I ran , .
it they have not moved their goods to a place of safety. The iVc from the National , UH.lh » H iZh the late Yen. Charles Lindsay. Archdeacon of Kildare-
o,.fv^i til!.! 1 ; sh "P k< t, l'’' r8 'Trade, has consented to receive a’deputation on Monday,
oved their goods to a place of safety. The D, c 9. from the National Association of British and Iri>h
»w^d. R tho t0 mouth °of h theTv r . lu w . gr ® J UDd bodies' interest‘m the waking iuhe“Weighte and'ftle^m
^awards the mouth of the river is quite submerged. 8cen Act, 1878. lor the purpose of expressing their views in favc
from a height tho view remarkable, lor tho Campagua of a new denomination of weight, to cJLiet of 100 lb.
from a height tho ’
ight, to coAsut of 100 lb.
1868.’ He ’was a J P. for the
and Hants, and a D.L . and m 18<0 Shenff of . .j d
county. He married, in 1849, Caroline I*ranee * -
the late Veil. Charles Lindsay. Archdeacon of Kildare.
I ltev Henry G-alfrcy Godfrey- Fauwett- Osborne, of H
Place, Kent. Vicar of Littlcbui. and RurM Deau ^
iu the county of Worcester, on the 18th i ; l-.m.-ectt,
1 aged fifty -lour, lie was the son of the Ref. t-dlr 1 1
\
NOV. 30, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDOft NEWS
DD. of III ppinglon, Kent, by hia second wife, Sarah,
daughter of Thomas Wethered, Esq., of Marlow, Ducks, and
assumed the additional surname of Osborne, 1869, on succeed¬
ing his cou8iu, William Bland, Esq., of llartlip Place. He
married, 1854, Helen Melville, daughter of the Rev. Edwin
Sandys Lumsdaine, of Lumsdaine, and leaves two sons and
four daughters.
Mr. Robert Wallis, the eminent landscape engraver, at
Brighton, on the 23rd inst., aged eighty-four. Early in his
career he became a worthy associate of Goodall, Millar,
Cousins, Willmore, and, like them, his highest skill was trained
and exercised on the works of Turner. Many of Mr. Wallis’s
best works are after Turner’s drawings for the “Southern
Coast,” “England and Wales,” “Rogers’s Poems,” and for
the annuals and gift-books of that time. Among his larger
single works probably the highest place may be claimed for
the “ Lake Nemi” and “ Approach to Venice” after Turner;
the latter being the artist’s last work of importance. An
artist's proof of Lake Nemi fetched ninety guineas at Christie's
about three years ago.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated Oct. 23, 1869) with a codicil (dated Jan. 29,
1877) of Mr. Richard Durant, late of Copthall-court, City, and
of Sharpham, Devonshire, who died on July 17 last, was proved
on the 13th inst in London by Richard Durant and Charles
James Durant, the sons, and John Oxley Parker, tho son-in-
law, the executors, the personal estate being sworn under
£600,000. The testator leaves £50,000 upon trust for each of
his three daughters, Mrs. Louisa Parker, Miss Elizabeth
Jane Durant, and Mrs. Emily Kirk. Ho also leaves to his
daughter Miss Durant all his household furniture, plate, linen,
china, pictures, and effects at hia town residence; to his son
Charles James, £100.000; and all hia real estate and the
residue of his personalty to his eldest son Richard.
The will (dated Feb. 19, 1870) of Mr. Reginald Henry
Nevill, late of Dangstein House, near Petersfield, Sussex, and
of No. 45, Charles-street, Berkeley-square, who died on
Sept. 11 last, was proved on the 14th inst. by Augustus
Blaquiere Talbot, the surviving executor, the personal estate
being sworn under £120,000. The testator gives to his wife,
Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill, £200 and all his furniture, plate,
pictures, household effects, horses, carriages, and live and
dead stock at Dangstein House, and £2000 per annum for life,
in addition to her settlement; and there are legacies to
servants and others. As to the residue of his real and personal
estate, the testator leaves one sixth upon trust for his daughter
Merieia Augusta, and the other five sixths between hia sons
Edward Augustus, Horace John, and Ralph.
The will (dated Aug. 6, 1872) with two codicils (dated
Jan. 20, 1874, and April 23, 1875) of Mrs. Caroline Maria
Marchmont, late of No. 171, Maida Vale, who died on Sept. 16
last, was proved on the 9th inst. by John Chester, Mrs. Louisa
Harriet Walmesley, and Daniel Smith wick, the executors, the
personal estate being sworn under £70,000. Among the
legacies may be mentioned, £10,000 upon trust for her adopted
daughter, Ada Lockett; and £2000 to each of the children of
her niece, Mrs. Walmesley. The residue of her property she
leaves upon trust for her said niece for life, and then for all
her children.
The will (dated Dec. 1, 1875) with two codicils (dated
Dec. 4, 1877, and Oct. 22, 1878) of Mr. John Bond-CabbcU,
late of Cromer Hall, Norfolk, and of No. 1, Chesterfield-
gardens, Mayfair, who died on the 25th ult., was proved on
the 15th inst. by Mrs. Margaret Bond-Cabbell, the widow, and
Henry Best Hans Hamilton, the acting executors, the personal
estate being sworn under £60,000. The testator bequeaths to
his wife £2000; and to his secretary, John Arnold, £1000.
The residue of his property, real and personal, is to be held
upon trust for his wife for life or widowhood; in the event of
her marrying again an annuity of £2000 is to be substituted.
On the wife’s death £20,000 is given to his daughter, Georgina
Sarah ; and the ultimate residue of his property, subject to the
widow's power of appointment among children, to his son,
Benjamin Bond Bond-Cabbell, absolutely.
Lord Coleridge and Lord Chief Baron Kelly have announced
that the circuits which from time immemorial have been held
in the spring of each year will in future, under a new arrange¬
ment which has been made, be held in January.
At a largely attended meeting of county magistrates,
chairmen of guardians, &c., held at the Shireliall, North¬
ampton, on Saturday last, under the presidency of the Duke
of Grafton, it was decided to establish a County Mendicity
Society on the Dorsetshire system, by which tramps are pro¬
vided with tickets for bread upon application to the proper
authorities and upon fulfilling certain conditions, thus doing
away with indiscriminate almsgiving. Committees were formed,
and the Duke of Grafton was appointed president.
At a public dinner to celebrate the completion of the
mayoralty of Mr. H. H. Bemrose at Derby, it was announced
by the Mayor (Mr. W. T. Smith) that Mr. Michael Thomas Bass
(the senior member of the borough) has placed £5000 at bis
disposal for distribution among the worthiest of the town’s
charities. Some few months ago Mr. Bass announced his
intention of presenting this amount towards the purchase of a
public park on the estate of Lord Belper, at Derwent Bank.
Lord Belper, however, it was considered, demanded too large a
sum for his ground, and the projected scheme for a town’s
park was abandoned. Mr. Bass, however, has resolved that
the £5000 shall be devoted to the town, and the sum is ordered
to be divided among the charities of Derby. Among those
enumerated are the Children’s Hospital, the Infirmary, and
the Nurse’s Home. This munificent donation is only one among
many of Mr. Bass’s benefactions to the borough ; for, as we
learn from the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, he has already pre¬
sented Derby with recreation-grounds, free swimming-baths,
and a public free library.
The great annual show of roots under Messrs. Sutton’s
auspices was held last Saturday at Reading, and was visited .by
an immense number of persons. It was the largest exhibition
ever held in the county. The exhibitors included the Queen,
the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Northumberland, the Duke of
Portland, the Marquis of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Donegall,
and a large number of other members of the aristocracy.
The prizes awarded exceeded £500 in value.—The exhibition
of roots grown by Messrs. Carters’ customers, of which the
Agricultural Hall was the scene last Suturduy, possessed
attractions which fairly entitle the promoters to rank the
display among the great autumnal shows of agricultural pro-
duce. What are claimed to be the largest mangel wurzels
ever seen in England were from Canada. Amongst them were
eight of “Carter’s Mammoth Long Reds” which turned the
scale at the weight of 430 lb. In the list of exhibitors were
the Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Northumberland,
I«ord Redesdale, Lord Clinton, Lord Folev, Earl Harrington, |
Sir William Farquhar, Sir C. Lampson, SirC. Russell, Admiral
Sir G. N. B. Middleton, and Sir R. Sutton.
ciiess.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
All eommmieaUna. la Ihi. drparlmral nf the raper *IW,f hr ad,lrated lo II*
trlilor, and hare the trord •• Chen •' icrillen on the mndape.
IHn«tri»Ui>g perpetual check rcnnlrt* » Black
KnlBht at Q 3rd. W.thmit that correction perpetual cheek is luipnOiJbls.
J « K (Chtorluun).- Hie #n»wer tol.QtuK 4th (ch) is 3. B to O Kt 8th. mating.
J W W and Owlet. See answer to J O K.
J F H (Croydon).—Thank* for the information.
M J!.T. l, . , . rwon, - You ■ rn required to play tin- lw«t defence* for B'»rk. and to defeat
" "Be if you enn do *>. Problem No. mh cannot be ml.rd by 1. (J take. 0.
J U F | Ramsgate)The correction of your threo-move problem I* noted.
W H T I Tunbridge Well*). -Your problem w*« published in our loan* of June *2 last.
SR -The pune yon «end. played between Napoleon and l)e Kempeleu *«o-
aiUid Automaton wait published in this Journal on Soy. SB. ISM, and hn» been many
time* reprinted elsewhere.
C E It (Raker-street).—Whit* can and nhonld capture the adverse Queen.
TH (Truro).—You ahonid refer to some elementary ti eat I re upon the game for tho
- - simple question. Every Pawn can lie advanced two squares when
If there i< no obstruction to it* line of movement.
T. H. The Pawn, on being advanced to
it I* flrnt m
WAP(Rede_„_ ______
the eighth square. «reunion at once the power of the piece to which It f* 1
A M (Moncnw).-Wr are gTeatiy obliged jor the budget of gurnet, and ahull be glad to
hear of the progrea* of the proposed tourney.
Couuect Sourrioxa or Pnoni.xw No. loll received from W J W (ClavcixiM), Karl
Brwclmann. W F.Newth. Beatrice, J G Finch. Kyecroft. J ErtUli, Waller 8l~ ~
and Athena Cbcta Club (by telegram).
SoumoEa or Pboblem No. 1*12 received from Jane Nepveu, W D Mac¬
donald, W J W (Claycroaai. Carlo*, Emile Fran. S F Kedhoure, Kiri lirawlmann.
Marion and Nelly (Dawll.hl. W S < Dawliah), J Bumutond. T of Exeter. Atlirn. Che-.
•kmn. K Burkhard, Nat.’
r Greenbank.
Club (by telegram). J II Skelton, ltyrci.
Boiinainil, J G Finch. Prttcxtat. and Painter of St
CoBEKcr Holctioko or Problem No. 1*13 received t__ . __
1 Hampton. U ingeraoU, L 8 II, CSCoxe, Leonora and Leon. Bohemian Girl. An
Old Hand. 1. Snamwood. M Meredith. G Foabrookc. W Lee. Dorothy. E Wondey.
StJ B.L of Truro. M Whitalry. SRiLeed.l.TW Hope II Stan.tk-I.l. C C Hmori.
Uraon G Bright. L Burnett, f K Young. Kart Mardon. H Benthall. F V P, Cant,
Painter of bhepherd Vliu.h, Florence F Shubrook, Norman Humbelow, J d~
Houaleyn. T M Swinburne. J G Finch, (J A Bulltngull. and CopJaplno.
Note.—T hla problem cannot be colved by 1. R to R 2nd, aa over llfty of onr regular
correnimridenta have supposed. The true defence to Mint move la-1. J' to K 7th;
End. ehould W hite then play 2. B take* K P. Black * answer la, 2. B to K B 7th,
after which there la no mat* In two more move*. I. II take* R p la aim Ineffective,
hwaime of the defence—1. Kt to B 3rd. and the conUnuatiun, 2. Kt to Kt 8th, 4c.
Solution or Problem No. 1812.
WHITE. BLACK.
1. K to Kt sq K to Q 4th*
2. Kt to Q 4th (dig. ch) K takes Kt
3. Q to Q 6th, mate.
• If Block play 1. Q take* Q. then 2 Kt take* Q: If I. Q take* Kt (ch>, then 2. Kt tc
K an: If 1. Q to K Kt aq. then 2. Kt to K 6th ; if I. Q to any other «|uarc. then X Ktto
S Sni V lf ‘A 1 » n «!> or K «h. then 2 . kt to Kalb, and if thi Knight la
elsewhere, 2. Q to K B ttli (ch), mating next move In each coae.
PROBLEM No. 1815.
By H. E Kiosox.
BLACK.
CHESS IN RU8SIA.
Played in Moscow, between Herr Hellwio and Mr. Ati.mbb Maude.
(Sicilian Drjenct.)
WHITE (Mr. M.) BLACK (Herr H.) , white (Mr. M.' black (Herr H.)
1. P to K 4th P to Q B 4th 13. Kt to Kt 6th R to Kt sq
2 Kt to K B 3rd 1 14. Kt<BS)toQ6th B to K 2nd
2. Kt to Q B 3rd. followed by 3. P to K 16 P to Q R 4th Castles
Kt 3rd and 4. B to Kt 2nd. ha* Wen In 1 «. p taken P B takes Kt
,7 ^ teke v! c ‘ , , B ^ KP ,
-rueful.
and, whether theoretically *c-...
has the effect of brisking up Whit*'*
pnaition.
18. P takes B R takes Kt
19. B takes It Q takes II
20. B taken P
20 . |1 to B 4th (eh) followed by 21. Qto
, K 2nd appear* to »o a better resource than
to an even gam* thi* capture of a weak Pawn.
Jve the K Kt to II 20. Q takes Kt P
ipldly developing the piece* on ] j, p to B 4th (eh) K to R sq
22. B to tt 6th (i to B 6th (ch)
2 .
3. P to Q 4th
4 Kt takes P
6. Kt to Kt 5th
6 B to K B 4th
7. B to K 3rd
8 Kt to Q 2nd
*. Q Kt to II 3rd le
aa in reply Black
3rd. nod, rapidly (-
the King'* aide, ra*tle
Kt to Q B 3rd
PtakcsP
PtoK 3rd
P to 4 3rd
P to K 4th
B to K 3rd
F to B 4th
_ Kt to Kt 6th
Black', lout move I* Inferior to 8. !' to Q 25. « to Q 3rd
Bard, but White fulled to Mine the chuiioe dim^ou*. of couroe; bat It 25. Q to
|. then, among other way*.
''take* INdhle. cl
afforded hi
.. _B 4 th 1. t_
* 9. P to B 5th
10. B to B 2nd P to Q R 3rd
It. KttoBSrd Kt to B 3rd
12. Kt to B 4th P to Q Kt 4th
white (Herr H.) black (Mr. M.)
1. PtoK 4th PtoK 4th
2 P to K B 4th P takes P
3. Kt to KB 3rd FtoKKt4th
4. P to K R 4th P to Kt 5th
5. Kt to Kt 6'h P to K R 3rd
6. Kt takes I* K takes Kt
7. BtoB4th (ch) P to a 4th
1. B takes P (ch) K to K so
2U. K take* P Q to B at.
27. K to Kt w) B to li 3th, Ac.
!5. a to B 4th,
and White resigned.
P to B 6th
B to K 2nd
P to Kt 6th
P to K R 4th
). P to U 4th
3. P Dikes P
1. Castle*
2. P to K B 4th
3. B takes Kt
IS. Kt to Q B 3rd t* preferable.
3 B to Kt 5th
I. Q to Q 3rd It takes B
i. P to B 5th B takes K R P
3. Q to B 4th R to B sq
f B to Both Kt to B 3rd
and. after theexch .
the B to II nth. ur
according to Whito'i
18.
19. P to Kt 4th
20 B to B 4th
21. K takes P
22. K to R sq
play.
R to B 2nd
U to B 3rd
Pin Kt7th
It to Kt 2ud
B to Kt 4th
B to K 6th
III* l»e*t rerunree appear* to be W. Q tc
i Otb (ch), exchanging Queen*.
!l Q to Kt 4th
!6. B to Kt 3rd P to K 5th,
CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
A match was played last week between the Ladies’ CoUojre and the Pec’-hi
Mutual Chess Clubs, in which the ttrsl-uunnd earned the victory. hen
the score was seven to each side, Mis* Ryuna, of the Ladies' club, succeeded
iU ^° n ^ K eh^~uTbas been established at Hampstead, under the
president}' of Mr Forsyth. M 1* it is named the S >uU. Humpitoud Lh«s
t Inh siiil nri iuduei.tial cammittee has been elected, Mr Wul er Hall, of
Uaisi’ou House, acting us h -imraiy secretary and trea-urer.
Ttie weinhereof the t^.ydon Ohesa Club meet ever) iuiwday evenmirat
the Literury Insiitution, Croydon. Tills club, »'”
now thmly establi-liwl. Among the membersi sre the Higlit Hon. Mr Lowe.
M P , the* H-n. Granville Levcson t ower, Mr. W. Grantham, M.P., and
the Rev. Mr. MacdonneU.
ASTRONOMICAL OCCURRENCES IN DECEMBER.
(From the “ Illustrated London Almanack.")
The Moon is near Saturn during the evening hours of tfc- 2nd
and 3rd, being to the right of the planet on the 2nd nnd to the
left on the 3rd. She is near Mars during the morning hours
of the 21st, is near both Mercury and Venus on the 24th, but
the Moon is only one day old. She is near Jupiter during thy
early evening hours of tho 26th, and near Satnm during the
evening hours of the 30th. Her phases or times of change
are:—
First Quarter on the 1st at 38 minutes after 4h. in the afternoon.
Full Moon „ 8th „ 50 ,, 7 „ afternoon.
Last Quarter „ 17th ,, 3 ,, 3 „ morning
New Moon „ 23rd „ 24 „ 9 „ afternoon.
First Quarter „ 31st „ 67 „ 1 „ afternoon.
She is nearest the Earth on tie morning of the 20th, and most
distant from it at noon on the 4th.
Mercury is an evening star till the 26th, setting on the 2nd
at 4h. 50m. p.m., or 58 minutes after sunset; on the 7th at
5b. 0m. p m., or lit. 10m. after sunset; on the 12th at 5h. 7m.
p m., or lh. 18m. after the Sun; on the 17th at 5h- 3m. p.m.,
or lh. 14m. after sunset; on the 22nd at 4h. 39m. p.m., or 48
minutes after sunset; on the 26th the planet and Sun set
nearly together, and the planet sets in daylight after this day.
He lises about sunrise onthe24th, and at 7h. 0m. am ,or lh.9m.
before sunrise, on tbe last day of the year. He is at his greatest
eastern elongation (20 deg. 45 min ) on the 8th, «tm ionary
among the stars on the 16th, in his ascending node on the
18th (the fifth time this year), at his least distance from the
Sun on the 23rd, uear the Moon on the 24th, and near Venus
on the same day; and in inferior conjunction with the Sun on
the 26th.
Venus rises at about the time of sunrise on the Cth, and
from this day she rises in daylight. She sets at sunset on the
6th, at 4h. 0m. p.m., or 11 minutes after sunset on the 17th ;
at 4h. 15m. p.m., or 21 minutes after the Sun, on the 27th ;
and at 4h. 25m. p.m., or 27 minutes after suuset, on the last
day of the year. She is due south on the 1st at llh. 45m.
a.m., on the 15th at Oh. 6m. p.m, and on the last day at
Oh. 31m. p.m. She is in superior conjunction with the Sun ou
the 5th, in her descending node on the 7th, and near the Moon
on the 24th.
Mors is a morning star, rising on the 7th at 5h. 26m. a.m.,
or 2h. 27m. before sunrise; on the 17th at 5h. 25m. a.m., or
2h. 38m. before the Sun; on the 27th at 5h. 26m. a.m., or
2h. 4‘2m. before sunrise; and on the last day of the year at
5h. 24m. a.m., or 2h. 45m. before the Sun. He crosses the
meridian, or is due south, on the 1st at lOh. 7m. a m., on the
11th at 9h. 55m. a m., on the 21st at 9h. 44m. a.m., and on
the last day of the year at 9h. 33m. a.m. He is near the
Moon on the 21st.
Jupiter is an evening star, and sets at 8h. 2m. p.m. on the
1st, at 7h. 45m. p.m. on the 7th, at 7b. 17m. p.m. on the 17th,
at 6h. 50m. p.m. on the 27th, and at 6h. 39m. p.m on the last
day of the year. He ia due south on the 1st at 3h. 46m. p m.,
on the 11th at 3h. 14m. p.m., on the 21st at 2h. 43m. p m., and
on the last day of the year at 2k. 13m. p.m. He is near the
Moon on the 26th.
Saturn sets on the 8th at Oh. 29m. a.m., on the 17th at
llh. 52m. p m., on the 27th at llh. 15m. p m., and on the last
day of the year at llh. 0m. p.m. He is due south on the 1st
at 7h. 8m. p m , on the 11th at 6h. 29m. p.m., on the 21st at
5h. 51m. p.m., and on the last day of the year at 5h. 13m. p.m.
He is near the Moon on the 3rd, and agaiu on the 30th, and in
quadrature with the Sun on the 18th.
The Fraserburgh Harbour Board have approved of a scheme
for carrying out extensive improvements and alterations ou
the harbours and piers, at a cost of £94,000.
Another portion of the new auxiliary line of the Great
Western Railway, the section of the down line between
Southall and West Drayton, was opened for traffic on Monday.
The suspension of the old-established bank of Messrs.
Fenton, at Rochdale and Hcywood, has added to the difficulties
from which the commerce of Lancashire is suffering. The
amount of the liabilities is estimated at half a million sterling,
and nothing is yet known of the assets.
Mrs. Webb, of Ledbury, widow of the late Mr. Thomas
Webb, banker, and Deputy-Lieutenant of Herefordshire,
reached the kundreth anniversary of her birthday on Monday.
She is the only surviving sister of the late Sir Joseph Thack-
well, one of the heroes of Waterloo. Mrs. Webb still enjoys
good health, and on Monday she entertained a gathering of
her relatives at her residence.
Sir John Eardley Wilmot, member for South Warwick¬
shire, presiding at a school prize distribution at Leamington on
Monday, expressed his firm conviction that education not
based upon religion and the Bible was worthless. He was,
therefore, delighted, to find that the Bible was being taught
without sectarian difference. He also expressed gratification
that the girls were being practically taught cookery.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
Russia. By D. Mackenzie Wallace, M A., Member of the Imperial Russian
Geographical Society. (Caan-ll, Potter, and Galpin.)
Poems and Ballad*. By Ueiiuich ILine. Done into English Verae by
Theodore Martin, C.B. (Blackwood and Sona.)
My Guardian. A Stoiy of the Fen Country. By Ada Cambridge. Illus¬
trated. (Cassell and Co.)
Elinor Dryden. Ily Katherine 8 Macquoid. Revised Edition. (Low andCo)
AH-ro of the Pen. A Novel. By E Werner. From iljp German, by
Sarah Phillip*. 2 vols. (Snmtxmn Low and Co.)
Sancta Christina. By Eleanor E. Orlebar. With Preface by the Biahop of
Winchi *ter. (Sampson Low and Co.)
Little Wide-awake Picture*; described by Mrs. 8ale Barker. (Routledge
and Sons.)
A New Child’s Play Sixteen Drawings, by E. V. B. (Low and Co.)
A Narrative of the Voyage* Hound the World performed bv Captain James
Cook. By A. Kippia, D D. Illu«trntcd. <Vickirs and Non.)
The Swiss Family Itobiuson A New Translut i. n from the Origin*! German.
Edited by W. H. G. Kingston. A Hundred Illustrations. (R.u'lcdge )
Uncle Chesterton's Heir. By Madame Colornb. Translated by Henry Frith.
llluitratcd. (Routledge and Sons )
Ruutledge's Every Boy’s Annual for 1S79. (Routledge nnd Sons.)
Health PrimersExercire and Training; Tbe Home and Its Surroundings;
Premature Death, its Promotion and Prevention; Alcohol, Its Use nnd
Abuse, (nordwickennd Bogue. Piccadilly.)
A Visit to South America, with Ol.nervations on the M«ral nnd Physical
Features of the Country. By Edwin Clark. I Dean nnd Son.)
Brownl.w North, BA Oxon: Records nnd R oral lee ti .ns. By the Rev.
Kenneth Mondy-Stmut. M.A. (Hodd> r nnd Stoughton )
Robert Dick, linker, of Thurso; Geologist nnd Botanist. By Samuel
Smiles, LL D. Illu-traled. (John Murray )
Total Abstiiieuee By Benjamin Ward Rieliuidsnn. M D. (Maemillnn.)
The Mirgraveoi Domberg: A Lyrical Drama. By G. L. Tairkin* (Hodge* )
A Scotch Playhouse; Historical Record* of tho Old Theatre Royal,
Aberdeen By J. Keilh Angus (.-imi'kin nnd Marsh nil.)
The Bride Elect. By Mrs Johnson, Author of • (Tin's to Untrained
Tcach-rs.” (“Hand nnd Henri " Publishing Oiliees j
Crewel Embroidery Book S.-cmid Series By E M. 0 ILitrtards )
A Continental Tour of Eight Days for 44 Shillings (Samos .n I/iw.j
C assell's Iliuat.nit* d AlllWJMC for 18.9 (Cassell. Patter, and Galpin.1
Helena Lady Harro ntc. By J B Harwood. 3 vo's. (lbaith y unci fi n )
Tne English lake Di-trict. as Interpreted in the Poem* of W .iflswirth. By
William Knight, Pnitrasor of Mural Philosophy and Political Economy
*i.a TT.iiiiaw.itv nf A »wl(hmirl TViiifrlnit P/linhiitwIi I
THE ILLUOTltAi-Ci-U
DURNISH THROUGHOUT.
SUBSTANTIAL ARTISTIC FURNITURE.
QETZMANN & CO.,
TXAMPSTE AD-ROAD,
■p^EAR TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD.
"CUJRNISHTHROUGHODT^^^^^^^^^
CARPETS. Fnraiturc ^ Plctnres, Bronze.,
Glocl^^c.^nnd^erery^other nwinhdte^or 8 completely furnishing
a house throughout.___“
DESIDES THE RECENT ADDITION of
extensive Bh ow-Booms and Qftllerlea, _
jgIGHT LARGE SHOW-ROOMS
JJAVE just been added
r£0 THE DISPLAY OF
^RTISTIO FURNITURE, &c.
TT IS NOW ONE OF THE LARGEST
elsewhere. OETZMANN »na t.u. very G f goods by their
iidvanUge* to countey ciistomera^n f n position by
aSSBBa wa^
-OEDDING DEPARTMENT. Handsome
Vo Uct Cupboard, all oomploto for oj guineas. -
4 nglo-indian carpets.
A OETZ5IANNondlOO.-Tbe*.
MOBTLO cks china.
MOUTLOCKS' I. the D4p5t for all ®SSK^
MOBTLOCKS ^nu^Sr^onlY from Or^luel Designs.
from £3 5s. 6d. tho Set for twelve persons, eompieie.
DINNER SERVICES.
Coloured Lithographs post-free.
_ , olThoi»re nd ™ 3 9
l |° their unequalled Crown
In Ruby .. ••« ®
S^^feaESsssSK^a^g -
aai»jaar«g^a® 5 S 5 ■
f£rtot‘2!$'^.‘r^Tpt of*fc..whtch wM Inducted from price
Sftt D oV°^dSl n«m^of Patternjorby
D OWN QUILTS—OETZMANN and CO.’S
EIDER and ARCTIC DOWN QUILTS and CLOTHING
iSto post-free.— oln?^ MANN and CO. _
CRETONNES. — OETZMANN and CO.
6cnt into tie country o b fe!ȣ^-
TDOSTAL ORDER DEPARTMENT.
I OETZSLANN and CO.—Orders sent per poet, whether largo
or giimll. receive prompt and careful attention. Thosoreaidlng
at a distance, or any to whom a pergonal visit would be incon¬
venient. desirous of leaving the selection to the Arm, may rely
SKn W SjS •ggSKJS rUJ h n?«rJu» ,n by^
In^'a^ogue^ntVreeimappllcaUotn—Oi.'rZli?A>^l , anS , CO? 87
/QETZMANN md CO^ COMPLETE
U HOUSE FURNISHER8.87,69.71.73.77and 79. Hammtead-
load (three minute*’ walk from Tottenham-court-road and
Gower-street Station. Metropolitan Railway). Lo'veat prices
consistent with guaranteed quality. Close at Seven, and on
Saturdays at Fou r. Descriptive Catalogue post-free. _
QESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE, post-free.
QETZMANN & CO.,
JJAMPSTEAD-ROAD.
PARIS UNIVERS AL EX HIBITION. 1878.
THE ONLY “GRAND PRIX”
In Classes 17 and 18, for Inexpensive and Artistic
FURNITURE,
was awarded to
TAOKSON and GRAHAM, Oxford-street,
O London.
GRAND PRIZE (EHREN D1PLOM), Vienna, 1873. The sole
Highest Award for English Furniture. ..
MEDAL, for “ Great Excellence of Design and Workmanship,
London. 18K2.
HORS CONCOUR8. Paris, 1887.
GOLD MEDAL OF HONOUR for " Improvements in English
FRIZE^'le'dAL^O rest Exhibition, Lo ndon. 1851. _
0 W A R D and SONS,
Manufacturers of
PARQUET; FLOORS.
H oward and sons,
Manufacturer* of _
ARTISTIC WOOD CHIMNEY-PIECES.
H oward and sons,
CABINET MAKERS
UPHOLSTERERS,
BERN EI!S-STRH!eT,
Illustrated Glass Catalogue, which must be returned,
Gardners' Lamp.<5h£S£dChlna Manufacturers.433and454.
West St rand, Charlng-eross. __
M 1 ™ brothers-^--;;-” .
A/TAPPIN BROTHERS—on the same footing as
M A p rnr brothers-^-'-'-'"
jyjAPPIN BROTHERS—Beduced their Price.
ATAPPIN BROTHERS— WperCent -
]_V1 The well-known quality
jyj'APPIN BROTHERS— 0 ftheirgoodsisstrictiy
A/fAPPIN BROTHERS- mttiota,ned -
31 Write for Catalogue to
IV/TAPPIN BROTHERS—london bridge.
Uappin BROTHERS— LOIn>ON " BEIDI ^ 1 ° r *
J3X REGENT-STREET, W.
jyj-APPIN BROTHERS —begent-street, w.
N otice.— spoons and forks,
In SILVER and In ELECTRO-PLATE,
t ELKINGTONandCO.. as tho result of important
improvements i n the above manufactures arc able
to offer their guaranteed qualities at such price
classes. Revised Illustrated Price-Lists free by
poston application. Purchasers of Silver Spoons
and Forks obtain thend vantage of any fluctuations
’ Address-ELKINGTO^nn'd CO.. 27, Regent-street, London,
1 or42.Moorgate-strect.Clty. .
PLEASE DIBBUT sea ™-
DETER po BIN SON,
SILKMERCER and^LINENDBAPEB.
THE ONLY ADDRE8B, J
103 to 108, OXFORD-STREET, W.,
where the Business was established I n 1833.
pARIS EXPOSITION of 1878. -
PETER ROBINSON, OXFORD-STREET, -
X is the purchaser, for cash, at large discounts, of the entire
exh ibits of _
CIXTY-EIGHT MANUFACTURERS of
B?ack F sffS; Vdfvet* 'gatins? Brocades? *BLU£ n 8o*tmS5arv“R”h6
Costumes, Gauzes, Fichus, Ac.__
TN consequence of the decision of the
S^Tr.^ir^ , hl^ i ^ ^no^^ii 1 ^ given! 11 ^
PETER ROBINSON, OXFORD-STREET.
gILKS FOR CHRISTMAS.
ONE THOUSAND PIECES OP NEW
LYONS GROS GRAIN, at 3s. 6d. per yard,
in every now shade, for evening wear.
Coloured Sting to match, at 3. ei L per yard.
, Richer qualities, Coloured Silks, 4s. 6d.. 5*. Sd., and 6S. »d.
Grisaille and QusdrSle. 23a. a d. tho Dress.
300 PIECES OF LYONS CHECK SILKS,
at is. llid. per yar*.
specially suitable for Young Ladles wear.
RICH DAMASSE SILKS,
1 for Evening wear, 29. 6d. to Ss. 6d. per yard.
1 PETE R BOBINSON. OXFORD-STREET. LONDON. W.
0 -OALL and WEDDING DRESSES.
Now ready, several thousand Elegant Robes,
r, 4n Black, WhiU^d^ewc&UmreVf rom Utol^d.'to 10 guinea*.
THE MAUDE,
^isgsasaRjs^awsssi.
r A pretty Dress'lnmack Brimsefs Net.’ Price35*.
’’ THE ADELINA,
e, with donhlo scarf ofsllk^or^«itin,dra^rfjacroM front, and iosh,
,11 Pries 42a.
S PBTEB^SSSlS^&^gH^fainiOH.
n A UTUMN DRESS MATERIALS.
| A CACHMERE merinos.
PLEASE NOTICE—
THERE IS ONLY ONE ADDRESS
FOR PETER R0BINS0N’8
jyjOURNING WAREHOUSE.
ALL LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS
Intended for the Mourning Warehouse
MUST BE CLEARLY DIRECTED
TO REGENT-STREET, Nos. 256 to 262.
Occasional misdirection of letters snd order,
renders this Notice necesearv.
AT PETER ROBINSON S
ipAMILY MOURNING WAREHOUSE;
“ REGENT-STREET.”
THE BEST ENGLISH CRAPES ONLY ARE USED,
which stand the wet and damp weather.
Widow's Dress, beautifully fitted, made oumplete.
Widow” Bonnet and Cap] made by "French MililnerV, ° U *
from .£110 0
Widow's Mantle or Paletot, handsomely trimmed,
Dresses! 1 Made Complete", for a Parent! Sister, or U 3 *
Brother, from.£3 10 0
Mantle, and Paletots, handsomely trimmed, for ditto,
from . .. .. £219 A
Bonnots, New Styles, made by French Milliner,,
from .ilUl
The BAR0DA CRAPE.—Economical Dresses made)
entirely of this new material, for Deep Mourning j£f 14 •
Good-Fitting Dressmakers are lent to All Farts
with a Full Assortment of Goods, and to take order,,
Immediately on receipt of Letter er Telegram,
WHICH MUST BE CLEARLY ADDRESSED—
REGENT-STREET, Nos. 256 to 262,
otherwise they wonld not reach as desired.
J^LACK SILKS—Specially Cheap,
Manufactured by Messri. Bonnet et Cte, at .. 5*. 64.
Manufactured by Messrs. Tapisaier et Cie, at 5s. Sd
Manufactured by Messrs. Jaubert et Cle, at .. is 64.
Manufactured by Messrs. D4goveetCls, at .. 4a lid.
TOSEPH GILLOTT’S
w STEEL PENS.
Bold by all Stat ioners throughout the World. _
T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
^ MEAT.
A RT TOTTT ADDITION OF THE EXTRACT GIVES
A great strength and flavour TO SOIM'S
MADE DISHES. AND SAUCES. AND EIFLC1S
GREAT ECONOMY.
J IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
^ MEAT.
In use In most households throughout tho Kingdom.
T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
. MEAT.__
T)URE KANGRA VALLEY TEA, direct
obtained 1 from cScKBURN'S AGENCY. 41. Haymarkct.
Lond on, S.W. _
pHOCOLAT MENIER.
CACIIEMIRE DE PARIS.
is. 2d. to 3s. 3d. per yard.
WINTER SKIRTINGS. .
Novelties In Stripes, Plain, and Snowflake,
from Is. 9d, per yard.
CREPE CASHMERE (REGISTERED).
A most useful Material, in six designs, Black,
full width, is. 9d. per yard.
For Patterns nddress only_
PETER ROBINSON. OXFOBD-STREET, W.
RICH JAPANESE SILKS FOR
For Patterns—address oxlt as followi:-
PETER ROBINSON, 256 to 262,
REGENT-STREET.
THE COURT AND GENERAL M0UBNING WAREHOUSE
T>LACK SILK VELVETS,
X) Exceptional Value,
at 3s. lid., 4*. 9d., fis. Cd.. 6s. 6d.. and 7a <d.
RICH LYONS VELVETS,
at 10a. ikl., 12a 9d.. ond 15s. 6d.
Superb qualities for Dresses and Months.
*For Patterns, address aifoUows:-_
PETER ROBINSON. REGENT-STREET.
Nos. 256 to 263.
XTEW SILK COSTUMES
NEW SILK COSTUMEB. Trimmed Vdvrtor Satin,
01 guineas, with Material for Bodice.
A large variety.
Nos. 226 to 262.
T7VENTNG and DINNER DEESSES.
Pi New Styles, well cut. and elegantly trimmed,
from one guinea to 10 guinea*.
Tarlatan* in the mort faihlonable *tyle*,I 1 i.
RICH JAl-AN AO* oiun-o __
-DALL and DINNER DRESSES.
All l's.^^pe^yttrf.'tbobigheEt quality'made. _
DEAL RUSSIAN SEAL FUR PALETOTS
XV (half fitting).
33 in. deep, from 9 gs.
36in.deep, from logs.
Cashmere Circulars, lined Squirrel, from 21s.
Ditto .. lined Grey Russia, from CSs. 6d.
Grey Squirrel Paletots (great novelty).
Silk Cloaks, lined Squirrel, from 3J gs.
Black Silk Tulle (conditionkeeping!.*
Grenadine, from 42s. to 4 gnfne
For^etchesofthe a «l»ve,^lrou«j
(mOCOLAT MEN S ta Jib. pETEB HO—.JIXroRD.STBEET,
pHOCOLAT MENIER.— AwardedTwenty-
\J Three prize MEDALS.
nHOCOLAT MENIER. Paris,
V 1 London,
^ New York.
_ Bold Everywhere. _
GOLD MEDAL. PARIS.
F RY’S COCOA EXTRACT
guaranteed pare Cocoa, only deprived of the superfluous
oil, gold in Packets and Tins. _.
TWELFTH EXHIBITION MEDAL.
A GOLD MEDAL, PARIS,
Is evidence of the high opinion entertained bythelnter-
FOUR MEDALS
AWARDED,
including
PARIS EXHIBITION,
_ 1878. _
T'RELOAR and SONS, 69, Ludgate-hill.
1 Seven Prize Medals, including Paris. 1878. Catalogues and
Samples freo._
M ATS ___
j ^IN OLEUM.
'J'URKEY CARPETS!
QRIENTAL RUGS.
T'RELOAR and SONS, 69, Ludgatc-liill.
X Floor Decorators. EsUMlshed 1834. Seven Prlxo Medala.
Including Paris. 1878. Catalogues and Estimates tree.
national Jur3 '^Y.g n ( jH0C0LATE AND COCOA.
Ask for FRY'S Celebrated CARACAS COCOA, s choice pre¬
paration._____
S CHWEITZER’S COCOATINA.
Anti-Dyspeptic Cocoa or Chocolate Powder.
Arrowroot. Starch, &c.
In Air-Tight Tin*, at la. 6d., 3*.. &c.. by Chemists and tenders.
H. SCHWEITZER and CO., 10, Adam-street, London, W.C.
POSSESSING ALL THE PROPERTIES OF THE FINEST
-gROWN & pOLSON’S QORN pLOUR
IS A WORLD-WIDE NECESSARY
FOB THE NURSERY. THE SICK ROOM,
AND THE FAMILY TABLE.
DURE FLOUR OF EGYPTIAN LENTILS^
JL This la the basis of all the Egyptian end Arabian Foods
*0 mnch advertised, and Is the most nutritious and eusily
digested of all cereal productions. It Is usually mixed with
ami
a^'iaMr »
Canvas Bag. 8*. The Trade supplied._
I THE ESSEX FLOUR and GRAIN
X COMPANY. Liverpool-road. London. N., supply the'BEST
GOODS ONLY. Whites, for Pastry, 8s. 8.1. per bushel ; House-
holds.for Bread.8s. Wheat Meal.for Brown Bread. n.4d. Coarse
Scotch Oatmeal, 3s. 2d. per stone; fine. 3s. 4d. American
Hominy.4s. Barley Malle. Buckwheat, and Barley Steal. 5s. per
bushel, or 19s. per sack. 0«ts.4s. per bushel ;15s. 6d. per sack.
Peaa, 7s. 6d. per bushel; Tick Beans, 7s. 6d.; Middlings. 2s. 4d.;
Ground Pollard, Is. 8d. SIcat Biscuits. 20s. perewt. Split Peas.
3. per peck. Lentil Flour. for 1 nvalWOij T ‘'^.{
P atterns fre:
BLACK SILKS.
manufactured by Bonnet, of Lyons.
Messrs. JAY teg to inform their Vatron.
and tho rubllc generally
that they are now selling these well-known
PURE LIGHT-DYED SILKS
at a reduction of from 33 to 40 per cent off
DEPR^fflK)N*IN TIIE^LVoSs SILK MARKET.
Present price, M. lid.; formerprice. 8e. Sd.
;; ;; 6*.'iid".i !! !,' »•'. m".
6s.9d.; „ .. 10s. 6d.
Messrs. JAY are also selling Janbert's good wearing
Black SILKS, at tho following reduced rate:—
■ Present prioe, 3s. 9d.: former price, 5s. M.
„ „ 4s. fid.; „ „ 6s. Sd.
” „ fis. 3d.; M M 76.(kl.
"BLACK SATINS, aiipure'silk. "
22 Inches wide, from .Is. 3d. per yard.
1 iJAYS'. BEGENT-STREET. _
I DVENING DRESS.
I Xj Messrs. JAY have a new and most fashionable assortr
of maile-up Costumes for evening Wear, suitable for ladies
Bi^l'ces Mt> U also n m«le up by experienced dressmakers in a few
hour* if required. JAYS'
THE LONDON OgnjgAL WAREHOUSE,
CWAN and EDGAR
A BEAUTTFUL* ASSoItSIENT
WINTER DRESS MATERIALS,
TY Silks, Batins. Velvet*.
Costumes. Mantles. Ulster*.
Sealskin Paletots, and Opera Cloaks.
gWAN and EDGAR,
PICCADILLY and REGENT-STBEET.
London, W, _
DRENCH, ALL-WOOL FOULE SERGES.
X The largest assortment of these beautiful Good* now sell¬
ing at Is. 44d. per vanl. Very soft and warm.
8 JOHN HOOB ER, 82, Oxford-street, W. Patterns free.
DOYAL VELVETEENS—Guaranteed new
XV fast blue shade of Black. Is. llld., 2s. 9d.. Ss. fid. per yard.
In the moet fashionable colours, at 2s. 11 Id. per yard.
Patterns free.-JOHN HOOPER. 52, Oxford-street, W.
TV/TANUFACTURER’S STOCK of LADIES’
1YX WINTER DRESSES. Selling Off at half the cost. Moss
Cachemirca. In New Dark Plain Colours, at 4}d. per yard.
Patterns free.-JOHN HOOPER. 82, Oxford-street, W.
DURS at SUMMER PRICES.
- L REAL RUSSIAN SEAL PAIET0T8.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1878.
SIXPENCE.
THE AFGHAN WAR: CAMP C
the illustrated
LONDON NEWS
DEC. 7, 1878'
526
BIRTHS.
On Advent Sunday, at Woolley Grange, Bra<Morf-on-Avon, the wife of
B Atkinson, Esq., late Eoyal Artillery, of a daughter.
’ On the 4th ult., at Barrackpore, Bengal, the wife of Captain William
HoDkinson, Cantonment Magistrate, of a son. ^
to the Mb ult., atl, Clarendon-vmaa, Putney, S.W., the wife of Robert
^^nthe°4th^lt., at West Bank, Healey, Rochdale, the wife of Brough
"£V 24, at Yokohama, Japan, the wife of Edward Digby Murray,
Ee']., of a son. MARRIAGES.
On the 30th ult., at Riseholme, P. A. Steedmnn, Ekd, of Harewood, near
laDl1, DEATHS.
On the 23rd hurt,, at Myrtle Cottage, Parkstone, Dorwt, ag«l 91,
Tloroihf n widow of Samuel Solly, E8q.7P.R-8-, of Morton Woodlands, in
the count’v of Lincoln, and Hcatfiside, Parkatone, ®“^^ a i^tor of
the Rev. Thos. Rackett, M.A.,F.R.S., for more than fifty years .Rdctor of
BDetisluiy, Dorset. ^ , • .
On the 29th ult., the Rev. Henry Thompson, Vicar of Chard, Somerset,
in his 81-t year He was tlie author, with other works chiefly clerical, of a
inctnoir of Hannah More, whose residence, Barley Wood, was in his former
curacy of Wrington. ... , _ .
On the 1st inst., at No. 13, Great Stuart-street, Edinburgh, Catherine,
wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the 59th year of her age.
On tho 13th ult, at Tacanrofir, South Russia, from paralysis, John
Patrick Carruthera, aged 76?Mrty-flve years H.B.M.’S Consul. Friends
wiU kindly accept this intimation.
On the 4th inst., at Broadhayea. Bournemouth, Ellen, second daughter
cf the late John Meares, Eaq., of Plas Llanstephon, Carmarthenshire,
aged 58.
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‘PUSS IlST BOOTS , 51
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CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK ENDING DEC. 14.
SUNDAY, Dec. 8.
Second Sunday in Advent. ^ “™ n ’ probably Eev ‘
, Rev. G.
Morning Lessons: Isaiah v.,
ii. 1-15. Evening Lessons'.-
xi. i-ll or xxiv., John xvi. 16.
St. Paul’s Cathedral, 10.30 a.m.,
umirtain; 3.15 p.m., Rev. Canon
Lido on; 7 p.m., Rev. F. Paget.
Westminster Abbey, 10 a.m. and 3
Savoy! 11.30 a.m., Rev. George
H Durlow, Vicar of Chardstock,
Chsrd; 7 p.m., Iiev. Canon George
Prothero, Chaplain to the Queen.
Temple Church, 11 a.m., probably
Rev. Dr. Vaughan, the Master:
3 p.m.,Rev. * ‘ J - iV
John - Canon Prothero.
Whitehall, It a.m., at
Prescott (for Clergy Ladies’ Home);
3 p.m., Rev. W. F. E. Knollys.
Christian Evidence Society:
Holy Trinity, Brompton; 7 p.m.,
Rev. Brownluw Maitland on “Mes¬
sianic Prophecy.
Christ Church, Blackfriars. 7 p.m.,
Rev. J. Kirkman on “ Love of Nature
in Holy Soripture distinct from
Pantheism.”
St. Paul’s, Paddington, 7 p.m., ReV.
G.Henslow on “Love, ihe Essential
Linger, the Reader. Feature of Christianity.”
MONDAY, Dec.
Grouse-shooting ends.
Full moon, 7.60 p.m.
Female Orphan Asylum, Beddmgton,
half-yearly court, City Terminus
Hotel, 11 a.m.
Smithficld Cattle Show opens (five
Fanners’ Club, 6.30 p.m. (Mr. J. K.
Fowler on the Paris Exhibition—
its Agricultural Teachings).
Royal Academy, 8 p.m. (Professor
Marshall on the Muscles).
Medical Society, 8.30 p.m.
London andMiddlesex Archaeological
Society, 8 p.n
Geographical Society, 8.30p.m. (Mr.
Clements R. Markham on the
Swedish and Dutch Arctic Expe¬
ditions, and the Route for future
Polar Discovery).
Institution of Surveyors, 8 p.m. (Mr.
T. F. Hedley on the Rating of
Railways).
Popular Concert, St. James’s Hall,8.
Society of Arts, Cantor Lecture,
8 p.in. (Mr. W. Hattieu Williams
on Mathematical Instruments).
London Institution, 5 p.m. (Mr.
Francis Darwin on Self-Defence
among Plants).
ILLUSTRATIONS:
The Vicar’s Daughter. By G. D. Leslie, R.A.
The Finishing Touch. By H. S. Marks, A.R.A.
Follow the Drum. By G. A. Storey, A.R.A.
Tlie Fairies’ Favourite. By J. A. Fitzgerald.
My Lady’s Carriage Stops the Way. Ey A. Hunt.
On Christmas Day in the Morning. By Miss M. E. Edwards.
Our Noble Ancestor. By F. Dadd.
An Evil Omen. By S. Read.
Dancing teas Dancing in those Days. By F. Barnard.
Lucky Dog! By Percy Macquoid.
Young Faces and Old Fashions. By M. W. Ridley.
Mr. Quiverfull’s Christmas Box. By A. Hunt.
Thankfully Received. By C. Gregory.
The Mistletoe Bough. By A. E. Emslie.
Where the Deed was Done. By Mason Jackson.
A Page of Pictorial Charades.
This Christmas Number will contain
A TALE BY MRS. J. H. RIDDELL,
Author of “ George Geith,” &c.,
ENTITLED
“MICHAEL GARGRAVE’S HARVEST;”
AND
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TUE8DAY, Dec. 10.
Accession of Leopold EL, Kin g of | Medical and Chixurgioal Society, 8.30.
the Belgians, 1866.
St. Paul’s Cathednil 7 p.m., special
evening service, with Spoltr’s
“ Last Judgment.”
Training Hospital, Tottenham,
building fund, bazaar at Cannon-
street Hotel ,two days).
Froebtl Society (Kindergarten),
annual meeting, Society of Arts,
7.30 p.m.
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8p.m.
(Discussion on Heating and Ven¬
tilating Buildings; Sir. W. F,
Potter on Bail way Work in Japan),
West London Scientific
8 p.m.
Antliropological Institute, 8 p.m.
(Captain K. F. Burton on Finds in
Midian; Professor Owen and Mr.
C. Carter Blake on Skulls from
Midian; Dr. Henry Muirhead on
Left-Handedness).
Fhotographio Society, 8 p.m. (Mr.
H. Cooper, jun., on an Emulsion
Process; papers by Mr. L.
Waroerke and Mr. W. Willes).
Leeds Smithfield Cattle Club Show
(three days).
THE WEATHER.
RESULTS OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT THE
KEW OB6ERVATORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
Lat. 61° 28' 6'- N.; Long. 0 s 10’ 47" W.; Height above Sea, 34 feet.
Agricultural Society, general meet-
WEDNESDAY, Deo. 11.
Literary Fund, 3 p.m.
Kind’s College, 8^ p it
. G. C.
College of Preceptors. 7.30p.m. (Rev.
H. (Belcher on the Theory of
“ Useful Education ”).
Microscopical Society, 8 p.m.
Gaelic Society, 8 p m. (Gaelic),
annual business meeting.
Society of Telegraph Engineers,
8 p.m. (annual meeting).
Hunterian Society, London Insti¬
tution, 8 p.m.
Birkbeck Institution, 8 p.m. (Mr.
W. YVardroper, Musical Entertain¬
ment).
Ballad Concert, St. James’s Hull, 8.
Amateur Mechanical Society, 8 p.m.
Royal Academy, 8 p.m. (Professor
Marshall on Anatomy — the
Muscles).
Society of Arts, 8 p.m. (Mr. Hyde
Clarke on Railways to Turkey und
India).
’, Deo. 12.
Mathematical Society, 8 p.m. (Mr.
H. Perigal on Motion ; papers by
Mr. S. Roberts and Prince Camille
do Polignoc).
Royal Society, 8.30 p.m.
Post Office Orphan Home, annual
concert, St. James's Hall, S p.m.
Historical Society, 8p.m. (Mr. George
Harris on our Domestic Every¬
day Life, &c.—Part 4, a.u. 1200-
1500; Rev. A. H. Wratistaw on
on Vlarlimer Monomachus, Grand
Prince of Kyjev).
Society of Arts, Chemical Section, 8.
Kennel Club’s Dog Show, Alexandra
Palace (four days).
Dorking Poultry Show.
Glamorganshire Agricultural Society:
Swansea Horse, Dog, and Poultry
Show.
FRIDAY, Dec. 13.
Asylum of St. Anne’s Society Schools, | Sacred Harmonic Society, 7 p.m-
half yearly court, City Terminus (Rossini’s “ Moses in Egypt”).
Hotel, 11 a.m. Clinical Society, 8.30 p.m.
City of London College, 6 p.m. (Dr. | Quekett Microscopical Club, 8 p.m.
Heinemannon Political Economy—| Royal Academy, 8 p.m. (Professor
International Values). Marshall on the Muscles).
Astronomical Society, 8 p.m. I Llanelly Dog and Poultry Bhow.
BATURDAY, Dec. 14.
Albert, Prince Consort, died, 1861. I parity; and Dr. O. J. Lodge on a
Botanic Society, 3.46 p.m. Differential Thermometer).
Physical Society, 3 p.m. (Mr. C. Boys St. James’s Hall, Popular Concert,
on a Condenser of Variable Ca-1 3 p.m.; evening concert, 8 p.m.
Charterhouse, Founder’s Day, ser-l
vice, 5 p.m., Rev. G. E. Jelf, Vicar
of Saffron Walden; and annual
Westminster Play, the “ Phormio ”
of Terence, 7 p.m.
LondonInstitution,?p.m. (Professor
W. H. Flower on Wmgless Birds).
Royal Albert Hall Choral Society.
8p.m. (Mendelssohn’s “Hymn of
Praise” and Rossini’s “Stabut
Mater.”
College of Preceptors, 7 p.m. (Mr. J.
G. Fitch on Piactical Teaching-
Geography and History).
New Shakspere Society, 8 p.m. (Mr.
P. A. Daniel on the Times or Dura¬
tions of the Action of Sbakspeare’s
Hays).
Society of Antiquaries, 8.30 p.
29'911
29-958
29 667
29 990
30'122
330
Direction.
lU'Ijsr.
The following are the readings of the meteorological instruments for the
above days, in order, at ten o’clock a.m.:—
Barometer (in inches) corrected .. I 29--MW I 22'516 | 28-915 I 2HW4 i 29-746 I 29-9*7 I 30-100
Temperature ol Air .37-if 41-6° 34-7° I 33-7° | 1
Temperature of Evaporation .. 35-9° 39-9 1 1 32-7“ [ 32 0 s |
Direction of Wind .I s. I K. I »»*. I K. |
J«-3° [ 35 9° (
Sunday. I Monday. I Tuesday.
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the Chief Incidents and Scenes of the TFar will speedily
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LONDON: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1878.
The meeting cf Parliament on Thursday forecloses, for a
brief season, the discussions out of doors, so rife during
the past few weeks, anent the question of the Nort -
Western boundaries of our Indian Empire. The real and
ultimate authority of the nation will now take the con¬
troversy in hand, and pass judgment upon tho po icy
pursued by the Indian Government in obedience to
instructions from home. Public attention will be fastene
upon the debates in the Upper and Lower House, an
will cease to he attracted by the extra Parliamentary
eloquence which, if it be displayed at a » W1
certainly he displayed “under difficulties. T e
of the candle, however brilliant in itself, _ ecoine
invisible in the sunlight. So far there is an un enia
advantage in the coming together of the British Legislature.
An autumnal Session, though far from being un PU
cedented, has been rare. It largely and dis * sree “ •
interferes with customary social arrangements w en, ^
the present case, it comes suddenly. It acts in som
respects like a collision at sea. It breaks off P U £P°
sometimes h alf executed, sometimes on the verge o °
carried into effect. It deranges machineiy upon
punctual and accurate movements of which no
households depend for their prospective C ^ 1U 0 ’ ^
in individual instances, even for their safety,
is one of those accidents to which senatoi
necessarily exposed. To those immediately concern® ^
is no doubt an infliction ; to the public at large i » ^
may be, a precious boon. In the present case ^
necessity, and, whether for good or for e■ » 1 m
endured—patiently and cheerfully, if possible, u , ^
rate, with that measure of acquiescence w ic
perative obligation is always powerful enoug ,
mand. The sacrifices it entails can find compensa
DEC. 7, 1878
THE ILLUSTKATED LONDON NEWS
527
in the benefits it confers. The first are principally private
and social; the last are public and national. Men who
court the dignities of political life in the most exalted
sphere of its development are hardly entitled, perhaps, to
complain if now and then the responsibility of their
position burdens them with duties incompatible with
their private wishes.
Parliament has met two months at least in advance of
the customary period of its assembling. What is the pre¬
cise object of this early Session ? Even in the absence of
official information we may state wliat it is not. The
Legislature has not been convened for the purpose of con¬
sulting it as to the mode in which the Executive should
discharge its duties at the present crisis. It will not be
called upon to determine the alternative of peace or war.
This has been already done. War is afoot in Afghanistan.
We have already challenged its remote issues. Parliament
is not in a position morally to put an end to that which
has been begun. The machinery of war cannot be
stopped at a moment’s notice, cannot perhaps be discreetly
stopped until its immediate objects have been realised.
Whether approved or not, it must run out much of its
projected course. It will probably be formally approved
by the present Parliament, but it is by no means certain
that the method by which that approbation will be
expressed may not be so shaded as to convey to her
Majesty’s Government a sense of public discontent which
they will be at no loss to interpret. That they will com¬
mand a majority of votes in support of their policy there
cannot be much room to doubt. That the debates
which will terminate in this result will augment
their prestige remains to be seen. The fact is,
every representative will see a General Election very
close behind the decision which he may give and
the opinions which he may express within the next
few days. It may be anticipated, therefore, that there
will be on the one side more caution and on the other
more courage in declaring individual convictions. The
division, should there be one, seems likely to be less
expressive of the real sentiment of the country than the
course and tenour of the discussions which will precede
it. It must, to a certain extent, be provisional. It will
shortly have to be ratified, whatever it may be, by the
Constituent Bodies, and it appears not at all impossible
that the end of this brief Autumnal Session will bring
about the close of the existing Parliament.
The war having been proclaimed and entered upon,
the means necessary to its being vigorously carried on
cannot be refused. Some people are anxious to “ stop the
supplies;” indeed, a movement has been initiated with
that view. It cannot be done. We do not mean, of
course, to say that the House of Commons could not, if so
disposed, withhold the pecuniary support required by the
Government for the conduct of the war. But every
thoughtful man must see at a glance that such a reso¬
lution, even if it could find a majority, would be a
tactical and a political blunder. It would place our
invading army in difficulties to which it ought never
to be exposed. It could not be seriously thought
of, not even if the nation, as a whole, utterly condemned
the policy which has led to the war. The practical
authority of the House of Commons could only in certain
emergencies, and those extremely rare, become co-exten-
sive with the theoretical. A vote of credit, therefore, if
asked, will not be refused. True, the bill has been run up
without the knowledge of the people and without the
consent of Parliament, and it will necessarily yet run on,
to what extent it is as yet impossible to foresee. But it
must be paid; and, although there may be a good deal of
grumbling over the transaction, paid, no doubt, it will be,
with promptitude and honour, so far as the Indian
Government is concerned.
What, then, is it possible to accomplish during the
present Autumnal Session ? Not much, it may be, directly;
but underneath not a little. If there be injustice in the
military aggression upon the country of the Ameer of
Afghanistan, it will be possible, should success crown the
British arms (of which there can be no serious doubt), to
minimise that injustice. If the war be unnecessary, the
first opportunity for putting an end to it may be seized
and utilised. If the policy which has precipitated
hostilities be erroneous, it may, as occasion admits of,
be reversed. Our hope lies, not in the present, but
in the future. We rejoice that Parliament has been
called together, not because there is any reason to believe
that it can instantly, even if desirous of so doing, stay the
course of events now proceeding, but because if that
course be inconsistent with the dictates of wisdom, justice,
and honour, the direction of.' it may be the more speedily
altered. The bias of our rulers will be swayed eventually
by the national will, and it is to be hoped that the forth¬
coming debates will indicate with sufficient precision and
impressiveness what that will is.
The Albert Medal of the Second Class has been conferred
upon Anthony Gerrighty, a private in the Royal Marines. On
the night of July 27 last a lunatic named Field, on his passage
home in the transport-ship Baron Colonsay, of Greenock, broke
away from the sentry in the sick berth and climbed up the
rigging, where he remained till about five a.m., whenhe jumped
overboard. Gerrighty jumped after him, and, though struck
at with a knife which jneld had in his hand, succeeded in
rescuing him. This occurrence took place while the ship was
going eight knots and a fresh breeze blowing.
THE COURT.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice continue at Windsor Castle.
His Excellency the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador (Count
Beust), the Marquis of Salisbury, and Colonel the Right Hon.
F. A. Stanley arrived at the castle on Thursday week. The
Marquis of Salisbury hod an audience of the Queen. Count
Beust was introduced by the Marquis of Salisbury, and had
an audience of her Majesty to present his letters of recall. The
Queen’s dinner party included Prince and Princess Christian
of Schleswig-Holstein, Princess Beatrice, Lady Southampton,
the Marchioness Dowager of Ely, the Hon. Mary Pitt, Count
Beust, the Marquis of Salisbury, Colonel the Right Hon. F. A.
Stanley, and the Earl of Dunmore. Her Majesty’s visitors left
the next day.
Princess Christian visited the Queen on Saturday last, and
remained to luncheon. Princess Beatrice came to London,
and was present at the Saturday Popular Concerts at St.
James’s Hall. Her Royal Highness visited the Soho Bazaar
and returned afterwards to Windsor. The Right Hon. W. H.
Smith (First Lord of the Admiralty) arrived at the castle and
had an audience of her Majesty. Mr. Smith and Lieutenant-
General H. Ponsonby were included in the dinner party.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice attended Divine service
on Sunday in the private chapel of the castle. The Rev. James
Fleming, B.D., Residentiary Canon of York, Vicar of St.
Michael’s, Cheater-square, officiated.
The Earl of Beaconsfield had an audience of her Majesty
on Monday. Viscount Cranbrook also had an audience of the
Queen. Her Majesty’s dinner party included Prince and
Princess Christian, Princess Beatrice, Lady Southampton, the
Marchioness Dowager of Ely, Viscount Cranbrook, the Hon.
and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs.
Wellesley, the Earl of Dunmore, and Captain F. J. Edwardes.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, went to
Camden House, Chisemurst, on Tuesday, and paid a visit to
the Empress Eugenie. Her Majesty travelled by a special
train on the South-Western and South-Eastern Railways to
and from Chiselhurst, and returned to Windsor Castle to
luncheon. Prince Leopold arrived at the castle. Viscount
Cranbrook left.
The Queen held a Council on Wednesday, at which were
present Prince Leopold, the Duke of Richmond and Gordon,
the Duke of Northumberland, and Viscount Sandon. The Duke
of Richmond and Gordon had an audience of her Majesty.
Viscount Torrington and Major C. E. Phipps have suc¬
ceeded the Earl of Dunmore and Vice-Admiral Lord Frederic
Kerr as Lord and Groom in Waiting.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
The Princess of Wales attained her thirty-fourth year on
Sunday. The birthday festivities were postponed. The
Prince and Princess, with Princesses Louise Victoria and
Maud of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Teck, attended
Divine service at Sandringham church. The Rev. F. Hervey
and the Rev. Canon Tarver officiated. The Duke and Duchess
of Teck and other guests left Sandringham on Monday. The
Prince left on a visit to Mrs. Gerard Leigh at Luton Hoo
Park. His Royal Highness travelled by a special train upon
the Great Northern Railway, and was met at the station by
Mr. G. Forbes, son-in-law of Mrs. Gerard Leigh, who
accompanied him to the mansion. Mrs. Gerard Leigh
received the Prince in the entrance-hall. A large party
were assembled to meet the Royal guest, and a ball was given
on Tuesday. The Prince and party shot over the preserves
on Tuesday and Wednesday; and on Thursday his Royal
Highness visited Luton and inspected some of the manu¬
factories. An address was presented by the Mayor and Cor¬
poration. The town was decorated with flags and triumphal
arches, the principal ornamentation of the arches being made
of straw-plaits. The Prince left for London, in order to be
present at the opening of Parliament.
The Prince has sent presents of game to the Charing-cross
Hospital and to the Consumption Hospital, Brompton.
The Duchess of Edinburgh left Coburg on Tuesday for
London, travelling via Stuttgart.
His Excellency Count Beust, who for the post seven years
has represented Austria at our Court, has left for Paris.
His Excellency Count Miinster has returned to the German
Embassy, Carlton House-terrace, from Hatfield House.
FASHIONABLE MARRIAGES.
The marriage between Captain G. W. Anson, B.S.C., eldest
son of the late Major Octavius H. St. G. Anson, 9th Lancers,
and Katherine Harriette, daughter of Sir William Muir,
K.C.S.I., was solemnised on the 28th ult. at St. Jude’s, South
Kensington. The bride wore a dress of rich white satin,
trimmed with Brussels lace, and a veil of the same over a
wreath of orange-flowers. After the breakfast the bride and
bridegroom left for Paris. The bride’s presents were numerous.
A marriage has been arranged and will shortly take place
between Sir Charles Decimus Crosley, of Sunningdale Park,
Berks, and Miss Helen Wright, the youngest daughter of
James Wright, Esq., of Belsize Park-gardens.
A marriage is arranged and will shortly take place between
the Rev. C. W. H. Kenrick, Vicar of Boulton, Gloucestershir',
and Ethel Frances, second daughter of the Hon. and Rev.
John Gifford, Rector of Siddington, Gloucestershire.
At a mass meeting of operatives employed in the cotton
trade, which was held at Oldham last Saturday, the men
refused to accept the masters’ offer of a 5 per cent reduction.
Several more mills have been closed, and the total number of
spindles standing still is now 5,500,000.
A Board of Trade inquiry into the cause of the collision
between the revenue cutter Fanny and the National Line
steamer Helvetia, by which seventeen lives were lost, has
resulted in the suspension of the certificate of the captain of
the latter vessel for six months.
Mr. Wyld has published a useful “military map” of
Afghanistan, intended to show the whole area of the Central
Asian Question, from the Russian military and naval bases on
the Caspian and Aral Seas to the confines of China, with the
frontiers of India and Persia.
A large and influential meeting of ladies, called by the
Mayoress (Mrs .Ward), was held at Sheffield on Monday to organise
means for relieving the great distresstliat prevails among women
and children in the town. Mr. Mark Firth had placed at the
disposal of the Mayor the offices and warerooms connected
with Sanderson’s works in West-street; and the ladies decided
to employ as many women—sempstresses, wives of workmen
out of employ, and factory girls—in those rooms as they can ;
and the clothing they make up will be lent to needy people for
the winter. Relief committees have now been formed in all
the parishes of the town, and assistance is being given wherever
it is needed. The Mayor’s fund has reached nearly £5000.
The first public distribution of food took place on Wednesday,
when three hundred families, chiefly connected with the iron
and steel trades, were served with soup and bread. The dis¬
tribution iB to be maintained twice a week.
PRINCES8 LOUISE IN CANADA.
The arrival of the Marquis of Lome at Halifax, as the new
Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada, accompanied
by his wife, her Royal Highness Princess Louise, was described
in last week’s paper, with the commencement of their journey,
by the Intercolonial Railway, from Halifax to Montreal. They
reached that city about noon on Friday week, having been
met and accompanied, part of the way, by the members of the
Quebec Provincial Government. Addresses were presented, at
different stations, by deputations of the French Canadians of
Lower Canada, to whom the Marquis replied in their own lan¬
guage, and by the Mayor and Municipality of Montreal. His
Excellency and her Royal Highness were received in
that city with great popular enthusiasm ; their car¬
riage was drawn by men, instead of horses, to the Windsor
Hotel, where they lodged that night. The streets were
illuminated, and there was a grand ball given by St. Andrew’6
Scottish Society, which was attended by the Marquis of Lome
and the Princess; his Excellency danced a quadrille with
Lady M’Donald, wife of the Canadian Premier, while the
Princess was the partner of Lieutenant-Colonel Stevenson, an
officer of the Colonial Militia. They also danced in a Scotch
reel, to the music of pipers. Next day they received several
addresses of welcome, visited the M'Gill College University
and the Ville Marie Convent School, and held a drawing¬
room reception. On Sunday they attended worship at the
English Cathedral, and in the afternoon at St. Andrew’s Pres¬
byterian Church. On Monday they left Montreal for Ottawa,
the political metropolis of the whole Dominion of Canada,
where they have taken up their abode in Government House,
formerly named Rideau Hall, of which we give an Hlustration.
The Princess is much pleased with her future home. It is a
roomy building, with a pleasant interior, but of no architec¬
tural pretensions. The mansion is very plain, but comfortable,
and very homelike in all its arrangements. The interior is
entirely upholstered in crimson. Attached are billiard-rooms,
tennis court, La Crosse ground, bowling alley, toboggon slides,
skating and curling rinks, and every aid to outdoor diversions.
But it is said that Princess Louise intends to make her summer
residence at Halifax, on the Nova Scotian Atlantic coast.
MR. GLADSTONE ON THE AFGHAN WAR.
Last Saturday Mr. Gladstone paid a visit to his constituency
at Greenwich, which was looked upon as being of a farewell
character. In the afternoon the right lion, gentleman was
entertained at a luncheon at the Ship Hotel, and, having
responded to the toast of his health, proposed “ Prosperity to
the Borough of Greenwich Liberal Association.” Dwelling
especially upon the word “ association,” and upou the par¬
ticular ideas which it suggested, he defended the Birmingham
plan of organisation from the criticisms which had been passed
upon it, and challenged its opponents to produce a better.
In the evening Mr. Gladstone, who was accompanied by
Mrs. Gladstone, spoke at a large meeting held at the Skating
Rink, Plumstead, when he was presented with an address
expressing regret at the severance of his connection with the
borough of Greenwich, and the pride which the borough would
ever feel at having been associated with his name and fame.
Mr. Gladstone said he would not draw in detail the contrast
between the present time and five years ago. He did not know
what the “harassed interests” thought of it; at present he
knew of but one harassed interest, which was the British
nation. Referring to “ personal government,” which was not
a happy phrase, he protested against its being interpreted to
mean that the Sovereign desired to depart from the traditions
of the Constitution ; but he charged the present advisers of the
Crown with having insidiously begun a system intended to
narrow the liberties of the people of England, and to reduce
Parliament to the condition of the French Parliaments before
the great Revolution. Retorting the accusation that he and
his supporters were the friends of Russia, he declared that the
Government had been the real friends of that Power, having
brought it back to the Danube, from which it was driven in
1856. They were its left-handed friends, who had dnue good
to Russia by their bungling attempts to do harm. The right
hon. gentleman vindicated his Government from the charge of
responsibility for the Afghan war, and threw it entirely upon
the present Ministry, commenting severely upon the ninth
paragraph of Lord Cranbrook’s despatch, which, he said, stated
things true in themselves in a manner to convey, and which
had conveyed, a totally false impression. The re¬
sponsibility would soon, probably, be divided between
the Government and the Houses of Parliament; but
if the people, when appealed to, should approve of the policy
which had been pursued the largest share of the responsibility
would be theirs. The question which they had to consider
was, whether this war was just or unjust? “So far (Mr.
Gladstone said) as I am able to collect the evidence, it is
unjust. It fills me with the greatest alarm lest it should
be proved to be grossly and totally unjust. If so, we should
come under the stroke of the everlasting law that suffering
shall follow sin; and the day will arrive—come it soon or
come it late—when the people of England will discover that
national injustice is the surest road to national downfall.”—
The speech occupied in delivery one hour and fifty minutes.
At the conclusion a resolution, by which the meeting adopted
the address which had been presented to Mr. Gladstone, was
heartily carried. _
A meeting was recently held in the Round-Room of the
Mansion House, Dublin—under the presidency of the Lord
Mayor—to promote a national memorial to Cardinal Cullen.
At a general meeting of the membefs of the Royal Scottish
Academy, held in Edinburgh on Wednesday, Mr. Arthur
Mitchell. M.D., LL.D., was elected Professor of Ancient
History, in room of the late Dr. David Laing.
Mr . Richard Quain, M.D., F.R.S., has been appointed a
member of the General Council of Medical Education and
Registration of the United Kingdom, for five years from
Nov. 27, his previous term of office having expired ou Nov. 20.
Miss Florence Nightingale has sent a gold watch to Captain
Scott, of the Erl King, in gratitude for his kindness in rescu¬
ing four nurses belonging to her training institution in Loudon,
who were wrecked whilst returning home from the Montreal
General Hospital, in Canada.
The Irish Lord Chancellor on Tuesday gave judgment in
the case of Lord Kingston v. Executors of Eyre, which is the
last of the actions arising from the failure of Sadleir’s Tippe¬
rary Bank, and has been thirty years in litigation. He found
£43,000 due to the executors of Eyre, and to this added the
general costs of the suit.
A meeting of the City magistrates was held at Guildhall
on Tuesday—the Lord Mayor presiding. The precepts for
the election of common councilmen in the twenty-five wards
into which the City is divided, ou Dec. 21 next, were issued.
Mr. Alderman Cotton, M.P., was reappointed to represent the
Court among the managers of the Aske’s Charity at Hoxton,
and Sir Robert Carden was re-elected as chairman of the
finance committee.
the illustrated London hews
THE AFGHAN WAR.
The progress of military operations in this questionable enter-
the contained Quetta force will reach Candahar by the middle
of January, after which cavalry reconnaissances will take place
in the direction of Herat and Ghuzni.
We present several Illustrations of the movement of troops
ofThumdav afternoon has been tolerably successful, though aud m jiitary stores in the Punjaub, two or three of th(
of Thumdaj mternoon, remembered that Afghanistan sk t hcs contributed by our valued correspondent Lieu^
gj ffSSseparate columns of Adjutant of the Jd Regimen^
TrwUmi Armv The first, proceeding from the ..inch halted at the permanent camp of Mecan M<-er, near
vill take place King Humbert and Queen Margaret received the dmlnmnfu
body on the 28th ult. Their Majesties requested those orient
lent of troops to thank their respective Governments for the tokens of regard
three of the which they had received from all the States of Europe onVha
»ondent, Lieu- occasion of the recent attempt on the King’s life. 1 ne
ha Regiment, King Humbert has paid another visit to Signor Caimii
n Meer. near who is still confined to his bed. 6 rtm «
lias been invaaeu “iA r, r0C eeding from the ,, nlte(i at the permanent camp of Meean Meer, near who is still confined to his bed. ’
toe Bntish-Indian Army. ^ „ ndt!r the com - XL on its way to join the Moultau Division for the advance At Rome on Tuesday there was much excitement in and
at the flirthcr through°the Bofmi Pass to Quetta. We are indebted abo to around he Chamber of Deputies The tribunes set apart£
^ Jf toc ra s mid is ^ohig on to take possession of the Lieutenant C. H. Atchison, R.H.A., for a sketch of the toe public were densely filled and crowds gathered round the
A tefinn fortffled toTm of JellMabad, a hundred miles from the Xge of Thull, on the right bank of the Khoorum river, doors As soon however, as the President had taken his seat,
of f abul The* second column, under General Roberts, ^rnwhich potat of departure the march of General Roberts he read a letter from feignor Cairoli expressing his deep regret
advanced from ThtalTythc Khoorum Pass, occupied the f, on tl f e m0 ming of the 21st ult.; and Lieutenant at not being able to attend, though he begged that the du-
Khoorum fort“ ut hSbeen stopped two or three days at Pei war, f h g m NeviU e, of the 14th Bengal Lancers lias favoured mission nught not be delayed, and expressed the hope of
where iZ Afahans made a stand last Saturday in a strong posi- us P ith a Sketch of his picket at the camp of being able to take part m it before ite termination The attack
tion till Gen er^?Roberts defeated them on Monday, capturing Muttra Tb in which we see a deserter of the upon the Government then began. Meetmgs m favour of the
S/teen ofthSr gnus, having by a flank march turned their ^ brought before the officer, to be questioned Governmentare being called m various parts of the peninsula,
position with toe^72ud Highlanders and 5th Goorkhas; he for J in f or £ at ion that can be got out of him. The force at Ministers will demand a vote of confidence,
then occupied Peiwar Kotul, and intended moving on towards ^ pj c ket consisted one hundred cavalry and infantry, under SPAIN.
the Sbaturgardan Pass on Thursday. The third column, two native and two European °® ce 2 1 ’ iva King Alfonso has sent the insignia of the Order of the
which has not yet met an enemy, is that of the Quetta mouths of the side passes near the Khyber. Wesataogive,in Goldeu Fleece to the Prince of Naples. “
garrison, with reinforcements and supports brought up a small Engraving, a romantic glimpse of the Khoorum seen Some newspapers announce the marriage of King Alfoujo
through the Bolan Pass; its Commander is Sir Donald Stewart, from a s i ugu iax cleft m the rocks of Mount with the Princess Christine de Montpensier* eldest sister of'tb
but the advanced force is, under General Biddulph.mo o p un jaub Salt Range. It is from a sketc y P late Queen Mercedes. Other journals deny the report.
„ On the ground of misapplication of to/code Criminal
a small Engraving, a romantic glimpse of the Khoorum, seen
from a singular cleft in the rocks of Mount Sakesur in the
through the PeSiii vMle^nortoi of on *be road to the O^r Special Artist Mr W. Simpson should by
city of Candahar. It would appear that the Afghans do not this time have joined one or other of the advancmgarmi corps Procedure( the Court of Cassation at Madrid has allowed
mean to attempt the defence of Jellalabad, or any of their in Afghanistan ; and we hope m a few days to receive letters ^ hl the case of Moncasi, who attempted the life of E
towns, except possibly when the city of Cabul sfiouia De and gketches from him. Alfonso. The new trial will begin in about a fortnight..
attacked; but that they will fight in chosen posdioMin their _______ The expu lsion from Spain of all foreigners belongin,
mountain passes. The defence of the Ali Musjid fort^ at the THT 7 pit a wp 1 r tfie international society nas Deen resoivea on by the (JoaacE
entrance to toe Khyber Pass, was probably a mere feint, it THE COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL. 0 f Ministers.
is evident that their principal forces are collect^ 0ur lafit publication gave some account of the disaster which PORTUGAL.
on both sides of the bated Koh rangei of ’ _ ccurr “ d off Dover at midnight on Monday week—namely, a Senhor Monteiro has been appointed Minister of Justice.
pL's^dtorES^^b^^m^th^SOTi^ Valley. collision between the Hamburg-American Company’s steamer He is a member of the Chamber of Peers and belongs to the
gaa^a^v^^jgg
country westward is by the Sh^u^ardam Pass, . ter snow a^d crew on board the Pommerania numbered then 220 souls, from the dominion of Spain, the customary manifestation aud
appeal in the case of Moncasi, who attempted the life of Kiug
Alfonso. The new trial will begin in about a fortnight. •
The expulsion from Spain of all foreigners belonging to
the International Society has been resolved on by the Council
of Ministers.
PORTUGAL.
Senhor Monteiro has been' appointed Minister of Justioe.
useful results. There seems to be no obatede to the advance Mon JtoBmocrijudthud
of whom 172 were saved, nearly fifty persons being drowned, public rejoicings took place throughout the whole country.
The Pommerania sank in about thirty minutes after the col- HOLLAND.
mZthei^ons 11 <S^7S e Midd£- The Second Chamber has been occupied with the general
borough stKer aTd landed at Dover. Ten or twelve of them discussion of the Indian Budget The war with Atchin hu
S JnSvuMZrers from New York. also been warmly discussed The Budget of Indian expend;-
of Sir Samuel Brown upon Jellalabad, as the road lies open, 1/2 other para d l d pd at Dover Ten or twelve of them discussion of the Indian Budget. The war with Atchin hu
and the Afghans have abandoned that place. Beyond Jellal- borough stoker, and lan^^^^ . also been warmly discussed. The Budget of Indian expenii-
abadarethe Jugdulluk and Khoord Cabul Passes, but it is w ^™ an ,,„i ® j the Hamburg- American line ture was eventually passed by 64 votes to 6 . A proposal to
understood that the British advance to Cabul will not be The Pommerania be^ ™ subsidise a line of steamers between China and Java w*
unaersiooa mat me unusu mmiuw ™ -,y__ nmnrmfpd t/ins subsidise a line oi steamers Detween unna ana java was
pressed at this season of the year. It k even doubtful oti the fifth ult with the United States rejected by 3G votes to 35. A proposal to devote a sum of
whether the southern force, imder Sir Donald Stewart, will Shehad earl v on the Monday morn- 24,000 fl. to enable officers in the Indian service to go through
attempt to reach Candahar this winter. . .. mail; had touched at Plymouth ear 1 /on toe Monday morn- . at the military school was reiected bv
attempt to reach Caudahar this winter. mail; had touched at Piymoucn eariy on me —, mom-
The following is an account of .the operations of the ing, and landed there the passengers and mails for England,
Khoorum force?- also 7500 dols. in specie ; after which she proceeded to Cher-
24,000 fl. to enable officers in the Indian service to go through
a course of studies at the military school was rejected by
42 votes to 23, while the proposed introduction of a new
capitation tax was adopted by 44 votes to 5. The geuerul
discussion of the Budget closed on Wednesday.
raassu-w-,: —
one gun and taking one horse and one mule battery, in all 1873. The Moel EUian is an iron barque of 1100 tons gross, SWITZERLAND,
twelve guns. Next day General Roberts, pressing a cavalry owned in Liverpool, and classed A 1 , having been biult at bun- The new National Council assembled on Monday, and pre-
reconnaissance, learned that the Afghans were retiring up a derland last year. She was on her way from Rotterdam to ccede d the next day to constitute its bureau. M. Rolmer, of
steep slope of toe Peiwar range, and dragging their guns with Cardiff in ballast. When brought into tiie port of Dover, Zurick) a Liberal Conservative, was elected President, aud
difficulty. Hoping to overtake them while thus confused, after the collision, she was placed m the Granville Dock. Our m. Kuenzli, of Aurau, a Radical, Vice-President.
General Roberts on the 28th, with part of his troops, made a Illustration shows her appearance while lying in the dock. ofrmvny
forced march of eighteen miles, but was unsuccessful in Except in the bows, where she came in contact with the Pom- w/juiajn ..... .. .
hindcTing the Afgtams from gaining a position on a ridge of merauia, she was uninjured, but her bows presented a terrible Great preparations were made at Berlin for the receptiou of
the Peiwar Pass. A reconnaissance in force next day convinced sight. Her bowsprit was earned away; and the bows were the German Emperor audEmpressonTh^sday. TheEmperor
General Roberts of the remarkable strength of the Afghan completely stove in, exposing the water-tight compartment and Empress arrived at the Imperial Palace at a quarter to
position, so he halted for two days, on Nov 30 and Dec. 1, to right away to the bulkheads, while large sheets of iron plates one in the afternoon. lhe streets through which tfie cortege
5St retaforcements to come up. hung loosely down below the water’s edge on the starboard passed were filled with dense crowds who gave their Majesties
General Roberta intended to attack on the 2nd by a turning side, 'lhe force of the collision was very great, but it is an enthusiastic reception. The public corporations and trade
one in the afternoon. The streets through which tfie cortege
passed were filled with dense crowds, who gave their Majesties
an enthusiastic reception. The public corporations and trade
movement the Afghan front being too strong for a frontal remarkable that a sailing-vessel of comparatively small size associations of Berlin marched m procession past the palace,
attack. He employs two infantry brigades, a mountain could sink the steam-ship, which had thrice her tonnage. An where the Emperor and Empress appeared on the balcony in
batten', and four horse-artillery guns on elephants. The official inquiry will be held, after some arrangements pending response to the acclamations of the people. ^
ground of operations is reported not difficult. The country with the German Government. Captain Schwensen, who The Crown Prince and Princess dmed on Tuesday with
people say that the Afghans are unable to remove their guns, commanded thd steamer, was taken to Rotterdam. Lord Odo Russell, the British Ambassador at Derfin.
General Roberta’s force is provisioned for six days. He hopes_About forty leading bocial Democrats have bean expelled
to follow up toe Afghan retreat beyond their cantonment at from Berlin. nrinrl .„
AH Kheil, and drive them over toe Sbaturgardan range. Rein- FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS. . . . of Pr incess Thvra and the
forcementa for the Afghan Khoorum force are reported to be FRANCE U 18 8 tat( l d ^ at the marriage of 1rincess lhyxa and tne
counter-ordered. News of the result of General Robert’s Counfc Beu8t) a8 Ambas8adl ,r from Austria-Hungary, pre- R?chLK^ cSe of CffiSSbnrg The weddmg
intended attack on the 2nd is expected o 7- sented his credentials to Marshal MacMahon on Monday. The ^ w m be given at AmaHenburg, after which the newly-
Lahore, Dec. 5. Marshal, in reply to the Ambassador’s expression of desire to T .
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
Count Beust, as Ambassador from Austria-Hungary, pre¬
sented his credentials to Marshal MacMahon on Monday. The
Marshal, in reply to the Ambassador’s expression of desire to
- - -* - r . - hill niitfiorisme a loan of 1,200,000 crowns on behalf ot oauw
turned by a flank march over the Spengwai Pass. We sur- 0 f the high mission which the Emperor has confided to you.’’ „ b
prised the enemy at daybreak, when the 72nd Highlanders and M. Bardoux, the Minister of PubUc Instruction, on Mon- '" n z ' AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
toe 5i h Ghoorkas drove the Afghan troops gallantly from day laid, with much ceremony, the foundation-stone of a new T1 E mperor has summoned the Austrian Reichsratk to
several positions. They afterwards endeavoured to reach School of Practical Medicine in Paris. m ble on the 10th inst for legislative business.
Peiwar Kotul, but the assault could not be deUvered on that The Chamber of Deputies continued the debate on the i n last Saturday’s sitting of the Budget Committee of the
side. We then threatened the enemy’s rear and attacked Budget on the 28th ult., and adopted the estimates of the Austrian Reichsrath Count Audrassy delivered a long speech
Peiwar Kotul, which was occupied at four o’clock in the after- Printing and Fine-Arts Departments. The discussion upon defence of the Eastern policy of the Government. Tn reply
neon. The enemy, who had been reinforced by four regi- the Estimates of the Ministry of the Interior was begun. On nnestions on Sunday he said that the occupation of Bosuia
ments on the previous evening, offered a desperate resistance, the 29th ult., the Chamber voted the Budget of the Ministry ^ Herzegovina woul'd cease when the objects for whiefi it
and their artillery was well served. Their defeat, however, of the Interior, and afterwards discussed the Naval Estimates. “ 5. r+HVrp ° w „ rp aceomnUshed and Turkey had reimbursed
was complete. We captured eighteen guns and a large Admiral Pothuau, the Minister of Marine, said that in 1885 there
quantity of ammunition. Our loss is moderate, considering would be sixteen ironclad ships, seven of which would be pro-
ilro unniRnrc -fn wo worn f.ho Hiffinulf. nnf.nra ^ ... t V. L .1- nneo An laaf-
was undertaken were accomplished, and Turkey had reimbursed
Austria for the sacrifices she had made aud given a guam ce
lor the lu ture. Alter this explanation the Budget Committee
the numbers to which we were opposed and the difficult nature videdwith armour 55 centimetres in thickness. On Saturday last lor ‘ J. . p j Office estimates and the conflict between
of the country. Major Anderson, of the 23rd Pioneers, was the Chamber disposed of the rest of the Budget of expeudi- riiment and the Delegation was thereby terminated.
kiUed—not Captain Anderson, as at first reported. General ture, a threatened discussion of some length on Algeria being r iae Committee of the Austrian Delegation on Monday,
Cobbe and Lieutenant Munro, of the 72nd Highlanders, are postponed by general consent to a more favourable oppor- ad0D ted a motion not to enter upon
wounded. The troops behaved admirably. We move towards tuuity. The consideration of votes for 188,000,OOOf. in the bill’sanctioning a grant in the Budget of
the Shaturgardan Pass on the 5th inst.” special military and marine Budget was also deferred. In the ^ 70 °^ tl ic°occunation Bosnia and Herzegovina, but to vote
Lahore, Dec. 5, 11.15 a.m. Senate on Monday M. Leon Say presented the Budget of 15 C00 000 lloiinsas a special requirement of the army for
General Roberta has succeeded brilHantly in an attack on expenditure, and stated that the discussion of the Budget ’ ’ d e i' iav the expenses of m ai "t.ainin g the troops sti-
the Afghan position. He has carried the Peiwar Kothal, and would not come on in the Senate before the 12th inst. The tkmed in those provinces. The motion further stipulated tliat
has driven off the enemy, inflicting great loss, captured all Chamber of Deputies began the debate on the Budget of additional outlay the Government must obtain Con-
guns, and is following up the retreating enemy iu the direction receipts, and udopted the proposal to reduce the commercial .. 7 , ^auction The Committee afterwards discussed a
of AH Kheil. Our loss is about eighty, including Captain stamp duty aud the tax upon chicory. The committee of -L, or t urion'the Foreign Office Estimates, which Count Andrassy
Keleo, R.A., and Captain Anderson, 23rd Pioneers. inquiry into the late elections examined the Due Decazes, who, declared did not give an accurate summary of the negotiations
In the Khyber Pass, or rather at the Indian entrance to it, in reply to the demand of the committee, refused to com- Eastern Question but constituted au indictment and »
of AH Kheil. Our loss is about eighty, including Captain stamp duty and the tax upon chicory. The committee of ^nlt^iiiontZVorcicn Office Estimates, which Count Androssy
Keleo, R.A., and Captain Anderson, 23rd Pioneers. inquiry into the late elections examined the Due Decazes, who, declared did not give an accurate summary of the negotiations
In the Khyber Pass, or rather at the Indian entrance to it, in reply to the demand of the committee, refused to com- a ‘- c ~ a pastern Question but constituted an indictment and »
between Jumrood and the Ali Musjid fort, the convoys were municate the contents of the cipher telegrams sent and fTymnl d.a-fiiratiou of want of confidence. On a vote being
intercepted by marauding parties of hillmen during two or received by the Government during the elections, as he con- : , r(r/rinrf „ a donted by 12 against b, without
three days of last week. These were dispersed on Saturday by sidered them in the light of private letters. The Chamber of ta ~:? ’ . P R
Major Cavagnari, with a detachment of troops from Jumrood, Deputies on Tuesday continued the discussion of the Budget m Budget Committee of the Hungarian Delegation has
aud toe Afreedi viUage of Kheddum wa 3 burnt as a punish- of receipts, and rejected an amendment brought forward by , "r®, v s fi ma tes lor ^79 0 f the Ministries of Fmauce aud
ment. There is no further danger of annoyance in the M. BarinHone nroDosiug the sunnression of the tax unon oils. yotea ine r. _. errant for the uuu-
intercepted by marauding parties of hillmen during two <
• telegrams sent and
received by the Government during the elections, as he con-
further danger of annoyai
„ . the M. BarigHone proposing the suppression of the tax upon oils.
Khyber. To ease the strain, a portion of the 2nd Division has The House subsequently resumed the verification of elections,
moved forward to and beyond Peshawur. The 5th FusiHers and declared the return of Baron Jerome David to be valid,
are at Hum Singh. The 2nd Goorkhas and a troop of Horse In its sitting of Tuesday the Academy of Sciences elec
Artillery are at l’esliawur. Macpherson’s brigade is at Bosawul, M. Marcy, Professor of Animal Mechanics at the College
ten miles from Dakka, with orders to reconnoitre in a forward France, to tiU the place of the late Claude Bernard.
■direction towards JeUalabad. Jenkins commands the brigade A meeting was held on Sunday in Paris for the purpost
at Dakka ; Tytler another at Lundi Khana. Appleyard com- getting up a pubHc agitation in favour of the Franco-Ameri
In its sitting of Tuesday the Academy of Sciences elected . jV lc ^ d of citizens and students of the University
M. Marcy, Professor of Animal Mechanics at the CoHege de f^^. ^ponour of the members of the Opposition, wa
France, to fill the place of the late Claude Bernard. the city, in lionour 01 me rnemue
Marine, and alto approved the proposed grant for the con¬
struction of a turret-ship. MouiiV
There was a torchlight procession at P *^ °u » c
night, composed of citizens and students of the Urn
France, to fiU the place of the late Claude Bernard.
A meeting was held on Sunday in Paris for the purpose of
getting up a pubHc agitation in favour of the Franco-American
mauds at AU Musjid, vice Colonel Browne, recalled. Jumrood ’treaty scheme, started some time ago by M. Menier.
is in charge of General Maude.
Colonel Maegregor, an experienced officer, has been sent up
to superintend, with fuU powers, the Hue of communications
from Jumrood to Dakka. An alternative line by Abazai is
being opened up. It is not impossible that Jellalabad will be
occupied before the winter.
General Biddulpli has camped at Ilykulzai, in the Peshin
Valley. He is engaged in exploring the district to the right
in the direction of ThuH and Chotiali, and the route to the left
turning the Khojuk Pass. Sir 'D. Stewart is now at the foot
At Champigny on Monday a monument was uncovered
which was erected at the expense of the State to the soldiers
who feU in the battles fought on that ground in the last days
of November and on Dec. 2, 1870.
M. AureUen SchoHhas been fined 500L for declaring in the
clubs were serenaueu. nT< .niiiX W
Another bomb explosion took place on!3undayJrem ^ ^
Pestli. It occurred on the staircase ot u um-
which Herr Tisza was at the time making a report to tfie
bera of the Liberal party.
RUSSIA. c 1 ._
The Emperor arrived at Moscow from “ ^MuuJti/.
iss, en route to Quetta.
hi. Aureutu ocuuu juub ueuu imuu «>uuju lur ill lilc -- - — . ant*
vincmcnt that some of the French Judges were the shame of In a speech thanking the J^tpcatr of peace W.tn
ranee and a laughing-stock for the whole world. Majesty said he hoped that the d , . „ n4[1 tade for
General Cleret died on Monday night at Augers ; M. Andre, Turkey would soon be signed. P 0CCasl0 u ot reoeat
nator for the Charente, died on the 28th ult. the devotion shown towards hims , gaid | ltJ find no
A duel has taken place at Cherbourg betarecu two officers of events in St. Petersburg aud ’ i towan H his auc-
' ' . doubt the same feeling would be displayed to war
3 estimated that I Marines, one of whom was killed.
DEC. 7, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
531
cessors. In conclusion, his Majesty said he hoped to have the
consolation of seeing the country develop in a peaceful and
regular manner, which was the only means of securing the
greatness of Russia. On Wednesday morning the Emperor
amved in St. Petersburg from Moscow. He was received with
much enthusiasm, the day was an official holiday, and the city
was splendidly decorated. The Empress is compelled by ill¬
ness to remain at Livadia.
An Imperial ukase has been issued at St. Petersburg
replacing the seventeen series of Treasury Bonds issued in
I«71 by seventeen new series, to the amount of 51,000,000
roubles, redeemable each month of next year, exclusive of
January. March, August, and December.
. Tlie Be rlin correspondent of the Times sends the follow¬
ing:—1 he Russian garrison of Fort Narin, north-east of
Kashgar, has been considerably reinforced to protect the
lhian Shan passes against a Chinese army on and near the
Kuldja frontier. The Russian Government has opened nego¬
tiations with Persia for the construction of a railway connect-
iug the Tiflis-Baku line with Enseli on the Caspian and
Teheran. 1
All accounts respecting the speech reported to have been
made by General Kaufmann on the occasion of his presenting
the Afghan Envoy with a sword of honour for Shere Ali are
declared by the Russian newspapers to be fabrications,
invented for the purpose of influencing public opinion.
TURKEY.
A new Ministry has been formed, Khereddine Pasha being
Grand Vizier, Ghazi Osman Pasha Minister of War, and
Earatheodory Pasha Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Im¬
perial decree announcing the change urges the new Ministers
to carry out the projected reforms without delay, and to do
their utmost to repair the evils of the war.
Prince Lobanoff, on his return from Adrianople, assured
Safvet Pasha of the loyal intention of Russia to carryout the
conditions of the Berlin Treaty. He has also announced that
the Russians will evacuate Bulgaria and Roumelia conformably
with the stipulations of the Berlin Treaty, with the exception
of Adrianople and Thrace, the evacuation of those places to be
subject to Turkey’s adoption of the final treaty of peace.
Prince Dondoukoff-Korsakoif is, it is stated, putting a stop to
the agitation in Bulgaria, and has stated that the Czar wishes
the Berlin Treaty to be faithfully carried out.
According to the Bolgarln, the election of the new Prince
of Bulgaria will take place on Jan. 1 next. The choice
is considered to lie between General Ignatieff, Prince Alex¬
ander Wassiltschikoff, Prince Reuss, and Prince Alexander of
Battenberg.
It is stated in a Constantinople telegram of Tuesday’s
date, that the Bashi-Bazouks and Circassians have defeated the
Bulgarian insurgents in the district of Melnik in Macedonia,
and have burned twenty' more villages. One thousand only of
the inhabitants succeeded in effecting their escape to Djunrn
and Kustendji.
Good progress is being made by the European Commission
in the elaboration of the organic statutes for the Province of
Eastern Roumelia.
Hobart Pasha, at the Sultan’s request, has addressed a
report to his Majesty on the state of the Turkish Navy, in
which he recommends that some vessels should be put out of
commission, and the rest provided with the latest and most
improved machinery and appliances. The fleet, though
nominally weaker, would thus be better fitted for warfare.
Great activity is being displayed in fortifying Constan¬
tinople. The works, which when complete will be armed with
800 guns, are in parallel lines, commanding each other.
A Times' telegram from Constantinople states that the Porte
has at last resolved to take a decided step towards the recti¬
fication of the Greek frontier.
Suleiman Pasha, one of the most promiment Generals in the
Turkish army, has been sentenced by a court-martial to be
degraded and to be confined in a fortress for his conduct
during the late war.
ROUMANIA.
A new Cabinet has been formed, in which all the promi¬
nent members of the former Ministry, save M. Rosetti, Minister
of the Interior, retain their portfolios.
The Chamber held its first sitting last Saturday', when M.
Rosetti was unanimously elected President.
8ERYIA.
All the members of the Skuptschina assembled on Monday,
and the Assembly was opened on the following day.
AMERICA.
The United States Congress was opened on Monday. The
President’s Message refers at great length to monetary affairs,
discusses the question of the remonetisation of silver, and
recommends Congress either to limit the amount of silver
dollars issued or to change their coinage ratio to gold by con¬
forming it to the present market value of the two metals. He
further recommends discontinuing the coinage of silver dollars
when the amount outstanding exceeds fifty millions. He says
he is persuaded that in the present financial condition of the
country the welfare of legitimate business and industry of
every description will be best promoted by abstaining from all
attempts to make radical changes in existing financial legis¬
lation ; and if this policy is pursued, they may confidently
expect that the resumption of specie payments which will take
place at the appointed time will be successfully and easily
maintained, and that it will be followed by a healthful and
enduring revival of business and prosperity. The Message
also refers to the state of the South, the payment of the
Halifax award, the Indian troubles, and other matters, but
makes no mention of the relations of the United States with
Canada.
The President’s Message having been read, bills were intro¬
duced for making the trade dollar a legal tender, for the
appointment of a joint committee to inquire into the cause of
the spread of the recent yellow fever epidemic in the Southern
States, and for the increase of the national debt in consequence
of the payment of the Halifax Award.
The Secretary of the Treasury’s annual report sent to
•Congress states the receipts of the fiscal year 1878 to have been
257,703,000 dols., and the expenditures, 236,964,000 dols. The
surplus has been devoted to the reduction of the debt. While
the Secretary’8 views regarding the Silver Act are unchanged,
it has been his purpose faithfully to execute the measure and
give it a fair trial. He announces his readiness to begin
resumption on Jan. 1, from which date the department will
redeem greenbacks at New York in coin, and receive them as
equal to coin. The New York banks will co-operate, receiving
greenbacks as coin.
1 he Times' correspondent at Philadelphia states that orders
have been received to prepare immediately for sea four Russian
cruisers bought in the United States, and which have been for
some time past awaiting orders there. They are all expected
to leave before Christmas.
A collision occurred on Sunday on the Mississippi between
two steamers, one of which instantly sunk. Twenty persons
were drowned, including four passengers.
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
Mr. Patchett, Q.C., and Mr. Marshall Griffith, Q.C., have
been elected Benchers of the Inner Temple.
A conference, convened by the Reformatory and Refuge
Lnicn to discuss the granting of aid to discharged prisoners,
was held on .Tuesday—the Earl of Lichfield in the chair.
A scheme for the completion of the Inner Circle Railway
promoted by the Metropolitan and District Railway Companies,
hus been approved of by the Court of Common Council.
At the rooms of the S ociety of Arts Adelphi, on Wed¬
nesday evening, Mr. J. N. Shoolbred read a paper dealing
with the commercial results of electric lighting. Dr. Siemeiu
presided. There was a full attendance. The rooms were
lighted with electric lamps, and several specimens of lamps
were exhibited. e
The members of the German Gymnastic Society held their
annual competition on Wednesday and Thursday at their
gymnasium, St. Pancras-road, King’s-cross, N.W. The per¬
formances on both days were most successful, and the feats of
strength and agility afforded much pleasure to large numbers
of spectators.
A fancy bazaar in aid of the Portsmouth Soldiers’ Insti¬
tute was held at Willis’s Rooms on Friday and Saturday last
week. It was opened by Lieutenant-General Prince Edward
of Saxe-Weimar, now commanding the Southern Division, and
resident at Government House, Portsmouth. There was a
fair attendance, and more than £900 was collected.
Mr. Goschen, M.P., on Monday presided over the annual
conference of Metropolitan Poor-Law Guardians, at which Mr.
Stansfield, M.P., and Mr. Pell, M.P., were among the speakers.
A resolution was carried to the effect that the duty of providing
hospitals for non-pauper patients suffering from infectious
diseases should devolve on the Metropolitan Asylum Board.
The Royal Academy have named Sir Frederick Leighton,
President of the Royal Academy, as additional trustee of the
Soane Museum, to succeed the late Sir Francis Grant; and
the life trustees have appointed Mr. Alfred Waterhouse,
architect, A.R.A., to succeed to the vacancy caused by the
death of the late Mr. Frederic Pepys Cockerell, lion, secretary
of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Rossini’s oratorio, “Moses in Egypt” (Mose in Egitto),
will be performed at Exeter Hall on Friday next, by the
Sacred Harmonic Society. Mr. Santley will sustain the part
of Moses; the other principal vocalists being Mesdames
Sherrington, Enequist, and Julia Elton; Messrs. E. Lloyd,
Cummings, Wells, Hilton, and Bridson ; and the performance
will be under Sir Michael Costa's direction.
The members of the Metropolitan Board of Works com¬
pleted their inspection of the Thames last Saturday, with the
view of testing the question raised as to the pollution of its
waters. The departure of the boat was so timed as to permit
of an examination of the river during the last of the ebb and
the first of the flood tide. Specimens of the water were tested
at different points, and the results are said to have been
favourable.
Mr. Morley, M.P., presided last Saturday over a meeting
of the council of the Hospital Saturday Fund. The report
stated that the total amount received for the year had been
£6550, including a street collection of £1090, being an increase
of £1047 over the receipts of the previous year. £5000 had
been distributed amongst sixty-one hospitals, thirty-one dis¬
pensaries, three convalescent homes, and the Surgical Appliance
Society. The report and accounts were unanimously adopted.
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows that
the total number of paupers at the end of the fourth week in
November was 81,241, of whom 42,014 were in workhouses and
39,227 received outdoor relief. Compared with the corre¬
sponding week in 1877, these figures show an increase of
105; but, as compared with 1876 and 1875, they show a
decrease of 1002 and 3541 respectively. The number of
vagrants relieved on the last day of the week was 815, of
whom 591 were men, 183 women, and 41 children.
The Mansion House Committee of the Royal Agricultural
Society met on Monday in the Venetian Parlour—the Lord
Mayor presiding—to make further arrangements for the
Metropolitan International Exhibition, to be held in London
in June, 1879. The secretary announced that subscriptions
amounting to £7700 had been promised, of which £4413 had
been received. It was determined to increase the value of a
considerable number of prizes for shorthorn and other beasts
to the extent of £290.
The Scottish Corporation celebrated their 214th anniversary
at the Freemasons’ Tavern last Saturday. Lord Kinnaird pre¬
sided in the absence of the Duke of Richmond and Gordon.
The report stated that in consequence of the general depression
of trade there had been a falling off from every source of
income. Among the speakers were the chairman, the Dean of
Westminster, the Lord Mayor, Professor Blackie, Dr. Erasmus
Wilson, and Mr. Moir, president of St. Andrew’s Society of
New York. The subscriptions amounted to £1410.
The verdict of the jury in the action brought against the
Metropolitan Asylums Board in relation to the Hampstead
Hospital was given yesterday week. The Judge left a series
of questions with the jury, and their finding on these was to
the effect that the hospital was a nuisance, and that, assuming
the defendants had a legal right to erect it, they did not carry
it on with a reasonable regard to the plaintiffs’ rights. On the
ground that the verdict was against the weight of evidence, and
for misdirection, a rule for a new trial was on Monday granted
in the Queen’s Bench Division.
Sir Charles Reed presided at Wednesday’s meeting of the
School Board for London. The estimate of expenditure during
the coming year was presented by Mr. Freeman, chairman of
the finance committee, who gave an explanation of some of
the leading items. The probable expenditure for the coming
year was fixed at £551,247, which is £44,941 more than the
previous estimate. The excess was mainly due to the increase
in the number of children and the cost of school management.
The estimate and the accompanying recommendations of the
committee were, after a discussion, agreed to.
The Committee of Lloyd’s have bestowed the bronze medal
of the Society of Lloyd’s (which they have the power of pre¬
senting under an Act of Parliament ns an honorary acknow¬
ledgment to those who have by extraordinary exertions con¬
tributed to the saving of life at sea) upon Captain Peter Sharp,
master of the Annabella Clark, of Ardrossan, and upon John
MTntosh, able-bodied seaman of the same vessel, for their
bravery in rescuing, at the imminent risk of their own lives,
the crew of the French ship Melanie, which caught fire on the
night of Nov. 20 with 500 barrels of petroleum on board.
The arrangements for the forthcoming Smithfield Cattle
Show were completed on Tuesday lost. There is an increase
of live stock, especially in the cattle classes, beyond that of
last year. The Queen will, aa usual, be a large exhibitor in
the Devon and shorthorn classes, from the Home and Norfolk
Fanns at Windsor, as well as amongst the pigs, whilst the
Prince of Vales will compete in the same cattle clashes and
with the Duke of Richmond and Gordon and Lord Walsingh un
iu the sheep classes. There will be a larger show of inachiaery
than on any previous occasion. Notwithstanding that the
Birmnigham Show of this year, reverting to its old principle
precedes that of the Smithfield Club, thus shuttiug out most
of its finest specimens from the metropolitan show, the entries
of the latter are slightly in excess of those of last year. It is
believed that the Prince of Wales has reserved the best breads
of his Sandringham stock for London. His Royal Highness
has, it is stated, signified his intention of visiting the show.
On Monday night the inaugural meeting of the Victoria
Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, wa? held
at its rooms, 7, Adelphi-terrace, W.C.—Mr. C. Cadman Jones
in the chair—and was well attended. The paper read and dis¬
cussed was on “ Science and Man,” by President Noah Porter,
D-D., of Yale College, United States. It was prepared with
special reference to Professor Tyndall’s address before tin
Midland Institute, Birmingham, last winter.—Two other
lectures were delivered iu London on the same evening—at the
London Institution, by Professor Huxley, on “ The Elements
of Psychology; ” and by Captain Burton, before the British
National Association of Spirtualists, on “Spiritualism in
Eastern Lands.”
The Court of Common Council, at its meeting on Thursday
week, granted £105 to the Finsbury Dispensary, £210 to the
London Orphan Asylum, £210 to the building fund of the Birk-
beck Literary and Scientific Institution, £525 to the Loudon
Hospital Maintenance Fund, in five annual payments of £105
each; £5238 for providing half the expense of erecting
hydrants in the City, £8250 for the building of a new police
station in Bow-lane, £2800 for constructing a covered way
between the Central Meat and Poultry and the Provision
Market, £210 to the Royal Cambridge Asylum for Soldiers’
Widows, £105 to the West Ham Dispensary, and £105 to the
Hospital for Women. A member of the Common Council
supplemented the grant of 200 guineas to the Orphan Asylum
at Watford by a donation of 100 guineas.
At the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society held last
Saturday at Burlington House, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
resigned the office of president, and Mr. William Spottiswoode
was chosen his successor. The president, in his address, gave
a resume of the work done by the society during the year, aud
particularised the subjects most worthy of attention. The
medals in the gift of the society for the year were presented as
follows:—The Copley medal to M. Jean Baptiste Boussingault,
of Paris ; a Royal medal to Mr. John Allen Brown; a Royal
medal to Dr. Albert. Gunther, F.R.S., of the British Museum;
the Rumford Medal to M. Alfred Cornu; the Derby medal to
MM. Louis Paul Cailletet and Raoul Pictet. The presentation
was in each case preceded by a recapitulation of the scientific
services for which the award was made.—Mr. William
Spottiswoode, having been elected President of the - Royal
Society on Saturday last, has resigned the secretaryship
of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. After the
meeting of the members on Monday last, it was proposed
that a subscription be opened by the members to present a
bust of Mr. Spottiswoode to the Royal Institution af a
recognition of his valuable services as treasurer and secretary
successively. A portrait and memoir of the new President of
the Royal Society appeared in the Illustrated London News for
Sept. 7 last, p. 221.
There were 2427 births and 1624 deaths registered in
London last week. Allowing for increase of population, the
births were 5 and the deaths were 126 below the average
numbers in the corresponding week of the last ten years.
The fatal cases of scarlet fever, which had been 64 and 54 in
the two preceding weeks, rose to 70 last week, but were 19
below the corrected average. The deaths from measles, 28,
showed a further increase upon the numbers in recent weeks,
although they were but half the corrected average. The deaths
referred to diphtheria, 7, were fewer than in any week since
the beginning of August last. The fatal cases of fever, 52,
showed a marked increase upon recent weekly numbers, and
exceeded by 10 the corrected average: 8 were certified as
typhus, 38 as enteric or typhoid, and 6 as simple continued
fever. The fatal cases of smallpox, which had been 16 and 7
in the two previous weeks, were 8 last week. The deaths
referred to lung diseases, which had been 431 and 428 in the
two previous weeks, rose to 441 last week, but were 38 below
the corrected average. There were 39 deaths from whooping-
cough and 14 from diarrhoea. In the Greater London 2900
births and 1941 deaths were registered. The mean temperature
was 39'0 deg., being 2'6 deg. below the average in the corre¬
sponding week of sixty years. The duration of registered
bright sunshine in the week was 4T hours, the sun being
above the horizon during 57-7 hours.
A handsome casket, the gift of the English residents in
California to the Earl of Beaconsfield, has arrived in England.
Several cases of saving life, in some of which great gallantry
was displayed by the rescuers, have been investigated by th#
committee of the Royal Humane Society, which has bestowed
the usual rewards for the services rendered.
A correspondent points out, in correction of a misappre¬
hension which be thinks exists on the matter, that there are
two distinct Australian International Exhibitions in prospect—
one at Sydney, to be held next year ; and the other at Mel¬
bourne, to be held in 1880.
It is proposed to hold the next Social Science Congress in
Manchester, and, the subject being brought before the Town
Council on Wednesday by a letter from Mr. Chadwick, M.P.,
it was resolved to place the Townhall at the service of the
committee of the Congress. A local fund of about £1000 will
have to be raised.
The annual exhibition of fat stock, poultry, and farm
produce at Hull was opened on Tuesday afternoon. The show
is by far the best which has been held in Hull, the prizes
being larger and more numerous and the list of entries longer.
A prize of £100, offered for the best animal in the shorthorn
classes, was taken by Mr. Bond, of North Thoresby.
A beautiful specimen of Roman pavement has been dis¬
covered in Winchester. The pavement, with which were
found a small piece of fine red pottery and a few bones of
animals, appears to have been originally about twelve feet
square. It was twelve feet below the roadway in Little
Minster-street, and has been completely uncovered.
Thetrialof M. Fortamps, thedirectorof the Bank of Belgium,
for being a party to the frauds by which one of the clerks,
named T’Kindt, embezzled some twenty millions of francs, the
property of the bank, and of T’Kindt himself, has occupied
many days in Brussels, and came to a close on Tuesday even¬
ing. Judgment was delivered at a quarter-past eleven, T’Kindt
being sentenced to fifteen years’ solitary confinement, and
Fortamps to one year’s imprisonment and a fine of 6l)00f.
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OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.
The sixth Session of the present Parliament was opened on
Thursday afternoon in the prosaic fashion which has become
3 was attacked by Russia, of which he had some fear any attempt to resist the voting of su r
ter the annexation of Khiva, and when the Russians having been entered upon rightlv nr ,? le3 ' The wir
common in these degenerate days. Outside the Palace of ^ .Wn ad ance No doubt
Westminster, and in Palace-yard, there gathered a goodly ^bein to cons ,
;re on the Oxus. But the Home Government did not share
the alarm of the Ameer, and scouted the danger of the
tne Kussians naving Deen entered upon, rightlv m- XT, lne w >r
t did not share essential to the safety of our Indian ic w “
danger of the be conducted with vigour. He congratulated the Ite "* 0 " U
puzzled at our the Government on the news received loUie “ud
■e no friends of that, so far as it had proceeded retnarkinr
nnnsier, ana m niace-y , g ,, f g r v proceedings, and began to consider that we were no friends of that, so far as it had proceeded the n j v ay ’ rema *kiu ;
b r r °a iJriS &s, but thathe must look to Russia us his friend. Then came conducted. In saymg P this howSe^^^^^'? “drably
lined by pe , P P> , P the history of the missions to Cabul with which their Lordships right to criticise the policy which hJi i^/T 1 llot * ore go his
Beaccnsfield pass in his unpretending little brougham, as some Sj n ® d with ’JL fart that whilp
compensation for the lack of State ceremonial. But “he Ei wL wel^omS with ’
cometli not” might have been the lament of these curious l d We were now at ^
eightutrs, for the Queen’s Speech was read without theaugust
their Lordsliips right to criticise the policy which had led'l a forego hu
e the Russian noble Lord then referred to Lord Cranh™ Tha
; fact tnat, wane the Busman nooie .Lord then referred to Lord Cranhrn j ' 1,10
open arms, ours was insoleutly reference to the policy pursued bv Lord N 0 “^spatch in
at war with Afghanistan; and after argued that while the course pursued hv,°„ r . t “ brool{ . and
1 had received no noble Lord would sistentwith the rmrt which C y il n . tter was con-
SSSV °L^iSSSSSr wSTriTK the this country had received no noble Lord wouTd sistent with toewtoXh^TeviZv'S“5S JV*
Ste w£ ^ m'steTof members/Tomc/thne before ad ™take.any other course than it had pur- dealings with th? rulers of J^SSS^^S^
two o’clock, and very cheery were the smiling salutations ^adgone at present our officers and Lytton had been as unwise as it wm mS,M L °u l
exchanged on the floor of the House in the interval before had ■*»» toemduty and the result coidd be waited for asked for early explanations from her MajesWo*^’
the Speaker took the Chair. Sir Wilfrid Lawson's recent n c ° ncluded by expressing lna ment as to why none of the despatehS SUETS'
interchange of courtesies with Major O’Gorman made him the ^eat sympathy with the mitoons who were suffering from the Home Government and Lord Lytton had been nuhlLV.S'
centre of attraction in a group of follow-Liberals, among whom depression of trade, and hoped that there would be a speedy With reference to the question of the Russi m advancf 6 .
Sir Charles Dilke appeared to be especially jocose, and even Sir Inchiqum, in rising to second the Address assured the House that he was by no means
Andrew Lusk strove to be drily facetious. In the Upper £5™*'*°,?® complications which Russian interference and matter, and lie called attention to the de32? 0 f
Chamber, the Indies were in the majority’, the back benches ou bad faith had brought about in Lurope, and traced the out- Lawrence, wherein the position and progress of p,, aai - r
each side being pretty well occupied by Peeresses in ordinary of m Afghanistan to Russian diplomacy. He Central Asia were referred to. There was no JSSi i a
morning dress, and a few more being observable in the gallery believed that if preceding Ministries had been fair to the asserted, for saying that the late Government or inds/Sr H
to the left of the Throne, near which sat a young African Ameer that he would be now our friend; but that under Government, had ever been indifferent to this suh'ipio- h .,’? 1 ? 7
personage with an interpreter. There were scarcely more than P, rc ^ e 2* cu !?. um j tanoes we were justified m going to war. urged, it was another thing to argue that because b '
a dozen Peers present to take part in the tame ceremony of Lari Granville deeply regretted that no reference had been showed a tendency to advance, we should necessarily
opening Parliament by Royal Commission. The first entrance made in the Speech from the Throne to the great distress in the opposite direction to meet her. In rnn,.i„ a,aCe
of these illustrious Peers in robes of scarlet cloth and ermine, —- 1 , e 3 as t«i at the present time in all parts of the country, he complained of the withholding of information fmm p 00 '
and in cocked hats, was somewhat of a missfire. Either With regard to the Berlin Ireaty, he admitted that it would Lament as to what was being done unou this n „ 0 f Par *
they had entered too early, or some rule of precedence Pf? v .® a very satisfactory arrangement indeed, provided the Only last Session the Duke of Argyll was assured in th. .u 0 ’
had not been observed. But this was soon remedied, Ministry could guarantee that Russia and Turkey would House that there was no reason to appreheud anv ,
by their retiring from the House, and re-entering in Indian , ou i a f * leu ' engagements under it. The Auglo- policy or disturbance in our Indian Empire an
file, the Lord Chancellor leading. Her Majesty’s Commis- lUttittg.. --' *’ - J ~ ’* ’ * ' assurance«.*
Turkish Convention was :
doubt very successful for the conveyed anything but the impr^sUi'thaU^hSSbS
i beginning to be recognised conveved after what w»« »»» ... .. w . e D .- ett
eioners were Earl Cairns, the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, moment, but it was even beginning to be recognised conveyed after what was now known to havo^oceurrJu^w
the Duke of Northumberland, Lord Beauchamp, cud Lord by “ ob ! e Lords opposite that Cyprus was no very great period. The same impression was i.,- •. i. i..,i . .
Skelmersdale. The customary rush heralded the approach of acquisition, after all. There was another very singular House of Commons. The House had however been
the members of the Lower House, who accompanied the tlung ’ a ' ld that ^ a ? ?; lat no allusion was made to the pro- of u great responsibility in consequence of the course HxAa
Speaker to the Bar of the House of Lords. The “letters posed reforms m Asia Minor. He then proceeded to criticise been pursued, the entire responsibility for what had hJ7V„
patent” having been sonorously read at the table, the Lord toe policy of the Government with respect to India, urging resting with the Government. Mr. Gladstone in vicar
Chancellor delivered the exceptionally brief and compact tbat ds actaon a&amst the Ameer was uujust, and that it had announcement that the question of the noliev ti!
Queen's Speech with his wonted clearness and distinctness of effectual p la y eduito toe hands of their great rival in the East; Government would be opened up hereafter JLnJ
elocution, every word being plainly heard throughout the yet > the emergency being created, his party would co-operate follow the noble Lord over the ground he had
House:- in every way withthe other House for the purpose of making but be was auxioua that no miSlmriou shoffirt
THE QUEEN’S SPEECH. ample provision for our brave troops engaged in the war. created an to the meaning of one pa?t of the AddS £
My Lords and Gentlemen,— ^ ^, an ^^dment to the effect that when war retired to the passage which regretted that the hostility
I regret that 1 have been obliged to call for your attend- ° U f h + b ^ U summ ° ned to m ‘»‘nested by Shere Ali and the manner in-which he hid
ance at an unusual and, probably to most of you, an Shtelf 1 and , to consider the grounds upon repulsed her Majesty’s friendly Mission had left no alternate
inconvenient season. war might be declared. The Duke of Somerset sup- but that which had been adopted. He hoped the Goveram^
The hostility towards my Indian Government manifested V6niment ' lh ® of Salisbury, in a long would insert words in the Address setting forth that while
by the Ameer of Afghanistan, and the manner in which he wi ♦v iat 5 >n, i ^“1? a SU( ^ inct history of the causes which the Speech of her Majesty was accepted by the House it
repulsed my friendly Mission, left me no alternative but to v• d ^ clil ^ a 1 tl . on of . a o :l , mst , * he Ameer. In expressed no opinion on the question raised by the para-
make a peremptory demand for redress. conclusion his Loidslnp regretted that Lord Lytton had been graph referred to. He also regretted the omission of »nv
This demand having been disregarded, I have directed an ^ e ,f^ naUy f ’ ,f lld ,. h ° pald ^\, tributs t0 the reference to thb question of the settlement of the Gre-k
expedition to be sent into his territory, and 1 have taken the cmi ueiotion of the Viceroy of I ndia, “ who combined frontier. He trusted that when the resolution as to
earliest opportunity of calling you together and making to you ^ inmgiuation of a poet with the shrewdness of a Scotch- defraying the charges of tlic Afghan war came on the
the communication required by law. £?. an ’ ,. illc 110 L»le Marquis resumed his seutamid loud cheers, fullest information would bo given us to what those charim
I have directed that papers on the subject shall be laid The Address was ultimately agreed to. were. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was willing to lefve
nefnrfi vnn. .. it. tn thn Suonlrni* tn - c n. .
House :—
THE QUEEN’S SPEECH.
My Lords and Gentlemen,—
the communication required by law. man. l lie noble Marquis resumed h
I have directed that papers ou the subject shall be laid dbc Address was ultimately agreed to.
before you. The House of Commons ni
it to the Speaker to decide whether any of the expressions used
in the Adaress, which certainly hadbeen printed with the view
- V.V, — meir inenaiy lowing new members took the oath and their seats •—r nrd * uaaoeenpnntea with the view
feelings, and have every reason to believe that the arrangements Colin Campbell, for Argyleshire the Hon J W FUzwilUam , ob 1 vlatln g controversy, could be improved by some slight
for the pacification of Europe made by the Treaty of Berlin for Peterborough; Mr. Preeuiautle forTruro and M rEl’ ver ^ amtudmtllt ■ With regard to South Africa, there whs
will be successfully earned into effect. for Newcastle-uudeSj me Mr ’ E Sop gave See had been r ^eived from Sir Bartle
Rwtt n - -. v J L_ i opL g ay e notice Fr ere which rendered it necessary to make special reference to
will be successfully carried into effect.
Gentlemen of the House op Commons,- that ou Monday next he would mo velhe'foTlo^ngTesolutioiU n f c “ sary to “ al f e special reference to
The Estimates for the ensuing year ure in course of “That, her Majesty having directed a military expedition “ at ^Jeet in the Queen a Speech. ^ As to lioumeha, a rectifi-
preparation, and will in due time be submitted to you. of her forces clmrged upon the Indian revenue/a-anist the “ recomm ‘; nde d by the Berlin Treaty, had
My Lords and Gentlemen,- Ameer of Afghanistan; this House consents "that the tha£mate ^
I propose that, after full deliberation upon the matters "f ^ Ue8 ° ./ ndla be applied for any expenses a?to^Mvf Ses/JS
which have led me to anticipate your usual tune of meeting, ? f th ? ,, mlltary operations which may be conducted reforms in Asia Minor w^maW^w^ i 5 '^
and after a suitable recess, you should proceed to the cou- beyond tbe irouUers of her Majesty’s Indian possessions. JMr. yfct m a D osition to nresent h/ J h ir u i
Bideration of various measures for the public benefit?which J I ttW ® e ^ ga . va notlce that he would oppose the resolution, before* H K. h ° pe J
will then be laid before you. P ’ Ml - Cartwright gave notice that ou Tuesday week he would Sdded L CyprUS °“ ‘ abl ?’, and
I confidently commit to your wisdom the great interests of ^ attemion the appointment of delegates in Egypt by woffid prove wu L L 8UpP ° 8e that ^ 18l ?“ d
my Empire, and I pray that the blessings oTllmighty God aud Euglisb Governments, and move a resolution 7 T*
may attend your counsels. ° 7 U ° a Lord It. Montagu gave notice of a question for to-morrow as tw S' inS/Si , 6 Queatlou ' he
- to the discrepancies in Lord Lytton’s despatches and telegrams! CranbStN hadbeea ^ v f ° ne P^bon o Lord
Ham at Lmto the Lord Chancellor took hi. sort t
upon i he woolsack at fave o clock. At that hour there was a frontier, and that if the Ameer refused to come to twm» Lord Northbrook in his proposed policy; but Lord Northbrook
very full attendance of Peen the galleries and steps of the the English Government t « roason Ihv had denied that this wos s0 - and Probablyhe and the members
were also crowded wnth members of the Lower House shoffid not come to terms directlv with n , lr] oi the then Government knew best what was the meaning of
Wni/ P 01I | Ut8 n i.° U /o 0 benches w’ere the Prince of Aighaniatan off the map. He wished to know if anv snpi. Hi/ P r their communications with each other. Hedeniedtheirapu-
and the Duke of Cambridge, and both the Ministerial understanding had been arrived at with Russia a tation that the Government had been actuated by a desire to
benches were filled by their usual occti- many SoSSfwSe |SS bTprivate memberHf tb/if^f pick a quarrel with the Ameer. On the contrary, it had
Fhr/r 6lde gallery’ was Prince Leopold, Prince ductiou of bills In renlv^t/ Mr Ritchie Mr F s l „ U h tr0 always been their desire to live on amicable terms with the
, t ^ e v. and Eucbefi3 o£ Teck - The Prime said t^t the GoveiSnent had recdrodttele^mAmeer. They had had no desire to increase their territory,
V’ tba Luke of Richmond and Gordon, Lord Cranbroek, them ol the success of General Roberts in the k'hvh5 0r ?* U1 ° but wbat tbe y bad fe lt it; necessary to do was to provide for the
SrS**"? W Eojdbb rook were among the firs The SpeS SStte^^tyof India; and when they saw that a Russian mission had
1 Kr Ibe of D f b y portly afterwards eutered, aud Lord Castlereagh moved^STe AdSfe rorf^thoZo S been rtceived at Ca bul while one from England was refused, it
took his scat ou toe cross benches. Viscount Cranbrook gave ring t T wus ^Possible for them to regard that as consistent with their
.¥ oud “y Mxt ,.be would move “ That, her he fsserted 1 toat “SZ B £ T S’ idea ot security or to ^ inactive under such a state of things,
eh/ / i ^8 dl * ecded a niilitary expedition of the forces opinion gave any colour to the surro-estim/that Pith ’ ? *h Ee tonsted toat the present struggle would be of shortdura-
tt Ant7r the Indian revenues to be dispatched against parties to that treaty was desteo/a^f ^it.hri^/in^ f 0t JU tiou ' 1111(11110111 what td ey now knew there were hopes that such
rov.utr/Tf th 7 Ilousu conscilts that the fngagemLS. ! W0ldd be the case; but he wished it to be distinctly uuder-
exri iiM ■ nf abad be applied towards defraying the pointed out that the udvanccs of Russia anrl thA • ’ Jf a stood that while the Government joined in deprecating the
external iiontit?^ W “m 11 ^ 7 . op( ' ra G° us beyond the attitude assumed by the Ameer had rendered m/ZZ// necessity of toe struggle which had been forced on them they
?* her . Majesty’s Indian possessions.” the step taken bv the IndhS^nv^rn/pnc^T “ (CLia : iry held it to be their duty not only to themselves, but to the
state ment nf tka movm B. t be Address. gave a lengtheued to send an English Mission to the Am , f ._i* >ro f, 0:5mg people of India generally, not to permit the existence of so
estrunm ment wblcb 111 . bla view t had led to the He regretted that the receDtion given bv thp a mVm dangerous a state of tilings as that which had led to this war.
whiVti^had v e Ameer, remarking upon an observation approaches had been of snelfa pIuSLpCp^ 7 .. to 0llr *Sir C. Dilke pointed out that last Session, while the Prime
inenaty necessitj’ of the struggle which had been forced on them they
L'ce.iSciry held it to be their duty not only to themselves, but to the
opooiug people of India generally, not to permit the existence of so
court, dangerous a state of things as that which had led to this war.
was sf r jfiiS; Viceroy wh0 said that S’, « 8 ^ontein’S ’ sc T uent comphcata“toteS when
tteMeoS' State for India was Speech from the Tyrone ' Mr^ Had^ bonded h? A Mr ' E ' ^anhope proposed, in order to meet toe objection
they were thc^ystone^of Sf £SSti°i££ ^ of ■ Gladstone to the wording of a portion of the
com u i mm .i CU& ? 1 °i 1 1 t Ui ey were about to seconder of the Address on the L™™ , , Aadress, to move to omit the words “to express our regret,
that mi eminent Indian statesman to S propo ed the aban ft, ^ noticod ^h surprise that toe Speech contained afireed t0 ’ and the Addre83 WaS assented t0 ’
doinmnt of Peshawur and the cession of ^portion of thl 1^°“ t0 the Colouie8 > althou e b events of the gravest
neighbouring territory to Dost Mohammed, wtoch nron™i«^ e m p »gress in South Africa, involving the send- TW rhn^h st ta„ + w„ ; a f tin^r Maze-hfil.
•uring territory to Dost Mohammed, which proposition m progrcsal . u ' South Africa, involving the send-
was stoutly combatted by the then Viceroy' Lord £ TS n ^ ta * U I,h regard to the Treaty of Berlin,
ning, aud that was a sample of the tone of’mtodwhich Hoi f e would receive from the Govemmei
tofluenced the backward section of Indian politicians mid TmZf ultor “ :ltloI ‘ than was vouchsafed in the Speed
Be expressed his regret at the quarrel with the people of to d <.hf d uHtf tUt101 ^ tU * tlle , dd heulties that were s.v
AlgliuListan, but saia it was not aquarrel with then/but with Item ml/, it. , rcgard ( to , tIle organisation of Eastei
the A inter alone. In 1855 a treaty was concluded between th a < -^ u * pointed out that the Speech made u
Eafctiudia Company and the father of the present Ameer depres8ion ot trade » aud asserted the
whuh had been characterised by Lord Canniugas a very one- rw™„ ,dt ? g f th ^, , wull0u( precedent that her Majesty
sided one, and when Dost. M<.h a a,.„i y on .. Government should have refrained from mnlrirm
The Church of St. John the Evangelist, Upper Maze-hill,
St. Leonarda-on-Sea, was destroyed by fire early on Sunday.
It is stated to Wednesday’s City Tress that, according to
the municipal voting-lists for the ensuing year, which were
made up on the previous day, there are upwards of 21,350
voters on the lists of the twenty-six wards of the City, being an
--, XXI J.OOO a treaty was concluded bprwiwi tlia , , ~7 uui umi, MIC opeecn maae no um iuw Ui uw nanuux n»wi y , —-o —
East. India Company and the father of the present Amper F5 le ^ cllce the existing depression of trade, and asserted that bicrease of about 300 on the lists of last year,
ritod // b 7, U ^baracterised by Lord Canning 1 ^as a very one-’ GovemmentfhouTd w/ 0 /? preoodent tbat h ^r Majesty’s The Loch Fyne, chartered by Sir Arthur Blyth, K.C.M.G.,
wm broke o?it te 7°/ Mobailim(d died, in 1363, a civil on th^ s biect of f °”? makm S aiiy exposition Agent-General for South Australia, left the Clyde on 29th ult.
nota^t Shere AH waa whether thmMPse from torn ftTtoat a f ked Fort Adelaide, with 436 Scotch omigrants^ong whom
not at first successful, but he gained a very great rictor‘7 ^ T se f , roui tho fact tha t the Governme
“ , tbe cldcr brother, Hussein, but lost his favourite dfil Wl ?* ey llltended to do > or whether
eon, and doubtless he considered this country lmrl n<u d d intend was of such trivial importance that i
•—* “' £ £S? <,«“ .arss-a
ed to do, or whether what they telegram was received at Lloyd’s on Tuesday morning from
worth mentioning lie*”‘now ifc Was 1 I lot Wel ^ D & ton > Zealand:— “The Southminster has been
complained of the del av ti.nt lf^t 40 tb , c • Afghan war. He wrecked at Cape Campbell. Passengers, crew, and maU
of papers on this subn et If ‘ V L , cu , rrud la tnt ‘ preseutut l 0I i saved. The vessel it is expected will become a total wreck
some lion member \o e dl utft/ heriUlcl . be the duty of and her cargo be lost. She had part of her toward cargo on
Government in regard to tlft p ° hcy , of the bourd - Gape Campbell is toe north-east extreme of the
but lor himself and his friend // Wltb . tho Ameer; Middle Island.” The Southmtoster is a British ship, and
,d 1118 cuo^ of th° PU ( dla UUy 1U ' tailcd New York on May 14 for Otago, N.Z., arrived at
of the Government by ' Otago ou Sept. 2, aud sailed for Lyttelton eu Oct. 7.
DEC. 7, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
535
$h£ (forfra $uplmenf.
SHIPPING GUNS AT WOOLWICH.
Thr operation of putting guns on board one
of the barges lying at the Royal Arsenal pier
for conveyance to the ship, probably at Chat¬
ham or Sheerness, which is to carry them to
India for the Artillery service in Afghanistan
or elsewhere, forms the subject of our Extra
Supplement Large Engraving. This is a
familiar scene to those who are in the habit of
visiting the great national factory of military
armament and ammunition at Woolwich; but
it may possess a greater degree of interest at
the present time, when Parliament is again
called upon to vote public money for purposes
of war. Our readers have frequently been
presented with Illustrations of various branches
of manufacture carried on in Woolwich
Arsenal, and of successive improvements in
the construction of artillery, both for land
and sea service.
AN ALGERINE STORY-TELLER.
The native Moslem population of Algiers is
considerably mixed, but we believe it still con¬
tains a good proportion of the Arab or Saracen
race element; and it need scarcely be remarked
that the love of entertaining fiction and the
talent of inventing marvellous or humorous
narratives have in all ages been characteristic
of their lively Oriental temperament. Learned
students of philological and literary antiquities
have borne testimony to the abundant share
which Arab genius has long since contributed
to the “ folk-lore ” and the romantic poetry
of Southern and Western Europe. The
Italian, Spanish, and Provencal story-tellers
of the Middle Ages, the composers of innu¬
merable tales in heroic verse, and the ballad-
makers and dramatists who came after them
in France and England, were much more
indebted to the Arabs than they could ever
be aware. We should not be at all surprised,
if we were enabled to listen to this energetic
declaimer of a popular legend, and to under¬
stand the richly expressive language in which
he speaks, that the subject of his animated
discourse should turn out identical with some
of the nursery tales which amused our English
ini ancy, or perhaps with some droll piece of
social comedy, treated by our Chaucer or
Shakspeare in a different style. The stock of
really original plots for narratives of fiction is
smaller than any one would think: and the
giound idea of a striking dramatic incident or
situation has often been transferred, perhaps
unconsciously, to stories which haVe little or
no superficial resemblance. But the Algerine
story-teller and his delighted audience must
be left to their own harmless pleasure, which
is quite equal to that of reading most of our
three-volume novels, and has the advantage of
being enjoyed in company, and in the open air.
RUINED CHURCHES OF
ASIA MINOR.
The reader who feels an interest in the pro¬
ceedings of the “ Society of Biblical Archae¬
ology,” or in any studies of ecclesiastical and
Scriptural antiquities in the East, will regard
with favour Mr. W. Simpson’s Sketches of the
remains of ancient Christian buildings at
Ephesus and Philadelphia, two of the memor¬
able Seven Churches mentioned in the Book
of Iievelutions. Ephesus, which occupies such
an important place in the life and Epistles of
St. Paul, and which was one of the greatest
and wealthiest of the renowned Greek com¬
mercial cities on the western coast of Asia
Minor under the Roman Empire, has fre¬
quently been made the subject of our Illus¬
trations. There is no historical reason for
doubting the Catholic tradition of its having
been the residence of St. John during many
years of his old age ; but the hill, somewhat
detached from the actual site of the ancient
city, which still bears the name of Ayasolouk
from a corruption of the two words “ hagios ’
and “theologos,” cannot be declared with
certainty to have been the exact locality of his
abode, or of his pastoral instructions to the
“ fathers,” the “ young men,” and the “ little
children,” whom he addresses with such tender
earnestness in the first of his letters now extant.
It lias been conjectured, indeed, that there
was another presbyter, of the same name with
the Apostle, dwelling and teaching at Ephesus
in the earliest age of the Church; and this
revered Father may possibly have been the
“hagios theologos,” or “Holy Divine,” com¬
memorated in the name of the place where
he perhaps had conducted the evangelical
service of his day. The building of which
some remains are shown in our Illustration
belongs to a late period of the Byzantine
Empire, but it is not improbable that it may
have been erected upon the site of a school or
synagogue where the Presbyter John, or even
the beloved Apostle, had preached the Gospel
in the first century. We turn next to the site
of Philadelphia, which was a city in the pro¬
vince of Lydia, twenty-eight miles south-east
from Sardis, and is now a Turkish town called
Allah-Shehr. Its beautiful Greek name of
“Philadelphia” was not, like that of the
American city on the Delaware, which rose
from the benevolent enterprise of William
Penn, intended to celebrate the principle of
“ Brotherly Love.” Peace has her victories,
and so has War. Attalus Philadelphus, the
MacedonianKing of Pergamos, was the founder
of this Greco-Asiatic city, and its name was a
memorial of his political ambition, as those of
Antioch, Seleucia, and Alexandria were de¬
signed to reflect perpetual honour upon the
leaders of military conquest in the Eastern
world.
NATIONAL SPORTS.
Rain continued to fall in the most persistent
manner up to the close of the Croydon Meeting
last week, and the attendance on the chief day
was by far the smallest ever seen at Woodside
upon a similar occasion. Boniface won a
weight-for-age hurdle-race from two poor
opponents ; and Gwendoline, who showed such
capital form on the fiat last season, also took
very kindly to jumping. The withdrawal of
Shifnal within a couple of hours of the time
fixed for the race reduced the field for the
Great Metropolitan Steeplechase to seven,
every one of whom were backed with more
or less freedom. At last Wild Monarch
(11 st. 12 lb.), the top weight, had a slight call
of the clever Irish four-year-old Bacchus
(10st. 81b.), and Citizen (11 st. 3 lb.) retired to
6 to 1. About a mile from home Bacchus, who
fenced throughout in magnificent style, ap¬
peared to have the race in hand; but Fleming,
who rode him, was utterly ignorant of the
course, and, after going out of his way to jump
an entirely superfluous flight of hurdles, he
pulled up under the erroneous impression that
he would be disqualified if he came in first.
After this, Sleight of Hand (10 st. 41b.) looked
as well as anything, until he fell at the last
fence, owing to the fearfully heavy state of the
ground. This mishap left Royal Oak II.
(10 st. 5 lb.) with the command, which he
retained till within the distance, where Citizen
went by, and beat him cleverly by a length ;
Wild Monarch was a very poor third.
More fortunate than Croydon, the Sandown
Meeting was favoured with two fine, though
very cold, days, and, consequently, there was
a fair attendance of spectators on both Tuesday
and Wednesday last. The sandy nature of the
soil is very little affected by wet weather, so
the “ going” was far better than might have
been anticipated. On the first day Quits, the
champion hunter, scored his eleventh victory
this year. There was no Hampton in the
Great Maiden Hurdle-Race, though Lady
Mostyn will be remembered as a crack two-
year-old. At present, however, she is ap¬
parently a complete novice at jumping, and
the favourite, Blue Ruiu, had an easy task.
Chimney Sweep (10 st. 10 lb.) essayed a second
victory in the Prince of Wales’s Steeple¬
chase ; but the veteran at last seems to be feel¬
ing the effects of age, and Quibble (10 st. 81b.)
defeated him by six lengths. The first race
on Wednesday led to unpleasant results, as
Extinguisher und King Sweep ran so entirely
differently from what they had done on the
previous day that Mr. Barnes, who rode the
former on Tuesday, was suspended by the
stewards for the remainder of the meeting,
and has to appear before the Grand National
Hunt Committee on Monday. On the strength
of the form that he exhibited at Croydon,
Sleight of Hand (10 st. 2 lb.) started a hot
favourite for the Great Sandown Steeplechase.
Five of the other seven runners were also
backed at varying prices. The Bear (lOst. 6 lb.)
fell at the first fence, as he invariably does
when he tries to jump in public; and Sleight
of Hand seemed completely outpaced from the
start. Citizen (12 st. 2 lb.) ran exceedingly
well under his 14 lb. penalty, and when he
was done with, his stable companion, Marshal
Kiel (10 st. 1 lb.), proved fully equal to dis¬
posing of Chilblain (10 st. 8 lb.), and winning
cleverly by a couple of lengths.
Turf statistics continue to pour in apace, and
one of the most interesting of the series is that
which treats of the amounts won by different
owners during the season. For the fourth time
in the last five years Lord Falmouth is at the
head of the poll, and this year his select stable
has been more profitable than ever, thirteen
animals having carried off thirty-six races of
the value of £37,081, which is the largest sum
ever won by one owner during a season. Of
course, Jannettc is the chief contributor to this
splendid total, and the unbeaten Wheel of
Fortune has seconded her gallantly. Thanks
mainly to Sefton, Mr. Craufurd throws in for
£17,450; and Pilgrimage has enabled Lord
Lonsdale to run a very good third with £14,520.
The Duke of Hamilton (£10,880) is the only
other owner whose winnings have reached five
figures, though Mr. Gretton (£0969) and Count
Lagrange (£9872) only just missed being in¬
cluded m the list. Messrs. Peck (£6259) and
T. Je nnin gs (£5470) are far in advance of any
other trainers who run horses on their own
account.
Coursing men assembled in strong force at
the Brigg Open Meeting last week, where,
thanks to the care with which Sir John Astley
preserves the hares, three capital days’ sport
were enjoyed. Sir John and Lady Astley were
present on each day, and entertained all
comers in most hospitable style. For the
second year in succession the Astley Cup went
to Mr. Swinburne’s Queen Sybil, by Atlas—
Syllabub, who beat the luckless Myosotis, by
Blackburn—Miriam, in the final spin. The
latter was leading by three lengths for the first
turn when she fell heavily at a drain, and never
had another chance. We understand that
Mr. Swinburne will be represented by Skip-
worth in the Waterloo Cup, and, if he is
really superior to Queen Sybil, of which we
have grave doubts, he will be dangerous
indeed. The Elsham Stakes, for dog puppies,
was divided between Darsteller, by Dar-
carolle—High Tower, and Harold, .by Love
Apple—Lady Mordaunt; and the .Worlaby
Stakes, for puppies of the opposite sex, was
also divided between Certificate, by Creditor-
Camp Follower, and Silver Hill, by Farrier—
Cerito. It is almost unnecessary to add that
Mr. Hedley’s judging gave universal satis¬
faction. Except in two or three of the trials
on the first day, hares ran well and strongly.
On Friday week the annual assault-of-arms
given by the London Athletic Club came off
at St. James’s Hall. Unfortunately, it is
almost impossible to introduce any novelty at
these exhibitions; nevertheless, the sparring,
fencing, gymnastics, &c., seemed to give the
greatest satisfaction to a large and enthu¬
siastic audience. The Winter Meeting of the
same club took place at Stamford-bridge on
the following day. The antagonism of H.
Crossley and H. H. Sturt for the Quarter-
Mile Challenge Cup held by the former, excited
great interest, and Sturt achieved a very
popular victory in 52 4-5ths sec., the terribly
heavy state of the path rendering really fast
time quite out of the question. The remainder
of the programme did not prove particularly
interesting.
CHRISTMAS ANNUALS.
Among the numerous Christmas Annuals
issued this year The Mistletoe Bough claims
priority as having been the first in the field, as
well as being edited by a lady. There, are
eighteen sprigs to the bough, some of them
blossoming into poetry, and all, judging from
the ones inspected, richly laden with fruit.
To drop metaphor, the tales and sketches
contained in this annual are of a varied
nature, to please all tastes. The names of the
writers are not given, but it is a sufficient
guarantee of the stories’ merit that they bear
the sign-manual of Miss Braddon’s approval.
This volume is a good shilling’s-worth, both
as regards quality and quantity. Routledge’s
Annual, which also bears a lady’s signature,
consists of one story, “ The Disappearance of
Mr. Jeremiah Redworth,” in which the author,
Mrs. Riddell, enchains the reader in breathless
attention. To say that the tale is by the
author of “ George Geith ” is sufficient
recommendation. The Belgravia Annual
opens well with “A Shocking Story,” by
Wilkie Collins ; and the succeeding stories, by
other writers, sustain the interest to the close.
A charming variety of prose and poetry awaits
the reader of the Christmas Number of
London Society; while the Round Table,
published by Chapman and Hall, boasts a
goodly list of contributors. All the above
annuals are illustrated, the engravings of the
Inst named being especially good. Then we
have Francillon’s Christmas Number, entitled
“ Mixed with Magic,” in seven spells ; Our
Cliristmas Annual, published by Burns and
Oates, with a vigorously-written tale, “ Little
Doriuda,” by Percy Fitzgerald; the Gentle¬
man’s Annual, containing a tale by Albany
Fonblanque, named “ Filthy Lucre: a Story
without a Crime;” Mr. Moxon’s Annual,
“The Mystery of Mostyn Manor,” by Arthur
A Beckett ; the extra Christmas Number of
All the Year Round, with a tale, “ ’Twas
in Trafalgar Bay,” by Messrs. Besant and
Rice; Good Cheer, the Christmas Number of
Good Words, adorned with contributions from
Anthony Trollope, Sarah Tytler, and another ;
and the Quiver Extra Number, bearing the
quaint title The Arrow's of the Bow, with
talcs by Edward Garrett and others. Among
the Comic Annuals are Judy’s, edited by
Charles H. Ross; Hood’s, edited by the
brothers Dalziel; and Funny Folks’—all brim¬
ful of comic sketches and comicalities in prose
and verse.
Prince Leopold has contributed £20 towards
the maintenance of the Parkes Museum of
Hygiene.
Sir John Barrington has been chosen Lord
Mayor of Dublin and Mr. Patrick Kenneday
Mayor of Cork.
A Daily News' telegram from Alexandria
announces that Sir. Rivers Wilson entered
upon his duties last Saturday, and that the
new Egyptian Cabinet is now complete.
Six engineers from Alexandria have arrived
at Lamaca to survey the harbour of Fama¬
gusta and draw up plans for a railway to
Nicosia.
Rogues will be sorry to learn that a treaty
lias been signed between Queen Victoria aud
the King of Spain for the mutual extradition
of fugitive criminals.
Fourteen men belonging to the troop-ship
Orontes, bound from Halifax to Bermuda,
have been drowned through the capsizing of
a boat which was going to rescue a man who
had fallen overboard.
Major Armand Fouche, Duke of Otrantoi
and formerly Aide-de-Camp to King Ber-
nadotte, died recently at Stockholm, aged
seventy-eight. He was Fouche’s second son;
and the third son, who resides in France,
succeeds to the title.
The first wine made from oranges has ap¬
peared in the market of Valencia, Spain.
Four sorts have been produced, one of which
is a sparkling wine. They are all of agree¬
able flavour, an attractive colour, aud of fair
strength.
The newly-appointed Chinese Minister to
England and France, at a banquet given by
the Governor of Hong-Kong, stated that
Mr. Pope Heunessy’s impartial aud excellent
government had cemented the friendly feeling
between England and China.
The Maharajah of Johore, who visited this
country lately, arrived at Singapore on the
21st ult. He w r as received with regal honours.
Addresses from the Chamber of Commerce, the
Mohammedan and Chinese communities were
presented to him.
The Calcutta correspondent of the Times
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Wynaad quartz reefs bear out the favourable
anticipations entertained. There seems little
doubt that they contain gold in paying quanti¬
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Fcuiler*. Fire irons, and Rests,in the pownt itjl-.lisv
ration, of the highest quality, at tke lownt prase
/^OAL-BOXES.—Walnut, Oak, and otkr
YV ehutce wisrts, carved or plain, mlm l with hanil-|au:t«l
tile*, hrasa |amel*. and oilier «U«‘r*Uau* in ao-iehn*
with pnwent style of furniture. These tie wry Lul-
*..me, and specially suitable fur proorlit*.
T AMPS.—Duplex, Moderator, and other
V ««.^ WSR
English Manufacture.
N and WEBB, 76, 77, and 78,
Oxford-street, London, V.
Illustrated Cutalogun post-free.
M A1T
TRICHORD PIANOFORTE,
with Cabriole Tru*» Ug*. which Is sold fo
THOMAS OETZMANN and CO., 27. Hnkcr-stre.
ju>t published. 5s.. to be bud of all Booksellers.
its Nature, Symptoms,
‘ 'llty, and Treatiueut. By
o Physician audgsurgren In
: J. and A. CHriiciutX.
24th Edition. 8 to. cloth, pp. 1102,16*..
H omoeopathic domestic
MEDICINE. By J. LAURIE. M.D. Completely re¬
arranged and rev ised by K. 8. Guttoridge. M.D. The most oom-
prehenslve Guide published for the am of frnnllle* emigrant*,
and mixeionarira, being free of aU technicalities Tho present
edition contains, in aildltlon to th<; symntems and treatment of
all general dlseams. Including those of Female* and Children,
many Important new chapter*, oumprlstng. among other*, the
*pec(6c characteristic efl.ota of all the new American reinedie*.
plain Direction* for the treatment of Accident*, and ilia*-
(rations delineating the minor operation* In surgery Hydro-
K thic AppUaace*. Affection of the Eve* (with a description of
e Eyes and their Appendages. aDd IRustrations showing «m
Tartous parts of the eye). Full directions on, also given for th*
treatment of Disease* prevalent in Tropical Climate*. A new
and cnnclse Dictionary of Mirtlcal Terms and Treatment, with
leading Indications of Treatment prefixed to the various chapter*
and division*. An Epitome of the above. *rth Edition, price Sa.
A Case of Jledicine* adaptert to the former Wurk, In tincture*
- : in glotmlm, 13.
:, Hero Worship
WII.FDRD FAMILY (THE); or
the M Inatl-Rrmm. By EADGYTH. Y>
nilirt ration. Royal lanio. rl.dh Gunls. 1*.: gilt edges. I
GOOD AND GREAT. A Companion Volume to
" Hlxhrr and Higher." With Three Page Illustrations. Israo,
cloth, 1*.: (lit edges, 1*. 3d.
TALES ON THE BEATITUDES. By the Author
of " Clan•*Confirmation," Ac. With Three Illustration*. 13m,r.
cl.,Hi Ixurd*. I*.; gilt edge*. Is. 3d.
A BONFIRE AND WHAT CAME OF IT. With
numerous Illustrations. Royal lcino. clotli hoarel*. Is.
AS GOOD AS GOLD. By F. HARRISON. With
Tliree Page Illustrations, lsino, clotli boards. 1*.; gilt edges.
1*. 3d.
REAL RTORIE8 FROM MANY LANDS. Bi
or, tincture* or pjlulee, prla
Lkxtb and Rom. 5, Bt. Paul'iochnrcijard ; and b.Srere-street. W.
’lobules. £110s.
P. J. SMITH AND BON S'
TRON-STRUTTED PIANOS.
A •• The bert and most substantial Instrument produced."
g. OONDUlTbBTREET. BEOEXT-STBlftT. W.
C.TUTTGART IRON COTTAGE
O PIANOFORTES. - Vertical and Overrtning, In Walnut
and Rosewood Cases. At low price*. Direct trom the Man Ufa >
tort of F. HUND and SON. in Stuttgart, (oinnuiiy. London
Wholesale Warehouse, 36, Cartle-street. Long-acre._
P IANOFORTES for HIRE or for SALE,
from 23 gs. upward*.—JOHN BROADWOOD and SONS,
S3, Great l'ulteney-street, Golden-square. W. Manufactory, «,
Hor*efcrry-ro«d, Westminster._
•\1USICAL-B0X DEPOTS, 56, Cheapside,
I lx and22. Ludgnte-hlII.London.—Nloole'scelebratedX
Boxes, playing b«t scculnrand sacred music. Prices, £4 to £l»
Bnnm*‘xes.from lS*.toi»s. Largt’rtstockln London. Catalogue
gratis and port-free. Apply to WALES A MCCLLOCH. as above.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
V> SPECIALITIES.
— ELEGANT
/YHGIDE GOLD WATCHES,
V/ Sow. ; free by registered port 8d. extra. 1
gold watches r * "— *■
21s., 25s.,
_ Facsimile of costly
_,- Locket*. 3*. ral. to 12*. (id.
Urompton-ruad. London.8.W.
E lectro-silver plate & cutlery.
DEAN E and CO.'S Ortalogus. witii Engrarinp.iod tw.
1 Dish Oov, n», sets oi fourJUllL.. £11 IK.iKlk
2. Corner Dishes, rets of four, £7 l<u., £10. £14.
4. Liqueur Frames,4(
5. Tea and Coffee Set,
B. Fruit Stanch
7. li|*cuit lb -
g. YVttlteiT. ti
NOW READY.
rpHE ILLUSTRATED
pENNY ALMANACK FOR 1879,
containing Twenty-four Engraving* from the ItAumueran
Lokix'S Nkws of our Ironclads, tho Cleopatra, Ostrich Farintng,
•- -•* ”-*■- “-iWecta; Tahir* of Stamp*
fYROIDE GOLD ALBERT CHAINS,
V/ manufactured In the veiy higliust degree of Snlsh. and in
standard gold designs, not *ff,vted by time and wear. 10*.ad.
each, met-free. Fancy Pattern*. .V.. 7s. Cd.. safe and free iwt
■ H.ft, Piet-nftiee Order, Exhibition-Road. Opinion* oi the Press
and Price-List free. . ...
C. c. HOWE. 83, Brompton-road, London, b.W.
fiHUBB’S PATENT SAFES
ARE FIRE AND THIEF-RESISTING.
and other Foreign and Domra
. The Trade snpplirel by <7. Vicxgs*. Am’el-ooari
(172).Strand; and H. Williams. Worwlck-lane, Paternoster-row,
London.
l.dS
CARDS FOR CHRISTLkN SEASONS, &c.
CHRISTMAS CARDS. Beautifully Printed in Colours
from di .tgus bv tlie lest Artist*. In a Packet containing Six
I aril*. Jet l’arket.2*.
CHRISTMAS AND NEW-YEAR’S GREETINGS.
I s. lo t 1 ■' or in two Packet* of Six Corel* each, per Pocket. i"h
FESTIVAL GREETINGS. A Packet containing
Twelve I nrd*. printed In Colours, lor greetings at the chief Holy
Seasons, per Packet, it.
London : 77. Great Quren-rtreet. Llncoln's-lnn-llclda, W. C.: 4.
hoys) Exchange. E.C.. and 43, Piccadilly, W
TETTS’S DIARIES, 1879. Great
X-J Improvements. Reduction in price. 116 varieties from
6d.tol4».earli. Nos.3.8.D. 10.13«re recommended. Uotaloguse
gratis of aU Booksellera. See also Isrtts's New File Box.
/CATALOGUE
V' COLLECTION of C
Just published,
very interesting
_ _ CURIOUS and SCARCF. BOOKS.
French Literature. Work* on Fine Arte, Cnrlosu Bo..k*. with
Engraving*and \ ignette* by Elaen. Martliler, Moreau, Gravelot,
Chodowicsky, Picart. Ar., Portrait*. Ac. (about 4000 number*).
on Kale bv F. SCHEIBLE. Bookseller, In STUTTGART
Sent on appltcation.
170R
-C Hera
FAMILY ARJIS (Lincoln’s-inn
Heraldic Office) send Name and County. Sketch, 3s. (kl.
r*tam|i*. Arms Paint/*! nml Engraved on S/nln.Rra.k-Platea.
"PUGH BROTHERS.—Paris Exhibition,
X 1K78. Prlre Medal awarded for HERALDIC PAINTING
and SEAL ENGRAVING.—Lincoln'*-lnn Heraldic Office.
Great Turnstile, and 78. Queen Victorlu-»treet.
DETECTOR LOCKS
T
UREE PRIZE MEDALS and HON.
MENTION AWARDED to CHUBB and SON at
PARIS. 1373.
!' Firt’cerversl'lvegy and phitwl iisndl™. W». to 13kk.
,.)! Fish Knivi* and farkt.ixr doren h*ir-. *u t - -
]» Llo.tr. si**.u»—Deosert, 16*. b> I**.: F,wk*.lG ViWI.
14. Table Kn\ve—Ivory,.|»r_dot ; .
QPC0NS and FORKS.-SLACK’S SILVER,
O ELF.l TKO-IT.ATE is a crating PmViSSf Sf”*du»
rkSLER’S GLASS CHANDELIERS.
U Wall [.iglitfl and Lujtre* for On* arid Crtidla.
CkttMidulier* in ^ Orroida.
DUPLEX LAMPS
TABLE GLASS oi ALL KINDS
LONDON: Show-Room*.45, Oxford-ttran. _.
QHUB
QUEEN
__ __ST. JAMES'S-
. LISTS OF ALL THE ABOVE SENT FREE.
128,
INDIAN and CHIN A TEAS. (lioirert Import*.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
PHE ORIENTAL COMPANY.
L 12 in. GONGS .
18 in. GONGS .
F OR ARMS and CREST, send Name and
''^h'll'rb— T 7e S ', OK o7 , S'-L ,l, . u, ^ 0 l <> . , . n , rt HeraldicOfiOces,
T HE ORIENTAL COMPANY.
Silk Handkerchief*. 2s. Ad. and 3a. each.
Tea Set*, Tea Caddies. J*]inne«e Tray*.
Cabinets, Tables. 4c., and a great variety of
Oriental Good*, for
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
pASELIERS, in Crystal, Glass, 0ra^“.
■ptlRNITtmE.—An iw;iSSSK*
tti *'r'V” V':.ol ’
i' K f. ’ Sftifit'lSr
ign.4 FiuinHt w *e-j
V draeriptlon
,,.. u throughou
mid*, aiuonuting in
uunx in'vaiue C^g
salssgf^g^s
LEWLNCUAWCOUU and C O.'S, 73 to.*. Urompw_ _
gos
H
E A L and
OT ,«ffiS&»or
bed-uoom toekitobe
IN 1XINDON. anil »
FORTY SUITES are art apart J^^^gronnd
general stick occupies *1* galltrie* ^sg. irt
^(JTBidStiidn. Art”* trtth every deKriptioa
““"SfitoJ* “tox^bam-coobt-boap. W> d0 ’ '
DEC. 7, 1878
QHRISTMAS
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
and NEW - YEAR’S
ut HENRY BODniOUES',42. Piccadilly, London.
Set* for the Boudoir and Writing Table, 21s. to £10
Envelotw Cases .. in,, to £5 I Dressing Case* .. 21s. to £.50
Inkstands .. .. Ss. to £5 | Jewel Cases .. .. 21s to £4
OMTiatch Boxes .. 21s. to £0 I Work-Boxes .. 10s. B,1.to£2
W r,Ung uises lo» to £5 | Card Trays .. .. 2Ie. to £4
1 riivi lling Bags. Candlesticks, Candelabra. Flower Vases, Jor-
"" Ti; , ‘ na “J““W* and choice Assortment of English, Viennese,
and Parisian Useful and Elegant Novelties, from 8s. to £8
JJODRIGUES’
J-V Travelling, wit
BAGS for
: olI i»F. with silver, sliver-gilt, and plated Sittings
: ^ufflet Bags. Waist Bags. Carriage Bags, and
at very moderate prices.—13, Piccadilly;
"ITISITING CARDS at H. RODRIGUES’.
▼ A Card-Plate elemmtlv emrravci! and cn™rfl»x*x n U va.
"PORTRAIT ALBUMS at RODRIGUES’.
“■ "' i . ,h Patent leather Guards 4s. fid. to £8. Easel Albums
>s of every description m
Easel Albums,
Piccadilly.
"VJONOGRAMS.—RODRIGUES’ Novelties
jr 4. ‘ n Monograms. Crests, and Addresses. Steel Dies en-
iii Not ® 1 , u l>*' r and Envelopes illuminated In
fflii.lt™ ’"Te' "ndoo'oni^. Coloured stamping. Is. per 100.
All the New and Fashionable Note Papers.—42, Piccadilly.
B A S,
PROGRAMMES at RODRIGUES’.
LP^I"’,^‘' 0 *'“t** , '*' , ^:*“' |l, ‘““' t * 1 l ! ^' , 8*of , Farc! 1 Su*’sf Canlsand
“ “i every variety'.—42, Piccadilly, London.
CHAPMAN’S, NOTTING-HILL, W.
gLACK SILKS.
Bright, pare Block Glao<S Silks.j, M „„
Rich Gres Grains (very special) .. .. is' lbl P Td '
Very Handsome Ditto .. .. £ i
Chapman's Wmrld Famed Silk .. '* " 2''ll 1
(Equal to any Silk Issued at 6s. lid. per ’ Ud * ”
i yard, and excellent wear.)
Rich Coloured Gros Grains (nearly half price) 2s. lljd. „
pLACK SATINS.
* M; ;;
Is- Hid., 2s. 0d., and 3s. Gd. „
JAPANESE SILKS.
539
: X
• L. lljd. jwr yard'.
L voxs '
C HRISTMAS CARDS—NEW-YEA
. x. _ OAR1JS.
4d. in the Is off cards of the best publishers. Ss. worth sg
post free for Ss. 4d. Exchanged if not approved
F. 11. BERRINUTON. Artists' Color,rrnan and Frame-Mak
0. Junction-place, Hacknoy.
NO CHARGE FOR STAMPING IN COLOURS BY
MACHINERY.
TENNER and KNEWSTUB,
V HERALDIC STATIONERS AND ENG]
MOATING RELIEF S-rAMPINtTa
oiniiig^the^ perfection of .
‘ ' n quantities of not less than" tw<
4s. lid., in Dolours. As. llo
10s. lid., 12s. llii., 14s. lid.,
represent the various qm,l
oue of the cheapest lines i
GENOA, and
gown velvets.
suitable for the
per yard ; also
ITALIAN
above, in Black, at
at (is. 'Id.. Ss. Ud .
The different prices
yELVETEENS.
THE DRESS OF THE SEASON.
THE BEST MAKES ONLY KEPT.
IN ALL THE NEW AND ARTISTIC DYES
IN SEVERAL SHADES OF BLACK.
lopes. To cl
.iRAVERS,
>rb specimens of ILLU-
.'INKING, com-
wiin toe most moderate price;
ipiug in Colours (by machinery)
■f not less than two reams and
stationery atthe most mi
i nner and Knewstub, to tlie queen, 33, St. James's-strcet
il 66, Jonnyn-street. S.W. '
lies, and large «
T S. THEOBALD and CO.’S NOVELTIES
y • MAGIC LANTERN, complete. with 36 I urelmM,, ..
tui ce. very best make, 7s. 6d.; larger sizes, IDs.
.. ^ i.. and 21s.
i iiXES OF CONJURING TRICKS,
•n i l ment of the best and newest Tricks.
" ' 'I-, and21s.. with full Instructions.
, ST ??. A ?? • ENGINE.-All
"TiT
lillee._
K1STMA8 CARDS.—T1
GRAND ILLUSTRATED CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE.-'**)
I.grayings. Post-free, 1 stamp. Novelties of every description
'!■(. hnstmas Entertainments provided for Evening Parties
J. S. THEOHAl'I) and COMPANY?
20, Church-street, Kensington, London, W.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VELVETEEN. THE
J^INDEN VELVET OZONID,
811'F.RB FINISH AND UNRIVALLED ASSORTMENT
ThecheapestDress that is w -id. Looks well aftar longaml bird
is. Hid..2s. llid..». Hd.. H 48?Hd., and As. lid. per yard
THE BEST isUBSTITUTE FOR VELVET YET INVENTED*
QOLOURED VELVETEENS.
i " r, "‘ et ‘«' assortment of the
«dWt 1 rtV f 0,6 bTt-n^i’ English IMrS'krftM
subjected to a sweeping reduction to effecta clearance The
price will be Is. Hid. and 2s. lljd. per yard only AJ '°
• atterns fre
BLACK SILKS.
manufactured by Bonnet, of Lyons.
Mewix. JAY beg to Inform their Patrons
and the Public generally
that they are now selling these weU-known
. PURE LIGHT-DYED SILKS
at a reduction of from 33 to 40 per cent off
prices hat were charged previous to the
DEP rw! I V N 1N LYuks SILK MARKET.
Present price, 4a. lid.; former price, 8s. 3d.
Present price, 3s. I'd.; former price, 5s. 6d.
:: Sll :: &&
"bLA'Dk SATIES,aiipuresllk? 8 ^'
22 Indies wide, from 8s. 3d. per yard.
JAYS'. REGENT-STREET.
EVENING DRESS.
J-I Messrs. JAY have a new i
of made-up Costumes foi
“ ' in mourning, or fo____ CI1UICB
UP by experienced dressmakers in a few
fashionable assortment
suitable for ladies who
block from choice.
•tiling Wear,
THE LONDON r ™A^O^iING WAREHOUSE.
VOW SELLING at BAKER and CRISP’S.
-LI BANKRUPT STOCK OF SILKS.
BANKRUTO^nWRESS- ^ *° Ud ’
BANKRUPT STOCK OF VELVETEENS.
BANKRUPT STOCK^OF LADIES' ULSTERS AND JACKETS.
BANKRUPT STOCK OF CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEFS
v u ™‘ d «*>'. 2 i iJd '. to ? 16 ' Do “ n i Gents' 8s. ikl. to42s.
N.B.-The Whole of the Stock iios undergone a Reduction
corresponding with the above prices.
_ . free on application.
BAKER and CRI8P, li», Regent-it root.
J^ONDON and NORTH-WESTERN
HOOKING or to™ receiving
.o’ffiKE Sr, JU-a -» ...h
Golllcn V fhv.i«?c?iaring^cn>ss* haIn "*^ rC0 ^'
d J* uprl , e ’ Ite «cnt-c!rcii 8 , W.
/U. ML rt its £j»no(Ut6 Willing and Co.).
booked through to the pi
h-Western System from
Uxbrid^r n u ;f' ld ‘ Sil ' , - r ‘' ad) ’
Hammersmith (N. and S.W.
Clapham Junction Stations.
“D^em’C'iwi!’ 06 *'" 8 0ffice ’ Euston ^un.
COLLEGE, RADLEY.
the College.
a Subject tc
flHARLES GASK and
SALE OF PARIS EXlIIBt
OXFORD-STREET
CO. (Limited).
•ARIS EXHIBITION GOODS.
id WELLS-STREEP.
s of Examination candidates will be received In
Oudwauv Teuhs.
1C above deduction in the case of Scholars.
• logs.
p-
Pct annnm Uni ' attendance, Ac.. 9gs.
M A L V E R N_ COLLEGE.
The NEXT TERM w
(Limited).
And, lastly, to my new
QORDUROY VELVETEEN,
ryami iltti
^aS e «“? I, i. Vel i y 5, f ,.\ h0 ^ Soa8on - Prices. Is.
"Id A. ^ Black. White.Pink..Sk^, •
able colourings. The largest sto
■loot from In the Metro-
C HE
iIAS PRESENTS.
The best Collection
ASSER and SHERWIN. SO and 81, 8trand? >Ud0 "'
c
II R I S T M A S PRESENTS.
New ninstmtoil Price-List, full of Novelties,
from Is. tn £5. uost-froi’.
ASSER aud SHERWIN. 80 and 81, Strand.
The most acceptable Present at this m
i* one of ASSER and SHEUWc
1AB1NETS of GAMES. St
' — un receipt of 1
securely I'liekeil
ASSER and SHERWIN, 80
C 11
RISTMAS TC
ASSER and SHERWIN have rec
th<* Continental markets the tieest c
TOYS for Clilldren of all a gus tx
THE CHEAPEST CHRISTJIAS PRESENT
- 1 - OF THE SEASON.
Thousands upon thousands
xew shillings, worth dor 1 ’ "
dulness of trade geuei
udc. compels me
DRESSES to bo bought for a
generally, and
.... - realise my snrplnsTlVinter Stock
tenting .hese Good*, which will convey soino idea of the tre-
nmndous reductions made. Prices, od., Is. id., and I*. 3d. per
QRxVTIS !
An immense quantity of Beautiful
STUFFS, numbering nearly Iouo i’i
for the season. Almost to lie given
that-exist me in the bulk Is. pa r yard
For useful and seasonable present* n
goods arc unsurpassed; tlie like have
the price.
S, in usefuj dark
tv—tli.it is to sal
mil sell at 7Jd. p‘i
WHITE WOOD ARTICLES, for Painting,
* ' Fern Printing, and Dccalcomanie, Blotting-Books,
l'up. r-Knivcs, Boxes, Screens, Ac. Priced List post-free.
W». Baunauii, 113 , Edgware-road, Loudon.
newly-discovered remedy completely removes superfluous
'. quite harmless. 3s. 6d.; post.3s. 10d„ of Inventor. J. Leon.
I'urtens-rd., London, W„ or Chemists. Bent abroad for4s.6d.
F RAGRrVNT SOZODONT.—The peerless
liquid Dentifrice; its use ini parts the most fragrant breath
it hemitilii H, cleanses, and preserves the teeth in a surprising
runnier. It gives a dclightiullv fresh taste and feeling to the
lunutli. nmoving all Tartar and Scurf from the Teeth.com-
gERGES.
The OLD ENGLAND 8ERGE8. so called
rough nniinished surface, make up into
TTiere are very cheap Serges also l n the accont*vl colonrx”
Navy Blue, Black, and Brown-which for dunddlity reim.ln
unsurpuseecl at the price. Very flue EstameSs Is lHi n
I*'per yard ° r qnal ty> Hl ' uthc ' r =. Is- M.; other qualities, if,if to
n the peculiar
"YyiNTER SORTINGS.
Tlicse useful and indispensaiile
Those in tlie lx>st style wi"
effective. An excellent and v™.x-
fail to make a selection from. Is. t
ilready become black by dec
insed by llarl Teeth, Te‘
il by Sozodont. The^ir’
d whitening i____
" “ neglect.^ Impure
*. up in large-tTott^: ffiw witifinr^ririkfcra f,
ipplving the liquid to the tootii-brnsh. Each tHittle is in, |o,o
n a hiitiilKome toilet box. Sold liy all Cbuinista and Perfumer
G olden h a i r.—rob are’s
AUREOUNE produces the beautiful Golden Colour so
much in(mired. Warranted perfectly harmless. Price 5s. ad. and
Ids nl. ot all Perfumer*. Wholesale, UOVENDEN and SONS.
8. Great Marlborough-street, W.: and S3 and 35. City-road, E.C.
London: Pinaud and Meyer, 37, Bonlevard de Strasbourg Paris:
31. Grabeu, Vienna; *4, Kue dos Longs Chariots. Brussels. ’
D°“.
YOUR HAIR TURN GREY?
-e HERRING'B PATENT MAGNETIC BRUSHES
and CUMBB. Brushes.IQs. and 15s. each. Combs.2.4.tid. l te.,7s.8d.
10s., l*b.. and 20s. each. Pamphlets upon application.—5
BlarllR .rough-*t., W.; 93 and 95. City-road; and of all Perfumers.
»TA3IEB CHAPMAN desires to draw attention to his npw 5
ctrte.Ti. C,1Untry “ r,1, ‘f a rLCtivu tlie (Promptest attention ; exe-
d 3, Portland-road.
Notting- . ...
Patterns of the above sent free. Ladies
requested to make a second choice to save delay
CHAPMAN’S, NOTTING-HILL, W.
from the PARIS
„ ^EXHIBITInN -The most- exqnisiteCostun.es, made of
} l f ; “ ,ld ' elv e*»l>y the (lrot Paris Exhibitors,
to whom Prize Medals were awarded, ot less than half tlie Paris
i gs ^cacl? * 0 ' ttnd Wixilleu Fabric Costumes from 2 gs. to
CHARLES G ASK and 00. (Limited),
■ .... welis-gtroet, London.
88 to 63. Oxford-street
M antles, furs, from
EXHIBITION.—Superbly rich and new Man
rurs, Fur-Trimmed Ms"* 1 ™ * ■'- ■ ■ ■ ■
PARIS
r ,,-—ntles.Jackets,
lantles and Dresses, Sealskins, Ac. These
-. - —'V-T/i choicest quality, the Furs being selected
reWeVMll'fcld ^cbeap. 18 ** rM,tod - A?1 bc,ugl,t
aa nnd 1 '■ (Limited).
58 to 63. Oxford-Street; 1 to 5, Wells-streot, London.
R°lih
in Navy t
DEVONSHIRE
SERGES,
n pure wool, for LADIES' DRESSES.
Dark Indigo Blue. Black, Dark Browns Prune
and other solid colours.
For Ch£dK£N strong.
For BOYS’ HAlCD WKAlt it ^ extra milled, price
Mm. wide.3d. 6d. p^.*r yard.
Books of Patterns sent post-free by
SPEARMAN nnd SPE.4RMAN,
Devonshire Serge Factors. Plymouth.
The ROY AL DEVONSHIRE SERGE is the only true Yachting
Serge.
Sea Water cannot injure it.
. Any length is Cut by tlie Factors.
Who arrange to pay the carriage of all Parcels above Two Pounds
iu value to and a* far as Loudon.
1 begin on MONDAY. JAN. 27.
WRITTNG, BOOK-KEEPING, &c
Without risk,.
Please quote this Paper iu’reply.
A LADY, the Widowed Mother of Ten
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onrorolotld^in^n*? 1 '' 1 ’^ w # h If desi^;
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_ ~ , . v„f mdinlv I an open place in a Flemish town; date, fourteenth century; a
honour, is a study of effect, merely ™ “louied, “ dition£ J groU p of figures before a reciting monk, other groups about a
ART. black, chalks. To paint a picture of the sub j there j s fountain, and a mender or maker of pottery ; the peculiarities
qnrTT-TY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS. Btudy for the colour would be desirable, entalists (as of Leys greatly intensified in the characterisation of the
SOCIETY “ sketches and studies” grent merit in this composition of amateur mstriim ^ figures and the unnaturally sombre tone; withal presenting
The winter exhibitions of so-caU ske^ 8ummer displays, were some of the nicst blood-thirsty terror; 1 . k^niiliotmei unmistakable evidences of invention and capacity. “Hay
at Pall-mall East now differ bt generally of rather heedlessly, while the frequent clank and thud gu Time,” by J. E. Grace ; “ A Scheveningen Fisherwoman,” by
except that the works m J however, might be heard not to off-fiddlmgai^ ^ H um ^ ; -The Spliigen Pass,” by H. Goodwin; “The
more importance. retarding the direction of their Rome was burning. The important S^uresof su£r „ es tcd • Bazaar, Cairo,” by P. Pavy; “ The Wine-Bearer,” by H. T.
take us into their confidence grounds. And second violin as they sway to the time ■“ ® the Schafer; “Flowers,” by W. J. Muckley; “Mid-Afternoon,” by
studies and the Ration of th i « ^ teres t when, • very good, also, is the management of the light]• g £ D. Farquharson; “ Words of Comfort,” by J. Lobley; “ The
these secondary e uiembers breaking new ground large casement, through which we ® e . o£ old Paris Haunt of the Sea Nymphs,” by A. J. Woolmer—in which, as
as now, we see severalofthe m fi owe ve^ by reverting Dame and the picturesque spires and ¥ u *®'^° p L f ltl lish USU al, we see the evidence of the wherewithal to have made a
or striking mto fr^hpaGis. ly^ h transitional in the Cite. Mr. Walter Duncan evinces a h ea J gjj fine painter wasted on studio fabrications of phantasmagoric
a year or two in memory' tolly reirnse^nao, ^ ^ d for colour in hi s buff-jerkmed Cromwenmn troopers „ Pet8f .. b y j. Morgan; “ Langstrath, Borrow-
condition in which such a ?° c . 7 ta Bta t e of change, and 141); but they rather receR lusty bra^arts dale” by J. Peel—the greens too blackish, otherwise very
and is passing from a ^c into an ^^^ocTatoshave Sir Hudibras type than Cromwell’s /elLmortifpng iron- da*. oy ^ d H ome," by Haynes King;“ Indecision?
During that f ouritea are n0 w no more, alas! sides. Several small Venetian news of Missinstinct by H. Cailleri; a female figure watching “ Gold Fish," by R.
been elected «md several .M s“nearly all affect high show that the young artist possesses a rare j 7 Gordon; “ Rural Belles, Black Forest ” by C. Baucrle;
or very little, seen. Oi^the ’^ur in landscape, which imparts to all she does the d J“ lf y that instinct “ Oat Harvest,” by J. Clayton Adams; Vale of the Conway,
finish in brightness?beauty, and infinite has, however, yet to learn to subordmate that mstinct w ,*, b / A . B . Collier . « Croquet,” by E. Hughes-
I<ew seem to gladly enjoy to^ ’ to seek for the floral to the facts of nature-not by any p m ^ s PP ther noticeable for its painstaking, but painfully hard; “ Fire in a
variety of Nature lake imroer.iews William Hunt. it. Mr. Albert Goodwin has exchanged his usually ratner Village, Moonlight,” by F. W. Meyer; “A Storm
and gem-like preciousnessof h e lou™ ^ bl sign . vague treatment for more positive reahsationin Da^ cloud,” by B 8 Evans; “The Doone Valley, Exmoor," by Sidney
Wo cannot hdp ng ttos as £“i™ d ering depth moor” (19), all ablaze with golden gorse alternated with ^ouu y contributions by H. B. .Tones, G. E. Hicks,
8 nee water colour ed-compete“ e r ^ nct f ve P nd heather V in its full bloom of crimson. Mr. E A. Gooddl Hodges y j Finnie> J. W . B . Knight, J. Hayllar,
of shadow, it should make th ^ colour and light, and Mr. P. W. Brierly send fruits of a recent sojourn ,,m com H^me, G. de Breanski, E. J. Cobbett, C. Smith, and W.
°{ “ U J: h *ml fnr uTnwn sake in his drawings even more than deep tone of the “ Evening Effect (213) va the' Nile \ alley, ^ opens to the public on Monday next.
at ™re colour for its own sake in his drawings even more than deep tone of the “ Evening Effect UMjm m ™ The gallery open8 to the pubhc on Monday next.
wSmi that he has had such an extraordinary influence on with the sunset sky reflected in the stiH pools of t e » English artists are invited to contribute to the Inter-
the ^schools of Italy! France, and Spain. Fortuny, notwith- inundation and a sunbeam lingering on ap f Brierly national Exhibition of Fine Arts that is to be held at Munich
^as a discoverer as a colourist and p^amiU ^e advantage a next year from July 1 tiU Oct 31. Medals are to be awarded^
an inventor as an executant. His works have given a new and JsmMt marked. Always tbcTO matter .of-fact, painter of The remains of the late George Cnukshank were removed
delightful icsthetic sensation. By preserving the punty aud t^toortoya t tbe b utterfly hiies of the Venetian bragozzi and yesterday week from Kensal-green Cemetery to their final
“distinction” of even the cold colours, such c ob alt and shipping g but the ^rflyhues ot^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ in gt . Pau r 8 Cathedral-the repairs which the
emerald green, without the old doe ’\ he Adriatic like her own gilded Bucentoro, reflecting the ever- cryp t was undergomg at the tune of the lamented artists
harmonising them by contrMts (as Natoe hCTself d ), Adriatic, ch^gefui dimate, seem to have awakened death having been completed.
achieved what even the Venetians faded to accomplish. Some wnnmg^effects^ bangei not at all pre pared The prize3 gained by the City and Spitalfields School of Art
secrets Tor Te VSSbE! Tdbetuty’of his studies, “Abreas^of the wer eto?ributS on Frikay of last week by Viscount Enfield
punty and truth are the first requisites_^ iV _»» #9sst. “ Ran Pietro di CasteUo (95), and An ^rt-Lonn Exhibition will be held m Kilmarnock next
in airl nf the fund being raised for the Bums monument.
purity and truth are the first requisites of a water-colour, dux ^tnejweernessauu , ^ ^ „ (g5)j and Art .Lo an Exhibition wHl be held in Kilmarnock next
thrmem e bere of thffeading Water-Colour Society of this “ Murano ” (287). In no artist’s works, however ^ we°bseiwe yeftr ^ aid of the fund being raised for the Bums monument,
country if they would not see themselves overtaken by foreign so complete a change of style as in *k°sejtfHr. ^ sixth annual exhibition of the Glasgow Art Club, con-
SSffitafSS are everywhere turning their attention to sisting of 167 paintings, of which report speaks favourably,
"^Thf'recent Associates mostly foHow in the track of The works he exhibited two^yews b«±, ^ TLClStager.-the sculptor, has executed and presented toll.
Frederick Walker, like Messrs. Tom Lloyd and T. Parker, and were decidedly coav ® n * 1 °?^L transcript from nature Gambetta a terra-cotta reduction of the statue of the Republic
Mrs. Allingham ; or, at least, elaborate with the pomt of the common with such a P° * „ «. Am b e rley Church, which adorned the terrace of the Champ de Mars,
pencil rather than’work in frank t^spare^tots-^e «.the Vidley^oMhe ^rnn Sec^aSn dSg Monteverde's sculpture, Vinner vaccinating ■***£
Messrs. Hopkins, Norman Tayler, and E. K. Johnson. Mr. Sussex (303), with its poetic lugi 11 . vi£ , 0 ur with attracted so much notice at the Exhibition, has been
Tlovd’s croup of a cirl reading to an elderly lady in a rustic on the first screen than which, as & & ^ T)uchess of Galliera for a hospital which sho
MX^lSt affist the mass of autumLlfoliage, but it dehcacy, thereh, nothmg^ finer in Je gJto. „ SET
seat is rather lost amidst the the « news,” so haTfound^d at Genoa.
Allingham’s^tud^Ts^of farms P and cottages nestling among to speak, of the exhibition, we would gladly dwal j> had we ~
to (355) andTtady oi “A Gre 7 W<» MUSIC.
^ »» two ffpms on a screen. Sinnlar praise is in the contributions of Mr. A. a • .Newton ,
due to Mr ’ Parker’s contributions, particularly to (388) the river subjects ; Mr. S. Read-now, in this gallery, almost the HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE.
dainty rustic maiden wringing out clothes, with a fawn lying sole, and certainly a very worthy representative of « - Mdlle Arabre made her third appearance here on Th™* s 7
beneath the washtub-though Cinderella could scarcely wear tnral work-see his “ Chapel m the Cathedral of St. Gudule, ^ Qpera q{ ,, Fauflt - introduced her m a new
such diminutive high-heeled shoes. “ A Breeze on Shore ” Brussels’ ’ (72); Mr. C. Davidson- . la “ d ^ pes ’ g p r j ^son— character. As Margherita, she acted with much earns
(192) by Mr. A. Hopkins, has similar and high ment. The title jun.—Welsh scenes about his father s haunts S. P. Jac '^ so and dramatic feeling, in some points with
must not be supposed to refer exclusively to the meteorological landscapes, river, and coast scenes; Mr. A Gl^me- * f conception . ThS was particularly evident m the cathedral
condition, though the scene is the seashore; it relates chiefly views of Florence and nearer home, ^ PP F scene, at the close of which the artist gave a powerful repre
to a little tiff, delicately suggested, between a young fisher- “ Star Hole, Lulworth, Dorsetshire ( 17 ^) • Radf ' rd J_.«^ sentation of the horror of the repentant d foSowin*
man and his wife—the former holding the baby. We can BrewtnaU — “T h ® ui Ir ;np E ;c?ife d s f °a r t d hom^ and penitence _are mocked by the of toe tod followmg
of conception. This was particularly evident in tne caiaemai
scene, at the close of which the artist gave a ]»werfnl repre-
man ^d Ms 'wffe—the fonner holding the baby. We can BrewtnaH- “ The Spring ” (259); Mr E. Radford-” A mocked by the taunts of the fiendToDowmg
only object that the good-looking husband and pretty wife Peuny for Your Thoughts (132) ; the scenes n^ her even to the cathedral. The effect produccd. by M .
have an air a Httle above their station. We encounter almost and abroad by Messrs. Naftel, T. Danby, Q.H. Andrews, simu lation of temporary madness m hen of toe ocn
a centleman and lady again in Mr. Norman Tayler’s couple of Collingwood Smith, 1. M. Richardson, Walter GoodaU, J. J. ti al 8udde n shriek and fall, wub very lm P ress ' e _, .
dSSSSTSSSd 9), where the shepherd swain first greets the Jenkins, II. P. Riviere, and T. O Richardson Norm the J^J?SSdL for which a printed apology was issuedBomwh
pretty 1 water-carrier, and then passes as “A Willing Slave” animal department less adequately represented by the the laV^ vocal performance m spite
at once under her yoke and that of her water-pails. We fear admirable draughtsmanship, th ®. L^^tora^bV the which, however, the intelligent artist was apparcnt throi gh t.
Mr E. K. Johnson paints too much, his eight contributions the masterly execution of Mr. Otto Weber spastords by the wn c , • MdUe Ambre appe ared for the
being unegto in gW, We lib. leto,tbe^_ d^i.g „eet 1***. ton tb. tot «***£»? «* SSffJS
being unequal in quality. We like least the large drawing sweet soft tone and gentle sentiment oisrin-Liui havh becn the first occasion here ot ner
(13) representing a young lady finding employment in a garden cattle - pieces ; by the iong-practise^ skiHof character of Gilda in “ Rigoletto, m vhichlAebortharig
LtLririrr flnwprs iii anticioation-or. should we say, uncon- Frederick Tayler, as m btaghouuds (23), and still more , . particularly in the great scenew i
^Xrl^ Fh-ederick Tayler, us jj 1 “ Steghounds” (28) and still.more “g ^thgood the
scious ?—of the approach of one whose arrival is heralded by pleasantly in the smaU drawings on the screens, and ur Mr. father the^unhappy Jester, in the palace of the»
some sporting do|s. This is somewhat hard and “ edgy.” feasil Bradley’s St. Bernard mastiffs (112). But how could we her^fatoer, tM um indisposit i on were stiU occasion^
But the* same fault is much less apparent in smaller drawings speak iu detail of all these works when we have not yrt men ob8ervab j e b ut the performance of Mdlle. Ambre was nc
ofagirlTucking a rose (148), and “ Skipping » (77), where tioned such m^rtri-happily their merits are too weH Imown toSghoul. Signor Mendioroz was a very cfficicrt
the action and the painting of the white dress are exceHent. to require comment—as Mr. E. Duncan, whose sober power is eutat ive 8 of Rigoletto, the Court Jester; and.the fflrt
Mr. Birket Foster might seem to have becn thinking of not less discernible inland than on the angry seashore ; Mr having included Miss Purdy («"
Frederick Walker, when painting “ The Fruit-Stall ” (379) in George Fripp, whose harvest and hay-fields are as perfect m r Run S cio ( t he Duke), aud Herr Behrens (Sparafu )•
the market at the foot of the Rialto, Venice; if not also when drawing and keeping within their modest bunts as ever Mr. » i U l of the week, indeed of *e seaso^wd ^ tee
so carefuHy delineating the architecture of “Rouen Cathedral” A. W. Hunt, whose “ Whitby ” (144) and other studies ^n- f x “ ma p ce J Weber’s “ Oberon,” for the te ®
(350), in which, however, the ancient pile has a “ restored” tinue to remind us of Turner, though, as must be observed, ]? ourteen year8j announced for this (Saturday) evem g- o{
aspect, to the sacrifice of its venerableness. Mr. Foster’s work with increased insubstantiality; Air. Carl Haag, who even m ^ be tbe last b ut one of the present
has most undeniable prettiness, but just misses the true the comparatively unimportant drawmg of a.caravan approach- formailces>
artistic exquisiteness which should come with and justify such mg “ Tlie Ancient Bridge of Smyrna (136) gives us a taste P CRYSTAL PALACE. from the
apparently laborious stippling. of his quality; and—last, not least, but rather like a king concert of last Saturday derived a speciatantere m> ^
In the category of works that appear to indicate the prefer- closing a procession-the President, Sir John .ilbert, who is ^ ar£ormance of oue 0 f the late Hector Berlioz s mosta j>or „
encc for a neutral scale of colour, if not a tendency to blackness not only at his best, but is seen to especial ad\antage in the p , b .- s orchestral symphony entitled Uaxold en i ^
Robinson Crusoe” (36); the “ Lever’s Water” (58) and other Master-like grande manure, the robust exuberance, ana weaim { JL 7 imder the com poser’s direction, at tne a . lieTe
landscapes, by Mr. Cuthbert Rigby, the modest truthfulness of 0 f tone in this “ Night March (164) of fifteenth-century concert 0 f the season of 1855; revived by
which is accompanied by an inclination to purplish opacity; chivalry, casque and corslet flashing back the flare of the ° not been heard entire iu this country until re ^
Air. H. Moore’s vigorous “Storm Clouds” (346); Mr. F. Powell’s flambeaux, or glimmering in the moon-glint; or these most Charles Halle at Liverpool and Manchester e y
view on a Scotch loch (317), with a steamer leaving its trail of effective compositions of picturesque figures and landscape ■■ iraq and from
black smoke in the thick haze—very true within its intention; “ The Retimi Home—Wind and Ram (198), Prisoners— P death of the composer took place in 18W, ^
Mr. Buckman’snicely-feltmoonrise at “Kingsdown, near Deal” October Evening” (31), and Don Quixote declaiming to Sancho . has been largely lgnoreil here.tn
(11); Mr. Hale’s “ Pallanza, Lago Maggiore-Sunset ” (122), in Pa nza in the wood (338). Here we have colour giving up not that time tasmu ^ cage q£ ^ ^ ystal Palace, whom seve^,
which, however, the colouring is as beautiful as it is pearly a whit of its value as it grows m depth. Beyond aU to bo P ^ and the jjarch Hongroise from tn becn
and meltinff, though the texture is rather “woolly;” Mr. noted is the fine balance between the gencraHy warm, broken * bis < fh„t. from the “Harold” symphony, .
and melting, though the texture is rather “ woolly ; ” Mr. noted is the fine balance between the
Marsh’s gruesome “Sea Cave at Dunluce, Ireland” (67), hues of the figures, the tertiary citrate;
with the reflected spectral light of the cavern that illumines scapes, and the cool greys of the skies.
a party of ghostly tourists enveloped in ulsters contrasted -
against the golden sunlight at the entrance—but whence comes __ BT)TTTC „ atjttctc
this electric lighting, and why paint so ugly a subject? and SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS.
Panza m the wood nere we avccoioux «***"»“£*£“ ntion being in the case of tlie Urysnu Faui t"
a whit of its value as it grows m depth. Beyond all to bo exception oe^ March Hongroise from the l
noted is the fine balance between the generally warm broken °^ b ' S ta °^ d tb ^ from the “ Harold ” symphony, have hero
hues of the figures, the tertiary citrates and russets of the land- ^^’^ffSent occasions. Of one of h.» mod
scapes, and the cool greys of the skies. « orka .< La Damnation de Faust,” we' *% Theatre,
_ _J ’ tr, Ua nerformance at Her /
ago, in reference to its perfonuance atuer . ^
at a concert given there by M. P“ d b J° h P ’°ition accorded bun
Whether Berlioz will retain the high. po ^ „ Frcn ch
Mr. J. D. Watson’squaint “ Rivals ” (247)-i.e., a jester (by- This society has been of essential service to many a young ^me^ftocontomporaries, who styled him
the-way, a young gentleman disguised) in motley Mcdireval artist, and its exhibitions gam rather than lose by the forced | by som it ._hut that he was a ren_ _
the-way, a young gentleman aisguiseaj in motiey jucauevai artist, ana us enuuiuuus gam «u,a UUkU . UJTO .. U / --VI" nnen to doubt, but that he w - -- noscr
suit, with cap, bells, and bauble, and a monkey, the latter reduction of the number of works hung, since its removal to Beethoven, and crit ical writer and as a c
occupying the chair of the master of both, to whom, that is, more limited quarters in Conduit-street. But, though it has man, both as ion . and some of his ^ 0 f
the monkey, the jester is making a mock obeisance. This is our best wishes, we cannot ignore the fact that in this present admits of no q . its own 8a k e and as llluBtra
a drawmg of some importance, but not free from winter gathering are stiH to be seen various forms of tasteless, occasional re >
heaviness; and, on the whole, we think “ The Bathers’Pool ” untaught incompetency, and painty vulgarity in much larger its p ^V., vmT , bony belongs to * e >«« o f
(164) preferable. Surely Air. Marks lias painted a rather proportion than can be found elsewhere. There are, never- The llaroia y p mus i c> ’’ in which as nee
sorry farce in “Wine and Water ” (302), with a youth in theless, several pictures which deserve mention for assured positions knownprog g certain incidents orje
costume, of no date, if not Mediaeval, holding a champagne merit, and many more which seem to present promise, though movements is mte bpa dof each division. A pr
bottle, and a damsel crowned with water-lilies, bearing a bull- scarcely any are sufficiently representative to demand ments 11 } al ® ate<1 , ^ tbe obbligato part for V1 ° ’ » a
rush in one hand, and in the other—equally emblematical, criticism within our very restricted spaco. We have feature m the sj mp y words of the com P 0 ^puji de
certainly—a tap, such as the watermen put into the plug-holes marked for approval more or less qualified the foUowing:— is intended to rep model of Bytovs
in hard frosty weather. And what a curious absence of colour “A Stirriug Event in the Village,” by A. Ludovici; kind of pensive dream ■! , which my wander g=
rush in one hand, and in the other—equally emblematical, criticism within our very restricted spaco. We have
certainly—a tap, such as the watermen put into the plug-holes marked for approval more or less qualified the following
in hard frosty weather. And what a curious absence of colour “A Stirriug Event in the Village,” by A. Ludovici;
of the artistic kind is there in this “ decorative design! ” “ Going to Market—West Coast of Ireland,” looking on the
Mr. Henry Wallis has often proved himself a colourist sea, by W. H. Bartlett—luminous, full of emphatic colour:
approaching the Venetian standard, and there is evidence of a work of conspicuous promise by a very young painter,
the fact here in his view of a favourite haunt of several of our “ Sunset on the Thames,” one of several agreeable landscapes
poets, “Between Hampstead and Highgate” (68), bathed in by G. S. Walters. “A Labour of Love,” a monk carving a
golden summer after-glow. But his principal drawing, “A crucifix, by L. C. Henley. “A Legend,” by Miss B. Meyer—
Village,” by A. Ludovici; land ot pensive ureumci, -. h wWch my wanaei^
of Ireland,” looking on the Harold,’ amid the poetic sc ,, .
is, fuH of emphatic colour : the Abruzzi lias furnished my n £ntric—asin all Berho
i by a very young painter. Amidst much that is wild and ^cenm symp hoay
several agreeable landscapes music—there are many port ons opening md ’
“ Sunset on the Thames,” one of several agreeable landscapes music—there are many P° r ... , The opening '
by G. S. Walters. “ A Labour of Love,” a monk carving a j that are impressive aad b "f:3ns-Scenes of MelancW.
crucifix, by L. C. Henley. “ A Legend,” by Miss B. Meyer- entitled “ Harold in the Mounteuw^ q{ conteID pl»to’e
aen summer atter-giow. Hut Ins principal arawing, "A crucinx, by L. G. Henley. A Legena, oy miss is. sieyer— j enuueu i T • verv expressive
itett during the Terror” (90), which occupies a post of l one of the most curious pictures we have ever beheld: scene, Happiness, and Joy, is ve y v
DEC. 7, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
543
sadness, and the transition to genial gladness. The fol¬
lowing “March and Evening Prayer of Pilgrims” has
always been the favourite portion of the symphony,
and narrowly escaped being encored on Saturday. It
is highly picturesque in subject and treatment, a special effect
being obtained by the reiteration of a dissonant note repre¬
senting the convent bell, and gradually dying away in the
distance. The realisation of the prolonged diminuendo by the
orchestra on Saturday was truly admirable. Part 3, “ Sere¬
nade—the Mountaineer of the Abruzzi to his Beloved,” is full
of melodic beauty of a pastoral kind; the finale, “ Orgie of
Brigands—Reminiscences of the preceding scenes” being in
Berlioz’s wildest manner, chiefly a series of uncouth and
incoherent noises, thus leaving a disagreeable impression at the
close of a work containing much that is highly interesting.
As already indicated, the orchestral playing, under Mr.
Manus’s direction, was excellent, special praise being due to
Herr Straus for his fine interpretation of the difficult solo part
for the viola, which is frequently prominent throughout the
symphony. The remainder of Saturday’s programme con¬
sisted of Agatha’s cavatina from “Der Freischiitz,” well sung
by Mrs. Osgood; “ Brahms’s “Song of Destiny,” for orchestra
and chorus; and Mendelssohn’s 42nd Psalm.
Mdlle. Janotha was the pianist at this week’s Monday
Popular Concert, at which she played, with great effect,
Beethoven’s thirty-two variations on a theme in C minor;
and, for the encore, a mazurka of Chopin—besides which the
lady sustained the pianoforte part of Brahms’s quartet in A.
A string quartet of Spohr’s, in the same key (op. 93), was
introduced for the first time. It is a composition in the
brilliant style, intended specially to display the principal
violinist of the party, in this instance Madame Norman-
Neruda, whose playing was admirable in execution and finish.
Mdlle. Redeker sang arias by Giordani and Stradella, and
songs by Henschel and Jensen, with much expression and
refinement. Mr. Zerbini was the accompanist.
The fifth of the present series of Mr. John Boosey’s London
Ballad Concerts took place on Wednesday, with a programme
of the usual attractive and varied character—the fourth of the
Saturday evening concerts, similar in character, being announced
for to-night (Saturday).
The third and last of Mr. J. S. Shedlock’s third series of
“Musical Evenings” took place, in the concert room of the
Royal Academy of Music, on Wednesday, when the first part
of the programme consisted of pieces by Chopin; the sonata
for piano and violoncello, a “Nocturne” transcribed for violin
solo by Herr Wilhelm j, and three pianoforte solos.
The first concert of the South London Choral Association
at St. James’s Hall took place yesterday (Friday) evening, with
a miscellaneous selection of solo and choral pieces.
The week’s performance of English opera at Covent Garden
Theatre, announced by Mr. S. Hayes, are to begin this
(Saturday) evening with “Maritana,” followed by “The
Waterman,” with Mr. Sims Reeves as Tom Tug.
The Royal Society of Musicians voted, at their last
monthly meeting, £20 for the Edwin Ellis fund, and £15 15s.
for the Wadmore memorial. It will be remembered that Mr.
Ellis (violinist and conductor) and Mr. Wadmore (vocalist) died
recently, each leaving a family unprovided for.
THEATRES.
Mr. James Albery has distinguished himself in the records of
the week as the author of two new pieces produced at two
theatres: one on Saturday at the Princess’s, and the other on
Monduy at the Hay market. We prefer to treat of the latter
first, as the more deservedly successful. It is entitled “The
Crisis,” and is a free adaptation of M. Emile Augier’s “ Lea
Fourchambault,” which received in Paris a more equivocal
reception than the English version of it has in London. Here
its acceptance on Monday was instant and complete.. This
was owing solely to the excellent dialogue which Mr. Albery
has supplied, and the general merit of the acting, some of which,
indeed, was first-rate. Ahead of all must be cited Miss Louise
Moodie as Mrs. Goring, the sufferer from an informal marriage,
and yet the benevolent genius of the piece, whose good conduct
and judgment so largely conduce to the happy results with
which the sympathising audience are finally so thoroughly
satisfied. A more finished piece of acting was never presented,
and Miss Moodie must be pronounced as having made the part
the leading role. The -next great part, but in an opposite
style, is that of Mrs. Denham, to which Mrs. John Wood
gave a breadth and a prominence that achieved for
it a positive triumph. The dialogue of the character
has been most skilfully manipulated for effect, and
contains some of the most salient touches of Mr.
Albery’s wit. Another characteristic part is that of
the radical Lord William Whitehead, who seeks in Haidee
Burnside a rich match, but pretends the most disinterested
affection. Mr. D. Fisher, jun., acted this invidious r31e with
his usual skill, and thoroughly indicated the real scoundrelism
but specious respectability of the political pretender. Another
difficult but effective rendering was that of Mr. W. Terriss in
the part of the merchant’s son, Fawley Denham, a hypocrite
of the first water, in the guise of a polished gentleman ; while
that of his father was supported with great force by Mr.
Howe. But we must not omit to ascribe due credit to
Mr. Charles Kelly’s John Goring, whose noble conduct
saves all parties when “the Crisis" arrives which forms
the turning-point of the action. The two interesting ladies
whose married happiness is dependent on the necessities
of the plot—we mean Blanche Denham and Haidee Burnside-—
were pleasingly personated by Miss L. Buckstone and Miss
Eastlake. The drama commanded the profound attention of
the house; the applause throughout being frequent, and in all
cases deserved by the brilliancy of the dialogue by which it
was evoked.
The piece at the Princess’s is the joint production of Mr.
Albery and Mr. Joseph Hatton—the latter gentleman, we
believe, having furnished the plot, which is of the most
rambling kind; and the former the dialogue, which is
below the author’s usual mark. It is entitled “Number
Twenty ; or, The Bastille of Calvados.” and is got up at con¬
siderable cost. The main incident is of a mechanical sort, that
of the prisoner's escape over the ramparts and towers of the
Bastille. The piece, of course, is not without some merit; but
we are not in a position to award it the praise which a drama
associated with the name of Mr. Albery ought to deserve, and
therefore prefer to abstain from further criticism.
Miss "Wallis appeared on Wednesday at Drury Lane for her
benefit as Imogen in Shakspeare's romantic drama of
" Cymbeline;’’ Mr. John Ryder appearing as Iochimo, and
Mr. Edgar Compton as I’osthumus.
Mr. Barry Sullivan, the tragedian, was entertained last
Saturday at a national banquet in the Exhibition Palace
Dublin—The Lord Mayor of Dublin occupying the chair.
LUTON AND THE STRAW PLAIT INDUSTRY.
The visit of the Prince of Wales to Luton this week is a fitting
occasion for us to give some Illustrations of the straw plait
manufacture for hats and bonnets, which is carried on chiefly
at Luton and Dunstable and in the neighbouring villages.
Luton is a pleasant Bedfordshire town, prettily situated
amongst the hills, five miles east of Dunstable, about thirty
miles north-west of London, and twenty south of Bedford.
Its population is less than 20,000. Luton Hoo Park, the
residence of Mrs. Gerard Leigh, who has this week entertained
his Royal Highness as her guest, is a fine demesne of 1670
acres, well wooded, and of varied surface, laid out by the
famous landscape gardener, “Capability Brown,” with the
river Lea flowing through it, and with a stately house,
rebuilt since the fire of 1843, containing a beautiful
chapel, ball-room, and other handsome apartments. The
town possesses a fine old Gothic church, with transepts,
nave, aisles, choir, and chancel, and with a square tower,
and containing monuments of historic interest. We give an
Illustration of the scene in the Plait Hall. The local manu¬
facture and trade are the subject of a concise statistical memoir,
compiled by Mr. T. G. Austin, Superintendent Registrar of
the District, and published by Mr. P. O’Doherty, Market-hill,
Luton. We also find among the useful and instructive senes
of little books, called “British Manufacturing Industries,”
published by Mr. E. Stanford at Charing-cross, and edited by
Mr. G. Phillips Bevan, a volume of “ Textiles, Clothing, and
Sundry Industries," which gives us a good account of straw
plait. This peculiar industry, as we leam from Miss Strick¬
land, was imported under the patronage of Mary Queen of
Scots from Lorraine into Scotland, and was afterwards trans¬
planted hither by her son James I., or more probably by the
Napiers, then owners of Luton Hoo. The straw plait at
first made was thick and heavy, being composed of whole
straws of common English wheat; and it was in the
eighteenth century, by the ingenuity of some French
prisoners of war, that the use of split straw was sub¬
stituted, and a machine was invented for splitting them.
Leghorn hats then came into competition with the English
straw, till Mr. Thomas Waller, some fifty years ago, found the
way to produce the Tuscan grass plait at Luton. He also
introduced the Brazilian or palm-leaf hat, which is now made
chiefly at St. Albans, and is largely exported to Australia ; it
is plaited all in one piece from the centre of the crown. Eng¬
lish straw plait, though esteemed the best in the world, has of
late years suffered greatly from the competition of the Canton
or Chinese plait; and, we presume, from the fashion of silk
bonnets for ladies’ wear. The straw is grown in the
adjacent districts, along the northern slopes of the
Chiltem Hills, and in some parts of Hertfordshire, Buck¬
inghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire. There are some
light wheat soils thereabouts found worth cultivating for the
sake of the straw alone, without reckoning the value of the
com. The ears of com are cut off and laid apart, instead of
threshing; the straws, tied in bundles, are then subjected to a
course of treatment which was described by Mr. A. J. Tansley,
in his lecture to the Society of Arts in I860. The sheath of
each straw is stripped off, and the upper portion is reserved
for plaiting, while the root portion is cast away. The
operations include those of sorting, cutting into lengths of
nine inches, splitting each length into half a dozen strips by
drawing it through a tube armed with steel splitters, “ milling ”
the straws under weighty rollers to take out their stiffness,
plaiting, clipping off loose ends, “bunching” or dividing the
plait into links, steaming it, and bleaching it with sulphur.
The plaiting work some years ago was mostly done by little
children in the “ plait schools,” kept by a class of old women
in the villages around Luton, whose occupation has been
stopped by the Education Act of 1870. An expert workwoman
can make forty yards of straw plait in a day of twelve hours,
but will only earn 7s. 6d. a week; yet, in the busy season,
there are some who come from London to Luton or Dunstable
for temporary employment. Others find occupation in sewing
hats and bonnets, in bleaching, brushing, dyeing, and other
subsidiary work. The straw-cutting forms a distinct branch
of the trade, and is carried on in the different villages of the
district. The operator first cuts the straw into convenient
lengths, removing the knots and the loose sheaths, sorts it by
passing it through wire sieves, and does it up into bundles,
which are bleached by being exposed to the fumes of sulphur.
The work of making straw plait is carried on in the villages
of the whole district from St. Albans to Dunstable. Country
folks plait as they sit at their cottage doors in summer or at
their firesides in winter, as they walk the village street, tend
sheep on the hillsides, or pay a visit to the market town. The
next operations are joining the plait, and sewing the plait into
hats apd bonnets by machine or by hand. (These and the
following sketches were made at Messrs. Vyse, Sons, and Co.’s
factory at Luton.) The plait, being made in short lengths, is
joined together into one long piece for machine sewing, and
wound upon a large reel, from which it is supplied to the
sewing-machine. The machine shown in the sketch is Vyse,
Sons, and Co.'s patent concealed stitch machine, and is driven
by steam, the attention of the worker being confined to the
guiding of her work. It is only of late that this sewing has
been done by machine, and much of the work is still done by
hand. Pressing straw hats into shape by hand labour and by
machine is also shown. After the plait has been sewn into hats
or bonnets .these are stiffened by being passed through a solution
of gelatine and dried. As they are somewhat shapeless they
are now pressed into shape, either by being pressed by
hand with a heavy iron on blocks of the required shape, or by
means of machine pow'er. In the latter case heated zinc
moulds, of various shapes and sizes, as the demands of fashion
require, are used, and, the hat being placed in the mould, heavy
pressure is applied from above. In the process of crimping,
in addition to pressing the hat into shape, the mould impresses
a pattern on to the straw. In the sketch of “ crimping,” the
protuberance shown on the under surface of the upper part of
the machine is a part of a bag made of stout indiarubber, and
this, when the mould is closed by the upper part of the
machine being lowered and securely fastened, fits into the
interior of the hat. This bag is then distended by water forced
into it by the action of condensed air, and a pressure of many
tons thus brought to bear on the hat, which is forced to take
the impress of the zinc mould.
It is the intention of the Admiralty (the Standard says) to
recall the Black Prince, commanded by his Royal Highness
the Duke of Edinburgh, to England, to be paid off and put
out of commission. His Royal Highness has now been serving
afloat since February, 1876.
The following legal appointments in Ireland, consequent
on the resignation of Lord Justice Christian aud the death of
Judge Keogh, have been approved by the QueenMr. Gerald
Fitzgibbon, Q.O., to be Lord Justice of Appeal; the Hon.
Michael Harrison, Judge of the Court of Bankruptcy, to be a
Judge of the Common Pleas Division; Mr. Hugh Holmes,
Q.C., to be Solicitor-General for Ireland; and Mr. Serjeant
Robinson, Q.O., to be Judge of the Bankruptcy Court.
THE WAR IN THE TRANS-VAAL.
The British military force in South Africa, under the com¬
mand of General Lord Chelmsford, is engaged in a serious
conflict with Sekokuni, the powerful chief of a nation called
the Makatees, inhabiting the north-east region of the newly-
annexed Trans-Vaal province. This extensive inland ter¬
ritory, situated beyond the Orange River Free State and Natal,
is several hundred miles distant from British Kaffraria, which
was lately the seat of a Kaffir war, maintained by the Golekas
and Gaikas, apparently not at all connected with the present
hostilities. There is, however, in the country along the cast
coast, to the north of our province of Natal, a very important
branch of the Zulu nation, ruled by their King Cetewayo
(this name is pronounced “ Ketchwayo”), whose disposition
has recently given alarm to the British colonists. The dangers
of a protracted or doubtful war against Sekokuni would be
greatly increased by the contingency of his being enabled to
form an alliance with Ketchwayo, or by a temporary check to
the British arms encouraging the latter to disturb the Natal
frontier. These circumstances have induced Lord Chelmsford
and Sir Bartle Frere, the Governor of the Cape Colony and of
the other British provinces in South Africa, to make urgent
applications for military reinforcements. Her Majesty’s
Government are complying with their request by dispatching
above two thousand additional troops, with large quantities
of arms and warlike stores, from different ports and
arsenals of the United Kingdom. The 99th Regiment
sailed this week, part from Gravesend and part from
Southampton, and some of the Royal Engineers. The ex¬
penses on this account will probably bo laid before Parliament
within a few days, together with those on account of the
Afghan War, in order to justify the required vote of credit.
We cannot here narrate the long history of the disputes with
Sekokuni, who has always claimed entire independence fer
himself and his people, and who actually defeated the former
Dutch Republican Government of the Trans-Vaal, previously
to its annexation by Sir Theophilus Shepstone in 1876. The
agricultural and mineral resources of this province would have
obtained a prosperous development, and it would have been
rendered a desirable field of European settlement, but for the
unhappy quarrel with its native neighbour, whom it is now
deemed expedient to subdue by a regular war. This is a
question of policy and national justice, which Parliament
should be invited to discuss, and upon which we do not
pretend to offer a definite opinion. The reader who desires to
learn something of the facts may be referred to Messrs. S. W.
Silver and Co.’s “ Handbook of the Trans-Vaal; ” also, to a
pamphlet by Mr. A. R. Campbell-JohnBton, “ South Africa,
its Difficulties and Present State,” published by Effingham
Wilson.
A correspondent from Cape Town says:—“The acts of
Ketchwayo and the increasing restlessness of the Zulu tribes
are the occasion of this state of warlike expectancy. Several
of the Zulu regiments have lately been mobilised and marched
to the King’s head-quarters. Their movements have had the
effect of producing a mischievous alarm among the European
and native communities in the neighbourhood of his territory.
On Oct. 20 large bodies of men were reported to be on the
march from the King’s Kraal to the Trans- Vaal border; and the
German settlement of Lunenberg, the inhabitants of which are
in a state of defensive preparation, on the Pongolo river, was
threatened to such an extent that the officer commanding at
Utrecht thought it advisable to move two companies of the
90th Regiment to that place from Utrecht. The General,
Lord Chelmsford, accompanied by Major North Crealock, his
military secretary, had just returned to Maritzburg from a
fourteen days’ ride (370 miles) round the Natal Zulu border
when this information was received, and no time was lost in
hurrying up five companies of the 90th and two guns to
replace those detached from Utrecht, so as to strengthen that
part of the border. To meet the collision which may at any
moment arise, the General is dailv expecting three companies
of the Buffs from Mauritius; he will then have only the
13th Light Infantry, the 90th Light Infantry, the second
battalion of the 24th, two companies of the first battalion
of the 24th, the 80th, and 400 or 500 Mounted Volunteers
of Natal, and 200 or less police to meet the 40,000 to
60,000 Zulus, who are the most military of the native
tribes of South Africa. There is perfect confidence in the
General, but it is felt that the position of our forces will be
very much strengthened by the arrival of the two infantry
regiments, for which, as already mentioned, application has
been made to the War Office.”
Meantime, we present two Illustrations of the Trans-Vaal
war now going on, from Sketches by Captain Wadely, of the
13th Light Infantry Regiment, taken at Fort Oliphant and on
the road to Fort Weber, the latter place being thirty miles from
the first-named. The river Oliphaut flows northward from
Middleburg into the highlands, where it turns eastward to join
the Limpopo beyond the British boundary. The fortified camp,
lately established on its banks, has a parapet constructed of
earth and stone, mixed with brushwood; it stands upon a
rising ground, 100 ft. above the river, and contains a hut for
the officers, built of reeds fastened on a framework of poles,
and daubed with mud; also, the frame of a store-house, to bo
completed against the rainy season; and quarters for the
garrison, consisting of a hundred men of the 13th Regiment
and some colonial volunteers. The gun shown to the left hand
in this Sketch is a small Krupp four-pounder, which is very
handy and useful. Fort Oliphant is surrounded by trees aud
bush ; the river is about 100 yards wide. The country between
this and Fort Weber is a plain of red sand, dotted with scrubby
bush, and with a few large trees, but with huge hummocks of
granite, some of them 20 ft. high and 200 ft. in circumference,
rising abruptly out of the ground. The Kaffirs are accustomed
to build their kraals among these rocks, and to fortify them
with stone walls, loop-holed for musketry, “which are very
nasty to get into.” There is plenty of sport for quiet days on
the Oliphant river, which abounds in fish, while bucks of
different kinds, pheasants, partridges, and guinea-fowl afford
good shooting.
News has been received from the Cape to the 12th ult. There
is no news from Zululand, but military preparations continue
on the part of the British. A wing of the 24th Regiment has
been transferred from King William’s Town to Natal, and the
Natal force has been sent to Greytowu. The 88th Regiment is
at Cape Town. A stronghold of the Kaffirs on the eastern
frontier of the Trans-Vaal has been successfully attacked by our
troops. Commodore Sullivan has gone on a special mission to
DelagoaBayin her Majesty’s ship Active. The pacification
of Griqualand is stated to be complete, and a Commissioner
has been appointed to investigate the affairs of the northern
border. _
The arrivals at Liverpool last week of both live stock and
fresh meat, from the United States and Canada, were again
very large, the latter being about the largest quantity that has
arrived in a single week this season, consisting of 5914 quarters
of beef, 1039 carcases of mutton, 415 dead pigs, and 1000 tubs
of fresh butter. The totals of live stock were 771 head of
cattle and 1227 sheen.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Dec. 7, 1878,-
THE KHOOHUM VALLEY,
THE ILLUSTKATED LONDON NEWS
JIIlS. TAIT.
Mrs. Tait (Catharine), wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
died in Edinburgh on the 1st inst. This lady was the youngest
daughter of the Venerable W. Spooner, Archdeacon of
Coventry, by Anne Maria, his wife, fifth daughter of Sir
CHESS.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
atituj to this department of the Paper »l
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated Dec. 10, 1873) with a codicil (dated Jan 10
1876) of Mr. William Rabbits, late of St. Thomas’s Works’
Bermondsey and of Elephant-buildings, Newington-butte!
curner and boot trad shoe manufacturer, who died on Oct. 15
n ’ a, £ lfc> , ^ • "ff 14 ® Of Sir j Boar (Bay^ter/.l-Ths emanation of your nreihod make, your relation of th. eight last at The Hall, North Dulwich,
L-ucxus O I3nen, third Baronet, of Dromoland, in the county of <!««■»■> pureie dear enough. Thank. tor tho trouble you have token. by William Thomas Rabbits the
Clare, great grandfather of the present Lord Inchiquin. She c j
was married, in 1813, to the Right Hon. and Most Rev. c
Archibald Campbell Tait, D.D., the present Archbishop of !
Canterbury, who was then Head Master of Rugby. He sub- '
sequently became Dean of Carlisle and Bishop of London, and
was translated to Canterbury in 1868. Mrs. Tait leaves two w
surviving daughters; her only son, the Rev. Craufurd Tait, m.
Vicar of St. John's, Notting-hill, and one of her daughters, T1
died this year. The Archbishop of Canterbury has been p,' ;
indeed sorely afflicted within the last twelve months; two of pb
his children and now his wife have been taken from him. 1
MR. O. H. LEWE8. J l
The death of Mr. George Henry Lewes, essayist, historian, and ^
philosopher, occurred on the 30th ult., at his residence, North
Bank, Regent’s Park. He was bom in Loudon in April, 1817, Co ,'
and was educated under Dr. Burney, at Greenwich. His co,
earliest employment was that of a clerk in a mercantile J
house, but philosophy weaned him away from the City desk, o
and also from the study of medicine, to which he applied him- b
self for a time. In 1838 and the following year he lived in (j
Gcrmauy, studying its language and metaphysics. In 1845, ,i
hayiug previously written largely in the leading magazines and Jj
periodicals, he gave to world his “Biographical History of b
P hilosophy,” which was published by Charles Knight in four
volumes. In the following year there appeared from his pen
“The Spanish Drama,” which was followed in 1849 by i
the “ Life of M. Robespierre,” and in 1853 by “ Comte’s a!
Philosophy of the Sciences.” More recent among his writings
are “ The Life and Works of Goethe,” in two large octavo
volumes, “The Physiology of Common Life,” and a work on
Aristotle entitled “ A Chapter from the History of Science.”
Mr. Lewes was also the author of several dramas and novels f“
and was tho first editor of the Leader and the Fortniqhtlv
Review. 9
MR. ALFRED SYDNEY WIGAN.
Wo have to record the death of Mr. Alfred Sydney Wigan on
the 29th ult. at Folkestone, in his sixty-fifth year. Mr Wigan
was bom at Blackheath, Kent, on March 24,1814, and started
m life as a professor of music. Subsequently he aspired to
become an actor, and made his first nppearance at the
St. James’s in 1838, under the name of Sydney. Under that
of Wigan, however, he appeared at Covent Garden in
November, 1839, then under the management of Madame
Vestas, on which occasion he played the part of Sir Otto of
Sternberg in Sheridan Knowles’s play of “Love.” In 1843 I
he migrated to the Strand, having two years previously - I
married Miss Leonora Pincott, who joined the Keelevs’
company at the Lyceum in April, 1844, whither in due
time she was followed by her husband, who adapted for that
house several clever French pieces, in which successively he I
acted the principal characters. Ultimately he became the %
Iff® 01 1 t ^ e o 01 J [r » plc ’ which opened under his management f-
Uct. 17, 18o3, and was made successful by his skilful per¬
formance of French parts. His artistic merits were at once
acknowledged in such pieces as “ The Bengal Tiger,” “The
Lucky Friday” “The First Night,” “Still Waters Run t
Deep, and “Retnbutmn.” He was also known at the £
tofn Ph L m $. e dri T a ° f “ House or Horae -” In October, 1
I860, Mr. Wigan became manager of tho St. James’s. -
Here for three seasons he and his wife distinguished ~
“r 69, x Hla nCXt iT . en ^ emcnt was at the new
ibcq* * 1U Lo J?S- acre > the Queen’s; and in 1868 and
1869, at another new theatre, the Gaiety, he added
r ff U T l V°o‘ then interrupted his successful inti
ioA* (Bayiwater).—'Tho explanation of your method makes your solution of the eight 1HSL UL me nail, ISOrtn DUlWlCD, W08 Droved Oil thfi 20th nit-
.v&sszFs&dz sssr.narssi't:-,«—Sr" ,? e * o? ' “, d
to midritsa the late Professor Allen's executor, Mr. Keen, Chesnut-atrcct, Philadelphia XteeveS, tne acting executors, the personal estate beini? fiWOm
the , wh fi 1 ®' th ,° Illuit cl » u *» l n »nd tournament. have under £70,000. The testator leaves to his wife «n. a i,
KWisaasaata ass skss isfwsnitea Rabbit,,m,u. P *u5TwSdSi l ^rtih{£££
m (Paris).—^we h#vo compiled with yonr request, but h»ye not yet »*on La iuvue. tne event ot her marrymg again ; to his executor, Mr Reeves
f F N (Washington Clnb. Paris).—The verges are excellent, but are unsuitable. £500; and the residue Of hlS real and Personal Potato to Bio
[■VI6TBB (Brecon).—1. Yes. 2. Yon are required to play Block for Ills advantage. Children. “ lO U1S
P (Birmingham).—Mr. Gossip's •• Chess Openings " gives the information. In castling __
on the King's side, that pirce should be played to the Ktsq, and the B to Bsq. The Will (dated Feb. 7, 1878) With a codicil \r„„ c
koiilrms receiv si from AL8 (Cheltenham) and Triton (Guernsey). following of ‘ „ ml COOlCLl (dated May 6
R'iiii bm No. 1315.— The author ot this problem requests our sulvcrs to place a Block A H , . • Anthony Blackbome, late Of No. 35, South
i**“ K «h. Audley-street, Grosvenor-square, laceman, who died on Oct. 23
VN (Doncaster).—You can obtain a copy of rules and regulations for a club tour- last at Ramsgate, WHS proved On the 12th ult hv f'hnvloo
u.™Xt's r ifc)tei, n Kewgatt^?Mfc a, ^ekmiw r Zothing 0 of theuteituroofB™ughu! b ’ Anthony Blackborne and Arthur Blackbome, the sons and
2&&S5ST °' No - 18,2 reoelTed from B ^ lu * onk ' p 8 8 “- _lVcd^o th Vt Xe e Ut ^ r c S ' th . e P®?*®® 1 . cstft te being sworn
ibkept Solutions or Pooblbm No. 1813 received from Jane Nepvcu, Onno, JWW, -n ^ * 7 , testator glVGS hlS bllsine8S premises, good-
II Benthoii. p s sheneie. Emiio Krau, .„d t Noton. p ’ ' w ’ will of business, stock-m-trade, &c., to his sons Charles Anthonv
WS&Z^ZiSrgiSi ws JffiwTKR!s^i^S!, nd ^• 1 t hu 7 and there are othp r 8 P ecific bequests to them, and
Ne|)veu, A| bert. 11 F i A.MIscombe), Onno, li Fosbrooke, W Leeson, A Scot. Vainter 41160 to hlS tWO younger sons, Walter and Horace. After eivincr
6«sss»i awns isrejutssx sfiateiaa ■“,*» tk.
BobemlauGlrl. EPVulliainy, Queen of OenuauA.t, William Scott. P Hampton! SOld four SOUS. r r j
stkb (Brecon).—1. Yes. 2. Yon are required to play Block for i
Birmingham >.—M r. Gossip's " Chess Oiienings " gives the inform
tile King's side, that piece should be played to the Kt sq. and tli
LBMS receival from .US (Cheltenham) and Triton (Guernsey)
MM No. ISIS.—The author of this problem requests our solvci
J V N (Doncaster).—You can obtain a coj
nament by writing to the honorary sc
Muutllct's Hotel, Newgate-strcet. We ]
No. 1X14 received from C B Carlon. Basliibazouk.
T (Exeter), PoUchinollo. E and W S (Uawlish), LSI). PrUcatat, E Worsley. Jane
Nejiyen Albert. HFiAddiscombeLpnno. U Fosbrookc, W Leeson, A Scot. Vainter
of shepherd s-buahi. M Wliltoley. P le Bagc. It Ingvrsoll. G II V. E It H V. it Brock.
Dr k 6t. Oraou. J If B. 8 J F8. An Old Hand, Hvicioft. C Darrnpli, Eu-t. Mardcn,
Bolifmlaii Girl. EP \ ulliamy. Queen of ConnauAt, William Scott, P Hamilton,
H aiirghor. Lulu. Ourlet, T \V Hope, T 11 Walravcns, H II Br.^ks, St J E. W 8
J F.JreW$b»
rniwie 1 ? n T.Td F w “ t ' Melro *
PROBLEM No. 1816.
By A. E Stcdd.
black.
The win (dated April 24, 1869) of Mrs. Eliza Devaux, late
No ’ 77 ’ ““e-street, Hackney, who
died on Oct. 19 last, was proved on the 9th ult. by Louis
btuckenschmidt, the sole executor, the personal estate beine
sworn under £40,000. Among other legacies, the testatrii
bequeaths £100 to the Victoria Park Hospital; the rest of her
property, real and personal, she gives to her relative, the
said Louis fetuckenschmidt.
The will (dated Oct. 4, 1875) with two codicils (dated
April 4 and June 4, 1878) of the Rev. William Jackson, D.D
late of Askham Hall, Westmoreland, Provost of QueeD’s
College, Oxford, and Rector of Lowthcr, Westmoreland, who
died on Sept. 13 last, has been proved at the Carlisle district
registry by the Rev. John Richard Magrath, the acting
® xo fJ ulor > tbe personal estate being sworn under £35,000.
With the exception of a legacy of £100 to his executor, free of
duty, the testator gives all his property to his two daughters,
ueorgiana Isabella Jackson and Agnes Beatrice Jackson.
The will (dated June 11, 1877) of Mr. Thomas Beacheroffc,
late of Grove House, Clapham Park, who died on Oct. 22 last
was proved on the 13th ult. by the Rev. Edward Crow and
Richard Melville Beachcroft, the nephew, the executors the
personal estate being sworn under £35,000. Subject to several
bequests, the testator leaves his property to his nephews
Francis Porten Beachcroft, Thomas Seward Beachcroft,
Richard Melville Beachcroft, Henry Awdry Beachcroft, Charles
Seward Beachcroft, and Philip Edward Beachcroft.
The will (dated Nov. 8, 1875) of the Right Rev. nenry
Mackenzie, formerly Bishop Suffragan of Nottingham and
late Archdeacon of Nottingham, who died on Oct. 15 last at
the Sub-Deanery, Lincoln, was proved on the 15th ult. by
John Wigram, the acting executor, the personal estate being
uucler ^8000. The testator, gives, devises, and bequeaths
all his real and personal estate to his wife, Mrs. Antoinette
Margaret Campbell Mackenzie.
The will of Mr. Walter Cave, formerly of 4 , Mincing-place,
and late of Eaton-place, Exeter, has been proved, the personal
estate being sworn under £70,000.
Mr. Henry Thomas Richardson, of Biynliyfryd, Pwllheli,
who died recently, and was, in conjunction with his father, the’
inventor of the tubular life-boat, has by his will bequeathed
g performance, under distinguished {Remove Black', k up from the Board.) tenance of life-boats at Pwllheli and Deal. He also gives
talent ° j Wlgan undoubtedl 7 a “an of varied ® ) black (Mr. P.) i white (Mr. 8.) black (Mr. P.) £3000 towards Rhosygwalian church, Bala.
S “SjSSfiL 4- Cert T au actor of consummate s! P to Q 4th i P to a Kt 3rd •« « _ L
WHITE (Mr. 8.) black (Mr. P.)
a ^f h c ®*® t0 a degree ; this quality it was that won for him Thi,mod.of ,h»,,i ni rthcr«wn »ndtwo-
his style from that of all his contemporaries. 4. Kt to K B 3rd B to Kt^nd
_ 6. Q to K 2nd B to K 2nd
The deaths have also been announced of— 7. Kt to K 5th^ Kt to K B 3rd
sixty^four! H ‘ °* Wade ’ Boyal ArtiUer ^- on the 26th ult., aged
Tboma f Coryndon Luxraoore, late Royal Engineers tt ’ p *“ Q 648 ^ ro b stb. Ac.
on the 26th ult., at Tunbridge Wells, aged eighty-three a .i Castles
8t A ’ ^ « ^ San of "»3rd ItloWihd
Vicar of that parish ^ ® 8 C ° Uege ’ ^Peter, and ^th,
of SSfleM-hSrEss^rfn Se^^uR ’ VliS
affed fiftv-niirht ’ lne ^ l8t Ulfc -. at Leammgton, »highly inUrestlnsgame,
ogeamty-eight. > io.PtoK5th Kt takes qp
!!§! m-
, on the 24th ult., at Kenil- 1
Ideutenant-Colonel Peter Grant-Peterkin, late H E I C S
con h d e y^ hUlt -’ at GreeSh ° P ’ Forres ’ N ’ B ” mSs^ety.’
P takes B Kt to B 6th (ch)
P takes Kt B takes P 1 '
Cl to a 2nd Kt takes P
his la the rer j crlafa of the game, and
move in the text is the best course for
ck. He mw, of course, that he cnuld
°p e ,? f tlie P iec «® l*y 14. Q to 11 oth,
m George Edward Montagu, Esq., late Captain 84tli Reni Theattemnt to fc
ment, J.P. for the county of Wilts onlv . KegI „ has been abandot
Venao, “' St - W in hii =
F ?K irly ’ Esq ’’ J P > on tbe 17th ult., at his residence “embenMoVr. 11
Femt, in the county of Kerry, aged fortv-five ’ lane ’ Cttn *berweU
second son of John Hurl v Fan tp . j™ ,, wa8 the out, ean have no j
in the countv nf , /’ J -' S< 1) and Clerk of the Crown, that the encourag
Trehirfydd, near Brecon in his seventv mi ttie JSth r 'i U > at posers win be feu
the eldest son of Edmund Darbv Fan^o/uVn 1, He was symbol of honour,
brookdale, Salop, by Lucv his ® 0U8e > Col e- A new chess ch
Burlinffham FSn n fu . W l fe ’ eldp ' st daughter of John Kennedy; comm
purungnam, Esq., of Catharine Hill House , I honorary treasure
nmrried, in 1839, Matilda Frances eldest daughter t6 f’ ■ an r There are now thr
the late F. Darbv Eso of daughter and coheir of the chess dub atm
P ™ „ SUnmSld ® H ° U8e > Colebrookdale. | There was a h
Uc or go William Rowley, Esq, of Priorv-bill k. t ( and CUfton Chess
Hunts, on the 21st ult.. in h s eireht* f i,S? ? b ‘R. St. Reots, Bath, played six g
of Oswald Rowley of Sf ^ was 80,1 the committee,
daughter of Thomas Mein Esq ^ ° nly
a son, Georce Dawson v n leaves with other issue, by hw liberality ai
Boston. J.P. undD.L R l y ’ ’ of Morcott Hall, and {
£°t he “ problem competiUon for ;
Acuity in guaranteeing “[ the 1 re 0 ffv houl i' 1 h 'n e ^ by Samuel Kidner, of Milverton. There were sixteen
p. r rs wiU be found wilUn ff a Jao„gh to « L - ,,l Vhe'^": exbibItfl of Scotch breed and in this d, pa,'tment a special
a nl honour. p0S8e8S,0n of BUch a prize of £50, as well as the first prize in the class, was won by
medy; in Lo . D I ? 0 "' , erry: president, Mr. w. Alr - M'Combie, of Aberdeen, for the best polled oxen or steer
QOrury treasurer, Mr. J^Aterrison-^hTu™ ^ Young, and W. Conaei'ie; of any age. To Lord Lovat was awarded the Elkington
ere are now three chess clubs established*!!the'^ML’d^fNi^^wa* 1 ’ Challenge Cup of the value of one hundred guineas; the one-
) chess dub attached to the news-room 6 yUiaea G ‘ ty ’ besldc9 hundred guinea prize offered by Messrs. James Gibbs and Co.,
iCUfton < Owss AssoSton la ^ e S f f mt , mb< ; rs “‘the rooms of the Bristol °, f Mark -lane, London, for the best nuimal in any class and
th, played six games simmumeo^i'^ 7 Mt ’ 'T, he ? Mr E Tiiorold, of also the prize of £50 for the best animal in classes 19 and 24,
x’r e e ^^ n V, ttet ‘ of the association JeToliowmg At a mectin ? including the crossbreds and animals not eligible for any of
^ g classes. The EUdagtoTOhallenge Cap,
aoval by death of on^of^its deal '' c ",. to ^ c "rd with deep regret the however, must be won two years in succession or any thre®
Kt “ av Tl4e total number of Private bflls for next Session, of which
“*■ i6.'lttek« 6 Kt RtoBRh th° plans were deposited at the Railway Department of the
mgi;*d 5 aSrtto ' t r ,kc ’ and ono cxcecd - B d £ Trade ast Saturday > 18105 -
‘lLKt'to K 2nd“ rr7 'Q to R 5th eaVC * ^ ctllre ° n Monday evening, in
l is Kt to Kt 3rd q to R «th the City HaU, Glasgow, upon his proposed expedition to the
19. Kt to K 3rd R to Q ith North Pole. He said that when the ship had gone as far as
21 Q to B 4th B to K B sq possible, he proposed with six sledges to go over the ice a long
white must t« credited with areat rare distance, and then, by means of three balloons lashed to one
nud patience in conducting the defence another, he would try to get to the Pole. After makiug
ceptiem is plausible ^rough.'t^niove^he obs , erVati On8, lie Would Send back tWO Of the balloons, and
tiier kl but , heiu2 a notu n<1 (l! 8> th,!<JU " c “ endeav our with the third to proceed to an inhabited part of
'i Buss ' a - A committee was appointed to assist him with funds,
we P" r * | ‘ehisattack'iiy2L n toB l 3rdl :ttni!tU1 A supplement to the London Gazette contains an announce-
vi“ oo* n * v K to B 3rd ment of several promotions in and appointments to the Order
“• 83! Q to Kt 8th (cb) K to B '2nd ® ath ’ and of lo ) b ‘ ar y promotions among the officers
24. Q to B 4th (Ch) K to Kt 3rd who bave rendered distmguished service during the recent
if si. n to.B srd, white can piav 23.Q °P era tions in South Africa. Lord Chelmsford is appointed a
1)) The elegant lv.C.B., and the following officers are appointed Companions
SnbrjLf°& n w U hSn h tho of the Bath:—Colonel R. T. Glyn, 24th Regiment; Colonel ■
, t> . ^ . i V ; I5ellair8 - unattached; Colonel C. W. Elgee, Royal Artillery;
"r 26] Q to Kt 3rd fohi r to Colonel H. W. Palmer, 90th Regiment; Colonel W. 0. Lanyon,
l!; 1 27. Kt takes R (Lt Q takes itoch) C.M.G., 2nd West India Regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel F\ \V.
' Kt5th) E. F. Walker, Scots Guards; Lieutenant-Colonel VV. Lambert,
28. K takes It R toQsth 88th Regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel H. J. Degacher, 21th
- Wate ' Regiment; Deputy Surgeon-General J. A. Woolfiyes, M.D.
(TELLIGENCE. The annual exhibition of cattle, sheep, pigs, and poultry,
th ? ® ct ropolitan chess clubs was opened last Saturday in Bingley Hall, Birmingham. The
n toefunda of theiJ^'no' Yi M '; d i' y entr ies in each department arc more numerous than last year,
Mr. Medley has been requested to dis- aud the general quality of the exhibits is superior to those of
everal clubs referred to, and any club many preceding years. In Hereford steers exceeding three
anT.hc Bh ? u1 ; 1 Kend P. ur - nnd not exceeding four years old Mr. Fred Platt, of Hereford,
of the Excel,ior won first honours, and also the £100 prize awarded for the
think that such a plan as this, if curried best Hereford in classes one to five. A special prize of £100
co upon the emtimion °f the game, and was won by Mr. Edwin Hubbard, of Lowestoft, for the best
advancement* 8 If'^t^mem^ero^of 11 !) 81 sbor ri ,oru heifer not exceeding four years old, together with
' for a Challenge Cup, why should there flrst P rize in tbe . class - In Devons a special prize of fifty
r . j 1 * under the auspices of the British guineas, together witii the first prize in the class, was carried
dodS nf ,)‘,? t , b ° d f ,,ll0ul ] ,I hav , e uo dif- off by Mr. Samuel Kidner, of Milverton. There were sixteen
h to strive for the rC s mm hrfiffa exhibits of Scotch breed, and in this depiirtment a special
CHESS INTELLIGENCE,
in the proposed distribution should send nur-
^Ure , t) f hc T , numbtr °, f regularly attending
.sfd,r, mb< ; raat ™ oms of the Bristol I M 'irk-lane, I
Bath, played six SmmtXo^l^! lajst ’ ", he ? JIr E Tiiorold, of also the prize of
of the eommittee^of the assocG^onthe l**. 6 ™' At a I including the cr(
by Mr. W Berry, seconded bv ?L t « e 2° 11 V W, ^!?: ,lu, *o 11 ProposeS I the otho “ nrpf . pri
.. Sf n 7’. u s ? conded by tbe Rev. J. Gr t
lhat this committee desires to reco
c °rd w 'th deep regret thi
I minute-book of the association.
not exceeding four years old. Lord Lovat «
cessfnl competitor.
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BARDON RITTON et CIE.
PLAIN COLOURED SILKS.
BERAUD, F., et FILS.
RICH FANCY and PLAIN SILKS.
BROSSET-HECKEL.
COLOURED and BLACK SATINS.
BRUNET LECOMTE DEBILLAENE et CIE.
FANCY BROCADED BILKS.
COTE DUCOTE et CIE.
COLOURED 8ILKB.
DURAND FRERES.
CREPES and FOULARDS.
GINDRE et CIE.
BLACK and COLOURED SATIN8,
GIRAUD, A., et CIE.
BLACK and CO LOURED BILKS.
JANDIN et DUVAL.
FIGURED DAMASSES.
GUINET et CIE.
BLACK SILKS.
MILLION, J. P., et SERVIER.
COLOURED and BLACK SILKS.
PIOTET, J. M.
FANCY 8ILK8.
PONCET PllRE et FILS.
COLOURED and BLACK SILKS.
JOURDAN AUBREY et CIE.
MODEL COSTUME8 and MANTLES.
BOUILLET ct CIE.
MODEL COSTUMES and MANTLES.
PONSON et CIE.
COLOURED and BLACK SILKS.
BRESSI et CIE. (Italian).
BLACK and COLOURED SILKS and SATINS
REICHERTS, G., et FILS (Austrian).
BLACK and COLOURED SILKS and SATINS
of the richest description.
TREBITSCII et FILS (Austrian).
BLACK SILKS and SATINS of the richest
description.
SILVER MEDALS.
ALGOUD FRERES.
BLACK SILKS.
BERARD et FERRAND.
BROCATELLE SILKS.
CHAVENT PERE et FILS.
FANCY SILKS.
COCHAUD DE BOISSLEU et CIE.
BLACK SILKS.
DR I VET et BLANC.
BLACK VELVETS.
FLANDRIN, A.
PLAIN and STRIPED SILKS.
FURNION et CIE.
FANCY MANTLE 8ILK8.
GAUTHIER BELLON et CIF.
BLACK and COLOURED VELVETS.
LABORE et BARBEQUOT.
LACHARD BESSON et CIE.
FANCY BILKS.
MANCARDI COMBET et DONNET.
BLACK SILKS.
PAULE et CONDURLER.
BLACK SILKS.
PERMESEL et CLE.
SATINS.
RENDU et MOISE.
FANCY BILK GAUZES.
REYRE LOUVIER BELISSEN et CIE.
SILK LININGS.
RICHARD, A.
SILKS and PLUSHES.
SEVENE BARRAL et CIE.
COLOURED and BLACK SILKS.
THEVENET et ROUX.
COLOURED SILKS.
THEVENIN et GUSTELLE.
COLOURED SILKS.
TRAPADOUX FRERES et CIE.
FANCY SILKS and HANDKERCHIEFS.
BERNASCONI et CIE. (Italian).
BLACK and COLOURED SILKS and SATINS.
BARTOLOTTE CORTI et CIE. (Italian).
SILKS. VELVETS, and SATINS.
CAMOZZI et CIE. (Italian).
VELVETS.
STUCCHI, T. (Italian).
BLACK and COLOURED S1LK8,
BRONZE MEDALS.
CHALLIOL et CHARMETTANT.
FANCY SILK GAUZE8.
I CHAMBON et MILLION.
CHARBIN FILS.
BLACK and COLOURED VELVETS.
GUIVET DELAROCHE.
SILK ARMURE8.
liLVLLEVAL BESSON et CIE.
MILLINERY SILKS.
MAYET ct THEVENET.
PLAIN and FANCY SILKS.
OGIER AINE.
PLAIN and FANCY SILKS.
VIGO et CIE.
SILKS and SATINS.
: BRAGGHIENOTTI et C IE. (Italian).
THE 8ALE WILL TAKE PLACE
• On MONDAY, DEC. 9,
AND FOLLOWING DAYS.
T3ETER ROBINSON, OXFORD-STREET.
A THE ONLY ADDRESS.
respectfully Informs Ills Customers
THAT THE ONLY ADDRESS
FOR HIS MOURNING WAREHOUSE
REGENT-STREET,
intended fur the Mourning Warehouse
being so directed;
to prevent delay and disappointment
J^AMILY MOURNING WAREHOUSE,
“ REGENT-STREET.”
Widow's Dress, beautifully fitted, made comi
from .
Widow's Bonnet and Cap, made by French Mill!
from .
Widow's Mantle or Paletot, handsomely trim
from .
Dresses, Blade Complete, for a Parent, Slste
Brother, from.
Mantles aud Paletots, handsomely trimmed, for t
;ts, New Styles, mode by French Milliners,
WHICH MUST BE CLEARLY ADDRESSED-
versally recommended by the medical profession. Dr. Hasnall
says:—”The wliisky is soft, mellow,and pure, well-matured,and
of very excellent quality."—20. Groat Tltchfleld-street, W.
T TDTTTl'TTP An Elegant and Digestive Cordial
ioiyUJhUU much appreciated by Sportsmen.
Tourists, and Travellers, lslng
(RINGER Nat*ure*and*Fndtg«tlnm ffgSSS
VJ Bottles and Yellow Bin Cases, bear-
BRANDY. & t per° LT°2?. He iifgh
HENRY BRETT and CO. Hollwrn.London.
TTORNIMAN’S TEaT for Forty Years has
A A commanded a large sale, because it cor: always lie relied
on for strength, flavour, and cheapness. It is the best tea
Imported. Sold only In Packets.
P URlTKANGRA~YALLEY TEA, direct
from the Plantation, at 4s. per lb. In Ten-Pound Tins, or
3s. 6d. per lb. In original Chests of Fifty Pounds each, may la-
obtained from COCKBURN'S AGENCY. 41, Haymarket.
London, S.W.
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS.
F RY’S COCOA EXTRACT
guaranteed pure Cocoa, only deprived of tho superfluous
A GOLD MEDAL, PARIS,
is evidence of the high opinion entertained by tire Inter¬
national Jlfty of the merits of
l H 0 C 0 L A T
pHOCOLAT MENIER, in i lb. and 41b.
V3 Packets.
REGENT-STREET, Nos. 256 to 262, pHOCOLAT MENIER.—Awarded Twenty-
otherwise they would not reach as desired. A3 Three
JgLACK SILKS—Specially Cheap,
Also, BLACK SILKS, In very serviceable qualities,
at 2s. (Id., 2s. Hid., 3s. 6d., 4s.6d.,and Is. 9d.
For Patterns—address oxly as follows:—
PETER ROBINSON, 256 to 262,
REGENT-STREET.
TI1E COURT AND GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE.
13LACK SILK VELVETS,
A3 Exceptional Value,
Superb qualities for Dre(
For Pattern*, address
SILK COSTUMES
NEW SILK COSTUMES, Trimmed Velvet or Satin,
6J guineas, with Mnterlal for Bodice.
A large variety.
For Photos and Sketches address only to
PETER ROBINSON, “REGENT-STREET”
Nos. 256 to 262.
TjWENING and DINNER DRESSES.
A_J Now Styles, weU cnt. and elegantly trimmed,
from one guinea to 10 guineas.
Tarlatans In the most fashionable styles, 21».
^URS at SUMMER PRICES.
REAL RUSSIAN SEAL PALETOTS.
FUR-LINED CLOAKS,
Also a special lot.
Lined with Plain Grey Squirrel,
47 Inches long, at 6 guineas.
PETER ROBINSON, REGENT-STREET,
Nos. 250 to 262.
QHOCOLAT MENIER.
"VrOTICE.—In reference to the
-Li above advertisements,
It is important that letters
■honld be clearly addressed to
T^RENCH, ALL-WOOL FOULE SERGES.
A? The largest assortment of these beautiful Goods now sell¬
ing at Is. 44d. per yard. Very soft and warm.
JOHN HOOKER, 82, Oxford-street, W. Patterns free.
T30YAL VELVETEENS.—Guaranteed new
AAi fast bine shade of Black, Is. Hid.. 2s. 9d.. Ss. 6d. per yard.
In the most fashionable colours, at 2s. Hid. per yard.
Patterns free.-JOHN HOOPER, 52, Oxford-street, W.
MANUFACTURER'S STOCK of LADIES’
It A WINTER DRESSES, Selling Off at half the coat. Moss
ADVENING DRESSES. — Thousands of
A-J Beautiful I.issette Grenadines, srre now offering at 4Jd. per
yard. Tlie New Gold and Silver Iridescent Grenadines.
Patterns free.-JOHN HOOPER. 62, Oxford-street. W.
THE MOST USEFUL PRESENT.
A THE SIOST USEFUL PRESENT
FOR A LADY Is a dozen of our beautifully line real IRISH
CAB1BRIO POCKET-HAN DKERClll FS
(hemmed for use), at 5a. lid. per dozen: or
onr exquisitely fine hem-stitched, at half a
guinea per dozen; post-free, 4d. extra.
FOR A GENTLEMAN, a fh.zen of our IRIsd LINEN CAM¬
BRIC POCKET-HANDKERCHIEFS, at
8s. lid.; or, our Gent's flue hem-stitched,at
12s. per dozen; post-free. 6d. extra.
ROBINSON and CLEAVER.
Cambric Handkerchief Makers to her Majesty the Queen, Belfast,
send Samples of their ch6ap pocket Handkerchiefs post-free.
PURE FLOUR OF EGYPTIAN LENTILS.
A This Is the basis of all the Egyptian snd Arabian Foods
so much advertised, and is the most nutritious and easily
digested of all cereal productions. It la usually mixed with
hurley, flour. Ac., to make it more pleasing to the eye. The
Essex Flour and Grain Company, Liverpool-road, London. N..
supply this Flonr In 1 ius or in Bulk, guaranteed free from any
adulteration whatever. 1 lb. Tin. la.; 71b. Tin.7*.; 14lb..In
Canvas Bag, 8s. The Trade supplied.
A COBIPANY. Liverpool-road, London, N.. supply the BEST
GOODS ONLY. Whites, for Pastry, 8s. 8d. per bushel; House¬
holds, for Bread.8s. Wheat Meal, for Brown Bread.7s. 4d. Coarse
Scotch Oatmeal, 3s. 2d. per stone; fine, 3s. 4d. American
Hominy.4s. Barley Maize, Buckwheat, and Barley Meal. 6s. per
nushel.or IDs. per sack. Oats, 4s. per bushel; 15s. fid. per sack.
Pen*. 7a. Cal. per bushel: Tick Beaus, 7s. 6d.; Middlings, 2s. 4d.;
Ground Pollard. Is. 8d. Meat Biscuits.20s. per cwt. Split I’cas,
3*. per peck. Lentil Flour, for Invalids, in Tins, 1 lb.size, is.;
7 lh.. 5s. All other kinds of Grnln and Seed. Special prices for
larger quantities. P.O. Orders and Cheques paysbletoG. Young.
QAVORY & MOORE, 143, New”Bond-street,
^3 Prepare
THE BEST FOOD for INFANTS?
A Supplied to the Royal Families
Of England and Russia.
To be had of Chemists. Ac., everywhere.
THE BEST FOOD for INFANTS.
A The most digestible; contains the
Highest Amount of Nourishment, .
In tlie most convenient form.
OAVORY and MOORE, 143, NEW BOND-
STREET, LONDON ; and
A HOARBENESS.—All suffering from Irritation of the
Throat and Hoarseness will lie agreeably surprised at the almost
immediate relle. afforded by the use of BROWN'S BRONCHIAL
TROCHES. These famous Lozenges are now sold by moit
respectable Chemists in this country, at Is. ljd. per Box. People
troubled with a hacking cough, a slight cold, or bronchial
affections cannot try them too soon, as similar tronbles. if
allowed to progress, result In serious pulmonary and asthmatic
affections.—D4p6t. 493. Oxford-street, London.
Hooping-cough.—roche’s herbal
EMBROCATION.—The celebrated Effectual Cure with¬
out Internal medicine. Sole Wholesale Agents. EDWARDS and
SON, 157. Queen Victoria-street (late of 38, Old Change).
London. Sold retail by most Chemists. Price 4s. Der Bottle.
pOUGHS, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS.
v3 Medical testimony states that no other medicine Is as
effectual In the curoof these dangerous maladies as KEATING'S
TUTS—EPILEPTIC FITS or FALLING
J- SICKNESS.—A certain method of cure has been discovered
for this distressing complaint by a physician, who is desirous
that all sufferers may benefit from this providential discovery: It
Is never known to fall, and will cure tlie most hopeless case after
all other means have been tried. Full particulars will la* sent Ire
post to any person free of charge.—Address:—Mr. WILLIAMS,
10, Oxford-terrace. Hyde Park. London._
rPAMAR INDIEN.—Owing to the marked
A success of this fruit-lozenge—so agreeable to take and uni¬
versally prescribed by the Faculty for Constipation, Ac.—Base
Imitations are being foisted on the public. The genuine pre¬
parations bear the title "Tamar Indien." Price 2s. fid. per Box.
E. GRILLON. Wool Exchange. E.C.: and all Chemists.
TTOLLOWAY’S PILLS and OINTMENT.
II The Pills pnrify the blood, correct all disorders of the
liver, stomach. kidneys, and bowels. The Ointment Is unrivalled
In the care of bad legs, old wounds, goat, and rheumatism.
IV The London Glove Company. 1, Bow-churchyard, Cheap-
side, E.C.. respectfully direct attention to the exceptional
superiority and make M their Best Quality of Ladies' Kid Gloves,
at tho undermentioned prices:—
Buttons. Two. Four. Six. Eight.
Per Half doz. .. 15e.6d. .. 17s.6d. .. 21s.0d. .. 25s.Od.
Sample Pair .. 2s. 8d. .. 3s. Od. .. 8s. 7d. .. 4s. Sd.
P.O.O. to Joseph Hammond at U.P.O. Detailed List of other
makes from Bs. per half doz.. post-free.
THE LONDON GLOVE COMPANY,
1. Bow-churchyard, Cheapslde. E.C.
QOLDS CURED BY
D R. DUNBAR’S ALKARAM, or
Anti-Catarrh Smelling-Bottle.
^LKARAM. QOLDS.
^LKARAM. QOLDS.
^LKARAM. QOLDS.
TF inhaled on the first symptoms, ALKARAM
A will at once arrest them, and cure severe rases In half an
honr. Sold by nil Chemists,2s.9d. a Bottle. Address.Dr. Dunbar,
core of Messrs. F. Nowbery and Sons. 37. Newgate-street.
QTIMULANTS and insufficient amount of
O exercise frequently derange the liver. ENO'S
FRUIT SALT is peculiarly adapted for any con¬
stitutional weakness of the liver. A world of
woes is avoided by those who keep and use
ENO'B FRUIT SALT. " All onr customers for
Eno's Fruit Salt would not be without It upon
any consideration, they having reolved so much
benefit from It.”—Wood Brothers, Chemists.
Jersey, 1878.
T3R. LOCOCK’S PULMONIC WAFERS
548
THE TT.T.TTflTttATED LONDON NEWS
DEO. 7, 1878
pURNISH THROUGHOUT.
gUBSTANTIAL ARTISTIC FURNITURE.
QETZMANN & CO.,
-JJAMPSTEAD-ROAD,
J^EAR TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD.
hasmsseBsasi
selected for Christmas and New -\ ear Gifts.
8 30, St. James s-strect, London, B.w._
CARPETS, Furniture, Bedding, Drapery. Funning iron
* houn thronghout. _•
"BESIDES THE RECENT ADDITION of
rP. the inraenMjMgeot P^ee^rerloMl^ *“££“^^,^5
I^IGHT LARGE SHOW-ROOMS
JJAYE JUST BEEN ADDED
|J»0 THE DISPLAY OF
^RTISTIC FURNITURE, &c.
I NOW ONE OF THE LARGEST
advantage* to'wnntnr'cuitomer*°in^deUvery^f poods taJEdr
guide extant, post-free.—OETZMANN and CO.__
pat^Jt PalUo'lMaUrMses? aiffa good Wool Upper MattrMS. good
father Bolster, and two PlUow.. .^crTono about to furolah
-o .utto ms^ssbS^rm. <a?tK
PATENT PALLIO
>f the old rjgidjMd"
article. "
___d elastic; combines
C.»lS^olde°?o e Sl"W
Sent post-free on application.
r'lHEAP CARPET COVERS for WINTER.
\j OKTZMANN and CO.-Stont Linen Damask Crumb Cloths,
rKtvl’ W cLap %&&&
Hootch' Drugget, bound all round, if yards by f yd.;
6 Inches, 15e.: lOfoet 0 inches by P
S Inches, Sis. Sd. Br^Crumb^io
H’uUt 1'.
„ .„t by 7 fe„
12 feet by 10 feet
CLOTH ! FLOOR CLOTH !
UK CLOTH I—Well seasoned. Colours and designs to
t every style of decoration. An immense assortment for se ec-
„„n. Clearing out at Is. Gd. per square yard; Ibest: quality
and newest designs, SjS&ff
3 yards. 3 by 4, anti other useful sites'very
forwarded per post on receiving sjf -
Floorcloth, for pa^or^fr
vr stairs, from 9d. per yard.
VTOTICE.—BLANKETS for CHARITIES.
IV OETZMANN and CO. are now offering a large Stock ol
■tout heavy BLANKETS, all wool, suitable for Charitiei, largt
Institutions, Ac.; also, QblLTS and F^NNELS. Thesegoodi
having been bought for cash during the late depression, tin
prices will bo found much below actual value. Reduced 1 rice-
list post-free.—OETZMANN and ™
T?XHIBITION PATTERN COAL VASE.
JCi OETZMANN and CO.’s New Special Designs for the Season,
selected In competition among! the best manufacturers,
and made exclusively for O. and Co., are much admiral
somely Japanned, and rich burnished gold ornamentat
—d and ormoulu handles, strong loose lining, a g
•-■» —»ng in wear. Complete. 21s.
OETZMANN and CO.
doiL-iif-l
Him 1-
/CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. — Useful and
Vy Artistic.—Intending Purchaeer* thonld inspect OETZ¬
MANN and CO. ? S LargS Display of ROYAL WORCESTER
PORCELAIN, Royal Dreadcn China, Doulton Ware and Pawnee,
Barrel Porcelain. Japanese and Chinese China, Nankin Blue and
White China, the MW 8wi«» Decorated Faience. French and
Engllah Terra-cotta, Parian China Statuettes, Busts, Ac., Royal
Benin China, Flemish Ware. Vallauria Pottery. \ enetian and
ffliw
id Foreign Table t
oc.; a large assortment of both English —
Ornamental Glass of every description. Also the latest Parisian
Designs in Clocks, Bronses, Electroplate, and a great variety of
er useful and ornamental articles suitable for presents, many
... . 0 f goods exhibited at the Paria Exhl-
‘ ucelve prompt and faithful attention
in selection.—01
ANN ai
POSTAL ORDER DEPARTMENT.
JL OETZMANN and CO.—Orders sent per post, whether large
_ OETZMANN i-- —
or small, receive prompt and careful attent
at a distance, or any to whom a personal v.„. „„---
venlent. desirous of leaving the selection to the Arm, may rely
upon a faithful attention to their wishes and interest In tV-
selection. This department la personally supervised by
member of the Arm. For f urtlicr particulars please see page i
In Catalogue, aent free on application.—OETZM Ah N and CO.
It wonld bo incon-
first-class « oali 7upebiobtabte. owe8T pBICE9
LFRED B. PEARCE’S
L DINNER, DESSERT,
BREAKFAST, TBAjMd TOILET
Stock ^nvenlenti^iedforpartimfnrnUhlng
ORNAMENTAL GOODS.
Large Assortment,
oomblnln- ”—"* “*
TABES, STATU El
M* 8,
Ss’SISSttoSssaui.
CANDELABRA.
Established 1760.
n ARDNERS’ NEW DINNER and TABLE
LIT GLASS SERVICES are original l° *“tgn^eff«U«^m
from £35s. fid. the Set for twelve persons, complete.
DINNER 8ERVICES.
Coloured Lithographs post-free.
In Deep Blue.
_isdowr- *’
The Laurel
Discount 15 per cent.
In Enamelled Patterns.
The One'I’honiandand
TwofA^
The Humming-Bird..
..£380
4 4 0
5 5 0
The Danish
In their um*|nalled Crown
InRnby ..
In Pink ..
In Black ..
..£560
..560
..BOO
Discount 15 per cent.
TABLE GLASS SERVICES.
s siaafr'sstfss'ia:
memy cur. g Discount 15 per cent.
Illustrated Glass Catalogue, which mart be returned,
Gardners' Lamp. (Sfass. andChinaManufacturer*,463an^454.
Wert Strand, Charlng-croes._
MAPPIN brothers— **“ 1 * put t™ l 0 ,!!*™
1Y1 Are placing the Pn bile
Vf APPIN BROTHERS — On the same footing as
M APPIN BROTHERS— Memb * r,of c»°pe r « tlT<!
1VI Storea, having
jyjAPPIN BROTHERS— Bedncedthelr Price
Af APPIN BROTHERS— M per Cent '
The well-known quality
APPIN BROTHERS of their goods iistrictly
AT APPIN BROTHERS— raalntalDed '
JYJL Write for Catalogue tc
AT APPIN BROTHERS— london bridoe.
AT APPIN BROTHERS— L0ND0NBBID0E: or
l>i beoent-stbeet, w.
jyj'APPIN BROTHERS —beoent-stbeet, w
S. A. ALLEN’S
-^y'ORLD’S HAIR RESTORER.
CANNOT FAIL TO RESTORE
™ T b°ea I ^y T0 ™th C ^ I ^b
?URNB GREY, LOSES ITS LUSTKE. AND
FALLS OUT, IT 8IMPLY RMU1RE8 NOUmS^
Srib wm gentle tonic action
SSasd ^vigokatesthe
COLOUR. GLOSS. AND ^'rvmlCE^A
STOP IT8 FALLING. AND
HFAI THY AND MOST LUXURIANT GROWTH
SS^hoomSe“preparation with it.
not EVEN OIL OB POMADE, OR ZYLO-
BALSAMUM.
Caution I!—The Genuine only In Pink Wrappers.
Id by all Chemists, Perfumers, i
d Dealers In ToUet Articles.
JjPPS’8
0 O 0 O A.
COMFORTING.
JAMES Errs and CO.,
OMCEOPATHIO
CHEMIST B.
rpHE “ Civil Service Gazette ” says :—
-L " By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern
■ merations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careiul ap-
... ttnc properties of well-selected cocoa. Mr. Epps
— * reakiast-tables with a delicately-flavoured
savo us many heavy doctors' bills It is by
_ __ lucb articles of diet that a constitution may
be~grndually built up until strong enough to resist every
tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating
around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We
may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified
wiui pure blood and a properly-nourished frame.'
he operal
plication t_
has provided o
beverage which ni
thejhdiclou-
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
Mrs. 8. A. ALLEN manufactures two entirely dlrtlnct P
parations for the Hair. One or the other Is flult *fJ°“ T '
ZrForLti^TeaTpre^atr, S »bove«rd
below this paragraph. Readers can easily determine which of
the two they require.
■jyf-RS. S. A. ALLEN’S
^YLO-JgALSAMUM,
For the Growth and Preservation of the HMr.
A cooling transparent liquid, entirely vegetable,
without sediment.
A SIMPLE TONIC AND DRESSING
OF INESTIMABLE VALUE TO BO™ SEXES,
THE FAVOURITE WITH THE YOUNG AND
ALL THOSE WHO HAVE NO GREY MAIB-PRE¬
MATURE LOSS OF THE HAI8. 30 COMMON
IN THESE DAYS, MAY BE ENTIRELY 1 RE-
VENTED BY THE USE OF ZYLO-BALSAMUM,
PROMPT RELIEF IN THOUSANDS OF CASES
HAS BEEN AFFORDED WHERE THE HAIR
HAS BEEN COMING OUT IN HANDFULS. IT
PROMOTES A HEALTHY AND VIGOROUS
GROWTH. HAIR DRESSED WITH ZYLO-BAL-
BAMUM IS ALWAYS CLEAN. FREE FROM
DANDRUFF, AND WITH THAT BEAUTIFUL
GLOSS ONLY SEEN IN HEALTHY HAIR. IT
IS DELIGHTFULLY FRAGRANT. NO OIL OR
POMADE SHOULD BE USED WITH IT.
Caution 11-The Genuine only In Bluiab Grey Wrapper*.
Sold by all Chemists, Perfumer*, and Dealer* in ToUet Article*.
!•• w it 11
___ -J generally acknowledged that
the steady Increase shown by oflicial statistics In its con-
sumption during recent year® ceases to be a matter of surprise.
One of the first firms to popularise - - “
adjunct to our breakfast-table was Me*
name, since 1839, has been so continuous.
Homoeopathic Cocoa is as familiar in - -- ——— — —
erbial ‘household words.’ Those whose business it has been
• ’ * •' irs. Epps’s works the elaborate and complex
, n . _ ^,.iotetbe care and labour bestowed before the
crude cocoa bean is considered ready for consumption, cannot
but admit that the popularity Messrs. Epps', production, have
secured is fully deserved. The vastness of these works may be
Imagined when it is stated that four millions of pounds of pre¬
pared cocoa alone are prepared there yearly. TJ»e reputation
rained, now many years since,for Mr. James Epps spreparation,
both for it* purityf~ J “-'-
maintained. A co-- - J
this—which must be as gratifying t
certainly flattering to the good faith
pnbUc to secure so gratifying a result.'
articles, not as luxuries, but a* actual food.'
disposed of fancy chocolate, let us
, hard by the Regent's Park, to Epps s
uere may be studied the making of cocoa
giving a
HTHE “Court Journal” says:—
JL In acllmato so varying and trylu^
In a climate so varying ai-
uuu sound and uniform health, our daily dll.---
carefully and attentively studlsd. Advancing sdcnce and recent
discoveries have within the lost few years been instrumental in
es have within the last few yi
oa, which, althoughknowi
N otice.—silver and electro-
FLATE.—ELKINGTON and CO., Manufacturing
Silversmiths and Patentees of the Electro-Plate.
Revised Illustrated Pattern-Book of New Designs
In Table Plate of all kinds, and new qualities in
Spoons and Forks forwarded free by post on appli¬
cation. Testimonial Plate In Solid Silver, in great
-vrietv. alwnvs in stock; and Committees provided
ith Desif----‘-
>?«’. Moorgate : street” Ci
QOLDEljr STAR
JgAY-LEAF WATER,
Triple distilled from the fresh leave* of the
Bay Tree (Myrcla Acrls).
For the TOILET, NURSERY, and BATH.
A few drops on a sponge or towel moistened with water, and
the face and hands bathed with it, is very beneficial to the skin,
removing all roughness. Most highly recommended to apply
after shaving. A small qnantity in the bath gives a delightful
aroma, and it has most remarkable cleansing properties. Par¬
ticularly adapted to the bathing of Infants and young children.
Most grateful to Invalids and aU who suffer from headache
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5s 8s., by Chemists and Perfumers, o
- — - D4p6t, 114 and
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tl London.
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rjiHE
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proof, and impermeable to moisture or damp.
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or even scrubbed, with soap and water. It will not al
infection. It is therefore highly sanitary. It has a warn,
comfortable appearance. It can be adapted by architects to
-- •-“'Ming. It is suitable for Drawing-IWms Dinl
Ing-Rooms, Billiard-Rooms, Banks, Theatres a...-
„».—»-j '"lapels^Steam-Boats, and Rail-
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T IFTS.
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for private mu >i;-.
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QR.
DE JONGH’S
One o/the ifrat to popularise this now indispens
our table was Mr. James Epps, whose 'PreiM
gained such lust repute for its excellent and nutrl..„_,
Prepared onglnally on homoeopathic principles. In
nd convenient form, and easy of digestion, it me
lemand, speedily became popular, until now Messrs,
■luce over four millions of pounds of their cocoa a year
manufactory is the largest of its kind in this country.
soluble
; a public
-5S«&
“/Cassell’s Household Guide” says:—
V7 -We will now give an account of the process adopted b.
essrs. James Epps and Co., manufacturers of dietetic articles
their works in tne Kuston-road. London.”
that j^eriod.
^ he
T IGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL,
proved by twenty-five years' medical experience to b*
THE ONLY COD-LIVER OIL
which produces the fuU curative effects in
CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST.
THROAT AFFECTIONS. GENERAL. DEBUJTY,
WASTING DISEASES OF CHILDREN, RICKETS,
AND ALL SCROFULOUS DISORDERS.
SELECT MEDICAL OPINIONS.
SIR G. DUNCAN GIBB, Bart., M.D.,
Physician to the Westminster Hospital.
value of Dr. DE JONGH’S
LIGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL os a thera¬
peutic agent in a number of diseases, chiefly of an
exhaustive character, has been admitted by the
world of mediciue; hut, in addition,I have found
it a remedy of great power in tlio treatment of
many Affections of the Throat and Larynx,
especially in Consumption of the latter, where It
wul sustain life when everything else falls.'
DR. SINCLAIR COGHILL,
Physician Royal National Hospital for Consumption, Ventnor.
“ T have convinced myself that in Tuber-
I cular und the various forms of Strumous Disease,
Dr.DEJONGH'B LIGHT-BROWN uuli-LlYER
OIL possesses greater tlieraixuticeflicacy than any
other Cod-Liver Oil with which 1 am acquainted.
It was especially noted In a large number of cases
In which tho patient* protested they had never
been able to retain or digest other Cod-Liver Oil,
that Dr. DEJONGH'SOrL was notonly tolerated,
but taken readily, and with marked benefit."
; ri'he action of Dr. de Jongh’s Light-Brown
rpHE “Morning Advertiser” says:—
X " In the middle of the seventeenth century ar —
luent appeared in one of the lew journals of tl
to the elect that' out of Bishopsgate-strcct, at a b
house, is an excellent West India drink, caUed --—,
to be sold at reasonable rotes.' This is the hrst record we have
of the introduction of cocoa into England. For a time it
flourished as a fashionable drink, and then, like all fashions,
subsided. Nearly two centuries after, in 1832. the duties, which
liad been almost prohibitive, were greatly redaced.an do neo.
2£S"»* S&^TaES
ing, and was palatable ana highly nutritious. Jt met apubUc
pounds yearly."
rfYFTE “ Christian World” says :—
A. •" If I am to take cocoa,' said I, '1 must know what
it is made of; I must examine the process; I must dive into
the mystery of its manufacture; 1 must see and Judge for
myself what are tbe Ingredient* of which it Is composed. Witt
this view I mode my way to the manufactory of Jame* apps
and Co., In the Euston-road.'"
“ Tohn Bull ” says :—
tl .. In no branchee of Industry are recent scientific and
chemical discoveries more generally applied thanJjboM npon
which our food supply is so largely dependent. The luxuries of
the last generation have in many cam* become the daily J** 0 ®*’
gained from the fact that one firm alone-that of Messrs. Bpps
rr„^t . a ii nvnr #*»nr millions of pounds annually. The
Cod-L 11
For*'
ed. in my own experience.
gcal Irritation, and in all rorms of Strumon
Enlargement of Glands, and Discharges from th
"D r ”"'
JAMES,
i« Medica. Lomlon Hospital.
DE JONGH’S LIGHT-BROWN
COD-LIVER OIL contains tlie whole of the
active Ingredients of the remedy, and Is easily
digested. Hence its value, not only In DIseaser —
the Throat and Lungs, but in a great numbe;
cases to which the Profession is extending
DR. DE JONGH’8 LIGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL
Is sold only in capsuled Imi-krial Half-Pints, 2». 6d.: Pints,
• -- — Tjr all respectable Chemists and Druggists
id Co.—
years it bs
entitle iU^'XcocoainsoIublefom.anScomWningw -^
^rtU^ls^Mriy ^n i ^nvaiiui"ble r add!tlon a to
proved it to be."
nr HE “ Church Review ” says:—
ree us much to be thankful fort^^A
tiR the active legislation in
^JtoteS^uStwn^eSTnttU rountrj^was
million pound* yearly. At the present time one Ann alone, tfiaj
of Messrs. James Eups and Co., the Momceopatmc wienini, sen
^tinaiiy four million pounds.
rpHE “Civilian” says:— v _
JL •• In the seventeenth century.^re either te^r coffee hsd
found their way iut<j the English markets, chocolate jm ■
favourite beverage with the luxurious classes at
then fetched an almost fabulous price
modern science and enterprise.have placedlitwithin
rtMu^d^U nu?riSTv»
dietetic qualities. One of the first, we believe, wlm may_be
credited with introducing cocoa in its present formis^
Epjjs. Prepared on sot—'* *
rrepareu ou buuuu tt.eteUc principles, E,
c cocoa contains all the nutritive of toe naUve
ict in such a form that they are rendered thoroughly soluble,
_•herefore much more easy of digestion. The natural super¬
abundance of fat present in raw cocoa is, moreover, nos oniy
counteracted, but mode to serve one of the most unc
tlons of sound diet. Messrs. Epps s worlw are i^w.^rhaps, the
largest in the country, the cocoa produced there amounting to
many million pounds a year.”
“T and and Water” says:—
n opportunity of s«
ve“v'r.fti:
...ihoierome'andnutritiou/^verage^mig^t be llli?wii*
of interest to the readere of' Lind end Water.
throughout the worl
ANSAR, HARFORlir
d CO., 77, STRAND, LONDON.
TNVALUABLE TO ALL WHO SUFFER
JL from BILIOUS COMPLAINTS, Indlgcetlon, Wlnd.8pa.me,
Dlzzlnete of the Eves. Habitual Coetlveneee, Ac. Dr. SCOTT'8
BILIOUS and HVRlt PILLS (without mercury) i-" *
in their open
etreet. London.
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_____inequalled.
they create appetite, and strengthen
„„m. Bold by Wi LAMBERT, U.Vere-
id all Druggist., In Box**, 1*. l|d., 2*. 9d.
mine are in * Square Green Packet.
P P S’ S
0 o 0 0 A.
COMFORTING.
JAMES EPPS axd CO.,
homeopathic
Printed end Published »t the Offlce. lM { Stamd^ta
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 1878.—2
©u Christmas gag in % gforning.
(See Illustration.)
Two little maidens, Nelly and Sue,
With the aid of their dear sister Prue,
Sang a carol one Christmas morning;
And this is the song those girls did sing
While “ all the bells on earth did ring
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
This is the evpr-sacred mom
When Christ in Bethlehem was bom,
Then let us in glad homage raise
Our hearts and voices in His praise.
Poor is our best attempt, we know,
But He doth judge the heart, and so—
If we but strive to do aright,
And be well-pleasing in His sight—
Our 6ong may be as sweet to Him
As that of quiring Cherubim.
With Christ for pattern, let us pray
For all mankind on this blest day—
For Christian people, and as well
For all who on this earth do dwell:
For His sweet grace is unconfined,
And wooing as the 6oft south wind;
More bounteous than the summer rain,
Fast ripening flower and fruit and grain;
More largely liberal than the sun,
That sheds its beams on every one.
Nor, while we pray for others, let
Us our poor feeble selves forget,
But beg of God’s all-loving care
A larger, deeper, tenderer share.
No costly gifts or odours sweet,
Have we to lay at Jesus’ feet;
Only the simple offering
Of children’s humble praise we bring.
What, though we are not great or wise,
A loving heart He most doth prize:
So as we grow in years may we
More tender and more gracious be,
And thus make daily life divine
As worship at a sacred shrine;
Each household duty’s least event
Made holy as a sacrament.
O let us ever children be
In innocent simplicity;
Though steadfast in our purpose, still
In all things bending to His will;
With prompt obedience acquiescing
In chastisement as well as blessing.
Thus ever striving for the good,
And taking it as daily food,
Ourselves with Christian grace adorning,
We may His praise the better sing,
While “ all the bells on earth do ring
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
__John Latky.
ENIGMA.
In Eden’s Garden I was known ;
And even now, fond lovers own
That, when by aid of me they meet,
They find a Paradise as sweet.
Viewed this way, that way, I’m the same:
Now give me, if you please, a name.
REBUS.
Many a lady you may know
Feebly faltering through me go,
While another seizes me
With a sweet audacity;
Like Diana in the chase,
Nothing checks her splendid pace,
As she throws her very soul,
Quite ecstatic, in my whole.
Take my head away and you
One of Nature’s darlings view.
Bird or beast I do not tell,
That is left for you to spell.
Running quietly along,
Humming to myself a song,
' All unwearied, day and night,
I maintain my wayward flight.
Many a dainty spot I know,
Where the sweetest violets glow.
Coaxing me in vain to stay
For a Bhort-lived holiday;
Still my heedless course pursuing.
Though it be to my undoing
Soon or late, ’tis Nature’s law,
I Bhall feed the greedy maw
Of some monster, my own kin,
Thirsting much to suck me in;
Some big brother lies in wait
Me to swallow, sure as fate—
Who himself will swallowed be
By a greater one than he.
One more member severed, I
Surely am about to die ;
Certain ’tis that I am ill.
Ha ! there’s spirit in me still!
Lop another limb away
And I’m debonair straightway;
Cause of rollicking delight,
Topsy-turvying day and night;
Running, lightning-like, through veins,
Cheering hearts and firing brains.
But I must confess, in bnef,
Candidly, that I’m a thief;
From the victims I ensnare
Stealing what they ill can spare.
Double m my present trouble,
I make other folk see double •
Doubhng up the strongest wight
Who well measures not my might.
Dublin town owns me with pride
Lords-Lieutenant take my sido;
Nor alone in Dublin known,
Through the world my fame is blown.
With a brand, so men aver.
Potent as Excalibur
I am still a jolly fellow,
me ? blithel y mellow.
Medley thus of contradiction,
What am I-a fact or fiction P-J. L.
MICHAEL HARGRAVE’S HARVEST.
by mrs. j. h. Riddell,
AUTHOR OF “CITY AND SUBURB,” “OEOROE QEITH," ETC.
CHAPTER I.
THE COEN I? THE GROUND.
them with layers of dirt, and no restorer in „
energetic landlord had thought it Sh^hUeto.S® 1 m
up with paint and varnish, wMtewiuh Tn .1 2T tenthem
There was a respectable grime about theTnne^ 11 pn P er8 ‘
square which conferred Vj£n R a look 1116
stability, and argued either that the tenants ie're^oS
standing, and not particular concerning light and SI ,• old
or that they trero* few, and toTEoS?"J
disposed to be exigent. uieir own not
The business pace was not so fast then as it has since
le, and a trader at that time did not need
0 the north of Eldon and to the east of
Wilson streets, in the Finsbury district, there
is a small square, only to be approached by
way of Long-alley. It is an unpretentious little
square, hemmed in on all sides by high walls and great ware¬
houses, with a look of age about it, nevertheless, calculated to
mislead the curious passer-by—with wonderfully elaborate
doorways; with halls wainscotted, if narrow; with red-tiled
roofs, and a general aspect of decayed respectability that
might well induce anyone unacquainted with the antecedents
of the neighbourhood in which it is situated to commence
moralising concerning the mutability of fortune in the matter
of houses as well as men.
In the whole of the city of London there is probably not a
less interesting locality than this. First a lake, then a swamp
then a plague-pit, then a stretch of open fields, the resort of
gamblers, gymnasts, quacks, mountebanks, and itinerant
preachers. then the site of a dreadful mad-house; lastly, a
great railway terminus, surrounded by appropriate goods-
yards and goods-stores; all that now thickly built-over tract
lying between Bishopsgate and Moorgate, and Worship-street
and Liverpool-street, is in any historical or antiquarian sense
as far from interesting as a neighbourhood can well be.
And yet just as an accident can happen in any locality, as
history can be made in any spot, so men and women can face
their troubles anywhere, as badly or as bravely as the case
may be, in a City lane as in a fashionable terrace overlooking
Hyde Park. 6
The man whose story I have to tell was, on a certain
winter’s evening towards the close of eighteen hundred and
sixty two, all alone in his office in Queen-square fighting out
a battle with himself.
He did not reside in the City, using one of the old houses
in the square off Long-alley for stores and offices, and living
where lus works were situated, near Hackney Marshes on the
nver Lea.
Too obscure at every stage of its existence to be deemed
deserving of being designated by name on any map, Queen-
square was even in those days considered so little desirable
from a business, as well as a social, point of view that rents
ruled very low, and its houses could be had for an *• old song ”
Now-a-days, premises there might, judging from appear¬
ances, be hired upon even easier terms, for the whole square is
m a transition state. It is waiting, evidently waiting for
what may happen. It does not mend its windows, or clean its
paint, or repair its pavements, or scrub its stairs, or wash its
window ledges, or whiten its doorsteps.
nf +K! f £? e ’, 14 s4and9 stariD e at the goods-station
of the North - Western Railway— daily expecting thebill-stickers
to come round and paste posters all over its house-fronts as
a preliminary to the bricklayers and labourers who will follow
m t kl , Dg n0 l0Q g tarrying when their turn arrives,
and cart the whole square off as old building materials that
will ail be worked up again in the erection of shoddy houses in
remote suburbs. J
The auctioneer is advancing rapidly down Long-alley-he
has reached some contemporaries of Queen-square, gutted them
of then contents, stripped an end off one and part a front off
U?„?£i e e b0 “ d ’ • t0t “ 8 ,hl “ “• '“Si” 1 ' P'»*
Higher up—nearer Sun-street, or what was Sun-street, but
£ a radwa y an <i Partly a dismantled thoroiigh-
fare-he has sold many plots of land, many lots of budding
SoSiflci 61 a * rtm nCW ChUrch ’ 40 807 no4hin & of
0 „/h tide °, f d ®? truction mU8fc shortly engulf Queen-square,
S“ ore *his time next year its site wdl be covered by a
? T a f- eh0U9e ^.° r a , Board School, or perhaps by another
T u C ? lace which has known it trill know
bncks ’ red ' tiled roofs, twisted chimneys,
small-paned windows, ornamented doorways; all these things
thaf W P K e “’ and the J lr stead wil1 rise colossal buildings
h WhJ. JfT 88 8tam P edu P° n them from basement to roof.
Q M Hargrave had his offices at number three, however
Queen-square wore a different aspect. It was then a cJsy
Pn^ 7 ;H 0U t t h 0f 'S e '7 a ?> uook ' not ver y far from the Bank of
England, the Stock Exchange, the Royal Exchange the
^Si l0 H 8e ’ “ d ot h e r places of the same sort whifh serve
as useful landmarks to those who go down into the deep waters
of London business, but quiet and secluded as a remote
£p™or of Epping Forest. Not a vehicle could disturb its
‘here was no carriage-way to it either for lumbering
wag 0 on or Lord Mayor’s coach. In Long-alley as in most
cSffivfdSn 8 Ji? te m 4he busy ^ ehildren held high
f the ev t“ n &s drew out, and the summer days
2 ^, v favourable to the sports affected by juveniles of
of toeX 5 ^ m03t 8 “ of year, and at most houm
M a fowttenlo-elj
WeSnf r vHH 8t v,n et station then close at hand, no North-
estem yard bounding the eastern side of Long-allev
Passengers from the Shoreditch terminus then took their
th ™*h Worship-street, 11 oneenfS
lane. formeri y known by the appropriate name of Hog-
« b o e< ?s tjn*ri£rs ra sa-n
premises, and sacrifice his stock every few years ’ ^
°ther tunes, other manners. The manners of these tim«
are no doubt very desirable, but they were not -““2
have found much favour in the sight of stain
at the time when Michael Gargrave was striving to win his wav
upwards to pecuniary success. ° n nla wa ?
Never a quieter or less risky business than that he wm
engaged in Never a more careful plodder along legitLate
and beaten highways than he. 8 legitimate
For years he had pursued one steady and monotonous
course, workmg hard himself and insisting that ffiose he
employed should do the same, paying his way honeX keep?
mg hm books fmrly opening accounts cautiously, makffig fe W
bad debts, and selling his goods at such prices ufeft !
sufficient margin of profit to cover all reasonable and likelv
contingencies. Upon the whole, not an unsafe basis upon
which to build a secure and profitable trade; and, had Mr
Gargrave only remained steadily true to his own convictions
he need not, on the evening when I venture to take my readera
to Queen-sqmire, have remained so late at office, perpK
with doubts and assailed by a subtle temptation 1P
Some months previously he had been tempted by a firm in
Liverpool to adventure upon the consignment of a lame
amount of goods to the foreign correspondents of the firm m
question. A certain portion of the risk was taken by the
house in Liverpool, who agreed to pay the sum agreed on
“ 8 after date;” wEile theprofits of thespeKon-
£ C ^ e4ral19 ^ by lts P ro P er name—were to be equally
divided between Air. Gargrave and Messrs. Brent and Stanhope
On the face of it, an airangement which seemed prudent
and feasible enough; but there were two, if not three, weak
points in the affair—one, that the sum involved was larger
tban a “ an “ Midmel Gargrave’s position should have con-
sidered himself justified in running the slightest risk of losing
the second, that the goods jeopardised had nothing to do with
his regular business, were quite outside his ordinary trade and
were consequently invoiced to him not in the regular way of
commerce—that is to say, not sold by constant supplier to
constant customer, but procured upon the strength of an
established credit, and the fact that the house from which he
bought believed him to be possessed not merely of a good
business, but of sufficient means to meet all his liabilities.
If there were any other objection to be put into the scales
when carefully weighing the prudence of the transaction it
was this—that, under the most favourable circumstances, six
months was too long a time for a person in his position to he
out of money which he himself was bound to provide. It made
the certainty of his own payment fall too close upon the
uncertainty of another payment.
In plainer words, it was, to use a business expression, “ too
close a shave ; ” for, though it sometimes happens that out of
such encounters a man may escape by the “ akin of his teeth,”
still, it is difficult to pass through such an ordeal without
endangering many things which should be held very sacred,
being jewels beyond price.
But the inducements held out had been very great, and
Michael Gargrave was only human. He believed he could meet
his engagements without difficulty, and he also believed he
saw his way to a very large profit. He knew others had made
considerable amounts by engaging in s imil ar transactions. His
venture had been approved by the London representative of
the country manufacturerers from whom he purchased the
goods. The Liverpool house was of old standing, and all the
persons of whom he had made inquiry spoke highly of the
personal probity and commercial standing of Messrs. Brent
and Stanhope.
Given that a risk was to be run at all, he seemed to have
neglected no reasonable precaution to secure that it should be
as small as possible, and yet here was the result—the natural
result, as any dispassionate outsider, or Job-comforting friend,
would have been sure to remark—the money was lost, and the
goods were lost too.
Whosoever else might have made anything out of the trans¬
action, he had not, and he knew that now he never should.
There was not the smallest uncertainty about the matter.
He could take out his books, if he felt so inclined, and write
“ bad ” against Messrs. Brent and Stanhope’s account with a
feeling of the most perfect conviction.
Confirmation of the disaster had reached him a couple of
hours previously, and he understood thoroughly that since he
left home in the morning his position was quite changed, and
that altogether for the worse. i
Quite enough to perplex a man and cause him to regard
the future with dread and doubt; quite enough to account for I
books pushed on one side, and letters lying unanswered, j
though regular post time was long past and gone; for the
frown on his forehead, and the depths of thought into which i
ho seemed to have plunged. And yet the mental battle he
was fighting had nothing at first sight to do with his loss, or
Messrs. Brent and Stanhope, or his future; and as he kept
stabbing his blotting paper all over with the point of his steel
pen, he was no more arguing out the pros ana cons of the way
i - pan ed windows ,* om am enteX doorway s ^ ^^h es^t hi mrs I ^ ^ be ? swindled than he was conscious of his visible
the* I pootion for an hour, doing
exactly the same thing, haunted by precisely the same words.
“ Remember the com in the ground.” “ Think of the com
in the earth.” I
With a dull persistency these two sentences, having taken
possession of his memory, wandered through his brain; he j
could not get rid of them; no matter of what else he tried to |
think, his thoughts kept chiming to that refrain. , I
It was quite by chance, or what seemed chance, that he had
heard the words at all. At the time they produced no
apparent impression upon his mind. He had gone and come,
he had slept and waked, he had eaten and drunk, he bad ,
worked and rested; the days and the nights had passed, ana
the sentences had seemingly lain dormant, like the seed of
which they spoke, and yet in a moment they hud sprung into
active life, and were clamouring to be heard with an urgency
that brooked no refusal. . _ .
For an hour he had been listening to their voice, trying at
times to get rid of the sound, striving at others to elude tn
self-evident meaning of the principle involved; but it worn
not do.
All in vain he endeavoured to shut his ears to the eve -
™ J ine mouses in Queen-square were grow¬
ing dingy. For many years time had been artistically tinting
recurring warning. . . .
It was a faithful finger-post, cautioning him afP 1 * 1181 * j
lowing an evil path, though that way looked fair and easy,
the other seemed dark and beset with difficulties.
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PrJ5L WaS the cboice ^ ven to Christian in the Pilgrim’s
Prom-ess over again; and Michael Gar grave knew this
had nev^hPPn a + man ii 0f briUl > nt parts or of wide education; he
^L^^dnot Very lon 6 at school; but the
uings it is most essential to know may be natent to the
Greek^ndHeW^^ 0111 “ accura ^ acquaintance with
HXtW SSST md + the capacity of a cb $ can grasp the
8 ° WS ^ e i must not expect to garner Jain.
BenseShSf r m ^e ground.” Not precisely tothe
Bense Michael Gargrave apphed it had these words been „hpH
to the no^t? her - Wtl0 ^ P u k L tbem > but they were so relevant
itJtoefS S, tbe WlU< ; h he / ound himself that he felt con-
“ftiL thG 8entence for a text and construct a sermon
“That which a man sows he shall surely reap.”
wellS toafl ™ thS 8ta ff meut applied to each man as
nrovo thfl^! + i, N0 ® xce P taon in this case was needed to
BSsJ- though everyone undoubtedly seemed to
_ scattered evil he should ensure for himself and others
Ye i> tbat waa the 8 hort and the long
“e mat ^ r > he believed the testimony of those who had
the B^nce^wh^' he was forced to believe it. In
the eilence by which he sat surrounded as by some palpable
KKy&iSK&E e "” * —S* -*
KlfaqL'hi n |“ d<f5L ‘“t'/ he"tho™e“
S 2 . 1 ? 8 * ^ch hesitancy folly-such a renunciation ash<
vaguely contemplated, an act of insanity.
nrovidei!tfai il »* th ^T ery rj° k “ Ifc seemed perfectlj
providential. I could not have weathered the storarwithoui
i“- . U rt w “ a most lucky chance that the letter happened
° n the 7 el 7 da 7- ’ These, he felt, ought to have beer
w? ^ sentences he looked forward to uttering when he
Wrf 0t 8a l el l the end of what threatened to be a perilous
journey; but he could not imagine his saying them. No 1
hemiS , t not do e it men had 8P ° ken WouW 8peak again > bu <
Not for him such sowing, even though Fortune hersell
seemed to have been at the trouble of bringing him the seed.
He did not see that it would be totally wrong, but he
could not convince himself that it would be perfectly right.
, ~ he put the gift from him, it almost amounted to Hi tm in p
the death-warrant of his own commercial existence. Such a
chance might never occur again. Just when one door-
as represented by Messrs. Brent and Stanhope—was banged in
rna face, another insidiously opened.
Was ho justified in thrusting such an opportunity aside f
Was it not his duty even, in the interests of another person,
to accept without question, and use without hesitation, the
goods the gods had sent him ?
• 4. p ' a ? £er an d faster went the pen, stabbing deeper and deeper
into the paper; then, suddenly pushing his chair back from
the table, he rose, and, with hands thrust deep in his pockets,
began to pace the room with slow and measured steps.
“Take the money while you have the chance; you did a
profitable and safe trade so long as you stuck to your own busi¬
ness ; and there cannot bo the slightest shadow of risk in the
matter.”
So the devil, tempting him, urged, and plausibly.
yo1 - 1 are f 00 ^ 8 } 1 enough to let this opportunity slip you
will be ruined, nothing can save you,” continued this voice,
egging him on.
“Do not come to any decision to-night, at any rate,” it
added, in order, by protracting the struggle, to weaken his
judgment and allow fresh reasons for accepting the boon to
develop. “ To-morrow will be qiiite time enough for you to
make up your mind.”
“ You cannot run the risk of losing the results of years of
labour, of leaving your home, and of beggaring Mr. Holding’s
daughter. He trusted her future to you—remember that.”
of such an opportunity it would never have^h^^thrustTin
your way.”
“Recollect, ‘there is a tide in the affairs of men;’ and
u you do not float off the rocks while this tide is flowing you
will certainly go to pieces.”
And the other voice said nothing all the while, save
“ Remember the com in the ground.”
And he did remember.
Through frost and snow, through the dark days of December
and the long nights of winter, the seed he sowed would live
and bear fruit after its kind in all the summers and autumns to
come.
No; he would not do evil that good might ensue; he would
not purchase safety at such a price.
The corn he planted he should not dread to see sprout.
Other sirens besides those who dwell on the silver sands
and sing their songs by the margins of rivers there are who
lure men to destruction. Temptation can assume a thousand
forms, and appear in as many disguises; but as regarded
this seduction Michael Gargrave, now clearly understanding
its nature, was not to be drawn into yielding to it.
“ No,” he said, finally drawing a long breath, like one who
after encountering some great danger realises at last that he
has escaped it. “However it may go with me, I will
not save myself by putting her little all in jeopardy, ” and,
without any further hesitation, he resumed his seat at the
table, opened a drawer, took out one sheet of note-paper and
one envelope, and was about to lay both on his blotting-pad
when he noticed the stabs in it, which bore evidence to the
length and intensity of the late fray.
With an impatient gesture —the gesture of one who, in the
habit of keeping himself well in hand, is disgusted to find he
has unconsciously broken bounds—he cut off the sheets so
maltreated, and, tearing them into small pieces, threw them
into the waste-paper basket.
Then, taking a pen, he directed the envelope to
Mrs. Brockley,
The Myrtles,
Eastlea,
Smith shire ;
but paused for a minute ere beginning to write.
As a rule, hesitancy concerning what he should say was
not a failing of Mr. Gargrave; but he had been hesitating all
the evening over the very question involved in his letter, and it
seemed natural that the words conveying a refusal, which to
him meant so much, should scarcely flow glibly from his pen.
To his right lay a yellow envelope, to his left a pink, and,
perhaps to stimulate his faculties, he opened the former and
read once again the few lines traced on the paper it contained.
If brevity be the soul of wit, that telegram could only be
regarded as a highly humorous composition. This was how it
ran:—
From Penkey, ) . f Mr. Gargrave,
Liverpool, j (3, Queen-square, London.
Brent bolted—Stanhope in gaol.
The note which next he drew out of the pink envelope was
longer, but quite as much to the point.
written in a crabbed hand, that of a person evidently
to mud J “despondence; but the meaning
intended to be conveyed appeared clearly enough. 8
addressed her correspondent as Honoured Sir,
“i 1 ?* tbe bb ® r ^ ‘ of informing him that a mortgage on
certain lands (which she mentioned) having been that day paid
off in a cheque drawn upon a London bank, she trusted he
forher 6X01186 her freedom 111 asking him to get it cashed
rJlSrP* h ° w , vei 7 cleyer he was in all business
,-7 h t would fad more obliged than she could
express if he would put the money out’ for her at
good interest. It is a small sum certainly,” added
the good lady, but perhaps even in your own business you
8 °^° make moreo£ lt for me - Whatever
r..tr for “ yo "
m y‘^|^ing pardon for taking up your time reading about
“I am, Sir,
“ Your obedient servant,
“Aim Jane Bhockley.”
Mr. Gwgrave, with a smile flitting over his face, read this
epistle to the end, and then answered it thus:_
“ Dear Mrs. Brockley,—
“ Your note inclosing Mr. Merrilow’s cheque has arrived
safely. I will pass it through my account to-morrow; and,
as Consols are now low, invest the amount for you in Govern¬
ment stock.
“ I cannot advise you to run any risk with your money.
High interest means, as a rule, bad security , and it is better
for you to rest content with a smaller percentage than to peril
your means of subsistence. Should I hear of any good mort¬
gage or desirable investment, I will not fail to let you know,
and, assuring you that my services are always at your com¬
mand, I remain, yours faithfully^
“ Michael Gargrave.”
He did not re-read or copy this letter, but placed it in
the envelope he had previously directed, sealed, and stamped,
and put it in the pocket of his top-coat.
Then, only waiting to lock up his drawers, he took his hat,
turned out the gas, and, making his way down stairs, opened
the hall-door and passed into the night.
CHAPTER II.
LUCY.
Following the crow’s flight as nearly as he could, Mr.
Gargrave, after over an hour’s walk, found himself crossing
the wide stretch of marsh land which was the nearest way to
his home.
It had been a tolerably dry season, and the waters of that
well-watered region were consequently content to keep to then-
natural channels, and leave the marshes, or mashes, as the
adjacent population preferred to call them, available for foot
passengers.
Those marshes are lonely enough now after dark, but they
were far lonelier then; Wick Hall was still standing, and not
one of the streets that have since been built over its site were
thought of.
Alter leaving Bethnal-green he scarcely met a dozen
S Tsons, and all of those he encountered before reaching
ackney-wick.
Once Wick Hall was behind him he seemed to plunge into
a region of utter solitude. It was a clear, cold mgbt, with
stars shining above, and a sharp breeze blowing over the
marshes, and as Mr. Gargrave stood still for a minute, about
half-way along Temple Mill-lane, the silence and the loneli¬
ness of the place struck him with a sense of desolation he had
never before experienced. Whence he had come were the
lights of London, the teeming streets, the crowded houses, tho
ceaseless noise, the never-ending Btream of restless human life,
and now where he stood there was not a trace of any living
being but himself.
Away in the distance, the trees in Epping Forest loomed
black against the sky, through the Lea Valley a train hasted
off northward; down towards Stratford the signals on the
railway showed lurid and ever-changing lights; while in the
other direction—out towards Lea Bridge, and Homerton, and
Lower Clapton, and Leyton, there was perfect stillness, and
almost total darkness.
Here and there, far off, a lamp glimmered fitfully, but
other evidence of habitation there was none.
The wind whistled about the marshes, bringing with it a
fresh keen air from the flat wide Essex lands, and as it blew
around him, something in its eerie sound, or in the wide
expanse of desolate country in the midst of which he stood,
or in the sad look of sky and earth, or in the mournful
murmur of the water, flowing sullenly in divided channels on
its course, struck Mr. Gargrave with a sudden sense of personal
loneliness, of being uncared for, unloved, which was bitter
exceedingly.
It was strange he had never, through all the struggling years
of his London career, known the same feeling before; but
it came upon him now with rushing force—with overpowering
conviction.
What he could do, what he could give, what he could
bring, what he could withhold, might and did signify much
to many persons; but for dear love’s sake no one cared about
him—not a single creature in all the world.
Unless, indeed, it might be Mrs. Dodson. But no ; he
could not except even Mrs. Dodson.
“In her heart she is really and truly fond of nothing
except that greedy little beast Tommy,” he decided, irritably;
and, as anger is always a certain corrective of sentiment,
Mr. Gargrave, waxing hot as the memory of all Tommy’s
sins of commission and omission recurred to him, walked
forward, considering that, after all, it signified very little
whether anyone cared for him or not.
“ As matters look now,” he mused, “it is far better no
one should be waiting for me at home whose heart would ache
for this trouble that has come upon me. If I had a wife now,
and children, my case would be very hard indeed; but,
situated as I am ”-
Then he paused in his mental sentence, for, situated even
as he was, with neither chick nor child, nor wife nor brother,
the position was very serious—so serious that he could net,
with all his courage, and he had plenty, put the thought of it
lightly aside.
The place where he lived has long been pulled down; but
once upon a time it was a pretty spot and picturesque, situ¬
ated on the Essex side of the Lea, there (by reason of the
water taken from it by Hackney Cut) quite a modest stream, at
the bottom of a country lane, wild and rural, with great
thorn-trees, that in the pleasant May-time were white with
blossoms and scented the air far and near; with deep ditches,
the banks of which were covered by grasses and mosses, and
sweet wild-flowers.
A pretty place, in very truth. As I write of it London and
its houses, and its streets and its noise, and its endless, end¬
less tramp of human feet, and roll of carriages and rumble of
1878.—3
carts, fades away and the country stretches all around. I see
the elder-trees a mass of leaf and flower, and the turkeys
roosting in them. I look at the laburnums drooping over the
water; there is a perfume of lilac in the air, and where the long
grass grows beside the bank a fish rises at intervals. There is
a modest cottage, with its gable-end towards the Lea, and a
fair garden in the front, small and well kept, filled with flowers,
among which bees, who have their straw-thatched houses in a
well sheltered comer, go humming all the long summer day.
No lack of life about the tiny house; see how the pigeons
strut to and fro along the red-tiled bams end take long flights
over the wide marshes beyond; the hens are prating in the yard,
which has one gate opening into the lane and another giving
on a field running up the slight ascent and sloping to the west,
so that the last rays of the evening sun fall upon it.
Behind the house, and not far from it, is a great bam, con¬
verted into a factory by the late owner, a Mr. Holding. Upon
the trade carried on there two men in succession built their
hopes of competence. Mr. Holding, one of those men, had
built more than this, for he expected to make his fortune
under the high pitched roof.
So far as he was concerned, however, death had stepped in
and frustrated that design ; and now the collapse of Messrs.
Brent and Stanhope seemed likely to disappoint the antici¬
pations of his successor.
It was of these things Mr. Gargrave thought drearily as he
crossed tho wooden foot-bridge spanning the Lea, and
E ed the White Hart, and 60 made his way to the
8 by-road which led to his house.
He had grown very fond of the house. Since it became his
own he had devoted every minute of his leisure time to beautify¬
ing it. Originally but an humble cottage, he had so changed its
aspect that not a person who passed failed to remark its beauty.
The rustic palings were his own handiwork. He had put up
the tnillises against the walls, on which roses, and jessamine,
and clematis, and honeysuckle clustered. His hands soattered
the grass-seeds over the tiny lawn close beside the river. There
was scarcely a tree, or bush, or shrub about the place with
which he had not some association of labour and pleasure. All
seasons had been cheerful to him there. Not an inch of the
country round about but was fa mili ar to him; the field paths,
so cool and free from dust; the foot-tracks beneath the forest
trees; the glades where the holly and the bracken, and the
blackberries and the gorse grew together in wild entangle¬
ment ; the green banks of the Lea; the old mansions standing
secluded, and not to be found by ordinary pedestrians,—these
things, simple and poor though each might be if taken singly,
made up a whole of familiarity, association, and memory which
twined round the man’s heart and bound it to his home with
cords of love.
And it was quite upon the cards that he should lose the place
he had laboured to secure. All his humble prosperity seemed
to him, as he walked home that night, a thing of the past.
He was weary; and when a man is tired he is generally
E e to be desponding. He was faint for want of food, for he
eaten nothing since breakfast. He was exhausted, for the
excitement which had hitherto sustained him was all but
passed way. He was lonely, for he had no one with whom to
share his trouble. He had owned nothing but that pretty
cottage and that snug business, and now both were in jeopardy.
He could have saved them, but he would not—not at that
price.
Stratford church clock was striking eleven as he lifted the
latch of the outer gate and walked up the short path leading
to the hall-door.
He was about to put his key in the lock, when the door
opened, and a girl holding a light in her hand exclaimed,
“ Oh ! I am so glad you have come ! I heard the clink of
the gate. Are not you very cold ? I have kept up a good fire.’ ’
“ Thank you, Lucy! ” he answered, as he spoke taking off
his hat and coat, and then passing straight into the parlour.
“ What a glorious fire ! ” he added; and he went up to the
hearth and stood rubbing and warming his hands before the
blazing logs, while the girl changed the position of the covers
laid for his supper and drew a chair nearer to the heat.
“ Do not trouble yourself,” he said, at last, turning round
and noticing what she was doing. “ I am not really cold—not
cold through. It would be strange if I were, for I have
walked from the City.”
“ Walked! ” she repeated. “ How tired you must be! ”
And she touched an easy-chair, as if inviting him to rest in it.
“ No; I do not think I am; ” he answered. “ Where is my
sister ? ”
“ She had a bad headache, and went to bed quite early.”
“ Poor Matilda! ” he ejaculated, with a sigh, which had
probably more reference to future possibilities than to present
ailments.
“ She so often has bad headaches,” remarked the girl,
with some trace of wonder in her tone, for expressions of
sympathy were not much in Mr. Gargrave’s line.
“Yes,” he answered, mechanically; and, dropping into
the arm-chair, relapsed into reverie.
“Are you ready for supper now P ” asked the girl. “ Shall
I draw you some ale ? ”
He roused himself at her question, and recalled his wander¬
ing thoughts.
“ I do not require any supper, thank you,” he said. “ But
why are you attending to these things? Where is Mrs.
Dodson ? Has she gone to bed with a headache also P ”
The girl laughed, low and pleasantly.
“ Oh, no! ” she said; “ but she thought Tommy was a
little feverish, and that he would not rest till she went up
stairs.”
“-Tommy!” Mr. Gargrave exclaimed, viciously. It
was not his habit to use naughty words, and his behaviour so
surprised Miss Holding that she said, shocked,
“ Oh ! Guardian! ” with a sort of gasp on the oh ! as if she
had been plunged suddenly into cold water.
“ I beg your pardon, Lucy,” apologised Mr. Gargrave;
“ but I have no Christian feeling towards that boy.”
“ I do not think anybody has,” answered the girl, her eyes
dancing with fun. “ Mrs. Dodson left everything ready for
you, though,” she went on, eager to do justice to the over-
fond mother. “ I wish you would eat a little of this fowl, and
let me get you some ale. You do look to tired.”
“ Thank you, Lucy,” he said again; “ but I cannot eat or
drink. I do not want anything you could get for me—really
I do not; so you had better follow the good example set by
my sister and Airs. Dodson, and go to bed.”
Evidently Miss Holding was accustomed to yield un¬
questioning obedience to her elders, for she lighted her candle
and said good-night to Mr. Gargrave, and left the room with¬
out uttering another word.
When she had got so far as the bottom of the narrow stair¬
case, however, she paused and hesitated; she looked back
towards the door she had just closed, then she proceeded up-
Btairs, very slowly, stopping for a moment on each step when
she reached the top of the flight she paused again, and, t.hiq
time without any hesitation whatever, tripped down into the
hall and re-entered the parlour.
She found Mr. Gargrave pacing up and down the room as
he had paced up and down his office.
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“What is it?” he asked, thinking she must have for-
gotten somethm|. ^ ^ you were m j felt afraid you
must be,” she answered, with a shy timidity of manner which
proved that her intercourse with Mr. Gargrave was neither
close nor familiar. , ... , T _ „ :n s»
“ Ill. child ? What in the world made you think I was ill.
“ I do not know. You do not look well. You seem dif-
feTe “Thweis nothing the matter with me Lucy,” he said, as
she stopped and seemed confused. That is, nothing the
matter with my health. I got an annoying letter this morning,
and to-night I have been having a fight
“A fight! ” echoed the girl, looking him over as though
she expected to see some visible tokens of the encounter
Tef “ Not that Bort of a fight,” he explained, “ only a qimrTel
with myself. It is all over now, and I am quite right again.
He had ceased his walk and was standing on the hearthrug
as he told her this, his back to the fire, his face towards her^
The light from the candle she held, as well as fromtwo
placed upon the table, fell full upon him, and with a certain
wonder and curiosity Lucy Holding looked at her guardian as
she had certainly never looked at him before.
On his side, he looked at her in return ; and, as he did so,
it struck him that she was very pretty.
Something in her attitude, something-—* •
something in the way the sliadows came and went across her
face, some feeling unconsciously awakened and sinning through
her eyes, attracted and arrested his attention.
Yes; she had the effect of beauty, if she were not really
beautiful; and it passed through his mind that she might
grow beautiful. , „ .._
Hitherto, if he thought about her appearance at all, it was
but to consider that her eyes were too big and her mouth too
wide; but now there was a wistful sweetness rnthe one, and a
sympathic tenderness about the other, which transfigured her
Wh She 00 a^ood^or°a moment looking at him steadfastly and
innocently, as a child might have done; then she said, 1 am
sure you are ill, only you will not say so. Do let me get you
something. I can go into Miss Gargrave’s room without dis-
turbrng her, and fetch you sal volatile, or red lavender, or eau
de cologne. She keeps them all on her dressing-table.
Mr. Gargrave laughed outright. “Why, Lucy, he
exclaimed, “ you might as well offer to bring me some rouge
and a plait of false hair, as the things you have mentioned.
There, run away to bed, child.”
“ I do not like to go when you are ill --
“ I am not ill,” he persisted; “ that is, not ill m body.
“ Then you are ill in mind, and that is far worse,” she said,
with a pretty wisdom. ,, a
“Why, how should you know, Lucy,” and then he
stopped suddenly, recollecting the one great grief which ^
left the girl an orphan.
“ I wish you would let me do something for you,” she con.
tinued, with quiet insistance. “ It seems so strange to see you
eating no supper.” , „ ,
He did not answer her immediately. All at once it
recurred to him that the trouble which had come was
as likely to affect her as him; that girl, child almost, as
he had hitherto considered her, their interests were so inter¬
woven, whatever of evil or good touched him must
touch her. There were special reasons also to which hitherto
he gave little heed why at that time if difficulty should come,
difficulfy even without ruin, she must be told all the ins and
outs of the affair.
It had never been his habit to speak of any of the (
of his business before his woman-kind. The circumstances of
his early career in London were such as to render him reserved
and self-contained, and in the surroundings of his later
experiences there was nothing to induce communicativeness.
A foolish woman and a thoughtless child! If Hr. Gargrai
ever summed up the persons composing his domestic circle he
must have done it in those words. A woman who so thoroughly
despised all business that she ignored, as far as she could pos¬
sibly do so, the fact that but for business she would lack even
daily bread; and a child who had been brought up so com¬
pletely in the midst of commerce that it seemed to her as
natural and as unin teresting as the mill-round of every-day
existence.
Miss Gargrave considered that if right had been right—if
everyone had his own—she ought to be the sister of a wealthy
country gentleman instead of a “mere struggling trader;”
whilst all Alisa Holding knew about her own position was
that her father had founded the factory which Mr. Gargrave,
who she understood was come of grand people, carried on.
She had begun to call him guardian soon after he took
up his abode at the cottage. First, Mrs. Dodson, the house¬
keeper, so styled him, and subsequently Miss Gargrave, when
she brought her fan, and poodle, and laces, and essences, and
ailments, and fine ladyism to the cottage, never dreamt of
speaking of him to the girl as anything else.
By Mr. Holding’s will he was left guardian to that gentle¬
man’s daughter, and of the complications connected with the
making of that will Miss Gargrave and Lucy and Mrs. Dodson
were utterly ignorant.
Mr. Gargrave, however, was not ignorant; and as he stood
before the fire silent thoughts, bitter and self-reproachful,
coursed through his mind.
Amongst the tangle of ideas one only was perfectly plain—
Lucy must know, and know soon. He had considered the
matter as affecting her when he refused the control of Miss
Brockley’s money; but he had not thought of telling the girl
the position of affairs.
How and in what way he should now best enter into
explanations with her was a problem—one he never, probably,
could have solved for himself, but which she unconsciously
was making plainer.
“ Lucy ! ” at last he said.
“Yes, Guardian,” she answered. All the time he was
silent she had remained silent also, lookiug sometimes at him
and sometimes at the fire, but waiting patiently for him to
speak.
“ Put down that candle and come here; I have something
to say to you.”
There was only one topic concerning which she felt sensi¬
tive ; and, thinking what he desired to say must have reference
to it, she blushed deeply as she obeyed.
He was considering the same topic, but only as it bore upon
money matters. The girl had a lover who was personally dis¬
tasteful to him, whose father he disliked, whose mother he dis-
iked, whose brothers and sisters he disliked, and whose self
he both disliked and despised. Nevertheless, there being
nothing actually against the young man and his family—quite
the contrary, indeed—he felt constrained, when asked for his
consent, to agree that they should be engaged.
He did not throw any difficulties in the way of an early
marriage, either; though the idea of the girl he remembered
a little child being old enough to marry and be given in
marriage at first struck him with a strange sense of unreality.
“Why, I must be getting an old man myself,” ho con¬
sidered, when Mr. Suttaby first broached the idea of “my
Russell and your Miss Lucy making a match of it, and he
was right Age docs not always count by years, ana at
thirty-three Mr g Gargrave looked over forty, and old enough to
bC Mis^Holding had Always regarded him as qmte an aged
person; but then youth is ever apt to take that view of
those who are set in authority over them.
Mr. Gargrave, she imagined, was set “very high authority
over her, and she consequently felt afraid that what he had
to say concerned the young man she called Russell, and that
he was going to find fault with her or him.
But Mr. Gargrave’s first words dispelled this idea.
“ I have had a great blow—a great trouble I should Miy
to-dav ” he began, correcting his first statement, as he
remembered hoThterally she had interpreted the word
jam very sorry,” she said; and she looked sorry, though j
11Tlblt fhave lost a large sum of money,” he proceeded.
Where ? ” she asked. “ Oh ! how did you manage to do
^It was hard work; it always is hard work to explain
business matters to those who know nothing whatever about
busumss^im t termg ^ the language of commerce bear to
outsiders a totally different meaning from that it is “tended
to convey, and the disaster and ruin which can be told to the
initiated in half a dozen words has to be painfully interpreted
and painfully repeated in the ears of those towhom City terms
and City phrases are scarcely more intelligible than so much
Gr< Hr. Gargrave was patient, however. He was accustomed
to this non-comprehension; for, let a business man be careful
and silent as he will, sometimes a trade phrase must pass his
lips, and such phrase never did pass his bps without eliciting a
disclaimer from Miss Gargrave. . ., .
“I do not mean literally out of my pocket,” he said, m
answer to the girl’s speech. “ I did not lose my parse, as you
did last summer, or have my pocket picked, hke Mm. Dodson.
No, Lucy; it is a worse business than anything of that kind. I
have made a bad debt; or, in plainer English, been swindled
out of an amount of money which must produce serious
embarrassment if not ruin.” . .
“Ruin!” she repeated, aghast. That expression, at all
events, was comprehensible.
“ I did not mean that altogether,” he said, hastily. 1
may be able to pull through. I hope I shall; but it will be
difficult work—cruel work,” he added, as if speaking to
himself. , , , ,
“ I wish I could help you,” she cried. And she clasped
her hands as she spoke, and all her innocent heart looked out
tenderly through her eyes. “Oh ! 1 1 , , ■
Her simple words pierced his very soul. If, through him,
she were brought to sorrow—if, through him, the small fortune
her father hoped would be secured to her should be utterly lost-
how could he bear the burden of his remorse ? He had thought
of this before, but he had not thought of it in the same way.
If he had—but no, he could not, after due deliberation, have
acted differently. He could not believe that the way to right
one wrong was to perpetrate another. With eyes shut-
blinded by hope, and egotism, and lack of the especial sort of
experience now bought so dearly, he perilled the inheritance
of this girl, the whole of which had been—morally, if not
legally—intrusted to him, but, with his eyes open, he could
not strive to retrieve an act of mad folly by committing a
crime. , .... ,,
For it would have been a crime—as he told himself over
and over, while fighting out his battle—to use Mrs. Brockley’s
money in sustaining his own credit. But yet, the contingency
of losing the widow’s modest competence was remote, and the
difficulty of preserving his position and Lucy’s not pressing.
Had he been right f Had he not been too hasty:' Might he
not, even yet, use the means which lay in his very hands ?
Pish! was the argument all to be gone over again; was the
demon of temptation rampant as ever; having made his choice,
could he not abide by it whatever might betide; yes-
whatever—
“ Lucy,” he said, hoarsely—he felt he must speak to some¬
one, though the understanding of that someone might be no
more able to grasp his meaning than that of a child in arms—
“ I could to-night have freed myself from anxiety about this
affair. I had money enough to pay the liabilities I have
incurred and plenty to spare beside, offered to me—sent to
me—but I refused to use it.”
“Did you? Was not that a pity?” she commented,
wondering at his agitation, but having only the vaguest com¬
prehension what he was talking about.
“ I will tell you exactly how it happened. An old lady in
the country sent me up a large sum—that is, a large sum to me
and to her—to invest for her. She bade me use it in my own
business if I pleased. I know she wanted me so to use it,
because she believed it would be safe in my keeping.”
Yes, and it would surely,” murmured the girl.
No, I say it would not have been safe. I could not have
made it absolutely secure. I might have lost it—business is
never a certainty; what is good to-day may be bad to-morrow.
1 might have saved myself for the time being—for always,
perhaps—and I might also have done no harm to her; but
then, upon the other hand, there was a chance, and I dared
not encounter it. No matter what became of this business
your father’s business—I could not run the risk of beggaring
her. Was I right?”
“ Of course you were right,” answered Lucy; but she
would have answered the same had he reversed the position.
She had been brought up in the creed that Michael
Gargrave could do no wrong; and though she puzzled over the
story he told, and wondered most of all at his telling it to her,
she was content to accept his reading of it as correct beyond
doubt.
He saw the picture he presented seemed blurred and
misty to her unaccustomed eyes—that although she was
struggling to comprehend him she really did not understand
the position.
“ All this may affect you, Lucy,” he said, after a pause,
resting one arm on the mantelshelf and looking earnestly at
her as he spoke.
“ How do you mean ? ” she asked, in her childish simplicity.
“ I will try to keep all harm from you,” he went on; “ but
it is necessary for you to know that harm may come—harm
I may be powerless to avert. I should like to-morrow to have
a long talk with you about our relative positions. I think it
is better for me to tell you how we came to be situated towards
each other as we are. It is too late to go on talking now. You
must be tired. If you do not get to sleep soon,” he added,
with an effort to speak lightly, “ you will have pale cheeks in
the morning.”
“ They arc always pale,” she said with a little pout, touch¬
ing them with her fingers as she spoke. “ I wish they were
redder.”
“ They would not be half so pretty if they were,” he
answered without thought.
No need, then, for her to desire damask roses instead of
white. Swift and hot the telltale blood rushed to her face,
suffusing the cheeks she had despised with a colour which for
the moment changed the character of her countenance.
Not knowing why she blushed, yet ashamed of blushing,
she cast down her eyes and averted her head while she bade
her guardian good-night.
“Good-night,” he said, smiling kindly yet sadly, as he
looked upon her fair young face. “ Good-night. God bless
you! ” and he released the hand he held.
When for the second time she walked up stairs it was with
a daized and confused sensation that she had formed the
acquaintance of another guardian and a second Michael
Gargrave. For the first time in all the long years she had
known the friend her father trusted she felt as if he were a
living man and not an abstract impersonation—as if he were
intelligible to her, interesting to her—something of kin as
well as of kind, as if she could talk to him without fear, aud
listen to him speaking with sympathy. After she was in her
own room she thought of him for a long time—thought about •
all Mrs. Dodson had told her anent the former glories of
the GargTaves—thought without one spark of impatience of
Miss Gargrave’s endless narratives and pettish lamentations.
Upon his side, Mr. Gargrave also thought deeply concern¬
ing his ward ; but when he had finished his cogitations he could
not have told anyone what he had been thinking about her.
CHAPTER III.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE GARGRAVE8.
It was true, as Miss Gargrave said, that her brother had not
been brought up a “ mere trader .”
A fio.Wl Gargrave himself would have been the first to add,
that “ more was the pity,” and to admit there might be a con¬
siderable amount of truth in the remark of Mr. Russell
Suttaby—called not after the statesman, but after his god¬
father, a well-to-do clothier and one of the “ Worshipful Com¬
pany of Fan-makers”—that he “had not been brought up
to anything half so honest.”
Mr. Russell Suttaby, an exceedingly callow-looking youth,
who thought himself an authority in neckties and poetry, who
despised his own “governor,” who felt ashamed of his
mother—really in her way an admirablo parent and capital
manager—felt an unreasonable annoyance whenever Miss
Lucy Holding mentioned any fact connected with Mr.
Gargrave’s ancestors.
It was not Mr. Gargrave’s fault that he came of an old
stock; but young Mr. Suttaby spoke as though it were not only
his fault but his sin.
“If I had to earn my living in a stuffy old glass-works
I would at least have sense enough to drop a lot of dis¬
reputable old grandfathers, who, I’ll be bound, were no
better than they should be,” remarked Mr. Russell one
summer’s evening, when he and Miss Holding and his
sisters were taking their walks abroad over the wide if not
lovely expanse of Wanstead Flats. Mr. Russell Suttaby,
clerk in a stockbroker’s office, considered himself in all respects
much superior to his lady-love’s guardian, and was never weary
of implying that he thought so, that little matter of old
" uly notwithstanding.
“ it is of no use talking to me about what a man was. All I
concern myself with is what he is,” was one of the many
remarks on the subject of the Gargrave ancestry in which he
indulged.
" My father founded the glassworks, and Mr. Gargrave never
says a word about his grandfather or his father either,” said
Lucy, in defence both of her guardian and his business, upon
the occasion of that walk across the flats.
Well, if he does not, that old woman does, at any rate,
persisted Mr. Suttaby. “I hate to go near the place. She
looks as if she despised everybody—as if she was always smelling
something unpleasant. I am sure her scents and perfumes,
and airs and graces, are enough to make anyone sick.”
“ Her mother was a great heiress,” remarked Lucy,
deprecatingly.
‘ * Then why has she no money ? ”
‘ And her father ought to have had Bray ley.”
‘ Then why had he not ? If he ought to have had it, he
would have had it. People can’t be done out of their nghts
nowadays; it is all nonsense. Besides, what was Brayley
what is it ? I dare say it is not worth a penny more than my
uncle's house at High Beech. That is a place you must see,
Lucy. My uncle has lovely gardens, the finest apricots I ever
tasted. Are not they splendid, Jane?” , . .
Thus appealed to, Miss Suttaby said they were, and m ha
turn proceeded to enlarge upon the beauties of the High Bee cn
Paradise. Lucy meantime remaining silent, but unconvinced
snubbed, but not defeated. .
To have despised the Suttabys would have been to despuse
the rank to which she herself belonged—to object to a man
because he did not come of great people would have been w
object to her dear, dead father, whom she-had loved with an
her loyal heart; but it was one thing to look down U JP°“K *
sonal surroundings and another to speak slightingly ot
Gargraves because they chanced to belong to a good fami y.
Though a disadvantage, it certainly was a fact that Michael
Gargrave had been brought up to regard himself not astno
possible but as the certain future possessor of Brayiey,
Southshire. _
He was the eldest son of his father. Rokeby Gargrave, ma
when that gentleman had attained to the age of forty tuere
only intervened between himself and Brayley the life
81Ck Brayley was a fine property, still afine property, «m d
well worth coveting, spite of the fact that it was not
of any previous Gargrave a single rood of land belong
1 \etthem otherwise differ as they would, and a*theydid,m
tastes, habits, modes of thought, the possessors of By J .
almost from time immemorial been agreed that the °nly way ^
enjoy their ancestral estate was to make ducks and dm^e®voted
With wonderful industry they each in succession d only
themselves to this experiment in ornithology, - deilt j a i
the law of entail, and those feuds which seem for p
reasons to rage in some races between owners and *
had years previously prevented Brayley Pf-. 8SU1 ^ nt
of some “ Manchester man” or City millionaire. mft tter
Pride in the old place they took none, or, fo'that matter,
pleasure either. For more than a century, at any >
a master of Brayley but had managed before hm deato to
reduce his income to a merely nommal anowance^ ^
of h z,°Ct al t” <
menced until the advent of this sickly lad, a chance
single minor had been owner of the prpP^y chi ]dhood
had occurred for money to accumulate during t
or boyhood of one of the line. „,„„ 0 «led to the
Middle-aged, or even old men, they contracted
estate (already heavily encumbered by a mortg g become a
so long previously that the nature of its origin
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 1878.—7
matter of tradition), burdened by debts incurred during a |
weary period of expectancy; by post obits; by bills ; by life |
insurances ; by all the shifts and devices to which needy men 1
are compelled to resort while running barefoot because another i
man wears his own slippers too long for their convenience.
In the beginning of his career Mr. Rokeby Gargrave had •
been deprived of some of the advantages for pursuing the |
family branch of study, inasmuch as not being the eldest son
of the eldest son, it was on the cards that some small Gargrave
might be bom, who should “ cut him out,” as Mr. Rokeby
tersely phrased the results of the possible contingency.
His brother, however, being of a non-marrying disposition,
•and Mr. Rokeby Gargrave of a sanguine temperament, that
gentleman, of nowhere in particular and of no profession at
all, began, ere long, to consider himself, except as regarded
that trifling matter of actual possession, the actual owner of
Brayley, but the Jews, being of quite another way of think¬
ing, utterly declined to embarrass his future prospects for him.
Thrown thus back upon first principles, Mr. Gargrave, after
he had spent his own fortune, derived from his mother, spent
the fortune his wife brought him.
There was nothing in particular to show or to refer to when
the two fortunes were gone; but it was the Gargrave way to
get ns little for money as gentlemen well could; and society
therefore neither marvelled nor complained when the typical
duck and drake alone remained to show Mr. Rokeby had ever
possessed a halfpenny.
After that period of living upon capital, Mr. Gargrave lived
partly upon his wits, which alone might not have supplied a
nutritious diet, and greatly upon the faith of tradespeople.
Even now, despite co-operative stores and other incentives
to radicalism and unbelief, there are left some shopkeepers who
do possess an amount of faith at once pleasing and touching;
and while Mr. Rokeby Gargrave was “ waiting tor his own,”
credit, as a rule, was the rule, and cash with order or money
on delivery quite the exception.
Anyhow, Mr. Rokeby Gargrave did not Bend cash with his
orders or pay for his goods on delivery—very much the con¬
trary indeed ; and such was the faith or folly of butcher and
baker, and fishmonger, and all the rest of the purveying
fraternity, that Mrs. Gargrave number one died without having
experienced any of those privations Bho would indeed have
found it very difficult to bear.
Having given her, on credit, a handsome funeral, provided
and conducted by Messrs Velvet and Plumes, the eminent
■upholsterers, Mr. Gargrave looked about him. It had never
been a failing of his to take very long views; indeed, volun¬
tarily he would never have viewed his affairs at all.
Time, however, had passed on, and the credit and “pro-
mise-to-pay ” system was well nigh exhausted.
Accounts came in 'at less and less distant intervals; cre¬
ditors called oftener than Mr. Gargrave liked; lawyers wrote
to know what he proposed doing; ” and even the schoolmaster
who was training up the future owner of Brayley sent a letter
stating that uni ass Mr. Gargrave could manage to post a
cheque by an e arly date he must with much regret decline
receiving Mast x»r Michael Gargrave after the Christmas holidays.
Things w'jre therefore very bad indeed with Mr. Gargrave;
and yet, in rery truth, he had never been so near Brayley as
at that period. Contrary to all expectation, his brother had
married ; but he was now dead, and there Btocd between Mr.
Gargrave and fruition but one frail life—a life which no com¬
pany • vould have insured, and which the doctors said could not
poss'.bly last long.
Nevertheless, as the boy had lived, the boy might live, or
at. all events drag on, for a considerable period; and in the
mean time Mr. Gargrave’s creditors wanted a settlement, and,
failing a settlement, ceased to solicit the honour of his
patronage—indeed, they refused his patronage altogether.
Thus, as has been said, Mr. Gargrave found existence dif¬
ficult. Though he had removed to a new locality, the legend
of his impecuniosity could not readily be left behind, ana the
tradespeople in his fresh neighbourhood were distressingly
unanim ous in refusing to let their goods leave their Bhops until
paid for.
“ If this goes on,” said Mr. Gargrave to himself, with a
eimple yet tragic earnestness which proved how startling and
unexpected was the situation, “ I shall starve. I must write to
my uncle.”
Now, the uncle referred to was a shrewd old bachelor, who
Thad never evinced any great liberality towards his sister’s son,
and it was not in the least degree likely he would assist him
at. this crisis Nevertheless, Mr. Rokeby Gargrave wrote.
When the reply came, which it did promptly, it contained
the simple statement that, however unpleasant the prospect of
starving might seem to his nephew, it was a matter which could
not be supposed to interest him.
“ You speak of America or Australia,” he proceeded—Mr.
Gargrave having, indeed, mentioned those far-ofE continents as
his possible destination. “ If I am to starve,” he said, “ I had
better do so where I am unknown.”—“ You speak of America
•or Australia. There is plenty of land to be had in either of
'those countries for a mere song, and emigration will cut the
knot of all your present difficulties. If a five-pound note
would be of any assistance to have in your pocket when you
land (I conclude you mean to work your passage out), say so,
and you shall have it by return of post. After all, it is a
•comfort to reflect there are places where a man willing to
work need not starve.”
This, being more than Mr. Gargrave could bear, he in
his turn, dispatched an epistle covering four sides of a sheet of
letter-paper, which commenced:—
“ Sir,—A five-pound note would be of no use to me what¬
ever ; ” and ended by saying that the writer considered
Mr. Edward Rokeby “a disgrace to his order”—the last
observation being emphasised by no less than three dashes.
This closed the correspondence; and once again Mr.
Gargrave had to face his difficulties.
As for work, he never contemplated such a possibility.
Begging he would not have minded—but then beggin g seemed
of no use.
There was only one thing to which he could tui.-n hi* atten¬
tion, and on that he immediately concentrated hia energies.
He would marry.
“ Poor dear Matilda! ” he thought, as this Diode of cxtri»
cation occurred to him. “ She was always thoughtful; she
died most opportunely.”
So it got abroad that Mr. Rokeby Gargrave, was going to
marry “ money; ” and his creditors (creditors, as a race, are
much given to catching at straws), believing, possessed their
souls in patience till such time as that money should be
applied to liquidating their little accounts.
For his first wife Mr. Gargrave, guided by prudential
motives, had married a lady older than himself. In his second
he selected—once again guided by pecuniary considerations—
a girl just emancipated from a boarding school.
She ran away with him—he was a man who had always
charmed women—and left behind the greatest part of her
fortune.
Eighty thousand should have been her "dot:” but she
(quite, unconsciously) forfeited seventy-five thousand by marry¬
ing without the consent of her guardians. . J
“Was ever so unlucky a dog bom ! ” exclaimed Mr. Gar¬
grave, after a very bad quarter of an hour with those gentle-
ceeded to letter; and finally Mrs. Gargrave announced that
1 she and her son, who was very much better, trusted to return
men. Then his troubles began in earnest; then came writs I to England in the course of the following summer.
and lawyers’ letters, and threats and performances.
Here was a contingency no one had ever taken into cal-
The unanimity which prevailed amongst his creditors was culation. That Owen Gargrave. should recover would have
wonderful. They all wanted one thing, and they all tried to seemed the wildest of all wild imaginings, and yet here he
get it in one way. was recovering. He whose life had been thought scarcely
“ There is a monotony about this,” remarked Mr. Gargrave worth a day’s purchase was as likely to live as the best of
airily, trying to put a brave face on the matter; but no one them.
could look at him and fail to see the struggle was too much for It was horrible, but it was true. Mr. Gargrave might
his selfish, indolent temperament. He grew thin and peevish; rave and blaspheme; I regret to say he did both; but his
he worried his lawyers and bullied his family; he cried out utterances could not alter facts.
that it was unjust; he swore a great many times—for He said dreadful, unpardonable things—things whiGh
about this time there was much variety in his language if not coming later to the mother’s ears she never forgot and never
in his theme—that it was too bad he should be kept out of his forgave.
own by a weazened, sallow, deformed, croffling cripple. He
said his dead brother ought to have been ashamed of himself;
As for the creditors, they were " neither to hold nor to
bind,” they were simply furious. They called their debtor
he said the mother must be a very wicked woman; he called harder names than he called his nephew; and, in fine, from a
heaven and earth to witness that there had never been a man storm of writs and clamour of furious tongues, Mr. Gargrave
so wronged and persecuted as he ; he demanded justice from retired to the Continent, where he was m due tame.followed by
the sun, and the air, and all those gods and goddesses, the Mrs. Gargrave and the junior members of the family—none of
names of which were about the only things remaining in his them, be it understood, quite destitute of the hope that they
memory of an expensive classical education. might yet return to England in tnuunph.
He declared he must go abroad, must leave his native After all, there was but a life between them and Brayley,
country, and lay his bones upon a foreign shore, when once and who could tell ?
again fortune relented and dealt him another trump. CHAPTER IV.
A very distant relation died, and left him twenty thousand michael gargrave.
pounds; and within a week after came a very Bad letter from „ , . ,_^
Mrs. Gargrave, saying she was about to take her son abroad. When the dark days come, fnends are sometimes oon-
It was a forlorn hope, but she meant to try it; and if Mr. spicuous by their absence ; but at first around the Gargravea
Rokeby Gargrave, of whoso misfortunes she had been sorry friends, such as they were, gathered m numbers,
to hear, and on whose recent inheritance she begged to con- To say truth, people could not bebe ™ 1m .
gratulate him, liked, during her absence, to take up his thoroughness of the collapse. Many persem 8 found it imp s-
abode at Brayley, she would be very glad to think that the sible to believe thatBrayleywas virtuaUygonefr .
old place was so suitably occupied. b Bokeby Gargrave; others could not credit the extentof hia
“ Heaven be praised! ” cried Mr. Gargrave, too excited at folly. A tame, of course, arrived when everyone realised
first to explain the cause of his delight to his wondering Mr. Gargrave’s sun had gone down in
family. "Brayley is as good as our own. I wonder what there would be no more cakes and ale, though his son was
those fiends of tradespeople will think now ? They shall not gone into the City to “ make his fortune. »
have another order from me, if they asked for it on bended “ What is to become of Michael? asked that young man s
knees ’’—which lost a little of its point owing to the fact that godfather when the collapse occurred. ,~
no tradesman with whom Mr. Gargrave had ever had trans- He, poor fellow? Oh. he 11 ha e g? .
actions was likely to desire their renewal upon any terms something of that kind. It is “ uew ^S f °r Gargravea to
whatever. become tradesmen; but if I were a younger man 1 sliouia
Then, indeed, came a time of prosperity, during the con- devote myself to business. I shovel' ^deed. ~ heino-
tinuance of which Mr. Gargrave basked in the sunshine, and Business m the estimation of Mr. B^eby ""grave bemg
caused his money to melt away like snow in thaw. a sort of gold-mine very easy'indeedl to work though it could
tinuance of which Mr. Gargrave basked in the sunshine, and Business m the estimation or J»r. y gra
caused his money to melt away like snow in thaw. a sort of gold-mine wyeaay ind^l to though* could
What matter about that paltry sum, however. Pooh! the not be regarded as othervme toan dxg .to ^"inita^
whole amount was not equal to one year’s income of Brayley. He will want some capital, th g . SS ^
When remonstrated with, as sometimes lawyers and others the other, whose ideas on the J 7
will remonstrate, even though they feel remonstrance useless, tho ?f c 0 fJJe^ No no; that t not needed in trade. Things
^“‘wSen’pool^OwBn gtwsfof course I step into everything fre^fuid.
at onco; and then, think of the accumulations. I am sure I hands. All that is req
don’t wish the lad dead; but still, life must be a burden to «’A««to sell. consulted on this point, he
him. Each post may bring the news that he is gone." ^1®? tbe . w i, other M r Gartrrave’s view of
But the posts came in without bringing any news of the expressed some doubts as to whe^r Mr trargrare^viewm
kind. According to his mother’s account, the young fellow commercial matte™ beirnr made by beggars—of
grew no stronger, but still he clung tenaciously to life. If it 88 J 16 ‘‘I 80 ba d 1 L“!? nriD J ria p v been possessed of precisely
were indeed a burden, he seemed in no haste to lay it down. millionaires who had ongmally been possessed or precisey
" The doctors Lep him alive,” his uncle rem^ked, " but five farthings when they <hSS
the vital spark is a mere glimmer Any day or hour wc may oiL^ffiSoStoto his agents^nd make inquiries. .
expect to hear it is extinguished altogether. by orrenng ro write w e correct j n j Tnn p nnW
And strong in this faith, and perhaps to keep his hand in lar( -“fortunes m trade was the exception,
practice, Mr. Rokeby Gargrave went on spending as though n f g merelv a moderate income, or some-
he had come into a million instead of twenty thousand pounds, and the compassing of merey depended,” they
In this time of prosperity young Michael shared He had times no mcome at all,.the^ rule SXS &ent, but the
his horeee, his dogs, his guns ^anything the young heir might ontostote, possessed of talent
have possessed, and more freedom than any young heir would eurcumstances in which tne v
have been permitted. Chanced to be p •_ R KOod beginning. A fair
He was not well educated; that, hia father observed, might Very m P tQ P ^ y0 ung man. The office he
be regarded as a matter of quite secondary importance. "Steralthe commerce education^ he received, were matters
"It does not require much learning to spend thirty Broved 0 f vital importance.’
thousand a year,’ ’ the older man was Wont sapiently to remark. sounds very sensible,” said Michael Gargrave’s
‘ ‘ And he will have that, at any rate, when I am m the family J hat ^S an d aa k them, Mr. TunstaU, if you please,
vault. Better have good health than a knowledge of all the cha ^e the y happen to know of an office where a
tongues living or dead. What did Btudy do for my poor whether by _ y never given his attention to such
brother? He might have been alive now if he had not 7 0l *?8 ld b e trained into becoming a successful merchant.”
addled his brains with that Hebrew trash he was so fond of. letter was written, duly the reply came back.
When Michael Gargrave was about sixteen years old some Duly t <*re TunBtal Vs London agents did happen to
friend of the family suggested the propriety of his bemg placed Quite by chanceiju to receive the 80n of a gentleman (this
in the way of learning a profession. ^=T,JwLrlinedl and mstruct him in all the details of a most
“You must remember,” reasoned this individual, that business for the moderate premium of two hundred
your nephew is not dead yet.” rounds’ The usual pecuniary consideration they
“ And none of us wish him to be,” retorted Mr. Gargrave, ^dfiflpMPg ’ hundied . bu t as they (Mr. Tunstall’s cor-
in an access of virtue. “ To grudge a poor creature like that ^®ueived was five^ .^ reste Jj about tlie ma tter, the firm would
a few months of life—If living it can be called—we should, ^ e ®P°, .) . amoun t. Twelve months, they considered,
indeed, be mercenary.’ "fjL t „ ach any person of ordinary ability all it was necessary
" But supposing he should live for, say, twenty years? . t i e£ /L • but the arrangement could be extended
"My dear fellow, I can’t suppose an impossibility. It is . . erio j if agreeable to both parties, in which case
a mere question of time, and not a question of a very long young gentleman’s services would be acknowledged with a
tiQ1 " But’ stm^no 1 hmcoi be done by educating your son sui y^^^pSly Mr. Tunstall read this letter to those
for a ^rotossion.^ ^ ^ flurc o{ that . A landed proprietor “^rerted g ne opportunity” - remarked Mr
should, in my opinion, be a landed proprietor pure and simple, a . «, ^ ut t b e y might os well ask me for two hundred
not a parsonf or a lawyer, or a doctor, or a soldier but just ^ f a fc v ^ ho ^ d) 0 r, indeed, two himdred and fifty millions ’
the owner of the soil, with his interests concentrated in the ^ £riclldSi Mr. TunstaU,” said
snouia, m my opinion, oc a lanueupiupricuui ■ <> but they mignt as wen „
not a parson, or a lawyer, or a doctor, or a soldier, but just wm v thousand, or, indeed, two hundred and fifty millions,
the owner of the sofl, with his interests concentrated in the “^“W'^Rood of your friends, Mr. TunstaU,” said
soil and those who reside upon it." Michael • “ but you must see yourself it is^ as my lather
"Humph!” commented the friend, who knew very well impossible for me to accept the oiler. <(T ,
indeed that the Gargraves hud far too often found their gg _* ^ Michael,” broke in his godfather. 1 y
interests widely at variance from the interests of the men who d t to break through aU
rented their fafms and tilled their fields. ^ . tamrie I SS help you. My income is only an annuity, as
By the time Michael Gargrave was eighteen it may bo a vou g w low ■ but I have saved some few h undr^, and t y
koiifrsssE’Sr^ to work '
01 fes* -a not « a*
.nd tho young leUow bad been ereojdng tot over twenty -0 gen “„ ol d gentleman I £l e 5"aSd^t“ In htoadf ml
^Further, Mr. Hargrave bad not only ran through bie 6«b Snd?n‘*imcepted°hia godfather's ’otter aa tranlly as it woe
bawent
“difficult” for the elder man, and when thina * be P n to be i od emg8 in Walworth, and walked thmice, _ a r g
“ difficult ” they generaUy end by becoming unple. <( r mo jSng, to the offices of MessrB. Casserow, Glin , ■»
“ If that feUow Uves much longer,” he said to l 18 wue > Martin’B-lane. . ,, . i.
shaU have to go into the Gazette .” After his first Introduction to that esteb^ihme
“ The sooner the better, dear, I should think "shq." 18 ^" 6 ^’ a K i ow ing account of its glories ^ L d m ahofanv
with exasperating amiabUity, “and then we shad . be ” f father. ‘‘There is so much plate-glass and po ma g 7
tbo«, dreadful people who are olway now Mfesfc ” ” d I* JK
„ . ,, __._ .. ... -eree dazzled, he said.__. _f fVl „ Turkev carnet. Even in the
•• it tnat lenow nves muen longer, ne saiu wn --> Martin’ s-lane. . A .. . bo wrote
shaU have to go into the Gazette .” wowpred After his first Introduction to that esteb^bme
“ The sooner the better, dear, I should think,” shq." 18 ^" 6 ^’ a K i ow ing account of its glories ^ L d ma h 0 fanv
with exasperating amiabUity, “and then we shaU . be " f father. ‘‘There is so much plate-glass ^dpo ma g 7
‘bow dreadful people who are alway. now MfeSfc ” “ d bra«, an d loaner fa^y
m °WhUe affairs were thus once again ho^rlng on the N ‘ er ^ ^floor of which is covered vrith a^ r a g 7 1 ^ e and hanch
of ruin : when, in fact, nothing but the Brayley propt ^ ^ ting .room there is a bbr^ table " l"ge
■could have saved Mr. Gargrave, news cair.e to England that 80 mer than that at Brayley. Tbe ‘ young
new physician had been so successfully treating the young 8 d ^ re8p i e ndent ^th sdver lbuttons^ l here are^ y g
heir that there was every hope of his yet been restored to ^ 0WB ^he office, uu^tTsThundr^
hea * 1 Poor thing! ” said Mr. Gargrave^, pityinglv referring to j?’ cannot yet “Jythtog £Stto5cK5a»
his sister-in-law. ‘ ‘ Some quack has got hold of b a:, I doubt> P° not one 0 f ub has done anything p
K^ impr ° Vement ^ Bpeaka 01 “ tUt 1 and and Mr. Michael Gargrave still failed to
It was a very hopeful flicker, && aJl events^ ^ Letter sue* i ^
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make out what the business was. He had become almost
perfect in the matters of addressing circulars and copying
letters, and was longing for a change of occupation, when one
afternoon two persons came into the office and asked to see Mr.
Casserow, failing Mr. Casserow Mr. Glinton, failing Mr.
Glinton the Company, and failing the Company the Manager.
Failing as regards even the last-named personage, the
better-dressed of the two concluded “he would wait a bit.”
When told the return of the firm that day was extremely
uncertain he said that did not much matter to him, and he stall
thought he had better “ wait a bit.”
As he refused nil offers of the newspaper, the clerks tele¬
graphed meaning looks to each other signifying their belief
that he could not read; and, as he volunteered no attempt at
conversation, it was inferred he and his companion must be of
unsocial dispositions.
About five o’clock Mr. Casserow, bustling into the office,
beheld the pair who had resisted all efforts to get them into
the waiting room.
“Oh! it’s you, is itP” said Mr. Casserow, carelessly.
“ Step this way, will you?” and he opened the door of his
own sanctum.
After a little while he rang his bell, and, saying that he
should be engaged for some time, observed that the clerks
need wait no longer.
Next morning, when the clerks arrived at business, they
found the shutters up, and one of the yesterday’s men in
calm possession of the mahogany fittings, the many-drawered
tables, the Turkey carpets, and the three safes.
Mr. Casserow, Mr. Glinton, the Co., or their money, they
never saw again. The game, which had not been successful,
was played out, and all the young fellows who had learned the
business of addressing circulars and copying letters were
adrift on the world of London.
For, as a rule, they wero not merely dupes but poor dupes,
and the amount necessary to teach them “ business know¬
ledge,” under the auspices of Messrs. Casserow and Co., had
been raised with difficulty by friends and relatives, in most
cases badly off themselves.
All in vain Michael Gargrave searched for employment.
He advertised; he answered advertisements ; but there was a
beautiful unanimity in the way people refused to have any¬
thing to do with him .
And when he came dispassionately to consider the extent
of his own acquirements, lie could not avoid feeling that people
had reason.
“ I can read and write and cipher,” he thought; “ and that
is about all. Employers would be very foolish, indeed, to have
anything to do with me ; though my poor father believed I had
but to come to London to conquer.”
One day, when returning, thoroughly disheartened, from
places where “ No! ” seemed the stereotyped answer on men’s
lips, he chanced to see stuck up in the dirty window of a pokey
little wholesale glass warehouse a paper on which was written
in round hand,
“ A boy wanted. Enquire within.”
After a minute’s irresolution he crossed the threshold, and
then paused to see what would happen next.
At a desk in the background sate a man who, on catching
sight of him, came forward and said,
“ What may your business be, Sir?”
“You want a boy,” explained the young fellow, pointing
to the legend in the window. 6
“ Well, yes, I do,” confessed the other, reluctantly, as one
who felt he was being driven to make an irrelevant and un¬
necessary admission.
“ Will you take me?"
■ T J* you ^ink y° u can pl a 7 any of your jokes here you ’re
mistaken, and will find yourself so, swell or no swell. Come
get out of this, * and the irate trader pointed a very dirty
hand towards the door.
, “.^y d .° not *? e angry. I am not joking. I never felt less
like joking in my life. 1 want work, and as I can’t get man’s
work, let me try if I am able to do boy’s. I do not care what
it ls—I 11 sweep out this place now, if you like; it looks as if
it would be the better for it—only try me.”
With his legs a little apart, with his hands thrust deep in
his pockets, with a perplexed frown on his forehead, and a
very dubious expression in his eyes, Mr. Holding surveyed
the individual who made this proposition; but at last he said,
“Well, suppose Ido?”
“ You won’t repent giving me the chance.”
“y«7 weU > then > you shall have a trial; but, remember
you will have to work.”
jjjfifkt'- What should you like me to work at first? ”
and Mr. Michael Gargrave was looking about him for a con¬
venient nail on which to hang his coat and hat, when his
employer arrested that purpose.
“ I must have a reference,” he said. “ If the angel Gabriel
^reme ”° r a situation, I would not take him unless he
“lam not an angel,” answered Gargrave, laughing; “ but
I dare say I can give a satisfactory reference.”
, J” r ; Riding said nothing in reply; but he watched with
address ° bsenant the youn g fellow as he wrote down au
CHAPTER Y.
HE. HOLD Dio’s VENTURE.
After all, the whilom heir-presumptive of Brayley had
neither to wheel a truck nor sweep out the warehouse. Mr.
2S& ha ™e been 6™ ve d in spirit by long and weary
experience of the general inefficiency and self-sufficiency of
young men who came asserting they could do every¬
thing, knew how to value this good-looking, well-mannered
stranger, who did his best, and who was most earnestly
au^ous to learn; and, consequently, instead of
a wl 8 WOrd ’ hc piIt him straight to the desk,
made him write letters, copy accounts, and finally initiated
ledgerwork 16 myBtene8 of double eutl T and day-book and
After he had been a month in Mr. Holding’s service he
i^dCo 0 nl B W dfa n her an ? cco . uut of the collapse of Casserow
ouiy too happy that he could tell the kindly old man
his money had not been totally thrown away.
1 am d ° in , p vei 7 we U indeed,” he said. “ Mr. Holding
pays me a salaiy; he is very kind: and I am in a fair
" ay ,° f 1 earning something more about business than directing
envelopes and copying letters.”
which it will probably be inferred that Michael
GarCTaie was made of quite another metal than his pur¬
poseless, extravagant, foolish father. p
Very bitter had been the young fellow’s experience when
creditors «aid To S by toite
dd£cv-t™tZ tw h9 told without consideration or
SbStSSS; ™ ce ’ but that proved of
othS’totolesTs'i^tr^Tn 6 -T 8 Sh0wn that tb cre were
was a “ fellow whose ancestors wore chain armour in the
thirteenth century,” to quote poor James Hannay’s definition
of a gentleman.
No. If it were righteous that a man’s children should
suffer for his sins (and though he could not understand the
reason for this hard truth he accepted its necessity), it was
quite just thut Rokeby Gargrnve’s eldest-born should have to
eam the bread he ate, and be thankful he was able to get
bread even on such terms.
Though scarcely more than a lad, he faced his difficulties
like a man. When he went to Mr. Holding's he was still, like
David, “but a youth, ruddy and of a fair countenance;” and
it might have touched anyone acquainted with his antecedents
to see how bravely he took up his burden, and without com¬
plaint or faltering bowed his shoulders under it.
Never brought up to know the value of money—for, indeed,
not a creature in Mr. Gargrave’s household seemed able to
understand that there are but twenty shillings in a pound—
during his first London experiences he wasted almost as much
as he spent; not in riotous living or with any conscious¬
ness of being prodigal, but merely because he had still to learn
how to fit his expenditure to his income.
Further, it was natural that the gorgeousness of Messrs.
Casserow’s surroundings should mislead him as to the stability
of his own prospects. What more certain than that at the
end of the twelvemonth his future services would “ be suitably
acknowledged;” indeed, in the goodness of his heart, Mr.
Casserow once personally assured him that such should be the
case.
Thus it came to pass that, economical though the young
fellow believed himself to be, he computed everything upon too
broad and liberal a scale.
His lodgings were too dear, his landlady too profuse in her
ideas. If his food were plain, it was expensive ; and he had
always, perhaps, too much small change in his pocket. At all
events, whatever the reason—and he could have given no reason
for the fact: he less than any one, most likely—when the
collapse of Messrs. Casserow, Glinton, and Co. camo there was
very little left of the amount his godfather had given him to
provide necessaries during his year ot probationship. and that
little he further diminished by a loan to bis landlady—an
advance she called it, but as he had to leave Ins lodgings and
she her house before a fortnight passed over their heuds, per¬
haps the word gift more accurately described the nature of the
transaction
Accordingly, wheu he asked permission to do ’ boy’s work ”
he was almost at his last sovereign, and, as the salary Mr.
Holding gave could certainly not be considered extravagant,
Michael Gargrave often found the problem of living difficult.
But he never complained, to father, or godfather, or
employer he never spoke of the straits to which hewas reduced.
Often he was cold, often he was hungry, always his food was
insufficient, und he could have told of Sundays when he walked
miles and miles to kill the weary time he was forced to stay out,
so that his landlady might not suspect he had not the where¬
withal to buy the dinners she professed herself willing upon
the seventh day to cook.
Youth kept him up, however—youth and a certain dogged
determination and laudable pride which he inherited from
some forgotten ancestor, possibly one of the gentlemen who
had figured in chain armour.
“So long as the seams of my coat did not get white,” he
said long afterwards, when speaking about this period of
struggle, “ I felt I could bear anything. Happily I had a
good stock of clothes, and with care they lasted wonderfully;
not quite so well as the garments of the Israelites perhaps, but
still almost miraculously. By the time they were so shabby
that I felt ashamed to give them away, I was able to buy
suits that did well enough for business, though they might
have made a West-End tailor weep. I never shall forget my
poor father looking at me the first and only time I ran over to
France to see him.”
“What have you got on, Michael?” he asked, speaking
more in sorrow than in anger.
In the first enthusiasm of going out to eam his living the
young fellow—who understood well enough that his father’s
creditors considered not merely the personal belongings but
the actual skin of the members of the family belonged to
them, and could have found it in their hearts to nail the
cuticle to the church doors by way of public example, as a
gamekeeper hangs up a kite against some exposed barn-had
chivalrous ideas of denuding himself of everything«save his
poorest and oldest garments, and selling off all he possessed
for the benefit of those who had been despoiled.
His watch, his studs, his small stock of jewellery, consist¬
ing principally of presents from those who regarded him as
the future owner of Brayley; these things he had collected
together preliminary to offering them for sacrifice when his
g0C L 1 ^l 1 1 er T lenched the flame of his ardour with this remark:
Why, my poor Michael, all your goods and chattels would
not pay the hundredth part of a farthing in the pound of your
father s liabilities Keep your small possession, boy; and
if it be any comfort to you. remember, I say, these people are
not so much to be pitied, after ah. The sum total of the
matter is that they played tor high stakes and lost, und they
are indignant accordingly If Oweu had died, you would
never hnye heard anything concerning the iniquity of funning
same ” tbougb iniquity would actually have been just the
Concerning his new clerk Mr. Holding knew rather less
than employers generally do know of their employes. Ho
heard from his reference that Michael was respectable and of
nr ww m n y ' hls om i, < : yes he saw he w »8 a gentleman,
r CaU n d a TT 11 ,' The bloom was 8tm 011 that
peach, the rough world had not yet rubbed aU the down
of pleasant prosperity from young Gargrave’s appearance.
I hat time when tailors might have wept to see the cut of
h^ garments and ouc by one the careful habits of younger
Wn?t egai u T e tbe ruddy countenance, to fade away and be
n0t am J ed; aud sometimes Mr. Holding,
looking at the youth as he came briskly walking up to the
w^«n , n W ° Uld iJ 0nd f r - Vagucly bow lon S he should keep him
when he would made it up with his friends. 1
harl^L?^ T M, ^ hHel had quarrelled with his friends, and
,, d ~ om ? to London in a huff to seek his fortune was one of
m, OCT + ed T P c 11 T S of Mr- Holding’s life; indeed, it may be
ESSr to th ® hour of his death he did not enter-
«L !£“£"* Gar «“ ve had tato q»ite
thou/h e t r M? S H h ?a- Wa ® l Bt the bottom of the business,”
“^X to the°ir^” ChUrCh 16Om0 lad8 d0 ob J' ect b °
c° ul 2 not make the ^air out-indeed, he did
Jtesgp&iiSZS Af “
of thatwS a » i eTe m TT good in your learning anything
gESS “ 1 ,upiK,K »» * >2
Michael looked at him in amazement.
“ They ’re rich, am’t they ? ” proceeded Mr. Holding
“ Some of them are,” answered the young man 8 ’
“Then they won’t like your stopping much longer in the
City, I take it.”
“ Oh ! they don’t mind,” said Michael. “ I may 8top here
for ever for all they care.” ^
“ I would not talk that way if I was you,” remarked Mr
Holding; “ it is never well for young folks to set themselves
altogether against their elders.”
“But I haven't set myself against my elders,” explained
this one “ young folk,” desperately.
Mr. Holding shook his head sagely.
“You see, their notions may be different,” he persisted-
and Michael gave up the task of explanation as hopeless
Some time after this—a longtime, indeed, as months count
in any place, save in London, where days and weeks fly past at
express speed—Mr. Holding recurred to his clerk’s supposed
position. *
“ You said your friends were rich, didn’t you?”
“ Some of them are,” answered the young man, not caring
to enlarge upon his father’s position amongst his well-to-do
kindred.
“ A few thousands could be raised by ’em without much
difficulty, perhaps ? ”
Michael Gargrave thought it possible, wondering what his
employer’s drift was in suggesting such a question.
“ Do you think, now, any of them would feel disposed to
buy you a partnership in a likely business ? ”
Michael answered that he felt particularly sure none of
them would.
“ Don’t approve of your taking to trade, I suppose? ”
“ It does not matter much to them what I take to,” replied
the young man, “ and, indeed, there is no reason why it should
matter.”
“ I would not talk like that, I would not, indeed,” remon-
strated Mr. Holding, in whose ideas, as in liis conversation
there was a certain monotony.
“ I am only speaking the truth,” said Michael.
“ Well, I dare say you are; but there may be faults on
both sides. Mostly there are faults on both sides.”
Michael was about to answer that he did not see in this
case why Mr. Holding should imagine there need be any
fault at all; but he remembered how far his father’s ways had
led him out of the family fold, and held his tongue.
“ I know of a thing that 1 thought might suit them if
they had any notion of the sort," Mr. Holding remarked, after
a long pause.
“ Any notion of what sort? ” asked the young man, whose
thoughts had naturally followed his employer’s latest sentence.
“Buying you a share—a partnership,” explained Mr.
Holding, who knew Michael was still almost as ignoiant of
trade terms as Michael at a later period found Lucy.
“ They would not think of such a thing,” said the young
man, decidedly; and from his tone Mr. Holding felt more
satisfied still that between his clerk aud his clerk’s “ folks ”
there had been what he mentally called “ a few words.”
The years went by. Looking forward, Michael Gargrave
never would have believed that they could have so flown; but
they had come and they were gone, and the dayB at Brayley
seemed like a dream; and the stony-hearted streets of London,
the grind of office work, the privations of his City experiences
remained a reality. He was doing better now. His salary was
larger; he understood how to manage Ins resources; he had
to do without, if he had not forgotten, those s_
niceties of dress and habits which in the outset of a career
provo such a drawback to every man who does not figuratively
commence the business fight in his shirt-sleeves.
A gentleman, unless he has ample command of money, is
always in a civilised country at a disadvantage when set to cam
his living, because the circumstances of birth and education
have taught him to need so much. Upon the other hand, hc can
speedily learn to do without the things he has hitherto con¬
sidered necessaries, because in that category he has generally
placed lowest down in the list, if at all, personal luxuries—
sleeping soft, eating often and of rich food, drinking of other
than the simplest beverages.
At first it seems strange to have to consider such matters;
but it is not difficult to deny himself; so at least Michael Gar¬
grave discovered, and I believe his experiences will be found but
the reflex of the experiences of hundreds of other brave lads
from country parsonages ; of “ mothers’ darlings, ” younger
sonB of country gentry, richer in pedigrees than acres; of all
the goodly company that year after year have come up to swell
the rank and file of that great and best business army which
has for its motto, “ Honour and honesty first; aud wealth,
if it please God to send it, afterwards.”
Stinting himself, working hard, a very humble but a very
efficient labourer amongst thousands of other labourers,
Michael Gargrave had made his way upwards till he was in
receipt Of a fair income for so young and inexperienced a man.
A very faithful servant—a servant who would no more have
•dreamed of trying to form a trade for himself by stealing his
master’s customers and making a connection through his
knowledge of his employer’s correspondents than he would
have thought of taking his money—a servant happily destitute
of self-consciousness, of the belief that he did his work
admirably, that he was too good for his position, and a “better
man,” morally, mentally, and socially, than the person who
paid him his salary.
It was quite the contrary in some ways. Indeed, Michael
felt the highest respect for Mr. Holding. Too new to London
to understand the nature of Mr. Casserow and his confederates
when he was copying their letters and directing their circulars,
he knew now they were little if at all better than swindlers—
men who, richly deserving to be prosecuted, managed never¬
theless to keep themselves through all their rogueries within
the letter of the law; but Mr. Holding was different
altogether.
His word might well have been taken for his bond; in all
the years spent in his office Michael Gargrave had never known
him do a mean or dishonourable action.
His trade—a poor enough one when contrasted with that of
many a man who did not work one half so hard—was as
straightforward as himself. There could be no deception in it
as regarded quality, and with reference to price he adopted
the rule of a uniform percentage—so far as such a rule could,
considering the fluctuations of cost and quantity of production,
be maintained. .
He had no secrets in his warehouse. His books, all of
them, were open to his clerk, who could see what profits Mi.
Holding made, what losses he incurred, what accounts were
due to the business, what sums were owing by the business.
As to what Mr. Holding did with his profits young
Gargrave knew nothing, however. . ..
Except that he was acquainted with the address of m
private house, Mr. Holding, out of business hours, migm
have been a total stranger to his clerk. Michael had never
been asked- inside his employer’s doors, and it had never
occurred to him that he wanted to be asked. ,
Of Mr. Holding in his domestic capacity, indeed, Mienae:
never thought at all. He might have been a bachelor, a
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 1878.—11
wldower » fa ther of many children or of none,
for all the young man knew or cared about the matter.
However admirable, Mr. Holding waa not a man whose
acquaintance many persons who met him in business would
have been likely to desire. He was taciturn, and, when he did
S- P rone dell ,T e . r himself as though his utterance of <my
sentence were something done against his will and under pro¬
test. A man whose manners were against him, and whose
appearance was against him also; but who was possessed!
ne vertheless, of a warm heart and a faithful nature. P
in th f summer, after he had completed his
twenty-fourth year, Michael Hargrave, having then been
glntleS^l” m Mr ‘ H ° lding ’ 8 em P lo yment, said to that
of arS^~v mei ? b l r ’ me long ago that you knew
mo U “J ^re di,.
laid do ^u his pen and confessed that he
thought he did remember the circumstance.
on , „ auy ? ue unacquainted with his peculiarities hiB tone was
^ t ? e conver8ati °u might weH have ended
here, but his clerk had not spent five years with him in vain, i
and so proceeded— ’ !
me n<w?”° U happen to know of anything whieh would suit
“ That is as it may be,” answered Mr. Holding, and spoke
^J® r h an ^her word till he had finished checking off an invoice,
“ So you want to leave me, Gargrave.”
“No, Sir, I don’t want to leave you,” replied the young
man, not without emotion, for there was a tone of sadness in
Jus employer’s voice. “ We have been together a long time
and no one need desire a better master; but I have a little
money now, and I suppose I may as well go in for making
more. Money seems to be considered the only good in this
world, and, at any rate, there is nothing much else left to me
to live for.”
Mr. Holding looked at his clerk.
“ It must be a young woman this time,” he thought, but
he only remarked— e ’
“ I would not talk like that if I was you. Money is very
m itfi way. There is nothing in its way better, but it is
not aH for anybody-it is not all by a great deal for you.”
Michael did not answer—he thought at that juncture as he
Jiad thought several times before when his rich friends were
on the tapis, that there was no use in trying to explain matters
to Mr. Holding.
There is nothing that conquers taciturnity like taciturnity
In the very nature of things if one will not speak another
must. Mr. Holding had often found this necessity forced
upon him by his clerk’s silence, and he found it now.
“About what amount were you thinking of investing?”
he asked, after a pause, which seemed longer than it actually
“ I have been left a legacy of over two thousands pounds,”
answered the young man.
“Ay! I noticed you had on a black band,’’said Mr. Holding.
“ A near relation ? ” e
“No relation at all—but the best friend I ever had in my
life or ever shall have again.”
“I would not say that,” suggested Mr. Holding, who
intended the observation as soothing.
“Why not?” asked his clerk; “It is a fact. He was only
my godfather; but I loved and respected him as I never ”--
Michael stopped short. He had been going to add, “ as I
never loved and respected my father,” but he paused in time.
No man had ever heard him speak lightly of his parent, and
he was resolved no man ever should.
“ And he has left you this sum of money ? ”
“ Yes, all he had to leave. I never expected anything.”
And the young man turned his head aside and affected to
be busily engaged in sorting over some letters. This precise
form of trouble was new to him, and he did not bear it so
philosophically as he had hard living and scant comfort in the i
early part of his career.
Further, Mr. Holding, this time, chanced to be right.
There was a young woman—though she would have felt '
scandalised to think any one could dream of so designating
her.
“Beware, she is fooling thee!” Michael’s godfather
warned him kindly and sadly.
The old man was staying in London so as to be near better
medical advice than he could obtain in his own part of the
country, and at his house Michael met the maiden “fair to
see ” who cost him, at that time, many a heartache.
A stately maiden, exceeding beautiful, with the lily and
the rose sort of loveliness, blue-eyed, fair-haired. Ah ! well
and a-lack-a-day! and for him it was pitiful, though but
play to her.
The time came when, looking in the toy-shop windows,
Michael was ungallant enough to trace a strong resemblance
between the plump fatuous-looking wax dolls, all tricked out
in silks and laces, and his deceitful mistress, but that time was
not yet, and, though the “young man” acknowledged the
“ young woman ” to be wise enough in her generation for
refusing to accept aught beyond his admiration, still the wound
pained nous the less for all that.
“ I will turn the matter over in my mind,” said Mr. Hold¬
ing, after giving the young fellow time to recover himself.
" The affair I mentioned long ago is still open; but I am
doubtful whether it would suit you.”
“Why?” asked Michael.
“ It is not making the way I expected,” answered Mr.
Holding. “ To be quite plain with you, it was a notion of my
own, and I am not sure that it will ever come to much.”
“ I dare say it would come to enough forme.”
“ I can’t tell. I don’t know what your notions may be.” I
“ They are not very extravagant,’’ said Michael.
“ Well, I will turn the matter over in my mind,” repeated ]
Mr. Holding, and took up another invoice as a hint that the
conversation had better come to an end.
This talk took place on a Monday; and when the next
Saturday came round Mr. Holding remarked,
“ I think I have considered that business of yours in all its
bearings ; and if you would care to look at the thing I have iu
hand you are welcome to do so.”
Michael said he was very much obliged, and he felt
obliged.
“I won't horo you walk into the concern in the dark,”
explained Mr. Holding; “ so you had better come over to my
place this evening and see what the affair is. If after that you
think you would care for the business, why you had bettc
take three months and turn it over in your mind. Howe' 4 ‘
you decide, there need be no difference between us as far '**
am concerned.” ^
Once again Michael thanked him.
“Yes, you had better come over to my place ”
Mr. Holding, meditatively. “ We can have a cir ,' repeated,
then walk across the Marshes. Come just r ,±> of tea, and
know; there is not much in the way of ' -*8 you are, you
Ford.” mshion about Old
Certainly, it had never occurred * ,
^ young Gargrave that
there was much in the way of fashion about Mr. Holding.
Nevertheless, he made such alterations in his attire as he con-
sidered respectful to that gentleman ; and, free from the dust
ot the City, he repaired at the hour arranged to Old Ford.
Arrived there he soon perceived that upon whatever ex¬
travagance Mr. Holding might spend the profits derived from
his business, it was not on house rent, or sumptuous raiment,
or luxurious living.
His residence was small and dingy; the furniture it con-
tamed old, and, though substantial, of a description that laid
as little claim to convenience as to elegance. The meal to
which Michael brought the healthy appetite of a person un¬
accustomed to dainties, was of an eminently simple character—
bread and butter (the bread brown and white), a mad cir a cake
which no one touched); watercresses, and shrimps, a delicacy,
Mr. Holding said, “ I myself am very partial to,” even though
accompanied by strong black tea, very strong and very good,
terms not often synonymous, but identical in this instance ;
because, as Mr. Holding explained, “I can’t bear tea that has
been left brewing ’’—could not be considered a repast open to
objection on the score of expense.
“ I generally pick a bit of something about nine o’clock,”
remarked Mr. Holding after he had watched with satisfaction
his guest working steadily down a piled-up plateful of brown
bread-and-butter. “ I rarely trouble about eating much in
the middle of the day; so, if you are 6ure you won’t take any
more tea, we will be off now, and by the time we get back wo
shall find supper nearly ready. Perhaps, though, you might
like to sit a while,” added Mr. Holding, who from the moment
Michael entered the house had quite sunk the employer in the
host. “No? Then I will get my hat. Thank you, Lucy,”
he added, as his little daughter brought him the article named.
“ You never let your father speak twice for anything, or look
once for it himself, do you ? ” and he touched her head gently
with his hand, by way of caress.
He was not a demonstrative parent, and yet Michael had
not been five minutes in the house before he knew there was
but one thing in the world John Holding loved—his motherless
child.
“ She is very like you,” the young man remarked, as they
walked away from the house; and, indeed, between the
unformed and almost plain little girl and the rugged, ragged-
whiskered, world-worn man there was one of those whimsical
^resemblances which are as subtle as they are impossible
So far as he had thought of her at all, Michael had con¬
sidered the child ugly. He saw her eyes were too large, and
her mouth too wide, and her skin too sallow ; but, then, her
father was not beautiful, and she resembled him.
“Do you think so?” said Mr. Holding, answering his
companion’s words. “Now, 1 always fancy she has a look of
her mother; ” and, as he spoke, there came an expression
over his face Michael Gargrave had never seen on it before.
Almost in silence they pursued their way up Wick-lane,
and thence across the Marshes, where, on that fine summer
evening, plenty of people were walking.
“ It is a pleasant place,” remarked Mr. Holding; and
Michael politely agreed with him, though, at the time, the calm
monotony of that portion of the Lea valley did not strike him
as particularly captivating.
“ I have been across there in every sort of weather,”
observed Mr. Holding; and Michael tried to*interest himself in
the subject and failed.
If his employer had told him what they were going to see,
the case might have been different; but Mr. Holding, having
decided to hold over his secret for a crushing surprise, walked
on, determinedly ignoring the topic of which both were
thinking, and resolutely discoursing of others, many of which
had not the remotest attraction for either of them.
It was upon that occasion Michael Gargrave received much
information concerning the river Lea, and learned for certain
Father Prout had nothing further from his mind than Hackney
Cut and the Essex Marshes when he wrote
For tbe bells of Bhandon
They sound so grand on
The pleasant waters of the River Leu.
“ That is quite another Lea,” explained Mr. Holding, in
answer to his companion’s inquiry. “ In the South of Ireland,
I believe. My wile used to say those lines. She was wonderful
fond of poetry and story-books.”
Poor wife ! poor husband ! Michael would have liked to
ask more about the dead woman, who was “wonderful
fond ” of things so much out of the husband’s line of thought
as poetry and story-books; but there was a set look round Mr.
Holding’s mouth that hindered his purpose.
The man had loved to hear those foolish verses, the meaning
of which was never quite intelligible to him. He had never
thought the words other than beautiful her sweet lips uttered.
She had been dear to him, and everything she cared for was dear
to him still, though she had been in her grave for ten long
lonely years.
“ She left me the child,” he said more than a twelvemonth
afterwards to Michael; and that legacy proved the ruling
influence of his life. The child ! It was for her he toiled and
moiled—for her he kept “casting about” to improve his
position—for her he struggled—for her he hoped.
So far as his own personal hopes went, they all perished one
fair spring morning, when the io*ks were singing over the
marshes, and the flowers were unfolding their blossoms, and
the trees had donned their fair green raiment, and his dead love
was lying in the darkened house, white and pure, an angel
who could return to him no more, save in waking memories
and in the deceitful dreams of night.
“That is the place,” said Mr. Holding, pausing at length
before a common-looking little cottage, with a piece of waste
land stretching in front of it, and a great barn showing an
expanse of red roof behind,
“ That is the place.”
“Oh! Is it?” Answered the young man, not com¬
prehending, but policy anxiouB to seem as if he knew all his
companion meant 00 nvey.
“You think t ^ ere j 8 nothing much to look at, I’ll be
bound?” Burn- igod Mr . Holding, triumphantly.
Ihe fa' buildings seem very good,” said Michael.
Have yo’Y^uch land?”
“ jdeed ! I thought it must be. What is it, then ? ”
They passed round the end of the cottage—Mr. Holding
remarking to a man digging in the garden, who touched his
hat at sight of them, “Splendid weather, Daniel, —and
reached a large yard, roughly inclosed with a fencing formed
of tallow-staves. About this yard was strewed a mass of odds
and ends that filled the visitor’s mind with the most intense
astonishment. Stacks of fire-bricks, piles of planks, tons and
tons of coal, mortar, barrels of lime, crucibles, and, more
extraordinary than all else even to a person whose business lay
amongst such brittle ware—a heap of broken glass of the very
aaked llfctad. »™jngbefon,
this small mountain, and eyeing it all over in critical wonder.
Even on Bankside he had never before see4 eo much
broken glass at one time; and the Bankside barges were fllloiT
with quite another sort of material than this.
“ Mr. Holding contemplated the heap mournfully; and
then, turning to his companion, answered,
“ That is my trouble.”
“ Your trouble! ” repeated the younger man, astonished.
“ Yes. You will see later on,” said Mr. Holding, opening
the door of the bam, and motioning Michael to enter.
In the bam there was literally nothing to see, though,
several rows of the tiles having been removed, and skylights
put in, the visitor was able to view the contents of the building
from end to end.
A few rough benches against the walls, a few air furnaces
at the end of the shed, some metal tubes, a waste of sand on
the floor, and a number of spades and shovels piled together
in a comer: there was nothing else. Michael looked to Mr.
Holding for information.
Close to the door by which they had entered was a small
office, partitioned off from the remainder of the building with
rough deals, unplane f. and unpainted. Whatever the occupation
carried on, it was perfectly clear not an unnecessary sixpence
had been laid out for either ornament or comfort.
There was barely space for two persons to move in this
office ; but, turning the key in the lock, Mr. Holding invited
Michael to enter. Unlike the remainder of the building, the
office received light from a window introduced into the gable.
Upon the flat portion of the makeshift desk stood something
covered over with a square of red baize. Mr. Holding removed
this baize, and then there was disclosed to view a large glass
shade, such as is used for the protection from dust of statuettes,
timepieces, wax flowers, and so forth.
“ You see that,” said Mr. Holding, triumphantly.
“ Yes,” Michael agreed; “ I see it.”
“ Take it in your hands.”
The young man did 60 .
“ Look at it.”
The other complied, thinking he had heard something very
like all this in a game for children.
“Bring it out into the yard,” said Mr. Holding, eagerly.
“Or let me carry it for you,” he added, resuming his
character of host, which did not sit naturally upon him, and
which he had for the moment forgotten.
But Michael would not permit this. He insisted upon
carrying the article into the open air himself, and then once again
examined it carefully, though he could no more imagine
why Mr. Holding set such store by it than he could conceive
what he had been dragged across the Marshes to see it.
“ It is a nice bit of glass, isn’t it? ” observed Mr. Holding.
“ Yes, it is beautifully clear,” answered Michael, who had.
learned to be a fair judge of such matters.
“ As good as anything we ever had from abroad,” sug¬
gested Mr. Holding.
“ I do not think we ever had anything better,” agreed his
clerk.
“You perceive no defect or flaw in it ? ”
“ No ; how can I ? There is no defect or flaw.”
Mr. Holding took the shade lovingly in his hands, looked
at its domed top, its shapely sides, its clean, smooth base, and
then said,
“ That is what I have been doing.”
He waited for a reply, and Michael was consequently
forced to say,
“lam afraid I do not exactly understand.”
His tone was expressive of such bewilderment that Mr.
Holding smiled with a smile delightful to see on the face of
so grim-looking a man.
“It is English made,” he answered, protracting the
explanation of the mystery.
“ I thought nothing of this sort was made in England.”
11 Neither it is, as a rule ; but I made it.” The time had come
to make a point, and Mr. Holding deferred his opportunity no
longer.
“ You did ! ” said Michael, in bewilderment.
“ Not personally. I didn’t mean that; but it was made
here. This is what I have had in hand.”
Michael Gargrave once again took the glass and looked it
over carefully, examined it inch by inch, held it between him
and the light, held it out at arms’ length, held it down, held it
up, then he said:
“ You amaze me.”
“I thought it could be done,” explained Mr. Holding
modestly, “ and I have done it.”
They put the shade back on the desk, and covered it over
once again with the red baize; they then took a leisurely stroll
down the works, and Mr. Holding, his mouth opened at last,
delivered a lecture upon this special branch of manufacture,
which he demonstrated with examples.
“ But it is not what it ought to be,” he finished, “ the
breakages are something audacious.”
“Do you mean you have made all that ‘cullet’ here,”
asked Michael.
“ Yea, that is just what I do mean,” was the answer.
They left the works after this, and wandered away from the
place together.
Up the pleasant lane lending from the Lea, past more
red-tiled bams, belonging to one of the farms owned by Lord
Momington, past the well kept house of a gentleman farmer,
across the Leyton road, along Green Grove Lane, and so on
to Leytonstone Churchyard, where the last rays of the evening
sun were falling across a grave sadly dear to Mr. Holding.
They did not pause there, however.
“ It is very quiet on the waterside, near Earl Tilney’s old
place,” remarked Mr. Holding ; “we can sit down there and
talk a bit.”
So they went there, and beside that little lake—scene once
upon a time of so grievous a tragedy—sat down and talked.
“ You see,” explained Mr. Holding, “ business is not what
it once was, or times either for that matter. My father kept a
shop, where I have now the warehouse. He lived over his
shop, and made money enough to bring up a family in a quiet
way and start them all fair.
“ I had the goodwill of the business when I began; but
my mother's little annuity had to come out of the profits. I
was forced to pay an assistant, when my father had my services
for my keep. The business was drained almost dry by the
time all the family had got their trifle paid over to them, the
lease was just upon out, and the rent now for the part we have
is three times over what it used to be for the whole house.
Then, tradeds not so good; there are more in the business, and
each week some^fresh man starts. You know what my profits
are, and I think, if you have considered the matter at all,
must see they are not immense.
“ Therefore, to cut a long story short, I cast about for
something else that I should like better; for, to tell you the
truth, I felt the confinementdn the City telling upon me, and
it somehow came into my head that if I could only start a
glass works, such as nobody else owned, I might, at any rate
make enough, before other folks got hold of the same notion,
as would give me a little income for myself, and a moderate
portion for the child. I am afraid I am tiring you.”
“ No,” said Michael; “ quite the contrary.”
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Then we look for some specific
And THE ME°X1CAN*?IAIR RENEWER
Bids it like enchantment Btay.
It arrests decaying progress,
Though the hair is thin and grey
It will strengthen and Improve it.
And work wonders day by day.
It restores the^cnlour, ^ ^ ^
Fot’tHE >fEX a iCAN HAIR^RENEWEB
Makes it look both fresh and new.
Wliat’s the greatest hair restorer.
That the present age can shi >w.
What produces wonder* daily,
' Which tlic world at Urge should know ?
Why, THE MEXICAN HAIR RENEWER
Eminently stands the first:
Thus its fame by countless thousand!
Day by day is now rehears’d.
Wliat beautifies, improves, and strengthen!
Why. this famous great restorer,
W ith the ladies is the race.
And THE MEXICAN HAIR RENEWER
Is the very best in use.
For luxuriant tresses always
Does its magic powers produce.
SKFTON (Jockey up). Constable, Derby Winner, 1878.
JULIUS OJSSAft IF. Archer up), City and Suburban Winner.
Three Waterloo Clip Winners.
MASTER MACGRATH, DONALD, and HONEYYIOON.
The usual price of the above Parcel Is Three Guineas.
The TWO-GUINEA PARCEL—viz.,
SEFTON. the Derby Winner for 1878.
JANNETTE, the Leger Winner for 1*78.
SILVIO, the Dorby Winner for 1877.
PETRARCH, the Leper Winner for 1877.
COOMASS1E, DONALD. HONEYMOON, MASTER
MACGRATH.
The THREE-GUINEA JOB LOT—viz.:
SEFTON .Jockey up. Constable.
JANNETTE. do. F. Archer.
SILVIO . do. Goater.
PETRARCH .. .. do. Jim Goater.
SPRINGFIELD .. .. do. Tom Cannon.
COOMA8SIE.Waterloo Cup Winner.
DONALD . do.
HONEYMOON .... do.
MASTER MACGRATH do.
Set of Four. Coaching size. 22 by 14-
The usual price of this ”— 1 *•
_Export --
B ENNETT’S DINING, DRAWING ROOM,
and HALL CLOCKS.
MARBLE CLOCKS.*f° m £2 2 0
DITTO, STRIKING HOURS and HALF-
HOURS.fro™ 330
DRAWING-ROOM CLOCKS of the
NEWEST DESIGNS.from 4 4 0
HALL CLOCKS, in MAHOGANY. OAK, 1n
or WALNUT CASES.from 12 12 0
CHIME CLOCKS, In HANDSOMELY- . -
CARVED CASES .. .. •• frem 28 0 0
Estimates on Application.
MANUFACTORY, 65 and 64. CHEAPSIDE.
/CARRIAGE CLOCKS —
VV Selection in London, complete in n
9 to 60 guineas. _
jgENNETT’
S GOLD PRESENTATION
WATCHES,
logs., 20gs., 30gs., 40gs.
"DENNETT’S LADIES’ GOLD KEYLESS
X) WATCHES,
le ailments, such as
Neuralgia,^" 1 "
Sciatica,
Bronchitis,
Paralysis,
l&Uam.
Gout,
Constipation,
Local Debtt
General 1) ‘
Mental
and
Physical Weakness,
Debility,
al Debility.
recognised and adopted by the medical faulty' through-
out the world, have become established by the extensive
used Pulvermacher sGalvanicAppliances thoolWfW
nessand simplicity of which have enabled multitude,of
persons to effect cure9, to the surprise of patients and
astonishment of antagonistic practitioners
During the past thirty years the genuineness and
efficacy of these appliances have been endorsed by gnat
scientists and medical authorities: and the volume of
testimonials from patients restored by this popular
because simple, remedy furnishes confirmatory evidence
which may be profitably referred to by thoae suffering
JgENNETT’fc
KEYLESS
WATCHES,
from 6 g«.
"DENNETT’S KEYLESS HALF-
X> CHRONOMETERS. compensated for variations of tem¬
perature. adjusted in positions, with improved keyless action.
In Gold .30 to 40 guineas.
In Silver.. to 25 guineas.
Ditto for Ladies, with Richly-En¬
graved Gold Cases and Dials, from 20 to 30 guineas.
■DENNETT’S 18-CARAT HALL-MARKED
X> CHAINS and choice JEWELLERY. Free and safe for
Post-Office order.
VERY WATCH in the LATEST STYLE
If and MOST CAREFULLY FINISHED.
Superior London-Made Lever Watches, Jewelled in 4,6, 8, and
Horizontal Escapement, Jewelled in 4,6, or 8 holes.
GENTLEMEN’S.
GOLD.
12 to 20 gs.
7 to lags.
o 6 gs.
» 6 gs.
"gENNETT’S
Size, about 20 In. by 16 In.
TRANQUIL ENJOYMENT (Herring).
GLEE HARDEN (Faed).
^Double the number i
SHERRY. 81R?
DID YOU RING ?
VIVANDIERE
TAMBOURINE GIRL
MOTHER’S BLESSING
MOUNTAIN TOILET’
._a>.
(Frith. R.A.).
(Until. li.A.i.
‘(Pingret).
_ kv'iL
the respective Artist* are a gu .rimtee that
me*. Is. 6d., 2a. fid.. 4s. each.
"DOUR LARGE ENGRAVINGS for 10s. 6d.
X Size, 32 In by 22 In.
SALE OF THE PET LAMB (Collins).
SUNDAY MORNING (Collins).
RUTH (Frith, H.A.).
REBECCA.
Gilt Frames. 5s., 7s.. 12s. each._
IglGHT
LARGE ENGRAVINGS for 21s.
The Mexican l
French j anil ^>pi
’ ore a Trade Mark; and the public will please
on every cose surrounding the Bottle, and the
UP ii blown in the bottle,
ir Ueuewer. Price 3e.Gd. Direction* in German
iah. Prepared by li. C. Gallup. 4‘J3, Oxford-
2, Rue Castiglione, Paris; W.
Kingiton. Malta: Bathgate and 60., CafeuttS;'" b7'g"."L et
Port Elizabeth, Cane of Good H< jk*; Malabar and Go.. Kings*
town. Jamaica; T.Tllmmer, Ilridgetown, Barbados*; Rc*weand
^i 1 i^.ra^ ; nX r ^* r f , Vhi-wn°rid b ‘ T; “ d °'
_B, 32 in. by 2_
THE BLIND TIDDLER
THE KENT DAY
READING THE WILL
VILLAGE POLITICIANS
SUSPENSE
THE BLOODHOUND __
HASTINGS—Sea View (Turner, R.
DOVEB-Sca View (Turner, R.
These are a very Iwantiful aet of Pictures.
(Wilkie).
l\\ ilhiri.
(Wilkie).
I Wilkie.
(I.iiTidfc r>.
It Frai
6d„ Ids. ei
13EAUTIFUL LARGE MIRRORS.
Ip great bargains.
Two Guinea* each, or £3 10*. the pair, in handsome Gold Oval
Frame*. Size. 3 ft. from top to bottom. Usual price. Six
Guineas. Mont chaste design, with elegantly arranged light
bracket at bottom, with brilliant plate-glaes nearly 4fn. thick,
ami will travel wife to any part of the world. They are suitable
for Dining or Drawing-Room*. Ball-Room*, or Grand Saloon*.
Beat Gold and Workmanship. Black and Gold, same price.
TESTIMONIAL.
Lindudowne-rottd. Dublin,
“ Tuesday, Oct. 29,1878.
“Dear Sir,—I opened the crate on this d— * 1 .* 41
d had them hung up. They pli
_ ...l* day and tovh__
l them hung up. They please me greatly, and l
hral Mirrors, in style and finish, fully equal to
•d from a first-class house in Dublin at twice the
,d a cheque in payment to-morrow, and Hgaiu
ir civility, ana would be obliged &>r a Cata-
" I remain, yours very truly, F. Rkid.’’.
QEO. REES,
115 and 116. Strand (rvpjxnlte Ererer IUU).
Export Orders promptly attended to, and cose, charged a
KEYLESS WATCHES.
KEY REQUIRED.
AIR-TIGHT, DAMP-TIGHT. DUST-TIGHT.
Silver . 6guineas. 8guineas ...... 10guineas-
Geld.10 guineas. 12 guineas. 14 guineas.
Every Watch skilfully Examined. Timed, and Its
performance Guaranteed.
SAFE AND FREE BY POST.
J OHN BENNETT’S WATCHES.
65, Cheapside.
PRESENTATION GOLD WATCHES, 20 to 40
guineas.
LADIES’ GOLD KEYLESS ACTION WATCHES,
from 10 guineas.
SILVER WATCHES, with Keyless Action, from
6 guineas.
GOLD KEYLESS HALF-CHRONOMETER8, from
30 to 40 guineas.
SILVER HALF-CHRONOMETERS, from 15 to 25
guineas.
HALF-CHRONOMETERS are compensated for
variations of temperature, adjusted in positions,
and Wind and Set Hands without Keys.
ENGLISH HALL CLOCKS, chiming tho quarters,
from 30 guineas.
RICHLY-GILT DRAWING-ROOM CLOCKS,
with classic designs.
MARBLE DINING-ROOM CLOCKS, with Antique
/COUNTRY ORDERS attended to with the
utmost care. Post-Office Orders, or Cheques, crossed
. to JOHN BENNETT, 65,
T^OREIGN ORDERS should be accompanied
X? by remittances or London references.
■RENNETT’S HOUSE, OFFICE, and
X> SHOP DIALS, EIGHT-DAY PIECES,
in Mahogany, Oak, or Rosewood Cases, warranted for perfect
CASH PRICES.
TLLUSTRATED CATALOGUES post-free
-L on application.
TOHN BENNETT’S WATCH and CLOCK
O MANUFACTORY,
64 aud 65, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.
_-e between these Honi-.
forward by unscrupulous
tent medical - -- „, r
Charles Locock, Bart., M.D., F.B.C S.: Sir Henry Hol¬
land, Bart., M.D., F.R.0.8. and F.fe.8.; Sir J R
Martin, Bart., C.B, F.R.C.3, F.S.A, and F.R.S.; Sir W
Kergusson. Bart, M.D, F.R.S, F.B.C.8, Ac, and TustK
0111 BURE s'r O it I;'ll OF 1M I> AUlKD^Tr AL ENERdY "
Sent post-free for three stamps.
Q.ALVANISM i
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
happy to say^ I have
worn during ^he past three months. I'sl_ ^
glad to recommend your Bands to any suffering lrom
this disorder, without the slightest doubt as to their
truly wonderful efficacy. You may make what use you
like of this letter, using my initials only.-I am. Sir,
^‘ffiSkcher. " W - T - H -
pALVANISM v. SORE THROAT,
VJ ” 65, Earl Derby-terrace, Salford,
•• Dear Sir,—I beg t<
rom tlie Appliance wi
sore throat, from wl
hich you have supplied motor
1 hod been Buttering lor two
' "mof pblegi '
■espectfulljr,
I shall always recc
.opportunity
and
” Mr. Pulvermacher.
/GALVANISM v. INDIGESTION
VX NERVOUSNESS.
'• Waytowh, Kentlsbury, near Barnstaple,
“ Sept. 21. 1878.
“ Dear Sir.—I am glad to say 1 have been greatly
relieved by your valuable Chains. I was suffering from
indigestion and nervous complaint.—lam. jviurs truly;,
p ALVANISM v. GENERAL DEBILITY.
VJT •• Wragby, near Lincoln, Sept. 17,1878.
•• Dear Sir,—In July last I purchased one of your
Chain-Bands. 1 have much pleasure in telling you that
I had not worn the Baud more tlmu a week betoro feeling
very beneficial effects. I now feel a new man, being
stronger in every way. both body and niind. 1 consider
many sufferers might be mode happy, so to spent, by
the use of your Chain-Bands; and I trust this testi¬
monial may Induce others to us» your Bauds. «nd they
will like myself, consider you a friend and benefactor.
Pleaseomit full mime and add res..-Faithfully yoinv^
•• Mr. Pulvermacher. ‘fc. W.
GALVANISM v. NUMBNESS in LEGS.
VI Cadet Hospital, Royal Military College,
Faruborough Station,^Hanhj, ^
“ Sir,—I have much .pleasure in telling you that I hive
derived much benefit from yonr Chain-Bands. Ths
numbed^feeling i in “i-
Unities I ™^adnallyfosrng flesli. and If™ March
in the present year until the middle of August I had lost
nearly three stones In weight; but. however, asseuaato*
returned to me again 1 began to gradually gain Arab, and
by this time have gained nearly a stone weight. 1
shall be happy to answer any questions addressed to me,
*“ d Mr?^uivCTmaS«. y ' " Willuk H Wziubt.’’
v. GREAT NERVOUS
D " 4,* Walton's BulldingjjSunderland,
E&£3S3&&St3a
E^Lblm The drculution is now 'X}S r e *“ ,1 ea , k^
than they have been tortjoje"•■ ^^STyoSS
“ Messrs. Pulvermacher and Co.
ALVANISM v. SPINAL WEAKNESS.
\JT ’’ 45. Busscll-atreet. Wolverhampton,
Dear Sir.-I have TrouKeof ronMtohto)
out anv benefit, tliongh they were wen wna au
“ Mr. Pulvermacher.
LOSS of POWER in
, w Oldham^ncar Manchester, Ang.
■-faring imiirely lost the use of my left «m from
Q. ALVANISM
Q. ALVANISM
rtrurtio^s.'and'l kckkowledge ^cU
a!fthe a oUiero^ , ?»u Tre quito^^™^^^uS*be loS h!
this; for without the use of my *nn I f 0 j XunKTi.
the world.—Your* gratefully. x ^’
” Mr. PulTermaclier.
QALVANISM v. BRONCHmS. ^ ^
aboirt' n’m- years ^
for bronchiti!, from which Iliad j Vgan to
years. After wearing
foci better. J *
Since that
altliougli f
.. *j f iulTof^hi
^iffitisds oSwof mynaiMshe^d
V 0R FURTHER TESTIMONIALS^^
^ S^cS&hSSoSSti IMPAIRED vital
ENERGY." post-free for three stamps.
J L. PULVERMACHER S
GALVANIC ESTABLISHMENT
194 ,^'
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 1878.— 15
pETER pOBINSON.
J^ECESSARY ^OTICE.
ALL LETTERS. ORDERS, AND
TELEGRAMS
INTENDED FOR
NSON'S MOURNING 1
uuBt bo clearly directed
" pEGENT-STREET,”
lse they would not reach, us
236 to 262, Regent-street.
TV/TOURNING ORDERS SENT AT ONCE
-LY-L BY PETER ROBINSON
UPON RECEIPT OF LETTER OR TELEGRAM.
A large Staff of very competent Dressmakers and ASSISTANTS
are kept purposely to TRAVEL to ull parts of the
country—no matter the distance—
(free of any extra charge whatever to the Customer)
with a full assortment of Made-up Goods of the most fashionable
and suitable description.
■mpleted at very short notici
Orders, however large, ci- r __ „„_
by Dressmakers of the greatest proficiency
(either French, German, or English).
Observe the only one Address—for
PETER ROBINSON’S,
COURT AND GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE,
is 236.to 262. REGENT-STREET. LONDON.
One of the most important Houses of its kind in England.
.aa a Mourning Warehouse Thirty Years.
pLACK SILKS—Specially Cheap,
—jiufactured by Messrs. Bonnet et Cie. at
Manufactured by Messrs. Tapisaier et Cie. at
Manufactured by Messrs. Jaubert et Cie. at
Manufactured by Messrs. DSgove et Cie, at
s. lid.
s. fid., and •
200 PIECES of BLACK SILK at one price,
6s.; usual price, 8s. 8d.
Address onlv for Patterns as follows
PETER ROBINSON, 256 to 262,
REGENT-STREET.
THE COURT AND GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE.
T>LACK SILK VELVETS,
-13 Exceptional Value,
at Ss. lid., 4s. 9d., 9s. fld., 6s. 6d.. and 7s. 6d.
RICH LYONS VELVETS,
at 10s. !kl., 12s. ltd., and 13s. 6d.
Snperb qualities for presses and Mantles.
pLACK SILK COSTUMES,
from pure and good wearing silks,
at .V), 71, 8,10.12. and up to 20 guineas,
fashionably trimmed, with Satin und Velvet.
Copies of the most recent Paris models.
Also good Black Satin Qnilted Petticoats
for One Guinea.
For Fhotograph9 of the Costumes and self-measurement form
address as follows
PETER ROBINSON, REGENT-STREET,
., Nos. 236 to 261.
E vening and dinner
New Styles, well cut, and elegantly trimmed,
from one guinea to 10 guineas.
TarlatanB in the most fashionable styles, 21s.
Black Brussels Net. 25s., 29s. 6d.. and 33s.
Black Silk Tulle (condition keeping), 42s. and Ms.
Grenadine, from 42s. to 4 guiueas.
For Sketches of the above, address as follows
PETEK ROBINSON, UEGENT-STKEET,
Nos. 236 to 262.
H
E A L and g O N
HAVE ON SHOW
LARGEST 0 STOCK
of
pED-ROOM pURNITURE
IN LONDON.
T70RTY SUITES are Set Apart in Separate
T Rooms, ond tbe general Stock occupies Six GaUerles and
Two Ground Floors, each 130 feet long.
1 50 BEDSTEADS, fitted with every
description of Iwdding. are ready Ilxed for Inspection.
AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE,
CONTAINING 450 DESIGNS OF
BEDSTEADS & BED-ROOM FURNITURE,
PRICE-LIST OF BEDDING,
SENT FREE BY POST.
195 to 198, TOTTENIIAM-COURT-ROAD,
rPRELOAR and SONS, 69, Ludgate-hill.
JL Seven PrUe Medals, including Paris, 1878. Catalogues and
M ATS.
L D
fJpURKEY CARPETS.
QRTENTAL RUGS.
rPRELOAR and SONS, 69, Ludgate-hm.
id Estimates free.
pHUBBS’ NEW PATENT SAFES.
VV fin, and Thief Resisting, and with Diagonal Bolts.
PHUBBS’ JEWEL SAFES,
V-/ for Ladies' Rooms, specially fitted.
pHUBBS’ PATENT DETECTOR LOCKS,
Vj of oU sizes and for every purpose.
fHIUBBS’ STREET-DOOR LATCHES,
with amaU and neat keys.
/^HUBBS’ CASH and DEED BOXES,
\J all fitted with Detector Locks.
riHUBB’S ART METAL-WORK, TILES,
V_y STAIN ED.GLA8S WINDOWS, Ac.
fTHREE PRIZE MEDALS and Honourable
1 Mention awarded at the PARIS EXHIBITION, 18M.
f'lHUBB and SONS’ PRICE-LIST, with
Y ) Illustrations of all the above articles, sent post-free on
application at their Warehouses. .128, I^ndon^w'
St Paul's. E.C., and 68, St. Janies's-street. S.W., London , 28,
T lird-ttreet Livernool• us. Cross-street, Manchester; 104. New-
JEWEL ROBBERIES PREVENTED.—
*) TANN'S RELIANCE SAFES have never fgjledto ™
the attempts of the most determined burglars.— Flre-Reslsti
Safes, £9 9s. Lists free.—11, Newgate-street. E.O.
pEAL SEAL PALETOTS,
pROM 5 Guineas to 50 Guineas.
BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED
PHOTOGRAPHS OF ABOVE,
A POST-FREE.
D.
piCH PARIS AND BERLIN CLOAKS.
pATEST NOVELTIES,
pROM 1 Guinea to 20 Guineas.
BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED
PHOTOGRAPHS OF ABOVE,
JL POST-FREE.
D NICHOLSON and CO.,
• 90 to 93. ST. PAUL'S. LONDON.
P ARIS EXPOSITION COSTUMES.
D. NICHOLSON and CO. beg to announce the Return of
their Buyers from Paris, and that they are now making a
Grand Display of Elegant COSTUMES, including everul fac¬
simile Copies of those shown In the Paris Exhibition.
D. Nicholson and Co., 90 to 93, St. Paul's-churcliyord, London.
gILKS ! J)RESSES ! yELVETEENS!
best Lyons Manufacture, In the following Lots, may__
post-free. s. d. £ s. d.
LOT 1. Lyons Gros Grain. 2 114 peryd.; or 16yds. 2 7 0
LOT2. Rich .. ., 3 3} ,. „ 2 12 6
LOT 3. „ Drup do France 3114 „ „ 3 3 0
LOT 4. „ Lyons Gros Grain 4 64 „ „ 312 6
LOT 9. 4 llj „ „ 318 6
LOT 6. Poult deSoie .. 6 11 „ „ 4 14 6
LOT 7. Extra Bieh Falll. 6 11 „ „ 6 10 0
D. NICHOLSON and CO.,
60. 61. 92, and 93. 8T. PAUL'S-CHURCHYARD. LONDON.
pLACK SILKS at LOWER PRICES than
J3 they have been sold at for forty years. Owing to the de-
' ’ ' - Raw Silk trade, we have made large pur-
- - "vlded into Four Lots.
yard. 2 24 2 64 2 M 2 lli
yard. 3 51 3 61 3 llj 4 ll{
yard, 4 fi| 4 Ilf 6 3 6 11
Lot O. Prices per ,_, .
Ixit D. Prices per yard, 6 „ .. . .. „ „
The above are 30 per cent lower In price than tills time last year.
Patterns of all the qualities post-free.
D n ich0LS0N and C 0 ’’
90 to 63. ST. PAUL'S-CHURCHYARD, LONDON.
■\TEW AUTUMN and WINTER DRESS
lY MATERIALS.
All the latest Novelties In French Cashmeres and Merlnocs,
Velour Cloths, Estamene aud Lome Serges, Diagonal Serges,
Cashmcrettes, Wool Plaids, Fancy Bourettes, and every other
fashionable material suitable for tho present and coming season,
D. Nicholson and Co., 60,91, Bl, and 63, St. Paul's-chnrchyard.
ADIES’ UNDERCLOTHING,
-i A Superior Collection of Now Patterns in every Article of
Ladle*’ Underclothing. Good work guaranteed.
A Costly Illustrated Book of tbe Goods in this department, with
Estimates for Wedding Trousseaux, Layettes, and Indian
~utflts sent post-free.
JQ J^ICHOLSON and 00.,
DO, 61, 82, ond B. 8T. PAUL'S-CHURCHYARD.
JJENRY GLAVE’S
GRAND CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION
BALL, SOIREeT AND DINNER
DRESSES.
MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY IN THE SHOW-ROOM AND
GALLERIES.
SPilCIALITE BALL DRESS,” Black,
White, or Coloured Tarlatans, handsomely trimmed, with
bodice, made or unmade, 19s. 9d.
ROBE DE BAL” COLOURED NET
DRESSES, trimmed with Wreaths, Sprays, or Garlands of
Flowers, 35a. fid.
Cap, trimmed Wreath of Flowers to match, 6s. lid.
THE COLOURED NET, being worn at all
the Grand Balls In Paris at the present season.
“MATIIILDE” COLOURED TARLATAN
DRESSES, trimmed Spangle, 29s. 6d.; Coloured Net,
trimmed Spangle, 39s. 6d. __
SPANGLE NET is the latest Parisian Novelty.
“LES ETOILES ” SPANGLED GAUZE,
In all the New Shades,2gs. Spangled Cap to match, 9s. lid.
“ FAIRY ” WHITE MUSLIN SOIREE
DRESSES, 18s. 9d.. trimmed Laco and Coloured Bows,25s. 6d.
Muslin B4b6 Cap to match, 3s. lid.
“GIPSY” BLACK GAUZE or
GRENADIN E DRESSES, trimmed Coloured Bows, 21s. 6d.
23a. 6d„ and 358. 6d.
“LA GAITE ” COLOURED CASHMERE
In the New Grenlt Sapphire, White, Cream, or Ivory,
trimmed Silk or Satin, 2j gs.
With BrocbS or Pekin Velour Waistcoat, 3 gs.
HANDSOME NOVELTIES in CAP, to
match, 5s. lid.. 6s. lid., 7s. lid., and 10s. 9d.
WOOL SOIREE WRAPS, 4s. lid., 6s. lid.,
8s. lid., and 12s. 9d., In Whiteor Light Colours, to match the
WHITE MUSLIN TRAIN SLIPS, 4s. lid.,
6s. lid., 8a. lid., and 10s. 9d.
CHILDREN’S MUSLIN and EVENING
DRESSES of every description and ago. Estimates sent post-
free.
“FANCY DRESS COSTUMES.” Sketches
of any Character, with full particulars, post-free.
BALL and EVENING DRESSES made to
Measure on the shortest notice.
PHOTOGRAPHS, SKETCHES, PATTERNS
of MATERIALS, with Measurement Forms, post-free.
Also, PHOTOGRAPHS of the Latest
PARISIAN MODES in MILLINERY. f Langtry Hat, in
nil the New Shades, 1(h). IVt. Gains boro Hats, in Velour,
16s. yd. Plush and Pekin Bonnets, 21s. fid., Mob. B4be, and
Turban Caps, for Evening Wear 3s. lid., 4 b. lid., &
6*. lid., 8s. lid., and 10s. 9d.
534, 535, 536, and 537, NEW OXFORD-
STREET, LONDON.
H enry - glave’s
EVENING DRESS FABRICS.
The El Dorado Gauze, a beautiful Fabric for Evening
Wear woven by a new process In Gold and Oliver
Threads of brilliant brightness, and wiU not break.
Price is. 2jd. a yard. Patterns free.
nOHE “ ECLIPSE.”—A French spangled
1 effect. Gold and Silver worked in White, Block, Pink,
aud Blue. 24in., is. 6jd. yard.
HENRY GLAVE,
634, 538, 536, and 637, NEW OXFORD-STREET.
JMPORTANT NOTICE.
Please direct aU Letters and Orders for
PETER ROBINSON,
BILKMERCER AND L1NENDRAFEU,
tho only Address,
103 to 108, OXFORD-STREET, W.,
where the Business was Established in 1833.
PETER ROBINSON, OXFORD-STREET.
gILKS FOR CHRISTMAS.
ONE THOUSAND P1ECE8 OF NEW
LYONS GROS GRAIN, at 3s. 6d. per yard,
In every Ncw*Shade, for Evening Wear.
Coloured Satinfi«toTrtiateh. at 3s. fid. per yard.
3er Qualities. Coloured Silks. 4 m a. ami flu
Richer qualities, Coloured Silks.'4s. tkl., fls.
■« d »
and 6s. 9d.
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MICHAEL GARGRAVE’S HARVEST.
(Continued from page 11.)
“ Well, I got a long lease of that piece of ground—a snug
piece, I call it; and I decided to use the old bam for the
works. I did not want to lay out an unnecessary penny; and,
further, I was determined to take no capital out of the ware¬
house—there is little enough in it at any rate—but to do the
best I could with what little I had put by, and all I could save.
“We have lived very close, Mr. Gargrave, very close indeed,
and yet the venture has been starved for want of money. The
thing is not a success ; I tell you that fairly; but I believe it
might be made a success. You can see how much has been
spent, for I have kept a record of every halfpenny, and you
can come in and out when you please, if you have the least
fancy for the speculation. You need not be in any hurry
about deciding one way or other.”
“As to that, Mr. Holding,” said the young man, smiling,
“ I can decide now. I want some part of this legacy for
another purpose, but the bulk of it you shall have whenever
it is paid to me.”
“No, no,” exclaimed Mr. Holding; “I can't let you
plunge into the thing like a moth at a candle. It is a big
stake for you, and remember, though you may win, still, you
may lose.”
“ So be it, then,” answered Michael. “ Whether I win or
lose, you won’t hear me grumble. I would almost as soon lose
with you as win with another !”
CHAPTER YI.
EXPLANATIONS.
Into all the details of the story narrated in the last few chapters
it was happily unnecessary for Mr. Gargrave to enter when,
on the morning after what he called his fight, he and Lucy met
at breakfast. If it had been necessary, it is doubtful whether
in his then frame of mind he could have reverted to a time so
long past—to a period the ideas and hopes of which he must
have found it simply impossible to recall.
But there was no need for Lucy to be told.
He had to deal with later times—with a more immediate
difficulty.
“ Until last night, Lucy,” he began, addressing his ward,
who, in the absence of Miss Gargrave, still incapacitated from
headache, was pouring out the coffee, “I never thought of
you as anything but a child. Although you are engaged to
be married. ’ ’ I somehow never realised you were almost grown
up ; I forgot you, like myself, were growing quite old.”
She looked up, and smiled. Of course, he was old; but,
after aM, he did not look so immensely old as many people—
Mr. Suttaby, for instance, and Russell’s uncle.
Besides he looked younger when he talked freely and
pleasantly, as he was doing on this bright winter's morning,
while she presided over the cups and saucers.
As a rule, Mr. Gargrave aid not indulge in much con¬
versation in his own family circle. Breakfast, in particular,
was with him generally a hasty and silent meal, often as not
interrupted by a message from the foreman.
The change, therefore, from Mr. Gargrave silent to Mr.
Gargrave talkative was not more strange than delightful. Even
when he repeated his words of the previous evening, and said
lie wanted to speak to her about their relative positions, she
only settled herself in her chair with a pretty gravity.
“You remember my taking tea with you once at Old Ford,
Lucy?” he went on. “At that time I was clerk to your
father, as young Terrol is clerk to me now.”
“Were you ? ” Lucy opened her eyes wide. It seemed to
her strange that he could ever have been anything like young
Terrol.
“ Yes; I had then been quite a long time in his employ¬
ment. When I first went to your father I was quite a lad,
little older than you are now. So we grew in mere process of
time to know and understand each other, and he trusted me.”
“ He often said there was no one he trusted as he did you.”
Mr. Gargraveremainedsilentfora moment, then he resumed:
“When I had money enough we went into partnership.
Your father started this place, but he wanted more capital to
carry it on, and I was able to find the capital. Up to the time
he met with that accident I do not believe he had ever felt
seriously anxious about your future, because he always believed
he could make sufficient out of this business to provide for
your future. I will not say he was over sanguine, but he did
think his ideas capable of being more largely carried out than
—than ”-
Mr. Gargrave broke off abruptly.
‘ At any rate,” he resumed, “when he met with the
accident he had not begun to save any money. He sent for
me, and we talked over affairs as they stood.
“ To take from the works the amount invested by him in
them would then have secured you a very poor provision.
In effect, we could not have taken that money out. We
might have got another partner, or we might not. Except
to us, there really was not money’s worth about the place.
As a ‘ growing concern ’ the works were profitable; but to try
to realise them would have been merely to sell so many barge -
loads of sand, so many crucibles, and so much personal expe¬
rience and knowledge acquired with difficulty, and almost
impossible to communicate. I hope I am making my meaning
clear to you, Lucy ? ”
“ I am trying to understand it,” she said humbly and de-
precatingly; but she need not have feared that he would feel
impatient. He was thinking of the dead father and the hopeful
long ago, and he had nothing in his heart at the moment save
pity for the girl and self-reproach towards himself.
“ Well, Lucy ; your father thought there was but one thing
to do. If he lived, he knew you were safe as he could make
you; if he died, he thought he could trust me to look
alter your interests. So as not to complicate difficulties and
hamper the trade at every’ turn, he left everything to me. He
put me, to quote his own words, in his place, and I have tried,
Lucy, to stand in his place, so far as might be. With all my
strength I have striven to do the best I could for you as well
as for myself.”
“ That I am sure you have,” she exclaimed. “ I never-
never can thank you sufficiently f< r all your goodness.”
“ Ay ! But I have not been goed to you now ; I have done
ill instead of well.”
“ I do not understand,” she said.
He told her : he did not spare himself. He spoke more of
his own folly than of the roguery of Brent and Stanhope;
he explained how the affair must cripple and might ruin him.
He mentioned how it happened that Mrs. Brockley s money
had been sent to him, and more unwillingly than all else—for
the last thing, probably, of which a true mun likes to speak is
any religious impression—he repeated the sentence which,
recurring to menjory in his hour of need, decided his refusul of
assistance he might be unable to repay.
“ I heard the words by chance,” ho said ; “ I turned one
day into a City church, where every Thursday a great preacher
discourses to such citizens as care and have time to go and
liiten to him. The sermon did not particularly impress me at
the time; but those words must have struck me, for they
staid in my memory like the verse of some old ballad, and
I haunted me last night till I was sick and tired of thinking
about them. You 6ee they were true,” he went on, speaking
almost to himself, “ and I felt them to be true; so I do not ask
you this morning if I did right, for I knew it would not have
been right to peril the poor old lady’s money. What I do ask
is that you will forgive me for jeopardising your fortune.”
“Had I ever any fortune to lose?” she asked playfully.
“ I think you are mistaken.”
“No,” he answered. “Money has been made here; and
as I refused to take Mr. Russell Suttaby into partnership, it
was my intention to pay out by degrees such amounts as
might ultimately make up the share I considered you justly
entitled to receive. Mr. Suttaby said he should prefer what he
calls “an agreed lump down” to any yearly payment, and
he was coming over this morning to go fully into the matter
with me.
She turned her ring round and round thoughtfully, then
she said, “ Wouldn’t he lend you the money you need 'r ”
Mr. Gargrave laughed as he answered. “No, Lucy, rich
people are rarely ready lenders. Besides, he added, “even if
I were willing to ask Mr. Suttaby’s help, which I am not, it
would be impossible for me to do so, as he has been rather
pressing for a definite settlement, or at least for a date to be
named when your fortune could be paid.”
Lucy remained silent for a minute; then she 6aid, gravely,
“ I didn't know I was to have any money.”
“ You foolish child! Did you think I should keep it all ?
Have I not always been your guardian?”
“I mean,” she persisted, “I did not know they wanted
any money.”
“ Why, all young ladies have, or ought to have, fortunes.”
“ If I were a man I should like to marry a girl without a
s hillin g.”
“ That comes of reading my Bister’s romances,” he Baid.
“ I would not marry anyone who had a fortune. My mother
had no money, and think how my father loved her to the last
day of his life. Oh ! if you have really any money of mine,
make haste and lose it. I should hate to have a fortune.”
“ I am afraid, Lucy, it is lost already. But I will do my
best to replace it as speedily as may be. What I fear is your
marriage may have to be deferred for a time in consequence;
that thought has been troubling me greatly.” She looked
at him with her great, soft, honest eyes, and answered,
“ Then do not let it trouble you any more. We can wait
ever so long—years and years, if that be all. And please never
think again about that money. I do not want it, and I know
Russell does not, either.”
Mr. Gargrave entertained a decided opinion on that point,
but he had no wish to discuss his impression with her.
“ There is Mr. Suttaby now driving round to the counting-
house, Lucy,” he remarked. “ I must go to him.”
And so he went to tell Mr. Suttaby the best and the worst
of the position.
CHAPTER VII.
EVIL DAYS.
One bitter day in the January following Mr. Gargrave’s talk
with Mr. Suttaby an elderly gentleman making his way with
the wind up Holboin-hill met an elderly lady who was making
her way against it.
Contrary to the mot— of the Irish wit—in this case the lady
and not the wind was getting the worst of it, and when the
gentleman met her she was indeed a sight to behold, a
spectacle to pity.
Those were the days of crinoline ; but, as her principles
forbade her to walk abroad in a birdcage, the wind was making
wild sport of her demure skirts, twisting them, flouting
them, jeering at them and her, trying to blow her fur tippet—
of an excellent quality, but obsolete pattern—off her shoulders,
playing pranks with the feather in her old-fashioned bonnet,
mocking everything about her, from the long black lace veil—
real lace, as she said and believed, poor old lady—with which
she tried to conceal her face to the tears in her faded eyes
that would roll down her cheeks before, in the struggle with
her enemy, she could raise a kerchief to wipe them away.
“ Mrs. Brockley ! ’ ’ said the gentleman, pulling up. “ What
on earth are you doing here ? ”
“Oh, Mr. Herron! oh, Sir!" And her tears, at length
obtaining complete mastery over conventionality, poured down
her cheeks ; while the wind, seizing his opportunity, whisked
her veil back over her bonnet, leaving her face bare to the
sight of the whole passing world of London.
Evidently a man of decision, Mr. Herron took the poor
lady by the shoulder and turned her with back to the frolicsome
wind, tucked her arm within his, and said, “Now tell me all
about it.”
But poor Mrs. Brockley was quite unable to tell him all
about it. The battle she had been fighting with the wind—
the noise of the streets—the surprise of meeting a person from
her own neighbourhood, had so disconcerted her that she could
not speak a connected sentence.
“Never mind,” exclaimed Mr. Herron kindly; “we’ll
soon be out of this row, and then we can talk in peace.”
To describe Mrs. Brockley as she walked along with Mr.
Herron would be simply to portray a mixture of harmless
vanity, innocent pride, dread and humiliation as to the state of
her attire, and an underlying grief, which no persoual anxiety
or exultation could cause her to forget.
Mr. Herron was the principal solicitor at Eastlea, solicitor
to all the county families, a very grand personage in Mrs.
Brockley’s estimation, and she “took it very kind of him, ’
she said afterwards, “to be so pleasant and friendly with an
old body like me, and in the middle of London, too.”
Not far from the spot where he met his townswoman was a
quiet hostelry, where the lawyer generally put up on the occa¬
sion of his frequent visits to town; and to this hotel he
conducted his companion.
“ Sit down and warm yourself,” he entreated, leading her
into a snug apartment, closing the door and poking the fire.
*• What is it? You are in some difficulty, and I can help you.”
“ I do not think you can, Sir,” she answered ; “ but it is
very good of you; and me taking away my bit of business.”
“Booh! Mrs. Brockley,” he interrupted. “Do you sup¬
pose I bear malice about that. Ladies are sometimes apt
to be headstrong. What is the trouble now. Don't think of
me as a lawyer, speak as if I were only a friend.”
Mrs. Brockley carried a reticule—a contemporary, probably,
of the tippet and the black veil: from this she produced
another pocket-handkerchief, with which she solemnly wiped
her eyes, and said—
“ If you please, Sir, I shall have to begin at the beginning.”
“ Very well,” agreed Mr. Herron, ancl sat down resignedly.
“You know my poor dear husband had a nephew, Sir.”
“Several,” corrected the la wyt r; “one a most turbulent
fellow—Daniel—Jacob—Samuel—yes—Samuel: has he been
troubling you?”
“ He has always been coming to me for money, Sir, which,
indeed, he ought not to have done, since I helped to make
what Mr. Brockley left me; and a man, Burely, has a right to
do what he likes with his own.”
“ Humph ! that’s as it may be; but I suppose you gave this
Samuel Borne and can't get it back again.”
- “ No, Sir, I did not. I knew he was in a good way here in
London—he told me himself his agency was worth three
hundred a year; and he had money with his wife ; and why
should I give him what we earned so hard ? ”
“ Why should you, indeed ? ” acquiesced Mr. Herron.
“ When that mortgage was paid off,” she continued, “as
I could not go to you, Sir, for advice”-
Mr. Herron smiled a smile which was at once a vindication
of his own astuteness and a reproach for her want of faith in
his placability.
“ At any rate, Sir, I did not like to go to you; and, as I
scarce knew what to do about the money, I thought of young
Mr. Gargrave—Mr. Michael. You remember him ? ’
“ Of course I do—Rokeby Gargrave’s son. Came up to
London to make his fortune. He has done remarkably well ? ”
Mrs. Brockley shook her head, and began to cry again.
“ Far from it, Sir. He is at this present minute in what
I think Sam calls a ‘ Sponging-house,’ close by here.”
“ Bless my soul! ” said Mr. Herron. “I am shocked to
hear this. But what is ‘ bred in the bone ’—you know; and
the father was-Well, we won’t talk of that. To return
to your money. You did not send Mallard’s cheque to him, I
hope ? ”
“ Yes, I did, Sir; the very day I got it.”
“ And he lias spent it for you! Dear! dear! Like father,
like son! I am most truly sorry for you, Mrs. Brockley. I
am afraid it is a bad case. We must see what can be done,
though. Give me all the particulars, and I will call on his
lawyers.”
“ But I haven’t lost a penny, Sir.”
“ My good lady, you have j ust told me you had lost it all! ”
“No, Sir; it was you said that. I have lost no money
by Mr. Gargrave ; but Sam says he lias. He came
down to the Villa the other day by express, dashed in like a
flash of lightning, says, ‘ I am ruined! I am beggared ! I
have lost my agency, all through you and your friend Michael
Gargrave. You ’ll have to make it up to me. As for him, ho
is out of the way of wheedling old women for awhile. I have
got him locked up safe enough ! ’
“ He went on just as if he was not in his right mind. He
frightened me to such a degree that I ran out of the house
with only my cap on, and asked Mr. Giles, who happened to
be passing, to come in and speak to him. Mr. Giles is very
clever, as you know, Sir, and by degrees he gets to the
rights of the story.
“It seems Mr. Gargrave lost a great deal of money by some
dishonest people he had trusted, and in consequence could not
pay the gentlemen for whom Sam is agent.
“ He wanted time to turn round in, and all his other
creditors but Sam agreed to this. Sam knew I had sent him
up my money (for I told him so), and said Mr. Gargrave
ought to have used it to pay him at any rate. At last, as I
understand, they came to high words about the matter, and
without more ado, Sam locked him up—“ put the screw on,”
as he said. But Mr. Gargrave w’ould not pay a bit more for
that, and wrote down to the gentlemen in the country, and
one of them came up and gave Sam notice, and said he would
throw the whole thing into bankruptcy, and break Mr.
Gargrave; and so Sam came to me, more mad than sane.”
“ And you returned to town with him, I suppose.”
“ No, Sir.” He upset me so that I was all of a tremble,
and when Mr. Giles got him out of the house and away to the
train, I had to go to bed. I could not lift my head, Sir ; no,
not if life and death had depended on my doing it; but I
could think, and I did, about the poor gentleman I had
known from the time he was a mere child, and who when he
was a lad used to come into the Brayley Arms, free and plea¬
sant, as if it was his own home. He was always fond of me;
and he used to bring me trout he had caught, and hares he
had shot; and, oh ! dear !—oh ! dear ! dear me!”
“ It does you credit, it reallydoes,” murmured Mr. Herron.
“And so you thought, Mrs. Brockley ”-
“ That I would come up myself and see him, and ask him
to use my money, about which, as Mr. Giles said, he had acted
most honourable. So I did come, Sir, by the Parliamentary.
And I’ve seen him, Sir; and I might just as well have stopped
at home. He won’t touch a penny, he says. He was very
pleasant, and tried to seem cheerful; but he looks broken¬
hearted—he does, Sir; and I am sure lam!”
“ Humph ! ” commented Mr. Herron; and he sat silent for
a minute while Mrs. Brockley wept and wiped her eyes, till,
exclaiming, “ I ’ll put this to rights,” he got up and drew on
liis gloves and took his hat. “You must leave all to me,
remember,” he remarked.
“ Very good, Sir,” said Mrs. Brockley, meekly.
CHAPTER VIII.
MR. HERRON TO THE RESCUE.
Mrs. Brockley’s statement was correct. Among all the per¬
sons before whom Mr. Gargrave considered it necessary to
place the exact state of his affairs, only two made any dif¬
ficulty about giving him the time he asked for. Those two
were Mr. Samuel Brockley and Air. Suttaby senior. The latter
was unpleasant—the former very unpleasant. Air. Suttaby did
not say much, but what he did say was disagreeable.
“ As I have consented to the match upon certain con¬
ditions,” he finished, “ I will not back out of my consent if
those conditions are fulfilled. I am a man of my word. But,
mark ye ! there must be a limit to the time of the engagement
and no marriage, unless the money is paid down.”
As for Air. Brockley, gifted by nature with a loud voice and
a hectoring manner, he exasperated Mr. Gargrave to an extent
which rendered all chance of an amicable settlement hopeless.
He called the debt a swindle and the man who contracted
it a swindler. He said he believed he had made a purse out of
his aunt’s money—or rather out of his uncle’s money (which
I ought to have had), he stated in parenthesis. He declared
Air. Gargrave's honest scruples to be mere blinds. He threat¬
ened what he could and what he would do; and, finally,
Alichael Gargrave defied him. “ Do your worst; but keep out
of my office ! Keep away, or it will be worse for you.”
“ Oh ! if you come to that ”——
“ Go down those stairs, before I pitch you to the bottom of
them ! ” interrupted Air. Gargrave ; and Air. Samuel Brockley
took the advice and went.
The next day, as Air. Gargrave was walking out of the
Fenchurch-street station, a man accosted him in quite a con¬
fidential and familiar manner, and, explaining he was officer
to the Sheriff of London, told Alichael he had arrested him.
“ Perhaps you would like a cab, Sir? You might not like
to be seen walking with me.”
There was an awf ul brevity about the whole proceeding
which took away Air. Gargrave’s breath. It seemed like a
hideous dream ; and one part of what he beheld in it was Air.
Samuel Brockley standing on the pavement, waving his hand
in derisive farewell as the cab drove away.
What followed was like a terrible nightmare also—days
spent in a sponging-house in Cursitor-street— days during
which time seemed to stand still—days when for the first time
in all his active life he said at dawn * ‘ Would Godit were night,”
and at night “Would God it were morning.”
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Not but what people called to see him. In the goodness of
her heart, Mrs. Dodson—housekeeper, as she called herself at
the cottage— donned her bravest attire, and went to offer her
condolenoes.
Tommy accompanied her—Tommy, the irrepressible—
Tommy, against whom Mr. Gargrave cherished an antipathy
utterly ludicrous—Tommy, with swelled cheeks, a cold in his
head, a great muffler round his throat, an expression of vacant
wonderment in his round eyes, a bun in his hand, a screw of
sweetmeats in his pocket—Tommy, the only son of his mother,
and she a widow.
Exactly as he might have contemplated the lions in the
Zoological Gardens, Tommy stood and stared at Mr. Gargrave,
who said wincing,
“ This is very kind of you, Mrs. Dodson; but I wish you
had not come here. It can do no good. How is my sister ?”
Mrs. Dodson reported that Miss Gargrave was well, though
“upset,” and hoped to see him next day.
Tell her not to come,” he answered. “ I could not bear
bear it.” And yet perhaps he was disappointed when she
whom he had sheltered obeyed his bidding and stayed away.
All the more, perhaps, because Mrs. Dodson’s visit—spite
of the drawback of Tommy—had touched him.
“I have saved a good few pounds, Sir,” she said, “and
brought them with me. If not too great a liberty ?”
He could not answer her for a minute, for she had brought
him all her little hoard—all her treasure, and offered it freely.
Instead of his sister, Lucy came the next day.
“You should not have come here, dear,” he said gently.
“This is no place for a young girl, llow is Matilda? She
ought not to have allowed you to do such a thing.”
“ I did not tell her,” Lucy answered. She had a headache.”
“ She bad not a heartache,” thought her brother, unknow¬
ing till afterwards that she undertook a journey to Urayley on
his behalf, and, being received with scant courtesy, returned home
more utterly prostrated than Mrs. Dodson had ever seen her.
Lucy, too, had brought her little purse—scantily filled, it
is true, but offered with such tender entreaty, such sweet
hesitancy, that Michael Gargrave, looking on the face he once
thought plain, marvelled to find how lovely it seemed to him.
He took the purse—a shabby little affair, frayed and worn—
took it, and emptied out the few sovereigns it contained.
“ 1 have no need of these,” he said; “ but I want a purse.
May I keep this ? ”
“May you? Of course, anything. I have a mnch better
one at home, though. You must have that.”
“No, this; this only,” he answered. “And now go, my
dear. Of course,” he added, as she rose to obey, “ you have
seen the Suttabys.”
“ Oh, yes,” Lucy answered; and, in trying to make the
best of things, left him with such a pain as he had not
known before for years.
'• What an idiot I am—what a dolt,” he considered, for he
knew what the pain was, and that he loved the girl with all his
soul.
As for Lucy, she felt glad to think he had not questioned
her further, for she had seen the Suttabys but once coming out
of church, when the Miss Suttabys only acknowledged her
existence with a bow, and Russell, much embarrassed, shook'
hands in a distant and perturbed manner, saying,
“ I hope, Miss Holding, you are quite well.”
In order, os he expressed it, to make things clear, old Mr.
Suttaby paid Miss Gargrave a visit, in the course of which he
stated the match must now be considered ns finally at an end.
“ I make it a rule,” he said, speaking in a general way, “ to
have nothing to do with bankrupts and insolvents any more
than with forgers, swindlers, or pickpockets. They may be
very worthy people—unfortunate, and so forth. I say nothing
about that; only they are not my sort."
Fanning herself languidly, though her hand literally
trembled with passion, Miss Gargruve said she was very glad
to hear it; and so the engagement ended.
But of all thk Michael Gargrave remained in ignorance,
sitting in Cursitor-s'reet counting the hours till Mr. Brockley
or some one should make him bankrupt.
“I will not do it myself,” he said to his solicitor; “but
that is what it must come to.”
lie was getting worn out. There were times when memory
seemed to be failing him—times when he mixed up his own
position with that of his dead father; when debt seemed piled
on debt, and he could not even read the list he had jotted
down of those to whom he owed money.
He was sitting in the dusk one evening, with an aching
head and tired eyes that dreaded the light, when u gentleman
was announced.
“Dow do you do ? Long time since we met. Glad to tell
you ;his matter is settled at last. I have a cab at the door.
It won’t take you long to pack up, I suppose ?”
Michael rose slowly, and took the hand his visitor offered.
“ i do not remember you ? ” he said.
And yet it was through me you first come to
London that unfortunate Casserow business, you recollect.
\Vhat! Still in a fog? Why, my name is Herron; and I
chanced to hear of this unfortunate affair from that good
Mrs. Brockley Her nephew is—well, I owe him one. Here •
EvenS^” dyC ° meqUiCk! Water! Braud y ! Anything!
Mr. Gargrave had fainted.
Late that night they were sitting, a sad household, at Lea
Bank, when a loud knock at the door caused Mrs. Dodson to
exclaim, * all in a flutter,” as she subsequently stated,
“ Jbiess us and save us, what’s that ? ”
Trembling, she came into the narrow hall at the moment
Mis. Gargrave emerged from the parlour.
* j' l 1 ? can ^ ” ““id Miss Gargrave, trembling also; but
already the question wus answered, tor Lucy hud slipped past
her elders and opeued the door. ^
- master >” crit ' d Mrs - Dodson. “Michael”
screamed Miss Gargrave, and fell upon his neck, while Lucy,
The dkL hla hand ’ klaaed U ° vcr ^ 0Ver > not lowing whit
Hey-dey, ’ cried a cheerful voice, “and not a word for
teke V mv b h Ve H bl f 0Ueht back the P r °d i gaL Here, young lady!
take my hand for a moment by way of a chance Now- I
you remember 'me. I MatUda
th gh Mr He n-on did not bring the news lie saw
w«u uu airzs'&.r 1 to , ok him ,,bro “ d ■•**
Rrayley, and the Kokeby property as wdl'” 1 ' “* ° ° WUer ° f
‘ 1 Speak low ! speak low! Let us get away from the house,”
said Michael, hurriedly.
“ Anything the matter? Nothing wrong, I hope, with your
cliarmiug wife. I shall, I suppose, have to try and think of
her as a great lady for the future, though I did give her to you,
though I did tell you that was the best way of uniting her
interests with yours. Must we go out? Very well.”
They walked away along the road leading by the water till
they reached the bridge, but there, all of a sudden, Michael
Gargrave stopped.
“ I will meet you anywhere you like to name at one
o'clock,” he said, “ but I cannot talk to you now. It lias all
come upon me too suddenly. I have been overworked; I must
get away by myself for a little time."
Mr. Herron stared at him. “I am afraid you have been
overworked,” he said. “ I always feared you were in too great
a hurry to pay your debts. I will return at one o'clock. This
road will take me to Stratford-le-Bow, I think. Fine church
somewhere near Stratford—West Ham—yes, thank you, that
is it, "West Ham.” And he walked away briskly, thinking
Rokeby Gargrave would not have taken such news in so sad
a fashion. “ He'd have tossed his hat up, and been off for
Brayley before now. Well, I can not say 1 like to see one man
cock-a-whoop because another has got the route.”
He went alone, over the louely marshes. He left the field-
paths and the wider road, and walked away over the soft,
springy turf, with naught save his own thoughts for company.
At that moment the instincts of a solitary life claimed
supremacy. In his time of triumph, os in his hour of sorrow,
the waters of his sold seemed at once to be frozen over. Speech
died away inarticulate, expression could find no outlet.
Thoughts too deep for utterance, too subtle for analysis were
in his heart. When Mr. Herron told him his news he
hurried him away, lest in that small house some word of the
conversation should inform his sister of the nature of his
errand; and now, though the natural course for him to
pursue might have seemed to rush off at once to communicate
the tidings to those who had passed through the darkness with
him, he could not do it. No; he felt he must get awuy, quite
away, and think it all out alone—alone, himself and God.
It was a magnificent morning. The dew-drops still
glittered on the leaves, there was still a dreamy haze lying
across the distant forest, there was a fresh, pungent
fragrance in the air—a sense of distinctness in all objects
within the range of vision. High up in heaven the larks were
singing their delicious songs—softly the river trickled on its
course—gently the long grasses trailed their fingers in the cool
water as it went rippling by; and he who wnlked amongst what
would seem this waste of beauty— only that we feel God must
have made even common things lovely for His own delight—
scarce knew how to reconcile the aspect of nature with the
workings of his own heart.
For he was not glad. No. I could not have so written of
this man had he felt it unmixed happiness to walk across a
grave to prosperity. If, a twelvemonth before, his cousin had
given him or lent him a couple of thousand pounds, his feelings
would have been jubilant.
Oh! ye rich, who, to the thinking of some, are so much too
rich, do you ever, I wonder consider what the mere trifles you
lose in your vague ventures would be to a poor struggling man
of business? 1 fancy not. The rich are indifferent, and the poor
struggling man proud. He would be glad, and the rich willing—
and, perhaps, as society is now constituted, it is a simple
impossibility either should understand the mind of the other;
but it is sad, I sometimes fancy in my poor imagining, that he
who is able to give should be so far removed from the man
who requires—the man who needs from the man who desires
to befriend.
Ah ! if to you who read God has given much, “ Remember
the com in the ground.” I ask of you no more : I ask of you
no less. Think, lor the love of the Great. God, whether the
seed you are planting, is likely to produce a harvest you will
care to reap; whether at this Christmas tide you have con¬
sidered the poor and needy—the man who required a helping
hand, the woman who wanted but small assistance to be
prestrved from such evil as no human lauguage can express?
It is but little, uud yet it is so much that the mightiness of
its glory shall stretch from the shores of Time across the ocean
of Eternity.
At the time it was given—nay, in his memory now—Mrs.
Brockley’s mite —which was so much to her—seemed more
to him than the whole of his cousin’s wealth dropped
reluctantly from a dead man’s hand. He hud surmounted the
worst of his difficulties ; he was married; he was happy ; ho
was content. What did all this waste of riches, os at first it
looked like to his unwonted eyes, signify to him ? Cculd his
nature, steeped in business as it had been perforce; assimilated
to his occupation .as that of the hand of the dyer, be changed
so suddenly that in the twinkling of an eye he should feel able
to take upon himself fresh duties and fresh interests.
He experienced no wild feeling of exultation when he con¬
sidered the gift Fortune had thrown to him. He did not hurry
to seize it. At that first moment of possession he probably
regarded his new wealth more calmly und critically than at
anyr future period of his career.
The past seemed to arise and stand before him—the past,
which his lather’s mail extravagance and senseless thriftlessness
had rendered so much like a wild debauch, succeeded by weary
morrows of shame and poverty, and hard, hard work.
For years he had turned his thoughts from these subjects;
but now these things all came back to memory—ghastly
shapes rising from out a dishonoured grave; and for a moment
the sunlight faded and the prospect grew dim, the songs of
the larks sounded afar off, and the murmuring of the water
seemed to threaten instead of lull.
Then there came another recollection, and this time a
blessed one. He thought of the man. poor in pocket, honest
of purpose, single of heart, who walked once where he was
walking, thinking only of his dead, lying white and quiet in
the darkened house, which for her sake should seem lor ever
after lonely.
And now lie was sleeping, too; but he had gone to his
rest content, with no words of murmuring because his day
had been hard, and the heat intense, and his burden heavy;
but rather with whispered sentences of gratitude and thanks-
givuig that God had been so good to him, so infinitely
merciful, so unspeakably gracious.
He had gone without a fear for his child, at last content to
leave her; and in that moment Michael Gargrave felt an
almost triumphant satisfaction in the thought that from the
moment she Droke down the barriers of reserve which had
become a very part and parcel of his life, he had given t i her
more than the tenderness of a father—more than the com¬
panionship of a brother.
Already the once familiar scenes were growing old; already
the hopes of morning were becoming blurred and dim, like
the sorrows of the long ago.
He looked across the wide expanse of marsh to the spot
where he had known such happiness. Up into the still air the
blue smoke was rising. He could see the red nxits of ih=
bams ; the trees shading the nest which held every thine W
loved on earth ; the pleasant fields beyond, ]\iu K quiet iii.H, ,
the sunlight. Not in all the years that had gone befor. did J
charm of his home ever seem so great. Could he give it ill
up-the peace, the quiet, the modest desires, the unalloyed
content? Could he go out and take his place in the meat
world, and find such happiness in the midst of his new statc-
as he had felt within the narrow territory so small that in the
distance he seemed but a speck in the landscape ?
He said to himself it would be difficult, almost impossible
to put on the thoughts, ideas, and habits of his new life as he
might dona fresh garment; but he was deceived. Already the
change he imagined wellnigh impossible was begun • already
in feeling, as well os in reality, Michael Gargrave was the
owner of Brayley rather than the proprietor of a Gluts Works
on the River Lea.
Where now was his satisfaction at the large order which
that morning’s post had brought ? What had become of his
project of sending in that tender on the morrow ?
As his eyes wandered to the factory his thoughts followed
in the same direction, and he smiled half sadly to think he
need never trouble himself about such matters again; that the
interests of yesterday were not the interests of to-day.
And then, his eyes reverting to the cottage, he smiled
again, because of a thought that was all pleasure.
The previous evening Lucy, enlarging upon the woes of
some widow, whose hard struggle for daily bread was likely to
end, and shortly, with the breaking up of her home, said to
her husband—
“ Poor creature, it was pitiful to see her distress. I wish
we could help her.”
To which he answered, partly because he felt the case to be
almost hopeless, partly because he had often to check Lucy's
charitable impulses,
“So do 1, dear; but we must be just before we are
generous."
“That is true,” she said; but he could sec her thoughts
were with the widow rather than with his just debts.
Now the memory of her disappointment recurred to him,
and the first unqualified feeling of delight he experienced in
consequence of his inheritance thrilled through him at the
same moment.
No more lingering on the marshes ; straight over the grass
he strode to the nearest footpath.
He crossed the bridges, he walked fast beside the stream.
The door of the dear house where he had found so much happi¬
ness was wide open, and in the porch stood his young wue
watching for his coming.
She ran to the gate to meet him. “ How fast you were
walking, dear,” 6he said, both hands clasped round his arm dad
in hodden grey. “ Mr. Herron brought no bad news, did be:”
“ No, indeed, quite the contrary ; what made you think he
had ? ”
“ You were talking so earnestly to him when you went out.
“ Silly little Lucy," he said, tondly stroking tier hair.
“ Yes, I am afraid 1 am,” she answered, seriously, “for I
cannot get poor Mrs. Luydon out of my mind; and I have
been thinking, Michael, that as I can rnauage without u new
dress and mantle, might I—couldn’t we?—give her what
they would have cost ? ”
He looked at her so gravely, with an expression so stnnge
—to her so unintelligible— tliut she said,
“ 1 will not say more about it, Michael, if it vexes you.’’
" It does not vex me, pretty one,” he replied. ” Do iust
what your heart tells you. Now run away to your widow,
and make haste home again, for I want you.”
“ And Toller wants you,” she said, as she hurried into the
house to put on her bonnet.
He could not wait for her return, be was constrained to go
and meet her, to take her hand and put it within bis arm and
hold it there while they walked on the soft swurd under the
shady trees together; she in such au ecstacy of delight
because of the widow's happiness, that she babbled ou regard¬
less of his silence, till, at length, something in his look
caused her to cry out, . ,
“ Michael, I am sure you have had bad news. AVhat is it:
“ I have had news, dear, but not bad,” was his answer.
and then he told her. “ You can be generous now, Lucy, and
just too,” he remarked, wondering at her silence, but sue
shook her head in answer.
8he drew her hand from out his arm, and sate down on a
bank by the wayside, and began absently to pull up little
tufts from out the grass, picking them over absently.
“ Why, Lucy, what is the matter ? ” asked her husbwi .
“ Do you understand whut 1 mean ? We are now rich peop c.
We need never be anxious nor sorry ubout money any won.
One by one great tears rolled, slowly down her cheeks.
“Lucy—Lucy!” He sat down ou the bauk at her *
and put his arm round her, and tr.cd to look into her lac*,
but she bid it on his shoulder.
“ What ails you, dear? Tell me,” he cutreatea.
“I ought never to have married you,” the ’
speaking in gasps, with little sobs between. ’ I* *“ .
matter so much while we were poor and strugguug; uui
not a fit wife for you now, and I cannot be just or „
either. I cannot make you free agaiu, and I am sony * .
“ Are you ?” he said. “lam not.”
“ I never can be a fine lady.”
“ No, that you can't, thank Heaven.”
“Your sister has often lamented I was so u
“ My dear,” he interrupted, “ I cannot have
things; you must not think them. Humbly I am gi' ,.
the fortune which has come to me; but I would tb
givo it up this instant if keeping it involved the loss o y
He felt her stealing u little nearer to him; he felt -
hand touch his, and he went ou, not without an indurt-
had never found it easy to speak of himself or his o e
“ I go back in memory to that night when 1 w
Queen-square. I thiuk of the words winch decided J D0{
‘Remember the corn in the ground.’ Ah. Lucy, ^
know what I was planting then. I < ould not ‘ (or
crop should spring from the seed then sown. A „ ll
a certainty wus that from tares a man may-iiot it £ but the
“The com I put in the ground that nig. 0 f inV
produce of hesitating resolutions; it was sc . ye{
own free will I cast it in the furrows Rt _. ’, iut j, e
what a harvest has been given to me- . „ t i, e
time of bitterest need, mid a wife whose lo . wou ld be
greatest blessing of my life, without whom Bray y
to me valueless." of his argii-
He talked a little more, but that was the 6* . carn e»tly
ment, that she was the one thing for which be
desired to offer thanksgiving. , Quieti he said,
Then, when her eyes were dry and her hear q
“Come dear, let us go home.” the ijWcb ||
So hand in hand they wended their way ,, in t ,,u-
lanes and across fields—where the grain was ^ talked
hand in hand together—as hand in hand . ()i(m v they
through life ever Bince, corn springing up urn*?
passcdalong, and ripeuingto a harvest they sb
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 1878.—23
<$he Coloured girture.
“puss inxr boots . 3
BY JOHN E. MILLAIS, R.A.
A CIIAT ABOUT THIS LITTLE PUSS IN BOOTS.
BY F. C. BURNAND.
“ So the Cat became a great lord, and never again ran after
rats nnd mice but for his amusement.” Here ended, for the
twentieth time, my Pussy-cat's tale, I mean my tale —the tale,
in fact, of the celebrated Puss in Boots, the friend of the pool
Miller's son, who afterwards became the great Marquis de
Carabas.
And for the twentieth time came a little girl's question,
“ Well, and what did they do then ?”
In desperation I retorted,
“ What did who do when ?”
“Why,” explained another little girl—a little older girl;
“ why, Zita means what did they do with the Boots ?”
The question then was apropos dcs bottes.
I referred to the old Fairy Book, the genuine old one, on
which I and my fathers before me had been brought up. The
real old book, t mean, with the highly daubed plates, showing
impossible Princes and Princesses and a Lord Mayor’s coach
in the Illustration that accompanies Fuss in Foots.
This old book I hold in reverence as the sole authority on
all questions about our ancient and well established Fairy
Tales.
How many persons possess the real original edition? It
must be priceless. There was a republication some few years
ago, which was soon sold out. The stories are told as quaintly
as are dear old Alban Butler's “ Lives of the Saints,” if I may
be allowed the comparison.
So to this respectable Fairy Book—I think a Fairy God¬
mother must have given me mine,—but, alas! where is she
now ? Bless her !—I turned for an answer to this question,
“ What became of the boots ?”
No. There was no information on the subject. Still, my
nudiencc was one that “ wanted to know,” and their curiosity
had to be satisfied somehow. I was arranging a “ continuation
in our next ” when little Miss Zita put another inquiry,
‘‘Weren’t there any kittens ? ”
Yes: certainly there were. Listen.
The Puss who had been such a friend to the Marquis of
Carabas became Lord Grimalkin, of Katseye Castle, in
Catalonia. Here he fell in love with the lovely Lady Tabitha
Molrousia, whom he married for love, and who became Lady
Grimalkin, of Katseye Castle.
Lady Grimalkin, however, though beautiful, was far from
strong. She suffered from nervous headaches, and couldn’t
bear even the sound of a mouse scratching behind the
wainscot; for you may be sure that there are not many mice
who allow themselves to be seen in Catalonia. For one of
their tribe to be visible in that country is punishable with
instant death. Now, if my lady could not stand even such a
slight noise as that of a mouse in the wainscot, much less
could she put up with the sound of her husband’s boots as he
scampered up and down stairs, and along the passages; or,
above all, when on returning from the chase—the chasse aux
souris dcs champs— or from a day’s sport among the birds, for
my Lord was a preserver as well as a destroyer, and was a
deadly foe to all the poachers of his own species -when, I say,
on these occasions his little foot-page, Boot Jack, would be in
readiness to draw off the celebrated boots, which would be
then thrown down wfith a heavy thud on the old oak floor, ou
which also the little foot-page generally fell backwards in the
supreme effort required for this particular work.
“ You can’t come in here ! ” she used to cry out from her
boudoir, when he was heard stamping towards her door.
“ You can’t come here in those boots.”
“Not in these boots!” exclaimed her lord, with some
surprise. , . , ,.
lie was a little annoyed at first, of course; but domestic
happiness is paramount to a mere question of boots, even when
they have such a history as these had ; and then my lady was
really in a delicate—or, as they pronounce it in Catalonia, a
delicat—state of health.
All attempts to appease her were bootless until he pre-
sented himself before her in slippers.
So, off came his boots, silently. a ..
The next day mv lady called her husband and said, My
dear, I am sure you must feel uncomfortable without your
boots.” ., . „ , . , . „
u And I ’ve caught a severe cold—in fact, a nasty catarrh,
said Grimalkin, struggling with a suceze.
“I see,” replied his wife, purring affectionately; and
believe me, my dear Tommy”—Tommy was his petit how,
you understand—” I am sorry you Bhould suffer on my
“It’s of no consequence,” said my lord; and then they
both purred together, in the most loving manner possible.
After a while her ladyship asked him to open the drawer
of her cabinet.
lie did so, and there before him was a box labelled, A
Present for a Kind Husband.” A .
“ Open it,” said my lady, “ and see what I have made for
5 ° U She had worked him the most perfect pair of knitted boots,
warm in winter, cool in summer, and noiseless always.
He was delighted. And then there was more purring, and
more fondling. , , ,.
From that momni*' Lord Grimalkin wore nothing on his
feet but these knitted boots; aud the old original dump-sole
pair which were beginning to be rather past work by this time,
were presented to the celebrated J/ricaeum of Catalonia, where
they may perhaps be seen to this very day, in their dilapidated
condition, unless they have been soled, and walked off, with in
the interim. , ...
Soon after this memorable event, there were great rejoicings
iu the castle, and in the neighbourhood all about, for my lady
pad presented her husband with as fine, handsome, and
as numerous a family, as had ever been seen, or heard of, even
in Catalonia. . , , _
There were great doings at the christening, I warrant you ;
and the castle was filled with the cats of all countries, who
arrived to take part in the rejoicings.
There were French Cats, in grey coats, and of the politest
possible manners; Russian Cats, in thick furs ; Spanish Cats,
playing on cats-stancta ; Black Cats from. Africa, who amused
the company immensely with negro melodics, accompanying
themselves on various instruments, and dividing their
rhythmical dramatic entertainments into strophes and entas-
trophes; White-Cats from Albania ; Tortoise-shell Cats from
the sea-coast, led by an Admiral of Great Renown from
China who was a Mandarin with nine tails; and hun¬
dreds of others, with The Cat and the Fiddle to conduct the
orchestra.
As the kittens grew up, their kind mother provided each
of them with mittens. But the taste for boots ran in the
family, and whenever the three little kittens had lost their
mittens, off their fnre paws, they were invariably found neatly
tied on their hind legs.
In time, old Lord and Lady Grimalkin were gathered to
their ancestors, and were buried in the family Catacombs.
Some of their numerous descendants turned out rather
wild, but for the most part they were highly respected by all
who knew them. It is supposed that several branches of the
Grimalkin family quitted Catalonia and settled abouu in
various parts of the world; but the remarkable trait in this
particular race is their partiality for boots—but especially for
knitted ones.
“ Did you ever know one ? ” asks little Miss Zita.
“Mr. Millais knew one, evidently,” I reply, pointing to
his picture. “ Look ! ”
“ Why, the kitten has got on the doll’s little boots ! ” they
exclaim ; and there is a general feeling of pity for the poor
doll, who must be suffering from cold feet, poor thing!
Miss Polly, in the picture, cannot make out where the
doll’s boots have gone to. She hasn’t an idea that her little
kitten is one of the descendants of Lord aud Lady Grimalkin.
Observe the expression of her eyes. She is staring out straight
before her, and wondering what on (arth can have become of
Dolly’s knitted boots!
The last place she will look for those little boots is on
Tittikin’s hind legs, and Tittikins, true to her Grimalkin
instinct, will not give them up without a scratch.
“ But how did Tittikins put them on ?” asks one of the
children, who is a great deal too matter-of-fact.
“How? Why, Mr. Millais put them on for her. He
knows all about the Lord and Lady Grimalkin family history,
and he was determined that, at Christmas time, the kitten
Bhould not be without a present of a pair of boots.
“ But why didn’t he give her a pair for herself, nnd not
take the poor doll’s?” asks little Gertie, who is far more
interested iu the doll than in the kitten.
“Perhaps,” I reply, being always ready to defend an absent
friend, “ perhaps he didn't know that these boots were intended
for the doll. I dare say she wasn’t wearing them. She was
in Polly’s lap, being dressed, when Mr. Millais felt something
purring about his legs, and, looking down, saw the kitten with
a pair of knitted boots in its mouth, looking tip and imploring
him to put them ou for her. So, as he didn’t know they
belonged to the doll, he took up his boot-brush nnd with a
tow moaterlv tniirVips verv kindlv fitted them on the kitten’s
few masterly touches very kindly fitted them
hind legs—and there she is.”
“ And will he give the doll a pair of boots too ? ” asks Miss
Zita.
“ Well,” I can only say. “ Perhaps he will next Christ¬
mas.’’ But, in the mean time, little Polly may be, as the
Miller’s Son was, iu great trouble, and then her Puss in Boots
will advise her and help her. And, perhaps, one day Polly
will say,
Pussy Cat, Pussy L where have you been 1
And Pussy will answer,
I’ve been to London, to see the Queen.
J ust as her ancestor, the old original Puss in Boots, went to
see the King, and so niado his master's fortune. And perhaps
Polly will become—who knows?—a great Princess, or, at
least, a Marchioness, just as the Miller’s Bon became the
Murquis of Carabas, all through having such a friend at Court
as this little Puss in Boots.”
“And whet will she do with the doll?” inquires Gertie,
who certainly thinks Dolly has been treated very unfairly.
“ Dolly! Oh she will give her a beautiful Doll’s House to
live in.” , A „
“ But she can’t come out, because she has no boots.”
“ Then she must stay at home.”
“ And what will they do then ? ” they all want to know, one
after the other.
“Well, you must ask Mr. Millais; for it’s his little girl,
not mine; and it’s his little kitten, not mine. And as for what
I’ve told you, it is only an idle chatter to amuse you; it is
meroly apropos des bottes .”
“ But will Mr. Millais tell us something more about the
Boots?” asks the eldest.
“ I do not know, my dears,” I answer, as I make my escape
from their importunities. “ For, perhaps, he has quite another
explanation of the picture, and, you see, hu account of the
Boots may be quite another pair of shoes altogether. Go and
ask him ; then come and tell me. Good-bye !”
*,• The original picture, “Pass in Boots,” from which our coloured
engraving was taken is now the property of Mr. Marsdcn, of the King-
street Galleries, King-street, St. James’s, who intends to reproduce it as a
steel engraving. ___
OUR NOBLE ANCESTOR.
Not empty to them is the battered casque
They feutly circle with laurel and bay—
That iron bonnet ne’er served to mask
Brow more daring, the chronicles say.
And still is his memory' sweet, I ween,
As the flower that beaconed his fighting life;
His deedB of valour are ever green
As the grace of his gentle Baxon wife.
Never unready the sturdy hand,
The voice for a catch or a battle-cry;
Ready, in sooth, with beaker and braud—
Ready with wine-cup, ready to die !
A Knight in his mantlet and helm aud cukec,—
A Knight in his doublet and silken hose,—
He’d a foot for a measure in time of peace,
A grip for an axe when they wanted blows.
Cherished yet iu the hearts of those
Three fair maidens who kinship claim
With rough Bir Hugh, is the red red Rose,
That fragrance lends to his splendid name.
They are odorous yet, those dead leaves, though
Many a summer hath spent its breath
Since, one to many a furious foe,
He passed to God through a joyful death.
Odorous yet ! and the centuries bring
Voices like answers to souls that pray
Voices that thrill with a searching ring
The maiden crowning that helm to-day.
To-night they’ll think of the grand old soul—
The heart of purpose straight and true !
And. dipping deep in the steaming bowl,
W.ll uiink lliy memory, brave Sir Hugh !
Byuox Wmuieii.
A FATAL NIGHT.
TWO SONNETS.
I.—AN EVIL OMEN.
There is a lurid glimmering in the sky,
Ghost of the blood-red sunset; wing and hoof
Of the 6trange beasts that guard yon gabled roof
Lose in the growing night their puiple dye.
One latticed window gleams more ruddily
Out of the dark ; there now is put to proof
A soul that from all kinship dwells aloof,
Prey to wild thoughts and evil memory.
Crossed love, dishonoured name, and wasted wealth
Make void the world to him. Revenge alone
Is left to live for: shall he snatch by stealth
Tliis worthless treasure ? Doubting while he stay's
Hell’s messenger the accurst Night-Raven’s l one
Croaks forth its summons foul—and he obeys.
II. —WHERE THE DEED WAS DONE.
Here was it done; here the foul blow was given.
The murderer ’scaped, and wanders far away
Never by earthly j ustice brought to bay.
His brow bears not the stamp of that dark evon,
Nor doth he flee as one by demons driven.
* Only lie carries with him, night and day,
This picture:—’Neath a clouded sky of grey
A withered tree, all gaunt and tempest-riven:
A trembling hound, by a bleak pool that stands :
The white moon, shining on a whiter face;
And One who smites his brow with bloody hands
And shrieks to the dead silence of that place.
And this One is Himself: nor furthest lands,
Nor Time, of this dread foe can win him grace.
Edwahd Rosa.
THE FAIRIES’ FAVOURITE.
What! Not believe in fairies ! Let me tell
What once I saw with these two eyes quite well;
And “ seeing is believing,” I believe.
For such poor sceptics one can only grieve,
As for those doubters in the torrid zone
When told that water sometimes turns to stone.
’Tis no use arguing with such as these,
So I ’ll just tell my story, if you please.
Once journeying with some friends, it so befell
That we alighted on the loveliest dell,
Where fairies, one said, if such beings were,
Would rendezvous, we might most safely swear.
The day’s toil o’er, we lit cigars and smoked,
Of our adventures talked, and laughed and joked,
Till silence on us gradually fell,
As twilight's veil dropped softly o’er that dell.
With sharp, quick turnings bats around us flew,
And o.vls on winnowing wings—tu-whit, tu-whoo!
Borne dozed, and some, I know, sonorous slept;
Mine eyes the while wide-open vigil kept.
And as I puffed and silent mused, behold!
Most lovely creatures, clad in green and gold,
Upon a shimmering moonbeam gaily riding,
Came swarming—tripping, twirling, twinkling, gliding—
Till all the space was filled to overflowing
With airy sprites for ever coming, going.
Words at the best are feeble to describe
The pretty tricks of this most tricksy tribe.
Borne slid on acorns, some heels over head
(Not head o’er heels, be it in brackets said)
Came tumbling, with vagaries ever new.
They crawled and crept, they danced and leapt; then flew
In many, a mazy circle round and round ;
Now pirouetting singly on the ground ;
And now coquetting, with small mincing paces,
Like fine Court ladies with their airs and graces.
There came a squirrel, that, to my surprise,
Stared at them calmly, with his lurge round eyes,
And not at all afraid, but quite sedate,
An acorn from their dainty fingers ate ;
Nor did they fear that ho might scratch or bite—
’Twas plain he was the Fairies’ Favourite.
The moonbeam faded—straightway with the same
Fled all the fairies, sudden as they came.
There was the squirrel, but the fairy host
Had vanished in a twinkling, like a ghost.
When this I told my friends, some laughed outright,
Said no such vision fair had blessed their sight—
(How could they see when they' were fast asleep ?)
One hinted they the whisky jar must keep
In their own charge ; another, jeering, said
The moon must have affected my poor licaci.
Sue “ seeing is believing”—this I hold
A sterling truth of eighteen-carat gold.
Lucky for me, a comrade who could draw
Saw the same sight, aud sketched what we both saw
Not now by any to be contradicted,
For here it is in black aud white depicted ;
The counterpart of that which blessed my vision—
Identically the same scene elysian;
But what I’ve striven by pen to show in vain,
llis vivid pencil brings to life again.—J. L.
YOUNG FACES AND OLD FASHIONS.
A show of fashions of the long dead years
Ruffle, smock, tabby, cap, aud red-heeled shoe;
Old robes familiar with smiles and tears;
Masks of black satin, flowery gowns once ol-ie.
mint modes, which wake such laughter in guls eyes,
As will be waked in other eyri. ; .'y ours:
)or relics of the past.; faint memories
Cling to them still of all their bu„y hours.
menth this padunsoy Belinda's heart
Beat, maybe ; in that lustring Biddons played;
.fld Lady Mary edged her beauty’s dart.
For Pope, too bright before, with this brocade.
lat dusty mask the lustre of Lepel
With sable shadow might have helped to mar;
rave in this flowery silk, far down the Mell
Did gracious Belienden beam like a star i
may be. They have set, long past away.
No prayer can bring them back, nor bended knees,
at boots it aught to dim our heaven to-day
By thinking »>«r suns, too, must set like these t
o. Let us rather boast, though all unbid
Such sad thought come, that never so duinc
form as .Tulie’s by this robe was hid,
Nor, Nellie, by that mask a smile like thine.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON ♦ NEWS CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 1S7S.— 2C
THANKFULLY RECEIVED.
This is a mere customary phrase to acknow¬
ledge gifts which one may or may not
have wanted, but which one feels it would
be inexpedient to decline. In the present
instauce, however, there is a matter of per¬
sonal feeling between the giver and receiver,
which does credit to both of them. In
the rural parish of Mudgebury, fourteen
miles from the nearest market town, which is
Hogford St Mary, and just in the loamiest
level district of East Beanshire. stood the
mansion of a worthy Anglican presbyter, the
younger son of an Earl The Honourable
and Reverend Horatio Benedictus Vipont,
Master of Arts, and sometime Fellow oi
Boanerges College, in the University of Cam-
ford, held the Rectory of Mudgebury-cum-
Pebbletou, worth eight hundred a year, since
the accession of Queen Victoria. He had
further inherited a family bequest to the
annual value of six hundred, which raised
his life-income to an equality with some of
the untitled landowning gentry of the neigh¬
bourhood ; but after the death of his father,
the late Earl of Brock, circumstances had
deprived Mr. Vipont of the opportunity, for
which he cared but little, of frequenting the
aristocratic society open to a man of birth.
His elder brother Francis, while only yet styled
Lord Whistleton, had fallen in the Crimean
battles, leaving the young future Earl, an un¬
gracious spoiled boy at Harrow, to the charge
of a silly mother. Her Ladyship soon quar¬
relled with Mr. Vipont. declined to hear his
advice, or even to receive him at Brockwood
Hall, and the uncle had to suffer the grief
of hearing, for the next ten years, worse and
worse accounts of his noble nephew’s profligate
behaviour.
But in his own comfortable household at the
Mudgebury parsonage, so long as the beloved
wife of his youth was permitted to share that
dwelling, Mr. Vipont enjoyed an amount of
domestic felicity for which, as a sound Pro¬
testant clergyman, he was sincerely grateful,
comparing his blameless matrimonial bliss with
the celibacy of Romish priesthood. During
thirty years of tranquil residence and easy
clerical duty, his life was cheered by the
constant affection of his amiable lady, the
daughter of Archdeacon Palk; and' their
elder children, one by one, departed from
beneath the parental roof. Horace to enter the
Army, Julia to marry a rising clerk in the Red
Tape Office, Antony, the bookish brother, to
win a tutorship at St. Boanerges. Then came
a sudden stroke of irreparable loss and all but
inconsolable bereavement, accompanying the
birth of the youngest child, little Ethel
Vipont, who is now a sweet girl often mother¬
less years. The widower, bearing his great
sorrow with Christian fortitude, thenceforth
bestowed more diligence than before on the
pastoral visitation of his flock, homely and
humble folk as they were; his public ministry
also displayed greater zeal for souls, a more
earnest and thorough discourse in the pulpit,
and he was ever assiduous in the direction of
the parish schools. But, if there was any
poor husband in the village who chanced to
lose that crown more priceless than rubies, a
good and faithful wife—to him, with a heart¬
felt sympathy, and with a manly tenderness
that was irresistible, would the Rector most
eagerly proffer all he could of divine and
humane consolation.
Such a case was that of Farmer Briggs, the
tenant of Pebbleton Grange, when poor Mrs.
Briggs, after long suffering fn m cancer, died
three winters ago. Mr. Vipont then earned
the lasting gratitude of her spouse by his
frank and brotherly response to a natural
sorrow, which his own former experience had
made him capable of understanding. Peter
Briggs was a sort of man who had few words
at command at any time; but who, under the
influence of strong emotion, would become
utterly speechless, while the eloquence that
his touguc could not utter poured forth in
his eyes, not merely with looks of passionate
feeling, but with a copious flow of tears
down his rugged and sun-burnt cheeks.
The same kind of expression wo have often
seen displayed with intense vehemence in the
face of a dumb animal, a distressed horse,
cow, deer, or dog; and this silent gaze
of wistful fondness with which the sensi¬
tive creature, your spaniel or retriever, will
plead against your hnrsh rebuke or mere
neglect,^ has been felt to be really affect¬
ing. Now, Peter Briggs was one of that
good, honest, true-hearted, simple-minded,
artless kind of men who greatly resemble
big, good-tempered dogs. It is not worth
while to report u word of what he said to the
Rector. The reader may fancy how he looked,
} nTn P“8 e to atl Fugraving called
Ihankfully received,” drawn by Mr. C.
Gregory for this Christmas publication. There
stands the lion, and Rev. H. B. Vipont with
his dear little Ethel beside him, the only
remaining members of the family now in the
rather stately Rectory-house. The dignified
air of high-bred urbanity and mental culture
with the strictly clerical attire, somewhat old-
fashioned in point of watch seals and gaiters,
must be recognised os quite in character. He
is a good specimen of the regular countiv
clergyman, well connected, well educated, well
beneficed, and well behaved ; in doctrine a
model of Via Media correctness, in parish
work fairly up to his Church’s standard, but
™ h ‘ he peculiarities of the last generation,
ihe t,hur.-h ot England alone can exhibit this
peculiar type, which may or may not correspond
with some notions of the Apostolic, the Evan¬
gelical or the .Sacerdotal, but which has a
certain social value in common English life
Farmer Bnggs, as we perceive, has driven his
“I 61 fr ? m Febbleton, on the day
before Christmas, bringing his yearly token of
[ grateful remembrance to the kind and discreet
pastor who once showed him, by the light of
the Gospel, how to frame his mind to serene
and hopeful faith in the hour of his bitter
affliction. And the Rector, being a perfect
gentleman, cheerfully accepts the simple gift
of a contribution to his larder, though ho is
already overstocked. The fine plump bird is
“ thankfully received,” because it is a pledge
of neighbourly kindness. The Rector of this
parish is a tolerably rich man. but not half so
rich ns the Squire, and the Rector gives twice
as much in charities to the poor. 0. P. Q.
LUCKY dog:
Mv lady smiles on him
To me no favours fall.
His form is fair and slim
I am not fair at all;
Mv face is somewhat grim,
His head’8 symmetrical
Although his brains are small.
Yet I can love as well
As twenty dogs like that.
My eyes my passion tell
Albeit my nose is flat.
IVI fight for Lady Bell—
He’d tremble at a rat
And fly before a cat.
I gaze upon his bliss
With short despairing sneezes.
Sometimes I think it is
From love my lady teazes
Her faithful pug like this—
Ah then, cease doleful wheezes
Do she whate’er she p
Still sad I sit and blink
Her memory to jog.
I shiver, quiver, shrink;
E'en were it raised to flog
I’d kiss her hand—and think,
With such an epilogue.
Myself a lucky dog!—E. R.
THE VICAR’S DAUGHTER-.
Somewhere down in Devonshire, on the margin
of a miniature river that in summer gleams in
the almost Italian sunlightlikepolishedemerald
and chrysoprase, reflecting a thousand lovely
hues of dewy herbage and fern, and dripping
moss and lichen, I know a small church aud
vicarage, welluigh lost to view amidst the tall
ancestral trees of a neighbouring manor—like
the memorials of departed worth overgrown by
lush flowery verdure in the adjacent church¬
yard. The inmates of that secluded cottage—
for it is no more—seemed (when I saw them),
by their pious, primitive life, to straight recall
the story of Wakefield’s Vicar and his beautiful
daughters, with all the idyllic simplicity of
that, pathetic tale. The illusion was heightened
by the dres3 of the girls, the elder one in par¬
ticular. who. “ careless of beauty, for she was
Beauty’s self.” was attired in all the heedless
grace of mob-cap and fichu, and flowered
chintz gown, as though the fashion of a
hundred years ago still lingered in that remote
nook. The fashion harmonised perfectly with
her frank, handsome face, and, at the same
time, served ns a foil to her luxuriant black
hair and her lustrously-rich yet softly-shaded
black eyes A truer gentlewoman never lived,
though I know not if she had “blue blood”
in her veins; more probably she was of pure
Celtic descent from the Ancient Britons of the
West. And for such an embodiment of purest
maidenhood the noblest Knight of Arthur’s
Table Round might well nerve himself for
loftiest emprise, with a devotion equal to that
of Sir Galahad in quest of the Holy Grail. I
could wish to find an artist with taste quite
congenial to the theme, who would help me to
realise that Vicar’s daughter to my readers. I
think he would evoke a sense—that would steal
over us sweet as the fragrance of the damask-
rose that nestled in that gentle bosom—of the
nameless charm of that eighteenth-century
English compound of homely negligence with
demure primness; a charm more delicious than
that of Greuze, with none of his immodesty.
This might be the first impression from the
painter’s art. But his realisation would sug- |
gest this and much more to my readers. Men
with the chastened reverence of age for beauty
and love might bend grave moist eyes on the
sweet face and dream of a daughter or other
loved and lost one of long, long ago. Young
men might think with hope and pride, or with
tremor and sigh, of one such dearer than life
itself; and maidens might find a likeness to
an absent yet not the less cherished friend.
Children might picture to themselves a dear
sister and second mother. To some poor
afflicted soul she might recall a very angel of
patience and compassion; whilst the rich and
prosperous could find in her the type of the
best and purest medium for administering that
merciful charity which at this season is twice—
nay, thrice blessed. Thos. J. Gullick.
MR. QUIVERFULL’S CHRISTMAS BOX.
“ Believe me, I loved you at first sight! A
life’s devotion is yours—coupled with the
emoluments derived by me (no small income,
including commission) as commercial traveller
for the City firm of Sniptick and Co. Will
you ”-
The rest of this amorous speech was lost
to me. Quite unintentionally, the first part of
it was overheard by me as I leant over the
railing of the captain’s bridge and sent a blue
cloud rolling from my trusty brier, wondering
the while how much longer my f riend Quiver-
full would be away on his mission to the cabin.
Jim Quiverfull, I knew, would have been a
far less calm listener to this avowal than I was.
Jim could never resist a pretty face. And
there was no denying that our fair fellow-
passenger was pretty and winsome to the tips
of her fingers. A wealth of flossy liair crowned
a witching face, with cheeks rosy with the
healthy red of a quarantine apple; and the
sauciest blue eyes, shaded with dark laslies,
shot out the most coquettish glances, as if by
instinct, whenever any one of the rougher sex
was nigh the seductive little damsel in a neat
black merino dress and the most piquante hat
one ever set ej'es on. She couldn’t help being
fascinating. It came quite natural to her—
that was plain, but the only thing plain about
the gay-hearted creature. Jim struck his
colours directly he saw her. In fact, nearly
all the men on board did, from the Captain
downwards. It was our bronzed and gallant
Captain who escorted the little lady up to
the bridge, and had a camp-stool placed for
her behind the snug storm-screen, the seclu¬
sion of which hod tempted the bagman to
steal a march on Jim, and to make a proposal
(just as he might have cajoled a mercer into
buying a bale of silk) whilst Jim had gone
down to borrow a rug for the fair charmer,
with whom, it should in justice be mentioned,
he was the first to make the running.
Presently I ventured to look round, and
noted that one of our beauty’s dainty boots
was impatiently beating time to the throbbing
engine, whilst the dapper bagman was pulling
his drab whiskers morosely as he slunk down
the ladder, and Captain Hanson seemed to be
nervously pacing to and fro close to the storm-
screen. What could Jim be doing all this
while ?
“I’ve a snugger berth ns skipper of the
Cupid than you might think, Missie. More
than that—dash it, Missie, I’m no hand at
this kind of navigation . but if ”-
Hang me if the Captain hadn’t followed
the bagman’s example ! However, I was
determined to be ail unwitting hearer of this
sort of thing no longer So I quietly made
the best of my way down to the deck. Here
was Jim at last! Not only laden with a cosy
Paisley shawl, but having in his hands a tray
freighted with a toothsome luncheon. The
epicurean rogue ! Jim was clearly bearing his
offering to the shrine.
“ Oh, thanks, very much ! you’re too
good! ” came lisping from the red lips of the
incorrigible flirt, as she sent a violet shaft
straight into Jim’s grey eyes. From that
moment Jim was irrevocably done for. The
offing was clear Poor Captain Hanson’s fate
was obvious from the rigidity of his attitude
and the jerky abruptness of his manual signs
t-o the steersman. As for the cosy luncheon,
let me not dwell upon our fairy’s crowning
victory, nor upon the fogging, link by link,
of the chain that was destined to bind poor
Jim Quiverfull to Araminta Sleekington very
soon after their return from the Paris Exhi¬
bition of 1867.
THE MISTLETOE BOUGH.
The Grandsire’s head is like a hill
White in its wintry cap of snow;
The old man’s heart is glowing still
As warm as sixty years ago.
M lieu Grandmother, a brisk young maid,
Returned with jov his manly love.
Beneath the Mistletoe she sirayed
Its virtues with a kiss to prove.
But see ! her grandchild now, and his
Long after she has goue to Ueuven,
Receives her ancient sweetheart’s kiss,
With blessings to this Baby given.
R. S. T.
Eleven years have flown past like the wind
since the fair Araminta, the admired of many,
honoured Jim with her hand. Whether their
union has been happy may be gathered from
the characteristic epistle Jim has just written
to me:—
My dear Phil,—Congratulate me. Jim Quiverfull’s
? uivcr is full, with a vengeance. I should be happy.
was playing with the youngsters this morning in
Little Babel—or Nursery, if you like—when the door was
thrown open, and, fancy ! the old nurse came smiling
in with a babe on each arm, and this message on her
lips, •* Missus’s Christmas Box. Sir! She’s sent it early
this year; and a liner pair, hoy and girl, I ’vc never
seen !’’ Now, don’t laugh till you ’re out of the wood !
You promised, Phil, to he godfather to my next. So
you must be godfather to both, old fellow 1 But what
shall we call then ! It is imperative that they form
another chapter of our “History for the Hearth”
(copyright reserved). What names have we used up 1
Our firstborn came about a year after that memorable
visit with dear Araminta to the ’67 ” ' " ’
What more apt, then, than the name of Eugenie for
our lirst girl ! By 1869, Gladstone was at the height of
his popularity; and so we dubbed our first hoy William.
In ’70 fell the French Empire; and hence Lulu’s name.
In ’71, Germany completed her conquest of France;
and Fritz was christened after the Crown Prince. How
could we more fitly celebrate the Queen's victory over
King Koffee in '73 than by calling our next little girl
■Victoria ! In '75 our most mischievous brat made his
appearance, and “Young Turk” naturaBy became his
nickname, though I well remember coming home, l’hil,
with a breathless fear during that critical time lost year,
when the poor little fellow lay wan and feeble in his
cradle, and every night wo feared lest the wee one
should vanish into the silent land. But. thanks he to
loving nurses and our devoted doctor, “ YoungTurk’s ”
himself again Ah! you little know how these tiny ones
cling like tendrils round the heart until you’ve won
the experience for yourself, Phil. And somehow it
comes true that the fuller one's quiver gets, the abler
one is to meet “ the enemy at the gate; ” for when
things look darkest something always turns up to pro¬
vide the wherewithal for butcher and baker, milkman
and tailor. But what shall we name the twins ! I have it.
War is over. We all long for a New Year of Peace ami
Friendship with every Tower. Let’s christen them
Alfred and Marie in token that as two Imperial Families
are, or shonld be, bound together by a Marie ami an
Allred, so should the two Empires be pacifically united.
\ours, happily, Jim Quiveufum..
P S.—It never rains but it pours Two more
Christmas Boxes just to hand. But this time they
Sike the form of a couple of hampers sent every year
b Araminta (doing very well, thank vou!), and she
ehicwdly suspects they come from the two rivals I cut
out oc board the Cupid!
NONE
genuine
EXCEPT
]yps. S. A. ALLEN’S
^yORLD’S HAIR RESTORER.
AMONG the CULTIVATED AND REFIVFn
THROUGHOUT THU WOULD, Tilts nv
NOWNED PREPABATION IS THE ACKNOW
I,EDGED FAVOURITE WITH BOTH'hEXt*
OVER FORTY YEARS’ TRIAL AM)
RIENCE HAVE ESTABLISHED ITS SCI’ERI
ORITY AND EXCELLENCE - IT Is "n
UNIFORMLY GRATEFUL AND BENEFICIAL
TO THE HAIR THAT IT IS WITH JUSTICE
CALLED THE NATURAL STRENGTHENKli
OF THE HUMAN HAIR. IT IS NOT A DYE.
jy£RS. S. A. ALLEN’S
yyroRLD’s hair restorer.
F
CANNOT FAIL TO RESTORE
GREY HAIR TO ITS YOUTHFUL COLOUR
GLOSS. .AND BEAUTY. WHEN THE HAIR
TURNS GhEY. LOSES ITS LUSTRE. AND
FALLS OUT, IT SIMPLY REQUIRES NOURISH.
MENT. MRS. S. A. ALLEN’S WORLDS HAIR
RESTORER, BY ITS GENTLE TONIC ACTION
STRENGTHENS AND INVIGORATES THE
HAIR, AND BY THE OPERATION OP
NATURAL CAUSES GREY OR WHITE HAIR
IS QUICKLY RESTORED TO ITS YOUTHFUL
colour, gloss, and beauty, it will
STOP ITS FALLING. AND INDUCE A
HEALTHY AND MOST LUXURIANT GROWTH
USE NO OTHER PREPARATION WITH IT
NOT EVEN OIL OR POMADE, OB ZYLO-
BAESAMUM.
M I,S -
. A. ALLEN’S
^yORLD’S HAIR RESTORER
IS THE BEST
TO RESTORE GREY HAIR.
BECAUSE IT IS MADE FROM THE CHOICEST
MATERIALS, AND PREPARED WITH THE
UTMOST CARE AND SKILL. OYBR FORTY
YEARS THE FAVOURITE PREPARATION.
ENJOYING BY FAR THE LARGEST SALE, IT
MUST BE THE BEST. IT DOES NOT DYE
THE HAIR, BUT STRENGTHENS IT GREY
HAIRS SOON DISAPPEAR. BY ITS GENTLE
TON 10 ACTION THE ROOTS ARE STRENGTH¬
ENED. THE SOFT AN D SILK Y TEXTURE OF
HEALTHY HAIR FOLLOWS ITS USE.
Cautiox !! — The Genuine only in Pink Wni|
MRS. S. A. ALLEN’S WORLD’S HAIR RESTORER.
SIRS. S. A. ALLEN
manufacture* two entirely
distinct Preparations for tin- Hair.
‘ “ “ “ is suited to every condition
of the Human Hair. Both a:. ...
«t one time. For details as to each l*re|iaratlon, kite
d (drove and lielow this paragraph. Readers ear. nut
[ermine which of the two they require. Tlieee l‘n’|ia
tlons have u world-wide reputation. Enormous
and increasing sale through Forty Y’esn.
Every Chemist mid Dealer in
Toilet Articles has both
Preparations.
MRS. 8. A. ALLEN’S ZYL0-EAL8AMUM.
yps. S. A. ALLEN’S
^YLO-JjALSAMUM,
Fort
Growth and Preservation
of the Hair.
It h a cooling, vegetable, and transparent liquid,
without sediment.
A SIMPLE TONIC AND DRESSING
fl. OF INESTIMABLE VALUE TO BOTH SEXES.
THE FAVOURITE WITH THE YOUNG AND
ALL THOSE WHO HAVE NO OBEY HAIR
IT WILL NOT CHANGE THE COLOUR OF
THE HAIR, BUT. BY EAHLY USE. IT WILL
PREVENT IT TURNING OBEY’. PREMATURE
LOSS OF THE HAIR, SO COMMON IN THD-E
DAYS. MAY BE ENTIIIELY PREVENTED
BY THE USE OF ZY’LO - BALSAMl'M,
PROMPT RELIEF IN THOUSANDS OF CASES
HAS BEEN AFFORDED WHERE THE MAIII
HAS BEEN COMING OUT IN HANDFUL-
IT PROMOTES A HEALTHY AND VIGOROUS
GROWTH. HAIR DRESSED WITH ZYLO-
1IALSAMUM IS ALWAYS CLEAN. FnEE
FROM DANDRUFF. AND WITH THAT
BEAUTIFUL GLOSS ONLY SEEN IN
HEALTHY HAIR. IT IS DELIGHTFULLY
FRAGRANT. NO OIL OK POMADE SHOULD
HE USED WITH IT.
Caitiox ! I—The Geuutno only in Bluish-Grey Wrapper*,
gold by nil Chemists. Perfumers, and Dealers In Toilet Artlclis
In only one rise—Largo Glass Stoppered Bottles.
THE FAVOURITE TOILET WATER 0
-< OLDEN STAB
■ THE AGE.
B
iAY-LEAF WATER
TRIPLE DISTILLED FROM THE FRESH LEAVES OF THE
BAY'-TREE (Myrcla Acrii).
y01 LET, J^URSERY, AND J]ATH.
Toilet Water ,
of peculiar and
delightful fragrance,
definite and lasting. -
refreshing and soothing.
Golds* Star Bav-Lbait Wats*.
triple distilled from Ore fresh leaves of
the Skin, removing nil rouRlin.^. *
1 ’uel'i: RTi rs n 'i’artfen la11 y 'adapted to the KWgfiJ*
' a to-Gn ^tafidT bvAMra -ini
‘ all who suffer from 11 uai>aciil. fromMerita 1
■tes'ss- »;rag “wsr
•jjyr wxssifsr-
IVrfumerf. or. on tree if* oi
*Urap». from the W h'f
wle l»p6t. 11 »nd n*-
Bwttogggglj
PHILIP.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEY.'O CUZZSIHAS NUMBER, 1878.—27
QHRISTMAS pRESENTS
^EW-YEAR’S qifts.
TV/TIl. STREETER iinuouuces that he
is desirous of introducing to the notice of the public a
Choice Selection *»f Novelties from the Paris Exhibition. Includ¬
ing the following urticlcB, all oi
pOLLARETTES.
Vj assyri
18-Carat Gold.
pOLLARETTES,
\J .. T .i
pRACELETs!
1DRACELETS,
IJ Style “ J
FLOWERS INCRUSTED.
JgRACELETS,
18-Carat Gold.
"TALISMAN.”
J^ROOCHES,^
18-Carat Gold,
■m of a TRIDENT.
JgROOCHES,
18-Carat Gold.
rm of a DAGGER.
1>ROOCTIES, 18-Carat Gold.
X> WING WITH MOTTO.
JVARRINGS,
18-Carat Gold.
FERN-LEAF.
J^ARllINGS,
18-Carat Gold.
ROSE-LEAF.
T7ARRINGS, 18-Carat Gold.
J_J WING WITH MOTTO.
jyjAPLE AND co., po:
Families Furnishing.—MAPI.
CATALOGUE, containing the Pric
qnired iu Furnishing, post-tree. Foreign and Country orili
punctually and faltlunlly executed ou receipt ot u remittance
London reference.
P OSTAL ORDER DEPARTMENT-
Messrs. MAPLE and CO. bee respectfully to state tlmt till*
Department is now so organised that they are fuUy prepared to
execute and supply any Art icle that can possibly be required in
Furnishing at the same price, if not less, than any other house
in England. Patterns sent and quotations gi ven free of charge.
A house of any magnitude cm
.i few days, an immense ndeunl
re, for Merchants, or for Exportation.
\f APLE aud CO. supply every requisite
d I for HOUSE FURNISHING, including Linens^ Trom
igor Drawing Room,
in separate DepaVt-
ry, Glass. Crockery-ware, C’loc!
M APLE aud C 0.—DINING-ROOM
FURNITURE -Sideboards ill Oak. Mahogany.and other
xts. from 5gs. to lings. Fine Oak and Media-vnl Dining-
>m Furniture. Tables from 3 gs to fags. All immense
*. nd other Oruamenu.
assortment of Clock*.
QOLID WALNUT
Cl FURNITURE -Sideboards
Tables. Waggons and Chairs tr
choice.—MAPLE mid CO.
DINING - ROOM
tmm 12 gs. to longs In stock,
correspond, designs new and
18-Carat Gold.
JAPANESE ENAMEL.
18-Carat Gold.
T OCKETS,
1J wing wn
gOLITAIRES^
IERCED Fl.OWEI
18-Carat Gold.
(SOLITAIRES.
Cl_ INOKI
r J^UE “
r^HE
rjMIE
T H \
PRESS ” PENCIL CASE,
t, Gold.—■" STANDARD.
“PRESS” PENCIL CASE, iu
18-Ca st Gold.-" DAILY NEWS.'
r r
JL IS-Carat Gold.—"DAILY TELEGRAPH." and others.
TV/TR. STREETER, GOLDSMITH and
1YJL JEWELLER,_
J8, NEW _ BOND-STREET, LONDON, W.
ROOM FURNITURE—200 Suites,
__ .. jriotu licsigns, to select from, from fij Ps Ior Sultc com-
grte. BM-Room Suites ynumelled Sll*riHn p AM,. ^Un^YoioJ.
T>REIDENBACH’S WOOD VIOLET.
JD Fresh as morning-gathered flowers.
B REIDENBACH’S DIPLOMACY
BOUQUET (Dedicated hy permission to Victor Saraou).
E REIDENBACH’S WHITE ROSE
ZINNIA. TALI PAT, and a thousand others, fr. m every
power that breathes a fragrance. 2s. Gd., Ss„ ice., and 20s. _
-RREIDENBACH’S SACHET POWDERS, I tXm.®
X# for Perfuming l>”»ks, Clothes, Ac. Samo Perfumes as j assortment of Bed-Room Furniture in lsont lon k-Icll i »>n .
REIDEN BACH'S
- DRAWING-ROOM
t assortment In London
2 to togs many quite u
Y URN ITU RE — DRAWING -ROOM.—The
1 FURNITURE.—MAPLE & CO -Families
’ who study economy with durability and elegance should
visit this Establishment before giving tlieli orders A House of
jy^APLE t
T^LORILINE.
± For the TEETH and BREATH.
A few drops of the FRAGRANT FLORILINE on a wet tooUi-
allVmpurities, strengtlfens a^haScns'theg'Ss^revmtatartaT
and arrests tlie progress of decay. It gives to the Tooth a peculiar
and beautiful whiteness, and imparts a delightful fragrance to
the breath. It removes all uupleasatit odour arisiugfromdecayed
teeth, a disordered stomacll.or tobacco smoke. The FRAGRANT
FLU RILIN’E U purely vegetable, and equally adapted tooldand
5 t'i'ic'FRAGRANT FLORILINE should be used in all cases
of hod breath, and part icularly bygentlemcn after smoking. The
FlorlliiiB combines. In a concentrated form, the most desirable,
cleansing, and astringent properties. At the same time, it con¬
tains notliliigwhidi cuu possibly injure the most sensitive and
It beautifies tlie teetb and gums.
It arrests tile decay.
It imports to the breath a fragrance purely aromatic a
!S. complete. lit -is. ikl. Sold'bv all Chemists and f’ertnmers.
pared only by HENRY C. GALLUP. 493. Oxford-st., London.
T^LORILINE.
^ For the TEETH and BREATH.
Sweet as the ambrosial
From tlie richly-
rich and rare;
, tlie morn,
d nooks adorn :
bursting forth.
FRAGRANT FLORILINE."
The freath'ls sweet os violets blue;
While scented as the flowers of May.
Which cast their sweetness from each spray.
Is the FRAGRANT FLORILINE.”
Bnre. some foiry with its hand
Cast around its mystic wand,
Ami produced from fairy's bower
Scented jierfumcs from each flower;
For iu this liquid gem we trace—
A,1 ^fhTthri J BAGI& ra |rOR I LlN E ."
PLORILINE.
± For the TEETH and BREATH.
Is the best liquid dentifrice in the world, It thoroughly
cleanses partially decayed teeth from all iwrositcs or living
• uiiltnalcuHc " leaving them pearly white, importing a dellght-
tul Irugrance to the breath. Price 26. Gd. per Bottle. The
. Tlie ”
loriline”
r^OTTENHAM COURT-ROAD.
PRESS” -PENCIL CASE, in | J^EDSTEADS. BEDSTEADS.
JJEDSTEADS. BEDSTEADS.
J^ED-ROOM FURNITURE. MAPLE & CO.
STAPLE and CO.-BED-ROOM SUITES
» fen. jtesss
B rass aud iron bedsteads.
Thousand to select from. From 8s. fid.To 30 gs. Handsome
Brass Bedsteads. 1 gs Bidding of every description manufactured
on tlie premises, and nil warranted.
F 5D-ROO
of various <1
- u*. Bed*-
apart an
, 147, Tot
JgED-ROOM SUITES in SOLID ASH, from
E REIDEN BACH’S AMANDINE, * for
Softening and Whitening the Hands. 2s. (id. per Jar.
^REIDENBACII’S MACASSARINE OIL.
ie Hair. Is. Bottle; o
JgRElD ENBACH ’S PO UDRE A VELOURS.
most innocent yet efficacious
T
QARPETS.
QARPETS.
jy^APLE and CO.,
'OTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD.
CARPETS.
CARPETS.
T)REIDENBACH’S VIOLET POWDER,
_l ) as analysed. Warranted free from de.etorious ingredients.
2s Id. 4s (kl., anil 8s. I Id. Box.
REIDEN BACH’S ARTICLES can be lmd
JL5 lit mu’ day’* notice of all chcmlrt* and jierfuinons throiijrh-
out tin* Ulnplom, Mini nre not prnuiue unless labelled with
registered trade mark (a wood violet).
TJREIDENBACH and CO., Manufacturing
JL) Perfumers to tlie Qnecn and Prince of Wales (by Special
Appointment)..^ ]j0Ild .^ treet London. W. (sole- Address).
WALKER’S
QRYSTAL QASE ^yATCHES.
JOHN A L K E R,
pHRONOMETER, ^yATCH, and
pLOCK MANUFACTURER,
PRIZE MEDALLIST of the EXHIBITIONS
of 1862 and 1867,
MAKER OF THE PRINCE OF WALES’S
INDIAN WATCHES.
77, CORNIIILL; 230, REGENT-STREET;
and 76, STRAND, LONDON.
GOLD CRYSTAL-CASE HALF-CHRONOMETER,
combining the accuracy of the Chronometer and the
strength of the* lever Watch. A perfect time-keeper
and not affected l,y riding .£45 0 0
GOLD CRYSTAL-CASE f-PLATE KEYLESS LEVER
GOLD CRYSTAL-CASE LEVER WATCH, from .. 15 15 0
GOLD LEVER WATCHES for LADIES.12 12 0
SILVER CRYSTAL-CASE 1-PLATE KEYLESS
LiiVER WATCH, with CompeusaUou Balance .. 25 0 o
SILVER CRYSTAL-CASE LEVER WATCHES, with
Compensation Balances, from .9 9 o
SILVER CRYSTAL-CASE LEVER WATCHES, from 6 6 0
LADIE8’ GOLD WATCHES, from.6 6 0
YOUTHS’ SILVER WATCHES .3 3 0
esorlptioii oi Carpets, at I
i. Tutteidiom-court-road.
and CO. for CARPETS,
Families Furnishing »]mnM ; {J»t*
* Oiien oi too mutu m » vuuv. —ie ingrodienta being
1.1 honey, spirit* ot wine, borax, and extracts from sweet herbs
ii 1 da uts It forms not only the very best dentifrice for cleansing
-e discovered, but one* that is perfectly delicious to the taste
dots harmless us sherry. Tlie taste is so pleasing that, instead
taking up the tootlibrnsh with dislike, ns ls_oiten
•liildieu will on no account oir *
larly each
cannot bo taught the use of the tootnurusr. too young;
neglect invariably produces premature decay of tl*
•• Floriline” is prepared only by HtNRY L. OALLUi
i ixtoi-d-strect; London; and sold by nil Chemists and Perf
■' mghont the world, at 2s. ‘’ ,1
It the tootlihrnsli too yoiiiig: curly
PLORLLINE.
J- Vns
For the TEETH and BREATH.
If teeth are white and beautiful,
11 keeps t hem so intact.
If they ’re discoloured in the least.
It brings their whiteness back;
And by its use what good effects
■ re dally to be seen;
That science can pnxluco
It is the talk ..f every one,
An all-absorbing theme;
Whilst general now becomes the use,
Of "FRAGRANT FLORILINE. -1
•I ll,, enamel, mo. tv will preserve.
The " FRAGRANT FLORILINE."
•J^O.OOO pHRISTMAS pRESENTS.
pARKINS & QOTTO’S.
DRESSING-CASES, 21s., 42s., 84s., 105s., 210s.
DRESSING-BAGS, 42a., 84s., 105s., 210s.
HAND-BAGS, 6s. 9d., 11s. WAIST-BAGS.
DESPATCH-BOXES. 21s„ 42s., 63s., 84s., &c.
WRITING-CASES, 5s., 10s. 6d., 14s. 6d., 21s.
DESKS, 8s. 6d., 10s. 6d., 14s.6d., 21s..42s.,63s.
STATIONERY-CABINETS, 25s., 50s., 84s.,
ENVELOPE-CASES and BLOTTERS.
INKSTANDS for Drawing-Room or Library.
TEA-CADDIES, BOOK-SLIDES.
LIQUEUR-CASES, FLASKS.
LETTER-BOXES for the Hall and Library.
READING-STANDS, POSTAGE-SCALES.
OXYDIZED and ENAMELLED ARTICLES.
ORMOULU WRITING SETS, NTC-NACS.
OAK WARE, Tankards, Biscuit-Boxes, Jugs.
DOULTON WARE, Mounted with Silver, &c.
ELECTRO-PLATED GOODS, for Presents.
BRONZE INKSTANDS, CANDLESTICKS.
JEWEL-CASES, for Ladies and Gentlemen.
BRUSH-CASES, for Ladies and Gentlemen.
SCENT-CASES, for 2, 3, or 4 Bottles.
SPECTACLE-CASES, Waist or Pocket.
GLOVE and HANDKERCHIEF BOXES. .
WORK BOXES and BASKETS, 6s., 10s.,
RETICULES, LADIES’ COMPANIONS.
MUSIC CASES and ROLLS, 2s. Gd., 5s.,
MUSICAL BOXES, Ditto Albums, all kinds.
CHINA CARD-TRAYS, Ditto Ornaments.
PURSES, POCKET-BOOKS, NOTE-CASES.
CARD-CASES, Diaries for the New Year.
CIGAR-CASES, FUZEE-CASES.
OPERA-GLASSES, FANS, Newest Patterns.
GRAPHOSCOPES, STEREOSCOPES.
SCENT-BOTTLES, Gold and Silver Mounted.
PENCIL-CASES, Gold, Silver, Aluminium.
INDOOR GAMES, Newest and most Amusing.
CABINETS OF GAMES, 21s., 50s., 84s., &c.
BAGATELLE-BOARDS, 28s.Gd., 50s., 78a. 6d.
BACKGAMMON, CHESS, DRAUGHTS.
PAINT-BOXES, TOOL-CHESTS, FOOT¬
BALLS.
MAGIC LANTERNS, with slides, 7s. 6d., &c.
PORTRAIT ALBUMS, all sizes.
EASEL ALBUMS, improved Novelties.
PORTRAIT FRAMES, Ormoulu, Velvet, Lc.
SCRAP-BOOKS, STAMP ALBUMS.
IVORY PAPER-KNIVES, Portfolios.
TWO THOUSAND CHURCH SERVICES.
FAMILY BIBLES, Pocket Ditto, Prayers.
BOOKS for JUVENILES and PRESENTS.
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE POST-FREE.
pARKINS & QOTTO’S,
BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT
TO JI.K.H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
27 and 28, OXFORD-STREET, LONDON.
pLORILINE.
For the TEETH and BREATH.
It may or may not bo generally
summation* liavt* proved that ui
atker, miobfecrml by the nttkeii
uni* of nt least nine lwrboni In « v<
idily satisfy himself in thin mutter
join* over n iwrtuilly-decuyed tmdli
rill be found to reaomble a partial
arivthinc else we can comivire it. to. ------
FlUGHANT FLO III LINK is the only remedy yet di«Nivenxl
ubb* perfectly to tree the teeth and gums from these parasites
without the slightest injury to the teeth or the must tender
egetuble parasite*
j. „„ v . __ _ 4 . *n the teeth
gums of at least nine ja-r.-uiis in .-very ten ; any individual .
e „ t |y satisfy himself in tills matter by placing a powerful mierce
scone over a partially ■-decayed tooth, when the living animalcul®
will be found to resoluble a paitlally-decayed cheese more
si:_ 1 ,.. ... .mm. it. til We IIIHV JL SO htdlttf til
Ighteat
-From the "Weekly Times." March 26, 1871.-
so many toilet ar' I -‘ l — , ' l ‘*. .-** 1 "
la-lug constantly
■ -u-y when any-.. ■—-c-— -—:—
iat SIK-Cial attention sliould lie called to it. 1
and effective toilet article for
itlfving the teeth that we in a long experieni
ien anvtliing new and good is introduced
io ihe public that special attar*--*• , ' 1 1" *“ u ' rl, “
nost ifeliglittul and effective
la-autlfvinB tlie teetb that we In a long experience nave ever useu
s the new rnigrant Floriline. It is quite a pleasure to use it.
and its properties of imparting a fragrance to the breatli and
giving a pearly wliiteness to the teeth make it still more valu¬
able 4)r all tlie numerous nostrums for cleaning the troth
which from time to time have liecn fashionable and popular,
nothing to be compared with the Floriline lias hitherto l«vu pro-
ducetl. whether considered as a Ijeautifler or a valuable cleanser
“"FromThe 11 ’ Young'‘uidies'^mr’iml'"An agrecalile dentl-
TENNER and KNEWSTUB
J are now offering
a large assortment of useful Elegancies
a* PRESENTS, together with tlie remainder of their
PRIZE-MEDAL PARIS EXHIBITION GOODS,
at greatly reduced prices, including
J’RAVELLING BAGS,
■^yTRITING CASES,
JJESPATCH BOXES,
JQRESSING CASES,
gCENT BOTTLES,
QLOCKS, WATCHES, &c.
Price-Lists of Useful and Ornamental Novelties post lree.
JENNER and KNEWSTUB, to tho Queen
(Four Prize Medals awardeJ).
33. ST. JAMES’S-STREET; uuj - v
i, JEltMYN-STREET. S.W
ciding. They will And a Mmhghbto of tho oniof the'mo,t%T3 may.,..
tlnUt an llK-'J^lpisevcMiflbml. Patterns sent on receiving a fwKoned Floriline. 1?clcanws the teeth ,aid impartaa pleasant
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post-free, 2s. 3d.^ IMMEJ - gE ASSORTMENT OF
CHRISTMAS and NEW-YEAR’S CARDS
Of all tlie different Makers. Parcel, sent in the Country
for selection. Tlie designs for this Season are t illy magnificent.
J. A MACMICHAEL. STATION ER
42, SOUTH AUdLEY-STRE *
fid. .Montlily : by post 7jd„
LADIES’ TREASURY.
A HOUSEHOLD MAGAZINE
LITERATURE. EDUCATION. AND FASHION.
Each Monthly Part contalns-
A Portion of a SERIAL TALE, by a Popular Author.
A COMPLETE SHORT STORY.
A FULL-PAGED FRONTISPIECE ILLUSTRATION, [iriuted
on toned paper, with descriptive letterpress.
A Paper on POPULAR SCIENCE or a SKETCH OF TRAVEL.
A CHAPTER ON ECONOMICAL COOKERY. By Mrs. W«rwo.
A PAGE OF USEFUL HINTS In Household M'anagement.
A CHA1TER UPON COSTUME, with su^l^s for paring
Elegance and Economy in Dress, with Auswt Q
A PARIS LETTER, denoting the latest changes In Fashion.
A LARGE COLOURED FASHION-PLATE.
Ten or more KNGRVING8 of the Latest Costumes.
DESIGNS IN NEEDLEWORK, Fancy and Plain, with full ami
practical Instructions to work from.
A CHESS PROBLEM.
PASTIMES FOR WINTER EVENINGS, 4c,
•• Tlie' Ladies' Treasury' contains on amount of varied in-
beset tlie inexpenenced."-Lceds Mercury.
•• The' I-allies' Treasury' maintain, “tire
balance each other."-Scotsman.
• Specimen Copy sent post free for 7)d. In stamps.
— paternoster-buildings.
are t illy magnificent
Kl> HaI.F l’UICE.
_ -0 THE QUEEN.
W.: and 207, KING'S-llOAD,
LONDON. S.W.
London: Bkmbosk or
STANDARD WORKS for PRESENTATION*-
" The most acceptable //-‘h- r h” k DITION.
MANY THOUptips OF MA^^M^B;.
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Library L. , . - ns.
U Ei.te'^ complete In
b..ll ti
Edition, Roxburglie ..
■nsons '—Freemasons' Minrazim
■- Not so much a Book aa a LramKri
“ r pHE WOl
A one of the
WORLD has been endowed with
MAC.NIVEN' und CAMERON'S excellent PENS.”—Re i
HiirUlli ’ 1700 NEWSPAPERS RECOMMEND THEM.
•' They come as a b<w>n and JicMing to men,
The Pickwick, the. Owl, and the "’ave ley Pen "
" They are a treaa'ire."—standard.
Just out! Tl’iE HINDOO PENS, Nos. 1.2. and 3.
•• Tlie freest liens we ever used."—Overland Mail.
Oil. and Is. per Box. at all Stationers’.
Sample Box. containing all the sorls. Is. Id. by post.
" They are the Ue.it pens invented.and it is only bare instil
the iKituntees to record the fact.”—Shrewsbury Journal.
Pnrentc s-MACNIVEN uud CAMERON.
23—Blilir-fttrcet. Edinburgh. (Established 1770.1
PEN MAKERS TO HER MAJESTY'S GOVERN 31EN1
OFFICES.
Crown 8vo, fancy hoards, 2s.
UNCLE JOHN.
THE YVH1TE ROSE.
CEUI.-E.
BK(X IKES OF BRIDLEMERE
BONES AND 1.
i ' -N 1 l; A HAND.
MARKET HARBOROUGH.
UUAl'YlAN and HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.
•4HCIIEDON.
SONGS AND VERSES.
SATAN EI.LA.
THE TRUE GROSS.
KATEItFELTO.
SISTER LOUISE.
ROSIN E.
0^,
CHRISTMAS. From the “ Sketcl -
IB
RACEB RIDGE HALL.
WASHINGTON IRVING. YVItli upwurds c
Illust atlons by R. Caldecott. Crown Svo,
Co., London.
By
f 'ORPULENCE.—YATE HOLLAND’S
\J POYVDER3 (or Pillftl aia-eil ily and safely absorb, S(l|«r-
iluoiis fat and reduce, corpulency, however longstanding. Price
2 ) !»l.,4i.ild.. uud 11s. per Box.—MARTIN and CO .3. Paradise-
Just published, post-free, two stamps,
TYYSPEFSIA AND THE SEVERER
X7 FORMS OF'INDIGESTION. A small Pamphlet on these
SECOND EDITION, crown 8vo. clotli e'ega - " ^
T)EETHOVEN :
X) GHA'EME Y}i!i ^ndPortrSt. 3 , ravl
N ««sKs 2 r' u ‘ Mmolr
SECOND EDITION. cro *" ^ r °' ^ ‘t ITFR ATURE
has h..h^ W't
! “iSndeed. IndlsiienrahljHgM'
The -general reader win__
“ TWENTY^KTH blOUSAND- ‘jV^gEHOLD
rv/-vxn3cxiC MEDICINE and HO L „ unMS0S ,
RY : A Dictiona
Edinburgh.
TAOMESTIC MEDICIiN anat‘- Ei{ TH o,ison.
inraBdV^WIth domS medicine which bM
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 1878.—31
J^NGLISH AND jpOREIGN COURTS.
EGEBTON BURNETTS
WELLINGTON SERGES,
AND VARIOUS OTHER APPROVED WOOLEN FABRICS.
EGERTON BURNETT lias repeatedly hud the honour ..I
snppljinit ‘ these admirable Serges" to tlie ROYAL FAMILY,
and executes Orders dally FROM ALL PARTS.
Neither rain nor salt water can affect their permanent dve.
Prices from ls.'2}d. to the finest, at Is. fid.per yard. PATTERN-
BOOKS sent free by post and carriage paid to Bristol or London
on parcels over £2. GOODS PACKED FOR EXPORTATION.
Benevolent Ladies and Gentlemen should send for Patterna of
E. B.'s most useful Fabrics for distribution TO THE POOR, as
supplied to H R.H. the Princess of Wales.
J^GERTON J^URNETT,
FOR CHRISTMAS OR NEW YEAR.
SANGSTER urni CO.’S UMBRELLAS,
on Fox’s celebrated Frames.
8. and Co. invite an Inspection of their large assortment of
Umbrellas suitable ior Presents, plain or elegantly mounted.
Ho, Regent-street. I 78, Cheapside.®
lo. Royal Exchange. SB, Fleet street.
•Also Shipping Depot.
N.B.—By appointment to the Royal Family.
Six Prise Medals.
I ADIES’ ELASTIC SUPPORTING
J BAND8. for use liefore and after Accouchement.
Instructions for Measurement and Prices on application to
POPE and PLANTE. 4. Watorloo-place. Pall-mall. London.
HOCOLAT
JMIOCOLAT MENIER, in Alb. and ilb.
JjllOCOLAT
MENIER.—Awarded Twenty-
exceeds 17,000,(0) lb.
qhoco:
LAT MENIER.
Sold Everywhere.
Paris.
n terttk
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS.
.vRY’S COCOA EXTRACT
-1. (innrantccd pure Cocoa only, deprived of the superfluous
oil. Sold 111 Packets and Tins.
I
TWELFTH EXHIBITION MEDAL.
A GOLD MEDAL, PARIS,
is evidence or the high opinion ent< rtained by the Inter¬
national Jury "f the merits of
f-RY’S CHOCOLATE AND COCOA.
Ask for FRY’S CELEBRATED CARACAS COCOA, a choice
preparation.___
GOLD MEDAL. PARIS.
rpHE FRESH AND SPLENDID
A CHOICE PREPARED COCOA.
' R Y’S CARACAS COCOA.
'• A most delirious and valuable article.’’—Standard.
No more delicious, refreshing, nourishing, nnd wholesome
eragi- husevei been manufactured."—Morning Post.
G
PREPARED WITH PURE CONDENSED MILK.
' R Y • S MILK COCOA
only requires to be mixed with boiling water to produce a
LIQUEUR
I N G E R
An Elegant and Digestive Cordial
much appreciated by Sportsmen,
Tourists, and Travellers, being
invaluable for Cases of Choleraic
Nature and Indigestion. In Square
Bottles and Ycdlow Bin Cases, [war¬
ing trade mark, " A Negro's Head."
45s. jwr case. — 28 and 27. High
K
I N A H A N’S LL WHISK Y.
THE CHE AM OF OLD IRISH WHISKIES.
Pure, mild, mellow, delicious, and most whole;
some. Universally recommended by the Medical
Profession. Dr. IUkhII says:-"The whisky ia
soft, mellow, and pure, well matured, and of very
excellent quality. —20. Great Titchfleld-Btreet.W .
ORANGE CHAMPAGNE is a light,
V/ p.eusaut drink, made simply from Oranges. It Is effer-
vo cent, but entirely free from spirit, and perfectly w holesome.
"--- • 4s., Pints. Bottles 2s. and Cases la.
Copenliageii-sti
In consequence of Spurious Imitations of
L E A and P E R RI N S’ SAUCE,
which are calculated to deceive the Public, Lea and Perrins
have adopted a NEW LABEL, bearing tlielr Signature, “ LEA
and PERRINS," wldcli signature is placed on every bottle of
WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE, and without which none is
genuine. Sold wholesale by the Proprietors, Worcester; Crosse
and Blackwell. London; and Export Oilmen generally. Retail,
by Dealers in Sauces throughout the World.
D
JNNEFORD’S FLUID MAGNESIA.
The best remedy for Acidity of the Stomach,
Heartburn. Headache. Gout, and Indigestion,
and safest aperient for delicate constitutions,
ladies, and children. Of all Chemists.
V
ITREMANIE SUPERSEDING
[IIA PHAN IE.—An easy and inexpensive method or Deco-
Windmvs iu Churches, Public Buildings, nml Private
Dwellings, bv which may he produced the Ilich Colouring and
Beautiful Designs of Beal Stained Gloss. Handbook of Designs
■ ' ■ Particulars post-free. Sole Inventors,
I. Babnaud and
9, Oxford-stroefc, London, W.
C HROMOPHOTOGRAPHY,
INVENTED BY H. KRAUS.
The New art of Colouring Photographs in Oil, In Imitation of
po'retain painting, by which simple process the mo.t beautiful
and lifelike pictures may be produced. Boxes of complete
materials 15s. nnd 21s. each. Particulars free, and specimens
Shown at J. BARNARD and SON’S, rn Oxford-street, Loudon,
\V\, Sole Agents for Great Britain Hnd Ireland.
J'lOALS, IRON, and LIME.
Vy Works—Clay Cross. Clre.-terficld.
All orders U
•f Office, a
D R
Seventh Edition, cloth, post-free, .72 stamps.
, BARR MEADOWS on CHRONIC and
other ERUPTIONS. Remarks on the Abuse of Ar.tulc,
, and otlier reputed specifies.
O. 11 ii.i., I'd, Wostminstcr-rond.
WHEN YOU ASK FOR
len field
STARCH
SEE THAT YOU GET IT.
’ ” ■ • often sub-tUnted
Beware therefore of spurious Imitation
THE FAMILY MEDICINE.
P gYRR’S
T IFE
lj piLLS.
80LD EVERYWHERE.
T> LAIR’S - GOUT PILLS. — The Great
JD English Remedy for Gout ud Rheumatism. Sure, safe,
»nd effectual. No restraint of diet required during their use. and
^JORTLOCKS’ CHINA.
JOHN MORTLOCK & CO. Sole Addresses,
f\XF0RD - STREET, and ORCIIARD-
Vy STREET. PORTMAN-SQUARE, LONDON'. W.
ArOIiTLOCKS’ have Ten Thousand
-4’-/- Christmas Novelties.
ATORTLOCKS’ Exhibition Cottage Dinner
Services. 25s.
AT ORTLOCKS’ Porcelain Dinner Services,
A’-!- from 12 gs. to loo gs.
AT ORTLOCKS’ is the Depot for all
A Minton’s New Designs.
A T ORTLOCKS’ is the Depot for the
A’A Worcester and Wedgwood Ware.
A TORTLOCKS’ Dessert nnd Tea Services,
A*A are unrivalled. Price21s. Set.
AT ORTLOCKS’ Queen Anne Clocks arc
-U’A superb. Price 8 pa. to 20gs.
ATORTLOCKS’ Blue-and-White Room is
A* A a great attraction.
ATORTLOCKS’ Service of Glass, Antique
A’A Shapes, or 12 persons, from £2.
A T ORTLOCKS’ Glass Duplicates of the
-t'A Pari* Exhibition.
Glass Decorated by an
* iitirely new process.
Glass. Cyprus Wine
Glasses, 9s. Gd. per Dozen.
Rustic ” Glass Flower
Vases. A Speciality. From 4s.
jyjORTLOCKS’ AVedgwood Room is now
ATORTLOCKS* Lamps arc perfect and
A’A carefully tested. Price from 21*
ATORTLOCKS’ New Show-Room for
A'A Lumps should lie visited.
ATORTLOCKS Manufacture from Original
A’A Designs only
JVJORTLOCKS’ Oriental, Early English,
ATORTLOCKS’ pay carriage of Country
-t’A Orders during December
JOHN MORTLOCK & CO, Manufacturers
w to the Queen and Royal Frniilv
r rHE OLD POTTERY GALLERIES
J (Established I7*fi).
002, 203, 204, OXFORD , STREET,
LONDON W .
gO, 31, and 32, ORCHARD-STREET,
J^JORTLOCKS’
jyjORTLOCKS’
^JORTLOCKS’
l’ORTMAN-SQUARE
G
ARDNERS’
EAV
'' N
gERVICES.
D
INNER
GARDNERS’ TABLE GLASS SERVICES.
Original iu De.-lgn. Effective in Appearance Unequalled in
In Price.
FROM £3 Ss. THE SET for TWELVE PERSONS COMPLETE.
A leading London Paper says, speaking of the exhibit* at the
Paris ExhibitionFor cheap earthenware I recommend the
young pair making the experiment of love In a cottage to try
Gardners’, of the Strand. He has a large assortment at the
Exhibition of lied-room and dinner sets. The bitter induce a
dessert set for twelve, and cost from 8nf to I50f. in Paris, de¬
livered at the buyer’s door. For 160f. one ran purchase a so vice
for dinner and dessert In the delicate porcelain stylo of decora¬
tion. and edged with turquoise blue.
DINNER SERVICES
of the Best Stone China.
• The Lansdowne .. £4 3 0 | » The Kaolin .. .. 414 fi
® The Ecclcs .. ...3136® The Danish .. ..£550
•The Indiana .. .. 4 4 0| The Japanese Ihun-
® The Bamboo .. ..4 4 61 boo.« fi (I
The Wild Rose .. ..5 5 0 The Sevres .. .. 7 7 n
The Indian .. .. 5 8 o| Tlie Humming Bird 7 7 8
• Can al-o lie had in Blue and Wldto.
TABLE-GLASS SERVICES,
of the Best Crystal.
Plain Light Stem Glass £3 fi 0 I Richly Engraved Glass £5 19 fi
Engraved .. ..4 8 6 Very Rich Engraved
Richly Cut Glass .. « 10 0 | and Etched .. .. 7 11 6
Cash Discount, is per cent.
Illustrated Glass Catalogue* post-free. Coloured Lithographic
Sheets of Dinner Ware post-free.
Q_ ARDNERS’ JN
L A
and other Burners. In Brass. Bronze, Ormolu. German Silver,
amt Electroplate. Pottery by Doulton, Minton, Worcester,
Schoppin, Deck, and other celebrated Makers. Burning Colza.
Sunlight, Petroleum, or other Mineral Oils. Each turnip is
perfect in detail, and Is carefully tested before leaving the
Establishment. Prices from 21s. each.
GARDNERS. LAMP.GLASS.«nd CHINA MANUFACTURERS,
451 and 451, West Strand. Churing-rioes
DEFRIES nnd SONS, CITY SHOW-
ROOMS AND CRYSTAL GALLERY. 147.
HOUNDSD1TCH LONDON
/'CHANDELIERS — Wall Lights, Brackets,
Vy and Mirrors (registered). Crystal. Bronze,
I) v
In Light nr Dark Blue nnd White
The Madras, Deep Blue and Will
The Arabesque, the Newest Desigi
TEA services—
-L Painted and Gilt.1
Breakfast Services, for 12 perso;
China, Painted and G It
Toilet Services, Antique Blue a
White
Minton and Wedgwood's Wares.
''FABLE GLASS—
For the Dining and Drawing Room
T AMPS—DUPLEX, PA
JU Moderator, Kero
:, PARAGON,
pLOCKS, BRONZES, LUSTRES,
Vy Mirrors, and Electro-Plate.
FOUNTAINS (Self-acting) for Drawing and
A Dining Rooms .. ..from £117 G
Mess, Export, and Genei
Railway Stations.
/"CHRISTMAS and NEW-YEAR’S FETES
Vy nnd REJOICINGS.
J DEFRIES and SONS.
Soirees. Balls, Evening Parties, Ac., supplied with every requisite
Gardens, Grounds, Lakes, Ac.. Illuminated and Decorated.
Temporary Ball-Rooms,Tents. Ac., Erected, Furnished, Lighted,
and Decorated
Electric and Lime Ltghts. Pyrotechnical Dlspluyr.
J. DEFRIES and SONS.
SHOW-ROOMS, 147, HOUNSDITCH, E.C..
Five minutes walk from the Bank of England and all the City
Railway Stations.
JNQUIRE WITHIN.
A The Mouth is like a house to let. However pretty it may
be externally, it is impossible to Judge of its merits until yon
have seen the inside. If beyond tlie ruby doors there are plenty
of pearl-white fixtures, you' will exclaim at once, " How beauti¬
ful 1" To impart the utmost possible brilliuncy to such dental
furniture—to keen it always sound ami pel feet—there Is nothing
like fragrant SOZODONT.
ind keep in
D O JUSTICE TO NATURE.
It is Ingratitude to nature not to prese
splendid order a good set of Teeth. Nothing ca.. _ ....
that is needed is to brusli them briskly night nnd morning with
purifying SOZODONT. it will make the moutli a perfumed
palace.
J 00K AT THE RUINS!
X-J Aye. look at the ruins of whst were once mognifirent
sets of teeth to be teen cverywnere in society. Look at them,
and ask yourself if it is not marvellous that such destruction is
permitted, when, by simply using SOZODONT, any teeth, how¬
ever fragile, may be preserved from decay or blemish as long as
T he pearly gates.
Pure white teeth and a sweet breath, issuing like perfume
from the rose, through a pair of lovely lips, are, as Sliakspeiiro
says, "an excellent thing in woman." To keep the ‘pearly
' of the mouth always spotless, and the nreath always
frkgrant. it is only necessary to use the SOZODONT daily.
JC LITTERING TEETH.
V* Not only does SOZODONT impart the whiteness of the
purest porcelain to tlie teeth, but Its polish too. They glisten,
alter being brushed with it. like the inner surface of an ocean-
shell, and the effect of this jiecrless dentifrice is to render the
enamel us hard and indestructible ns adamant.
r FHE FRAGRANT SOZODONT
J- is put up in large Bottles, fitted w ith patent Sprinklers
fnr applying the liquid to tlie tooth-brush. Each bottle is in¬
closed hi a handsome toilet-box. on which are labels and di¬
rections In the English. French,Spanish and German languages.
Price 3s. ud. One bottle will last six months.
Sold by the principal Chemists and Perfumers.
„ , „ JOHN M. RICHARDS.
Bole European Agent, Great Russell-street, London.
gPOONS AND JpORKS.
gLACK’S p LECTRO-PLATE
IS A COATING OF PURE SILVER OVER
SLACK’S NICKEL SILVER.
FOR SILVElt-I.IKE APPEARANCE,
FOR CONSTANT WEAR.
FOR EXCELLENCE IN WORKMANSHIP.
_ IS EQUAL TO STERLING SILVER.
MADE IN A GREAT VARIETY OF USEFUL ARTICLES.
SUITABLE FOR
WEDDING OR OTHER PRESENTS
... AT MANUFACTURERS’ PRICES. '
CRUET FRAMES, with RICH CUT GLASSES. Iks .fid. to 2ns.
'I EA SPOONS. 12*.. DESSERT. 20s.; TABLE. 30s. per Dozen
TABLE FORKS. 30s.; DESSERT, 20s. per Dozen.
[.'US.SER'r KNIVES and FORKS, in 12-pair Case*.SO*, to CXM.
t-IMI LAI 1NG KNIVES, in Case. -15s. to 1208. the Dozen
SETS^dJ-LATED SPOONS and FORKS. 18te. to 250s. One
«*£ CUTLERY, One Dozen each and CARVERS 75a to
TEASJSinO"®* SETs,70*. to 300s.; TEAPOTS. 18*. fid. • Ills.
ntM'I IT BOXES. 15s. iki to 85*.; CLAH«KT JUGS its. r
IlLUCK-TIN DISH COVERS. 2’i. the «t of Six |
CLACK’S TABLE CUTLERY
^ HAS KEEN CELEBRATED UPWARDS OF FIFTY
_ YEAKS.
Every Blade made of the Finest Double Sheer Steel.
Table Knives. Balanco
Handle.IRa. Gd. .. 2.5*. Od. . 28s. Od. per dozen.
Cheese Ditto .. 14s. Od. . 18«. od... 22s. Sd.
Carver and Fork.. .. 4s. 9d... fis.ud. .. 7s. fid.
CLACK’S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE,
^ GRATIS, OR SENT POST-FREE.
Containing upwards of 3.21 Engravings, and Prices of
FENDERS. FIREIRONS. AND FURNISHING
IRONMONGERY.
NO PERSON SHOULD FURNISH WITHOUT ONE.
RICHARD and JOHN SLACK,
336, STRAND
(OPPOSITE SOMERSET HOUSE).
D eane and co.’s table cutlery,
celebrated for more than 150 years, remains imrlvulled for
quality and cheapness. The stock, extensive andcompiete, affords
a choice suited to every purchaser.
Ivory Handles. I s.d. I s.d. I b d. I s.d. I s.d. I s d. I e d.
Table Knives, per dozen.. Ill 0 119 01 22 0 125 0 32 0 35 01 40 ri
. 'slisi'ssr.shsissliss
JJEANE’S fenders
-L' Dean* nnd Co. 8 Show Root
and FIREIRONS.
JS for the display or these
lioice^vuriety ot patterns.
Fenders, Drawiug-r<
1.2 *1* ? 2
Bed room Fenders, from Ss to 18s Fireirnns. from 3e. to 12s. °
JYEANE and CO.’S London KITCHENERS.
J. ' Deane and Co. inauulactuie. supply, and fix complete
Cooking Apparatus. Kitcheners. Ranges, Hut-Water, steam,
and Bath I ittmgs, Ac.. Gas Cooking Stoves. Estimates given
London Pattern] London Pattern. | __Flavors j cheap
......... .. "■ heiiera I Kitcheners.
5 It. 8.. 27 0 0 fift.fi. Zi 0
3 ft. . :I0 0 0 I li ft. . 29 0 0| 4tt.fi 13 10 II I 4 tt' 10 fi 6
Manufactory and Workshops. 1. lacoli-street. Dockliead. S.E
Illustrated Catalogue, with furnishing estimates free bv post
Deane and Co., 40, King William st.. London Bridge. ».t>. 17m
H UBBUCK’S PATENT WHITE ZINC
PAINT. Thomas Hulduirk and S-.n. Whitelead Oil
Paint, and Varnish Works. 24, Lime-street, London
IP
ANTI - OXIDATION
r Coating Iron and Wood Ships’
H UBBUCK’S PALE BOILED LINSEED
OIL.
H UBBUCK’S WHITELEAD COLOURS
and VARNISHES.
IP
JJUBBUCK’S BOILER COMPOSITION.
JJUBBUCK’S PAINTS Mid OILS, properly
UBBUCK’S PAINTS, OILS, i^d
VARNISHES are the best and therefore the cheapest.
Beware of Counterfeits of their Name ami Trade .Murk.
THOMAS HUBBUCK and KIN.
Whitelead. Oil, Point, and Varnisli Works.
24, Lime-street, 1-ondon.
E
G L E N F I
STARCH
lias for many years been exclusively used in the Royal Laundry.
“The best Starch 1 ever used. "—The Queen’s Laundress.
Cleanly In use. economical, nnd gives a ja-rfect 1 " Milliner and
stiffness and gloss difficult to excel 1." ( Dressmaker."
“ Particularly adapted for clear starching) •’ Englishwoman’s
muslins." j DomesticMngazine."
Iv AYI
■^yOBSDELL’S
piLLS
_ VE DIGESTION.
ESTABLISH THE HEALTH.
Sold everywhere.
1 BRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH.
JL This Family Medicine is the must effective remedy for
Indlge tion. Bilious nnd Liver Complaints. F..r FEMALES,
the-e Pill* are truly excellent, removing headache, depression of
splrlta. dulnes of sight, nervous affection-, blotches, pimple ,
and sallowneosof the skin, and givealiealthy bloom to tliecom-
plexl-'U.—Sold by all Chemitta, at 1*. lid. and 2*. 9d. per Box.
pjOLY BAZIL.—At PIESSE and LUBIN’S.
II
0LY BAZIL—PIESSE and LUBIN.
This is u most rare Perfume,
distilled from the Holy Bazii
ita unique fragmnci
H OLY B a Z I L.—NEW Perfume, in
suitable flacons for aUparcliaisers, from Half-a-Crown to
a Five-pound Note.
Sold at the Laboratory of Flowers.
2, New Bond-street, London.
To the Trade.—Tlie Title ’« reserved.
JJOLY BAZIL.—Rich and Rare.
JJ OLY BAZILi.—New Perfume.
JJOLY BAZIL.—Unique Fragrance.
piESSE
J^UBIN,
PERFUMERY"
FACTORS.
f JLYCERINE
^ JELLY.
Exquisite for the Hands nnd
Bcnden “ .**
, and h<»dt
* ••btnimd
wlkaid-sti
DIESSE & LUBIN. PRETTY PRESENTS.
P RETTY PRESENTS at PIESSE and
LUBIN’S, adapted for New-Year's Gifts, Bridal Gifts.
Souvenirs of affection ami esteem. Ornamental Boxesof Sccnts,7».
and 10s. each, containing tlnee varieties. One Guinea's worth of
selected sweet Scents delivered free to any railway stat.on iu tlie
Queendom.—Pi esse and Lubin, No. 2, New Bond-street. London.
JIIE “W00T0N”
pATENT CABINET SECRETAIRE.
r |’ , HIS Secretaire is one of the most useful,
A elegant, aud convenient article* of Furniture for Hoiiao
or Office ever invented. It contain* nearly One Hundred Com¬
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THE it-- CHMBTMAB KPMBEB ’ 18 ”~ 9 -
' DANCINO was dancinq in those days.
A me^Ttookthe “STnotS^utgliding
Now-a-dfl78 there 8 no^n ^ o{ ,«&.
schools.”
Before the night ®^Jf/f U ^ ^ndmother’ a pumps!
*SSi 5 SSSfiSssr
‘a^s^ssssF
T1 ?JS£££J&lSfSSS. .ittout hHtog ontfs «!"•! ”
“^.ziJsais^ssfiaW;
And made every one to his habits a slave.
- rs *
When one or the other great feature was the gent
Leman all of us copied, by George.
1 'ss^sSSssss SssSaSSr 1 ^?*
„ Von dancing teas dancing when I was a youth, dear,
Of eold I could show you young caperers y et
The right way to foot it-but no! I am nimble
^No iWr. 7 Good-night! So, kiss me, my pet!' ^
THE CHRISTMAS BOARS’S-HEAD;
rrs LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS.
Presented to the r ^ er ’® n °^ ce rt ^ t Husmbo^ like) of a
portrait (surely, it miut be a pom ^ ^ q{ Markfl . for he
mediaeval man of mark I “g^' ^ of the popular painter
has been lunned by the fgthful penc ^ when he
MY LADY’S CARRIAGE STOPS THE WAY.
&
SaS55S®iisS t
thtoS&TStoSipowers and braided with ribbons ; tei
fashionaoiy iww of chinese-blue satm sash, and to
SSJS^oS flounce, clo7ked-silk stockings and high-heeled es
s
begins to ache. So the kind bonne in attend¬
ee takes^her fan, and, to protect her against the cold, snowy sv
nieht enfolds her in warm fleecy scarf, and ermine and quilted it
cloak’ And there 1 sec her standing at the foot of the grand w
staircase, among the flowering plants brought for the occasion “
from the conservatory, till her carnage shall draw up. Asi she o,
Rtands there so demurely buttoning her gloves I wonder
whether she vaguely realises that she has been the belle of the v
evening on thisthe first, it may well be, of a long series of C
simUar^gaieties—the prelude of a later presentation fraught e
^And when to*-morrow comes how pleasant it will be to 1
hear her prattle to Mamma, on her visit to the nursery, about \
thf gay doings over night. I think I hear her babbling in 1
wonk like these:-”The place and the people were all so i
strange to me, dear Mamma, I felt like Alice m Wonderland;
only it was all quite real, you know, feuch dazzling lights
such lovely dresses, such beautiful music, such delightful
dances, you would not believe. I danced nearly every donec-
Srice with Sir Reginald. He has large black eyes, you know
not blue, like mine. He wrote his name so nicely <mmy list of
engagements: I brought the pretty programme-book away
with me and am going to keep it for his sako—may I not,
Mamma ? In the rntiUon, too, I did not wipe the mnror when
he came behind me, but took him for a partner. But when
he was going to kneel to me I drew the cushion away for
fun—I fear it was naughty, dear Mamma—he was so angry,
a^d called me ‘coquette? Afterwards we made it up and he
took me to supper-oh, such a splendid supper^ What do
you think he drew from a ‘ cosaque, —I think they call it.
I foolscap ! I made him wear it, and he looked so very funny
in it I clapped my hands and laughed very much. He was
angry again, but we made it up once more over a lovely bon¬
bon with such pretty lines. I was so sorry when the time
came to go; and I was almost afraid when the butler, or
porter, called out so grandly, ‘ My lady’s carnage stops the
way,’ and thetall footmen stood waiting for little me. aa though
it were you, Mamma. Butoh.whatdreadfulfaccs were those out
in the dark cold night! I thought one woman might be a wicked
fairy watching to make me a changeling for the pale, hungry-
looking child at her side. But my bonne was there, and
.Tameafand the policeman, so I felt safe. Oh! but what do |
you think I dreamt last night? I dreamt all that you told me
of the Child Jesus, and the star of Bethlehem, and the wise
men’s offerings-I wonder iftheymade ^ e8 ^f rlch “. *
am?—and of the flight into Egypt, and the wide desert-its
burning sun by day, its brilliant stars by mght-and the roar¬
ing of the lions. Then I dreamt of that cruel, cruel lit rod,
and woke crying, and fancied I heard creaking footsteps creep-
ing towards me; but it was only the hissing of the snowflakes
as they fell into the fire. Then 1 heard soft music in the
air, like the angels’ music that the shepherds heard; and,
listening, I fell asleep again-oh, so sweetly!-and did not
wake till broad daylight this Christ mas morning. Sweet be
thy slumbers ever, fair child, with the blessing on thy head of
Him who said, “ buffer little children to come unto me,
without distinction of fair or deformed, rich or poor
T. J. G.
Ajees?has he£ ^ddle-age
admirataon and delight. w^though, we may hope, not to th
swifec ess
I artist who is satisfied trimnnhalpJocession into the Banquet- tm tl
ready to bo borne with toumphal ggc^ dinner . while the ^ m
ing-hall, there tomaugu j ol ly as the season, looks Ita sig
Cook, professionally . at £"», * Juliiiry art, as it lies in the
lovingly upon hw trvump J-' ^blZ It may be in some hand
silver dish on toe ma »k Durham Ca9tle , where the Libra
huge kitchen, Like to u. chrUtmas cheer . 0 r in that In
Prince-Bishops ^pt good L s “ andord town,” which was
°* Jv!n 8 nf th e old monastic buildings of the Abbots of good
a portion o dimensions, and the great height SOUS e
Pcterborough and fiom us kitchens in England. nobil
of it. vaulted roof, ^^arkable picture of a huge ox, laid ^
In n and^adyfor the Christmas cooking , it is painted in the dinn <
bSt rtvle and that artist was none other than Sir gilve]
arttst s best style, an ^ fond of a boar-hunt for the cugtc
itecS hU brash. Or that dish with the Boar’s head may | but *
v^ b nn the table of a kitchen in some College, like to that at Aub]
be on th ,, Oxford, where, from time immemorial, it has bous
^S to bS in the Boar’s-head with great cere- was ,
»p
BoaJ
| s*
1521} ciBQ. nflB d p i Viovp been occnsionnlly varied.
to DibdSTto^RitooT^to J~j
He^e? P but Q the vaSns iii the three verses are not very
“ 0P Th? n Rev John Pointer, in his Oxoniensu ^earfemi« (1749), ^
after sneSdng of the curious New-Year’s custom at Queen s | (
r CoUege wh£f the Bursar presented to each member® ,? ee ^° par
r Louege, wneu o Z »< Take this and be thrifty’’—the j b
kt and being a rebus on the name of the founder, Robert b
; iWSffi S
ushered in very solemnly with an old Song,
K L r wZ " The legend of this modern Meleager and
rftloKi: stud^ht fflUf^hSTSE
d 6 ta hSi! ?p e S?fe.-l.»d, • the tawn 01 the tuehed
phaucer says, it was customary to deck it, so that
| SSft. s
^f Cookery” This mustard was much insisted on in all the
*ht earlScaroU that were sung at the bringing-m of the Boar s-
8 head including that beginning with the lines, Hey . hey .
. tn W hey' toe Boar’s-head with mustard armed so gay,’
' IZr* dates to a manuscript of the fifteenth century.
C the “ toiput Apri defero” carol “the Boar’s-head with
L bo mustard ” is mentioned as cheering the pats. tbe ^
j. “The Boar is dead,” that was sung at St. John s College,
h^’ Oxtord at the Christmas banquet given to Pnnce Henry to
Vro 7 is the couplet, “Let this Boar’s-head and mustard,
Stand for pig, goose, and custard; ” which is the only rhyme
OW- rSJWS I have met with in the ancientcarols ;for
0 f “mustard,” in another carol, can hardly be accepted a9 a
rWmeto” steward ” In one carol the guest is instructed
not that*“ to the mustard ye shaU whet,” when eating the Boar s-
rhen head ; mid in another old carol bread is added to the mustard,
toen “ Eat, and much good do it you; Take your bread and mustard |
r for the ^-’ Boar , s . head( on Christmas Day, was served up on I
d7e a dish usually of silver, and sometimes of gold, and was
J do borne from the kitchen to the hall, with great pomp and
it? _ Scing, with the sound of music from the minstrels, the
Lnny blowtag of trumpets by the heralds, and the Jingling of the
™ jesteEs bells. The person who had the honour to bearthe
bon- dish was called the Sewer, and was sometimes the Cook.
time though, occasionally, the noblest in the land did imt think it
cr or derogatory to their dignity to cany the Boar s-head into the
s the banqueting-haU, as the signal that the feast mg andmern-
tough ment of Christmas had begun. It is even ssid, by Hrdinshed,
w out that this office was once performed by a Monarch—King
icked Henry II., at the coronation of his eldest son, Henry .when,
ngry- according to the custom of that period, toe heir to the throne
and was frequently crowned during his father s lifetime. The
[at do young Prince’s bride, Marguerite of France, was present, on
,ld me that, occasion, which would date to somewhere about toe year
e wise 1177 ; and the historian records that this bringing m of the
i as I Boar’s-head on Christmas Day was, even then, an old custom,
rt—its though when it arose we have no precise information.
> ronr- Of the “jovial hunter” of the old ballad, Sir Ryalas, the
It rod. Lord of Chetwode, we are told that he ‘
creep- boar that was devastating the distnet. And that he drawed
rflakes his broad-sword with might , and he fairly cut the Boar s head
in the off quite ; ” for which deed the Saxon king conferred upon
; and, him those lands in Buckinghamshire that have been held by
lid not his descendants ever since. A Boar’s head, garnished with
rect be bay-leaves and mounted upon a pole decorated with nbbons,
lead of is supplied by the lessee of the tithes of Hornchurch, to be
> me ” annually wrestled for at Christmas, in a field adjoining the
church. The tithes of the parish belong to lievr College,
J. G. Oxford.
In heraldry the Boar’s-head was the crest of the Warwicks
and Neville., and was borne by Richard the Third for which
he was called, by Richmond, the “wretched, bloody, and
usurping Boar;” and many similar epithets occur in Shak-
speare’splay, of which the crook-backed tyrant is the
hero. As a tavern sign, the Boar s-head was often
“ en • that in Eastcheap, London, being of special fame.
Prince Hal really frequented the house, and held high
revels there; so that our great dramatist had historical
foundation for making it the scene of the meetings between
the Prince and Falstaff. It is also to be noted that SJ.akspeare
the burlv knight’s name from that feir John Fastolf, of
» Se, N^rfoli. Min ima rn.de .
S£me«t to Magdalen College, O, ford, of that porbonot lu,
London property known as the Boar’s Head Inn, Southwark
Dr Bliss, m bis edition of the Rthquue Hearn™* . says that
t£a property, in 1721, brought in a yearly sum of £150 to the
Siege , and it is not a little cunous that »t produced exact y
couege, , ., su h.let to the family
college, and it u not a little cunous umt
toe same rent in the year 1830, when it was »ubdet tothef^
of the late Mr. John Timbs, F.S.A. The Boar s Head
Tavern of Falstaff and Prince Hal, is known to have masted
in th™ reign of Richard the Second, and was not destroyed
Si the ySr 1831, when it had to be removed m otoer
to make room for the approaches to London Bridge.
Us riim of the Boar’s Head was carved, m high rdicf, m stone,
tirith the initials “I.T." and the date 16b8, lu the right-
Sd uppeT^er; Ld it is preserved in toe City of London
Lihrmy, GuUdhall^’s ^ sotting before us the Christmas
dinner of a yeoman of the Elizabethan period, a portion of the
S chir thTt had to be provided was “ Brawn pudding and
souse and good mustard withal.” But at toe tables of the
St^totoe days of good Queen Bess, although “brarra
!Sur™ ntard and malmsey,” was served at breakfast, the
Se^w^edl£i “ a &r and large boar’s head^upon .
Hil^er nlatter ” borne in with the usual pugetmtry. The
custom was maintained through the two succwdmg reigns;
I hut in 1678 it would appear to have been in its decadence, for
Aubrey writes—” Before the last civil wars in gentlemen s
houses 7 aTchristinas, the first diet that Brenght to hgk
was a boar’s head with a lemon in his mouto^^ In that ballad
of a general grumble about existing things— \V hen this old
™ Swathe writer says that, in those halcyon days,
i
o Ptobably, a< oui iiutructon of voufh and
l
f this is Of necessity. For strangers . tms “ ^ Bede .
* d the poor: this is chanty,
ne FOLLOW THE DRUM!
im A LEAF FllOM BUKNs’s NOTE-BOOK.
“t fDonogone of tb.»»,
;ed dan .—DryasdusCs legendary Chronicles ]
\ at 0 gin ye will follow the dram
the j ge j ead y e a u forward to battle^ ff
om Wha’ll wait when a lassie cries Co™ p
ge. Wha’ll shrink from the musketry s rat tie.
ce. There’s the foe, there’s toe foe at our gate,
' “ And I bid ye make ready tojm eet Ann.
° f He'll start, from a wannn o Fate,
the wi’ my tli underin drum as I greet him.
ey '• Tliis coat was my father's, ye ken; _
y,” This hat, with its flutterm feather,
iry. Ave waved in the front of bis men ,
rith Ay Afl they fought and they conquered together .
arol Ye are sons of the Scotchmen whoi bl^
ege, For their land wi’ the Chieftain that go
y 8 in >Tis his child that now calls you instead.
ard, Can ye femr-when a lass leads you on ?-E. R.
yme ~
n [ Q l enigma.
a ® ® , IT *m ns warm of heart as slio
I am short-, and I am long * _ . sweet reality.
* r ®- Light as thistledown, jet stronR, l should be so,
Ard, Binding hearts m bandsiof steel v l * tho gent i y .faUing snow,
itard With my necromantic seal. tbaD WO rds cr .
Full of joy, of bitterness; k ct lar m
a on Solace oft in dire distress, t a; vutoe, by magic spell.
was False and fickle, yet most true. Lft at death-beds I am found,
Z OldasAdam thoughtonuew. Oft^tdea^ ^
fc Z FUmrito^n’perpetual youth; ^ in me.
f the S^Eam.rdoubt
®° k .; Evermore myself renewing “Linked sweetness long drawn
ok it ln the bliss of my nndoing. out.’’-J. L.
f toumhin’perpetual youth; “St pity breathesin me.
Evermore myself renewing “Linked sweetness long draw:
In the bliss of my undoing. out.’’-J- L.
Frosty-cold as Cnanty
Is by zanies said to be, 1
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ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 1878 (ADVERTISEMENT 3
Til E COCOA-TREE : ^ to productionof a pure article free from this objection.
'HIE MANUFACTURE OF COCOA AND CHOCOLATE. ^ removal of two thirds of the butter is accomplished by
Linn reus was so fond of chocolate that he called it food for the mean8 of very powerful and complicated machinery, the result
coda in the distinguishing name he gave to the tree that pro- being ^ impalpable powder, soluble in bofling wa jr an
duced it—Throbroma Cacao. poking the autritta. glutrn
, . p1v in an increased ratio; so that Cocoa Essence, perhaps, stands
The tree is a native of tropical America, but is now largely among diete tic3 as a flesh-former and nutritious
cultivated in other parts of the world. It is an evergreen, an e
grows to the height of from 14 ft. to 18 ft. It bears flowers
grown ^ ° ... ._ 4- _. _ a +w. thickens in the cup
- Messrs. Cadbury Brothers have therefore paid greatatoto SUGGESTIONS OS THE FEEDING 0 F
tion to the production of a pure article free from this objection. INFANTS.
The removal of two thirds of the butter is accomplished by B y WILLIAM FAUSSETT, M.D., F.R.C.S.I.
means of very powerful and complicated machinery, the result head befobb the subgical society of Ireland.
beimr an impalpable powder, soluble in boiling water and without presuming to pass any judgment on the many
■ „ nutritious cluten and stimulating theobromine artificial substitutes which, on alleged chemical and scientific
possessing the nutahon. gluten «n ^ g >tald , prfaclple8 , hare tom time to time been pierced forwmd node,
in an increased ratio , so that C i the notice of the profession and the public to take the place of
and nutritious the notice of the profession and the public to take the place of
14 ft. to 18 ft. It bears flowers beverage.
and fruit at all seasons of the year; these grow out of the
;hest among dietetics as a nesn-iormer mother’s milk, I beg to call attention to a very cheap and
rerage. simple article which is always easily procurable—viz., cocoa—
• „ , , . +h : f . kpn8 i n the cup ; and which, when pure and deprived of excess of fatty matter, may
Still there is a demand for cocoa tha safely be relied on as an admirable basis of infant food.
1 this romnriaea the second branch of manufacture e t* info r»prt.ain rnTiflidfvmtinrifl whirh t.hft
trunk and thickest part of the boughs. The little yellow ^ this comprises the second branch of manufacture e Before entering into certain considerations which the subject
flowers are in clusters, and the fruit when ripe is of a beautiful examined. A given portion of the liquid cocoa is poured into demandS( j 8ba ll 8i mply relate how this substitute for, or at
oramre colour. As the plant cannot bear the intense heat of a a s team-heated pan, and weighed with the sugar, arrow- leaat va i ua ble addition to, milk, when employed as food for
. 1 it is shaded by rows of loftier trees, as bananas, & c which of course differ in kind and quantity, accord- infants, first suggested itself to my mmd.
zit,;*. j *.-—^-*.
Spaniards madre de cacao, a tree with superb red blossoms. iron arms are then set m motion, which so completely levig ^ of extreme exhaustion, its pale and wrinkled features,
.. . , , the mass that in a few moments it is reduced to a powder. o«™eii 7 hnt. t.be e-rnression of old aee. its shrivelled limVm
, _ _ ^ the mass that in a few moments it is reduced to a powder. ^ somewhat the expression of old age, its shrivelled limbs,
The nuts are taken from the pod as s ’ These chocolate powders are 6old under the names of i arge beseeching eyes and piteous moans telling at once the
covered with a layer of sand. This causes a fermen a on nom(BO ^ Icelan d Moss, Breakfast, &c. whole history of its sufferings and wrongs,
which develops the aroma and takes off the natural bitterness Calling to mind just at the moment the fact that young
of the nut. They are then spread out to dry in the drying or it is a relief, after witnessing these manufacturing pro- calvC8 and lambs were frequently fed upon cocoa, with very
onrinff house. This bouse consists of a strongly built span roof cesaes to mount into the Packing Department above; for, 8maU additions of milk, and reasoning on certain analogies in
curing house. This bouse consists of a strongly built span roof ce88e8| to mount into the Packing Department above; for, gma]1 additions of milk, and reasoning on certain analogies in
fixed with wheels, running on iron rails laid along a stout frame- however interesting the results witnessed below, one grows reference thereto, it occurred to me that itwould be a far
wo*. -hid. supported platform, underneath and upoh which fed hreercrctt note and clatter of the maehtaerp. to
the cacao beans are dried. the Packing-Room all is light, cheerful, an o y. or to adopt the “ arrowroot,” or “rusk-biscuit,” and “barley-
... , p d in watch row after row of girls busily engaged. One is weighing, „ metbod 80 much in use in the nurseries of even the
Prior to 1831 the quan i yo whereas it a second is packing and enveloping in cases of bright tinfoil, a more favoured classes. I recommended the use of cocoa,
England had not reached half a million pounds, third ^ fastening on the outside labels of the Cocoa Essence therefore, with as much milk added as could he spared from
now amounts to over nine millions. Some idea of its pre- ^ aUon8 now 80 well known all over the world. the small family allowance, which for all purposes amounted
paration will be given by a short account of a visit to . to about a pint a day.
Messrs Cadbury’s works, which of late have become widely The third branch of manufacture yet to be noticed is that To my g^t gratification the child, who took greedily to
extended. of sweet Chocolate for eating and drinking; and here again this kind of nourishment, supplied from a feeding-bottle, soon
Fifteen years ago only about thirty hands were employed. we have nume ™ us XXglmfant. Th^coa wL continued through the whole
The number now is from three to four hundred. JDurmg «us This is a round stone basin in which the cocoa ^ ^ “
time also so many improvements ^ beenmad^tho ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ afc ft g^t speed, after my experience of this case I happened to be
arrangements and machinery, that>each of the handsi p 7 ^ 8tat ionary rollers bruise the mass until it conBU ited about the health of twins (the children of respect-
now turns out on anaverage double what they did then This 8 the of dough. From these ab i 0 parents), both of whom, but one in particular, were in a
wfll give some idea of the largely increased consumption of eubstance is at once passed through declining state of health, evidently, as it appeared to me, from
cocoa. The greatest Antoni .paid in the factoryjo ^ ^ ^ w hich crush itstillfiner, £ e St%
ss -*-«*.- f -
umlorm of clean brown holland, covering the whole dress. shape, and atos to rale. t." « J
From 9.5 to 9.15 every morning an interesting sight may be The best Chocolate is flavoured with vanilla, which is the “ fair ^ al> an d the result justified my
witnessed in the factory. The workpeople—men and women— fmit or seed-pod of one of those beautiful species of the family expectations. The twins were after a little time fed almost
assemble for a short and simple religious service. This daily Orchidacem that flourish in tropical America. The stems ^lusively ^^^^t^ha^wotoer cSeithier
gathering helps to form a bond of union between the work- c iim b to the height of twenty or thirty feet, twining round J^ron in the’neighbourhood. In several other instances I
people themselves, as well as between the employers and the the trunks of trees, and throwing out a profuson of have recommended the same.mode of!fcedin&
employed. Some of the latter, as a choir, conduct the singing; aerial roots, some of which eventually reach the ground. It
and snatches of the tunes often heard over the work during 8eem8 specially adapted for flavouring Chocolate, and is used ^ # • • * •
the day indicate the interest felt in the morning service. principally for that purpose. Cocoa in the natural state abounds in a number ^jalusble
, . nutritious principles ; in fact, in every material necessaiy ior
But we must hasten on to describe the interesting Cocoa carefully selected and prepared m this way certainly the the development, and sustenance of the body
process of .manufacture. The bags of cocoa, as they arrive forms the most delicious of all beverages or confections. The Shaps^wfog tobSg so palatable
from the docks, are stacked up in large piles. They come firm make a special article of this kind, packed m blue to the ^uit teste aa tea, coffee, and other beverages, as well as
from different parts of the world-from Trinidad, Grenada, wrappers, which may fairly be compared to the famous to the fact that while the ^h^^^orh^^
Caraccas, Carupano, Surinam, and even from Africa, and there Chocolate that Prescott describes as forming a part of Monte- be bo many adulterated preparations in the
_r-_or»ri anppial varifttifls. 7.ii in a ’b rfinaflt: Chocolate “ in colden eoblets flavoured with vAi^ori nT . t. bf > nublic as eenuine cocoa, under different
The best Chocolate is flavoured with vanilla, which is the did justmS'my
■._j _lil_fomiW “ . • 6 mi. . j._nfl.r a Ut+.lp tilllB fad alfflOSt
the day indicate the interest felt in the morning service.
But we must hasten on to describe the interesting
e a few other ohoice and special varieties.
zuma’s repast: Chocolate "in golden goblets flavoured with market, palmed on the public as genuine cocoa, i
, vanilla, and so prepared as to be reduced to a froth of the pretentious titles. „„npnrpd
nuts or beans are carefully sorted, and the 1 ... , ,, , , . .. A most useful and able expose of these appeared
, , . ... consistency of honey, which gradually dissolved in the ^ th Medical Press and Circular; but there a:
unsound ones rejected; they are then placed in rotating ^7' " ° ' TEFSSJEZ
cyUnders, and subjected to a gentle heat over coke fires, until invidious to name any of these to ^ he e .^ c \ us p adburv - 8
the full aroma is properly developed. When cooled they are We must not pass from this branch of our subject without re8 t, I may be permittedl tomention t “ ai principle J of
passed to another room, in which machines are arranged for a glance at the manufacture of the Chocolate Cremes. It would an^deSng'the superabundance of concrete oil
breaking the now crisp, roasted nut into the irregular seg- take someone more practical than a philosopher to describe or fatty ma tte r with which cocoa abounds, is a usMM pr^ara-
ments into which the kernel is naturally divided. The next the minutiae of this delicious bonne bouche. When finished tion ; and there are, no doubt, others equally
process is to remove the outer husks by means of a powerful they are transferred to an endless lift, which carries them down con 3 ^ C e8 a volati ie aromatic oil, a bitter principle anda
blast. The rich glossy kernel that remains is known in the into a cellar to cool, and then again they are carried by the peculiar element caHed theo-bronune, b ^^ 0
market under the name of Cocoa Nibs. The husk or shell is same means to the top of the building, where busy hands are theme ^teajgdtiwcafferne^of gluten , gum,
sent off to Ireland, where it is used as a light, but by no placing them in boxes of all sizes. starch, &nd other ingredients, as well as the lar g e ., a “°^ f ^
means unpalatable, table decoction, under the designation of There ia also another extensive manufacture carried on by ^eight^lS last 7tem h beingfar in excess of what
“ miscrables.” tbe Aa evC ryone knows, the eye as well as the taste must palatable or easily digestible^ it tb “°“^ B u ^i e 0 ^gsh-fonning
The visitor is next conducted into a large room where a be gratified in these luxurious times, and therefore success in ^mfoSrfo^art Ve superabundant fat. JJnda
long line of stones are working, one over the other, much in the sale partly depends upon the beauty and finish of the this excuse, however, the most ^“^^j^of^bfftances,
the same way as in ordinary flour-mills. Between these the packages. Many hundreds of thousands of beautiful picture- fafhkvfbeentotroduced into some of the
nibs are passed; and, as the stones are heated, the nibs are boxes of all sizes and varied shapes are annually manufac- patented compounds-orticles which, however usetiilui^e
reduced to a creamy fluid, which flows into pans placed to tured here. We follow our guide to the top of a large own place, are very p^Bubstitutes^OT w ,
receive it. When quite cold this wfll turn out a perfectly firm, building where the process is going on, and find a number of mftmt^tomacli^more unp^ ^ ^ derived from the empiopient
hard cake. girls ftt work. Some ore cutting out and stamping the card- 0 f cocoa in the feeding of infants, e . s P ecl i£? 0 f onifl n gulgre-
hoard, and others fitting the boxes together on blocks, wrap- obviouB, for, besides h “VP^?®“ v ^fl a bi e . A teaspoonful,
Up to tl,i, point wo hove too coco« to to nntoo condtoon, ^ ld „ kKne and on the ^ «< to d a “,i P whn
with the exception of the acids, &c. f thrown off in roasting, f * ... . "_ ° , ... .. . . _. milk, even skimmed milk, wnc
sent off to Ireland, where it is used as a light, but by no placing them in boxes of all sizes,
means unpalatable, table decoction, under the designation of ^ ^ alflQ another extenaiv(
“ miscrables.” A „ TPTTnnfi imows. the
Up to this point we have the cocoa in its native condition,
with the exception of the acids, &c., thrown off in roasting,
and the shell removed by the fan. We now diverge into three
distinct branches of manufacture; and as the Cocoa Essence is
the product of the firm best known to the public, we shall give
it precedence.
ho exception of the acids, Ac., thrown off in roasting, ^ ^ gem£j of ^ which attract 80 mucb attention in fluidj partly water and partly mflk, f en to a
ic shell removed by the fan. Wc now diverge into three Some of this work is carried on at the ^ri^n^bTttioroughly digested.
:t branches of manufacture; and as the Cocoa Essence is homea; ^ „ told that it isa most interest- ^gry infant, and will, pan # .
ing sight to find a large family busily engaged at it from
morning to night.
I beg, therefore, respectfully to . Sessional
article of infants’ food to the notice^of my ^ poor
brethren, especially those who, °? ini tie 3 of testing its
. brethren, especiaUy tnose wno, uoautoiB e 8 tifl g lta
There is no sophistication in this article ; it is the same Anytbing more «tasty ” than the artistic designs of these Laws, have such large and extensive opportune
>coa we have seen running from the stonesAn a creamy fluid, Chocolate boxe8( if we except ^ tasty ” contents, could not x % ith the sent pampered and artifloa! teat« ^
ith the excess of cocoa butter removed. The best cocoa con- „ be Drodu ced. At Christmas-tide both boxes and crimes better classes, It is to be feared that so sunple^and un p ^
with the excess of cocoa butter removed. The best cocoa con- weU be produC ed. At Christmas-tide both boxes and crimes better classes, It is to be feared that so ^““^d by them
tains about fifty per cent of natural cocoa oil or butter, and ^ st and) unlike .. swee ta ” in general, “ted Xt, as its nutritious pro*
this has been found to be far too large a proportion for ordi- ^ ^ ^ 0Qly ^ess but healthful confections. I*™* t *
nary digestions. Dr. Muter says: — “ The only objection devoid of all risk, in the case of children that are ^ ^ trial(
which can and does exist to its use in a state of purity is the But we must stay our descriptive pen. We hope enough und er more ordinary methods of fee gucb caBe s be often
excessive proportion of fat, which renders it too rich for most has been said to throw a little light on what is fast becoming clear out the
digestions, and gives, unfortunately, a colourable excuse for a vcr y important branch of industry in this country. half-digested food previously given. — Medica r
its adulteration.”— [Advt J [Advt.] Hand and Heabt. Circular. —[Advt.]
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 1878—(ILLUSTRATED ADVERTISEMENTS).—37
“THOUGHTS, LIKE SNOW-FLAKES ON SOME FAR-OFF MOUNTAIN SIDE, GO ON ACCUMULATING TILL SOME GREAT TRUTH IS LOOSENED,
AND FALLS LIKE AN AVALANCHE ON THE WAITING WORLD.”
HUMAN LIFE, IGNORANCE, & WISDOM.
ENO IN EUROPE.
ENO IN ASIA.
ENO IN AFRICA.
ENO IN AMERICA.
ENO EVERYWHERE.
ENO AT SINGAPORE.—“ I find the
‘ENO’ a great comfort, and have already finished a
large bottle of it. It is well known out here, and highly
appreciated—much more so than any Other form of
Saline. I used it frequently on the voyage.”—Extract
from a Letter from my Son, July 22, 1878, from Singa¬
pore.—R. Kilpatric, 43, Somerset-street, Portman-
square, London.
THE RENEWAL OF LIFE.— A
Gentleman writes:—“ I tried your FRUIT SALT some
time back, and up to this I have taken it for every
illness, and must say truly to tike it is the renewal of
life. The effect is really marvellous.”
ENO versus SEA SICKNESS.
IMPORTANT TO ALL,
ESPECIALLY TO TRAVELLERS,
SHIP CAPTAINS, EMIGRANTS, and
EUROPEANS GENERALLY, who
are compelled to make SEA VOYAGES.
HOT COUNTRIES. — ACIDITY OF
STOMACH, BILIOU8NESS, FEVERS.
“ Though unasked by Mr. Eno, or anyone interested
in the manufacture of FRUIT SALT, or rather Crystal¬
lised Salts of various fruits, I nevertheless take great
pleasure in saying that I have personally used this
remedy, and know it, not alone to be excellent, but
really invaluable. Especially must this be the case in
the hot countries of the East, where Acidity of the
Stomach, Biliousness, and Fevers are so common.
“ J. M. Peebles, M.D.,
“Author of ‘ Around the World,’ ‘Travels in Polynesia,
China, India, Arabia, Egypt, &c.’ ”
ENO versus SEA SICKNESS.
I HAVE recently returned from a
trip to Malta in one of the P. and O. Company’s ships,
and consider it a duty incumbent upon tne to make known
to you that, during a nautical career extending over a
period of thirty years, I have been invariably a sufferer
from SEA SICKNESS, more or less, according to the
weather; but on the last occasion, I am happy to say
(although we experienced strong head winds and heavy
sea crossing the Bay), I entirely escaped, and this I
attribute to my having provided ifiyaelf with your in¬
valuable “FRUIT SALT,” which I can most con¬
scientiously recommend to all who may be similarly
afflicted, whose business or pleasure may cause them to
“ go down to the sea in ships.” You can make whatever
use you please of this, trusting that I may be the means
of extending the benefits of your panacea.—Yours faith¬
fully, D. 8 . Leese, late Purser, P. and O. Steam Navi¬
gation Company.—Southampton, Oct. 19,1878.
ENO’S FRUIT SALT IN ENGLAND.
“ I have used your FRUIT SALT for many years, and
have verified the statement that it is not only refreshing
and invigorating, but also invaluable, as giving speedy
relief in cases of heartburn, sourness of the stomach, and
constipation and its great evils. The thanks of the
public are due to you for your unceasing efforts to
relieve suffering humanity. Long may you live to be a
blessing to the world.”— B. Hurst, Ph.D., Vicar of
Collerly, St. Thomas Vicarage, Annfleld Plain, Lintz
Green, Co. Durham, March, 1878.
ENO’S FRUIT SALT IN AMERICA,
INDIA, EGYPT, and the CONTINENT—IMPORTANT
TO AT.T, TRAVELLERS.—“ Please send me half a
dozen bottles of ENO’S FRUIT SALT. I have tried
ENO’S FRUIT SALT in America India, Egypt,
and on the Continent for almost every complaint, fever
included, with the most satisfactory results. I can
strongly recommend it to all travellers; in fact, I am
never without it.—Yours, faithfully, An Anglo-Indian
Official, June 26,1878.”
ERRORS OF EATING OR
DRINKING ; or. How to Enjoy or Cause Good Food
to Agree that would otherwise Disorder the Digestive
Organs, and cause Biliousness or Sick Headache, Giddi¬
ness, Depression of Spirits, Sourness of the Stomach,
Heartburn, Constipation and its great evils, Impure
Blood, Blood Poisons, Fevers, and Skin Eruptions, and
many other disastrous diseases.—Use ENO’S FRUIT
SALT.
PREVENTIBLE DEATH. - THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS.
Dr. Child, of Oxford, says, “There are certain Diseases which it is a disgrace to the country to allow
to exist, such as TYPHUS, TYPHOID, DIPHTHERIA, and SMALLPOX, and these might be eradicated
with ordinary sanitary precaution.” All should read a large illustrated sheet, given with each bottle of
ENO’S FRUIT SALT. The information is invaluable. ENO’S FRUIT SALT keeps the blood pure and
prevents disease and premature death.
H^EFOJElTA.lSrT TO .Aull. LI
Especially to CONSULS, SHIP CAPTAINS, EMIGRANTS, and EUROPEANS generally, who are
VISITING OR RESIDING IN HOT «OR FOREIGN CLIMATES.
or in the United Kingdom. As a natural product of Nature, use ENO’S FRUIT SALT, prepared from Sound
Ripe Fruit. You cannot overstate its great Value in keeping the BLOOD PURE. "Without such a simple
precaution the jeopardy of life is immensely increased. Ab a means of keeping the system clear, and thus
taking away the groundwork of Malarious Diseases, and all Liver Complaints, or as a Health-giving,
Refreshing, Cooling, and Invigorating Beverage, or as a Gentle Laxative and Tonic in the various forms of
Indigestion,
ENO’S FRXJIT SALT
is particularly valuable. No Traveller should leave home without a supply, for by its use the most dangerous
forms of Fevers, Blood Poisons, &c., are prevented and cured. It is, in truth, a Family Medicine
Chest in the simplest yet most potent form. Instead of being lowering to the system, this preparation is,
in the highest degree, invigorating. Its effect in relieving thirst, giving tone to the system, and aiding
digestion, is most striking.
HOW TO CHECK DISEASE AT THE ONSET.
USE
ENOS FRUIT SALT.
After suffering from FEVER FOUR TIMES, in each attack with great severity—in fact, three of them
could not have been more dangerous or critical—from a very extensive and careful observation, extending
over a period of forty years, I am perfectly satisfied the “ true cause" of fever is disordered condition of
the liver. The office of the liver is to cleanse the blood as a scavenger might sweep the streets. When
the liver is not working properly a quantity of effete matter is left floating in the blood. Under these circum¬
stances, should the poison-germ of fever be absorbed, then the disease results; on the contrary, anyone whose
liver and other organs are in a normal condition may be subjected to precisely the same conditions as to the con¬
tagious influences, and yet escape the fever. This, I consider, explains satisfactorily the seeming mystery that
some persons who are placed in circumstances peculiarly favourable for the development of fever, who, in fact,
are living in the very midst of it, escape unscathed. This being the case, the importance of KEEPING THE
LIVER IN ORDER CANNOT BE OVER-ESTIMATED ; and I have pleasure in directing attention to my
FRUIT SALT, which, in the form of a pleasant beverage, will correct the action of the liver, and thus pre¬
vent the many DISASTROUS CON8EQUENCES: not only as an efficient means of WARDING OFF
FEVERS and MALARIOUS DISEASES, but as a REMEDY FOR and PREVENTIVE OF BILIOUS or SICK
HEADACHES, CONSTIPATION, VOMITING, THIRST, ERRORS of EATING and DRINKING, SKIN
ERUPTIONS, GIDDINESS, HEARTBURN, &c. If its great value in keeping the body in health was
UNIVERSALLY KNOWN, NO FAMILY WOULD BE WITHOUT A SUPPLY. ENO’S FRUIT
SALT ACT8 as a 8PECIFIC. No one can have a simpler or more efficient remedy ; by its use the POISON
IS THROWN OFF, and the BLOOD RESTORED TO ITS HEALTHY CONDITION. I used my FRUIT
SALT freely in my last attack of fever, and I have every reason to say it saved my life,—J. C. Eso, Hatcham
Fruit Salt Works, 8.E.
HEALTH AND LONGEVITY.-USE ENO’S FRUIT SALT.
ENO versus STIMULANTS. —HOW
TO AVOID THE INJURIOUS EFFECTS OF STI¬
MULANTS.—The present system of living—partaking
of too rich foods, as pastry, saccharine, and fatty sub¬
stances, alcoholic drinks, and an insufficient amount of
exercise, frequently deranges the liver. I would advise
all bilious people, unless they are careful to keep the
liver acting freely, to exercise great care in the use of
alcoholic drinks, avoid sugar, and always dilute largely
with water. Experience shows that porter, mild ales,
port wine, dark sherries, sweet champagne, liqueurs,
and brandies are all very apt to disagree; while light
white wines, and gin or whisky largely diluted with
soda-water, will be found the least objectionable.
ENO’S FRUIT SALT is peculiarly adapted for any
constitutional weakness of the liver; it possesses the
powers of reparation when digestion has been disturbed
or lost, and places the invalid on the right track to
health. A world of woe is avoided by those who keep
and use ENO’S FRUIT SALT, therefore no family
should ever be without it.
THE ART OF CONQUEST IS LOST
without the Art of Eating. Use ENO’S FRUIT SALT.
SIMPLE AND POTENT.
PRESERVING AND RESTORING
HEALTH.—ENO’S FRUIT SALT acts as simply. Vet
just as powerfully, on the animal system as sunshine
does on the vegetable world; it has a natural action oa
the organs of digestion, absorption, circulation, respira¬
tion, secretion and excretion, and removes all impurities,
thus preserving and restoring health.
ENO A BLESSING IN EVERY
HOUSE.—ENO'S FRUIT SALT.-A Lady writes
“ Everything, medicine or food, ceased to act properly
for at least three months before I commenced taking
it: the little food I could take generally pumsnea me or
returned. My life was one of great suffering, so that I
must have succumbed before long. To me and our
family it has been a great earthly blessing.”
ENO’S FRUIT SALT as an In¬
vigorating Beverage (prepared from sound ripe Fruit).
It is the best preventive and cure for Biliousness. Sick
Headache, Skin Eruptions, Impuie Blood, Pimples on
the Face, Giddiness, Fevers, Feverishness. Mental
Depression, "Want of Appetite, Sourness of the Stomach,
Constipation. Vomiting, Thirst, &c., and to remove tho
Effects of Errors of Eating and Drinking.
TO PARENTS.—This preparation is invaluable in the nursery as a gentle laxative ; it is pleasant to the taste, and much superior to senna or other
nauseous drugs; it corrects the ill-effects of over-eating or exhaustion, and is extremely beneficial in any feverishness or heat of the skin. The bowels ought to be kept free by the FRUIT SALT for a month or six weeks after
eruptive diseases, as measles, scarlet fever, chicken-pox, smallpox, and all fevers or infectious diseases, &c.; for its use frees the system of the “ dregs.’ Many disastrous results would be avoided by attending to this.
CAUTION.—Examine each bottle, and see the capsule is marked “ ENO’S FRUIT SALT,” without which you have been imposed on by a worthless imitation. Sold by all Chemists. Price 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d.
Prepared by J. C. ENO’S Patent at ENO’S FRUIT SALT WORKS, HATCHAM, LONDON, S.E.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON SEWS CHRISTMAS
NUMBER,
1878—(ILLUSTRATED
ADVERTISEMENTS).— 38
OUR “ILLUSTRATED” VISIT TO
PEARS’ TRANSPARENT SOAP WORKS.
T HE interest displayed nowadays by the public in
Sanitation in every form, and the special attention
lately given by the press to the subject of the
injurious composition of many of the varied kinds °
toilet soaps, induces one to think that some descrip¬
tion of the manufacture of so important an article of
daily consumption would not be without Merest to
the public. The artist who undertook to make this
Illustration applied to Messrs. A. and F. Pea r s in
London, as at once, perhaps, the oldest established
and most eminent makers (they have been manu¬
facturers since 1789) for permission to view their
works He received from them a very courteous intro¬
duction to their partner at Isleworth, where in a couple
of days ho derived much valuable information; but the
very varied and extensive character of the processes of
manufacture and its accompanying details will admit
only of a very short summary at the present moment
owing to the limitation of space. On commencing his
inspection of Messrs. Pears’ large and interesting fac¬
tories, he was shown vast stores of crude material-
fresh, sweet tallows of English gathering only; the
brightest and purest oils from Florence and Gallipoli;
palm oil of violet odour, grown under “ Afric’s bummg
sun;” amber resins from America and France; large casks
and iron drums' of various chemicals in beautiful crystals,
from the leading scientific laboratories of the North of
stamped on by hand machines. These pieces of soap
are afterwards matured by being placed in heated
chambers and turned daily for several months, when it is
handed over to the cardboard box making and filling
shops, in which female labour is largely employed, and
thence to the warehouse and packing shops, whence it is
distributed to Railways and Docks for carriage to every
part of the civilised world. The importance of the Toilet
Soap manufacture of Great Britain maybe estimated from
skin, that the most injurious results are observed, and the
causes appear to be in the cheap rancid fats used in the
composition of the soap, or in the introduction of noxious
chemicals for colouring or increasing detergent properties,
and very frequently from the ignorant introduction of so-
called “ remedial agents.”
As regards Messrs. Pears’s Soap, there is no doubt of
the purity of the fats used, for the tallow and oils
appear to be good enough to eat; and, indeed, the
manager gave evidence of this by tasting samples of
the bulk in use. The care displayed in their subsequent
manufacture must bo seen to be appreciated; and certain
it is and manifest to all that the completed article, so well
known as Pears’s Transparent Soap, is in appearance
almost as tempting as candy or chocolate, and the makers
may well claim for it, as they do, excellence for its purity,
Ho fragrance, and its durability.
Messrs. Pears appear to be endowed with considerable
originality, which is evinced as much in the tasteful print¬
ing accompanying their goods and in their advertisements
as in their manufactures. The humorous placard so well
! known in London of the little “nigger” whose complexion
has derived so much benefit from a trial of their famous
soap is without doubt the best essay of the kind, no fewer
than ten different lithographic stones being employed in
its production. Again, the well-known statuette in
plaster of “ You dirty boy! ” at the Paris Exhibition is
England and from Germany; rare and musk in
foreign-looking packages from the East, from India,
China, and Ceylon; delicate essences of the sweetest
flowers from the Italian Alps, and the precious attar of
roses from the Balkan mountains and from Persia ; and
sandal-wood from Bombay and West Australia. Indeed,
not only have contributions been levied from every land,
but the sea itself has been brought under contribution to
this manufacture in its salts as well as in ambergris from
the sperm whale.
The fats and oils having been selected in certain pro¬
portions are first intimately mixed by machinery driven
by an enormous steam-engine; the requisite chemical
ingredients then being added from time to time, the whole
is subjected to several days’ boiling and stirring in pans
each holding many tons, and supplied with steam by
three immense boilers. This raw soap is transferred into
smaller pans, where it is clarified and all impurities
precipitated by a series of chemical processes, the inven¬
tions and patents of Messrs. Pears. The previously dis¬
tilled and mixed perfumes are now added, and, whilst in a
molten state, the product is poured into large frames and
permitted to cool. It is then cut up and moulded into
different shapes and sizes convenient for washing and
shaving purposes, the soap balls being turned in a lathe
as with billiard balls; the name of the firm is then
the fact that representatives of Messrs. Pears personally
visit not only the chief towns of Great Britain, but those of
almost every quarter of the globe—in Europe, from Seville
in the west, through France, Belgium, and Holland, to
St. Petersburg in the east; in Canada, from Quebec to
Hamilton; in the United States, from New York to San
Francisco ; in South America, the chief cities on the
eastern and western coasts; in India, from Bombay,
across country and round the coast to Calcutta, in
Australia, from Swan River, through Adelaide, Mel¬
bourne, and Sydney, to Brisbane; in New Zealand, from
Wellington to Dunedin; and in China, to Shanghae and
Hong-Kong. In most other parts special agencies only are
organised; for Messrs. Pears declare, as the result of
practical experience, that the Latin races generally use but
little soap. The reputation of Messrs. Pears is well known
to the public. Their pure and excellently prepared manu-
factures are exhibited with great taste in the windows of
most of our leading chemists, in beautifully-cut glass I
dishes and vases, and hence of the merits of their manu¬
facture we need 6ay but little. Probably the greatest
compliment ever paid to a soap manufacturer they received
from no less eminent an authority than Mr. ERASMUS
WILSON, F.R.S., who has specially written, in one of
his works on the skin, “ Pears, a name engraven on the
memory of the oldest inhabitant, and Pears s transparent
soap, one of the most refreshing and agreeable of balms
to the skin.” A valuable recommendation indeed for
Messrs. Pears, but not less valuable to the public, for
nothing is more important amongst our daily wants than
a properly manufactured toilet soap; for whilst from the
use of a good one our slrin and complexion admittedly
derive and maintain health and beauty and every possible
advantage, nothing is more harmful than the common
strongly alkaline and coloured preparations frequently
met with under the name of toilet soap, as is
testified by the experience of our dermatologists at
the leading institutions for the skin, at one of which, it
is affirmed by the senior surgeon, they have had about
four hundred cases of skin trouble owing their origin to
improper toilet soaps alone , an experience about to be
recorded in the public service. “ It is amongst infant
children, ladies, and those generally with a fine, sensitive
a commission in the marble from Messrs. A. and‘F. P««
to the eminent sculptor Signor Focardi, at a cos o - >
simply as an attraction for their retail depot in Lon^ ;
next to the British Museum, and not for ^
as has been erroneously stated by the press, ' q{
indignantly and emphatically repudiating
their elegant speciality being for boys of that stamp■
It maybe observed that during the three gene
ninety yels-thnt their Manufactory hat been £»£
they have received the highest an m
patronage for their speciality from ™*f **J io
Families in Europe ; and on the occasion
India of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales hey^
instructions from the Lords of the mua ^ ^ ^
H.M.S. Serapis with their Transparen P to
of H.R.H. and suite, it being P articu ^ ^ thc
hot climates. At Exhibitions they have ^ ^
foremost rank, from and inclusive o
down to the present in Paris. thftt 0 f
For the writer to add any commendation to
Air. Erasmus Wilson would be “ to gil re ° ^ ^
is to be regretted that the limite space
admit, either in description or illustration, of tha^ &
fication which is merited by so impoi ‘ in m jt is
manufacture. The few accompanying s
i._inattentive and interesting.
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MESSRS, HOWARD AND SONS’ FURNITURE
the specialties of this firm. Above ic
rise the wood-panelled walls, with
finely carved dados, and carved cor¬
nices, while, over all, curiously inlaid
ceilings of wood complete the artistic
tout ensemble. Chairs of various pat¬
terns are scattered about; and here it
should be noted that these may be
had in any style,whether it be desired
to have reproduced the delicate de¬
signs of Chippendale or his succes¬
sor, Sheraton, whose drawings for
“ sophas, buroes, cloaths-chests, and
china-cases,” show that his ideas of
art were admirable. In fact, the
method of manufacture used by
Messrs. Howard lends itself readily to
the reproduction of all that is best in
the furniture of the Jacobean and
Stuart times; while the soberer
Gothic models may also be followed,
or the fancy can revel in copies of
the more florid work of Dutch and
French artists, and marquetry after
the fashion of that produced by the
great tbcniste Riesener and others of
■ his school. At their galleries may be MBI
seen specimens of ceilings, panels, lgj gf|
doors veneered and solid, dados,
floors, chimneypieces, book-cases, mkJ
and, in fact, all possible varieties of
■£ artistic and ornamental woodwork. m||
HA' Here, too, are arm-chairs, sofas, set-
tees, ^ dining-room, drawing-room,
—- and library chairs, lounges, hall -
chairs, dining - tables, sideboards,
occasional tables, book-cases, and
cabinets of every conceivable form and admirable
designin fact, in such an embarras de riehesses the only dif¬
ficulty is how to make a selection from so many beautiful
pieces of furniture. Here also are mirrors framed in different
kinds of wood, chandeliers, fire-baskets with ornamental
braziers and andirons of antique pattern ; tiles, which may be
had of various designs or in plain colours; and ironwork, after
decorated walls, stained-glass windows, and specimens of the
ceramic art of China and Japan, as well as of our own country
It cannot be wondered at, then, if Messrs. Howard and Sow
have been extensively patronised. Their list of customera
is headed by Royalty itself. Among the principal patrons
of Messrs. Howard and Sons is his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales. There is, for instance, a beautiful design for a
morning-room exe¬
cuted at Marlborough
House, with the spe-
to cial arrangement of
shelf above alluded to,
and a picture inserted
as a panel, which has
A quaintly panelled
study, designed for
his Royal Highness,
was also carried out,
much to his satisfac¬
tion, together with
other works.
It may be noted,
further, that Messrs.
Howard and Sons
mounted and arranged
the various pieces of
plate, &c., presented
to his Royal High¬
ness at Sandringham
House, and the work
is the theme of uni-
versal admiration.
The firm have also
done work for his
Royal Highness the
Duke of Edinburgh,
panelling and fitting
up more than one
room at Clarence
House in most artistic
style, and mounting
for the Duke the many
trophies of arms, &c.,
places. There is also
shown ' a beautiful
carton pierre ceiling in
the Adams style, executed for Earl Cowper at Panshanger
Park ; a Watteau room, designed for Lady Charles Beresford;
some beautiful wainscoting and other work made of old oak,
put together and arranged for Lord Francis Cecil; and a
beautifully appointed library, arranged and carried out for the
Right Hon. the Earl of Carysfort. The object this firm has
always in view is to produce goods of real merit suitable for
the occupants of -a small country residence, or a palace.
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The Finishing Touch. By H. S. Marks, A. R.A.
Follow the Drum. By G. A. Storey, A.R.A.
The Fairies’ Favourite. By J. A. Fitzgerald.
CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK ENDING DEO. 21.
SUNDAY. Dec. 15.
Third Sunday in Advent. I Savoy, 11.80 a.
Morning Lessons : Isaiah xxv.; 3
John; Evening Lessons: Isaiah
xxvi. or xxviii. 6-19; John xx. 19.
St. Paul’s Cathedral, 10.30 a.m.;
3.16 p.m., Rev. Canon Liddon;
7* p.m., Rev. H. C. Shuttleworth,
Minor Canon.
"Westminster Abbey, 10 a.m. and
_,,__ Rev. Henry White,
Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen;
7 p.m.. Rev. Frederic Wallis. Doan
of Caius and Uonvillo College,
Cambridge.
Christian Evidence Society:
Holy Trinity, Brompton, 7 p in.,
Rev. Prebendary Row (“ The Im¬
portance of the Moral Evidences of
Christianity”).
Christ Church, Blackfriars, 7 p m.,
Rev. It. T. P. Streeter (" The Per-
Whitehall. 11 a.m. and3p.m.. Rev. I sonal Influence of Jesus on Others”).
F Kirkpatrick. I St. Paul’s. Paddington, 7 p.m.,
pie Church. 11 a.m.; 3 p.m., < Rev. J. A. Jacob (“ The Hopelessness
Rev. A. Ainger, the Reader. ‘ of Unbelief ”).
MONDAY, Dec. 16.
Cambridge Michaelmas Term ends. , London Institution, 5 p.m. (Professor
St. James’s,
, Rev. S. Flood
., Rev.
Asiatic Society, 4 p.
Burton on Coins, «c., iuuuu UJ . uuu
in lliuinn).
Royal Academy, S p.m. (Professor
Marshall on Anatomy — the
Muscles). „ x ^
Society of Arts, Cantor Lecture;
a the Formation of
By A. Hunt.
By Miss M. E. Edwards.
My Lady’s Carriage Stops the Way.
On Christmas Day in the Morning.
Our Noble Ancestor. By F. Dadd.
An Evil Omen. By S. Read.
Dancing teas Dancing in those Days. By F. Barnard.
Lucky Dog! By Percy Macquoid.
Young Faces and Old Fashions. By M. W. Ridley.
Mr. Quiverfull’s Christmas Box. By A. Hunt.
Thankfully Received. By C. Gregory.
The Mistletoe Bough. By A. E. Emslie.
Where the Deed was Done. By Mason Jackson.
A Page of Pictorial Charades.
This Christmas Number contains
A TALE BY MRS. J. H. RIDDELL,
* Author of “ George Geith,” &c.,
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GRICULTURAL HALL on BOiLSG Bay,
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iU A TREMENDOUS MYSTERY, hv F. 0. Burnatnl; and first time ot
--written Arthur law. EVERY
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EVENING, except Thors,my and Saturday.
Three. Admission. If ■ stall,. x« and IU —
Ss.-ST. GEORGE'
lurod^and S.timl.
Institute of British Architects, 8 p.m.
(Discussion on the High Sanctuary
at Jerusalem; Captain' It. F.
Burton on ItSinaius of Buildings
inMidian).
Medical Society, 8.30 p.m.
Popular Concert, St. James's Hall, 8.
TUESDAY, Dec. 17.
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8 p.m.
(annual general meeting, election
of council and officers, and dis¬
tribution of premiums;.
Colonial Institute, 8 p.m. (Signor L.
M. D’Albertis ou New Guinea-
fitness for colonisation).
Westminster l’iay (the “Pliarrmii”
of Terence), 7 ; and on Thursday.
Royal Albert Hall, Orchestral S i-
ciety, concert at New Hall, New-
man-street, for United Kingdom
Beneficent Association, 8 p.m.
Moon’s last quarter, 3.3 a.m.
Oxford Michaelmas Term ends.
Eortiuiltural Society, fruit and
floral committee, 11 a.m.; scien-
Dlic. 1 p.m.; general meeting, 3.
Pathological Society, 8.30 p.m.
Humane Society, committee, 4 p.m.
Statistical Society, 7.46 p.m. (Dr.
Mount on the Demographic and
International Statistical and Teni-
leutiury Congresses at Stockholm).
West oi England Cattle and Poultry
Show, Plymouth (three days),
WEDNESDAY, Due. 18.
Ember Day. I Meteorological Society, 7 p.
Pharmaceutical Society, noon (elec-| C. Chamber " ' r ‘
tion of seven annuitants on the
Benevolent Fund).
Geological Society, 8 p.m. (Dr. A.
Leith Adams on the Remains of
the Mustodon at Malta; Professor
B. G. Seeley on the Dinosauria of
the Cambridge Greensand).
King’s College, 6 p.m. (Mr. G. C.
IV urr on Ancient History—Greece).
Birkbcck Institution, 8.30 p.m. (Rev.
Professor Henslow on the Origin
and Distribution of the British
Flora),
THURSDAY, Dec. 19.
Sketches and Verses by F. C. Burnand and others.
The whole is inclosed in a Coloured Wrapper, and published | Serin
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PRICE ONE SHILLING.
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The Postage to Foreign Parts is given at page 35 of the
Christmas Number.
.. . (Mr.
the Meteorology of
Camp 7
Captain W. Watson,
bell, and Mr. K. I. Marks).
Royal Society of Literature, 8 p.m.
(Captain R. F. Burton on the
Ogham and Mushiggar character).
Ballad Concert, St. J ames’s HaU, S.
London Dialectical Society, 8 p.m.,
annual meeting.
Dental Surgery Association. 8.30 p.m.
Society of .Arts, 8 p.m. (Dr. J. H.
Gladstone on Scienco Teaching in
Elementary Schools).
University of Edinburgh, Inaugural | Chemical
Address of the Marquis of
Harrington as Lord Rector.
London Institution, 7 p.m. (Mr.
Frederic Harrison on the Abuse oi
Books).
Numismatic Society, 7 p.m.
College of Preceptors, 7 p.m. (Mr. J.
G. Fitch on Practical Teaching—
Nntuinl 8cicnce).
Royal Albert Hall, 8 p.m. (Mr. W.
Curler’s Choir, Selections from
“ Judas Maccabeus,” &c.).
Society of Antiquaries, 8.30 p.m.
Royul Society, 8.30 p.m.
Royal Academy of Music, orchestral
concert, St. Jr-- " " ° -
_;ty, 8 p.m. (Dr. Glad¬
stone and Mr. Tribe on the Action
of the Copper-Zinc Couple on
Organic Compounds; pupers by
Dr. Debus, Mr. Perkin, Mr. Wills,
and others).
Linneun Society, 8 p.m. (Mr. W. M.
Weak* on South African Orchids
Mr. Sylvanus Hanley on some Ran
Shells).
Philosophical Club, 6.30 p.m.
Kendal and North-Western Counties
Poultry and Dog Show (throe
days).
Newtown (Montgomeryshire) Poul¬
try, Dog, Root, and Gram Society,
third annuul exhibition.
HaU, 8 p.
FRIDAY, Dec. 20 .
Ember Day. I Society for Propagation of the Gospel,
City of London College, 6 p.m. (Dr. 2 p.m.
"“-"'in Political Economy—I Sacred Harmonic Society, 7 p.m
. (Handel's •• Messiah
. | Philological Society, 8 p.m. (Mr. H.
the Theory of Value).
Architectural Association, 7.30 p.n
(Mr. A. Payne on Architect e
Architect and Surveyor).
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The Parliamentary Debates on the policy and proceedings
of her Majesty’s Government which have launched the
country into a war with the Ameer of Afghanistan over¬
shadow this week all other topics of political interest.
Both in the House of Lords and in the House of Commons
they have been sufficiently full and searching to supply to
the British people whatever materials may he requisite for
a discriminating and accurate judgment of the matter in
hand. "Whether the policy which has matured into a
hostile aggression upon the Ameer’s territory he, or be not,
a departure from that consistently acted upon by the
Indian Governments of Lords Canning, Lawrence, Mayo,
and Northbrook—whether, if it be, it was justified by a
change of circumstances altogether unprecedented—
whether the manner in which that change was met, under
instructions from home, by Lord Lytton in the wisest and
most statesman-like manner—whether the present war in
Afghanistan was necessary, and whether it can be vindicated
on principles of international justice, are questions upon
which much light has been thrown by the discussions in
both Houses, and as to which, after due study of them,
tolerably well-formed opinions may be adopted by reason¬
able men. It must be conceded, however, that the needed
investigation will still to a large extent tax both the
industry and the intellect of the reading public. Party
influences on both sides have tended to colour both the
rhetoric and the logic, which ought to have been pure and
simple as the light of day. There has been much passion,
but not more than the collision of thought on the subject
was likely to evolve. In some cases, dry technicalities
have been substituted for living spirit. In some, motives
have been assumed and dwelt upon in place of facts. Some
have argued the question upon lower, some upon higher,
grounds ; but, on the whole, the debates have fairly sus¬
tained the reputation of the British Legislature for political
ability, earnestness, patriotism, and good faith, and are
■unquestionably capable of being read with some certainty
of drawing from them a definite conclusion.
It is no business of ours to indicate what that con¬
clusion should be. Tho numerical vote shows rather the
strength or weakness of Parliamentary parties than the
true merits of the case. We are bound to take into
account, in order to determine its intrinsic value, tho cir¬
cumstances under which each vote has been given. The
remark is applicable to both sides. It is a trying thing to
show the strength of one’s convictions by the severance
of party ties. That is a display of individuality not
ordinarily expected, and, perhaps, seldom excused. It
is therefore to be looked upon as one of the draw¬
backs inevitable in the system of government by party.
Members vote gregariously, and, primarily at least,
aggregate voting must be taken as representative of the
mind of tho country. In critical times, however, we
look rather to the articulate expression of opinion
and feeling by speech and argument, than to the more
mechanical exhibitions of them by vote. The country
practically acquiesces, for the time being, in tho latter,
and it is right that it should do so. But it draws from
the former its most trustworthy inferences, and it is from
this teaching that it is ordinarily guided iu pronouncing
its ultimate decision. We may be assured that the debates
of the week will go far to enlighten the judgment of the
constituencies in the now not distant general election.
They will become the source of accurate information to
such as are eager for it, and by means of these they will
be rendered broadly familiar to those whose occupations
preclude deep> and accurate political study. Accident
may, possibly, intervene to diminish or even to destroy
such a result; but it will, nevertheless, be true that the
Parliamentary discussions of the week (quite irrespectively
of the votes that have been given) will do not a little to
shape the national decision when it may be called for.
How far the tenour of the week’s Parliamentary discus¬
sions may modify the original intentions and plans of her
Majesty’s Government in regard to Afghanistan it is
difficult to foresee. It seems probable, however, that they
will do so to some extent. The rapid progress of our
military forces beyond the North-Western Frontier of
India will, peradventure, reach a stage of present success
which the Cabinet may hold themselves justified in
accepting as final. The severity of the climate in the
hill country and neighbourhood of Cabul will presently,
almost of necessity, suspend field operations for three
months to come. During that period the Ameer may
deem it the better part of wisdom to succumb to the irre¬
sistible pressure brought to bear upon him. That the
displeasure visited upon him will be immoderate, there
are many reasons, we hope, for not anticipating. The
determination of the Government to rely, in the first
instance at any rate, upon the Indian Revenue for the
means required by the war, indicates, we think, their
expectation that it will not be of long continuance.
Doubtless, in the end, Imperial resources will be applied
in some proportion, greater or less, towards repayment
of the expenditure incurred. But this is an
after consideration. Possibly it may be bequeathed
for settlement to the successors of the present
Administration, in which case it will prove to be
an unmerited legacy of embarrassment. But we should
conjecture from the tone of the debates that a long cam¬
paign—much less a succession of campaigns—is not con¬
templated by the Indian authorities. True, the beginning
of strife is the letting out of watei-s. No one can
predict the amount of evil to which it will extend,
nor the seeds of mischief which it will scatter upon
the surface of Asia. But, looking to the origin of the
war, to its progress, to its possible entanglements, and
to the effect which it may have upon the reputation
of British statesmanship, one cannot but desire that
it may he as brief and cursory as possible, and
towards this consummation tlio ample discussion which
these matters have now received in both Houses of
Parliament will, it is reasonable to hope, have materially
tended. We cannot go back, indeed, to where we stood
before the proclamation of the war—we cannot altogether
resume a policy of masterly inactivity—but we can pause
within comparatively measurable limits; and, if error has
been committed, it may, perhaps, bo corrected before all
its evil results will have been developed. This is the chief
benefit we look for from the Debates. Others may inci¬
dentally accrue ; but every well-wisher of the country will
earnestly desire that, in as far as we may have been
blindly led into war, the ill effects of it may be cur¬
tailed at the earliest possible moment, and that whatever
of injustice it involves may be speedily and amply
repaired. _
THE COURT.
The Queen, after presenting new colours to the second battalion
of the 4th (King’s Royal) Regiment at Windsor Castle yester¬
day week, entertained at dinner Prince and Princess Christian
of Schleswig-Holstein, Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold, Lady
Southamptou, the Marchioness Dowager of Ely, Viscount Tor-
rington, Sir John and Lady Cowell, Lieutenant-General F. 0.
A. Stephenson, C.B., commanding the Honje district; Colonel
J. H. Hall, first battalion Coldstream Guards ; Colonel E. W.
Bray, C.B., commanding, Colonel A. J. Sykes, and Major J.
M‘D. Elliott, 4tli Ring’s Own Royal.
Her Majesty and Princess Beatrice drove to Bagshot on
Saturday last. The Princess and Prince Leopold were present
in the afternoon at the service at Etou Chapel, where Mozart’s
“ Requiem ” was giveu. Their Royal Highnesses afterwards
visited the Provost of Eton and Mrs. Goodford. The Countess
of Stair and the Right Hon. R. A. Cross dined with the Queen.
Her Majesty, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold attended
Divine service on Sunday in the private chapel of the castle.
The Rev. Henry White, M.A., Chaplain of the Chapel Royal,
Savoy, officiated. Princess Christian visited her Majesty and
remained to luncheon.
Earl Beauchamp, Lord Steward, had an audionce of the
Queen on Monday to present an address to her Majesty from
the House of Lords. Prince Leopold came to Loudon, and was
present at the debate in the House of Lords. His Royal Highness
afterwards returned to Windsor. The Queen’s dinner party
included the Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley,
Major C. E. Phipps, and Captain T. J. Edwards, R.E.
Princess Christian and the Hon. Mrs. H. Pousonby dined
with her Majesty on Tuesday.
The Queen and the members of the R iyal family have been
suffering great distress in consequence of the Grand Duchess
of Hesse having been attacked with diphtheria. The bulletin
on Wednesday night gave the gratifying intelligence that the
fever was diminishing and the Grand Duchess progressing
favourably.
The Queen in Council on the 27th ult. declared her consent
to the marriage of the Duke of Cumberland and Princess
Thvra of Denmark.
The Duchess Dowager of Athole has succeeded Lady
Southampton as Lady in Waiting; and the Hon. Caroline
Cavendish and the Hon. Evelyn Paget have succeeded the
Hon. Mary Pitt and the Hon. Amy Lambart as Maids of
Honour in Waiting.
Her Majesty has presented one hundred pounds of linen to
the Charing-Cross Hospital.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
The Prince of Wales inspected tho Smithfield Club Cattle
Show at the Agricultural Hall on Monday. His Roval High¬
ness visited the Duchess of ;Edinburgh at Clarence House and
remained to luncheon. In the evening the Prince attended
the debate in the House of Lords. The Princess of Wales
arrived at Marlborough House from Sandringham. The
Duchess of Edinburgh visited their Royal Highnesses on
Tuesdav and lunched with them. The Prince attended the
debate in the House of Lords. His Royal Highness presided
at a meeting of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society
at the offices in Hanover-sqnare on Wednesday. Thu Prince
and Princess visited the Duchess of Cambridge.
The Duchess of Edinburgh, accompanied by her children,
arrived in town on Sunday from Germany. His Excellency
Count Schouvaloff proceeded by special train to i »over to
meet her Royal and Imperial Highness on her landing, and
accompanied her to Charing-cross, where the Duchess was met
by the Prince of Wales, Prince Leopold, the Duke of
Cambridge, and the Duke and Duchess of Teck. The
Duchess, with her children, drove to Clarence House.
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
The ratepayers of Whitechapel have defeated by 49G to 261
a proposal to adopt the Public Libraries Act.
The Lord Mayor presided on Wednesday at the annual
meeting of the Hospital Sunday Fund held at the Mansion
House. June 15 was fixed for the day of collection next year.
After hearing evidence on Tuesday, the grand jury, at the
Central Criminal Court, made the following presentment
“ No true bill Bgainst Annie Louisa Gooch and Anne Walker
for misdemeanour.’’
Mr. Gladstone has written to the Southwark Two 1 lundred,
in reply to their proposal that he should be a candidate for
that borough, regretting that there are insurmountable barriers
in the way of his accepting the invitation. He repeats his
determination to make no arrangement at present for the
next Parliament.
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows that
the total number of paupers at the end of the first week in
December was 82,176, of whom 42,351 were in workhouses and
39.825 received outdoor relief. The number of vagrants
relieved on the last day of the week was 796, of whom 571 were
men, 163 women, and 35 children under sixteen.
Sir R. Phillimore, assisted by the Trinity Masters, gave
judgment on Wednesday in the Admiralty Court iu the action
brought by the London Steam-Boat Company, the owners of
the Princess Alice, for £20,000, for damages sustained in the
collision with the Bywell Castle. There was also a cross action
for £2000 brought by the owners of the Bywell Castle. The
Court was of opinion that the Princess Alice was negligently
navigated, and was therefore to blame for the collision. The
Bywell Castle also made a wrong manoeuvre after seeing the
green light of the Princess Alice. Both vessels were conse¬
quently to blame for the collision. Notice of appeal was given.
The annual central conference of Representatives of Poor-
Law Guardians was held on Wednesday in the rooms of the
Social Science Association, Adelphi, and was numerously
attended by representatives of guardians from all parts of the
country. Lord Hampton occupied the chair at tho morning
sitting and Mr. Edwin Chadwick in the afternoon. Mr. T.
Hare, Assistant Charity Commissioner, gave an address on the
use of charitable endowments for the diminution of poverty;
and Mr. Llewellin, High Sheriff of Glamorganshire, read a
paper on Poor-Law Administration in Times of General
Depression of Trade or during Strikes or Lock-Outs. Both
subjects were discussed, and a resolution having a bearing
upon them was passed.
There were 2576 births and 2016 deaths registered in
London last week. The deaths included 389, which resulted
from the sinking of the Princess Alice in the Thames on
Sept. 3 last* Allowing for increase of population, the births
exceeded by 162, while the deaths, exclusive of the 389 deaths
referred to, were 138 below the average numbers iu the corre¬
sponding week of the Last ten years. The deaths included 4
trom smallpox, 28 from measles, 9 from diphtheria, 42 from
whooping-cough, and 9 from diarrhem. The fatal cases of
scarlet fever, which had been 54 and 70 in the two preceding
weeks, were 62 last week, and were 22 below the corrected
weekly average. The fatal cases of fever, which had been 24
and 52 in the two previous weeks, declined again last week to
29, and were 13 below the average: 2 were certified as typhus,
aud 22 as enteric or typhoid. The deaths referred to diseases
of the respiratory organs, which had beeu 428 and 411 in the
two previous weeks, further rose to 460 hist week, but were
somewhat below the average : 299 resulted from bronchitis and
101 from pneumonia. In Greater London 3181 births and
2351 deaths were registered. The mean temperature was
36 3 deg., being 5 4 deg. below the average iu the corre¬
sponding week of sixty years. The duration of registered
bright sunshine in the week was 3 - 4 hours, the suu being
above the horizon during 56T hours.
GENERAL SIR SAMUEL BROWNE.
Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel J. Browne, V.C., C.B.,K.C.S.I.,
is in command of the (British aud Indian forces which have
proceeded through the Khyber Pass to Dakka and Jellalabad.
We give a portrait of this very distinguished officer. He first
held a commission in the 46th Bengal Native Infantry, and
served with it throughout the Punjaub campaign, being pre¬
sent at the passage of the Chenab, the affairs of Rimuuggur
and Sadoolapore, aud the battles of Chilianwullah aud
Goojerat. On the organisation of the Punjaub Irregular
force he was offered au appointment in the 2nd Punjaub
Cavalry. "With this regiment, in December, 1852, Captain
Browne served in the operations against the Oomurzae W uzerees
on the Bunnoo frontier, when he was mentioned in the des-
patche of Major John Nicholson; in the Border Expedition,
under Sir Neville Chamberlain, Captain Browne was again
mentioned. At the outbreak of the Mutiny, a squadron of his
regiment, under Lieutenant Dighton Probyn, was detached to
Hindostan, and in the siege of Delhi and subsequent affairs
between that city and Lucknow earned for its commander a
Brevet Majority and Victoria Cross. But the services of
Captain Browne were too valuable to be wasted in guarding
the frontier, aud early in 1.S58 he received orders to march down
to join Sir Colin Campbell’s army. At the siege and capture
of Lucknow, the affairs at Koorsee, Roowiah, Allygnnge, and
battle of Bareilly, be commanded his regiment, and then, being
detached in charge of a small field force, consisting of the
present 24th Punjaub Infantry and a couple of companies of
Rifles, planned and executed a brilliant attack on the rebels
strongly posted at Sirpoorah on Aug. 31,1858. The enemy
were defeated with great slaughter, their camp and guus
falling into our hands. For this action Majw Browne was
rewarded with the Victoria Cross, the Companionship of the
Bath, and a Brevet Lieutenant-Colonelcy. Until 1864 Colonel
Browne retained command of his original regiment, when he
was promoted to the Corps of Guides; and in 1869, on the
Pesliawur Brigade falling vacant, he succeeded General
Donald Stewart iu that post, relinquishing it on promotion to
Major-General two years afterwards. In 1875 General
Browne was selected to accompany his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales to India, and for his services in connection
with the Royal visit obtained the knighthood of the Star of
India. Sir Samuel Browne has lost his left arm in the field
of battle.
LIEUTENANT-GENEBAL SIB S. BBOWNE, COMMANDING THE FOBCES IN THE KHYBEB PASS.
THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. PRINCESS LOUISE AND LORD LORNE
The scene in the House of Loids on Thursday week at five IN CANADA. first disembarking, next the Viceregal P ar ^ r > wt u )
o’clock in the afternoon, when their Lordships reassembled to Our Special Artist, Mr. Melton Prior, who was sent to Canada The Princess, notwithstanding the rough voyage,
consider their Address in reply to the Queen’s Speech, which on purpose to furnish sketches of the reception of the Marquis as did also the Marquis of Lome. The seen ^ j t j, e
had been read to both Houses at an earlier hour of the day, is of Lorne and Princess Louise, contributes three Sketches to was very imposing, and the festive oisp y yice-
the subject of an Illustration. The Address was moved by the this Number of our Journal. They represent the scene at the city exceeded all expectation. The pr°c . h ^th
Earl of Ravensworth and seconded by Lord Inchiquin. There landing of his Excellency and her Royal Highness in the port regal party through the city was a peri^ ackno*-
was a very full attendance of Peers, amongst whom their of Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Monday, the 25th ult., with the enthusiastic cheering along the whole line, grac j buntin g
Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cam- incident of a young lady presenting a bouquet to the Princess ledged by his Excellency. Arches were r (joTernor-
bridge sat on the first of the cross benches, where the Earl of on that occasion ; and the ceremony of the new Governor- waved along the course. The Marquis was swo t j, e
Derby also took his seat. The Lord Chancellor, Earl Cairns, General of Canada taking the oaths of his office, in the General at the Province Building by Juge
was seated on the woolsack, having the Bishops on the upper Province Building. The lauding took place at two o’clock Supreme Court of Canada—General Sir ia - husband’s
side benches at his right hand, and the Peers who are Cabinet i n the afternoon. The steam-ship Sarmatian, which had presiding as Administrator. The Princess was ^gthe
Ministers—namely, the Earl of Beaconsfield, the Duke of conveyed the Marquis and the Princess-Marchioness across right, the Duke of Edinburgh on his leu. office, the
Richmond and Gordon, the Marquis of Salisbury, Viscount the Atlantic, arrived in harbour on the Sunday night, Royal Commission and administering tne oai “ Qenend. to
Cranbrook, and others. On the opposite benches were Earl after a stormy ocean passage. In the forenoon *nhair for the Goverou -
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, and others belonging to the 0 f the next day, the Sarmatian left her moorings,
Liberal party. The steps of the Throne, and the lobbies and hoisted the Royal standard, and steamed up the harbour to
boxes on each side further back, were crowded with members the landing-place, Royal salutes being meanwhile fired from
of the Houbc of Commons^ and of the different foreign Em- the forts, ships, and citadel, the men-of-war also manning
bassies. In the side galleries above, to the left of the Throne, their yards, and each giving three lusty cheers as the vessel
were their Royal Highnesses Prince Leopold, Prince Christian passed. A band on board H.M.S. Black Prince played the
of Schleswig-Holstein, and the Duke and Duchess of Teck; National Anthem and “The Campbells are Coming;” and
also many peeresses and other ladies of rank. I 80 did a band in the Bellerophon. The harbour presented a
all paid their respects. An address ofthe city ot b ^
rssrrttsoia
Intt^S"They dig** the Lieu^naat-
Lfnvftl Hwrhness next aay neiu
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Dec. II, 1878.- 5S3
PRESENTING A BOUQCET TO PRINCESS LOUISE ON LANDING AT HALIFAX, NOVA BCOTIA.
FROM A SKETCH BY OCR SPECIAL ARTIST.
E ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEW3
- » vtt\ nniAWTAr xrtfYVS Joint Committee of the Hungarian Delegation on Tuesday „
•went on by the Intercolonial Railway to Montreal, whero they FOREIGN AND COLUNiALi IN ill vv o. similar motion was agreed to on condition of a statementbeita
staved from the Friday to the Monday, and thence proceeded FRANCE. furnished of the purposes to which it was applied. 0
to Ottawa the political capital of the Canadian Dominion. the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday last the election of The reconstruction of the new Hungarian Ministry uoai-
We shall publish a few more of our Special Artist a bketchcii; Decazea, who was Minister for Foreign Affairs in the pick'd, and the Ministers took their seats in the Home l wt
and we have to acknowledge the courtesy ot the doctors of nt of ^ Due de Broglie, was invalidated by .17-1 Saturday. Count Szapary and Baron heraeny are the oalr
the Allan line of mail-steamers, and of the commauder of their ' - The chiun ber has also annulled the return of M. new members—the former for l inance and the latter for Com-
fine vessel the Peruvian, in gmnting Mr. Prior the best acconi- Mo]nrtre and of Baron Reille. miree. The Lower House ou Monday discussed a
Malartre and of Baron Reille.
modatiou on board for his voyage to Canada. Tll0 „ppointment of Admiral Jaures as Ambassador to the
— Court of Madrid was officially announced on Thursday.
,nn.T» vtut a v The death of M. RauUand, the Governor of the Bank of
THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN. France, was announced on Thursday.
Our well-known Special Artist Mr. WiUiam Simpson, who was SPAIN.
scut out from England for the purpose of furnishing our IUus- ge|ior Ri VC ro, formerly President of the Cortes and leader
trations of the war in Afghanistan, arrived at Peshawur two or q{ tfae p rogrctiS i 8t party during the reiim of Queen Isabella, is
merce. The Lower House on Monday discussed a motion
Kn TTon- Tmuri 'P_... ,
The appointment of Admiral Jaures as Ambassador to the brought forward by Herr Iranyi, to place the Treaty of Berlin
urt of Madrid was officiaUy announced on Thursday. upon the order of the day for the consideration of the Hou*
The death of M. Raulland, the Governor of the Bank of Several speakers, amongst them Count Apponyi, supported the
motion ; but Herr Tisza, the Minister-President, hivia*
declared that a vote of the Legislature as to the validity or the
, Jl F 'Vr‘ . . ,, n j acceptance or non-acceptance of international treaties wn
Seflor Rivero, formerly President of the Cortes and leader inad 1 mi8aible> the mo tion was rejected by 151 votes to 96.
trations of the war m Algnamsum arnv^^ *. ■ H 0 f the Progressist party during tne renm or yneeu isauc..», « In the Lower House of the Austrian Reichsrath on Tu*,.
thrtc days before the actual commencement.of hostiliHes. lie dead To his funeral on Sunday the Cortes, on the motion of d ^ Q short debate a motion wa8 adopted appointin?*
has bei n permitted to join the "“yjivteion commanded by Catjtelar> 8Cnt ita President, Seflor Ayala “^eighteen f eigllteen to consider the Treaty of Be?lin The
Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel]week to Deputies. The procession of mourners was headed by Marshal Ministers voted f or mot ion. In reply tea question, Buon
for the advance upon JeUalabad, of^Fort Ali Musiid Serrano, Seflor Castelar, and Seflor Ayala. .. . Depretis said that a common Austro-Hungarian loan ti
present some of his sketches of the capture»of Tort All M J , A Standard telegram states that there was a Ion? dUcussion de £ th expcIlfl€S of administration in Bosnia was out of tL
which should reach us in tune for the Engravings to uc pre Spanish Cortes on Wednesday on the condition of tha 1 00
which should reach us in time for th
pared. The Commander-in-Chief
EugravmgswDe^e- ^ ^ SpanjBh Corte8 on Wednesday on the condition of tha 6 J ou ;
°f the Indian Army, B uc provinces. Seflor Cauovas said that the state of siege
pared. The Commander-m-Lhiei or mo , Basouc Provinces. Seflor Cauovas said that the state ot siege
General Sir Frederick Paul Haines, traveled on thei liw W ould be maintained as long as the fuerista agitation continued,
nit. from Umballa to Lahore, with General Lumsden, the
Adiutont - General, Colonel C. C. Johnson Quarter¬
master-General, and other members of his Staff, m three
special carriages attached to the same train m which our
special carriages attached to the same tram m wiuuM-ut was resumed on Thursday wet*. During tne ueoate oignoi
Umballa Nation, which appears in the Supplement to this Crowded in every part, and all present immediately rose to an amount not «ce^g5M,0W crowns, for the pu^ose of
NunfLr. He remarks upon this incident, in a note accom- fbeir feet w ith a burst of acclamation from every side such as restoring the sugar plantations destroyed in the negro riots,
panying the Sketch:—“The departure from Umballa was at has not resounded through the hall since Garibaldi took his RUSSIA.
half-past two in the afternoon. The Commander-in-Cniet, gca t in 1875. The Right., the Left, and the Centre all joiued The Emperor of Russia on the 5th inat. held a review on tin
with General Lumsden and Colonel Johnson, came down there - n tb e 8pp i aupe . Last Monday Signor Cairoli laid on the table Champ de Mara, in St. Petersburg, the force paraded bciug
from Simla the evening before. A military commander start- the Treaty of Berlin, and presented a bill for the reorganisation composed of forty-seven battalions of infantry and thirty-
ing for the front when a war is impending is always an of tbe Central Administration. The Minister of Finance also gevtn squadrons of cavalry, with 110 guns, numbering in all
important event: and in this case, although there was on brought in a bill sanctioning the monetary convention recently 35,000 men. Many foreign officers were present,
entire absence of display or ceremony, the moment ought to be conc i uded a t Paris. The debate on the interpellations directed Princess Dagmar, the wife of the Cesarewitch, gave birth to
recorded. The Commander-in-Chief and his Staff would have 0 g a j ua t the Government was then resumed, Baron Nicotera a aou on the 4th inst., and the infant has already been bap-
looked better in a picture if they had had cocked hats ana being one of the speakers against the Ministry. The proposed tisedl by the name of Michael Alexondrowitch.
feathers waving, but in this instance they were m the plainest vote of con fi dence in the Italian Ministry has, as was expected, The 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Order of St.
of mufti, not a single vestige of uniform being visible. Sir r. been defeated in the Chamber. The long debate ended on George was celebrated last Sunday, on which oocasion the
P. Haines wore an ordinary grey wideawake ana a white Wednesday, and, in a House numbering 457 deputies, 189 Grand Duke Coustantinovitch took the usual oath on attaining
old be maintained as loug as the fuerista agitation continued.. i n consequence of the refusal of the Folkething to vote the
rrxt v Government bill authorising a loan for the restoration of the
th?Hrafs/sunnoitiue hi? steps with a Sck .. Authorisation lias been telegraphed by the Government to
of mufti, not a single veatige of uniform being visible. »ir u. been ^[ e f eate d in the Chamber. The long debate ended
P. Haines wore an ordinary grey wideawake and a white Wednesdav. and. in a House numbering 457 deputies,
puggaric. He stood chatting at the door of the car- voted for the motion and 263 against it, making a majority of his majority. The Emperor held a public reception ut the
riage for a few minutes with some fneuds, while against, the Government. Five deputies abstained from Palace, and conferred several decorations,
around on the platform were groups of natives who voting. The Cabinet has tendered its resignation, which has The Emperor has addressed a letter to General Timoclioff,
were scrambling among the heterogenous mass of articles which been accepted by the King. His Majesty has summoned the Bie late Minister of the Interior, accepting his resiguatioa,
fnTm«) thoir t ravpllillC iinDeditnetlhl, and who seemed to oe nf fVi« Mild t.bft r.hn.nnhf>r of Denilties. * rpndprnd and nnnfrirn'n -
formed their travelling impedimenta, and who seemed to be
totally unconscious of the rank of those so near to them.
There was only the raising of a few hats as Sir Frederick
entered his carriage and the train moved slowly away to
Lahore. Such was the start of the Chief of the greatest mill-
tary force now in the eastern part of the world. At Philloor,
on the north bank of the Sutlej, there was dinner, after which
everyone turned in to sleep. The train reached Lahore at
3.15 next morning. The Commander-in-Chiefs three car-
Preeidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.
BELGIUM.
After a fortnight’s animated debate the Chamber of Repre-
thanking him for the services lie has rendered, and cooferrin^
upon him the Vladimir Order of the First Class. A decrea of
the Emperor has been issued appointing General Timaeheff a
member of the Senate, and Privy Councillor Makoff Provisional
After a lortmgut s animaica aemite me unnmoer ui rvspro- ,; f t) Senate and Privv
sentatives has vofed, by 67 to 54 votes, the Address iu reply to Shristr of Star "
the Speech from the Throne.
SWITZERLAND,
Prince Gortachakoff arrived at St. Petersburg on Wednesday.
A telegram from St. Petersburg states that the Admiralty
everyone turned in to sleep. The tram reacnea imnor following have been elected members of the Federal has under consideration a plan for the .formation of a Naval
3.15 next morning. 'Hie Commander-m-ChicTs tliree car- ,_ Dr ^ cl ti, M. Schenck, Colonel Scherer, Colonel Reserve ou the English system. ,
ranges were detached and shunted at the station, where those M Anderwert, M. Bavicr, and M. Droz. M. Bavier News from the Russo-Chinese frontier received at St.
within all remained sleeping till the morning, and the
turned out to the quarters which had been prepared for them.
aud then Hammer, M. Anderwert, M. Bavier, and M. Droz. M. Bavier
or them ’’ is the only new member. Colonel Hammer has been elected
i the nor- President aud Dr. Welti Vice-President of the Couueil aud of
Petersburg announces that the force at Aksu, on the frontier,
under the command of the Chinese General Tsin-Tsian-Tsoan,
w , , President aud Dr. Welti Vice-President of the (Jouuc-ii ana or under Uie commana oi me^nmese ueue™
traits to SdI S-S* <***«*» .*» *• *• I •»
traits ot jAeuienani-Deiitrm r; V b been elected President of the Federal Tribunal. 1000 men. Information brought by scouts to the Mil
Khvber i? Kh“ vX^Th^t 5 Sir S. H i. irportrd tan. b«o h«y cjjm^atoJUt F.rtK«yn cUrntto tt. <loumber.
Khyber Pass and in the Khoorum Valley. That of Sir S.
Browne is from a photograph by Messrs. Maull and Co. A
sketch of the camp of the 19th Regiment at Mooltau, the ,and acd !>UV0 J
rendezvous of the Quetta Field Force, is given among our
snowstorms mid keen frosts throughout the south of Switzai
land and Savoy. The Alpine routes are snowed up.
rendezvous of the Quetta
Illustrations for this week.
Chinese troops in Kashgar at 3900, instead of the reported
effective of 12,000.
TURKEY.
At an audience which Count Zichy, the Austrian Ambassador
Illustrations for this week. As recorded in our lust issue, the German Emperor and a t Constantinople, had of the Sultan on Sunday, his Majesty
At the time of our latest writing, on Thnrsday afternoou, E mpre88 made a solemn entry into Berlin on Thursday, the j s 8 t a ted to have assured him that the Porte would nuke the
for this week s publication, there is au entire cessation of news r, tb and were received with great enthusiasm. The Treaty of Berlin the basis of its policy, and that the Sultan was
of the campaign, from the three separate columns advancing 6trt , c t 8 wcre handsomely decorated, and at night the illu- cmitlv desirous of establishing friendly relations with Austria,
by different lines mto Afghanistan. Sir Samuel Browne has m juatious were general. In the evening the Gazette promul- a telpomm from Philinnonalis states that the
by different fines into Afghanistan, sir samuei Browne nas motions were general. In the evening the Gazette promul- ° Time s' telegram from'' Philippopalis states that the
not y. t moved onward to Jellalabad, and is probably Awaiting tod thrce i mpe rial decrees, announcing the Emperor’s Governor-General of Eastern Roumelia has presented to the
his supplies from Peshawur, us the enemy.who are believed to ® e8limption o£ fda functions, aud thanking the Crown European Commission a demand for about 23,000,DOM. ai
have abiuidoned Jellalabad, vnil scarcely have left their stores Prince for bis efficient assistance durmg his illness, the expenses of military occupation by a corps of 2->,000 m oi
of provisions and ammunition theresto full into his hands. AsHor Th Emperor William paid a visit to the Opera-House during the nine mouths from the beginning of August, bid,
General Roberts, who is much farther remov^ fram his b-aso of ftt BcrIi F ou Friday u | ght , aud waa gre eted with loud StLe end of April, 1879. . „ .
operations at Kohat, he lias, since his victory of Monday week cheers by the audience. All present rose and joinedin singing Mahmoud Damad Pasha was summoned dunng Monday
at the I eiwar Pass, occupied Ah Khel and Haza Darakut, and tbe jj at j ona i Anthem, and on its conclusion the cheering was night to the Sultan’s palace and appointed Governor of Tripoli,
pushed a cavalry recounaissance as far ^ Iiokmu, without agmn miewed The Emperor subsequently visited the Royal Theatre, Hasson Tosha (formerly Sheik-ul-Islam), Nedjib Pashi. and
meeting the enemy ; but he is where he had a similar reception. On Saturday his Majesty otber persons have been sent into the provinces. The cause ot
means of transport for his guns and baggage up the tremendous recc i vcd seve ral congratulatory addresses. In reply to one from ^lis step is said to have been the discovery of intrigues agonist
mountain path to the summit of the Shaturgardan Pass, and he ^ Bcrlin ma „ iatra \. s and town councU, he spoke of edu- tVie Goveruinent.
and is probably awaiting
at the Peiwar Pass, occupied All Khel and Haza Darakut, and National Anthem, and on its conclusion the cheering was n jcjht to the Sultan’s palace and appointed Governor of Tripoli,
pushed a cavalry recounaissance as fw m Iiokmn, ^teout agmn miewed The Emperor subsequently visited the Royal Theatre, g Hassau Pasha (formerly Sheik-ul-Islam), Nedjib Pasha, and
meeting the enemy ; but he is where he bad a similar reception. On Saturday his Majesty otber persons have been sent into the provinces. The cause of
menus of transport for his guns and baggage up the tremendous rece j Tcd several congratulatory addresses. In reply to one from ^lis step is said to have been the discovery of intrigues agonist
mountain path to the summit of the Shaturgardan Pass, aud he ^ Berlin maRiatra \. s and town councU, he spoke of edu- {Je Government,
seems to intend niaking winter quarters for his troops m the c^ion, especially religious education, as the best means of GREECE.
Khoorum Valley. The southern field of operateous. from coun t er acting the sentiments which had led to the recent qq le Chamber of Deputies ou Tuesday ratified the agree-
Quetta to Condahar, under the command of Sir D u attacks iu several countries upon the head of the State. Lord ment recently arrived at. between the Greek Government aai
Stewart, appears tobe free from active opposition, sofar as it Q do Bu8 j. e ]i waa received in a special audience by the Emperor, tbt . bondholders of the loans ot 182 4 and 1825.
has yet been explored. Major Saudemau lias made a recon-
has yet been explored. Major Sandemau lias made a recon¬
naissance up the Khojuk Pass, which was found quite clear,
and General Biddulph is ejected to lead the advanced corps
along that road, while Sir Donald Stewart has assumed tli3
chief command at Quetta.
when he presented the Queen's cou gratulations at his M a j esty ’ s
happy recovery and entry into the capital. Thanksgiving
services were held on Sunday in aU the Berlin churches to
celebrate the return of the Emperor. A Te Deum was sung in
the Roman Catholic church of St. Hedwig. The Emperor and
ROUMANIA.
The Ministry has boon constituted as follows—M.Bratuuo,
President of the Council, Minister of the Interior and Minuter
of War, ad interim; M. Stourdza, Minister of Finance; .u.
_ . 1 ... . . * _;_ A A' .I* i - M StAtMCll.
A ’ ct | ir t ; o ” a0re . Al iH tO t L ° rd Lytt0n, i da d C it N LlhJr 9 ’ Lmpre^Tnd t llfRoySmnily attended at thecath^raL" Tlic Cempineanu, Minister of j
hostilities ; it expresses distrust of the English professions of ^ E
goodwill, complains of the interference of a former Viceroy
on behalf of the Ameer’s undutiful son, Yakoob Khan, but jj ussar8
offers to receive “ a purely friendly and temporary mission, , p
with a small escort, not exceeding twenty or thirty members, „
llNTffr Ul d uuuw; , jml. i-wiwu«h oiAimvvv. -
Cantili, Minister of Public Worship and Instruction. Lb*
iCTatultttious. ju . vunniif Mumver vi i * u
The Emperor William liaa appoiut^d the Duke of Connaught Metropolitan of Koumania has ^ e p^iipntTof^he Sewte.
wnirj Cokmd ot the Br»nd™bur K .Ziethen teRiment of repent th.
mall escort, not exceeding twenty or thirty members, T ,. ^ . Q „
to the late Russian mission to Cabul.” It is stated Prince Hohenlol
Hussars, the commander of which is Prince Frederick Charles uuci» . nrevent
of Prussia. The Duke paid a visit to the Emperor aud Crown Centre party. The Chambers are di^ssing a bifi to p e
Prince on Tueadav the alienation of land by the peasants under theiru™ i
ril™ no’hWh.r rated by the Emperor with the order of the Black Eagle. tbo Tuikleh pnaonera eoptured by the Roummim »
c ^.QorJUog fmd y ..die.ee of th. geper o, .nd aaullem ^ ot tte cptate of PhraS
.epoy.fee 1 the fuerao.iop Stab, cold to that raounfra toSSES ra7g^eral dfe jj-fg
countrj • — the Emperor on Wednesday, and presented his letters of recall. Roumania, and services in commemoration of the
The Lower House of the Prussian Diet discussed on Wed- held in all the churches.
The Sheffield Town Council were ou Wednesday informed nesday a motion by Herr Windthorst in favour of an alteration _ . , ^ u Prince MiUa
that the Local Government Board would sanction the proposal of the law by which religious orders and congregations are Of six deputaes named by the & p and w. Vositch
of the Council to borrow £300,000 for street improvements. dissolved. This was energetically opposed by Dr. Falk, the has selected M. lazkakoviteh, to be ’ ^ B | ail foraiilly
The election at Maldon on Wednesday resulted in the Minister of Public Worship, who aUuded to the negotiations Vice-President of that AssemDiy. He was accompan^
return of the Liberal candidate, Mr. George Courtauld, by a between Germany and the Vatican, and declared that the opened the ^kuptechma on the otn n ^ Thr<jue w .«i
majority of 671 votes as opposed to 530 given to his opponont, Government could not agree to the proposal to let matters rest by all the Ministers, ana ms ..p lared t | ia t the epw
Sir William Neville Abdyfa Conservative.—The nomination by not giving effect to the existing law. In the result, the recaved with entbum«ttc ® h ®^ u - ®^omiaatious shoulJ
for Bristol took place on Wednesday, Mr. Lewis Fry being House rejected the motion. rights of Servian subjects of all religious acnorn
proposed in the Liberal interest, and Sir Ivor Bertie Guest in AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. “ rcc0 S mse * EGYPT. , .
the Conservative interest.-The nomination for New Ross Thc Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, has The Council of Ministers, acting in concert with ^
takes pluce to-day, aud the polling on the 1 • th inst. accidentally shot himself in the left hand, but it is not Q f the Public Debt, have decided upon the amalgam
the alienation of land by the peasants unaer me •
Assent has been given by the Chamber of Deputies to tee
vention between Roumania and Turkey for the r^P^n
the Turkish prisoners captured by the Rouinaman tra p
during the late war. , pi PTlia
Tuesday being the anniversary of the capture of Pie -
♦no nn/^rainn wna nhaerved as a ceneral holiday throug
crown rnnee on mouaay, Deiore leaving xor reiersourg. ----^ _throuenoui
Count Carolyi, Austrian Ambassador, had an audience of the occasion was observed as a g e “J\ , ./ #nt WdrJ
the Emperor on Wednesday, and presented his letters of recall. Roumania, and semces in commemoration
The Lower House of the Prussian Diet discussed ou Wed- held in all the churches. ______
nesday a motion by Herr Windthorst in favour of an alteration 'cv„r,f 0 ^li;na Prince MiUa
of the law by which religious orders aud congregations are Of six deputies named by tteSp and y£. VosiKh
dissolved. This was energetically opposed by Dr. Falk, the has selected M. lazkakoviteh, to be nc e’Milan foraiilly
Minister of Public Worship, who alluded to the negotiations Vice-President of that Assembly- _ „ aceompauioi
between Germany and the Vatican, and declared that the opened the Skupteclmia on the otli 'j. rom tb e Throue was
the Conservative interest.—The nomination for New Ross
takes place to-day, and the polling on the 17th inst.
The distress at Sheffield continues to increase. Mr. expected that the consequences will be serious.
Mundella, M.P., has sent £.10and a supply of blankets, and Mrs.
The Austrian Delegation decided on
Mundella has sent £50 worth of warm clothing. The distress, adjourn the debate on the Government projects reiacivo to tne Finance but in order stlU runner wniaugw*^* ■— <?, . Ki!l
more particularly in the ironworking districts of the town, is extraordinary expenses of the occupation of 1878 and 1879, and given to the Egyptian bondholders by thc Khecuve s .
exceedingly great, and there are distributions of soup and voted twenty millions for the maintenance of thc troops in Bosnia of May 7 and Nov. 18, 1876, respecting the provinces,sp • ^
bread almost daily. Children’s dinners are also given in and Herzegovina up to May, the time when the Russian troops 8et amrt for the service of the debt, a delegatelot xu d , f
various parishes, and a committee of ladies, over which thc ought to evacuate the Turkish territory. Before the vote aU the D f the Public Debt will act as appropriation auditor, *
Mayoress presides, are making an organised effort to supply three Ministers who are common to the two countries defended to see that each item of personal taxation is passed m
sempstresses and the wives of unemployed men with sewing, the Eastern policy of the Government against the attacks of the auce w jth the respective Budget items,
on the understanding that when the clothing is completed it Opposition, and justified the occupation as a measure indis- F
shall be lent to the poor.—There is great distress also in Man- pensable for the defence of the Monarchy. Count Audrassy AMERICA. refused,
Chester and Salford, and committees have been formed with protested against the charge that he had deceived Parliament The House of Representatives at VV asinugco furOior
the obit < t nf crivino Vi.ltxkf ao 1 a Hw, ....a t.. Ai_Ja-a.:_r at . . —a a., nl naou »* llill *DrOlIlDll-IUM luu
be recognised. EGYPT.
of Austria, has Th e Council of Ministers, acting in concert w 'th the
d, but it is not 0 f the Public Debt, have decided upon the am gam
«•- the functions of the English and 1< reach , ^ g{
Saturday last to 0 ne controUer-general will be appointedl by the Mm
ects relative to the Finance, but in order still further to strengthen ttttg i
the object of giving relief.
protested against me enarge tnat nc nad deceived Uarliament 1 he House ot HepreseiiMii»i»w «v .. lbe
as to the intentions of thc Government. Iu the sitting of the | by 154 votes to 91, to pass the bill-proniDumg
AMEIUCA. . ..fused,
The House of Representatives at lb e furtoor
'DEC. 14, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
555
coinage of trade dollars, and directing that they should be
exchanged for and recoined into standard silver dollars. The
Diplomatic Appropriation Bill has been passed. It reduces the
salaiiea of the American Ministers to England, France,
Geimany, and Russia from 17,500 dols. to 15,000 dols.; Spain,
Austria, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, and China, which are
now 12,000 dols., to 10,000 dols. The bill abolishes the
missions to Belgium and the Netherlands; the Charges of
missions to Denmark and Switzerland and the salaries of
Consuls are also generally reduced. The bill gives to the Pre¬
sident 20,000 dols- to expend at his discretion in the diplomatic
service. The Times' correspondent at Philadelphia states that
the Senate will certainly amend the bill by restoringthe present
salaries, when last Session’s conflict on this subject will be
renewed.
General Wade Hampton, Governor of South Carolina,
has be<n elected United States Senator by the Legislature of
that Slate.
A telegram from New York on Wednesday states that a
stoim from the south-east had been raging during the last
two days, causing much damage throughout the country.
There had been railway accidents owing to the Hoods, attended,
in some instances, by fatal results.
The American correspondent of the Times sta*es that
General Grant has telegraphed from Europe to the Secretary
of the Navy stating that he will make a tour of the East
Indies, China, and Japan, and accepting the offer of the
•Government to place a vessel at his service. The steamer
Richmond, flagship of the American Asiatic squadron, leaves
the United States this week for that purpose.
AUSTRALIA.
A telegram from Melbourne, dated Dec. 6, states that the
Victoria Parliament was prorogued on Nov. 30 ; and one from
Sydney, of the same date, announces that the New South
Wales Governme nt lias been defeated on the Laud Bill.
NEW ZEALAND.
The New Zealand Parliament was prorogued on Nov. 2.
The Electoral Bill was previously withdrawn.
JA&VN.
The Mikado has returned to Yeddo from his tour through
the country. A decree has been promulgated regulating the
purchase and sale of opium.
The Legislature of Ontario will meet on Jan. 9 next.
There is a famine at Mogador, in Morocco, and about
twenty-five persons are said to be dying daily.
The elections in Newfoundland have resulted iu the return
of candidates supporting the prosent Ministry.
M Francois Schille, formerly professor at the Lyece
Bonaparte, has been charged by the Tycoon with the direction
of the Franco-Japanese College at Y’okohama.
The Albert medal of the Second Class has been conferred
bv tie Queen on Mr. W. Buyers, late second mate or the
ship Harlaw, of Aberdeen, for his gallant conduct, wheu that
ship was wrecked off the coast of China.
The Agent-General for New South Wales has been informed
bv telegram of the arrival in Sydney of the ship Heretorl,
which sailed from Plymouth with emigrants in September
last —Intelligence has been received of the arrival at their
destinations of the ships Waitara and Opawa, conveying
emigrants to The Bluff and Canterbury, New Zealand.
A Daily Levis' telegram from New York says that Mr.
Edieou authorises the statement that his electno Light is pro¬
duced bv the incandescence of an alloy of platinum and
iridium. The conductor is of peculiar form and arrangement.
A timple adjustable apparatus attached to each lamp regulates
the amount of electricity it shall draw from the mam current.
The captain of her Majesty’s sliip Orontes has telegraphed
to the Admiralty from Malta that there is no truth in the
repott that fourteen men belonging to that veosel were lost
between Halifax and Bermuda by the capsizing ot a bout
which was going to rescue a man who had fallen overboard.
No deaths or serious accidents have occurred to the crew smee
leaving England.
Mails for Australia and New Zealand, via San Francisco,
will be dispatched from London during the ensuing year as
follows Thursday, Jun. 2, 1879 ; Thursday, Jan. 30, Thura-
dav Feb. 27; Thursday, March 2/ ; Thursday, April 24,
ThuVdav May 22; Thursday, June 19 ; Thursday, July 1 ( ;
Thursday; Aug. 14; Thursday, Sept. 11; Thursday, Oct. 9 ;
Thursday, Nov. 6 ; and Thursday, Dec. 4.
Tlie King of Bavaria has undertaken the construction of a
palace after the model of that of Versailles, on the island of
Herren - Chlemsee. The circumference of the palace wdl be
enormous, and it will take fifteen years to finish it. The cost
of the construction is estimated at £1,800,000. Bricks are the
principal building material. A canal is to cross the island, and
a lighthouse is to be erected.
The Queen has approved of the following colonial appjint-
ments Sir George F. Bowen, G.C.M.G., now Gover-"*
THE CHURCH.
AND APPOINTMENTS.
Allen, John, to be Honorary Canon of Manchester Cathedral.
Aston, J. W., to be Vicar of Amblesido, 'Westmoreland.
Baker, Walter C.; Rector of Balcombc-cum-Upton Noble, Somerset.
Bartholomew, Christopher Churchill; Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral.
Bunstn, limn G. de; Prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral.
Cncuitt, It W. Perry, Curate of South Weald ; Vicar of Cholsey.
Collision, Sydney G.; Minor Canon of Bristol Cathedral.
Cooper, Richard; Ittctor of Swayileld.
Cicsby, Howard A.; Vicar of Milnrow, Rochdale.
Davies, Thomas; Chuplain of Carditf Gaol.
Bundas, Charles; Prebendary of I.elding ton in Lincoln Cathedral.
Edwards, A.; Vicar of Kirkland, Cumberland.
Eller, living Thorold; Vicar of Prumptou Guisborough.
Pisher, Cecil E.; Vicar of Grantham.
Fox, George Edmund; Rector of Swillington, near Leeds.
Giernhill, W. R., (.mate of Hawklmrst; Rector of Newenden, Kent.
Hudson, T.; Vicar of Barton, Westmoreland.
Jolems, C. H.; Senior ('unite of the Paiisli Church of Lancaster.
Johnson, H. C. H.; Missionary at Exploits, Newfoundland.
Johnson, Reginald M. ; Curate-in-Cliaxge of Hemswortli, near Doucaater.
Jones, Joseph Frederick; Perpetual Curate of Chapel Hill, Monmouthshire.
Jupp. C ; Waiden of the Scottish Church Orphanage and Chaplain to the
Primus of Scotland.
Kennedy, M. V.; Vicar of Castle Sowerby, Cumberland.
Lakeinau, George; Incumbent of St. Paul’s, Glasgow.
Union, E. F., Iicctcr of St. George’s, Manchester; Vicar of Sprowston.
Loxley, A. S., Minor Canon; Vicar of Fair-ford.
Oldacres, G., Cuiate of Rrigiinuse ; Perpetual Curatoof Illingworth.
Ierry, Chuiles; Cunou of Llandaif Cathedral.
Thilips. James ; Rector of Cucklingtou-eum-Stoke Tristcr and Bayfonl.
Plant. Samuel; I rebendary of Licblteld Cathedral.
Snowdon, J. H.; Vicar of Hamnien-mith.
Skinner, R.; Vicar of Da ere, Cumberland.
Stuart, J. ; Rector of Portishead.
Temple, R.; Rural Dean of Notre Dame Buy, Newfoundland.
Wilkinson, Dr.; Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral.— Guardian.
Governor of Victoria; and Sir Hercules Robinson, G.C.M.G.,
now Governor of New South Wales, to be Governor of Now
Zealand.—The following colonial appointments are announced
in the Gazette .—Messrs. Roger Beckwith Leefe and John Hill
to be members of the Legislative Council of the Colony ofl’iji;
Mr. William Henry Hall to be a member of the Legislative
Council of the Bahama Islands ; and Mr. Solomon Baber Isaacs
to be a member of the Legislative Council of Tobago.
We are informed that the Government of New South Wales
has reemested Mr. William Forster, Agent-General for the
colony ^Professor Liversidge, of the University of Sydney, and
Mr E Combos, M.l’., O.M.G., to collect mtonnation m tlie
United Kingdom and on the Continent relating to the worxiig
of English and foreign technological museums and colleges,
with a°viow to forming similar institutions in Sydney. A sum
of money has been placed on the estimates by the Government
of the colony to enable the committee to purchase suitable
snecinnns The Agent-General for New South W ales, 3,
wVsUuinster-chambers, S.W., will be glad to receive irom
such institutions, or from any other source, reports or any
inlormation wliicli would assist the committee m its inquiries.
The Grocers’ Company ha3 given £100 to the Clergy Orphan
Schools.
The Bishop of Rochester has accepted the resiguatiou of
the Rev. Arthur Tooth, Vicar of St. James’s, Hatcliam.
Dr. Baring, Bishop of Durham, is about to resign his see iu
consequence of ill-health. Having some private means, he will
not accept a retiring pension.
Canon Beadon, Rector of North Stoneham, near South¬
ampton, who on Friday, the 6th inst., entered his 102ud year,
is in good health and retains all his faculties.
St. Jude’s Church, Chelsea, has beeu provided with new
pitch-pine open seats and a handsome new pulpit at the cost
of the Vicar, the Rev. W. H. Dalton.
Dr. Vaughan, the Master of the Temple, under medical
advice, has given up the special Advent services on Wednesday
evenings for the present year.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have granted £1000
towards the cost of a parsonage for the vicarage of St. Saviour,
Battersea Park, to be iu substitution for a yearly sum of
£33 6s. 8d. heretofore granted to the Incumbent.
There bus just been erected in Manfield chureh, near Dar¬
lington, a handsome Munich window in memory of Anne,
widow of Richard Bassett Wilsou, of Cliffe, who died July 11,
1877, aged fifty-seven. It lias been executed by Messrs. Mayer.
Dr. Maclagan, Bishop of Lichfield, having become aware of
the dearth of religious teaching iu the district of Wood Setton,
Sedgley, has intimated his willingness to give £500 towards
the maintenance of a clergyman during the next five years.
A stained-glass window has lately beeu presented to North
Waltham chureh, Hants, by Miss Emily Wolfe, late of Micliel-
dever, in remembrance of her brother, the late Mr. John
Roblyn Wolfe. *
The Revisers of the Authorised Version of the New Testa¬
ment met ou Tuesday at the Jerusalem Chamber for their
eighty-fifth session. The Company carried ou their second
revision to the tenth chapter of the Revelation.
On Monduy morning the parish Church of St. Peter, near
Bridgwater, which was reopened on Easter Tuesday, after
haying undergone restoration at. an expense of nearly £1500,
was destroyed by fire. The fire evidently originated in an over¬
heated flue, which ignited a portion of the roof.
A handsome tea and coffee service of silver and a purse of
gold have been presented to the Rev. C. A. and Mrs. de
Lubiguan by the inhabitants of Over-Wyresdalo, Lancaster, ou
thc-ir leaviug that parish after a residence there of more than
twent) -two years.
The Rev. Daniel Trinder, M.A.,on his leaving Tedding-
ton—in which parish he had laboured with so much zeal and
energy for a period of tweuty-one years—has been presented
with a purse containing 250 guineas, together with a silver
salver and library clock; also numerous presents from the
choir, biblc class, Sunday schools, &o.
A meeting of the leading clergy and laity of the county of
Shropshire took place at Shrewsbury last Saturday, to take
steps for aiding the endowment fund of the uew diocese of
Southwell. The Bishop of Lichfield presided, and it was
resolved that an endeavour should be made to raise £6009 as
the share of Salop towards the requisite endowment.
On All Saints’ Day the Bishop of Chichester consecrated a
beautiful little chureh at Roffey, an outlying district of
Horsham. It was debigned by Sir. Blomfield, and consists of
a nave, chancel, and south aisle. The church, with its fittings
and adornments, was erected at the expense of Mrs. Gertrude
Mart) n, in memory of her husband, Cecil Edward Martyu
(late cf the Carabineers), who died in Algiers m 18 1 0. I he
tout ia the gift of her mother, Mrs. Hudlestone, and the lectern
of her brother.
The uew Church of All Saints’, in Dovonsliire-street, South
Lambeth, was opened for public worship ou the 4tli inst. In
the building, tbe architect, Mr. Bedborough, has adopted the
characteristics of the church architecture of the thirteenth
century. Amoug the decorations noticeable are the windows
in the chimed, of painted glass, executed by Messrs. Lavers,
Banaud, and Westlake: the centre one presented by the
congregation as a testimonial to the Vicar, and a second
one°eivcn by the senior Curate, the Rev. John B. Chandler.
The baptistery window of two lights was presented by Mr.
J. II. Batty, as a memorial of his deceased wife.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
The South Middlesex mustered at Beaufort House, Wal'ivn-
gruni'u Saturday evening, when the prb.es were distributed
by Lieutenant-Colonel Wylde. Sergeant Pullnn i {Q nail's
Prizeman, 1876) took the first prize in the third series, and
Corporal T. Pullman took Lord Randagh’s prize for the highest
aggregate in three series, the first in the gold medal sorbs, the
chiilhnge cup (given by tlie Rev. Kerr .Gray), and .Mr. J.
Godwin’s £20, and also holds the three-star bulge.
The members of the 9th (Westminster) Middlesex In l their
prizts prmuted to them last. Saturday evening at the Kyra
Aims by their commanding officer, Lieuteuant-Coloud B irbor.
The chief prize-winners were Private Ingram (best shot iu the
battalion), Private Partington, Private May, Private CLivt m,
and Private L. H. Marks. A dauce concluded the proeae liu»».
Tlie prizes of tbe St. George’s were distributed o.i the >th
inst., at Willis’s Rooms, by Miss Lindsay, daughter of tin
commanding officer, - Lieutenant-Colonel the lion. G. II.
Lindsay. The Regimental Challenge Cup and Gold MQil
were won by Sergeant-Instructor Andrews ; the Turner C;i il-
lcnge Plate wrs won by Private W. C. Williams; and tin
Ladies’ Challenge Plate by Private H. Snowdon. The best
shot of the battalion is Private Pickwick.
The fifth competition for the Regimental Challenge Cup
and Badges of the 26th Kent was held at the Inner Range,
Plumstead, last Saturday. Corporal Frost was the winner of
the Challenge Cup. The winners of the Badges were—Major
J. D. C. Farrell, Captain J. Foggie, aud Private Evaus.
The annual general meeting of the South Londou Rifle
Club was held last week at the club-house, Nuuhead, under
the presidency of Major Young, 39th Middlesex Rifles. The
statement of accounts showed a small balance in favour of the
club. The club jewels won during the past season wore pre¬
sented to the successful competitors, aud arrangements were
made for the ensuing season, the subscriptions being fixed at
£1 Is., with an entrance fee of 5s. to new members.
On Monday evening there was a brilliant attendee of
ladies and gentlemen in St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, oil the
occasion of the annual presentation of prizes to the members
of the 5th Lancashire (the Liverpool Rifle Brigade), tho lead¬
ing corps of the town. Lieutenant-Colonel R. J. Tinley, the
cenunaudiug officer, was supported by the principal inhabitants
of the district aud many volunteer officers of other battalions.
The prizes were delivered by Major-General Robertson, C.B.
Lieutenant-Colonel Tinley spoke of tlie continued iucreasa,
both in numbers and efficiency, of the regiment, which was
now 983 strong. Sir Thomas Edwards-Moss, Bart., ulao briefly
addressed the regiment.
The annual presentation of prizes to the 3rd Loudon by the
Lord Mayor will take place in the Guildhall, and that of the
West London (4th Middlesex) iu St. George’s Hall, Laugham-
place, this (Saturday) evening.
Lord Ruthven, late Captain, Rifle Brigade, has been
appointed Major of the Loudon Scottish, in the room of Sir
Hmiry Pelly, M.P., deceased, aud the London Gazette notifies
the succession as Lieutenaut-Colonel Commandant of Major
Henry Lumsden, of Pitcuple Castle, vice Lord Elcho, appointed
honorary Colonel. _•
CATTLE SHOWS.
The Sinithfield Club Cattle Show, which - opoued ou Monday,
lias been one of tho most successful iu the history of that
organisation. Her Majesty, tbe Prince of Wales, the Dukes
of Sutherland, Richmond and Gordon, Manchester, Rox-
burghe, and Marlborough, the Marquis of Exeter, the
Marchioness of Camden, Lords Powis, Jersey, Braybrooke,
Walsingkam, and Darnley were amongst the exhibitors. The
Prince of Wales visited the hall on Monday. In the last
ten years the Champion Plate of £100 for the best beast has
been won eight times by shorthorns, once by a Devon, aud
onec by a polled Aberdeen. This year it is a shorthorn hoifer
which carries off the great prize. Icicle, the roan lieifer of
Mr. Richard Stratton, of the Duffryn, Newport, Monmouth¬
shire which at Oakham last year won the chief honour aud at
Birmingham carried off the Elkington Challenge Cup, takes
the first prize of £25 in her class, the £40 silver cup as best
shorthorn, the £50 silver cup as best cow or heifer m the hall,
and the Champion Plate as best beast in the hall. • The Queen
and the Prince of Wales have fourteen entries m the cuttle
classes, but. only three of them take prizes. Mr. J. 8.
Bult, of Taunton, exhibited tbe best ox in the show. The
annual general meeting of the Smithfield Club took place on
Tuesday, the Duke of Bedford in the chair. On the motion of
the Duke of Richmond aud Gordon, seconded by Lord
Walaingham, Colonel Kingscotc, M P., was elected president
for 1879, and Lord Tredegar was chosen president for 1880.
Sir Braudreth Gibbs was unanimously elected one of the vice-
presidents. .
The annual wiuter show of fat cattle, sheep, &c.,m con¬
nection with the Royal Dublin Society was opened on Tuesday
in tbe society’s premises, Kil dare-street. The display of fat
cattle was unusually good, the numbers being largolyiu excesa
of fast vearis uumbem, and tlie condition excellent. There was
also a '” 00(1 display of sheep and a splendid show of poultry,
the entries in the latter section beiug -144.
Tlie winter cattle show at Leeds, which lasted three days,
was opened ou Tuesday by the Mayor. The total eutnos
numbered 1036, of which eighty were tor cattle thirty-four
for sheep, sixty-four for pigs, aud the remainder for poultry,
rabbits, aud roots.
The Birmingham Cattle .Show closed on the <>th uwt.
During theflvedaysit was open 65,830 persons were admitted-
Sir Charles Reed on Wednesday informed the School Board
lor London that he had received a communication from the
President of the French Republic acknowledging liis services
' n the education section of the Paris Exhibition and forward-
ug the decoration ol an officer of the Legion of Honour, and
that a special diploma had been granted to the board. 1 In
business before the board included the reception of the fifth
general report of the Statistical Committee, which, after a
discussion, was agreed to.
under tho care of Mr. Oldrid Scott; of Stourtou, near Bath,
alter a restoration by Mr. Swinfen-Harris, jun; of St.
Odolphus Pillaton, near Saltash; of St. Bartholomew, Urox-
dale, near Durham, enlarged by Mr. Hodgson Fowler; of
Lhmfihaugelystrad, in Cardigans! lire, restored by Captain
Vaughan, the architect being Mr. Middleton; of beyenoaks,
restored at a cost of £4000; of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire,
restored by Mr. Preedy ; of Shelton, near Newark, Notts; of
Hornby church, near Bedale, after undergoing thorough
restoration aud improvement, at a cost of £6000, the whole
of which was contributed by the Duke and Duchess of
Leeds.
ri.r nTimm i sale of the Queen’s fat cattle was held at the
The annual saie oi eu « ^ Wednesday. Good prices
• to’lOOs. «d>; .ud 120 wn hog. .1
porkers, 85s. to £9 10s. each.
Tlie following churches have recently been reopened:— lesue lloIO -— -
Tho dmrch of Houghton, Gifforf, whichhm booujeotorod |
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Working Mau, by one who does not believe in lum.
illustrations are by Mr. J. F. Sullivan.
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PARLIAMENT.
DEBATES ON THE AFGHAN WAR. she
THE HOUSE OF LORDS. n
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to negotiate for the placing of British officers on the Afghan
frontier • that whilst the Ameer had declined to receive these 3
British Envoy’s, a Russian Mission had been ostentatiously s]
welcomed at Cabul; that, thereupon, Major Cavagnari ashed e
permission of the Commandant at All Musjid to allowgeneral p
Sir Neville Chamberlain's Mission to proceed to Cabul, but *
that not only was permission refused but no answer was sent
within the given time by the Ameer to Lord Lyttqn s
Ultimatum • Lnd that war was, thereupon, declared gainst
Sherc Ali Lord Cranbrook remarked that the estimate for the I
Afghan War during the present financial year would not
exceed 1 £1 ICO,000 or £1,200,000. The surplus on the Indian i
BudSt would not be less than £2,130,000 ; so that, taking the
coS of the war to be a milliou and a quarter, there would be a i
' surplus of about £500,000. Such were, in brief, the arguments
adduced by Lord Cranbrook in support of the resolution which f
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beyondtieScuKftaates of her Majesty's Indian paeons.
Lord Halifax, having been many years becretary for India
ns Sir Charles Wood (during Lord Palmerston s last term of
officcl cannot fairly be accused of any lack of patriotism. Yet
it was’this venerable statesman (his Lordshipisseveuty-ciglit)
who with admirable precision and method, albeit he shared the
general inaudibility ot the front Opposition Bench, marshalled
f host of facts to show that the conciliatory policy main-
taiued towards Shere Ali up to and during the Viceroyalty of
Lord Northbrook was the most just and prudent course to
follow. Being of this opinion, Lord Halifax moved this
511 To lea'Tout from the word “House,” to the end of the motion, for the
io it a\eou 44 rwidv to consent t*> providing the means neces-
pui-pose of in \ J>' ^ w hich we axe unhappily engaged to a safe and
honomkbl.' conclusion, regreto the conduct pursued bythe Government
wWhhhak unnecessarily engaged this country m the contest.
Lord Lawrence gave the weight of his great experience as
Governor-General of India in support of the amendment In
doinc =o the noble Lord at the outset declared he viewed with
as much concern as anyone the approach of Russian to Afghan¬
istan but ho also held it would be unwise of us to go beyond
our north-west frontier to anticipate the attacks of Rutem 5 Ariel
he maintained that the war was unjust and impolitic. I he
Karl of Derby, while he could not join in a censure
of the polic y pursued up to 1876, believed the Viceroy and his
advisers bad precipitated a war that might have been avoided
with a little patience; and a war that, being unnecessary,
ould not be just. The Duke of Somerset followed in support
of the Government; but the Earl of Carnarvon, in u brief and |
earnest speech, could see nothing in the correspondence to
iustify the war. Lord Napier and Ettrick spoke for, and the
Karl of Aberdeen and the Earl of Airlie against, the resolution.
Earl Grey was first to open fire ou the Government on
Tuesday and he brought an able speech to a close by protest¬
ing against the cost of this “ unrighteous war” being thrown
on India. The Lord Chancellor smartly replied. He
called their Lordships to imagine the northern part of
Scotland in the hands of a warlike, independent nation,
with a vast and ambitious Empire to the north again but
“ tending to more southwards.” Given, in addition, a range
of high mountains between England and Scotland, and the
analogy would be complete, he thought. But, if such were the
. trrviiKi.. itself iihoiit “ dinlomatic
analogy would be complete, lie tnougnt. uui, u a au
ca a e would the House trouble itself about “diplomatic
etiquette V ” “ Would not, rather, both sides of the House be
urgin' 1, flic Government of tlie country to take those steps
wbiclTwere absolutely necessary to make secure the position of
this country in regard to this northern neighbour.” Havmg
taken the bull by the horns thus at the beginning, Earl Cairns
entered, into a series of quotations from, despatches to show
that the Government were justified in the course they had
adopted. From the same source, however, Lord belborue
culled a number of passages to prove that the war
ought to have been avoided. Lord Houghton, the Marquis
of Bath, the Earl of Jersey, the Marquis of Eipon,
and Lord Middleton having spoken, Lord Northbrook again
showed what energy he could display when put upon his
mettle. The ex-Viceroy argued that the new policy had
alienated li e Ameer, and that no advantage could be derived
trom the war. The Marquis of Salisbury applied his vocabulary
of siuxHM , to Lord Lawrence and other opponents of the
Ministry, ;.ud vigorously defended the action of the Govern¬
ment in bringing Shere Ali to reason. Lord Cardwell briefly
replied and Lord Beaconsfield dosed the debate in tlie small
hours. The Prime Minister was exceedingly lively, boldly |
justified a rectification of our north-west frontier, audappealed
to the House not to be influenced by the Peace-at-any-Price
party. In tlie division, there were 201 Contents, 65 Non-
Content- a majority of 136 for the Government. The engage¬
ment ov t. the House adjourned to Tuesday next.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Tl,i .liability with which Sir Stafford Northcote received
the mild < pposition offered to tlie Government ou the opening
night of Hie Session led to the expectation that the Address
would be agreed to as a matter of form, and that the real fight
would take place ou one or the other of the independent
resolutions of which notice was given. But the second sitting
told a ditb rent tale. The Chancellor of the Exchequer would
grant j j facilities to the bold spirits who would dare to
question the policy of the that M^Whitbr&vd
cussion and recrimination, it was , ., Address,
should move his amendment on the rep f t ^ d the f ron t
No Liberal could have bee“““J; d ^the important
Opposition benchfittor tlmnMr. Wutb ^ ^ memb erfor Tlie
task of openuig the debate on tuon y ed mind, and is i, e n
Bedford la &U tfii?£>rdd tare
so de^ly imbued with con.bmod with m „
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Commons should sanction his amendmen .
ThatthisHao*e ais.op,...... . £?
which has resulted in the war with Afghanistan.
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and checked the passages in question as the right hon. gentle Mi
and cueckeatnepas.^ h Gladstone lasted two g*
Z ”lr,S,»r5ectivc, potat follomug point g
: Slouch rapid succession that Ministers had good causeto W
I fibmffle uneasily in their seats. Thus, in answer to para- m
Saph Xe in Lord Cranbrook’s oft-referred-to despatch bv
Mr.Gladstonc pointed out among other thmgs that Six an
Lewis Pelly’s report showed that the Ameers special Envoy th
l Swiedgcd that the usual friendship between the two af
1 countries Listed up to the departure of Lord Northbrook, m
1 who had thoroughly reassured the Ameei. Comm 0 to S y
The vital pobit of Shere All’s acceptance of the Russian d <
1 Mission aLcabul, lie dwelt on the fact that the Marquis 0 t
l of Salisbury had tacitly admitted the reasonableness of d«
\ Russia’s explanations, and yet the Government had dt- t l
') cS war against, the Ameer, and, as recompense, pro- ei
a p “ed to appropriate the territory of the neutral tribes. w
1 An ex-comedian of the House presumably of opinion that h
L * «T iff- ’s a ioke and all things show it, has this 31
,£ week ventured. to carp at the “excitability of Mr. b
;° Gladstone. Ou jokers of his type the lofty flight of p
13 Eloquence with which Mr. Gladstone concluded hia fine u
speech would, perhaps, be thrown away. But the House 0
f generally cheered long and warmly the noble peroration with r
id which the right hon. gentleman, in deep and solemn t
at tones, concluded the assertion that those members of t
this House who oppose your course will believe that they t
is bav* performed a duty incumbent upon men who believe
;u that truth and justice are the only sure foundations of inter- r
th national relations, and that there is no possession so precious, c
r- either for peoples or for men, as a just aud honourable ieeme. j
ld Of sound and fury, signifying nothing, did Sir Robert Peel s j
id pretentious reply consist. Mr. Leatham was followed by (
ae Mr. Forsyth. Sir Charles Dilke rather disturbed the deport- j
re meut of Sir Robert Peel. Government had seenmigly no one
us rrreatfr weight than the complacent young Lord George
ed HaSuon to put up afterwards ;*’and Mr. Grant Duff moved :
7. the adjournment of the debate to Thursday. On \Vedm»day,
> rt it may be mentioned, in passing, the House did a little prao-
ud t j ci j business by advancing a few bills a stage.
6° On Thursday the adjourned debate upon the proposed vote
lie of censure of toe Government was prefaced by a very brief
>n. but pungent statement from the Chancellor oi toe Exchequer,
on which was received with vociferous cheers from toe Mmiatenal
st- side of the House. In reply to a notice of a qu^tion by Sir W
wn Harcourt, intended to be put to the leader of the House on
Ho Friday, the Chancellor of tlie Exchequer expressed Ins desire
ot to answer it ou toe instant, and then went on to say that
an, w hen he stated the other night that the Russian Envoy had
nit i 0 ft Cabul lie was speaking according to the information he had
ige then received. Her Majesty’s Government had understood, from
the W ] iat had passed between our representative and toe Russian
the Government, that the departure of tlie Envoy was equivalent to
xtie tbe recall of the Russian Mission. But since he had made tiiat
s be statement her Majesty’s Government received mforination
eps w hich leads them to form a contrary opnuou. The House,
uof however may rest assured that her Majesty’s Government
ing do not’intend to acquiesce in the exercise of Russian
inis influence in Afghanistan in this or any other form. In
low reply to Sir C. Dilke, Mr. Bourke said it was true
had that in October last Mr. Di Cesnola, an American subject,
>rue wa8 fried before tlio District Court of Larnaca, m
war Cyprus, for excavating objects of antiquarian interest
quis without a firman, and sentenced to a fine (which was
pon, rem itted by Sir G. Wolseley) and the confiscation of the
;ain objects found. Every precaution would, however, be taken
hia to secure a fair trial to all persons who were charged with any
had 0 £E e n ( es. Mr. Courtauld having taken tlie oath and Ins
ivecl gca t for Maldon, the adjourned debate on the proposed
lary vo te 0 f censure was commenced, by Mr. Grant Duff, who
the charged the Government with a policy directed to toe annexa-
ern - tion of Afghanistan, and defended the conduct ot the
idly Gladstone Cabinet as regarded its relations with toe Ameer,
mail ji r Bourke, in a speech of considerable length, replied on
fldly behalf of the Government. The debate flagged much m
:aled interest as it became known that it would bo carried over to
ITice another night, and that the greater guns would reserve their
* ou * fire until the final stage. About midnight a further adjourn-
i a S c ‘ meut took pbice.
$hc flrxtra Supplement
Early on Wednesday morning, during a thick fog, the mail-
steamer Breeze, bound from Dover to Calais, ran ashore about
500 yards from the West Pier at the latter port. All the
passengers and crew were landed, as well as the mails.
The working men of Ottawa, according a Reuter’s tele-
gram have presented on address to Sir John Macdonald, the
I Dominion I'reaBter, and. Mr. Tupper, the Minister of Public
The tender confidences of girlish friendship are not lightly to
be made the subject of a stranger's curious speculation!; but
we cannot look at the attitude of these two maideus. seated
on u bench at the seaside, the one forgetful of her pitcher, the
other of her knitting, both iutent upon that engrossing theme,
a lnilf-confessed love affair, without trying to guess the pur¬
port of their conversation. That one of them is deeply in l ive
with -omebody, or imagines herself to be in love with linn,
mav be read in the soft but steadfast gaze directed no where,
the air of fondly rapt distraction, the folded hands and pnuvo
esnectancy with which she meditates upon the absent i.tol of
her affections. The other girl has not yet been told wao h-
is and she is neither more nor less inquisitive npo i such
matters than tlie generality of her sex. “Tell me! ” or rather,
at lea-t “only tell tne! you know / never will tell anybody
else • ” ’this is toe burden of her persuasive entreaty, which is
nrettv sure to earn its desired boon of a communication of her
lriend’s secret. Let us hope that it will be received with
generous m inpathy; and that, if the object of this impassioned
mnev be cue whom it is well to love and trust, there will be a
happy future in storo for a couple of truo lovers, while the
coutidnnle may, in due time, be called upon to officiate as a
bridesmaid at the village church.
HALF-HOURS OF A BLIND MAN’S HOLIDAY.
Two volumes published by Messrs. Sampson Low and On,
filled with half a hundred short tales and essays by Mr.W.W.
Fenn, bear the title Half-Hour* of ■< Blind Man * Holiday,
which is explained by what the author telLs us ot lnmseli m
“ Mv Own Story.” He was a landscape artist of considerable
talent who fourteen years ago endured the loss of sight from
a disease of the eyes, and has since been writing, with merited
public favour, in the popular magazines and papers Now
mid then as we hope our readers will remember, Mr. teuu has
contributed* to this Journal. “ The Bell Buoy ” aud “Tae
Message of the Hour,” and “Christmas Eve at Louethorpo
Manor’’ appeared in our Christmas Supplements, to the
gratification of many of our friends. We observe that Mr
FVum also calls this collection of his writings Summer aud
Whiter Sketches in Black and White.” They are not deficient
in the bright and vivid colouring of nature at every season;
but he means, of course, that he now paints only with ink,
and that with a pen held by his wife’s hand. We can test,fy
that the pen is Led to good purpose in delineating, with mi-
i isjsassKss
■ thcLccount of his own present habits, that he is still able to
• eniov both rural nature aud the cheerful bustle of town, as
! well La the society of liis friends ; and that this exercise of
t literature serves him as a sufficient vehicle of mental expres-
3 3 ion The most appropriate commendation that we can
• bestow upon these tides, is to say that Mr. Fetm continues to
£ practise very acceptably as an artist, but in a different medium,
B Eow using a good English vocabulary and style of description
J or narrative, instead of a brush with oil or water-colours. A
i remarkable effect of instant reality and pressing urgency is
i felt hi most of these stories, which are usually supposed to be
f Sd by an eye-witness, or by some person connected with
s
7 SSTdTyS apt to fail; but Mr. Fenn possesses this.facul^
> no anul n degree. “ The Romance of a Rescue, In the
ie Family ” “The Drawing-Master’s Story, A Game of
? e Thimblerig ” and “ A Private Inquiry” are tales of complex
id hmident which afford that, pleasing excitement cunosity
Y desired bv the majority of readers. Some part, however, o
-
s
V. XEs, may have a certain interest as exemplifymg the
on SfiTwhich toe mind is affected by a derangement oftoe
ire ordinary bal^ oftoe^ent
ad “leaves by a Listener” contain important te.Tmiony^ud
t 3*5*82 SSt & ,h 5"r*^t3
fiat Deed,” and even “ My Murder. The J. -, 1 of
ion socia i manners, fashions, And customs are ^ £ J ufat
lsc, afirpwd observation aud reflection, tempered wnu . i_
ent i our which makes them agreeable J® ASIlfe^wo*
inn mind. They arc frequently occupied with the at
£
r«t jssr—bswr*.-
was hig disposition for the vacant hour,
the ■ —
S The usual ehalleuge for the U "
his sent by the Cambridge Boat Club to that of Oxford.
Sj We are desired to state that the Fnu^Or.w*.J^
1 » S T£ stoppage ot the OM.n ^
i in Friday and Saturday on the local o£ tho
ir to Scotch Banks have^ arranged to take ove ^^ of g ei q 0 n,
their Caledonian throughout the longdom. ent between the
virn- on Saturday, consent was given t°» l J 1 the Caledonian
liquidators of the City of Glasgow Bank wdU* Gai^^ ^
Banking Company, by which the former 8 i iare on
furnish payment of a call to tfic extent of , 00 P d
”Ad- the shares held by the Caledonian -The Wert at
ibout South Wales District Bank, which has its head q ^
1 the Bristol with forty-two branche^ has auspend^ w ith
liabilities are estimated at three and a U u■ ^ with au
tele- locked-up assets to the like ■ v ice . ch P a necUor Malins
1, the application made to lum °« Monday, j provisional
ublie appointed Mr. Turquaut and Mr. L. G • Clarxc v
linniflnTors of this btUlk.
DEC. 14, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
ECHOES OF THE WEEK.
I am no very assiduous autograph - hunter; still, I like to
-pom ss, and I have a few big books at home full of specimens
of the handwriting of distinguished persons—specimens which
I liu\e neither bought nor begged. I was looking through
my letters trom novelists recently. I found Victor Hugo,
Die In ns, Thackeray, Charles Reade, Jerrold, Edmond About,
M. E. Brandon, Mrs. Gore, Mrs. Lynn Linton, Wilkie Collins,
Edmund Yates, Harrison Ainsworth, Charles Lever, Shirley
Brooks, Anthony Trollope, Albert Smith, Mark Leuiou, Angus
Reach, Florence Maryatt, Hawley Smart, and “Leo.” “ Leo”
(who wrote a capital military-sporting novel) was, I take it, poor
“ Kit ” Pemberton, of the Guards, who was killed while witness¬
ing, en amateur , a battle during the Franco-German War in
1870. It struck me as I closed the volume that I lacked epistles
from two more writers of military romance and adventure—
the author of “ The Highlanders in Spain,” “ The Yellow
Fiigate,” and “ The Phantom Regiment; ” and especially the
•writer of those capital tales “Digby Grand,” “General
Bounce,” and “ Kate Coventry.” But then I remembered
that I had no kind of acquaintance with Grant or with Whyte-
Melville.
Oddly enough, there cameto me in the first days of December
n very kind and courteous letter in which the writer, apolo¬
gising for communicating with me without prior introduction,
asked me for some information concerning a reduced gentle¬
man (the son of a once noted journalist) who had applied to
him for assistance, and who, in his application, had made use
•of my name. My correspondent went on to say that if the
case was a bond Jidt one he would willingly do what he could to
iclieve the poor gentleman. The letter was signed J. G.
AVhyte-Melville. I had got one of the autographs for which
I bad been longing. I wrote him back, stating that which I
knew and thought of the case; and just four days afterwards
I read with sincere grief in the newspapers that poor Whyte-
Melville, while out hunting with the Vale of White Horse fox¬
hounds, had been thrown from his horse and killed on the spot.
Mem: Letters have appeared in the press discussing
the question whether the Major was a “hard” rider or a
“straight” rider, whether he went “ lashing” away or “took
Jus fences gently,” and what not. I do not understand the
technology of the hunting-field. It is enough for me to know
that the author of “Digby Grand” was a dashing, brilliant,
and graphic writer, and to be sure (from that letter) that he
was a thoroughly kind-hearted and loveable man.
My “ Echoes ” (suspended last week owing to an attack of
a malady which may be qualified as “ Return to England-
Home-and-Beauty-fog-influenza bronchitis) must needs this
week be necrological. Alfred Wigan has died, and been laid
to rest at Kensal Green since I last wrote. It must be more
than forty years since that I saw him make his appearance,
under the name of Sidney, at the St. James’s Theatre (John
Biaham, proprietor and manager) in the character either of
“Noodle,” or “Doodle,” in Fielding's burlesque of “Tom
Thumb,” in which John Pitt Harley played “ Lord Grizzle,”
and my Mother the Princess Huncamunca. Some four years
alteiwards, when young Mr. Sidney had become Mr. Alfred
Wigan again, and was rapidly making his way on the stage (at
Covent Garden, I think; but I am not a collector of playbills,
and cannot be certain on that head), I, being a precocious
young nuisance of twelve, submitted to the rising actor a
learsome live-act tragedy called “ Fredegonde,” which I
bad written in French. Alfred Wigan was, next to the living
'Charles Lamb Kenney, the very best £rench-speaking English¬
man that 1 ever came in contact with. I have an idea that
Mr. Wigan did not think my five-act tragedy quite up to the
Racine and Corneille standard; but he laughingly reminded
me of "Fredegonde” ever so many years afterwards, when
he was ltsste and manager of the St. James's, and I wrote to
ask him for a private box.
“ Et pour taut il y avail quelque chose la," as Andre Chenier
thoughtlully remarked, tapping his forehead, just as they were
going to guillotine him. “ Fredegonde,” under more auspicious
circumstances, ought to have made its way. There was a murder
in almost every scene. Somebody was poisoned, or burnt, or
put to the torture coram publico at the end of every act; and I
think that, as a denouement, the wicked French Queen was to be
torn to pieces by wild horses (from Mr. Ducrow’s stud at
Astley's), or devoured by the wild dogs of Messrs. Coney and
Blanchard. I forget which of the catastrophes was to happen;
but I incline to the belief that it was the latter, because those
were the days of that grand canine melodrama “ The Murder
of the Forest of Bondy ; or, The Dog of Montargis.”
Alfred Wigan retired from the stage (with that admirable
.actress, his wile) in the very fulness of his faculties, but his
•wretched health necessitated his withdrawal. I scarcely
think that complete justice has yet been done by the press to
his merits as an actor. A second place in his profession has
been assigned to him by the Times. I would place him in the
front rank as a genteel comedian, wellnigh unsurpassed in
artistic finish and general accomplishments. Did you ever
see him in “ Still Waters Run Deep;” in the “Lady of
tbt. Trope/;” in the “First Night” (an adaptation of the
French “ Pere de la Debutante ; ” and especially in the
part of the French usher, in Tom Taylor’s “ To Parents and
Guardians.” In the pathetic vaudeville of “Monsieur
Jaques ” Alfred Wigan had a formidable precursor in. the late
Morris Barnett; and there were playgoers who professed to
prefer Mr. Barnett’s broken English to Mr. Wigan’s. Yet,
strange to relate, while Alfred Wigan was a perfect French
scholar, Morris Barnett was a very imperfect one. It was the
old story of the critics of the pig that squealed when his tail
was pinched, and the merry-andrew who imitated the ululation
of a pig imder similarly irritating circumstances. The verdict
of the majority was in favour of the apocryphal pig.
And why should there not be two camps in criticism, so
long us we can cany on our critical polemics without becoming
pertc.nally offensive to one another, and calling each other
abusive names? I see by the public prints that, under the
auspices of the Fine-Art Society in New Bond-street, a sub¬
scription is being got up to defray the amount of Mr. Buskin’s
costs in the late action of Whistler v. Ruskin. From another
souucl am enabled to state that an influential committee
is being organised to gather funds for the payment of
Mr. Whistler’s costs. Both plaintiff and defendant in this
unhappy suit stand mulct at present in a sum of some six
hundred pounds. Each has been presented with a very pretty
oystershell, containing an “ arrangement in mother of pearl.”
The fine fat oyster within falls to the share of the gentlemen
of the long robe and the other legal benefactors concerned in
the case.
And yet (when the costs have been paid) I can’t help
thinking that Mr. Whistler may deem himself very well off
with his “ arrangement in monotone”—the farthing which I
am told he wears at his watch-chain. There is, believe me, a
direr anguish than that of losing a lhsv suit. It is that of
gaining it. I got some damages once—five hundred pounds—
in an action for libel; and I do most sincerely hope that I shall
never again undergo such ceaseless misery and wretchedness
as I endured until the very last, farthing of that ill-omened
booty was spent. The great tribe of begging letter-writers
came down upon me even as the waters come down at Lodore;
and legions ot friends of my youth who had been worsted in
the Battle of Life issued forth from all kinds of hiding-places,
“ exceeding fierce,” and demanding instant succour. All
the Asylums, Hospitals, Refuges, and Homes sent me circulars.
I think that the milkman “attached” the damages even
before they were paid. I know that somebody else put a
“distringas” upon them which it coat me more than a
hundred pounds to remove. Fancy being tortured with a
“distringas.” Fancy being overwhelmed by passionate
appeals Irom unknown people importuning you to become a
director of the Patagonian' Boot, (Shoe, and Golosh Company
(Limited); to advance two hundred and fifty pounds for the
purpose of patenting a new atmospheric cow-milker; to
purchase an undoubted Straclivarius fiddle; aud to subscribe
towards the purchase of an annuity for the three great-great-
grandaughters of Dr. Titus Oates. I moodily took the last
fifty pounds of these maleficent damages to Hombourg; staked
the sum on the couleur at trente et quarantc ; and experienced a
sensation of infinite relief when the croupier swept up the
obnoxious gold. A clean sponge had been passed over a slate
written all over with a history of unhappiness.
Dr. Millingen, one of the medical men who attended Lord
Byron in his last illness, and who was present at the poet’s
death, at Missolonghi, on April 19, 1824, has just died at
Constantinople. He had been during very many years a
resident of the European suburb of Pcra. Dr. Millingen wa3
to the last full of reminiscences of Byron, and it is to be
regretted that he has left behind him no written record of
his intercourse with the poet. Such meinorauda, it is
stated, the Doctor had drawn up long since ; but these precious
notes, with all his other papers, were destroyed in the great
fire at Pera in 1870. Mr. Trelawney is now nearly the only
survivor among those who knew Byron intimately.
_ G. A. S.
MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.
MUSIC PRIMERS.
This valuable series (published by Novello, Ewer, aud Co
has recently received several important additions.
Herr l’auer has contributed an excellent treatise on Musical
Forms, in which he deals with the various constructive
features of sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental
music, of the ancient and modem schools. His introductory
portion is explanatory of accent, metre, rhythm, style, figure,
melody, the period and its construction, and thematic work—
the following sections— illustrative of all the important species
of musical composition, being supplemented by an appendix
devoted to melodrama, monodrama, duodrama, chamber music,
drawring-room music, descriptive music, tone-painting, pro¬
gramme music, Schumann’s fancy pieces, and obsolete forms.
The book is full interest aud instruction, and will aid the
comprehension and enjoyment of all styles and schools.
The Primer of Plain Song, by the Rev. T. Helmore, treats
of the most ancient species of church music, the old notation
of which, and the several “modes” (plagal and authentic),
are explained, many musical illustrations being given, both in
the obsolete and the present notation, in addition to the large
amount of instructive matter comprised in the fifteen chap¬
ters of the work. Both the primers just referred to have the
advantage of a comprehensive index.
Mr. Curwen, the active and successful promoter of the
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notes, thus simplifying the elements of musical instruction,
especially in teaching class-singing. The speedy facility
obtained by the Tonic-Sol-Fa classes, as exemplified by many
public performances, is proof of the value of the system for
popular musical education.
The Primer on Fugue is by Mr. James Iliggs, who has con¬
densed a large amount of information in a moderate compass.
The author states that his Primer " is addressed to all who hear
or play fugues, as well as to students who desire to write
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which is still in course of extension.
The Lord Lieutenant, who left Dublin last week for a short
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his first Levee of the season.
Rear-Admiral Willes on Wednesday laid the foundation-
stone of a new dock at Devonport Dockyard. It is to be
386 ft. in length, thus being the largest dry dock in the world.
The approaching New Year is heralded by the timely pub¬
lication of Messrs. Kelly and Co.’s “Post-Office London
Directory,” making now its eightieth annual entry into our
populous metropolitan world of still increasing magnitude aud
variety of social conditions. The volume has continually
grown in bulk, till at last we have exactly 2500 pages filled by
its closely printed catalogue of streets and persons, without
reckoning 400 pages of advertisements; and it has been found
expedient to use new and smaller type for the “ Commercial”
portion of the Directory, with the old-faced figures, presenting
a neat and perspicuous effect. The topographical area included
in this Directory approaches in form that of an irregular
rectangle, extending from the western boundaries of Kensing¬
ton and Chelsea, to the eastern and south-eastern suburbs
adjoining Bow, Cubitt Town, Greenwich, and Blackheath, a
distance of nine miles and a half; and from Highbury and
Holloway in the north, to Kennington, Walworth, aud Dept¬
ford (inclusive) in South London, which is about six miles.
The map given with this volume is folded in such a manner
that any part of it can be referred to without unfolding the
whole, which was formerly in danger of being torn. It is
altogether most complete and convenient for its purpose, and
has been made as correct as possible to the present date.
CANADA: “ SURPHISE-PARTIES.”
The bare mention of a Canadian winter is apt to induce many
Englishmen to shrug their shoulders, as they picture to them¬
selves vast tracts of eternal snow and wretched wights afflicted
with blue noses and frozen ears, who cau barely keep the flame
of life alight, in spite of furs aud huge log-fires. But, instead
of lorcing people to hibernate like snakes and bears, a
Canadian winter is, of all the changing seasons of the year, the
most enjoyable; for the dry, exhilarating air acts on'the
animal spirits in an inverse ratio to the falling of the mercury.
Reads nowhere less than four feet deep iu snow, and the air
filled with myriads of flaky crystals—sometimes coming down
large and glittering, sailing hither and thither falteringly,
their floating career to earth undisturbed by Boreas; but
oftener hurled headlong iu their course in one continuous
blinding sheet of snow by rude blasts of the North Wind!
A long series of such days, with the mercury never above zero,
are believed by many Englishmen to constitute a Canadian
winter. Now, in justice to the climate of our northern
Dominion, it should be thoroughly understood that rarely is
there more than one day in the seven a stormy one, that
though very cold there is little wind, and that the prevailing
aspect of the heavens is a sky uuflecked by a single cloud.
There are days when, in addition to the thermometer regis¬
tering an unpleasant proximity to zero, there are biting winds
and blinding snowstorms. But these are few and far between.
It is almost an unfailing axiom that when the mercury falls to
zero there is neither snow nor wind; and it is this still,
translucent state of the atmosphere that makes the winters
of Canada, in spite of the intense cold, delightful in the
extreme.
Many are the times in the depth of winter, when the roads
are not only in perfect sleighing condition, but when the
atmosphere is really delicious, with just enough dash of oold
in it to raise one’s spirits and energies to the highest point,—
when the snow has been beaten down so that the horses throw
up but little snow-dust, and the sleighs glide along a hard,
smooth track, neither abounding in too much snow nor, on the
other hand, laying bare here and there patches of mother
earth. When the roads have been subjected to the necessary
amount of traffic to make them in the above state, and when
the weather is propitious, pleasure-sleighs, containing surprise-
parties, are to be seen, in all directions, gliding gaily aud
merrily along the beaten tracks on their way to friends whom
they are going to take by storm. In addition, a day is
generally chosen when there will be moonlight for their return ;
and, in the case of farmers, the moon generally lights them
away as well as home, for before they start they like to see
their cattle and horses comfortably “ fixed” for the night.
I know of nothing more enchanting than to be one of a
Burprise-party, on good roads and in good company, behind a
pair of mettled horsps, and with the moon casting her white
light on the whiter snow. There is a wonderful charm in a
moonlight sleigh-ride. The night luminary paints everything
not enveloped in the snow with most vivid distinctness. The
otherwise execrable zig-zag fences stand out, for once, iu
pleasing relief with their crystallised fretwork; and how
saliently she paints the dark green pines and firs !—those
genial giants that retain their dusky verdure when all else is
dead. The gallant steeds, too, and the bright-coloured robes
aud furs in the jaunty sleighs and cutters, make of them¬
selves a pretty picture as their swan-like outlines flit grace¬
fully aud noiselessly onwards. The moon lights up some
charming objects for the eye to dwell upon, but none more so
Ilian the faces of the women and girls who, though ensconced
in shawls and buffalo-robes, have the grrice to show the more
interesting parts of the facial contour; for there is a freshness
in Canadian women that, apart from mere beauty, is charac¬
teristic. Very charming is the cadence of their voices, and
very cheery, too, the chimes from the bells on the sleigh-shafta
and the jingle of the small silver ones strung around the
belted steeds. If these be spirited brutes the driver has to
keep a tight rein, for they enjoy the evening just as much as
their masters and mistresses, and, unless they be held in, are
apt to break away into a good round gallop, the state of the
roads rendering the effect of pulling scarcely perceptible.
On mild moonlight nights hundreds of pleasure-sleighs—
one-horse cutters, sleighs-and-pairs, and here and there a
four-in-hand—are to be seen gliding along the well-beaten
tracks; some of them out merely for the enjoyment of the
drive, the majority, however, with suspicious-looking hampers
and baskets protruding from among the buffalo-robes aud
bear-skins, that suggest longer entertainment than an hour’s
outing. These sleighs, freighted with healthful, pretty faces
and manly forms, such as few but British-sprung communitiea
cun produce, convey surprise-parties to many a wealthy oitizeu
and humbler tradesman, and farmer and country-squire.
British-sprung communities cling to the old names. Open-
1,ended to all comers, whether friends or simply bowing
si quaintances, Canadians, like all colonists, are eminently
her pitable, unfettered as they are by old-country conven¬
tionalities.
The evenings are generally spent in dancing, which is
much indulged in throughout the Dominion, especially in the
Lower Province—Canadian women, rich and poor, being very
graceful in their movements on the light fantastic toe. The
more elderly portion of these surprise-parties pass the time at
euchre, in discussing the political aspect of affairs, tha
prospects of the wheat crop, &c., according to their soveral
proclivities. Euchre is analogous to our whist, which it
entirely supersedes, and is a game the Canadians have learnt
from tlieir ’cute friends on the other side of the Lakes and the
St. Lawrence : it is played more quickly than whist, each hand
comprising only five cards. So general has it become through¬
out Cunada and the States, that when anyone has been
cheated, beaten in some bargain, or otherwise got the worst of
anything, he is said to be euchred. It often happens that
those to whom the surprise-parties are going are themselves
on a similar errand elsewhere, in which case the merry sleighers
waken up with the jingle of their bells the quietude of some
neighbouring habitation.
Although times are generally chosen when the roads are iu
good condition, there are, of course, in out-of-the-way parts
unbeaten tracks aud snow-drifts to be got through, aud then
an excitement ensues that does not always end pleasantly,
though upsets in the snow are not often serious, and are
looked for, except in the cities, as inevitable periodical occur¬
rences. The light compact horses rarely flinch at a snow-drift,
but pluekily push their way through, now plunging up to
their necks as they breast the white feathery waves, now
emerging into a shallower path, snorting out the snow that has
gathered about their nostrils, their flanks quivering from their
exertions and glistening with the flaky crystals that soon dis¬
solve on their warm glossy skins. If the snow be not too deep,
and the tops of the snake-fences on each side of the road be
visible, a driver with a steady hand and confidence in his
horses will generally take his party through these unbeaten
paths without a “ spill; ” but often the snow is too deep, or
too crusted, or the fence-tops, by which he steers, com¬
pletely hidden from view, and then a detour ia his only
choice.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Dec. It, 1878.—661
MAJOR-GENERAL F. S. ROBERTS, Y.C., C.B., COMMANDING THE FORCE8 IN THE KHOORUM PASS.
The victory won in the Peiwar Pass on Monday week by this
distinguished officer, in command of the British-Indian forces
proceeding through the Khoorum Valley into Afghanistan,
gives additional interest to our Engraving of his Portrait.
General Roberts, though in the prime of life, has brought the
experience of a twenty years’ service in the Quartermaster-
General’s Department, of which he is the actual head, to bear
on his new command. He has also served through many
campaigns. At the siege of Delhi he earned the Victoria Cross
for person^ gallantry in sabring a standard-bearer and cap¬
turing his flag. The various operations connected with the
relief of Lucknow and its subsequent .siege and capture saw
him acting as an Assistant Adjutant-General. For this cam¬
paign he received the brevet of Major, besides a medal and
three clasps, and was frequently mentioned in despatches. At
the Umbeyla Expedition in 1863 he was present, and was again
mentioned. He served throughout the Abyssinian war as
Quartermaster-General of the Bengal Brigade, and was given
a Lieutenant-Colonelcy for his meritorious services. As senior
Staff officer, he accompanied the Looshai Expedition of 1872, for
which he was rewarded with the Companionship of the Bath.
562
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
DEC. H, 1878
NOVELS.
Extraordinary would be the best word to choose, if it were
necessary to describe by a single epithet the story contained
in the three volumes entitled The Return of the Native , by
Thomas Hardy (Smith, Elder, and Co.); for, from the title to
the conclusion, it is assuredly out of the ordinary. The
characters are uncommon, the scenery is uncommon, the
dialogue is uncommon, the incidents are uncommon, the style
is uncommon, the diction is uncommon; and, though the
descriptions are uncommonly good, the movement is uncom¬
monly slow, the personages are uncommonly uninteresting,
the action is uncommonly poor, the conclusion is uncommonly
fiat. One scene especially may be mentioned, in which both
the power and the weakness of the author are exhibited
together and most strikingly. It is a scene of gambling with
dice. Two men, on “ a stagnant, warm, and misty night,” in
the open air, with a flat stone, for lack of table, between them,
and, with a lantern to give them light, recline upon the ground
and “shake their elbows,” until one of them has been
“cleaned out,” having lost a hundred spate guineas,
which, by-the-way, were not his own. The loser has
just shuffled off into the darkness, and the winner is just
shutting the lantern and preparing to take his departure, when
from behind a bush rises a “tall crimson form,” which
advances to the spot lately occupied by the loser of the spade
guineas, sits down in the vacant place, and challenges the
winner to continue the game. The red figure might pass for
Wephistopheles; and the whole situation is worthy of the
drama with which that character is most commonly associated.
The pair begin to play by the light of the lantern ; and, when
that is put out by the rush of a death’s head moth, they gather
a number of glowworms upon a leaf, and continue the game
by the aid of those living lamps. Around the gamblers, from
time to time, collect the wild heath-ponies, which gaze upon
the spectacle with wondering eyes. The former winner is now
the loser: Mepbistopheles, as was to be expected, pockets the
stakes. The whole scene is very original and very striking,
and therein the author shows his peculiar power; but the
description is cumbered with an excess of detail, and therein
the author shows his peculiar weakness. His story resolves
itself, for themost part, into an unconnected collection of studies,
minute studies, both of character and of natural objects,
with an intermixture of unnecessarily lengthened expositions
connected with certain rustic superstitions and rustic
customs. The studies are undoubtedly excellent, and, not¬
withstanding a curiously affected sort of language, are
admirably placed before the reader; but, so far as the interest
of the narrative is concerned, they have rather a wearying thau
a stimulating effect. Novel-readers, it may be safely asserted,
think more of their own gratification, which depends upon the
attractive qualities inherent iu the story itself, than of the
knowledge and talent exhibited by a writer in the treatment of
what is merely subordinate and accessory; and an author who
relies more upon the mere fringe of his story than upon - his
story itself for the exhibition of his powers, runs a risk of
obtaining less popularity than is awarded to his inferiors iu
intellectual gilts aud literary composition. People, in fact,
will not read novels for the sake of the quaintness and the
cleverness displayed in them; there must be some strong
scent, whether of romance or of reality, to follow from the
opening to the conclusion, and that scent, must not be allowed
to become so far lost that it can with difficulty be picked up
again. The hero of the story is the Mephistopheles above
mentioned. He is really a very good man, and is ulti¬
mately recompensed according to his deserts. He is a reddle-
man ; and as it is probable that ninety-nine persons
out of a hundred do not know what that means, they would
do well to turn to the novel for information. They will find
themselves very agreeably enlightened, both ou that subject
and on many other points, equally curious, concerning the
habits, manners, customs, and vocations of residents in out-of-
the-way country districts.
A dedication informs us that For Tcrcival , by Margaret
Veley (Smith, Elder, and Co), is a “first book; "and, so
regarded, it may be pronounced a very creditable performance.
It is fTec from all the most prominent faults characteristic of
lady-novelists, or the majority of lady-novelists, at any rate,
when they first rush into print with the intention of taking
popularity by storm. They, as a general rule, adopt a sensa¬
tional style, which almost necessitates the introduction of
vicious, immoral, and criminal characters; and, from sheer
ignorance and inexperience of anything but what is perfectly
unobjectionable, and from a vague fear of not displaying a
sufficiently intimate acquaintance with wickedness, they some¬
times invent personages, actions, and scenes which for pru¬
riency, shamelessness, and iniquity, surpass anything that
would enter into the heart of a man to conceive, or that, if it
did, he would dare to set down upon paper for the supposed
gratification of the public. They, moreover, as a genera!
rule, express their own and their creatures’ sentiments and
remarks in a sort of English wliich would hardly escape the
censure of a strict grammarian. In the present instance no
such characteristics are discernible; there is nothing sensa¬
tional in the style, nothing amiss with the grammar. One
might even go so far as to say that the style is a little tame,
and that the language, though correct enough, is not handled
with any rt markable effect, expressive, impressive, melodious,
or other, whether in description, or in narrative, or in
dialogue. Howbeit, the whole expanse of story is bespangled
here and there thougbout its length aud breadth with spark¬
ling little pieces of smartness, vivacity, archness, irony, aud
downright humour; there arc many pretty situations and bits of
life-like babble between gallant j’outh and lady gay, such as the
softer is better calculated than the harder sex to appreciate ;
and, above all. the tone, though somewhat sordid, if there be
anything sordid in a pervading spirit of Mammon, is in other
respects unexceptionable. The book, indeed, might be placed by
a judicious schoolmistress quite safely in thehanasof schoolgirls
and lor schoolgirls, one would say, rather than for grown menand
women, the story is calculated to have most attraction;— if
only schoolgirls had leisure enough : for it must be acknow¬
ledged that the novel requires a great deal of reading. It is,
indeed, overladen with unnecessary characters, unnecessary
descriptions, unnecessary observations, unnecessary dialogue.
Nor is that which is unnecessary enlivened or justified in every
instance or in many instances by that which is entertaining or
noteworthy. The plain truth is that the whole story might have
been compressed with advantage into about a third of tue space
which it has been made by expansion to occupy. The maiu pur¬
pose of the tale appears to be the glorification of a higli-mtnded
young man, whose Christian name is Percival, and whose
recommendations seem to consist chiefly iu an olive com¬
plexion, well-cut features and clothes, hands either white or
olive (according to the author’s fancy or memory at a particular
moment), and a certain nobility of moral character, exhibited
principally in the form of a strict regard for truth and a
sublime contempt for anything like deception. The worst of
such superior beings is that they sometimes overdo it to
such an extent that they are liAble to be mistaken for
pngs. And to tlmt. category many readers are likely to
consign the immaculate Percival. However, he is vastly
admired, though rather for his physical than for his moral
qualities, in the story; and the alacrity with which pretty girl
alter pretty girl assumes her brightest smiles “ for Percival ”
reminds one of the famous scene in which the devoted High¬
landers, in one of Scott’s novels, step forward to sacrifice
themselves “ for Hector.” Percival, be it noted, has a brother,
so like him and yet so unlike, that in a photograph or under
certain conditions of light and shade it is difficult to dis¬
tinguish one from the other. Hence the cardinal incident of
the story, which ends with the beatification of Percival at a
sacrifice greater, as many a reader will think, than was either
necessary or becoming. 11 must be confessed, however, that any
other solution of the difficult situation attained towards the
close of affairs would probably have been less effective aDd less
pathetic, though it might have met with more ready
acquiescence. _
THE MAGAZINES.
The most noticeable contribution to a scarcely average number
of the Comhi/l is another of Mr. Henry James’s graceful and
piquant social sketches. The point, as formerly, is the con¬
trast, not harsh or unfriendly, between American and European
manners and feelings, the parties on this occasion beiug two
young Englishmen of rank on th?ir travels in the Western
States and the female members of an American family of
position. The superior refinement of the latter in all essential
respects is brought out with delicate skill and with no trace of
exaggerated national feeling. Mr. Leslie Stephen’s essay on
Laudor is a fair exposition of the causes which prevent average
readers from enjoying this exceptional writer, all the more
entitled to attention as this distaste is evidently shared by Mr.
Stephen himself. His criticism is perfectly just as far as it
goes; but, while evincing remarkable keenness of perception
in the detection of Landor’s weak points, indicates a no less
marked incapacity to appreciate his strong ones, except the
massiveness and dignity of his style. Nothing is said of the
serene poetical wisdom which characterises him as a writer
above almost all his contemporaries, and contrasts so strangely
with his total want of self-control in actual life. “ For
Percival ” attains a satisfactory conclusion. The only other
paper of mark is an account of the three Burmese heroines,
who form the standard theme of the national drama, a
favourite amusement of the people. This pleasant sketch is
from the pen of Mr. St. Barbe, of the Indian Civil Service.
Macmillan, though varied, is not very interesting. The
most remarkable paper is Mr. E. B. Tylor’s curious notice of
the existence of backgammon among the Aztecs, another
touch of nature making the world kin. “ Haworth’s” aud
“ A Doubting Heart” both good, and there is a fine ring in
the veteran Professor Blackie's lines descriptive of “ My
Walk.” Mr. Crosskey’s defence of the Birmingham “ caucus”
system is spirited enough, but takes no account of the inevit¬
able degeneracy of all political associations in the second
generation. Mr. Laing-Meason’s sketch of our Indian army si
instructive but dry; aud Mr. Clarke’s notes on Afghanistan
are less interesting than we should have expected.
Blackwood has two contributions in its best manner in
totally different styles. One, “ The Cottage by the River,” is
an admirable specimen of the melodramatic tale—so telling,
though so obviously artificial—which has so repeatedly given a
distinctive character to the pages of this periodical. “ The
Fruit |and Vintage of Herefordshire” is an equally excellent
specimen of Blackwood's cheerful and withal scholarly manner,
mellow and genial as the subject. The first of a series of
papers on Journalism evinces good sense and good information.
French Home Life” concludes the present instalment with
a striking picture of the impending extinction of the country
gentiy as a political power, due, the friendly writer frankly
tells them, to their obstinate pride and folly.
Fraser again puts forth a poor number, where the good
articles are mostly too heavy. “ Public Works in Asiatic
Tuikey,” ar.d “Solvency and Revenues of India,” however,
though open to this charge, are well worth study. Among
lighter papers we have chiefly to note the concluding ones of
the two interesting series, “ Holidays in Eastern France ” and
“Among the Burmese,” and another of Vernon Lee’s ever
acceptable musical essays, the subject this time being the
eccentric novelist and musician Hoffmann.
The most important contributions to the Contemporary
Reticle are the communications from Germany aud Russia,
treating of “contemporary life and thought” in those
countries. The picture of the political confusion in Germany
is especially interesting, and is illustrated by a table showing
the comparative loss mid gain of Parliamentary parties within
the last eight years. Mr. iShaw Lefevre writes an interesting
history of the recovery of Eppiug Forest from encroachments,
which could hardly linve occurred in any country but this.
Professor Monier Williams sketches the tenets of the various
sects inlo which the Hindu worshippers of Vishnu are divided;
and Mr. Saycc insists on the claims of the Phceniciaus, rather
then the Egyptians, to be regarded as the founders of Greek
civilisation. In spite of Mr. Gladstone and Dr. Littledale, the
Abbe Martin is still as unable as Protestants in general to dis¬
cover “ What hinders Ritualists from becoming Roman
Catholics.”
By far the most important contribution to the Nineteenth
Century is Sir Henry Rawlinson’s temperate and able state¬
ment of the causes which have produced the “ Afghan Crisis.”
Another essay on Indian affairs, from the pen of Sir Erskine
Perry, is more remarkable for good sense than novelty. Sir
Erskine's warnings against hasty and premature inter¬
ference with Indian ideas and customs, are entitled to
much weight. In “Dogma, Reason, aud Morality,” the
author of “The New Republic” to all appearance
identifies himself with Roman Catholicism, although it would
be hazardous to affirm that he may not have left himself
u loophole yet. The matter, however, is hardly worth investi¬
gating. Mr. Newenhnm Uoare draws a flattering sketch of
the loftiness and spirituality of ancient Egyptian religion,
with peihnps too implicit a reliance on the accuracy
of the versions of hieroglyphic-til texts. Mr. Ralston
brings the vurious forms assumed by the legend of
“Beauty and the Beast” into one view; Mr. Ruskin
concludes liis “ Colours of Pre-Raphaelitism ” with a
touching allusion to failing strength even more impressive
than liis usual eloquence; and Sir 11. Tyler records iu incisive
language the hasty but probably not incorrect verdict of a
practical man ou South Anica, “ physically, politically, aud
commercially a country of peculiarities and anomalies.”
Another contribution oi high interest is Mr. Sclater's expo¬
sition of some of the as yet unsolved difficulties attaching to
the theory of the formation of species by derivation and
meditieation, to which he nevertheless continues to adhere.
Hie Fortnightly Review is less interesting than usual,
although M. de Laveleye’s review of Dr. Busch’s reminiscences
of Prince Bismarck will, no doubt, find many readers.. The
topie, however, is one on which every intelligent reader is as
well qualified to form a judgment us M. de Laveleye ; iu fact,
page of history that no collection of personal tSitAoielw
interesting in themselves, can do much to deepen the imnrl
sion already cmrent. Lord Carnarvon’s address on impSi
administration is amiable and high-minded, rather than™!?
gestive; and a reply to Mr. Hyndman’s impeachment of Inffifn
financial management, though containing valuable statist^,
bears too much of a semi-official character. The only ntW
paper of much interest is Mr. Wheeler’s narrative of the iX
Russian campaign in Asia. The astounding failures of th!
earlier part, and the no less astonishing success of the latter
are ascribed solely to merits and demerits of the commanders
who respectively directed the operations.
A brilliant campaign also forms the theme of the most
interesting contribution to the Atlantic Monthly, where Maior
Crowninshield describes the operations by which General
Sheridan expelled the Confederate troops from the Shenandoah
Valley in the autumn of 18G-1. The number is, as usual fun
of variety, os is Scribner's Monthly, where by far the’most
■remarkable article treats of the singular prehistoric dwelling
excavated in the cliffs, recently discovered in the State of
Colorado. The analogy to the Edomite remains at Petre is
striking. It is remarkable that the dead appear to have
been burned, instead of buried, as usual upon the American
continent. “ An Irish Heart ” is a pretty story, and “ Under¬
graduate Life at Oxford” is suggestive to English as well as
American readers.
Belgravia aud Temple Bar are particularly good this month
The latter loses an excellent serial by the conclusion of "The
First Violin,” the former gains what promises to prove one of
equal mark in Mr. Francillon’s new novel “ One by Oue."
The miscellaneous papers are excellent in both, especially “ An
Imperial Pardon,” “ Two Japanese Stories,” and "Theatrical
Makeshifts,” in Belgravia. The most remarkable contribution,
to the Gentleman's Magazine is a series of unpublished letters
containing some new particulars reluting to Dr. Johnson. The
University Magazine has an excellent portrait and fair
biography of Mr. W. Spottiswoode, a good paper on Margaret
Fuller, and an imaginative prose sketch entitled “ Laelia.”
We have also received Good Words, London Society, The
Month, The Churchman’s Monthly. Part 2 of Haydn’s
Dictionary of Dates, Part 2 of Josephus, Part 2 of Domestic
Medicine, Part 1 of Cassell’s History of India, Part 1 of Inter¬
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Popular Science Review, St. Nicholas, Part 9 of Our Native
Land, No. 36 of Men of Mark, Part 7 of The Cheveley
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Sylvia’s Home Journal, Milliner and Dressmaker; aud
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and Gardener’s Magazine.
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of days, and of decorated cards for the prettiest little gifts of
friendship or family affection at this season of anniversary
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inches long, wliich Messrs. De la Rue call “ Fingers; ” it
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SUPPLEMENT TO THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Dec. 11 , 1878.—5G5
THE LATE MB. ALFRED WIGAN.
THE LATE MR. ALFRED WIGAN-
The most faultlessly natural actor of refined social comedy on
the modem English stage retired from public view some years
ago. We had last weelc to announce the death of Mr. Alfred
Wigan, who was sixty-four, and whose first appearance was
forty years since. Middle-aged playgoers in London, if they
enjoy good taste, must cherish the recollection of those quiet
scenes of domestic interest they used to see presented at the
Olympic, from the winter of 1853 onward, when Mr. Alfred
Wigan showed in perfection the manners of an unaffected and
unpretending gentleman, French or English, without any
of the bounce and strut which some other comedians
have put on. We remember the first night of “ Still Waters
Run Deep,” a dramatic piece of considerable force, adapted
by Mr. Tom Taylor from the French story of “ Le Beau-
Fils,” and in which “John Mildmay” was performed by
this most intelligent actor with a truthful conception of the
individual character as well as of the social type. It was the
well-bred, self-controlled, upright, but cautious man of the
world, an honest diplomatist of private life, checkmating
roguery without the use of equivocal means. There were
several other congenial parts which Mr. Alfred Wigan seemed
to identifyjwith Ins own personality, by the perfect consistency
and, so to'speak, the sincerity of his representation ; these
were characters of sterling worth and profitable examples of
THE LATE MB. G. H. LEWES.
conduct. His more recent appearances in connection with
the St. James’s, the Queen’s, and the Gaiety Theatres were
mentioned in our obituary notice.
The Portrait is from a photograph by the London Stereo¬
scopic Company.
THE LATE MR. G. H. LEWES.
This accomplished man of letters, whose death was announced
last week, was in the sixty-second year of his age. He had
shown his versatile genius in many different branches of
authorship, as a novelist, dramatic poet, student of mental
philosophy, biographer, critic, and physiologist, besides holding
TIIE AFGHAN WAR : THE COMMANDER-IN-UHIEF, SIB FREDERICK HAINES, LEAVING UMBALLA FOB THE FRONT.
FKOM A SKETCH BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON HEWS
DEC. 14, 1878
miMM gfipi i
pir kmd • and he has scarcely added to the stock ot original
“ks itises puS“»43v“i
Elliott and Fry, of Baker-street.
ART.
INSTITUTE OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS.
SpaU-mauXt t aud nowhere, perhaps, can the tendencies of
our younger school be better studied, fhe Institute.owes much
to the circumstance that several artists m its ““wider ranee
in the Old Society, where the example of I redenck \V alker
Md Alfred Hunt, and possibly the praise of extreme finish by
Mr Ruskin, have too much influence. „ . .
'There was a time when Mr. Herkomer
the wake of the lamented young chief of the Old »°«ety,
but now he has at one bound broken through the bonds of all
precedent , thrown off the harness of his .own routine, an^d eveia
Dassed the limits which might seem to have been fixed by the
nature of water colour itself. We do not hesitate to Bay,that
, . . . nllt There is not so much a suppression ;
?*“ *X STSo? t bj U? L.S UworthT .or a I
their respective pamters, are?‘Arran Hills, from
Cantv“e°’Mi n A l£?iW«"C*t£ Land'-End*’ (283), and
(ill), * r Mr £ G Warren-a consider-
abTea?v“nc y eipon mJnwnt works. Nor must we omitto
WiMmMzsi.
the lifesize bust portrait here of a gentleman holding a skuU, shi
called “ A Phrenologist ” (273), though described as un- (b
finished,” and obviously so as regards the hand and eome minor of
details, is, for truth of modelling, power of coiour.andvigour th
of execution, one of the most masterly drawings of our day. to
And little less remarkable are the head 8t ^ ie8 ,., ° n th .®
same scale of an elderlv gentleman (145 and a lady (153). It co
^ be Cresting to'artists and amateurs at a distance to an
Sow that (unlike Mr. Herkomer’s former practice) m the in
painting of these heads-which rival the force 1* “
they retain the aerial brilliancy ef fresco— body-colour so
a. snarinclv if at all employed. The artist al>o sends a ai
very grandiose design in illustration of the XifMungm Lud- di
“Siegfried Capturing the Bear ” (236), in which the brawny m
legendary hero is but an accessary to the mightybolesof fa
(riant oaks and pines in a primeval forest. We are hardly w
satisfied, however, that the conventional treatment is fully u:
iustified by or fully subserves the imaginative impressiveness w
SSgStto be conveyed; but of the elevated etyleandtechmcal a
strength of the work there cannot be a doubt. Mr. E. O. si
SS^approachesverynear to Mi• Herkomer to two strdring n
studies of male heads, about half lifesize (228 and 245). I hey
are admirably drawn, thoroughly understood as ^^s Utfit a
and shade and extremely spirited in handlmg. A study ot a i
lady seated at a casement (320), by the same artist is almost y
illusive in lighting and beautiful in colour. Mr. W. Small, I
another vigorous painter, who has also discarded body-colour, 1
is well represented in a drawing of a pretty but thoroughly r
rustic lass spreading clothes to dry (51), a replica of hiB oil a
picture in the Dudley Gallery, and which, if the foliage in the
upper part equalled the lower half of the drawing, would
kave nothing to desire. Mr. Walter Wilson sends a i
large drawing (104) of a scene in a picturesque sea- t
side village with several figures, foremost among which (
is a sturdy fisher-girl casting looks that are witching and ,
“ baiting-hooks ’’ (as we are iniormed by a motto which sen es ]
as titlef though she is hardly a syren in face) on a young
fellow who is hoisting to her shoulder a basket of
This is broad in effect, and otherwise promising; but the warm (
tone of the sky so pervades the figures that they acquire a ,
certain transparent insubstantiality. More solid, while equally
characteristic and houest, is
Church, Island of XJrk, Zuydersee (65). Of the Dutch master
Israels there is a small but excellent mtample, thoughi the
subiectisof the tritest-“ Grace Before Meat (30 )—a fisher¬
man and his aged mother seated at their lowly board in
reverential attitude before the steaming bowl of potatoes that
constitutes their humble midday meal. 1 he rude and fumbling
execution and sombre tone seem at once to give more pointed
intensity to the exactly-hit expressions of pious thankfulness,
and to deepen the pathos of the artist’s constant theme of con¬
tentment with a hard lot. Yet we confess we begin to tire of
this eternal harping upon mournful minor chords—this chosen
niftier of trading in sorrow. If no gbmmer of hope or joy ever
reaches those poor Schevcningen people, it is auite certain
that the painter’s funereal tones are artificial. In this very
hut, with the sunlight visible through the window over the
door, there should be much more Hght reflected and refracted
about the room. , . ... ,_. ,_
In landscape also this exhibition is nch in broad, free,
manly work; and, curiously enough, the influence .of David
Cox is very perceptible here, though scarce y discernible in
the society of which he was a member. Mr. Collier s bold and
brilliant coast-scene, on “A June Morning (71), in which
one almost feels the bracing sea-breeze; the Waste Land
(257), by Mr. Wimperis, where the expression or the general¬
izing influence of wind by the oblique parallelism of the
strokes is only too Cox-like; Mr. Syer’s really noble drawing
of “ Anstey Cove, Torquay ” (266). with its tumbling waves,
and breeze on shore—quite free, by-the-way, tram the con¬
ventionality of the middle period of the artist s practice in
oil: Mr. Orroek’s views on the Lincolnshire coast (see espe¬
cially No. 187), in which, with steadily increasing success, he
sets himself the difficult task of rendering the delicate gra- |
dations of receding distance on a level country under grey
skies ; Mt. Beavis’s studies near Harwich (184) and “ Hasting,
(159), with their careful draughtsmanship and nicely dis¬
criminated tints and aerial perspective; Mr. Harry Johnson’s
“ Skirts of Dartmoor” (146), showing the superiority of
“study” direct “from nature” to studio elaboration; Mr.
F,. Hayes’s drawings of a brig in a fresh breeze off “ New-
haven Harbour” (v93); and, still better, the “Dutch Boats
becalmed off Amst.rdam” (223), with it* beautiful pale-
golden, yet pearly, effect—like a cool Cuyp; and several
architectural sketches by the veteran Louis Haghe— all
whose more or less mastery of that last lesson in art—
the best is one awamug • — ---- - ,
third new mfmber, the x£?cl!?3 5IamL»;
SSSSw " A?£!t5 Offering •• (154), in the ehape of . brrneh
SdSSfto en aged pricet, i» delightlulljr n.i.e and.weetdn
colour and feeliug. Not less meritorious is the sing:le> fig“®
’ (261) of a pretty damsel in white satin P^ c °f “JmTSJT
rose silk aaque of the last century absorbed in an old letter.
And Mr. Bale is not behindhand in dealing with character
witness “A Woman of Amalfi” (267), an Oriental type of
face which seems to recall the medieval connection of tlienow
half-Submerged city with the East. There is always a certain
un vulgar distinction in all that Mr. J. D. Linton doe ,
aUhoueh we may have to complain of black oyer-wrought
Ehadowt as in tok study of a ?ouug lady in ^ite reUev^
(like Mr. Bale’s figure) against a whitish wall. We find more
of the painter’s characteristic latent richness of colouring m
the study (314) for a picture of the magnates of a b ^ a F“ e ^ d
town dispatching a mounted messenger and heraid with a flag
of truce V Unlike several of Ins brother members, Mr. C. Green
continues to finish his drawings with the utmost precision
and minuteness; indeed, under the sustained and exhaust
tog labour of ^ mechanical stippling so minute, the wonder
is 6 the artist’s invention is not chilled, that he manages
so well to co-ordinate character, colour, light and shade,
and other essentials of a good picture. Of severall small
drawings here the most important is that of a lady and gentle-
man^seated “ Tete-it-Tete” (21), attired in the astounding
fashion of the Regency. Similar in mode of execution, but
with less perception of atmospheric influence (the fates be ug
uniformly rather too yellow), is a cleverly composed drawing
with many figures (197) by Mr. Townley Green - r ^ 8eu “ n ^
a company of seventeenth-century actors performing on a
stage improvised in an ton-yard, with the audience below and
to the surrounding galleries. .. .
Having already exceeded our limits, we must be content to
simply commend to the visitor the contributions of Messrs.
E. M. Ward, H. B. Roberts, O. G Kilburne J. Absolon J.
Aumonier, W. L. Thomas, C. Werner, W. M. May, J- and
E H. Fahey, J. Hardy. W. W’ild, and J. Tenmel, Miss Mary
E. Gow, and Mrs. Duffield. But even tlieee names do not
represent all that remains of interest to an exhibition much
l above the average of former years.
of the merits of the music and the performance, the opera ««
not often given, and, as already said, had been unheard tor
some years until Saturday last.
In the performance now commented on, the character of
Reiza was filled by Madame Pappenheim, who sang with gnat
effect in several instances, particularly in the great sceim,
“ Ocean, thou mighty monster," to which the singer produced
a special impression. In other instances, too, her declamation
was highly meritorious, among them having been the duet
with Sir Huon. in the second act (taken from “ Euryanthe").
I The music of Fatima was again assigned to Madame Trebelli,
who, as on former occasions, sang with great charm of
I voice and style; both her songs—” A lonely Arab maid,"
and “ Oh, Araby, dear Araby having been encored. Mias
Purdy and Mdlle. Bauermeister were, respectively, efficient
representatives of Puck and the Mermaid—the song of the
latter was taken much too slowly. Signor Gillundi, as
Sir Huon, sang under the disadvantage of a cold, which
somewhat interfered with his delivery of the scena, “ Oh! ’tii
a glorious sight,” In which, nevertheless, he produced a
favourable impression, and was much applauded. As Obeton,
Siguor Carrion sang with care, but was somewhat over¬
weighted with the scena to the third act (originally written for
Sir Huon, but replaced by the other tenor scena expressly
composed for Braham). Other parts were filled by Signor
Mendioroz (Sherasmin), Signor Manctoi (the Caliph), and
Signor Roveri (Babekan). Siguor Li Calsi conducted, as
usual “Oberon” was announced again for last Thursday
CONTINENTAL GALLERY.
At this gallery, in the Haymarket, a “ Winter Exhibition” is |
being held, which compri-.es examples of Clays, Munttoe, Pas¬
sim. Braith.Vibert, Irayer, Duverger, Bouguercuu, Israels.
Madruzo, Gussow, Roybet, Boldini, Gilardi, and the deceased
masters Troyon, Daubigny, and Diaz. But, besides these
painters (with whom the public has made acquaintance at the
French and other galleries), two other artists of extra¬
ordinary power arc represented who are unknown, or but
little known, to London. One of these is M. Charle-
mont, a young French painter, who was medaille
for his first work exhibited in the Salon last year.
His picture here represents a negro guarding the gate
of a harem, and the characterisation ot the ebony visage,
the treatment of the white drapery, and the elaboration ot the
weapons and other details surpass, in everything but colour,
the famous Moorish executioner of Henri Regnault. Ihe
other is the Spanish painter, Domingo, who in three pictures
directly challenges Meissonier on his own ground as regards
choice of subject, and scale; and, although the colouring is
less rich, although he is not free from the Spanish tendency to
blackness, he is equally searching and subtle, whilst the brio
of the handling is even greater.
Signor Roveri (Babekan). aiguor m c-aisi conducted, as
usual “Oberon” was announced again for last Thursday
evening and next Wednesday morning; the season ter-
minatiug on the following Saturday evening.
The week’s performances of English opera announced by
Mr. S. Hayes began at Covent-Garden Theatre on Saturday
last, the pieces given having been “Maritaua" (the second
and third acts) and “ The Waterman.” Madame Cave-Ashton
was the principal lady vocalist in each, Mr. Sims Reeves
having appeared as Tom Tug to the last-named piece. Euch
of his three songs was received with enthusiastic applause by a
demonstrative audience. Out of respect to the memory of the
late Mr Frederick Gye, the theatre was closed on Monday,
and for the following evening "The Beggars’ Opera” was
announced, with Mr. Reeves as Captain Macheath.
The first concert given by the South London Choral Asso¬
ciation at St. James’s H J1, yesterday (Friday) week, displayed
the excellent singing of the choir to great advantage,especially
in Ambroise Thomas’s characteristic chorus, “The Tyrol,’
Wilbye’s fine old madrigal, “ Sweet honey-sucking bees,"
and Knyvett’s glee, “The Bells of St. Michael’s Tower,” as
rewritten by Sir R. P. Stewart; other pieces having been
given with effect by the choristers. Vocal solos mostly
familiar to the public, were contributed by Miss Mary Davies,
Madame Patey, Mr. E. Lloyd, and Mr. May brick, and Mr.
Brinley Richards played a brilliant pianoforte piece with great
Buccesa. Mr. L. C. Venables conducted ably.
The benefit and farewell performance of Madame Rose
Hersce, previous to her departure for Australia, took place on
Saturday last at the Alexandra Palace in " La bonuambula.
The Saturday evening concerts at St. James’s Hall are
continuing their successful career, last week’s prog.amme
having been of the same popular and varied kind a# <m dm
preceding occasions. Madame Moutigny-Remaury contributed
some brilliant pianoforte boIos, and Mr. Reynolds played some
effective pieces on the cornet.
Mr. John Boosey’s London Ballad Concerts are nuuntainiug
their long-established reputation for the attractive and ethcieut
, nature of the performances. , .
The third concert of the eighth season of the Royol Albert
Hall Choral Society took place on 1 huraday evening, when tb«
L performance consisted of .Mendelssohn a Hymn of Praise
r ( 4 * Lobgesang”) and Itoasini’a “Stabat Mater.
1 Favourable accounts are received of Miss Helen Hopeknk.
1 a young lady of Edinburgh, who has just timsheUatwo-)^
course at the Leipzig Conservator,urn of Music^md bMheen
very successful in one of the GewandhausOwMiAmdks
plaved Chopin’s Concerto in F minor, and the Larghctto tro
b Ileuselt’s concerto. She was recalled after «»ch piec«-
. Hopekirk studied under Mr. Liechtenstein, of Edinburg .
HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE.
The specialty of last week was the performance of “ Oberon”
on Saturday, after an interval of eight years.
Weber’s final stage work, composed lor Covent-Garden
Theatre, and produced there in 1826, has received compara¬
tively few performances, notwithstanding the charm and
imaginative beauty of the music, and the poetic grace of the
libretto supplied by Mr. Planche (the subject taken from
Wieland’s poem). In its original shape, it wus rather a drama
with music than an opera according to the proper significance
of the term, the company engaged at the theatre at the time
when Mr. Charles Kemble gave Weber the commission for the
work having comprised but few voealists, the chief having
been Miss l’aton, who represented Reiza, Mr Braham, who
was the Sir Huon, and Madame Vestris the Fatima. When
the work was revived at her Majesty’s Theatre in un Italian
version (in 1860), the dramatic portion was revised by Mr.
Blanche, who has himself explained the necessity for excising
a quantity of "dialogue written for the purpose of making
part* lor actors who could not ring, and supplying the
deficiencies of singers who could not act.” Recitatives were
also added by Sir (then Mr.) Julius Benedict (Weber’s pupil),
who likewise introduced pieces from the composer’s “ Eury-
antbe,” in order to strengthen the musical interest. The per¬
formances ot “OOerou” to the year just named, and sub¬
sequently, includnd the special feat ure of the flue declamatory
singing of ModameTitiens as Reiza. and, to the earlier instances,
of Madame Alboni as Fatima, this ludv having been afterwards
efficiently replaced by Madame TrebeUi. In spite, however,
THEATRES.
On Monday the tragedy of “Hamlet” wMI^^Druiy
Lane to give Mr. Bandmann an opportunity ol m
melancholy Prince. A numerous audien^wremb^^
recognition of his merits as an actor. Many talents, awi
present, os well as many admirers of the' ^luctorv.
the reception accorded to him throughout fc.fc.re
He was frequeutly-rather too frequently n "“‘^ el)UllU4 i
the curtain, and other demonstrations, us ^ ( 1 ln < ; ttnn h J uuull
occasions, were liberally accorded. Mr. lU1 d now
improved since we last saw him in the^ chamc^. “» hij
pronounces English with considerable facility- ^
previous violent action has been mod, j™ \ , a ^ ,anl to
subtle passages of the dialogue are 8 lve ° u yp iiTpluttd
precision which is a great improvement. Mu»wau»
Ophelia with considerable elegance, aud d “' K . disturtwn^
especially to the fourth act, radicating th « of
of the poor victim of the destiny Tbe
others, with artistic skill and much t iea t merit
general cast was not a great one , but. 8U “^“ hout . The
secured to render the performance ghttangpo
applause at its conclusion was demonstrative. au d
P At the Vaudeville Mr. D. Mackay,
treasurer, took his benefit this morning, Mr. Byron
of “Our Boys” being the attraction. 0 f “Mr*.
Mr. Arthur Sketchley gives his ^ Re to'»
Brown,” forming a portion of Mraud M • H iter-
enteriatomeut at St. George s > . ;, Encbaatn.eut,
noon. A “Musical Fairyauza, ^ , f lt tb e ^tilery u- 11
written by Arthur Law, will be 1 P r ® d i , ."^L„M retains «•< c
Monday evening. “ A Tremendous MwW n d sketch
in the programme, and Mr. Coruey Gram has
in preparation for the Christmas holidays-
M, J. D. Allcrjft. £S0 ° W “‘ d ‘
tolling a free library at \\ orcester. . for
Last month fifty-five vessel, tffth^
foivigu parts, having on b “ a ^ 3 3 ^, 8h P uyi rareigi'e^-
2078 weie English, 32 Scotch, »>J > g rht B hip» w
231 whose nationalities were kno m
British North America, conveying 386 g Hty 0 f fresh
There was a perceptible increase m compft r.d *i Ih
meat landed at Liverpool hist ’h showed »cm*
recent period*, while tne arrivals of lire> « f h u „ri
riderable debase. AU tbe steamen, «a^>.ug ^ ,5
caroaseTof muTto^nnd
DEC. 14, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
567
ART-BOOKS.
Tho Christmas publishing season brings forth, as usual, its new
works on art and illustrated books. It is expedient to clear up
arrears by revie win g some works of this class which have remained
unnoticed on our table. Among those that have been longest
on hand is A Brief History of the Painters of All Schools. By
Louis Viardot and Other Writers. Illustrated (Sampson Low,
Mars ton, and Co.). This “brief” history, forms a portly
octavo volume of 467 pages of small type. The illustrations,
engraved on wood, between forty and fifty in number, are
generally well selected and well executed. They are for the
most part derived from M. Charles Blanc’s “ Ilistoire des
Peintres de toutes les Ecoles,” but that does not militate
against their usefulness; we could only have wished to have
had more of them. The bulk of the work—the “ Introduc¬
tions to the Foreign Schools,” and the criticisms on the works
of the great masters—is from the rather high-flown but not
indiscriminate text of M. Louis Viardot in “ Les Merveilles de
la Peinture.” But as this portion of the present volume had
already been published in England in divisions comprising the
great schools, it need not be reviewed anew. Additional bio¬
graphical details relating to the old masters are, however,
supplied, together with short memoirs of many minor artists
not mentioned by M. Viardot. There is also a section on the
Eng ish School, and some information on the American
painters from Tuckerman’s “ Book of the Artists.” A work
of the kind under notice, containing a compendious history
of painting from its infancy in pre-historic and classic times
down to the present day, with competent criticism of the
leading schools and masters, has long been needed by the
general reader; and that want is fairly supplied in this brief
history, the editor and compiler of which has evidently rend
up for his part of the performance with diligence. There are,
however, sundry errors and misconceptions regarding techni¬
calities which render the work less eligible to place in the
hands of the young student. For instance, the actual invention
of the Van Eycks, i.e., an oleo-resinous vehicle, is clearly
not understood, as may be seen by reference to Sir Charles
Eastlake’s “ Material for a History of Oil Painting.” The
medium of the old tempera painters is wrongly described to
have consisted of the white, instead of (usually and princi¬
pally) the yolk, of egg ; and much uncertainty may be caused
by confounding the process of tempera with common dis¬
temper. Still more extraordinary is it to find fresco spoken of
as synonymous with distemper. After mentioning Leonardo
da Viuci's “ Last Supper” as a fresco, we are informed that
“ it is thought ” he “ did not paint this wonderful composition
in fresco— that is to say, in distemper, on and in a damp wall,
but in oil.” Here, besides the technical blunder, there is an
historical mis-statement, for it is perfectly well known from
internal evidence, if there were not written historical evidence
to prove, that Leonardo painted his great work in oil. Some
of the memoirs are curiously meagre. What (for a single
example) shall we say of a notice of Giotto that contains no
menti >n of his works in the Arena Chapel, Padua, and speaks
of his “ series of pictures called the ‘ Life and Death of San
Francesco d’Assissi,’ ” not as existing par excellence at Assissi,
but “dispersed over the whole of ItalyP” With all our
reverence for Giotto, we can but smile, also, when we are told
that “he carried draperies to a perfection which remains
unsurpassed.” We have not been at the pains to ascertain
how many of these and numerous similar errors, or if any of
them, are chargeable to M. Viardot. But it was, probably, a
wise discretion on the part of the French writer to omit from
the enumeration of Guido’s works the reputed portrait of
Beatrice Cenci in the Barberini Palace, Borne. Strange to
Bay, however, an illustration of the picture is given, though
there is no reference to it in the text. We feel called
upon, therefore, to remark that the picture cannot have been
painted by Guido, for it has been ascertained that he was
away from Rome at the time of the Cenci’s execution. The
story of his having caught a glimpse of the pitiful face
as she turned her head on the way to the scaffold conse¬
quently falls to the ground. The reader is doubtless familiar
with the portrait to which we refer- that of a young girl in
white turban and scarf, with her head thrown back and aside
over her shoulder. At every turn in Romo one sees repro¬
ductions in all forms of the contorted head, till one fancies
one has a “ crick ” in the neck: at every hotel one hears the
flock of English and Americans in ecstacies over its imaginary
pathos and beauty. As for the Cenci herself, documentary
evidence has lately been discovered and published in Italy
proving that she was far fnm being the spotless, girlish
heroine of popular tradition and Shelley’s drama Instead of
sixteen, she was six-and-twenty at the time of her execution.
Her will made provision for a daughter. Never perhaps in the
history of art has a picture been invested with so much
adventitious and supposititious interest as the portrait which
forms the one great attraction of the small Barberini collection.
How it came to be accepted as a work of Guido is a mystery,
for it has little resemblance to any one of his three manners.
Had it not been viewed through a halo of romance it would, if
noticed at all, have been regarded merely as the rather com¬
mon-place production of an unknown third-rate painter, just
redeemed from inauity by a touch of deprecatory expression.
A translation, under Mrs. Bury Pallisers editorship, of
Albert Jacqueinart's standard “ Histoire du Mobilier,” which
Messrs. Chapman and Hall have published under the only
available but scarcely equivalent English title, A History of
Furniture , with all the exceedingly admirable illustrations ou
wood of the original edition, over 160 in number by the
author’s son, M. Jules Jacquemart, the eminent engraver and
etcher, comes at an opportune moment, now that we are
beginning to apply true principles of taste to the decoration
of our home interiors, and a passion for “bibelots” of all
kinds is spreading so rapidly amongst almost all classes. Nor
shall we appreciate this book less highly when we remember
that both the learned author and the accomplished English
editor are now no more. “ The History of Furniture fills—
and very satisfactorily fills-a positive vacuum in our art-
literature. The word “ furniture,” though it may upon occa-
sim be made verv elastic, scarcely explains the wide scope of
this work The French “mobilier” is more comprehensive,
including, as it does, movables of all descriptions—” every¬
thing ” in the words of our author, “ that is movable, trans¬
portable, and easy to place in security.” Yet even this defini¬
tion will scarcely suggest the immense variety of objects
d. scribed classified, and treated of historically and critically
by M. Jacquemart. Not only have we furniture in the strict
sense of the word, or ornamental goods aud chattels of all
dates aud styles, but we also have tapestries, embroidery,
hangings of various tissues, stamped leather and painted
papers, objects derived from sculptural art, including marbles,
bronzes, ivories, wood carvings, terra-cottas, &c., and miscel¬
laneous objects of ornamental art, such as clocks and orna¬
mental bronzes, arms, and works in the baser metals, gold¬
smith’s work, jewellery, snuff-boxes, gems, enamels, glass,
ceramics, lacquer, wrought leather, &c. The most incomplete
part of the present work is that relating to ceramics; but this
deficiency is more than supplied by the author s “ Histoire de
la Porcelaine,” “ Les Merveilles de la Ceramique,” and, above
all, by his “ Histoire de la Ceramique.” And the same field is
well occupied by Marryatt and other English writers. M. Albert
Jacquemart was probably the most careful annotator of sale-
catalogues of our time, and the fruits of this practice will be
found in the lists of artists aud art-workmen in the several
departments. M. Jacquemart was not, however, a mere com¬
piler. He turned the experience of his long life to account by
dealing scientifically with principles and styles; and his
critical observations are always deserving of respectful con¬
sideration. We must not put down this book without express¬
ing our warmest admiration for the illustrations by M. J ules
Jacquemart—himself, like his father, a distinguished collector.
It is really astonishing with what directness and certainty this
artist seizes on the essential character of each object, and
renders it with unhesitating vigour or the utmost deiicacy, as
may be required; and not only is the draughtsmanship of
the forms faultless, but the very diversified textures and the
effects of light thereon are caught with wonderfully suggestive
fidelity.
It is pleasant to turn, if a little wearied with the mass of
rather dry facts in the last-named volume, to the lively
Causeries sur F Art et la Curiosite, of the well-known art-
savant and collector, M. Edmond Bonnaffe, published by A.
Quantin, Paris. A kind of Chauvinism characteristic of our
not too modest neighbours, lends additional piquancy to these
gossipping yet curiously learned strictures on art and art-
industry in ancient, mediaeval, and modern times; on the
position, past and present, of the artist and art-workman—or
of the latter simply, as M. Bonnaffe will have it, for of old
the artist was merged in the artificer—and on the delights
and perils, the utility and dignity, of the collector's mission.
It is charming to read with what ingenious naivety our author
attempts to show how little the French Renaissance owed to
the Italian ; aud, on the contrary, how much the Italians are
indebted to the French—as in the building of Milan Cathedral!
We English are a little “perfide,” as usual: M. Bonnaffe is
too polite to say so much, but that is the inference. For the
French have “ le genie inventif; ” they start an invention,
but leave it for a caprice, a new fashion, a revolution ; when
straightway the English hasten to gather and appropriate it;
they leave nothing to chance; they adopt it, they raise it, they
cause it to grow tranquilly, silently, and when the work is
achieved to the applause of the world, the French are all
astonished at not having known how to do as much. “ On 1 ’a
dit depuis longtemps, le Fran^ais invente, 1’Anglais per-
fectionne. Du Sommerard invente le Music des Arts JDicoratifs,
et l’Angleterre fonde Kensington.” Several of the chapters,
J iarticularly that on “ Le Commerce de la Curiosite,” contain a
arge number of interesting facts relating to collectors, from
classic and medireval writers.
A pleasing novelty and originality of subject and style will
probably recommend, to many of this season’s book-buyers,
the attractive volume called Child-Life in Japan. It is a col¬
lection of Japanese child-stories, by Mrs. M. Chaplin-Ayrton
(publishers, Messrs. Griffith and Farran). Its external cover¬
ing, black with scarlet and gold symbolic ornamentation,
promises something quaintly characteristic, of which its
diverting pages yield us plenty, the queerest drawings and the
most fanciful humorous or pathetic tales. There are seven full-
page engravings by Japanese artists, and some thirty smaller
pictures, which are often very droll. The book is dedicated to
a little English girl, bom in Japan, who is called “ Ojosama”
by her affectionate nurse, and who was lately sent from that
country to a grandmother in England. It is a good idea that
these Japanese nursery stories should serve to keep alive in
the child's heart the tender memories of her earliest
infancy. Mrs. Chaplin - Ayrton has a loving sympathy
with children all over the world, and a lively sense
of whatever is most likely to please them. She has,
moreover, a genuine talent for narrative, and for the
accompanying graphic delineation. The graceful-grotesque,
which is a delightful combination of qualities in literature and
in art, seems to be her peculiar domain. We do not know
where to find more charming samples of this piquant mixture,
than in the pleasant new book she has put before us. Looking
at any one of the pictures it contains, we see no ugliness, but
a wild and wayward oddity, in the figures, attitudes, and
grouping. There is a general defiance of perspective, and
everything is off its balance, as in the pictures that sometimes
arise to the mind while dreaming. But such is the proper
elementary condition, as we take it, of true burlesque art.
Nowhere is a hideous or repulsive form presented to view; the
lines are those of grace, but they make a whimsical caricature
of the subjects represented. We might refer to certain artistic
packs of playing-cards for an instance of what is here meant
to be commended, where the funny King and Queen and Knave
of each suit are really pretty figures, but preposterous as
human portraits. The Japanese stories, which Mrs. Chaplin-
Ayrton has partly invented and partly collected, with some
assistance from Mr. Basil Chamberlain as translator, are de¬
cidedly interesting. They are preceded by an engaging account
of the favourite sports and pastimes of Japanese juvenility,
illustrated by the seven page engravings. These represent the
“ Kangura,” in which we see two children, one with a
terrific boar’s head mask trying to frighten the other ; a brisk
snow-balling combat; a couple of young musicians, with
drum and fife; others spinning their tops, playing with puppy-
dogs, walking on stilts, and fondling the least sensitive of pets,
a tortoise, like that English child to whom Sydney Smith once
said, “ You might as well pat the dome of St. Paul’s, to please
the Dean and Chapter.” These examples are followed by a
description of the print-shop where pictures are to be bought
for a scrap-book ; a dialogue between little Y’oshsan and his
sister Kika (which name signifies a chrysanthemum) upon the
festive enjoyments of O’Shogwat, or New-Year s Day; the
same little boy’s happy visit to the Chrysanthemum Show,
under the care of a kind grandmamma; and the series of
native Japanese legends. We like that of the two babes who
were left by their parents in a junk at the river’s bank, and
how they fared when the vessel drifted out to sea; and the
more wonderful story of Fish-save, a child so named
because he was safely carried by a fish from the shore
of China, where his deserted mother had cast him on
the waves, to the abode of his father in Japan. The 'virtues of
filial piety and family duty are specially commended by the
patient heroism of a boy, who thawed the winter ice with the
heat of his prostrate naked body, that he might catch fish for
the dinner of his unkind stepmother; by the exemplary con¬
duct of the girls of Echigo, and the “ Par.-ley Queen,” and the
two daughters of Okada, who exposed themselves to be shot
for storks by an infatuated sire, in order to cure him of his
sinful practice of killing harmless creatures. The story of
Uranai is a convincing proof of the marvellous gift of “second
sight,” which has been an article of popular traditional
belief in many other countries. An essay, by Professor
Griffis, on the various kinds of games played by the
Japanese, completes this interesting book, whuh is a
most acceptable contribution to our better acquaintance with
that clever and amiable nation of the Fur East. We
may be pt rmitted to add one word concerning Mrs. Chaplin-
Ayrton personally, as her diplomas and degrees of professional
education appear on the titlepage. She is a lady whose husband
some years ago was appointed by the Japanese Government to
superintend the scientific studies of electricity and the con¬
struction and working of telegraphs at the Mikado’s capital,
where she has been residing with him. But she lia3 also pur¬
sued, both at Edinburgh and in Paris, the most complete course
of instruction in surgery and medicine that is open to female
students in Europe; and we believe that her practice among
both Japanese and European ladies has been attended with
good success. Her lectures, in the Japanese language, to a
class of native young women, were very well attended; and
she gained much influence amongst them.
THE TRAINING-SHIP SHAFTESBURY.
The School Board for London has added to the other training-
ships on the Thames, of which there are now seven, this one
stationed at Grays, on the Essex shore, near the Exmouth, the
training-ship of the Metropolitan Asylum Board. The
Shaftesbury was the steam-ship Nubia, purchased by the
School Board from the Peninsular and Oriental Company for
£7500. Having been fitted up, she began to receive boys, under
the Industrial Schools Act, on Sept. 8 last, since which date
seventy-five boys have been entered. Her decks and cabins
have an air of roominess and a height not to be found in any
other training-ship. She is about 3000 tons burden, length
over all 330 ft., beam 39 ft., and a march of eight times round
her upper deck is about a mile. On this deck a large quantity
of water is kept, which is pumped up every day from the larger
quantity kept in tanks in the hold. Fifty tons are thus
raised to a level, from which supplies are drawn all over the
the ship for cooking, cleansing, or extinguishing fire in case
of need. On this deck, also, inclosed in an iron house, are
the “Alpha” gas machines. The ship is beautifully and
economically lighted by gas made from gasoline. Gas pipes
are laid all over the ship ; the keys of the main are kept under
lock, and everything is so well under control that in less than
a minute every drop of oil is started overboard. The captain’s
quarters are on the school or main deck; adjoining these are
the board-room, rooms and lavatories for the committee, office,
and library. The schoolroom, 80 ft. long and 8£ft. high, is
well lighted by twenty-two fine windows of a single pane each.
It is airy and well ventilated. In the centre of the deck, upon
a platform slightly raised, Btand a piano and harmonium, so
that music and singing are not forgotten. Next to the school¬
room are two class rooms, 30 ft. by 15 ft., which can be thrown
into one by tricing up the partitions on bulkheads. Then
comes the tailor’s shop, where the boys are clothed, and taught
to mend their own clothes. The lavatory is a large room, well
lighted, warmed, and ventilated. The boys have a bath
every morning in a small galvanised iron bath, and then
a plunge into a large one, 16 ft. by 12 ft., and 5 ft. deep.
This can be warmed in winter by hot water. The mess
or lower deck comprises, aft, the officers' mess-room and
cabins, and the mess-deck for boys, 110ft. long, fitted up with
tables and stools, mess kettles, and other utensils. There are
fourteen boys in each mess, and, when the ship is full, as many
as four hundred boys can sit down to meals at once. Ou the
fore part of this deck are more officers’ cabins, carpenter's
shop, band instrument room, and the cooking galley or ship’s
kitchen. Here the arrangements are very complete, with a
cool larder and store-room for bread. The sleeping or orlop
deck is 200 ft. long, with officers’ cabins at each end. Here
three hundred boys can sleep; but iron bedsteads, not
hammocks, are used; these are constructed of gal¬
vanised gas piping, and are very cheap. It is intended
that fifty of the elder boys shall sleep in hammock? on
another deck. The supervision of the boys is excellent,
three officers keep watch in turn every night, and lights are
burning all night under lock and key, so that they cannot be
tampered with. The ventilation is ample. The capacious
hold of the ship is divided by four watertight bulkheads. In
the after compartment are the stern moorings, three store¬
rooms, water-tanks, store and provision rooms again. In
the next compartment are the band - room, drying - rooms,
boiler-room, in which the boiler heats the water for
warming the ship by a siries of three-inch pipes fixed
round each deck; and coal-hold, in which are stowed eighty
tons of coal and coke—a year’s supply. In the third compart¬
ment is another series of water-tanks; and in the foremost
compartment are the bow moorings. For stability, the hold
is covered with about 700 tons of concrete, which gives it a
clean and wholesome appearance. For extinguishing fire,
besides the taps all over the ship and lire exterminators, there
are three powerful Downton pumps. The Shaftesbury carries
twelve boats, aud there is a tender attached to her in the
shape of the barque Swift, a useful little vessel of 150 tons,
in which during the summer months the boys take a
weekly sail to the Nore and back, and thus learn in
a practical way the art of navigation. The Board have
secured a field of six acres close by, so that an infirmary-
can be erected and a swimming-bath constructed. In this
field the bovs are also drilled, and it is used as a playground.
The Shaftesbury, with her tender, has beeu fitted up iu a most
efficient and economical manner, and much is due to the expe¬
rience and practical knowledge of Mr. Thomas Scrutton, the
chairman of the Industrial Schools Committee. Tim super¬
intendent of this training-ship is Captain William Scrivcn,
late R.N., who was selected by the committee out of fifty can¬
didates for this important position. He has a liberal staff of
twenty-four officers, including schoolmasters and seamen-
instructors. _
A meeting of the Royal Geographical Society was held on
Monday evening, at which the president, Lord Dufferin, took
the chair for the first time since his return from Canada.
Papers on the Swedish and Dutch Arctic Expeditious were
read by Mr. Clements Markham; and Sir Leopold MeClintook,
Captain Feilden, Admiral Hammond, aud Sir Allen loung
took part in the discussion which ensued.
The Bishop of Rochester presided on the 16th inst. at the
distribution of prizes at St. Saviour’s Grammar School, South-
* he examiners was satisfactory. Ihe
by the presentation of a testimonial to
W. H. Ruston, and by the announce-
ad conferred an honorary canonry in
the Head Master, the Rev. E. Boger.
wark. The report of t
proceedings were varied
the second master, Mr.
ment that the Bishop h:
Rochester Cathedral on
he Duke of Northumberland, president of the institution,
the chair at a meeting of the Royal National Life-Boat
tution at its house, John-street, Adelphi, on the 5th inst.,
l the services performed by the life-boats of the institution
nr the month of November were reported, and rewards
rating to £550 were ordered to be paid to life-boat crews,
ms sums were also granted to the crews of shore-boats
aving life from wrecks on our courts. Payments to the
mt of £2400 were made on life-boat establishments. The
pt of various contributions and legacies was announced,
life-boats were ordered to be placed at four different
ous. Reports were read from the four inspectors of life-
□ the institution on recent visits to the coasts.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Dec. 14, 1878.— 568
“ CALEDONIA,” AND “ OUR
VILLAGE.”
Among the new books of mingled
artistic and literary attractiveness,
proffered to this year's Christmas pur¬
chaser, Mr. Nimmo of Edinburgh
has published a volume entitled
“ Caledonia,” which contains selec¬
tions from the descriptive poetry of Sir
Walter Scott, Robert Bums, and Allan
Ramsay, with Illustrations drawn by
Mr. John MacWhirter, and engraved
on wood by Mr. R. Paterson. They
present thirty-five notable scenes of
landscape sublimity and beauty, in¬
cluding several views of nobly-seated
towns, castles, and sacred edifices, in
that glorious North British “land of
brown heath and shaggy wood, land
of the mountain and the flood,”
which is the pride and delight
of this United Kingdom, and of
our common British nationality. For
we have no idea, here as Englishmen,
of allowing the Scotchmen to have
Scotland all to themselves, since the
fond and enthusiastic admiration of
true lovers of Nature, in her most
romantic aspects, has claimed and won
for us an equal inheritance of patriotic
attachment to the wildly varied scenery
and heart-stirring associations of local
history or legendary adventure, which
greet the tourist at every day’s journey
from Tweedside to the Pentland Firth.
In the present time, less than in the
past, could weafford to spare this portion
of our national patrimony of cherished
interest in places inalienably rendered
our own by the earliest studies mad
entertainments of youthful imagination,
and probably visited in after years with
the familiar ity of home rambles, not as
the intrusive traveller in foreign
lands. As Mr. Goldwin Smith truly
remarks, in his recent essay on “ The
Greatness of England,” we feel that in
this age, more than ever, “ the Scottish
Highlands, the mountains of Cumber¬
land and Westmoreland, and of Wales,
Devonshire, and Cornwall, are the
asylum of natural beauty, of poetry,
and of hearts that seek repose from the
din and turmoil of commercial life.”
Enough has been said to justify our
ready appreciation of the subjects pre¬
sented in “Caledonia;” and the ex¬
tracts from Bums and Scott, if not
those from Ramsay, will have been
often perused before, with a still re¬
newed and strengthened perception of
their vivid truthfulness, by the majority
of cultivated readers. The engravings,
one of which is borrowed by permis¬
sion for the adornment of our own
page, are finely designed and executed;
but this is sufficiently attested by the
example here produced, with no other
commentary needful than what the
poet has supplied: —
TANTALLON CASTLE, PROM “CALEDONIA,” ILLUSTRATED.
innuuion « dizzy (teep
Hung o’er the margin of tie deep.
Many a rude tower and rampartth-p
Repelled the insult of the air
S&x
The far-projecting battlement;
Tic billows burst, in ceaseless flow
Lpon the precipice below,
fne steepy rock, and frantic tide
Approach of human step denied
And thus these lines, and rampart.
Were left in deepest solitude. ie '
It was above half a century ago that
Mary Russell Mitford, fromhi XS
rural cottage near Reading, charmed *
great many readers with the engaging
sketches of English country life/wb
lectively known as “ Our Village-
The charm has not yet lost m of
its potency nor is it likely to abate
while yet a nook remains, where
English mind and manners can be
found;” while ; the grass is green £
our meadows, the spring flowera appear
m yearly blossom, on the hedge-rowste
every sequestered lane, and the merrv
song of thrush or blackbird ia loud in
every copse or cluster of leafy elms
These sights and Bounds of rural
England, with the familiar habits and
ordinary manner of life among the
common folk of agricultural distneta-
their ways of thinking and speak¬
ing their fixed social degrees and
kindly mutual relations, with the old-
fashioned proverbial fidelity of their
attachments to place and pensons-
were formerly considered an abiding
pledge of modest happiness, to be
enjoyed in peaceful retirement from
the bustle of towns. One used to
look forward then to the opportunity
of making for oneself, possibly, a home
in the country, after some thirty or
forty yaarsof competitive jangling and
huckstering in mercantile or profes-
sional business, or of servitude in a
public or private office. Everybody
has grown wiser now, it is to be sup¬
posed ; and few or none can be any
longer deluded with the imaginary
contents of unpretending rusticity in
this age of universal Mammon-worship;
yet we may still return, with a tigh
of gentle regret, to the contempla¬
tion of tranquil and simple ways
of living, and to the scenes and
characters of “ Our Village,” which
delighted us in early youth, before
we had seen the world. A beautiful
volume, just published by Messrs.
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and
Rivington, among the illustrated boob
of this season, is filled with select de¬
scriptive passages from Miss Mitford’s
ever bright and acceptable series of
mixed writings upon this congenial
theme. They are accompanied by a
great number and variety of fine wood
engravings, some of full-page sire, but
the majority of them vignettes inserted
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Dec. 14, 1878.—569
in the text, or head-pieces or tail¬
pieces of the chapters, which have
been drawn mostly by two artists,
Mr. C. 0. Murray and Mr. W.
H. J. Boot, the former generally
taking the figure-subjects, the latter
doing the bits of landscapes or trees
and flowers. The engraver is Mr.
James D. Cooper; and the quality of
this work may be seen in a good
example which we are permitted to set
before our own readers, being an Illus¬
tration of the admiring remark, “ How
boldly that superb ash-tree, with its
fine silver bark, rises from the bank ! ”
The season, we are told, is that of
the latter part of April, but “sad
wintry weather, with a north-east
wind, and a sun that puts out one’s
eyes without affording the slightest
warmth.” Notwithstanding this aus¬
terity of the backward spring-time,
Miss Mitford, like a cheerful, healthy-
minded, sensible woman as she was,
set out that morning, with her favourite
Italian greyhound, Mayflower, for a
walk to the neighbouring coppice,
where Bhe noticed the beauty of this
noble ash ; and here comes Mr. Boot,
the artist of the present Illustration,
who follows in her steps, a long while
afterwards, to the same identical wood¬
land comer; and his pencil, as we see,
lias been very skilfully employed to
finish the picture that was traced by a
line from her pen, at least fifty-five
years ago. The original edition of
“ Our Village ’’ bears the date of 1824.
We are glad to have this one, enriched
and adorned with such an abundance
of beautiful engravings.
THE
TAPESTRY EXHIBITION
AT WINDSOR.
The art of weaving tapestry, which in
mediaeval times was more important
than painting itself, and which, since
the Renaissance, has been among all
the arts only second to painting
through the productions of Arras
(whence the name long given to tapes¬
try) and Brussels, Gobelins, and
Beauvais, and several Italian towns,
has for a long time past not thriven
in England. It took root for a
while in Warwickshire in the days
of Cardinal Wolsey; at Mortlake
under the Stuarts, and subsequently
in Ireland, and at Soho ; but it
never continued to flourish; and in
the recent great revival of all the arts
SILVER-BARK ASH, FROM “OUR VILLAGE,” ILLUSTRATED.
of interior and household embellish¬
ment in this country it has been the
last to receive attention. TheTapestry
Manufactory which was founded at
Windsor about two years back, under
Royal patronage, and which has been
ably directed by Mr. H. Henry, bids
fair, however, to remove this reproach,
judging from the excellence of its
products now forming the principal
attraction of an exhibition in tneTown-
hall of the Royal borough. The chief
specimens here displayed are those
which were recently on view at the
Paris Exhibition. The collection in¬
cludes eight large panels representing
scenes from the “ Merry Wives of
Windsor,” the designs being by Mr.
T. W. Hay. They formed the dining¬
room decoration in the Prince of
Wales’s pavilion at Paris, and received
a gold medal. They are the property
of Sir A. Sassoon, K.C.S.I., by whom
they have been lent for the present
exhibition. There is also a series of
panels of tapestry representing hunt¬
ing scenes, designed by Mr. E. M.
Ward, R.A., for Mr. Christopher
Sykes, M.P., and a number of smaller
productions. Among the other speci¬
mens is a large panel representing the
Siege of Londonderry. It was formerly
a panel in the old Irish House of
Lords, afterwards the Bank of Ire¬
land, at Dublin. It has just been
restored at Old Windsor. It is said
to have been the work originally of
Huguenot refugees. The exhibition
includes a series of eight panels in
applique work on gold ground, part of
tne decoration of the morning-room in
the Prince of Wales’s panlion. This
was executed by the Ladies’ Work
Society, of which Princess Louise is the
president. There are also a number of
valuable pictures.
Dr. Schliemann has resumed his
excavations at Mount Hissorlik, in
search for the buried Troy, with cha¬
racteristic energy ; but his labours are
now suspended till spring, on account
of the severity of the winters in the
district. The fresh excavations are
made on the site of the King’s house,
as the learned doctor calls the large
mansion to the north-west and west
of the great gate, and principally among
the wood ashes, ten feet deep, the
remains, as he believes, of the burnt
Troy—the third downwards of the four
pre-historic cities which he also con¬
cludes have occupied the site. On
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at Trov is a dagger of steel four inches long. Homer speaks
3 J rare and valuable; how much more so must it Bar
nit have been, asks the doctor, centuries before the poet a Hoi
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SJuSteSSt or JEgean, though, doubtless, they were once ma
plentiful. P But it has been suggested that the shell-asli were M
nf the kinds which yield dyes, such as the dye which rendered roa
tV« eSoT,r Aothe/suggestion is i tt. M. W by
have been collected for the purpose of being burnt tomake of
lime. Our Number for Nov. 30 contained an Engraving of ^
Africans burning shells for lime.
OBITUARY.
the earl of northesk.
The Right Hon. William Hopctown Carnegie, g«bth EaHof
_ and lnglismaldic, in tho
c— -J*T. yy U Peerage of Scotland, died on
the 5th inst., at his seat,
yrf 1 ^sf-ol Longwood, Winchester. His
^ £^SrM*Ar»it»?7l0| 4 Lordship was bom Oct. 16, _
3 U *9 1 [■JiTrOv 1794, the eldest son to sur- ”
r jfyrt? &&!'; vive of the distinguished
T ^ lif, I f Admiral, third in command
Vfc _ at Trafalgar, William,
£ EL /js, seventh Earl of N.rtheak,
''fisCA'G.C.B., at whose decease,
Slav 28 1831, he succeeded to the peerage. His mother
wmf Marv only daughter of William Henry Ricketts, Esq,
of L^nSiod, Hants, and niece of Earl St. Vincent, the great
naval commander. Lord Northesk whose decease we record
married Feb. 14, 1843, Georgiaiia Maria, eldest, daughU-r of
the late Admiral the Hon. Sir George Eliot, K.C.B^, which
lady died in 1874. and leaves an only son, George John, Lord
Rosehill, now Earl of Northesk.
CHIEF JU8TICE MONAHAN.
The Right Hon. James Henry Monahan, P.C., LL.D. ei-CTiilef
Justice*of the Court of Common Fleas, Ireland, and one of
the Commissioners of National Education, died 011 the 8th
W at** 5 Fit zwilliam- square, Dublin. This distinguished
Uwyer bom at Portumm? in the county of Galway. 1805 was
educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where, after a brilliant
colit giate course, lie became gold medallist. In 1828 he was
SLS to the Irish Bar, in 1840 obtniued a silk gown, in 1846
was appointed Solicitor- General for Ireland, in 1847 _Attorney-
General and in 1850 succeeded Dohert y as Lord Chief Ju^ice
of the Court of Common Fleas. In that high judicial office,
which he held until 1876, he displayed the greatest 1. gal know-
ledge and ability, as well as indomitable flrmnt^s and un¬
swerving honesty. In social life he was universally Moved.
For a short period in 1847 he sat in Parliament for the town of
Galway. Chief Justice Monahan leaves two sons, James, Q.C.,
and Henry, and four daughters. j
MR. DUNBAR. M P.
John Dunbar, Esq., M.P. for New Hose died on the 4th inst
at 19 Russel I-road, Kensington, aged fifty-two. He was the
son ot the late Joseph Dunbar, Keq., of Cork; received Ins
early°education at (Lgowes-wood College, and afterwards
graduated M.A at Trinity College, Dublin. For some tune
he was on the Parliaim-utry start of the Daily Newt. In 1849
he was called to the Irish and ill 1854 to the English Bar,
joined the Home Circuit, and afterwards practised most suc-
w ssfully in Bombay, where he acquired a considerable fortune.
He was elected M.P. for New Ross in 1874.
PROFESSOR SMYTH. M P.
Professor Richard Smyth, D.D., M P. for the county of Lon¬
donderry, died at Belfast 011 the 4th inst, aged fifty. He wus
second son of Hugh Smyth, Esq., of Bushmills ; wus formerly
a minister in the Irish Presbyterian Church; was Moderator
of the General Assembly, 1869 and 1810; and at the time of
his demise was Professor of Theology in Magee College,
Londonderry. He sat in Parliament for the county of London¬
derry • and recently, in the House of Commons and elsewhere,
was 'a most zealous advocate of temperance measures, par¬
ticularly the Sunday-closing movement for Ireland.
MAJOR WHYTE-MELVILLE.
George John Whyte-Melville, Esq., the distinguished writer
whose death fr m an accident in the hunting-field occurred
on the oth inst., was the only son of John Whyte-Melville,
Esa of Bennochy and Strathkinness, in the county of life,
by the Lady Catherine Anne Sarah Osborne, his wife, youngest
daughter of Francis Oodolphin, fifth Duke of Leeds He was
born July 19, 1*21; married, Aug. 7, 1847, the Hon. Charlotte
Haubury, second daughter of William, first Lord Bateman,
and leaves au only daughter, Horence Charlotte, ,wife of
Viscount Massereeue and Ferrard. Major Whyte-Melville s
numerous novels have attained great popularity and are re¬
markable ior great versatility of style. Major Whyte-
Melville was also a ripe classical scholar, and published a
translation of the Odes of Horace.
MR. GYE.
Mr- Frederick Gye (whose death, from a gun accident, was
recorded last week) was in his sixty-ninth year, and had been
nearly thirty years director of the Royal Italian Opera, the
periormances at which, under his able and liberal adminis¬
tration, had assumed an importance, and a scenic and stage
splendour, hitherto unapproached. Under his management
many of the greatest operatic works were produced, Bnd muuy
of the most eminent singers brought forward, among these
having been Mesdames Bosio, Adelina Patti, Lucca, and
Albani. It was also ut the Royal Italian Opera-House (Covent
Garden Theatre) that Grid aud Mario obtained some of their
greatest triumphs. The late Mr Gye was not only a skilful
operatic administrator, but was also an intelligent and
amiable gentleman, and was respected aud esteemed alike
in his business transactions and social relations. The
management of the Royal Italian Opera will be carried on by |
his sons. _.
The deaths have also been announced of-
Charlotte Maria, Lady Eliott, wife ,0 Sir W Uliam F. A.
Eliott, Bart., of Stobs, Roxburghshire, F.R.S.
Captain John Elliot Bingham, R.N^at Hurst Wood Lodge,
«*- - *-
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of Hospitals and Fleets, on the retired list, aged Sixty.
Claude Hunter, R.N.. eldest sou of Sir 0. S. Haul Hunter*
Bart, of Mortimer Hill, Reading, on the 3rd inst - ., at the Naval
Hospital, Malta, aged twenty-four.
Edward Royd Rice, Esq., on the 2tth ult.,atbisseat.Dane
Pmirt Kont in his eighty-ninth year. Ihis gentleman, a J. .
and D L. for Kent, and its High Sheriff in 1830, was 7
Captain East Kent Yeomanry Cavalry, and sat in 1 arliament
for Dover from 1837 to 1857. ,.
Mr. John Done Harris, of Ratcliffe HaU, He.ceetershire a
magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for that county and late
M P for Leicester Mr. Harris was born in 1809 ; and in 1831
married^heeWest daughter of G. Shirley, Esq of«*
by whom he had au only daughter, now Lady fealt * th *
of Sir W H. Salt, Bart, of Maplewdl, Loughborough, eldest
son of the late Sir Titus Salt, of Saltaire.
(The nnusnsl demand upon mir In this compel. uU>
L'orrtBl'DnUouU for a week.) —
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CHE8S INTELLIGENCE.
A match between the Bel*i*e and South Hampstead Cheas Cluhs wna
played last week and resulud in a r.tiier hollow victo.y for the former,
fti* eouth Hampaiead Club has been established very recently, and it may
be assumed that, wiih a larger experience of match play, the members will
rend, r a better account of themsoivca tliim is shown by a scote of one game
out of ap'ssibleten.
On Saturday last the Wednesbury Cliesg Club engaged m a match with
the Church of England Association of Stourbridge. There were eleven
iilayera on each si.ie, ami in sll thirty-on.- games were played at the sitting,
of which 8louibndge scored sixteen and Wedneabuiy fifteen.
Mr. W T Pierre, the well-known compiler of problems, now contributes
a weekly elicsa article to the Brighton Hrtnld.
The Leeds Corporation will now buy the manorial rights of
Hunslet Moor, the voting of the ratepayers having resulted in
favour of that course.
The council of the Social Science Association has accepted
an in vi* at ion lrom the Mayor aud Corporation of Manchester
to hold the next congress in that city.
A new asylum, built at Darenth, under the direction of
the Metropolitan Asylums’ Board, was opened last Saturday
for the reception of 500 imbecile children. At the same time
the foundation-stone of au asylum for adult imbeciles was
laid by Dr. Brewer, the chairman of the board.
The formal registration of the deaths through the wreck of
the Priucess Alice took place last Saturday, under the direction
of the Registrar-General. The known aggregate loss, as
uearly as has been ascertained, is 00U persons. It is believed
that eighty bodies are still missing.
A meeting of the finance committee in connection with the
Mansion House Fund for the holding in London next year of
a great Agricultural Exhibition was held in the Venetian
Parlour on Monday afternoon. The Lord Mayor presided. The
fund amounts to £7700, of which £4138 has been received. Of
I this amount £4000 has been already voted in prizes.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated June 26,1873) of the Right Hon. Sir Lionel
William John Manners, Earl of Dysart, late of Buckminster,
Leicestershire, who died on Sept. 23 last at No. 34, Norfolk-
street, Strand, was proved on the 6th inst. by the Hon.
Frederick James Tollcmache aud the lion. Algernon Gray
Tollcmache, the brothers, and the Right Hon. Charles Douglas
Richard, Baron Sudeley, the executors, the personal estate being
sworn under £1,700,000. The testator devises all his real
estate to his executors for twenty-one years upon trust to
receive the rents and apply them at their absolute discretion
in discharge of the debts of his late son, Lord Huutingtower,
and for the support and benefit of all his said son’s children,
whether legitimate or reputed, and for other persons who may¬
be interested under the entail therein created; and, subject
thereto, the testator devises all his said estates to the use of his
grandson, the Hon. William John Manners, commonly called
Lord Huntingto wer, for life, with remainder to his first and other
sons successively, according to their respective seniorities in
tail male; the testator’s copyhold and leasehold estates are
given in the same manner. The furniture and effects at
Buckminster and Ham House, Petersham, are to be enjoyed
by the person entitled to the possession of the said mansions.
To his niece and daughter-in-law Catharine, Lady Hunting-
tower, he bequeaths £1500 per annum for life, or until she
ahull marry again; to his granddaughters, the Hon. Agnes Mary
Manners Tollemache andthe Hon. Agatha MannersToliemache,
£200 000 each; to his said brothers, Frederick Janies Tolle-
mache and Algernon Gray Tollemache, £200,000 upon trust, to
divide the same at their discretion amongst certain branches of
his family; to his executors such sum as will yield a clear
annual income of £500, to be distributed by them for the benefit
of such deserving persons, whether formerly in his service
or not, or for any charituble object, as they may see fit; to his
executors, for their trouble, £10,000 each; to his son Alfred
Manners, £10,000 ; to his servants William Pick and Caroline
Pick legacies of £250 each, and annuities of £104 each for life.
The residue of the personalty is to be laid out in the purchase
of freehold property, to be held upon the same uses as those
declared of his real estate.
The will (dated Feb. 17, 1877) of Sir Frederick Martin
Williams, Bart, M.P., late of Goonoroa, near Truro, Cornwall,
■who died on Sept. 3 last, at Wrafton, near Barnstaple, was
proved in London, on the 7th ult., by Dame Mary Christian
Williams, the widow, the sole executrix, the personal estate
being sworn under £160,000. The testator gives, devises, and
bequeaths all his real and personal estate whatsoever and
wheresoever to his wife, her heirs, executors, administrators,
and assigns, absolutely. '
The will (dated Aug. 8, 1871) of Mr. Frederick Nathaniel
Micklethwait, late of No. 3, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square,
and of Favershiim Hall, Norfolk, who died ou Oct. 18 last, was
proved on the 19th ult. by Felix Pryor aud William Blacknmu
Young, the executors, the personal estate being sworn under
£70.000. The testator leaves legacies to his brothers and
sisters, executors, servants, and others, and the residue of the
personalty to his sister, airs. Maria Diana Charlotte Drake.
All his real estate he gives to his brother, Sotherton Nathaniel
Micklethwait.
The will (dated Sept. 21, 1878) of Mrs. Steuari; Amelia
Dunsmure, late of Pittville-crescent-roud, South Norwood
Park, who died on Oct. 19 last, was proved on the 20th ult. by
James Boursiquot Tenneut, the sole executor, the persouil
estate being sworn under £30,000. The testatrix leaves £50
to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic,
Queen*s-square, Bloomsbury ; special bequests to her three
grandsons, and numerous other legacies. Ihe residue of her
property she gives to her daughter, Mrs. Tennt-nt.
The will (dated May 29, 1876) of Mr. Charles Gordon, lute
of Wiscombe Park, Southleigh, Devon, who died on June 18
last, has been proved at the Exeter district registry- by
Richard Marker, the acting executor, the personal estate being
sworn under U4.0U0. Ihe te^ta'ur bequeaths such sum.not
exceeding £400, as, with the balance of certain moneys left by
his sister, will suffice for the efficient restoration of bouthleigh
l0 * church. __
, The Manchester Guardian is informed that the lafe Mr.
‘ Frederick Thomas MothersiU, of Woodsidc, Bowden, who wus
a partner in the firm of Messrs. W illiam MothersiU aud
. it Fall- mall, has bequeathed £22,0 00 to local institutions.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
Epypt. Cyprus, amt Asiatic Tmk- y. By J. 1*™ Farier.
btlu.-naml -. it. Mountains anil Valley.; ..escribed by Moldemar K»den.
r „ r . Wun 418 Illustrations. Bickers and Son. . .. and
T«k-«t Iwfpik^lnn; TbeDivineTrauly;
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The Martyr of Qlencree. By Robert Somew. a >o.s i -
The Baby « bouquet. A fresh bunch of old rhyme, and turn* arruBg*
The Prince of Nureery PI y
O Ronney
Elementary Mechanic. By W. ^‘(‘“^s^^voU fLow-ud O'
William Cobbett. A Biography. By E_ toMh K .0., fce. B J
The Public Lite of the U.Bht HonMhe Earl«.®** < | T ne,B ’
Krai,cis H.tclimun. 2 vote (Chapman and Hah I d D H*f
Memoir ot the Kev. Francfc, H.-dpo.., B.D., Scoter, ro.^ a.,.
(With Liters fiom Lord Byrou and otlu-rs.) UT ais
James T Hodgson. M.A. a , v ols jMaaniUan and Oo.^
Routb-dire’s Every Girl’s Annual. Edited by Alwxui A. Lean
TaWrnm ( ^Ta^Uo^°“^uUcdE« and Son* 1
Illustrations. (RuuUedge and Sons ) By Mary Emdy
The House of Achendaroch An Old Maid s Btory. J
Caincruu. (Samuel Tutelar aud Co j , „ ,
Walter Forbes. By A A bamuel rinaleyJUld^ 1 )d piamenK.
Picciola. By X. B Sointine. With ten steel plates by taopo
(KmiUedge and Sons) . . La pi at a A Novel- By
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Henng. (RouUedge and Sons.) .^ T
From the Religioua Tnict Sowety. |( TeJC heth
Father’s Motto: or, Tho Cloud with SibjrlbJrth.,, ,
with a Silver Lining. Oiild’s Companion and Juvenile
Chapters on Everyday Things. Th» ^W ,
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10.000 Christmas Presents.
PARKINS and GOTTO, 25. Oxford-street. W.
C H
at HENRY RODRIGUES , S2, Piccadilly, London.
Sets for the Boudoir and Writing Table, 21s. to £10.
Envelope Cases .. 10«. to £fi | Dressing Cases .. 21s. to £.50
Inkstands .. fin. to £51 Jewel Cases .. ..21s. to ill
P-qiut.h Boxes .. 21s. to £8 | Work-Byixes .. I0a.«d.to £2
Bags,.Candlesticks. (
a. Flower Vases. Jar-
PODRIGUES’ DRESSING BAGS for
it Travelling, with silver, silver-gilt, and dated fittings,
from £3 3a. to £50; SoulUet Bags, Waist Bags, Cartlage Bags, und
Bags of all kinds, at very moderate prices.—12. Piccadilly,
VISITING CARDS at H. RODRIGUES’.
v A Card-Plate elegantly engraved and 100 superfine Cards
printed for is. tkl. BallTrograrames. Bills of Faro. Guest Cards
PORTRAIT ALBUMS at RODRIGUES’,
X with Patent Leather Guards. Is. 6d. to £fi. Easel Albums
Scrap All.ums, Presentation and Regimental Albums
Albums of every description made to order.—42. PiccadlUy.
vrONOGRAMS. — RODRIGUES’ NoveltieF
lYL Id Monogram*. Crp^t*. amt Addresses. »?rel i»i«* eu
graved na gema. Note Paper and Envelope* Illuminated Id
iroM, silver, bronze, and colour*. (Jolonred»*tjtmi)iiii, r . is. per 100.
All the New and Fashionable Note Papers.—12. Piccadilly.
A ALL PROGRAMMES at RODRIGUES’.
) All the New Patterns of the Season, arranged, printed, anil
amped in the latest fashion. Bills of Fare Guest Cards, and
lvitations in every variety.—12, Piccadilly. London.
II
ERMAN ROTHE’S CHRISTMAS,
NEW-YEAR, and Bl RT1IDAY CARDS. New and Artistic
ns 131 v. SI.), with Original Verses. To be hud of all good
tellers^ and Stationers. - U. ROTHE, 11. King-street,
_ __ _4 Flowers, Figures. Birds, and Land¬
scapes, tr im 1,. sheet: 12 assorted, 10s. fid.
WM BARNARD, 119. Edgwure-road, London.
C
HRISTMAS PRESENTS.
The best Collection
in London.
ASSER and SIIERWIN. 80 and 81. Strand.
HRISTMAS PRESENTS.
New Illustrated Price-List, fuU of Novelties,
from Is. to £5, post-free.
ASSER and SHERWIN, 80 and 81, Strand.
HRISTMAS GAMES.
The most acceptable Present at this season
is one of ASSER and SHERWIN'S
New Guinea CABINETS of GAMES. Sent,
securely packed in a case, on receipt of P.O.
ASSER and SHERWIN, 80 and 81. Strand.
HRISTMAS TOYS.
ASSE11 and SHERWIN have received from
till- Continental markets the best collection of
TOYS for Children of all ages to be seen in
London. Price-Lists free.
ASSER and SHERWIN. 80 and 81, Strand, W.C.
CHRISTM4B PRESENTS AND NEW-YEAR'S GIFTS.
M il. STREETER desires to inform
Intending Pnrehasersthnt lie has now on VIEW a Choice
"1 Noveltii sin JEWELLERY. ARTICLES of VEIpPU,
CLGChh,*c., recently purchased by him at the Paris Exhi-
T)ENSON’S WATCHES. Watch and
J 7 ! 'Jock Maker to the Queen and Itaj al Family, and by special
appointment to the Prince of Wale, and Empa-or if Russia.
Old Bond-Street and (steam Factory) Ludgatf-hiU, London.
T)ENSON’S WATCHES of every description,
_ Buit-nljl© firr all climnt^a, from £2 tn ’juo guineas. Uhn.no-
erHuhji. Ghronoineters, K<vlea», Levers, Presentation. Roreat* r.«,
itrenS?i (,uarJfl • Workmenis Watches of extrtf*
■DENSON’S EARLY ENGLISH and
, 7 ^UKKN ANNE CLOCKS. In Ebony and other w-»-ds,
decorated wltji Blue China. Art-Tile., pointing*. Ac. Noveltv!
Artistic Engll-h Clock*, specially designed to harmonise ha-iih
furniture hoc-- rated with Wedgwood. Faience, and other wares.
Made solely by Benson. £5 5s. to £150.
■DENSON’S PAMPHLETS on TURRET
,, ULOCKS.Watche*. Clocks. Plate, and Jwvellerr, Illus¬
trated rent post-free, each for two stamps. Watches sent safe
by post. Benson * new work, •• Time and Time Tellers." 2s. Bd.
\\T ATCIIES.—Three Gold Medals awarded.
. ’ ’ London-made Ke.Uess Holf-Chronimietars, llo- ing-
Watches. Rmeau-re. Ac.-CHARLES FUODSHAM and CO.,
Makers to tho Queen, only at 84, Strand. London.
T\T a LKER’S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHE8
▼ Y are superset] ing all others. Prize Medals-London, 1»J2,
Paris, 18*7. Silver Watrhes, from £* 4s.; Gold, from £fl «s. Price-
Lists sent tree.—77, Corah ill; 220. Regent-street; and 76, Strand.
-PIO. BENNETT’S WATCHES.
forR ttONot*, free and safe per nogt, one ol
BKNNLTT 8 LADY'S GOLD WATCHES, perfect for^ time,
t^anty. and workmanship, with keyless action, air-tight, damp-
tight, and dust-tight.—tfr». Clirnnsifle. London. Gold Chains at
manufacturers'prices. P.O.O. to John Bennett.
BENNETT. 65 and 64. Cheapslde.
/CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. — ELEGrVNT
SPECIALITIES.
rVROIDE GOLD WATCHES, 21s., 25s.,
Y, 3«s ; free by registered post fid. extra. Facsimile of costly
gold watches: exact tlme-kwpera. Lockets, 3s. fid. to 12s. (id.
0. C. ROWE. 88. Brompton-road, London,S.W.
rvROIDE GOLD ALBERT CHAINS,
Vc* manufactured In Hie venr highest degree of finish, and in
standard gold designs, not alTccied by timo and wear, 10s. fid.
each, poet-free. Fancy patterns, 5s.. 7i. fid., safe ur* free per
post. Po»t-ofhce Order, Exhibition-Road. Opinions of the Press
and Price-List free.
'C. 0. ROWE. 88, Brompton-road. London, S.W.
AYEMORIAL BRASSES, CROSSES, and
INSCRIPTION PLATES. De igned and Engraved by E.
MATTHEWS and SONS. No. 377.'Oiford-,treet, London, w!
Exhibitors 1851.1>«2. Prize Medal. Philadelphia. 1876. E.lah-
lirhcd 1810. Nonrg.—The Memorial Bras* Lfligy of the lam
l ari - f Lonsnale In uniform of his regiment, tho 1st Lite
Guards, f-.r fixing in Low thee Cliu ch, may now Is- -cell in the r
sii^w-Rooms at tlie above address, ujion presentation of privule
pHRISTMAS DECORATIONS for
CHURCHES.—COX »nd SONS' ILLUSTR iTEl) CATA¬
LOGUE. with 400 Designs of Text*. Banners. Devices, 3d., post-
free. The Art of Garnishing Churches, coloured plates, Is 4il.,
post-free.—Cox and Sons' Ecclesiastical Warehouse, 2j, South-
ainpton-street, Strand, Ixmdon,
T S THEOBALD and CO.’S NOVELTIES.
’ 7 • MAGIC LANTERN, euinpli-te with 31 langiiuble plc-
tures.^vwy best make. 7a. fid.; larger sizes. 10s. lid., 15*., and 21s.
C ’lTJxES OF CONJURING TRICKS, containing a varied
assortment of the best and newest t’rick*. Prices. 2s. 10d., 5a..
IDs. Gd., and 21s., with full Instruction*.
MAGNIFICENT LOCOMOTIVE | STEAM - ENGINE.—All
furnace, crunplete, 10s. fid. Ditto in sollS^brass aiuf cepper.’very
magnificent, l«s.
CHRISTMAS CARDS.—Thirteen Elegant Gold and Tinted
Cards, with Christmas and New-Year's Greetings, post-tree,
‘GRAND ILLUSTRATED CHRISTMAS CATALOGCE.-2no
Engravings. Post-free, 1 stamp. Novelties of every description
for Christmas Plntcrtulnmonta provided for Evening 1’arties.
J. S. THEOBALD and COMPANY,
20, Church-street, Kensington. London, W.
■VTEEDLES, FISH-HOOKS, and
ll FISHING-TACKLE.
TWO GOLD MEDALS—PARIS, 1878,
for tho superiority ->f their quality, awarded to
W. BARTLEET and SONS, Redditch.
pAUTION.—BOND’S CRYSTAL PALACE
GOLD MEDAL MARKING INK.—Some Chemist* and
Stationers, for extra profit, deceive y-ni. Genuine 1-nl.el,
•' Pn-pnred by the Daughter of the late John Bond.”—Works, 75,
Somligate-road. London. No iicatiugrequired.
roiIN GOSNELL and CO.’S VIOLET
O and MILLEFLEUB POWDER, for theToilet and Nursery.
Universally admired for its purity and freernuec Sold by al!
Chemista and Perfumers. Wholesale. 93. Uppor Thames-street
\r ALU ABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR.
V If your hair la turning grey, or whip , or lulling off, use
"The Mexican Hair Renewer?' for it will positively reetore in
-very ca,e Grey or Wblte Hair to its original colour, without
leaving the dl-agrvenhle smell of most "Restorers.'' It maker
the hair charmingly 'oeautiful, as well romoting the growth
of the hair on bald spots where the glands are riot decayed. Ask
"prepared by HENRY C?GALLUP^423?Oxford-strect!’L<'ndon.
T7L0RILINE. For the Teeth and Breath.
-L is the best Liquid Dentifrice in the World; it thoroughly
cleanses partially-decayed teeth from all parasites or living
■■ antinalculie," leaving them pearly white, imparting a delight¬
ful fragrance to the breath. Price 2s. fid. per Bottle. The
Fragrant Fl-rillne rem -ves instantly all odours an ing from a
foul stomach or tobacco smoke, being partly composed of bone*
soda, and extracts of sweet herbs and plants, it is perfectly
harmless, and delicious as sherry. Prepared by HENRY C.
GALLtJP.493. Oxford-street. London. Retailed everywhere.
"DREIDENBACH’S ABIIONIA.—The New
D Scent for 1878. Delicate, refreshing, and durable. 2s. «d. to
40s. per Bottle. Breidenbacli s MACASSARINE, invaluable for
preserving the Growth of the t'air. Is.. 2s. fid.. 5s. per Bottle.
6f all Chemists, and the Makers. 157n. New Bond-st reet. W.
T>0WLANDS’ MACASSAR OIL preserves,
In strengthens, and beautifies the'human Hair. 3s. fid., 7s..
and 10s. fid. ROWLANDS' ODONTO whitens Hie Teeth
and arrests decay. 2s. 9d. per Box. Of Chemists.
/CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
V7 The most acceptable are RO WLAN DS' MACASSAR
OIL for tile Hair. ROWLANDS' KALYDOR lor
the Complexion, ROWLANDS' ODONTO for the
Teeth. Ask any Chemist for ROWLANDS'.
T?AU DE CHYPRE.—PIESSE andLUBIN.
Il Thi* is an ancient perfume from Cyprus. During the
nations' -reer of Egypt. Persia. Greece, and Home, the Island
of Cyprus was tho resort of the elite, learned, and refined. It
was at tlie time of the Crusades, when Richard I.of England
aS'Umed the title of King of Cyprus, that the famed Eau de
Clivers was introduced into Europe, the composition of which
Is vpt prewrvrd in the archives of the IjaiK»rat»Ty of Plffs«* and
Liihin. Th^s© who are curious in ancient perfumes can be
gratified at i. New Bond-street. London.
T^ANGEROUS SOAPS.—At a recent
1 / Bitting of the Academy of Medicine, Dr.
Reveli read a paper on tlie neces-ity of pre¬
venting perfumer* from selling poisonous or
dangerous Soaps.
rrilE INFANT’S BATH.—CHILDREN
JL are great suff- rers fo-m the cfiV-cta ot bad
Soap PEARS' TRANSPARENT SOAP is
absolutely pure, Willie it,l* fragrant. j
JOSEPH GILLOTT’S
STEEL PENS.
1»EARS’ TRANSPARENT SOAP.
I Of Chemist* anil Perfumers every where.
Wholesale and Retail of ...
A. and F. PEARS, 81. Ut. BoiwU-it., London.
„ „„ IMPORTANT NOTICE.
PLEASE DIRECT ALL LETTERS AND ORDERS FOB
pETER J>OBlNSON,
SLLKMERCEB and UNENDRAFEB,
THE ONLY ADDRESS,
103 to 108, OXFORD-STREET, W.,
where the Business was established in 1833.
pARIS EXPOSITION of 1878.
pETER ROBINSON, OXFORD-STREET,
exhibits of 6 purci “ !ier ’ 7or cttsi b large discounts, of the entire
CIXTY-EIGHT MANUFACTURERS of
,,, France, July, and Austria, comprising Coloured Silks.
Black bilk., t elveU. butln*, Brocades, Silk Costumes, various
Costumes, Gauzes, Fichus, Ac.
INCLUDING
FIRST PRIZES.
C. J. BONNET et CIE. (lea petits Fils de).
HIGH BLACK SILKS and SATINS.
JAU'BERT AUDltAS et CIE.
RICH BLACK SILKS and 8ATINS.
LAMY, A., et GIRAUD, A.
RICH FANCY SILKS.
SCHULZ, E., et CIE.
BICII FANCY BROCADES.
GOLD MEDALS.
AUDIBERT et CIE.
FIGURED and PLAIN BLACK SILKS.
BARDON RITTON et CIE.
PLAIN COLOURED BILKS.
BERAUD, F., et FILS.
RICH FANCY and PLAIN SILKS.
BROSSET-HECKEL.
COLOURED and BLACK SATINS.
BRUNET LLCOMTE DEBILLAINE et CIE.
fancy brocaded silks.
COTE DUCOTE et CIE.
COLOURED silks.
DURAND FRERES.
CREPES and FOULARDS.
GINDRE et CIE.
BLACK and COLOURED SATINS.
GIRAUD, A., et CIE.
BLACK and COLOURED SILKS.
JANDIN et DUVAL.
FIGURED DAMAS8E8.
GUINET et CIE.
BLACK SILKS.
MILLION, J. P., et SERVIER.
COLOURED and BLACK SILKS.
PIOTET, J. M.
FANCY SILKS.
PONCET PERE et FILS.
COLOURED and BRACK SILKS.
JOURDAN AUBREY et CIE.
MODEL COSTUMES und MANTLES.
BOUILLET et CiE.
MODEL COSTUMES and MANTLES.
PONSON et CIE.
COLOURED and BLACK SILKS.
BRESSI et CIE. (Italian).
BLACK and COLOUHED SILKS and SATINS.
REICHERTS, G., et FILS (Austrian).
BLACK and COLOURED SILKS and SATINS
of the richest description.
TREBITSCH et FILS (Austrian).
BLACK SILKS and SATINS of Hie richest
description.
SILVER MEDALS.
ALGOUD FRERES.
BLACK SILKS.
BERARD et FERRAND.
BROCATELI.E SILKS.
CHAVENT PERE et FILS.
FANCY SILKS.
COCHAUD DE BOISSIEU et CIE.
BLACK 81I.K8.
DRIVET et BLANC.
BLACK VELVETS.
FLANDRIN, A.
PLAIN and STRirED SILKS.
FURNION et CIE.
FANCY MANTLE SILKS.
GAUTHIER BELLON et CIE.
BLACK and COLOURED VELVETS.
LABORE et BAKBEQUOT.
LACHARD BESSON et CIE.
FANCY SILKS.
xMANCARDI COMBET et DONNET.
BLACK SILKS.
PAULE et CONDURIER.
BLACK SILKS.
PERMESEL et CIE.
SATINS.
RENDU et MOISE.
FANCY SILK GAUZES.
REYRE LOUVIER BELISSEN et CIE.
SILK LININGS.
RICHARD, A.
SILKS and PLUSHES.
SEVENE BARRAL et CIE.
COLOURED and BLACK SILKS.
THEVENET et ROUX.
COLOURED SILKS.
THEVENIN et GUSTELLE.
COLOURED SILKS.
TRAPADOUX FRERES et CIE.
FANCY SILKS and HANDhEliCHlEFS.
BERNASCONI et CIE. (Italian).
BLACK and COLOURED Sll.lis and SATINS.
BARTOLOTTE CORTI et CIE. (Italian).
SILKS, VELVET’S, and SATINS.
CAMOZZI et CIE. (Italian).
VELVETS.
STUCCHI, T. (Italian).
BLACK and COLOURED SILKS,
BRONZE MEDALS.
CHALLIOL et CHARMETTANT.
FANCY SILK GAUZES.
CHAMBON et MILLION.
CHARBIN FILS.
BLACK and COLOURED VELVETS.
GUIVET DELAROCHE.
SILK AR.UURES.
MALLEVAL BESSON et CIE.
MILLINERY SILKS.
MAYET et. THEVENET.
PLAIN and FANCY SILKS.
OGIER AINE.
PLAIN and FANCY SILKS.
VIGO et CIE.
SILKS and SATINS.
BRAGGHIENOTTI et CIE. (Italian).
THE SALE IS NOW PROCEEDING.
WHITE FOR CIRCULAR OF PARTICULARS.
NOTICE.
P E T E' R ROBINSON
respectfully informs his Customer*
uud the Public
THAT THE ONLY ADDRESS
FOR HIS MOURNING WAREHOUSE
U Nob. 256 to 2S2.
REGENT-STREET,
He will feel obliged by all
Communications
intended for the Mourning Wureliousa
being *o directed,
to prevent delay and disappointment
to his Customers.
AT TETER R0BIN60N*8
pAMILY MOURNING WAREHOUSE,
“ REGENT-STREET.”
THE BEST ENGLISH CRAPES ONLY ARE USED,
which stand tha wet and damp weather.
W1< from Dre “’ beaBtl * u l | r fitted, made complete,
Bon “ t ' t »nd Cap,'made by'French Mi'liiner'*,
£3 IS <
£1 10 0
Wll from ° r handsomely trimmed,
Drease* Made Complete, for' a Parent,' Slater, or ** 3 °
brother, from .. ,. mm £t» n
Mai f51nn‘ mti 1>aJetotfl ’ handsomely trimmed, for ditto*
Bonnet*, New Styles, made' by French Milliner*, 019 8
rrom .. . 9
The BARODA CRAPE.-Economical Dresses madol
from* J ° £ Ul * S nCW m * teria1 ' lor Ueep Mourning >£2 19 8
_G°od;F|ttlng Dressmakers are sent to All l’ai ts
with a Full Assoitment of Gouds, ar.d to take orders,
Immediately on receipt of Letter- or Telegram,
WHICH MUST BE CLEARLY ADDRESSED—
REGENT-STREET, Nos. 236 to 262,
otherwise they would not reach as desired.
nr one guinea to 10 guineas.
Tarlatans In the most fashionable stylos. 21s.
Black Brussel. Net. 25*., at,. bd„ and 35s.
Black Silk Tulje (condition keeping), 1,*. and 80s
For Sketches of the al-ove, adiln fsaspfijows :—
PETER ROBINSON, REGENT-STREET,
QRAPES from the PARIS EXHIBITION.
PETER ROBINSON, of REGENT-STREET
(THE MOURNING WAREHOUSE),
ba« porch a-ed
THE WHOLE STUCK OF DRAPER that
were Exhibited by Messrs. COUKTAULD,
Hie Eminent Craiie Manutuct ii'cr*.
THE BEST QUALll^rES , EVl?il‘MANUFACTURED.
They have been Purchased
at a considerable discount off,
and will be sold to his Customer*
at merely ordinary prices.
THE LARGE GLASS CASE which contained
the Cm!** in the Exhibition
Peter Robinson wi] I sell at one Third Its pi Iginnl cost.
THE MOURNING WARKHOlVE,
fAOODS from the PARIS EXHIBITION.
VJ Amongst other large purchases made by
PETER ROBINSON, of REGENT-STREET
(THE MOURNING WAREHOUSE),
he has secured the whole of the Exhibits
of a French Manufacturer.
The most celebrated in tlio world for these goods, which
eousist of a b.autilul ilracriptIon
of lllack Grenadine-lta.llle Ari. r—
in Plain, Figured, BrocliC, and Damassfi
(patlerua very varloua), and suited
for Evening, Dinner, and Dress occasions.
He has also been fortunate in securing
by a Norwid
nongst thr m are PARAMATTAS of , xqnl.jte make,
GRENADINES ..f strong texture. ZEl'l.LIN 1>.
rWILLED SERGES, alirl variou. NEW lALiiiCS
-* •—' -If make and dye.
The whole will lie sold at
25 per cent, off the usual cost price.
"* '"'""“‘otVl
F rench, all-wool foule serges.
The largest assortment of these b< aut.ful Goods now sell¬
ing at Is. lid. per yard. Wry solt and warm.
JOHN HOOPER. 82. Oxfonl-stre. t. W. Patterns free.
T)OYAL VELVETEENS.—Guaranteed new
JLV fast blue slude of Black, la. 2s. iki.. Hh. lid. per ymU,
In the m>»8t fuahb'nulile colours, nt 2s. IU<L lasr vanl.
Patterns frce.-JOllJi 110UPEK, 02, Oxfoixt-btivet, W.
IV I ANUFACTUliER’S STOCK of LADIES’
1»-L WINTER DRESSES, Selling Off nt half the net. M,,as
Patterns free.—JOHN HOOPER,' ffill'oxforeL.treet, W.
17VENING DRESSES.—Thousands of
JLj Beaut it til Llasctte Grenfidiues. are now oftciiiu; nt -Ifd. in r
yard. The N»w Gold and Silver iridescent Gn rmtlincs.
Pnttema free.—JO JIN JIUOIKK, 52, Oxloid-stm t, W.
i A T T E R N S FREE.
BLACK Sll.KS.
manufactured by Bonnet, of Lyons.
Messrs. JAY beg to inlorin their Patrons
and the Public generally
that they are now selling these well-known
PURE LIGHT-DYED SILKS
at a redition of from 33 to 40 per cent off
prices *.at were charged prevl- nsto the
DEPRESSION IN THE LYONS SILK MARKET.
Messrs. JAY are also selling Jaubert’s gtaal wearing
Black SILKS, at the following reduced rate:—
Present place, 3s. yd.; former price, 5a. fid.
„ „ 4s. fid.; „ „ 6s. 3d.
,, ,. S».3d.; „ „ 7s. fid.
BLAGK SATIN'S, ali pure silk.
22 luche* wide, from 5s. sd. per yard.
JAYS', REGENT-STREET.
and most fashionable assortment
ing Wear, suitable lor ladle* who
who wr,u* black from choice.
dressmakers in a few
ade up by expel
JAYS'
__RAL MU_
REGENT-STREET, W.
tours if required.
THE LONDON GENERaT MOURNING WAREHOUSE,
rjUIE ^£0ST -JJSEFUL pRESEX T
FOB A LADY Is a dozen of our beautifully fine real IRISH
CAMBRIC POCKET-HANDKERCIUEIS
mm exquisitely- 1 IBiehcni-stitelicd, at haif a
guinea per dozen; |«-st-fne, Id. extra.
FOR A GENTLE3IAN. a D-zen ot our IRISH LINEN CAM¬
BRIC rOCKET-HANDKERUHlEIS. at
I KS. lid.: or, our Geiitr fine hem-stitched, at
12s. per dozen: post-free. fid. extra.
ROBINSON and 01.EAVKR.
Cambric Handkerchief Makers tr- her Majesty the Queen. Belfast,
m
672_
BURNISH THROUGHOUT.
CTJBSTAOTIAL AUTISTIC rUHNITOM.
0ETZMANN & CO.,
TJAMTSTEAD-ROAD,
J^EAR TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD.
the ILLUSTRATED LOKDOff ^EWS
DEC. 14, 1878
BESIDES THE RECENT ADDITION of
M e «B^r«jr buUt __
N OTIOE.-SPOONS 1 _»4 i J b O®^
ELKiNQTO R V and CO.. a. the r«ultof import
u. Shite
on tags ol any fluctuations
SSg
ir IN AH AN’S LL WHISKY.
J\_ THE CREAM OF OLD IRIBHWin8KIElL
, sat-astssa
»^"^whl»kyl» soft, mellow, andpnrew e U-mat>mKl,and
7 j excellent qua lity."—20, Great Ttfchfleld-atreet. W.
stive Cordial
■g P P S’S
0 0 0 O A.
andForks ob
Address—ELKINGTON^i
£3*00.. 22, Regent-street, London,
argot* irtreet, City.
-OIGHT LARGE SHOW-ROOMS
jjAVE JUST BEEN ADDED
rpo THE DISPLAY OP
^RTISTIC FURNITURE, &o.
TT IS NOW ONE OF THE LARGEST
^?.^o^&TroN"v , L}S. fndtt&g
T> LATE. —GOLDSMITHS’ ALLIANCK
Jl Limited, Manufacturing Silversmiths,
11 and 12, Cnmhill. Tendon.
ThebertwroughtsiLVER SPOONS.ndTORKB^
fiddle Pattern. 7i. 2d. per ounce: Queen .* ?T^Simmtelr
ounce. Many other Patte-nU.n^gh.y ornaineu
SSS!»»= "• I » JjH *
12 Table Fork; .. .. SO .. 10 15 0
12 Dessert ditto — .. 20 .. 7 * |
2 Gravy Spoons.. .. 10 .. | 11 B
1 Soup Ladle .. .. ® •• “ jJ |
Queen's Pattern.
15 0 0
4 Salt ditto _ ..
1 Pair Fish Carrera
!§§ss
id’CO.
T> AINTINGS, OLEOS, ^HROMOS,
P PHOTOS,
handsome frames. The l‘*‘^ ^ 1 ^ 0 i», r tnH-nt of Bronze*,
/AETZMANN and CO.’S BED-ROOM
O HUITES -OnoM tlmlargest
Cupboard. from 6|„5 u ‘? c "| n ^? p Largc^and handsomely fcco-
*18 0
8 18 8
0 15 0
£56 19 2
•Pjj^^Mon.^ riommlttees a work has been published.
*1 PaTrTugar Spoons .
Set of Fiddle Pattern
A Pamphlet, Illustrated w
*16 (
2 2 (
rated Bed-room Suite* in a»t
ncaa." Large ana nanasomm/ ^eoo-
ih Ditch pine, and other wood*, at
also In black and gold. 50 |
-- t An Elegant and Digestive Cordial
LIQUEUR S^PP’^'i'rSeM'"*
G
Travellers, }
I Invaluable lor cases of Cholt,~.«
Nature and Indigestion. In Sc care
Bottle, and Yellow Bln Case.L ar;
^.^^»2nT«?“^h
Holbnm, London._
I N G E R
BRANDY.
HENBY B BETT and CO. _ _
-DURE KANGRA VALLEY TEA, dire
I from the to
SbWnSl" from °C$CKBURN"8 AGENCY. 41. Haymarket.
London, 8.W.
1 H O 0 O L A T
MENIER
Awarded
the
GRAND
DIPLOMA OF HONOUB.
QHOCOLAT MENIER, in $lb. and $lb
BBEAKFA8T
and SP rPEB.
piHOCOLAT MENIER—Awarded Twenty-
V>> Three MEDALS.
HP ABLE LAMPS—OETZMANN and CO.
T A^^rtmeutof^B^^^th.^^
the preaent Seasonin ^eslgna. In great
and
PRICES. A
StheBhow-Rooms.—OETZMANN a _
A RTISTIC FURNISHING.—OETZMANN
tessp®
TkOWN QUILTS.— OETZMANN and CO.’S
lyes*®**®
jyj-APPIN and WEBB, new and artistic
jyj'APPIN and WEBB, presents.
^£APPIN and WEBB.
jyjAPPIN and WEBB’S sterling silver.
jyj-APPIN and WEBB.
jyj'APPEN and WEBB’S fine cdtleby.
ATAPPIN and WEBB.
^jy£APPEN and WEBB’S ^ plate. 8I1,vbb
ATAPPIN and WEBB.
j^APPIN and WEBB’S ^velling bags.
ATAPPIN and WEBB.
jyjAPPIN and WEBB’S ^gues^ost fbe^
jyj-APPIN and WEBB.
ATAPPIN and WEBB, oxfobd-stbeet. w.
ATAPPIN and WEBB,
-^J-APPIN and WEBB, “Sheffield.
QHOCOLAT MENIER. Pari
Paris,
’tork.
S CHWEITZER’S COCOATINA.
Anti-Dyspeptic Cocoa or Ch«"'f^ l ^ w F d _ 0 t r ' tractert
^nr'Smeathe'sUwgtbof^^^aa^h^ck^dyet Weakened with
Keep, lnall Climates. Require, no Cooking. A tosapoonfnl to
BCHWE1TZER and CO- 10. Adam-atreet, London. W.O
GRATEFUL
OOMFOBTlSQ.
JAMES EPPS an CO.,
lOHOOFATllg
OHEMI8T8.
rpHE “Civil Service Gazette” says:—
I •• Bv a thorough knowledge of the natural law, which rcirrn
the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful sp.
plication of the line properties of weU-Mlected coco*. Mr. E P |,
has provided our breakfast-tables with a dellcatelr-flavouml
beverage which may save ns many heavy doctors' Mils It I, by
the j udidous u«e of such articles of diet that a constitution ms,
‘ gradually built up until strong enough to r—'** --
idcncy to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies j
-1 ™.,iv tn attack wherever there Is a weak
ital abaft by keepingours
a properly-nourished fi
rpHE “ Naval and Military Gazette ” says:—
X "The nutritive qualities of coco* over either three
of tea or cofl'ee are now so generally acknowledged that
the steady Increase shown by official statistics in lt« cun-
sumption during recent years ceaaea to be a matter of surpriie.
One of the llrst firms to popularise this now indispensable
adjunct to our breakfast-table wa* Mcasr*. Epp* Mid Go., whose
name, since 1839. has been so continuously belure the public, snil
whose Homoeopathic Cocoa it aa familiar In our homos as the
proverbial 1 household word*.’ Those who™ k,,™,-.. it h.. t—
to watch at Mesara. Epp*'* works t
has been
and complex
note sue oare ana tauour Desuiwed belore the
la considered ready for consumption,cannot
a-—— ” productions hsu
,r
id labour b<
Imagined n
Lily deferred. T&e raatnew or inese wo:
aen It ia stated Uiat four millions of pou
Alone are prepared there yearly. The
many years since, for Mr. James Enw'sr
both for its purity and It* value as a dietetic, naa been more thin
maintained. A constant increasing demand fully tertifle* to
this—which must be as gratifying to Me«rs. Epp. as It I,
certainly flattering to the good faith they have kept with ths
pubUo to secure so gratifying a result.
“ A 11 the Year Round” says
•• Having now disposed of fancy ehocolate. let ui
stroll to the Euston-road. hard by Hie Regent's Bark, to Kpps's
cocoa manufactory, where may be studied the making of cocci
on a stuiwndoua scale, giving a Just Idearitbe valuo of thess
articles, not aa luxuries, but as actual food.
GOLD MEDAL. PARIS.
JURY'S COCOA
oil. Sold
R, Y S CUUUA Jffi A. i. XV ^ V/ a-
guaranteed pure Cocoa, only deprived of the superfluous
Bold In Packet* and T_
TWELFTH EXHIBITION MEDAL.
A GOLD MEDAL, PARIS,
1. evidence of tbe high opinion entertained by the Inter-
national Jury of the merit, of -
FRY 8 CHOCOL
Aakfoi
paratlon
““"“■ T FRY*S CHOCOLATE AND COCOA.
; for FRY'S Celebrated CARACAS COCOA, a choice pre-
17 LEG ANT TAPESTRY CRETONNE
-Li CURTAIN8. jn rariou. dtolee i". uirf
OT^JS^.n«n^>oSr
and •»* Ai » oroDen ^ )ETZMA NN and CO.
HALLWAY WRAPPERS, CARRIAGE
XL RUGS. AC.-OETZJIANN and«>. Lave now on Show a
U, K;r .nrtm ? toMlreabov^. “^ r H.ge
?6e’ ed ^ Ordera R «r pt ?««ivc faithful attention In
selection^—OKTZMANNanaCO. __
CTO YES, ECONOMICAL and ARTISTIC.
Decorations Hearths. Marble Curb Fenders, Brass
Fenders, Firt Irons, and Bests, in the present style of deco-
nScmVot the highest qnality, at tho West prk
T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
MEAT. _
a
MADE DISHES. AND bAUCES, AND ErrEClB
GREAT ECONOkY.
T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
MEAT.
Caution.—Genuine only with facsimile of Baron Liebig'*
signature in blue ink across label.
r^OAL-BOXES—Walnut, Oak, and other
I / , h0 ,„ woods, carved or plain, Inlaid with hand-pnlnted
V|i„ bras* pinels. and other decorations In accortance
nt style of furniture. These are very hand-
-- suitable for presents.
T AMPS.—Duplex, Moderator, and other
En glish Manufacture. _
ATAPPIN and WEBB, 76, 77, and 78,
1Y1 Oxford-street. London. W.
ninstrated Cabdoguee imst-free.
signature in bine Ink across lauei.
T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
^ MEAT.
In nae In most households throughout the Kingdom.
T IEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF
^ MEAT.
rpHE “ Court Journal” says:—
X ■' In a climate so vanrlug and trying a* our own. to ratin-
tain aouud and uniform health, our daily diet cnuuut be U«
curefullv and attentively studied. Advancing sdeueesod remit
discoveries have wllliin the last few years been iii.lraiuuilsl in
ldiug several most valuable additions to our ctaupaiabrelf
loit list of dietetic foods. Foreluort among tlicte diould be
ranged cocoa, which, although known here several centuries pro-
vtously, only came Into general use within tlie last forty Jtu%.
One of tlio tirit to popnlnrlse this now Indispemelde adjunct to
nnr table was Sir. Jamea Eppa. whose 'Prepurvd Cocoa' hu
gained such lust repute for Its excellent and nutntlou.chamter.
manufactory la the large»t of lta kind In this country.
“/Cassell’s Household Guide” says:—
\J "We will now give an account of the prorew adopted by
Messrs. Jamea Epps and Co., manufacturers ol dietetic articles
at their work* In Oio Euston-road. Loudon.
rj»HE
_ “ Morning Advertiser ” says:—
In the n “■ .
Vh^RCE I?5 ?N ^Royal r^len hia u^UrrAv are and^FMerree^
6«v^ lutein, iapan^o and Chinese China. Nankin Blue and
White Oilna. the new Swiss Decorated Faience. French and
Rei^ln^Chln^Dutcii^tti'crme?EqemUir^WMnef , Vallan , rla , l , 'otlMy!
raXra n wrn^1^U^ L ^ nf“T«th E'nglS a^
lWm Table and Ornamental Glass of every dereription. Alao
^rera^Tariety^^other^o'wt ful^'and^ot^ omenta f’articles^d’tahle
torTiUSu^many of which are duplicator of pod. exhibited
P OSTAL ORDER DEPARTMENT.
OETZMANN and OO.-Order. sent per po^ whether luge
or am all, receive prompt and careful attmtlon. Thoaerealdlng
.» . (liatAnoe or any to whom a personal Ti*it woul<l be incon¬
venient, desirous ol leaving the select ion to the flrm^may rely
S C ^^alogne^ l ientn^ml'appUca < ljom—DETz’MA^N’anS^CO?* 17
/AETZMANN and CO^ COMPLETE
VJ HOUSE FURNISHERS. 67.69,71.73.77and 79. IUrnDstoail-
load (threo minutes' walk from T»tten“n.oiurtert*d m4
Dower-street Station, iletropolltan Railway). Lo*«rt^prices
MAPPIN BROTHERS-^^"^"’
JV1 Are placing the PubUo
ATAPPIN BROTHERS— On the rame footing aa
M Appra BROTHERs -m~
APPIN BROTHERS— Reduced their Price*
ATAPPIN BROTHERS- 10 perCent ’
|\]_ The weU-known quality
APPIN BROTHERS— 0 ftheirgoodsi..tnctiy
ATAPPIN BROTHERS- ra&,nUlned -
1V1 Write for Catalogue to
ATAPPIN BROTHERS— london bridge.
ATAPPIN BROTHERS —london-bbidge; or.
JYX REGENT-STREET, W.
APPIN BROTHERS —regent-street, w.
POSSESSING ALL THE PROPERTIES OF THE FINEST
■gROWN & pOLSON’S 0ORN pLOUR
IS A WORLD-WIDE NECESSARY
WBTHE^NUB^SERTTHE SICK BOOM,
T>URE FLOUR OF EGYPTIAN LENTILS.
X This Is the bads of all the Egyptien and Arabian Foodi
digested o^alT cereal *prodiicDons. m, it b> maiaaair vritS
Km?'Flour and GraTuC^mp^y^venwirMd, Dniion N.
^«;un F1 ;'^a^ n ‘ ^, , i u ^ lk is p rnb^n!'s e '5^:^
Canvas Bag, 8a. The Trade supplied.
manufactory of Jamei Epp*
pESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE, post-free.
QETZMANN & CO.,
JJAMPSTEAD-ROAD.
G ASELIERS, in Crystal, Glass, Ormoulu
or Bronic, Sledlaival Fittings, Ac. A large assort men
always on viow. Every article mnrked with plain figure
D HULBTT and CO.. Manufacturers. 65 and 68. High H
th Holborn
PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION, 1878.
THE ONLY “GRAND PRIX”
In Classes 17 and 18, for Inexpensive end Artlstlo
FURNITURE,
TACKSON and GRAHAM, Oxford-street,
GRAND PRIZE (EHREN^DIPLOM). Vienna, 1873. The soli
MED/ft!,^oreat°ExcoHeuco of Design and Workmanship,‘
London.
V,°e1,Tl U S 8 F HONb’uu'for - Improv.menU In EnglUh
Furniture." Paris. 1H.15. . J
PRIZE MEDAL. Great Exhibition, lamdon. 1MI.
TT O W A R D and SONS,
PARQUET, FLOORS.
H oward and sons,
Manufacturers of
ARTISTIC WOOD CHIMNEY-PIECES.
H oward and sons,
CABINET MAKER8
8TEAM b k>WEB.
H oward and sons,
DECORATOR8
and
UPHOLSTERERS,
BERNEIiS-sTIlKET
LONDON,
OTORY’S FURNITURE.
O HALL and OFFICE
OTORY’S FURNITURE.
O DINING-ROOM and LIBRARY
OTORY’S FURNITURE.
O DRAWING-ROOM and BOUDOIR
- FURNITURE.
gTORY’S
gTORY
gTORTi’S
C* TORY’S FURNITURE.
O PATENT COUCH BED (Sls.6d.)
2, COLEMAN-ST., CITY.
SHOW-ROOMS.
H oward and sons,
BERNERS-STREET.
CLEVELAND STEAM
CABINET WORKS.
FOUR MEDALS
AWARDED,
Including
PARIS EXHIBITION,
1878.
THE ONLY SOAP FOR THE COMPLEXION,
Making the skin clear, umootli, and lustrous.
W RIGHT’S COAL-TAR SOAP
(SAPO CARBONIB DETEKGEN8).
Highly and extensively recommended for the toiletand^ lnall
cates of cutaneous disease by Mr. Jas. btartln. M.K.C.8., anrgeon
to St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, the late Sir.
Ismes 8 tart in M.D.. F.R.C.S., of Savlle-row, Mr. McCall
Anderson,M.D.. F.F.f’.S., of Woodsiile-cr.sccnt, G ^
the other leading members of the profewlon. In lableU.6d.
j| f ju «iAMnt TnibLRniM. or all Chemist#.
ending memnora oi tno j
elegant Toilet-Boxea. of all Chemist
W. V. WRIGHT and OO., London
OLD MEDAL again awarded to PRICE’S
VI PATENT CANDLE COMPANY (Limited), in the PARIS
in class without the paper caj*e, tlieir OillLxU o muni
LIGHTS, and their PURE GLYCERINE.
H R O AT AFFECTIONS aild
X HOARSENESS.-AU anflering from Irritation of the
troubled with a hacking congh. a alight rold, or bronchial
affections cannot try them too soon. lU .imnw ^ohlea.Jf
allowed to progress, result in serious jmlmonary and
affections.—Dfpftt. 493. Oxford-street. London.
TTOOPING-COUGH.—ROCHE’S HERBAL
XI EMBROCATION.—Tha celebrated Effectual Cure ivlth-
out Internal mnllcliie. Sole Wholeaale Agents, EDWARDS and
SON 157, Queen Victoria-street (late of 38. Old Change).
London. Sold retail by most Chemist*. Price 4«. per B~*"-
rtOUGHS, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS.
V_v Medical testimony slate* that no other niedlclne ls aa
effeetiml in the enre of these dangerous maladies as KEATING I
COUGH LOZENGES. On lozenge gum ease, one or two nt tvi
time ensure* rest. They contain no opium uorany violent drug,
HE CYPRUS STAND.
FOR PAPA'S NEWSPAPER. FOR MAMMA'S BOOK.
FOR MINNIE'S MUSIC. All throe In one.
WRIGHT'S PATENT NEWSPAPER, BOOK, OR
MUSIC STAND.
A perfectlLnxury to Reader*.
Reading while eating made a pleasure.
To be had of all Book and Musit-scller* and Fancy Repoaltorlca.
A most aultablo Christmas Present
Sole Wholeeale Agents—Messrs. FAUDEL, PHILLIPS, and
SONS. N aw gate-street, City
T AXORA MEDICATED FRUIT
I 1 LOZENGE8 for CONSTIPATION. SLUGGISHNESS
Ol'THE STOMACH. BILK. HEADACHE.
The” Iaftiicct * **—" It U a great improvement on tli«
P ^^”Vea"Vre^"'—'' l Luu>raLozenges cun be salely
recommended." _
O. R. 0. Tlchbome, Ph. D.“ Laxora Lozenge* are
efficacious, and nicely made." ..
Sold. Is. lid., by all Chemist* and Drngglata:
Wholeaale, 82, South wark-streot. |
hart team
S^ dT j n .SS WST^ilSSSS
Chemists. UndeTthe name of ! Preruired CfJ 11
pounds yearly."
rpHE “ Christian World” says :•
X "'If I am to take cocoa.' aa ld I. ' I mm
s;sy : « Rsssrs,
and Co.. In the Euston-road.
J°^Dr E oteancht y of Industry are,roM^
?h^ < ^r fSd^pP^°”j^ torgelydi^enil^>rt- e
In the onormou# increase in consumDuon ui
years'^ hM^a^^toro rf r ep«»tlen' l cntaia”i
proved It to be.”
rpHE “Church Review” says H|| t ,. M>
the last half century’ l» T “!? “fflLj^ itto g fromthe rtinevsl
rpHE “Civilian” B&ys ■-' rt> . tb . tUtota ,s«i*
X •• In the seventeenth « n ‘“U^^a^SJoutete«. a
dietetic
credited
SSSbJ
ShandinCT 10 !™'fat U pre«'nt in jaw owaj*” ®j^e*wnbsi tu«g
largest In the country, the cocoa produced there
many million poundi a year.
S?S=sftsiS?,
during the vJt.olhon-
l end Water.'"
LAIR’S GOUT PILLS]
The Great English Remedy for Goat and Rheumatism. Sure,
safe, and effectual. No restraint of diet required during their
ose and are certain to prevent the dlseuse attacking any vital
part. Bold by all Chemists, at Is. ljd. and 2s. Bd. per Box.
T7ITS—EPILEPTIC FITS or FALLING
X SICKNESS.—A certain method of cure has been discovered
for this distressing complaint by a physician, who la deslrou;
that all sufl'erera may benefit trom this providential discovery: it
Is never kDown to fail, and will cure tho most hopeless case after
all other mean* have boon tried. Full particulars will be sent by
post to any person free of charge.—AddressMr. WI LL I AM S,
■ : Printed PubU^rt
i
REGISTERED
THE GENBRAL POST-OFFICE FOR TRANSMISSION ABROAD.
-VOL. LXXIII.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1878.
WITH
TWO SUPPLEMENTS
PRINCESS A1.ICE (GRAND DUCHESS OF HESSE). PRINCESS MARIA VICTORIA FEODORE LEOPOLDINE.
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FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALEXANDER BASSANO, OLD BOND-STREET.
574
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Mrs. J obn Mjrsham, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES. v .
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S 8 ye^ W®^pleaae accept this intimation.
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OP THE
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A TALE BY MRS. J. H. RIDDELL,
Author of “ George Geith,” &c., entitled
“MICHAEL GARGBAYE’S HARVEST;
AND
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V.VL-Scenery, by Julian Hicks, 8on, and aartBtanta. First Morning
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'
jy| 0 0 R E
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I Punch-.rd, Fellow of St. Augun-
Fourth Sunday in Advent.
jO&’gbkS: %
Rev H. W. Watkins ; 3.16 p.m.,
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H Salwey. • o _ n M . nolv Trin : ty, Brompton; 7 p.m.,
Westn,tester Abbey, W R °. J. Hen-low, |‘Love the essea-
Stanley; 3 pm.. Ret. j tial feature of Christianity.
Vnuar. „ „ . I rn,_i Q s nhnreh. Blackfriirs, 7 p.m.,
ichira, l-euow oi •a.-s--
,'s College,Canterbury; 7 p.m ,
v. William Henry Bliss, Chap¬
lain to the Queen. .
Temple Church, 11 a.m., uncertain,
3 pm., Rev A. Ainger, the Reader.
1 v - irtence Society:
CHRISTMAS AND NEW-YEART3 HOLIDAY FESTIVAL, 1878-9.
and BTJRGESS MINSTRELS
fl will lnangnmte their
fourteenth a^al^er^s^hristmas and new
at THE ST. JAMES’S GREAT HALL
On BOXING DAY, THUR8DAY, DEC. 26,
on which day there will be
A BrECTA Jd 2S&T
AFTEE BOXING DAY.
performances will be given
EVEBY AFTERNOON. ntTHBE^EVEBY NIGHT, at EIGHT,
after which date they will be resumed In their regular order.
ST. JAMES’S GREAT HALL
Has lust Wen magnificently Be-Decnrated and furnished with
Nrw and militant Gas Illumination. rendering It beyond question tho most
New and Brimam ^ gaUe d cConc ert in Europe.
AN ENTIRELY NEW AND BEAUTIFUL FBOSCENICM AND SCENES*
AN EN 1 Y'fb’ 1 ,,,. in tc<lby that eminent Artist Richard Douglass.
The auditorium will therefore present a coup^l'coil of surpassing beauty.
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hi “ will he found fully worthy of the
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T
HE
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Bt^M^affwcstmtester,
° teg, Rev. Canon Farrar.
ial feature of Christianity.
Christ Church, Blackfrurs, 7 P “-.
jss. 1 Rev. E. McClure, “ Ha.e we faculties
■Rev to know God?” _ __
I St. Paul’s, Paddington^7 p.ra-f^^v.
l- Charles Shakspeare, rhs Conflict
I of Science and Religion.
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TUESDAY, Dec. 24.
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 26, CHRISTMAS DAY.
T.niah ix. 1-8; Westminster Abbey, 10
Morning^ Lessona ^Ismai , ( 3 ^ Dean Stanjey.
M iTe 8 ii.iT;«.^-
8t a.m" Rev.
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LONDON: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1878.
The Country is in mourning—The Country mourns. How
great a difference there may be between the two states
the outward and the inward—need not be pointed ou .
There is no difference in the present instance. i& e
“trappings of woe” correspond but too closely with the
sorrow of the heart. Princess Alice of Great Briton and
Ireland, the Grand Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt, the
second daughter of Queen Victoria, has been remove
from the present life by the terrible malady which had
few days before, carried off her youngest
which had put in sore peril the lives of her husband
the rest of her children. The lamentable event occurred
on the anniversary of her father’s death,
ago. It brings with it touching reminiscences ^lnch
now he closely associated with the m«nor7 of J"
How she nursed the Prince Consort m his mortal dine
how the tenderness and self-sacrificing devohon^f her
love smoothed his passage from s ' , ^
next, how she upheld her Royal Mother under th^
burden of her widowhood, how ten years after ^ J
nursed her brother the Prince of Wales and w h
rewarded by the restoration of his health.
And now she has herself fallen a victim to^vj
virtues which commended her to oox in
pathos in the incident mentioned by Lord ■ ^
the House of Lords on Tuesday last which her
sistihle. “ The physicians, he said, vih P n0 .
to watch over her suffering fannly enjome embrace .
circumstances whatever to be tempted m the
Her admirable self-restraint guarded
crisis of this terrible complamt m safety. ;t b3 .
and observed the injunctions of her Physicians- ^
came her lot to break to her son qmto
of his youngest sister, to whom he was devotedly ^
The hoy was so overcome with miseij d the
mother clasped him in her arms, and thus
kiss of death.” Her illness was watched with P
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Death has gathered into his anna aU tha of this
the Royal Princess, and the Court and {rJin
country share between them the sorro
the irreparable loss occasioned by er ^ oom entirely
Yet not a loss only, or whoUy, nor a ^ Eve0
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DEC. 21, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
575
■what we 6ee on this side of the grave, distressful as it is
to many, grievous to all, is yet spanned by a bow of
promise. The life of Princess Alice is even now far from
having worked out its beautiful results. It was a life of
blessing to all who came within its sphere, and of potent
influence for good to those who we re outside of it. Her
exalted position was but the accident which displayed it
more vividly and more widely than would otherwise have
been the case. Its genuine lustre was in itself. It would
have been charming anywhere, in any rank, in association
with any circumstances, but it was rendered more con¬
spicuous in that it was lifted up on high. We need not
speak in a depreciating tone of the external grandeur—
albeit grandeur in simplicity—the centre of which
she so exquisitely adorned. They who were nearest
to her either by the ties of relationship or by the privilege
of personal intercourse, speak admiringly of her intel¬
lectual culture, her solid judgment, her brilliant vivacity.
We can believe them. But that which most attracts and
fixes the regard of most men was the tender and ever out¬
flowing sympathy which she had for all kinds of human
suffering. An ornament to her Court, a bright and
sparkling gem in her family, diffusing gladness wherever
she vouchsafed her presence, she was always read y, in the
alleviation of sorrow, 'to take the post demanding the
greatest 6elf-denial and to meet the troubles from which
Bhe might have been excused had she shrunk from them.
“ So good, so kind, so clever,” says the Prince of Wales,
in a letter written on the day of her death—words of
simple testimony to her worth which find an echo in the
bosom of every subject of the realm. She was a feminine
exposition of the spirit of “ Albert the Good,” and her
death brings back to us in full flush the grateful remem¬
brances we have of his life.
The blow, as might have been expected, has been a
heavy one for the Queen. The day on which it occurred
necessarily reopened the deep wound made upon her
domestic happiness, never perhaps to be completely
healed, by the death of the Prince Consort. Her people
rejoice in the assurance that her Majesty’s usual health
has not shown any indications of giving way under the
stroke. They are thankful that she had an opportunity,
as late ago as last autumn, of seeing and exchanging
embraces ■with her beloved daughter. They are
fully sensible that it is out of their power to
offer her such consolation as will reach to the depth of
her affliction. They are willing to bear her grief, if
that were possible; but, that not being so, they are
anxious to share it. They well know that they owe much
to her, but they know not how much. They looked on
with admiring and even affectionate sympathy whilst she
was engaged in training her children for the high positions
which they occupy. They cannot see her in domestic
trouble without yearning to give her such solace as their
unanimous participation in her grief may help to afford.
The light which the life of Princess Alice casts forward, as
a glorious exemple upon their several households, beams
also in its reflex radiance upon the family life and maternal
influences of their beloved Sovereign. They owe to her
an untold sum of thankfulness, and they cannot allow her
daughter to pass away from earth -without becoming
increasingly sensible of the debt of obligation under which
tho mother in her child has laid them. With more
fervency than ever they will now repeat the refrain of the
National Anthem, “ God Save the Queen.”
The lesson of the late Princess’s life is as noble as it
is obvious. Moral worth is a far more felicitous distinction
than high position. It is well when both are combined,
as in her case; but the first claims our reverential homage
even when quite apart from the last. The women of
society are not the only persons who may profit from what
they have been called within the last week to witness.
Love is the surest parent of love. To he lovely is the best
forerunner of lovely action. Influence, honour, and
unfailing satisfaction are to be acquired, not so much by
the triumphs of ambition as by the quiet discharge of
daily duties, and by the unostentatious but continuous
outflow of a loving heart. In this respect to give is to
receive, to bless is to be blessed, and, in the words of Holy
Writ, to lose life is to find it.
The annual report of the Postmaster-General, with the usual
mixture of instruction and amusement, has been issued.
Mr. E. J. Stone, her Majesty’s Astronomer at the Cape of
Good Hope, has been appointed by the Kadcliffe Trustees
Rudcliffc Observer at Oxford, in succession to the Rev. R. Main.
The Queen has directed letters patent to be passed under
the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United
Kingdom to the Right Hon. Sir Andrew Buchanan, G.C.B., of
Dunburgh, in the county of Stirling.
The Home Secretary, acting on medical advice, has
ordered the release of Dr. Baxter-Langley from prison four
months before the termination of the term of eighteen
months’ imprisonment, to which he was sentenced in 1877.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have awarded
the medal for long service and good conduct to the following
men:—Martin M'Mahon, commissioned boatman of her
Mujesty’s Coastguard; J. G. Marshant, chief carpenter’s
mate; and William Eckersley, chief engine-room artificer, of
her Majesty’s ship Thistle.
A meeting of the Privy Council was held on the 12th inst.
in the Council Chamber, Dublin Castle, when the Lord
Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor were sworn Lords Justices
for the government of Ireland during the absence of the Duke
of Marlborough—The Lord Lieutenant has appointed the
Right Hon. Hugh Tarpey, Lord Mayor, aa High Sheriff of the
city of Dublin for the ensuing year.
THE COURT.
The Queen, with the members of the Royal family, received
with feelings of the profoundest grief ou Saturday last, at
Windsor Castle, the terrible intelligence from Darmstadt of
the fatal termination, at 7.30 a.m., of the illness of her be¬
loved daughter the Grand Duchess of Hesse (Princess Alice
of Great Britain and Ireland). Her Majesty, although over¬
whelmed with sorrow by this heavy blow, which occurred on
the sad anniversary of the death of the lamented Prince Con¬
sort, has not suffered in health. The Prince and Princess of
Wales, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Beatrice, and
Prince Leopold were with the Queen. The Dean of West¬
minster also arrived at the castle. The usual service at the
Mausoleum was postponed in consequence of the alarming
telegram which reached her Majesty the previous day from
Darmstadt; but the Queen and the Royal family walked down
there in the morning.
Special prayers were read by the Very Rev. the Dean of
of Westminster on Sunday in the private apartments of the
castle (as in the years immediately following the death of the
Prince Consort) before the Queen and the Royal family and
some of the household. Divine service was performed in the
private chapel of the castle, when the Rev. T. Teignmouth
Shore, Incumbent of Berkeley Chapel, Mayfair, officiated.
The Duchess of Teck came from London to visit her Majesty.
The Prince and Princess of Wales left the castle on Monday
for London. The Dean of Westminster also left. The Duke
of Edinburgh, of her Majesty’s ironclad the Black Prince, who
had arrived at Spithead the previous day from America, came
from London, with the Duchess of Edinburgh, to visit the
Queen, and remained to luncheon.
The Princess of Wales arrived on Tuesday on a visit to her
Majesty.
A solemn service was performed by the Dean of Windsor
in the private chapel of the castle on Wednesday, at half-past
two, the hour of the funeral of the lamented Princess at
Darmstadt, in the presence of the Queen, the Princess of
Woles, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Princess Christian,
Princess Beatrice, the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, the
Duke of Cambridge, and the Duchess of Teck.
The Court will be in mourning from the 18th inst. to
Jan. 29. General mourning is ordered to be worn for three
weeks from the 15th inst.
The Court will pass the Christmas at Osborne.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCE88 OF -WALES.
The Prince of Wales visited the Empress Eugenie and Prince
Louis Napoleon at Camden House, Cbiselhurst, on Thursday
week. The Duchess of Edinburgh (fined with the Prince and
Princess at Marlborough House. The Prince and Princess
received the Chinese Minister (Kuo-Ta-Jen) at Marlborough
House the next day, and took leave of his Excellency. Prince
and Princess Christian and the Duke of Cambridge lunched
with their Royal Highnesses after their return from Windsor
on Monday. The Prince and Princess visited the Duke and
Duchess of Edinburgh at Clarence House. The Prince, with
Prince Leopold and Prince Christian, left Marlborough House
in the evening for Germany, to be present at the funeral of
the Grand Duchess of Hesse.
THE DEATH OF PRINCESS ALICE.
The whole English nation, and, we believe, the German nation
also, have since last Saturday joined with our Queeu and the
Royal family, and with the bereaved husband and children at
Hesse-Darmstadt, in heartfelt mourning for the untimely death
of this illustrious lady. Her Royal Highness was, to quote
the touching words of her brother, the Prince of Wales, in
the letter which Earl Granville read on Tuesday evening to
the House of Lords, “so good, so kind, so clever!” As
daughter, sister, wife, and mother, she had ever shown the
characteristic virtues of womanhood; and she had laboured,
both in England and in Germany, with a “ thoughtful benefi¬
cence,” to relieve the sufferings of the sick poor in hospitals,
of wounded soldiers, and prisoners of war, at the same time
cultivating every pursuit of refined intelligence and taste, and
the graceful accomplishments befitting her exalted rank. The
dates and other details of her personal history will be
found set forth in the usual form of an Obituary Notice.
Our leading article this week is naturally devoted to
this topic, which has, more than all other contem¬
porary affairs, occupied the public mind; while the
votes of condolence in both Houses of Parliament, with
the appropriate speeches of Lord Beaconsfleld and Lord
Granville, in the one instance, of Sir Stafford Northcote and
Lord Harrington in the other, are recorded as an authoritative
testimony of national regret, and of profound sympathy with
the Royal Mother, for whom we have never ceased, these
seventeen years past, to feel the reverential tenderness due to
a Royal Widow.
Her Royal Highness died a little before eight o’clock in the
morning last Saturday, in the Grand Ducal Palace at Darm¬
stadt, her state the day before having been such as to give rise
to the greatest alarm, with increased fever, and the swelling
having extended to the windpipe or larynx. She had been ill
since just after the death of her youngest child, Princess
Maria Victoria, a little girl of four years, who had, with others
of the family, been attacked by diphtheria. Upon the death of
her little one the affectionate mother herself went to the bed¬
side of her son, Prince Ernest, who is ten years of age, and
who was suffering from the same disease. It appears to have
been upon the occasion of this sorrowful interview, and by a
kiss from the poor innocent boy, which his mother could not
refuse at such a moment, that the germs of the terrible
malady were conveyed to her system.
The sad intelligence was received at Windsor Castle on Satur¬
day morning. The Queen had received previous telegrams from
Sir William Jenner to explain to her Majesty the significance
of the symptoms observed.
Immediately on the event becoming known in London the
Home Secretary wrote to the Lord Mayor communicatiug the
fact, and requesting him to give directions for the tolling of
the great bell of St. Paul’s Cathedral. His Lordship also
read the letter from his seat in the Justice Room of the Mansion
House, and a copy was posted outside the building.
On Sunday morning and evening, in their pulpit dis¬
courses, particular allusions to the mournful event were made
by Canon Licldon, at St. Paul’s; by Canon Prothero, at
Westminster Abbey; by the Rev. H. White, at the Chapel
Royal, Savoy; by Canon Spencer, at the Temple Church; by
Canon Farrar, at St. Margaret’s, Westminster; by the Bishop
of Columbia, at St. Stephen’s, Westminster; and at most
other churches and chapels in the metropolis and throughout
the country.
At Darmstadt, on Tuesday, tho funeral solemnities iu con¬
nection with the burial of Princess Alice commenced. The
body was removed from the Grand Ducal Palace to the church
within the old castle, where the religious ceremony was to take
place next day. The hearse wns preceded by a half-squadron
of Dragoons and a number of Court officials, and was followed
by the Royal carriages and another half-squadron of Dragoons.
The torches were carried on either side of the hearse by six
servants, and some non-commissioned officers of the Guard
made up two lines of escort. There had been a heavy fall of
snow during the day, but the night was almost cloudless.
The whole of the route to the church was lined with spectators,
who respectfully uncovered as the procession passed. The
Princess was well known to the inhabitants of Darmstadt, not
only through frequently being seen in the town with her
husband, but by reason of the personal interest which she took
in the local charities and other institutions. The procession
having arrived at the church, the coffin, covered with a
crimson pall, was placed on a black velvet catafalque,
bearing the Grand Ducal crown and the arms and orders of the
Princess, and throughout the night was attended by a guard
of honour. Between nine o’clock and noon on Wednesday the
church was open to the public, and during that time some
thousands of persons passed reverently by the coffin. By two
o’clock, the hour fixed for the reading of the burial service,
the edifice was filled with the nobility, members of the
diplomatic corps, the Ministry, military officers, Privy
Councillors, members of the two Chambers, the Mayors
of Darmstadt and other towns, the municipal councillors,
the President of the National Synod, and a deputation of the
cl'frgj) officials of the palace, representatives of Ministerial
departments, and deputations from various regiments. The
right side of the altar was occupied by members of the
Women’s Union for Nursing Sick and Wounded in War,
founded by the Grand Duchess and bearing her name; on the
left were ranged ladies who had been presented at Court.
Everything being in readiness for the service, the mourners—
the Grand Duke of Hesse, the Prince of Wales, Prince
Leopold, Prince Christian of Holstein, and the Grand Dukes
of Mecklenburg and Baden among others — entered the
church, and were conducted to their places with the
ceremonies usually observed on such occasions. The Crown
Prince and Princess of Germany were not present, the
Emperor William having, after a consultation with his
physicians, declined to permit them to attend the funeral
on account of the risk of infection. In their absence
the Imperial family were represented by General Goltz, Colonel
Panwitz, Count Matuschka, and Count Seckendorff. M. de
Quaade was in attendance for the King of Denmark, General
Burnell for the King of the Belgians, and Baron von Perglo3
and Count Durkheim for the King and Queen Dowager of
Bavaria. The Burial Service, to which some anthems and
chorales were added, was performed by Assistant Chaplain
Grein, one of the Ducal chaplains, and the Rev. Mr. Sillitoe,
the resident English clergyman. The coffin was then
removed from the catafalque to a hearse drawn by eight
horses, and the sad procession passed to Rosenhohe
by way of the Market-place, the parade-ground, the Alex-
anderstrnsse, the Muehlstrasse, and the Erbachsterstrasse.
The route was densely lined with spectators, and the utmost
order prevailed.
During the funeral ceremony at Darmstadt and Rosenhohe
a solemn service was held at Windsor Castle.
From all parts of the country we have reports of reso¬
lutions of condolence carried by Town Councils and other
bodies. Minute guns were fired on Wednesday at Woolwich,
Chatham, Portsmouth, and Devonport, and the flags of her
Majesty’s and other ships were flown half-mast high.
We present on the front page of this week’s Number the
portraits of the lamented Princess Alice and her youngest
child, both so lately taken from their afflicted family; and our
Extra Supplement consists of a separate Portrait of her Royal
Highness, for which, as well as for the subject of our front-page
Engraving, we are indebted to a photograph by Mr. Alexander
Baesano, of Piccadilly.
THE CHURCH.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Adamson, William, to be Incumbent of St. Paul’s, Old Ford.
Bailey, John Allanson; Lecturer of Christ Church, Spitalfields.
Orem oak, Joseph; Perpetual Curate of St. Philip and St. James's, Upnor.
Bartlett, F. A.; Incumbent of St. Micliael’B. Liverpool.
Bell, Edward; Incumbent of Holy Trinity, Loughborough.
Ben6ted, T. J.; Rector of St. George’s, Oldham-road, Manchester.
Binnie, Alfred Jonathan; Incumbent of St. Silas's, Hunslet.
Boughey, A. H. F.; Incumbent of St. Michael’s, Cambridge.
Bullc-r, W. E., Vicar of Over Stowey; Vicar of Chard.
Bussell, Frederick Vernon; Vicar of Balderton.
Campbell, Dillon Charles ; Vicar of Great ltedisham, Suffolk.
Campbell, Straton Charles; Vicar of Weasenham AU Saints’, with Weasen-
ham St. Peter, Norfolk.
Carleton, Edward Crofton Ellis; Perpetual Curate of Holy Trinity, War¬
rington, Lancashire.
Connell, Archibald J. Campbell; Rector of Monksleigh.
Dale, Thomas Francis; Chaplain, Bombay.
Edwards, Anderson; Vicar of Bridekirk, Cumberland.
Faithfull, James Arthur; Vicar of Holy Trinity, Leicester.
Fitzgerald, F. S.; Rector of Beckingham with Fenton and Stragglethorpe.
Goodacre, Alfred Randolph; Incumbent of St. Thomas’s, Camberwell.
Gray, Charles; Chaplain of Northampton Borough Prison.
Griffith, J. W.; Rector of Pentraeth with Llanbedrgoch, Anglesey.
Harvey, H. H.; Chaplain of the Dorset County Hospital at Dorchester.
Hill, Frederick Henry; Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Zetland.
Horwood, R.; Perpetual Curate of St. Michael’s, North Rode, Cheshire.
Langbridge, Frederick; Incumbent of Glen Alla, Ray, Letterkenny.
Layton, Henry Gilbert; Chnpla ; n of her Majesty’s Prison at Aylesbury.
Linton, Hewett; Perpetual Curate of Abram, Lancashire.
Lister, Thomas Henry; Rector of Somersby.
Loughnnn, John Edward; Vicar of St. James’s, Bradford.
MncDonnell, John Cotter: Honorary Canon of Peterborough Cathedral.
Morgan, Daniel; Vicar of Bodewrya with Rhosbeirio, Anglesey.
Pattinson, William, Rector of Kirkbampton; Rector of Patterdale.
Plummer, Rowland Taylor ; Vicar of St. Paul’s, Btepney.
Roberts, Thomas Opie ; Vicar of Haverhill.
Sharp, JameB; Chaplain, Madras.
Sisson, Michael Joseph; Chaplain of her Majesty’s Prison, Spalding.
Skrimsliire, Henry; Chaplain, All Saints’, Dresden.
SLatcr, Francis ; Perpetual Curate of St. James’s, Lachford, Cheshire.
Spencer-Smith, Orlando; Rector of Swyre, Dorset.
Stevenson, M.; Chaplain of the London Hospital.
Watkins, John; Rector of Gamlingay.
Winslow, J. L.; Vicar of Seaforth.— Guardian.
The Bishop of London has addressed a letter to the clergy
throughout his see generally on behalf of the Bishop of
London's Fund. He also makes an appeal on behalf of the
funds of the Metropolitan Visiting and Relief Association.
The Bishop and Committee of the Exeter Diocesan Board
of Education have appointed the Rev. J. H. C. Hobkirk, Rector
of Hittisleigh, Inspector of Schools for the South-Western
District in that diocese.
Another Munich window, consisting of five fights, has been
erected in the church of Boston, near Cambridge, the artists
being Messrs. Mayer and Co.—A rich stained glass window has
been placed in the old Church of St. Luke, Charlton, by the
Dowager Lady Wilson in memory of her husband, the late Sir
John Maryon Wilson.
The New Testament Company have completed their second
and final revision. They have held eighty-five sessions, and
spent 337 days on the work, which they began in June, 1870.
The total number of the company is twenty-four, and the
average rate of attendance throughout has been fifteen. There
now remains the consideration of any further suggestions that
may be made by the American company, and the adjustment
of some questions which have been reserved till the end.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Dec. 21, 1878.-576
THE AFGHAN WAR: CAMP OF GENERAL ROBERT8 AT THOLL, ON THE KHOORUM RIVER.
THE AFGHAN WAR.
We have to thank Lieutenant C. H. Atchison, R.H.A., for a
sketch taken by him, on the 3rd ult., of the village of Thull,
and the banks of the Khoorum river, with port of the camp of
Major-General F. 8. Roberta’s forces, which have, since the
20th ult., advanced up the Khoorum Pass, occupied the upper
valley with its forts, stormed the Pei war, on the 2nd inst., and
reached the summit of the Shutargardon, 11,200 ft. above the
level of the sea. The tents shown in this sketch are, in the
centre, those of the Commissariat storage; to the left, the
guard-tent of the 5th Punjaub Cavalry; and the two buildings
on the low hill are ancient Mohammedan tombs. This place,
Thull, where the troops under General Robert* were con¬
centrated for the central column of advance into Afghanistan,
is situated on the frontier, on the left bonk of the Khoorum
river, fifty-seven miles south-west of Kohat, which was the
real base of operations, and forty-two miles from the
military cantonment of Edwardesabad, or Bunnoo; it is 168
miles from the dty of Cabul, and 198 from Ghur.ni, in
Afghanistan. The distance from Thull, through the
Pass, to Mohammed Ax ton's Fort, usually called the Khoorum
Fort, is about fifty miles. The climate of the Khoorum Valley
is described ns very salubrious; for about six weeks the winter
is severe, but during the spring and aut umn it is charming.
The valley is fertile, filled with orchards, and well cultivated.
The principal tribes are the Baugash, a large section of whom
dwell in the Hungoo and Kohat districts under our rule, and
who are peaceably disposed, and the Turis, who are far better
fighting material than their neighbours. These two tribes are
estimated at a strength of 5000 able-bodied men each. The
Jojis can put about 2500, and the Mangals about 2100
fighting men into the field. There are upwnrds of forty
walled villages in the valley, capable of stubborn defence
against assailants unarmed with artillery. The chief
crops of the valley are rice, wheat, cotton, and barley,
which the inhabitants bring down to the fair at Bun¬
noo. Water, forage, and firewood are abundant throughout
the district. The whole of the inhabitants are Moham¬
medans of the Shin persuasion, and are consequently inimical
to the 8onni rulers of Cabul. 8o long ago os 1849, when the
late Sir Herbert Edwnrdea was employed in the Bunnoo
district, the then ruler of Khoorum officially informed the
British officer thnt his tribes were anxious to place themselves
I under our rule. The occupation of Khoorum and the adjacent
Valley of Khost has often been considered as a possible
measure by the Indian Government, to be carried out to much
the same way as the occupation of Cyprus has been recently
! achieved—that is, that we were to pay the Ameer his usual
annual taxes, amounting to £1500 per annum. It was calcu¬
lated there would be a very trifling loss to th«»
Exchequer, but the gaiu in a strategical ten" WMimpP®*"
would counterbalance it. There is no doubt th ,
military posts in the valley, we shall be for nearer-Ameeror
Ghuzni, and more able to inflict a blow cltb "°“ h u>p# t*
on the Afreedis of the Safed Koh should «uch sUp*
desirable. The fort of Khoorum bad bee® Cb?
the Ameer’s soldiers. It was visited not o^y by ^ sir
den’s Mission in 1857, but also by a force rma* g
Neville Chamberlain in 1856. It is by_ ccn t»
formidable stronghold. It is situated near j ns
of the valley, 25 miles east of the
west of Kohat, 120 from Cabul, and lb ° a build-
Like the majority of Eastern forts, it is a sq ^ulsr
tog; the faces ire about U 0 vards m engh,jHtodK u
towers at the angles. A second work, withi toftia: pomp* ^
built inside. In this ore the magazines and storehouse ^
outer work is surrounded by a ghow th»t
pleasure. Enough has been said of thui district to toow ^ #
the occupation of this valley as far as the P Kobftt , the
considerable advantage. Its communications witn a ^ ^
base of operations of the central column, are ^ {or
valley itaeLfwill form an admirable s ^. < ??^£ )U btedly be »
ulterior advance on Cabul. Its seizure will undouDwmjr
great blow to the Ameer.
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Ali Khel, which General Roberts has now occupied, is a
large village peopled by Jajis, about fifteen miles west of the
Peiwar Pass. There is plenty of water, but forage and pro¬
visions are scarce. It is 150 miles west of Kohat, and 100
east of Ghuzni. The Darwesh Khel Wuziris, who live on the
right or southern bank of the Khoorum, have always been on
fairly friendly terms with us; their proximity to the Bunnoo
frontier, and their constant intercourse with British sub¬
jects, have doubtless induced them to join us. The
direct road from Thull to Bunnoo, which follows the
course of the Khoorum river, has been used by the
convoys, and this is not the first time that route has been
followed by British troops. After the Kotul Khel Wuziri
Expedition in 1859, the 6th Punjaub Infantry, with another
corps, returned to their cantonments on the break up of the
field force by the bed of the Khoorum, so that it was known to
be practicable. If the Wuziris consent„to keep this road clear
for our troops and commissariat convoys, it will prove of in¬
estimable advantage. Marwar, the great grain-producing dis¬
trict of the trans-Indus provinces, is within seventy miles of
Thull by this route ; but, should it be closed, all transport will
be compelled to move round by Kohat, a distance of 180 miles.
Doubtless our political officers will subsidise the Wuziris
largely, in order to ensure the constant use of this valuable
road.
The following is the latest news of the campaign received
up to Thursday, when this was written; it is communicated
by the Viceroy of India, in a telegram on Wednesday :—
“ General Sir S. Browne marched for Jellalabad yesterday;
hopes to reach on 20th. All quiet in Khyber Pass and neigh¬
bourhood.
“ General Biddulph has occupied the eastern side of the
Khojak Pass. The road had been sufficiently improved to
enable him to continue his advance on the 15th inst. General
Biddulph hopes to come to an arrangement with tho neigh¬
bouring tribes for keeping the pass open. Many offers of
service have been received. The prospect of obtaining supplies
beyond the pass is satisfactory.”
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
Both Chambers met on the 12th inst. The Senate, after an
unsuccessful attempt by the Right at a day’s delay, took up
the Budget, but did not get through the general discussion.
In the Chamber M. Morel’s election for Puy, challenged by
the Right, was confirmed by 312 to 130 ; and, after disposing
of some other business, the Chamber adjourned till the Senate
has discussed the Budget. The debate on the Budget was
continued in the Senate yesterday week. After a speech by
M. Bother, who was replied to by M. Leon Say, the general dis¬
cussion terminated. In the Senate on Saturday M. Wad-
dington, in reply to a question by M. Gontaut-Biron, made a
statement of some length respecting the foreign policy of
France. That policy, he said, had not varied since the close
of the Congress. It was embodied in the instructions given to
the French Plenipotentiaries at Berlin. They were to defend
the interests of France, to maintain peace, to do nothing to
compromise French neutrality, and to avoid all engagements
concerning the future. Those conditions had been scru¬
pulously respected, and France left the Congress as free as
she entered it. She had constantly supported the execution of
theBerlin Treaty. No doubt there were difficulties; but, with the
accord of the Powers, they must soon bo settled. With regard
to Greece, M. Waddington said, in the action which France
had initiated to secure for that country a sufficient frontier she
would not be isolated, but would act in concert with all the
Powers. His explanation of the position of the country was
adopted as satisfactory, and the Senate passed on to a con¬
sideration of the Budget of the Interior. On Tuesday the
debate on the Budget was resumed. On the motion of
M. Belcastel, a member of the Right, an addition of lOOf. a
year to the salary of the lower clergy, which had been struck
out by the Chamber of Deputies, was restored by 159 to 112.
In consequence of this vote the Chamber will have to meet
again before the 31st inst., in order to reconsider this portion
of the Budget. The Senate on Wednesday adopted the
Budget of Expenditure.
Pardons, commutations, or reductions of sentences have
been granted to one hundred persons who were condemned in
connection with the events of the Commune.
At Paris last week M. Amedee Dufaure, son of the Prime
Minister, was married, at St. Augustine’s Church, to Mdlle.
Nancy Dufaure, daughter of a leading shipowner.
All the Parisian Theatres have introduced Sunday morning
performances.
ITALY.
Signor Cairoli having declined, after consideration, to under¬
take the task of forming a new Cabinet, the King consulted
several political leaders, and then sent for Signor Depretis,
who ha6 formed a new Cabinet, composed entirely of members
of the Left; Signor Depretis taking the office of President of
tbe Council and Minister of the Interior, and provisionally
acting as Minister for Foreign Affairs.
HOLLAND.
The First Chamber on Saturday last unanimously adopted
the Indian Budget for 1879.
GERMANY.
The German Emperor and Empress have subscribed 1000
marks between them towards the fund for relieving distress in
Heligoland.
Eulogiums have been pronounced over the bier of the
Princess Alice by the whole German press and nation.
In Wednesday’s sitting of the Lower House of the Prussian
Diet a resolution was passed by a large majority calling upon
the Government to bring about as speedily as possible the
transfer of the control of the Prussian railway system to the
Empire. The Minister of Commerce said the Government
would endeavour to give practical effect to the views expressed.
The Treaty of Commerce between Germany and Austria-
Hungary to be in operation for the ensuing year was signed at
the Foreign Office, Berlin, on Monday.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
The three days’ debate of the Hungarian Delegation on
Eastern affuirs terminated last Saturday in the adoption, by a
large majority, of the motion of Herr Hegedus to grant a sum
of 20,000,000 florins for the occupation expenses in 1879.
Count Andrassy defended the Eastern policy of the Govern¬
ment in a long speech, and maintained that the occupation of
Bosnia would not disturb the monarchy or shift its centre of
gravity. His speech was received with prolonged cheering,
llie Austrian Delegation has agreed to the greater number of
the resolutions adopted by the Hungarian Delegation but h is
resolved to adhere to its former rejection of tho propoiils
Imiing reference to the appointment of an additional number
of captains, the building of a newturret-ship, and other matters,
in the Lower House of the Hungarian Diet on Monday the bill
proposing the prolongation of the military law was passed by
an overwhelming majority. Only the members of the Extrema 1
Lett voted agonist the measure. The Hungarian Delegation
assented to the resolutions adopted on the previous day by the
Austrian Delegation, and there is, in consequence, no necessity
for a common vote. An agreement having oeen thus effected,
the Austrian delegation assembled and voted the common
Estimates for the coming year. After a long discussion in
Tuesday’s sitting of the Lower House of the Hungarian Diet, a
resolution was adopted, by 199 votes against 123, indemnifying
the Government for the projected expenditure in the first
quarter of the ensuing year. In Wednesday’s sitting of
the Lower House of the Austrian Reichsrath, the Minister
of Commerce submitted the Treaty of Commerce with
Germany. The treaty was referred to the Economical
Committee. The House next discussed the bill authorising
the Government to continue levying the taxes for defraying
the State expenditure during the first quarter of 1879. After
a protracted debate the bill was passed in second and third
reading, in accordance with the resolutions of the Budgot
Committee. The Committee of the Lower House of the
Austrian Reichsrath upon the Army Bill has confirmed its
former resolution not to discuss the proposal for a pro¬
longation of the present law. The Committee resolved, after
a protracted debate, to report in favour of tbe Government
bill, but rejected the proposal to declare itself at the same
time on principle in favour of a reduction of the war footing
of the army. The Committee also threw out the proposal
that the Provisional Army Law should only remain in forcq
until March 1 next.
RUSSIA.
After active communications between the English and
Russian Governments, the latter have resolved to formally
and officially recall their Mission to Cabul. Russia has further
given an assurance that she will evacuate European Turkey
within the time fixed by the Berlin Treaty.
Prince Gortschakoff was received on the 12 th by tbe Emperor
Alexander, and has resumed the direction of the Ministry for
Foreign Affairs.
According to news received at Berlin from St. Petersburg,
the Russian Bank withdrew between the 25th ult. and the 2nd
inst. seven millions of paper roubles from circulation, so that
now there remain 472 millions of paper roubles current.
AMERICA.
The United States Senate yesterday week passed by 35
votes to 26 the Electoral Bill introduced by Mr. Edmunds
respecting the method of counting the votes in the Presidential
election. The bill enacts that a disputed vote in any State
shall be left to be settled first by the State, and, failing that, by
Congress. The American correspondent of the Times states
that the Senate Appropriation Committee has amended the
Diplomatic Appropriation Bill, so as to make it exactly con¬
form to the present state of the service, and also reinstating
second secretaries, at London, Paris, and Berlin. The House
of Representatives on Saturday last discussed a bill dis¬
tributing nearly 10,000,000 dols. of the Geneva award remain¬
ing in the Treasury, but without taking action. Three
patties contend for this balance, but nobody in Congress
lias yet proposed to repay the money to England. In Mon¬
day’s sitting of the Senate the Chaplain alluded in the
opening prayer to the death of Princess Alice, and besought
the mercy of the Almighty for those who mourned for her. The
Senate has passed Mr. Blaine’s resolution instructing the
Judiciary Committee to inquire into the alleged cases of intimi¬
dation in the Southern States during the recent elections by
56 votes to 6. An amendment to the resolution was also agreed
to, making it applicable to the whole of the United States.
Congress has adjourned for the Christmas holidays.
AUSTRALIA.
A telegram from Sydney announces that, inconsequence of
the rejection of the Land Bill by the Legislative Assembly, the
New South Wales Ministry has resigned; but by a later tele¬
gram on Saturday last we learn that, in consequence of the
difficulties attending the formation of a new Cabinet, the
former Ministers have agreed to remain in office. Sir John
Robertson has resigned his seat in tho Legislative Assembly.
A telegram from Sydney on Thursday announces that the
Legislative Assembly has passed a vote of want of confidence
in the Ministry.
A Reuter’s telegram from Adelaide says the first match of
the English cricketers, under the captaincy of Lord Harris,
against sixteen players of South Australia, was finished op
Saturday last, and resulted in the victory of the English Eleven
by four wickets. The English cricketers, according to a later
Reuter’s telegram, arrived in Melbourne from Adelaide on
Tuesday.
CANADA.
All places of business in Ottawa were closed on Wednesday
between the hours of one and three o’clock in the afternoon,
as a mark of respect on the occasion of the funeral of Princess
Alice. Prayers for the Queen were said in all the churches in
Montreal, Quebec, and Toronto on Sunday.
All the Conservative members of the Quebec Legislature
have petitioned for the removal of the Lieutenant-Governor,
the Hon. Luc Letellier de St. Just.
Mr. Philip Anstey Smith, Chief Justice of the Bahamas,
has been appointed Chief Justice of the Gold Coast.
Sir Bartle Frere, according to the latest intelligence from
the Cape, had sent an ultimatum to the Zulu Kin g Cetewayo.
News received from Lima to Nov. 12, by way of Lisbon,
states that ex-President Pardo was murdered as he was
entering the Senate.
Lord Lytton left Lahore on Thursday afternoon for Cal¬
cutta. All the native chiefs accompanied him to the railway
station to bid him farewell.
The portraits in the Almanack de Gotha for 1879 are those
of the late Queen of Spain, the present Pope, the Duke of
Connaught, and the Princess Louise Margaret of Prussi i.
The barque Scottish Hero, 869 Ions, Captain Mowat, jun.,
sailed from Gravesend on Dec. 14 with 276 emigrants for
Maryborough, Queensland.
Lapland suffered dreadfully from the ravages of wolves
during the summer. One third of the reindeer belong'ng to
the Lapps have been destroyed, and nearly all the young ones.
Mr. Pope Hennessy, the Governor of Hong-Kong, has paid
a visit to Canton, where he was received in a flattering manner
by the Viceroy and the high provincial officials.
A Royal order, issued at Copenhagen, notifies that the
marriage of the Duke of Cumberland to Princess Thyra will
still take place on the 21st., as the funeral of the late Grand
Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt has been fixed for the 18th.
Difficulties with regard to the jurisdiction of the foreign
Consuls m Cyprus are reported to have arisen, and negotiations
on the subject are stated to have been entered on between the
British Government and the Porte.—A telegram from Candia
announces that Mr. William Audersou, the superintendent of
the telegraph there, was murdered, together with a native
servant, outside the gates of the town on Saturday. Tho
deceased was a nephew of Sir James Anderson.
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
The Thames Embankment and the Holbom Viadiw
lighted with the electric light. laauct " e
The annual distribution of prizes of the King's CJIhj
S chool was held on Tuesday, in presence of a large compm/
Accounts from various parts of the country indicate no
diminution in the prevailing distress. Movements for th*
relief of the existing distress are reported from many towni
The new Waterloo station of the London and Sorih
Western Railway was opened for passenger traffic on Mondav
and was used for the first time by the main line suburb in’
trains, for the accommodation of which it has been erected.
A claim of £300,000 has been mode as the value of the Bit
t ersea and Albert Bridges, on those structures being taken over
by the Metropolitan Board of Works. This sum is refused bv
that body, and the matter has been referred to arbitration. 7
Tuesday being “Doctors’ Day” at the Merchant Tayhrs’
School, the Master and Wardens of the Merchant Taylw
Company, a crowd of visitors, and the boys, who number mira
than 500, assembled in the afternoon in tho hall of the imfi.
tution, in Charterhouse-square, to witness the annual delivery
of speeches and presentation of prizes. J
At yesterday week’s meeting of the Metropolitan Board of
Works a letter from the Home Office was read which inform'd
the Board that her Majesty’s Government did not see their
way to further the proposed scheme of the Board for the pur-
chase of the water companies of the metropolis. It wa?
resolved that no further steps should be taken with the con¬
templated bill.
An appeal, signed by Lord Shaftesbury, is being made for
funds in aid of the Ragged School Union, which for nearly
thirty-five years has been exercising a vast influence for good
in the thickest, most wretched, and neglected portions of the
metropolis, rescuing from infamy and crime multitudes of chil¬
dren, large numbers of whom are now occupying positions of
respectability and usefulness.
A number of gentlemen, representing the British residents
in California, attended last Saturday at the official residence of
the Premier in Downing-street to present him with an address
inclosed in a silver casket, as an expression of their high
appreciation of his statesmanship during the late European
crisis. Owing, however, to the death of Princess Alice, his
Lordship was obliged to postpone the presentation to Thurid ly.
Mr. Cross and the Duke of Richmond on Monday received
a deputation which urged that a general Act should be intro¬
duced by the Government with a view of preventing the
damage committed by the overflowing of rivers in England.
Mr. Cross, while unable then to make any definite statement,
expressed his concurrence in the view that if anything waj
done in the matter it ought to be done by the Government.
The annual festival of the institution established by some
members of the National Chamber of Trade for the relief of
milk-dealers, who, by reason of misfortunes peculiar to their
calling, may be reduced to distress, was held at St. Jatnei’a
Hall on the 13th inst.. the company numbering about 400. Hr.
J. T. Peacock presided, and in reply to his appeal more thin
£600 was subscribed. The chairman gave 100 guineas, Mr.
E. C. Tisdall 50 guineas, and Mr. H. Nevill 20 guineas.
A meeting, which was numerously attended by repre¬
sentatives of all branches of the Inland Revenue Department,
took place on the 12th inst. at the Inland Revenue Olcc,
Somerset House, the object being the presentation to Lady
Stephenson of a portrait of her husband, Sir Willi vn H.
Stephenson, K.C.B., which had been painted by Mr. Rich¬
mond, R.A., at the request of members of the department who
had served under Sir William from 1862 to 1877, when he ws
chairman of the board.
In consequence of the death of Princess Alice the Lily
Mayoress’s juvenile ball, which was fixed for Jan. 6, has bi:a
postponed until the Friday in Easter week (April 18). For the
same reason, the presentation of the prizes of the Fannnken’
Company by the Lady Mayoress has been deferred; and the
Salters’ and Glass-Sellers’ Companies have withdrawn their
invitations to banquets which they had intended to give b.fore
Christmas. The banquet which was to have been given to the
First Lord of the Admiralty at the Westminster Palace Hitel
has been postponed.
For forty-four years the committee of the Indigent Blind
Visiting Society have been labouring most strenuously by
visitation, relief, and education, to ameliorate the condition of
tbe blind who are, by reason of their heavy affliction, the mist
suffering of our poor. The committee deplore the uecessiiy of
suspending from relief a large number of most needy nnd
de‘trving blind persons from want of funds. About 7l)J iri
still visited and relieved. A most urgent appeal is made to cnibla
the committee to give coals during the winter aud to provide
the usual Christmas dinners. Last year £401 were distributed
among 8G9 blind persons. Contributions will be most thank¬
fully received by Mr. W. Colmer, 27, Red Lion-square Taa
bankers are Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-lane.
Sir Brandrc th Gibbs presided at the annual meeting of the
Royal Agricultural Society, which was held on the 12th nut.
The report of the council stated that the society then consisted
of 6797 members, showing an increase of 157 during tne
current year. The funded property remained the sain: at
the last general meeting—viz., £26,511; the balance at “ e
bark on the lbt inst. was £942, and there was £1000ondj.‘pnit.
Particulars of the preparations for the next year’s gathering
of tbe Royal Agricultural Society were given in the report.
The show-, which will assume the form and proportions ot s
International Agricultural Exhibition, will begin on M uriL
June 30, and close on Monday evening, July 7. It will
held at Kilburn.
There were 2397 births and 1698deaths registered iuLo^°“
last week. Allowing for increase of population, the bir
were 77, and the deaths 89, below the average numbers iu
cone spending week of the last ten years. The deaths mcla c
17 from smulJpox, 34 from measles, 46 from scarlet fever,
from diphtheria, 47 from whooping-cough, 33 from dm _ _
lonns ot fever, and 11 from diarrhoea. The deaths
nnallpox rose to 17 last week, a higher number than in )
w ee k since the beginning of August last. The deaths reu ^
to diseases of the respiratory organs, which had been u . ’
and 460 in the three previous weeks, further rose to
week, and exceeded by 15 the corrected weekly average-
resulted from bronchitis and 101 from pneumonia, in »
Louden 2944 births and 2014 deaths were registerea-
mean temperature was 28 4 deg., being 12 5 deg. D’ m
average in the coiresponding week of sixty years, im
was very considerably below the average on each ai
week; the coldest day was Friday, when the mean , jt
25 8 deg., showing a deficiency of 14 8 deg. I he lo *’ » = f
temperature was 20 5 deg. on Saturday. The an ^
registered bright sunshine in tho week was 3 b ho »
sun being above the horizon during 549 hours.
DEC. 21, 1878
TEE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
579
CISSY, THE LITTLE PEACEMAKER.
BY PERCY FITZGERALD.
Ill the little village of Mytton, Lancashire, is one of the
prettiest old churches, where the old Sherburnes sleep, side
by side, on their venerable stone couches. Good Squire
Lendbetter, the most regular attendant at church, often
thought that these recumbent warriors and their noble dames,
picturesque as their attitudes were, took up somewhat
too much room, and would have exchanged some at least
for a few extra pews. He was a vehement man, this
Squire—smooth of aspect and courteous in manner, but
with a boisterous soul, quick to resent. Some dated this
irritability from the death of his wife, the charming, trusting,
worthipping Eva Leadbetter, who believed him to be the
noblest, cleverest being in the world—which he was not—and
that envy, malice, hatred, and ill-will were exerted to prevent
his being Prime Minister of England. There was left to him,
however, a second Eva, a pretty little child, her mother’s
replica, a most engaging little prattler, with a sort of child’s
wisdom and good sense that was rather uncommon.
Cissy was her name; and Cissy Leadbetter used to advise
gravely with her father on all the village difficulties and
troubles; and sometimes caused him to turn and gaze on
her with wonder as she indicated rather than suggested a
solution of the difficulty. A very serious little personage, too.
The fact was, “mamma’s death” had overshadowed the
mansion and hid all in it; and roomy as it was—with a fine
old stair and some great rooms rambling away, dark,
echoing—they lived below, on the ground floor, which was,
indeed, ample enough for all concerned. Thus the regions
above became associated in her mind with mystery—it seemed
akin to the dark clouds on gloomy days, and was, in short,
sacred to mamma. Mamma was gone, and the misty realms
overhead were, as it were, gone from them too. She had never
been up stairs “in my life,” she would say, with au air of
experience, as though she were forty or fifty years old.
There was another wise personage residiug in that rather
gloomy mansion—the dog, Neptune by name. A huge blood¬
hound—solemn and sapient—walking like a philosopher, and
with a deep bay or growl that recalled the low pipe of the
organ in Mytton church. He was Cissy’s friend and com¬
panion ; both were fast friends, walking out together, and com¬
municating in a way that was sufficiently intelligible. They
went out to walk together, and the pair were as well known as
the Preston Coach—she tripping it very fast, and Neptune
stalking along rather slowly, to accommodate his pace to hers.
But there was another shadow over that young existence.
About a quarter of a mile off lived one Squire Hornby, the
owner of Homby Chase, their nearest neighbours and
relations, too, whose inviting old house could be seen from the
windows of Leadbetter Hall, and more especially that velvet
lawn on to which the Hornbys used to troop out for bowls or
other pastime— a gay, handsome family of merry girls and boys.
Nay, even the ring of their cheerful voices would often be borne
to the ears of Little Cissy, looking out wistfully from her own
gloomy tenement. How she longed to be with them, she and
Neptune, as she saw them fly round and round chasing each
other, the bright colours glinting in the sun. But there was a
barrier insurmountable. Between the two Squires raged a
feud, which dated from the marriage of Mr. Leadbetter. His
late wife being a mere girl, and many years younger than
he was, was not acceptable to this family; or Squire
Homby had uttered some rough speeches, saying that his
friend had been taken in by a little adventuress, a
speech which the other had resented, and since his
wife's death had turned into a cause for eternal hate.
The efftnee became of a sudden rank, and cried for vengeance.
It was an insult to the dead. Then had come a dispute about
a hit of laud or a path, which was fought with fury; indeed,
they would have been glad to contend about a scrap of ribbon
or paper—any tiling for an excuse. And one day the pair had
met on the high road, and, dealing out hot words, it had all
but come to a blow. After which they never interchanged a
word. This was held by all around to be a disastrous thing
for the parish ; efforts were made to meud matters and set the
fracture ; and Parson Fenton, under whose guardianship the
stone Sherburnes slept “in icy hoods and mails,” venturing
once to remonstrate with Squire Homby, received so rude a
reception that a third party became drawn into the quarrel,
and it was noted by the rustics that * 1 Parson and Squoire betint
speakin’, loike.”
All this was miserable and very cad for the poor
little mistress of the mansion; for that intimacy, trifling
as the occasion might be, would have clearly changed the
whole course and colour of her existence. It was hard on
Neptune; for here was society for him and acquaintances he
would have liked to make. There it was, however, and
there it was to he : the little grave, solemn girl, and her dog,
and the brooding father, she being brought up in this
ascetic way, a perfect little nun. It was, indeed, a sore trial
for her : these were such gay, brilliant children, their clothes
so fine their carnages and attendants so brilliant and
numerous, and they seemed so happy. On their side the
favoured children often took note of the little monastic child,
and wondered what a dreary life she must be living. Some¬
times they met her on the road, and mamma, an amiable,
gentle lady, gave the little pariah a smile. But the papa3 had
sternly forbidden all intercourse.
Now, there are some who may recall the Christmas of 183—,
which was one of the “hardest”—expressive term !—that
old people can remember. All things were snowed up, high
roads and private paths; coaches stopped, gangs of men having
to be employed to cut them out of drifts, working like soldiers
in the trenches. The branches of old trees, burdened with a
weight they were not accustomed to, gave way, and many,
enjoying an honoured old age, lost brave old limbs, and were,
as it were, ignobly crippled. It was a serious business for
Mytton, which was not on the beaten track, and in danger
of being altogether cut off from the outer world. Some
visitors, too, had been asked for the first time since mamma’s
death—a period from which all things were dismally reckoned—
so she would have company. But two days before Christmas
the snow began; and the visitors—friendly cousins—they,
too, may have been on the road, and, perhaps, were “ snowed
up” at some wretched country inn—made no sign. So,
instead of its being the cheerful Christmas to which the little
nun was looking, it was actually to be more dismal than usual,
owing to disappointment.
It was unfortunate, too, that at Homby Chase there was to
be no lively Christmas. Squire Hornby’s family had all set off
a week before to a gay country house, and papa was to follow;
but here was the pitiless snow, which hod shut him up.
An affectionate man, his situation, removed from children and
■wife, was pitiable enough. .
It was late on Christmas Eve. The snow had ceased fall¬
ing. Lights were twinkling among the trees, and Cissy was
sitting in the window looking out, while her father was gazing
vacantly into the glowing logs in the grate. Suddenly there
was a Found of trampling in the hall and of cheerful voices,
and the stout cook came running up in person to announce
the joyful news,
“ Please, Sir, hero’s a hamper’s come ! ”
Down went father and daughter to welcome it, and there
was a rough carrier, who had come across from Whalley.
“ They got the coach through this morning,” he said,
“with fitly men working all night; and I thowt, as you’d
sent over ior the hamper, that this must be she.”
“Why, it can't be for me;” said Mr. Leadbetter, “we
expected no hamper. No one ever dreams of sending me any¬
thing.” J
“ "U ell, you see, Sir, what with the snow and slush, there
be no direction, or it be fallen off. But it be for you, in
course.”
There was no card or direction, but there was the moral
certainty from the contents; the carter unpacking it himself,
and drawing forth an enormous goose of Leadenhall, so
stupendous that Cissy exclaimed, with conviction,
“ There, Papa! That proves it—the goose! ” Thsre was
wine below and there were Strasburg pics, and all sorts of
good things.
He went away to his room, and the carrier departed.
Cissy left, and carefully making investigation of the treasures
°f r the hamper, began to grow grave, and yet graver.
“ No,” she said; “ I begin to think this cannot be for
us.” It was too splendid; and, when she came to a
box containing a pretty little gold cross, with a pair of
ear-iings, the most lovely piece of work in the world,
for which she would have given her eyes, she shook her
head sadly. On the top of this box was a little scrap of
paper hastily written over“ Dearest! I send the things, as
you desired; with the ornament for little Ciss. We expect
your dear self on Christmas Eve.” So it was for them, after
all! Oh, what ecstasy—what delight! And the little cross
and ear-rings—they were for her! She put both on, as of
course, and looked in the glass ; then was about to rush up to
papa, when the little face grew grave and sad.
“Oh, it car.’t—it can't be!” she said. “Papa will take
nothing from the Hombys; but he must, for my sake ! ”
It was quite clear. Welcome as the treasures were in them¬
selves, they were doubly welcome as a peace-offering from the
kind, generous, and magnanimous Hornbys.
She rushed to her father, who had retired to his gloomy
cave.
“ Look—look ! ” she cried. “It’s for us. I found it out.
And these trinkets they ’re for me."
“I am glad,” said he, kissing her, “that somebody has
thought of you this Christmas and sent you a Christmas-box.”
“But who do you think it is?” she said roguishly, and
with her wise air.
“Iam sure I could not guess,” he said, wearily.
“No, I am sure you could not,” she answered; “because
it’s from a person you could never ——. Oh,” she added, im¬
pulsively, “ isn’t it truly generous to forget all the quarrel and
make the first advance ? For it is one, you know, and”-
She faltered; for there was gathering in his face looks of
wonder, anger, and even rage.
“You dared—I mean, they dared! As if we were paupers,
to whom they could send their alms at Christmas ! Take their
gimeracks off !— at once ; without an instant’s delay! My poor
Cis! But it ! s not your fault.”
And, turning from her, he seized his pen, and she knew he
was writing a furious letter; for she heard him mutter, “This
must come to nn end at once—at once ! ”
Then he called to the servant, and bade him pack up
all these things and carry them over to Hornby, “with
that letter.” “And don’t exchange a word with their
servants—not a word, mind—but throw it down in their Hall, at
their door, and begone.” Then he flung himself into his cave
again. And the hamper was packed, the stupendous goose
reintroduced to his straw, and little Cis sadly took off tho cross
and earrings, and put them where they were before. It was
then carried away.
It began to g-row dark, and in that little wise head was a
plan being formed. She stole up stairs softly, and paused a
moment at the door of her father’s study. He was still at
the fire, in his high-backed chair; but. his face was turned
to “ Mamma’s picture ” over his chimney-piece. And she heard
him say, “ What a Christmas ! Since she left me I am a poor
desolate wretch.” Then he muttered threats, and she heard
the words distinctly, “ He shall meet me. It has come to that,
at last.”
Now was Cissy, at the door of the house, tripping forth,
having called her faithful Neptune to be her companion. It
was a clear night, and the snow had become crisp and hardened
under foot. There was nobody abroad on that whitened
expanse, but the lights of Homby Chase glowed through the
warm crimson curtains as through old stained glass. For to
Homby Chase she was going—a bold step, indeed; but she
was a wise, resolute little woman, who saw that the time was
come when something must be done.
The door was wide open. She entered softly. With her,
Neptune, stepping solemnly. She met no one. It was an old
mansion, full of old oak and old galleries, with men in
armour keeping sentinel in the hall and on the stairs. There
were no servants about. There was a dance that night at the
steward's house, and they had all set off. She ascended the
stairs; Neptune, on whose full neck she rested her arm, putting
his paws down solemnly and with caution. [Sw Illustration .]
It was a mysterious accent, up those little short lengths of
stairs we meet in old houses—the little lady full of woe, her
heart beating; but she pursued her course, Asking for the
light that came from under a door at the end of the gallery,
and which she guessed was the Squire’s study.
She tapped softly. No one answered. She heard the
rustling of papers ; then tapped again.
“Come in!” and Cissy, still leaning on her protector,
stood in the doorway. The Squire was standing up at a
cabinet, going over papers. “ What is it?” he said, without
turning his head.
“ Oh! Sir—Squire Homby,” began the little voice.
“Good gracious!” he said, giving a genuine start. Did
he think it was a ghost ? “ Why, what on earth does this
mean ? ” He was so astonished, he could hardly speak.
Cissy exclaimed, “ Indeed—indeed, I came, Sir, because
_and the ha—ha—mper”-and here, quite overcome with
excitement and alarm, she dropped her head on Neptune’s
shaggy neck and burst into tears.
“My poor, poor little woman,” said the Squire, drawing
her over to him. “Tell me about it. What is it? What
about the hamper ?”
Then Cissy, feeling that a great responsibility was cast
upon her, collected herself, and proceeded to relate the whole
story, giving a graphic picture of the earrings, and even of
the stupendous goose. . „ , , _ .
“You see,” she said confidentially, “dear, good Squire
Hornby—though we arc enemies, I can’t help calling you that—
papa is in a nervous way from living alone, and he sees things
Gloomily. What arc wc to do ? Boor dear papa is so
wretched, and I don’t know what to do; for it all comes on
me. 0 do, Sir, advise me.” .
“ I see,” said the Squire, “ he believes it comes from
m ° “ No, no! ” said she,.eagerly. “ I heard him as I came out
“ I am his friend, and always have been, if he would let
me he so. And he is cast down, you tell me, little woman and
lonely this Christmas night ? ”
“ Oh yes, yes! ”
The Squire was getting his hat and putting a comforter
round his neck.
“I beg your pardon,” said Cissy humbly, turning to go;
I see I am taking up your time, but I thought it best to come
and tell you about the hamper and prevent more mischief.”
“Stay, stay!” said the Squire. “You are not going
without me. A little lady like you must not be abroad of
nights by yourself.”
“ Oh ! I have Neptune. And are you coming with me ? ”
He took her hand. They set off across the snow—Cissy
wondiring and wondering. Here they were, at the door of her
own house. She then turned to him expecting he would say
•' Good-bye.” “ Ob, thank you, so much.” How her little
heart fluttered. What was going to be? How would it <md ?
“ What! You ore coming in ?” she exclaimed in delight.
“Yes,” said he, smiling, “if you will help me. Go to
your dear father and tell him I have come to see him.”
She flew away, and in one moment came rushing back.
“Oh dear, Squire. Go up, go up; goto him! Do yon
knew what he said?—* Thank God! I am not abandoned by
all the world.’ ”
The Squire lifted up Cissy and kissed her; then patted
Neptune’s big head, and went up stairs slowly. He remained
away a very, very long time. Then came her father’s voice
over the stairs.
“ Cissy, my darling, come up.”
And she fluttered up, that little peacemaker. Christmas
Day was a happy one ; for she, her father, and Neptune went
e ver to Hornby Chase and spent an evening of peace and
good will.
SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE POULTRY
MARKET.
The commodious and rather handsome structure which has
been erected by the City Corporation of London, close to the
Metropolitan Meat Market, in Smithfield, for the sale of
poultry, is a busy place on Saturday night, when wholesale
dealers are accustomed to dispose of their remaining stock,
in a prompt and summary manner, to a mixed crowd of
retail purchasers, not a few of whom seek to provide their
Sunday dinner in this way at a moderate cost, instead of
going to the nearest poulterer’s shop in their own street,
and there paying a higher price for it. Here are
thrifty housewives, mothers of families, landladies of sub¬
urban lodgings, bachelors of epicurean taste but of economical
principles, who dine at home on the day of rest, and who are
disposed to save a shilling by taking a little trouble, careful
working'men who fancy they can teach their wives a lesson
in household management, and small retailers whose
business in. their own neighbourhood will begin at a
latc-r hour, to go on briskly until the stroke of mid¬
night. To these, aud all other comers with money in their
hands, eagerly intent upon the object of their quest, is freely
offered the surplus supply of plump geese and turkeys,
chickens and ducklings, wild-fowl, hares and rabbits,
partridges, plovers, and other delicacies of animal food,
mostly at a cost much below what one would be charged in
the regular tradesmen’s establishments; more especially if
one’s gentility is above carrying the article home in basket or bag
with one’s ownhand, and if the tradesman is expected to give a
few weeks’ or months’ credit. There is a charm, as Dick
Swivcller might observe, in this simple practice of purveying
immediately for one’s own wants and comforts, “to which the
rich and powerful are strangers.” It may be unfashionable,
or even “ low,” but it is cheap and safe, and not unwise, for
p'eople who dwell within reach of such marketing facilities to
buy the best they can get, at the most reasonable cost.
Tuesday’s Gazette states that the Queen has been pleased to
confer the Albert medal of the first class on Mark Addy, of
Salford, in recognition of his repeated acts of heroism in saving
life from drowning in the river Irwell.
The committee of management of the Brompton Hospital
for Consumption have, says the World, decided that a ward
shall be named after the late lamented Major Whyte-Melville,
on account of his liberal contributions, amounting in the
aggregate to £1600, and the great interest he always felt in
its welfare.
The Christmas vacation at the Royal Military Academy
began on Tuesday, when Sir John Adye, the Governor,
announced the names of the thirty-seven gentlemen to whom
commissions had been awarded, and distributed the prizes.
In his report the Governor spoke favourably of the soldier-like
bearing and conduct of the cadets, and said that during the
past term the general state of discipline had been very satis¬
factory. The Pollock gold medal, for distinguished proficiency,
was presented to Under-Officer Stuart Davidson, and the
regulation sword for exemplary conduct was awarded to
Senior Under-Officer Edward Armitage.
There was a perceptible decrease in the amount of American
fresh meat landed at Liverpool last week when compared with
the previous one, while the arrivals of live stock were cha¬
racterised by the same feature. Four steamers reached the
Mersey with fresh meat, consisting of 4033 quarters of beef,
852 carcases of mutton, and 596 dead pigs. There were also
’anded eight boxes of poultry from Canada. During last
Christmas season a large number of turkeys and geese arrived
from Canada, and were well received in the English market.
The arrivals of live stock amounted to 187 cattle and 751 sheep.
—The Adlan mail-steamer Caspian, which arrived in the Mersey
on Wednesday from Canada, had on board a valuable con¬
signment of Canadian poultry for the Christmas market, com¬
prising 203 barrels of turkeys and nine cases of geese and
ducks, nearly 4000 head in all. The Dominion steamer
Mississippi, which also reached the Mersey on Wednesday,
brought about 1600 Canadian turkeys and geese. They are
all in splendid condition, and were dispatched at once to the
leading markets.
Dean Stanley, as president of the Midland Institute at
Birmingham, gave an address in the Townhall there on
Monday, his subject being an historic survey of American
Institutions. The Dean observed that many of the independent
States, having been formed on mediaeval models, had already
decayed, and were fast hastening in that direction. One of
the most remarkable facts, he said, about modem America
was the development of its institutions, among which the
abundance of libraries for the people was the great glory, as it
was the great reproach of the metropolis of our own country.
Dean Stanley subsequently presented the prizes to the success¬
ful students. In concluding his address the Dean alluded in
a touching manner to the death of Princess Alice.
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“ She ascended the stairs; Neptune, on whose full neck sho nvted her nnn, putting his paws down solemnly and with caution.’
ILLUSTRATION TO PERCY FITZGERALD'S TALE, “ CIS8Y, TI1E LITTLE PEACEMAKER." DRAWN BY F. DADD.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Dec. 21, 1878.—680
A NEW SUIT FOR CHRISTMAS. BY H, WERNER.
FROM A PHOTOGRAPH PUBLISHED BY THE BERLIN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY.
582
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
DEO. 21, 1878
echoes of the week.
Three .core je.ra 1»™ oTV'"d
ouibTook of bitterest . nation’s Future Beemed to
Princess. The very hopes of the nations conaort of
here clod mill ' b ^ Sortow ns general and OS
.nfcifncdly sonr, cbildfen at Darmstadt
bereaved husband, with the poor u , g . and reveren t
yor.dtr. left motherless, ad, whose ’ bright an d beneficent
pity felt for that August > Three sad gravestones :
g^rS'^TwSLSb- Consort, and, now,
of the Princess Alice,
u would be wholly
to toy wore directly <m Unsi head P mj[|utu ans hove been
KfSSSKSS:veto^; #«£-££?£Si
torrowing mo’d^Jrpose dm be nerved by deluging
eay, to be silent. £0 gooo p p co lumn of lachrymose
the newspapers with “ lu ™^ “; euloKy of a deceased Lady
rhetoric, and more ^ ^hority oFher Mother and her
whom we know, ou the a y clever but of whom
subject for Pretoria 1 or has written In the
leave llie Dead alone. Mr. a pathetic and
m
Elie " Le pauvTe en sa cabone est sujft il ses k»",
EUa garde qui veille aux barriires da Louvre
b N’en defend pas nos Row.
S»e SSStSS
ssft"^P^TMtS^rsn 0 .;
^ b0 b-.I C( l r l"if ^lentXTrofident in her most difficult art
Ar,w we to have a very miserable Christmas? Things at
A 1l J , -f at, Qxoss’8 smooth official words in the
UsssssHi
s&ss&itl
pay a poor’s rate of fourteen pence in the pound ; buthff e
not yet been able to discover the beneficence of the Poor Law.
Perhaps I shall find it out when I am broken, and am lam
to setdc the relieving oflicer and solicit indoor or outdoor
relief. So far as things go at present, I am happy tobeheve
that St Paucrns Workhouse is a very spacious and wel
s%s ««
frost, is to break down, utterly. What ^ become of my
fourteen pence in the pound ? 1 must make it up (if I con)
irtwinlfScn by subecriMog to too ‘•other benntotat
institutions” hinted at by the excellent Lord Blantjre.
Mind 1 see no bairn in sending something to the Rhodope suf¬
ferers • but, at the same time, we should not forget the claims
of the poor-box at Bow-street and the other police courts.
Mem : A lady asked me, the other day, which w»«thebest
•Charity to which to send a Christmas donation. Madam,
I replied, “ a celebrated gourmet was once asked which was the
best sauce for fish. ‘ All sauces,’ he made answer. All
chSitles are good to subscribe to ; only, before you draw your
cheeue or cut your five-pound notes in halves, jus., take the
trouble to enrol yourself as a member of the Chanty Organisa¬
tion Society, and make sure, by careful inquiries, that the
Charity which you have selected for support is not a swindle.
Juvenile balls put off; Royal visits abandoned; Westminster
nlavs suspended; the shops in Regent-street and Oxiord-
fctreet luil P of half mourning gear: assuredly these portents
do not seemto foretell a very merry Christmas. Yer^edeluge
of Christ mas-cards is more overwhelmingly abundant, more
irresistibly brilliant, and more fascinatingly pretty tins year
than eve r. It is true that these tasteful tniles are put in hand
in enily spring ; and that last March we could n °t foreseei the
cominK about of “ Peace with Honour”—and an Afghan war,
the collapse of traele, destitution in the manufacturing dis¬
tricts. and other troubles. I admire Christmas cards, andadvocate
the circulation thereof, from an artistic a commercial, and a
sentimental point of view: first, because the prodigious demand
for them tends to keep alive the beautiful art of chromo-
lithography; next, because the'production of the cards gives
remunerative employment to innumerable hands, including a
large number of lady-artists; and, finally, because the inter¬
change of these radiant missives stimulates kindly spirit and
good-feeling among all classes. So I mean to scatter Marcus
Ward’s and Delaruc’s pretty cartoons broadcast.
1 have experienced a sad—a dreadfully sad—sensation this
week. From my early childhood I have suffered from de¬
fective vision. For awhile I was totally blind; and since
my partial recovery, more than forty years since, I have had
onl\ one working eye, with the aid of which I have been
mercifully poimitted to do a good deal on paper, ou steel, on
copper, and on wood. But things ocular have nowcome to that
pass tlAvt I can no longer read even my Pall Mall Gazclte, much
less wi it e a letter by candlelight without glasses. So I went last
Wednesday to a famous firm in Regent-street to be measured
for a pair of spectacles. The obliging optician subjected me
to a cross-examination, lusting full twenty minutes, as to what
I hud been doing all my life through in the reading and
writing line, and as to what I could see, or could not see at
presi nt. Ultimately, with a view to the delivery of the
spectaides, he politely asked me for my name and address,
which 1 gave him, somewhat shamefacedly. One does not
like to “ own up ” in the matter of the first pair of spectacles.
“Ah!” he remarked, coolly, as he booked the necessary
particulars, “ Tf'c're been waiting for yon a long time.” norror !
Fancy being “ waited for” by an optician. Are the Economic
Fumral Company and the marble masons in the liigligate-
music in the Saxon capital to her, everything that you
to do, esteemed young a 7^ tbifl j b h 0 uld certainly have
have learned at Leipsic. Alter u Mies Bessie
abandoned the pianoforte for the b^ dm ^ twelve
S&3& “wSltogtotojreet ™ m
“The Enelish Colony at Wiesbaden” send me a post-card
sss? J i“i as st
n+ ^ocre qvr of the late Mr. Benjamin Luraley s. ltemi
at page oi n ,,._iJ cr (Piccclomini’s) voice was a
orneeful and apparently spontaneous and untutored. To
musicians she appeared a clever amateur, but never a great
artist.” Elsewhere Mr. Lumley speaks of Piccolommi as a
great little cloud compeller ” and “ a darling pet.
PARLIAMENT.
VOTES OF CONDOLENCE WITH THE QUEEN.
The general feeling of deep regret occasioned throughout the
country by the sad intelligence of the death of Princess Alice,
Grand Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt, found apt expression in
both Houses of Parliament at the beginning of the week.
Reassembling after a week’s adjournment on Tuesday,
their Lordships in the Upper Chamber confined themselves to
passing the Vote of Condolence with her Majesty, eloquently
proposed by the Earl of Beacousfield, and as eloquently
seconded by Earl Granville. With deep feeling, Lord Beacons-
field described the virtues of Princess Alice, and particularised
the e-pecial mark of motherly love which cost her Royal
Highness her life. The Prime Minister said :—
A Rnncess who loved us. though she left us, and who always revisited her
fath. rlnnd with delight—one of those women the brightness of whose bcinr
adoinel Bocietv and inspired tl.e circle in which she lived -has been removed
from this world, to the bnguishot her family, her friemis, and h.r subjects.
Princess Alic —lor 1 will venture to call her by that u me, thougr she wire
a crown—aff' ided one of the most staking contrast, that I cm remember
of rid-ness of culture and rare intelligence combine 1 »i.h the most pure
and refined domestic sentiments (Hear, hear). You, my Lords, who
her life well, can rec <11 those agonising hours when she attended t’-c dyin*
hrd of her illustrious fith, r, who had sketch.d out her studies and
fonned her tastes. You eau recall, too, the moment at which du
attended her Royal biother at a t.me when the hopes of Eag.nml seemed
to depend on his life (Rear, bean; and now you can remember too well
how, when the whole of her own family were stricken by a malignant
-■ ■ • 1 >-*- of the house, till at last her own
to has fallen. My Lords, there ia
i'rdi ite cause of her death. The
physicians who permitted her to watch over her suffering family enjoined
her m der no circumttunws whatevir to^bu^tcm|)ted^into^an embrace.
His Maiesty the King of the Hellenes has conferred on Mr.
Blanchard Jerrold the highly-prized decoration of an officer
of the Order of the Redeemer, in grateful acknowledgment of
hte distinguished services in’ the cause of Christianity and
Seek freedom. Mr. Blanchard Jerrold is probably an accora-
plished Romaic scholar; so he will perm it me to say to nm
Eyrie Wppoles ! Sas synchairo eihknnestata kai ex oks kaM
“A NEW SUIT FOR CHRISTMAS.”
In this pleasant scene of homely German ^e, where the
Christmas Tree has been duly prepared with its laaUms or
tapers all ready to be lighted, and with its appointed (aft. for
the gratification of each member of the happy family, we
behold the entrance of a bright young person, Master Fritz,
or Karl or whatever his name, who is attired in a new suit of
clothes for the festive occasion. Such boys have vre seen in
England, notless elated in spirit by the consciousness of a similar
improvement in their outward covering, more especiaBy at that
momentous stage of first wearing the breeches, the trousers,
or the “ knickerbockers,” which comes to male mankind once
in a lifetime, with the sensation of advanced dignity, as a
foretaste of the masterly prerogatives of their sex. i he mother
or nurse, who has dressed this cheerful youngster in such a
becoming fashion, seems little inclined to reprove his juvenile
exhibition of personal vanity; and the kind old grandmother,
as she looks up from the Bible to greet his approach, is
delighted with the Drave little man. We are not equally
sure of the approval of liis little sister, refraining as she does
from a glance of admiring curiosity, and devoting her whole
attention to the unconscious doll which is fondled in her lap.
She may have her private opinion that Brother thinks
too much of himself, and that men and boys, in general,
ore too apt to give themselves the air of Lords of
Creation. As for the dog, we should like best of all
to know his mind upon tho subject, but the reader is quite a3
well able as we are to interpret tho wondering wistfulness of
his look, and the subdued agitation of his bushy tad. The
father’s old jacket, hanging beside the door, might be poiuted
to as a reminder that this urchin will not very often get a new
suit of clothes, and that he must leam betimes to work for his
own needs. _
how, when tne wnoie u ’
disease, she had been, to them the ......
vital power v as perhaps exhausted ami
ethics wonderfully piteous in the u
ucians who permitted her to watch
tor m der no circumstuneis whatevir 10 ,i>e mmpiea mw
Her ndmirable self-restraint guarded h-r tlirough the crisis of this
toirihle compLint iu safety. She rememb. re.l and obeyed the injunctions ot
her physicians. Rut it became her lot to bleak to her son. quite a youth,
tlie death of his youngest sister, to whom he was devotedly attached. The
hov was so ovenome with misery that the agitated mother eUjpcd him m
her mins, and thus she received the kiss ot death. My Lards, I hardly know
an torident more pathetic. It is one by which po.U might be inspired, and
in which the professors of the tine arte, from the hubot to the W
branches, whether in piuuting, seulpuue, ^
excite al dwunmand the loyally and affectionate respect of this House.
Tho eu’ogium pronounced by Earl Granville on the late
rrirciss was of equal interest by reason of the noble Earls
rcfeience to his own recollections of her Royal Highnesa, and
also by reason of the touching passages which he read in con-
clnsi' in from a letter addressed to him by the Prince of Wales.
The Leader of the Opposition said :—
The accidents of apolitical career gave me some opportunity of observing
Jah octir* lift* of the Royal family during tlie course of eleven years. At
“mUL; i” thte House on her Royal Highness's.managenui
nrilv iulflUed At the end of that tune 1 had Uie nouour- or pnipoums au
S”£ “bJri"- H iJr.,*dSnKr^:
?o^e not merely of benevolence, buti of nnc^mg
devoted without e\ei brea.kme a nna m birth , rhe noble Eul
ulr.cljuii ‘SS" wriSStllm.^. ..»«? <**•-
ZS2£ adjourn.d iiU Thuraday, Fiib. 18 >S
the Chancellor of the Exchequer moving, and. ftt Marq
roctl waiting lor me, I wonder?
M usical critics tell me wiih enthusiasm about a new lady
pianiste, Miss Bessie Richards, who was the other day suddenly
called upon to play at Madame Viard-Louis’s concert, and
Mr. C. P. Gardner, B.A., of Cambridge, was on Tuesday
selected, from more than 700 candidates, to fill the post of
secretary to the Curates’ Augmentation Fund.
Messrs. Waterlow and Sons have issued a useful Profes¬
sional Pocket-Book, being a Daily and Hourly Engagement
Diary for 1879.
The ceremony of shutting the gates of Derry was carried
out on Wednesday with perfect success in all the traditional
details, including the burning of the effigy of Lundy.
In consequence of the bad times Lord Chesham has remitted
10 per cent of the rent paid by his tenants m Bucks for the
year, and also allowed them half the sum they have paid since
the. last rent audit in respect of school board rates.
The total collections at Birmingham on Hospital Sunday,
Oct 27 last, for the benefit of the local Queen’s Hospital,
amounted to £6-100, which was £600 more than in any previous
years since the Hospital Sunday collection was started.
The steamer Byzantin, belonging to the Fraissinet Com¬
pany, of Marseilles, and bound from that place to Constanti¬
nople and the steamer Rinaldo, of Hull, from Hull to i
Constantinople, with a general cargo, are reported by Lloyd’s I
Constantinople agent to have been iu collision near Gallipoli.
The French steamer sank with 150 persons who were on board,
the English steamer sustaining only slight damage.
A large number of prize-distributions to metropolitan
volunteer corps took place last week, chief amongst which
were those of the 1st London and 1st Middlesex Engineers, the
3rd London, the 4th Middlesex, 26 th Middlesex, 37th Middle¬
sex, 40th Middlesex, 46th Middlesex, 1st Surrey, and 10th
Tower Hamlets Rifles. In all cases, except that of the 4th
Middlesex, the returns showed an improvement upon the past
year; and iu the case referred to the commanding officer, Lord
Truro, ascribed the falling off to the fact that a large number
of their men had joined the regular service since the previous
year. The 46th made greater progress than any other corps
I in the metropolis during the past twelve months, having added
250 to its enrolled establishment, and returned about 98 per
cent of efficients.
himself more happily than he ^ £ q a te Princes*
srss u AS. e d ■sSsufss bo* - ••
that words of sjnipathv are most Jr we have h-r on
affliction. _
THE AFGHAN DEBATES IN THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS. Chamber
Briefly as tlie rest of the ^ j^the conclusion of
may be summed up, a On Thursday week.
few salient points “
require mention. On
t Duff's able speech ^TlSUy
last week’s debate yet reqiuro v baviu g oeeu «r“r-
for example,^Mr^Grant^Duff 8 V Hardy vigw>J
tor example, ^ _
ssj&tssz AA-is
ceeded in demonstrating that “® sian PP intervention a
more intention of ,|? he fo n 0 wiug (Friday s)
Afghanistan than Ministers had. h-is legs to
sitiing saw Sir Stafford Northcote early q£ ^ ^
give notice of a motion ior a gr j^ounceinent which
ferers in the Rhodope ,^ C ] ^ e “ t o Cclaim that,
induced Mr. Anderson a little ur0 wucountry,^
of the wide-spread distress Puffing Exchequer’s motua
proposed to meet the ChanceUor of the ^ ^ Bca ummg
with a direct negative. Then cauie t to ^ HoUse vroul
the Afghan dispute, Earl Percy P declaration
approve 8 the policy of the M^^iam Harcolnt from ^
confidence did not hinder birV fostering a J. .. m
ing the Government tooth and “^“L^dediiSirWilbf
and-thunder poUcy.” E P. lthct !i “fv^ch tlie Attorney-Gen^
Harcouxt's rushing oraUon, to wffich tne^ ntra3 t. Am-fc
plain, unvarnished advocacy torn denouncing th c ,
other notable speeches, that;of Mr.Burt hc reprew^
War on behalt of the working c because of W* .
and that of Sir A. Gordon explaining « 1 y at Goverum ent Jo gj
agreement with the c0 , ur8 l. a ^. P„ ir 0 / the Oppo« ltloa
been driven to seek the Heerair ^ me tnbcrs
attracted some attention. To th ° 8 , Newdega 1 - ; ,
Mr. R. E. riunkett Mr Coiirtoey ^d Mr.^ ia
I Marquis of Uartington displayed «n^Ji tbr ead’o
reasons why hc would support M • ga Uantly
Nothing daunted, Sir Stafford Northcote b
DEC. 21, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON HEWS
533
Lord Lytton and the Marquis of Salisbury
from the aspersions cast upon them, and grew
quite warm in liis earnest and manly vindica¬
tion of the Viceroy. With regard to the
general question, the Chancellor of the Ex¬
chequer contended that in entering into this
war there had been no change from the old
policy towaids Afghanistan, but rather a
devcopment of it. One sentence from the
light lion, gentleman’s well-argued speech
will illustrate this point. “ So long (said Sir
Stafford Northcote) as the Russians were only
moving in Central Asia I think there was no
cause for advancing beyond our frontier; but
when you find a Russian Mission sent to
Cabul, and sent avowedly because there was an
unfriendly feeling between England and
Russia, and because Russia thought that was
th e point we were most vulnerable on, I main¬
tain that all the circumstances on which Lord
Lawrence founded his policy were so com¬
pletely revolutionised that the very argument
which supported it in the case of one policy
would, 1 think, warrant us in taking a totally
different view of what was to be done.” The
British Mission having been refused a passage
through the Khyber Pass, an affront had been
offered, no apology had been made, and, for
the sake of maintaining unsullied the credit of
English rule in India, the Government had
been impelled to declare war against the
Ameer. The House then divided on Mr.
Whitbread’s amendment disapproving “the
conduct of her Majesty’s Government, which
has resulted in the war with Afghanistan.”
The majority for Ministers was 101 — 328
voting against the amendment, and 227 for it.
On Monday the Address of Condolence with
her Majesty was agreed to, as already observed.
It then became the by-no-means agreeable duty
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make
plain to the House that the Government had
retired from the benevolent position they had
wished to take up with regard to the Moham¬
medan sufferers from the alleged outrages in
the Rhodope districts of Turkey. In stating
that he did not intend to proceed with the
motion for a grant of money to these dis¬
tressed people in the East, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer intimated that overtures on
the subject had been made to certain Foreign
Powers, but confessed that the coolness with
which the House had received the proposition
damped the philanthropic ardour of the Cabi¬
net. This acknowledgment of fallibility did
not escape hostile comment from the Marquis
of llartington, Mr. Anderson, Sir George
Campbell (who pertinently pointed out that
the Turkish Government, while unable to
receive these refugees, yet contrived to pay for
the importation of plenty of arms and ammu¬
nition from America), Sir William Harcourb,
Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Dillwyu, Mr. Serjeant
Simon, and Mr. Gladstone; but Sir Stafford
Northcote was, peradventure, consoled by the
protection condescendingly offered him by Sir
Robert Peel, albeit the Leader of the House
was finally compelled to eat the leek, and
afford yet another exemplification of the truth
of the Gallic adage, Qui s'excuse s'accusc. Not
without ability, certainly not without con¬
fidence, did Mr. E. Stanhope next introduce
the subjoined resolution:—
That, her Majesty having directed a military expe¬
dition of htr forces charged upon Ind'an revenues to be
dispatched against the Ameer of Afghanistan, this
Home consents that the revenues of India shall be
applied to defray the expenses of the military operations
which may be carried on beyond the external frontiers
of her Majesty’s Indian possessions.
Mr. Fawcett exhibited his well-known mastery
over Indian affairs in moving as an amend¬
ment :—
That this House is of opinion that it would be unjust
that the revenues of India should be applied to defray
the extraordinary expense of the military operations
now being carried on against the Ameer of Afghanistan.
Waning space precludes our saying more than
that among the other chief speakers on the
first night for or against the resolution were
Mr. Gladstone (times have changed indeed
when the right hon. member for Greenwich
is found seconding a motion by Mr. Fawcett!),
the Attorney-General, Sir George Bowyer, Mr.
Laiug, Mr. Smollett, Mr. Osborne Morgan, and
Sir George Campbell. On Tuesday (after a
desultory conversation, in which Lord ELcho
expressed his sympathy with the Rhodope suf¬
ferers) Dr. Playfair had the first word in the
Indiun debate, and was replied to by Lord
George Hamilton. Sir Henry James was fol¬
lowed by the Solicitor-General; and the tedium
of debate was relieved by a welcome speech
from Sir Wilfrid Lawson, and a diatribe from
Mr. Mundella. Air. Childers’s profound dis¬
course was not followed in all its meanderings
by Sir Stafford Northcote, who virtually con¬
tented himself with promising some more
definite financial information a few months
hence—a promise that satisfied neither the
Marquis of Hartington nor Mr. Jacob Bright.
Quite contented, however, were hon. members
who form the majority, for they defeated Mr.
Fawcett’s amendment by 235 to 125 votes,
and then carried the resolution. In the course
of the debate, it should be mentioned, Lord
Barrington, the Vice-Chamberlain, read at
the table the Queen’s gracious reply to the
Address:—
Your loyal and dutiful address affords me much satis¬
faction. 1 feel assured I shall receive your cordial co¬
mpel at ion and support in all the measures which may
be deemed m eessai y for upholding the honour of my
Ciown and for maintaining the great interests of my
Empire.
It was getting on for one o'clock on Wed¬
nesday morning when the House adjourned to
Feb. 13 next. _
The prospectus for the eighth annual
drawing of the Printers’ National Art-
Union has been issued, and bears favour¬
able comparison with any of its predecessors.
“UNDER THE OLD FLAG.”
The custom of preserving an old set of regi¬
mental colours by suspending them, as an
historic trophy, in the aisle of some Cathedral
Church or other dignified ecclesiastical build¬
ing, may be connected with that ceremouy of
blessing the colours, when newly bestowed
upon the regiment, in which prelates and in¬
fluential clergymen have not unfrequently
borne an officiating part. The Established
Church of England, as its social and political
traditions have always seemed to be intimately
allied with the sentiments of national loyalty
and patriotism, has not hesitated, in general,
to lend a certain degree of moral support to
the military and naval services of the Crown ;
and Hie British Army, in the frank and faithful
performance of its duty, without respect to
the merits of any particular war, has often
been mentioned with respect in sermons from
the English pulpit. There is, indeed, a distinct
and express Article of this Church, among the
well-known Thirty-nine, which affirms the
lawfulness of soldiership, if not as an ordi¬
nary profession, at least in compliance with
the bidding of the civil magistrate in case
of need. Without alluding further to any
scruples of conscience which good and reli¬
gious men, such as the Quakers, have now and
then entertained upon this subject, we may
remark that there appears no incongruity in
the sentiment with winch a retired veteran,
such as we see in Mr. Frank Dadd’s interest¬
ing design, may be imagined to stand and
meditate “under the flag,” within the con¬
secrated walls of a venerable Gothic church,
and devoutly to muse upon the experiences of
his past life, in gratitude for merciful preserva¬
tion from many dangers in the field of battle,
and with a sincere faith in the promises which
are the foundation of Christian hope. The
presence of his little daughter, or more proba¬
bly grand-daughter, must give additional
sweetness to thiB moment of serene contem¬
plation ; while there is a suggestion of antique
and chivalric heroism in the stone effigy of a
mailed Crusader, lying upon the mediaeval
tomb, above which these tattered remnants of
“the old flag” were hoisted, as we suppose,
not very long ago.
THE CHRISTMAS CATTLE SHOW.
Several days of last week brought their crowds
of people to Islington for the yearly Cattle
Show, being the eighty-first of the Smithfield
Club and the seventeenth held at the Agri¬
cultural Hall. The gross number of visitors to
this year’s show is about 113,000, or more
than 8000 fewer than last year. The principal
features of this year’s show have been the
general evenness of the live stock in point of
excellence, and the fair prices realised by the
sales, although at the close there were a good
many still on hand and reserved for the
Christmas market. We give Illustrations of
two of the finest animals exhibited, a heifer
and an ox, each of which won a first prize in
its class, and the gold cup of honour, the
heifer being deemed worthy of the champion¬
ship. _
THE ALEXANDRA PARK
DOG SHOW.
The twelfth exhibition of sporting and other
dogs, under the management of the “ Kennel
Club,” was held at the Alexandra Palace,
Muswell-hill, from Thursday week to Monday
last. This show was quite a success, there
being 1058 entries, including most of the
champion dogs of other shows. In the cham¬
pion class for bloodhounds the prize for dogs
was taken by Mr. Morrell’s Rollo, and for
bitches by Mr. R. Johnstone Auld’s Mona,
which has taken prizes at most of the prin¬
cipal show's in the kingdom. In the champion
class for mastiffs (dogs only) the Shah, the
celebrity of all the recent shows, belonging to
Mr. Harris, was an easy first. The first prize
in the ordinary classes for dogs was taken by
Mr. Edgar Hanbury’s Rajah ; and for bitches
by Mr. T. W. Allen’s Creole. Among the St.
Bernard’s, the champion classes had only one
representative, Air. Gresham’s Monk and the
same exhibitor’s Shah, both which, of course,
took first prizes. The prize retriever (not
black) w T as Air. Lewis Alackenzie’s Garnet,
and the first black retriever was Air. J. W.
Morris’s Monk. Air. Maule’s Tragedy and
Alias Jaquet’s Turn Turn gained the first and
second prizes respectively for pugs. The at¬
tendance of visitors was fairly good, considering
the weather.
The will and codicil of Air. James Johnston,
the proprietor of the Standard, who died ou
Oct. 21 last, has just been proved by Mr. AIad-
ford and the two other trustees and executors,
the personalty being sworn under £500,000.
The testator bequeaths the sum of £10,000 to
his son by his first wife, and legacies of £3000
to each of his daughters by that marriage.
An annuity of £2000 per annum is left to his
widow, legacies of £300 each to two of his ser¬
vants, and of £500 to each of his executors.
There are one or two other trifling bequests.
The testator directs that, with the exception of
the above bequests, the whole of his real and
personal property, including the goodwill and
property of the Standard newspaper, shall be
held in trust for the benefit of his five children
by his second wife. By a codicil to the will
the testator directs that Air. Mudford is to
remain as editor of the Standard for his life¬
time, or until such time as lie shall voluntarily
resign the editorship; and further directs that
the paper is to be carried ou in every respect
as it was being carried on at the time of his
death.
ELECTION NEWS.
The election of a member of Parliament for
Bristol to fill the vacancy caused by the retire¬
ment of Air. Kirkman Hodgson (Liberal) took
place last Saturday. Air. Lewis Fry, the
Liberal candidate, was returned by a majority
of 1547 votes over his Conservative opponent,
Sir Ivor Guest, the numbers having been 9342,
against 7795. The Liberals polled 454 more,
and the Conservatives 727 fewer, than at the
general election.
The polling for New Ross, to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of the late Mr. John
Dunbar, took place on Tuesday, when Colonel
Tottenham, the Conservative candidate, poUed
95 votes, and Air. Delany, Home Ruler, 90.
Alr.Redmond had retired.
The nomination for the county of London¬
derry, to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Professor Smyth, took place on Alonday.
The candidates proposed were Sir Thomas
McClure, Liberal, and Air. Samuel Maxwell
Alexander, Conservative. Thursday was ap¬
pointed for the polling.
The requisition to Air. Gladstone inviting
him to come forward as a Liberal candidate
for Manchester, and signed by 700 members
of the executive of the Manchester Liberal
Association, was forwarded to the right
honourable gentleman on Tuesday.—At a
meeting of the Liberals of Midlothian, held in
Edinburgh on Wednesday, a letter was read
from Air. Gladstone agreeing to contest Mid¬
lothian (Edinburghshire) at the next general i
election should the Liberal committees be
united in his favour.
Lord Robert Montagu, AI.P., has announced
Iris withdrawal from the Home-Rule League,
on the ground that the course taken by the
Home-Rule party in Parliament during the
last three Sessions has been inj urious to the
movement.
The meeting of the shareholders in the West
of England and South Wales District Bank
was held in Bristol ou Wednesday, to receive
the report of the official liquidators.
At Bow-street oh Thursday, Edward [Byrne
Madden, aged fifty-six, who is said by the
reporter to be a peculiarly mild and inoffen¬
sive looking man, and who is described as an
“interpreter of languages,” was charged on
remand before Sir James Ingham with having
threatened to kill the Queen. The defendant
was apprehended on a warrant issued by the
chief magistrate, iu consequence of certain
language used by the prisoner in letters ad¬
dressed to the Hon. Adolphus Liddell, the
Right Hon. It. A. Cross, and to Lord Lyons.
Translations of the letters were read by the
chief clerk. The prisoner was committed for
trial.
The Christmas parties of this year may
obtain a great deal of novel and ingenious
entertainment from the “Guinea Box” of
apparatus for optical and other scientific illu¬
sions of the senses which the London Stereo¬
scopic Company has again provided. For the
amusement of the youngest and the gayest
Alessrs. Thomas Smith and Co., of Wilson-
street, Finsbury, have prepared a variety of
“surprise crackers,” which are exceedingly
pretty in their decorative wrappings, and
doubtless contain many sweet morsels of sugar-
candy, with sweeter flatteries in the versified
mottoes. We hope these things will help to
make the long evenings seem short.
The executive of the City of Glasgow Bank
Relief Committee met yesterday week, the
Lord Provost presiding. The total sum sub¬
scribed now amounts to £321,423, of which
£108,634 is from Glasgow, and £158,789 from
other parts. The meeting was of opinion that
the case of any shareholders of the Caledonian
Bank who might be placed in necessitous cir¬
cumstances through the failure of the City of
Glasgow Bank should be favourably enter¬
tained.—Mr. Scott, one of the partners
in Messrs. J. Innes Wright and Co., was
examined in connection with his bank¬
ruptcy in Glasgow on Alonday, and at
the close of his examination was apprehended
un a charge of embezzling £48,000, the proceeds
of bills accepted by the City of GlasgowBank.
The trial of the directors is fixed to com¬
mence at Edinburgh on Jan. 20.
Messrs. John Briusmead and Sons, the
eminent pianoforte makers, of Wigmore-street,
have manufactured a magnificent grand piano¬
forte for Mr. E. Ledger. The instrument
comprises several most important improve¬
ments, whereby the touch and tone are brought
to rare perfection. The mechanism applying
to the key-board is simple and solid in struc¬
ture, but nevertheless realises a touch that is
most agreeable to the player, commanding
all degrees of power and delicacy, and great
readiness of repetition. The tone is of extreme
beauty, and is unusually prolonged in vibra¬
tion by the peculiar construction of the
sounding-board, a specialty in which is that
the thickness is greatest in the centre,
diminishing towards the edges. The method
of stringing, too, and additional bridges, are
peculiar, and tend much to enhance the
sonority and vibrating power. Another im¬
portant feature in the instrument is the
addition of a third pedal, which gives the
performer the power of sustaining, almost
indefinitely, some notes, while others may be
played staccato. This is a particularly valuable
quality. The metal framework used in the
interior is of the most substantial kind, bracing
the instrument together with a force that
renders it independent of atmospheric changes.
The workmanship is of the highest excellence
in all the details, and the instrument is,
altogether, an admirable specimen of English
manufacture.
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FOR PAPA’S NEWSPAPER. ^
FOR MAMMA’S BOOK.
FOB MINNIE'S MUSIC.
All three in one.
WRIGHT’S PATENT NEWSPAPER,
» * BOOK, OB MUSIC STAND.
A perfect Luxury to Readers.
Reading while eating made a pleasure.
To be bad of all Book and Music Sellers mol Fancy Repositories.
A most suitable Christmas Piesent.
Sole Wholesale Agents—
Messrs. FAUDEL, PHILLIPS, and SONS,
Newgnte-stroct, City.
pHUBB’S PATENT SAFES
ABE FIRE AND TUIEF-RES1 STING.
pHUBB’S DETECTOR LOCKS
ARE UNPICKABLE. and have Small Keys.
rjiHREE PRIZE MEDALS and HON.
JL MENTION AWARDED to CHUBB and BON at
PARIS, 1878.
pHUBB’S ART METAL WORK,
37. ST. PAUL’S-CUURCHYARD. E.O.
pHUBB and SON, 128, QUEEN
V7 VICTORIA-STREET, E.O.. and 68, ST. JAMES’S-
6TBEET. 8.W. LISTS OF ALL THE ABOVE SENT FREE.
J>REECHLOADERS, Central-Fire, Choke-
U Bore. Best systems of Hammerlesa Guns. Wildfowl
Guns, lnrge calibres. Express Rifles.
E. M. REILLY and CO., 315 and 502, Oxford-street. London.
J)ENSON’S WATCHES. Watch and
-Ls clock Maker to the Queen and Itoy a! Family, aud by special
apis intment to the Prince of Wales and Emperor of Russia.
Old Bond-street, and (Steam Factory > Lndgute-hill, London.
J)1 NSON’S WATCHES of every description,
-1A suitable for all climates, from £2 to 200 guineas. Chrono¬
graphs, Chronometers Keyless, Levers. Presentation, Repeaters,
Kaiiwiij Guards', Soldiers', and Workmen's Watches of extra
J>ENS0N’S EARLY ENGLISH aud
-JL> QUEEN ANNE CLOCKS, in Ebony and other woods,
(lei* lilted with Blue Chin i. Art Tie- . I’.un’.ings. .(■•. Novelty.
Artistic English Clocks, specially designed to harmonise with
fundhire, decorated with W vdgwood. Faience, and other wares.
Made solely by Benson. £5 5s. to £1,50.
TJENSON’S PAMPHLETS on TURRET
-IJ CLOCKS, Watches, Clocks. Plate, and Jewellery, Illus¬
trated, rent post-free, each for two stamps. Watches sent safe
by post. Benson’s new work, " Time and Time Tellers." 2s. 6d.
WATCHES.—Three Gold Medals awarded.
T T London-made Keyless Iinlli-Chronometere, Racing-
Watches. Repeaters, Ac.-CHARLES FHODSHAM and CO.,
Makers to the Queen, only at 84. Strand, London.
WALKER’S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES
It are superseding all others. Prize Medals—London, 1862,
Paris. 1867. Silver Watches.from £ils.; Gold.frora £66s. Price-
Lists sent free.—77. Cornhill; '22B. Regent-street; and 76, Strand.
TRENT’S CATALOGUE. New Edition.
-L-r Illustrated, and describing several hundred varieties of
Watches, Chronometers, Clocks. Ac. Will be forwarded on
application to 61, Strand, or 34 and 35, Royal Exchange, bin Ion.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
ELEGANT SPECIALITIES.
AEOIDB GOLD WATCHES,
V_y 21s., 25s., 30s., free by regLtored posted, extra. Facsimile
of costly gold watches. Exact timekeepers. Lockets. 3s. 6.1. to
12s. bd.
C. C. ROWE, 88. Brompton-roail. London, S.W.
/JKOIDE GOLD ALBERT CHAINS,
V2 manufactured in the very highest degree of finish, and in
standard gold designs, nut affected by time aud wear. 10a. 6d.
each, post-free. Fnncy patterns, 5s., 78.6,1. Safe and free per
post. P, st-office Order, Exhibition-road. Opinions of the Press
und Price-List free.
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J S. THEOBALD and CO.’S NOVELTIE3.
O . MAGIC LANTERN, complete, with 36 laughable pic¬
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C °B<iX e ES OF CONJURING TRICKS, containing n varied
assortment of the best and newest Tricks. Prices, 2s. 10d., 5a..
10s. 6d.. and21s., with fulllnstrui tious.
MAGNIFICENT . LOCOMOTIVE STEAM - ENOINE.-A11
metal, with safety-valve and powerful oscillating cylinders, and
furnace, complete, 10s. 6d. Ditto in solid brass and copper, very
magnificent, 16s.
CHRISTMAS CARDS.—Thirteen Elegant Gold and Tinted
Curds, with Christmas and New-Year's Greetings, post-free,
1S GRAND ILLUSTRATED CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE.—200
Engravings. Post-free. 1 stamp. Novelties of every description
for Christmas Entertainments provided for Evening Parties.
J. S. THEOBALD and COMPANY,
20, Church-street, Kensington, London, W.
LIQUEUR
(JINGEE
BRANDY.
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An Elegant and Digestive Cordial
mneli appreciated by Sportsmen.
Tourists, and Travellers, twine
invaluable for cases of Choleraic
Nature and Indigestion, In Square
Bottled and \ ollow Bin Casa 2 . ueur-
inff trademark, “ A Nr^ro’s Head."
4,3a. per case.-26 and 27, High
Ilolborn, London.
587
T 'HE GALVANOPHONE, or Electric
Songster, accurntel v produces songs from any distance, and
so magnifies the sound that C'Uiversntion is Impossible, causing
greatest consternation. Instructions, Battery, Line-wire Trans¬
mitter. .Vc.. price 10s. 6d.. complete. Sole Manufacturers, The
SCIENTIFIC TOY AND NOVELTY CO.. 32 a, Cow-cros3-court.
London.—Cliromo-Litlio Catalogue. 30 pages tlf Illustrations.
1000 other Novelties, post-free, 7 stumps.
XT IN A HAN’S LL WHISKY.
Itore THECBEAMOFOLD IRISH WHISKIES.
ld * meI,, ] w i delicious, and most wholesome. Uni-
"The wbTw'i^ b L the baedical profession. Dr. Hassall
BaysThe whisky Is soft, mellow, and pure, weU-matrired and
of very excellent quality.**—20, Great TItchfleld-street, W. *
REASONABLE DELICACIES.—Patronised
by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, colleges and nubilltv
, Genuine Cambridge Sausages sold in London, each lln
WIJ I i i.r, , v!.?J' I,er breakfast delicacies,
nwm D1UNG) anil SONS, Wholesale anil Retail
Dfjitt. 45, Queen A ictonu-street. Established in Cambridge 1831.
fJHOCOL AT MENIER.
^ Awarded
tho
GRAND
DIPLOMA OF HONOUR.
QHOCOLAT MENrER, in Jib. and Jib.
For
BREAKFAST
and SUPPER.
QHOCOLAT MENIER.—A warded Twenty-
PRIZE MEDALS.
Consumption annually
exceeds n.oofl.ooolbe.
flHOCOLAT MENIER. Paris,
^ London.
„ _ New York,
Sold Everywhere.
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS.
JURY’S COCOA EXTRACT
1 S^dTn n p«ki:toandm;? n,rdCI,rlv0d ° f t,ie 8U ^ rflu ™ 9
TWELFTH EXHIBITION MEDAL.
A O O L D MEDAL, PARIS,
uaUon^Ju^omemeritf of Pl, ‘ l0n t ' r,U:rtttineJ l>y tho Inter-
a l. f CHOCOLATE AND COCOA,
paratlom FBY 8 Celebn ‘ ted CARACAS COCOA, a choice pre-
R CHWEITZER’S COCOATINA.
Vuarant^tiPrM
Four times the strength of Cocoas Thlckenedyet Weakenedwlth
™ Arrowroot Starch, 4c.
The faculty pronounce it the most, nutritious, perfectly digest¬
ive Beveragi for •• BREAKFAST. LUNCHEON, or SUPPER.”
BreikfMto'm 1 . Re “yj lre * n J> Cooking. A teaspoonf ill to
to Jmi ,stl n F , les * Giari a b .1 fpenny. Sam idea gratis.
,8 : M r ; Ac., by Chemists and Grocers.
H. SCHWEI1ZKR and CO.. 10, Adam-street. London. W.C,
PURE KANGRA VALLEY TEA, direct
r- r , Plantation at 4s. per lb. In Ten-Pound Tins, or
.3s. Cd. per lb. in original Cheats of Fifty Pounds each mav b-
Li^dou S W ?m C ^ CKBUR -''”S AGENCY, 41, Haymarkot.
THE NEW YEAR, 1879.—All persons,
L whether consumers of HOUNIMAN’S PURE TEA or not
a r m ,? T l tC 1 to Ilomlman, London,
when an ALMANACK will be forwarded, gratis.
RAVORY and MOORE, 143, New Bond-
street, prepare
''I''HE BEST FOOD for INFANTS.
A A thoroughly cooked food, alwavs ready, effects
An important saving of time and trouble
To Mothers and Nurses, by its use.
THE BEST FOOD for INFANTS.
A Contains all the elements
Necessary for the Growth,
Health, and Vigour of the Child.
RAVORY and MOORE,
L-2 143, NEW BOND-STREET. LONDON ; and
Sold hy Chemists, 4c., everywhere.
T)INNEFORD’S MAGNESIA.
A^ The best remedy for acidity of
the Stomach, Heartburn, Head¬
ache, Gout, and Indigestion.
JJINNEFORD’S MAGNESIA.
AA *Tl, e safest and most gentle
Aperient for delicate constitutions.
Ladies, Children, and infants.
OF ALL CHEMISTS.
^AMAR INDIEN.—Owing to the marked
A success of this fruit-lozenge—so agreeable to take and uni¬
versally prescribed by the Faculty for Constipation. 4c —li ne
Imitations are being foisted on tho public. The genuino pre¬
parationsbear the title “ Tamar Indian." Price 2s. lid. per Box.
E. GBILLON, Wool Exchange, E.C.; and all Chemists.
RTIMULANTS and insufficient amount of
kA - exercise frequently derange the liver. ENO’S
FRUIT SALT is peculiarly adapted for any con¬
stitutional weakness of the liver. A world of
woes is avoided by those who keep and use
ENO’S FRUIT SALT. "All lur c l t mra f r
Eno’s Fruit Salt would not be without if upon
any consideration, they having rec lived so much
benefit from It.”—Wood Brothers, Chemists,
Jersey, 1878.
A BUSE OF SPIRITS.—DISEASES of the
-I" A STOMACH treated by his original method of thirty-one
years' experience.
HEYMANN, M.D. BERLIN, S.W.
Fees. Including remedies. One Guinea.
THOMPSON AND CAPPER’S
JJENTIFRICE WATER arrests decay in the
^ Teeth and sweetens the Breath.—55. Bold-street. Liverpool;
and at 39. Dcansgute, Manchester.—Sold in Is. 6d.,2s. 6d., 4s. 6<i.
and 8a. 6a. Bottles, by all Chemists.
R OZODONT.—The Peerless liquid Dentifrice.
k-J Its use Imparts the most fragrant breath; it beautifies,
cleanses, und preserves tlie teeth in a surprising manner. 11 gives
a delightfully fresh taste and feeling to the "mouth, removing
all Tartar and Scurf from the Tooth, completely arresting the
progress of decay, and whitening such parts as have already
beci me black by decay or neglect, rmpure Breath caused
by Bad Teeth, Tobacco, Spirits, or Catarrh, is neutralised bv
Sozodont. The price of the Fragrant Sozodont Is ;is. 6d„ put
up in large bottles, fitted with patent sprinklers for applying
the liquid to tho tooth-brush. Ivieb fiottlo is iuclowl ra a
handsome toilet box. Sold by all Chemists and Perfumers, anil
by JOHN M. RICHARDS, Great Russell-street, London. Observe
the Name SOZODONT on the label, box, and bottle.
J?AU DE CHYPRE.—PIESSE and LUBIN.
AJ This Is an ancientjierfume from Cyprus. During the
national career of Egypt, Persia, Greece, and Rome, tho Island
of Cyprus was the resort of the flite, learned, and refined. It
was at the time of the Crusades, when Richard I. of England
assumed the title of King of Cyprus, that the famed Eau de
Cliyprc was introduced into Europe, the composition of which
Is yet preserved In tho archives of the Laboratory of Piesse and
Lubin. Those who are curious In ancient perfumes can be
gratified at 2, Now Bond-street, London.
"FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE."
pLARKE’S WORLD-FAMED BLOOD
Ay MIXTURE is warranted to cleanse the Blood from all
Impurities, from whatever cause arising. For Scrofula, Scurvy.
8kfn and Blood Diseases fta effects are marvellous. In Bottles,
2s. 6d. each, and in Cases containing six times tlie quantity, 11s.
cuch. of all Chemists. Sent to any address for 30 or 132 stamps,
of the Proprietor. F. J. CLARKE. Chemist, Lincoln.
C HILBLAINS, RHEUMATISM, &o.
Chilblains art* prevented from breaking and their torment¬
ing itching instantly removed by WHITEHEAD’S ESSENCE OF
MUSTARD. Guaranteed by an extensive and successful exueri-
ence or nearly a century. In Pottles, 2s. 9d. each, of BARCLAY
and SONS, 93, Farringuun-strict; and all Medicine Venders.
D R. J. COLLIS BROWNE’S
CHLORODYNE.-Pr. J. C. Browne (late
Army Medical Stall*^discovered a remedy. to
denote which he coined the word OH LORO-
DYk?. Dr. Browne is the Solo Inventor,
and it is therefore evident that, as hn has
never published the formula, nnvthinsf else
w.ld under the name CULORODVNE must
_ be a piracy. _
D R. J. GO L LIS BROWNE’S
CHLORODYNE. —All attempts at apalvsl*
D R. J. COLLIS BROWNE’S
CHLORODYNE. — Vice-Chancellor Sir W.
Page Wood stated publicly In Court that Dr.J.
Dollis Browne was undoubtedly the inventor
of Chlorodyne, that the wholo story of the
defendant was deliberately untrue, and lie
regretted to sav tliat it had boon sivorn to.
See the "Times,” July 13, 1864.
D R. J. COLLIS BROWNE’S
CHLORODYNE is a Liquid Medicine which
assuages pain of every kind, affords a calm and
refreshing sleep WITHOUT HEADACHE,
and invigorates the Nervous System when
J)R. J. COLLIS BROWNE’S
QHLORODYNE.
QOLDS, J^RONCHITIS,
ROUGHS, ^STHMA.
J)R. J. COLLIS BROWNE’S
QHLORODYNE.
m the " Medical
"Is proscribed
Mtioners. Of a
singularly popnl
and fill a place."
J)R. J. COLLIS BROWNE’S
QHLORODYNE.
From Surgeon Hawthorne, Henry-street, Banbridge,
Ireland.
" 1 have been in tlie habit of prescribing
your preparation of Chlorodyne pretty largely
these lost three months. I have invariably
found it useful particularly in the latter
J)R. J. COLLIS BROWNE’S
QHLORODYNE.
From F. J. Freeland, Esq. Surgeon, Chichester.
" Mr. Freeland presents his compliments to
Mr. Davenport, and requests another supply
of Chlorodyne. It has been of marked service
in a Case of Diseased CheBt, in allaying the
cough, and relieved very severe * after-pains'
In another person."
D
R. J. COLLIS BROWNE’S
CHLORODYNE most effectually ^relieves
J)R. J. COLLIS BROWNE’S
QHLORODYNE
QHOLERA,
Is the great specific for
J)YSENTERY,
J^IARRHCEA.
from her MideRty’R Consul at Manilla to th-
effect that Cholera had been ravins; fearfnllv.
and that the ONLY Remedy of any service
was CHLOKODYNE.-i*e “ Lancet/* Dec. 31.
J)R. J. COLLIS BROWNE’S
QHLORODYNE.
generally suflldont.
D E
J. COLLIS BROWNE’S
QHLORODYNE.
J)R. J. COLLIS BROWNE’S
QHLORODYNE
rapidly aits short all attacks of
J^PILEPSY, PALPITATION,
gPASMS, JJYSTERIA,
QOLIC.
J}R. J. COLLIS BROWNE’S
QHLORODYNE
Is the true palliative In
J^EUBALGIA, RHEUMATISM,
Q.OUT, QANCER,
pOOTHACTIE.
From Jno. E. Gonlstone, M.D., lato Principal
Surgeon to the Steam-shin Great Eastern.
" I can confidently state that Chlorodyne is
an admirable Sedative and Anti-Spasmodic,
laving used it in Neuralgia. Hysteria.
‘. and Consumption witli remarkably
-- it relieved a fit of
tes, where the patient
ra in a most distressing
immediate and beneficial an effect.
From Dr. B. J. Boulton and Co., Itorneastle.
We have made pretty extensive use of
Chlorodyne in our practice lately, and look
upon it as an excellent direct Sedative and
Anti-Spasmodic. It seems to allay pain ami
irritation in whatever organ, and from what¬
ever cause. It induces a feeling of comfort
and quietude not obtainable by any other
remedy, and it seems to possess this great
advantage over ail other sedatives, that it
leaves no unpleasant after-effects.”
favourable results.
Asthma in four min
had suffered eleven y*
IMPORTANT CAUTION.
-L The immense nale of this remedy has given
rise to manv unscrupulous imitations.
N.B.-Every Buttle of GENUINE CHLORODYNE
hours on tho Government Stomp the Name or
the INVENTOR. P
D
,R. J. COLLIS BROWNE.
Bold in Bottles, Is. lid., 2s. 91., 4p. 5d
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. — Jewellery
V™ 1 ’, G °H’, 8MI TH S ', ALLIANCE. Limitod. respectfully
m inspection of tlieir extensive stfoCK, which contains a
beautiful nssoitment of the following articles:—
Brace eta .. fn m £6 to £200 I Rings .. .. from £2 to £300
Brooches .. from 2to 200 Chains.. from 3to SO
Lockets .. from 2 to 200 Pins .. .. from 1to “
vv/™™ 1 *P *»] Studs .. .. from IK
be happy to u>e , “me gratis and post-free bn appl
England) 111111 12, CunLhJ11 ' London (opposite the Bunk (
rjHBISTMAS PRESENTS.
^ The best Collection-
ASSER and SHERWTN, 80 and 81,8tran<L° nd ° n ‘
HRISTMAS PRESENTS.
New Illustrated Price-List, full of Novelties,
from la. to £5. pent-free.
ASSER and SHERWIN, 80 and 81. Strand.
JHRISTMAS GAMES.
The most acceptable Present at thin season
is one of ASSER and SHEBWIN’S
New Guinea CABINETS of GAMES. Sent,
securely packed In a case, on receipt of P.or
ASSER and SHERWIN, 80 and 81, Strand.
c
HRISTMAS TOYS.
ASSER and SHERWIN have received from
nwv2.*S25J markets the best collection of
?°XS forCiildrei, Of all ages to be seen In
. London. Price-Lists free.
ASSER and SHERWIN, 80 and 81, Strand, W.G.
rnksu^s™: ‘si:sisi .r^‘
WritmeCWe rf ' " " l'os.Cd'.to “
^l&ags.CanMct 5 . SSZSSSL FlowcrYa^
and Parisian Use^d MLd^iegan^fovMtl’ej. 0 /rom g 3*s? to £3 > . nne^e,
T>ODRIGUES’ DRESSING BAGS for
- 1 L Travelling, with silver, silver-gilt, and plated fittings
fre>m £3 3s. to £50; Sonfllet Bags, Waist Bags, Carriage Bags, ami
Bags of all kinds, at very moderate prices.—42. Piccadilly.
yiSITING CARDS at H. RODRIGUES’.
“Braved and 100 superfine Cards
printed for 4s. 6d. BaU Programmes. Bills of Fare, Guest Cords!
and Invitations, in every variety.—42. Piccadilly.
PORTRAIT ALBUMS at RODRIGUES’,
J- with Patent Leather Guards. 4s. 6d. to £3. Easel Albnma.
berap Albums, Presentation and Regimental Albums.
Albums of every description made to order.—42. Piccadilly.
AfONOGRAMS.—RODRIGUES’ Novelties
A.TA in Monograms, Crests, and Addresses. Bteel Dies en-
graved os gems. Note Paper and Envelopes Illuminated In
gold sliver, bronze, and colours. Coloured stamping, Is. per 100.
All the New and Fashionable Note Papers.—42, Piccadilly.
pALL PROGRAMMES at RODRIGUES’.
^ A !'i t ' 1 . P v, N, , W . P l tt f"J 6 of tLe Season, arranged, Printed, and.
stamped in the latest fashion. B'Us of Faro, Guest Cards, and
Invitations in every variety. -42. Piccadilly, London.
'HRISTMAS PRESENTS.
' UMBRELLAS, WHIPS, CANES.
The Largest Stock in London.
— . . _ 8. CADMAN.
18 and 19, BurHngton-areade. Piccadilly ; and at
4, Park-side, Knlghtsbrldge.
THE COURT HAIR DESTROYER.—This
, newly-discovered remedy completely removes superfluous
hair. Quite harmless. 3s.6d.; post.3s.10d.. of Inventor J. Leon.
19, Porteus-rd., London, W.. or Chemists. Sent abroad for 4s. Gd.
ATALU ABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR.
,.X_ If r?nr hair is turning grey, or white, or falling off, use
The Mexican Hair Renewer," for it will positively restore In
every case Grey or White Hair to its original coloSr, without
leaving the disagreeable smell of most "Restorers.” It makes
the hair charmingly ooantiful, as well romoting the growth
of the hair on bald spots where the glands are not decayed. Ask
any Chemist for the " Mexican Hair Renewer." price 3a. Gd.
Prepared by HENRY C. GALLUP. 423. Oxford-street. London.
Tj'LORILINE. For the Teeth and Breath.
-L Is the best Liquid Dentifrice in the World; it thoroughly
cleanses partially-decayed toeth from all parasites or living
"oniuialcuiie, leayingthem pearly white, imparting a delight
ful fragmnee to the breath. Price 2s. fid. per Bottle. The
Fragrant FlorUine removes instantly all odours ari-ing from a
foul stomach or tobacco smoke, being partly composed of honey,
rixla. and extracts of sweet herbs, and plants. It is perrectlv
harmless, und delicious as sherry. Prepared bv HENRY O.
GALLUP, 493, Oxford-street, London. Retailed everywhere.
T>REIDENBACII’S ABRONIA.—The New
Bcent for 1878. Delicate, refreshing, and durable 2s. 6d to
40s. per Bottle. Breldenbach’s MACASS.VBINE, invaluable for
preserving the Growth of the Hair, Is., 2«. 6d„ 3s. por Bottle.
Of all Clie.mists, and the Makers. 157 b, New Bond-street. W.
JOHN GOSNELL and CO.’S VIOLET
¥ and MIT.LEFLEUR POWDER, for thcToiletaml Nursery.
Univfr^ally ft«Innr< «l for Its purity unci frapran.v. Sold hy all
Chemists and Perfumers, wholesale. 93. Upper Thames-s rcet.
G olden h a i r.—rob are’s
AUREOLINE produces the beautiful Gold^u Ool..ur so
much admired. Warranted jx-rfectly harmlews. Price 5s. *1. and
10s. 6d., of nil Perfumers. Wholesale. 1IOVENDEX and H< >XS.
5. Great Marl borough-street. W.; and 93 and 95, City-road, E.G.
London; Pinaud and Me\*er,37, Boulevard do Strasbourg, Paria:
31. Graben. Vienna; 44. Hue des Longs Cliariota. Brussels.
D oes your hair turn grey?
Then use HERRING S PATENT MAGNETIC BRUSHES
and COMBS. Brushes, 10s. and 15s. each. Combs. 2s. Bd. ,5a., 7s. 6d.,
10s.. 13s.. and 20s. each. Pamphlets upon application.—3. Great
Marlborough-st., W.; 93 and 95. City-road; and of all Perfumers.
T hroat affections and
HOARSENESS.—All suffering from Irritation of the
Throat and Hoarseness will be agreeably surprised at the almost
Immediate relief afforded hy the use of BROWN’S BRONCHIAL
■r Box. Pen
TROCHES. These famous Lozenges a .» ...
respectable Chemists In this country,' at. Is. 1 Jd. per f _
troubled with a hacking cough, a slight cold, or bronchial
affections cannot try them too sewn, as similar troubles If
allowed to m-ogress, result In serious pulmonary and asthmatlo
affections.—D<Sp6t. 493, Oxford-street. London.
H ooping-cough.—roche’s herbal
EMBROCATION.—The celebrated Effectual Cure with¬
out internal medicine. Sole Wholesale Agents. EDWARDS and
RON 137 Queen Victoria-street (late of 88. Old Change),
-m ~ra«i <■ *•*>•—‘A. --Bottle.
(HOUGHS, ASTHMA, BRONl
Medical testimony states that nn other me
effectual In the enre of these dangerous maladies as 1
KEATINGS
J AXORA MEDICATED FRUIT
JLi LOZENGES for CONSTIPATION. SLUGGISHNESS
OF THE STOM ACH, BILE. HEADACHE.
The ” Lancet: ”—•• It is a great improvement on the
preparations in common use for the same purpose "
"Medical Press: ”—“ Laxora Lozenges can be safely
o, Ph. D. Laxora Lozenges are
sly made.”
Dtuu. re. i,u., uy all Chemists
Wholesale, 82, Southwark-street.
gLAIR’
S GOUT PILLS.
Bold by all Chemists, at is. ljd. and 2s. 9d. per
H OLLOWAY’S PILLS and OINTMENT.
The Pills purify the blood, correct all disorders of Hie
liver, stomach, kidneys, and bowels. The Ointment lsnnrivallod
in the cure of bad legs, old wounds, gout, and rheumatism.
THE illustrated London news
DEC. 21,1878
THE - ---
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SHOW-ROOMS, 49, 50, 51 ? co. ™^°g22Tg. |
tesaowpa
riHAPPELL and CO.'S THREE-YEAES’
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LttOui'oguo. ^
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Nicholson, P. Martin Duncan, and A. Leith Adams, Mr. R’a.
Proctor Dr. R. J- Mann, and Dr. Andrew Wilson. They treat
of nhysics, astronomy, geology, chemistry, vegetable and
animal physiology, and oilier branches of the knowledge of
nature m a style which presents not much difficulty to an
ordinary thoughtful reader. Cassell's Natural History . edited by
Professor P Martin Duncan, with the assistance of Dr. J. Muire
and Mr w’. S. Dallas, likewise appears from an inspection of it*
first volume to be a work of substantial merit, as an introduction
to the study of zoology. The newly-completed volume of
Professor Henry Morley’s Library of English Literature, com-
niled for the same publishers, consists of a senes of critical and
historical notices, with extracted passages of £ H y/u* hep,
from the oldest “ mystery plays of the Middle Ages, down
to Mr. Tennyson’s “Harold and Queen Mary. Even
though we had never a Shokspcare, this is a splendid arraj of
the ooetical and dramatic creations of genius m our national
literature, and it is well to have them so brought under
review The Magazine of Art, mainly occupied with instructive
commentary upon works of true excellence in painting,
scSpture^nd the most important decorative arts, will be
acceptable to many who desire guidance upon these subjects
^discriminating taste. It is adorned with a sufficient number
i of serviceable illustrations.
The sixth and concluding volume of Old and New Lo ’' do ^
published by Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Oaipm, should ere
this have obtained from us the due acknowledgment, but that
time and space have been much encroached upon by recent
pressing affairs. It will be remembered that this 1 »»P 0 ^ t
work of metropolitan topography and local history_was^com¬
menced under the editorship of the late Mr. Q. W.Thorobury,
whose task has been completed by Mr. Edward Waltora.
The last named gentleman, an equally competent editor,
took it up with the third volume, which was devoted,
™d the fourth as well, to - the western suburbs,”
including Westminster. The fifth volume shifted its pound
to the northern suburbs of London; and now we have the
southern—namely, the Borough of Southwark, Bermondsey,
and Rotherhithc, with Deptford, Greenwich, Blackheath, Lee,
Lewisham, Charlton, and Eltham, in one direction;, Ncwing-
ton”Walworth, Camberwell, Peckham, and Dulwich ui another; |
Kennington and Stockwell, Brixton and Claphain, Sydenham,
Norwood, and Streatham along their respective lin«. of road;
again, nearer the centre, St. George s-fields Blackfriars-road,
Bethlehem, Lambeth, and Vauxhall; and, farther to the
sou 1 h-west, Wandsworth and Putuey, returning by Fulham,
Hammersmith, and Chiswick, thus presenting a wide panoramic
view of the notable sites and buildings, with their diverse
associations of persons and events in successive ages, all round
the south portion of this vast metropolis. We hope to find
leisure for an attentive examination of the work; and we
expect occasionally to seek the information which it seems
wdl calculated to afford, as a book of reference, freely testify¬
ing our obligations to the researches of its able editor. The
illustrations, of which there is a peat abundance, both invite
and assist the reading of its text.
U11U HaBlSt IUC icuuuift V*
This is a suitable occasion for noticing the yearly volumes
I of several valuable publications by Messrs. Cassell, Potter, and
Galpin. Science for AU is edited by Dr. Robert Brown who
| has also edited, for that firm, an interesting geopaphical
or semceaoie uwau».w-.
A treatise on Art-Embroidery, by M. S. Lockwood and L
Glaister is published by Messrs. Marcus Ward and Co. 11.
aborde claims for the ancient art of embroidery the
o,?r,rfrmLv over painting itself in the first centuries of our m ;
3ISSriM SSLriou. rivalry n.tataiard by it u thta.
fifteenth century. ‘‘I know of no greater service,"he
“that could b?rendered to the arts than to write a
history of embroidery ; it would be not so much a complement
as the^introduction to, and the necessary accompanunent o,
historv of painting.” But there is little to indicate
nS SpSin the subject in the book before us.
i And to turn from M. JacqucmarCs chapter on ‘ Embroidery"
to thwe pages is a descent indeed. It is true that tb« nicely
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hemng-bo , llint8 on mnttrials, methods, design,
;
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or version, or “ Passionael,” P^n^.f^X^luJtrstion.to
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„ StaporSy Dutch iUo.B«t.onx Th.^'^ # *
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. and 4 4 The Mirrour of the World. those, . engnnug,
first attempts at book-illustraMou by The reprint u
£ must ever be regarded withmoTcpeculiarmte t ^t.uc t i on f P ffit he
, f edited and accompanied by a ^. e , ry u lfred A8P i an d. The whole
M pen of the Society s editor, Ur.AltreOA ^ compil8n on
S’ history of the 44 Legenda 0 fGenoa, late i« ' he
i by Jacobus de Voragine. Arehbwhop ^ There is«b»
la r thirteenth century, down to tb ® *1 tW o celturie* subsequently.
in a narration of the commencement, the title ‘ Act*
tb by Bollandus, the Bclgmn JesmL u d hWOTy of the
S’ Sanctorum,” of a systematic H«g ol<i? , ^ t hs
U - twenty thousand acknowledged saint 8^,^^ (|on t e „
Jon, calendar—a scheme which bmi b _ t j, e Belgum
ere time, and which is said to be sti P • d t0 re ich the date
hat Jesuits. Sixty volumes have been _ q . (l „ ire a t lev
ent of Oct. 28; and it is computedthrit ^
ant a century longer to reach the lwt y ^ lftr?e portion of tw
>m- introduction into the Golden Leg d teuch an d a great {»«
iry. Bible (including the whole of the Fc w qq account of to
>rd. of the Gospels), although accompanied by ■«*
tor, fear of the Inquisition, and aithough^ sevens to h«e
fed. priestly gloss, is thought by Mr. tbe Kefor ma^
is,” materially aided in prepanng the way gcriptnW
und by creating a demand among the people i
S, p “ MxT: H. Ltataiita. <x '24££*J&*St
Lee > of twenty-eight Sketches for o N ^ rman ^haw, R A-.
‘ n B* from sketches and notes by b . try builder*- ,
her; may be warmly recommended to Mr.U^.
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oad; .. patent Cement Slab SysUm.l' s ^pnsea ^
oad, tage8 besides its cheapness vano« s **
the a „ d Ti en *• or two-roouied Sootcn. „ n entrance led? 1 '
cottages with increased "^°“^ a d aud 'seaside reaid«“^
8 hooting-box or bungalow, viUaana workm eu* ^
verse smA n mission-church ft ! ld 8 ®, gmo inug room, to* 1 ^
^ lld hall and club, billiard a « d 8 ^f f ud shops
, flnd stable, cottage hospital, ulmahousc. j^uresqae. »« d
d strcct : The architect’s c f c P n spicuous > ^. v
eems affection for olden fc-St bb '-JU
stify- de8i<rn8 . We can only complain u»» • oftbesc^V
The Sly (as in the low-browedr^Mto® te ^ comfort *
nrite lead him to forget the modern requ
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DEC. 21, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
591
MUSIC.
HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE.
The season is to close this (Saturday) evening. “ Oberon” was
given on Thursday week for the second time since its
revival (on the previous Saturday), and was announced again
for Wednesday morning and for the closing night. During
the past week Signor Bonetti appeared as Giorgio Germout,
in “ La Traviata,” and was well received. Last Wednesday
evening was devoted to the benefit of Mdlle. Marimon-
Thursday to that of Madame Trebelli; and Friday (yesterday)
t} that of Madame Pappenheim.
The series of performances has been very successful, the
public having largely appreciated the advantages of lower
prices, earlier hours, and freedom from the usual restrictions
as to evening dress. The reproduction of Bizet’s “ Carmen,”
with Madame Trebelli’s first assumption of the principal cha¬
racter ; the revival of Weber’s “ Oberon,” after an interval of
eight years; and the successful debut of Mdlle. Ambre,have
given a special interest to Mr. Mapleson’s winter season. A
word is due to Signor Li Calsi for his unwearied fulfilment of
the duties of conductor, an onerous office, with nightly per¬
formances and occasional matinees in addition.
MADAME YIARD-LOUIS’S CONCERTS.
The second of the new series of these excellent concerts at St.
James’s Hall took place on Tuesday evening, when the
selection began with a fine performance of Mendelssohn’s
overture to “ Ruy Bias,” which was followed by one of the
novelties of the evening, a characteristic and effective “ Rondo
Kcher/oso ” for orchestra, entitled “ The Brooklet,” composed
by F. Conder (Mendelssohn’s scholar).
A prominent feature in the programme was the late Herman
Goetz’s orchestral symphony in F major This is the produc¬
tion of the composer of the opera ‘‘The Taming of the Shrew,”
recently brought out at Drury-Lane Theatre, and noticed by
us. The symphony consists of four divisions — “ Allegro
Moderato,” “Intermezzo” (allegretto), “Adagio ma non
troppo lento,” and Finale (“Allegro con fuoco”). The sym¬
phony is intended to be illustrative of a motto from Schiller—
“In des Herzens heilig stille Riiume musst du fliehen aus des
Lebeus Drang ! ” There is much ingenious writing in each of
the movements, the instrumentation being throughout very
skilful. The portions that pleased most were the “ Inter¬
mezzo” aud the “Adagio,” particularly the latter, which is
lull of beauty. We shall probably have an opportunity of
speaking further of the work on a future hearing.
The remainder of the orchestral selection at Tuesday’s
concert consisted of Boccherini’s “Minuet,” for strings
(encored), the charming ballet music from Cherubini’s last
open, “ Ali Baba,” and the imposing March from Berlioz's
“ Les Troyens.”
Madame Viard-Louis played Mozart’s concerto in D minor
(with elaborate new Cadenza, composed by Dr. G. A. Macfarren),
and was much applauded after her performance. In con¬
sequence of a recent accident, the lady was unable to play a
second time, as announced, and was replaced by Miss Bessie
Richards, who gave Chopin's “ Scherzo ” in B flat minor with
fine style and execution.
Another apology and substitution were made, on account
of the illness of Madame Pappenheim, instead of whom Miss
Merival.: appeared, and Bang, with much effect, Gounod’s aria
“Jerusalem,” and “ Vadoben spesso,” by Salvator Rosa, both
of which were well accompanied by Mr. H. Leipold.
Trie orchestral playing in each piece was of the 6ame special
excellence as heretofore; Mr. H. Weist-Hill having again
conducted with rare ability.
At this week’s Monday Popular Concert (the last evening
performance of the year) Mdlle. Janotha >vas again the pianist,
as on the preceding Monday, the quartet party having also
been as before. The vocalist in the former instance was Miss
de F.mblauque; on the latter occasion, Miss Clara Merivale ;
M r. Zerbini having then replaced Sir J. Benedict as conductor.
The last afternoon concert of the year takes place this day
(Saturday). The evening concerts will be resumed on Jan. 6;
the afternoon performances on the following Saturday.
The last concert of the Crystal Palace for the present year
took place on Saturday last, when the programme derived
special importance from having included Beethoven’s ninth
and last (the “ Choral ”) symphony—that gigantic work which
includes, as its final portion, a setting of Schiller's “Ode to
Joy.” The three great orchestral divisions preceding this
were finely played on Saturday, and the vocal portion was
generally well rendered, considering its extreme difficulty.
Miss Emma Thursby, Mdlle. Redeker, Mr. E. Lloyd, and Mr.
Saul ley having been the solo vocalists, the choral part having
been sung by the Crystal Palace choir. The symphony was
preceded by Sir J. Benedict’s effective overture to Heinrich von
Klei-t’s drama, “Das Kathchen von Heilbronn ; ” the dance
of nymphs and reapers from Mr. A. Sullivan's “Tempest”
music; and vocal solos contributed by Miss Thursby, Mdlle.
Redeker, and Mr. Santley. Handel's Dead March in “Saul”
was played before the concert in respect to the memory of the
litc Princess Alice. The Saturday afternoon performances
will be resumed on Feb. 8.
Rossini's “ Moses in Egypt,” an English adaptation of his
Biblical opera, “ Mose in Egitto,” was given by the Sacred
Harmonic Society yesterday (Friday) week, for the second
time. Of the genius and beauty of the music (bright and
melodious rather than religious in style) we spoke in reference
to its first production in oratorio form by the Society in May
hist, when six of the principal solo vocalists were the same as in
last’week's performance; these being Madame L Sherrington,
Miss Julia Elton, Mdlle. Enequist, Mr. E. Lloyd, Mr. Cum¬
mings, and Mr. Bridsoii; Mr. B. Lane having replaced Mr. W.
AVells in some of the concerted music. A special feature on
this occasion was the fine singing of Mr. Santley, for the first
time, in the music belonging to the character of Moses; another
specialty having been Mr. Lloyd’s excellent delivery—as on
the previous occasion—of the music of Amenophis. As before,
many of the pieces, concerted and solo, produced a marked
impression : aud the performance proved so attractive that it
is proposed to repeat it on some morning in January.
Yesterday (Friday) evening the Sacred Harmonic Society’s
forty-seventh annual performance of “The Messiah” took
place at Exeter Hall, the solo singers named having been
Madame Blanche Cole. Miss Enriquez, Mr. Vernon Rigby, and
Mr. Lewis Thomas.—The same oratorio is to be given by the
Royal Albert Hall Choral Society on Thursday next.
Madame Sainton Dolby gave a concert at Steinway Hall
on Tuesday, at which the vocal music was performed by pupils
studying in her Vocal Academy.
The last of Mr. John Boosey’s London Ballad Concerts for
the present year took place on Wednesday, when attractions of
the usual popular and varied nature were provided.
Mr. W. Carter’s concert at the Royal Albert Hall on
Thursday evening consisted of a selection of airs and choruses
from oratorios and other sacred pieces; Mesdnmes Edith
Wynne and Antoinette Sterling and Mr. Vernon Rigby having
been among the solo singers announced.
THEATRES.
In preparation for the new season the Strand management
have provided for their patrons a new musical extravaganza.
On Saturday this was produced, under the title of “The
Desperate Adventures of the Baby; or, A Wandering Heir,"
by Messrs. C. H. Ross and A. G. Freer. It was preceded, how¬
ever, by the farce “On aud Off,” and the late Bayle Bernard's
comic drama, “ His Last Legs.” It is needless to say that
these two pieces were in all respects satisfactorily performed.
In the latter the cast was strengthened by the fact that Mr.
W. H. Vernon sustained the eccentric part of O’Callaghan,
the man of genius on his last legs; and that Mr. H. J. Turner
impersonated Mr. Rivers. The new extravaganza is from the
French, and no attempt is made to alter the manners or locality
of the action. Indeed, one chief attraction of the adaptation
consists of the Parisian sketches of scenery taken on the spot
by Mr. H. P. Hall, and the Parisian costumes supplied by M.
Faustin and M. and Madame Alias. The spirit of the com¬
position is farcical, and the fun evolved simply extra¬
vagant ; but it is well enough adapted to the season and the
company. It is in five scenes. The first consists of the Dentist’s
Emporium in the Boulevard Sebastopol, where the loss of the
Baby, owing to the flirtations of the nurse, throws a christen¬
ing party into a terrible consternation. We are next treated
with a panoramic view of the Seine, from Notre Dame to the
Exhibition. Subsequent scenes represent the Champs Elysees,
with the Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe; the
Trocadero during the Exhibition, and several Moorish cafe
and panoramic views. Through these various scenes the
pursuit for the recovery of the baby, and some lost love-letters
written by a young Viscount to a romantic widow, is con¬
tinued, until both the baby and the correspondence are found
and restored to their owners. Of the performers, the pro¬
minent role is assigned to M. Marius, who, as the Rajar Real
Jam, represents an exaggerated Othello ; and he is ably sup¬
ported by Miss Violet Cameron, as the Comtesse de la Houppe,
both as an actress and a vocalist—showing herself, in fact, a
refined artist in both. The delinquent nurse, Dodlinette, is
effectively sustained by Miss Lottie Venne. Throughout, the
prevailing drollery is promoted by the best efforts of the
actors, and will doubtless be appreciated by the public.
A trifling vaudeville by Frank Desprez and Alfred Cellier,
called “ After All,” has been produced at the Opera Comique.
The theatre will be closed after the 24th inst. for repairs, and
not reopened until Feb. 1,1879.
Mr. and Mrs. German Reed's entertainment has received an
addition fitted for the Christmas season. Mr. Alfred Law is
the author of a new play entitled “ Enchantment,” which is
likely to find acceptance with holiday seekers. It is qualified
as a musical fairy tale, and is well suited for a drawing-room
entertainment. The fable of Circe is here in spirit utilised
and modernised for the gratification of juvenile fancy; and
there can be no doubt that at this season the little drama of
“ Enchantment ” will meet with popular support.
PANTOMIMES.
Mr. E. L. Blanchard will supply the pantomime for Drury
Lane, under the title of “ Cinderella; or, Harlequin and the
Fairy Slipper.” There will, as usual, be a double har¬
lequinade, supported by the Lauri family and others. Covent
Garden, under the management of Messrs. Gatti, takes for
its subject “Jack and the Bean-s^alk.” The harlequinade
will be supported by Messrs. Payne, Vokes, and others. At
the Gaiety the Princess’s pantomime of 1859, rewritten by
Mr. H. J. Byron, will be produced, called “ Jack the Giant-
Killer.” A novel ballet, with peculiar effects, will be intro¬
duced, in which Miss iEnea will sustain the leading role. At
the Gloue morning performances of a juvenile opera and a
series of pantomimic ballets will be given, supported by eight
prime ballerine and six mimi—ages ranging from eight to
fifteen. At the Standard the pantomime of “ Robin Hood
and his Merry Men ” will be performed, including the spec¬
tacles of the Try sting Tree, Sherwood Forest, a ballet of
foresters and their maidens, a representation of the Isle of
Cyprus, a pageant, illustrating the conquest of Cyprus by
Richard Cceur de Lion, in 1195; and the marriage of Richard
and Queen Berengaria; The piece at the Alhamrra represents
“ The Goose with the Golden Eggs,” and is produced to-day.
At the Aquarium the pantomime is entitled “ Aladdin and the
Wonderful Lamp,” written by the Brothers Grinn. At the
Surrey Mr. Mackay has provided “ The House that Jack
Built; ” at Sanger’s Amphitheatre Mr. H. Spry supplies the
familiar story of “Cinder Ella; ” and at the Victoria Mr. Frank
Hall presents us with “Tom Tiddler; or. Harlequin Jack in
the Box who Deals Nasty Knocks, and Doubleheady Daddy
the Demon.” The Grecian produces the twenty-second joint
production of Messrs. George Conquest and H. Spry, called
“Harlequin Hokee-Pokee, the Fiend of the Fungus Forest;
or, The Six Links of the Devil’s Chain.” Mr. Conquest’s imper¬
sonation of a Chinese is expected to be especially good. Mr. F.
Merchant supplies the Britannia with “ The Magic Mule ; or,
The Ass’s Skin, the Princess to Win.” The Park theatre,
now under the management of the Messrs. Douglass, will open
on Boxing Night with “ The Forty Thieves.” “ Little Red
Riding Hood” will be produced at the Pavilion ; and “ Sindbad
the Sailor” at the Alhion, Poplar. The Elephant and
Castle theatre opens on Boxing Night with “The Babes in
the Wood.” At the IIolrorn Amphitheatre Mr. Hamilton’s
“Excursion Across the Continent ” will be continued. The
equestrian novelty at Hengler’s Cirque is entitled “ Bonnie
Prince Charley; ” and at the Maryleiione we have “ Jack the
Giant-Killer; or, Harlequin Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary.”
The pantomime at the Alexandra Palace, written by G. R.
O’Halloran, is “Dick Whittington,” the parts of the hero
and his sw. etheart being played by Miss Lilian Cavalier and
Miss Susie Vaughan. Madame San Martino-Campobello and
Mr. Edmund Rosenthal (both eminent on the opera stage) take
leading parts in the opening scenes. The famous Girards,
Pongo redivivus, and the Rowella troupe are specially engaged.
The scenery is painted by W. Emden. After the transforma¬
tion-scene, entitled “ A Christmas Card,” the next scene in
importance is of a shipwreck, which is so constructed that the
vessel with all hands will sink bodily beneath the waves. The
ballets are arranged by Mr. John Lauri; the principal danseuse
is Mdlle. Lana. Besides the pantomime there will be each day
the “Little Folks’” Doll Show, Holden’s Marionettes,
Wieland’s Circus, Zaeo, the wonderful Girl Gymnast, military
band, organ, &c. At the Crystal Palace “ Rohinsou Crusoe ”
will be the attraction. At the Agricultural Hall the
Mohawks will return, and open with a new programme. The
Music-Halls promise new ballets and new programmes.
MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.
“Chappell’s Musical Magazine” (Chappell and Co., New
Bond-street). The Christmas number of this cheap serial con¬
tains nine pieces of dance music for the pianoforte in the
several forms of quadrille, waltz, galop, and polka. That these
are suitable to the intended purposes was a matter of
course iu a publication that has so long maintained a special
character in this respect (the present number being the 119th).
The names of the composers who have contributed to it are
Charles D’Albert, E. Waldteufel, F. Godfrey, A. G. Crowe,
and H. Louis.
The Contralto Album (Boosey and Co.). This volume is
one of the extensive series of “ Royal Editions ” published by
the eminent house in Regent-street. It contains fifty choice
songs for a mezzo-soprano or contralto voice (in the original
keys), selected mostly from celebrated operas, each song
having Italian and English words. Some of the pieces are
taken from works that have long been ignored in stage per¬
formance, but yet contain airs that are worthy of preservation.
Accordingly, we find in this interesting collection some charm¬
ing solos from shelved operas by Handel, Bononcini, Gluck,
Pacini, Winter, Mercadante, Vaccaj, and Donizetti. The
volume is well edited by Mr. Josiah Pittman, and forms an
interesting and valuable repertoire for vocalists of the class
specified. The book is well adapted for a Christmas or New-
Year’s gift.
Christmas Carols, New and Old (Novello, Ewer, and Co.),
is the third series of a cheap collection of pieces appro¬
priate to the present season. The words have been selected
from various sources, some traditional, others taken from poets
of the past and present periods. This portion of the work has
been edited by the Rev. H. R. Bramley, Dr. J. Stainer being
the editor of the music, which consists of ancient melodies
and some supplied by living composers. This third division
of the work contains twenty-six carols.
Messrs. Novello, Ewer, and Co. have also issued—among
their cheap octavo editions—the fine “Stabat Mater” of
Astorga, a celebrated Sicilian composer of the seventeenth
and early part of the eighteenth century. “The Stabat
Mater” is one of his finest works, and has been pronounced
by Hauptmann (a high authority) to be superior to Pergolesi’s.
The same firm has also published an effective pianoforte
arrangement of M. Gounod’s “ Marche Solennelle,” a fine
orchestral piece, in which the stately solemnity of the march
is charmingly contrasted by the grace of the trio.
“A Second Set of Sixty Voluntaries, arranged for the
Harmonium by J. W. Elliott ” (Novello, Ewer, and Co), will
be found serviceable to amateurs of that instrument.
Ashdown and Parry’s fourth “ Album of Dance Music.”
This is a publication (from the well-known firm in Hanover-
square) similar in 6ize, price, and purpose to that noticed
above. The contents consists of two waltzes, three sets of
quadrilles, a galop, a polka, a schottische, a polka mazurka,
and a country dance. The contributors are Messrs. G. Coote,
jun., Marriott, W. C. Levey, C. Godfrey, and E. M. Lott.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
[ St. Georye and St. Michael. Second Edition. By George MacDonald.
(0. Kegan Paul and Co.)
er World Against a Lie. By Florence Marryat. Svols. (S. Tinsley.)
Little Wide Awake. A Story-Book for Little Children. By Mrs. Sale
Barker. Nearly 400 Illustrations. (Routledge and Sons.)
Chatterbox (for 1878). Edited by J. Erskine Clarke, M.A. (W.W. Gardner.)
The Pr'ze for Girls and Boys. 1878. (W. W. Gardner.)
Decisive Events in History. By T. Archer. Illustrated. (Cassell and Co.)
The Green Hand. A Sea Story for Boys. By George Cupples. (Routledge.)
British Almanac and Companion for 1879. (Stationers’ Hall.)
Only a Cat. By Mrs. H. B. Pauli. (Routledge and Sons.)
The Mayic Lantern Manual. By W. J. Chadwick. One Hundred Illus¬
trations. (Warae and Co.)
“ Grandmother, Dear.” A Book for Boys and Girls. ByMrs. Molesworth.
(Macmillan and Co.)
Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Illustrated. (Routledge and Sons.)
Paul and Virginia. Illustrated. (Routledge and Sons.)
Drawing-Room Amusements. By Professor Hoffmann. Illustrated.
(Routledge and Sons.l
Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited, with Introductory Biography
and Notes, by Charles K»nt. With Illustrations. (Routledge And Suns.)
The Welcome Hour. Illustrated Magazine. (The Book Society.)
At Anchor. A Narrative of Experiences Afloat and Ashore, dui ing the
Voyage of H M 8. Challenger. 1872 to 1876. By John James Wild, Th.D.
Illustrated. (Marcus Ward.)
Beauties of Shakespeare. By the Rev. Wm. Dodd, LL.D. (Routledge.)
Bel-Marjory. A Tale. By L. T. Meade. (Shaw aud Co.)
Sunday Reading for the Young. For 1878. (W. W. Gardiner.)
Miss Toos- y’s Mission. By the Author of “ Laddie.” (Mozley and Smith.)
Happy-Day Stories for the Young. By H. W. Dulolccn. (Routledge 1
St. Nicholas, Scribner's Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys. Vol. 5.
(Sampson Low.)
Plays for Young People, with Songs suitable for Private Theatricals. By
- J. Barmby. The Music by T. Rogers. (Samuel Tinsley and Co )
The Fairy Land of Science. By Arabella B. Buckley. (Stanford.)
Ida Mayhew. By Mrs. Herbert Martin. (Sunday School Association,
Noifolk-street, Strand.)
Dick Sands : The Boy Captain. By Ju'es. Verne. (Sampson Low.)
Chapters on Everyday Things. (Religious Tract Society.) .
Pierrot, Humbly Born, hut Noble of Heart. By 8. de K. (E. Marlborough.)
Bible Photographs: Stories from the Old Testament. By W. E. Littlewocd.
(Marcus Ward.)
My Sou, Give Me Thine Heart. Sermons preached before the Universities
of Oxford and Cumbridoe. By C. J. Vaughan, D.D. (Macmillan.)
Whitaker’s Almanack for 1879. (Whitaker, 12, Warwick-lane.)
The Flower of the Grassmarket. (Hodder and Stoughton.)
A Face Illumined. By the Rev. E. P. Roe. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)
The Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands. By Charles St.
John. Illustrated Edition. (John Murray.)
Life of the Duke of Wellington. By Rosamond Waite. (Rivingtons )
Life and Adventures in Japan. By E. Warren Clark. (Nisbet and Co.)
Through Bible Lands: Notes of Travel iu Egypt, The Desert, aud Pales¬
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Life Mosaic: The Ministry of Song and Under the Surface. By Frances
Ridley Havergal. Twelve Coloured Illustrations. (Nisbet and Co.)
The History of the Admistration of the Right Hon. Frederick Temple. Earl
of Dufferin, bite Governor-General of Canada. By W. Leggo. (Lovell
Printing and Publishing Company. Montreal.)
The Vanity Fair Album By Jehu Junior. Vol. 10. (“Vanity Fair” Office.)
The Don- Gift-Book of Illustrations to Tennyson’s “ Idylls of the King.”
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The Oxford Bible for Teachers. With margin for MS. notes. (H. Frowde.)
The Day of Rest Volume for 1878. (Strahan and Co. I
The Weeklv Welcome. Volume for 1878. (Partridgeand Co.)
Dress By Mrs Oliphant. (Macmillan and Co.)
A New Grammar of the English Language. By the Rev. G. Bartle, D.D.
Drury’s Comical French Grammar. (George Rivers.)
Lo-t: A Tale of the English Lakes. By S. M. (Bemrose and Sons.)
Ruff's Guide to the Turf, 1878-9 Winter Edition. (“ Sportsman ” Office.)
Ripples and Breakers. By Mrs. G. Linnrous Ban s. (Kegnn Paul.)
Legends of the Morrow. By T. Gordon Hake. (Chatto add Windos.)
The Byron Birthday Book Compiledliy James Bin-rows. (Samuel Tinsley.)
Tae little Ones’ Libi ary of Good Stories. (Evelyns, 51, RegenVstreet.)
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The Longfellow Birthday Book. Arranged by Cecilia Dixon.
The Grimm Fairy Library. Ten Volumes in a small Cabinet.
The Electric Light. By T. C. Hepworth. 85 Illustrations.
Baby Bell. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich. With Illustrations.
A Picture History of Englund-for the Use of the Young. By Dr. Dulcken.
The Large Picture Primer. ...
Excelsior. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With Illustrn! ions.
gasa asr h. **&*■»***., **.
Rouiledtle’!. ptetur/sau^ttlHUtOTy. By the Rev. J. G. Wood.MA, FL.9,
A Picture-Book for Laddies and Lassies. •
Golden Light. Scripture Lessonfor the Young. By Dr. Dulcken. Illustrated.
Farm Ballads. By Will Carleton. Illustrated.
Children’s Theatricals. Adapted Popular Fairy T;Ues. By J. Keith Angus.
Schnick Schnack : Trifles for the Little Ones.
Aunt Effie's Rhymes for Little Children. Setrto Music by 1. Cramp-on.
The Seven Champions of Christendom. By W.11. G. Kingston.
English Epigrams: Selected and Arranged by W Davenport Ada ns.
Longfellow’s Toctical Works. Author’s Copyright Edition.
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The Black Crusoe. From the F. ouch of Alfred 8eguin. IHustrati ms.
Esther : A Story for Children. By Geraldine Butt Illustrated.
The White Lily of the Great Sahara. By C. H. Ivlen.
What an Old Myth May Teach. By Leslie Keith.
tub ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Dec. 21, 1878.—592
AUTOGRAPHIC
TELEGRAPHY.
Autographic telegraphy,
or the process of trans¬
mitting messages in tho
actual handwriting of the
sender, has occasionally
during the past thirty
years constituted the
special study of scientific
minds. So long since as
1850 Mr. F. C. Bakewell
invented a copying tele¬
graph by means of which
autographic telegraphy
was effected, and this was
probably the first time
it was effectually accom¬
plished. In this instance
the message was written
by the seuder with a
gummy ink or varnish on
metallic paper or tinfoil,
and this writing was by
the aid of mechanism
used to actuate electric
currents in such a way as
to produce a record at
the distant station by the
chemical decomposition
of a solution with which
the receiving paper was
damped. Both the writ¬
ten message and the
paper were fixed around
cylinders of similar form
and dimensions, one being
placed in the transmit¬
ting and the other in
the recording instrument,
and the cylinders were
caused to revolve with
corresponding velocities.
Each time the gummy
and, consequently, raised
lines of the writing were
crossed by a pointer under
which the metallic paper
was traversed in the
transmitter, a mark cor¬
responding in position
was made on the pre¬
pared paper at the re¬
ceiving end. It there¬
fore followed that the
sum of all the marks
reproduced the writing
—^ r T odQced tie
writing in whiteoos bln*
pound, but the pr««
Sued to become
public utility owing t,
the extreme slowness
that was experience! &
maintaining uniform and
synchronous motion
the instruments. Inlfla
the Abbe CaseUi, in Italy
endeavoured to solve the
problem of autographic
telegraphy in a nmilu
manner. His apparatus
was exhibited in Ene-
land, and it wm nad
practically between Paris
and Marseilles and Pci,
and Lyons. Plans, dmv.
sketches were 1_
reproduced at distant
places, but it was found
that the apparatus had
not only the defects of
Bakewell'#, but it was
very costly and oompli-
cated. Two other nib-
sequent workers in this
direction were M. Mever
and M. Lenoir, who tried
to accomplish the acne
results with ordinary ink.
They, however, punned
their investigations quite
independently of and
unknown to each other.
We have recently been
afforded the opportunity
of examining the latest
example of this clau of
apparatus at the Genera!
Post Office, where it bas
been submitted to the
authorities for trial. This
is the invention of 11.
d'Arlincourt, of Paris,
and its general prin¬
ciples are similar to those
which govern BakeweUi
system. The distinguish¬
ing feature in d'Arlin-
court's apparatus, how¬
ever, is tne introduction
TSTo. I.
ITo. II.
PICTORIAL CHARADES
FOR CHRISTMAS.
TOE ILLUSTRATED [LONDON NEWS, Dec. 21, 1878.-593
Pointer, “ Faust,” 8 yrs. 6m. old, Mr. G. Pilkinj
6. Fox-terrier, “Buffet,” 11
>n. 2. Pug-dog, “ Tragedy," 4 yrs., Mr. H. Maule. 3. Bloodhound," Judge,” 1 yr. 8 n., Mr. W. Herbert Singer. 4. Retriever, “ Fr?d,” Mr. F. Redmond.
W. J. Hyde, prize and cup. 6. 8t. Bernard, Mentor,” 6 yra. 6m., Dr. J. nuojtll, ai.D. 7. Spaniel, “ Flora,” Mr. Bold Robinson.
PRIZE DOGS AT THE ALEXANDRA PALACE SHOW.
504
TIIE TT.T.TTSTRATED LONDON NEWS_
i„k »p"u « » r,p .( ■«"“'»
Ion" an # l 2\ in «<np, 11 . 1A A fitr : D 0 f white paper
to^the^heinjcftl from
mmftmm
iT&& * p ssr.t p ss» *“ ?r;«^ r
SSSlh roasr-s
5Kl?2Sl cnees, it is exceedingly well adapted.
h We nreTut an Illustration of the apparatus constructed by
M. ?I,d?whU mu, ~ilj be understo od bjr re ference
to the foot-notes and to the above general description. Ihe
Engravings on another page represent several ^nt nga and
drawines which were actually transmitted, through tne
annaratiL Tromone instrument to the other and which could,
as we are told, have been transmitted, by the same means, a
distance of two hundred miles. One of these, supposed mes-
s^rcs was sullied by a member of the Chinese Legation in
As. who visited the exhibition of M • 1 ^Sin^e'^hS-
Tt consists of three perpendicular lines of Chinese nana
writing The second article consigned to the Autograph
Telecraph is a little sketch of a girl selling cups of cocoa at
the *Pun8 International Exhibition The other drawings,
probably by the hand of a French military e M£ r ’ "J° “**
have come among other visitors to M. d A r Uncourt, «e
such as might be made to give serviceable information
during a siege, of the position of the parallel lmesof
intrenchments. and of the siege-gun and mortur battenca
engaged in the attack of the fortress. Ihcse matters arc
signified by the written words, with alphabetical references,
which appear on the drawing. The remaining fetches afford
an exterior view, and an internal transverse section, of a gun
turret erected in some land fortress, the construction of w>«h
it is desirable to explain by a telegraphic message, to some
p«"on. «t. long distune, purl,ops in . lore.gn cc-nJjH
is imagined that a spy in time of war, if not ft newspaper
Special Correspondent, might possibly avail himself of the
Automatic Telegraph to send plans or sketches of military pre¬
parations. We should much prefer to see this ingenious co-
trivance applied to peaceful and innocent purposes, whenever
it is made ready for practical use.
OBITUARY.
THE GRAND DUCHESS OF HESSE.
and second daughter of Kenneth Callander, Esq., of Crai 0 -
forth, in the county of Stirling, on the 8ih inst -
Colonel James Ramsay, ^
Andrew Ramsay, on the .th mat. for
Birnriughunq on'thTilthnist., in his eightieth year-
The Rev. John Byron M. A., ttari eon of the bite Rear
lTlmstoneYlard wick ^Gloucestershire, aged
inst., at 55, Montpelier-square, Brompton, ^
Major Edward Pellew Hammet Us S herR.M£.I.,third son
of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Ussher, K.C.B., K.H.,
on the 6th inst., at Radipolc, near Weymouth
Sir William Yardley, of Hadlow l a . r
who was Puisne Judge at Bombay from 1847 to lSo^ana c,niei
Justice from 1852 to 1858, on the 15th inst., aged sixty-eig ^
Mary Lady Watson, widow of Sir William Henry Watso ,
Baron of the 7 Exchequer, who died 1860, and daughtc^of
Anthony Hollist, Esq., of Midhurst, Snssex on the 12th mst.,
at Medhurst. Sussex, in her seventy-thud year.
Colonel Maximilian James Western, formerly'Mfc Foot
on the 12th inst, at Palace-gardens-terrace, ^ensm^on aged
seventy. He was younger brother of Su Thomas liuren
Western, first Baronet, of Rivenhall, Essex.
Thomas Richard Pryce Wagner, J.R. “ d ;
diganehire, on the 9th inst., at Manoreifed. m tbat countj
aged eighty-three. - He was only son of the late John Wagner,
Esq., of Fenallteifort, by Martha, his wife, daughter of F.
Martin, Esq , of Crauley, Surrey. . . t
Charles Lane, Esq., J.P. and D.L on the
of John Thornhill, Esq., and by her, whe> died in 1871T, leaves
issue, his eldest son being the present Major-General Clianes
Powlett Lane, of Badgemore.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated Jan. 2, 1877) of Mr. Richard Thornton West
of Streathum Hall, near Exeter, who died on Nov. 2D last, has
been proved by his widow, Mrs. Sarah West, aud his brothen-
in-law, Richard John Bowerman. of 4, Gray's-inn-square. wwl
Thomas Palmer Eames, of Cotley, near Chard, the acting
executors, the personal estate being sworn under £1,000,000
The testator leaves to his wife all Ins plate, furniture, horses,
’rstnres. &c.. absolutely, witli »
CHESS.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
G B (Bu«te-Pr*th).-We n<
■MmrtwMto ,hi. depart »/ H*P»prr he -M"**" 1
E.lilor, ami turn the tcortl " Chen ire Me* i» the cm
•refnj*.
yoor letter. «n<l Umll »lw«T» be glad t
B T K (Bonrnemonth).—You c*n obtain, tor pe
„ . II hare early
Eant Maknx.- 1 Tlmnlu for your courteous IctU-r. The problem >Hill
B? V >l (Cboltrnhiim).—The notice referred to the Br* .ditto. of Mr. Go-Ip’. work
..
8 II (MotUngbuml.—Both »re »ery Mceptuble. nn.l .hull oppeur when the demon «
SlTriUeiUnc'^Th"' titlee.'puMUhe'e. »n<l prtew<>M>™>k»<rf eliem problem*" would
J ^ WTO?hw“!^e h«"w n.rt!n^e*in IhU tr.lumn mpllr. toyour 1 »erie». but
here ee.it 11 mmnMateaitou to the «*eu«* named 111 )<>ur letter. _
G „ 1 }
tree red from yon are not prnblemutleal.
.1 O U.Covonl.-Incorn-et. In both e»»c*. Send the problems by all mean*.
T U .Sm.ti.wU>-A dual mate In a problem l. a defect .«•«;. but a
T th»Svtleal 1 -erfMtl'n i» impraetlcaldo!inordinary work. Sol la good, and.lftonnd
F 1VN H MJrerpool).—No.1 I« marked for Insertion ; In No.lthen- l * ji'j!*'4
play I a t kW Pinning the Kf. pan n; Noe. 3 ...d i are to. trli 1.1. and No.«
n-iuliv, further exiimlnatlon. . ,_ ,,
W MeA .Ctllche.trrl.-In So. 1 . after 1. II to Kt tth. P to K «b-White may play .. R
to Kt Mb. or a. Kt to It Tth. No 1 can lw solved Uy 1. Q to K Kt ind, Ac.
H M i l.eed»l.—We pmpoM to publish the game In good time.
thank., game* received from Delta. E Thorold, 8 Hamel. U C
Wk acknowledge, with th.
Haywood, and J 8 Thorn
CneuKi-r SoLi-Tioa. or I'noim.km Vo. mil received fi
(Clay-crow). Thorpe. Duldwtiill. and T Ilunwtrnd.
received from W Groux, Tonk*. W J Wllnon
dead.
ml from J 8 Hardy, and E W Hamilton.
S rVil|o. Geelong. H
T edilwch, T Main
E<ler*.Ci
T N O. .
_'telegram), W D Hutching.,TGuot.and ItSnrdleld.
CoaiiErr mnerioM* or Fuoulkm No. I Kt.', recrtve.1 from J 8 II and E W II. J G
r!:' Ln.."..' -ri- MU Bulley.T Exeter. .1 W 8 (Daw-
k, Carloca, Neworth.
received from P le Page. Jane
- — "moi. I) Ardlcy. Frame,
i. 1,8 1>. N Warne . J P
It I. Dvke. Helen I.or. K
■°Klmdb Lulil^wICe."**. Emlie’Vrau] Thorpe. .. ■> o.m,, • .
1I.ID. i> It P. W S It, E Clnrkaon. Florence F Slmbnaik. Carloca.
no, T Cineat. Ea t Malden. K I’ Viilliamv. R H
•k^. M M»*yrirk. I>i*«*n«»r» uml L»-« n. M**rh»ulc,
iJ'okilo’ K l“: BTKIni. G Fi*h ...ke, »I Merrick I
A Si .it. E Wor.ley. 1.81iar*w™«d, II Urewder. M <) Halt--
ComiK.-r Soi.i'To.a. or Puoiilkh No. lain recilvid from lt..w,.,
Vcnoer. S Wretern, K Turn. r. II Hyntlwll. Julia Short. A I. S. I am
Solution or Fboblkh No. 1815.
WHITR. BLACK.
F to B 8th (a Kt) •
Kt moves
1. KtoKsq
2. R to R 8<]
8. Kt takes P (at K 3rd). Mate.
• If Black play 1. P to B Mil (a Queen), White’* answer ia 2. It to Q Kt Sth. Ac
Her Royal Highness the Grind Duchess of Ilessc,' Princess
Alice of Groat Britain mid Ireland, died at Darmstadt on the
14th inst., deeply deplond. In the appropriate words of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer in prupo.-ing an address of con¬
dolence to her Majesty, "Apart from her Royal birth and
exalted station, the Princess Alice had qualitirs which would
command our admiration. Whether as the daughter, miuist.r-
ing by the death-bed of her father, as the sister exerting her¬
self ns the skilful nurse of her brother, or as the tender mother,
who might be said to have sacrificed her life in th* affectionate
care of her children, or whether we recall the time when she
came forward to alleviate the sufferings of the sick aud
wounded iu h.r adopted country, we recognise in her that
combination of warmth of heart, soundness of judgment., and
practical energy, which go to make up the perlection of
womanhood.” 'J7»e Grand Duchess, in former times our own
” Princess Alice,” was born April 25, 18-13, the third child of
her Majesty, was married at Osborne, July 1, 1862, to H.R.H.
Prince Frederick William Louis of Hesse, K.G., now Grand
Duke, eldest son of Prince Charles William Louie of Ilessc,
and grandson of Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, and
had issue two sons. Ernest l.ouis Charles Albert, Hereditary
Grand Duke, born Nov. 25, 1868, aud Prince Friedrich
Wilhelm Auguste Victor Leopold Ludwig, born Oct. 7, 1870,
accidentally killed, May 29, 1873; and five daughters, the
l’riucesses Victoria A berta Elizabeth, Elizabeth Alexandria
Louise Alice. Irene Marie Louise Anna, Victoria Alice Helena
Louise Beatrice, and Maria Victoria Feodore Lcopoldiue, the
youngest, who was bom May 24. 1874, was the Princess who
succumbed to diphtheria ou the 16th of last month.
The deaths have also been announced of—
The Rev. Henry Trail Simpson, Rector of Swindon, near
Cheltenham, on the 7th inst.
Charles Robson, Esq., of 60, Cornwall-gardens, late of
Notr —This problem canrot be solved, rut many correspondent* Rave
supposed, by either 1. R to Q KtSth or 1. R to U K 6th. because Black’s
rejoinder is piomottnglhe Fawn to u Kt, und playing that piece to U 7th ou
, Kelso, on the Utli i
Luxdcn Law, Kelso, on the 9tli iiu-t., aged seventy-seven.
Lady Hardings (EmilyBriulf.nl), willow of the Rev. Sir
Charles llardingc, Bart., of Duundcs Park, Tunbridge Wells,
White to play, and mate in three moves.
(Owing to the demands upon our space the games are unavoidably
leferrred.l
The testator leaves to ms wne au ms piaie, iurnuure,
carriages, wines, pictures, &c., absolutely, with a present
legacy of £4000; for her life his estate called “ Str.-atham
Hall,” with all the lands belonging thereto, and £10,000 per
annum, subject to reduction in the event of her marrying
again, and also the additional yearly sum of £3000 for the
maintenance and education of each of his children.
After the decease or second marriage of his widow, the testator
devises the Streatham Hall estate to liia son Richard Powerman
West absolutely. To his nephew, Robert Thornton, he
bequeaths a legacy of £3000; to his si ter-in-law, Mrs.
Elizabeth Eames, and her children, £3000; ti his two
executors, Richard John Bowerman and Thomas Palmer
Eames, legacies of £3000 each, unless they rtfuse to act; to
each of his god-childrtn (eight in number) he leaves £100«; to
his friends, John Browne and John S. Nial), Richard M.
Jones, and Francis W. Arkcoll, £500 each: to all his
domestic servants, gardeners and labounrs employed on
the estate, sums varying from £10 to £200. He beqmaths
to the following charitable institutions-viz., the Merchant
Seamen’s Orphan Asylum at Snaresbrook. the Seamen’s Hos¬
pital on board the Dreadnought, the Royal National Life-Boat
institution, the Devon and Exeter Hospital, the Exeter Dis-
pensary, the West of Eualand Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb, and the West of England Infirmary for Diseases of the
Eye. the sum of £500 each. The testator leaves the residue of
his landed and personal estate in trust for his child or children,
as to three fourths thereof in trust to pay to him or them from
and after his or their marriage the income thereof for life, and
after their decease in trust for their children; and as to the
remaining one fourth thtreof in trust for his child or children
absolutely on attaining twenty-five; but if none of his
childr. n or their issue attain twenty-five or marry the testator
gives over the whole of his residuary estate to his nephews and
nieces living at his wife’s decease or second marriage.
The will (dated May 15, 1878) of Mr. Alfred Brooks, late of
Montague Vilia, No. 67, Fincliley-road, who died on the
2nd ult., was proved on the 29th ult. by Mrs. Jane Brooks,the
widow, William Henry Cole, and Alfred Clayton Cole, the
grandsons, the executors, the personal estate bang sworn
under £250,000. The testator leaves to his wife his residence,
with the furniture, plate, household effects, and £1000; amt
legacies to his gruudchildreu, his late book-keeper, assistant
book-keeper, and cellarmen, domestic servants, and others.
As to the residue of his property, he gives one sixth to his son-
in-law Mr. W. H. Cole; one sixth upon trust for his daughter,
Mrs Loui ia Augusta White, and her children; and the remain
ing four sixths upon trust for his wife for life, and atherdcu h
one half thereof upon trust for his daughter, M«.Col e . and
her children, and the other half upon trust for his said
daughter, Mrs. White, and her children.
The will (dated Nov. 10, 1875) of the lute Mr. Hcniy S.
King, of 65, Cornhill, Loudon, aud 1 he Manor House, Cbigwell,
Essex, was proved ou the 14th iust, ,be ,
sworn under £160,000 by the ex.-utow, the widow.Mr. il.
Seymour King, and Mr.'Philip Edward Sewell of!Norwwh.
With the exception ot legates to h5a a "^ , li!
amounting to £3000, the testator bequeaths the whole of his
real and personal estates between Lis widow and children.
The will (dated April 10, 1877) of Mr. Lestock
late of No. 122, Westbourne-ter ace Hyde >•'* ha 1 J 1 ‘“ id
Oct. 27 la'-t, was proved on the 23rd ult. by Mre. J^e K .
the widow, Claudius James Erakme, Lawrawe ■Jarne*
Mercer, the nephew, the acting executors, the personalesU^
being sworn under £50,000. The
monntl, consisting of a centrepiece of P Bom w to
silver side dishes, presented U> him on h« lwvmgBOTMJ, w
his wife for life, and at her death the centrep ece to ms son
Lestock, and the side dishes to Ins son Grorgc Bofieau^
also leaves to his wife £200 aud Klb The iesiduc of las
effects, and there are some other bequrats Tbe r owho od,
skSi'm: s&sft irss*—• - *■
'‘’“ThTwUHd.ted Aug. 17, 1811) ot Mr. Fruri.
late of No. 27, Broadwater Down, lonbndgc-wells, ^
at-law, who died on Sept. 30'last was C hippindale,
by Miss Alice Chippindale the 8 ; at "’a,S£35,000-
the executors, the personal estate being n (he resi( ] ue of
The testator, after giving some icgacies. l^ ni ^
his real and personal estate to his brother U iUiatn ana
sisters, Jane Eliza and Alice, equally. Swainson
The will (dated Oct. 17, 1876) ol Jto.
Cowper-Essex, late of Yewtield. Hawtobead, ^ ^
died on Oct 23 last, was the
Christopher Cowper und James CuIlha “ 000. The
executors, the personal estate being nram ufC o( hij
testator devises lus property calkd remainder to
son, the said Thomas Christopher, for life ,, ™ q{ ^ eIt y
srsi?sz £;dr«"»u°s^ h «. r
“‘srirn (d.w A,.g. 8. ms, - js^as
Giffard, formerly Rector of Lmig Ditton,^ 7^ on , he
Leatherhead, who died on the 1st ut t Pj Ke a iid Mw
22nd ult. by the Rev. Matthew We8t **“ “ffiicrwual
Mary Giffard, the daughter, of an annuity
being sworn under £25,000. With the exce^o. ^ wlll
to an old servant, the only persons mterestea uu
arc testator’s daughters, Mary and EditU. (dated
The will (dated Aug. 19, 1856) with four coda
Dec. 13, 1807, Sept 4, 1872, Jan. 18 > :l « i ’h-street, Bocbrrter,
of Mr. George 1/iwrey, J.l lu ^ ^ ,he 20th ult. by
who died on Oct. 6 last, was proved on the 26 ^ exccuton
SZSZ
Bartholomew’s Hospital, near Roches ter.
By the will of the late Mr. Frcde J?^ k S C \Sn kB^n^
Opera-House, amongst other propertj. baa ou the W*
to his family ; and they have decided to crx. ^ ^
Italian Opera as usual. Mr Ernest Gj -* J a _ w iU,
years been associated with his father i 1 "qhe season M
Mr Herbert Gye, undertake tbe “XmeParit MadanieAljw® 1 -
1879 willcommencein Aprd and Mada ’^i^Vare engaged
aud all the great artists of the establishm
will appear. -
The Marquis of Buth hits abitMl 1 ^ eaccof ,te
from the rent of tenants ou his estates, in con i
DEC. SI, 1878
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595
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W1< froF * Bonnet “ d C»P. made byFrench Milliners’, U 18 8
WI< trom or handsomely trimmed', 10 °
Drcssea Mado Complete', for a Parent.' Slater, or ** 3 °
Brother, from. £3 10 0
“antle^uud Paletots, handsomely trimmed, for ditto.
Bon net*. New Styles, made "by French MUUnera, 1219 °
froIn .. 18 »
The BARODA CRAPE.-Economlcal Dresses made}
entirely of this new material, for Deep Mourning \t2 19 6
Good-Fitting Dressmakers are sent to All Paris
With a Full Assortment of Goods, and to take orders.
Immediately on receipt of Letter or Telugram,
WHICH MOST BE CLEABLY ADDRESSED—
REGENT-STREET, Nos. 256 to 262,
otherwise they would not reach as desired.
EVENING and DINNER DRESSES.
A-i New Styles, well cut, and eleguutly trimmed,
from one guinea to 1U guineas.
Tarlatans In the most fashionable styles, 21s.
Block Brussels Net, *5a., tj>. ud., and 35s.
Black Silk Tulle (condition keeping). Sis. and *0s.
Grenadine, from 42>. to 4 guineas.
For Sketches of the alaive, address as follows:—
PETER ROBINSON, REGENT-STREET,
EXHIBITION.
0RAPES from the PARIS
PETER ROBINSON, of REGENT-STREET
(THE MOURNING WAREHOUSE),
THE WHOLE'sTocii'o? CRAPES that
were Exhibited by Messrs. COUKTAULD,
the Eminent Oral* Miiiiulncturen.
THE BEST QUA I'iWe. 4‘EVi!li’'»l AN U FACTORED.
They have been Purchased
at u considerable discount off,
and will be sold to bis Customers
at merely ordinary prices.
TIIE LARGE GLASS CASE which contolned
the Crapes in the Exhibition
Peter Robinson will sell at one thjiM Ita^oilginal cost.
(The only address.)
it large purchases made by
bole of the Exhibits
Of Black Grenadinc-IMsllle Aclcr-
ln Plain. Figured, Broclri, and Damans*
(patterns very various), and suited
forETenlng, Dinner, and Dress occasions.
Ho has also been fortunate in securing
the Goods exhibited
by a Norwich Manufacturer.
Amongst 1 hem uro PARAMATTAS of exquisite make,
GRENADINES or strong texture. ZEBEI.INES,
TWILLED SERGES, and various NEW FABRICS
ol great perfection of make and dye.
25 per cent off the usual cost price.
Observe this Address only,
-. .. '“'BlNSONdi__ __
REGENT-STREET,
PETER ROBINSON'S MOURNIN^WAREIIOUSE,
258 to 262
F rench, all-wool foule serges.
The largest assortment of these beautiful Goods now Bell-
lug at Is. 4id. per yard. Very writ and wann.
JOHN HOOPER, 52, Oxford-street, W. Patterns free.
T) OYAL VELVETEENS—Guaranteed new
XL fast blue shade of Black, is. 11 Id.. 2s. 9d„ 3s. rid. per yard.
In HOOPER, 52. offorvl-.-tnct, W.
TV/TANUFACTURER’S STOCK of LADIES’
JLVJL WINTER DRESSES, Selling Off at half the cost. Moss
_S. Selling Ol
cuemires, in New Dark Plain Colours,...,
Patterns free.-JOUN HOOPER, 62. O.
EVENING DRESSES. — Thousands
Hi Beautiful Lissette Grenadines, are now offering at 4Jd.
jr»nl. The New Gold * ~ *
T> OYAL DEVONSHIRE SERGES,
lb wovon from pure wool, for LADIES’ DRESSES,
in Navy or Dark indigo Blue, Black, Dark Browns, Prune,
price Is. lid , /s. (id., 2s. lid. per yard.
For CHILDREN a flower (juulity Is made, very strong,
For BOYS’ HARD W lLtfft Is extra mUled, price
SPEARMAN and SPEARMAN,
Devonshire Sergo Factors, Plymouth.
The ROYAL DEVONSHIRE SERGE is the only true Yachting
Serge.
Sea Water cannot injure it.
Any Length is Cut by the Factor .
who arrange to pay the carriage of all Parcels abov
in value to and as far as London.
ry HE ]y/[0ST -JJSEFUL pRESENT
YOR A LADY is a dozen of our beautifully line real IRISH
SOU A haul is CAMJJRI0 POCKET-HANDKERCHIEFS
(hemmed for use), at 5s. lid. |ier dozen: or
our exquisitely Hue hem-stitched, at half a
VOR A GENTLEMAN? *”
ms. I Id.; or. our Gent’s fine hem-stitched, at
12s. te r dozen: post-free. ild. extra.
ROBINSON and CLEAVER.
Cambric Handkerchief Mnkr~
send Samples of their chc#
J) IIETTY FLOWERS for CHRISTMAS-
L TIDE —Fresh Cut Flowrrs. Baskets of Cut Flowers and
Plants. Crosses and Wreaths of Kiwh and Dried Flowers.
Bridal llo11 I not.a from 10s. 8.1. each. Bridesmaids' Bouquets from
os. each.—WI L1.1AM HOOPER, 88. Oxford-street. London, W.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
J r rii*5 mn*t acceptablenre ROWLANDS’ MACASSAR
Oil* for the ll.iir. ROWLANDS’ KALYDOR f«>r
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and WEBB’S
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and WEBB'S
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and WEBB’S
and WEBB,
and WEBB’S
and WEBB,
and WEBB’S
and WEBB,
and WEBB,
and WEBB,
and WEBB,
NEW and ARTISTIC
PRESENTS.
STERLING SILVER.
FINE CUTLERY.
TRAVELLING BAG8.
OXFORD-STREET, W.
CTOVES, ECONOMICAL and ARTISTIC.
KA Tile Decoration*. Hearths. Marble Curb Fenders, Ilniss
/^OAL-BOXES.—Walnut, Oak, and other
choice woods, carvwl or plain, Inlaid with band-pailiPd
t«lr<, bni>» pum l*. nml otln-r dec ratimi* in accordance
with prcacut stylo uf furniture. *1 lie* are very lrand-
•oino, and epocially suitable for prescuts.
J^AMPS.—Duplex, Moderator, and other
English Mnnufad
j^JAPPIN and WEBB, 76, 77, and 78,
Illustrated Catalogues post-free.
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Are placing the Public
BROTHERS On the same footing as
BROTHERS — Member,of Co-operative
Stores, having
BROTHERS— Roduccd their Prices
BROTHERS— 20 ^ Cent ’
The well-known quality
BROTHERS of their goodsisstrictly
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Write for Catalogue to
BROTHERS london bridge.
BROTHERS— LONDON-BRIDUE; or.
REGENT-STREET, w.
BROTHERS — regent-street, w.
PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION, 18T8.
THE ONLY “GRAND PRIX”
In Classes 17 and 18, for Inexpensive and Artistlo
FURNITURE,
TACKSON and" GRAHAM, Oxford-street,
W London.
GRAND TRIZE (EIIREN D1HLOM), Vienna, 1873. The sole
Hlghet Awn d for English Furniture.
MEDAL, for "Great Exceilcnco of Design and Workmanship,”
London. 1882.
HOIiS CONCOURS, Paris, 1R67.
GOLD MEDAL OF HONOUR for "Improvement* In English
PRIZE MEDAL. Great Exhibition, Tendon, 1851.
PARQUET FLOORS.
II
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0 W A R D and SONS,
Manufacturers of
ARTISTIC WOOD CHIMNEY-PIECES.
I SONS,
CABINET MAKERS
STEAM T>0 VVER.
0 W A R D
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O W A R D and SO
BEUNERS-STREET,
FOUR MEDALS
AWARDED,
including
PARIS EXHIBITION,
1878.
VENETIAN GLASS.
GOLD MEDAL. PARIS EXHIBITION. 1878.
rrHE VENICE and MURANO GLASS and
JL MOSAIC COMPANY (Limited) Invite an Inspection ol
their Stock of CHANDELIERS. Cundelabras. M)rn»s, Taxziis,
Va«es Table Glass. Mosaics, and Decnmtivo Works. Especially
selected for Christmas and New-Year Gifts.
30. St. James s-strcct. London, S.W.
( "i ASELIERS, in Crystal, Glass, Ormoulu,
X or Bronze, Medieval Fittings. Ac. A large assortment
at wavs on view. Every article marked with plain figures.
D HULETT and CO., Manufacturers. 65and66, High Holborn.
FIRST-CLASS QUALITY. TASTE.
LOWEST PRICES.
ALFRED B. PEARCE’S
DINNER. DESSERT.
BREAKFAST,.,TKA^and l’OJLET
Tho Newest and Dost I’ntU rns always on View.
TABLE GLASS. C^^GllAV ED. and E1UHED.
Stock conveniently arranged for parties furnishing
to select from.
ORNAMENTAL GOODS.
combining Novelty with hcanty.
VASES. STATUETTES. GARNITURES, BEAUX,
Descriptive*Catab.gue post-free.
Jo.ludgate-hilL, E.C.
Established 1760.
JEWEL ROBBERIES PREVENTED.—J.
0 TANN’S RELIANCE SAFES have never railed to resist
the attempt® of the most determined burglar®. Flre-BeolfUnf
Bafe®,iS5®. Ll»t«fr©©.-U.Newgat©-itreet,B.O.
^HE SUNBURY WALL DECORATION.
’J'HE SUNBURY WALL DECORATION.
'T'HE SUNBURY WALL DECORATION
J- is in Ornamental Relief, like wood-carving. It Is water-
pr.xif, »bd Impermeable to muietu e or damn. It is almost
indestructible, and the first cost is the last. Itcan l>e washed,
or even scrubbed, with soap and water. It will not absorb
infection. It is therefore highly sanitary. It h»s a wann and
comfortable appear»nc«. It can be adapted by architects to any
style of building. It is #uPabl« for Drawing-Rooms Dining-
Rooms, Morning-Rooms, Billiard-Rooms. Hunks, Theatres and
Concert-Rooms, Churches and Chapels. Steam-Boats, and nail
wav Carrlngo*. it is applicable for Dados. Panels. Cornices
Friezes, Borders, Door-Panels, Cabinet-Panels, Folding Screens.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
THE BUILDER.—For tlie Internal decoration of houses its
warm nnd comfortable appearance makes it peculiarly
applicable.
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.-Wo need not hesitate to
say that Muralis is destined to play a very important
Jj*st in the present revival of the arts of wall cmbel-
THE BUILDING NEWS.—The clearness and precision of the
ornamentut on leaves milling to bo desired.
THE COURT CIRCULAR.—It Is .bvlous that Muralis has a
great future before It, and that it will, at no distant
date, obtain a wide popularity.
WHITEHALL REVIEW.-No words of mine could convey
JOURNAL.-One advai
against indentation.
TV/TESSRS. FREDK. WALTON and CO.
street .Wr 1 ' ,ll ' ll<: to vl<lt the Bhnw-Rooms.il, Bcrncrs-
ln various styles, as fixed. Wholesale only. Retail of all first-
class Upholstcrere and Decorators in the United Kingdom.
J^OTICE.
jyjORTLOCK’S CHINA.
THE Immense Assortment of NOVELTIES
A specially prepared for CHRISTMAS will be found to excel
all previous years. The Ornamental Items nre conveniently
arranged In Messrs. MOBTLOUK’S extensive Galleries, and one
!',n, r !“, !.° xch '" ivi ' lv ••evoted to GOODS from the PARIS EXHI¬
BITION, among which will be found exquisite Presents at all
0
S L E R ’ S GLASS CHANDELIERS.
Wall Lights nnd Lustres for Gns and Candles.
Cliaudeliersin Bronze and Ormolu,
DUPLEX LAMPS
fitted with Patent Extinguisher.
KEROSENE AND OTHER OILS OF THE FINEST
QUALITY.
TABLE GLASS of ALL KINDS
and NEWEST DESIGNS.
ORNAMENTAL GLASS. ENGLISH and FOREIGN.
Minton sand Worcester. Porcelain and Stone China.
BIRMINGHAM: Mann factory and Show-Rooms. Brcid-street
LONDON: Show.Rooms.«5. Oxford-street.W. ’
Q.ARDNERS’,
453, 454. 8TRAND; 3, 4. DUNCAN NON-STREET: and
ST. MARTIN'S-LANE.
PARIS EXHIBITION PuTTEUY.-Tho actual specimens
riaec and commission.
THE DECK FAIENCE HAS ARRIVED.-Grand Medal of
Honour and Officer of the Legion of Ilouour were awarded
for this.
THE GOLD MEDAL FAIENCE OF JAPAN lias nrrived. A
the fw Limoges'” "•o’miHM h8ve
arrived. Grand Medal of Honour, Legion of Honour
THE LIMOGES ENAMELS ON COPPER have arrived. Gold
ami Silver Medal* awarded to the Artiets.
THE 1’ESSETClI INLAID IVORY GOLD MEDAL POR¬
CELAIN ha* arrive I.
MANY OTHER POTTERIES HAVE ARRIVED; and others
reach us dally.
PIUFE’S PATENT CANDLE COMPANY (Limited)
...Tlend these Night Lights in the ordinary trailer cases, their
NEW PATENT NIGHT LIGHTS for Imrningiiia glass without
the paper cnee, their GOLD MEDAL FALMITINE CANDLES
and BEST COMI-OSITF, CANDLES, nnd their PURE GLY¬
CERINE. GOLD MFIDAL again uwurded to the Company In
the PARIS EXHIBITION ofW 1 *
^HAVING REALLY A LUXURY by
using PEARS’ TRANSPARENT SOAP.
J70R
WASHING THE HAIR OR BEARD
PEARS’ TRANSPARENT SOAP Is un¬
equalled. It produce* quickly a profuse,
PEARS’ TRANSPARENT SOAP,
X Of Clioini.sts ©ml Perfumer* cvcryw
t. Russoll-st,, London.
THE ONLY SOAP FOR THE COMPLEXION,
MiikinK tlio Nkin cleitr, *muoth. nnd lu®trou*.
WRIGHT’S COAL-TAR SOAP
T T (SAPO CAltBiiVIS DETEKGKNS).
Hiplilynnd cxUr^hrly ntfiiiini'ii-leil for the toilet nnd In all
chap® of cutuneou*dli'DMit* h\ Mr. .Iiu*. 8t©rMn. M.K.C.8. ( 8urfrc<>n
to St. John'* lioiHiital f<»r I 'ivan-s of the Skin, the lute Mr.
Jamn* Stnrtin. M.l) , K.K.C.8., *»f 8Hv|lf*-n»w. Mr McCall
And**r«*>n, M.D., K.K.P.S.. of W.>odi*ide-crr*8oetit t GIim/tow, nnd
the other louirn* memher® of the »rofe**ion. In Tablet*, 6d.
and 1*.. in elennt- ToHe»-|{oxe*. of nil Chemist®.
IV. V. WRIGHT and CO.. London.
P LOWER’S ^TON-MERCURIAL
pLATE pOWDER.
Xn Boxes, Is. and 2*. fid. each.
••The best I have ever used."—Mr. Bladon, Superintendent
Refreshment R. om. House of lau ds.
” Siiiairi'T to any I havo iiseil during twenty-five years.’’—
Mr. J. Holloway, butler to Ids Grace the late Duke of
Devonshire
Of Chemists, Ironmongers, and Grocers;
nun Flower, Chemist, Rydo.
("TOUGHS, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, and
Ky Commmi'tlnn nre fmmMhifpljrelieved and raiddly cured
br I»r. LOi’OCK’S PULMuNlCJ WAFERS. They ta^te
A NEVER - FAILING REMEDY for
LIVER COMPLAINTS.—Dr. SCOTT’S BILIOUS and
LIVER PI I.LS. prep iml without mercury.nre Invaluable toall
wlio suffer from Bilious and Liver Complaints. Indigestion,
Wind, Spasms, Foul Breath, Irritability. Lo.-s of App' tito. Sour
Eructations, and General Debility. As a General Family
Aperient Medicine they have no equal, being mild In their
operation and grateful to tho stomach. They will be found, in
slight cases, by a single dose to restore health to the bmlv with a
happy frame of mind. Prepared only by W. LAMBERT,
1*. Vere-strect, London, W. l». lSd. nnd 2s. fid.; nr post-free.
15 or .Vi stamps, nnd sold by all Chemists. The Genuine are in
a Square Green Packugc.
ELECTRICITY IS LIFE.
P ULVERMACHER’S “GALVANISM,
NATURE’S _ CHIEF RESTORER OF IMPAIRED
VITA pn this*"P«inphlet the most reliable proof* are given of the
Patent Gsdvanic Chain-Hand*. Belts. Ac. In llheiunatlc,
Nervoii-. and Functional Disorders. Sent post-free for
J. L. PU 1 LVERJ1 A,(iHER'i’ GALVANIC ESTABLISHMENT,
184, Regent-street. London, W.
S. A. ALLEN’S
• ^yORLD’S HAIR RESTORER.
TT CANNOT FAIL TO RESTORE
X OBEY HAIR TO IT8 YOUTHFUL COUMJR.
GLOSS. ANU BEAUTY. WHEN THE HAIR
TURNS UREY, LOSES ITS LUSTRE, AND
FALLS OUT, rr SIMPLY REQUIRE.' NOURISH¬
MENT. MRS. S. A. ALLEN’S WORLD’S UAlH
RESTORER. BY ITS GENTLE TONIC ACTION.
STRENGTHENS AND INVIGORATES THE
HAIR. AND. BY THE OPERATION OF
NATURAL CAUSES, GREY OR WHITE HAIR
IS QUICKLY RESTORED TO ITS YOUTHFUL
COLOUR, GLOSS. AND BEAUTY. IT WILL
STOP ITS FALLING, AND 1NDU0K A
HEALTHY AND MOST LUXURIANT GROWTH
USE NO OTHER PREPARATION WITH IT,
NOT EVEN OIL OR POMADE, OR ZYLO-
BAL8AMUM.
CitmoK 11—The Genuine only in Pink Wrappers.
Bold by all Chemist*, Perfumers, and Dealers in Toilet Articles.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
Mrs. 8. A. ALLEN manufactures two entirely distinct Pre¬
parations for the Hair. One or the other Is suited to every
condition of the Human Hair. Both ore never required at one
time. For details us to each preparation, kindly read above and
below this paragraph. Readers can easily determine which of
the two they require.
M* 8 -
!. S. A. ALLEN’S
^YLO-JJALSAMUM,
For the Growth and Preservation of the Hair.
A cooling transparent liquid, entirely vegetable,
without sediment.
SIMPLE TONIC AND DRESSING
OF INESTIMABLE VALUE TO BOTH SEXliS,
THE FAVOURITE WITH THE YOUNG AND
ALL THOSE WHO HAVE NO GREY HAIR. PRE¬
MATURE LOSS OF THE HAIR, SO COMMON
IN THESE DAY8, MAY RE ENTIRELY PRE¬
VENTED UY THE USEOF ZYI.O-BALSAMUM,
PROMPT RELIEF IN THOUSANDS OF CASES
HAS BEEN AFFORDED WHERE THE HAIR
HAS BEEN COMING OUT IN HANDFULS. IT
PROMOTES A HEALTHY AND VIGOROUS
GROWTH. HAIR DKE&bED WITH ZYLO-BAL-
SAJ1UM IS ALWAYS CLEAN, FREE FROM
DANDRUFF, AND WITH THAT BEAUTIFUL
GLOSS UNI.Y SEEN IN HEALTHY HAIR. IT
IS DELIGHTFULLY FRAGRANT. NO OIL OB
POMADE SHOULD RE USED WITH IT.
Q.0LDEN
AY-LEAF WATER,
For the TOILET, NURSERY, and BATH.
A few drops on a sponge or towel moistened with water, and
the face and hands tnithed with It, Is very beneficial to the skin,
removing all roughness. Moet highly recommended to apply
Biter shaving. A Blind! quantity In the bath gives a delightful
aroma, and it lias most remarkable cleansing properties. Par¬
ticularly adapted to the bathing of infante and young children.
Most grateful to invalids and all who suffer from headache
from mental labour or fatigue Buy only the genuine Golden
Star Bay-Leaf Water, sold In three sizes Toilet Bottles, 2s. lid.
6a., 8s., by Chemists and Perfumers, or on receipt of stamps
from tho Wholesale Depot, lit and 11(1, Southampton-row,
D r. de jongh’s
(KNIGHT OF TIIE LEGION OF HONOUR,
KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF LEOPOLD OP BELGIUM)
J^IGHT - BROWN COD - LIVER OIL.
TIIE PUREST.
THE MOST PALATABLE.
THE MOST DIGESTIBLE.
TIIE MOST EFFICACIOUS.
IP
DE JONGU’S
I IGHT-BROWN COD-LIVER OIL,
^ proved by twenty-five years’ medical experience to be
THE ONLY COD-LIVER OIL
which produces the full curative effects In
CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CTEST,
THROAT AFFECTIONS, GENERAL DEBILITY,
wasting diseases of children, rickets.
AND ALL SCROFULOUS DISORDERS.
SELECT MEDICAL OPINIONS.
SIR G. DUNCAN GIBB. Bart., M.D.,
Physician to the Westminster Uoepital.
“ The value of Dr - DE JONGH’S
X LlGHT-BltOWN COD-LIVER Oil. as a thera¬
peutic uguut in a number ol diseases, chiefly ot au
exhaustive dburactcr, has been udunUt-d ly the
it a remedy of great power in the’treatiuent of
many Affections of the Throat and larynx,
peclnllyin Consumption of tho latter, where It
— c, u everything else falls."
C.’l'
will 6Ubt
DR. SINCLAIR COGHILL,
Physician Royal National Hospital for Consumption, Ventnor.
“ J have convinced myself that in Tuber-
Dr."!)).'JGMjil'*a' , LIG < ilT- 8 BRO f \v r N ri C()l>-Y!lVER
OIL posscsscsKreatcrtherapeiitlccllicacv lliun but
other Cod-Liver Oil with which 1 am iK-qualnteX
It was especially noted in a large number of cases
in which tho patients protested they hud never
been able to retain or digest other Cod-Liver oil
that Dr. DE JONGH’S O Fl wasnot only tolerated
but taken readily, and with marked benefit"
LENNOX BROWNE, Esq., F.R.C.8.E.,
Senior Surgeon Central London Throat and Ear Hospital.
“ ri'he action of Dr. deJongh’s Light-Brown
A Cod-Liver Oil has proved, In my own cxiarrlenee.
particularly valuable, not only in tliuse diseases
for which it was originally employed, but also In
many cases of weakness of the Singing and Speak-
Ing Voice, dependent on Bronchial or Ijirvn-
geul Irritation, and In all forms of Strumr.ui
Enlargement of Glands, and Discharges from the
DR. PROSSER JAMES.
Lecturer on Materia Medic*, London lfospltal.
,R. DE JONGH’S LIGHT-BROWN
COD-LIVER OIL contains the whole of ti e
active ingredient* of tho remedy, mul J® cani.v
digested. Hence Its value, not only in Dimin*e of
the Throat and Lungs, but in a great number of
case* to which the .Profession u extending its
D
DR. DE JONOH’S LIGHT-BROWN COD-LrVF.R OIL
__: Quarts, 9s.; by all respect
throughout tho world.
ANSAR, HARFORD, and CO.. 77, STRAND. LONDON.
T7ITS-
-T SICKl—______
for this distressing complaint by a physician, wli- la tli siivni
that all sufferers may benefit from tills providential discovi i v : It
Is never known to fall, and will cure the most hopple** case eft or
all other means have been tried. Full particular, will he -ei.t by
post to any person free of charge.—Address:—Mr. WILLIAMS,
10, Oiford-tarraoe, Hyde Fork, London.
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^MERICAN ORGANS.
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^MERICAN ORGANS.
SECOND!! AN D ORGANS -A Iwgenumtwr <*
'aiETZI.ER ud 00!;Orest Marlborough-street. London, W.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS IN MUSIC, all U
V-/ handaomely boond In cloth, tjlt fdwa. - T" ES
THE ILLU8THATED SONGS OP SCOTLAND (190 Song*.
bee^oveS’s !«.«. |
T^iP^HGl^iEHIMd)* MUSKT^BOtiKOlD^uiigB ^md PlSOie),
I Illustrated. 4s. fid. I
THE ROYAL OPER ATIC AL BUMS. 7s.6d.Eseh.
ROYAL BONO BOOKS.
ENGLAND. 4s.
SCOTLAND.
IRELAND.
WALKS.*.
ValseBrUlan'te, Solo or Dart „ ■■ .
HENRI CBAMKB.
Selection of All*, Books! end * ” t •
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Mmu iand Qo.,57.Or—* M*rlboro«igli-iW*, umavu,
C HRISTMAS PRESENT 8 .
NURSERY RHYMES sod COUNTRY SONGS. By M. H.
MASON . containing about Sixty traditions! “ijrjfijj!*
With six full-page nlustrattum. Handsomely bound, giltedfss.
P UT?LE t k)NG8 FOR LITTLE SINGERS. Bj ALFRED
SOOTT GATTY. 3u Songs and Carols. Handsomely bound,
*‘SdE^:EK r iml‘oJ.'S ALBUM of DANCE MUSIC, contain-
Inj ie faTourlto W*lt*c*. QuadjUlM. Galop*. Ac. Price 2b. 6d.
^MlM^Kand cfr.'B BKCOND ALBUM of DANCE MUSIC,
containing 72 popular Quadrilles, Waltiw, Ac. Pries 2s. ihi.
Bonn^tlrtgm^.^^
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TUE NEW OPERA.
n ARMEN. By GEORGES BIZET.
V Vocal Bo re complete. Ibilian aml Ue.msn Words. 17s.
Voesl Score, complete, French Words. raiu'n or
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Management of Mewr*. A. and 8. Gotti.-EVERY EVENING .* - 1,18
Grand Christmas Pantoralmo. entitled JACK AND THE BEAYSTiiV lh, >>
expressly forthi* Theatre by Frank IV. Green. New andm^nifl^nTsS^;
Hick*, Son, and assistants. Preceded by at Seven. SARAH'S YOUVinm^S* 1
Morning Performance To-Day, Saturday. Dec. 28; second Monday D« 1 5. ', h*
Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday until further notice, cmnmencinr^l,,'
Children under Twelve half price to all parte ,.f the hoii«, ™Mo rn mM'.o ^ T ”-
on payment at the doors only. Prices of admission -.-Private Bo“4 £. ,?!**?’•
Id.; stalls, ” 8 -,; Drew Circle. Sa.; Upper Boxe*.4«.; Arnjiliitiisatn .v,n.
Ss.; l nrteerved,2s.; Pit, 2s.; and Gallery, 1*. Theonly authorised D.nnl. "*'■
from Ten to Five, under tlic portico of the Theatre, nuder the dlnodioia( m! r i£f
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MEN OF SHERWOOD FOREST. EVERY EVENING atSevmU
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and Saturday at One. Children under Ten hall jirioe. No feoi lor booking r ** hl “b
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THE MOORE and BURGESS MINSTRELS’
X HOLIDAY FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
again crowned with Unqualified Success, it will therefore I,. rsns.iH
EVERY AFTERNOON at THREE, and EVERY NlGHf at ElliilT,
until Jan. IS. after which date the Performances will be resumed in their rerakr'wW
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rjvHE MOORE and BURGESS MINSTRELS'
NEW AND DELIGHTFUL HOLIDAY ENTERTAINMENT
ST. JAMES’S HALL,
T HE MOST DELIGHTFUL MODE of passing these
cold find dreary afterioHma b» afforded at the ST. JAMES'S HALL, whw *11 t ,
bright, genial, and |.Jeasant <3I«ur». Moon* and Uurgww'A Salon w .*n- of the dc«
eltgant and luxurious in Loudon). Their Kntfrtainnifjit U uni verbally a InuttHlo
Iki the most charming and rellne.1 that can be found amidst the entire round uf
polilun iimuM-iiieutH. At the MOOliL AN1) HUItGESS M \ riNKES «ev.»ry M >q.Ut,
\Vcflmsday. arid *S«tar«lay> the moat eminent member* of the literiry uni
world muv Lhj found enjoying the perfect part-singing and solo^ngluj of thU vorU-
HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL,
llridsoii’, Mr. Uilu.u, und Mr. huntlry.
CACRED
| O Ci*ndni*tor. 5?
HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL,
Boyal’.Institution) 3 p.m. (Piofeseor I British Museum Lectures: Wo*t- 8C nera and Newavenders!
Dewar on a Boaj),Bubble). minster Hospital, 11 a.m. (Dr. ___
£t. Jumes’a Hall, Morning (Ballad ! Curler Blake). - " ~
Concert. I /CHRISTMAS LECTURES.—R0Y r AL
— — \J of GREAT BRITAIN, ALBEMABI.E-STRKKT^Pm(
Trii vs nw mr,H WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE A smi* Iir U Bl‘u!E. e Co“umendnK onli.vTUH]
TWELVE COLOURED PICTURES, answers to pictorial charades, des. 21 :
ruiNTRD ST lk.ohtoh bboturr.’ chromatio fbocb**, Misinform. Wheelbarrow.
FROM ORIGINALS BY EillNENT ARTISTS; _
TWELVE SKETCHES ILLUSTRATING THE SEASONS, s , Wc cravc pardon of our numerous correspondents for not giviof (»<
AS HEADINGS TO TH.E CALENDAR; e \rould have given, hud space permitted) the long Ust of Aa^trs
TWELVE FINE-ART ENGRAVINGS; received-many of which, however, as the writers will see by the Sulum-
ASTRONOMICAL DIAGRAMS OF REMARKABLE PHENOMENA, here given, fail in some particular*. _
WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES; ' ~
AND A LARGE AMOUNT OF USEFUL INFORMATION. j,jj£ AFGHAN WAR.
The Illustrated Almanack is inclosed in an elegant raver, Printad in _
colours by the same process aa the Coloureu il laths, and forms a uselul * _ . . i.;
nttL 8 L?raS^ e n» Several Illustrations of the Talcing of Ah
of the iLLUSTBAiP-n Londok News, 198, Strand, and sold by all Book- , , vnonimd from OUT SpCCVll
ANSWERS TO THE PICTORIAL CHARADES IX THE.
CHRISTMAS NUMBER:
Catastrophe. Petulance. Penitence. Patriarch.
ANSWERS TO THE REBUSES AND ENIGMAS:
Eve. TriU. Kiss. Glass.
ANSWERS TO PICTORIAL CHARADES, DE3. 21:
Misinform. Wheelbarrow.
* • We crave pardon of our numerous correspondents for not giring (m
we would have (riven, had space permitted) the long hM of Aartw
received—many of which, however, as the writers wiU seebythsSuluacn.
here given, fail in some particulars._
THE AFGHAN WAR.
.L INSTITUTION
Vt' of GREAT BRITAIN, ALricaAiw.ia-nx**^*. JnrraUo
AudUory)^oi^ A^SOAl*' HUBBL^^Couimenri^S Jau'^V^'" ^^^^’s^ib^ri'ptiim
Three o'clock; to 1» continuedon .Dec. J- 1 ™-™* ^i-'uinrioto all thfcoursei
S the Seasom Two Gn'iue^ Ticket* may now bo Obtained t the Institution.
nRYSTAL PALACE PICTURE-GALLERY.—Open all
U the year round for the.SALE of BRITISH and
Buiiday.^ j Monday.^ j Tuesday . Wednesd ay. Thuraday. Frid ay. , S aturda y.
Now publishing,
FATHER CHRISTMAS:
OUR LITTLE ONES’ BUDGET,
BEING A CHRISTMAS NUMBER FOR YOUNG FOLK.
EDITED BY N. D’ANVERS.
Alusjid have been received from our Speed
Artist, Air. William Simpson, and will appear
next week. _
THE ILLUSTRAT ED LOXDONKEWS.
LONDON: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, I 818 .
JS225: ^
everywhere prevailiag; commercial depression, ««*“»
harm seldom seen in
A COLOURED PICTURE, 1 The only oUeotlits'klulT^e UmUd Kin^om
“ THE CHRISTMAS TREE,”
is presented with it. fcrrna^a^ahiwr'tUananyViflamdonOr e on°the
The Number is adorned by numerous Illustrations, and contains Tales, ta,rimentwm embrace^riOTiltkstliatcanno^be^
Sketches, Riddles, and Puzzles; the Legend of Robin Hood, adapted by The perfonnami* will commence each Artemi
the Editor into a Three-Aet Play for Children; A New-Year's Song set to |?^™n F Gymna»ta U ai!dXVow*i* TuoU*1 ing*Fk-tro
Music; and much Pleasant Reading for the Young by Miss Thackeray and followed by a grand spectacular portion uf
other Writers of note. ■ HK'HAIID III
PRICE ONE SHILLING. the fifth art, th^Battie
?nct* earli Afternoon and Evening nt Two tu
with a ivlebratod Contiuental Stafl* of UMei
lucliuling l'ictro ami the Original Little S*m
EATIIEE CHRISTMAS FOR 1877.
the fifth act, the Buttle of Bob worth Field and Death of White Surrey.
To In* followed by the grand Christinas Pantomime of
HARLEQUIN CINDERELLA AN1) THE GLASS SLIPPER;
or. The Little Maid that was Made a Prinwss,
written by H.Spry. Esq., which is dentinal to make a hit in the Christmas annuls, a
being the ia***t pantomime produced of the year lb» 8-tf. The latter portion wiU bear
upon the incidents of the time, namely .—
THE AFGHANISTAN WAR AND THE FREEING OF THE KHVHEU PA9S.
Thettbo%e>numed Entertainment* will be given at each iierionnance. Morning ami
Evening, tmbnicing a staff of lino persons, Hurae*. «»•* Ponies, s Camels and
Dromedaries. Zebras, the Jioriud Horse, l'.dar Beare. 4 Giraffe^, and 1*2 ponderous
in honour to the noble Lord <»n hi
The magnificent Keuery by M
as.-istantn, Proin rti* s by Mr. Join
Electric Light by Mewra. Wells
George, Machinery by Mr. R. (Dl
YOKE’S GREAT WORK,
M YERS ’ GREAT HIPPODROME and CIRCUS, the
IncludiuB l.ity hkctvliea ami ituiliv* li„m .Suture, by B. W. Leader, is NOW OPEN. AT A most Gigantic Establishment in the World. Irom.l’arl* und the Costal I’ulace.
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1 ,'KENCH GALLERY, 120, Pall-mall.—DE-
-L NEl Yll.l.K b Grand Work. l.K I'.uUii.ET• Oct. »r< : J870, at the Twenty-Sixth 1AO, PAPA, take me and SCO TRAFALGAR, tit tllO
Annin.! Exhibition of 1 i.lui'- l.riti*)i and loulgu Artlsts.-eee lime*, Sqy.o. _|J CANTERBURY THEATRE OF VARIETIES. All the miner* say It is the
Ti'LlJAH WALTON EXHIBITION of WATER-COLOUtt tof^wONivIi'ua^t r !2! ucod: “ ud 1 luu s tu «* lU “ mtl ° 1,1 t,,elr, ““>"“vi™.>uai
-lJ DRAWINGS I Me.if WtKlit. Alpine, ami Eastern). ON VIEW and for SALE, ■ ■ -
GALLERY. Wl, Piccadilly, Ten till Dusk. rpHE CANTERBURY THEATRE OF VARIETIES.
— - * -1- New Christmas Fairy sketch, written by Frank Green, Esq., entitled A VISIT
rii 111< i • iw »c\’L* Vi H • i’ \| I l.'| * V TO VLN US, in which Mif*a Nelly Power. 8upiR»rU*d by Mdiles. Ada, Pliillls ISrouguuin,
'I UL * uLUrjVL^Utt DALLizlvl. and Florence Powell, will ai.inar. The hr. .them Dare, Little Louie ^Uie Marvel of
J Second Sight). Fred. Albert, Edgar Wilm-n. Lermii, Rus-h‘ 1 Grover, in ROTH SIDES
“ --— OF THE HOUSE, and Wainratta (.upon the invisible wire). TRAFALGAR Every
WINTER EXHIBITION. Evening, «t».45. __
TT HFiHosvKXni' CM i |.|v niH’v rvv, imvruv M R ’ and Mr8 ’ GERMAN REED’S ENTERTAINMENT.
I il h (.KOM J.M ill (I A 1.1.1. Ill Will Ol LN on MONDAY , J.TJL A TREMENDOUS MYSTERY; A TRIP TO CAIRO, l.y Mr. O.rney Grain ;
Jt I'l l . an. with an EXHIBITION of M AM 1NGS by the OLD MASTERS, and and ENCHANTMENT, a Musical Fairy Tale. MONDAY. Tuesday. Wednesday, and
AVA’i I H-f HI < il li DRAM Nt.s hi Art..-- of 'ho British Schuul. Admission, Oio Irlday.at Eight; Tuesday. Thursday, and Saturday, at Three. Admission, le., I*.:
Z billing. SEASON Til KL.s. 1 III. Mill LINOS. Stall,, 3a. aud6B.-ST. GEORGE'S HALL, Uinghnmplace.',
C HRIST LEAVING THE
UNO THE TEMPLE." and "THE
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. New Bond-st..W. Daily, lOtoli. I*.*
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IT RES by Hriti^h and Foreign AntLt*.
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Li ALL. i<eo Advertisements in dally \>*\
fJ^llE GR0SVENOR GALLERY.
INTER EXHIBITION.
l.nt Eight; during the Holiday.;, ut mice aim osni. have SelClOlIl Seen in IU1S Uhuuuj, --
allowed In Stall, and Boxes. No lee lor hooking scats. Carr, y@t see> maki ng itself felt aiUOngst^R
^ANGER’S GRAND NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE, section of the trading classes ; V
L5 Westminster Bridge-rond.-Thls world-famed EstablUhineiit *• JOWOPka. fearful extent, paralysed J labour une P )
Theonly one of Ita kina iu tlic Uuited Kingdom wlicrc the Drama. Burleotiue, and * . a ll fLp SDrinffS 0^
klsrss»!ri!S^«^ titution r T d y on th « mcr f“® * f^ 0 n ih «&
hI)tcrt(i^nI;!ellt i )s l K^vr , n , is’uic'lurg'Mt'ln^e^vrorid'faud'tli'' U Clr^c n f')'r^th(M!i 1 r''u^ perity SO lOW aS to threaten 6Xh^UStm , ^
fermances i* lar^er^t^uan^^u^Londim^r mi^lm^nttnent.^yltda^Llmatmas^Eute^- gloQluy pos ition Upon which WC take Oil ^ » {eW
r^Vir^u^re^A^^ 0 a f n'd M Sng ntT,*,,,.^ven back at the general character of the jear ' # r
s^rSSTSl^iS^^ days will have completed its course. It j o{
randapcctacuiarpurMoniOi ^ marked by a succession of groonJ
t, the Battle of Bosivorth Field and Deatli of Wliito Surrey. lllirest. Blit a Vear which there IS SOUie „.V»t
o lie followed by the grand Chriatinua Pantomime of UnrtSh. •> . , fnrvviird to a S0ffl-* nal
equin (inderei.la and the glass SLIPPER; f or believing has earned US lorwai
or. l'lie Little Maid that was Made u Princes*, . , ,
•y. Esq., which is destined to innko a hit in the Christmas ..minis, a brighter 1'CglOn 01 UOpe. • t an filT frOid
* of the tune, namely :—" s-u. ihe latter ix..niou mil u-ar rj^ e jueteorologj' of 1S78 has not deviate .
istan war and the freeing of the KHYiiER pass. , vo i precedents as to awaken surprise. * 1
Kutcrtainiiicnt* will b© given at each performance. Morning ami traUltlOllUl pr . . • . Ln«TPVer, With A
ing a staff’ of HDD penona, Horses, uo INuiiea, s Uamela and z* wn « and SUHial, CiOSUlg, Iiuvvt. ) , .
>ras, the Jlorn.4 Horse, l'.dar Bears. 4 Giraffe^, and Pi iMjmlero.in time WRS IUUU aim ° ^Knmipred, DU& P R
unts, the uightn u ►piendM j»erformiiig Lionitliathave been playing vvr»t TtS SuiQ 11161' Wft8 CUUf| u ,
artin Theatre, Par li, during th« Exhibition, and Uvm that nave SCaSOll Ol \VeT. US OUimn m0S t p« rt .
Ith Mr. Deurge hauser'fr Uonipany in Beiaium and Germany, and the ^ xt-- f iriA Tfc AutUlHll WMS, 10 r w r,tS'
j eon of Nczo, wliiefi is the lurge&t in England, haa been ciirUUutetl aODllDRlltly IlIlG. 1-bb . ggg t Iff tue
i.ord beaconsfield. cheery and crisp. Its Winter is suen as , fog3 )
noble Lord on his reception at Venders. , * * . ,* rj_-.fi, /.insirt frOUl 0
nt >ceuerv by Messrs. Dayei anil Caney. Wardrobe by Mr >. IV»\ey an l "N’ortld VGrV SCVCre ; U1 tllC oOUbU WVC5t.
ti*s by ifr. John Rogers, t«as Arrangements l»y Mr. W. Pe[*j».*r. t.ie 9 _. r , *, „,orenifiCCUt
y *r*r: NowJn. - M,iSic “ ,,d ‘ ,y M " ’■ “.frosty but kindly. TV e had * fair average
e rsssEzwrsrhft'u?. WO matured and gathered into the ga metrop ob»
^ M - “• “• Lius ““ n ‘- crop of wheat. Bread has been cheap. I tk
A ,r Ji l “ fiu,,,rt meat has been dear. But, taking the j other-
- 5 -- run of its weather has been favourable rather
GREAT HIPPODROME and CIRCUS, the • ,fhobusing
intic Establishment in the World, linin',Pari* und the 1,'ry.t.il Pal iee. ._i „ nr ,Tint, be SaiUOI ,
,Y. from MONDAY, to SATURDAY NEXT, at the AG1UGULTU liAL S 0 muc h IVC apprehend, caUllOb uo i afifi
rer tisement* in dally pape ry.-^ A J the commencement of the ^ j, glOOBl
PA, take me and sec TRAFALGAR, at the trades in South YYalcsAvere alreax y Tiie^ v, ’ er ‘
and were menaced by -darker the
—- gradually realised, and were naturally P ^on,
NTERBURY THEATRE OF VARIETIES. Wes in other parts of the kingdom, an , ^. Bank
5!^?, upon other trades, a constantly hda le
.well, will HI,m ar. Tl,e brother* Dare, Little Louie ,the Marvel ol upuu umvi V-urffh Bristol, » nu j a l
'red. Albert. Edgar Wilson. I.eioiii, Uus-el Grover, in 110 I’ll SI DES fuilurPS at GlaSiTOW, ECilllDUl D “> •_» C0tB® eru
IE, and Wainratta lupon tlio invisihla wire). TRAFALGAR Every IttUUrts , yJla o . advancing^ ,
:___ have aggravated the seventy of t»» at present '*
Mrs. GERMAN REED’S ENTERTAINMENT, crisis. Things look a little more q ^ off; but it
Pa«ic, perhaps, may by prudence co.^
u-S.’ge&rge^Ii^ll^^ Aj ““’ impossible not to feel that, as
DEC. 28, 1878
599
TEE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
affaire, we are passing through a dangerous period, and,
like Alpine tourists, must observe the utmost caution lest
we bring down an avalanche upon our heads.
The political character of the year has been unusually
exciting, not to say stormy. There have been no great
measures affecting, either prejudicially or otherwise, home
politics. Parliament, which met for “ the despatch of
business ” three weeks before the usual time, and sat till
the middle of August, or thereabouts, gave us a Cattle
Plague Bill, an Intermediate Education (Ireland) Bill,
and a Sunday Closing (Ireland) Bill, but not much else
to speak of. It was absorbed in Foreign Policy. Its
energies as well as its sympa thies were fully preoccupied
by the turn of affairs in South-Eastern Europe, by the
Berlin Conference and its results, and by the unexpected
outbreak of an Afghan War. The fall of Plevna,
somewhat before the termination of last year; the
remarkable winter campaign which followed it; the cross¬
ing of the Balkans b y the Bussians; the destruction
and dispersion of the Turkish armies South of that range
of mountains; the rapid advance of Muscovite troops
first to Adrianople, afterwards to within a few miles of
Constantinople and Gallipoli, alarmed the English people
and roused in them a bellicose spirit which the Preliminary
Treaty of San Stefano between Russia and Turkey did not
help to soothe. A Vote of Credit for six millions sterling
gave her Majesty’s Government something like a carte-
hlanche to act as their discretion might warrant. The
dispatch of the Medit erranean Fleet though the Darna-
nelles to the vicinity of Constantinople, the calling out
of the Ar my Reserv es and of those of the Militia for per¬
manent service, the ordering of 8000 Native Indian
Troops to Malta, and the tone generally held by the
friends of the Government, as against Russia, while they
postponed from week to week the assembling of a Con¬
gress at Berlin, supplied fertile topics of heated discus¬
sion in both Houses of Parliament. At length,
however, Russia and England having agreed upon the
concessions they were disposed to make to one another,
the Congress met. We all know the result. The peace of
Europe was thereby preserved. Several things occurred
during the deliberations of the Pleni potentiarios to chal¬
lenge criticism—some, to provoke con demnation. But the
people of the United Kingdom rejoiced so sincerely in the
assurance given by the Berlin Treaty that it secured them
from the peril of a general European War, as to dispose
them to condone any minor defects or even palpable faults.
It was not quite so with the Anglo-Turkish Convention,
the existence and stipulations of which were brought to
light a few days before the Berlin Treaty was signed.
Still, it did not disturb, even though it might not servo
to strengthen, immediate prospects of tranquillity in
Europe. Parliament broke up with a full impression
that little was to be apprehended as to the future
relations of the Great Powers one to another.
Unhappily, the political disease which had been general
broke out locally, and was transferred from Europe to
Asia, from Turkey to the North-west Frontier of India.
We are now at war with the Ruler of Afghanistan. The
country, through Parliament, has given its assent to the
policy which precipitated it. We have also a war in South
Africa, which will, no doubt, involve us both in increased
trouble and expense. The political proceedings during the
year, of which we give this most cursory resume, can only
be fairly judged of some time hence. They may be the
commencement of a more settled period, or, on the other
hand, they may be fraught with dangers peculiar to them¬
selves. Perhaps it lies beyond the range of human wisdom
to determine how far 1878 has contributed to the peace of
the world, or how far it may have helped to stir up the
war sprit which may hereafter overwhelm all human
interests.
The Obituary of the year comprises the names of so
many persons eminent in Science, Art, Literature, and
Ecclesiastical position that we dare not venture upon a
selection which would necessarily exclude a large number
richly deserving respectful remembrance, and which, j
therefore, would assume an appearance of invidiousness, j
Our glance will be limited to what’ we may term the |
summit of social and political life. Foremost amongst
Royal personages during the year Death has claimed for :
his own Princess Alice, the Grand Duchess of Hesse- j
Darmstadt, and the beloved daughter of our Queen. She
will not soon be forgotten by the English people. Victor
Emmanuel, King of Italy, Pope Pius IX., and the young
Queen of Spain, but a few months after her marriage,
have gone to their account. Two attempts have been
made upon the life of the Emperor of Germany, the second
of which inflicted months of suffering upon the venerated
Monarch. Assassination, indeed, appears to have been
one of the malignant tendencies of 1878. Alfonso of
Spain narrowly escaped, and Humbert of Italy was
murderously assaulted, and saved, perhaps, only by the
loyalty and presence of mind of his Prime Minister, who
received a serious wound in defence of his Sovereign. Of
the casualties of the year we need hardly speak, but the
appalling loss of life resulting f rom the collision of the
Bywell Castle and the Princess Alice steam-ships off
Woolwich, and from the explosion of the Abercarne coal¬
mine (with some others that might be recalled to recol¬
lection), render it unfitting to conclude even this scanty
summary of events without a word of recognition. The
anxieties, privations, miseries, and bereavements of the
expiring twelvemonth, as well as its hopes, achievements,
and triumphs, are now mostly over. The record of them
will come to an end within two or three days, in anti¬
cipation of which we heartily wish our readers ‘ ‘ A Happy
New Year.”
THE COURT.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, arrived at
Osborne House yesterday week from Windsor Castle. The
Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh,
with their four children, who had been on a visit to her
Majesty, left the castle the previous day. The Duke of Con-
naught left after the departure of the Queen, and the Earl of
Beaconsfield, who had had an audience of her Majesty,
left with Mr. Montague Corry the same morniug for Lon-
don. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Connaught and
Strathearn, and Prince Leopold arrived at Osborne on Satur¬
day last. The Marquis of Hertford also arrived, having
returned from Darmstadt, where he represented her Majesty
at the funeral of the lamented Grand Duchess of Hesse
The Queen, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Princess
Beatrice, the Duke of Connaught, and Prince Leopold, was
present at Divine service in the house on Sunday, when the
Rev. Canon Prothero officiated. The Prince of Wales, the
Duke of Connaught, and Prince Leopold were present at the
service at Whippingham church in the afternoon. The Prince
of Wales left Osbcme on Monday for Marlborough House.
The Duke of Connaught and Prince Leopold accompanied his
Royal Highness as far as Portsmouth, and returned at once to
Osborne. The Marquis of Hertford also left. The Queen,
Princess Beatrice, the Duke of Connaught, and Prince Leopold
attended Divine service on Christmas Day, performed in the
house by the Rev. Canon Prothero. Her Majesty, accompanied
by the members of the Royal family, has walked and driven
out daily.
At the marriage of the Duke of Cumberland and Princess
Thyra of Dtnmark at Copenhagen on Saturday last the Queen
vas represented by Sir Lennox Wyke, the British Minister;
the Prmcc of Wales, by Lord Colville; the Princess of Wales,
by Colonel Tecsdale ; and the Duke of Cambridge, by Captain
Mildmay.
Her Majesty’s Royal bounty to the poor of the metropolis
8 nd its environs, and to others in certain country districts, was
distributed at the Almonry Office,Whitehall, on the 20th, 21st,
and 23rd inst., to as many poor persons as practicable. The
ages of the recipients varied from sixty to ninety-five years;
one woman bad reached her hundredth year. The candidates
were selected by the Dean of Windsor, Lord High Almoner,
and the Rev. Canon E. R. Wilberforce, Sub-Almoner, assisted
by Mr. John Hanby, Secretary and Yeoman of the Royal
Almonry in Ordinary.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCES8 OP WALES.
The Princess of Wales left Marlborough House yesterday
weik for Sandringham. The Prince of Wales arrived at
Sandringham on Tuesday. Their Royal Highnesses, with
Princes Albert .Victor and George and Princesses Louise
Victoria and Maud of Wales, attended Divine service on
Christmas Day at Sundringkam church. The Rev. F. Hervey
officiated. The usual distribution of beef to the labourers on
the Royal estate was made on Monday.
The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh and their children
left Clarence House, St. James’s, for Eastwell Park, Kent, on
Saturday last.
Prince Leopold has appointed Captain Stanier Waller, R.E.,
to be Equerry in Ordinary to his Royal Highness.
Prince Ibrahim of Egypt is visiting the Earl and Countess
Delawan - at Buckliurst.
PRINCESS LOUISE AND THE MARQUIS OF
LORNE IN CANADA.
The sad event which has plunged the Court into mourning
this Christmas has naturally caused some of the ceremonies
incident to the arrival of the new Viceroy and Princess Louise
in Canada to bo postponed for some weeks. But we have
at hand abundant proof of the heartiness with which the
Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise have been welcomed
by all classes to their new home. Continuing the series of
Sketches from our Special Artist, Mr. Melton Prior, we
this week illustrate the popular progress of her Royal
Highness and the noble Marquis from Halifax to Mon¬
treal, and show how the firing of feux de joie gave variety
to the customary formula of presenting addresses of welcome
at the various stages of their journey. The particulars of each
sketch being printed underneath the cluster of Illustrations
on page 608, the Engravings call for no further remark, save
that it ever affords us pleasure to testify to the cordial loyalty
and attachment felt in the Dominion—indeed, throughout the
Empire—towards the Queen and the Royal family.
CHRISTMAS DAY IN LONDON.
Sermons special to the occasion were preached on Christmas
Day in all the London churches, which, notwithstanding the
extremely inclement weather, were largely attended.
Christmas fare on a very liberal scale was supplied to the
inmates of the metropolitan workhouses, infirmaries, and
asylums, those institutions being seasonably decorated.
In various parts of London, in accordance with the annual
custom, Christmas dinners were provided for large num¬
bers of poor children, who were supplied with substantial
food and plum pudding. These treats are principally
given in the poorer districts of the Central and Eastern
divisions of London. At the Golden-lane Mission the children
were, as usual, clothed in addition to being fed. Short ser¬
vices , or simple encouraging addresses formed in most of the
place s a part of the proceedings, the whole of which the little
pe ople seemed to enjoy very much.
'lhc Lord Mayor, at his own expense, provided a Christmas
dinner for the inmates—about 400 in all—of her Majesty’s
prisons of Newgate and Holloway.
At the Asylum for the Houseless Poor, which is situated in
Banner-street, St. Luke’s, and gives nightly shelter and bread
during the winter months to the houseless poor, nearly 200
needy persons were entertained to a substantial Christmas
repast, which was thoroughly enjoyed.
It occurred to her Majesty’s printers to do a very graceful
act, which gave pleasure on the morning of Christmas Day to
many suffering children in the London hospitals. Messrs.
Eyre and Spottiswoode ascertained from the authorities the
names of the little ones who were prisoners in their wards on
that day, and, having addressed to each of them a Christmas
card, sent it direct through the post. We may be well assured
that many a wan little face weary with suffering brightened
with a gleam of pleasure when these unexpected but welcome
letters arrived.
THE CHURCH.
cuin, «jonD,io DC vicar of RorseU.
Betiiiiitili, fen in u el Henry; Vicar of Lamorbey.
Btatuhamp, Sydney Charles; Recto- of Little Laver.
JJradby, Edward Henry; Honorary Canon of St. Albans.
Binh, Paul; Vicar of Herodsfoot.
Cameron, Francis Martin ; Vicar of Bilsington.
llav.es, David Jones; Rector of Noitli Benflect.
Dutton, Alfred; Perpetual Curate of St. Thomas’s, West Hyde.
Dollop,,Ldward J.; Perpetual Curate of St. Paul’s, H mel Hempstead.
Hodow, J.Lfl,; Incumbent of Holy Trinity, Alderskott.
Hobson, John Philip; Vicar of Stanstead Abbots.
Jelf, George Edward ; Honorary Canon ot St. Albans.
Matthews. W. P. P.; Rector of St. Breoke.
Moore, Thomas ; Vicar of Holy Trinity, Maidstone; Surrogate.
Ponsonby, M. J. G.; Vicar of St. Paul’s, Chichester.
Proctor, John Mathias; Hector of Lamdon with Basildon.
Puxley, H. B. L.; Rector of Catton.
Guilt cr, Frederic William; Rector of North Piddle.
Saulez, E. C. P.; Vicar of Tadley.
Savage, Ernest Biekersteth ; View of Kirk Michael,
lilbury, Robert; Incumbent of Hutton Magna.
Trimmer,.William ; Vicar of Broomfield.
^ker, Cbarles James ; Rector of Cheddioprton, Dorset.
Wildig, G. L. B.; Vicar- of St. John’s. Bradford.
Williams, John Buncc ; Vicar of Sheldon.
Woodard. Lambert; Vicar of Triplowe
Wright, H. H.; Vicar of St. Silas, Sheffield.—Guardian.
The Corporation of Trinity House has given £20 to the
funds of the St. Andrew's Waterside Church Mission.
A window has been placed in the south transept of Here¬
ford Cathedral to the memory of the Rev. John Goss, M.A.
The Mercers’ Company has given a hundred guineas to the
National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in
the Principles of the Established Church.
Yesterday week the peal of ten bells which formerly
belonged to the demolished church of St. Dionis, Fenchurch-
street, and which have been removed to All Hallows, Lombard-
street, were redeclicated, and rung for the first time in their
new tower.
A fpecial sermon, having reference to the death of the
Princess Alice, was preached last Sunday morniug by Dean
Stanley at Westminster Abbey before a numerous congrega¬
tion. The preacher pointed out the universality and identity
of human suffering and affection, and how the creation and
growth of high offices brought before the world, common things
and feelings in a concentrated personal and yet public form.
The Governors of the Sons of the Clergy Corporation met
on Saturday last at the Corporation House, Bloomsbury-place,
in order to distribute Christmas benefactions to Curates and
other clergymen, their widows and families. Eighty-three
clergymen received grants amounting in the aggregate to
£1392, and the Governors also gave away £500 among fifty-
three clergy widows, aged single daughters, and children.
St. George’s Church, near Bristol, was destroyed early on
Sunday morning by tire, which was caused by tiro over-heating
of gas-stoves. Only the registers and the communion plate
were saved. The peal of bells was destroyed, and the vicarage
was slightly damaged. The church had recently been restored,
and the loss is estimated at £6000. A wedding took place in
the ruined porch in the morning.
The Incorporated Church Building Socioty held its usual
monthly meeting on the 19th inst., at 7, Whitehall. Grants
of money were made in aid of the following objects:—
Building new churches at Hammersmith, St. Simon, Middle¬
sex; Stilliugton, near Stockton-ou-Tees, and Stockton-on-
Tees, St. Peter; rebuilding on a new site the church at
Wribbenhall, near Bewdley, Worcester; enlarging or other¬
wise improving the accommodation in the churches at Bosley,
St. Mary, near Congleton; Cannock, Stafford; Crasswall,
near Abergavenny; New Hampton, St. James’s, Middlesex ;
Houghton Regis, near Dunstable; West Putford, North
Devon; and Silksworth, near Sunderland. Grants were also
made from the Mission Buildings Fund towards building
mission churches at Brimington-eommon, near Chesterfield;
Cremorne-gardens, in the parish of St. John’s, Chelsea,
Middlesex; Highfield, near Keighley, and New Somerby, near
Grantham. During the past year grants amounting to £14,820
have been made towards the erection of thirty-six new churches
(thirty-one of which are entirely free and unappropriated), the
rebuilding of twenty-three, and the enlarging or otherwise
improving the accommodation in ninety-nine existing churches.
The carrying out of the above works called forth from the pro¬
moters of them the sum of £425,336. The committee have
also granted the sum of £742 towards building twenty-nine
school or mission churches.
The New River Company is sinking a deep well at Turn-
ford, near Cheshunt, in Hertfordshire, in search of the water
of the lower greensand, and has reached a depth of 900 ft. The
drill is of steel, in the form of a ring or shallow cylinder, 23 in.
in diameter and 9 in. deep. On its edge are forty-eight opaque
diamonds set in holders.
We have been requested to publish appeals for assistance to
missions, schools, and numerous other charities; but have not
space at disposal for a tenth of the appeals sent—they fill
columns in the daily papers. We can only request our readers
to moke inquiries in their own neighbourhoods—not overlook¬
ing modest poverty, that shrinks from obtruding itself on
public notice—ancl they are sure to find ample scope for their
benevolence.—There is at this time great distress throughout
the country. In sending a donation of £200 from the Queen
to the Bishop of London, as president of the Metropolitan
Visiting and Relief Association, General Ponsonby writes:—
“The Queen, notwithstanding the deep sorrow which has fallen
upon her, has noticed your appeal on behalf of the suffering
poor of London, and has commanded me to send the inclosed
cheque as her Majesty’s contribution for alleviating dis¬
tress in the metropolis.” The Duchess of Edinburgh has sent
£5 to the Leieester-square Soup-kitchen and Refuge. Mr. H.
W. Ripley, M.P., has presented £500 in aid of the relief
of the distress in the Bowling Ward at Bradford, Bowling
being the township with which he is intimately connected by
trade and property. At Chester and many other towns Poor
Relief Committees are sitting constantly for the relief of the
starving poor.—The Chesterfield board of guardians have been
infortned by one of their parish surgeons that many outdoor
paupers are the owners of dogs, which “ are fed from the
tables, whilst the members of the family are actually being
deprived of food.” The board resolved to give no relief to any
person who kept a dog. A correspondent of the Times sends
the following recipe for a hundred gallons of soup:—“Take
bullocks’ heads or legs (heads cheapest), 1 cwt., stew well in
separate boiler if you can; onions, half a bushel, carrots,
turnips, &c.; three quarters of a bushel of split lentils or
peas; a pailful of rice, ditto cf flour, to thicken. This will
make a substantial soup.—M. Hippolyte P. Delanoy, an artist
in Paris, has sent to the Lord Mayor a painting, with a request
that it may be sold and the proceeds given to some object of
benevolence in London, at his discretion. The picture is to
be seen at the Mansion House.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Dec. 28, 1878.— 600
FROM SKETCHES BY LIEUTENANT PULLEY, ADJUTANT OF THE 3RD GOORKHAS.
“Mr. Stain ton pursued as fast as he could follow. Up the easy steps he
at the top of his speed; but, fast as ho went, the child went faster.”
ILLUSTRATION TO MRS. RIDDELL’S GHOST STORY, “WALNUT-TREE HOUSE.’
602
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON HEWS
DEC. 28, 1878
THE AFGHAN WAR.
the attack on ali musjid.
Simultaneously with the good news that the Ameer Shore Ali
had fled from Cabul, that Yakoob Khan lus son had been
liberated from prison, and that General Sir Samuel Browne had
marched into Jellalabad, we received from our Special Artist
Mr. William Simpson, liis_first sketches of“
Ali Musjid Mr. Simpson sent the following hurriedly-
pencilled note, which will give some idea of the risks run and
hardships endured by the Special representatives of the Press
m the lulfilment of their duty^ Nov ^ 1378 .
I write this to he ready with the first chance of going into Peshawar. I
here Tend jou the sketches cut out of my book. I have heen al y^tc,day
out in the thick of it. and my tent is not yet up. I have had to wo.k on
the ground with the wind blowing in strong gusts; so i! >■«Ui very rough
Inclooe d m e 1m ge sketches of the 81st Regiment, who tired the first shot. I
cun'o into this to-day with the Oenerol, and two of the sketches melosed
were made while reconnoitring the place to ace if it was evacuated. Slept
last night <) la MU ftoile, but have got one of the enemy s teats for the
imrht Do not know when my own will come tip.
rngm. -lodo Yours faithfully, Wii.StMP.soN-.
A sketch-map sent by Mr. Simpson to elucidate the plau of
attack on Ali Musjid is engraved on page 619; and this plan,
with the Illustration forming our Special Supplement, will
afford our readers a pretty clear notion of General Sir Samuel
Browne’s rapid success, if wo add a few extracts from
the vigorous description of the advance given in Mr.
Archibald Forbes’s letter in the Daily News of Monday
l&st Premising that the General had on the evening of N o^20
and'in the small hours of the following morning, dispatched
the 2ud Brigade, under Colonel Tytler, and the 1st Brigade,
ruder General Herbert Macphersou, away to the north-west,
to Lasliora, with orders to march thence and brmg a flanking |
fire to bear on the defences of Ali Musjid, we follow the mam
advance of the 3rd and 4th Brigades from Jumrood m the
early morning of Thursday, Nov. 21 Mr. Forbes tells us that
4 • the march began when the broad daylight had illuminated the
mouth of the Pass and the intervening region. There is a
little clear space among the boulders flanking the road from
Jumrood Fort and the mouth of the Pass. Immediately in our
front was the village of Jum, and its adjacent shrine overhung
with acacia-trees, and between the village and the shrine
naesed the nairow roadway. The-General, with Ins Staff, sat
here on horseback to watch the march-past of the advance
guard. As the wing of the 14th Sikhs that led the advance
ftrode past with a long, swinging stride, the sunlight broke
out ana lit up with a golden glory the brown gully and grey
crags of Suikai and Rfaotas. Behind the SikhB marched a
wing of the 81st Queen’s ; then came two companies of native
sappers with their mules laden with tools; and then foUo wed
them Mauderson’s fine troop of horse artillery (I.C ). Tins
oompleted the advance guard, which was under the person il
coinmaud of Colonel Appleyard, the soldierly Brigadier of the
“ Atflength (continues Mr. Forbes) the door of the Shadi
Bhugiar Pass was reached and penetrated, the General leading
the wav. He pushed his pony up the steep isolated kuoll that
stands in its throat and, from beside the old tower ou its
summit scanned the scene in front. All that was seen of
interest was the red-coated picquet on the peak in advance,
quietly watching us. Upon tire top of Rhotas, on our right,
had been visible ull along another picquet, whose camp Are
had during the night glowed up against the dark sky. Behind
there was a nasty grip, leading down into the level bed of the
nullah. In view ot the possibility of getting as soon as possible
a long shot at the Afghan picquet, two ot Maudersoii s horse
anillery guns had been ordered forward uuder Captain Walsh.
These were handsomely stayed down the grip with guy-ropes,
and came along the bottom at a hard gallop in the true horse
artillery style. Just where Mackeson’s road leaves the bed of
the hollow wc had a nearer view of the enemy’s picquet up ou
the peak of Koti Givat in our front, but it was still out of
range of the guns.The skirmishers crowned a
low ridge, from the top of which the Afghan picquet was
visible, distant, perhaps, a thousand paces. It had deployed,
and the men had sent their horses to the rear, behind cover.
At ten o’clock our Sikhs and the 81st detachment opened fire
against the straggling party of the Afghans. There was some
response—nothing to speak of; and the Afghan people quickly
jell back, when the bugles sounded 4 Cease firing,’ aud the
skirmishing advance was continued.
“At the top of this ridge the view of Ali Musjid first
opened up to us. It stands on a precipitous isolated crag,
everywhere naturally more or less scarped. Its summit either
is level by nature or has been levelled by art, and ou this
summit is built the fort, covering entirely the flat surface.
Roughly, it is a square, with circular bastions at each corner,
end one large one in the centre of its front looking down the
Pass, and there is a prolongation of the curtain down to a
detached square tower on the slope of the crag opposite the
Khyber glacis. It ia built of rough stones, unpemented, aud
partly faced with mud, and as a fortification has no pretensions,
although its natural strength is very great. The Afghan
engineer, whoever he was, had a very fair notion of construct¬
ing a defensive system with the means at his disposal. A
great hill rises immediately behind Ali Musjid fort, its fact
almost precipitous. In its front rise three isolated peaks
one—being the one to the proper left—is that on which the
fort is built. ...”
Our skirmishers had little difficulty in dislodging the
Afghans from the Sliagai Ridge; but the cool daring of oae
Afghan horseman, who rode slowly in front of a ruined tower
amid a perfect shower of bullets, excited the admiration of our
troops. Swarming down into the valley, and crossing the
stream, our skirmishers next occupied the deserted .village of
Lai a Cheua. Then “ Walsh’s two guns came up; aud. while
we waited here for the 40-pounders, they were ordered to opeu
fire cn the fort, the range being about 2500 yards. Their prac¬
tice did not at first sight seem very successful. Their shells for
the most part failed to reach the fort, striking aud exploding
downward on the steep scarp in front of it. Their lire was,
however, only pour passer le temps , till the 40-pounders should
come up, aud a messenger sent to the rear brought back
•word that they could scarcely be in position till an hour slroull
have elapsed. It was at twelve o’clock that, according
to tie General’s expectation, Macpherson’s co-operatioa
might be anticipated from the top of the precipice of
Rhotas to our right of Ali Musjid, aud the big gum
would thus arrive just iu time effectively to accentuate
the combination. Meanwhile a wing of the 14tli Sikhs
was sent forward to our right front, to feel their way over
the successive ridges projecting from about the base of Rhotas
and constituting its lower features. In reply to the first
shot firrd by Walsh, a shell was fired from Ali Musjid thit
burst high in the air; but the second shot fired from the fort
passed elope over the heads of the Staff on the bluff, and fell
among some Sikhs a hundred yards behind. It was a blind
With these sketches of the attack on
shell ■ had it exploded it would have done some damage. As
T™ it was eilmmed and became the property ot Golonel
Waterfield the Commissioner of Peshawur. Henceforth, in
reply to Walsh’s fire, the shooting from the guns ot All Musjid
was admirable ; the range had evidently been correctly ascer-
Sned beforehand, and every shot fell close to us as we lay
behiud the knolls of the bluff. At twelve the first 40-pounder
came into action a little way in our rear, and Magennis s
9-nonnders also threw in an occasional shell. Our fire was
directed at all three of the enemy’s main positions, but chiefly
at Ali Musjid, and the dilapidated condition of that fort when
we occupied it next morning proved that the fire had been
much more efficient than we had imagined.
There being no sign of Macpherson as the afternoon of the
21st wore ou, it was resolved to attack with the Jrd and 4th
Brigades. 44 Appleyard took his 3rd Brigade on to the heights
on the left of the Khyber Valley, with intent to press forward
and assail the right flank of the enemy’s position by a turning
_* rpuk Rn>ailo. with which General Browne
remained, 'moved forward over the rocky ridges, direct in our
front, confronting Ali Musjid, and having the potentiality of
working round upon its left.” But, as it was thought a direct
infantry assault on Ali Musjid would lead to an unnecessary
sacrifice of life, it was resolved to abandon the attack for the
dav 44 Lord William Beresford, one of Sir Sam s aides, was
intrusted with the arduous and dangerous duty of descending
from our height on the right bank, crossing the valley swept
by the artillery and infantry fire of the Afghans, and ascend¬
ing to the eminence on the left bank, to inform Appleyard
of the resolution to desist, from further action. Lord William
successfully carried out the duty and Appleyard halted. But
a portion of his brigade was far in advance. Detachments of
the 14th Sikhs and 27th Native Infantry had pressed on, and
in the grey of the twilight were fighting their way up the steep
grassy slope on the peak above, which was the enemy a right
Hank position. In vain did the bugle sound the recall; its
strains were borne unavailingly down the wind, lhe Afghan.,
behind their breastworks ot stone, fought every step ot the
ascent, while the artillery of their left enfiladed the advance of
our men as they struggled onwards and upwards. The end
was disaster relieved by devoted bravery. A young officer of
the ‘?7th by name Maclean, hod rushed on with a handful into
a spot where he found himself in deadly trouble. He called
back for assistance with urgent vehemence to Ins support,
commanded by Major Birch, in command of the 21 th. Phat
officer would not hear in vain the entreaty of Ins subor¬
dinate. He rushed forward, only to fall, shot dead in the
effort. Those to whose succour he advanced fell back,
aud the gallant Major’s body remained abandoned out to
the front. One of his young officers—a Lieutenant, of whom
everyone speaks well, Fitzgerald by name—would not have it
that his chief’s body should be left there to the mercy of
baibarinns. He called on the men of his own command to
follow him to its rescue, but they hung back. In angry de¬
spair he called tor fifteen volunteers from an adjacent detach¬
ment of the 14th Sikhs, and the appeal was nobly responded
to Fitzgerald aud his Sikhs sallied out. He was twice
wounded ere he reached Birch's body,but he raised it, and was
aiding m its removal when a third shot killed him. Most of the
gallant SikhsfeUaroundhim. Theyhad to beffiftwhere they fell;
the Afghan tire was no more to be faced. But the bodies were
found yesterday morning unharmed, and at sundown yester¬
day Bn eh and his gallant subaltern found a soldier's grave
under a Irce close bv the head-quarter camp at. the foot of Ali
Musjid. the whole head-quarter staff paying by their presence
fitting honour lo valiant c omrades who had fallen gloriously
with tl.oir laces to the foe.” . . . .
Among our other Engravings illustrating the Afghan
campaign will be found a two-page drawing showing that
they are no mole-hills which the artillery have to surmount iu
those mountainous regions. The Guides, who figure ou our
front page, were of good service to General Sir Sam. Browne
in his advance through the Khyber Pass. Colonel Jenkins
commands them. The sympathetic pen of Mr. Forbes does
justice to their prowess in these words “ The services of this
Punjaub frontier force, of which the Guides may be called
the corps d'elite, are scarcely known at all to the mass of stay-
at-home Britons. I wonder no soldier of the force who could
use a pen as well as a sword has ever undertaken the task of
writing the chronicles of the Guides. The number of their
hill campaigns lias beeu legion—and no bloodless campaigns
cither Deeds ot valour have been done by them, officers aud
men, that under circumstances of greater publicity would have
enined not a few Victoria Crosses. But wounds are more
abundant trophies of hard fighting among the Guides than
are decorations or brevets. . . . It was an unexpected pleasure
to find out here among the officers of the Guides, under the
shadow of the mountains of the Khyber, an old comrade of tne
Franco. Gei man war, in Captain MTgram Batt.ye, one of five
brothers whose names are throughout the Indian service a
synonym for bravery, modesty, and lovableness of character.”
We are indebted to the courtesy of two officers for the
remainder ol our sketches. Lieutenant Charles Pulley, of tins
3rd Goorkhas, who had previously obliged us witu a series of
characteristic drawings, furnished ui with the sketches from
theMeeanMeer Camp reproduced ou page GOO; and Lieu¬
tenant Martin, R.E., sent us the quaint sketch of General
Roberts leaving Kohat for the front. Lieuteuaut Martin
writes in explanation of his sketch that, “General Roberts, who
has remained till the last to make final arrangements, left
Kohat this morning to drive the sixty miles into Ttiull in. what
is known in these parts ns a Murree cart. A kind of
lew dog-cart, this is, with a pair, or sometimes three,
sorry lats. or ponies, abreast; sometimes these have some blood
in them, and, when once they have stopped jibbing from the
first rubs of the breast harness on their galled shoulders and
withers, they will settle down into a good gallop and keep it
up over the villainous tracks they have to cross for the whole
or their five miles’,stage. The driver is u picturesque-looking
Sikh generally, with flowing turban, black beard, leather
thonged whip, gaiters, and battered bugle, with which fie*
warns the carts and camels off the road.”
The repoited flight of the Ameer Shere Ali from Cabul was
confirmed by two telegrams received on Monday from the
Viceroy. Yakoob Khan has been released from prison, aud
left at Cabul. Sliere Ali is said to have lost nearly all authority
at Cabul, and bis soldiers were deserting. A Daily News'
telegram slates that Sliere Ali is said to be journeying to wards
Balkh with the retiring Russian Mission.
Jellalabad, the Atghan stronghold rendered remarkable
by General Sir Robert Sale’s prolonged defence of the
place against Akbar Khan, was entered without oppo-
titicn by General Sir Samuel Browne on Friday, Dec. 20.
T he Daily News' correspondent telegraphs that General Bro wue
passed through Jellalabad at the head of a column of troops,
with bands playing. He then emcamped ou the south side of
the place. The correspondent adds that Major Cavaguari
received on the same day an important communication from
the Ametr, the contents of which had not been made public.
According to Russian news received at Berlin, the Auieer,
iirislrusting his sons and courtiers, fled to Balkh for the pur¬
pose ol raising un army among the Turcomau tribes, aud the
members of the Russian Legation return directly to Turk*
But it is announced from St. Petersburg that no official '
firmation has been received there of the departure for bum!
of the Ameer with the Russian Mission.
Captain Powell, of the 5th Goorkhas, who was wounds
the recent skirmish with the Mangals, has died of his wo i
The Standard correspondent with General Roberts'B f '
telegraphs that it has been decided that nothing embed?*
against the Mangals this season. The hilltribesaboiit Knr
are giving a good deal of trouble, and the telegraph wire??
frequently cut. A Times' telegram states that Wuli Muhom i
has arrived at Kbushi, sixteen miles to the south-west of t'
Shutargardan Pass, with eleven regiments of infantry and fo?
of cavalry, which are supposed to come from Balkh It i« ?
supposed, however, that Wali Mahomed will venture to cm
Shutargardan at this season.
Yet another telegram from the Daily News' Special Cor
respondent at Dakka states that the expedition a<raiibt the
Zukkur Khels met with a good deal of firing from the hill
men, and that our loss was one man killed and three wounded
The columns of Colonel Doran and Colonel Tytler advanced
along opposite sides of the valley, burning the villager ml
blowing up the towers, and then returned to Dakkr and Ali
Mupjid.
The Special of the Daily Telegraph at Quetta sent hom>
word on the 23rd inst. that:—
“ Replying to the orders of Shere Ali, liis father-in-law
Mir Afzul, who commands at Candahar, has plainly told him
that, williout foreign aid, any opposition to the British forces
would be lutile, aud that he could not even defend the
Khojook 1’ass.
“ It is impofsible to exaggerate the loyal and willing assist¬
ance rendered throughout by the Khan of Klielat. His heir,
with a small bedy of men, may possibly accompany General
Stewart.. The advance of the British troops continues
unopposed, and they are in exceUent health.’’
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS.
FRANCE.
Lest Saturday the Chambers adjourned until Jan. 14. They j
had previously settled the Budget dispute, the Senate with¬
drawing its demand for the immediate augmentation of the
pay of ilie lower clergy, and the Chamber agreeing to give up
the stamp on cheques.
M. Gainbctta took the chair on Monday at a lecture iu
Paris on behalf of some district free and lay schools, and male
two speeches, in one of which he spoke of the political pro¬
spects of the coming year. At the Grand Hotel ou Tuesday a
oinnir was given to him by the Commercial Travellers. More
than 5C0 persons sat down to dinner. M. Gambetta, in reply¬
ing to the toast of his health, made a speech. Ambitioui
da signs were imputed to him, but he desired no better recom¬
pense than the esteem of his countrymen. He predicted tbat
lhe Republicans would have a majority of twenty-five votes iu
the Senate alter the elections of Jan. 5.
The manifesto of the United Branches of the Left of the
Senate has been issued.
The lottery drawings are to begin on Jan. 15. The 150,0001.
prize will be first diawn; then about 2000 prizes, each exceed¬
ing 2GC0f. in value, which at 250 a day will last; eight days;
next the smaller prizes, which at 3000 a day will occupy abmt
twelve d 3 ys; and, lastly, two prizes of 50,U00f. and lUJ.OUJf.
The Shall has presented to the city of Paris the Persian
building which attracted so much curiosity at the Exhibition.
M. Damour, the mineralogist, distinguished for the an dyaii
of crystaUme rocks, has been elected by the Academy of
Sciences to the seat vacant by the death of M. Belgrand.
ITALY.
Yesterday week Signor Depretis presented the members of
the new Cabinet to the Chamber of Deputies. He declared
that the Ministry' would maintain public order with the aid of
the existing laws without displaying weakness or having recaune
to aibitraiy measures. He also stated that the Govermneii’.
on Id pioeeed with the bills of the late Ministry, with regird
to the Electoral Law, the Grist Tax, and the construction of
railw ays. In the Chamber of Deputies oil Saturday a Utter
from Signor Farini, the President of the House, was real,
resigning his office. The Chamber, however, unanimously
relused to accept his resignation. A bill presented by the
Minister of Finance sanctioning the provisional exercise ot tne
Budget for two mouths was approved. The Senate voted two
wclfibs of the Budget as u provisional measure, ana
idjouxned till Jan. 14. . __ .
Genmal Maze de la Roche, the new Minister of War, Hm
been made a stuator. , . , DO „ in »_
Caioiiiul Asquini died on the 22nd inst., -aged seventy
8tVlli ' SPAIN.
Bofli Houses of the Cortes have definitively approx J®
bill re.filling to the copyright of literary wonts ana te^pnio
Utrj.au 1.is, slid the new law will shortly be promal b ated.
RUSSIA.
One hundred students ot the Institute of Eug^ at
St. Petersburg assembled on the 19th inst. before the house of
the Russian Minister ot Public Works for the purpose of pre¬
senting a petition. Three of them were eummoaed to he
presence ot the Minister, who explained t0 tjem the filegl
It the step they were taking, whereupon the studeats nun
diately dispersed, without making any dwturban^.
The Goios of Saturday laat contained a let^d^
Oct. 13, describing the reception ot the Russbm terminating
the progress of the negotiations with the Ameer, « “
in the conclusion ot a convention between Russia uai
Afghanistan. GERMANY. . , . . „
O fficial denial has been given to a statement eirm a •••
cc cusicn of
itteivt d and • _
The Gimain Emperor baa “vr:;. t Par j a .
upc n the pimcipHl officers of the late tsh« b jv-denl
Prince 1 Bismarck has written a long letter tJW .
Council, in which he sets forth lus V'^^UP 0 ' 1 ?' 1 ^^
He advocates a return to the Pru.-Muu .Lus w
and contends that it is necessary to tax un i ^ t >
such raw materials as Germany does not produce,
develop commercial prosperity at hume. rejected the
'j he Gemiau T obacco Inquiry Commas on h« rej
proposal ol a monopoly by eight, votes ag.
'I he Prussian Diet has adjourned uutJ- • • • (j erau ny,
Mr. Bayard Taylor, the United Mate “|J u W iuat . Mr.
Gitd at Berlin, somewhat suddenly, o greater part ot
'i ay lor was in his mty-lourth year, aad f or thegre ^ ^ gtaff
lus file wus well known as an author aud_a at ic service ot
of the New York Tribune, lie entered P . Petersburg,
l.is countiy in 1802 us Secretary ot Leg* capital- 1»
and in 1803 became Charge-d’Attaires at tire same, pl .
1*04 he returned to America and re=im _ nQt vei y loaj
tuita, and was appointed Minister to G 7
DEC. 28, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
a vL-t S t 7 “,* &* &t traveller, and as late as 1874
yertrv Hi^funpS? °7 tJ i e occasi ° n of it3 centennial anni-
lann } ' \ liVif f 1 to , ok ,I jlace at Berlin on Sunday after-
Gov i mnJU ?,r5 rC ' lpn Ambas8ad °*b various members of the
I T, *’ i‘ d ^ n “ y persons connected with art, literature,
and ft-wnce, attended the service. The Emperor and the
Hmr U Bc rtWd°A h “T t t J eir ^es-de-Camp to represent them.
Bcrihold Auerbach gave an address, and the funeral
t,T K A ^“ S . t0n T dUCt ? d by the ^ Dr - Thompson, chaplain to
ie American Legation. The Berlin correspondent of the
8 ? y f that the G<>rman Government has addressed
a letter of condolence io the United States Legation expressing
profound regret at the loss of Mr. Bavard Taylor. 16
DENMARK.
Th™J“ arri i a f Dake of Cumberland with Princess
Thyia was celebrated last Saturday evening with great pomp
in the chapel of the Royal Castle of Christiansborg. A recen-
'V 8 af ^ rWDrdl ? lleld > followed by a banquet. At half-
past eleven the newly-married couple drove through the town
s Sc syssss? piocecded to,hore ' idm “
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
J B Bt t\ ed thn V h f Emperor will return toViennaonJan.2
®“ d li v 1 fcl f tt,Dg f v °! . th « Beichsrath are to be resumed in a
foitnight from that date.
n,Ur ! - 7 I n <,W i t - r < 1 Ho * 86 ? £ , tbe Hungarian Diet on the 19th inst.
adopted by 1iJ votes to l2o the Government bill to issue forty
Go ' dB ^e8 for the purpose of redeeming
L d8 ' , Af V r i! tlr llsza llfld made a speech in sup-
poit, f the proposal, the Home further passed, by a very large
mammy, the bill relative to the levying of recruits in 1879. b
I he Lower House of the Austriau Keichsrath adopted last
fcatuiday the motion for prolonging the present army law, as
ueil as a proposal that a new bill on the subject should be
lntiociuced next session, and a resolution recommendin'* the
Government to take steps for facilitating a future reduction in
the military expenditure. The bill fixing the number of recruits
to be levied in 1879, the commercial treaty with Germany, and
a bill making preparatory arrangements for a treaty of‘com¬
merce with Italy were also adopted.
The Economical Committee of the Reichsrath has accepted
-almost with unanimity, the treaty of commerce with Germany.
ROUMANIA
After a prolonged discussion, both Chambers of the Legis¬
lature on the 19th inst. voted the respective Addresses in reply
to the Speech from the Throne. In t)ie Senat-e the majority
in favour of the Government was 37 votes against 10 , und in
the Chamber of Deputies the Address was passed with only
two dissentients.
AMERICA.
A Message has been sent by President Hayes to the United
States Senate, in which, replying to an inquiry, ho says that it
is most important that the rapidly increasing export trade
should not be allowed to suffer tor want of the means of com¬
munication with ioreign countries. He at the same time
incloses a memorandum from Mr. Evarts urging the necessity
of increased postal facilities with Central and South America.
Congress has adjourned, for the Christmas recess, re¬
assembling on Jan. 7, the Senate having previously ratified
the treaty of commerce with Japan.
Hie Russian cruisers Europe and Asia sailed from Phila¬
delphia last Saturday, having cleared for Sitka, Alaska. They
weie commanded by American captains, but were to be handed
over to the Russian officers as soon as they were outside
American waters.
CANADA.
The elections in Manitoba have resulted in flavour of the
Government.
The Government has determined to complete the Canada
Pacific Railway between Lake Superior and the city of
"Winnipeg with the utmost speed, so as to prevent the
permanent diversion of the north-west traffic through the
American lines.
Official correspondence, it is stated, will begin in January
between the Governments of Newfoundland and Canada with
reference to the admission of the former province into the
Dominion.
THE CAPE COLONIES.
A telegram of Cape news to the 3rd inst. has been received.
•Cetewayo has not yet replied to the message sent to him by Sir
Bnrtle Frere, The military preparations on the part of the
British authorities continue. The chief, Gassibone, and his
two sons have been captured, and the two latter will be tried
for the murder of Mr. Francis Thompson at Kurrumami.
It is believed that the new elections to the Legislative
Council have resulted in the return of the majority for the
•Government.
AUSTRALIA.
In consequence of the vote of want of confidence passed in
the New South Wales Legislative Assembly the Ministry
resigned, and a coalition Ministry has been formed with Sir
Henry Parkcs as Premier and Colonial Secretary; Sir John
Robertson as Vice-President of the Executive Council, with a
£« at in the Legislative Council; Mr. James Watson as Colonial
Treasurer; Mr. Francis Bathurst Sutton as Justice and Public
Instruction; Mr. William Charles Windeyer as Attorney-
Generul; Mr. James Hoskyns as Secretary for Lands; Mr.
John Lackey as Secretary for Public Works; Mr. Saul Samuel
as Postmaster-General; and Mr. Ezekiel Alexander Baker as
Secretary for Mines.
A telegram from Hobart Town, dated the 23rd inst., states
that the Tasmanian Ministry has resigned, and a new Cabinet
has been formed by Mr. Reibey.
603
The Viceroy has arrived, according to a Reuter’s telegram,
at Calcutta.
A Reuter’s telegram, dated Hong-Kong, Dec. 21, states that
the total export of tea to date has been 156,000,000 lbs.
The death is announced, in his sixty-fifth year, of Bishop
J. P. B. Wilmot, the Bishop of Louisiana, one of the bishops
who was present at the Pan-Anglican Synod.
Mr. F. W. Iiowsell, of the Middle Temple, Director of Navy
Contracts, has accepted the post of British Commissioner of
the ct ded Daira lands in Egypt.
The first stone of the statue to be erected at Cannes, in
memory of Lord Brougham, was laid last week in the presence
of a lurge number of English residents.
German newspapers report that Princess Mathilde of
Saxony, the eldest daughter of Prince George, the King’s
only Li other, rs about to be betrothed to a Bavarian Prince.
The l iincess is not quite sixteen.
Ibe ship Clyde, 1140 tons, Captain Tensdel, chartered by
the Agent-General for New South Wales, sailed from Plymouth
for S 3 dney, on the 20th inst., with 418 emigrants. The Agent-
General lor Queensland has been advised of the safe arrival
at Townsville of the ship Scottish Prince, which sailed from
Gravesend on Sept. G with 328 emigrants on board.
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
AlS^ris?lS ddlC, ‘ eiV “ fl ° 1113 »' H“
^ was announced at the final meeting of the year of the
durin^« 1UlOSOP ^ iC ^ ) Iu ? titute that 141 members had joined
during the year,.of whom forty-one reside in the colonies.
P .J be , electric was experimentally used at the London-
i}^w 'I™. °j the Loijdon > Brighton, and South Coast
Railway last Saturday afternoon and evening for lighting the
open space between the msin line and Crystal Palace line
booking-offices and the platform barriers.
The anniversary festival of the Commercial Travellers’
with W p s , lleld °“ the !9tk inst. at the Freemasons’ Tavern
ft] CoLmat 1 ’M- r -> m the chair. It was stated that more
i, h n° U 8 7 i ld chddre 1 n had been educated in these schools,
tbre ® hundred scholars at present. Upwards of
£2000 was contributed in the room. p
. Mr - Baron Pollock having reserved judgment in the action
brought by Rowland Hill and others against the Metro-
iSn Dls ^ ric 1 t E ° ard > w hose smallpox hospital at
Hampstead the jury declared to be a nuisance, the arguments
m the case were heard last Saturday, and judgment was
postponed to the Junuary sittings.
In tlio Chancery Division yesterday week a compulsory
order was made by Vice-Chancellor Malms to wind up the
£he investigation into the affairs of
the Bank showed the debts to be £3,30U,000; and the assets
being sufficient within £304,000 to meet the liabilities other
than legal expenses, the creditors, his Lordship said, would
no doubt be paid in full, an adequate number ol shareholders
being sufficiently solvent to meet all the claims that might be
made against them. °
,, 1 hf wardmotes for the election of Common Councilmen for
the City of London were held last Saturday. For the most
pail the retiring members were re-elected; but in seven wards
polls have become necessary by the nomination of one or two
more than the number of vacancies. Resolutions of condolence
with the Queen were passed at several of the meetings; in two
wards objection was made to the use of asphalte pavemeuts in
the City; the construction of a new bridge was approved by
one ward; and tlie completion of the Inner Circle Railway was
also the subject of some discussion.
The trial of the action for libel brought by Mr. Wybrow
Robertson against Mr. H. Labouchere for an alleged libel in
Iruth was brought to a close yesterday week. The Lord Chief
Justice, in summing up, said the question the jury had to
decide was whether the defendant had or had not failed to
jus til y his publication of the statement that the plaintiff had
been dismissed lor dishonesty. The jury found for the
defendant; and said, in answer to the Judge, that they con¬
sidered that the charge of dishonesty against Ml. Robertson
was proved. On the application of Mr. Serjeant Ballantine,
the Lord Chief Justice consented to stay execution, in order
to ullow a point of law to be argued.
Estimates were submitted at the meeting of tho Metro¬
politan Board of Works yesterday week showing that the
expenditure for the ensuing year will amount to £1,053,283.
This is a considerable increase upon the present year, and
will require a rate of a smull fraction under sixpence in the
pound, which is tin increase of one penny upon the present
rate. It was stated that since the Board had come into
existence the population of the metropolis had increased by
1,300,000, that the number of houses had increased by 150,000,
that 600 miles of streets had been constructed, that the assess¬
ment had more than doubled itself, and that upwards of
twenty millions sterling had been expended in improvements,
six millions of which had been repaid.
We have received the Christmas Numbers of the St. James’s
Magazine, the Charing-Cross Magazine, the Masonic Magazine,
and the Gardener's Magazine.
Lieutenant-Colonel Russell, late of the 57th Regiment, has
been elected Chief- Constable of the Ipswich borough police,
vacant by the resignation of Superintendent Mason.
Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode have published a Bible to
which are appended references in the New Testament to
passages in the Old Testament, a chronological table of the
Gospel history, and an index to the persons, places, and
subjects mentioned in the Scriptures.
The liquidators of the City of Glasgow Bank were engaged
last Monday in receiving payment of the first instalment of the
call which has been made upon the shareholders—viz., of £250
per £100 stock. A few had already sent in their amounts, but
the great majority of the proprietors only paid on Monday.
Some time will elapse before it is known how much this first
payment has yielded.
Private theatricals, without costly scenes or costumes, and
with a proper selection of the subject performed, are not an
unprofitable diversion at this festive season. A book of “ Plays
for Young People,” including songs and choruses, has been
composed by the Rev. J. Barnby, late Fellow of Magdalen
College, Oxford. These seem to be modelled on the popular
Fairy Extravaganzas of Mr. J. Ii. Blanche, and they are not
unworthy of that class of dramatic literature. The music is
adapted and arranged by Mr. T. Rogers, of New College,
Oxlord, Precentor of Durham. Messrs. S. Tinsley and Co. are
the publishers of this acceptable volume.
The quantity of fresh meat landed at Liverpool last week
from the United States and Canada was again very large.
Four steamers arrived in the Mersey having on board 5777
quarters of beef, 1352 carcases of mutton, and 449 dead pigs.
The steamers conveying live stock were live in number, their
consignment amounting to 576 head of oxen, 748 sheep, aud
42 pigs. A very large quantity of poultry arrived from Canada
during the week, intended for the Christmas markets. The
Caspian of the Allan line brought about 4000 turkeys, geese,
and ducks, and the Dominion Line steamer Mississippi, 1600
turkeys and geese.
The principal events in the Volunteer world last week con¬
sisted of prize distributions. On Saturday the annual winter
inspection and presentation of prizes to the 3rd Middlesex
Artillery took place at Westminster Hall; the 26th Middlesex
(Customs and Docks) had their prizes presented to them, iu the
great hall of the Cannon-street Hotel, by Mrs. Kennard, the
wife of the commanding officer; and those of the 29th Mid¬
dlesex were given by Lord Enfield, their honorary Colonel, in
the St. Pancras Vestry Hall. There was a very large gather¬
ing at the Townhall, Stratford, on Wednesday week, to witness
the distribution of prizes to the members of the 3rd Essex
Artillery. Alderman Sir Thomas White presided, and Lady
White distributed the prizes. The annual prize distribution of
the 1st Sussex took place on Monday night, in the Corn
Exchange, Brighton—Lieutenant-General Shute, M.P., the
honorary Colonel of the corps, presiding.
COUNTRY CAROL SELLERS AND SINGERS.
For a month or eo before Christmas one of the stens the
approaching season is seen, in sequestered villages and hamlets
m the shape of a vender of carols, rudely printed aud still
more rudely illustrated on flimsy-lookin'* broad sheets To a
rural population, this peripatetic carol-seller is the harbinger
of Christmas, just ns much as the enrolling lark heralds the
bpring and the swallow the Summer. And this wandering
Autolycus 1 9 not oDly a carol-seller, but he is also a carol-
singer ; and, therefore, he is doubly welcome, especially to
rustic hearers, like Mopsa, who dearly “love a ballad iu print ”
even if it be sung “to a very doleful tune,” which, in the
mhjonty of instances, is usually the case with the wanderin'*
carol-singer’s collection. 0
In our modem Arcadia the shepherd’s pipe is no longer the
oaten reed; nor is it the “one short pipe” that Beattie put
into tlie mouth of that Edwin who “was no vulgar boy ” such
as was the urchin of Margate, who lives for ua in the Immldsbr
legend ; nor does the modem rustic Strephon address his
Chloe 111 alternate verse, and with “ rudest minstrelsy.” It is
only on rare occasions that lie betrays himself into sour* unless
when iuddled with the nauseous mixture, slandering the name
of beer, with which tlie village public-house drugs him. As a
curly-headed plougliboy Hodge may whistle as he follows his
t< am over tlie upturned tilth ; but ordinarily he is no singer.
Christinas, however, is one of those exceptional seasons when
he bursts into song. He is a very Robin Redbreast in this par¬
ticular, that his song sounds all the more inspiritin'* from its
being so cheerily piped iu the cold aud wintry weather.
But, if Hodge bursts into unaccustomed song at Christmas
Ins vocal efforts are not made solely with a reference to his
own pleasure, nor does he carol from mere exuberance of
feeling and from harmony with the season. Hodge is com-
pelied, by the force of circumstances, to be a severely practical
man, and to care more for breiid and bacon than for Sfiakspcare
and the musical glasses. The one will feed himself and
family more pr less fully and satisfactorily; the other would
only set his poor wits a wool-gathering. And so Ilodge
becomes, for the brief Christmas season, a professional por-
foimer, and sings for money, not, like the Christmas
Rohm, “in profuse strains of unpremeditated art,” but,
by dint of careful study, much painstaking, and pri¬
vate practice. For, anything that he can earn at
Christmas will be an extra indeed, Jand doubly welcome as
helping to provide for his family something in the shape of
Christmas cheer—although that comforting phrase, so sug¬
gestive of turkey, roast beef, and plum-pudding, may mean to
him nothing more than a scrag end of mutton, a lamp of
boiled pork, a pot of beer from tho public, aud a big suet
dumpling in which a few raisins are playing at hide-and-seek.
But it is with the brilliant prospect of this family festivity
before him, and with the fond hope of gleaning one or two
shillings’ -worth of coppers out of the bounteous monetary
harvest of Christmas, that Hodge is induced to look out for
the appearance of the country carol-seller, a 3 keenly and
expectantly as the opera-frequenter anticipates the debut»f
some new Swedish nightingale or Terra-del-Fuego cantatrice.
He comes at last—the last minstrel for the year—an
unwnshed individual, with a battered hat and muddy gar¬
ments, and with a general appearance of sleeping under hay¬
stacks and living on gin-and-water—or, perhaps, gin without
the water. But he has his bundle of carols with him. and he
can sing them to certain tunes, although with a husky voice
and indifferent intonation. There they are, however, printed
on fly-sheets after the old fashion, on wretched paper aud with
miserable type, from tlie presses of Pitt, or Batchelor, of Moor-
fields, or the redoubtable Jemmy Catnach, of Monmouth-
court, Dudley-street: and they seem to bring with them
a flavour of St. Giles’s and the Seven Dials, which will
be improved by ventilation in the pure country air. Each
carol-sheet is headed by a bleared woodcut, which is pre¬
sumed to have some reference to the verses underneath,
but whose style of art is so pre-Catnachian that the subject is
as obscure as a buried treasure, or a mephitic “ nocturne.”
But the vender knows the tastes of his hearers, and is well
aware that if he offered them a spick-and-span new carol,
tastefully printed and illustrated on a clean white sheet, they
would turn away from it, and reject it as not being the
genuine article. And so he brings them the easily-recognised
coarse and flimsy broadsheets, and they welcome them as old
friends and Christmas acquaintances. After all, there is much
virtue in early associations, more especially at Christmas; and
Hodge may be credited with the desire to stand in the old
paths. *
Great is the choice that is offered to him. He can have
“ God rest you, merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay; ”
or, “ I saw three ships come sailing by;” or, “ When Christ was
bom of Mary free;,” or, “ Behold tho grace appears; ” or, “ As
I sat on a sunny bank;” or, “The first good joy our Mary
had;” or, “ Christians, awake! salute the happy morn.” Or
he can pick and choose among these—“ Come, all you faithful
Christians; ” “ Lullaby, my baby, what meanest thou to cry ? ”
“When Joseph was an old man, an old man was he;”
“As it fell upon a day, when Dives made a feast;”
“A Virgin most pure, as the prophets did tell;” “A
glorious star from heaven appeared; ” “ While shep¬
herds watched their iiocks by night;” “Ye faithful
triumphant, enter into Bethlehem; ” “ It is the day, the holy
day, on which our Lord was bom;” “Come Christians al£
behold the Lamb; ” “ High let us swell our tuneful notes; ”
“On Christmas night all Christians sing;” “Now, thrice
welcome Christmas, that brings us good cheer; ” or the always
popular “ Hark! the herald angels sing.” The choice of
tunes is as great as the choice of carols ; and auy quaintuess
of words or roughness of metre is smoothed and mellowed to
the hearers by time and long familiar usage. Anything new¬
fangled in the way of tunes is avoided, and “ Hymns Ancient
and Modem,” and f Moody and Sankey” are but sparingly
laid hands upon to supply the melodies for those country-sung
carols.
Hodge gives a copper for the broadsheet; listens atten¬
tively to its tune as it is hoarsely bawled in gin-inspired
strains; and—perhaps greatly assisted thereto by a sharp little
child blessed with a good ear—catches something near enough
to the melody to pass muster when sung out in the cold, in
the village street or before the farmer’s door, on a Christmas
night. Up to the time of its public performance his spare
moments are industriously given to mastering the words of the
song and in da capo repetitions of its tunc. In cowsheds and
stables, with bis team, or among those “ beasts of the stall”
to which the theme of the carol is not inappropriate, he hums
it over and over to himself, and works it out more elaborately
in his own cottage, with the hclD of his little Lizzie and Johnny,
before the mother puts them to bed, there to dream of the
coming joys of that season when the herald angels sang Peace
on earth. _ Cuthbeut Bede.
There was a considerable fall of snow in London on Sunday.
In Scotland several railway lines have been blocked by the
drifted snow. Ice accidents are reported from Warwickshire
and Enniskillen, causing the loss of six lives.
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, De r. 28, IE
THE ILLUSTKATED LONDON NEWS_
DEC. 28, 1878
ECHOES OF THE WEEK.
plaint concerning the mciemem^ ^ extenfc in t he enthu-
tuow lies thick on the roads, material circumstances,
gentleman need not feel the coin to w nnd
gilisss^s:*
to come in agieeable association.
Meanwhile the streets are either in a perilously slippery m
Se winter^begins in mid-November, and docs not always end
S?h SarchTyCmay walk or drive about the streets without
endowments have been founded to give the birds bread all the
year round for ever.
Touching our feathered friends, here is a puzzle for the
French Editor of the World; but, lest that Sage should iiotiK.
an adept at guessing conundrums, I wiH appeud the solutio .
What M. le Rldactcur Franqavs, is the cheapest way ot
catching small birds ? The recipe must be given French.
Vous ouvrez votre fenetre et vous jetez sur le send de la mie
ue pain. Les petits oiseaux vienuent ct le
second jour vous ouvrez votre fenetre, et vous jetez du foment
Les petits oiseaux vienuent et le mangent. Le troisiun. jou
vous ne ietez rien du tout. Les petits oiseaux vienuent , et us
sont aUrapes ” But it would be both cruel and cowardly thus
to “catch” little birds. Let us therefore follow the counsel
of the Rev. F. O. Morris, and feed them with our waste
crumbs.
Mem.: What is a “ snaire ? ” I find this (to me) astonish¬
ing word used in the third line of an emgmatroal copy of
verses in French in the last number of the World.
snaire’’ anything to do with “the Hunting of the Spark,
*4- o micninnf f nr <l fill Hire. ft W
-i) , r amrB the foot-pavement on the streets is carefully
SSd and sanded twice a day throughout the winter.
The P cab-liorscs do not fall down, because the horses are pro-
ncrlv Sod In London there is a fittle perfunctory scraping
pcrij snou. morning: but the troUtoir not lmine-
diatcl°y S in P ront of private dwelling-houses is left to take care
of itself • und the icy waste is speedily taken possession of by
canes of roughs and street boys, who make long slides and
8 kelp the pot boiling” thereupon, to the perd of the bves and
limbs of elderly aud infirm foot-passengers. If one of the
sliding roughs be remonstrated with, be launches a torrent of
foul abuse at the remonstrant, or if there be a heap of snow
Iving handv, constructs a snowball (possibly with a stone in
the middle; and hurls it at the stranger s head.
Mem.: Snowballing in a picture is a very pretty pastime
indeed. In one of Wilhelm von Kaulbach s noble illustrations
to Goethe thereia an admirable representation ot a akutmg-
Eccne, in which a pretty girl is playfully pelting one of the
male skaters, -a pensive youth of aristocratic mien, with
snowballs. Now, 1 am not young, nor is my mien aristocratic,
but I am pensive ; 1 am purblind, and 1 am shaky on my
pins,” or unsteady on my legs. I do not care about, being
snowballed in the public streets either by pretty girls or by ugly
roughs. Yet, I suppose that we have all thrown snowballs,
more or less, in our time. I remember well that when I first
went as a small boy to school in France I availed myself of
the first suowy morning in the playground to fashion the
biggest snowball my hands could mould and to ‘ heave it at
a passing pluymate. I saw no harm in the act. He did.
Snowballing was net among tlio recognised diversions ot
that particular school, and I found that i had gotten myself
into a terrible scrape. It was a” Star Chamber matter, almost.
I was baled before the supreme authority of the school. I —
accused of “ conduits singe ” and “ conduite desordonnte.
was charged with having been guilty, sciemment et notoiremeni,
of certain voice de fait enters un camarade ; and M. le Proviseur
wus for sending me to the eachot, or black hole, for three days,
on a breud-and-water diet, when the worthy mathematical
professor, who had happened to have lived long in England,
good-naturedly explained to the Chief that English boys were
accustomed to throw snowballs almost so soon as they could
throw anything. So I got oil with fifty “ mauvais points ” and
a hundied lines of Virgil to learn by heart. But it was a
fearfully narrow escape. Is snowballing accounted a crime in
English schools at the present day, I wonder ?
Touching the cab horses. I asked a civil and intelligent
cabby, the other day, why he did not get his horse’s stioes
refin 1 lied ? “ Why, Sir,” he made answer, “ it costs a shilling
to get ’em roughed; and then to-morrow, p’raps, it ’ll thaw; aud
then, bang goes another shilling to get’em unroughed; and,
more than that, there aint enough farriers in London to
rough all the horses, if the frost's a heavy oue.” It seems to
me ihat, after all, roughening the shoe is but a clumsy way of
making horses sure-footed. A correspondent of the Times has
pointed out that in Germany horseshoes are punctured with a
hole at either end, into which, when the roads are slippery, a
small iron spike is screwed. W r hen the horse comes home to
its stable the groom unscrews the spikes and screws in a couple
of buttons or studs to prevent dirt getting into the orifice"
Amplifying this seasonable hint, Mr. Colam, of the Royal
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, informs the
public that there is an English horseshoe analogous to the
Gtiman—one called the “ Fleming ” shoe, which can be made
by any farrier, seeing that Mr. Fleming has generously waived
all claims to patent rights or royalties in the invention. But
we ought to have had such a saieguard against slipperiness
long ago. Why, Cribb and Belcher, Tom Spring aud Jem
Waid, never fought in the old days of the Ring without
“ tpurrow-bill ” shoes, the soles of which were spiked or
studded to prevent their wearers slipping down on the smooth
sward.
Yet one more seasonable item. We have, it is pitiably
obvious, a vast amount of utter destitution in our midst, des¬
titution which we are all doing our best, according to oui
several means to alleviate. In particular, many lciud-hearted
people are busied with the pleasant task of regaling the poor,
ragged, hungry children o£ the Great City with good hot,
nourishing eiinners. That truly benevolent clergyman and
accomplished ornithologist, the Rev. F. 0. Morris, has, however,
pointed out that we have around us vast multitudes of des¬
titute and hungry httle creatures that, through the severity oi
the weather, are perishing from starvation. They are not, for¬
tunately, ragged, since Providence has endowed them with beau
tiiul suits ot clothes made entirely of feathers; and they live ii
homes which they make for themselves, without hands, and
for which they pay no rent; but just now they have nothing
to eat. No worms. No berries. Who will compassionate the
small birds? It is the easiest and most inexpensive thing
possible to administer to the immediate needs of these tiny
Hat lured folk. You may keep your money in your pocket aud
your cheque-book in your drawer. To relieve the misery of
tie birds you have only tojbid the parlour-maid to be careful
to scatter the crumbs from the tablecloth after each meal over
the back garden. If you have no back garden, crumb your
w iiidow-sill well; and when you go skating in the parks take a
bag of crumbs with you aud throw them into the frozen bushes
of the plantations. Did you ever see the pigeons fed in St.
Mink’s Place, Venice ? Did you ever stroll into the courtyard
of the “Pigeon Mosque”—it is the Mosque of Bayazid, I
think- at t-tamboul while the birds aro at dinner ? Pious
it a misprint for “ suaire,
’ a winding-sheet ? G. A. S.
NEW BOOKS.
BIOGRAPHIC A.
Whosoever reads history, the newspapers, aud the periodicals)
especially those portions of them which relate to polities,
must necessarily be familiar with the greater part, ot what
is contained in the two volumes entitled 1 he ladtc L-fe
the Farl of Beaeonsfield, K.G. , by Francis Hitchman (Cmp-
JU ,tn and lla.ll); but it is not everybody, even m these latter
days; who can manage such a course of reading, io those
wlio cannot, as well as to those who can, the two volumes nniy
be recommended, to each group for a different reason; to the
former as a new and interesting study, to the latter as a means
of collation, so as to compare notes, to reconsider hastily
formed conclusions, to correct downright mistakes. 1 hose
mistakes are for the most part, probably, connected with what
can only by a stretch of meaning be included iu tne range of
his “public life;” mistakes, in fact, concerning bis school¬
days, if he ever had any, concerning the pecuniary circum¬
stances of his early life, concerning the extent to which he was
tailed with the attorney’s brush, and so on—affairs which
are generally considered to belong to the private side
of a man’s life, unless, indeed, the life of a boy at a
public school is to be taken as public in the sense
in which the term is applied to the soldier’s, the sador s, the
politician’s, aud many other careers. The author announces,
with an air of satisfaction not likely to be shared by bis
™<.ri orS) that the “ illustrious subject ” of his book “has been
way consulted or concerned in its preparation,” and that
1 personal relations with him have been confined to a
formal presentation some six years ago.” This announcement
is, of course, sufficient to remove any apprehensions of col¬
lusion; but, after all, a gentleman, even a nobleman, is him¬
self the best authority on many points connected with his own
life, and it is an advantage for his biographer to have consulted
him as to matters of fact relating to liis birth, parentage,
education, and the rest of it. However, the author, by
diligent research, has been led to conclude that the present
Lord Beaeonsfield is, what nobody has ever denied, “ by
descent a Jew,” of the stock of the Sephardim; that he was
boro, as is not so generally admitted, on Dec. 21, 1801; that
he was baptised, though the date has often beeu disputed, on
July 31, 1817, in the parish church of St. Andrew, Holbern ;
that “ no public school can boast of numbering him amongst
her sons,” and “no University can claim the honour of
being bis Alma Mater; ” that, “if he were ever at school, the
name of his schoolmaster has been forgotten,” and that “ he
seems to have been brought up in his father’s library, and to
have been in a great measure left to educate himself; ’ ’ that
he was never “ a copying clerk in a lawyer’s office,” and that
he was never even articled, though he made a brief trial of
existence at an attorney’s in Old Jewry, where, however, he
did not write, for all the statements to the contrary, his first
novel; that certainly he “has risen from the ranks,” though he
was never “ a poor man in any sense of the term; ” that he
was never a journalist, to the extent, at any rate, of being “ a
constant contributor to the daily and weekly press ; ” that his
“ Vivian Grey,” which may be regarded as his first serious bid
for fame, “ mude its appearance in two instalments—the first,
of three slim volumes, being published in 1826, the second, of
two volumes, in 1827,” that he “took the town by storm”
thereby, and that, being at that time a “ Ron ” in London
society, he “ seems to have been guilty of some little foppery
in dress and manner; ” that, “ as is evident” from his book,
he had already travelled when, in 1829, be set out to explore
“the mystic East;” that, after his return from his
travels, in 1832, he was a contributor for several yqjirs
to Lady Blessington’s “Annuals ; ” and that from that date
he commenced his course of active poRtics by standing
for High Wycombe and suffering his first defeat. Hence¬
forth the biography is for the most part a compilation,
a careiul aud laborious compRation, from aU manner
of published documents, equaRy open to anybody else, but
unlikely to tempt anybody else to undertake a similar operation
for the satisfaction of personal interest. To the compiler,
therefore, many thanks are due for the trouble he has taken
in weaving together into a connected narrative scattered pieces
of information and aR that tends to throw light upon the
various phases of a great career, with the additiou, be it grate-
fuRy observed, of an ^ndex, even if he appear now and then
to spin out his work with unnecessary detail, tedious analysis,y
unprofitable criticism of newspapers’ criticism. The spirit o l
the biography is that of hero-worship, of an unbounded
admiration which pofitieal opponents are pretty sure to describe
as almost fulsome adulation. That Lord Beaeonsfield lias
suffered from abuse and detraction is not to be denied; but
“ hard words break no bones,” and we ought all of us b/ this
time to have learnt the lesson taught by the eminent F /ouch-
man, who said of apolitical foe, “he calls me scoundrel,
miscreant, a wretch unworthy to five; what he means iatliat we
hold different opinions.” Perhaps, when we have thoroughly
learnt and digested that lesson, our pubfic speakers and
writers may exhibit more moderation in their language, if
only because they are aware that no importance whatever wifi
be attached to their “ wild and hurling words,” arfi that they
wifi fall under suspicion of untrustworthiness f.6r the very
reason that they “ protest too much.” Between ii “ master of
invective” and a “master of Billingsgate” 'the shade of
difference is often almost imperceptible.
Memory recalls in a hazy way the achievements of a won-
derlul man, as soon as the eye is cast upon liie two volumes
entitled William Cobbett: A Biography, by Edward Smith
(Sampson Low and Co.), a man who, tiioug* of very humble
origin, came to be a power in the State, and 'io wield a personal
inl’uence, through the press, such a3 in any country but
England might have cost him not only his liberty but his head.
I His biography carries us back a long way. Ho was born at
Famliam, Surrey, on March 9, 1762, aud he died on H
1835. His grandfather was a day labourer ou u f lfll '
father, having improved bis condition, was a siuad Ur m t ' ‘‘J
he himself, the third of four sons, arrived, wheu old euou-ni
“ at the honour of joining the reapers iii harvest, drivimr ft,!
'team, and holding the plough.” But he was destined
shine in another field, for which at the outset he seemed
to be as Rttle qualified as any human creature could
be. When, at about eleven or twelve years of a»e ha
took French leave of his home aud set off one fine momfn* for
Kew Gardens in search of gardener’s work, he could just wad
well enough to be enchanted with that “Tale of a Tub"
on which he spent his last threepence, at the expense of his
grumbling stomach, and which, no doubt, sowed the first seeds
of inteUectual culture within him. When, at the age of twenty
or twenty-one, having been previously “ spoiled for a farmer"
by a glimpse of the sea and the thoughts awakened thereby at
Portsmouth, he fairly ran away from home for good, empha-
ticafiy and literaUy for good, and became quill-driver to au
attorney in London, be “ could write a good plain hand,” but
he was stiU aR abroad as to grammar and orthography? And
this was his condition of education when, after a short spell of
quill-driving, he “took the King’s shilfing” and “wentfor a
soldier” to Nova Scotia. The state of the British private, as
described by Cobbett, was at that time simply awful; but it
was in all probability the ma k ing of Cobbett, though it woald
have been, and undoubtedly was, the ruin of many a man not
so well constituted physically, mentally, and morally, and, let
it be borne in mind, so thoroughly instructed in sound and
honourable principles by Iris bumble but exceUent father. The
very misery und starvation, and the waut of occupation whicti
drove bis comrades to seek a solace in drink, when they could
get it, and in all manner of dissolute and frivolous pastime,
impelled him, with bis sober, healthy, active habits, for
activity is of the mind as wefi as of the body, to take
refuge from hunger and idleness in hard, sustained
uncompromising study. And so, when he left the army, after
seven or eight years’ service, having reached the grade of
sergeant-major, he had a very considerable knowledge, not
only of grammar, but of logic, rhetoric, and arithmetic; he
could write something more than ‘ 1 a good plain hand," aud
he had made the acquaintance of French aud fortification.
And all this he had taught himself ; the some time ploughboy
had transformed himself into a comparatively learned mm.
After this, in 1792, feefing the influence of the Republican
spirit which was abroad, be must needs go and see things for
himself, first in France, with an obfique iutentiouof improving
himself in the French language, aad theu iu the United
States. It is not long, then, before the ex-ploughboy is
actually teaching “ the English language to French people in
Philadelphia,” and composing a grammar which was so suc¬
cessful as to be, after a while, “in general use all over
Europe.” He had not been long in the United States before
his indignation was greatly kindled by attacks upon his
country; and his indignation did not, like Juvenal’s, “make
verse,” but it made prose How from his pen, such prose as
nobody who differed lrom him had any difficulty in under¬
standing. And so he became a pofitieal writer. He also
became, by force of circumstances in the first instance,
his own publisher and bookseller. He was not
without experience of the publishing business, therefore,
when be returned to England, fuR of hatred for Repab-
ficanisin, in 1800 ; and be was already favourably, or, at any
rate, honourably known in bis own country under his cele¬
brated pseudonym of “ Peter Porcupine.” The ex-ploughboy
was soon in the thick of newspaper writing and newspaper
publishing, was hand and glove with Tories of the highest
standing, had the ear of a vast audience, and in 1802 started
the famous “Pofitieal Register.” In 1803 he projectsi, it
appears, the pubfication which has become identified with the
name of Hansard. He bad begun bis course of political
writing in England by lauding Mr. Pitt to the skies; he soon
finds reason to change Iris tone, and to denounce the •‘heaven-
born Minister.” He showed himself strong in language,
strong in measures, strong iu the arm; he would probably
have caUed himself a law-abiding man, but he inflicted
prompt personal chastisement on occasion, when libellous
charges seemed to render it excusable. He was in truth what
is called a “masterful” creature, with such bodily health
aud thews and sinews as a bufiy would desire above all things,
but with such mental force and capacity as a bully seldom or
never possesses. In December, 1832, he was returned as mem-
ber of Parfiament for Oldham ; and thus was fulfilled a desire
which the ex-ploughboy had not cherished until late m ate.
His Parfiamentary career was short and scarcely brilliant-
When “ the House assembled on the evening of June la,
1835, “a whisper circulated upon the benches to the effect tnai
the member for Oldham was dead.” To class Cobbett as
pofitician is what few people would attempt to do; perhaps n
should be put in a class by himself, and labelled nameless, as
a mm) be was wonderful certainly, if he be not altogetUM
admirable; and among bis personal characteristics must os
included enormous egotism and subfime self-assertion,
story of bis life is well worth the trouble, if it be a trouble,
reading; but what, if any, reason there may be for teum^,
retelling, it just now is not to be discovered from unystaic-
menb in the two volumes devoted to the purpose, whic
volumes, it must be thankfufiy recorded, have an m >
well as an appendix containing a “ bibliographical Ji»
William Cobbeit’s pubfications.”
Popularity, in the widest sense of the term, can hardly be
predicted for the Memoir of the Rev. Francis ... ' "
his son, the Rev. James T. Hodgson, M A (Macmffian anj
Co.), but it may safely be affirmed that the tw° vol ^ ^
be read with extraordinary interest and delight aniono
paratively, but by no means positively or 3U P er ,| ^’ or
circle. The author, for lack of “ personal wcoUechoM
original letters,” has “endeavoured to make the letters^
friends, as far as possible, Rlustrative ot the life an ^ of
of their correspondent,” aud to bring out pertem p ual
the period, social, political, or Rterury, by mdi ^ ^is
opinions on matters of contemporary interest. i( w
“ a novel mode of procedure,” and considers it
much adverse criticism : ” but only an unreasonable^^
would object to a method which, to say not V Lon j
necessity, results in an oblation of letters w Y
Byron, by members of Lord Byron s family, ana . sc holars
ot celebrities, especiafiy of the scholarly order- .v..- cC t of
should predominate is but natural, inasmuch as‘ but
the memoir is that Rev. Mr. Hodgsou, sometime^ ^
erroneously called Dr. Hodgaou, who was „ be3t;
Provostship of Eton, on May 5,131°,
memorial of his work at Eton is to be found m { li3 tory
improvements which by his resolute energy, . ffara ted—
kindness, and his consummate tact, he s aceesslmJ J e | ort3i aud
improvements which gave an impetus to si the fir3t to
formed a fitting conclusion to a life devoted “ ^ be g aa
the best interests of refigion and Rterature. f Francis
on Nov. 16, 1781, at Croydon, where the faffier ^
Hodgson was master of Archbishop ^ brig - year
terurinated at Eton just two days before the end of
DEC. 28, 1878
THE ILLUSTKATED LONDON NEWS
1852. Provost Hodgson will go down to Etonian posterity
with acclamation or execration, as the stem abolisher of
“mentem.” To Eton he liad gone as a boy in 1794 ; and in
1799 “he was elected to a scholarship at King’s College, Cam-
bridge, where he took the usual degrees, being excluded,” we
are told, “ fiom public classical competition by the prejudicial
restrictions then imposed upon Kiugsmen.” In 18u8 we hud
him residing at Cambridge, as fellow and tutor of King’s; in
1814 he married the first, of his tvo wives, Miss Tayler, “ a
young lady of great beauty and refinement,” who died in 1833 •
and in the interval between 1808 and 1814 he hacl cemented
with Lord Byron that intimate friendship which, with its
accessories, will be considered by the general reader, to whom,
(probably, Eton and Cambridge and scholars and scholarship
will be matters of indifference, to invest the memoir <Hth a
•singular charm. The cement of the friendship was undoubtedly
Loid Byron’s open-handed generosity at a pinch which it is
not ntetrsary to particularly specify here. Suffice it to say
that Lord Byron laid his friend under so heavy a pecu¬
niary obligation that the “reverence” of the latter could
not well help being more tolerant than would other¬
wise have been expected towards the irreverence of the
former. It is quite retreshiug to read of such a transac¬
tion nowadays, when the good old fashion of opening one'L
purse to a lrieud, without any subsequent and consequent
coolness on either side, is regarded very generally as incom¬
patible with prevailing social conditions; and it is still more
refreshing when we reflect that the friend who needed and
obtained a helping hand lost neither self-respect nor the
respect of others, as narrow-minded preachers of a sordid creed
would have us believe such a man must do, but arrived at great
honour and dignity in society, in the Church, and especially
in the sphere of duties connected with the education of youth.
In May, 1838, Mr. Hodgson married his second wife, daughter
of Lord Denman, then Chief Justice of England; and in 1840,
as Las been already stated, he was elected Provost of Eton,
where he left his mark in the shape of many notable reforms.
He had some poetical pretensions, and he fulfilled Byron’s pre¬
diction, “You will go on rhyming to the end of the chapter :
but whether he ever did more than “rhyme” is a question
which it were bcothss to discuss, and which, with the name and
presence of Byron continually at hand to overshadow him, it
would be almost impossible to discuss dispassionately. It
might give some idea, however, of Mr. Hodgson’s place in the
poetical scale to state the following approximate proportion :
as the better sort of Cambridge pme-poem is to “ Childe
Harold,” bo is Hodgson to Byron. And it must be remem¬
bered that the names of Tennyson, Macaulay, and other bright
luminaries are among those of the heroes who have won prize
poems. But all this is apart from the main interest of the two
-volumes, which will be read principally for the numerous,
various, valuable letters. The writers of those letters may be
■discerned at once by a glance at the useful index.
A ROMANTIC WALK.
Illustrated, but, unfortunately, not provided with au index,
On loot in Spain: by J. S. Campion (Chapman and Hall;, con¬
tains in one large volume a very pleasant, chatty, interesting,
instructive account of a romantic walk undertaken by the
author irom the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean. An
“unhackneyed route,” and the experiences of a traveller
“journeying in a different manner from any preceding him,”
are certainly attractions to which no reader ought to be insen-
aible. It was close upon winter in 1876 when the author cast
about for a country whither he might run from the English
climate and customs, and, having read that “as a pedestrian
four for pleasure is a thing utterly unknown in Spain, walking
is not to be thought of for a moment,” was at once inspired by
the demon of opposition with the happy thought and firm
determination of actually doing what he was forbidden even
to think of. Ho would fain have found a congenial friend;
but, such an one not being discoverable, he went forth alone
to seek his fortune. And though he met with nothing very
astounding, he had adventures, and adventures of which it is
very pleasant and amusing to read his account. He is a sports¬
man, and thereby hangs his first tale of adventure. Eor
no sooner had he left Bayonne and San Sebastian, the
limit of his travelling by rail, behind him, than he
found some difficulty in recovering his trusty gun, of
which he had been not unreasonably deprived at the
frontier, and in obtaining a license to carry arms. He also
•discovered that he was in “the land of to-morrow,” where
an applicant for anything and everything—at any’ rate, if the
application be made to an official—is always, apparently, put
off with the courteous admonition, “ Wait till to-morrow and
go with Gcd.” So agreeable, however, did he, as his readers
also will, find San Sebastian, that he stayed there much
longer than he had intended; so long, indeed, from the 11th
to;the 30th of November, that he began to fear for his chances
of reaching the Mediterranean. But at last he was off, with
bis dog Juan for sole companion, on foot and, in respect of
human beings, alone, notwithstanding the ghastly warning
he received irom a Erenchman, who exhibited the scars of
two ugly wounds as evidence of the treatineut in store for the
lonely traveller. The first place of importance which lay
before him was Pamplona, and there he arrived early in
December, having in the interval had some strange bat, ou
the whole, by no means unpleasant experience. At
Pamplona he made the acquaintance of an eccentric
(Lieutenant in the Spanish army, who conducted himself in
an extraordinary manner described with much vivacity; |
and, soon alter leaving Pamplona, where he^ remained
a few days, he is vindicating the claims of Englishmen
to consider’ themselves superior to all other men in
athletics by “dancing down” his partner, the loveliest aud
lithest of her sex, in an improvised “ jota ” at the chief hotel
of Tnfalla. Anon we [find ourselves in the author s company
at Tudela, and not nearly so much disappointed with ins
description of it as he appears to have been with the place
itself He chooses this occasion for giving a pretty full account
of the aforesaid “jota,” or “ natiouul dauce,” which seems to
be a art of first cousin to the “cancan,” and therefore not
likely to make much way in circles frequented by Mrs. Grundy,
or ii deed, in any circles where the proprieties are very carefully
studied, however exhilarating it may bo to a wild pedestriai
traveller who hus qualified lor the roughest pastimes in Urn
rcgioi s of Arizona. Having spent with the author a somewhat
■cmlaiiassing time among the pretty girls of Tudel.i, whose
beauty, tier manners, and freer language are calculated to
ehoth'a particularly well-regulated mind, we are once more off
on the tiamp with him ; and in due time, leaving the boundary
of Navarra behind us, arc informed that we are in Aragou.
We now have rather a bad time of it, what with two score of
labouring men whose outward resemblance to one’s ideal
of the ”forty thieves” probably does them injustice, what
with an ill-umpeud mistress of a cafe, wlmt with inability to
obtain bid and hoard, and wliat with tire importunate frieud-
incss of a gmcrous but drunken and vermiuiferous “ eabal-
ero.” until we urxive at Alagon. Here again we watch the
author as he dances a “jota,” the Aragonese “ jota,” which
differs in in that or Navarra, both in other respects and ih a
total absence of “ flag runt improprieties.” It is just possible,
C07
however, that the author’s experience of the “jota ” as danced
m Navarra was obtained under exceptional circumstances.
Zaragoza next claims our attention; and we are as
PJ.UMCI as the author declares himself to have been
v.th the greater part of what he saw there. Early
a tract of country which ” he “ had beeu solemnly
wan < d against attempting to traverse on foot or alone.” But
a wilful man must, have his way; and in this case the wiliul-
ih ss nsnlti d in nothing much worse than imminent peril of
arowmng in the Ebro, savage people, penetrating alkaline
oust, loads luud as iron, bad quarters, scanty fare, hot sun,
and lcng matches. At last he reaches Lerida, and is once more
in clovir. \Ye obtain just a glimpse of the way in which the
Carnival is kept at Lerida; we are taken to a masked
1 all we are entertained with much delightful gossip
alout the old place and its inhabitants and its neigh¬
bourhood, and then we are marched off to Mollrusa
whence, after a night’s rest, we move forward to Tarrage and
to Ceverra. It is not loDg btfore we sight Montserrat, as we
pursue our way ; and after a while we put up at “ the con¬
siderable town of Jgualada ” Hereabouts, we learn, on the
auil.onty or a urUui pnest, that Queen Victoria ■•Inn tor
seme time been r< couched to Mother Church,” but th
hut is not g« in rally known, because “there are reasons of
state lor g lcut di-cre-lions.” We next follow the author into
a monastic institution, that of Montserrat to wit, where he was
admitted us an inmate to remain for three days ; and with him
we attend the mountain anel stiare his feelings as he gazes forth
and sees the glimmer of the Mediterranean, the limit of his
wanderings. On Thursday, Feb. 22, 1877, the author
delivered into llie proper Lauds his votive offering to “The
Pearl oi Cataluna,” “Jewel of the Mountain,” aud “ Queeu
of Montserrat,” &c., slung his gun aud haversack, and, gi
“at. a Kittling pace,” had struck before noon “ the Inga road
from Jgualada to Barcelona.” At Barcelona the author
detains us, but very agreeably, for an unusually long time,
introduces us to different persons, places, ami things, and
shows us what sort of a reception is accorded to King Alfonso.
At Barcelona, too, theauthor c-bunges hiatravel-stained eo-tume
and puts on the appearance of a civilised beiug who desires to
exhibit himself clothed and in his right mind; at Barcelona
be bids adieu to the dog which had been his faithful comrade;
at Baicelcua he takes the “ through ticket to Perpignau, via
rail and diligence ; ” and at Perpignan, after five months’, or
re arly five months’, romantic rambling, lie arrived in due course.
I here we may take leave of him, with many thanks for his book,
with a murmur of regret at the absence of both map and
index, with the distinct assertion that the talc of his experience
will upset many an accepted idea about Spain and the
Spaniards, with the remark that liis want of complete gram¬
matical command over a certain English verb and a certain
English relative scarcely interferes at all with the favourable
impression made by Iris narrative, any more than the oeca-
fionnl tone of fastness and flippancy interferes with the
general enjoyment of his sprightly, genial, straightforward
style, and with such a hope of meeting him again before long
as may be aptly expressed in the w ords with which his trip
haB made him especially familiar: “ Go with God, and return
to-morrow.”
IX TYROL.
Anything more grotesquely and ludicrously profane, as many
good Christians count prolanity, than the earliest portions of
Gadding* with a Primitive People, by W. A. Baillie Grohman
(lit mingtou and Co.), it would be difficult to conceive ; but the
author ol the two volumes would, no doubt, repudiate with
indignation uny intention of irreverence, and would plead that
lie simply states facts which came under his notice, and which
he deeply regrets to he obliged to record; at the same time that
he w oulQ be among the first to improve off the face of the earth,
and 'especially off the face of Tyrol, the ignorance, the
superstition, the miscalled religion, to which such regrettable
occuirences are, as he and others may think, to be attributed.
But, of course, when an author undertakes to describe a
dramatic entertainment in which Divine personages, too awful,
almost, to be mentioned by name, are introduced upon the
stage and subjected to much |sucli treatmeut as the clown in a
pantomime bestows with a red-hot poker upon pantaloon or
another, the most fearful profanity is an inevitable conse¬
quence. So. much it was necessary to say to prepare the
i everent class of readers against the shock to be encountered
in the description,(with which the first ofjtlie two volumes opens,
of “The Paradise Play,” akin to that “Ober Ammergau
Passion Play,” of which everybody) has probably heard too
much, though its performance at the Westminster Aquarium
was not permitted to advance beyond the phase of a mere pro¬
position. Having dealt with the “Paradise Play” and its
curious. if not very edifying associations, the author proceeds
to sketch, for the information and ’amusement as well as in¬
struction of his readers, certain “ Alpine characters,” such as
“ the village priest ” and the village schoolmaster,” to say
nothingot “ the antiquarian in Tyrol” and of “ the mountain
belle.” Mention of the “ belle ” naturally suggests weddings;
and, accordingly, we have quite a noticeable number of chapters
devotedto the subject ot “weddings here and there in the
Alps.” We are then treated to a chapter concerning “a
Tyrolese ‘ kirekiag’ and rifie-matcli,” the “kirchtag” being
“the giand lete day of the year in the .secluded valleys iu
Tyrol.” Alter this there is a chapter in whieli^we pay “ a
visit to a Tyrolese peasant watering-place;” and'then comes
Ihe concluding chapter, in which we are taken for “ an Alpine
walk.” The author is, or should be, well known already os
cue who wiites with knowledge, as well as in a bright, forcible,
picturetque style, and with tne sympathies of the sportsmen
added to the qualifications of a generallyJkeen and observant
spectator, about Tyrol and the Tyrolese, for he has before now
given the public a taste of his quality in a very charming aud
readable book. He assures us that it is a mistake to consider
all Alpine subjects written out; that w-hoever uses such
language can only justify it by r confining it to mere “surface
matter ; ” and that not one, but many.volumes, were still to
be written when he began his present work, if lull justice
were to be done to hi- favourite mountain-laud. His two
volumes will unquestionably go a long way tj establish the
truth of his statement, lor lie has collected together, and has
presented m a very attractive mamier, a quantity of material
v hi eh he Las woven into the form of a pleasant aud uiterestiug
nanative, conspicuous lor novelty ana ireshnesa. And loug
residence in the land about which he has written invests him
with a cbaincter of unusual trustworthiness; ttiere is little or
no hearsay, little but knowledge obtained at first hand, to be
met with in his account. However, m the “chapter on
watering-places in Tyrol” there is a romantic tale which,
though it has “round its way into several books,” may not
he generally famdiur. It is a tale about the “man of blood
and iron,” the redoubtable Prince von Bismarck. There
is m the TJlteu valley in South Tyrol a small peasant’s water¬
ing-place, culled Mitterbad. Thither, as the story goes,
young Bitinarck, “thenin the first prime of youthful man¬
hood,” went lor the first time in 1841, aud tell a victim to the
charms of Josepha Holzner, daughter of the mau who then
owned the bathing establishment. The visit to Mitterbad woo
renewed irom year to year, and the iiirtotion was continue i.
At last- the “1111111 of blood and iron” actually proposed to the
ovely ‘washerwoman,” as a “junker” might nave called
her, aud—was relused, not by Josenlm it., -
uncompromising father, who, as ‘
uncompromising Miner, who, as “a stanch Catholic peasant ”
was amazed ley ond description at the thought of uniting liis
daughter with a heretic, stormed and swore, and once for all
declined tlio honour.” The “ mau of blood and iron” m ght
well have adopled strong measures, but we are told that lie
simply “Jolt Mitterbad the next morning,” and Jose alia
seveial years aiterwards, married the mysterious personae
known to seimrn.ntal song-writers uud novelists under the
general name ot Another. We need not proceed to cons Jer
the questions suggested by the author as likely to arise fro u a
perusal of “ this simple little love story; ” we may rest content
with ltlernng the reader to the author’s own pages.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
11,6 J!01S 0f ( nei a u ^‘aiid'tu N0Ve1, Fr0m 1116 1 ' Veucl1 of Victor Cherbulioz.
Tally^liu^^SkenlWol Hmitmf-, Coaching, See. By Prod Field Whitehurst.
TlK and Bliynrs t ) li ‘ lUC ‘ tr and rul)Ua ’ nel P- B ? Thomas Marsh. (Stavoiu
The ;* Bnki 1 i ester” Portfolio of Gems. (Raphael Tuck.)
" 111111111; -An English MuiUtn of tile tieventeentu Century. By L. E G
(John P. SIi.mw and Co.)
Lady Betty's Goveintss. By I.ucy E. Guernsey. (Shaw.)
JLe Gamencr » \eai-Book, 1879. By R. M ug g, LU.Ll. (171, Fleet-street.)
toust*r Stats lor omen. The Standing Evi, By Dr. A. Edis. (Rid away.)
•Knowing and I.’oing. Light Stories foundtd ou lhble Precunei. Bit Mrs
PhuiI. (Builder.) 1 1
The Giudiator 2nd Edition. (C. Kogan Paul.)
John lit}wood’s British Empire Atlas. (Heywuod.)
W ittmi tound oldhe bta. zvois. 2nd Edition. By the Author of “ Vera.”
^ Tut tie 1L * Lot ' ' iUnt * l * ie Kre, Pocky Mountains. By Captain
Nsnty's Adveurort-s: TheTateof aGont. By N. D’Anvers. (Kogan Paul )
il.e Buthduy Book of Gerniuu .Literature. By J. \V L [Laurie I
The liuilway Diuiy and Official Liirectoiy for 1879. [ W. if. Suiithaud Son 1
1- aily f ales : then Oi lgin aud Meaning. By J. T. Bunce. (Macmillan 1
A Memoir ot Mauhew Davenport Hill. By nis Daughters. (Macmillan )
1 ^ ie Md*‘randtO l, ) elSOtt,yaiil ' y Do,H:U ' Edited by E. J. 2 vols. (dmita.
The Dish Bur: comprising Anecdotes. Boo-mots, and Biographical Sketches
- Bench and Bar of Deland. By J. R. O’Flanaghan. (Sampson Low.)
Betty leans m New Zealand ; including A Personal Narrative, An Account
ol Maondom, ana The CluistianLation and Colonisation o* tuocoauarv
By the iu v. dames Butler, [itoduor aud htouguiou.i '"
The English Army: lis Past History, Present Condition, and Future Proa-
I cels. By Major Griffiths, tKlrd Regiment. (Cassell, Better, aud Co 1
Illlais ol the Empue: (sketches of Living Indian and Colonial Statesmen
Celc-hiilits, and Officials. Edited, wild un Introduction, bv T if s’
Eaton. (Chapman and HaU.)
THE SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 1878.
(From the “ Illustrated London Almanack.”)
The Solar Eclipse of July 29, 1878, was observed by an urrny of instru-
uit.iitul appinouMS, and under conditions such as had been seen at no pre¬
vious eclij sc. It was regarded as the return of that of J uly is, 1880, when
1 he Moon s thadow crossed the northerly parts of the American continent
and, sweeping over the Atlantic Ocean, passed across Spain and Africa. ’
At La. Junta, shortly after two o'clock on July 29, 18/8, as the Mouu cut
into U10 solar disc, the light rapidly waned, and a peculiar yellow colour
gradually changing to a dark neutral tint, overspread the landscape.. Tue
c.outlies.- sky became of a leaden hue, and a lew minutes before totality
Venus and Mercury weie plainly visible; immediately afterwards a streak
of yellow light teemed 10 open out along the northern horizon, aud the dark
shadow rushed across the p.ain. A few seconds before tae Moon's disc
completely covered over ihe Sim, the corona shone out distinctly at
bh. Slim. 20s. (lOh. Sum. 27s. Greenwich mean time). From the
commencement to the end of the totality not a trace of Leverrier’s
long-look ed-1 or planet was detected; but for several seconds af er
totality ihe corona tlood out clear and distinct, and slowly faded away.
The duration ot the tommy was log seconds, turee seconds snorter cuan the
computed time. A fine series of photographs were obtained, in each of
whien was shown an amount of detail and sDueture of tne corona far beyond
anything .previously seen. In two of the prominences there was a wel.-
ceimcd “ nlumcntous ” development, and it was noticed that, with tue
increased exposure of plates, an extension of the corona took place, as
noiiced by Schuster iu tne Siam eclipse. The outlying portions of the pro¬
minences seemed to extend between three and lour diameters away from
the Bun. The western extension exhibiting more of the ‘ • filamentous struc¬
ture.” The 1 ose-coloured prominences, usually the most striking objects in
a total eclipse, were not seen by dny of the Ka Junta observers. With a
Nichol’s prism and a thick quartz plate ralial polarisation was distinctly
observed, the polarisation near the limb of the Moon was about 10 per cent,
decreasing outwards. Bliotographic evidence of polarisation was ootainod
by exposing gelatino-bionuu prepared plates in a Ross symmetrical lens
camel a of five-inch focus and u 5 effective aperture, at the back of vvniou
wus a double-image prism. The plate was exposed about eighty seconds.
At M eat loos Animas (latitude 88 or and longitude 9h. 62mm. 48 sec.,
west Greenwich) spectroscopic observations of the eclipse were mode,
and the well-known green nne 1474 of Krrcholf’s sea.e was seen in
the continuous spectrum. Line aud spectrum, however, disapjiearei at aU
po.nis at a height of aLout eight unnuies of arc from the Sun’s limb. Tna
inlet pnita ot me spectrum were lemarknluy vivid, audit was possible to
:e lur into the ultra violet much further than with ordinary sunlight,
bpeclioscopic examination of the corona snowed a strong continuous
-turn, reaching nearly to the calcium line H, aud up to a heignt ot 0-8
ie Sun’s diameter no weakemng of the spectrum was visible. Ou
txumining the gi ecu pait of the spectrum indications of two hues were
observed, but no measurements eouid be made.
A laige number of general observations were made, such as the wonder¬
ful transparency of the Colorado atmosphere, the effect producer on
•nimais, on the colouis of objects, their visibility, ecu., whilst the darkness
sus iardrum being so gieat as wus anticipated, although the Ueerea.se of
IciLpeiutiue, us indicated by Edison’s tosuneter, was considerable.
The Leeds Mercury says :—"NVe are able to contradict on the
best kuibonty ihe report that Mr. Gladstone lias actually
decided to Lt-come a candidate for Midlothian at the next
genual election. He has been requested to contest the con¬
stituency, but bos given no final uuswer.
There has been found in a house at Larkfield, near Maid¬
stone, lately occupied by a woman known as " Reeky Wise,”
an old stocking which contained about 500 sovereigns and
iwenty-tbiee ejiade guineas, together with the deeds of some
freehold house property at If romp ton, and a quantity of small
silver. No will disposing of the property has beeu found.
The usual Conference of Head Masters of Public Schools
was held at Harrow on Friday and Saturday last week, under
the presidency of Hr. Butler. They passed a vote of thanks
to the Universities for their efforts to carry out the wishes of
the conference in providing means for testing and certifying
the efficiency of teachers. There was also a discussion ou
whether Greek might be made an optional subject for a degree
at the Univeisities, about which there was a great difference
of opinion.— Lord Houghton yesterday week distributed the
prizes to the students at Goole Grammar School, and iu his
address rel erred with satisfaction to the establishment of board
schools throughout the country, and expressed the hope that
parents who could afford other meaus would send their cliU-
uieu to middle-class or grammar schools.—On the same day
Mr. W. S. istanhope, M.P., distributed the prizes at the Don¬
caster Grammar fcchool.—Hr. Temple, Bisnop of Exeter, dis¬
tributed the prizes to the boys attending the practising school
attached to the Diocesan Training College, Exeter, on Monday;
end on the same day Mr. Sheriff Bevau (iu the unavoidable
absence of the Lord Mayor) presided at tue annual present 1 -
liou ot exhibitions and prizes to the pupils of the H-iber-
duslieis’ (Uoxton) Schools. These schools were founded by
Robert Aske, a member of the Haberdashers’ Company, early
iu the seventeenth century, and at the present moment provide
ateemiuodaticu for 300 boys and 300 girls.
the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Dec. 28, 1878.-008
THE MARQUIS OF LORNE AND PRINCESS LOUISE IN CANADA I SKETCHES ON THE JOURNEY FROM HALIFAX TO MONTREAL, BT OUR SPECIAL ARTIST*
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Dec. 28, 1878.— 609
MAJOR WHYTE-MELVILLE.
It is sadly noticeable how frequently distinguished
horsemen meet their death from the most trivial acci¬
dents. George Ede, the most accomplished gentle¬
man rider that ever weighed out, was killed at a
fence that a schoolboy could have negotiated on
his pony; Harry Grimshaw and George Stevens, who
had “ carried their lives in their hands” scores and
scores of times, died from injuries received by being
thrown out of gigs; and now Major Whyte-Melville,
one of the most finished cross-country riders of the
day, has been killed when galloping across a piece of
ploughed land. His horse, probably distressed by the
heavy state of the ground, came down, and the Major,
falling heavily, dislocated his neck and died instan¬
taneously. Major John George Whyte-Melville was
bom in 1821, and entered the Coldstream Guards in
1839. He became Captain in 1846, but retired from
the Army about three years later. On the outbreak
of thewarwith Russia, however, he joined the cavalry
of the Turkish Contingent, and remained in that
service until the declaration of peace in 1856. As a
hunting man ke was moBt catholic in his tastes,
equally at horns in the shires, with the wild deer on
Exmoor, with Lord Wolverton’s bloodhounds, or with
the Baron’s in the Yale of Aylesbury; and though by no
means remarkable for expensive mounts, it was rarely
indeed that he failed to hold his own in any country.
But it is as a novel-writer that Whyte-Melville will be
best remembered by thousands of his countrymen.
“ Digby Grand,” which was, we believe, his earliest
work, at once made him a reputation, and “ Kate
Coventry,” “Market Harborough,” “Satanella,”
“ Katerfelto,” and many other works, well sus¬
tained it. Few writers could boast of more ver¬
satility, for “The Gladiators,” “Sarchedon,” and
others, which were written in a widely different style
from those which we have previously mentioned,
have also obtained great popularity. As the poet
laureate of the hunting-field he stands quite alone,
and his songs will not be forgotten nor unsung as
long as there is a pack of hounds in England.
HENRY DAWSON.
This eminent landscape-painter died on Friday, the
13th inst. He was bom at Hull, in 1811, but was
taken to Nottingham when a year old, and, having
resided there for thirty years, he always regarded
himself and was regarded by the people of the town as a
Nottingham man; hence the organisation of the remark¬
able exhibition of his works in the Art-Museum of Not¬
tingham Castle last summer. He began life as a “ twisj;
hand” in a lace factory ; but, the love of art manifesting
itself, he devoted his spare time to painting, and adopted art
as his profession in 1835. In 1844 he went to Liverpool, and
in 1849 removed to Croydon, where he painted some of his
finest works, including “The Wooden Walls of Old Eng¬
land,” “ The Rainbow,” “ The Rainbow at Sea,” “ The
Pool from London Bridge,” and “ London at Sunrise.”
From Croydon Mr. Dawson went to Thorpe, where
he painted the noble picture of “The Houses of Par¬
liament.” The last years of his life were spent at The Cedars,
Chiswick, where he died, after a long and painful illness.
Throughout his career, till a very few years back, the artist
struggled on the borders of poverty through the lowness of
THE LATE MAJOR AVHYTE-MELVILLE.
the prices at which he was obliged to sell his pictures. At the
Academy his works were either rejected, “skied,” or
“ floored.” That he was to some extent a follower of Turner,
though not a servile one, was doubtless prejudicial to him
with an institution that was not only unjust to Turner
himself, but has scarcely recognised the great branch
of art in which many Continental artists and critics
think our school has (since the time of Reynolds) won
its highest distinction. The closing of the Old British
Institution, where Mr. Dawson’s pictures were always
well placed, was a serious blow to him ; and so was the failure
of a movement (through the death probably of his friend, John
Philip) to redress the injustice of his exclusion from the
Academic ranks. At length, in 1872 and ’73, when the artist
was past sixty, his pictures were for the first time placed on
the line at the Academy; and almost concurrently the market
prices of his works increased in a proportion which has had
few parallels, except in the case of David Cox and
Turner. He now received more to sign his early
pictures than he had originally sold them for. As a
single example of the rise in price, we may mention
that “ The Wooden Walls,” which in 1852 was
bought of the artist for £75, sold at Christie’s in
1876 for £1400. Mr. Dawson will, we believe, rank
in the history of our school but little, if at all, after
Crome, Muller, Cox, and other of our long in¬
adequately appreciated masters. He has left two
sons who follow closely, perhaps too closely, the
father’s style.
BURKE’S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE, 1879.
There is scarcely any annual publication which
strikes us as more suitable or more acceptable for a
Christmas present than a copy of this valuable
work. A drawing-room is inadequately furnished
without it, and the student’s library cannot be
considered complete unless the book is on the
shelf. To official and legal men, and, indeed, to
the public at large the information it contains is
indispensable. As each year passes, we are enabled,
on the receipt of Burke’s Peerage, to make our
annual retrospect of peerage and baronetical events.
During the past twelve months we find that only
two new creations have been made, Cranbrook and
Norton, the former conferred on Lord Beaconsfield’s
stanch colleague, Mr. Gathome Hardy, the latter on
Sir Charles Bowyer Adderley, an ex-Minister who,
in his time, has done the state good service. There
has also been one promotion, and one justly
deserved- that of the Lord Chancellor to the Earl¬
dom of Cairns. Historically, the Peerage is enriched
by the restoration of the Scottish Earldom of
Lindsay, and by the termination of the abeyance of
the Baronies of Mowbray and Segrave in favour of
Lord Stourton, the senior coheir. During the same
interval fourteen Peers have died, and two Peeresses
in their own right-viz., the Duke of Cumberland
(King of Hanover), the Marquis of Ailesbury, Earls
Bathurst, Ravensworth, Leitrim, Russell, Ashburn-
ham, Lauderdale, and Dysart; Viscount South-
well; Lords Middleton, Kinnaird, Dynevor, and
Chelmsford; the Countess of Newburgh, and
Baroness Gray. It is a strange coincidence that
the number of deceased Peers in the year 1878 is
precisely the same as in the previous year, 1877.
Among these deaths occur those of Lords Russell
and Chelmsford, and also that of the King of Hanover, an event
which raises a curious point as to the precedence and position
of his son, the present Duke of Cumberland. Sir Bernard, in
his Preface, argues, and we think conclusively, that the title
retains pre-eminenceover all dukedoms not Royal. Whilst only
sixteen Peers and two Peeresses in their own right have died,
there have been no less than thirty-one deaths of Baronets.
The more remarkable among these were the Hon. Sir Edward
Cast, the distinguished soldier and writer; Sir William
Stirling Maxwell of Keir and Pollok, still more eminent in
literature; the Right Hon. Sir William Gibson Craig, Lord
Clerk Registrar of Scotland ; and Sir F. R. Goldsmid. One
Baronetcy, that of East, has become extinct, and one new
Baronetcy made, that .of Buchanan. We find an interesting
addition made this year for the first time—viz., an official list
of the ladies decorated with the Royal order of Victoria and
Albert, and with the Imperial order of the Crown of India.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
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have the Advantage of thdr extensive experience. The over- m
ture and music are composed and selected by Eari Meyder, ,,
highly skilled and clever musician. Mr. John CormncK >». « n
uMial’ responsible for the ballets and general action, ihe
ncrformancc is sustained and elevated by the splendid acting q
of Mr Frederick Vokes and Miss Jessie Yokes, already men- p
tioned ; andTeae are greatly assisted by Fuwden Vokes and #
bv Miss Victoria Vokes, in the parts of the Baron s servant. d
Kobolcl, undCinder-Eila. Thewick«l sisters, Pavoma and t
Vixena are forcibly represented by Miss Julia Warden and 8 ,
Miss Hudspeth. Mr. Fred Evans and Mr. Charles Laurt are 0
the clowns. „ , v
Com nt-Gabdbx.-“ Jack aud the Beanstalk: or, Harle- a
ouin and the Seven Champions as AV e ve Christened Lm, »
has been written expressly for this theatre by Frank W. Green, a
with new and magnificent scenery by Julian Hicks, dresses c
designed by Alfred Thompson and executed by Auguste and ,
Co. fe \he bullets are arranged by M. Dcwinne. The music is ,
composed and arranged by M. Mariois. The pantomime w
invent! d and produced by Charles Harris. 1 he Model D ury i
Faim of the Widow Simpson, Jacks mother (Mr. Hirbcrt ,
Campbell!, who is suffering from impccimtosity, from which ■
strait her son Jack (Miss Fannie Leslie) and her page, Thomas ,
(Mr G. 11. Macdermott), are unable to suggest any outlet,
opens the story; and they accordingly resolve to sell the cow,
vhieli the foolish boys unthinkingly exchange for a hatful of
beans: which, thrown awny by the dame, aud takiug root. |
prow to the i kies. Jack climbs the beanstalk, and is followed
by the dume, the page, and the dog Punch (Master Lauri).
.luck next passes through Fairyland, where he receives a magic i
sword lrcm the Fairy Queen (Miss Kate Paradise), anti where |
we are treated to a ballet, with Mesdames Limido and bidome I
as principal dancers. Jack rescues the fair Princess Pausie
(Miss Clara Jecks) from the Giant’s castle, and, after a series
of astounding adventures, is directed by Quicksilver to the 1
Grand Palace of King Pippin (Mr. E. J. George), where a fete :
is held in honour of Jack. “ On the road to the beanstalk |
we arc introduced to the “Seven Champions os We ve i
Christened ’Em,” all of whom aspire to the hand of the
Princess, promised to him who shall slay the giant. Quick-
silver presents Jack with a magic axe, with which to cut the
beanstalk. The fall of the beanstalk shows the giant lying
dead, having in his descent crushed the houses of the villagers.
Here a general rejoicing takes place, the soldiers take possession
„t the body, and the hero Jack is congratulated by them and
the. populace upon his achievement. The Throne-Room of
King Pippin then shows us the union of Jack and the Princess,
and Thomas is united to the blushing Dame. We next pass
to the grand Transformation of the Fairy Beanstalk, painted
by Mr Juliun Hicks, which is on a scale of unusual splendour.
'Ihe harlequinade gives us our old favourite Harry Payne as
Clown, Misses Phillips and King as Columbine and Harlequma. ,
Messrs. George Vokes and Tully Louis as Harlequin and j
Pantaloon. Messrs A. and S. Gatti in this, their first dramatic
production at Covent-Garden Theatre, have spared neither ,
trouble nor expense. The excellence of Mr. Hicks’s scenery,
the dresses of Auguste and Co., and the properties of Messrs. !
Labhart and Burdett need uo comment.
.be nua, cl ■‘
fowl-house. Jto chfij wrtb «• village fete is
in the possessionofAMelc^oid^ ^ (liamond we dding of
taking piace in the valley toe his 8ong> p 0 lycarpe,
Anselme and his wife, Marceun ado nted child, Florinc,
Burnaby. Babolein, Urbain, and hu adoptea ca■ • . faU
Anselme and hiswiic, marceiui - ado nted child, Florinc,
Bainaby, Babolein, Urbam.an .. BOn ^j-es it into his ]
are enjoying themselves, Bay 1, which is so carefully ]
whimsical head to;inspectthe^ a very, very *
watched over by hrs fatlitr, and g anagC3 to secure i
Old h» ttaita. 1 ieSS'hi. score. hL been di,- i
the golden egg. His fotner reoni ^ ^ which is an
covered, and tells the history j and j 3 com-
enchanted one, having swaU B cause
pelled to lay *dtaji eggsrn the an ' person
misery throughout the w«w- « “ wi9h wanted. King
o frirlnv The five brothers come into the hen-liouse, and each
?Xs H > b.nkct Of eggs, Babolein choosing the black one
Sljxarpe Ws one^f’tbc eggs
ndg htyEm peror, in the hope of obtammgthe hand of ftin^css
Fanfiduche Barnaby breaks another egg, and wishes to
VoMwnA a Grand Turk and make Fanfieluche his Sultana aud
swaata.
Of it would require more space than we can afford. 1 hero are
?wo grand bldlets and a scene in Hades-a procession and
“Dan-c Infernal,” in which the Girards appear. Anselme
in the end reads his son a wholesome lesson, breaks the
last egg, and wishes they may all return to their former
mode of life, uml at the same time determines as soon as ht
leaches his chalet that he will destroy the old hen and have
no more golden eggs. ... „
Eoyal Aqvauu'm. The new pantomime, hy the Brotlhers
Grinu. lulled “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, or, the
Firing Palace and Big Ben of Westmiustcr, w, ihdoed,
altogether a splendid affair. Mr. Fawn as an old widow,
deliehts his audience with a catchword, owing its effect
entirely to repetition, and Miss Kate Phillips, as an Eastern
schoolboy, misbehaves herself to the entire satisfaction
of the audience. Mr. Collette, as a masked demou and a
wicked magician, indulges in stage inutataons os entertaining
as they are exact; while Mr. Paul Martmetti as the dumb
slave of Abanazar, delights us with some geuume pantoimme
action. The female element is remarkably strong m thocast
of the action, and much fine scenery, bj Mr. W. lerkins,
illustrates the various incidents in a manner truly picturesque
and brilliant. ,
SnuiEY.—“The House that Jack Built; or, Harlequin
I Dame Trot and the Little Old Woman that Lived m a hhoe
YS_ DEC. 28, 1878
Eoyal Park.— The pantomime is founded on the popular
Arabian Nights’ story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, which
it literally follows. The Transformation Scene represents the
Home of the Lilies and Mystic Geui of the Cave. The pauto-
mimists arc composed of the Artelli Troupe.
Pavilion.— The pantomime, entitled “ Little Red Riding
l Hood and the Gob(b)lin’ Wolf; or, Harlequin Jack in the
Box,” is founded ou Mr. Frank W. Green’s Christmas story
! of “ Jack in the Box.” The Grand Transformation Scene is
designed and executed by R. M. Hyde, and the harlequinade
is supported by the popular Alexander Family,
j Alexandra Palace.—' We have already given a summary of
the pantomime of “ Dick Whittiugton” in our last, aud need
not repeat it in extenso. In this version Dick Whittington is
sent to the Court of Cabul, whose chief is at war with this
country. A good scene is made of the deck of the Adven-
j ture and a section of its cabins. A squall arises, aud the
sailors ascribe its cause to the presence on board of the cat,
and they attempt to throw him overboard. The atorm rapidly
increases, and the ship (by an ingenious mechanical arrange¬
ment) sinks bodily, with all hands, the last glimpse we get
showing Dick and the cat clinging to a mast in the open sea.
We reach at last the Court of the King of Cabul. Dick is
i brought before the Kiug, and eventually earns his Majesty’s
. I gratitude and rewards by disposing of the hitherto uncon-
1 tTollable rats by means of liis cat. Dick returns to his native
land rich with presents from Cabul and raised to high honours.
Mr. Henry Emdon's transformation sceue is entitled •• A
Christmas Cord.”
Christmas Cara.
Crystal Palace. —The pantomime is entitled “Robinson
Crusoe,” and written by Mr. Augustus Harris. We are at
once introduced to Dame Perkins's Home, and to a dance of
1 peasants. Robinson being advised to seek fortune abroad, and
then return and claim Polly as his bride; Atkins, his rival,
conspires with the captain of the ship to muke away with
Crusoe. Crusoe accordingly is interrupted in his loriug fare¬
well, and hurried away by the pirate crew. The next scene
shows the ship in rough weather (all rocking and rolling).
After a ballet on deck aud a hornpipe, Crusoe w ill-treated by
the Captain, and is in danger of bis life. The waters rise over
.v v .. a *i.^ .w+oiiv is frrihhWl nnhrt.liAOnfcnniR
Labhart ana miruetL neeu uo couuucm..
Gaiety.— The pantomime at this house anticipated the (
customary uiglit by being produced on Saturday, the 21st, and
proves to be a revival ot Mr. U. J. Byron’s “ .lack the Giant- |
killer,’’ originnllv produced at the Princess’s in 1SJ9. It is
needless to say that it has been entirely rewritten and itn-
mciisely improved. The scenic accessories have been supplied
by Mr." Bunks, and are of remarkable excellence. Some of
tin ro are marvels of perspective-such as a corridor of columns
and windows of wonderful depth, the illusion of whicti is |
perfect; and a mechanical set of the Glowworm's Dell in the ,
1 Limited Forest, introducing a transformation scene of dazzling |
beaut V and endless developments, implying au expenditure not I
. nsily" to be calculated. The ballet scenes arc equally remark- ,
able, particularly cue in which Millie. -Enea performsa “Hying |
dance,” together with many other startling and graceful
things, and must command admiration and patronage. Miss ,
Jenny Hill, a little girl, sustains the part of Jack with exquisite |
vivacity, singing aud dancing with admirable efficiency. At .
1. ngth “ the Golden Gates of Progress ” let in the harlequinade I
troupe, Mr. W. Warde as Harlequin, Miss 0. Gilchrist and !
Mi.-s L. Wilson us Columbines, Mr. W. Orkins as Clown, and
Mr. Bishop and Mr. Hector as Pantaloon and Policeman. The I
mi ritsof this Christmas drama and its performance must ensure |
it an extended and prolonged popularity.
A i ti amiira.—H ere we have a version of “ La l’oule aux (Eufs
d’Or,” us translated from the French of MM. Dennery and
Clairville, and of which, except the last act, a grand dress
rehearsal has been already presented to a select public. The
rising of the curtain reveals a picturesque view of a chalet and
Dame Trot and the Little Uia w oman «
(written by J oseph Mackay), is the subject of the pantomime, j
We puss ut once from the Haunt of the Hags and the Houu- ,
stead of Jack’s Parents to a Forest Gb.dc where Robin ,
(Mdllc. Rosa Garibaldi) aud Mopsa (Miss Madge Johnstone), j
bavin" come out for a quiet stroll, arc overtaken by an ]
ominous storm, and the awful voice of the Giant Roarand- ,
bluster is heard. The Giant is killed. '^l’his •
Home of course, forms a mam incident of the action, ims .
is seen going on busily until it is completed, and the hero is m
a position to regard himself in the light of a man of substance, | ,
earning out the old nursery legend about the malt, Ac.,
faithfully. Prosperity reigns supreme, and the 1 mice s revels
are conducted in good old English style, introducing mummers, |
St. George and the Seven Champions, moms-dancers, choral (
singers, and anew grand Ballet of Nations, terminating with
a princely magnificent tableau, and a transformation scene j
representing A Dream of 1-ove in Fairyland, designed and |
painted by Mr. Clinrles Brooke. In the harlequinade we have as
Clown Wattic llildynrd, as Harlequin Mr. George Canning. ]
as Pantaloon Mr. Albert De Voy. as Columbine Miss Kate t
Hamilton, and as Policeman X X X X Z Mr. F. Hinde.
National Standard.—“ Robin Hood; or, Harlequin the i
Merrie Men of Sherwood Forest” is the title of the
Christmas pantomime by Sir. John Douglass. The story
is tints told:—At the shop of Eustace de Smith, High I
Sheriff and butcher of Nottingham, we leam that Robin,
the head man at. the butcher’s (Miss Mtlly Howes),
has conceived an affection for his master’s daughter. The
master butcher has already promised her hand to the
Kniglit Templar, the celebrated Sir Guy of Gisbournc
i (Jlr Frank Percival), who is very deaf. The knight arrives I
1 to dispute the claim of the butcher’s apprentice, offers
I large bribes, and, of course, interests the papa on his behalf.
The Sheriff proposes that day six months for a grand archery
| match, the Allcomers’ prize to be his daughter’s hand. Sir
I Guy is satisfied his own talent will succeed; Robin is crest- (
] fallen, but the Fairy assistance determines to invest Robin
with superlative skill as a marksman, and casts a spell ou
! Sir Guy, that everything ho aims at shaU be continually on
} the move. Robin leaves the house and flies to the forest. The
I Sheriff’s lete-dny arrives, with the procession for the shooting-
| match. But an uneasy feeling prevails, the fame of the great
I Robin Hood btiug now established. Robin wins the match.
, The Sheriff refuses the prize to Robin, who thereupon seizes
I Maiian uud bears her off with the assistance of his bold out-
1 laws. The Sheriff, visiting the forest for a picnic with his
| ' fiiends, is robbed and maltieated; aud a grand ballet of Merrie
*j Men and Maid Marians takes place. King Richard now deter-
’ I mines to proceed with the Crusades. A grand spectacular
■ display follows, illustrating tur event of peculiar significance
I at the present time—viz., the Conquest of Cyprus by Richard
[ j Camr de Lion. The scene represents a dioramic view of
. I Famugustn Bay from the heights overlooking the sea. The
* | Ciusoders, in gorgeous costumes and brilliant accoutrements,
J I are tupposed to have landed on the other side of the island,
1 1 visiting Lamaca, and are seen descending the rocks by a rough
? | c ircuitous passage, driving the wild inhabitants before them.
, Then follows a series ot magnificent tableaux, pending the
1 I arrival of the King, and the elaborate aud costly pageant tcr-
e ruinates with an c litiiely original and uriparallelled combination
e | of colour anil effect, representing the marriage of Richard I.
aud Queen Berengaria, with attendant festivities, as having
s historically taken place about 1192 in the island of Cyprus,
cl now forming part of the British Empire. The whole of the
w | magnificent scenery and the transformation-scene, represent-
c ing the Hanging Bowers of Fairyland, are painted by Mr.
d | Richard Douglass, assisted by Mr. John Neville.
the Captain, and is m danger or nis rue. me waters n-se oner
the ship, and the wicked Captain is gobbled up by the Octopus.
I Under the sea, the fishes visit the wreck and indulge iu a
! grand ballet. We have next the usual scenes iu Crusoe’s
I Island. Then succeeds a Grand Indian Ballet. Utinutely,
I the King of Savages abdicates in favour of Atkins, and
returns to the old country with Robinson. The ship, sail¬
ing up the Thames, arrives at the Tower Steps. The Pre¬
sentation of the Freedom of the City by the Lord Mayor to
Robinson and Friday leads to the Transformation (by W.
Telbin), the subject of which is the Adoration of \ onus. Tiie
general scenery is painted by Mr. F. Fenton.
Hanger’s —The Christmas annual at this establishment is
an old friend with a new face, the title being “ Harlequin
Cinder Ella and the Little Glass Slipper; or, The Kitchen-
maid that was made a Princess,” rewritten by the prolific pen
of Mr H. Spry, which opens with the Abode of Father
Christmas (Mr. G. Brad field), who, with the atteudance ot Iih
accompanying friend Jollity (Mr. Hayes), deplores the prerent
state of affairs and domestic bereavements, butendeavoursto
' | dispel depression by summoning the conduneuts of Christmas
! cheer in the forms of Sir Gander the Goost^ Sir Gobble the
I Turkey, Sir Sirloin of Beef, Old Tom, and Pine-apple Ron,
1 I but, lo ’ the Christmas pudding is forgotten. Iathe P^f
' of the plot Cinder Ella (Miss Beresfortl), bewailing her wdl-
• known trials uud sufferings, seeks roiwoktion m fort)
■ winks,” during which the Fairy Godmother (Miss MarUU)
i appears to her in her dreams and reveals a vision ot her
• Hit ure. Here a most charming effect is produced by » Lih-
I put inn equipage approaching through the
- magic aid ot Generosa. The prince and Cinder LlU are con
• verted into lIarGquin (Mr. Laurene) and (Mu*
3 , Nellie Flora). The wicked baron is converted ^Clown (the
II creat Little Sandy), while Beauteous is transformed to I on
tnloon (M. Pietro), when the fun of Harleqtihi atMlCiownantt*
, ! menccs. The pantomime terminates with a mUdary display of
3 the war in Afghanistan and passage ot troops through the
| | Kh ^ er j 1 A ^. s Guani) HalL- —The holiduyamuseinentsofthe
h Moore and Burgess Minstrels, inaugurated on the 26th, pre
I sent 1 as usual l great variety of
d I designed to continue, morning and evemng, until 1 Jim-1 *•
13 I may b mention Uiat the hall has just been magMficenUj
! decorated and illuminated, and that an eutirely m c hard
W I tifnl proscenium and scenery have been d
Douglass. The holiday programme is of surpassing m ,
te has been selected with great care and judgment.
« Hamilton’s.—T he excellent pictonM and■
tainment given by Mr. Hany H- H^nrlton. s the IIo iboru
' ll * the lessee of the spacious edifice formed j - t place in
u - Amphitheatre, will be sure to eecxm thrt P* “ dei P crT ,dly
>)> | the list of holiday amusements to which it is ( . APfln .
entitled. It maybe noted that, m what » caUed ^ ^
lie stereorama of Passing Events, the paj3 in
110 Cyprus will be foUowed by Views of thei hUyber
« I Alghanistan, accompanied by on
,rs musical illustrations. Morning performance art g
lf * ' Mondays and Saturdays. , i taK3
T. y Royal Polytechnic Institition.—A ch f"° n ° st ing of »
^ 1 was inaugurated ou Monday, th ® P r °?” U j L King oa the
1 musical promenade; a discourse b\ Mr. - • j^jon of
Z Electric Light: its Production and Use; the de«rni
Z tbe Eoocephalic troupe; Afghanistan, by Mr. ^ m) .
Z and Notes on Noses, by Mr. J. W. Bemr- Hartwe ll' S
,^ e be added the customary dmng-bell, Md Mr.^O^ riUeft
f entertainment of “ Rideigh s Queer Dri , t iarnoUti are
e . at by Tilkins Thudd, Esq. Other lectures and euttrtai
“* j also ou the card._—
theatres.
At the Princess's, owing to the f nilurc°fjhe
drama lately produced, the mttl ff e ?l a “t “entitled “
revived Mr. Charles Rcade s poP» lft ^ a ’ ar s, wUl, donbtj
Too Late to Mend,” which, a y powe rful ouc, and
let s, still be found effec tive. 1 he cast is a po
embraces the strength of the company. - e pu blicon
The manager of tlie Gaiety has -| n on the oeca-un
the success of the reforms introduced 1 y (j a j e ty on D^-
of the tenth anniversary of the opening of iot un
21, 1808. He has kept, he says, ^
years, without closing it for more «o lM t i n^,* a ' eh
SVitbiu the same period, lie had aho give J • j^tiog *
he had established on a new P^P ®' likew se eon-
different performance in the attem 00 - a j>oliahJd aH
gratulates himself, and deservedly so, on having
Ices, at the cost of £10,000. is about to
We perceive’ that Mr. Irving at * gratuitously P ro *
ndopt the some policy, and to bt ^tUaTthe result wd
grammes and books. W e have uo d Hbenility.
also prove to be profitable, and reward his liberal.
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NOTICE.
P ETER ROBINSON
respectfuBy hiforrns Ida Customers
THAT THE ONLY ADDRESS
FOR HIS MOURNING WAREHOUSE
is Noe. 236 to 2C2,
REGENT-STREET,
He will fed obliged by all
laiinmunlcatiiius
intended for the Mourning Wiirehonso
bring hi dirtvted,
to prevent delay and diEHpi>ointmt'nt
£3 15 6
£1 10 0
£3 3
AT PETER ROBIXSON’S
JpAMILY MOURNING WAREHOUSE,
“ REGENT-STREET.”
THE BEST ENGLISH CRAPES ONLY ARE USED
winch atand the wet and damp weather.
"' from 1,rfes ’ bca '>tifully lltteil, made complete,
Wl< frum Bonillt “ ik1 Cap; made hy’i'rencii Miiilners,
WI< from U “'‘^ ,e ur liandsomidy trimmed'.
Dresses, Made Complete, for a Parent,' SistiT, or
hrothrr, fr«»m ....
M ”nlni Puletots * hu,1,lsoi, ««* I y trimmed, for ditto',
I!0, rrom I ' C " f 8tyles i insde * *hy French Milliners,
The BARODA ( RAPE.-Economlrnl Dresses nvidel
from' 5 ut tlliB UtW lualcria1, fur Deep Mourning >£2 16 6
with' iTI ui'i^a'^ 1,r '' 5! ' mal<l ' r * arB * enfc to All Parts
immediately on receipt of Letter or Telegram,'
WHICH MUST BE CLEARLY ADDRES3ED—
REGENT-STREET, Nos. 256 to 262,
otherwise they would not reach us desired.
T^VENING and DINNER DRESSES,
-Lj New Styles, well ent, anil elegantly trimmed,
from one guinea to 10 guineas.
Tarlatans in the most fashionable styles, 21s.
Black Brussels Net, 'gas., 20s. lid., and ;«s.
Bluck Silk Tulle (condition keeping). 42s. and SOs.
Grenadine, from 42i. to 4 guinea*.
PETER KOBINSOX, V liEGEN tStRbSp!™'
Xoa. 236 to 2(12.
QRgVPES from the PARIS EXHIBITION.
PETER ROBINSON, of REGENT-STREET
ITHE MOURNING WAREHOUSE),
has purchased
THE WHOLE STOCK OF CRAPES that
were Exhibited by Messrs. COUKTAULD,
the Eminent Crape Manuincturers.
These Crape, are supraiscd to he
THE BEST QUALITIES EVER MANUFACTURED.
They have In-on Purchased
at a considerable discount off.
and will lie sold to his Customers
at merely ordinary prices.
THE LARGE GLASS CASE which contained
Peter Rol lineon will'sol I at One third its 01 iginal oust.
THE MOURNING WAREHOUSE,
266 to 262, REGENT-STREET. LONDON.
(The only address.)
rAOODS from the PARIS EXHIBITION.
^ Amongst other large purchaaea made L»y
PETER ROBINSON, of REGENT-STREET
(THE MOURNING WAREHOUSE),
lie has fc-eured the whole of the Exhibits
ofa French Manufacturer.
The moat celebrated in the world for these goods, whicl
consist of a beautiful description
In Plain. Figured. Mre^hi.’imd Damasst
(patterns very various), and suiteil
for Evening, Dinner, and Dress occasions.
Ho has also liecn fortunate In securing
the Goods ex hi bite'll
by a Norwich Manufacturer,
imoiigst them are PARAMATTAS of exquisite make,
GRENADINES of strong texture, ZE11EL1NKS,
TWILLED SERGES, and various NEW FABRICS
uf great perfection of make and dye.
Tlin winiIn will Iia k.iM of.
The whole wlH t»e sold at
25 i>cr cent oft' the usual coat price.
0b pSpER HDb{n“uN I 'S MOURNING WAREHOUSE,
REGENT-STREET,
gWAN and EDGAR
^RE NOW SHOWING
A STOCK of FRENCH PALETOTS and
MANTLES,
(CONSISTING of about eighty of the richest
KJ and most elegant Shapes of tho present sc-aaon.in Silk,
Satin, tiroa de Mceeine, Satin do Lyon, Indian Cashmere. Ac.
The above goods are perfect in all lesiieots, and are now being
sold in Fans ami London atl6to 2U guinea-.
SWAN and EDGAR will otter tneiu on the abovo date at
Piccadilly and KcgcnGstrect. London. W.
FAMILY MOURNING.
Y\/T DOW’S DRESS, made complete,
IT trimmed Cyprus Crape, from ..£3 1.1 6
Widow’s Drees, made complete, trimmed English crape,
from. .. 3 18 0
Parent’s Mourning Dress, made complete, trimmed
Cyprus Crape, from.3 11 6
Parent’s Mourning Drees, imidu complete, trimmed
English Crape, (rum.3 18 6
Sister’s or Brother s Slouming Dress, made complete,
trimmed Cyprus Crape, from .. 3 18 6
Sister's or Brother's Mourning I ires-, made complete,
trimmed English Crape, from .. 4 4 0
Mourning for near Relatives, made complete, trimmed
Cyprus Crape, from.3 13 6
Mourning for near Relatives, made complete, trimmed
English Crape, from.3 18 6
Materials at One Shilling per yard.
JAYS’, Regent-street.
E vening dress.
Messrs, JAY’ have a new ami most fashionable assortment
of made-up Costumes for Evening Wear, suitable for laities who
are In mourning, or Tor those who wear black from choice.
Bodiwsyircalsomade up by experienced dressmakers iu u few
JAYS’
i GENERAL MOCRXI)
REGENT-STREET. \
D 1
JJEBENHAM^
and FKEEBO DY
. rt*|»rttfully to'announce that, in mconlanciMvitli
nitstoni at this .-funm »*f tbovciir, they will oflVr the whole Stock
ot FANCY uud MADK-lJF HOOD*,
ut Ketluct-tl Price*, <>n
MONDAY. DEC. :J0, uud bill..win^ day?.
Many useful ami iin*xi»ei»tive items will bo lound in each ‘rf the
Di-jiartim nt*. but Kpecial attention is invite*! to
Silk and Mat* rial Ostmnefi, I Mantles. Millinery. Lingerie,
Cliildit'n'.s (Winnie# A Jarket*. | Ihiya* Suits and Overcoat*.
A variety «»f Article* suitable f«»r Presents will Im> uflerHl at
Krdueed Price*, and the hiiuII remainiog stock of Xuretn!>er^
Toys, Gaines, Sir., at half nriiv, to eft'e< t a clearanre.
An early insi^ctnui i* rMncctfully M'liciUtl.
DKBKNIfAM and FKEEBODY,
Wlgmore-street and Wellicvk-street, W.
w
A T E R L 0 0 II O U S E.
SPECIAL HALF-YEARLY SALE,
from JAN. 1 to 31, 18711.
HA1.L1NG. PEARCE, and STONE,
Wateihs, House.
CYrkininr-Kt rei t and Pall-mall East. S.YV.
N.B.—Deicriptive Circular post-liM.
JMP0RTANT NOTICE.
Please direct all Letters and Orders for
PETER ROBINSON,
SILKMEKCER AND LINENDRAPEB,
the only Adilress,
103 to 108, OXFORD-STREET, W.,
_where the Business whs Established iu last. 9
gILKS FOR CHRISTMAS.
ONE THOUSAND PIECES OF NEW
LYONS GR08 GRAIN, at 3s. Gd. per yard
r fifiode. for Evening Wear.
RIcherquftUttesfu^Sure^Silks^lis'.fid.^.^SL.^imd’g,^ ^
J^LACK SILKS.
0n * a iiiSiSj
Black Satins “J. ^niw■ brlphtiietnlii. Od. per yard.
1 or patterns phase addresa only
PETER ROBINSON,
_ 103 to 108, O XFORD-STREET, W.
JQINNER AND BALL DRESSES.
BROCADED SILKS,
AS EXHIBITED AT T*l/fl*ARI3 Ul EXH¥SiT10N
are iK'ing sold at less tlian lialf price,
commencing ut 4a. (id. per yard, extra width.
GENOA VELVETS,
In every shade, to match the SUks and Satins,
__ «“• HO- per yard.
JOO BLACK CASHMERE POLONAISES*
Richly Embroidered in Silk,
w ith and without Beads,
now selling at 2U*. fid. and :i3s. oach fun «in<
CAfcHMEBE DE PAUIS AND FJNB’jIEIUNOS.
„„ , for Wedding and Ball Dresses,
at 1*. lid., 2a. 3d.. 2.<. lid., and Ju. Cd. par yard.
Patterus fie©.
1 ujt Alpaca* same *lmdt*3 n* alaivo.
12*. lid. to 18*. fid. the Dress.
L>ALL AND WEDDING DRESSES.
-SJ Now ready.several thousand Elegant Kobea,
frpcchilly iin jmml for t.ii*
n Black. Whit©, and New Oiloum. from is*, ©d. to lO^itneas
pETER ROBINSON,
SILKMERCER and DRAPER,
103 to 108, OXFORD-STREET, LONDON.
H E
CALE OF THREE DRAPERS’ STOCKS-
^ , , WILL COMMENCE.
1 liwe Mocks have bceu bought l»y public and private tender
at unheard-of prices for cash, fr.au the uudcj mentioned linns: -
JUIE STOCK of Mr. R. A. DICKINSON,
J- GENERAL DRAPER. ««, ED WARD-STREET
BRIGHTON.
T HE STOCK of Madame MATHILDE,
COURT MILLINER mid DRESSMAKER,
2X1, OX.FOUD-STKEET. YY.
HE STOCK of M. WHITE,
TT FITTER and FANCY I)RA • -- -
These St talks will cunalat ot e_ _...
both Black umi Coh-iueil, Satiin. Velvet--,
LOUT FITTER and FANCY DRAPER, of HASTINGS.
""" .. * •■*■ -description of Silk*,
ai e-ti am ii- - ■■ " • YcheU'eio,
4 aTliiiiefe*, Mc-rinoe*, J.., WB t-vt-v , laa M S 1 U)U . nt
< ne time! with some elegant Ball-Room and Dinner
ljrcssb*; Walking mid TravelUng Coftmues; Under-
'h'tbij'eandOutllttlng of all kind*. Fur, doth, and
Silk Mantles; Hosiery, Kid. and other kinds of Gloves.
Beautiful French Flowers mid Wreaths; Corsets alul
all kindf. ut lamln-up Lara ii.H.dn. •
Alorifr with the aUivt*wiU In* nhowti an LxtcnKivo anil
F**.-tly Display ..f Paris Exhibition u.mhIs. Paiatintru,
and Works of Art
Al.-i Cheap FaneyTliIngs. very Ktiltuhlo for Ih-esentt, will
he exhibited in our newJy-ereeled aud well-lighted.
Eliow-Roonis ami Galleries.
HENRY GLAVE.
634.535.536. and *737. New Ox lord-street;
and 1, 2.3, 4, 5, muni. Haiti bridge-street, London.
WALKER’S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES
TT are superseding all others, l'rlzo Medals—Loudon, 1872,
I aris, Ifko. bilver Watches.from£44s.; Gold,from £6as. Prico-
n.t. z-—i.oi. , R nJ -ent-street;and7H Htrand.
Lists sent free.—77. Cornhill; 2.
N
E W -YEAR’S G I F T S.
The boat Collection
ASSER and S1IEKW1N, Ml amlSl.Striudf 1 *' 10 "'
E W - Y E A R * S G I F T S.
New Illustrated Price-List, full of Noveltiei.
from Is. to £3, jmst-free.
ASSER and SHERWIN. 80 aud 81. Strand.
N
E W -YEAR’S GIFTS.
Thu most acceptable Present at this season
is due of ASSER aud Sli ERWIN'S-
New Guinea CABINETS of GAMES. Sent,
-ectirely packed iu a case, on receipt of P.O.
WTEW- YEAR’S GIFT S.
• 1 A&$KR and ffHEBWIX have rcceiveil from
tin- ('<»ntinfiit«l marketf* the bo*t tvdlection of
TO\ J? for children of all ages to bo seen in*
London. Price-Lh»ts free.
ASSER and SHERWIN. 80 aud si. Strand, W.O.
C“;
'1STMAS PRESENTS. — Jewellery.
r lhe GOLDSMITHS’ ALLIANCE. Limited, respoctfn y
eolirit un imi>cctJou of thefr exU'iiaivo STOCK, which cjutuhis*
iMiiiintiilas.M itnuntid tlu- following articles
Biacejets .. frem £fi to £2no I R'ngs .. .. fromi2to£30>
*—jfi |*> 200 | C'lmuis .. .. from 3to 60
•-*' ** . from 1 to m
. from Ito 60
experienced iu
I, Cornhill, Loudon (oppo.-sit© the l
i of
H ENKY MILWARD and SONS'
EXTRA QUALITY
NEEDLES,
ns mad® for the Magiuntin du J5on Marche, Taris.
Eiu h S’eixUo perfect.
May las obtained from all Draprrn ; or u Ntmple liundrol sent by
post for lfi stamps.
WufI,| i>id M.lls. Kail.iit. li.
pAUTION.—BOND’S CRYSTAL
Vv PALACE GOLD MEDAL MARKING INK (three Gold,
several Silver, and other Medals for merit and 8U|K-riority 1. Some
-i -' •-*'--a. a—■'-Genuine
Sonthgite-
clu mists and stationers for extra profit deeeivo
.Daughter of late John 1C mi." Vi'm k«
■ heating required. £10u reward
coloumhle imitation
H ooping-cough— iiocHE’s herbal
EMBROCATION .-The celebrated Effectaal Cure with¬
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THE ttt.TTSTRATED LOHDOH HEWS
MC. 28, 1878
NEW MUSIC.
CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF
/CHAPPELL’S MUSICAL MAGAZINE
Contain. thefoUowing popular Danoe Mosley
' Emile Woldteufel.
. Fred. Godfrey.
. Ch**. d'Albert.
BylvtaWalta
Cleopatra Galop .. ..
MSftSSL. "
o--®—
Chappell and (So., SO. New Bond-street._
I^FeLEGANT and USEFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENT.
lEETHOVEN'S sonatas.
B 1
Complete I
ill music size. Reduced price. SI
bound In doth and gold._
not. ° Handsomely bound In doth and got'
NOVELTIES.
/CHARLES D’ALBERT’S S
VJ AFGHANISTAN QUADRILLE
CANDAHAK WALTZ .
CYPRUS POLKA ..
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. 2». Od.
. Si. Oil.
. 28. Od.
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NEW NUMBERS OF
/CHAPPELL’S MUSICAL MAX
No. 118.—POPULAR MARCHES.
And twclTo otum * «i»*--rv":
Gluck Ac. Is.; po*t~frve,-
a, z (Tenor) S^'Ancdlct.
ggSL HssSsrr! &SSA^
D^ce Mulls . Little Nell Walt* .. Dan Godfrey. _
lienee MutlO X Lord — _
sailS, SsJf 5 ” jjssBss*
SU ■ • {°oU'isr..
Pianoforte •• Ai^bjIxjniiXIlie ••
G. A. Macfarren.
B. Richards.
_ _ _ . llenrl Ghya.
ARa^otSunihln. .. grtL-pj.^
_'• Polka .. Charles d'Albert.
.. . .do Ijuicers .. .. Dan Godfrey.
sassasr mss-
ig (Baritone) The Stirrup Cup, . . Luigi Ardltl.
Pianoforte .. ARayofSunah
Dance Mnele .. Dew Drop Walt
Dance Muelo .. Tho Sultan • P<
Hong (Baritone) The Stirrup Cup .. LttlglArdl
Bong (Tenor) •• { T H«ven * ^}M.BaUe.
- :--— B.Glover.
Dnet (Bop. A Con.) W Ind and tho Harp ..
DuetlSop.&Oon.) Ave Sanctlaeima .. —— --—--
Pianoforte .. Home, Sweet Home .. B.RIcherda.
Pianoforte .. The Silver Trumpet* F. \ iviani.
Pianoforte .. Priired’une Vicrge ..
Dance Mode .. The Rink Gdo^
, T. Badarzewska.
. Charles D'Albert.
.. Tne Hilda rraiu .. Dan Godfrey.
... Palermo Quadrilles .. Charles D'Albert.
Ohapphll and Co.. f~
Dance Masic .. The Hilda W
new music.
jyjASON and HAMLIN’S
^MERICAN ORGANS.
SJ^STOrafroX HUMANA end KNEE SWELL.
Price V) Guineas. , w
METZLER and 00.. Great Marlborough-street. London. W.
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^MERICAN ORGANS.
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JJABMONIUM^
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Vlblatore Price Eight Guineas. This instrument will be found
Invaluable to students and amateurs for tho purpose of organ
practice. nlurtrltcd Catalogue poet-freeand gratis.
METZLER and CO.. Great Marlborough-street, London. W.
THE NEW OPERA,
/CARMEN. By GEORGES BIZET
V Vocal Scv.rc complete, ItaiJan and G©« man Words. 12*.
Vocal bcore, complete, French Words. JiVw'ifcaitln c
The separate songs, ^ay^ tad with either Italian
Pianoforte score arranged by the Composer.
Mbtzleb and Co., 37. Great Marlborough-streot, London. W.
H M.S. “PINAFORE.'
. W. 8. GILBERT and ARTHUR SULLIVAN.
at "tho OpCra Coralqui
id Piano, 4s. net, post-1
lbb and Co., 37, Great ]
nightly i
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New Opera by
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genuine success.
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new music.
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_L Tho largest and best Musical Journal.
the MUSICAL TIMES FOR DECEMBER
JL contains :-The Crisis In Musical Education-A New
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Music (continued),by Carl Engel—The GreatCximposers Sketched
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TDOLYEUCTE. By CHARLES GOUNOD.
X Opera, in Five Act*. Libretto by Jules Bnrbler and
_ A. RANDEGGER.
Price 4s. No. 6 of Novello’s Music Primer*.
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vJT The success of the season.
JOSEPH
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WILLIAMS’S LIST.
DE CORNEVTLLE.
CLOCHES
Vocal 8core, English Words. 10*. net.
Piano Score, eompleto, 2a. Od. net.
PIANO SELECTIONS.
WILLIAM KUHE.
Grand Fantasia .
Grand Paraphrase.
Third Fantasia .
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Tents and Troops. 6. ALI MUSJID. 7. Part of the Mackeson Road.
'—THE FIRST SHOT (About 10 a.m* Nov. 21).
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IN MEMORIAM
pRiUCB LEOPOLD PLACISG WREATHS ON THE COFFIN IN THE FAMILY MAUSOLEUM AT
KUOM A SKETCH BY OP* SPECIAL ARTIST.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
WALNUT-TREE HOUSE:
A GHOST STORY.
BY MRS. J. H. RIDDBLL.
AUTHOR OF “OEOBO* GRITH,” “ TOO MUCK ALONE,” BTO.
CHAPTER I. fortably by ourselves.
THE NEW OWNER. , <
Many years ago there stood at the corner ofa
out of Upper Kcimington-lane a great «d “ f “hi c h It was later on in the
which one very wet evening, in an autumn the leaves ^ w^ previously taken
have been long dead and gone, looked more than ordinarily bidden p Timp80n . s clerk
desolate and deserted. .... . ... v „ nrft -wood and coals from thi
tocaatonhis story; “ and I, for one, would not, turning rouna to survey tne contents or the apartment with
1 .*ed K.M*,
n0 ’” n Mi£e^o y ^i^Ky?m? f SS” sadd the new owner, glancingas he spoke at the child's poor thin legs, and short,’
« y T Ym^St Se to bid for your company. The shabby frock, and shoes wellnigh worn out, and arms bare and
i SLd I caTmanaw r U be bound, to get ok very com- lean and unbeautiful. ‘‘Is it anything I can get for you ?”
child and I can manage, a u B Not a word—not a whisDer: onlv for renlv a plan™
and yet hopeless scrutiny.
at it it you want, my boyP” asked Mr. Stainton,
child and I can manage, 1 e » a® Not a word—not a whisper: only for reply"a glance of the
fortably by ourselves" wistful brown eyes. ** S
CHAPTER II. , ' “Where do you come from, and whom do you belong to?”
the child. persisted Mr. Stainton.
It was later on in the same evening; Mr. Stainton had an The child turned slowly away.
rpSsly taken possession of Walnut-Tree House, “ Come, you shall not get off so easily as you seem to
bidden Timpson’s clerk g£>d-evening, and, having ordered in imagine,’ persisted the new owner, advancing towards his
wood andS from the nearest greengrocer, he now stood by visitor. ‘‘ \ou have no business to be here at all; and before
There was not a sign of life about it For seven years wooaana ^ ^ coming of the goods purchased. you go you must tell me how you chance to be in this house,
one had been found to live in it; for seven years it tne ^“ g "^ ted he B looked up at the house, which in the and what you expected to find in this room.”
no one had been found to aye in it, As he waited, he looked up at the house which in ini
had remained empty, while its In th^mad- uncertain light of the street lamps appeared gloomier ant
He was close to the doorway by this time, and the child
stood on the threshold, with its back towards him. Mr.
house close at hand; and now that owner d ead *nd .. It “as an ‘uncanny’ look, certainly,” he considered; Stainton could see every detail of the boy’s attire-his little
buried and forgotten, and the new owner was returning to “ “j “ fc ^ flre u ’ i Bha u be all right. Now, I plaid frock, the hooks which fastened it ; the pinafore, soiled
take possession. This new owner had written to Sf”* wonderwhe^hose “cS?arecoming 8 ! ” ’ Und crumpled, tied behind with strings broken and tootled;
nder when those coals are coming! , , . .
As he turned once again towards the road, he beheld in
begging them to request the person in dre £ on its wav tto sad? of fuel with which the newest green-
have wms prepared for his and, when thetre d add he thought he could-indeed, said he would-
into the station, he was met by one of Messra.iimpson anu By.,, Mm A ton _ ha if a ton-quarter of a ton, the
into the station, he was met by one of Messrs. Timpson ana
Co.’s clerks, who, picking out Mr. Stanton, delivered to that
gentleman a letter from the firm, and said he would wait to
in one place the skirt had given from the bodice, and a piece
of thin poor flannel showed that the child's under habiliments
matched in shabbiness his exterior garments.
“ Poor little chap,” thought Mr. Stainton. “I wonder if
he would like something to eat. Are you hungry, my lad ? ”
iclring out Mr. Stainton, deUvered to that ag^ed would be impossible until the next day; he wouldTike something to eat. Are you hungry my lad ? ”
from the firm, and said he would wait to P toek-ves-he would promisTthat. Bill should bring it The child turned and looked at him earnestly, but answered
ly message in reply. Rill was told to mit his burden on the truck, and never a word.
ad the letter-looked at the blank fly- f ^ „ P d we > u make up t h e rest to- “I wonder if he is dumb,” marvelled Mr. Stainton; and,
WV tn the first words, read what his twelve punaies OI wooa, uuu V _ Ho „ no rrmrintr ftw«v nnt nut ft hnnfi tn fipfftin Him
Mr. Stainton read the letter— looked at the blank ny-
loaf—and then, turning back to the first words, read what his
solicitors had to say all through once again. ,
solicitors had to say au mrougu b B oiu. , , erred a favour
“Humph,” said the new owner, after he had finished. T n the distance Mr Stainton descried a very grimy Bill, and up the wide staircase with swift noiseless feet.
“ I’ll go and take a look at the place, anyhow. Is it far from small bov comiSk»ng with the truck leisurely, as Only waiting to snatch a candle from one of the sconces,
here, do you know?” he asked, turning to the young man from a .v«3' 8 “ a * Mr. Stainton pursued as fast as he could follow. Up
Timpson’s. „ ^Thro^gh toetan Ve watoS the pair advancing, and the easy steps ho ran at the top of his speed; bu£. fast
“No, Sir; not very far” Bill with a clad voice of welcome! as he went, the child went faster. [See Illuttration.) Higher
“ Can you spare time to go over there with me ? inquired P , ve co ^ e at la8t . that > B right. Better late than and higher he beheld the tiny creature mounting, then, still
Mr. Stainton. Brins them this wav I’ll have this small lot shot in keeping the same distance between them, it turned when it
The young man believed that he could, adding, If you . ... „ y ’ reached the top story and trotted along a narrow corridor with
want to go into the house we had better call for the key. It “ Receins vour pardon Sir,” answered Bill, “I don’t rooms opening off to right and left. At the extreme end of
morrow,” added Bill’s faster, with the air of one who has seeing he was moving away, put out a hand to detain him
favour But the child eluded his touch, and flitted mto the hall and
rerj emaU boy, coining along with tlie truck leisurely, as Only waiting to snatch a candle from one of the sconce,
nish the load had been Herculean. Mr- Stainton pursued as fast as he could follow. Up
Through the rain he watched the pair advancing, and the easy steps he ran at the top of his speed; but, fust
ieted Bill with a glad voice of welcome. as he went, the child went faster. [See Illuttration.) Higher
want to go into the house we had better call for tlie key. , 7 t>:XX;X„
is at an estate agent’s in the Westminster Bridge-road.
“ I cannot say I have any great passion for hotels, remarked y TMl tarn ’pm to the house as vou’ve sold’em to toe Mr. stainton sun ionowmg.
the new owner, as he took his seat in the cab. h£n«!/hnt I won’t set a foot inside it ” y “ I have run you to earth at last,” he said, entering and
“Indeed, Sir.” , , _ T “oJ^n to sJytou ^£e tan* to leave them out on closing the door/ “Why, where has the boy gone?” he
“ No; either they don’t suit me, or I don t suit them. I 1 >7 r J Sf , lin t on 8 8 added, holding the candle above his head and gazing round
have led a v^d sort of life; not much dM»m thebush, them to the front door if the dingy garret in which he found himself.
the gold-fields, I can tell you. Then, I have not been / .. The room teat quite empty. He examined it closely, but
11 That will do. You «, » brave lot of paoplo to tha» «>U J»f “
Begging your pardon, Sir,” answered Bill, “I don’t i rooms opening vu. r.guu oauint. “™va" UU a
c yod will-thatis to say, not by me. As I told our this passage a door stood ajar. Through this the child passed,
reached the top story and trotted along a narrow corridor with
rooms opening off to right and left. At the extreme end of
ke ’em to thehouse as you’ve sold ’em to the Mr. Stainton still following.
n’t set a foot inside it ” 1 have run y° u to earth at last > he entering and
an to say you are going to leave them out on closing the door. “Why, where has the boy gone?” he
added, holding the candle above his head and gazing round
or at the gold-fields, I can tell you. men, I nave non oeen ” ^ --- The room wat quite empty. He examined it closely, but
well, and I can’t stand noise and the trampling of feet. I had it 11 be a con e . e0 Dle in these could find no possible outlet save the door, and a skylight
enough of that on board ship; and I used to be awake at That wiU do. You are a brave lot ol people in inese wWch faad evid <£tly not been opened for years. Therewasno
nights and think how pleasant it wovdd be to have a big parts i must say. ? k d head furnit ure in the apartment, except a truckle bedstead a rush-
ICS, COT, ttgreeu iuc trai. . ■ „
“ Yon see, I have been accustomed to roughing it, and I you come from. . . . ,, . « there ^
a get aloug very well for a night without servants.” , ‘ Ifc “ not mposnble, retorted Mr. Stainton, there are
•iK'ofionht Sir” • plenty of cowards over there too.”
rtoaouD , . . ..... After he had shot his coals on the margin of tha steps,
box, or press, where even a kitten might have lain concealed.
“ It is very strange,” muttered Mr. Stainton, as he turned
away baffled. “Very strange! ” he repeated, while he walked
along the corridor. “I don’t understand it at all,” hs
“ I suppose the house is in substantial repair—roof tight,
and all that sort of thing? ”
“ I can't say, I am sure, Sir.”
“ Well, if there is a dry comer where I can spread a rug, I
shall sleep there to-night.”
“I don’t understand it at all,”
the truck, said, putting his knuckles to his eyebrows—
“Beg pardon, Sir, but I suppose you wouldn’t give me a
S^pron 0 "!^ ° f 4116 Wind ° W ' thCD ^No^ordd^oC^f^i. Stainton, verydecidedly pn'dpal Sense very slowlywitoboi
Sirk'S w^anoloneticallv. and then “ I shall have to shovel these coals into the house myself; and worn face graver and more thoughtful
“I do not think ”-he began apologetically, and then
stopped.
« You don’t think what P” asked the other.
his own voice woke strange echoes through the silence of that
desolate house. “It is the child! ” and he descended the
principal staircase very slowly, with bowed head, and his grave,
worn face graver and more thoughtful than ever.
for the night, it is as wet for me as it is for you.”
Nevertheless, as Bill shuffled along the short drive—shufflin
Yon ’ll excuse me. Sir. but I don’t think-1 really do not ™™iy-l^
“Besides”_sutrec^tod Mr Stainton- “Out with it! stop in that house—you’ll excuse me, Sir, meaning no joke, and his own expenence on the incredulous
office—but I wouldn't; i n d<-«d I wouldn’t.”
'• Tbe house h» .tood empty for rm Sit, bue.u..-tbow "U seem, to'tor.^ot «goodi nume ut• “7 Sd clffeg'the room,, lwkiug,
CHAPTER III.
SEARCHING for information.
“Thank you kindly, Sir,” Bill answered; “I am sure I
am extremely obliged; but if I was in your shoes I wouldn’t
stop in that house—you’ll excuse me, Sir, meaning no
offence—but I wouldn’t; indeed I wouldn’t.”
went on the new owner of Walnut-Tree House found himself
pondering continually as to what the mystery could be which
nttftchftd to the child he had found in possession of his pro-
the premises. Inclined at first to regard the clerk’s story as a
ioke, and his own experience on the night of his arrival a
delusion, it was impossible for him to continue incredulous
No doubt, that ‘ besides ’ holds the marrow of the argument.” offence—but 1 woman t; inaeea 1 woman t. v £ ^ hrn n d davli^ht that terrible child
“ The house has stood empty for years. Sir, because—there “It seems to have got a good name, at any rate, thought when he found, even in broad daylieht, t lookine
is no ns? in making any secrefol it-the place has a bad name.” Mr. Stainton, while retracing his steps to the banned tone- stealing down the staircase and entering the , g,
. - • - - ,A ",« ment. “ Let us see what effect a fire will have in routing the looking—for somethmg it never found.
o use in making any secret of it—the place 1
;; What sort of a bad name-unhealthy?” Kows”^ ” ** W “* “ & “ e ^ “ W “ 101111118 “ e ^^anTaTb^he^had ^y, or the expectation
Haunted?” He entered the house, and, striking a match, lighted some ofit. No apartment in toebuUtogWMSWur^mmtruswm.
he clerk inclined hia head. “ You have hit it, Sir,” he candles he had brought in with him from a neighbouring oil- ^weenbreakfastand Luer’.
And that is the reason no one has lived there P ” * °After an inspection of the ground-floor rooms he decided to whenever the notion C “J fjJSg
We have been quite unable to let the house on that take up his quarters for the night in one which bod evidently mg, lookl “ g ’i R 0 °^‘ ug ’ wc?tein the object of search was
“Haunted?"
The clerk inclined his head. “You have hit it,
“ And that is the reason no one has lived there P ”
I shadows.”
He entered the house, and, striking a match, lighted some
account.” 8ei T e
“ The sooner it gets unhaunted, then, the better,” retorted li
Mr. Stainton. “ I shall certainly stop there to-night. You with
are not disposed to stay and keep me company, I suppose ? ” stood
With a little gesture of dismay the clerk drew back. Cer- dead
tainly, this was one of the most unconventional of clients. The H
young man from Timpson’s did not at all know what to make table
of bim. walk
ike up ms quarters lor tne rngnt m one wmen naa eviaenuy mg, wosmg, ~—-o ■ --- ■■ r, h -
served as a library. than was necessary to be certain the object of its searen was
In the centre of the apartment there was the table covered absent, but wandering hither and thither, mom garre
ith leather. Around the walls were bookcases. In one corner kitchen, from parlour to bed-chamber, in q
:eod a bureau, where the man who for so many years had been still seemed fresh as when first begun. nersons
ead even while living kept his letters and papers. Mr. Stainton went to his solicitors as the, most l^ely nem^
He ate his frugal supper, and then, pushing aside the from whom to obtain information on the su j » P
stood a bureau, where the man who for so many years had been still seemed fresh as when first Degun. nersons
dead even while living kept his letters and papers. Mr. Stainton went to his solicitors as the, most l^ely nem^
He ate his frugal supper, and then, pushing aside the from whom to obtain information on the su j » P
table on which the remains of his repast were spread, began at once into the matter. . Timrwm 5 ’’ ho
walking slowly up and down the room, thinking over the “ Who is the child supposed to be, . P
lf( hi m walking slowly up and down the room, thinking over the --- , , ..
“ A rough sort of fellow,” he said afterwards, when past and forming plans for the future. Buried in reflection, asked, making no secret that he had seen re. „ mawercd m
describing the new owner; “ boorish; never mixed with good the flre began to die down without his noticing the fact; but “ Well, that is really very duncuit rosy,
society, that sort of thing.” a feeling of chilliness at length causing him instinctively to Timpson. real child-flesh
He did not in the least understand this rich man, who look towards the hearth, he threw wood into the grate, and, “ There wat a child once, i suppose.
treated him as an equal, who objected to hotels, who did not while the flames went blazing up the wide chimney, piled on and blood? ” , o , , them,
miud taking up his abode in a house where not even a drunken coals as though he desired to set the house alight. Mr. Timpson took off his spectacles uua f Mr Felix
charwoman could be induced to stop, and who calmly While he was so engaged there came a knock at the door of “ There were two ; yes, certainly, in me
asked a stranger on whom he had never set eyes before—a the room—a feeble, hesitating knock, which was repeated Stainton—a boy and^ a girl,
clerk in the respectable office of Timpson and Co., a young more than once before it attracted Mr. Stainton’s attention. 44 In that house ?* . ,. „
fellow anxious to rise in the world, careful as to his associates, When it did, being still busy with the fire, and forgetting “ In that house. They survived Mm.
particular about the whiteness of his shirts and the set of his he was alone in the house, he called out, “ Come in." “ And what became of them r father's, and
collar and the cut of his coats—to “ rough ” things with him Along the panels there stole a rustling sort of touch, as if “ The girl was adopted by a relation
in that dreadful old dungeon, where perhaps he might even be someone were feeling uncertainly for the handle—a curious the—boy—died.” . „ „„ >, ft noen to know
expected to light a fire. noise, as of a weak hand fumbling about the door in the dark; “ Oh! the boy died, did he ? Do you nappt.
describing the new owner; “ boorish; never mixed with good the flre began to die down without his noticing the fact; but “ Well, that is really very (
society that sort of thina.” a feeling of chilliness at length causing him instinctively to Timpson.
He ’did not in the least understand this rich man, who look towards the hearth, he threw wood into the grate, and, “ There wat a child once, J
treated him as an equal, who objected to hotels, who did not while the flames went blazing up the wide chimney, piled on and blood? ”
miud taking up his abode in a house where not even a drunken coals as though he desired to set the house alight. Mr. Timpson took off his s
charwoman could be induced to stop, and who calmly While he was so engaged there came a knock at the door of There were two ; yes,^cei
asked a stranger on whom he bad never set eyes before—a the room—a feeble, hesitating knock, which was repeated Stainton—a boy and a girl.
, _ ° __T-i __1 - tViQ.i rvr,™ kr.fnrn if \f i- “ Tn fhftt fioUMi ? ”
expected to light a fire.
0.11 1,0 ,li.l nnt IVi
Timpeon anticipated he would be a profitable client; and to to turn the lock,
that impartial firm the money of a boor would, ho knew, seem ‘“Come in, can’t
that impartial firm the money of a boor -,--- -,-,— ~ r .——----,-- ^ ---,-
os good as the money of a Count. he spoke he remembered he was, or ought to be, the sole occn- never was a hint of that sort. ^.
“ I am very sorry,” he stammered; “should only have pant of the mansion. He was not alarmed, ho was too much Mr. Stainton sat silent for a minute ; t that somehow
felt too much honoured; but the fact is—previous engage- accustomed to solitude and danger for that; but he rose from “ Mr. Timpson, I cannot shake ott tne , . ldrtn ^'lu>
ment ’’- hia stooping position and instinctively seized Ins revolver, there has been foul play with regard to tnos
Mr. Stainton laughed. which he had chanced, while unpacking some of his effects, were they?” „. dauB hter made a
“ I understand,” he said. “ Adventures are quite as much to place on the top of the bureau. “ Felix Stainton’s grandchildren, nw . 6 dea[ll t h e two
out of your line as ghosts. And now tell me about this “ Come in, whoever you are,” he cried; but seeing the low marriage, and he cast her adrift. Alter ^ ^^uue—
apparition. Docs the ‘old man’ walk?” door still remained closed, though the intruder was evidently children were received at Walnut- Irceuou. tlie 0 id
“ Not that I ever heard of,” answered the other. making futile efforts to open it, he strode half way across the fed and clothed, I believe, thatwasan, {t| ()
you?” repeated Mr. Stainton ; but even as the affair,
“No; I really do not. There was n°tMng *
, affair, however, if that is what you are thinking of.
“should only have
out of your line as ghosts. And now tell me ah
apparition. Docs the ‘ old man ’ walk ? ’ ’
“ Not that I ever heard of,” answered the other.
“Is it, then, the miserable beggar who tried to do for 1 room, and then stopped amazed.
himself? ” For suddenly the door opened, and there entered shyly and
“ It is not the late Mr. Stainton, I believe,” said the young I timidly a little child—a child with the saddest face mortal ever
man, in a tone which mildly suggested that reference to a ! beheld; a child with wistful eyes and long, ill-keDt hair: a
For suddenly the door opened, and there entered shyly and
midly a little child—a child with the saddest face mortal ever
“miserable beggar” might be j child poorly dressed, wasted and worn, and with the mourn-
client of Timpson’s as a “miserable beggar” might be
considered bad taste.
“ Then who on earth is it P ” persisted Mr. Stainton.
“ If you must know, Sir, it is a child—a child who has
driven every tenant In succession out of the house.”
child with wistful eyes and long, ill-kept hair; t
fullest expression on its countenance that face of child ever children had a share.
man died the heir-at-law permitted them to remain.
“ Alfred Stainton ? ” 0 i n «.ne His uncle
“ Yes; the unhappy man who became in^ ■ eforJ thing
died intestate, and he consequently sueccedea
but the personalty, which was very small, and of wmi
The new owner burst, into a hearty laugh—a laugh which j he added aloud.
“ What a hungry-looking little beggar,” thought M
Stainton. “Well, young one, and what do you want here?
gave serious offence to Timpeon’s clerk.
“ There never was any suspicion, you say, or V
thought Mr. the part of the late owner ? ” „
want here?” “Dear, dear! no; quite the contrary. on tho
“Then you cannot throw the h-* 8 * ®
The boy never answered, never took the slightest notice of mystery ? ” „
his questioner, but simply walkedslowly round theroom, peering “ Not the least; I wish I could.
“That is too good a joke,” said Mr. Stainton. “I do not his questioner, but simplywalkedslowly round the room, peering “ Not the least; I wish 1 could." impression
ow when I heard anything so delicious.” I into all the corners, as if looking for something. Searching the For all that, Mr. Staiutou carried away ^ ^
“It is a fact, whether it be delicious or not,” retorted the embrasures of the windows, examining the recesses beside the Mr. Timpson knew more of the matter than u
n,n‘rP/ re i8 * m J BteT ? behind it all,” he considered “T
Dili, t lenrn more about these childrpn 'P^vViuna
loci tautap^pl. may S f 0t «h™> P " “ me 0t
the . loc ? 1 tradespeople for the most, part were
eon.ers-or else had not supplied “ the ho, 18e .” P
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tion about the matter.
“ And that is ”-
“ Mr Hennings, at the Pedlar’s Arms. He had some
EKSSK "“VS? 0W 88 Waa housekeeper both to Mr
PoiKiSSIIm ® ndtbe Seaman that went °ut of his mind.”
Arms S l h advice » 11x6 new owner repaired to the Pedlar’s
“Do I know Walnut-Tree House, Sir?” said Mr
Hennings, repeating his visitor’s question. “ Well, yes rather*
J h 7’ 3-onnnght as well ask me, do I know the Pedlar’s Arms
tive b and a « d f+ man 1 ^ T remCmber ^ ° ld ho ’ 18e for clot^n
flve-and-titty years I remember Mr. George Stainton • he
on h r r \ 8kU il Cap aud knee-breeches. There was an
or. hard then where Stainton-street is now, and his whole day
was taken up in keeping the boys out of it. Many a time
I have run from him.'
? id y° u e l? T see anything of the boy and girl who were
there after Mr. Alfred succeeded to the property—Felix
Stainton s grandchildren, I meanP” asked the new owner
when a pause m Mr. Hennings’ reminiscences enabled him to
take his part, in the conversation.
. “' V _ e11 ’ } “ay have seen the girl, but I can’t bring it
to my recollection: the boy I do remember, however. He
came over here two or three times with Mrs. Toplis, who kept
house for both Mr. Staintons, and I took notice of him, both
because he looked so peaky and old-fashioned, and also on
account of the talk about him.”
“There was talk about him, then.”
V Bh88 you. yes. Sir; as much talk while he was liviutr
aa since he died Everybody thought he ought to have been
Hie heir. But if you want to hear all about him, Sir Mrs
VIP,!'" 18 the to tell you. If you have a mind to give a
shilling to a poor old lady who always did try to keep herself
respectable, and who, I will say, paid her way honourable as
long as she had a sixpence to pay it honourable with—you
cannot do better than go and see Mrs. Toplis, who will talk
to you for hours about the time she lived at Walnut-Tree
House.”
And. with this delicate hint that his minutes were more
valuuble than the days of Mrs. Toplis, Mr. Hennings would
have closed the interview, but that his visitor asked wlieio he
should be able to find the housekeeper.
“ A thousand pardons!” answered the publican, with an
air; “ forgetting the very cream and marrow of it, wasn’t I ?
Mrs. Toplis, Bir, is to be found in Lambeth workhouse—and a
pity, too.”
Edgar Stainton turned away, heart-sick. Was this all
wealth had done for his people and those connected with them?
CHAPTER IV.
KHOTHER AND SISTER.
Mr Stainton had expected to find Mrs. Toplis a decrepid crone, ^
bowrd with age and racked with rheumatism, and it was
therefore like a gleam of sunshine streaming across his path to
behold a woman, elderly, certainly, but carrying her years
with ease, ruddy cheeked, clear eyed, upright as a dart, who
welcomed him with respectful enthusiasm.
“And so you are Air. Edgar, the son of the dear old
Captain, ’she said, after the first greetings and explanations
were over, after she had wiped her eyes and uttered many
ejaculations of astonishment and expressions of delight.
“ Eh ! I remember him coming to the house just after he was
married, and telling me about the dear lady his wife. I nevw
heard a gentleman speak so proud; he never seemed tired of
saying the words, " My wife.’ ”
“ l>he was a dear lady,” answered the new owner.
“ And so the house has come to you, Sir? Well, I wish
you joy. I hope you may have pence, and health, and happi¬
ness, and prosperity in it. And I don’t see why you should
not -no, indeed, Sir.”
Edgar Stainton sat silent for a minute, thinking how he
should, best approach his subject.
“ Mrs. Toplis.” at last he began, plunging into the very
middle of the difficulty, “ I want you to tell me all about it.
I have come here on purpose to ask you what it all means.”
The old woman covered her face with her hands, and he
could see that she trembled violently.
** You need not be afraid to speak openly to me,” he went
on. “lam quite satisfied there was some great wrong done in
the house, and I want to put it right, if it lies in my power to
do so. 1 am a rich man. I was rich when the news of this
inheritance reached me, and I would gladly give up the pro¬
perty to-morrow if I could only undo whatever may have been
done amiss.”
Mrs. Toplis shook her head.
“Ah! Sir; you can’t do that,” she said. “Money can’t
bring back the dead to life; and, if it could, I doubt if even
you would prove as good a friend to the poor child sleep¬
ing in the churchyard yonder as his Maker did when He took
him out ol this troublesome world. It was just soul-rending
to see the boy the last few months of his life. I can’t bear to
thiuk of it, Sir ! Often at night I wake in a fright, fancy¬
ing I still hear the patter, patter of his poor little feet upon
the stair.”
“ Do you know, it is a curious thing, but he doesn’t
frighten me,” said Mr. Stainton ; “ that is, when I am in the
house; although when I am away from it the recollection seems
to dog every step I take.”
“What?" cried Mrs. Toplis; 11 have you then teen him,
too f There! what am I talking about ? 1 hope, Sir, you will
forgive my foolishness.”
“ I see him constantly,” was the calm reply.
“ I wonder what it means!—I wonder what it can mean !”
exclaimed the housekeeper, wringing her hands in dire per¬
plexity and dismay.
“ I do not know,” answered the new owner,philosophically;
“but I want you to help me to find out. I suppose you
remember the children comiDg there at first?”
“Well, Sir. well—They were poor Miss Mary’s son and
daughter. She ran away, you know, with a Air. Fenton-
made a very bad match; but I believe he was kind to her.
When they were brought to us, a shivering little pair, my
master was for sending them here. Ay, and he would have
done it, too, if somebody had not said he could be made to pay
for their keep. You never saw brother and sister so fond of
one another—never. They were twins. But, Lor! he was
more like a father to the little girl than aught else. He’d
have kept an apple a month, rather than eat it unless she had
half; and the same with all else. I think it was seeing that-
watching the love they had. he for her and she for him,
coming upon them unsuspected, with their little arms round
one another’s necks, made the old gentleman alter his mind
about leaving the place to Mr. Alfred; for he said to me. one
day. thouehtful like, pointing to them, ‘ Wonderful fond,
Toplis!’ and I answered, ’Yes, Sir; for all the world like
meant* 1 * 8 ^ * he Wood: ’ not thinking of how lonely that
new ! lvmaK lyaft a rW ^ d V hetooktohi8bed ; and while he was
' EfSEt V doa !^’ b8tter thoughts came to him, for he
vm,r k « b ° Ut I 118 V fo ftnd Miss Mary, and the Captain,
ISdsnch lTw’Z r A- Ud v k lf the children were *°ne to bed
and such like—things he never used to mention before.
6o when he made the will Air. Quinance drew out I was
not surpns^-no not a bit. Though before that time he
such 7 ” 8P ° ke ° f Ml ' Alfred “ 1x18 heir > and treated him as
“ evc ^ waa found,” suggested Mr. Stainton,
to get at another portion of the narrative
wrrmSiTi Shr v X e bunted for xt hi ? h and low. Perhaps I
b ?t 1 always thought Mr. Alfred knew what
became of it. After the old gentleman’s death the children
mmh & n shameful-shameful. I don’t mean beaten, or
w+i! k 1 but b 111 , 1 "Starved and neglected. He would not
buy them proper clothes, and he would not suffer them to
fh« a L^ Cen >wv g5 an 7 bod y else bought them. It was just
the same with their food. I durstn’t give them even a bit of
bread-and-butter unless it was on the sly; and, indeed, there
was not much to give in that house. He turned regular
S H 1 £“ d “? ™ me into the famil 7 with Mrs. Lancelot
Htainton, Air. Alfred s great grandmother, and they went on
trora bad to worse, each one closer and nearer than the last,
begging your pardon for saying so, Sir; but it is the truth.”
I fear so, Mrs. Toplis,” agreed the man, who certainly
was neither close nor near. J
., Well Sir at last, when the little girl was about six years
old, she fell sick, and we didn’t think she would get over the
lUness. While she was about at her worst Mrs. May, her
bUtiers mster, chanced to be stopping up in London, and, as
Mr. Alfred refused to let a doctor inside his doors, she made
no more ado but wrapped the child up in blankets, sent for a
cab, and carried her off to her own lodgings. Air. Alfred
made no objection to that. All he said as she went through
the hall was, 6
“ * If you take her now, remember, you must keep her.’
“ Very well,’ she replied, ‘ I will keep her.’ ”
“ And the boy ? the boy ? ” cried Mr. Stainton, in an agony
of impatience.
“ 1 nm coming to him. Sir, if you please. He just dwined
away after his sister and he were parted, and died in December
as she was taken in the July.”
“'What did he die of?”
A. broken heart, Sir. It 6eems a queer thing to say about
a child ; but if ever a heart was broken his was. At first he
was always going about the house looking for her, but towards
the end he used to go up to his room and stay there all by
himself. At last I wrote to Airs. Alay, but she was ill when
the letter got to her. and when she did come up he was dead.
Aly word, she talked to Air. Alfred ! I never heard any one
person say so much to another. She declared he had first
cheated the boy of his inheritance, and then starved him to
death; but that was not true, the child broke his heart
fretting after his sister.”
“ Yes ; and when he was dead.
" Sir, I don’t like to speak of it, but as true as I am sitting
here, the night he was put in his coffin he came pattering down
just as usual, looking, looking for his sister. I went straight
up stairs, and, if I had not seen the little wasted body lying
there still and quiet, I must have thought he had come back
to life. We were never without him afterwards, never; that,
and nothing else, drove Air. Alfred mad. He used to think he
was fighting the child and killing it. When the worst fits
were on him he tried to trample it under foot or crush it up
in a corner, add then he would sob and cry, and pray for it to
be taken away. I have heard he recovered a little before he
died, and said his uncle told him there was a will leaving all
to the boy, but he never saw such a paper. Perhaps it was only
talk, though, or that he was still raving.”
CHAPTER V.
THE NEXT AFTERNOON.
Air. Stainton was trying to work off some portion of his per¬
plexities by pruning the grimy evergreens in front of Walnut-
Tree House, and chopping away at the undergrowth of weeds
and couch grass which had in the course of years matted
together beneath the shrubs, when his attention was attracted
to two ladies who stood outside the great iron gate looking up
at the house.
“ It seems to be occupied now,” remarked the elder, turn¬
ing to her companion. “ I suppose the new owner is going to
live here. It appears just as dingy as ever; but you do not
remember it, Alary.”
“I think I do,” was the answer. “As I look the place
grows familiar to me. I do recollect some of the rooms, I am
sure, just like a dream, ns I remember Georgie. What I would
give to have a peep inside.”
At this juncture the new owner emerged from amongst the
bushes, and, opening the gate, asked if the ladies would like
to look over the place.
The elder hesitated; whilst the younger whispered,
“ Oh, aunt, pray do ! ”
“Thank you,” said Mrs. May to the stranger, whom she
believed to be a gardener; “ but perhaps Mr. Stainton might
object.”
“ No. He wouldn’t, I know,” declared the new owner.
“ You can go through the house if you wish. There is no one
in it. Noboby lives there except myself.”
“Taking charge, I suppose?” suggested Airs. May,
blandly.
“ Something of that sort,” he answered.
“ I do not think he is a caretaker,” said the girl, as she
and her relative passed into the old house together.
“ What do you suppose he is, then ? ” asked her aunt.
“ Air. Htainton himself.”
“ Nonsense, child! ” exclaimed Airs. May, turning, never¬
theless, to one of the windows, and casting a curious glance
towards the new owner> who was now, his hands thrust deep
in his pockets, walking idly up and down the drive.
After they had been all over the place, from hall to garret,
with a peep into this room and a glance into that, Airs. Alay
found the man who puzzled her leaning against one of the
pillars of the porch, waiting, apparently, for their reappearance.
“ I am sure we are very much obliged to you,” she began,
with a certain hesitation in her manner.
“ Pray do not mention it,” he said.
“ This young lady has sad associations connected with the
house,” Airs. Alay proceeded, still doubtfully feeling her way.
He turned his eyes towards the girl for a moment, and,
though her veil was down, saw she had been weeping.
“ I surmised as much,” he replied. “ She is Aliss Fenton,
is she not ? ”
“ Yes, certainly,” was the answer; “ and you are ”-
“ Edgar Stainton,” said the new owner, holding out his
hand.
“ I am all alone here,” he explained, after the first explana¬
tions were over. “ But I can manage to give you a cup of
tea. Pray do come in, and let me feel I am not entirely alone
in England.”
Only too well pleased, Mrs. Alay complied, and ten minutes
later the three were sitting rouud a fire the blaze of which
leapt and flickered upon the walls and over the cdling, casting
bright lights on the dingy mirrors and the dark oak shelves.
“It is all coming hack to me now,” said the girl softlv,
addressing her aunt. “ Alany an hour Georgie and I have siit
on that hearth seeing pictures in the fire.”
But she did not see something which was even then stand¬
ing close beside her, and which the new owner had witnessed
approach with a feeling of terror that precluded speech.
It was the child ! The child searching about no longer
for something it failed to find, but standing at the girl’s side
still and motionless, with its eyes fixed upon her face, and its
poor, wasted figure nestling amongst the folds of her dress.
“ Thank Heaven, she does not see it! ” he thought, and
drew his breath, relieved.
No; she did not see it—though its wan cheek touched her
shoulder, though its thin hand rested on her arm, though
through the long conversation which followed, it never moved
from her side, nor turned its wistful eyes from her face.
When she went away—when she took her fresh young
beauty out of the house her presence seemed to gladden and
light up—the child followed her to the threshold; and then in
an instant it vanished, and Mr. Htainton watched for its flitting
up the staircase all in vain.
But later on in the evening, when he was sitting alone
beside the fire, with his eyes bent on the glowing coals, and
perhaps seeing pictures there, as Mary said she and her
brother had done in their lonely childhood, he felt conscious,
even without looking round, that the boy was there once
again.
And when he fell to thinking of the long, long years
during which the dead child had kept faithful and weary
watch for his sister, searching through the empty rooms for
one who never came, and then bethought him of the sister
to whom her dead brother had become but the vaguest of
memories, of the summers and winters during the course of
which she had probably forgotten him altogether, he sighed
deeply—he heard his sigh echoed behind him in the merest
faintest whisper.
Alore, when he, thinking deeply about his newly found
relative and trying to recall each feature in her face, each tone
of her voice, found it impossible to dissociate the girl grown
to womanhood from the child he had pictured to himself as
wandering about the old house in company with her twin-
brother, their arms twined together, their thoughts one, their
sorrows one, their poor pleasures one—he felt a touch on his
hand, and knew the boy was beside him, looking with wistful
eyes into the firelight, too.
But when he turned he saw that sadness clouded those eyes
no longer. She was found; the lost had come again to
meet a living friend on the once desolate hearth, and up uud
down the wide desolate staircase those weary little feet pattered
no more.
The quest was over, the search ended ; into the darksome
comers of that dreary house the child’s glance peered no
longer.
She was come! Through years he had kept faithful watch
for her, but the waiting was ended now.
CHAPTER VI.
THE HISSING WILL.
Ere long there were changes in the old house. Once again
Mrs. Toplis reigned there, but this time with servants under
her—with maids she could scold aud lads she could harass.
The larder was well plenished, the cellars sufficiently
stocked; windows formerly closely shuttered now stood
open to admit the air; and on the drive grass grew no
longer—too many footsteps passed that way for weeds to
flourish.
It was Christmas-time. The joints in the butchers’ shops
were gay with ribbons; the grocers’ windows were tricked out
to delight the eyes of the children, young and old, who passed
along. In Air. May’s house up the Clupham-road all was
excitement, for the whole of the family—father, mother,
grown-up sons and daughters—girls still in short frocks and
boys in round jackets—were going to spend ChrUtmns Eve
with their newly-found cousin, whom they had adopted as a
relation with a unanimity as rare as charming.
Cousin Mary also was going—Cousin Mary had got a new
dress for the occasion, and was having her hair done up in a
specially effective manner by Crissie May, when the toilette
proceedings were interrupted by half a dozen young voices
announcing—
“ A gentleman in the parlour wants to see you, Alary. Pa
says you are to make haste and eouie down immediately.”
Obediently Alary made haste as bidden and descended to
the parlour, to find there the clerk from Timpsou’s, who met
Air. Htainton on his arrival in Londou.
His business was simple, but important. Once again ho
was the bearer of a letter from Timpson and Co., this time
announcing to Miss Fenton that the will of Mr. Felix Htainton
had been found, and that under it she was entitled to the
interest of ten thousand pounds, secured upon the houses in
Htainton-street.
“ Oh! aunt, oh! uncle, how rich we shall be.” cried the
girl, running off to tell her cousins; but the uncle and aunt
looked grave. They were wondering how this will might affect
Edgar Htainton.
While they were still talking it over-after Timpsou’s
young man had taken his departure, Air. Edgar Htainton
himself arrived.
“That is all right!” he said, in answer to their questions.
“I found the will in the room where Felix Htainton died.
Walnut-Tree House and all the freeholds were left to the poor
little chap who died, chargeable with Alary’s ten thous-ud
pounds, five hundred to Airs. Toplis, and a lew other legacies.
Failing George, the property was to come to me. I have beeu
to Quittance's successor, and found out that the old man and
Alfred had a grievous quarrel, and that in consequence he
determined to cut him off altogether. Where is Mary? I
want to wish her joy.”
Alary was in the little conservatory, searching for a rose to
put in her pretfy brown hair.
He went straight to her, and said,
“Mary, dear, you have had one Christmas gift to-night,
and I want you to take another with it.”
“What is it. Cousin Edgar?” she asked; but when she
looked in his face she must have guessed his meaning, lor
she drooped her head, and began pulling her sweet rose to
pieces.
He took the flower, and with it her fingers.
“Will you have me, dear?” he asked. “I am but a
rough fellow ; but I am tnle, and I love you dearly.”
Homehow, she answered him as ho wished, and they all
spent a ve>y happy evening in the old house.
Once, when he was standing close beside her in the familiar
room, hand clasped in hand, Edgar Htainton saw tho chill
looking at them.
There was no sorrow or yearning in his eyes as ho gazed —
only a great peace, a calm which seemed to fill and light
them up with on exquisite beauty.
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PROCESSION
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THE ILLUSTBATED LONDON NEAVS^
DEC. 28, 1878
THE FUNEKAL OF PRINCESS ALICE.
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Dassed were lined with spectators, who preserved a respectful
Queen of’England, were found to be awaking it, and, *¥J ®
the bands pertormed sacred music, the coffin was removed into
sionf of sympathy and condoiementoifered bythose y^o
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Lord and Lady Odo Russell, and the Staff of the British
Embassy, with their wives, were present. . .
At the same time the Queen and those members of the |
Ttnv .1 fmnilv who were in England attended a special service
in the private chapel at Windsor. Throughout tb ®
thee were various signs of mourning, such as the ringing
muffled peals of bells, the firing of minute guns, and other
° b8 AU a places of business in Ottawa, Canada, were closed on
Wednesday afternoon, the 18th inst., as a mark of res P ec
the occasion of Princess Alice’s funeral; and prayers we
said last Sunday in all the churches in Montreal, Quebec, and
T ° r fthas been arranged by the British Societies of New York
to call a meeting for Jan. 9 next, for the purpose of passing
resolutions on the occasion of the death of.Princess Alice-
Sunday last was to be observed as a day of mourning for
the late Princess Alice throughout the Australian colonies.
In Alexandria the British residents held a public meeting,
and adopted messages of condolence to the Queen and the
Grand Duke of Hessc-Darmstadt.
Mr W D Jeans C B , late Secretary and Paymaster R.N. j
SeSSw 1857. and oputo for services at the taking of the
“iSJCfS WhJte-MeWlle, at Mount Melville St.
Se d “f‘Uk rr^ed Mr J. Whyto-MeMUe, the
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“on of a large circle of "acquaintance, including the most
eminent persons of the time. ..
The Hon. Eliot Constantine Yorke, one of ^eConseryative
membra forCambridgeshire, on th <> *M i.* s f oi
Hardwieke, and had represented
married, in 1873, Annie, second daughter of the fate bit
Anthony de Rothschild.
Mr. Joseph Nash, the water-colour painter, at Hie age of
seventv-one. He began exhibiting at the Old Society of
Painters in Water-Colours in 1835, showing drawings of
French cathedrals and antiquities. In 1838 was published
“ Architecture of the Middle Ages,’ w^hiUustraUonsfrom
his pencil; and between 1839-49 appeared Mansions of
England ill the Olden Time,” in four senes, Mr. Nash s
interiors, &c., being lithographed. Among t Mr. Nash s
nictures were “The Queen’s Visit to Lincolns Inn Hall,
exhibited in 1846; “Interior Views of the Great^Exhibition
of 1851,” “ Charles V. visiting Francis I. during his Confine¬
ment.” shown at the Water-Colour Society s exhibition m
1865; and “The Chapel of Edward the Confessor in West-
minster Abbey,” shown at the same place in 187b.
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WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
The will (dated Feb. 14, 1878) of Mr. Francis Crawshay, late
| of Bradbourn Hull, Seveuoaks, and of The Forest, Glamorgan,
who died on the 6th ult., at No. 14, Ecclestou-square Pimlico,
was proved ou the 12th inst. by Francis Richard Crawshay and
Tudor Crawshay, the sons, and Mrs. Laura Craw-hay, the
widow, the executors, the personal estate being sworn under
£70,000. The testator bequeaths to his wife £500, all the cash
at his banker’s, certain jewellery, horses and carriages, various
wines and spirits, including some particular white rum, abso¬
lutely, and £1500 per annum for life; he also leaves her his
house in Eccleston-square and the Bradbourn estate, with the
furniture and farming 6tock, for life or widowhood. There are
several'bequests to his children and grandchildren of wines,
spirits, and ales. Among the gifts to his children, who nre
already handsomely provided for by their grandfather’s will,
may be mentioned the Bradbourn estate to his son Francis
Richard on the death or marriage again of Mrs. Crawshay; a
certain part of the Forest estate is entailed on his son Tud»r,
conditionally on his setting up on the Tump in the ring of tir-
trees in the park, round the family stone, the Muster Druid
stones lying about iu the said park; if there is any failure to
carry into effect this condition, the estate is to go away from
his said son and his family. There are also special gifts to his
sons William and De Barri. The residue of all his property is
to be divided between his three sons, Francis Richard, Tudor,
and De Barri.
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OBITUARY.
BIR JOHN ORDE, BART.
Sir John Powlett Orde, Bart., of Kilmory, and of North Hist,
Inverness-shire, died on the 13th inst. at Kil-
mory, Lock Gilphead. He was bom June 9,
1803, the only son of Sir John Orde, first
__Baronet, Post Captain R.N., and Governor of
i A Pk I Dominica, by his second wife, Jane, eldest
fti (I daughter of John Frere, Esq., of Roydon, in
i A if the county of Norfolk, and succeeded to the __
('I title at his father’s death, 1824. The Baronet
l V ) -wh ose decease we record was educated at Eton,
N — V 0 -and at Christ Church, Oxford. He was a J.P.
and D L. for Argyllshire and Inverness-shire, and from 183U
to 1860 was Captain Argyll and Bute Militia. He married
first, June 15, 1826, F.liza, eldest daughter and coheurofPeter
Campbell, Esq , of Kilmory, by whom, who died f 829 , he had
two daughter s and one son, now Sir John William Powlett
Orde, third Baronet, Captain late 42nd Highlanders. Sir John
married secondly, June 14,1832, Beatrice, youngest daughter
of James Edwards, Esq., of Harrow-on-the-Hill, and by her
had two sons, who both died young, and one daughter.
COLONEL TOTTENHAM.
Charles John Tottenham, Esq., of Woodstock, in the county
of Wicklow, and PHs Berwyn, Denbighshire, Hon. Colonel
Denbighshire Yeomanry Cavalry and Lieutenant-Colonel 1st
Royal Merioneth Militia, died suddenly, at the Kildare-street
Club, Dublin, on the 17th inst. He was bom June 27, 1808,
the eldeBt son of the Right Rev. Lord Robert Ponsonby lot-
tenham, BiBhop of Clogher, by the Hon. Alicia Maude, his
wife, third daughter of Cornwallis, first Viscount Hawarden,
and was grandson of Charles, first Marquis of Ely. He was
educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and was formerly a Captain
in the 2nd Life Guards. He was a J.P. and D.L. for the
counties of Wicklow, Wexford, Merioneth, and Denbigh, and
served as High Sheriff of the last-named county in 1855; of
Wicklow in 1859 ; of Denbighshire in 1861; and of Wexford m
1871 He married, Sept. 11, 1839, the Hon. Isabella Anne,
daughter of Cornwallis, third Viscount Hawarden, and leaves
three daughters aud one son, Major Charles Robert Worsley
Tottenham, now of Woodstock. Colonel Tottenham succeeded
to the Tottenham-green estate, iu the county of Wexford, and
possessed seats in two of the most favoured spots of the United
Kingdom—one in the Vale of Llangollen and the other in the
beautiful county of Wicklow.
The deaths have also been announced of—
Mr. John Howard, for many years Mayor of Bedford, ou
the 23rd inst., at the age of eighty-eight.
Kenneth Mackenzie, Esq., of Ardross and Dundonnell,
F.R.C.S.,on the 12th inst., at Dundonnell House, Ullapool,
N.B., aged seventy-two.
The Rev. Peyton Blakiston, M.D , F R.S., lute of St.
Leon ards- on - Sea, on the 17th inst., suddenly, at 140, Hurley-
street. in his seventy-eighth year.
Vere Dawson de Vere Hunt, Esq., formerly of Cappagh-
waite, in the county of Tipperary, on the 9th inot., in Loudon,
aged forty-nine.
John Errington, Esq., J.P. and D.L., on the 11th inst., at
High Warden. Hexham, aged seventy-one. He was called to
lb-- Barin 1«32. nnd was High Sheriff of Northumberland,
1805. Mr. Errington was three times married.
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The state apartments at Windsor Castle are open to the
public.
The North British Railway Company have announced that
from Jan. 1 they will abolish all third-class fares which at pre¬
sent exceed the Parliamentary rate of Id. per mile, aud charge
nt exceed the Parliamentary rate of Id. per mile, and charge
> more than Id. per mile lor third-class tickets to or from
ly station on their system.
A few weeks ago wc had to commend a series of Christmas
and New-Year Cards, designed and printed by Messrs. Eyre
and Spottiswoode. This, we believe, was their first venture in
this w'iy. They forestalled all their competitors, and equalled
the best of them in gracefulness and variety of design. Now
we have to congratulate this firm on the production of some¬
thing more important than these elegant trifles—“The Empress
of India Album,” which has been successfully printed from de¬
signs by Mr. AlbertH. Warren. Too frequently portrait albums
of an expensive kind are lavishlv overlaid with ornament, giving
them a gaudy, gilt-gingerbread appearance. But here all is
simply elegant, and the style of the binding, morocco embossed,
. is in harmony with the interior, aud worthy of commendation.
ana ue Dam.
The will (dated June 5, 1877) with a codicil (dated July 9,
1878) of Mr. John Jesse Bulkeley, late of Linden-hill, War-
grave, Berks, who died on Oct. 16 last, was proved on the
6th inst. by Francis Beaumaris Bulkeley, the son, John
William Rhodes and the Rev. Adam Henderson Fairbaim, the
acting executors, the personal estate being sworn uudtr
£40,000. The testator bequeaths to his wife, Mrs. Sarah Mary
Bulkeley, £500 and all his furniture, plate, pictures, house¬
hold effects, horses and carriages; to his executors £30 each;
and the residue of the personalty upon trust for his four
children, Francis Beaumaris, Arthur Hugh, Constance Sarah
Mary, and Cecilia Emilia, and his grandson, Charles Henry
Bulkeley. His mansion house and estate at Linden-hill the
testator devises to the use of his wife for life, with remainder
to the use of his eldest son, Francis Beaumaris, for life, with
remainder to his son, Henry Charles.
The will (dated Oct. 22, 1833) of Miss Mary Henderson,
late of No. 10, Kensington Gardens-terrace, who died on the
2nd ult., was proved on the 29th ult. by William Henderson,
the brother, the surviving executor, the personal estate in the
United Kingdom being sworn under £45,000. The testatrix
gives all her property to her said brother; the previous hie
interest given to her mother having lapsed by her death in the
testatrix's lifetime.
The will (dated Dec. 10, 1870) with four codicils (dated
Feb. 2, 1875, and June 9 and Nov. 14, 1877) of Mrs. Charlotte
Anne Hodgson, formerly of No. 3, Broad Sanctuary,'Vest-
minster, and late of Oakside, Surbiton, who died on the
13th ult., was proved on the 28th ult. by the Rev. Charles
Welland Edmonstone, the brother, and George Harris
Hodgson, the surviving executors, the personal e'.tate bemg
sworn under £20,000. The testatrix bequeaths £100 to the
Church Missionary Society, and £100 to the Sea Bathing
Infirmary, Margate, of which her late husband was secretary
The will (dated July 30,1874) with a codicil (dated Jan. 22
1877) of General Sir John Garvock, G.C.B., Colonel ot the
10th Foot, late of No. 81, Queen’s-gate, South Kensington,
who died on the 10th ult., was proved on the-th mat. by Dame
Lydia Emma Blanche Garvock, the widow, the personal estate
being sworn under £14,000.
The will (dated May 12, 1860) of Sir Edward Shepherd
Creasey, formerly Chief Justice of Ceylon ‘^ ct Moiri
Housef Hampton-wick, and of No.
who died on Jan. 27 last, was proved on the 28th ult., under a
' nominal sum, by George Tamplin, the sole executor.
ART.
exhibition of etchings.
The marked revival of the art of etching within toe last
years, which was initiated in France by several ab j
and has been led in Germany by Unger andothers, reached
this country at a more recent period. Ihe d it
pioneer of the art in England was Mr. Seymour Haden, ai »
has been subsequently advanced by the ”
Hamerton’s comprehensive volumeon Etehers aud Etchi t
and the art-pe.iodical of which that gemai writer u ^
called “The Portfolio.” To further promote the mowme^
Mr. Haden has lent a selection from Lis fane coUect
etchings by the old mister, to theFnjjJUtSwajj “ d “£
arc now on view at the gallery in Bond-stree- i ^ „
comprises choice proofs ahd, Bometimes, rare ^
Rembrandt, Ostade, Vandyke Claude J. Bo*. K-' " J Bome
Hollar, aud other representative et ^bers, together
examples of the “ painter-engravers, Marc Antonio,
and B. Behatn, and the line-engravers Age*J no Caracc
Goltzins. The exhibition also tndudee eigriity etchingW
air. Seymour Iladcu himself. Most of these have * 1 thl|t
reviewed iu our columns, we therefore need^on y without
we cannot make acquaintance with tha whole ag Bur .
being tilled with renewed astonishment at ^ ^
geou in uciive practice should have tou ® d ^ u P n0 trace of
extensive a series of pure etchings-m which there is ^
inexperience except in the drawing of g legitimately
resort to the expedients for representatoonmore leg ^
employed in engraving, but, on the co^tM thar4C .
interpreting into black and white th c .^ . nt5U g.
J teristics of a given scene with iilehke spirit a lb i a
gestiveness, yet—or, rather,because— with the smm ^ 1(jng
expenditure of means, which usually on y “ riUen a pam .
professional practice. Mr- Haden has .. example*
phlet, entitled “ About Etching,” to
he he has lent by the old masters, and. m wh ch to ^
own views of art and reasons for etching, g ^ etcb j„g to
expressed significant hints touching th old mas ters to
- 2 '“putt,
S prin £; Vch h„. howe-er, to hi.
art, advanced in this pamphlet,as we tas embody
a as estimate of the value of etching, which ^ J^ rtant to eon-
yro ing many prevalent misconceptions, it is imp« be is
y [n trovert. "in his comparison of etching with engra
ed also at once self-contradu-ory and cruUJ though it ia
ow body of engravers it may safely b go muchla uciful
lc- saying much that on ^^rocent art-topic hos^s^ ^ amrtt eur
ess nonsense been said and written by ^ 1 f aut hority tor
de- critics as on that of etching What would ^be ienca
ma the public would be not the ebeto of^ose^ of artistic
mg is limited to one of the most “ 1 ® ai \ , the opinion of
1 is expression—which we hold etching to mode. h» vn
Jed, tho‘e who, as well as being
mastered the most advanced and cempn-
DEC. 28, 1878
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
619
of artistic realisation. Few painters would agree with
Mr. Haden that etching is “ the most difficult of the
Arts.” It is far easier to draw any line of etching than to hit
many a subtle hue and tint. Of course, the etchings of a
genius like Rembrandt are fascinating, and so would be a
drawing in ink, sepia, chalk, or with the silver point from the
same hands. It is a significant fact that artists who have
failed in other branches of art have made very good etchers.
Mr. Haden would have it appear that painting is inferior to
etching because the painter can correct as he goes on, but not
so the etcher. By so much, then, we say is etching inferior to
painting: the very defects of the method are constantly lauded
by its devotees as its greatest merits. Our author says again
that etching “does not imply the loose treatment which
belongs to the sketch.” And in another place he resents the
notion that an etcher should be supposed to be ‘‘merely
sketching” when “ he has learnt to select essentials and reject
non-essentials, and to do this before nature.” But, if this
is not a correct definition of the very essence of sketching, we
should like to know what is. The pamphlet contains many
oracular texts which present one side of an art-truth in a
plausible but delusive aspect, and are generally calculated to
damage the unfortunate engravers. Thus, in making his con¬
fession of art-faith in French to M. Philippe Burty,
Mr. Haden says, ‘‘Le premier jet emane de 1'artiste,
1’Elaboration est la part de l’ouvrier.” To which it
nay be replied that it often requires more tension
of the artistic faculties, frequently more invention, and
certainly more mature knowledge, to add the finishing
touches to a work of art, than to conceive it in the first
instance. “The man of feeling,” we are told, “is one, the
man of rules another.” Yet Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht
Diirer, and even Michael Angelo were both. Again, the line
of the etching point is “personal os the handwriting,” but
the line of the burin has “ no identity meaning, we pre¬
sume, no characteristic “individuality,” or “identifiable-
ness.” But we fancy that the works of the great engravers
might be (if unsigned) almost as easily discriminated as
those of the etchers. Mr. Haden, no doubt, means that
etching is a distinctly autographic art; which is true; but all
art is more or less so. He will have it that engraving is a mere
mechanical effort, whilst etching is brain impulsion; yet even
the wood engraver, who, as Mr. Haden would say, is a copyist
at second or third hand, often gives life and meaning to the
intermediate drawing on the wood, and impresses his own per¬
sonality on his work. Mr. Haden admits the merits of Diirer
and Beham’s, and to a certain extent of Marc Antonio’s, work
with the burin, but he seems to think that that instrument
was no longer capable of yielding expression or any other
original art quality after a demand arose for the most perfect
reproductions possible at a reasonable rate of costly and
no longer attainable masterpieces.
Artists adopted etching primarily and mainly because it
enabled them to executoa design, which could be reproduced
in many impressions, at a comparatively very small expendi¬
ture of time. But this important element of time is not suf¬
ficiently taken into account by many writers on etching; and
the material advantages, nnd even the limitations of the art,
are supposed by them to facilitate the record of art-impressions
that are valuable in proportion to their indefiniteness. When,
too, a tyro finds the etching point gliding so pleasantly
through the wax coating of the etching plate, he is delighted
with his own cleverness, forsooth; and when his scribbling is
rinted he is as much amazed as was the Bourgeois Gentil-
omme when he learnt for the first time that he had been
actually talking “ prose.” This excessive facility with which
the etching point slides over the plate renders it almost
impossible to draw a perfectly accurate line; and, as errors
cannot be rectified, Mr. Ruskin is justified in calling etching
“ a blundering art.” The line is here a little within and there
a little without the true medial line, and although this may
produce a charming suggestiveness, it is incapable of affording
sculpturesque severity of outline, and is therefore ill adapted
for drawing the nude figure. Nor can legitimate etching do
more than render conventional indications of flat breadths of
gradation—or delicate modelling—it cannot perfectly realise
them like line engraving. It is the last method of drawing a
student should attempt; and we think the recent introduction
of its teaching into the school at South Kensington is ill-
advised.
The mind of the architectural world has been much
exercised lately by the question whether the present and com¬
paratively modern low-pitched roof of St. Albans Cathedral
should be retained and restored or whether a new high-pitched
roof should be added. The restoration committee, after hear¬
ing a paper by Mr. J. O. Scott on Mr. Street’s report to the
Society of Antiquaries, have at length finally resolved to
replace the present ruinous low roof by a new roof on the
visible Early English lines, for which a considerable length of
parapet has been rebuilt already. The committee were con¬
vinced that Mr. Street was wrong in saying there hod been no
parapet in Early English and Decorated and Perpendicular
times, and had overlooked several indications of the levels both
of walls uud roof having been altered when the Norman roof
with eaves was replaced by the Early English one with
parapets, which were almost universal in great church roofs of
all periods after the Norman. A further question as to
the material for the roof has been raised. Several writers
have recommended copper, on account of, among other
merits, its lightness, and the agreeable greenish hue which it
acquires with the “ patina ” of age—an effect which may also
be obtained by the use of greenish slates. The buildings with
copper roofs which have been cited in illustration are, how¬
ever. generally those which are seen in combination with other
buildings, or in countries where there is little foliage, at least
of the fresher green kinds. The greenish hue of copper is
obviously less desirable where the buildings group with masses
of English foliage (which to some extent is the case at
St. Albans); and the greater the mass presented by the pitch
of the roof the less is it desirable.
Mr. Henry Stacy Marks has been elected from the grade of
Associate to that of full Member of the Royal Academy.
Mr. Seymour Haden will deliver a series of lectures on
etching at the Royal Institution, on Saturdays, from March 22
to April 5 next.
Sir Frederick Leighton, President of the Royal Academy,
was on Monday elected an honorary member of the Royal
Scottish Academy, and Professor Turner honorary professor
of nnatomy.
Mr. Krabbe, of Brussels, has bought the picture, by
Meissonier, “ Unc Halte de Cuirassiers,” which was in the
recent Great Exhibition, for 275,000f. A countryman of his,
M. Vanvcnheym, has purchased a landscape by ThEodore
Rousseau, “ La Hntte du Charbonnier,” for 100,000f.
An engraved bust vignette portrait of Dr. Maclagau, Bishop
of Lichfield, has been published by Messrs. Hogarth, of
Mount-street. The likeness, which is good, is from a drawing
bv Miss Lilian Dickinson; and the engraving, in stipple, by
Mr. F. Holl, is very careful and elaborate.
A subscription is on foot to purchase a marblebust of the
late Mr. Thomas Wright, the property of Mrs. Wright, exe¬
cuted by Mr. Joseph Durham, R.A., and to place ^ in some
public hall or library. Subscriptions may be sent to Mr. Dillon
broker, F.S.A., treasurer, 9, Pelham-placc, Brompton; or Mr.
C. Roach Smith, F.S.A., Temple Place, Strood.
We have received the first part of a republication by Messrs ■
Triibner and Co., with English text, of a series of sixty-eight
“fadeless phototypes” from standard engravings after the
chefs-d'oeuvre by the Early Italian and Renaissance Mastera.
The series is entitled “The Classics of Painting.” and will
form a most valuable gallery of reproductions of the greatest
works of art of modern times at a comparatively small cost.
An “ Exhibition of Japanese and Chinese Art” has been
opened at the Burlington Fine-Arts Club-admission by intro¬
duction of a member. The collection is not, of course, so
extensive as that recently brought together in Pans at the
Trocadero; yet it is, perhaps, not less instructive, owing to the
variety and judicious selection of the objects exhibited. Ihe
weakest portion of the collection is that of ceramics; but to
adequately illustrate Chinese and Japanese porcelain and pot¬
tery would require an exhibition-and a much larger onc-to
itself. Enough, and more than enough, is shown to fill the
mind with new and increased wonder at the skill of those
great colourists, draughtsmen, and artificers of the rar nast.
The National Provincial Bank directors have decided to
take over the business of the West of England Bank at
Plymouth, under its late manager, Mr. H. Cross.
The fixtures of the Royal London Yacht Club for the
season of 1879 have been made as follows :-Opening cruise,
May 17 ; first match (Urge cutters), May 30; second (schooners
and yawls), June 17; third (tall cutters), July 1.
The polling for the election of u member for Londonderry
county took place on Thursday week, and the result was made
known on the following evening as follows:—Sir Thomas
M'Clure (Liberal), 2479; Mr. Alexander (Conservative), 18/8.
There is no change in the political representation of the
county.
MUSIC.
The close of the winter opera season at Her Majesty’s Theatre
on Saturday (with a repetition of “ Oberon ”) and the usual
suspension of the serial concerts during the Christmas recess,
although temporarily diminishing the number of musical per¬
formances, still leave something for present record.
The concert given at Sfr. James’s Hall last Saturday even¬
ing, under the title of “ Gems from the Oratorios,” included
various familiar solo and choral pieces by eminent composers.
Among the most effective of the latter were the choruses irom
“The Messiah,” “And the glory of the Lord” and “Halle¬
lujah,” and the concluding “ Christmas Hymn,” finely sung
by Mr. Henry Leslie’s choir, Mr. Leslie having conducted the
performances, which included some excellent solo singing by
Mrs. Osgood, Miss Annie Butterworth, Madame Patey, Mr. E.
Lloyd, and Mr. Thurley Beale. Miss Bessie Richards gave two
pianoforte solos with great success, and Mr. Howard Reynolds
was encored in a solo on the cornet. Between the parts of the
concert Handel's Dead March in “Saul” was well pjayed on
the organ by Mr. J. C. Ward.
The usual Christmas performances of “ The Messiah” have
taken place, that of the Sacred Harmonic Society yesterday
(Friday) week, having been the forty-seventh annual occasion
by that institution. The soloists were Mrs. Osgood, Miss
Enrique, Mr. Shakspeare, and Mr. Lewis Thomas. Before the
oratorio the Dead March in “Saul” was played, in memory
of the late Princess Alice. Sir M. Costa conducted, and
Mr. Willing was the organist.
On Thursday evening last the same oratorio was given by the
Royal Albert Hall Choral Society, the solo singers auuounced
having been Mesdames Lemmens Sherrington and Antoinette
Sterling, Messrs. Sims Reeves, Shakspeare. and Thurley Beale.
The sacred music of last week likewise included an effective
selection of airs and choruses from oratorios and other works,
given at the Royal Albert Hall, under the direction of Mr. W.
Carter, whose excellent choir contributed to the programme,
as did Mesdames Edith Wynne, Antoinette Sterling, Mr.
Hollins, Signor Brocolini, and other solo vocalists.
An extra Saturday afternoon concert took place at the
Crystal Palace last week, when Miss Helen Hopekirk made her
first appearance there. As previously mentioned by us, Miss
Hopekirk is from Edinburgh, and has studied in Germany,
where she has lately played with great bucccss. Her chief
performance on Saturday was in Grieg’s pianoforte concerto,
the difficulties of which were executed by her with admirable
style and mechanism. Her touch is elastic, powerful, and sure,
and her phrasing is that of a thoughtful and cultivated
musician. The lady also gave, with great effect, two un¬
accompanied solos by Chopin and Schumann, in which she
also produced so marked an impression that she will doubt¬
less soon again be heard in public. The programme of
Saturday’s concert was of a miscellaneous nature, and included
the successful first appearances at the Crystal Pulacs of two
vocalists, Madame Louisa Mills (soprano) and Mr. Charles
White (tenor). Orchestral pieces were also given, and the
performances were ably conducted by Mr. Manns.
A National Holiday Festival Concert took place at the
Royal Albert Hall, in the afternoou of Boxing Day, the pro¬
gramme having consisted chiefly of old songs and ballads
rendered by some of our most eminent singers. Of the per¬
formances of the juvenile Italian opera troupe—announced to
appear at the Criterion Theatre on the same day—we must
speak next week.
The earliest performance of the new year will be that of
“The Messiah,” under the direction of Mr. W. Carter, at the
Royal Albert Hall, on Thursday next. This will be followed
by a special “ London Ballad Concert” at St. James’s Hall on
Jan. 4. The Monday Popular Concerts will be resumed on
Jan. 6 ; on Jan. 11 an extra (morning) performance of Rosdni's
“Moses in Egypt” will be given by the Sacred Harmonic
Society at Exeter Hall; and general musical activity will
follow soon afterwards—among the important approaching
events being the commencement of Mr. Carl Rosa's new season
of performances of operas in English, on Jan. 25, at Her
Majesty’s Theatre.
Readers will be glad to learn that the operation recently per¬
formed on Sir Julius Benedict for cataract has been successful.
MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.
Sonata for Piano and Violoncello. M. W. Balfe. (Stanley
Lucas, Weber, and Co ) Not long since we noticed a very
effective and well-written pianoforte trio by the late Mr.
Balfe, and we have here another posthumous instrumental
work by the same composer. The sonata consists of three
movements—" Allegro,” “ Adagio,” and “ Allegro vivace ”—
each containing some very clever writing, with melodious
and brilliant passages, in which the two instruments are alter¬
nately contrasted and combined in a way to exhibit each to
advantage. The “ Adagio ” has the peculiarity of being in
five-four time, thus deriving a marked peculiarity of rhythmical
phrasing. The work is altogether very pleasing, and serves—
with the trio just referred to—to prove that Balfe might have
succeeded as much in instrumental as in vocal composition
had he cultivated the former as much as he did the latter branch
of his art.
Messrs. Lucas, Weber, and Co. have also published a set of
eight songs for three female voices, by Dr. Ferdinaud Hiller,
with the original German words and an English version by
Julia Goddard. This work of the veteran composer is classed
as op. 178, nnd is one of the many proofs he has given that
age has not dimmed his powers of imagination. Each piece
has a distinctive character, and the effect of the three voices in
combination, and occasional contrast, is extremely good.
The same firm has likewise issued a pleasing setting, by
Carl Hausc, of Longfellow’s lines, “ It is not always May,” in
the form of a duet, in which the voices are blended and alter¬
nated very effectively. Another graceful vocal piece is Hen
Henschel's “ Lullaby,” a setting of Scott’s “ O hush thee my
babie ” By the same composer (the eminent singer) is the
vocal duet, “Kein Feuer, keine Kohle,” in which the voice
parts are written in canon form with much facility. An Eng¬
lish version is given in addition to the German text.
“ Five Pictures on a Journey ” are characteristic pianoforte
nieces by Francis Davenport (from the same publishers), are
extremely well written movements, well contrasted m style,
and evidencing both the composer’s thorough knowledge of
the instrument and his sound musical training.
“Ballade,” and “Marche Ilongroise,” by Sydney Smith
(Ashdown and Parry), are effective pianoforte pieces; the first
including a graceful melody surrounded with florid passages
(chiefly for the left hand)—the second a characteristic and
brilliant imitation of the national style indicated by the title.
“ Tannhiiuser” and the “ Flying Dutchman” are well-written
fantasias, based on themes from Wagner’s operas, the first for
pianoforte solo, the other a pianoforte duet. These are also
published by Messrs. Ashdown and Paip'. as is Le Bivouac,
another telling piece by Mr. Sydney Smith-in the military
style, for two performers on the pianoforte.
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